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Skunk Formerly Known As Stoner's avatar

What “missing scientists and people who have turned up dead”?

Sherry's avatar

Yeah that was my question. This deserves a little attention.

TalentNotAutotune's avatar

What happens if you call a "creative negotiator's" bluff?

Tecolote's avatar

It's cute when Jake Tapper tries to be a real journalist. Too bad he chose a performance clown like Stefanik to do it with. But that's why she's on his show.

Erika's avatar

I thought Stefanik had finally crawled under her rock for good, but I guess grifters gotta grift!

Trux Mint In Box's avatar

Stefanik was there to hawk her shitty book criticizing Ivy League universities

Ah. I was wondering why her pathetic ass was back haunting my news feed.

Bitter Scribe's avatar

Elise Stefanik can eat shit. She's an obnoxious demagogue and bully whose big deal is preening about forcing Ivy League college presidents out of their jobs over "antisemitism." Meanwhile, her BFF Trump keeps dangerously incompetent dipshits like Patel and Hegseth in their important, consequential jobs because he refuses to "give the media a scalp."

We need to stiffen our spines and start pushing back. Those colleges should have told Stefanik to fuck herself and if she tried to screw with their funding, they'd see her in court.

devourerofpancakes's avatar

Speaking of, some genius is bringing Chris Rufo to my town to talk about the future of higher Ed. Does anyone have access to rotten tomatoes?

Sherry's avatar

Put them in the oven for a bit.

The Blessed Reverend's avatar

That Stefanik - she is a snake

OneWhiteWhisker's avatar

It's surreal to watch someone in the govt so blatantly attempt to gaslight the public, just desperately reiterating "nope, nope, nope, don't believe your lying eyes".

Stephen St John's avatar

Stefanik: Trump didn't mean what he said

Wright: Everything's gonna return to normal soon

Rethug governance

devourerofpancakes's avatar

Or next year. What's 7 months of higher gas prices?

SunMoonStars's avatar

PoliticsGirl - I'm so Fucking Mad. Auto draft and water shortages.

The US plans to implement automatic draft registration for eligible men aged 18-26 by December 2026. It passed in the National Defense Authorization Act in December.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCGy9EJNXEQ&t=65s

Bigby's avatar

How is this different from the status quo? I'm kinda old but by law I had to register for Selective Service when I turned 18. I think I had 6 months before they'd "come'n git me". I also had to register by filling out a form and mailing it (I'm not certain but I think I had to go to the Post Office; they didn't just mail it to me automatically).

Demme Epstein Fatale's avatar

How old is Barron?

(Old enough to be fair game, I think.)

Kateorite's avatar

Looksmaxxing goals gonna change. More pliers less moisturizer.

gallbladder's avatar

Kind of odd for a president that ran on peace, oui/non?

SunMoonStars's avatar

Wonder how those 18-26 will feel about this when they find out? Signed up for something they had no clue to.

fair_n_hite_451's avatar

Given they voted against their own self-interests, I think it's foolish to expect them to suddenly obtain enough self-awareness to recognize the consequences of their actions.

SunMoonStars's avatar

This hits them between the eyes especially with all the warring going on.

mr_snarky's avatar

that's why God gave us two kidneys donchaknow?

Tom65's avatar
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WRIGHT: I don’t know. That could happen later this year. That might happen until next year. But prices have likely peaked.

Ah yes, the Rumsfeld approach:

"We know where they are [Iraq's weapons of mass destruction]. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat."

Stanta Knows's avatar

And monkeys could fly out of my butt. Stay tuned.

vorpal 🚫♔'s avatar

but what about the known unknowns?

gallbladder's avatar

Porter Goss also had an "excellent idea" of where Osama bin Laden was in 2005.

TalentNotAutotune's avatar

Wow, THAT is a blast from the past.

gallbladder's avatar

Some examples of idiocy one never forgets.

SunMoonStars's avatar

Apollo v Artemis: How the Earth changed in 58 years

"The Earth was the only thing in the entire Universe that had any colour, it was a remarkable sight – we're very, very fortunate to live on this planet."

This Earthrise picture, as it was soon named, became one of the most reproduced images of all time. Showing our planet in the context of the lunar wasteland and vast oblivion of space, it galvanised the environmental movement, leading to the creation of Earth Day in 1970. (Read more about the 1968 photo that changed the world).

Fifty-eight years later, Nasa astronauts have taken another striking photo of the Earth dipping below a barren lunar landscape: "Earthset". During their fly-by of the Moon earlier this month, the Artemis II crew captured the new image of our fragile blue planet in the vast expanse of space. (We don't know who took the picture this time because the four astronauts have chosen not to credit photos to individuals but to the whole crew).

In geological terms, just over half a century is barely the shadow of a blink of an eye. But climate change has altered the Earth's surface significantly over the past six decades. Experts tell the BBC about the visible differences between the Earthrise and Earthset photos and what these tell us about our planet then and now.

"I think we are pretty confident based on the observations but also the numerical models to assign probably 90-95% of the change to human activities," Heil says.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260417-apollo-v-artemis-how-the-earth-changed-in-58-years

zuludaddy (seam & key)'s avatar

see,

this

this is lost in allllll the fucking noise and drama

AMOC collapse and crop failures and shit like that is....pending

[thank fuck yrrrrrr smoking lamp is lit allllll day today yeeees hooraaaaaaay]

Kateorite's avatar

Doing a test run, as ~20% of fertilizer transits via Hormuz.

fair_n_hite_451's avatar

And potash - major fertilizer ingredient - is almost all imported. Like 90 to 97% of what America consumes is impacted by stupid tariffs and therefore more expensive than it should be.

So. Much. Winning.

devourerofpancakes's avatar

Don't we have literally huge pools of pigshit? Of all the issues I feel like we can maybe solve the fertilizer shortage.

Hooker P Tape skipping dipshit's avatar

"bunch of energy scientists going missing or dead" seems to be some kind of a right wing conspiracy theory. I've seen no reporting from a local paper quoting family members about a missing person or where they are missing from.

Richard S's avatar

Look for "Alternative 3" online.......

satch's avatar

The generals keeping TFG out of the situation room is the kindest thing they could do for him: giving him plausible deniability.

Notorious J.I.M.'s avatar

No one wants to do the CPR if he codes.

gallbladder's avatar

Do they also give him toy planes and building blocks to play with?

2Cats2Furious's avatar

That’s why he has all those miniatures of the Arc de Trumph that he keeps showing off.

42tontom's avatar

I picture Donny Boy flying a toy plane into a bridge abutment, whilst making splodey noises.

VaselineHabits's avatar

I guess they're fine with taking all the blame?

Aquaman, Real Estate Investor.'s avatar

They were always going to get the blame.

That's why they kept him out of the room.