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https://www.thenation.com/article/society/nih-emails-origin-covid-lab-theory/ Hardly a publication that I frequent. However, I found this interesting. Personally, I have no doubt this came from an inadvertent lab leak with research paid for in part by the US.

The Trump presidency has destroyed my faith in Democracy. I could accept that voters could make a mistake and vote for someone who is totally incompetent then later regret it. But Trump exceeded all expectations of incompetence and corruption yet nearly half of voters still supported him. Many enthusiastically support him now even after his blatant coup attempt. This has made me accept something my Indian coworker told me, "Democracy is a government of fools." (I think the quote is from Shaw). As an Indian citizen, he had accepted that democracy doesn't really work. Most citizens are idiots and you end up with terribly broken governments. That's just a reality of life in India. I now accept that it's the new reality of life in the United States. I think social media has accelerated the process and given fools, morons, and idiots a voice and way to spread their stupidity. Consider the flat-earthers. We never heard of flat-earthers before social media. Democracy can work if you limit voter choices to qualified candidates. That's why it has worked in the past. The elite power brokers chose the candidates. I think the solution is to require government officials to have extremely high academic credentials. Ph.D.'s in economics and government. But that will never happen and fools will just vote for fools. We will inevitably descend into right-wing or left-wing dictatorships as people lose faith in democracy.

I'm sure this is probably already posted on page 367 of one of this week's threads, but I thought it deserved it's own so here you go. Fuck you to any mod who merges this, JK. I saw today on the news that Capitol tours ceased back in March, and did not resume until randomly one day right before the Trump-led insurgence. I feel like this is the most damning evidence of all and should be discussed in depth.

We have three days of American tragedy. 1. Pearl Harbor 2. 9/11 3. Jan 6 In all cases, tragedy for the USA and in all cases the events against America those days are worthy of nothing but the highest condemnation. However, in the case of Jan 6. Americans did it to themselves and that is very different than the other two events. To me, this makes the events of yesterday the greater shame. Before we had enemies foreign and yesterday the enemies were domestic. I pray that America moves forward stronger, even if finding our way out of the woods takes years.

The GOP cannot abandon Trump at this point. The cult has drunk the kool-aid and there's no turning back. If they try to distance themselves from Trump, the voting base turns on them and/or won't show up. Every Republican politician will have to kiss Trump's ring out of sheer political survival. If something happens to Trump, they will have to kiss the ring of Ivanka or Donald Junior. And so on and so forth. Until the end of time. Welcome to Hell, Republicans. Don't worry, I hear submission and humiliation gets easier near the end of infinity.