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The_Nybbler

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The_Nybbler

Does not have a yacht

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The fundemental problem facing the chattering class, deep-state, and democratic party partisans is that Trump doesn't "control" the Republican base as much as he represents them (he may not be a particularly good representative, but that is beside the point). If you kill Trump there is a good chance somone else will just take his place.

They believe there is no one as effective at that, by orders of magnitude, as Trump himself. So once Trump leaves the scene, his base will go back to having formless and directionless anger which will not translate to votes for anyone, or perhaps (in the case of white union workers) can be lured back to the Democrats. Without Trump's base, the old-school Republicans are a distinct minority party and we get one-party rule.

There's three general teams here. The team whose side is rigging the elections. The team who cries about rigging the elections. And the supposedly impartial group in the middle, which sees it as more important to maintain the public's belief in the sanctity of elections than to maintain the actual sanctity of elections, and sees the easiest way of doing that as silencing, ridiculing, and/or ignoring anyone who points out problems. As long as that's the case, the first team is never going to convince the second team that there isn't any rigging going on. No matter how much they contribute to the jeering and ridiculing.

Still, there was nothing even remotely close to J6 on the Democratic side.

First impeachment, #NotMyPresident, #Resistance, inauguration riots, post-election riots.

Wrong Greenville Airport. It's not Greenville Spartanburg, it's Greenville Downtown.

There's also the land use issue. A 1.21 GW nuclear plant takes up a lot less land than 1.21 GW of solar farms or wind turbines.

Yes, but at least for solar that's not that big a deal. There's a lot of big, empty, sunny land in the US. Thing is, environmentalists don't like building on it; I used to joke they'd complain about changing the albedo of the planet, but it turns out they actually do complain about that, along with the fragile desert ecosystems. And of course they don't like transmission lines either, which are kinda necessary to get the power to where you need it. And if you could get around the environmentalists, why would you bother with renewables? They're the ones blocking everything else, too.

You get flooding from rain when you get rain coming in much faster than it can drain. Florida is VERY well-drained; there's few bottlenecks between wherever the water lands and the ocean.

The visible reason would appear to be 10 helicopters that were relocated to one of the multiple runways at Greenville airport?

One of the two runways at Greenville airport.

Yeah, whoever setup a light-weight tent on asphalt without weighting or tying it to the ground was an idiot.

Now you're getting ridiculous.

Lots of orgs have tried to replace expertise / experience / competency with process and procedure.

This is the essence of modern management theory. It can be done, but probably not for disaster recovery or any other task where every situation is significantly different.

Also, the nice thing about helicopters is they don't need a runway. For loading, you can put them anywhere on the tarmac so you can drive a truck to them, and if they're not actually loading at the moment they can be on grass.

The temporary flight restriction Musk was complaining about is a matter of record, and it's the same one involved in the other incidents. You can argue about which Federal agency is responsible (the FAA issued it of course, but who asked for it is another matter), but there's no doubt it existed.

I have seen one report on X/Twitter of supplies being confiscated that was literally translated from the Russian. Not sure if Russian trolls or other trolls pretending to be Russian trolls.

Except that FEMA isn't really all that honored. They screwed up Katrina by the numbers.

Probably both are true. As Robert E. Lee said, "It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it."

Farewell to Manzanar

There was a made-for-TV movie in 1976

Michael Bay kept trying, but it turns out that it's REALLY HARD to lose money that way. Burr Steers finally managed by adapting a Jane Austen parody, zombie horror flick "Pride + Prejudice + Zombies".

That's when it was a lot smaller than it is now -- Jewish groups were getting $9.7M of $10M or thereaabouts, but now the total budget is $300M. I would expect that most of the increase is new groups bellying up to the trough.

The problem is likely what @gorge suggested below: priority one of FEMA is to obtain control of the situation, and the other priorities (like actually assisting) are too hard.

And yes, they should get the axe.

It seems like the very visible screwup which Trump and his supporters are very visibly addressing would make the actual literal neighboring communities of the affected lean more towards Trump, though.

Except that the official story is that this is a lie by the vast right wing conspiracy, and the government is actually doing the rescuing. And people here are perfectly willing to steelman FEMAs actions so they can agree that's so.

The Nonprofit Security Grant Program is clearly a case of non-profits bellying up to the public trough (and thus a funding source for Left, Inc), but $300 million is the total, not what "the Jewish Lobby" is getting, the way our local Schutzstaffel implies. The FEMA site has awards broken down by geographical area but I cannot find the actual recipients.

Because alcohol licensing isn't quite costly enough to make bathtub gin look attractive to customers.

I got an email from my (not at all right wing) employer noting that when some employees in the area needed rescue, we had to hire a FEMA-certified contractor to get them out. I think not only is FEMA (with local officials doing the actual enforcement, usually) denying other rescue teams access, but this is their standard operating procedure. They're the Federal Emergency Management Agency, not the Federal Emergency Relief Agency.

I know that New York City has had an issue with unlicensed weed shops. The licensed weed shops have complained that because of their higher expenses that stem from obtaining and maintaining a license, they can’t compete with the unlicensed.

Licensing isn't legalization. Licensing is making something illegal unless you have special permission from the state to do it. New York's City process to get that special permission is hugely expensive but their enforcement is terrible, hence the illegal shops.

They obtain the confessions by coercion, basically what detective novels call "the third degree". You can be held without bail for 23 days at a time, and if you don't confess in that time they can re-arrest you for another 23 days on your way out of the jail.

If you prefer sneering in order to paper over the point that "more of the same, which had absolutely terrible results" is transparently a very bad idea, knock yourself out.

The good news here is that we now have memorialized that this is your standard. Not covered in glory. Oof, you are a pure child of light, and I'm sure this standard will never come back to bite you ever.

I know all sorts of wordplay is against the rules on The Motte, but that was in fact understatement.

I view the people who want to re-enact Prohibition to be the socially-conservative equivalents of all those whose only solutions to current problems are "more of the same, which had absolutely terrible results", like non-policing and eliminating discipline in schools, doing nothing but "helping" homeless, etc.

Roman male slaves were not castrated and could indeed have descendants. Roman female slaves could also have descendants, both with male slaves and in the typical way of slavery.