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GrumpyRN, NP · May 17

Kafka Fan44 said:

Wikipedia is not a source, in fact it is a heavily biased left wing database. France, Germany, and Romania have all made it illegal for certain opposing political parties or candidates to even run in elections. Modern day Germany is becoming eerily similar to Nazi Germany. As for Ukraine that nation was overthrown in the 2014 coup and has been held hostage by a false government that was not elected by the people, Zelensky has shut down all non state run forms of media and frozen elections. The man is a tyrant.

Nice to know that when I give you resources or even tell you to find your own independent sites you still come away with the trope, "It's all left wing, everything is fascist, only I know the truth."

For your information and education because you use so many words wrongly and seem to have no idea what the world is actually like :-

"Fascism /făsh′ĭz″əm/

noun

1, A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.

2, A political philosophy or movement based on or advocating such a system of government.

3, Oppressive, dictatorial control."

(Source The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition)

So I've had enough of your nonsense, entertaining though it is. Unless you can come up with something more factual or at least entertaining I'm going to assume that toomuchbaloney is correct.

toomuchbaloney said:

I think there is more satire in these threads than we acknowledge.

Take care and have a safe weekend.

toomuchbaloney · May 17

Do you remember this reporting last month?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/nearly-half-of-national-weather-service-offices-are-critically-understaffed-experts-warn

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Detailed vacancy data for all 122 weather field offices show eight offices are missing more than 35 percent of their staff — including those in Arkansas and Kentucky where tornadoes and torrential rain hit this week — according to statistics crowd-sourced by more than a dozen National Weather Service employees. Experts said vacancy rates of 20 percent or higher amount to critical understaffing, and 55 of the 122 sites reach that level.

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Because of staffing shortages and continued severe weather, meteorologists at the Louisville office were unable to survey tornado damage Thursday, which is traditionally done immediately to help improve future forecasts and warnings, the local weather office told local media in Kentucky. Meteorologists there had to chose between gathering information that will help in the future and warning about immediate danger.

"It's a crisis situation,” said Brad Coleman, a past president of the American Meteorological Society who used to be the meteorologist in charge of the weather service's Seattle office and is now a private meteorologist. "I am deeply concerned that we will inevitably lose lives as a result of the added risk due to this short-staffing.”

https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/deadly-tornado-outbreak-ohio-valley-kentucky-missouri-indiana

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A tornado outbreak swept across the Ohio Valley Friday night, leaving at least 21 dead and rescue crews frantically searching neighborhoods left in ruins for any other survivors.

Why do we need to spend money on the NWS? DOGE thinks it's all waste or fraud or otherwise unnecessary. What do you think? Do you think that Kentucky is prepared to handle the storm aftermath independently of FEMA?

heron, ASN, RN · May 17

toomuchbaloney said:

Do you remember this reporting last month?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/nearly-half-of-national-weather-service-offices-are-critically-understaffed-experts-warn

https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/deadly-tornado-outbreak-ohio-valley-kentucky-missouri-indiana

Why do we need to spend money on the NWS? DOGE thinks it's all waste or fraud or otherwise unnecessary. What do you think? Do you think that Kentucky is prepared to handle the storm aftermath independently of FEMA?

Does anyone remember trump's solution to rising numbers of COVID cases? Stop testing.

What does the NWS do? It studies weather patterns. What is the long term effect of those weather patterns called? Climate. Suppressing the collection of data effectively kneecaps our ability to understand climate change ... an understanding that certain segments of our economy find highly threatening. See also the Kleptocrats' Manifesto 2025.

Suppressing the data is far more important to the kleptocracy than the fate of a few horse breeders and tobacco farmers in Kentucky.

Think of all that real estate up for grabs when the horse people and tobacco farmers can't recover on their own.

Cui bono?

heron, ASN, RN · May 17

GrumpyRN said:

Nice to know that when I give you resources or even tell you to find your own independent sites you still come away with the trope, "It's all left wing, everything is fascist, only I know the truth."

For your information and education because you use so many words wrongly and seem to have no idea what the world is actually like :-

"Fascism /făsh′ĭz″əm/

noun

1, A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.

2, A political philosophy or movement based on or advocating such a system of government.

3, Oppressive, dictatorial control."

(Source The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition)

So I've had enough of your nonsense, entertaining though it is. Unless you can come up with something more factual or at least entertaining I'm going to assume that toomuchbaloney is correct.

Take care and have a safe weekend.

As I've said previously in one thread or another, you can't debate with duckspeak.

Beerman, BSN · May 17

GrumpyRN said:

So I've had enough of your nonsense, entertaining though it is. Unless you can come up with something more factual or at least entertaining I'm going to assume that toomuchbaloney is correct.

You mean the satire comment?

I just read the post that referred to Comey's social media post as a "beach pic".

Yes, there is a lot on nonsensical satire flooding these pages.

toomuchbaloney · May 17

heron said:

As I've said previously in one thread or another, you can't debate with duckspeak.

Correct. We can debate. Those practicing the art of repeating lies and nonsense for a partisan agenda, without the slightest evidence of actual thought, can't debate. There's so much evidence to support that reality.

Some of the stuff is so clearly nonsensical it's difficult to believe that it's not really intended to be satire.

heron, ASN, RN · May 17

heron said:

Oops - never mind.

Tweety, BSN, RN · May 17

GrumpyRN said:

Nice to know that when I give you resources or even tell you to find your own independent sites you still come away with the trope, "It's all left wing, everything is fascist, only I know the truth."

I think Wikipedia is a good source for general information and definitions, but not a news source.

That being said, it's good of you to surrender. There will not be a news source you can give certain posters that isn't considered left wing biased because pretty much they all are in their minds.

People complain that we don't discuss the issues but attack the source and that's what's happening here. I wouldn't bother.

GrumpyRN, NP · May 18

Tweety said:

I think Wikipedia is a good source for general information and definitions, but not a news source.

I agree it is not a good source for news but as you say good for general information and Kafka's knowledge seems to be very limited. 😂🤣 Whether by lack of knowledge/understanding or deliberately trying to look stupid. ( I suspect the former).

Tweety said:

There will not be a news source you can give certain posters that isn't considered left wing biased because pretty much they all are in their minds.

I tend to go with BBC and other British news organisations so definitely left wing according to some.

Tweety said:

People complain that we don't discuss the issues but attack the source and that's what's happening here.

Ironically a bit Kafkaesque.

toomuchbaloney · May 18

GrumpyRN said:

I agree it is not a good source for news but as you say good for general information and Kafka's knowledge seems to be very limited. 😂🤣 Whether by lack of knowledge/understanding or deliberately trying to look stupid. ( I suspect the former).

I tend to go with BBC and other British news organisations so definitely left wing according to some.

Ironically a bit Kafkaesque.

Maybe the irony is intentional. It's so obvious.

toomuchbaloney · May 18

Didn't dementia Donnie insist that China was paying his ridiculous tariffs? Why is the confused old guy now contending that an American company might have to eat those same tariffs? Will he next be crowing that is the patriotic duty of his voters to pay those same tariffs to achieve his goals?

toomuchbaloney · May 22

The POTUS conducted some weird and rude political theater in the White House again. This time his staff gave him printed out propaganda to support his crazy conspiracy beliefs about his newest refugees.

The crazy old guy was waving around propaganda and nonsense like he had the holy grail in his hand. Is this elder abuse? Are staff intentionally feeding the gullible old guy baloney?