Weekend Open Thread
[guest post by Dana]
Let’s start the Weekend Open Thread with a funny first news item!
On manhood or some such jibber-jabber:
Tom Klingenstein, Chair of Claremont Institute, on he wants Trump in 2024: “In war, you must make a stand. For that, we need strong men .. Trump is a manly man. When manhood is being stripped of its masculinity, traditional manhood, even when flawed, is absolutely essential.” pic.twitter.com/SjkO0cfIR0
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) July 28, 2022
Missouri U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley is writing a book called “Manhood: The Masculine Virtues Americans Need,” building off a speech he gave at a conservative conference claiming the political left is waging a war on masculinity. “The American Founders believed that a republic depends on certain masculine virtues,” the book’s description on Amazon says. “Senator Josh Hawley thinks they were right. In a bold new book, he calls on American men to stand up and embrace their God-given responsibility as husbands, fathers, and citizens.” His office did not respond to a request for comment. The book’s announcement comes after Hawley was mocked by the U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, which showed a video of him running out of the U.S. Senate chamber as lawmakers, reporters and staff were being evacuated.
Second news item
Yet another case of disappearing text messages:
Text messages for Donald Trump’s top homeland security officials in the days leading up to the attack on the Capitol are missing, according to the Washington Post. Citing internal emails and four anonymous sources, the outlet claims that texts from Trump’s acting homeland security secretary, Chad Wolf, and acting deputy secretary Ken Cuccinelli, in a critical period before January 6, 2021, have vanished. The Department of Homeland Security reportedly informed the agency’s inspector general in February that the data was irretrievably lost in a government phone “reset” after they left their positions in January last year.
Third news item
Beijing’s statement on the call warned in reference to Taiwan that “those who play with fire will perish by it.” A senior U.S. official briefing reporters on the call wouldn’t confirm whether Xi used that exact language, but confirmed the leaders discussed their “differences” over Taiwan.
…It’s no surprise that Taiwan was top of the agenda, with Beijing threatening “serious consequences” if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi follows through on a planned visit to the self-governing island.
The Chinese government has repeatedly vowed to take control of the island, by force if necessary, and it reacts furiously to any gesture that seems to treat Taiwan as an independent state. The senior administration official declined to say whether and how Pelosi’s potential visit was discussed on the call. But the official did say that Beijing and Washington had “managed” their differences over Taiwan for over 40 years.
The official confirmed that Biden told Xi the U.S. maintains its “One China Policy,” while stressing that “the United States strongly opposes unilateral efforts to change the status quo or undermine peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.”
Fourth news item
Oh:
The White House responded to second-quarter negative GDP growth with a full slate of events and a well-coordinated message: Despite what everyone is saying, the U.S. economy is not in a recession.
President Joe Biden appeared in public twice Thursday, and both times he delivered the same carefully crafted remarks, contending that current low unemployment rates, coupled with new investments in manufacturing, make it impossible for the economy to be in a recession.
“Let me just give you what the facts are in terms of the state of the economy,” Biden said in a speech that was billed as remarks on the latest budget bill in Congress. “Number one, we have a record job market, and record unemployment of 3.6%, and businesses are investing in America at record rates.” He then listed several companies planning to build factories in the U.S. before concluding, “that doesn’t sound like a recession to me.”
I guess it depends on who the current POTUS is:
FLASHBACK to Nancy Pelosi in 2008: A recession "is two quarters of negative growth in a row." pic.twitter.com/6UAUPAYu4F
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 28, 2022
For a more detailed look at what makes a recession, look here.
Fifth news item
Best of luck on the uphill climb:
Dozens of former Republican and Democratic officials announced on Wednesday a new national political third party to appeal to millions of voters they say are dismayed with what they see as America’s dysfunctional two-party system.
The new party, called Forward and whose creation…will initially be co-chaired by former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang and Christine Todd Whitman, the former Republican governor of New Jersey. They hope the party will become a viable alternative to the Republican and Democratic parties that dominate U.S. politics, founding members told Reuters.
[…]
The new party is being formed by a merger of three political groups that have emerged in recent years as a reaction to America’s increasingly polarized and gridlocked political system. The leaders cited a Gallup poll last year showing a record two-thirds of Americans believe a third party is needed.
Politics is always a balancing act between strategy and sacrifice, calculation and compromise. Voting for Jorgensen or some other third-party candidate may seem tempting, or may even seem to have a certain logic to it. Like the Conscience Whigs before them, some Never Trump Republicans may feel themselves to be in a bind. Do they refuse to join the Biden coalition in the hopes of winning the longer war for the soul of conservatism? Do they ease their consciences by writing in Mitt Romney while effectively casting aside their votes? Do libertarians and other voters tempted by third-party candidates hold on to their purist convictions while knowing victory is impossible? Or do they compromise their principles to stop a man whom they have denounced as a threat to the very foundations of the republic? As frustrating as it may be, successful American politicking has always been coalitional.
Sixth news item
Protections for migrants crossing Southern border into the U.S.:
The Biden administration on Thursday authorized completion of the Trump-funded U.S.-Mexico border wall in an open area of southern Arizona near Yuma, where four wide gaps make it among the busiest corridors for illegal crossings.
The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that the work to complete the project near the Morelos Dam will better protect migrants who can get hurt slipping down a slope or drown walking through a low section of the Colorado River.
The area is the third busiest crossing for migrants who can easily walk across the river to surrender to border officials.
Washington, D.C., mayor Muriel Bowser has asked that the D.C. National Guard be activated indefinitely to help the district respond to an influx of illegal immigrants arriving by bus, according to a report.
Bowser’s request to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and President Joe Biden comes as more than 150 buses from Arizona and Texas have brought more than 5,000 migrants to Washington, D.C. in the past three months.
Buses began bringing migrants from Texas border communities in mid-April under instruction from Governor Greg Abbott. Texas has sent more than 125 buses to D.C. One month later, Arizona began sending buses as well.
“With pledges from Texas and Arizona to continue these abhorrent operations indefinitely, the situation is dire, and we consider this a humanitarian crisis — one that could overwhelm our social support network without immediate and sustained federal intervention,” Bowser wrote.
[…]
“This mission would begin as soon as possible and continue indefinitely until the city relieves them,” she said. “To be clear, I recognize the magnitude of this request. But the Governors of Texas and Arizona are making a political statement to the federal government, and instead, their actions are having direct impacts on city and regional resources in ways that are unsustainable.”
Pretty sure the governors of Texas and Arizona would agree that such direct impacts on city and regional resources are absolutely unsustainable.
Seventh news item
Rep. Liz Cheney is out with a new political ad that is brief and to the point. (I’m unable to link to the video, so for now, here is the text of the ad which is a compilation of her competitors’ comments at last month’s candidate debate):
HARRIET HAGEMAN: “We have serious questions about the 2020 election.”
*BUZZER*
ROBYN BELINSKY: “And when I talked to Mike Lindell he did say there was a small, small portion of voter fraud in this state.”
*BUZZER*
ANTHONY BOUCHARD: “The system to steer people. We know for a fact that all the major Internets do that.”
*BUZZER*
LIZ CHENEY: “We’ve got to elect serious leaders. We have to elect leaders who will take their oath of office seriously. Leaders who won’t simply say what they think people want to hear.”
*CHIME*
Meanwhile, Cheney’s campaign continues to receive big donations from Californians:
Californians have contributed more to Republican Rep. Liz Cheney than donors from any other state, including her Wyoming home, as the outspoken Trump critic faces an increasingly perilous reelection bid.
Many California donors, including Hollywood and Silicon Valley moguls, vehemently disagree with most of Cheney’s policies but applaud her fight against former President Trump’s false claim that he won the 2020 election.
Cheney’s vote to impeach Trump after the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection and her prominent role as vice chair in televised House committee hearings into the attack have boosted her status nationally, even as they have hurt her in Wyoming, where she trails her GOP primary opponent by double digits. In heavily Democratic California, that has translated into donations totaling about $1.2 million.
And while Cheney trails Hageman by by 22 percentage, she remains resolute in her decision to hold Trump accountable and honor her oath to the Constitution:
“If I have to choose between maintaining a seat in the House of Representatives or protecting the constitutional republic and ensuring the American people know the truth about Donald Trump, I’m going to choose the Constitution and the truth every single day,” Cheney said recently on CNN.
[Pre-emptive strike: This is not the same as Democrats putting money behind Trump-backed-MAGA-loyalist-election-denier-conspiracy-theorist candidates in order to be positioned to win more easily in November. Cheney is not an election-denier, nor did she try to overturn election results. To the contrary.]
Eighth news item
President Biden picking and choosing according to his stripes:
President Joe Biden on Friday nominated Julie Rikelman, who argued the case for the Mississippi clinic before the Supreme Court in the case that led to the overturning of the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, for a post on an US appeals court.
Rikelman’s nomination comes a month after the Supreme Court ruled there is no longer a nationwide right to obtain an abortion. Rikelman represented the Mississippi clinic — the last in the state — that challenged a state law barring abortion after 15 weeks.
As part of his 24th round of judicial nominees, Biden nominated Rikelman for the Boston-based 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals.[…]
Rikelman currently serves as senior litigation director for the Center for Reproductive Rights and is considered one of the best abortion rights attorneys in the country. Biden’s move suggests an effort to bolster the bench with an expert on the issue at a time when more than half the states are prepared to ban if not further restrict the procedure.
Ninth news item
Troglodyte: Before an audience of young Republicans, Rep. Matt Gaetz make use an opportunity to tout Republican women who have bravely come forward to testify under oath before the Jan. 6 Committee but instead chose to attack…womens’ physical appearances:
Gaetz: "Why is it that the women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions? Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb." pic.twitter.com/0qqvun3Pf8
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 23, 2022
Because the subject of abortion is a joking matter to him, and I guess young Republicans too. Anyway, 1955 is calling and wants its sexist pig back.
Tenth news item
Hero:
The Lafayette police department in Louisiana shared a press release on their social media that recounted how a pizza delivery man saved five children from a house fire.
According to the press release issued Friday, Nick Bostic, 25, was driving past Union Street early Monday, when he noticed a house on fire.
He quickly parked near the house and entered it from the backdoor. He then called out to wake the house’s residents who he assumed might be unaware of the escalating fire. He found four children in the bedroom and woke them up. They all rushed outside, but then Bostic was told that a six-year-old was still inside.
Bostic stepped inside the house once again to look for the child. By the time he found the child, Bostic had inhaled much smoke. However, he managed to hold the child and jump out of a window. The child was unharmed and Bostic was flown to Indianapolis for treatment.
Here’s the video to go along with the story. pic.twitter.com/TvZ5wzCg1f
— LafayetteINPolice (@LafayetteINPD) July 15, 2022
P.S. Josh Hawley and the Claremont Institute guy might want to take note here.
Have a great weekend!
–Dana
Hello.
Dana (1225fc) — 7/29/2022 @ 11:20 amBuses full of the recent illegal immigrants should be sent to each “sanctuary city”, especially those located in the Beltway/ACELA corridor. Sounds wholly appropriate.
Mayor Bowser has an opportunity to make good on her open invitation and other like-minded mayors should be given that same opportunity.
Colonel Haiku (50ef72) — 7/29/2022 @ 11:38 am“Late Monday, Grassley issued a news release citing “multiple FBI whistleblowers, including those in senior positions,” who raised “the alarm about tampering by senior FBI and Justice Department officials in politically sensitive investigations,” including “investigative activity involving derogatory information on Hunter Biden’s financial and foreign business activities.” According to the Iowa Republican, the whistleblowers alleged that Washington Field Office Assistant Special Agent in Charge Timothy “Thibault and other FBI officials sought to falsely portray as disinformation evidence acquired from multiple sources that provided the FBI derogatory information related to Hunter Biden’s financial and foreign business activities, even though some of that information had already been or could be verified.”
The news release added that “in August of 2020, FBI supervisory intelligence analyst Brian Auten opened an assessment, which was used by a team of agents at FBI headquarters to improperly discredit and falsely claim that derogatory information about Biden’s activities was disinformation, causing investigative activity and sourcing to be shut down.” The FBI headquarters team allegedly placed their assessment findings in a restricted access subfolder, effectively flagging sources and derogatory evidence related to Hunter Biden as disinformation while shielding the justification for such findings from scrutiny,” according to Grassley.
The Iowa senator claimed that “Thibault also reportedly ordered the closure of a stream of information related to Hunter Biden and sought to improperly mark the matter within FBI systems in a way that would prevent it from being re-opened in the future.” “The FBI headquarters team allegedly claimed that reporting from the stream was at risk of disinformation,” but the whistleblowers told Grassley, “that all of the information obtained through that stream was already verified or verifiable.”
The FBI whistleblowers’ charges, if accurate, are devastating and mean that at a time that Hunter Biden was already reportedly under investigation by the Delaware U.S. Attorney’s Office, rather than work with the agents already investigating then-candidate Joe Biden’s son, FBI headquarters initiated its own “assessment.” Then, according to the whistleblowers, agents improperly shut down sources, falsely framed evidence as disinformation, and hid the reasoning for that determination from other FBI agents behind restricted areas.”
https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/26/fbi-jeopardized-national-security-by-calling-verified-hunter-biden-evidence-disinformation-whistleblowers-say/
Colonel Haiku (50ef72) — 7/29/2022 @ 11:56 amNo, this promotional video of Putin’s Russia is not satire, but this rejoinder video is.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 7/29/2022 @ 12:01 pmThe New York Times magazine had an article a few weeks ago (July 10 issue) about circadian cycles and medicine and food – or at least it attempted to be that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/06/magazine/circadian-medicine.html
It actually amounted to a collection of assorted facts not put together in any particular order. Too many things about all topics are written that way. College graduates got used to writing term papers that way – collect notes, write them up, and they think it is good. Nothing could be truly more disorganized. There’s no thinking about what it means. (But I don’t mind it, and the only unifying theme is that there’s something there to know. But I’d like to know more.
I think the writer did not even realize that some of the effects was related not to the time of day but to the relation of the time of eating food versus time of sleep, even though she cited several things that indicate that . (digesting food during sleep interferes a little bit with the benefits of sleep, I think)
It had a lot of interesting stray facts – that’s what it was, a collection of many stray facts, with some history of the research scattered through it inserted in any which place – stray facts that maybe someone could put together in their own way. So it’s good, really for someone prepared to read this as 30 different snippets. I maybe find it a bit serendipitous and anyway the writer doesn’t have any idea how the facts might fit together, even a little bit..
But I don’t think wound healing is better in the morning – maybe the injury is less – but healing I think takes place during sleep.
It also noted that sometimes the best time for men is the worst time for women for taking some drugs but did not go into further detail. It was talking about chemotherapy drugs for cancer snd did not mention a single name of a cancer drug.
One point – maybe the only point in the article – was that time of day matters, but she indicated that on the other hand it’s virtually impossible to research, (and drug companies are not interested in researching it) and it’s virtually impossible to expect someone not interested in taking things on a timetable to do it.
One excerpt:
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 7/29/2022 @ 12:04 pmWe can add this Putin war crime to the pile of others.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 7/29/2022 @ 12:11 pmFor those poo-pooing that sanctions against the Putin regime aren’t working, wrong.
Dr. Snyder has an assessment on the state of Putin’s war. I won’t say that Russia is winning or losing, but Putin is clearly in a quagmire of his own making, and he may well lose Kherson, a city that controls a significant amount of the water supply to the Crimean region.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 7/29/2022 @ 12:01 pm
Maybe it is <b? satire, or a burlesque, except that whoever did it being paid by the target of the satire.
When someone wants to promote lies they may not always realize what is absurd.
Cheap taxis as an important point?
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 7/29/2022 @ 12:14 pmSammy, it could be a promotional video intended for domestic consumption, trying to convince Russians that their country is not a sh-thole, despite sh-thole the country is.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 7/29/2022 @ 12:16 pmBTW, the “Winter is coming” line at the end of the promotional video sounds more like a threat a al Games of Thrones than an exhortation to act now.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 7/29/2022 @ 12:20 pmIf Pelosi had stones, she’d tell Xi to mind his own f-cking business as she doesn’t take orders from authoritarian communist regimes.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 7/29/2022 @ 12:22 pm@10. If Pelosi had stones, she’d tell Xi to mind his own f-cking business as she doesn’t take orders from authoritarian communist regimes.
Oh please… just their influence-peddling money:
Beijing Nancy: Pelosi Shifted Her China Stance as Her Family Scored Beijing Deals
‘House Speaker Nancy Pelosi softened her previous criticisms of China’s communist regime as her husband and son scored big business deals in China…’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/01/26/beijing-nancy-pelosi-shifted-her-china-stance-as-her-family-scored-beijing-deals/
Confucius say Speaker on top of Hill not on level: ‘$$$$ Ka-Ching $$$$’
DCSCA (0ffd97) — 7/29/2022 @ 12:36 pmCPAC is no longer conservative, it’s right-wing…RWPAC.
This comment may be more applicable in Patterico’s recent post.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 7/29/2022 @ 1:01 pmRe: First item-
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/29/2022 @ 1:06 pmAt this point, not only should Pelosi go to Taiwan, but also Schumer, McConnell and McCarthy.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/29/2022 @ 1:10 pmNot welcome at CPAC:
Neocons.
DCSCA (d53178) — 7/29/2022 @ 1:11 pmOn the 9th news item: Matt Louis Gaetz, II doesn’t have any children.
And he had to have help from an associate, Joel Greenberg, to get dates, an associate who is now under indictment for sex trafficking. If the investigators are right, Gaetz often (usually, always?) had to pay girls to go out with him.
So perhaps he is not the best person to discuss others’ attractivness. (Those young Republicans should find better speakers in the future. And someone should tell them that homely people vote, too.)
Jim Miller (406a93) — 7/29/2022 @ 1:15 pmSome effort ought to be made on Project Thor. Launch costs are way down. We’d need to open some tungsten mines in the US on the down-low, but that’s doable.
If we ever have to go to war with Russia or China, being able to smash their ground-based missiles with fast, non-nuclear weapons would be a good thing. We already know how to take out their subs. Without those, bombers are a poor bluff.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/29/2022 @ 1:18 pmMore Matt Gaetz:
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/29/2022 @ 1:19 pmCPAC is no longer conservative, it’s right-wing…RWPAC.
Actually, it’s PPPAC — Pro-Putin PAC
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/29/2022 @ 1:19 pm#12 Does Victor Orban know that Sarah Palin is a race mixer, since Todd Palin has a Yup’ik great grandmother?
Jim Miller (406a93) — 7/29/2022 @ 1:19 pmIf Pelosi had stones, she’d tell Xi to mind his own f-cking business as she doesn’t take orders from authoritarian communist regimes.
But she does, just not Xi’s.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/29/2022 @ 1:20 pmPrediction: total abortion ban states will find the voters are not amused.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/29/2022 @ 1:23 pmIf the investigators are right, Gaetz often (usually, always?) had to pay girls to go out with him.
Incel alert.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/29/2022 @ 1:23 pmMayor Bowser has an opportunity to make good on her open invitation and other like-minded mayors should be given that same opportunity.
I wish no ill will on the present livelihoods of my fellow citizens but it’s probably a good bet the G-11s and beliw that Mayor Bowsers core constituency could stand to take a fire up their butte for the competition potential.
urbanleftbehind (289742) — 7/29/2022 @ 1:26 pmKevin, since you’re here, a question: What do you think would be an appropriate punishment for Trump?
(I would be satisfied with a time-out — as long as it lasted at least ten years. And he had to spend much of that time sitting in a corner.)
Others, of course, are welcome to give their thoughts, since this is an open thread.
Jim Miller (406a93) — 7/29/2022 @ 1:27 pmTexas take note – tone down the fire and brimstone jibber jabber on absorption and voila- https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-quietly-approves-construction-us-mexico-border-wall-near-yuma-arizona
urbanleftbehind (289742) — 7/29/2022 @ 1:29 pmKarnak says house arrest at Mar a Lago, anything untoward will be met with a Scarface final scene remake
urbanleftbehind (289742) — 7/29/2022 @ 1:31 pmIt’s more than a little weird that the inaugural LIV golf tournament (financed with dirty Saudi money) also happens to be Ivana’s final resting place.
As usual, conspiracy theory ran strong in Trump when he–in defense of him taking dirty Saudi money–
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 7/29/2022 @ 1:32 pmhintedlied that “nobody’s gotten to the bottom of 9/11”. Please GOP, nominate someone else.More acceptable as a trade for Brittney Griner would be these two:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-28/hawaiian-couple-charged-using-fake-identities-of-dead-children/101278098
They are probably Russian spies. Just the kind that Putin would recruit – finding out nothing.
Romania was not part of the Soviet Union but Moldova was.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 7/29/2022 @ 1:34 pm@14. Too late. But the ballsy, one-upmanship move would be keeping Nancy home– and the President of the United States going to Taiwan in her place. Go ahead, Xi, risk a shoot down of AF1 or her escorts– and the POTUS. But alas, Bunker Joe ca barely find the bathroom.
Reagan didn’t go to war w/Russia in ’83 when KAL-007 was shot down with a mere conservative congresscritter from Georgia, Larry McDonald, aboard– who at the time was also the second president of the conservative John Birch Society. And lest we forget Dubya’s Dilemma:
U.S. says sorry, China to free crew
– U.S. ‘regret’ over pilot’s death
– 24 air crew to travel home
– China to question U.S. surveillance
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/apr/11/china.usa
“The target is destroyed.” -Major Gennadiy Osipovich, Soviet pilot, Su-15 interceptor that shotdown KAL-007, 1983
DCSCA (d53178) — 7/29/2022 @ 1:35 pmIf he stays at Bedminster well beyond the end of the LIV event, he might be signaling his way of dealing with the “DeSantis same state negation of electoral vote” problem.
urbanleftbehind (289742) — 7/29/2022 @ 1:36 pmIts public knowledge that the hesd of Saudi intelligence was sudeenly fired ten days before September 11, 2001, after nearly a quarter of a century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turki_bin_Faisal_Al_Saud
Maybe they knew something, but they didn’t have enough tie to find out what was going on and stop it, all the while keeping it secret from the United States.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 7/29/2022 @ 1:40 pmPaul – I would not think it amiss were you to copy your #120 from the previous post, here. That is an important story.
Jim Miller (406a93) — 7/29/2022 @ 1:41 pmAnother somewhat appropriate trade for Brittney Griner
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 7/29/2022 @ 1:46 pmDone, Jim.
Here’s some breaking news. The DOJ just indicted a Russian FSB agent for engaging in a “years-long malign influence campaign targeting American politics — alleging that he used American groups in Florida, Georgia and California to sow discord and push pro-Russia propaganda.”
It’ll only be a matter of time before the other traitorous groups and individuals are identified.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 7/29/2022 @ 1:48 pm$26 It is less well-known that it ought to be, but George W. Bush proposed, and Congress passed, without much fuss, contruction of miles of border walls. I think they play a small, but necessary, part in border security, but are not nearly as imprtant as, for example, E-Verify.
The effectiveness of border walls by themseves is limited because there are so many possible ways around, through, below, and over them. If you can’t think of at least a dozen, without much effort, you aren’t trying very hard.
Jim Miller (406a93) — 7/29/2022 @ 1:50 pm“Democrats are complaining that Biden is showing no signs of “engagement” with the duties of his office and doesn’t answer their phone calls.
Allies to President Biden are voicing frustration about the political operation inside the White House as the midterm elections draw closer and the president readies for a possible reelection bid.
The allies say the lack of a “personal touch” from Biden has left them underwhelmed, with calls going unanswered, simple requests lacking a reply and little — if any — proactive outreach from staff inside the White House.
“The most important thing is people just want to feel engaged,” said a longtime Biden ally, one of a dozen sources interviewed by The Hill who say Biden needs to do more to build support for the party and for his own political prospects to successfully run for reelection.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3577211-biden-allies-say-enthusiasm-gap-fueled-by-lack-of-engagement-personal-touch/
And there’s this…
https://rumble.com/v1dur7x-tucker-carlson-this-is-horrible-for-all-of-us.html
Colonel Haiku (c8bfe8) — 7/29/2022 @ 1:55 pmThey’ve got things to the point where, in certain locations, it largely can’t be done without the help of the Mexican drug cartels.
Previously, coyotes only had to pay a “tax” and many people got through on their own.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/25/us/migrant-smuggling-evolution.html
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 7/29/2022 @ 1:58 pmCheney is suppprting a leftist propaganda war. Makes sense for the left to fund her quixotic campaign.
NJRob (858c6b) — 7/29/2022 @ 2:09 pmIt’s not the entire “left” that is supporting Cheney. I don;t think her ads are good enough They are merely a cute way to show what side her oppponents are on.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 7/29/2022 @ 2:12 pmI am not male, so it’s possible that I have been misinformed, but my impression was that thumbs, and in fact entire hands, often get action from young (and even older) men.
(also, Matt Gaetz is quite unattractive. His forehead looks like it’s about to collapse onto his cheekbones, entirely blocking his eyes. So he probably shouldn’t be talking about other people’s looks)
In related thoughts, the manliest guy I know is a Bernie Democrat and the most traditionally masculine republican in my family did not vote for Trump.
Nic (896fdf) — 7/29/2022 @ 2:13 pmThe problem with the migrants in DC is only a failure of the local government to meet its (charitable) commitments, and that because some people are being taken to places where they have no family, and it is sudden.
This will resolve itself, and not by causing more people to die and therefore deter others from coming.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 7/29/2022 @ 2:16 pm@39. Nah. Daughter Darth’s just a desperate, clinging Neocon on her way down to her doom… just like Dr. No:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiX2m7VAIHI
DCSCA (cf871c) — 7/29/2022 @ 2:21 pm28- It is the 3rd LIV Golf Tournament.
mg (8cbc69) — 7/29/2022 @ 2:25 pmhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/redefining-the-r-word-recession-biden-economy-advisers-gdp-nber-semantics-poltics-gramm-rudman-hollings-11658951723
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 7/29/2022 @ 2:33 pmLeftist California congresstrash, Linda Sanchez, gives the middle finger to Republicans on the same site as fellow leftist shot Republican Congressman Steve Scalise.
https://nypost.com/2022/07/29/rep-linda-sanchez-flips-off-gop-dugout-at-congressional-baseball-game/
NJRob (426b8e) — 7/29/2022 @ 2:34 pmThe dc immigration bussing issue shows the problem with the federal system when one state does this to another state or dc. Again showing the problem with the conservative view of limited (legal) action in striking back.
asset (2388a6) — 7/29/2022 @ 2:41 pmKevin, since you’re here, a question: What do you think would be an appropriate punishment for Trump?
Any situation that results in his being barred from politics. Not just running for office, but barred from engaging in political discourse.
This would require him to be convicted of a crime, which could be commuted with conditions, or be charged with one and plead out with a suspended sentence.
I see no purpose in jailing him — his crimes are all seditious and a proper punishment for sedition is STFU.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/29/2022 @ 2:47 pmBut if that’s not possible: half-hanged, drawn and quartered.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/29/2022 @ 2:49 pmanything untoward will be met with a Scarface final scene remake
That didn’t work out so well for Scarface.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/29/2022 @ 2:52 pmI want the people who broke the law supporting his plan prosecuted as well.
Time123 (4dba4b) — 7/29/2022 @ 2:53 pm@46: I’d have my pitcher throw behind her head.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/29/2022 @ 2:55 pmIf trump gets an all black jury in d.c. (if no change of venue) conviction possible ;but trumpsters and the states they control would not put up with that. This is why system is reluctant for political show trials.
asset (2388a6) — 7/29/2022 @ 3:05 pmNJ Rob:
Scalise was shot at a practice in Alexandria, VA, not Nationals Park in south DC. And she didn’t unleash the middle finger until she had passed by 1/2 of the players…she either heard a moo sound from someone in particular or saw Mayra Flores or Mike Garcia (R vendidos in her view).
Bad enough shes probably always been the fat sister to marginally attractive and down to flick Loretta Sanchez.
urbanleftbehind (289742) — 7/29/2022 @ 3:14 pmThe SCOTUS leaker keeps leaking– this time, hot gas out the aft end of his service module:
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito defends abortion ruling, slams critics at religious event
July 29 (UPI) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, a conservative member of the court and the one who wrote the ruling last month that struck down legalized abortion nationwide, defended the decision and slammed world leaders who opposed it in a keynote speech in Italy.
Alito was the one who penned the decision striking down Roe vs. Wade in a related Mississippi case on June 24, and was the author of the draft that leaked to the press in May that indicated the high court would overturn the 49-year-old landmark law. In a keynote address in Rome that was put on by the University of Notre Dame Law School, the 72-year-old justice who was appointed to the seat by former President George W. Bush in 2006 defended the ruling and took aim at critics, including Britain’s Prince Harry and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
The 35-minute speech at the religious liberty summit last week featured Alito’s first public remarks since the highly controversial abortion ruling last month. Alito criticized Johnson for denouncing the ruling as a “big step backwards” and seemed to imply that the leader’s opinion on the matter had something to do with his resignation this month. “I had the honor this term of writing I think the only Supreme Court decision in the history of that institution that has been lambasted by a whole string of foreign leaders who felt perfectly fine commenting on American law,” Alito said at the summit, which was help on July 21.
“One of these was former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, but he paid the price.” At times, the bearded Alito turned to sarcasm in his commentary — especially in his remarks about Prince Harry, who warned in a speech at United Nations headquarters in New York City this month of “the rolling back of constitutional rights here in the U.S.,” which he said contributed to “a painful year in a painful decade.” Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle moved to California a couple years ago after resigning from their royal duties. “What really wounded me, what really wounded me,” Alito said sarcastically, “was when the Duke of Sussex addressed the United Nations and seemed to compare the decision … with the Russian attack on Ukraine. “Despite this temptation I am not going to talk about cases from other countries.”
Throughout much of the speech, the Catholic Alito championed religious rights and warned about the decline of faith in America, where he said “hostility to religion” is becoming more evident. “The problem that looms is not just the indifference to religion, it’s not just ignorance about religion,” he said. “There’s also growing hostility to religion, or at least the traditional religious beliefs that are contrary to the new moral code that is ascendant in some sectors.”
Alito and other conservative members of the Supreme Court were heavily criticized at the end of their term last month for multiple highly divisive rulings, such as the abortion decision and others that struck down a gun safety law in New York and gutted the federal government’s authority to restrict climate-changing greenhouse carbon emissions. The rulings, plus another that gave teachers the right to pray on school grounds, were widely seen as major victories for conservatives and religious rights supporters.’ – https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2022/07/29/abortion-samuel-alito-speech-supreme-court/7661659093955/
A zealous, byzantine, be-robed Catholic in ancient Rome; kissing other be-robed butts in the cult; maybe a ring or two– and singing the ‘Vatican Rag’… hit it, Tom:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvhYqeGp_Do
DCSCA (9d864e) — 7/29/2022 @ 3:23 pmIf trump gets an all black jury in d.c.
Bannon didn’t get much help from MAGA. I was actually surprised he didn’t ask for a bench trial, but then he was planning on a blame-the-cops defense.
Trump probably could not change the venue as nowhere nearby is much better. His best strategy would be to claim entrapment and subpoena Pelosi, Biden and other actors, claiming that they not only allowed the violence to happen, but weakened the police presence to make it more certain.
Doesn’t matter though, he’ll never go to trial. A deal would be cut.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/29/2022 @ 3:39 pmPutting dots together, with scissors:
Xi has a problem. His 2nd term as party boss has not gone well. Covid is bad enough, but China’s Number One customer has decided they’ll buy somewhere else and foreign capital is fleeing. His buddy Putin is fully engaged in pissing off Number One and Number Two customer and asking Xi for help, which he grudgingly gives. Rock, hard place.
Now, he’s crushed Hong Kong, and the flood of capital outward hasn’t yet occurred, but he still needs a big win before Party Congress in a few months.
So, Taiwan. All the world’s semiconductor fabs and all that nice cutting edge equipment that he cannot buy for China. National sovereignty. What could be better for his ascension to Chairman, but a short, victorious war.
And here comes Nancy, right on time. If he plays his cards right, he can attack Taiwan, blame it on Pelosi, and get MAGA in the US to take his side.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/29/2022 @ 3:47 pmSo, if I have an opinion that a private citizen “X” is a child-rapist, and a credulous NBC reporter reports on the Nightly News that “X is a child-rapist”, they”re just quoting my opinion and it’s not actionable?
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/29/2022 @ 4:17 pmThose two sisters attended my high school – after me, thankfully.
Bring back Ed Royce.
Colonel Haiku (b3fab2) — 7/29/2022 @ 4:22 pm2 months in and if the supreme leaker was indeed a Justice, the liberal reporter at Politico who broke the story and published the draft opinion now has kompromat on her or him. That is one heckuva “Get out of Jail Free Card”.
mg (8cbc69) — 7/29/2022 @ 4:43 pmThe problem, I think, is that the rule of decision is Kentucky law and Kentucky does not have a cause of action for false light defamation, if I recall correctly. So even though the media painted Sandmann and the other kids as racists, they could only sue for express defamatory statements asserted as facts, and not the general impression (false light) given out.
nk (77422f) — 7/29/2022 @ 4:44 pmI read an article earlier this week that said that part of the problem was that Sandman himself had written/said that he’s seen Phillips walking in his direction and other people getting out of Phillips way and had decided that he wasn’t going to and stood his ground. IANAL, though, and I don’t know how much that would/wouldn’t affect the case.
Nic (896fdf) — 7/29/2022 @ 5:17 pmMy guess is that the person you name as a child rapist would sue you, not the reporter.
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/29/2022 @ 5:23 pm2 months in and if the supreme leaker was indeed a Conservative Justice, the liberal reporter at Politico who broke the story would have accidentally left her laptop in the MSNBC newsroom.
fify
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/29/2022 @ 5:25 pmBad enough shes probably always been the fat sister to marginally attractive and down to flick Loretta Sanchez.
urbanleftbehind (289742) — 7/29/2022 @ 3:14 pm
Knowing Chicano culture, I’m sure she’s been called a gordita more than once.
Factory Working Orphan (2775f0) — 7/29/2022 @ 5:26 pmMy guess is that the person you name as a child rapist would sue you, not the reporter.
For my opinion that the reporter mistook as fact?
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/29/2022 @ 5:28 pmI’m sure having a “substantial” criminal record didn’t help his case. That, and drawing a hanging judge.
He will have 5.25 years to ponder his actions.
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/29/2022 @ 5:42 pmIt has to be something like that, otherwise we couldn’t say that Trump keeps saying that the election was rigged and stolen.
On the other hand, Dominion Voting Systems’ suit against Fox News is being allowed to proceed on the lies that Fox’s talking heads made up of their own accord and not merely reported as those of third parties.
nk (77422f) — 7/29/2022 @ 5:45 pmI don’t think your analogy is correct; but you could be sued for defamation if you are identified in the story as the source. And calling someone a child rapist is pretty egregious if you don’t have proof, especially if the person is not a public figure.
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/29/2022 @ 5:46 pmIf Sandmann thought he was defamed by Phillips when Phillips said he was “blocked”, he should have sued Phillips. But he didn’t because Phillips didn’t have deep pockets (and that was Phillips’ opinion, which isn’t actionable) but the media companies did. And it turns out reporting Phillips’ opinion isn’t actionable either.
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/29/2022 @ 5:55 pm68. You can’t win a plea. And this guy pleaded guilty. Never plead guilty!
nk (77422f) — 7/29/2022 @ 5:58 pmI don’t think your analogy is correct
Hmm … I stated up front that it was an opinion. Saying “I think he’s a child rapist”, and having a reporter repeat it, isn’t the same as going on Fox and repeating it myself, of course.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/29/2022 @ 6:03 pmHmmm .. fell for the thread hijack.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/29/2022 @ 6:06 pmYou got me, mg.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 7/29/2022 @ 6:20 pmConfucius say Speaker on top of Hill not on level: ‘$$$$ Ka-Ching $$$$’
DCSCA (0ffd97) — 7/29/2022 @ 12:36 pm
Okay. That made me laugh.
norcal (da5491) — 7/29/2022 @ 6:24 pmIt’s an open thread. But not a particularly interesting story.
What’s the stuff of spy novels is the Brittney Griner story.
Let’s understand right off that taking cannabis oil on a plane is a federal crime in America too. (As opposed to hemp oil.)
So what’s the deal? I think Griner is a McGuffin. Our real aim is Paul Whelan whom the Russians are holding as our spy. And the Russians real aim may be Viktor Bout, the arms dealer, as reported; or it could be an FSB assassin in prison in Germany, and Viktor Bout is also a McGuffin.
I see the respective intelligence services not being able to work out a secret swap and throwing it to the politicians and the news media.
nk (77422f) — 7/29/2022 @ 6:27 pm@61. … and he’s just dying to tell you he ordered the Code Red. 😉
DCSCA (5a2a4e) — 7/29/2022 @ 6:40 pmI feel bad for Brittney Griner, but not that bad. As a well traveled person my advice on recreational drugs and travel is: Do not take recreational drugs to foreign countries. Do Not Take Recreational Drugs to Foreign Countries. DO NOT TAKE RECREATIONAL DRUGS TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES!
(also don’t take them across state lines. What happens in your state may not be what happens in the state next door.)
Nic (896fdf) — 7/29/2022 @ 6:40 pmSaying someone is a child rapist or someone “blocked” someone else are two different things. An interesting experiment.
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/29/2022 @ 6:42 pmJonah on Hawley’s Manhood…
To the substance…
Jonah also mentions the Claremont Institute, which is having the same manhood crisis as Hawley.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 7/29/2022 @ 6:54 pmI agree with those who complain that we have a masculinity crisis in this country.
Matt Gaetz sure doesn’t; he’s a ‘Back-To-The-Future’ kinda fella w/an eye for the Cinderella ladies circa 1955 and knows a thumb is a pantsuit is just a fire hydrant by another name for your wolfhound to pee on. 😉
DCSCA (5a2a4e) — 7/29/2022 @ 7:08 pmShortly after 2 p.m. on the day of the insurrection, rioters pulled an Associated Press photographer down a flight of stairs outside the Capitol building, court documents show.
After watching the interaction…….
Physically assaulting someone is now “an interaction”?
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/29/2022 @ 7:42 pmHomosexuals are spreading monkeypox through rampant promiscuity and the CDC won’t tell them to knock it off because “protected class.”
Why should anyone believe a word they say anymore?
NJRob (eb56c3) — 7/29/2022 @ 8:01 pmThe coverup is always worse than the crime.
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/29/2022 @ 8:02 pmSpeaking of Wisconsin, I don’t see how this works post Waukesha Christmas parade. Ron Johnson said he’d vote for the gay marriage bill, so maybe the Tammy Baldwin brigade is content.
urbanleftbehind (29417f) — 7/29/2022 @ 8:22 pmOops.
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/29/2022 @ 8:23 pm“Homosexuals are spreading monkeypox through rampant promiscuity and the CDC won’t tell them to knock it off because “protected class.””
https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/index.html
“Why should anyone believe a word they say anymore?
Why should anyone believe you?
Davethulhu (c93f9f) — 7/29/2022 @ 8:24 pmJohnson is running for reelection (after he said he wouldn’t) so I wouldn’t put too much stock in that. MAGAWorld is not amused.
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/29/2022 @ 8:33 pmTrollthulu,
not a word about homosexual promiscuity though 98% of cases can be traced to them and multiple partners. Why is that?
NJRob (eb56c3) — 7/29/2022 @ 8:49 pmSad!
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/29/2022 @ 8:51 pmhttps://www.theepochtimes.com/twitter-censors-all-content-from-the-epoch-times_4631372.html
The communists cannot allow opposing views to be spoken out loud.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 7/29/2022 @ 8:57 pmNY wants a different name for m0nkey pox?
Schlong COVID
Colonel Haiku (21281a) — 7/29/2022 @ 9:17 pm“Why is that?”
It’s not an STD.
Davethulhu (c93f9f) — 7/29/2022 @ 9:19 pmRussian media roundup:
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/29/2022 @ 9:19 pmBut also:
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/23/cdc-officials-sound-alarm-for-gay-and-bisexual-men-as-monkeypox-spreads-in-community-.html
“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday alerted gay and bisexual men that monkeypox appears to be spreading in the community globally, warning people to take precautions if they have been in close contact with someone who may have the virus and to be on the lookout for symptoms.
Dr. John Brooks, a CDC official, emphasized that anyone can contract monkeypox through close personal contact regardless of sexual orientation. However, Brooks said many of the people affected globally so far are men who identify as gay or bisexual. Though some groups have greater chance of exposure to monkeypox right now, the risk isn’t limited only to the gay and bisexual community, he cautioned.”
Davethulhu (c93f9f) — 7/29/2022 @ 9:24 pmMany California donors, including Hollywood and Silicon Valley moguls, vehemently disagree with most of Cheney’s policies but applaud her fight against former President Trump’s false claim that he won the 2020 election.
who believes this bullsh*t?
if Liz were running against James McGovern, or any of the other democrats who tried to deny 2016 electoral votes for Trump, every donation would go to McGovern
they support Liz cuz she helps democrats, and if there’s one thing Californians of every political stripe are good at it’s getting Democrats elected
JF (a6d404) — 7/29/2022 @ 10:29 pm@93 twitter is not the communist party. It is capitalism in action. Find a need fill it get paid for it. You are free to start your own twitter and there are no communists to shoot you for doing it.
asset (2855d2) — 7/29/2022 @ 11:12 pmMAGAWorld is not amused.
MAGAWorld: Electing Democrats since 2018.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/29/2022 @ 11:42 pmDO NOT TAKE RECREATIONAL DRUGS TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES!
It was bad enough bringing two cases of Cuban Cohibas into the US, back in the day.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/29/2022 @ 11:44 pmnot a word about homosexual promiscuity though 98% of cases can be traced to them and multiple partners. Why is that?
HIV stared the exact same way. And the band played on.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/29/2022 @ 11:46 pmIt’s not an STD.
In the sense that it is not only transmitted that way. But wait, neither is HIV then.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/29/2022 @ 11:47 pmToo bad Twitter’s “savior” has bailed on the deal.
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/29/2022 @ 11:49 pmHypocrisy in action:
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/30/2022 @ 12:02 amIs Griner Californian?
mg (8cbc69) — 7/30/2022 @ 2:50 amPaul – Henrik Stenson and Patrick Reed lead after 1 round at – 7.
mg (8cbc69) — 7/30/2022 @ 2:56 amhttps://twitter.com/mcmoynihan/status/1552303845048569856
In 1997 90% of black teens said racism had little to no effect on their lives. Then the leftist, racial grievance industry got busy.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 7/30/2022 @ 5:24 amHIV stared the exact same way. And the band played on.
Monkeypox! They don’t want to say it straight out!
That it is homosexual male sex tourists with a yen for foreign matter who travel to sh!tholes, contract it from male prostitutes, and bring it back to the First World where it is passed on to the general population through casual contact. By handshake or just by boarding the same elevator depending on the number of exuded from the infected person.
A disease for which almost nobody under the age of 50 has been vaccinated. To get the younger people Covid could not get.
nk (7a97bf) — 7/30/2022 @ 6:03 amnumber of *virons* exuded from the infected person
nk (7a97bf) — 7/30/2022 @ 6:04 amhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11063829/Baby-Formula-crisis-starts-getting-WORSE-parents-accuse-Biden-forgetting-them.html
The American media is no longer reporting on the fact that parents cannot find formula to feed their babies. I wonder why that is?
NJRob (056bf7) — 7/30/2022 @ 7:33 amNo, she is from Texas.
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/30/2022 @ 7:37 amSecond news item
Yet another case of disappearing text messages:
the people who care about this are the same people who didn’t care about cell phones entirely wiped clean by Weissmann and crew
JF (a6d404) — 7/30/2022 @ 7:46 amIn 1997 90% of black teens said racism had little to no effect on their lives. Then the leftist, racial grievance industry got busy.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 7/30/2022 @ 5:24 am
It was already busy, in the sense that this stuff had been making its way through academia for several years by that point. I went through grad school around the time of that article, and had to slog through question-begging discourses on “whiteness” as part of the curriculums.
I suppose its possible that it might not have broken out in to the mainstream given how esoteric most academic studies are, but the 2000 election and the Iraq war catalyzed a lot of classroom radicalization by the Boomer college professors that were finishing out their careers, and the Gen-X and Millennial students who took their places in the professor chairs are even more leftist than those guys were.
That article is notable because I distinctly remember it appeared we were finally on the cusp of entering a legitimate post-racial society during that time, where, for the most part, no one except a marginal group of racist cranks cared what skin color you were as long as you worked hard, followed the rules, and treated people decently. That pretty much got blown to hell in the 2000s.
Factory Working Orphan (2775f0) — 7/30/2022 @ 7:58 amTrump is very passive-aggressive, threatening bold actions (firing the acting Attorney General; threatening to send the National Guard to Portland in 2020; appointing Sidney Powell to investigate election “fraud”; marching to the Capitol) and failing to follow through and blame others. A tough leader makes the tough calls.
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/30/2022 @ 8:04 amPoll top lines.
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/30/2022 @ 8:12 amSomeone is having the shock of their life this morning.
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/30/2022 @ 8:18 am“Josh Hawley is writing a book called Manhood”
I’m sure the strongman admirers among us can’t wait to get their tiny hands on Hawley’s Manhood, though I fear that doing-the-right-thing in the face of considerable opposition will not figure prominently in the book. I am curious if there will be an entire chapter on the manliness of fleet-footed retreat in response to an advancing hoarde.
Still, I’m eager to see how Hawley might frame manliness and the role of such virtues as character, dignity, honesty, courage, modesty, and responsibility. Or will we see a defense of the profane, crudity, and self-interested conquest. How will Manhood handle Trump and leadership? Alas, I will have to wait for someone else to inspect Hawley’s Manhood and determine if it stands up to critical review. As of now, he appears to only have an incidental and distant relationship with the topic…..
AJ_Liberty (dfbf73) — 7/30/2022 @ 8:41 amRelated:
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/30/2022 @ 8:41 amWould someone with a subscription to the WSJ give us the gist of Rove’s column on Trump fund raising, please?
(Enough so that we know the conclusion, but not enough to violate copyright laws.)
Jim Miller (406a93) — 7/30/2022 @ 8:47 amand anyway, according to Cheney’s new friends and donors, Hawley is clearly unqualified to write a book on manhood cuz he isn’t a biologist nor was his name Joanne a year ago
JF (a6d404) — 7/30/2022 @ 9:04 amthreatening to send the National Guard to Portland in 2020;
How would that specifically have been a “bold action”? Presidents throughout US history have used military authority, both in fact and in threat, to enforce laws, keep peace, and protect government property in drastic times. Washington in the Whiskey Rebellion, Harding during Blair Mountain, Eisenhower at Little Rock, LBJ at Detroit, and Bush during the LA riots. Considering the Soros-funded, Antifa-aligned Multnomah County DA was playing catch-and-release with the rioters, National Guard intervention should have been the least Trump did in response to what was going on there.
Factory Working Orphan (2775f0) — 7/30/2022 @ 9:06 amI am curious if there will be an entire chapter on the manliness of fleet-footed retreat in response to an advancing hoarde.
Perhaps the chapter will be based on the neocons’ decades-long flight in terror from the cultural horde of the MTV crowd and left-wing activists from 1990-2015.
Factory Working Orphan (2775f0) — 7/30/2022 @ 9:13 amWhat’s the latest from Portlandistan, you say?
this is really amazingly compassionate and altruistic on a certain level, but maybe there’s a reason why kids and young families aren’t mentioned in the story
they probably fled this block a long time ago
JF (a6d404) — 7/30/2022 @ 9:48 am@115: Of course, had Trump gone to the Capitol and exhorted his followers, and it failed to put him back in power, it would have been a quick impeachment and indictment for treason.
And, of course, had it succeeded, none would dare call it treason.
But it could not succeed. Power is too distributed, it would all play out on TV so lying about it wouldn’t be easy. And the armed forces are not blindly obedient to the guy at the top.
As someone who watched all of this unfold, the moment the crowd breached the building the Rubicon was crossed. Had Trump crossed it himself, there would be no turning back. Treason either prospered, or all would call it treason.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/30/2022 @ 10:08 amWould someone with a subscription to the WSJ give us the gist of Rove’s column on Trump fund raising, please?
It’s a dollar a week if you know how to ask.
But anyway, Rove is complaining that Trump is sitting on $121 million in campaign cash and spending very little. Apparently, he cannot use it for a 2024 presidential run unless he announces before the midterms, something the GOP establishment wouldn’t tolerate. So far he’s spent less than $1 million on current candidates combined.
Rove wants him to loose the cash in favor of candidates that are struggling, such as JD Vance in solid red Ohio.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/30/2022 @ 10:20 amRip Murdock (726b13) — 7/30/2022 @ 8:04 am
this happened, like vote fraud in maricopa county happened
JF (a6d404) — 7/30/2022 @ 10:26 amI’d skip on last meal for an up close glimpse, but Alabama don’t play around unless you can lug a football:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11062013/Alabama-reporter-told-LEAVE-execution-officials-complained-skirt-SHORT.html
urbanleftbehind (10609c) — 7/30/2022 @ 10:44 amFlorida; home of Little Marco and this angry plastic boob:
DeSantis to legacy media: You are not welcomed here
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/desantis-legacy-media-not-welcomed-100143311.html
Now you know why they’re called ‘falsies.’ Leave media bashing and streetwalking to smiling, entertaiining professionals, like The Donald, ‘boobie.’
DCSCA (990a3d) — 7/30/2022 @ 10:58 am115,126. If Trump could manage a coup, he would not need a coup. He would more easily have managed his reelection.
Maybe he could use that as a defense, like Sammy is always claiming. He did not conduct a coup. He wailed loudly for a coup: “Mommy! Daddy! I want a coup! I want a coup! I want a coup! Mommy!” But Santa (Russian Christmas is on January 7) did not bring him one.
Trump is what he is, it’s his followers who perplex me. This is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States, the commander-in-chief, to many the most powerful man in the world, sniveling constantly that he could not keep his reelection from being rigged and stolen. And they still believe in him. Unbelievable!
nk (7a97bf) — 7/30/2022 @ 11:23 amContinetti is right, every single word. This…
And he’s right about Biden’s anemic reaction.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 7/30/2022 @ 11:57 amWhat vote fraud? What’s your proof?
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 7/30/2022 @ 12:00 pm#126 Kevin – Thanks for the info on the Rove column. (I’ve thought of getting one of those dollar a week WSJ subscriptions, but have too much to read already. I believe Amazon will sell you e-singles for some newspapers, but haven’t checked recently.
Jim Miller (406a93) — 7/30/2022 @ 12:06 pmThis could be a reason why Russians produced their mockworthy “come to Russia” video.
That’s a serious brain drain.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 7/30/2022 @ 12:07 pmBreaking- Biden tests positive for Covid again, will restart isolation despite no new symptoms
President Joe Biden tested positive for Covid-19 once again after consecutive days of testing negative for the virus, his physician said. Biden is experiencing no new symptoms and “continues to feel quite well,” Dr. Kevin O’Connor said in a memo shared by the White House. But he will nevertheless “reinitiate strict isolation procedures,” the presidential physician wrote. – CNBC.com
Has his damn dog been tested????
Translation: sickly, befuddled old POTUS is now conveniently unavailable to be pounded by America’s press for deliberately lying about recession and everything else he’s gotten wrong and unable to go one-up Xi and replace Nancy to risk his near 80 year old ass gonig to Taiwan.
Memo to Xi: ‘Taiwan’ on, kid- the island is your for the taking. Memo to Vlad- flood Texas w/illegals and install nuke-tipped missiles in Central America. Nobody is home to block either of you– or blink.
DCSCA (990a3d) — 7/30/2022 @ 12:15 pm51 years ago today, July 30, 1971: when America was truly was great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxqKlDsgMzc&t=757s
“The Falcon is on the plain at Hadley.”
DCSCA (990a3d) — 7/30/2022 @ 12:20 pmBiden tests positive for COVID-19, returns to isolation
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 again Saturday, slightly more than three days after he was cleared to exit coronavirus isolation, the White House said, in a rare case of “rebound” following treatment with an anti-viral drug. – AP.com
Rare? Fauci double-dipped. So he’s been a ‘Typhoid Mary’ to anybody around him for the past 72 hours.
“I’m not going to shut down the country. I’m not going to shut down the economy. I’m going to shut down the virus.” – Squinty McStumblebum, 10/30/20
Why don’t you just take ‘the bug’ behind the gymnasium, Joey. Give it a good ‘corn-popping.’ Oh. Right. The bug would beat your sorry old ass into the ground.
Idiot.
DCSCA (990a3d) — 7/30/2022 @ 12:37 pmDCSCA
America is a great country not just back in 1971
Waverly Tn 2020 poor area flooded houses destroyed – 2 semi trailers of food, clothes building materials every week for the last 2 years are distributed free in the parking lot of the local Walmart – by some to this day is unknown
Il 2022 in a recent mass shooting a 2-year-old lost both his parents Millions went to a go fund, me page the grandparents spread it around the other victims families
I got about 567,000 more examples
Space is great – people are greater
EPWJ (89cf50) — 7/30/2022 @ 12:50 pm@138. An empire in decline that has to keep telling itself and the world it’s great through words, not deeds…
isn’t.
DCSCA (854e86) — 7/30/2022 @ 1:02 pmWhat vote fraud? What’s your proof?
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 7/30/2022 @ 12:00 pm
it’s somewhere near the rainbow colored unicorn, next to the proof that trump staged a coup
JF (a6d404) — 7/30/2022 @ 1:03 pm@1238. Il 2022 in a recent mass shooting a 2-year-old lost both his parents Millions went to a go fund, me page the grandparents spread it around the other victims families
FYI – don’t tell me about something I sadly know far too much about already. And BTW, The HP funds are running out of $ already– and there are scammers at work in Illinois trying to steal $ away from victims/survivors.
DCSCA (854e86) — 7/30/2022 @ 1:05 pmit’s somewhere near the rainbow colored unicorn, next to the proof that trump staged a coup
Actually, it’s parked between Joey’s gas-guzzling Corvette and the Tomb of the Covid Virus he shut down.
DCSCA (854e86) — 7/30/2022 @ 1:07 pmJF, how many fraudulent votes have they found so far? Lmao.
Time123 (fb9b72) — 7/30/2022 @ 2:03 pmNo one cares if joebama has covid but It would be mighty patriotic of joebama to get his head checked.
mg (8cbc69) — 7/30/2022 @ 2:08 pmso far, more fraudulent votes than trump indictments
JF (a6d404) — 7/30/2022 @ 2:09 pmDouble Vaxxed, Double Boosted, Loaded with Paxlovid, Joe needs a shrink.
mg (8cbc69) — 7/30/2022 @ 2:17 pmBiden’s popularity goes up when he is in isolation and kept from public interaction. Look for him to have COVID now, through the 2024 elections.
mg (8cbc69) — 7/30/2022 @ 2:25 pmand beyond….
So either he lied about testing negative or those vaccines are worthless.
mg (8cbc69) — 7/30/2022 @ 2:27 pm@145 Got a number? Because they’ve gotten hundreds of indictments a against the scumbags that assaulted the capital.
time123 (25ac8d) — 7/30/2022 @ 2:29 pmYes, nk, this:
They can make no defense for him, they know he’s a bad person, a corrupt and amoral individual, and yet they can’t quit him. I guess I wonder what they’re getting that keeps them loyal to him. There are only deflections and what aboutisms in response to the question. Nothing substantive, nothing that would merit their loyalty. It’s a sad one-sided relationship where people are being used by him, lied to by him, and yet they keep saying more.
Dana (1225fc) — 7/30/2022 @ 2:38 pmI’ve been catching up on Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
Russia’s latest atrocity is castrating POW’s on camera and sharing the videos online. I’m not going to link for obvious reasons.
Russia really is getting desperate.
So far they’ve seized contested territory.
In exchange they’ve
-Alienated much of the world and become a pariah state.
-Pushed Finland and Sweden into Nato.
-Created a reason for a permanent US military base in Poland.
-Killed a lot of Russian soldiers and destroyed a lot of equipment.
-Seen western powers ship advanced arms into Ukraine as fast as the locals can learn to use them.
-Exposed the weakness of their military and the weapons systems.
-Seen orders for Russian weapons to other countries shrink.
-Demonstrated that their military culture, in addition to be vile, is ineffective.
-Seen one of their capital ships sunk in the black sea.
I hope this ends quickly with their defeat and serves as a cautionary example to authoritarian dictators elsewhere that you can’t successfully re-draw international borders with a gun.
thanks for listening to my TED talk.
time123 (25ac8d) — 7/30/2022 @ 2:38 pm@146. Double Vaxxed, Double Boosted, Loaded with Paxlovid, Joe needs a shrink.
.. and now, w/t DNC, on double-secret probation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUUzA56zG2U&t=1s
“You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations,” – Joe Biden, July 21, 2021 And he catches Covid. Twice. With apologies to Dean Wormer, Endlessly wrong, hair-sniffing creepy and sh-t-shoveling stupid is no way to go through life, son’.
Please predict it will never, ever rain in California again, Joe.
DCSCA (da0503) — 7/30/2022 @ 2:40 pmI have 2 posts caught in moderation if any of the mods have a chance to dig them out.
Time123 (fb9b72) — 7/30/2022 @ 2:49 pmThe question of whether Pelosi should go to Taiwan is an interesting one. I thought she should go and make a plain stand against Xi and his oppressive dictatorship. It would call his bluff, show China we won’t back down, show support for Tawian before the world, and reassert America’s strength and power. But then I read Allahpundit’s reasons against it, and now I’m torn:
And I would also throw in that I believe Pelosi’s visit would indeed ratchet up Xi’s anger enough to invade sooner rather than later. And unfortunately, the Taiwanese are not in a position to push back much more than just a little. And since Biden promised to defend Taiwan if China invades, our military could be drawn in.
Dana (1225fc) — 7/30/2022 @ 2:51 pmTime123 @ 153,
Done.
Dana (1225fc) — 7/30/2022 @ 2:53 pmThank you Dana. I appreciate it.
Time123 (fb9b72) — 7/30/2022 @ 2:56 pmIn addition to the castration and murder of a Ukrainian POW, the Russian fascist invaders bombed a prison, murdering dozens of Ukrainian POWs, another obvious and blatant war crime. It was a “happy coincidence, none of the Russian guards were killed or injured.”
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 7/30/2022 @ 3:12 pmThe Russian Embassy in UK practically cheered on their war criminal countrymen.
It has little to do with Trump for me, it is how I’ve been played by the richard cranium hacks in law, gubmint, medical, pharmaceutical, military, media and on and on.
mg (8cbc69) — 7/30/2022 @ 3:19 pmMy weekly report from the Washington Post on COVID: Seven day averages: Cases are up to 130,045 (+3.3%), hopitalizations are up to 44,028 (+1.3%), and deaths slightly down to 434 (-0.2%). So, the good news is that only about 3,000 of our fellow Americans died of COVID this last week.
Some think these deaths are not worth our notice, because they are occurring predominately among those who choose not to get vaccinated, or take other precautions. I disagree.
Jim Miller (406a93) — 7/30/2022 @ 3:28 pmGot a number? Because they’ve gotten hundreds of indictments a against the scumbags that assaulted the capital.
time123 (25ac8d) — 7/30/2022 @ 2:29 pm
the number of those scumbags charged with a coup are zero
so, yeah
maybe you need to read the comment I was responding to
JF (a6d404) — 7/30/2022 @ 3:46 pmRussia really is getting desperate.
Time123, when do you think russia will throw in the towel?
So far they’ve seized contested territory.
In exchange they’ve
you forgot:
JF (a6d404) — 7/30/2022 @ 3:57 pm– caused inflation
– caused a recession that we can’t call a recession
– doubled gas prices
– caused supply chain issues
– caused a market crash
– caused covid
– caused monkeypox
– caused a baby formula shortage
– caused homelessness
– caused an uptick in crime
– caused border chaos
– caused the LIV tour
– caused the drought
– caused an approval rating below Uvalde cops
The point is that Trump made the threat but failed to follow through.
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/30/2022 @ 4:15 pmThe number charged with seditious conspiracy Is 16 (so far): five Proud Boys and eleven Oath Keepers.
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/30/2022 @ 4:25 pmJim,
still see you posting constantly on the virus of Wuhan origin, but not a word about Fauci lying under oath or the agency admitting they funded gain of function research overseas.
Why is that?
NJRob (eb56c3) — 7/30/2022 @ 4:31 pmNever gonna happen.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 7/30/2022 @ 4:32 pmRip Murdock (726b13) — 7/30/2022 @ 4:15 pm
Rip, sounds like you’re upset that trump isn’t actually the authoritarian fascist thug president you keep telling us he is
JF (a6d404) — 7/30/2022 @ 4:38 pm@164 Jim has a covid porn addiction
be kind, NJRob
JF (a6d404) — 7/30/2022 @ 4:42 pmSo, I got Covid, Biden got Covid, Fauci got Covid. We all took Paxlovid and we all had a negative test after a few days, finished the 5 day regiment, and then a few days later tested positive again.
Pfizer calls this “rare” but from where I sit, it’s three out of three. And in my case I was not asymtomatic either time.
The 5-day regimen is too short.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/30/2022 @ 4:50 pmDana
ISS is an institute like Janes that carries a running inventory of the war making capabilities of variouus countries. Read the massive weapon systems that the Taiwanese have.
from my copy Taiwan has from page 301:
tanks:
565 Main battle tanks upgraded to brave tiger – a ultra high tech turret with the best 120mm tank cannon – able to engage and destroy 4 miles out any tank in the world including the M1A3
ANTI TANK WEAPONS:
325 TOW UNITS (THE USA HAS LESS)
estimated 1500 manpats
Recoilless rifles: 1200
ARTILLERY: 2093
53 6IN Automatic naval guns
14 8IN Automatic naval guns
225 1M09 with 48 and 72 more being delivered (the best artillery in the world)
450 155M towed
thousands of motars
HELICOPTERS 112 COBRA AND APACHE
NAVY 26 DESTROYERS AND FRIGATES
44 MISSILE BOATS
34 ARMED PCGC
AIRFORCE 478 FIRST LINE FIGHTER/BOMBERS
MISSILES
199 LONG RANG STEALTH EMP CAPABLE SUB ATOMIC Moab’s
these will take out fleets, cripple industrial parks, obliterate refineries – they cannot be intercepted
650 anti naval missiles – with self guidance
300 patriot – 4900 other area anti aircraft missiles
they have 88,000 army 14500 marines 45000 airforce
24 hr reserves – 40,000 72 hrs 250,000
Even without our help the CCP has as much chance of conquering Taiwan as I have winning arguments
EPWJ (89cf50) — 7/30/2022 @ 4:54 pmI’m not upset about anything, I’m just pointing out he proposes bold actions but doesn’t follow through. One might call him a loser.
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/30/2022 @ 4:54 pmIf Trump could manage a coup, he would not need a coup. He would more easily have managed his reelection.
I cannot argue with that. His message could have been: “Folks, go down and vote early! Get one of those mail in ballots and mail it in. DO NOT WAIT until the last minute, or we might lose.”
But it wasn’t.
Showing up sober for the first debate might have helped, too.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/30/2022 @ 4:55 pmI have 2 posts caught in moderation if any of the mods have a chance to dig them out.
Yet all of DCCCP’s posts come through.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/30/2022 @ 5:00 pm@170: The problem is that Taiwan cannot replace those weapons (or ammunition) quickly. They have limited manpower. China can make weapons and ammunition as they go, and can probably make more soldiers at a sustainable rate as well.
A war between China and Taiwan would be one of attrition and one that China must win, absent military allies like the US.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/30/2022 @ 5:06 pmKevin
China relies on foreign chips – no new airplanes, ship weapon systems, tanks – it took china 25 years to build an invasion force that would be sunk in minutes.
The Taiwanese have 200 huge sub atomic MOABS even if 75% are intercepted these 50 will destroy the power grid and refineries
Not going to happen
EPWJ (89cf50) — 7/30/2022 @ 5:20 pm@173. Hmmm. As do yours… 27 of 175 so far. Dribble before you shoot, eh, Kev. 😉
DCSCA (3588e4) — 7/30/2022 @ 5:22 pmThe Taiwanese people don’t care and the Army is a joke.
I wonder if those opposed to our involvement with Ukraine will as vociferous in opposing much deeper US involvement in defending Taiwan. Taiwan is second only to Israel in its influence on Congress. I’m sure the Senate Minority Leader won’t have a problem sending US troops to Taiwan.
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/30/2022 @ 5:23 pmHey Rob, here’s some more grist for your outrage mill. How dare they?
lurker (cd7cd4) — 7/30/2022 @ 5:26 pmChina Holds Live-Fire Drills Near Taiwan as Pelosi Heads to Asia
“(Bloomberg) — China held live-fire military drills in the Taiwan Strait on Saturday as US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi prepared to arrive in Asia. The exercises took place off the coast of Fujian province opposite Taiwan. A warning issued by the local maritime safety agency said the drills would be conducted near Pingtan, a county about 130 kilometers (81 miles) from Hsinchu city across the strait in northwestern Taiwan. It was the first live-fire drill announced by the agency in at least a year.
Pelosi on Friday said she’s “very excited” about the prospect of an upcoming trip to Asia, while refusing to confirm any of her itinerary — including whether she’ll visit Taiwan. Reports that her travel would include a stop in Taiwan had sparked a furious reaction in China, which regards the self-governing island as part of its territory.
Beijing has warned there will be consequences if Pelosi visits, including a defense ministry statement that implied China might use military force in response. She was scheduled to depart Friday, according to people familiar with her plans. “The Chinese mainland will definitely put up a sturdy fight to the end to thwart Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, without fear of any escalation,” Hu Xijin, a hawkish commentator and former editor-in-chief of the Communist Party’s Global Times newspaper, said in an editorial for the publication. The US and Taiwan “must fully understand that the red line is a high-voltage one that they cannot step on,” he said. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed Taiwan at length on Thursday in a more than two-hour phone call. The island is the biggest flash point in the relationship between Beijing and Washington.
Neither side said in statements whether Pelosi’s possible Taiwan stop came up. But a person familiar with the discussion said Xi made clear to Biden how big a problem it would be for Pelosi to visit Taiwan — and Biden made clear to Xi that Pelosi makes her own decisions as speaker, and that he can’t control another branch of government… About a third of the population of Pelosi’s district in San Francisco is of Asian ancestry, and she said that “as a West Coast person, we see that as our home, we’re part of that as well.” ” – bloombergnews.com
DCSCA (3588e4) — 7/30/2022 @ 5:29 pmThe point is that Trump made the threat but failed to follow through.
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/30/2022 @ 4:15 pm
So you’re getting in a lather about something that other Presidents have done in similar situations, but didn’t actually happen?
Factory Working Orphan (2775f0) — 7/30/2022 @ 5:57 pmWas that supposed to mean something?
Or was that your attempt to squirrel and distract since you cannot defend or excuse the left for once?
NJRob (fbe422) — 7/30/2022 @ 5:58 pmI’m not upset about anything, I’m just pointing out he proposes bold actions but doesn’t follow through. One might call him a loser.
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/30/2022 @ 4:54 pm
Sounds more like you’re talking out of both sides of your mouth in this instance.
Factory Working Orphan (2775f0) — 7/30/2022 @ 5:59 pmI think we could all use a laugh, and I’ve had much laughter recently with my 90-year-old mother. This is one of her stories.
My mother had a front row seat to the most infamous Mormon mission of all time, which was the Paris, France mission in the late 50s. She was a missionary there from 1957 to 1959. While she was there, she started sympathizing with William Tucker, a fellow missionary who was conducting a mission within the mission–he persuaded several other missionaries to adopt his version of fundamentalist Mormonism, which included polygamy.
It became a big scandal. Top brass from Salt Lake City went over and excommunicated several of the missionaries, including Tucker. Fortunately, my mother didn’t go beyond sympathizing, so she managed to avoid excommunication. (She also passed the loyalty test by assenting that the President of the official Mormon church was the prophet of God. The guilty missionaries would not similarly assent.)
My mother maintained her interest in polygamy even after her mission, and talked to her brother about it. This uncle was an English professor at BYU (Mitt Romney was one of his students), and was a very learned and funny man.
He tried to dissuade my mother from engaging in polygamy, and told her it was immoral for a man to have more than one woman. My mother wanted to emphasize that this was not a man having an affair, but having extra wives. She said, “But how can it be adultery if it’s with your wife?”
My uncle, ever the comedian, and whose marriage was rather dull and unhappy, said, “That’s what I’d like to know!”
Later, after marrying my father, my mother again expressed a wish to be a plural wife. My dad said no. Go figure.
My mother never got her wish of living polygamy, and no longer believes in it, but you can’t fault her for lack of effort.
norcal (da5491) — 7/30/2022 @ 6:08 pmI would have supported using federal troops in Portland to end the protests. I saw them keeping the peace twice in Los Angeles.
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/30/2022 @ 6:26 pm“For once?” I challenge you to show where I ever, outside your florid imagination, defended or excused the left.
I’ll wait.
…
*crickets*
…
Thought so.
No Rob, as I believe was obvious I was poking fun at your incessant and comically aggrieved outrage. I’m old enough to remember when self-respecting conservatives would be embarrassed to be seen bathing in such abject victimhood.
lurker (cd7cd4) — 7/30/2022 @ 6:48 pmHere is the full episode:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=hBzHMpPS5Kg
For those with limited time, here is the punchline:
BuDuh (340919) — 7/30/2022 @ 6:50 pmhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=p8rOKw1FTX0
I told you so this would happen.
Becas=use they stopped the treatment after five days. They won’t deviate from the protocol.
I mentioned Fauci.
No, he’s probably not contagious. The Covid tests are extremely sensitive.
Sammy Finkelman (b7dc9b) — 7/30/2022 @ 6:50 pmhttps://twitter.com/JosephWulfsohn/status/1553274816144228352
So first we had trashy Congressthing Linda Sanchez giving the middle finger to her peers and now we have another Congressthing cursing out a citizen.
Heck of a group on the left. But let’s keep going with the circular firing squad.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 7/30/2022 @ 6:52 pmNJRob (eb56c3) — 7/30/2022 @ 4:31 pm
It depends on the meaning of the phrase “gain of function”
Fauci said that meant making a virus more ifective to humans, not taking a virus that didn’t infect people at all and mutating it so that it coulld infect people.
Sammy Finkelman (b7dc9b) — 7/30/2022 @ 6:54 pmVictimhood? Acknowledging that race problems are created out of whole cloth by the left to keep minorities under their thumb and divide the nation so they can loot and plunder it. And you just try and troll and distract. Pathetic. Troll.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 7/30/2022 @ 6:56 pmHe lied under oath. No arguing what the “definition of is is.”
If he was Trump he’d be brought up on charges already.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 7/30/2022 @ 6:57 pmhttps://therightscoop.com/busted-blatant-propagandists-cnn-caught-red-handed-deliberately-sowing-hate-and-smearing-entire-town-as-racist/
Leftist media lies and race baits to sow discord.
But Lurker just says I’m stirring outrage and tries to ignore what they actually did.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 7/30/2022 @ 7:03 pmNo Rob, as I believe was obvious I was poking fun at your incessant and comically aggrieved outrage. I’m old enough to remember when self-respecting conservatives would be embarrassed to be seen bathing in such abject victimhood.
lurker (cd7cd4) — 7/30/2022 @ 6:48 pm
I’ve noticed that several commenters here are in a constant state of Chicken Little aggrievement and alarmism. They think we are on the highway to hell. They are acutely tuned in to all the extreme things that extremists do, and propose extreme measures (civil war, secession, AOC, Trump) to address them. You see, if we don’t resort to authoritarianism, we’ll fall prey to authoritarianism.
I don’t think they’re bad people. I believe they want what’s best for our country. They just see the world through a very agitated lens. It’s an emotional thing.
They’re always quick to point to the latest outrage, not realizing that the vast majority of people are not extremists.
norcal (da5491) — 7/30/2022 @ 7:08 pmNow do NeverTrump. Come on. You can do it.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 7/30/2022 @ 7:12 pmPaul Montagu (062b7e) — 7/29/2022 @ 12:16 pm & @ 12:20 pm
Isn’t it in English? Maybe to convince whoever paid fr=or t=it that they produced a useful piece of propaganda, y aimed at Russians residing in the United Kingdom.
Isn’t that from Garry Kasparov?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFsAdH6b48Y
Sammy Finkelman (b7dc9b) — 7/30/2022 @ 7:13 pmNorcal,
so you believe race relations are better now than they were 25 years ago? You believe the left isn’t agitating to divide people by race, sex, identity, social status, etc? You believe that the left isn’t more radical and doesn’t want to take away freedoms from America that would’ve been unheard of just 2 decades ago? That leftist institutions believe in free speech and differences of opinions on how to lead?
NJRob (eb56c3) — 7/30/2022 @ 7:14 pmI wonder if those opposed to our involvement with Ukraine will as vociferous in opposing much deeper US involvement in defending Taiwan.
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/30/2022 @ 5:23 pm
i wonder why ukraine war keyboard commando’s don’t care about yemen
unlike ukraine and Yemen, Taiwan has strategic importance to the U.S. given its chip manufacturing
ukraine’s strategic importance is nato scoreboarding and vogue magazine covers, and what else?
JF (a6d404) — 7/30/2022 @ 7:15 pmThey’re always quick to point to the latest outrage, not realizing that the vast majority of people are not extremists.
norcal (da5491) — 7/30/2022 @ 7:08 pm
give them a primetime special to air their outrage and blow off steam, and they might ease off
or, they might get even more aggrieved
let’s see
JF (a6d404) — 7/30/2022 @ 7:18 pmI have no understanding or interest in Arabic tribal politics. If they kill each other, who cares?
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/30/2022 @ 7:21 pmKeeping an expansionist Russia at bay.
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/30/2022 @ 7:23 pmYou believe the left isn’t agitating to divide people by race, sex, identity, social status, etc?
NJRob (eb56c3) — 7/30/2022 @ 7:14 pm
I believe both sides use anything they can to get an edge, including race. Biden did it when he said the Republicans would put black people back in chains. Trump did it when he said a Hispanic judge wouldn’t give him a fair trial.
I used to be all stressed out because I only saw one side of it, but these days I just call BS wherever I see it.
norcal (da5491) — 7/30/2022 @ 7:25 pmI’m sure if China invaded Taiwan you will become a “keyboard commando” In support of intervention.
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/30/2022 @ 7:26 pmKeeping an expansionist Russia at bay.
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/30/2022 @ 7:23 pm
you may as well fear expansionist Mexico
Russia still hasn’t taken Kiev after nearly six months
and six months from now you’ll be saying the same nonsense
JF (a6d404) — 7/30/2022 @ 7:34 pmThe free world would be shaken if Taiwan were to fall into China’s grasp. That’s exactly why Pelosi should go.
San Francisco- or hell; would be a better place for her to go. An 82 year old woman on her way out isn’t goint to rattle Xi– but he may just giver her – and her plane, some flak. =sarc=
No, damnit. The POTUS should go. And a youngert, healthier one would.
Ike went to Korea; LBJ and The Big Dick went to Vietnam; Reagan went to Berlin– and Moscow; Dubya went to Iraq. Biden cowers in his Wilmington bunker. That’s the truth, ‘Jack.’
DCSCA (6b65ac) — 7/30/2022 @ 7:50 pmTaiwan has based its survival on US intervention. Unless the US forward deploys its forces in Taiwan, they will likely arrive too late to prevent an attack by China. It is likely such a war could result in a nuclear exchange.
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/30/2022 @ 7:54 pmIt is likely such a war could result in a nuclear exchange.
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/30/2022 @ 7:54 pm
I doubt it.
norcal (da5491) — 7/30/2022 @ 7:57 pmIt is likely such a war could result in a nuclear exchange.
Nope. Unlikely at all. The Cuban Missile Crisis would have taught you that if you’d lived through it– it sure castrated LeMay’s bloodthirsty desires. MacArthur’s a few years earlier as well; nobody’s going to vaporize anybody over Taiwan any more than Truman was going to make Korea glow in the dark w/t Chinese running amok across the peninsula. Basic geography is working against Taiwan. Ig the PRC wants it- they can taker it. Keeping it and controlling it is the issue. How’s that working in Hong Kong?
DCSCA (a8d3c3) — 7/30/2022 @ 8:16 pmStill waiting for you to back up your baseless assertion that I’m an apologist for the left. I’ve lost track of how many times you’ve name-called, mischaracterized my comments and/or misstated my positions. But sure, I’m the troll.
lurker (cd7cd4) — 7/30/2022 @ 8:21 pmWilling to take that bet?
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/30/2022 @ 8:24 pmLol. You’re so consumed by tribal animosity that you whatabouted norcal’s comment without apparently noticing that he directed it as much at the left as at the right. You’re a hammer in a universe of Leftist/NeverTrump nails, and the nails are closing in! Your obsession with your perceived enemies is every bit as unhinged as theirs (the actual tribal leftists that is, not the moderates, RINOs and other apostates you reflexively lump in with them) is with you. You flatter and need each other. It would be tragic if it wasn’t so dopey.
lurker (cd7cd4) — 7/30/2022 @ 8:37 pmYet again you attempt to distract and change the subject. Proving once again what I said.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 7/30/2022 @ 8:38 pmhttps://www.city-journal.org/in-portland-the-sexual-revolution-starts-in-kindergarten
But so many want to pretend that it’s just politics as usual or they actively support this garbage and attack anyone who speaks out against it or shows people what they are doing.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 7/30/2022 @ 8:48 pmThe Webb Telescope Shows We Don’t Need Astronauts to Explore the Cosmos
We don’t need pilots in airplanes either- military or civilian; who needs crewed ships and subs; nor engineers on trains; and soldiers?? Let the machines go for trhe glory. And in sports– the Jetsons showed us how much fun robotic football teams can be… certainly who needs surgeons- robots can cut you up; driverless cars – that sounds safe. Yes, let the machines live, fight– and never die for us– even have sex for us…sounds like the plot lines for several classic Star Trek episodes.
“People have always gone where they have been able to go. It’s as simple as that.” – Michael Collins, CMP, Apollo 11
DCSCA (40e39f) — 7/30/2022 @ 8:55 pm@212. Postecript; BTW- which robot was it that repaired the Hubble Space Telescope in 1993 on orbit?? Don’t recall its name… Dick Covey, Ken Bowersox, Kathryn Thornton, Story Musgrave, Claude Nicollier, Jeff Hoffman and Tom Akers would like to know, too.
DCSCA (40e39f) — 7/30/2022 @ 9:00 pmThe subject of me defending and apologizing for the left is one that you raised. And you’re the one trying to change it now that you’ve been challenged to produce an iota of evidence in support of your BS accusation.
lurker (cd7cd4) — 7/30/2022 @ 9:06 pmThe real question is how much we really need astronauts to visit other worlds…
Does the WSJ know newspapers are obsolete?
Might want to ask Dave Scott abput astronauts visting other worlds; he landed on the moon at Hadley Rille 51 years ago this very day. And his comments as he first stepped on to the moon:
As I stand out here in the wonders of the unknown at Hadley, I sort of realize there’s a fundamental truth to our nature. Man must explore. And this is exploration at its greatest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gHivrcJ-YY&t=2s
DCSCA (40e39f) — 7/30/2022 @ 9:10 pmHalley’s Comet Could Damage NASA’s $10 Billion Webb Telescope Next Year
Over the next two years the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will fly through dust and debris left in the inner solar system by Halley’s comet. Scientists are working on mitigation solutions right now to avoid a repeat of what happened in May 2022 when the $10 billion space telescope was damaged by a micrometeroid.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2022/07/25/revealed-halleys-comet-could-damage-nasas-10-billion-webb-telescope-next-year/?sh=1d81dbd8566f
DCSCA (755266) — 7/30/2022 @ 9:53 pmGood luck! Don’t let the hatch door hit you in azz on the way out!
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/30/2022 @ 9:55 pm@222. =sigh= Do try to keep up, Rip:
Russia Now Says It Will Stay on International Space Station Until at Least 2028
The head of Russia’s space agency on Tuesday announced the country’s intent to withdraw from the International Space Station after 2024. A day later, Roscosmos officials clarified to NASA that Russia will remain involved with the ISS until at least 2028, according to Reuters.
The year 2028 is when Russia believes a Russian-specific orbital station will be built. NASA, meanwhile, envisions ISS operations continuing until 2030, a goal affirmed by the White House last year. Though after that, in 2031, the agency says it will “deorbit” the station by basically dropping it into the Pacific Ocean.
https://www.cnet.com/science/space/russia-now-says-it-will-stay-on-international-space-station-until-at-least-2028/
DCSCA (755266) — 7/30/2022 @ 9:59 pmWe’ll see.
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/30/2022 @ 10:03 pm@224. We have seen it– since ASTP in 1975. Then into the Shuttle/Soyuz/Mir phase through the 90s on to the ISS assembly and operation. Spaceflight is part of Russian culture, Rip. Not so in America. They’ve been at it longer and more consistently than America’s start-stop-start-stop projects, too. It’s the start/stop and ‘gaps’ by the U.S. that cause the costs to soar in the U.S. aerospace industry. Russia has been flying the same basic rocket and Soyuz spacecraft for over 50 years. As the old VW ad says… ‘It’s ugly. But it gets you there.’
DCSCA (755266) — 7/30/2022 @ 10:13 pmWe’ll see if Russia can have a space program going forward without foreign technology. Even they acknowledge that will be a problem.
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/30/2022 @ 10:36 pmI wonder if those opposed to our involvement with Ukraine will as vociferous in opposing much deeper US involvement in defending Taiwan. Taiwan is second only to Israel in its influence on Congress. I’m sure the Senate Minority Leader won’t have a problem sending US troops to Taiwan.
Of course they will, and by blaming Pelosi and Biden, MAGA will be right there, talking about how Taiwan is corrupt.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/30/2022 @ 11:09 pmMy mother never got her wish of living polygamy, and no longer believes in it, but you can’t fault her for lack of effort.
The way things are going, I suspect some Mormons and Muslims are rethinking their position.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/30/2022 @ 11:11 pmChina relies on foreign chips
China has the tools to make stuff down to 14nm. They just cannot buy the extreme-UV (EUV) machines needed to make features as small as 5nm. But you really don’t need those bleeding-edge devices to make an airplane go. Matter of fact, I very much doubt that any production jet fighter in the world has anything much smaller than 25nm.
Now, if they had Taiwan, and nothing bad happened to those fabs, it would be CHina, not the rest of the world, in the semiconductor driver’s seat.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/30/2022 @ 11:25 pmBecause they stopped the treatment after five days. They won’t deviate from the protocol.
Guy I know got his doctor to prescribe an additional course of Paxlovid due to all the people having rebound. He took it for 8 days and was done.
Here is what I think is going on: The FDA testing to demonstrate safety were for a five-day regimen. With the versions of the virus they had then, five days was enough for almost everyone. With the current, more virulent strains, Paxlovid doesn’t knock them completely out, and the virus comes back before the (very separate) immune system antibodies ramp back up.
But they can’t go past the five days of safety because FDA spank. So, they keep trotting out their 3% statistic from testing against Covid-2020, but its a lie and they all know it.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/30/2022 @ 11:34 pmNow do NeverTrump
Why? Those are the sane people.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/30/2022 @ 11:40 pmThe free world would be shaken if Taiwan were to fall into China’s grasp. That’s exactly why Pelosi should go.
There would be a fairly immediate and world-wide depression. It would be worse than Manhattan being nuked (except for people in Manhattan). People do not understand just how insanely fragile the entire electronics industry has become wrt Taiwan. All our eggs are in that basket.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/30/2022 @ 11:42 pm@227. We’ll see if Russia can have a space program going forward without foreign technology. Even they acknowledge that will be a problem.
It’s an issue in terms of globalization- but not a problem in terms of technology. Engineering, perhaps. It certainly wasn’t an issue for 55 years– starting with Sputnik in 1957. They’ll fly fine– and if they need a partner- China is there; their own Shenzhou is a spacecraft is a knock off of the Russian Soyuz. Worry less about their space program; focus on America’s.
DCSCA (cdf0e2) — 7/31/2022 @ 1:07 am@228. The U.S. has interests in Taiwan; Ukraine… not so much— unless your name is Biden.
There real concern is the POTUS in charge is so incompetent at projecting American power, the perception of weakness alobng w/a history of getting it wrong for decades is now rooted in responses from adversaries. And w/respect to Taiwan, he’s close to putting the U.S. in the position of sh-tting or getting off the pot over strategic ambiguity w/an increasingly strong and defiant China. And Russia now has China’s back on any move. My Marine neighbor war gamed this on Palau last year and indicated the outcome in several scenarios was not favorable for the U.S. Supply chain issues were a significant problem for U.S. support– but Taiwan itself was easily occupied. Basic geography is in their favor as well. But holding it and controlling it will be the real problem. But should Xi makes a move- the suggestions were he’ll succeed initially. So how deeply does the U.S care to commit– and where, be it economic or kinetic will tell the tale. But it’s coming. All the more reason to crater further aid to Ukranne– it’s a waste of reources for the U.S. w/o American interest in play, as in Taiwan.
DCSCA (cdf0e2) — 7/31/2022 @ 1:24 amWilling to take that bet?
Rip Murdock (726b13) — 7/30/2022 @ 8:24 pm
Yes, because if there is a nuclear exchange, you won’t be around to collect on the bet. 😛
norcal (da5491) — 7/31/2022 @ 1:26 amhttps://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2022/07/30/priorities-u-s-military-base-is-hosting-a-drag-show-n1617034
mg (8cbc69) — 7/31/2022 @ 2:56 amOur military is a waste of tax-payer money. Fricking disgusting. And the rinos cheer the diversity. Pathetic.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/07/naming_things.html
mg (8cbc69) — 7/31/2022 @ 3:11 amAnd the legacy republicans are silent. Not a word from McConnell and the Romneycrats.
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2022/07/30/more-pain-for-progressive-das-veteran-chicago-prosecutor-destroys-states-attorney-kim-foxx-in-resignation-letter-n604667
mg (8cbc69) — 7/31/2022 @ 3:18 amThis needs to happen nation wide. The Soros posse owns prosecutors across the country.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/07/31/the-existential-threat/#more-235910
mg (8cbc69) — 7/31/2022 @ 3:21 amIn a nutshell.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2022/07/30/west-coast-messed-coast-yeah-those-mail-in-ballots-are-totally-safe-edition-n1617048
mg (8cbc69) — 7/31/2022 @ 3:28 amand on and on it goes, with no rebuttal from the legacy republicans.
Lurker, that was a hilarious and accurate description of Rob.
Time123 (7c00bf) — 7/31/2022 @ 4:25 amHelping elect leftists including the vegetable currently occupying the Presidency and voting against their own political, social and economic interests is sane? Interesting.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 7/31/2022 @ 5:32 amLurker,
you targeted me to distract from how the left has created racial tensions that don’t exist. When I post how radical the left has become you distract and attack the messenger. That’s how you support the left.
Carry on troll. And join your moby friend in Time123.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 7/31/2022 @ 5:33 amI disagree that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan is either imminent or in the best interest of China.
First, the Chinese economy is strongly dependent on semiconductor chips provided by TSMC in Taiwan (which is itself dependent on chemical inputs from US and US-friendly nations). An invasion could either unintentionally decimate the foundary capabilities or set into play an intentional sabotage of the facilities (this would have to be a priority play for Taiwan). Either scenario cripples the Chinese economy. Even if they can get the fabs reasonably in tact, China would still need to find the steady supply of both raw inputs and highly specialized workers. This operates against China’s long-term desire to have an independent cutting-edge fab capability. The uncertainty of how this plays out is too big of a risk for China to take now as its economy surges and its military capabilties advance.
Taiwan has been investing in China too. There is a mutual dependence that war irritates in uncertain terms. And what precisely would be driving China to take this big risk right now? The Biden-obsessed here always project their own neuroses onto every international situation…where the center of the universe alternates between Washington DC and San Diego (with a healthy hat tip to Moscow).
The long-term US interest is to have the TSMC capability distributed around the globe….perhaps to Japan and, desirably, to the US. Obviously this takes time, huge amounts of money, and a skilled workforce. Of course Taiwan likes its security leverage as is….with forces in Japan, Guam, and Australia seving as a deterrent (with the possibility of the Phillipines as new leadership emerges there).
One could argue that this isn’t fundamentally about the fabs for China. This is about slapping down dissent…and nationalism. Still I think China’s long-term plan takes precedence over political jousting. Maybe in 5 years something changes the dynamic. Right now, everyone loses too much in a military confrontation that still cries out stalemate…..
AJ_Liberty (dfbf73) — 7/31/2022 @ 6:38 amI disagree that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan is either imminent or in the best interest of China.
an invasion of ukraine wasn’t in the best interest of russia either
don’t sell demented joe short
JF (a6d404) — 7/31/2022 @ 7:13 amthe lead up to 2024 should be a blast
‘We live in an Orwellian hell-scape’: Facebook fact-checks top economist for stating America IS in a recession after Biden refused to admit it
JF (a6d404) — 7/31/2022 @ 7:37 amOn Rupert Murdoch’s shift away from Trump. Murdoch is following a rule common in old-style Chicago politics: “Don’t back no losers.” Rupert is a practical man, and can see the steadily declining support for the Donald. And Donald’s temper tantrums won’t affect Murdoch at all, will probably just amuse him.
Jim Miller (406a93) — 7/31/2022 @ 7:37 amSomebody must never have played 20 questions, or never won at the game. Joe Biden is obviously an animal, not a “vegetable”.
Jim Miller (406a93) — 7/31/2022 @ 7:44 amRelated:
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The bill would prohibit abortions from the time a fertilized egg implants in a uterus. Exceptions would be allowed in cases of rape and incest, but a patient seeking an abortion for either reason would have to sign a notarized affidavit attesting to the attack.
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The legislation’s passage “is a huge step forward in protecting the life of the unborn children in our state,” (said GOP Sen. Sue Glick of LaGrange, who authored the abortion bill), in a statement after the bill’s approval.
“We have put together a bill that would not criminalize women and would protect the unborn whose voices have been silenced for the past 50 years under Roe v Wade,” she added.
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To paraphrase Sen. Barry Goldwater, “extremism in the defense of life is no vice.”
Rip Murdock (e39e4b) — 7/31/2022 @ 7:58 amCorrecting formatting:
To paraphrase Sen. Barry Goldwater, “extremism in the defense of life is no vice.”
Rip Murdock (e39e4b) — 7/31/2022 @ 8:02 amlurker: “Lol. You’re so consumed by tribal animosity that you whatabouted norcal’s comment without apparently noticing that he directed it as much at the left as at the right. You’re a hammer in a universe of Leftist/NeverTrump nails, and the nails are closing in! Your obsession with your perceived enemies is every bit as unhinged as theirs…is with you”
I think this nails it. Do we need to dial back the tribal animosity and chart a different course? Yes, we fundamentally disagree about priorities and solutions, but we are in the same boat and tossing each other over the side doesn’t solve anything. We need to find commonality….and lumping everyone on the other side as “evil” makes that impossible.
Now does this tribal animosity apply to “NeverTrump”? In a real way, Trump is part of that same problem…promoting division, distortions of reality, and the ultimate tribal litmus test: you must support me no matter how much crazy I spew. Arguing against Trump and his influence in the GOP IS an argument against blind and radicalized tribalism.
It’s not that the weaponizing of race is not important. It is, but 70% of the country does not take an extreme view about it. The 15% poles want a civil war….no one else does. The majority does not want the democratic system to implode because the extremes can’t see beyond their hate. Winning the internet isn’t making our country stronger…..
AJ_Liberty (dfbf73) — 7/31/2022 @ 8:02 amOne person was killed on January 6, 2021 and the government was the executioner.
Colonel Haiku (cf8fc6) — 7/31/2022 @ 8:20 amin the event that DeSantis wins the nomination, i hope every NeverTrumper has their go packs ready
JF (a6d404) — 7/31/2022 @ 8:25 amVotes received by the Democrat candidate:
2008 Obama = 69.5 million votes
2012 Obama = 65.9 million votes
2016 Clinton = 65.9 million votes
2020 Biden = 81.3 million votes
Colonel Haiku (cf8fc6) — 7/31/2022 @ 8:28 ampage C38 news, for those still interested:
No bond for accused rapist of girl who traveled for abortion
JF (a6d404) — 7/31/2022 @ 8:57 amYour mom could’ve converted to Islam. Polygamy issue solved. Allahu Akhbar!
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 7/31/2022 @ 9:09 amhttps://redstate.com/jimthompson/2022/07/31/sunday-toon-ukrainian-oligarchs-panhandling-at-the-capitol-n604749
mg (8cbc69) — 7/31/2022 @ 9:17 amThe difference between Yemen and Ukraine is that Yemen is in a sectarian civil war, with the Saudis supporting the Sunnis. There have not launched an invasion to conquer Yemeni territory, and they have not bogusly claimed that Yemen was always a part of the Saudi regime.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 7/31/2022 @ 9:20 amThere is no civil war in Ukraine. Putin started his invasion in 2014, in two regions, and has only expanded his imperialism to the rest of the country.
Helping elect leftists including the vegetable currently occupying the Presidency and voting against their own political, social and economic interests is sane? Interesting.
The people who are helping to elect leftists are the ones insisting that the GOP run jackass fukwit thieves as candidates. #Nevertrump opposes such, and anything that happens after that is the fault of the Trump-lovers.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/31/2022 @ 9:50 amset into play an intentional sabotage of the facilities (this would have to be a priority play for Taiwan)
Or for the US, in extremis.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/31/2022 @ 9:51 amOne could argue that this isn’t fundamentally about the fabs for China. This is about slapping down dissent…and nationalism. Still I think China’s long-term plan takes precedence over political jousting. Maybe in 5 years something changes the dynamic. Right now, everyone loses too much in a military confrontation that still cries out stalemate…..
In about 3 months, Xi will be making his play for dictator-for-life. This after a fairly terrible few years where he has alienated his major customers, spread plague around the world, seen foreign investors flee and treated his own industries and subjects badly enough to get them to public protest. His remaining friends are Putin, Kim and some African dictators.
Nothing would work better for him than a “short, victorious war.”
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/31/2022 @ 9:57 amKevin M,
You’re smarter than that. The way to win hearts and minds is to support your candidate and to give reasons why that candidate is worthy of support from others. The constant NeverTrump drumbeat only turns people off and reflexively makes people support him more.
Also makes those NeverTrump attacks seem personal since they are so vindictive and irrational.
I think DeSantis is an excellent candidate for 2024 and worthy of support. He’s done an excellent job growing Florida and encouraging people to see why the Republican system of governance works. Try that for a shot
NJRob (7e7f99) — 7/31/2022 @ 10:04 am253… correction…
I forgot Roseanne Boyland… who was beaten to death by the Capitol Police outside the Capitol Building after she’d been beaten unconscious.
Colonel Haiku (cf8fc6) — 7/31/2022 @ 10:10 amWhy it’s as if these NeverTrumpers think we’ve forgotten their words and actions over these last 5 and 1/2 years, Rob.
Colonel Haiku (cf8fc6) — 7/31/2022 @ 10:12 amFalse, and it’s a smear on law enforcement.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 7/31/2022 @ 10:29 am@263: I cannot think of anything more likely to turn this country into a leftist sh1thole than the actions of Trump and his supporters insisting that they, and only they, are the alternative.
Voters have to pick the lesser of two evils. Increasing the evil of one side will not improve its results.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/31/2022 @ 10:38 amDidn’t she have an OD?
Trump (left winger and fake fam values conservative who loved hillary, drugs, and prostitutes, saved the budget zero bucks and finished zero walls) did everything he could to amp up the situation. his fangirls should switch to decaf before listening to him.
One point I want to give NJRob is that Desantis didn’t dodge the draft, but served with distinction. He didn’t sleep with gross porn stars while his wife was recovering from giving birth. He didn’t hand out huge checks with his name on them right before an election. Desantis never said Hillary was the best at anything. Florida has weathered many problems very well, and Trump has never had a successful term of office, nor ever been the most popular candidate in any election.
Dustin (f01c00) — 7/31/2022 @ 10:38 amR.I.P. Bill Russell, 88
Game over.
DCSCA (0545cd) — 7/31/2022 @ 10:41 amAlso makes those NeverTrump attacks seem personal since they are so vindictive and irrational.
Bottom-of-the-deck, out-of-the-gamers. Welcome to 1964.
DCSCA (0545cd) — 7/31/2022 @ 10:43 amRIP NBA legend Bill Russell (88).
Rip Murdock (e39e4b) — 7/31/2022 @ 10:43 amSad!
Rip Murdock (e39e4b) — 7/31/2022 @ 10:52 amDoctor: Biden tests positive for COVID for 2nd day in a row
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 for the second straight day, in what appears to be in a rare case of “rebound” following treatment with an anti-viral drug. – AP.com
Rare? the imbecile has access to the best medical care in the world. Old Fauci double-dipped. Double Vaxxed, double boosted; like father, like son, shot up w/drugs a la Hunter and dosed w/Paxlovid.
“I’m not going to shut down the country. I’m not going to shut down the economy. I’m going to shut down the virus.” – Squinty McStumblebum, 10/30/20
Idiot.
DCSCA (0545cd) — 7/31/2022 @ 10:54 amRIP, Bill Russell, at 88.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 7/31/2022 @ 10:59 amI went to his Sonics basketball camp my sophomore year, while coaching there. When I shook his hand for a photo op, it was amazing the size of his hands.
Demented DeSantis. First he goes after Mickey Mouse–now drag queens:
DeSantis, citing a 1947 law on crossdressing, seeks to revoke a restaurant’s liquor license after a video surfaced of children attending a drag brunch
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has filed a complaint against a Miami restaurant that hosts a weekly drag brunch after children were seen at the event. According to The Hill, the video was posted by LibsofTikTok, a right-wing social media account. In the complaint obtained by the news organization, DeSantis alleged R House violated state law and cited a 1947 state Supreme Court ruling that “men impersonating women” in a “suggestive and indecent” fashion is a public nuisance.
https://www.businessinsider.com/desantis-files-complaint-at-miami-restaurant-drag-brunch-2022-7
Has he ever heard of Key West? Wanna shutter a state tourist haven and drag queen metropolis, too?? Can you read a map, Ron??? It’s in Florida.
https://www.dragqueenshow.com/key-west-drag-queen-show.html
DCSCA (0545cd) — 7/31/2022 @ 11:02 amhey the troll is mad
Dustin (f01c00) — 7/31/2022 @ 11:08 am“Our goal should be that in twenty years those who voted for Trump are too uncomfortable to share that fact in public….We may not always be able to change someone’s beliefs, but we can sure as hell make it politically, socially, economically, and sometimes physically costly to articulate them.”
—- Mark Bray, PANTIFA
Brothers in Arms, NeverTrump.
Colonel Haiku (cf8fc6) — 7/31/2022 @ 11:10 amthe other troll is also mad
Dustin (f01c00) — 7/31/2022 @ 11:18 amCeltics with Russell playoff games against the Lakers were games memories were made of. Growing up in SoCal, our support went to the Lakers, but win or lose (the losses were tough!), we knew we were watching greatness.
Colonel Haiku (cf8fc6) — 7/31/2022 @ 11:25 amDeSantis2024!!
Colonel Haiku (cf8fc6) — 7/31/2022 @ 11:29 amBill Russell won eleven (11!) NBA championships with the Celtics, including 8 in a row, then two more as Celtics coach.
I think that 8-peat is one of those records that will never be broken.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/31/2022 @ 11:31 amHere’s the thing that Trump’s base doesn’t understand:
There are two kinds of political parties, major parties and minor parties, and they can be told apart by how they behave and whose votes they seek.
A major party attempts to get as many people as possible, from the center to the other edge of their beliefs. It does so by feilding candidates who have wide appeal.
A minor party attempts to carry a pure message to voters, and does not attempt to woo the center, or really anyone not aligned with the minor party’s narrow ideology. It tends to drive members out who do not toe the line, and purity tests are common. Often, these purity tests result in moving the party further out on the fringe.
Some times major parties are captured by one wing that attempts to emulate a minor party to some degree. They drive out “squishes” who don’t Believe, call them X-in-name-only pretenders, and generally narrow thei base of the party to members of the single wing.
The GOP did this with Goldwater, and now with Trump, the Democrats with McGovern and maybe soon with AOC. It doesn’t work, and it makes the major party lose elections it did not need to lose. Taken to an extreme, the party may collapse as the GOP has in California.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/31/2022 @ 11:42 amCase in point 282. How in the world do the expect to win? It’s not impossible; they have a GOP governor. But instead they’ve gone for what is politely called the “fringe” with a candidate who will mostly poison the waters for other candidates now and for some years to come.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/31/2022 @ 11:46 amYour father was a wise man, norcal. He understood what Brigham Young learned too late: “How many women can you live with?”
nk (90349c) — 7/31/2022 @ 11:50 amThe only thing the GOP has going for it is that the democrats are extremely divisive and destructive. Crime in our cities is terrible. Inflation is terrible. Social policies are largely disgusting, like horrible.
The GOP ran a lot of idiots and still does, and they don’t really care about spending less money or limited government, so im not sure what the point of the GOP even is anymore, but when democrats claim to be uniters, they wind up running around being extremely divisive 80-90% of the time.
If Biden had finished the wall and returned fiscal policy to Bill Clinton levels, and gotten himself out of the way of most issues, picked one pet issue to get something for his lefties, he would have been added to Mt Rushmore. Instead he’s easily one of the worst presidents, and I’d say that’s three in a row that were totally unworthy.
Any president recognizing the moment here, that the idiots are too loud and most of us want politics to chill, would be beloved.
Dustin (f01c00) — 7/31/2022 @ 11:55 amMark Bray, PANTIFA
Isn’t that the same Mark Bray who whined when his child-molesting, grandma-slapping, drug-addled allies tried to chase down and kill a kid who had a gun and knew how to use it?
Factory Working Orphan (2775f0) — 7/31/2022 @ 12:06 pmIt just may be…
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/31/2022 @ 12:33 pmDustin
Desantis was a rear rear rear echelon legal advisor – He was based in Qatar spent a few days in iraq – Desantis like many lawyers in the military used their service to be a politician.
DeSantis isnt doing well in Florida, his Trump light schtick is wearing thin
EPWJ (89cf50) — 7/31/2022 @ 12:47 pmDustin, when you say social policies are you referring to culture war issues ( gay marriage, Trans bathroom use etc) or are you referring to social spending on food assistance, Medicare, and the foster care system?
Time123 (36ad30) — 7/31/2022 @ 12:48 pmBill vs Wilt
mg (8cbc69) — 7/31/2022 @ 1:01 pmas good as it gets
Maybe, but let’s not forget that DeSantis’ chief GOP rival bagged out of military service because of a phony baloney bone spurs excuse, while DeSantis enlisted and earned a Bronze Star.
Given that DeSantis is younger, fitter and hinged, the choice between the two should be obvious.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 7/31/2022 @ 1:06 pm#193 norcal – Thanks for that story, which reminded me of a prediction I made some years ago: I thought the next big thing in that area, after gay marriage, would be polygamy.
(I completely missed the whole “trans” thing, though I had a warning from science fiction writer Gregory Benford. In his novel, “Across the Sea of Suns, the protagonist, Nigel Walmsley, begins in a relationship with two women, one of whom at some point becomes a “man”.)
My thinking was fairly simple: The most common form across cultures appears to be monogamy for most, polygamy for a few wealthy and powerful men. (There are, of course, societies with polyandry, where one womn is married to two or more men, but they are rare.) And before anyone automatically thinks LDS, my favorite example of the latter in the United States is the late Hugh Hefner. And so, since polygamy was already present here on a small scale, I expected it would be legalized.
But so far, if there is a significant polygamy legalization movement, I haven’t seen any signs of it. For which I am grateful.
(Why was I wrong? I think now that I underestimated the power of feminists, most of whom, I believe, would oppose polygamy.)
Jim Miller (406a93) — 7/31/2022 @ 1:07 pmR.I.P. Nichelle Nichols, aka Lieutenant Uhura on classic “Star Trek.” series. She was 89.
All hailing frequencies open; Ad Astra.
DCSCA (e437a0) — 7/31/2022 @ 1:11 pmI’m also fairly sure that DeSantis will not bury his first wife at his golf course for the tax write-off.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 7/31/2022 @ 1:12 pmCredit to Trump’s CPAs for creative accounting.
This one’s too good to pass up.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 7/31/2022 @ 1:15 pm231. Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/30/2022 @ 11:34 pm
Five days was picked by Pfizer – they maybe tried different numbers of days in Phase I trials, and opted for the minimu effective dose, I don’t know.
This is an antiviral – it should work equally well against all versions.
But the version of the virus might make a difference with regard to the immune response. There’s less immunity. There’s also less with older people. So in that way it might make a difference.
The FDA took no account of the seriousness of the case (except to say don’t give it when it is most needed – after five days and the infection is still raging) and they took no account of the question if someone was vaccinated or not or how often.
There’s also the fact this virus has a way of hibernating.
Fauci got a second course of treatment. But Biden is even more loyal to the protocol – he’s getting nothing now.
Was that tested in vaccinated people or unvacccinated peopple? If this was done in 2020, aand not 2021, there would have been virtually o vaccinated people/
By the way, in September, there should be a booster available that is targeted against Omicron also.
Sammy Finkelman (b7dc9b) — 7/31/2022 @ 1:19 pmOn a related subject, I think, norcal, that your mother may have wanted the “sisterhood” in such realtionships. I think I have seen a mild form of that desire in my favorite Kirkland park.
When I have ridden by Tot Lot on my bicycle, I have almost always seen a group of women, three or four typically, watching a larger group of small children.
The women who use it think it’s a wonderful design. (I agree, and sometimes stop for a minut or two, just to admire it.)
Jim Miller (406a93) — 7/31/2022 @ 1:20 pmAd Astra and Godspeed. Fictional or not, “Uhura” was a role model for many black girls of that era, back when racial harmony seemed within reach.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/07/31/nichelle-nichols-uhura-star-trek-dead/
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/31/2022 @ 1:22 pm295. How much of his golf course was declared ac emetery? I read he had the Roman Catholic Church declare an area consecrated ground. This must have been a tiny part of it.
Trump most likely had her buried there for the privacy. The Reagans are buried on the grounds of the Reagan library/
Sammy Finkelman (b7dc9b) — 7/31/2022 @ 1:28 pmTrump most likely had her buried there for the privacy. The Reagans are buried on the grounds of the Reagan library/
Sammy Finkelman (b7dc9b) — 7/31/2022 @ 1:28 pm
If she actually signed off on it in her will, it probably doesn’t matter much at this point. I know they continued to talk and apparently she was actually one of the few people he really trusted, but I’m more surprised that she would have even agreed to be buried on a Trump property, as opposed to an upscale cemetery in NYC.
Factory Working Orphan (2775f0) — 7/31/2022 @ 1:47 pmThe RCP average has DeSantis at +8.8 over Crist in the Governor’s race. And this poll has identified him as one of the most popular Republican politicians in America.
That’s not doing well? It’s his moment.
Rip Murdock (e39e4b) — 7/31/2022 @ 1:55 pmAnd DeSantis is +12.8 over Fried. Game over.
Rip Murdock (e39e4b) — 7/31/2022 @ 2:03 pm@300/301 – The Big Dick and Pat are planted in the yard of his birth shack in Yorba Linda on the grounds of his library. Any guesses on the hubby and spouse planted in Grant’s Tomb in Manhattan? 😉
DCSCA (c092ae) — 7/31/2022 @ 2:11 pmI endorse #286.
As to NBA center GOAT, I think I would still give the nod to Kareem over Russell. I may even put Wilt above Russell even though Russell dwarfed him in terms of titles. Russell played on better teams. Heck, I may even put Shaq over Russell in terms of dominating the position and longevity. Different eras, but Shaq against Russell would have been quite the show. Still, Russell seems to have been a class act since his playing days and his title record will be one of the toughest ever to top.
DeSantis seems poised to pick up Trump’s mantle (or is it his jock strap?)…and I’m sure FWO loves his culture warring. It’s early. I understand he must establish his MAGA bonafides, but right now he looks to be setting up to be the President of the Red States of America. The good news for him is that his competition looks pretty weak and he has plenty of time to work on being actually likable…like many of our commenters here….but I have hope…
AJ_Liberty (5f05c3) — 7/31/2022 @ 2:13 pm@303. He’s as shallow as the Everglades and just as swampy. Filet of Rick Perry seasoned w/Little Marco sauce. Won’t last 12 minutes in a debate w/professionals on a national stage.
DCSCA (c092ae) — 7/31/2022 @ 2:15 pmR.I.P. Bernard Cribbins, 93
For those of us familiar w/truly gifted British comedians, Cribbins was a very funny face and voice across multiple mediums back in the day. Among his many credits- the ITV series, ‘Cribbins’ (1969–70) , which I fondly remember watching weekly; appearances on the TV series, ‘The Avengers’ (1968), ‘Fawlty Towers’ (1975) multiple ‘Doctor Who’ episodes and some fine supporting roles in such films as ‘The World of Suzie Wong’ (1960) ‘The Mouse on The Moon’ (1963) ‘Carry On Jack’ (1963) ‘Carry On Spying’ {1964) ‘Casino Royale’ (1967) Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Frenzy’ (1972) and many more British films. A gifted talent for sure; his legacy: laughter.
DCSCA (c092ae) — 7/31/2022 @ 2:42 pmI’m more surprised that she would have even agreed to be buried on a Trump property, as opposed to an upscale cemetery in NYC.
I guarantee you that Trump will not be buried on any property open to the public.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/31/2022 @ 2:50 pmR.I.P. Pat Carroll, 95, veteran actress of stage, TV and film. Voice Of Ursula In ‘The Little Mermaid’ and familiar for roles on ‘Laverne & Shirley’ & ‘ER’ among others.
They’re dropping like flies; fade to black.
DCSCA (c092ae) — 7/31/2022 @ 2:54 pmhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11066709/Republican-Senator-Ron-Johnson-says-no-faith-FBI-investigate-Hunter-Biden.html
A scandal of unprecedented proportions ignored by the domestic media. And they’ll continue to do so till they are told it’s time to dump Biden.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 7/31/2022 @ 2:56 pm@308. Ivana Trump was laid to rest in a private family plot at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, NJ. The Donald knows real estate and can likely opt to be planted there. Bedminster is lovely; lived in nearby Basking Ridge as a youth. Just pay the green fees for a visit. One thing’s for sure- every house cat on the planet knows how to bury our Joe.
DCSCA (c092ae) — 7/31/2022 @ 2:59 pmHunter Biden and his laptop is a “scandal of unprecedented proportions”?
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 7/31/2022 @ 3:02 pmGood grief.
The guy is a loser who had the dumb luck to have a dad who is now president. I’ll be surprised if he’s indicted for anything more than tax fraud and lying about his guns.
Any president recognizing the moment here, that the idiots are too loud and most of us want politics to chill, would be beloved.
There were 6 Presidents in the 20 years before Lincoln. Two died quickly, one invaded Mexico, and the other three were terrible. Civil war followed.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/31/2022 @ 3:08 pmDC, Trump National Golf Club Bedminster is a private club. You have to do more than pay green fees to get onto the grounds, like book a wedding, become a member or find a member who will let you play a round with him/her.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 7/31/2022 @ 3:09 pmTrump getting buried there is probably in his best interests, as it will minimize people pissing on his grave.
Rip
EPWJ (89cf50) — 7/31/2022 @ 3:27 pmOld polls, Florida is extremely hard to poll. No governor has won in a landslide in quit awhile. So its going to be a nail biter to the end.
@314. That depends on if you’re just visiting the plots. The concession and souvenir stand should be a sweet moneymaker, too. Oh, that Capitalist Donald– he can’t take it with him– but he’ll take you anyway. 😉
DCSCA (1343eb) — 7/31/2022 @ 3:29 pm@314. Trump getting buried there is probably in his best interests, as it will minimize people pissing on his grave. B-b-but, Russia says he likes them golden showers. 😉 Besides, hasn’t stopped pigeons and assorted fowl from fouling The Big Dick and Reagan crypt.
DCSCA (1343eb) — 7/31/2022 @ 3:32 pmJoe Manchin hails expansive bill he finally agrees to as ‘great for America’
‘West Virginia Democratic senator Joe Manchin on Sunday hailed the legislation he almost killed off, calling the rewritten $739bn bill he agreed to last week to pay down U.S. debt and tackle the climate crisis “great for America”. Manchin, on a tour of all five Sunday morning TV politics talk shows, told CBS’s Face the Nation that the energy and climate deal he’s now supporting will tackle inflation because it will be “aggressively producing more energy, to get more supply, to get the prices down”. Republicans charge that the deal would in fact add to inflation, currently running at a 40-year-high.
But the centrist Democrat said he hoped his Senate colleagues would “take a good look at the bill”, which also controversially boosts planet-heating fossil fuels, an industry that has made Manchin very wealthy.’ – guardian.com
They’re all the same.
Storm the castle.
DCSCA (1343eb) — 7/31/2022 @ 3:36 pmNichelle Nichols Helped NASA Break Boundaries on Earth and in Space
Actor Nichelle Nichols, who died July 30, 2022, didn’t just break new ground on “Star Trek” by playing one of the first leading recurring Black female characters on U.S. television. A decade after the show ended, she did the same for NASA, appearing in a promotional film aimed at recruiting women and people of color to apply to be astronauts, as she recounted in a 2012 visit to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. The next astronaut class, appointed in 1978, included Guy Bluford, the first Black American in space, and Sally Ride, the first American woman in space.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nichelle-nichols-helped-nasa-break-boundaries-on-earth-and-in-space/
“Not bad for government work.”
A genuine Space Angel.
DCSCA (1343eb) — 7/31/2022 @ 4:02 pmPaul
Desantis wasn’t awarded a bronze star for military action. It was an administrative award given to all Jag officers who served in the middle east.
Desantis is maga discliple
EPWJ (89cf50) — 7/31/2022 @ 4:13 pmYou’re right, EPWJ. It would’ve much more noble for DeSantis to plead a case of bone spurs and skip serving his country.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 7/31/2022 @ 4:55 pmDCCCP: “Won’t last 12 minutes in a debate w/professionals”
Do you mean hookers? As a Trump fluffer, I assume you mean hookers. I mean, it’s hookers, right? Am I missing something….
AJ_Liberty (dfbf73) — 7/31/2022 @ 5:14 pmIndeed Kareem, AJ. The sky-hook was a work of art.
mg (8cbc69) — 7/31/2022 @ 5:24 pmWonder where McConnell will be put to rest, Paul.
mg (8cbc69) — 7/31/2022 @ 5:28 pmhttps://dailycaller.com/2022/07/31/opinion-heres-one-fact-democrats-are-forgetting-to-mention-about-jan-6-murdock/
mg (8cbc69) — 7/31/2022 @ 5:35 pmfor the j-6 groupies
We’ll see.
Rip Murdock (e39e4b) — 7/31/2022 @ 5:44 pm@322. Am I missing something….
Yes, Agarn. You ‘crack wise;’ your betters crack ‘wise.’
DCSCA (01b574) — 7/31/2022 @ 6:03 pm@314. Trump wanted to build a family mausoleum on his golf course complete with ‘imposing obelisks.’ After officials called the plans ‘overwhelming and garish,’ his ex-wife was laid to rest in a modest grave instead.
“…More than 15 years ago, Trump began planning a family cemetery on the Bedminster, New Jersey, property. The size and design of the project has changed over the years, but this month his ex-wife Ivana became the first person known to be buried on the property.
Originally, Trump’s plans for the mausoleum — where he would eventually be interred — included a 19-foot-high, classical-style stone structure to be built at Trump National Golf Club, which features two courses, local news site NJ.com reported in 2012.
The mausoleum would have included “four imposing obelisks surrounding its exterior and a small altar and six vaults inside,” according to NJ.com. But, after encountering opposition from city officials who called the design “overwhelming and garish,” Trump floated the idea of redesigning the structure as a “mausoleum/chapel,” The Washington Post reported. Plans for the large-scale mausoleum were ultimately scrapped and Trump proposed several other cemetery redesigns, including a 284-plot portion of the golf course with burial sites available for purchase. No such cemetery has yet been built, but the presence of burial grounds on the golf course property could offer tax breaks to the business.
Ivana Trump was laid to rest on the property earlier this month in a modest grave in a grassy area behind the first hole of one of the courses, “not too far from the main clubhouse,” The New York Post reported. She died following a fall in her Upper East Side home on July 14.’
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-family-grave-mausoleum-bedminster-new-jersey-golf-course-2022-7
DCSCA (01b574) — 7/31/2022 @ 6:08 pmMaybe his wife has a family plot on Taiwan, mg.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 7/31/2022 @ 6:22 pmI’ll be surprised if he’s indicted for anything more than tax fraud and lying about his guns.
“I’m proud of my son.” – Joe Biden 9/29/20
“I trust his judgment.”- Nancy Pelosi, 8/25/21
Great! Happy landings in Taiwan, sweetie.
DCSCA (01b574) — 7/31/2022 @ 6:24 pmThere’s some Chinese Maverick piloting his Chengdu-20 just itchin’ to take Polaroids of a terrified Nancy screaming at the window as he gives her a wing-waggle on final approach into Taipei Songshan Airport.
DCSCA (01b574) — 7/31/2022 @ 6:35 pm“President Trump did not have the authority to permit or authorize a conspiracy to forcibly oppose the authority of the government or the execution of the laws of the United States, nor could he have lawfully sanctioned the attack on the United States Capitol on Jan. 6 or any of the other criminal conduct allegedly perpetrated by defendants,” the US said in the filing.
That does not mean that President Trump did not engage in such a conspiracy.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/31/2022 @ 6:40 pmI wonder what portion of Trump’s remaining defenders think that Trump should have prevailed in overturning the election. I also wonder what portion of those defenders want a President Trump who acts “forcefully” against “traitors” in a second or subsequent term.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/31/2022 @ 6:43 pmCrude, but funny:
There are reports that the loser isn’t drawing big crowds, even with the help of the Saudis:
If true, that’s a fairly substantial markdown.
As he so often does, the loser is working with foreigners — and against an American organization.
Jim Miller (406a93) — 7/31/2022 @ 6:56 pmJim Miller (406a93) — 7/31/2022 @ 6:56 pm
hey Jim, are Dubya and the Saudis still BFFs?
JF (a6d404) — 7/31/2022 @ 7:28 pmNichelle Nichols wanted to quit Star Trek after the first year, then something happened:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/31/obituaries/nichelle-nichols-dead.html
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/31/2022 @ 8:20 pmBill Russell (basketball player) RIP
Sammy Finkelman (b7dc9b) — 7/31/2022 @ 8:21 pmHere’s a good Bill Russell highlight reel.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 7/31/2022 @ 9:43 pmI didn’t realize how well he could run the floor, and the dude had hops, the kind of quick hops that are highly effective in basketball.
If only he developed a shooting game, say from 20 feet on in. His eleven championships say well enough, but he could’ve been even better if he had a jumper.
Kevin, awesome story about Ms. Nichols.
Her role was cutting edge for the 1960s, that a black woman was treated as an equal on the bridge. The Kirk-Uhuru kiss was a milestone in television history.
BTW, Strange New Worlds is really good, the best Star Trek series since Enterprise, IMO. They did a really good job portraying Captain Pike, Spock, Uhuru and Nurse Chapel.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 7/31/2022 @ 10:17 pm@342. Old news. It’s in her memoir, ‘Beyond Uhura,’ published in 1994, pgs., 164-165. It’s an excellent read and encourage you to get a hold of it. Her work w/NASA recruiting minorities and particularly women into space work was truly inspiring. She made personal appeals, narrated films, PSAs, worked with Alan Bean at the agency on it; attended the ‘Enterprise’ shuttle landing tests at Edwards AFB and was appointed to the board of the NSI, the National Space Institute, a space advocacy group–the first of its kind– established by Dr. Wernher von Braun to help maintain the public’s support for the United States space program, post Apollo, after America had walked on thew moon– and walked away from it. She was a perfect fit for conveying the crossover and promise between the fiction, potential and realities of HSF ops. She’ll be missed– and remembered.
DCSCA (407f99) — 7/31/2022 @ 11:38 pmI didn’t much care for Enterprise, sad to say. I called it “Canadians in Space.” Didn’t care for Voyager either. I did like the first season of Discovery though, and I hope to watch my recordings of SNW sometime soon.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/31/2022 @ 11:40 pm@344 star trek enterprise is the best of the star treks. T’Pol make the show work with Sato in support.
asset (cbc49e) — 7/31/2022 @ 11:57 pm@333 let her die the hero’s death. AOC would make a better speaker.
asset (cbc49e) — 8/1/2022 @ 12:00 amJust when you think that the GOP is going to follow the Trumpian lemmings off the cliff, AOC rides to the rescue, leading the Woke lemmings off another cliff.
Note to the Woke: I know you cannot abide laughter, as everything is so SERIOUS, but we’re not laughing WITH you anyway.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/1/2022 @ 12:43 amJim -Ticketmaster sells tickets for the pga. Ticketmaster is well funded by the Saudis. And thats just one company. How about that Chinese communist tour the pga started up? Hypocrisy is what the pga is all about. And slow play, which is unwatchable every week.
mg (8cbc69) — 8/1/2022 @ 2:57 amhttps://www.jns.org/opinion/hypocrisy-and-the-saudis/
mg (8cbc69) — 8/1/2022 @ 3:39 amHi.
That Nike swoosh seem to be ubiquitous, and not just in sports. It shows the total lack os awareness, or care, about the issue of slave labor or lack of use of American labor. I refuse to wear it or many other similar symbols of the worst in our economy.
mg (8cbc69) — 8/1/2022 @ 3:47 amRe: Hunter Biden —
Remember Billy Carter, Neil Bush, Nixon’s brother, LBJ brother? Family members trading on the name of the President (whoever he might be) is an old, old, old problem. Since the whole Trump clan and business traded on that family name, I guess you wouldn’t call that a unique problem.
If folks who were wrought up about Hunter Biden’s issues didn’t tend to not notice when Trump fails to disentangle himself from his businesses, I’d care a lot more about this.
Appalled (fa627b) — 8/1/2022 @ 6:05 amGood to know. Explains a lot.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/1/2022 @ 6:14 am313 Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 7/31/2022 @ 3:08 pm
I count seven, if William Henry Harrison was one of them, and you need to include him if you wat to say two died. This was a period of time when to serve only one term it was considered proper, starting from Polk. Polk died within half a year of leaving office from cholera. Taylor also died from cholera, maybe=be on purpose killed by someone who followed medical news and controversy from England
You can say three were terrible: Tyler, Fillmore and Buchanan, and one was forgotten.
Sammy Finkelman (b434ee) — 8/1/2022 @ 6:23 amWhen Biden said that he brought up the question of Khashoggi with the Crown Prince and the Sausis denied it, I was inclined to believe him. Maybe he brought up very quietly when they were introduced to each other – like he said “at the top of the meeting”
But now the same thing happened with regard to his conversation with the ruler of China, Xi. He said he brought up the Uyghurs (slave labor and genocide) and they say no, it didn’t happen.
I think the odds are higher now that Biden made up this conversation. He may have decided that the safer course is not to bring it up – because it might possibly abruptly end the conversation or reduce his chances of getting an agreement on something – but to say that he did.
Or he forgot or never found what he felt was the right opening. Or he never planned to bring up these human rights considerations but then responded to criticism that he had not by saying that he did.
Also Biden’s press secretary wouldn’t say how the Chinese responded (with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Biden said MBS denied it and he said he didn’t believe him and then they went on from there. (?)
Sammy Finkelman (b434ee) — 8/1/2022 @ 6:37 amAppalled (fa627b) — 8/1/2022 @ 6:05 am
what’s the latest on ginni thomas?
JF (a6d404) — 8/1/2022 @ 6:38 amdeshaun watson suspended for six games
it isn’t the saudis ruining american sports
JF (a6d404) — 8/1/2022 @ 6:40 am332. 334. This is not to say that there is factual basis for them saying Trump told them to do it, but he can’t give them the right, so it’s no defense.
In another case, Bannon was not allowed to even argue advice of counsel, or that he thought he was required not to testify. In any case, he could have shown up in person and claimed privilege – the point has not usually been pressed.
Bannon also did not comply with a subpoena for documents, but I don’t know if he responded with a denial of their authority to demand them.
Sammy Finkelman (b434ee) — 8/1/2022 @ 6:44 am355 JF: I dunno. You tell me.
The complaints of Democrats, through their support of MAGA candidates because they are “beatable”, forfeit any consideration of their Clarence Thomas obsession.
Appalled (225220) — 8/1/2022 @ 7:00 amWorth reading: Peter Meijer’s article, “Why the Democrats Are Funding My Far-Right Opponent”:
And John Gibbs is a Trumpista, and so opposed to both.
Oh, and “the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) launched a $435,000 ad buy to promote the election-denying Gibbs in the final days leading up to our primary.”
And they have done similar things in other primaries this year.
(Bari Weiss’s Common Sense has become a must-read, for me.)
Jim Miller (406a93) — 8/1/2022 @ 7:21 amHey hoser, what’s wrong with that, eh?
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 8/1/2022 @ 7:35 amSo Meijer is a liar and a name caller. Good to know and good reasons not to support him.
NJRob (0977f5) — 8/1/2022 @ 7:50 amI am telling you, comrades, the horrific (for them) 155 million voter turnout in 2020 scared both parties witless and they are now both doing their best to turn off the rational voters and agitate their respective bases. It is what has always worked best for them and they want their ward-heeling back.
nk (acb8eb) — 8/1/2022 @ 7:53 amReally? Peter Meijer is the liar here?? Gibbs called and wants his identity back:
And more recently:
Dana (1225fc) — 8/1/2022 @ 8:05 amI also read the Common Sense article by Peter Meijer (which Jim linked to at 359), and I don’t see any lies from the candidate. Perhaps you should clarify for readers, NJRob, why you called Meijer a liar.
Dana (1225fc) — 8/1/2022 @ 8:15 amSo Meijer is a liar and a name caller. Good to know and good reasons not to support him.
NJRob (0977f5) — 8/1/2022 @ 7:50 am
That’s not the issue. The issue crops up in this passage:
It’s utterly pointless to complain about Democratic hypocrisy here or anywhere else; Meijer might as well be parroting the old neocon line “Dems r duh reel raycists!” from the 2000s. If he actually believed that his colleagues weren’t going to do anything in their power to get him out of office, that doesn’t make him a liar or a name caller, it makes him incredibly naive.
While it’s all well and good for Meijer to call the Democrats out for funding his opponent’s campaign against him, the real question is, what is he going to do about it if he wins the primary (and presumably, the general since that’s Amash’s old district)? Continue to believe that these people are going to treat him in good faith, or recognize that they will smile to his face while looking for a chance to stab him in the back? Hopefully instead of uselessly complaining about Dem hypocrisy, because they don’t care about anything other than pushing their political agenda, he’ll have enough self-awareness to recognize that “principle” doesn’t mean squat if you don’t have the power to enforce it.
Factory Working Orphan (2775f0) — 8/1/2022 @ 8:42 amUltimately, Meijer needs to recognize that any appeal to Americanism by the Democrats is hollow–and it’s empirically so, because he helpfully cites several examples in his article of his colleagues venally justifying their own double standards–not just because they’ll abandon it for political expediency, but because they don’t really believe in it, anyway, and that he shouldn’t trust them any farther than he can throw them.
Factory Working Orphan (2775f0) — 8/1/2022 @ 8:50 am365,
You seem to assume that his vote to impeach Trump was to get the approval of Democrats. That echoes the same wrong line of thinking I just read over at a very Trumpy website. Because Rs voted to impeach does not mean that they did it to get the approval of Ds. It means, as they have repeatedly said, their oath to the Constitution compelled them to do the right thing. And because Meijer says that it’s more nauseating to see the capacity of the Dem colleagues to sell their souls for political expediency doesn’t mean that he was naive and didn’t already know their ends-justifies-the-means mentality. It’s just that when we see it so cravenly displayed, it is disconcerting. Even Democrats currently holding office are shocked and disgusted by the dangerous and hypocritical strategy of their own campaign arm. And they aren’t being quiet about it either.
Dana (1225fc) — 8/1/2022 @ 8:51 amI count seven,
You are right, of course. And best of the ones that weren’t Polk or dead was Millard Fillmore, who managed to put off civil war for a decade.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/1/2022 @ 9:12 amYou can say three were terrible: Tyler, Fillmore and Buchanan, and one was forgotten.
Three were terrible, Tyler, Pierce and Buchanan. Fillmore was capable enough to lead the Senate (and Congress) into the Compromise of 1850, which defused the issue of slavery within the Mexican Cession, at least for another 10 years.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/1/2022 @ 9:16 amOh, and “the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) launched a $435,000 ad buy to promote the election-denying Gibbs in the final days leading up to our primary.”
And while Republican donors cannot give more than a pittance to the GOP candidate, the DCCC can spend as much as they want on dirty tricks against the other party. This seems to me to be a fine argument against the constitutionality of campaign donation limits.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/1/2022 @ 9:21 amYou seem to assume that his vote to impeach Trump was to get the approval of Democrats.
No, I understand he sincerely believed in his vote and that getting Democrat updoots had nothing to do with it. That’s beside the point. He clearly assumed his Democratic colleagues actually believed all the Americanist rhetoric they were spouting at the time, and is now trying to grapple with the realization that this isn’t actually the case.
And because Meijer says that it’s more nauseating to see the capacity of the Dem colleagues to sell their souls for political expediency doesn’t mean that he was naive and didn’t already know their ends-justifies-the-means mentality.
Nothing in his article indicates that he wasn’t taken completely by surprise by this.
Even Democrats currently holding office are shocked and disgusted by the dangerous and hypocritical strategy of their own campaign arm. And they aren’t being quiet about it either.
This has been going on for YEARS. They sure didn’t have a problem with it then.
Factory Working Orphan (2775f0) — 8/1/2022 @ 9:23 am“Even Democrats currently holding office are shocked and disgusted by the dangerous and hypocritical strategy of their own campaign arm. And they aren’t being quiet about it either.”
Pull the other one…
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/1/2022 @ 9:27 amGood luck, Lizard!
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/07/31/rep-liz-cheneys-reelection-campaign-will-not-be-encouraged-by-cnns-interviews-with-wyoming-voters/
Colonel Haiku (2cf2e3) — 8/1/2022 @ 9:31 amHaiku, Do you really think that asking the opinion of a redneck dressed in the American flag will get you a typical voter response?
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/1/2022 @ 9:34 amhttps://thefederalist.com/2022/08/01/3-big-blunders-that-show-mitch-mcconnell-is-not-the-legislative-genius-he-thinks-he-is/
mg (8cbc69) — 8/1/2022 @ 9:39 amThe almighty hack arama.
Pelosi is going to go to Taiwan Tuesday-Wednesday. I very much doubt that China will “shoot her plane down” (and if they do, the proper response is to bar ALL Chinese-made goods from the United States for the next century).
But I think that, if anything happens, it will be an invasion, and we should put a stop to it with first a warning, and if that fails, a nuclear weapon. Might as well start there rather than risk getting there by escalation.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/1/2022 @ 9:41 am#371 – If you read Dana’s linked article — always a good idea — you’ll find several elected Democats, objecting to the tactic of backing Trumpistas. And there are more who object, but are not willing to be named.
Jim Miller (406a93) — 8/1/2022 @ 9:42 amThe Federalist is a bunch of Trumpist hacks. Just a better-written Gateway Pundit. The Federalist Society should sue for trademark violation.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/1/2022 @ 9:44 amHaiku, Do you really think that asking the opinion of a redneck dressed in the American flag will get you a typical voter response?
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/1/2022 @ 9:34 am
It’s no less typical than what we’d get from some suburban yuppie, university egghead, or Martineztown gangbanger.
Factory Working Orphan (2775f0) — 8/1/2022 @ 9:46 amOTOH, the MSM — a hive of scum and villainy — is getting set to declare Biden’s “Build Back a Bit” plan to be a major win, even if it is 10% of what he wanted and barely passed by 51-50 under a special rule.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/1/2022 @ 9:47 am#371 – If you read Dana’s linked article — always a good idea — you’ll find several elected Democats, objecting to the tactic of backing Trumpistas. And there are more who object, but are not willing to be named.
Jim Miller (406a93) — 8/1/2022 @ 9:42 am
I did read the article, your pompous, condescending presumptions to the contrary. And I’ll repeat–“This has been going on for YEARS. They sure didn’t have a problem with it then.”
And if they are not willing to be named, they’re not exactly standing on principle, are they?
Factory Working Orphan (2775f0) — 8/1/2022 @ 9:48 amIt’s no less typical than what we’d get from some suburban yuppie, university egghead, or Martineztown gangbanger.
Two of those three are productive members of society. What do you have against suburbanites, yuppies or educated people?
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/1/2022 @ 9:49 am@351. It’s not so much Hunter’s transgressions as it is The Big Guy’s blatant and repeated, lying denials of any knowledge, discussions and influencial decisions regarding Hunter’s business dealings. If there’s ever been a fella deserving face time w/t MSM ‘behind the gymnasium’ to chat about ‘kickbacks’ – it’s Joey.
DCSCA (ef3d6c) — 8/1/2022 @ 9:52 amTwo of those three are productive members of society.
So what? It doesn’t make their opinions any more valid than the redneck’s.
What do you have against suburbanites, yuppies or educated people?
The same thing you have against rednecks–they’re not my people. And I say that as someone who spent several years growing up in a bedroom community suburb, and who possesses a master’s degree.
Factory Working Orphan (2775f0) — 8/1/2022 @ 9:54 amTrumpland bulges into only a fraction of our space-time continuum, and only into selected spots. In places where people find it necessary to get vaccinated secretly without their neighbors knowing, what they tell pollsters and reporters and how they mark their ballots in the privacy of their homes or the election booth are two different things.
nk (3dd63d) — 8/1/2022 @ 9:55 am@384: That explains a lot. That it is really just a projection by gibbering horrors from beyond space-time brings most of it into context. I just wish far fewer people were possessed.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/1/2022 @ 9:59 am“Haiku, Do you really think that asking the opinion of a redneck dressed in the American flag will get you a typical voter response?”
No less typical or valid than the opinion of a pendejo on the streets of Albuquerque.
Colonel Haiku (2cf2e3) — 8/1/2022 @ 10:00 amThe same thing you have against rednecks
Oh, I don’t have anything against rednecks who aren’t dressed in the flag — something that lies between disrespectful and pretentious.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/1/2022 @ 10:01 amI’d say the same thing about a university egghead dressed in the flag.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/1/2022 @ 10:02 amSeriously? China might be willing to pay that price. The only proper response would be a military response.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 8/1/2022 @ 10:02 amOh, I don’t have anything against rednecks who aren’t dressed in the flag — something that lies between disrespectful and pretentious.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/1/2022 @ 10:01 am
Dressing in the American flag is hardly disrespectful or pretentious. Maybe you don’t agree with their motivations for doing so, but I’d rather converse with a redneck dressed in the flag than a neo-marxist college professor who hates it and calls it a symbol of oppression.
Factory Working Orphan (2775f0) — 8/1/2022 @ 10:04 am“The Federalist is a bunch of Trumpist hacks. Just a better-written Gateway Pundit. The Federalist Society should sue for trademark violation.”
I’d ask you to now do the Bulwark or teh Dispatch, but they receive most of their funding from leftwing monied mooks, so that would be a case of apples and oranges.
Colonel Haiku (2cf2e3) — 8/1/2022 @ 10:06 amWhaddaboutism.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/1/2022 @ 10:09 amDidn’t think so…
Colonel Haiku (2cf2e3) — 8/1/2022 @ 10:12 amDressing in the American flag is hardly disrespectful or pretentious.
Yes, yes, it is, according to The Flag Code.
nk (3dd63d) — 8/1/2022 @ 10:14 amI know Dana already asked, but what lies, Rob?
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 8/1/2022 @ 10:15 amWhat name calling?
Yes, yes, it is, according to The Flag Code.
nk (3dd63d) — 8/1/2022 @ 10:14 am
If burning the flag is protected under free speech, then wearing a bandanna and overalls with a flag design (which is what the “redneck” was actually wearing) is hardly any more offensive towards that principle.
Factory Working Orphan (2775f0) — 8/1/2022 @ 10:31 am@394. Give it a rest. My late grandfather worked w/some congresscritters on the flag code back in the late ’60s. Per the ‘code’:
‘The United States Flag Code establishes advisory rules for display and care of the national flag of the United States of America. It is Chapter 5 of Title 4 of the United States Code (4 U.S.C. § 5 et seq). Although this is a U.S. federal law, the code is not mandatory: it uses non-binding language like “should” and “custom” throughout and does not prescribe any penalties for failure to follow the guidelines.’
So you can eat potato salad off your red, white and blue paper plates on July 4, wipe your mouth w/stars & stripes napkins, cheer NASCAR racers crashing wearing flag-emblazoned garb and cheer daredevils like the late Evel Knievel risking life and limb their Yankee Doodle jumpsuits.
DCSCA (d4aea7) — 8/1/2022 @ 10:36 amPelosi is going to go to Taiwan Tuesday-Wednesday. I very much doubt that China will “shoot her plane down” (and if they do, the proper response is to bar ALL Chinese-made goods from the United States for the next century).
Great, some enterprising fool with a silkscreen machine is already lining up his RBG / Nancy P Tshirt orders.
urbanleftbehind (d6b9a5) — 8/1/2022 @ 10:36 am@398. OTOH, it certainly would be the sad loss of a fine and expensive Boeing aircraft. 😉
DCSCA (d4aea7) — 8/1/2022 @ 10:41 amThe rules on the flag may be advisory, but that doesn’t mean that wearing the flag as clothing isn’t disrespectful. Or pretentious. And don’t let Rick Monday catch you doing it.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/1/2022 @ 10:42 ambut that doesn’t mean that wearing the flag as clothing isn’t disrespectful. Or pretentious.
It’s not. As it’s velcroed on the shoulders of U.S. military personnel and stitched into the shoulders of spacesuits and emblazoned on the back of jackets and motorcycle gas tanks.
… and dead Peter Fonda smiled.
DCSCA (d4aea7) — 8/1/2022 @ 10:49 amSo what about on swimwear/underwear?
urbanleftbehind (d6b9a5) — 8/1/2022 @ 10:51 amAccording to the U.S. Federal Flag Code, the American flag cannot be worn as a costume or athletic uniform.
Except it is:
https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-why-the-american-flag-is-reversed-on-military-uniforms-2017-5
Hey! You out there!!!! Don’t tear those tags off of your sofa cushions either or you’ll be fined and go to the pokie! 😉
DCSCA (d4aea7) — 8/1/2022 @ 10:54 am@402. Paper cups, paper napkins, pinwheels, streamers, bunting, disposable packaging, newspaper ads…
Too funny.
DCSCA (d4aea7) — 8/1/2022 @ 10:56 amThis is absolutely repulsive, disgraceful, disrespectful and a damned unpatriotic display of the red, white and blue.
http://keeperofstories.blogspot.com/2016/12/what-we-see-into-america.html
Not.
Attagirl, Raquel!
DCSCA (d4aea7) — 8/1/2022 @ 11:14 amIf she’s a looker, salute.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 8/1/2022 @ 11:31 amThe Raquel welch thing doesn’t preclude underwear though I think it has the same vibe as a certain Van Heusen shirt commercial from the late 80s.
Ok, what about a certain Black Crowes album cover (also imagine better personal care) or the famous Sarah Palin with machine gun gif?
urbanleftbehind (d6b9a5) — 8/1/2022 @ 11:54 amFook that. These days you’d probably get a trannie, with the swimwear most likely a bikini.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/j6fundraisingoperation.jpg
Colonel Haiku (2cf2e3) — 8/1/2022 @ 11:56 am“https://thefederalist.com/2022/08/01/3-big-blunders-that-show-mitch-mcconnell-is-not-the-legislative-genius-he-thinks-he-is/
The almighty hack arama.”
Every legislative success the Republicans have had in the last 10 years traces its roots to McConnell.
Davethulhu (c93f9f) — 8/1/2022 @ 12:11 pmAttention! But then again, she is playing a transsexual in the movie.😉
Rip Murdock (e39e4b) — 8/1/2022 @ 12:12 pmEvery legislative success the Republicans have had in the last 10 years traces its roots to McConnell.
Indeed. I’m a big fan of McConnell. And for more than the mere competence reasons that ‘thulhu mentions. He is the sane center of the Congressional GOP.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/1/2022 @ 12:31 pmNo budget Mitch is worthless as teats on a boar.
mg (8cbc69) — 8/1/2022 @ 12:33 pmWonder if Joe Manchin found the same horse head in his bed as nojustice roberts?
mg (8cbc69) — 8/1/2022 @ 12:34 pm382. DCSCA (ef3d6c) — 8/1/2022 @ 9:52 am
I don’t think he denied any knowledge, or meant to. He said he never discussed Hunter’s business dealings with Hunter and I don’t think he did, except in the most general terms.
He wasn’t interested, except that Hunter should not break the law. He wasn’t getting any of the money. Hunter lied to his business partners about “the Big Guy” having a 10% stake in Oneida Holdings. At that time, 2017, with Joe Biden out of office, there was no legal reason to conceal ownership (the Clintons did not so in similar circumstances) But Hunter had a reason for pretending Joe was part of the deal if he was not. The whole scheme rested on Joe’s ability to influence things
It looks stupid, bribing someone who was out of office, but Ye Jianming (Chinese: 叶简明) wanted to build his own center of power and be the indispensable man for some foreign connections and he was going after people other people ignored. Xi Jinping did not like that and had him arrested and his Global Fortune 500 company subsequently died. (all before Joe Biden started his comeback.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ye_Jianming
Now Joe Biden did get involved to the point of approving Tony Bobulinski to watch over what Hunter did and make sure it stayed legal. But Hunter, and Joe’s brother Jim, cut him out. Joe was too busy with other things to notice.
That’s not the only thing Hunter did but that’s what’s been getting the most attention.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/1/2022 @ 1:10 pmThere are several things I noticed about the January 6 committee.
One is that someone there is trying to be honest (against some opposition) and the testimony has been limited to being about things that are true/
We can see this alsoin considering what is scheduled for the next episode(s) in September. This will focus on what Trump did after January 6, and the abortive attempts to by some members if administration, including Betsy Devos — and maybe Mike Pompeo – to invoke the 25th amendment. (Mike Pompeo maybe at least let someone talkto him without shutting them off right at the beginning)
They are running out of honest things to explore.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/1/2022 @ 1:27 pmI think US intervention is a for gone conclusion, no matter what Biden says. Protecting Taiwan has always been our secret policy. The Taiwanese population’s laissez-faire attitude towards their own defense is predicated on that fact. See the articles at posts 177 and 208.
And Taiwan is probably the most politically influential nation after Israel; the Senate Minority Leader would certainly back any intervention.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 8/1/2022 @ 1:34 pmSome of us work for a living.
So much to unpack, but his actions working with radical leftists and pretending to believe them proves the lie to his constitutionalist beliefs. His name calling is in the article as he infers that by calling himself a constitutionalist and contrasting himself to others.
NJRob (8378f3) — 8/1/2022 @ 1:36 pmIt’s only riffs by some members of the committee. sometimes accompanied by video, that have tried to prove or say things that are probably not true, like that Trump spent 187 minutes doing nothing.
Let’s look at one of them:
https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/full-jan-6-committee-hearing-day-8-transcript
She confounding different things, Condemning the violence and asking the demonstrators to disperse.
Trump, in fact, made one or two tweets, saying they should “stay peaceful” and that they should not attack police before what they count as his first intervention..
These things are only alluded to. when they can be used in a way to condemn Donald Trump (it somehow not being noticed that it makes some that tweet accusations against Trump – that he waited 187 minutes – into a lie. That tweet is mentioned only indirectly, and the time it was sent is not mentioned, so people might miss the contradiction between that and the oft-repeated statement that he did nothing for 187 minutes.
Trump’s His 4:17 speech (which was incorporated in a tweet – others around him wanted that pre-recorded lest he type something unexpected) was not his first attempt to address the disturbance.
Now e=what he did is probably not what any decent person would have done – someone else would have been in a panic to stop the riot – but it is not like he wanted it.
Trump simply didn’t want to give up on whatever help the crowd could give him. It wasn’t till 4:17 that he told them to leave the area.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/1/2022 @ 1:44 pmWhy Was Wonder Woman’s Costume Based on the American Flag?
https://www.cbr.com/wonder-woman-costume-why-based-american-flag/
Disgusting!!!!
Not.
DCSCA (fcd436) — 8/1/2022 @ 1:49 pmTrumpsters only believe in the will of the people if it agrees with them if not then their minority will rule the majority. People who don’t agree with them have no “right” to vote hence voter suppression. When the rethuglicans talk about illegal votes they mean democrats not illeal aliens voting. Paul weyrich said this. Now they want their republican controlled legislature not the voters to decide who gets the states electoral votes. Establishment hacks like sean maloney are pushing Jan.6 riot for cheap political gain not concern for democracy.
asset (1cbdbb) — 8/1/2022 @ 1:52 pmIt should be noted that the whole demonstration was illegal as it had no permit. Covid rules limited the size of demonstrations so Ali Alexander had obtained permits for 8 or 9 of them consisting of 50 people each.
But Trump could not be expected to know such details and the Capitol Police also prepared for more than 400 to 500 people.
Trump was predicting claiming hundreds of thousand of people were at the Ellipse and therefore the Capitol.
https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-speech-save-america-rally-transcript-january-6
At the Capitol it didn’t even reach 10,000 but he was telling members of Congress to expect hundreds of thousands.)
https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/jan-6-committee-hearing-day-7-transcript
The worry was what would happen after this was all over, not right away.
As I said it might be partly because of this that they arranged for it to be over about 3 am the next day.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/1/2022 @ 1:56 pmNew Times Square Billboard Lists Biden Administration Failures
Washington, D.C. (June 1, 2022)—Today, the Job Creators Network (JCN) put up another billboard in the heart of Times Square spotlighting the failures of the Biden administration. The billboard coincides with an op-ed published under President Biden’s byline announcing his “plan” to fight inflation. The billboard features a picture of President Biden with the headline “THANKS FOR NOTHING, JOE!” and goes on to list problems plaguing the American people, including: Soaring Gas Prices, Falling Real Wages, Sky-High Inflation, Baby Formula Shortages, Stock Market Turmoil, Border Chaos
https://www.jobcreatorsnetwork.com/press_releases/new-times-square-billboard-lists-biden-administration-failures/
DCSCA (fcd436) — 8/1/2022 @ 1:59 pmasset (1cbdbb) — 8/1/2022 @ 1:52 pm
No they mean illegal aliens (whom they don’t distinguish from other non-citizens present in the United States.) Or absentee ballots marked by somebody other than the voter in question. Or totally fake votes cast by nobody. It’s all imaginary, anyway.
There could come a time when they’ll say there are citizens who should not be citizens but we’re along way away from that now and we might not go ther
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/1/2022 @ 2:01 pmThat’s weak, Rob, pathetically weak.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 8/1/2022 @ 2:03 pmYou’re basically saying that Meijer is a liar because–despite him not saying anything actually untruthful, by your own admission–he associated with “leftists”, which somehow makes him a liar. This is a classic case of guilt-by-association, and it’s the kind of quintessential tribalism I’ve come to expect from the Trump claque. In effect, you’re saying that it doesn’t matter if Meijer says truthful things, he’s a liar by whom he hobnobs.
Equally silly and ridiculous is that, by saying he’s a “staunch defender of the Constitution and the rule of law”, he’s somehow name-calling. He did not call himself a “constitutionalist” as you wrongly alleged.
C’mon Rob, do better.
@418. I think US intervention is a for gone conclusion, no matter what Biden says.
My Marine neighbor spent six months on Palau last summer gaming this scenario out. The endgames weren’t very encouraging for the U.S. Logistics issues prevailed. Supply chain and so forth were found to be a real problem. Distance as well. The geography favors the PRC edge on simply controlling access and ops, a la Hong Kong. But direct U.S. military confrontation is up to the CIC– and nobody has any confidence in the decision-making skills of old Joe, especially given his half-century of always being wrong on foreign policy issues. His incompetence can get us in a shooting war PDQ.
DCSCA (fcd436) — 8/1/2022 @ 2:11 pmI really like Rep. Meijer. Even if I don’t agree with him on everything His record of public service is impressive. Seeing the Democrats funding his worthless primary challenger is stomach churning. I hope rep Pete crushes him in the primary and wins the general by 20 points.
From a pure politics standpoint I understand why the Dem’s are doing this, They can try to paint the challenger as a nutter and that will help them in the general. But it’s bad for the country to put more Maga people in power and what they Dems are doing risks that.
Time123 (623f64) — 8/1/2022 @ 2:15 pmThe rules on the flag may be advisory, but that doesn’t mean that wearing the flag as clothing isn’t disrespectful. Or pretentious. And don’t let Rick Monday catch you doing it.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/1/2022 @ 10:42 am
Rick Monday was taking a flag from commie wastes of carbon molecules who were trying to burn it, not wearing flag-themed overalls.
Factory Working Orphan (2775f0) — 8/1/2022 @ 2:23 pmAlso, the idea that university professors can be classed as productive members of society is a belly-laugh. 80% of them or more are mental masturbators and neurotics who produce literally nothing of actual value. You could cut entire departments of social sciences, arts, and humanities, and nothing of substance would be lost. In fact, doing so would end up saving taxpayer dollars, not only on the front end with the professors, instructors, and grad students, but on the back end with all the deans, administrators, and consultants that are dipping their fingers in the revenue pie.
An electrician produces more value for their labor in a single day than the average academic does in a decade.
Factory Working Orphan (2775f0) — 8/1/2022 @ 2:28 pmFactory Working Orphan (2775f0) — 8/1/2022 @ 9:48 am
I’d think the opposite — if they don’t let their names be used it can only be if it is a a matter of principle — or an attempt to make themselves look better in the eyes of the reporter, but I’d say it is probably genuine that the people talking to the reporter don’t like this at all.
Before the people this happened with were not quite that bad in their eyes so you didn’t get this but people have grown scared that they are helping create a Frankenstein monster.
In Missouri there’s some PAC going against the worst Republican..but this is being done by actual Republicans.
It’s been advertising all over Missouri TV and actually seems to moving the needle.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/31/opinion/missouri-senate-eric-greitens.html )Op-ed or editorial)
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/1/2022 @ 2:28 pm…but that doesn’t mean that wearing the flag as clothing isn’t disrespectful. Or pretentious.
Disrespectful! Pretentious! Disgusting! Horrid! There outta be a law…
https://flagoftheusa.tumblr.com/post/645486017885995009/raquel-welch-in-us-flag-shirt
NOT!
DCSCA (fcd436) — 8/1/2022 @ 2:31 pm“But it’s bad for the country to put more Maga people in power and what they Dems are doing risks that.”
However, it will be horrible for the country – perhaps ruination – to put more Make America Go Away Democrats in power, and more and more Americans are waking up to that evidence supported fact.
It’s a beautiful thing!
Colonel Haiku (2cf2e3) — 8/1/2022 @ 2:33 pmhttps://instapundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/biden_taiwan_campaign_promise_08-01-2022.jpg
Colonel Haiku (2cf2e3) — 8/1/2022 @ 2:37 pmIn Michigan, Betsy Devos appears to have reconciled with Trump, hoping he will stop a really bad candidate for Governor.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/30/us/politics/michigan-primary-governor-trump.html
Here’s the letter:
https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/betsy-de-vos-s-letter-to-donald-trump/29069a0346259573/full.pdf
And Trump did endorse Tudor Dixon.
The primary is tomorrow.
More from the New York Times news article: <blockquote For much of the spring and summer, Ms. DeVos and her billionaire relatives — the most influential Republican family in Michigan — have been at war with Mr. Trump’s followers in the state, choosing different sides in consequential primaries for the state Legislature and endorsements at the state party’s convention.
The former president’s late nod in the governor’s race only compounded the confusion and heightened the suspense about what his followers would do on Primary Day. Just the day before the endorsement, eight of his chosen down-ballot candidates sent him an open letter urging him not to do political business with the DeVos family….
,,,,,All told, Republicans are in danger of bungling what earlier this year appeared to be a promising opportunity to oust Ms. Whitmer. The party’s strongest two candidates were jettisoned from the ballot because of a signature-forgery blunder. The resulting field, aside from the untested Ms. Dixon, includes one candidate facing misdemeanor charges related to the Capitol riot and another dogged by years-old lawsuits over allegations that he made racist and sexually explicit comments to employees.
At the same time, Michigan Republicans have elevated two Trump-endorsed election deniers to run for attorney general and secretary of state — key posts overseeing the election machinery in a vital 2024 presidential battleground state. Candidates had paid petition gatherers who cheated. It sounds like there’s not a primary for certain races,
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/1/2022 @ 2:42 pmThe Chinese government lies about everything,including what is playing with fire.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/1/2022 @ 2:42 pmhttps://www.ifitshipitshere.com/american-beauty-flag-inspired-fashion/
Rita Hayworth in a flag??? Mae West??? Lovely Raquel??? Pamela Anderson??????? Ann Miller????? Brooke Shields???? Sarah Jessica Parker????? Lynda Carter????? Cindy Crawford????? Heidi Klum????? Meg Ryan????? Katy Perry????? Tina Fey??????? and OMG—- Miss Piggy??????
Disgusting! Horrible! Pretentious!
Not.
DCSCA (fcd436) — 8/1/2022 @ 2:43 pmWhere does the idea come from that Trumpshould ahvesent in some military force on January 6?
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/1/2022 @ 2:44 pmNancy Pelosi and “The Last Hurrah”: For some years I have flattered myself that I could predict 80-90 percent of what Pelosi would do, from what I learned from Edwin O’Connor’s novel (and from Mike Royko’s biography of the original Richard Daley, “Boss”) about political machines.
Here, for example, is an example from “The Last Hurrah”: The political boss is explaining to his nephew that it is necessary to have stands on foreign policy, even running for mayor in a city that resembles Boston. (Massachusetts, not the British one.):
“When you come right down to it, there are only two points that really count.”
“Such as . . . ?”
Skeffington held up two fingers. “One,” he said, ticking the first, “All Ireland must be free. Two, he said, ticking the second, “Trieste belongs to Italy. They count. At the moment the first counts more than the second, but that’s only because the Italians were a little slow in getting to the boats. . . .”
You may — or may not — admire the practical politics in those two stands. They won him support, without him ever being expected to deliver anything tangible.
And now the connection to Pelosi. She is the daughter of a Baltimore boss and learned from her father. San Francisco has more of a tradition of machine-style politics than most West coast cities. San Francisco’s Chinatown claims to be the largest outside of Asia. http://www.sanfranciscochinatown.com/
So Pelosi has practical political reasons for supporting Taiwan. But I will concede that she may be making this visit in part for principled reasons, too. Whatever her reasons, I’m glad she is going.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Hurrah
(Cross posted at Politcal Betting.)
Jim Miller (406a93) — 8/1/2022 @ 3:04 pmGood News:
That’s just too bad.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 8/1/2022 @ 3:17 pmThe Capitol Police, whose chief starting requesting National Guard support at 12:58pm, eleven minutes before Trump finished his speech.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 8/1/2022 @ 3:21 pmFrom Paul’s link:
I got the impression, from the way you wrote your comment, that Sund was calling the Executive branch. It seems his requests were stalled in the Legislative branch.
BuDuh (340919) — 8/1/2022 @ 3:40 pm#441 – That is good news. And I just had this mischievous thought: Perhaps we should deny that we help locating him from top people inside the organization.
Jim Miller (406a93) — 8/1/2022 @ 3:44 pmCorrection: “. . . we had help . .”
Jim Miller (406a93) — 8/1/2022 @ 3:53 pmal Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, aged 71, reportedly killed over the weekend by an unmanned drone strike in a residential neighborhood in Kabul, Afghanistan. U.S. says there were no civilian casualties. U.S. now confident of his death. President Biden to address the nation at 7:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time. It was maybe first announced just as as a successful anti-terrorism operation but reporters learned more details..
Zawahiri had last been seen on video on connection with the last September 11 anniversary, and they weren’t sure when that was taped and U.S. had been uncertain if he was still alive. He was the last known major planner of the September 11, 2001 attacks who was not dead or captured.
Taliban claim this is a violation of international law and the Doha agreement. Don’t know if they specifically said Zawahiri was killed.
Sammy Finkelman (b7dc9b) — 8/1/2022 @ 4:06 pmI hear that the Afghans are complaining about violations of agreements.
So sue us.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/1/2022 @ 4:07 pmCarrier USS Ronald Reagan, F-35B Big Deck Operating Near Taiwan as Pelosi Arrives in Singapore; China Renews Threats
Two U.S. capital ships and their escorts are operating in the Western Pacific near Taiwan, USNI News has learned.
Aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) and big deck amphibious ship USS Tripoli (LHA-7), with Marine F-35B Lighting II Joint Strike Fighters embarked, are operating in the vicinity of Taiwan, on the edge of the South China Sea ahead of a Western Pacific visit from U.S. House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to the region, according to the Aug. 1 edition of the USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker……
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 8/1/2022 @ 4:13 pm……..
……..(a) senior defense official told USNI News the ships, escorts and their air wings – already in the region – were prepared to linger as a contingency option. On Monday, Beijing implied there would be a military response if Pelosi traveled to Taiwan.
…….
As of Monday, Japan-based Reagan is in the Philippine Sea after transiting the San Bernadino Strait on Saturday following a port visit to Singapore and operating in the South China Sea. California-based Tripoli is in just south of Okinawa. Tripoli has been embarked with up to 20 F-35Bs. ……..
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Biden confidant: “We are Reagan”
“We are Reagan,” a top confidant of President Biden tells Axios. “We had a big plan. We are getting it in place.”
https://www.axios.com/2022/07/31/biden-modeling-reagan-reelection-strategy
So “the plan” is run up debt, die– and leave mess for the kids to clean up.
Got it.
DCSCA (c6fc55) — 8/1/2022 @ 4:24 pmAny supporter of Donald Trump is clearly, emphatically not averse to supporting a liar and name-caller.
Radegunda (4739b1) — 8/1/2022 @ 4:26 pmIt’s particularly hilarious to hear Trump fanatics pretend to be offended by find name-calling.
CIA blow up Arab.
“At my direction…” – sez Joe.
Bullsh-t.
DCSCA (c6fc55) — 8/1/2022 @ 4:34 pmRick Monday was taking a flag from commie wastes of carbon molecules who were trying to burn it, not wearing flag-themed overalls.
Did you take one of Sammy’s literal pills, FWO? I saw Monday do that live. The point being there are folks who don’t feel right about desecrating the flag. YMMV.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/1/2022 @ 4:57 pmNo budget Mitch is worthless as teats on a boar.
Well, someone is.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/1/2022 @ 4:59 pmSeeing the Democrats funding his worthless primary challenger is stomach churning. I hope rep Pete crushes him in the primary and wins the general by 20 points.
After he wins the primary, he should sue the Secretary of State, claiming he is also the Democrat nominee.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/1/2022 @ 5:07 pmDid you take one of Sammy’s literal pills, FWO? I saw Monday do that live. The point being there are folks who don’t feel right about desecrating the flag. YMMV.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/1/2022 @ 4:57 pm
Wearing flag-themed overalls is hardly desecration. Same with veterans who get flag tattoos.
Factory Working Orphan (2775f0) — 8/1/2022 @ 5:08 pmAnd speaking as one of the few commenters here that actually did serve during GWOT, I’m not going to get worked up over someone who thinks wearing a flag bandanna is cool. If I see them dragging an actual flag on the ground, I’ll be more than happy to snatch it out of their hands.
Factory Working Orphan (2775f0) — 8/1/2022 @ 5:11 pmFlag tattoos, patches, etc are different than dressing up in it. But whatever. All those women that DCSCA posted should take those flags off right this moment!
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/1/2022 @ 5:14 pmTrump again is unable to make up his mind.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 8/1/2022 @ 5:15 pmSo, what does the USA do if China actually launches an invasion of Taiwan?
1. Go to the UN Security Council and complain?
2. Interdict with air power from our carriers?
3. Strike Chinese mainland staging areas from our carriers?
4. Use non-nuclear long-range assets against interior Chinese targets?
5. Set off an H-bomb in the South China Sea as a warning?
6. Declare war?
(Maybe 5 and 6 should be reversed)
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/1/2022 @ 5:20 pm@460. So, what does the USA do if China actually launches an invasion of Taiwan?
Lose Yankee-Doodle face.
The China of 2022 has proclaimed their intentions on their ‘long march’ into the 21st century and will not suffer such an embarrassment.
DCSCA (c6fc55) — 8/1/2022 @ 5:28 pmThe Wa Poo bit on the trolling..
BuDuh (340919) — 8/1/2022 @ 5:35 pm1,2,3,4; also use submarine launched Tomahawks against military targets. And “send in the Marines” as well as Special Forces. Use B-52s and B-1s with standoff weapons.
Then bend over and kiss your a– goodbye.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 8/1/2022 @ 5:35 pmCall a cop.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 8/1/2022 @ 5:37 pmThe Senate is the least involved party in the budget process of the three branches of government — you know,
offense, defense, and special teamsthe President, the House, and the Senate, according to Tommy Tuberville.All revenue bills must originate in the House. The Senate can only oppose them or propose amendments. I have explained this before, but ignorance is obdurate.
The Office of Management and Budget, which is under the President, tells the House what the President wants to do and how much money he wants to do it. The House votes on it after tacking on its own pork. Then it goes to the Senate which does likewise.
nk (6ba007) — 8/1/2022 @ 5:38 pmThen bend over and kiss your a– goodbye.
Closest target to me is 25 miles away. And it’s not on their short list.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/1/2022 @ 5:38 pmBut I don’t expect China to invade Taiwan. I expect them to seize the Tawian-held island of Kinmen (Quemoy), that is only a few miles off the Chinese mainland and sits at the mouth of Xiamen’s bay. By any reasonable law, it’s Chinese territory, it’s indefensible and there is no way anyone cares much.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/1/2022 @ 5:42 pm#450. It’s hilarious, but it is also a little sad to see so many Trumpistas ignore the loser’s endless lying and name calling, while pretending to worry about what other politicians say.
Years ago, I came up with this simple comparison, and I think it has held up well: Obama told at least an order of magnitude more falsehoods than George W. Bush, and Trump has told at least an order of magnitude more falsehoods than Obama did. But followers of Obama and Trump are alike in that few will admit that their idol has feet of clay. (And I use that religous metaphor deliberately.)
(Biden? I would say that he is about the same as Obama, though less clever about his falsehoods.)
Jim Miller (406a93) — 8/1/2022 @ 5:42 pmCrud rises only when you stir it. Otherwise, it settles to the bottom. That’s why the persistence of Trumpism. Without the roiling, it’s back to the bottom of the societal pit for them.
nk (6ba007) — 8/1/2022 @ 5:57 pmBiden? I would say that he is about the same as Obama, though less clever about his falsehoods.
Biden’s lies come from a committee.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/1/2022 @ 6:18 pmTrump would lie even when the facts were clearly otherwise. I saw him being interviewed and the played a clip of him saying something just the day before, and he denied saying it. He got away with it because his supporters didn’t care (and in fact supported the lie (“In yo’ face, mo’fo!”)). The Amen corner for the Devil.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/1/2022 @ 6:22 pmThe Amen corner for the Devil.
Wilmington. Or is it Scranton this week.
DCSCA (99a55c) — 8/1/2022 @ 6:26 pmMy mistake. DC Mayor Bowser called the NG for support at 1:34pm. Sund made a direct call at 1:49pm. Given the chain of command and what Trump was watching in the WH executive dining room, Sammy had the answer to his question.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 8/1/2022 @ 6:36 pmRepublicans should know that veterans are very well organized and vote, even if the Senators were correct on principle. Unforced error.
Rip Murdock (e39e4b) — 8/1/2022 @ 8:04 pm@425 Your wrong rethugs mean democrats voting. The only prosecutions for someone else but voter marking ballot have been republicans in pa. and fla. As for phantom ballots remember in 2016 when trump had an investigation of more then 300,000 illegal aliens voting in ca. that was shutdown when they couldn’t find any. The charges of fraud have been investigated and thrown out of court for no evidence and lying trumpsters prosecuted in some cases. Also media have checked out trumpsters charges like d’souza cell phone pings. The only phony mail in drop boxes were place by republican party in ca. You need evidence not self serving BS! By the way their is provable corruption of the ballot process that cost trump the election by keeping the green party off the ballot that I have pointed out numerous times here.
asset (9ade2f) — 8/1/2022 @ 9:45 pmNazi analogies always seem to followed by an “apology”. Maybe he should stop streaming on Facebook.
Rip Murdock (e39e4b) — 8/1/2022 @ 11:09 pmSorry for the repetitive paragraphs.
Rip Murdock (e39e4b) — 8/1/2022 @ 11:22 pmI’m glad Zawahiri is dead; I was cool with him being gone from the earth the last six times we were told Zawahiri was dead. Get all those professional jihadists removed, good. However, that has nothing to do with the seriously sketchy background of this story. This is a pantomime playing out for public consumption, and the same strings visible on the Zelenskyy puppets are glowing on the shoulders of this deep state announcement.
mg (8cbc69) — 8/2/2022 @ 3:21 amhttps://thefederalist.com/2022/08/01/3-big-blunders-that-show-mitch-mcconnell-is-not-the-legislative-genius-he-thinks-he-is/
mg (8cbc69) — 8/2/2022 @ 3:30 amworth repeating
Harvard Study Wrecks Insurrection Narrative of Capitol Riot
Horatio (f02704) — 8/2/2022 @ 6:11 amYet you’re of the group who claims Trump’s personal foibles are what make him unsuitable for office. Clearly, that’s not the case. You just don’t like that he actually pushed conservative causes and helped move the culture war to the right as we saw with the final overturning of Roe and reduced illegal aliens invading the nation. Guess that strong economy was too much for ya too.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 8/2/2022 @ 6:17 amThank you, Horatio!
nk (d384c2) — 8/2/2022 @ 7:25 amhttps://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/07/27/new-surface-stations-report-released-its-worse-than-we-thought/
Corruption at all levels of government.
The green revolution, as practiced by watermelons, is the 2nd biggest scam placed on society only to be outdone by calling the western society the most racist in the world.
NJRob (eb56c3) — 8/2/2022 @ 7:44 amInflation is hitting everywhere.
Jim Miller (406a93) — 8/2/2022 @ 8:47 am“China hinted darkly of retaliation if Nancy set foot in Taiwan in every media outlet. Now they’ve gotta do something.”
—- Richard Fernandez
Colonel Haiku (4c9ead) — 8/2/2022 @ 8:48 amWearing a bandanna and overalls with a flag design is definitely protected speech.
It’s also disrespectful of the flag.
Both can be, and are, true at the same time.
aphrael (4c4719) — 8/2/2022 @ 8:51 amIn addition to the Harvard/CAP poll results in nk’s post 482, there’s more:
While the court documents reviewed by the study’s authors may not have said “I came to the Capitol to start an insurrection,” the willingness to support Trump’s desire to overturn the election had the same effect as wanting to overthrow the legitimately elected President.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 8/2/2022 @ 9:08 amArriving at a pre-defined conclusion/narrative.
Colonel Haiku (8b99b0) — 8/2/2022 @ 9:12 amPelosi sporting a pink pantsuit matching the nations flower color the plum looks like she should stay.
mg (8cbc69) — 8/2/2022 @ 9:30 amwhat’s with laughing eyes?
Colonel Haiku (711a32) — 8/2/2022 @ 9:43 amthe Pink Pantsuited Pantload
get the Smirnoff drip 💧
Fly-By-Nite Diplomacy; the courage of darkness.
DCSCA (7bbad3) — 8/2/2022 @ 9:48 amWearing a bandanna and overalls with a flag design is definitely protected speech.
It’s also disrespectful of the flag.
Both can be, and are, true at the same time.
aphrael (4c4719) — 8/2/2022 @ 8:51 am
No, they aren’t. Wearing a bandanna and flag overalls isn’t any different than when a fan paints their face with the flag during the Olympics. It’s no different than wearing the gear of your favorite sports team, only in this case you’re wearing the colors of your country.
In no sane society is wearing the colors of your own country disrespectful, except in a nation that hates itself.
Factory Working Orphan (2775f0) — 8/2/2022 @ 10:03 amSince the study is based on court records, I don’t see how the study could reach a pre-determined conclusion, unless the court records are false.
Source
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 8/2/2022 @ 10:06 am@490. She does the Joe Biden shuffle all too well; at 82, could barely walk. In five or ten years she’ll be dead and gone– but any diplo-damage she does will live on.
DCSCA (7bbad3) — 8/2/2022 @ 10:09 amApparently Xi is running American Taiwan policy here.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 8/2/2022 @ 10:13 am“I’m sure glad that she went.” – Chuck Grassley
He’s 88.
The Old-Pol-Rule: make mess; die- leave it for the kids to clean up.
DCSCA (7bbad3) — 8/2/2022 @ 10:14 amJuan Soto has been traded to the San Diego Padres.
Sad!
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 8/2/2022 @ 10:27 amNancy Pelosi’s Taiwan Trip Sparks Protest in Her Hometown
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s planned controversial stop in Taiwan prompted protests in her hometown of San Francisco, where anti-war activists and leaders of the city’s Chinese community demonstrated against the Democratic congresswoman’s trip.
On Monday, ahead of the visit, roughly 100 people gathered outside Pelosi’s office at the San Francisco Federal Building to urge her to cancel the stop on her Asia trip, which protesters said would unnecessarily inflame a “potential war” with China. Demonstrators—who were seen holding signs that read “U.S. hands off Taiwan,” “Stop the provocations,” and “No war on China”—urged Pelosi to cancel the trip to Taiwan, which had not been confirmed at the time of the protest. They asked her to, instead, “focus on the real challenges of inflation, climate crisis and economic distress facing the American People.” However, the pressure from American protesters did apparent little to change Pelosi’s mind. The House Speaker touched down in the capital of Taipei on Tuesday morning.
Although Pelosi’s visit has drawn bipartisan support from lawmakers who want to see the Democrat defend Taiwan, President Joe Biden has cautioned that the stopover is “not a good idea.” And China has warned that it would respond with “forceful measures” if she goes through with the trip. Tuesday’s stopover makes Pelosi, an outspoken critic of China’s human rights abuses, the first House Speaker to visit Taiwan since Newt Gingrich went in 1997. Pelosi traveled to the island nation in 1999 but did not hold her leadership post at the time.
The division over Pelosi’s trip to the Indo-Pacific region was also apparent at the protest on Monday, where a small group of counter-protests also gathered and accused the main demonstration of supporting communism.
“Big protest at the Federal Building going on right now. Chinese mainlanders shouting that there is no Taiwan, it’s only one China,” journalist Roland Austinat tweeted. “My hats off to three or so counter-protesters, standing next to them with actual hand-written signs.”
Julie Tang, a retired San Fransisco Supreme Court judge, told the San Francisco Standard that, as a longtime supporter of the House Speaker, she was “disappointed” about Pelosi’s trip. “We have donated to her, we’ve supported her throughout these years, but we are so disappointed that what she’s doing is totally against the welfare and the well-being of the community—in particular Chinese Americans,” Tang said.
Tang added: “She does not listen to us. She’s going with the flow, going with pushing U.S. hegemony to contain China. For what? We don’t get anything out of it.” -newsweek.com
DCSCA (7bbad3) — 8/2/2022 @ 10:33 am“PLA will conduct important military exercises and training activities including live-fire drills in six regions surrounding the #Taiwan island from Thursday to Sunday.”
DCSCA (7bbad3) — 8/2/2022 @ 10:40 am@globaltimesnews
Apparently Xi is running American Taiwan policy here.
If by “here” you mean this site, it’s just a couple of creepy-crawlies who should have stayed banned, anyway. If you mean America, Pelosi just showed him that he does not, I think. But maybe he can regain face by making a “beautiful deal” in 2025.
nk (aa192f) — 8/2/2022 @ 10:47 amIn no sane society is wearing the colors of your own country disrespectful, except in a nation that hates itself.
Ya’ll is conflating. It’s wearing the flag that is forbidden. You know, that red white and blue thing with 50 stars and 13 stripes?
Red white and blue bunting is recommended. As are other red white and blue designs such as USA patches and decals that we see. In place of the flag. For decoration and identification.
nk (aa192f) — 8/2/2022 @ 10:57 am493… Study authors Joan Donovan, Kaylee Fagan, and Frances E. Lee…
Donovan is director of research at the Shorenstein Center. Fagan is a research fellow of Shorenstein. Lee is a professor of politics and acting chair of the political department at Princeton University.
Colonel Haiku (cdcc46) — 8/2/2022 @ 11:04 amIt applies to both, and it’s not just the usual trolls here. The handwringing about China’s “feelings” by people like Thomas Friedman, Biden, and others is embarrassing. Much better is this from the WaPo last month.
Of course these are the same people who will demand the US defend Taiwan in the event of an attack, something the Taiwanese people won’t do themselves. See posts 177 and 208 above.
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 8/2/2022 @ 11:05 amYour point being what? That a study conducted by the Shorenstein Center employed 2 out of 3 of the study’s authors and an outside academic?
Shocking!
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 8/2/2022 @ 11:08 am504… Any with an interest can do a little research on the Shorenstein Center, it’s work in the past and these folks and draw their own conclusions.
Colonel Haiku (cdcc46) — 8/2/2022 @ 11:16 amThis one is for you, asset:
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/3583238-aoc-is-the-democrats-best-shot-against-trump-in-2024/
Appalled (a2c223) — 8/2/2022 @ 11:31 amPelosi just showed him that he does not, I think.
Pfft.
“Old people are pushy
They don’t have much time
They’ll shove you at the coffee shop
Cut ahead in the buffet line
They’ll buy two for a dollar and 50
Then they’ll argue with the checkout girl
They’ve lived so much behind them
They’re tryin’ to slow down this god damn world…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHIpM0_SJEA&t=2s
DCSCA (f1ae9e) — 8/2/2022 @ 11:44 am‘It’s little old lady from San-Fran-cisco
DCSCA (f1ae9e) — 8/2/2022 @ 12:27 pmThe little old lady from San-Fran-cisco
(Go granny, go granny, go granny, go)
Has a DUI hubby fat from inside trading
(Go granny, go granny, go granny, go)
But parked on the tarmac is a government jet
It’s a brand new shiny Boeing airliner, yet!
And everybody’s sayin’ she’s got quite the ego
That little old lady from San-Fran-cisco
(She talks real fast, waves her hands real hard)
She’s the terror of Market Street through Chinatown
It’s the little old lady from San-Fran-cisco…
Trump yesterday endorsed “ERIC” for the Republican nomination for Senator from Missouri , but he didn’t say which Eric, and two Erics thanked him.
I had thought maybe they’re trying to make fun of him, and somewhere else he indicated whom he was talking about, but it seems from the tweet put on his replacement for Twitter, he did not but intentionally intended to be delphic!
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/trump-declining-to-pick-one-candidate-endorses-eric-in-tuesday-s-us-senate-primary/article_c6a9e43c-3d30-56b5-aa50-c39a09a41878.html
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/2/2022 @ 1:10 pmMore about the Zawahiri killing:
The United States knew where he was a few months ago, when he moved in with his family. They were probably tracking the family. Zawahiri’s protectors probably assumed that the U.S. didn’t know where he was, but they were only trying to killl him without killing anyone else.
They discovered that Zawahiri was in the habit of going out on a balcony alone. The United States studied this and two small models of the house were built and taken to the Situation Room to be viewed by President Biden so he could ask understand what they were talking about detailed questions about the operation. They wanted to be careful not to collapse the house so that no one else in Zawahiri’s family would be killed or injured.
President Biden gave final approval to the operation, he said, “a week ago” which would mean approximately Monday, July 25, and it took until Saturday morning that they both had the opportunity and had a good shot.
Two specially designed (or rare) Hellfire missiles were fired at him. They were called sword bombs because it could tear through metal and walls (not to mention a person) without creating the kind of damage that could damage a structure. Thin slices, I guess. It doesn’t use explosives.
After the attack, Zawahiri’s family was evacuated from the house, and attempts were made to remove any evidence that Zawahiri had ever been there.
The $25 million bounty on Zawahiri’s head was for the 1998 embassy bombings.
I don’t think it was Zawahiri who chose to go to Kabul. I think he was sent there by members of Pakistan’s rogue military intelligence , the ISI, (till then he’d been somewhere in Pakistan for years) because they thought that they’d have better cover if he was in Afghanistan. If his location got discovered, we’d blame the Taliban.
The removal of all traces of Zawahiri sounds similar to what happened after Osama bin Laden was killed 11 years ago – the house in Abbottabad, Pakistan, near Pakistan’s version of West Point, was demolished – they didn’t want any trace that bin Laden had ever been there and similarly here.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/2/2022 @ 1:31 pm301. Factory Working Orphan (2775f0) — 7/31/2022 @ 1:47 pm
I think the decision would be in the hands of her children unless she authorized someone else to make the decision, or she made her wishes known in some legally enforceable way. Donald Trump had clearly had this idea in mind for some time, although the need to act on it was sudden.
Although she married again twice (both ended in divorce and the spouses have since died) she did consider herself the real Mrs. Trump.
She got very isolated toward the end, only seeing household staff and health care workers. She was last seen by outsiders at 6 pm the night she died, (not 4:35 pm when her housekeeper and someone else left for the day) when some health aide took her out on the street for her (daily?) walk. A restaurant owner saw her but she did not go in (because she would have to go down some steps, she generally did not go in) She ordered something to be delivered.
She had cancelled a trip to the Hamptons because of her knee or hip.
https://nypost.com/2022/07/15/ivana-trump-couldnt-make-it-out-of-house-two-weeks-ago-pal
She didn’t want to see a doctor about it because she said that every time she sees a doctor she gets more sick.
Having her walk or exercise probably was stupid. I think exercise or physical therapy probably wouldn’t help her if there were physiological reasons for the deterioration in her mobility.
She died when she fell down the stairs in her dwelling while holding a cup of coffee. Walking down the stairs while trying not to spill the coffee, was just a bridge too far for her.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/2/2022 @ 2:06 pmDr. Scott Gottlieb on how monkeypox was treated too much like an exclusively sexually transmitted disease and ow there were many more cases than were diagnosed and now it’s escaped:
July 17, 2022 Face the Nation:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/scott-gottlieb-transcript-face-the-nation-07-17-2022
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/2/2022 @ 2:22 pmAbout Covid vaccines:
Thery;re still one variant behind.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/2/2022 @ 2:24 pmMore by Dr Scott Gottlieb o monkeypox:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/30/opinion/monkeypox-public-health-failure.html
Q. How many cases of atypical rashes occur all the time?
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/2/2022 @ 2:30 pmRepublicans should know that veterans are very well organized and vote, even if the Senators were correct on principle. Unforced error.
Rip Murdock (e39e4b) — 8/1/2022 @ 8:04 pm
It shows how desperate the Dems are, that they think dragging Stewart’s tired old leathery backside out to mock Republicans like it’s still 2005, is going to move the needle on this at all. He’s always been an insincere concern troll, whose sole contribution to the political landscape was poisoning 1.5 generations in to believing that political disagreement was not only something to be avoided at all cost, but that any argument pushing back against his left-liberal political ideology was “extreme” and “divisive.”
Veterans do not vote as a political bloc, and if any are honestly going to get worked up about this because of Stewart’s kayfabe histrionics over the Dems not wanting to go over amendments in a bill and using veteran care as a cover for their oily mendacity, they were probably already partisan Democrats to begin with.
Factory Working Orphan (2775f0) — 8/2/2022 @ 2:42 pmKevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/1/2022 @ 6:18 pm
Only when it comes to public issues and the naming of bills.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/2/2022 @ 2:45 pmRepublicans fold:
Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 8/2/2022 @ 2:48 pmYesterday, President Biden repeated this sentence three times in his speech:
I don’t understand what it means.
He said this was a quotation from Virgil (Roman poet, who write the Aeneid, in imitation of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey) and was engraved or inscribed at the September 11th memorial at Ground Zero.
Biden repeated it two times one after the other, and then with a slight variation (changing “you” to “them”) separately from saying it was a quotation from Virgil.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/08/01/remarks-by-president-biden-on-a-successful-counterterrorism-operation-in-afghanistan
President Biden spoke outdoors on a balcony because he still isolating from other people in confined spaces because he has tested positive for Covid.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/2/2022 @ 3:17 pm81 million people probably understand.
BuDuh (340919) — 8/2/2022 @ 3:19 pmHere is something, which also includes a picture):
https://www.911memorial.org/connect/blog/look-museums-memorial-hall
I still </b? don’t understand what it means.
I get the drift, maybe, but I don't see how it might mean something like never forget.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/2/2022 @ 3:21 pmOh.. I would like to delete my sarcastic comment at 3:19pm. I read Sammy’s comment quickly and concluded it was typical Biden gibberish that wooed the most voters ever. So I made a wisecrack.
I had no intention of disrespecting any of the 9/11 victims. None. And now that I understand where the quote is from, whether it makes sense to Sammy or not, I apologize for writing something so callous.
BuDuh (340919) — 8/2/2022 @ 3:28 pmIt’s all right. It’s not a bad wisecrack because the meaning of this is unclear and that should have been thought of.
This just doesn’t sound like ordinary English Maybe it is a bad (but standard) translation of the original Latin.
And means something like “The day will never come that you will be erased from memory” or “The passage of time will not cause you to be forgotten from the memory of man”
Which is optimistic.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/2/2022 @ 4:04 pm“Woke” people, in print, make arguments as to why a different opinion cannot e tolerated even to be heard and that’s what leads to tech platform censorship and “cancellation” It especially occurs with anything that has a medical or health angle. And it’s no good.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/2/2022 @ 4:10 pmPossibly somewhat ghostwritten (he’s 91)`article by George Soros in the Wall Street Journal
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-i-support-reform-prosecutors-law-enforces-jail-prison-crime-rate-justice-police-funding-11659277441
This is a very serious fallacy.
The disparity between residents of different neighborhoods is probably even greater. Many more people who resided, at the time of their initial arrest, in South Central Los Angeles are in prison than those who resided in Beverly Hills.
Clearly something is wrong with that, no?
And Starbucks stores should not be closed more in certain locations. Because how can people cumulatively behave worse in certain places than others, when all are making individual choices between good and evil?
Not so. Because people are influenced by their friends and acquaintances.
Is the out of wedlock birth rate also a sign of people unfairly judging other people?
More Soros:
Another bit of specious reasoning.
It takes time for changes in policy to affect the crime rate.
The most important variable is the background crime rate.
Things have gotten worse in many places (and in some places stated to drop again) but it’s nowhere like it was in 1990.
No, it’s because people are largely not aware of what candidates think.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/2/2022 @ 4:28 pm“The timing could not be worse. Dear reader: The Ukraine war is not over. And privately, U.S. officials are a lot more concerned about Ukraine’s leadership than they are letting on. There is deep mistrust between the White House and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky — considerably more than has been reported.
And there is funny business going on in Kyiv. On July 17, Zelensky fired his country’s prosecutor general and the leader of its domestic intelligence agency — the most significant shake-up in his government since the Russian invasion in February. It would be the equivalent of Biden firing Merrick Garland and Bill Burns on the same day. But I have still not seen any reporting that convincingly explains what that was all about. It is as if we don’t want to look too closely under the hood in Kyiv for fear of what corruption or antics we might see, when we have invested so much there. (More on the dangers of that another day.)”
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/why-is-the-white-house-quietly-griping-about-zelensky-now/
Colonel Haiku (ea1c88) — 8/2/2022 @ 4:54 pm@525. So Joe’s WH is getting fed up with by Moran?!?!?
“They don’t call him ‘Bugs’ for nothing.” – Al Capone [Jason Robards] ‘The St. Valentines Day Massacre’ 1967
DCSCA (9344d5) — 8/2/2022 @ 5:02 pmI still don’t understand what it means.
I get the drift, maybe, but I don’t see how it might mean something like never forget.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/2/2022 @ 3:21 pm
It just means that the victims will be remembered forever as long as the story of their existence survives.
The line is about a couple of Trojan youths and friends who were tasked with entering the enemy camp and killing them while they slept, but neglected the mission and got caught by a returning patrol when they began looting instead. One of them is caught and killed rather quickly, and his friend did a suicide rush to try and keep his body from being mutilated. In the poem, Virgil was saying that as long as people read the Aeneid, they wouldn’t be forgotten.
Factory Working Orphan (2775f0) — 8/2/2022 @ 5:06 pmOn the whole, Ukraine appears to have the edge against Putin in the most recent battles:
If Ukrainian forces retake Kherson, in the south, it would be a heavy blow to Putin — and to his fans in the West.
Jim Miller (406a93) — 8/2/2022 @ 6:12 pmRIP Vin Scully, another legend has passed on.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 8/2/2022 @ 8:49 pmJim Miller, when do you think Russia will throw in the towel?
JF (a6d404) — 8/2/2022 @ 9:09 pmJF – I wish I could give you an answer to that question, but I don’t know enough about either the people around Putin, or Putin’s psychology, to say. I do look at the Institute for the Study of War site regularly to get some idea of how the war is going, which is why I think Ukraine has an edge. (If I had to use a sports analogy, I would say Ukraine is leading by a field goal late in the first quarter, or early in the second quarter.)
There is one thing I can tell you from what I have learned, reading about the Eastern front in World War II. Ukraine has two “mud seasons”, spring and fall, when movement gets much harder for wheeled vehicles (and even some tracked vehicles). If either side is losing near the end of the summer, they may think they can recuperate during that season, and then counter-attack when the ground freezes.
Jim Miller (406a93) — 8/2/2022 @ 9:30 pmI’ll answer JF’s question, Jim: It’s over when Putin is dead and/or deposed, and the little Russian despot is going to drag his country down with him in the process, IMO.
Putin’s war right now is a battle of wills, and we have the resources for our will to prevail. Most Ukrainians are fighting for their existence as a country, so they’re motivated and Putin is stuck in a quagmire of his own making.
Haiku brought up that the Biden WH is concerned about Zelenskyy, but the reality is that Zelenskyy needs to be concerned about Biden, what with our president’s gross incompetence in cutting and running out of Afghanistan.
Paul Montagu (062b7e) — 8/2/2022 @ 9:38 pmRIP Vin Scully, another legend has passed on.
As a Dodger fan from the day they came to Los Angeles, this really hits hard.
Kevin M (eeb9e9) — 8/2/2022 @ 10:41 pm@533. He had a good run; plenty of hits; few errors. Days like this you appreciate a talent you took for granted would always be around. A broadcasting voice pure and smooth. Like golf losing Palmer… and broadcast news losing Cronkite.
DCSCA (9344d5) — 8/2/2022 @ 11:09 pmEliminating the leaders of terrorist groups might make them worse.
The leader is often cautious and wants to retain control so doesn’t approve every idea. Or they may turn into criminal gangs. Like Jesse James did.
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-the-downside-of-killing-al-zawahiri-20220802-quufza7uojhp7f5b3d2yk764q4-story.html
This kind of thing should probably be done more strategically. Like the Taliban did.
In this case Zawahiri anyway wasn’t running operations.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/3/2022 @ 12:24 pmFauci said that [gain of function] meant making a virus more infective to humans, not taking a virus that didn’t infect people at all and mutating it so that it could infect people.
193. NJRob (eb56c3) — 7/30/2022 @ 6:57 pm
But that exactly what he did. He had a heated argument while he was testifying. Rand Paul, I think, tried to say that Fauci had supported gain of function research, and he said that rand Paul didn’t know what he was talking about – that he didn’t know what the definition of gain of function research was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqUOcVwRUtc
And this was true – that it is was true that, back a few years before, Fauci had used that definition, maybe to get around a policy restriction. Fauci said other people had approved that definition.
Paul tried to imply that the grant that Fauci funded created SARS without actually saying so.
Rand Paul said he wasn’t saying that his grant created the virus. He didn;t know, but it could have. Fauci that is not true. He said given what the grant used it was molecularly impossible. Fauci said that grant could not have done it. Rand Paul was also falling back on the idea that Fauci funded a bad lab.
Of course the Chinese lab did what it wanted, anyway, or what some mad scientist got them interested in doing, Dr. Ralph Baric of the University of North Carolina.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/07/26/1030043/gain-of-function-research-coronavirus-ralph-baric-vaccines
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/3/2022 @ 1:10 pmSomewhere I read, but cannot find again that the drone strike that killed Zawahiri was done at 6:38 or 6:39 pm Saturday Eastern time.
And that this was Sunday morning in Kabul and that Zawahiri liked to go out on to the balcony and read in the morning.
But Afghanistan is GMT + 4:30 and does not use daylight savings time and so is currently 8 1/2 hours ahead of Washington. Which would make it 3:09 am in Kabul. But sunrise in Kabul is about 5 am now. So something s wrong here.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/3/2022 @ 2:29 pmZawahiri is reported to have moved to Kabul in the fall (not that long after Afghanistan came under the control of the Taliban again) and was reunited with his family, or part of his family in that house earlier tis year. His family members had moved in earlier. It was also a safe house, used for secret Taliban meetings – not clear how long this went on. The house was owned (officially that would be) by a close associate of the Taliban Interior Minister, who is a member of the Haqqani network.
There had been a strike that killed members of his family a long time ago, in December, 2001 – his first wife and 2 of their 6 children. Biden was more cautious. The particular model of drone, intended to kill single individuals has probably been used less than 6 times. Zawahiri was living there with his wife (or a wife) and a daughter and the daughter’s children.
hey first briefing was in April, and later on July 1. Bide gave his final signoff on Monday, July 25. Then it was just a matter of time till Zawahiri and the drone were in the right place.
The family was quickly evacuated after the strike, and blown out windows covered with tarp, streets blocked off and stores closed. This was an upscale portion of Kabul previously used by foreign diplomats, now more by high Taliban figures.
Still secret is from what location the drone took off, and how they knew. The Taliban are probably afraid the location had been bugged.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/3/2022 @ 2:40 pmCorrection: 537
Actually it was 9:48 pm Saturday night, or 6:18 am Sunday morning, Kabul time.
More than one hour after sunrise.
I saw the time in the New York Times of Tuesday, but here’s the best source:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2022/08/01/background-press-call-by-a-senior-administration-official-on-a-u-s-counterterrorism-operation
Sammy Finkelman (b7dc9b) — 8/3/2022 @ 4:22 pmIn February, 2020, the Talia=ban had refused to agree not to give al Qaeda leaders and members asylum. But they did pledge not to let their territory be used as a base President Biden seemed to imply a little that Zawahiri was still threatening the United States. But he wasn’t doing much more than making videos. There were some attempts to restart terrorist training camps in Afghanistan but the people involved in anti-terrorism consider al Qaeda’s presence in Yemen and part of Africa more of a useful base for them.
Sammy Finkelman (b7dc9b) — 8/3/2022 @ 4:32 pmThe monkeypox virus might be renamed by the World Health Organization because it is supposed to be stigmatizing, but they’ll probably keep both the “monkey” and the “pox” maybe renaming it to Orthopoxvirus monkeypox. (with a different short informal name?)
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/4/2022 @ 1:03 pmfour current and former Louisville officers federally charged with falsifying information to obtain the search warrant that led to the 2020 raid that resulted in the death of Breonna Taylor.
https://www.newser.com/story/323799/new-breonna-taylor-charges-involve-secret-garage-meeting.html
Garland just had to charge a policemen who wildly fired shots, but didn’t kill anyone, and was tried and acquitted in sate trial
Isn’t it enough to determine that the search warrant was unjustified?
And ow we need to find the motive. To help the informant, who maybe was actualy protecting the drug dealer?
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/breonna-taylor/2022/06/30/breonna-taylor-case-ex-detectives-lmpd-firing-upheld-judge/7765953001/
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/4/2022 @ 2:45 pmThis story is dismaying. American researchers developed some promising battery technology. But American manufacturers aren’t using it to make batteries:
The Dempartment of Energy has now terminated the license, and is investigating how this could have happened. (I can think of several possibilities, none of them pleasant.)
Jim Miller (406a93) — 8/4/2022 @ 4:02 pmBut China was willing.
In other words, Yang wanted to do an initial public offering. But going public has stopped for smaller companies. The Wall Street Journal blames Sarbanes-Oxley but a letter to the editor also blames more efficient stock trading.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/sarbanes-oxley-ipo-public-private-company-business-regulation-small-cap-11659476300
What about private equity?
There are also special purpose acquisition comoanies, now going into a bit of adecline)
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/spac.asp#:~:text=A%20special%20purpose%20acquisition%20company%20(SPAC)%20is%20a%20company%20without,merging%20with%20an%20existing%20company.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/4/2022 @ 4:21 pmThe law of unintended (? – it benefited bigger companies, protecting them from new competitors) consequences.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/4/2022 @ 4:22 pmCongrespeople Jerrold Nadler and Carolyn Maloney were polling just about dead even (31% in their August 23 primary with someone who ran against Carolyn Maloney kin the last two elections and almost won coming in at 25% but Nadler did very bad ina debate.
He said he had impeached Bush z twice and couldn’t remember the number of the Congressional district (it’s the same as Maloney’s current one -12th)
Nadler was clearly reaching for it and abandoned the attempt I don’t know how many people would noticed.
https://nypost.com/2022/08/02/jerrold-nadler-stumbles-through-debate-opening-against-suraj-patel
Biden doesn’t have these difficulties.
Nadler might have been having a very bad day maybe,
Nadler would have been better off running on the southern portion of his old district (now the 10th it used to be called the 8th) even though he does not live there. But a good portion of his district was in Brooklyn, and he grew up in Bensonhurst, which used to be his district.
Sammy Finkelman (1d215a) — 8/4/2022 @ 4:35 pm