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..the problem is our ruling class doesn't think of itself as 'American'. Too much Euro Socialism has been imprinted in their DNA. They ignore that the place attempted twice to commit suicide in the first half of the 20th Century.
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In hindsight, he wasn't POTUS - he run a Reality TV show from WH.
Far be it from me to be a personality cultist, but I really felt for the man, knowing what I know about governments, deepStates and the business of politics.
All representative democracy is a reality TV show really, played out for rubes that believe in 'Liberty', 'Equality', 'human rights' and other semantic ambiguities. It's the reason reality shows are so popular; they're a perfect microcosm of the world we have created, compressed into a few hours of scripted entertainment. Trump was someone who understood this at an instinctive level, and I suspect he wished to salvage what he could of America, because he thought he knew the game. The sad part is, he didn't. And one can't expect an old man with his own familial and personal baggage to invest himself fully into a thankless endeavour so completely as was needed. What is needed in societies under assault from criminality and corruption, is a treads on the road, renditions and armed visits in the night, tear gas and pump gun domestic policy. No American leader is up to it and until one arrives, America will teeter.
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^Dron, lets try the Socratic Method.
(a) No executive can accomplish anything without loyal subordinates.
(b) The only way to get loyalty is to give loyalty.
(c) Therefore, Trump's Presidency effectively ended on the day he has thrown Michael Flynn under the bus.
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I think it was an Israeli analyst's theory that Flynn may have committed career suicide to protect him. Even so, a leader faced with such enemies as the last RW POTUS was, he should have given unfair advantage to his own loyalists and crushed all opposition with prejudice. Anyway, all this is hindsight, all moot.
[Regnum] This picture has three names - two workers and one rental. At first, the film was supposed to be called "Dangerous Water", but it was too simple and did not in any way hint at the event outline - rather, here you can imagine something from the life of man-eating sharks. Then came "When the storks were falling," which seemed to be closer to the point, but probably seemed too pompous. As a result, the creators came up with the simplest and safest option. So what if there is not our series of the same name - let this be our answer! But did it work out? The indecision in the choice of the name already raises doubts, because it testifies to the vagueness of the concept.
First of all, the genre of the film is unclear. Kozlovskyhe seems to be removing a historical drama, but he comes out with a very unpretentious melodrama against the background of a tragic and heroic moment in our history. Moreover, this simplicity is brought almost to the limit. The main character of the film, a firefighter from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Alexey, a macho man and a lover of a beautiful life, accidentally meets his former beloved Olga in a hairdressing salon, whom he abandoned for some unknown reason ten years ago. Suddenly, passion flares up in Alexei again, and he attacks Olga with such energy and pressure, as if she were a hotbed of fire. In the meantime, he learns that he has a son, also Alyosha. The rude invasion of almost someone else's personal life continues, and Alexei does not hesitate to show up to his beloved in a very drunken state to make an offer. He decides to leave the fire station - it's too boring, after all, he practically does the work of a fire inspector, and does not fight the elements. He is attracted by the capital, interesting work and family happiness. But dreams are not destined to come true.
In general, it seems that Alexei is a victim of some kind of curse or the owner of negative talent. He is inclined, without a clear reason, to suddenly and at the most inopportune moment to leave his own people, in order to then feverishly and fussily try to fix everything. During the accident, he - already fired - rushes into the heat and stupidly rushes there until he takes on the role of a nurse. However, this is just an impulse. When volunteers are required the next day to help drain overheated radioactive water from under the reactor, Alexei refuses. And only trouble with his son makes him make a kind of deal: with you - treatment in Switzerland for the boy, with me - a feat. Only closer to the final did he become a real volunteer - as always, inexplicably and spontaneously - they told him about May Day in Kiev from the very beginning,
No mention of the "woodpecker phased array analog radar" that required all these reactors to run. No mention that the designer of the radar system and reactor complex had to run to Manheim AFB and defect because his wife (who taught communism at Moscow U) and his political commissar caught him in bed with the commissar's wife... leaving the whole mess to be run by communist flunkies who screwed it up royally leaving a total cluster f. Oh and even worse that analog phased array radar that ran on those reactors was a total POS!
It's a Russian drama, not an investigative television documentary.
There is a clear lesson here about not letting key personnel sleep with the commissar’s wife, no matter how friendly she might be to everyone as a matter of principle.
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I did not know about the commissar's wife angle. Wow.
Lesson is, to value your skilled human resource a bit higher than your party cuckolds. The Commissar should have proudly recused himself from the marriage bed every evening in service of this 'phased array analog radar'.
"Awright, honey, I'm off. Take good care of that woodpecker. Ta!"
[Am Conservative] Last Christmas, Governor Gretchen Whitmer released one of the wildest, most mind-warping videos I’ve ever seen. It begins with her shouting, "Thank you for joining us!!" over a Zoom call, before introducing none other than Santa Claus. Several scripted and possibly terrified children then prompt Santa to talk about how he wears a mask at the North Pole and uses hand sanitizer before eating cookies, all while Whitmer hovers imperiously in the corner like some yuletide Big Brother. The video ends with her gently informing the tykes that this year they won’t be able to visit their grandparents for the holidays.
Watching that, I kept expecting the Soviet national anthem to start playing or Whitmer’s eyes to turn into rotating swirls. I believe the editorial line here at TAC prevents me from advocating drug use, but holy moly, that must be some trip. Yet it’s also typical of Whitmer, who more than any other governor has used the coronavirus to exalt herself into a kind of self-unaware epidemiological monarch. Now, her kingdom is starting to crumble. Check the New York Times’s COVID map and you’ll notice only one state is colored in crimson, indicating a severe level of infection risk: Michigan. Over the last two weeks, the daily average of hospitalizations has increased nationally by 9 percent; in Michigan, it’s 42 percent.
Whitmer claimed she needed unprecedented unilateral power in order to beat back COVID. Now, her state and her state alone is undergoing a deadly surge.
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[Times of Israel] Paleos trying to take advantage of the absence of Orange Man and the simpering support of Senile Joe and his anti-Israel Leftists
Once again I'm running for safety in the middle of the night, closing my saferoom’s iron shutters — with my granddaughter's 6th birthday party canceled. Like the nasty fungus that you can’t totally rid yourself of. Like the mangy street cat who gets kicked out but keeps coming back through a different window. Our rockets are back.
We’re used to restrictions in the Western Negev. That’s why, when the COVID restrictions came into force, limiting our actions and movements for safety’s sake, the concept was not anything foreign to us.
But now that we are allowed to walk outside without our masks, and life seems to be getting back to normal, the rockets are back and with them, warnings pummeling us out of our beds, out of our sleep, our hearts revving from 0-200 in a nanosecond, as once more we need to sprint to the safe room, grabbing sleeping kids on the way. During the course of the night, 36 rockets were launched into Israeli communities,on roads and into our fields..
This morning we received an official message warning us to stay near our safe rooms, not to go outside unless necessary, not to hold events outside in open spaces, forbidding us from holding events with more than 100 people (basically, I believe, aimed at morning prayers in synagogues, which are often not bomb-proof structures), canceling all work in the fields near the border fence and closing the Zikkim beach.
Within two hours, we received another message removing those restrictions.
And, shortly after, another message rescinding the previous but cautioning us to remain vigilant.
As it stands now, we are once again without restrictions. But wary.
Maybe, if we actually had a government, one not rendered as fossilized as Lot’s wife by the political muddle, incapable of putting aside personal ego wars in order to function and which was able to play nicely together in the sandbox in Jerusalem, there wouldn’t be this confusion. It’s traumatic enough to have to deal with rockets, alerts and explosions, but this blatant official confusion punctures another hole in the armor of resilience that protects our souls, yearning to rely and trust on those in the upper ranks, who have the full picture of the situation,those we are supposed to be able to rely on to protect us with their decisions.
Yet, renewed rocket fire was no surprise to anyone who lives here. We all knew it was not a question of if, rather of when. The violent protests that have been bubbling in East Jerusalem clearly have a direct link to the factions in Gaza, where the situation has not improved one iota since the previous escalations in early 2020. If anything, they’ve gotten worse. COVID may have reared its ugly head there later than it afflicted the rest of the world, due to restricted travel in and out of Gaza, but it’s there, chiseling away even more at THEIR meagre standard of living, access to quality health care and other basics which the western world takes for granted.
So, there goes a little over a year of relative stability, during which time, I didn’t have thoughts of where I would take cover while taking my grandchildren home from their daycare frameworks. Once again I find myself running for safety in the middle of the night, closing my saferoom’s protective iron shutters, waking up in the morning with my head murky and sluggish from lack of sleep, and in a situation forcing us to cancel my granddaughter’s birthday party. Because what sane resident of the Western Negev would take the chance of holding a garden party with 20 6-year-olds, after a night of rocket fire? On the border, we are again asking ourselves, what is the potential explosiveness of this situation?
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[Am Conservative] Last Christmas, Governor Gretchen Whitmer released one of the wildest, most mind-warping videos I’ve ever seen. It begins with her shouting, "Thank you for joining us!!" over a Zoom call, before introducing none other than Santa Claus. Several scripted and possibly terrified children then prompt Santa to talk about how he wears a mask at the North Pole and uses hand sanitizer before eating cookies, all while Whitmer hovers imperiously in the corner like some yuletide Big Brother. The video ends with her gently informing the tykes that this year they won’t be able to visit their grandparents for the holidays.
[Times of Israel] 
