Saying that, four time-to-view items to better understand today or yesterday, here, here, here and here. You can say you don't like or agree with anything, but take the time to know what it is you discuss. Those four items are thought provoking, to Crabgrasss. The MTG one in particular paints an unfamiliar portrait of somebody I was possibly too dismissive toward. The other three, saying things online I appreciate, but have not seen fair MSM attention to them. View, think, and enjoy a challenge or two toward propagandized outlooks "set in stone."
There is more YouTube content I have loaded into browser tabs but as yet unviewed, so after viewing it, this post may be updated to reflect additional challenging content.
Charlie
Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Trump, who
was shot and killed Wednesday at a Utah college event was scheduled to
appear at the University of Minnesota on Sept. 22.
Michael
J. Knowles attends the Mr. Birchum Series Premiere on May 07, 2024 in
Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Araya Doheny/Getty Images for
DailyWire+)
Kirk co-founded and was CEO of the conservative youth organization Turning Point USA, with an early focus on proselytizing on college campuses for low taxes and limited government. The political organization eventually grew to holding large rallies with thousands of attendees and featuring top conservative leaders, including Trump.
Student chapter Turning Point USA at UMN scheduled Kirk and Michael
Knowles, a conservative political commentator, to speak as part of
Turning Point USA’s The American Comeback Tour. The event, scheduled on
the Carlson Family Stage at Northrop Auditorium, is described as “a
high-energy evening featuring a candid conversation about conservative
values, followed by a live Q&A.”
The event is not sponsored by the university and university officials
said they had not received an update from the organizers as to whether
it was still going ahead as of Friday evening, but Knowles pushed back
on a social media user’s urging Thursday night that he cancel public
appearances.
The beat goes on. Knowles looks as white and willing as Kirk. Not that there's valute to it. He shovels the same stuff, to receptive like-minded grumblers. Who knows? Knowles might even be better at it. The cash cow, Turning Point USA, sees no interruption in churning cash, a purpose in being. Knowles wears his suit well. Bring me the News, posts:
In an announcement Wednesday, the conservative youth organization
confirmed that the "American Comeback Tour" event at the Northrop
Auditorium will proceed as planned.
It will be presented by
Michael Knowles, a host for right-wing media company The Daily Wire, and
feature a "candid conversation about conservative values, followed by a
live Q&A session."
"This is the event that was originally
scheduled with Charlie Kirk before he was assassinated," the listing
says. "Turning Point USA is committed to keeping his legacy alive and
continuing all of his events."
Tickets are free but attendees must register in advance, with priority seating for students starting at 5:30 p.m. before general admission at 6 p.m.
You can bring a date if you register both persons. Curiosity seekers may attend, but general admission.
The free event, hosted by Turning Point USA at UMN, begins at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 22 on the Carlson Family Stage inside Northrop.
It is open to attendees 18 and older with advance registration and a valid government-issued ID.
Priority
seating for students with a U Card or other student ID begins at 5:30
p.m., followed by general admission seating at 6 p.m. All attendees must
pass through security screening, and Northrop’s special events bag
policy will be in effect.
International law is a topic new to crabgrass, as is the current status and flux in trade deals. Secrecy, and the public interest vs big-money players running things is a worry. Dispute resolution, public or private?
Bilateral deals, Trump's thing, exist along with a WTO and lots of multilateral stuff, where pubic need to know can often be regarded as mushrooming the public. (Keep them in the dark and feed them shit.)
Those are meandering thought in taking on the idea of - looking at trade.
Where to start and how to proceed are unknowns so dig in and there is a ton or academic publishing and current status online "blurb" news.
First item, here, where some Senators worth more respect than others in 2015 wrote a short letter about TPP to a trade rep. The letter seems parallel to the considerations Crabgrass might post - reporting and opinion. The letter flags timely ideas still, with Trump and crew, cutting deals. Absent the four appendix pages, (which are important so review it), this is the letter:
click images to enlarge and read
In Trump's bilateral deal world, where tariff threat opens discourse, the public trust in process is, if anything, more stressed and stretched to limits. That brings us to, apart from lawmakers, the general public's place in things. Bribes and favors in secret are possibilities, and what access do lawmakers and the public have to the deal negotiations, where treaties need Senate approval to bind.
One mischief readily appoarent, negotiate something, whthhold submission for Senate ratification, and then live by the bilateral deal, both sides, until one balks, saying it never formally went into effectd.
Then repeat the cycle.
Multilateral deals are likewise open to bribe or favoritism, and can you say Elon, or Big Oil? Or leaving submission to Senate ratification off the table, so US executive decision making can back out of anything.
Those seem to be ground rules of the Big Dog in negotiations, and dispute resolution in multilateral deals grabs onto idealogues yelling, "We will not surrender our sovereignty."
In effect, things are wide open, nations can play one off against the other, special deals for big players in national economies can be included, and secrecy favors special interests with clout. The whole world can be cartelized and oligopolies can be set to favor public sector economic powers over the poublic interest. Instead of nation states against each other, it can end up being one multinational bloc against others. Bilateral deals are easier to negotiate, because complications and compeating interests abound with the number of parties to a trade bloc agreements. Everyone has to end up happy, or at least satisfied, even if feeling rawly treated. Enough so that nation/players say, okay, even if grumbling.
That is the framework from which Crabgrass will look at stuff online and post additional stuff.
Obama was negotiating both, TIPP on the later track. The unions did not feel Obama was protective enough of their interests there was unrest in general, and Trump in the 2016 election positively disowned Obama's effort and the Clintons in turn did disavow it too, Ms Clinton declining to follow the prior administration (something Harris did not do).
Trump criticized Obama and team's negotiations as not tough enough, as he did on the Iran - nuke situation. Trump won.
So TPP and TIPP were scuttled. That's history. Trump tariff war is his current version of negotiating and the courts will have to say what he can do to overcome a feckless Congress, both Houses. Crabgrass gueses judicial finality will be favorable to the imperial presidency, given the fact of a feckless Congress intent on pissing away time with no action.
Recall some ridiculed GATT by calling it Gentlemen Always Talk and Talk. Welcome to Congress.
Crabgrass has more studying to do but that's the student reading assignment, which Crabgrass sets itself.
Before commenting thinking is best. This post is being started this way because there's little US media attention given to real things and much US media attention given to show.
People in Honk Kong are reading Crabgrass because they've obvious vested interests in the real things. And Crabgrass in a fumbling way at least will try to post something worth reading. The regular media seem to think let the adults do the necessary, we distract public interest to protect the real things.
Something like that. That's all for now because Crabgrass admits the three "latest things" links are given before Crabgrass study of them. Before commenting thinking is best. More to come. All for now.
Again, the caveat, this is one eighty year old American thinking and posting, but there may nonetheless be value to what's published. Again, all for now.
______________UPDATE_____________
CPTPP: Same day, the two May 2025 linked items say the same thing largely, quoting Reuters:
STOCKHOLM,
May 13 (Reuters) - Sweden said on Tuesday it would propose that the
European Union join a Pacific rim-based trading group with the aim of
forming the world's biggest free trade area to help counter the impact
of U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs.
The
Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership
(CPTPP) is a free trade accord sealed in 2018 between 11 countries -
Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand,
Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. Britain joined last year and China also hopes to join.,
Two South American nations are members, Brazil, not yet as of May 2025. Canada and Mexico the only North American members. Central American nations, absent, including Panama with the canal. Indian subcontinent absent, other BRICS and Islamic states, absent. Ditto all of Africa.
"If
the EU and the CPTPP as trade groups link together it would create the
biggest free-trade area in the whole world," Sweden's Minister for
Foreign Trade, Benjamin Dousa, told Reuters by phone from Japan.
"At
a time when the U.S. is closing itself off more and more and becoming
inward-looking there are good opportunities for Europe to open itself
up... to investment and trade," he said.
Trump's tariff blitz has upended decades of trade practice, shaken faith in traditional alliances and raised fears of a global recession.
Dousa,
who is currently on a trade trip to several Asian countries, said
Sweden would make its proposal on joining the CPTPP at a meeting of EU
foreign ministers on Thursday in Brussels.
Export-dependent
Sweden is one of the strongest supporters of free trade inside the
27-nation EU, though Dousa said he expected some member states to be
less keen on a CPTPP deal.
"We
are ready to take up the fight with countries like France," he said.
France has traditionally been more protectionist-minded, especially
regarding agricultural produce.
While
negotiations could take some time, Dousa said it might be possible to
conduct negotiations sector-by-sector and industry-by-industry, meaning
concrete agreements could be in place relatively quickly.
Realatively quickly, or not. Crabgrass has May 2025 as its last date of imformation, and needs to search if there is online updating of info. As of today, Wikipedia entry: CPTPP. (Crabgrass has yet to read it.)
Who in Congress, which committees, and what has been done that way are points for attention. There is a feeling of not being kept in the loop as the American public, one member, but how widespread is the media-led ignorance? Not looking, but guessing, whitehouse.gov not worth checking.
There is the term "being mushroomed" where the public might fit under the term.
Crabgrass search, pending = cptpp new membership eu us russia china
Try it yourselves. Something likely will be returned of value.
FURTHER: The facts of existing trade agreements while Trump holds a tariff war - is it being deliberately downplayed by the Trumpsters, the Democrats, and the US media, or has Crabgrass just been sleeping?
Downplay being one thing, diversionary stuff being something else. "Need to know" seems at play, by the adults. As in "Look at Epstein, yes and no about releasing stuff" and Gaza, oh my! Dead Kirk. LLMs. Elon. While it can be asked, who gets what share of electric automobile manufacturing, have the adults divided the market already, or are free markets at play, ostensibly or in reality? Sneaksrs and clothing? Laptops? All them phones . . .
FURTHER: Same day, Google Analytics tell me I have had one view of the blog from Brunei over the past 24 hrs. That's my first from there. I remember Ollie North and the Sultan of Brunei, back in Iran Contra days, and -- here again. Small but wealthy??
The veteran late-night comic, made several remarks about the reaction to
the conservative activist's assassination last week on ''Jimmy Kimmel
Live!'' Monday and Tuesday nights, including that ''many in MAGA land
are working very hard to capitalize on the murder of Charlie Kirk.''
And that is a bottom line truth.
[...] President
Donald Trump celebrated ABC's move on the social media site Truth
Social, writing: ''Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage
to do what had to be done.''
Earlier
in the day, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr called Kimmel's comments ''truly
sick'' and said his agency has a strong case for holding Kimmel, ABC and
network parent Walt Disney Co. accountable for spreading
misinformation. He said the comic appeared to be making an intentional
effort to mislead the public that Kirk's assassin was a right-wing Trump
supporter.
There is truth to the last sentence from the AP's quoted reporting below, with "might have" not being a statement of fact but of possibility, but a blame game over a whack-job head-case problematic Utah youth is ugly and wrong. Wrong both ways (attributing either a right or left wing motive) and wholly off base to say it was other than hostile animus specifically against Kirk. The kid registered to vote and for two electionrs didn't. Read the politics that single fact shouts out. It seems Tyler Robinson was apolitical but against Kirk's hate messaging. Authorities hold evidence to that effect, details have been published, and young Tyler did not have roots of any deep political kind. No trail of email or messaging against Trump and JD, but solely seeing Kirk as a hate filled provocateur. (Which Crabgrass agrees is a true opinion of Kirk.)
Research it. The AP item continues:
During
his Monday evening monologue, Kimmel suggested Kirk's alleged killer,
Tyler Robinson, might have been a pro-Trump Republican. ''The MAGA Gang
(is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie
Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to
score political points from it,'' Kimmel said. ''In between the
finger-pointing, there was grieving.''
''This
is a very, very serious issue right now for Disney,'' Carr said on the
Benny Johnson podcast. ''We can do this the easy way or the hard way.
These companies can find ways to take action on Kimmel or there is going
to be additional work for the FCC ahead.''
Benny Johnson is a rightwing flak. Going on that podcast is rightwing red flag waving at us. AND Trump and his lackeys are dancing on Kirk's grave, while blithely ignoring Kirk's repeated strong feelings, publicly expressed, about releasing all the Epstein evidence. All! One unstable trigger-pulling Mormon youth from a gun-love rightwing very Christian family is being wrongly called a leftist ideologue (rather than a misguided soul) by every MAGA talking head top down, when he went against a strong family ultra-conservative outlook in gunning down Kirk. What you really have: A kid from the gamer culture, with a trans female lover, bonded to a shoot 'em up diet of games conditioning a pliant mind.
Meanwhile, that regulator, Carr, is bloviating a mobster-like "cave in, bow and kiss the Godfather's hand, or feel hurt" threat.
Recall, Project 2025 head pusher, Kevin Roberts, with Heritage Foundation's similar theme and threat:
The Heritage Foundation and its president, Kevin Roberts, are facing
blowback in the wake of his comment about an ongoing second American
revolution that will “remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”
President Biden’s campaign jumped on the comment, with a spokesperson
saying it shows that former President Trump’s allies are “dreaming of a
violent revolution to destroy the very idea of America.” Commentators
ranging from former GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.) to MSNBC hosts and
guests reacted with alarm.
And in the wake of the comment, though without mentioning it, Trump distanced himself from
Project 2025 — an initiative led by the conservative think tank that
aims to provide a conservative policy blueprint for the next Republican
administration and that has also ignited political firestorms.
Heritage and Roberts, though, are standing by the comment, dismissing the criticism as being in bad faith.
It is entirely hard to avoid the mental image of the mobster telling the deli owner you can pay me for protection or pay more for broken windows and damage. The administration's "regulatory hurt" threats are difficult, to say the least. And Trump is what else but the Godfather of his administration
Last - Can't resist -
BOTTOM LINE: Kimmel told the basic truth that Trump and crowd were dancing on the grave, ("making hay while the sun shines" if you prefer), yet regulator Brenden Carr is flexing a mobster-like threat of do as we say or face a financial harm. PROVE ME WRONG.
_______________UPDATE_____________
It is hard to leave it there. The misgivings go deep. The gist of Crabgrass feeling is Trump is bent on a strong-arm presidency for Trump 47, JD onboard, and that's galling to a long-grounded love of freedom and liberty being American. Free people don't like being strong-armed. And when we get strong arming after strong arming, what is the message and are we free? And if not, what is going on, top down?
Brazil has had coups and strong man authority. They have thus suitably handled Bolsanaro. We have had one revolution and a civil war, but both a long time ago. We don't like being pushed around by a failed businessman, TV actor. Ease up, Trump, is the general feeling with uneasiness. Be Presidential if you know how. No Kings.
Bessent did what is widespread, and unpunished, so that he should be told "bad boy" and left to his Department and its running. As Cook should be left alone to do her job. Give her a "bad girl:" too, if that will settle your mind.
Start with an earlier thing, Trumpian motives for saying Brazil gets humongous tariffs imposed because Bolsanaro was put on trial for a coup attempt. E.g., this BBC item from August 2025.
"The
political persecutions by sanctioned human rights abuser Alexandre de
Moraes continue, as he and others on Brazil's supreme court have
unjustly ruled to imprison former President Jair Bolsonaro," Rubio wrote
on X.
"The United States will respond accordingly to this witch hunt," he said.
Brazil's
Foreign Ministry called Rubio's comment a threat that "attacks
Brazilian authority and ignores the facts and the compelling evidence in
the records." The ministry said Brazilian democracy would not be
intimidated by the United States.
Bolsonaro, who had close ties to U.S. President Donald Trump
during his first term in the White House, became the first former
president in Brazilian history to be convicted for attacking democracy
after a majority of five justices on Brazil's Supreme Court voted to
convict him on Thursday. He was sentenced to 27 years and three months
in prison.
"Well,
I watched that trial. I know him pretty well--foreign leader. I thought
he was a good president of Brazil, and it's very surprising that could
happen very much like they tried to do with me, but they didn't get away
with it at all," Trump told reporters when asked about Bolsonaro being
found guilty and if that means additional sanctions.
[...] Trump, who also faced a variety of criminal charges and ultimately became the first former U.S. president convicted
of a crime last year, [...] In July, he imposed 50% tariffs on most Brazilian goods to fight what he has called a "witch hunt" against Bolsonaro. He later exempted some Brazilian exports, including passenger vehicles and a large number of parts and components used in civil aircraft.
That same month, the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who presided over
Bolsonaro's criminal case, accusing him of authorizing arbitrary
pre-trial detentions and suppressing freedom of expression.
One place I got my mind wrong, I thought it was Bolsonaro who handed Elon the chainsaw at APEC. It was an Argintine. Bolsonaro may be, (and was judged), a really bad actor, but it was not him being that chainsaw tacky.
Aside from that, a little past, present, and Rubio "promise" about the future, blogged here briefly over a grudge feeling one pissed off former scorn-monger election-loser had in a coincidental embrace of another. One fucking hell of a way to do foreign policy, but that's only the Crabgrass thought, and others may see it differently.
Crabgrass belief: Brazil got it right. Good voters get good results.
It arguably deserves more trenchant analysis, and I am sure in Brazil due attention is given. Crabgrass is not the place to overreach in commentary where little here is known but what's web content.
However, it had to be mentioned. Not commenting about it would have been negligent. It needs attention, and Crabgrass gives it some. The U.S. in a bad posture perhaps should not be dwelt upon, but there's been sooooo much bad posture these days that the nation needs a figurative chiropractor, to adjust its spine.
It is one of the web's good outlets. It recently published an op-ed about political murder.
COUNTERPUNCH also opined on tariff impact on farmers and how things could be better. Beyond give a bigger subsidy to offset tariff impact. Again, a worthwhile outlet, left oriented.
FURTHER: The site seems more set on commentary than attempted or feigned "just the facts reporting" with two additional items highlighted. Here. Here.
The trouble is, the types of data typically used for training
language models may be used up in the near future—as early as 2026, according to a paper by researchers from Epoch,
an AI research and forecasting organization, that is yet to be peer
reviewed. The issue stems from the fact that, as researchers build more
powerful models with greater capabilities, they have to find ever more
texts to train them on. Large language model researchers are
increasingly concerned that they are going to run out of this sort of
data, says Teven Le Scao, a researcher at AI company Hugging Face, who
was not involved in Epoch’s work.
The issue stems partly from
the fact that language AI researchers filter the data they use to train
models into two categories: high quality and low quality. The line
between the two categories can be fuzzy, says Pablo Villalobos, a staff
researcher at Epoch and the lead author of the paper, but text from the
former is viewed as better-written and is often produced by professional
writers.
Data from low-quality categories consists of texts like social media
posts or comments on websites like 4chan, and these examples greatly
outnumber those considered to be high quality. Researchers typically
only train models using data that falls into the high-quality category
because that is the type of language they want the models to reproduce.
This approach has resulted in some impressive results for large language
models such as GPT-3.
One way to overcome these data
constraints would be to reassess what’s defined as “low” and “high”
quality, according to Swabha Swayamdipta, a University of Southern
California machine learning professor who specializes in data-set
quality. If data shortages push AI researchers to incorporate more
diverse data sets into the training process, it would be a “net
positive” for language models, Swayamdipta says.
In the old days, when processing power and memory were in shorter supply, the word was garbage in garbage out.
Now MIT can say it with many more words. We have come a long way, and the way out is obscure.
Ask the Unibomber?
google = use AI output to train AI
See what you get.
UPDATE: I was contemplating a post with well linked authority about something I'd not seen posted about yet, expecting it for some months.
The Epstein and the Ehud Barak
Mossad. That's what some say about who created Epstein and the honey pot.
Epstein was Jewish, The Victoria's Secret guy was Jewish. Leonard Black? Jewish. So it's low-grade easy to say it was all part of the Jewish conspiracy, which gets mentioned a lot on various web segments.
What interests me, and I have nothing like proof either way beyond the circumstantial -
If you web search = Epstein Barak business ventures
See what you get. Tune the search if you feel that's needed. See what their mutual greed produced. Search Barak separately to get his Wiki Bio.
Then try Wikipedia for names you may get as to money making thoughts Epstein and Barak may have shared for trial ventures they considered, something that may have hit the shoals or still be going.
Something perhaps existing for one purpose, but having commercialization possibility elsewise?
There is stuff online but I will let you find it and make inferences from it. Suffice it to say that if Epstein had his honey pots stocked with cameras having a remote feed, via the internet available tech as then might have existed, such as then leading edge tech one might market for feeding video to a 911 site to aid its responsiveness, wouldn't that possibly suggest streaming the activity at the honey pot to remote storage, somewhere, so that if the FBI or US intelligence people were to have the right warrant to look, (warrantless searches, they don't happen do they), then they might not find any incriminating video evidence on site at the honey pot? And if live-streamed somewhere, where would you guess? Ventures, patents, there might be a circumstantial trail, but only hard evidence - if it happened that way which is uncertain - if you know the remote data storage site being streamed to and have access to it.
And, have a nice day. Technology is your friend. Look how it helped Kash and the Mormons track down Robinson. It can do that to, with you. The Unabomber wrote about yesterday's technology and we need to contemplate its movement given the tons of money, hardware, brain power, and electricity being invested into tomorrow's AI. We have a future, but who other than you is charting it and bringing it to being. And for what reasons are they routing things in the directions things are moving? With all of your best interests in mind? Making a better life for the children?
FURTHER: Selfless benevolence is the major human motive. What being "human" means.
Only the good die young.
Reconciling opposing thoughts is sometimes easy, sometimes hard, right?
See what you find if you search. See what you think about it.
What's the point of this bluster? I will stop posting quivering in fear? Make me tremble?
Go figure. We've a First Amendment Miller's aware of, but does he honor it in his speaking against freedom of expression? We're going to get these leftists - I'm old enough to say I hear it, I doubt it.
Blustery weather passes, and the sun shines again. As to me, it is Stephen, go after the Soros family first, get them and I will take your raised voice seriously. Otherwise, have a nice day.
Leave things there. There is no need to go beyond what's been said. Only, is this helping Trump, or hurting cred in general? That's for each reader to figure. What does JD gain?
UPDATE: Lyndon Johnson made martyrs at Kent State and Jackson State, and alienated a large part of a generation into distrust of power. Also, roughly a century ago U.S. action solidified popular resolve in Mexico. Stephen Miller nonetheless pushes on. Wisdom in some places is in short supply, usually where hubris is in excess. And ranting satisfies no need of the people of our nation. Miller can still show an upward sloping or at least stable learning curve, or can take the free hand Trump is giving him and fuck things up royaly, well past today's already heated feelings and counterfeelings. Pop the popcorn and watch.
Stephen Miller Issues Chilling Threat Over Charlie Kirk’s Death
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
2 min readWhite House deputy chief of staff
Speaking
with Vice President JD Vance Monday during a tribute to Charlie Kirk on
the far-right firebrand’s eponymous show, Miller said that he intended
to “channel all the anger that we have” against the left, claiming that
leftist groups and nonprofits had created “terrorist networks” that led
to Kirk’s murder.
“The
last message that Charlie sent me … was that we needed to have an
organized strategy to go after the left-leaning organizations that are
promoting violence in this country,” Miller told Vance, celebrating what he described as focused anger. “I will write those words onto my heart and I will carry them out.”
Miller
elaborated that, per his belief, these supposed terrorist organizations
had produced “organized doxing campaigns” and “organized cells” that
facilitated violence.
“It
is a vast domestic terror movement,” Miller said. “With God as my
witness, we are going to use every resource we have at the Department of
Justice, Homeland Security, and throughout this government to identify,
disrupt, dismantle, and destroy these networks and make America safe
again for the American people.
“It will happen, and we will do it in Charlie’s name,” Miller added.
The little shit Miller does not have a heart. He is the Tin Man and Scarecrow in one persona. No brain either. And Miller's not acting in Charlie's name, he is his own man doing his own shit and saying it's not mine, it's somebody else's. Or I'll steal a dead man's aura. It's his child. Abusing Kirk's name and memory or not, it is Miller's bastard thing. Do a paternity test. His. Hunt a witch for Miller, not Kirk in retrospect.
Vance should know better. A witch hunt does no one any good, and gets distrust as it's due reward.
Link. Who are these two, and where do they sniff out a truffle, and where do they show something we should worry over?
Or think, they're all one way, good: or all one way; bad. It may be a pick and choose, and a general impression on the whole, with caveats.
And the thought, wealthy people and those who control big corporate business; how does social liberalism and economic liberalism (with the term liberal in its larger sense, say progressivism instead) split?
Let people live, if they show up every day on time and punch out a good quota of widgets, or is our national character something else, and if so, what?
Tucker saying he's worked menial jobs, his family made him do it in summers? Something like that.
Facing middle and old age lifting and fitting stuff is not the same as trying a summer of it.
And demonizing boomers? They had numbers, bur only a handful had hands on power, and shaped things to mirror a non-bluge population system, in terms of equal distribution of national product and enjoyment of a dream of some kind?
Finally, I thought of turning people loose on the item without front loading some of my thinking, but I did not. I can be faulted for that.
I think false prophets can sound legit to some, not others, and your prophets making sense might at the same time be my false ones, so watch and form your own take on the two talking at length.
It could reflect on you and how your childhood stood as much as about the two and what they share.
At a week and a half from 81, I know old age, but at 200 lb I do not abuse my body as if I were a flab ridden 320 pounder. Which Trump seems to have allowed himself to be.
I'd get sleep and park the golf cart a bit of a short walk from the green to get a few steps in. Little things.
He lacks the discipline. He indulges short term, and fats out. Not body shaming, but health shaming, given his position in politics. He owes us, the nation, the best decisionmaking good health he and unlimited med resources can give us.
His history of pigheadedness and coincident bad business decisions and bankruptcies suggest he needs to have the best of advisors and to trust them. His lifelong inferiority complex, for which he's found compensating postures and conduct need revision. He'll never be all Fred wanted, but live with it and be the best possible, given genetics and environment and personal slobbish indulgent history leading to this point.
He's let himself whale out.
His mental acuity is not what it was thirty years ago in sharper-minded Apprentice entertainment days. He's slipping and slurring and meandering from the point. He needs JD to not only front the stuff, small and bigger, but to have an entire competent cabinet with everyone on board saying, "Health matters." He says he's healthy, but he is not, and likely believes he's deluding people when we see and know.
Anyone saying this is a healthy man is in self-delusion, or lying.
That said, the job of others in politics is to try to channel help and positive personal feelings, even if thinking his policy is a road to the Great Depression of this century. Obama had to overcome the Bush 2008 disaster, Biden to overcome the Covid mishandling and lack of pandemic preparation, which is going worse under the Kennedy chap.
Bad things, and bad health are each capable of being fought against.
This cheap fist pumping, "Fight, fight, fight" is delusional for a man who will not even eat well or trust enough those he elevates to positions of trust. Hegseth and Kennedy are physically fit, overly so perhaps, but mentally impaired, and they've so far had relative longevity in Trump 47, despite publicly expressed misgivings of others.
Trump at his core is an awful judge of people, wanting to install those less gifted than himself, to his detriment since he is more salesman and sound-bite specialist, than gifted in any needed sense.
He even delivers his sound-bites these days in writing, Truth Social, where ghost-writing is a question?
Washington, D.C., we have a problem.
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At the Pentagon 9/11 memorial service Trump looked bad, but after finding the speech he gave online, he read the teleprompters on each side clearly, turning obviously from one to the other as he read. It was, however, reassuring that his vocal power had not degenerated greatly in a short few days, where speculation over a possible stroke has been given media attention.
If he'd had a stroke it did not impair his reading or articulating skill more than, say, the middle of last month or earlier. He is living a hard 79th year, and it was encouraging, his voice, even with media speculation. However, health is a concern, and his attendance rather than sending JD for the event was also encouraging.
I absolutely hope he keeps his health able, and if going into difficulty that he has the good sense to acknowledge when it might be time to cut this second term short, if that ever becomes the case.
He is not there yet, but he and staff must show care and discernment.
(I would provide a link to his speech but I found online only a composite with other more extensive lead-in content irrelevant to Trump's part of the Pentegon event.) Readers, please search the speech if caring enough, or take my analysis that he stood with no sway, and gave the speech from the two teleprompters, which is not unique, Biden having on occasion used a pair of teleprompters to aid his official event speeches.
It is a worry, but so far the point of considering ending the term before its scheduled end has not been reached. As best as Crabgrass has seen.
If the term ends early, JD appears like-minded to where policy would largely remain as it's been under Trump. Whether you view that as good or bad is a separate question.
The Hortmans dead, the guy Kirk dead, multiple past multiple-target-persons-shootings via assault rifles, more so than with handguns which are specifically made and sold for shooting people becuase you don't hunt with a Glock. It's under powered to drop a bear, and the range of accurate targeting even by experienced shooters exceeds many hunting distances where a long gun shot could succeed. In short, guns designed for warfare or street action - all that leading to thoughts of time to more soundly regulate firearms and firearm ownership. Walz may call a MN leg special session for that very purpose.
Republicans stoop to babble speak and evasion to push stand your ground (aggressive) measures, while not wanting guns regulated. MinnReformer notes Republican Walter Hudson babble-speak about revolution somehow, discussed but not, says Hudson, advocated by him. And Hudson has been analyzed by Steve Timmer in Steve's left.mn postings here and here. (Hudson is not in Republican leadership making Crabgrass think of some of the brothers frats kept away from rushees during Rush Week, back when.)
Hudson votes with the Republicans, so they accept him, but have they honored or featured him? He is more inclined to feature himself, possibly confusing leadership by what he says.
But that's not Stand Your Ground thought, although Hudson might agree with it. He surely stands his ground, politically. Leadership sometimes having to clean the ground after him.
Now, mom in the burbs Republican Kristin Robbins sees herself fit for the Governor's Mansion, and makes Stand Your Ground a thing to co-sponsor. Beyond that she is eager to serve Minnesotans better than others, where others, both parties, feel the same about their talents. She favors economic projections in state made without inflation adjustments. Despite inflation happening and everyone knowing that.
The links on Robbins again are to Timmer's analyses.
What you get is a drift that some Minnesota Republicans are lesser than others.
Now, while on guns and gun-love let us join in featuring a Utah family in togetherness over firearm feel and stroking:
John Lennon, years ago, gunned down. Yitzhak Rabin, gunned down. Ghandi. Two Kennedys and a King. And this family is bringing up the youngsters gun-happy while the older brother got Charlie Kirk in the neck. Sick? Yes. I don't live in Utah and would not move there. Somebody might shoot me. And yes, Minnesota is not a best example of other ways. We have Boelters. And we do not need kerosene on the fire via Stand Your Ground as a universal thing, since in public vs in one's safe home, you first try retreat when feasible in public if threatened, while in the home there may be a more defensive reaction to a wrongful entry. But each case should rely on its own facts without a bias toward standing ground and shooting it out and damn the other options.
A Rebecca Weber states online, or more accurately - has it stated online for her:
Rebecca Weber
Biography
Rebecca Weber is CEO of the Association of
Mature American Citizens (AMAC), a 2.1 million-strong, non-partisan
group for Americans 50+. She is also a suburban New York mother, writer
and community leader.
The Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC) is a United States-based conservative advocacy organization and interest group, founded in 2007. It was founded by Daniel C. Weber, a retired insurance agency owner, who also served as its president.[1][2]
AMAC is a membership organization for people aged 50 and over.[3] The group calls itself "the conservative alternative to the AARP."[2]
It is one of several organizations to position itself as a conservative
rival to the AARP; others include the American Seniors Association and 60 Plus Association.[3][4][5]
Political activities
AMAC describes itself as "vigorously conservative" and gained support from talk show host Glenn Beck and other conservative figures.[6] AMAC strongly opposes the Affordable Care Act (ACA)[7][8] and has pushed for its repeal.[4]
In March 2014, AMAC claimed a membership of 1.1 million members, up
from 40,000 in 2008, which it attributed to backlash over the ACA.[4]
AMAC supports a plan for Social Security
which would gradually increase the earliest retirement age to 64 (from
62) and "guarantee cost-of-living increases in a tiered structure based
on income."[4]
AMAC supports the oil and gas industry, claiming that they "are safer
for the environment than ever before." The group's president, Dan Weber,
called for a rollback of Obama administration policies to promote clean energy.[9]
The AMAC has a volunteer "delegate" program, aiming to select an AMAC member in each congressional district across the country to meet and lobby members of Congress.[10]
In February 2017 AMAC issued a warning to the upcoming 2017 Academy Awards ceremony to not tolerate speeches against President Donald Trump, threatening to launch a boycott of theaters.[11]
And she smiles atop a poll page which does not include Release the Epstein Files, unless you write that into the poll under OTHER.
On that page two lenders listed as sponsors. You can search the web on that, it might be one lender with two ad spots, I don't know, I did not bother searching it.
WTF does "non-partisan" mean to you? 501(c)(3) dress-up. or something with more gravitas?
Suspect in Charlie Kirk killing identified as Tyler Robinson – reports
According
to multiple reports, citing law enforcement sources, a suspect in the
killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has been identified as
Tyler Robinson, 22, who is local to Utah.
We’re due to hear from FBI director Kash Patel and Utah officials shortly. We’ll bring you the latest lines as we have them.
Trump gives the "official story" to Fox and Friends, i.e., Rupert's thing, Hegseth's former thing, gets the sit-down disclosure - here. Also, Fox, here, he's Israel's friend (Indirectly staking ground: Mossad did not do it over Epstein files).
Times of Isreal coverage, here and here. Doth protest too much?
We await the "suspect" Trump/FOX has fingered to be given a chance to release a statement. (We'll wait a long time, likely from counsel, after indictment.)
WE GOT OUR GUY AND THAT'S IT. FULL STORY. ALL THAT'S FIT TO TELEVISE.
(I posted without taking time to watch the Fox and Friends dog-and-pony, so, did Trump say anything about Kirk and his stance on the Epstein files? You'd have to watch to give me a certain answer, but our guesses likely don't diverge.)
Put that in your pipe and smoke it, while, like Sherlock, considering here, here and here; the latter item saying:
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) said he includes President Trump among those who should tone down their rhetoric in the wake of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
”I mean, there is a lot of rhetoric. And the president himself
engages in it — he called it a hostile act to co-sponsor the Epstein
resolution,” said Massie, who was a leading voice in pushing a motion to force the release of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “I think that’s ridiculous rhetoric.”
“It’s amusing,” he added. “It doesn’t offend me that he’s over the
top with the rhetoric, but some people take it literally, and he should
probably tone that down himself.”
In response, Trump said Massie was “not MAGA” and has encouraged someone to primary him.
“Thomas Massie, the worst Republican Congressman, and an almost
guaranteed NO VOTE each and every time, is an Embarrassment to
Kentucky,” Trump wrote in one post on Truth Social in July. “He’s lazy, slow moving, and totally disingenuous — A real loser!”
He added, “Never has anything positive to add. Looking for someone
good to run against this guy, someone I can Endorse and vigorously
campaign for!”
The feud has further escalated after the Kentucky Republican filed a discharge petition earlier this month on a resolution to release the Epstein files, an effort that is inching closer to a sufficient number of signatures to force a vote.
Eyes on the prize. How will JD spin that? With ignoring the Kirk-Epstein Files connection being guessed as a part of it. The don't look here, look there spin where Ohio Haitians might also somehow play a role.
JD cooks a stew when intending to.
See what the suspect identity-and-story are, but don't ignore Kirk - Epstein Files as an overarching theme.
Weigh all the rhetoric pending before Kirk got shot, and now, after, but understand Crabgrass has opinions colored by long set politics in viewing circumstances, so keep an open mind, as will be tried here.
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The BBC item uses images in a advertorial manner. As in,
RELEASE THE FUCKING FILES, ALREADY and CHIPS FALL AS DESERVED, MR. TRUMP.
FURTHER: The BBC item went online two days ago, i.e., the day before Epstein file influencer Kirk was shot dead from some angle. That explains why the Kirk situation was not analyzed by the BBC then. It had not yet happened, being the next day's news.
FINAL UPDATE: Facts get in the way of many favored theories, but a confessing perp is a situation you accept. You don't try to argue with it.
The Kirk - Epstein Files theory was nice, but not the case. The story seems the shooter shot Kirk because Kirk was a small-minded hateful asshole, and not for any reason beyond that.
If Stephen Miller had made a low-security public visit to that school on the 9/11 anniversary, who knows.
Now, release the files. Kirk is a closed book. The files are anything but that.
FINAL FINAL UPDATE: There is something barbaric about my wanting to use Kirk's death to focus sunlight upon his stance on the Epstein Files. That is admitted.
Read Howie Klein's post on Kirk's passing, and get a feel for the why sense behind how I've written this up as I did. Klein details things I presumed readers would already understand. If not, Read Klein's item.
Honor the living with the truth, first, always - as much because the dead will not care anymore - and truth must always prevail. The clean fact is I have no grief over Kirk being shot. I feel for wife and children, but Kirk put them second to his shtick, which was a closed and hateful message. Sympathy dries up for me when a hater passes.
I don't miss Henry Kissinger, for instance. He made 100 years but the Reaper got him, and do you miss him? I don't miss the Dulles brothers. Roy Coen.
