In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the JoeBama Administration and Presidency.
“This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can’t be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won’t be done. The Founders’ Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.”
“But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.”
This thread will refresh daily and appear above the Open Discussion Thread.
Whenever the possibility presents, throw sand into the machinery…
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In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled today that New York officials violated the First Amendment by coercing insurance and banking companies to no longer do business with the National Rifle Association as punishment for the group’s gun views.
https://x.com/seanmdav/status/1796188386513834035
In a just court system those officials would be on trial for treason.
Johnny: Sedition, not treason, but, same idea.
Certainly individuals have been sent to prison, for civil rights violations, so if these officials have already been found guilty by SCOTUS,….?
It’s a civil trial, and the case was went back down to the lower courts to determine liability.
So, the Commies fouled coms with their allies and got their wrist slapped. We saw millions affected by this same game during Covid. We’re seeing specific segments of the population similarly targeted by business now, both customers and employees, with fascist corporations doing the Communist government’s bidding.
The Commies are just smarter about it than they apparently were with the NRA. That and the NRA has deep enough pockets for lawsuits, something we grunts don’t always have access to because, well, lawyers don’t have to take our case, pro-bono/contingency/retainer/whatever. Welcome to America. 👍
Keep an eye our for Murthy v. Missouri, now pending before SCOTUS. Here is Scotusblog’s summary:
Issue: (1) Whether respondents [Attorney General of Missouri] have Article III standing; (2) whether the government’s challenged conduct transformed private social media companies’ content-moderation decisions into state action and violated respondents’ First Amendment rights; and (3) whether the terms and breadth of the preliminary injunction are proper.
Thanks 👍
Dunes2021: Thousands of individual “grunt” NRA members pay the costs of these lawsuits and NRA is hurting, financially.
Pretending not to know things…
Oh, but they do, and are about to do it again, right now! Are we sick of their BS yet? NOT IN MY NAME
About to? We are way past about to..
True, but if they think they can go to war with Russia, they have lost their minds! EVERYTHING America has done, and is doing militarily is immoral. When was it OK to take the young men and women of this country, and tell them to fight for corporate greed? When was it right to go into Africa, Iran, Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and yes Ukraine, and murder their people, kill their leaders, and steal the wealth of their nations?
They aren’t defending anyone, or fighting for democracy, a word which most nations don’t understand, or even want. What right? I am seriously angry, and Trump needs to destroy the IC stranglehold on this country, or the American people will start doing it!
Give witness to a world of falsehood:
https://chat.whatsapp.com/Dr9oRce8UQNIqvcWeYl1Ik
“Racist-in-Chief: Biden Foments Division As He Accuses Trump of Wanting to Tear Gas Black People”
Excerpts:
President Joe Biden continues to debase himself as he tries to divide the American people by using race relations as a cudgel to try to convince voters that he’s fit for another term in office. Yet, his inflammatory rhetoric seems from a different (far worse) era, and he seems to want to inflame his listeners rather than bring them together.
the president angrily spewed venom at his challenger for the presidency, Donald Trump. You could almost see the spittle flying:
Biden wasn’t done, however, as he tried to paint America as a country that it hasn’t been since at least the 1960s:
Even if the American people miraculously come to their senses and kick him out of office come November, he will have done incalculable damage to the nation. His ongoing attempts to incite hatred within our people will be remembered in the books as a stain on our legacy.
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2024/05/30/racist-in-chief-biden-foments-division-as-he-accuses-trump-of-wanting-to-tear-gas-black-people-n2174834
Does Biden not know there were some Blacks at the Capitol on J6? Or that many Blacks will be pardoned by Trump?
Dies Biden Know that a black woman died on J6 due to actions taken by Capitol police?
Biden is a racist. I hope Blacks reject this misdirected hatred.
That’s The Crimson Kenyan and his sock-puppet master, ValJar, doing the talking.
the race card doesn’t work any more
the deck is running out of cards and the house built from it is collapsing
Why Trump hasn’t flooded the net/tv with ads showing Robert Byrd in his KKK robe and hat, then Biden cozying up to him in the Senate and in parades, and video/quotes of Joe and his racist comments….I don’t know.
The one thing Joe always had going for him because the media lies is that he’s a harmless, kindly uncle sort.
Most don’t know his background.
Many who should know better have often attributed his wild tales to his dementia, but since the day Biden went on the stump in Delaware, he’s shown he’s a mythomaniac, a compulsive fabulist liar.
This is the stuff that should be in everyone’s home. They shouldn’t be able to turn around w/out hearing about the REAL Biden v. the manufactured liar-in-chief.
I looked at the black people who evidently volunteered to stand behind Biden while he spoke to that half empty high school gymnasium audience in PHilly yesterday.
Were they to know Joe’s best bud in the US Senate was Robert Byrd, they’d not have had anything to do with being in the photo with the bastard Biden
Why Trump doesn’t spend money on this stuff baffles me.
Perhaps there is some micro-targeting of demographic areas that I don’t know about, but Biden’s “I’ll buddy up to anyone who is powerful–I have no scruples–” behavior all those years can be shown with film and quotes and it needs to be a shared experience by all Americans.
We need that realistic portrayal of him to take root everywhere. Down deep, everyone will also realize how jaded a person IS Obama to have made him his veep.
JMO.
File under: 2025 “Constitutional do-over” of the Executive Branch – Notes
No doubt, there are still some hard core, full time trolls who firmly believe that after winning the 11/5/2024 election, President Trump will not be in control of the Executive Branch anymore than he was in 2017.
There are also some American citizens who still believe that.
Why is that?
Because, they have failed to make the transition that President Trump has made over the past 3 years from historically governing the Executive Branch unconstitutionally, as was done in 2017 and prior years,….. to governing it constitutionally,……. his plan for 2025. He will foil the democrat / GOPe catch-22 trap that they have set for him. He will hit them hard and fast and effective.
In his first 100 days, President Trump and his 2025 Executive Branch administration will start and complete the process of removing from the Executive Branch the unconstitutional maze of administrative-state’s rules, acts, declarations, interpretations, agreements, and even some laws that the un-American globalists have enacted over the past century, slowly eroding the freedoms and rights of the American citizens and states as defined in the “original Constitution and the legally approved amendments.”
As President, he cannot associate with, nor defend, any “written law that is unconstitutional.”
President Trump will only have loyal Americans in the critical, Constitutionally based Executive Branch….who else, pray tell?
Personae-non-gratae from Day 1 will be: RINOs, carry-over-democrats, foreigners, dual-citizenship Americans and family members of democrat / GOPe legislators and jurists.
The reality is when the music stops, the democrats / GOPe, including their thugs and moles in the pre-2025 Executive Branch, will not have a seat at the table of the 2025 Executive Branch administration. Heck, from Day 1 on, they won’t even be allowed in the buildings housing the 2025 Executive Branch Administration. They have no business being anywhere around the people’s federal government except for the court house, gallows / prisons. Their removal will be fast and permanent.
“Let’s go Brandon and the democrats and the GOPe!”
The President Trump Train is rolling down the track to the huge win in November, 2024.
Calendar of all the remaining, republican primaries up to the convention in July.
The list is getting shorter. There have been some notable defeats of RINOs in every state.
Tuesday, June 4: Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota primaries
Tuesday, June 11: Ohio’s 6th Congressional District
Tuesday, June 18: Congressional District voting in Virginia
Monday, July 15: Republican National Convention begins in Milwaukee
In his first 100 days, President Trump and his 2025 Executive Branch administration will start and complete the process of removing from the Executive Branch the unconstitutional maze of administrative-state’s rules, acts, declarations, interpretations, agreements, and even some laws that the un-American globalists have enacted over the past century, slowly eroding the freedoms and rights of the American citizens and states as defined in the “original Constitution and the legally approved amendments.”
What, exactly, is that process? Specifically, what legal means can accomplish this?
My open question is, accepting that ‘enforcement’ is the final arbiter of such change, how specifically does PDJT, or any of us for that matter, remove/change the minds of the millions of enforcers out there aligned with the Communists or actually doing their bidding.
I’m referring to humans from the Feds down to our local dog catcher. They’re all a threat to our freedom and PDJT’s mission. They’ve proven that in spades the last eight years, if not much, much longer.
It’s a question, not a troll, from an old guy steeped in the history of human relations. People don’t change easily or on a whim. The people who can legally kill us are people so it applies to them too.
Laws, social contracts, pretty much everything between humans is meaningless without either agreement or enforcement. It’s usually the latter that wins the day in modern society, absent those who settle disagreements with violence and murder. We’ve seen a lot of that, the latter, from enforcers and their mercenaries in recent times.
What to do?
dunes2021,
Good points.
But, as a country, we have had recent experiences with occupying hostile territory….. Germany and Japan.
It is never as bad as your imagination can dream up.
No need to overcomplicate it …….. deal with the facts on the ground at the time …….
Today, concentrate on getting President Trump elected….. that is #1.
“Let’s go Bandon and the democrats and the GOPe!”
He can’t.
We can dream.
But, bureaucracy endures forever.
Only GOD endures forever, everything else endures,…right up until it doesn’t.
Nov. 6, 2024 will be the initiation of a new phase in this war, whether PDJT is declared the winner, or not.
Whether he is the declared winner or not will have some effect on the nature of the battle, but NOT on whether the battle will happen or not.
JMO.
Glad you asked.
In 2025, President Trump will take the oath of office of the President of the United States.
The oath is found in Article II of the Constitution. It contains 35 words and goes as follows:
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
It demands he “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
As such, it doesn’t require of him to do the same for the unconstitutional administrative-state’s rules, acts, declarations, interpretations, agreements, and even some laws that the un-American globalists have enacted over the past century, slowly eroding the freedoms and rights of the American citizens and states defined in the “original Constitution and the legally approved amendments.”
As President, he cannot associate with, nor defend, any “written law that is unconstitutional.”
This the “written law” that Thomas Jefferson wrote about when he warned Americans …… in his words:
“A strict observance of the written law is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to the written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the ends to the means.”
President Trump will be following his Constitutional oath and duty to immediately discharge and disband the unconstitutional Executive Branch departments, processes or personnel.
It is a prime, practical example of Occam’s razor principle.
His oath gives him the duty and responsibility to get rid of the unconstitutional, century-old Executive Branch add-ons from the treasonous globalists in the legislative and judicial branches.
And the American people say: “It’s ’bout time.”
I’m not posting the entire prayer but I encourage all of you to look and pray today. I’m certain the majority of Treepers have been steadfastly praying for President Trump. As I was listening to talk radio yesterday in the car I had tears flowing thinking about what has become of this once great nation. This prayer gives me hope.
“A Prayer for the Unprecedented Trial”
In this unprecedented and extremely dangerous and dispiriting time in American history, it might not hurt for those of us who are the praying kind to petition the Man Upstairs for mercy and justness.
Let us pray.
Lord, You who are the ultimate arbiter of just and unjust, right and wrong, I call on You to guide all who are part of the trial currently underway in New York City and to comfort and strengthen all who are affected in any way by its outcome.
Lord, I beg you, send Your Holy Spirit down to all those who labor in the courtroom, to remind them to seek Truth above all. Help everyone involved to recall the promise of America, this nation You inspired men to create, where liberty and justice prevail.
Grant strength and wisdom to the souls tasked with deciding this monumental case, Lord. Give them courage to see clearly and to do that which Truth dictates. Protect them from pressures and threats — which issue from all sides, for we are all imperfect beings — as they consider their incredibly heavy task. Protect them and their families, friends, and employers from those who would harm them. Protect these deciders’ minds, hearts, and spirits from the attacks aimed at them. Hold them in the palm of Your hand and whisper wisdom and righteousness to them as they tread their impossible path.
Lord, accompany the attorneys, assistants, secretaries, officers, staff, and judge in this momentously difficult case. Walk by their side, Your hand on their shoulder, and guide them on the righteous, truthful path. Make them hunger and thirst for nothing so much as for truth and justice. Keep them mindful of their historic duty, and if it be Your will, hew them to fairness and true righteousness.
Lord, please be with us, Your people, as we struggle to accept what happens here and to accept and love our neighbor. Remind us that each and every one of us is made in Your image and likeness. Help us to love and care for the souls of all who are mired in this incredibly difficult and painful exercise. Battle for us our human weaknesses, especially wrath, hatred, and fear.
https://pjmedia.com/athena-thorne/2024/05/30/a-prayer-for-the-unprecedented-trial-n4929453
God’s will be done.
Amen.
Amen.
Three Supreme Court Rulings today:
Thornell vs Jones – upheld a death sentence in an Arizona case where the 9th Circuit wrongly interpreted a law. 6-3
National Rifle Association vs Vullo (former superintendent of NY Dept of Financial Services (DFS). The NRA plausibly alleged DFS violated NRA’s First Amendment rights by coercing regulated agencies (such as insurers) to terminate their business relationships with the NRA. NRA’s lawsuit can proceed. 9-0 written by Sotomayor
Cantero et al vs Bank of America; about the regulating powers of national vs state licensed banks, which one’s rules and regulations take precedence. Sent back to the Court of Appeals for further work. 9-0 written by Kavanaugh
synopsis is mine by speed reading, and am definitely not a lawyer, so keep that in mind.
link to actual rulings:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/slipopinion/23
American Maoism | James Lindsay (1:51:35)
New Discourses
14 Sep 2023
The Left moves operationally and according to a battle logic known as “dialectical political warfare.” The dialectic is the operating system of the Left, and it works by marrying a truth to a lie. Political warfare is a method of conducting warfare in which political means are used with hostile intent to get an enemy to behave in a desired fashion—propaganda is a great example. Perhaps the greatest dialectical political warfare tactician in human history is the monstrous figure of Mao Zedong, Communist dictator of China until his death in 1976. His tactics and cultural revolution are a testament to the fearsome and destructive power of dialectical political warfare, and they’re happening here in America and throughout the West today. Where Mao claimed to be employing “Marxism-Leninism with Chinese characteristics” in China, the “Woke” and environmental “Sustainability” movements we face in the present should be described as “Maoist Marxism with American Characteristics.” In this lecture from Dr. James Lindsay of New Discourses, the parallels between our experience today and the tools utilized in China under Mao will be made so clear that the unavoidable conclusion will be that we are living through nothing less than American Maoism.
https://rumble.com/v3hoc40-american-maoism-james-lindsay.html
100% confirmation from an amazing source. Maybe he heard James Lindsay. Language warning:
New Rule: A Woke Revolution | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) (7:17)
3 Feb 2023
MAY 30 2024
Washington Post
Ukraine setbacks nudge Biden toward allowing use of U.S. weapons in Russia
[…]Blinken, during a visit to Moldova on Wednesday, became the first senior Biden administration official to publicly indicate that Washington is considering a policy shift that would allow Ukrainian forces to use longer-range ATACMS missiles and other U.S. weapons to attack positions inside Russia.
[…]Blinken made the remarks before arriving in the Czech capital for a meeting of NATO foreign ministers
[…]Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said Thursday that allies are heading toward an agreement on strikes in Russian territory.
[…]NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the time has come for allies to rethink their restrictions
[…]Macron said Tuesday that Ukrainians must be allowed to “neutralize” military sites from which missiles are fired
[…]In a visit to Kiev this month, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said that Ukraine has the right to use London-provided weapons to strike targets in Russia.
[…]By the eve of the NATO meeting, Canada and Finland had also signaled support.
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Tuesday that Ukraine’s use of Western weapons on Russian soil could prompt a retaliation.
[…]U.S. officials remain concerned about Ukrainian cross-border attacks on Russian territory, including the targeting of oil refineries and nuclear early-warning systems, fearing that they could dangerously unsettle Moscow.
[…]Biden has long ruled out sending U.S. troops to Ukraine. Whether that prohibition falls by the wayside like his other red lines remains to be seen.
https://archive.ph/z3ygC
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Blinken assails Russian misinformation after hinting US may allow Ukraine to strike inside Russia
Blinken is assailing Russian attempts to sow discord in democracies with misinformation after hinting the U.S. may allow Ukraine to use American-supplied munitions to strike inside Russia
[…]In Prague for a NATO foreign ministers meeting, Blinken hit out at Moscow’s use of misinformation and disinformation, calling it a “poison” and signing an agreement with the Czech government to combat it.
[…]He said the agreement with the Czechs — the 17th such accord the U.S. has signed with partner nations — would help “to effectively deal with misinformation and disinformation, which is a poison being injected into our democracies by our adversaries.”
[…] Czech authorities had recently exposed a major Russian-backed misinformation campaign.
“We are facing confrontation between democracies and autocracies,”
“The Kremlin has started targeting democracies all around the world with cyber warfare, propaganda and influence operations and this danger simply cannot be underestimated any more.”
[…]Norway’s foreign minister, Espen Barth Eide, told Norwegian broadcaster NRK that his country believes Ukraine “has a crystal-clear right under international law to attack Russia inside Russia as part of the defense of its territory.”
[…]On Wednesday in Moldova, Blinken said that U.S. policy on how Ukraine deploys American weapons is constantly evolving, suggesting that Washington may rescind an unwritten prohibition on Ukraine’s use of them for attacks on Russian territory.
[…]Earlier this week, French President Emmanuel Macron and NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said that Western countries should not object if Ukraine needs to strike inside Russia to defend itself.
https://archive.ph/O7MLp
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MAY 30 2024
NBC News
Blinken signals shift in policy on Ukraine targeting Russia with U.S.- supplied weapons
MAY 30 2024
CBS News
U.S. may allow Ukraine to hit Russian territory with American weapons, Blinken signals
Allow sovereign Ukraine to anything makes this a US proxy war. Proxy wars adjacent to the enemy with huge logistics tails are unwinnable. Hell, occupying a neighbor is plenty hard and Russia is proving that, but the military beating for Ukraine is inevitable.
MAY 30 2024
Prague – Blinken calls for Nato unity
….the same
MAY 30 2024
German Pravda
Could NATO enter into a direct confrontation with Russia?
Ukraine has called on NATO allies for more help in protecting its skies, warning that it does not have the means to defend itself from Russian air attacks.
Kiev is running low on air defenses across the country, leaving its forces and cities vulnerable to Russian drone and missile strikes.
NATO’s consistent argument has been that direct confrontation between NATO and Russian forces would constitute an escalation that NATO does not want.
Could it be argued that Zelensky is actually trying to edge NATO into a confrontation with Russia?
MAY 30 2024
Napolitano + Doctorow
How Close Ukraine Is to Defeat.
Excellent interview!
Definitely recommend.
👏 👏 👏 👏
The Judge always has great
guests!
How quickly people become fans of the Napolitano clown again. Sad
😁 😁 😁 😁
Never stopped.🤷♀️💁
Have you noticed that most of
those who were once on mainstream
propaganda news have shunned the
narratives they were forced to follow
and have become successful on
independent media?
There is a reason for that….
They see the propaganda media for
what it is, and refuse to participate.
That is why I listen more to independent
platforms. They don’t have to “toe the line”.
Much respect for those who have the courage
to venture out on their own. Their audiences
are growing. Can’t say the same for mainstream
propaganda media…aka-Fake News.
The Judge has great guests. Very informative.
Because did he totally .change …Sgtrok…
everyone should see THIS interview with Dr.Doctorow..one of best expert on Russia and NATO……
MAY 30 2024
REUTERS
France could announce sending military trainers to Ukraine soon, diplomats say
France could soon send military trainers to Ukraine despite the concerns of some allies and criticism by Russia, and may announce its decision next week during a visit by the Ukrainian president, three diplomatic sources said.
[…]France would initially send a limited number of personnel to assess the modalities of a mission before dispatching several hundred trainers, two of the diplomats said.
Training would centre around demining, keeping equipment operational and technical expertise for warplanes to be provided by the West, they said.
Paris would also finance, arm, and train a Ukrainian motorised brigade.
“The arrangements are very advanced and we could expect something next week,” said one of the sources
[…]Zelensky is due in France on June 6, the 80th anniversary of D-day(…) He will hold talks with Macron in Paris the next day.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/france-could-announce-sending-military-trainers-ukraine-soon-diplomats-say-2024-05-30/
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twitter MAY 29 2024
Reports indicate that a massive strike was carried out on the Yavoriv training ground in the Lvov region overnight.
Foreign instructors from several countries were housed in the buildings on this facility, similar to the beginning of the SVO.
The exact number of foreign military personnel killed is yet to be determined, but it could be around a hundred individuals.
Similar strikes were also reported at facilities in Stryi, Dubliany, and Drohobych.
At the Yavoriv training ground, Ukrainian troops underwent courses in tactical, engineering, and medical training, as well as received initial training in vehicle management.
https://x.com/distant_earth83/status/1795663155470745804
Pictures have appeared on the following Telegram Channel of French soldiers deployed in Ukraine.
https://t.me/new_militarycolumnist/134982
In a later post, it is expected that President Macron will announce the deployment of further French soldiers on June 6, during the expected visit of Zelensky.
MAY 29 2024
Hundreds of mercenaries destroyed! The Russian “Dagger” hit the base of foreign mercenaries directly!
The Russian army launched another massive strike with hypersonic Kinzhal missiles at the Yavorovsky training ground in the Lvov region.
[…]According to sources, the exact number of militants killed is currently unknown, but their number could reach several hundred people.
[…]The Yavorovsky training ground is also used as one of the key logistics hubs for the transfer of Western-supplied weapons, military equipment and ammunition to the eastern regions of the country.
https://avia-pro.net/blog/unichtozheny-sotni-nayomnikov-rossiyskiy-kinzhal-udaril-pryamo-po-baze-inostrannyh-nayomnikov
Thanks, haven’t kept up with this and was surprised to see military activity that far west. Spent a lot of time in and around Lviv/Lvov back in the 90’s. If things haven’t changed, my recollection is it had a lot of Polish influence and was decidedly pro-Ukraine and anti-Russia, particularly among the young people.
Sad to see such destruction. Hopefully it’ll remain at military facilities in the region and not hit the city. Beautiful old city. War is hell.
MAY 30 2024
The Financial TImes
US to offer Ukraine security pact as tensions rise between allies
[…]The agreement would be the most significant in a series of deals Ukraine has struck with Nato countries that lays out commitments on long-term support, including military training, intelligence sharing and economic assistance.
[…]days before the peace summit, Zelensky and Biden are expected to sign a bilateral security agreement on the sidelines of the G7 meeting in Italy next month, US officials told the FT.
[…]The pact has been negotiated during weeks of increasingly strained relations between Kiev and Washington.
[…] Kiev’s bitterness over lack of top-level US support for its peace summit initiative was just one of many points of friction with Washington and other western partners
[…]Other points of concern relate to diverging strategies on how Ukraine can achieve victory and what that victory might look like,
[…]Zelensky is under huge pressure to mobilise more men and take other unpopular decisions to bolster the war effort.
[…]The Biden administration has been among Ukraine’s most steadfast supporters, committing more than $175bn in emergency assistance to the country
[…] Biden has repeatedly stated that the US would stick by Ukraine’s side for “as long as it takes”.
[…]The US official also said Ukraine’s request to use US weapons to strike inside Russia was relatively recent
[…]The Ukrainian president has tried to attract leaders from as many countries as possible to his summit in Switzerland, with the aim of uniting the global community against Vladimir Putin’s aggression.
[…]“I believe that the peace summit needs President Biden,” Zelensky continued. “His absence will only be a personal, standing applause to Putin.”
https://archive.ph/CwVvt
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MAY 30 2024
PBS
Blinken tours Czech military base, speaks with Defense Minister Cernochova about Ukraine aid
( 13 min 47 )
MAY 30 2024
REUTERS
NATO boss seeks 40 billion euros per year for Ukraine military aid, source says
PRAGUE (Reuters) – NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg will ask allies to pledge a minimum of 40 billion euros ($43.37 billion) annually to fund military aid for Ukraine, an alliance source told Reuters on Thursday, as NATO foreign ministers gathered for talks in Prague.
[…]With uncertainty over future U.S. support for Ukraine lingering due to the possible return of Donald Trump to the White House, foreign ministers will on Friday discuss ways to put military aid for Ukraine on a more solid long-term footing.
[…]NATO will also have to overcome resistance from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has made clear his country will not take part in the new effort, arguing it brings the alliance closer to a catastrophic war with Russia.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/nato-boss-seeks-40-billion-171752565.html
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MAY 30 2024
Stoltenberg delivers speech at NATO conference
MAY 29 2024
NYT
Pentagon Opens Ammunition Factory to Keep Arms Flowing to Ukraine
A plant still under construction in Mesquite, Texas, will soon turn out 30,000 artillery shells each month, roughly doubling current U.S. output.
In a warehouse off Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway in an industrial area outside Dallas, the future of American military ammunition production is coming online.
Here, in the Pentagon’s first new major arms plant built since Russia invaded Ukraine, Turkish workers in orange hard hats are busy unpacking wood crates stenciled with the name Repkon, a defense company based in Istanbul, and assembling computer-controlled robots and lathes.
The factory will soon turn out about 30,000 steel shells every month for the 155-millimeter howitzers that have become crucial to Kiev’s war effort.
Ukraine fired between 4,000 and 7,000 such shells daily for several months in 2023, according to NATO’s secretary-general, before infighting among House Republicans held up further funding for Pentagon arms shipments.
Large shipments of American artillery ammunition resumed in April after Congress passed an aid package that included $61 billion to Ukraine.
The gap led to a drastic ammunition shortage for Kiev, with Ukrainian troops able to fire only a fraction of the shells shot at them by Russian forces.
To keep Ukraine’s artillery crews supplied, the Pentagon set a production target last year of 100,000 shells per month by the end of 2025. Factories in Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, Pa., together make about 36,000 shells per month. The new General Dynamics facility in Mesquite, Texas, will make 30,000 each month once it reaches its full capacity.
The 100,000-per-month goal represents a nearly tenfold increase in production from a few years ago.
An Ohio-based defense firm called IMT is expected to make up the difference.
Less than a year ago, the surrounding area here in North Texas was just a dirt field.
But with millions of dollars from Congress and help from Repkon, the American defense firm General Dynamics was able to open the factory about 10 months after breaking ground.
“Despite all our starts and stops with the government, the continuing resolutions and getting the last supplemental, the industrial base responds when you fund it and it’s done right,” William A. LaPlante, the Pentagon’s top acquisition official, said in an interview with his Army counterpart, Douglas R. Bush.
According to Mr. LaPlante, the United States has provided more than three million 155-millimeter shells to Kiev since the war began in February 2022.
“When government and industry work together and Congress gives us sufficient latitude, we can still do great things in this country really fast,” Mr. Bush added.
Whether the increase in artillery ammunition production alone will be enough to change outcomes on the battlefield in Ukraine’s favor is, however, unknown.
“The steady increase of artillery ammunition production is significant for long-term U.S. and Ukrainian needs,” said Michael Kofman, an expert on the Russian military and a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, “but even in the best case scenario, I would say those late-2025 output targets will arrive late in this war, and it is likely that Russian artillery output will still be higher than the U.S. and Europe combined at that point.”
“Let’s say a year and a half from now both the U.S. and Europe are making, or buying, over a million shells each,” he added. “That’s still probably less than Russia is going to produce this year.”
The Mesquite factory will consist of three production lines in different buildings — one of which will share space with a distribution center for Frito-Lay that had a Cheetos-branded truck parked outside. When all three lines are completed, most of the Turkish workers will go home.
Half of the on-site American work force came from another General Dynamics plant about 10 miles north in Garland, where the company forges steel casings for aerial bombs.
The Mesquite factory will add about 350 jobs to the local economy when it reaches its full production capacity next year, company officials said.
It can take days to forge shells at the military’s current factories in Pennsylvania, which use a combination of new and nearly century-old technologies to heat and press steel billets into tapered projectiles.
But the new plant in Mesquite spins rounds out much faster.
The shorter turnaround comes from the use of something called flow forming — a machine inside an enclosure roughly the size of a city bus rotates a 130-pound steel cup at high speed while simultaneously squeezing it until it becomes a long gleaming cylinder.
From there, robots do much of the remaining work.
A series of identical orange-colored robot arms throughout the factory grab the metal projectile parts from one machine and place them on small automated carts that drive them to the next station, where another robot gripper that slides along a track begins the next stage of the process.
Each robot’s work area is fenced in, and its openings are flanked by an “air gate” — a strip of sensors that allow Roomba-like carts to enter but shut machines down if they detect a human.
Humans are needed in a few steps to lift things along the way, often with a large yellow device bolted to the floor called a manipulator that allows them to move shells to other machines.
Laser scanners have replaced human eyes and hand tools for inspecting shells inside and out, quickly verifying that the projectiles are within their desired specifications.
Once complete, the empty shells made in Mesquite will be shipped to the Army’s sole facility for filling them with explosives — a World War II-era plant in Burlington, Iowa.
Next year, however, many of the shells will be sent to another new General Dynamics factory that is under construction in Camden, Ark.
The Pentagon’s drive to reinvest in ammunition production will also result in the Army’s Iowa plant opening a second line for filling shells with explosives, and the partial reopening of a plant in Parsons, Kan., for packing artillery propellant charges that was largely shuttered in a round of base closures in the 2000s.
Once complete, an unguided shell will be just under three feet long and weigh roughly 100 pounds — 24 pounds of which will be its explosive fill.
That is enough to kill people within 150 feet of impact and cause injuries more than 400 feet away.
Mr. LaPlante and Mr. Bush both indicated that European countries were also ramping up their artillery ammunition production, and U.S. defense contractors are in talks with the Ukrainian government to find ways to help Ukraine bolster its own domestic defense industry.
The United States has transferred sensitive manufacturing plans for more than 1,000 American weapons to Kiev, and translated an equal number of technical manuals from English to Ukrainian, the two officials said.
When asked, they stopped short of saying which weapons.
“What are they using the most?” Mr. Bush replied.
https://archive.ph/muwmh
MAY 30 2024
Blinken and Czech Foreign Minister Lipavsky sign NATO accord to combat Russian misinformation
( 9 min 12 )
MAY 30 2024
redacted
NATO is cooking up something big” and Putin is ready for all out war
A hot war with Russia is coming. NATO is cooking up something big right now. Russia is warning NATO that they are on to them.
Putin just launched a massive attack against a NATO staging target in western Ukraine.
Jesse covers all the bases in this video from last night. The only thing he didn’t mention is that Merchan’s wife worked for Letitia James and the weird connection between the bodyguard for Deniro/Biden spox/J6 cops, SBF and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Seems like the anti Americans are all connected.
Pretty sick actually.
It means their world is small, unlike what we are lead to believe.
A very astute observation on your part! Excellent! Encouraging too!
And amplified by a globalist owned MSM.
“A World of Fail: Biden Foreign Policy Has Destabilized the Entire Globe”
Excerpts:
Meanwhile, the Biden administration busies itself by lending support to Hamas — by giving aid to Gaza that will go directly to the terrorists — and looking foolish in the process. The pier that the U.S. military hurriedly built (to the tune of $320 million) has been destroyed by heavy seas less than two weeks after it opened.
The truth is that much larger Russia is slowly but surely grinding Ukraine down, holding onto its gains, and beginning to advance again. Not only that, but Russia itself is doing quite well, thank you very much. Despite Biden’s much-ballyhooed sanctions, Russia’s economy is set to outpace the United States and all other “advanced economies” this year, according to an IMF projection.
Biden’s failure to lead and produce a resolution to this bloody war is inexcusable and has cost half a million lives at this point.
Farther east, Taiwan inaugurated its new anti-Beijing, pro-U.S. president, Lai Ching-te, last week, and China immediately surrounded the island nation with aggressive air force and naval exercises. As the communist country’s economy struggles (global bankers describe China as “uninvestable” these days), Newsweek speculates about whether China is gearing up for a hot war:
In Africa, political leaders are rejecting American aid and presence, and who can blame them? In a disgusting trend begun under Obama and continued by the Biden regime, that aid comes with demoralization requirements that completely disregard local customs and beliefs. They are exactly what you’d expect: abortions, alphabet-people supremacy, and prosperity-killing climate worship.
As the West falls further into socialism and immorality, its influence is less appreciated around the world. America in particular has proven itself an unreliable and undesirable ally under Biden and is no longer taken seriously. Bad actors are taking advantage of the opportunity, spreading crime, war, violence, and corruption.
https://pjmedia.com/athena-thorne/2024/05/29/a-world-of-fail-biden-foreign-policy-has-destabilized-the-entire-world-n4929412
Just stop ALL foreign aid.🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
Period.
We have problems here at home
—-that should be our priority.
America First
🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
Who is to do it?
One paragraph-3 sentences.
Says it all…….
Taiwan – United States Department of State
☝️ ☝️ ☝️ ☝️
This is another conflict that the Biden administration with its media sycophants is trying to escalate.
The One China policy, that the Biden administration has re-stated as US policy, means that Taiwan is China, no matter the rhetoric we hear on China-bad and fear porn about “China is going to invade Taiwan”.
I always laugh….it would be the same
as if——America invades Hawaii.😁😁
It also shows what a total farce the whole …
China invades Taiwan propaganda narrative
is.
🤡 🤡 🤡 will still follow and repeat
the neocon propaganda push though.
It is the next…Ukraine 2.0🤷♀️
Ukraine-Greater Israel in the view of Zelensky…
Zelensky doesn’t care how many Ukrainian soldiers he gets killed because his country is Israel and not Ukraine. In fact, Zelensky doesn’t even speak Ukrainian. He’s a Russian speaker!
Biden has to support both sides in the conflict because both sides provide support to the Democrat Party. One side (Jewish) provides the financial and news media support and the other side (POC) provides the votes and the muscle via OCCUPY WALL STREET, ANTIFA and BLM.
So Biden has to appease both groups!
This is just another in a long line of HOAXES and FRAUDS like Biden, N20, J6, covid and climate change by the communist democrat party against Trump. 8 years of SEDITIOUS LAWFARE against one man! This is what our CORRUPT political and judicial system has turned into. The judiciary cannot police itself from CRIMINAL JUDGES, DAs, PROSECUTORS and LAWYERS, so it must be fixed on THROWN DOWN!
Merchan’s Jury Rules Prove Trump’s Trial Is About Power, Not Law (thefederalist.com)
I don’t know why but I find this line to be one of those “funny, not funny moments”. “A Frankenverdict” indeed, just as long as there is some kind of guilty verdict, any kind of guilty verdict.
“Judge Merchan’s Instruction to the Jury Will Leave Your Jaw on the Floor [UPDATED]”
Reporting live on X from the courtroom, Turley posted that Merchan instructed the jury “that there is no need to agree on what occurred. They can disagree on what the crime was among the three choices. Thus, this means that they could split 4-4-4 and he will still treat them as unanimous.”
So if a majority of jurors find Trump “not guilty” on all three charges, but they managed to scrape up a combined 12 votes from each charge, Judge Merchan will assemble those into a single unanimous guilty vote — a Frankenverdict, if you will.
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2024/05/29/judge-merchans-instruction-to-the-jury-will-leave-your-jaw-on-the-floor-n4929427
As bad as this whole travesty is, and these jury instructions in particular are,…consider this;
SUPPOSE, just for a moment that even with ALL of the manipulations, and even after these insane Jury Instructions,..the Jury does NOT convict?!!
Its pretty obvious they are utterly depending on a guilty verdict here, as the anchor, the foundation for their plan going forward, and without a gulty verdict, their whole plan collapses.
I’ll posit the goal is a hung jury and, as a result, a new trial. Rinse and repeat throughout the campaign season. Such limits PDJT’s ability to campaign widely, sucks out resources he might otherwise be able to use to further his efforts, and enriches the Communist legal community at the same time.
Lastly, it provides a never-ending stream of talking points for the Communist propaganda system, aka the media and aligned influencers, enriching them as well.
I won’t bet on a hung jury since I already have a prior bet on PDJT not seeing a prison cell.
We’re agreed on no prison cell, so theres that.
I can see Merchan and Co. viewing a hung jury as a “poor second” after their primary goal of a Guilty verdict, which its pretty clear Merchan is aiming for.
They certainly would prefer hung to N.G. which is their worst nightmare.
However, a hung and retrial doesn’t give the RNC the best possible argument, on denying PDJT the nomination.
And THAT, I maintain is the goal here, or at least a big part of it.
This talk of Dems getting control of house and passing legislation barring PDJT from the ballot is highly doubtful,…but the RNC DOES have unquestionable authority, thru the Convention nominating process, to keep PDJT off the ballot, hence for the anti-trump forces on “both sides of the aisle” to NOT make a major effort at this obvious “play” is beyond just unreasonable, its rediculous.
Its like the next off ramp on the highway; why WOULDN’T they try to take it?
What Flynn is saying here is exactly what I said on here on Oct 10-ish (and got some blowback for lol).
https://x.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/1796139088963101143
I’ve said the same thing since the day after (10/8). No way they didn’t know. Then almost immediately it came out that Egypt warned Israel before it happened.
This was all planned. I was nailed to the wall on here by many posters. This is also why I can’t support Israel in this. Now the choice is not binary either because I also don’t support Palestine or hamas. I’ll just say it’s none of our business, and let those 2 sides duke it out on their own. Israel has a much lower debt to gdp ratio then the US so they can surely buy their own weapons without the US taxpayer funding them.
I believe it.
I believe Israel has a leftist problem, as do we.
I believe there are factions in Israel (and out) who would love to take Netanyahu down.
I believe they will use any means necessary, to include withholding intelligence info, in order to discredit Netanyahu.
I would not put it past them to have known and said nothing.
Their hands are as bloody as Hamas.
100% correct
The dock debacle and it’s ‘aid’ to Gaza alone has cost tens to hundreds of millions. In following mariner and military channels it’s also outlined some severe weaknesses in our logistics systems which support our own military operations.
Sadly, without marked change in Branch 4, supporting both sides of endless war will continue. All we can do is turn off the money spigot from our toil and hope the Communist printing press breaks down or the currency is broken by unified international effort, something which appears to be underway.
Absolutely 💯
Yes, many off us said variations of the same thing, as those who are emotionally triggered on both “sides” of the issue responded as emotionally triggered do.
Anytime you read a headline, and immediately feel a strong surge of emotion, its a good idea to recognise you ARE being ’emotionally triggered’ and its highly likely being intentionally manipulated.
Hence, videos and accounts of HAMAS brutality and if Israeli responces both emphasised “but,…the CHILDREN!”
ANY emotion, even humor or gratitude, if it is felt strongly enough, can shut down critical thinking, that would and should (in the case of the Oct. 7th attack) ask “HOW did they NOT see this coming?”
🎯
Yesterday one of the podcasters
I follow visited Trophy Exhibit
in Moscow.
The display has been opened for
over a month and still a pretty
good crowd…..
Interesting…….
HEADLINES from the Moscow Trophy Exhibition
☝️ ☝️ ☝️ ☝️ ☝️
Laura Loomer
@LauraLoomer
EXCLUSIVE:
🚨JUDGE MERCHAN’S DAUGHTER LOREN MERCHAN’S CLIENTS FROM HER DEMOCRAT POLITICAL CONSULTING FIRM
@Authentic_HQ
HAVE BEEN GIVEN SEATS INSIDE THE TRUMP TRIAL IN NYC🚨
–snip —
This is arguably jury intimidation in the way that Judge Merchan is having his daughter’s clients, who worked for Obama-Biden’s DOJ, come into the court room to write disparaging articles about the jury, which suggest they can’t make a decision on their own.
Cont reading…
https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/1796198168918401497
“In the big picture the Black Lives Matter (BLM) group are the ballot harvesters, the essential foot soldiers for the race-based electoral system Clyburn and Obama constructed. The AME network are the ballot counters, the precinct poll workers, spread throughout the various urban enclaves of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, Michigan, Arizona, Virgina and both Carolinas. It’s a race-based coalition, dependent on conformity to achieve the 2024 objective.”-Sundance
“we could wake up the day after the election and say what has just happened and there is no way to undo it at that point ….is it truly a state of mind when it comes to voting rights” – Catherine Engelbrecht
If racist blacks are allowed to harvest and count the votes in “(Philadelphia County), Georgia (Fulton County), Nevada (Clark County), and Michigan (Wayne County)” unsupervised/uncontested and those same racists all over the country allow illegals to vote then we could be surprised come November 5th!!! I pray not!!! Godspeed President Trump and all honest poll watchers!!! JMO
If you followed the GBI Strategies story, in Michigan it was Black, female full time election workers who alerted State Police to the obvious irregularities which led to the State Police investigation that pretty much exposed everything before the FEDS stepped in to”take over” i.e. bury the investigation.
And I recall one of the most compelling witnesses in the Az. legislature hearings, was a career buerocrat working in election dept, a BLACK WOMAN.
She was a Democrat, and she was righteously horrified and indignant at the election theft.
So, abandon the divisive rhetoric and stereotypes of the Globullust enemies, it only furthers THEIR cause, and stymies our own.
Can we get coverage on the NY trial today since it’s going to the jury soon???
Thanks!
https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1795835308849918228
Alex Berenson is no friend of President Trump. Have you read his book Pandemia? It is more than obvious.
A YUUUGE WIN FOR FREEDOM OF SPEECH – AND BERENSON V BIDEN
Everything done in the name of a virus was unnecessary.
Yes, everything.
Few accept how badly they were bamboozled.
Lab leak is a comfort mechanism.
From Twitter
Wendy Patterson
Breaking News: I just reported 15 minutes ago that it was reported that some of the jury were shaking their heads in agreement when the judge read aloud what is reasonable doubt.
Now, Bill Hemmer on Fox just said that the jurors had their heads down rubbing their foreheads which is a complete lie from what was reported on his show not 15 minutes before he made sure he said that.
Fox News is setting up a narrative in favor for the judge if the judge refuses to accept the jury verdict of not guilty.
That’s my opinion because of Fox News Hosts blatant lying.
Both can be true. No one said it was at the same point in time.
Jordan has written a beautiful (and short) essay here.
“Since our founding, America has led the way in achieving the most humane, moral, and prosperous society in human history. Had the United States never existed, the entire world would undoubtedly be decades, if not centuries behind where humanity finds itself today.”
Don’t forget to root for America
Tune out the noise and remember to root for America, despite its struggles and faults, because a just and righteous America brings prosperity not just to Americans, but to the entire world.
JORDAN SCHACHTEL
Man, it sure seems like the people who lead my country and its institutions are engaged in a lot of shenanigans these days.
We have this cadaver in the White House whose handlers are pursuing all kinds of destructive missions both at home and abroad. In the private sector, there’s a bunch of mega corporations across the S&P 500 shoving woke ideology down our throats. In academia, lunatic revolutionaries are imposing progressive madness upon the next generation.
It’s hard to make the case that the American government and our society in its current form is a force for good right now. Hopefully, this is a temporary status.
https://www.dossier.today/p/dont-forget-to-root-for-america
https://modernity.news/2024/05/30/biden-struggles-to-fill-school-gymnasium/
Who said “81 million votes my ass!”
Kerry Lake
Sad, terrible story of addiction, homelessness, a jungle encampment, kidnapping, torture & murder in a progressive upstate NY city:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/19/nyregion/ithaca-homeless-encampment-thomas-rath.html
Here’s local press reports today, where this story is literally being cleaned up & buried:
https://ithacavoice.org/
And another local outlet 🦗🦗🦗
https://www.ithacajournal.com/
Not newsworthy at the Ithaca Times, either:
https://www.ithaca.com/
City of Ithaca starts cleanup on part of old homeless encampment – YouTube
☝️☝️☝️☝️WENY News
https://x.com/IthacaCrime/status/1792190896047611918
Myrick was a Soros mayor. He can be found in online videos w/Alex Soros advocating for safe injection sites.
IPD study for defunding police was paid for by a Soros connected entity, irr.
The newest hysteria on Twitter
Ex-Apprentice producer Bill Pruitt — who says his 20-year NDA just expired — now claims that Trump called former contestant Kwame Jackson the n-word. And it was caught on tape.
If such a thing were on tape it would have been made public long before now.
Yep, we saw similar with PDJT’s ‘tax returns’. One more nothingburger to add to the pile.
I am reading the article on Slate… it is such an obviously biased hit-job. He makes assertions and suppositions about the target of his piece meant to persuade the reader that all is not as it appears. He is saying that President Trump is a conman and a philanderer. AND A RACIST.
None of these accusations are new, but he has put a fantastical spin on it as a “witness” to events.
Such desperation!
Here is a line I just read: “While on location, he could barely put a sentence together regarding how a task would work”.
And just to show that this is made up baloney:
“So, we scammed. We swindled. Nobody heard the racist and misogynistic comments or saw the alleged cheating, the bluffing, or his hair taking off in the wind. Those tapes, I’ve come to believe, will never be found.”
And there it is… THE TAPES DON’T EXIST. He made the garbage up.
Here is the link to the tale of a disgruntled DEMOCRAT who was also a producer for the Apprentice:
https://slate.com/culture/2024/05/donald-trump-news-2024-trial-verdict-apprentice.html
Not really worth the time reading, but if you want to know what is being said…
I’m a skeptic.
President Trump can end Biden’s Pro, Social Worker Government and promote a Pro Worker Economy.
The bureaucracy you think he can destroy shall endure and thrive forever.
(As it does in all forms of governmentv)
To Save Time, Biden To Drop Next $320 Million Cash Directly Into Ocean
I feel very helpless that I cannot help Pres. Trump other than to pray for him and his family. Of course, like millions of good patriots, I pray for his health, safety, be delivered from his enemies, and acquittal.
Recently something happened to my husband and I – My husband is in his mid-80’s and blind, I am in my late 70’s and his caregiver. Our only income are our Soc. Sec benefits. We’ve always lived very simply and managed to build up reasonable size savings/investment accts. However, a few months ago, I felt for some scammers’ schemes and our 50 yrs worth life savings were stolen from us.
To my surprise, I was not angry at all. In fact I feel very peaceful, and believe that we will always be sufficient.
Therefore, when I pray for Pres. Trump now, I also ask God to find the scammers, recover our life savings, and give it to President Trump to help him with his legal expenses. I wish I can do more.
Just writing this for President Trump (and for us!) is more than enough, Vimmie. Please don’t fall for scammers again. Thank you! 😉
A different opinion on Tucker and Jeffrey Sachs:
Tucker and Sachs, a longtime Kremlin apologist who has been on the payroll of the Russian government, fight over who loves Sergey Lavrov more.
Despite this “genius” label, Lavrov has notably been Russia’s top diplomat during his country’s transformation into an impoverished pariah state.
Make no mistake. This is not pacifism or anti war. This is about trading one global “elite” for the other. Tucker is one of them. Even if you agree with parts of what he says. He’s no friend of yours
I love seeing the neocons having
meltdowns😁😁
Lavrov is a rock star in the world
of Diplomacy. Respected and well
liked by other countries.
Jeffrey Sachs is familiar with the
Diplomatic circles of the World,
not just Russia.
A prime example by people like
Jordan Schachtel that they are
totally ignorant and juvenile in
their understanding of geopolitics
🤡🤡and….Diplomacy.🤡
Jonathan Turley tweets today.
“I should have said better than good news.”
https://x.com/JonathanTurley/status/1796175884795150813?
https://x.com/JonathanTurley/status/1796175884795150813?
https://x.com/JonathanTurley/status/1796177805287264653?
We don’t care what clowns in Europe and the Middle East think.
That’s one of the perks of being an American.
Business Insider: The US gave sensitive plans for over 1,000 American weapons to Ukraine, say 2 officials who gave only a cryptic hint as to what they are: report
“The US has given Ukraine manufacturing plans for more than 1,000 American weapons in hopes of helping Kyiv bolster its own arms production, two officials told The New York Times.”
So Ukraine doesn’t have the manpower, money, or materials, but we gave them plans for 1,000 weapons… why?
Another grift for Ukraine to sell off out the back door? It makes no sense. Did they send out rigged, faulty plans that they hope Russia uses? (Unlikely)
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-gave-sensitive-plans-1000-weapons-ukraine-2024-5
Artillery shell production (per month)
Russia: 250,000
USA: 30,000
USA – new Dallas plant: 30,000
Since US weapons are not showing significant capability and all of them are expensive to build and maintain, I’m not sure it will be much advantage to Ukraine. Unless they plan to sell them to another country to make a few more offshore deposits.
Country Singer Tim McGraw announced a new partnership with Planet Fitness.
Tim has 3 daughters. @TheTimMcGraw
do you feel comfortable letting your daughter use PF knowing a man can expose himself to her and PF will defend the man because that’s their policy?
Do you support this?
Planet Fitness is a publicly held corporation with franchises around the planet, literally, so no, I don’t support it. Never went to a Tim McGraw concert either though we spent a lot of time in/around Nashville over the decades. I don’t believe I even saw him during Fan Fair there.
It’s of little surprise that PF’s policies related to gender changed after TSG came on board and a new CEO took over before PF went public. That was around a decade ago. TSG is based in, wait for it, San Francisco.
Sadly, country singers have been selling out to the Hollywood- Entertainment Complex for several years now. I don’t pay any attention to any of them.
amen to this………Willie is a lib. Johnny, trended that way and Waylon I’m not sure. Kris Kristofferson, though a Korean War vet, also is I’m pretty sure. So even some of the old guard were that.
“Even CNN is admitting that Biden’s support with young people ages 18 to 24 is down by 25 percentage points.”…
https://x.com/uspolitics123/status/1796192004247814537
The people who should give us the most hope for the survival of Western civilization are red pilled liberals like Jeffrey Sachs, @JamieMetzl, @BillAckman, etc. So what if they retain some of their liberal beliefs?
Let’s collaborate on issues we agree on and proceed from there.
Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley
I am back in the courtroom. The most telling moment today could come with the jury’s response to a question from the judge.
Cont…
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1796167815252123990.html?utm_campaign=topunroll
Jonathan Turley
Judge Merchan has erred on the side of inclusion. There was a subsequent request to add more and he approved it. There is another note from the jury.
…The jury is asking for instructions on count one and how to deal with evidence and the inference to be drawn from evidence. He will read pages 7-35.
Continue reading…
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1796174505150234795.html
I see the word ‘Cohen‘ a lot in there….
From this essay on Western intent to confiscate Russian assets in order to fund the lunatic neocon war in Ukraine. I don’t suppose the all of the proceeds, mind…if anyone sees my point.
“Yet the most dangerous consequence of allied confiscation might be to make it even harder to end a war that should never been started.”
Forgetting (if the mad men and women at the helm steering the Ship of State directly towards the shoals) that two can play their dangerous game.
The author, Douglas Bandow, references a scene from A Man For All Seasons…one I thought immediately of within a paragraph of his accurate predictions. I was pleased to discover that the same occurred to him.
Where Mr Bandow falls short is thinking that Western criminals want peace. He seems to still believe that is the desired objective. It is not.
Peace is not the prize for warmongers who will shove their fingers into Putin’s chest one too many times. That is why it was rejected from the beginning and continues to be ever since.
I am leaving a link to that scene in one of the finest movies ever filmed.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/allies-begin-the-reckless-seizure-of-russian-assets/
“One of the jurors appears partial to Donald Trump.”…
Cont…
https://x.com/PaulIngrassia/status/1796201042750607629
Merchan has the power to kick him/her off and put an alternate in. So I read in a tweet by Ingrassia, who says it’s a far out possibility.
And yet, we are watching a corrupted process with a corrupted judge.
So….
Unless the juror misbehaves in some way, the judge would have no grounds to remove the juror. The problem would be if other jurors wanted to get rid of that juror, they could claim the juror had been referring to on-line research, TV reports, or talks with friends or family.
IIRC in the OJ trial, there was only one white person on the jury who was dismissed early on when some other jurors complained that juror had a book contract. The juror vehemently denied it, but was dismissed, and a POC alternate came up to take her place. Someone on the jury did publish a book: the woman who was foreman, and I think was one if the complainers,
In a sane world, yes…
But we aren’t there anymore.
JUST IN: Judge Juan Merchan just got exposed for his corruption by the jury, and now we know why he broke tradition and didn’t give written instruction to the jury. Yesterday, the jury asked for a repeat of specific instruction, and Merchan decided to just send them home.
Today, we now know what it was they wanted repeated. It was a metaphor from Judge Merchan in which he said “ suppose you wake up in the morning and it’s not raining, but the streets are wet and people are wearing raincoats and holding umbrellas. Under those circumstances you may conclude that it rained during the night.”
The Judge is essentially telling the jury that even though you don’t see proof of a crime, it’s reasonable to assume one occurred. This is next level corruption! Throw this Judge, his daughter, and the entire prosecution in jail!
https://x.com/Travis_4_Trump/status/1796180691714990183
Juries are allowed to infer from facts, but not to speculate or guess based on the facts. The line between the two can be a gray area, and Merchan should have used a better example, or given a clearer distinction between inferring and speculating.
You wake up and the street is wet.
The person with the raincoat woke up and saw the wet street and put on his raincoat because he concluded it might be raining.
The person with the umbrella woke up and saw the street was wet so he got his umbrella because he concluded it might be raining.
You got up and saw the wet street and people with raincoats and umbrellas and concluded it was raining.
The fact is the city came down the street with the firetruck using the big hose gun and washed the street.
You did not conclude anything. You ASSUMED.
https://joehoft.com/breaking-exclusive-i-am-pretty-sure-president-trump-was-supposed-to-be-at-mar-a-lago-on-day-of-raid/#google_vignette
Did they want President Trump dead?
This explains the need for the use of force warrant!!!! No identification of FBI agents all had Polo shirts on! All carrying automatic weapons? Trauma unit setup for injured FBI agents not those at Mar-a-Lago because they would all be very dead!!! This is beyond troubling and my guess is why President Trump will be convicted in New York it will give the deep state another attempt at President Trump at Rykers Island via the Jeffery Epstein prison security team!!! JMO
I believe that an FBI agent tipped off a Senator about the Mar-a-Largo raid and the FBI found out about it via their spying on all the Senators and all of Congress so FBI Director Ray at his 8/8/22 Senate hearing took the initial perfunctory questions the Republican Senators didn’t want to show their cards right away. But to their surprise he left early saying he had a meeting to go to but he didn’t. He went on a vacation. Director Ray didn’t want to be asked about the upcoming Mar-a-Largo raid so he just left the meeting!!! His fast exit leaving the meeting was all made up! So Director Ray was in on the use of force at Mar-a-Largo! No wonder Melania is so protective of Barron! JMO
“Trump War Room drops new digital bomb on team biden.”
Video…
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1796233271879016820
Rich Baris The People’s Pundit
@Peoples_Pundit
Imagine if Donald Trump went on a smear campaign with lies like this?
Biden ads airing in Georgia literally do not make a single true claim. Every second of every statement is a lie, one meant to sow racial hatred because he’s polling the highest black support since Nixon.
Cont reading….
https://x.com/Peoples_Pundit/status/1796236726794346553
Flash from the past from 2018:
No Donald Trump ‘N-Word’ Tape Exists, Claims New Yorker Profile
(December 27, 2018)
Excerpt:
A portrait of TV producer Mark Burnett that focuses on how his reality show The Apprentice burnished Donald Trump‘s image also claims that the long-rumored tape of the President uttering a racial slur does not exist.
The New Yorker story spoke with several staffers on Trump’s former NBC show, The Apprentice. Although they claimed Trump occasionally made insensitive comments about women, he never made a racial comment during his 14-season run.
–snip–
President Trump has always denied the claims. He tweeted in August, “@MarkBurnettTV called to say that there are NO TAPES of the Apprentice where I used such a terrible and disgusting word as attributed by Wacky and Deranged Omarosa.”
https://deadline-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/deadline.com/2018/12/no-donald-trump-n-word-tape-exists-claims-new-yorker-profile-on-the-apprentice-1202526767/amp/?amp_gsa=1&_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQIUAKwASCAAgM%3D#amp_tf=From %251%24s&aoh=17170921666580&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Fdeadline.com%2F2018%2F12%2Fno-donald-trump-n-word-tape-exists-claims-new-yorker-profile-on-the-apprentice-1202526767%2F
They have NOTHING on Trump. That’s why they keep rehashing old dead stories.
I know next to nothing about margins and what causes them to move in, out, up and down. When I started at the top of this page and saw the margins blown out I immediately thought “Troublemaker10” and “amp” !!!!
There is one Treeper in particular who has commented time and again about the “amp” thingy and has shown you about a half dozen times how to post your comment to avoid this so …?
https://x.com/MZHemingway/status/1796186169484448085
Post mug shot, ain’t gonna fly.
Sundance weighs in…
https://x.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/1796239246560538914
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And
Slate pushed this same unproven story in 2016…
https://x.com/Katiescarlet2/status/1796240588326715789
Mexican Mayoral candidate Alfredo Cabrera assassinated at point-blank range at campaign rally – YouTube
Not good……😡😵💫🥴
Dang, unless some of that was from Alfredo’s security, someone did a mag dump into the guy. I counted at least 13 rounds. Someone can check that. The gun comes into frame near his head at about 30 seconds. RIP.
US foreign policy of interference, propaganda, and warmongering:
The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service reports that the US State Department is preparing an information attack on residents of Sweden and Finland, during which materials about the alleged Russian threat to residents of these countries will be distributed on social networks and the media.
Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
NEW: In a message to me, a National Security Council official who formerly ran the Mideast desk in the White House just warned: “Biden is out to destroy Israel — not just topple Netanyahu — in his pursuit and embrace of Tehran and the radical Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.”
1:46 PM · May 30, 2024
https://x.com/paulsperry_/status/1796236670888493115
I hope everyone is preparing for the two front war. The Rinos are preparing to pull a procedural move at the RNC similar to the colluded needle threading both party’s put forth on January 6th.
Lots of running around. Lots of serious closed door conferencing.
The package will be, we just can’t have a convicted felon as the party nominee for president.
Even if this is flimsy. The general population is just not sophisticated enough to understand the finer points.
That is SOP to reason their gross and criminal negligence and dereliction of duty.
Lara Trump is co-chair of the RNC. Do you really think she will allow something like that to happen?
Uh, I am sorry. Do you really think a dully elected President could be neutralized in a soft coup. Then the will of the people overridden in nation election?
You think because the candidates daughter in law is the presiding officer, the king makers can’t run that through?
Not to be disagreeable, but the pickle jar full of WTFU pills I was giving out, ran out in 2018.
Shannon Bream
@ShannonBream
Chief Justice Roberts responds to Senators Durbin and Whitehouse. Thanks, but no thanks, to a meeting. “… would in inadvisable.”
Cont (document attached)
https://x.com/ShannonBream/status/1796242719406514227
So much for the goodwill chat between Don and Ron:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/republican-party-florida-pushing-trump-republicans-are-elites/
Time for the Bull Moose party (most dangerous animal in North America) or Party of the Lion (king of the jungle).
The jackass and elephant have cost us 40T dollars with only a nation burned to the ground to show for it.
That is without being able to calculate the lives of our sons and daughters, these bureaucrats have burned through, with no regard.
The tectonic plates have shifted and the two party system is dead.
You don’t trust President Trump? If President Trump thought abandoning the Republican Party was such a great idea he would have done it already. We don’t have even ONE presidential election cycle to experiment. Can’t you just see the Democrats getting 40%, The Republicans getting 35% and any third conservative party, 25%? I can.
A mystery:
Why did Sotomayor, Brown, and Kagan recuse themselves in the Brunson case?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/three-liberal-supreme-court-justices-recuse-themselves-in-lawsuit-over-2020-election/ar-BB1nhwJI