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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 2 months

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Chris Britt, Florida Politics

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President Biden meets with Yulia and Dasha Navalnaya.

As Trump and the GOP twisted themselves into knots to avoid admitting that Putin assassinated Alexei Navalny, President Biden met with Navalny’s widow—Yulia Navalnaya—and his daughter, Dasha Navalnaya. It is worth pausing here to acknowledge that Biden has proven himself to be a compassionate and empathetic person capable of understanding the suffering of others.

Those qualities are strikingly absent from Trump's warped personality—and from his MAGA supporters, who take their cue from Trump in all things. America deserves and needs a president capable of understanding the suffering of others.

After meeting with Yulia and Dasha Navalnaya, Biden said

Today, I met with Yulia and Dasha Navalnaya – Aleksey Navalny's loved ones – to express my condolences for their devastating loss. Aleksey's legacy of courage will live on in Yulia and Dasha, and the countless people across Russia fighting for democracy and human rights.

Biden later said,

This morning I had the honor of meeting with Alexey Navalny's wife and daughter. As to state the obvious, he was a man of incredible courage. And it's amazing how his wife and daughter are emulating that.

Meanwhile, Trump maintains his silence on the assassination of Navalny and his minions dodge questions about Putin’s responsibility by saying they “Don’t know enough to answer.” Hmm . . . these are the same people who raged endlessly against Biden based on an unverified, quadruple-hearsay document from a confidential informant who was not believed by his FBI handlers.

The embrace of Putin by the Republican Party is troubling because of the implications for the defense of Ukraine and the integrity of the 2024 election. We have already seen one attempt by Russia to interfere on behalf of Trump, and we are witnessing the real-time betrayal of Ukraine on the floor of the House of Representatives.

Meanwhile, Republicans are trying to pretend as though Alexander Smirnov never happened. Read on!

House Oversight Committee removes references to FBI informant under cover of night

Speaking of the now-discredited FBI informant, his GOP champions in the House initially responded to his indictment for lying by claiming that his information was only a portion of the evidence they had against Joe Biden.

But actions speak actions louder than words. On Thursday, the House Oversight Committee quietly removed all references to Alexander Smirnov’s statements from the Oversight Committee’s website. See Meidas Touch Network, House GOP Quietly Deletes Russian Disinformation from Impeachment Website.

It is not enough for the House impeachment caucus to surreptitiously remove references to a Russian plant from its list of evidence against Joe Biden. Republicans should acknowledge their error and apologize—but they will not. The US media, however, should be a different story. They amplified and promoted the Russian lies about Biden—and are having a difficult time admitting their error.

As Josh Marshall wrote in his editor’s blog in Talking Points Memo,

The story here isn’t that the “Biden Crime Family” nonsense didn’t pan out. That was always transparently bogus. The story here is how the U.S. again got bamboozled by transparent foreign manipulation and how the U.S. political press bought into it pretty much whole hog. That doesn’t mean they accepted all the claims. But they treated it as reasonable, worthy of a presumption of seriousness, a serious story to be covered as such. Even with the veritable forest of red flags.

Donald Trump and his MAGA legions have spent years shock-training reporters not to bring up anything else about Russian disinformation programs aimed at helping Donald Trump. But they’re real. They’re continuing. They’re actually working. . . . Reporters have been conditioned to ignore the clear implications of what we’re learning.

So, the House Oversight Committee can try to slink away under dark of night to conceal the obvious effort by Russia to interfere in the 2024 election . . . but the media should not allow Trump to do so. As Marshall writes, Russia’s efforts to interfere are “real, continuing, and working.”

[Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter]

#Biden Administration #Robert B. Hubbell #Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter #U.S.Political press #House Oversight committee #GOP House Putin Caucus #GOP Maga extremists #Putin #Russia #collusion #Putin's misinformation campaign

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taiwantalk · 8 months

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if you think this eventually was going to come to light and be brought to justice, then you should learn about the colfax massacre 1873. 8 years after the end of american civil war.

about 150 black americans in the attempt to prevent their votes from being destroyed by southerners took control of colfax courthouse and then were murdered after surrender.

as you can see from even official records of the smithsonian, it is very easy to play down truth.

for any country to allow its own citizens of those who had suffered oppression, fought, and won the civil war, colfax massacre could never be considered a regional, racial, individual, or rival faction conflict-rather, it would be a total betrayal on the us constitution and a blatant sign of insurgency to rebel against the government that had defeated the oppressive southern states.

so the moral of the story is, no freedom, justice, or equality happened in america without perseverance and sacrifices by those who wanted the civil rights that they're entitled to. it was never handed down or given.

no material wealth or comfort can out weigh the immeasurable worth of freedom, equality, and justice combined. you must stand up for your sovereign rights and cannot simply betray the vulnerable minority population in exchange for easy way out-do not be like the americans who betrayed the black americans in the south for political power or economic benefits.

in truth, colfax massacre was far worse than racial violence. colfax massacre was the american govt tolerating murdering of citizens who were formerly oppressed. imagine if allied had tolerated murdering of jews after the end of ww2 just to keep its power.

imagine if nato tolerates murdering of citizens by ethnic russians in each of the former soviet state. this is happening to ukraine already.

#taiwantalk #colfax massacre #freedom #equality #justice #easy way out

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cksmart-world · 9 months

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SMART BOMB

The Completely Unnecessary News Analysis

By Christopher Smart

August 8, 2023

THE SEINFELD DEFENSE & KETCHUP DOESN'T LIE

Former President Donald Trump won the 2020 election. Despite no evidence of voter fraud he actually believes it, his attorney said, invoking the old “Seinfeld Defense.” George Costanza, the character in the 1990s sitcom “Seinfeld,” came up with the novel defense: “It's not a lie if you believe it.” That's now the brilliant legal response to a four-count indictment that accuses Trump of conspiring to overturn U.S. democracy. Trump's attorney, John Lauro, said prosecutors can't prove the former president believes he lost the election. Presto: not guilty. Well Lauro has a point there — who could possibly tell from minute-to-minute what's going through that guy's head. But there is compelling evidence that Trump did know he lost: Ketchup. That's right, White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson told the Jan. 6 House Special Select Committee that when then-Attorney General Bill Barr told the Associated Press there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud Trump threw his lunch and it splattered ketchup on the wall in the West Wing. Trump's attorneys no doubt will seek to undermine prosecution witnesses who told the former president he lost, but how do you undermine ketchup on a wall. Heinz may well be the best answer to the “Seinfeld Defense,” because, after all, ketchup doesn't lie.

PIGSKIN PIGOUT — IT COULDN'T BE ABOUT THE MONEY

Don't let anyone tell you that college football has become all about money. Sure, it looks that way but just because universities are jumping from one conference to another for bigger TV bucks doesn't mean we've lost what's really important about college football. We'll get to that in a minute. University of Utah football coach Kyle Whittingham makes $6 million a year. But it's not so much compared to Alabama football coach Nick Saban, who pulls in $10.6 million. Alabama football, in the Southeastern Conference (SEC), brought in a record $130.87 million last year. In Sept. 2022, the Big Ten Conference announced a new TV deal worth more than $1 billion per year. Last week in something like football musical chairs the PAC- 12 became in reality the PAC- 4, as schools bolted. The Big 10 added two schools and the Big 12 grabbed another three college teams, including Utah. USC, UCLA — Colorado left earlier. Jack Dickert, Washington State head coach said TV money will destroy college football and the school rivalries that have been central to it. “We'll look back at college football in 20 years and be like 'what are we doing'” What's really important about college football? It molds young men and prepares them for the pros where they could become millionaires. But it's not about money.

HOW MIKE PENCE GOT HIS GROOVE BACK

Mike Pence is from Indiana so it's no surprise he's got lots of charisma. Indiana is the “Charisma State.” Residents there are known as Hoosiers, from the Greek χάρισμα — “who's yours.” Pence was a gregarious young man from a good Catholic family of Democrats. Then something happened — the future savior of American democracy became an evangelical Christian and a conservative Republican and along the way landed a statewide radio show, cleverly called “The Mike Pence Show.” He said his program was like Rush Limbaugh on downers. It launched his political career where he was elected to the House for six terms and then governor of Indiana. But when Trump picked the charming Mike Pence to be his running mate, the Hoosier had to promise never to be charismatic again. Only Trump could be charming. Pence took on the persona of a mud fence so well that some believed he was an android. Then came Jan. 6 and “Hang Mike Pence.” The vice president and his family had to run for their lives. It was a reawakening. That's why the Mike Pence we see running for president today is the old fun-loving jokester who used to say his radio show was the political answer to “Pee-wee Herman's Playhouse.” Mike Pence rocks, relatively speaking, of course.

Post script — That'll do it for another historic week here at Smart Bomb where we keep track of our bizarre politics so you don't have to. It's now clear that Donald Trump is running for president so he won't have to go to prison. More than two-thirds of Republicans believe Trump is the rightly elected president and that stuff about the Jan. 6 insurrection is all made up. Trump continues to run far ahead in the race for the Republican nomination. Utah Sen-For-Life Mike Lee said prosecuting Trump for things he did on Jan. 6 is “dangerous” because he was president then and had immunity. In essence, a failed coup is not punishable by law. Great. Hey Wilson, do you ever get the feeling we've collided with a parallel universe where black is white and right-side-up is upside-down. Meanwhile Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is campaigning against Mickey Mouse while extolling the great benefits of slavery for Black people. It's not going too well, so he raised the rhetoric by saying as president he would start “slitting throats” in the federal bureaucracy on day one. It sure is nice that we're setting the example of true democracy for all those Third World countries — bunch of heathens.

Songwriter Randy Newman once penned a number called, “Short People,” which was really about prejudice of all kinds. These days it seems like no one likes homeless people — many of whom are families and single moms. So Wilson, get the band to put down the hookah and take us out with a little something for the downtrodden:

Short People got no reason Short People got no reason To live They got little hands Little eyes They walk around Tellin' great big lies They got little noses And tiny little teeth They wear platform shoes On their nasty little feet Don't want no Short People Don't want no Short People 'Round here Don't want no Homeless People Don't want no Homeless People 'Round here They're always camping out on the street Don't wear no stockings on their feet All their junk is piled in grocery carts They're all rumpled up and got no smarts

Why don't they find someplace else to stay Seeing them is a bummer and ruins the day Don't want no Homeless People Don't want no Homeless People 'Round here

(Short People — Randy Newman, modified by the Smart Bomb staff)

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getouttamyway · 9 months

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It seems the US administration has made a mess of things. We have China and Russia sailing near our coast lines like greedy sharks waiting for the first drop of blood to escalate a dire situation. It is not a good sign. We have a group of buffoons running this country. They have their heads up their asses and have no clue to what they are planning. These people do not care about America. They are too busy making illegal money off the Ukraine war. They are so distracted with their underhanded shenanigans involving Trump's indictments that they have neglected their duties and obligations to protect us and our country. They are so out of touch with the goings-on in society. They are so worried about staying in power and ruining this country further into the ground. Do they honestly think they will see another election with the way things are materializing? They better wake up because all the money they have made illegally will be useless when a nuke drops on their elderly asses. It will be God's way of saying that they have gone too far and become too corrupt to save. Play with the devil, and earn yourself a spot in Hell. Was it all worth it? Today . . . yes. In eternity . . . too late!

My advice is to have a plan to escape just in case Russia and China invade us. It is what they are planning. We will not win this war. The war that so-called President Biden and NATO started a year ago will only make matters worse. It is not about democracy. It is about money, power, and resources. Population control is their goal in the scheme of things. The people who govern our countries are the enemies we need to imprison. They do not care what happens to you and to your family. They sold us out to the highest bidder without thinking twice. They are so blind that they can't see the bio labs in their front yard. It is a sad situation. They intend to take your jobs, your food, your homes, and strip away your rights. Your right to be happy and to know freedom as it was intended. The agenda they follow is that of a deranged psycho named Klaus Schwab. The most evil person besides Satan to live among us. He is hell-bent on ruining lives and sending souls to their final resting place. Anyone who calls him genius is just as corrupt and demented as he is. They have it all, and it is not enough. It never is. The fewer of us there are, the easier it is for them to control us. I will tell you one thing. They will never follow the rules that they create for you and me. They are exempt from that. Why would they? We allow them to buy everything they desire and never question their motives for doing so. We let them control the food supply because only they know what is best for us. The biggest lie they fooled us into accepting is that only they know how to save us from ourselves. We need them to exist. Or else we will fail in our endeavors. Remember, they are no better than you or me. So that crazy fuck Klaus Schwab should be shot for the crimes he is committing. And to those who indulge his depraved ambitions, you should also be held accountable even if it is by death. There are a lot of privileged individuals out to destroy humanity here and now. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. They use climate change as a weapon to scare those who are lost into giving up their freedom. They are the foulest pieces of shit this world has seen since Hitler. But another is set to ascend above them all, and he will make Hitler look like the pope. And that is not an exaggeration. Evil is as evil does. God is in control of all things. Everything. There is only one God who matters. He is the master planner. He is aware of everything that transpires in secret. All the evil that runs rampant on Earth is Satan's doing. He is the ruler of this world. He is fucking this world without a drop of lube. Life as we know it is quickly coming to an end. You can laugh at me. You can call me crazy. But in a few years or less, the place we call home will be a forgotten memory. We will never know peace again. Get your house in order. Be right with God. The Covid pandemic was the birth pain to mark the beginning of the end. We are witnessing the demise of our once beautiful planet. The downfall of humanity is happening at a rapid pace. We can only blame one culprit. The father of lies. The nemisis of mankind is who ruined it for us. Satan was so jealous that God created us in His image. Satan wanted to be God. He will rule this world for seven years. So fasten your seatbelts because the speed demon is on a mission to claim as many souls before the clock runs out. The question at hand is, will you be one of them? He is the instrument who will bring chaos, trouble, death, and destruction. And, you can take that to a failing bank near you.

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the-firebird69 · 9 months

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Watch "@zeus.officiel_ on the road to success #monaco #millionaire #luxury #lifestyle #life" on YouTube

He's asking for it again a lot and right after he got indicted how coincidental so going to make it hurt and we're going to take him to court again and to task until he's gone and we're going to speed up on him not slow down. The same people want these cars and people don't their pieces of s*** they can't drive them and they're not street legal and he got pulled over and arrested no but the cops were telling him to go garage it and has no offenders and he says I don't have to but I will and stupid s*** like that and go ahead and does it and they said you have to actually and they're taking the plates and registration says if we catch you with it we're resting you couple minutes later you go zooming out the door so they arrested him. Been civil lawsuits against him and he says sue me so we're going to sue him for harassment because of this video

Thor Freya

What a password I'm going to put hits on that piece of s*** trump. What a great day there's so much fun watching him going there all sad beat up come out like a prick people are throwing stuff at him and pretty soon it's going to turn into that and they don't want him at the rallies his own party is telling him to go screw there's not very many trumpsters there anymore cuz they get beat up every time they go and is there trying to talk and nobody wants to hear it and they told me to get out and he's not able to speak at any engagements cuz they don't want him in any facility cuz the place gets ripped up he's trying to do speaking arrangements in squares and things like that and they say he's trying to cause a riot they arrested him twice now but they arrested a lot of his people and got information now his life is straight into a living hell and he's still here bothering my husband and he's gotten shot and killed a bunch of times and arrested he's been in prison nine times for more than 3 days he's been in prison 20 times for a day or less he's been shot in the head three times and it's not minor it's not major but he's he's kind of dead in the head and he has been shot in the body 500 times since he forced my husband here same with the son that his son got shot in the head more and I'd say it's worth it what they're doing harassing him cuz we get to see him go pretty soon he's going to be dead fully. Now I'm making a kid car and we're going to sell it and it's street legal and has dot papers and we're putting it out there shortly and we're not saying where and when but we're going to and it's a cool car and it's not yours stupid car that we wouldn't call because it looks gay John remillard

Jen

There's a certain treatment dude when someone is using your God name on people and I'm going to start it up now it's really embarrassing he has the wrong look it's not what I look like but okay yeah what he says is ridiculous too

Zues

Olympus you're so dumb Trump and people hate you so much the creaming you right now you're going out to lake Okeechobee and have your forces gone and they didn't even make it there there are 40 mi away from the perimeter of the lake area and they got wiped out and you're sending four more forces from both sides and they're going to get wiped out. Up at lake Superior you sent a huge Force like 10 trillion and they're gone and you're sending huge numbers at the Giants and they're dead and you're going to keep doing it and they'll keep dying which is great you're almost done in the Midwest and upper Midwest no but at this rate you will be you think you have like 100 trillion left so 10 more attacks and you're gone

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1q39com · 2 months

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Despite the fact that colleges hardly ever offer classes, their costs rise every year. Try that in a private business, you might get indicted for fraud. Do it at an American university and you get billions in taxpayer subsidies.” — Tucker Carlson Tonighthttps://www.youtube.com/embed/5Fh6LtBYmiI

Is College Worth It?

OK… let’s review this…

Over the course of the first two years of college, 45% of students “did not demonstrate any significant improvement in learning.” Close to 40 percent didn’t learn anything at all over all four years.

CLEARLY College is not making People Smarter.

Many Students Never Really Studied, with 35 percent reporting less than 5 hours a week in study time.

All that is reported is 2.67 hours every day. Twice that time in shopping, eating, partying.

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College Grads in the US test at or less than High School kids in several other Countries.

Top Universities are declining in their Academic Rigor.

College Classes get flimsier. Yet College GPA averages are over 3.0 averages. Grade Inflation Highest at Private Schools. More Students are Failing, but yet nobody fails.

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whitehotharlots · 4 years

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No one is gonna “gaslight” you about the pandemic. They don’t need to

I took a break from my daylong panic attack to read through a piece that I saw dozens of people sharing on social media. If you’re in the mood to take a glimpse into the abyss of hopelessness, give it a read.

This is one of the dumbest things I have ever read, but it’s instructive in the sense that it shows us just how absolutely liberalism is not prepared to handle the current moment. If this is the intellectual vanguard of the #Resistance (and judging by those who have shared it, it seems to be), then we should begin mentally preparing ourselves not just for Trump’s reelection but for the very real possibility that he’s just going to be president forever.

The piece is called “Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting,” so right away you know where it’s coming from. “Gaslighting,” has recently surpassed “mansplaining” as the liberal buzzterm that’s become the most meaningless due to overuse. It used to refer specifically to emotional manipulation. Now it basically means “anything that a liberal doesn’t like.” Liberals read a neurotic amount of importance into petty matters of taste and interpersonal relations. They begin, at times, to understand social problems in a structural sense, but they always--always--turn their analysis back to meaningless bullshit that takes place on an individual level. The liberal would never be so gauche as to indict an entire system, no matter how at fault it may obviously be. Instead, he will place blame upon the individuals within the system, those selfish and savage brutes who betrayed the magnanimous intentions of society’s elite engineers.

This author’s analysis is unsurprisingly very muddy. He mentions, correctly, that there is an eerie serenity to scenes of American cityscapes already being reclaimed by nature. He cannot, however, decide whether or not this is a good thing. This is because of the liberal’s fundamental ambivalence toward malignant social structures. Their ethos is founded on pretending to sympathize with society’s misbegotten, but their status and jobs and personal standing demand that they also apologize profusely for the institutions that reap so much misery upon us. This neurosis is somewhat politically viable only because it usually goes unspoken--and that’s why this piece is worth digging into, since it’s so rare to see them attempt to actually articulate this shit.

The author realizes that our society is deeply poisoned. In a twist, he says that such a sad state is not due to any of the litany of usual, intersectional reasons, but because of the pace at which our social lives are conducted. I am dead serious:

The cat is out of the bag. We, as a nation, have deeply disturbing problems. You’re right. That’s not news. They are problems we ignore every day, not because we’re terrible people or because we don’t care about fixing them, but because we don’t have time. Sorry, we have other shit to do. The plain truth is that no matter our ethnicity, religion, gender, political party (the list goes on), nor even our socioeconomic status, as Americans we share this: We are busy. We’re out and about hustling to make our own lives work. We have goals to meet and meetings to attend and mortgages to pay — all while the phone is ringing and the laptop is pinging.

The problem is, see, that we’re thinking about stuff wrong. Not that the ruling elite are openly corrupt or anything. Oh no. I mean, they must be since they’re about to gaslight us, but also they’re not, they’re basically okay:

The greatest misconception among us, which causes deep and painful social and political tension every day in this country, is that we somehow don’t care about each other. White people don’t care about the problems of black America. Men don’t care about women’s rights. Cops don’t care about the communities they serve. Humans don’t care about the environment. These couldn’t be further from the truth. We do care. We just don’t have the time to do anything about it. Maybe that’s just me. But maybe it’s you, too.

Again, he’s coming to the precipice of a worthwhile realization--that we all know society is unsustainable but we can’t do anything about it--but he has to pull back so as to avoid implicating any of the people who actually wield power. That’s the main thrust of contemporary liberalism: sure, society may be fucked, but that’s your fault, not ours.

The ending is a tour de force of empty liberal platitudes that is breathtaking in its ability to place blame upon anyone and anything aside from the people and things that are actually to blame:

From one citizen to another, I beg of you: take a deep breath, ignore the deafening noise, and think deeply about what you want to put back into your life. This is our chance to define a new version of normal, a rare and truly sacred (yes, sacred) opportunity to get rid of the bullshit and to only bring back what works for us, what makes our lives richer, what makes our kids happier, what makes us truly proud. [ … ]

We can do that on a personal scale in our homes, in how we choose to spend our family time on nights and weekends, what we watch, what we listen to, what we eat, and what we choose to spend our dollars on and where. We can do it locally in our communities, in what organizations we support, what truths we tell, and what events we attend. And we can do it nationally in our government, in which leaders we vote in and to whom we give power. If we want cleaner air, we can make it happen. If we want to protect our doctors and nurses from the next virus — and protect all Americans — we can make it happen. If we want our neighbors and friends to earn a dignified income, we can make that happen. If we want millions of kids to be able to eat if suddenly their school is closed, we can make that happen. And, yes, if we just want to live a simpler life, we can make that happen, too. But only if we resist the massive gaslighting that is about to come. It’s on its way. Look out.

Just… dear god. Dear god.

We are not facing a crisis of conscientiousness. We are not suffering through mass existential dread because we weren’t mindful enough or didn’t make the right consumer choices or didn’t, like, live in the moment, man. We are staring down the absolute end stage of global capitalism and the complete abandonment of all the pretenses associated with liberal democracy. We are at the start of a very different and much worse stage of existence.

This is why the piece’s central conceit, gaslighting, is so fucking annoying. Because if we’ve learned nothing else from the past 12 years (and apparently we haven’t), it’s that the ruling elite do not need to bother establishing pretense any longer. No one thought the recent Corona bailout was anything other than an upward transfer of wealth and a complete abandonment of the wretched--no one even bothered to argue otherwise, because they knew they didn’t need to. At least a half dozen US senators received advance notice of the pandemic’s severity, and instead of warning people or otherwise working to help their constituents, they sold off stock and kept mum. None of them have received any formal censure, as their behavior was absolutely within the realm of what is acceptable in 2020. Andrew Cuomo, the man presently being lauded as the firm and competent opposite of Trump, used the pandemic as a pretense to push through cuts to social services and renege on bail reform that was past just weeks ago--undoing the last vestiges of progressivism both old and new. Even bleaker: an EU member state is now being ruled by dictatorial fiat under the pretense of the virus, and everyone’s just kind of rolling with it. I mean, really, what’s gonna happen? Brussels gonna step in? NATO gonna invade? Pfft… Not for such a trifling matter as the abandonment of democracy. If they missed a debt payment, on the other hand…

The point is, you’re not going to get gaslit because there’s no need for that any longer. The people who are profiting off of the collapse and destruction of society don’t even have to bother to lie about it. And the only ones doing any gaslighting are the smug liberal twerps who are too scared of upsetting their boss to allow anyone to point out this fact.

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rjzimmerman · 4 years

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This is a link to an essay (or article) published in New York Magazine and written by David Wallace-Wells. You might have read some his essays, stories and articles he has written over the past year or so, primarily about climate change. He wrote the 2017 essay "The Uninhabitable Earth", which he later expanded into the 2019 book The Uninhabitable Earth.

I’ve extracted about half of the essay, focusing on key components. But the entire piece is worth a read. It won’t make you feel good, but it will force each reader to consider this coronavirus pandemic, in the US, as part of the dystopian and oligarchic society that we have become, lead by the republicans since Reagan. But ultimately it’s not a political party that can be blamed, but each of us buying into the bullshit they (and others) have been serving us.

Excerpt:

What we are seeing right now is the collapse of civic authority and public trust at what is only the beginning of a protracted crisis. In the face of an onrushing pandemic, the United States has exhibited a near-total evacuation of responsibility and political leadership — a sociopathic disinterest in performing the basic function of government, which is to protect its citizens.

Things will get worse from here. According to a survey of epidemiologists released yesterday, the coronavirus outbreak probably won’t peak before May. That doesn’t mean it will be over by May, of course, but that it will be getting worse and worse and worse over the next two months, and for much of that time, presumably, exponentially worse.

Trump is, of course, the last man in the world you would want in charge right now.

The dysfunction goes much deeper than the president—even deeper than the levels of the bureaucracy that he touches, through appointments and executive directives.

In what awful, dysfunctional universe do we live that it has fallen to private companies and philanthropies to deliver necessary medical support in a time of American pandemic? There is probably no stronger argument for public health care than the crisis we are living through today, and no more grotesque indictment of our present system that leading providers and insurers had to be cajoled into waiving fees and co-pays to even deliver tests. Nevertheless, there is a pathetically inadequate testing capacity, such that even patients with obviously concerning symptoms are being turned away. Even those who are getting tested have to wait at least several days for results; in Senegal, where the per capita income is less than $3,000, they are getting results in four hours. Yesterday, apparently, the CDC conducted zero tests.

What kind of society behaves this way, with a complete lack of institutional guidance and coordinated purpose, subjecting the vulnerable and scared to the terrors of pandemic disease? America, apparently.

There has been no meaningful centralized leadership of any kind, and, perhaps more important, no reliable source of information or guidance for how to behave as individuals. Instead, there is only a vacuum of authority, and the vague advice that we should wash our hands, suspend nonessential travel, stay six feet from one another. Almost everywhere you look, public anxiety has been met with total silence, which sends the message: Fend for yourself. Every institution you thought you might turn to — for medical support, direction, social guidance — is at best struggling and, in many cases, worse.

And how did we arrive here? Part of it is, of course, Trump, who has so accelerated the decades-long Republican war on government, which is to say good governance, that it can now seem the only two people actually working in the federal government are Jared Kushner and Stephen Miller (who, by the way, jointly wrote the speech the president gave last night). Part of it is the long story of neoliberalism, which has taught us all that we make our political mark on the world through consumer choice and individual behavior, that we shouldn’t expect much but economic management from government, and that citizens are meant to be unleashed into unencumbered markets. Part of it is even deeper cultural transformation, involving growing distrust of institutions and authorities and the growth of a kind of casually paranoid style of go-it-alone American life.

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My Summary of The Mueller Report (part 1)

Introduction

After digging through the entire Mueller Report, I found myself facing surprises that exceeded my preconceptions and some that contradicted my preconceptions. I can say definitively that reading the Report has solidified the belief that Trump’s campaign acted unethically and against the interests of the United States, but I can see why there have not been indictments drawn.

I’ve decided to break this review up into three pieces. Part 1 will focus on the question of collusion with Russia, part 2 will focus on obstruction of justice, and part 3 will be an analysis of why no charges have been filed.

Collusion

Before talk about what happened during the election, we need to acknowledge that before Trump even announced his candidacy he was attempting to expand his business into Moscow, with a Trump Tower and other business ventures. This gives Trump believable motive to cozy up to Russia and have a vested interest in improving relations with them, as he has openly talked about since he began running. Not only did Trump have an interest in Russia, but people in Russia already had an interest in Trump. Before the Campaign, a real estate agent emailed Cohen and wrote of an alliance between Trump and Putin for political purposes.

It’s not clear how connected this person actually was or how influential this was in sparking Russia’s interest in Trump politically, but it sets an ominous background against the shady actions in 2016.

Also, back in 2015, another man named Klokov offered to Cohen to set up an in person meeting with Putin. Cohen turned down this meeting because he believed Sater’s connections with the Russian govt. were good enough.

Now we need to talk about the word collusion and define what we are talking about. The colloquial term is used to describe any type of cooperation between two parties. Many Trump supporters have been retorting that collusion is not a crime. That’s technically true, the crime is called Conspiracy Against The United States. These words, collusion and coordination, are extremely important to the questions we are asking, and the Report states that neither of them “have a settled definition in federal criminal law” (Mueller Report, V 1 p. 10). The report stresses the importance of agreement to solidify conviction, meaning that the Office had to prove that both parties literally said, “yes, let’s work together for a common purpose.” This is the most frustrating part of reading the report, because it clearly sets a high bar for the standard of guilt, and the Trump campaign is bumping that bar, but never passing it. The Report does recognize that both parties saw the advantage they would gain from each other and acted accordingly to benefit from the other, although this was without any formal agreement.

What I’m going to show you from this point on is a series of actions that were deliberately taken by the Trump campaign to both improve relations for an officially unspecified reason, which is likely Trump’s desire to expand his business, and to benefit from the illegal actions by Russia against the U.S..

George Papadopoulos

Evidence of Russia’s hacking become noticeable around mid-2016. At that same time…

Papadopoulos was not a coffee boy. He was hired by the Campaign as an energy consultant and frequently traveled over seas for the Campaign. While in England, a Russian operative named Joseph Mifsud took a special interest in Papadopoulos purely because of his position in the Trump Campaign. As you’ll see, Russia tried to make contact with Trump through multiple back door efforts. Mifsud told Papadopoulos about the stolen emails long before the information was public. Papadopoulos babbled to an Australian diplomat, who called the FBI. That is how the FBI turned the their attention to the Trump campaign, and it was a damn good reason. In Papadopoulos’ confession, he swears that he never old anyone about the stolen emails, and officials in the campaign stated “with varying degrees of certainty” that he never told them (Mueller Report V1 p. 101). I don’t believe that for one second. I think it’s reasonable to assume Papadopoulos would run back to the Campaign with this juicy information to score major kudos. Papadopoulos did say he attempted to barter a meeting between Trump and Russian government officials through Mifsud, but that meeting never ended up happening. This is not the only time a middle man was used to try set up a meeting with Trump that failed. Incompetence may be a significant reason that he’s not being charged.

This is incident one where we have the two parties discussing working together, but failing to show that an official agreement for the Trump Campaign to work in coordination with Russian hacking was made. This is the very thin line between unethical but legal, and conspiracy.

Carter Page

The first thing you need to know about Carter Page is that he acknowledges in his confession that he knew he was dealing Russian Intelligence Agents (Report, V1. p. 105). Equally important is that Page had lived and worked in Russia for a number of years, and he volunteered to work on the Trump campaign with the express goal of helping Trump improve relations with Russia. He literally got the job by emailing his thoughts about Russia-US relations and suggesting that Trump should meet with Putin. Remember, several other agents are trying to connect Putin to Trump through different channels at the same time. Naturally, Trump made Page his official expert on Russia. Seriously, that was his main function.

Page was invited to speak at the New Economic School in Moscow in 2016. The NES revealed to investigators that they only invited Page because of his connection to Trump. Once there, Page made contact with several old associates and key members of Russian Intelligence that also pop up in other Trump Campaign contacts.

So here we have Trump’s Russia expert in Moscow and admitting he knew he was talking with Russian Intelligence, and his time, conversations, and actions during that trip are largely unknown and unexplained. We do know, however, from Page’s emails that he was feeling out Russian support for Trump.

This alone is not illegal, but what is concerning is that an official agreement to coordinate efforts could have been made between the Russian government and the Trump campaign during this time and we wouldn’t have the solid proof. So again, we come just short of crossing the line of conspiracy. It’s worth noting that the FBI did investigate Page for potentially discussing sanctions with Russia while Trump was still a candidate, which would have been a violation of the Logan act. Unfortunately, that investigation was stonewalled due to lack of sources to uncover his actions in Russia.

CNI and The Mayflower Hotel

The Center for The National Interest is non-profit think tank with clear ties to the Russian government. The president of CNI is a Russian man named Dimitri Simes. Simes and the CNI were in close contact with several members of the Trump campaign, including Sessions who used to serve on the board of CNI. In late April, CNI hosted an event at the Mayflower Hotel that served to personally connect Trump with Ambassador Kislyak, who is known to do Intelligence work for Russia. Nothing explicitly illegal happened at this event, but it was another example of Russian agents making connections with the campaign and an opportunity to discuss coordination with Russia. Everyone involved claims that no such discussion took place. However, these are the same people who were caught multiple times lying about ever having met with any Russians at all ever.

Trump Tower Meeting

Everyone is very familiar with the Trump Tower meeting. What is important about this meeting is that it is the clearest example of an agreement to work together for a common goal, which is what needs to be demonstrated for a conspiracy conviction. We know that Trump Jr. gets an email offering illicit information on Hillary Clinton from the Russian Government, and he eagerly accepts. Even though Trump said he did not know about the meeting, Goldstone clearly states that he would share this information with Trump as well.

At the meeting Russian attorney Veselnitskaya claimed to have information about dirty financial activity by the Clintons. The only reason that Trump Jr. did not take this information and make use of it is because Veselnitskaya was unable to provide any proof of her claims. Trump Jr. even exclaimed, “what the hell are we doing here?” They then moved into talk about the Magnitsky Act. That is not innocent talk about adoptions. It’s talk about a very serious law that restricts Russian business activity outside of Russia. This is not the first time talk of “repairing” relations has come up with Trump Campaign members. It’s very clear that Veselnitskaya intended to offer dirt on Hillary in exchange for action on the Magnitsky Act. To be clear, Trump Jr. never refused to help with the Magnitsky Act, in fact he told them the meeting had been a waste because had no lawyers present. This implies that they may have discussed action if they had been aided by legal counsel.

While Trump Jr. may not have taken that information, he and other members went to that meeting with Trump’s knowledge with full intention of cooperating with the Russian government, and benefiting from the cyber attack against our nation. Remember that from both Papadopoulos and Page, the team very likely knew this information came from the stolen emails. I’ll talk about the legality of this meeting in part 3.

Republican National Convention

This is an event that I don’t think receives enough attention. In July of 2016, after Trump has won the candidacy for the Republican party, there was a convention to discuss and vote on the 2016 platform Republicans would run on. During this convention, a provision involving protection for the state of Ukraine and other language involving Russia was weakened. Specifically, U.S. action to protect Ukraine from further invasion was changed from responding with “deadly” force to “appropriate” force. That may seem like a small deal, but it’s a significant change. What it does is make the wording vague enough so that the Republican leader can determine what response should be made, and that response can obviously be virtually nothing.

This is happening literally at the same time that Cohen is still pushing for a Trump Tower in Moscow, along with other business expansion. This is also, after Papadopoulos and Page have made contact with Russian operatives, and after the Trump Tower meeting.

That’s important to consider because on the surface there is nothing illegal or improper with altering your platform, they have the freedom to run on any policies they want. However, if you could prove that policy changes were being made to help a foreign enemy that just attacked the United States out of an agreement to work with that hostile power, then you’re talking about conspiracy. Members at the RNC involved with the committee that made those changes made official statements to the Office that they were under the impression the changes were made at Trump’s request. A campaign member told a Republican committee member that he was on the phone with Trump as he told her to make the changes. The campaign worker later denied saying this.

Paul Manafort

I’m not going to spend a lot of time on him, because I think everyone is familiar with Manafort’s deep connections to Russia. What is important to know in the context of collusion is that during the campaign, during the hacking and manipulations efforts by Russia, throughout the time meetings took place between campaign officials and Russian agents, Paul Manafort had instructed Rick Gates provide a man named Konstantin Kilimnik, a former Manafort employee in Ukraine with ties to Russian intelligence, polling data that the campaign collected, as well as other updates on the campaign.

The polling data is very significant because the Office could never determine exactly what Manafort’s motivation was or what it was ever used for. Theoretically this could aide in hacking efforts, or simply in misinformation efforts across social media. It could be still be used for future purposes. It’s worth noting that Manafort’s lawyer tried to have this information redacted. Also, Manafort met in person with Konstantin Kilimnik,twice during the campaign, and their discussions are unknown for two reasons. The Office was unable to access all of Manafort’s electronic communications and Manafort refuses to talk, unlike some of his colleagues. Once again, we have direct interaction and coordination between the Trump Campaign and Russian intelligence for unknown purposes with no legitimate alibi.

Lastly, I want you to know that months after the election, after Russia clearly helped Trump get elected, Konstantin Kilimnik emailed Manafort to discuss ways that Trump could help Russia. (There’s more to this, but that’s the short version)

Campaign Efforts To Obtain Clinton Emails

Before Russia blatantly offered to provide information they claimed was from Hillary’s emails, Trump was determined to get his hands on them. The Report clearly states that Trump directed his staff to obtain Hillary’s stolen emails. Flynn took charge of this task and contacted two people, Barbara Ledeen and Peter Smith. Ledeen had apparently been working on obtaining Clinton’s private emails all the way back in 2015, and knew that they had been hacked by Russia. I find this astonishingly suspicious, yet even the Mueller Report doesn’t explain how she could have known this.

Smith is an even more suspicious character. In 2016, after Trump announced publicly he wanted Russia to release Clinton’s emails, Smith began an interesting journey to obtain them in coordination with the Trump campaign. It was confirmed that Smith was in contact with a couple high level staffers such as Flynn, though they didn’t necessarily control him. Smith oddly boasted many times that he was in touch with the hackers that committed the attack on our systems. After a series of bartering and back door deals, Smith came up empty handed. His connections were never verified, but he represents a high profile effort by the Trump Campaign to obtain stolen materials on an attack against the United States for his benefit.

Conclusion

Obviously this is not all the details pertaining to collusion, that section is half of the entire report. However, these highlights make some significant points. First is that Trump always had motivation to ignore wrongs committed by Russia for his personal benefit. The second is that Russia made several attempts to, in many cases successful, to befriend the Trump campaign and work together in some fashion. Third is that Trump and members of his campaign showed no aversion to working with Russia when they privately and publicly knew Russia was launching a cyber-assault on our country, and were eager to benefit from such actions.

I argue that the willingness to coordinate is quite obvious and that Trump and his staff acted in complete disregard of any ethical or legal standards. The “smoking gun” that would be needed to prove agreement on the cyber-assault itself and reciprocity could very well lie in one of many connections between campaign staff and Russian intelligence agents, which cannot be explained or justified.

As I stated in the beginning, it is clear to me that Trump, even without proving formal agreement, acted in a mirror fashion with the Russian government for both of their benefit at the expense of the American people. I can see why Mueller could not point to the extremely narrow standard of evidence needed to make a conviction of conspiracy, it in no way excuses the actions by Trump and his staff.

#politics #Trump #Mueller Report #Collusion #republicans #conservatives #liberals #impeachment #long read

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WeWork devastation

*Insider gossip as the rather poorly managed real-estate and rental disruption company is ravaged by its own disruption. It’s not the only one, though, as “disruption” doesn’t make much sense in a tech world where advances in hardware and software are basically static or even in retreat.

https://avc.com/2019/09/the-great-public-market-reckoning/

All of this falls under the heading of willful blindness, arrogance, and stupidity at the founder, lead investor, and board level.

Look at the bloodbath that We Work is undergoing right now on the heels of Adam Neumann being jerked back to earth -- he's gone, his wife is gone, the $60MM customized jet is gone, the $6MM We extortion is unwound, there is still a spa next to his office, 20+ of his henchpersons are gone, the company staff is likely to downsize by 50%, the company mojo is wrecked, they are going to get rid of their last 5 unrelated acquisitions.

They invested in a wave generating company and a health food company. Nuts.

Oh, yeah, the company is probably worth less than $4B -- so a lot of value is gone.

All the underwriters have been burned and JPMorgan is scorched.

There was a founder cult that was funded and encouraged by the lead investor and the board did NOTHING.

None of this stuff should ever have happened. Any decent CEO or board member would have stopped it before it got out of the cradle.

Those idiots on the board didn't even bother to tie the guy up with an Employment Agreement when they said in the S-1 his leadership was critical to the company. This one fact alone is an indictable offense.

This guy -- Adam Neumann -- tried to sell the market, the investors, the board that a business that has been around since man was living in caves was somehow a SaaS business commanding/demanding multiples like a software company. He actually used to say he was going to deliver Real Estate as a Service.

Meanwhile, real estate -- in which 25% of the world's wealth resides -- has been and always will be a rental arbitrage business.

You own real estate that lasts for 100-150 years and you enter into 15-25 year NNN leases with 15% bumps every 5 years.

You leverage it 3:1, while your 95% occupied building is throwing off a 10% ROI. That results in a 1.5-1.75 LTV and a 1.5+ DCR which makes it an A-AA security.

Your mortgage is 25 years at 4-5% and there are no pre-payment penalties such that you can refinance it every 11 years (two rent bumps + 1 year) and enjoy tax free "whip out." The refi proceeds are tax free.

Meanwhile you are writing off income with the depreciation and interest deductions.

See all the numbers in those preceding paragraphs. Real estate is a numbers game.

BTW, the preceding paragraphs are why Donald J Trump can be rich as Hell and it doesn't show up on his tax returns. He's whipping out massive cash every 11 years and it isn't taxable income so it doesn't go on his tax return.

You lease it fairly long term (15-25 years) so you can ride out the real estate business cycles (never longer than 12-15 years) and you own it looooooonger term.

We Work rented it short term and rented "desks" even shorter term. And, still they could not turn a current cash flow profit on every building.

Pros in the RE business saw this shell game a hundred miles away. The numbers are the numbers.

The idiot who gave this guy money was totally under his spell -- don't get me wrong, he's an idiot.

Real estate is not tech. It is not software, but it is a damn good business if you follow the rules. This guy, this company, this VC did not invent real estate or sex.

There is a good Swiss company, IWG, that figured this real estate play out. I predict that We Work will ultimately merge with IWG.

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SNK 117 Review

Eren is a jackass. That is the very first insight into his thinking we get. I almost came.

Death is raining from the skies and Eren can only think to think “Bring it on?” Sorry bro, but how did you think picking a fight with the football team would end?

Seriously, Eren was a jackass here. He doesn’t just jump headlong into the deep end, he fucking pole vaults into it. While lighting a joint and having a cameraman snap a pic for Instagram.

It’s so hilarious how this chapter plays out. Eren walks in thinking he’s hot shit, and by the end he’s throwing a temper tantrum because he’s about to lose.

People may not like me using that term, temper tantrum, but it really is the best one for what happened. The fight is clearly not going his way. He about to lose to fucking Reiner of all people (no offense to any Reiner stans out there).

And he’s pissed.

He is fucking pissed off. As if the ear-splitting screams of anger weren’t a dead giveaway.

Eren…just isn’t a very mature person. I said earlier that Eren would go apeshit if things started going against him, and it turns out I was right.

Eren just hates to lose. The idea that he could be dominated by someone else is so offensive to him that it turns him into a mindless ape.

He embodies the macho tough guy archetype. He may like to pound his chest a lot, but he’s really insecure. He took a punch to the face from Armin like it was nothing, but all it took was a snide remark to get to him.

This insecurity likely stems from his general worldview. One thing that struck me about Eren early on was how much he talked about hierarchies. He talks of the Titans dominating humanity. Of there being strong people and weak people. The existence of strong and weak people implies a hierarchy.

Eren sees the world in terms of hierarchies. There are strong people who fight, win, and get to live. Then there are weak people who cower, lose, and die.

This is why I compare Eren to Donald Trump a lot. Eren’s worldview is basically Trump’s. There is no difference. You’re either a winner or a loser. If you don’t have power, you are powerless.

It’s more obvious with Trump, though, because Trump is just more unabashed that Eren is. Trump once called his Chief of Staff into the Oval Office and ordered him to swat a fly for him. He relishes the power he has over people and abuses it for kicks. Just like a certain ice cream shit swirl-haired brat and another certain leader of the Cult of Zeke.

Trump’s actions and rhetoric are infused with this worldview. Whenever Trump interacts with someone else, whenever he speaks of relations between people, it is obvious he sees the world in zero-sum terms. People like him believe we live in a world of slaves and masters.

This Trumpian attitude is pervasive among the EFC. Yelena, Floch, and even to a certain extent, Louise. And then there’s Eren. Zeke may have a monkey for a titan form, but the almost literal king of Ape Mountain here is Eren himself.

Eren has been obsessed with notions of dominance and strength since childhood. His whole beef with the titans, which predates the killing of his mother, was all about their dominance over him. The death of his mother was just part of the puzzle of what drove him early on.

This attitude has been apparent since the training arc. Remember what happened when it looked like he might flunk out and be sent to the fields? Mikasa had a good point about there being more than one way to fight, but Eren wouldn’t have it.

The fall of Shighanshina was cast as an act of domination by the titans, which, given Eren’s hierarchical worldview, was also necessarily a sign of his own weakness.

Failing to pass military training and fight the titans is thus also a sign of his weakness, which is why he was so obsessed with not flunking.

Eren may, ultimately, just be using the EFC for his own ends, but it makes an awful lot of sense for him to be allied with them for it to be just that. Eren and Floch share a worldview. As most die-hard nationalists are, they are cruel.

At the heart of most nationalist movements is a grievance over the domination of your people by an outside force. In the United States, it’s the grievance of white people over the supposed dominance of colored people. In Europe, it’s the grievance of white people over the supposed ‘arabization” of the continent.

On Paradis, it’s the outrage over Eldian persecution. The Marleyans are dominating the Eldians and this is seen as illegitimate. And it is! But the series is walking a fine line. Nationalism is a very real and dangerous movement and the series needs to be careful if it’s going to show them as not entirely wrong.

It’s easy to think the series is just playing the well-intentioned extremist trope, but there’s a subtle nuance here.

This isn’t like in My Hero Academia, where the Hero Killer believed commercialism had cheapened the hero profession, so he set out to murder whom he believed were the worst offenders.

Vigilante justice is wrong. There is a system in place to deal with wrongful acts. Because that’s what’s fair to all involved parties. Judge, jury, and executioner in one person is tyrannical, and My Hero Academia rightfully denies the Hero Killer any moral authority.

Attack on Titan, in contrast, grants moral authority to the EFC. Hange said “[The EFC] must believe in Eren, who in turn believes in Zeke. Of course, all we ever did was doubt Zeke. We never tried to move forward. But ultimately, the Eldian people have no choice but to rely on the Yeager brothers’ ability to rumble the land…which means it was the Corps who had been squandering its precious time, putting the Eldian people’s lives at risk. It’s no surprise many soldiers felt that way.”

The point is conceded. The story legitimizes not just their basic worldview, but the actions they take as a result of that worldview. The story endorses insubordination.

It’s the same thing on modernizing the military too. Modernizing the military was part of Zeke’s cover plan, but presumably because they’re weary of Zeke, Paradis has apparently not done much to reform. They still do anti-titan training with swords!

Floch bad-mouths Shadis, but he’s just an instructor. The face of the problem, basically. Hange, Pixis, Nile, and Zackley are the leaders of the military, so the story’s support for Floch’s point about needing a modern military is also an indictment of them.

The story, basically, throws them under the bus to make a point about needing a top of the line military.

This is partly why I fear the story is sympathetic to the EFC. This is a story about fighting. And right now, the EFC are the only ones doing that right now. It’s the EFC that’s out there fighting and dying to protect Paradis.

And the people who’re actually worth cheering for?

They’re in jail right now shitting bricks over nothing!

So…Eren’s been up to some real shit lately, hasn’t he?

He’s shat all over Marley. He’s shat all over his friends. He’s shat all over his country. He’s been a real shit-throwing ape, hasn’t he?

All this inexplicable shit throwing has most people convinced there’s some plan here. Eren’s doing this because he has a good reason to do it and we’ll all be praising him for his brilliance when this is all over.

But a lot of people talk about Trump like his actions are part of some plan, too, and that has me thinking about something:

What if there is no plan?

Whenever Trump does something inexplicable people often assume it’s part of some plan. He’s beefing with the Teletubbies on Twitter because it distracts us from his family separation policy. It just has to be. It has to be. There’s no way someone, anyone, could be this stupid!

This is called the cleverness fallacy and it occurs when people just assume there’s an underlying plan in place for no real reason.

In reality, Trump beefs with Teletubbies because he’s actually is that stupid.

In this chapter, Eren struts out to face the invading Marleyans by himself. Now, looking at this purely from an outsider’s perspective, you would think he would do this because he has a plan in place. He’s walking out to face the invading hordes solo because he’s laid a trap or something.

But no. He had no plan. He had nothing.

What if that is what’s been going on this whole time?

What if the reason he’s been doing all this seemingly random shit is because he legit has no idea what he’s doing?

At the very least, I’m willing to bet he hasn’t fully thought things through. I’m sure he has an end goal in place, and he probably has a vague idea how to achieve it, but it wouldn’t surprise me if he’s been improvising most of the time.

Like, suppose the end goal is to use the wall titans to protect Paradis while implementing some method that circumvents the Curse of Ymir? In that case, is it really hard to believe Eren is mostly fuzzy on whether the Curse can actually be circumvented at all, but is doing all this anyway because he’s convinced himself it’s the only way?

Eren supposedly has this strategy in place, even though thematically it makes no sense. Eren isn’t special. He’s not. The whole thing with his character is that he’s not humanity’s savior. He’s not going to win the war for everyone.

And yet. Now this guy is going to save the world singlehandedly? He’s concocted a master plan and has everyone eating out of the palm of his hand, and he’s doing it all by himself? Something about all that doesn’t add up.

(I will admit it is possible Historia may be in on the plan. It’s possible Eren told Historia to appear as though she’s going along with Zeke’s plan.)

If it turned out Eren’s been mostly blustering his way to success, I wouldn’t be shocked.

This chapter was a nice change of pace for Eren. He rarely looks so…vulnerable. Did you see the look on his face when Zeke showed up like he was fucking Gandalf at Helm’s Deep? That couldn’t have been more fairy tale-like if you put Zeke in shining armor and Eren in a dress.

Eren is definitely going to betray Zeke, but I’m glad Zeke at least gets to feel like he has something real going on here with Eren. He finally gets to be an onii-chan.

Zeke tells Eren to leave the rest to his big brother. Using “big brother” here is a bit saccharine, but it says a lot. I’m sure it feels very gratifying for Zeke to be able to say he’s got Eren’s back.

Isayama is going to work the 104th into the final battle somehow, right? This is apparently the final battle, we’ve gotta make it a spectacle somehow. A three way fight between the Marleyans, Zeren, and Eren’s compatriots would work.

IDK where Isayama is going with them thinking the Rumbling’s started. How hilarious would it be if Armin went colossal and killed almost everyone in the building (he could probably shield his friends like Eren did in Trost) because he thought the world was about to be destroyed and the only hope to save it is if Eren dies right now.

Except—oops, there was no rumbling at all. My bad!

I could see Isayama doing that. +1 to him if he does.

This chapter features a lot of war action, so I guess I can talk about something that’s always bothered me about the discourse surrounding this series.

-deep breathe-

No one understands what a war hawk is.

One common belief about this series is that SNK is anti-war because of how gruesome its depiction of combat is. This is a gross misunderstanding.

Combat is indeed depicted in the series as being unpleasant. People die in horrific ways. Torn limb from limb. Eaten alive. Crushed like a love bug. The clear stance of the series is that war is an ugly thing.

But FFS, that’s not what anti-war means!

No one who’s serious denies that war is ugly. That’s not the point. It’s not about whether or not war is a glorious virtue or an inglorious vice. Those aren’t the terms of the debate.

One of the most prominent war hawks in the United States was Senator John McCain! McCain was intimately familiar with the horrors of war. He was shot down in Vietnam, imprisoned by the enemy, tortured, and he carried the scars of that nightmare until the day he died.

But he was a war hawk. When there was trouble somewhere around the world, he supported using military force to resolve the issue. Because while he didn’t deny the ugliness of war, he believed military force would ultimately result in a good end. He believed it was the best possible option and was therefore a necessity.

The debate between the hawks and the doves is about the necessity of war, not the aesthetics of it.

Believing in the necessity of war is different from glorifying it. Nazis glorified war. Isayama is not a Nazi.

If the series were truly anti-war, it would uphold non-violent alternatives to war. But SNK clearly does not do that.

Armin is kind of a whipping boy in this regard. There are several prominent examples of him trying to negotiate with the enemy, only to be thoroughly rebuffed. The point the series is trying to make is clear: the world is cruel; war is the only option, however unfortunate.

That’s not to say the series supports wanton violence. The series may lean towards hawkishness, but its stance is more complex than that. Characters who seek to minimize casualties are cast as heroes. See: Smith, Erwin.

Merciful acts, where appropriate, are also smiled upon. See: Blaus, Mr.

But this is still an overall hawkish stance, and moreover, it is seemingly informed by a very crude worldview.

One of the most famous sequences in the story is of Mikasa being kidnapped and Eren rescuing her. Even now, I’m struck by the sheer…brutalism of the moral.

Mikasa’s parents are murdered and she is taken to be enslaved. Eren kills two of them in retaliation, but is cornered by the last remaining one. Mikasa is the only one who can save him, and herself by extension. On the brink of losing his life, Eren calls for a cowering Mikasa to fight. In that moment, Mikasa had an epiphany.

She saw a connection between this scene and many others in her life. A grasshopper killing a butterfly. Her father killing a duck for food.

Predator and prey.

Strong and weak.

Winners and losers.

Dominators and the dominated.

Fighters and quitters.

The world that the girl saw was a cruel one. Living means being a winner. Being a winner means fighting.

Fighting means killing.

Empowered by this realization, Mikasa is able to kill the slaver and save Eren’s life.

At the end, the moral of the story is given to us: “This is a cruel world and only the winners survive.”

If you lose, you die. If you win, you live. And you can’t win if you don’t fight.

If you don’t kill.

Now, of course, it made sense for Mikasa to kill the slavers; it was defensive, but that’s not the point. This is a story. It is constructed to impart certain values to us, the readers. This anecdote doesn’t just exist to show us how Eren met Mikasa, it exists to distill for us the values of the story.

This is why I think the story will not end with the Eldians and Marleyans finding peace. This is not a story about negotiating. This is a story about fighting.

In that way, Attack on Titan is pro-war, not anti-war. It is not glorified, but it is upheld as a necessity.

It will be interesting where the series comes down on the rightfulness of Eren’s actions. The values of this series is something I’ve been trying to puzzle out for some time.

It’s one thing to support fighting in self-defense. It’s another thing entirely to support what Eren did. Attacking another country because you know they will attack you eventually, instead of imminently, is morally repugnant and illegal under current law.

War is supposed to be an awful thing, remember? Therefore, it is equally awful to just “skip to the end” when relations look bleak. You can’t do that. It’s not right.

It’s not fair to the people whose lives would be fucking annihilated. If it can be held off, it should be.

This is an island nation with an antagonistic enemy just across the sea. Patrol ships are sent into one another’s territorial waters. Their loud-mouthed supreme leader bellows about war crimes past.

But Japan hasn’t gone to war with North Korea yet. Hopefully, it never will.

Isayama can’t be this blind, right?

He realizes that if his story endorses Eren’s actions, then it’s hard not to read it as him calling for Japan to break the law, right?

War between countries is banned. You cannot attack another country just because you are on really bad terms with them, even if you know war is inevitable. Only if war is imminent can you justify an attack, even then it would be a controversial move.

This is why the story endorsing Eren’s attack is the thing that keeps me up at night. If this series is prepared to say it is not wrong on the merits to attack another country just because war is inevitable, then in the context of Japan, with its highly antagonistic relationship with North Korea, it’s basically warmongering.

It’s good then that we see Eren’s attack has backfired somewhat. The Marleyans are attacking earlier than expected, and they don’t seem as weakened as was thought they’d be. There’s still some hope.

One thread from the start of the Marley arc that hasn’t been brought up yet has been Zeke’s insistence on Marley attacking Paradis again, even though his plan the whole time was to escape to Paradis…after provoking Marley into attacking Paradis with Eren’s attack.

At this point, it seems clear Zeke suckered Marley into preparing for war so they’d have an invasion force cued up and ready to go when Eren attacked the festival.

Zeke wants Paradis to be attacked for some reason. Most likely it’s so they can use the Wall Titans as a show of force. Crush the invaders and no one will ever attack again. But things don’t seem to be panning out as Zeren had hoped.

Zeke apparently miscalculated (again) and thought the Marleyans would wait rather than go it alone.

Assuming Zeke’s been completely up front with Eren about his plans, it seems they both thought Marley would join forces with the rest of the world first. Eren is incredulous at this attack; he clearly didn’t see it coming. And in chapter 113, Zeke monologues that the world’s forces would be attacking soon. Not Marley specifically.

From a storytelling perspective, I really like this. It introduces some chaos into the battle and it forces everyone to improvise. That’s always good for tension.

#attack on titan #shingeki no kyojin #snk 117 #spoilers #eren jeager

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Bread-and-Butter-Issues Matter More Than The Mueller Report

We need to see the Mueller report.

There’s absolutely no question about it.

If you think “wait, don’t we already have it?!”, the answer is no. We have a summary, provided by the Attorney General Barr, but that sums up 400 pages in 4 pages. That’s not how this works.

Barr’s memo has very few details in it, and makes determinations that usually the House of Representatives make. On the topic of obstruction it includes the quote that “while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him”, which is being spun by the White House and its pundits as a “full and complete exoneration”. And now people from Mueller’s Team, so the people who worked on the investigation, claim that the report is actually more damaging than Barr’s memo insinuates.

The whole story is full of holes. Which is why the full report should be released sooner rather than later.

But that’s not what I want to write about today. It’s about what’s next.

In the last Midterms, the voters did not base their vote on the question of the Mueller investigation, and the polls since the memo was released also show that it makes no difference. To someone who doesn’t spend all day glued to the news, the question of Trump obstructing justice and the question of the Trump campaign colluding with Russia doesn’t matter. Do I think it should matter to them? Absolutely. Can I change it? No.

The Democrats are right in their quest to get the full Mueller report to the public. But in their quest to get Trump out of the White House, it’s not going to help them. Even if they find something that’s worth impeaching Trump over, the Senate will never agree. So that’s not going to work. The Southern District of New York and their investigations, that are often brought up now, will also not catapult Trump out of office because it is standing Justice Department stance that a sitting President cannot be indicted.

The only way out of this is electing someone other than Trump.

And to achieve that, the Democrats have to focus their agenda on the so-called “Bread and Butter Issues”: The issues that an average household in the United States discusses over the dinner table. Among those are:

health care: Trump has proposed a new plan to slash the Affordable Care Act in its entirety, without offering a new plan. He says that will come after 2020, but let’s face it... it won’t.

social security: while the jobs numbers are going up, people are hardly earning more and simple hiccups in your life can derail them completely. it’s time to do something about it.

college costs: student debt is eating up the students and are therefore stopping them from taking important steps in their lives. Time to address it and to make education available for everyone.

and as always: jobs, jobs, jobs

But there are also some more overarching issues that have to be addressed by a democratic challenger to the presidency:

forever wars: recently, two usually opposing veterans organizations, the left leaning VoteVets.org and the conservative Concerned Veterans for America, have teamed up to lobby together to end the forever wars the US is still involved in, citing the fact that people old enough to enlist these days were not even alive when 9/11 happened. It should be on anyone’s agenda to send more people into these war zones (except for Syria).

Russian interference in elections: Elections have to be safe against outside interference no matter from which actor. Russia, Saudi-Arabia, China, whoever it is, they have no business in the “Western” elections, either in the US or in Europe. A democratic agenda has to include measures to rebut that.

regaining the “moral high ground” and interest in global leadership: If the United States want to continue leading the free world, they have to do something NOW. And the best way to do it would be to take a strong stance against human rights abuses around the world, instead of committing them oneself (coughcoughKidsInCagescoughcough). There are several areas where China is taking over global leadership, and it’s debatable whether that’s something anyone wants.

strengthening and reforging traditional alliances: Trump has been trash talking organizations and alliances around the world, like NATO or the UN, and European Allies, among others, if not everyone that’s not a dictator. That’s harmful to trade relations and to the security of the United States.

Trump must be voted out, not impeached. And therefore the agenda of the democratic party (and they should develop one together) has to focus on topics that actually matter to people. Only then can America show it’s true colors: embrace or reject the hatred? the xenophobia? the lies and deflections? the corruption and nepotism?

I still have hope that there is a democratic candidate out there who can muster enough support to bring the people who reject the current president out to the polls in 2020. Pretty high on my list at the moment: Pete Buttigieg.

But make up your own mind. Find someone whose agenda agrees with you and support them. Only this way, we can get the angry orange out of the White House.

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16. The Christian Succession – When Biblical Morality Conflicts with the Law

On July 20, 1993, Vince Foster was found dead rolled in a carpet in Fort Marcy Park. He had been shot twice. One of many mysterious deaths associated with the Clintons, his was ruled a suicide. No one ever explained how someone could shoot themselves twice, roll themselves into a carpet, and transport themselves to a park. Similarly, Clinton’s friend, Epstein, committed suicide by hanging himself in a jail cell. It was a remarkable feat given that Epstein was 6 feet tall and the bedpost he used was only 5 feet tall.

Upon hearing that Hilary Clinton’s attorney, Michael Sussmann, had been indicted related to the Russian Collusion Hoax, I found myself wondering the bookie odds that Sussmann commits suicide? Will he shoot himself THREE times? An auto accident? Fall down two stairs?

I recently read about a 1944 movie titled “Gaslighting” where a man convinced his normal wife that she was going crazy so that she would not realize that he was a serial killer. The article explained the use of the term “gaslighting” describing the Biden Administration and the Demented Marxists (DMs) in control of our government. The insane mandates, the various crises, and the constant “Up is Down” laws are intentional. Anyone opposed to the Biden behavior is labeled as insane. For example, Christians in Afghanistan are being slaughtered by the Taliban (one Christian organization reported that of the 300 Christians they used to communicate with regularly, only 55 are still alive), Biden and his DMs are proclaiming the Afghan Disaster as a victory.

In the real world, two enormous forces have been unleashed on the global economy. One is the looming Constitutional Crisis because of the fraudulent 2020 election. Are Pelosi and her DMs in a panic because they feel the increasing vibration of wobbling wheels on their fraudulent election machine? Pray the enormous amount of Chinese money that bought DMs (politicians, bureaucrats, and academics) is insufficient compared to the Patriots across the country who are demanding forensic election audits. A growing majority of Americans are upset at the election, notice the football stadium Biden salutes and the Patriot parades.

An equally enormous force is the consolidation of power by President Xi in China as he recreates failed Venezuela on a gigantic scale. It will take a while for China’s economy to finally collapse, but Xi is centralizing Chinese Communist Party (CCP) control over every facet of the Chinese economy and currently focused on the Chinese real estate development industry. Last week the China Evergrande (Evergrande) contagion spread to the bonds of two other real estate developers. The CCP is unleashing unpredictable global economic ripple effects into the global financial markets. Watch the Ripple Effects, the Ripple Effects, the Ripple Effects!!!!

Life was easier in America when our laws were based on Biblical Morality (Morality). Today we have people in public offices and government jobs who are controlled by Satan. The most noticeable group are those who worship power and money that I call Demented Marxists. Under Obama and now Biden, we American Christians are being forced to choose between obeying the law or Biblical Morality. Following Biblical Morality often leads to great difficulty for the Christian. But it is the only path based on our faith. One current example is the “Vaccine Mandate” of the DMs. Historically, the protocol for a pandemic has been that:

1. Anyone over the age of 60 should be vaccinated because their immune systems are week.

2. Anyone under the age of 20 does not need to be vaccinated, their immune systems are strong.

3. For those between 20 and 60, it is a matter of personal choice based upon their immune system, risk, etc.

Being 72, I have been vaccinated with the J & J. But I salute and admire those under the age of 60 who have declined to be vaccinated. That is their right and their decision. The DMs attempting to force vaccination on all have an agenda driven by Satan, hence the gaslighting.

Frustration with Biden and his DMs continues to build on many fronts – immigration at will, Afghanistan, and numerous manifestations of a senile man leading a troop of Demented Marxists who obviously consider the average American to be unworthy of regard beyond being peasants that pay taxes. I have enjoyed Melissa MacKenzie’s blog where she wrote “Courage begets Courage”. Americans are living their Morality and disregarding conflicting law. Bravo.

A strong probability exists that America is headed into a Constitutional Crisis triggered by the newest Durham indictment (Mr. Sussmann, Hilary Clinton’s attorney), the Arizona Election Audit results to be released this week (they ran a comparison of 673,000 “New Voters” in Arizona with the Social Security Administration and reportedly 58% did not exist), the results of the numerous other election audits that are underway, or a combination of all of these forces. I remember the economic impact of Watergate. Adding the distorted economy, rising inflation, rising energy costs, higher taxes beginning at $50k income, and the ripple effects of Evergrande equals a swirling maelstrom economy. Cinch up your saddle for a rough ride.

Economic Forecast:

It is good news that the financial markets realize the danger and have discounted those Chinese companies’ bond values. It shows independence. While I expect Xi to stabilize the situation by taking control of the real estate development industry, there will be many unintended and unpredicted ripple effects in both the Chinese and global economies. Hopefully the global financial markets discount the value of the Chinese Yuan to reflect its real value, roughly equivalent of fool’s gold.

When viewed through that lens the three items we reported last week have great significance:

1. Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan announcing that he would be selling his stock portfolio. Getting prepared?

2. With interest rates already at zero, it is also logical that The Fed explore replacing our paper currency with digital currency so they can employ negative interest rates more effectively. Getting prepared?

3. Taiwan enhancing their defenses and signing a defense treaty with the Japanese (not the Americans) is prudent as dictators invade wealthy neighbors when in economic turmoil.

Both the Reagan and Trump administrations proved that slashing taxes, decreasing the size of government, and providing tax incentives to build the American manufacturing economy made us more secure while increasing the size of the American economic pie allowing more assistance to those who need it. America prospered under the hand of God because our country enjoyed the combination of Christianity, capitalism, and democracy.

In contrast, Biden and the DMs have us on a path to Marxism which fails because it everyone is a victim and so the pie needs to be redivided. That is a self-destructive exercise that decreases the size of the economic pie. Everyone loses except the “Elites”.

Pray that our Lord and Savior raises up and protects the Patriots that demand forensic audits of the 2020 election in every state. Watch OAN Friday from 4 – 7 PM to see the report on the Arizona Forensic Audit. Honest elections are the fulcrum of our American experiment. It is not vengeance to demand honesty and that everyone play by the same laws. Men make plans, but God ALWAYS wins. Every portfolio should contain some cash and a great piece of land remains The Best investment long term.

“For I consider the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us.”

(Romans 8: 18) New Revised Standard Version, Oxford University Press)

Stay healthy,

Ned

September 22, 2021

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