[Townhall] The only thing about the fact that a jury found that the degenerate scumbag who murdered seventeen people should not be executed is that it was just one nimrod juror who held out not to give the vermin the death he deserves. Statistically, even in a red state like Florida, it’s difficult to find a group of twelve people without a moral illiterate or two. In blue venues, it’s hard to find any moral literates at all.
Here's the thing — a civilization that cannot come up with the moral testicularity to execute a creature who murders over a dozen of its children is a civilization in serious trouble. The minimum standard for any culture that intends on surviving — and surviving means dealing with the barbarians within and without — is to take its own side in the fight for survival. Eventually, there will be a backlash. The only question is how ugly it will be.
This injustice in the Sunshine State — appropriately deplored by Governor DeSantis — is a symptom of the larger problem. You see it manifested across our culture — suicidal tolerance and performative forgiveness. In places like Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, and other blue cities — it is always blue cities — the inhabitants murder each other with glee. But more than that, they generally act like savages. We have all seen the videos. Random creeps menacing citizens on the subways, packs of thugs raiding convenience stores or shopping malls, pitched battles between groups of aspiring Einsteins in Walmarts, animals cold-cocking citizens who are simply minding their own business. But no one stops them. No one holds them to account. The cops' shrug, because the blue politicians have told them to stand down. The answer to those of us who protest is always the same — shut up, racist, and also give us your guns so that you cannot defend yourself from what the government refuses to suppress.
And then there is the spectacle of family members of murder victims "forgiving" the criminals as if forgiveness was a simple act and not a process that demands action by the person being forgiven. This bizarre misunderstanding of Christianity is mixed with what seems to be a desire to front to the world as somehow enlightened — "I want to announce that I forgive the barbarians who raped and murdered my daughter. They did not repent, they did not seek forgiveness, and they have not yet been punished, but I’ll do it now anyway. Look at me." Not that you want to take theological hints from a guy who grew up a Californian Methodist, but the forgiveness of God does not just manifest out of the blue; the one receiving grace needs to take steps to obtain it. These moral posers — and it is posing, sad and horrifying, but posing nonetheless — demand nothing to obtain forgiveness, so the forgiveness they offer is meaningless narcissism.
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The truth is that the state can no longer bring itself to carry out the agreement that it as a disinterested third party will deliver justice. It took hundreds of years of governmental evolution to end vendetta as a culturally accepted practice. It's already losing that contract in certain inner cities as locals refuse to cooperate and 'justice' is handed out by those same locals. Like too many other behaviors, its going to spread from there.
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When can forgive, and still put down the rabid dog. There is zero chance they got the wrong guy. Put him down without delay was the correct response. Perhaps make it painful is the only thing they should have debated.
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2011 study found - "A death penalty prosecution costs up to 20 times as much as a life-without-parole case."
The luxury of massive over-litigious death penalty cases to soothe the sensitivities of Americans has become too expensive to sustain. Warehousing criminals in lieu of executing them is simply idiotic, certain kinds of criminal behavior void the membership in the human race, and like any rabid creature, require euthanasia.
Further, the soft cowardice of comfortable judgements has given us the 70% + recidivism of felons in the criminal justice system today. Three hots and a cot with eventual general population comforts in prison is a far better life than the miasma some of these specimens come from. As prison incarceration has become less and less of a deterrent, if even administered, the fear that tames behaviors of the savages diminishes and you get the resultant images we now see on the 5 o'clock news.
[FoxNews] DoDEA Director Tom Brady has said, 'Kelisa Wing is exactly the right person to lead our efforts... to support meaningful change'
A self-described "woke" Pentagon equity chief, who is currently under probe over anti-White tweets uncovered by Fox News Digital, recommended a "social justice" book for classrooms which called 9/11 first responders "menaces."
Kelisa Wing is a diversity, equity and inclusion chief at the Pentagon's education wing – the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA). She is involved in curriculum at DoDEA, which services over 60,000 military-connected children at 160 schools around the globe, according to a press release announcing her position in December 2021.
Fox News Digital found that on two occasions DoDEA's diversity, equity and inclusion chief promoted the anti-police book "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates while representing herself as an employee of the Pentagon's education wing.
Coates wrote in "Between the World and Me" about 9/11 responders, "They were not human to me. Black, white, or whatever, they were menaces of nature; they were the fire, the comet, the storm, which could — with no justification — shatter my body."
The Pentagon was one of the targets of radical Islamic terrorists on Sept. 11; 125 people in the Pentagon and 59 people aboard American Airlines Flight 77 were killed.
According to a Department of Defense historian, "In the first terrifying minutes after the plane crashed into the building the swift actions of survivors and rescuers helped save the lives of many who would otherwise have perished."
In 2018, when Wing was a teacher, she advocated for "Between the World and Me" to be used in classrooms in an article published to "Digital Promise," an Obama-era organization created by Congress which helps teachers monitor "stereotype threats" of students. Wing currently sits on the advisory board of the nonprofit, according to her website.
The article recommended teachers include materials from a "Social Justice Book List." One of the anti-police books recommended was "Between the World and Me."
"Your classroom materials should be a mirror for your students in which they can see themselves represented," the article said.
"We also have to avoid the pitfall of teaching about the same historical people from various cultures as well (e.g., only focusing on Martin Luther King, Jr., or Harriet Tubman) when there are a wealth of diverse, historical and current people of color who we can choose to highlight," the article said.
Wing has also co-written a children's book about defunding the police, in which she explains to young audiences the differences between abolishing, defunding and disbanding police with anti-racist policies.
On another occasion, in 2021, Wing included "Between the World and Me" in a DoDEA Equity Summit presentation. The video of the session was captured by OpenTheBooks, a nonprofit organization dedicated to government transparency.
[Newsbreak] This Opinion article is part of a Narcity Media series. The views expressed are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Narcity Media.
There’s a saying here in the Southern U.S. that can be found on some t-shirts in rural areas in Georgia, as well as in surrounding states. It goes: "American by Birth, Southern by the Grace of God."
That’s just one of the many sayings you’ll see and hear if you visit the Southern states.
While I am originally from Israel, by virtue of the naturalization process I am now American. On top of my U.S. citizenship, I consider myself first and foremost Southern, having lived here for over four decades.
I have had the opportunity to travel throughout the United States, various nations in Europe and South America, as well as in the Middle East. I’ve also been lucky enough to call a few states my residence, including California, New York, and Washington, D.C.
At times, the Georgian suburbs of Atlanta in which I was raised seemed provincial in comparison with other countries and more populated cities in the Northeast of the country.
But over the last several years, I have come to love — and even miss when I’m away — some of the customs, mannerisms, history and cultures that are unique to my region in the U.S.
Now, here are some of the Southern things that still surprise me as an Atlanta local.
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But it's OK that NEST thermostats can be turned up (or down) against your desired temp, remotely, without your permission?
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But of course. Google will provide data feeds with all necessary information to the Climate Police in order to put miscreants in prison, where they belong. Beta testing has begun in Switzerland:
Switzerland’s over-reliance on Russian gas combined with its climate change alarmism has created an energy disaster for the European nation. The situation has become so dire that the Swiss government has enacted regulations that allow for the fining and jailing of citizens who turn their thermostats above 19 degrees Celsius – 66 degrees Fahrenheit – this winter.
Those who are caught turning their thermostats above the mandated threshold face up to three years in prison and fines between 30 and 3,000 Swiss francs (U.S. $31 and $3,090).
Related: After Germans laughed at Trump’s warning, nation’s inflation rate nears 70-year high, August 25, 2022
In addition to keeping buildings heated with gas to 66 degrees, the Swiss government will also mandate that water can only be heated to 60 degrees Celsius – 140 degrees Fahrenheit. There will also be a ban on radiant heaters and the heating of swimming pools and saunas will be forbidden, according to Swiss outlet Blick.
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go ahead and take a shower in 139 degree water, I'll wait.
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[ForeignAffairs] A Diplomat Defects From the Kremlin
For three years, my workdays began the same way. At 7:30 a.m., I woke up, checked the news, and drove to work at the Russian mission to the United Nations Office in Geneva. The routine was easy and predictable, two of the hallmarks of life as a Russian diplomat.
February 24 was different. When I checked my phone, I saw startling and mortifying news: the Russian air force was bombing Ukraine. Kharkiv, Kyiv, and Odessa were under attack. Russian troops were surging out of Crimea and toward the southern city of Kherson. Russian missiles had reduced buildings to rubble and sent residents fleeing. I watched videos of the blasts, complete with air-raid sirens, and saw people run around in panic.
As someone born in the Soviet Union, I found the attack almost unimaginable, even though I had heard Western news reports that an invasion might be imminent. Ukrainians were supposed to be our close friends, and we had much in common, including a history of fighting Germany as part of the same country. I thought about the lyrics of a famous patriotic song from World War II, one that many residents of the former Soviet Union know well: “On June 22, exactly at 4:00 a.m., Kyiv was bombed, and we were told that the war had started.” Russian President Vladimir Putin described the invasion of Ukraine as a “special military operation” intended to “de-Nazify” Russia’s neighbor. But in Ukraine, it was Russia that had taken the Nazis’ place.
“That is the beginning of the end,” I told my wife. We decided I had to quit.
Resigning meant throwing away a twenty-year career as a Russian diplomat and, with it, many of my friendships. But the decision was a long time coming. When I joined the ministry in 2002, it was during a period of relative openness, when we diplomats could work cordially with our counterparts from other countries. Still, it was apparent from my earliest days that Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs was deeply flawed. Even then, it discouraged critical thinking, and over the course of my tenure, it became increasingly belligerent. I stayed on anyway, managing the cognitive dissonance by hoping that I could use whatever power I had to moderate my country’s international behavior. But certain events can make a person accept things they didn’t dare to before.
The invasion of Ukraine made it impossible to deny just how brutal and repressive Russia had become. It was an unspeakable act of cruelty, designed to subjugate a neighbor and erase its ethnic identity. It gave Moscow an excuse to crush any domestic opposition. Now, the government is sending thousands upon thousands of drafted men to go kill Ukrainians. The war shows that Russia is no longer just dictatorial and aggressive; it has become a fascist state.
But for me, one of the invasion’s central lessons had to do with something I had witnessed over the preceding two decades: what happens when a government is slowly warped by its own propaganda. For years, Russian diplomats were made to confront Washington and defend the country’s meddling abroad with lies and non sequiturs. We were taught to embrace bombastic rhetoric and to uncritically parrot to other states what the Kremlin said to us. But eventually, the target audience for this propaganda was not just foreign countries; it was our own leadership. In cables and statements, we were made to tell the Kremlin that we had sold the world on Russian greatness and demolished the West’s arguments. We had to withhold any criticism about the president’s dangerous plans. This performance took place even at the ministry’s highest levels. My colleagues in the Kremlin repeatedly told me that Putin likes his foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, because he is “comfortable” to work with, always saying yes to the president and telling him what he wants to hear. Small wonder, then, that Putin thought he would have no trouble defeating Kyiv.
The war is a stark demonstration of how decisions made in echo chambers can backfire. Putin has failed in his bid to conquer Ukraine, an initiative that he might have understood would be impossible if his government had been designed to give honest assessments. For those of us who worked on military issues, it was plain that the Russian armed forces were not as mighty as the West feared—in part thanks to economic restrictions the West implemented after Russia’s 2014 seizure of Crimea that were more effective than policymakers seemed to realize.
The Kremlin’s invasion has strengthened NATO, an entity it was designed to humiliate, and resulted in sanctions strong enough to make Russia’s economy contract. But fascist regimes legitimize themselves more by exercising power than by delivering economic gains, and Putin is so aggressive and detached from reality that a recession is unlikely to stop him. To justify his rule, Putin wants the great victory he promised and believes he can obtain. If he agrees to a cease-fire, it will only be to give Russian troops a rest before continuing to fight. And if he wins in Ukraine, Putin will likely move to attack another post-Soviet state, such as Moldova, where Moscow already props up a breakaway region.
There is, then, only one way to stop Russia’s dictator, and that is to do what U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin suggested in April: weaken the country “to the degree that it can’t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine.” This may seem like a tall order. But Russia’s military has been substantially weakened, and the country has lost many of its best soldiers. With broad support from NATO, Ukraine is capable of eventually beating Russia in the east and south, just as it has done in the north.
[YouTube-Perun] The Russian Air Force began the war in Ukraine with a formidable inventory of combat aircraft (fixed wing and helicopters) supported by an array of stand-off munitions and EWAR capabilities.
In the opening hours, it seemed that those capabilities may be paying off, with paratroopers inserting at Hostomel without interception by Ukraine's integrated air defence system (IADS). At the same time, Russian columns were (seemingly incomprehensibly) being picked apart by slow moving TB-2 Drones.
But things changed quickly, and since the stabilisation of the situation, the airspace over Ukraine has been contested. Aircraft fly low to avoid interception, while new threats periodically emerge to challenge the equilibrium.
Recently, those include HARM missiles, Iranian and Russian loitering munitions, and cruise missile attacks on civilian infrastructure.
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Russian jammers in use in Ukraine. Musk and Pentagon working together to deal with Russian Starlink outages. Even USA drones are effectively jammed.
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Pretty excited, Dale? Did people you talk to tell you this?
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Are you saying Dale hears voices, Frank?
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He talks to "a lot of people". I'm not there to judge otherwise. I can only speculate.
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If the Russian ECM were that good the war wouldn't have dragged on to now and they wouldn't have had to buy what are essentially homemade cruise missiles from Iran.
(Which seem to be premade to mesh with Russian ECM. Huh.)
[YouTube] The Biden administration's moves against China's semiconductor industry are continuing to have serious consequences, including the largely universal resignation of American citizens working in the Chinese chip industry. China will rapidly find itself unable to fill in several critical gaps in terms of skilled workers, design work, technological inputs, etc. What are Beijing's options?
With Europe and Japan largely on board with US action--not many. South Korea and Taiwan could address some needs, but far from all. China's future will likely be one where it sources inputs on the grey market--buying components or pulling chips from third-party devices and attempting to insert them in products and industries they were not designed for. It's going to be a time-consuming, ugly, imperfect process, with serious implications for high level computing, China's emerging defense platforms, telecommunications, and more.
[FreeBeacon] Chinese Communist dictator Xi Jinping "will stop at nothing to take Taiwan," former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley told the Washington Free Beacon on Sunday, as the CCP kicked off its 2022 Communist Party Congress.
Xi delivered a nearly two-hour speech to a gathering of some 2,300 Communist Party officials as he reaffirmed his grip on power into a second decade as the country’s ruler. The Communist Party Congress convenes every five years and will carry on into the coming week. Xi accepted his third five-year term as general secretary during the proceedings, leading many to speculate that he is laying the groundwork to become the nation’s indefinite ruler.
With Xi now entering his second decade as the Communist country’s top official, Haley told the Free Beacon that the United States must confront the malign regime if it is to have any hope of preventing China from imposing "it’s reign on the world."
"Xi Jinping's first decade in power has been spent committing genocide against the Uyghurs, unleashing COVID on the world, crushing Hong Kong, and striking deals with the world's worst tyrants," Haley said. "Xi will stop at nothing to take Taiwan, expand China’s dominance in Asia, and threaten America. If we don’t start acting boldly now, China will walk all over us and impose its reign on the world."
While the Biden administration has engaged in diplomacy with Beijing, the CCP has significantly boosted its military posturing and repeatedly threatened to retake Taiwan, the embattled island territory, by force. President Joe Biden has committed to defend Taiwan in public remarks, but that stance has later been walked back by White House officials, raising questions about the administration’s actual policy.
Xi, during his speech on Sunday, hinted that he still has his sights set on Taiwan and could launch a military invasion in the future.
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Someone should ask Xi to detail his claim for Taiwan.
China conquered Formosa but then lost it. Is that the basis of their claim? Or is the basis based on Chinese 'rebels' conquered Formosa and renamed it. That somehow grants the claim to the PRC? How does that work? Cite your sources.
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China has only gotten as far as it did because the leaderships of our 'democracies' are corrupt, sell-outs and cowards. And they appoint and elevate cowards and jackasses who agree with them to higher strategic roles. We have emasculated our militaries with unreasonable conventions and ROEs and have held ourselves up to standards while others have not. And we have lost. Lost to shitkickers and dungbeetles.
In reality, China is a putz. It is nothing. You could break it in lesser time than it took to break Iraq. Reduce them to sniveling weasels crying about human rights and how the imperialists have always been mean to them.
They will not make a move on Taiwan now. They have seen what that kind of moves gets you. No, they will wait for and invest in the total Zimbabwification of America, and the weakening of the western bloc. Even at this place, it should take a decade or two. They will not risk confrontation right now. All their maneuvers will be to bully Taiwan and try and make a show of force in the region.
If anyone. Anyone so much as pings a 5cm shot off one of their floaters, they'll run rattling their sabre.
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I do read that Xi is determined to reinstall Marxism-Leninism and essentially go back to Mao. Which is the surest path I know to poverty and backwardness.
And so I wonder if they will even have the capability to fulfill all their ambitions?
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China couldn't do squat if globalists in our government and major corporations didn't enable them.
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No, they will wait for and invest in the total Zimbabwification of America, and the weakening of the western bloc.
Here is the real problem.
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Ref #9: China couldn't do squat if globalists in our government and major corporations didn't enable them.
#12
I agree with the last few comments. Two destroyers parked by India blockading oil would end China. That is how vulnerable they are and they are completely dependent on the globalized system the Americans oversaw. They depend on energy, food and technology to be imported and the greed of politicians and tech companies to keep feeding them foreign currency. All that goes away and the Chinese lose the lights and factories as most stop working will lose 500 million people to starvation in 12 months.
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Give Nikki a dime and tell her to call her parents and tell them that she will never be president.
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Say, what's the official position of the US government? Is there one China, or two?
I'll give you a hint: the policy was formed by Nixon 50 years ago and the US government has constantly reaffirmed it ever since.
So yeah, this is a vicious pack of warmongering lies. Well maybe if China does impose "its reign on the world" (which it has shown no sign of doing) there will be fewer wars. Because that's all the US government has done it ITS "reign on the world". As in, raining destruction down.
China is not a nation-state but an empire with seven major languages and 300 minor ones, where only one citizen in ten speaks fluent Mandarin. The existential fear of every Chinese dynasty is that one rebel province will set a precedent for others, leading to fracture along ethnic and geographical lines, as occurred so often in China’s tragic past. Xi Jinping told President Barack Obama at the 2014 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit: “China is a land and a people. Sometimes the population increases by ten percent, sometimes it falls by ten percent. But China’s land is sacred and inviolable and there is nothing we will not do to defend it.”
China insists on sovereignty over Taiwan not because the island has a strategic utility, nor because it wants to suppress its democratic system, but because the integrity of China’s territory is an existential question for the Chinese state.
…All the United States military’s war games involving a mainland assault on Taiwan have ended in American defeat. China is building toward 100,000 marines and mechanized infantry poised to invade the island, more than 50 submarines, and a formidable land-to-sea missile capability that could probably destroy most American surface ships operating close to China’s coast. As the editors of the Chinese official English-language newspaper Global Times wrote on July 28, 2021:
“The US Navy’s advantage in overwater power will surely persist for some time. China must not only catch up with the US, but also strengthen its land-based missile forces that can strike large US battleships in the South China Sea in a war. We can massively expand this force so that if the US provokes a military confrontation in the South China Sea, all of its large ships there will be targeted by land-based missiles at the same time.“
Michèle Flournoy, a former undersecretary of defense in the Obama Administration, argued in Foreign Affairs last year that deterring China requires the U.S. to possess “the capability to credibly threaten to sink all of China’s military vessels, submarines, and merchant ships in the South China Sea within 72 hours.” The clear counterpart to such a force, however, would be China’s credible capability to eliminate U.S. forces in the South China Sea and nearby military facilities even faster, thereby deterring American military initiatives and responses.
It is doubtful that Taiwan could be defended against a Chinese attack by conventional means, and the use of nuclear weapons would put American cities at risk of Chinese retaliation.
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Upcoming is the ousting of Murkey from the senate. When Mitt is ousted and Nikki is an embarrassment in the 2024 nomination process, it will be more "proof" that the GOP is dead and that America is "ungovernable." To some people, anyway...
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[RIA Novosti] Archaeologists have confirmed one of the legends of Taiwan: the island was once inhabited by undersized dark-skinned people. Scientists note that traces of such peoples can be found everywhere - from Siberia to the British Isles. About the "little inhabitants" of the Earth - in the material of RIA Novosti. They weren't expected here.
From generation to generation in Taiwan , the legend of a short people with dark skin was passed on. Its representatives lived high in the mountains, spoke in an incomprehensible language, and then strangely disappeared.
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[Bee] Vice President Kamala Harris had a rare moment of candor with the media today about why she's so terrible at talking.
During impromptu questioning while leaving an event, Harris was asked by a reporter about the border crisis. The Vice President replied, "The border is like a line that goes between things, which when you think about it, is like a border. This border then divides one thing from another thing, and that is division, and we should all, I believe, work to overcome division."
When asked what on earth that meant, Ms. Harris replied, "Honestly, I don't know...I was absent from law school the day they taught the whole 'talking like a person' thing." She then proceeded into her usual cackle, which caused thousands of crows to rise out of nearby trees, momentarily blocking out the sun. nice touch
On further investigation, the University of California confirmed that Ms. Harris was indeed marked absent on the day that Hastings College of Law taught students how to speak. Though most law students arrive with some fundamental grasp of how to group words into a sentence and sentences into a thought, the class was created specifically for Ms. Harris at the recommendation of her academic advisor. That former academic advisor, Professor Marvin Finkelstein, could not be reached for comment as he reportedly checked himself into a mental institution shortly after Ms. Harris' arrival on campus, and plans to remain there "until it's safe."
According to an anonymous Harris staffer, "The nervousness we feel every time she opens her mouth has become routine. But the crows are like, a new thing. It's really taking the terror we experience to a whole new level."
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She looks stoned in that photo
Also like she raided Nancy Pelosi’s closet for that suit ..or else she’s anorexic & shrinking
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David Byrne line of suits
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Just another talking head in a big suit.
"Stop making sense!", said no one to Kamala ever.
[DW] Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election... 's MAGA Republicans are trying to get election deniers into office in time for the 2024 presidential elections. If they succeed, who declares the results could soon matter more than who Americans vote for.
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Journalists publish stuff every day. Some stuff you like, some you don't. It's rather unnecessary to insult a whole country just because one journalist of that country publishes something you disagree with.
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The existence of fertile ground speaks for itself. It's what philosophers call "a thing as such."
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Good job, Spike!
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Fair enough, EC, you have a point.
In defense of myself and Spike, I would state my belief that German politicians and the German electorate are much more acceptable to the majority of American journalists than Donald Trump and his supporters are to the majority of German journalists. You may well be correct in your belief that some Germans and even some German journalists are not as biased against our former president as dw.com obviously is. If dw.com really is the "view from Germany", you should understand that some of us are offended by it.
Some of us can't help remembering pictures of Baraq Obama conferring with Angela Merkel shortly after Trump's victory in 2016 when the subject of the conversation was so obviously how to counter the will of the American electorate.
Further, the YouTube video that Spike posted was spot on and the statements in it seem to have been long forgotten by journalists on both sides of the Atlantic. All kinds of pertinent facts have either been ignored, buried or forgotten. dw.com seems to have forgotten that Democrats squandered two years and $33 million trying to prove their bogus claims that the Russians hacked our 2016 election. That effort failed.
Emotions run high on this subject. When our democracy is threatened, we get pissed. Sorry.
By the way, how would you rate German coverage of Giorgia Meloni?
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how would you rate German coverage of Giorgia Meloni?
Speaking for me self, I’d rather see them uncover her meloni. Not big but nicely shaped
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Well yes, Sapphic. I love her too. I'd like to claim that it's platonic but there is something about Italian women.
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If I had to say "go fuck yourselves" to Americans every day an US journalist published something about Germany
Since when? When does this happen? Point to an example. We'll wait.
Americans are stupid, remember? We're so fucking stupid we don't know that other countries exist. We can't find Germany on a map, or tell you who the president is. All we know is witbeir and cuckoo clocks and that beer fest where chicks flash their tits.
Moreover the US journalist class thinks of Americans pretty much the same way that Germans think of Americans. They are not proud of America. They are not proud of being American. They never say it, and they never show it. They despise the American culture and the American people. They don't like the Secular Constitution or the founding fathers. They don't show any respect for anything other than talking about dismantling the US completely. They always tell Americans how much they suck.
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I have a passport and I also carry a passport card in my wallet. But I'm still the kind of person the lib press morons are sneering down at when they talk about people Americans who don't have a passport.
Fukem...
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Abu Uluque, you write:
"You may well be correct in your belief that some Germans and even some German journalists are not as biased against our former president as dw.com obviously is. If dw.com really is the "view from Germany", you should understand that some of us are offended by it."
First of all, dw.com is ONE view (of many) from Germany. As you Rantburg regulars know, I didn't like Trump, never did, never will. Most of you will say: Fair enough.
I happen not to like Biden either. But if I quoted a Germany article that questions Biden's mental capacity (and there are), would you be offended? Would you think that this is a German insult to the U.S. presidency? Would you say: Krauts, stay out of our internal policy?
Or would you say: Damn, I wish it wasn't true but it may very well be?
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Trump proves the point. If you are upsetting some people, you are doing it right.
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But if I quoted a Germany article that questions Biden's mental capacity (and there are), would you be offended? Would you think that this is a German insult to the U.S. presidency? Would you say: Krauts, stay out of our internal policy?
Any non-American who feels they are a "stakeholder" in American governance is an asshole.
Period.
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autocratic leaders in Hungary, India and the Philippines
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Biden is proving some people's expectations true. It's not the same thing.
See: Stakeholder = asshole.
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#25
SAtakeholder = "I did not pay to play but I feel I have skin in the game." Try that in Vegas.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
10/17/2022 15:25 Comments ||
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#26
But if I quoted a Germany article that questions Biden's mental capacity (and there are), would you be offended?
No. But some of our Democrat friends probably would be. Best to be even handed and unbiased which dw.com is clearly not.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
10/17/2022 15:25 Comments ||
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#27
Oh, I made a typo. It's proof I don't know what I'm talking about.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
10/17/2022 15:28 Comments ||
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#28
Re stakeholder:
US policy is decided by US voters and nobody else. There are no foreign "stakeholders" who get a say in that.
That said: US policy does affect us. Of course we'll write and comment about it. Not just that one journalist of dw.com.
Just as I offer my opinion here.
Posted by: European Conservative ||
10/17/2022 15:38 Comments ||
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#29
Gee. Having an opinion is not the same as trying to influence our elections.
Please don't embarrass yourself saying Chermany never tries to do that.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
10/17/2022 15:53 Comments ||
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#30
US policy is decided by US voters and nobody else. There are no foreign "stakeholders" who get a say in that.
Politics in Heaven.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
10/17/2022 15:59 Comments ||
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#31
Uncomfortable facts are not "hate speech."
The Truth is not "disinformation."
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
10/17/2022 16:01 Comments ||
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#32
Oh please. Germany has zero possibilities to "influence" your elections.
Posted by: European Conservative ||
10/17/2022 16:01 Comments ||
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#33
I wish they were that powerless.
I really wish...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
10/17/2022 16:03 Comments ||
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#34
As long as there are any "American voters" (not to be confused with actual American citizens) who actually believe the leftist line that eurines are smarter, more sophisticated, etc., etc., eurines and American media will influence our elections.
Saying otherwise is in the "that bag of pot in my pocket was not mine."
I can see eurines being comfortable with that shuck.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
10/17/2022 16:07 Comments ||
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#35
Oh please. Germany has zero possibilities to "influence" your elections.
Posted by: European Conservative
Wasn't there a Dominion router or vote counter in Germany for the 2020 election. The one Trump was going to raid?
While individual Germans/Europeans may be friendly towards Americans, their government is not. That being said, I doubt many German citizens care for Americans.
“…mum’s the word from Brussels. It is a profoundly embarrassing moment for the EU. The triumphalism has vanished as Europe is threatened by years of recession caused by the blowback from sanctions against Russia, where the US insisted on the cut off of energy ties with Moscow. The EU has now become a captive market for Big Oil and is left to buy LNG from the US at the asking price, which is six to seven times higher than the domestic price in the US. (Contracted price for long-term Russian supply for Germany used to be about $280 per 1,000 cubic metres as against the current market price hovering around $2,000.)
“Plainly put, the Europeans have been nicely played by the Americans. India should take note of the US’ sense of entitlement. Basically, the Biden administration created a contrived energy crisis whose real aim is war profiteering.”
Posted by: Billy B ||
10/17/2022 18:20 Comments ||
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#42
War profiteering is a Biden family specialty — not a joke. Look up Janes Biden’s scam with the Iraq Reconstruction Authority while brother Joe was VP tasked with overseeing Iraq policy.
Posted by: Billy B ||
10/17/2022 18:22 Comments ||
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#43
First of all, dw.com is ONE view (of many) from Germany. As you Rantburg regulars know, I didn't like Trump, never did, never will. Most of you will say: Fair enough.
I happen not to like Biden either. But if I quoted a Germany article that questions Biden's mental capacity (and there are), would you be offended? Would you think that this is a German insult to the U.S. presidency? Would you say: Krauts, stay out of our internal policy?
It's the false equivalency that bugs me. It's like saying 'I am fair minded, I happen to think that Paul Reynaud, Philippe Petain, and Adolph Hitler are all idiots, after all they all led their countries poorly and all failed to stop the holocaust....' when, even if Reynaud was an idiot, it was one of the others that was a member of the machine that committed the act and another that helped him in his dementia... and that it feels like it's late 1943/early 1944 with no D-Day apparent and we have a lot worse things to concern us than Paul Reynaud and the Maginot Line.
#44
#40 If I said it, I must have meant it. That means I either owe an apology. Or nothing at all...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
10/17/2022 19:48 Comments ||
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#45
The vast bulk of eurines despise America. We saved their armies or beat their armies. Most of them are still apoplectic Reagan tipped over the Soviet rotten apple cart. Their project to be bigger than America or China is a joke that nobody laughed at and now it's almost over.
Yeah, maybe they have reasons to be bitter. That does not mean Americans have to sympathize or like it when they run their sneer act.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
10/17/2022 20:04 Comments ||
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#46
just because one journalist of that country publishes something you disagree with.
Deutsche Welle is put out by the German government, just like Voice of America is ours and the BBC is Britain’s.
I don’t believe Germany is trying seriously to impact American voters, unlike, for instance, The Guardian.
While the Obama Administration continues their pressure on Israel, for at least Vice President Joe Biden, it would not be the first time that there has been personal animosity with an Israeli leader. The reality is that while some of the names change, this conflict is about Israel’s refusal to surrender to a Palestinian Arab enemy who seeks to destroy them. The United States is wrong to pressure Israel – yet, this too shall pass.
History often repeats itself.
On June 22 1982, Joe Biden was a Senator from Delaware and confronted then Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin during his Senate Foreign Relations committee testimony, threatening to cut off aid to Israel.
Begin forcefully responded, “Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.”
Posted by: Billy B ||
10/17/2022 13:40 Comments ||
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#3
Of course. He was a moslem. Lowest point in American history, an islamopapist bastard with his ugly wife thing, living in the white House. Strutting about acting like a dandy fop for the cameras. For two fcuking terms! The retardation the population should sink to to elect him! Shit!
Forgive me, but speaking strictly as a Christian Zionist fanatic, for me it's all about Israel. No country matters except Israel. People of course matter. But only people who love Israel. Or at least bear him no ill will, they matter too. Yes, I think that's about it.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Newsbreak] This Opinion article is part of a Narcity Media series. The views expressed are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Narcity Media.
[YouTube-Perun] The Russian Air Force began the war in Ukraine with a formidable inventory of combat aircraft (fixed wing and helicopters) supported by an array of stand-off munitions and EWAR capabilities. 
[YouTube] The Biden administration's moves against China's semiconductor industry are continuing to have serious consequences, including the largely universal resignation of American citizens working in the Chinese chip industry. China will rapidly find itself unable to fill in several critical gaps in terms of skilled workers, design work, technological inputs, etc. What are Beijing's options? 
Ref #9: China couldn't do squat if globalists in our government and major corporations didn't enable them.
[Bee] Vice President Kamala Harris had a rare moment of candor with the media today about why she's so terrible at talking.
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