[Headtopics] WATCH: President Trump was once a huge fan of Gen. Mattis — and here's the video to prove it
"The slide of the United States into illiberalism may well have begun on June 1, 2020," retired Marine Gen. John Allen wrote in a scathing op-ed. "Remember the date."
"Donald Trump expressed only the barest of condolences at the murder of George Floyd, but he also said nothing about the fundamental and underlying reasons for the unrest: systemic racism and inequality, a historic absence of respect, and a denial of justice," Allen wrote. "Yes, he mentioned George Floyd, but he did not touch on long-standing societal problems at all. He sees the crisis as a black problem — not as something to be addressed by creating the basis and impetus for a move toward social justice, but as an opportunity to use force to portray himself as a ’law and order’ president.
[The Hill] Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a civil rights icon and former confidant of Martin Luther King Jr., on Thursday offered praise to those participating in the nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd.
"It was very moving to see hundreds of thousands of people from all over America and around the world take to the streets to speak up, to speak out, to get into what I call ’good trouble,’ or to get in the way," Lewis said on CBS’ "This Morning," referencing a phrase he frequently uses in reference to political activism. "And because of the action of young and old, black, white, Latino, Asian-American and Native Americans ... because people cried and prayed, people would never forget what happened, and how it happened."
"The way this young man died, watching the video, it made me so sad," Lewis said of footage of Floyd’s death. "It was so painful. It made me cry. I kept saying to myself, how many more? How many more young black men will be murdered? The madness must stop."
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Too bad retired St. Louis Police Captain David Dorn and a handful of other policemen slain in the unrest, are no longer around to comment on Rep. Lewis' statement.
If the Bee spoke Russian
[The Peoples Cube] According to reports, in cities around the US bricks are being delivered to riot locations and used to destroy property.
We decided to take a closer look and here's what we found.
[StrategicCulture] Germany’s federal government and mainstream media are engaged in damage control after a report that challenges the established Corona narrative leaked from the interior ministry.
Some of the report key passages are:
The dangerousness of Covid-19 was overestimated: probably at no point did the danger posed by the new virus go beyond the normal level.
The people who die from Corona are essentially those who would statistically die this year, because they have reached the end of their lives and their weakened bodies can no longer cope with any random everyday stress (including the approximately 150 viruses currently in circulation).
Worldwide, within a quarter of a year, there has been no more than 250,000 deaths from Covid-19, compared to 1.5 million deaths [25,100 in Germany] during the influenza wave 2017/18.
The danger is obviously no greater than that of many other viruses. There is no evidence that this was more than a false alarm.
A reproach could go along these lines: During the Corona crisis the State has proved itself as one of the biggest producers of Fake News.
So far, so bad. But it gets worse.
The report focuses on the "manifold and heavy consequences of the Corona measures" and warns that these are "grave".
More people are dying because of state-imposed Corona-measures than they are being killed by the virus.
The reason is a scandal in the making:
A Corona-focused German healthcare system is postponing life-saving surgery and delaying or reducing treatment for non-Corona patients.
Berlin in Denial Mode. The scientists fight back.
Initially, the government tried to dismiss the report as "the work of one employee", and its contents as "his own opinion" — while the journalists closed ranks, no questions asked, with the politicians.
But the 93-pages report titled "Analysis of the Crisis Management" has been drafted by a scientific panel appointed by the interior ministry and composed by external medical experts from several German universities.
The report was the initiative of a department of the interior ministry called Unit KM4 and in charge with the "Protection of critical infrastructures".
This is also where the German official turned whistleblower, Stephen Kohn, work(ed), and from where he leaked it to the media.
The authors of the report issued a joint press release already on Mai 11th, berating the government for ignoring expert advise, and asking for the interior minister to officially comment upon the experts joint statement:
"Therapeutic and preventive measures should never bring more harm than the illness itself. Their aim should be to protect the risk groups, without endegearing the availibilty of medical care and the health of the whole population, as it is unfortunately occurring"
"We in the scientific and medical praxis are experiencing the secondary damages of the Corona-measures on our patients on a dialy basis."
"We therefore ask the Federal Ministry of the Interior, to comment upon our press release, and we hope for a pertinent discussion regarding the [Corona] measures, one that leads to the best possible solution for the whole population"
At the time of writing, the German government had yet to react.
But the facts are — sadly — vindicating the medical experts’ worries.
On Mai 23 the German newspaper Das Bild titled: "Dramatic consequences of the Corona-Measures: 52,000 Cancer Ops delayed."
Inside, a aeading medical doctor warns that "we will feel the side-effects of the Corona crisis for years".
Shooting the Whistleblower. Ignoring the Message.
As Der Spiegel reported on Mai 15th: "Stephen Kohn [the whistleblower] has since been suspended from duty. He was advised to obtain a lawyer and his work laptop was confiscated."
Kohn had originally leaked the report on May 9th to the liberal-conservative magazine Tichys Einblick one of Germany's most popular alternative media outlets....
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If it is true that the virus may have been around since November 2019, why weren't the county morgues just piling up with dead bodies and nursing homes dealing with some mystery killer affliction? Where was the "alarm"? There were roughly 2-3 months worth of flights out of China, no hint of people keeling over then. A plandemic or shamdemic indeed.
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I had something in early December of last year, something i had never had before. started with semi-sore throat and then moved quickly down to lungs. I never felt bad, in fact I worked through it. although when I took deep breaths I could hear 'rattling' in my lungs. I did use it as an excuse to opt out of a Christmas party, so there was that.
CoVid-19? who knows. But no one in the family has been sick since then, and my wife has been working and traveling by air during the entire 'lockdown'
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Not seeing the need for forever quarantine. Nazis...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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Many in our extended local family (including me) had a bad run of 'bronchitis' in late January/ early February this year. Sounds like same symptoms you had, Bob. And yes, at least one person from each nuclear group traveled about the country by air just prior.
I had low fever for 18-hrs, but felt better in about 3-4 days. The chest congestion hung around for a good 3-4 weeks, though. My oldest boy got it the worst. He was out for about 8 days, including high fever.
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I got "the flu" in early November. I have never had the flu in my life that I have noticed. Pneumonia, hell yes, every damned year since RVN. But I can usually shake it on my own, although a few times I needed medication. So from then it went flu-like, flu-ish, hurt all over and weak, pneumonia, then flu-ish again. By the end of March I was okay, although I lost some weight. I am still fine. I never went to the doctor, but he called me every few days, so we 'statused'.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike ||
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Not good #9. Scars the lungs. Seven years of that and COPD close behind. Two lungs to survive damage but in time you will be compromised. In my opinion it starts with sinus drainage. Control sinus you prevent infection spreading to ears, throat or lungs. When cleared up from sinus infection you must go 2-3 months without re-occurrence. Infection loves low oxygen levels, poor circulation, acid chemistry and normal body temperature. Loves porous bone in sinus and atrium of middle ear.
[Telegraph] A former head of MI6 has said he believes the coronavirus pandemic "started as an accident" when the virus escaped from a laboratory in China.
In an interview with The Telegraph, Sir Richard Dearlove said he had seen an "important" new scientific report suggesting the virus did not emerge naturally but was man-made by Chinese scientists.
The apparent discovery will raise the prospect of China paying "reparations" for the death and economic catastrophe wreaked upon the world, the former intelligence chief said. It comes as Beijing faces growing pressure to explain precisely how coronavirus first began to spread late last year.
International scientists have reached a near-unanimous consensus, however, that the virus emerged in animals — most likely bats or pangolins — before jumping to the human population....
[Alt-Market] Mass civil unrest is a cumbersome weapon for societal change; like an oversized caveman club made of oak. You can barely swing it, and when you do you might destroy an enemy with it but you could also unwittingly destroy innocent people at the same time. Once the weapon is in motion adjusting its direction or momentum becomes difficult.
I prefer the scalpel approach - Find the cancer and cut it out directly, rather than bashing at the whole body just to get at one tumor.
Another problem with protests and riots is that they often have no discernible goals, or they lose track of their goals almost immediately. When the initial protests started, they targeted the police precinct in Minneapolis which was home to the officers that killed George Floyd. In my view this was perfectly acceptable. At this stage a majority of Americans were on their side. Many conservatives and law enforcement officers even came out in support of these measures and admonished the actions that violated common police procedure and led to unnecessary death.
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[WSJ via Manhatten Institute] George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis has revived the Obama-era narrative that law enforcement is endemically racist. On Friday, Barack Obama tweeted that for millions of black Americans, being treated differently by the criminal justice system on account of race is "tragically, painfully, maddeningly ’normal.’ " Mr. Obama called on the police and the public to create a "new normal," in which bigotry no longer "infects our institutions and our hearts."
Joe Biden released a video the same day in which he asserted that all African-Americans fear for their safety from "bad police" and black children must be instructed to tolerate police abuse just so they can "make it home." That echoed a claim Mr. Obama made after the ambush murder of five Dallas officers in July 2016. During their memorial service, the president said African-American parents were right to fear that their children may be killed by police officers whenever they go outside.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz denounced the "stain . . . of fundamental, institutional racism" on law enforcement during a Friday press conference. He claimed blacks were right to dismiss promises of police reform as empty verbiage.
Posted by: Bobby ||
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Why didn't Mr. Obama do something about it when he was in power?
This is not a snarky comment--I genuinely hope for very good race relations and lament that Mr. Obama, who had a unique opportunity to make great strides in this area, did not.
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We had good and improving race relations under Bill Clinton and W.
They went downhill after 2009 and then went to hell in Obama's second term.
The pattern mirrors what happened between Eisenhowers presidency and LBJ's: left-lib presidents (unlike Bill Clinton) encourage grievances and raise expectations among young urban blacks to unrealistic levels.
Then a highly-publicized urban violence incident triggers these grievances and turns resentment and disappointment into violence. Then the left-lib president pours gas on the flames by pandering, as LBJ did after the 1965 riots and Obama did after 2013.
If any national leader bears responsibility for the anarchic violence we're now seeing, it's Pres. Trayvon-Coulda-Been-My-Son.
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Race relations improve when the economy improve,
Also most race relations are really things on the local level. There is only so much a President can do. Democrats have gotten away for years with blaming their own crap job on Washington DC.
[Money] America seems like it’s on the verge of collapse. But not the stock market.
On Monday, as cities around the U.S. grappled with clashes between racial justice protesters and police, and looting went all but unchecked, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 92 points. Tuesday it was up another 150 points in midday trading to 25,630, the highest point since mid-March.
The stock market’s placid reaction may seem incongruous at a time when, to anyone watching cable news or reading a newspaper, the U.S. appears to be in the middle of national emergency .
But while the stock market can at times seem like a daily national temperature gauge, investors (many of whom, it’s worth noting, aren’t American) don’t necessarily think the way the rest of us do.
With the caveat that no one knows exactly why the market does what it does, here’s why investors are likely ignoring the turmoil on U.S. streets.
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Yes, the profitable corporations that will not return to those hell hole areas will just see their EPS go up. And the cleared land will eventually be gentrified and returned to the tax rolls.
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We all know that antifa is backed by deep pocket leftists. If the right people can be made to squeal, the subrogation on riot damage claims will be - a riot!
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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Protests Are Raging in America's Biggest Cities. So Why Is The Stock Market Up?
Perhaps the torching of the 'Biggest Cities' is seen by the market as beneficial to the economy ?
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Rebuilding means cement and glass sales. Companies buying up depleted stocks. Massive rebuilding contracts. Wall Street has no morals about these sort of things.
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I think it's fairly simple. The rioting will not go on forever and the cessation of open hostilities may well signal the real start of a recovery. Ergo, if things are just that bad now, they are bound to change and probably for the better in the future so it pays to buy now for investors.
Kurt at TownHall
This riot crisis will pass, and then it’s nothing but bad choices ahead for Badfinger Biden, not that he realizes it. He’s too far gone and far too busy watching his stories on the tee-vee to negotiate the crucial strategic decisions he faces if he wants to win. Even if not he has not already disembarked the short bus in Seniletown, he’s at least wandering aimlessly through its suburbs. The calls he has to make — about reacting to the failing Antifa/Democrat insurrection, about picking a veep, and about how to handle the only guy who seemed to grow younger, healthier and sharper in the Oval Office — would not be easy one for someone on the ball, much less someone giggling as he chases a ball around his backyard.
The uprising by the Antifa-Democrat axis, where state and local Democrat politicians wink at the violent, militarized wing of their party’s criminal antics in order to intimidate the normal, is going to be a disaster for the Dems. Oh, the media wants to present it as this dire nightmare for Trump, but within 24 hours five people personally (putting aside online folks) told me they were going to become first time gun owners. I’ll take anecdotes over media narratives any day, as President Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit should have. The Secret Trump Vote on 11/3 is gonna be huge.
There were several factors that the bad guys (uh oh, assuming genders again!) failed to appreciate when they decided to exploit the protests. First, there was the sense of betrayal it would create. People agreed that the actions of the Minneapolis cops were unacceptable, but they also saw through the cynical effort to leverage that tragedy into an excuse for radical violence. The essential insincerity of Antifa and the Antifa-curious was confirmed when we saw black law enforcement officers dead on the ground and it was received with a collective shrug by the Dem pols, trust fund terrorists and kneeling suburban mommies who wail about their privilege.
...Biden’s big decision is how to react to the crisis. He could babble incoherently in a church — this was hours before Trump made it bad to be around churches — and he could read off a teleprompter, but it’s his strategy that’s the challenge. He has to take a stand, and threading the needle he needs to thread would be tough for someone who wasn’t a step or two away from long talks with invisible bunnies.
He can embrace law-and-order, but he gets nothing from that since Trump has captured that high ground. All Biden gets from that option is to alienate the radicals. Or he can continue with his coy embrace of these Antifa scumbags, which Trump will jam down his throats. Neither expands his base; both options shrink it in some way. Trump can only gain support from going law and order...unlike the Dems, he has no pro-chaos constituency.
And then there’s the vice-presidential choice. Amy Klobuchar’s going to be tossing dishes at the help because she’s out. Besides bearing the stink of Minnesota Democrats in general, she specifically failed to charge the killer cop the last time he tried to take out an unarmed black man. And Governor Karen from Michigan is out. Between her grotesque love of bossing folks around and her husband’s "Don’t you know who I am" antics, she’s also a person of pallor and modern anti-racism demands that people be evaluated by nothing but their race. Biden can’t choose Big Chief Warren despite her status as a make-believe minority because — and this is the saddest thing ever — she would overshadow him.
So, maybe he chooses Stacy Abrams, who has offered subtle and cryptic hints that perhaps she is interested in the job. Governor Abrams (D-Diabetes) would be a great choice in my view, but I’m biased because I want Trump to win.
This leaves the politically and otherwise flexible Kamala Harris. She checks the minority box, and they can certainly patch things up over her calling him a racist on a nationally televised debate stage. When he tells her he will "forgive and forget," she can be sure about the forgetting part. But Harris, the former prosecutor, has a record that actually allows Trump to slide to her left on criminal justice (she liked to lock up hopheads and condoned prosecutorial antics) as well as to her right (he supports the death penalty).
Who will Hoover’s dad choose? Will he remember who he chose the next day? Now, his advisors might well be expected to strongly recommend a candidate, but you know how stubborn weird old people get. I can definitely see him putting his foot unsteadily down for his choice of Stacy Abrams because she once brought him a yummy oatmeal cookie.
And then there’s going up against Trump. Have you seen him lately? He’s slimmer, and he looks like he’s glowing. Most presidents decay in office. Trump is thriving, and he’ll be going up against a guy who looks more like Jennifer Rubin every day.
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the uprising by the Antifa-Democrat axiswhere state and local Democrat politicians wink at the violent, militarized wing of their party’s criminal antics in order to intimidate the normal, ,
BLM-Antifa = IRA Provos
Democratic Party = Sinn Fein
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#2 - JFM: If I remember correctly, Jennifer Rubin is the Washington Post's so-called 'conservative voice'. I did read a few of her columns years ago, but I can't remember if I gave up on her or the Post first. I don't remember whether she has Nancy Pelosi looks, or not.
Good to see you again, mon ami!
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06/04/2020 17:14 Comments ||
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The only thing required of Biden is that he is not Trump, and that may be enough.
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A few percent, maybe, but more than 10%? I doubt it.
At this point only a magic 3rd quarter will save Trump.
I expect the U.S. economy to rebound, but jobs in the service industry will take a longer time to recover.
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I know you hate Trump but you're ignoring reality. Even the Dems' own top economists are expecting a strong economy and telling their party to try another tack.
As to "The Silent Majority," we've seen this movie before - again and again.
There is no way a goof like Biden can win unless he hits the jackpot with 1) suburban marrieds amd 2) white working-class Dems in MI PA and WI.
Few suburban parents are going to vote for the party of BLM-Antifa. Few working-class whites in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are going to vote for the "Defund the Police" party.
And few black men are going to be inspired to actually show up at the polls and vote for a senile, pathetic little old white man who supported aggressive policing throughout his 50-year career of buffoonery, lying and non-achievement.
But there are millions of Americans who are appallled by the violence and who will absolutely vote against anarchy and violence this fall.
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Prepare your "I F*cked up"
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A few percent, maybe, but more than 10%? I doubt it.
Don't know the situation in Germany, but here the polls tend to have a lot of bias which greatly reduces their value for prediction. Example: Hillary was the overwhelming favorite in the last election.
It helps to look at where the numbers are coming from, but even Nate Silver missed Trump becoming President.
At this point, probably best to think of them as battle-space preparation rather than statistics.
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Biden couldn’t beat my morbidly obese chihuahua by 10%
But Biden *is* still in the game. I find that so surprising that it makes me think there is something else going on - like using him as target to draw Trump's fire now but replacing him later.
Let us note for the record that E.C. correctly called Biden vs Warren for Dem candidate. I figured there was no way the Dems would pick a old, senile, white guy over a woke POC Vagino-American, but they picked the old, senile, white guy. What do I know?
#21
He's got enough delegates now to the finish line, barring a "Health Issue™. Dr. Jill will drag his post-rigor hairy-legged ass across the finish line
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[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.—In a bold, powerful statement to oppose Trump, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi solemnly tore up the Bible after Trump was seen holding one up in front of a church.
At a press conference, the Speaker of the House held up a Bible and then ripped it in two, declaring that she was against anything Trump was associated with.
"If Trump is for the Bible, then I am against it," she said as she struggled to rip the Bible in half. Finally, aides came to intervene, pre-ripping the spine of the Bible so it would be easier for her to tear. "All the books of the Bible are bad: Genesis, Joseph, the one with the big fish, even Hezekiah. We must stand against Trump's bigotry by ripping up anything he claims to be for."
"Yass, queen! Slay!" shouted her fans at the press conference as she finally managed to rip the Bible up. "You're my president!"
In a genius move, Trump then held up a Koran in front of a mosque, forcing Pelosi to tear up a Koran and alienate the left.
[Atlantic] James Mattis, the esteemed Marine general who resigned as secretary of defense in December 2018 to protest Donald Trump’s Syria policy, has, ever since, kept studiously silent about Trump’s performance as president. But he has now broken his silence, writing an extraordinary broadside in which he denounces the president for dividing the nation, and accuses him of ordering the U.S. military to violate the constitutional rights of American citizens. Perhaps the general would care to comment on, or explain the dynamic of the highly successful Trump rally.
"I have watched this week’s unfolding events, angry and appalled," Mattis writes. "The words ’Equal Justice Under Law’ are carved in the pediment of the United States Supreme Court. This is precisely what protesters are rightly demanding. It is a wholesome and unifying demand—one that all of us should be able to get behind. We must not be distracted by a small number of lawbreakers. The protests are defined by tens of thousands of people of conscience who are insisting that we live up to our values—our values as people and our values as a nation." He goes on, "We must reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitution."
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I, ___________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me
If he denounces the Commander in Chief who was/is elected by the people, he also denounces his oath of allegiance. Perhaps it is time for the general to find residence elsewhere.
It would appear that millions of American voters and hundreds of thousands of Trump political rally attendees disagree with the general's assessment.
The Deep State cadre would rather have you concentrate on the external threat, the Russian hoax, China virus, etc. The 'internal threat' is the Deep State's private playground.
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name one person whose rights the military has violated during this riot season?
I can find thousands of people whose rights, lives, businesses and property have been violated by Antifa Communists, Black Lives Matter racists and criminal opportunists. How Does Mattis propose to restore their rights, health, property and dignity?
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Somewhere in that Oath is something about enemies foreign and domestic...if you are going to fight them and they don’t wear uniforms but are have clearly stated they want to overthrow the government force and violence, tell me General, do you really want to counsel playing the mutiny card?
Since 1948 they've been employed as 'world policemen'. Its three generations on hand. They don't get to be senior officers if they're not globalists. Don't you recall the push back on using troops on the border?
Its that decision in '48 that has trashed the Constitution, not Trump. It was set up as a union of states, not a global enterprise and its structure was never intended to accommodate that.
#13
Let me see, was it Trump following the federal system and encouraging the locals to do something or was his bluff/threat that the Feds might do something if the locals didn't, or was it driving military vehicles through DC streets and using some in defense positions to secure monuments? Which of these actions threaten the Constitution?
Seems that without daily reports the General is a bit uninformed and if he just buys the liberal line on these things (especially after Obamagate has been exposed) he's got questionable judgement which makes me feel a bit better about his resignation.
#14
The day is coming where a newly elected President will just cashier them all and make them sign NDAs on the way out. One more good reason to not be tied up in forever wars.
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Methinks the Bradley Effect is getting more pronounced with each passing day.
The polls probably understate OrangeMan's real support by at least ten percent now.
Imagine you work for any one of the hundreds of companies whose CEOs are rushing to signal their sympathy for The Insurrection with their ridiculous weepy self-flagellating statements: are you really going to let anyone, even an anonymous pollster, know that you question whether it's wise to support anarchic violence?
If closet Trump Supporters were cowed before this madness, there must be twice as many now.
=> Gross up Trump's polling numbers by +10, +11 points
The evil genious of Obamagate was that they were investigating Trump before he took office and any firings would have been seen as attempts to undermine the investigation.
#18
I thought former military were supposed to quietly fade away. What's up with Gen. Mad Dog that he finds himself in the news cycle dissing his former boss?
#21
You guys have turned on so many of your own; Bush, Romney, McCain, Mattis, Rubio, and on and on, in seven months when Trump is gone you're not going to have anyone left. You think you're bitter now? Just wait...
#23
You guys have turned on so many of your own; Bush, Romney, McCain, Mattis, Rubio, and on and on, in seven months when Trump is gone you're not going to have anyone left. You think you're bitter now? Just wait...
Bitch, ain't it? We got wise to them. If their allegiance is to Xi Jinping instead of our own duly elected, democratically elected president, we'll get rid of them.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
06/04/2020 16:05 Comments ||
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We call it Draining the Swamp. Slowly but surely it is happening.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
06/04/2020 16:05 Comments ||
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Thor Ebbilet4842, conservatives tend to put military leaders up on a pedestal but we do not believe anyone is beyond criticism. Cult of Personality is a thing of the left.
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06/04/2020 17:08 Comments ||
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Everyone wearing a uniform made many compromises to get there. The grow beyond that or grow comfortable with it.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
06/04/2020 17:12 Comments ||
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/\MM. That is a little broad. I have agreed with damned near everything you have written today, but can't agree with that. NCO's, enlisted, company level officers are usually, but not uniformly (pun) have made no compromises other than giving up some of their rights as a citizen to protect the citizens of the United States. There was nothing to give but their service, to what I certainly thought was a greater good. Field grade, general officer grade, then your position is on firmer ground. It is more political in those grades, and the backstabbers do what they do. I find Mattis stomach-turning.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike ||
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#21 Concerned Conservative™
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#21 try Tom Cotton, Ted Cruz, Candace Owens for starters.
#31
Well, this is another "who else are they going to back?" moment. If they really feel Joy Behar and Cool Bear are their constituency (they aren't elected, so constituency has nothing to do with it) well, "say when."
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In the old days the best choices available on the Republican side were the country club lot we no longer support. But starting with the TEA Party years, the conservative Republican bench has grown deeper, broader, and younger, year after year. If Donald Trump is not reelected, we have plenty of others to choose from in 2022 and 2024, and they’ve seen how to fight effectively against Progressive games as well as the necessity of rooting out the Deep State.
The Democratic Party, much as they like to think of themselves as cutting edge revolutionaries, are actually the party of the elderly reactionaries, loudly and proudly demanding programs first proposed a century or more ago. “Learn to code,” they say to those who have lost jobs, because that is something they are not capable of, nor interested in, doing themselves, Meanwhile, all the Progressive coders at Facebook and Google and such have plenty of money with which to buy politicians, but completely lack the skills and outlook necessary to become politicians themselves. All they can become is Antifa, which doesn’t get them into the halls of power.
It's VDH
[NRO] His weaknesses are his strength, and he’s not running for the presidency.
It is now conventional punditry that should Joe Biden win in November, his vice president, in 1944-style, will sooner rather than later become president.
Puppy-blender in USA Today
Though the news is filled with stories of riots and a pandemic, the most transformative things going on at present are in a totally different sphere. One of those things is pretty obvious, the other less so.
The obvious transformation involves SpaceX’s successful launch of a human crew into orbit, the first such launch involving an American spacecraft in nearly a decade, and the first such launch ever by a commercial spacecraft. D. D. Harriman to the white courtesy phone
This is huge, but in a sense, nothing new: We were launching people into orbit over 50 years ago, after all. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule is bigger and fancier than a Gemini, but the mission profile is not all that different. And of course, our last mission to orbit, on board a space shuttle, was basically old hat itself.
But SpaceX is doing it for much less, and that’s revolutionary. To get a kilogram into orbit on the space shuttle costs $54,500. To do the same thing with SpaceX’s newest rocket, the Falcon 9, costs $2,720. That’s basically a twenty-fold reduction in cost.
Lots of things that are too expensive to do at $54,500 become doable at $2,720. And SpaceX isn’t standing still. Its Starship reusable rocket, under development now, is to cost a mere $2 million per launch, and Elon Musk says its cost per kilogram to orbit will be at least 10 times lower than the Falcon 9. There are a lot more things that become doable at $272 per kilogram. At those prices, things like space tourism, space hotels, lunar mines and asteroid mining become feasible. Unless, of course, commercial space companies will be subject to affirmative action quotas.
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Well, ULA and it's predecessors' business model was based on knowing the gummint would buy their overpriced one-use product. The game has changed now.
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As it exists now, Vulcan is still one use, but at least it doesn't have Russian engines. Still, ULA is falling further behind every day.
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Important to point out Boeing, Northrup, Raytheon et al. are all commercial companies. They have had cozy monopoly relationships with the US military and NASA, but they are still companies anyone can buy stock in.
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And SpaceX has gotten a few hundred billion from the taxpayer too. Just sayin.
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Sadly if this had happened under Obama we might have seen the nation rally behind it but now, in the Orange-man Bad world it'll be about stopping the wasted resources and ransacking of the solar system!.
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The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised, will not be televised...
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Well, if we have to really clean house...
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Imagine. At the Nuremburg trials, it was "I was just following orders." At the Annapolis and West Point Trials it will be "I was just listening to Twitter..."
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And SpaceX has gotten a few hundred billion from the taxpayer too. Just sayin.
Excuse me? How much? I think you better check your numbers there. SpaceX hasn’t received more than about $5billion, which is way short of your grossly exaggerated number pulled from your fundament.
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