[VictoryGirls] A story broke late yesterday from The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, which alleges that President Trump referred to dead troops buried in France as "losers."
Let’s look at the facts, and then make a decision on whether or not this allegation can be backed up. Lay aside your visceral reactions, and if we can dispassionately view the evidence of this claim, then the truth may become clear.
Claim #1: The Atlantic alleges that President Trump did not want to go to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris when he was there in 2018. They acknowledge that the official explanation had to do with bad weather. This was a big story at the time, as many wanted to know at the time why the president did not go to the cemetery. The contemporary reports of the time — including an email from the White House, and the much-lauded-by-the-left John Bolton memoir — note that the weather was the culprit. Bolton himself — not exactly Trump’s biggest cheerleader anymore — even went ON THE RECORD to confirm this.
The reasonable conclusion, given the contemporaneous evidence, is that the weather was the overriding reason that President Trump did not go to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in 2018.
Claim #2: The Atlantic says that President Trump verbally disparaged the servicemembers who were buried at the cemetery, calling them "losers" and "suckers." For this evidence, they produce "multiple" unnamed sources. Why are they not going on the record? Well, Jeffrey Goldberg says... wait for it... they don’t want any mean tweets.
Journalists who really want this story to be true are acknowledging that the anonymous sources are a problem, and yet Jeffrey Goldberg should get a pass because he’s so upstandingly fair. Let’s not even consider that The Atlantic didn’t have to massively overhaul a fake news story just this last July, or that Goldberg himself caved to a writers’ revolt when they didn’t want Kevin Williamson writing with them.
Given the "unnamed" sources aspect, countered with sources who WERE willing to go on the record, this story cannot be given credibility until someone with enough balls to stand up to mean tweets is willing to put themselves out there.
Claim #3: President Trump disparaged John McCain. This seems to be a case of mixing in a truth so that the lies will be a little easier to swallow. It is no secret that President Trump and John McCain had plenty of personal animosity, which did not seem to end with the senator’s death. To drag out this story in order to lend more credence to Trump’s alleged other statements about dead and living servicemembers is disingenuous at best.
While the claim that Trump and McCain feuded publicly is true, that one example cannot prove the entire premise.
It is fair to say that the facts as we currently have them do not support The Atlantic’s story — especially given Goldberg’s rather pathetic excuse for not getting his sources on the record. That’s an automatic F in journalism school. But in the age of Orange Man Bad, anything goes if it makes Trump look bad.
The other part of this that stinks? It looks like Team Biden was ready for this story to drop. The Biden campaign got some tried and true Democrat supporters with military credentials to be ready to talk about how much they loathe Donald Trump. My, that happened fast. Almost as if this was preplanned.
They even had an ad ready to roll via the VoteVets group.
How did this very pro-Democrats, very anti-Trump PAC know to have this ad ready, complete with quotes from The Atlantic piece, within hours of the article’s publication? They claim that they started production "an hour after" the story was published. And they just happened to have all these Gold Star families on speed dial for quick video clips, along with images of their loved lost ones, to condemn Donald Trump — one of which looks to have been filmed indoors, with quite a lot of daylight. Consider that The Atlantic piece, per the VoteVets video, was published at 5:32 pm Eastern Time. Now, sunlight is still a possibility if they started an hour after the piece dropped, and depending on the time zones involved, there could still have been plenty of daylight. VoteVets tweeted out their ad at 3:04 am Eastern Time. So I will leave it to each person’s judgement if this ad was slapped together at a moment’s notice and rushed out, or not.
Meanwhile, Biden is getting softballs from the media. Now that the shiny new object has been found, the media are allowed to avoid reporting on Biden’s Kenosha visit disaster. Hey Grandpa Joe, please tell us how bad the Orange Man is, please.
So, dear readers, I leave this decision to you. Look at the evidence, who went on the record, who did not, and how the media is reacting. Was this story real? Or was this a coordinated hit job? It’s your call.
Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple founder Steve Jobs, is the majority stakeholder in the publication. Powell Jobs was named by The New York Times among those who financed at least $500,000 of then-presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s campaign in the 2nd quarter this year.
[PJ] Anti-Putin activist Alexei Navalny is slowly recovering in a Berlin hospital after being poisoned with a nerve agent. His convalescence will be long and painful.
Naturally, the finger of blame is pointed at Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose enemies continue to end up dead. In Navalny’s case, he escaped with his life. Others have not been as lucky.
In truth, Navalny, like many Russian opponents of Putin, had angered several other powerful people in Russia, so Putin isn’t the only suspect. But the poisoning has all the earmarks of a state security operation. And since the Federal Security Service (FSB) is under Putin’s direct control, putting two and two together is not that difficult.
But what can anyone do to stop it? The left in the U.S. has been screaming for more sanctions on Russia for four years, since U.S. intelligence confirmed Russian interference in the 2016 election. The EU has been mulling putting more sanctions on Russia and the various friends of the Kremlin who prop up Putin’s rule.
But the reality is that sanctions against Russia will only harm the nations that impose them. Putin has been under sanctions for years and is hardly bothered by them.
A good example is the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project.
When liberty tree needs uprootin'
In Russia, or dissidents shootin',
From Cyril to Stalin,
When strongman comes callin',
Has any killed fewer than Putin?
[TheStranger] It seems Seattle is on the path for a very bad 2021 and 2022. This possibility will become all the more real if Boeing decides to concentrate its production of the 787 Dreamliner planes in South Carolina.
The decision, the Seattle Times reports, might be made as early as next month. And if Boeing does move two of its assembly lines over to South Carolina, which is very likely, then an estimated 30,000 employees in Everett are "expected to be the loser[s]." This job loss would extend and deepen the recession that greater Seattle is presently experiencing.
Everett Mayor Cassie Franklin to the Times: "Losing the 787 assembly line 'would be devastating for our local economy.'" Not only that, but the jobs that would go to South Carolina would never come back.
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Cranes are associated with elevated Land values which tend to be associated with rent-seeking which is unearned income which will attract the left (and country-club repubs).
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About the author: Charles Tonderai Mudede, The Stranger’s film editor, is a Zimbabwean-born cultural critic, urbanist, filmmaker, college lecturer, and writer.
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The wealthy left because of the left policies. This article is ignorance piled on bullcrap.
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We always welcome good jobs--and good employers--here in SC. Perhaps that is why people move here from locations that are less welcoming.
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Suffer.
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Yes, just as whitey is solely responsible for all of brown peoples' problems, the rich are solely responsible for all the poor's problems. I mean, none of these downtrodden folk would ever make a bad choice on their own...
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Desecrate a statue of Chris Cornell (leave aside all the others for a moment)? These are clearly not thinking people. I trust I don't need to elaborate on this.
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Desecrate a statue of Chris Cornell (leave aside all the others for a moment)? These are clearly not thinking people. I trust I don't need to elaborate on this.
[Not The Bee] These are "Black Lives Matter" protesters. Look how they treat this black man:
What a disgusting display. That officer showed incredible poise and grace while being berated in heinous ways and blinded by flashing lights.
BLM is not about black lives. It's about Marxism. The mob hates this honorable man because they've deemed him part of the "oppressor" class, despite his black skin — "black as f***," as the contemptible screecher with the bullhorn put it.
An absolutely shameful display. Wish I could shake this man's hand.
[Townhall] There are a lot of solid conservatives frustrated and appalled by the Biden Riots, and a lot of those folks wonder why Donald Trump doesn’t just make it all stop – you know, sort of like Grandpa Badfinger implicitly promises he will do if we restore the garbage liberal establishment, except with military force.
“Call up the Guard,” right? But what folks do not understand are the practical problems with Trump using troops (sending federal law enforcement officers presents similar problems, but also a unique and big one – there just aren’t as many federal cops as there are soldiers).
The devil is in the details, and the devil here makes Trump pulling the trigger on the troops in the current situation a very bad idea. We should support his strategic patience and not do what the Democrats want by getting mad at the president for refusing to stumble into an ambush.
After laying out exactly what sending the National Guard into a politically unwelcoming domestic environment would entail — Mr. Schlichter was a lieutenant colonel at one point, first as a regular, then in the National Guard, so he knows whereof he speaks— he lands the piece with a flourish:
These hard truths are not to say there is nothing for the feds to do. Until the Democrat regimes decide this needs to end and cooperate, the feds should do one of the few things the feds are good at – taking down large criminal organizations.
Antifa is just like the drug cartels with less testosterone, and just like the mafia except with worse clothes and less testosterone. The feds should ignore the street thugs who make up the shock troops.
It was no coincidence that 100 percent of the people Kyle shot had criminal records. The feds should focus on the LARPing middle class SJWs and the dedicated Marxist cadre and use RICO, conspiracy, and other federal charges to take them out and lock them up. When little Ashleigh from the suburbs realizes that she’s looking at five years in federal prison instead of heading back to the Evergreen State to finish her Bolivian Trans Dance of the 13th Century degree, the lawyer daddy buys her will get her to sing like a canary about her commie pals. The feds should identify and map the whole criminal organization, identify its players and funding, and wipe it out.
Look, it’s perfectly understandable to be frustrated. But getting mad at Trump because he is not doing something that would turn into the cluster fark to end all cluster farks is doing exactly what the liberal elite and its media minions want. Let Portland and the rest of the blue cities trash themselves. Let the DOJ, which has already charged dozens of these degenerates with federal beefs, do its thing.
And make sure you get out and vote straight Republican if you want any hope of this ever ending.
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Kurt's exactly right. To smash these shitty little morons the Feds already have the only tool that's needed, the RICO laws. Kurt:
These hard truths are not to say there is nothing for the feds to do. Until the Democrat regimes decide this needs to end and cooperate, the feds should do one of the few things the feds are good at – taking down large criminal organizations. Antifa is just like the drug cartels with less testosterone, and just like the mafia except with worse clothes and less testosterone.
The feds should ignore the street thugs who make up the shock troops. It was no coincidence that 100 percent of the people Kyle shot had criminal records. The feds should focus on the LARPing middle class SJWs and the dedicated Marxist cadre and use RICO, conspiracy, and other federal charges to take them out and lock them up. When little Ashleigh from the suburbs realizes that she’s looking at five years in federal prison instead of heading back to the Evergreen State to finish her Bolivian Trans Dance of the 13th Century degree, the lawyer daddy buys her will get her to sing like a canary about her commie pals. The feds should identify and map the whole criminal organization, identify its players and funding, and wipe it out.
First thing of his second term he needs to clean out the old and create new Justice departments who swear on a bible (or torah?) to obey the law as written.
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Posse Comitatus Act was passed to remove federal troops in the south from protecting the rights of blacks following the civil war. It's a fall out from the Hayes-Tilden election fiasco trying to prevent Civil War part II. It applies to the use of Army personnel and by extension to the Air Force which originated with the Army. It does not apply to the Navy which includes the Marine Corps, cause the Corps was never that big in those days and not considered.
He seems to forget that the President can call upon the militia as prior presidents have in the past. Just use the Insurrection Act. There are enough vets out there where they can get sufficient number of volunteers. They can sort themselves out. Those vols without experience you can use for point defense and blocking forces. Those vols with experience can be maneuver elements. Simple RoE, don't screw with the militia or you are already dead. It's not clean, its not tidy but it will work like a hammer on a spider.
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"You created this shithole by voting for the Dem Politicians. Live in it til you learn good and hard what consequences are"
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They are not especially sophisticated. NSA probably has captures on their comms, it maybe isn't a priority to look for them (I hope it's not intentional neglect) Hopefully they will get the attention they actually deserve.
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I liked the deputizing state troopers angle. Takes local courts out of the equation to some extent which will gradually remove rioters from the riot/release cycle.
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I'd love to be a fly on the wall When little Ashleigh from the suburbs realizes that she’s looking at five years in federal prison.
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^That's because you're an amateur bad person, Abu. If you were a professional bad person, you'd want to be a fly on the wall when Ashleigh gets to female prison and meets local transwomen.
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I'll take that as a complement, grom. But Ashliegh won't go to the federal lockup after she sings about her commie pals. The plan is that she might get six months at a country club.
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Bolivian Trans Dance of the 13th Century degree is comedy gold but clearly it's cultural appropriation and even dimwit Ashleigh from the suburbs probably knows it by now.
[Red State] On Wednesday, Former Vice President Joe Biden proposed a "live fact-check" crawler for his scheduled Presidential Debates against President Donald Trump. Biden suggested that the crawler could immediately verify the veracity of both candidates’ statements during the debate and level the playing field for the Democrat nominee.
When asked a question about how he has begun to prepare for the upcoming debates, Hidin’ Biden had the following to say:
"Well... I’ve begun to prepare by uh... by uh... going over what the President has said and the multiple lies he’s (chuckles) he’s told... What I would love to have is a crawler at the bottom of the screen, a fact-checker, you know, when we speak. If we really wanted to do something I think that would make a
great, great debate. If everything both of us said was instantly fact-checked by an agreed to group of people out there, that we move forward [emphasis added], but that probably wouldn’t get very far in the debate."
Biden went on to say that he was looking forward to the debate, but the language he used in his statement was either blatantly revealing his strategy or accidental tipping of his hand. Biden may have been less concerned about the fact-checker and more concerned about setting conditions by which Trump may reject the format of the debates. Should Trump not agree to the fact-checker, the former VP may use that as a justification for not debating Trump at all. Right now, if he were to say debates aren’t necessary, he would take a bath in the polls in the coming weeks and face harsh criticism from both supporters and opponents alike. Adding additional conditions that likely wouldn’t be favorable to Trump would lead to Trump denying the conditions and then give that justification for which Team Biden is looking. Trump would have an understandable angle for denying the live fact-checking as the media has been working as the propaganda arm of the DNC and would likely fact check Trump’s statement at a much higher
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The problem is that no state can possibly verify signature on 2+ million ballots on election day. So some officials might simply do away with effective verification.
[AgglomerationsTech] Untangling innovation from industrial policy https://www.agglomerations.tech/untangling-innovation-from-industrial-policy/
Via: @MargRev
"many of the bad. Things like science megaprojects, fostering agglomeration clusters, and basic science funding can all be justified using an innovation externality framework. Policies aimed at increasing the number of "good jobs," subsidizing a specific politically-connected industry, or changing the structure of corporate governance for fairness concerns would not fall into this category. Those things may or may not be desirable on their own merits, but they fall outside the realm of innovation.
You could make a case that even some of the more controversial industrial policy proposals could constitute innovation policy if couched in the right terms. For example, Dan Wang and Brad DeLong have both argued the US should deliberately maintain an advanced industrial base, partially so that physical engineers have more overlap with product designers to preserve process knowledge and together make more progress on the technological frontier.
But this is precisely the point. The framing of innovation policy changes the terrain of industrial policy discussions such that you have to lay out the specific innovation externality that is being missed in the current equilibrium and run some kind of rough cost-benefit calculation to prove that the intervention will be worth the cost within that framework. It doesn’t answer the question, but it forces the use of a measuring stick."
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.
2021 and 2022. This possibility will become all the more real if Boeing decides to concentrate its production of the 787 Dreamliner planes in South Carolina.
[Not The Bee] These are "Black Lives Matter" protesters. Look how they treat this black man:
[Red State] On Wednesday, Former Vice President Joe Biden proposed a "live fact-check" crawler for his scheduled Presidential Debates against President Donald Trump. Biden suggested that the crawler could immediately verify the veracity of both candidates’ statements during the debate and level the playing field for the Democrat nominee.
