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136 comments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY_ag5tJ6jE&t=109s
So Zelensky's left hand man, who was implicated in this corruption, fled the country, and now his right hand man has been forced to resign.
Maybe it's $50 to $100 billion stolen from the Ukrainian money, which is no surprise given Biden's standard kickback of 10% and the hundreds of billions we, and Europe sent there.
How clean must Trump be if he can have decades of his business and tax records combed through by his political enemies, and the best they can come up with is made up crimes, but it looks like the money went, not just through Europe, via Estonia, but several US Congressmen are implicated. The reason they hate Trump is because he doesn't dip his beak, like they do, it makes them worried. There is an old mafia saying, "The only way to deal with an honest cop is to put him down."
Sons and their families came yesterday for Thanksgiving feast and stayed overnight. They’re all back home now. Having four kids under four in the house is both a headache and a delight!
The pillar of light coming from the setting in sun in the third picture is striking.
Trump averted WWIII by stopping a plan by Biden and the Brits to start a war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but don't look for NPR or ABC News to cover this story.
https://youtu.be/OCNQ4m7v6U0?si=QzRCYrNnhAzOI-L0&t=1462
Ja ja, by this point I assume most of Congress is in on some scam they’d prefer go unnoticed. They’re above the law, honor among thieves and all, too so no worries there…
The calm before the storm
Christmas tree went up this afternoon. Will take many days to decorate it. Was a challenge, because it started out a bit taller than fits.
I would guess the middle one
Trump lickers, suck on this; the Geneva convention says that once a boat is hit or ship wrecked, survivors are entitled to assistance. For the Department of Defense to order a second strike to “kill them all” is a war crime.
And while I guess I’m not supposed to say that because it will make some snowflake MAGAnut all mad that they’ll have to go out and shoot somebody, it’s a war crime.
We have a pre-lit artificial tree. It sheds like a real pine. It's amazing, because every year we vacuum up the needles, and it just like owning a real tree. We've had it for a decade now, and it still sheds like it did the first year. The really odd thing, it still looks brand new. You can tell it sheds by just looking at the ground, but you can't tell by looking at the branches.
It's not exactly corruption. Zelensky like every strongman has to pay off rivals in proportion to the amount of trouble they could cause. That way the various rivals are all better off with Zelensky in power than with him overthrown, which would end the payoffs. Favorite payoffs are monopoly franchises, money.
So moral outrage might not be justified. Kill off that corruption and Ukraine disintegrates because it's what's holding it together, like every third world country.
Movie recommendation:
Saltburn (2023) – streaming on Amazon Prime
Written and directed by Emerald Fennell
Genre: Psychological thriller / black comedy
A lonely, socially awkward Oxford student becomes dangerously obsessed with his wealthy, charismatic classmate.
This film is either the most accidental AI allegory ever made . . . or Emerald Fennell is psychic.
"they’ll have to go out and shoot somebody,"
Yeah, the news is full of people motivated by Trump to shoot people, "that son of a bitch Trump..." Except it's not the Trumpers doing the shooting, is it.
Thanks Leland. Your shedding-fake-Christmas-tree story wins the "Heartwarming Holiday Story of the Year Award.'
@RJW: went to your last link. Conservatives are not allowed to use the word ‘fight’ anymore. Just plain stupid. Are we allowed to use the word ‘stupid’ or is that word also a call to violence?
Don’t really know what you’re talking about Eva and I don’t know you controls your vocabulary.
I was talking about Trump murdering boat attack survivors.
But since you brought up my “last link”, I do wonder why my list of links keep disappearing.
because it will make some snowflake MAGAnut all mad that they’ll have to go out and shoot somebody
If we were half as violent as you accuse of us being... you'd already be dead, boy.
Your last link. I went to the article. Nothing about boats. Just a catalog of Trump speeches with the word ‘fight’ in them as in we have to fight to get the senate back. Calling that a call to violence. You should read your own links.
I would might revisit my links Eva but every time I reload the page, they’ve disappeared.
I want to talk about how tired I am of the "banned book" thing. A school system decides to "ban" (decline to provide) certain books that are easily purchased from Amazon (et al.) and are also available at one's public library. HOW IS THIS "BANNED"???
"I would might revisit my links Eva but every time I reload the page, they’ve disappeared."
You're being spammed-foldered. Are you seriously going to claim you don't know what's going on?
1. Apparently Blogger has a stupidity detector.
2. Surely you have access to your own links.
spam-foldered
You can talk about spam folders and dissect a link for words you can or cannot say but let’s revisit this - Trump lickers, suck on this; the Geneva convention says that once a boat is hit or ship wrecked, survivors are entitled to assistance. For the Department of Defense to order a second strike to “kill them all” is a war crime.
And while I guess I’m not supposed to say that because it will make some snowflake MAGAnut all mad that they’ll have to go out and shoot somebody, it’s a war crime.
Somebody seems like he has gotten into the holiday 'spirits,' anyway.
Pete Hegseth and the Trump administration will have to face to the music once he’s out of power, if the Country last that long. Hegseth might have to answer to God to when he’s asked about what he said when he saw there were two survivors.
“Trump lickers, suck on this”
Why should I read anything past that?
Man, these pests are starting to get feisty!
You shouldn’t, if the truth is that uncomfortable for you.
After Trump calls Walz “retarded”, Walz tells Trump to release his MRI results, good comeback Governor Walz.
"You can talk about spam folders and dissect a link for words you can or cannot say but let’s revisit this - Trump lickers, suck on this; the Geneva convention says that once a boat is hit or ship wrecked, survivors are entitled to assistance. For the Department of Defense to order a second strike to “kill them all” is a war crime."
Have you ever studied the war in the pacific?
So you're saying, our pilots at Midway should only have dropped ONE bomb on a Japanese carrier and then flew off because we had to come rescue the survivors?
In reality, we would strike them multiple times to SINK THEM.
So, your claim doesn't pass the WW2 smell test.
German subs used to have to rescue all the people on a sinking ship in WW1...by WW2, nobody did that much.
And yes, they would send in a second torpedo sometimes.
(Actually sometimes they WOULD help survivors...but it wasn't very often.)
Insults don’t merit consideration.
I'll wait for Inga to explain how World War II was "different" and it was okay to hit damaged ships a second time.
LOL.
Ronald J. Ward said...
You can talk about spam folders and dissect a link for words you can or cannot say but let’s revisit this - Trump lickers, suck on this; the Geneva convention says that once a boat is hit or ship wrecked, survivors are entitled to assistance. For the Department of Defense to order a second strike to “kill them all” is a war crime.
And while I guess I’m not supposed to say that because it will make some snowflake MAGAnut all mad that they’ll have to go out and shoot somebody, it’s a war crime.
Of course this traitor wants to throw US soldiers in jail for killing men who get in boats with guns and drugs in a foreign country with the goal of invading the United States.
He gives aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States and supports their efforts to attack us.
“Indiana state Senator Michael Bohacek, a Republican, said on Friday that he will vote against a redistricting plan supported by President Donald Trump, citing his “insulting and derogatory references” after he called Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, a Democrat, "seriously retarded" in a Truth Social post.”
https://www.newsweek.com/republican-to-oppose-trumps-redistricting-due-to-derogatory-remark-11127971
Inga said...
Pete Hegseth and the Trump administration will have to face to the music once he’s out of power, if the Country last that long. Hegseth might have to answer to God to when he’s asked about what he said when he saw there were two survivors.
Two men who are in a boat full of guns and drugs who still want to invade the United State and attack our country.
Of course a traitor like you wants to give aid and comfort to the enemies of our people.
Well theres his sign now jazx hands walz is more a lesuo tool ofthe chinese and other parties
Aaron, The WW2 analogy doesn’t apply here. Modern law of armed conflict isn’t judged by Midway or U-boat tactics—it’s judged by post-WW2 treaties and customary law.
Striking a hostile vessel multiple times to sink it is lawful.
Intentionally targeting survivors who are hors de combat is not.
Those are two completely different actions under today’s Geneva Convention standards.
So the legal question isn’t ‘did they attack twice?’
It’s: was the second strike aimed at an ongoing military threat (the vessel), or at people who were already out of the fight?
That’s the line between lawful action and a war crime in modern law.
“Denial of Quarter
This term is used in such expressions as “to give no quarter” or “cry quarter”; in regard to hostilities by land, sea or air, denial of quarter means refusing to spare the life of anybody, even of persons manifestly unable to defend themselves or who clearly express their intention to surrender.
International humanitarian law prohibits the use of this procedure, that is, ordering that there shall be no survivors, threatening the adversary therewith, or conducting hostilities on this basis.
Denial of quarter is a grave breach of international humanitarian law.”
https://casebook.icrc.org/a_to_z/glossary/quarter-denial
Maybe they should take thd hint and stop sending out drug boats
The report of a woman being set on fire on a Chicago train recently seems to have dropped out of the news cycle.
I wonder if the fact that Trump can't be blamed for it by even the most rabid leftist has anything to do with that?
How much does Trump really care about keeping drugs out of the US?
“President Trump announced on Friday afternoon his intention to grant “a Full and Complete Pardon” to a former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, who was found guilty by an American jury last year of conspiring to import cocaine into the United States in a sweeping drug case.”
NYT
"Striking a hostile vessel multiple times to sink it is lawful."
So you're going to claim that we "strafed the water" with a missile, right?
How fast was the second missile arriving after the first?
Igna is not a traitor, Achilles.
She is just a simple minded nurse who knows better than people who are far more intelligent, experienced and intellectually sophisticated than she is.
IOW, she is the Democrat base.
I think we have seen a single mussile strike per boats
Inga said...
“Denial of Quarter
This term is used in such expressions as “to give no quarter” or “cry quarter”; in regard to hostilities by land, sea or air, denial of quarter means refusing to spare the life of anybody, even of persons manifestly unable to defend themselves or who clearly express their intention to surrender.
International humanitarian law prohibits the use of this procedure, that is, ordering that there shall be no survivors, threatening the adversary therewith, or conducting hostilities on this basis.
Denial of quarter is a grave breach of international humanitarian law.”
Of course you would consult international law to attack our country. You want our soldiers thrown in prison for carrying out the orders of our lawfully elected president based on the laws of foreign nations.
You really need to get the fuck out of our country and go live with the people whose side you are on.
Well she vouches for traitors terrorists criminals so qed
Hey, anyone else here try the Kraft apple pie macaroni and cheese for Thanksgiving?
Original Mike said...
"I would might revisit my links Eva but every time I reload the page, they’ve disappeared."
I take it this was from that gaslighting dipshit who thinks he's an intellectual.
I don't think they are being spam foldered because the welcome words "Comment by Ronald J. Ward blocked." have been appearing pretty frequently in this thread.
The dumbass is probably not reloading the page, he's hitting the 'go back' arrow which does cause the comment you just published to disappear because your browser goes back to the last version of the page that was loaded. It threw me the first time it happened but I pretty quickly realized what it was.
That seems wrong on a number of levels
Ronald J. Ward said...
Aaron, The WW2 analogy doesn’t apply here. Modern law of armed conflict isn’t judged by Midway or U-boat tactics—it’s judged by post-WW2 treaties and customary law.
Striking a hostile vessel multiple times to sink it is lawful.
Intentionally targeting survivors who are hors de combat is not.
Those are two completely different actions under today’s Geneva Convention standards.
So the legal question isn’t ‘did they attack twice?’
It’s: was the second strike aimed at an ongoing military threat (the vessel), or at people who were already out of the fight?
That’s the line between lawful action and a war crime in modern law.
Let's see.
Does the United States subject its soldiers to international law?
No?
So it is only traitorous fucks like you want our soldiers put in jail based on international law then.
We know you are more concerned about Afghan soldiers than US soldiers. Now you make it clear you are more concerned about Venezuelan drug dealers than American Soldiers.
Keep it up. Please make it clear as day who you support.
Oh please Aaron, if you want me to consider taking the bait, at least make it appealing?
I’m not claiming anything about ‘strafing the water.’
What I am saying is that legality depends on the status of the target at the time of the second strike—not the number of minutes between missiles.
If the vessel was still considered a valid military threat (assuming for argument that it ever was) a second missile is lawful.
If the vessel was disabled and only survivors remained, intentionally targeting those survivors would not be lawful.
The timing only matters insofar as it indicates which of those two conditions existed.
So before we can debate minutes or seconds, we’d need to establish a factual point:
Was the vessel still an active military target when the second missile was fired?
If you think about it cheese is often paired with apples. Then there’s apple pie topped with a slice of cheddar cheese.
I would rather have a scoop of ice cream on top
Achillies, the U.S. absolutely does subject its servicemembers to law in combat—our own.
The Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), U.S. Rules of Engagement (ROE), and the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) are all mandatory for American troops.
Those are U.S. laws and U.S. rules, not ‘foreign’ courts.
And LOAC isn’t optional; every U.S. service member is trained in it. Violations can be prosecuted in U.S. military courts.
That’s not me ‘siding with Venezuela’—that’s how the U.S. military operates.
Supporting American troops means supporting the legal standards they themselves are required to follow.
Pretending those rules don’t exist doesn’t protect them—it puts them at risk.
So this isn’t about defending Venezuelans, Afghans, or anyone else. It’s about staying consistent with the laws our own military imposes on its own people.
Always interesting reading military analysis from those without military experience.
Sure, apple pie, cheddar cheese, ice cream on top - with a pickle.
“The US military subjects its soldiers to international law through training, mandatory compliance with the law of armed conflict, and the requirement to disobey unlawful orders. US law incorporates international law, and service members' oaths are to the Constitution, which includes international treaties and the law of war.”
“Incorporation into US law: US law automatically incorporates international law, according to theforge.defence.gov.au. This is a long-standing principle affirmed by the US Supreme Court.”
Gemini
"International humanitarian law prohibits the use of this procedure, that is, ordering that there shall be no survivors, threatening the adversary therewith, or conducting hostilities on this basis."
Well, let's take a look at this, shall we?
"prohibits the use of this procedure, that is, ordering that there shall be no survivors"
Were these orders issued? Evidence of such, please.
"threatening the adversary therewith"
Were the adversaries advised that such orders had, in fact, been issued? Again... evidence, please.
"or conducting hostilities on this [no survivors] basis"
It's necessary to insure that there must be survivors? Really?
Ronald J. Ward said...
Achillies, the U.S. absolutely does subject its servicemembers to law in combat—our own.
Yeah, I know. I actually did that.
I remember you fucks trying to get us thrown in jail then too.
You have always hated us and you hate our country.
What’s with all the spaces in the comment section. My thumb hurts from all the scrolling I have to do now
Inga said...
“The US military subjects its soldiers to international law through training, mandatory compliance with the law of armed conflict, and the requirement to disobey unlawful orders. US law incorporates international law, and service members' oaths are to the Constitution, which includes international treaties and the law of war.”
“Incorporation into US law: US law automatically incorporates international law, according to theforge.defence.gov.au. This is a long-standing principle affirmed by the US Supreme Court.”
Maybe you should stop talking to Gemini and go talk to your daughter.
She might tell you what Rules of Engagement are and who makes them.
Then you wouldn't sound like a stupid traitorous retard.
Um- so far the talk of that order being given is from "unnamed advisors". Unnamed advisors- hmm..
No credible reporting. Everyone in the chain of command would recognize that as an unlawful order. Immediately. I give no credence to "unnamed advisors".
And if named people come forward and are registered democrats, I'd give less credence then that.
Repeating such allegations or stating they're true without proof is libel or slander, actionable libel or slander, and is going to cost.
The MSM report https://archive.is/XaZrB. And Todd Huntley, former military lawyer, is blowing smoke out his rectum. I poste links to two, not one, but two laws on the books in US Code that specifically authorize firing upon smugglers/pirates/stateless vessels.
Ronald J Ward at 552 - I am a 2024 DJT voter. Sat out 2020 and 2016. I am not MAGA, but self identify Conservative. FO and war crime talk can fuck off.FO, seriously, FO.
We killed all those Japanese soldiers and sailors without due process! It was okay to do that to Germans, cuz they were racists
I also remember when Barrack Obama became President and when he changed our ROE's.
President Barrack Obama changed our ROE's just as Ronald J Ward and Inga wanted.
President Barrack Obama changed our ROEs so that as many of us would be killed as possible.
...“Indiana state Senator Michael Bohacek, a Republican, said on Friday that he will vote against a redistricting plan supported by President Donald Trump, citing his “insulting and derogatory references”....
Think of it as a litmus test, and he came up blue. I'm sure his constituents will be eternally grateful for his cunning plan of revenge for Mean Tweets that will leave their state at a disadvantage by next year's election.
Mason G, so you’re still in the “they didn’t do it” or “prove they did it” phase.
I don’t see any need to argue at that level because eventually, it won’t matter. It never does.
Roe have been bonkers at least since beirut although the embassy bombings proved the point
Who scouted out the embassy bombing the egyptian col ali mohammed who also trained at ft bragg after he gave andy mccarthy the slip
"If you think about it cheese is often paired with apples. Then there’s apple pie topped with a slice of cheddar cheese."
Old cheddar cheese. That's important. Just got an apple pie for my birthday. Paired it with 12 year old cheddar.
It's time to lighten the mood.
It’s Only a Paper Moon // Joscho Stephan Trio feat. Caroline Mhlanga
Regarding "Giving quarter". The Israelis when they attacked the USS Liberty not only attacked the ship, they strafed sailors in the water. But then Israel doesn't believe in Western Civilized Warfare. That's why they murder women and Children in Gaza.
But that's a side point. In land combat, there's no obligation to recieve a surrender. For example, when General Wainwright surrended the troops to General Homma at Corregidor, he decline the surrender and demanded Wainwright surrender all the troops in the Philippines. Harsh, but not against international law - at the time.
In air warfare shooting at enemy in parachutes is considered unsporting, but I doubt its against international law.
I'm not wild about a lot of Trump's rhetoric, but let's be honest, Walz is retarded as is his wife.
Trump to Pardon Honduran Ex-President Serving 45-Year Drug Sentence ~ WSJ
Whether it’s Biden pardoning kids who were caught with a couple ounces of weed or Trump pardoning the Honduran president who smuggled in 400 tons of cocaine, both presidents were soft on drugs.
Wonder how much Trump is being paid for the pardon.
"I'm not wild about a lot of Trump's rhetoric..."
Suppose Trump responds to the press politely and apologetically the next time he's targeted by a 'gotcha' question. Do you suppose the reaction will be "Gee- maybe we misread the guy. He's really not as bad as we've been making him out to be."
Yeah, me neither.
I remember in the second Iraqi war a marine, being the last the leave the building, put a bullet in the head of all the corpses.
Over the top? Against, "humanitarian law"? The conspiracy of billionaires?
This quarter discussion is actually relevant to the Zep thread:
https://youtu.be/kW3xDZrlBQs?si=xcWmpA-RWNFYQW2k
CC, JSM
Killing people without any legal basis in boats on the open sea, while releasing the trafficker of 400 tons of drugs from an American prison. Breathtaking hypocrisy even by Trump's standards.
"The Thick of It" is a British political drama featuring Peter Capaldi (former Dr. Who actor) as an enforcer. It is flippin' brilliant.
I cannot stand endless mood setting music and tone setting. This show goes so far in the other direction. It is is non stop dialogue. Exhausting with its pace, but endlessly entertaining.
The show was created by and produced by Armondo Iannucci, who was also in Death Of Stalin. It is a non-stop sequence of fast paced brutal humor. Think "Yes Minister", but far more modern and cutting.
I'll need to watch it twice to get half the jokes, and I lived in the UK for over a decade.
"[the Geneva convention says that once a boat is hit or ship wrecked, survivors are entitled to assistance."
Secretary Hegseth reportedly ordered the Venezuelan boat to be destroyed as soon as he learned there was no cocaine aboard.
On the one hand, Hegseth keeps ordering murders. On the other hand, that’s what he was appointed to do.
Kakistocracy said...
Killing people without any legal basis in boats on the open sea,
14 USC 637: Stopping vessels; immunity for firing at or into vessel
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-2000-title14-section637&num=0&edition=2000
14 U.S. Code § 526 - Stopping vessels; indemnity for firing at or into vessel
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/14/526
Here's the two laws that say you can, indeed, do just that. Covers smugglers, pirates, and stateless vessels. Now find me a law that says the government is prohibited from doing so. As for the kill order?
The following is quoted from X, and the link to the thread https://x.com/SeanParnellUSA/status/1994556986768155105
Sean Parnell
@SeanParnellUSA
We told the Washington Post that this entire narrative was false yesterday.
These people just fabricate anonymously sourced stories out of whole cloth.
Fake News is the enemy of the people.
Rusty, what you’re describing sounds more like something from a TV dramatization than from actual Marine Corps protocol. U.S. forces operate under LOAC, ROE, and UCMJ—not movie rules—and every actual rational minded Marine knows the difference.
"Maynard said...
Igna is not a traitor, Achilles.
She is just a simple minded nurse who knows better than people who are far more intelligent, experienced and intellectually sophisticated than she is."
Great sense of humor, Maynard.
As for hitting the boat a second time, that's just the Lie of the Day followed by the Pearl Clutching of the Day to be followed by the Deep Sixing of the Previous and Now Debunked Lie of the Day to Make Room for Today's Lie of the Day.
Ronald J. Ward said...
Rusty, what you’re describing sounds more like something from a TV dramatization than from actual Marine Corps protocol. U.S. forces operate under LOAC, ROE, and UCMJ—not movie rules—and every actual rational minded Marine knows the difference.
It is hilarious to watch this retard thinks he knows what rational minded Marines know. I bet you watched some really cool documentaries on youtube.
Standard react to contact battle drill:
Engaged unit achieves fire superiority and suppression. Trailing unit flanks and sweeps across perpendicular to the engaged unit clearing across. Once they have advanced and cleared the field of fire the engaged unit clears forward.
We did this drill over and over again. Both teams shot everyone they saw. On both sweeps. If they looked dead you still shot them.
You are just a know nothing idiot.
It was only after Barrack Obama became President that the ROEs were changed to make it so that more of us got killed.
Because getting more of us killed was always the Democrats goal.
Kakistocracy said...
"[the Geneva convention says that once a boat is hit or ship wrecked, survivors are entitled to assistance."
Secretary Hegseth reportedly ordered the Venezuelan boat to be destroyed as soon as he learned there was no cocaine aboard.
On the one hand, Hegseth keeps ordering murders. On the other hand, that’s what he was appointed to do.
The word "reportedly" does a lot of work for traitors working with our foreign enemies to attack Americans.
It isn't the Cocaine that gets them killed.
It is going to be the guns that get them killed. As soon as a weapon is PID'd and intent is established they are valid targets. As soon as someone is maneuvering with a weapon they get shot.
I know it makes no difference to the idiots on this thread defending drug smugglers, but just what is your solution to stopping - or at least restricting - the hundreds of millions of dollars worth of drugs coming into the country?
Frankly, I don't care how they're taken out. And if that gets your undies in a bunch, I don't care about that, either.
Would it ever occur to you if somebody was doing this years and years ago, the streets of our cities wouldn't be filled with half-dead, drooling zombies?
Charlie Sheen was interviewed by Megyn Kelly a week or so ago (and he was previously interviewed by Joe Rogan) during which he discussed his own personal political migration over the last year. One year ago he voted for Kamala. When she lost, he was in despair. Flashbacks from the first Trump term where he was constantly angry and had trouble sleeping. And the first year of his second term was going to coincide with his return to public life in order to promote a documentary and book he helped create about himself.
CS decided he had to find an off ramp. Decided that for all the big decisions in his life he had always done the research himself and decided for himself. Yet in politics he was getting 'fed' his political positions by the MSM. So he decided to take a closer look. Where he ended up he's very careful not to say. He's not saying he's a Trumper. He is saying he's on the right, using taxes as the reason. So he's leaving the Democrats but staying away from MAGA so he can still potentially get a new TV show. Seems likely to make him unemployable in Woke Hollywood. Or could be the start of a preference cascade ht Gavin Newsom.
No normal citizen cares about the technical legality of it. If it might be illegal, Trump can just issue pardons before he leaves office and problem solved, right?
Sweetie: Nobody on either side gives a shit about what Charlie Sheen thinks or does. New Yorkers typically wander the streets beneath the skyscrapers, talking to themselves, anyway. But to bring you up to date:
Charlie Sheen has allegedly found love again. The actor who claimed to have slept with an astounding 47,000 women is giving the male dating scene a try. The Two and a Half Men star has, for years, had a bigger focus than dating, getting sober. It’s a journey he’s successfully been on since 2017.
Since the summer, though, he has reportedly been dating a new man. It’s a massive change from the old Charlie Sheen. The Emmy Award winner previously admitted to being with a string of hookers and strippers while involved in his share of one-night stands. He’s also had three unsuccessful marriages.
https://www.realitytea.com/2025/11/27/charlie-sheen-protective-new-boyfriend-relationship/
A personal observation. We are in San Francisco at least once a year to visit the kids. Last year (2024) we were there twice, and in 2025 once, in Sept/Oct. I make a point of walking down Market street, downtown, to get a feel for things.
In 2024 the state of things seemed dreadful, about what I expected from 2021, 2022, 2023. I saw the famous bent over drug zombies in numbers. In 2025 I did not see these people.
Why? I dont know. Something had improved.
@Sweetie: I was listening to the Joe Rogan interview when the news broke that Charlie Kirk had been shot.
Sheen responded much more maturely than I expected, which impressed me. It’s clear he’s finally started thinking for himself.
I copied this verbatim from a blogger who writes under the name “CdrSalamander”:
What were we told in the early years by those put in leadership with responsibility for stewardship of our nation’s security?
“We have to fight them over there, or we will have to fight them over here.”
Even that was made a lie. This last week, the failure of our nation’s elite in leadership and vision required another child sacrifice, just as it did at Abbey Gate.
You weren’t even born yet when the attacks of 9/11 took place. You weren’t even of legal driving age when your nation was defeated in Afghanistan by a loosely organized tribal society, and forced into a humiliating retreat from Kabul.
You weren’t even of legal drinking age when—in the shadow of the Army & Navy Club where the appointed and important would meet to discuss defending your nation from enemies foreign and domestic—the end result of a quarter century of bad leadership and worse policy decided to walk up to you.
The highly credentialed and peer-reviewed best-and-brightest who brought a whole series of national humiliations at home and abroad during your short life—who to your face will make condescending comments about your home state and make patronizing tut-tuts to your social class—decided for their own self-referential reasons to import millions of people from the cultures you watch attack your nation across the globe.
The same people, for their personal social clout with those who they wanted to curry favor with and ideological reasons, turned your nation’s capital into a dirty, crime-ridden hazard to anyone who did not have a security detail.
In spite of that, you signed up to wear your nation’s uniform. Serving on a deployment that brought safety to Washington, DC, to levels not seen in years, you fell at the hands of an enemy screaming a call that thousands of your countrymen heard before they were killed over the last quarter century: ‘Allahu akbar!’
You fell on the street of your nation’s capital you were ordered to defend, at the hands of a creation of The Smartest People in the Room™ who told you, your parents, and your countrymen to trust them.
They failed, not you. We failed you, as you did your duty.
I feel his pain.
In 2025 I did not see these people.
They're dead?
As a son of Appalachia, I understand the opioid crisis better than anyone. That's why I'm proud to stand with the Honduran president who delivered drugs to needy Americans with such efficiency. ~ JD Vance
"Killing people without any legal basis in boats on the open sea, while releasing the trafficker of 400 tons of drugs from an American prison. Breathtaking hypocrisy even by Trump's standards."
That's the "beauty" of his crimes -- each worse than the one before. And all sane, law abiding, rational people will be gasping in horror and his base -- which has none of those qualities -- will just claim TDS.
"Why? I dont know. Something had improved."
Newsom is running for President.
re Charlie Sheen; a lot of the the people who support Trump that I listen to, are people from "the left" who were sickened by Joe Biden, and the denial of the utter corruption that was plain to see.
Most normal Democrats are not as comfortable as Inga with cheering on war, for one thing, maybe the only thing. There is a sense of "let's get these endless wars ended, then we can fight it out then, and by "fight" I mean it in the sense of normal politics.
"Wonder how much Trump is being paid for the pardon."
This is the guy who has no curiosity about how the last Democrat pardoned 10,000 people with an autopen. Not worried at all about the "ten percent for the big guy" quote, it's all projection with the Democrats, all of it.
This Thanksgiving I'm thankful that Inga, Kak, and gad have finally run out of cut/paste comments on the Epstein files.
So, serious discussion of the 47 Admin's apparent contradictions on drugs. And guns.
Left to his own devices, Trump, like most of the postmodern Rs, would be rather libertarian on the issue of outlawing inanimate objects. However, he has a lot of other problems to solve: domestic violent crime, stopping the ChiCom ascendancy, keeping order in this hemisphere, securing the border, kicking out the existing invaders, even fixing healthcare, etc, etc. All of these problems are inter-related: for example, an orderly western hemisphere would reduce the northward immigration pressure.
And so while looking about for tools to work on these problems, Rs find the drug and gun laws lying there. So they use them. Kind of like Giuliani, who probably locked up more people for drug and gun violations than any two Ds put together.
But since the drug and gun laws are just tools, not principles, for Trump, he sees nothing wrong with enforcing them strictly in one instance and showing mercy in another.
A couple of asides:
- One of the reasons the Dems want urban crime to continue is because otherwise Trump would be much more motivated for an aggressive 2nd Amendment agenda. Wiping away all the DC gun laws, for a start. And declaring many federal gun laws unconstitutional nationwide, and ordering his US Attys not to lock people up for them. We saw a tiny glimpse of this with Pirro saying she's not going to prosecute open carry of long guns.
- The Honduran president pardon may conflict with a strict anti-drug agenda, but it is squarely in the middle of Trump's much more important anti-lawfare agenda. He's been doing everything he can to help Bolsonaro, for example.
Final thought: pro-gunners used to say "if only we regulated drugs like we regulate cars!" What if we regulated healthcare (to include all drugs) like we regulate cars? CC, JSM
All this concern about stupid drug boats and not one word about the demolition of our sacred East Wing. Priorities, people!!
I want to thank Left Bank talking down TSLA to $390, so I could get back in last Friday. +10% in one week. So much to be thankful. Nice.
Not as much as I made off Kak, but I did give Kak a month. I’m sure others made more off Kak too.
I love the dynamic ribbon of clouds in the top photo!
Beasts of England said...
All this concern about stupid drug boats and not one word about the demolition of our sacred East Wing. Priorities, people!!
Now that the Epstein files shows collaboration between Jeffery and Democrats to frame Trump; they don't want to talk about it.
Well they did replace chesa boudin and the mayor with a strauss heir i believe
Nebraska fans upset! Blown out by Iowa. Coach has a $71m buyout.
Its ironic how the carnage of the cocaine cowboys has been vieŵed through a rose colored lens through the documentarians conboy and co through the many films about barry seal (the tom cruise vehicle) and pablo escobar a recent one about carlos lehder that they went all in on the production values (a coproduction with paramount)
Yes i recognize that miamis tonier suburbs were beneficiaries of this strife but it wrought much damage to urban and middle class neighborhoods
Look at all that global warming outside!
Good thing Obama gave all that money to Solyndra!
Beasts of England said...
All this concern about stupid drug boats and not one word about the demolition of our sacred East Wing. Priorities, people!!
That’s the Trump confidence racket- muddy the waters and throw as much sand in the air as possible- keep the zone constantly flooded with shit- convince the Basket of Gulibles that the Dems hate them and that owning them is paramount, even if it convinces them to justify selective murder.
A new day, new outrage. The ultimate end game is for the billionaires to exit stage right with the loot while the Basket is consumed in woke and blaming the Dems and Brown men for the greavances they’ve been groomed to be victimized by.
’That’s the Trump confidence racket- muddy the waters and throw as much sand in the air as possible- keep the zone constantly flooded with shit- convince the Basket of Gulibles that the Dems hate them and that owning them is paramount, even if it convinces them to justify selective murder.’
Are the Gulibles a subset of white nationalists? I can’t keep up…
Like the boogaloo boys lol
Yes Beast, there seems to be considerable appeal in that area.
Ronald: in all seriousness, the gullible folk are the people Trump spun up to care about an office annex behind razed. And now y’all are equally spun up about drug runners. To quote the Marshall Tucker Band: can’t you see?
Shirley he cant be serious
Beasts: "To quote the Marshall Tucker Band: can’t you see?"
Gonna take a freight train
Down at the station, Lord
I don't care where it goes
Gonna climb a mountain
The highest mountain
I'll jump off, nobody gonna know
Can't you see, whoa, can't you see
What that Trumpy, Lord, he's been doin' to me?
I'm gonna find me a hole in the wall
I'm gonna crawl inside and die
'Cause my POTUS, now a mean ol' Donald, Lord
Told the East Wing goodbye
Can't you see, oh, can't you see
What that Trumpy, Lord, he's been doin' to me?
I've gone to buy a ticket now, as far as I can
Ain't a-never coming back
Ride me a southbound, all the way to Georgia now
'Til the train, it run out of track
CC, JSM
Fine work, john mosby!!
House Speaker Mike Johnson read a prepared statement from the Book of Revelation: "The Bible says 'blessed are the drug traffickers, for they shall inherit the interstate.’ Or something like that.”
Am I really that far off? I don’t think so.
But calling him Shirley is fine.
The Gulibles are the people who thought Mexico was going to pay for a wall, followed instructions to get real mad when Trump 45 lost a fair election, cheered when told the Proud Boys were standing by, and were fine with taking a hammer to Pelosi’s head, hanging Pence, and murdering state lawmakers.
It’s not really that I’m spun up about the boat murders but rather the shear hypocrisy and indoctrination of the Trump cult. Trump has been grooming the Basket of Gulibles into hate, division, and violence from the start. That charisma is simply his skill set- much like how Jones convinced his Gulibles of a corrupt government and kept them confined within his camp. Isolation with manipulated radio and fear of outsiders worked pretty good for Hitler as well. Neither worked well for the Gulibles.
Maybe that explains how and why the MAGA shield is cracking and saying to each other; can’t ya see. I can understand why they’d want crawl in a hole and die.
The CDC halted a 40 year research project on monkeys in search of an HIV vaccine.
From PETA:
PETA is thanking the administration for taking this decisive, visionary step and acknowledging what mountains of evidence have made clear: Experiments on monkeys aren’t delivering for humans, nowhere more obvious than the four-decade failure to produce a marketable HIV vaccine. Today, we’re celebrating a historic turning point—one that protects public health, respects endangered species, and helps propel research into a modern, animal-free future.
PETA goes MAGA.
’Isolation with manipulated radio and fear of outsiders worked pretty good for Hitler as well.’
Whatever you do, don’t mention the war. I did once, but I think I got away with it…
h/t Basil Fawlty
Further to my last post on animal research:
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-announces-plan-phase-out-animal-testing-requirement-monoclonal-antibodies-and-other-drugs
“ It’s not really that I’m spun up about the boat murders but rather the shear hypocrisy and indoctrination of the Trump cult.”
Normal Americans will leave the “shear hypocrisy” to the ‘rats and their perpetually fleeced flock.
A fine choice, Messers Beasts and Mosby.
Someday, when they are looking for a perfect example of projection propaganda, they are going to find Ronald J Ward's comments. I guess "A Reasonable Man" left a hole in this blog, that Ward is determined to fill.
Step 2 of the animal research ban: RFK is going to free the monkeys into high crime areas. They’ll rip the faces off gangbangers and take charge of their territories. The hood residents will rejoice and worship them like Hanuman ( not the commenter). We’ll be able to pull the Guard back. CC, JSM
Let loose the Chimps with Machine Guns…
The real Gulibles are the people who fell for the Affordable Care Act and the Inflation Reduction Act. How many trillions have those two cost the American people?
Ronald J. Ward said...
Trump lickers, suck on this; the Geneva convention says …
Who cares what the Geneva Convention says? To quote the great Barack Obama in 2011, we are not engaged in war. This is merely “kinetic military action.”
john mosby said...
Step 2 of the animal research ban: RFK is going to free the monkeys into high crime areas.
PETA will protest this. They’ll get an injunction to release the primates in safer areas, like the Upper West Side in NYC and Kalorama in DC.
Speaking of "shear" hypocrisy, I believe the best example of that might be getting your hair cut by one of the blue-haired ladies who simply shave half of their head and let the other half go wild.
Big Mike: "PETA will protest this. They’ll get an injunction to release the primates in safer areas, like the Upper West Side in NYC and Kalorama in DC."
Hey, win-win. Rip off some rich leftie faces! CC, JSM
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