14 year old Hudson Rowan won the I Voted Sticker Contest in Ulster County, New York, with 93% of the vote.
Some interesting races.
Various 02 August Primaries 2022, Open
by coldwarrior ( 246 Comments › )Filed under Elections 2022, Open thread at August 2nd, 2022 - 11:57 pm
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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!
Kari Lake lost. I was disappointed in that.
Tracking here.
https://ballotpedia.org/August_2,_2022,_election_results
Pelosi is poking China from Taiwan. That seems to be her purpose then there.
In my mind that is a green light for China. Biden is weak. The US can’t carry logistics against two wars? Biden won’t have 50 percent support. It would collapse the Dems in Nov.
darkwords wrote:
Not yet.
https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1554738735018909697
Measure 2, which would have overturned the recognition of abortion as a right in Kansas, and allowed the legislature to limit or ban abortion, lost by a significant margin yesterday.
BALLOT MEASURE
2022 KAN. NO RIGHT TO ABORTION BALLOT ISSUE
Updated Aug 3, 2022, 3:06 AM
AP estimates
96.7% of votes counted
No wins. AP race call at 9:38 p.m. on Aug. 2, 2022.
No
NO
534,134 votes 58.8%
Yes
YES
374,611 votes 41.2%
Do you think this will impact the November vote? Will Democrats have higher turnout and stop the red wave?
My annual cancer ride starts 9/1.
If you’re able to sponsor me, I’d appreciate it as always.
Thanks
https://greatcyclechallenge.com/Riders/BruceRoepke
https://www.justfactsdaily.com/smoking-gun-newly-discovered-emails-confirm-joe-biden-obstructed-justice-for-his-sons-foreign-business-deal
Wait for the media to ignore this story, assuming it’s true.
Damn, I killed the thread.
right_wing2 wrote:
What I am hearing in my social media are some of the liberal white women that are offended by the anti kid progressives venturing into GoP voting. But still voting their liberal issues on referendums. They don’t want progressives or Trump in power.
And this Kansas thing seems like the old GoP shoots themselves in the foot thing. By misreading the crowd. The people that wrote that effort live in an echo chamber.
Latest phone scam I am getting is someone texting me and asking me if I am Jose or Ikeda. I reply no and they reply back wanting to get to know me. I talked to a few then got on with business. I refer them to google and block.
Agriculture committee proposes regulation of crypto currency. VIA the CFTC which is the first time I have heard of them.
https://cryptoslate.com/us-senate-introduces-bill-to-put-cftc-in-charge-of-regulating-bitcoin-ethereum/
Republican Congresswoman Jackie Walorksi, 58, and her two young aides are killed in head-on Indiana car crash
Head on car crash. Other driver drove into the wrong lane.
Democrats should be ashamed of themselves’: Pro-impeachment Republican Adam Kinzinger says Biden’s party owns channeling huge funds to MAGA candidates and election deniers to beat anti-Trump GOP members from daily mail
You know I am i favor of closed primaries but if the dems wants to fund kinzinger out of business I am ok with that.
Mike Glove was saying that the current set of vets in political office all seem to have their hands dirty. I think he is referencing Crenshaw in particular. Kinzinger for sure.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11075577/Illinois-parade-attack-suspect-expected-court.html
They are giving this guy too much respect. His head should be shaved and his uniform brown. Minimize his existence.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11076493/Putin-come-Chinas-aid-goes-war-Taiwan-leading-Russian-senator-vows.html
Putin will support China in taking over Taiwan.
@ darkwords:
Kinzinger’s gone soon, anyway. He’s not running for reelection
@ lobo91:
Trump on the primaries.
‘Not a good time for impeachers – 7 down, 3 to go!’
GOVERNOR
2022 ARIZ. GOP PRIMARY
Updated Aug 3, 2022, 1:56 PM
AP estimates
79.6% of votes counted
Kari Lake R 294,260 votes 46.2%
Karrin Taylor Robson R 282,936 votes 44.5%
Matt Salmon R 25,105 votes 3.9%
Scott Neely R 20,532 votes 3.2%
Paola Tulliani-Zen R 13,762 votes 2.2%
On the face of it it looks like Lake would win the Gov race if turnout stays the same.
Dinner errors.
Tried to barter with a friend. They wanted dinner. I said I would pay but maybe we could then deduct their portion of the bill from some money i owed them.
Dinner was done. I went to deduct the money from the bill I owed them and they thought I was trying to cheat them. They still wanted the full amount due.
I’ve encountered this before in people. Something about the timing of the bartering interferes with their desire for money. The bartering didn’t impact the strength of their desire.
Of Chinese options and timings for Taiwan!
You pretty much covered most of the field XXXXX and ‘stole’ my best lines
One item that seems to have been overlooked, at least recently, is weather analysis and geo-analysis of the Taiwanese approaches. The former allows for attack timing estimates and the later the attack routes. I am sure that there are sheaves of weather analysis and weather reporting systems aplenty across the island chains in the Straits, and piles of ‘going analysis’ available, especially regarding the shallows and coastal bogs to the West coast of Taiwan. It’s not as if Taiwan has a lot of beaches and contiguous logistics expansion areas available to an invader.
The Taiwanese Monsoons from August to mid September and from November through April, seems to pre-ordain an attack timing window of October and in the summer May-July period. This doesn’t preclude landings in the South Western approaches even in adverse conditions, as historically the US Marines ‘went against the grain’ in both Tarawa and at Inchon and pulled it off. Luck and surprise were however needed in spades in both of these cases.
The other combat indicator that seems to have be forgotten on occasion is the perchance for traditional Chinese linkage between historical significant dates and major strategic enterprise.
Regarding the North Eastern approaches to an attack on Taiwan that needs a totally separate set of weather and Terrain analysis that includes the Central Mountain Chain that bisects the island.
A wall that works.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1554470303039905797
Aelfred The Great
@aelfred_D
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33m
Pavlov did a great job, every time I hear his name I think of dogs salivating
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Does China want Taiwan? I would think they could buy it if they want to.
On my visit to China mainland I easily encountered a lot of Chinese who were ultra nationalists. Like China was the center of civilization or something. That’s not all Chinese and I hear there are three political divisions in China. The old guard, shanghai, and the new kids on the block.
Currently Chinese analysts seem pragmatic to me. And they are expanding in the areas of least resistance.
Hubris is what would make them attack I think. There are no pressing geo political issues to make them attack. Nothing like foreign leaders visiting and trying to incite Taiwan to dig in.
I think if Russia had rolled over Ukraine then China would have rolled over Taiwan.
Election Wizard
@ElectionWiz
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11h
RACE CALLED: Kari Lake will win the GOP nomination for Arizona Governor and face Katie Hobbs in November.
darkwords wrote:
Can’t agree with you there at all. There is nothing pragmatic in the least and China has a plan and they seem to be sticking to it for better or worse. The Three Island Chains Philosophy as well as their Belt & Road Plans make me question your assertion that China is just pragmatic and reactive. They are definitely NOT!
Chinese ethnic and Cultural centrality is always top of mind given their national ego and their obverse history of being ‘foot stools’ for other empires. China is also an ‘island’ nation if not physically then certainly culturally. The East coast offers few natural ports , the river system constrains food production and their internal logistics system is all in the wrong places and infected with institutional corruption.
Culturally the Chinese Han peoples have serious racial hang-ups, especially when it comes to Africa and the Third World. I believe that you are wrong in your assessment that China has no geo-political issues in its kitbag. You are correct in identifying the Old Guard, Shanghai Chinese who include much of coastal cities, (who are seen by most Chinese as corrupt sell outs, and a shame to the Han peoples everywhere, and the new kids on the block. Alas these New Kids control the PLA, The PLAN and the PLAAF and they are ultra nationalists on the make.
Hmmm…. With 20% of all B-2 now based in Queensland’s north we should sit up and take notice. When they operate them out of Tindal Airforce Base in the Northern Territory then, it’s getting a little more serious.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/20-percent-of-the-usafs-b-2-force-is-deployed-down-under
IF you’re interested in UFO’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTCc2-1tbBQ
Lex Friedman is doing a lot of podcasts with scientists on the topic.
@ Aussie Infidel:
I think there are Chinese who want hegemony in the course of 100 years based on influence and thought. There are also Chinese who want hegemony now based on national and racial pride.
Just watched a Rob O’Neill podcast segment where he states that “China Strong” is the message Chinese are being given. And that they have the manpower and weapons power to assert superiority anywhere along the coast of China. He quotes a military analyst saying the Ronald Reagan will shot down any missile launched at them. And then asks what if it is 10,000 missiles. The Chinese will fight a war of attrition.
VDH is saying we need to go tit for tat with them. If they buy an acre of farmland next to our nuclear silos then we buy an acre of farmland next to theirs. If they send 200,000 princelings and princesses to our universities they we do the same with them.
Also pointed out that it is traditional for the Chinese to bribe a leader by making hidden payments to the leaders children.
This could be interesting to watch
https://www.dailywire.com/news/in-damning-capitol-hill-testimony-scientists-contradict-faucis-claim-that-nih-never-funded-gain-of-function-research
Good morning. I’ve been sick for 4 days and missed a lot. But I’m finally ambulatory and catching up, this is the most fun I’ve seen yet
Governor Ron DeSantis has announced the suspension of Florida State Attorney Andrew Warren of the 13th Judicial Circuit for picking and choosing which crimes he wanted to prosecute.
https://timcast.com/news/breaking-desantis-announces-suspension-of-florida-state-attorney-who-refused-to-enforce-ban-on-sex-changes-for-minors-partial-birth-abortions/
BREAKING: Coinbase partners with BlackRock to offer crypto services to institutions
https://twitter.com/Blockworks_/status/1555166707756449800
but no centralization, bro
Get this. They don’t use municipal water, they use water from their own wells. But the EPA is trying to make them pay for it.
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California Globe reported Wednesday that an anonymous tipster produced a letter signed by Natalie Stork, identified as chief of groundwater management program unit 1. The letter advised the San Diego-area resident that they would have to report the volume of well water they used and pay a fee per acre foot of groundwater extracted starting in February 2023.
The letter was on the official letterhead of California Water Boards and was sent under the authority of Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and Secretary for Environmental Protection Jared Blumenfeld.
“They’re sending out letters to property owners saying they must declare [if] they use just two acre feet,” the source told The California Globe. “If they use more, they must pay an annual fee of $300 for each well plus they must meter the water and send in a monthly usage report and pay a fee for water that is pumped starting in Feb 2023.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-targets-private-property-with-latest-water-well-fees-charges-report
Told ya. Look at these numbers.
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Top epidemiologist foresees legal action by insurers against COVID vax makers over death risks
Yale University epidemiologist Harvey Risch is expecting insurers to seek financial compensation from COVID-19 vaccine makers to cover “early unexpected mortality claims,” as they “they have a major financial risk that they have to figure out how to manage.”
Insurers’ actuaries estimated COVID vaccinees would “live longer than they have” based on misrepresentations about “all-cause mortality … from the original [clinical] trials,” Risch told the “Just the News, Not Noise” TV program. In a followup interview he pointed to statements by insurers that offer group life insurance.
OneAmerica CEO Scott Davison told a healthcare conference in December that death rates had risen an “unheard of” 40% in the working-age people it insures compared to pre-pandemic rates, when a “one-in-200-year catastrophe” would only bring a 10% increase. Most claims aren’t filed as COVID-related deaths, he said.
Public records show that Lincoln National, a much larger insurer, reported a 163% increase in death benefits paid out in 2021, the first year of the COVID vaccines: $1.4 billion, compared to $500 million in pre-pandemic 2019 and $548 million in 2020.
It largely blamed a $41 million operations loss in the first quarter of 2022 on “non-pandemic-related morbidity, including unusual claims adjustments, and less favorable returns within the company’s alternative investment portfolio.”
https://americasvoice.news/justthenews/ivy-league-epidemiologist-predicts-insurers-will-go-after-covid-19/
eaglesoars wrote:
Coinbase CEO recently interviewed by Lex Friedman. He explained Coinbase needs to be centralized for about half its products. In order to meet regulatory requirements. But that he works with de centralized apps like uniswap.
He centralizes the onramp from fiat to crypto then decentralizes what customers can do with their crypto.
@ darkwords:
it’s fucking BLACKROCK!!
@ eaglesoars:
Hadn’t heard that one.
F’n fascists in Sacramento.
@ darkwords:
eaglesoars wrote:
Bingo!
Let’s see if the Blackrock ‘Einsteins’ can lose another $1.3 trillion more.
There are going to be some VERY pissed off pension holders looking for Blackrock blood. Fink should be hiding under his bed!
darkwords wrote:
China is traditionally a shame / hate culture much the same as the Arabists.
China hasn’t got over the 19th Century shame and still seek revenge. The Mongols had the same problem with the Han. China is also unbelievable racist when it comes to the rest of the world. Isolationism will do that to you every time!
I don’t know what O’Neill has been smoking, but China is dashing towards a demographic cliff. They know it. China is also an economic ‘House of Cards’. Again isolationism will do that to you!
Asa for a tit for tat nuclear attritional war is concerned. NUCLEAR war is all over pretty fast and then comes starvation to finish off the rest of the population. China is a prime target for total nuclear destruction given it’s population and agricultural concentration.
Finally the nonsense of … they do it to us so we do it to them idea… forgets that China is a one party centralized state… Tit for tat doesn’t work on the CCP, who care not a jot for their own people. Explain to me how a US citizen will demand access to Chinese land, university placement, business access … et al…. when dealing with a aggressive communist entity who doesn’t believe in the ‘Rules of International Conduct’?
Again Dark …. you’re better that that!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Sorry to hear that Eagles. Glad that you’re back on deck!
🙂
Meanwhile, it looks like the FBI has gone completely off the deep end:
Wray does his best Sgt Schultz/Hillary impression:
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Prognosticating China is an inscrutable business. I have some Chinese friends who immigrated as children to the US. One of them married a US professor of Chinese heritage. They both hated the CCP. But recently both of them are nostalgic for China and are dismayed by Western bullies.
The professor was in computer science and constantly attended all paid trips to computer symposiums in China.
Those new chip factories we are building? No Chinese should be employed whether FOB or ABC.
lobo91 wrote:
Time to disband it. Looks like every NRA member is a domestic terrorist.
These righty groups needs to steal some corporate emblems. Like the Proud Boys should use the Nike logo. TPUSA should adopt the rainbow flag.
lobo91 wrote:
That’s a longer (and better) video of the proceeding than the clipped one I saw elsewhere. Guess I’ll have to go to Cruz’ feed from now on.
Maricopa county still can’t count ballots. Too much reliance on tech. Hire a couple thousand retired seniors to run the election.
eaglesoars wrote:
Oh you meant Blackrock is centralizing coinbase? Cathi Wood sold her coinbase stock just before this latest jump. Maybe she got centralized? 😉
@ darkwords:
They apparently singled out American Contingency as a “violent extremist” organization.
Mike Glover doesn’t sound too happy:
@ darkwords:
Use the Democratic jackass.
This is great.
First, DeSantis suspended AG Warner for not prosecuting laws he doesn’t like.
https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1555250279305555968
Then he sent the cops to evict him..
@ lobo91:
That is kinda of wild. He put his life on the line constantly. And mentored thousands of troops. Tim Kennedy tells a cool sniper story school about him in the Jocko podcast on Kennedy.
The SoF people do make a distinction about FBI personnel that shows them no respect.
right_wing2 wrote:
That would be the best one. Not sure why its not happening.
darkwords wrote:
I believe Kari has been declared the winner.
So what? She said she doesn’t trust the way the election was conducted and she’s suing everybody.
should be fun!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Thank you. I need to go to bed now. I have to catch up on 3 days of being AWOL, it’s been a long day.
darkwords wrote:
Folks keep claiming that the Chinese are inscrutable. I have never found them so. I grew up with a Chinese student who arrived at 13 and just stayed after the rules changed. He became part of our family and called my mother mum. I also had a friend that did Masters together and then went into business with him. I’ve known Lawrence for 25 years and would trust him with my life. I’ve learned more about Chinese culture in those 25 years than any university course could ever teach.
I do NOT find the Chinese culture inscrutable in the least.
🙂
Republicans have introduced their own student loan reform
https://freebeacon.com/politics/forget-forgiveness-republicans-propose-alternative-student-loan-relief/
My idea would be to not charge any interest for the first 5 years, then cap interest at prime +2% on what was left after 5 years.
Guh.
3 night shifts at methtoona…home now.
The brisket will be done around 5am tomorrow.
My brain hurts.
hey y’all
@ coldwarrior:
https://images.app.goo.gl/xC2dgujojrAyY2Xo8
@ right_wing2:
I would like to see….
Two bricks being bashed together
right_wing2 wrote:
Seems good. I would make it a low interest rate. And would require colleges to loan the money themselves. No feds.
rain of lead wrote:
Hey Rain what’s new?
Aussie Infidel wrote:
A good point. We probably use inscrutable because our 19th century minds were primitive in understanding differences.
What are Chinese in generalizations? Gold Centric? Real Estate Centric? A Culture with thousands of years of euphemisms. Family centric? Education centric? Prone to group think and cultural rewards.
Then add in modern communism. A society that like to pass on costs to other people. They’ll pollute and try and dispose of it in your back yard. A society that didn’t over throw corruption but embraced it. A society that has discarded morals for social credit scores.
Also a mindset that thinks nothing of creating bio weapons using crispr. And a population that is producing 10 engineers for every 1 engineer in America.
We are currently Athens to their Sparta.
ALESTORM – P.A.R.T.Y. (Official Video) | Napalm Records
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c967usVxYq0
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/top-french-scientist-admits-photo-tweeted-space-telescope-image-nearest-star-sun-just-slice-chorizo/
https://patriots.win/p/15JAJelvZj/breaking-elon-musk-accuses-twitt/c/
rain of lead wrote:
Break out the popcorn. Because Musk is right; all those bots and fake accounts that inflated Twit’s standing for the purpose of increasing its alleged value are the textbook definition of fraudulent. … and Twitter didn’t go after the left-wing bots and fraudulent accounts because they were carrying out Twitter leadership’s political objectives.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11085571/Python-hunt-800-compete-remove-Floridas-invasive-snakes.html
The great snake hunt is on! More than 800 people compete in Florida’s Everglades to remove invasive Burmese pythons with the hopes of winning up to $2,500 in cash
@ rain of lead:
lol
He out-did the tortilla moon photos.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tortilla-supermoon
@ darkwords:
LOL I hope they do it next year. I will be ready.
I am going to breed thousands of them!
( inspired by the person in Houston who 3D printed 62 plastic guns at a cost of $3 each and got $150 per gun in a buy back thingy here last week )
@ Possum:
Maybe you could start an alpaca farm like this guy did.
darkwords wrote:
… and how did that turn out in the end.
I defy you from easily finding the site where ancient Sparta stood.
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
The all Blacks are lucky to be down ONLY by 7 at the half.
coldwarrior wrote:
They will be lucky with getting away without a whitewash!
The ABs have lost their way and their coaching staff are rubbish. On top of that the AB Board and Chairmen seem to hate the best coach in NZ. Mitchell now looks as if he’ll be lost to NZ and the ABs forever, just because the AB Board think Mitchell’s ‘breakdancing’ demeans the game or something.
Morons.
Canterbury Rugby is Mitchell’s testament to his fantastic coaching expertise
Not good
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/08/05/rasmussen-poll-republicans-lead-on-generic-congressional-ballot-shrinks-to-3-points/
@ right_wing2:
Those generic ballot polls are fairly useless. Most people don’t vote for a “generic” Republican or Democrat (and the ones who do always do it, so they don’t really matter that much). When you have actual candidate names, you get different results.
right_wing2 wrote:
I wonder whose vote changes month to month? Mine stays pretty much the same.
Utah-based clothing company “Lions Not Sheep” got busted for ripping the “Made In China” tags off their apparel and replacing them with “Made In The U.S.A.” tags. Kind of a dumbass thing to do, and I wanted to know how the feds found out.
Answer: The dumbass busted himself. He posted video bragging about it.
https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2022/05/lions-not-sheep-lambasted-deceptive-made-usa-claims
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Ah, another con-servative.
ASMR magnets. from that Racoon site.
https://laughingsquid.com/magnetic-vibration-games/
Someone on social media warned about ASMR as having some weird effect on people. I think where the sound creates a pavlovian response in a persons dopamine operations. Not sure. I just avoided it.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Opens up a mattress store next and streams himself flaunting FBI laws.
coldwarrior wrote:
…who now owes the Feds +$200K
darkwords wrote:
Yep.
15 or so years ago there was a fun blog called “Mattress Police” run by Diesel, real name Rob Kroese. He attempted to set up a consortium of humor bloggers, but it never went anywhere, so he focused on writing sci-fi humor novels. He’s had some success, got several books published.
Possum wrote:
😀
https://rumble.com/embed/v1ca45t/?pub=4
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Mayor plans 2 more buyback events but won’t buy anymore ghost guns. Has $1 Million dollars to waste.
Next set of ghost guns should replicate something closer to a glock.
‘When I was a little girl I was told if I dug a hole deep enough we would reach China’: Pelosi talks about her ‘connection’ to Beijing as she goes into damage control mode after infuriating nation with Taiwan visit
Pelosi’s foreign policy.
Mao – we’re going to tell you what to plant, how to plant, when to plant and you’ll all going to die because it won’t work.
Jocko Willink paraphrasing Mao’s domestic policies compared to military policies.
Oh noes. Brittney Spears is upset that she can’t get married in the Catholic church because she’s not a Catholic and stuff.
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/wallace-white/2022/08/05/britney-spears-catholic-pop-star-angry-she-cannot-get?fbclid=IwAR1zOQ8NCzegAVRIEidUb0BqJ8fPHCg1iXGuqCSz97JXFqdvRwFpYrJYfLY
Wouldn’t surprise me at all.
https://www.analyzingamerica.org/2022/08/664082/?utm_source=mcotr
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
How rude…
Get woke, go broke:
@ lobo91:
Does the team also suck?
lobo91 wrote:
Shoulda gone with the Cleveland Grovers, but they just wouldn’t listen. Now about the Browns. Sounds racists to me. Better rename them the Pauls.
right_wing2 wrote:
She thinks she’s gonna be POTUS. That’s what this is about. Trump is just a feint, because she has no accomplishments
Welp. What I have feared from the beginning is indeed happening.
We are being targeted by the IRS. You may remember that Hubby was on Trump’s Agriculture Advisory Committee, has been to Mar a Lago, etc.
Our accountant told us to get ready for the long haul, they are out for blood.
We aren’t the only ones. We’re getting phone calls from others on the Ag committee asking if we’ve been contacted, calls coming in from people on other committees, etc. They are all getting similar letters accusing them/us of tax fraud. This isn’t just “You mis-calculated the numbers”, this is felony territory, where they take all your assets and throw you in jail stuff. This is a sweep.
So, I’m going to say goodbye, at least for now. No sense contaminating anyone else. Don’t email me, don’t call me, have absolutely nothing to do with me. I’ll lurk, so I’ll keep up, but going forward, none of you has ever heard of me.
Be well.
@ eaglesoars:
how stalin of them.
i’m sure the gop will do everything to stop this soviet-style purge. /
coldwarrior wrote:
It’s something Trump should engage on. Living by being the good citizen in election cycles isn’t going to cut it. The lack of GoP effort towards the J6 detainees reveals the depth of commitment of the GoP to right the ship.
Navarro
Bannon
Mike Glover
They all have something in common and need to band together.
Trump becomes a loser with a big L if he doesn’t step up and value the people taking one for him over loyalty.
I’ve been waiting for him to step up. I probably need to get on truth social to see anything. But I just have this feeling he is playing a game with the frenemies he has in DC. And is waiting to play his cards. Almost sounds like a Q anon but not quite. 🙂
@ darkwords:
no one in the GOP has the guts to pay back the dems.
they are all bought off cowards.
hence the reason they fear trump so much
coldwarrior wrote:
True. I think if Trump gets back in office a lot of heads will roll. He’ll have a better team but will be short on lower level staffers.
Patel, Grenell, Conway, McEnany. He might give Bannon another big swing. Navarro. People he didn’t have early on the first time around. I’d recruit Bongino also. He’ll go after people.
https://cryptoslate.com/metaverse-land-prices-collapse-sparks-debate-on-viability-of-virtual-worlds/
Trading volume and the average price of virtual land have crashed calling into question the validity of Metaverse investing
** This is amusing to me. The millions of crypto holder who bid high prices for digital land. When there is nothing to do at the digital lot but stare at advertising signs. There is no game. No financial advantage. In fact its rather a disadvantage. Any of us could go out to AWS and install an open source metaverse and populate it with pictures of our favorite pets. It would only cost the monthly hosting fee.
@ darkwords:
For example, as recently as February, one investor paid $450,000 for a virtual plot next door to Snoop Dogg in the Snoopverse, which runs on the Sandbox platform.
America First. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/america-first-policy-institute-moves-remake-gop-trump-image
Search engines prefer the America First credit union over the politics.
https://podcast.americafirstpolicy.com/
I’ll have to listen to a few. The web site looks a little too slick for me.
I’ve been a long time listener to the Scott Adams podcast but he seems to be having a breakdown like LGF or Althouse. He can’t reconcile his liberal views with his conservative audience. Liberals don’t want to hear him talk.
He has been doing this opening called the simultaneous sip where he tries to bond his audience to the best podcast ever. Then not long into his podcast he goes on unhinged rants berating audience members who troll him. His language degrades. It becomes an ugly hour of someones day.
I notice his viewership has divebombed. It looks like he lost his professionalism because of personal difficulties. And now hates his audience. Unless they 100 agree with him 100 percent of the time and show him that they know. Not a good look. Much better to hit up the Lex Friedman podcast.
The FBI has raided Mar a Lago
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/08/04/1056633/startup-wants-copy-you-embryo-organ-harvesting/
Israeli company creating embryo in artificial wombs.
@ eaglesoars:
holy fuck
darkwords wrote:
People have lost their frickin’ minds. Investing in “digital land”? “Beam me up Scotty, there is no intelligent life down here”
eaglesoars wrote:
So the Stasi have taken off their masks. The Biden administration has become a tin-pot dictatorship.
darkwords wrote:
Grotesque and evil. … and their ancestors were the ones subjected to medical experiments less than 100 years ago. You’d think they would be more sensitive to such atrocities.
The Checka has struck.
This Trump thing is bad. And it looks like it is part of the Dem effort to win the mid terms. I won’t be surprised if someone stalks CNN anchors from this.
I’m wondering why FBI agents aren’t resigning.
McConnel, Graham, and McCarthy all absent from Twitter. Fence sitters.
Now we know what the 87,000 IRS agents are needed for. To track down any Trump supporters after today.
MTG is on top of this news. Ted Cruz and Dan Crenshaw sitting the fence.
Next up.
Some black guy will be shot by the cops and the cities will be set on fire.
distraction.
2-4 weeks out
In good news. Joe Kent took the lead in the Washington State -03 Primary. Heavy D area though.
darkwords wrote:
And Joe Kent is on Tucker tonight to discuss the Trump raid.
darkwords wrote:
So, when does the FBI go from raiding to planting evidence?
AZfederalist wrote:
I thought that’s what “Farmville” and “Sim City” was for.
darkwords wrote:
Armed IRS agents.
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The raid of MAL is another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s political opponents, while people like Hunter Biden get treated with kid gloves. Now the Regime is getting another 87k IRS agents to wield against its adversaries? Banana Republic.
“Among Democrats, just 21% think their party’s bill will reduce inflation, while 13% believe the bill will increase inflation.”
https://cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/four-five-democrats-dont-think-dems-inflation-reduction-act-will-reduce
Since everyone needs a laugh sometimes
https://youtu.be/Z4Y4keqTV6w
@ right_wing2:
Then there was this girl’s reaction
https://youtu.be/LkxBsHkbJ0I?t=24
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I had a friend from college who had a very unique laugh and self.
Carl was a very large individual – almost 6 foot five and probably topped out at close to 400 pounds.
When he started laughing his face would turn beet red, he’d start shaking, and then you’d hear this little squeak come out of him.
The three of them together would end up on the floor in tears laughing.
right_wing2 wrote:
yah that was pretty funny.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Pretty cure. Amazing how soulmates find each other.
These two assholes owe me about $2,500.
Same car caught on neighbor’s Ring vid, found broken blade that matches saw brand.
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/pursuit-of-suspected-catalytic-convert-thieves-ends-in-fiery-crash-in-huntington-beach/
https://flashbak.com/watching-east-germans-in-their-open-prison-a-photographers-record-of-life-under-observation-454377/
Biden and Cheney claim no knowledge of the raid.
Mmmhmmmm
What they don’t realize is that they just made Trump stronger. This was an act of desperation
@ coldwarrior:
God, if Trump sicced the IRS on Pelosi, McCain, the Bushes or someone else it’d be another impeachment and howls of outrage people in the Antarctic would hear.
@ right_wing2:
This is disgusting
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11093827/Clinton-linked-lawyer-says-Trump-BANNED-holding-public-office.html
Ahhhh….
coldwarrior wrote:
This just ratcheted up support from Trump from his supporters another notch and has given further credence to the fact that the 2020 election was won by fraud and deceit. This is only helping the tinpot regime’s base, it is going to alienate anyone on the fence.
@ AZfederalist:
*for* Trump from his supporters. [Proofreading is my friend]
@ AZfederalist:
I saw claims that someone high up in the Trump campaign admitted collusion with Russia, and that the Fibbies were raiding because of classified documents they found in the boxes that were removed in 2022.
@ right_wing2:
Collusion is not a crime. Conspiracy to commit a crime is.
Nope…no coordination here…
lobo91 wrote:
he broke precedent????
that isnt law, its a stupid custom that no one gives a flying rat’s ass about.
@ coldwarrior:
And there is no “legitimate legislative purpose” for the request.
This looks fishy as hell. The magistrate judge (one step above a dogcatcher) who approved the Mar-a-Lago warrant was the federal prosecutor who let Epstein off the first time. Then he became a defense attorney working for him.
@ coldwarrior:
Considering the weaponization of the fed agencies, I might not be returning to the US.
@ lobo91:
I think there is a document in this collection someone wants.
And so this judge is not a Trump appointee as the left is saying.
@ darkwords:
And how many judges did they shop?
darkwords wrote:
Summarizing Newt Gingrich on Hannity:
“We don’t know what we’re looking for but we’ll know when we find it.”
Gingrich also said he believes they’re looking for info on Trump supporters, not just January 6 b.s.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
I also think McConnell threatened Trump though his children to get him to comply with the deep state elite efforts McConnell loves so much.
darkwords wrote:
He’s not an appointee, period. Magistrate judges are hired, not appointed.
This one’s going to go down the memory hole. Muhammad Syed doesn’t sound like the name of a “right-wing extremist” to me…
@ lobo91:
Banana Republic. Two tier justice system, malicious persecution of the opposition party, political prisoners held under conditions that violent felons don’t experience. This fall had better be a clean sweep of the House and Senate or we are headed for some very dark times.
@ AZfederalist:
The best projection I’ve seen for the Senate is a gain of 2 seats for the Republicans. That would give them control, but not by much.
The House is anyone’s guess. This is the first election following redistricting, so it’s hard to predict. Here in NM, they changed the composition of the district I live in from R +12 t0 a toss-up. It’s the only Republican-held seat in the state, and will probably be a loss this fall.
NY lost a seat, so Nadler and Carolyn Maloney have to run against each other. That’s why they’ve been trying to outdo each other on who can be the bigger gun grabber recently.
The Biden DOJ has apparently totally lost it. Remember the recent Bruen decision where the Supreme Court said that there had to be historical precedent in order to justify restrictions on the Second Amendment rights of people? These geniuses actually cited historic racial and ethnic discrimination as a justification.
What’s next? Are they going to claim that the 13th Amendment is unconstitutional because there was an “historical precedent” for slavery?
@ lobo91:
I haven’t looked lately so I don’t know if they are projecting the gun grabbing carpet-bagger Mark Kelly to win re-election or not. He’s sure had a lot of ads across various media outlets and is running to the center despite, as one of his opponents has pointed out in his ads, voting with Joe Biden 100% of the time in 2021 and this year moderating and voting with Joe Biden only 97% of the time. In his ads, he sounds angry – not a good look. Depending on how Masters runs his campaign, this should be a close race. One very low-hanging fruit — Kelly, in his ads angrily states that he doesn’t take a dime of corporate PAC money. Easy pickings for Masters to use that soundbite and then superimpose pictures of Soros and state that Kelly has received massive funding from Soros-backed entities that push for gun control, open borders, and other far-left causes.
@ AZfederalist:
Sounds like Kelly found McCain’s old playbook and reversed it. He always ran as the greatest conservative since Goldwater, right up to election day.
So, the feds refused to let Trumps lawyers in to observe and ordered the security cameras shut off (staff refused).
Sounds like trying to plant evidence. Won’t hold up in court.
mornin y’all
interesting times.
getting the girl ready to go back to school
her car got an oil change and some new tires
other than spanish kicking her ass, she thinks it will be a good year
i cant wait to see the Trump campaign commercial featuring this raid and the 2 tiered justice system.
@ coldwarrior:
Meanwhile, Hillary is fundraising off of it:
coldwarrior wrote:
Doesn’t matter. It was all about damaging Trump and, by extension, Republicans in the mid-terms.
@ lobo91:
it will backfire.
@ coldwarrior:
It may, as far as voter turnout and such. But remember who’s going to be counting the votes.
I can’t believe how many people are repeating the lie that the magistrate who signed off on the Trump search warrant was “appointed by Trump.” I wonder which of the DNC media outlets started it?
Magistrates are glorified clerks. They aren’t presidential appointees.
coldwarrior wrote:
It IS backfiring.
Trump also put out a very well done campaign ad yesterdday. I’ll have to find a non-FB link. There’s no doubt he’s running.
Gotta get the Senate back under control first.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Here’s a twitter feed that has the ad.
https://twitter.com/debostic/status/1556884777424265218
@ lobo91:
I don’t think there are any FIB agents who are supremely embarrassed by this. IMO, the whole agency is hopelessly corrupt.
@ AZfederalist:
Just following orders from superiors whose actions were approved by POTatUS.
I heard they even searched Melania’s wardrobe. Look for a blue dress with multiple stains.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Good ad. A lot of these top SoF podcasts I follow are afraid to call out generals and admirals. And even more afraid to show support for Trump. It hits their bottom line.
lobo91 wrote:
This magistrate seems to have had a fondness for Jeffrey Epstein. I wonder if that is the common thread in all this?
Throwing the boss under the bus! Meta’s new AI chatbot BlenderBot 3 calls Mark Zuckerberg ‘creepy and manipulative’ and says his business practices are ‘not always ethical’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11098479/Metas-new-AI-chatbot-BlenderBot-3-calls-Mark-Zuckerberg-creepy.html
We finally find out who is in charge of the US government.
President’s cute little grandson Beau wins legion of fans with his long blond hair and mini-me blue jacket as he mimics Joe and waves to staffers before trip on Air Force One to Kiawah Island
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11098989/Bidens-leave-South-Carolina-vacation.html
Horoscope for the day.
Find a way to break up the monotony, even if it is just to have something unusual for dinner.
Big Mac it is then…
New target: Republican Congressman Scott Perry
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2022/08/10/abc-allows-19-seconds-seizure-gop-reps-phone-cbs-nbc-ignore
darkwords wrote:
Replace the “DOT”
https://wwwDOTfacebookDOTcom/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0BhCZGzcswZJXdUAp4NTgBCpoxhqnJtFTy9WWE23hDPuqyHQmK3kfhNp7yDmHz6Rpl&id=100008026549072
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/huge-development-report-shows-fbi-personal-stake-mar-lago-raid-agents-spygate-documents-trump-holding-likely-indicted-fbi/
Ahhhhhh…..
China is deep into destabilising the Second Island Chain in the Pacific ….
In March, the Solomon Islands’s Prime Minister Sogavare signed a secret security pact with Beijing that will pave the way for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to station troops, weapons, and naval ships in the region.
Cleo Paskal, an associate fellow of the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House, previously warned that the relationship could give Sogavare the confidence to solidify his position—the prime minister is deeply unpopular and was a chance of losing the upcoming election.
A similar situation recently played out in Vanuatu—another close Beijing ally—with Prime Minister Bob Loughman also attempting to change the Constitution to extend parliamentary term limits and allow foreign nationals to hold office—there are a high number of Chinese nationals in the country.
However, the vote failed after opposing MPs simply did not show up, which meant the Parliament did not have a quorum to meet.
Yet the situation in Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands is indicative of Beijing’s “entropic warfare” strategy where democratic institutions are being worn down.
The strategy plays out with the CCP deploying all means possible to destabilise the political, media, and legal institutions of a target nation, with the ultimate goal of creating a “new order” centred on its own interests.
“Those weapons are used to weaken the target country from the inside and to fragment and create disorder in the target country so that it is less able to withstand Chinese influence,” Paskal previously told The Epoch Times.
“That process of creating instability and fragmentation can be described as creating a state of ‘entropy’—of political, social, and economic entropy—where things start to just break down. And in that state of disorder, China can create a new order with itself and its proxies at the centre.”
Solomons PM Sogavare is using the canard of having to host the Trans-Pacific Games in the Solomon’s in 2023 and it’s too difficult to have an election scheduled in the same year. What a total CROCK!
Sogavare knows that he will get swept aside if an election is held between now and 2023. He needs time to get the Chinese Special Armed Police forces established in the Solomons Islands first, to help destroy the opposition and allow him to be a dictator under the CCP’s wing
SPIT
Beijing’s “entropic warfare” strategy is even showing up in the Australian and New Zealand political system.
Infiltration of pro-CCP immigrant getting Residency and Citizenship and then infiltrating politics on all sides. Deep corruption of existing politics with covert CCP funding of local politicians. Penetration of Cabinet level security by CCP agents within the public service. Attempts by the CCP to purchase large tracts of land contiguous with major security installations, under the cover of apparent privately held Chinese corporations.
The West has been at war with China and the CCP for a few decades but we have yet to wake up to the fact. We should all re-read Sun Tsu !
China and the CCP want to win without fighting a nuclear war! It’s succeeding currently unless the West awakens from its torpor and naval gazing.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Still got the copy my dad gave me. I asked him his opinion of Klauswitz; he called it the aggressive bloody version.
AZfederalist wrote:
I don’t see how it’s going to happen. All of this is to ensure a permanant one party system. They are done with having any kind of opposition. Between their election fraud and now turning the DOJ loose, I don’t know if there will be anyone left in office to oppose them by november.
@ coldwarrior:
That makes every FBI agent guilty.
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Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
The GoP seems to think the Dems won’t fraud up the next election. I think they will double down and push the boundaries of what a vote is. And they will use an emergency to avoid debate until after the election. Then the milk toast republicans will say “oh well”
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I read somewhere. I think Gordon Cheung. That the west treats China as having western motives and a sense of fairplay. But he said that China will go vertical and horizontal at any cost to achieve world hegemony. As in world not as in hemisphere.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Those chicken need to hurry up home to the roost.
Daily Mail has a spate of articles about upset women crashing their cars into random vehicles. A new form of mass shooter.
Underwear missing from MAL after FBI raid…. j/k
Trump being sued by NYSD for property values.
The value of real estate is the price between the seller and the buyer.
Then there is the assessed value which is always lower.
darkwords wrote:
Yeah. This is going to be ugly. And our side will still fail to see how bad it is. This may be the last election the dems allow.
@ darkwords:
lol
darkwords wrote:
That’s the same mistake the US has made repeatedly, from WWII to the middle east – not understanding the enemy’s culture and mindset, and not realizing that our concept of ethics are not the same as theirs.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/doj-officials-raid-spectacular-failure?utm_source=theblaze-breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20220811SponsoredTrending-RevelationMedia&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Breaking%20News
DOJ admits FBI screwed up. Feels more like a CYA article.
This woman is an ICU RN:
darkwords wrote:
That is a call to every honest FBI Special Agent to tender his resignation immediately, and hope that after November there will be a clean out of whoever is left in the FBI. After that perhaps a rebuilding can begin?
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
One of the greatest weaknesses that the USA continually demonstrates is giving other nation states the benefit of the doubt, and being totally culturally blind when it comes to alien cultures.
NO everyone is NOT the same!
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Look no further than the State Department and CIA so called subject ‘experts’ and their dealings with non -Western cultures.
These ‘experts’ are at best sham agenda loaded corrupt-ocrats.
How many US soldiers have died in wars started by these corrupt bureaucrats?
lobo91 wrote:
That woman is a murderer. Friend said she had a fight with a boyfriend and was pissed off and drunk. Mental illness my ass. 13 priors? Pheeeew.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
i was talking to one of the ER docs today…he voted for trump but he says that he wasnt real sure he should run in 2024…until this raid.
now he’s 100% trump.
how many times has this played out over the past 24 hrs?
Rumor that a secret service agent is the FBI informant at MAL
coldwarrior wrote:
Just checked Dr Oz newsfeed and Mitch McConnell. Both are silent on Mar-al-lago. McCarthy has some content.
@ darkwords:
i expect oz will lose.
coldwarrior wrote:
People afraid to support Trump. They want to wait and see about the FBI raid.
Trumps been the most honest politician in decades. I don’t really care if he took classified info. I trust his judgement more.
Requirement for new IRS agents to be willing to carry out deadly force on taxing events.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
What is very disturbing is that they refused to allow Trump’s lawyers to observe the search and demanded that the surveillance cameras be turned off (staff refused). That isn’t a search, that’s a set up to plant evidence.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Problem is, it looks like there are no honest FBI Special Agents anymore, only tools of The State
@ darkwords:
And no doubt its either the driver or SS agent sitting shotgun or whatever other agent(s) that were in the vehicle (forgetting the nic its been given, The Beast maybe ?) on the 6th and who also has free reign of Mar A Lago. That kind of narrows it down, no ?
I’m sure that President Trump figured it out day one, but just adding my 2 cents here 🙂
@ 4_Sticks:
It’s odd these names like this agent. Or the Supreme court leaker don’t get released.
Merrick Garland is a tool. I bet he is wearing Melania’s underwear tonight.
The guy that attacked the FBI office seems a lot like the guy who attacked Lee Zeldin. The Lee Zeldin attacker was let go.
The FBI is taking a beating on twitter. Time to restart them.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/cia-michael-hayden-executing-nuclear-secrets-leakers-trump-raid
Well there we go ….
‘The Final Solution’.
Nancy explains:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6wq5LzKLec
Wrap it up Nancy.
Hey you Americans stop pissing and moaning about the increase in food prices!
Eat less, get creative, ration the amount of food you eat!
@ Possum:
There is a point to this…
🙂
darkwords wrote:
Afraid to support Trump openly. And for good reason.
He does what he says he’s going to do, yet keeps his cards close to his chest. He feints a lot, and that’s a good skill to have.
AZfederalist wrote:
That’s why the security cameras stayed on. Insurance.
darkwords wrote:
Wilmington is about 50 mi. NE of Cincy, out in the sticks. Route 22 takes you through a lot of little towns bypassed by I-71, and they’re surrounded by farmland. It’s also goober territory.
Possum wrote:
Boil the bark to get to the beetles.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
And/or
Afraid to support Trump because they’re gutless weasels.
Possum wrote:
crickets….
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
And it looks like it is mostly over an overdue library book or two to the national archives.
There is a high level dirty tricks group sitting around the WH brainstorming Trump.
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
People who get their moral guidance from a bottle of alcohol. Never a good look.
It seems like it would be risky to invite an FBI family to a neighborhood BBQ.
When people can’t agree on whether a crime has been committed and have to debate done into the nitty gritty.. Then maybe its much ado about nothing. I’m never in favor of law enforcement technicalities that only judges understand.
Possum wrote:
Getting old has brought some compromises. I’ll keep fresh food a month past expiration and canned foods 3 years past expiration.
Just in case I get locked into a Mad Max scenario.
I’m told though that the new gas with the additives expires after 3 months. I’m pretty sure in the old days I remember having a gas tank for farm vehicles that we filled just once a year.
darkwords wrote:
Process crimes are the FBI’s favorite these days
The most stolen library book? The Guinness Book of Records.
Trump has many of those to return.
Mark Levin. This Trump raid is to lay a pre text to steal the House in November. Indict Trump and broad brush smear all the America First candidates in October.
Seems plausible to me.
darkwords wrote:
Of course that’s the reason for it. It’s also the reason for the timing. Trump left office 18 months ago. It took them this long to retrieve these “ultra-sensitive” documents?
@ lobo91:
…that were offered them in June?
AZfederalist wrote:
THAT makes the re-establishment of the FBI even easier!
lobo91 wrote:
Process crime became de regure ever since Flynn was stitched up by the Feds!
AZfederalist wrote:
Garland’s NKVD!
WP settings were farked – shuts off comments after 10 days; reset it to 14.
“Anonymous” – you’ll have to wait for CW to give you the secret password or something.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Hell. Let’s just start a new thread.
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2022/08/13/corvid-saw-that/