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Debt Rattle October 13 2024

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 October 13, 2024  Posted by at 8:31 am Finance Tagged with: , , , , , , , , , ,


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• Kamala Unwinding (Kunstler)
• US Election ‘Too Close To Call’ In Swing States – WSJ Poll (RT)
• The Scent of a Harris Panic in the Air (Victor Davis Hanson)
• Shills For Harris (Michael Tracey)
• Dems Won’t Certify Election if Trump Wins (HUSA)
• Trump’s Toughest Foe Could Be Harris Lawyer Marc Elias (Sperry)
• Alien Enemies Act is Not a Viable Legal Basis for “Operation Aurora” (Turley)
• Jon Stewart: Americans Don’t Need Guns To Protect Constitutional Rights (ZH)
• Biden, Netanyahu Closer to Consensus on Attacking Iran (Antiwar)
• Biden Warns Iran Against Going After Trump – WaPo (RT)
• CBS News Faces Integrity Crisis Amid Bias Concerns, Missteps (JTN)
• 3 Million Non-Citizens Have Texas Driver’s Licenses Allowed As Voter ID (JTN)
• DOJ Sues Virginia Over Removing Non-Citizens From Voter Rolls (JTN)
• NATO Could Have Prevented Ukraine Conflict – Hungary FM (RT)
• NATO Planning New Russia Strategy – Politico (RT)
• Boeing To Fire 17,000 Employees (RT)

 

 

 

 

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“She ends as an historical prank on her own country. It must be deeply demoralizing to be used like that in front of the whole world.”

• Kamala Unwinding (Kunstler)

The outstanding question: will the Democratic Party actually go ahead and attempt to execute an election steal despite growing evidence of a developing Trump landslide that might obviate it? The works are already in motion. The mail-in ballots went out long ago and early votes are getting cast by the day. The overseas ballots that require no US address or voter verification are flooding in by the millions and four years of open borders has 10-million illegal aliens (at a minimum) dispersed around the nation, great gobs of them planted in swing states, processed through the DMVs and social services — with the requisite automatic voter registration — their ballots already pre-bundled for harvest.

It could go a few ways. One is, just let’er rip, harvest all those fake votes, stuff the drop-boxes, flood the zone, and do it all right in America’s face as if to say: we can do whatever we want. . . to get whatever we want. . . and you can’t stop us. That is probably the point where blue America finds out exactly what the Second Amendment was designed for. You might also expect a whole lot of state-organized resistance, especially in the populous red ones, Texas, Florida, real court cases over fraud this time, contested certification.

Or, the election could come out a hopeless unresolvable muddle. There’s no precedent for this and no provision in the Constitution, but you can imagine the Supreme Court having to decide a necessary do-over minus all recent gimmicks, paper ballots only, voters with proof of citizenship only, all voting on one re-scheduled election day before January 1. This novelty would be something apart from the clunky Congressional machinery established for settling electoral college disputes, since it is predicated on various states’ inability to determine their electoral college vote in the first place, based on patent irregularity and fraud. You could also imagine a period of disorder so deep and grave that the regime behind “Joe Biden” declares martial law. . . or, alternately the military — the martial institution — has to take matters into its own hands, shoving aside even “Joe Biden” and his filthy retinue. Appalling to consider, I’m sure, but these things happen in history, and the Party of Chaos has set enough mischief in motion to wreck the election and wreck the country. Call it catastrophizing, if you will. There it is.

But to step back from that abyss, it appears that Mr. Trump’s momentum accelerates by the day, that he is becoming, at last, an implacable, irresistible juggernaut who will, perforce, overcome all the gimmicks, traps, and frauds arrayed against him. Kamala seems to think so. Have you ever seen such resignation, such loserdom-in-action as her recent performance on CBS’s 60-Minutes, or her pitiful admission on ABC’s The View that she couldn’t think of anything she would do differently beyond the excellent management of national affairs under “Joe Biden” (and herself as veep). Surely that said it all. She has nothing, brings nothing. Long ago, she was a pretty girl with a law degree and an infectious laugh on the fringes of local politics in San Francisco. The winds of fortune blew her this way and that way until she ended up way over her head, used by the reprobates around her as a mere device to stay out of jail. She ends as an historical prank on her own country. It must be deeply demoralizing to be used like that in front of the whole world.

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With all the shenanigans going on, Trump needs to win by a huge margin. Another reason not to believe these polls.

• US Election ‘Too Close To Call’ In Swing States – WSJ Poll (RT)

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are locked into a dead heat in all seven of the battleground states that will decide the outcome of next month’s US presidential election, according to a poll published on Friday by the Wall Street Journal. Sampling 4,200 voters, the poll found Harris with a razor-thin lead over Trump in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin, and Trump holding a slim advantage in Nevada, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. However, the newspaper noted that no lead is wider than two percentage points, except for in Nevada, where Trump leads by five points. All of these results are within the newspaper’s margin of error. Across all seven swing states, Trump leads Harris by 46% to 45%, the poll found. Some 93% of Republicans are backing Trump, while 93% of Democrats are supporting Harris, the WSJ noted, adding that independents prefer Harris by a slim 40% to 39%.

“This thing is a dead heat and is going to come down to the wire. These last three weeks matter,” Republican pollster David Lee, who worked on the survey, told the newspaper. “It really could not be closer,” Democrat pollster Michael Bocian said. “It’s an even-steven, tight, tight race.” A slew of recent polls have shown Trump and Harris within the low single digits of each other in these key states, with Trump gaining the upper hand in every state but Wisconsin in an average compiled by RealClearPolitics. Voters surveyed by the Wall Street Journal ranked the economy and immigration as their top two issues of concern, respectively.

They favored Trump over Harris on economic issues by ten points, and on immigration and border security by 16 points. Harris beat Trump on the issue of abortion by 16 points. By this time in the 2020 campaign, President Joe Biden was leading Trump by five points in the states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Trump won all three of these post-industrial northern battlegrounds in 2016, and lost them to Biden in 2020. Winning all three would likely guarantee the presidency to either Trump or Harris this year.

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“..so far, the cures for the Harris slide are far worse than the malady itself..”

• The Scent of a Harris Panic in the Air (Victor Davis Hanson)

The 2024 race is still close. But then so was the 1980 Carter-Reagan race at this same juncture. Indeed, incumbent president Carter was then comfortably up in the last two October Gallup polls—before utterly and suddenly evaporating on Election Day. But in the last seven days, there seems a sense of panic in the Harris campaign. How do we know that? Why are Democratic pundits—from Axelrod to Carville—blasting the Harris campaign and otherwise warning of bad things to come? Why are some of the once Democrat sure-thing senate races—e.g., in Ohio, Wisconsin, and even Michigan—tightening up? Pundit poll-watchers are suggesting that Trump is close, even, or slightly ahead in the swing-state polls, suggesting that he is nearing a margin that could cancel out anticipated “ballot irregularities”.

The expected October Harris-Biden surprises—the opportune Fed interest rate cut, the transparently desperate Jack Smith beefed-up re-indictment, the current new Hollywood Trump-hit movie, the desperate Zelensky fly-in to Pennsylvania, the election-cycle customary Bob Woodward unsourced gossip book—seemed so far to have had no effect. Why would any campaign send out the bumbling Tim Walz to a Fox Sunday interview after his disastrous debate? Why is a suddenly smiling Biden so eager to claim candidate and VP Harris as a co-conspirator to his disastrous four years? Why would Harris pivot and now agree to (admittedly mostly softball) interviews, thus confirming to the voting public why she wisely had previously avoided all press conferences, interviews, and town halls? Why—after the last two moderator-rigged ABC and CBS debates—would Harris desperately want another and possibly believe that Trump would ever agree to any such warped forum?

The last 4-5 Harris scripted interviews, but especially on CBS’s 60 Minutes, have been train wrecks. Everyone expected (and was not disappointed) the on-spec word salads, predictable sappy retreats to her misleading bio, the now accustomed deer-in-the-headlights confusion about her prior three years with Biden, and the general mush in lieu of any policy prescriptions. Why would CBS think it worth ruining its already debased reputation by doctoring the transcript of the Harris disastrous interview in a vain attempt at Orwellian repair? Why is a rusty but still narcissistic Barack Obama at last hitting the campaign trail? And is he still effective—or reduced to becoming an Oprah-like caricature? After all, is it wise for the elite Obama (in his now accustomed snarky “clingers” style) to venture out of his mansions (Kalorama? the Hawaii beachfront? or the Martha Vineyard estate?) to talk down to black males struggling under years of a hyperinflationary economy, a flood of illegal immigrants from an open border, and a four-year-spiking crime rate?

Does the Netflix grandee berating black men as victims of false consciousness, misled, and brainwashed into voting for the Trump agenda really win them over to Harris? Does the hundred-million-dollar-plus man Obama persuade anyone by reverting for a few moments to his old community-organizing, fake black patois and his pseudo-racial intimacy of “brothers”? And does it work for Obama (remember “when they go low, we go high”) to blast Trump as racist and crude, when Obama jokes that Trump wears diapers— this after previously suggesting at the Democratic convention that Trump suffered from small genitalia? If this should continue, soon the July 21st coup that removed Biden, along with the Harris pick of Tim Walz, will go down as days of Democrat infamy. Anything can happen in the next three weeks. But so far, the cures for the Harris slide are far worse than the malady itself.

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“These aforementioned attendees were essentially just “seat fillers” — they were not the audience members who were called on to ask pre-selected questions..”

• Shills For Harris (Michael Tracey)

Last night’s Univision “town hall” with Kamala Harris was billed as an exciting opportunity for “undecided Latino voters” to question and evaluate the potential next President of the United States. The corporate press release from Univision advertises it explicitly as such. But viewers at home would have been wholly unaware that this billing was false. As I discovered, having been granted the sacred opportunity to view the event from an adjacent room on the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus, the carefully curated “town hall” audience was actually comprised of avowed Harris supporters. “I already knew I was going to go for Kamala,” one town hall participant told me. “Part of the reason why I wanted to go was just, like, to also fully support her.” “So you were already decided, before you came?” I asked another. “Yes,” she replied, declaring her support for Kamala.

The audience members I spoke to were selected with the help of a company called FansOnQ, according to the company’s founder, Conny Quintanilla, whose title for yesterday’s event was “Audience Manager.” The company puts out “casting calls” for events like the Latin Grammy Awards, which have been previously held in Las Vegas. It’s a type of company that you might not be consciously aware exists, but once you’re told of its existence, it makes perfect intuitive sense: people who want to dance at award shows are “vetted” by this particular company, perhaps for good looks and rhythmic skills. That’s the same company which filled the seats at Kamala’s town hall. Another person told me he was able to attend because he “knows people” at an unnamed “progressive organization,” which somehow granted him the ability to get in the town hall audience. The person said he works as an intern for Rep. Steven Horsford, Democrat of Nevada. I’m not naming the person because he was wary of attribution. Others quoted here also didn’t want to be identified.

These aforementioned attendees were essentially just “seat fillers” — they were not the audience members who were called on to ask pre-selected questions. Those audience members were flown in from around the country at Univision’s expense. Which is a bit odd, because there would certainly have been plenty of genuine “undecided Latino voters” in Clark County, Nevada who I’m sure would’ve been more than happy to ask Kamala Harris a question. NOTE: The non-question-asking attendees were still integral to the televisual production of the event, hence their recruitment. Uninformed viewers at home were under the false impression that the people they were watching react to Kamala’s answers were “undecided voters,” when numerous of them were in fact pre-committed Harris voters who sought to attend for the specific purpose of demonstrating their support for Kamala.

Naturally, I wanted to interview the actual question-asking attendees. However, a corporate dictate apparently came down prohibiting this. “We won’t be making them available,” Anna Negron, Director of Corporate Communications at TelevisaUnivision, told me when I asked if there would be an opportunity to interview said audience members. She would not elaborate on the reason for this strange secrecy. Reporter Mark Kellner of the New York Post asked Negron the same question, and was similarly dismissed. So the sum total of the authorized journalistic acts that we were permitted to carry out at this event was to sit in a side room and politely view a generously provided video feed of the “town hall,” which was taped several hours before it aired yesterday. For the record, I don’t think she actually used a teleprompter, despite social media allegations to that effect. I can verify that the event was already contrived enough as it is — no need to embellish any phony stories.

Of course, most journalists covering the event simply repeated the conceit that Kamala was empathetically taking questions from “undecided Latino voters.” In other words, they simply regurgitated the corporate press release. Her actual remarks were bereft of any real substance. The only amusing part was when she name-dropped Alberto Gonzales, the former Attorney General under George W. Bush, as one of her cherished Republican endorsements — adding him to the esteemed roster of Dick and Liz Cheney and myriad “national security officials” affiliated with Mitt Romney and John McCain. Perhaps Kamala calculated that the surname “Gonzales” would be extraordinarily appealing to these allegedly “undecided Latino voters.”

It’s worth briefly reminiscing about what the purpose of a “town hall” has traditionally been: for ‘townspeople’ to gather and air their concerns about issues that most affect them. (“Town halls” are actually how some small New England towns are governed — the town halls effectively become temporary citizen-led legislatures to decide questions around zoning and so forth.) Now, though, they’re just glitzy TV productions that accomplish the polar opposite of the free-flowing dialogue and debate with which the term was once associated. Indeed, these events now more resemble the production values of the Latin Grammy Awards — literally — than a forum to scrutinize candidates for public office.

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‘I’ve been told this type of rhetoric is “dangerous to our democracy” or something…’

• Dems Won’t Certify Election if Trump Wins (HUSA)

Despite their constant whining about the Jan. 6, 2021, “insurrection,” the Democrats recently admitted that they won’t certify the 2024 election results if Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is elected. Axios reported that the Democrats would certify the election results only if Trump used “free, fair and honest means to secure a victory,” which, according to Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., is not what Trump would do. This statement implies that he would be declared a winner only if he cheats. “[Trump] is doing whatever he can to try to interfere with the process, whether we’re talking about manipulating electoral college counts in Nebraska or manipulating the vote count in Georgia or imposing other kinds of impediments,” the politician told the news source. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., also questioned whether Trump would win the election fair and square, telling Axios that she doesn’t know “what kind of shenanigans he is planning.”

Conservatives on Twitter pointed out the hypocrisy after the article was published. “I’ve been told this type of rhetoric is “dangerous to our democracy” or something,” @Patriot_Vibes wrote. Co-owner of Trending Politics, Colin Rugg, also mocked the Democrats who have been talking non-stop about Republicans and Trump’s alleged attempt to overthrow the government at the beginning of 2021. “The ‘democracy defenders’ won’t commit to certifying an election?” he wrote. Others wrote that the recent news is a warning from Democrats about their own insurrection, this time it being real and violent. Some conservatives noted that hearing about the recent news was not surprising after the Democrats replaced Joe Biden, who was elected by leftists during the primaries, with the current Democratic presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, who nobody cared about before the disastrous debate between Trump and Biden.

“No surprise there. They threw democracy out the window when they put Kamala in w/o a single vote. Why wouldn’t they pull some more shenanigans? We’ll get SCOTUS involved if we have to, but they need to do their job or GTFO,” an anonymous person wrote. The Democrats’ recent comments are also unsurprising because Raskin said he would never allow Trump to be in the White House again. “I’ve been warning of this for months. Here is Rep Jamie Raskin confirming what I’ve been predicting. Even if President Trump wins the 2024 election, Democrats will not accept the results and refuse to leave the White House, creating a civil war scenario,” investigative reporter and commentator Drew Hernandez said.

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Elias makes a lot of money. But I think the Steele dossier has tainted him too much to be effective.

“According to court records, Elias acted as a cutout for more than $1 million in campaign payments for the dossier..”

• Trump’s Toughest Foe Could Be Harris Lawyer Marc Elias (Sperry)

Elias later testified that he was worried – then as now – that Trump was a threat to democracy: “I received information that was troubling as someone who cares about democracy.” That “information” turned out to be a fictitious “dossier” linking Trump to the Kremlin crafted by former British spook and FBI informant Christopher Steele, who huddled with Elias in his Washington office. “Some of the information that was in it I think has actually proved true. It was accurate and important,” Elias testified in a closed-door hearing on Capitol Hill in December 2017, according to a declassified transcript. Actually, Steele’s allegations proved to be a collection of improbable rumors and fabricated allegations invented by Steele’s top researcher and a Clinton campaign adviser. Nonetheless, the disinformation was fed to the FBI and media, igniting criminal investigations (including illegal electronic surveillance), congressional probes, and a media frenzy that crippled Trump’s presidency with bad press for years.

In a parallel operation against Trump, Elias worked with his then-law partner Michael Sussmann and Clinton campaign officials – including Jake Sullivan, who is now President Biden’s national security adviser – to develop misleading evidence of a “secret hotline” between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin that allegedly used a “back channel” connection between email servers at Trump Tower and Russian-owned Alfa Bank. These false allegations were posted on social media and brought to the attention of the FBI, triggering a separate criminal investigation targeting Trump and his campaign. Like other Russiagate probes, it was eventually discredited. But the damage was done. By spreading fake Russian dirt on Trump, Elias was able to create scandals that dogged Trump for years, tarnishing his electability. The Democratic lawyer’s machinations, however, drew scrutiny from other investigators and hurt his own reputation – albeit temporarily.

During his probe of Russiagate, Special Counsel John Durham found Elias intentionally sought to conceal Clinton’s role in the dossier. According to court records, Elias acted as a cutout for more than $1 million in campaign payments for the dossier. By laundering its payments through a law firm, the Clinton campaign and Elias were able to claim attorney-client confidentiality when Durham sought their internal emails (the assertion of that privilege also blocked investigators from accessing communications between Elias and Steele’s immediate employer, the Washington-based opposition research firm, FusionGPS). But their shell game got the Clinton campaign in trouble with the Federal Election Commission, which later fined it and the Democratic National Committee $113,000 for misreporting the purpose of the payments as “legal expenses,” rather than opposition research, in violation of FEC laws.

The Durham probe, which Elias insists was “politically motivated,” nonetheless raised ethical issues with the D.C. Bar and Elias’ former law firm, Perkins Coie, reportedly leading to their breakup in August 2021, when Elias suddenly left the powerhouse after almost 30 years. The firm, which Elias had joined fresh out of law school in 1993, grew “increasingly uncomfortable” with the unwanted scrutiny the Durham probe invited on it, according to published reports. The veteran prosecutor exposed questionable billing practices by the firm. Durham also revealed the Democratic firm had set up an FBI workspace within its Washington offices, further calling into question the FBI’s impartiality in investigating Trump. In late 2021, Elias opened his own firm, the Elias Law Group, but soon lost major clients who reportedly grew weary of his aggressive tactics and go-it-alone style.

Last year, the DNC severed its 15-year relationship with Elias; then more recently, the Biden campaign parted company with him. In 2020, Elias had quarterbacked Biden’s legal team that fought Trump’s claims in court that the election had been stolen. He also beat back GOP measures to ensure election integrity after Democrats took advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to dramatically loosen rules for voting – including allowing ballot harvesting, drop boxes, and ballots arriving up to four days after Election Day to still be counted. Top Democratic Party officials were said to sour on Elias after he filed election-related lawsuits without consulting with them, some of which backfired with unfavorable – and lasting – rulings. Biden’s team reportedly also became frustrated with his fees. Elias billed the DNC and Biden campaign more than $20 million during the 2020 election cycle.

But Elias has since taken on other clients – including Kamala Harris – who have more than made up for the loss in revenue. So far in this election cycle, the latest FEC filings show the Elias Law Group has received a total of more than $22 million in disbursements from a host of major Democratic and anti-Trump clients.

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It’s a war act. But there’s no war.

• Alien Enemies Act is Not a Viable Legal Basis for “Operation Aurora” (Turley)

In announcing his “Operation Aurora,” former President Donald Trump has suggested that he may use the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) of 1798 to crackdown on “every illegal migrant criminal network operating on American soil.” The plan to begin mass deportations is certainly popular with the public, according to polling. However, without a declaration of war, he will likely have to look to alternative statutory vehicles for a peacetime operation. This is not the first time that the Trump campaign has invoked the AEA. Last year, the campaign cited the law as giving it the power to “remove all known or suspected gang Members, drug dealers, or Cartel Members from the U.S.” The AEA has only been used three times and each time we were in a declared war: the War of 1812, World War I, and World War II. It is a law that became infamous in its use to put Japanese, German, and Italian civilians in internment camps during World War II. In DeLacey v. United States in 1918, the Ninth Circuit wrote that:

“The first reported case arising under the [AEA] is [by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in] Lockington’s Case [in 1814] … Lockington … had refused to comply with the executive order of February 23, 1813, requiring alien enemies who were within 40 miles of tidewater to retire to such places beyond that distance from tidewater as should be designated by the marshals. He was arrested, and on petition for habeas corpus attempted to test the legality of his imprisonment. Chief Justice Tilghman said of the [AEA]: “It is a provision for the public safety, which may require that the alien should not be removed, but kept in the country under proper restraints. … It is never to be forgotten that the main object of the law is to provide for the safety of the country from enemies who are suffered to remain within it. In order to effect this safety, it might be necessary to act on sudden emergencies. … The President, being best acquainted with the danger to be apprehended, is best able to judge of the emergency which might render such measures necessary. Accordingly, we find that the powers vested in him are expressed in the most comprehensive terms.”

The laws sweeping language makes it ripe for abuse. Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Brackenridge in Lockington’s Case (1814) observed that under the AEA “the President would seem to be constituted, as to this description of persons, with the power of a Roman dictator or consul, in extraordinary cases, when the Republic was in danger, that it sustain no damage: ne quid detrimenti respublica capiat.” However, the AEA’s only limiting language is found in the triggering language for those powers: “Whenever there is a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion is perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States by any foreign nation or government, and the President makes public proclamation of the event…” In Ludecke v. Watkins, 335 U.S. 160 (1948), the Supreme Court held Justice Felix Frankfurter wrote a supportive decision of the presidential authority under the AEA on when the powers expired, but not when the powers begin:

“And so we reach the claim that, while the President had summary power under the Act, it did not survive cessation of actual hostilities. This claim in effect nullifies the power to deport alien enemies, for such deportations are hardly practicable during the pendency of what is colloquially known as the shooting war. Nor does law lag behind common sense. War does not cease with a cease-fire order, and power to be exercised by the President such as that conferred by the Act of 1798 is a process which begins when war is declared but is not exhausted when the shooting stops.” This broad granting of authority under the AEA is obviously a great attraction for presidents who have rarely hesitated to use the maximal levels of their powers. However, the threshold requirement of a declared war has proven the limiting element and it is telling that the law been used only three times by presidents.

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“Once a government has a monopoly on violence, the concept of public consent is meaningless..”

• Jon Stewart: Americans Don’t Need Guns To Protect Constitutional Rights (ZH)

Donald Trump’s recent return to Butler, PA where he was nearly assassinated due to Secret Service incompetence (or deliberate failure) has got the political left all worked up. Perhaps in part because Thomas Crooks failed to complete his task despite being given every conceivable opportunity to succeed, but also because Elon Musk was there to support the rally. Nothing Musk said was particularly shocking to normal Americans, but his comments on the necessity of the 2nd Amendment as a means to keep the 1st Amendment have outraged Democrats. Coastal progressives in particular have sought to disarm the rest of the nation for decades. Gun control and ultimately gun confiscation are foundational policies that their movement revolves around. The question is, why? Why are they so desperate to violate the Bill of Rights and take firearms away?

They certainly don’t care about people’s safety. If they did, they wouldn’t have cheered on the baseless and violent BLM and Antifa riots. Social media is replete with woke activists calling for the deaths of conservatives. These are not peaceful people seeking nirvana, they are happy to use violence if they think it will get them more power. This is a problem that old-school Democrats like Jon Stewart continue to enable while pretending it doesn’t exist. Stewart, clinging to cultural relevancy on his newly rebooted Daily Show, attempted to lampoon Elon Musk over his assertions on the 2A in Butler, but his strange diatribe about representative democracy is a retro callback to the 1990s and comes off as rather naive. Does Stewart really believe this nonsense? It’s hard to say, but the past few years have made his arguments obsolete.

The 1st Amendment is not protected by the “consent of the governed.” Americans just experienced a three year period of active censorship under the Biden Administration working closely with Big Tech and social media companies. Stewart shrugs off such censorship as if it’s overblown and doesn’t matter, but even Mark Zuckerberg admitted that Facebook was under pressure from the establishment to silence dissent on a number of issues from covid mandates to Hunter Biden’s laptop. Contrary to Stewart’s delusions about democracy, the reality is that the Constitution does not defend itself. According to polls a large number of Democrats desired the erasure of numerous rights during the covid scare. They don’t represent the majority, but there is more than enough of them to add weight to any authoritarian effort. And, the only thing stopping them from getting everything they want is the existence of millions of American gun owners.

It’s not as if the progressive/globalist establishment intends to give up, either. As John Kerry noted during a climate conference held by the WEF in September, their open intent is to shut down free speech rights regardless of the democratic process. If they could get rid of the 1st Amendment, they would. The only reason they haven’t is because the US government doesn’t have a monopoly on force. In Stewart’s fantasy land, a free Republic is a self perpetuating entity that continues on for eternity once it is set in motion, driven only by the goodness and purity of ideology and the voting process. But elections can be subverted by top-down corruption and the system has clearly been broken for some time. One only need to look at the malicious government crackdown on speech happening in the UK to see what happens when a population is disarmed.

There are examples of this across the globe, yet in the world of The Daily Show there is some kind of magical force embedded in “democracy” that protects the populace from abuse. To be sure, the act of violent rebellion is generally a last resort after all other measures have been exhausted. It’s just important to recognize that there’s always a breaking point and America is very close now. Stewart ironically contradicts his own premise when he claims guns “only protect the speech of the people holding the guns.” Yes Jon, that’s why the 2A exists, so that everyone’s speech is protected. Because a representative government can become a tyrannical government as easily as any other government. All it takes is time. The 2A ensures that the “consent of the governed” is never manufactured or forced without the threat of rebellion. Once a government has a monopoly on violence, the concept of public consent is meaningless and the elites will do as they please.

As Thomas Jefferson once wisely stated in reference to the potential for future citizen rebellion: “…What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

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WWIII as their legacy for Trump.

• Biden, Netanyahu Closer to Consensus on Attacking Iran (Antiwar)

President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu moved closer to an understanding on Israel’s plans to attack Iran during their phone call on Wednesday, Axios reported on Thursday. The report, which cited US and Israeli officials, said that the US had accepted Israel is going to launch a major attack on Iran soon and is only concerned that striking certain types of targets could dramatically escalate things. However, Iran has vowed it will respond to any type of Israeli attack, and the situation could easily turn into a full-blown war that would involve the US. An Israeli official told Axios that the Israeli plans are still a bit more aggressive than the US would like. The US has been warning against striking nuclear facilities or oil infrastructure, and recent media reports have said Israel will likely target military infrastructure.

Netanyahu convened his security cabinet on Thursday to brief them on the situation with the US and is expected to get approval for him and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant to set a timeline for the Israeli attack. The Times of Israel reported that the US and Israel will continue conversations on the plans in the coming days, signaling the attack is not imminent. NBC News reported on Tuesday that the US was considering supporting Israel’s attack with direct airstrikes of its own, although US officials said intelligence support was more likely. The Jerusalem Post reported that the US was offering Israel a “compensation package” of military aid and full diplomatic support if it only hits US-approved targets in Iran. The US has also committed to defending Israel from any Iranian response.

Iran fired nearly 200 ballistic missiles at Israel last week in response to a string of Israeli escalations, including the assassination of Hamas’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran. Immediately after the attack, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said the US would work with Israel to ensure Iran suffers “severe consequences.”

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So noble.

• Biden Warns Iran Against Going After Trump – WaPo (RT)

US president Joe Biden has told the White House National Security Council to warn Iran against trying to assassinate Donald Trump, the Washington Post has reported. The message that the US president wanted to be relayed to Tehran was that Washington would treat any attempt on the life of his predecessor, or on that of any other former American official, as an act of war, the paper wrote on Friday. WaPo cited National Security Council spokesman Sean Savett, who insisted that Biden has directed “every resource” to make sure that the Republican Party nominee is well protected and that his security detail receives intelligence data in a timely manner about any dangers he might face. “We consider this a national and homeland security matter of the highest priority, and we strongly condemn Iran for these brazen threats,” Savett stated.

Tehran will face “severe consequences” if it attacks any American citizen, including people who “continue to serve the US or those who formerly served,” he stressed. Late last month, Trump claimed that there were “big threats” on his life, coming from Iran. He said that the two assassination attempts against him in recent months, at a rally in Pennsylvania in July then, in September, at his golf club in Florida, “may or may not involve” Tehran. WaPo, citing sources familiar with the matter, wrote that currently there is no evidence tying Tehran to either of the incidents. The former president’s statement came a day after his team announced that they had a meeting with representatives of US intelligence, who warned them about Tehran’s alleged plans to kill Trump and to “sow chaos” in the country.

Politico said on Friday that it had talked to dozens of officials, who claimed that Iran’s efforts to kill Trump, as well as persons involved in the assassination of top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani, were “even more extensive and aggressive than previously reported.” Soleimani died in a US drone strike outside an airport in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, in January 2020, during Trump’s period in office, and Iran has promised that he would be avenged. However, after Trump was wounded in the ear in an assassination attempt on July 13, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani stressed that Tehran “strongly rejects” any suggestion that it was involved. “Iran is determined to pursue legal action against Trump for his direct role in the crime of assassinating Martyr General Qassem Soleimani,” Kanaani said.

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“About the notion that broadcast licenses should be up for bidding anew, Collins said: “If it causes a conversation in the halls of New York, and panic, maybe I’m all for it.”

• CBS News Faces Integrity Crisis Amid Bias Concerns, Missteps (JTN)

CBS News was once home to giants in the journalism industry. Walter Cronkite – known as “the most trusted man in America” – broadcast from a bomber in WWII on a mission over Germany. Edward R. Murrow changed investigative reporting forever with a 1960 documentary that is still taught in journalism schools today. And Mike Wallace could stir fear in the hearts of interview subjects with a simple phone call from his “60 Minutes” office. But today the news giant once heralded as the “Tiffany network” is blinking with crisis as the neutrality of its anchors is challenged and the integrity of editing at its most famous news magazine has been questioned. Many believe the storm of credibility was born two decades ago when then-Anchor Dan Rather’s supposed scoop on George W. Bush’s Vietnam war service factually crumbled, a miscue so embarrassing it sunk the 60 Minutes II franchise for good.

But a steady run of miscues and clashes in the era of Donald Trump and Middle East war has only inflamed the distrust – at least among conservatives – to scandalous levels and left a cloud lingering over the entire CBS News franchise. The most recent accusations of liberal bias exploded when CBS announced ahead of the vice presidential debate between Republican Sen. JD Vance and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic nominee, that its moderators would not “fact-check” the candidates’ answers. Instead, CBS moderators Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan pulled a fast one, and several times argued with him about assertions. At one point when Vance answered their questions pushing back, they interrupted him and cut his mic off. In another event, The Free Press reported that a memo from Mark Memmott, the network’s director of standards and practices, told CBS reporters not to refer to Jerusalem as being in Israel, though it is the nation’s capital city and home to the U.S. embassy.

But perhaps the most politically incendiary incident, and the one that has Trump calling for CBS to lose its broadcast license, involved “60 Minutes” on Monday, when the network’s flagship news show was caught subbing one rambling answer from Vice President Kamala Harris for a more coherent one. “60 Minutes is a major part of the News Organization of CBS, which has just created the Greatest Fraud in Broadcast History,” Trump posted on social media after the Monday night show aired. “CBS should lose its license, and it should be bid out to the Highest Bidder, as should all other Broadcast Licenses, because they are just as corrupt as CBS — and maybe even WORSE!” The Harris interview was conducted by Bill Whitaker at the Naval Observatory over the weekend and an edited portion aired on “Face the Nation,” also a CBS show.

When Whittaker asked about U.S. diplomacy in Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reaction to the Biden administration’s desire to scale down the war against Hamas, Harris responded with: “Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region.” But when the question aired later on “60 Minutes,” the response by Harris was different. “We are not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end,” the presidential nominee said. In an additional social-media post by Trump, he said: “With me, 60 Minutes does the exact opposite! They take everything I say, realize how totally BRILLIANT it is, and take it out. So, with Kamala they add, with ‘TRUMP’ they delete. Like the Democrat Party, THEY ARE A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY!”

While progressive pundits quickly came to the defense of CBS, saying that edits for the sake of time and “concision” are common in news media, Trump’s assertion that broadcast licenses ought to be in play due to media bias is gaining traction among conservatives. “I want to hold these people responsible. We’re giving them FCC licenses. They don’t deserve them,” Arizona senatorial candidate Kari Lake said Thursday on the “Just the News, No Noise,” TV show with host John Solomon. Broadcast licenses are considered a shared “public common” after the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation, an obscenity case, that the federal government had jurisdiction to manage the airwaves.

Similarly, former Congressman Doug Collins, who has served as legal counsel for Trump, told co-host Amanda Head that some of Trump’s lawyers will be filing an FEC complaint claiming that CBS has been making in-kind political contributions to the Harris-Walz campaign. About the notion that broadcast licenses should be up for bidding anew, Collins said: “If it causes a conversation in the halls of New York, and panic, maybe I’m all for it.” Michael Whatley, the chair of the Republican National Committee, called the behavior of CBS “appalling” during the “John Solomon Reports” podcast Thursday. “CBS and 60 Minutes are lying to the American people about what was said and what was done in that interview,” Whatley said. “This is just the latest example that the media is absolutely not going to play it straight.” Noting the rise of alternative media and falling ratings for broadcast news shows, he added: “There is a reckoning that is taking place with the mainstream, traditional media outlets that’s long overdue.”

Falling ratings are a long-term problem and has caused layoffs – and O’Donnell took a pay cut in 2022 to $3.8 million annually, down from $8 million previously – but as recently as four years ago the vice presidential debate between Harris and then-Vice President Mike Pence, scored 25 percent more viewers than did last month’s Vance-Walz debate. Another problem faced by CBS is its decision in February to lay off senior investigative correspondent Catherine Herridge after she reported stories that irritated progressive activists, including some involving the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, has launched an investigation into Herridge’s termination.

Herridge went on to say that when she interviewed then-President Trump in 2020, CBS News posted the entire interview transcript. And on Wednesday, Herridge weighed in on the “60 Minutes” fiasco, posting on the X social-media platform: “As Trump campaign calls on @60Minutes to release ‘full, unedited transcript’ of Kamala Harris interview … there is precedent.” The New York Post quoted unnamed sources as saying that “Herridge had pushed for the publication of her full transcript at the time and that it was a “special case.” “It’s about transparency and standing behind the integrity of the final edit,” Herridge posted Wednesday.

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How on earth can you hold a free and fair election under such rules?

• 3 Million Non-Citizens Have Texas Driver’s Licenses Allowed As Voter ID (JTN)

Texas GOP Rep. Chip Roy and state Rep. Brian Harrison, R, said that the Texas Department of Public Safety has confirmed there are nearly 3 million non-citizens with driver’s licenses in the state that secretary of state has allowed for use as voter ID. The announcement on Thursday came after an Tuesday advisory by the Texas secretary of state’s elections director, Christina Worrell Adkins, which states that while non-citizen driver’s licenses are not acceptable as voter ID, they can be used if the person is already a registered voter. “BREAKING: according to [Texas Department of Public Safety] – 2,824,613 non-citizens have DL’s, CDL’s, or ID – after working with my friend [Brian Harrison] to run this to ground. That’s why this matters – a lot,” Roy posted on X on Thursday as he shared his earlier post with a Texas Scorecard article about non-citizens using driver’s licenses as voter ID.

“Almost 3 million non-citizens have been issued driver licenses, CDLs, or IDs in Texas,” Harrison wrote Thursday as he shared Roy’s post on X. “The Secretary of State’s office is instructing poll workers to give ballots to people with non-citizen driver licenses. [Chip Roy] is right: ‘this matters a lot.’ Developing..” The secretary of state’s advisory explains that only U.S. citizens are permitted to register to vote and cast ballots in Texas. However, the guidance also states that a person with a non-citizen driver’s license or identification card can vote if they are listed on the voter rolls. If the person is not on the voter rolls and has a non-citizen driver’s license or ID, then they may still vote by provisional ballot.

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Fill up the voter rolls with illegals well in advance and no-one can take them off less than 90 days before the election.

• DOJ Sues Virginia Over Removing Non-Citizens From Voter Rolls (JTN)

The Department of Justice has sued Virginia over removing non-citizens from its voter rolls ahead of the November election. The DOJ announced the suit Friday against the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Virginia State Board of Elections, and the Virginia Commissioner of Elections for allegedly violating the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. The NVRA prevents states from using systematic programs to remove ineligible voters from voter rolls within 90 days of a federal election, according to the DOJ. “As the National Voter Registration Act mandates, officials across the country should take heed of the law’s crystal clear and unequivocal restrictions on systematic list maintenance efforts that fall within 90 days of an election,” Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke said in a statement. “By cancelling voter registrations within 90 days of Election Day, Virginia places qualified voters in jeopardy of being removed from the rolls and creates the risk of confusion for the electorate.

Congress adopted the National Voter Registration Act’s quiet period restriction to prevent error-prone, eleventh hour efforts that all too often disenfranchise qualified voters,” she added. “The right to vote is the cornerstone of our democracy and the Justice Department will continue to ensure that the rights of qualified voters are protected.” Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) slammed the DOJ over the litigation. “With less than 30 days until the election, the Biden-Harris Department of Justice is filing an unprecedented lawsuit against me and the Commonwealth of Virginia, for appropriately enforcing a 2006 law signed by Democrat Tim Kaine that requires Virginia to remove noncitizens from the voter rolls – a process that starts with someone declaring themselves a non-citizen and then registering to vote,” Youngkin said in a statement Friday.

“Virginians – and Americans – will see this for exactly what it is: a desperate attempt to attack the legitimacy of the elections in the Commonwealth, the very crucible of American Democracy. With the support of our Attorney General, we will defend these commonsense steps, that we are legally required to take, with every resource available to us. Virginia’s election will be secure and fair, and I will not stand idly by as this politically motivated action tries to interfere in our elections, period.” The DOJ lawsuit come two weeks after the department sued Alabama for removing ineligible voters from its voter rolls.

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“..the main goal of Russian diplomacy is now “crisis management and the prevention of… a truly large-scale conflict.”

• NATO Could Have Prevented Ukraine Conflict – Hungary FM (RT)

The current standoff between Russia and the West could have been avoided if NATO and the US had engaged in serious talks on Moscow’s demand for security guarantees, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has argued. In December 2021, two months before Russia launched its military operation in Ukraine, it submitted a list of security proposals to NATO and the US, insisting that the bloc withdraw its military infrastructure to the 1997 borders. The key point of the document was to halt NATO’s expansion, particularly regarding Ukraine, which has long sought to join the military bloc. However, the bloc rejected the proposal, citing its “open-door policy” on new members. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that one of the key reasons for the conflict was the threat of Kiev’s potential NATO membership.

In an interview with RIA Novosti on Saturday, Szijjarto suggested that the Russian terms could have served as a basis for avoiding the Ukraine conflict. “I remember those times. I think that what was missing there was a serious discussion… I do believe that if someone has an issue… then it should be discussed. And these discussions have not taken place, unfortunately,” the diplomat said. Szijjarto acknowledged that any debate on what might have happened is now moot, but stressed that he wishes “those dialogues had taken place. Because if they had taken place, we might not be in the situation we are right now.” In May, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said Moscow’s proposal on security guarantees was no longer on the table, and that the main goal of Russian diplomacy is now “crisis management and the prevention of… a truly large-scale conflict.”

Szijjarto, along with other top Hungarian officials, have repeatedly criticized the West’s approach to the Ukraine crisis, calling on both sides to reach a ceasefire and start peace talks. He has also blasted Western sanctions against Moscow as ineffective and crippling the EU economy. Russia has never ruled out talks on Ukraine, and Putin said in June that Moscow would immediately agree to a ceasefire and start peace talks if Kiev were to withdraw troops from the Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions and commit to neutrality. Later, he said that any engagement was out of the question as long as Ukrainian troops occupy part of Russia’s Kursk Region.

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“..options for fighting Russia are being continuously worked out within the bloc, military budgets of member states are being boosted, and Western economies are being militarized..”

• NATO Planning New Russia Strategy – Politico (RT)

NATO’s defense ministers will meet in Brussels next week to start rethinking the bloc’s decades-old strategy on relations with Russia, Politico has reported Despite ties between NATO and Russia hitting “rock bottom” after the outbreak of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022, the ‘Founding Act’ with Moscow remains in force within the US-led alliance, the outlet noted in an article on Friday. The 1997 document, which states that NATO and Russia share a common goal to “build a stable, peaceful and undivided Europe,” does not reflect the current situation, Politico wrote. During its summit in Washington in July, NATO labeled Moscow the “most significant and direct threat to Allies’ security,” while Russia continues to insist that the bloc’s eastward expansion is an “existential danger” for the country.

NATO countries are now trying to “map out different elements of [the Russia] strategy and advance the debates inside the alliance that takes us to subjects like the future of the NATO-Russia Founding Act,” a senior US official was quoted by Politico as saying. “It is time to now craft a new strategy in terms of specific positions” of the member states, the official added. Lower-level discussions on the new Russia policy have been underway for months within the bloc, and next week the issue will be addressed at the ministerial level, the report said. NATO previously announced that it planned to formulate a new strategy before its summit in The Hague, to be held next summer. “Right now we have to have an understanding across the alliance… that the [Founding Act] and the NATO-Russia Council were built for a different era, and I think the allies are prepared to say that was a different era in our relationship with Russia, and therefore something new is merited,” the US official explained.

The official described the strategy as a “political exercise,” adding that its military implications are expected to be “limited.” According to Politico, there are differences among members when it comes to the new policy towards Moscow, as some are concerned that an overly aggressive “signal” could “destabilize” Russia. There are also questions over Hungary and Slovakia, which see “strategic value” in engaging with Moscow, despite being NATO members, it added. Earlier this week, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Grushko said NATO is no longer hiding the fact that it is bracing for a potential military conflict with Moscow. Possible options for fighting Russia are being continuously worked out within the bloc, military budgets of member states are being boosted, and Western economies are being militarized, he said. It was not Russia but NATO that took “the path of confrontation” by refusing to engage in dialogue, Grushko insisted. Because of this, the US-led bloc bears full responsibility for a “major European security crisis” caused by the Ukraine conflict, he added.

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“We reset our workforce levels to align with our financial reality and to a more focused set of priorities..”

• Boeing To Fire 17,000 Employees (RT)

The US manufacturer Boeing has announced plans to eliminate around 10% of its workforce over the coming months, as the aerospace giant’s losses continue to mount and a strike undercuts the production of its best-selling planes. The job cuts will include executives and managers in addition to ordinary employees, according to a memo shared by the company’s new president and CEO Kelly Ortberg on Friday. The corporation employs nearly 170,000 people worldwide. “Our business is in a difficult position, and it is hard to overstate the challenges we face together,” said Ortberg, who became CEO of the troubled aircraft maker two months ago. A month after he took the helm, 33,000 hourly workers went on strike. “We reset our workforce levels to align with our financial reality and to a more focused set of priorities,” he added.

The “tough” decision is aimed at completing structural changes that will ensure the company’s ability to stay competitive and execute the customers’ orders over the long term, the CEO emphasized. Ortberg added that Boeing is also delaying its program to develop the 777X airplane until 2026 and halting production of its commercial 767 freighters in 2027 after fulfilling remaining orders. Earlier this week, Boeing said it had filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board against the union that represents its striking West Coast factory workers. The company emphasized that the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers had failed to bargain in good faith during the four-week work stoppage, adding that it was “issuing misinformation to its members about the status of negotiations.”

The company earlier withdrew a contract offer it had made to the striking machinists, saying that further negotiations “do not make sense at this point.” The union had previously stated that Boeing had refused to improve wages, retirement plans and vacation or sick leave. In a preliminary report on the financial results issued on Friday, the corporation said it expects to have an operating cash outflow of $1.3 billion in the third quarter, and that it will report a loss of $9.97 per share.

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  • October 13, 2024 at 8:31 am #171349
    Raúl Ilargi Meijer
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    Max Ernst Ubu Imperator 1923   • Kamala Unwinding (Kunstler) • US Election ‘Too Close To Call’ In Swing States – WSJ Poll (RT) • The Scent of a H
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle October 13 2024]

    October 13, 2024 at 10:07 am #171352
    aspnaz
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    The Scent of a Harris Panic in the Air (Victor Davis Hanson)

    Sure, like either Trump or Harris have anything to do with the campaign, with the PR, with the anything the Jews are spending their money on to support these disckheads. Even Vance the Ponce is a Jew puppet, there is nobody there making decisions, which is why none of these people will be making decisions after the election. Get real folks, stop living in fantasy land.

    October 13, 2024 at 10:12 am #171353
    aspnaz
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    “Once a government has a monopoly on violence, the concept of public consent is meaningless..”

    All governments have a monopoly on violence, even in the USA, although the country folks somehow think that their combined retail purchases of guns will somehow outsmart the government’s 100,000 times more purchasing power of not only guns but of people happy to kill you with them, people who are not worries about having too much to lose. Jesus, the American alternative press is as bad as the MSM.

    October 13, 2024 at 10:17 am #171354
    aspnaz
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    WWIII as their legacy for Trump.

    • Biden, Netanyahu Closer to Consensus on Attacking Iran (Antiwar)

    Hang on, Trump has already declared his position, in usual retard fashion, that when it comes to Israel, WW3 is a good thing and he will support their use of US troops, pilots, bombs …. basically Trump will support Israel’s commanding the USA to bomb Iran and start WW3. Trump will solve the Ukraine conflict, but not the Jew conflict. Trump is a puppet with Netanyahu’s arm up his arse. Biden is the same – what would you expect from a country run by Jews (otherwise known as Zionists) who tell these people what to do?

    October 13, 2024 at 10:30 am #171355
    aspnaz
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    Trump’s Toughest Foe Could Be Harris Lawyer Marc Elias (Sperry)

    Wow, still pretending that there are fair trials in the USA; does anybody really believe this shite anymore? So we are expected to believe that this is a fair fight between foes in a neutral environment – like the gladiators versus the drugged lions? Believe me, cheating has been happeneing forever, that is humanity. Unfavoured gladiator, ooops, someone forgot to feed LSD to the lion.

    Sure, we even believe that men can magically become women, we believe that the government and judiciary is not totally corrupt, so tell me more, how will this fight play out. Whoever buys the DOJ – the Jews – controls the judges, all of whom had their balls removed at birth.

    Have you seen how a dog without balls develops, it is kind of sad – it is like women pretending to be men, like the big fat hairy lesbians who look like fat depositories, the ones who think they are so tough, they are so desperate to be men, Sad.

    I am so tough, I am a woman who can be a man and emulate a man, so I deserve to captain an NZ navy ship (RIP)…. although the use of the word Navy is a bit arrogant, 3 ships don’t make a Navy, but in NZ 3 lesbians “trying to be men” is apparently the definiton of Navy. Country folk, they have their own beliefs, a bit like Christians.

    October 13, 2024 at 10:38 am #171356
    aspnaz
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    WWIII as their legacy for Trump.

    • Biden, Netanyahu Closer to Consensus on Attacking Iran (Antiwar)

    Trump’s legacy will be the same as his legacy from his last turn as POTUS; totally inept, but fantastically arrogant, wanker. Why would it be any different? Because the Jews who back him have addes the totally arrogant RFK Jr, JD Vance (did they breed him in the last 4 years from HRC bio?), that military woman who looks attractive to men who haven’t had sex for 30 years, etc. Trump’s legacy is irrelevant, he wants the rich Jews to help his real estate business.

    October 13, 2024 at 10:45 am #171357
    oxymoron
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    Alpha Victim

    October 13, 2024 at 11:41 am #171358
    Dr. D
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    Imperator: It’s Tops!

    “’2nd Moon’ Orbits Earth After Getting Stuck In Planet’s Gravity – Here’s Where It Came From

    In the category: they’re up to something. You want to explain to me how you saw an object this tiny? How it was captured in a stable orbit, since that’s a random arc + speed that’s a billion to one? Why since if that arc decays and it falls to earth, it’ll be a Tunguska event, which is what you say every other day for every other rock, for about 25 years? That we have to “Armageddon” send astronauts up there with space nukes. (“Now that we’ve discovered space, should we bomb it?”) AND, since it’s tinier than a meteor, what makes it a moon when you’ve never used that word before?

    How about this: it’s an alien mothership, like the Oumuamua was? It came in and is telling governments here to knock off the nuke talk, or we’ll photon torpedo your -ss. …OR, this is SUPPOSED to be that kind of object, because the last made-up fantasy distraction is a fake alien invasion.

    In any case, not real, not a moon, and since there’s not one relevant fact, not a story. Ask again.

    “Former Harvard Pres Claudine Gay Receives ‘Leadership And Courage’ Award Despite Controversy-Plagued Tenure

    Leadership and courage for getting fired for plagiarism. Sounds like Harvard.

    “Feds Find Million In Cash While Investigating Staffing Firm Supplying Haitians To Charleroi, PA Food Factory

    But open Black, chained slavery’s not a racket or nothin’.

    Elon needs to take notes: You see, THEY don’t have any problems. This is all pretty fine. Government loves it, protects it, PAYS for it even. THAT is the kind of cash you need to bribe to get things done. So, Call center Managers: compete with raw slave labor where the US government is PAYING the company $1,000/mo to own the slaves that work for free. …And can be summarily shot if mouthy. No? No corporate package can compete with that? Guess you’ll stay unemployed then.

    “Wray shaking”

    You know who else who’s hands are shaking on camera? Nutsy Mileikowsky. Seems like he’s under pressure.

    “Can Letitia be criminally charged?”

    Of course she can. And she should, as she would charge us for 1/10th as much behavior. But thanks to Republicans, that will never happen.

    ““She ends as an historical prank on her own country. It must be deeply demoralizing to be used like that in front of the whole world.”

    I think she knows that. Body language people point out, she’s just a good-time gal. Likes to party, have sex, not take things too seriously, and laugh. No crime in that. But both she, and others have preyed upon her considerable weakness. Now you see why Trump was supposed to Coup the 2020, as the White Hats signaled they were going to do, or rather, have a contested election, take power that quite probably they had won, but then open a Civil War that breaks the United States the way Britain set up for us in 1860, sink our bond market, erase the dollar, and blame the world default on us. Joe and Kamala weren’t the best candidates: look at their poll numbers: they were categorically the WORST candidates, and least liked. They were the most EXPENDABLE candidates, the ones Podesta and the DNC didn’t mind having Trump hunt down and hang as rebels, so that they could get the EU/WEF war goin’ on over here. She’s just a puppet from that moment, BECAUSE they hated her most, BECAUSE they thought she was the most worthless candidate in the whole DNC, that she became VP. And from that moment they got locked into this moment.

    What happens if we DON’T have your Civil War? FBI, domestic terrorists? Where? Show me.

    None of this will make sense unless you can at least make up and explain to me something similar to my theory above. You don’t pick the worst, most hated candidate in America, one even the Black community can’t get behind, that you KNOW that, as a cast-iron fact wins 2% with everything WEF Millions thrown for her, and STILL pick and force install her. Why don’t you do that? Because then this happens. If Kamala lives, she’s a roadblock to everything after.

    Speaking of: why haven’t they killed her and blamed it on MAGA yet? Seems like a lock. They can halt the election if neither candidate is alive, right? That’s not really voting.

    And I hear chatter about if//when they take out either/both, then your 3 months early vote then counts FOR THE PARTY anyway. Does it? I don’t see why. What legal basis would that ever rest on? “Parties” don’t Constitutionally exist. There’s zero parameter for “Party” in our root process. In fact, it’s supposed to be State by State. (as per Electoral College, etc). In fact, there’s even an argument, he can be elected, kill Trump the day after, then they couldn’t Inaugurate Vance, although that legal case is much weaker.

    But where’s the chatter? I don’t see anything. So they have something planned, and I’m looking for their pre-releases, weird, pointless comments like the second moon story. I don’t see them yet, and also didn’t see them before Butler, but Luongo did. The world was frozen, nobody moved, everybody was perfectly relaxed and unworried about their impending loss, just like now. And then, pop.

    “• US Election ‘Too Close To Call’ In Swing States – WSJ Poll (RT)

    Yes, after a whole election cycle saying if GOP got over 6% of the Black vote, Democrats would never win again, they have 4 times that 6%, but that never happened, history runs backwards and forwards and math is optional. Lemon goes to NY CITY, New Jersey, and everyone hates Kamala with a passion. …But it’s a close election. She has visibly lost black voters, women voters, and latino voters…but it’s a close election. …Because she made up all those losses with Kangaroos, mate! She’s winning the demographic of cats and dogs, when we call them on the phone.

    Explain in tiny words. We know she’s lost, or sagged in every demographic, one by one. She hasn’t made UP a demographic anywhere, like Texans. Yet all 20 groups, which added each lost 2%, equals she’s been GAINING over all and matching Trump, who is gaining on his side.

    This is Wall Street MBS, AAA bond-slicing math here. Take 10,000 bonds each worth BBB, add them together, and when you’re done, we have 20,000 bonds, each AA-. Magic!

    It’s not close. When you’ve openly lost very demographic, one by one, that means you’ve lost the whole. But she does have the Porn vote, and that’s a huge demo in American. Now if only she could get the Diabetes vote, she’s be over the top.

    Speaking of, doctors to look into, along with the “Low fat diet” that removed all critical nutrition, added carbs, and allowed business to invent deadly chemical additives into all American food, they have discovered a new oil, C15, that may become a vitamin. What is it related to? Fatty liver disease and insulin resistance, two of RKF’s MAHA list. Where do you find it? All traditional foods, fatty fish, cod liver oil, I expect, but also real butter, not the pale sapped stuff you get here, hard cheeses of certain types and so on. So easy to get. But removed from the “Modern” diet. Process of C15 lack is to break down cellular structure, so widespread and not as direct to examine.

    Anyway, still thinking we’re going to have an election? Why? Is shutting off the power that hard? DoD who is happy to kill thousands and giggle about it on TV wouldn’t, couldn’t do that?

    Univision, “undecided Latino voters” in Clark County, Nevada”

    Fake candidate, Fake talk, fake events, fake country.

    “Town Hall”, fake word. Worn as a Skin Suit. There was some other word yesterday too….but I forget it. Everything’s fake, gay, lie here, so it hardly stands out. Did you see this though:

    Kamala’s “Men Vote” ad. OMG, Wtf? Apparently they have never MET a man? Ever? Every statement in there is a painful non sequitur, “I’m a man because I was born on the 22nd and eat peaches!” Um, what? Yes, you can BE a man doing that, but that’s unrelated to what makes you a man. All subtle stereotypes, and like every actor is gay. …Which is one way to be a man, btw. But LYING about it: that’s not “being a man.”

    Like a skin suit, the ad is some kind of warped animatronic robot, imitating a simulacrum of humanity, getting it close, but in the uncanny valley of awkward and disturbing. What was that, “The First T100 robots looked like rubber, we could pick them out right away”?

    Their sense of having mentally abstracted reality out of life leads to them seeing all things as mere stereotypes. Take 1 part black, 5 parts woman, add a dental hygienist, shake thoroughly… that’s it. That’s all you are. Socialism, where you are Tabula Rasa, can just be social engineered one way or another, by anyone with adequate “will to power”. This is why every time Conservatives speak they say, “Who told you that? Who’s your leader?” That is, Who is your master, your Engineer, in the sense of “Aliens; Covenant”. No HUMAN thinks, does, or exists on their own, they are merely flesh-robots to be programmed and discarded, which is the essence of our different views on the world. Feudal Vs Enlightenment, Socialism vs Democratic, etc. But it’s Alien Ant Farmer vs Tribal. Empire vs Rebel Alliance. Same thing, over and over.

    What I really ask is WHY? You were BORN a human: at least I THINK so, you LOOK like a human. You were in a crib, suckled on your mother. So WHERE did you get this totally alien idea-set from? Why did you ultimately choose that and not the “human”, tribal, organic way of doing and approaching things? As you’re human, and humans are great imitators, but really, how did you able to imitate these alien bug thingies? You know: with no soul or heart. “Diabolical Narcisissism”: purge all love and God from inside yourself. Discard it voluntarily. (Trauma)

    “Others wrote that the recent news is a warning from Democrats about their own insurrection, this time it being real and violent.”

    Actually, that sounds really good. At this point, with a proper election, and them being the rebels, the tables would turn and the Government would win with little resistance. Is that a good thing? Sure Republicans are in power, but the Government still exists as 1/3 the country. It ain’t gonna kill itself, and neither did Epstein.

    “• Alien Enemies Act is Not a Viable Legal Basis for “Operation Aurora” (Turley)

    There’s like 20 lines to this. One: DID we ever END the last act of war? I’ve heard it said we’re under Emergency Powers, no? Two, DOES it require an act of war? Says who? Why would that – any of that – be necessary? Ever? Why not do the same thing but call it under the color of like the 20 laws they’re breaking anyway? They’re literally not citizens, that means nothing like “German/Japanese” camps apply. They have granted by court some rights to Aliens, but I don’t see why, if you’re not a Citizen, you have no rights, sorry, problem solved. Our laws apply to OUR people, duh. You have full protection of the law IN YOUR HOME COUNTRY, not gallivanting about the world. Go to your home country and you’re perfectly safe.

    I THINK being in a gang, which requires innocent murder to join, is a crime. I THINK running violent extortion rackets is a crime. I THINK dealing thousand kilos of drugs at a pop is a crime. I’m not trying to expel people running a taco truck: they’re last on my list and I probably won’t get to them. Why use this law at all? When they are picked up for common crimes, we discover they are not citizens either, and expel them. WHY would I jail them here it’s expensive, when I can make their nation jail them?

    Of course, we COULD pass a death penalty for shoplifting for non-citizen crimes, and then they’d all WANT to go home, real fast. Because “Commit a serial murder, running a multi-million drug family, worst case is you get deported?” I am SO there. I’d fly back in and commit crimes all day! TWICE as hard. And our worst prisons are Club Med to them. They ain’t skeered. But they ARE skeered of being shot by Cleetus.

    “Biden, Netanyahu Closer to Consensus on Attacking Iran (Antiwar)

    Great, but what ACTUALLY happened? Israel’s done f– all. They blame us because the purpose of the U.S. worldwide is to be at fault and responsible for everything. Want to remove some kangaroos from Queensland, have too many snakes? Blame the United States. Like to commit a genocide in Indonesia? Blame the United States. Hey, last I heard that was YOUR country. If you’re not sovereign and are just our b—h, then go before the UN and make that statement and admit it publicly we can all get on the same page. Oh, so you’re BOTH totally sovereign, completely powerful AND totally subservient as a FemDom gimp to the United States? Really.

    This was in Jimmy Dore there, above, all enemies must BOTH be totally weak, stupid and inept, “Russia is a gas station” and ALSO totally, infinitely powerful, controlling everything with a mere thought! Elections! They run every election worldwide! All of them! That’s how not-powerful they are. And it’s because they control every election that we’re all here…not elected by them and fighting…yup.

    All things = their Opposites. Every day.

    Back to Israel, remove your idiot-goggles and LOOK. What are they DOING, what is happening? Outside of your abstractions and words? As said, Israel is collapsing, they don’t have to lift a finger. No economy, no tourism, no farming (north), no Intel factory, no ports. Everyone believes in Israel so much they’re all leaving and going home. They are losing every war on every block of every front they open, winning zero of them. No air defense, no tanks.

    Btw, Iran, who has no nukes, we’re going to bomb their nukes, with the nukes Israel doesn’t have either. …Just so we’re clear. Israel stands up in public: “We are going to bomb you with the nukes we definitely Do Not Have. Be scared!”

    Alexander, Sachs, are like “Israel should do” XYZ, call a victory and withdraw for the flip side as every general has told them with every war game they would definitely, totally lose, and perhaps all Israel as a state as well. That’s ESPECIALLY if the “war” lasted longer than a few weeks, like 6. You schmarty-pentz, you IYI, NUTSY DOESN’T CARE.

    HE WILL GO TO PRISON IF WAR STOPS.

    That’s it. That’s the ONLY fact on the field, and a perfectly simple one. Well-known. There is no Israel, that’s the ONLY fact you need to know. All the rest is just pointless jabbering and PR. Why is that so hard to understand? Because leaders never act in their self-interest before? OF COURSE he will kill all 30 million people in the middle east to skip jail for a few months. Duh. Have you never met a psycho before? They don’t mean nothin’ to him.

    So what is Israel DO-ING? Nothing. They’re losing. They did NOT attack Iran. They blew hot air out their lie-hole. The whole thing is the only way Nutsy can keep from going to jail is for the US to start WWIII on his behalf, so of course he did that. Aaaaaaaaaaand, then what did they DO? What did Biden DO? Nothing. He told them they’re all on their own, we are withdrawing ships.

    Also we are surrendering Ukraine to Russia, so we are enhancing RUSSIA, Iran’s backer. Iran is WINNING, getting stronger. By leaps. In S400s but a ton of other things, including this new Russian treaty. So Biden Surrendered to Iran, as it were, on the field. And no surprise, we shouldn’t be there in the first place, but how is he going to do that? You can’t have Cheeto do that, it has to be somebody else’s fault.

    All America (and world) has been propagandized with lies for 100 years, but their whole lifetimes from birth. If they just told you the truth, 2 billion heads would cry out in the Force™ then explode, like in “Kingsmen”. You can’t get that far. All those people work in every typewriter of every room in government. You can only get THIS far. So? Then get this far. And they did. We ain’t doin’ s–t. Get with it. America is NOT in Revelations. We are NOT in the war in Har Megeddo. We are home cooking beans.

    “• Biden, Netanyahu Closer to Consensus on Attacking Iran (Antiwar)

    Are they? Did they? Were you in the room? What actually HAPPENED? A: Nothing. We surrendered in two new places, over two more countries, that’s what happened.

    “• Biden Warns Iran Against Going After Trump – WaPo (RT)

    I mean, not that Iran wouldn’t like that, but now is not the time. This is the staging. So they’re going to shoot down Trump Force One, which is a fat -ss target, then blame Iran? Sounds about right. Same as shooting DumDum in Butler, then immediately electing Haley with a Cheney chaser, immediately attacking Iran (coincidental buzz same week). They THINK the redneck base will go all hostile, let’s invade Iran, because the Globalists are such mouthbreathing Retards and too inbred from sleeping with their mother. They haven’t put their finger in the wind in 100 years. Aspnaz aside, that’s such a laughable idea, I have to turn to cartoons to come up with anything that removed from reality. Uh, no. Iran who?

    Oh the CHRISTIANS are going to fight on behalf of Israel? What Christians? If one in 300 have been inside a church in a year, I’ll give you $100. That’s a mere 1 million men at that level, and the number in Red, pro-war, military, military age is a tiny fraction of that. You’re now down to 10,000 candidates, all of which see what you’re doing in NC and Gaza. Now I had to use a lot of words to explain what they’d explain in one. “NO.”

    Even the people IN the military don’t believe the government. That’s reserved for blue haired PMCs in their pajamas in Fairfax.

    “• CBS News Faces Integrity Crisis Amid Bias Concerns, Missteps (JTN)

    Dore points out from his many guests that Reporters were supposed to be pissed-off blue collar smart kids, attacking power and privilege. Monopoly aside, what they’ve done is hand-pick all their talent from the Ivy League schools, sorting only for privilege and class loyalty. Then they wear “reporter” and “Rebel” like a skin-suit. Still bleeding.

    Rage On Behalf of the Machine. Taylor Lorenz, Swiss Boarding school girl, editor if the NY Times, crying on camera for being weak and bullied. Aw, she’s so powerless! Why are all you powerful, powerful unemployed Waffle House fry cooks picking on her?

    “• NATO Planning New Russia Strategy – Politico (RT)

    That is, “Losing”. As said, the U.S. is the top and only nation in NATO. No one else is providing s—t. And we’re 8% economy. Europe is still like “But you’re going to fight this war for us for free, aren’t you?”

    No, Virginia, there is no Santa Claus. You believed us, you fecking idjits. Sucks to be you, you weren’t warned? Never read a book before?

    “• Boeing To Fire 17,000 Employees (RT)

    Not that Boeing doesn’t suck donkey —-, but this is, like Dodge, like Harley, SPECIFICALLY ATTACKED AND INJECTED. Why? Destroy all the diamond industries and bring the U.S. down to Europe’s level. That’s what “Socialism” is. All equal. Equally poor, miserable, and attacking each other. So they are ATTACKING Boeing. ERASING Boeing. This is an effect of WAR, same as if they bombed Boeing’s factory floor.

    Get it? Try to add that to your sentences before you comment on these things, Disney, etc.

    Speaking of, everyone in Disney was fired. Feige still exists. All Star Wars projects silently halted. Guess they’re tired of failing, losing money…but more importantly, NOT engineering the human social structure. Every time they put out a movie, we reject it, AND they become more visible. Exposed. If it were only losing, they wouldn’t care. But we’re pointing them out every time they act. I hope they just lose and don’t become more clever about it. “D&D” was a totally woke, modern movie that got away with it and did it well, and I don’t want to see them able to run a Woke-Track of films persisting for decades like colon cancer.

    Speaking of winning, as we are winning in Disney, Marvel, everywhere, look on the bright side of the 99% pure rot they tried to put out. “IronHeart” seemed like a lock, easy to make movie. Spiderman was really good, its own thing. They gave up on Marvels. So the “Future is Female” Avengers is dead, dead, dead. Young Avengers (clearly planned) was pulled and is being re-based. Replaced by Dr. Doom as Downey again? Replacement Black Panther got creamed. The new Black Widow I think was a great, interesting character, extremely well-played by Pugh as Yelena. Just as Hawkeye was passable and just needs a better script. The new Captain America was mixed but his own 1st movie was really surprising, very based, just needed to be more personable. Gave up entirely on Daredevil and were forced to a run a reboot nuking all the Woke and re-focused on the original. Deadpool is always solid and was again.

    We’re slowly grinding them into complete submission, while waking up and powering up ourselves. Would you like it some other way, or does it always have to be “Them” while you sit on the couch?

    The country isn’t “Them” I say every day. It’s YOU. What are YOU doing? The country is YOU, YOUR job. Don’t worry about what the other guy is doing, what are YOU doing?

    October 13, 2024 at 11:48 am #171359
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    Elections are theatre for retards. You’re ruled by jews who control and corrupt everything thru moneymagic. Doesn’t matter who “wins”, you fuckin lose 4 more years of jew inversion, perversion, destruction, debt, war, sickness and death.

    October 13, 2024 at 12:10 pm #171360
    oxymoron
    Participant

    “I’m man enough to raw-dog a flight” could be the moment the black swan watchers have been waiting for.

    October 13, 2024 at 1:58 pm #171361
    those darned kids
    Participant

    america has been blabberwashed.

    October 13, 2024 at 2:18 pm #171362
    those darned kids
    Participant

    October 13, 2024 at 2:56 pm #171366
    zerosum
    Participant

    A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY!

    Accusations require proof, and action

    Overcome all the gimmicks, traps, and frauds, (that you have proof), or shut up.

    The mail-in ballots went out long ago and early votes are getting cast by the day.

    The overseas ballots that require no US address or voter verification are flooding in by the millions and four years of open borders has 10-million illegal aliens (at a minimum) dispersed around the nation, great gobs of them planted in swing states, processed through the DMVs and social services — with the requisite automatic voter registration — their ballots already pre-bundled for harvest.
    ———–

    Last battle. Pot calling the kettle black

    Fill up the voter rolls with illegals.
    What if the Illegals vote for Trump!!

    • Dems Won’t Certify Election if Trump Wins (HUSA)
    He would be declared a winner only if he cheats. “[Trump] is doing whatever he can to try to interfere with the process, whether we’re talking about manipulating electoral college counts in Nebraska or manipulating the vote count in Georgia or imposing other kinds of impediments,” the politician told the news source. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., also questioned whether Trump would win the election fair and square, telling Axios that she doesn’t know “what kind of shenanigans he is planning.”
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    Kamala Harris, (D), and Donald Trump, (R), are incapable of operating their gov.
    that is in decline
    and is bankrupt,
    and is lying about the truth/facts
    and that is in two wars, Israel and Ukraine,
    and trying to repair the damages caused by two hurricanes.
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    WWIII
    The Times of Israel reported     that the US and Israel will continue conversations on the plans in the coming days, signaling the attack is not imminent. NBC News reported on Tuesday that the US was considering supporting Israel’s attack with direct airstrikes of its own, although US officials said intelligence support was more likely.
    The Jerusalem Post reported that the US was offering Israel a “compensation package” of military aid and full diplomatic support if it only hits US-approved targets in Iran.
    The US has also committed to defending Israel from any Iranian response.
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    October 13, 2024 at 3:02 pm #171367
    citizenx
    Participant

    Are you transgender enough to vote for a real man?

    Are you gay enough to vote for hetero og cisgender man who’s not afraid to love pussy?

    Are you Jewish enough to vote against Israel ?

    Real men vote boop-

    https://x.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1845240866933449005

    Are you oxymoron enough to beta cuck being a bottom down under ?

    October 13, 2024 at 3:05 pm #171368
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Shills For Harris: Kamala Townhall For “Undecided Latino Voters” Curated With Avowed Supporters
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/scandal-kamala-townhall-undecided-latino-voters-curated-avowed-supporters

    The event was ostensibly for “undecided latino voters” but Tracey quickly revealed that to be fradulent…

    audience members were flown in from around the country at Univision’s expense. Which is a bit odd, because there would certainly have been plenty of genuine “undecided Latino voters” in Clark County, Nevada who I’m sure would’ve been more than happy to ask Kamala Harris a question.

    For the record, I don’t think she actually used a teleprompter, despite social media allegations to that effect. I can verify that the event was already contrived enough as it is — no need to embellish any phony stories.

    You’re supposedly a journalist, right?

    And you’ve got this great story about a contrived fake town hall meeting.

    Naturally, being a TRUE JOURNALIST, you check nothing BUT effusively, righteously, encourage us not to even think that there could have been a teleprompter as well – preposterous!!! Don’t expose yourself as low-caste, low-value, by thinking it.

    You had one job. oh hey, what’s this?

    October 13, 2024 at 3:09 pm #171369
    those darned kids
    Participant

    are you mature enough to say something without saying, “caca, poopoo, peepee”?

    October 13, 2024 at 3:09 pm #171370
    Oroboros
    Participant

    • NATO Planning New Russia Strategy

    The Collective West just wants to LOOT Russia.

    They have for CENTURIES.

    Simple as that.

    Has nothing to do with “ideology” or “values”

    Simple out right theft

    England, France, Germany and then Duh’merica

    Empire of Lies had 50%+ of World GDP in 1945

    Now Duh’merica has 8%

    Oh how the Mighty have Fallen.

    Twelve time zones of luscious resources to plunder and rape for.

    That’s all you need to keep inmind about the West.

    But the West smells like a Corpse now.

    And cannot be rescued, it’s too far gone, mentally, spiritually, financially

    It’s like viewing a gigantic Open Casket Funeral.

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    October 13, 2024 at 3:16 pm #171371
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Yep, sure does

    That’s a remarkable observation…

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    October 13, 2024 at 3:19 pm #171372
    my parents said know
    Participant

    Oxy- “full-throated” wasn’t bad, either. That one gave me the feeling that producers of this gem gave us all a wink. How did Lalala break into the political world, again?

    October 13, 2024 at 3:21 pm #171373
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Priorities

    FEMA: Disaster Relief No Longer About Emergency Response, It’s About ‘Disaster Equity’.

    The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is supposed to be the government’s premier emergency relief organization in times of disaster, like the situation now faced by victims of Hurricane Helene’s aftermath in North Carolina and Tennessee.

    But according to the FEMA website, the agency now places higher priority on instituting Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity guidelines than on easing the suffering of Americans displaced by disaster.

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    October 13, 2024 at 3:24 pm #171374
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    October 13, 2024 at 3:24 pm #171375
    citizenx
    Participant

    Sunday I’m a hoochie coochie Man blues !

    I’m a Man (with Bo Diddley) (Live at Academy of Music, New York, NY, March 25, 1972)

    Grateful Dead – I’m A Man, feat. Spencer Davis & Bruce Hornsby (Live 1989, Inglewood, CA, Dec 10)
    Master Davis re-emerges perhaps from the most unexpected of all places… Joining the GRATEFUL DEAD on stage for the Lady “Ma” Rainey classic “C.C. Rider” as well as the SDG Legend… This was his second stint with the band as a Guest, since he was already featured in the February of the same year… Furthermore, by this time, Bruce Hornsby was part and parcel of the GRATEFUL DEAD Ecosystem…

    On the Night, Garcia starts the celebrations with a superb Guitar solo followed by a SCORCHING B3 solo by Mydland… The fun continues with an unexpected surprise… A Strat SOLO from Davis, something he has hardly done in the early days… Goes without saying, Bruce on the obligatory Accordion all throughout…

    A Superb Take…
    Enjoy Loud…

    Democrats, lisp harder bitches.

    October 13, 2024 at 3:37 pm #171376
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    October 13, 2024 at 3:37 pm #171377
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    October 13, 2024 at 3:39 pm #171378
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Curing World Hunger

    There’s an App for that!

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    October 13, 2024 at 3:40 pm #171379
    Dora
    Participant

    What’s happening in North Carolina and eastern Tennessee, and why is FEMA seeminly hampering rescues and reconstruction? From Ginger Breggin about lithium and quartz in those mountains. Scroll down to the middle of the article headlined with

    “Lithium in the Mountain Mines and the Department of Defense Wants It”
    https://gingerbreggin.substack.com/p/appalachia-murder-always-happens

    I found this about the mining and Doug Emhoff on another site.
    How Kamala Harris’s Husband Doug Emhoff Profits From North Carolina Lithium Mines

    How Kamala Harris’s Husband Doug Emhoff Profits From North Carolina Lithium Mines

    October 13, 2024 at 3:41 pm #171380
    Oroboros
    Participant

    DEI Jigsaw Puzzle Solution

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    October 13, 2024 at 3:45 pm #171381
    Oroboros
    Participant

    I never noticed that..

    And look what Californicate is!

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    October 13, 2024 at 3:52 pm #171382
    Dora
    Participant

    • Biden, Netanyahu Closer to Consensus on Attacking Iran (Antiwar)
    • Biden Warns Iran Against Going After Trump – WaPo (RT)

    Sounds almost like Biden is setting up a “two-fer”: try another hit on Trump, blame Iran, start WWIII. What could go wrong?

    October 13, 2024 at 3:58 pm #171383
    Noirette
    Participant

    Trump, if elected, will ‘wind down’ – ‘stop’ the war in Ukraine.

    (That might be v. difficult, heh, whatever, we will see.) Possibly, something might be arranged, Idk.

    He will support Genocidal Is – ra – hell to the hilt, while searching for some ‘peace’ solution that won’t be found. (Right now he is blaming Iran for attacks on his life!) He will engage violently in the ME, BIG TIME.

    Biden cancelled the killing and control in Afghanistan, the supposed ‘war’ on ‘Islamist’ terrorism, to concentrate on, Against Russia, as Hard as possible, via the proxy war in Ukraine.

    Since 50 years, the Dems and Reps have played a game of being ‘against’ the attacks the US makes via one party vs. another of the duopoly … When Bush J. invaded Iraq the only ones who objected mildly were ‘rad’ Democrats. Hey, was Osama Bin Laden really a part of the attack on 9/11, they said?

    Plus ca change plus c’est la même chose

    October 13, 2024 at 4:01 pm #171384
    citizenx
    Participant

    “Historically, America uses countries like condoms, to fuck the world. South Vietnam, Opium Afghanistan, Ukraine, Germany—America has used all these countries and thrown them away—like prophylactic proxies. ‘Israel’ has confused being God’s chosen people with America’s chosen people, which are, in fact, opposite things.”

    “American zealots, on the other hand, have not evolved at all. They will still happily watch ‘Israel’ burn just as they’re making Ukraine burn just as they’re trying to turn Taiwan against their own countrymen. They’ll happily watch Semite on Semite violence and Slav on Slav and Chinese on Chinese. The Americans are not just white supremacists, they’re human supremacists, they’ll divide and conquer the whole world as long as it multiplies their earnings. Americans are historical arsonists occupying the gas station, a historically bad combination.”

    Hamas Said ‘Israel’ Will End By 2027 And I Believe It–
    https://indi.ca/how-israel-will-end-by-2027/

    Sun Tzu said, “To excel at defense means hiding oneself away in the deepest recesses of the earth. To excel at offense means striking from the highest reaches of the heavens.” The Resistance seemed to follow this policy literally.

    Resistance is never futile- it is an obligation and necessity for truth and human decency.

    October 13, 2024 at 4:03 pm #171385
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    October 13, 2024 at 4:06 pm #171386
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    One big factor that I think might give Trump that final push he needs to win is the fact that a lot of people are very, very sick and tired of the Trump Derangement Syndrome crowd and all their hysterical shrieking.

    October 13, 2024 at 4:07 pm #171388
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Oreo Cookie Monster to the Rescue

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    October 13, 2024 at 4:13 pm #171389
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Why and HOW is Kamela possibly unable to speak extemporaneously?

    She was an Attorney General, right? So she was a LAWYER for years, right?

    Didn’t she have to make opening statements, closing statements, question witnesses, stuff like that? Is her entire history as an attorney fake?

    Is her EDUCATION as an attorney fake? Didn’t she have to do multiple classes in public speaking, debate class, participate in debate club, stuff like that, as part of her education to become an attorney?

    At the call center, when they gave me several “interim” promotions and then as an “interim supervisor” gave me a manager’s worth of squirrely newhires to manage, I had to run nightly meetings doing Q&A.

    I’m an introvert and received no training for this position. I avoided public speaking at all levels of education, never did a debate class. I guarantee I was able to, for 30 minutes at a time, answer questions central to my job in a reasonably coherent and meaningful manner. Because at least I knew my subject matter, I guess?

    How can she not answer pre planned questions from pre selected questioners? For this town hall meeting that was televised on a delay (to allow for editing no doubt) Does she not have enough time to prepare answers to the questions SHE CAME UP WITH?

    Where is her CAREER? As a lawyer, for years, coming up with things to say and saying them? If she had no career, she passed the bar exam, right? So she got an education in Law, at least? Which required learning to speak? Where is her EDUCATION?

    Not only who, but WHAT is this woman?

    October 13, 2024 at 4:19 pm #171390
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Empire of Lies vs Eurotardistan styles of “Diplomacy”

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    October 13, 2024 at 4:30 pm #171391
    morongobill
    Participant

    Someone brought up Oliver Anthony. In this video he takes a YouTuber into the back roads of Weat Virginia.

    October 13, 2024 at 4:33 pm #171392
    thomasjkenney
    Participant

    @citizenx re: Inglewood show

    I attended that show, beautiful breakdown in the second set…Jerry’s delicate best!

    October 13, 2024 at 4:59 pm #171393
    jb-hb
    Participant

    October 13, 2024 at 5:28 pm #171401
    zerosum
    Participant

    Relevant information

    As good a time as any to again post this summary from Oil Change International and Data Desk.

    A lot of people are directly involved, none of it happens by itself.

    Data Analysis
    Investigating the countries and companies behind Israeli crude oil and fuel supply chains

    March 2024

    In February 2024, Oil Change International (OCI) commissioned Data Desk to provide an overview of the supply chains that are currently bringing crude oil and refined products to Israel, focusing on fuel supplies to the country’s armed forces.

    The research comes in the context of Israel’s 2023 invasion of the Gaza Strip and in the wake of a 2024 ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that Israel’s actions may have violated the terms of the Genocide Convention.

    The primary aim of the analysis was to determine:

    • Which are the main countries supplying fuel to
    Israel?

    • What are the major international oil and gas
    companies supplying fuel to Israel and the Israeli
    military?

    The data was last updated March 8, 2024.

    Key Findings

    • Israel continues to receive a substantial amount of JP-8 jet fuel from the United States in the form of military aid. Israel has received three tankers of JP-8 Jet Fuel from the U.S. (specifically formulated for military jets) since the war started. One left the U.S. before the war started, while two have been sent since.

    The latest shipment appears to have been docked at Israel’s Ashkelon terminal on March 6.

    Tankers delivering fuel recently appear to have been turning off their Automatic Identification System (AIS) transponders long before reaching the country, presumably for safety reasons.

    Virtually all other shipments of refined petroleum products to Israel have dried up since October (presumably as a result of the broader Red Sea crisis).

    • Besides jet fuel, Israel’s military requires significant quantities of diesel and gasoline for tanks and other military vehicles. This research confirms that this is supplied by Israel’s refineries, which rely on regular imports of crude oil and feedstocks from overseas.

    •• Key countries supplying Israel with crude oil imports since October 2023 are: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan/Russia, Gabon, and Brazil.

    •• Major international oil and gas companies complicit in facilitating these supplies of crude oil include: BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, Eni, and TotalEnergies.

    • Azeri crude is delivered via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) Pipeline which terminates in Ceyhan, Türkiye, where it is loaded on tankers. BP is the operator and largest shareholder of BTC (with minority partners Equinor, Eni, TotalEnergies and Exxon) and produces some of the crude oil delivered by the pipeline in the Caspian Sea in partnership with the Azeri national oil company, SOCAR.

    • Kazakh oil is delivered via the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) Pipeline, in which Chevron has the largest stake amongst international oil majors, followed by Exxon, Shell and Eni. These companies, along with Russian and Kazakh companies, have stakes in both the oil fields feeding the pipeline and the pipeline.

    • Two shipments of Brazilian crude oil totaling 260,000 tons have been delivered to Israel since the start of Israel’s invasion of Gaza. One arrived in December 2023, and the other in February 2024. This crude was supplied from offshore fields co-owned by Shell and TotalEnergies together with Brazil’s Petrobras. As a significant oil supplier to Israel, Brazilian President Lula, who has been highly critical of Israel, has the opportunity to help bring about a ceasefire by pursuing an oil embargo.

    • Israel also receives relatively small but regular shipments of crude oil via the SUMED pipeline. The pipeline receives crude oil from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Iraq and from Egypt through which the pipeline travels. All of these countries have condemned Israel’s actions in Gaza. The crude oil is loaded onto tankers west of Alexandria to make the short journey to Israel.

    • Russia continues to supply a steady stream of vacuum gas oil (VGO) for one of the key refineries in Haifa. VGO is generally upgraded into gasoline and diesel.

    Information on data sources and the full supply chain analysis conducted by DataDesk is available at: https://docs.datadesk.eco/public/976ce7dcf00743dc/

    Data compiled by Data Desk, commissioned by Oil Change International.

    Source PDF:
    https://www.oilchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Israel-Gaza-Fuel-Data-v2.pdf

    Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Oct 13 2024

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