Worth reading at the NY Times today "How the Elite Behave When No One is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails." I'm surprised they published it.
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both" - Justice Louis Brandeis.
Remember when the convicted felon told Zelinskyy that the "... didn't have any cards." And then Ukraine went out and blew up 40% of Russia's strategic bomber fleet? Yeah, I'd say sucking up to pootie is a losing proposition for OUR country. FTG
Anyone with two functioning brain cells would know that the USA backing a dictatorship over a struggling democracy is a non-starter. Unfortunately, we still have entities who claim that WE shoved Russia and Ukraine into war. Had one not-comment on a non-comment I non-commented yesterday, and I was so gobsmacked by the level of stupidity demonstrated I never bothered to respond.
Trump run FBI says the MAGA guy who was killed at the Trump rally with a gun acted alone.
Also trump’s ear was totally shot even though there’s not a single injury to it and never has been.
Nothing to see here citizen.
You have to wonder if someone from the campaign told him he needed to go protect the president with his AR. He had a path cleared for him, despite many in the crowd trying to get him taken out.
I still have not seen any evidence that the intended target was not the firefighter in the crowd who was killed... and who the republicons never mention.
The problem is that any seamless plot to get the recorded outcome, and it would have to be pretty seamless, involves as much violence to credibility as the recorded outcome. Take just the ear thing. Yeah, it looks ridiculously improbable, with just the nick, the blood pattern and volume, all the weird ear nonsense in following days. But a plot that needs perfect timing of multiple actors, a death that lines up ballistically with an ear shot, a perfectly timed squib and Trump playing along in perfect timing is ridiculously improbable as well. Leaving us nowhere.
The bullets went nowhere near Trump. People keep getting caught up on that. His ear was never shot. Once you accept that it’s much easier to understand how to stage it
Yeah, I'm really thinking that not even the most devious schemer would go with a plot that had a live bullet flying past Trump's head, even if an angel could be recruited to intervene and make sure it missed (I swear to god, I saw an AI image of that.)
If the plot was to miss Trump, then you would need a pro with a steady hand, not a disturbed young man. Also, you'd miss completely, maybe hit a chair, and you wouldn't kill someone behind him. Probably.
If the plot was to kill Trump, again you'd probably want a pro. Or if you accepted the amateur, disturbed, groomed kid, you'd train him to shoot in the chest, I'm guessing, not knowing a lot about assassinations or shooting.
A pro would not be sacrificing themselves.
So none of the conspiracy theories make a lick of sense. But there are still those nagging details and improbabilities that gave rise to the conspiracies.
He was set up, but then sent around to buy ladders and ammo and such himself? The plot was carefully and professionally orchestrated in all details on the government side, to produce a near miss presumably, but relied on an unstable kid with only moderate shooting skills? It makes no sense. At all.
That would still require Trump employing a squib with precision timing. And 10s maybe 100s in on the plot, SS, FBI, maybe other agencies, possibly local police. Then more people afterwards brought into the plot or threatened. All this with no leaks. And all depending on an unstable kid. What would they have told him? “You'll be a celebrated RW martyr by shooting an innocent bystander to give Trump a little bump in the polls. Oh, and go and buy your own ladder and ammo, but make sure you do it at the last minute.” Or if he was anti-Trump, “Shoot someone in the crowd, not Trump, and ….” And … what?
TV star? Sitting at a desk and talking, playing himself. Between diaper changes. No evidence of acting ability, no evidence of stagecraft much less sleight of hand skills, much less the perfect timing necessary to match a squib with a prompt or gun report.
Welp, I needed to clean out some odd and mismatched items in the fridge and the pantry, and darned if that didn't make a tasty Frankenstein breakfast skillet.
(It has a promo at the end for the book, "The Machine of Death", which is about a machine that tells you very specifically if not very precisely how you'll die.)
What people tell pollsters and how they vote when they're alone (if they vote at all) are often very different things. If we were ruled by polls, we'd be a Swedish style social democracy. When people actually have to vote on taxes, schools, diversity, climate change, etc., they suddenly get real cranky.
Just this morning the DNC sent me an email asking my opinion on membership card designs. Again. They did it last year, too. Like that's the most pressing issue facing the nation?
All that is a distraction from... the one single issue that I personally find to be the most important issue and get mad when other people are talking about something else!
Nerd time: I feel like current World of Wacraft writing is a good example of where soft progressive writing is and how it is complete garbage. Gurl, I play a draenei and the orcs made a road of my people's bones after committing genocide. The orcs are not misunderstood, they were demonic, raving murder machines and some things can't be forgiven or understood.
Sometimes crimes are crimes and should be punished, and I don't need to understand Donald Trump or, like, Slobodan Milošević. These are evil people who belong in prison or worse, and their supporters will get no understanding from me.
Obviously he's sending a big FUCK YOU to Ilhan Omar, Tim Walz, Keith Ellison. And the Big Bad Racist is doing it during the Thanksgiving season where we acknowledge (in legend if nothing else) how those illegal immigrant Pilgrims were fed and protected by the native population.
Just because he appears to wake up does not necessarily mean that he's conscious. And if he appears conscious, it does not necessarily mean that he's sapient.
Worth reading at the NY Times today "How the Elite Behave When No One is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails." I'm surprised they published it.
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both" - Justice Louis Brandeis.
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All the "black men" & "black women" accounts on here slandering each other were somehow located in INDIA & RUSSIA GOODE
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Yeah ... the Bluesky link is users only. That's why I posted the whole text of the twitter image.
Some more views of the Daily Kaboom, with a Bunday Extra!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIILiYcRsDw
Remember when the convicted felon told Zelinskyy that the "... didn't have any cards." And then Ukraine went out and blew up 40% of Russia's strategic bomber fleet? Yeah, I'd say sucking up to pootie is a losing proposition for OUR country. FTG
Anyone with two functioning brain cells would know that the USA backing a dictatorship over a struggling democracy is a non-starter. Unfortunately, we still have entities who claim that WE shoved Russia and Ukraine into war. Had one not-comment on a non-comment I non-commented yesterday, and I was so gobsmacked by the level of stupidity demonstrated I never bothered to respond.
Lots of fine KABOOMs this morning.
Along with the rat-a-tat-tat!
But go to 5:24 for the Bunday Extra.
That's a big bun ...
Yep! Big ol' bunneh.
I am having something called "Bethany BEAR Jam" on muffins. I believe this is false advertising, as I can detect NO BEAR in the jam.
I hope this isn't something that you got from RFKJ.
HAMMY!!
𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘌𝘱𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘪𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭 𝘪𝘵. 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘱𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘺. 𝘐𝘧 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦, 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥. 𝘐𝘧 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘴𝘬 𝘸𝘩𝘺. 𝘐𝘧 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴, 𝘞𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘦, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘶𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧-𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘷𝘶𝘭𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦: 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘯.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗪𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗼 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁
Epstein Files Must Be Released in Full Before Truth Becomes Another Casualty of Power
https://lcfrancis.substack.com/p/the-files-they-want-you-to-forget?r=2u9esg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘈𝘐-𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 “𝘥𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨” 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘢𝘺, 𝘢 𝘱𝘩𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘴. 𝘈𝘭𝘨𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘮𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘴𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘭𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮𝘴 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘪𝘹𝘰𝘯 𝘦𝘳𝘢, 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘥𝘰 𝘪𝘵 𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘧𝘢𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦.
Do you want the little ai or the big one? IYKYK
So tired I slept in all the way to 7:30... lazy
It's not lazy if you're tired and your body needs it.
My body has no idea what it needs.
OK, fair! XD
Trump run FBI says the MAGA guy who was killed at the Trump rally with a gun acted alone.
Also trump’s ear was totally shot even though there’s not a single injury to it and never has been.
Nothing to see here citizen.
You have to wonder if someone from the campaign told him he needed to go protect the president with his AR. He had a path cleared for him, despite many in the crowd trying to get him taken out.
I still have not seen any evidence that the intended target was not the firefighter in the crowd who was killed... and who the republicons never mention.
The problem is that any seamless plot to get the recorded outcome, and it would have to be pretty seamless, involves as much violence to credibility as the recorded outcome. Take just the ear thing. Yeah, it looks ridiculously improbable, with just the nick, the blood pattern and volume, all the weird ear nonsense in following days. But a plot that needs perfect timing of multiple actors, a death that lines up ballistically with an ear shot, a perfectly timed squib and Trump playing along in perfect timing is ridiculously improbable as well. Leaving us nowhere.
The bullets went nowhere near Trump. People keep getting caught up on that. His ear was never shot. Once you accept that it’s much easier to understand how to stage it
Yeah, I'm really thinking that not even the most devious schemer would go with a plot that had a live bullet flying past Trump's head, even if an angel could be recruited to intervene and make sure it missed (I swear to god, I saw an AI image of that.)
If the plot was to miss Trump, then you would need a pro with a steady hand, not a disturbed young man. Also, you'd miss completely, maybe hit a chair, and you wouldn't kill someone behind him. Probably.
If the plot was to kill Trump, again you'd probably want a pro. Or if you accepted the amateur, disturbed, groomed kid, you'd train him to shoot in the chest, I'm guessing, not knowing a lot about assassinations or shooting.
A pro would not be sacrificing themselves.
So none of the conspiracy theories make a lick of sense. But there are still those nagging details and improbabilities that gave rise to the conspiracies.
I'm leaning towards aliens, myself.
Shooter was set up with a gun with a tampered windage. I feel it in my bones...
and Donnie did kayfabe with fake ear blood.
He was set up, but then sent around to buy ladders and ammo and such himself? The plot was carefully and professionally orchestrated in all details on the government side, to produce a near miss presumably, but relied on an unstable kid with only moderate shooting skills? It makes no sense. At all.
What if the kid was just supposed to shoot at the crowd? Them it all works out
That would still require Trump employing a squib with precision timing. And 10s maybe 100s in on the plot, SS, FBI, maybe other agencies, possibly local police. Then more people afterwards brought into the plot or threatened. All this with no leaks. And all depending on an unstable kid. What would they have told him? “You'll be a celebrated RW martyr by shooting an innocent bystander to give Trump a little bump in the polls. Oh, and go and buy your own ladder and ammo, but make sure you do it at the last minute.” Or if he was anti-Trump, “Shoot someone in the crowd, not Trump, and ….” And … what?
Yep. The old rasslin' trick of hiding a razor blade between the fingers and a quick slice to whip up some blood.
Not even that. Squibs are easily palmed (remember that he is a tv star) and in the video there was no blood before his had got to his ear.
TV star? Sitting at a desk and talking, playing himself. Between diaper changes. No evidence of acting ability, no evidence of stagecraft much less sleight of hand skills, much less the perfect timing necessary to match a squib with a prompt or gun report.
Welp, I needed to clean out some odd and mismatched items in the fridge and the pantry, and darned if that didn't make a tasty Frankenstein breakfast skillet.
"Good! Good!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfT7K7WNpdQ
Well, it wasn't the video I was looking for, but it was fun to watch just the same. Macabre, but fun.
Wondermark!, "THIS IS HOW YOU DIE"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccOG42NuwIw
(It has a promo at the end for the book, "The Machine of Death", which is about a machine that tells you very specifically if not very precisely how you'll die.)
Dear Democratic Party,
Eight in 10 endorse compromise; 83% reject political violence
84% say U.S. benefits from having a mix of cultures
83% say wealthy individuals and businesses should be limited in how much they can advance political candidates or causes they support.
Maybe you want to MESSAGE THE SHIT OUT OF THESE FACTS?
https://news.gallup.com/poll/696494/americans-show-consensus-democracy-related-matters.aspx
What people tell pollsters and how they vote when they're alone (if they vote at all) are often very different things. If we were ruled by polls, we'd be a Swedish style social democracy. When people actually have to vote on taxes, schools, diversity, climate change, etc., they suddenly get real cranky.
Just this morning the DNC sent me an email asking my opinion on membership card designs. Again. They did it last year, too. Like that's the most pressing issue facing the nation?
Yeah, it's like we're supposed to slap our foreheads and shout "At last! An issue I really care about. Now I'm Engaged!'
I sent them a sternly worded letter, but it bounced. They really don’t want to hear from us.
Sorry, The Donors wouldn't appreciate that very much. Not very much at all...
“Donate to help us get the message out. We can’t do it without you.”
Goddamn ain’t that the truth
Ouch … but true.
All that is a distraction from... the one single issue that I personally find to be the most important issue and get mad when other people are talking about something else!
Nerd time: I feel like current World of Wacraft writing is a good example of where soft progressive writing is and how it is complete garbage. Gurl, I play a draenei and the orcs made a road of my people's bones after committing genocide. The orcs are not misunderstood, they were demonic, raving murder machines and some things can't be forgiven or understood.
Sometimes crimes are crimes and should be punished, and I don't need to understand Donald Trump or, like, Slobodan Milošević. These are evil people who belong in prison or worse, and their supporters will get no understanding from me.
THIS!
AP: Trump pledge to ‘immediately’ end protections for Minnesota Somalis sparks fear and legal questions [https://apnews.com/article/trump-minnesota-somali-immigrants-temporary-protective-status-e75404860523512ffc5af7363664d168]
Obviously he's sending a big FUCK YOU to Ilhan Omar, Tim Walz, Keith Ellison. And the Big Bad Racist is doing it during the Thanksgiving season where we acknowledge (in legend if nothing else) how those illegal immigrant Pilgrims were fed and protected by the native population.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/first-thanksgiving
Motherfucking piece of shit can't die too soon.
I saw a meme of Trump dozing off at some ceremony --
"People are pissed off that Trump keeps falling asleep like this."
"Me, I'm pissed that he keeps waking up."
Just because he appears to wake up does not necessarily mean that he's conscious. And if he appears conscious, it does not necessarily mean that he's sapient.
It is my humble opinion that a Urinal Monument to Orangini be constructed next to I-15 south of Barstow. He can be buried there.
Out by the outlet mall? Steady stream of folks in need of a bathroom break, for sure.
Heh, heh, heh.... Barstow....
Just don't put it at the top of the Grapevine.
LMMFAO!
I am starting to think Hitler tried to end the world because he wanted to get out of a parking ticket . . .
That coke and morphine habit wasn’t cheap.
He had an outstanding commitment to the Columbia Haus gramophone record club.
That's a deep cut.
He had too many internet subscriptions.
The vegan restaurants in Berlin stopped delivering due to staff shortages.
Steak & Eggs for bfast this morning. It wasn't tacos but Li'l Feller seems to be happy digesting his steak.
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Aw, you should frame that one.
Ok I am peacing out for the day. Laters wonketeers!
Laters!
Great movie.