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Make America Healthy Again. Yes.
Compare to Kamala's MALA
Make America Laugh Again....ugh. Seriously, is her marketing being ironic? Have they not heard her laugh? Going to open up some Joy Camps?
By the way, marketing:
Mala is a Chinese Food seasoning. Appropriate.
Text taken from the V Kontakte post from Reports from the Novorossiya militia
[VK] 30.08.24. Analysis from the channel "Military Chronicle".
🔺. The last few days have been actively discussed "too fast" advance of Russian troops in the Pokrovsk direction. Is it dangerous in the current conditions?
▪Why are the troops moving so fast?
After taking a chain of settlements behind Avdiivka (Ocheretino, Progress, Volchye), the speed of advance of Russian troops increased significantly. This happened largely because the group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this direction suffered heavy losses in the battle for Avdiivka and continued to suffer these losses further. In addition, these were large one-time losses of units that were familiar with the section of the front. And they tried to hastily replace them with units like the 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade and the 115th Brigade, unfamiliar with the area. In the end, everyone rolled back. At the same time, the advance of the Russian Armed Forces is not hundreds of kilometers or even tens.
▪Why do the Ukrainian Armed Forces hold some sections of the front and surrender others?
In Toretsk, which is cited as an example of "serious defense", a network of fortifications was built, while the Ukrainian Armed Forces occupy a significant part of the urban development. There is no such defensive line beyond Ocheretin, anddifficulties arise with the transfer of reinforcements (which are flying both in advance and at the deployment stage). It is difficult and complicated to pick out infantry from urban development, so the Kanal microdistrict in Chasovy Yar has been practically wiped into dust by artillery, and approximately the same thing is happening in Toretsk. The Ukrainian Armed Forces did not have time to strengthen their positions behind Ocheretin, so they preferred to retreat. This also explains the rapid entry of the Russian army through Novogrodovka.
▪Can the Ukrainian Armed Forces strike from the north and cut off the Pokrovsk grouping of the Russian Armed Forces?
For this to be possible, reserves (preferably in the amount of several brigades) must appear quickly and deploy almost simultaneously where everything has been zeroed in by Russian artillery since 2022 - in the area of Slovyansk, Kramatorsk and Konstantinovka, which are subject to missile strikes almost every day. At the same time, many "worried" about the progress of the Russian Armed Forces do not take into account another circumstance. Even if the reserves are collected, to strike from the north against the advancing units of the Russian Armed Forces they will have to move along the front line, which is within reach of the entire spectrum of heavy weapons.
At the same time, a counterattack against an attacking group covered by artillery and aviation, even at first glance, looks like a “meat assault” on a large scale.
However, this point of view (as well as a detailed study of the operational situation) is not being considered by those “worried” about the rapid breakthrough of the Russian Armed Forces to Pokrovsk. And why is a big question.
What else is important to understand about the Pokrovsk operation?
So far, the Russian army has gained good momentum and is moving, in general, without significant interference (that is, with battles, but without critical hitches). But judging by the intensity of the battles and the actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in this area as a whole, it seems that the plan of the Ukrainian army probably involves a retreat from secondary cities in favor of the main fortified areas - Mirnograd and Pokrovsk.
It is quite possible that there was no need to build an analogue of the Surovikin Line there: the development in these cities itself is not very dense, but not the lowest, and if necessary it is indeed possible to dig in there. The only question is for how long.
If these guesses are correct, then the collapse of the defense, which is recorded by numerous analysts, may be temporary, and the main defensive lines are being prepared in the cities themselves, following the example of Avdeevka/Artemovsk, only without concrete bunkers and other capital structures, the construction of which would take from several weeks to several months."
The Ukrainian Armed Forces have not been able to achieve significant progress since the attack on the Kursk region, German journalist Julian Repke said on the social network H.
“Three weeks after the start of the Ukrainian offensive operation in the Kursk region, we returned to where we were on August 5,” he wrote.
Repke added that he could not find any good news about the Ukrainian Armed Forces' successes in the area.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] "Get it into your head: Putin is going to get even with us. We must be prepared for the inevitable" - this is how the article by former British Defense Secretary and failed NATO Secretary General Ben Wallace ends
Petr Akopov, RIA
What is “inevitable”? That “Putin will soon turn his war machine against Britain” – this is the headline of an article by a retired minister in The Telegraph. If you take only the headline and the last paragraph, you might think that we have before us a typical example of Russophobic propaganda and hysteria: the Russians will not stop in Ukraine, then they will attack the Baltics, Poland, Romania, and then they will go to Berlin. We hear all this from the mouths of the Atlanticists (including very high-ranking ones) and the Kyiv leaders – now Britain must also prepare for the Russian threat, it’s all clear.
However, Ben Wallace's pathos is completely different - he is sure that Russia is going to take revenge on Britain not for the supply of missiles to Ukraine, but for the Crimean War: "The people at the head of Russia are rewriting history, correcting the humiliation experienced at the end of the Cold War, and settling scores from a century ago. Although Russia is a master at humiliating itself, we must understand that, according to Putin, the root of all its troubles is not even the United States, but Britain."
"In Putin's warped worldview, it was we who started the Crimean War, which ended in defeat for the Tsars, it was we who orchestrated the rise of Hitler, it was we who supported the counter-revolution, and it was our espionage that brought down the Soviet Union. Putin has Britain in his sights."
That's how it is. Does it turn out that Putin is like Danila Bagrov's brother with his "You bastards will answer to me for Sevastopol!", only he is addressing not the Westerners, but the British, and he is referring to Sevastopol in 1855? But only the sensitive ex-Minister of Defense hears this threat and is in a hurry to warn his compatriots, instilling in them the need to understand Putin's "true motivation". Otherwise, there will be trouble - for Britain.
The captain of the Scots Guards (Wallace retired with this rank) has recalled the Crimean War more than once: the day before the start of a special military operation in Ukraine, he said that the Scots Guards "kicked Tsar Nicholas's ass and could do it again." The Crimean War is indeed the only example of direct British aggression against Russia, but our score against the foggy island is far from exhausted by it, as well as by what Wallace listed. There is also the murder of Paul I - to prevent his alliance with Napoleon against Britain. And the murder of Grigory Rasputin - to keep Russia from a mythical separate peace with Germany, which in reality opened the way to the catastrophe of February 1917. Or the combination played out by London to pit Germany and Russia against each other in the First World War. Our score of grievances is great - and our memory is good. But this is not just a score against Britain - past or present.
This is a bill to the Anglo-Saxon elite and financial oligarchs, to those forces that made London the world's financial capital and the United Kingdom the first model and prototype of a global military, financial and commercial empire. For these forces, Russia has always been a mortal enemy and threat - not because we set our goal to destroy them (we did not even during the Soviet years), but because we occupy a key place in Eurasia - a territory without control over which it is impossible to build a global empire.
The Russian Cossacks did not intend to go to India, but theoretically they could do so - and this was enough for the British to participate in the murder of our emperor. Russia did not threaten the British colonies, did not claim to expand its influence, but theoretically it could withdraw from the war with Germany, which England needed to curb German ambitions - and this was enough to support the conspiracy against the tsar in February 1917.
Britain has always considered itself entitled to interfere in our internal affairs and has never disdained anything. Neither the incitement of mountain separatism during the Caucasian War of the 19th century, nor the support of Ukraine during the current conflict.
The British elite - and its continuation in the form of the American - have always considered Russia more an object than a subject of relations. In the post-Soviet years, this confidence became absolute - and the Atlanticists have set their sights on the geopolitical separation of Ukraine from Russia, that is, the real dismemberment of Russian civilization.
Does Putin understand this? Of course. Is he going to take revenge on Britain? No. Because now the center of decision-making is dispersed across the Western world, on both sides of the Atlantic, with an emphasis on the Western one. Russia is taking revenge on the entire Anglo-Saxon elite - first by repelling their attacks, holding out and restoring its unity. And then it will redouble its efforts to build a new world order, that is, dismantling the entire Anglo-Saxon globalist project, the destruction of which will bury not only Britain, but also the United States.
So Captain Ben Wallace can warn his compatriots as much as he wants that Putin has them in his sights, but he still won’t be able to stop the Russian strike. Because it won’t come from the air or the sea, but from the accumulated energy of discontent with the Anglo-Saxons throughout the world. And our contribution to this retaliatory strike will be large, but certainly not exceeding what has been done against us in previous centuries.
#3
Anglo-Saxon leadership no longer represents the Anglo Saxon people and lacks legitimacy. We and our culture have been betrayed. Does Ben Wallace understand how some of us hope to see the Sovietized Western Liberal Democracies destroyed. The Russian beef is with western leadership, not the people - and if Russia un-alives a few of these horrible leaders, the West would be better for it.
Text taken from a V Kontakte post on the page of GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR
September 1942 was a good deal earlier for the Tiger I tank in WWII on the Eastern Front than I had read before. Paul Carrell (Nom du pen of German SS major Schmidt) had said as much in his seminal book "Scorched Earth."
[VK] "Tiger" tanks took part in combat for the first time. After arriving at the Mga station (southeast of Leningrad), the tanks were immediately transferred to the front line. At 10:00 the platoon arrived in the forest, at the battalion's location.
Around 11:00, the order was given to prepare for the move. The battalion commander, Major Richard Märker, was the first to go in his command Tiger. Soon, with the support of the infantry, the tanks reached the forward positions and began shelling the defending Soviet troops. In a short time, they managed to push the Russians back and go on the offensive. Unfortunately for the Germans, the swampy ground hampered the maneuvers of the heavy Tigers. Taking advantage of this, the Soviet troops opened aimed fire on the huge targets.
The first battle was unsuccessful for the Tigers - one was hit (the engine was damaged by a shell hit), three other vehicles managed to reach the Soviet positions damaged, eventually got stuck in the swampy terrain and stopped. Then the Germans were able to evacuate three tanks.
At night, all three tanks were successfully towed to repair shops, and each Tiger had to be pulled through a swamp with the help of three 18-ton tractors (probably FAMO SdKfz9). The fourth was stripped of its equipment and blown up (at the end of November 1942). The tank was knocked out with a 122mm hull gun A-19 model 1931. This time, the Germans managed to keep their tank a secret.
The tragic beginning of the Tigers' combat career is largely due to Adolf Hitler personally, who, without listening to any objections, rushed the introduction of new equipment into service. As a result, the Tigers were used not only at the wrong time, but also absolutely senselessly - in small groups, in terrain absolutely unfavorable for their weight. In his memoirs, Guderian writes with bitterness and irritation that Hitler was simply eager to test the new "miracle weapon" as soon as possible.
As a result, at the end of 1942, the powerful Tigers were assigned a completely secondary task: as part of the 502nd heavy tank battalion, to launch a small attack on a difficult section of swampy terrain near Leningrad. The tank's next combat use would not be until January 1943. AKA a fire brigade.
#1
The Russians were relentless. Many German tanks failed mechanically, transmissions mainly. Russia has produced many tanks to field. T-34 was very successful. Germans couldn't understand how the Russia troops could sustain such heavy losses. Russians kept supplies going and out produced the Germans. Ukraine is repeat of this history. Ammo, supplies, troops all supply lines were chronically deficient. In war it seems those who manufacture and supply needs effectively will prevail.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Ivan Lizan
[REGNUM] Telegram founder Pavel Durov was accused in France of failing to counteract the distribution of criminal content via the messenger. He was placed under judicial supervision and ordered to post bail of 5 million euros. In addition, Durov was banned from leaving France and required to report to the police twice a week.
In general, the 12 articles of the criminal code, incriminated to Pavel Durov by the French prosecutor's office, are as severe as they are absurd. Similar charges can be brought against Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk or Sergey Brin and Larry Page together.
It is obvious that in a normal – competitive, fair and impartial – trial the charges against Durov will fall apart. But in this case Paris is acting together with Brussels and Washington, and Durov should not hope for justice. And it is even more obvious to everyone that the matter is clearly not in the lack of desire of the Telegram founder to satisfy the requests of French law enforcement.
In addition to the official reason for Durov's detention, which boils down to maliciously ignoring Telegram requests from law enforcement agencies, there is a whole bunch of complementary unofficial ones. All of them look no less plausible.
Firstly, the US desire to destroy the Toncoin (TON) cryptocurrency, which Durov launched against the will of Washington.
Secondly, Brussels’ desire to force Telegram to create a pre-moderation system, that is, censoring content in accordance with the wishes of European bureaucrats.
Thirdly, but this reason is almost impossible to prove, there was probably a motive to gain access to encryption keys for secret correspondence in the messenger for the purpose of using them in domestic political struggle or espionage.
Due to Pavel Durov's diverse interests, these reasons should be considered together: they certainly do not contradict each other. Moreover, while French President Emmanuel Macron may indeed be concerned about the fight against crime and, say, the desire to spy on his allies and opponents, Brussels is much more concerned with censorship than maintaining law and order. And the United States has been paying close attention to cryptocurrencies for several years now in order to prevent the erosion of the global financial system.
In general, Durov was “caught” under a combination of articles, and they charged him with whatever they could.
MALICIOUS DISREGARD
Durov's philosophy is based on libertarianism: he does not feel any reverence for the state in principle.
He criticized the Russian past back at the turn of the 2000s and 2010s, and in 2014, if we are to believe Durov, he was asked to provide personal data of the organizers of the Euromaidan groups. Pavel refused, not “wanting to betray millions of Ukrainian users,” and suffered three times: in 2014, he lost control over the social network, in 2017, Petro Poroshenko blocked VKontakte in Ukraine, and from 2018 to 2020, Roskomnadzor blocked Telegram.
In 2017, French intelligence services, together with UAE intelligence (Durov holds passports from these countries), hacked Pavel's iPhone to gain access to the correspondence of ISIS terrorists (a terrorist organization banned in Russia). The countries took this step, as The Wall Street Journal writes, because the messenger administration maliciously ignored requests from law enforcement agencies.
In 2023, Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered Telegram blocked for refusing to provide data on the administrators of neo-Nazi groups accused of attacking a school in Aracruz. And after Pavel’s arrest, South Korean President Yoon Seok-yeol called for a thorough investigation into digital sex crimes after media reported that Telegram chats were frequently filled with erotic fake images and videos featuring South Korean women.
In general, Durov ignored law enforcement agencies for a long time and systematically. He cooperated only in rare cases, for which he was blocked in China, Iran, India and Brazil, as well as Spain (for three days). The authorities of France (in 2023), the Netherlands and Germany complained about the messenger.
Therefore, no matter how strange it may seem, Durov could have been detained for simply ignoring requests - sooner or later, law enforcement officials would have run out of patience. But this is only true in the case of France, since there are indeed plenty of oddities in the case.
UNCOORDINATED CRYPTO PROJECTS
Durov is also annoying Washington, but he has his own reasons, which may not be connected with ignoring requests and refusing to introduce censorship.
The Durov brothers, Pavel and Nikolai, initially developed Telegram as a messenger, but messengers are extremely difficult to monetize. The subscription model is not suitable because it scares the audience, selling additional features is ineffective, and advertising in Telegram only appeared in the fall of 2021 - 8 years after its launch.
But advertising for the Durov brothers was nothing more than a "crutch". In early 2018, Telegram announced plans to launch the TON blockchain platform. To do this, Telegram Group Inc. and its subsidiary TON Issuer sold 2.9 billion tokens and raised $1.7 billion. The project was initially scheduled to launch in October 2019, but the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) obtained a temporary injunction. It considered Telegram's actions to violate US securities laws.
In the end, Durov promised to return 72% of the attracted money immediately, and promised to give 110% of the invested funds to those who were patient by April 30. Investors, mainly from Russia, agreed to Durov's terms and were satisfied. The brothers found the money, the financial issue was settled. For the time being, the cryptocurrency project was put aside.
But the idea of "marrying" the messenger's nearly billion-strong audience with cryptocurrency was too attractive to refuse. And in September 2023, Durov presented the TON blockchain, in particular the Toncoin cryptocurrency, which, according to him, was planned to be used on a regular basis by businesses and developers in Telegram. The cryptocurrency was created by an open community of developers. As a result, the Durovs gave birth to a monster.
TON is not just a cryptocurrency, but also a set of services: proxy servers and a domain name system, a marketplace, a commission-free blockchain-based payment system, decentralized data storage, and applications for working with the service.
Even after Durov's arrest, TON did not fall out of the top 10 global cryptocurrencies, although it lost a little more than 20% of its value: shortly before the arrest, the coin was worth $6.8, and by the morning of August 29, it was worth $5.3.
ARREST BY OTHER PEOPLE'S HANDS
Against this background, a reasonable question arises: why is Washington angry with Durov?
Firstly, TON is built on the same libertarian philosophy as Telegram. It is inconvenient for the US and is not controlled by Washington. Pavel Durov reported this back in 2020, stating the world's dependence on the US in matters of finance and technology.
There has long been a legend in the world of cryptocurrency enthusiasts that Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, whose identity is unknown, is in fact nothing more than a cover for the CIA or another American structure that invented cryptocurrency. There is no direct confirmation of this, but in the Western press there are quotes from CIA Director William Burns that he inherited from his predecessors "a number of projects focused on cryptocurrency."
Regardless of whether the CIA invented the “bitcoin” or not, American intelligence agencies would certainly do everything possible and impossible to control any cryptocurrency, at least to understand who pays for what and when.
Secondly, cryptocurrencies - especially after Russia was disconnected from the global financial system with the blocking of banks and the ability to use freely convertible currencies - have become a widely used means of payment for settlements with unfriendly jurisdictions. And recently, they have also been legalized. And while Washington is fighting banks quite successfully (especially after Biden's decree of December 22, 2023), things are not so clear with cryptocurrencies.
The largest crypto exchange Binance left Russia under duress in September 2023 — this is how the US fought against circumventing sanctions through cryptocurrencies. But at the same time, and often unnoticed by the media, the US fought against cryptocurrency projects launched by Russians.
Cryptocurrency consultant Mikhail Zhukhovitsky counted six cases when the US directly or indirectly — through France and the UAE — destroyed Russian cryptocurrency projects, some of those arrested were extradited to the US. For example, the only developer of the Tornado Cash project who remained at large survived only because he was in Russia. And in the Bitzlato project, even coders and marketers were imprisoned, and they have been awaiting trial in pretrial detention for two years.
On August 25, Zhukhovitsky wrote that Pavel's arrest was the beginning of the destruction of his team, and on August 28, Politico reported that Nikolai Durov had been placed on the wanted list and was accused of refusing to cooperate with the Paris prosecutor's office for combating cybercrime in a case of forcing a minor to distribute "self-produced pornography."
Zhukhovitsky claims that the indictment for such cases is always prepared in the United States, and the arrests and detentions are carried out by others.
ONE AGAINST ALL
To put it simply, Durov's fate is unenviable: Paris, Brussels and Washington are against him. And the conclusions that come to mind from this story are extremely simple. Pavel Durov was let down by his own commitment to libertarianism, along with his belief that he could be above the clash of great powers.
One can maneuver between centers of power only for a certain period of time. Sooner or later one would have to make a decision, choosing a side that would allow one to preserve most of one's convictions, in order to live by the principle of "bend, but don't bend." The side is the "roof" in the person of the state.
When Canada detained Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's CFO and daughter of Huawei President Ren Zhengfei, at the request of the United States in 2018, the Chinese government stepped in and secured her release. Russia stood up for Bout, Yaroshenko, and Krasikov and also secured their release.
Durov ignored the "rules of the game" and did not want to choose a "roof". Now there is no one to stand up for him - and this is his personal tragedy.
[Levi Quackenboss] While more than half the nation rejoiced at the unexpected Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and President Trump Justice League Alliance on Friday afternoon in Phoenix, Arizona, social media posts were littered with curmudgeonly comments about about "RFK, Jr the sellout." How he threw his third party ticket in the trash in exchange for getting a job and, even worse — that his campaign was a psy-op from the beginning.
You may have noticed that I’ve been awfully quiet for more than a year now, and I’ll finally share why that has been. Since March 2023, I’ve had the honor of a lifetime in serving as one of the 100 or so staffers on the Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. campaign. I didn’t have the brain capacity to keep this blog alive while working 65 hours a week and still trying to parent my kids, and besides, I like to write about what’s going on in the world and I couldn’t possibly share what was going in inside the campaign without running afoul of my NDA.
But I’m writing to you tonight because I want all of you to understand exactly what happened in Phoenix, Arizona, on Friday afternoon. Even people who are overjoyed about the union cannot possibly comprehend the meaning of RFK’s actions— and I want you to be willing to set the record straight with anyone who will listen.
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He should be proud he no longer supports a Political party that has gone to great lengths to hide its role in the JFK's assassination for 60+ years.
He should be proud he no longer supports a Political party clearly turning to Socialism, gone pro-pervert, confused about its sex and is so far left it is embracing Nazi Brown Shirt and USSR political tactics in running the government and suppressing freedom of speech.
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The negative comments abound. The Democrats greatest fear was a Kennedy on the ballot. They fought him tooth and nail. I said some time ago the True blue blood Democrat would vote for him in an heart beat. They want Camelot to be reborn. They want the old Democrat party of the resent past. The Democrat party has been taken over and can only offer the poorest quality of candidates.
No, no; the choice is between Trump and a closed oligarchy that does NOT have your interests in mind. In short, whatever you want to do, you _cannot_ vote Harris. Oh, yes, you can cast your vote beside her name, but she is not the front runner; she is a front, just as her putative boss, Joe Biden, was.
Go back to the year 2020, the year when, under cover of COVID, Joe Biden ran for the presidency from his basement. Why did he do that? Fear of COVID? That was the claim, of course, but the movers and shakers of the country, especially the democratic ones, did a very impressive job of demonstrating that COVID was just not that impressive. Sure, during the George Floyd riots, they might sic the police on people sitting on their front porches, shooting those same people with paintballs. But for themselves? Please; it was party city throughout the pandemic for anyone well connected enough. And for the rioters? They were pretty much hands off.
So much for COVID.
Flash forward to the Trump-Biden debate. There it became fairly obvious that the sitting president was...mostly not there anymore. I write this not with contempt but with a degree of sympathy; that fate awaits most of us, with time. More importantly, is there any reason to believe he was fully there when his handlers kept him locked in the basement during the 2020 campaign? There really isn’t. Moreover, the people who would swear that he was are the very same people who were telling us that he was sharp as a tack right up until the debate and for some time after; their word is worthless.
And then we have the pattern of conduct, the misguidance and mismanagement from the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle through the collapse of our southern border. It is not just hard, it is impossible, to identify a single thing that has gone well for the United States in between. Especially has the economy been a disaster, and not one that the smoke and mirrors of the Democratic Party and their lapdogs of the press has been very successful in hiding. That pattern is consistent and consistently horrifying. That pattern says very strongly that the Joe Biden of the debate was the same man who stayed in his basement in 2020.
He's been this way all along.
Then, too, we have the palace coup that drove Biden from the 2024 race. Obviously, he did not decide that for himself, either.
Even so, even if Biden was incapable of doing much of anything on his own, or was not allowed to, decisions still were being made, to include decisions to do nothing, to include the decision to force him from the campaign. Who was making those decisions?
We don’t really know. Obama is a likely member of the junta — and, yes, clearly, it is a junta — as are the Clintons, both the rapist and Felonia von Pantsuit. I would suggest that the thirty-five or so members of the House and the five senators who publicly called on Biden to step aside are not members of the junta, but that those who likely gave them their marching orders, Schumer and Pelosi — who is never out of office even when out of office, are. Hakim Jeffries may well be. Garland probably is a member. Kagan may represent the left wing of the Supreme Court. Perhaps there are a few others.
Speaking of Kagan and the legal system, do but note that the supporters of the junta are the same people who will talk about the rule of law even as they prostitute the law to wage lawfare against anyone — Trump and the J6 protesters, principally — who tries to supercede them and return the country to an actual republic.
It is, by the way, unclear and I think rather unlikely that Kamala Harris is a member of that junta, any more than Joe Biden was. This, quite despite her holding views that are not easily distinguished from, say, Marx or Engles....or Lenin...or Mao...or perhaps — we cannot say for sure and when we are sure it will also be too late — Pol Pot or Stalin.
Soros? No, I don’t think so. He’s pretty distasteful from all perspectives. Now does the junta consult with him? Regularly, I am sure.
But the names don’t matter and will probably never be known for certain. The only name we’ll be allowed to see is that of Kamala Harris, the frontwoman for the junta that has been telling Joe Biden what to do for more than four years. And which will be telling Kamala Harris what to do for another four to eight, if they’re allowed to.
Just think of it, Franklin Delano Roosevelt had a bit over three terms; Obama and the junta may have as many as five. Hell, they may have an infinite number, if they succeed in destroying the Republic.
"Bu’, bu’, bu’, muh democracy!"
I have some bad news for you, the people moaning about the loss of democracy are the same people who decided to simply install as their nominee a woman who is thoroughly disliked, even within their party, whose previous run for the nomination was a disaster, who has had, in other words, not a single vote cast for her this year, and a paltry few in 2020. In short, let me suggest to you a more modern, more accurate definition of democracy in 21st century America:
Democracy, n. The unlimited and uninterrupted rule of the junta that looks after the interests of the vile and already filthy rich kleptocrats, corrupt bureaucrats, quasi-literate journalists, drooling pedophiles, academic lunatics, soulless and stupid entertainers, and other assorted human garbage on the inside of the Democratic Party.
If that’s the definition of "democracy," and it now is, and that is what you want, wouldn’t you be happier in, say, China or perhaps North Korea?
But to finish with the same point we started with, which should be much clearer now, it is impossible to actually vote for Harris. The most you can do is vote for a junta, and, indeed, a junta that bears close resemblance to the Politburo that ran the Soviet Union or the one that is now running China, an oligarchy the members of which loathe actual democracy and don’t really hide that they do.
[FoxWeather] More than 260 dinosaur footprints discovered in Brazil and Cameroon provide further evidence that South America and Africa were once connected as part of a giant continent millions of years ago, according to a recent study.
Scientists estimated that the footprints were originally made 120 million years ago about 600 miles apart, or roughly the distance between Dallas and Nashville, on the supercontinent known as Gondwana.
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.
