Leftist protests and movements are all top-down theater funded by deep pockets. There may have been a time when they weren’t, but it was at least forty years ago.

Walk the streets of Berkeley for a few minutes and see the recruiters hiring protesters for so much an hour.

In real life teens don’t have the connections to organize a movement on their own initiative; in real life they are slotted into a role as the face of a movement by the people who actually run that movement.

“Free” means that you have already paid for it. The 2-year commitment you made is so much more valuable to them than the phone.

https://x.com/goddeketal/status/1861925524928401579

This is the FCC’s first instance of approving supplemental coverage from space (SCS) — in which satellites communicate directly with unmodified cell phones using mobile network operator (MNO) spectrum, to “supplement” the reach of the MNO’s network. The FCC adopted a new regulatory framework in March to allow for SCS, the first regulatory framework of its kind.

T-Mobile and SpaceX have been working together since 2022 to enable this service and allow T-Mobile customers to send messages via Starlink satellites in rural and remote areas. During Hurricane Helene and Milton this past fall, the FCC granted T-Mobile and SpaceX special temporary authority to operate direct-to-cellular service in affected areas. SpaceX and T-Mobile have also tested wireless emergency alerts delivered via satellite.

Looks like it might be moving along a little quicker than I had thought. Switched to T-mobile in Jan of this year when I heard about getting service in dead areas. Have fiber internet so can use WiFi calling since phone signal is bad here. Once it is finished then not more worry about dead spots, from the way I understand it.

Requires the right frequency (?) phone which I got for free (Galaxy A14 5G) for opening an account with them—well, phone is free if I stay with them for 2 years.

These rascals should be fairly easy to incarcerate or toss out—since they are still fairly new. Other established local gangs will be quick to rat them out – as well as poor residents in these buildings that Tren de Aragua terrorize and take over. They apparently spread fast tho…

Mentioned the other day that I don’t “do holidays,” but I remember the celebration & meaning of each one. Love and celebrate every day pretty much equally now. Doctor visit days are the exception. Am guessing that certain Holidays are handled differently here than normal days ‘n Sundays (?). Went to post yesterday morning—thought I saw the new Open Thread—and posted to it. Hours later I noticed it wasn’t the Open Thread…oops!

Always ‘Two Sides’ to a Story? Are closed-minded voters – on both sides – the problem in America?

Brief from Highly Secret links:

The Dual Nature of Perspectives

Complexity of Human Experience: No single perspective can capture the entirety of human experience. Each individual’s viewpoint is shaped by their unique background, experiences, beliefs, and biases.

Bill Clinton makes stunning confession about his bizarre behavior after Hillary’s defeat in America’s ‘darkest election’

Writing in his new memoir, an emotional Clinton issues an apology to all those who found him hard going in the years following the 2016 contest, won by Donald Trump, which he describes as ‘the darkest election possible in the United States’.

Clinton, president from 1993-2001, still blames Hillary’s defeat on a toxic combination of Russian propaganda, an unprecedented investigation into her use of emails by James Comey, then director of the FBI, and a supine political press which, he says, took more interest in the email controversy than the merits of the candidates.

‘The whole thing is hard for me to write,’ he says in Citizen – My Life After The White House. ‘I couldn’t sleep for two years after the election. I was so angry, I wasn’t fit to be around.

Pointing to his wife’s calamitous loss of a six-point polling lead, he writes that: ‘Almost two years after the election, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a highly regarded social scientist said Russia’s cyber attacks piled on top of Comey’s interventions were effective enough to persuade voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to vote for third parties or stay at home.

‘If so, Putin’s enablers were Comey and the political press.’

Wasn’t into Politics when Bill Clinton was in Office, but was stunned when he defeated incumbent Republican president George H. W. Bush. I thought GHW was a great President. Great Wartime Leader. Loved his Gulf War quick in and quick out. Do remember that his own party turned against him, and am guessing that helped to open the door for Bill Clinton. Maybe that also opened the door for Obama in the near future – as Clinton defeated Bob Dole next.

Never cared for Bill Clinton. He began a list of weak American Presidents – Obama, Trump and Biden. Liked GW Bush, but his party also turned against him. A weak Republican party then ran McCain against Obama. McCain with help from Republicans helped to destroy Sarah Palin, IMHO. She could’ve been great.

With no bench still—Republicans ran Mitt Romney against Obama next. Republican voters still blame Obama instead of themselves for those disastrous 8-years.

Anyway, found it interesting that Bill Clinton, in his new memoir, sounds a lot like many Republicans on message boards ‘n Such…

of course none of these brushfires could happen without oil revenue, in Northern Europe and the Persian Gulf, that had been held at bay by our dynamic oil exploration