I dunno. Thinking about thirty-five pounds of protein and carnivore.
Michael Ramirez’s opinion of the 2024 Presidential Race – The Photo Finish
Cancel Hillary as an emergency candidate in case Biden drops out or dead: Hillary Clinton is attacking young people over views on Israel-Gaza because she’s bitter they supported Obama in 2008 and Bernie Sanders in 2016 – hard to blame her for being “bitter” about 2008, after she mopped the DEM Debate Stage using Obama as the mop, and still lost the nomination. Democratic party has proven what they ‘Actually Think about American Women’ by throwing their full support behind Trans women over real biological women; however, the Republican party has failed to take advantage of that opening.
“I don’t care, transgenders should have as many rights as you can give and everything else, but there is an element, and it’s just science that boys and girls, men and women are different”
Cute video, I like animal and human interactions videos. I think it shows animals have way more intelligences than we give them credit for.
Seen many with wild animals actually finding a human to help their friend or babies.
Show em whose boss
Now every one knows hillary forced the crasefire on netanyahu back in 2014 that led to the current circumstances so shes talking out of both sides of her mouth
Why it matters: The GOP rivals’ relationship remains chilly, but Trump could pick Haley if he were convinced she’d help him win the presidency, avoid a potential prison sentence and cover tens of millions in legal bills if he loses.
Zoom in: Republicans close to both campaigns believe it’s in Haley and Trump’s mutual interests to reconcile, despite their bitter fight in the GOP primary and their divergent views on some big issues.
• Trump is scrambling to make up a fundraising disadvantage against President Biden and pay legal fees. Haley, meanwhile, has deep ties to donors who are wary of the former president.
There could be advantages for Haley as well.
• She hasn’t endorsed Trump, and if she continues to withhold her support and Trump loses in November, significant parts of the GOP’s conservative base could blame her.
• That likely would threaten any future presidential campaign or future in GOP politics for her.
Problems are – their different views on “Social Security and Medicare” and on Ukraine. Huge gap before they could smooth over all their issues. DeSantis has ruled out being Trump’s running mate.
There is still Tim Scott, my favorite at the moment, but Trump is letting precious time pass as he continues dallying. I do like Haley a lot also – great natural leadership ability, which Trump lacks.
Nikki the VP? Ain’t gonnah happen. Her donors won’t countenance it and she did so well in the primaries. A real draw, she is. (not)
Haley’s “great natural leadership ability” did little in the primaries except drawing Democrat and Dem-leaning voters. I don’t see her as an asset to the Trump campaign.
The Apple ad has continued to disturb me, and I had a new insight about it. The image of the little yellow cartoon head being crushed in the hydraulic press, with its eyes about to pop, shows torture. If this image were in a cartoon, wouldn’t it be considered actual pornography? The fact that it’s a cartoon makes no difference, there have been x-rated cartoons that can’t be shown on tv or X. At the very least, there should have been one of those sensitive content warnings for 18 plus only.
The fact that this image was allowed to be shown to all ages without a warning shows how sadism has become mainstream. Every viewer of that ad has standing to sue for intentional infliction of emotional distress, and if children viewed it, there could be further penalties, perhaps for grooming of minors. These are not my favorite issues, so I’ll let it slide, I just wanted to point out that Apple has forced us all to watch snuff porn without a warning.
Well cerberus had three heads so you may be right
Of course political journalism is more faking than wwe wrestling who are the sources, and ehy would they talk to axios,
this is part of the reason, that I started writing my novel, Jambiya. to try to suss out the events around 2012, that involved the bombing plot, the Petraeus affair, the Arab Spring and other events like the precipitous fall of Lehman Bros, and the time entailed in same,
Re: Humans & dolphins
Any Thoughty2 fans here? He has a great episode with the clickbaity title:
As a longtime fan of maverick scientist John Lilly, I knew the basic story.
Eccentric CalTech-trained researcher turns his attention to sensory deprivation, human-dolphin communication and LSD, scores a big NASA grant for the human-dolphin part and a sizeable stash of LSD before it was illegal, then sets up a lair in the Caribbean.
He hires an untrained but game young woman to do the dolphin research, while Lilly himself is occupied with tripping on LSD while floating in body temperature water in total darkness.
Anyway. A young male dolphin named Peter falls in love with his human trainer. It’s one of the most tragic love stories I know.
Haley would, provide an impetus for GOPe and independents to vote for the ticket. However, there are differences on policy t that she and Trump may be unable to compromise on. I see her as an unlikely VP.
Doug Burgum has the gravitas but is a bit old if you are picking someone who can succeed you for two terms.
I like Tim Scott. However, he would be savaged by the racist media as bad or worse than what they do to Trump.
If Trump wants a woman, he should look at Governor Kim Reynolds from Iowa. She’s done a great job in Iowa.
How about someone who could help get things done on Congress? Tim Scott and Mike Pompeo might help in that regard.
A tough and important decision, IMO.
Finding ‘God’ thru a Religion
First, humans (for the most part) are incapable of defining God. God, Self, Supreme Being, Deity, Spirit, Creator, Higher Power, etc. all work for me. Tho an ‘electrical’ Universal Spirit/Creator with ‘connections’ to all things, e.g., the Self in me and my experience with it has solved the issue of ‘God’ for me, i.e., searching has ended for me. Simplicity (Mind Body Spirit):
‘Like two golden birds perched on the selfsame tree,
intimate friends, the ego and the Self dwell in the same body.
The former eats the sweet and sour fruits of the tree of life,
while the latter looks on in detachment.’ – The Mundaka Upanishad
Second, humans have also come up with a lot of different names for consciousness, self, spirit, etc. Since I know the Self within me – Self is the term I use.
Hopefully this comment doesn’t blow om’s Hatred Gasket again – it is not meant to do so. om has continually questioned the reason for my OM & Tux the Linux mascot logo. Here is a 240 x 240 view of IT. A bigger view than the thumbnail used here.
I don’t follow any religion – nor am I a member of either Buddhism or Hinduism. Like Christianity, I have done a lot of research of Buddhism and Hinduism. However, Buddhism and Hinduism offers many short texts that have made my ‘Path’ much simpler. The Upanishad quote above was the breakthrough for me, and have rarely read any religious/spiritual/inspirational texts since.
Have liked the OM sign for well over a decade—have never done chanting, invocation, etc. with it.
With all of the World’s listed religions, and the many sects split from them, at some point during my search it became obvious (to me) that ‘God’ wasn’t going to be found in any religion.
Your journey may differ…and I wish you luck on it.
Trump has already denied the Nikki story. Burgum reportedly supports using eminent domain to build carbon sequestration pipelines through private property. He is thus an idiot.
Curse you, neo. I watched that, toggled the next and an hour and a half later of watching animal vids I finally backed out of the rabbit hole to comment.
Heh. Animal vids are my morning OCD.
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Water drips on wood green with moss.
A field mouse nose pokes out of its nest.
Wish I could afford some new siding.
Israeli sources: US rethinks decision to halt arms shipments, looks for ways to resume deliveries; Possible solution: Shipping heavy bombs but not allowing Israel to use them in civilian areas of Rafah
well that seems imminently ridiculous, the whole planet is Carbon, every living and non living thing,
Would H8 to see Nikki anywhere near a Trump administration.
Still think Kari Lake would be better.
And do think we are now stuck having a woman as 2nd or 1st pick for now on
Kate:
I guess the polling was worse than they’d imagined.
Analysis by Peggy Noonan about the state of the 2024 election. Looks fairly good for Trump but not a slam dunk
“Six months to election day and things feel sort of fatalistic. There seems little to discover and nothing new to say about each of the candidates. It’s not going to dawn on you suddenly that Joe Biden is too old and infirm or Donald Trump too crazy. You’ve factored that in. You know what you think of both and have a sense of what compromises you’ll make within yourself to vote for either.
“ Voters can still be nudged, it’s not over, but Mr. Trump is ahead in most if not all of the battleground states, and I’m struck by the number of political operatives, veterans and thinkers now asking, honestly, if there is anything the president can do to pull it out.
“Mr. Ellis sees Mr. Biden struggling because “the two pillars” of his re-election effort are “tenuous at best.” The first is abortion. Mr. Ellis cites a CNN poll showing only 23% of voters say that a candidate must share their views on abortion. Abortion polled way down at 5% when respondents were asked the nation’s most urgent issues. The issue helps him, but not decisively.
“As for the second pillar: “Is there anyone who believes that defending democracy can only be entrusted to an 82-year-old man of halting gait and declining ‘mental acuity,’ whom three-quarters of the American electorate view as incapable of serving effectively as president if re-elected?” That issue too can help him in November, but not decisively. “The Biden campaign needs a larger argument.”
Neo, yes, polls are worse than hoped, plus there have been some warnings from large donors.
Re: Carbon
ILIA PROBE: The Creator has not answered. The carbon-units infestation is to be removed from the Creator’s planet.
KIRK: Why?
ILIA PROBE: You infest, Enterprise. You interfere with the Creator in the same manner.
Amazing someone can hold it together—going thru what she has…but she has!
Israel’s Eurovision contestant Eden Golan soared to second place following her performance despite protests, reflecting a triumph amid controversy.
As swiftly as a hurricane, Israel’s Eurovision contestant, Eden Golan, shot up the betting tables from eighth place to the number two spot following her performance in the second semi-final at the 68th Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden on Thursday night, in which she secured a place in the Grand Final, which will take place on Saturday.
what are the odds that a planet would not have a carbon base, the face huggers are supposed to be silicone, of course ridley scott dropped the ball on their origin,
now if memory serves it’s high sulfur concentrations that shape venus’s Dantean atmosphere,
om:
Haley was a comet.
Those are shreds and flecks of hype, remnants of a great narrative wafting about and floating down to earth. Thus ends comet Haley?
It’s not about the accords. It’s about the fact that NO ONE wants to touch the toxic Palestinians with a ten-foot pole.
I think it’s either dahlan or jibroud, who reside in the UAE, they were the Fatah security chief,
”Trump is letting precious time pass as he continues dallying.”
The VP slot usually isn’t nailed down until the convention. Trump’s got plenty of time.
”…she did so well in the primaries. A real draw, she is. (not)”
Considering that Trump is an incumbent, she did very very well in the primaries.
”Haley’s ‘great natural leadership ability’ did little in the primaries except drawing Democrat and Dem-leaning voters.
And that’s exactly what Trump needs. He doesn’t need someone to attract voters who are already going to vote for him.
Having said that, I don’t think it will be Haley. I don’t think they like each other, and I don’t think Trump’s ego can get past that.
Besides, consider this. It’s been said that Harris is impeachment insurance for Biden. Haley would have the opposite effect for Trump, and I don’t think he wants to give the powers that be another reason to impeach, imprison, or do worse to him.
Haley had the OMB faction of Republican voters and donors and Democrat voters in the primaries. Haley could not even win her own state in the primaries. Haley’s leadership and courage was on display when asked about the transgendered social contagion. Some leadership skilz indeed. She was good as UN Ambassador, other than that? All hat (OMB), no cattle (a swampy donor creature).
om:
It seems to me that Haley’s appeal was based on two things: she’s a minority ethnic woman, and she was seen as a moderate alternative to Trump as well as Biden. As Trump’s running mate she would have lost her appeal on that second factor.
neo:
She tried to play the oppressed minority card in the primaries.
To a progressive, can a republican, no matter what cultural background or skin, ever be considered a minority?
Mkent:
The VP slot usually isn’t nailed down until the convention. Trump’s got plenty of time.
OK – thanks for that info. I don’t keep up w/ how DEMs & REPs run their conventions or when the VP is picked.
Besides, consider this. It’s been said that Harris is impeachment insurance for Biden. Haley would have the opposite effect for Trump, and I don’t think he wants to give the powers that be another reason to impeach, imprison, or do worse to him.
🙂 🙂 Good point…
Nikki and the Covid vaccine are polling neck and neck.
A group of my girlfriends swim Waimea Bay most days when the surf calms down in summer. Last year dolphin pods swam with them three times! I’d love, love, love to swim with dolphins but I have already had more sun exposure than is healthy. So no dolphins for me…
A claim that the US is offering Israel intelligence on location of Hamas leadership in Rafah in exchange for no launch of large offensive. If true, why was this previously withheld?
When I see a story like that Kate, I tend to think “Ben Rhodes” (since it’s Obama’s policy/strategic aims driving the bus), or put in a simpler fashion, “bullshit”.
But to answer your question “why preiously withheld?” we might say the purported quid pro quo itself tells that tale: withhold in order to have something with which to arm-twist.
On the administration’s shameful failure to try to secure release of American hostages:
This morning’s dose of gaslighting: Many news sources have covered that Trump held a rally in NJ yesterday drawing between 80-100,000. Yet, this morning on CNNs website they claim: “Trump has spent most of his court-free days without public campaign events”, without a single mention of the large rally in deep blue NJ.
Cnn rots your brain you take small doses like idocane
I trust Iran’s and North Korea’s MSMs about the same as my trust in America’s MSMs, so just bookmarked the DNYUZ news site since their DNyuz – Bias and Credibility report is “Bias Rating: RIGHT-CENTER”. Right-Center can’t be bad, right? 😉
DNyuz is an Armenian website that plagiarizes content word for word from major news sources. They literally copy and paste entire articles and embed their advertising code for profit. As one can imagine, a source like this completely lacks transparency as there is zero information to be found about authors, owners, location, or mission.
I like them already, and they note that the article I’m referencing: The post Biden Is Doing It All Wrong appeared first on New York Times. NYTs gotta hate these Armenian guys! 🙂 🙂
I’ve spent decades looking at the behavior of swing voters and how candidates appeal to them, including for Bill Clinton’s re-election campaign in 1996. If Mr. Biden wants to serve another four years, he has to stop being dragged to the left and chart a different course closer to the center that appeals to those voters who favor bipartisan compromises to our core issues, fiscal discipline and a strong America.
The 2024 election is a rematch, but Mr. Biden should not assume that he will get the same result as he did in 2020 in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia and other battleground states by running the same playbook. This time around, Mr. Biden is seen as older, and the assessment of the job that he has done is in negative territory. While he won’t get any younger, he could still move more to the center, hoover up swing voters who desperately want to reject Mr. Trump, strengthen his image as a leader by destroying Hamas, and rally the base at the end. But that means first pushing back against the base rather than pandering to it, and remembering that when it comes to the math of elections, swing is king.
Article is by Mark Penn and looks like it was copied & pasted from NYTs… 🙂 🙂 🙂
Open Thread Sunday – Russian war on Ukraine (desperation measures)
From the reports I am seeing, the number of world-wide UFO sightings is steadily increasing and, as reports leak out, such surveillance–for surveillance it is–including the number of vehicles involved, has been and is especially increasing in tempo over U.S. military bases, ICBM fields, military exercises, and deployments—domestic and foreign.*
However, the fact, the reality of this massive surveillance operation is being ignored/downplayed by the MSM, and by our government.
Thus, if you relied on them for knowledge about this massive surveillance campaign, you would believe that it just wasn’t happening; everything is just hunky dory.
Why keep silent about what is obviously a major national security threat?
Well, one reason would be that neither our government nor, in particular, our military forces–supplied with hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and trillions of dollars worth of equipment, aircraft, sensor systems, and all sorts of armaments–are unable to stop this surveillance, and these incursions into supposedly secure military and/or commercial airspace.
A very logical assumption is that such widespread, intense, and increasing surveillance—all this expenditure of effort–is being done for a purpose, and most of the the possible purposes which immediately come to mind for such a massive campaign of surveillance are not good.
However, the fact, the reality of this massive surveillance operation is being ignored/downplayed by the MSM, and by our government.
becomes a fact. Once a fact is established then all flights of fancy are possible about what is possible and what has or hasn’t been done.
RE: UFOs and the most recent supposed UAP/UFO “Report” to Congress from AARO
As I have written here recently, Christopher Mellon, the articulate, connected, and very well-informed former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, has done a masterful job of eviscerating this ARRO “Report” (see full text of this Report at https://www.aaro.mil/More-Info/).*
But what needs repeating is the fact that this Report did not report on the things which Congress very clearly mandated—in legislation which became law—that AARO should investigate and report on.
To quote from Chris Mellon’s analysis linked below:–
“The new UAP investigative agency of the U.S. Government is currently called the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). It reports jointly to the leaders of DoD and the Intelligence Community (IC). AARO recently sent the classified version of its first historical report, Vol. I, to Congress. Ostensibly, it covers the period from 1945 to October 31, 2023. The administrative cover date is February 2024. Volume II is due on about June 15, 2024.
The Congressional legal mandate, meaning by statutory law, required that this AARO historical report present the detailed history of UAP as recorded in US Government records. However, AARO instead presented a summary history of the records of flawed USG investigations of UAP, rather than what was actually mandated: the history of UAP and “relating to” UAP, meaning the history of UAP sightings and investigations (and to be completed using USG records and other official information).
The law required a “written report detailing the historical record of the United States Government relating to unidentified anomalous phenomena,” and the word “investigations” nowhere appears – the phrase does not say it is to be a historical report solely “relating to” investigations of “unidentified anomalous phenomena.” (NDAA FY2023 Sec. 6802(j)(1)(A), codified statute 50 U.S. Code § 3373(j)(1)(A), as amended.)
In another breach of the explicit terms of the law, AARO failed to compile, itemize, and report on US intelligence agency abuses on UAP (per 50 U.S.C. § 3373, below). The AARO Historical Report was required to:
“(ii) include a compilation and itemization of the key historical record of the involvement of the intelligence community with unidentified anomalous phenomena [UAP], including— …
“(III) any efforts to obfuscate, manipulate public opinion, hide, or otherwise provide incorrect unclassified or classified information about unidentified anomalous phenomena [UAP] or related activities.” [NDAA FY23 Sec. 6802(j)(1)(B); 50 U.S. Code § 3373(j)(1)(B)]
Contrary to Congressional direction, AARO completely omits entire agencies – NORAD, NSA, DIA (prior to 2009), CBP, etc. – agencies with known investigations or activities relating to UAP, and also omits any discussion of “any efforts to obfuscate, [or]… hide … unclassified or classified information about unidentified anomalous phenomena [UAP] or related activities.”
AARO omits these agencies even when there are unclassified documents available on those agencies’ records and investigations of UAP (for example, see the approximate 100 pages of CBP Customs & Border Protection agency internal memos of Records on UAP, plus 10 videos, released in August, 2023, but unmentioned by AARO; Also see McMillan, Hanks, Plain, “Incursions at the Border,” The Debrief, May 27, 2022).”
I dunno. Thinking about thirty-five pounds of protein and carnivore.
Michael Ramirez’s opinion of the 2024 Presidential Race – The Photo Finish
Cancel Hillary as an emergency candidate in case Biden drops out or dead: Hillary Clinton is attacking young people over views on Israel-Gaza because she’s bitter they supported Obama in 2008 and Bernie Sanders in 2016 – hard to blame her for being “bitter” about 2008, after she mopped the DEM Debate Stage using Obama as the mop, and still lost the nomination. Democratic party has proven what they ‘Actually Think about American Women’ by throwing their full support behind Trans women over real biological women; however, the Republican party has failed to take advantage of that opening.
‘It’s Just Science’: Dave Portnoy Says He Has ‘Problem’ With Trans Athletes Competing Against Girls
Cute video, I like animal and human interactions videos. I think it shows animals have way more intelligences than we give them credit for.
Seen many with wild animals actually finding a human to help their friend or babies.
Show em whose boss
Now every one knows hillary forced the crasefire on netanyahu back in 2014 that led to the current circumstances so shes talking out of both sides of her mouth
“both sides of her mouth”
Only two sides? You are generous, miguel.
Trump campaign considering Nikki Haley for VP – now this could work! Snippets:
Problems are – their different views on “Social Security and Medicare” and on Ukraine. Huge gap before they could smooth over all their issues. DeSantis has ruled out being Trump’s running mate.
There is still Tim Scott, my favorite at the moment, but Trump is letting precious time pass as he continues dallying. I do like Haley a lot also – great natural leadership ability, which Trump lacks.
Nikki the VP? Ain’t gonnah happen. Her donors won’t countenance it and she did so well in the primaries. A real draw, she is. (not)
Haley’s “great natural leadership ability” did little in the primaries except drawing Democrat and Dem-leaning voters. I don’t see her as an asset to the Trump campaign.
The Apple ad has continued to disturb me, and I had a new insight about it. The image of the little yellow cartoon head being crushed in the hydraulic press, with its eyes about to pop, shows torture. If this image were in a cartoon, wouldn’t it be considered actual pornography? The fact that it’s a cartoon makes no difference, there have been x-rated cartoons that can’t be shown on tv or X. At the very least, there should have been one of those sensitive content warnings for 18 plus only.
The fact that this image was allowed to be shown to all ages without a warning shows how sadism has become mainstream. Every viewer of that ad has standing to sue for intentional infliction of emotional distress, and if children viewed it, there could be further penalties, perhaps for grooming of minors. These are not my favorite issues, so I’ll let it slide, I just wanted to point out that Apple has forced us all to watch snuff porn without a warning.
Well cerberus had three heads so you may be right
Of course political journalism is more faking than wwe wrestling who are the sources, and ehy would they talk to axios,
this is part of the reason, that I started writing my novel, Jambiya. to try to suss out the events around 2012, that involved the bombing plot, the Petraeus affair, the Arab Spring and other events like the precipitous fall of Lehman Bros, and the time entailed in same,
Re: Humans & dolphins
Any Thoughty2 fans here? He has a great episode with the clickbaity title:
–Thoughty2, “This Was The Most Disturbing Experiment In History”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz15mgIBN7g
As a longtime fan of maverick scientist John Lilly, I knew the basic story.
Eccentric CalTech-trained researcher turns his attention to sensory deprivation, human-dolphin communication and LSD, scores a big NASA grant for the human-dolphin part and a sizeable stash of LSD before it was illegal, then sets up a lair in the Caribbean.
He hires an untrained but game young woman to do the dolphin research, while Lilly himself is occupied with tripping on LSD while floating in body temperature water in total darkness.
Anyway. A young male dolphin named Peter falls in love with his human trainer. It’s one of the most tragic love stories I know.
Haley would, provide an impetus for GOPe and independents to vote for the ticket. However, there are differences on policy t that she and Trump may be unable to compromise on. I see her as an unlikely VP.
Doug Burgum has the gravitas but is a bit old if you are picking someone who can succeed you for two terms.
I like Tim Scott. However, he would be savaged by the racist media as bad or worse than what they do to Trump.
If Trump wants a woman, he should look at Governor Kim Reynolds from Iowa. She’s done a great job in Iowa.
How about someone who could help get things done on Congress? Tim Scott and Mike Pompeo might help in that regard.
A tough and important decision, IMO.
Finding ‘God’ thru a Religion
First, humans (for the most part) are incapable of defining God. God, Self, Supreme Being, Deity, Spirit, Creator, Higher Power, etc. all work for me. Tho an ‘electrical’ Universal Spirit/Creator with ‘connections’ to all things, e.g., the Self in me and my experience with it has solved the issue of ‘God’ for me, i.e., searching has ended for me. Simplicity (Mind Body Spirit):
Second, humans have also come up with a lot of different names for consciousness, self, spirit, etc. Since I know the Self within me – Self is the term I use.
Hopefully this comment doesn’t blow om’s Hatred Gasket again – it is not meant to do so. om has continually questioned the reason for my OM & Tux the Linux mascot logo. Here is a 240 x 240 view of IT. A bigger view than the thumbnail used here.
I don’t follow any religion – nor am I a member of either Buddhism or Hinduism. Like Christianity, I have done a lot of research of Buddhism and Hinduism. However, Buddhism and Hinduism offers many short texts that have made my ‘Path’ much simpler. The Upanishad quote above was the breakthrough for me, and have rarely read any religious/spiritual/inspirational texts since.
Have liked the OM sign for well over a decade—have never done chanting, invocation, etc. with it.
With all of the World’s listed religions, and the many sects split from them, at some point during my search it became obvious (to me) that ‘God’ wasn’t going to be found in any religion.
Your journey may differ…and I wish you luck on it.
Trump has already denied the Nikki story. Burgum reportedly supports using eminent domain to build carbon sequestration pipelines through private property. He is thus an idiot.
Curse you, neo. I watched that, toggled the next and an hour and a half later of watching animal vids I finally backed out of the rabbit hole to comment.
Heh. Animal vids are my morning OCD.
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Water drips on wood green with moss.
A field mouse nose pokes out of its nest.
Wish I could afford some new siding.
https://twitter.com/IsraelRadar_com/status/1789270727629164768
Nothing Biden says is credible. Nothing.
well that seems imminently ridiculous, the whole planet is Carbon, every living and non living thing,
Would H8 to see Nikki anywhere near a Trump administration.
Still think Kari Lake would be better.
And do think we are now stuck having a woman as 2nd or 1st pick for now on
Kate:
I guess the polling was worse than they’d imagined.
Analysis by Peggy Noonan about the state of the 2024 election. Looks fairly good for Trump but not a slam dunk
“Six months to election day and things feel sort of fatalistic. There seems little to discover and nothing new to say about each of the candidates. It’s not going to dawn on you suddenly that Joe Biden is too old and infirm or Donald Trump too crazy. You’ve factored that in. You know what you think of both and have a sense of what compromises you’ll make within yourself to vote for either.
“ Voters can still be nudged, it’s not over, but Mr. Trump is ahead in most if not all of the battleground states, and I’m struck by the number of political operatives, veterans and thinkers now asking, honestly, if there is anything the president can do to pull it out.
“Mr. Ellis sees Mr. Biden struggling because “the two pillars” of his re-election effort are “tenuous at best.” The first is abortion. Mr. Ellis cites a CNN poll showing only 23% of voters say that a candidate must share their views on abortion. Abortion polled way down at 5% when respondents were asked the nation’s most urgent issues. The issue helps him, but not decisively.
“As for the second pillar: “Is there anyone who believes that defending democracy can only be entrusted to an 82-year-old man of halting gait and declining ‘mental acuity,’ whom three-quarters of the American electorate view as incapable of serving effectively as president if re-elected?” That issue too can help him in November, but not decisively. “The Biden campaign needs a larger argument.”
Read more
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ar-BB1m7sj3
Kate:
The scorpion FJB, betrays everyone.
And just like that, kaboom, goes the Haley!
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2024/05/11/its-official-nikki-haley-will-not-be-trumps-running-mate-n2174067
Neo, yes, polls are worse than hoped, plus there have been some warnings from large donors.
Re: Carbon
ILIA PROBE: The Creator has not answered. The carbon-units infestation is to be removed from the Creator’s planet.
KIRK: Why?
ILIA PROBE: You infest, Enterprise. You interfere with the Creator in the same manner.
Amazing someone can hold it together—going thru what she has…but she has!
We will sing again: Eden Golan triumphs in Eurovision semi-final
what are the odds that a planet would not have a carbon base, the face huggers are supposed to be silicone, of course ridley scott dropped the ball on their origin,
now if memory serves it’s high sulfur concentrations that shape venus’s Dantean atmosphere,
om:
Haley was a comet.
Those are shreds and flecks of hype, remnants of a great narrative wafting about and floating down to earth. Thus ends comet Haley?
so how legit were those accords,
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rjtgtitfa
miguel cervantes:
It’s not about the accords. It’s about the fact that NO ONE wants to touch the toxic Palestinians with a ten-foot pole.
I think it’s either dahlan or jibroud, who reside in the UAE, they were the Fatah security chief,
”Trump is letting precious time pass as he continues dallying.”
The VP slot usually isn’t nailed down until the convention. Trump’s got plenty of time.
”…she did so well in the primaries. A real draw, she is. (not)”
Considering that Trump is an incumbent, she did very very well in the primaries.
”Haley’s ‘great natural leadership ability’ did little in the primaries except drawing Democrat and Dem-leaning voters.
And that’s exactly what Trump needs. He doesn’t need someone to attract voters who are already going to vote for him.
Having said that, I don’t think it will be Haley. I don’t think they like each other, and I don’t think Trump’s ego can get past that.
Besides, consider this. It’s been said that Harris is impeachment insurance for Biden. Haley would have the opposite effect for Trump, and I don’t think he wants to give the powers that be another reason to impeach, imprison, or do worse to him.
Haley had the OMB faction of Republican voters and donors and Democrat voters in the primaries. Haley could not even win her own state in the primaries. Haley’s leadership and courage was on display when asked about the transgendered social contagion. Some leadership skilz indeed. She was good as UN Ambassador, other than that? All hat (OMB), no cattle (a swampy donor creature).
om:
It seems to me that Haley’s appeal was based on two things: she’s a minority ethnic woman, and she was seen as a moderate alternative to Trump as well as Biden. As Trump’s running mate she would have lost her appeal on that second factor.
neo:
She tried to play the oppressed minority card in the primaries.
To a progressive, can a republican, no matter what cultural background or skin, ever be considered a minority?
Mkent:
OK – thanks for that info. I don’t keep up w/ how DEMs & REPs run their conventions or when the VP is picked.
🙂 🙂 Good point…
Nikki and the Covid vaccine are polling neck and neck.
A group of my girlfriends swim Waimea Bay most days when the surf calms down in summer. Last year dolphin pods swam with them three times! I’d love, love, love to swim with dolphins but I have already had more sun exposure than is healthy. So no dolphins for me…
A claim that the US is offering Israel intelligence on location of Hamas leadership in Rafah in exchange for no launch of large offensive. If true, why was this previously withheld?
https://instapundit.com/646902/
When I see a story like that Kate, I tend to think “Ben Rhodes” (since it’s Obama’s policy/strategic aims driving the bus), or put in a simpler fashion, “bullshit”.
But to answer your question “why preiously withheld?” we might say the purported quid pro quo itself tells that tale: withhold in order to have something with which to arm-twist.
On the administration’s shameful failure to try to secure release of American hostages:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2997426/the-biden-hostage-betrayal/
This morning’s dose of gaslighting: Many news sources have covered that Trump held a rally in NJ yesterday drawing between 80-100,000. Yet, this morning on CNNs website they claim: “Trump has spent most of his court-free days without public campaign events”, without a single mention of the large rally in deep blue NJ.
Cnn rots your brain you take small doses like idocane
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/biden_and_his_ironclad_support_of_israel.html
Miguel,
I always check CNN and MSNBC every day…it’s good to keep track of what the opposition is doing.
Small doses like morning joke oh noes
UN seemingly halves estimate of Gazan women, children killed
If UN has reduced the women & children death count that much, then they probably have heard that it is even less than that…IMHO.
https://twitter.com/joelpollak/status/1789699805331267745
I trust Iran’s and North Korea’s MSMs about the same as my trust in America’s MSMs, so just bookmarked the DNYUZ news site since their DNyuz – Bias and Credibility report is “Bias Rating: RIGHT-CENTER”. Right-Center can’t be bad, right? 😉
I like them already, and they note that the article I’m referencing: The post Biden Is Doing It All Wrong appeared first on New York Times. NYTs gotta hate these Armenian guys! 🙂 🙂
Biden Is Doing It All Wrong
Article is by Mark Penn and looks like it was copied & pasted from NYTs… 🙂 🙂 🙂
Open Thread Sunday – Russian war on Ukraine (desperation measures)
Turtle Tanks, “Cope Cages” & Modified Vehicles in Ukraine – Purpose, Evolution & Effectiveness -Perun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhfGspOIg24
Once you take out a track or the tires with a mine, they are toast. Artillery will mop them up to say nothing of drones or …..
These things can help Russia if the Ukrainians are starved of artillery rounds, MANPADS, or ATGMs. Go Tucker!
at this point, you have to think the Daleks are in charge,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oS76miAU-c
https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2024/05/12/pope-francis-world-nearing-breaking-point-from-climate-change/
Open Thread Sunday – Russia’s War on Ukraine – Follow Ups
Putin Sacks Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Shakes Up Russia’s Security Council – streiff
https://redstate.com/streiff/2024/05/12/putin-sacks-defense-minister-sergei-shoigu-and-shakes-up-russias-security-council-n2174102
Can Russia win in Ukraine with nuclear weapons? – Anders Puck Nielsen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4mZPc_kkys&t=1s
yes I have said before Shoigu should find himself a nice balcony and profit, as he farked up things royally, stupid Tuvan
and in this corner
https://twitter.com/ShidelerK/status/1789663197181485500
Shoigu should probably stay away from balconies and windows, lest he “fall accidentally” like so many others.
like the guy at the head of the table in the untouchables I don’t think hes’ that self aware,
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sk8t1a0m0#autoplay
https://babylonbee.com/news/with-biden-stalling-israel-announces-they-will-just-get-american-weapons-from-taliban
RE: UFOs—We are being surveilled!
From the reports I am seeing, the number of world-wide UFO sightings is steadily increasing and, as reports leak out, such surveillance–for surveillance it is–including the number of vehicles involved, has been and is especially increasing in tempo over U.S. military bases, ICBM fields, military exercises, and deployments—domestic and foreign.*
However, the fact, the reality of this massive surveillance operation is being ignored/downplayed by the MSM, and by our government.
Thus, if you relied on them for knowledge about this massive surveillance campaign, you would believe that it just wasn’t happening; everything is just hunky dory.
Why keep silent about what is obviously a major national security threat?
Well, one reason would be that neither our government nor, in particular, our military forces–supplied with hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and trillions of dollars worth of equipment, aircraft, sensor systems, and all sorts of armaments–are unable to stop this surveillance, and these incursions into supposedly secure military and/or commercial airspace.
A very logical assumption is that such widespread, intense, and increasing surveillance—all this expenditure of effort–is being done for a purpose, and most of the the possible purposes which immediately come to mind for such a massive campaign of surveillance are not good.
* See, for instance, the large number of UFOs (claimed by the AF to have been mysterious “drones”– if they were drones from one of our adversaries, how come we have seen no news that one has been brought down, and/or identified?) which recently swarmed over Langley AFB at https://www.unknowncountry.com/headline-news/the-u-s-air-force-acknowledges-that-langley-afb-was-swarmed-during-multiple-incursions-by-unidentified-drones/ ,
* or https://www.twz.com/air/mysterious-drones-swarmed-langley-afb-for-weeks
* Or https://thedebrief.org/uap-incident-over-the-gulf-of-mexico-revealed-by-u-s-congressman-confirmed-in-newly-declassified-files-and-images/
It is crurious how a conjecture or speculation
becomes a fact. Once a fact is established then all flights of fancy are possible about what is possible and what has or hasn’t been done.
RE: UFOs and the most recent supposed UAP/UFO “Report” to Congress from AARO
As I have written here recently, Christopher Mellon, the articulate, connected, and very well-informed former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, has done a masterful job of eviscerating this ARRO “Report” (see full text of this Report at https://www.aaro.mil/More-Info/).*
But what needs repeating is the fact that this Report did not report on the things which Congress very clearly mandated—in legislation which became law—that AARO should investigate and report on.
To quote from Chris Mellon’s analysis linked below:–
“The new UAP investigative agency of the U.S. Government is currently called the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). It reports jointly to the leaders of DoD and the Intelligence Community (IC). AARO recently sent the classified version of its first historical report, Vol. I, to Congress. Ostensibly, it covers the period from 1945 to October 31, 2023. The administrative cover date is February 2024. Volume II is due on about June 15, 2024.
The Congressional legal mandate, meaning by statutory law, required that this AARO historical report present the detailed history of UAP as recorded in US Government records. However, AARO instead presented a summary history of the records of flawed USG investigations of UAP, rather than what was actually mandated: the history of UAP and “relating to” UAP, meaning the history of UAP sightings and investigations (and to be completed using USG records and other official information).
The law required a “written report detailing the historical record of the United States Government relating to unidentified anomalous phenomena,” and the word “investigations” nowhere appears – the phrase does not say it is to be a historical report solely “relating to” investigations of “unidentified anomalous phenomena.” (NDAA FY2023 Sec. 6802(j)(1)(A), codified statute 50 U.S. Code § 3373(j)(1)(A), as amended.)
In another breach of the explicit terms of the law, AARO failed to compile, itemize, and report on US intelligence agency abuses on UAP (per 50 U.S.C. § 3373, below). The AARO Historical Report was required to:
“(ii) include a compilation and itemization of the key historical record of the involvement of the intelligence community with unidentified anomalous phenomena [UAP], including— …
“(III) any efforts to obfuscate, manipulate public opinion, hide, or otherwise provide incorrect unclassified or classified information about unidentified anomalous phenomena [UAP] or related activities.” [NDAA FY23 Sec. 6802(j)(1)(B); 50 U.S. Code § 3373(j)(1)(B)]
Contrary to Congressional direction, AARO completely omits entire agencies – NORAD, NSA, DIA (prior to 2009), CBP, etc. – agencies with known investigations or activities relating to UAP, and also omits any discussion of “any efforts to obfuscate, [or]… hide … unclassified or classified information about unidentified anomalous phenomena [UAP] or related activities.”
AARO omits these agencies even when there are unclassified documents available on those agencies’ records and investigations of UAP (for example, see the approximate 100 pages of CBP Customs & Border Protection agency internal memos of Records on UAP, plus 10 videos, released in August, 2023, but unmentioned by AARO; Also see McMillan, Hanks, Plain, “Incursions at the Border,” The Debrief, May 27, 2022).”
* See https://thedebrief.org/the-pentagons-new-uap-report-is-seriously-flawed/