The 13 minute existential crowd.

Turkey’s presence in NATO, at least under Erdogan has been problematic for some time, but the Turks are still part of NATO. Turkey controls access to the Black Sea by the way. Fundamental and existential?

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/05/from-the-desk-of-madam-minitrue.php

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/leader-turkey-opposes-letting-finland-sweden-join-nato-84691999

From:
https://twitter.com/Techno_Fog

“Democratic Michigan Election Chief Says ‘2000 Mules’ Ballot Trafficking Allegations ‘Explained by Standard Election Practices’;
“Officials in Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Texas didn’t respond to requests for comment on the documentary”—
https://www.theepochtimes.com/michigan-election-chief-says-2000-mules-allegations-are-explained-by-standard-election-practices_4461885.html

Apparently in Michigan, “paid ballot trafficking” and not ensuring (or not preserving records of) chain-of-custody is “standard election practices”.
(Well, it IS a creative excuse, as they go. They’ll probably also add that they were quoted out of context, set up, framed, entrapped, misrepresented or…whatever…)

Key grafs:
“…Ballot trafficking is a process by which the safeguards of a chain of custody of a voter’s ballot and official supervision of the handling of that ballot are evaded.
“True the Vote cyber expert Gregg Phillips has estimated that at least 4.8 million votes were trafficked nationally in 2020.
“The True the Vote figures are based on an examination of election practices in Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Texas, where most absentee ballot drop boxes were placed in neighborhoods recognized as Democratic strongholds….”

My opinion is Gutenberg’s development of movable type in the 15th century* that ultimately led to mass production of books and an immense increase in their availability, along with a precipitous reduction in their cost is what precipitated the explosion of innovation from that point onward.

*The Chinese had developed a printing press process much earlier but ignored the technology as a novelty due to the perceived majesty of handwriting as a superior artform to mechanized reproduction.

Do tell indeed not that the dishonest will admit it…

Watt discovered the means by which a practicable employment of steam might be achieved. Newcomb examined Watt’s steam engine and discovered a more efficient manner in which it could be devised. The principles by which steam may be employed to effect work by the expansion of water vapor through the application of heat, existed prior to the formation of the earth.

So too with the incandescent light bulb, the transistor and the airplane. When electricity was discovered or rediscovered, scientific experiments quickly discovered that various materials would briefly combust when electrical current was passed through them. Edison assumed that there might well be a material that could withstand the heat generated while glowing appropriately. He tried nearly 10,000 different materials before he discovered a practicable filament material.

An aircraft wing employs the same principle as a bird’s wing and the principles that govern the operation of the internal combustion engine rest upon harnessing oil’s combustible nature.
Once the Wright’s realized that the shape of the wing creates lift, i.e. the difference in pressure between the upper and lower surfaces of the wing, “wing warping” was obvious.

Rand is trying to prevent the administration from further bankrupting the country and simultaneously trying to bring attention to the dangerous course the US leadership has embarked us upon in confronting the nation with the largest nuclear arms capability.

A confrontation in which America has no direct national security interests but which is viewed by the Russians as an existential national security threat.

Nor does it matter whether that threat actually exists. What matters is what the nuclear armed paranoiac believes to be an unacceptable and thus intolerable potential capability by an opponent whose honesty they do not trust. A Western leadership BTW, that no one on this blog trusts.

Instead of direct disputing Rand’s assertions, character assassination is employed. Despicable in its inherent dishonesty by any measure.