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Crucial detail from the article:

The Burlington Democrat called it a “winnable race,” saying that polling showed him getting within 10 percentage points of Scott. But to prevail, he said, he would have to wage a “scorched earth” campaign with negative attack ads. He said that such a race would be bad for the state and not the Vermont way.

Despite the positive spin, this reads as if Dean's polling just wasn't solid enough to justify a roll of the dice on returning to electoral politics in his mid-seventies.

I am grateful to have been spared a really nasty campaign, but I also worry that this is a sign that Democrats will just give up on getting more serious about reigning in the state budget. Dean's attraction wasn't just his name recognition, fundraising heft, and experience, it's that he's a fiscal moderate in an increasingly profligate party.

Perhaps an even more telling- even saddening - demonstration of how popular butker's views are. His T-shirt is now the highest selling one in the NFL store.

I think part of that is that sports in general is turning into a clique for reactionary bearded men. Even real sports like football seem to be turning into MMA or NASCAR in terms of the type of fandom it attracts.

It doesn't help that football is horribly boring to watch now because of the penalties and commercial breaks. You'd have to be pretty weird to enjoy watching two hours of commercial breaks and another hour of watching people stand around waiting for the official review of every other play.


I also forgot to mention it's extremely expensive. You'd have to be a total asshole to waste money going to a game in person at this point, and you have to have cable or premium streaming services to watch everything. It's a mess.

This is false lol . The NFL just recorded its 2nd highest average ratings ever last season so it’s just as popular as it ever was . The fact is conservatives, liberals have both attacked the nfl constantly but in reality it has done nothing to dent the NFL’s popularity .



https://fortune.com/2024/01/10/nfl-ratings-tv-second-highest-ever-football/

Perhaps an even more telling- even saddening - demonstration of how popular butker's views are. His T-shirt is now the highest selling one in the NFL store.

I think part of that is that sports in general is turning into a clique for reactionary bearded men. Even real sports like football seem to be turning into MMA or NASCAR in terms of the type of fandom it attracts.

It doesn't help that football is horribly boring to watch now because of the penalties and commercial breaks. You'd have to be pretty weird to enjoy watching two hours of commercial breaks and another hour of watching people stand around waiting for the official review of every other play.


I also forgot to mention it's extremely expensive. You'd have to be a total asshole to waste money going to a game in person at this point, and you have to have cable or premium streaming services to watch everything. It's a mess.

Basketball is much more interesting to watch. At this point, with all the penalties and commercials you mentioned, even soccer too. Perhaps football is finally on the decline. A decent number of millennial parents won't let their kids play because of CTE risks, I'm guessing that number will only grow the more we learn.

Lol this is Harvard Harris X poll not a real pollster neither party have the answer to the Economy Spk Johnson is at the helm of the H what is he doing about the economy nothing

is your answer to every poll showing trump leading is that it not real or denying it?.

Israel needs to immediately make clear that any country attempting to carry out these illegal warrants will be treated as if they attempted a kidnapping and hostage-taking of an Israeli official. And start sending Netanyahu around the world with a security force that can repel such an attempt.

Receiving countries can deny visas. Foreign citizens don't have a right to travel to other countries.

Such an action by the ICC I think would make Netanyahu persona non grata in most of Europe. They won't arrest him but that means to not having to arrest him and being exposed as hypocrites (a bunch of African states right now are salivating at the notion of European states being forced by law to arrest a foreign leader and choose not to), they just won't let him fly or travel there. The U.S. won't do anything to Netanyahu, but that's quite the long plane trip from Tel Aviv to New York and Netanyahu and his ministers would be even more effectively isolated internationally.

If Netanyahu flies to the U.S. and he is under ICC criminal charges and we choose to do nothing, then the U.S. can never say anything "ICC" again in any circumstance and have it be worth ten cents.

The official US position is that we have no obligations to the ICC and are further under no obligations to see the treaty's success. That's been more-or-less the American position since 2002. Hell, in 2021 Blinken made a statement about the State Department's "longstanding objection to the Court’s efforts to assert jurisdiction over personnel of non-States Parties such as the United States and Israel." So I doubt anyone would consider US statements on the ICC regarding Israelis to be relevant anyway.

Doesn't apply to Europe who are the ICC's chief backers. So either they're exposed as hypocrites and the ICC fails, or Netanyahu can just never travel to Europe which gives them the out of they're not hypocrites.

Lol this is Harvard Harris X poll not a real pollster neither party have the answer to the Economy Spk Johnson is at the helm of the H what is he doing about the economy nothing

FF.

Somewhat-related: Tom Daschle's loss sucked and in hindsight he and maybe the country would've been better off if he'd ran for president or was Kerry's veep instead of the philandering ambulance chaser.

There's huge protests in Tunisia about African migrants trying to get to Europe but then just staying in Tunisia.

The Tunisian political spectrum these days is basically this to the Bourguibist tour guide I had last year, who said stuff like "Arabs...Arabs need a dictator" and "the only problem [with Emperor Hadrian] was that he was what we would today call a homosexual; other than that, he was a perfect man". With, least we forget, a massive population of decent, demoralized, grillist (or tajinist) normies in the middle.

https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust

You need to start with former CEO John Lansing. Lansing came to NPR in 2019 from the federally funded agency that oversees Voice of America. Like others who have served in the top job at NPR, he was hired primarily to raise money and to ensure good working relations with hundreds of member stations that acquire NPR’s programming.

Ok there's a somewhat media argument but still Voice of America is American propaganda although they can have fairly good reporting at times(IIRC they reported on drunk Russian soldiers in Belarus before the invasion)

Maher subsequently studied at the Institut français d'études arabes de Damas in Syria and spent time in Lebanon and Tunisia.[2][13][14]

https://christopherrufo.com/p/katherine-mahers-color-revolution

During the volatile Arab Spring period, under a constantly rotating series of NGO affiliations, Maher went to multiple countries that were undergoing U.S.-backed regime change. Beginning in 2011, for example, she traveled multiple times to Tunisia, working with regime-change activists and government officials. In 2012, she traveled to a strategic city on the Turkey-Syria border, which had become a base for Western-backed opposition to Bashar al-Assad. That same year, she traveled to Libya, where the U.S. had just overthrown strongman Muammar Gaddafi.

All this info was on her wikipedia page a few months ago but they seemed to have scrubbed. Such an obvious glowie.

Rufo's the source but I heard about her months before Rufo and I knew she was a fed agent.