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Wednesday August 7th – Open Thread

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

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Elon Musk Scheduled to Interview President Donald Trump Monday Night – Details to Follow

President Trump has announced via Truth Social that Elon Musk will be hosting a conversation between himself and President Trump.

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(New York Times) – Former President Donald J. Trump said on Tuesday that he would be interviewed next week by Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of the social media platform X and a former skeptic who has come to embrace his candidacy.

In a post on his own social media site, Truth Social, Mr. Trump said that their conversation would happen on Monday night and that details would follow.  Representatives for the Trump campaign and for X did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Tuesday. (more)

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The Director of National Intelligence – Trump Staffing 2025

UPDATE: 8pm ET password removed.

Remember, in this series my goal is more to describe the needs of some critical Executive Branch positions from a very practical, non-pretending, perspective of what happens within specific offices.  This outline is going to be a little odd, because almost no one knows what the position of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is about.

The ODNI was created as an outcome of the 9-11 Commission recommendations.  In the era shortly after 9/11, the DC national security apparatus was constructed to preserve continuity of government and simultaneously view all Americans as potential threats.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) were created specifically for this purpose.

Washington DC created the modern national security apparatus immediately and hurriedly after 9/11/01.  DHS came along in 2002, and within the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 the ODNI was formed. 

When Barack Obama and Eric Holder arrived a few years later, those newly formed institutions were viewed as opportunities to create a very specific national security apparatus that would focus almost exclusively against their political opposition.

Here is the weird part.  The ODNI was formed in 2004, with the intent for the office to be the pivot point of a national security radar.   The DNI was intended to provide information to domestic agencies about foreign terror networks that would prevent something like 9-11 from happening again.  However, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has never, not for one day, operated on this intent.   This is why they are such a critical position from my perspective.

The office was new, not established yet as a functioning silo, when Barack Obama and Eric Holder arrived in 2009.  They quickly dispatched an idiot, James Clapper, into the operation so they could weaponize around the offices’ fulcrum point.

Prior to the DNI office existing, the CIA radar would sweep externally and then report to the Office of the President. The DNI was intended to take external radar sweep (CIA) and make it a full 360° circle, adding a sweep inside the USA that would be handled by the Dept of Homeland Security.

The DHS sweep and the CIA sweep would then be combined into a central collection hub called the ODNI.  Everyone with responsibility for “national security” could access the ODNI material. Essentially and presumably, post 9-11 nothing like jihadists practicing to fly airplanes would be missed again; at least that was the intent.

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Big Picture on Current Status and Origin of U.K Riots by Tommy Robinson

If you want to get a great background on what was happening inside the U.K in the lead up to the latest riots, this video from Rebel News interviewing Tommy Robinson is the background to watch. {Direct Rumble Link}

Mr Robinson is the head of the English Defense League, what the British government call a nativist, subversive, right-wing network of racist patriots who are refusing to allow the identity of their country to be removed. {SEE HERE}  Robinson and his millions of followers refuse to allow Islamic Jihadists to kill, rape and butcher English people.

This is a great soup to nuts explanation of how they got to where they are today. WATCH:

The British police, completely and totally infected with cultural Marxism, seemingly approve of the Islamist conquest.  Meanwhile there is a war over the information available on social media.   Mass censorship is everywhere, and it is getting worse.

The British Government are furious that X-Platform and Elon Musk are allowing pro-British sentiment to be communicated in the open, and the British Gov are threatening to file criminal charges against Elon Musk {SEE HERE}.

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Kamala Harris Selects Minnesota Governor Tim “Let it Burn” Walz as Progressive VP Nominee Who Will Target White Midwesterners

…”Walz is a younger Bernie Sanders with a much more violent disposition behind that mask”…

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is most recently known for his support of the George Floyd riots and his decisions to keep law enforcement away from the rioting cities in order to give the BLM thugs space to loot and destroy.

Governor Walz is one of the key types of racially selected useful tools for the advancement of wokeism, racism and cultural Marxism.

Yep, Tim Walz is the progressive nose under the tent of the constitutional republic, and just like a slick southern preacher – he knows how to best ply his trade.  All things considered around Kamala ‘Brat’ Harris, Walz is a smart choice by Barack Obama.

(via Politico) – Kamala Harris will name Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, according to three people familiar with the decision granted anonymity because the announcement is not yet public.

By choosing Walz, Harris is elevating a Midwestern governor, veteran and former schoolteacher to help shore up support among blue-collar, white voters in the Rust Belt.

Walz, 60, led a progressive overhaul of Minnesota during his second term as governor, when Democrats took full control of state government in 2023 — a template for what Democrats hope to do nationally.

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Court Rules Google is Monopoly Violating Sherman Antitrust Act

After two years of pre-trial litigation, and a year of trial in front of U.S. District Judge Amit Mehtata, the court has determined that Google is factually a monopoly operation in the business of online search engine use and advertising. Google is violating section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act by running a monopoly business model.

The court highlighted the results of Judge Mehtata review in a 286-page opinion – SEE HERE. A key excerpt is provided below:

COURT RULING pdf – […] “Google has not achieved market dominance by happenstance. It has hired thousands of highly skilled engineers, innovated consistently, and made shrewd business decisions. The result is the industry’s highest quality search engine, which has earned Google the trust of hundreds of millions of daily users.

But Google also has a major, largely unseen advantage over its rivals: default distribution. Most users access a general search engine through a browser (like Apple’s Safari) or a search widget that comes preloaded on a mobile device. Those search access points are preset with a “default” search engine. The default is extremely valuable real estate.

Because many users simply stick to searching with the default, Google receives billions of queries every day through those access points. Google derives extraordinary volumes of user data from such searches. It then uses that information to improve search quality. Google so values such data that, absent a user-initiated change, it stores 18 months-worth of a user’s search history and activity.

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August 6th – 2024 Presidential Politics – Resistance Day 1296

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.”

~ Mike Vanderboegh

This thread will refresh daily and appear above the Open Discussion Thread.

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Tuesday August 6th – Open Thread

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

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President Trump Does a Livestream Podcast with Adin Ross

Barron Trump likes to watch Adin Ross and the audience Ross creates with his podcast is very unique and young.  Old media is dead for the majority of young people and younger voters, instead it’s podcasting and live-stream content that catches their attention.

President Trump knows the value of connecting to the audience on their terms and their platforms.  This is a really cool interview that covers a lot of subjects.  There is a segment where President Trump plays the “one word” game with people Adin Ross puts on screen [44:00 mark]: it’s quite funny.

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When Democrats Say “Our Democracy”

This is a good video to put context to his familiar linguistic jingle that we keep hearing from Democrats, “our democracy.” [Citation]

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The professional elements within the top floors of the Democrat apparatus, I’m specifically mentioning the people very close to Obama, genuinely do not believe Kamala Harris stands a chance at winning. FYI, I’ll have more on this later.

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