The other piece of this that I found really disturbing in the messaging around the war recently is some of the language in the description of their opponent. Sort of the way they seem to create this image of the Iranians and all of their sort of proxies or allies, the sort of imagery that they conjure up. And I think that it takes a certain amount of arrogance and I'm also going to say it, a bit of racism, to constantly talk about people like they are savages.
The reason PROFESSIONAL WARRIORS avoid unnecessary TAUNTING of the Enemy: it can come back and Bite, HARD. And it's the PILOTS who fly over enemy territory at Risk. I served with FOUR PILOTS who got shot down and TORTURED. Lose an engine (only one in the F-35, thanks a lot Lockheed Martin!) and they'll be the ones to answer for Pete's Rhetoric.
This week on Talking Headways we're joined by Dr. Lawrence Frank to talk about how the built environment and the way we get around connect to public health outcomes. We also discuss the work that led to Walk Score, the shortcomings of transportation cost benefit analysis, and the systematic externalization of health benefits. Once again, at Streetsblog, we give you three ways to connect to the spirited discussions of Talking Headways:
Piers Morgan, who has sort of made a mockery of the entire industry by putting on screen whatever dregs are still willing to go on [his show]... He had on Dave Smith, who has, you know, apparently, his job is to never tell jokes but to instead, give poorly-informed foreign policy takes... And to also hate America.
From The Free Press, this is Honestly,' and I'm Bari Weiss, Dillon said as he pretended to host Weiss's Honestly podcast. Dillon then made savage fun of Weiss's politics. We started this podcast nine years ago because a white woman in Minnesota served a chicken quesadilla to a man and was immediately accused of cultural appropriation, Dillon said. That man's name was George Floyd.
Andrew Schulz and his co-hosts on the Flagrant podcast tore into President Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security this week for allowing ICE agents to wear masks and not identify themselves while carrying out deportations in communities across the U.S. As the conversation about the anonymous ICE agents heated up, co-host Mark Gagnon said, This is why all ICE people need their names on their badges, because now you're getting people mixed up in the crosshairs.
Maher had a lot to say about the current president's recent attacks on climate change. "He thinks it's just some bullshit that people made up out of nothing to get rich. You know, like crypto," Maher said. He went on to say that the EPA's recent decision to stop regulating climate change was arguably "the biggest dick move in American history."