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It's obvious what you see this board as, as a board you can air your grievances on.
Aren't you lucky we tolerate it even though you are obviously a hypocritical phony.
And even though you insult our intelligence and our understanding daily.
B402, To a bigger part of the country it doesn't. You have been told before that Dems winning the popular vote in recent presidential election is cold comfort to your debunked claim that it is Dems who have let the country down. Fact is more Americans prefer Democrats, yet all you do is post against Democrats. Which obviously for the rest of this year at least can only be seen as in favor of Trump. And you never ever post in support of Dems who actively work to get through stuff you profess to be in support of.
Your positions defy all logic, yet you simply ignore all that and move on, on your own selfish little railway track.
B402, No defense of your position will hold a speck of credibility until you start posting positive articles on AOC and the other Dems left of Pelosi, Schumer et al. And you could wonder why no Libertarian party has ever won government in any country in the world.
Rupert Murdoch, One huge minus for America when he gave up his Australian citizenship to become an American.
Libertarian chair: No decision on RFK Jr.
Lauren Irwin
7 March 2024·
Angela McArdle, the chair of the Libertarian National Committee, said no decision has been made about whether independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will join the Libertarian Party’s presidential ticket.
“I’m not allowed to actively recruit anyone for the presidential nomination,” McArdle said on “The Hill on NewsNation” on Wednesday. “I’m certainly friendly with his campaign, just like I am with all the other candidates’ campaigns though.”
McArdle told host Blake Burman that she thinks it’s a wise decision for Kennedy to be eyeing the Libertarian Party.
Kennedy spoke late last month at the party’s annual convention in California and has fueled speculation that he would join the Libertarian Party to qualify for more states in the general election.
“I’m sure we’re appealing right now,” McArdle said of the party’s efforts to be on the ballot in all 50 states.
Kennedy, who began his campaign as a Democratic challenger to President Biden, later declared an independent bid to take on both Biden and former President Trump.
While Kennedy has only casually entertained the idea of making another switch to the Libertarian Party, several sources told The Hill that there is growing support among party members for him to be the candidate this fall.
McArdle said the party has no favorite candidates “right now,” which is “not a knock” against Kennedy.
“You know, we have a very ornery group of delegates. They’re very interested in finding the best, most principles messenger, someone who represents us ideologically,” she said.
“We also have a group of people who are very focused on ballot access, and of course, having Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as our candidate would absolutely seal ballot access for us, but it’s not decided yet,” McArdle continued.
She argued that if Kennedy became the Libertarian Party’s nominee, “there would be an understanding with us that he doesn’t 100 percent represent us ideologically.”
Burman questioned if Kennedy would be using the party to continue his candidacy, and McArdle said it might be a “mutually beneficial relationship.”
Kennedy would get on the ballot in many states, and the party would be securing ballot access and potential federal funding in the future in exchange, she said.
“The Hill on NewsNation” airs Monday to Friday at 5 p.m.
The Hill and NewsNation are both owned by Nexstar Media Group.
https://nz.news.yahoo.com/libertarian-chair-no-decision-rfk-031654822.html
McArdle gave an op-ed to Newsweek claiming that Russian forces were not committing a genocide in Ukraine, retorting that Ukrainians are committing war crimes against the Russian population of the Donbas, as well as saying that the United States forced Russia, and Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine.[17] McArdle also spoke at the Rage Against the War Machine Rally, co hosted with the People’s Party, where she called on a cut to all aid to Ukraine, and for Ukraine to surrender all Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine.[18] After the rally, the Libertarian Party issued a press release stating that "any speaker advocating for the contrary does not align with our values" in reference to speakers that did not support their "anti-war platform," specifically targeting Scott Ritter, the most radical pro-Russian speaker at the event.[19]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_McArdle#Career
It's no wonder no country in the world is headed by a Libertarian government.
B402, You came to the board lying about your independence, now you have moved to blurting far-right spitballs.
"Like lowering educational standards.....Math is racist, Merit is racist.....lower standards for the military, police.....Blame guns when 17% of the population commits nearly half the murders, so punish the law abiding gun owners.....Lower criminal standards,,,,,,Offender to now be Justice impacted individual......sheesh, if a citizen dares defend themself or others, find away to charge them.....
P - Flood the country with cheap labor when inequity is rampant, then play the race card....Ignore the inflation and say its all good,,,,,Ignore the economies impact on people and haul in that corporate money....
P - Teach all whites are racist,,,,,America sucks always has, its a racist bigoted country, the founders were assholes, not wise men beyond their time, cancel them.....screw free speech, everything is offensive............
P - You see, it's far past economics, its the total loss of common sense.....you've lost your focus on the country as a whole......and like I say, you wonder why...
P - So back to that debate, keep on calling half the country stupid, racist, and that you have all the answers as the above shows and wonder why common people are as tone deaf to you now as you are, and have been, to them.... "
As blackhawks said all of that of yours is unmitigated, unsupported, far-right crap. Every day you expose yourself more as being on the far-right conservative fringe.
When given fact debunking your 'anti-Dem' vitriol you simply ignore it. And your own so-called evidence shelf is virtually threadbare. I wonder if you even read the one link you offered in support of your fact-free contention that Democrats have have moved rabid far-left.
CHICAGO — State lawmakers have passed a bill that, if signed into law by Governor JB Pritzker, will change the term “offender” in state law to “justice impacted individual.”
The proposed change blew up on social media, with some people mistakenly thinking that people who commit crimes would get a rebranding. Instead, it would only apply to participants in one program meant to rehabilitate people and keep them out of prison.
The specific proposed law, House Bill 4409, would remove the term “offender” and replace it with “justice impacted individual” for men and women in the state’s “Adult Redeploy Illinois” program, commonly referred to as A.R.I.
Your link - https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/bill-proposing-change-from-offender-to-justice-impacted-individual-advances-to-governors-desk/
Though one could argue it is politically unwise to put the bill in the poisonous phony anti-woke climate your Trump-friendly conservatives have spuriously contrived, it certainly is not the big deal you are claiming.
See again:
I have the feeling that by "elitism", you mean "education" and "expertise" and all that.
We need elites. We do not need rich scum like Trumpty.
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Load of hysterical crap. And no link to support any of it, because you've pulled it out of your ass. The bigger picture that I posted is that GOP is for shit for the most number of people.
P - There are no law abiding gun owners being punished, period. And how can educational standards be any lower than the ones you 'benefited' from?
P - Like lowering educational standards.....Math is racist, Merit is racist.....lower standards for the military, police.....Blame guns when 17% of the population commits nearly half the murders, so punish the law abiding gun owners.....Lower criminal standards,,,,,,Offender to now be Justice impacted individual......sheesh, if a citizen dares defend themself or others, find away to charge them.....
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Look Karen, teaching the history of America involves slavery and the 100 years of Jim Crow laws of the southern states. This just did not involve a small period in the history of America, it happened for almost two centuries, you know that is 200 years of American lifestyle. You want to dismiss it because even when I was child it was the way of life in America.
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B402, Show Dem mistakes while ignoring Republican mistakes. Only in your hypocritical world would
that total illogicality of yours make any sense to rebut my observation that you clearly look a phony.
Agree. In general you are right.
B402, You in fact are sowing support for Trump. Where are your posts in support of congressional Democrats who actively work to support some of the causes you profess to support. Like congress people not able to trade shares. AOC put a bill to that i believe. Where is your support of AOC for her work on that and other issues you say you feel passionately about. They are not any? Oh! Why? Because you are a fucking hypocritical poseur.
I ask you, in the absence of one single post in support of AOC and/or in support of the other congressional Dems to the left of Pelosi, what other conclusion about you do you suggest i and others could draw.
"You reap what you sew"
The Complex Add to yours - Surrounded: How the U.S. Is Encircling China with Military Bases
"My solution was documented here, early on. We should have given Ukraine everything they needed..."
The U.S. military is encircling China with a chain of air bases and military ports. The latest link: a small airstrip
on the tiny Pacific island of Saipan. The U.S. Air Force is planning to lease 33 acres of land
on the island for the next 50 years to build a "divert airfield" on an ...
By John Reed, a former national security reporter for Foreign Policy.
Mark Wilson/Getty Images
August 20, 2013, 11:15 PM
The U.S. military is encircling China with a chain of air bases and military ports. The latest link: a small airstrip on the tiny Pacific island of Saipan. The U.S. Air Force is planning to lease 33 acres of land on the island for the next 50 years to build a "divert airfield" on an old World War II airbase there. But the residents don’t want it .. http://www.saipantribune.com/newsstory.aspx?newsID=139419&cat=1 . And the Chinese are in no mood to be surrounded by Americans.
The Pentagon’s big, new strategy for the 21st century is something called Air-Sea Battle, a concept that’s nominally about combining air and naval forces to punch through the increasingly-formidable defenses of nations like China or Iran. It may sound like an amorphous strategy — and truth be told, a lot of Air-Sea Battle is still in the conceptual phase. But a very concrete part of this concept is being put into place in the Pacific. An important but oft-overlooked part of Air-Sea Battle calls for the military to operate from small, bare bones bases in the Pacific that its forces can disperse to in case their main bases are targeted by Chinese ballistic missiles.
Saipan would be used by American jets in case access to the U.S. superbase at Guam "or other Western Pacific airfields is limited or denied," reads this .. http://tinianchamber.com/resources/milconfor2012/presentations/CNMI_Divert_EIS_Exec_Sum_2012_09_10_CML.pdf .. Air Force document discussing the impact building such fields on Saipan and nearby Tinian would have on the environment there. (Residents of Saipan actually want the Air Force to use the historic airbases on Tinian that the U.S. Marines are already refurbishing .. http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/06/05/us_reopening_world_war_ii_bases_in_pacific?_gl=1*l70fks*_gcl_au*MjA0MjU0ODA2Ny4xNzExMjMyNzc1LjE4MDM1ODY0NDIuMTcxNjc1NTg5Mi4xNzE2NzU1ODkz*_ga*MTYzMTU5NjExNC4xNzExMjMyNzc2*_ga_T5CKP06L0Y*MTcxNjc1NTUzNi4xMS4xLjE3MTY3NTYxNjIuNjAuMC4w .. and flying F/A-18 Hornet fighters out of on an occasional basis.)
Specifically, the Air Force wants to expand the existing Saipan International Airport — built on the skeleton of a World War II base used by Japan, and later the United States — to accommodate cargo, fighter, and tanker aircraft along with up to 700 support personnel for "periodic divert landings, joint military exercises, and joint and combined humanitarian assistance and disaster relief efforts," according to Air Force documents on the project.
This means the service plans on building additional aircraft parking space, hangars, fuel storage tanks, and ammunition storage facilities, in addition to other improvements to the historic airfield. And it’s not the only facility getting an upgrade.
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In addition to the site on Saipan, the Air Force plans to send aircraft on regular deployments to bases ranging from Australia to India as part of its bulked up force in the Pacific. These plans include regular deployments to Royal Australian Air Force bases at Darwin and Tindal, Changi East air base in Singapore, Korat air base in Thailand, Trivandrum in India, and possibly bases at Cubi Point and Puerto Princesa in the Philippines and airfields in Indonesia and Malaysia, a top U.S. Air Force general revealed last month.
The Saipan announcement comes as Chinese defense minister, Gen. Chang Wanquan, visited Washington to talk with U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. The specific topic of U.S. bases in the Pacific didn’t come up during a joint press conference held by the two officials on Aug. 20, but Wanquan said in response to a question about the U.S. military’s increased focus on the Pacific that "China is a peace-loving nation. And we hope that [America’s] strategy does not target a specific country in the region."
While the U.S. military insists that Air Sea Battle, and the military’s entire pivot to Asia, isn’t about China, these bases are indeed a check against any future Chinese expansion into the Pacific ocean, according to Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
"China will be much more discreet throughout the entire region because U.S. power is already there, it’s visible; you’re not talking theory, you’re already there in practice," he said.
This will also reassure America’s allies in the region that the U.S. commitment to the Pacific is legit.
"As part of this rebalancing to the Pacific, you have to show people it’s real at a time when so much of U.S. power is increasingly questioned by our budget debates," Cordesman added.
Gen. Herbert "Hawk" Carlisle, commander of all U.S. Air Force assets in the Pacific, said that the United States is planning on operating tankers, fighters, and bombers out of a string of bases throughout the South Pacific and Southwest Asia. Like the sites at Tinian and Saipan, these facilities aren’t slated for permanent occupation by American aircraft — or at least that’s what American commanders say. Instead, these sites will see a steady stream of U.S. and northern Pacific based units visiting on a regular basis.
"We’re not gonna build any more bases in the Pacific" to support the U.S. Air Force’s increased presence there, said Carlisle. And technically, he’s telling the truth: no "new" bases, just expansions of existing airports and rebuilds of abandoned facilities like the sites at Saipan and Tinian. In fact, one of the fields being rebuilt by the Marines on Tinian is the place where the B-29 Enola Gay took off on its mission to drop the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
The refurbished airfields also hearken back to the Cold War era, when American units were constantly rotated in and out of Europe to keep the Soviets at bay. To counter a new foe, the Air Force will continuously deploy units based in the United States and the northern Pacific to a string of airfields in Southeast Asia.
"Back in the late, great days of the Cold War, we had a thing called Checkered Flag: We rotated almost every CONUS [Continental United States] unit to Europe," said Carlisle. "Every two years, every unit would go and work out of a collateral operating base in Europe. We’re turning to that in the Pacific."
Not only does this dispersal allow the United States to hide its planes from destruction, it’s also "a way to build up relations with partners in that part of the word," explains Jan Van Tol of the Center for Strategic And Budgetary Assessments, a Washington think tank that helped the Pentagon develop of the Air-Sea Battle concept. "It has to do with establishing interoperability, relationships, and experience in the actual areas" where the United States may have to fight.
When asked what other old bases the United States might consider expanding to, Van Tol said "people in different discussions will mention bases they might like to see, like Wake Island or, I think, Palau." Both feature the remains of American airstrips from World War II. Wake, in fact, already has a very limited American military presence. Meanwhile, Palau has openly invited .. http://www.islandtimes.us/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4100:senate-bids-angaur-airfield-for-us-military-use&catid=4:politics . the U.S military to return and use one of its World War II airstrips there.
Cordesman says the U.S. is likely looking at a three-tiered system of such bases in the Pacific. Some will be strictly American, others like those in Australia to India will be operated by allies who host the Americans on deployments, and the third tier will probably be a more secret string of austere, emergency bases.
"You want forward bases in some areas to show that the United States can operate on its own, then you want that build up interoperability and cooperation with our allies, and then you want contingency capabilities — and with those you want to leave people guessing," said Cordesman.
It’s another sign that, when comes to the Pacific, what’s old is new again.
John Reed is a former national security reporter for Foreign Policy.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/08/20/surrounded-how-the-u-s-is-encircling-china-with-military-bases/
B402, That's an elitist comment if i've ever heard one. An elitist comment that is from an individual who is obviously taking a stand against success in America. Noted also you ignored janice's comment that Pelosi has done much good, unarguably true, while you spend your time in support of the scumbag American Donald Trump, unarguably true.
Gov. Murphy should veto public records bill, say mayors of N.J.’s two biggest cities
"Pay wall... but I'd like to know what dems are pushing this as well... "
When hit by paywalls, detours are usually available.
By: Sophie Nieto-Munoz - May 22, 2024 4:48 pm
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, left, and Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop are two of the most prominent elected officials who oppose a bill that would revamp the state's public records law. (Baraka photo by New Jersey Governor’s Office/Fulop photo by Dave Kotinsky-Getty Images for Liberty Science Center)
The mayors of the state’s two largest cities are calling on Gov. Phil Murphy to veto a controversial bill sitting on his desk that would revamp the state’s public records law.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop, who are both running for the Democratic nomination for governor in 2025, criticized the bill as a step backward for government transparency and accountability. The measure would make numerous changes to the Open Public Records Act that critics say are tantamount to gutting the law .. https://newjerseymonitor.com/2024/05/14/critics-slam-legislature-for-passing-public-records-overhaul/ .
“OPRA may need some change but this is not it. Let us find a balanced solution together that addresses the issues without compromising our democratic values. New Jersey deserves nothing less,” said Baraka in a statement released Wednesday.
Fulop, meanwhile, said in a statement that Murphy made a “bad deal with legislative leaders” who support the bill.
“There is no other rational reason on why it moved the way it did and why legislators would put themselves out there without a commitment that Murphy would sign it,” he said. “If Murphy signs this bill this will be his legacy as the governor that moved NJ backwards on both election finance and transparency in a moment when the Democratic Party is asking for stronger and more protective laws.”
Murphy spokesperson Tyler Jones declined to comment. Murphy, a Democrat, has declined to say whether he will sign or veto the bill.
Fulop said, based on Murphy’s actions, “it is reasonable to assume” the governor has committed to supporting the bill.
The mayors’ pleas for a veto echo the calls .. https://newjerseymonitor.com/2024/05/14/critics-slam-legislature-for-passing-public-records-overhaul/ .. from civil rights groups, press organizations, government watchdogs, and residents who say the Open Public Records Act is a useful tool to hold government officials accountable and have also asked Murphy to kill the bill.
The measure landed on Murphy’s desk on May 13 after lawmakers fast-tracked the legislation ..
[Senate lawmakers approved the bill in a 21-10 vote that, unusually, was not live-streamed and followed no debate. Three Republicans — Sens. Bob Singer, Owen Henry, and Carmen Amato — crossed party lines to back the bill. Three Democrats, Sens. Britnee Timberlake, John McKeon, and Andrew Zwicker, voted no. Nine senators did not vote.
P - The Assembly backed the bill in a 42-27 vote with one abstention. Ten members did not vote.
P - The measure saw spirited comments from lawmakers who vehemently opposed the bill and from sponsors who insisted that overhauling the state’s public records law is needed. Bill sponsor Assemblyman Joe Danielsen (D-Somerset) declined to talk to reporters before and after the vote and refused to take questions during the debate on the Assembly floor.
P - Assemblyman Brian Bergen (R-Morris) said the bill “isn’t just bad — it’s malicious and it’s intentional.”
[...] Legislators have offered shifting explanations for the bill. Initially, it was billed as a means of limiting commercial records requests that local and county officials say have strained clerks’ offices to the point of breaking. But the bill approved Monday does little to address such requests.
P - Danielsen on Monday said the main goal of the bill is to “increase access to government” while protecting people’s privacy. Senate President Nicholas Scutari (D-Union), meanwhile, said the measure is intended to cut costs.]
https://newjerseymonitor.com/2024/05/13/lawmakers-send-bill-overhauling-public-records-law-to-gov-murphys-desk/ ..
and advanced it out of both chambers with slim margins of support. If Murphy doesn’t sign or veto the bill by June 27, it will automatically become law the next time the Senate holds a quorum.
A provision of the bill that has especially angered critics, including Baraka, would end what’s called mandatory fee-shifting, a practice that requires governments that lose public records disputes in court to pay the requestors’ legal fees.
Baraka said this change would lower the compliance rate of records requests. But the mandatory fee-shifting change is “only the beginning of the anti-democratic measures in the bill,” he added.
Supporters of the bill say the law must be changed because clerks’ offices statewide are buried under mountains of records requests, many from commercial entities seeking property or court records. And ending mandatory fee-shifting would save taxpayers money, they argue.
Baraka said he understands the burden records requests can put on cities like Newark, the state’s largest. He agreed the use of the Open Public Records Act by commercial enterprises is an issue, but the bill does little to address it. He pointed to previous bills introduced by former Sen. Loretta Weinberg that aimed to alter that practice “but also leaves democracy intact.”
“I also stand with other mayors who want to push back against those who have weaponized OPRA to make money for themselves, but this is an opportunity for us to stand up for democracy,” he said in a video posted to social media.
https://newjerseymonitor.com/2024/05/22/gov-murphy-should-veto-public-records-bill-say-mayors-of-n-j-s-two-biggest-cities/
LOL After your picture the name Skidz won't escape again. The two are lucky little animals.
Guys like him either don't compute, or he is still lying to us.
Darn right you do. Xoie and the other one, name has slipped, know.
You aren't as much a monkey as newmedman has been... LOL Later.
LOL I'll stick with dirt. After all that's where we came from, eh. Have enjoyed it and thanks again for the Trump Libertarian news, could have easily missed it. Am lucky to have so many good people lookin' after me. Enjoy! Am off. Later...
Paraphrase Rather: To get as close to the truth as it is possible to get requires a lot of persistence. And one must be prepared to face the consequences. Any controversial story involves powerful people and eventually have to face the furnace and face the heat.
That's at the beginning. On clicking play i got that little circle thing 'round and 'round and 'round it went, i had about given up hope but lol persisted and finally it started. It's the first time in a long time i've been able to watch Netflix using my VPN.
Going on noon. Have had enough computerizing for now. Thanks heaps for it, really looking forward
to it. Everything crossed, 'cept legs gotta use for walking, it works tonight. This came on Rather too...
Gimme Some Truth (Remastered 2010)
GOOD Robert De Niro!! Have always liked him too. 11 million here we come!!
Damn! Hadn't seen yours and had just come here to give this to newmedman ..
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who i know too has experienced some of both issues. Me too.
Alcohol issues and depression. Poor guy. Very sorry to see.
LOLs. Like your style.
Agree. Monkeys should stick to looking after newmedman.
Haha
wHA?? Ahhh, LOLs Some sanesensible libertarians!! Here i am posting about cicadas,
and you having all the fun!. Boohoo, i miss so damn much. LOL Thanks, this IS cool
"Trumpty: "I think you should nominate me or at least vote for me!"
That was greeted by yet more boos.
Now he's insulting them."
happy to know!
Trump furiously jeered as he taunts Libertarians for winning ‘three per cent’ in elections at their convention
John Bowden
Sun, 26 May 2024 at 10:57 am AEST·
Donald Trump speaks at the 2024 Libertarian National Convention (John Bowden)
Audible boos clashed with impassioned cheers at the Libertarian National Convention in Washington DC on Saturday as former President Donald Trump took the stage before what was certainly the most skeptical if not outright hostile crowd of his bid for the White House this year.
Donald Trump was jeered multiple times within the first few minutes of his speech to a rowdy crowd of roughly a thousand people Saturday evening at the Washington Hilton, where just a few weeks ago his 2024 election opponent Joe Biden spoke at the White House Correspondent’s Association’s (WHCA) annual dinner.
The angry yells from the audience were so constant at parts that it was difficult to tell whether the crowd were booing the incumbent president or the speaker in front of them. At other points, it was plainly obvious: a chant of “we want Trump!” was roundly drowned out by an angry response.
Another round of boos came as Mr Trump declared that he had put everything “on the line” to defend freedom. Boos, both times when Mr Trump suggested that he was a Libertarian through virtue of his criminal trials, prosecuted by the Department of Justice. More boos when the former president suggested, twice, that the Libertarian Party proper should nominate him.
But nothing, nothing compared to the furious jeers that erupted as Donald Trump turned to outright taunting his audience.
“The Libertarian Party should nominate Trump for president,” he declared in third-person. More boos.
“Maybe you don’t want to win. Only do that if you want to win,” Mr Trump quipped over the jeers. “If you want to lose, don’t do that. Keep getting three per cent every four years.”
This is a breaking news story. More to follow...
The Daily Beast
Vivek Ramaswamy Repeatedly Gets Booed by Libertarians for Mentioning Trump
Edith Olmsted
Sat, 25 May 2024 at 12:05 pm AEST·2-min read
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Vivek Ramaswamy was met with a wave of boos at the Libertarian National Convention on Friday for mentioning Donald Trump on the eve of the former president’s speech there.
The failed Republican presidential candidate was speaking at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C., when he got a distinctly negative reaction from the audience for mentioning Trump, whose planned speech on Saturday has led to calls for protest among libertarians.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/vivek-ramaswamy-repeatedly-gets-booed-020554316.html
Very nasty. Not so many still support what Netanyahu and his, far-righter than we understood Netanyahu was
before, two cabinet members Gvir and Smotrich, are continuing to do. brooklyn13 is obviously one of them.
Eating and Researching Cicadas: Biologist Explains Everything to Know About This Year’s Emergence
Related: [...]Cicada 'super year': [2021] the familiar sound of Australian summer is louder than usual
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Date Published: May 3, 2024
This story is a part of our “Ask a Professor” series, in which Georgetown faculty members break down complex issues and use their research to inform trending conversations, from the latest pop culture hits to research breakthroughs and critical global events shaping our world.
The cicada broods have arrived.
Martha Weiss is a biologist and professor in the College of Arts & Sciences who
studies cicadas.
This spring, trillions of cicadas belonging to Brood XIII and Brood XIX are crawling out from their underground burrows across the Midwest and South. While the cicadas won’t find their way to the Hilltop, the event will be similar to the emergence of Brood X in 2021, when trillions of cicadas appeared all over Washington, DC, and the surrounding region, not to be seen again until 2038.
However, this year’s simultaneous emergence of two neighboring cicada broods is a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon — or, rather, once every 221 years.
These insects can be a loud annoyance or a buzzing winged terror for some people. But for Martha Weiss, professor in the College of Arts & Sciences, cicadas are her life’s work.
“The fact they have this extraordinary life cycle is part of what makes them interesting,” Weiss said. “I’ve lived in Washington for almost 30 years, and I’ve seen them twice here for six weeks at a time. They were here before [humans] ever got here, and they’ll be here after we’re gone.”
As a biologist and entomologist, Weiss studies how the emergence of cicadas affects local environments and food webs. She’s also an advocate for including these little insects as part of your diet.
In this Ask a Professor, watch Weiss give her pitch on why you should eat cicadas, then read on to discover what makes this year’s cicada emergence special and how cicadas can impact local ecologies.
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What makes periodical cicadas unique?
Periodical cicadas are amazing creatures that spend over 99% of their lives underground as immature insects; they come up for a few weeks once every either 13 or 17 years to molt into adults, mate, lay eggs and then die. And then the babies hatch out and head back underground, only to reappear in another 13 or 17 years.
Their synchronous mass emergence is also spectacular. Cicadas come up above ground simultaneously with billions of their buddies because they don’t have any chemical defenses. They don’t have any physical defenses. They’re not very fast. The way they avoid getting eaten is to have 1 billion friends around who are more likely to get eaten than they are.
[INSERT: Sounds a bit like Trump administration or Trump
campaign staffers. Or, yeah, of course, Trump lawyers.]
What’s so exciting about this particular cicada emergence?
Every emergence is exciting – but this one is special because two adjacent broods of cicadas will be coming out at the same time. Across the eastern U.S. there are 15 broods, which are geographical groups of cicadas that each consist of up to four different species, and emerge on a very predictable schedule. It’s not unusual for different broods to come out at the same time, but it’s not all that common for adjacent broods to emerge together.
This year we’ll see 17-year Brood XIII to the north and 13-year Brood XIX to the south. They haven’t come up at the same time for 221 years – since 1803.
What do cicadas do while they’re underground?
We don’t know a lot about what happens underground because we can’t see it. Each cicada nymph is a couple of feet down there, in a little burrow in the soil, minding its own business and feeding on the fluid in tree roots. As far as we know, they don’t move around much, and they don’t communicate with one another. They stay there for 13 or 17 years. Then, a few weeks before they’re scheduled to come out, they unplug from their roots and dig a tunnel up to the surface.
How do cicadas know when to emerge?
You can ask that question at two different levels. How do they know when 13 or 17 years have passed? And in the year that they’re coming out, how do they know when they should climb up to the surface because everybody comes out together?
The answer to the first question has to do with what they eat. Cicada mouths are like little hypodermic needles that they insert into the roots of a tree. They feed on xylem fluid, which is basically water that contains dilute nutrients. As the trees get their leaves in the spring, water evaporates from the leaves, and that pulls a column of water all the way up through the roots, trunk and branches of the tree. The cicadas seem to sense and somehow count the annual fluxes in this movement of xylem fluid through the roots. Then, in the year of the emergence, when the soil reaches a threshold temperature, that’s the cue to climb up and out and begin the transformation into adults. Within the first four or five days, probably 70% of them will come out, and the rest will drizzle out over a few more days.
How might climate change affect the life cycle of cicadas?
Cicadas come up from underground when the soil temperature a few inches below the surface reaches 64 degrees Fahrenheit. If our spring temperatures are warmer, then the cicadas could come out earlier in the year of emergence.
The timing of the broods could also change. The 13-year broods are all south of the 17-year broods [which are farther north and in colder climates.] With warmer temperatures, longer growing seasons for the trees would allow the cicadas to grow more quickly, so it’s possible that some of the 17-year broods could transform into 13-year broods,
What will scientists be looking out for in this year’s emergence?
Evolutionary biologists are going to be lined up at the zone of contact [between the two broods], in central Illinois. Because the 13-year broods have evolved from the 17-year broods, it will be fascinating to see what will happen when they meet one another again. Are they going to recognize each other? Will the 13-year species respond to the calls of their progenitors, or have the calls diverged? If individuals from the two broods do manage to mate, will their kids be nymphs for 13 years, 17 years, or will they split the difference?
What will you be studying with this year’s cicada emergence?
I’m going to be in Chicago for much of the summer, and we’re going to be studying how forest ants respond to both the first emergence, when the nymphs come up from underground, and the second emergence, when the eggs hatch and the babies drop to the ground.
How do cicadas affect ants and local ecologies?
Ants are important and often overlooked citizens of the forest. We’re interested to see how the cicada emergence, which provides ready access to high-quality food, will change ants’ ordinary forest jobs.
As one example, many understory plants rely on ants for seed dispersal. These plants have a special little structure on the back of the seed called an elaiosome. It’s basically a little wart that mimics a dead insect. These structures entice ants to pick up the seeds and carry them away from the host plant, so they have a fighting chance to grow somewhere else. We think the ants are going to say, “I’m not going to look for a seed when I’m tripping over cicadas on my way to the elaiosomes – so forget the seeds.”
What’s the biggest misconception people have about cicadas?
Some people view cicadas as scary, dangerous aliens. It makes us [scientists] cringe when we see articles about invasions and that sort of thing, because these insects are entirely harmless. They’ve always been here, and we are privileged to live in an area where we get to see them come up every once in a while.
A periodical cicada emergence is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to help kids realize that insects can be cool, interesting and worth admiring, rather than scary, dangerous and creepy.
teriyaki-marinated cicada nymphs,
tree shrimp and vegetable stir-fry
and chocolate emergence cookies. Photos by Martha Weiss.
What are your favorite cicada dishes?
I’d consider chocolate-covered cicadas as an entry-level edible insect because you can roast them and cover them in chocolate, and it’s like eating a chocolate-covered pecan. You wouldn’t even know you were eating a bug. Skewered and barbequed teriyaki-marinated nymphs are even better – crunchy and delicious! Stir-fried cicadas with foraged greens is a rare spring treat – and my chocolate cookie with a nymph coming out is a dramatic reenactment of the emergence!
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B402, Yeah, Maher is a comedian just his putting cancel culture, identity politics
and all the others he listed on Democrats, on the facts, is ass backwards. Just one
Fellow evangelists cancelled Russell Moore -- He was a top church
official who criticized Trump. He says Christianity is in crisis...
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to make the point. Maher is glib and it gets him more audience
as you, but to anyone interested in the truth it's not funny at all.
Updated, bottom. Republicans are those with the tax policies and the christian white policies.
You deny that continuously in your 'it's the dems' bleat. You deny those facts.
You either ignore the bigger picture, or you don't have what it takes to deal with it.
You haven't read and worked on the article i gave you again,
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have you. No, you haven't. Why not? Too tough perhaps.
I'll bet you Simon Marshall hasn't given it a thought either.
Too busy collecting his YouTube followers.
B402, Simply you are enabling the ethnonationalist populism of Donald Trump.
Immigrants are vermin. Mexico and other countries are sending their worst.
Immigrants cause crime. America is a christian white nation.
That is your simple is best. Deal with that.
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Marshall has always leaned to conservatism. You obviously too. Marshall used
a simple little definition of populism. That is either dishonest of him. Or naive.
So far you have ignored that point. Let me see you deal with it.
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B402, Posting about, and expressing concern, about things as excessive inequity is one thing.
P - Vilifying elites as Trump does, as you do, as the sort of demagogic YouTube celebrities as Jordan
Peterson and Simon Marshall do is supporting the ethnonationtionalistic populism of Donald Trump.
P - And that is definitely not something anyone who supports democracy should be doing today.
P - Your simplified view of the situation is dangerous. In acting as you are, you are promoting
and enabling the opposition to that which you profess to support.
P - You are enabling those authoritarians who in fact are working against the development of a fairer society.
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Robert Schertzer February 21st, 2020
Finding the answer to the populist challenge starts by seeing that ethnic nationalism underpins and propels most movements across the West
Today’s populism
Many more links
We are in a populist moment .. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2017.1294700?scroll=top&needAccess=true . Populists are making startling gains in support and access to power across the West. The election of Donald Trump and the vote for Brexit in 2016 signalled the arrival of this new reality. The success of Trump and his European compatriots is particularly striking because they bucked the trend: while Europe has long had populist radical-right parties, they were largely relegated to the margins .. https://ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1475-6765.2012.02065.x?casa_token=wohmx4o6qxIAAAAA%3Ay-qbYbF1lHPNyHHQLxKRsZOzZODniKT0WKhAp7YBIb3vCuGO7RmuvVsZbdaKa330fOXQn47G4z6zm0U .. and kept far from government. Today, one in four Europeans vote for a populist party and more than 170 million Europeans .. https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2018/nov/20/revealed-one-in-four-europeans-vote-populist ll are governed by a cabinet that has a populist member.
It is almost becoming rote to note and lament this trend. If it weren’t such a serious problem, it would be tempting to turn our attention to other pressing matters. But the reality is that today’s populism represents an existential threat to our liberal democracy. This is because, in most cases, populism is underpinned by a virulent ethnic nationalism.
We know a lot about populism. It is among the most studied .. https://www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/english/publications/c-rex-working-paper-series/Cas%20Mudde:%20The%20Study%20of%20Populist%20Radical%20Right%20Parties.pdf .. political phenomenon. The huge body of research on populism tends to see its rise as a response to large-scale shifts in our economy and society. But this is only half the picture. There are other important factors at play, namely the content of today’s populism .. https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/1146 .
What we are missing: ethnic nationalism
If we want to really understand what is going on today, we need to pay close attention to what populists are saying, how they are saying it .. https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=25175 .. and why their messages are reverberating .. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1468-4446.12325 .. with the public.
One of the best ways to do this is to carefully look at what archetypal examples of today’s populists are saying on a regular basis. Unpacking the messages of “successful” populists – like Donald Trump – allows us to understand how and why they win elections.
This is what I did with my colleague Eric Woods in a newly published article .. https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/8K4ZPF7PUC7VG48KI6D3/full?target=10.1080/01419870.2020.1713390 . We read all 5,515 of Donald Trump’s tweets during his presidential run in 2016. Our analysis confirmed our suspicions: Donald Trump is a populist, but he is also an ethnic nationalist.
It is not terribly surprising to call Trump an ethnic nationalist. He regularly plays identity politics, stoking racial and ethnic divisions. His calls to send American congresswomen of colour back to where they came from .. https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1150381395078000643 , or his defence of the “very fine people .. https://www.politifact.com/article/2019/apr/26/context-trumps-very-fine-people-both-sides-remarks/ ” at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville come to mind here.
What is more surprising is that a close reading of all of Trump’s tweets over the 2016 campaign shows that these are not mere utterances or occasional slips: ethnic nationalism is the foundation of Donald Trump’s political strategy. It was by far the most common theme in his 2016 Twitter campaign (see Figure one).
Figure One: Overview of Topics in Donald Trump’s Tweets During 2016 Primary and Presidential Campaign
Throughout his campaign, Trump presented himself as the protector of the majority group in America – his so-called silent majority – against the threat of outsiders. He followed a long-used practice of identifying those that do not fit the mould of “true” Americans. His main targets were Mexican migrants, Muslims and political elites, presenting these groups as threats to the survival and interests of the white majority. Indeed, his entire campaign was set up as an argument that America needed to rid itself of these groups to return to glory – to make America great again. The centrality of this idea to his campaign strategy is clear when looking at his favoured topics: about 2000 tweets contained overt ethno-nationalist messages, whereas he tweeted about core policy issues like healthcare, taxes and the Supreme Court only 59, 32 and 12 times, respectively.
Trump did regularly rail against the elites and the establishment (over 500 times on Twitter). He also liked to attack people, something he continued throughout his presidency. Interestingly, though, he often combined populist and ethnic nationalist themes. He would say that the establishment needed to be overthrown to return power to the majority, and that elites were soft on threats like illegal immigration and terrorism. In short: Trump’s populism was underpinned by ethnic nationalism. His tweets show that his “real” America is white, European and Christian.
It is largely this grouping of Americans that Trump targeted in 2016 – and their support was critical to his electoral victory. Approximately 70 percent of the votes cast in the election were by white Americans: 57 percent of these voters sided with Trump (20 points higher than their support for Hillary Clinton), with Trump winning both white men (62%) and white women (52%).
Why now, though? The three key drivers of the populist moment
Careful analysis of what populists are saying can help us see that they are ethnic nationalists. But this still leaves us with important questions – particularly why they are winning today. Here is where the focus on big shifts in our economy and society can help. The accepted orthodoxy is that there are three factors that explain why we are seeing support for populists .. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0010414006294168?casa_token=F9p_iUXlrbUAAAAA:BsTmd0MLdKiQIevSDOAlBXffxxMArC_WmA9Sh0Y7aN95kKosLRiFshj0dDt9x7GMymjLW-970y1O .. rising across the West.
The first factor is economic inequality. Major shifts in the economy, the changing nature of work and rising inequality create anxiety among the middle and working class. This anxiety leads voters toward populist and nationalist ideas. These disaffected people that feel “left behind” by the progress of globalization are channelling their resentment toward “elites” and “foreigners” as part of a larger cultural backlash to the liberal global order. The result is that more and more people are turning inward and seeking protectionist policies and politics.
The second factor is the perception that an out-of-touch or corrupt elite controls politics. There is ample evidence that antipathy with government and the relinquishing of power to transnational bodies drive support for populist and nationalist agendas. Support for far-right nationalists increases with European integration. The perceived loss of control to foreign bodies allows nationalists to present themselves as the saviors of the true nation, and as change agents that can shake up the system.
The third driver of ethno-nationalist populism today is migration. More accurately, the perception that high levels of migration are threatening the economic security and way of life for members of host nations is leading people toward parties and leaders that push anti-immigrant policies. This “demographic anxiety” has led to the reassertion of a more ethnic, majoritarian nationalism in many countries. There are many examples here, from fear of migration .. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1369148117710799?casa_token=mDUca8ivGfMAAAAA%3ASviWObF3aG03ZQNDW9BOFxqTAbsBk0_GeR2g5Ny4x8ASNvTHjSQR_jcIY8qiLbQNlIdi8iU8vuAB .. as a key factor for those that supported Brexit to the Syrian refugee movements increasing attention on immigration .. https://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/60155 .. and shifting European policy and politics over the last few years.
So why focus on the ethnic nationalism of today’s populism?
Trump’s pairing of populism with ethnic nationalism has been mimicked by many politicians across the West and around the globe. Understanding how these populists are trading on the currency of ethnic nationalism can help us better see what is behind their success, and thus to find policy responses.
In other words, seeing the whole picture here matters because how we diagnose the problem shapes how we respond. If we think that economic inequality is behind the rise of these movements, then new redistributive polices seem like the answer. If we think that political alienation is the culprit, then we will promote reforms to our political institutions. If we think that immigration is stoking fears that open space for these parties, then immigration controls seem like a viable solution.
Each of these factors very likely does have a role in stimulating support for populism. And so, economic, political and immigration reforms are going to be critical elements of thinking through the responses to populism. But, on their own, they will fall short of addressing the root causes.
At its core, today’s populism is propelled by politicians tapping into powerful ethnic identities to mobilize people. A longer view of history shows that at points of major transition, nationalists have been very adept at manipulating people’s unease to further their cause.
There is an emerging debate taking shape that seeks to tackle the role of ethnic nationalism in today’s politics. On one side are those that say we need to stop listening to the nationalists – that doubling-down on the liberalism and civic values .. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/americas/2018-08-14/against-identity-politics-tribalism-francis-fukuyama .. of the post-war consensus will do the trick. On the other side are those that want us to give in to the darker sides of ethnic nationalism – embracing exclusionary and illiberal policies .. https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/a-political-scientist-defends-white-identity-politics-eric-kaufmann-whiteshift-book . The solutions from these two extremes leave us wanting, to be sure. But the more we can understand the role ethnic nationalism has played as a key driver of today’s populist moment, the more we will be able to think through how policies and politics can respond to combat its more dangerous elements.
Robert Schertzer Visiting Fellow, Migration Policy Centre, EUI | Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, UofT
The EUI, RSCAS and MPC are not responsible for the opinion expressed by the author(s). Furthermore, the views
expressed in this publication cannot in any circumstances be regarded as the official position of the European Union.
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Trump's tax cuts enabled the most wealthiest to take more.
Your saying what Pelosi or other wealthy people make is nit-picking.
You cannot either deny nor dispute that Trump's actions enable the most wealthy to take more.
Trump is one of them yet you enable him. It's stupid.
Trump, Bannon, Alito, Thomas and McConnell have/are screwing the working
class, far more than you or anyone can validly claim Biden and Pelosi have.
B402, So we had to suffer the duplicitous YouTuber Jordan Peterson, now we have to suffer a newer YouTube celebrity Winston Marshall. From what i've seen so far Marshall could be as shoddy as Peterson. What sort of a guy distorts Pelosi's use of the word ethnonationalist as Marshall does in that video. The kind of guy who delights in tearing down as you do. The kind of guy who sees himself as a new You Tube know-it-all. The kind of guy who uses propaganda to control.
First his use of the one simple populism definition he does lacks integrity. Secondly your support of Marshall's use of the simple one little definition he uses in that video, after being made fully aware of the different views of exactly what populism is which you have been here
B402, This is direct evidence your "Populism is a result of inequity" is not supported by research.
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is dishonest on your part. Marshall in defending the American far-right (as in his support of Andy Ngo he is) is jumping
on Trump's ethnonationalist type of populist appeal. And in fact it is racist.
For now i suffered six minutes only of that video.
You guys are no doing those interested in democracy any favors. Just as Netanyahu is not doing Israel any favors today.
B402, Posting about, and expressing concern, about things as excessive inequity is one thing.
Vilifying elites as Trump does, as you do, as the sort of demagogic YouTube celebrities as Jordan
Peterson and Simon Marshall do is supporting the ethnonationtionalistic populism of Donald Trump.
And that is definitely not something anyone who supports democracy should be doing today.
Your simplified view of the situation is dangerous. In acting as you are, you are promoting
and enabling the opposition to that which you profess to support.
You are enabling those authoritarians who in fact are working against the development of a fairer society.
B402, Your problem and Winston Marshall's problem is that you and he are supporting the populism described in your article here
Populism can range from persuasive politics to a dangerous agenda that creates internal and external conflict, negates climate change and rejects human rights.
Your link -- https://www.intereconomics.eu/contents/year/2020/number/1/article/populism-root-causes-power-grabbing-and-counter-strategy.html
In a situation we find ourselves in today, when you oppose and vilify moderate democratic politicians as Biden and Pelosi you in fact are supporting the type of populism that Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, Alex Jones, Hannity and Ted Cruz espouse.
That's the con you, Winston Marshall and Trump et al are trying to pull on the American people.
LOLOL Love it!!