Good morning! It’s me again! Spud! It is possible that at some point this week, we may need to gather lawyers, guns and money. No sports stuff, but after week five of the NFL, I’m still scratching my head. And hating the Dodgers makes you a moral person.
Links?
This Texan has gone soft. And Viagra ain’t going to help.
Israel picks up another Iranian side piece.
They’re still at it. Makes me want to spark up a fag.
Tomorrow is the one year anniversary of the slaughter of 1200 people. I hope he tells Austin to stick it up his ass.
Oh, and there’s still a war in Ukraine.
Okay, that’s it for this morning. Have a great day. Peace out, Glibbies.
“This Texan has gone soft. And Viagra ain’t going to help.”
As Bongino often says, most republicans are closet democrats, but no democrats are ever anything but evil.
I have no idea who he is, but he’s obviously a cuck.
Me either, and I lived close enough to tarrant county that I should have if he was anywhere near as prominent as the article implied.
“A pyrrhric victory?”
Is it evil to hope more of these mentally deranged people rid society of themselves?
As opposed to Purric victories, which are when the cat wins.
Such a legendary Texas Republican that no one has ever heard of him.
It’s kind of tiresome. Ok, don’t vote for trump, whatever.
But you are going to vote for the representative of a party that claims to be diametrically opposed to you on almost every issue.
Speaking completely out of my butt here (not by any means knowing Texas internal politics) — but I have to wonder if Texas Team Red domination has driven folks who would be Dems in other states into the party just so they have a chance. And hence he’ll happily swallow every characterization of Mean Tweets Insurrection Man (flaming TDS in that article) to justify voting as Blue as he can up and down the ticket (he’s going Dem in the Senate election too it says…).
Yeah, vote for the candidate that pretends she is not from the incumbent party and the cause of all problems and ills. Because the other guy is – according to the criminal evil cabal – the bad guy for opposing them and their agenda.
It’s a cuck’s life.
Well, you have to understand, TRUMP!
(really, that seems to be the thought process among so many of these people. And it isn’t Republicans, it is patricians who are stepping over. They just believe that government is the source of all good and that they are just the right people to run it.)
((it is funny that those who say they are against the patriarchy are the most fervent defenders of it))
I didn’t vote for Trump in 2016. And I know a few people who skipped the election entirely because they couldn’t vote for either candidate in good faith. I’m sure those people still exist in this election cycle, they always have. But a large group of “Republicans” secretly voting for Harris? This strikes me as poorly conceived fan-ficition masturbatory material for dimwits.
I’d buy New York flipping red before I believe that.
On Texas politics: A big group of the elected Texas republicans are useless cucks who compromise with democrats, including the republican speaker of the house. An serious effort began last election cycle to remove them. He is one of them. It is also the reason Texas is considered “Purple.”
“But you are going to vote for the representative of a party that claims to be diametrically opposed to you on almost every issue.”
Revealed preferences and all that.
@ SDF-7: I think that’s a good observation. I imagine it’s the same in really safe districts. You’re right about the Senate – he claims Ted Cruz “has no character” – which might be true.
I think a historical parallel might be what happened in the 1820s that eventually led Jackson to power. Basically only one party after about 1815 so, if you want to get into politics that’s who you join. Eventually it became so big that the factions split apart.
Not surprising, really. As the state becomes more (sub)urban, I would expect purple to eventually go blue.
And no, I don’t want to hear about Florida. It is inevitable there, too.
folks who would be Dems in other states into the party just so they have a chance
This is absolutely the case. Many politicians want the trappings of office and will change their stripes to do so, their main principle is themselves.
Hey JI, since you hit it right out the park there, maybe we should start a discussion of how the usual propagandists in media write their headlines and pretend news. The choice in language, I find, is in and of itself, practically always a dead giveaway of a bias and agenda. Republicans pounce on democrats that have done wrong, while the democrats and media pounce on any republican they don’t like, for example. And yeah, Darth Vader, the evil architect of the Boosh years, suddenly is a great statesman because he tells people to vote for the criminal cabal his administration did the foundational work for.
College journalism training instills it in them. You don’t see Matt Taibbi doing that shit.
I will give you that. At least Taibbi, after experiencing the USSR first hand, realized the inherent evil of that shit. The fact so many of them are enamored with the whole big state shit, makes you wonder if it is just them noticing where their money comes from and doing he work of the money lenders, or if they volunteer to be evil fucks.
I think the rest of us escaped that Texas Republican.
Back in the Tea Party years, I was having lunch in Austin with some Repub insider types. They were quite open about their desire to have Dems defeat Tea Party candidates, and that the establishment Repubs were working to make it happen.
So, this ain’t nuthin’ new.
“Tomorrow is the one year anniversary of the slaughter of 1200 people. I hope he tells Austin to stick it up his ass.”
I thought it was today’s anniversary, but anyway, I remind people no other nation in the world would be expected to just let some neighbors come in and in acts reminiscent of medieval shit, murder, rape, and take hostages. For some reason the Jews however get blamed for this being done to them by evil people.
It is a mystery.
For some reason the Jews however get blamed for this being done to them by evil people.
That’s the very essence of slave morality per Nietzsche – we are the righteous because we are the oppressed. Ironic where that goes, isn’t it?
Sorry. I wrote that last night.
But I’m totally down with creeping socialism and totalitarianism. Who’s with me, fellow GOP members?!
Why would the people and idiots that think they will be the top men not be fine with totalitarianism? These tend to be the wave 3 and so on people crying about how they are true believers and loyal to the cause when they are told to dig their own graves before the execution.
Get in the helicopter, you’re going for a ride, commie.
If only we could control the things you know, you would totally see things our way, even when it was hurting you… Or else, I bet.
It’s not just what she says, it’s the way she says it….the seething anger and hatred is palpable. She is strait up Hitler/Mao/Stalin material. The only difference between her American ilk and the aforementioned is the power they were able to get their hands on. The more they rave about destroying the constitution the more urgent our need to defend it and beat their likes back.
All cliches about “most important election evar” aside, it does kind of feel like we are on a knife edge. You just have to listen to their actual words to see what they have planned for us.
I used to listen to Rush Limbaugh, and he tended to predict over-the-top things the Dems would do if they won. But I think if Kamala wins we will see, in really short order:
1. Clamp down on free speech, including a ban on “hate speech” and “disinformation”, especially targeting X.
2. Executive order banning assault rifles.
3. Executive order granting citizenship to anyone in the country.
3. Any opposition from the Supreme Court will be ignored.
They will try to pack the Supreme Court but they would need both the House and Senate to do that.
Harris *is* the insurrection.
The Constitution is the law of t land, not “whatever the FedGov decides to do”.
This. I wish people would stop arguing. on their terms.
“Who’s with me, fellow GOP members?!”
An unsurprisingly large number of them.
When the ‘coming out of the closet’ cultural movement started it didnt occur to me at the time it would include not just homosexuals but totalitarian shitbags as well.
“…creeping socialism and totalitarianism…”
It isn’t really creeping anymore. They are openly going as fast as they can and we are farther into it than most realize.The R’s were never trying to stop it, just slow it down. They have given up on that now and are fully onboard.
A pyrrhric victory?
Nah, just a flash in the pan.
At least it wasn’t a pyrite victory. That’s a fool’s goal.
*grins*
Insert standard reference to “those who seek to rule you for your own good will never rest”.
Eric Garner – killed for his own good!
Jesus I can’t make it past the first paragraph.
I guess only public students and blue collars losers smoke, right The Atlantic?
Yeah our betters do proper drugs like cocaine and raiding their kids’ Ritalin supplies and whatnot.
You know… the posh stuff.
:eyeroll:
It was the “schtick” that made me roll my eyes. It is the same “I can’t believe it’s not butter!” line about Trump. That anyone who makes a lot of money just has to be faking it when they are more relatable to the blue collar workers and working poor. There is no way that a man like that has real beliefs that run counter to the ideas of the upper class left.
Ten years ago I would just have assumed anything government related would be rife with ineptitude, waste, and stupidity, but these days, things like this seem far more likely to be the truth these days. We truly are ruled by evil people.
Saw a number of interviews of the storm victims this morning. They were praising volunteers showing up with help and supplies from every state in the Union. When asked what FEMA had done for them they said “We haven’t seen them.”
Must be some of those Republicans secretly voting for Kamalamadingdong I hear about.
Those Republicans won’t be voting at all this year.
Ding Ding Ding RC wins the Kewpie Doll! In a close election suppressing the right part of NC is important to the biden White House and the Aldi Obama.
That paper is so blatantly biased it’s hard to take their reporting on this issue seriously.
Thanks for stepping up to the plate these last few days, Spud
Agreed — and since I didn’t read last night’s links until early this morning (so it didn’t seem like there was a point), sorry for your loss OMWC. I know it obviously wasn’t a total surprise, and I hope that helps (my folks are in the “any phone call at an odd time makes me worried before I pick up” zone so I can only imagine). Glad you got to see her and vice versa.
Yes, SPUD is Orida!
To the Republican squish: No.
That is good to know about you though.
Just the evil lunatic’s arm? What a shame. He should have poured a gallon over his head.
I have already made my thoughts on the Israel situation clear.
Britain: “Prostrate yourself and do as you are told.”
“Makes me want to spark up a fag.” – That’s what ISIS said.
Me too Gallant. It is time for this evil shit to end…overdue really.
I imagine there will be plenty of cockroaches gathered in certain places to celebrate today. Just sayin’.
Ukraine: US printers go $brrrrrr$….American leader’s bank accounts go $ka-ching$
One definite downside of growing up in the late ’70s/early ’80s — sometimes your brain plays songs you heard on the radio once or twice (never saw the movie) on fracking repeat.
Join my hell.
You have to see the movie. It’s in the “so bad it’s fun” category.
Written by/with ELO, as I learned just the other day.
I was 10 or 11 when that came out and somehow escaped it.
“A Missouri judge got rid of the law mandating sex offenders to have ‘no candy’ signs outside their homes on Halloween after deeming it unconstitutional.
In 2008, Missouri enacted a law stating sex offenders have to stay indoors away from children on October 31, keep their outside lights turned off and post a sign to deter children from the property while trick or treating.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13931471/Sex-offenders-Missouri-no-longer-required-post-no-candy-signs-Halloween.html
What if you live in a house made of gingerbread?
Then you are in violation of code and will be fine drepeatedly until you remedy the construction.
“President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris both released statements on Monday morning condemning the depravity of Hamas but also calling for a ceasefire at a time when the conflict is expanding throughout the Middle East.”
There was a ceasefire on October 6 2023.
Yes, but the COLONIZERS!!!
Which ones? The Canaanites? The Phoenecians? The Babylonians? The Assyrians? The Egyptians? The Hittites? The Persians? The Greeks? The Romans? The Turks?
YOU WHITE SUPREMACIST!
Don’t be silly UCS, all evil is reserved exclusively for western white people.
Which ones? The Canaanites? The Phoenecians? The Babylonians? The Assyrians? The Egyptians? The Hittites? The Persians? The Greeks? The Romans? The Turks?
Clearly it was the filthy Jews who invaded the promised land 3,000 years ago when they illegally migrated from Egypt!!
Well WTF, God had promised it to them!
The bees.
IIRC they did wipe out some other tribe that was there “first” but they’re not around to land-acknowledge so oh wellz.
Way to other the Amorites, UnCivil.
I covered them.
“the conflict is expanding throughout the Middle East”
No it’s not. Iran and its proxies have been attacking Israel for decades. What has changed is Israel is hitting back harder than usual. The conflict isn’t expanding at all. This is like saying the D-Day invasion expanded WWII into France.
2-Chili has a good piece up at TOS (middle of the front page actually): https://reason.com/2024/10/07/october-7-offered-a-stark-choice-between-good-and-evil/
So I have been following the various people showing evidence that there are massive numbers of illegals that have not just been registered to vote, but tell you they pan to vote, and vote team blue, and the defense from team blue is that it is illegal for them to vote, so there. No need to do anything to stop this shit before it is too late. I tell you that if you don’t see this as evil people doing criminal shit by now, you simply are not paying attention.
I hear and read a lot of things that confirm my biases! C’mon Alex, this is what gets tiresome here and you are smarter than that. You might also just slow down a little and recognize that there are people that actually, legitimately vote blue – as difficult as that can be to understand. You are going to have to live with them, so it wouldn’t hurt – too much – to think a little differently about them.
His brush is broad, but not too broad. Of course there are legit blue voters. Some therapy might help them.
He is not wrong about massive amounts of voter fraud around the illegals…hell the Dems have been admitting to that since Reagan.
The Bee link yesterday was hilarious: “Alarmed scientists claim conspiracy theories in danger of extinction as so many of them keep coming true.”
“I hear and read a lot of things that confirm my biases! C’mon Alex”
As I have said before: in the past this argument could stand. These days, it does not anymore. What? Your only option is to believe things when they come from the legacy media? And yes, we all have seen fakes, but these in general always seem to come from the left (like the recent Harris supporting republicans that turned out to be democrats lifers).
I will grant you one offs are not proof of anything, but when you have multiple sources that are willing to go on the record, but the story is still ignored, it is not bias confirmation anymore.
This past weekend I have seen credible evidence of numerous citizen journalists finding hundreds of illegals that are telling them they have been registered and will be voting for democrats. I have also seen Mike Benz explain the massive fraud from overseas ballots that are always 95% pro team blue and are non military as well as the stories of people that rented houses only to have bundles of ballots be delivered to the address in question. And all these things have one thing in common: they are prevalently happening in our battleground states where the authorities ignore them or better yet, take legal actions against the people trying to verify or that have verified the cheating.
“Vote by mail” is designed for fraud – it does not get any clearer than that.
It is no accident that that one party is universally in favor of it and the other one (mostly) condemns it.
There are two ways you can look at election cheating. First, you look for proof, and if you don’t find any, that means it isn’t happening. The second option is to realize a) There are several ways to cheat that are not easy to detect b) Our elections can’t be audited, and c) There is a very strong motive (Trump is Hitler and will end democracy). Given those three things, we are virtually guaranteed there will be cheating. Do we really think that a party that will make up laws out of thin air to go after one person won’t cheat on an election?
The unanswered questions are, will it be enough to sway the election, and will we find actual proof?
Your only option is to believe things when they come from the legacy media?
Nope, but there is credible media – Taibbi, Shellenberger, FreePress, JustTheNews, and even some with not quite the same level of credibility.
And then there is I just pulled this out of my ass but I love the way it smells.
Even eye-witness testimony isn’t foolproof and you know that. Look at all the eyewitnesses to George Floyd and none of us were. Do you just unquestioningly accept their accounts?
Of course there are legit blue voters. Some therapy might help them.
Hmm, so any political opinion that differs from mine must be crazy?
“There are two ways you can look at election cheating.”
I tell people that I do not need any proof to know our elections are rife with cheating and elections are rigged. The reason is that the system is designed to make it impossible to verify voters or to audit the voting results, and such a system, with the rewards you get from being the winner, make cheating something inevitable.
If they wanted secure elections, we would have a national voting holiday, people would have free government issued voter IDs, voting would happen on site that day (with exceptions for military people overseas), and then hand count verified with the whole process being videoed and streamed online.
The people that demand mail in voting (and the states that codified it into law), then tell you asking for voters to prove eligibility through an ID is racist, and finally tell you that they can’t tell you who won same day, because they have ballots that will show up – here and there – that HAVE to be counted (and always overturn the current winners when they are team red), are not doing it because, as they claim, they consider each vote sacred. No, these demands are to make the cheating harder to catch.
The bureaucracy needs the cheating because the people no longer buy the bullshit.
“Hmm, so any political opinion that differs from mine must be crazy?”
Your opinions can differ from mine all you want, but if it smells of authoritarian socialism of any kind, then yes, it is crazy. I do not like the body count drama that always comes with that evil cult, and at this point do not need to allow things to run out to again be proven right before I tell these people to go fuck a goat.
Alex, I can find authoritarians on both sides of the aisle – it ain’t like the Dems have an exclusive on that. They carry the legacy of Progressivism far more than Republicans, but there are still Republicans that believe in good govt policy (as opposed to what we hereabouts would generally prefer).
“Alex, I can find authoritarians on both sides of the aisle – it ain’t like the Dems have an exclusive on that.”
Well, I can tell you that I have rarely met a dem that was not an authoritarian, and while I am sure there are authoritarians on the team red side, these are not evil fuckers that think humanity is a plague to be managed like cattle, which sure as fuck is how team blue seems us all.
@JI
“Hmm, so any political opinion that differs from mine must be crazy?”
No, not yours. My own.
to be managed like cattle
C.S. Lewis wasn’t warning the left about their inclinations. I’m not arguing that the left isn’t where the bigger threat is, right now. Just to not be blind to where else the threat exists.
“ Just to not be blind to where else the threat exists.”
OK, that is absolutely a fair point to make, sir.
However, I will point out that the existential and immediate threat to this country and all of us is not coming from any of those wannabe douchebags on the right. It’s 200% from the left. I will worry about the right when I see them in power and able to inflict whatever evil on us.
“Not enough to affect the outcome.”
Anyway, you don’t have standing.
Sure, it’s illegal for them to vote, but there’s no way to tell if they;ve voted, and nobody has standing to check or file suit if they do. But it’s illegal for them to vote, so what are you worrying you horrid bigot?
“When their daughters’ soccer team was forced to compete against a team with a biological male on the roster, some Bow High School parents were unhappy about it. They complained to the school’s athletic director, Mike Desilets, but were told there was nothing that could be done in the wake of a federal judge’s ruling that the term “girl” includes males who identify as female.
The school and the team could not act, school officials said.
But when several parents showed up to watch Tuesday night’s soccer game between Bow and Plymouth Regional High School wearing pink armbands as symbols of support for girls-only sports, those same officials sprang into action. They stopped the game, demanded the pink armbands be removed, and issued police-enforced “No Trespassing” orders against at least two parents…..
The order, signed by Superintendent of Schools Marcy Kelley, says wearing the pink armbands violates school policy against “threatening, harassing, or intimidating…any person.” Kelley also claims the armbands violate its policy “that no person shall ‘impede, delay, disrupt or otherwise interfere with any school activity.’”
https://nhjournal.com/bow-high-slaps-parents-with-no-trespass-order-over-pink-armbands-supporting-girls-sports/
How is that any different than wearing pink for breast cancer awareness?
“How is that any different than wearing pink for breast cancer awareness?”
You are embarrassing and exposing evil people with an evil agenda…. How dare you!
Well then, maybe you need to withdraw your children from that school system?
Well now, let’s not be hasty here. Momma isn’t gonna give up her cushy HR job to raise her hellion kids just because little Janie is being slide tackled by a 6’1″ 220 lb dude in a training bra. Janie is worth a signal of virtue, nothing more.
Homeschooling a teenager shouldn’t interfere with a fulltime job. You fucked up more than their education if they can’t be expected to manage it themselves.
You fucked up more than their education if they can’t be expected to manage it themselves.
I mean, is this not a description of the average teenager? Pulling a kid from 10 years of government school and expecting them to self-teach is insane. They’re wholly inequipped to do so. I remember having to learn those lessons as a freshman in college as the homeschool kids were running laps around me.
Two points: Policy is not law.
Wearing a pink armband doesn’t constitute any of the things they supposedly violated.
It will be soon in NY.
I’m not convinced it will pass, not honestly at least. There has been plenty of horrified agitation by parents regarding the contents, and I can see them both voting blue and no on 1.
My fever dream was that the backlash against it is a tipping point that flips the state long enough to crack the fraud machine, but I know that won’t really happen.
Haven’t heard much talk of it at all, which seems weird.
I have a feeling that’s deliberate, and most folks will just see “equal rights” and be like, “sounds good to me”.
I always wonder how many people don’t bother to turn over the ballot to look at the initiatives.
I blame the cops for going along with it.
Ignore the federal judge’s ruling? That could be done.
Looks to me like it was the school officials who stopped the game to evict parents who were impeding, delaying, etc. a school activity.
Just refuse to defend every time he gets the ball. Or cowgirl up and do what the mountain west schools are doing.
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“YouTuber Jack Doherty totals $200K McLaren during livestream after apparently texting while driving in rain”
https://nypost.com/2024/10/06/us-news/youtuber-jack-doherty-totals-200000-mclaren-supercar/
“Walmart shopper shamelessly films herself shoplifting at self-checkout — and getting caught by AI as clerk laughs
“POV: When you usually don’t get caught and now you’re banned for 2 years from all Walmarts in my area,” TikTokker Nesha wrote over the video, which has over 2.2 million views.”
https://nypost.com/2024/10/06/us-news/walmart-shopper-shamelessly-films-herself-shoplifting-at-self-checkout/
I’m noticing a trend here.
Sheesh… didn’t he see the cautionary tale of Doctor Strange? I suppose now he thinks he can go to Tibet and become a sorceror or something.
Morons make good headlines so they get overreported?
Not over reported Sir, we truly are drowning in an ocean of idiocy. The ‘over reported’ are just the tip of a very large iceberg.
“he believes many Republicans will vote for Harris in secret.
Maybe he’s just talking about Texas, but it seems like Trump support is a lot more out in the open this time. I even heard Kamala call herself “the underdog.”
Maybe he is talking about dead republicans…
We all know dead people vote team blue… Always…
@UCS I sent you an email a couple days ago, ref: HH picture
I’ll check when I get home.
Today I realized that Zebra Cactus has no spines.
In retrospect, none of the photographs showed any, but somehow I’d expected them. I guess it was the name.
Owing to the famously spiny nature of zebras?
Anyone who’s ever had to pull zebra quills out of their hand will never forget the experience.
True, zebras have spines.
Technically true, as vertibrates.
I just wish core more creative needling over selecting the wrong word.
That’s a succulent observation, UnCiv.
For all of you who are suspicious of scientists. I still don’t know why I find her so hot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBIvSGLkwJY
Granny fucker!
As often as possible
She feeds your secret crush on Lisa Simpson?
Yes
Mathematics, the language of the new priesthood.
I thought that was kiddy porn with that new cult..
Rehashing the story of Russell’s paradox gets tiresome after a while. The ‘new priesthood’ is as old as time and they never learn.
Maybe there’s something wrong with me, but I do not see that Jan 6 “insurrection” as a particularly meaningful event in the grand sweep of history.
It’s not, but it will be played up in the press for the next 12 election cycles or so. “Remember that time…”
I do not.
Because it didn’t happen in any way like you’re claiming.
By 2028, the picture of Trump post-shooting in Butler will be re-attributed to him on Jan 6, leading his army of rebels into the Capitol, despite a nearly incapacitating injury to his ear that wouldn’t have even slowed a manlier, more righteous citizen like Tim Walz or Doug Emhoff.
By 2032, i dont expect History to exist anymore.
You are a hate-filled, white supremacist patriarchal cis-shitlord, aren’t you?
Why doesn’t anyone compliment me like that?
😢
I don’t know, was the Reichstag Fire a particularly meaningful event in the grand sweep of history? Suppose it depends on the definition of ‘grand’. And ‘sweep’. And ‘history’.
But they are using it as their little Reichstag fire, just like the Gulf of Tonkin was used. How yellowcake was used. Whether it succeeds or not – maybe it already has judging by how many people repeat the lie – will determine its import in history I suppose.
Waving the Bloody Shirt worked well for the Republicans post-Civil War No reason the contemporary version can’t be just as effictive.
Yesterday I talked about the amazing relief operation out of Greenville Downtown Airport.
Went back this morning – it’s been shut down by FEMA. Motherfuckers parked a bunch of helicopters on the runway and won’t move them.
https://t.me/TheWesternChauvinist11
Might have scroll down the video it’s Telegram.
Bulldoze them off the runway to clear the lane and bill the Feds for the cost of removing them.
I was thinking of a bottle of gas a rag…
But then you still have to clear the runway after disposing of the charred FEMA drones.
Different link.
https://gab.com/americaneducationfm/posts/113266527196745069
add /763 at the end and I think it should work
Like this
Bad publicity is better than publicity.
I can’t get to any of the link because of the firewall.
But the implication is that FEMA shut down a public airport by blocking the runway, right?
Private airport – or at least that’s where the private planes and helicopters fly into Greenville. The main commercial airport, GSP, is about 15 miles away.
I see no Notam… that is a towered public airport owned by the town… I suspect they have camped on a taxiway.. but are not blocking the complete use of the airport.
That guy seems like a bit of a nut. Of course that doesn’t necessarily mean he’s not telling the truth about FEMA.
Yesterday they were planning on keeping the operation going for a while. I get there this morning and everything is shut down. I didn’t walk around the airport so I can’t verify. But something happened.
This was an interesting watch as well
https://t.me/s/TheWesternChauvinist11/765
“The United States has spent at least $17.9 billion on military aid for Israel since the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks against Israel, according to a report for Brown University’s Costs of War project released on Monday.”
https://justthenews.com/world/middle-east/us-has-spent-record-179-billion-military-aid-israel-oct-7-2023-hamas-attacks
Yowza
Drop in the bucket compared to Ukraine.
It’s at least 9 if not closer to 11 times that on Ukraine, and we will not win that. Not to mention that a large chunk of that money seems to have just vanished. I would not be surprised a bunch of that cash found its ways into NGOs or other entities that then filled team blue’s and some key team red phony’s campaign coffers.
The dishonesty in that headline is, or should be, shocking.
According to the Council on Foreign Relations, prior to the Oct. 7 attacks, the U.S. had “provisionally agreed via a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to provide Israel with $3.8 billion per year through 2028.”
On top of the nearly $18 billion in military aid to Israel, $4.86 billion has gone into “stepped-up U.S. military operations in the region” since the Oct. 7, 2023, according to the Associated Press.
The AP reported that those efforts include the “costs of a Navy-led campaign to quell strikes on commercial shipping by Yemen’s Houthis, who are carrying them out in solidarity with the fellow Iranian-backed group Hamas.”
Well, shit. Re: the last paragraph, I need to work on my reading comprehension.
But still, the MOU and the $18B had nothing to do with Oct. 7. They’re getting $3.8B a year through 2028. It’s not like we’ve given them $17.9B in the last 12 months.
This is hardly revelatory, but…
I have seen a few things about the VP debate in which people seemed surprised by the amount of agreement between Walz and Vance. As has been observed many times, the difference is not in identifying the problem, it’s in formulating a response.
I see no evidence indicating the Democrats can “fix” anything. They seem Hell bent on making things worse.
*not that the Republicans are exactly confidence-inspiring
In 2016 there were times you had to wait for the punchline (the policy to fix the problem) to tell the difference between what Bernie said and some of Trump’s talk.
“In a recent article in the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR), Kyle Pope, co-founder of the Covering Climate Now (CCN), asked for input on a project produced through an association of the CJR, Covering Climate Now, Solutions Journalism Network, as well as politically left-wing outlets The Guardian and The Nation.
The project is called the “Climate Blueprint for Media Transformation,” which encourages reporters to insert climate change into every story and to view fossil fuel industry voices as inherently dishonest. CCN also openly promotes the idea that journalists should not be objective when reporting on climate and energy.”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/influential-group-says-climate-reporters-have-moral-obligation-be-biased
How is that different from what they are already doing?
They’re just formalizing existing practice.
This generates an entirely new grift niche. Moran.
Kicked upstairs
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has been promoted to senior adviser to the president, ABC News has learned.
“Karine has been a trusted advisor to the President and all of us here at the White House since day one. Her counsel will be critical to get as much done as possible for the American people in the coming months,” said Jeff Zients, the president’s chief of staff.
Jean-Pierre made history in 2022 when she was tapped to become the press secretary, becoming the first Black woman and the first openly gay person to take on the role.
President Jungle Fever rearranges the deck chairs on his foundering tugboat.
Senior advisor to a rutabega is a pretty cushy gig.
You really can’t beet that.
Ah, but what’s the stick to go along with that carrot?
I advise you to get the chocolate ice cream today.
ABC News has learned
Did it discover that this from an ouija board? No press release or even a memo to the WH correspondents that hang out there all day as their job?
Jean-Pierre will now be alongside the ranks of the president’s top confidantes like senior advisers Mike Donilon, Steve Richetti and Bruce Reed. A White House official said that her promotion shows the faith that Biden has in her, as well as his commitment to having diverse and inter-generational voices guiding him in his decisions.
She’ll be helping him pick out which slippers to wear?
The ‘Sinecure for the person we can’t fire but don’t want in the job anymore’ is an old move.
That was “[X] will be working on special projects” in a past job.
^ So much this.
Are you saying Puddin Procurement And Slipper Selection ISNT the most special of specialistical projects?
Media blitz
Vice President Kamala Harris is slated to hit the media circuit in full force this week with a mix of interviews airing on conventional networks and alternative platforms to target a wide swath of voters.
The Harris campaign’s media blitz is an effort to drown out former President Donald Trump in the final leg of the presidential race when undecided voters are making their game-changing election choices.
To kick off the week, Harris’ interview with Alex Cooper on the popular “Call Her Daddy” podcast aired Sunday.
Then Monday evening, CBS’ “60 Minutes” will air its sit-down with Harris, her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and correspondent Bill Whitaker. The Trump campaign declined to do a “60 Minutes” interview after initially accepting the invitation, according to the network.
On Tuesday, the Harris campaign will fly the vice president to New York for appearances on ABC’s “The View,” CBS’ “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and “The Howard Stern Show.”
Her ass will be raw after all that licking.
CBS’ “60 Minutes” will air its sit-down with Harris, her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and correspondent Bill Whitaker.
So, the one single “serious” interview will be with her chaperone again? What a fucking joke our media is.
“What a fucking joke our media is.”
You are letting them off easy if you call this a joke. This is downright criminal and evil.
After removing the democratically elected candidate of their party, why not? Who is going to push back?
Alex Cooper on the popular “Call Her Daddy”
Who? What?
Could you imagine Kamala sitting in with Joe Rogan?
Setting the record straight
Former President Donald Trump, the GOP’s presidential nominee, has criticized the SSP, which helps local governments and nonprofits support migrants. However, FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have denied that any FEMA disaster relief funds have gone to the program.
“The Shelter and Services Program (SSP) is a completely separate, appropriated grant program that was authorized and funded by Congress and is not associated in any way with FEMA’s disaster-related authorities or funding streams,” a DHS spokesperson previously told Newsweek.
So there, Nosy Parker.
The article is about private volunteers asking why FEMA is MIA.
Will they be issued picks and shovels?
President Biden ordered the Department of Defense to move an additional 500 active-duty troops into western North Carolina to aid in the recovery efforts following Hurricane Helene, the White House announced Sunday.
The additional troops bring the total number to nearly 1,500, after the president ordered nearly 1,000 soldiers to the area late last week.
They make up only part of the on-the-ground federal response to Helene. The White House said there are additionally more than 6,100 National Guard members and more than 7,000 federal personnel aiding in the effort.
“These Guardsmen have been spearheading the response effort across the impacted region in support of their governors and communities, providing critical life-saving and life-sustaining support to the victims of this historic natural disaster,” the Defense Department press release read.
The situation is completely under control. So shut up.
Whatever that means.
Smartphones.
Despite having no signal.
They know where insurrectionists are bringing in aid so they can stop them?
Green memo books and skillcraft pens as advanced technological assets.
Take care FL Glibs….
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/152801.shtml?cone#contents
Ouch!
The new active troops are equipped with “advanced technological assets,” according to the White House, and will “provide greater situational awareness on the ground and will assist with future resource planning across the region.”
The nearly 1,000 troops on the ground already are from North Carolina’s Fort Liberty and Kentucky’s Fort Campbell. They work closely with FEMA and North Carolina officials, the Defense Department said, “to provide commodity distribution to local jurisdictions designated by FEMA.” They have also helped clear emergency routes and will be aided by a rotary wing aircraft, which has been deployed to the region.
Observe and advise.
The administration is also encouraging local residents to apply for FEMA assistance, and it has set up a website to combat misinformation surrounding the federal government’s response efforts.
President Joe Biden. Getting things done.