Get back to us when there's an Identified Flying Object.I think part of the reason is that it has become an article of faith that UAP/UFO issues are for crazies, and that that cultural framing is very hard to overcome, particularly in a very often statistically-focused community like PB.Every few months, a poster breathlessly comments about NEW AND IMPORTANT INFORMATION about ALIENS or UFOs.Rather than being such a smug know it all, you should open your mind and go and read last year’s Schumer-Rounds amendment, written by the office of the Senate Majority Leader (so implicitly endorsed by the Biden White House) and sponsored and passed on a bipartisan basis, with the approval of Senate Gang of 8 leaders.
And a couple of other posters (usually the same ones...) chime in about how it's going to be the BIGGEST WORLD-CHANGING NEWS!!!!
And every time, the information that was so important turns out to be a nothingburger.
They are privy to much that we are not and thought it a priority to try and pass what must count as the most bizarre bill in US democratic history. Why? Then watch Schumer’s speech on the floor after Mike Turner and Mike Rogers killed it in House Committee, for confirmation of how high passions ran.
There is more than one answer to the question of wtf is going but it amazes me how unfascinated you are by the question. If the accusation was an equivalently sized criminal conspiracy in govt about any other area of public policy I suspect your interest level would differ.
But recent political developments on UAP's, with the level of senior admissions of uncertainty, don't bear this out; this simply has yet to filter through to most of the media or wider public, though, because the social stigma on it, and worry of mockery, is still strong.
We've actually had complaints from a number of lying scumbags about how unfair it is that they're grouped together with Alastair Campbell.Alistair Campbell is a lying scumbag who has a problem coming to terms with the fact that people think he is a lying scumbag. People think that because he is proven, lying, scumbag.https://x.com/campbellclaret/status/1856357133299671371That would have been a thoughtful and compassionate post except for the last line...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL
@campbellclaret
Nothing I have seen or heard about the Smyth case has changed my view that
@JustinWelby
is a good man with a good heart, strong values and a commitment to public service. He was assured the police and other authorities were properly on the case. Yes, as he admits, he could have been more curious and checked in with exactly what was being done. He has apologised and I think many reasonable people will accept that. However he has chosen what all too few public figures do these days which is accept institutional responsibility. Ps for some reason I am getting calls from journalists who have been told I am handling his PR. I am not. I suspect that is being put around by those ultra conservative forces who have long wanted him gone, and who are aware that I see him from time to time.
And now he pops up to defend someone who tried to overrule and obfuscate….
Betfair is back.Make My Betfair Account Profitable Again
"Trump gained support from every racial group except white people, where he lost one percentage point when compared to 2020. You're going to chalk that up to racism?"The Sam Harris piece is good, in particular his comment "everyone is in danger of believing that their pet issue explains everything that happened on Tuesday". Advice which he then goes on to ignore...
https://samharris.substack.com/p/the-reckoning
The actual Dem campaign as opposed to the version being constructed by all the aftertimers.So we should disregard everything someone says or does before the official election campaign begins?
The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes)
@theserfstv
"If what you want is a centrist campaign that's quiet on trans issues, tough on the border, distances itself from Palestinians, talks a lot about law and order, and reaches out to moderate Republicans, that candidate existed and she just lost"
~John Oliver on dems moving right
1:13 am · 12 Nov 2024
https://x.com/theserfstv/status/1856143282998284697
As the Tories found to their cost earlier this year..You can't run on that as the incumbent party lol.And the Harris campaign was about what would be, not what has gone. The Dems were certainly promising to be tough on the border for all the good it did them.The actual Dem campaign as opposed to the version being constructed by all the aftertimers.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56516332
The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes)
@theserfstv
"If what you want is a centrist campaign that's quiet on trans issues, tough on the border, distances itself from Palestinians, talks a lot about law and order, and reaches out to moderate Republicans, that candidate existed and she just lost"
~John Oliver on dems moving right
1:13 am · 12 Nov 2024
https://x.com/theserfstv/status/1856143282998284697
US President Joe Biden has put Vice-President Kamala Harris in charge of controlling migration at the southern border following a big influx of new arrivals.
Mr Biden said he was giving her a "tough job" but that she was "the most qualified person to do it".
It’s pure NU10KismThe tragedy for Welby is that this will probably come to define his time as AoC. I don't think he's been particularly good in the role, but he will now be remembered for this.It would be a clear demonstration of the repentance that his church preaches.
If he has said: "Yes, I made a drastic mistake. I resign," then he would, at least, be seen as an honourable man. It would also give others who might be in a position to make such mistakes pause for thought (*); a precedent.
Not now.
(*) Yeah, right.
Clinging on looks rather the opposite.