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When conservatives show you who they are, believe them the first time.
Project 2025 Mandate For Leadership (direct PDF link) is a document with very conflicting policy objectives, yet it shows the detailed goals of the various arms of the party. In order to keep the coalition together, each conservative voter will have to accept that only one of the two terrible “rightwing” options will be implemented but will aim to get what they want elsewhere.
Examples: They could get extreme economic protectionism but don’t get to ban gay marriage. Or they could get free trade to the point of taxpayer funded corporate subsidies like the Foxconn boondoggle, but social conservatives are appeased in return, as they get to make female and trans lives miserable.
So this document is important for liberals, leftists and progressives to at least skim over, as even if each conservative will take issue on many of the stances contained, it is the charcuterie board of awful policies that conservatives and Republicans will be sampling if we allow them to take power.
As this Opinion writer for the American Prospect writes, and Cory Doctorow has discussed, this conservative playbook isn’t new but the latest revised edition (in a line of conservative policy documents spanning the years), and this document that on the surface appears like a manifesto of rightwing unity actually shows clearly where their divisions lie. Thus it is important for the left to acknowledge, understand it and use this Mandate for Leadership to our advantage to strike right where conservatives think other conservatives are crazy.
He was in no danger in China, he just didn’t want to live there anymore and he started badmouthing the PRC when he knew he was safe to do so like anyone who saw how the sausage was made would do. But he still owns plenty of property in China and it’s where he made his fortune.
I think he’s probably trolling in some way? Or maybe this is exactly what some conservatives want to hear, so that’s why he’s saying it. He seems to have learned exactly what to say to make people like him.
I don’t think he’s stupid. Some people who grow up poor develop a talent for knowing how to ingratiate themselves to others. His changing opinion simply means that the target he wants to charm has changed.
It was part of his memoir written at the age of 22. He was trying to sound cool and clever and add color to his grandmother’s character because she asked a 6 year old if he wanted to suck dicks. I wouldn’t think too hard about it.
The pier wasn’t the worst idea (in theory), but they built it so that it wouldn’t last in stormy seas when the Mediterranean is famously stormy. Also, a better idea would have been to put hard pressure on Israel to open up ground routes, but that didn’t happen.
It was expensive and solved almost none of the actual problems
Difficulties distributing food within Gaza? Boats don’t work on land, so you end up loading it all into the exact same trucks you would use for land crossings, so run into the exact same issues.
Difficulties getting enough aid through Israeli checks? By design, Israel inspected all pier deliveries as they left Cyprus, and again as they arrived at Gaza, and the IDF controlled the staging beach within Gaza. If they were giving you problems at all the other crossings they control, they will give you the same problems at this one.
Distance between the crossing and where aid is needed? Sure. Technically this could help some depending on the details of the logistics work being done within Gaza. But… Gaza is just not that big.
Attacks by Hamas? As far as aid deliveries go, this has only ever been an issue internal to Gaza, so see point 1.
Attacks by starving Gazans? See point 1. Also, aid being stolen by starving people is mission accomplished
Egypt closing their border crossing? Sure, but again, Gaza is not that large, the Israeli land crossings are still fine.
Attacks by Israeli terrorists? Sure, but the Israeli police has been doing a fine job dealing with this already, so it has not been an actual bottleneck.
Attack by the IDF that hit people attempting to distribute aid within Gaza? See 1.
Lack of adequate practice for the US military to deploy a naval logistics platform? Fair enough, this project did solve that. Not sure what that has to do with the humanitarian situation in Gaza though.
At the end of the day, this pier project has always been the “something” to calls within the US that “we have to do something”.
I had COVID like 7 months ago, and that headache was so god damn bad, I thought my head was gonna explode.
Imagine the worst tension headache you’ve ever had in your life and it won’t go away even with a thousand milligrams of Tylenol. I couldn’t imagine going through that at eighty one years old
This was the most memorable thing about covid for me besides the fatigue. I rarely get headaches but it gave me the worst headache of my life for a solid week.
Really? I had COVID three times but no major headaches. I wasn’t feeling well for 2-3 days, but otherwise it was pretty mild.
Except, the first two cases were then both followed by about 4 months of total depression. That sucked. Just based on that experience I’m still pretty terrified of COVID, though thankfully the third time I didn’t have that.
I had zero headache, a runny nose (but only my right nostril), was a bit fatigued, and thirsty like a man in the desert for a 1,000 days. These lasted 3 days, the mild fatigue about a week.
Yeah no shit. Pretty much all western media ran this story within hours of each others with only an anonymous source. The story stinks to high heavens of foreign policy fabrication.
In a country where anyone can have a gun, practically all security is largely reactionary.
If you set up a perimeter, a potential attacker will just shoot from outside controlled area.
I highly doubt the secret service is nearly as effective as they’d like us to believe, much like how the TSA is largely useless and only there to discourage attempts in the first place.
I don’t want to go too far down the conspiracy rabbit hole, but I think embarrassment is precisely why a lot of the JFK assassination stuff was classified for so long. After Oswald started shooting, there was a lot of panic and the cars suddenly accelerated. A secret service agent was photographed falling backwards in a car while holding an AR-15 around the same time that JFKs head exploded. Seems likely that the secret service accidentally shot the president in the head, and then covered it up for decades to avoid the embarrassment.
Letting a lone gunman get passed hightened security is one thing, but if they imply that he was some operative from Iran, then it’s way less embarrassing and they can keep the public assuming that they know what they are doing.
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