unfortunately, now more than ever, reality is in firm opposition to conservative talking points. and there can be no true bi-partisan consensus until the republican establishment can acknowledge those facts on the ground… that’s their step to take, not progressive minded people talking to each other on message boards.
non-republican conservatives ( probably people like joe biden, etc. ) might have different ways of dealing with those facts then more liberal or progressive politicians - but the current national conversation isn’t, unfortunately, even in that ballpark.
all this really needs to get split off into the political fallout thread. ( anyone know how to do that? ) otherwise this will quickly become derailing.
I don’t know how to split off the thread, but if somebody does, I think this should be global discussion not just the US. We don’t have republicans and democrats here, but we should be having the same debate.
CYA legal boilerplate. Without it, Koch Industries or such would hunt for a minor inaccuracy and tie them up in court. They provide information to the best of their ability to verify it, but they aren’t going to die on a hill for every word, and they’re not going to stand behind anyone who gets sued either.
When I’ve checked their information against my own research, I’ve found it accurate.
Some of their funding is anonymous, but it’s not equivalent to the type of funding that comes from Koch Bro, Big Oil, Big Tobacco, and various dark money ATMs to the right-wing groups.
On Thursday, acting Navy secretary Thomas Modly announced Captain Brett Crozier was relieved of command due to showing “extremely poor judgment” by sending out a memo to Navy higher-ups about the dire COVID-19 infection rate on his ship.
Meaning in a way the Navy couldn’t ignore. It makes no sense that the captain of an aircraft carrier would go public without good reason knowing full well it would at least cost him his command.
