[NYP] Can you hear the loud whine emanating from the coasts?
That chorus of dweebs comprises elite newspaper reporters, columnists and so-called influencers who have just heard the news that Elon Musk, the uber-rich new owner and CEO of Twitter, might begin charging $19.99 a month to retain "verification" on his dumb social media platform.
Their moans are music to my ears!
According to a positively symphonic report from the Verge, Musk is gung-ho on shaking up the entire screwed-up system.
"The whole verification process is being revamped right now," he tweeted.
Play on, Elon! Play on!
What Maestro Musk is hinting at, the report said, is that those stupid blue checkmarks might soon cost a staggering $240 a year, and that they will be available to more folks than just CNN writers, celebrities, YouTube stars and Pete Buttigieg’s husband.
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A guest on Gutfeld last night, I forgot her name but she was an official in the Trump administration, said she had been trying for some time to get a blue check. She said she went through all the hoops, answered all the questions was told she had all the qualifications, but was still denied. She said now she can be a Blue Check.
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If I pay more money, can I be a throbbing purple hehmroid
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#7
Sorry I was trying to figure out the spelling and hit enter accidentally. I was trying to encourage capitalism not ignorance.
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[American Thinker] A little over a week ago, the Heritage Foundation issued a report that did not get the attention it deserves. The report is entitled "2023 Index of U.S. Military Strength," and it details how significantly the U.S. military has declined under the not-so-tender care of the leftists in charge of the White House and the Pentagon. Indeed, if one considers China to be our greatest geopolitical foe, it’s questionable whether our military has the ability to fight, let alone win.
The 2023 Index has an executive summary that pretty much says it all:
As currently postured, the U.S. military is at growing risk of not being able to meet the demands of defending America’s vital national interests. It is rated as weak relative to the force needed to defend national interests on a global stage against actual challenges in the world as it is rather than as we wish it were. This is the logical consequence of years of sustained use, underfunding, poorly defined priorities, wildly shifting security policies, exceedingly poor discipline in program execution, and a profound lack of seriousness across the national security establishment even as threats to U.S. interests have surged.
The summary explains that "The condition of America’s military power is measured in terms of its capability or modernity, capacity for operations, and readiness to handle assigned missions." These metrics are measured against specific military objectives: defending American soil, successfully concluding a major war that poses a serious threat to America, and preserving "freedom of movement within the global commons (the sea, air, outer space, and cyberspace domains) through which the world conducts its business." Except for the Marines, which have managed to resist the Pentagon’s "woke" obsessions, every one of America’s forces is in increasingly dire straits.
The threats are those you would expect: Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, and other bad actors. What’s depressing is the grades assigned to the various branches of the military.
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As currently postured, the U.S. military is at growing risk of not being able to meet the demands of defending America’s vital national interests.
It is rated as weak relative to the force needed to defend national interestson a global stage against actual challenges in the world as it is rather than as we wish it were. These metrics are measured against specific military objectives: defending American soil, successfully concluding a major war that poses a serious threat to America
Weak by design.
The Biden morons don’t even understand the concept of “vital national interest.”
They’re too busy grifting and posturing with Ukrainian Nazis to try to “defend American soil”:
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major war that poses a serious threat to America
While the european media goads on America with 'osint' about how Russia can be crushed, how they'll collectively just walk over them, hooraah! How their nukes probably don't even work. And for what. So another illegitimate EU prince can subject a largely foolish nation to all the wonders of the supranational experiment.
I know the neocons and some of those who grew up hating the now absent Soviets feel it's a great chance to kick the bum when he's down. But I think it's suicide, what the Biden administration is taking the US to. Earlier, it was just demographic and economic suicide. Now, it may turn physical and too suddenly for a policy correction to be of any use.
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What war that poses a major threat? There isn't one. Our continent is secure from military threats.
What needs securing is our border. But somehow it's a hate crime to defend our own land.
"National interests" is a phrase that should raise your suspicion immediately. It's a code word for "bully other countries with CIA coups and color revolutions, bribe them with lopsided trade deals that fuck over the American worker, and negotiate results that help everyone but Americans". Be very wary of this phrase as it's used to justify the worst excesses of the deep state. Billions for weapons, but not one cent for our people.
#4
We blew it big time when the Wall and the Soviet Union collapsed. There should have been a very very serious review of national interests vs military 'needs' [along with a reckoning of those who allied/supported/aided the former Marxists state]. Didn't happen. So the old allegory "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" has prevailed.
It's interesting that Deep State is working a organization like the old Ceausescu model, don't trust the military, empower and expand the enforcement arms of party.
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I think it's suicide, what the Biden administration is taking the US to
As planned
Posted by: Billy B ||
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The Biden morons don’t even understand the concept of “vital national interest.”
There's the rub. The problem is with your definitions. If your vital interests are defined as the ability to get graft and bribes while increasing your personal power and decreasing any power that might accrue to your personal opponents then all is going to plan.
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Surprise, surprise: the same assholes who concocted the retarded “dossier” about Trump and lied shamelessly for four years about everything including the little Biden crackhead’s laptop are the ones hosting Ukrainian Nazis in D.C.
And their lapdog, the American Pravda media, obliges, changing their description of Azov from neo-Nazi to “celebrated military unit.”
From the article on the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion’s recent North American Tour:
This September, a delegation of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi-led Azov movement arrived in the United States, at a time when myth making about the far-right network’s “depoliticization” had reached a fever pitch. By this time, the New York Times had ceased referring to Azov as “openly neo-Nazi,” and was referring to the ultra-nationalist organization as “celebrated.”
…According to Kuparashvili, a cofounder and instructor of the Azov Regiment, his delegation met over fifty members of Congress, far more than anyone has realized. Among those who showed up to greet Azov on Capitol Hill was Rep. Adam Schiff, the California Democrat who spent the Trump era leading Russiagate theatrics and clamored for shipments of offensive US weapons to Ukraine.
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^ Each one with their complimentary FBI instigator minder
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Each demoncrat administration gutted the military. I remember when Clinton took over and they kept telling us, "No more Task Force Smiths!" and then went from 180 days a year in the field to 30 days in 10 day blocks. How the fuck can you be proficient at your job just doing it 30 days out of the year? Cut the ammo allotment for training by 70% too.
The left is anti-military. But very pro internal security forces.
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There may be a silver lining. We don't need this gigantic military, because it's not our job to conquer the world. Or be world police.
The US military could be 1/10 the size it is today and still do a fantastic job for its intended purpose: defending our shores. Let Europe pay for its own defense. Ungrateful cheapskates.
[Townhall] There is nothing that Democrats hate more than powerful women who are not hideous crones or castrating shrews, especially since castration — particularly of vulnerable minors — has become a key component of the Democrat platform. What’s odd is that in 2022, the Democrats have chosen to run a bunch of women who are pretty much archetypes of liberal harridans — fussy know-it-alls, passive-aggressive HR managers, ancient pinkos, and bitter man-haters. And all of them are abortion nuts, of course.
The GOP went another way, picking candidates who don’t make normal women roll their eyes and normal men snort in derision. The woman-identifying GOP contenders this cycle, particularly those running for governor but also a key Senate candidate, are the opposite of the Democrat stock characters they face. Kari Lake in Arizona, Tudor Dixon in Michigan, Christine Drazan in Oregon, and Senate candidate Tiffany Smiley in Washington all have a solid chance to snuff their Karen competitors in a week, which is proof that Republicans are sexist somehow just like GOP support for Herschel Walker and Tim Scott proves their racism.
Though, we Republicans are ableists. We believe you should be able to do the job you are elected to do, which pin-headed lump-monger John Fetterman is manifestly unable to do. But sexist? In the words of Nigel Tufnel, what’s wrong with being sexy?
Highlighting the immutable characteristics of candidates is dumb, but that’s how the lib plays so let’s play too. GOP women beat their women, no question, no doubt.
Kari Lake is a superstar, and we will be seeing her again — likely either as a senator or on a presidential ticket. Poised and fearless, she hammers the press mercilessly by going right at Dem's throats, and she knows their weaknesses because she was part of their media for decades. Her courage terrifies the libs. The lib men especially hate it because she reinforces their inadequacy — they could never be as badass as she is, and for all their sissy sensitivity and proud rejection of toxic masculinity, these tiresome femboys understand that they are not, in fact, men, but neutered submissives, and they disgust themselves as much as they disgust us.
[YouTube] Back in 2018, Lockheed Martin filed a patent for something it called a "plasma confinement system" — a device small enough to fit inside the fuselage of an F-16 Fighting Falcon that is capable of managing internal temperatures 10 times hotter than the center of the sun.
This scalable device was designed to play a vital role in containing an approach to power production that some still consider science fiction: nuclear fusion. Now, recent advancements in the field are making fusion power look not just possible, but potentially even feasible. In the coming years, fusion could not only change everything about the way the world fights wars... it could even change the way humanity approaches conflict itself.
And it all might start within the shadowy confines of the Pentagon’s black budget.
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.
[NYP] Can you hear the loud whine emanating from the coasts?
[Townhall] There is nothing that Democrats hate more than powerful women who are not hideous crones or castrating shrews, especially since castration — particularly of vulnerable minors — has become a key component of the Democrat platform. What’s odd is that in 2022, the Democrats have chosen to run a bunch of women who are pretty much archetypes of liberal harridans — fussy know-it-alls, passive-aggressive HR managers, ancient pinkos, and bitter man-haters. And all of them are abortion nuts, of course.
[YouTube] Back in 2018, Lockheed Martin filed a patent for something it called a "plasma confinement system" — a device small enough to fit inside the fuselage of an F-16 Fighting Falcon that is capable of managing internal temperatures 10 times hotter than the center of the sun.
