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Amazing interview. No, it was an 'absolutely' amazing interview. The Fox News 'leadership' would have soiled themselves had he tried to interview Tate on Fox.
Notice how many times Tate said he would "never kill himself." I would have loved to have heard him comment on the recently released movie "The Sound of Freedom." Great movie BTW, and I say that about very, very few.
Make no mistake. As iate reports, it is all about 'control.' Control of the voting. Control of birth. Control of the children. Control of the border and immigration. Control of the currency, education system, meds, the economy, military, Justice System, police, speech.......
The 'replacement people' who arrive across the border daily, generally do not know the language, are less educated, are easily herded, and are dependent upon the government to survive.
#2
This one really blew me away. Not what I expected at all. Tucker is our Tom Snyder or David Susskind. I hope he does a lot more of this long-form stuff.
The production values were incredible. And then there's the content.
"Cable news" isn't in the same quadrant of the galaxy , excellence wise.
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[NPASyria] Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... treats Kurds in Sweden as snuffies when Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) sympathizers in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... roam free, Michael Rubin, US author, said on Tuesday.
Rubin said on 1945 website that Erdogan treats Kurds in Sweden as snuffies when ISIS sympathizers in Turkey not only roam free but also "populate Erdogan’s administration and Turkey’s intelligence service."
Shortly before the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... summit in Vilnius, Secretary-General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, revealed on June 10 that he succeeded in persuading Erdogan to remove his veto on Sweden’s NATO membership.
Turkey is now anticipating the removal of the majority of sanctions related to defense, as well as a speedy progression in its long-stalled attempt to join the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , according to a source cited a Ottoman Turkish official.
Rubin said that Turkey has previously utilized its position within NATO to immobilize the organization and derive benefits from its veto. With the goal of removing this veto, Stoltenberg and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan are now seeking to enable Turkey to obstruct the European Union and undermine its democratic principles from within.
Germany often caves to Ottoman Turkish blackmail because it fears not only that Erdogan will unleash the floodgates of refugees into the heart of Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... but also because German intelligence officers believe that Erdogan controls terror cells among the Ottoman Turkish diaspora in the heart of Germany, the author added.
Finland and Sweden formally applied to join NATO in May 2022 prompted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February but were met with huge rejection from Turkey and Hungary.
Turkey had rejected the NATO bids of the two Nordic countries, citing their alleged support for the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), an outlawed group that has been engaged in a longstanding insurgency against Turkey since 1984. However, a woman is only as old as she admits... in March, Turkey ratified Finland’s bid.
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If Finland joins NATO, it seems unlikely to me that Russia would invade Sweden while passing by Finland. Sweden is protected by NATO if Finland joins. They should pull their application and just freeload. It is a similar situation to most NATO members but with fewer meetings and expensive exercises.
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[American Greatness] British Prime Minister Harold Wilson said that a week is a long time in politics. Last week revealed Wilson’s prescience once again. Just when the country had seemingly recovered from the unctuous and foolish visit to China by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s visit demonstrates just how much worse things can get.
Yellen’s repeated bowing to a subordinate of Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Vice Premier He Lifeng, was a singular combination of truly bizarre behavior, a masterclass of what not to do, and symbolic of how unserious the Biden Administration is in confronting the threat from the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Yellen went out of her way to allay China’s fears regarding any U.S. effort to "decouple" from China, which seems to have been the point of the trip. Yellen’s visit only could have been worse if she had placed the lampshade on her head and spilled her drink on Xi.
By contrast, in the same week Xi was warning his Eastern Theater Command to prepare for war. Far from a concern about "decoupling," Xi warned that the world had entered a new period of turmoil and change, and China’s security had become more unstable and uncertain. Xi charged the military with "deepening war and combat planning to increase our chances of actual victory in actual combat." The disaster of Yellen’s visit and the bellicose statements by Xi permit us to recognize that while China is preparing for war, the Biden Administration is obsessed with returning to the policy of engagement with the PRC—the very same policy that has put America at risk.
This week, the annual NATO summit in Vilnius discussed important matters relevant to the alliance and the war in Ukraine. But before the leaders met it is evident that there is a major division in the alliance, first, over the Biden administration’s determination to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine. Second, over whether and when Ukraine might be brought into NATO. Third, there is a divide over the deeper issue considered by the alliance whether to bring pressure to bear to end the attritional war or continue it until Ukraine’s nebulous war aims are achieved or Russia is denied victory. Here the alliance is split with the Germans advocating for the war’s termination and the Biden administration supporting its continuation, exemplified with Biden’s approval of sending cluster munitions to Ukraine.
There is a moment in Back to the Future Part III in which Marty McFly steps outside of the unfamiliar mores of the 19th-century American West and says of Buford Tannen, the man who has challenged him to a duel, "He’s an asshole!"
That line is just three words long, but it contains a universe within its delivery. McFly is incredulous. He is impatient. He has lost his desire to play along with the customs of the age. "We can all see this, right?" he seems to be asking the assembled crowd. We all know that Tannen’s an asshole?
I feel the same about President Joe Biden. He’s an asshole. Can we not all see it? For those who cannot conceive of truth without triangulation, I will freely stipulate that Donald Trump is an asshole, too — and that, in some ways, he’s an even worse one.
But that does not let Biden off the hook. President or not, Biden is a decrepit, dishonest, unpleasant blowhard. He’s a nasty, corrupt, partisan fraud. He is, as Shakespeare had, it, "a most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality." Biden is twice as irritating as he believes himself to be, and half as intelligent into the bargain. From the moment he arrived on the scene — nearly 50 years ago, Lord help us — he has represented all that is wrong with our politics. A century hence, his name will be set into aspic and memorialized under "Hack."
At Axios, Alex Thompson reports the apparently surprising news that Biden "has such a quick-trigger temper that some aides try to avoid meeting alone with him." Among the president’s favorite admonitions are: "God dammit, how the f**k don’t you know this?!," "Don’t f**king bullsh*t me!," and "Get the f**k out of here!" Per Thompson, these revelations are important because, like his refusal to acknowledge his own granddaughter, they threaten to damage Biden’s "carefully cultivated image as a kindly uncle." But that image is for cretins and sycophants. Joe Biden has never been a "kindly uncle" — or anything approaching one. For his whole life, Joe Biden has been a plodding mediocrity with a Delaware-sized chip on his shoulder. What about him, I wonder, would not lead him to shout stupidly at people? He’s a bully. Check. He’s insecure. Check. He’s senile. Check. He is hostage to his precarious record of lies. Check. His anger is as inevitable as the sunset.
We don’t need Axios to tell us about it. In 1988, during his first run for president, Biden was in spiffing form. Asked by a voter in New Hampshire about his academic record, Biden grew unhinged. "I think I probably have a much higher IQ than you do," he said, before rattling off a sequence of falsehoods that ought by rights to have ended his career. He said that he graduated in the top half of his law-school class. He did not. He said that he went to that law school on a "full academic scholarship." He did not. He said that he "won the international moot-court competition," "was the outstanding student in the political science department," and "graduated with three degrees from undergraduate school." None of that was true. In closing, Biden betrayed what the exchange was really about. "I’d be delighted to sit back and compare my IQ to yours if you’d like," he jabbed. Mr. Dunning-Kruger, your table is ready.
Character matters. Biden has none. As president, the man spends his days considering how he can mislead voters about his record, how he can get around the Constitution, and how he can demagogue the other branches. All that talk in 2020 about the "the soul of America"? That was guff. Flotsam. Malarkey. There is nothing the man won’t lie about. He lies about inflation. He lies about gas prices. He lies about the deficit. He lies about the border. He lies about having been arrested for his civil-rights activism, and about having been raised by Puerto Ricans and Greeks and Jews, and about having traveled to Afghanistan to pin a Silver Star on a Navy hero, and about his son’s death, and about the crash that killed his first wife and baby daughter, and about the small kitchen fire that he had 15 years ago, which, in his inimitable style, he has managed to transmute into "having had a house burn down with my wife in it." In 1987, he plagiarized a speech by the British politician Neil Kinnock that contained a completely different backstory than his own. In 2012, he accused Mitt Romney of wanting to put African Americans "back in chains." Push a pin into a history book, and you’ll find Joe Biden lying about something.
There are many ugly consequences of our present bout of negative partisanship, but by far the worst is that it leads otherwise sensible people to pretend that up is down.
That a person might prefer the Democrats to the Republicans or tax hikes to tax cuts or anyone to Donald Trump is comprehensible to me. That, in pursuit of that aim, they might feign admiration for the grotesque is not comprehensible at all. Joe Biden is an asshole. Always has been, always will be — until the last tawdry whopper leaves his lips.
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Joe is the type of guy who would have been fired repeatedly for cause had he chosen any worthwhile occupation. Instead, in the field of government, Biden has risen to hold the most powerful civic position in the world. Joe remains unlikeable and serially incompetent. If he were a tree, Biden’s notorious level of corruption would make him a favorite of woodpeckers and a public nuisance. Unfortunately Joe is also preferred by 40% of American voters and is several months into his re-election campaign.
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81million:
Uh huh, yeah, sure; and Grizzly Adams had a beard.
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About that quick-trigger temper, I read somewhere recently where some writer alleged this proves he is manly, forceful and in charge. But note that agitation is one of many symptoms of dementia that Joe routinely exhibits:
Cognitive changes
Memory loss, which is usually noticed by someone else.
Problems communicating or finding words.
Trouble with visual and spatial abilities, such as getting lost while driving.
Problems with reasoning or problem-solving.
Trouble performing complex tasks.
Trouble with planning and organizing.
Poor coordination and control of movements.
Confusion and disorientation.
Psychological changes
Personality changes.
Depression.
Anxiety.
Agitation.
Inappropriate behavior.
Being suspicious, known as paranoia.
Seeing things that aren't there, known as hallucinations.
We've all seen the videos where he appears to be confused and disoriented and somebody has to show him to his place, most recently at the NATO summit in Vilnius where Finnish President Gitanas Nauseda helps him to a table where is supposed to sign some document. Certainly King Charles and President Nauseda were briefed beforehand about Joe's condition and how to help him. They can be trusted not to talk about it but the bemused looks on their faces speak volumes. We've seen the slow and wobbly way he walks, the way he trips on stairs and the way he fell when he tried to ride a bicycle - Poor coordination and control of movements. We've heard him lose his train of thought in mid-sentence and garble the words he's trying to read from his teleprompter - Problems communicating or finding words. Sniffing women's hair is Inappropriate behavior. If he tries to drive a car just get out of his way.
I recommend watching for signs of injury to the frail and brittle bones of his hands after he tries to hit somebody.
But, of course, he was an asshole long before he got dementia.
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I just read that Joy Behar is turned on by Joe’s angry outbursts. She must miss Rosie.
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[American Thinker] As with many semantic corruptions, the left started it. They trivialized the term "denialism" by applying it not to the denial of a real tragedy, but to skepticism about an imagined climate doomsday. I would like to rehabilitate the phrase a little bit, if I could, by applying it to the denial of an historic phenomenon as real as the Holocaust and potentially as tragic.
I refer here to the havoc wrought by the 1960s. Havoc came in many forms: the zeitgeist shift that undermined personal responsibility, the programs that undermined the family, and the social upheaval that glorified casual sex and single parenthood.
Only by denying the fallout from the 1960s did Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson make even the illusion of sense in their recent dissents on the affirmative action cases before the Supreme Court. After a year of research for my new book, Untenable: The True Story of White Ethnic Flight from America's Cities, I know all too well the audacity of that denial.
To be fair to the '60s, the effects of this progressive mind virus had begun to surface in the previous decade. As early as 1957, for instance, Stephen Sondheim was satirizing it in his lyrics to West Side Story's "Gee, Officer Krupke." The psychiatrists, social workers, and judges who believe that "society" has played the young gang-bangers "a terrible trick" all come in for a deserved ribbing.
But there was nothing funny about what was to come. Almost unnoticed, a labyrinth of soul-crushing social programs was taking root and would soon be institutionalized by the Lyndon Johnson administration under the rubric of "The Great Society."
At the time, the only person brave enough — or crazy enough — to call attention to the damage done by these programs was Johnson's undersecretary of labor (and later U.S. senator), Daniel Patrick Moynihan. In his remarkably prescient report, "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action," Moynihan sounded the alarm in 1965, the same year the Great Society was launched.
"The evidence — not final, but powerfully persuasive — is that the Negro family in the urban ghettos is crumbling," Moynihan warned. Causing the dissolution were the sundry social programs that promised women financial security on the real but rarely spoken condition that there be no married father in the household.
Until about 1960, the income gap between backs and whites was narrowing. After 1960, with the surge in single-parent households, it began to reverse itself. The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Moynihan believed, would only increase frustration.
As a result of the "full recognition of their civil rights," blacks were expecting that equal opportunities would "produce roughly equal results, as compared with other groups," but, added Moynihan, "This is not going to happen."
The civil rights movement was designed to combat institutional white racism. With that battle won, movement leaders had to pretend the battle was still raging. To preserve that illusion, they pressured Johnson to silence Moynihan. Not wanting to alienate a voting bloc whose loyalties he had hoped to purchase, Johnson exiled Moynihan and deep-sixed his report.
With Moynihan publicly spanked, other would-be critics fell silent. Those who chose to tell the truth about the fatherhood crisis in the black community did so at their own risk. Among the most notable dissidents was comedian Bill Cosby.
In the early years of this century, before his fall from grace, Cosby spoke out forcefully to men and boys at forums across the country. "Men, if you want to win, we can win," Cosby said at one typical spot. "We are not a pitiful race of people. We are a bright race, who can move with the best. But we are in a new time, where people are behaving in abnormal ways and calling it normal."
The progressive establishment had no use for talk that questioned systemic racism. With the establishment's backing, rising "antiracist" rock star Ta-Nehisi Coates made his bones putting Cosby in his place. In an overpraised 2008 Atlantic article, Coates dared to scold Cosby for his presumed ignorance of black history.
"His historical amnesia — his assertion that many of the problems that pervade black America are of a recent vintage — is simply wrong," huffed Coates, "as is his contention that today's young African Americans are somehow weaker, that they've dropped the ball." The fact that Cosby was nearly 40 years his senior counted for nothing. Coates knew he had the progressive wind at his back. History was his to dictate.
A month later, perhaps unaware of Coates's ascendancy, presidential candidate Barack Obama echoed Cosby's message in a Father's Day speech at a Chicago church. "What too many fathers also are is missing, missing from too many lives and too many homes," he lectured his audience. "They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men. And the foundations of our families are weaker because of it."
Jesse Jackson might have let these general comments pass. He had once said similar things himself. When, however, Obama spelled out the statistical consequences of fatherlessness in regards to education, employment, and incarceration, he jeopardized the "systemic racism" paradigm that made Jackson wealthy. He had to shut Obama up.
Three weeks later, a hot mic at a Fox News studio picked Jackson up saying, "See, Barack been, um, talking down to Black people on this faith-based — I wanna cut his nuts out." If the words weren't enough to silence Obama, the cutting motion he made with his hand did the trick.
Ketanji Brown Jackson had no more use for Obama's truth-telling than Jesse did. "Gulf-sized race-based gaps exist with respect to the health, wealth, and well-being of American citizens," writes Jackson. "They were created in the distant past, but have indisputably been passed down to the present day through the generations."
The 53-year-old Jackson and the 69-year old Sotomayor seem to have both sleep-walked through their charmed, affirmative action—greased lives. The income and educational gaps were not "created in the distant past." They were created on their watch and largely by their own political party.
Neither Jackson nor Sotomayor acknowledges that those gaps were narrowing up and through the 1950s. Neither says a word about fatherlessness or family breakdown and the accompanying reversal in economic momentum. Sotomayor, for instance, mentions President Andrew Johnson three times but never once mentions President Lyndon Johnson. No one mentions Moynihan.
#1
Lets face it. If this nation was run on original principals and actual, you know, equality of opportunity, not outcome, the fight for survival between the homeless-because-mentally-ill and the unemployable-because-just-plain-stupid would be a grim spectacle.
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Untenable: The True Story of White Ethnic Flight from America's Cities
Sort of skips over the upper and middle class Black flight that happened concurrently as desegregation permitted them the opportunity to escape from what we are now all too familiar with in the inner city. That removed a cap on de- civilizing that subsequently developed.
#3
How do you escape from impoverished misery? Get married, stay married, get employed, stay employed, pay cash, go to church and control your vices. It’s what everyone in America other than Hollywood believed in the 50’s minus the graduate from college aspect that has been ruined forever.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
07/12/2023 10:01 Comments ||
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#4
Like the Southeast Pacific's Cargo Cult Phenomena -- magical thinking.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Amazing interview. No, it was an 'absolutely' amazing interview. The Fox News 'leadership' would have soiled themselves had he tried to interview Tate on Fox.
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
[American Greatness] British Prime Minister Harold Wilson said that a week is a long time in politics. Last week revealed Wilson’s prescience once again. Just when the country had seemingly recovered from the unctuous and foolish visit to China by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s visit demonstrates just how much worse things can get.
[American Thinker] As with many semantic corruptions, the left started it. They trivialized the term "denialism" by applying it not to the denial of a real tragedy, but to skepticism about an imagined climate doomsday. I would like to rehabilitate the phrase a little bit, if I could, by applying it to the denial of an historic phenomenon as real as the Holocaust and potentially as tragic.
