TheEncogitationer

Jake:

I see that your wit turns influencers’ intellectual junk food into a banquet.

Jake:

Agreed. Regime change is THE GOAL. Islamic stay in power and the goal is same but with greater urgency.

It’s your goal and my goal, but Trump’s goal evidently doesn’t extend beyond his next Big Mac, his next Diet Coke, his next bowel movement in his diaper, his next Truth Social post, his next press meeting, and his next scheme.

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Reg:

Now we see where SNL got the inspiration for this:

It’s Art Imitating Life Imitating Art imitating Life across the Pond! 🇺🇸🤝🇬🇧

The only difference is that one is subsidized by Medicare and the other is subsidized by the NHS, all under the name of hospitals’ “Allopathic,” “Integrative,” or…[Read more]

Jake:

Regime change issue?

Citing prior instances is worthless if it lacks nuance in how the circumstances and external factors are alike and distinguishable.

If it is true that the great majority of Iranians including diaspora despise the government and recognize Islam is the problem then it can happen under the right conditions. The problem…

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Reg:

Did you hear about the homeopathy patient who overdosed? He forgot to take his medication.
🥁*BA!-DUM!-DUM!-SSSSS!*

The Alkaline Water kick is hilarious. The Kangen Water brand not only sells the bottled product, but also offers a home and commercial alkaline water machine if you can spare multiple thousands of dollars.

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Jake:

Trump already has the reputation among MAGA of playing 4-D chess.

Problem is he plays it with everyone, not just national and civilizational enemies.

Reg:

It would depend on which nickname he has.

If he is “Keg’s-breath”, he would divine from his spirits in a bottle. 🥃🍾

If he is “Hog’s-Breath”, he would divine from pig’s entrails such as RFK’s Rx of liver.🐖🐷

Jake:

I think Iran war is to point of no return. Agree completely regarding its execution. However, at this point if A & I (see what i did there?) declare victory and allow the regime to remain in power I think it is going to be a blood bath of historical note.

I see what you did there. I’m just not encouraged by the thought. What passes for…[Read more]

Jake:

I have been thinking how AI might be employed to counteract the sleep of reason. All over the globe the somnambulence of reason is in perpetual season. Peaks its head out from time to time before it is whack-a-moled into its interstices where it is in semi-hibernation.

The level of ignorance and stupidity is mind numbing. It might be…

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Jake:

Plato was the godfather of totalitarianism, and his Republic was an inspiration for Christian Theocratic, Fascist, Nazi, and Communist tyrannies, none of which were Cool for Katz or any other name. Sir Karl Popper had many awful things to say about Plato’s Utopian vision.

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Jake:

That lake is so beautiful. I bet those books have really cool pics. And that science center is pretty cool. Been there half a dozen times or so. I would take 7 to 2 they have a copy of Spring on Squam. Sad thing is that squam Lake had the cleanest water in NH from memory. I remember drinking it from faucet. I don’t know how long it is b…

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Jake:

Broken window net prosperity equation is not easily calculated.

It’s quite easy to calculate. Things that are destroyed are not wealth and cannot create more wealth. So destruction is loss on top of loss, and loss is not net prosperity.

Israel’s ongoing security challenges have fostered rapid, war-driven innovations, particularly in m…

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Jake:

Enco, the oft-cited extraordinary claims requirement is a logical one. Not sure this is an extraordinary claim however. Has anyone defined it satisfactorily? On the other hand your skepticism is sensible. Memories are fallible. Sometimes the speaker intends to deceive.

Nothing too extraordinary about misattribution of quotes. There is info…

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PopeBeanie:

You wrote:

Huh, I didn’t catch that, so I must have misunderstood what he misspoke, double negative causing me to get his intention correctly. (The promo video’s just an outtake from the main video, and I watched both, so it would be two double negatives that still worked out, even as a dual set of misunderstandings of mis…

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PopeBeanie:

I think in the promo video, the Legal AF speaker misspoke.

He said that the Judge stopped vaccines for Menningitis, COVID, Rotovirus, among others, and Hep A and Hep B, when in fact, the Judge stopped RFK Jr. And the ACIP who stopped recommending the vaccines.

Yet another period of putting Medicine in the the hands of lawyers.

Jake:

I acknowledge your affirmation. And I equally say that extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. So, whenever and if ever you find the proof of another author for the quote attributed to JFK, I will say I was mistaken about the author. Until then, I’ll just say whoever said the quote was wrong.

The Israelis manage to be…

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Reg:

Even if “the wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved by quotation.” Issac D’Israeli….who also wrote that:

“The literary treasures of antiquity have suffered from the malice of Men as well as that of Time. It is remarkable that conquerors, in the moment of victory, or in the unsparing devastation of their rage, h…

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Jake:

You were saying earlier, in a state of sleep deprivation:

Under ordinary circumstances i agree conscription is a prescription for loss of freedom. Really it is fucking risky and no fun if your heart is not in it.

Israel, however, requires it and it is existential. It doesn’t end. Not yet. Constantly under siege. And being under siege h…

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Reg:

“what the country has done for each of us, and… what we can do for the country”….source

And….citizens should be “less concerned about what the government can do… and more… what it can do for the nation”…..Warren G. Harding.

Alas, this doesn’t give the Eighteenth Century origin of the quote, it just shows how pernicious it’s influence is.

Jake:

Now that you’ve got your rest, I can address quotes and our previous topic.

Good walk spoiled? Thought it was Harvey Penick. Wa’nt. Wa’nt Twain either. Mark that and fathom that. John Feinstein wrote a book of that title but wa’nt his quote not by a mile. Hittin a ball. Hittin it foul. Hittin it long and straight wipes off that scowl…

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