SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2025
Also, first sign of what looks like a comeback: If there really was such a thing as terrible people, these might be terrible people!
We refer to the "bobbleheads" (Thomas Friedman's term) who were spotted reading from script on this morning's Fox & Friends Weekend. Let's start by saying their names:
Fox & Friends Weekend, 2/15/25
Charlie Hurt: New co-host, Fox & Friends Weekend
Rachel Campos-Duffy: Continuing co-host, Fox & Friends Weekend
Lisa Boothe: Fox News contributor
If there was such a thing as terrible people, they would be terrible people!
The Stepfords got started quite early! As of 6:07 a.m., they were giving voice to preapproved messaging about the "crazy" programs USAID has propagated around the world.
Each bobblehead agreed with the others. As you can see by clicking this link, the first crazy program they cited was this:
HURT (2/16/25): I know Rachel is just dying—
CAMPOS-DUFFY: I am!
HURT: —to start running through the list of things that they are, that we're spending money— That you, the innocent taxpayer, is spending money on.
CAMPOS-DUFFY: Did you see? $10 million for voluntary male medical circumcision in Mozambique?
BOOTHE: (Sarcastically) But that's important!
[LAUGHTER]
BOOTHE: You look at some of this stuff—
CAMPOS-DUFFY: Look at this stuff, you guys! It's crazy!
BOOTHE: But isn't it also just offensive to taxpayers?
Campos-Duffy was soon saying that programs like this were apparently launched to destabilize countries around the world—were used as a means of "regime change." In this way, she was voicing the Russkie-adjacent messaging Greg Gutfeld unloosed in a such a remarkable way on his February 7 primetime program.
Campos-Duffy shot out of the gate, citing the laughable looniness of the Mozambique circumcisions. Eventually, she said that "crazy" programs like this seemed to be some sort of CIA exercise.
The friends were in their glory seven minutes into this morning's program-—but uh-oh! When we googled "USAID circumcision Mozambique," the very fine people at AI Overview instantly told us such things as these about the program in question:
AI Overview
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has partnered with organizations to increase male circumcision in Mozambique as a way to prevent HIV.
USAID partnered with the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs to increase demand for circumcision.
USAID supported the Mozambican armed forces to increase access to HIV prevention interventions, including circumcision.
Voluntary medical male circumcision is a highly effective procedure for reducing the spread of HIV. The WHO and UNAIDS have recommended VMMC since 2007. Randomized clinical trials have shown that male circumcision reduces female to male HIV transmission by approximately 60%.
Isn't that just like the Stepfords? Absent-mindedly, they forgot to cite the medical reason for the program they denounced as crazy.
Meanwhile, isn't that just like USAID? They were trying to destabilize Mozambique by partnering in an anti-AIDS effort with the Mozambican armed forces. Just imagine a slick move like that!
Can you trust the good people at AI Overview? Maybe you can, maybe not. For USAID'S official account of the program in question, you can just click here:
Strengthening High Impact Interventions for an AIDS-free Generation (AIDSfree) Project
OVERVIEW
Latest figures indicate that HIV/AIDS prevalence in Mozambique is 13%, with 29% prevalence among orphans aged 15-17, and almost 40,000 AIDS related deaths in 2015. Three randomized clinical trials showed that male circumcision (MC) reduces female to male HIV transmission by approximately 60%. In Mozambique, MC has been practiced by many communities for centuries. In addition to having religious significance, MC often serves as a rite of passage to adulthood and is performed as part of adolescent initiation rites. Approximately 63% of men aged 15-49 are circumcised (up from 51% in 2009), although there is significant variation across the nation’s 11 provinces, with low circumcision rates and high HIV prevalence observed in the southern and central regions of the country.
And so on, in detail, from there.
How effective is the actual program? Like you, we have no idea—but of one thing we feel reasonably certain:
None of the Stepfords knew the first thing about any of the situations described in that USAID project profile. They had no idea what they were talking about when they began reciting the morning's agitprop, complete with derisive laughter about the foolishness of trying to save lives around the world.
(In theory, this sort of things helps built support for the U.S. in such contested locales.)
We'll take a guess! The trio of friends only knew what it said on the worksheets they held in their hands. They only knew what their corporate owners had told them to say this morning.
Sad! Propaganda campaigns of this type exist all day long on the Fox News Channel, even as Blue America's elites gaze off into space.
In fairness, the Bobbleheads are paid to say the things they say. Most likely, some of them don't know any better. Some of them probably do.
Meanwhile, we're hoping that Kevin Drum is recovering from what he'd reported, in recent days, to be a very serious medical situation. If you weren't aware of what seemed to be happening, you can check the last few days of Kevin's (very brief and alarming) posts.
Last evening, Kevin returned with a new, angry post. It ran beneath this headline:
Madness
A madness is indeed all around us—and major orgs in Blue America are determined not to say so.
They refuse to report what's right before them. Borrowing from Robert Frost, the various things they've been withholding have made us very weak.
We hope Kevin's encouraging bounce-back continues! The madness is widespread at this point. In our view, Blue America's voices need to learn how to say such words.
The friends are there every single morning. They laugh and recite and expound.
Starting tomorrow: Sociopathy
Bob quotes Campos-Duffy as saying that "crazy" programs like this seemed to be some sort of CIA exercise. The comparison to a CIA exercise is a metaphor. It's a way to emphasize how crazy she thinks the program is. She isn't saying that it's literally a CIA exercise.
ReplyDeleteMore importantly, was USAID money being spent foolishly? Yes, we know it was, because a great many examples have been publicly reported.
Importantly, was a lot of USAID money being spent on worthwhile causes? Yes, yes it was. All gone now, thanks to you.
DeleteFair point, @1:12. Consider the ice cream analogy. If you mix a gallon of ice cream with a cup of shit, you get a mixture that's mostly ice cream. IMO USAID had to be shut down, so that the shit could be eliminated. Then, we can start over with only appropriate spending.
DeleteWell la-di-da for you, Dickhead. Why don't you call you congressional representative and US Senators to tell them to delete the whole congressionally authorized government agency and start all over, fuckface fascist freak. Because sir Elon of the Mush doesn't have the fucking constitutional autlhority.
DeleteSo spoiling $500,000 of desperately needed food and shutting down thousands of faith based programs without any review of cost/benefit is the rational way to "save" money DiC? Shoot first, aim later? And how the neck do you ignore our hosts detailed description of Fox outright lies and uninformed deceptions as a part of "a great many examples." I have seen some gullible rubes in my day, but you take the cake.
DeleteDavid, the CIA likely has its hands all over any USAID money going overseas. If they don’t then they’re incompetent. Despite what tv hosts and other idiots say, it’s what they’re up to that matters. Not the fact that they get up to things.
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DeleteUSAID with its clownish excuses for stealing taxpayers' money ("$47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia", anyone?) is a low-hanging fruit, really.
Getting rid of USAID and its bullshit "programmes" practically guarantees good publicity.
But that's just the beginning. There are thousands of other federal money-wasting entities. It's going to be interesting. These are interesting times.
Drum's take gets a little closer to reality (though only skims the surface):
Delete"Before Trump was elected, I figured there was a range of possibilities if he won.
On one end: he's a blowhard. He says lots of stuff he never follows up on.
On the other end: He's dead serious this time. He's going to deport millions; put tariffs on everyone; take a sledgehammer to DEI; and nominate lunatics to his cabinet. It would be a bloodbath, but the courts and Republicans in the Senate would rein in the worst of it.
But it's been so much worse—though not on stuff he ran on. Deportations have been low and he's backed off on a bunch of tariffs. But DEI has turned into a jihad against anything that so much as mentions Black accomplishment—or women or Hispanics or anything else. USAID has been demolished for no reason and the medical research community is being torn to pieces. The entire federal workforce is being given a haircut with a blowtorch, with no apparent rhyme or reason. Elon Musk is tearing through federal agencies doing God knows what—he won't tell anyone. The righteous prosecution of a corrupt mayor has been pulled over protest as long as the mayor cooperates on deportations.
Foreign affairs is no better. Ukraine has refused Trump's demand for half its mineral wealth. Meanwhile Trump is busy punishing the AP for refusing to call the Gulf of Mexico the absurd Gulf of America. Trump is pursuing random tariffs that make no sense, primarily on our allies. And he continues to make periodic threats against Greenland, Panama, and, Canada.
It's governance gone mad, with no explanation or apparent reason. And we have 205 more weeks of it."
David in Cal,
DeleteIt's time to kill the 2nd Amendment.
As Americans, we are supposed to accept roomfuls of slaughtered First Graders in exchange for gun owners fighting government tyranny. It's good in theory, but in practice gun owners are too busy selling their guns to criminals on the black market to busy themselves with fighting government tyranny.
Ukraine has turned it around and is now winning.
ReplyDeleteUkraine is losing, has always been losing, was always going to lose, and will lose. The only question was how many poor saps would be forced to be slaughtered by evil American politicians, mostly Democrat.
DeleteWell they better hurry up before Biden's weapons run out, cause our Nazi's love their true dear leader, Putin.
Delete1:42 Putin expected to win in 3 days, how did that work out for you fascist loving prick? 10,000 tanks, 23,000 artillery system, and 850,000 Russian troops eliminated from the battle field. Tiny Ukraine is showing the Second Greatest Military in the world just how bad they are equipped due to the corruption inherent in an oligarchy. Apparently this is what you are routing for here. What a sad little Nazi you are.
DeleteUkraine is recruiting soldiers in record numbers. What does that tell you?
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ReplyDeleteThank God for Donald Trump and his beautiful team.
We are so lucky they are in charge. Just imagine that the madness of 2020-2024 could continue for another four years. God saved us. Hallelujah.
Bet
DeleteYes, thank you, LGBTQ-hating Sky Daddy for replacing American democracy with lawless authoritarianism. Amen.
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DeleteGo to Canada, democracy-loving bot.
How about you go to Hungary and you can go bow down to their male authority figure?
DeleteThank you, Sky Daddy, for the opportunity to reign in the managerial class and return to being a republic.
DeleteThe people who safeguard our nukes are not “managerial class.” Neither are air safety staff, national park employees, health researchers. Trump is making indiscriminate cuts not cutting managers.
DeleteYes, life was so terrible in the United States, wasn’t it, Cecelia? Important functions of the government must be destroyed so that you can live in a “republic” vs…a republic with policies you didn’t like. You’re a clown.
DeleteWhy would I want to go to Hungary, Soros-bot, when I love what's happening here? Are you dumb, democracy-loving Soros-bot?
DeleteAnonymouse 3:17pm, life is grand in these United States, but there’s always mopping up to do from the perspectives of both sides. Anonymices are generally on the extreme end of that line. You can’t even stand each other.
DeleteLife was perfect in the United States. The rulers were preoccupied with circumcision in Mozambique, while paying zero attention to millions of illegals pouring across the border. What's not to like?
DeleteAnonymouse 3:30pm, that’s not true. The border crisis was intentional.
DeleteThere is no border crisis now — Biden fixed it.
DeleteDonald Trump's Presidency is the best thing to happen to people who say all Republicans are nothing but a shit pile of bigots, in the history of the country.
DeleteThe only people who can disagree now, are dead-end losers who are afraid of black people voting. Who the fuck would listen to those pieces of shit?
"Are you dumb, democracy-loving Soros-bot?"
DeleteDemocracy-loving is an insult now?
DeleteYes it is, Soros-bot. "Democracy" is now the same kinda bull as "think of the children!" and "the Russians are coming!"
Be grateful to the Democrat party of Shitheads and Idiots.
Hmmm, but Biden was spending several billion less per day than Trump/Musk.
DeleteInteresting…
Hmmmm, but Biden spent several billion less per day than Trump/Musk.
DeleteInteresting…
Doesn't surprise me at all. All Brandon needs for a day is a dozen diapers.
DeleteDOGE?
DeleteNope.
DOGIE, Dept of Government Inefficiency.
Bwahahahahahahaha.
Please explain exactly the madness you experienced. But please use the correct timeframe, 2021-2025 you knumbskull.
ReplyDeleteA big madness of the Biden years is one for which Congress is also to blame: treating government money as if it were unlimited. This practice was justified by a mad economic theory. I think it was called “New economics”
DeleteWithout interest rates rising rapidly Biden would have had a reduction in the deficit. Just like all Dem Presidents since Clinton balanced the budget. Funny hoe Republican rich people taz cuts always explode the deficit. So I assume you are asking you reps to let the insanely stupid Felon's tax cuts directed at the rich and large corporations to expire right David? And to end the cap on payroll taxes? Or can you explain to me how Voodoo economics have not been a complete disaster for the budget, and has not failed every promise on a napkin since 1980?
DeleteDavid, was Trump's first term noteworthy for its spending restraint?
DeleteDiC will produce only crickets to 6:07’s question. The cognitive dissonance would cause his head to explode.
DeleteIt's funny how the first DOGE staff we heard about it were youngsters with mad programming skills who were presumably going to dig into federal government databases to bring about all sort of efficiencies (that is what the 'E' stands for, right?
ReplyDeleteInstead, what seems to be happening is a run-of-the-mill financial audit with a peculiar ideological twist. You ask for the list of contracts, then you red flag the ones whose titles you don't like. A competent sixth grader could do it.
Hector, that’s less nefarious sounding than your recent descriptions have been.. It’s called winning an election and being a political party with a particular ideological outlook.. It’s a wrestling match and it ain’t over. Keep the faith, if that’s not a dirty word or a synonym for capitulation (to devils). In which case it’s moot.
DeleteYes, winning an election is called breaking laws at the direction of an unelected dipshit high as a kite on Ketamine, who is not in a Government position, who just wants to stuff more money in his pockets by busting up stuff with no plan for making things work. Also too, an asset of Russia and China. What could go wrong?
DeleteCope, Soros-bot. Watch your blood pressure.
DeleteYou tell 'em trumptard.
DeleteArty, lots could go wrong, but presidents put forth the agenda that got them elected. They vie with their opposition. Anonymices pull their hair out on blog boards belonging to people they castigate as being Putin puppets, or worse—- centrists… . It’s the circle of life.
DeleteYes, I remember distinctly when orange chickenshit looked the American people squarely in the eye and said "vote for me, I will implement the Project 2025 agenda from cover to cover"!
DeleteEverybody loves the Project 2025 agenda. If that's what he is implementing.
DeletePutin is dictator of a chief enemy of the US. There is no excuse for Trump’s collusion with Putin.
Delete
DeleteWhy aren't you in the trenches, Soros-bot?
But wait…it turns out Biden spent several billion less per day than Trump/Musk.
DeleteOh I see, the trolls are full of bs. Who knew?
Cecelia,
DeleteThe election isn't over until white people throw temper tantrums at the U.S. Capitol.
Everyone knows that.
Anonymouse 9:08pm, I’d bring the wieners and dips, but you anonymouse flying monkeys are probably tied- up. (By Corby)
DeleteGood one.
DeleteIt's funny because Right-wingers are snowflakes who still can't get over black people having equality.
" but presidents put forth the agenda that got them elected" - or they just flat out lie to get elected by saying stuff any idiot would know was a lie; like I don't know anything about Project 2025, and after getting elected it is all Project 2025. So stop with the Bullsht. You are not a fool, so you know better. Shame on you.
DeleteTrump is behaving as if he were King and could cut any program he didn't like, for any reason. He has been firing whoever he wants, without any justification. The problem is that the President cannot cut programs that were authorized by Congress (under impoundment law) and there is due process for firing federal employees. They are part of the Civil Service, not political appointees of the president. Trump's failure to observe the boundaries and limits of his power constitute an abuse of authority that is an impeachable offense. A diligent congress would use their power to restrain Trump. Instead, the people will need to demonstrate and march to show their elected representatives in Congress that their constituents want Trump reined in. Otherwise, our government becomes a farce, the Constitution an empty sheet of paper, and our nation a dictatorship ruled by a madman and his accomplices.
ReplyDeleteSo, ultimately, it is up to us to communicate unequivocally with our elected representatives. Somerby cannot pass the buck on this, blaming only the Fox news staff (who he calls names like stepford and clown). He needs to get involved and play his own important role, by contacting his elected officials, as I have been doing with mine and every citizen should do with theirs.
Fighting for our democracy is hard work. Somerby isn't going to do it, judging by his idiotic essays. The Republicans are happy to flush their democracy down the toilet. So it falls on us to do what must be done.
"Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president." Ezra Klein
DeleteTrump IS the king of the Executive Branch. That’s effectively what the Constitution says.
DeleteKristof’s column in Today’s Times complains about a lack of checks and balances. Actually the elected President IS the people’s
Deletecheck and balance on unelected bureaucrats.
He's not the king of the other two Constitutional branches of our tripartite government, you fascist freak.
DeleteShit, Dickhead in Cal, I thought we had a revolution because we wanted to throw off the yoke of a king. Where the fuck did you go to school, fascist?
DeleteIt’s uncanny how the media will all have a new buzz word that they… coincidentally… all use at once.
DeleteWhich article in the Constitution effectively says the President is king of the executive branch?
DeleteAnonymouse 3:49pm, he’s the sachem of the executive branch.
DeleteCEO maybe.
DeleteMusk is unelected. His boy toys are unvetted and unaccountable. All of that is very bad management.
Delete@3:49 The words something like “The Executive. Branch is vested in the President”
DeleteI don't know what you're fucking trying to insinuate, Cec @3:47, but I ain't in the media.
DeleteIt is amazing, here we are in year of our Lord 2025 arguing with fascists about whether or not the President is a fucking king. You can't make this shit up. It is ironic that we are debating this a day before President's Day. Not fucking King's Day, Dickhead.
On the other side, the House was unanimously against anything but president alone. They were afraid that anything more would make the executive leader into a kind of monarch.
The debate went on for three arduous weeks — the original congressional deadlock.
"You can even consider this the first dispute between the House and the Senate over constitutional intent," Bartoloni-Tuazon said.
In the end, modesty won
In the end, the Senate relented, writing they wished to preserve harmony with the House.
Bartoloni-Tuazon, author of a book about this debate, For Fear of an Elective King, said the simple title of "president" established the first principles of the executive branch of the American political system.
"Those principles — modesty and a nod to the people — helped the presidency be accepted by the people in that unsettled time," she said.
https://www.npr.org/2016/02/15/466848438/why-president-how-the-u-s-named-its-leader
Relevant to the President-as-King theory:
DeleteA law suit filed by the attorneys general of 14 states argues Trump violated the Appointments Clause of the Constitution by creating DOGE without Senate approval, as required under Article 2.
Surprise, surprise. DiC and Cecelia and the rest of the magats have discovered a new principle: the President is the “king” of the executive branch whose will must not be thwarted and who cannot by definition break the law. A theory that magically came into being only with a Republican President. Of course, it isn’t really a principle, since they would never support a Democratic President acting this way.
Delete"Trump IS the king of the Executive Branch. That’s effectively what the Constitution says."
DeleteNo, it doesn't. It doesn't say that or anything close to it. If you read it, you didn't understand it. The president's powers as enumerated in Article II are largely constrained by the "advice and consent" of the Senate.
"Actually the elected President IS the people’s
Deletecheck and balance on unelected bureaucrats.
Are you OK, David? Have you fallen and hit your head? Are you having a stroke?
Do you want us to call someone for you?
Was JFK functioning as a monarch when he established USAID via an executive order?
DeleteWell, Cecelia, one imagines that you could actually research the facts, but sadly, you and DiC prefer propaganda. According to Wikipedia:
Delete“ Congress passed the Foreign Assistance Act on September 4, 1961, which reorganized U.S. foreign assistance programs and mandated the creation of an agency to administer economic aid.”
Gee, USAID was the agency that Congress had mandated.
Now go fuck yourself.
Anonymouse 8:44pm, if you had a dollar for every time you told someone to go f- themselves, you could pay to have that done for yourself. Maybe…
Delete“USAID was established in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy to unite several existing foreign assistance organizations and programs under one agency. Statute law places USAID under "the direct authority and policy guidance of the Secretary of State".[4]”
“Congress passed the Foreign Assistance Act on September 4, 1961, which reorganized U.S. foreign assistance programs and mandated the creation of an agency to administer economic aid. The goal of this agency was to counter Soviet Union influence during the Cold War and to advance US soft power through socioeconomic development.[12][13] USAID was subsequently established by the executive order of President John F. Kennedy, who sought to unite several existing foreign assistance organizations and programs under one agency.[14]”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_International_Development
Kennedy may have been president but Congress established the program by mandating it so that Kennedy was then authorized to create it via executive order. Kennedy didn’t just go off and create it on his own. Read what you just quoted.
DeleteSo, no, he was not acting as king but under the authority of congress. Trump has been circumventing congress.
“Statute law places USAID under "the direct authority and policy guidance of the Secretary of State".[4]”’
DeleteThe program is under the Executive Branch.
The Constitution says, "The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America." This is pretty close to saying, The President is the Executive Branch. "That's a lot like Louis XIV's, "L'État, c'est moi"
DeleteThe constitution in no way engenders the president with the power that Trump has grabbed, that’s why we are in a constitutional crisis.
DeleteUSAID was mandated by congress.
If Biden was pulling the crap Trump is, the Republican trolls like David and Cecelia would be having spasms of hate spewing.
Biden was not re elected, Trump squeaked by via dirty tricks/voter suppression, yet here the trolls are, David and Cecelia spewing their hate nonetheless, it’s what they do, lost in loneliness, desperate for attention and a feeling of dominance.
Anonymouse 4:17pm, disagreement with you as to Trump’s authority over USAID (or anything else) is not tantamount to “spewing hate”, oh, swami.
DeletePart of the mandate of congress was that this program would be under the purview of the executive branch.
This will go to SCOTUS. They will or will not decide to take it up.
Then the SCOTUS police will enforce the decision.
DeleteNow, pull Cecelia's other finger.
Anonymouse 9:11am, it’s poignant when you start projecting your nutcaseness.
DeleteLost in translation, 10:10.
DeleteTry again.
Who here believes a man who has hidden his tax returns from the American public for 10 years, is worried about corruption? LOL
ReplyDeleteAnd who here thinks there will be anyone in the IRS who will even dare to audit Trump's tax returns? He could literally scribble in crayon, "I owe nothing" and no one would breathe a word.
No one’s returns will be audited given Musk has fired a bunch of auditors.
DeleteNothing says government efficiency like being ripped-off by tax cheats.
DeleteDamned tax cheats, eh? Spoken like the archetypical government bureaucrat, 9:13 AM.
DeletePro tax cheat, huh 9:22.
DeleteAre the corporate elitists paying you more than they paid Hillary Clinton to speak to them?
OMG @3:14 that is the first laugh I've had in days with all this nonsense going on. In crayon! You aren't wrong. But arguing with each other is exactly what they want us to be doing. For the people at the top it is just a game to win, none of this craziness really effects them, Democrat or Republican. Just keep the peasants busy fighting each other so they won't notice that we're ALL screwing them over...
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ReplyDeleteIt's so super-cool that the richest man, the most successful entrepreneur in the world, is working to make the US government efficient.
I love it. And so does everyone I know.
Who the fuck are the hate-mongering losers here?
Is there really a need for potty-mouth?
DeleteAnonymouse 3:53pm, not unless they’re leftist potty mouths. Anonymices them find a-ok.
DeleteLanguage snowflakes should find somewhere else to be.
DeleteSuper-neato. It's just bitchin'.
DeleteIt's the most. And my cousin agrees.
DeleteWhenever I say 'Elon Musk' my dog wags his tail. So I know he's down with whatever Elon's doing.
DeleteThe best part is after it's all over, Elon will be even richer!
DeleteEveryone loves what Elon is doing and admires his success and all around persona. The only thing that interferes with this natural reaction is an overdose of soy.
DeleteOnly pussies eat soy. Real men want Elon to loot the Treasury.
DeleteTrolls aren't as funny as they think they are.
DeleteA guy walks into a bar, sees Cecelia, David in Cal, and AC/MA and asks them why they can't tell the difference between Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and fine people on the Right.
DeleteThe three of them run out of the bar, because they've been asked to do the impossible.
Get it?
Anonymouse flying monkey 9:19am, and here you are still trying to be funny although no one has asked you to do the impossible.
DeleteCircumcision is genital mutilation, and it should never be done.
ReplyDeleteSomerby can take a lesson from this comment. Those Fox hosts can know the facts and still reach the conclusion that it is better to get aids than to spend money on condoms or circumcisions to reduce the prevalence of the disease in the population. Republicans not only don't know the facts but they think about health in screwy ways, so that even if they did know it wouldn't change their behavior.
DeleteCondoms yes, circumcision no.
DeleteCircumcision also protects against cancer. Some risks are personal but when there is a communicable disease going around that can be stopped via circumcision and condoms, the risk is also to society and to the wives of men who contract aids.
DeleteSelfishness is more of a conservative trait, so I am not surprised to see the right opposing public health measures with demonstrated efficacy. The drugs that help control aids are much more expensive and less available to those in Mozambique than in the US. More people will die because idiots think circumcision is mutilation. But they're just Africans, amirite?
Circumcision is mutilation.
DeleteWould you rather have a mutilation or aids?
DeleteI’d rather be faithful to my wife. Failing that, I’d rather wear a condom. But circumcision? Never.
DeleteNobody cares about your infidelity.
DeleteRed states have more diseases including STIs and now even measles.
Republicans are so clever with all their self owns.
You asked me what I’d rather, but you don’t care about my answer.
DeleteThat's because we Soros-bots work from a fixed script.
DeleteBig DJT at the Daytona 500. Roaring cheers, chills as The Beast laps the track. Democrats can never have this kind of presence.
ReplyDeleteChills? It does sound scary.
DeleteImagine how much worse it would be, if drag queens weren't on the frontlines protecting children from the pedophiles in the Republican Party.
DeleteIf a drag queen gets near my kid to "protect" him he's going to find out what protecting a kid looks like.
DeleteDrag queens aren’t pedophiles, 5:59. Pedophiles generally masquerade as protective figures, like Catholic priests, Boy Scout leaders, church youth leaders, evangelical preachers, and camp counselors. Wake up.
DeleteSometimes they are teachers, although schools tend to be more vigilant about weeding out the ones with exaggerated fondness for pictures of Anne Frank.
DeleteAmerica didn't have any other political party that was capable of beating Trump.
DeleteDrag queens are autogynephilic and pedophilic groomers.
DeleteWhat about incels?
DeleteMost pedophiles are heterosexual males, 8:04. You lie and demonize like a good little magat.
Delete5:59,
DeleteWhat are you going to do? Make a good faith statement? LOL.
They’re still basking in the glow of hanging a noose in the one Black driver’s garage.
DeleteCool.
5:26,
DeleteI haven't seen the Right this hungry, since they were drooling over a photo of Hunter Biden's penis.
The Wisdom of Good Governance Marches On:
ReplyDelete"IRS will lay off thousands of probationary workers in the middle of tax season"
Using the GoFundMe app to buy an omelet is a small price to pay for Elon Musk stealing your personal information and selling it to China.
ReplyDelete"The leader of Canada's Conservative Party has drawn a line in the sand for Donald Trump that, if he wins his country's next federal election, he has no intention of entertaining a plan for Canada to become part of the U.S.
ReplyDeleteAccording to a report from Politico, Pierre Poilievre gave a rousing speech in Ottawa on Saturday where he told a crowd, "Let me be clear: We will never be the 51st state. We will bear any burden and pay any price to protect the sovereignty and independence of our country,"
If only our own conservatives had similar resolve when it comes to dealing with our out-of-control president.
David and those who agree with him need a refresher on Article II of our Constitution:
ReplyDeletehttps://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-1/ALDE_00000243/
"Trump Team Leaves Behind an Alliance in Crisis
ReplyDeleteFebruary 16, 2025 at 2:55 pm EST By Taegan Goddard
“Many critical issues were left uncertain — including the fate of Ukraine — at the end of Europe’s first encounter with an angry and impatient Trump administration. But one thing was clear: An epochal breach appears to be opening in the Western alliance,” the New York Times reports." [Political Wire]
This only benefits Putin.
Yes which is why Zelenskyy needs to be sidelined.
DeleteWhich is exactly what hegseth and Trump are doing.
DeleteUkraine has exposed Russia/Putin as a paper tiger, strengthened NATO, and crumbled Russia’s economy and relevancy.
DeleteSorry, but the tragedy of all those Russian deaths aside, Putin’s blunder is fucking hilarious!
DeleteYes Sir, Mr. Soros. Yes, we know, we've heard it all. Brandon turned the ruble into rubble, Obama tore it to shreds, and all that.
And now take Valium and go to sleep, Sir. We'll do an enema later.
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DeleteThat and all Republican voters being bigots, will buy you a cup of hot water.
"Trump Cuts Hit Office Handling Bird Flu Response
ReplyDeleteFebruary 16, 2025 at 9:08 am EST By Taegan Goddard
“Laboratories in a national network of 58 facilities responding to the spread of bird flu were notified Friday that 25 percent of the staff in a central program office coordinating their work were fired in the Trump administration’s mass layoffs of federal employees,” Politico reports." [Political Wire]
This cannot be the right way to deal with the cause of higher egg prices. Bird flu is also affecting chicken as meat and has been found in cows, which will affect dairy and beef prices. But Trump's people are cutting our national response to this increasing threat to our food supply! Why would they do this?
What kind of moron cares about grocery prices? Even the corporate-owned mainstream media stopped talking about it the 2nd week of last November.
DeleteDemocrats said that the laptop was about the Galliano bottle in his pants, not the shell companies. He had a cold and Beyonce would sing. The campaign was perfect. A cease fire was coming. He orders ice cream wearing cool glasses. The polls are looking good. She is special. We will win. Boys need tampons. The border was never not secure. Let's build that wall now. Blue collar Democrats are not needed. Weapons provide jobs. Watch this space. Let freedom ring.
ReplyDeleteDemocrats ran the absolute best, most qualified candidate they could find. Then they ran someone else. Voters were welcomed to get excited about their second choice.
DeleteHow could any candidate compete against such brilliant political acumen?
Republicans are so excited to not feel shame about their tiny penises, that they ignore how unpopular Trump/Musk are, and how their “efficiency” has led to spikes in unemployment, inflation, and government spending.
DeleteIt’s nearly a laugh…nearly.
America didn't have a political party capable of being Trump. So we’re stuck with him. The party who had the best chance didn’t take beating him seriously. They started telling Americans weird, obvious lies and then ran their second choice. it’s almost like they wanted to lose.
DeleteWe could have kept our representative democracy, if Hunter Biden didn't have a penis the Republican Party is in awe of.
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ReplyDeleteCircumcise, circumcise, circumcise. I have personally circumcised thousands in Mozambique! And I sniffed my fingers.
Somerby is an ass.
I am Corby.