Neil Suits

Michigan/Montana, geoscientist. Stable isotope biogeochemist and ecosystem modeler, Love democracy, capitalism, history, music, outdoors, Delenda est Mar a Lago

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@BruceBartlett Go to blue sky. I just come here to touch base.

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@svdate @NormOrnstein FOX populi

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@BruceBartlett Intermediate periods between kingdoms in ancient Egypt only lasted 100-200 years.

I follow you on blue sky but you don’t post there.

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I think I will move to blue sky. Same name.

X is worse than Twitter and I can’t do anything to support Musk.

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@michaelpfreeman @jefftimmer Ein Volk, Ein Fuhrer

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@BruceBartlett Fortunately our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity has come to an end.

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@highbrow_nobrow @NormOrnstein Well at least you can see why they’re angry.

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@BruceBartlett The question is how will people respond to the harmful effects if these absurd policies are enacted.

How will they spin it? Can they blame Biden, or profiteers or Big Whatever?

Will it be necessary to encourage chaos?

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@RonBrownstein Let me add that if a person shopping in Dearborn had a Deus Vult tattoo on his arm it wouldn’t go down well.

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@JosephPolitano @NormOrnstein When not at her job in Wall Street, Loeffler is intimately involved with agriculture and often tells her gardener what he’s doing wrong.

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@ChadLivengood When integrated chips were first introduced, the US military committed to buy about half of the production, thus subsidizing he development of commercial uses.

Without that backing…..

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@NormOrnstein Don’t be ridiculous.

Of course the FBI agents who investigated him will have to go.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Women know that men don’t scheme to “dress like girls” to assault them.

They do it every day in broad daylight. And the ones in power protect each other to keep it quiet.

Just ask the House Ethics Committee. Or the President-elect of the United States.

Leave women alone.

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@RonBrownstein @nytimes Article 1:
They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses,

No Bill of Attainder

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@ruthbenghiat Good book.

That chapter made me want to barf.

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@davidfrum Replace the national poem with a dirty limerick.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Note that Putin has not appeared in public since November 7, and Russian state propaganda is actively replaying archival footage of his less recent appearances.

Meanwhile, Western-supplied Ukrainian missiles are striking military targets on Russian territory, and the Kremlin's useful idiots on social media are once again howling about a "WWIII," while Putin seems to have vanished.

This is precisely what happens to Russia every time things go badly. Inept appeasers always assume that Putin "will respond reciprocally." They think he'll flash his homoerotic bare torso and show the world what a macho strongman he is.

Instead, every time, what happens is exactly what you would expect when a cocky street thug gets a solid punch in the face and lands on his ass.

Putin retreats and disappears from the public eye to avoid being associated with humiliation and weakness. Later, he does everything he can to pretend nothing special happened, appearing on TV to open honey fairs or similar trivial events.

This happened when the Russian army was routed near Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Kherson.

This is what happened after the sinking of the Black Sea Fleet flagship, after drone strikes on the Kremlin, and initially after the Wagner mutiny. Our cocky big guy tsar tucks his tail between his legs and slinks away as soon as he takes a gut punch.

And this is exactly what escalation managers stubbornly refuse to see and understand.

You do not "escalate" the war by helping Ukraine. You escalate it when you make it clear to the cowardly thug that you are weak, that you fear him, and that you want to appease him—when you signal that you would rather let Ukraine bleed out than allow Putin to be driven into retreat.

That's why we still have this terrible war.

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@jefftimmer We need a better class of morons.

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@PeterSchorschFL @jefftimmer Idiocracy has been moved to the historical fiction section.

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@davidfrum Simple: Build a wall and make the US pay for it.