The plain rule? Don’t be a chump; leave that mission to your adversaries.
Its a broad coalition reagan had wets like richard burt and hard liners like wolfowitz and perle at state for instance
In central america enders vs abrams on other issues
The twins story is fun, but a little creepy.
Hope they stay happy forever and don’t end up getting divorced together.
Wasn’t this the old Patty Duke Show premise?
Dow up 1400 at this point, and S&P up 194.
Darles: Identical cousins. A twist on this was Samantha vs. Serena in the old Bewitched series.
Wasn’t this the old Patty Duke Show premise?
==
William Schallert interviewed on the subject said the creators of the show had noticed Patty Duke had two distinct sides to her personality so they came up with the idea of ‘identical cousins’ so those two sides could be made use of to drive the plot and did not mind that it was biological nonsense. They were supposedly ‘identical’ because their fathers were identical twins. (Their mothers were unrelated to each other). They’d have been more closely related than 1st cousins commonly are, but not identical. Had their mothers been identical twins, they’d have been as closely related as full siblings (who are not typically impossible to tell apart).
==
Amusing show, to be sure. Pity Patty Duke was so erratic in her young adult years and aged so badly after she turned 40.
Art–I don’t agree that Patty Duke aged poorly. She is a person I respected as time went on as she accepted the natural aging process and didn’t go in for the multiple surgeries. She seems to have led a peaceful, good life in Idaho in a good marriage with nice family relationships. When people overcome hardships it should be lauded. A quote from her, “As much as I loathe this aging thing, I’m beginning to recognize that I am now a healthier person in terms of self-worth and knowing who I am and where I fit in the world. That’s been a good trade-off for the wrinkles.”
when foreigners do foolish things in this country,
Either they didn’t get pregnant “at the same time,” but in the same general time frame; or, one baby was early and one was late, or both.
Sharon W:
==
Few people have cosmetic surgery.
==
Men lose their hair. Men get sloppy. Men and women get fat. Women make wretched choices about wardrobe, hair, and eyewear. Patty Duke kept her weight down but made moderately wretched choices about her grooming and she had comparatively bad skin. It’s too bad, but that was the deal. She appeared in those ads for the Social Security Administration in 2009 and she could have passed for Wm. Schallert’s sister and Paul O’Keefe’s mother. She was 24 years younger that Wm. Schallert and five years older than Paul O’Keefe. North of 80% of the women of the 1946 birth cohort have had longer lifespans than she did, as did all four of her husbands, as did Wm. Schallert, Jean Byron, and Eddie Applegate, and as has Paul O’Keefe.
==
You find her confessionals more appealing than I do. Her mother and father crapped out on her (due to alcoholism and general dysfunction, by some accounts). Wm. Schallert attested her managers were a disturbing pair, though not to everything she said about them. Write your own memoir, play it straight, say it once, and don’t pretend your peregrinations between 19 and 40 were anyone’s doing but yours.
Sotomayor is a sad excuse for a Supreme Court Justice.
as a Latino, she embarasses me, do they want to make us look ridiculous, of ocasio cortez, the less said, the better,
does that demonstrate good reasoning ability, (i know she is trying to keep up the prog cause, but don’t embarass yourself,
Miguel, I don’t think her failings, or Ocasio Cortez’s, come from being Latino. I think they come from failure to use reason and learning. They don’t make Latinos look ridiculous, but only themselves.
the dire wolves, what could go wrong, wait till they bring back the wooley mammoths,
Yeah… that twin “squared” business is weird…
At some point…get your own life maybe.
Barry Meislin’s link has the first the first headline I’ve seen accurately describing what was done on the “dire wolves”, which are not dire wolves. They are grey wolves with some possibly dire-wolf-like traits added by editing the grey wolf DNA. It is nothing whatever like Jurassic Park and the grey wolves have no dire wolf DNA in them.
Of course TIME got it wrong with their deceptive cover and headline, and their article may well have been written by Colossal’s PR team.
I don’t think there’s much excuse for Gell-Mann amnesia, thirty-ish years since Michael Crichton popularized it. Assume that anything you see in legacy media is intended to deceive you at worst and is uncritical distribution of marketing at best.
In my Illinois high school in the 60s Jewish girls would get nose jobs during spring break, typically in their sophomore year.
Niketas Choniates, exactly. Just like how people attempting to “de-extinct” the wooly mammoth will likely result in an Indian Elephant with some Wooly Mammoth DNA inserted in key areas (so you’ll end up with what amounts to hairy Indian Elephants rather than proper Steppe Mammoths). It’s damn near impossible to fully reconstruct a genome from badly degraded DNA that’s been extracted from a bunch of frozen Mammoth mummies that have been sitting in permafrost bogs for eons.
Why is deextinction bad? I think it’s great, and very exciting, and I fully support and encourage it. I just want to live long enough to see mammoths walking the earth again, herds of them roaming the vast open plains of the northern states and Canada.
The switcheroo doesn’t work for people who know twins well.
The Thing was based on John Cambell’s novella Who Goes There, which was supposedly motivated by Cambell’s experience as a child with his mother’s twin, whom he could not recognize and who treated him differently.
NC and nonopod: so what? There are many good reasons for deextinction, but I won’t bore you with a long post on the subject. Suffice to say that it would be beneficial to our planet. And the flaws in the process will be worked out over time.
Yesterday and during the early overnight and morning hours, I couldn’t reach thenewneo. I think it yielded the message “This Connection Cannot Be Reached” IIRC (I thought I’d taken a screen cap, but a double device failed — thus it seems not.
It wasn’t just my tablet. Even my phone had the same result. That’s rare.
So in the wee morning hours, I checked the site “Is It Down Now.” It’s pings were up, it said — thus presumed reachable.
After p 8 hours later, I can reach this web site.
This leads me to conclude that there’s some local going on.
But it cannot go too far up the node changes because this is very selective, somehow unique. I had no trouble reaching over two or three dozen other web sites in this period.
Unless someone has some more useful deduction or knowledge, we shall call this problem…mysterious.
huxley, if you’re around, I recall having a discussion with you last fall about flu vaccines. Now there is a huge study out from the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio showing that people who got the flu vaccines in the fall of 2024 were 27% more likely to have documented flu cases than those who declined the shots.
Personally I wasn’t attempting to get into the moral/ethical/philosophical discussion about the good and/or bad of de-extinction. I was just commenting on the semantics of it all. Specifically, what exactly amounts to a true “de-extinction” of a species? Does inserting some DNA that was derrived from an extinct species into a close relative species to produce genetically novel offspring qualify as a “de-extinction”? Or does that result in something that’s a bit more of a hybrid at best?
Nonopod, look at it as a form of evolution. Like elephants evolving from the same origins as mammoths and mastodons. Like modern great cats evolving from sabre-tooth tigers. Like humans and great apes evolving from a common ancestor.
Ultimately, all life forms are hybrids.
And it would entail an increase in the diversity of life on earth. And that’s a good thing.
Most people don’t have cosmetic surgery, but among actresses it’s very common.
==
True, but I wasn’t comparing her to other actresses but to women-in-general.
==
You can spot actresses who have had the Joan Rivers treatment. Can you spot the one’s who have had more subtle work done? One actress who said she considered plastic surgery and decided against it was Diana Muldaur, believable because she’s been retired from screen acting for > 30 years; Jan Smithers has also been long retired. The first was eight years older than Patty Duke, the other three years younger. Both looked better than PD ca. 2010.
This twin thing has a real Mormon vibe to it.
@Chuck,
Fascinating! I did not know that. A bit of a horror fan here, and your story explains so many things about “who Goes There?”. Interestingly enough, there are two modern day adaptions of “The Thing”, one where it is first dug out of the ice by Norwegians, and the second, more famous one, where it escapes in the form of a sled dog to Kurt Russell and the gang. Both movies are called (confusingly) “The Thing”, and both are shown every year at the Antarctic station where the story takes place. (As a warning not to dig anything out of the ice, maybe? 😉
Regarding Patty Duke, yes, she suffered for years with Bi Polar Disorder, which used to be called manic depression, and that accounted for her supposedly “split personality”, the depressed/dignified Cathy and the funny/manic Patty. She sought many different treatments, until lithium finally gave her some relief. Bipolar disorder may account for the inspiration of “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” or what Stephen King called “the werewolf” in “Danes Macabre”. Not to mention the multitude of “evil twin” stories.
@Kate 4:11 pm
Here’s an article explaining the relative failure of the recent flu vaccine:
______________________________
Landmark Cleveland Clinic Study Finds Flu Vaccine Ineffective—And Possibly Harmful—for Working Adults in 2024-2025 Season
This hard-hitting real-world analysis suggests the 2024–2025 flu vaccine not only failed to protect working-age adults but may have increased their risk of infection. In an era of mounting skepticism and vaccine fatigue, public health authorities must reckon with data like this—not dismiss it. Annual flu vaccine strategies may need a serious rethink, particularly in years of poor strain matching. At minimum, real-time effectiveness tracking should become a national imperative, not an afterthought.
One might question Cleveland Clinic’s impartiality about the regular flu vaccine.
¯\_(-,-)_/¯ it takes all sort to make the world .
@BJ, the first version was called ‘The Thing from Another World’ and had the old science fiction B movie standby, Ken Tobey, as the star. And it also featured James Arness – later, sheriff Matt Dillon – as ‘The Thing’. He was 6’7″, so he was a convincing monster.
@Aggie,
Yes, you’re right, the first movie adaption of “Who Goes There?” was called “The Thing From Another World” was from the 1950s, starring James Arness as “a giant carrot”, as Stephen King put it in “Danse Macabre”, and subconscious paranoia about (quite literally) the Cold War. I haven’t seen that one, though I have seen the 1982 Kurt Russell version (which tracks the original story more closely) and the 2011 “prequel” to the 1982 movie.
Now, if you can follow all that, I’d like you to manage my stock portfolio. 😉
Re: “The Thing From Another World” (1951)
Aggie, BJ:
I just wanted to add that this is emphatically a classic Howard Hawks film. The director of “To Have and Have Not” and “Hatari.”
Which means it is like an old B&W WW II film except they are in the Arctic battling a giant carrot from another world.
But the rest of it is all bluff, manly talk and some flirting around between the Handsome Captain and the Pretty But No Nonsense Girl, which sounds almost bizarre 70 years later.
huxley, thanks for the flu vaccine research. The article doesn’t say if they’re working on it as an mRNA injection, although it does mention the proteins they’re using, which makes it sound as if it may. But then it talks about a nasal swab rather than an injection.
On the negative effect of this year’s flu vaccine, I wonder if previous studies have been able to so extensively study non-vaccine subjects. This study was a captive audience: all Cleveland Clinic employees.
BIG SCANDAL is coming. Benny Johnson collects the ‘Big Story’ is coming soon assertions from Press Secretary Leavitt, Trump, and Musk, and Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchet, who is on the House DOGE committee.
He says the indications, including, Musk’s sarcastic innuendo at Dem. Minority Leader on X.com implies what’s it about will result in mass resignation and prosecutions of Democrat elected officials.
Burchet momentarily mentions California officials in this bind but not prosecuted —- yet, it seems. Grifting off Federal assets or receiving funds from China — probably more crime.
As Musk told apparently the DOGE committee in secret testimony, he’s got the financial receipts to back it up.
Thanks for that. I am skeptical, because we’ve heard a lot of rumors of misdeeds in Washington going unpunished, but I would be happy to be proven wrong in this case.
@Huxley,
Thanks! I did not know that Howard Hawks was the director of “The Thing From Another World”. Now I’ll definitely have to add it to my watch list!
And lol! Yes, it would be quite bizarre to watch Handsome Captain and Pretty But No Nonsense Girl juxtaposed with the paranoia and horror of the two more recent movies of “The Thing”. There are a couple of women in the Norwegian crew “prequel”, but they’re too busy hunting down the Thing to flirt with anyone. 😉
@ Aggie > “This twin thing has a real Mormon vibe to it.”
Actually, no.
That perception comes from tv shows and lurid exposés of apostate sects.
I know two families who had multiple twins among their siblings (which is not all that unusual when you have 9-12 kids in a family), and none of them married other twins.
Or even multiple spouses.
We do have very close family relationships, though, for the most part.
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TabletMag, Mike Doran, “The King’s Foils“: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/kings-foils-donald-trump-foreign-policy
The plain rule? Don’t be a chump; leave that mission to your adversaries.
Its a broad coalition reagan had wets like richard burt and hard liners like wolfowitz and perle at state for instance
In central america enders vs abrams on other issues
The twins story is fun, but a little creepy.
Hope they stay happy forever and don’t end up getting divorced together.
Wasn’t this the old Patty Duke Show premise?
Dow up 1400 at this point, and S&P up 194.
Darles: Identical cousins. A twist on this was Samantha vs. Serena in the old Bewitched series.
Wasn’t this the old Patty Duke Show premise?
==
William Schallert interviewed on the subject said the creators of the show had noticed Patty Duke had two distinct sides to her personality so they came up with the idea of ‘identical cousins’ so those two sides could be made use of to drive the plot and did not mind that it was biological nonsense. They were supposedly ‘identical’ because their fathers were identical twins. (Their mothers were unrelated to each other). They’d have been more closely related than 1st cousins commonly are, but not identical. Had their mothers been identical twins, they’d have been as closely related as full siblings (who are not typically impossible to tell apart).
==
Amusing show, to be sure. Pity Patty Duke was so erratic in her young adult years and aged so badly after she turned 40.
back of the book section,
https://x.com/amuse/status/1909597625470304438
Art–I don’t agree that Patty Duke aged poorly. She is a person I respected as time went on as she accepted the natural aging process and didn’t go in for the multiple surgeries. She seems to have led a peaceful, good life in Idaho in a good marriage with nice family relationships. When people overcome hardships it should be lauded. A quote from her, “As much as I loathe this aging thing, I’m beginning to recognize that I am now a healthier person in terms of self-worth and knowing who I am and where I fit in the world. That’s been a good trade-off for the wrinkles.”
meanwhile on another front,
https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1909601689365062080
this is the ridiculous dissent to a solid concurrence
Maybe I missed something, but if they got pregnant at the same time, how come the kids were born three months apart ?
One was retarded.
don’t play stupid games,
https://x.com/TreyYingst/status/1909271215132323908
when foreigners do foolish things in this country,
Either they didn’t get pregnant “at the same time,” but in the same general time frame; or, one baby was early and one was late, or both.
Sharon W:
==
Few people have cosmetic surgery.
==
Men lose their hair. Men get sloppy. Men and women get fat. Women make wretched choices about wardrobe, hair, and eyewear. Patty Duke kept her weight down but made moderately wretched choices about her grooming and she had comparatively bad skin. It’s too bad, but that was the deal. She appeared in those ads for the Social Security Administration in 2009 and she could have passed for Wm. Schallert’s sister and Paul O’Keefe’s mother. She was 24 years younger that Wm. Schallert and five years older than Paul O’Keefe. North of 80% of the women of the 1946 birth cohort have had longer lifespans than she did, as did all four of her husbands, as did Wm. Schallert, Jean Byron, and Eddie Applegate, and as has Paul O’Keefe.
==
You find her confessionals more appealing than I do. Her mother and father crapped out on her (due to alcoholism and general dysfunction, by some accounts). Wm. Schallert attested her managers were a disturbing pair, though not to everything she said about them. Write your own memoir, play it straight, say it once, and don’t pretend your peregrinations between 19 and 40 were anyone’s doing but yours.
Sotomayor is a sad excuse for a Supreme Court Justice.
as a Latino, she embarasses me, do they want to make us look ridiculous, of ocasio cortez, the less said, the better,
does that demonstrate good reasoning ability, (i know she is trying to keep up the prog cause, but don’t embarass yourself,
Miguel, I don’t think her failings, or Ocasio Cortez’s, come from being Latino. I think they come from failure to use reason and learning. They don’t make Latinos look ridiculous, but only themselves.
look what we have here
https://x.com/mypetjawa/status/1909591791596085364
he’s a sizable donor to Arabist lobbies like the middle east institute
Creepy video. Live in the same house?
Does one set of twins ever pull the switcheroo?
https://twitchy.com/videos/2025/04/08/joe-mikas-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-morning-n2411112
Cornhead:
The switcheroo doesn’t work for people who know twins well.
Art Deco:
Most people don’t have cosmetic surgery, but among actresses it’s very common.
I KNOW what to say about this….
(How anyone might have thought this was a good idea is beyond me….)
“New genetically engineered wolves were created to resemble the dire wolf, extinct for 10,000 years”—
https://www.mlive.com/news/2025/04/new-genetically-engineered-wolves-were-created-to-resemble-the-dire-wolf-extinct-for-10000-years.html
File under: Jurassic Pack.
the dire wolves, what could go wrong, wait till they bring back the wooley mammoths,
Yeah… that twin “squared” business is weird…
At some point…get your own life maybe.
Barry Meislin’s link has the first the first headline I’ve seen accurately describing what was done on the “dire wolves”, which are not dire wolves. They are grey wolves with some possibly dire-wolf-like traits added by editing the grey wolf DNA. It is nothing whatever like Jurassic Park and the grey wolves have no dire wolf DNA in them.
Of course TIME got it wrong with their deceptive cover and headline, and their article may well have been written by Colossal’s PR team.
I don’t think there’s much excuse for Gell-Mann amnesia, thirty-ish years since Michael Crichton popularized it. Assume that anything you see in legacy media is intended to deceive you at worst and is uncritical distribution of marketing at best.
In my Illinois high school in the 60s Jewish girls would get nose jobs during spring break, typically in their sophomore year.
Niketas Choniates, exactly. Just like how people attempting to “de-extinct” the wooly mammoth will likely result in an Indian Elephant with some Wooly Mammoth DNA inserted in key areas (so you’ll end up with what amounts to hairy Indian Elephants rather than proper Steppe Mammoths). It’s damn near impossible to fully reconstruct a genome from badly degraded DNA that’s been extracted from a bunch of frozen Mammoth mummies that have been sitting in permafrost bogs for eons.
Why is deextinction bad? I think it’s great, and very exciting, and I fully support and encourage it. I just want to live long enough to see mammoths walking the earth again, herds of them roaming the vast open plains of the northern states and Canada.
The Thing was based on John Cambell’s novella Who Goes There, which was supposedly motivated by Cambell’s experience as a child with his mother’s twin, whom he could not recognize and who treated him differently.
NC and nonopod: so what? There are many good reasons for deextinction, but I won’t bore you with a long post on the subject. Suffice to say that it would be beneficial to our planet. And the flaws in the process will be worked out over time.
Yesterday and during the early overnight and morning hours, I couldn’t reach thenewneo. I think it yielded the message “This Connection Cannot Be Reached” IIRC (I thought I’d taken a screen cap, but a double device failed — thus it seems not.
It wasn’t just my tablet. Even my phone had the same result. That’s rare.
So in the wee morning hours, I checked the site “Is It Down Now.” It’s pings were up, it said — thus presumed reachable.
After p 8 hours later, I can reach this web site.
This leads me to conclude that there’s some local going on.
But it cannot go too far up the node changes because this is very selective, somehow unique. I had no trouble reaching over two or three dozen other web sites in this period.
Unless someone has some more useful deduction or knowledge, we shall call this problem…mysterious.
huxley, if you’re around, I recall having a discussion with you last fall about flu vaccines. Now there is a huge study out from the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio showing that people who got the flu vaccines in the fall of 2024 were 27% more likely to have documented flu cases than those who declined the shots.
https://x.com/AlexBerenson/status/1909598105705591170
Personally I wasn’t attempting to get into the moral/ethical/philosophical discussion about the good and/or bad of de-extinction. I was just commenting on the semantics of it all. Specifically, what exactly amounts to a true “de-extinction” of a species? Does inserting some DNA that was derrived from an extinct species into a close relative species to produce genetically novel offspring qualify as a “de-extinction”? Or does that result in something that’s a bit more of a hybrid at best?
Nonopod, look at it as a form of evolution. Like elephants evolving from the same origins as mammoths and mastodons. Like modern great cats evolving from sabre-tooth tigers. Like humans and great apes evolving from a common ancestor.
Ultimately, all life forms are hybrids.
And it would entail an increase in the diversity of life on earth. And that’s a good thing.
Most people don’t have cosmetic surgery, but among actresses it’s very common.
==
True, but I wasn’t comparing her to other actresses but to women-in-general.
==
You can spot actresses who have had the Joan Rivers treatment. Can you spot the one’s who have had more subtle work done? One actress who said she considered plastic surgery and decided against it was Diana Muldaur, believable because she’s been retired from screen acting for > 30 years; Jan Smithers has also been long retired. The first was eight years older than Patty Duke, the other three years younger. Both looked better than PD ca. 2010.
This twin thing has a real Mormon vibe to it.
@Chuck,
Fascinating! I did not know that. A bit of a horror fan here, and your story explains so many things about “who Goes There?”. Interestingly enough, there are two modern day adaptions of “The Thing”, one where it is first dug out of the ice by Norwegians, and the second, more famous one, where it escapes in the form of a sled dog to Kurt Russell and the gang. Both movies are called (confusingly) “The Thing”, and both are shown every year at the Antarctic station where the story takes place. (As a warning not to dig anything out of the ice, maybe? 😉
Regarding Patty Duke, yes, she suffered for years with Bi Polar Disorder, which used to be called manic depression, and that accounted for her supposedly “split personality”, the depressed/dignified Cathy and the funny/manic Patty. She sought many different treatments, until lithium finally gave her some relief. Bipolar disorder may account for the inspiration of “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” or what Stephen King called “the werewolf” in “Danes Macabre”. Not to mention the multitude of “evil twin” stories.
@Kate 4:11 pm
Here’s an article explaining the relative failure of the recent flu vaccine:
______________________________
Landmark Cleveland Clinic Study Finds Flu Vaccine Ineffective—And Possibly Harmful—for Working Adults in 2024-2025 Season
This hard-hitting real-world analysis suggests the 2024–2025 flu vaccine not only failed to protect working-age adults but may have increased their risk of infection. In an era of mounting skepticism and vaccine fatigue, public health authorities must reckon with data like this—not dismiss it. Annual flu vaccine strategies may need a serious rethink, particularly in years of poor strain matching. At minimum, real-time effectiveness tracking should become a national imperative, not an afterthought.
https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/landmark-cleveland-clinic-study-finds-flu-vaccine-ineffectiveand-possibly-harmfulfor-working-adults-in-2024-2025-season-84b3b608
______________________________
The yearly flu vaccine has always been hit or miss. Which I haven’t found inspiring. But negative effectiveness is new.
FWIW the study isn’t yet peer-reviewed.
Also I ran into this:
–“Cleveland Clinic’s Groundbreaking Universal Vaccine Could End Flu Season Woes”
https://scitechdaily.com/cleveland-clinics-groundbreaking-universal-vaccine-could-end-flu-season-woes/
One might question Cleveland Clinic’s impartiality about the regular flu vaccine.
¯\_(-,-)_/¯ it takes all sort to make the world .
@BJ, the first version was called ‘The Thing from Another World’ and had the old science fiction B movie standby, Ken Tobey, as the star. And it also featured James Arness – later, sheriff Matt Dillon – as ‘The Thing’. He was 6’7″, so he was a convincing monster.
@Aggie,
Yes, you’re right, the first movie adaption of “Who Goes There?” was called “The Thing From Another World” was from the 1950s, starring James Arness as “a giant carrot”, as Stephen King put it in “Danse Macabre”, and subconscious paranoia about (quite literally) the Cold War. I haven’t seen that one, though I have seen the 1982 Kurt Russell version (which tracks the original story more closely) and the 2011 “prequel” to the 1982 movie.
Now, if you can follow all that, I’d like you to manage my stock portfolio. 😉
Re: “The Thing From Another World” (1951)
Aggie, BJ:
I just wanted to add that this is emphatically a classic Howard Hawks film. The director of “To Have and Have Not” and “Hatari.”
Which means it is like an old B&W WW II film except they are in the Arctic battling a giant carrot from another world.
But the rest of it is all bluff, manly talk and some flirting around between the Handsome Captain and the Pretty But No Nonsense Girl, which sounds almost bizarre 70 years later.
huxley, thanks for the flu vaccine research. The article doesn’t say if they’re working on it as an mRNA injection, although it does mention the proteins they’re using, which makes it sound as if it may. But then it talks about a nasal swab rather than an injection.
On the negative effect of this year’s flu vaccine, I wonder if previous studies have been able to so extensively study non-vaccine subjects. This study was a captive audience: all Cleveland Clinic employees.
BIG SCANDAL is coming. Benny Johnson collects the ‘Big Story’ is coming soon assertions from Press Secretary Leavitt, Trump, and Musk, and Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchet, who is on the House DOGE committee.
He says the indications, including, Musk’s sarcastic innuendo at Dem. Minority Leader on X.com implies what’s it about will result in mass resignation and prosecutions of Democrat elected officials.
Burchet momentarily mentions California officials in this bind but not prosecuted —- yet, it seems. Grifting off Federal assets or receiving funds from China — probably more crime.
As Musk told apparently the DOGE committee in secret testimony, he’s got the financial receipts to back it up.
WATCH THIS SPACE, as they once used to say on billboards!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5Wf9uO0zzA
TJ:
Thanks for that. I am skeptical, because we’ve heard a lot of rumors of misdeeds in Washington going unpunished, but I would be happy to be proven wrong in this case.
@Huxley,
Thanks! I did not know that Howard Hawks was the director of “The Thing From Another World”. Now I’ll definitely have to add it to my watch list!
And lol! Yes, it would be quite bizarre to watch Handsome Captain and Pretty But No Nonsense Girl juxtaposed with the paranoia and horror of the two more recent movies of “The Thing”. There are a couple of women in the Norwegian crew “prequel”, but they’re too busy hunting down the Thing to flirt with anyone. 😉
@ Aggie > “This twin thing has a real Mormon vibe to it.”
Actually, no.
That perception comes from tv shows and lurid exposés of apostate sects.
I know two families who had multiple twins among their siblings (which is not all that unusual when you have 9-12 kids in a family), and none of them married other twins.
Or even multiple spouses.
We do have very close family relationships, though, for the most part.