@BookwormDonnish@RadioFreeTom Louis XIV famously wore bergamot mixed with other scents. As an ingredient in perfumes it goes back a long way. His Italian chef introduced it to France.
@jamesetta_w@nytimes “”… effort to transform Washington’s cultural landscape.” Let’s see, by “transform” do they mean by grifting off the re-naming and stealing donor funds? Interesting choice.
@JonLemire Steve Bannon’s “gladiator school for culture warriors” is the best bit. Ben Shapiro against Richard Hanania would sound like two cat squeaky toys in a blender.
@RadioFreeTom Trump doubling down on stupidity is one of his worst qualities; can we refrain from encouraging it? In 2016 Luttwak predicted he’d be conflict-averse and trade war reticent. 👀 I read Luttwak’s “Coup D’Etat” back in college. Interesting and enjoyable, if such a thing can be said.
@speechboy71 The argument of those who stage-managed Platner was we have to have more white male working class heroes running as Dems. What they got was someone like themselves: upper middle class who conformed to their conception of a populist. Surprise, he’s not connecting w working class.
@JWesleyDorman@TheRealCruxOx@dannykanell Alabama hasn’t had to think about Texas Tech since the Shula years when we beat them in the Cotton Bowl but thank you for your concern.
It’s not about arguments. It’s about facts.
I know one great fact about American elections, and I know it because the Republican Party has proved it to me:
There is no election fraud of any consequence anywhere in the United States.
The Republican Party and its allies, FOR DECADES, have been searching high and low, in every corner of our country, for evidence of election fraud.
This effort has been made with vast sums of money and other resources, and with some of the greatest powers in our nation at the party’s disposal:
A presidential commission under President Donald Trump.
The Department of Justice under President Donald Trump, armed with the resources of the FBI, and the powers of subpoena.
Committees of Congress under Republican control, also armed with the powers of subpoena and the investigative resources of the first branch of government.
State legislatures under Republican control, also with subpoena powers, have launched similar efforts to find evidence of election fraud.
Republican-controlled states have set up special commissions and task forces, some with subpoena powers, all well-funded and with access to the state’s electoral systems.
Conservative academics and think tanks have launched projects seeking out evidence of election fraud.
Fox News and the rest of MAGA media have dedicated significant resources to finding evidence of election fraud.
What is the result of this enormous Republican effort to find election fraud?
Ask The Heritage Foundation.
For nearly a decade, Heritage has maintained an “Election Fraud Database.”
The database contains “proven instances of election fraud.”
It covers elections going back nearly fifty years.
That’s billions and billions of American votes.
Right now, the total number of proven instances of election fraud that Heritage can document is:
1620.
That’s an infinitesimal number, vanishingly small, and it is solid proof of two things:
1. Some individuals commit election fraud.
2. There is no evidence at all of systemic or even widespread election fraud anywhere in the USA.
The election-fraud panic is the Big Lie of our time.
It is peddled by people who know better. Their own investigations over decades demonstrate that.
Stop trying to subvert our democracy.
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@troy_mcartor@Wilson__Valdez That Trump stays in the news every day with predominantly negative coverage has more to do with Trump that it does with the media. His conduct veers between criminal and scandalous and he feeds the news cycle bc he needs the attention of the press and the world like he breathes.
@troy_mcartor@Wilson__Valdez So that excuses scant coverage of his age/mental deficiencies, partic. before the election when the issue was clearly relevant/of importance & his opponent was getting it wall-to-wall? Finally, the Wapo has found that 22 specialists have treated Trump. Will they even follow up?
@RadioFreeTom@TheRickWilson Sure, Pete, our soldiers are ready to fight to the last man over the Roosevelt Corollary, that thing that you missed on the pop quiz in 11th grade American History.
This Administration has removed the achievements of the Air Force’s first female Thunderbird pilot Retired Colonel Nicole Malachowski. The removal of these articles have sparked criticism because her place in Air Force history is not a Political slogan it’s well documented.
@atrupar What Harmeet Dhillon doesn’t seem to know is the administration only tolerates her as long as she’s a useful handmaiden to their racist project. They despise her brown skin and they despise her family’s Sikh religion.
@JimWiseman1@CFBKings Has no one at the school thought that putting this guy on the field where his every mistake or aggressive play is under a microscope, all while being the sport’s most reviled player might not be great for his mental health? Not to mention the shots he’s going to take physically.
@CrunchTimeVIP@PrideOfTheTide My all-time favorite! So much fun anticipating what he would do with his hands on the ball. Wildcat before it was wildcat, too at QB.