Whiskey Pete's "murder on the high seas" campaign hasn't interdicted any contraband at all. Killed a couple hundred people and that's about it. There is real work being done by the DEA, Coast Guard, FBI, seizing boatloads of coke and disrupting dealing networks nationwide. None of this of course addresses the core of the issue, the consumer. Getting the user to change their behavior is much more effective(and harder) than finding 500 keys in a shipment of bananas.
Jeannie Rousseau was a well educated, 20 y.o. Frenchwoman when WWII began. Hired as a translator for the German high command in the seaside town of Dinard, then later in Paris, she spoke 5 languages. The older men thought nothing of speaking openly about military tactics and hardware in front of her. Sometimes she would tease them to get more information, saying things like "What you are telling me cannot be true," which is how she got them to show her drawings of the experimental rocket testing station called Peenemünde. They showed her the passes needed to enter the site, as well as the way to enter.
She did not paraphrase in her intelligence reports, as she did not understand all of the technology being shown to her, but she had a photographic memory and would write her information down each night.
The V2 rocket was developed at this site, and her intelligence gathering for the resistance- led by Marie-Madeline Fourcade, and thus the British- led directly to the thorough bombing of the site shortly after midnight on August 17, 1943.
Production of the V2s was pushed back six months, which led to Gen Eisenhower saying that had the timetable for these rockets not been pushed back that "It was likely that our invasion of Europe would have encountered enormous difficulties and, in certain circumstances, would not have been possible."
I think what’s actually going on is normalizing executions without due process for anyone they say is a drug dealer. Dutarte in the Phillipines did this and killed thousands of people summarily. I think thats the goal.
Giving the murdering thugs too much credit. I have seen zero evidence reported that ANY of these boats were actually transporting drugs, and such evidence would be easy to recover and present. I did hear some quality reporting from npr that a few of the boats were just guys fishing for tuna fish.
Even so, I would need to see proof that these boaters weren't being paid by US operatives and told to transport this unidentified bundle of stuff from their port to the big boat.
"President Donald Trump erupted Saturday in a 720-plus-word social media post over a judge’s ruling ordering him to remove his name from the Kennedy Center and halt a renovation project, a rant that culminated with the president demanding the judge be criminally charged."
You could find 100,000 criminals in prison right now who would profanely state with certainty that the prosecutors and the judge were wrong and were biased against them.
Anti-clot is also prescribed in pill form, for daily use. Those bruises are most likely from an IV, although they are generally placed in the arm, not the hand. He must have difficult to poke veins. Been there, done that. What is actually being pumped in is anybody's guess.
NYT: "Inside the Ebola Epicenter, the Virus Rages With Little to Stop It"
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"And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute . . . And is there a way we can do something like that . . . by injection inside or almost a cleaning? So it'd be interesting to check that . . . I'm not a doctor. But I'm, like, a person that has a good you-know-what."
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Deja vu all over again? This time with RFK Jr and Dr. Oz as wingmen enablers?
I don't recall if a joke I have put out there before was inspired by Musth, but it certainly applies: "When I disable the fences in Jurassic Park, the velociraptors will eat the other shareholders. Then I can collect the insurance and make a fortune short selling stocks!" "Yes, sir, that's all well and good- but we're still inside Jurassic Park!!!"
a minor confession: I hate goats. The Nigerian pygmy goats my ex-wife insisted that we needed to buy, and that I ended up being the primary caretaker for were at a minimum partially responsible for the failure of our marriage. Damn little escape artists!
Dang, I'm sorry. I mean, I was a kid and it seemed pretty neat taking care of a goat then. XD I probably wouldn't be up for it now, and especially not when I wasn't on board for it in the first place. Sheesh. :(
They were continually jumping the fence, or failing to jump the electric fence and getting tangled up in it. I can't tell you how many times I got shocked rescuing goats. Or escaping and wandering off into... the garden, the road, the neighbor's garden. Or escaping and attracting the attention of a bear, who eventually decided the knocking over garbage cans is easier than chasing goats or middle-aged goatherds. Or jumping the fence, crashing through plate glass planters, and showing up on the front porch, knocking at the door, bleeding like a Nightmare on Elmstreet, and needing to be driven, panicking and baa-ing all the way to the after-hours vet for several dozen stitches and a course of antibiotics, which yer TerseNurse got to inject.
I took are of a full grown goat that was a regular breed, so maybe there are behavior differences between types?
We were out in the country and she stayed in her pen when she wasn't roaming around grazing. She didn't try to get outside the fence around the entire shebang, though.
Yean, I can see how that would get annoying really quickly.
Pete 'El Borracho' Hegseth on March "This is not Iraq. This is not endless."
This is not Iraq, indeed. We are finding out.
Never question the ways of a warfighter.
Warfighter!
Whiskey Pete's "murder on the high seas" campaign hasn't interdicted any contraband at all. Killed a couple hundred people and that's about it. There is real work being done by the DEA, Coast Guard, FBI, seizing boatloads of coke and disrupting dealing networks nationwide. None of this of course addresses the core of the issue, the consumer. Getting the user to change their behavior is much more effective(and harder) than finding 500 keys in a shipment of bananas.
Historical moment: this post was linked to, approvingly, by ...?
Bill Kristol.
https://bsky.app/profile/billkristolbulwark.bsky.social/post/3mn3hgx5e6k2q
in the replies:
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“William Kristol, a subscriber of Wonkette…”
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could you ever have imagined
Wowzers!
I suspect that we have quite a few unexpected readers here at ye olde wonkette.
*waves at Bill should he be lurking*
Nice!!
Jeannie Rousseau was a well educated, 20 y.o. Frenchwoman when WWII began. Hired as a translator for the German high command in the seaside town of Dinard, then later in Paris, she spoke 5 languages. The older men thought nothing of speaking openly about military tactics and hardware in front of her. Sometimes she would tease them to get more information, saying things like "What you are telling me cannot be true," which is how she got them to show her drawings of the experimental rocket testing station called Peenemünde. They showed her the passes needed to enter the site, as well as the way to enter.
She did not paraphrase in her intelligence reports, as she did not understand all of the technology being shown to her, but she had a photographic memory and would write her information down each night.
The V2 rocket was developed at this site, and her intelligence gathering for the resistance- led by Marie-Madeline Fourcade, and thus the British- led directly to the thorough bombing of the site shortly after midnight on August 17, 1943.
Production of the V2s was pushed back six months, which led to Gen Eisenhower saying that had the timetable for these rockets not been pushed back that "It was likely that our invasion of Europe would have encountered enormous difficulties and, in certain circumstances, would not have been possible."
20. Years. Old.
And. No. AI.
I hope Hegseth spends his post DoD career in Leavenworth.
That murderous fuck.
Caturday musical interlude: https://bsky.app/profile/silverarticfox.bsky.social/post/3miybwhinxc26
I think what’s actually going on is normalizing executions without due process for anyone they say is a drug dealer. Dutarte in the Phillipines did this and killed thousands of people summarily. I think thats the goal.
Dutarte is still quite popular in the Philippines, as I understand. :/
Duterte is in prison at The Hague, and will stand trial for his crimes.
As he deserves. But didn't his son or nephew or something just get elected riding his coattails?
Well, derp derp if you didn't do anything wrong they wouldn't have executed you.
I've heard people during voir dire say shit almost as stupid. "Well, why did he get arrested if he did nothing wrong?"
This is a fucking STUPID STUPID country.
I bet black people don’t ask that question.
Nope. I would wager you are correct.
Every time a fucker has said something like that to me they have been white. And an ignorant ass fucking conservative, to boot.
but but TFG loves the uneducated.
Giving the murdering thugs too much credit. I have seen zero evidence reported that ANY of these boats were actually transporting drugs, and such evidence would be easy to recover and present. I did hear some quality reporting from npr that a few of the boats were just guys fishing for tuna fish.
Even so, I would need to see proof that these boaters weren't being paid by US operatives and told to transport this unidentified bundle of stuff from their port to the big boat.
wouldn't be the first time.
Any evidence (if any) has been whisked away for "safe keeping", waiting for demand and prices to rise, before returning to the marketplace.
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Cat is not wrong
So Operation Help Hegseth get a Boner was a success?
"Book 'em, Cato!"
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Excellent theme music.
Also too, McGarrett would pull up in that huge lurching boatmobile.
Your supervisor has taken the control of this desk.
Please get him some water.
That's some serious belly-spread right there. Acres, in fact.
He's also on a serious diet now.
Fried clams in mayo dipping sauce, from the looks of him.
I kid....................
"CSI: Caturday"
Seems to be handling it well
"President Donald Trump erupted Saturday in a 720-plus-word social media post over a judge’s ruling ordering him to remove his name from the Kennedy Center and halt a renovation project, a rant that culminated with the president demanding the judge be criminally charged."
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2676976421/
If he's unhappy it puts a little spring in my step.
Can't wait til he expires peacefully in his sleep.
Or screaming like the passengers in grand dad’s car.
You could find 100,000 criminals in prison right now who would profanely state with certainty that the prosecutors and the judge were wrong and were biased against them.
There were several court rulings against his maladministration yesterday. A no good very bad day indeed.
At the new DOJ, the Department of Political Retribution , somebody will lie to a grand jury and get an indictment.
And then it will be thrown out and they will be read for filth by a competent judge. Such a waste of our money.
Now he just posted a photo of a garbage can with "Obama Presidential Library."
now would be a good time to antagonize that disgusting FUCK into a stroke.
The poor little baby blocked me from contacting him, otherwise I'd be taunting.
LMAO! What a fucking fragile little manlet.
JFC !
all this can't be good for his blood pressure....
Unless it's the Printer Lady doing this.
I didn't think of that.
WHERE THE FUCK IS THAT CLOT?!?
Maybe he takes anti clot medicine. Would explain all those bruises.
Anti-clot is also prescribed in pill form, for daily use. Those bruises are most likely from an IV, although they are generally placed in the arm, not the hand. He must have difficult to poke veins. Been there, done that. What is actually being pumped in is anybody's guess.
From shooting up Adderall
But they thin your blood, and you bruise more easily.
HAHAHA. Donnie is such a loser.
In the end, if there is any justice to be had, it is YOU, Donald Trump, who will be charged.
What a fucking crybaby.
He needs to just fucking go away. Him and his chud followers.
NYT: "Inside the Ebola Epicenter, the Virus Rages With Little to Stop It"
.
"And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute . . . And is there a way we can do something like that . . . by injection inside or almost a cleaning? So it'd be interesting to check that . . . I'm not a doctor. But I'm, like, a person that has a good you-know-what."
.
Deja vu all over again? This time with RFK Jr and Dr. Oz as wingmen enablers?
I wish they’d go to the Hot Zone and inspect the situation and basically stay there forever
Remember when America projected soft power by helping with problems like this?
(We should still be doing that)
These lunkheads reacted to the "soft" part of that. And we can't have that, now can we?
Only throbbing, hard, monstrous erection power, right? HARD!
Now we project hard weakness.
BUT IT'S HARD AND MANLY WEAKNESS! /s
Trump probably thinks that only black people catch ebola.
Remember there was some Murrican team of health experts and scientists?
Thanks Emol, you fucking mass murderer.
I don't recall if a joke I have put out there before was inspired by Musth, but it certainly applies: "When I disable the fences in Jurassic Park, the velociraptors will eat the other shareholders. Then I can collect the insurance and make a fortune short selling stocks!" "Yes, sir, that's all well and good- but we're still inside Jurassic Park!!!"
RIP USAID
He blows boats
I have proof
...
Also goats
Did you ask the goat?
Right?
As someone that was entrusted to the care of a goat when I was a child, let's leave those magnificent creatures out of it.
a minor confession: I hate goats. The Nigerian pygmy goats my ex-wife insisted that we needed to buy, and that I ended up being the primary caretaker for were at a minimum partially responsible for the failure of our marriage. Damn little escape artists!
"I hate goats."
Maybe you just haven't had them properly prepared.
Ya, but didn’t those Nigerian pigmy goats have uncles who were generals with millions of dollars they needed to launder?
You are lucky you didn’t get any Idi Amin Uganda cannibalism goats
Dang, I'm sorry. I mean, I was a kid and it seemed pretty neat taking care of a goat then. XD I probably wouldn't be up for it now, and especially not when I wasn't on board for it in the first place. Sheesh. :(
They're cute when little.
They were continually jumping the fence, or failing to jump the electric fence and getting tangled up in it. I can't tell you how many times I got shocked rescuing goats. Or escaping and wandering off into... the garden, the road, the neighbor's garden. Or escaping and attracting the attention of a bear, who eventually decided the knocking over garbage cans is easier than chasing goats or middle-aged goatherds. Or jumping the fence, crashing through plate glass planters, and showing up on the front porch, knocking at the door, bleeding like a Nightmare on Elmstreet, and needing to be driven, panicking and baa-ing all the way to the after-hours vet for several dozen stitches and a course of antibiotics, which yer TerseNurse got to inject.
I took are of a full grown goat that was a regular breed, so maybe there are behavior differences between types?
We were out in the country and she stayed in her pen when she wasn't roaming around grazing. She didn't try to get outside the fence around the entire shebang, though.
Yean, I can see how that would get annoying really quickly.
A murderous, criminal empire.