tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post52454026232098087..comments2024-03-29T05:00:41.967-05:00Comments on driftglass: Prophesyin' For Dummies driftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-46185807968271286672022-01-27T16:44:28.145-06:002022-01-27T16:44:28.145-06:00The other day you wrote a bit on T. Friedman ie th...The other day you wrote a bit on T. Friedman ie the Mustache of Understanding. I was reading some in the intertoobz and thought you'd gone to work for Aljazeera. It's uncanny how they mirrored your revulsion for the guy!<br /><br />See here; https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/1/24/tom-friedman-and-israel-will-save-us-democracy-and-blow-your-mind<br /><br />A snippet;<br />Tom Friedman and Israel will save US democracy and blow your mind<br />New York Times columnist Friedman says he has a solution to America’s democracy problem.<br /><br />Tom Friedman and Israel will save US democracy and blow your mind<br />New York Times columnist Friedman says he has a solution to America’s democracy problem.<br />Belen Fernandez<br />Contributing editor at Jacobin Magazine<br />Back in 2009, heavily remunerated multi-Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman – who has been employed by the US newspaper of record since 1981 – wrote with characteristic eloquence: “Many big bad things happen in the world without America, but not a lot of big good things.”<br /><br />This was presumably news to the people of Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the myriad other locations on the planet that have been on the receiving end of “big good things” from America.Kelly in Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04377052957806014854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-6318735953004673602022-01-27T13:39:25.851-06:002022-01-27T13:39:25.851-06:00Once The Trump was removed from social media for o...Once The Trump was removed from social media for obvious tons of reasons. As we see the trickling of removals of other radial dangerous individuals removed from assorted social media like Alex Jones .<br /><br /> If you noticed the D.C. republicans have become upset with right wing insanities being removed\. Hell Marge Greene was penalized a republican congress woman.<br /><br />Now we se all the republicans that control majorities in state governments in a and fascist dash to ban any liberal literature. Some specifically racist by targeting black authors.<br /><br /> Has anyone made the revenge connection.Robthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15233719178495413876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-78377701575916621862022-01-26T07:57:48.261-06:002022-01-26T07:57:48.261-06:00Where Did The Idea Of Obamacare Come From? A Defen...<b>Where Did The Idea Of Obamacare Come From? A Defense Of The Heritage Foundation</b><br />https://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoodman/2016/02/15/where-did-the-idea-of-obamacare-come-from-a-defense-of-the-heritage-foundation/<br /><br />//[Obamacare] is the way Republicans decided to make private, Medicare Advantage health plans available to seniors and it is the way Republicans organized drug coverage under Medicare Part D. It is the way many Medicaid enrollees enter private health plans (which contain about two thirds of the Medicaid population) and it was used in pioneering Medicaid reforms in Florida when Jeb Bush was governor.//<br /><br /><b>The Conservative Origins of Obamacare</b><br />https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/27/conservative-origins-of-obamacare/<br /><br />Interestingly, Obamacare policy appears to something that Republicans generally want to deny was their idea.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-90552702084434417222022-01-25T22:07:42.964-06:002022-01-25T22:07:42.964-06:00Not sure if I agree with the squatting in the swam...Not sure if I agree with the squatting in the swamps impotently statement. <br /><br />The power of governance is the only power the people have to check the power of the ultrawealthy. So long as there is government, the wealthy will seek to check it's power. The pendulum tends to favor the wealthy because they have longer institutional memory.<br /><br />Btw, the reprogrammable golem theme is perhaps more useful than accusations of hypocrisy. It certainly helps to have these analogs to describe the elephant, from one blind person to another.Hagbard Celinenoreply@blogger.com