GenesisCorrupted said:

After Los Angeles just burnt to ashes.

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The Blind Ass said:

For the first time in a long time yesterday while I was driving around, I put on a Joe Rogan podcast. It was the, or an episode that featured JD Vance.  For starters, all I can say is that Joe Rogan sold out hard-core and he’s just a mouthpiece now, also Vance is very well spoken for the most part however, anyone with even a halfway quasi-decent comprehension of the sciences—even the most rudimentary level—can’t help but recognize that half the shit he has to say when invoking ‘science’ - if not more - even though he tries to relate as if in some scientific sense; and, by that I mean, like he’s trying to frame his arguments for positions on this or that political issue, as if his reasons are based in science.  Uh, for one, as if science needed to be ‘believed-in’ the first place, lol.  But, yeah, long story short, he’s a grifter, & the religio-political type.  Well, they both are now. 100% does not pass the test for truthfulness as based upon my own education, experience, insight, observations, & discernment.

Anyway, I’m sure Vance seems very smart for stupid people.  But, in the same way I might seem smart to group of 15 year olds.  And it’s not even that I disagree completely with all of everything of that which he had to say during the podcast.  Be it on abortion, or trans people, issues related with them, free speech, fossil fuels, climate change, or whatever else.  However, I did find myself struck dumb by his claims about trans people, about climate change, and about the role of government as he saw fit to allude to; especially due to the horrid reasoning he shared for why his claims were claimable.

Or, at least that of it that he speaks of in public. I don’t know..it was just littered with countless contradictions, innumerable logical fallacies out the wazoo, and often the propositions he professed to Joe (and Joe profusely agreeing, never challenging the guy not even once in a genuine manner, for real) were premised upon little to nothing more than but what I tend to view as the tried-&-true talking points from the old and tired propaganda programs most utilized in our society, and which caters to the myopically minded.

Those who’ve been inculcated from birth with nonstop bullshit religious dogma, unthinkingness in general, unable to question authority or themselves, likely have a shite education (autodidactic and or formal - with or without either - but still shite) or just that of the lowest common denominator of which the US populace could comprehend.  Obviously targeting the groups listening to Rogan, and man, it’s bad.  It’s really, really, really bad.

In other words, Vance either truly is in the cult of a syncretic version of fundamentalist Christianity, MAGA-politics, and seeks the revival & further implemention of some rather ancient tenants back into everyday life for US citizens, some of which belong to older styles of full-on capitalistic governance, and, again, the religiosity aspect to him is half-farce for the cameras but whatever.  All in all what he seems to want is to instill a government that can last a few terms to transition the country into something capable of doing that which no longer jives with the realities of the modern day, 100% interdependently existing world, its nations.  At least not enough for either him or his way to be rightly be considered justified by any stretch — save for brute force, propaganda, and controlling media/data/perception/beliefs  — basically whatever the fuck trip he’s on is just that, a trip, and it is not what is the best answer to what ails us as a whole, nor for our allies, either.  And that is what I’m spraying here, Mkay.

Anyway, can’t say I enjoyed listening to the podcast, but it was educational in that it demonstrated what both of their target audiences would seem to indicate how it is that they perceive much of the world around them to be nowadays.  Also, Joe turned me onto this super awesome new D3 vitamin that he assures has gone through rigorous testing and that the research on it is constantly evolving to make it an even better product!  So that’s a plus.  Thank god.  I hate it when my D3 vitamin brand doesn’t constantly go through crazy research all the time to become better and better D3 than it already is.  Thanks Joe!

LoL.  Nah, I almost died when he read that shit script for an ad that toot place during the podcast.  Like, dude, aren’t you a millionaire?  Can you not get someone decent to properly vet your products and scripts for them so that you won’t sound like a complete sell out son of a turd of a tard to anyone not just lapping up whatever it is that you become a mouthpiece for and put out for sale?  Christ that shit was embarrassing to listen to.  Is that the highest honor you can amount to these days?  Becoming a mouthpiece for some company’s bullshit, hawking their products with a shit eating grin, even if when complete n bloody bullshit?  ….

J.D. Vance.

Guy’s more sinister & dangerous & capable than the Trumpster.

Mark my words on that one.

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Vance is very well spoken for the most part however, anyone with even a halfway quasi-decent comprehension of the sciences—even the most rudimentary level—can’t help but recognize that half the shit he has to say when invoking ‘science’ - if not more - even though he tries to relate as if in some scientific sense; and, by that I mean, like he’s trying to frame his arguments for positions on this or that political issue, as if his reasons are based in science.  Uh, for one, as if science needed to be ‘believed-in’ the first place, lol.  But, yeah, long story short, he’s a grifter, & the religio-political type.  Well, they both are now. 100% does not pass the test for truthfulness as based upon my own education, experience, insight, observations, & discernment.

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Enlil said:

Electric buses are already commonplace.  I doubt Tesla could do it competitively with the ones that are already out there.  Tesla can't even make a self-driving car that isn't a deathtrap.

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The Ecstatic said:

Did Elon discover a massive secret lithium and cobalt deposit somewhere in the U.S.?

He was cheering on the coup in Bolivia a few years ago for a reason: we do not possess the required natural resources for electric vehicle production.

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durian_2008 said:

GenesisCorrupted said:

After Los Angeles just burnt to ashes.

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They want us to pay more property taxes, to bail out the defaulted insurers, although the hydrants infamously ran dry.

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Tonydanzawillpay said:

But no stanley cup for 50 years

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koods said:

Didn’t he promise to stop drinking?

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