Well this is interesting.
Revealed: Trump team hired spy firm for ‘dirty ops’ on Iran arms deal
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...am-hired-spy-firm-dirty-ops-iran-nuclear-deal
John McCain said he does not want the orange dumpster fire to attend his funeral.
This is how dishonest the current failministration is..... two of them were taken while trump has been in office.
That’s exactly what he’s doing in that tweet.Are we sure he didn't blame Obama for those two?
Surprise, surprise. GOP talking about the tax cuts a lot less now.
We need to make sure we don't let them label them as "Trump's" cuts. This plan was as much the GOP as Trump.
f***ing scum. Own your votes.
And supposedly tomorrow the WH will ask to cut out billions in federal spending now that tax cuts have increased debt and reduced federal tax collections. I expect the same people who supported tax cuts for the wealthy will push reducing federal programs for the less fortunate. I expect that messaging to get louder come November elections.
At the same time as scientific claims to knowledge and power are being undermined, some power structures are decoupling themselves from scientific knowledge, moving towards a kind of populist politics that are increasingly skeptical of knowledge. This has, in recent years, manifested itself in extreme ways—through such things as public politicians showing support for Pizzagate or Trump’s suggestions that Ted Cruz’s father shot JFK.
But this can also be seen in more subtle and insidious form in the way in which Brexit, for example, was campaigned for in terms of gut feelings and emotions rather than expert statistics and predictions. Science is increasingly facing problems with its ability to communicate ideas publicly, a problem that politicians, and flat-Earthers, are able to circumvent with moves towards populism.
An interesting read on the war on facts, polarization and populism
People choose to live in ignorance in the modern world. It may be conscious or subconscious, but they choose ignorance.
I have sometimes wondered if there are evolutionary advantages to a part of a group or tribe that is crazy.
What if a people are so nuts or willfully obtuse, other groups that might otherwise dominate them instead avoid them?
I usually think of religious cults this way, but conspiracy theories are also belief systems where participants gather to tell their stories.
Never forget this happened.....
¯\_(°╭╮°)_/¯How is it this wasn't everywhere during the election?
All this stuff was known about Trump. Heck, if you watch Golden Girls re-runs from the 90s they were making fun of Trump way back then.
The guy has been in the spotlight for as long as I can remember.
People who voted for him didn't care.
Apparently people are frequently buying pickup trucks with 84 month loans. 7 years... I wonder how many have Trump stickers on them?
https://jalopnik.com/84-month-auto-...ource=jalopnik_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow