We don't know the motivations or objectives of those who switched their party registration. TJ
======================= Tom Johnson Inst. for Analytic Journalism Santa Fe, New Mexico 505-577-6482 ======================= On Sat, Jul 2, 2022, 7:33 PM Prof David West <profw...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > *"The Republicans lost their way. When the Republicans turned into a MAGA > party, they lost their last sparks of integrity and became a violent > authoritarian cult which worships a conman."* > > Absurd!! > > Over 1 million registered democrats switched to registering republican > this year, so far. Do you really believe that these people somehow became > deluded cultists? > > The absolute worst thing about the American political system is the, *de > facto*, two-party system that forces voting *for *something when you > simply want to vote *against* something else. > > And it is the party apparatchik that personify "something" into a living > breathing candidate. The vast majority (80+%) of voters then"hold their > noses" and "swallow their disgust" and appear to vote for a 'person' when > what they really want to do is vote against "something." [I am being > deliberately vague about something, but it would be a mix of philosophies, > beliefs, policies, laws, appointments, actions, oratory, etc.] > > It would not even be accurate to say that politicians and party > apparatchiks "lost their way;" as they never had a "way" to begin with. To > a person they are cynical amoralists who care nothing about acquiring power > and winning the next election. McConnell and Pelosi are but the two faces > of same Janus god. *(Yes, I recognize that my rhetoric here is just as > absurd as the quoted rhetoric that began this post.)* > > davew > On Sat, Jul 2, 2022, at 12:33 AM, Jochen Fromm wrote: > > It is not the US government. The Republicans lost their way. When the > Republicans turned into a MAGA party, they lost their last sparks of > integrity and became a violent authoritarian cult which worships a conman. > > Corrupt Republican politicians like Mitch McConnell who look like their > own mummy cling to power by embracing this dangerous cult and by > manipulating voter districts (gerrymandering). The GOP needs to renew > itself. Here in Europe Green parties begin to replace the conservative > parties. > > -J. > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Sarbajit Roy <sroy...@gmail.com> > Date: 7/2/22 08:58 (GMT+01:00) > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] self-care > > The hypocrisy of the US govts is amazing. > > For decades they have been desperately promoting pill based self induced > abortions as "safe" abortions in India and Latin America through their > puppets like the Guttmacher Institiute and by using misrepresentations and > outright lies. > > These pills are highly toxic / carcinogenic and Guttmacher was caught red > handed by us for using fake accounts on Wikipedia to shape the "self > induced abortion" article to depict it as safe and as an at-home remedy. We > got Guttmacher delisted in India for about a year, but they made their way > back through the USAID RMNCHA programs used to bribe foreign government > servants to shape policy > > Sarbajit > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 8:52 PM glen <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In the aftermath of the activist Justices overturning RvW, this popped up > in my feed: > > How to Give Yourself an Abortion > https://jewishcurrents.org/how-to-give-yourself-an-abortion > > I remain torn on the issue of self-care. And lots of energy was added to > my oscillators with the whole "horse dewormer" thing for COVID-19. (Yes, > I'm poking fun both at the people who bought veterinary ivermectin and the > people who used the disgusting sneer "horse dewormer".) To boot, this post > came up this morning about a homeopathic packet sent home with the patient > after surgery: > https://centerforinquiry.salsalabs.org/2022cfimidyearemailversion11. > (Placebo is a thing, despite Blumner's write-off.) > > Nick is fond of asking people whether they take multivitamins or not. And > while it's true most experts claim that *healthy* people just pee them out. > *Who* amongst us actually qualifies as "healthy"? What does "health" even > mean? That's not an idle or rhetorical question. Am I "healthy", despite > the excruciating chronic pain in my shoulders, neck, and lower back? > Despite my sporadic debilitating migraines? Despite my now abated > follicular lymphoma? Sure, I *seem* healthy because I can do pull-ups, > shovel dirt, drink 5 pints without a hangover, and maintain a full-time job > with a bit of time for hobbies. But what you see from the outside doesn't > reflect what I feel on the inside, which is like a sick puppy where the > slightest bad event would topple me into the "disabled" category. "Healthy" > is at best a misinformation concept, at worst a malinformation concept: > https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/mdm-incident-response-guide_508.pdf > > Sneer all you want at the new-age descendant reading self-help books, > cutting out magazine ads for their "vision board", or self-administering > veterinary de-fetus pills, but there's something important, here. Fad > diets, bottled water, alcoholism or pregnancy as an indicator for moral > failure, etc. all point at that thing, whatever that thing is. > > In that context, self-administered abortion is legit. > > -- > ꙮ Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥǝ ƃɹɐss snɟɟǝɹs˙ ꙮ > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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