Standing apart from the cluster of the other three, furrowed brow, hands clasped as if his balls are at risk for opposing the war mongering. Or does Crabgrass misread body language somehow?
Epstein files and the Iran war entry - here, here and here.
"Where there's smoke, there's fire," is an old saying, but come on. Dems had DOJ files during Biden's term and nothing came out. Innocent unless proven guilty.
But ego tripping over a possible boost in regard, or a smokescreen for other nefarious deeds? That's not fully proven, but after the parade fiasco, the ego trip possibility has circumstantial feasibility.
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Some are critics, reminding us of that joke about the basket of tiny MAGA kittens. Weeks later Trump asked about the tint little MAGA kittens, and the little girl said, "They're no longer MAGA kittens. Their eyes opened."
Horseshit Republicans saying horseshit things, as Hermann explained.
And so many of them, posted one after the other, all posted so very quickly. Day after the event; Attaboys after attaboys. The footsoldiers of Whitehouse.gov did their homework, and given the weekend and realistic timing, it had to have been a seek and gather prior to the event. Or not? You decide.
Livestreaming at time this is posted, Pentagon press conference this morning.
FURTHER UPDATE: It is time to interject sensible discourse. Before the blowback happens.
And Bernie, avoid the diversion, and back to eyes on the prize, winning the war the oligarchs are waging against the rest of us, the people. This Draconian fascist billionaires beautiful bill can be hidden beyond chest pounding, the bombers headed back to Missouri and all that stuff.
Defeat that fucking shameful bill, and get back to civil aims of bringing the U.S. healthcare pig sty into the 21st century of a nation really caring for the health of its people, out of decency, instead of using a never ceasing threat as a stick to beat folks into submission to not taxing the rich.
NO MORE WAR. Concentrate on the problems that exist in Oklahoma and Vermont . . .
Keep the vision. Fight back.
FURTHER UPDATE: No King!
FURTHER UPDATE: The initial whitehouse.gov link was redone. "Peace Through Strength" it says, as in bomb them into peace -- each of those throng of war mongering supporter officials, if in elective office, deserves to be voted out. Bottom line, drop bombs, declare victory, and lie, lie, lie. It's Bibi's war. Not mine. Not yours. Not your childrens', and not an excuse to deny you healthcare coverage.
There is mention online of a subscription wall. However, the online item appears to be largely in parallel to the email. The online item states:
"The United States joining a strike on Fordow and any other facilities that remain is a must at this point," tweeted FDD deputy director Andrea Stricker.
FDD
portrays itself as a nonprofit founded after September 11th, engaged in
advocacy for "strengthening U.S. national security and reducing or
eliminating threats posed by adversaries and enemies of the United
States and other free nations."
That description is misleading.
IRS documents reveal that FDD filed for nonprofit status
on April 24, 2001—months before 9/11. The group was originally named
"EMET," Hebrew for "truth," with the stated purpose of enhancing
"Israel's image in North America and the public's understanding of
issues affecting Israeli-Arab relations."
Brigadier
General (Res.) Sima Vaknin Gill, a former Israeli Air Force intelligence
officer who helped establish several pro-Israel lobbying efforts in the
U.S. during her tenure at Israel's Ministry of Strategic Affairs, has
identified FDD as a key asset. In a previous presentation on tracking
pro-Palestinian organizations in America through data-mining and other
form, Vaknin-Gill noted, "We have FDD. We have others working on this."
FDD
routinely lobbies Congress to escalate tensions on Iran and other
countries viewed as adversaries of Israel. Last year, Sen. Ted Cruz,
R-Tex., led a Senate letter
to the Biden administration demanding increased sanctions on Iranian
banks. Metadata from the document shows that the author of the Cruz
letter was Nick Stewart, FDD’s Senior Director of Government Relations,
who is responsible to managing congressional relations and other
lobbying efforts.
Meanwhile,
FDD routinely partners with the Israeli government officials to
coordinate legal strategies for curbing pro-Palestinian activism in the
United States. In 2019, for instance FDD legal expert Orde Kittrie was
listed on a government panel hosted in Israel hosted by government
officials on combating nonviolent economic protests of Israel’s human
rights abuses in the West Bank.
FDD operates within
a larger ecosystem of pro-Israel advocacy. Dozens of think tanks, Super
PACs, institutes, and lobbying organizations work to advance Israeli
government positions in American politics.
Ted Cruz is a mention unpinning the bullshit meter for sure. Wanting to know more, web search was next trtied. An interesting link, https://www.guidestar.org/profile/13-4174402 - notes:
FDD was founded shortly after 9/11 by a group of visionary
philanthropists and policymakers to support the defense of democratic
societies under assault by terrorism and militant Islamism. Our
Leadership Council of Distinguished Advisors includes former FBI
Director Louis J. Freeh, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former
National Security Advisor Robert "Bud" McFarlane, former Ambassador Max
Kampelman, Sen. Joe Lieberman (ID-CT), and former CIA Director R. James
Woolsey.
Those affiliated with FDD come from many backgrounds and political perspectives, but all believe: - No one should be denied basic human rights, including minority rights, women's rights, and religious freedom. - Free and democratic nations have a right to defend themselves and an obligation to defend one another. -
Terrorism, the deliberate use of violence against citizens to achieve
political objectives, is always wrong and must never be condoned.
An
activist think tank with a solid track record of transforming ideas
into actions that get results, FDD uniquely combines policy research,
counterterrorism and democracy education, strategic communications, and
investigative journalism. The Foundation for Defense of Democracies
focuses its efforts where opinions are formed and, ultimately, where the
war of ideas will be won or lost: in the media, on college campuses, in
the courthouse, and in the policy community, both at home and abroad.
A neocon nest for certain, the Bush warmonger crowd that gut us mired into Iraq regime change. A stench upon the entirte operation settles and will not disperse.
ProPublica gives financial info showing the operation is well funded at multi-million dollar levels.
https://www.fdd.org/team/fdd-team/ shows a lot of folks, mostly no-names, and not the power NEOCONS who founded the effort. There is a propaganda item:
In short, as trustworthy as a cobra. Don't go near, don't be gulled.
Let Israel fight its own hostilities toward its neighbors, and commit ethnic clensing in Gaza by itself, not as a U.S. thing, but their war mongering for their own reasons and benefit, with the rest of the world watching and judging. But, that said, it looks as if Trump is getting suckered, or is already gung-ho onboard and moving that way as these sentences are being written.
Enough.
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Here, https://www.fdd.org/team/nsn/, by dint of sheer numbers, is a fright roster, for certain. WTF are all these dudes and ladies doing, as a 501{c}(3) and not as a viper nest paying taxes at least?
Guardian reports Congressional dithering while Trump is telling Iran "Unconditional Surrender." The headlining suggests something bigger than the few voices saying the U.S. going to war is a Congressional decision, not one for the Executive branch to alone decide. It looks weak, and Iran can take no comfort in it happening as it is. Trump appears attuned to the Israeli propaganda effort, or leaning that way against Gabbard's saying Iran is not on the verge of nuclear weaponry. In that context, how many nuclear warheads does Israel hold, when the question is Israel against Iran? Likely enough that if used Iran would be an ongoing glowing cinder of radioactive waste making Fukushima or Chernobyl look tame.
Israel holds that power. So we wait to see. Meanwhile, what mischief is being done to us, the people, by the Republicans and that Big Beautiful Bill to fuck we the people? As we are being told, "Hey, look over there!!!"? There's been the "Hands Off" and the "No Kings" rallies so far. The next should be, "End The Bullshit." That one would get record turnout.
A "Tax The Rich" rally would be a big drawing card too, but Indivisible has yet to go there. Beyond that, this sabre rattling, it's going on now, so what did JD tell the Murdochs in Montana given this Israel - Iran development, and FOX running with the FDD stories? We proles can only guess. JD won't tell us. Are the Iranians reduced to eating cats and dogs? Lie to me please, JD.
Do not expect many Republicans at 50501 events, except those fired, or having Medicaid or foodstamp Angst. The poll shows what it shows. Hope for heavy rain in DC; sunshine on NO KINGS.
UPDATE: Questions of that sort come up. Two I can think of, if Hegseth were VP would Trump even need the Secret Service; and now that we've seen Pam Bondi would we be better off if the Gaetz nomination had not been withdrawn and he'd been appointed?
Sez something about quality, it does.
Another, do you think Israel would have attacked Iran without prior notice to the U.S., and if you think yes, do you expect the inventory in Israel of bunker buster bombs Biden supplied them is at levels it was last week, or do you guess it might be partly depleted?
Other hypotheticals exist, but here's a big one - Will the nationwide No Kings crowds be bigger than the crowds the Trump-worship parade will draw? And which costs taxpayers more in waste and abuse, even if without fraud?
And it will be a dissatisfaction day event, primarily, as PiPress reports Friday, for the Saturday June 14 event:
Local organizers expect 20,000 or more Minnesotans will be joining a nationwide No Kings movement to protest President Donald Trump’s policies on Saturday.
Protesters will be rallying at the Minnesota Capitol for the event, which is part of a web of demonstrations around the country to counter Trump’s $25 million to $45 million military parade planned for the same day. [...]
Demonstrators will assemble at 11 a.m. at St. Paul College and begin marching to the Minnesota Capitol at noon, according to organizers including Indivisible Twin Cities, MN50501, Women’s March Minnesota and MN AFL-CIO labor unions.
Lisa Erbes is the co-leader of Indivisible Twin Cities. Erbes said the No Kings organizers want to bring awareness to Trump’s actions that they believe are unconstitutional and authoritarian. Speakers at the event will cover topics such as Medicaid cuts, racial justice, immigration concerns and ICE raids.
“Our goal is to send the message loud and clear that Americans do not want to live under a king or under fascism or a dictatorship,” Erbes said.
Forty other No Kings events will be happening Saturday in Minnesota, according to Ann Treacy, Women’s March Minnesota board member.
“We’re trying to get large numbers, we’re trying to get a place where we can all feel solidarity together, as well as show people this is how we feel,” Treacy said. “What we do want to see is more of the Constitution being held to, more of due process, more transparency, more democracy.”
[...] Gov. Tim Walz, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, Attorney General Keith Ellison and civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong will speak at the event.
There is a DFL leaning of the event, although dissatisfied Republicans and independents will be welcome, if decently behaved. It is not a confrontational style planned, although clearly a confrontational statement is intended. Look at the title. Look at the Constitution. No Kings.
So, WSJ had advanced notice? Making this more interesting. Possibly JD gave the Murdochs advanced notice, and possibly they traded investments, and possibly not. There should be some record.
And here on Friday the 13th, it happened, as the WSJ speculated, and tomorrow there's a U.S. Army anniversary, Flag Day. What a world.
UPDATE: AJ has its own reporting while much else online is carrying AP news services.
In a sign of the far-reaching implications of the emerging conflict, Israel’s main airport was closed and benchmark Brent crude spiked on news of the attack, rising nearly 8% before retreating slightly.
It would be worthwhile if somebody in MSM or elsewhere tried to ferret out any Administration or Congressional oil futures trading activity, including staffers and Trump family members, prior to the Israeli attack. Insiders are insiders because of inside information, and it is doubtful whether this happened without some knowledge among the spook and foreign policy community, including Congressional committees. What did Jake Sullivan know and when did he know it. He had a portfolio in the Biden administration, but he's an outsider now, but possibly still talks to people and has not, to Crabgrass knowledge, had his security clearance pulled. Tentacles abound.
Jeffrey Epstein showed off photos of Donald Trump with “topless young women” sitting in his lap, the controversial author Michael Wolff has alleged.
[...] They were taken in the “late ’90s” at Epstein’s Palm Beach home, where he victimized dozens of underage girls along with his procurer, Ghislaine Maxwell, Wolff said.
Wolff alleged that they were in Epstein’s safe, which the FBI seized when they raided his homes in New York and Palm Beach in July 2019. The massive haul of evidence taken by the feds has never been made public—and while prosecutors disclosed after the raid that they had “hundreds of photos of girls and young women,” they have never offered any more details of them.
“And in some of the pictures, they’re sitting in his lap. I mean, and, and then there’s one I especially remember where there’s a stain, a telltale stain and on the front of Trump’s pants, and the girls are pointing at him and laughing.” Trump separated from his second wife Marla Maples in 1997 and began dating his third wife, Melania, in 1998.
Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump were friends in the 1990s. Now Michael Wolff says that at the time, Trump partied with "topless young women" at Epstein's home.
The Trump campaign hit back at Wolff for the claims, calling him “disgraced.” A campaign spokesperson said in a statement to the Beast, “Michael Wolff is a disgraced writer who routinely fabricates lies in order to sell fiction books because he clearly has no morals or ethics.
“He waited until days before the election to make outlandish false smears all in an effort to engage in blatant election interference on behalf of Kamala Harris. He’s a failed journalist that is resorting to lying for attention
Sources in the Trump camp claimed that he had severed his relationship with Epstein when he learned of allegations that he was a sex trafficker and pointed to his quote: “I was not a fan of Jeffrey Epstein. And you watched people yesterday saying that I threw him out of a club. I didn’t want anything to do with him. That was many, many years ago.”
That's the story. Trump's sued others for defamation and Trump has not sued Wolff.
Carville, here. Days ago. After Elon's tweet show. In that video, Carville references a video of Wolff on camera making the claim, here, mere days before Carville published. Carville seemed careful to phrase the story as allegations, and then some "if true" future guesswork. Etc. View the videos.
None of this is a Crabgrass breaking story. It is a recount of publishing by others.
If true: The FBI might have seized the photos, or they might have been placed elsewhere by Epstein before his latest apprehension and unusual death. Or they might never have been if Wolff is misrecollecting. Being dead, Jeffrey is unavailable to testify should litigation arise, and the law has rules applicable for such situations.
So, a swearing contest between Wolff and Trump, unless the FBI has the goods and if subpoenaed in litigation Patel gives honest disclosure. Who knows? Unless Trump sues.
What does Elon know, and when did he know it?
UPDATE: Somewhere in the video Carville referenced "Polaroid or something" is recalled to have been mentioned by Wolff. If Polaroid, and not deteriorated, they could be proven as not recent AI doctored things, and dated, or so it would be hoped. It could be a point of contention - NOT ME, or DOCTORED IMAGE allegations would be less credible, should Patal's FBI produce something, if it comes to that.
Trump has the option of denial without litigating it. Lame? Sure, but Donald's done and said things before. Or the whole thing blows over.
FURTHER: It seems Wolff is placed to try, should he choose to, a suit claiming he was defamed by the Trump team's denial language, if claiming it is untrue. In the course of any such litigation, the underlying truth of what Wolff has alleged and repeated might be at issue, with the FBI conceivably holding and producing by subpoena evidence, or not. The statute of limitations for defamation tort, wherever, a case could be filed, should not have run since November 2024. The ball's in Wolff's court.
The Beck thing is long, so the mid-item unredacted quote is too. Starting with JD talking:
If we see Germans do something incredibly offensive to American values, I think Americans are going to recoil a little bit at that. You know, I went to Germany very recently, very briefly, Glenn.
Just to visit the troops and say, hello.
And I was hearing from Germans during that very brief visit on the ground, saying that they were worried about free speech policies in their own country.
Well, if we have 38,000 troops there and we're living amongst the Germans, we're literally defending their country.
I think you can expect Americans to at least express some negative opinions about some of the free speech policies they're seeing in Europe.
And, Glenn, you know this as well as anybody. Things that start in Europe. Sometimes come over to America. The same way that things that start in America, make their ways to Europe.
The kind of social media censorship that we've seen in western Europe.
It will -- it's already made its way to the United States. That's the story of the Biden administration, silencing people on social media.
So we will be very protective of American interests when it comes to things like social media regulation.
We want to promote free speech. We don't want our European friends telling social media companies that they have to silence Christians, or silence conservatives.
GLENN: Right.
J.D.: And I think there will be that friction over the next ten years. It's not that we're not friends. But there is a disagreement you didn't see ten years ago.
GLENN: Right. So they've decided they will not pursue being a leader in AI. But they will make all the rules. How confident are you, that we are in a -- a winning position here on AI?
It is advancing so rapidly. And the things that I hear that come out of China, it's either another way hipped. It's all a paper tiger. Or they're way ahead. Where are we, do you think, on AI and, you know, AGI.
J.D.: Well, I think that we're ahead, Glenn. But nobody -- nobody says that we're way ahead, should be believed. You know, in artificial intelligence, six months is a lifetime. Twelve months is a generation. We're probably 12 months, maybe two years ahead of where the Chinese are, when it comes to critical hardware, when it comes to necessary infrastructure. When it comes to the engineering talent. But that is not very far ahead at all. And we're really going to have to invest a lot in developing America's next generation of scientists. Glenn, we're going to have to make sure that our hardware companies, that we stop regulating them to death. That our energy infrastructure. That we stop regulating them to death. Because if we allow the Chinese to catch up. We may never ever have an edge on China in this space again.
And I think for a lot of people, artificial intelligence is a chat bot. It's something that maybe helps a college student write a paper.
No, no, no. The artificial intelligence that I'm worried about, Glenn, is the kind of intelligence that helps them develop next generation weapons. It helps their rockets and missiles hit their target, and 99 percent more accurate than the weapons that use artificial intelligence. They're just massive defense technology implications of this.
That it's kind of like, what would have happened, if the English Army had faulted the Americans in the Revolutionary War, and we had M-16s and they had muskets.
We don't want to be on our battlefield of the future and have -- you know, we have the muskets, and the Chinese have the M-16s. I think AI is the critical part of staying ahead of the Communist Chinese.
And it's something, look, we're very focused on. We have a great guy. It's David Sacks in the administration who is leading this effort. But it's full pedal to the metal, Glenn. We have to constantly be innovating and staying ahead of the game. We can't follow the European lead of regulating. We want America to innovate, and that's what we're doing.
GLENN: I spoke to the president a couple weeks ago. And, you know, I was going to ask him about nuclear energy. And he just volunteered. I said, what about energy with AI?
And he went to say, you know, we're talking about making them their own -- you know, their own utilities. And they can build it. We can clear, even if they want nuclear power plants. That didn't print.
I mean, I thought that was one of the bigger headlines of my lifetime. And nobody seemed to pick that up, or care about that.
And we do lose, if we don't have these power plants. Are we -- what are we doing to accelerate?
I mean, they need 99 percent of our power by 2028.
99 percent of the power that's currently being made.
We need power plants.
J.D.: Yeah. You're a smart guy, Glenn. Because I don't know what else the President said during that interview, but I doubt it's as important as that point.
GLENN: Nothing.
J.D.: This is a critical issue. And, yes, what we've done. We've had Lee Zeldin's EPA, and all of our environmental folks look at how we cut through the red tape. And make it possible. Because the market would do this. Right?
These companies would like to do that.is.
But it's the environmental bureaucrats that have told them, you can't really attach any power plant off-grid to a pure, you know, artificial intelligence hardware facility. We're tearing down those regulations and making it possible again.
And then, of course, Glenn, part of this is not just building these facilities, but it's powering them with the fuel that we need. And the president -- you hear this term, all of the above.
The President has really said, we're all of the above.
GLENN: Have to be.
J.D.: We're lowering the regulations on coal. We're powering the natural gas folks.
Petroleum, obviously, nuclear.
Like, this is a president who said, all power that we have, we need to put it into this prospect. And, Glenn, one important point on this. You look at a chart of electric degeneration, the People's Republic of China versus the United States.
GLENN: Uh-huh.
J.D.: Four years ago, we blew them out of the water. Right now, the PRC is producing about three times as much electricity as we are. And we flatlined in the last 20 years. That innovation. That development.
That's got to change. We've got to be producing more power for the next wave of innovation.
It's maybe the most important part of the puzzle.
Okay. Elon's and other AI will have little local ill-regulated nukes. NIMBY shout-out. Watch Out!
And coal? And the Europeans don't like Nazi-talk but we are better on that.
And the Chinese. There always are the Chinese. If we need a scapegoat, they're there and on the verge.
The academy speech here's my YouTube link. Forty minutes. Didn't bother watchng, but you're in charge of your own time. Hope he said wise and trenchent things. Doubt it.
Talking to Glenn Beck, wherever he's gone to, and a commencement speech to military people.
JD's out there, but seeming to not be pumping iron over the BB Bill stuff. Or the manufactured spat between money/power as Elon and Trump are phrased by too much of the media.
Just stuff. Glenn Beck had his fifteen minutes of fame, but he's not the hot topic today.
But little nukes, every server farm having a shot of installing whatever? Great idea, maybe. Just NIMBY. A lot of other back yards are out there, Wyoming or whatever.
That is interesting because Vietnam, the stepping into the void France left was coinciedent with Kennedy being killed. It was the start of what now is Trump's administration playing out.
Policeman for the world, bankroller for the world is no longer viable.
Debt is real and the percent of the federal annual payments going out the door that debt service represents is substantial.
Trump and JD represent saying the nation has to change. And there's something there.
The tariff war is simply a needed readjustment. The Ukraine war and NATO being at odds is primarily a European situation that Europe needs to resolve. The economic engines of the U.S. and of China differ, and India has its own massive population relative to our nation, as well as a border situation with Pakistan. One those two nation need to work out, and the U.S. and Europe are not key there.
Climate truth is what it is.
We as a nation are not in decline as much as we are in the process of yielding power and looking at what is best domestic policy. The existing fiction of cutting taxes on wealth while running up debt is not prosperity, but bad policy, if not pure madness. We are a multi-national world, and the economy of the United States is a major part of that story.
But not the full story. We are not exceptional as we were when World War II ended, and we suffered no domestic loss while prospering by funding those at war. We had a plan to rebuild things which has now lived too long. What we do next is major, and being realistic with Europe and China are things the Trump election makes us face.
Bernie makes us face who we could be, and Trump has us facing his notions which are popular with a major segment of the voting public.
We are in flux, and the position here is that Bernie is right. That does not include his total support of the auto workers union, as one example. During the time before Japan was addmtted to the U.S. auto market the auto industry ownership and the unions were produciong junk cars and excluding competition. Automation loomed, and the cowardly way out was to let the Japanese automate and compete, and produce a better positioned competitive product. A market solution without comflict here because what was being done was not transparent.
Now AI can replace the pencil pushers and the sparse real jobs in ,manufacturing as we move to where leisure and having less become things that need attention. Drug use and depression and Angst are ways of dealing with more leisure and fewer toys, and we should welcome having more time of our own.
Politics needs to adjust, and the Biden - Harris -Clyburn - Pelosi machine is tired and worn.
Musk leaves, saying the tariff war as was started and ongoing is stupid, thus calling Trump stupid, and being exited for it. Where the nation goes is to be learned, but Trump pushed the problem into sight.
We see, over time, and the Chinese should not want war anymore than us thinking it an option.
Or whatever. Things are raw still and need to be aged and examined over time - weeks ++.
Carville sees it as real and as time to start hard punching after a rope-a-dope wait. It's ripe. Move while it's front burner hot.
People claiming Chomsky's legacy say smokescreen, and are good at imitating Noam's voice but tedious in casting blame. But they do say smokescreen, and that's how Crabgrass feels. DWT is close to a truth by saying:
A fuller version of the quote reads:
They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings. Steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and the make you king.
So you see, Bob Dylan is more than "the poet of his generation" but sadly a poet for all generations, [...]
It addresses why some Republicans are upset with what Traitor Don and his party, along with their media allies call their Big Beautiful Bill. With it's overt sadism, the bill is anything but of course. Even a crackhead billionaire now calls it an abomination, but not for the right reasons. This is a point that most of the corporate media servants of Nazi thought deliberately gloss over. They may be pointing out that a few Republicans, conservatives and other typical Nazi types are against the bill but they refuse to point out that they are opposing it because, in their sociopathic and psychopathic minds, the bill doesn't go far enough in its effort to deliver human misery and death while it further lines their greasy Scumbag Billionaire pockets and secret accounts. The bill is two-pronged. Like the Trump-Ryan Tax Scam Of 2017, it is designed to make the super rich even more super rich, not just with money but the power over us all that that money can buy with the added benefit of causing as much human misery and death as it possibly can with all its thousands of cuts. To them, the 2017 bill also didn't go far enough. It was just prelude and foreplay. They want it all! These people are truly psychos.
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So there you are. Nazis like Elon Musk, Ron Johnson, and Rand Paul want even more cuts to the things that keep the people they look down upon alive. They want us to have worse lives and shorter lives. Don't be suckered in. Musk still has his chainsaw aimed right at you. Ditto his allies in Congress. To them, Trump and his puppets such as Speaker Johnson haven't gone far enough. They know Trump and Speaker Johnson would love to go for the max and are encouraging them to do that very thing. Who needs poison showers when you can starve people to death and cut medical research and medical care to nothingness? That's their view.
That sounds more like the Elon we know, and a pissing spat clown show will let the thing go with less real scrutiny than otherwise, Elon even throwing out the Epstein word to peak salacious attention. Sick.
But what purpose does it serve?
Elon is out of the White House circle because his use value has gone down as much as his Tesla stock.
But as insults and insinuations happened, what changed? Zippo as best as it seems.
Why this smokescreen, this way, at this time? The bill went too far, is going to far, and the meanness of it is not Elon's worry, its the bond market. It's China holds enough federal debt that it gets its annual pay bigger than last time, and Elon sees them making better electric autos. Something that simple, or more hidden and sinister?
YouTube from 2021 remembers. And like the EverReady bunnie, still going. Still going.
How good is his evidence if you think objectively? He invents. Ask any Ohio Haitian about what's the diet.
And all this same shit is being packaged no differently today, and the JD SOB is hiding from the thousand page text of the Big Beautiful Bill. What's your memory of his saying anything about it?
Harvard is not perfect, and it is elitist. So the answer is destroy? Defund the Universities - big epistological difference from Defund the Police. Punish whoever the day offers?
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If you think the Big Beautiful Bill is the answer - then what the fuck is the question?
If it hits the target, then what the fuck is the target besides you and your well being - so he can live better and pass wealth and power onward to his offspring while his wife quit work to housewife at a time while too many families need daycare and double incomes to get through day to day?
And he wants to talk anecdotally where we cannot trust the veracity of his anecdotes - as per Ohio's pets and Haitians. Haitians who happen to be black and not as white as he and his Edmund Burke audience are.
He and Trump are worse about lying to working people than the Democrats have been.
And the Chinese. The dirty Chinese nation he belittles. While Palantir does its thing, also hand-callus free.
UPDATE: JD - Give a speech. Thatt ain't working, that's the way you do it . . . follow the Trump and you propser if you keep the perspective. Elon will tell you.
And Elon on the way out says, "It costs too much." Not that it's egregious for what's in it. The heart of things. Just bitching on pricing. Cut more - Social Security still has offices you know.
Elon, stow cost for a moment - what about this crap? Schumer, you're agreeing with Elon, so have you no say about the crap heap? It's your job. The Stewart people make that clear. Cost ain't the worse of it. Not by a mile. It is perversion personified. Nothing GREAT about it to become GREAT AGAIN as the caps say. There's no AGAIN to it either. It's unprecedented.
Well not so fast. It's Big! It's beautiful! That prison in El Savador where people snatched by plain clothe operatives in unmarked vans from of the street end up - big, beautiful too. (No pic here of Bill Belichik like the Stewart people could not resist. --- Even spelling his name wrong, "beleche ..." see how Bing or DuckDuck show where/how that coach Bill shows up in searching popularity). That's a separate part of why we are misinformed, after all it's the search we do, garbage in garbage out.
should be enough to chill even the spine of MTG, who regrets she did not read the thing before, "aye, sure." Trust the Speaker and the job's easier. The problem - trusting that little shit and Trump can get half the conutry crammed into that big, beautiful El Salvator place (instead of that tacky pink Mar a Lago).
(And I did spell Carole's first and last name correctly because I used cut/pas
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MTG is ignorant, but in some ways better than Speaker Johnson and Stephen Miller. Less a tricky fascist, more a groupie. And an idiot. Remember though, it is easier to be less a fascist than Speaker Johnson. Even Emmer's that. And give Stephen Miller a brown shirt to wear. He shows up on YouTube a lot, and never in a brown shirt. Why not? It would become him to dress that way.
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What is uncommented upon at large, what is AI? Under this bill, if passed, it would be any couputer use that somebody wanted to be beyond State Rights to legislate about it. Ostensibly, with a microchip of some kind involved in it somewhere, but lawyers are creative so no chip required, possibly.
Just, some union wants some State to stop something, No, it's AI and off limits? What horseshit is and means comes from Republicans having a House majority. Sicko for certain.
Here's one, Artificial Intelligence is any intelligence that uses an artifice. Hence the Arbends Coup the CIA instituted back in the days for U.S bananna companies, in Guatemala, or the Kissinger Chilean coup. where artifice was used by the Intelligence community, yes/no? That's stretching things, but look at how Stephen Miller operates. With disturbing elasticity.
What is this about? What the boss says, do or suffer; or more or less? What's the agenda, really?
Why would anyone question authority? Authority knows best?
UPDATE: Walz at U Minn law school commencement ceromony. Also,the EmptyWheel crowd in response to the question of capitulation to power by those who should know better, who clearly DO KNOW BETTER, does its Emptyheel thing - point developed, community responds.
The Magna Carta still is more than a historical incident, a precedent, or not, and who caves, who stands, and what the nation's future is and could alternatively could be can be propagandized. Opinion, drummed by repetition can become a false truth. A false flag. Being able to call the other side's stance "propagandized" is too easy - when OUR WAY clearly is better. Saying "propaganda" should only be done after much consideration of what the other side's stance, in toto, is and where it might lead - whether we want to go there or should want to -- or whether we accept discord rather than pressured conformity to what the boss says - that is not today's politics, it is the question of what culture and history are, and why.
When the boss can ship folks to a distant dark dungeon and mock court orders - turning Leonard Leo by screed into a false figure when a judge stands firm - is it somehow truth of a higher order than propaganda, or pure horseshit?
Those are the seeming choices facing one's mind. Yale's Vance is nobody's compass, or is the man a convert to a higher political truth about power, as well as a religion changer. Having found a higher truth that way in his belief system also. What's his Bible say, if that's how you resolve questions?
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