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Chris Bray's avatar

I looked at The Atlantic, so I'll mostly be offline for the rest of the day. Recovering.

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MR's avatar

You should have preemptively taken a vaccine before sticking a toe in The Atlantic. Not to mention, they are the ones who swore they would never take a vaccine developed under Trump’s presidency. As soon as Biden “won” they couldn’t inject themselves quickly enough—or frequently enough—to prove their loyalty.

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

Imagine making a decision to inject a toxic chemical into your bloodstream, based upon loyalty to a politician. Insanity.

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John Geis's avatar

I wish SS allowed posting memes – there’s a GREAT one of an emaciated, blackened, decomposing corpse in a clinic chair receiving her 33rd booster. 😂

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La Gata Politica's avatar

Post the meme in a SS Note and add a link to it here, I'd love to see it as well.

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Bandit's avatar

I'd love to see that!

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Silent scorn's avatar

Gross!!

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John Geis's avatar

Well, it wouldn’t be much of a comment on the clot shots if it wasn’t!

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Queen Hotchibobo's avatar

Did they, though? Or did they just push it for us? I can’t really imagine Mrs. Jobs, widow of holistic cure for pancreatic cancer Steve, taking the jab.

You? I can see her sticking it in you, but not herself.

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Rick Olivier's avatar

100%

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Rex Hughes's avatar

Or did they?!

I’m thinking a record amount of saline solution was injected into the arms of elites and their cronies — for their sakes, I certainly hope so

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John Geis's avatar

I’m hoping not – not for the sake of malice, but to effect change. Nothing like a few billionaires’ loved ones croaking to shake up boards of directors and inspire better behavior.

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Rex Hughes's avatar

I like your optimism

(I don’t share it)

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John Geis's avatar

I don’t see it as optimistic to believe that it takes losing children or parents to elevate life over profits.

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suannee's avatar

I'm with John on this.

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Völva's avatar

Well, Pfizer has a “special edition vaccine” for their own employees, “distinct and separate” from

what was pushed on the population. Maybe they got some of that?

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John Geis's avatar

The Pfizer vaccine you’re referring to is COMIRNATY, and it’s intentionally not licensed for use in the U.S. The reason is that it’s not 100% protected from lawsuits the way the unnamed “Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine” is. The only way U.S. Pfizer employees could receive COMIRNATY is if they were designated as test subjects, which is entirely possible. But to what purpose? The formulas are supposedly identical in all significant aspects.

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Silent scorn's avatar

I’m not sure that Comirnaty was actually ever produced.

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John Geis's avatar

I don’t think it was commercialized, but it was tested & approved outside the U.S., so Pfizer made at least enough for the trials.

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Bandit's avatar

Supposedly, they're supposed to die off soon.

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Charles Clemens's avatar

Clever administration planning. Think how much can be saved by poisoning your least productive workers.

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Flippin’ Jersey's avatar

You’re doing yeoman’s work, putting yourself through this. The effort is appreciated though. It truly boggles my mind how clueless Applebaum and Frum are, not to mention their readers who wholeheartedly nod along to their utter dreck.

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Valoree Dowell's avatar

“Their readers.” I know a few. They talk loud and superior. I shake my head at their empty-headedness.

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suannee's avatar

Me too. But I know only 2. Thank heavens.

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Brigitte's avatar

Thank you for your service.

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Steponbugs's avatar

I’d be drinking heavily…

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AndyinBC's avatar

Perhaps that might be the cause of some people actually wanting to peruse the pages of that publication.

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John Geis's avatar

I submit that they’re drinking moonshine produced in a still made with joints soldered with pure lead. Only way I can account for the dementia.

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Mitch's avatar

if only one person can be saved from reading The Atlantic, it's worth it.

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Suzanne O'Keeffe's avatar

I can't even. I can't even read clips of blurbs of The Atlantic.

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Name Invalid's avatar

I nominate You for a Purple Heart.

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Rikard's avatar

Jeppson's Malört, if it's available in your part of the US. Any vodka with Malört in it will clear your mind beautifully.

(Also, your sinuses, kill any toothworms, tonsils, and possibly clear the room as well.)

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Bandit's avatar

What, pray tell, is Malört?

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Rikard's avatar

Wormwood. It's very common here to flavour vodka/brännvin with Wormwood. Jeppsnon's Malört is an American brand of Wormwood-vodka founded by Carl Jeppson, a Swedish ex-pat to Chicago, in 1933.

Allegedly, he sold it earlier during Prohibition, as an "herbal tonic".

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Michael L's avatar

Legend has it that Jeppson was a constant smoker and developed Malört because it was something he could taste through the layers of tar on his tongue.

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Rikard's avatar

As a former twenty handrolled unfiltered a day-man, I support this legend 100%.

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What's avatar

ann and dave did have a child.....her name is nina jankowicz.

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fiendish_librarian's avatar

Michter's will help.

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Charles Clemens's avatar

You are in dangerous territory. If you say, "the Atlantic" three times, Chuck Schumer will appear.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

Look, the deep state that doesn't exist is actually a good thing because it's really the government itself, so the President using his authority as head of the Executive branch is actually treason. It's quite simple, Chris.

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Chris Bray's avatar

I wish had the necessary sophistication

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letterwriter's avatar

All the wine moms I know, read *The Atlantic*. You could try. They'd have you over on a trial basis.

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fiendish_librarian's avatar

I would say that The Atlantic is the Mad magazine for those with septic, useless credentials but Mad actually had insight and humour.

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letterwriter's avatar

I particularly liked Spy vs Spy and I wonder if the wine moms would get the premise. I mean it really is in doubt.

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Julia's avatar

I had somebody arguing with me that the only authority of the executive branch head is to put a signature under bills passes by Congress. Then I asked him for the name(s) of elected representatives controlling the executive branch, since the power belongs to the people exercised through their elected representatives, right? I didn't get a response as the topic got deleted.

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Joseph's avatar

A piece from way back in 2007 explains this process: http://web.archive.org/web/20071014120558/rightreason.ektopos.com/archives/2007/03/the_evolution_o.html

Stage 1: “Oh please. Only a far-right-wing nutjob would make such a paranoid and ridiculous accusation - I suppose next you’ll accuse us of wanting to poison your precious bodily fluids!”

Stage 2: “Well, I wouldn’t go as far as X. All the same, it’s good to be open-minded about these things. I mean, people used to think ending slavery was a crazy idea too…”

Stage 3: “Hey, the Europeans have had X for years and the sky hasn’t fallen. But no, I admit that this backward country probably isn’t ready for X yet.”

Stage 4: “Of course I’m in favor of X - it’s in the Constitution! Only a far-right-wing nutjob could possibly oppose it.”

Stage 5: “You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can be used against you in a court of law…”

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Glitterpuppy's avatar

Hmmm, I thought so, I’m sure…

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JB's avatar

Please don’t ever ask us to imagine being Anne Applebaum or David Frum. Life is bleak enough as it is….

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Chris Bray's avatar

Imagine if Anne Applebaum and David Frum had a baby.

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JB's avatar

I’m pretty sure that’s the origin story for “Damian” of “The Omen”.

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No name here's avatar

The trauma. Poor kid would probably be better off chest-fed by Mayor Pete.

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Indrek Sarapuu's avatar

Noooooo!

As a Canadian, I always avoid anything written by Frum.

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AndyinBC's avatar

Why?

His writing is not contagious - is it?

*** Looks around in horror***

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Bandit's avatar

😂🤣😂🤣

Thank-you VERY much for that laugh, AndyinBC!

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fiendish_librarian's avatar

He made some sense in the late 1990s in the National Post, but then...on or around 2015 The Crazy Pills kicked in. Same goes for Applebaum.

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Reader East of Albuquerque's avatar

Hotezcito

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AndyinBC's avatar

I understand there are vacancies, in Hollywood, for writers of low budget horror films.

Anyone who CAN imagine the offspring of that couple is invited, nay, beseeched to apply.

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Rikard's avatar

Do we really need yet another 'Hellraiser'-movie?

I can see it now, instead of Pinhead - the real one - we get Babbellion: a constantly changing mass of mouths spewing such stupidity you descend into dementia from hearing it.

"We have such Truths to tell you!"

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AndyinBC's avatar

"a constantly changing mass of mouths spewing such stupidity"

Have you been reading the newspapers again, R?

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Rikard's avatar

'hangs head, Ee-yore like'

Yeah. People I meet at the gym or when I'm town, most of them still mainline regime-media, even if they doubt them, so I need to know what you're supposed to know, so I can then say:

"But that's not true, what NN claims in XX! I know because I read the speech online, in the official transcript!"

Cue: "Ohhh, but I don't know how to find all those secret sources people like you know about"

Cue head-banging, inside my skull.

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AndyinBC's avatar

As my Grandfather was wont to declaim, "There art none so blind as those who WILL NOT see!"

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suannee's avatar

Rikard - You're like some of the mind spies on the internet. You know, you think about something, and next thing an ad comes up for that very thing. Your "Ohhh, but I don't know how to find all those secret sources people like you know about" is almost exactly what my TDS niece said.

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EK MtnTime's avatar

People like that should be sterilized!

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Mrs. McFarland's avatar

Hopefully that apple would fall very very far from the “ Baum”….. tree

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JF's avatar

You don't have to imagine, just watch the 1979 documentary "Alien". Soul-sucking prose and face-sucking lifeforce are just two sides of the same coin.

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Randy Farnum's avatar

David Hogg?

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QuestionEverything's avatar

AOC comes to mind. Or that 'how dare you' Greta person.

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Sue Kelley's avatar

Wouldn't that be what Massie described as a"nenard" or would that be a nenard²? Either way that kid's got no chance.

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Karl's avatar

Ugh. Would that be AppleFrum? Is AppleFrum the voice of the bureaucracy?

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Silent scorn's avatar

😂😂😂

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Bandit's avatar

😱😳🤯😩😭

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Josh Dean's avatar

Remember in November 2020 when Pols and media hacks said they wouldn't take a hastily developed "Trump vaccine?" And it all magically changed in January?

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Mister Delgado's avatar

Are you making reference to statements and events that could complicate Frum's well-crafted narrative? Back into the memory hole with you.

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Freedom Fox's avatar

All I needed to know the "vaccines" were bad was the common sense wisdom of the ages that says "nothing good is borne from a lie." That was it. The entire pandemic was built on lie after lie after lie after lie. From known, proven ineffective travel bans (sorry Pres. Trump, you f'd up) to the lies about masking that mysteriously followed the truth about them not working to becoming miracle protective barriers from the microbial world, to the lies that even though kids weren't at risk they needed to save Grandma mysteriously becoming kids are so at risk they needed masks and and remote learning, to the lies about 95% known false PCR tests actually working, to the lies that it would be just two weeks to flatten the curve...and another two weeks...two months...ten months...etc, to the lies that protesting police is safe, protesting pandemic restrictions on liberty was unsafe. All of the lies that we were told and knew, in our common sense mind were lies even before the "vaccine" came out were enough to inform that they weren't good. Nothing good is borne from a lie. Didn't even need to look at the testing data and results that followed, how wave after wave of illness and death followed injections campaigns all over the world or any of the other factual evidence that has come to light. Though that information was confirmational. All that was needed was common sense. Never trust a liar. Never trust anything that proven liars say. Never. All we need to know about surviving a world of deceit.

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Glitterpuppy's avatar

As if Trump formulated the vaccine himself.. classic stupid…

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Völva's avatar

As always, they’re turning truth upside down, projecting their own thoughts and actions on others. They are easy patients for their therapists.

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DC's avatar

My father has been an avid reader his whole life, mostly of historical and theological literature. He subscribed to The Atlantic for a long time, but when the writing quality went into the toilet he felt his money was better spent elsewhere - like on toilet paper.

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Reader East of Albuquerque's avatar

I used to subscribe. It was worth reading back then.

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John Geis's avatar

True of most magazines. TIME magazine came weekly to my parents’ Republican household for decades as it was generally fair (Hell, Charles Krauthammer wrote for them as he was transitioning – to a conservative. 😂) It started sliding downhill with propaganda about Watergate and today I wouldn’t line a birdcage with it.

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Edward Hayes's avatar

The last vaccine I got was in 1970 when I was on my twilight tour in the Marine Corps after 20 years of active duty. Now that I am in my 91 st year I am not going to start getting vaccines again. Besides that nothing can live inside this old beat up body; vaccines , or anything that the experts design.

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Curtis's avatar

I wonder what the weather is like on their planet? It's near impossible to tell the difference between reality and satire these days! Seriously, if The Babylon Bee wrote this stuff we'd all be having a laugh at how ridiculous it sounded!

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AndyinBC's avatar

Its getting harder and harder to differentiate between the Bee and the headlines de jour.

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John Geis's avatar

Democrats use the Bee as their planning tool.

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Rex Hughes's avatar

I believe they have the same editors, no?

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John Geis's avatar

It might seem so, but the editors & creators at the Bee have to continually strain to be extreme enough for satire, which the Democrats achieve it naturally.

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AndyinBC's avatar

Highly improbable, Rex.

The editors at the Bee seem knowledgeable, and literate.

Less and less evidence that is the case with what is left of the mainstream media.

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Glitterpuppy's avatar

These clowns will put BB out of business. They can’t write stuff this funny

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No name here's avatar

The First Amendment clearly states:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances"

Is Applebaum stating that no censorship occurred under Biden with respect to Covid, or that Congress passed a law authorizing it?

Furthermore, without an audit, how do you know what is or isn't happening? This is like "safe and effective" - the whole idea hinges on an idea (that nothing illegal occurred) that came straight out of her ass, with zero data to back it up.

Who still believes this stuff? She might want to start squirreling away cat litter, boxed wine, and mortgage payments, because I don't think a whole lot of people will continue to buy this nonsense with the receipts coming in. She and people like Frum are screwed, and they know it.

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CB's avatar

Can't wait to learn how much USAID money The Atlantic, Applebaum, and Frum were getting.

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fiendish_librarian's avatar

Frum is a rich kid from Toronto who's never worked a real job in his life. I wouldn't be surprised if his entire "career" was one, big, taxpayer-subsidized grift.

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Rex Hughes's avatar

Oh, right!

Somebody tell Elon

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Glitterpuppy's avatar

If only….. we can hope

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No name here's avatar

That's clearly the trajectory. Under what conditions could this left wing/deep state tailspin stop?

I'm not saying let up. Not saying to put up with any of the leftist nonsense anywhere. I certainly am not, and have turned into a real jerk to leftists about it in my personal life. So I'm not trying to be white pill Pollyanna here.

The damage Elon in particular is doing to them by shining a light on this stuff is irreversible... And none of these clowns can rub their neurons together hard enough to figure out that pregnant men isn't a winning issue. They really are fucked.

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John Geis's avatar

Their fuckedness depends entirely on their supporters absorbing the obvious evidence. Accordingly, their risk is reasonably low.

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No name here's avatar

That group is getting smaller and smaller.

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John Geis's avatar

And if God is merciful, it will continue thusly.

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Andy's avatar

Chris, that was some fine writing.

Dolts are gonna dolt, you know?

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Stewie's avatar

I actually just canceled my Atlantic subscription this month. It had been amusing for a while but then the election ended and their hilarious cope about “our democracy” got old. One could write at great length about how feckless and irrelevant those people are, but the best examples are the bad-faith explanations (political analysis?) about how Republicans are literally evil people with explicitly evil intentions. It’s like the New York Times except that the Atlantic writers report on a lot more phony anonymous sources (suckers and losers, et al) and the NYT narrative is that Trump, while reportedly worse than Hitler (everything he says is “without evidence” unlike Der Führer) is actually quite weak.

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

Feckless. What a great descriptor.

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Brian Villanueva's avatar

In a democracy, elected leaders are a check on the bureaucracy, not the other way around.

If you do not uphold this statement, you are an authoritarian.

This is what the Atlantic has forgotten. This is what the Eurocrats chuckling at Vance's speech have forgotten. And that makes them authoritarians. They are dangerous and must be resisted and crushed by by any means necessary.

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La Gata Politica's avatar

Most of the European audience at JD's speech looked severely constipated and his scathing words caused them pain. It was glorious. I'm so proud of our young VP, he's a verbal Ninja who slices and dices the parasites with surgical precision. He's a smooth exterminator/terminator 😎!!

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Silent scorn's avatar

Same! Historic speech.

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Jrod's avatar

Applebaum and Frum are mid wit writers performing for a dim wit audience.

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Greg's avatar

Re: the vaccines…I’m older than five, so I remember Biden, Harris, Pelosi, and all the usual suspects proclaiming they wouldn’t take a “Trump vaccine,” only to do a 180 once they were able to force them on everyone.

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Valoree Dowell's avatar

It wasn’t Trump or Biden’s vaccine, it was Pfizer’s. I’m still waiting for the published Phase III data from controlled studies to document actual efficacy and safety. “Millions died from covid. Millions of lives were saved by the vaccine. Millions of doses given ‘round the world so it’s safe” spoken by talking heads has never before been sufficient for approval by FDA. I’m waiting….

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Tanto Minchiata's avatar

Best line in this piece: "Frum is an Applebaumian writer, by which I mean that he sucks." LMAO.

I like to make simple heuristics to understand how 95% of the world works. The other 5% of the time you have to figure it out as you go. But not here. To make it really simple: The Atlantic IS the Deep State. Unlike our Constitution which separates Church and State, in the intelligence agency - State Department foreign policy nexus as currently configured, there is no separation between Putz and State. Thus when the Atlantic speaks, it's basically the CIA, MI6, State Department, British Foreign Office, NATO, USAID, Council on Foreign Relations, etc. yammering right at you. It's called the Atlantic for a reason.

Translation: The Deep State doesn't like it when you fire all their employees and cut off all their nefarious programmed shit. When all the geography of what's been going on through our government agencies is finally laid out, even the most jaded among us will be shocked. Not just the astonishing amount of theft and waste and fraud and laziness. Not just all the incestuous relationships where Mr. Smith is a lawyer at the State Department and Mrs. Smith runs an NGO which gets billions of dollars from the State Department and Junior Smith works for CNN, and there's a whole lot of those kinds of networks, where people who are related to one another, or are old friends are making policy without being elected, reporting on policy and banking millions from taxpayers through "NGOs". It's not a damn NGO if the government pays all its bills FFS. It's a plain old GO. The extent to which our government has been manipulating us and the rest of the free world is unbelievable extensive, scary and evil. And Trump is stopping them. And they are howling mad and terrified. I pray for Trump's continued safety and I'm not being melodramatic. He has kicked all the hornet nests all over the planet.

See also Shawn Ryan's recent podcast this week with Mike Benz talking about USAID. He lays out the game quite clearly with receipts.

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

Thanks for pointing out the ironic (and obviously intentional) naming of ‘NGOs’, which are totally funded by the ‘G’. It’s all so ludicrous.

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Suzanne O'Keeffe's avatar

The federal government has not been run by civil servants fulfilling laws passed by Congress at any time in our lives. It's been run by puppets fulfilling the agenda of the cabal. And Frum and Applebaum get paychecks from the same cabal. It's all theater.

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nymusicdaily's avatar

working hypothesis: the atlantic has to spend all the money they got in brandon's inflation creation act before trump claws it back

like lee zeldin clawing back the insane "green bank" billions https://apnews.com/article/green-bank-epa-zeldin-climate-clean-energy-191b394cda251ef772867369f61f07b7

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QuestionEverything's avatar

I'm not a genius, but these people are so intellectually lazy its painful. It can't be real. It has to be a cult. There is no way they can naturally be this dumb or this mentally ill. Seriously, I wonder what all the plastics and processed foods are doing to their brains.

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CB's avatar

Plastics, processed foods, and vaccines.

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