https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/505/new-york-times-co-v-united-states

Now, I made all this up. But it’s so likely to be part of a plan that it might be classified. And if I can think of it–made First Lieutenant in 1970–so can the Iranian planners.

We are left with the technical issues. The import of the document’s coming to public knowledge–officially and not just as a matter of extremely common common sense–is meaningless.

It’s a well-known fact that we have contingency plans to attack just about everybody who could even remotely be called an enemy. Disclosing that discloses nothing.

“Tofu-dreg” construction is shoddy construction.

See some pretty startling examples at https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/tofu-dreg-in-china.613409/

I’ve been pointing out the tell tale signs of China’s general demographic decline and, now, as well, its economic decline–and since the real estate sector represents 30-40% of the Chinese economy–any problems there are big problems with many ripple effects.

So, the fact that one of China’s biggest property developers, Evergrande, with a reported $300 billion dollars in liabilities, and which was only developing some 800 projects, filed for bankruptcy in the last few days is an ominous sign.

Now comes the news that China’s largest property development company, Country Garden, with a reported 3,121 projects scattered around China’s provinces, has missed interest payments, and is also likely headed for bankruptcy, which appears to be a very dire development indeed. *

* See
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/18/china-property-crisis-deepens-as-developer-country-garden-at-risk-of-default-evergrande

See also https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2023-08-17/explainer-country-garden-how-bad-is-chinas-property-crisis

Why? Because he is.

It probably shouldn’t need to be argued, but you cannot defend a charge of mishandling or misappropriating classified documents by claiming that there was no harm in making the documents public. There is no such thing as a “no harm, no foul” defense to misappropriating classified documents. It is a core truth that there are some things that any government needs to keep secret. You cannot have a system in which every individual who encounters classified documents can appropriate or disclose them if they believe that there would be no harm in doing so. (See, for example, Reality Winner.)

On the substance, you’re speculating about what was in the document. The mere existence of even a four page battle plan prepared by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs to the President describing the invasion of a country with which we are not at war harms national security if disclosed. The likelihood that such a document includes information about military capabilities, tactics, and/or the like is high. In short, I don’t think “no harm no foul” will work for you here on the facts, even if such a defense was proper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Splendor_(film)

“American Splendor” was was the name of Pekar’s first comic book series. I was a devoted reader back then.

This history is presented as an educational underground comic book. Indeed that’s where Pekar and Dumm come from.

Pekar knew Robert Crumb, the premier underground comix artist, when they were in their 20s. Pekar was a wild, Jewish, leftist college drop-out, wannabe writer, who badgered Crumb into illustrating Pekar’s thin, slice-of-life, working-class stories.

Which may not sound promising, but it gave Pekar a start into a modest idiosyncratic career as a leftist writer doing semi-underground comix with accomplished artists in the field. It even led to his bizarre moments of fame as an odd gadfly appearing on the David Letterman show.

–“Harvey Pekar Isn’t A Showbiz Phony | Letterman”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IETY0NdSXY

Pekar’s “SDS” book is one of his last. He died the year after it was published.

I bring up his “SDS” book because it is a good, quick history of the SDS. This is the odd, tiny radical movement which has essentially taken over the Democratic Party, and to that extent, the United States.

Conservatives might benefit from reading on how the SDS managed this trick. They might also notice how well the accessible format of “SDS” communicates to a layman audience.

This is not a new format. There is a whole raft of “_____ for Beginners” books which look like innocent graphic self-learning texts, but are all written from a deeply leftist POV.

Conservatives could learn from the left — I don’t mean ballot harvesting — and it wouldn’t be a bad thing.