Dersh’s weak point further exposed:

https://www.rt.com/shows/going-underground/593977-alan-dershowitz-emeritus-professor-harvard-law/

The Red Heifer is on A123’s beat. He previously explained the significance of the animal and linked to a helpful South Park episode.

Mr. A123, can you now explain the significance of the Third Temple and the red heifer to evangelical Christians? Is the speaker in the video correct in his description of a tension between the differing views of Jews and Evangelical Christians of what is supposed to transpire once the temple is constructed?

Mr. A123, can you now explain the significance of the Third Temple and the red heifer to evangelical Christians?

I would not want to try. There are far too many interpretations among various Christian organizations to pick one.

You would need Torah/Talmud experts for the other side, but my impression is that they are also less than fully unified.

PEACE 😇

As far as I know there are no traditional mainstream Christian sects on board with any of these Revelation / Apocalypse / Eschaton narratives. In my sect there are no Sunday bible readings from Revelation on any day of the calendar. We have a one year sequence and a three year sequence and pretty much every nook and cranny of the scriptures are covered with this exception. Most of these tales from modern television and whatnot preachers are downright heretical.

I am a lot more interested in exploring the possibility that heretical kooks blew up Atlantis. I was surprised that Ron Unz posted that red heifer twitter gibberish. He could perhaps use a new hobby.

Aliens!

https://www.parareligion.ch/lam.htm

Plan 93 from Outer Space by Peter-Robert Koenig

I can’t tell if Ron is trolling us or if he has reached a point of accepting that crazy people do crazy things. In which case it may be worth some time becoming familiar with the delusions of the crazies in order to predict their actions.

Life can be tricky when the patients run the asylum.

Wanted the chatbot to give me a breakdown comparison of orcas vs. sperm whales, and it started talking about the hypothetical of them battling, which is hard for me to walk away from.

Will be thinking about it for a long time, now.

As much as I like the abilities of a single sperm whale, it is hard for me to believe that a pod wouldn’t triumph, but it predicted the sperm whale would be victorious.

Seems to me it depends a lot on the size of the pod. Two orcas and they are screwed. Thirty and the sperm whale is screwed, unless it can quick-dive. Fifteen and I would still favor the orcas. Not sure about five.

The scion of Chaos Magic, Peter Carroll, has a fortune cookie recipe for magical operations time frames: divine short and enchant long. Predicting what is going to happen tomorrow is many orders of magnitude easier than prophesying the end of time. The latter is basically impossible.

Some bible scholars propose that the Revelation vision has already been fulfilled. The events described in the book are supposed to be the Roman destruction of the Jewish colony in the second century A.D. in their view. If you want to study this in depth you can spend your entire working life down in the rabbit hole.

Aliens are more fun.

As far as I know there are no traditional mainstream Christian sects on board with any of these Revelation / Apocalypse / Eschaton narratives.

I largely concur.

I pointed out in prior threads that there are many variant Bibles. They have been modified by multiple rounds of editing and translation. Overly literal efforts to detect foretold signs & portents is unlikely to be a productive endeavour.

PEACE 😇

Check out this video (it’s quite cool, but not sure it’s realistic or if it’s made up – seems overly dramatic and brutal, lol, plus they typically feed on seals).

The orcas are attacking a whole pod of sperm whales and are trying to snatch the juvenile from the mother, then daddy comes in and saves everyone (as it should be). Haha. Please do not demonize them as some crazy killers (they are typically very mellow things, just trying to get by).

Well there is this:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2017/mar/29/sex-death-sperm-whales-orcas-indian-ocean-in-pictures

Orcas don’t seem to attack male sperm whales (too big and aggressive, even if an orca pod could defeat one he would probably kill an orca or two in the process) but do go after females and calves. Real nature isn’t computer simulations (or human warfare), a pod wouldn’t attack under the condition that it would lose a member or two, it would just move on.

Have you read Moby Dick?

It might be the greatest American novel. If you haven’t check out Ahab’s quarterdeck pep talk.

https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/42/moby-dick/694/chapter-36-the-quarter-deck/

Yea, I read it a long time ago (it takes place in Nantucket, East Coast mariner culture). It’s by Melville.

It’s old sounding speech (“ye”, etc), I wonder if they used the Atlantic accent there, back in the late 19th century. But the more common representations of the Atlantic accent are mostly heard in old movies where the speech sounds a bit more sophisticated than sailor language.

This vengefulness narrative and motive.. is interesting (maybe there’s a tinge of Calvinism there with the desire to actively shape Nature). It’s just I’ve never been able to accept it directed at animals, but it’s understandable, it’s man against Nature. There is a lot of harshness there, which is somewhat attractive – that’s appealing about America in general, the combination of the ruggedness of character with the landscape, how one’s psyche is driven through that – and very intricate imagery.

I wish that the war in Sudan were getting more coverage.

This post is a few weeks old; but it indicates that the SAF is starting to make gains around the capital.

https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/map-omdurman-breakthrough

Thanks , that whole story has been buried pretty deep ,everyone has forgot about Sudan.

As I recall, in Moby Dick, the chapters were interspersed with speculations about whales and creatures of the deep. Some of the knowledge at the time seemed quite primitive.

And before that there was the folklore of the sea, created by fishermen and filled with strange possibilities.

We can see clips of people diving with many of these whales on YouTube. Things beyond the imagination of Melville or the fishermen. And yet, despite all this new info, there still seems many strange rumors and mysteries.

I hear tell, that sperm whales killed an orca near New Zealand. That their clicks are powerful enough to kill a person. And that if you dive with them, their sonar can heat you up like a microwave and you will feel the heat. And a diver put his hand out once and the click paralyzed it for four hours.

Thanks , that whole story has been buried pretty deep, everyone has forgot about Sudan.

You’re welcome. Hopefully we can encourage Ron to come up with some new Sudan-related content.

Boeing whistleblower John Barnett (probably) did not kill himself.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68534703.amp

https://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/news/200/boeing-whistleblower-found-dead-in-charleston-after-break-in-depositions/

Alex Jones goes after Trump for his pro-vaccine stance:
https://www.rawstory.com/alex-jones-trump-2667484905/

What’s the point of you?

It is a big day for SJW🏳️‍🌈Islam: (1)

Far-Left Activist Shaun King Converts to Islam as Ramadan Starts: ‘My Heart Is with My Dearest Friends in Gaza’

King self-identifies as black and was previously a Christian pastor. His career has long been plagued by allegations of financial misconduct, with major fundraising efforts failing to produce promised results. That pattern and a string of deceptive media hoaxes have made his name a punchline, ostracized from the Black Lives Matter movement.
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In 2020 he sparked controversy when he declared all statues of Jesus that portray him as a “white European” should be torn down because they are “a form of white supremacy,” as Breitbart News reported.
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Since 2015, King has claimed the Christian celebrations of Christmas and Easter are “tools of white supremacy.”

He was ejected from the Black Lives Matter movement by its leaders in December 2015 over questions about the “integrity” of activist fundraising.

Too racist for BLM… Becomes a Muslim. The warning to Judeo-Christian Americans is clear.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2024/03/11/far-left-activist-shaun-king-converts-to-islam-as-ramadan-starts-my-heart-is-with-my-dearest-friends-in-gaza/

Off-topic, but what are your thoughts on Orban saying that Trump will end the Ukraine War by cutting off all US aid to Ukraine?

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/11/europe/orban-trump-ukraine-intl/index.html

These are the red flags that are worrying me. Specifically comments like these and others by some of Trump’s biggest supporters. The far-left is also anti-Ukraine, but they’re not hardcore Biden fans like the far-right are hardcore Trump fans.

Oh I’m sorry did I post in the wrong forum? Pretty sure this is open thread.

Did you know the judge in post #8 is a homosexual and is accused of raping a man? But you have a problem with my post?

How is your leftist in the cat suit? There one where you called me a Jew for pointing out that he is not only a leftist but leads a Marxist party? Maybe hurry up and call me a Jew to get it out of your system. I think it has been over 24 hours.

As I recall, in Moby Dick, the chapters were interspersed with speculations about whales and creatures of the deep. Some of the knowledge at the time seemed quite primitive.

There are all kinds of geographic and anthropological references that sometimes almost veer into a stream of consciousness type of narration. Maybe that’s why sometimes he is compared to James Joyce? It’s extremely intricate, ornate, I was still in my teens when I read it and could not understand a big part of it (part of it sounded dark and scary). It can be a pleasing style, if one is into that.

And before that there was the folklore of the sea, created by fishermen and filled with strange possibilities.

There is the reference to the Leviathan myth, the sea monster, it is something that is more developed with the Anglo peoples. Piracy, sea monsters, all that stuff.

We can see clips of people diving with many of these whales on YouTube. Things beyond the imagination of Melville or the fishermen. And yet, despite all this new info, there still seems many strange rumors and mysteries.

I have no idea if Melville himself ever had any direct interaction with whaling, fishing or any physical labor. But the descriptions are extremely intricate, poetic. Of course, there are mysteries, the ocean is unexplored.

Thanks , that whole story has been buried pretty deep ,everyone has forgot about

There was something about it the other day that it could cause a major famine. What is going on with the world…

I was actually only going to post one video but in honor of Wokechoke I’m posting another.

He has accused me of Jewish subversion numerous times in the past but I guess he is fine with a man-toad homosexual Putin admirer who has been literally accused of man rape.

What fine company you find yourself in by signing up to defend a mass murdering dwarf and a NYC tax cheat who only switched from being a Democrat after deciding to run for president. Cheers.

Now tell yourself I must be a Jew because I thought this stupid 2.5 week operation would only lead to deaths of Orthodox men on both sides. You tell yourself I must be a sneaky Jew in the shadows. How many high level Jews in the West have had even a hangnail from this war ? A big fat zero? But I’m the Jew for saying it was all a dumb idea. Oh and Putin’s Jewish propagandist was in the news again. The one that Anglin and the other pro-Putin White nationalists never mention just as they don’t mention his close ties to Israel. Funny that.

Idiot.

Thanks , that whole story has been buried pretty deep ,everyone has forgot about Sudan.

That’s not the only story Western media buried deep. There are several wars going on in Myanmar (Burma for the older readers) that are ignored.

It is the usual pattern ever since “news” became pure propaganda. Remember gazillions of hospitals in Aleppo? Ever read about them after Syrian government kicked the bandits out of that city? Remember another Sudanese story, about Darfur? Used to be on the front lines every day. Never mentioned now. Remember a story about South Sudan? Things did not go as planned by the imperial meddlers, so it is not mentioned any more. Remember the covid thing? It was ~10% disease and 90% psyop. That’s the only reason Putin managed to cure the whole world of covid by starting SMO in Ukraine.

If you read the news in the US, everything domestic is “Trump”, everything international is “Putin”. So it goes…

The Ronald Hutton dragon presentation is pretty great. He hypothesizes that dragons came into being (in the 900’s to 1400’s) from Job and from dinosaur fossils. Also he has some theory that a lack of natural scary alpha predators in Europe caused the fabled dragons to grow in ferocity compared with their Chinese cousins. The Chinese didn’t have to embellish their dragons with ferocity because they had tigers roaming around their countryside to fill this niche.

Naked Capitalism covers Myanmar in the morning links at least twice a week.

I wonder if Burma will break up as a result of the current civil war there. Unlikely, but impossible?

Off-topic, but do you think that Biden should drop out of the 2024 race? I’m inclined to think so, as a precautionary measure, just so long as the candidate who replaces him is indeed likely to have a better shot of winning in 2024 than Biden himself does.

Note: I’m not saying that Biden is incapable of winning in 2024. I’m just saying that it’s likely too risky to gamble on this, especially given Biden’s relatively narrow margins of victory in crucial swing states in 2020.

Would be even funnier if Western conservatives began converting to Islam to “own the libs”. Some of them are already trying to do that right now, but by converting to Russian Orthodoxy instead lol.

Any chance that if Sudan will become destabilized enough then Darfur could successfully break away from Sudan just like South Sudan previously did?

I wonder if Gore and not Bush had won in 2000, Gore and Europe would have been willing to do a repeat of Kosovo 1999 (military intervention)/2008 (independence) with Darfur. What do you think? I know that the Darfur genocide was a big cause celebre for the left in the mid-2000s or so. But Bush never contemplated any kind of US or NATO military intervention there because his hands were already tied with Iraq and, to some extent, Afghanistan as well.

Darfur was actually its own sultanate until 1916, so it has a history of independence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultanate_of_Darfur

It lost its independence in 1916 because its sultan supported the Ottoman Empire during World War I. And even over a century later, Darfuris are still paying for their sultan’s mistake. Similar to just how long Algerians paid for their dey’s mistake in slapping the French ambassador back in 1827:

https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/how-a-fly-whisk-led-to-the-invasion-of-a-country-78114b406119

Darfur probably could break away if they had a little help.

Do you think that a US President Al Gore in 2001-2005/2009 would have provided Darfur with that kind of help, either with NATO or without NATO?

Honestly, it does seem like the Kosovo precedent would apply for Darfur as well given the extremely atrocious human rights violations that Darfuris have suffered at Sudanese hands. And it seems like the Woke left should be eager to help since it’s a bunch of black people who need it.

75 orcas reportedly took about 3 hours to kill a 16 meter blue (seems pretty close to the size of a normal bull sperm whale)

OOff-topic, but do you think that Biden should drop out of the 2024 race? I’m inclined to think so, as a precautionary measure, just so long as the candidate who replaces him is indeed likely to have a better shot of winning in 2024 than Biden himself does.

Absolutely. Both Trump and Biden would serve their parties by dropping out.

Biden has really regressed in the last year. Polls show that any moderate Democrat has a much better chance at beating Trump.

Unfortunately there is the possibility that Biden wants to win and hand off the presidency to Kamala. I view that as the worst case scenario and wouldn’t put it past him. He has major White guilt issues.

I’m just saying that it’s likely too risky to gamble on this, especially given Biden’s relatively narrow margins of victory in crucial swing states in 2020.

It’s indeed too risky if the goal is for the Democrats to beat Trump.

Trump’s best chance is against Biden. Independents in swing states only support Trump when forced between the two. Trump’s gains should really be described as Biden’s losses. No one is suddenly getting excited about Trump. He also polls much worse with White women than he did in the last election.

Would be even funnier if Western conservatives began converting to Islam to “own the libs”.

Would be like when Blacks convert to Islam to spite Whites. Sounds fine in theory until they try it.

Most would quit within a year after learning that they have to pray 5 times a day and can’t have pork or beer. Nation of Islam really screwed up by keeping the pork restriction.

Islam has pretty low voluntary conversion rates. Seems they do OK in prison where the restrictions are going to be less of an issue. A religion that does well in prison which says a lot.

Remember the covid thing? It was ~10% disease and 90% psyop. That’s the only reason Putin managed to cure the whole world of covid by starting SMO in Ukraine.

Well it shut down hospitals all over the world so it was not merely hype. I don’t remember the last time the flu season ended up with mass graves dug by tractors in first world countries.

COVID ended because of Omicron. It mutated into a less deadly form and by that time the original had killed off high risk individuals. We now know that certain gene sets make people vulnerable. It’s actually similar to Spanish Flu in that genetically vulnerable individuals have an overreaction. Then there are the high risk groups where their lifestyle is the problem. Obese libertarian smokers that don’t want the vaccine for example.

If you read the news in the US, everything domestic is “Trump”, everything international is “Putin”. So it goes…

So what? Putin launched a full scale war and is threatening nuclear destruction of the entire planet. Trump is running for president and is just a tad divisive. Of course they will be in the news a lot. An angry dwarf is threatening to blow up the planet and a real estate fraud is running for president and has felonies pending. Not a fan of the MSM but I would call that news.

TBF, there are ethical arguments against eating pork, or at least against eating a lot of pork. Pigs are fairly intelligent animals, after all. I’d argue that it would be desirable for US society to reduce its pork consumption by at least a factor of 1.3. That way, the suffering in it would be comparable to the suffering involved in chicken consumption.

I personally rarely eat pork nowadays. I don’t categorically avoid it, but it’s not something that I usually eat either. It’s much more of a rare treat.

Trump is self-centered and power-hungry and will thus never drop out. Also, a lot of his supporters are crazy for him. He’s literally their Orange Jesus. I suspect that they would pay a lot to have him go to the restroom in their houses because that’s just how much they love him. Once he will die, his gravesite at his presidential library will certainly become a pilgrimage shrine and an extremely holy place for them, the US version of Jerusalem.

Biden has really regressed in the last year. Polls show that any moderate Democrat has a much better chance at beating Trump.

Regressed in the polls, mentally, or both?

Unfortunately there is the possibility that Biden wants to win and hand off the presidency to Kamala. I view that as the worst case scenario and wouldn’t put it past him. He has major White guilt issues.

I think that he would only voluntarily resign if he wins a second term if he will truly become non-functional, which is still a long way away.

It’s indeed too risky if the goal is for the Democrats to beat Trump.

Trump’s best chance is against Biden. Independents in swing states only support Trump when forced between the two. Trump’s gains should really be described as Biden’s losses. No one is suddenly getting excited about Trump. He also polls much worse with White women than he did in the last election.

Do you think that Gavin Newsom would be a better candidate for the Democrats? What about Michelle Obama? I suspect that with her, Trump will try playing the Woke card like crazy and also make allusions to her relative stupidity* in comparison to her husband (she got into an elite US university due to both affirmative action and her elder brother being a sports star and she initially failed the bar exam and couldn’t make partner even after she passed it on her second try).

*Michelle’s IQ might be in the 110 range. Which is in the top 2% for blacks, but in the top 25% or so for whites. So, 1 out of every 4 white people is smarter than Michelle is, which is a lot of whites! Meanwhile, half-white Barack is a true intellectual superstar for an African-American. I’m serious.

I suspect that Gretchen Whitmer would be the best candidate for the Democrats in 2024. What do you think? I suspect that a lot of women will rally to her defense once Trump will inevitably try to fat-shame her. (She’s not even that fat, but she still is curvy.)

What odds would you place of a Myanmar breakup?

It’s also worth noting, however, that both Harris and Newsom perform worse against Trump in polling than Biden does:

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4470956-biden-trump-harris-newsom-poll/

So, it will likely need to be some new Democratic candidate other than either one of these two. And there would need to be reliable polling confirming that this new candidate is indeed polling stronger than Biden. I know that Whitmer does in Michigan, but what about in the other swing states?

Burns & Biden

Re: Three Below Linked Pieces

CIA Director William Burns just testified that the Kiev regime is in danger of losing to Russia if it doesn’t get the Biden Admin proposed aid.

This past July, Burns’ boss said that Russia already lost. Burns comes across as someone jockeying with the reality of an eventual Russian victory over neocon/neolib mischief making. In 2008, he cautiously said that trying to get Ukraine in NATO is a red line for Russia.

As the recently resigned Victoria Nuland noted, most of the proposed aid to the Kiev regime will actually go to the US military industrial complex. (Nuland has since landed a gig at Columbia University, which already has Hillary Clinton.) The false image that the Kiev regime can win with more aid serves as cover for a corrupt defense spending racket. This aid will not suddenly release a dramatic increase in arms. The weapons have to be produced and operated by experienced personnel. This situation takes time, which the Kiev regime doesn’t have too much of.

As previously noted with some additions:

The US outspends the next seven leading nations in defense spending combined. Five of the ten leading defense spenders are NATO members. The US outspends Russia and China by a combined three to one margin.

Yet Russia produces artillery shells and tanks at a much better rate than what the collective West can give to the corrupt, lying, undemocratic and neo-Nazi influenced Kiev regime, which has blood on its hands before and after 2/24/22. The NYT puts Russia at a seven to one advantage in artillery shell production over the entire collective West.

Kiev regime forces have been severely decimated with not enough in terms of new recruits, along with limited properly trained personnel. With considerably less losses and much more in reserve, Russia is poised for victory.

https://consortiumnews.com/2024/02/16/throwing-good-money-after-bad-in-ukraine/

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/us/politics/intelligence-officials-ukraine-aid.html

https://carnegieendowment.org/pdf/back-channel/2008EmailtoRice1.pdf

Curious how it was unable to dive to escape.

The orcas use a technique to hold the whale – from above, not to let it go up to get air, and from below that it doesn’t get to dive down, it’s amazing that they have the strength to do it against a much larger whale (they do this in a group). It is shown here starting at 2:25, it says here they can even flip it over:

Revelation’s “Third Temple” is obviously some kind of spaceship/space station of alien gods.

21:10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God

It seems it is designed to orbit together with Nibiru, as there is no day/night there (as is on Nibiru).

21:23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

21:25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.

And no human construct could fulfil the tree of life/water of life requirement.

22:1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

22:2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

Besides, there is some fake “Third Temple” already in Israel which is the Bahai Temple in Haifa, built on the Mount Carmel (!), where Jesus was transfigured. Pretty shocking that the central temple of Bahai was built in Israel. actually.

Revelation is not so difficult to understand – the main problem is with “the Beast” etc.,but is obviously some incarnation/avatar of Satan – but as Judeochristan document, it is very uncomfortable for Christians since it is not in tune with the rest of mainly Paulian New Testament. Moreover, it is very graphic and suggest catastrophes falling upon the entire planet of Earth, unlike any book of the Bible (except the Flood in Genesis).

It clearly says that only limited number of Jews and only Jews will be saved (144000) and there are many false Jews around (“those who call themselves Jews but are not”). This is very fatalistic. It is not a template for universal, catholic faith full of compassion etc.

Therefore highly allegoric interpretations were developed to cloud the fact that the judgmental God of the Old Testament will return and – judge. And even conversion to Judaism will not save you;)

Moreover, those 144000 are to be exclusively male, maybe even boys (“do not know women”), which would make sense from aliens POV as you would like humans without pre-conceived ideas about the world (eg. where aliens officially do not exist).
This is consistent with the patrilineality of biblical Judaism – but what message does it send to women…?
And women, especially widows who bequeathed their property to Church, were a sizeable pillar of the early Church.

As a consolation, because Talmudic Judaism has forsaken patrilineality for matrilineality and accepted many converts through ages (thus invalidating any current Jewish genealogy), as long as you are white heterosexual male you can have slight hope that maybe you are a real Jew…
Only Jahwe knows.

Israel to send secret weapon to Ukraine.

It’s called a Horowitzer 10cm gun. Designed by Portnoy & Rapoport. On firing it emits a high energy whine about its small barrel length and comparisons between Hitler & Putin, and how it is going to have its revenge on the Czar.

Btw, there is another somewhat strange piece of literature somewhat related to this, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe.

I’d not heard of that one before. Thanks. Poe was kind of cool in his way, though seems to have lived a hard life.

I’ve always liked The Tell-Tale Heart and The Fall of the House of Usher. As a kid I happened to see The Pit and the Pendelum starring Vincent Price, which I found to be particularly disturbing.

No doubt Poe would have seen that as a resounding success on his part! 😀

Would be even funnier if Western conservatives began converting to Islam to “own the libs”. Some of them are already trying to do that right now, but by converting to Russian Orthodoxy instead lol.

In the U.S. and Europe, SJW🏳️‍🌈Islam is a PoC racist construct of progressive Leftoids. Currently, the most known political voice of Islam in America is Ilhan Omar.

No one would “join the libs’ to “own the libs”.

PEACE 😇

It’s also worth noting, however, that both Harris and Newsom perform worse against Trump in polling than Biden does:

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4470956-biden-trump-harris-newsom-poll/

Both Haley and DeSantis were also doing worse than Trump in general election polling before they dropped out. Part of winning elections is activating base voters and getting them to turn out.
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The DNC is stuck in a trap of their own making. Even if they somehow convince the Veggie-In-Chief to stand down, that leaves them with Not-The-VP Harris. Passing over her for a white male patriarch, such as Newsom, would schism the party. Michelle Obama has stated multiple times that she will not run. What other PoC female can they find? AOC perhaps?

The smart play for the Democrats would have been running a competitive primary to replace Not-The-President Biden. However, the window on that closed months ago.

PEACE 😇

It is funny how killers eat all these endangered animals. Though I wonder if the fish ones would be healthier and have less chemicals in them.

If true, it disqualifies him from the presidency but with Trump, who knows what he will do.

Trump has been pushing a pro-Ukraine guy in the senate primary in Michigan, against Justin Amash.

https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/donald-trump-endorses-mike-rogers-in-michigan-us-senate-race/

Overall Trump is too much of a risk, despite voting for him in 2020 I’ll likely be voting for Biden. Trump is likely to be just as ineffective on domestic issues as he was last time, plus is very risky on foreign policy. But I won’t be completely surprised if he ends up disappointing Putin’s bootlickers.

Mike Rogers:

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/3916018-the-republican-party-of-reagan-would-be-ukraines-strongest-supporters/

Unlike blue whales, sperm whales have teeth and they can ram whatever is in the water, so they would probably kill an orca or three in such a fight. Blue whales would be hard to kill due to their sheer size but they seem to otherwise be more harmless.

I read that the extinct Stellar sea cows were immune to orca attack (as adults) because they were so buoyant that the orcas couldn’t submerge them, and so huge that they were impervious to other attacks. So despite being slow and dumb they lives easy lives with no predators. Sadly, they were slow and helpless against human harpoons.

With Biden we’re back to this:

“Our My Lai, the Massacre at Highland Creek (1973),” by William Kurelek the Canadian Norman Rockwell and considered by many to be Canada’s greatest artist of the 20th century.

Was the local hospital crematorium trying to save fuel during the 1973 oil crisis or that all was just figment of artistic imagination in a painting form?

One recent estimate of the number of sperm whales in the Med was 1,842, which is actually way, way higher than I thought.

I don’t think that saving costs on fuel was paramount in the minds of the pro-choice hospital administrators, rather a secular disregard for the sanctity of life. For a few years, I know that aborted fetuses were being used to promote stem cell and new vaccine medical research. I understand that that’s no longer necessary, so it looks like we’re headed back to 1973?

Of course the painting is hyperbolic, in real life aborted fetuses are thrown into incinerators, kind of like human corpses were disposed of in Auschwitz, so that squeamish people (like you?) need not be confronted with the reality of the situation. .

Forgot previously to mention about the question not being very sarcastic btw, cause cases of criminal neglect regarding sanitation standards in the past could be more frequent – remembered reading somewhere about noncremated medical operational leftovers being discovered in trash heap sites or in old abandoned hospitals.

Trump is self-centered and power-hungry and will thus never drop out. Also, a lot of his supporters are crazy for him. He’s literally their Orange Jesus.

Completely agree but a judge could ban him from Federal employment. It would in fact be expected if any other Federal employee had this many felonies over classified documents.

Regressed in the polls, mentally, or both?

I meant mentally but he is down in the polls with independents from a year ago.

I think that he would only voluntarily resign if he wins a second term if he will truly become non-functional, which is still a long way away.

I’m not saying I think it will happen. I am just saying the possibility exists that he is running a White guilt move. This is the same White guilter that claimed a Black man invented the light bulb in a speech.

Do you think that Gavin Newsom would be a better candidate for the Democrats?

The long running rumor is that there is too much dirt on him and the California Republicans didn’t dig hard enough when he ran for governor. I don’t like the guy but he would be better than Biden. However that rumor had been around a while and his answers regarding the presidency have been evasive. He is an ego maniac and the fact that he is hesitant to run means the rumor is most likely true.

What about Michelle Obama?

Terrible candidate. She is not analogous to Hillary Clinton. Might as well elect Martha Stewart. Michelle has zero political experience.

I suspect that Gretchen Whitmer would be the best candidate for the Democrats in 2024. What do you think? I suspect that a lot of women will rally to her defense once Trump will inevitably try to fat-shame her.

Not a bad candidate but I think the outsider Democrat business executive would be the better play.

Blue whales would be hard to kill due to their sheer size but they seem to otherwise be more harmless.

A tail that breaches and comes back down (“the hand of God”) could probably be deadly, but it might be very hard to employ, as biosonar creates a more forward field of view. And the orcas swarm which impedes maneuverability.

Both Haley and DeSantis were also doing worse than Trump in general election polling before they dropped out.

That’s not true.

Haley does better against Biden in a proposed match up.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/09/haley-electability-trump-biden-polls-00130926

Just about anyone takes more independents than Trump.

Republican primary voters are once again not looking at the data and have goo-goo eyes for Trump. They want Trump to win more than they want to do what is best for the country. It is more of a second coming situation where they think he will come back for his reign of glory. Watch some of the interviews on youtube where they ask Trump voters about his pending felonies. They are completely clueless and think it is all a conspiracy. They don’t know how bad their orange TV reality star screwed up.

The DNC is stuck in a trap of their own making. Even if they somehow convince the Veggie-In-Chief to stand down, that leaves them with Not-The-VP Harris. Passing over her for a white male patriarch, such as Newsom, would schism the party.

Both the DNC and Harris know that Harris is in over her head.

She is not a random AA hire that can hack it with some scripts.

It’s entirely possible for Biden to drop and take Harris with her. She may even want to leave. Harris avoids interviews and any sort of responsibility. She was a media White guilt pick and everyone knows it. The DNC would prefer Newsom over a slightly colored Woman that completely embarrasses herself in every interview. They obviously support Affirmative Action but not when it makes a daily joke of it. Obama had a White speech writer and would still flub a bit when off script but the cameras could hide it. Harris would be a media nightmare. There is no amount of spin that could hide it all. Just watch her French accent video. It would be cringe for four years.

Do you think that a US President Al Gore in 2001-2005/2009 would have provided Darfur with that kind of help, either with NATO or without NATO?

I’m not sure. I guess I’d call it a coin toss.

It’s also worth noting, however, that both Harris and Newsom perform worse against Trump in polling than Biden does
..
So, it will likely need to be some new Democratic candidate other than either one of these two.

I don’t think either are good candidates. Voters probably remember Newsom from COVID. The rejection of Harris is honestly good news. It shows how many Democrats know that she is worthless even if she hits the gender and race boxes.

And there would need to be reliable polling confirming that this new candidate is indeed polling stronger than Biden. I know that Whitmer does in Michigan, but what about in the other swing states?

I honestly wouldn’t spend that much time on it.

Biden would have to announce a plan to retire first.

We could get a situation where Democrat primary electors make the decision on their own. Meaning it happens late enough to where they pledge their votes without regard to what their state wants. I also don’t know what kind of contingency plan exists.

As I said before we won’t know the final candidates until around September. In fact it is possible for both Biden and Trump to drop. Biden quits and Trump gets barred from office or quits after getting a prison sentence.

…It’s entirely possible for Biden to drop and take Harris with her.

Then what? You need to anticipate. If a plain-vanilla Dem is thrown in to stop Trump it will be a disaster. It is not 1950’s or 1990’s when you can manage US – or the world – with a random face with no deep political support. Everyone is at each others throat, the issues have accumulated and the Gordian knots have to be cut through.

Biden has been a disaster. Any new keep-it-the-same Dem would be worse – maybe not demented, but that is decorative. The border situation, wars, barrista economy, un-payable debts, out-of-control identity groups, it is no longer manageable and needs to be addressed. That means winners and losers, a milky-toast non-entity will not do it.

Trump may address it the way you don’t like, but at least he would put some of it behind – it would be a huge relief. Biden-light will keep it simmering until it gets so bad that it is not fixable. Or do you want 500 million people country with increasingly fake money, losing wars all around the world, everyone hating each other internally and no material economy? That’s the way Rome looked towards the end.

Trump would pick up a lot of neocon votes if he promised to nominate Haley as his secretary for war.

The beauty of it is that position hasn’t existed since 1947.

Both Haley and DeSantis were also doing worse than Trump in general election polling before they dropped out.

That’s not true. Haley does better against Biden in a proposed match up.

You are lying. Cherry picking a single outlier poll is a form of deception.

RealClearPolitics provides an aggregate “poll of polls” to limit outlier impact. Trump was routinely ahead of Haley. For example: (1)

+3.9 / Trump
+1.2 / Haley
 TIE / DeSantis

You need to admit that you are a full on NeoConDemocrat. Pretending to be MAGA is an obvious fail on your part.

#LetsGoBrandon 😇
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Archive from 30-JAN-2024

with a random face with no deep political support.

Few US presidents in recent decades had popular support and exercised power (or at least tried to) they are supposed to have according to the constitution: Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan, Trump. Kennedy was assassinated. Nixon resigned under the threat of being impeached. Trump was hysterically attacked by the MSM and cheated out of electoral victory in 2020.

That’s the way Rome looked towards the end.

The power of all dominant empires eventually fades. However, the death throes of dying empires are becoming more and more destructive. We’d be lucky if we survive the death of the US empire. Otherwise, human history will be set back 10-15 thousand years: some backward people in remote areas will survive and eventually repopulate the Earth.

If a plain-vanilla Dem is thrown in to stop Trump it will be a disaster. It is not 1950’s or 1990’s when you can manage US – or the world – with a random face with no deep political support. Everyone is at each others throat, the issues have accumulated and the Gordian knots have to be cut through.

I agree.

The Democrats are a fragile collection of special interest groups tacked together on the basis of future promises. One such implicit commitment was running Kamala for President after the Veggie-In-Chief. Perhaps they could slip in another female PoC, but no name immediately springs to mind.

Will DNC leadership actively snub women, minorities, or both?

It seems unlikely they would be that foolish. Such an obvious & divisive error would impact down ballot. They now have the “least bad” option of continuing to prop up Mister Shambles. He will lose to Trump, but it keeps DNC candidates potentially in play for other races.

PEACE 😇

It clearly says . . .

Clearly you want to open this can of worms. Better luck winning a debate on Palestine and Israel at the United Nations.

These guys have written a couple of thousand books so far. And they are still going at it like the Energizer Bunny. Do they have the Energizer Bunny on Polish television?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preterism

IMO, probably a hybrid.

…We’d be lucky if we survive the death of the US empire. Otherwise, human history will be set back 10-15 thousand years

I agree, this is getting serious. I suspect if the worst happens it would not be comprehensive and large parts of Africa, Latin America and Asia would survive. But the earth would be hell, these liberal fanatics would really do a climate change on mankind.

Most leaders are redundant, they serve no purpose, pursue no policies of their own, they are there just because someone has to be upfront. But in times like these a real leader who can change things and also stop the worst from happening is extremely important. In the West the closest to that is Trump. In Russia they have a rational although not very decisive leader in Putin. The odds of a nuke exchange with the two are less – they are both normal. Biden is not.

With a newbie weakling in US it would be a toss-up, but likely things would escalate and get worse. If Putin is gone it could be a two-way catastrophe. This is serious…maybe moving to Bariloche is not such a bad idea, the bad-toupée-weirdo could make it livable. But probably not, he is a fake.

Most leaders are redundant, they serve no purpose, pursue no policies of their own, they are there just because someone has to be upfront. But in times like these a real leader who can change things and also stop the worst from happening is extremely important. In the West the closest to that is Trump. In Russia they have a rational although not very decisive leader in Putin. The odds of a nuke exchange with the two are less – they are both normal. Biden is not.

Unfortunately, the political landscape in the US is so bad that even Trump looks good. He is not particularly bright, but at least he is sane and does not suffer from Alzheimer’s.

On the anti-imperial side Putin is not the only sane leader with significant resources. Xi is another one. Some remote rural areas in both Russia and China will only suffer from nuclear fallout and dramatic climate change triggered by the global nuclear war. Some humans will likely survive in those areas, in addition to parts of Africa, South America (e.g., Amazonia), Papua, and similar parts of the Earth. If the RF/China humans dominate, the history will be set back less than 1,000 years. Otherwise the setback will be greater.

Thanks.

BTW, do you foresee Burma ever breaking up into numerous independent countries?

but no name immediately springs to mind.

Val Demings? Or is she too authentically black for normie white Americans?

But wouldn’t the media quickly point this out, this getting them to ask Trump the question of whether he will try to bring back this position?

Clearly

7:4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

” hundred and forty and four thousand”
Clearly?
Clearly.

There are more unclear texts than Revelation. More relevant is asking why we want to claim that Revelation is so awfully unclear..?

Do they have the Energizer Bunny on Polish television?

No, but we have famous “his name is 44(czterdzieści i cztery)” in the quasi-apocalyptic text in Adam Mickiewicz drama “Dziady”:

Nad ludy i nad króle podniesiony;
Na trzech stoi koronach, a sam bez korony;
A życie jego – trud trudów,
A tytuł jego – lud ludów;
Z matki obcej, krew jego dawne bohatery,
A imię jego czterdzieści i cztery.

“Above peoples and kings elevated
Upon three crowns yet without a crown stands He
His life – toil of toils
His title – people of peoples
Of foreign mother, his blood of ancient heroes
His name – 44.”

As for Preterism, let us remember Olivet Discourse…

Matthew 24

23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.

24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

25 Behold, I have told you before.

26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.

Val Demings? Or is she too authentically black for normie white Americans?

In the South she is known for losing badly to Marco Rubio. Would she have name recognition anywhere else? It is not impossible, but she is likely too obscure for a late substitute. If the DNC wants to switch, they need to pick someone with national name recognition.

Another issue…. Isn’t she the police chief who put lots of blacks in prison? I seem to recall BLM outrage about her. She might be demotivating to the extremist DNC base. I think this was one of the reasons why she was bypassed as a potential VP pick.

PEACE 😇

I’d not heard of that one before.

This one is not the most typical of his work, in terms of its form (he mostly has short stories and poems, but this one is his only finished novel and it is a kind of a travelogue with a lot of geographic detail). But there are a few flashes of his typical style in it as well (some horror, haunting scenes, the apparition in the end).

I am interested in this 44 character.

This is the first E. B. but his tag line endlessly repeated is not in it.

He keeps going and going and going

It is funny how killers eat all these endangered animals.

Yes, it’s pretty crazy, it’s like a Porsche totaling a Lamborghini. From today’s perspective, you feel it as a loss, but it must have been intended so in the Nature, although there are changes in their habitat, so who knows what is natural and right and what isn’t. Apparently, there used to be pre-historic orcas as well, or some kind of an orca ancestor. And they may have fought with ancient whales. Orcas are a sacred animal.

Did you know that IMF experts are Putin’s agents? IMF predicted 0.9% economic growth in Europe that introduced sanctions against Russia and 2.6% growth in Russia targeted by those sanctions.

The empire is working miracles. Joint Navy drills of Russia, China, and Iran are conducted again. Who could have imagined that just 20 years ago?

Justin Amash was a big critic of Trump and left the GOP several years ago:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/7/5/20683110/justin-amash-leaves-gop-donald-trump-michigan

He also voted to impeach Trump in 2019:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/31/politics/amash-vote-yes-impeachment-resolution/index.html

I suspect that these are much bigger factors in Trump’s decision to support Mike Rogers for Michigan’s US Senate seat than any views that Amash has on Ukraine (which I doubt that Trump cares too much about).

BTW, off-topic, but I wonder why Trump supported Mehmet Oz over David McCormick for Pennsylvania’s US Senate seat in 2022? Was it because Trump felt more connected to Oz due to them both being celebrities? Was it an attempt to portray the GOP as a big-tent party due to Oz being Muslim (indeed, the first Muslim candidate ever nominated for the US Senate by either major US political party)?

Does it strike you that Edgar Allan Poe could have had some mental/psychological imbalances that contributed to his works being so scary? (I read some of his works back in middle school, almost 20 years ago, if I remember correctly.) Though I suppose that it makes sense for people with mental/psychological problems to become great writers. There’s even a term for this for poets specifically:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Plath_effect

BTW, I have made an additional comment/response to you at the very end of the previous open thread (Open Thread 243). I hope that you would be willing to respond to it (obviously over there, not over here).

What about the current Illinois Governor? Or even the current New York Governor?

At the end of the Empire or the end of the Republic? Or indeed at the beginning of the republic when the Samnites knocked them around something silly? If at the end of the Empire, the one in the West or the East?

BTW, do you foresee Burma ever breaking up into numerous independent countries?

It might. Just guessing, I’d give it a 30% chance of happening within the next 30 years.

Thanks!

It’s interesting: Some multiethnic countries, such as Iraq and Nigeria, survived attempts to break them up while others, such as Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Pakistan (in 1971) did not.

Any chance that you could see a similar outcome for Afghanistan sometime down the future?

52? Huh, I thought 42 was the answer every discerning whale would know.

I thought 42 was the answer every discerning whale would know.

Not every whale read Douglas Adams.

Some preparation for another showdown or just usual diplomatic nothingburger?

Wenbin stated that India does not possess the authority to unilaterally develop the region of Zangnan in China, which China identifies as Arunachal Pradesh.

“The actions taken by India only serve to complicate the boundary issue. China strongly expresses its dissatisfaction with and firm opposition to the leader’s visit to the eastern section of the China-India boundary,” the Chinese official further stated.

China has repeatedly objected to visits by Indian politicians to Arunachal Pradesh. However, India maintains that the state is an integral part of the country, and using “invented” names will not change this reality.

On March 9, PM Modi inaugurated the Sela tunnel, which is the world’s longest two-lane tunnel, connecting Tezpur in Assam to Tawang in Arunachal. Constructed for Rs 825 crore, the tunnel stands at an altitude of 13,000 feet.

The tunnel is set to offer year-round connectivity to Tawang, which borders China to the north, and is anticipated to enhance the transportation of troops and equipment to forward positions along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China.

Additionally, the tunnel will cut travel time from Tezpur to Tawang by more than an hour.

https://www.opindia.com/2024/03/china-rattled-with-pm-modi-visit-to-arunachal-pradesh-lodges-a-diplomatic-protest/

Drone kills 2 Russian regulars that were caught buttf-cking
https://funker530.com/video/nsfw-russians-literally-caught-with-their-pants-down-by-bomb-drones/

Good thing the Russians are saving Ukrainians from Western degeneracy by killing them.

Russians caught buttf-cking before trying to kill their fellow Slavs.

This 2.5 week special operation is doing wonders for Russia’s image.

First Russian troops were on video stealing washing machines and now they were buttf-cking before the dwarf reaper ends their under-tank pleasure palace.

Did you figure out how this war will stick it to the Jews that you hate so much? Two years later and you still don’t have an explanation. Putin’s Jewish propagandist makes weekly demands to attack Britain and yet you still want to believe this stupid war somehow sticks it to the Jews or that Ukraine is the Jewish side.

…It’s entirely possible for Biden to drop and take Harris with her.

Then what? You need to anticipate. If a plain-vanilla Dem is thrown in to stop Trump it will be a disaster.

I don’t have to anticipate anything. I’m not a Democrat and am merely stating what is possible.

Polls show that a plain-vanilla Dem would in fact be a disaster for Trump. His best chance with independents is to face Biden. Independents want new candidates. The primary voters may love Trump but that was expected. Democrat primary voters also loved Hillary. In both cases there is a denial of how the electoral college works and how independent voters decide swing states.

Trump may address it the way you don’t like, but at least he would put some of it behind – it would be a huge relief.

I’m not convinced that Trump cares about the border.

He botched it in his first run and he recently blew up the border deal.

I am beginning to wonder if he is another Republican that talks about locking down the border but then behind closed doors is told that it needs to be open for the NYSE. Let’s not forget that he owns hotels that employ illegals.

He would be better than Biden on the border but that is a low bar. But I am not convinced he would be better than Haley or similar. He let Bannon scam his own followers over the border. Or are we to believe he didn’t know about it? I really doubt that.

What we really need is a populist who doesn’t have hundreds of millions invested in an economic system that prioritizes the profit from using illegals over the country.

BTW, LatW, I have a question for you: Do you ever see the European Union or something very similar to it being created without one or both World Wars?

Ukies tried again to enter Belgorod and Kursk regions, using heavy armor this time. Overall, Ukies lost more than 100 personnel, five tanks, three Bradleys, and other things, while failing to enter the RF territory. Yet Ukie (or their master’s) propaganda prepared a number of fake videos of their successes. The most interesting thing is that quite a few Western media outlets swallowed those fakes line, hook, and sinker, publishing them as if these were true. You don’t need to fool those who fool themselves.

What about the current Illinois Governor?

Who is that?

I believe he is the wrong gender, wrong pigment, and has near zero national name recognition.

Or even the current New York Governor?

Hochul is the wrong pigment. And, she is nationally known for mishandling the Sanctuary State issue. There is no reason to believe that she would outperform the Veggie-In-Chief.

PEACE 😇

…What we really need is a populist who doesn’t have hundreds of millions invested in an economic system that prioritizes the profit from using illegals over the country.

I agree, but there isn’t one. Trump is the closest thing. Yes he didn’t do much about the border, but I don’t think he made it worse. Biden or any Biden-light make it much worse…you are heading to 500 million people at this rate, and they are not the kind that can run the world.

It is the same coalition as in Europe: crazy liberals and businesses that want plentiful, cheap and compliant workers – and more customers. It is a downward spiral, and Trump is a part of it. Maybe the better part, but he also won’t solve it – only slow down the collapse.

So-called independents change their mind and usually swing towards who they think will win. People vote for people who they can’t stand all the time.

They need something to cover up that Kiev (and thus Nato) is losing the war. I would like to know how they convinced the Ukie soldiers to go and die for a one-day media fake news story. They are either holding a gun to them from the back or the Ukies are really not that smart. Possibly they didn’t tell them where they are going…back to stupidity.

Who is that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._Pritzker

I believe he is the wrong gender, wrong pigment, and has near zero national name recognition.

He’s Jewish and has a lot of his own money, though. Would that work in his favor?

Hochul is the wrong pigment. And, she is nationally known for mishandling the Sanctuary State issue. There is no reason to believe that she would outperform the Veggie-In-Chief.

Thanks!

What about Joe Manchin? Too unpopular with the Democratic base?

He’s Jewish and has a lot of his own money, though. Would that work in his favor?

The Democrats are committed to SJW🏳️‍🌈Islam. Being Jewish is an instant disqualifier. Far, far, far too White.

What about Joe Manchin? Too unpopular with the Democratic base?

Wrong pigment. Wrong gender. And VERY unpopular with the progressive wing.

He was courted by No Labels, but did not want to attempt the 3rd party route.

PEACE 😇

An angry dwarf is threatening to blow up the planet

Gee, such a power, I sense some fear in your exaggeration – first thing is you grab some diapers.

What percentage of doctors would you say typically wear those rainbow lanyards? Every time I see doctors locally am suprised how many seem to be wearing them.

Is it a choice? Or do they hand them out and say “Here are you new, gay credentials.”

It seems to me something really curious. If I were running a medical establishment, even if I were gay, I’d be like “These are a problem, since they could create factions and favoritism.”. But for whatever reason that doesn’t seem to happen. I wonder what explains it – the fact that it is so tied to education, which makes subversion easier. Or that they make a lot of money off gays, or gays appear in the system a lot with gay problems, leading to more gay pressure.

you are heading to 500 million people at this rate, and they are not the kind that can run the world.

We are also getting sizable numbers of Chinese and Indians, often from those countries’ middle classes.

It is the same coalition as in Europe: crazy liberals and businesses that want plentiful, cheap and compliant workers – and more customers. It is a downward spiral, and Trump is a part of it. Maybe the better part, but he also won’t solve it – only slow down the collapse.

Europe’s main problem is the lack of selectivity with its Muslim immigrants:

https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2024/02/fiscal-impact-of-immigrants-by-country-of-origin/

Murdering people over Islamophobic speech and supporting blasphemy laws are just a “bonus”!

Strong candidate for the inclusion in your list is the EU, how long the European taxpayers will support the 50 thou Brussels partying bureaucrats.

So long and thanks for all the fish!

That’s a Hebrew pun though. The Brits.

The EU allows Europeans to be a part of a half-billion-strong confederation. That’s nothing to scoff at! If EU bureaucrats misbehave, couldn’t they simply get fired and replaced with new, better ones?

The Russian war in Ukraine saw an increase in support for the EU across the EU.

I wonder why there wouldn’t be a statue to him in Boston long ago.

Well, I would say he’s been a popular figure here for a while, but there has been an evolution in the culture.

Back then, it would have been seen as improper for Boston to claim him as a native son. He was born there, but his connection to Boston is mostly tenuous. He did not write his famous stories there and his family didn’t come from there. (His mother English and his father was from Baltimore). Nor did he grow up there. He was seen as Baltimore’s and not Boston’s. (And Boston did have its own famous writers.)

Since then, people are claiming more and more tenuous connections, hence the statue. Which however is much cooler than many others.

BTW, it is interesting how his father was an actor and he married his 13 y.o. cousin. I wonder if he was descended from a Cromwellian soldier in Ireland.

Another good reason to support MAGA: (1)

Donald Trump has vowed to release individuals imprisoned over the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol if he wins the 2024 election in November

President Trump made the comments in a statement on Truth Social on March 11, noting that it would be among one of his first acts upon taking office in the White House.

The Republican said shutting down the U.S.-Mexico border and increasing oil drilling as part of efforts to make America more energy independent would also be among his first actions as president.

“My first acts as your next President will be to Close the Border, DRILL, BABY, DRILL, and Free the January 6 Hostages being wrongfully imprisoned!” President Trump said.

President Trump said during a rally in Texas in 2022 that he would consider pardoning those convicted of their involvement in the Jan. 6 breach, noting that his administration would treat them “fairly.”

“If it requires pardons, we will give them pardons, because they are being treated so unfairly,” he said at the time.

Last year, President Trump told a town hall hosted by CNN at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire that he was inclined to pardon a “large portion” of those charged with crimes relating to the breach.

J6 Reparations has a nice ring to it. How much federal money should go to compensating those kidnapped by Not-The-President Biden’s illegitimate regime?

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…What we really need is a populist who doesn’t have hundreds of millions invested in an economic system that prioritizes the profit from using illegals over the country.

I agree, but there isn’t one. Trump is the closest thing. Yes he didn’t do much about the border, but I don’t think he made it worse. Biden or any Biden-light make it much worse…you are heading to 500 million people at this rate, and they are not the kind that can run the world.

Not making it worse is a pretty low bar given that he campaigned on fixing the border. He let Bannon rip off his own followers which is despicable. Schumer gave Trump a very generous offer on the border and he turned it down. I see no reason to believe that Trump cares about the border. He certainly cares about it as a campaign issue but his actions suggest that he is a cheap labor supporter. Hotels in the US are notorious for illegal labor. One of the worst industries in fact. In tourist areas the hotels are empty part of the year so they like to rid themselves of their maids. His hotels would certainly lose money if he had to hire Americans.

He reminds me of Texas Republicans. For years they complained about the border and then would look the other way when in office. They are doing something now but only because they are completely swamped.

Biden or any Biden-light make it much worse…you are heading to 500 million people at this rate

I don’t want Biden and I’ll reserve judgement for any potential replacement. I would rather have Haley who supported the border compromise that Trump blew up. I do think an establishment Republican would be better on the border than Trump. I just got an ad where Trump asked me for money in a video. He said “times are tough” which speaks volumes. The guy is a billionaire and is asking for money. That shows he is completely shameless. Most of his followers are not wealthy and he is hitting them up for money like a broke uncle. I don’t trust him to act in the best interest of the US. He could start by using his own damn money instead of asking rural Whites to fund his campaign. It came out that the is using their money to pay his legal bills and they don’t care. Or I guess they watch Fox News and that is never mentioned.

So-called independents change their mind and usually swing towards who they think will win. People vote for people who they can’t stand all the time.

Yea there is certainly a popularity factor in every election. But polls have been clear that independents want new candidates. Trump has only slightly gained with independents because they don’t think Biden is mentally capable. The bigger problem I see is that Trump does poorly with White women and they aren’t budging. In a recent poll he had actually gained with Black and Hispanic men. College educated White women hate him and that matches what I have seen anecdotally. I don’t think he can charm them over at this point.

An angry dwarf is threatening to blow up the planet

Gee, such a power, I sense some fear in your exaggeration – first thing is you grab some diapers.

Oh ok I’ll make it accurate for you:
An angry 5’1 dictator is threatening to blow up the planet.

Yea that really changes everything. Much less of a threat when you take out the word dwarf.

We call him a dwarf in part because it is illegal in Russia. You can’t call him a dwarf or depict him as a crab. It’s also illegal to refer to him as little zatches. I’m not familiar with the reference but it has something to do with an ugly baby from a German folk tale.

Since then, people are claiming more and more tenuous connections, hence the statue. Which however is much cooler than many others.

Well, even if it’s somewhat tenuous, he is big enough to have statues nationwide. But I see how someone might want to be conservative about it. It looks great! It is a little unconventional looking so maybe they’ll leave it alone 20 years from now? The raven is just amazing. He’s walking down the street. It may have been nicer to put it in a more secluded place, in a park, surrounded by big trees. A bit more sombre atmosphere.

BTW, it is interesting how his father was an actor and he married his 13 y.o. cousin

Yes, but they put her age as 21 on the marriage certificate. And they had an ok marriage afaik. He was quite young, too.

I wonder if he was descended from a Cromwellian soldier in Ireland.

It shows that he’s Irish (they are verbally astute – or rather, have a literary gift). He was in the military for a while.

I agree, this is getting serious. I suspect if the worst happens it would not be comprehensive and large parts of Africa, Latin America and Asia would survive.

Yes, it’s getting serious. Which makes me wonder why you dismissed Macron’s threats in the other thread. I think he most likely means what he said, why wouldn’t he? These people, especially in Europe, are still full of hubris. Here in the US there has been some contrition for all the foreign misadventures of the past decades but I don’t see the Macron types having any regrets about Libya, Afghanistan (where they were planning to stay indefinitely when Biden pulled the plug) and all the rest. Now it’s Russia’s turn to receive a lesson.

The other problem with politicians is that they become hostages of their own words. Perhaps he was just sour about that missile in Kharkiv that allegedly killed dozens of French volunteers (?). But once they run their mouths, they’d rather start a war than lose face and take back what they said. It’s happened all throughout history.

Regardless of Macron’s utterances, the situation is objectively serious. Some months ago if you read between the lines in all the major newspapers, it looked like people were getting ready for negotiations but somebody, once again, seems to have called them off. The biggest problem is the huge conventional military imbalance between NATO and Russia. We’ve been watching Russia struggle against Ukraine for 2 years and there’s little question that if NATO decides that they cannot let Ukraine lose and put in motion their troops, air power and navy in full force it’s going to be a rout. Russia has nothing but their nukes to contain such a threat.

Of course, if Macron, the Balts, et al get their way there’s always a possibility that Putin may decide that he doesn’t care all that much about Crimea and Donbas and lose face rather than start Armageddon. That must be their calculation. But where is the guarantee that he won’t decide that he has no future after such a defeat and will not prefer to take us all with him rather than face Saddam’s fate? Would Saddam have ended in the gallows if he had had thousands of nuclear weapons?

We’re in totally uncharted territory. The Cuban crisis lasted a few weeks, one of the parties de-escalated and there were ongoing negotiations. We’ve been at this for 2 years now and there is no end in sight. Nobody’s blinking and there are plenty of people who actually want to escalate.

Taking a bit of a distance to look at the events the insanity is almost comical. If Putin really was planning to send his divisions to the English Channel or if he was trying to impose the Marxist-Putinist system all around the world, we might perhaps discuss if it was worth it risking nuclear annihilation to prevent those goals. But what are we discussing the risk of nuclear war for? To make sure that we can expand NATO eastwards a little more and that the administrative borders of the Soviet Union drawn by communist dictators remain in place, even if the people actually living inside those borders don’t like them? What a comically stupid way of ending centuries of civilization.

or the Ukies are really not that smart.

Smarter Ukies have run away already, some to Russia, some to Europe. I am glad that the sons of both my cousins fall into this category. Half-smart Ukies either hide from the draft in various ways or give bribes to the right people to avoid being drafted. Ukies that end up in their army are the dumbest of the dumb. Russia is actually culling the dumbest, thereby increasing average intelligence of whatever population remains in Ukraine.

An old saying says that history repeats first as tragedy then as comedy. If WW2 was the tragedy, we are due for a comedic relief…ending the civilization over who manages the street cleaning in Donetsk is beyond comical.

That’s why both sides busily make it into more: “Russia wants to implement dictatorship in Europe, occupy everything” (how would they do it? they have no soldiers) and “it is an existential struggle for Russia”. I give more credence to the Russian side that it is about their very existence.

Macron talks wildly but not without supervision. His escalation is a boo-boo to show Russia that the West could go nuts – an old principle to play a madman (Nixon was proud of it.)

he doesn’t care all that much about Crimea and Donbas and lose face rather than start Armageddon.

That would apply to both sides. But there is zero chance that Russia would let Crimea go – they will go nuclear if it comes to that. It is like losing Florida for US – the final red line.

the huge conventional military imbalance between NATO and Russia…if NATO decides that they cannot let Ukraine lose and put in motion their troops, air power and navy in full force it’s going to be a rout. Russia has nothing but their nukes to contain such a threat.

That’s not true – Nato would not win in a conventional conflict, they don’t have the soldiers and the soldiers are not willing to die. The Russian-Ukraine conflict is between two strongest parts of the old Soviet Union, the two toughest armies there are. Nato has nothing like that, maybe Turkey but they wouldn’t do it.

If there is a war, most of Europe would be attacked by missiles: cities, infrastructure, bases – it is not protectable. Even before nukes this could be an absolute catastrophe. But I agree with you that in the last few months we have moved back into escalation. This is incredibly serious.

the soldiers are not willing to die

The Ukrainians have plenty of manpower and NATO is a huge coalition. They’d find more than enough men between both of them.

If there is a war, most of Europe would be attacked by missiles: cities, infrastructure, bases

Standoff weapons have shown to have limited value in a major war like this. It’s still about conquering territory, trench by trench, village by village. Russian missiles falling on Western European cities would surely weaken the resolve of the population, who barely know or care about what’s going on, but by that point it would quickly escalate to nukes. Russia has no other way of stopping a NATO retaliation and they’ve actually said as much. I think it was Putin himself who acknowledged the force disparity.

In the midst of this madness, the only positive thing I see is that now that the Haley witch is out, no one likely to become US president is going to join Macron and (officially) send US troops to Ukraine to fight the Russians. But the Europeans could escalate to a point of no return by themselves. I remember the fear of nuclear war in the 80s perfectly well, when hundreds of thousands would demonstrate against the Pershing missiles. That fear is totally gone, no one cares anymore.

It shows that he’s Irish

Would guess that his family probably did not admix much, but who knows for sure? Likely untestable.

or rather, have a literary gift).

Ireland’s most famous writers were almost all Prots. (And not very Irish for the most part, Joyce being the exception.)

I myself would put it down to class. The natives were just about entirely dispossessed of their land by Swift’s time. One of Ireland’s most famous writers was actually the landlord of a branch of my family.

I myself enjoyed the books written by the Aran Islanders, but they’d probably be a niche interest for most people. Of course, there are many American writers who had some Irish descent, but I would rather not be associated with Flannery O’Connor. I feel like I might like Margaret Mitchell, as I have heard a reactionary praise her, but I have never read her. And,of course, there are many others. (Ex: the neocon Tom Clancy)

It’s a typically Jewish way to decide the fate of Europe though. Very comical lol hah hehehe. Motherfucker.

It’s funny how these oddballs from the East say so and so was Irish or whatever.

Poe is very English name. Especially following Edgar.

Edgar Allan Poe was a great writer and also a despicable drunk of a man who died at age 40. You have to drink an enormous amount of booze to kill yourself that fast. I knew one guy who did it by 52 and that looked like it was near to a full time job.

In the pharmako poeia trilogy by Dale Pendell, which is a phenomenal set of books, he has a list of alcoholic professional writers. It is a very long list.

J6 Reparations has a nice ring to it. How much federal money should go to compensating those kidnapped by Not-The-President Biden’s illegitimate regime?

What about the MAGA peaceful protestors that attacked police officers? Should they get a pardon?

If a Black protestor beat on a White cop with a hockey stick at a BLM riot would you support a pardon for him?

#NewCandidatesPlease

There is a simple solution which is for NATO countries to loan Ukraine money so they can buy mercenaries on the market.

Russia is hiring Cubans and Nepalis so they really can’t complain.

If a Black protestor beat on a White cop with a hockey stick at a BLM riot would you support a pardon for him?

A sufficiently leftist and Woke US President could at least commute their sentence by arguing that “systemic racism made them do it”. I’m serious, and such a US presidential act would be an extremely massive travesty and insult directed against the rule-of-law here in the US.

…Ukrainians have plenty of manpower

Not enough to defeat Russia. The additional soldiers would have to come from Europe – and be willing to die in large numbers, a few hundred thousand Euro troops. Europe doesn’t have them and US is not coming.

Standoff weapons have shown to have limited value in a major war like this. It’s still about conquering territory, trench by trench, village by village.

Not if it is Nato vs. Russia, it would be about remote destruction and quickly go nuclear. My point is that Russia can’t be defeated in a conventional war, they have regional dominance and more soldiers. In a nuclear war there is no winning or losing. So why do Kiev-Nato insist on escalating the war? It is a losing strategy.

The disparity in power is on a global level – in the area of the actual war Russia has substantial dominance and that can’t be changed unless Europe goes back to WW2 mentality and fights willing to lose large number of men. And the destruction.

My point is that Russia can’t be defeated in a conventional war, they have regional dominance and more soldiers.

If Russia has so many soldiers then why are they using Cubans?

In the cell phone video you can see that most of the Cubans are Black.

It’s Blacks that have the most to gain by leaving Cuba. The Hispanic Cubans treat them like a subclass even though it is supposed to be a classless Marxist state. A lot of the raft Cubans are actually Black.

I thought he was mostly English with some Irish (but I may be wrong), and, of course, Edgar is an English name. That was the name of one of the first kings (and means the “rich spear”).

What about Oscar Wilde? Oh, you probably hate him… too decadent. 🙂 lol

If Russia has so many soldiers then why are they using Cubans?

If Ukraine has so many soldiers then why are they using Colombians and Poles?

Those are irrelevant questions. You specialize in minutia that has nothing to do with what is going on – Ukraine is slowly losing the war in spite of 100% Nato support. That also means that Nato is losing. This is not good, this is very bad, that’s why Macron is going ballistic.

If you know what to do about it, how to end the madness, let us know. But escalating won’t do it and offering talks now might not do it either. This was the dumbest neo-con-Nato initiative in decades and they did some real doozies – all were eventually costly losses. No wonder they sent Nuland packing, but it is probably too late.

increasing average intelligence of whatever population remains in Ukraine.

They are not doing it fast enough…even dumbos usually have minimal self-preservation and a nose for when someone is playing them. The Ukies seem to lack all of it – one huge cosmic evolutionary failure. It is right there with the Indios who sold Manhattan for a few shiny beads…the Ukies got cookies instead and lofty promises.

And they invaded Russia, this is beyond crazy…

Question for Anatoly Karlin:

Having the West have mass immigration from Russia would be good primarily due to the brain drain effect that it has, right? If so, then I would certainly agree with this.

It nevertheless is quite interesting that you have previously posted this a while back, though:

Presumably arguing that Russians don’t deserve to travel to Europe because not enough of them have protested against the Russian war against Ukraine (and ignoring the fact that the Russians who did protest sometimes got arrested and subsequently got sent to fight in combat on the front lines as punishment for their insolence and disobedience).

What part of Ukraine can the future Ukraine not afford to lose?

I would say its Odessa…without Odessa Ukraine is a state in name only.

Russia can use this to their advantage to fast forward the Ukraine collapse.

A feign buildup in Zaporizhzhia by Russia will cause panic in Ukraine and a movement of a vast number of troops to Odessa, this will bottle up these troops in Odessa thus thinning the lines elsewhere to be brushed aside easily by Russia and increasing the territory gains for Russia.

Don’t allow anytime for the U.S to formulate solutions and to draw out the war…quicker it ends the better for all.

Three countries that maximize net brain gain: Switzerland, US, Singapore (assume HK no longer there). https://t.co/lleYHEH4nO

One of those three is not like the others, much bigger.

And "smart fraction" IQ is much more predictive of GDP per capita than population average IQ. pic.twitter.com/gmDDqXlKrt

— Anatoly Karlin 🧲💯 (@powerfultakes) March 12, 2024

This further exemplifies the importance from a national interest perspective of having immigration policies that not only continue attracting foreign cognitive elites into one’s country, but also allow countries to retain their existing cognitive elites. Full-on open borders will make doing both of these things much more difficult for the developed countries of the world. Though significantly increasing immigration and having a large part (but not all of it) be cognitive elites could be very beneficial in certain regards.

Ukies tried again to enter Belgorod and Kursk regions, using heavy armor this time

These were Russian turncoats armed by Ukrainians (again).

Overall, Ukies lost more than 100 personnel, five tanks, three Bradleys, and other things

Russia does the same most days in various places. Avdiivka was an exception.

Russia has Ben counter offensing all winter. What do you think that meant, given the very small and slow territorial gains during this time?

Yet Ukie (or their master’s) propaganda prepared a number of fake videos of their successes

Gullible AnoninTN believes all the grotesque videos (including those shared by angry Russians) were computer generated.

You don’t need to fool those who fool themselves.

Ironically, very applicable to you, the mirror image of the most optimistic anti-Russian Westerner.

Ukies tried again to enter Belgorod and Kursk regions, using heavy armor this time. Overall, Ukies lost more than 100 personnel, five tanks, three Bradleys, and other things, while failing to enter the RF territory. Yet Ukie (or their master’s) propaganda prepared a number of fake videos of their successes. The most interesting thing is that quite a few Western media outlets swallowed those fakes line, hook, and sinker, publishing them as if these were true. You don’t need to fool those who fool themselves.

Something that has been previously evident in numerous instances. The selectivity of the “fact check”.

Gotta laugh at the BS about how this pro-Kiev regime operation consists of disaffected Russians. Wouldn’t surprise to find a svido contingent in that group along with some useful idiot Russians to their cause. Like the majority of Russians will embrace them.

There’s a couple of hundred Cubans in the Russian forces.

That’s probably similar to the historical pick up since Castro anyway. Probably far fewer than during the Cold War though.

Cubans often showed up in the Eastern Bloc.

😆 ROTFMAO 😂

Let me fix that for you:

What about the violent FBI fake “protestors” that attacked police officers? Should they get a pardon?

Of course not. Anti-MAGA deep state operatives should not get a pardon. The FBI should be investigated and those agents who intentionally setup peaceful protesters should go to prison. The capitol officer who murdered Ashli Babbitt should be tried and receive the death penalty.

#LetsGoBrandon 😇

What about Oscar Wilde? Oh, you probably hate him… too decadent.

Naturally.

Haven’t read much Wilde, but I would put him into the anthropological category. Like reading, the Picture of Dorian Gray, its obvious that one character is vicariously expressing his hatred of women. For me, it’s enough of a vibe, to realize that one wouldn’t want various gays like Varadkar, Macron, and Trudeau in power. (I.e. if they hate women, how can they feel about the family or children? We just had the first guy trying to deconstruct it totally in Ireland)

My favorite ethnic Irish writer must be AC Doyle. He was heavily influenced by Poe. Doyle was probably a little too woke for comfort. He put Holmes in drag disguise at least once, and he did a story about miscegenation. Then there is the one where he made Gypsies a red herring. OTOH, he did once write a story with a short Andamanese (they are short, though technically above Pygmy threshold.)

But he was superior to any of his imitators. And I think there was a bit of physiognomy in it, though it would have been better, if he inserted more.

Never heard of this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Amazons

I wonder if the contemporary US would have been considered more puritanical.

If you omit Ulysses and Finnegans Wake James Joyce was a very good writer. Those two are unreadable. I have a hack which allows you to do it but it’s only worth it if you are an obsessive reader who wants to hoard the complete set.

Oscar Wilde was ridiculous. Have you read the Jason Horsley stuff about his brother Sebastian, a modern edition of Wilde? I enjoyed some of it.

Many writers, for example Robert Anton Wilson, consider Ulysses and Finnegans Wake to be great achievements. Like a Nobel prize or an olympics gold medal level thing. This is a writers’ disease like alcoholism. Robert Anton Wilson also was an excellent writer and he identified as Irish descended. Anybody who hasn’t read Cosmic Trigger and Illuminatus ought to.

Even biting the tail of an orca is very dangerous for an orca:

Kandu V was a dominant female Icelandic orca, caught in 1977 and kept at SeaWorld San Diego in California. On August 21, 1989, she attempted to rake a 24-year-old newcomer orca, Corky II, during a live show. She struck Corky behind her dorsal fin,[80] the resulting impact fracturing Kandu’s upper jaw and severing major arteries. The crowd was quickly ushered out, and after a 45-minute hemorrhage, Kandu V died. Her daughter, Orkid, was 11 months old at the time of the accident

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_captive_orcas#Kandu_V

What part of Ukraine can the future Ukraine not afford to lose?

I would say its Odessa…without Odessa Ukraine is a state in name only.

It would just use Polish or Romanian ports. Do you think landlocked countries like Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Kazakhstan (Caspian Sea doesn’t count), Uzbekistan, Serbia, Czech Republic are states in name only?

Not that Russia could take Odesa, a city of over 1 million that is well fortified and prepared. And to reach it, the Russians would have to recapture Kherson and then conquer well fortified Mykolaiv (population 470,000).

By Russian estimates, they lost 16,000 taking well-fortified Avdiivka (population 31,000). Taking large cities such as Kharkiv or Odesa would require World War II level sacrifices by Russia – 10,000s of people per city. The Russian people aren’t interested in making sacrifices of such magnitude.

Most likely result will be a stalemate, the question is where. If Russia does really well (due to supply issues for the Ukrainian military) it will slowly take the rest of Donbas, maybe even reach the outskirts of the city of Zaporizhia (population 750,000 – another city too big for Russia to conquer). Or if Ukrainians are supplied adequately, the Russians will take less or even lose some minimal ground here and there. If Ukrainians are supplied very well they may even break through.

The sad reality is that 10,000s more will die on each side until the Russians get tired enough to stop the invasion and accept that they will not be able to conquer/occupy/control Ukraine, and the Ukrainians get tired enough to accept the permanent nature of the losses of certain territories and accept that Crimea and other areas won’t be coming back. Neither side is there yet; each side still hopes for more and until both come to the conclusions I described, the war will continue.

Ukies that end up in their army are the dumbest of the dumb.

An those within the Russian army are supposedly the smartest of the smart?

It’ not about how popular nor potent the current Ukrainian incursions are, but that these are definite signs of Russia’s permeability at its own borders. Nobody could have imagined these sorts of responses by Ukraine during the first year of the war. It leaves the door open for greater and more potent Ukrainian incursions into Russian territory into the future.

Beware The Ides of March!
Serhiy Kolyada on what many hope will be the outcome of the forthcoming pseudo-election In Rasszia

Especially for kremlinstoogeA123 who is a huge superhero fan:

Wonder Ukraine Keeps Amazing Her Partners
Serhiy Kolyada on the beauty of free flight when the sky is open.

Russia KNOWS that NATO and the West will place longer range missiles and airbases in Eastern Ukraine, probably also in Finland and the Baltics if those countries are stupid enough to allow it. Politically they can pretend they do not know this and back down. This might postpone a possible WW3 but at the same time make it more likely. This could be a fair trade off for Russian readiness. It also buys time to collapse the Western dollar system if that becomes inevitable. The collapse of the Western system might make WW3 more likely so it is a complex problem. I don’t think either Russia or China wants to collapse the dollar system, but it is a geopolitical target. The problem is that destroying it creates massive pain for everyone.

I imagine Russia is building up a solid combat force across the entire country. A goal might be to have at least 25% hardened combat veterans in both the officer and enlisted ranks. The slow grind in Ukraine makes this possible. To do it right they need more naval action and air-to-air combat.

Kaliningrad seems like a delicate pice of the puzzle. I suspect NATO is planning massive attacks on the enclave 24/7. Finland in or out of NATO might be a bargaining chip as a possible trade for the enclave.

For all of the rest of you:

Rasszist Warplanes Continue Being Knocked Out of the Skies
Serhiy Kolyada on the transformation of Rasszia’s ‘mighty’ airforce into kamikaze squadrons.

How true, how true…

Would parts of the Carib be majority Indian today, if Gandhi hadn’t campaigned against indentured labor?

Looked at the Russian polls (several polls by different companies). Reminder: in the RF there are four presidential candidates: Putin, Kharitonov (communists), Slutsky (Zhirinovsky’s party), and Davankov (party “New people”). I saw Russian elections poster with candidates’ faces and their self-description. Putin’s self-description is three lines, the others used >20 lines each.

All Russian experts agree that the fight is essentially for the second place, as the first place is clear. All polls predict 78-82% support for Putin, with similar (5-7%) support for each of the others. In fact, ~20% increase of Putin’s support should be credited to the idiotic policies of the West and its Ukie puppets. His support was in the low sixties several years ago (Western “democratic” politicians can only dream of this level of support). The majority thinks that commies will get the second place and Zhiric’s party the third. We’ll see: March 17th is the last day of elections (early online voting started about a week ago; early in-person voting starts on the 15th).

An those within the Russian army are supposedly the smartest of the smart?

With the exception of Donbass fighters, who fight out of burning hatred of Ukies, the great majority of Russian military consists of contract personnel. These people are to a large extent after the money. Many hope to earn several million rubles to buy an apartment, or at least to put up a sizeable down-payment. The stakes were raised with special payments for destroying Leopard, Challenger, and Abrams tanks. The biggest prize is Abrams, up to 10 million rubles. I guess that’s why every Abrams showing up on the front lines is promptly destroyed.

Russian soldiers recently recorded a mocking video asking Alzheimer-in-Chief to send more Abrams tanks: a lot of people need apartments. They even promised the Veggie 10% kickback.

So popular that he even was afraid to let relatively noname, but the only non warring candidate to participate in election;)

A vignette about Ukie “mobilization”.

Men risk a lot to run away across the Western border. Many are caught by Ukie border patrol: 4,855 from September 2023 through February 2024. This number includes 1,397 caught by 31st border detachment (Chernovtsy), 1,320 by 27th border detachment (Mukachevo), and 1,008 by the 2nd border detachment (Podolsk). Other border patrol detachment caught fewer “patriots”.

Both Trump and Not-The-President Biden have clinched enough delegates to lock in their nominations at their respective conventions. Both parties have rules binding delegates for the 1st round, so a surprise is nearly impossible.

The unhinged #NeverTrump zealot will no doubt, once again, be disappointed that reality has denied his fantasy.

PEACE 😇

So popular that he even was afraid to let relatively noname, but the only non warring candidate to participate in election;)

That wannabe candidate was not smart enough to collect sufficient number of non-fake signatures in his support. That disqualifies him from running a McDonalds, let alone the country. Not to mention that the support of well-known mega-thief and murderer Khodorkovsky is extremely toxic in Russia today. That pathetic dude did not even have the brains to disguise it.

My personal experience about two weeks ago. I was on a 5-day tour of lake Baikal. The group, in addition to myself and my wife, included six people from different parts of the RF and a guide from Irkutsk. All seven had no doubt that they will vote for Putin. The sample is too small for statistical significance, but that’s what I have.

You need certain demographics just to have a functional zoo, IMO.

You can either have an insane woman having a staring contest with same silverback everyday, while giving it a toothy smile, or rock-throwing kids. But you can’t have both (multiculture.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokito_(gorilla)

Do you know the poll numbers by demographic? Are the commies more popular with the old geezers or anything like that?

I forgot to mention that Ronald Hutton’s dragon show includes the basilisk.

IMO, at worst Herbert meant Chani to look like this woman: (i.e. she had red hair)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Lalla_Salma_of_Morocco

So it is kind of like when they made Zendaya MJ in Spiderman.

I watched Blackfish, and Orkid was featured there, I think either Orkid or another whale related to her was involved in one of the incidents. They are supposed to be in their native pod with their mothers, it’s really sad how they separate them. Orkid might still be alive.

If Russia has so many soldiers then why are they using Cubans?

If Ukraine has so many soldiers then why are they using Colombians and Poles?

I’ve never said Ukraine has plenty of soldiers. In fact I just stated that the NATO countries should loan Ukraine money so they can buy mercenaries on the market. You really have no concept of intellectual honesty.

You specialize in minutia that has nothing to do with what is going on

Manpower is not minutia. I posed a fair question that obviously troubles you. If Russia has so many men then why are they using 2 week trained Cubans and Nepalese? It makes me wonder if their reserves are truly as vast as many believe. If the answer is for PR reasons then that also raises questions.

Ukraine is slowly losing the war in spite of 100% Nato support.

They don’t have 100% NATO support. They don’t even have access to second gen aircraft. F16s are from the 80s and they don’t have even 10% of the supply. The Bradleys were already decommissioned. It’s truly sad as to how much the US parties are hoarders when it comes to military equipment. We don’t need any Bradleys or Strikers. Send them all.

If you know what to do about it, how to end the madness, let us know.

Putin returns to their 2021 borders and offers citizenship and $100k to any ethnic Russian that wants to leave. Most of the LPR/DPR militia men are dead so it would cost far less than the war. Russia has abandoned cities that could be filled with ethnic Russians. But it should be noted that most ethnic Russians in Ukraine voted for Zelensky and Russia is occupying two Oblasts that never had separatists.

Are the commies more popular with the old geezers or anything like that?

That would be my guess. I am not aware of any data, though. Curiously, judging by the social media in Russian, the greatest USSR lowers are old geezers (70+ years old) and youngsters (20-30 years old) who never experienced Soviet reality. People in between, including me, are more skeptical and wouldn’t vote for any commie.

My experience (33 years in the USSR and many 2-3-week visits to Russia in recent years) suggests that the RF today is immeasurable better than the USSR. Some things are visible even to a tourist: eateries of all price levels every 200 yards, in Moscow and in downtowns of all provincial capitals, magnificent look and incredible cleanliness of Moscow today (it beats all European capitals hands down: I’m comparing to London, Paris, Madrid, Rome, Berlin, Stockholm, Prague, Budapest, Zagreb, and others), huge expansion of Moscow underground (metro), where the least decorated out of >250 stations would be a gem advertised to tourists anywhere in Europe, stores brimming with all sorts of merchandise, etc. Some signs are subtler: people became a lot more relaxed and spontaneously polite than they used to be in Soviet times, which to me means that they live much better.

This year for the first time I’ve seen a sign of war in Moscow: navigation works intermittently. Taxi drivers also complain about it, so it’s not only my phone. It used to be more reliable than anywhere else in the world (I’ve been to 30+ countries on all six inhabited continents). I guess they are using interference to confuse possible Ukie drones.

Let me fix that for you:

What about the violent FBI fake “protestors” that attacked police officers? Should they get a pardon?

Another proud MAGA reality denier.

It was a former marine who attacked police officers with a hockey stick:
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/former-marine-who-assaulted-officers-with-trump-2020-flag-on-a-hockey-stick-on-jan-6-gets-prison-time/

He is a known MAGA supporter from Michigan who argued that his prison conditions were too harsh.

So he should get a pardon?

That would be my guess. I am not aware of any data, though. Curiously, judging by the social media in Russian, the greatest USSR lowers are old geezers (70+ years old) and youngsters (20-30 years old) who never experienced Soviet reality. People in between, including me, are more skeptical and wouldn’t vote for any commie.

I’ve seen numerous polls that showed the older generations would go back to the USSR if given the choice.

Communism benefits the retired, the mediocre and the idle.

The retired get equal access to everything (transportation, entertainment, recreation, food, health care) when on a pension.

Russia never became the economic powerhouse that was predicted by free market evangelists. The older generations believe their pensions are not enough and would go back to the USSR. That really says more about Russia as an economic disappointment than the utility of Communism. On some level it shouldn’t be a surprise since Russia already is a totalitarian state. Certain freedoms don’t exist so it wouldn’t be as much of a change. It’s not like they are taking vacations to Mexico and Vegas. Most are rural and pretty much watch television all day. They take a break to use a frozen outhouse or eat some eggs. Pretty sad and I’m not surprised they support bringing back the evil empire.

During World War II, half a million Americans attempted to avoid the draft. During the Vietnam War, over 500,000 were classified as draft offenders and over 200,000 were formally accused. There is nothing unique about Ukrainian draft dodging.

Ukraine still hasn’t mobilized under age 27 (they tried to lower the age to 25 but it hasn’t gotten through Parliament).

…There is nothing unique about Ukrainian draft dodging.

But Kiev claims that the war is about the very existence of Ukraine and Ukies as people. They say it is existential. Not at all like US draft dodging in Vietnam or even WW2.

It doesn’t add up: either people in Ukraine don’t believe the Kiev rhetoric or they are resigned to losing. But there is clearly not mass enthusiasm to fight Russia.

since Russia already is a totalitarian state.

Wow, really? Do the Russians know? What is forbidden there? According to you it is going to Vegas and toilets(?). How do you define ‘totalitarian’? Is it any society you don’t like?

You play the dumb American well – totally lost in your ignorance, lack of experience, deep emotions based on myths…That’s no way to run the world, that’s why you are losing. Get a hold of yourself and fix your own problems, then read some books and open up your mind. And “Haley” is not the solution – she is the epitome of all your problems. But stupid will be stupid, so there is no helping you. It will be an ugly awakening for the likes of you.

Lol true for Abrams they are special target and moment they show up something hit them , last one burned to the ground thanks to lot of aluminum parts , now they blame Ukies for not using them properly

Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Soviets disintegrated as soon as dictatorial centre (communist) yoke has been defeated. These are precedent models for EU dictatorial centre, that keep it together, to fail in due time.

No force will defeat the nationalistic feelings of each country in the union. Is not Ukraine such an example? Greece or Italy and others (UK reacted faster) will keep their borders sovereign much better then partying dimwits in Brussels.

Watch out, he is in great company Stalin, Napoleon, Deng. For some reason you are avoiding your dwarf Zelensky title.

Wow, really? Do the Russians know? What is forbidden there? According to you it is going to Vegas and toilets(?). How do you define ‘totalitarian’? Is it any society you don’t like?

I use a standard definition:
of or relating to centralized control by an autocratic leader or hierarchy : AUTHORITARIAN, DICTATORIAL

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/totalitarian

Russians are not allowed to form opposition parties or even protest. Presidential elections are considered fraudulent by worldwide democratic organizations. Putin has complete control over the Duma as seen by how he was able to start a war without even telling them.

Russians have been arrested for holding up blank signs:
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-war-invasion-protests-police-arrest-activists-holding-blank-signs-paper-1687603

Russian media and internet are censored.

Yes that would be a totalitarian state.

You play the dumb American well – totally lost in your ignorance, lack of experience, deep emotions based on myths…

I don’t play any role. I give my opinions and the view that Russia is a totalitarian state is common. People turn on TV and see Putin’s thugs dragging away old women for holding up a picture of Navalny. That’s a totalitarian state and all your PR work won’t change world opinion which is that Russia is a totalitarian nation of bitter losers that is led by a psychopath.

And “Haley” is not the solution – she is the epitome of all your problems.

I never said she was a solution to all problems. I said I would take her over Biden and Trump.

You have this amusing projection that everyone is equally attached to their national leaders. I think all world leaders are scum but the mass murdering dwarf you defend is on another level. But keep defending this 2.5 week special operation where Russia continues to lose ships to a country that doesn’t have a Navy. Was clearly a super awesome idea.

As far as I know there are no traditional mainstream Christian sects on board with any of these Revelation / Apocalypse / Eschaton narratives.

And?

It is enough that quite powerful Christian organizations, whose followers form a sizeable voting constituency, are on board with the narrative detailed in the video. More importantly, Christians other than the John Hagee prototypes are either entirely ineffective or disinterested in influencing American policy toward Israel, so this eschatology — along with those actively seeking to realize it — is very much a problem, however much you wish to blithely dismiss it as ‘gibberish’.

It doesn’t matter what you think of the information outlined in the video. Those who run Israel take those prophecies very seriously, and since Israel effectively owns America (which, at this stage, can’t possibly be denied), what those Jewish nutjobs do to spark a wider war matters now more than ever.