[Bee] HELENA, MT — Montana trans lawmaker Zooey Zephyr, formerly known as Zachary Raasch, feels strongly that he has nailed his audition as Bud Light's next spokesperson after leading loud demonstrations in the Montana State Capitol last week.
"I will not leave this building until every tiny child has the right to take hormones and get body parts chopped off, reformed into shapes resembling other body parts, and then sewn back onto other areas of their bodies," said Zephyr. "This is a fundamental human right, and anyone who disagrees wants to murder trans kids."
Zephyr then turned to the camera and said, "Hey Bud Light! Call me!"
Media outlets across the nation reported on the lone hero's noble crusade to sexualize, drug, and mutilate children, condemning mean, nasty Republicans for being such meanie-head jerks all the time. "Just look at this beautiful, stunning woman standing up for the rights of other beautiful, stunning women just like her!" said CNN's Jake Tapper. "Wow--Republicans are so, so mean!"
Bud Light also released a statement, saying they were all out of the office and unable to talk right now.
At publishing time, Zephyr had yet to receive a call from Bud Light but had already secured contracts with Nike, General Mills, ExxonMobil, Berkshire Hathaway, and Balenciaga.
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[Hot Air] I was born in 1964, a decade after Brown v Board of Education started the process of desegregating public schools. When I was in graduate school in North Carolina I regularly met people who had attended segregated schools, and they weren’t much older than I.
It was sobering. Having attended public schools in Tucson, AZ, segregation seemed like a historical phenomenon from a distant past. Sure, there was racial tension, but nobody I met ever had any direct experience with segregated schools.
Now, nearly 70 years after the Brown decision, segregation is becoming a reality once again, if with very different excuses. I am not sure if the reasons themselves are different—I actually think that many of the new proponents of segregation have the same fundamental belief that Blacks are intellectually inferior to Whites.
But they now couch their excuse for separating Black and White students as an act of compassion and solidarity with our Black and Brown brothers, rather than as protecting White students from Blacks. Now we are supposedly protecting minorities from the evils of White Supremacy.
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Slavery never left the Democrat party, only now the slave collars exists only in their minds and you can see the reaction to uppity slaves who left the plantation in their treatment of people like Clarence Thomas and others.
Democrats:
1. Still practice Eugenics through Planned parenthood.
2. Ostracize anyone thinking for themselves, especially if they have darker skin.
3. Worship human sacrifice - Their desire to kill babies and let the adults get slaughtered by their pet slave class is proof enough.
4. Constantly demand their slaves cut ties to family that don't agree with them.
The list goes on but it makes what they really believe very obvious.
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And, I'd add, #1, most of de slabes be happy to stay on de plantation!
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Desegregating public school is important with regard to keeping the proletariat divided and weak.
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Slavery was banned as a result of the civil war 158 years ago. The Civil Rights Act, including Affirmative Action, has been the law of the land since 1965. If blacks haven't made any progress in all those years in their struggle to be equal, free and prosperous they might want to consider if it's entirely the fault of white people.
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Wikipedia: A carbuncle is a cluster of boils caused by bacterial infection, most commonly with Staphylococcus aureus or Streptococcus pyogenes. It may be of interest to the Reader that it is a favoured insult of the newly crowned King Charles III about architecture he disapproves of.
[Zman] Imagine someone trying to convince you to do something by arguing that this thing is in your financial interests. They give you a stock tip, for example. You check it out and decide to buy some of the stock. In the following weeks, the stock price collapses, and you lose money. Obviously, you will not be happy, but you are not going to assume the guy who gave you the stock tip wanted to harm you. Unless you bought the stock from him, you will assume he made the same error as you.
Now think about a different scenario in which someone convinces you to do something because it is the right thing to do. In other words, he is not appealing to your desire to make money, but your desire to be viewed as a good person. The deed in this case is donating to some cause. You check it out and donate, but soon learn that it is a fraud and the people involved are swindlers. The person who tricked you into giving money was also in on the scheme.
If we assume the money lost is equal in both cases, you are going to have much stronger feelings toward the second person than the first person. One reason is the assumed intent of the two people. The first guy was trying to help you but was wrong about his stock tip. The second person wanted to rob you. Even if the first guy was reckless in his behavior, he was not trying to harm you, but there is no doubt about the intent of the second guy.
More important, the first person appealed to your greed, while the second person appealed to your morality in order to trick you. We can accept some blame when we let our vices get the better of us, as in the stock tip scenario. You let the idea of free money cloud your judgement. When someone turns your virtue into a vice, by playing on your good intentions in order to harm you, it challenges the idea of right and wrong, which is far worse than simple theft.
This is what comes to mind reading this post in First Things. George Weigel is a well-known neocon and warmonger. The timing of the post is a bit odd, given that we are in the end phase of the war. The time for making the "moral case" for yet another war on the world was a year ago. It suggests the Kagan cult is planning to keep the war on Russia going long after the Ukraine portion is settled. Weigel has been dispatched to turn virtue into vice for the suckers of Conservative Inc.
Twenty years ago, almost to the day, Weigel made the same "moral case" for launching a preemptive war on Iraq. It you read both posts together, it is as if he is working from a template. That is because he does work from a template. When you strip away the moral pretentions, Weigel is not much of a thinker. His act is to play on your Christian duty or maybe your patriotic morality. He is not trying to appeal to your reason with a well thought out argument.
Last year, Eric Sammons at Crisis Magazine dissected the Weigel style. "The Weigel Script includes: (1) a comparison to Nazi Germany; (2) turning foreign leaders into cartoon villains; (3) accepting at face value any and all U.S. intelligence that puts the proposed adversary in the worst light; (4) making non-falsifiable assertions about a dire future if the U.S. doesn’t intervene; and (5) ignoring any potential negative consequences of U.S. intervention."
You see it in the First Things post. He even adds in the now famous meme associated with the neocons. "For no reason at all" Russia invaded Ukraine. In this case, he surely knows that what he is saying is a lie. Twenty years ago, when he was selling the death of Iraqi children as a cost worth paying to stoke his moral vanity, he could claim ignorance about the lies underneath the claims about Iraq. Lots of people assumed George Bush was sincere about the WMD business.
In the case of the Ukraine war, Weigel knows he is lying, and he probably knows that the readers know he is lying, but he lies anyway. You are not supposed to think about the facts, because it is your moral duty to oppose evil! As long as you accept his claims about Putin being yet another Hitler, the lies do not matter. Like the guy from the second example at the start of this post, Weigel is trying to turn your virtue into a vice, and he is doing it with knowledge of forethought.
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You see it in the First Things post. He even adds in the now famous meme associated with the neocons. “For no reason at all” Russia invaded Ukraine. In this case, he surely knows that what he is saying is a lie.
No reason at all, huh? Nothing about trying to keep NATO troops out of Russia's only warm water sea port? Nothing about nuclear tipped cruise missiles on Russia's border withing range of Moscow?
That's why I couldn't get any further than the first paragraph when I read the George Weigel post at First Things.
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[VK] On May 1, 1929, during a two-hour battle, the Red Army detachment under the command of IVAN EFIMOVICH PETROV defeated the 3,000-strong cavalry detachment of Basmachi Ibrahim-bek and the 1,500 detachment of Seid-Hussein in Turkmenistan.
On May 1, 1929, during a two-hour battle, the Red Army detachment under the command of I.E. Petrov was defeated in Turkmenistan by the 3,000th cavalry detachment of Basmachi Ibrahim-bek.
A bloody battle that lasted several hours took place in the north of Afghanistan. After ten years of stubborn struggle, the command of the Central Asian Military District decided to destroy the raiders outside the USSR. The first to go on a campaign was a combined detachment of the 8th Cavalry Brigade. It was commanded by the future Army General and Hero of the Soviet Union Ivan Petrov. It is believed that it was he who became one of the prototypes of the protagonist in the film "Officers".
For secrecy, part of the detachment changed into Uzbek robes and a turban, others put on Turkmen hats. Decades later, in the 80s, this method in Afghanistan will be resorted to by "caravan hunters" - the GRU special forces.
For some time, a small detachment was lucky, he managed to avoid a battle with large detachments of the Basmachi, and the posts and guards of the bases were destroyed. Then they decided to surround and destroy the Shuravi detachment. 3000 Basmachi Ibrahim-bek, the former kurbashi of the Emir of Bukhara, advanced from the east. A gang of 1,500 sabers of Seyid Hussein, adviser to the Afghan Shah, moved from the west.
Brigade commander Petrov decided to defeat the enemies one by one. An ambush was arranged on the way of Ibrahim-bek. Eight mountain guns were deployed against the Basmachi, and two Maxim machine guns were installed and disguised 200 meters from the road. As the Basmachi approached 500 meters, the guns opened frequent fire with shrapnel: three of them fired at the beginning of the column, three at the rear, and two at the middle. Machine guns literally mowed down the Basmachi. An attack on horseback completed the job. About 2,500 Basmachi were killed, 176 were captured. The rest fled.
However, on the other hand, a 1,500-strong detachment of Afghans was already advancing. Petrov's military ingenuity helped win the battle. He started negotiations and sent three captives to Seyid Hussein with a story about the defeat of Ibrahim-bek. The warning and the cannons made for the battle worked - the Afghans did not want to associate with the Russians and left.
At the end of May, Ibrahim-bek, furious with failures, gathered 4,000 horsemen with three artillery batteries. His plan was to lock up Petrov's detachment in a gorge near the Vakhsh River. However, this time too, he failed to carry out his intentions.
Two years later, Ibrahim-bek invaded Uzbekistan, but 30 kilometers west of Baysun he overtook him and defeated a special detachment of the OGPU Mukum Sultanov. The leader of the Basmachi was captured in the area of the village of Bulbulon, while crossing to the right bank of the river in Kafirnigan. The prisoner was taken by plane to Dushanbe. On August 31, 1931, a court in Tashkent sentenced Ibrahim-bek to capital punishment.
Years later, Ivan Efimovich Petrov will become an outstanding Soviet army commander, army general, he will be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
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On May 29, 1945 Petrov was awarded a title of the Hero of the Soviet Union. The United States awarded him the Distinguished Service Cross in War Department General Order No. 3 of 1944. After the war Petrov commanded the Turkestan Military Districtand was inspector general of land forces. Petrov died in 1958.
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There was a great story in the early 90s, when Turkmenistan was independent after the Soviet collapse, involving Rafsanjani (visiting), a white horse, and Iranian security. I believe the informal (or perhaps official) title of Turkmenistan's leader is "the great horseman".
[GreyDynamics] This week I spoke to Alec Bertina, a non-traditional security actor researcher, specializing in Russian security affairs. In this episode, we discussed the wild and confusing network of Russian private military contractors, the people behind them and their mission. From ex-special forces to the far right to oil and gas companies, there are many actors at play here. Alec does a fantastic job of breaking down the key groups and their motivations.
[Gateway] The Wall Street Journal released an explosive report Sunday revealing that Jeffrey Epstein met with multiple left-wing individuals including Joe Biden’s now-CIA Chief William Burns after Epstein was convicted of child sex crimes.
The documents uncovered by the Wall Street Journal were related to Epstein’s private calendar.
In addition to Burns, the infamous pedophile also reportedly met with Bard College president Leon Botstein, former Barack Obama White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler and professor Noam Chomsky following his conviction of child sex crimes.
While the Wall Street Journal could not prove every single scheduled meeting took place, the report did find Epstein met with Burns on three separate occasions. These meetings were held in Washington D.C. and in Epstein’s home in Manhattan.
CIA spokeswoman Tammy Kupperman Thorp confirmed that Burns met with Epstein in 2014. However, she claimed Burns had no idea who the disgraced financier was.
She also said Burns only met with Epstein because Burns was looking to leave to government sector and wanted advice.
On Monday night Jesse Watters told his FOX News audience that Jeffrey Epstein was clearly an intelligence asset.
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Okay so we're supposed to believe the former Chief of the CIA had no idea who Epstein was AFTER his convictions?
And people wonder why the CIA is considered the enemy. I'm sorry but the very idea that a CIA chief would meet with ANYONE in THEIR home without knowing who they are is just ludicrous on it's face.
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What ME kingdom rich in petrolium and a long-time adversary of Israel would now suddenly tell the US To bugger off and decide to allign themselves with China ?
Perhaps they became angered, when they suddenly discovered meeting wealthy American businessmen and sampling lovely young blondes was simply a recruitment tool or blackmail mechanism ?
A troika of unfortunate terminations; project, business associations, and asset. Not necessarily in that order.
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CIA head in Israel ahead of Blinken visit - haaretz.com Jan 27, 2023. CIA director William Burns arrived in Israel on Thursday ahead of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's upcoming visit to the country on Monday. Burns is expected to meet officials in Jerusalem …
Siamese twins.
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He did not know who he was, but he met him for professional advice on leaving the public sector? Really? With a straight face even...
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Given all this, it seems likely someone from the Swamp decided to whack him, and got it covered up in a comedy-skit series of events, but got it put to bed. Who now is reopening that can of worms and does signal a threat to those responsible?
There are antagonistic players behind this, many of whom are connected to the actual government behind the Potemkin Puppet Show, and some of whom live far away. Coalition of the Shadow government splitting from the kamikaze Jill Biden reelection/Harris for President plan, and blackbook counter threats being auditioned?
[ZERO] Big Pharma wants to keep you sick. Your medical challenges are good for their bottom line. Since Rockefeller released his Flexner Report in 1910, all medicinal strategies that weren’t pushed through the government-run medical-industrial complex were demonized and censored — even when they deliver you better health than pharmaceuticals.
Fortunately, we have medical freedom fighting super heroes: Dr. Peter McCullough and the late Dr. Zev Zelenko.
Unlike Big Pharma, Drs McCullough and Zelenko always believed that the health and wellbeing of their patients should come before profits. They rediscovered the hidden secrets to health and wellness that Big Pharma doesn’t want you to know about.
Now more than ever, we need warriors like Zelenko and McCullough.
When the COVID "Plan-demic" started, we were all just how important our immune system is - and nothing is more effective at boosting your immune system than Dr Zev Zelenko’s revolutionary Z-stack protocol.
Zev knew that the best way to fight off any virus was by delivering more zinc to the cells. That’s why he developed Z-stack.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Bee] HELENA, MT — Montana trans lawmaker Zooey Zephyr, formerly known as Zachary Raasch, feels strongly that he has nailed his audition as Bud Light's next spokesperson after leading loud demonstrations in the Montana State Capitol last week.
[ZERO] Big Pharma wants to keep you sick. Your medical challenges are good for their bottom line. Since Rockefeller released his Flexner Report in 1910, all medicinal strategies that weren’t pushed through the government-run medical-industrial complex were demonized and censored — even when they deliver you better health than pharmaceuticals.
