Lies work a lot better when they’re plausible.

Well, to start with, my CV. You may assume I’m an “amateur hobbyist geopolitical analyst with no actual experience” but you’d assume wrong. Which given your other conspiratorial behavior is likely a habit for you.

Given the content of multiple comments of yours here, I’m fairly confident my depth of knowledge on this issue is superior to yours.

I do. It doesn’t have a damn thing to do with Palestinian rights.

This is what happens when you mix sexism, Islamophobia, and some plain old fashioned mansplaining all into one stupid package.

Seriously? There’s a veritable mountain of shady, dishonest, and/or abusive tactics used by law enforcement in the United States. None of them were used against Stone. Essentially they’re upset CNN caught it on camera.

The racist charlatan that heads “Judicial Watch” immediately tossed out a tweet suggesting far more “illegals” had voted after Paxton first did.  Judicial Watch is a far-right group that pushes conspiracy theories and uses lawfare to harass liberals. But they’re treated like a grand credible group by most of the GOP.…

A lot of people called this when Paxton first shoved his racist dog-whistle into the aether. Most of the time numbers like that come from clerical errors and mistakes. That was 22 years worth of records, so a significant number could have naturalized before voting as well. The reality is this is more about the poor…

I get the desire to write about a huge transfer, but I’m not really sure this says anything about MLS one way or another. I think the improving quality of the league is a real story, but I’m hesitant to draw conclusions from single events like this.

Reason is a website where contrarian Libertarian assholes excuse racism and concern troll about “leftists”. Just because those bigoted pricks match your own bigotry doesn’t make them credible.

Reason has no more credibility than TMZ does.

You’re right you have. I’ve been in bands, I’ve run shows, I’ve worked at the mid-sized clubs that are the lifeblood of most bands. In addition to that I’ve been knee-deep in the entire production industry since I was literally a child. I’ve done everything from running open mic nights to helping book touring acts for…

Holy shit you are just remarkably ignorant and so high on your own ego you can’t back down.

Yeah, that’s possible too, though I really think it’s more about Pompeo. Tillerson was never an ideological warrior. He was wildly incompetent and failed, but it wasn’t his ideology that did him in. Pompeo is a far-right culture warrior and also extremely deferential so he gets a longer leash. 

I’m not sure there’s a legal framework for something like that below the UN level. Possibly something akin to the ad-hoc missions under the African Union, but I don’t really think that’s a solid argument even if I generally agree with you that some sort of regional coalition would be good.

Exactly which part of the music industry or scene do you have experience in?

There’s no chance for any serious UN action given the Russian veto. 

Abrams was a “NeverTrump” guy and was blocked from being Tillerson’s number 2 because of it. Pompeo probably got away with it because Trump likes him a lot more than Tillerson, and Pompeo is more of a hard-right ideologue than Tillerson was. 

Right, but because he’s a much weaker politician he can’t spin the inevitable failures of short-sighted policy the way Chavez could. Chavez was a good politician, if a terribly policy-maker. He built an ideology and constituency that have stood after his death. Maduro hasn’t been able to adapt or to spin enough to…

I wouldn’t conflate Maduro and Chavez. Not that Chavez was without flaws, which is absurd, but he was a far more competent politician and delivered a lot more to his base. A lot of the current problems date to his policies, but Maduro has failed to deliver even to the devoted Chavistas, which is part of why now even…