Imagine the power you could have over people if you'd figured out a few things like this 1000 years ago.
Oct 11, 2019
Oct 10, 2019
Meanwhile, Back At The Wall
45* loves to brag about his little fantasy vanity project. Which is not going anywhere. Every time he goes for a photo op or he shows video of "new wall" or he crows about how extremely well the new construction is going, he's lying (because of course he is).
We actually built prototypes and we have, I guess you could say, world-class mountain climbers. We got climbers. We had 20 mountain climbers. That’s all they do; they love to climb mountains. They can have it. Me, I don’t want to climb mountains. But they’re very good. And some of them were champions. And we gave them different prototypes of walls, and this was the one that was hardest to climb.
And we’ve all seen the pictures of young people climbing walls with drugs on their back — a lot of drugs. I mean, they’re unbelievable climbers. This wall can’t be climbed. This is very, very hard.
And what the panel does on top, as I said, is structural, but it’s also very hard to get by panel. Plus, it’s designed to absorb heat, so it’s extremely hot. The wall is — you won’t be able to touch it. You can — you can fry an egg on that wall. It’s very, very hot.
So if they’re going to climb it, they’re going to have bring hoses and waters — water. And we don’t’ know where they’re going to hook it up, because there’s not a lot of water out here. So it’s a very, very hard thing to climb.
BTW3, I wonder where did all the money go? All the money Cult45 stole from various military projects?
We actually built prototypes and we have, I guess you could say, world-class mountain climbers. We got climbers. We had 20 mountain climbers. That’s all they do; they love to climb mountains. They can have it. Me, I don’t want to climb mountains. But they’re very good. And some of them were champions. And we gave them different prototypes of walls, and this was the one that was hardest to climb.
And we’ve all seen the pictures of young people climbing walls with drugs on their back — a lot of drugs. I mean, they’re unbelievable climbers. This wall can’t be climbed. This is very, very hard.
And what the panel does on top, as I said, is structural, but it’s also very hard to get by panel. Plus, it’s designed to absorb heat, so it’s extremely hot. The wall is — you won’t be able to touch it. You can — you can fry an egg on that wall. It’s very, very hot.
So if they’re going to climb it, they’re going to have bring hoses and waters — water. And we don’t’ know where they’re going to hook it up, because there’s not a lot of water out here. So it’s a very, very hard thing to climb.
Here's a coupla pix of 8-year-old Lucy Hancock giving it a whirl:
BTW, the belay (the rope) is for safety only - she required no assistance.
BTW2, it took climber Erik Kloeker 40 seconds to get up and over that stoopid stoopid wall.
BTW3, I wonder where did all the money go? All the money Cult45 stole from various military projects?
Yeehaw
...and away we go.
Raw Story:
Lev Parnas, the foreign-born businessman who was indicted this week on campaign-finance charges, donated thousands of dollars last year to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
As flagged by New York Daily News reporter Michael McAuliff, Parnas in June 2018 contributed $2,700 to McCarthy’s reelection campaign.
Meanwhile, Parnas and another of Rudy Giuliani's buddies, Igor Fruman, were both arrested today as the were trying to board their getaway plane.
Two associates of President Trump’s personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani have been arrested on charges they schemed to funnel foreign money to U.S. politicians while trying to affect U.S.-Ukraine relations, according to a newly unsealed indictment.
The two men, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, who had been helping Giuliani investigate Democratic presidential candidate and former vice president Joe Biden, were arrested Wednesday evening at Dulles International Airport outside of Washington, D.C., where they had one-way tickets on a flight out of the country, officials said.
Raw Story:
Lev Parnas, the foreign-born businessman who was indicted this week on campaign-finance charges, donated thousands of dollars last year to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
As flagged by New York Daily News reporter Michael McAuliff, Parnas in June 2018 contributed $2,700 to McCarthy’s reelection campaign.
Meanwhile, Parnas and another of Rudy Giuliani's buddies, Igor Fruman, were both arrested today as the were trying to board their getaway plane.
Two associates of President Trump’s personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani have been arrested on charges they schemed to funnel foreign money to U.S. politicians while trying to affect U.S.-Ukraine relations, according to a newly unsealed indictment.
The two men, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, who had been helping Giuliani investigate Democratic presidential candidate and former vice president Joe Biden, were arrested Wednesday evening at Dulles International Airport outside of Washington, D.C., where they had one-way tickets on a flight out of the country, officials said.
Perplexed With Puzzle
Have you had any problems lately where you just don't know how to reply to an argument - not because you don't know the answer, but because you can't quite figure out where to begin?
Like, the foundational knowledge you'd have to impart to that person before you could even begin to drag them out of their intellectual sinkhole would take years and cost many thousands of dollars if it were coming thru college courses.
How am I supposed to do that shit?
It's a wonderment.
Like, the foundational knowledge you'd have to impart to that person before you could even begin to drag them out of their intellectual sinkhole would take years and cost many thousands of dollars if it were coming thru college courses.
How am I supposed to do that shit?
It's a wonderment.
Today's Tweet II
I had to get this one up before it disappeared.
If you're still down with Trump, fuck you.
And Republicans don't ever get to call themselves "pro-life" again.
Not. Fucking. Ever.
Killed and wounded as a result of indiscriminate shelling of Turkish fighter jets in northern Syria #KurdsBetrayedByTrump pic.twitter.com/nfXnPRb9nB— bakhtyar talabani (@baxtalabani) October 10, 2019
And btw, we know the reasons 45* decided to fuck over the Kurds:
Some History
Sometimes I hate learning new things. Actually, I guess it's more that I kinda hate knowing some of things that I learn.
Paraphrasing Jackson Browne: I wanna be a happy idiot.
Ever wonder why 45* picked Andrew Jackson as his favorite POTUS / historical figure?
WaPo:
Even for those who are convinced that President Trump must go, the prospect of impeaching him is daunting.
In part, that’s because Trump is already calling his critics “spies” and “savages” and has warned of a civil war if the charges against him move forward. Imagine what the man will tweet if the U.S. Capitol Police ever turn up at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., telling him to pack his things.
The deeper reason there is so much uncertainty around impeachment is because no sitting president has ever actually been thrown out of office for high crimes and misdemeanors. Richard Nixon resigned before Congress could decide that he was, in fact, a crook, and both Bill Clinton and Andrew Johnson were acquitted in their impeachment trials. Removal from office is hard to imagine because it has never happened.
Except that it has happened, to another real estate mogul turned politician with improper ties to foreign leaders. It’s just that he was a senator, not a president.
His name was William Blount, born in 1749 to a wealthy family in North Carolina, one of the most corrupt parts of British North America. In 1776, Blount joined the patriot cause as paymaster for the new state. While handling large volumes of IOUs, many of them in the form of western lands promised to soldiers, he saw firsthand how those in power could profit from their duties.
He liked what he saw.
With independence won in 1783, most people in North Carolina wanted to make western lands available for poor settlers as well as patriotic veterans. But with so many groups — the Cherokee and Creek nations, the Continental Congress, the British, the Spanish, etc. — vying for the southern frontiers, no one knew how to claim those lands. Indeed, many settlers wanted to start a new state just west of North Carolina, where no one owned too many acres and people could pay their taxes in pelts.
Blount had other ideas.
His strategy was simple: Make up the names of hundreds of settlers and then snap up the best plots with these ghost entries at North Carolina’s new land office, which opened in 1783. Then, he tried to raise land values by luring British investors with fairy tales of North America’s emerging real estate markets. “You will necessarily keep up a Report of as many [settlers] being about to go [west] as you possibly can,” he told one of his minions, “whether true or not.” There were many shady speculators in post-Revolution America, but none as audacious as Blount.
With his associates, among them a young lawyer named Andrew Jackson, Blount eventually “owned” about 1 million acres, much of it deep inside Indian country. He used these claims to gain influence with both state and federal officials. In 1790, Blount became governor of the Southwest Territory (today’s Tennessee), rejoicing to his brother that this post was “of great Importance to our Western Speculations.”
In the face of constant invasion, several hundred Cherokees declared war on the Southwest Territory on Sept. 11, 1792. For the next two years, Blount begged U.S. officials for aid, but federal authorities were focused on Ohio, prompting Blount and his confidants to privately rage that the do-gooders in the nation’s capital preferred “savage” friends to white families. So they took matters into their own hands, with Blount quietly instructing Jackson and other confidants to launch scorched-earth missions into Indian country.
Of course, the administrations of George Washington and John Adams were no friends of any Indians, but they still required U.S. citizens to abide by solemn treaties, including a new one with the Cherokee in 1794. Blount was all for peace if it would improve land values, but this treaty blocked white settlers from further trespassing on Indian grounds, which meant they could not buy Blount’s more remote claims.
The parallels are too fuckin' spooky:
Vastly in debt because of his high-flying speculations, Blount could not wait for federal officials to open more land for legal sale. So, in early 1797, he used his position as one of the first senators from Tennessee to approach British agents about invading the Spanish-held lands of the Gulf Coast. (Spain and Britain were then at war because of the French Revolution, while the United States clung to neutrality.)
They never really caught up with Blount, but they managed to drive him out of office, and he lived out his days in semi-exile in the wilds of Tennessee.
Vastly in debt because of his high-flying speculations, Blount could not wait for federal officials to open more land for legal sale. So, in early 1797, he used his position as one of the first senators from Tennessee to approach British agents about invading the Spanish-held lands of the Gulf Coast. (Spain and Britain were then at war because of the French Revolution, while the United States clung to neutrality.)
They never really caught up with Blount, but they managed to drive him out of office, and he lived out his days in semi-exile in the wilds of Tennessee.
Today's Tweet
And what did 45*'s best good buddies the Saudis do in WW2?
Oh yeah, right - Hitler bought them off with an arms deal in the late 30s to make sure they stayed neutral. And then they swung towards the Allies when it became clear our side was winning. Definitely 45*'s favorite kinda people.
We’re one news cycle away from withdrawing from NATO because the Germans didn’t help America in Normandy.— Rita Konaev (@RitaKonaev) October 10, 2019
Oct 9, 2019
Today's Tweet
noun
- the action of killing a king.
- a person who kills or takes part in killing a king.plural noun: regicides
These assholes are going to get a lot of us killed. This business will get outa hand and we'll be lucky to survive it.
Fox guest accuses congressional Democrats of "regicide" and calls the whistelblowers "suicide bombers" pic.twitter.com/cyv6Y9Vxr2— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) October 9, 2019
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