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Nathan Hughes's avatar

When I was 12, I wiped out on my bike and came home scraggly and bleeding. I walked in on my parents having sex, and later found somebody had eaten the leftovers I was planning on. That was my first polycrisis. There have been many more…..

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Richard Rayburn's avatar

We only have a climate crisis created by government. Removing Carbon out the atmosphere

Creates the climate Change. Not your gas Car.

Moronic Biden implementation.

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Joe Hatfield's avatar

"Polycrisis".....?

Well.... By utilizing cross-functional synergies and focusing on customer advocacies, our organization will ultimately benefit from the interdepartmental core strategies to facilitate greater market share and profitability in this tactical market paradigm...

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RKelly's avatar

A polycrisis is a complex situation where multiple, interconnected crises converge and amplify each other, making them more dangerous than the sum of the individual parts, and more difficult to manage or resolve. The term was coined by French theorist Edgar Morin in his 1999 book Terre-Patrie (Homeland Earth) the term gained popularity in 2022 and was a prominent theme at the 2023 World Economic Forum in Davos.

Edgar Morin is a leftist.

Go figure, a made up word in leftist propaganda gaining popularity after Demitia patient and Chief, Biden, let the world go Lord of the Flies.

Polycrisis is leftist code for we need a progressive Left authoritarian to fix all the problems progressive Left policies have caused.

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Bob P.'s avatar

Erick, your friend and mentor, Rush, was the best at what he did, which was entertain his audience. But you not only entertain, you teach and explain the cause and effect of situations. I find that more helpful, and enlightening.

Thank you.

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Puppy Ciao's avatar

That's ridiculous. Everyone knows polycrisis is when your stretchpants are too tight.

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Sam Shockley's avatar

The problem is bad enough with elected Progs securing office, but that is compounded when they appoint underlings and so-called "experts" to advise and otherwise consult. In many cases these underlings are the very authors of the bad science to begin with. The elected progressive at least faces a shelf life with each election cycle, not so with the appointee. They are usually forever and keep the dream alive.

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Lori Quackenbush's avatar

I am also sick of hearing the word “Folks”

used by the left as they speak on our behalf. Is that supposed to make us trust them more? They understand us little people…right? Another word from their Dictionary

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TravlnSuz's avatar

I think they want us to spell it as 'Folkx.'

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Cheesefrog's avatar

I would add to that the phrase "Let me be clear" which means a lie is going to follow.

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Lori Quackenbush's avatar

How could we forget? Spot on Cheese Frog!

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Lori Quackenbush's avatar

“make no mistake”

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Attyatlaw's avatar

Does this mean Polycarp now stands for “many fish”?

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Lori Quackenbush's avatar

Oh Lord!

Just a new word for “their” dictionary

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Linda Gray's avatar

A new day and a new crisis. The left still doesn’t get it. It’s you you idiots. We are not stupid.

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Gary Buffkin's avatar

Living with groupspeak protects every incompetent hiding in the herd! There is no one sheep at fault! It's all B.S.

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Kathy's avatar

Is this a word they are using to justify whatever illicit scheme they are concocting to prevent Trump from achieving his goals or maybe from taking office altogether?

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Beverly's avatar

I would think yes.

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Rachel's avatar

Isn't this just another example of the way their brains just group EVERYTHING! They're not Classical Liberals. It's impossible for them to look at each event and break it down into parts, just as they can't look at an individual's situation, analyze, and draw conclusions. No, the friendly arm of government is the only help and solution to these problems (ones that haven't even been analyzed yet). It's so reactionary.

BTW, it seems they've only just noticed that many things are in the crapper. They can point this out now that the Dems are no longer in charge.

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Beverly's avatar

Spot on. It kills me that they must think we can't do math or think for ourselves. 12 out of the last 16 years, a full 3/4 of that time, they have been in charge,robbing us of our money to pay for all kinds of "fixit" programs that never worked ( cash for clunkers, shovel ready jobs, build back better,yada, yada). But now it's a crisis. They are lying, nefarious charlatans.

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Paul Perrone's avatar

I think Erick gives the Dems/Progressives/Left too much credit for thinking. Maybe some are that Machiavellian, but I think it is just their reflexive attitude.

Victor David Hanson had a great podcast this morning about the LA fires. He explained that the Left has created such a complex system and then populated it with incompetent bureaucrats (primarily due to DEI) that its failure was inevitable. That's why they think this is too complex of a problem - a polycrisis.

This is a problem of their own making with innumerable regulations at cross purposes with an unmanageable self-imposed governmental system run by incompetents at the top only at their levels due to sexual orientation, skin color or the politically correct genitalia. They cannot fathom that this problem is of their own ideas/philosophy, so they say it's too complex. Otherwise, they would have to do a real self-examination which they are incapable of. They are simply blind.

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Rachel's avatar

Conflict and problems are always externally caused with Progs. It's never internal; there's never any self-reflection and personal responsibility.

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MGC's avatar

This is just subterfuge for aggrandizing political and governmental power…the mantra of tyrants and despots going back thousands of years. The recipe for failure, hardship, scarcity and repression.

If there was ever a gigantic crisis in the U.S. it was WW II coming on the heels of the Depression; perhaps second only to the Civil War.

Eric rightfully heralds the free enterprise system which resolves the consequences manifested by unfortunate events beyond and within our control.

Perhaps the people of CA are now willing to admit their mistakes in electing dolts to public office and will now elect responsible individuals who will drain the swamp that the voters heretofore are responsible for creating.

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TravlnSuz's avatar

One can only hope

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