Drill Baby Drill...the US Politics Thread (Part 2)

Pakistan says hi.

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1912648174344499265

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At this point twitter and Fox are worse sources than the S*n.

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You do realize I’m not posting this as a source? It’s just about how the truth is twisted over and over again by this propaganda machine, so that millions of Americans actually believe this crap.

It’s really frustrating

I’ve come to the conclusion that these people are completely lost, and that will make it difficult to change anything. They really believe all the nonsense they’re being fed.

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https://x.com/TrumpDailyPosts/status/1912626676951138432

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They are deplorables. Republicans and deplorables need to be removed from the body politic.

What’s up with that “TRUMP” thing all the time? Not enough to refer to yourself in the third person, not enough to be in all caps, but what’s with the " " ?

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https://x.com/spectatorindex/status/1912812532525617479
https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1912813197666496874

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Due to restructuring in US agencies that provide central platforms for environmental and climate data, data sets are at risk. German institutions are committed to saving them.

“We primarily save the data for which US colleagues have specifically asked us for help.”

Please just use google translate or something similar to translate the article.

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The thing is, depending on how little notice they had, I would have expected r/datahoarders to have gotten onto this


This is a clear indication of how full of shit the MAHA movement is

Kevin Hall is a legend. Nutritional science is full of bad data generated from bad study designs, but Hall has spent 2 decades applying a rigor to the field, supported by his tenured position at the NIH, that no one else has come close to. Increasingly over the past decade his focus has turned to the problems of the unhealthy food environment and has a track record that should have made him a natural and invaluable ally to the supposed RFK agenda. Yet they dont give actually give a shit about actual science. They have a narrative they have already decided on and any actual science that isnt in complete lock step with that gets stepped on. So, a genuine pioneer in the field, one who has produced so much of the foundational work that normal scientists use for their own work, has felt his only option is to leave and take early retirement rather than have his work get silenced or misrepresented to fit a political agenda.

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This is the director of the FCC, someone who is operationalizing Trump’s desire to silence people in the media who criticize him

https://x.com/BrendanCarrFCC/status/1912641900558893377

Here he is echoing an argument that many in the administration are using, and it gives the entire game away - we are right to take this action against a group of people because there are individuals in that group we can point to who have done bad things.

It’s not racist, its just that everyone from latin america is a representation of the negative stereotype I have about people from there

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https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1912880121502908922

Shameful

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“When Trump talks about immigration he only means illegal immigrants
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https://x.com/AdamSmallKSL/status/1912200017089294814


said the person who paid no attention to what Trump and co were actually saying or what they attempted in the first administration.

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Hopefully he’ll find a worthy job elsewhere, for instance in Europe.

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The degree of lying in this administration is absolutely astounding. This is not just an issue of political spin, it it every day across multiple areas of the administration, they are making comments that are completely at odds with reality.

The reason is seemingly increasingly clear - what they actually want to do in the specific is incredibly unpopular, so they ignore reality and just talk about high level ideas most people agree with regardless of how inconsistent that is with the reality or what they are doing. It is textbook Motte and Bailey.

Renditions someone here legally with not criminal record - “look we just want to get criminals and terrorists off the street. Why do you have a problem with that?”

The best example is the budget. DOGE is positioned as critical because our budget deficits are a national security problem and extreme measures have to be taken to get it under control. But this is the debate they actually having among themselves about what to do with the budget
https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1912838457988198890

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“No regrets, give him time” (apart from 1%)
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https://x.com/krassenstein/status/1912895942707097956

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https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1912904736564519130

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