WatDabney

Of course.

Science can provide benefit for humanity as a whole, and the fascist project cannot allow that - benefit must be reserved for the wealthy and empowered few, so that the rest of humanity is relegated to being nothing more than resources to be exploited.

They need a steady supply of saps to provide the money the inside bettors are going to continue winning.

I still think that the impetus for this sudden determination ti fight Iran was Netanyahu reminding the Rapist-in-Chief that Israel has even more, and even more damning, Epstein documents than the US does.

And that would explain this too. That'd be why instead of focusing on Iran or the US, Trump is desperately scrambling to get something - anything - out of all of this that might serve to satisfy Israel.

And on another note - demanding that other Middle Eastern countries normalize relations with Israel isn't just similar to, but is exactly identical to demanding that all of the neighbors "normalize relations" with the psychopathic mass murderer down the street.

Mm... yeah.

He's gone from an emotionally stunted, delusionally narcissistic and sociopathic egotist to a senile emotionally stunted, delusionally narcissistic and sociopathic egotist.

I'm not sure I'd call that a "decline" though. In some ways, it's even been something of an improvement.

"Fool me once, well okay. Fool me twice, well okay. Fool me three times, well okay. Fool me......

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Fool me 847,382 times, well okay. Fool me 847,383 times... hey... umm... wait a minute... umm...."

True.

They generally don't even manage the "observe reality" part, since reality tends to undermine their carefully cultivated prejudices.

So... they didn't already learn their lesson when the NSA data center drained the Great Salt Lake?

I think they place an even higher priority on just making it so that people don't vote in the first place.

Olsen wanted a national system of hand-counted paper ballots, the sources said, a frequent Trump demand some election-security experts say would be less accurate and potentially riskier than the current system of machines with auditable paper trails that almost all cities and states use. (emphasis mine)

That's exactly why they want it.

This whole thing is a fraud. Trump and the Republicans oppose the current system because they can't rig the vote, and they want to switch to one that they can rig.

Yeah - that tracks.

I'm tending toward the interpretation that what Martin and the rest of the upper echelon of the DNC wanted was a subtle whitewash - one that would acknowledge the rather obvious problems of corporate money and support for genocide, but then spin some fanciful reason that those weren't really problems, so it'd be fine when the DNC, as they fully intend, keep on doing what they've been doing.

But they not only didn't get that - they got a poorly written mish - mash of platitudes and gibberish that looks like it was slapped together, mostly via LLM, at the eleventh hour.

And if they spent most of the time during which they were meant to be drawing it up locked instead in a crippling tug-of-war over what it should or should not say, that'd explain that.

At this point, I'm tending toward the interpretation that Martin and the rest of the DNC upper echelon wanted and expected a report that would, among other things, pretend to address the rather obvious failures of bowing to the self-serving desires of big money donors and at least tacitly supporting the Palestinian genocide, but would then do some sort of fallacious end run that led to the comforting conclusion that that wasn't really a problem, so it would be okay when the DNC, as they fully intend, keep right on doing both of those things.

And what they got failed to do that.

Just your daily reminder that the President of the United States is, among other things, a psychopath.