I’m just waking up after 4 in row on the 3p to 3a shift…what time is it? đ
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
Tanker wrote:
HI TANKER!
@ coldwarrior:
your comments were in moderation, they are free now.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/10/trump-is-ruining-our-markets-farmers-lose-a-huge-customer-to-trade-war—-china.html
and buried all the way at the bottom:
Trumpâs overall approval rating is 79% among farmers, according to a Farm Pulse survey taken last month. And a record-high number of farmers, some 78%, said the trade war will ultimately benefit U.S. agriculture, according to a July survey from Purdue Center for Commercial Agriculture. More than 75% of rural farmers voted for Trump in the 2016 election.
Mike Knipper, a grain farmer from Iowa who likes some of Trumpâs policies and dislikes others, said that most farmers in his community are Trump supporters who will continue to support him through the trade war.
âIt doesnât matter who is president. People like Trump and will support him, and few will change their ideas,â he said.
âEveryoneâs willing to see this through, and those government subsidy checks might help them get by for another year.â
This spot of bother in Hong Kong is making markets, and people, in a jittery state.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-12/100s-flights-cancelled-protesters-flood-hong-kong-airport-chinese-troops-gather
Protesters have been handing out flyers to visitors at the airport. Heavy handed government halts flights, strands thousands. Protesters are being arrested, so they stopped telling people where demonstrations are going to be held. Why is Trump taking on a totalitarian regime which NEVER wants to lose ‘face’? I think he painted himself into an ugly corner on this one. His worst enemies imho are the American globalist Deep State traitors & their countless minions.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-12/100s-flights-cancelled-protesters-flood-hong-kong-airport-chinese-troops-gather
@ yenta-fada:
But I repeat myself…
coldwarrior wrote:
yeah, dairy isn’t happy. The subsidy checks aren’t enough
@ coldwarrior:
Thanks coldwarrior, is been sometime since I was last on here. Had a few really tough years no one thought Iâd survive.
Tanker wrote:
For a time, I thought you hadn’t. But I follow you on twitter and saw a few posts, so I knew you were still around. Hope things are better.
@ eaglesoars:
Just really getting back to what will be normal for me. Extremely thankful!
@ Tanker:
hey tanker!
great to see you back
dis joint needs some fresh comments
oh, just got home from work and it was every bit of hell you would expect from a monday
Good the see you rain! Will need to catchup on all the people still here. Seems most if not all the regulars are still around. Glad to see that.
Tanker wrote:
We lost Iron Fist 3 years ago – 3 yrs ago, yesterday I believe. I think he’s the only one since you’ve been around last.
eaglesoars wrote:
I was still here when we lost IF. My issues started to escalate shortly after his passing.
@ Tanker:
Ah. My memory isn’t great on my best days…………
yenta-fada wrote:
are you serious?
@ eaglesoars:
Mine fails we still. Somedays are better than others. Theyâve gotten much better over the last year though.
The court has just told the FBI to take a hike – the Comey memos will be released w/no redactions, period, full stop.
Bwa. HA. Fucking HA!
https://www.weaselzippers.us/429111-white-house-announces-it-will-enforce-clinton-era-immigration-law-left-still-flips-out/
yenta-fada wrote:
I agree with you that Trump has problems aplenty maintaining his solid foundation at home so that he can then handle overseas contingencies. A secure ‘foot on the ground’ is always required and yes the Deep State is doing everything in its power to weaken him, regardless of the knock-on effects externally. That reachers has to be addressed but it’s a long slow process to change a sub-culture of corruption. Nominally a cultural change takes up to 15 or so years and that means a necessary Republican win in 2024 to carry on the Trumpian legacy.
That said Yenta, totalitarian wickedness needs to be faced whenever and wherever it appears. To do anything else just allows this evil to fill any public policy voids and spread. Early action against it is the preferred option as time only advances wicked agendas. Look at the hiatus between 1933 and 1938 when the NAZI evil was given time to spread and entrench itself.
Culturally China has a serious problem with face saving and I know that well. The West can use this potential face loss by China by keeping the ‘war by other means’ be it Tariffs or fiscal warfare between central banks. China is NOT a monolith and Xi is NOT all powerful. If the Chinese bureaucratic classes see that Xi is leading them to ruin, expect a ‘palace coup’ to change policy direction and seek a way to re-establish face and still get what they want … $$$$$ .
Xi is just one man and he and his ‘gang of five’ advisers are NOT omnipotent.
@ rain of lead:
we had a very good friend, naturalized citizen from Peru. Married a girl from back home and we helped bring her here. They needed someone to ‘vouch’ that she would not be dependent on public benefits (even tho she was married to him, and he owned his own business). We turned over 3 YEARS of tax returns and signed a doc saying if she could not support herself anytime w/in 3 yrs of her arrival, we would take financial responsibility for her. This was about 6 yrs ago. So it’s not clear to me that it has EVER been the case, for decades, that you could get a green card and use benefits.
@ Aussie Infidel:
what Trump is doing is stressing every part of the structure he can reach. He’s making their life hell every chance he gets. This is about FAR more than trade.
eaglesoars wrote:
You bet it is more than just trade.
We in the West are in a cold war with China… some more than others alas. The 3 monthly reporting corporations can only see the immediate 12 weeks ahead and they makes them both voluntarily short sighted and vulnerable to manipulation by State players with generational agendas.
I just hope that the MSM-Hollywood axis are not attempting to create a perfect storm where Trump is seriously in danger of being assassinated.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
That’s exactly what they’re doing. I’ve been saying it for months.
Or, in some ways, worse – Barron.
I think most corporations are not THAT shortsighted. A few of them seem to be leaving China’s shores for calmer environments. Bloodshed in Hong Kong is going to exacerbate that exodus.
Trump is going to be eviscerated for not getting a trade deal going into the election and every farmer is going to be trotted out for the hanky-moment. The WH has to get the word out about their Confuscius Institutes, etc., and give SOME sense of what the scale of infiltration has been. Russia’s got nothing on them.
And I wonder if Anthony Scaramucchi’s sudden volte face’ is because he has a hedge fund hook w/China somewhere that’s going down if this doesn’t get ‘fixed’. He’s not stupid, but he’s reckless enough to make some bets that could make him desperate.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yes. Here’s one POV from stock trader Rick Ackerman:
“We could know soon whether Trumpâs trade war against China has been worth it. Beijing has increasingly good reason to give way, since there are signs that the Chinese economy is starting to implode. GDP was recently reported at 6.2%, the slowest pace since 1992, and consumers have been hit hard by the devaluation of the yuan. Cheapening the currency may have kept exports from collapsing, but it has also made imported goods more expensive, causing a corresponding fall in the standard of living.
If China buckles, it would validate Trumpâs initial, tactical assessment that the U.S. was in better shape to weather a trade war. That seems to be true so far, but if just a little more tit-for-tat should topple the global economy from its pins, the victory will have been Pyrrhic. While Americaâs economy is outwardly strong, inflated prices for stocks and real estate have made it extremely vulnerable to a downturn. Europeâs ongoing shrinkage could prove to be the catalyst, since it is occurring with interest rates at or below zero. The failure of the euro-zone to reverse this trend is certain to dampen Wall Streetâs exuberance whenever the Fed hints of easing. This is a hazard that undoubtedly has begun to affect investor psychology, and its potential to kill the bull market once and for all should not be underestimated.”
@ Tanker:
Welcome back. You may be often fatigued, but it’s great to have you back. Trust me, being sick will not protect you from ‘debate’. And that’s a good thing. đ
@ eaglesoars:
I think about protection for Trump and his family almost every day and utter a quick blessing even though it’s not something I ordinarily do. He is a beacon. Sadly, he can’t be juggling all the balls in the air all the time.
@ yenta-fada:
yeah, there could absolutely be a global slowdown but I can’t believe he wrote that whole thing and didn’t mention Brexit.
I’d like to chat more but I haz the sleepies. see yinz tomorrow probably.
Lessons for Australia in US Marinesâ new guidance
12 Aug 2019
Euan Graham
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/lessons-for-australia-in-us-marines-new-guidance/
Worth a read
yenta-fada wrote:
Ummmm !
Ackerman is a STOCK TRADER and so has a very narrow and prejudiced view of reality.
As the principle at Hatherways has been quoted. Leveraging and picking stocks is fraught. A monkey in the UK had the same profit result as Traders, by throwing a dart at a dart board covered in stock picks.
Stock traders are a necessary evil in that they organise trades, nothing more.
@ yenta-fada:
Buy and then HOLD long term.
Don’t leverage and if you need to leverage then DON’T PLAY the market.
Only invest money that you can afford to lose.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Somebody made the comment recently that long-term thinking in American corporations is what they are going to have for lunch
@ eaglesoars:
Macker.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
The only thing I buy ad hold is an inert yellow metal which manages to be a currency hedge as well as a traditional store of wealth. One of the big problems with Economists is that they don’t understand markets from the gut experience of trading them.
Charles Nenner, a brilliant Dutch forecaster, used to teach the quants at Goldman Sachs. He said one of the hardest things was to drag the Ivy League PhD guys away from their book based theoretical learning.
Nenner has devised his own complex cyclical model that earned him an international reputation. I’ll dig up recent youtubes from USA Watchdog, or you can easily find them yourself. He says he is Dutch, and above many things the Dutch hate to lose money. Putin has called upon his expert advice on his work wrt War cycles as well as Economic cycles. The Americans have not.
I can’t afford it, but the only buy and hold stock I can think of is Microsoft. The Wall Street Journal is known by market cynics as The Bagholder’s Daily. They tell you to buy what they are selling. Not my expertise, but 20 years of obsessive reading from many sources has been valuable. One thing about losing your aged memory skills. Most things are fresh new information ready to be re-examined. lol
morning y’all
yeah, up WAY too early
panther was being a jerk and would not shut up
soon as I got up, the little bastard was fine
they REALLY hate you part 10963
https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/12/msnbc-panelist-white-people-destroy/
In a feisty segment on Sundayâs âA.M. Joy,â Elie Mystal of Above the Law made an inflammatory comment in which he said white people who voted for Donald Trump should be destroyed. This came after a segment in which he argued there is no moral difference between avowed white supremacists and any white person who votes for Trump.
***TOP FIVE MOST SURPRISING FINDS ON JEFF EPSTEIN’S PEDO ISLAND***
5. Shrine to Joy Behar
4. Guest chalet especially designed for Michael Jackson, carefully preserved since his death
3. World’s largest collection of Barney merchandise
2. The only pic in the world of Epstein NOT smirking
1. Jars filled with Mitt Romney’s balls, Hillary’s heart, and Joe Biden’s brain
@ rain of lead:
My pup does the same thing! Gets me up early so he can deal with someone moving around in the neighborhood only to fine a spot to sleep by the time I get my first cup of Joe down. I usually force him to stay awake with me, the little jerk!
Bunk X wrote:
as I recalled as I was falling asleep. That was just a year ago last month.
I guess the big story today is the hilarious confrontation between Fredo Cuomo and some guy who actually called him Fredo. ‘Fredo’ is now an ethnic slur, just in case you were wondering. His brother wants to create a mental health database, Fredo should be the first one in. Here’s the video, and it is priceless
https://pjmedia.com/video/chris-cuomo-threatens-violence-after-man-calls-him-fredo-ill-fcking-throw-you-down-these-stairs/
“I’ll ruin your shit!”
yeah, no you won’t.
waiting for AF1 to fly over…
https://triblive.com/local/regional/trump-to-spotlight-beaver-county-cracker-plant-economy-during-tuesday-visit-to-western-pa/
@ coldwarrior:
He’s just landed.
And he just blows a hole in the ‘red flag’ bullshit
Would Chris Cuomo be given a Red Flag for his recent rant? Filthy language and a total loss of control. He shouldnât be allowed to have any weapon. Heâs nuts!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1161277403353759744
Rush sez the superintendent at Epstein’s jail has just been transferred.
Chianti…a nice perla del mar cigar, salmon and mackerel on the smoker.
Tandoori on the grill.
Its fusion. đ
storming like hell
weird to be getting rain and thunderstorms in mid ten in august
that NEVER happens
MANBEARPIG
*snort*
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/08/trump-campaign-sells-fredo-unhinged-t-shirts-after-chris-cuomo-goes-crazy-on-maga-supporter/
@ rain of lead:
what do people who really ARE named ‘Fredo’ going to do now? After all, their name is now ‘no different than the n-word’.
@ eaglesoars:
they should sue Cuomo
The left won’t be happy until they get someone killed with this crap
rain of lead wrote:
Their MOTHERS should sue
yenta-fada wrote:
I do hope that you hold that yellow stuff PHYSICALLY.
Forget paper gold of promises to hold for you to reduce your security risk.
I personally know a bloody Gold trader who sold the same gold seven times over and managed to convince the suckers that it was all ‘safe in his vault’. He and his wife somehow managed to not get locked up and are now sunning their buns on Australia’s Gold Coast while the suckers sit in cold wet Auckland.
Lay your hands on YOUR gold and look after it yourself. It’s the only way.
Also remember that at the stroke of a pen government can make private holding of gold illegal and can confiscate your metal at will. It’s happened before mate.
Buy your metal … anonymously if at all possible, preferably from registered sellers otherwise you might get stuck with faux gold ( Inions are renowned for this scam) and store it covertly and tell NOBODY .
eaglesoars wrote:
Transferred?
The moron should have had his arse fired very publicly, and made a pariah in the custodial industry.
@ eaglesoars:
Bloody Brilliant
https://sinocism.com/p/engineers-of-the-soul-ideology-in
Enjoy đ
Hi Tanker.
There are still a couple of assholes from years ago that still post here.
one of them is called Bunk.
Given the stats, the Battle of Britain was never a close run thing. On top of a 5 to1 ability to put aircraft where they were needed the RAF was fighting over its own countryside. This meant that they could âre-cycleâ shot down airmen and their airborne endurance was massively in excess of the Luftwaffe who had to transit both ways to the battlefield and they had just a few minutes available over the battlefield.
Not even close to being close!
Still it was a great story and a serious propaganda masterpiece at the time.
The only thing that was of concern was the rate of repair of RAF Home Counties airfields vs. the Luftwaffeâs ability to shut them down (at least temporally). Even that stat would show that there were more than enough reserve airfields available to allow RAF repair teams able to keep most of the key fields operational most of the time. The switch of Luftwaffe operations from airfield bombing to attacking London had some effect of allowing better repair of Home Counties airfields but it was not to be all and end all switch that it was played up at the time. Probably to buoy up the London civilians who were being blitzed, as a propaganda piece by Churchill to show his support for Londoners.
As with many things that happen in wartime, propaganda efforts often take on a life of their own at times, long after their propaganda use has been superseded by events and become quasi-historical tales to be passed down generation to generation.
Subject: Re: Two writers I’ve been following closely for about a year…
Not bad but he only just touched in the elephant in the RAAFâs hanger!
Retention and training
Without airmen all the tech in the world just sits idle and looks good.
Relevant to that, this below.
Churchill’s WW2 rhetoric was truly great and memorable but has to be tempered with the stats.
Which reveal that Australia’s pilot problem has more in common with the Luftwaffe than the RAF
What the Battle of Britain can teach us about defending Australia
Andrew Davies
13 August 2019
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/what-the-battle-of-britain-can-teach-us-about-defending-australia/
On 13 August 1940, the Luftwaffe, Hitlerâs air arm, set out to destroy the Royal Air Forceâs ability to defend the airspace over and around Great Britain. That day 79 years agoâcode-named Adlertag (âEagle dayâ)âwas the beginning of the main phase of the first campaign of strategic consequence fought entirely in the air. When the dust settled at the end of October, the RAF had emerged the victor of the âBattle of Britainâ, ensuring that German invasion plans would be put on hold indefinitely.
I started thinking about the lessons from 1940 and subsequent air campaigns after reviewing Hugh Whiteâs How to defend Australia here in The Strategist. Hugh essentially sees Australia as being in a similar position to Britain in 1940, relying on the combined efforts of a large strike fighter force and submarines to thwart designs a major power might have on Australian territory. Iâll look at the air component of his vision in this post.
To extract the appropriate lessons from history, we need to understand which factors are enduring and which were specific to the time. And we need to understand what actually happened, rather than a romanticised version. The commonly held view of the campaign today is largely based on the words of Winston Churchill, who characteristically seized the moment in 1940 with a bold rhetorical flourish. His construct regarding the RAFâs Fighter CommandââNever in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so fewââmemorably invokes an image of a small and outnumbered but supremely gallant band of airmen fighting off the Nazi hordes.
But while itâs true that Fighter Command came under enormous stress and suffered terrible losses, that picture is far from complete. In fact, despite loss rates that modern air forces couldnât sustain for any length of time, the RAF had more fighters and more pilots at the end of the air campaign than when it started. The numbers in the table below are tellingâat no stage from Adlertag onward was the RAF outnumbered in either fighter or pilot numbers. In addition, an efficient maintenance and repair capability ensured that RAF fighters were consistently maintained at higher levels of availabilityâan important force multiplier.
RAF July 1940 RAF October 1940 % change Luftwaffe July 1940 Luftwaffe October 1940 % change
Single-seat fighter pilots 1,200 1,550 +29% 900 650 â28%
Single-seat fighters 900 950 +5% 950 780 â17%
Serviceability rates 90% 88% â2% 78% 78% â
Source: Air Vice-Marshal Peter Dye, âHow the west was wonâ, Aeroplane Monthly, July 2010.
We can add a few more statistics to complete the picture. The RAFâs fighters flew more than 20,000 sorties in August, compared with 13,000 by Luftwaffe fighters. The differential was even greater in September, when the battle reached its peak: in the week of 23 September the RAF flew almost 5,000 fighter sorties to the Luftwaffeâs 1,000. And the numbers of aircraft arriving from the factories were startlingly different: Britain produced 4,283 new fighters in 1940, compared with 1,870 from German plants.
Given how much numbers matter in air combat, having more aircraft, more pilots and higher rates of availability placed the RAF in the box seat to prevailâdespite losing more than 50% of its aircraft and 20% of its pilots in both August and September. The other factor it had going for it was geography; it was operating closer to home, so aircraft range and endurance were less constraining than for the Luftwaffe. As well, RAF pilots who bailed out were likely to be back with their squadrons in a day or two, while surviving Luftwaffe pilots ended up in POW camps.
That brings us to Hugh Whiteâs âBattle of Australiaâ scenario in which 200 frontline aircraft form a bulwark against a hostile power. The lessons from 1940 mostly apply, with the exception of the rapid production of replacement aircraft, given that the lag time for a new strike fighter is well over a year.
Numbers still matter, and in a defensive posture geography would be on our side. Taking steps to ensure we could generate the number of sorties required would maximise the chances of success. Here are the enablers that need to be in place to make best use of an expanded fast-jet force (some of which Hugh includes in his book):
⢠an adequate number of hardened forward bases to reduce transit time to operating areas
⢠reliable supplies of fuel and other consumables to those bases
⢠more trained pilots than aircraft (I doubt we could do that now with half the aircraft numbers)
⢠efficient and effective forward maintenance facilities to reduce turnaround times between sorties
⢠efficient second-line maintenance and repair to return aircraft to service
⢠tanker aircraft to keep aircraft airborne for longer
⢠an efficient rescue capability for ejected pilots (from both sides).
If we could do that, it would make the projection of air power against Australia a formidable task and would go a long way to ensuring the nationâs security against overt armed attack. (Though, as Peter Hunter points out in his recent ASPI report, that should be only part of a national strategy.)
âNever in the field of human conflict have so many owed so much to a combination of an efficient training pipeline, good field logistics and effective just-in-time mobilisation of the industrial sectorâ doesnât have the same stirring ring as Churchillâs famous lineâbut it would have been more accurate.
Andrew Davies is a senior fellow at ASPI and lectures on defence acquisition at the Australian National University. Image courtesy of the Royal Air Force Museum.
rain of lead wrote:
… and they will try to do this if they get their hands on enough power. I am not being facetious when I compare them to the Bolsheviks of the early 1900’s. They are subverting language to their ideology, they are forming their own narrative of those are are in the revolution and those who are not. These are very dangerous people
lobo91 wrote:
That’s the plan. That’s what the shootings are about. Notice it’s been pretty much all leftists doing the shootings.
Hey Tanker Welcome back.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
So, basally you are saying that Britain cheated…
AZfederalist wrote:
Create the labels then designate the targets.
@ Possum:
The more things change the more so much remains the same!
Possum wrote:
Au Contraire..
Cheated is definitely NOT the correct word here. Sure Britain overblew the rhetoric of “So much was owed by so many to so few” ( read propaganda ) by Churchill. But as Churchill also said … “Truth in war is so precious that it must always be guarded by a bodyguard of lies.”
Thye Battle of Britain was won totally by a mixture of decentralised engineering production, fantastic logistics just in time production scheduling, radar directed ‘fighter effort’ organisational structure, early warning systems, airfield repair capability, twice the number of pilots, greater aircraft production capability than Germany, better aircraft maintenance organisation and more will power.
I guess cheating is easy when you have done your homework!
The fact that the Battle of Britain was won was a consequence of command organisation structures. The tale and even the historical narrative outside the cold logic of academia still tells a grand story that echoes down the ages of a Britain alone and with its back against the wall succeeding specularly. Just what the British public needed in those dark days of 1940.
đ
Possum wrote:
One of those very rare cases where the defender had a significant advantage because the aggressor had horrible supply lines. Usually being on defense is bad because it is your territory being trashed by the ravages of war.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
You will find it extremely hard to convince a leftist of these facts. They will argue that all those doing the shootings are from the right no matter their facts. The Gaffer machine pretty much said it with his âwe follow the truth rather than factsâ stupidity. Iâm still trying to figure out what makes this asswipe tick!
@ Aussie Infidel:
Thank you.
Tanker wrote:
It is quite amazing. But, when you control the media you can say whatever you please and no one can contradict you. Or at least in no way that can be heard by the squishy middle. Though the internet is changing this. And that’s why twitter facebook, and google are becoming more and more blatant on their censorship and control.
AZfederalist wrote:
The issues I have with Andrew Davies comments:-
* Both Davies and Hugh White donât even mention Australia’s Jindalee strategic ultra long range Radar which would spot any Chinese aircraft 1000âs of kms from Australia trying to fly here via refuelling aircraft. The Chinese refuellers would be ambushed after their first refuelling stop by F-35s. Returning Chinese strike aircraft would be ditching all over the South China Sea on their return flight.
* In addition to Jindalee, the Aussies have Wedgetail if any arenât spotted (500 – ? klm range radar)
* In close, the Aussies have 3 brand spanking new anti aircraft destroyers (200 to 300 klm radar)
* the only other way for China to get aircraft even remotely close would be by Carrier (a.k.a. a nice big fat target for Collins class subs or JASSMER missiles from Superhornets). Yup the Collins ultra quiet Collins attack sub that ‘(theoretically sank a USN destroyer and carrier in recent exercises off Hawaii)
*Quote:- âtanker aircraft to keep aircraft airborne longer”
-YepâŚ.weâve already got âem and they would be operating in our own home waters and not expeditionary mode
* Australia would not need large aircraft replacementsâŚ.the Chinese wouldâŚ.. as the totally networked F35 is a 20 to 1 air superiority and the RAAF’s F 18 electronic warfare aircraft to back them up. The Chinese wouldnât even see them, and at 20 to 1 the Chinese would need + 2,000 fighters
âŚ.and both (F 35 & F18 Supers) can, and are, carrying HARM 88 E model anti radar missiles AND over the horizon anti ship missiles
* This isnât going to be a Battle of Britain rerun⌅nor are we 20 miles from China
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Nope, completely different kind of campaign.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
I know all about the Twitter/Twiatter BS! I received a permanent suspension from them for the gall of questioning the promotion of a mental affliction by Amazon. The bigotry and straightforward threats allow from the left there never receives any suspension for them.
I’m really busy but wanted to put a couple things out.
First, I don’t ever again want to hear about how great the ‘rank and file’ of the FBI are. The totalitarian thugs who rose to the top are NOT the anomalies.
The Wall Street Journal on Saturday featured an essay by one Clint Watts, formerly of the FBI and West Pointâs Counter Terrorism Center. Watts makes those proposals using the word âwhiteâ 16 times in 18 paragraphs. The sociopolitical ideas rife among white people are the main matrix of terrorism in America, Watts contends. Racial profiling, anyone?
Bemoaning the fact that U.S. law now restricts surveillance of, never mind restrictions on, U.S. persons to those who have committed or may be about to commit crimes, Watts proposes legislation that would permit designating persons associated with what the government may identify as âwhite supremacist ideologyâ as subject to surveillance to âpreemptively assess whether these white supremacists are taking a radical turn toward violence.â
Watts also proposes âred flagâ laws, that would allow the government to take away weapons from someone so designated. Loss of weapons would be the least of burdens imposed on anyone so âred-flagged.â Career, reputation, possibly family, would be gone because someone in the notoriously impartial FBI so decided, perhaps with the agreement of the highly scrupulous FISA court, subsequent to ex parte, secret proceedings.
This has become ruling-class conventional wisdom. Desire to wage war on ordinary Americansâto disadvantage them and even to kill themâhad long been bubbling in the ruling classâs basements. The countless, nearly identical pronouncements from on high in recent days can be taken as an announcement that the ruling class has raised them into its forceful mainstream.
https://amgreatness.com/2019/08/12/the-white-supremacy-hoax/
Next, this has not got the attention it deserves, which is a TON. The Dems now feel comfortable threatening SCOTUS. I’d like to think this might be a wake-up call to that spineless toad Roberts, but I suspect he’ll just assume the fetal position.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) filed an amicus brief (âfriend of the courtâ legal brief) at the Supreme Court on Monday, joined by follow leftwing partisan Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Richard Durbin (D-IL), and presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), demanding that the Supreme Court back out of a case over one of the most restrictive gun control laws in America.
These leading Democrats also warned that if the justices proceed to issue a pro-Second Amendment ruling, and if Democrats win the White House and the Senate in 2020, then they will fundamentally remake the High Court.
The liberal senators warn that âa growing majority of Americans believes this Court is motivated mainly by politics,â accusing the justices of issuing rulings through âbare partisan majorities.â
The Democrat senators â one of whom is running for president â told the Court to either âheal itselfâ or be ârestructuredâ if Democrats take power.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/08/13/democrats-threaten-supreme-court-reject-second-amendment-or-face-court-packing/
ok, later…………
Tanker wrote:
Very true. Saw a recent case where the left was using death threats and they weren’t being suspended.
@ eaglesoars:
This is why the President is on the wrong side of the Red Flag issue. Creeps like this are just grinning waiting for their turn. Once they have their turn they will use this against “white supremicists” and everyone is “white supremicists” in their eyes. As I stated a few comments earlier. Create the labels and then designate the targets.
The court thing isn’t anything new though. They were planning on doing that anyway, they are just phrasing it slightly differently this time.
This is why they are so desperate to keep RBG alive, if they lose her the structure of the court changes for generations. It would be nice if several could be replaced by this President, at this point I don’t care which President they were appointed by.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
If Trump is reelected, Iâd like to see Thomas step down so he can be replaced with another Constitutional conservative.
right_wing2 wrote:
I’d like to see Roberts to step down so he can be replaced by an actual constitutional conservative.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
I’d like to see Roberts step down so he could be replaced by an actual vertebrate.
ran across this:
The Left Eats Its Own: NYT Editor Demoted After Tweets Attacking ‘The Squad’ and Justice Democrats
The Left Eats Its Own: NYT Editor Demoted After Tweets Attacking ‘The Squad’ and Justice Democrats
When did the Stasi show up>
https://pjmedia.com/trending/the-left-eats-its-own-nyt-editor-demoted-after-tweets-attacking-the-squad-and-justice-democrats/
eaglesoars wrote:
Nah, snakes are still vertebrates. Or maybe he’s a worm.
And if you’ve ever wondered what Jeffrey Epstein’s taste in art was like – here ya go
Jeffrey Epstein had a painting of Bill Clinton wearing a blue DRESS and red heels and lounging in the Oval Office inside his Manhattan mansion
must be seen to be believed……….
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7353967/Did-Jeffrey-Epstein-portrait-Bill-Clinton-blue-dress-red-heels-NYC-mansion.html
yenta-fada wrote:
Chinese GDP has a false floor of 6% right from the off. Its false internal housing boom is just a smoke and mirrors exercise and a fiat money-go- round . Given the Chinese internal money creation scam a admitted Chinese 6.2% GDP means that their real GDP is around 0% to 0.2%
eaglesoars wrote:
I wish it was true but it certainly looks contrived and a cut and paste exercise. And not a very good one at that
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A copy of the leaked Epstine documents… for your edification !
https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell-virginia-giuffre-unsealed-documents/
Any comments on today’s stock market drop? Seems to be totally driven by fear-mongering. “leading indicator of recession that is 100% right” — yeah, one time it predicted a recession 24 months in advance — how the Fox Business page phrased it. I’d say that it something happens 24 months before the event it is predicting, that’s not a very reliable indicator.
… and the 800 point drop! Close to the largest point drop in history. Yeah, but as a percentage of the DOW? As a percentage of total, 3%, pretty sure that’s not close to the largest percentage drop.
Somebody is trying to tank the economy; they are going back to the Bush I democrat campaign
eaglesoars wrote:
Probably painted live.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/08/14/chris_cuomo_and_self-ownership_141009.html
Sorry Chris. Fredo was never and still is not racist. In fact Donald Trump Jr. Tweeted out this fact since HE WAS CALLED FREDO and isn’t even Italian. Fascinating article.