And you leave it to amateurs ?!
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Melania is demanding a refund. After all, she only gave the guy one job ....
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What the Republicans Blaming Democrats for Trump’s Shooting Are Really Up To
This response is a trap. Don’t fall for it.
BY EMILY TAMKINOn Saturday night, mere hours after former U.S. President Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio tweeted, “Today is not just some isolated incident. The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led directly to President Trump’s attempted assassination.”
Donald Trump Jr. tweeted on Sunday, “Don’t tell me they didn’t know exactly what they were doing with this crap. Calling my dad a ‘dictator’ and a ‘threat to Democracy’ wasn’t some one off comment. It has been the *MAIN MESSAGE* of the Biden-Kamala campaign and Democrats across the country!!!” CNN contributor and Republican political consultant Scott Jennings offered, “The rhetoric around him over the last few weeks, that if he wins an election our country will end, our democracy will end, it’s the last election we’ll ever have. These things have consequences.”
These tweets and statements were an irresponsible rush to judgment as the story was still developing. (For example, it emerged on Sunday that the shooter was a registered Republican.) But worse than that, in making these comments, Vance and Co. were encouraging the very thing that they’re pretending to criticize: division and targeting of political enemies. What’s more, the comments are an attempt to use political violence to chill criticism of a political ideology that has itself inspired or been connected to violence.
Similar tactics have been used recently elsewhere in the world: Earlier this year ....
A Common Response to Trump’s Shooting Is a Trap. Don’t Fall for It.
Some Republicans are playing a cynical, dangerous game.
This isn't the best example, but the liars that tell these lies must know that at least some of them are not true.
But so many have caught the Trump contagion, even Vance started out not buying the Trump story. Now he's the VP nominee.
It's reminiscent of several bad sci-fi plots I've encountered. The original Invasion of the Body Snatchers comes to mind.
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Sharks off Brazil coast test positive for cocaine
George Wright - BBC News / Tue, July 23, 2024 at 6:26 AM EDT·1 min read
Sharks off Brazil coast test positive for cocaine
Sharks taken from the shores near Rio de Janeiro have tested for high levels of cocaine.
The reason Western European leaders are so alarmed about the prospect of 4 more years of Trump is their memory is still fresh from the previous 4 years of Trump.
Goes a little deeper than that.
They're trying to find a safe path to navigate through a world with 3 powerful dictatorships:
- China
- Russia
- The United States of America.
Will President of the United States Kamala Harris be the one to save the world?
If Trump beats her in November, the answer is probably not.
Goes a little deeper than that.
They're trying to find a safe path to navigate through a world with 3 powerful dictatorships:
- China
- Russia
- The United States of America.
Will President of the United States Kamala Harris be the one to save the world?
If Trump beats her in November, the answer is probably not.
How Biden's Gaza pier project unraveled
The pier mission, which was formally ended last week, was the most controversial of the U.S. military's attempts to help contain the fallout from the Israel-Hamas war that erupted on Oct. 7, 2023, and has drawn criticism from Biden's Republican critics and many current and former aid workers. https://www.reuters.com/
Biden ordering construction of a temporary port to provide emergency supplies helped lend the appearance of U.S. policy balance between Israel & Palestine.
The temporary port failed.
BUT !
Does that matter? Is the fact Biden tried it enough to assuage Palestinian accusations?
The pier mission, which was formally ended last week, was the most controversial of the U.S. military's attempts to help contain the fallout from the Israel-Hamas war that erupted on Oct. 7, 2023, and has drawn criticism from Biden's Republican critics and many current and former aid workers. https://www.reuters.com/
The U.S. feeds Israel with war matériel, while humans, Arabs, Palestinians suffer, starve.
Biden ordering construction of a temporary port to provide emergency supplies helped lend the appearance of U.S. policy balance between Israel & Palestine.
The temporary port failed.
BUT !
Does that matter? Is the fact Biden tried it enough to assuage Palestinian accusations?
Canada Taking Over The World !
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Didn't Trebek have a double doctorate?
Ken Jennings seems to be doing OK.
BUT !
A forever stamp ? Perhaps USPS isn't quite xenophobic enough?
Late 'Jeopardy!' host Alex Trebek honored with USPS 'Forever stamp'
New stamps feature the game show's classic answer-and-question format
By Sydney Borchers Fox News / Published July 24, 2024 3:15pm EDT
Late 'Jeopardy!' host Alex Trebek honored with USPS 'Forever stamp'
In honor of the life and legacy of Alex Trebek, the USPS has created a new "Forever stamp" celebrating the game show host, with 20 stamps paying homage to the show's classic aesthetic.
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Didn't Trebek have a double doctorate?
Ken Jennings seems to be doing OK.
BUT !
A forever stamp ? Perhaps USPS isn't quite xenophobic enough?
Chinese and Russian bombers patrolling off Alaska raise concerns about growing military cooperation
LOLITA C. BALDOR and DIDI TANG / Updated Thu, July 25, 2024 at 6:58 PM EDTRussia China Air Patrol
ASSOCIATED PRESSWASHINGTON (AP) — Russian and Chinese bombers flew together for the first time in international airspace off the coast of Alaska, in a new show of expanding military cooperation that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday raises concerns.
The flights Wednesday were not seen as a threat, and the bombers were tracked and intercepted by U.S. and Canadian fighter jets. But it was the first time that Chinese bomber aircraft have flown within the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone. And it was the first time Chinese and Russian aircraft have taken off from the same base in northeast Russia.
“This is a relationship that we have been concerned about throughout — mostly because we’re concerned about China providing support to Russia’s illegal and unnecessary war in Ukraine," Austin told reporters.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, detected, tracked and intercepted the two Russian Tupolev Tu-95 long-range bombers and the two Chinese H-6 bombers. The aircraft, said Austin, didn't enter U.S. airspace and only got within about 200 miles (320 kilometers) of the coast.
They were, however, within the ADIZ, which begins where sovereign airspace ends, and aircraft must be easily identifiable and file flight plans for authorization in order to meet national security requirements.
China and Russia both acknowledged what they called a joint patrol over the Bering Sea, which divides Russia and Alaska.
Their growing military relationship has triggered concerns both among NATO allies and with nations in the Asia-Pacific. NATO allies have called China a “decisive enabler” of Russia’s war against Ukraine through its “no-limits partnership” with Russia and its large-scale support for Russia’s defense industrial base.
The allies issues a sternly worded statement, approved by the 32 members at their summit in Washington earlier this month.
Chinese and Russian bombers patrolling off Alaska raise concerns about growing military cooperation
Russian and Chinese bombers flew together for the first time in international airspace off the coast of Alaska, in a new show of expanding military cooperation that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday raises concerns. “This is a relationship that we have been concerned about throughout...
A China / Russia alliance falls short of reason to celebrate in the West.
But the notion of Russian bomber pilots speaking broken Chinese with Russian accents may sound almost charming.
Compounding the alarm in Western Europe, the Trump threat of forcing our current European allies and trading partners to deal with three instead of two major formidable military global antagonists.
Trump has already publicly expressed contempt for NATO, suggesting U.S. withdrawal. Mere words to some, but Trump executed on similar threat, unilaterally withdrawing the U.S.
from the multi-nation Iran nuclear agreement between Britain, France, Germany, China, Russia, U.S. & Iran.
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Three men — including ex-Marines — sentenced for involvement in plot to destroy power grid
BY MAKIYA SEMINERAThree men with connections to white supremacist groups were sentenced Thursday in federal court after plotting to destroy a power grid in the northwestern United States, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Paul James Kryscuk, 38; Liam Collins, 25; and Justin Wade Hermanson, 25, were all sentenced for their yearslong involvement in a scheme to strike the power grid as part of a larger, violent extremist plot, according to a Justice Department news release. Two of the men, Collins and Hermanson, were members of the same U.S. Marine unit at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina, during the planning, a federal indictment shows.
Collins received the longest sentence of 10 years in prison for aiding and abetting the interstate transportation of unregistered firearms. Kryscuk received a sentence of six and a half years for conspiracy to destroy an energy facility, and Hermanson was sentenced to one year and nine months for conspiracy to ...
Three men — including ex-Marines — sentenced for involvement in plot to destroy power grid
Three men have been sentenced in federal court for their involvement in a plan to strike a power grid in the northwestern United States.
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I can't say for certain if they were with the United States Meringues.
But this trio are obviously lemons.
I vote we juice them !
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Yes. This post was indeed inspired by "lemon meringue pie". mmmm yummy
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Further to #137
By Cyd Zeigler
Harrison Butker is not very happy with the organizers of the Olympics Opening Ceremony in Paris.
The Kansas City Chiefs kicker — who famously shared his sexist and homophobic beliefs during a graduation speech a couple months ago — posted a video on his Instagram Stories of a moment from the Opening Ceremony that paid homage to the famous Last Supper painting by Leonardo da Vinci.
Butker’s caption: “This is crazy”
He then took to X to lecture everyone about it with a passage from ....
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Of course if he wasn't such an idiot
Harrison Butker slams drag queens at the Olympics Opening Ceremony, makes a fool of himself. Again.
Harrison Butker is at it again, this time attacking drag queens for recreating a 600-year-old painting by Leonardo da Vinci.By Cyd Zeigler
Harrison Butker is not very happy with the organizers of the Olympics Opening Ceremony in Paris.
The Kansas City Chiefs kicker — who famously shared his sexist and homophobic beliefs during a graduation speech a couple months ago — posted a video on his Instagram Stories of a moment from the Opening Ceremony that paid homage to the famous Last Supper painting by Leonardo da Vinci.
Butker’s caption: “This is crazy”
He then took to X to lecture everyone about it with a passage from ....
Full article here
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Of course if he wasn't such an idiot
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S2,
You know though bigotry is far from inconsequential, it has no basis other than silliness.
#217 & #218 have inspired me to wonder:
Are the MAGAs on these ridiculous tangents as a political stratagem? When Democrats are squabbling over such nonsense, they're not addressing matters of import including:
- support to help Ukraine defeat Russia
- U.S. / Mexico border security
- massacre suppression
- etc
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As if you needed proof that he's a phony
Look closely
Look closely