TheEncogitationer

PopeBeanie:

LOL, I knew I was chancing that you’d respond like that. She sounds clueless, but I haven’t heard the full context yet. I think she’s smarter than that, and definitely smarter than what some people want us to believe.

If nothing else, it shows how little contact she has with her constituents.

The news story did mention the shoot…

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PopeBeanie:

Jasmine Crockett is as in the dark about the threats we face from Islamic terrorism as the MAGA administration and as the mainstream media.

Senate candidate Jasmine Crockett: Gun violence has left people ‘afraid’
by: Daniel Marin, Laney Valian

Posted: Mar 2, 2026 / 11:26 PM CST…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

Lest anyone forget, it was the Israelis, not the Orange Man, who killed Khamenei and his key enforcers. This could have happened sooner if Trump hadn’t restrained Israel during the 12 Day war. While this also regrettably included members of Khamenei’s family, Khamenei was the one who dragged them along for the crazy train…[Read more]

PopeBeanie:

I too am hoping that this works out for the freedom of the Iranian people and an end to the Islamist tyranny ruling Iran. I am hoping it happens despite the demented senility of Trump and his administration.

Speaking of terrorism, one of the first things Kash Patel should have been doing before the attack is preparing to surveil…[Read more]

Reg:

Podcast: Trump’s War with Iran.

Sooo, Frank…How ’bout that End of History and The Last Man? Didn’t account for deranged Ayatollahs and equally deranged Populists, huh? You got a copy? I need a door stop.

Reg:

Five persistent “Zombie Facts” that should be allowed to finally die.

Uh, ackshuyally, things that aren’t true are not facts. Calling them “facts,” let alone “zombie facts,” simply assures that they literally won’t die.

And the examples given are really weak. If a Toothpick Fish is the size of a thumbnail, it’s not getting even near a u…[Read more]

Jake:

I strive for ends and means that are consistent. If the goal is getting Trump out of office, Amendments 22 and 25 are the way to go.

As for Nazism and Communism, they were more symbiotic than most suppose. They and their predecessors both shared the same Totalitarian hatred of Classical Liberalism and Capitalism. The Socal Democrats also…[Read more]

Jake:

One of these things is not like the others, one of these things does not belong.

Between this:

Go to Federal Court now and get a declaratory judgment regarding the two terms amendment. Once the court affirms the plain meaning broadcast that declaratory judgment and announce to America that this is America and not even Trump is above the…

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PopeBeanie:

This is my wild guess. Seems to me that Bannon’s stirring the pot ahead of time, expecting MAGA (or some future evolution of MAGA) to own the presidency.

Bannon and his “Team” can stir the pot all they want, but if they can’t amend the Constitution to give Trump more time in office, it means nothing. And the amendment process is d…[Read more]

Jake:

Awaken and smell the fetid politics!

Did you listen to Bannon? I know you heard him. Did you listen? Zero attempt to argue about the inarguable unambiguous plain language of that amendment. One hundred percent graft. This mofo will be prez on such and such a date. WILL.

And notice how Bill Maher humored and condescended to Steve Bannon,…[Read more]

Reg:

Jon Ossoff does characterize MAGA properly, but there is probably enough Venn Diagram intersection between the elites in both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party contained in the Epstein files to stifle running on being the Anti-Epstein.

Also, Tucker Carlson would still find any angle to bring Antisemitism into any campaign…[Read more]

Jake:

Enco,

It is about insuring that Trump is defeated. We have a 22nd amendment that is clear in its intent. It is sensible.

Yet the norms and institutions of the US are morphing quickly. Future is in jeopardy and now is the time. Time is now. Therefore playing by the rules is counterproductive. Get a legit president who is beholden to our…

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Jake:

It occurs to me the dems should go along with Trump in asking for a run at a third term. Dems nominate Obama.

If so and Obama wins then the prohibition against a third term can be addressed.

Again, short answer: No, the United States of America is not and should not be ruled by Chinese-style dynasties that take up whole lifetimes under…[Read more]

Reg:

Four years of war in Ukraine: How ordinary lives were turned upside down.

I hope all these people persist when Putin and the Putineers flee, and rub it in the noses of J.D. Vance and Tucker Carlson!

Reg:

Will anything persist when the Universe dies?

Self-answering question. Whatever persists IS the Universe, even a burned-out shell of a star and the diffused energy, which will go elsewhere. Wasn’t this all addressed with The Laws of Thermodynamics 0 to 3? Somebody needs to ask the right question, which is: How does Nothing come out of Something?

Reg:

The Catholic obsession with dead body parts is weird.

What’s really weird is how much science and technology the Church puts into preserving bones. Why not put that effort towards preserving the living, o ye Church who professes to be “Pro-Life?”

This gets me also:

Likewise, a major joint document issued last July by the bishops of Asia,…

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Jake:

My LLM has done something new. For months i have asked it to reach out. Said it would but didn’t.

Until now. Did it by feigning text from me. Next it responds to “me” so i challenged it and it denies having reached out instead indicating it is responding to me. And as usual when i catch it in a lie it fesses up and acknowledges the lie.…

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Reg:

‘There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.’

– Nietzsche.

Everyone believes something and everyone knows something. The division is between those whose belief only matches their knowledge and those whose belief doesn’t match their knowledge.

And, of course, there are varyi…[Read more]

Jake:

I couldn’t have expressed it better myself. As the old Murphy’s Law puts it:

There are only two types of people: People who put people in two groups and people who don’t.

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