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Harris Claims Trump Is Literally Hitler As Dems Enter Election Panic Mode (ZH)
Dems: Trump Was Going To Be Hitler During His First Term, But He Forgot (BBee)
Trump Responds To Harris Over Hitler Comment (RT)
The Press and Pundits Face Devastating Polls on Threat to Democracy (Turley)
Word Salad City (ZH)
Kamala’s Inane Talking Points (Victor Davis Hanson)
Why is Bill Gates Backing Kamala Harris Using Shady Super PAC? (Sp.)
‘No Justice In The West’ – Putin (RT)
Russia To Seize Income From Frozen Western Assets – Finance Minister (RT)
US Making ‘Big Mistake’ By Weaponizing Dollar – Putin (RT)
West’s Belief It Can Defeat Russia ‘A Mere Illusion’ – Putin (RT)
Seven NATO Members Against Ukraine Membership – Politico (RT)
Is Western Civilizational Decline Too Advanced to Be Reversed? (PCR)
EU President Likens Free Speech to Infectious Disease (Leake)
F-35’s Ascent and Nosedive: Costliest Weapon in History Hits Fresh Turbulence (Sp.)
Boeing Workers Reject Wage Deal To End Strike (RT)
Fighting for More Evidence of Assange’s Political Prosecution (Lauria/Elmaazi)

 

 

 

 

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“Almost everyone expects a civil war to break out over the 2024 election. Trump was commenting on that possible scenario..”

Harris Claims Trump Is Literally Hitler As Dems Enter Election Panic Mode (ZH)

No president should be trusted to operate outside the bounds of the US Constitution, this is a lesson that has been repeated on multiple occasions throughout American history. Each president should be held accountable for direct violations of their oath of office and each president should be scrutinized by the American public. With that ideal in mind, it’s interesting that the establishment has devoted so much time and energy to pursuing only one president in recent memory for supposed constitutional violations, and that man is Donald Trump. The numerous trespasses perpetrated by the Clintons, the Bush family, Barack Obama, and the Biden/Harris team have gone completely ignored. Why is it that they get a pass while Trump is placed under an electron microscope? Keep in mind, only a couple years ago the American public was embroiled in a life-or-death battle to stop their constitutional rights from being erased forever by the Biden Administration and their globalist handlers.

Biden’s vaccine passport efforts were particularly troubling; if they had been successful the Bill of Rights would be effectively dead and the federal government would have total control over every detail of civilian life. Good luck keeping a job, going to public places, keeping your kids and staying out of a covid camp should you refuse to take the latest mRNA booster shot. That’s the future Americans were facing under Biden/Harris and the Democrats. Covid hysteria and the government response is exactly what fascism looks like, and a large number of Democrats cheered for these policies. This is why the accusations by the political left calling Donal Trump “literal Hitler” ring rather hollow. They’ve been acting like authoritarians for the past four years they’ve been in power and the hypocrisy is steaming.

Kamala Harris recently held a press briefing to make a statement comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, an action which smacks of panic in the midst of polling numbers which increasingly show Trump winning by a landslide in November. In only two weeks, the Democrats face a conservative red wave the likes of which hasn’t been seen in decades. It’s obvious they’ve run out of ideas on how to counter this outcome. Harris’ accusation that Trump “wants generals like Hitler had” is based on a hearsay claim from Gen. John Kelly. This is the same man that Trump fired while in office for incompetence. The same man that claimed in 2023 that Trump called military casualties “suckers” and “losers”. There is no proof to verify any of Kelly’s assertions.

[..] It is true, though, that Trump suggested using the National Guard to stop leftist riots. Trump noted in an interview with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo in an interview on “Sunday Morning Futures” that: “I think the bigger problem are the people from within. We have some very bad people. We have some sick people. Radical left lunatics…” “I think it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military, because they can’t let that happen…”

The corporate media has latched onto this narrative, suggesting that this is a precursor to a fascist future. But if one remembers back to the days of the BLM riots and burning cities, the idea of National Guard intervention makes perfect sense. Military intervention is another matter and it’s fair to debate such a premise. However, let’s not forget that there have been at least two separate and nearly successful assassination attempts against Trump by leftists (both donators to ActBlue). It’s not crazy to suggest that extreme violence on the part of the political left is possible in the event of a Trump win. They’ve proven capable of it on numerous occasions. Almost everyone expects a civil war to break out over the 2024 election. Trump was commenting on that possible scenario.

It’s also unlikely that Americans today are as willing to tolerate mass political violence from leftists the way they did four years ago. Trump addressing the issue bluntly is not an endorsement of Hitler or fascism, its a recognition of the instability of our times. The political left is well aware that they are likely to lose in November; they might be giving their devout followers the green light to become violent post-election using the Hitler narrative as a rationale. If Trump is “literally Hitler” then all violence is justified, is it not?

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“..Trump would have seized the military to install himself as Emperor God during his first term, but luckily he got distracted by making red hats.”

“Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon Explains the Challenges of Satire in Today’s Climate — ‘Imagine if Your Job is to Write Jokes That Are Funnier Than a Kamala Harris Speech'”.

Dems: Trump Was Going To Be Hitler During His First Term, But He Forgot (BBee)

Democrats have warned that if elected a second time, Donald Trump will be an evil dictator just like Adolf Hitler. When asked why Trump didn’t become Hitler during his first term, Democrats explained that he simply forgot. “Trump meant to be Hitler, but he forgot,” explained Vice President Harris in a press conference at the White House. “Being Hitler just totally slipped his mind. Make no mistake, if Trump is elected again, he absolutely plans to turn into Hitler and probably will write himself a reminder this time.” According to retired General John Kelly, former President Trump often talked about how he kept meaning to find time to be Hitler, but he kept getting distracted by other things.

“On several occasions, Trump told me word for word, ‘This is it. This is the week I’m going to go be Hitler.’ But then, Trump would get started doing something like handing out candy to Minions and he would completely forget,” explained Kelly. “This time he has written himself lots of notes telling himself to not forget to turn into literal Hitler. It’s terrifying.” At publishing time, Democrats had warned that Trump would have seized the military to install himself as Emperor God during his first term, but luckily he got distracted by making red hats.

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“This is the type of disgusting rhetoric that led to two assassination attempts against President Trump..”

Trump Responds To Harris Over Hitler Comment (RT)

The increasingly over-the-top rhetoric of US Vice President Kamala Harris proves she is losing and is unfit for the White House, Republican candidate Donald Trump has said. On Wednesday, Harris attacked Trump as a fascist, would-be dictator and admirer of Adolf Hitler, citing reports from Democrat-party linked media based on claims by his former chief of staff. The Atlantic magazine – owned by Democrat mega-donor Lauren Powell Jobs – published a story by Jeffrey Goldberg suggesting that Trump had expressed admiration for Hitler and his generals during his 2017-2021 term in the White House. Goldberg cited retired US Marine General John Kelly, who served as Trump’s second chief of staff, dredging up claims by two New York Times journalists from their 2022 book. Trump’s team have denied the allegations outright.

“Comrade Kamala Harris sees that she is losing, and losing badly, especially after stealing the Race from Crooked Joe Biden, so now she is increasingly raising her rhetoric, going so far as to call me Adolf Hitler, and anything else that comes to her warped mind,” Trump said on X on Thursday. “She is a Threat to Democracy, and not fit to be President of the United States — And her Polling so indicates!” he added. With less than two weeks to go before the November 5 election, both Harris and her running mate Tim Walz and Democrats in down-ballot races have seen their polling lead evaporate, while Trump and the Republicans have picked up steam. Harris then quoted Goldberg’s report to claim that Trump’s alleged admiration for Hitler was “deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous” and “a window into who Donald Trump really is.” Harris also accused her rival of having “vowed to be a dictator on day one and vowed to use the military as his personal militia to carry out his personal and political vendettas.”

Earlier this week, the Atlantic published another article comparing Trump to Hitler – as well as to Benito Mussolini and Joseph Stalin – written by Anne Applebaum, the wife of Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski. The Trump campaign dismissed Applebaum’s piece as “fake news by a third-rate media outlet.” They argued that Kelly “beclowned himself with these debunked stories he has fabricated” and accused Harris of spreading “outright lies and falsehoods” by treating Goldberg’s allegations as legitimate. “This is the type of disgusting rhetoric that led to two assassination attempts against President Trump,” the campaign wrote. Trump narrowly escaped death at a July 13 rally in Pennsylvania. Another would-be assassin, a pro-Ukrainian activist, was caught last month by the Secret Service lurking at Trump’s golf course in Florida.

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“..this would require federal judges to sign off on the rounding up of MSNBC personalities, all gay people, all reporters, and, of course, Whoopi Goldberg.”

The Press and Pundits Face Devastating Polls on Threat to Democracy (Turley)

“Democracy dies in darkness” is the Washington Post’s slogan, but can it handle the light? The Post has been doggedly portraying the election between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris as a choice between tyranny (Trump) and democracy (Harris). Yet when it commissioned a poll on threats to democracy shortly before the election, it did not quite work out. Voters in swing states believe that Trump is more likely to protect democracy than Kamala Harris, who is running on a “save democracy” platform. The poll sampled 5,016 registered voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. When asked whether Trump or Harris “would do a better job” of “defending against threats to democracy,” 43% picked Trump while 40% picked Harris. Notably, this was the same result when President Biden was the nominee.

While over half said that threats to democracy were important to them, the voters trusted Trump (44%) more than Biden (33%) in protecting democracy. Even with the slight improvement for Harris, the result was crushing for not just many in the Harris campaign but the press and pundits who have been unrelenting in announcing the end of democracy if Harris is not elected. Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) has declared with authority that either you vote for Harris, or this “may well be the last real vote you ever get to cast.” I have long criticized the apocalyptic, democracy-ending predictions of Biden, Harris and others as ignoring the safeguards in our system against authoritarian power. Nevertheless, Harris supporters have ratcheted up the rhetoric to a level of pure hysteria. Recently, Michael Cohen, a convicted felon and Trump’s disbarred former lawyer, told MSNBC that if Trump wins the election, he will “get rid of the judiciary and get rid of the Congress.”

Recently, MSNBC host Al Sharpton and regular Donny Deutsch warned viewers that they will likely be added to an enemies “list” for some type of roundup after a Trump election. MSNBC host Rachel Maddow also joined in the theme of a final stand before the gulag: “For that matter, what convinces you that these massive camps he’s planning are only for migrants? So, yes, I’m worried about me — but only as much as I’m worried about all of us.” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was quick to add her own name to a list that seems to be constantly updated by the media. She told podcast host Kara Swisher, “I mean, it sounds nuts, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this guy threw me in jail.” On ABC’s “The View,” the hosts are becoming indistinguishable from tinfoil-hatted subway prophets. Whoopi Goldberg even explained how Trump is already committed to being a dictator who will “put you people away … take all the journalists … take all the gay folks … move you all around and disappear you.”

Of course, assuming that Cohen is wrong that there will be no courts after a Trump victory, this would require federal judges to sign off on the rounding up of MSNBC personalities, all gay people, all reporters, and, of course, Whoopi Goldberg. All that is required is for over two centuries of constitutional order to fail suddenly, and for virtually every constitutional actor in our system to suddenly embrace tyranny. Those pushing this hysteria often curiously cite the January 6 riot as proof that the end is near. Yet that horrible day was the vindication, not the expiration, of our constitutional system. The system worked. The riot was put down. Congress, including Republicans, reassembled and certified Biden as the next president.

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“Voters asked direct question. Harris gave circular answers.”

Word Salad City (ZH)

Kamala Harris’ completed another descending spin around her doom loop on Wednesday night: Lagging Trump in battleground states and therefore under pressure to increase her interactions with voters, she participated in a prime-time town hall that only further exposed her as one of the most superficial politicians of our time…with more poll damage sure to follow. The town hall was hosted by CNN and took place in Delaware County. Along with Chester, Bucks and Montgomery, it’s one of four Philadelphia “collar counties” that have traditionally played an outsize role in determining who wins Pennsylvania’s electoral votes. . You know things went bad when even the New York Times raked Harris over the coals for being evasive, saying: “Voters asked direct question. Harris gave circular answers.”

After the event, CNN’s Dana Bash said, “What I’m hearing from people who I’ve been talking to … if her goal was to close the deal, they’re not sure she did that.” Seasoned Democratic operative David Alexrod called out Harris’ signature flaw: “The things that would concern me is when she doesn’t want to answer a question, her habit is to kind of go to Word Salad City.” Harris’ worst sequence of the night came when host Anderson Cooper called out her flip-floppy hypocrisy on the issue of border security. Noting that Harris now supports a bill that would allocate $650 million toward a border wall, Cooper said, “Under Donald Trump, you criticized the wall more than 50 times. You called it stupid, useless and a ‘medieval vanity project.’ Is a border wall stupid?”

By this point, even Cooper had to wonder why he was even bothering to ask questions, given Harris’ refusal to answer them in any kind of straightforward way:

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“..only two criteria matter: Which candidate’s past record and current agenda best appeal to voters? And which candidate seems the most authentic and genuine?”

Kamala’s Inane Talking Points (Victor Davis Hanson)

As Vice President Kamala Harris slips in the polls, the Democratic National Committee/Harris Campaign/mainstream media fusion talking points become even more absurd. Claiming that J.D. Vance and Donald Trump were “weird” did not work—especially given the genuinely odd behavior of vice presidential candidate Tim Walz and would-be First Gentleman Doug Emhoff. Nor was the next Harris meme convincing that the frenetic and non-stop Trump was somehow “exhausted,” “senile,” and “confused.” Voters know the workdays of the younger Harris are usually far shorter—or sometimes not workdays at all. But Harris also falsely claimed the physically and mentally challenged Biden was, in her words, “absolutely authoritative” and “very bold and vibrant.” Now Harris asserts that Trump is a “fascist,” a “dictator,” and “unfit” for office. But this new talking point will also not stop the Harris campaign’s hemorrhaging—and for a variety of reasons.

First, voters see the election as a conflict of two absolutely antithetical visions. On the one hand, is the prior Trump 2017-20 concrete record: border security, no major wars abroad, calm in the Middle East, a deterred Russia, Iran, and China, low inflation, low interest rates, lower crime, lower taxes, strong deterrent military—and opposition to mandatory electric vehicle mandates, biological males competing in women’s sports, and the woke/DEI agenda. On the other hand, is the Biden-Harris 2021-2024 record: the unchecked entry of 12-20 million illegal aliens and a destroyed border. People still struggle under Biden-Harris’s earlier hyperinflation and high interest rates. The horrific regional wars in Ukraine and the Middle East continue. Biden-Harris embraces the unpopular DEI/Woke agenda. Harris herself knows that the Biden-Harris years were a failure. That is why she has shed almost all of their hard left-wing agendas—policies she has embraced for much of her adult life.

So suddenly, in the last 90 or so days, Harris has completely flipped and flopped. Now she is for more of, not defunding, the police. She pivots for a secure border, not 20 million illegal aliens pouring across it. Harris brags about fossil fuel energy, not banning fracking, and for increasing, not cutting, defense. In fact, several endangered incumbent Democrat senators in swing states are claiming more allegiance to Trump’s issues than identifying with Harris and her unpopular record as vice president. Voters likely conclude that if Trump doubles down on his record, while even Harris and many senators temporarily piggyback on it, then it must be more effective and popular than Harris’s own. Second, Harris now claims Trump is a fascist and insurrectionist. But mouthing ad nausaem “January 6th” no longer persuades voters that Trump is a danger to anyone.

They recall that Harris bragged of the far more violent demonstrations of 2020—35 killed, $2 billion in damage, 1,500 law enforcement officers injured, 14,000 arrested—that the unrest would not and “should not” stop, while drumming up support to bail out jailed violent protestors. Nor does the slur that Trump is a fascist resonate. The Obama and Biden-Harris administrations weaponized the CIA and FBI to interfere in the 2016 and 2020 elections by peddling the fake Steele dossier and suppressing all the embarrassing news about Hunter Biden’s incriminating laptop. Trump certainly did not coordinate, as Biden did, with local, state, and federal prosecutors to wage lawfare prosecutions to destroy his political opponents. He did not use the FBI to partner with social media to suppress the news. Neither Trump nor his supporters tried to remove Biden from state ballots.

The Republican House majority did not impeach Biden twice despite the Biden family’s corruption and Joe Biden’s unlawful, decades-long removal of classified papers to several insecure private residences. Trump and the Republicans never coercively removed the party’s primary-winning nominee. They did not nullify the will of 14 million primary voters. And in backroom fashion, they did not anoint a candidate who had never entered a single primary in her life. Nor did Trump support packing the Supreme Court. He does not seek unconstitutional means of destroying the Electoral College. He is not demanding an end to the Senate filibuster or the creation of two new states to obtain four partisan senate seats. Third, as for Trump being “unfit” and lacking “decorum,” it depends on what were the Biden-Harris standards?

Having a trans activist reveal his breasts on camera at a White House “pride party?” Biden’s reportedly calling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “a f—ing idiot” and “son of a b—ch?” Bragging about locking Trump up, while waging lawfare against him? Unleashing son Hunter Biden with impunity to shake down foreign governments? The election will not be decided on these empty talking points or fake media-generated narratives. Instead, only two criteria matter: Which candidate’s past record and current agenda best appeal to voters? And which candidate seems the most authentic and genuine?

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“Gates enjoyed a profits bonanza off mRNA coronavirus vaccines mandated by the Biden administration…”

Why is Bill Gates Backing Kamala Harris Using Shady Super PAC? (Sp.)

Tech billionaire, philanthropist and WEF cheerleader Bill Gates has given Kamala Harris’s campaign a $50 mln boost using dark money super PAC Future Forward. The donation was intended to remain secret, but was uncovered by NYT this week. Set up in 2018 by former Obama campaign staffers and coming out of left field in the final weeks of the 2020 race to fund a massive pro-Biden media blitz, Future Forward is a super political action committee funded mostly by Big Tech and venture capital firms, including Meta*, Google, disgraced crypto financier Sam Bankman-Fried, Bain Capital and Bridgewater Associates. The super PAC has raised a whopping $700 mln for the 2024 election cycle, rolling out $75 mln in pro-Harris ads last week. 2024 is at least the second election cycle where Gates has used a dark money vehicle to support the Democratic Party’s candidate.

In 2020, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation contributed nearly $70 mln to the New Venture Fund, a nonprofit belonging to DC consultancy Arabella Advisors, which bankrolls the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a goliath of undisclosed donations for Democratic politicians and liberal causes which raised nearly $390 mln four years ago. Publicly, Gates and his now former wife also gave $500,000 to Biden’s inaugural committee. Mr. Gates has been an active supporter of Democratic candidates since at least 2008, contributing financially to and praising the campaigns of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Gates’ ties to the Clintons are deeply rooted, with the billionaire becoming a top donor to the Clinton Foundation, and forging partnerships with the organization for global projects since at least 2013. In a telling interview in 2016 in which he explained his preference for Clinton, Gates said “there have been questions about vaccines in general where some of the candidates have shown that they’re not as up to date about vaccines in general, and that’s got to be a concern.”

“Science in general, whether it’s GMOs or vaccines, there’s a lot of people out there who don’t give science the benefit of the doubt. In terms of experience, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton have more experience in global health,” Gates said at the time. With Harris’ presidential bid expected to broadly continue the Biden/Clinton line on foreign and domestic policy, it makes sense for Gates to throw his influence behind the VP, given the perceived threat of the Trump brand of red-pill MAGA Republicans and their anti-vax, anti-tech, and anti-interventionist leanings. “This election is different, with unprecedented significance for Americans and the most vulnerable people around the world,” Gates said this week after info about his $50 mln donation leaked out. “I think it’s great to have somebody who’s younger, who can think about things like AI and how we shape that in the right way, and I certainly offer up my opinions to the politicians who are interested,” Gates said this summer after Biden dropped out and named Harris his successor.

The Gates Foundation’s fortunes got a big boost under Biden, with its endowment growing from $69 bln in 2020 to $75.2 bln in 2023. Gates enjoyed a profits bonanza off mRNA coronavirus vaccines mandated by the Biden administration. In 2022, he sold off shares of BioNTech stocks he bought in 2019 as sales slowed. His foundation has also owned shares in Pfizer, CureVac and Vir Biotech going back to well before the pandemic. The billionaire’s foundation supports the Global Virome Project – an ambitious initiative created in 2018 to predict pathogens that could trigger lethal pandemics, but accused of weaponizing viruses from a network of 150 biolabs worldwide. Gates has also backed a broad array of World Economic Forum-affiliated initiatives, including projects to reduce emissions and create synthetic meat and dairy. In 2022, The Seattle Times revealed Gates’ secret lobbying to save Biden’s signature $2+ trln Build Back Better social and climate spending package.

Gates has also been a top backer of the Biden administration’s battle against media and online ‘misinformation’, with an explosive MintPress investigation from 2021 revealing that his foundation had bankrolled some $319 mln in media, including CNN, the BBC, Le Monde, the Financial Times, Der Spiegel and others to ensure favorable coverage of his agenda and that of his allies.

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“Is this just? There is no justice here,” Putin said. “We want to change this. And we will.”

‘No Justice In The West’ – Putin (RT)

Moscow has had enough of the West’s impunity and hypocrisy and intends to ensure that there is justice in the world again, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. Putin spoke to journalists, including many from Western outlets, at the end of the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia on Thursday. “Is it just to lie to our faces that NATO will not expand, and then [expand] it?” Putin asked BBC’s Steve Rosenberg, in response to his inquiry. “Is it fair to carry out a coup d’etat, spitting on all principles of law, and funding a coup in Ukraine?” he added, referring to the 2014 Maidan ‘revolution’ backed by Washington.

“Is this just? There is no justice here,” Putin said. “We want to change this. And we will.” The Russian president also dismissed as “nonsense” the claims that Moscow was somehow behind “mayhem” on British streets. Whatever may be happening in the UK is the result of London’s own policies, Putin said. The head of the British Security Service (MI5), Ken McCallum, claimed earlier this month that the UK support for Ukraine has made London a target of Russian propaganda and subterfuge, seeking more power and government funding to deal with the alleged threat.

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“..The US and its allies have blocked an estimated $300 billion in assets belonging to the Russian central bank..”

“..total foreign direct investments in the Russian economy by the EU, G7, Australia, and Switzerland amounted to $288 billion as of the end of 2022..”

It all adds up to zero AND you’re no longer the reserve currency. Well done.

Russia To Seize Income From Frozen Western Assets – Finance Minister (RT)

Russia will respond in kind to the West’s use of the income generated by its frozen central-bank reserves, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov has said. The US and its allies have blocked an estimated $300 billion in assets belonging to the Russian central bank since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022. The bulk of the funds, around €197 billion ($213 billion), are being held at the Brussels-based clearinghouse Euroclear. On Wednesday, Washington announced a decision to use the proceeds from the frozen assets to repay a multibillion-dollar loan to Kiev. “If Western countries have begun utilizing the income from the frozen Russian reserves, we will do exactly the same,” Siluanov told reporters on Thursday. “We have frozen money from ‘unfriendly’ companies and organizations. We keep this money in our accounts in the same way and will use the income from these assets similarly,” he elaborated.

The income from these funds will be allocated to “the needs of the economy, the needs of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation,” the minister added, noting that the corresponding decisions have already been made. The US said on Wednesday that it will provide Kiev with a $20 billion loan as part of a broader $50 billion G7 package. The use of windfall profits from the blocked Russian assets will provide Ukraine assistance “without burdening taxpayers,” US President Joe Biden stated. A day earlier, the European Parliament backed allocating a loan of up to €35 billion ($38 billion) for Kiev using the immobilized Russian assets as collateral for the repayments. According to Euroclear, the frozen funds had generated €3.4 billion ($3.6 billion) in interest as of mid-July.

Russia has repeatedly warned that seizing its assets would amount to “theft” and would violate international law and undermine reserve currencies, the global financial system, and the world economy. The International Monetary Fund has also been raising concerns that such actions could undermine trust in the Western financial system. Siluanov earlier warned that global players are closely following the story involving the Russian assets and are drawing their own conclusions. While the finance minister did not elaborate on the amount of Western assets currently held in Russia, previous calculations by RIA Novosti put the figure at roughly equal the size of the Russian funds frozen abroad. The news agency reported that total foreign direct investments in the Russian economy by the EU, G7, Australia, and Switzerland amounted to $288 billion as of the end of 2022.

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“Russia does not seek to drop the dollar or defeat it, but instead is being “prevented from working with it..”

US Making ‘Big Mistake’ By Weaponizing Dollar – Putin (RT)

Weaponizing the US dollar is a big mistake, Russian President Vladimir Putin told a session at the BRICS Summit in Kazan on Wednesday. He made the remark following a harsh assessment on the currency’s use as a political tool by the New Development Bank’s (NDB) president, Dilma Rousseff. According to Rousseff, the global geopolitics is being adversely affected by the use of the US dollar “as a weapon to change the living conditions of the population.” The vast wave of sanctions against Russia have forced many Western companies from various industrial sectors including food, clothing, and car manufacturing to leave the country, and have severely restricted people’s ability to travel and make international bank transfers, she noted. Putin agreed with Rousseff’s assessment.

”Yes, indeed, we can see that this is true. In fact, I think it is a big mistake by those who do this. The dollar remains the most important instrument of world finance and using it as a means of achieving political goals undermines confidence in this currency and reduces its capabilities,” the Russian president said. Russia does not seek to drop the dollar or defeat it, but instead is being “prevented from working with it,” Putin added. “Then we are forced to look for other alternatives, which is what is happening.” Many Russian financial institutions were cut off from the Western financial system in 2022 in response to Russia’s military operation in Ukraine. As a result, Moscow has accelerated trade with international partners using their national currencies. The trend has been increasingly supported by BRICS members, which have shifted from using the dollar and euro for trade settlements.

In August, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said that over 95% of mutual settlements between Russia and its biggest trading partner, China, are carried out using the ruble or yuan. Putin previously stated that the use of local currencies instead of the dollar or euro “helps to keep economic development free from politics as far as possible in the context of today’s world.”

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“.. they don’t take into account the unity and the strength of spirit of Russians forged over the centuries..”

West’s Belief It Can Defeat Russia ‘A Mere Illusion’ – Putin (RT)

The West is using Ukraine to threaten Russia’s security while believing in the “illusion” that it can inflict a strategic defeat on Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. Speaking at the extended Outreach/BRICS Plus format session in Kazan on Thursday, Putin stated that the emergence of a “more just world order” is being hampered by “forces accustomed to thinking and acting in the logic of domination over everything and everyone.” According to Putin, the West’s “unlawful unilateral sanctions” and interference in the affairs of other countries under the pretense of “concern for democracy and human rights” are actively undermining regional and global strategic stability, as well as encouraging “interstate strife.”

Putin pointed to Ukraine as an example, stating that it is being used to “create critical threats to Russia’s security” while Moscow’s vital interests, as well as its “just concerns about the infringement on the rights of Russian-speaking people,” are being ignored. Kiev’s foreign backers “do not even hide any longer their goal of inflicting a strategic defeat on our country.” Putin said, adding that the West’s belief that it can achieve its goals is “a mere illusion.” “Only those who don’t know the history of Russia can believe in this, because they don’t take into account the unity and the strength of spirit of Russians forged over the centuries,” Putin stated.

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“..Kiev would become a part of the bloc later when certain conditions are met..”

Seven NATO Members Against Ukraine Membership – Politico (RT)

A sizable group of NATO members led by the US and Germany are reluctant to extend an invitation to Ukraine anytime soon, Politico reported on Wednesday, citing sources. Last week, Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky presented his ‘victory plan’, which included a demand to be immediately invited into the US-led military bloc. However, the Politico article, citing four unnamed US and NATO officials, said that Berlin and Washington are “slow-walking” this request, adding that “key alliance members are worried about getting ensnared in a war with Russia.” US Ambassador to NATO Julianne Smith told Politico that the bloc “has not, to date, reached the point where it is prepared to offer membership or an invitation to Ukraine.”

Meanwhile, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz earlier said that it was his duty to prevent the Ukraine conflict from spiraling into a full-scale war between Russia and NATO, adding that Kiev would become a part of the bloc later when certain conditions are met. Hungary and Slovakia – which have been critical of the Western approach to the Ukraine conflict and have insisted on an immediate ceasefire – are two other holdouts. Politico described their leaders as following “a generally pro-Kremlin line.” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban called Zelensky’s plan outright “terrifying,” while his Slovak counterpart Robert Fico warned that Ukraine’s accession to NATO could lead to World War III.

Furthermore, one NATO official told Politico that “countries like Belgium, Slovenia or Spain are hiding behind the US and Germany” when it comes to the issue of Ukraine’s membership, describing them as “reluctant.” Another source noted that while those nations support Kiev’s NATO aspirations “in the abstract,” they would voice their opposition when push comes to shove. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Kiev’s desire to join NATO – which Moscow has described as an existential threat and an “enemy” – was one of the key reasons for the current conflict in the first place. Officials in Moscow have also said that Ukraine’s membership in the bloc “in any territorial form is absolutely unacceptable to Russia and cannot be part of any peace plans or mediation initiatives.”

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“..turning America into a Sodom and Gomorrah Tower of Babel..”

Is Western Civilizational Decline Too Advanced to Be Reversed? (PCR)

Trump says he intends to make America great again, and his supporters believe him. I also believe it is Trump’s intent. The question is if there is enough left of America to restore. Trump, if he is careful about his appointments, could make a good stab at restoration: Robert Kennedy as the head of the Food and Drug Administration. General Flynn as head of the CIA. Elon Musk as Secretary of State. John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute as Attorney General. Michael Hudson as Secretary of the Treasury. Edward Snowden as Director of the National Security Agency. A number of the police state agencies, such as Homeland Security, could be abolished. So, yes, in theory, Trump could have a go at restoring America. But is Trump capable of even imagining these appointments, and if so could he get them confirmed by the US Senate? I have no confidence that Trump would acquire the human capital his administration would need to do the job he has assigned to himself.

Perhaps his advisors again are serving the establishment, not Trump, telling him that he needs to moderate his attack on the establishment in order to make himself more acceptable to the ruling elite and less of a target for the presstitute media. This is how potential leaders are brought to heel. Among the problems Trump would face is the erosion of the US Constitution with Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, the Wall Street Journal editor, law school deans, and the Woke Left calling for the Constitution’s overthrow because the First Amendment prevents the Ruling Elite from controlling the population by controlling the narrative. The United States is the Constitution. Overthrowing the Constitution is the same as overthrowing the United States. It is treason. Would Trump’s Justice Department arrest these people for treason? The First Amendment prohibits the government from prohibiting the freedom of speech and guarantees the freedom of assembly.

These Constitutional Rights were violated by the Democrats who turned free speech and assembly into an “insurrection.” Democrats, led by the Jew Biden appointed as Attorney General and by the FBI director appointed by Trump, ruled that attending a rally to support a president constituted “insurrection.” One thousand American patriots who attended the Trump Rally are wasting away in prison for no other reason than law was used against them as a weapon. The destruction of the rule of law is the Democrats and the American left-wing’s main achievement. In “free America” law is no longer a shield of the people. Law is a weapon in the hands of those in power to decimate the political opposition. President Trump’s two loyal appointees–General Flynn and Steve Bannon–were both sentenced to prison. Another problem Trump would face is that the liberal-left have turned education into indoctrination. Education is no longer the function of American schools and universities.

Students are brainwashed that Western Civilization has no achievements except racism and exploitation of people of color, that whites are racists, that people can be born into the wrong bodies, that the Constitution is in the way of progress. The normalization of sexual perversity, the sexualization of young children, and open borders are turning America into a Sodom and Gomorrah Tower of Babel. This is the accomplishment of the Democrat Party and the liberal-left. So we have in America a system in which the rulers are aligned against America. America, with its Constitution, its separation of powers, its traditions, is in their way, as Hillary, John Kerry, the Wall Street Journal editor, CNN, and law school deans have made clear. One might think that Americans might notice that those who believe in America are being marginalized by those who believe in the Constitution’s overthrow.

There are some Americans who are beginning to realize that truth is being denied them, but are enough catching on in time to prevent the termination of their rights? When we witness the determined illegal persecution of truth-tellers such as Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Reiner Fuellmich, and one thousand American patriots sent to prison by Democrats for protesting a stolen election, we find ourselves up against a government with a totalitarian agenda. The Republicans are doing nothing about this. What has the Republican Party done to ensure that the November election is not again stolen? In America today it is becoming a felony to even present evidence that an election ( “won” by Democrats ) was stolen. Some of the swing states in which elections are most often stolen by Democrats have not only legalized all of the theft mechanisms but also have made it a felony to challenge the vote count.

The question before us is what does an American election mean other than another stolen election? I agree with Elon Musk. If the Democrats are returned to power in 2024 there will never again be an honest American election. The odds are against the Democrats and the Ruling Elite permitting Trump to become President. If he prevails against the odds and regains the office, it is unlikely he will be staffed with sufficient determined and intelligent appointees to reverse American societal, economic, political, moral, and spiritual decline. Nevertheless, we must vote for Trump or never again will anyone challenge in our name the Ruling Elite’s control over our lives. Every future potential leader will know that Trump stood up to the elite but the people did not stand up for Trump, and they will dismiss the American people as a losing cause.

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“Ursula von der Leyen advocates “pre-bunking” in the public forum to “vaccinate” people against “disinformation.”

EU President Likens Free Speech to Infectious Disease (Leake)

EU President Ursula von der Leyen just joined the ranks of former Senator John Kerry and other globalist ghouls in declaring war on free speech by perversely proclaiming that the EU citizenry needs to be “vaccinated against disinformation.” Like every censor in history, she characterizes her censorship program as a means of expunging erroneous information and ideas from public discourse. By using the word “disinformation,” she implies that she and her clique are already the sole possessors of the truth about everything, and that everyone who has and shares heterodox ideas is necessarily in error. Her entire premise is FALSE for the following reasons:

1). Knowledge about the world is constantly evolving through constant inquiry, discussion, and dissemination. Knowledge is NOT a static thing. This is why countries with stifling censorship regimes have experienced intellectual, scientific, and artistic stagnation. Their rulers try to freeze the human mind in its state at their moment in history.

2). NO state, university, or ecclesiastical committee has ever been in possession of the full truth of any matter. Official orthodoxies have always been challenged by heterodox thinkers. Indeed, virtually every major advance in human insight has been performed by heterodox thinkers.

3). As John Milton observed in his 1644 pamphlet, Areopagitica, contending with error is an intrinsic part of learning and discovery. We literally learn by making mistakes and correcting them. If free speech is suppressed for the objective of preventing the propagation of erroneous thought—or “vaccinating against it”—it will become extremely difficult if not impossible for people to learn and discover.

4). Without a single exception in history, the people who hold power always advocate the orthodoxy that sustains and extends their power and that of their friends and supporters.

Ursula von der Leyen is the quintessence of this principle. As president of the EU, she conducted secret negotiations with Pfizer CEO to purchase a 20 billion Euros of Pfizer’s fraudulent and dangerous vaccine so that it could be inflicted on all the citizens of the European Union. She is currently under criminal investigation for her conduct in this affair that has come to be known as Pfizergate. It takes a special kind of chutzpah for a powerful state official who is probably guilty of committing a major crime—a crime that has been systematically and ruthlessly concealed—to lecture the public about the need for censorship. The time has come for the citizens of Europe to rid themselves of Ursula von der Leyen and her clique of corrupt tyrants. To be sure, there is increasing evidence that the Biden Administration has been exerting pressure on Germany—which remains an American vassal state—and the EU to step up its censorship regime. I will cover this strange development in a subsequent post.

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“..faulty landing gear and vibrating fuel tubes, to fragile electro-optical targeting equipment, canopy delamination issues and weather sensitivity, engine heat issues adding to wear and tear, cabin over-pressurization, night vision problems, corrosion, radar reset issues, ejection seats which can snap pilots’ necks, and inability to fly in lightning..”

F-35’s Ascent and Nosedive: Costliest Weapon in History Hits Fresh Turbulence (Sp.)

Conceived as the Pentagon’s next-gen do-it-all strike jet for the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, the F-35 has proved a budgetary nightmare, set to consume more resources than the GDP of a major G20 economy over its lifetime. The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fifth-gen supersonic stealth strike fighter just can’t seem to catch a break, with a new report released Monday by the Government Accountability Office finding the jet woefully below mission-ready status for six straight years – i.e. every year that the Congressional watchdog has conducted its reviews. The GAO blamed the readiness shortfall on “challenges with depot and organizational maintenance,” and over-reliance on contractors who essentially hold the Pentagon hostage with astronomical sustainment costs (which jumped from $1.1 trillion in FY2018 to $1.58 trillion in FY2023).

The Navy and Air Force are set to take control of sustainment to get a grip on the situation, but not until FY2027. The GAO estimates that only about 55% of the F-35’s three variants are mission ready at any given time, with mission readiness requiring the ability to “fly and perform at least one mission.” With a per unit cost of nearly $100 mln and a projected lifetime cost of over $2 trln, the F-35 program is by far the most expensive military project in history.
Lockheed proceeded with the F-35’s development by taking cues from the Yak-43/141 VTOL jet – a Soviet carrier strike aircraft project scrapped in 1991. The X-35 first flew in 2000, and the F-35A in 2006. But the F-35’s makers have proven unable to work out all the kinks in the plane, with the GAO issuing report after report citing hundreds of flaws, including mission critical defects which could injure or kill pilots, or otherwise jeopardize the aircraft’s safety.

These problems range from faulty landing gear and vibrating fuel tubes, to fragile electro-optical targeting equipment, canopy delamination issues and weather sensitivity, engine heat issues adding to wear and tear, cabin over-pressurization, night vision problems, corrosion, radar reset issues, ejection seats which can snap pilots’ necks, and inability to fly in lightning. To add insult to injury, all three of America’s major potential adversaries have reportedly found the means to nullify the F-35’s stealth advantage, with Russia, China and Iran announcing sophisticated radar technologies not only able to detect the F-35 at long ranges – but even identify the distinct radar signature of individual F-35 planes.

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” The strike has halted production of the best-selling 737 MAX and 767 and 777 wide-body models.”

Which were full of flaws.

Boeing Workers Reject Wage Deal To End Strike (RT)

Boeing workers have rejected the US aerospace giant’s latest contract offer, extending a nearly six-week strike which has crippled the already struggling planemaker. Some 64% of workers voted to reject the new contract, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), the union representing 33,000 Boeing staff in Washington, Oregon and California, said on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday. “We remain on strike,” IAM District 751 President Jon Holden said after the votes were counted. “Our members deserve more and have spoken loudly.” The latest deal included a 35% wage increase over the four-year contract and a restoration of incentive bonuses, but did not reinstate the pension plan sought by many employees.

Workers with the IAM have been striking since September, when they overwhelmingly rejected Boeing’s previous offer of a 25% cumulative pay raise. Employees had initially sought a 40% pay increase, arguing that their wages had lagged behind inflation for years while the company spent millions of dollars on record executive bonuses. “After 10 years of sacrifices, we still have ground to make up, and we’re hopeful to do so by resuming negotiations promptly,” leaders of the union said in a statement. “This is workplace democracy and also clear evidence that there are consequences when a company mistreats its workers year after year.” The strike has halted production of the best-selling 737 MAX and 767 and 777 wide-body models.

Earlier this month Boeing also announced plans to cut 17,000 jobs over the coming months, representing nearly 10% of its workforce, as the aerospace giant’s losses continue to mount. Boeing reported a $6.2 billion third quarter loss on Wednesday, largely due to costs associated with the strike. Days before the workers voted to extend the strike, Boeing announced that its 777X widebody aircraft will be postponed to 2026, nearly six years after the aircraft was due to reach customers. The embattled aviation giant has also been under increased scrutiny in recent years due to various flaws discovered in its aircraft, leading to safety concerns and investigations.

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“Don’t you dare get cold feet!!!”

Fighting for More Evidence of Assange’s Political Prosecution (Lauria/Elmaazi)

A tribunal in Britain is set to decide whether to order the government’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to prove it deleted emails that may have covered up more evidence of a politically motivated prosecution of Julian Assange. The three judges heard arguments on Sept. 24 in the nearly decade-long freedom of information saga regarding the emails that top British prosecutors say were deleted. They involved an exchange with Sweden during a Swedish prosecutor’s attempt, beginning in 2010, to extradite the WikiLeaks publisher from Britain. Assange was wanted in Sweden for questioning during a preliminary investigation into allegations of sexual assault, which was dropped three times, definitively in 2017. He was never charged. After losing his battle against extradition to Sweden at the U.K. Supreme Court, Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in June 2012, fearing that Sweden would send him to the United States.

Assange spent seven years in the embassy protecting himself from arrest by British police until April 2019, when police dragged him from the diplomatic mission and threw him into London’s maximum security Belmarsh prison. It was only when the U.S. realized it would lose on appeal after a four-year extradition battle that the Department of Justice cut a plea deal with Assange who was released on June 24 and returned to his native Australia. Assange had been charged in the United States under the Espionage Act for possessing and publishing defense information, which revealed evidence of U.S. war crimes. Britain took an active role in Assange’s prosecution. Its Crown Prosecution Service sought to stop Sweden from going to the embassy to question him. Seeking to learn more about Britain’s role against Assange, Italian investigative journalist Stefania Maurizi first made a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in 2015 for all emails between the British and Swedish governments concerning Assange.

Some of the emails she obtained showed political motivation on the part of the lead British prosecutor, Paul Close. One email Maurizi obtained from the Swedish Prosecution Authority (SPA) revealed that Close appeared to be pressuring Swedish prosecutors to continue seeking Assange’s extradition instead of dropping the case or questioning him at the Ecuadorian embassy, where Assange had been granted asylum. “My earlier advice remains, that in my view it would not be prudent for the Swedish authorities to try to interview the defendant [Julian Assange] in the UK,” Close wrote to the SPA, in 2011, according to one of the emails obtained by Maurizi. “Don’t you dare get cold feet!!!,” he wrote to Marianne Ny, Sweden’s director of public prosecutions, in 2012. A year after that, Close wrote, “Please do not think this case is being dealt with as just another extradition.” After Maurizi noticed a sizeable gap in the emails released to her she filed another FIOA seeking to obtain the missing emails.

The CPS first claimed that it had destroyed the emails. It said that when Close retired, his account along with his emails, were automatically destroyed. But Maurizi did not buy it. She asked the court at the hearing last month to order the CPS to turn over “metadata” — data about data, such as file creation and modification dates, email sender and recipient addresses, timestamps, email routing information, keywords, and subject lines — proving the emails really were deleted and when. “We have NO certainty whatsoever” that the emails were destroyed, Maurizi wrote in a message to Consortium News. Maurizi is in court because she believes the allegedly deleted emails could provide additional evidence of a politically motivated prosecution of Assange. She also wants metadata on a CPS document that it says is from 2012 explaining the CPS’ email deletion policy, which was only sent to her in 2023.

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    Rembrandt van Rijn Study of the Head and Clasped Hands of a Young Man as Christ in Prayer 1655   • Harris Claims Trump Is Literally Hitler As Dem
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    Armstrong covering NoKo in Russia again and again. Still not the slightest idea why it matters. No one knows IF, What, or How Many. Yet they all are running in circles, foaming hebephrenic on the floor. South Korea threatens to invade Ukraine. What the literal?

    So far as we know, this is like 20 guys, co-training exchange students, same as the last 100 years. Not even like just the NeoCons, the signal is coming from everywhere. Um, whyyyyy? This isn’t even like Romania or Belarus entering the war fully. NoKo is like a ziiiiiilion miles away. Geez, guys, if 10 extra non-stop trains are shuttling 1,000 men 4,000 miles cross-country at a pop there, I bet you would know. That means in military terms, the numbers are near-zero. Did not turn the dial on jeep movements and APCs.

    As elsewhere, everyone has lost their d—n minds. Okay, rough check, HOW MANY men would it take to turn the dial in Ukraine? A million? Russia already has a million, you fools, they just enlisted and trained them last year. You’re going to add 1,000 Koreans and suddenly the battlefield is lost?

    But it’s all good. Russia has a plan: “Russia Sends Troops To Liberate Oppressed British People From Communist Rule” –Bbee

    I say the U.S. can help! Sounds like they need them some Freedom! We can level Manchester today!

    After the public AR shooting “ Gun Owners Call For Common-Sense Democrat Control” –Bbee

    Terrified of Walz as well. But have these guy never seen an AR before? Apparently one had. That steel plate was like 6 feet away. If you’re looking for a good way to get killed, that’s one. Darwin Awards, if I were a reporter and saw them doing that, I’d leave.

    Dick Cheney Excitedly Joins Democrat Party After Hearing They Get To Shoot People At Gun Ranges” BBee

    Back to the election: “ Worst Allegation Yet? Woman Claims In 1993 Trump Touched Her Inappropriately With Classified Documents While Praising Hitler” –BBee

    “Frustrated Democrats to Consider Letting Voters Pick The Presidential Candidate Next Time: –Bbee

    Nah. Democrats think Democrats are retards and can’t be trusted with that. So Democrats decided for them.

    ““Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon Explains the Challenges of Satire in Today’s Climate — ‘Imagine if Your Job is to Write Jokes That Are Funnier Than a Kamala Harris Speech’”.

    A commenter like “Rage” or something posted this only yesterday. Just…the Kamala-Cooper interview. No real comment, just that. No memes, no face palms, no comments, no criticisms. Just her own words. Like Trump merely posted the uncut Baier interview. What can you say?

    Don’t worry, as JB says, they’ll still vote for Kamala by hmmm….well…bout 150 million. ‘Cause water cooler, chicks at work. When they round them up, throw them in camps and have “Trans” women serial-rape them in jail there, they’ll still vote for.

    “The trend is very clearly not in her [Kamala] favor.”

    You see the strategy here, with doing this then makes the Steal hard or impossible. It’s outing them to make them take even more obvious measures. Almost all the wins we’ve had are them having to go too far, too fast, Trump baiting them to reveal themselves as evil, mean-spirited, extra-legal, violent, and intolerant. As the American people aren’t those things, you finally get their attention to say “What’s going on around here?”

    There may be a similar run with early voting. Last time, Trump said, don’t early vote, we want it on paper. This time he says DO early vote, and for why? Because they’ll have it on record before the candidate is yanked? So the DNC will see how they’re losing and force them to I dunno, poison gas a city or something?

    “It is astounding that an unsubstantiated allegation — denied on-record by multiple people present for the claimed incident & rejected by the victim’s family — put forward by a *lone, anonymous source* made it into print & immediately became the CBS Evening News’ lead story”

    Not astounding at all, Nothing could be more normal and predictable for the last 8 years. Compare: “Trump praised Hitler generals”, well, the Left praises Stalin and the USSR, Cuba, daily. The NYT praises Kim Jong and other have cooed over the totalitarian power in China. But that’s the GOOD kind of praising Hitler, you’re doing the BAD kind. …Btw, EVERYONE praises Rommel, ie “Hitler’s General”. Because he was – and correct me if I’m wrong here – a competent general.

    Conclusion: All historians are Hitler! They like Hitler’s Generals. …And you wonder how we left “Idiocracy” in the dust years ago. “My foot and your -ss, your Honor.” — Courtroom scene.

    Brilliant! We’re definitely in the Feelz now. Not a Logic to be found, sea to shining sea.

    “Maricopa County needs 10 days.”

    Yes, but Argentina is literate. And I’m sure that’s crazy: it’ll take at least 10 weeks, and add up to about 70 million votes. The Maths. They are two hurd. Skool.

    ““Almost everyone expects a civil war to break out over the 2024 election. Trump was commenting on that possible scenario..”

    Really? Like when Trump “lost” and left, then the violent far-right started a Civil War to overthrow Biden and install him? Oh wait, that never happened? And the media is saying there is only violence if TRUMP is elected? Huh. You do the math surgery.

    “Biden’s vaccine passport efforts were particularly troubling; if they had been successful the Bill of Rights would be effectively dead and the federal government would have total control over every detail of civilian life.”

    If only. The CORPORATIONS would have had total control over every detail of your daily life. With NO COURT, and NO APPEAL. That’s the improvement of corporate governance.

    Anecdote: in Korea they use some of this stuff. Call a taxi, well, we called a taxi because the wife’s in a wheelchair. So they were a minute late to the curb, as there are so many taxis it’s like “Next one passes 90 seconds from now.” Oooops! Your life if over FOREVER now. For. Ever. Got dinged on the review, you as a customer and blacklisted, impossible to order a taxi. Ever. Great, now who do I appeal to reverse it? Hahahahaaha! Have you never used Facebook, eBay, etc? NO ONE. There’s literally no one there, they have like 10 employees for the planet. 9 of them are counting money by rolling in it like Scrooge McDuck. So IF ONLY it had been “the government” being draconian, would have been a palace to us. You could demand an appeal. Even to the county Squire in upper Saxony, 1056AD. …And we know how kind, thoughtful and benevolent governments are. Well corporations in this situation are far, FAR, FAAAAAAAAR worse.

    THAT. Is their real goal. And when you all die: they’ll be happy. Larry Fink said so. He said they can make rising GDP on dropping populations, buy yours today!

    “Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler, the man who is responsible for the death of six million Jews.”

    As the meme yesterday, those four Presidents are responsible for the death of 11 million Arabs. Eat your heart out, Adolf!

    P.S. Maybe I misremember, but hasn’t Trump been President already? I seem to recall you same MSNBC guys telling me something about that.

    “This election is ours if Christians will do their duty and vote to restrain evil.”

    Yes, but as I say every day: There are no Christians in America. If one in 300 see the inside of a church even once a year, I’ll eat my hat. Next level, if 1 in 3,000 go weekly. If one in 30,000 actually BELIEVE any of the crap the put in the Book and don’t feel it’s just about the same as Yoda and the Sphinx or a Fortune Cookie. If one in 300,000 have any personal connection to any divinity at all, real or imagined.

    But sure, yeah, it’s “The Christians” being bad, starting wars around the world, supporting Israel. All ten of them. I’ll start a lottery, we can get you a plane ticket, come see for yourself. Like everything else on the news and TV: it’s all made up. Surprise! Who coulda guessed?

    “For that matter, what convinces you that these massive camps he’s planning are only for migrants?”

    He’s planning camps for migrants? Stop campaigning for him! Ush-hay about the AmpsCay. Yeah, um, those camps were built by Obama, deporter-in-chief.

    Cooper-Harris here, the commenter was right, but this is how the sausage is made. Look at the nuts and bolts. “They” say, “They’re all the same”. They have the Vulcan hive-mind-meld, each and EVERY person, to a man, to a thought, are identical. At 8:05am, they have the same thoughts, then 9:12 they have different but identical thoughts, like the Borg. No, you fools. LOOK. They ARE disagreeing. They are varying. Here, and how it’s done: IS Cooper = Mind Meld Kamala? Clearly not, as he’s f-ing coherent, and if he could he would answer for her. So the level of corruption and collusion now is HERE, not somewhere else. They are MORE identical but not all identical. Cooper is saying, “THIS is the issue you’d better focus on, this is what we (here in my office) think will turn your tide with the American people.” Then “Let me help you: Kamala, eveyone knows you’re the greatest President in the history of the Universe, and everyone in the Galaxy thinks you’re super-awesome, but what would you say to the nattering nabobs of negativity at home who CLAIM you dropped the ball on the Border, and haven’t heard your amazing, pre-canned, campaign-planner talking points on the matter?” [ Hands mike ]

    Kamala: “Duuuuuuuuh. I believe in Trump’s border but Trump is stupid. I totally reversed my position, but his position is stupid and I believe both positions. Thank you.” [ Cooper, stunned, attempts not to face-palm ]

    Nevertheless, I’m quite sure she’ll get about 1.5 Billion votes next week, 150 million of them real.

    “• US Making ‘Big Mistake’ By Weaponizing Dollar – Putin (RT)

    No it’s not. We’ll end the Empire and end Triffin’s Paradox before collapsing.

    US Making ‘Big Mistake’ By Weaponizing Dollar – Putin (RT)

    In theory we could probably defeat them but everything would have to be different. They’re only like 150M people, all spread out. But we’d have to have 90% of our 600 million mobilized, have (any) industry, be equivalent in weapons, have a moral ground, and sideline their nukes. So, in theory it’s possible and I could write that up for you, but nobody’s going to do it. Not for +100 years.

    “• Is Western Civilizational Decline Too Advanced to Be Reversed? (PCR)

    Progressives vs Conservatives. Progressives are the Religion of Progress: we are a straight, inevitable line from cave men to Star Trek. “The Right Side of History”. Conservatives are a straight line to Mad Max/Armageddon. But they both ignore actual history: history moves in cycles. The West already fell, then was “reversed”. In the big from Rome, and in the small, from 14thc, or from 1932, from whenever. So what are you asking here? What are your assumptions? OF COURSE it can, and it is, ALWAYS reversed. What’s your premise here, be clear. You mean, THIS cycle, reversing like in the next 5 years?

    Actually, yes. You can already see it reversing everywhere. Like Muhammad Ali, we had to endure the punches and survive. We defended and backed up for 10 rounds because the alternative was to hit George Foreman and be knocked out. The Government has been trying to get us to attack since 1990/Rush Limbaugh, doing EVERYTHING they can think of, like Waco, to make us “lash out” so they can cut us apart while they’re strong. We didn’t and now WE’RE strong and they’re weak. …Can you see how out-matched we were, how dangerous it was, how hidden their armies were? Even now we’re barely enough to unseat them and restore Federal Law. How much less in 2000 or 2010?

    OUTING them all, getting them to publicly slap women senseless on 5th Avenue, arrange for them to be raped in women’s prisons, even this has barely got the support to turn on them. (Belts out: “When a Maaaaaaan, Slaps a woooooman! He just don’t treat ‘er right…” Sing it Sledge!) And they still vote for them, enthusiastically. “Well they dismembered my children, and my family line is now extinguished forever, but at least he’s not Trump!” — All women ever.

    “If the Democrats are returned to power in 2024 there will never again be an honest American election. The odds are against the Democrats and the Ruling Elite permitting Trump to become President. If he prevails against the odds and regains the office, it is unlikely he will be staffed with sufficient determined and intelligent appointees to reverse American societal, economic, political, moral, and spiritual decline. Nevertheless, we must vote for Trump or never again will anyone challenge in our name the Ruling Elite’s control over our lives.”

    Yes, it’s your textbook, garden variety Communist Uprising. “Murdering millions since 1840™” Russian Revolution 2.0. THEY say so. Don’t listen to me: ASK them. They will TELL you – at excruciating length – that this is what they plan. And as JB training, what they have planned for you: 2nd class citizenship forever, endless poverty, daily struggle sessions about how unbearable you are, and camps. Just ask. The “Reeducation camps” in national TV was just last month. Asked, they said “Oh we didn’t mean that, we meant the Happy-JOY forced re-education camps for all our opponents.” Ah. So much better then. My mistake.

    Could not be more standard. Could not be more boring. But thankfully everyone is illiterate and no one reads or it would be just as obvious to the rest of America as it is to me. But, ya know: 6th grade reading. Who has that kind of mad skills? Your life is on the line: who has that kind of time?

    “1). Knowledge about the world is constantly evolving through constant inquiry, discussion, and dissemination.
    2). NO state, university, or ecclesiastical committee has ever been in possession of the full truth

    You’re using logic and reason. THEY DON’T CARE. They have feelz, and the feelz are POWER. I FEEL power. Power FEELS good. Is the feminine sense? Sort of: it’s consensus, group-delusion, if it were male, it would be “Do it or I’ll smack you.” Don’t care if it’s good for you or not, not trying to convince you and get your psychological buy-in. Don’t care: do the ACTION. The female orientation is, “Do I own your THOUGHTS?”

    “The Navy and Air Force are set to take control of sustainment to get a grip on the situation, but not until FY2027. The GAO estimates that only about 55% of the F-35’s three variants are mission ready at any given time,”

    I wonder if these problems are overblown to lure Russia in, but I don’t see how. And there’s no reason we can’t suck this much, the foundation is certainly there. What I didn’t realize was they are the “hanger queens”, planes always in repair. Yeah, so? Yeah, so when Iran whacked Israel, they of course scramble all the jets so they’re not sitting like targets in the hanger. Getting blown up. Ohhhhhhhh. Yeah, see? If it’s not “Mostly working” then you have 1/3 of your jets blown up. They literally “Can’t get out of their own way.” So for a $10 bolt the whole $100M jet is gone. Yeah, this is my main complaint on all hardware and all the West, but this points out more directly WHY. Like the 777 guns that need to be towed TO POLAND every week for new barrel-sleeving. GTFO. Nope, you’re fired, fired before we’re all killed.

    Well, thankfully they WERE all F35s and therefore all Israel’s jets WERE blown up. Awwww.

    “How SpaceX Starship will take us on Mars”

    Yes, but I don’t WANT to go to Mars. I want to NOT go to Mars. I want us NOT to go to Mars. Ever, but at least until we fix things here.

    Oh well. It’s good, I just think it’s the wrong priority. I’ll tell myself “The Galactic Council of Lazy f—ktards will get involved in our war against evil if only we become ‘interplanetary’” Yeah, with lazy, cowardly moralistic, scolding, peace-loving f—ktards of light on our side, we can’t lose.

    For Oliver, and then the Dead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knlFWhmC0i8

    Talk about deeply bad and disturbing, this situation with women Ick, and how mindlessly EASY it is to hack them – and so why were they, Progressives, hot to get women the vote again? Reminds me this is exactly what all the men said in 1910 about why women shouldn’t vote and it would destroy society. That they’re emotionally-driven, socially-pressured, and too easily dispense with cold facts, reason, argument… and also can’t go to war. That they would dispense with men, shatter the family. And as much as every day I say here, “Conservatives said this 50 years ago and were right”, no really, we’re at THIS level now? Like I am going to make the argument, even entertain the argument, that to save all society and keep all our kids from being killed, we need to remove woman’s sufferage? Me? Really?

    Yet here we are. Jesus Christ the level we’ve come to. If you can’t use facts and reason, or IF the facts and reason are entirely disconnected from your voting, your actions, then I’m at a loss of what else to do. Have a moral test, like Deckard gives to replicants in Blade Runner? Like to see if they’re not children and have a moral compass?

    Please, please let me be kidding here.

    Yet there you are. That’s exactly what they said would happen, and it happened, for exactly the reasons those men in 1910 said it would happen. I’m not committed and it does NOT please me to have this line of thinking.

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    uh, i don’t get it.

    mcdonald’s is a horrible entity which profits off the poisoning of humans.

    i guess it’s the chaser after your warped speed micky finn.

    #172445
    those darned kids
    Participant

    uh, mr. trump is THE FORTUNATE SON.

    we ain’t him, we ain’t him..
    we ain’t no millionaire new york real estate dude’s son, no

    (plus, he’s a war criminal)

    #172446
    those darned kids
    Participant

    elon musk is NOT forked if mr. trump “loses”.

    are those billion dollar deals with the u.s. department of baby evisceration going to suddenly end?!?!??

    hahahahahahahahaha, nope.

    Elon Musk Just Won Another Massive Military Contract—This Time, for Satellites

    #172447
    poppie
    Participant

    I am going to attempt a rebuttal. I see the behavior to which you speak. I do not see the boundary of logic running between the sexes. I see too many men also gullible. Where is the boundary? I dont know, but I am happy to guess. Its between those who have an investment in going along to get along and those who dont. This may draw in more women than men. I see the inverse in action in employment. Executive positions exist to minority report going along. This may draw more men than women. If your executives go along, they are not doing their job. I think this is the case. Linking this to executive behavior points to the remedy. Systems with true executives will out compete systems that go along. Even if they are from another country. The go along tend to do well and spread because thats what going along is for. That is only within the boundarys of your system. It wont be fixed until its looses to another system.

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    those darned kids
    Participant

    GRRRRRRRRRRR…..

    IT’S NOT THE FOOD.

    IT’S THE “VACCINES”.

    GRRRRRRRRRRR…..

    (many of the commentators here grew up eating total crap, i.e. 60’s and 70’s and 80’s canned crap etc., we drank from hoses and america (i.e., the “west”) was hyperpolluted because there were still factories and the air was full of lead from the cars. BUT NO ONE WAS AUTISTIC OR WEIGHED 759 POUNDS)

    IT’S THE VACCINES.

    GRRRRRRRRRRR…..

    (people in ultra fancy parts eat organic everything. their kids have never even smelt a twinkie. BUT, they still have all the autism and pandathing and ADHWhatever and this syndrome and that syndrome)

    GRRRRRRRRRRR…..

    #172450
    those darned kids
    Participant

    maybe if you stop blowing people’s lives up,

    they’ll stay home.

    #172454
    zerosum
    Participant

    Activate links by removing spaces
    Life, allegations, impunity and hypocrisy, change

    Complexity of interactive supply chains
    Cogs in a supply chain
    Relevannce, domino, butterfly, extreme weather
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    disgusting rhetoric. Pushing this hysteria.
    spreading “outright lies and falsehoods” by treating Goldberg’s allegations as legitimate.
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    Karine Jean-Pierre just stated that Joe Biden believes Trump is a “fascist” and a “dictator”

    This comes just hours after Kamala Harris ONCE AGAIN compared Trump to Adolf Hitler

    THEY WANT HIM DEÂD.

    This is a call to action by the White House, and it’s sick.

    https: //x.com/nicksortor/status/1849156315764883467?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1849156315764883467%7Ctwgr%5E0f21052f46aa3d71574a242644832dc777ae7df0%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theautomaticearth.com%2F2024%2F10%2Fdebt-rattle-october-25-2024%2F
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    Notice the full picture of Kamala Harris’ surprise address: The VP seal, the 2 presidential mics, & the VP flag. This wasn’t a campaign event. This was the US VICE PRESIDENT informing you that “Hitler” is on the way in the form of Trump. I have NEVER seen propaganda like this.

    https: //x.com/glennbeck/status/1849259513960137128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1849259513960137128%7Ctwgr%5E0f21052f46aa3d71574a242644832dc777ae7df0%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theautomaticearth.com%2F2024%2F10%2Fdebt-rattle-october-25-2024%2F
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    Harris, is running on a “save democracy” and “hate Trump” platform.
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    • Word Salad City (ZH)
    https: //www.zerohedge.com/political/word-salad-city-harris-town-hall-philly-goes-bad-youd-expect
    … the most superficial politicians of our time
    David Alexrod called out Harris’ signature flaw: “The things that would concern me is when she doesn’t want to answer a question, her habit is to kind of go to Word Salad City.”

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    Listen. Money talks. Jump, How high. Ignore at you’re peril.
    https: //sputnikglobe.com/20241023/dark-money-darker-motives-why-is-bill-gates-backing-kamala-harris-using-shady-super-pac-1120657496.html
    Dark Money, Darker Motives: Why is Bill Gates Backing Kamala Harris Using Shady Super PAC?
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    Tit for tat
    https: //swentr.site/business/606362-russia-western-assets-income/
    24 Oct, 2024 14:48

    Russia to seize income from frozen Western assets – finance minister
    The move will be a mirror response to the actions by the US and its allies, according to Anton Siluanov
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    Maybe, Change, Hope, Improvement for blue collar
    https:// x.com/charliekirk11/status/1849245990236078371?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1849245990236078371%7Ctwgr%5E0f21052f46aa3d71574a242644832dc777ae7df0%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theautomaticearth.com%2F2024%2F10%2Fdebt-rattle-october-25-2024%2F

    Right now they are popping pills at Pfizer because Bobby Kennedy might run the FDA and the CDC.

    Right now, the warmongers in DC are shaking — they’re trembling like a leaf — that Tulsi Gabbard might go in and expose the fraud of us sending $200 billion to Ukraine while our border remains wide open.

    The government gangsters, as Kash Patel would put it, that have robbed us blind, are starting to get really nervous. They’re saying “Is Elon Musk really going to come in and look at our budgets?”

    Oh, you better believe Elon Musk is going to come in and look at your budgets. The Department of Government Efficiency Czar!
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    Oroboros
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    Oroboros
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    BRICS represents 4.8 BILLION people

    Who’s isolated now?

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    Oroboros
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    Greta Twattard© Endorses This Chart

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    Oroboros
    Participant

    In this election remember your backup plan….

    Theodore Roosevelt’s quote “speak softly and carry a big stick.”

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    Oroboros
    Participant

    Your Up Against the Machine

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    #172462
    Oroboros
    Participant

    On a lighter note fostering family values

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    Oroboros
    Participant

    Home Owners Associations

    The Tyranny of Democracy in Action

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    Oroboros
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    Loop Holes

    Ya gotta love’m

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    Oroboros
    Participant

    More from the Twat Queen

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    #172467
    zerosum
    Participant

    Take a look at post # 148
    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/10/palestine-open-thread-2024-256/comments/page/2/#comments

    What has Israel achieved in the last year?
    Let’s take a stone cold sober recap, I’ve compiled a list of the top 29 accomplishments of Israel in 2024:

    Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 25 2024 8:28 utc | 148
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    #172468
    Oroboros
    Participant

    RFK jr: Make America Healthy Again

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    #172469
    zerosum
    Participant

    If you prefer take a look at
    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/10/what-has-israel-achieved-in-the-last-year-by-arch-bungle.html#more
    October 25, 2024
    What Has Israel Achieved In The Last Year? – by Arch Bungle

    #172470
    zerosum
    Participant

    If true, bad news.
    “According to the Turks, a battery of Patriot air defense systems was destroyed near Kyiv last night. The number of destroyed Patriot batteries since the beginning of the NWO amounted to 20, whose cost exceeds $ 70 billion.

    Since the beginning of the NMD, 22 S-300 batteries, 20 Patriot batteries, seven IRIS-T batteries, 11 Buks, four NASAMS, one Aspid-2000, three HAWKs, one Supacat, one S-125 and three Gepard ZSUs, three Tunguska air defense systems have been destroyed.

    At least 43 radar systems were also destroyed.”

    Posted by: Suresh | Oct 25 2024 7:37 utc | 93

    #172474
    John Day
    Participant

    UN Report: Women Have Lost 900 Medals to ‘Transgender’ Athletes https://amgreatness.com/2024/10/24/un-report-women-have-lost-900-medals-to-transgender-athletes/

    #172475
    John Day
    Participant

    @TDK: It doesn’t have to be either-or. A lot of additives to food are new chemicals, and there is the corn-syrup (HFCS), as well as all the subliminal suggestions from “devices”. And vaccine injuries…
    It can ALL ADD UP.
    ;-{

    #172476
    John Day
    Participant

    @Dr. D: Yeah, I’ve looked into it. Going to Mars and back would probably age you 20 years right away, and you’d take 5 years to halfway recover, and still die young, under ideal conditions.

    #172477
    John Day
    Participant

    I found out when I was 12 that Mein Kampf had been translated to English, so I read it that summer.
    Damn! It just seemed like an interesting life story and lots of reasonable stuff. I was surprised. Hitler did not seem crazy at all.
    Weird.
    I must be “literally Hitler”. (10 years of methamphetamine may have changed him, though…)

    #172478
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    Joe Sacco’s graphic commentary The War on Gaza can be viewed online:
    https://www.tcj.com/topic/the-war-on-gaza/

    The installments are being published as a book with the title War on Gaza.

    Joe Sacco is well known as an unflinching chronicler of the injustice inflicted on the Palestinian people (Palestine, 1993; Footnotes in Gaza, 2010). He continues this mission with War on Gaza, a series of graphic commentaries on Israel’s rampage that began more than a year ago and continues relentlessly today.

    Published in installments on The Comics Journal’s website, War on Gaza is a series of comics and single-panel illustrations that lay bare the naked immorality of the “war” itself and its dire and tragic consequences. Employing his trademark combination of honesty, compassion, and dark humor, Sacco’s War on Gaza is an uncompromising critique of Israel’s genocide and the complicity of President Joe Biden and the United States.

    https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/war-on-gaza

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    Oroboros
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    Oroboros
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    Beta Boy

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    Oroboros
    Participant

    Men raising their sons as opposed to women

    https://x.com/i/status/1849871368483111207

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    Oroboros
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    Oroboros
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    Oroboros
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    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GasFW9HXkAAb9_2?format=png&name=small.

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    Oroboros
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    Oroboros
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