Mentally ill, career women, want a man, but can't find one that meets their standards, either no kids and no man or too many kids and they're marrying Uncle Sam's welfare checks and screeching about the right to off their own offspring...
They're an expression of too much social expectation and not enough fulfillment. All the anger, jealousy, bitterness, and rage these people have just fuels their love of the Democrat plantation.
Understand that if you use a clickbait title like this, it's the quickest way to ensure that I do not look at your content and actively seek to ban anything further you'd ever produce. People who use tactics like this aren't serious and rarely if ever provide actual useful data. No, I didn't watch your 14 min revenue stream.
I would normally reject this kind of reasoning but he literally just met with Trump. They appeared together at Mar-a-Lago appearing to be in good spirits and friendship. I'm certain they would have discussed this.
Part of me thinks this was Trump saying "just go with it. The American people will be so angry and disgusted with the whole thing, it'll be like aerosolizing the red pill, so you can't help but breathe it in, no matter where you are or how asleep you might be." Trump's clearly playing for the working poor who look at this kind of spending and think "this should be spent here in America. They're taking the money out of my paycheck every two weeks for this sh...."
Cloud seeding isn't new, nor particularly controversial. Being able to encourage evaporation where water is plentiful and rain where it is needed is a helpful thing for farmers. Yes, I'm aware Dubai's flooded right now, but the typical use case of this technology is to promote rain over farmland, and it works.
I'm far more concerned with efforts to "cool" the earth by creating high-albedo environments to block the sun. That's potentially incredibly dangerous, depending on what they're using to do it - and it's predicated on a lie. At least with the cloud seeding, there is no lie. You do it when there isn't enough rain. With this, we do it because the gov't has created fake data by cooling the past and warming the present by abusing the urban heat island effect.
This is the kind of empty analysis that gets us into trouble.
TLDR: There's always more to the story. Mike Johnson may believe he is doing something patriotic (see the last few thoughts).
Let's do some thinking. Let's assume Mike Johnson is that deeply faithful evangelical Christian we thought he was when we backed him for Speaker. Let's assume he's a patriot, and that he meant all of those America First promises he made. Let's assume his life story wasn't an act, it was real.
Let's acknowledge that Mike Johnson flipped really, really suddenly and really, really recently. Perhaps one event changed his view, because his political position changed so fast. And let's assume that event had to do with the "intelligence community" because he has never offered a formal and open explanation, which he would have if he could given his past record of character.
Let's assume we're never going to get the full story because this involves the "intelligence community" who lie and blackmail for a living, but let's also assume that whatever story they concocted has some element of truth, which enables it to be believable. For example, the Iraq WMD was believable because Saddam Hussein had had a nuclear program and had spent 10 years refusing to let the IAEA inspect his facilities to ensure he was in fact not building weapons.
Are Russia, China, and Iran allied?
That's not a secret. Russia and China are openly allied and have spent time publicly increasing economic ties for the last 2 years. China has been buying oil from Iran clandestinely for years in defiance of western sanctions. It continues to do so because it's energy needs are so great. Russia would seem to be a natural competitor here with it's own fossil fuel exports, but China's demand is large enough for both. In addition, Russia has openly invested in helping Iran build a nuclear fission power plant sending experts and parts for such projects. Russia and Iran have been trading in weapons for many years, and have prominently done so recently in defiance of the West. They've sold missiles and air defense systems to Iran, and they bought large quantities of the Shahed suicide drone which they've converted to the Geran series and have used extensively and to great effect in Ukraine. The evidence indicates there is an economic and military alliance here.
Is Putin a military threat to Eastern and Central Europe?
Yes and no. Just looking at numbers, Russia has ~1.3 million active duty military personnel. In Oct 2023, they mobilized ~340K for duty in Ukraine to join the ~200K who were already there fighting the SMO. (source). Turkey has the 2nd largest military in NATO after the US at ~335K active duty personnel. Poland is next at ~200K. Right now, even with limited mobilization, Russia has a large advantage, and they're not even close to fully spun up to a wartime posture. Yes, they could indeed threaten Eastern Europe if they wanted to.
It's a bit more complex than that though. Russia would need to hold the ground. That means it would need significantly more men. The Russian people aren't interested in such a thing. They support the SMO because it is perceived as a necessity. There is not large scale support for a full invasion and conquest of Ukraine west of the Dneiper, let alone the Baltic states, Poland, or the Balkans. Putin, for his part, has expressed no such interest either. He's been clear about his interests in Ukraine: demilitarize to remove the threat on his border, regime change of the "Neo-Nazi" government, neutrality and friendship for a post-puppet-state Ukraine.
Russia's military is indeed a threat, but it seems clear Putin intends to proceed in a Cold War 2.0 stance, that is, he's keeping that military there specifically to project power against EU and NATO expansionism. He is not planning to actually invade those countries which would be a logistical nightmare, only to be perceived as being capable of it if the handlers in DC, London, and Brussels get frisky.
Will more weapons in Ukraine accomplish the stated goal?
Absolutely not. It is clear that Russia has extremely good intelligence networks both human and signals in Ukraine. Russian media has reported that Ukrainian citizens are tipping the Russians when new shipments come through and to where foreign mercenaries are quartering on their way to the front. Russia has opportunistically struck these targets regularly with missile barrages. Any new weapons shipments will be similarly targeted.
Advanced weapons require advanced training to deploy effectively. All of the weapons in the NATO arsenal are designed around the American strategy of combined arms: land, air, and naval assets all brought to bear on the target at the same time. You don't just send infantry without armor or without air support. You can't just put planes up without having a ground army to take and hold the ground. You can't send in armor without air cover and infantry support. Ukraine, however, has no effective air force. The Russian anti-air assets have completely neutralized whatever force Ukraine had. Even with new planes, it would be years to train the pilots and the ground commanders to effectively coordinate their use. The lack of air power has resulted in a turkey shoot on all that armor we've sent over. Sending more weapons into this scenario will just result in Russia destroying them.
No, more weapons will not achieve anything other than increasing orders from the DoD for new weapons from the defense contractors. And that's without mentioning the flagrant theft and resale of western weapons on the black market.
Where is the plan to WIN?
At no point in this entire conflict has anyone in the US gov't, its allies, or any official of NATO stated what the plan is to WIN. What are the strategic objectives? What is the clear path to achieving those objectives? Why are none of the NATO governments unwilling to commit their own assets to this fight? They want a war, but want other people to fight it. They don't have the industrial capacity to fight it.
So, we're literally doing this specifically to waste money and lives, just so long as it's someone else's lives.
Whatever Mike Johnson is being told by the "intelligence community" clowns, it's so weak that he can't go to his own caucus, let alone the American people and convince them. But, it seems clear that he believes it to be a moral thing to do.
Are we supporting some sort of massive clandestine clean-up?
This is where I start rampantly speculating. We know that Ukraine is a deeply corrupt country, the most corrupt in Europe, and it has been that way since the fall of the Soviet Union. They're poor and corrupt. George Soros moved in and set up shop in the mid-90s with his destabilization plan and his "open society." He has bought a lot of politicians and power brokers there in order to push anti-Russian Ukrainian nationalism. He's a huge promoter of the "Neo Nazis" in the current government.
We know that Obama sent Shitshow Joe to Ukraine in 2012-13ish to handle the issue, whatever it was. He set up Crackhead Hunter over there at Burisma, with a no-show, ultra-high-paying job. Obviously, that was the payment of a bribe. Hunter was there doing something else. Services were being rendered for which Ukraine was paying. What exactly?
Two possibiities. The first is the clandestine DoD biological weapons program under the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). They hired contractors to build and operate 46 labs in Ukraine amidst a constellation of ~340 such labs all over Eastern Europe and Africa in countries where there's effectively no oversight. They were running a biological weapons program over there, and outbreaks of weaponizable pathogens are well documented in local media. This is a violation of a 1969 treaty banning such research, which is why we don't just do it at a proper facility like Fort Detrick.
The second is more speculative. It's clear that Ukraine's criminal underworld is off the charts. They're on an east-west crossroads into Europe for all sorts of drugs (Afghanistan and central Asia) and human traffic. Anything you want from women, kids, weapons, etc all flows freely through Ukraine. The "oligarchs" run it like the mafia. Albania gets a lot of the credit formally, but it flows through Ukraine. I suspect more than a few Americans and Europeans are prominent customers.
Mike Johnson may view continued weapons payments as hush money to keep Zelensky from spilling the beans on all this. Given how explosive it is, it is possible that this might be seen as a patriotic cover-up. That's the best I can do about giving him the benefit of the doubt.
At this point, we're getting minute to minute updates on what Iran's going to do. Ever get the sense that the people reporting this happen to be talking to the people who are going to fire the missiles (and they don't speak Farci)?
This is the wrong time stamp. I'm 20 min in and he has blamed COVID for killing his security dogs and relived a war story. There's no mention of the election. This is a tremendous waste of my time.
Что такого сложного в русском языке?
I'm trying to find an original source, which is a real pain working through a translator. The Investigative Committee of Russia is a real thing. There's a website. (link - Russian). There's an English version, but the database hasn't been updated since Dec. 31st, 2022. Not helpful. So working through a translator service, read it, having to manually load each page twice (fun!).
I have not been able to find this specific video apart from a Telegram repost on X (link) from Intel Republic, a pro-Russian news feed focused heavily on the Ukraine war.
I suspect the video is real (ie not AI-generated or video game footage remixed).
I have no idea what evidence supports the claim. None was presented.
At best this is a "government officials say" post, and I'm beyond trusting the word of any government at face value at this point. Put up the evidence or I'm regarding it as propaganda. Russia, China, Israel, US, UK, don't care. They all lie.
It's a bit more complex than that. Morality matters as does consistency within our legal system. Murder is illegal and yet abortion gets carved out as an exception because for some reason the fetus is less ... valuable, human, something? People do need to grapple with it and debate it. And they also need to listen to the chicks who are getting knocked up and showing up at the clinic for pills or scrape-and-vacuum therapy. One of the biggest themes is that they want to give their kids a good life, but feel they can't, so they won't start the process. Not enough money. No decent job. The man's a POS who'd be a terrible father. We can't just ignore all of that. That's how we end up with rampant single motherhood, moms marrying Uncle Sam and his welfare checks, and out of control crime among young, impoverished males with no father figures. Your morality can result in situations that get other people killed.
It's up to We the People to grapple with that. We have to sort that mess out and try and find solutions that actually work. We define our own culture. We set our own norms. We're the ones who have to do the work of supporting those mothers and babies.
DJT is absolutely right to take this position as a politician. Like a lot of things in our society, government isn't the answer. We the People are. We're the ones who have to do the work of living our values.
Just in case you needed any confirmation of why both sides hate this man equally, here is a great example.
His position is totally in line with opinion polls going back for decades in support of the two exceptions.
His position is totally consistent with the SCOTUS, that this is a 10th amendment-deferred power and it is up to the individual states to regulate, not the federal government.
But because he won't take an all-or-nothing position imposing one moral extreme or the other, and instead supports actual democratic processes and representative government, they both hate him.
I have no idea where he got this date. The first US reports were Dec 31st, 2020 after days of rumors coming out of China that leaked after Christmas. The first case in the US was a traveler identified in late January and the first domestic case didn't occur until the 3rd week of February 2021. If we want to get technical, the virus was circulating long before that. There are published paper of pathology reports showing that lung samples from September 2020 in Italy already had COVID-19 in them.
I have no idea where this guy determined Dec. 14th as some sort of hard and fast date here. I'm calling this sensationalist clickbait for now.
That's certainly the easier and more politically viable solution, but I did preface that with "if we had a functional government." That's really important, because we believe in the rule of law and the equal application of the law. All people are subject to the same laws. You or I have to follow those laws and would be subject to the charges and trial. So, too, should they.
Principles are really important. This is why the hold kids ruthlessly accountable to the rules in baseball or gymnastics or whatever: to teach a lesson about equality. None of us is "privileged" to be given leniency. We all get the same justice. That's our value. That's a fundamental part of what our nation is.
As for actually deporting them, that gets tricky because of the citizenship question. You can't just deport citizens. You can't just strip them of their citizenship once given (international law gets entangling here).
These people should never have been brought here. Now that they are, they're a problem we're likely stuck with ad infinitum, same as Europe with its own subversives.
The correct way to express that is to support voting for political change. We work within the system. We vote for guys like Ron Paul ("end the Fed") and Donald Trump. We protest. We don't call for the end of the entire country let alone call for the genocide of its people. "Death to America" isn't free speech. It isn't a protest against the government. SCOTUS has addressed. This. You can say you disagree with the gov't. You can be vulgar about it. You can say "f--- the police" to a cop's face and he can't do anything about it. You can burn the American flag. But you can't stand in front of a crowd and organize a violent revolution. That's treason.
I'll give you that, but I do think we have laws about calling for the overthrow of our government. This isn't free speech. Calling for genocide isn't free speech either. If we had a functioning government, these people would be arrested and tried for treason.
Well, it's also said that Hamas' leadership lives in the UAE under the protection of the royal family there. This is totally consistent with that. They made a business decision with the Abraham Accords, but watching the IDF slaughter Arab Muslims in Gaza by the tens of thousands is something they can't be bought off to ignore. Frankly, it's a good thing to see them take some publicly visible steps to oppose this nonsense. Israel constantly invokes the Holocaust as a means to seize the moral high ground, evoke sympathy, and silence dissent. Now, they're ethnic cleansing the Arabs out of Gaza while their billionaires are literally drawing up plans to rebuild and resettle it all with Israeli Jews. It's long past time this blatant hypocrisy is called out.
Man, I truly hate low effort posts like this.
What I expect is a link to the research so I can look at it myself and see if it's legit or not. I'm a health professional, so if I see a claim like this, I have to be able to cite it and discuss it with patients, so I can't just read the headline. I have to do the work of actually reading and considering the paper.
What I got:
- A link to some pundit's Twitter (guess who I think posted this anonymously)
- A tweet with a screen cap of a headline
- No actual link to the Epoch Times headline he screen capped
- An article which itself is gated behind a demand for registration and/or payment
- No actual reference to the actual research
- No archive link to bypass the paywall
All I got is some random person's screen cap.
So I go to the journal's page directly. Search for key words used in the Epoch Times headline yields no results. No original research, no abstracts, no editorials. (It's a terrible search engine, like most of them, they're too specific, and of course OP didn't give any damn details). Ok, I'll just manually go through the current issue and see if something looks right. Too bad, no love. Only one looks reasonably close and it's paywalled. <3
So, try Google. Again, key word search for key words in the ET title. This time I get results. Google curates this kind of thing, but we all know their bias, so naturally it's recent, but not "this month" recent. I get a whole set of pages of "research" (low quality observational studies straight off the WPATH citation list, because pro-trans cheerleading, right? right?) none of which actually shows a rise in suicide rates. Bing's just as bad. Maybe I'll have to try Yandex, but at this point I've wasted far more time and energy than I want to chasing this goose, that I'm no longer interested.
I hate low effort posts like this. I need data, not outrage sensationalism and clickbait. This isn't good enough.
Speaking of deliberately obtuse. I never argued that Singapore's gov't owned the ship or that it was liable. That's a straw man. The company owns the ship. The company is liable under Maritime law dating back to the 1850s. The meme is wrong. It is not the taxpayer's obligation to pay to fix every natural or man-made disaster that happens. I'm beyond sick of people thinking of the federal gov't (and all of our collective wallets) as their own personal piggy bank to crack open for whatever the cause of the day is. That's precisely the attitude you're supposed to be awakened to as a threat to this country. It's the attitude of people who want to use that money (that isn't theirs) for their own purposes. It's bankrupting our country. It's the cause of all of that inflation we keep whining about. This isn't the taxpayer's liability.
None of that precludes the taxpayers from voting to make it their liability. If the trade is in the collective interest and they vote for such a thing, there's nothing that bars such spending in the Constitution. But that sort of behavior is typically left to private people to organize charitable collections on their own, without the men with the guns forcing everyone to pay whether they want to or not. The principle is freedom, including the freedom to keep your own income and spend it on the things you think are important.
If you own one of those trapped ships, or own stock in the Domino sugar company, or one of the cruise lines that operates ships out of that now-blocked harbor, if you work in the shipyards, if you have an interest here, you're going to take steps of your own free will and self-interest to get this fixed. The people of the State of Maryland may vote to support this effort because they depend on that infrastructure. The 10th amendment says this is their right. So let the people who should be handling it handle it instead of looking to Uncle Joey Bribes for a payout.
One of the points made pretty clearly in the crucifixion story is that Jesus never claimed to be an earthly king. Jesus' whole mission was spiritual. The relationship we're to have is a spiritual one, the journey to live a better life, a spiritual one, and the rewards, also, are spiritual.
We spend a lot of time worrying about dogma, thinking we ought to do things exactly as they were done 2,000 years ago and recorded in a book. Islam does that. They wrote a book, declared it cannot be change, no further prophets will come to offer new insight, and that they should live exactly as a degenerate Bedouin raider who raped and pillaged and slaughtered his way across the Arabian peninsula 1,400 years ago. They call it Sharia. And patriots reject it at totally inconsistent with the US Constitution. We refuse to live under such rules. Dogma doesn't make a thing right. The fact that it was done that way a long time ago doesn't make a thing right. Christianity is not about replicating a 2,000 year old Roman-Jewish provincial experience.
Early church leaders understood this, and today, we have over 2 billion people on this planet who all profess Christ as their Lord and Savior. Christianity is the most widely followed religion in the world and there are thousands of denomination, variations in the precise dogmatic details of how we worship. But I'd argue that a Russian Orthodox Christian is every bit as sincere in his faith in Jesus, and his desire to live as God directs as a firebrand Southern Baptist preacher or a Catholic nun. Christ's message is a spiritual message. It's an aspirational message. "I know you're not perfect. You never will be. I'll die for your sins and take them upon me if you will try to live a good life. Pursue perfection knowing that you'll falter. Follow God's commandments and Christ's example as close as you can, and yours will be the Kingdom of Heaven."
I was raised Mormon and I have my issues with the Church, but the core message is the same, the core pursuit of Jesus' message transcends the mistakes of the faithful (or the unfaithful). You can argue with me, but that's the wisdom I think we're supposed to glean from this Bronze Age book about a carpenter that we hold so dearly. That's what I choose to celebrate today.
This is fake news. More to the point, it's stupid, fact-absent alarmism with a doomsayer's twist. Why is it fake news?
https://wildlifeinformer.com/cicada-life-cycle/
This is the cicada life cycle. It's not terrible dissimilar from other insect lifestyles except that some species of cicadas that we have in the Eastern US live periodic life cycles on cycles of 13 and 17 years. They got that part right. What they got wrong was assuming they only show up on those times. In reality, there are broods, groups of these critters with staggered cycles in various geographical regions of the US. See the map at the link above. Yes, in 2024, there are 13-year and 17-year broods expected to be active. But this certainly happens far more often than implied by these click baiting hacks at End Times. For example, broods from both cycles were active in 2014 and 2015. And the broods themselves are physically spread across different states. For example one brood will be active in northern Illinois, southern Wisconsin and eastern Iowa while the other will be active in Missouri, southern Illinois, and Arkansas.
This isn't a sign of the coming apocalypse. It's simply nature acting in a normal and predictable way.
I'm going with Occam's Razor on this. Biden offered to pay because he places no value on the money itself. He doesn't care that the gov't is broke and doesn't have the money. He's also completely ignoring the fact that the shipping company is legally liable for the damages and their insurance is going to pay. Ultimately the bridge itself is owned and operated by the state of Maryland, not by the federal gov't. To the extent the feds are involved at all, it'll likely be the Army Corps of Engineers helping clear the wreckage, dredge the channel, and ensure it is passable by the super-sized container ships that need to use that harbor before work begins on a new bridge.
But, it's election season. We have a crisis, and our impotent puppet resident needs to try and look like he's in control and he's going to get things done. So, they put him in front of a camera without a suit jacket, with his sleeves rolled up so it looks like he's working, and let him run his mouth and make promises he'll never actually have to keep.
This has nothing to do with Obama taking bribes from one of likely dozens of sources to buy him off.
One of the odd things I've noticed over the course of my Q research is how often the "far left" and "far right" align. It's quite interesting that we tend to do a really good job of identifying the problems being caused by the Neocon "elite" that seems to dominate the collective West. We just tend to have radically different ideas as to what the solutions to those problems are. The far Left think an all-powerful gov't is the solution. We think minimal, widely decentralized gov't is the solution.
In this case, we're both right to say that Israel is clearly using the Oct 7th terrorist attack as an excuse, that this has gone well beyond a quest for justice. In law, there's a precept called res ipsa loquitor (Latin: the evidence speaks for itself), and here, the evidence is the body count. Yes, Hamas has lied about the numbers and its numbers are indeed fake, but the bodies we can verify are very real. The videos aren't all fake. Israel lost 1700 people. They've easily killed well more than 10x that, they've blockaded and besieged the whole area refusing to allow humanitarian aid in, they're starving the population, and now they're poised to strike in Rafah, where they've told all of the Arabs to go for safety. They're not done killing yet.
This is a broader agenda to clear out this land so it can be seized and settled by Zionists. Israel has identified Hamas as an existential threat, and because it has such a stranglehold on the nuts of the politicians of the collective west, no one with any real power in the west has been brave enough to challenge this. Only the dissidents on the far Left like Kasparian and the populists on the right who've been black pilled on Israel and Zionism are willing to speak up. Babylon needs to fall.
Ana Kasparian is with The Young Turks (TYT). They're definitely not MSM. They're definitely new media and far left at that. They're only endorsing Rogan here because they're trying to tap into his popularity (his audience is likely 5x what theirs is) and say "look, we were right, even Joe Rogan agrees." It's a lazy bandwagon fallacy of an argument.
At best, this is a case of a broken clock being right twice a day. She's right that Israel's using the Oct 7th attack to commit a genocide, an ethnic cleansing of Gaza. We're just not allowed to say it because so much of our own media is Jewish owned and operated.
What kind of stupidity is this? What the hell does a solar eclipse have to do with operating a particle accelerator? The eclipse is going to feature prominently in North America. CERN's particle accelerator's in Switzerland. What the hell kind of effect do you think is going to happen?
This is ridiculous anti-scientific hysteria. Downvote away.
Eyes closed and not looking? Ole boys networks are still in play. These just happen to be non-WASPy ones. Congress doesn't look much more diverse.