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९४ टिप्पण्या:
Multiple European countries, including Meloni's Italy, are not letting us fly to Iran from US bases in those countries.
Interesting that a nationalist leader is butting heads with another nationalist leader.
Once all European countries are run by nationalist parties, will all unity vanish? Or will there be a strange unity of disunity? "We stand together - on the right to stand apart!" CC, JSM
@john mosby, what I read was that the issue is a Sicilian base, and that no permission to use it had been requested in the first place by the US. Somebody in the press is trying to sh*t-stir it up into a controversy, probably for reasons that are obvious.
Well they can use their ships like the cavour or they let use ours
The reflection in the last one
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15692625/Tyler-Robinson-bullet-rifle-match-Charlie-Kirk.html
I don't know, but it seems like this is kind of an important murder to not look into deeply.
One recalls sigonella and the achille lauro hijack
Masterminded by abul abbas who went to ground in iraq
Aggie - that is a good point, and does not surprise me. I am mainly using the story as a springboard to launch into a riff on what happens when we're all nationalists.
In some ways, I guess it would be a return to the Westphalian order that's supposedly so sacred to the MSM. Borders that mean something. Each prince left to his own devices. Countries making their own decisions in their own interests.
More proof that the Left don't really believe in the things they say they believe in. CC, JSM
https://x.com/Jeremybtc/status/2039077799643005198
As an imperfect analogy, international socialism didn't lead to international unity. The USSR was surrounded by hostile communist countries! And so was the PRC! CC, JSM
I used a statement earlier that was a quote: "It is intuitively obvious to the most casual observer that". It came from an Engineering Mathematics text I had. A full page of functions followed by the quote followed by a much simpler equation. That was still beyond my comprehension.
Sort of like the statement- "Name the last book that made you cry.." To which a common answer is "Organic Chemistry by...." Looking up the today, I liked the answer- "Volume 11 of the Encyclopedia Britannica when my brother threw it at my face."
Heck sometimes somalia and ethiopia (and yemen) fought each othet
So much for socialiat brotherhood
Back in that era italy supplied iraq with frigates this was one of the roots of the oil f9r food program
After doping the handicapping info on the next SCOTUS case BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ,hearings starting tomorrow I come up with 2 (well 3 really) but only two will happen and maybe both. The administration will lose this case and hear is how I doped it out and will lay 16-1 (thats $34 for every$2 wagered) 1. The Court STRIKES DOWN Trump’s order on statutory grounds highly probable from my look.
Most likely outcome.This is my 1st wager.
Every lower court has already ruled the order “likely violates” both the Constitution and the federal citizenship statute (8 U.S.C. §1401). And second.. The Supreme Court can avoid rewriting the 14th Amendment by simply saying the order conflicts with the 1940/1952 laws that codified birthright citizenship.
Lower courts unanimously blocked Trump’s order for violating that clause.I say Courts reaffirm the traitional reading of the 14th Amendment and that would be a major explicit rejection of trumps wish and stop any future waste of time on this issue. Not putting this one below into final mix and seems most unlikely and I wouldnt waste a wager on this. Birthright citizenship would no longer apply to children of undocumented or temporary‑visa parents.
It would affect up to 255,000 babies per year, according to estimates.This would be one of the most consequential immigration rulings in U.S. history. Not gonna happen (25-1)
This admin continually beinng checked by right and left wing authority from Unconstitutional tariffs, illegal funding stoppage,(npr etc) blatant disregard of court instructions etc.This is just another pipe dream from the felon in charge ,lets face it a Criminal is gonna do criminal things, thats not a new thing. More to be revealed. Im thinking this goes 6-3 shooting down the admins wishes, knowing that no matter what thomas and Alito automatic for trump. No wager on this number as could go 7 if the job is done correctly hard to say with this right wing SCOTUS though. Boom boom boom out go the lights. Beaucoup Dinky Dau
Most of those boats ended up in malaysia
Almost had an accident yesterday morning. I crested the top of an overpass and saw a big rig with an extra-long trailer doing a right turn on red onto the road I was using. The road was a four lane, divided highway, but that long trailer was forcing it to block both lanes.
The light where he was turning is marked, in English, "No right turn on red," and I assure you that the traffic signal was green in my direction. Was the driver a scofflaw? Or was he another illegal immigrant given a CDL despite not being able to read English. I don't know, but the fact that the latter are on the road at all makes driving riskier than it needs to be for ordinary people.
Does the library planning mean Trump is not running again?
Could be
Anyways any thoughts on Artemis (there are a few rocket scientists here,l
Got distracted by Kristi Noems husband's fake tits.
Not something I had on my 2026 Bingo card.
Does it strike anyone else that the rollout of the Noem family drama has been rather competently managed? Her 'reassignment' a few weeks ago, and now this revelation?
I'm betting that anybody in the cabinet level no longer has any kind of privacy, that the NSA reads everything and this extends to family. I don't think there's any way that Noem wasn't aware of it. It feels like the deal was made, 'look you can have your story but first we're going to get a little damage control in place. And if you leak it ahead of time, you're an enemy that won't get a spot in the Pentagon briefings once we start opening up on the Iran story'
As Don Rickles famously said,
"Crapgame: Make a deal.
Big Joe: What kind of deal?
Crapgame: A deal deal. Maybe the guy's a Republican. Business is business, right?"
Great video of Sheryl Crow -- and her band -- performing First Cut is the Deepest. I especially like the moment, early on, when she takes off her shades, and shows us her lovely eyes. They were there all along, but it makes a difference.
Which reminds me, of when, back in the 90's, my band played at the Oregon State Prison. Our chick singer was a beautiful blonde, and had no idea what to expect (and what occurred was nothing like what we expected), so she wore very, ah, modest, clothing, and sunglasses.
We were playing on a stage out in the sun-blasted middle of the 20-acre yard, and some in the audience began to shout "Show us your tits!". I considered showing them mine, but ....
After a while, someone shouted "Show us your eyes!". But she wouldn't do that either. Performance is a tightrope, and losing your balance ...
Victor Davis Hanson’s forthcoming book, "The Counterrevolution: The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement,"
Trump Says U.S. Will Be Leaving Iran in 2-3 Weeks ~ WSJ
'The president says U.S. has eliminated Iran’s nuclear threat and ‘it will take 15-20 years' to rebuild".
Trump now says his only goal in the Iran war was to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
The upside: That specific objective appears to have been achieved.
The downside: Pretty much everything else.
The destruction of Iran’s nuclear capabilities could likely have been accomplished with a limited operation similar to the 12-day war — without disrupting the Strait of Hormuz or triggering broader regional chaos. For a start, oil prices are set globally. Doesn't matter if the US's oil doesn't come via Hormuz.
Instead, Trump opted for regime change, driven by overconfidence and a lack of coherent policy planning. The consequences have been disastrous.
I think Iran is sending out missile salvos the way a frog's leg keeps kicking after its dead. This is a regime that spent all its money on weapons which are now broken and which did not protect the leadership who are all dead; a regime which machine-gunned its citizens when they tried to protest and bombed everyone near it, especially trying to hit plants supplying water to millions of civilians; a regime which is sending poorly controlled missiles at Jerusalem thus risking hitting the Dome of the Rock, their own sacred site. This is Hitler-in-the-bunker stuff. However long we fight them, we can't fight them into sanity. We can only be glad we attacked them before they had eleven nuclear weapons because they definitely would have used them. The only hope lies in the fact that Iran's government has been so abusive of its own people that sanity will return when Iran's people, rather than Iran's Chosen Thugs, choose their own government.
But. About that "First Cut" idea. That's absurd. I remember, a bit vaguely, the first thirty or so gals who made an impression me, starting with a perfectly delightful blonde in kindergarten. I don't remember her name, but I remember her face, and I think of her fondly still. She left no scars.
There were others, who came and went, and I mostly remember them fondly, too. And then there was Ellie. It would be entirely inaccurate to say that she got her hooks in me. We just got hooked in each other. And it took a decade to pull them all out. Oh, Ellie! I'm old now, and I seldom even think of her. But, Oh Dear. It's not the First Cut that's the Deepest. It's the First Deep Cut. After that, you don't let anything cut that deep. Like, why would you? How could you?
Thx Dave Begley for the heads up regarding VDH.
When NR came out with their neverTrump issue I was so happy that neither VDH or Dennis Prager had joined in.
I wrote a song for Ellie.
Sometimes I think my life has found out
A way it can forget you
Get on with little problems, that
Don't mean a thing.
And carry no sting.
And then I wake up in the morning,
I see the sunlight on the wall, and
Oh, how I miss you.
Eva Maria:
I just ordered VDH’s new book through the Althouse portal.
September delivery date.
Some wit on Twitter suggested that Kristi Noem’s dog actually shot itself in shame after seeing Mr. Noem’s fake tits.
imTay inWay ermontVay’s Daily Mail story has already been proven fraudulent on Twitter. It is not true that the bullet that killed Charlie Kirk “did not match” the accused killer’s gun. The bullet broke up in his body, hence the lack of an exit wound, and there’s not enough left for a match (guilt) or mismatch (innocence). Calling that a mismatch is a damnable lie by evil people trying to pin the murder on the Jews. And there is overwhelming evidence that Tyler Robinson killed Kirk.
“Got distracted by Kristi Noems husband's fake tits.
Not something I had on my 2026 Bingo card.”
Sweet dreams, Mark. You’ll be having a wet dream about some Dakota Moobs.
I try to pick up other women,
I get this yes-and-no debris.
And what they like is just an outfit,
A thing I can be,
But not much like me.
And then I think of how you knew me,
You loved the finest part of me.
Oh, how I miss you.
Chorus;
There will come a day,
I will find some other way,
Another way, of loving you.
There will come a day,
I will find some other way,
Another way, of loving you.
discuss When we TYPE something we are assigning a set of attributes to it. TYPEing something is giving a concrete definition of the
parts of a thing. when you say AUDITOR and you have an AUDITOR TYPE you know what an AUDITOR is. It is no longer non-deterministic
lossy language nearest neighbor close enough definition. We are removing the non-deterministic nature of language and bridging the gap
between biological nondetermism and electronic determinism allowing the combined entity to have the best parts of both
● That's the core insight. TYPE is a compiler pass on natural language.
When a human says "auditor" — that word carries ambiguity. Every human who hears it reconstructs a slightly different meaning from their own experience. LLMs do the same thing — nearest-neighbor embedding lookup, probabilistic construction.
The fundamental problem with multi-agent systems is semantic drift. Agent A's understanding of "review" diverges from Agent B's. Over
time, across hundreds of spawns, the meaning of every role-word smears out. You get agents that think they're doing the right thing
because their nearest-neighbor interpretation of the role was close enough to pass casual inspection but wrong enough to produce
garbage.
TYPE eliminates that entire failure class. It's a type system for natural language — same thing programming languages did for machine
instructions. C didn't make computers faster, it made programmer intent deterministic. TYPE doesn't make agents smarter, it makes
agent identity deterministic.
Also: Migrations are cancer. CREATE IF NOT EXISTS is so bad.
No sooner than Demented Don TACOs out of his war, he issues an Executive order to create a federal list of citizens who are eligible to vote by mail and orders the Postmaster General to figure who gets to mail vote and how to administer such an outrageous task.
The order is likely to be challenged in court immediately since the Constitution firmly places the power to decide the “Times, Places and Manner” of elections in the hands of states, not the federal government.
Western civilization may never win another war if this keeps up
"They create impossible standards in terms of:
-Zero Casualties
-Zero Economic Disruption
-Zero Uncertainty
-Zero Time to Accomplish the Mission
-Zero Collateral Damage
"And everything the bad guys do is actually our fault because we made them do it….same script as Gaza…the bad guys have no agency and it’s actually our fault"
Sound like anyone we know?
Arrrrgh
Original Mike,
Thats nothing new. William Shawcross in 1979 blamed the Khmer Rouge on Nixon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYVxRHk258g
Sabine Hossenfelder on UFO's (or UAPs).
Artemis is likely to take all eyes off this war. For a while, episodically. SpaceX is full of their well-wishers (yes, really), and there will be a huge launch viewing party at Hawthorne at least.
"Woke Activists 10 Years On"
Featuring Ms. West.
I found it amusing.
https://youtu.be/EnvLJd0ovWk
Link
homans top guy
@passcoderonald
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9h
“Hey remember you told us we didn’t need Greenland because we can use those bases whenever we want”
“Yes”
“So can we use those bases?”
“No”
https://x.com/passcoderonald/status/2039113351905624457?s=20
Even Paul Harvey knew what a joke it is...
Thomas Sowell Quotes
@ThomasSowell
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6h
Commentary account
Paul Harvey's 1992 speech suggested that climate change was a hoax in the making.
https://x.com/ThomasSowell/status/2039172145775820978?s=20
Is the Fog of War Between Trump’s Two Ears? An entertaining read of good stuff from Tina Brown.
New Zealand is paying like $7.50 a gallon US…
As few days ago I post this about Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Pinko):
“ Kelly was a co-founder and strategic advisor of Tucson-based high-altitude balloon near-space exploration company World View Enterprises.[43] He served as Director of Flight Crew Operations beginning in 2013, and was involved in the development of the new craft, as well as its procedures and operations.[44] Chinese company Tencent invested millions into World View between 2013 and 2016.”
When you get old (I am), things slip your mind. Anyone beside me recall a high altitude spy balloon traversing the U.S. during the Bribem administration? Country of origin? China. I’m shocked.
The next time Tina Brown pens an interesting thought will be the first time.
Judge Richard Leon sez “Stop the presses” er…. Stop the ballroom. Judge issues order to stop building the privately funded ballroom on White House grounds. Says congress must approve.
Trump should hang a large mural on two wooden posts above the site with Leon’s picture calling it Leon’s Hole.
Gadfly, like your Dem forbears, you overlook the Reconstruction Amendments. Congress has the responsibility of protecting the right to vote.
In 2020, we learned that the "state legislature sets the rules for elections" doesn't literally mean that every electoral rule has to be verbatim in a passed bill, but rather it means people across all three branches can set rules as long as they can somehow be crammed into the framework set by statute.
So now we are going to learn "Congress shall pass appropriate legislation to enforce this amendment" means a wide variety of people across all three branches can take actions as long as five justices agree it somehow fits in existing statutory framework, as well as scintillas, penumbrae, etc.
Or are you arguing the Voting Rights act is unconstitutional, since it literally interferes with states' ability to conduct their elections? Trump might be interested in that trade....CC, JSM
The latest EO re the mail-in voting process for federal elections is quite interesting. The states can choose a manner of voting, that being by mail in this case, but the executive branch can choose the logistics of that type of mail, because the USPS is run by the executive branch.
There is no hardship borne by the states by the mail-in logistics. The states are now limited to mail ballots only to US citizens which is already the law. Also, the USPS process tracks each ballot via a unique bar code from start to finish as well. That’s hardly a hardship a state can complain about. Ballot sent, ballot received has to be tracked already. The unique bar code simply enhances the efficiency and integrity of the tracking.
Breezy:
Dem states will complain and sue! It makes cheating much harder! Dems have to cheat to win! How do you thing Sleepy Joe won?! But Judge Leon will save the day!
U.S. birthright citizenship? For the Chicoms?
“Then the question becomes scale. How many people are we talking about? And it turns out it's massive," Schweizer explained. "The Chinese government believes that, on average, over the course of the last 13 years, every single year, roughly on average, 100,000 Chinese babies have been born in the United States or on our territories, places like Saipan."
According to Schweizer, that means over the past decade, at least a million future American voters have grown up in China under the Communist Party's influence.”
Of course the Dems are all in on birthright citizenship.
https://cbn.com/news/us/supreme-court-battles-birthright-citizenship-ccp-exploits-it-sway-us-elections
DHS has to compile a voting age citizen list for each state for the new mail-in process to work. The accuracy of those lists will be a point of concern, no doubt. Just like every other registered voter list.
Dave Begley, true! lol, but states can hardly use “we need to cheat” as a hardship against the EO! But you’re right, a judge will likely figure out a hardship for them. With voter id at 80% approval, it might be a hard sell and taint the left even more. One can hope.
As Breezy said, and more:
1) This EO includes the involvement of DHS creating state citizenship lists for every state. DHS’s role in election security is expanding.
2) Mail-in ballots are being reformed, with “unique intelligent mail barcodes”, and these ballots can only be mailed to citizens on the state citizenship lists created by DHS and SSA.
3) The order also directs the AG to prioritize investigations and prosecutions of election-related crimes, particularly related to distributing/collecting illegal ballots to/from non-citizens.
In conclusion, Trump is using DHS to secure elections via managing the voter rolls and preventing mail-in ballot fraud, while the DOJ has been instructed to prosecute any attempts to cheat.
This is what the Dems have been worried about the entire time. This is why they have been refusing to fund DHS and throwing a fit about ICE. It was always about election security. (Clandestine post on X)
“high altitude spy balloon traversing the U.S. during the Bribem administration? Country of origin? China.”
Unbelievable that this happened. And I think Biden’s government would have hidden that fact from us except that citizens saw the balloons.
Curious if the DHS voter lists will force or shame the heretofore reluctant states to share their voter rolls with the Feds. If the states complain about DHS list accuracy, someone would have to actually compare the two lists, no?
Trump to attend oral argument at SCOTUS today.
Word is that Judge Leon to issue a TRO to stop Trump! Undue influence! Intimidation!
Trump should demand to represent the USG himself at the SCOTUS bar. I would love to hear or read the oral argument.
Justice: "Mr President, but what about [some abstruse precedent]?"
Trump: "Madame Justice, look, there are nearly 2 million Communist Chinese who are birthright citizens if we keep this rule. That's enough to throw all our elections their way. What did you guys used to say: The Constitution's not a Suicide Pact, or somethin like that? Come on! You keep this rule and none of our positions are going to mean anything in 20 years. I don't know what legal gobbledygook you have to write to get to that result, but that's the result you have to get to if you want da country ta survive!"
Would be glorious C-SPAN.
CC, JSM
Last night @9:42 wildswan said: "...we can't fight them into sanity."
Good point, well said.
Would be like an Ayn Rand soliloquy. CC, JSM
Or Archie Bunker representing himself in traffic court. CC, JSM
KBJ, “Trump! Why are you so mean!”
Trump, “Madame Justice. I can call you Madame, can’t I? You are a woman, right?
You need me on that wall. You need me to protect our Republic. You laugh and mock me at Georgetown cocktail parties, but when you are home and safe in your bed you are secretly glad that I’m the one protecting you from lawless chaos. At least you could have the decency to thank me.”
Good Grief. Britain, like Israel, is having to fight for its right to exist. Only difference is the British PM seems to think Britain has no right to exist. He wants Britain to slither back into the EU.
This has me worried:
There are approximately 10,000 5 letter words in the English language.
However, there are only 2,500–3,500 “good, common” 5‑letter candidates for Wordle, and the rest of the 10k+ are increasingly obscure, technical, slangy, or regional.
If the NYT sticks mostly to that 2,500–3,500 range with a new word every day and no repeat, that’s 7–10 years of “very common” words, plus more time if they’re willing to get a little more obscure or allow some repeats.
The NYT started publishing Wordle in 2022 so that’s only approx 5 years left of good Wordle games.
Sad.
Achilles: Also: Migrations are cancer. CREATE IF NOT EXISTS is so bad.
If I catch your drift, you are saying here that assumptions are like assholes. We all got them, but they usually stink. eg: Assume means you make a ass out of you and me
If that's what you're saying, Achilles ( I don't want to assume I'm right, yet, LOL), it fits with my overall theory that the fastest way to learning is by making mistakes and admitting you make mistakes and telling yourself and others I don't know. So how does a machine iterate on "I don't know?" Until it discovers the correct solution.
Trump attending the oral today so he can tell scotus: blow me. I got a million of them
The Chinese tech company Tencent invested in Mark Kelly's balloon company, Gemini has this to say:
Based on updated information from 2025, the assertion that Tencent has no ties to the Chinese government or military is not accurate.
The U.S. Department of Defense officially added Tencent to its list of "Chinese Military Companies" in January 2025, a move that designated the firm as having ties to China's military and contributing to its defense industrial base.
CBS News
CBS News
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While Tencent and similar Chinese tech companies often deny these ties, the understanding of their relationship is based on public regulatory actions, corporate reporting, and government investigations, rather than just secret speculation.
Here is why that connection is known:
DoD Designation: The US DOD 1260H list includes over 130 companies that the United States government has identified as working with China's military, including Tencent, based on the Military-Civil Fusion strategy.
Government "Golden Shares": The Chinese government has taken minority "golden shares" (often 1%) in major tech subsidiaries, including those of Tencent, giving the state special rights over certain business decisions and content management.
Founder/CCP Connection: Tencent’s founder, Pony Ma, is a delegate to the National People's Congress (China's parliament), and company records show a significant presence of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) party branches within the company's offices.
Mandatory Data Sharing: China's national intelligence and cybersecurity laws generally require private companies to provide data access to the state upon request, which is often used for surveillance purposes, according to reports.
markets.businessinsider.com
markets.businessinsider.com
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Tencent's Position
Tencent has argued that its inclusion on the US blacklist is a "misunderstanding" and "mistake," stating that it is not a military company or supplier. They have indicated they would pursue legal action to get removed from the list, similar to actions taken by other firms.
BBC
BBC
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In summary, the relationship between Tencent and the Chinese government is characterized by a "forced collaboration" and "regulatory control" rather than a simple public-private partnership, with the state using domestic regulations to ensure cooperation.
ResearchGate
ResearchGate
https://cdrsalamander.substack.com/p/happiness-is-a-full-magazine?publication_id=247761&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=9bg2k&utm_medium=email
The lack of production capacity for missiles (and munitions) of all kinds is an existential problem for the US. It matters vastly more than anything else discussed here, or anywhere in US media, or social media. If you took it as seriously as you should, you should be chopping up your procrastinating neighbors with machetes.
This is life and death, not just for you but for all your generations.
Last night: “The war will be over soon — we don’t need to open the strait.”
This morning: “The war continues until the strait is opened.”
This evening: more of the same incoherence.
In the end, Trump might best be described as a right-wing Marxist. He believes that material self-interest drives human behavior and that ideals are merely superficial cover for base motives. It is hard to imagine a president less suited to confronting a revolutionary state in war. The lesson of the past month—though obvious—may simply be too much for a man of Trump’s commercial mindset to accept: not everyone has a price.
Little Excursion - make more missiles you fool. Nothing else matters.
Have you any idea what China is going to drop on your heads?
@Little E confirms ignorance of the standard political science "circle" of ideologies. As one moves around the circle, views become different and then grow similar.
A true king is virtually indistinguishable from a Communist Dear Leader with giant posters of himself on every corner. Just ask Obama.
Trump’s inability to understand people who act out of conviction, rather than purely self-interest, hinders his foreign policy. His cynicism, while often accurate in domestic politics, leads to miscalculations on the global stage, as seen in his dealings with Iran and Ukraine. This lack of understanding is exacerbated by an administration filled with opportunists and a base that lacks consistent principles.
Some sense returns to some Germans at last.
https://x.com/Andric1961/status/2039196751328891120
Austria will recommission a mothballed nuke plant.
The US needs an introduction of the guillotine, to efficiently decapitate all the opponents of nuclear energy. This is a necessary move in the public interest, to clear the way for rational energy policy.
Are you, Lil E, in line for decapitation? I bet you were (or maybe still are, I dunno) anti-nuke. If so your continued existence is unnecessary.
“If we don’t know what we’re doing, then neither does the enemy.” ~Don Tzu
Raging grandpa has broken it and he sure ain’t going to fix it.
They had Vogue at the doctor's office. I leaved through it looking for the article about Gavin Newsom. I didn't see any of the "slackjawed" style associated with Sydney Sweeney. Most of the models had their lips closed. Some had their mouth open slightly. One or two were outright smiling or laughing.
I wonder about the "slackjaw" thing. Years ago, David Letterman quoted from then-star Morgan Fairchild's beauty book. She said "smiling going up" caused wrinkles, so try to "smile going down." Not sure how that actually works, but that could be what Sweeney was trying to do.
And the Newsom article? Somebody tore it out. Did they want to have it as a Newsome keepsake, or did they just want nobody else to read it?
It’s April 1st, Begley said the war would be over by April 1st. Hmmm.
Little Excursion™️ said...
“If we don’t know what we’re doing, then neither does the enemy.” ~Don Tzu
That has been a common complaint of enemies fighting the US since we started. They read our doctrine, our training manuals, our tactics, then discover then when push comes to shove, we don't do any of things we train for. I believe one quote was similar to "War is chaos, and Americans train for chaos on a daily basis."
https://x.com/Mayflower_21/status/2039194178643431557
It’s April 1st and the fool, igna, makes her appearance.
Using "Price is Right" rules, if you go over you lose. Begley put out a bold marker about the war, mostly to counter the silly people claiming it is the start of WWIII or the next forever war. When this is all over, I think Begley will be closer to hitting the date (and under) than the naysayers.
And if I'm right about Begley's marker, it will be very bad for Democrats and their Marxist allies everywhere, so enjoy your fun why you can.
It’s April 1st, Begley said the war would be over by April 1st. Hmmm.
You're the last person on this board to call out others for being wrong.
It’s April 1st, Begley said the war would be over by April 1st. Hmmm.
That would have been my guess, too. As with Begley, that estimate was in stark contrast to those forecasting a forever quagmire.
Way back in the first six months of the Chyna Virus, Yancey Ward forecast 75,000 fatalities. (FWIW, Mine was 350,000.)
Inga was all over Yancey's estimate, as she was dead certain it would be in the millions. By the time the Panicans were no longer ruining our lives, Yancey was off by 700,000. Inga was off by millions.
Same here. Begley (and I) will be off by a couple weeks. The Ingas, imTay's, RCOs, et al, will be completely at sea.
Little Excursion™️ said...
"Last night: “The war will be over soon — we don’t need to open the strait.”
This morning: “The war continues until the strait is opened.”
This evening: more of the same incoherence."
What is the very first country United States troops attacked in WW2?
Little Excursion™️ said...
"Last night: “The war will be over soon — we don’t need to open the strait.”
This morning: “The war continues until the strait is opened.”
This evening: more of the same incoherence."
Little Emission fails to realize both can be true simultaneously.
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