Hmmm....who is our Serena Butler? And understand, I am NOT trying to be a smartass here, I am honestly looking for a viable martyred figure to rally the cause around. Prickly issue and morbid as hell of me to go there, admittedly, but its the emotions driving the bus in so many ways these days...

Someone needs to walk in and tell 3 out of every 5 people in the room to leave because they're dead or never even born because there was not vaccinations. When you randomly clear out 60 percent of the room at least a few will get the picture. Brainworm wont, but thats okay: others will.

Yeah. 47: The 45 Retribution Tour.

Its worth noting that a huge portion of climate change predictions were actually rather minimalist simply because the folks doing them didn't want to be perceived as alarmist in their communities.
That scientific conservatism may well have been inaccurate in and of itself.

47: The 45 Retribution Tour

Stock market crash, recession, some kind of military conflict (as a distractor and or pseudo rallying call), installation of an autocracy, and so forth. As a historian and alternate history writer I'm sure you understand the possibilities and probabilities. We are living in interesting times...

Its in the Project 2025 plabook; no.

Yeah I've been thinking the same. If he hacked it, maybe you dipshits should use something more secure...like a SCIF maybe????

Yup. It's time to come back to grassroots again. And to get corporate money out of politics with every opportunity.

Money in politics is now driving the direction of science (or pseudoscience) directly. What part of naked, laid bare oligarchy are people missing? Or intentionally ignoring?

This is probably overly simplistic of me but I want corporate money out of politics. I understand politics make economies and vice versa, but consider: once you've bought all the politicians, you've potentially bought the economy. And this country already knows how well that doesn't work.

That and opening up the site felt like swimming in a cesspool.

I knew that years ago when I saw this picture.

Van Halen (Roth vocals) and dammit why cant I remember the tune??? I think this was off of Women and Children First...?

Rather than defund the police, its defund the scientists. Lets cut the R outta the R&D. Are they going to privatize research? Somehow this will do what? Reduce a supposed liberal bias in research? Know what is likely to replace it? Profit bias. Political bias. Sure! Thats gonna work out fine!