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Israeli TV chyron.
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@yairwallach.bsky.social
Netanyahu's propaganda channel:
"Concerns in Jerusalem that terror supporter Kamala Harris will be elected president"
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zkolo4y7hpfos5kyn53kj73n/post/3l7tfpkj6cf2w?
Love your work Joe. I always look for your comments.
I wonder if you could give me your take on this.
It sounds hysterical and even hard to believe
Mehdi Hasan and Steve Schmidt, come together from opposite sides of the political spectrum, to warn us. These are not stupid guys.
But could they be the only adults in the room?
Could they be right?
Is a fascist takeover in the US possible, or even likely, as Hasan and Schmidt are saying?
This is not business as usual folks
Are our leaders in the military and security community aware of this threat?
What advice are they giving our political leaders?
And is our country prepared for this possible eventuality?
I really wish people here, cleverer than me, would give me their thoughts?
Trump takes advantage of maga morans, rotten legislatures and corrupt courts to throw a last roll and his backers their opportunity to remake the US into a country that gives them the status that they think they deserve.
If he wins he goes quietly with Vance's assurances of immunity and with their man at the helm, the billionaire class get their robber baron version of apartheid SA.
That's it.
That “Little Secret” Between Trump and Johnson? Here’s What It Could Mean.
The “secret” almost certainly involves a plan to install Trump in the White House if he loses the election—but this plan could be even worse than you think.
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Most educated guesses assume that Trump and Johnson are “secretly” talking about installing Trump as president through a “contingent election,” whereby the House of Representatives, not the Electoral College, determines the president. I think the plot goes deeper than that, but let’s start with the contingent election idea.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/little-secret-trump-johnson-election/
(Elie Mystal)
I've even read that Republicans are quietly plotting, once Trump "wins" to dispose of him under the 25th Amendment and install J D Vance as president.
Sorry, can’t give a link, but one of the Thom Hartman podcasts.
And that, folks, might be even worse that Trump!
Yup. And workers rights will be first on the block.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-calls-for-25th-amendment-to-be-modified-should-vance-be-worried/
Not sure how that would work. For a successful coup, Trump would need the military. Who are loyal to the Constitution, rather than an individual.
I'm not sure either. But Hasan and Schmidt suggest, that how that would work, would begin with a program of appointing military leaders loyal to Trump.
From the Youtube video above
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/us-election-2024/532618/us-election-trump-s-fraud-claims-revive-fears-he-may-again-seek-to-overturn-election-results
"TRUMP blames his win in the election on fraud
There fixed it.
The 2020 play was to cause doubt about the result in Pennsylvania (maybe to block completion of the count) as it was thought Biden needed to win there – his wins in Georgia and Arizona foiled it.
Harris is unlikely to win in Georgia and Arizona – so has to win Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania (last to complete its count).
Already Musk is raising doubt about Pennsylvania using his X to promote a conspiracy theory (lies).
Musk and disinformation about the election.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vnyl2jnpjo
Economics is in 'disarray', having placed efficiency before ethics and human well-being, says Nobel laureate – ABC News
Mainstream economics is in "disarray."
It ignores the reality of power, it neglects questions of equity, and its policy recommendations can be "little more than a license for plunder."
That's the opinion of Angus Deaton, the British-American economist who won the economics version of the Nobel Prize in 2015.
The 78-year-old professor says he's recently been changing his mind about views he's long held and it's a "discomfiting process."
But will his colleagues listen to him?
Good link, thanks. Definitely time to get the teaching of economics out of the ideologically-committed business schools and into the humanities departments – spread across politics, history, human geography and anthropology. And maybe (channeling Steve Keen) engineering/system dynamics as well.
Once again, recommend 'Vulture Capitalism’, by the journalist Grace Blakely, as an excellent economic explainer for what global money is doing to society and government. I borrowed this as an ebook from my library.
But her emails knocked this off the front page and the memory hole took it from there.
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Now, the generation that came of age during the #MeToo era is turning to social media for information about candidates and elections — 39 percent of young adults say they frequently get their news from TikTok, according to Pew Research. This week, many said on the social network they were shocked by the former president’s words and confused why the episode wasn’t a dealbreaker in 2016.
“I don’t think any of my friends had heard it,” said Kate Sullivan, a 21-year-old student in Ohio who heard the tape for the first time on her TikTok For You feed this week. “We all felt equally shocked.”
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Brigid Quinn, a 15-year-old in Georgia, knew that Trump had been accused of making sexist comments, she said. But she had never heard the words he actually said — including the ‘grab them by the pussy’ quote. She “didn’t understand how people thought this was normal.”
https://archive.li/MAGYV (wapo)
If it's not one dick burning up the planet with Jet Fuel, it's another.
Richard Harman analyses the deal:
It does indeed seem a diplomatic victory, but scepticism also makes sense – if they allow their cultural tradition to prevail, how can enforcement happen? International law? Pull the other leg. A cynic would presume the arabs aren't acting in good faith.
A bit excessive on the quoting.
The idea with quoting is to get the crucial bits and not to infringe copyright. When I get back to a desktop, i will try to remember to trim it.
Which means you are causing me extra work…
As copy & paste goes, DF did a shit job at it, which to me demonstrates his laziness that’s exacerbated by his click-bait style of ‘commentary’.
All these addenda sound non-binding, rather a wish-list. In which case, they are the parsley on the roast, just dressing.
Nothing in there on what the Saudis get from us. This was not one way, and we may find that there's a freedom to enter and a freedom to buy NZ land on the Saudi side.
Sorry for that. I did make a serious attempt to eliminate the non-essentials but any editor may differ on such. Seems to me the human rights dimension is genuinely innovative for the arabs. Could even be seen as revolutionary. The msm will focus on the dollar signs in their imagination, of course…
Saw Luxon the other day get so excited talking about Qatar money and how he's going to give them a deal sheet so they can buy NZ assets –
Very clever, well sung and sharp satire. Donald Trump gets Queened. Bohemian Rhapsody anew.
That is cool and worth a listen.
Thanks, looked and listened all the way through – hope the message goes viral.
Thus began the so called 30 year war (20% of Europeans are said to have died)
https://blogs.icrc.org/law-and-policy/2017/05/23/thirty-years-war-first-modern-war/
https://www.britannica.com/event/Thirty-Years-War
Gilead, a hand maids tale of "Promise Keeper" man as POTUS and his men deciding whats right, called the Christian nation dominion subversion of the March 4 constitutional republic of the district of Columbia of George Washington.
Little wonder voting is about c55-35 males for Trump and females for Harris.
From The Guardian, pointing up the massive gender gap. The outcome in the US is vote-cancelling within couples. I remember when my dad voted for Muldoon and my mum voted for Labour when I was young, much the same effect.
If Trump re-takes Pennsylvania, could be game over for US GHG emissions mitigation.
I had no idea she was still running. Even when one is trying to tune out of it all, it's impossible to avoid the US election, but I've never heard her name come up. Hopefully logic will prevail.
I spent a day with my 22 yr old son today, helping him build a 52 metre fence.
At lunch he was telling me about Trump being on the Joe Rogan podcast. My boy isn't a political animal and I'm paraphrasing now; Trump came across as his own man, charismatic, unscripted and marching to his own beat. Not a talking head that tiptoes around.
Rogan has invited Harris several times but she comes back with conditions that prevent that from happening (only 1 hour, for the podcast to happen elsewhere etc).
Vance has been on Rogan too and I understand he comes across as a regular Joe (boom boom) and approachable.
None of this negates all that has been said upthread here today on Open Mike but with most media in this country beating the same echo chamber drum, I think we can get seduced and end up with a nasty surprise, like last time Trump was elected.
Edit; I thought I would have a look at some numbers.
Apparently 14.5M folk subscribe to JRE on Spotify, 16.4M on YouTube and 18.9M on his instagram.
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/03/24/how-many-people-listen-to-joe-rogan-data/
Here is a link to voting intentions of listeners to JRE.
https://www.edisonresearch.com/who-joe-rogan-listeners-are-likely-to-support-in-the-election/#:~:text=Rogan's%20audience%20skews%20overwhelmingly%20male,critical%2018%2D34%20age%20range.
So Tucker Carlson says he was attacked by a demon in the night that left him with scratches and claw marks on his shoulder and I can't stop thinking that if his wife believes that he is a very lucky man.
Bear in mind that Tucker is competing with Candace Owens for clicks.
I admire his courage. Any guy who admits to being asleep in bed with his wife and 4 dogs on mass media obviously has transcended the need for respect, reputation, mana, etc. I had no idea he was that advanced.
Didn't put him beyond the reach of demons though, did it? Having been thoroughly bible-bashed as a child in the 1950s, I'm always aware that God created the devil for a purpose, and I still live in hope that some christian will explain it to me one day.
The Bible didn't say that he created demons though. Perhaps they entered through a black hole in the christian psyche? If Tucker learns the right incantation, he can order them to return from whence they came. Someone ought to tell the guy this.
Maybe one of his 4 dogs got a flea bite and had a big scratch to catch it and Tucker got in the way. Perhaps he was too drugged or drunk, or tired to wake up at the time?
But the monetising potential of 'demon' beats Occam's razor paws down.
It was a black shiny demon.
He said "play the best song in the world – or I'll eat your soul!"
Carlson couldn't, so the demon started, but gave up quickly after he found how horrible Carlson Tucker's soul really was, and just left a few scratches.
What a bringdown for a demon when you find out that your victim is worse than you!
Acknowledgements to Tenacious D and Dave Grohl.
I admire his courage for disclosing his hallucinations.
Without "evil" there cannot be "good". There would no way of distiguishing one from the other if "evil" did not exist.
His conscience attacked him. I think there’s a movie in it.
Ah! it was Damian not demon.
LOL.
Quentin wants the rights to make From Dust to Dog Tucker.
I can see an Omen in there, somewhere.
Yup, lot’s of static noise, or was that that other movie, Politicgeist?
Goodness me, Psych Nurse and Incognito those are brilliant with an extra special award for the superlative punny use of 'Politicgeist' for Incognito.