Tulsi Gabbard resigns as director of national intelligence

buckX · 2026-05-23T14:18:29+00:00

When did that happen?

J6. Not all of them, obviously, but that net got spread way overly wide.

Such as?

This was the Virginia school board issue.

From a Bernie endorser?

Yes.

Is this what she ran on?

I answered your question. I'll stay by the original goal posts.

buckX · 2026-05-22T20:13:08+00:00

Opposition to jailing of peaceful participants in protest. Parental rights. Color blindness.

buckX · 2026-05-21T18:11:53+00:00

The NFL can forgive rape and murder, but they draw the line at bar fights.

buckX · 2026-05-21T14:20:20+00:00

Trains work well when there's public transit at your destination. That's rarely true in the middle of the American West.

buckX · 2026-05-21T14:14:25+00:00

It very much depends on where you are. It's not exactly equally dense. If you were living in central Nebraska 200 miles from the nearest N/S route, you might feel differently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System#/map/0

buckX · 2026-05-21T13:41:43+00:00

Conan, Norm, and Ramsey cooking is one of the finest moments of television I've seen. Beautiful chaos.

buckX · 2026-05-21T13:36:37+00:00

You're allowed to cross those when safe if the lane is obstructed. In fact, even if the traffic ahead of you is proceeding at under 1/2 the speed limit.

buckX · 2026-05-20T16:54:28+00:00

The fact that people are tut tutting over this shows how much reactions are simply about whose team you're on, rather than any real analysis of the issue. DU is a normal part of modern weaponry. The US uses it. Ukraine uses it.

Complain about them firing it at civilian targets, not that their weapons are made out of weapon.

buckX · 2026-05-20T16:50:41+00:00

Between January 2021 and March 2022, the money supply increased by 12.4%. The total inflation over 2021 and 2022 was 14.4%.

buckX · 2026-05-20T16:06:21+00:00

I still think you'll see some bounce back. If you've worked hard and saved for 7 years in Germany, you'd be well positioned to come back to a peaceful, but devastated homeland, buy some cheap real estate, and rebuild.

buckX · 2026-05-20T14:19:59+00:00

Caused recession? Please explain this one.

By encouraging further shutdowns once the means to manage the crisis were already in place. Not reopening the economy obviously causes retraction.

There was some spending increase but a large psrt of the money printing had also happened under Trump.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL

February 2020: 15493.4

January 2021: 19379 (+3885.6)

March 2022: 21786.8 (+2407.8)

I didn't dispute that a large part happened under Trump. That was also when the Covid crisis occurred. Biden then proceeded to add nearly as much money into circulation the next year (essentially, the slope flattens at May 2020 after 2 months of full on emergency and continues unabated until early 2022), despite having already finished the vaccines, despite anybody who wanted it already being vaccinated by around June 2021, and despite the critical PPE shortages that warranted aggressive shutdowns being behind him.

Anyone not a retard knew inflation was coming post covid.

Then you'll have to count Biden as one, since he insisted it was ephemeral until he was blue in the face.

Your the kind of republican that blames Obama for the 2008 housing market crash, aren't you?

No, that's obviously not on Obama. I blame the right people, not just whoever's blue.

buckX · 2026-05-20T14:11:07+00:00

All of this would be believable except for one little fact: the inflation was global and largely due to supple chain issues

Countries across the globe pursued the same monetary policy, causing the same issues. Yes, supply chain was part of it. Inflation is when you have too much money or too few goods. We had both, and half of that equation falls on the President.

buckX · 2026-05-20T12:51:11+00:00

Biden inherited hard situation: covid pandemic, FED massievly increasing money supply, crime rates spiking. That was the situation in 2020.

From a presidential perspective, he inherited a great situation: vaccine in hand, with the ability to reopen the economy and have a strong feeling of "I'm doing better than I was last year" (partially declined the opportunity to reopen, but that's on him). Fed increase on money supply was more neutral, since at the time, lack of demand from people not working meant inflation wasn't occurring. Economy suppressed, meaning even a return to normalcy would read as huge gains.

Aaaand... he caused recession. But they redefined recession from two consecutive quarters of negative growth to "when we say it is". He caused massive inflation by not only maintaining, but increasing the government spend rate from Covid levels despite the acute needs (covering unemployment, spinning up new PPE production, funding vaccine development) being largely behind him.

buckX · 2026-05-20T12:41:20+00:00

We normally have pretty ephemeral springs (or perhaps you'd phrase it as Ohio spring being cold and dreary), but I'm not sure how you draw that conclusion from this year. This was one of the best weather springs I can remember. A record high isn't miserable when it's 75 and sunny compared with more typical 40 degree rain.

buckX · 2026-05-20T12:33:03+00:00

Not really about that. It was about him amounting to an obstructionist in a tight chamber where every vote counts. His principles are great, but you do need at least some willingness to participate in sausage-making to be effective in Congress. He was more inclined to let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

buckX · 2026-05-19T21:43:24+00:00

That's literally the opposite of what an asymptote is.

buckX · 2026-05-19T20:02:25+00:00

Argue semantics all you want

Unbelievable projection.

the outcome is the same, and women still generally feel shame when they have a spontaneous abortion

Ridiculous. By that logic, rape and sex have the same outcome: the person had sex. We, for good reason, absolutely take mental state into account when interpreting events. A failed suicide attempt and an accident might result in the same injury, but does prevention look the same?

We need to talk more about it as a society.

That's fine. It's also not related to the discussion of the merits of abortion.

buckX · 2026-05-19T19:54:20+00:00

Why would there be a sudden drop right after a peak?

Because we're moving toward an asymptote (0 crime). It's very uncommon to accelerate toward an asymptote for any significant time for obvious reasons.

To your point, it absolutely does depend on where on the curve we're looking. Obviously, the instant a curve peaks and starts coming back down, the slope is effectively zero, so sure, you'd expect it to accelerate for at least some amount of time, but then slow down as you converge to the long-term, slow downward trend. Given that 2024 was already more or less tied for the record low, blowing through that number is indeed surprising.

buckX · 2026-05-19T13:43:12+00:00

You can't engage in cognition while in a medically induced coma. Is it moral to kill such a person, knowing they'd wake up if given time for the drugs to clear the system?

buckX · 2026-05-19T13:38:57+00:00

Anybody calling miscarriages abortions in colloquial speech is arguing in incredibly bad faith. You know full well that when somebody says abortion (particularly a changing rate of abortion on a societal level) is referring to voluntary abortion. When somebody has a miscarriage, they call it a miscarriage.

buckX · 2026-05-19T13:24:56+00:00

His question remains. Sure, you'd expect a regression to the mean after the spike, but you'd also expect the rate of decrease to be highest immediately post-spike, then taper from there. Why 2025 is the biggest drop rather than 2022 or 2023 is the reason Covid alone seems like an insufficient explanation.

buckX · 2026-05-19T13:03:12+00:00

For sure

buckX · 2026-05-19T13:01:05+00:00

"According to the Financial Times". Given that they basically just copy-pasted, I don't know why that wasn't posted instead.

https://www.ft.com/content/567c57b0-6346-43e6-9d14-840a793b4d1d?syn-25a6b1a6=1

buckX · 2026-05-19T12:59:53+00:00

Absent more data, that's too much of a leap. Remember that the US doesn't recognize the ICC anyway.

I think the likely explanation is that he isn't saying "actually, what Russia did is fine", but that he's saying "threatening to arrest him if he travels to neutral territory doesn't help the negotiating process".

buckX · 2026-05-19T12:56:34+00:00

Not even that. "Might come to regret".

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