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I had an interesting bit about a peace deal in a blood soaked place, but most of you were chasing the same squirrels!!
those are some great pics by the way
Very nice. Clouds bring out the best in dawn photos. BTW. I've known girl named Dawn, but none called Dusk. Or even Dusky.
In the midst of reading another Kerouac book. This was his last one Vanity of Duluoz. I'm enjoying it on audiobook. Narrator fits the novel, and its an interesting look into the world before 1945. More of a memoir than a novel.
It was interesting to hear Trump explaining that what they do in the trade deals is give "a number" to the countries they are dealing with and then I guess they work out ways to get to the number. Trump kept talking about "$200 billion" and I wondered if that was "the number." That's not the trade deficit as such but perhaps there are other sneaky costs Canada has been throwing on us. BTW, don't pity them. They know exactly how to move in US negotiations; they've been next door for over 200 years. If they can screw us they wiil ; if they get caught they repent and change without faltering. There's no nonsense about face. The Canadian nation knows Mr. Carney has to accept the change and he won't get in trouble for doing what he must. And he'll do what must be done for Canada. He'll probably try to get on the Greenland team that working out the Greenland issues, too.
Not what you might expect: Video of someone claiming a bird-eye view on things.
"Do you boast about your fitness? Watch out – you’ll unavoidably become rightwing" —The Guardian
Nah. Boasting isn't right wing. Neither is Trump, if that's what you are thinking.
Congo and Rwanda? Trump is everywhere. Black lives matter. Racial differences are color, Diversity agnostic.
That Guardian article is an old one, and it was written in a self-effacing, self-mocking way typical of British humor writers. It was setup to trigger conservatives here in the US, but it wasn't intended in that way at all. I'm surprised they are still rolling it out for outrage.
Yemen airport in flames. Israel claims responsibility.
What are Palestinians doing in Yemen?
I'm very confused right now.
Who would like to join me in creating and selling F*CK Fauci T-shirts.
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ChatGPT Promt: You are what you eat
Scot t Bessent before congressional committee today tells them no.we have had no talks or agreements with China after trump said 2 weeks ago yeah Im talking with XI and we are talking to China. and half the country knows that that fella only lies obsessively and every now and then his staff cant help it they out him because they cant keep up with the lies.How many deals we got now..is it stil ZERO (90 DEALS IN 90 DAYS ) ITS DAY 25 AND we aint got any that anyone knows of. The trumpers up in here fell for it hook line and sinker though. Trump says FUK em we dont need no deals with anybody ,,if we dont any deals fuk 5000,000,000 in exports and imports, (if we dont do deals we dont lose anything,,that's how stupid they (he) dID YOU WATCH BESSENT TODAY WHO PAYS TARIFFS? dudh uh ummm well 1ST TREASURE SECRETARY FLUNKS tariffs 101 PEOPLE PAY THE TARIFFS, check your groceries and your goods and you aint seen nothing yet! Where do these nitwits come from?
Poor poor sad China addicted crap leftists.
@Lem, the Houthis are supported by Yemen. The Houthis hit Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport with rockets. It’s called tit for tat.
U.S. and Chinese Officials to Meet for Trade Talks ~ WSJ
'Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer set to meet with Vice Premier He Lifeng in Switzerland'
Which clearly shows Trump and his team was lying about US-China trade talks in the past 3 weeks.
After all this mighty huffing and puffing and grand posturing by both sides, the end result will again be very similar to the outcome of Tariffs 1.0 under Trump 1.0, with China making similar amorphous promises to buy more American soybeans and corn and perhaps some LNG thrown into the mix this time, in return for a full rollback of Tariffs for 100 days or 1000 days or whatever that they make-up on the go. With Christmas now less than eight months away, the time-window for a big "deal" is narrowing fast.
I have been pondering the recent election of a thing called Carney as God-Emperor of Canada. Apparently, whoever owns Canada's politics decided that Castreau had outlasted his utility as the glove in which the iron fist might be encased (his wife got sick of his shit, too). So they cast about for a new meat-puppet to impale upon the machine of governance, and found this Carney object. He has no known connection to Canada, but he is a creature of international banking, so that's not a problem.
I am reminded of the view of the noble houses of Europe, around 1860, that a new emperor must be found for Mexico. Obviously -- obviously! -- he would need to be a member of one of their noble bloodlines. And so, after some castreauxing to and fro, they settled upon Maximilian. Let's hope that Carney meets with as much success as Maximilian did.
With Christmas now less than eight months away, the time-window for a big "deal" is narrowing fast.
I'm sure Xi is well aware of that, and if he's not I am sure that Trump keeps reminding him.
Or are you concerned that China is going to sell all their Christmas stuff to the Canadians?
I have become rather restrained as I near my pull date, but in my youth -- especially my extreme youth, as I had just begun to explore the possibilities afforded by the human condition -- I would frequently drink far too much alcohol. And I came to realize that there were only two actions that might alleviate the resulting whirlies; puking, if you started early enough, or, failing that, walking. Walking would not actually make it better, but it would keep it from getting worse, while your liver slowly ground away at the poisons you had ingested.
But getting back to puking -- I learned to be quite comfortable with bending over the toilet and sticking my finger down my throat. It helped if you wet it first. Sometimes, it was actually kind of difficult to get the gag reflex to turn into the full vomit response. But with patience, a virtue somewhat surprisingly common to the extremely drunk, you could get the process in motion. "Kak!" Kaki!" Kak-k-kak! Ka- whulph! Kak!".
That double glottal stop "kak" is where the muscles around the back of your throat perform the reflex constriction. But nothing is actually accomplished until you get the stomach muscle contractions that generate the copious flux of "ka-whulph!". Something to keep in mind, as you encounter the results of Kaki's pitiful, dry-heaving spasms.
"Which clearly shows Trump and his team was lying about US-China trade talks in the past 3 weeks."
So sorry Trump doesn't see fit to keep you informed on the negotiations. Doesn't he know you've been "in the room"? Your council would be sooo valuable.
Oh, well. His loss.
Did anyone else see the Instapundit.com article posted from Twitchy.com about the New Yorker coverage of elite liberals with pictures of billionaires, millionaires et al in their living rooms? Hilarious.
The point I'm getting at here, Kaki, is that you are an AI troll. Everything you post is AI-generated whulph. You present arguments, but you don't argue, because you don't engage. You don't exist.
I wonder how many kinds of sunrises Grok thinks there are.
Since Whiskey Pete took over the war against the Houthis, he has committed a very large navel armada to the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea. And besides giving away war plans on Signal, he has lost two F/A 18 Super Hornets off the USS Truman which will cost us $150 million to replace and the the Truman incurred damage by colliding with a merchant ship. So now we wonder how may jets will disappear from our second carrier, the Carl Vinson, presenting another large target for Yemeni rockets along with a large number of B-2 bombers sitting on the ground in Diego Garcia.
Strangely, Pete's nonfunctioning alcoholic brain has not figured our that that we might need more not less officers in the military. To make matters worse, Pete and Donny 2 Dolls are not talking about the so-called Houthi truce.
Gadfly: "[Hegseth] has lost two F/A 18 Super Hornets off the USS Truman which will cost us $150 million to replace and the the Truman incurred damage by colliding with a merchant ship."
Ok, Captain of a carrier: approx 25+ years of development. Pilot: at least 6 years of precommissioning training and flight school. Watchstanders in the bridge: anywhere from 4 to 20 years in the Navy. Petty officer supervising deck crew: around 5 years on the job. Most junior deckhand: about 6 months in the Navy.
So every single person responsible for that incident in any way started their career, indeed had most of their career, without Trump or Hegseth.
Yep, Hegseth is messing up the Navy.
JSM
Gadfly - you are a moron.
The corrupt left torture beagles for their digusting lust for power and money.... to make their bio-weapons.
The corrupt left torture beagles for their vile and disgusting lust for power and money.... to make their bio-weapons.
@Jupiter: China and Russia are the greatest beneficiaries of Trump’s chaos. Both are unlikely to remain bystanders as America sorts out its own mess.
American influence and hegemony in the eastern hemisphere (and elsewhere) are undergoing profound reconfiguration. Does that mean that the eastern hemisphere is up for grabs between the two big autocratic powers? Unlikely. There are profound divergences of interests between China and Russia on how they approach the rest of the world. One is likely to be predatory, the other more cooperative.
Russia is likely to remain despotic, predatory, and expansionist towards and subversive of Europe. Russia is an industrially weak petrol state and commodities exporter.
In contrast, China is an enormous importer and exporter and is an industrial powerhouse with far-flung trading relationships. Trade is based on cooperation.
China has powerful incentives to increase cooperation with Europe and probably India and other countries around the eastern hemisphere and expand its successful relationships across Latin America and Canada.
China is a competitive threat to democratic capitalism in a way that Russia never will be. The rise of China ensures that both the US and Europe will have to make major efforts to adapt to a changed international economic environment. Trump's rear-view mirror perspective to policy making must be replaced by a New Realism looking towards the future; China guarantees that.
Jupiter said...
“I have been pondering the recent election of a thing called Carney as God-Emperor of Canada… I am reminded of the view of the noble houses of Europe, around 1860, that a new emperor must be found for Mexico… And so, after some castreauxing to and fro, they settled upon Maximilian. Let's hope that Carney meets with as much success as Maximilian did.”
I am assuming you started thinking about this the day before your post. Or as the Vera Cruzans would say, Cinco de Mayo.
"Russia is likely to remain despotic, predatory, and expansionist towards and subversive of Europe..."
Really? Since when has Russia been expansionist towards Europe? The Mongols? Oh, wait, they invaded Russia. Charles I of Sweden, oh wait, Napoleon? Oh wait, Hitler? Oh wait... Oh, that's. right, there's that time when we backed a coup in Kiev and put neonazis in charge of the country who worship Stephan Bandera, who was responsible for ethnic cleansing the Poles out of Galacia, which Ukraine acquired on a handshake between Hitler and Stalin, who was from Georgia, oh yeah, and Bandera marched a lot of Jewish people to death camps, you know, the ones his forces didn't kill in situ by locking them in their farmhouses and burning them, that guy, the Ukrainian national hero. BTW, the Ukrainians did the same thing in recent history, when the Maidan thugs locked a bunch of Russians who were protesting the coup by the Bandaristas, in Odessa, in the Trade Union Building, and set fire to it, killing dozens, and the Ukrainian government never bothered to investigate.
A lot of apologists will say that the Nazis had imprisoned him, but they allowed him to command his army, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists while under house arrest, is the real story. And when the Slovaks rebelled against the Nazis, the OUN was sent to brutally suppress these people.
Well, these are the people we put in charge of Ukraine, and the invasions happened when these Ukrainians marched on the Russian speaking regions with heavy weapons.
The more you know.
Paul, you may not know any girls named Dusk or Dusky, but Gordon Lightfoot sure knew one named Sundown.
Gadfly still trying to blame training, that factually occurred under Biden, on Trump. Gadfly needs to explain why Biden left the next President with conflicts around the world and a military unprepared for them. Biden also left Trump with a failing ATC while spending billions of infrastructure money on high speed rail to nowhere. Worse, Biden gave pardons to anybody who might be held accountable for wasting taxpayer dollars.
Peachy, Corrupt Left Torture Beagles would be a great name for a punk band. They could open for Slick Filth.
JSM
Not sure what to make of this:
https://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/fbi-adds-10000-reward-arrest-hundreds-laser-strikes-airplanes-washington/281-dfe49a7c-49a0-4fd9-a8ad-f90a0d01dc38
FBI adds $10K reward to arrest people responsible for hundreds of laser strikes on airplanes in Washington
"SEATAC, Wash. — The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is now offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest of the people responsible for hundreds of laser strikes on aircraft reported in Washington state since March last year.
There were 438 reports of laser strikes since March, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The FBI called it a "dramatic increase" of laser incidents that have illuminated the cockpits for planes flying through SEA Airport and the Spokane International Airport.
Neighborhoods with reported incidents in Spokane include: the West Plains in Spokane, Nine Mile Falls, Green Bluff, and Hillyard.
The FBI said multiple people are responsible for the laser strikes, but does not believe the Seattle and Spokane incidents are related.
The agency asked the public to call 1-800-225-5324 or submit a tip online to possibly be eligible for a reward.
Aiming a laser pointer at an aircraft is a federal offense. If convicted, a person could be sentenced to five years in prison and face a $250,000 fine.
In 2023, there were 43 reported incidents in Washington state, according to data from the FAA. That increased significantly in 2024, when 383 incidents were reported.
Since the beginning of 2025, 106 incidents have been reported."
Kakistocarcy, unsurprisingly, given his handle, wants a continuation of the policies of endless war, sending the sons of working class families overseas to fight for the benefit of the billionaire oligarchs who fund the Democrats. destruction of the middle class by not changing a thing in policies that have economically destroyed cities across formerly industrial cities across the country, and suppression of free speech and definition of all opposition to these policies as "extremist."
They were using green lasers in the insurrections in Portland, and injured the eyesight of Federal officers, you know, fighting "for democracy," they also tried to set fire to an occupied jail, and threw explosive IEDs into Federal courthouses, you know, to "fight fascism."
Jaq said...
"They were using green lasers in the insurrections in Portland, and injured the eyesight of Federal officers, you know, fighting "for democracy," they also tried to set fire to an occupied jail, and threw explosive IEDs into Federal courthouses, you know, to "fight fascism." "
That did come to mind. In any case, I doubt that the peeps are Pro-Trump.
Perps, not peeps
I believe Luis Antonio Tagle, has oved up in wagering to 4-1. If he hits 6-1 I'll lay down a wager. Most in line with Francis and a man of color well needed in tht organization.Time to expand the stuffiness...
I think it's amusing that the Trump as Pope meme is "blasphemy" (and I stand by my statement that if the Trump side hadn't posted it, the New Yorker would have), but betting on the conclave results isn't.
On the plus side, hey, Dinky, you're sounding very good this morning! Truly, stay the course, whatever you're doing - I myself would love to see you become a commenter we don't just skip because of incomprehensibility. Until pretty recently, I'd try to glean whatever I could from your (usual) comments, but the effort became unsuited to any benefit. I have no idea what causes you to post as you generally do, but it is concerning, and this morning's comment was not. Best wishes to you!
(I should add - neither thing is blasphemy.)
Kari Lake, a special adviser to government-funded Voice of America (VoA) , announced that One America News (OAN), which was sued by voting machine companies for promoting claims of election fraud, will provide its twisted “newsfeed and video service” to the world at U.S. taxpayer expense.
And yes, the OAN lawsuit instigated by Dominion Voting Systems remains active, while Dominion settled with Fox News for a mere $787 million payment from the largest news channel. Smartmatic settled confidentially with OAN.
Peachy and John are the idiots who believe that Whiskey Pete, who spends all day drinking, exercising and getting new tats was ever qualified to run the Department of Defense. considering that money disappeared from the non-profits from which he was fired. Further he spent considerable time in the reserves rising to the rank of captain, which is an automatic advancement. In his new job he spreads confidential info to friends, family and the hackers who acquired his Signal communications.
Jamie said...
.On the plus side, hey, Dinky, you're sounding very good this morning!
Check back after 5 p.m. for DINKY's TRUMP info
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