1. "Deploy all necessary military assets, including the US Navy to impose the full naval embargo and the cartels."
2. "Guarantee that the waters of the Western Hemisphere are not used to traffic illicit drugs to our country."
3. "Order the Department of Defense to make appropriate use of special forces cyber warfare and other overt and covert actions to inflict maximum damage on cartel leadership, infrastructure, and operations."
4. "Designate the major cartels as foreign terrorist organizations."
5: "Sever their access to global financial systems."
6. "Get the full cooperation of other governments to stop [the cartels], or we will expose every bribe, every kickback, every payoff, and every bit of corruption that is allowing the cartels to preserve their brutal reign."
7. "Ask Congress to pass legislation ensuring that drug smugglers and human traffickers receive the de*th penalty."
"When I'm back in the White House, the drug kingpins and vicious traffickers will never sleep soundly again."
Didn't Tom Clancy write a book about when the US Government went to war on the cartels.
(Ultimately, there is demand for drugs. There will therefore be a supply of drugs. If you want to stop drugs, stop demand for them.)
Yes . There have been various shock ! horror ! scandals about it. Perhaps it's a phenomenon of the silent "window of recent history" for all of us, in this case because you are relatively young for PB people?
I did not, know, for example, know much about the 50s 60s until I started to read up about them.
Many of the Great and the Good in West Germany in the 1950s to 1970s were senior officials in the Nazi era. There's a good Mark Felton video about it somewhere. A large proportion of senior Lawyers and Members of Parliament were former Nazis for many years, which may be linked to why the WG Government went to such lengths to avoid prosecuting any.
Yawn. Nothing will come out. It’s all grift and rumours of rumours.
As I have continually said.
Even if that turns out to be true, it’s notable that the likes of Schumer and Rubio are giving a very different impression. Why? It’s not because they’re morons. They’ve had +40 people testify under oath behind closed doors. Who? Why?
Why have they and many others pushed the UAP Disclosure Act now three years in a row, legally defining “technology of non human origin”?
It’s remarkable how few people on this forum see how notable that legislation is, even if you think the motives are different to what its sponsors portray.
Intelligent people can believe strange things all the time. From my perspective I find belief in deities weird, but I know many very intelligent people who do. It’s the same with UAPs etc. There are very many grifters and liars spinning yarns which suck people in. That’s all.
For about two years you insisted Covid came from the wet market
Oh fuck off. We do not know the origins of covid and the wet market is still a valid hypothesis. Where did SARS come from? Or MERS? Novel pathogens almost always originate in animals before making the transition to humans, usually through humans in close proximity. You haven’t won the debate over covid origins, even if you think you have. A lab leak is entirely plausible, but so is origins from the wet market.
lol. You were absolutely insistent it came from the market now it’s “we do not know the origins”
You’re a boring, timid, narrow minded science nerd with the imaginative capacity of a whelk, and you get scared by ideas which threaten your little world
And you waste hours of you pathetic empty life trying to wind up people you have never met on a niche political/betting website. I don’t recall being insistent. I would certainly have thought it by far the likeliest explanation, just as with all the others diseases of zoonotic origins.
lol
If I live a pathetic empty life - *he writes, on a bus to the Korean demilitarised zone* - I’d hate to see your description of the life of, say, a boring midwit stay at home science academic living in Hornsey
Each to their own. I find it fascinating how much you seem to need PB. And not just PB, but pointless arguments and nasty comments. Honestly if I want snark and nasty comments I just need to have coffee with fellow academics…
As we have established many times PB is a portable pub. It’s brilliant for that. Given that I travel incessantly it’s very handy for me to have a pub I can take out of my pocket and meet old friends - and comfortingly boring regulars - and old sparring partners. Its actually stranger - to me - how much people who DON’T travel frequent PB, however I never criticize anyone for doing it as we all have our needs and desires and the PB pub rightly welcomes everyone
And yes I love a good argument. I get easily bored and a nice dust-up enlivens the world
Right. This is it. I could die here. Gulp
I enjoy PB because I can get all of my weird political frustrations and arguments out here, to the point in my actual day to day life people think I'm completely apolitical and uninterested in the world around me. It's a good place to vent.
In a world where everyone seems to argue about politics, all the time, most of my closest friends haven't a scooby what I really think about the issues of the day or who I vote for.
Therefore to me PB is less like the village pub and more like the knocking shop I secretly visit to sate my kinky s&m desires, while appearing to friends and family as blandly asexual, perhaps a bit of missionary at Xmas...
You've certainly behaved like a bully to some. Your desires have been sated. Pity about the effect on them.
Ah, I know who you are.
While I don't miss your hate-peddling, I'm nonetheless glad to see you're keeping well.
1. "Deploy all necessary military assets, including the US Navy to impose the full naval embargo and the cartels."
2. "Guarantee that the waters of the Western Hemisphere are not used to traffic illicit drugs to our country."
3. "Order the Department of Defense to make appropriate use of special forces cyber warfare and other overt and covert actions to inflict maximum damage on cartel leadership, infrastructure, and operations."
4. "Designate the major cartels as foreign terrorist organizations."
5: "Sever their access to global financial systems."
6. "Get the full cooperation of other governments to stop [the cartels], or we will expose every bribe, every kickback, every payoff, and every bit of corruption that is allowing the cartels to preserve their brutal reign."
7. "Ask Congress to pass legislation ensuring that drug smugglers and human traffickers receive the de*th penalty."
"When I'm back in the White House, the drug kingpins and vicious traffickers will never sleep soundly again."
Didn't Tom Clancy write a book about when the US Government went to war on the cartels.
(Ultimately, there is demand for drugs. There will therefore be a supply of drugs. If you want to stop drugs, stop demand for them.)
...Many of the Great and the Good in West Germany in the 1950s to 1970s were senior officials in the Nazi era. There's a good Mark Felton video about it somewhere. A large proportion of senior Lawyers and Members of Parliament were former Nazis for many years, which may be linked to why the WG Government went to such lengths to avoid prosecuting any.
...Many of the Great and the Good in West Germany in the 1950s to 1970s were senior officials in the Nazi era. There's a good Mark Felton video about it somewhere. A large proportion of senior Lawyers and Members of Parliament were former Nazis for many years, which may be linked to why the WG Government went to such lengths to avoid prosecuting any.
That's related, but the one I'm after was about people in society in the establishment. The one you link is aiui about Bundeswehr Generals not implicated with Nazi crimes or links who were deemed to have clean hands.
There's also this one, which is about the Naumann Circle, which was a network of hundreds of former Nazis in senior positions. But it's not that one either - unless there is a side comment. I'll have a listen.
...Many of the Great and the Good in West Germany in the 1950s to 1970s were senior officials in the Nazi era. There's a good Mark Felton video about it somewhere. A large proportion of senior Lawyers and Members of Parliament were former Nazis for many years, which may be linked to why the WG Government went to such lengths to avoid prosecuting any.
That's related, but the one I'm after was about people in society in the establishment. The one you link is aiui about Bundeswehr Generals not implicated with Nazi crimes or links who were deemed to have clean hands.
There's also this one, which is about the Naumann Circle, which was a network of hundreds of former Nazis in senior positions. But it's not that one either - unless there is a side comment. I'll have a listen.
1. "Deploy all necessary military assets, including the US Navy to impose the full naval embargo and the cartels."
2. "Guarantee that the waters of the Western Hemisphere are not used to traffic illicit drugs to our country."
3. "Order the Department of Defense to make appropriate use of special forces cyber warfare and other overt and covert actions to inflict maximum damage on cartel leadership, infrastructure, and operations."
4. "Designate the major cartels as foreign terrorist organizations."
5: "Sever their access to global financial systems."
6. "Get the full cooperation of other governments to stop [the cartels], or we will expose every bribe, every kickback, every payoff, and every bit of corruption that is allowing the cartels to preserve their brutal reign."
7. "Ask Congress to pass legislation ensuring that drug smugglers and human traffickers receive the de*th penalty."
"When I'm back in the White House, the drug kingpins and vicious traffickers will never sleep soundly again."
Didn't Tom Clancy write a book about when the US Government went to war on the cartels.
(Ultimately, there is demand for drugs. There will therefore be a supply of drugs. If you want to stop drugs, stop demand for them.)
Chump's weird in his narcissism. Is he going to get arrested himself for the profit he made from the laundry of narco-dollars?
...Many of the Great and the Good in West Germany in the 1950s to 1970s were senior officials in the Nazi era. There's a good Mark Felton video about it somewhere. A large proportion of senior Lawyers and Members of Parliament were former Nazis for many years, which may be linked to why the WG Government went to such lengths to avoid prosecuting any.
That's related, but the one I'm after was about people in society in the establishment. The one you link is aiui about Bundeswehr Generals not implicated with Nazi crimes or links who were deemed to have clean hands.
There's also this one, which is about the Naumann Circle, which was a network of hundreds of former Nazis in senior positions. But it's not that one either - unless there is a side comment. I'll have a listen.
...Many of the Great and the Good in West Germany in the 1950s to 1970s were senior officials in the Nazi era. There's a good Mark Felton video about it somewhere. A large proportion of senior Lawyers and Members of Parliament were former Nazis for many years, which may be linked to why the WG Government went to such lengths to avoid prosecuting any.
That's related, but the one I'm after was about people in society in the establishment. The one you link is aiui about Bundeswehr Generals not implicated with Nazi crimes or links who were deemed to have clean hands.
There's also this one, which is about the Naumann Circle, which was a network of hundreds of former Nazis in senior positions. But it's not that one either - unless there is a side comment. I'll have a listen.
Leafing thru Dr Felton's extensive oeuvre to find it is probably beyond me at this point, I'm sorry...
He needs an index.
Do you suppose AI would know?
Good morning ChatGPT. The YouTuber Mark Felton has many videos about World War 2 Germany and the post-war years. Can you please list one or more of his videos that cover Nazis infitrating West German civil society.
Good morning! Mark Felton has indeed created numerous videos on World War II and its aftermath. While I couldn't find a specific video solely focused on Nazis infiltrating West German civil society, his channel does cover related topics. You might find his video on Nazi fugitives in Argentina interesting, as it touches on post-war Nazi activities.
If you're interested in more of his content, you can explore his YouTube channel for a variety of historical documentaries.
...Many of the Great and the Good in West Germany in the 1950s to 1970s were senior officials in the Nazi era. There's a good Mark Felton video about it somewhere. A large proportion of senior Lawyers and Members of Parliament were former Nazis for many years, which may be linked to why the WG Government went to such lengths to avoid prosecuting any.
That's related, but the one I'm after was about people in society in the establishment. The one you link is aiui about Bundeswehr Generals not implicated with Nazi crimes or links who were deemed to have clean hands.
There's also this one, which is about the Naumann Circle, which was a network of hundreds of former Nazis in senior positions. But it's not that one either - unless there is a side comment. I'll have a listen.
Leafing thru Dr Felton's extensive oeuvre to find it is probably beyond me at this point, I'm sorry...
He needs an index.
Do you suppose AI would know?
Good morning ChatGPT. The YouTuber Mark Felton has many videos about World War 2 Germany and the post-war years. Can you please list one or more of his videos that cover Nazis infitrating West German civil society.
Good morning! Mark Felton has indeed created numerous videos on World War II and its aftermath. While I couldn't find a specific video solely focused on Nazis infiltrating West German civil society, his channel does cover related topics. You might find his video on Nazi fugitives in Argentina interesting, as it touches on post-war Nazi activities.
If you're interested in more of his content, you can explore his YouTube channel for a variety of historical documentaries.
Good morning Perplexity.ai. The YouTuber Mark Felton has many videos about World War 2 Germany and the post-war years. Can you please list one or more of his videos that cover Nazis infitrating West German civil society.
Good morning. Mark Felton has indeed produced several videos covering World War II and post-war Germany. Based on the search results provided, one of his videos that specifically addresses the topic of Nazis infiltrating West German civil society is: "Secret Fourth Reich - The Naumann Circle Plot"
This video discusses a secret Nazi organization in West Germany that attempted to infiltrate political parties in the early 1950s. The group, known as the Naumann Circle, was led by Dr. Werner Naumann, the last Propaganda Minister of Nazi Germany. Their goal was to establish a "Fourth Reich," essentially a successor to the defeated Third Reich...[snip]
Yes . There have been various shock ! horror ! scandals about it. Perhaps it's a phenomenon of the silent "window of recent history" for all of us, in this case because you are relatively young for PB people?
I did not, know, for example, know much about the 50s 60s until I started to read up about them.
Many of the Great and the Good in West Germany in the 1950s to 1970s were senior officials in the Nazi era. There's a good Mark Felton video about it somewhere. A large proportion of senior Lawyers and Members of Parliament were former Nazis for many years, which may be linked to why the WG Government went to such lengths to avoid prosecuting any.
Most war criminals just faded back into civilian life. And in fact, most war criminals are not pathological. Men like Oskar Dirlewanger are outliers. They’re Browning’s “ordinary men.”
"A quite stupefying ignorance that makes him unfit to be the President of the United States."
David Lammy strikes again.
Oh no, it was Boris Johnson.
What role does Boris have in government now?
I am just wondering if anyone brought up his past comments on Trump when the Tories were dealing with Trump. I certainly don't remember you doing so but I may be wrong.
The past is another country. Here and now is worth talking about. Lammy is potentially a problem, indeed there are many Labour MPs who will find the need to work with Trump quite difficult. Let's hope they can be grownups.
So why can't Lammy's comments also be in the past?
He's now Foreign secretary!
You want him to resign because he said negative things about Donald Trump in the past?
Yes . There have been various shock ! horror ! scandals about it. Perhaps it's a phenomenon of the silent "window of recent history" for all of us, in this case because you are relatively young for PB people?
I did not, know, for example, know much about the 50s 60s until I started to read up about them.
Many of the Great and the Good in West Germany in the 1950s to 1970s were senior officials in the Nazi era. There's a good Mark Felton video about it somewhere. A large proportion of senior Lawyers and Members of Parliament were former Nazis for many years, which may be linked to why the WG Government went to such lengths to avoid prosecuting any.
Most war criminals just faded back into civilian life. And in fact, most war criminals are not pathological. Men like Oskar Dirlewanger are outliers. They’re Browning’s “ordinary men.”
Yes . There have been various shock ! horror ! scandals about it. Perhaps it's a phenomenon of the silent "window of recent history" for all of us, in this case because you are relatively young for PB people?
I did not, know, for example, know much about the 50s 60s until I started to read up about them.
Many of the Great and the Good in West Germany in the 1950s to 1970s were senior officials in the Nazi era. There's a good Mark Felton video about it somewhere. A large proportion of senior Lawyers and Members of Parliament were former Nazis for many years, which may be linked to why the WG Government went to such lengths to avoid prosecuting any.
Most war criminals just faded back into civilian life. And in fact, most war criminals are not pathological. Men like Oskar Dirlewanger are outliers. They’re Browning’s “ordinary men.”
You've read The Banality of Evil, I'm sure.
Yes, which closely matches Browning’s thesis. Although, I think that Eichman was playing a part at his trial. He was really an enthusiast for mass murder
It’s so easy just to draw up railway timetables, sell pesticides, make a list of groups marked down for special treatment.
Yet, even many of those who got their hands more directly dirty, were nothing unusual. Once you’ve had comrades killed by partisans, and faced weeks of warfare, it’s an easy step to massacre a village in retaliation.
1. "Deploy all necessary military assets, including the US Navy to impose the full naval embargo and the cartels."
2. "Guarantee that the waters of the Western Hemisphere are not used to traffic illicit drugs to our country."
3. "Order the Department of Defense to make appropriate use of special forces cyber warfare and other overt and covert actions to inflict maximum damage on cartel leadership, infrastructure, and operations."
4. "Designate the major cartels as foreign terrorist organizations."
5: "Sever their access to global financial systems."
6. "Get the full cooperation of other governments to stop [the cartels], or we will expose every bribe, every kickback, every payoff, and every bit of corruption that is allowing the cartels to preserve their brutal reign."
7. "Ask Congress to pass legislation ensuring that drug smugglers and human traffickers receive the de*th penalty."
"When I'm back in the White House, the drug kingpins and vicious traffickers will never sleep soundly again."
Didn't Tom Clancy write a book about when the US Government went to war on the cartels.
(Ultimately, there is demand for drugs. There will therefore be a supply of drugs. If you want to stop drugs, stop demand for them.)
From Red Storm Rising all the way through to Executive Orders, Clancy wrote some pretty decent thrillers.
Then he went all Dale Brown.
A while back I watched loads of interviews with Clancy, from his very early days an author until shortly before his death. It was fascinating how his views became somewhat more forceful. He turned from what seemed like a nice, intelligent guy who had found unexpected success, into a bit of a douchebag.
1. "Deploy all necessary military assets, including the US Navy to impose the full naval embargo and the cartels."
2. "Guarantee that the waters of the Western Hemisphere are not used to traffic illicit drugs to our country."
3. "Order the Department of Defense to make appropriate use of special forces cyber warfare and other overt and covert actions to inflict maximum damage on cartel leadership, infrastructure, and operations."
4. "Designate the major cartels as foreign terrorist organizations."
5: "Sever their access to global financial systems."
6. "Get the full cooperation of other governments to stop [the cartels], or we will expose every bribe, every kickback, every payoff, and every bit of corruption that is allowing the cartels to preserve their brutal reign."
7. "Ask Congress to pass legislation ensuring that drug smugglers and human traffickers receive the de*th penalty."
"When I'm back in the White House, the drug kingpins and vicious traffickers will never sleep soundly again."
Didn't Tom Clancy write a book about when the US Government went to war on the cartels.
(Ultimately, there is demand for drugs. There will therefore be a supply of drugs. If you want to stop drugs, stop demand for them.)
From Red Storm Rising all the way through to Executive Orders, Clancy wrote some pretty decent thrillers.
I quite liked "The Bear and the Dragon", which was basically the last good Ryan book. Then it all went downhill.
I remember reading "Rainbow Six" when it first came out, and thinking what a return to form it was.
Part of the problem was that he wrote himself into a corner. Jack Ryan was the main protagonist, and when he made him president, it meant the stories became more detached from reality. The good thing about his earlier Ryan books was that you could more or less imagine them happening behind the scenes. Once Ryan became president, that stopped. And trying to make his son an agent for a secret organisation was unbelievable.
But I loved Clark's character, and Chavez's. The storyline should have continued with them, working in the shadows.
1. "Deploy all necessary military assets, including the US Navy to impose the full naval embargo and the cartels."
2. "Guarantee that the waters of the Western Hemisphere are not used to traffic illicit drugs to our country."
3. "Order the Department of Defense to make appropriate use of special forces cyber warfare and other overt and covert actions to inflict maximum damage on cartel leadership, infrastructure, and operations."
4. "Designate the major cartels as foreign terrorist organizations."
5: "Sever their access to global financial systems."
6. "Get the full cooperation of other governments to stop [the cartels], or we will expose every bribe, every kickback, every payoff, and every bit of corruption that is allowing the cartels to preserve their brutal reign."
7. "Ask Congress to pass legislation ensuring that drug smugglers and human traffickers receive the de*th penalty."
"When I'm back in the White House, the drug kingpins and vicious traffickers will never sleep soundly again."
Didn't Tom Clancy write a book about when the US Government went to war on the cartels.
(Ultimately, there is demand for drugs. There will therefore be a supply of drugs. If you want to stop drugs, stop demand for them.)
From Red Storm Rising all the way through to Executive Orders, Clancy wrote some pretty decent thrillers.
I quite liked "The Bear and the Dragon", which was basically the last good Ryan book. Then it all went downhill.
I remember reading "Rainbow Six" when it first came out, and thinking what a return to form it was.
Part of the problem was that he wrote himself into a corner. Jack Ryan was the main protagonist, and when he made him president, it meant the stories became more detached from reality. The good thing about his earlier Ryan books was that you could more or less imagine them happening behind the scenes. Once Ryan became president, that stopped. And trying to make his son an agent for a secret organisation was unbelievable.
But I loved Clark's character, and Chavez's. The storyline should have continued with them, working in the shadows.
That feeling when you read your first Tom Clancy book. Still remember barely sleeping whilst consuming The Hunt For Red October.
I've been traveling the past few days (5 plane rides since the election, 2 universities) and maybe about 20% of people that I got to talk to really knew what tariffs were and what they meant*.
They usually just thought it meant that a trade partner got punished by higher prices. They didn't realize it meant *they themselves* would get punished by higher prices. https://x.com/kylascan/status/1854885488542544289
*This isn't their fault but i don't really know how to fix it. i have made a ton of videos on social explaining tariffs but i think people hear what they want to sometimes. Put econ classes in the high schools. https://x.com/kylascan/status/1854885490446811160
*If Trump goes ahead with what he promised, there's a pretty good chance that will fix it.
We already have examples since the Biden administration has been pursuing various Trumpist policies such as Drill, Baby, Drill and 100% tariffs on Chinese car imports.
That's only a tiny market proportion, but what's happened to the sales of Chinse cars in the USA?
If Chump does that to a larger share of the market, GM et al with fuck over Mr and Mrs USA because they will be able to do so.
That's the question.
If Trump simply continued with Biden's policies, with a few tweaks to keep MAGA happy, he'd likely be a pretty successful president. And they'd probably go along with it.
If he goes full steam ahead with some of the stuff that he's promised, then he's going to do a lot of damage both to the U.S. and the rest of the world.
A decision on a new US ambassador is likely to be taken within days, with David Miliband, Peter Mandelson and Cathy Ashton all on the shortlist, the Guardian understands.
Guardian
Well that'll improve things 😞😞😞😞😞
The United States made Shirley Temple an Ambassador. What would be our equivalent for this appointment? Billie Piper?
Holly Willoughby would be an eye catching appointment.
I would like to see Helen Skelton get it. 👍🏻
Holy lumping F***, what a bunch of dumb losers, surprised if any of them could tie a shoelace, especially dumbo Holly
We could send you to be UK Ambassador Malc.
Why does it have to be an Oxbridge type with Whitehall background, why not a Scot? Trump has Scottish roots and runs a hotel in Scotland, he would love to have you there, seated next to him at all the dinners, to cut through all the crap and tell it like it is.
I could sort him out big time, be no crawling or pussyfooting about , he would get his horoscope read. PS: His hotel is just down the road , I could meet him there for sure.
I read horoscopes too. What’s going on in houses and planets on someone’s birthday so surreally matches their personality. Judging by how Trump goes about things, I wouldn’t be surprised if he was born under a black moon. I expect the planets were all out of place on his birthday as well.
I’m a Scorpio, hence so self reliant and hungry for knowledge and answers. Looking at my horoscope, do you have tips for what I should do at the weekend? A bumper 11 races on ITV tomorrow, is the plan. If you say I will be lucky in love this week, I’ll go down the pub.
@MoonRabbit would not surprise me if Nicholls went through the card at Wincanton today, will certainly win most of them
Another day, another round of various parts of Twitter absilutely overflowing with antisemitic and other racist references Trump or not, I think Euriope and the U.K. are going to have block parts of the site eventually, for reasons of.stability.
I've been traveling the past few days (5 plane rides since the election, 2 universities) and maybe about 20% of people that I got to talk to really knew what tariffs were and what they meant*.
They usually just thought it meant that a trade partner got punished by higher prices. They didn't realize it meant *they themselves* would get punished by higher prices. https://x.com/kylascan/status/1854885488542544289
*This isn't their fault but i don't really know how to fix it. i have made a ton of videos on social explaining tariffs but i think people hear what they want to sometimes. Put econ classes in the high schools. https://x.com/kylascan/status/1854885490446811160
*If Trump goes ahead with what he promised, there's a pretty good chance that will fix it.
We already have examples since the Biden administration has been pursuing various Trumpist policies such as Drill, Baby, Drill and 100% tariffs on Chinese car imports.
That's only a tiny market proportion, but what's happened to the sales of Chinse cars in the USA?
If Chump does that to a larger share of the market, GM et al with fuck over Mr and Mrs USA because they will be able to do so.
That's the question.
If Trump simply continued with Biden's policies, with a few tweaks to keep MAGA happy, he'd likely be a pretty successful president. And they'd probably go along with it.
If he goes full steam ahead with some of the stuff that he's promised, then he's going to do a lot of damage both to the U.S. and the rest of the world.
Biden has left behind a world in flames and a structural budget deficit that has driven gold to record highs. He has been a disaster. I hope trump brings down the whole crumbling edifice of his predecessor.
Just want it known that I just got my hair cut in the most Korean barbers in the most Korean corner of Seoul where everyone spoke very fast and only in Korean
Yet somehow the universal language of “number 3 back and sides, longer on top” did the job again.
I've been traveling the past few days (5 plane rides since the election, 2 universities) and maybe about 20% of people that I got to talk to really knew what tariffs were and what they meant*.
They usually just thought it meant that a trade partner got punished by higher prices. They didn't realize it meant *they themselves* would get punished by higher prices. https://x.com/kylascan/status/1854885488542544289
*This isn't their fault but i don't really know how to fix it. i have made a ton of videos on social explaining tariffs but i think people hear what they want to sometimes. Put econ classes in the high schools. https://x.com/kylascan/status/1854885490446811160
*If Trump goes ahead with what he promised, there's a pretty good chance that will fix it.
We already have examples since the Biden administration has been pursuing various Trumpist policies such as Drill, Baby, Drill and 100% tariffs on Chinese car imports.
That's only a tiny market proportion, but what's happened to the sales of Chinse cars in the USA?
If Chump does that to a larger share of the market, GM et al with fuck over Mr and Mrs USA because they will be able to do so.
That's the question.
If Trump simply continued with Biden's policies, with a few tweaks to keep MAGA happy, he'd likely be a pretty successful president. And they'd probably go along with it.
If he goes full steam ahead with some of the stuff that he's promised, then he's going to do a lot of damage both to the U.S. and the rest of the world.
Biden has left behind a world in flames and a structural budget deficit that has driven gold to record highs. He has been a disaster. I hope trump brings down the whole crumbling edifice of his predecessor.
Biden has left Ukraine on the edge of defeat. And we are meant to think Trump is far far worse
I've been traveling the past few days (5 plane rides since the election, 2 universities) and maybe about 20% of people that I got to talk to really knew what tariffs were and what they meant*.
They usually just thought it meant that a trade partner got punished by higher prices. They didn't realize it meant *they themselves* would get punished by higher prices. https://x.com/kylascan/status/1854885488542544289
*This isn't their fault but i don't really know how to fix it. i have made a ton of videos on social explaining tariffs but i think people hear what they want to sometimes. Put econ classes in the high schools. https://x.com/kylascan/status/1854885490446811160
*If Trump goes ahead with what he promised, there's a pretty good chance that will fix it.
We already have examples since the Biden administration has been pursuing various Trumpist policies such as Drill, Baby, Drill and 100% tariffs on Chinese car imports.
That's only a tiny market proportion, but what's happened to the sales of Chinse cars in the USA?
If Chump does that to a larger share of the market, GM et al with fuck over Mr and Mrs USA because they will be able to do so.
That's the question.
If Trump simply continued with Biden's policies, with a few tweaks to keep MAGA happy, he'd likely be a pretty successful president. And they'd probably go along with it.
If he goes full steam ahead with some of the stuff that he's promised, then he's going to do a lot of damage both to the U.S. and the rest of the world.
Biden has left behind a world in flames and a structural budget deficit that has driven gold to record highs. He has been a disaster. I hope trump brings down the whole crumbling edifice of his predecessor.
Biden has left Ukraine on the edge of defeat. And we are meant to think Trump is far far worse
You don't think the GOP played more than a minor role in that?
These were batches that were supposed to be much better for Lake . People seem to like Trump but not the wannabe Trump .
Arizona wins this year’s slow counting award. They only have 3m votes to count, it’s now Day 5 and they’re around 80%. Only 40k votes between the two Senate candidates.
Another day, another round of various parts of Twitter absilutely overflowing with antisemitic and other racist references Trump or not, I think Euriope and the U.K. are going to have block parts of the site eventually, for reasons of.stability.
I saw that too - and my feed is pretty well protected.
On the other had, it's still entirely usable, if you regularly block/mute that stuff. That makes it far less of the town square it used to be, but it's still, for me at least, worthwhile. For now.
Yours right though; for new users coming to it fresh it's going to be a horror show.
Okay I have completely changed my view of Trump. He was, and will be, the greatest President in US history.
Why?
"Madeleine Westerhout, who worked as Mr Trump’s personal secretary until 2019, told his New York hush money trial earlier this year that the president-elect would edit his social media on paper by hand after she had written them down for him."
“It is my understanding that he liked to use the Oxford comma.”
Nigel Farage tells me there need to be “concessions on both sides” on Ukraine
Does he mean territorial concessions on Ukrainian side? “I’m not playing your silly game”
Farage suggests Ukraine will have to be a part of NATO. But how much of Ukraine?
I am 100% sure Trump can’t end it. He was BSing. If Ukraine and Europe say nope, we can’t agree to that proposal, there’s zilch Trump can do about it.
He can cut off the arms supply.
If he does, Ukraine are more buggered than a rent boy in the Kremlin. The only other country that could help are China, who are aligned with Russia.
Incidentally, Biden could have brought the Israeli attacks on Gaza to a shrieking halt by cutting arms to Israel - but if he had, then Israel would have been attacked again, possibly fatally, so he didn't.
It is up to NATO members, particularly European members, to fund more aid to Ukraine.
US taxpayers can't be expected to continue to fund most of the NATO aid to Ukraine when it isn't even on their continent
Why would Europe do that? It is through the looking glass loony to complain about the USA backsliding on Ukraine - there is no such thing as the USA backsliding on Ukraine. We are only chucking the kitchen sink at Ukraine because the USA wishes it. If the USA decides someone else is public enemy number 1, such as Iran, China, Saudi Arabia (no sniggering at the back) then they will be public enemy number 1, to suggest otherwise will be treachery and beyond the pale, and Ukraine will become as vital a world cause as Nepal. PB morale warriors will sagely nod their heads and move on from Ukraine about as quickly as David Lammy moved on from the war on Trump.
Errr, I would suggest that:
(a) It is morally right to support a democracy that has been invaded And (b) It is in our best interests that countries who go around invading other countries don't prosper
Well, Israel and Turkey (and frankly America) are currently occupying parts of other countries, and facing very little by way of meaningful sanction.
But leaving that aside, your points are bland sentiments that don't form the basis of a solid argument justifying the current British involvement in Ukraine in my opinion. Of course it is morally right to support a democracy that has been invaded - but the nature and degree of that support is the debatable point. Of course it would be good if invaders suffered negative consequences - again, the degree to which we should inflict consequences upon ourselves to get revenge on those countries is highly debatable.
Your argument would be a lot more persuasive if you hadn't repeatedly chosen to believe and repeat Russian lies about the fate of MH17.
Be fair! He also believes Russian lies about Ukrainian bioweapon labs.
MORGAN STANLEY: “.. we modeled 60% tariffs on China and 10% on the rest of the world, all at once. We estimated that policy would boost core inflation by roughly 0.9pp and reduce GDP growth by around 1½pp. A more phased approach, and one that may be more targeted, would imply smaller effects because they would be spread over time. With an already robust economy, moderate #tariffs would hurt growth but not necessarily cause a recession.” https://x.com/carlquintanilla/status/1855034495281328251
The U.S. economy post Biden is pretty resilient. If Trump doesn't go absolutely wild, he'll get away with a fair amount of stuff. I'd be interested to see the effects modelled for Europe.
Okay I have completely changd my view of Trump. He was, and will be, the greatest President in US history.
Why?
"Madeleine Westerhout, who worked as Mr Trump’s personal secretary until 2019, told his New York hush money trial earlier this year that the president-elect would edit his social media on paper by hand after she had written them down for him."
“It is my understanding that he liked to use the Oxford comma.”
Truly the sign of a great man!
Oxford comma, British ties, what's not to like? He even put in a shift at McDonalds once he found out Kemi had worked there.
Okay I have completely changed my view of Trump. He was, and will be, the greatest President in US history.
Why?
"Madeleine Westerhout, who worked as Mr Trump’s personal secretary until 2019, told his New York hush money trial earlier this year that the president-elect would edit his social media on paper by hand after she had written them down for him."
“It is my understanding that he liked to use the Oxford comma.”
I've been traveling the past few days (5 plane rides since the election, 2 universities) and maybe about 20% of people that I got to talk to really knew what tariffs were and what they meant*.
They usually just thought it meant that a trade partner got punished by higher prices. They didn't realize it meant *they themselves* would get punished by higher prices. https://x.com/kylascan/status/1854885488542544289
*This isn't their fault but i don't really know how to fix it. i have made a ton of videos on social explaining tariffs but i think people hear what they want to sometimes. Put econ classes in the high schools. https://x.com/kylascan/status/1854885490446811160
*If Trump goes ahead with what he promised, there's a pretty good chance that will fix it.
We already have examples since the Biden administration has been pursuing various Trumpist policies such as Drill, Baby, Drill and 100% tariffs on Chinese car imports.
That's only a tiny market proportion, but what's happened to the sales of Chinse cars in the USA?
If Chump does that to a larger share of the market, GM et al with fuck over Mr and Mrs USA because they will be able to do so.
That's the question.
If Trump simply continued with Biden's policies, with a few tweaks to keep MAGA happy, he'd likely be a pretty successful president. And they'd probably go along with it.
If he goes full steam ahead with some of the stuff that he's promised, then he's going to do a lot of damage both to the U.S. and the rest of the world.
Biden has left behind a world in flames and a structural budget deficit that has driven gold to record highs. He has been a disaster. I hope trump brings down the whole crumbling edifice of his predecessor.
Biden has left Ukraine on the edge of defeat. And we are meant to think Trump is far far worse
You don't think the GOP played more than a minor role in that?
The Ukraine war has been unwinnable for a long time
There is a chance the crazy ass Trump might actually save Ukrainian lives and bring it to an end. Ditto Gaza
Can he be worse than Biden, in foreign policy terms? I guess he might quit NATO but more likely he will demand Europeans pay more for their own defence - and fair enough
Yawn. Nothing will come out. It’s all grift and rumours of rumours.
As I have continually said.
Even if that turns out to be true, it’s notable that the likes of Schumer and Rubio are giving a very different impression. Why? It’s not because they’re morons. They’ve had +40 people testify under oath behind closed doors. Who? Why?
Why have they and many others pushed the UAP Disclosure Act now three years in a row, legally defining “technology of non human origin”?
It’s remarkable how few people on this forum see how notable that legislation is, even if you think the motives are different to what its sponsors portray.
Intelligent people can believe strange things all the time. From my perspective I find belief in deities weird, but I know many very intelligent people who do. It’s the same with UAPs etc. There are very many grifters and liars spinning yarns which suck people in. That’s all.
For about two years you insisted Covid came from the wet market
Oh fuck off. We do not know the origins of covid and the wet market is still a valid hypothesis. Where did SARS come from? Or MERS? Novel pathogens almost always originate in animals before making the transition to humans, usually through humans in close proximity. You haven’t won the debate over covid origins, even if you think you have. A lab leak is entirely plausible, but so is origins from the wet market.
The wet market is not merely a valid hypothesis: it is the broadly accepted view among virologists. The genomic evidence of early viral diversity strongly supports it. You have to come up with some convoluted story to make the lab leak “theory” fit the evidence.
1. "Deploy all necessary military assets, including the US Navy to impose the full naval embargo and the cartels."
2. "Guarantee that the waters of the Western Hemisphere are not used to traffic illicit drugs to our country."
3. "Order the Department of Defense to make appropriate use of special forces cyber warfare and other overt and covert actions to inflict maximum damage on cartel leadership, infrastructure, and operations."
4. "Designate the major cartels as foreign terrorist organizations."
5: "Sever their access to global financial systems."
6. "Get the full cooperation of other governments to stop [the cartels], or we will expose every bribe, every kickback, every payoff, and every bit of corruption that is allowing the cartels to preserve their brutal reign."
7. "Ask Congress to pass legislation ensuring that drug smugglers and human traffickers receive the de*th penalty."
"When I'm back in the White House, the drug kingpins and vicious traffickers will never sleep soundly again."
Didn't Tom Clancy write a book about when the US Government went to war on the cartels.
(Ultimately, there is demand for drugs. There will therefore be a supply of drugs. If you want to stop drugs, stop demand for them.)
From Red Storm Rising all the way through to Executive Orders, Clancy wrote some pretty decent thrillers.
I quite liked "The Bear and the Dragon", which was basically the last good Ryan book. Then it all went downhill.
I remember reading "Rainbow Six" when it first came out, and thinking what a return to form it was.
Part of the problem was that he wrote himself into a corner. Jack Ryan was the main protagonist, and when he made him president, it meant the stories became more detached from reality. The good thing about his earlier Ryan books was that you could more or less imagine them happening behind the scenes. Once Ryan became president, that stopped. And trying to make his son an agent for a secret organisation was unbelievable.
But I loved Clark's character, and Chavez's. The storyline should have continued with them, working in the shadows.
That feeling when you read your first Tom Clancy book. Still remember barely sleeping whilst consuming The Hunt For Red October.
I used to quite like Dale Brown's books, which were fairly similar to Clancy's. I remember being wowed by the first "Flight of the Old Dog". But he ever quite reached the heights of Clancy at his best.
I should get a copy and re-read it, to see if it still holds up. I listened to "Red Storm Rising" recently, and that is still a blooming good thriller, despite the world having moved on.
I've been traveling the past few days (5 plane rides since the election, 2 universities) and maybe about 20% of people that I got to talk to really knew what tariffs were and what they meant*.
They usually just thought it meant that a trade partner got punished by higher prices. They didn't realize it meant *they themselves* would get punished by higher prices. https://x.com/kylascan/status/1854885488542544289
*This isn't their fault but i don't really know how to fix it. i have made a ton of videos on social explaining tariffs but i think people hear what they want to sometimes. Put econ classes in the high schools. https://x.com/kylascan/status/1854885490446811160
*If Trump goes ahead with what he promised, there's a pretty good chance that will fix it.
We already have examples since the Biden administration has been pursuing various Trumpist policies such as Drill, Baby, Drill and 100% tariffs on Chinese car imports.
That's only a tiny market proportion, but what's happened to the sales of Chinse cars in the USA?
If Chump does that to a larger share of the market, GM et al with fuck over Mr and Mrs USA because they will be able to do so.
That's the question.
If Trump simply continued with Biden's policies, with a few tweaks to keep MAGA happy, he'd likely be a pretty successful president. And they'd probably go along with it.
If he goes full steam ahead with some of the stuff that he's promised, then he's going to do a lot of damage both to the U.S. and the rest of the world.
Biden has left behind a world in flames and a structural budget deficit that has driven gold to record highs. He has been a disaster. I hope trump brings down the whole crumbling edifice of his predecessor.
Biden has left Ukraine on the edge of defeat. And we are meant to think Trump is far far worse
You don't think the GOP played more than a minor role in that?
The Ukraine was has been unwinnable for a long time
There is a chance the crazy ass Trump might actually save Ukrainian lives and bring it to an end. Ditto Gaza
Can he be worse than Biden, in foreign policy terms? I guess he might quit NATO but more likely he will demand Europeans pay more for their own defence - and fair enough
It’s trumps economic policies that truly worry me
Ukraine is winnable, we just have to use the right weapons.
I've been traveling the past few days (5 plane rides since the election, 2 universities) and maybe about 20% of people that I got to talk to really knew what tariffs were and what they meant*.
They usually just thought it meant that a trade partner got punished by higher prices. They didn't realize it meant *they themselves* would get punished by higher prices. https://x.com/kylascan/status/1854885488542544289
*This isn't their fault but i don't really know how to fix it. i have made a ton of videos on social explaining tariffs but i think people hear what they want to sometimes. Put econ classes in the high schools. https://x.com/kylascan/status/1854885490446811160
*If Trump goes ahead with what he promised, there's a pretty good chance that will fix it.
We already have examples since the Biden administration has been pursuing various Trumpist policies such as Drill, Baby, Drill and 100% tariffs on Chinese car imports.
That's only a tiny market proportion, but what's happened to the sales of Chinse cars in the USA?
If Chump does that to a larger share of the market, GM et al with fuck over Mr and Mrs USA because they will be able to do so.
That's the question.
If Trump simply continued with Biden's policies, with a few tweaks to keep MAGA happy, he'd likely be a pretty successful president. And they'd probably go along with it.
If he goes full steam ahead with some of the stuff that he's promised, then he's going to do a lot of damage both to the U.S. and the rest of the world.
Biden has left behind a world in flames and a structural budget deficit that has driven gold to record highs. He has been a disaster. I hope trump brings down the whole crumbling edifice of his predecessor.
Biden has left Ukraine on the edge of defeat. And we are meant to think Trump is far far worse
You don't think the GOP played more than a minor role in that?
The Ukraine was has been unwinnable for a long time
There is a chance the crazy ass Trump might actually save Ukrainian lives and bring it to an end. Ditto Gaza
Can he be worse than Biden, in foreign policy terms? I guess he might quit NATO but more likely he will demand Europeans pay more for their own defence - and fair enough
It’s trumps economic policies that truly worry me
Yes, I agree with most of this. Biden in fact did well on the economic fundamentals.
"A quite stupefying ignorance that makes him unfit to be the President of the United States."
David Lammy strikes again.
Oh no, it was Boris Johnson.
What role does Boris have in government now?
I am just wondering if anyone brought up his past comments on Trump when the Tories were dealing with Trump. I certainly don't remember you doing so but I may be wrong.
The past is another country. Here and now is worth talking about. Lammy is potentially a problem, indeed there are many Labour MPs who will find the need to work with Trump quite difficult. Let's hope they can be grownups.
So why can't Lammy's comments also be in the past?
He's now Foreign secretary!
You want him to resign because he said negative things about Donald Trump in the past?
Where did I say that?
Even the Telegraph has reported that Lammy has spent months preparing for the possibility that Trump would win. As govt in waiting they were preparing for the worst outcomes, that has the scent of competence...
Pelosi is accusing others of clinging on until too old an age? Well I never.
Dianne Feinstein 2
Unlikely. As a member if Congress, she faces reelection every two years. As the last six months showed, she's still an operator.
It wouldn't surprises me if this is her last term. Though she might stick out the full administration.
I can’t believe you skipped the DMZ on your Korean tour?! It’s outstanding. Strange, sad, compelling, eerie, dark, enlightening, unique, emotionally profound and hugely noomy
By a distance the highlight of my fortnight in Korea
These were batches that were supposed to be much better for Lake . People seem to like Trump but not the wannabe Trump .
Arizona wins this year’s slow counting award. They only have 3m votes to count, it’s now Day 5 and they’re around 80%. Only 40k votes between the two Senate candidates.
Maricopa county is huge in terms of votes so this adds to the delays . And they have to match the signatures of all the mail in ballots . The last drops for Lake were poor considering how much she’s underperforming Trump .
I've been traveling the past few days (5 plane rides since the election, 2 universities) and maybe about 20% of people that I got to talk to really knew what tariffs were and what they meant*.
They usually just thought it meant that a trade partner got punished by higher prices. They didn't realize it meant *they themselves* would get punished by higher prices. https://x.com/kylascan/status/1854885488542544289
*This isn't their fault but i don't really know how to fix it. i have made a ton of videos on social explaining tariffs but i think people hear what they want to sometimes. Put econ classes in the high schools. https://x.com/kylascan/status/1854885490446811160
*If Trump goes ahead with what he promised, there's a pretty good chance that will fix it.
We already have examples since the Biden administration has been pursuing various Trumpist policies such as Drill, Baby, Drill and 100% tariffs on Chinese car imports.
That's only a tiny market proportion, but what's happened to the sales of Chinse cars in the USA?
If Chump does that to a larger share of the market, GM et al with fuck over Mr and Mrs USA because they will be able to do so.
That's the question.
If Trump simply continued with Biden's policies, with a few tweaks to keep MAGA happy, he'd likely be a pretty successful president. And they'd probably go along with it.
If he goes full steam ahead with some of the stuff that he's promised, then he's going to do a lot of damage both to the U.S. and the rest of the world.
Biden has left behind a world in flames and a structural budget deficit that has driven gold to record highs. He has been a disaster. I hope trump brings down the whole crumbling edifice of his predecessor.
Biden has left Ukraine on the edge of defeat. And we are meant to think Trump is far far worse
You don't think the GOP played more than a minor role in that?
The Ukraine war has been unwinnable for a long time
There is a chance the crazy ass Trump might actually save Ukrainian lives and bring it to an end. Ditto Gaza
Can he be worse than Biden, in foreign policy terms? I guess he might quit NATO but more likely he will demand Europeans pay more for their own defence - and fair enough
It’s trumps economic policies that truly worry me
In terms of Ukraine, what do you mean by 'win' ? What do you mean by 'end', given Putin's worldview and desires?
I'd argue the war is certainly winnable, given the will of the west. I'd go further, and argue that we must 'win' it.
These were batches that were supposed to be much better for Lake . People seem to like Trump but not the wannabe Trump .
Often the way. Take away the charismatic strongman's charisma, people listen to the words and don't like them as much. Look at what happened to all the Republican wannabes in the primary race.
Besides, charismatic strongmen tend to be even worse at succession planning than the Biden presidency.
Pelosi is accusing others of clinging on until too old an age? Well I never.
Dianne Feinstein 2
Unlikely. As a member if Congress, she faces reelection every two years. As the last six months showed, she's still an operator.
It wouldn't surprises me if this is her last term. Though she might stick out the full administration.
Pelosi is a crazy old witch who should have retired years ago.
You appear to think the longer she stays in the better her mental faculties will be, I can assure you they are only heading downwards. There's also the SC judge the Dems are desperate to shift. And for balance why has nobody got rid of Mitch McConnell ?
This is a problem the US system has in that it the oldies hang in too long as they cant afford to retire.
Yawn. Nothing will come out. It’s all grift and rumours of rumours.
As I have continually said.
Even if that turns out to be true, it’s notable that the likes of Schumer and Rubio are giving a very different impression. Why? It’s not because they’re morons. They’ve had +40 people testify under oath behind closed doors. Who? Why?
Why have they and many others pushed the UAP Disclosure Act now three years in a row, legally defining “technology of non human origin”?
It’s remarkable how few people on this forum see how notable that legislation is, even if you think the motives are different to what its sponsors portray.
Intelligent people can believe strange things all the time. From my perspective I find belief in deities weird, but I know many very intelligent people who do. It’s the same with UAPs etc. There are very many grifters and liars spinning yarns which suck people in. That’s all.
For about two years you insisted Covid came from the wet market
Oh fuck off. We do not know the origins of covid and the wet market is still a valid hypothesis. Where did SARS come from? Or MERS? Novel pathogens almost always originate in animals before making the transition to humans, usually through humans in close proximity. You haven’t won the debate over covid origins, even if you think you have. A lab leak is entirely plausible, but so is origins from the wet market.
The wet market is not merely a valid hypothesis: it is the broadly accepted view among virologists. The genomic evidence of early viral diversity strongly supports it. You have to come up with some convoluted story to make the lab leak “theory” fit the evidence.
I’ll let you into a secret
When I go around the world and hear discussions about Covid origins - and people do talk about it, unprompted, it was a universal trauma - the idea it came from the wet market is regarded with pure mocking derision. And some anger about the lies we were told
The world knows it came from the lab. It’s done. It’s over. Give it up
"A quite stupefying ignorance that makes him unfit to be the President of the United States."
David Lammy strikes again.
Oh no, it was Boris Johnson.
What role does Boris have in government now?
I am just wondering if anyone brought up his past comments on Trump when the Tories were dealing with Trump. I certainly don't remember you doing so but I may be wrong.
The past is another country. Here and now is worth talking about. Lammy is potentially a problem, indeed there are many Labour MPs who will find the need to work with Trump quite difficult. Let's hope they can be grownups.
So why can't Lammy's comments also be in the past?
He's now Foreign secretary!
You want him to resign because he said negative things about Donald Trump in the past?
Where did I say that?
Even the Telegraph has reported that Lammy has spent months preparing for the possibility that Trump would win. As govt in waiting they were preparing for the worst outcomes, that has the scent of competence...
David Lammy is worth a punt for next Labour leader if, as I expect, Keir Starmer will step down either just before or just after the next election. That said, he is not even named in Betfair's next PM market so the wisdom of crowds is against me, and him.
Pelosi is accusing others of clinging on until too old an age? Well I never.
Dianne Feinstein 2
Unlikely. As a member if Congress, she faces reelection every two years. As the last six months showed, she's still an operator.
It wouldn't surprises me if this is her last term. Though she might stick out the full administration.
I can’t believe you skipped the DMZ on your Korean tour?! It’s outstanding. Strange, sad, compelling, eerie, dark, enlightening, unique, emotionally profound and hugely noomy
By a distance the highlight of my fortnight in Korea
I was half expecting you to do a Travis King and make a dash for the north...
Yawn. Nothing will come out. It’s all grift and rumours of rumours.
As I have continually said.
Even if that turns out to be true, it’s notable that the likes of Schumer and Rubio are giving a very different impression. Why? It’s not because they’re morons. They’ve had +40 people testify under oath behind closed doors. Who? Why?
Why have they and many others pushed the UAP Disclosure Act now three years in a row, legally defining “technology of non human origin”?
It’s remarkable how few people on this forum see how notable that legislation is, even if you think the motives are different to what its sponsors portray.
Intelligent people can believe strange things all the time. From my perspective I find belief in deities weird, but I know many very intelligent people who do. It’s the same with UAPs etc. There are very many grifters and liars spinning yarns which suck people in. That’s all.
For about two years you insisted Covid came from the wet market
Oh fuck off. We do not know the origins of covid and the wet market is still a valid hypothesis. Where did SARS come from? Or MERS? Novel pathogens almost always originate in animals before making the transition to humans, usually through humans in close proximity. You haven’t won the debate over covid origins, even if you think you have. A lab leak is entirely plausible, but so is origins from the wet market.
The wet market is not merely a valid hypothesis: it is the broadly accepted view among virologists. The genomic evidence of early viral diversity strongly supports it. You have to come up with some convoluted story to make the lab leak “theory” fit the evidence.
I’ll let you into a secret
When I go around the world and hear discussions about Covid origins - and people do talk about it, unprompted, it was a universal trauma - the idea it came from the wet market is regarded with pure mocking derision. And some anger about the lies we were told
The world knows it came from the lab. It’s done. It’s over. Give it up
LOL. You do realise those are the words of someone trying to close down a debate because they know they've lost?
And I bet the drug-addled sociopaths and disease-ridden prostitutes you consort with on your 'travels' just nod along to your rantings.
I've been traveling the past few days (5 plane rides since the election, 2 universities) and maybe about 20% of people that I got to talk to really knew what tariffs were and what they meant*.
They usually just thought it meant that a trade partner got punished by higher prices. They didn't realize it meant *they themselves* would get punished by higher prices. https://x.com/kylascan/status/1854885488542544289
*This isn't their fault but i don't really know how to fix it. i have made a ton of videos on social explaining tariffs but i think people hear what they want to sometimes. Put econ classes in the high schools. https://x.com/kylascan/status/1854885490446811160
*If Trump goes ahead with what he promised, there's a pretty good chance that will fix it.
We already have examples since the Biden administration has been pursuing various Trumpist policies such as Drill, Baby, Drill and 100% tariffs on Chinese car imports.
That's only a tiny market proportion, but what's happened to the sales of Chinse cars in the USA?
If Chump does that to a larger share of the market, GM et al with fuck over Mr and Mrs USA because they will be able to do so.
That's the question.
If Trump simply continued with Biden's policies, with a few tweaks to keep MAGA happy, he'd likely be a pretty successful president. And they'd probably go along with it.
If he goes full steam ahead with some of the stuff that he's promised, then he's going to do a lot of damage both to the U.S. and the rest of the world.
Biden has left behind a world in flames and a structural budget deficit that has driven gold to record highs. He has been a disaster. I hope trump brings down the whole crumbling edifice of his predecessor.
Biden has left Ukraine on the edge of defeat. And we are meant to think Trump is far far worse
You don't think the GOP played more than a minor role in that?
The Ukraine was has been unwinnable for a long time
There is a chance the crazy ass Trump might actually save Ukrainian lives and bring it to an end. Ditto Gaza
Can he be worse than Biden, in foreign policy terms? I guess he might quit NATO but more likely he will demand Europeans pay more for their own defence - and fair enough
It’s trumps economic policies that truly worry me
Ukraine is winnable, we just have to use the right weapons.
Back in the USENET days, one of the people I connected with online was an ex US Navy helicopter pilot. Cold War times etc…
For anti-submarine warfare, they would drop sonar buoys from the helicopter. The Russian surface vessels in the area would try and pick up any that didn’t sink to their operating depth - sometimes they would just sit on the surface.
To prank the Russians, sometimes they dropped the canisters the buoys came in - think giant tennis ball can. So the Russians would see it, send a boat, pick it up.
Some Russian ships would illuminate them with targeting radars and general act nasty. For them, they would use the sonar buoy cans as a toilet, first.
Some would be polite. Even make contact on the radio, tell jokes etc. For them, them would fill the cans with beer and copies of Playboy…
Pelosi is accusing others of clinging on until too old an age? Well I never.
Dianne Feinstein 2
Unlikely. As a member if Congress, she faces reelection every two years. As the last six months showed, she's still an operator.
It wouldn't surprises me if this is her last term. Though she might stick out the full administration.
I can’t believe you skipped the DMZ on your Korean tour?! It’s outstanding. Strange, sad, compelling, eerie, dark, enlightening, unique, emotionally profound and hugely noomy
By a distance the highlight of my fortnight in Korea
I was half expecting you to do a Travis King and make a dash for the north...
They’ve closed the JSA - where you got to be “in” North Korea - because of him. Unlikely to reopen
The DMZ is spellbinding. The hour you get in the observatory - staring into North Korea, looking at their lives and laundry - is like nothing else. Moving and disturbing to the Nth degree
Everyone was v jel of my binos. I was able to say “ooh I can see a guy on a moped” as they all strained to squint
The point about a farmer he knows with 600 cows which alone are worth £1.2m yet alone the land and buildings and equipment demonstrates that maybe Reeves and co didn’t think it through that well.
Why are really attractive young Korean women with hoodies and clipboards so attractive?
I decided recently that the hoodie is actually a really attractive garment for women to wear. This goes against all the orthodoxy that pertains to what clothing is attractive, and I have no reason why it should be so, but it is pleasing to see you come to the same conclusion on a different continent.
Is there some tenuous relationship to this phenomonon perhaps?
What is this court case that somebody mentioned on the trans issue?
It's not about the trans issue. It's about the definition of woman in the Equality Act 2010 and whether it includes a man who has obtained a GRC under the GRA. It is also of course whether the definition of man in the Equality Act includes a woman with a GRC. So it's also about the interaction of the two Acts. It is an appeal by For Women Scotland against the decision of Lady Haldane.
I don't believe the Scots government has yet made available its submissions online. The hearing is 26-27 November.
Indeed. The Gender Recognition Act 2004 (GRA) states that "...Where a full gender recognition certificate (GRC) is issued to a person, the person’s gender becomes for all purposes the acquired gender (so that, if the acquired gender is the male gender, the person’s sex becomes that of a man and, if it is the female gender, the person’s sex becomes that of a woman)....", thereby creating(?) the concept of "legal sex" as different from the physical ones.
But that Act acknowledges that it can be set aside in certain circumstances and has been in certain cases (I think one is nobility inheritance). A later act, the Equality Act 2010, and subsequent case law laid down that one should not discriminate against somebody due to gender reassignment, but - again - there are exceptions allowed if they are "a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim" (exact wording? I may have the wrong words?). The Equality Act also says that sex should not be discriminated against, which raises the question - which definition of "sex" now?
There are currently many arguments about which definition of sex should be used, what is a proportionate means, and what is a legitimate aim. An attempt by For Women Scotland (FWS) to resolve this was found against them in the Scottish court, they appealed it to the Supreme Court, and that is the court case that DeclanF refers to.
more absolute bollox, fecking halfwits need to get a life. Sort out some real problems rather than pander to halfwits wanting to pretend they are something different to reality.
Nigel Farage tells me there need to be “concessions on both sides” on Ukraine
Does he mean territorial concessions on Ukrainian side? “I’m not playing your silly game”
Farage suggests Ukraine will have to be a part of NATO. But how much of Ukraine?
I am 100% sure Trump can’t end it. He was BSing. If Ukraine and Europe say nope, we can’t agree to that proposal, there’s zilch Trump can do about it.
He can cut off the arms supply.
If he does, Ukraine are more buggered than a rent boy in the Kremlin. The only other country that could help are China, who are aligned with Russia.
Incidentally, Biden could have brought the Israeli attacks on Gaza to a shrieking halt by cutting arms to Israel - but if he had, then Israel would have been attacked again, possibly fatally, so he didn't.
It is up to NATO members, particularly European members, to fund more aid to Ukraine.
US taxpayers can't be expected to continue to fund most of the NATO aid to Ukraine when it isn't even on their continent
Why would Europe do that? It is through the looking glass loony to complain about the USA backsliding on Ukraine - there is no such thing as the USA backsliding on Ukraine. We are only chucking the kitchen sink at Ukraine because the USA wishes it. If the USA decides someone else is public enemy number 1, such as Iran, China, Saudi Arabia (no sniggering at the back) then they will be public enemy number 1, to suggest otherwise will be treachery and beyond the pale, and Ukraine will become as vital a world cause as Nepal. PB morale warriors will sagely nod their heads and move on from Ukraine about as quickly as David Lammy moved on from the war on Trump.
Ludicrous. Ukraine is vital to the security and independence of central and eastern Europe. Why do you think Putin wants it so much? And we plainly haven't thrown the kitchen sink at Ukraine (well Russia), witness all the debate about defensive vs offensive weapons, tanks, fighter jets and long range missiles that can hit inside Russia. The war ending on Putin's terms with no security guarantees for Ukraine is not a particularly stable result. Russian revanchism remains and Ukraine doesn't seem to have many other options than going nuclear.
I'm sorry but our current policy is what is ludicrous.
Agreed.
It's time to put boots on the ground and expel Russia from Ukraine. In the long term it is less risky to stand up to aggression.
The merit of a long term risk is that there's a long term to have it in.
You should never exercise, because it increases the short term risk of a heart attack. Of course, it means you'll likely live longer, but hey ho.
I've been traveling the past few days (5 plane rides since the election, 2 universities) and maybe about 20% of people that I got to talk to really knew what tariffs were and what they meant*.
They usually just thought it meant that a trade partner got punished by higher prices. They didn't realize it meant *they themselves* would get punished by higher prices. https://x.com/kylascan/status/1854885488542544289
*This isn't their fault but i don't really know how to fix it. i have made a ton of videos on social explaining tariffs but i think people hear what they want to sometimes. Put econ classes in the high schools. https://x.com/kylascan/status/1854885490446811160
*If Trump goes ahead with what he promised, there's a pretty good chance that will fix it.
We already have examples since the Biden administration has been pursuing various Trumpist policies such as Drill, Baby, Drill and 100% tariffs on Chinese car imports.
That's only a tiny market proportion, but what's happened to the sales of Chinse cars in the USA?
If Chump does that to a larger share of the market, GM et al with fuck over Mr and Mrs USA because they will be able to do so.
That's the question.
If Trump simply continued with Biden's policies, with a few tweaks to keep MAGA happy, he'd likely be a pretty successful president. And they'd probably go along with it.
If he goes full steam ahead with some of the stuff that he's promised, then he's going to do a lot of damage both to the U.S. and the rest of the world.
Biden has left behind a world in flames and a structural budget deficit that has driven gold to record highs. He has been a disaster. I hope trump brings down the whole crumbling edifice of his predecessor.
Biden has left Ukraine on the edge of defeat. And we are meant to think Trump is far far worse
You don't think the GOP played more than a minor role in that?
The Ukraine war has been unwinnable for a long time
There is a chance the crazy ass Trump might actually save Ukrainian lives and bring it to an end. Ditto Gaza
Can he be worse than Biden, in foreign policy terms? I guess he might quit NATO but more likely he will demand Europeans pay more for their own defence - and fair enough
It’s trumps economic policies that truly worry me
In terms of Ukraine, what do you mean by 'win' ? What do you mean by 'end', given Putin's worldview and desires?
I'd argue the war is certainly winnable, given the will of the west. I'd go further, and argue that we must 'win' it.
It depends how you frame the war. From my perspective this is already WW3, and Ukraine is one battle in that war, just as Korea or Vietnam or Afghanistan were battles in the Cold War, or Poland was a battle in WW2.
We absolutely have to win WW3, otherwise we are all dead. And the only way to win it without ending up all dead is to win it early, and comprehensively, deterring the aggressor from extending the front into other countries. That can either be done with a frozen conflict followed by economic warfare until the Russian economy collapses and Putin is removed, or by victory by Ukraine on the battlefield. A frozen conflict with a functioning Russia means more war later.
"A quite stupefying ignorance that makes him unfit to be the President of the United States."
David Lammy strikes again.
Oh no, it was Boris Johnson.
What role does Boris have in government now?
I am just wondering if anyone brought up his past comments on Trump when the Tories were dealing with Trump. I certainly don't remember you doing so but I may be wrong.
The past is another country. Here and now is worth talking about. Lammy is potentially a problem, indeed there are many Labour MPs who will find the need to work with Trump quite difficult. Let's hope they can be grownups.
So why can't Lammy's comments also be in the past?
He's now Foreign secretary!
You want him to resign because he said negative things about Donald Trump in the past?
Where did I say that?
Even the Telegraph has reported that Lammy has spent months preparing for the possibility that Trump would win. As govt in waiting they were preparing for the worst outcomes, that has the scent of competence...
David Lammy is worth a punt for next Labour leader if, as I expect, Keir Starmer will step down either just before or just after the next election. That said, he is not even named in Betfair's next PM market so the wisdom of crowds is against me, and him.
The point about a farmer he knows with 600 cows which alone are worth £1.2m yet alone the land and buildings and equipment demonstrates that maybe Reeves and co didn’t think it through that well.
I think the government will feel the need to tinker with the APR rules a bit in due course. There is over a year to go until the changes come in and farms will be doing some planning in the meantime - there are various options out there. But tinkering seems likely too.
One area where Trump's foreign policy does in fact worry me is Iran.
He will be seething, about the assasination attempt, this morning.
Donald Trump is remarkably lucky that all the assassination attempts he faces seem to be (a) organised by whoever he wants to get mad at at a given moment and (b) mind-bendingly incompetently executed (pun intended).
I've been traveling the past few days (5 plane rides since the election, 2 universities) and maybe about 20% of people that I got to talk to really knew what tariffs were and what they meant*.
They usually just thought it meant that a trade partner got punished by higher prices. They didn't realize it meant *they themselves* would get punished by higher prices. https://x.com/kylascan/status/1854885488542544289
*This isn't their fault but i don't really know how to fix it. i have made a ton of videos on social explaining tariffs but i think people hear what they want to sometimes. Put econ classes in the high schools. https://x.com/kylascan/status/1854885490446811160
*If Trump goes ahead with what he promised, there's a pretty good chance that will fix it.
We already have examples since the Biden administration has been pursuing various Trumpist policies such as Drill, Baby, Drill and 100% tariffs on Chinese car imports.
That's only a tiny market proportion, but what's happened to the sales of Chinse cars in the USA?
If Chump does that to a larger share of the market, GM et al with fuck over Mr and Mrs USA because they will be able to do so.
That's the question.
If Trump simply continued with Biden's policies, with a few tweaks to keep MAGA happy, he'd likely be a pretty successful president. And they'd probably go along with it.
If he goes full steam ahead with some of the stuff that he's promised, then he's going to do a lot of damage both to the U.S. and the rest of the world.
Biden has left behind a world in flames and a structural budget deficit that has driven gold to record highs. He has been a disaster. I hope trump brings down the whole crumbling edifice of his predecessor.
Biden has left Ukraine on the edge of defeat. And we are meant to think Trump is far far worse
You don't think the GOP played more than a minor role in that?
The Ukraine war has been unwinnable for a long time
There is a chance the crazy ass Trump might actually save Ukrainian lives and bring it to an end. Ditto Gaza
Can he be worse than Biden, in foreign policy terms? I guess he might quit NATO but more likely he will demand Europeans pay more for their own defence - and fair enough
It’s trumps economic policies that truly worry me
In terms of Ukraine, what do you mean by 'win' ? What do you mean by 'end', given Putin's worldview and desires?
I'd argue the war is certainly winnable, given the will of the west. I'd go further, and argue that we must 'win' it.
It depends how you frame the war. From my perspective this is already WW3, and Ukraine is one battle in that war, just as Korea or Vietnam or Afghanistan were battles in the Cold War, or Poland was a battle in WW2.
We absolutely have to win WW3, otherwise we are all dead. And the only way to win it without ending up all dead is to win it early, and comprehensively, deterring the aggressor from extending the front into other countries. That can either be done with a frozen conflict followed by economic warfare until the Russian economy collapses and Putin is removed, or by victory by Ukraine on the battlefield. A frozen conflict with a functioning Russia means more war later.
Pretty much my exact view. We are already at war; it is just the media, politicians and public prefer to ignore it.
The question is how long they can continue to ignore it.
And sadly, it is not just Russia. If Russia gets a 'win' from Ukraine, it will embolden other world leaders to embark on such adventures. They need to see that the potential cost of such adventures is not worth the potential reward.
Pelosi is accusing others of clinging on until too old an age? Well I never.
Dianne Feinstein 2
Unlikely. As a member if Congress, she faces reelection every two years. As the last six months showed, she's still an operator.
It wouldn't surprises me if this is her last term. Though she might stick out the full administration.
I can’t believe you skipped the DMZ on your Korean tour?! It’s outstanding. Strange, sad, compelling, eerie, dark, enlightening, unique, emotionally profound and hugely noomy
By a distance the highlight of my fortnight in Korea
One for next time. Just didn’t fit into a driving itinerary which took in most of the country.
"A quite stupefying ignorance that makes him unfit to be the President of the United States."
David Lammy strikes again.
Oh no, it was Boris Johnson.
What role does Boris have in government now?
I am just wondering if anyone brought up his past comments on Trump when the Tories were dealing with Trump. I certainly don't remember you doing so but I may be wrong.
The past is another country. Here and now is worth talking about. Lammy is potentially a problem, indeed there are many Labour MPs who will find the need to work with Trump quite difficult. Let's hope they can be grownups.
So why can't Lammy's comments also be in the past?
He's now Foreign secretary!
You want him to resign because he said negative things about Donald Trump in the past?
Where did I say that?
Even the Telegraph has reported that Lammy has spent months preparing for the possibility that Trump would win. As govt in waiting they were preparing for the worst outcomes, that has the scent of competence...
David Lammy is worth a punt for next Labour leader if, as I expect, Keir Starmer will step down either just before or just after the next election. That said, he is not even named in Betfair's next PM market so the wisdom of crowds is against me, and him.
"A quite stupefying ignorance that makes him unfit to be the President of the United States."
David Lammy strikes again.
Oh no, it was Boris Johnson.
What role does Boris have in government now?
I am just wondering if anyone brought up his past comments on Trump when the Tories were dealing with Trump. I certainly don't remember you doing so but I may be wrong.
The past is another country. Here and now is worth talking about. Lammy is potentially a problem, indeed there are many Labour MPs who will find the need to work with Trump quite difficult. Let's hope they can be grownups.
So why can't Lammy's comments also be in the past?
He's now Foreign secretary!
You want him to resign because he said negative things about Donald Trump in the past?
Where did I say that?
Even the Telegraph has reported that Lammy has spent months preparing for the possibility that Trump would win. As govt in waiting they were preparing for the worst outcomes, that has the scent of competence...
David Lammy is worth a punt for next Labour leader if, as I expect, Keir Starmer will step down either just before or just after the next election. That said, he is not even named in Betfair's next PM market so the wisdom of crowds is against me, and him.
Now it really must be April the First !
10 of them all at once
Is this a reference to Leon's prolificity going nuclear or to David Lammy's chances of being PM?
Pelosi is accusing others of clinging on until too old an age? Well I never.
She at least still had all her marbles intact
Dementia really is incredibly sad, I know many people in their eighties who have a mind as sharp as anyone half their age, and then people in their seventies who really have lost it. Away from the politics of it, it is desperately sad that we watched a president go down, and clearly go down a severe dementia way. It is possible/probable that Reagan had very early indications of dementia towards the end of his presidency, but that was a time where there was no real medication that could hold anything back. Biden is so visibly gone, and his friends and family must have known the scale of how far gone he was for a number of years, but all colluded and covered up (even on here we had those who said Biden was fine and all this was just bigotry of a man who had overcome a debilitating stammer), not just to get him to the end of his term with dignity, but to actually attempt to seek a further four years.
It is slightly concerning that the systems you would think are in place such as regular medical testing didnt force the issue and invoke the necessary constitutional processes to hand over to his VP. And this should have probably been done quite some time ago.
Pelosi is accusing others of clinging on until too old an age? Well I never.
She at least still had all her marbles intact
Dementia really is incredibly sad, I know many people in their eighties who have a mind as sharp as anyone half their age, and then people in their seventies who really have lost it. Away from the politics of it, it is desperately sad that we watched a president go down, and clearly go down a severe dementia way. It is possible/probable that Reagan had very early indications of dementia towards the end of his presidency, but that was a time where there was no real medication that could hold anything back. Biden is so visibly gone, and his friends and family must have known the scale of how far gone he was for a number of years, but all colluded and covered up (even on here we had those who said Biden was fine and all this was just bigotry of a man who had overcome a debilitating stammer), not just to get him to the end of his term with dignity, but to actually attempt to seek a further four years.
It is slightly concerning that the systems you would think are in place such as regular medical testing didnt force the issue and invoke the necessary constitutional processes to hand over to his VP. And this should have probably been done quite some time ago.
So when do you reckon he will hand over to Vance, on that basis?
Pelosi is accusing others of clinging on until too old an age? Well I never.
Dianne Feinstein 2
Unlikely. As a member if Congress, she faces reelection every two years. As the last six months showed, she's still an operator.
It wouldn't surprises me if this is her last term. Though she might stick out the full administration.
Pelosi is a crazy old witch who should have retired years ago.
You appear to think the longer she stays in the better her mental faculties will be, I can assure you they are only heading downwards. There's also the SC judge the Dems are desperate to shift. And for balance why has nobody got rid of Mitch McConnell ?
This is a problem the US system has in that it the oldies hang in too long as they cant afford to retire.
I didn’t express any opinion on whether she should stay. Just remarking on your risible comparison.
I’m on my 4th city in 4 days and enjoying comparing them. Today it’s Cardiff, then Swansea.
I wrote of the lack of centrepiece cathedrals in British cities. Well this one is of course centred on a castle, but the degree to which the principality stadium dominates the very centre of the city is quite unique. Slap bang in the middle.
I rather like Cardiff. The nightlife was by far the rowdiest and most joyous of the cities I’ve visited this week. Proper Magalluf-on-Taff.
Pelosi is accusing others of clinging on until too old an age? Well I never.
She at least still had all her marbles intact
Dementia really is incredibly sad, I know many people in their eighties who have a mind as sharp as anyone half their age, and then people in their seventies who really have lost it. Away from the politics of it, it is desperately sad that we watched a president go down, and clearly go down a severe dementia way. It is possible/probable that Reagan had very early indications of dementia towards the end of his presidency, but that was a time where there was no real medication that could hold anything back. Biden is so visibly gone, and his friends and family must have known the scale of how far gone he was for a number of years, but all colluded and covered up (even on here we had those who said Biden was fine and all this was just bigotry of a man who had overcome a debilitating stammer), not just to get him to the end of his term with dignity, but to actually attempt to seek a further four years.
It is slightly concerning that the systems you would think are in place such as regular medical testing didnt force the issue and invoke the necessary constitutional processes to hand over to his VP. And this should have probably been done quite some time ago.
So when do you reckon he will hand over to Vance, on that basis?
I am not entirely convinced that Vance will be minded to wait until the inauguration before he makes his move. Trump had so obviously lost it in the last few weeks of the campaign but his momentum carried him through. He is in a far worse state now than Biden was in 2022, let alone 2020.
I’m on my 4th city in 4 days and enjoying comparing them. Today it’s Cardiff, then Swansea.
I wrote of the lack of centrepiece cathedrals in British cities. Well this one is of course centred on a castle, but the degree to which the principality stadium dominates the very centre of the city is quite unique. Slap bang in the middle.
I rather like Cardiff. The nightlife was by far the rowdiest and most joyous of the cities I’ve visited this week. Proper Magalluf-on-Taff.
Really? Lincoln, York, Worcester, Hereford, Gloucester, Canterbury, Winchester, Exeter, Chester, Norwich, Coventry, Carlisle, Rochester, Bristol, Lichfield, Wakefield, Liverpool all spring to mind without any great effort on my part.
Yawn. Nothing will come out. It’s all grift and rumours of rumours.
As I have continually said.
Even if that turns out to be true, it’s notable that the likes of Schumer and Rubio are giving a very different impression. Why? It’s not because they’re morons. They’ve had +40 people testify under oath behind closed doors. Who? Why?
Why have they and many others pushed the UAP Disclosure Act now three years in a row, legally defining “technology of non human origin”?
It’s remarkable how few people on this forum see how notable that legislation is, even if you think the motives are different to what its sponsors portray.
Intelligent people can believe strange things all the time. From my perspective I find belief in deities weird, but I know many very intelligent people who do. It’s the same with UAPs etc. There are very many grifters and liars spinning yarns which suck people in. That’s all.
For about two years you insisted Covid came from the wet market
Oh fuck off. We do not know the origins of covid and the wet market is still a valid hypothesis. Where did SARS come from? Or MERS? Novel pathogens almost always originate in animals before making the transition to humans, usually through humans in close proximity. You haven’t won the debate over covid origins, even if you think you have. A lab leak is entirely plausible, but so is origins from the wet market.
The wet market is not merely a valid hypothesis: it is the broadly accepted view among virologists. The genomic evidence of early viral diversity strongly supports it. You have to come up with some convoluted story to make the lab leak “theory” fit the evidence.
It's the broadly accepted view among virologists because the lab leak theory makes virology look distinctly dubious.
From an occam's razor POV, it looks like lab leak. Wet market needs far more coincidences. Now coincidences do happen, but thay doesn't mean we should write off the most straightforward explanation i.e. that ground zero for a new mutant virus being in a city where viruses were deliberately mutated in a not-very-well-secured lab wasn't a coincidence.
Pelosi is accusing others of clinging on until too old an age? Well I never.
She at least still had all her marbles intact
Dementia really is incredibly sad, I know many people in their eighties who have a mind as sharp as anyone half their age, and then people in their seventies who really have lost it. Away from the politics of it, it is desperately sad that we watched a president go down, and clearly go down a severe dementia way. It is possible/probable that Reagan had very early indications of dementia towards the end of his presidency, but that was a time where there was no real medication that could hold anything back. Biden is so visibly gone, and his friends and family must have known the scale of how far gone he was for a number of years, but all colluded and covered up (even on here we had those who said Biden was fine and all this was just bigotry of a man who had overcome a debilitating stammer), not just to get him to the end of his term with dignity, but to actually attempt to seek a further four years.
It is slightly concerning that the systems you would think are in place such as regular medical testing didnt force the issue and invoke the necessary constitutional processes to hand over to his VP. And this should have probably been done quite some time ago.
So when do you reckon he will hand over to Vance, on that basis?
I am not entirely convinced that Vance will be minded to wait until the inauguration before he makes his move. Trump had so obviously lost it in the last few weeks of the campaign but his momentum carried him through. He is in a far worse state now than Biden was in 2022, let alone 2020.
There's a shark over there.
Will Trump take the electrocution as promised, or will he let the Hammervance Shark eat him?
Pelosi is accusing others of clinging on until too old an age? Well I never.
She at least still had all her marbles intact
Dementia really is incredibly sad, I know many people in their eighties who have a mind as sharp as anyone half their age, and then people in their seventies who really have lost it. Away from the politics of it, it is desperately sad that we watched a president go down, and clearly go down a severe dementia way. It is possible/probable that Reagan had very early indications of dementia towards the end of his presidency, but that was a time where there was no real medication that could hold anything back. Biden is so visibly gone, and his friends and family must have known the scale of how far gone he was for a number of years, but all colluded and covered up (even on here we had those who said Biden was fine and all this was just bigotry of a man who had overcome a debilitating stammer), not just to get him to the end of his term with dignity, but to actually attempt to seek a further four years.
It is slightly concerning that the systems you would think are in place such as regular medical testing didnt force the issue and invoke the necessary constitutional processes to hand over to his VP. And this should have probably been done quite some time ago.
So when do you reckon he will hand over to Vance, on that basis?
I am not entirely convinced that Vance will be minded to wait until the inauguration before he makes his move. Trump had so obviously lost it in the last few weeks of the campaign but his momentum carried him through. He is in a far worse state now than Biden was in 2022, let alone 2020.
@LadPolitics Will Donald Trump serve a full term as President? Yes - 4/11 No - 2/1
Yawn. Nothing will come out. It’s all grift and rumours of rumours.
As I have continually said.
Even if that turns out to be true, it’s notable that the likes of Schumer and Rubio are giving a very different impression. Why? It’s not because they’re morons. They’ve had +40 people testify under oath behind closed doors. Who? Why?
Why have they and many others pushed the UAP Disclosure Act now three years in a row, legally defining “technology of non human origin”?
It’s remarkable how few people on this forum see how notable that legislation is, even if you think the motives are different to what its sponsors portray.
Intelligent people can believe strange things all the time. From my perspective I find belief in deities weird, but I know many very intelligent people who do. It’s the same with UAPs etc. There are very many grifters and liars spinning yarns which suck people in. That’s all.
For about two years you insisted Covid came from the wet market
Oh fuck off. We do not know the origins of covid and the wet market is still a valid hypothesis. Where did SARS come from? Or MERS? Novel pathogens almost always originate in animals before making the transition to humans, usually through humans in close proximity. You haven’t won the debate over covid origins, even if you think you have. A lab leak is entirely plausible, but so is origins from the wet market.
The wet market is not merely a valid hypothesis: it is the broadly accepted view among virologists. The genomic evidence of early viral diversity strongly supports it. You have to come up with some convoluted story to make the lab leak “theory” fit the evidence.
It's the broadly accepted view among virologists because the lab leak theory makes virology look distinctly dubious.
From an occam's razor POV, it looks like lab leak. Wet market needs far more coincidences. Now coincidences do happen, but thay doesn't mean we should write off the most straightforward explanation i.e. that ground zero for a new mutant virus being in a city where viruses were deliberately mutated in a not-very-well-secured lab wasn't a coincidence.
I've never understood why people dogmatically think it's either/or.*
Surely the simplest explanation is that both are correct - I.e. that samples from the lab were being illegally sold in the wet market due to internal corruption?
*Well, actually I understand why Leon does, and it's because he can't understand complex chains of causation.
The point about a farmer he knows with 600 cows which alone are worth £1.2m yet alone the land and buildings and equipment demonstrates that maybe Reeves and co didn’t think it through that well.
I think the government will feel the need to tinker with the APR rules a bit in due course. There is over a year to go until the changes come in and farms will be doing some planning in the meantime - there are various options out there. But tinkering seems likely too.
Yes. The BBC farming prog this morning (started 6.30 am) was talking to a very good Cumbrian accountant who talked sense about all this. The particular unfairness would be on now old farmers who relied, quite properly, on the current laws but now don't have time (basically 7 years) to plan properly. Tinkering with this is urgent.
Pelosi is accusing others of clinging on until too old an age? Well I never.
Dianne Feinstein 2
Unlikely. As a member if Congress, she faces reelection every two years. As the last six months showed, she's still an operator.
It wouldn't surprises me if this is her last term. Though she might stick out the full administration.
I can’t believe you skipped the DMZ on your Korean tour?! It’s outstanding. Strange, sad, compelling, eerie, dark, enlightening, unique, emotionally profound and hugely noomy
By a distance the highlight of my fortnight in Korea
In the 90s I spent a few months working in Nicosia. One day I walked to the wall at one of the widest points. A soldier invited me up to look across. It was like looking at a world after the extermination of humans with with nature taking back control with young trees breaking through the tarmac in the road. The only humans to enter being the odd UN patrol.
One area where Trump's foreign policy does in fact worry me is Iran.
He will be seething, about the assasination attempt, this morning.
Donald Trump is remarkably lucky that all the assassination attempts he faces seem to be (a) organised by whoever he wants to get mad at at a given moment and (b) mind-bendingly incompetently executed (pun intended).
One might say suspiciously lucky.
I remember after the Brighton bombing I think the IRA said "we only have to be lucky once, you have to be lucky always"
I've been traveling the past few days (5 plane rides since the election, 2 universities) and maybe about 20% of people that I got to talk to really knew what tariffs were and what they meant*.
They usually just thought it meant that a trade partner got punished by higher prices. They didn't realize it meant *they themselves* would get punished by higher prices. https://x.com/kylascan/status/1854885488542544289
*This isn't their fault but i don't really know how to fix it. i have made a ton of videos on social explaining tariffs but i think people hear what they want to sometimes. Put econ classes in the high schools. https://x.com/kylascan/status/1854885490446811160
*If Trump goes ahead with what he promised, there's a pretty good chance that will fix it.
We already have examples since the Biden administration has been pursuing various Trumpist policies such as Drill, Baby, Drill and 100% tariffs on Chinese car imports.
That's only a tiny market proportion, but what's happened to the sales of Chinse cars in the USA?
If Chump does that to a larger share of the market, GM et al with fuck over Mr and Mrs USA because they will be able to do so.
That's the question.
If Trump simply continued with Biden's policies, with a few tweaks to keep MAGA happy, he'd likely be a pretty successful president. And they'd probably go along with it.
If he goes full steam ahead with some of the stuff that he's promised, then he's going to do a lot of damage both to the U.S. and the rest of the world.
Biden has left behind a world in flames and a structural budget deficit that has driven gold to record highs. He has been a disaster. I hope trump brings down the whole crumbling edifice of his predecessor.
Biden has left Ukraine on the edge of defeat. And we are meant to think Trump is far far worse
You don't think the GOP played more than a minor role in that?
The Ukraine war has been unwinnable for a long time
There is a chance the crazy ass Trump might actually save Ukrainian lives and bring it to an end. Ditto Gaza
Can he be worse than Biden, in foreign policy terms? I guess he might quit NATO but more likely he will demand Europeans pay more for their own defence - and fair enough
It’s trumps economic policies that truly worry me
In terms of Ukraine, what do you mean by 'win' ? What do you mean by 'end', given Putin's worldview and desires?
I'd argue the war is certainly winnable, given the will of the west. I'd go further, and argue that we must 'win' it.
It depends how you frame the war. From my perspective this is already WW3, and Ukraine is one battle in that war, just as Korea or Vietnam or Afghanistan were battles in the Cold War, or Poland was a battle in WW2.
We absolutely have to win WW3, otherwise we are all dead. And the only way to win it without ending up all dead is to win it early, and comprehensively, deterring the aggressor from extending the front into other countries. That can either be done with a frozen conflict followed by economic warfare until the Russian economy collapses and Putin is removed, or by victory by Ukraine on the battlefield. A frozen conflict with a functioning Russia means more war later.
Pretty much my exact view. We are already at war; it is just the media, politicians and public prefer to ignore it.
The question is how long they can continue to ignore it.
And sadly, it is not just Russia. If Russia gets a 'win' from Ukraine, it will embolden other world leaders to embark on such adventures. They need to see that the potential cost of such adventures is not worth the potential reward.
I don't understand why Europe has not introduced an embargo on all gas from Russia. We are spending money fighting them with one hand and funding them with another.
It's much harder to find alternative buyers of gas than it is oil given transport limitations for a country like Russia that doesn't have large LNG export capacity.
Pelosi is accusing others of clinging on until too old an age? Well I never.
She at least still had all her marbles intact
Dementia really is incredibly sad, I know many people in their eighties who have a mind as sharp as anyone half their age, and then people in their seventies who really have lost it. Away from the politics of it, it is desperately sad that we watched a president go down, and clearly go down a severe dementia way. It is possible/probable that Reagan had very early indications of dementia towards the end of his presidency, but that was a time where there was no real medication that could hold anything back. Biden is so visibly gone, and his friends and family must have known the scale of how far gone he was for a number of years, but all colluded and covered up (even on here we had those who said Biden was fine and all this was just bigotry of a man who had overcome a debilitating stammer), not just to get him to the end of his term with dignity, but to actually attempt to seek a further four years.
It is slightly concerning that the systems you would think are in place such as regular medical testing didnt force the issue and invoke the necessary constitutional processes to hand over to his VP. And this should have probably been done quite some time ago.
My granddad ended up in a very good council-run home for the last year or so of his life. My dad was surprised to discover someone he knew was also in there, a guy who used to run a car-repair workshop. He was around fifty years of age, and was more physically and mentally decrepit than my granddad, who was 100.
Dementia is a cruel disease. But like Parkinson's and other 'old' diseases, they become more cruel when they inflict the young.
I’m on my 4th city in 4 days and enjoying comparing them. Today it’s Cardiff, then Swansea.
I wrote of the lack of centrepiece cathedrals in British cities. Well this one is of course centred on a castle, but the degree to which the principality stadium dominates the very centre of the city is quite unique. Slap bang in the middle.
I rather like Cardiff. The nightlife was by far the rowdiest and most joyous of the cities I’ve visited this week. Proper Magalluf-on-Taff.
Really? Lincoln, York, Worcester, Hereford, Gloucester, Canterbury, Winchester, Exeter, Chester, Norwich, Coventry, Carlisle, Rochester, Bristol, Lichfield, Wakefield, Liverpool all spring to mind without any great effort on my part.
TimS's tour was Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham - At least 2 of which are towns that over took the original nearby Cathedral Cities (Chester and Ripon)..
So neither have medieval cathedrals because they were originally small towns which just happened to have the perfect location when the industrial revolution came..
I’m on my 4th city in 4 days and enjoying comparing them. Today it’s Cardiff, then Swansea.
I wrote of the lack of centrepiece cathedrals in British cities. Well this one is of course centred on a castle, but the degree to which the principality stadium dominates the very centre of the city is quite unique. Slap bang in the middle.
I rather like Cardiff. The nightlife was by far the rowdiest and most joyous of the cities I’ve visited this week. Proper Magalluf-on-Taff.
Really? Lincoln, York, Worcester, Hereford, Gloucester, Canterbury, Winchester, Exeter, Chester, Norwich, Coventry, Carlisle, Rochester, Bristol, Lichfield, Wakefield, Liverpool all spring to mind without any great effort on my part.
How can you miss Salisbury, some foreign tourists come a very long way for a tour.
Yawn. Nothing will come out. It’s all grift and rumours of rumours.
As I have continually said.
Even if that turns out to be true, it’s notable that the likes of Schumer and Rubio are giving a very different impression. Why? It’s not because they’re morons. They’ve had +40 people testify under oath behind closed doors. Who? Why?
Why have they and many others pushed the UAP Disclosure Act now three years in a row, legally defining “technology of non human origin”?
It’s remarkable how few people on this forum see how notable that legislation is, even if you think the motives are different to what its sponsors portray.
Intelligent people can believe strange things all the time. From my perspective I find belief in deities weird, but I know many very intelligent people who do. It’s the same with UAPs etc. There are very many grifters and liars spinning yarns which suck people in. That’s all.
For about two years you insisted Covid came from the wet market
Oh fuck off. We do not know the origins of covid and the wet market is still a valid hypothesis. Where did SARS come from? Or MERS? Novel pathogens almost always originate in animals before making the transition to humans, usually through humans in close proximity. You haven’t won the debate over covid origins, even if you think you have. A lab leak is entirely plausible, but so is origins from the wet market.
The wet market is not merely a valid hypothesis: it is the broadly accepted view among virologists. The genomic evidence of early viral diversity strongly supports it. You have to come up with some convoluted story to make the lab leak “theory” fit the evidence.
It's the broadly accepted view among virologists because the lab leak theory makes virology look distinctly dubious.
From an occam's razor POV, it looks like lab leak. Wet market needs far more coincidences. Now coincidences do happen, but thay doesn't mean we should write off the most straightforward explanation i.e. that ground zero for a new mutant virus being in a city where viruses were deliberately mutated in a not-very-well-secured lab wasn't a coincidence.
I've never understood why people dogmatically think it's either/or.*
Surely the simplest explanation is that both are correct - I.e. that samples from the lab were being illegally sold in the wet market due to internal corruption?
*Well, actually I understand why Leon does, and it's because he can't understand complex chains of causation.
The great irony here is that the Chinese themselves told us the solution - the chain of events - in a very early paper published in (I think) January 2020
Two Chinese boffins looked at all the evidence - the geography and virology - and said, quite plainly, “it is highly like the virus accidentally infected a worker at the Wuhan CDC who then went to the nearby market (300 yards away) from where it spread in ideal conditions”
There. That’s probably what happened. We’ve know all along and everything else is politics and lies
Of course the Chinese made the paper disappear and the two scientists - I believe - have likewise vanished. Very sad
Pelosi is accusing others of clinging on until too old an age? Well I never.
She at least still had all her marbles intact
Dementia really is incredibly sad, I know many people in their eighties who have a mind as sharp as anyone half their age, and then people in their seventies who really have lost it. Away from the politics of it, it is desperately sad that we watched a president go down, and clearly go down a severe dementia way. It is possible/probable that Reagan had very early indications of dementia towards the end of his presidency, but that was a time where there was no real medication that could hold anything back. Biden is so visibly gone, and his friends and family must have known the scale of how far gone he was for a number of years, but all colluded and covered up (even on here we had those who said Biden was fine and all this was just bigotry of a man who had overcome a debilitating stammer), not just to get him to the end of his term with dignity, but to actually attempt to seek a further four years.
It is slightly concerning that the systems you would think are in place such as regular medical testing didnt force the issue and invoke the necessary constitutional processes to hand over to his VP. And this should have probably been done quite some time ago.
There is definitely an issue with age that is not directly dementia related.
How many people do you see who go off the rails in early old age? See the discussion of Tom Clancy, above? The stereotype of the angry old man shouting at birds has something to it.
See various, once serious, political figures who’ve gone MAGA.
If you look back at historical figures (such as Captain Cook, Lord Charles Beresford etc) their biographers keep saying the same thing - they were different men from 10 years before, almost becoming parodies of themselves.
I’m on my 4th city in 4 days and enjoying comparing them. Today it’s Cardiff, then Swansea.
I wrote of the lack of centrepiece cathedrals in British cities. Well this one is of course centred on a castle, but the degree to which the principality stadium dominates the very centre of the city is quite unique. Slap bang in the middle.
I rather like Cardiff. The nightlife was by far the rowdiest and most joyous of the cities I’ve visited this week. Proper Magalluf-on-Taff.
Really? Lincoln, York, Worcester, Hereford, Gloucester, Canterbury, Winchester, Exeter, Chester, Norwich, Coventry, Carlisle, Rochester, Bristol, Lichfield, Wakefield, Liverpool all spring to mind without any great effort on my part.
Wasn’t Tim referring to the lack of centrepiece cathedrals in major cities, seem to recall he gave a nod to cathedral cities as “large towns” with a cathedral which is true really.
Yawn. Nothing will come out. It’s all grift and rumours of rumours.
As I have continually said.
Even if that turns out to be true, it’s notable that the likes of Schumer and Rubio are giving a very different impression. Why? It’s not because they’re morons. They’ve had +40 people testify under oath behind closed doors. Who? Why?
Why have they and many others pushed the UAP Disclosure Act now three years in a row, legally defining “technology of non human origin”?
It’s remarkable how few people on this forum see how notable that legislation is, even if you think the motives are different to what its sponsors portray.
Intelligent people can believe strange things all the time. From my perspective I find belief in deities weird, but I know many very intelligent people who do. It’s the same with UAPs etc. There are very many grifters and liars spinning yarns which suck people in. That’s all.
For about two years you insisted Covid came from the wet market
Oh fuck off. We do not know the origins of covid and the wet market is still a valid hypothesis. Where did SARS come from? Or MERS? Novel pathogens almost always originate in animals before making the transition to humans, usually through humans in close proximity. You haven’t won the debate over covid origins, even if you think you have. A lab leak is entirely plausible, but so is origins from the wet market.
The wet market is not merely a valid hypothesis: it is the broadly accepted view among virologists. The genomic evidence of early viral diversity strongly supports it. You have to come up with some convoluted story to make the lab leak “theory” fit the evidence.
It's the broadly accepted view among virologists because the lab leak theory makes virology look distinctly dubious.
From an occam's razor POV, it looks like lab leak. Wet market needs far more coincidences. Now coincidences do happen, but thay doesn't mean we should write off the most straightforward explanation i.e. that ground zero for a new mutant virus being in a city where viruses were deliberately mutated in a not-very-well-secured lab wasn't a coincidence.
The early COVID-19 cases cluster around the wet market, and were nowhere near the lab. Environmental samples show SARS-CoV-2 was at the market in the right timeframe. There’s no evidence of the right sort of virus at the lab. China invested heavily in coronavirus labs after SARS, so there are a lot of labs around, meaning it’s less of a coincidence than lab leak enthusiasts believe. The viral genome shows no signs of being deliberately mutated. Novel virus outbreaks are almost always zoonotic. The early diversity of the viral genome shows it can’t have arisen from a single sample (as in the lab leak theory), but does match there being a reservoir of infected animals existing (as with the wet market).
I've been traveling the past few days (5 plane rides since the election, 2 universities) and maybe about 20% of people that I got to talk to really knew what tariffs were and what they meant*.
They usually just thought it meant that a trade partner got punished by higher prices. They didn't realize it meant *they themselves* would get punished by higher prices. https://x.com/kylascan/status/1854885488542544289
*This isn't their fault but i don't really know how to fix it. i have made a ton of videos on social explaining tariffs but i think people hear what they want to sometimes. Put econ classes in the high schools. https://x.com/kylascan/status/1854885490446811160
*If Trump goes ahead with what he promised, there's a pretty good chance that will fix it.
We already have examples since the Biden administration has been pursuing various Trumpist policies such as Drill, Baby, Drill and 100% tariffs on Chinese car imports.
That's only a tiny market proportion, but what's happened to the sales of Chinse cars in the USA?
If Chump does that to a larger share of the market, GM et al with fuck over Mr and Mrs USA because they will be able to do so.
That's the question.
If Trump simply continued with Biden's policies, with a few tweaks to keep MAGA happy, he'd likely be a pretty successful president. And they'd probably go along with it.
If he goes full steam ahead with some of the stuff that he's promised, then he's going to do a lot of damage both to the U.S. and the rest of the world.
Biden has left behind a world in flames and a structural budget deficit that has driven gold to record highs. He has been a disaster. I hope trump brings down the whole crumbling edifice of his predecessor.
Biden has left Ukraine on the edge of defeat. And we are meant to think Trump is far far worse
You don't think the GOP played more than a minor role in that?
The Ukraine war has been unwinnable for a long time
There is a chance the crazy ass Trump might actually save Ukrainian lives and bring it to an end. Ditto Gaza
Can he be worse than Biden, in foreign policy terms? I guess he might quit NATO but more likely he will demand Europeans pay more for their own defence - and fair enough
It’s trumps economic policies that truly worry me
In terms of Ukraine, what do you mean by 'win' ? What do you mean by 'end', given Putin's worldview and desires?
I'd argue the war is certainly winnable, given the will of the west. I'd go further, and argue that we must 'win' it.
It depends how you frame the war. From my perspective this is already WW3, and Ukraine is one battle in that war, just as Korea or Vietnam or Afghanistan were battles in the Cold War, or Poland was a battle in WW2.
We absolutely have to win WW3, otherwise we are all dead. And the only way to win it without ending up all dead is to win it early, and comprehensively, deterring the aggressor from extending the front into other countries. That can either be done with a frozen conflict followed by economic warfare until the Russian economy collapses and Putin is removed, or by victory by Ukraine on the battlefield. A frozen conflict with a functioning Russia means more war later.
Pretty much my exact view. We are already at war; it is just the media, politicians and public prefer to ignore it.
The question is how long they can continue to ignore it.
And sadly, it is not just Russia. If Russia gets a 'win' from Ukraine, it will embolden other world leaders to embark on such adventures. They need to see that the potential cost of such adventures is not worth the potential reward.
I don't understand why Europe has not introduced an embargo on all gas from Russia. We are spending money fighting them with one hand and funding them with another.
It's much harder to find alternative buyers of gas than it is oil given transport limitations for a country like Russia that doesn't have large LNG export capacity.
A couple of landlocked European countries (Austria and Slovakia) are screwed without pipeline gas from Russia. And Hungary does not care.
Pelosi is accusing others of clinging on until too old an age? Well I never.
She at least still had all her marbles intact
Dementia really is incredibly sad, I know many people in their eighties who have a mind as sharp as anyone half their age, and then people in their seventies who really have lost it. Away from the politics of it, it is desperately sad that we watched a president go down, and clearly go down a severe dementia way. It is possible/probable that Reagan had very early indications of dementia towards the end of his presidency, but that was a time where there was no real medication that could hold anything back. Biden is so visibly gone, and his friends and family must have known the scale of how far gone he was for a number of years, but all colluded and covered up (even on here we had those who said Biden was fine and all this was just bigotry of a man who had overcome a debilitating stammer), not just to get him to the end of his term with dignity, but to actually attempt to seek a further four years.
It is slightly concerning that the systems you would think are in place such as regular medical testing didnt force the issue and invoke the necessary constitutional processes to hand over to his VP. And this should have probably been done quite some time ago.
So when do you reckon he will hand over to Vance, on that basis?
I am not entirely convinced that Vance will be minded to wait until the inauguration before he makes his move. Trump had so obviously lost it in the last few weeks of the campaign but his momentum carried him through. He is in a far worse state now than Biden was in 2022, let alone 2020.
What serves Vance and co better?
Ditching Trump now he's done his job and is just an embarrassing old man, or keeping him as a popular figurehead (to some) and lightning conductor (to others) while they get on with running the country?
A shootout seems likely, but it's less obvious who wins it.
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I did not, know, for example, know much about the 50s 60s until I started to read up about them.
Many of the Great and the Good in West Germany in the 1950s to 1970s were senior officials in the Nazi era. There's a good Mark Felton video about it somewhere. A large proportion of senior Lawyers and Members of Parliament were former Nazis for many years, which may be linked to why the WG Government went to such lengths to avoid prosecuting any.
While I don't miss your hate-peddling, I'm nonetheless glad to see you're keeping well.
"Hitler's Generals in the West German Army"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqH6rmN5MsE
There's also this one, which is about the Naumann Circle, which was a network of hundreds of former Nazis in senior positions. But it's not that one either - unless there is a side comment. I'll have a listen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eZ9ByBiYZs
I think I may be thinking of a side reference; eg the notes on that bid mention an NYT article "53 EX-NAZIS HOLD BUNDESTAG SEATS; These Were Less the Choice of the West German People Than of the Parties," The New York Times, 9 May 1950
https://www.nytimes.com/1950/05/09/archives/53-exnazis-hold-bundestag-seats-these-were-less-the-choice-of-the.html
https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/corruption-and-money-laundering/explained-what-has-donald-trump-got-do-latin-american-drug-cartels/
Do you suppose AI would know?
Good morning! Mark Felton has indeed created numerous videos on World War II and its aftermath. While I couldn't find a specific video solely focused on Nazis infiltrating West German civil society, his channel does cover related topics. You might find his video on Nazi fugitives in Argentina interesting, as it touches on post-war Nazi activities.
If you're interested in more of his content, you can explore his YouTube channel for a variety of historical documentaries.
Good morning. Mark Felton has indeed produced several videos covering World War II and post-war Germany. Based on the search results provided, one of his videos that specifically addresses the topic of Nazis infiltrating West German civil society is: "Secret Fourth Reich - The Naumann Circle Plot"
This video discusses a secret Nazi organization in West Germany that attempted to infiltrate political parties in the early 1950s. The group, known as the Naumann Circle, was led by Dr. Werner Naumann, the last Propaganda Minister of Nazi Germany. Their goal was to establish a "Fourth Reich," essentially a successor to the defeated Third Reich...[snip]
It’s so easy just to draw up railway timetables, sell pesticides, make a list of
groups marked down for special treatment.
Yet, even many of those who got their hands more directly dirty, were nothing unusual. Once you’ve had comrades killed by partisans, and faced weeks of warfare, it’s an easy step to massacre a village in retaliation.
Part of the problem was that he wrote himself into a corner. Jack Ryan was the main protagonist, and when he made him president, it meant the stories became more detached from reality. The good thing about his earlier Ryan books was that you could more or less imagine them happening behind the scenes. Once Ryan became president, that stopped. And trying to make his son an agent for a secret organisation was unbelievable.
But I loved Clark's character, and Chavez's. The storyline should have continued with them, working in the shadows.
If Trump simply continued with Biden's policies, with a few tweaks to keep MAGA happy, he'd likely be a pretty successful president. And they'd probably go along with it.
If he goes full steam ahead with some of the stuff that he's promised, then he's going to do a lot of damage both to the U.S. and the rest of the world.
Another day, another round of various parts of Twitter absilutely overflowing with antisemitic and other racist
references Trump or not, I think Euriope and the U.K. are going to have block parts of the site eventually, for reasons of.stability.
Yet somehow the universal language of “number 3 back and sides, longer on top” did the job again.
Maricopa County Trump + 11 Lake +2
Pinal County Trump +17 Lake +6
These were batches that were supposed to be much better for Lake . People seem to like Trump but not the wannabe Trump .
This is are serious issues for our society.
Just rampant unmoderated hatred.
On the other had, it's still entirely usable, if you regularly block/mute that stuff.
That makes it far less of the town square it used to be, but it's still, for me at least, worthwhile. For now.
Yours right though; for new users coming to it fresh it's going to be a horror show.
Why?
"Madeleine Westerhout, who worked as Mr Trump’s personal secretary until 2019, told his New York hush money trial earlier this year that the president-elect would edit his social media on paper by hand after she had written them down for him."
“It is my understanding that he liked to use the Oxford comma.”
Truly the sign of a great man!
https://x.com/carlquintanilla/status/1855034495281328251
The U.S. economy post Biden is pretty resilient. If Trump doesn't go absolutely wild, he'll get away with a fair amount of stuff.
I'd be interested to see the effects modelled for Europe.
There is a chance the crazy ass Trump might actually save Ukrainian lives and bring it to an end. Ditto Gaza
Can he be worse than Biden, in foreign policy terms? I guess he might quit NATO but more likely he will demand Europeans pay more for their own defence - and fair enough
It’s trumps economic policies that truly worry me
As a member if Congress, she faces reelection every two years. As the last six months showed, she's still an operator.
It wouldn't surprises me if this is her last term. Though she might stick out the full administration.
I should get a copy and re-read it, to see if it still holds up. I listened to "Red Storm Rising" recently, and that is still a blooming good thriller, despite the world having moved on.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/09/west-greatest-weapon-war-with-china-online-porn/
Biden in fact did well on the economic fundamentals.
As govt in waiting they were preparing for the worst outcomes, that has the scent of competence...
By a distance the highlight of my fortnight in Korea
I'd argue the war is certainly winnable, given the will of the west. I'd go further, and argue that we must 'win' it.
Besides, charismatic strongmen tend to be even worse at succession planning than the Biden presidency.
You appear to think the longer she stays in the better her mental faculties will be, I can assure you they are only heading downwards. There's also the SC judge the Dems are desperate to shift. And for balance why has nobody got rid of Mitch McConnell ?
This is a problem the US system has in that it the oldies hang in too long as they cant afford to retire.
When I go around the world and hear discussions about Covid origins - and people do talk about it, unprompted, it was a universal trauma - the idea it came from the wet market is regarded with pure mocking derision. And some anger about the lies we were told
The world knows it came from the lab. It’s done. It’s over. Give it up
And I bet the drug-addled sociopaths and disease-ridden prostitutes you consort with on your 'travels' just nod along to your rantings.
For anti-submarine warfare, they would drop sonar buoys from the helicopter. The Russian surface vessels in the area would try and pick up any that didn’t sink to their operating depth - sometimes they would just sit on the surface.
To prank the Russians, sometimes they dropped the canisters the buoys came in - think giant tennis ball can. So the Russians would see it, send a boat, pick it up.
Some Russian ships would illuminate them with targeting radars and general act nasty. For them, they would use the sonar buoy cans as a toilet, first.
Some would be polite. Even make contact on the radio, tell jokes etc. For them, them would fill the cans with beer and copies of Playboy…
The DMZ is spellbinding. The hour you get in the observatory - staring into North Korea, looking at their lives and laundry - is like nothing else. Moving and disturbing to the Nth degree
Everyone was v jel of my binos. I was able to say “ooh I can see a guy on a moped” as they all strained to squint
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/31603540/labour-government-destroy-farmers-cant-fight-back-reeves/
The point about a farmer he knows with 600 cows which alone are worth £1.2m yet alone the land and buildings and equipment demonstrates that maybe Reeves and co didn’t think it through that well.
We absolutely have to win WW3, otherwise we are all dead. And the only way to win it without ending up all dead is to win it early, and comprehensively, deterring the aggressor from extending the front into other countries. That can either be done with a frozen conflict followed by economic warfare until the Russian economy collapses and Putin is removed, or by victory by Ukraine on the battlefield. A frozen conflict with a functioning Russia means more war later.
He will be seething, about the assasination attempt, this morning.
One might say suspiciously lucky.
The question is how long they can continue to ignore it.
And sadly, it is not just Russia. If Russia gets a 'win' from Ukraine, it will embolden other world leaders to embark on such adventures. They need to see that the potential cost of such adventures is not worth the potential reward.
Just didn’t fit into a driving itinerary which took in most of the country.
Candyman, Candyman…
Biden is so visibly gone, and his friends and family must have known the scale of how far gone he was for a number of years, but all colluded and covered up (even on here we had those who said Biden was fine and all this was just bigotry of a man who had overcome a debilitating stammer), not just to get him to the end of his term with dignity, but to actually attempt to seek a further four years.
It is slightly concerning that the systems you would think are in place such as regular medical testing didnt force the issue and invoke the necessary constitutional processes to hand over to his VP. And this should have probably been done quite some time ago.
Just remarking on your risible comparison.
I wrote of the lack of centrepiece cathedrals in British cities. Well this one is of course centred on a castle, but the degree to which the principality stadium dominates the very centre of the city is quite unique. Slap bang in the middle.
I rather like Cardiff. The nightlife was by far the rowdiest and most joyous of the cities I’ve visited this week. Proper Magalluf-on-Taff.
From an occam's razor POV, it looks like lab leak. Wet market needs far more coincidences. Now coincidences do happen, but thay doesn't mean we should write off the most straightforward explanation i.e. that ground zero for a new mutant virus being in a city where viruses were deliberately mutated in a not-very-well-secured lab wasn't a coincidence.
Will Trump take the electrocution as promised, or will he let the Hammervance Shark eat him?
Surely the simplest explanation is that both are correct - I.e. that samples from the lab were being illegally sold in the wet market due to internal corruption?
*Well, actually I understand why Leon does, and it's because he can't understand complex chains of causation.
It's much harder to find alternative buyers of gas than it is oil given transport limitations for a country like Russia that doesn't have large LNG export capacity.
Kash Patel, the next possible Director of Central Intelligence under Trump:
“We’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections. We’re going to come after you.”
https://x.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/1854966300420063322
Dementia is a cruel disease. But like Parkinson's and other 'old' diseases, they become more cruel when they inflict the young.
So neither have medieval cathedrals because they were originally small towns which just happened to have the perfect location when the industrial revolution came..
Two Chinese boffins looked at all the evidence - the geography and virology - and said, quite plainly, “it is highly like the virus accidentally infected a worker at the Wuhan CDC who then went to the nearby market (300 yards away) from where it spread in ideal conditions”
There. That’s probably what happened. We’ve know all along and everything else is politics and lies
Of course the Chinese made the paper disappear and the two scientists - I believe - have likewise vanished. Very sad
How many people do you see who go off the rails in early old age? See the discussion of Tom Clancy, above? The stereotype of the angry old man shouting at birds has something to it.
See various, once serious, political figures who’ve gone MAGA.
If you look back at historical figures (such as Captain Cook, Lord Charles Beresford etc) their biographers keep saying the same thing - they were different men from 10 years before, almost becoming parodies of themselves.
Ditching Trump now he's done his job and is just an embarrassing old man, or keeping him as a popular figurehead (to some) and lightning conductor (to others) while they get on with running the country?
A shootout seems likely, but it's less obvious who wins it.