tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63010966564974225352024-03-18T21:50:08.391-07:00Brane SpaceCopernicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16699554476216140859noreply@blogger.comBlogger6590125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301096656497422535.post-26228505863774382532024-03-18T06:43:00.000-07:002024-03-18T21:49:34.437-07:00WSJ Accounts Of 20-Somethings Ditching TikTok May Offer Best Hope For A Biden Win In November<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQwT1_fiBpurftaxr3fSv39V5lhDR93DIyYK_9D4pKQnt8GR3WgCM7HYf2MZZf5SM81mi7tF32iU-eB7LiBOhijnamOvBkL9wGKTCuVFxMgSwcq0MkTro0_ytrPPAFFxwKccpERfK0gIBGC-o0WTztpTT0y834gMRBGLK3y-ed8UvHqV2Da98ifQZNLA/s1292/OK%20Boomer.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1141" data-original-width="1292" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQwT1_fiBpurftaxr3fSv39V5lhDR93DIyYK_9D4pKQnt8GR3WgCM7HYf2MZZf5SM81mi7tF32iU-eB7LiBOhijnamOvBkL9wGKTCuVFxMgSwcq0MkTro0_ytrPPAFFxwKccpERfK0gIBGC-o0WTztpTT0y834gMRBGLK3y-ed8UvHqV2Da98ifQZNLA/s320/OK%20Boomer.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Really want to 'fight back'? Get off Tik Tok!</i></b></span><div><span><b style="font-family: georgia;"><i> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjzwBTa2_iv1shG7g5-wX-liMh7x-fsTTh0V0mwfqPK8yslrqkOuhWfk7K7cMaoFAuhSxYdgWyWl0bwcJR5VkMpEEHiwLpyJaf8WRDGJlAPmZdmQOKN-KGfnX8UQ3zxSqLDGQapxCHizBWfDhUGuYrtkcx-sgrlXXl7257V0J28xQuDdgadSIE4Oeo9w/s292/Biden.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="292" data-original-width="201" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjzwBTa2_iv1shG7g5-wX-liMh7x-fsTTh0V0mwfqPK8yslrqkOuhWfk7K7cMaoFAuhSxYdgWyWl0bwcJR5VkMpEEHiwLpyJaf8WRDGJlAPmZdmQOKN-KGfnX8UQ3zxSqLDGQapxCHizBWfDhUGuYrtkcx-sgrlXXl7257V0J28xQuDdgadSIE4Oeo9w/s1600/Biden.jpg" width="201" /></a></div> Joe Biden will need your votes in November!<br /></i></b><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b><i><span style="font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.25rem;"><br /></span></i></b></span></p><p class="css-at9mc1" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i><span style="color: #800180; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">"</span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: #800180; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Are you
better off today than you were four years ago? Honestly, I didn’t think
Republicans were going to try replaying Ronald Reagan’s famous line, since so
much of the G.O.P.’s 2024 strategy depends on a sort of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/opinion/trump-pandemic-president.html" style="font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">collective amnesia</span></a> about the last year of Donald
Trump’s presidency. Is it really a good idea to remind voters what the spring
of 2020 was like?</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">
</p><p class="css-at9mc1" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i><span style="color: #800180; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">For it
was a terrible time: It was a time of fear, with <a href="https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklydeaths_select_00" style="font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Covid deaths</span></a> skyrocketing. It was a time of
isolation, with normal social interactions disrupted. It was a time of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/11/briefing/us-crime-rate.html" style="font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">surging violent crime</span></a>, perhaps brought on by that
social disruption. It was a time of huge job losses, with the unemployment rate
hitting <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE" style="font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">14.8 percent</span></a> that April. And do you remember the
great <a href="https://cnr.ncsu.edu/news/2020/05/coronavirus-toilet-paper-shortage/" style="font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">toilet paper</span></a> shortage?" </span></i></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">- Paul Krugman, NY Times today</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></div></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The WSJ piece (March 9) '<i>Why Twenty Somethings Are Saying No To Tik Tok' </i>was an eye opener for sure. Though I'd realized for a while this thing had surreal addictive and distractive capacity, e.g.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><ul class="posts" style="background-color: #fff9ee; border-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: 1.2; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -15px;"><li style="background: none; border-width: 0px; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0.25em 0px; padding: 0.25em 0px 0.25em 1.3em;"><a href="https://brane-space.blogspot.com/2023/01/auburn-u-was-right-to-ban-tik-tok.html" style="color: #ff1900;"><span style="font-size: large;">Auburn U. Was Right To Ban Tik Tok - </span></a></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">I never truly appreciated the extent to which it had hijacked the brains of so many young adults and converted them into mush. Now, we learn many Twenty Somethings are consciously detaching from the coke-like app to reclaim their lives, their thoughts and their wills - and one now hopes - their political sense. As the WSJ columnist (Julie Jargon) writes;</span></p><p><span color="var(--primary-text-color)" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">" </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Many 20-somethings are now trying to break the all-consuming TikTok habit they started during the pandemic. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The young adults I spoke to have been on social media for a
decade or more and didn’t question the impact it was having on them until
recently. They started noticing that TikTok, in particular, got in the way of
sleep, work, household chores and relationships. Some even say it has kept them
from chasing their own creative dreams. They are now deleting the app in
pursuit of more in-person experiences and tidier homes</span>."</span></p>
<p><span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Wow! And what led to such a remarkable decision? Well, we see
a wide array of examples in the piece. Take, for example, Keilah Bruce - a 27 year old accountant in New York. She stopped using the app after Tik Tok's algorithm began showing her things that matched her private thoughts. As she put it to the WSJ: "<span style="color: #2b00fe;">It's one thing to know about you, and another <i>to know you</i></span>."</span></p><p><span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Twenty somethings who believe they've found the 'pot of gold at the end of the rainbow' with Tik Tok need to take note. While it's true - thanks to the app's hypersensitive algorithm - users could discover content and personalities that aligned with their interests just by scrolling the app's main feed, they were unaware the same algorithm could plumb their own thoughts via their responses. In such a way also, rage and hysteria could be reinforced and pumped reaching a political chain reaction. Such has been the case with the unfolding Gaza horror, which has distracted too many 20-30 somethings from the coming U.S election and the need to vote Joe Biden. Not impressed? Then clearly you didn't see the latest news about Trump warning of a 'blood bath' if he isn't elected, e.g.</span></p><div class="nodebar" style="background-color: #0000aa; color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/topics/the-trump-administration/donald-trump" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Donald Trump</a></div><div class="nodetitle" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 4px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/robert-reich/109751/trump-is-out-of-his-mind-and-desperate" style="color: #660000; text-decoration-line: none;">Trump Is out of His Mind and Desperate</a></div><p><span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span class="nodeby" style="color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; padding-bottom: 3px;">by <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/profile/robert-reich" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Robert Reich</a> | March 17, 2024 - 7:19am | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/robert-reich/109751/trump-is-out-of-his-mind-and-desperate" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">permalink</a></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11px;"></span></span></p><div class="nodebody" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;"><b><i><a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trump-is-out-of-his-mind-and-desperate" style="color: red; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">— from Robert Reich's Substack</a></i></b></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;"><img alt="" height="203" src="https://s.france24.com/media/display/8333799a-e442-11ee-b480-005056a97e36/w:980/p:16x9/063_2089737319.jpg" style="border: 0px;" width="360" /></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: arial;"><i><b>At a rally today outside the Dayton International Airport in Vandalia, Ohio, Trump warned that “if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a blood bath … for the country.”</b></i></span></p></div><p><span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">While Gaza for sure is a spectacle of needless horrific suffering (thanks to Bibi Netanyahu) it affords NO rational or justifiable excuse to either <i>not vote</i>, or to <i>vote for a certified monster</i> and lunatic like Donald Trump. With the entire nation's (and I'd argue <i>world's</i>) future on the line. This is given that an electoral win for this whack job - who would have the nuclear codes - surpasses any outrage over Gaza. Hence, an informed vote must alas take precedence over political division over Gaza, or indeed any other issue (inflation, school loan debt, perceived actions on one's 'pet' to do's etc.)</span></p><p><span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Back to the WSJ piece, we also learn about the tribulations of Samantha Rodriguez, 29, an estate planner. She reported how the app frequently put her in danger, i.e.</span></p><p><span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">"I would scroll Tik Tok while walking my dogs and there were times I'd walk right into a tree or mailbox,</span>" </span></p><p><span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">She also admits to have gotten into the habit of scrolling late at night to try and catch the latest cute dance or song, but this affected her job performance. It also affected her marriage and irritated her husband who often resorted to snatching her phone out of her hand while in bed. It had become a toxic element. Finally, she ''cut the cord" 6 months ago realizing that recovering her sanity and sense was more important than late night self-entertainment with empty dross. She says it was worth it, and "<span style="color: #2b00fe;">now wakes up feeling refreshed and more productive</span>." </span></p><p><span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">These cases are not exceptional </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">as Ms. Jargon further notes:</span></p><p><span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">"<span style="color: #2b00fe;">The 20-somethings I interviewed aren't outliers. They say many of their friends have also deleted the app or scaled back their use in recent months - like Alissa Chapman - who realized after watching hours of creative videos on Tik Tok one night she was never doing any of them herself.</span> "</span></p><p><span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Her creative 'juices' were being sucked out by distraction and addiction in much the same way 20-somethings' political attention to this existential election is being sucked out the same way. (How else account for the mere 10-point edge Biden now has among the 18 to 34 age set compared to a <b><i>25-point </i></b>edge in 2020?) Thus getting the 20-somethings off this brain -sucking, mind warping app may be the most critical step to a Biden reelection.</span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span class="fid6"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;">As I wrote in my January 17, 2023 post, t</span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">he term “<i>TikTok brain</i>” has gained currency and validity, especially in the psychotherapy realm, and appears to refer to a genuine affliction of our time. Especially of younger brains way too inclined to be mesmerized by dancing monkeys, or dancing peers moving to the rhythms of catchy tunes. Often the defining feature is the way energy-mesmerized young brain gets hooked on short videos - in the 1- 2 minute range- and becomes so attuned that watching anything longer becomes intolerable. </span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Not to mention actually exercising brain cells - whether reading '<i>The Odyssey'-</i> or even watching a lengthy historical movie like '<i>Exodus</i>'. (Which has the added benefit of conveying the background to the Palestine-Israel issue.) Or reading an actual newspaper article on the multiple accomplishments of Joe Biden compared to Donald Trump.</span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); direction: var(--article-direction); line-height: calc(1.58824); margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The term itself was aptly coined to describe what this insidious app does to brains in their prime. Indeed, the very nature of the short videos endlessly trotted out – impairs memory, attention span and overall mental functioning over time</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #444444; font-size: 14.5pt;">. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Kids are left staring at their tiny screens for most of a 24-hour day getting hooked on the memes portrayed by dancing peers while their neurons (and microglial cells) rot. </span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The NY Times had a weekend piece with the provocative header:</span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a aria-hidden="false" class="css-9mylee" data-uri="nyt://article/a72d8fad-db2c-57fc-8960-25bbf1d8658f" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/15/opinion/uncommitted-voters-biden-trump.html" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></span></p><div class="css-1jnposs" style="border: 0px; display: flow-root; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="css-xdandi" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="indicate-hover css-dgqyc1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-tertiary,#5A5A5A); font-family: nyt-cheltenham-text-cond, nyt-cheltenham, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.0025em; line-height: 1.15em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">What Do You Do If You Hate Both Biden and Trump?</p></div></div></div><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Which answer truly is a no -brainer for the non-Tik Tok mind. If your brain is firing on all cylinders and you're not trapped in a fake hysteria or 'sadness' miasma pumped by Tik Tok piffle, then you can get beyond it, e.g.</span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qXZWF66RIo" style="background-color: transparent;">New Rule: Cheer Up! | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) (youtube.com)</a></span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">And if and when you get beyond it, all the hand wringing distractions, you must vote for Joe Biden. You cannot allow emotions to run amuck and put a consummate criminal, rapist and traitor - not to mention wannabe dictator - into the most powerful position on the planet. As Bill Maher puts it in his most recent <i>New Rule</i>:</span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> "</span><span style="color: #800180; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Wages are rising. Unemployment is negligible. The stock market is soaring. yes some inflation is still around but you know an actual good, life -size TV now costs just sixty bucks. Who gets credit for that? We've got next day shipping, legal weed, stuffed crust pizza, GPS, and porn hub on the phone.</span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Cheer the fuck up! Stop acting like life in America in 2024 is unbearable.</span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Biden's ratings are in the toilet not because he's doing a bad job but because too many Americans like to live with their head in the toilet."</span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Maher goes on to note that almost a third of Americans report they suffer from depression. But as he also points out, earlier generations understood you're not supposed to feel good all the time. So why do so many of today's lot feel that way?</span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;"> My suspicion is it can be traced to addictive algorithms in apps like Tik Tok and the ensuing social media addiction. Just the act then of seeing dozens of photos of what<i> other people </i>seem to be doing can drive one's own despair...if one lets it. As for the realm of "influencers" it is appalling to me so many young uns' hanker to enter this dubious "profession" given so many are unsuccessful (never mind the media hype). No, what we need now is not more TikTok influencers but rather more genuine patriotic voters canvassing for Joe Biden. And more than ready to take down Donald Trump for the second - and hopefully last- time!</span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>See Also:</b></span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://brane-space.blogspot.com/2024/02/in-michigan-young-voters-displeased.html">Brane Space: In Michigan Young Voters Displeased With Choices Opt Out: Give 'Em Their Sippy Cups (brane-space.blogspot.com)</a></span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><br /></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><b>And:</b></p><ul class="posts" style="background-color: #fff9ee; border-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: 1.2; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -15px;"><li style="background: none; border-width: 0px; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0.25em 0px; padding: 0.25em 0px 0.25em 1.3em;"><a href="https://brane-space.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-election-of-dread-dread-meh-or.html" style="color: #ff1900;"><span style="font-size: large;">The "Election of Dread"? Dread, 'Meh' Or 'WAAAH, Voters Need To Wake Up...</span></a></li></ul><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><b>And:</b></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><a href="https://brane-space.blogspot.com/2023/09/note-to-age-biased-voters-it-will-be.html" style="color: #ff1900; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Note To Age-Biased Voters: It WILL Be Biden Vs. Trump Next Year - And Don't Even Think Of Sitting This One Out - Or Voting 3rd Party!</span></b></a></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><b>And:</b></p><div class="nodebar" style="background-color: #0000aa; color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/topics/in-the-news/2024-elections" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">2024 Elections</a> | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/topics/the-trump-administration/donald-trump" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Donald Trump</a> | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/topics/the_obama_administration/joe_biden" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Joe Biden</a></div><div class="nodetitle" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 4px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/robert-reich/109759/the-biggest-contrast-in-the-upcoming-election-other-than-democracy-vs-blood-in-the-streets-fascism" style="color: #660000; text-decoration-line: none;">The Biggest Contrast in the Upcoming Election (Other Than Democracy vs. “Blood in the Streets” Fascism)</a></div><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span class="nodeby" style="color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; padding-bottom: 3px;">by <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/profile/robert-reich" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Robert Reich</a> | March 18, 2024 - 6:23am | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/robert-reich/109759/the-biggest-contrast-in-the-upcoming-election-other-than-democracy-vs-blood-in-the-streets-fascism" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">permalink</a></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11px;"></span></p><div class="nodebody" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-size: 14px;"><b><i><a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-biggest-contrast-in-the-upcoming" style="color: #0000aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">— from Robert Reich's Substack</a></i></b></p><p style="font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" height="203" src="https://static-cdn.sr.se/images/3304/349da17e-6e3c-4266-b19c-ed876c249fdd.jpg?preset=768x432" style="border: 0px;" width="360" /></p><p style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Excerpt:</b></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">One of my goals in this daily letter to you is to give you the facts and analysis you need to make informed decisions, especially political ones — <em>and</em> equip you to spread the word to others. So here goes on social security.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">During a typically rambling and incoherent interview last week, Trump <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/social-security/mainstream-media-have-no-excuse-keep-falsely-saying-trump-opposes-cuts-social" rel="" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">admitted</a> he would cut Social Security and Medicare if reelected. “There is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements, in terms of cutting and in terms of also the theft and the bad management of entitlements.”</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Trump has tried to walk back the remarks, saying that when he used the word “cutting” he didn’t actually mean “cutting,” and that Social Security has a lot of waste. (In fact, Social Security is well managed, and theft or fraud is <a href="https://www.crfb.org/press-releases/fact-sheet-how-much-waste-fraud-and-abuse-there-social-security" rel="" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">rare</a>.)</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">But there’s no question Trump and his Republican allies want to cut Social Security and Medicare.</span></p></div></div>Copernicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16699554476216140859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301096656497422535.post-73655536717952711632024-03-15T08:08:00.000-07:002024-03-15T11:14:09.065-07:00Gravitational Deflection Of Starlight & Neil Ashby's Marvelous Contribution To Relativistic Dynamics<p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">The
deflection of star light in a gravitational field was first tested during solar
eclipse in 1919, and was actually described in Sir Arthur Eddington’s book in detail</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/droog/Documents/Phil%20Books/Modern%20Physics%20Notes.doc#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">. A rough illustration of the effect is shown
below:</span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFYQ1rNyvOddRmX_diKc_qbdOk3sv8lVfvCDZRLLyKaqnSve46mfP2KIKAc6rh3gehWm8cVLJrDPjAJ1zy9QFw33GXQx_Lts5Ub9pypipGQ14LyjNJFxfaM6f18cvcnbd74TvdBkoNbbMhg1lpFPnA9qsHcn-HhapkQHDb9dd_WjbNQqUaeSscPjTitQ/s405/deflection%20of%20star%20light.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="208" data-original-width="405" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFYQ1rNyvOddRmX_diKc_qbdOk3sv8lVfvCDZRLLyKaqnSve46mfP2KIKAc6rh3gehWm8cVLJrDPjAJ1zy9QFw33GXQx_Lts5Ub9pypipGQ14LyjNJFxfaM6f18cvcnbd74TvdBkoNbbMhg1lpFPnA9qsHcn-HhapkQHDb9dd_WjbNQqUaeSscPjTitQ/s320/deflection%20of%20star%20light.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><p></p>
<p style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Deflection of star light as predicted by
General Relativity</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In the above diagram the light from the star at actual position S2 is seen to deflect by
some angle </span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt;">a</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">, thereby
altering the image position to that seen at S1. This is a direct result of the
effect of the gravitational field of the Sun on the light rays. The true
direction is thus alone the ray ES2 while the deflected position is along the
ray ES1. </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Theoretically and quantitatively, one can obtain an estimate of the magnitude of deflection by incorporating another
parameter – call it <b>b</b> – as shown in
the diagram below:</span> </p><p style="background: white; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0HgdBu47jrWteQMM8TjbeN1viqBfRKvCnrpjGrw32l_qw7iqlgS25oxvZneSUvb6gQ3JO380BrvveQTEX2B5EUhjJMyt3zRU4vzM1_XY-t6UrmXbTnx8h8RF4GWz7MaEUenXD5GgWpjCo88sgDlpcyUVLfo0bTfR3HWrGZGxLoF0KfIPDpS1N3eAm4w/s411/Deflection%20-%20linear.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="199" data-original-width="411" height="155" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0HgdBu47jrWteQMM8TjbeN1viqBfRKvCnrpjGrw32l_qw7iqlgS25oxvZneSUvb6gQ3JO380BrvveQTEX2B5EUhjJMyt3zRU4vzM1_XY-t6UrmXbTnx8h8RF4GWz7MaEUenXD5GgWpjCo88sgDlpcyUVLfo0bTfR3HWrGZGxLoF0KfIPDpS1N3eAm4w/s320/Deflection%20-%20linear.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>
<p style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span>Determining the linear deflection (impact) parameter, b.</b></span><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Then we
obtain for the deflection angle, </span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt;">a</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">:</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt;">a</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> = - 4 GM/ b or (in cgs units): </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-left: 45pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 45.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">a<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">= - 4 GM/ b c<sup>2</sup> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Einstein, in
his own paper: ‘<i>On the Influence of Gravitation on the Propagation of Light</i>’,
gives the result as:</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt;">a</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> = 2k M/ c<sup>2 </sup></span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt;">D</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background: white; margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Diagram for
Einstein’s derivation of </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Symbol;">a (q)</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">.</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Here k = G, the gravitational constant and </span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt;">D</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> = the
distance of the ray from the center of the body. It is obtained from the
diagram of Fig. 12.</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Einstein used the cosine of the angle and integrated from the
negative angle </span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt;">q</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> = - </span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt;">p</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">/ 2 to </span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt;">q</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> = </span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt;">p</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">/ 2:</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="font-size: medium;">a</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> = 1/ c</span><sup><span style="font-size: medium;">2</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">
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</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18.6667px;">Enter now Neil Ashby who, in a world class presentation in May, 2008, presented an update based on second order corrections to gravitational deflection for a massive body. </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglDyITGSXKBWHIseVfhfp8_p_AH2N7wfBLZkXtOt63t2SHTF0shRiikAd8nSMeWgOywaaW7cexbODKqgbT2Iv2wrHiT72_Fp6XXlPwwuJCeP7Hk4BUX_-RGThfgXMEjs3qReZVoxIAPIkIy21TxT1zONeXyU1Ougo26ny3EboRaJSx56Gip2quRjlFcQ/s1044/Ashby%20Summary%20DA%202008.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="496" data-original-width="1044" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglDyITGSXKBWHIseVfhfp8_p_AH2N7wfBLZkXtOt63t2SHTF0shRiikAd8nSMeWgOywaaW7cexbODKqgbT2Iv2wrHiT72_Fp6XXlPwwuJCeP7Hk4BUX_-RGThfgXMEjs3qReZVoxIAPIkIy21TxT1zONeXyU1Ougo26ny3EboRaJSx56Gip2quRjlFcQ/w558-h264/Ashby%20Summary%20DA%202008.jpg" width="558" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18.6667px;">This was for </span></span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">the 39th Meeting of the Dynamical Astronomy Division of the American Astronomical Society. The summary points of Ashby's paper (<i>Second-order Corrections to Time Delay and Deflection of Light Passing Near a Massive Object</i>) are given below from my notes- and handouts:</span></span><div><span><div style="border-bottom: double windowtext 2.25pt; border: none; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 0in 0in 1pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: double windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">i)The key initial quantity is the total
elongation angle: </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">f </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">(b, r</span><b><sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">B</span></sub></b><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> , r</span><b><sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">A </span></sub></b><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">)</span><b><sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></sub></b><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> = </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">f </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">( r</span><b><sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">A </span></sub></b><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> , b) + </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">f </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">( r</span><b><sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">B </span></sub></b><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> , b) referenced to the diagram shown below (see element (ix) below):</span></p>
</div></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP3iF-vfqdArWdxvzHsIueUIL2hy_Ug4jYR6LT_Ep2_SMjyab7pmsV9MEz7Tyjs5nCpVyLsUumeBa3-Q0yaHLi2GsxPaAqRWRYpZP5g6NgfpkB85gWjWB8uhEzjwIyoejkDi0IeoOMA_oVZve6uRGKQ95cy8DOcee3P9lbOA4MNwNcnuacllrgSCyoPg/s679/Ashby%20Grav%20deflection%20diagrams.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="679" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP3iF-vfqdArWdxvzHsIueUIL2hy_Ug4jYR6LT_Ep2_SMjyab7pmsV9MEz7Tyjs5nCpVyLsUumeBa3-Q0yaHLi2GsxPaAqRWRYpZP5g6NgfpkB85gWjWB8uhEzjwIyoejkDi0IeoOMA_oVZve6uRGKQ95cy8DOcee3P9lbOA4MNwNcnuacllrgSCyoPg/s320/Ashby%20Grav%20deflection%20diagrams.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><p><b>Neil Ashby's dynamical diagram (May, 2008 paper)</b></p><p><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">ii)The parameters</span><span style="font-family: CMR9; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="font-family: CMMI9; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-font-family: CMR9;">γ</span><span style="font-family: CMR9; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">, </span><span style="font-family: CMMI9; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-font-family: CMR9;">β</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">and
</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">e</span><span style="font-family: CMR9; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">are equal to 1 in
general relativity ( </span><span style="font-family: CMMI9; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">γ</span><span style="font-family: CMR9; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">+ </span><span style="font-family: CMMI9; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">β</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">+ </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">e</span><span style="font-family: CMR9; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">= 1</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">iii) Cassini’s 2002 experiment, in which the PPN (</span><span style="background: white; color: #4d5156; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;">parameterized post-Newtonian formalism)</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;"> parameter </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9;">γ </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">was measured with an
accuracy (standard deviation) </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9;">σ</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI6;">γ</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI6;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">= 2</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">3
</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMSY9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMSY9;">× </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">10</span><sup><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">-5</span></span></sup><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR6;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">and was found consistent with the prediction </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">γ </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">=
1 of general relativity</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">iv)</span> L<span style="font-size: 14pt;">ight propagation in a static spacetime is equivalent to a problem in ordinary geometrical optics: Fermat’s action functional at its minimum is just the light-time between the two end points A and B. See e.g. Ashby Fig. 2 below and:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;"><a href="https://brane-space.blogspot.com/2021/10/proving-fermats-principle-of-least-time.html">Proving Fermat's Principle Of Least Time For Reflection At A Plane Surface</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivJGaH3yA4Vp9lgxP-w2FoRpNCosMvG3hzbGj4471jaZYSuwTNWi9rGU9Cl96i357IkUD35p5Bsydhs4E9NBgLRmFfUt9gTZWEX1xCFQuJBx6WyJnaYY_jBBvZ_JUEDu-huQMWvoJ25t7kySJsSSQ_h3aGHsxP68rNFy3oFGrgN7rrNzAaOkVqF0eQMA/s320/aSHBY%20DIGRAM%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="221" data-original-width="320" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivJGaH3yA4Vp9lgxP-w2FoRpNCosMvG3hzbGj4471jaZYSuwTNWi9rGU9Cl96i357IkUD35p5Bsydhs4E9NBgLRmFfUt9gTZWEX1xCFQuJBx6WyJnaYY_jBBvZ_JUEDu-huQMWvoJ25t7kySJsSSQ_h3aGHsxP68rNFy3oFGrgN7rrNzAaOkVqF0eQMA/s1600/aSHBY%20DIGRAM%202.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">v) For the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">case considered (Fig. 2) the best mathematical tool to deal with electromagnetic propagation is not null geodesics, but</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the theory of eikonal</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">. It is known that in this problem <i>Fermat’s Principle h</i>olds, corresponding to the refractive index:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9;">N</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">(</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9;">r</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">) =</span><b><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt;"> Ö</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9;">B</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">(</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9;">r</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">) /</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9;">A</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">(</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9;">r</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">The eikonal was developed </span><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMTI9;">ab initio </span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;"> and solved for by separation of variables. </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">The radial part provides Fermat’s action as a radial integral </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">containing </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9;">N</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">(</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9;">r</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">) a</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">nd the parameter </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9;">h</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">; when computed at the true </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">value </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR6;">true</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">, such action is just the required light-time. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">The solution can </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">be obtained recursively, using appropriate expansions in powers of </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9;">m ( </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">b</span><sub><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;">o</span></sub><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> is the Euclidean distance of the straight line AB - in Fig. 1- from the mass):</span></p><div style="border-bottom: double windowtext 2.25pt; border: none; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 0in 0in 1pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: double windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">b = </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">b</span><sub><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;">o</span></sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;"> + m (</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">b</span><sub><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"> 1</span></sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;"> / </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">b</span><sub><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;">o</span></sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">) + m</span><sup><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">2 </span></sup><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">b <sup>2</sup></span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #333333; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;"> / </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">b</span><sub><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;">o</span></sub><sup><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">2</span></sup></p></div><p><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">vi) In the framework of metric theories of gravity
and the PPN (</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">(</span><span style="background: white; color: #4d5156; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">parameterized
post-Newtonian) </span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">formalism, the main violations of general relativity – those linear
in the masses – are described by the single dimensionless parameter γ. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The
question is at what level and how general relativity is violated, in particular
<i>how much</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">γ</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">differs <i>from unity</i>. (Ashby brilliantly answered this in his paper.)</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">vii) To date the best measure of </span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">γ</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> has been obtained in Cassini's experiment:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">γ - 1 = (2.1 <u>+</u> 2.3) x </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 22.8267px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: large;">10 </span><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #222222;">-</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2px;">5</span></span></span></sup></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">The Orbit Determination Program (ODP) of NASA’s Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, which was used in the data analysis, is based on an expression for
the gravitational delay </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt;">D</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9;"> t </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">which
differs from the standard formula; this difference is <i>of second order in powers
of </i></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9;"><i>m </i></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;"><i>and the gravitational
radius ( </i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">R</span><span style="font-family: CMSY6; font-size: 10pt;">⊙</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> ) of the Sun i.e.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9;">m (m/</span><span style="font-family: CMMI9; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-hansi-font-family: CMR9;"> </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;">b</span><sub><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;">o</span></sub><span style="font-family: CMMI9; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-hansi-font-family: CMR9;">) </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">= </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9;">m (m /R</span><span style="font-family: CMSY6;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">⊙</span></span><span style="font-family: CMSY6; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMSY6; mso-hansi-font-family: CMR9;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9;">) (R</span><span style="font-family: CMSY6;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">⊙</span></span><span style="font-family: CMMI9; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-hansi-font-family: CMR9;">/ </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;">b</span><sub><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;">o</span></sub><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9;">)</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">= 0</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">3</span><span style="font-family: CMMI9; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-hansi-font-family: CMR9;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9;">(R</span><span style="font-family: CMSY6;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">⊙</span></span><span style="font-family: CMMI9; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-hansi-font-family: CMR9;"> / </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;">b</span><sub><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;">o</span></sub><span style="font-family: CMMI9; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-hansi-font-family: CMR9;"> ) </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">cm</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9;">,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">But in Cassini’s case it was much larger than the expected
order of magnitude </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;">m</span><sup><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;">2</span></sup><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9;">/b</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">, where </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9;">b </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">is the distance of
closest approach of the ray.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;"> vii) </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">For a typical velocity </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">10<sup>-4</sup></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">c </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">the correction is of order:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">20 </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: CMSY9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMSY9;">× </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">1</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">4 </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: CMSY9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMSY9;">× </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">10</span><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;"> 5</span></sup></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: CMSY9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMSY9;">× </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">10</span><sup><span style="font-size: small;">-4</span></sup></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">= 300 cm, and the </span><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: CMTI9;">a
priori </span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">accuracy in </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">D</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9;"> t </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">is</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">sufficient.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;"> viii) </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It should also be noted that the spacetime
coordinates of the end </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">events are not directly provided in the experimental
setup and depend on </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the gravitational delay</span><span style="font-family: CMR9; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt;">D</span><span style="font-family: CMMI9; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: CMMI9; font-size: 14pt;">t</span><span style="font-family: CMR9; font-size: 14pt;">, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">the very quantity
one sets out to measure. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">trajectories </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">r</span><b><sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10pt;">A</span></sub></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> (</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">t</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">)
and </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">r</span><b><sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10pt;">B</span></sub></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">(</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">t</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">)
are given by the numerical code; the starting </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">time </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">t</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><b><sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10pt;">A</span></sub></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">is just a label of the
ray, but the arrival time:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">t</span><b><sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10pt;">B</span></sub></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> > </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">t</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><b><sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10pt;">A</span></sub></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">+
</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">r</span><b><sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10pt;">AB</span></sub></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">The way out is to take for the end point:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;"> </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;">r</span><b><sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10pt;">B</span></sub></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;"> (</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;">r</span><b><sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10pt;">B</span></sub></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI5;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">)
= </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;">r</span><b><sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10pt;">B</span></sub></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI5;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">(</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9;">t</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><b><sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10pt;">A</span></sub></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI5;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">+
</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;">r</span><b><sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10pt;">AB</span></sub></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">)
+ </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt;">D</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9;"> t </span><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMBX9;">u</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">
</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI5;">B</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">(</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9;">t</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><b><sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10pt;">A</span></sub></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI5;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">+ </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;">r</span><b><sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10pt;">AB</span></sub></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">)</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9;">,</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">(where </span><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMBX9;">u</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI5;">B</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI5;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMR9;">= </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9;">d</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMBX9;">r</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI5;">B</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9;">/dt) </span></p><div style="border-bottom: double windowtext 2.25pt; border: none; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 0in 0in 1pt;">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: double windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in;"><sup><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> ix) </o:p></span></sup><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">b</span><sub><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;">o </span></sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">= </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">r</span><b><sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">A</span></sub></b><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><b><sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></sub></b><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">r</span><b><sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">B</span></sub></b><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> sin </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Symbol; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">f</span></span><b><sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10pt;">AB </span></sub></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">/ </span><b><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Ö (</span></b><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> r</span><sub><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;"> A</span></sub><sup><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">2 </span></sup><b><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> + </span></b><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">r
</span><sub><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;">B </span></sub><sup><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">2 </span></sup><b><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> - 2 </span></b><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">r</span><b><sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px;">A</span></sub></b><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;"> </span><b><sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px;"> </span></sub></b><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">r</span><b><sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px;">B</span></sub></b><b><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> cos </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Symbol; line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-size: large;">f</span></span><b><sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10pt;">AB</span></sub></b><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">) </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: double windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: double windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: double windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; text-align: justify;">Ashby concluded with this solution using the triangles in Fig. 1 above. For reference the mass is at O and the end points (events) at A, B. The distance OH = </span></span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">b</span><sub><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;">o </span></sub><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> and the angles </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="font-size: large;">a</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> are taken to be positive. The internal angle </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Symbol; line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-size: large;">f</span></span><b><sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10pt;">AB</span></sub></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> can be obtuse or acute. When: </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">r</span><b><sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px;">B</span></sub></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> > </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">r</span><b><sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px;">A</span></sub></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> >> </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">b</span><sub><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;">o </span></sub><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> we have a close superior conjunction for which the deflection is large. Asked for estimates of the key parameters from his data Ashby showed: b = 2</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9;">R</span><span style="font-family: CMSY6;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">⊙</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> , </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">r</span><b><sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px;">A</span></sub></b><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> = 1 AU, </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">r</span><b><sub><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px;">B</span></sub></b><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> = 5 AU</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: double windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">Ashby then challenged us to show - using some algebra and trigonometry- that when R = O(</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">b</span><sub><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;">o</span></sub><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> ) order of </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">b</span><sub><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;">o</span></sub><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> the truncation error at order k is </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9;">(m/</span><span style="font-family: CMMI9; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-hansi-font-family: CMR9;"> </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;">b</span><sub><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;">o</span></sub><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">)</span><sub><span style="font-family: CMMI9; font-size: 18.6667px;"> </span></sub><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; line-height: 22.8267px;"><sup><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2px;">k+1</span></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: CMMI9; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-hansi-font-family: CMR9;"> with coefficient of order unity</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">. Finally leading to the condition:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: double windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">mR/ </span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">b</span><sub><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> o</span></sub><sup><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">2</span></sup><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> << 1</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: double windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">The above quantity then gives (by order of magnitude) the ratio between the gravitational deflection ( </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-fareast-font-family: CMMI9;">m/</span><span style="font-family: CMMI9; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: CMMI9; mso-hansi-font-family: CMR9;"> </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;">b</span><sub><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif;">o</span></sub><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"> ) and the angle ( </span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">b</span><sub><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;">o </span></sub><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">/R ) which separates the central mass from the distant star as seen from distance R. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: double windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;">After less than ten minutes all attendees were able to show this and Ashby treated us to his derivation of the Asymmetric Eddington potential, accompanied by a round of applause.</span></p><div style="border-bottom: double windowtext 2.25pt; border: none; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 0in 0in 1pt;">
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Adam Schiff rips Trump Turd Hur yesterday</i></b><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmaY0qluCKyqJJgwalCREewh0IPBMII7JA2qcMMM_RKDbiBjgHSj_2eTuOnkNe14Mg2mu2x84GYveMD6HDMQCR_TRIrLaJojHZHw54B_LgRyr2H1ESh26BsVsl-F9d2rozz4kfp7UcRDlqwiWZQvnatImdSh7M6kca2ZPk5DsFz7JEPqlOtHkU9gud3Q/s345/Hur%20cant%20recall%20words.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="345" data-original-width="328" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmaY0qluCKyqJJgwalCREewh0IPBMII7JA2qcMMM_RKDbiBjgHSj_2eTuOnkNe14Mg2mu2x84GYveMD6HDMQCR_TRIrLaJojHZHw54B_LgRyr2H1ESh26BsVsl-F9d2rozz4kfp7UcRDlqwiWZQvnatImdSh7M6kca2ZPk5DsFz7JEPqlOtHkU9gud3Q/s320/Hur%20cant%20recall%20words.jpg" width="304" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i>Hur can't recall his words in Biden interview so must look them up</i></b></div><br /><p></p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="var(--wpds-fonts-body)">I</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">n one of the toughest exchanges at the hearing so far, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) excoriated former special counsel Robert Hur for issuing a “deeply prejudicial” report that hurt President Biden’s political standing by suggesting his mental faculties were failing. But amusingly Hur's own mental faculties failed under the grilling. </span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" face="var(--wpds-fonts-body)"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" face="var(--wpds-fonts-body)"><span style="font-size: large;">White House aides point to several passages of the special counsel’s report in which it is <i><b>Robert K. Hur</b></i> who has the faulty memory during an interview with President Biden. In one exchange blurting:</span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" face="var(--wpds-fonts-body)"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span face="var(--wpds-fonts-body)"><span style="font-size: large;"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"> “</span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Please correct me if I’m misremembering. I may be misremembering</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">.”</span></span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" face="var(--wpds-fonts-body)"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-size: large;">“You can’t make this up,” <a href="https://x.com/IanSams46/status/1767558624065335333?s=20" style="border-bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">wrote</a> Ian Sams in the White House Counsel’s Office. </span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And this Trump Turd has the fucking nerve to expatiate on Biden's memory? Anyway, Adam Schiff was relentless in exposing Hur's partisan gamesmanship and that he had to know the consequences of his BS report, saying:</span></p></div><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“<span style="color: #800180;">You were not born yesterday; you understood exactly what you were doing. You cannot tell me you’re so naive to think your words would not have created a political firestorm.</span>”</span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><div class="wpds-c-jkoBlc wpds-c-jkoBlc-iMDuFh-css article-body" data-qa="article-body" data-testid="article-body-card" style="background-color: var(--wpds-colors-gray700); border-radius: var(--wpds-radii-050); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--wpds-space-100); padding: var(--wpds-space-200);"><article aria-label="Schiff blasts Hur: ‘You were not born yesterday’" class="wpds-c-PJLV" data-qa="story-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div data-qa="LUF-inline-story" id="link-J3WPPVC6PNDRLEVAUTBEXTPNPY" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="inline-story" data-qa="inline-story" id="link-J3WPPVC6PNDRLEVAUTBEXTPNPY" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="PJLV PJLV-ilnLAbu-css cssOverrides" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Hur weakly responded, “<span style="color: #2b00fe;">What I understood is the regulations,</span>”</span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> Referring to the part of Justice Department policy that says special counsel reports to the attorney general should be confidential. But the last two such reports were released publicly, and Attorney General Merrick Garland had made clear beforehand that he would do his best to release as much of Hur’s report as possible.</span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Schiff met that answer with disbelief and scorn:</span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #800180;">“You must have understood the impact of your words, your own personal, prejudicial, subjective opinion of the president, one you knew would be amplified by his political opponent. You had to understand that, and you did it anyway</span>.”</span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Hur punted on that one using a typical Trumpian misrepresentation shtick:</span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">“Congressman, what you are suggesting is that I shape, sanitize, omit portions of my reasoning …</span>”</span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">But Adam Schiff was having none of it. He was not going to be taken in by this Trumper sleaze bag and his bafflegab:</span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #800180;">“You made a choice. That was a political choice; it was the wrong choice</span>,” </span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Bingo! Almost as terrific as Shiff's slicing and dicing of this rodent was Rep. Eric Swallwell's grilling, including asking the imp if he'd accept a position in a new Trump administration if, god forbid, the traitor managed to get elected again. </span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQyMB_S6pmfFWtLfG6uf7G8YlqOrK_AhAPbYbdDvSIH7xu8z9WMOuRc9SWLEYB9AXXSH89QMAA56_THx8urGjHfTkEmlZMFO6NQPfZwgndd7wnKSope3yY1k2DcPU8722NVLmy5Eh4t6xql_pO_DKkP__Tk3ExrOU58kt-CuHyJmPgBmv21VGMem3Y8A/s438/Smug%20rat%20Hur.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="321" data-original-width="438" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQyMB_S6pmfFWtLfG6uf7G8YlqOrK_AhAPbYbdDvSIH7xu8z9WMOuRc9SWLEYB9AXXSH89QMAA56_THx8urGjHfTkEmlZMFO6NQPfZwgndd7wnKSope3yY1k2DcPU8722NVLmy5Eh4t6xql_pO_DKkP__Tk3ExrOU58kt-CuHyJmPgBmv21VGMem3Y8A/s320/Smug%20rat%20Hur.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><b><i>Citizen Hur amused at pointed question</i></b></span></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Hur found this amusing and dodged giving a straight answer given he couldn't foresee the future or what his own might portend and besides he wasn't there to testify to that. </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Swallwell then dropped the 'bomb' presenting a video clip of Trump's assorted recent verbal mash ups before yielding his time, see e.g.</span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A54O9YMABFQ">SHOCK MOMENT: Swalwell Asks Robert Hur To Pledge 'To Not Accept An Appointment' From Trump Again - YouTube</a></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKrQfUBQmHvcenFJS7KymYol5t-QHqsDR9Dy-hUtDLdj2o7q9kMhWmnq7704og6zQ7BrYQ5ZyjZzd0KUnpQ4QJWcCgCHJ7GlGbiHNxrWUqRpjEWx6j00Cxf3QtgvaleKh_FQmFCOORvJd0-cjSQQiRh0IXhU-ntaIYn850mWvaTMz6WVuZgSxmglHxVg/s1039/Trump%20malmouth.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="1039" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKrQfUBQmHvcenFJS7KymYol5t-QHqsDR9Dy-hUtDLdj2o7q9kMhWmnq7704og6zQ7BrYQ5ZyjZzd0KUnpQ4QJWcCgCHJ7GlGbiHNxrWUqRpjEWx6j00Cxf3QtgvaleKh_FQmFCOORvJd0-cjSQQiRh0IXhU-ntaIYn850mWvaTMz6WVuZgSxmglHxVg/s320/Trump%20malmouth.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <b><i>This is the bafflegab nitwit people are thinking of electing?</i></b><p></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In the end, the House Dems exposed Hur for the hack and Trump tool he is, never mind his effort to dispute it. This Bozo knew damned well the political effect his bogus report would have but released it anyway, including the gratuitous insults about Biden's age and memory. </span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">As former DOJ prosecutor Andre Weissman put it after Hur's fish wrap first came out:</span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="background-color: #fff9ee; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b><i>"You either put up or you shut up. Meaning you either decide you are going to charge or shut up. No one cares about your personal views of the evidence or the people involved</i></b>.</span><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">"</span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="background-color: #fff9ee; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem;"><br /></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="background-color: #fff9ee; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">In other words, Weissmann is saying Hur ran off the DOJ rails into gratuitous, over reaching hack-hood. He interjected personal, partisan views and speculations about Biden which were totally irrelevant to the investigation. He needed to do exactly what the Special counsel did for Mike Pence: deliver a 1-page report exonerating him with no elaborations. As for Hur's disingenuous claim he did not exonerate Biden, that is bull shit. He didn't charge him so as Andrew Weissman noted that was an exoneration, i.e.</span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="background-color: #fff9ee; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="background-color: #fff9ee; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #800180;"> "What you do as a prosecutor is look at intent and knowledge, you look for facts and cooperation. Here you have what is similar to the case of Mike Pence. </span></span><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">There is inadequate proof of any bad intent or knowledge or evidence of obstruction, and you have evidence of cooperation. That is why this case is like Mike Pence's case. And that should be the end of discussion."</span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Weissman then doubling down on this take yesterday ('Deadline White House') telling Nicole Wallace flatly:</span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"It was a mistake to appoint Rob Hur because everyone knew what he was." </span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Adding:</span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"It's not just that he's evil for working in the Trump Justice Department, but that some of the things he did while there tell you about his moral fiber. Namely, you do not make calls on cases based on what a White House wants. That is the road to autocracy."</span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">So Hur's smearing of Biden effected by his "special report" was corrupt from the get go given it was driven by autocratic Trumpian memes. The most outrageous and disgusting aspect of this circus is that while Hur barks his baloney defending his specious report, the major documents criminal - Trump- walks free. This is especially after "<i>Trump Employee 5"</i>) <b><i>Brian Butler</i></b> divulged two days ago how he was ordered by Trump's higher lackey Walt Nauta to cart 10-15 bankers' boxes full of top-secret docs out of Mar-a-Lago. These included documents pertaining to U.S military operations, as well as assets and those of other nations as well. So why isn't the spotlight on this Turd? </span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Well, because a different standard applies to this dirtbag. As Edward Luce writes today (<i>'Democracy Dies In Trumpian Boredom</i>') in <u>The</u> <i><u>Financial Times:</u></i></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: arial;">
“Trump’s candidacy is so far off the charts it is almost paranormal. That is
the essence of his political appeal. It means he is judged by a different
standard to Biden. …..Every time Trump gives a speech, he dispenses a minimum
of several full-blown lies. His untruths merit a shrug; everybody else’s
qualify as a scandal</span>.”</p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Which recall, Trumper criminal podcaster Steve Bannon called “<i>flooding
the zone with shit”</i> in 2018. The theory is that people will be so inundated by Trump outrages (like imitating Biden's sometimes stutter e.g.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hncASorxwP0"><span style="font-size: large;">Trump mocks Biden’s stutter in first rally as presumptive nominee - YouTube</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">they won’t be able to keep up nor will that want to. So they
will give up and become numb. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Thereby Trump wins. At this rate and by November
5<sup>th</sup> <i>“Bannon’s zone of shit will have long since overflowed” i</i>n Luce’s
parlance, and the nation will have been delivered into the paws of an arch-criminal,
traitor and serial rapist.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> Given Brian Butler's new revelations about Trump's deliberate theft of top secret military documents no sensible voter should allow Hur's distraction to sow doubt in this year's general election. Indeed, when one wipes away all the multitudes of distractions and lies there remains only one viable, legitimate choice for president: Joe Biden. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Considering sitting this one out or voting 3rd party? Then you play directly into the Traitor's hands and cede your vote to his MAGA maniacs, some of whom were seen in a video Monday night on Jon Stewart's '<i>Daily Show</i>' e.g.:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxvpFHJ_-2p8UlVOHemg24WISdYPwGb0nj7wb-yLq63YaXcBiNgSLJh9LB_KT4gGZuo9DexivVCahFrnMKMJoczSfP0wkhmiFWGSBDDFj_QccyPEiPkXapm7VHfcMiySRPwDyr7SHVrcd_QAGmHtv0_GhBJlwSivNosHXzhngXksjSXWnHj02oy4egXA/s811/Trumper%20voter.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="811" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxvpFHJ_-2p8UlVOHemg24WISdYPwGb0nj7wb-yLq63YaXcBiNgSLJh9LB_KT4gGZuo9DexivVCahFrnMKMJoczSfP0wkhmiFWGSBDDFj_QccyPEiPkXapm7VHfcMiySRPwDyr7SHVrcd_QAGmHtv0_GhBJlwSivNosHXzhngXksjSXWnHj02oy4egXA/s320/Trumper%20voter.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfYQlDMFoZ42chfukZlhn4hWUornaT-4pHtFrWxl867PqH3GE8Y8kCCMmwAlO5jcR3Jw5vUwMmukN1fIfh-WyRO5F3xjA21-ftaNEUW8rWcchCr2_hPPC5yEK0kXjDHaCZ28umA-Vv32WEuunztaZsrS1YdF9xd70PvliyjITgmXIukcugIO1AC8BJjw/s735/Trumper%20voter%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="607" data-original-width="735" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfYQlDMFoZ42chfukZlhn4hWUornaT-4pHtFrWxl867PqH3GE8Y8kCCMmwAlO5jcR3Jw5vUwMmukN1fIfh-WyRO5F3xjA21-ftaNEUW8rWcchCr2_hPPC5yEK0kXjDHaCZ28umA-Vv32WEuunztaZsrS1YdF9xd70PvliyjITgmXIukcugIO1AC8BJjw/s320/Trumper%20voter%202.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">You really want to see Traitor Trump and his racist MAGA bumpkins rule? No, I didn't think so. You value liberty and democracy over lies and transitory distractions.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><b style="font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">See Also: </span></b></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><b style="font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p></div></div></div></div></article></div><div class="wpds-c-jkoBlc wpds-c-jkoBlc-ifKkbiO-css article-body" style="background-color: var(--wpds-colors-gray700); border-radius: var(--wpds-radii-050); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: var(--wpds-space-100); padding-bottom: 26px; padding-top: var(--wpds-space-175);"><h2 class="wpds-c-iiQaMf wpds-c-iiQaMf-ibYgSwf-css" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-headline); font-weight: var(--wpds-fontWeights-bold); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-110); margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a data-pb-local-content-field="web_headline" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/12/gops-new-biden-attack-is-weakening-their-old-one/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">The GOP’s new Biden attack is weakening their old one</span></a></h2></div><div class="wpds-c-jkoBlc wpds-c-jkoBlc-ifKkbiO-css article-body" style="background-color: var(--wpds-colors-gray700); border-radius: var(--wpds-radii-050); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: var(--wpds-space-100); padding-bottom: 26px; padding-top: var(--wpds-space-175);"><b>And</b>:</div><div class="wpds-c-jkoBlc wpds-c-jkoBlc-ifKkbiO-css article-body" style="background-color: var(--wpds-colors-gray700); border-radius: var(--wpds-radii-050); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: var(--wpds-space-100); padding-bottom: 26px; padding-top: var(--wpds-space-175);"><div class="nodebar" style="background-color: #0000aa; color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/taxonomy/term/2" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Republicans</a></div><div class="nodetitle" style="color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 4px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/maya-boddie/109691/gop-has-mueller-moment-as-robert-hur-quits-doj-and-agrees-to-testify-as-private-citizen" style="color: #660000; text-decoration-line: none;">GOP Has ‘Mueller Moment’ As Robert Hur Quits DOJ and Agrees To Testify As Private Citizen</a></div><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="background-color: #fff9ee; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="nodeby" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; padding-bottom: 3px;">by <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/profile/maya-boddie" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Maya Boddie</a> | March 12, 2024 - 6:06am | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/maya-boddie/109691/gop-has-mueller-moment-as-robert-hur-quits-doj-and-agrees-to-testify-as-private-citizen" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">permalink</a></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 11px;"></span></span></p><div class="nodebody" style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-size: 14px;"><b><i><a href="https://www.alternet.org/gop-mueller-moment/" style="color: #0000aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">— from Alternet</a></i></b></p><p style="font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" height="203" src="https://www.alternet.org/media-library/image.jpg?id=51709583&width=1245&height=700&quality=85&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C107" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px;" width="360" /></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">House Republicans are looking forward to, as of Monday, former Department of Justice special counsel Robert Hur's testimony before the Judiciary Committee Tuesday, March 12 — weeks after the prosecutor decided against charging President Joe Biden over his handling of classified documents.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><a class="rm-stats-tracked" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/robert-hur-trump-special-counsel-b2510944.html" style="color: #993300; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">According to The Independent</a>, Hur will testify "as a private citizen who has surrounded himself with Republican partisans and notorious figures linked to former president <a class="rm-stats-tracked" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/donald-trump" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #993300; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Donald Trump</a>."</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">The Independent exclusively reports "multiple sources familiar with" the special counsel's plans, say that Hur, "at the request of the Republican majority led by Ohio Representative Jim Jordan, has arranged his departure from the Department of Justice to be official as of Monday 11 March, one day before he is scheduled to appear on Capitol Hill."</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">The special counsel's testimony, <a class="rm-stats-tracked" href="https://www.axios.com/2024/03/11/robert-hur-hearing-republicans-mueller" style="color: #993300; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">according to Axios</a>, "gives Republicans their Mueller moment."</span></p></div></div><div class="wpds-c-jkoBlc wpds-c-jkoBlc-ifKkbiO-css article-body" style="background-color: var(--wpds-colors-gray700); border-radius: var(--wpds-radii-050); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: var(--wpds-space-100); padding-bottom: 26px; padding-top: var(--wpds-space-175);"><b>And:</b></div><div class="wpds-c-jkoBlc wpds-c-jkoBlc-ifKkbiO-css article-body" style="background-color: var(--wpds-colors-gray700); border-radius: var(--wpds-radii-050); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: var(--wpds-space-100); padding-bottom: 26px; padding-top: var(--wpds-space-175);"><ul class="posts" style="background-color: #fff9ee; border-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: 1.2; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -15px;"><li style="background: none; border-width: 0px; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0.25em 0px; padding: 0.25em 0px 0.25em 1.3em;"><a href="https://brane-space.blogspot.com/2024/02/joe-punches-back-at-trump-holdover-hurs.html" style="color: #ff1900;"><span style="font-size: large;">Joe Punches Back At Trump Holdover Hur's Partisan Bollocks...</span></a></li></ul></div></div>Copernicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16699554476216140859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301096656497422535.post-71862754911573303812024-03-11T08:05:00.000-07:002024-03-18T20:14:31.504-07:00Pentagon Brigadier General Doubles Down On Whitewash Of UFOs -UAPs But The Facts Are Too Compelling to Bury<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidrLNcQMS5G4Swdkv4yBwnzaKenRL4DK4SLDDpL5Jhi4PsQq7IJOgetIxCkEX05mUl6K8HEl3ZS3gn39XquUEbLHWwJr2ttO4DEAeNwuahpJ6KWt_EyTkqUCLJVQXWTBewGFOHhSA1SSVGgQDu9_l62BKj1hpljXyARuh6Ilbs_h_ruVNdrUSU0yqJKw/s903/Brig%20Gen%20Ryder-UFOs.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="649" data-original-width="903" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidrLNcQMS5G4Swdkv4yBwnzaKenRL4DK4SLDDpL5Jhi4PsQq7IJOgetIxCkEX05mUl6K8HEl3ZS3gn39XquUEbLHWwJr2ttO4DEAeNwuahpJ6KWt_EyTkqUCLJVQXWTBewGFOHhSA1SSVGgQDu9_l62BKj1hpljXyARuh6Ilbs_h_ruVNdrUSU0yqJKw/s320/Brig%20Gen%20Ryder-UFOs.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <b><i>Brig. Gen. Ryder: "No evidence of extraterrestrials"</i></b><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiu8DPohNich4FL-erItnx3tMh_9ydmMFq_9tD6Aq-iubo77KzypebB-faQCBVA0AS7mPClps6fZX6FIdX0deYowhOixPNFCBKGjxth7y45j5mOMumITouLNw2yq0jgshzI-2SO0P64j17LnKKMdvUyX6biRzcuO0QolQwMncj9iR1s8mMNRLtSZfZXxQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="320" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiu8DPohNich4FL-erItnx3tMh_9ydmMFq_9tD6Aq-iubo77KzypebB-faQCBVA0AS7mPClps6fZX6FIdX0deYowhOixPNFCBKGjxth7y45j5mOMumITouLNw2yq0jgshzI-2SO0P64j17LnKKMdvUyX6biRzcuO0QolQwMncj9iR1s8mMNRLtSZfZXxQ" width="320" /></a></div> <b><i>Unknown object captured in video by Navy pilots in 2017</i></b><div><b><i> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrDNKtHm5W_mBBzMiz99AFMNoMK5kwXHuF6YrO4OKBcSKATjjJW20OAId1fpz4b2eOC_SlHXmj87VoPrv6MBA14JK-wrvWt3JgF3e-CZBLASP7a56eIRKO16TLwyO4sB7cJe474SLOe2TnvPo4eaE_RHnUJuwKldw3hCAR_gAt9GkaZbSbrm6m04uCLg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="272" data-original-width="249" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrDNKtHm5W_mBBzMiz99AFMNoMK5kwXHuF6YrO4OKBcSKATjjJW20OAId1fpz4b2eOC_SlHXmj87VoPrv6MBA14JK-wrvWt3JgF3e-CZBLASP7a56eIRKO16TLwyO4sB7cJe474SLOe2TnvPo4eaE_RHnUJuwKldw3hCAR_gAt9GkaZbSbrm6m04uCLg" width="220" /></a></div></i></b><b><i> Jerry : access to Roswell alien bodies at Wright-Patterson </i></b></div><div><b><i> </i></b><b style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjhKVOnGwqHksl6ICEha3NyBcysUw-y_rORzc_Usjmz6OlJHLVW0MG2YzG8_6LN7mzy8AmE-N_UeJS8renLI70D90RZ53CL-PkboGBLAU2oLLu3FeBGJ5U29JSAtpX_AbBsr_HPD6If2vJTT12vmi_pIaJ2uaNkleMDdzDb0bH4FAgifaaP_lUSRg/s400/Roswellheadline2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="297" height="447" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjhKVOnGwqHksl6ICEha3NyBcysUw-y_rORzc_Usjmz6OlJHLVW0MG2YzG8_6LN7mzy8AmE-N_UeJS8renLI70D90RZ53CL-PkboGBLAU2oLLu3FeBGJ5U29JSAtpX_AbBsr_HPD6If2vJTT12vmi_pIaJ2uaNkleMDdzDb0bH4FAgifaaP_lUSRg/w333-h447/Roswellheadline2.jpg" width="333" /></a></b></div><div><b><i>Newspaper story concerning Roswell saucer crash.</i></b></div><div><b><i> <br /></i></b><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.36px;">The Pentagon says it found no evidence of extraterrestrial spacecraft, in a new report reviewing nearly eight decades of UFO sightings. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.36px;">This 63-page, unclassified document published on Friday is the most comprehensive report the Pentagon has produced on the topic, and yet another instance in which it has</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; letter-spacing: 0.36px;"> </span><a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/01/13/1149019140/ufo-report" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5076b8; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">batted down claims</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.36px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.36px;">of alien spaceships. In the forgettable words of this hodge-podge unprofessional effort:</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; letter-spacing: 0.36px;"><b><i>"AARO found no empirical evidence for claims that the USG and private companies
have been reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology. AARO determined, based on all
information provided to date, that claims involving specific people, known locations,
technological tests, and documents allegedly involved in or related to the reverse-engineering
of extraterrestrial technology, are inaccurate. Additional claims will be addressed in Volume
II</i></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.36px;">."</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.36px;">The Pentagon's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) issued</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.36px;"> </span><a href="https://media.defense.gov/2024/Mar/08/2003409233/-1/-1/0/DOPSR-CLEARED-508-COMPLIANT-HRRV1-08-MAR-2024-FINAL.PDF" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5076b8; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">the report</span></b></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; letter-spacing: 0.36px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">,</span></b><span style="font-size: 18px;"> which covers claims of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) — the military's term for UFOs — dating from 1945 through October 2023. The AARO was created in 2022 to identify and resolve reports of UAPs.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.36px;">Towing the 'party line' </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.36px;">Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder</span><span style="color: #04ff00;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.36px;"> </span><a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3700894/statement-by-pentagon-press-secretary-maj-gen-pat-ryder-on-the-historical-recor/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>said in a statement</b></a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.36px;"><b><u> </u></b>Friday:</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.36px;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.36px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">AARO has found no evidence that any U.S. government investigation, academic-sponsored research, or official review panel has confirmed that any sighting of a UAP represented extraterrestrial technology,"</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.36px;">Adding that "a</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.36px;">ll investigative efforts concluded that most sightings were ordinary objects and the result of misidentification. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.36px;">Many of the sightings turned out to be drones, weather balloons, spy planes, satellites, rockets and planets, according to the report.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.36px;">"</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.36px;"><b><i>Which we already know</i></b>. Effectively skirting the recorded sightings and <u>verified reports </u>of trained military pilots, e.g.</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://youtu.be/Ce6ZevfbIK0" rel="nofollow" style="color: #993300; font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700;">https://youtu.be/Ce6ZevfbIK0</a><span style="font-family: georgia, utopia, "palatino linotype", palatino, serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 21.56px;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.36px;"> Which emphatically indicates a technology far in advance of our own, and neither Russian, Chinese or any other nation's on this Earth. </span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 21.3333px;">A fact also established by the Nimitz pilots in their '</span><i style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 21.3333px;">60 Minutes</i><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 21.3333px;">' segment:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 21.3333px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBtMbBPzqHY">Navy pilots describe encounters with UFOs - YouTube</a></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.36px;">Indeed, the craft self-evident in the Navy pilots' video recording discloses we are roughly in the same boat as primitive Neandertals would be trying to grasp an F-117 Nighthawk that somehow ended up 50,000 years in the past, e.g.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKWTVysHsxHpiEaSQCv8HSsQv0lYhv1ShhL0K7nVAXbWYtEllyzHwgsiHgXkMV10gB_kDytx3n1X8bnM7-Is1AhLpFq0Edh8MYKCSV7CfbimgAfAYYgF6xpaezGJnvxM7zNxTlXBWmzBLn7ZSvJQcIMg0QLgOIMZHrmXxv8SLz6Y-mjRYFBen2xBzwdw/s422/F-117-Nighthawk.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="161" data-original-width="422" height="122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKWTVysHsxHpiEaSQCv8HSsQv0lYhv1ShhL0K7nVAXbWYtEllyzHwgsiHgXkMV10gB_kDytx3n1X8bnM7-Is1AhLpFq0Edh8MYKCSV7CfbimgAfAYYgF6xpaezGJnvxM7zNxTlXBWmzBLn7ZSvJQcIMg0QLgOIMZHrmXxv8SLz6Y-mjRYFBen2xBzwdw/s320/F-117-Nighthawk.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.36px;">The Neandertal would be unable to make any sense of such a craft and to preserve his sanity, might well just dismiss it or try to explain it away. Which is essentially what our military and governmental "brain trust'' has been doing for over 75 years.</span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.36px;">Predictably, this latest whitewash</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.36px;"> dismisses some of the most explosive claims made in a July </span><a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/07/27/1190390376/ufo-hearing-non-human-biologics-uaps" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5076b8; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">congressional hearing</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.36px;">, in which former military officials claimed the government is concealing from the public what it knows about UFOs. In one account, a former Air Force intelligence officer alleged the government has long operated a covert program in which it has reverse-engineered recovered UFO vessels. See e.g.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.36px;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; letter-spacing: 0.36px;"> </span><a href="https://brane-space.blogspot.com/2023/07/blockbuster-revelations-at-uap-ufo.html">Military Vets' Testimony At UAP -UFO Hearing Disclose "Non-human" Craft U.S. Is Unable To Counter Or Disable </a></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.36px;">But never mind, in his canned remark Ryder doubled down on denial, saying:</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.36px;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.36px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">To date, AARO has found no verifiable evidence for claims that the U.S. government and private companies have access to or have been reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology,</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.36px;">"</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.36px;">We are also informed the office plans to publish a second volume of the report later this year that covers findings from interviews and research done between November 2023 and April 2024. But don't hold your breath, given the media and factions of academia and the military is bound to the prohibition of admitting any actual alien technology. So this transparent 'song and dance' must be continued in what my late brother Jerry once called "planned ambiguity" to keep the hoi polloi in a state of prolonged "<i>I dunno</i>." This conforms to the paper put forward in 2008 in the journal <i><u>Political Theory</u></i>:</span></p><p><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwip36CWgc_iAhVDL6wKHX2YCcoQFjAAegQIBRAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fjournals.sagepub.com%2Fdoi%2Fabs%2F10.1177%2F0090591708317902&usg=AOvVaw3ijCyNb-s9XiCR03Qrla7D" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #ff1900; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 21.3333px;"><span style="color: #660099;">Sovereignty and the UFO - Alexander Wendt, Raymond Duvall, 2008</span></a></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.36px;">which ought to be required reading for the boys at the Pentagon,</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #333333; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-size: large;">Therein authors Alexander Wendt and Raymond Duvall </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"> note the phenomenon of the UFO as real tends to be rejected by government sources ("USG") because it conflicts with the human concept of state sovereignty. Thus we are to preserve at all costs the delusion that we humans alone are at the top of the cosmic food chain, and no superior civilization has ever dispatched craft to our planet to challenge that presumption. </span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">But if Brig. Gen. Ryder and his Pentagon cohort are serious I invite them to challenge my late brother Jerry (who as an Air Force officer worked at Wright-Patterson AFB). In 1990, Jerry also provided the following FOIA -released memo from Gen. Nathan Twining in the wake of the Roswell and other sightings:</span></p><ul class="posts" style="background-color: #fff9ee; border-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -15px;"><li style="background: none; border-width: 0px; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0.25em 0px; padding: 0.25em 0px 0.25em 1.3em; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt;"> <b> 23 September, 1947</b></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: normal;"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>Concerning Flying Discs</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">To:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Commanding General</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Army Air Forces</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Washington 25, D.C.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">ATTENTION: Brig. Gen. George Schulgen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">AC/AS-2</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">1.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">As requested by AC/AS-2 there is presented below the considered opinion of this Command concerning the so-called ‘Flying Discs’. This opinion is based on interrogation data report data furnished by AC-AS-2 and preliminary studies by personnel of T-2 and Aircraft Laboratory, Engineering Division, T-3. This opinion was arrived at in a conference between personnel from the Air Institute of Technology, Intelligence T-2. Office of Engineering Division, and the Aircraft, Power Plant and Propellor Laboratories of Engineering Division T3.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">2.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">It is the opinion that:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">(a)<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></i><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The phenomenon reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">(b)<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">There are objects probably approximately the shape of a disc, of such appreciable size as to appear to be as large as man-made aircraft.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">(c)<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">There is a possibility that some of the incidents may be caused by natural phenomena, such as meteors.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px;">The reported operating characteristics such as extreme rates of climb, maneuverability (particularly in roll) and action which must be considered evasive when sighted or contacted by friendly aircraft and radar, lend belief to the possibility that <i>some of the objects are controlled either manually, automatically or remotely</i></span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px;"><i>(d) The apparent description </i>of the objects is as follows: </span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px;">(1) Metallic or light reflecting surface</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px;">(2)Absence of trail except in a few instances when object was operating under high performance conditions</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px;">(3) Circular or elliptical in shape, flat on bottom and domed on top.</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px;">(4) Several reports of well-kept formation flights varying from three to nine objects.</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px;">(5) Normally, no associated sound except in three instances a substantial rumbling roar was noted.</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">On citing and showing this document to me in 1990, Jerry declared it revealed Gen. Twining's sheer audacity, in dispatching it to Brig. Gen. Schulgen. It also reflected the pervasive urgency in the military </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">within 2 1/2 months of the Roswell crash. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Jerry </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">was adamant in asserting the Twining memo itself lay the foundation for </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Project Sign</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> and its principal conclusion that the discs (sighted in 1947-48) were indeed real and likely of extraterrestrial origin. (In the report released by AARO, see link above, we read this on page 14 under 'Project Sign':</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #222222;">"</span><span style="color: #800180;">Project SIGN determined that nearly all were caused by either
misinterpretation of known objects, hysteria, hallucination, or hoax. It also
recommended continued military intelligence control over the investigation of
all sightings.<b> It did not rule out the possibility of extraterrestrial
phenomena.”</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This is important and conforms with the substance of the Twining memo.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Sign, of course, was followed by </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Project Grudge</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> which determined the flying discs had to be rendered nonsense, the province of fools, wackos and dodos. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But 'Grudge' was used as a cynical cover. It actually</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> provided the excuse to mount a decades- long campaign of disinformation "</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #800180;">to protect the bunch that wanted to re-engineer the discs for weapons</span></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">" in Jerry's blunt parlance. In other words, the military personnel who testified in a congressional hearing last summer were spot on. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Ret. Maj. David Grusch, for example, said he was asked in 2019
by <a href="https://apnews.com/article/technology-government-and-politics-f5f24502d97072fd4bef34b6fe36c81d" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #993300;">the head of a government task
force on UAPs</span></b></a> to identify all highly classified programs
relating to the task force’s mission. At the time, Grusch was detailed to the
<b>National Reconnaissance Office</b>, the agency that operates U.S. spy satellites.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Grusch added in his July testimony:</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">I was informed in the
course of my official duties of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse
engineering program to which I was denied access</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">,” </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Crash retrieval? Let's recall what my (now deceased) Air Force brother
Jerry had said transpired in the wake of the Roswell crash:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">"</span><b><i><span style="color: #800180; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The military powers that be scarfed up
those bodies and the debris within hours and had them shipped off to Wright
Patterson Army Airfield near Dayton Ohio</span></i></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">."</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Jerry’s bottom line
take: there <i><b>was</b></i> a Roswell crash in 1947, but the debris (and four bodies) were
conveyed to then Wright -Patterson Army Airfield, not to Area 51 as the current
mythos claims. One of the bodies was "badly dismembered" in a
botched initial autopsy attempt while three others remained intact and were
preserved. Again, in Wright -Patterson's <b><i>Blue Room</i></b>. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Jerry quickly added that
the Air Force's disinformationists have included in their targets the
name '<i>Blue Room</i>' itself - dismissed as "urban myth". But
the official designation of record for Blue Room operations,
is <b>NASIC</b> - <i>National Air and Space Intelligence
Center </i>and "</span><b><i><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">it's as real as a heart attack</span></i></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">." </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">He was adamant that the
assorted rooms: Hangar 5 (<i><u>not</u></i> Hangar 18), which later became
the Bldg. 18 complex - included Bldgs. 18A, 18B, 18C, 18D, 18E, 18F, 18G
- the next to last with 4 cold rooms where the corpses of EBEs were
stored. The complex was formally operated under <b>NASIC</b>
(formerly <i>Foreign Technology Division</i> or FTD) and basically it
had oversight concerning disposal and storage of craft wreckage, EBE bodies and
artifacts.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Back to the congressional hearing on UAP last summer:</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Asked specifically to
elaborate on any "non-human spacecraft" or artifacts recovered, Ret. Major Grusch responded he could not discuss such crash debris in open session.
(A <b>SCIF</b> or <i>special compartmentalized intelligence
facility</i> was required for congress to access sensitive
materials.) </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">He was not "cagey"
about it at all, merely providing the conditions under which the hardest
evidence - including 4k imagery - could be divulged without him being imprisoned.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">As
for the (1947) Roswell “craft mixed up with a balloon” bollocks Ryder trotted
out again, that was already skewered at the time. This was by physicist C.B. Moore of
the <i>New Mexico Institute of Science and Technology, </i>an<i> </i>expert on observational balloon technology. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">According to Prof. Moore, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">"</span><span style="color: #800180; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">There were no such balloons in use
back then, in 1947. The Skyhook series didn't even come onstream in New Mexico
in 1947</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">." </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> Moore
ought to know as he was part of a high altitude balloon project based out of
White Sands, NM. Adding: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">"No balloon in use
back then could have produced such a large debris field, over such a large area
and torn up the ground as well.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">" </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">This also douses the GAO report issued in 1995 that claimed the original AF weather balloon story was intended to conceal a more serious balloon - designed for military purposes to provide early warning for a nuclear attack. Nope. That one doesn't make the cut either given Prof. Moore noted "no balloon" back then could have produced the large debris field.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">As for the artifact Roger Ramey and his AF
stooges produced in the wake of the Roswell incident - known as a "Project Mogul" balloon - that was in fact known as a
"<i>Rawin target device</i>". And according to Prof.
Moore: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">"</span><span style="color: #800180; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Anyone finding such
flimsy foil and balsa wood material would have difficulty confusing it with
anything out of the ordinary</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">." <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">So why does the Pentagon and AARO continue treating people-citizens as dummies and gullible dopes? Because it serves their purposes if indeed reengineering of alien artifacts is indeed taking place. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt;">In his book, </span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt;"><i>Information Warfare</i></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt;">, author Winn Schwartau described psy-ops as the tactic whereby "</span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt;">false information or misinformation is sown pertaining to a real event in order to deflect attention from it and at the same time destroy or compromise the reputations of any who reported the facts."</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Within 5 hours of the Roswell 'flying saucer' account (see news clipping graphic) the Air Force's decades long information warfare began to stamp out the reality (of a crashed extraterrestrial craft) using disinformation and misinformation. The latest "report" simply continues that tactic. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">If Brig. Gen. Ryder and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> the AARO's </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Sean Kirkpatrick are serious at getting </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">to the bottom of the UFO issue then they will set up a SCIF to enable Ret. Maj. Grusch to elaborate on the re-engineered artifacts. But somehow I doubt they ever will, it's easier to find excuses when the upending of state sovereignty is at stake. . Human sovereignty over our home world must be protected!</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; letter-spacing: 0.36px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">See Also:</span></b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; letter-spacing: 0.36px;"></span></p><ul class="posts" style="background-color: #fff9ee; border-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: 1.2; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -15px;"><li style="background: none; border-width: 0px; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0.25em 0px; padding: 0.25em 0px 0.25em 1.3em; text-indent: -15px;"><a href="https://brane-space.blogspot.com/2017/12/newly-released-pentagon-ufo-files-not.html" style="color: #ff1900;"><span style="font-size: large;">Newly Released Pentagon UFO Files - Not A Laughing Matter...</span></a></li></ul><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; letter-spacing: 0.36px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">And:</span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: #fff9ee; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><a href="https://brane-space.blogspot.com/2021/06/biggest-subtext-takeaway-from-released.html" style="color: #ff1900; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">What The Pentagon Prelim UFO Report Isn't Saying: 'The Aliens Are Here, We Just Don't Want To Admit It."</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #fff9ee; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #fff9ee; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">And:</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #fff9ee; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #fff9ee; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><a href="https://brane-space.blogspot.com/2022/12/what-seti-scientist-seth-shostak-gets.html"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Anthropocentric Parochialism Defines SETI Scientist Seth Shostak's Skepticism Over Aliens & UAP </span></b></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #fff9ee; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #fff9ee; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">And:</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #fff9ee; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><article><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://brane-space.blogspot.com/2022/10/dumb-and-dumber-govt-officialdom-now.html" style="color: #ff1900; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Gov't Whitewashing OF UAP-UFOs Is Still Based On Myth of Human Sovereignty..</span></a></p><p></p><p class="paywall"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="paywall"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18.6667px;"><b><i>And</i></b>:</span></span></p></article><p><span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;"></span></p><article><slot name="related-videos-embed"><span style="font-size: large;"><p style="font-size: 15.4px;"><a href="https://brane-space.blogspot.com/2021/06/physics-today-book-reviewer-kate-dorsch.html" style="background-color: white; color: #993300; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: -15px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Physics Today Book Reviewer Kate Dorsch Is As Clueless About UFOs As Neil DeGrasse Tyson </span></a></p><p style="font-size: 15.4px;"><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And:</b></p><p style="font-size: 15.4px;"><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></b></p><ul class="posts" style="border-width: 0px; line-height: 1.2; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -15px;"><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-width: 0px; font-size: 15.4px; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0.25em 0px; padding: 0.25em 0px 0.25em 1.3em; text-indent: 0px;"><a href="http://brane-space.blogspot.com/2021/08/are-laser-plasma-holographs-created-by.html" style="color: #ff1900; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Are Laser Plasma Holographs Created By "Foreign Adveraries" Really The UFOs Reported By Navy Pilots?</span></a></li></ul></span></slot></article></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #fff9ee; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #fff9ee; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #fff9ee; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><ul class="posts" style="border-width: 0px; font-size: large; line-height: 1.2; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -15px;"><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-width: 0px; font-size: 15.4px; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0.25em 0px; padding: 0.25em 0px 0.25em 1.3em; text-indent: 0px;"><b>And:</b></li><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-width: 0px; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0.25em 0px; padding: 0.25em 0px 0.25em 1.3em; text-indent: 0px;"><b><a href="http://brane-space.blogspot.com/2022/07/holman-jenkins-jr-in-latest-wsj-piece.html" style="color: #ff1900; font-weight: 400;">Holman Jenkins Jr. In Latest WSJ Piece Shows UFO Topics Are Way Beyond His Pay Grade </a></b></li></ul></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #fff9ee; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #fff9ee; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">And:</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #fff9ee; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVP6oQPp8f_ZWQ4ElF0_Gqh9taZC5EzwKRz9-33-iSlKyVUzQhrFcjTwoau_0fCiaKVistzmoab3Vm9kVVN5phf-Re2rNHkViZg3KhXV-IEfqwUjnAx72TP0aZ32jZiT1Q4HGK6o34qQJQcj9b0WbGmUDBc7gGh6wt12km9Tu_GiG0nxG_IGgrUf7DgA/s796/Biden%20Laken%20Riley%20button.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="796" data-original-width="678" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVP6oQPp8f_ZWQ4ElF0_Gqh9taZC5EzwKRz9-33-iSlKyVUzQhrFcjTwoau_0fCiaKVistzmoab3Vm9kVVN5phf-Re2rNHkViZg3KhXV-IEfqwUjnAx72TP0aZ32jZiT1Q4HGK6o34qQJQcj9b0WbGmUDBc7gGh6wt12km9Tu_GiG0nxG_IGgrUf7DgA/w199-h233/Biden%20Laken%20Riley%20button.jpg" width="199" /></a></div> <b><i> Biden punches back at Marjorie Taylor Greene in SOTU</i></b><b><i> </i></b><p></p><p><b><i></i></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9dZy3S6JbFvYxyPaLL04YMGdm6ur02KLxxMcLz6Fe9KYwGgF31bvzwMiVR7AYQsOPVZjZHE8uszpRjpIVH_rFte6-GSEunpHaxNhMPN76XAFSZcP8ClmrTTjDWLswzZ79s67Rmd4Uul_o0-OhGgkEX2eRUWn_svYkSufuE9sOQnG9wkvT2Wq9-SEfFQ/s450/MJT%20at%20SOTU.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">How About Dem Apples</a><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px;">’ speech. … Everybody knows that this was a great speech. And everybody knows that if this is the message going into the next eight months, polls will soon reflect that and this will be a real fight.</span></span><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-size: 20px;">”</span><b><i> Nicole Wallace, MSNBC host</i></b></p><p><b><i> </i></b><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-size: 20px;">“</span><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Joe Biden basically had to show up and not keel over on the dais tonight. And he massively outperformed, objectively. There was some stumbling, there was some coughing, and he’s prone to some kinds of stutter. But he did show energy. He showed the ability to get through a long speech.</span></span><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-size: 20px;">”- Alyssa Farah Griffin, CNN political commentator</span><b><i> </i></b></p><p><b><i> </i></b><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">“I thought that was a remarkable, fiery, powerful, vigorous guy. And I think it gives people a lot of confidence that this guy might be able to go the distance.</span></span><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-size: 20px;">”- Van Jones, </span><b><i> </i></b><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-size: 20px;">CNN political commentator</span><b><i> </i></b><b><i> </i></b></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">“</span><span style="font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="color: #800180;">Not since President Lincoln and the Civil War have freedom and democracy been under assault here at home as they are today. What makes our moment rare is that freedom and democracy are under attack, both at home and overseas, at the very same time</span></span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">.” </span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">With those piercing words in last night's <i>State of the Union </i>speech, President Joe Biden showed he was not about to take any shit - either from the lowbrow Reeps in the House, the Supreme Court's justices that have enabled Trump, or a clueless media that won't let up on the "he's too old" crap. Using a series of fiery 'roundhouses' Biden delivered and showed all Americans with still active brain cells that he is the only choice for the upcoming election if citizens wish to retain a democracy.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">From calling out Trump ("my predecessor") no less than thirteen times, especially for inviting Putin to "do anything he wants" to Ukraine, to shaming the Reeps for slow walking Ukraine military aid, to taking on the Supremes squarely for their Trumpian obeisance, Biden showed he is in it to win it. He did this by blowing to smithereens the Rightist narrative that he's a "doddering, drooling doofus" barely able to put three words together. (Some morons in WSJ comments have even referred to him as a "vegetable". ) Well these imps got the shock of their miserable lives last night.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">With a pugnacious, energetic speech that gave no quarter to the MAGA boneheads, traitors and riff raff, Joe unloaded. Including reminding those gathered of the atrocity that took place in the same Capitol venue on January 6, 2021. </span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">Biden even showed moxie by repeatedly engaging</span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;"> with Republican lawmakers in the House chamber, at times, turning the address into a form of political theater as he taunted his opponents in an effort to spotlight policy disagreements. In each case showing how each Trump- GOP solution was wanting, whether in the economy (GOP again planning massive spending cuts to support tax cuts for the rich), to immigration (refusing to sign the bipartisan border bill), to abortion, trying to hoodwink American women into thinking the Right (and Trump) won't really impose a national abortion ban. </span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">At one point Biden's relentless, spirited thrusts were too much for one ape,</span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBtKt2ZuGZdpdFUO4hM_Ysnn6jtShACDAxn44FmaydkKNUuUhP-geOimpxqA-ko00QYuHB9jv1xLLtu1m2eVsWAGDqjpGEy_HtGx158FwNmlMELHpCz6ztynd3XGm1kOVyVAKXMxykuHAajv_g6cXlKTkEd_5C6pD_d-rGM2drk0MSbNJwPj_AhDT6rQ/s523/Ape%20shouts%20at%20SOTU.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="523" data-original-width="357" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBtKt2ZuGZdpdFUO4hM_Ysnn6jtShACDAxn44FmaydkKNUuUhP-geOimpxqA-ko00QYuHB9jv1xLLtu1m2eVsWAGDqjpGEy_HtGx158FwNmlMELHpCz6ztynd3XGm1kOVyVAKXMxykuHAajv_g6cXlKTkEd_5C6pD_d-rGM2drk0MSbNJwPj_AhDT6rQ/s320/Ape%20shouts%20at%20SOTU.jpg" width="218" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">who screamed and bellowed until he had to be escorted out. The ape was likely deranged and upset that </span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">Biden and his team had so clearly anticipated the Reepo disruptions, and that the president was ready with timely retorts.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">During the address, the MAGA clown Marjorie Taylor Greene also reprised her role from last year as one of Biden’s loudest hecklers. Prior to last night's clowning performance she h</span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">anded Biden a pin with the name of Laken Riley, who was allegedly murdered by an undocumented Venezuelan immigrant last month. </span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;"> </span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">In response, Biden held up the pin and departed from his prepared remarks. He said Riley had been “killed by an illegal,” but added </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">“</i><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;"><i>how many of thousands of people are being killed by legals?</i>” </span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">He offered his condolences to Riley’s parents and then noted the bipartisan border bill would have provided more funds for processing migrants’ asylum claims more quickly. Reducing the time lag from 6 years to 6 months and thence making the desperate migrants' vulnerability to smugglers less likely, especially paying the brigands $8,000 each.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">Biden also reminded young voters why their rights to their own bodies - bodily autonomy - are on the line in this election, saying:</span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">"</span><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">Those bragging about overturning</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;"> Roe v. Wade</i><span style="font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;"> have no clue about the power of women. But they found out when reproductive freedom was on the ballot and we won in 2022, and 2023. And we’ll win again in 2024.”</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">This is given the Trump MAGA GOP is not only after restricting abortion but now planning to go after contraception as well- as pointed out by former Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill the night before last on <u><i>ALL In</i></u>. Would young voters really be so picky about Biden's age or other distracting issues (Gaza, student loans, catering to their 'needs' etc.) that they'd surrender core rights to Trump and his MAGA minions? Highlighting Biden's point, we saw two women seated near the first lady in the center of the ongoing battle: </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Kate Cox, mother of 2 fought a legal battle after being denied
an abortion in Texas despite her health being at risk, and Latorya Beasley –
whose embryo transfer was canceled thanks to the Alabama personhood, anti-IVF ruling.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVTZ8bUDoNq0uVUaosE4N4M3mjOgVsCW5RiSki-LSfgM8A05sy3ZiAFQIL3mfM-8I1TMk2tCRm9N-xazehT8oG7bor99B7grm60QNd-uwc6QPrsJGBK8HrQfFB8N7DWv_SzXar653JV9bAZRCuLM-sLDEJcQclZKpYpT0kv_UjjNjscZgf80XyqQctIg/s729/Biden%20on%20Roe.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="729" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVTZ8bUDoNq0uVUaosE4N4M3mjOgVsCW5RiSki-LSfgM8A05sy3ZiAFQIL3mfM-8I1TMk2tCRm9N-xazehT8oG7bor99B7grm60QNd-uwc6QPrsJGBK8HrQfFB8N7DWv_SzXar653JV9bAZRCuLM-sLDEJcQclZKpYpT0kv_UjjNjscZgf80XyqQctIg/s320/Biden%20on%20Roe.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">As Biden asked: "<span style="color: #2b00fe;">What freedom else would you take away?</span>" </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">B</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">ut what I'd put to any skeptical voters, especially independents and the young is:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">"<span style="color: #800180;">What freedoms would you LET Trump and the GOP take away?</span>"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Because if you allow misgivings about Biden to dictate your choice in November, or worse, a non-choice, you could be looking at a massive retrenchment of rights and not only to do with reproductive health.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Biden's most resounding words near the end e.g.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">“</span><span style="font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="color: #800180;">My lifetime has taught me to embrace freedom and democracy. A future based on the core values that have defined America: honesty, decency, dignity, equality. To respect everyone. To give everyone a fair shot. To give hate no safe harbor</span></span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">were a reminder of what he represents in contrast to the deranged orange cretin who wants to get back into power but still doesn't believe he was defeated the last time. So much so he attempted to overthrow the then elected government with a blatant insurrection,</span></p><p><a href="https://brane-space.blogspot.com/2021/01/why-insurrection-of-january-6th-must.html" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Why The Insurrection Of January 6th Must Not Be Lost In The News Cycle</a></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">I grant it's true- as some pundits noted- that the expiration of the 'too old' meme might be premature. Indeed, might not have the half-life of even one month, especially if Biden can't sustain it in interviews or on the campaign trail. But I believe the secret elixir is in continued pugnacity, and it's clear Biden is into this mode of delivery, especially as he has come to realize the media isn't eliciting enough of it in its anodyne reporting of Trump - the vilest criminal president in American history. </span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">So he needs to go with it and screw all those naysayers - like the stooges (e.g. Brit Hume) at FOX - who insisted he "over-corrected" and was too "amped up". Hey, jokers, I relish amped up when it's called for. And as Financial Times columnist Edward Luce noted, traditional etiquette doesn't go very far in a milieu in which Trump dominates news cycles and crashes norms - yet mainstream media continue to treat him as normal.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">If people, voters, still aren't clear after last night's speech who the obvious choice is for president, then there isn't much more that can be said. One thing for certain: Any remaining delusionals who thought Biden would gracefully step aside for a younger candidate had those fantasies quashed last night. Hopefully, once and for all!</span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;"><b>See Also:</b></span></p><div class="nodebar" style="background-color: #0000aa; color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/topics/the_obama_administration/joe_biden" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Joe Biden</a></div><div class="nodetitle" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 4px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/heather-digby-parton/109665/joe-biden-s-state-of-the-union-shocked-and-delivered" style="color: #660000; text-decoration-line: none;">Joe Biden’s State of the Union Shocked and Delivered</a></div><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;"><span class="nodeby" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; padding-bottom: 3px;">by <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/profile/heather-digby-parton" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Heather Digby Parton</a> | March 9, 2024 - 8:05am | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/heather-digby-parton/109665/joe-biden-s-state-of-the-union-shocked-and-delivered" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">permalink</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"></span></span></p><div class="nodebody" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-size: 14px;"><b><i><a href="https://www.salon.com/2024/03/08/joe-bidens-state-of-the-union-shocked-and-delivered/" style="color: #0000aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">— from Salon</a></i></b></p><p style="font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" height="240" src="https://ic-cdn.flipboard.com/salon.com/36041bfb3e69ad90952003e88f2c65fac55fc061/_xlarge.jpeg" style="border: 0px;" width="360" /></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Excerpt:</span></b></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Everyone was expecting <a href="https://www.salon.com/2024/03/07/bidens-state-of-the-union-speech-is-a-historic-challenge/" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">a historic train wreck of a State of the Union</a> last night and they got it. But it wasn't the one they thought it would be. President Joe Biden's address was powerful and dynamic and no doubt put a lot of timorous Democrats' worries to rest (at least for a day or so.) It was Donald Trump's highly touted response that failed dramatically.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Biden came out swinging and knocked the Republicans so far back on their heels that they had to completely abandon the image of him they've been building since 2020 — a man so old and feeble that he can't even feed himself — and instead hilariously whimper about his loud macho aggression. They whined mightily that Biden was too "political" apparently forgetting that in<a href="https://www.politico.com/interactives/2020/trump-state-of-the-union-2020-live-fact-check-transcript-2-4-20/" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> his last State of the Union speech</a>, Donald Trump bestowed the Medal of Freedom on far-right, hate radio star Rush Limbaugh calling him "a special man, beloved by millions of Americans."</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Biden gave a barn burner of<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/03/07/remarks-of-president-joe-biden-state-of-the-union-address-as-prepared-for-delivery-2/" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> a speech</a> that wasn't boring, which is highly unusual for any president but especially unusual for a president many people have been convinced has one foot in the grave. As it turned out, what actually died last night was Trump's Truth Social media platform. Trump had flamboyantly promised to do a "play-by-play" of Biden's address but the site went down for many people all over the country before Biden even reached the podium, leaving us with only these important insights:</span></p></div><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b>And:</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;"><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/what-the-hell-am-i-watching-republicans-torch-their-own-sotu-rebuttal/ar-BB1jx1SZ?ocid=msedgntp&pc=ACTS&cvid=00cbf59b244a4de181f466e6fc610b44&ei=15">‘What the Hell Am I Watching': Republicans Torch Their Own SOTU Rebuttal (msn.com)</a></span></p><p><b>Excerpt:</b></p><p class="paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The ritual
surrounding the <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/state-of-the-union-2024-biden-trump-1234983383/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">annual State of the Union</span></a> is never
complete until the president's opposition has presented its rebuttal -
occasionally in an <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" href="https://x.com/ddiamond/status/1765962080945889586?s=46" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">embarrassing</span></a> <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" href="https://www.vox.com/2015/6/22/8824553/bobby-jindal-speech" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">manner</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Katie Britt, the junior Republican senator from
Alabama, delivered the GOP's rebuttal to President Joe Biden's address on
Thursday. Her impassioned, breathless speech - delivered at times in an
ASMR-esque whisper from what appeared to be her kitchen - ended up feeling more
like a rejected audition tape for a supporting role on "Grey's
Anatomy" than the hard-hitting political sparring favored by Biden's
Republican critics</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">And:</span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></p><h3 class="promo-title" style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--headline-font),var(--headline-adjust-font),"times new roman",times,serif; letter-spacing: -0.2px; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><a class="link" href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-03-07/takeaways-from-bidens-state-of-the-union-address-combative-attacks-on-a-foe-with-no-name" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; opacity: 0.8; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Takeaways from Biden’s State of the Union address: Combative attacks on a foe with no name</span></a></h3><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">And:</span></b></span></p><h3 class="style--headline--2BxmSWrz" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Escrow Condensed"; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px;"><a class="style--link--1DquuyN1" href="http://api.cxense.com/public/widget/click/X2zAO4KmvBW6nt9JQQg1tlyhOtFDxGKhEUTnxkKMlsEaWc3su6eO9xoiQeWV1ia76iIWOxtFMiBKB662WM42g75FQeBwZ2gFlg_3qvMWdpf5Fmo-PJ7GVR4ZD90zUlW6i63dNoQ5RbTxawhvEpgiWWYWgn-tCKCk-NP7klloumqWCvyv5VJ-KuUuV3tQLqsGm8s7GuLSpcTsDiWHHpzOr_G808mAPXs8z0_5cYdW3-jabNLq0d547CdgL5fKIlE_1qCqmKeudT6s-xhux2c_Albkic1JYIv0Ufl9Zhi-I90l3ke7vPmdvVz518lXXGj-RjQAceLUdnLYo-8ZCjYY7DQR81dvTfs23c3Ip5f3YXJ2rfZPnG3T_WXEte8Kc5vOexkCy7bEaZzOfEh3l57BCs9skgm138XB3UjXk7tj2LaOLFpU3jxkaGReMsXktg2Wa5QnPkmnBamd4gr3_rMkfBnf25s5yG7E626t5zzZY2AAOKrk0ImpEhLP8XANxD4dWpHyx3KA9oS8ZD5ES1EfrPGveSQae_o64oA7_ez-V3crbSdQtQHto3vOeRkq2KNBF7DOrEnteIG3azt9BPhx_k2p2S9nCyCf3EAKpgZlgFW9F79WGDQ39mg7XGoqViNgndp-hh84likjX5KNx-IMtLSl268xzHctC4-EZ05o1n9Wfu9Y8lSYEizw_f33ZGHgvXKmHu7RYcB98d5m6ys_VNM0?mod=hp_opin_pos_2" style="color: #0080c3; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">State of the Union Shows There's Life in the Old Boy Yet</span></a></h3><div><br /></div><div><b style="color: #2a2a2a; 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text-decoration-line: none;">‘Unqualified Twerp’: Experts Mock Mike Johnson’s Constant Pained Expression During SOTU</a></div><span class="nodeby" style="color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; padding-bottom: 3px;">by <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/profile/maya-boddie" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Maya Boddie</a> | March 8, 2024 - 8:05am | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/maya-boddie/109654/unqualified-twerp-experts-mock-mike-johnson-s-constant-pained-expression-during-sotu" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">permalink</a></span><div class="nodebody" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><p style="color: black; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400;"><b><i><a href="https://www.alternet.org/experts-mock-johnson-sotu/" style="color: #0000aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">— from Alternet</a></i></b></p><p style="color: black; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400;"><img alt="" height="203" src="https://www.alternet.org/media-library/image.png?id=51683196&width=1245&height=700&quality=85&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C112" style="border: 0px;" width="360" /></p><p style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">Excerpt:</p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">During President Joe Biden's State of the Union address Thursday night, Republican lawmakers either remained silent or boo'd the president's comments a few times, as several political experts and journalists pointed out that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) managed to remain unmoved while wearing the same "smirk" nearly the entire hour.</span></p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Biden opened his speech calling on lawmakers to back funding for Ukraine in the country's fight against Russian aggression, and the president also directly addressed US Supreme Court justices, warning them that he will continue to ensure reproductive rights for women. He also condemned the January 6 attack on the US Capitol and called for an end to political violence. Still, Johnson stayed seated.</span></p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The speaker, however, did stand and applaud Biden's recognition of the late US Rep. John Lewis' (D-GA), fight for voting rights up until his death in 2020. When the president went on to encourage lawmakers to pass the John R. Lewis Voting RIghts Advancement Act of 2023, the speaker, again, remained seated.</span></p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Guardian reporter Hugo Lowell <a class="rm-stats-tracked" href="https://x.com/hugolowell/status/1765933947249140025?s=20" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">commented</a>, "impressive how speaker johnson has managed to maintain the same pained expression for almost an hour."</span></p></div></div></span></b></div>Copernicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16699554476216140859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301096656497422535.post-33748650499287754432024-03-07T09:24:00.000-08:002024-03-08T06:02:42.591-08:00The Perfect Antidote for Medical Quackery & Anti-Vaccine Claptrap - But For the 'High IQ' Deniers Too? <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw3KIqOwo2xEumDIHnco7T2rou45i1oHUzkSuWx-OU8fz2qjYUzO-g59leCNVB4lRijLV6HDva_bQJBxH7eGbTOMC0O-utLQFl-r4O6hXcVLz8mGzPMVwdOyiuEVVLsslkUolrjucLcKCzTPI5hNoHiDs9MnL99NCWXz4AyZTbBXuEAUPFHKSL7Fk_zw/s791/Denver%20ER%20nurse.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="543" data-original-width="791" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw3KIqOwo2xEumDIHnco7T2rou45i1oHUzkSuWx-OU8fz2qjYUzO-g59leCNVB4lRijLV6HDva_bQJBxH7eGbTOMC0O-utLQFl-r4O6hXcVLz8mGzPMVwdOyiuEVVLsslkUolrjucLcKCzTPI5hNoHiDs9MnL99NCWXz4AyZTbBXuEAUPFHKSL7Fk_zw/s320/Denver%20ER%20nurse.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <b><i> Nurse in Denver blocks anti-vaccine crazies from hospital</i></b><b><i> </i></b><p></p><p><b><i></i></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYk3FOOAL9VNXGdiC4FqLqR0eY-BqoLWZ9QbQpzKhbtPfHLkXiR3YZnB9ylNE5QryHxrM-3o4PjuXG6T2BpyhdIRInlf81TG7VvMwRWi-OCwacWXBiioghGOhrFXxZ9Hyw8soAr_nakUdlpbghrVQcn9lOMbtnlQlc-DgDsLIlxhahIulbDjmKlGvpqg/s313/Joseph-Ladapo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="313" data-original-width="313" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYk3FOOAL9VNXGdiC4FqLqR0eY-BqoLWZ9QbQpzKhbtPfHLkXiR3YZnB9ylNE5QryHxrM-3o4PjuXG6T2BpyhdIRInlf81TG7VvMwRWi-OCwacWXBiioghGOhrFXxZ9Hyw8soAr_nakUdlpbghrVQcn9lOMbtnlQlc-DgDsLIlxhahIulbDjmKlGvpqg/w251-h251/Joseph-Ladapo.jpg" width="251" /></a></i></b></div><b><i> One of top quacks in the nation: Joseph Ladapo</i></b><p></p><p><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p class="Default"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Are
“high IQ” folks as dismissive of vaccines as they are of climate change? It
seems so. An <u><i>Integra</i></u> (January) response
from one David Simmons shocked and gobsmacked Janice. That was in his dismissal of Dr. Anthony Fauci
as:</span></p><p class="Default"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;"> “A smirking, highest paid confirmed liar.”</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">As Janice asked when I showed her the issue and the article (</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 107%;">‘</span><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">P A Stahl’s Leftist
Hoax</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 107%;">’</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">):<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> “<i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Who confirmed it? That
anti-vaxx moron RFK Jr? The guy who claimed his 2008 diagnosis of spasmodic
dysphonia – could be traced to a Covid vaccine injection?</span></i>”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">But as I pointed out to her, this wasn’t surprising given Simmons
also denigrated the text suggestion (</span><b><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #800180; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 107%;">This is Climate Science: A
Visual Guide To The Fact</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">s) I offered in my original article responding
to another climate change denier Alana Sullivan. Simmons dismissed it as “<i>written
by two students</i>”, therefore unworthy of attention far less careful reading.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Failing to note:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">i)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The pair, David Nelles and Christian Serrer, were
actually grad students.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">ii)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Grad students are often published in high profile
venues, as I was with my first two papers in the journal Solar Physics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">iii)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The book received rave reviews in <i>New Scientist</i>,
i.e.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">"<span style="color: #800180; font-family: arial;"><b><i>Explains
climate change with the help of more than 100 scientists, presenting complex
science in a way that everyone will find easy to understand.</i></b></span>”</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">But back to the vaccine issue. Medical quackery in the guise
of disinformation is now running rampant even as we behold outbreaks of measles
and Covid is still hospitalizing 20,000 a week, killing 2,000. In Florida, where top quack Joseph Ladapo reigns as surgeon general the adult Covid booster rate is 7.7% as reported by LA Times columnist Michael Hiltzik. This explains the rash of new cases as well as hospitalizations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Hiltzik has decribed Ladapo as <span style="color: #800180;">“one of the most assiduous dispensers
of anti-vaccine claptrap</span>” and doing so from “<span style="color: #800180;">an official perch, inserted into
the post by Florida governor Ron Desantis</span>”.
Specifically, Hiltzik points to Ladapo’s approach to the Florida measles
outbreak, noting:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">“<span style="color: #800180;">His approach includes downplaying the need for children to be
vaccinated and allowing parents to make their own decisions about sending even
unvaccinated children to schools experiencing an outbreak”. </span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">In other words a policy that is as reckless
and insane as Trump’s advice (in 2020)
that people should drink bleach to avert a Covid 19 infection. No, you can’t
make this shit up, including David Simmons’ nonsense that Dr. Fauci is a “confirmed
liar.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">This has led columnist Hiltzik to now reference what he calls “herd
stupidity” which appears to be taking over millions of brains, especially with
Trump and the Reeps on the rise with disinformation. Connected with this is “<i>Brandolini’s
Law”</i> coined in 2013 by an Italian software engineer named Alberto Brandolini
which ‘cleaned up’ states:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">“<b><i>The amount of energy needed to refute B.S. is an order
of magnitude greater than that needed to produce it.</i></b>”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Which I have found abundantly applies simply to the climate
change denial popping up in the high IQ societies like Mensa and Intertel. Where none of the denizens seems to accept if
they don’t have a grounding in thermal physics then they are spouting B.S. Same
applies to vaccine denial. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">As for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. he is also part of the quack
universe and enterprise. Kennedy alone,
in Hiltzik’s parlance:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> “<span style="color: #800180;">has allowed his dangerous anti-vaccine hogwash to be mainstreamed
into the body politic like an IV drip of strychnine</span>.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Adding:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> “<span style="color: #800180;">His pitch so bristles
with disinformation and pseudo-science that it’s been disavowed by virtually
his entire family”.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #800180;"> </span>That disavowal
includes a pathetic 2013 book that claimed polio was not caused by a
virus. That despite the fact we know the
critical Salk vaccine introduced in the 1950s finally brought the crippling
disease under control. (I still recall taking the oral vaccine in 1956.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The fact is, as Hiltzik showed,Polio had become a massive
threat to public health in the 1940s-50s.
The per capita infection rate in the U.S. alone reached 87.2 per 100,000
in 1952 sending tens of thousands of children to the hospital and killing a
half million people per year worldwide. Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine underwent a
massive trial involving 1.6 million children and was licensed in 1955. Salk
became an international hero for refusing to patent the vaccine or profiting
from its distribution. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">By 1960 the cases had declined to 2,525 in the U.S. with
only 230 deaths. In our modern era polio has almost disappeared thanks to the
vaccine. The same success applies to the
subduing of measles with cases decreasing from 763,000 in 1958 to 22,231 cases
in 1968 a few years after the vaccine became available. So vaccines DO work, we
have the proof!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The question remains how do we deal with the herd stupidity,
including amongst the high IQ cognoscenti, related to vaccine disinformation.
The best antidote as Hiltzik notes may be this downloadable book:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"> </span><a href="https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/sites/default/files/2024-02/24-02-14-cdc-misinfo-playbook_0.pdf">Practical playbook for addressing health misinformation (centerforhealthsecurity.org)</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">This 65 page easy read “amounts to a road map for identifying misinformation
and disinformation” in the words of Michael Hiltzik. Also, for applying the
best strategies for counteracting this mind virus before it spreads. That means
“pre-bunking” false information before it spreads, as well as highlighting the
motivations of the anti-science propagandists. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>See Also:</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://brane-space.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-inteliigent-irrationalists-why-so.html" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #ff1900; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">The Intelligent Irrationalists: Why So Many High IQ Folks Deny Sound Science </span></a></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><b><i> And:</i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/spotlight/history-of-vaccination/history-of-polio-vaccination"><span style="font-size: large;">History of polio vaccination (who.int)</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px;"><i> And:</i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px;"></b></p><ul class="posts" style="background-color: #fff9ee; border-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: 1.2; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -15px;"><li style="background: none; border-width: 0px; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0.25em 0px; padding: 0.25em 0px 0.25em 1.3em;"><a href="https://brane-space.blogspot.com/2022/01/rfk-jr-turns-full-on-crackpot-after.html" style="color: #ff1900;"><span style="font-size: large;">RFK Jr. Turns Crackpot After Spewing Anti-VAXX Nazi Tripe...</span></a></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px;"><i>And:</i></b></p><ul class="posts" style="background-color: #fff9ee; border-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: 1.2; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -15px;"><li style="background: none; border-width: 0px; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0.25em 0px; padding: 0.25em 0px 0.25em 1.3em; text-indent: 0px;"><a href="http://brane-space.blogspot.com/2021/11/aaron-rodgers-proves-hes-no-critical.html" style="color: #ff1900;"><span style="font-size: large;">Aaron Rodgers Proves He's No "Critical Thinker" - ...</span></a></li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div> <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Copernicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16699554476216140859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301096656497422535.post-46251107142137423662024-03-05T05:26:00.000-08:002024-03-07T06:43:43.394-08:00Trump- & GOP "Better For Economy" ? This Delusion Is Belied By The Facts<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="css-k3zb6l-paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><i><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></i></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #2b00fe; font-size: 13pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhftbMcZHxFS0gDIt-_jfo5WLjtCng3G9ItKxOrORdVGdPR_aZaLTBB2hYdUdeEgF4zUmXSHhWyhR_PLzcyO0FE1r4w67XWwWUSx4jfVYALbzLfbF1xvrGOXljoNdDUHuMOoxF4nOngcpKUY4Artg-8YLwgotKadEzBu7NlccSgOzJ33M4X-iSZn3xQA/s275/Trump%20rattus.bmp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhftbMcZHxFS0gDIt-_jfo5WLjtCng3G9ItKxOrORdVGdPR_aZaLTBB2hYdUdeEgF4zUmXSHhWyhR_PLzcyO0FE1r4w67XWwWUSx4jfVYALbzLfbF1xvrGOXljoNdDUHuMOoxF4nOngcpKUY4Artg-8YLwgotKadEzBu7NlccSgOzJ33M4X-iSZn3xQA/s1600/Trump%20rattus.bmp" width="275" /></a></i></b></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><i><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13pt;">"</span>Ha! This time I gonna crash the economy for good!"</i></b></span><p></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><b><i></i></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><b><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnZGqojj8S9PFAoY4bzhwQRv4CD6lIKVu6sF1a9X3FQKXtPRr5RdDnSNTS4rf7eRsoz9GT9Ci83bUceXmS-XR5YqK2GocIiMOEihRUgeDEfpXwU5Z5bC1OQ8cSDmq_xDvbm_hbqQNU2PG3nyfwZp3aPdWFmjkEOVY7zP6uznsdD_uAZjGa__n8oyBaSg/s320/Stocklosses.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="214" data-original-width="320" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnZGqojj8S9PFAoY4bzhwQRv4CD6lIKVu6sF1a9X3FQKXtPRr5RdDnSNTS4rf7eRsoz9GT9Ci83bUceXmS-XR5YqK2GocIiMOEihRUgeDEfpXwU5Z5bC1OQ8cSDmq_xDvbm_hbqQNU2PG3nyfwZp3aPdWFmjkEOVY7zP6uznsdD_uAZjGa__n8oyBaSg/s1600/Stocklosses.jpg" width="320" /></a></i></b></span></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span><p></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><b><i>"A quarter or less of Americans think the country is
moving in the right direction, and they think Mr. Biden’s Presidency has done
more harm than good. They think Mr. Biden is too old to be President, and they
view Mr. Trump’s Presidency far more favorably than they do Mr. Biden’s.</i></b></span></span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><b><i>Most important, Mr. Biden is viewed
even more unfavorably than Mr. Trump in the polls (59% to 57% unfavorable in
the Fox survey, which is Mr. Biden’s best showing). Even worse for Biden, 68 percent say Trump was better on the economy</i></b></span></span><span color="var(--primary-text-color)" face=""var(--article-font-family)", serif" style="font-size: 13pt; font-weight: var(--article-font-weight);">." -WSJ, Panic Time for Democrats, 3/4</span></p></div><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">A persistent glitch in the brains of too many 2024 voters is that Trump
and the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.5in;">Republicans would be better at the economy than Biden and the Dems. Of
course, this is arrant poppycock. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.5in;">One
need not be a Mensa member to see that House members (mainly Freedom Caucus) have been poised for months now to push the
nation off a fiscal cliff with a government shutdown. Only by some small saving grace has the shutdown been delayed as it was last week. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Congress approved a temporary spending bill to prevent a partial
government shutdown this weekend, with Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) forced
once again to turn to a coalition made up mostly of Democrats to clear it in
the House, followed by passage in the Senate. </span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Now, ask yourselves: Why mostly Democrats? Well, because Dems have the nation's welfare at heart and unlike House Reeps are not into brinksmanship with our whole economy put at risk. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.5in;"> Not just with repeated threats of shutdowns but refusals to raise the debt ceiling (credit defaults) as well. Both often for the same deranged reasons: abominable and savage spending cuts that would leave millions adrift and federal workers and pensioners especially. Financial Times columnist Edward Luce already explained (last October) how an ill-timed game of financial 'chicken' could wreck what was still then a recovering economy, e.g.</span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.5in;"><a href="https://brane-space.blogspot.com/2022/11/ft-columnist-edward-luce-predicts-worst.html">FT Columnist Edward Luce Predicts 'Only Real Damage' GOP Could Do: "Send Stock Market Crashing" - Or Worse </a></span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;">To refresh readers' memories, in 2011, Standard &
Poor’s <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424053111903454504576491043656840536?mod=article_inline" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">stripped the U.S. of its triple-A credit rating</span></a> for the
first time after the Treasury came within days of being unable to pay certain
benefits. In other words, a credit downgrade merely for coming close to
default. Now imagine what an actual default at the hands of Republican
terrorists would do.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white;">
</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238);"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;">A U.S. default could trigger a worldwide financial crisis,
possibly a depression. That’s because financial markets currently treat U.S.
debt as the safest of assets, with all other assets around the world
benchmarked against us. Our default would send waves of financial panic
cascading through lots of other markets, too. If. the
government can’t borrow to pay bills that come due, it would have to suspend
certain pension payments, withhold or cut the pay of soldiers and federal workers,
or delay interest payments, which would constitute default. Unless Congress
raises the debt ceiling, the Treasury could be forced to cut payments by more
than 40%, including Social Security, VA benefits. Think this wouldn't crater the economy? Think again!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.5in;">"<i>Oh it won't happen!</i>" You say?</span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.5in;">As for shutdowns, t</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">he House wasn’t even back from its Presidents Day recess and Speaker Mike Johnson clearly didn’t have a handle on the
situation. Johnson</span><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/23/johnson-gets-real-about-funding-leverage-as-shutdown-looms-00143053" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #0000aa; text-decoration-line: none;"> whined about it</span></b></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> to members of the GOP
conference in a call complaining that they are undermining his
bargaining position with their constant infighting and chaos. But do these imps care? Hell NO! All they care about is following orders from Traitor Trump to wreck any chance for Biden's re-re-election. Which is why these accessory traitors torpedoed the bipartisan border bill, e.g.</span></p><ul class="posts" style="background-color: #fff9ee; border-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: 1.2; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -15px;"><li style="background: none; border-width: 0px; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0.25em 0px; padding: 0.25em 0px 0.25em 1.3em;"><a href="https://brane-space.blogspot.com/2024/02/goops-go-to-obstruction-of-sane.html" style="color: #ff1900;"><span style="font-size: large;">GOP Goes To Obstruction of Sane Immigration Bill ...</span></a></li></ul><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Yet now they have the chutzpah to demand border security funding or no fiscal agreement! </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Members of the Freedom Caucus, meanwhile, are refusing to back
down from their demands that a </span><a href="https://punchbowl.news/archive/22624-punchbowl-news-am/" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #0000aa; text-decoration-line: none;">slew of
poison-pill policy</span></b></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> riders be included in the funding
package and "<i>for more border security funding</i>".</span></p><p style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">This despite the fact these Reep Turds <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/6/2221769/-Republicans-got-exactly-what-they-wanted-Now-they-re-trying-to-kill-it?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=top_news_slot_5&pm_medium=web" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #0000aa; text-decoration-line: none;">killed</span></b></a> the Senate’s bipartisan border security bill. So I advise Biden to tell them to go suck shit. They had their chance and blew it. In the words of one WaPo commenter:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white;"><b><i><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;">"</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: medium;">As far as I'm concerned the Republicans can now shut their mouths about any issues at the border. They had their opportunity to pass something more far reaching than anything ever proposed before and instead they chose to bow down to their corrupt narcissistic psychopath cult leader</span></span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;">."</span></i></b></p><p style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Back to the recent calamity dodge. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">House Republicans had emerged from a closed-door meeting Thursday ahead
of the vote saying they were frustrated that Johnson was asking them to support
another deadline extension without more spending cuts or other conservative
victories. Thursday’s stopgap measure was the third passed with Democrats
during Johnson’s speakership, and will buy negotiators more time to then pass
full-year spending bills next month, under a framework agreed to with
Democrats. But don't discount more brinksmanship to come as the House ideologues are still salivating at the prospect of using their "leverage" to try to make the Ds cut, cut, cut - everything from food stamps, to Medicaid, to meals on wheels for seniors, to VA medical spending and Medicare.</span></p><p style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Now let's deal with all the lamebrains who want to see Trump back in the White House again because they believe he will be "<i>better on inflation</i>". Dream on, bumpkins. Trump is proposing to implement a "<b>universal tariff</b>" of 10% on every country in the world. Contrary to Dotard's "economics" or fringe beliefs, tariffs aren't paid by foreign governments. So he isn't hurting them. </span></p><p style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">They are paid initially by U.S. companies that import whatever goods - whether baby formula or HDTVs - and then these are passed on to American consumers. Result? Higher cost, more inflation. Thus, Trump's tariffs would push costs up on just about everything and increase inflation dramatically.</span></p><p style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">These increased costs will hit the low income people the hardest, most of whom are rural Trump supporters. This is because they spend a larger share of their income on goods. Thus, if baby formula goes up 25% low income people - laborers, family farmers, etc. will feel it much more than Wall Street mavens.</span></p><p style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">What has the fungal maggot Trump accomplished? Virtually nothing positive in his first four years:</span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;">- Trump ran up the largest
national debt since the Revolutionary War era (H</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;">e added<b><i> $9 trillion to the
national debt in four years,</i></b> as Nikki Haley pointed out in one GOP debate.)</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;">- He also ran <b>four
consecutive years of deficits.</b></span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;">-He instituted tariffs on the
goods from a number of nations that in effect exacted a blowback tax on
Americans purchasing power.</span></p><p style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">-He was prepared to invoke the
insurrection act to shut down protesters in June, 2020,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">- He tried several times to eliminate Obamacare and will succeed if he gets in again.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">- Stock market crashed under Trump on Mar. 17, 2020 wiping out all gains up to then.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">- Trump had worst jobs creation record in U.S. history, e.g.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxTCalNlgp4C5zB31ZI070cLPZTVW7_Dj_jx9XNwkPFEE0byNtm3kdf7kqeWf46ByC9jdRXAk1yjV7OK0YlOULtq3R6JIBASbbODvPTrYOCP5KpCh93doJnKJo_odMuV-u1cIegtCawovlY0y69GNTrlJcEU-FTjx0mnMWiev72Fdrdi6Eg-o_SEQWcw/s604/Trump%20jobs%20lost.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="604" data-original-width="409" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxTCalNlgp4C5zB31ZI070cLPZTVW7_Dj_jx9XNwkPFEE0byNtm3kdf7kqeWf46ByC9jdRXAk1yjV7OK0YlOULtq3R6JIBASbbODvPTrYOCP5KpCh93doJnKJo_odMuV-u1cIegtCawovlY0y69GNTrlJcEU-FTjx0mnMWiev72Fdrdi6Eg-o_SEQWcw/s320/Trump%20jobs%20lost.jpg" width="217" /></a></div><br /><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">- He</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px;"> conspired to take down a duly elected government on January 6, 2021 by trying to first get Mike Pence not to certify electoral votes for Joe Biden, then to instigate mob violence at the Capitol to try to find an excuse to mobilize the military to quell an insurrection he himself incited. This cock roach is thereby unfit by any sane standard to ever assume power again - no matter what the corrupt Supreme Court decrees.</span></p><p style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></p><p style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><b> <u>Joe Biden</u></b><u>, meanwhile can claim:</u></span></p><p style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">- Over 30 million jobs created since taking office.</span></p><p style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">- Lowest unemployment since 1969.</span></p><p style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">- </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #070707; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">U.S. has had the highest GDP growth in the world</span></p><p style="background: white;"><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif" style="color: #363636; font-size: 20px;">- Passed an </span><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/15/us/politics/biden-signs-infrastructure-bill.html" style="border: 0px; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">infrastructure bill</a><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">, Trump couldn't or wouldn't</span></span></p><p style="background: white;">- <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/us/politics/biden-student-loan-forgiveness-debt.html#:~:text=Mr.%20Biden%20on%20Wednesday%20canceled,for%20about%2043%20million%20borrowers." style="border: 0px; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">Canceling some student loan debt</a><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif" style="color: #363636; font-size: 20px;">. </span></p><p style="background: white;"><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif" style="color: #363636; font-size: 20px;">- Protected the environment with a </span><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/climate/inflation-reduction-act-progress-climate.html" style="border: 0px; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">sweeping climate measure</a><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif" style="color: #363636; font-size: 20px;">. </span></p><p style="background: white;">- <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/30/us/politics/biden-medicare-drug-prices-2024-campaign.html" style="border: 0px; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">Capping the cost of insulin</a><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif" style="color: #363636; font-size: 20px;"> and other drugs. </span></p><p style="background: white;">-<a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/09/26/us/biden-uaw-strike-detroit" style="border: 0px; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">Supporting unions</a><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif" style="color: #363636; font-size: 20px;"> </span></p><p style="background: white;"><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif" style="color: #363636; font-size: 20px;">- Defending abortion rights. </span></p><p style="background: white;"><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif" style="color: #363636; font-size: 20px;">- Putting the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.</span></p><p style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Yet, despite these facts too many voters continue to see Trump and the Reeps as their economic salvation. Also, if you can believe this - offering more stability. In a new poll from Echelon Insights, only 29 percent responded that Biden's reelection would mean more stability. Bu contrast, fifty percent said it means less stability. Meanwhile, 45% said Trump's election would mean more stability. Begging the question of whether they are even remotely aware of his 'universal tariff' plans and their consequences. </span></p><p style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It appears more and more, with each poll showing "the nation on the wrong track" or the Goopers and Trump ahead on the economy that Janice's assessment of too many American voters is true: They are a "pack of idiots".</span></p><p style="background: white;"><br /></p><p style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.5in;"><b>See Also:</b></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; text-indent: -0.5in;"><a href="http://brane-space.blogspot.com/2023/10/republicans-trump-dems-and-biden-on.html"><b>Republicans 'Trump ' Dems and Biden On Economy & Inflation? Says WHO?</b></a></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.5in;"><b>And:</b></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.5in;"></span></p><h2 class="wpds-c-iiQaMf wpds-c-iiQaMf-igUpeQR-css" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-headline); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-110); margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a data-pb-local-content-field="web_headline" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/02/27/economy-immigration-border-biden/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">The economy is roaring. Immigration is a key reason.</span></a></h2><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.5in;"><b>And:</b></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.5in;"></span></p><h2 class="wpds-c-iiQaMf wpds-c-iiQaMf-ikZTsyd-css" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-headline); font-weight: var(--wpds-fontWeights-bold); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-110); margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a data-pb-local-content-field="web_headline" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/02/27/biden-ukraine-government-shutdown/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">As shutdown deadline nears, Biden convenes congressional leaders, urges funding for Ukraine</span></a></h2><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.5in;"><b>And:</b></span></p><div class="nodebar" style="background-color: #0000aa; color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/taxonomy/term/52" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">House of Representatives</a> | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/taxonomy/term/2" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Republicans</a></div><div class="nodetitle" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 4px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/joan-mccarter/108975/gop-house-seems-hell-bent-on-forcing-a-government-shutdown" style="color: #660000; text-decoration-line: none;">GOP House Seems Hell-Bent on Forcing a Government Shutdown</a></div><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;"><span class="nodeby" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; padding-bottom: 3px;">by <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/profile/joan-mccarter" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Joan McCarter</a> | January 6, 2024 - 6:34am | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/joan-mccarter/108975/gop-house-seems-hell-bent-on-forcing-a-government-shutdown" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">permalink</a></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 11px;"></span></span></p><p style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.5in;"></span></p><div class="nodebody" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><p style="color: #222222; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/1/5/2215447/-House-Republicans-want-a-shutdown-Here-are-the-stakes" style="color: #0000aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">— from Daily Kos</a></i></b></p><p style="color: #222222; font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" height="240" src="https://ic-cdn.flipboard.com/dailykos.com/9259c4d46834fb601555e71ccb4e521ddb604972/_large.jpeg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px;" width="360" /></p><p style="color: #222222; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Congress has a few immediate jobs when it returns to work next week: meeting two funding deadlines in less than a month and averting government shutdowns; coming up with a budget for both 2024 and 2025; and passing a supplemental funding package with aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. All of these are intertwined, and all of them are endangered by a Republican House that seems to be hell-bent on forcing a government shutdown over the completely unrelated issue of immigration.</span></p><p style="color: #222222; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">The government is a third of the way into the 2024 fiscal year, and <a href="https://crsreports.congress.gov/AppropriationsStatusTable/" style="color: #993300; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">none of the 12 appropriations bills</a> that fund all the various agencies and departments have been passed and signed into law. Since the beginning of the fiscal year on Oct. 1, the government has been running on two successive continuing resolutions, the <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/11/17/2206428/-The-government-is-funded-What-s-next" style="color: #993300; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">second of which</a> has set the Jan. 19 and Feb. 2 funding deadlines. Funding for military construction and veterans programs, Agriculture and food agencies, and the departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development expires first, then the State, Defense, Commerce, Labor, and Health and Human Services departments, among others, last until Feb. 2.</span></p><p style="font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>And:</b></span></p><div class="nodetitle" style="color: #000066; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 4px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/henry-giroux/109607/media-obsess-over-biden-s-memory-but-our-forgetting-history-is-the-real-crisis" style="color: #660000; text-decoration-line: none;">Media Obsess Over Biden’s Memory But Our Forgetting History Is the Real Crisis</a></div><p style="font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="nodeby" style="color: #000066; font-size: 14px; padding-bottom: 3px;">by <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/profile/henry-giroux" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Henry Giroux</a> | March 5, 2024 - 7:10am | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/henry-giroux/109607/media-obsess-over-biden-s-memory-but-our-forgetting-history-is-the-real-crisis" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">permalink</a></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11px;"></span></span></p><div class="nodebody" style="line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-size: 14px;"><b><i><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/media-obsess-over-bidens-memory-but-our-forgetting-history-is-the-real-crisis/" style="color: #0000aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">— from Truthout</a></i></b></p><p style="font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" height="240" src="https://ic-cdn.flipboard.com/truthout.org/16bb9c7489f33549c029ce01380b599ee03df0ce/_xlarge.jpeg" style="border: 0px;" width="360" /></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Memory currently occupies a large media presence, less as a tool of historical remembrance than as a source of political repression and regressive ignorance and thoughtlessness. In an act of elimination and erasure, far right GOP legislators such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are attempting to <a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/pedagogy-of-resistance-9781350269538/" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">whitewash, censor and ban</a> Black history. Memory is now administered, cleansed of its democratic revelations, relieved of the practice of moral witnessing and devoid of lessons learned from the past. The history of Indigenous genocide, slavery, Jim Crow, and a wave of resistance movements extending from the fight for civil rights to struggles for labor rights — which reside in the domain of the unpleasant and repressed — are being systemically removed from schools, libraries, books, curricula and classroom pedagogy. This attack on historical memory brings to mind Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch’s trenchant reflection: “The most tragic form of loss isn’t the loss of security; it’s the loss of the capacity to imagine that things could be different.”</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-137-11524-9" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Remembrance is under siege</a> as far right politicians work to disintegrate, misrepresent and eliminate its emancipatory possibilities. The absence of critical memory work poses both a crisis of witnessing, the cancelling of moral vision, the destruction of public education and the depoliticization of agency itself. What is particularly disturbing is that this notion of historical erasure is barely acknowledged in the mainstream media as a serious threat to democracy. This is in spite of the fact that when history is erased as a repository of dangerous memories, it becomes complicit with the emerging threat of fascism. Amid this widespread and underreported attack on public memory, the mainstream media has instead chosen to focus relentlessly on another story of memory: President Joe Biden’s alleged loss of memory and his assumed decline in cognitive abilities.</span></p><p><b style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-indent: -48px;">And:</b></p></div></div><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.5in;"><a href="https://brane-space.blogspot.com/2024/01/12-days-to-avert-another-federal.html">12 Days To Avert Another Federal Shutdown - Can It Be Done Or Will GOOPs Punk Out At Last Minute? </a></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.5in;"><b>And:</b></span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.5in;"><a href="https://brane-space.blogspot.com/2023/12/voters-brains-turn-to-mush-majority-now.html">Voters’ Memories Crater: A Majority Now Believe Trump Was A Better President Than Biden </a></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><b>And:</b></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><h2 class="wpds-c-iiQaMf wpds-c-iiQaMf-idizVSD-css" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-headline); font-weight: var(--wpds-fontWeights-regular); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-110); margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a data-pb-local-content-field="web_headline" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/05/supreme-court-timing-trump-trial/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Supreme Court did Trump no favors. He’ll be facing a fall trial.</span></a></h2><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><br /></p><p></p><p></p>Copernicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16699554476216140859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301096656497422535.post-29646757308012091752024-03-04T05:51:00.000-08:002024-03-07T13:43:42.695-08:00Would Voters Be So Gung-Ho Voting For Trump If They Knew His Mom's Opinion Of Him?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5jMViT26tMLWZA5WY-7DVHIVDwwf6IvDrmtCUb7zQDYa_n3CW6pNeZVdx72NtdSdcsfYGjCxYVDlMUVNFbIoUh_iQRslGgdsFGnV754Q_pN4J72McnDCS8THbp3buewGGsAn2XmDz7PKpovb4wCRn2dX0IyQtl83hpwoeBZXRypNo8UwEtC-mW4ttNg/s888/Sienna%20polling%20crap.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="583" data-original-width="888" height="321" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5jMViT26tMLWZA5WY-7DVHIVDwwf6IvDrmtCUb7zQDYa_n3CW6pNeZVdx72NtdSdcsfYGjCxYVDlMUVNFbIoUh_iQRslGgdsFGnV754Q_pN4J72McnDCS8THbp3buewGGsAn2XmDz7PKpovb4wCRn2dX0IyQtl83hpwoeBZXRypNo8UwEtC-mW4ttNg/w490-h321/Sienna%20polling%20crap.jpg" width="490" /></a></div> <b><i> Unbelievable results from recent NY Times/ Siena poll: Biden too old, Trump not</i></b><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxDhxoWCnOfCjILvUXTX8DWRQQH925Rc94fHktQRGacnLrjv8mT0ePQILGV2rfjtjyD7ixtiM4og1gUBvuWX4BOGwL6v1JOiKw9awPKCackNL4qmKroAi_bpyNHGsfjs3_v8t7Km0lpljjAQT-3fM-kK2NxzqJ89OV8lik5Q7HKr_JGpM9HBdYA-A-kQ/s768/Trumps%20Mom%20View.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="685" height="355" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxDhxoWCnOfCjILvUXTX8DWRQQH925Rc94fHktQRGacnLrjv8mT0ePQILGV2rfjtjyD7ixtiM4og1gUBvuWX4BOGwL6v1JOiKw9awPKCackNL4qmKroAi_bpyNHGsfjs3_v8t7Km0lpljjAQT-3fM-kK2NxzqJ89OV8lik5Q7HKr_JGpM9HBdYA-A-kQ/w316-h355/Trumps%20Mom%20View.jpg" width="316" /></a></div> <b><i>Did Trump's mom know something about him too many voters don't?</i></b><div><b><i> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNYW9RBbtb02mESjz03Dqauk7PP8v9iidb6SH9aZ2mPfgR8b-UgKcPS61B5S9ShOHOSxztawRWXZ6n98jpEFSIbcL51RIy1N4AxOgVy7QKqSaLrYSKcPMj05XaXMjgBvJTqmEuXZCN0qe4UHCp_rlGo_T6IvgoKKXeHriZNz0uxTXU3k3JRGhplszg9w/s445/Holocaust%20survivor%20on%20Trump.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="406" data-original-width="445" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNYW9RBbtb02mESjz03Dqauk7PP8v9iidb6SH9aZ2mPfgR8b-UgKcPS61B5S9ShOHOSxztawRWXZ6n98jpEFSIbcL51RIy1N4AxOgVy7QKqSaLrYSKcPMj05XaXMjgBvJTqmEuXZCN0qe4UHCp_rlGo_T6IvgoKKXeHriZNz0uxTXU3k3JRGhplszg9w/s320/Holocaust%20survivor%20on%20Trump.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></i></b><p></p><p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 22.5pt; margin: 22.5pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">“</span><span style="color: #800180; font-family: arial;"><b>A verdict on Trump’s attempt to hold onto power is now “much more
unlikely” before the election, conservative former appeals court Judge J.
Michael Luttig <a href="https://twitter.com/PoliticusSarah/status/1762969987323408648?s=20" style="box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">told</a> MSNBC.
That’s why the voters’ verdict is all the more critical. As Liz Cheney often <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVBhaGJxC74" style="box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">says</a>,
Trump shouldn’t be allowed to get “anywhere near the Oval Office again.” If he
does get reelected, he can scuttle the federal cases against him, and he’s
vowed to pardon those already convicted for their actions on Jan. 6…… We should
stop looking at calendars and calculating on fingers when Trump can be
convicted in a courtroom. We’re the jury we’ve been waiting for.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">
</p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 22.5pt 0in;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: arial;"><b>And then, once Trump is defeated <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">again</i>,
the trials can play out. And those other juries can finish the job of holding
Citizen Trump accountable.</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">”- Jackie Calmes, LA Times, today<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 22.5pt 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;">"At a rally on Saturday night in Virginia, Trump confused Barack Obama, who left office </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;">seven years ago</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;">, with President Biden for the third time over the last six months. “Putin has so little respect for Obama that he’s starting to throw around the nuclear word,” Trump said, as his crowd of rabid supporters suddenly fell silent. “You heard that. Nuclear. He’s starting to talk nuclear weapons today.” You won’t find that verbal stumble and the crowd’s stunned reaction in the Times coverage of the campaign over the weekend. You’ll have to read other publications — for example, </span><a href="https://www.salon.com/2024/03/04/he-looks-lost-alarm-after-mind-blanks-out-repeatedly-during-speech/" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Salon</a></i></b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b><i> or maybe the Guardian — if you want to learn how often Trump is losing his way mid-sentence at rallies and just mumbling incoherently.</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 14px;">" - Lucian K. Truscott, Permalink</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #283741; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>“</b></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #800180; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>Is it really healthy to blame every problem in
your life on Joe Biden? I can’t find a job in this historically low
unemployment economy. Thanks a lot, Joe Biden. The price of milk in France has
gone up, I blame Biden. My wife hasn’t had sex with me for months—damn you, Joe
Biden!</b>”-</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background: white; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;"> Bill Maher in a recent Real Time episode</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">Incredibly, we're informed yesterday from the NY Times, that:</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><span color="var(--color-content-secondary,#363636)">"</span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Widespread concerns about President Biden’s age pose a deepening threat to his re-election bid, with a majority of voters who supported him in 2020 now saying he is too old to lead the country effectively, according to <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/02/us/elections/times-siena-poll-registered-voter-crosstabs.html" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">a new poll by The New York Times and Siena College</a></span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">."</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Adding:</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><span style="color: #363636;">"</span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The misgivings about Mr. Biden’s age cut across generations, gender, race and education, underscoring the president’s failure to dispel both concerns within his own party and Republican attacks painting him as senile. Seventy-three percent of all registered voters said he was too old to be effective, and 45 percent expressed a belief that he could not do the job.</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The survey pointed to a fundamental shift in how voters who backed Mr. Biden four years ago have come to see him. A striking 61 percent said they thought he was “just too old” to be an effective president.</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">A sizable share was even more worried: Nineteen percent of those who voted for Mr. Biden in 2020, and 13 percent of those who said they would back him in November, said the 81-year-old president’s age was such a problem that he was no longer capable of handling the job.</span><span color="var(--color-content-secondary,#363636)">"</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">Can I ask here: Has most of the American population gone fucking nuts? (Nearly 3/4 asserting he's "too old to be effective") Are these moronic meatballs really deranged to the point they 'd rather put a confirmed traitor and wannabe dictator into office than Joe Biden? Or to quote Bill Maher from his Real Time show Friday:</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><i><span style="color: #800180;">"Given a choice in voting between Donald Trump and Joe Biden's head in a jar of green liquid, I will vote for the jar with Biden's head.</span></i><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">"</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">Bingo! What Maher was referencing was not intended to be comedic so much as emphasizing the serious nature of the binary choice before American voters this November. We do not get to "pick and choose" in other words, any more than you get to pick and choose whether to allow bed bugs to spread in your home or exterminate them. There is no choice other than extermination of vermin. </p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">In the same way we must exterminate the Trump pestilence by voting him out once and for all, and I am talking <b>landslide </b>- not a puny popular vote (or electoral vote) squeaker. I mean, shit, even Trump's mother - see graphic above- knew the man was an idiot lacking common sense and would be a political disaster if ever put in high office. Are you going to tell me the current breed of voters are less aware of his unfitness than she was? Seems so!</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">Side note to NY Times on today's piece ('<i>Biden Superfans Think Rest of America Is Crazy</i>); Just because we believe voting Biden over Trump is the only sound choice doesn't imply we are "super fans". Any more than aggressively demanding a bed bug -free hotel means we are <i><b>non-vermin 'superfans'. </b></i>Dig?</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">Noteworthy also is that this NYT/Siena poll was conducted more than two weeks after another misbegotten <span color="var(--color-content-secondary,#363636)" style="font-size: 1.25rem;">Trump traitor accomplice at DOJ - </span><b style="color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-size: 1.25rem;">Robert Hur</b><span color="var(--color-content-secondary,#363636)" style="font-size: 1.25rem;"> - did a number on Biden using his bogus "special" report on Joe's handling of documents. Therein describing the president as a “</span><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/09/us/politics/biden-memory-age-democrats.html" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory</a><span color="var(--color-content-secondary,#363636)" style="font-size: 1.25rem;">” and<span style="color: #2b00fe;"> “diminished faculties in advancing age</span>.” E.g.</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><a href="http://brane-space.blogspot.com/2024/02/joe-punches-back-at-trump-holdover-hurs.html" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #ff1900; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-indent: -15px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Joe Punches Back At Trump Holdover Hur's Partisan Bollocks </span></a></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"> All of which has served to reinforce the GOOPs and Right wing media attacks on his age. Also before the Trump-owned Supremes' corrupt 'cert' interruption has enabled this roach to run out the clock e.g.</p><ul class="posts" style="background-color: #fff9ee; border-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: 1.2; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -15px;"><li style="background: none; border-width: 0px; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0.25em 0px; padding: 0.25em 0px 0.25em 1.3em; text-indent: -15px;"><a href="http://brane-space.blogspot.com/2024/02/scotus-magas-put-fix-in-for-trump.html" style="color: #ff1900;"><span style="font-size: large;">Supreme Court Attempts Suicide By Using "Cert" Interference...</span></a></li></ul><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">despite the fact two -thirds of independents have said they'd think twice about voting for him if he's convicted. So we are left then with a preponderance of brainless wonders among the voting populace (according to this NYT/Siena poll) who actually believe it is preferable to have in office a maggot traitor with designs to destroy our democracy than another older guy who's vowed to protect it. </p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">Historian Francis Fukuyama in a recent (3/1) <i><u>Financial Times</u></i> piece (<span face="Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">(</span><i style="font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s Not Too Late To Erase America’s Political Decay’</i><span face="Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">‘)</span><span style="font-size: 1.25rem;"> nails the disease of political rot at the core of these absurd pro-Trump polls and other issues. He writes: </span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">"</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">While Trump has been an extraordinarily skillful demagogue, what is
driving his success are the hard right voters themselves. Any democracy
ultimately depends on an electorate that is well-informed and supportive of its
norms</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">" </span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">Which underscores that too many of our fellow citizens are woefully uninformed, and their brains are in the pockets of the slander and ceaseless propaganda purveyors - most embedded in FOX News or related reactionary sources (Newsmax) which have pounded endless lies about Biden. Fukuyama noting acerbically:</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;">"</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>This is the same Trump – voters would put into
office again- who refuses to support Ukraine and recently invited Russia
to attack any Nato ally that did not pay an imaginary debt for US
protection. With five primary victories under his belt, and more to come
on Super Tuesday next week, he is poised to be the Republican candidate. The
consequences that would flow from his November re-election will affect every
part of the globe…</b></span></span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">”</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">These lame voters then, in Fukuyama's view, have been taken hostage by right wing "friends" and their anti-Biden twaddle<span style="font-size: 1.25rem;"> on social media or right wing propaganda (on FOX, and in WSJ) that's likely been magnified since the pandemic struck in 2o2o. </span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><span style="font-size: 1.25rem;">And also been 'taken for a con man's ride by Trump's fake energy giving the illusion he's more cognitively functional than Biden. He is not. He cannot be when he tells a FOX host (Laura Ingraham on <i>Ingraham Angle</i>) two weeks ago: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">”We’re gonna take
over Washington, DC. We’re gonna
federalize and have very powerful crime and you’re gonna be proud of it again.”</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt;">Sounds like a few
megabytes of cognition dropped out right there. As Lawrence O'Donnell put it: "<i>If Biden had said the same
words the media – not just FOX would have been all over it."</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then there was this
word cabbage and brain disaster he also sputtered about water issues:</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“</span><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>They come out with
faucets where no water comes out. You stand under a shower and you have to wait
five times longer</i>.</span>”</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">As Lawrence O'Donnell put it in his</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"> '</span><i>Last Word</i>' segment 2 weeks ago referencing this hair-brained babble:</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">“What person with any sense remains
under a shower when no water comes out?”</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>
</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">The guy clearly has massive cognitive deficits and
idiots talk about Biden being “too old” and “ineffective”? Think these are "one offs", think again! Take a look here at Trump's verbal cabbages:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/inside-with-jen-psaki/watch/-the-guy-you-want-with-nuclear-codes-psaki-shows-extent-of-trump-s-verbal-blunders-205453893549">'The guy you want with nuclear codes?': Psaki shows extent of Trump’s verbal blunders (msnbc.com)</a> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">And:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show"><span style="font-size: large;">Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC | Watch Rachel Maddow Liv</span>e</a></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Beyond that, too many have simp</span><span style="font-size: 1.25rem;">l</span><span style="font-size: large;">y forgotten just how bad the 4-year Trump reign was - from putting migrant infants in cages, to hailing white supremacists and Nazis as "<i>some very fine people</i>" when they marched in Charlottesville, Va. e.g.</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVjWOxoUf-nZs5YPgoXWVmbvGaciFeALs1mDLMdMlHI-TiVJS-rAzIY4NNYydACVLxX-Xq48hgpuZPMRjZrL7owblXy10siTdhPt1MkGeiWzl9hoEo-l9ISVLMwNgPVENDVXfVkZGaFFBCHSZPGATE3pgVnDACAXHwGgIA155cY1Me_M7KfDO-c-p2tA/s585/Brownshirts%20marching%20-%202017.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="462" data-original-width="585" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVjWOxoUf-nZs5YPgoXWVmbvGaciFeALs1mDLMdMlHI-TiVJS-rAzIY4NNYydACVLxX-Xq48hgpuZPMRjZrL7owblXy10siTdhPt1MkGeiWzl9hoEo-l9ISVLMwNgPVENDVXfVkZGaFFBCHSZPGATE3pgVnDACAXHwGgIA155cY1Me_M7KfDO-c-p2tA/s320/Brownshirts%20marching%20-%202017.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><span style="font-size: 1.25rem;"> to actually inciting an insurrection to overthrow a duly elected government on January 6, 2021.:</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><a href="http://brane-space.blogspot.com/2021/01/why-insurrection-of-january-6th-must.html"><span style="font-size: large;">Why The Insurrection Of January 6th Must Not Be Lost In The News Cycle </span></a></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><span style="font-size: 1.25rem;">And people really want to put this Turd back in power? You have to be fucking kidding me! Why would you put into power a maniac traitor (see Robert Reich's blog post at bottom) whose only desire is to exact vengeance on those who have sought to hold him to account, and who plans to wreck this nation? And oh, by the way, doesn't give two craps about its welfare or its Constitution?</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><span style="font-size: 1.25rem;">Look, if even 60 percent of those who claim (in the NYT/Siena poll) that Biden is "too ineffective" to be president and <i>switch their votes</i> to Trump, i.e. from voting for Biden in 2020, that would mean Biden then ends up with roughly 77, 200,000 now to Trump's 78,500,000 - assuming the same total voting population. This almost assures the Traitor will also score an electoral college romp - likely in the vicinity of 340 to 198.</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><span style="font-size: 1.25rem;">The sole consolation now, in the view of these depressing polls and misperceptions, is the take of Philip Bump in a recent WaPo column. Bump writes:</span></p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-size: 1.25rem;">"</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">The race isn’t actually set. What’s more, voters’ decisions are historically influenced by things that, in 2024, haven’t yet happened. Research presented in 2012 <a href="https://archive.nytimes.com/campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/are-elections-too-much-like-musical-chairs/" style="border-bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">showed</a> that the presidential popular vote margin was influenced most heavily by income growth in the second quarter of the election year — that is, the quarter that won’t begin until April 1.</span></p></div><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Then, of course, there’s the issue of a theoretical replacement. The natural choice would be Vice President Harris, the person Biden himself selected as a successor. Would subjecting her to a primary fight, however short, be better for the party’s chances than keeping Biden in place? Would replacing her? Is there a scenario in which the party dukes it out until and through the convention that doesn’t result in a weaker nominee with less time to gain ground against Trump? All of that aside, there is one Democrat in the mix who has beaten Trump in a national election previously: Joe Biden, the likely nominee</span><span style="font-size: 1.25rem;">."</span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-size: 1.25rem;"><br /></span></p></div></div><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><span style="font-size: 1.25rem;">Apart from that, the most important question wasn't asked in the NYT/Siena poll: <i><span style="color: #800180;">Which candidate is most likely to surround himself with a competent staff, cabinet? </span></i>Realizing that it's the surrounding staff, the cabinet, that actually implements policies and makes a president effective. Do they recall anything of the parade of clowns and crazies Trump inserted last time around, from Michael Flynn ("Pizzagate" conspiracy creator), to Steve Bannon (Administrative state wrecker), to Nazi Josef Goebbels look-like Stephen Miller e.g.</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzEGc3E9tIPIBeWgFo4RMkxKTeZtxr8JS32IG39so61Tn8pYhDSNCIzxxVNJG6Fl2WTASrvucIuP2RnwiW2JEAkXywK7snrp97AyaYSYib8dvzVmOEXQYzIHr9d2pZ7ntW7DzDyvqmUCxqa37O-3zrcLw4TlJZWuA5fUvNRHpyT3jL_PQcJcJ-NMg2NA/s915/Goebbels-Miller.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="551" data-original-width="915" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzEGc3E9tIPIBeWgFo4RMkxKTeZtxr8JS32IG39so61Tn8pYhDSNCIzxxVNJG6Fl2WTASrvucIuP2RnwiW2JEAkXywK7snrp97AyaYSYib8dvzVmOEXQYzIHr9d2pZ7ntW7DzDyvqmUCxqa37O-3zrcLw4TlJZWuA5fUvNRHpyT3jL_PQcJcJ-NMg2NA/s320/Goebbels-Miller.png" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 1.25rem;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><span style="font-size: 1.25rem;">to dictate immigration policy? (Miller concocted the caging of migrant infants, kids) and plans 'deportation camps' this time.</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><span style="font-size: 1.25rem;">If too many 'Muricans insist on emulating lemmings and jumping off the electoral cliff to support Donald Trump this November we are all for the high jump. As well as a lost democracy, along the lines of Orban's Hungary, where the Biden cretin ageist fusspots can then repent at their leisure for their demented choice. Like the "good Germans" did in 1933 after voting Hitler into office - after which he destroyed Weimar democracy using the Enabling Act.</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><span style="font-size: 1.25rem;">We deserve better, or as Janice likes to put it: "<i><span style="color: #800180;">We deserve smarter, better informed voters, than these polls show!"</span></i></span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">See Also:</span></b></p><div class="nodebar" style="background-color: #0000aa; color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/topics/the-trump-administration/donald-trump" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Donald Trump</a></div><div class="nodetitle" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 4px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/amanda-marcotte/109641/trump-is-degenerating-before-our-eyes-maga-voters-don-t-notice-or-don-t-care" style="color: red;">Trump Is Degenerating Before Our Eyes — MAGA Voters Don’t Notice or Don’t Care</a></div><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><span class="nodeby" style="color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; padding-bottom: 3px;">by <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/profile/amanda-marcotte" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Amanda Marcotte</a> | March 7, 2024 - 8:03am | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/amanda-marcotte/109641/trump-is-degenerating-before-our-eyes-maga-voters-don-t-notice-or-don-t-care" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">permalink</a></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11px;"></span></p><div class="nodebody" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-size: 14px;"><b><i><a href="https://www.salon.com/2024/03/06/is-degenerating-before-our-eyes--maga-dont-notice-or-dont-care/" style="color: #0000aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">— from Salon</a></i></b></p><p style="font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" height="240" src="https://ic-cdn.flipboard.com/salon.com/e58834d0d75823ce4a4d084502298504d7824737/_xlarge.jpeg" style="border: 0px;" width="360" /></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Despite the best efforts of the Beltway press to present him as a spry young man next to 81-year-old Joe Biden, it's getting harder by the day to ignore that 77-year-old Donald Trump is decomposing rapidly. He wasn't all that healthy or coherent to begin with but, lately, watching him speak has the feel of getting cornered by the weird creep at the nursing home. Around lunchtime on Monday, all three cable news networks cut to Trump awkwardly accepting the <a href="https://www.salon.com/2024/03/05/courts-colorado-ballot-decision-exposes-the-lie-behind-conservatives-claims-of-textualism/" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Supreme Court nullifying the 14th Amendment on his behalf</a>. After a few semi-coherent, if gross, remarks about how he was "honored" by the ruling, Trump launched straight into a stream of paranoid jabber more appropriate for someone having a psychiatric episode on a city bus than for a major presidential candidate.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">He started rambling about how he wanted "immunity" for all his crimes, claiming that without that, "You really don’t have a president, because nobody that is serving in that office will have the courage to make, in many cases, what would be the right decision — or it could be the wrong decision." By the time he got to defining "migrant crime" as a "new category of crime," both MSNBC and CNN were cutting away. Not because it wasn't newsworthy, but I suspect it was more a reasonable worry that viewers would be driven away. It's much like the way folks avert their eyes when a delusional person on the sidewalk starts screaming at the demons he wishes to fight with "sticks and stones," to quote something Trump said about immigrants.</span></p></div><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">And:</span></b></p><div class="nodebar" style="background-color: #0000aa; color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/topics/the-trump-administration/donald-trump" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Donald Trump</a></div><div class="nodetitle" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 4px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/robert-reich/109598/escaping-trump-s-revenge-a-horrible-question-is-being-asked" style="color: #660000; text-decoration-line: none;">Escaping Trump’s Revenge: A Horrible Question Is Being Asked</a></div><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><span class="nodeby" style="color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; padding-bottom: 3px;">by <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/profile/robert-reich" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Robert Reich</a> | March 4, 2024 - 7:37am | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/robert-reich/109598/escaping-trump-s-revenge-a-horrible-question-is-being-asked" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">permalink</a></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11px;"></span></p><div class="nodebody" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-size: 14px;"><b><i><a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/escaping-trumps-revenge" style="color: red; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">— from Robert Reich's Substack</a></i></b></p><p style="font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" height="240" src="https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2020/02/Untitled-66.jpg" style="border: 0px;" width="360" /></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Excerpt:</span></b></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">I never thought this nation would get to a point where critics and
opponents of a potential United States president begin to wonder whether to
leave the country to keep themselves and their families safe. That’s standard
for critics of bloodthirsty dictators like Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un, but
in America?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Washington Post columnist Elizabeth
Becker asks, rhetorically: Is the United States facing a situation so dangerous
that you would be foolish if you didn’t have a backup plan? Is it hyperbole to
imagine the country sliding into authoritarian rule that would unleash
violence, retribution, and repression?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">I
hope not. But the mere fact the question is being posed is itself a frightening
commentary on where we’ve come — and may be heading.</span></span></p></div><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">And:</span></b></p><ul class="list-menu list-h-menu" style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li data-click="liH3promoXSmall" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; border-bottom: 1px solid var(--secondary-color-3); box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px;"><ps-promo class="promo promo-position-small promo-x-small" data-content-type="article" data-module-id="0000018e-09e6-d4da-a58e-bfff72820002" data-promotable-id="0000018d-f650-d2b1-a98f-ff5166670000" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; display: block;"><div class="promo-wrapper" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column;"><div class="promo-content" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; order: 2; width: 285.021px;"><div class="promo-title-container" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 class="promo-title" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); font-family: var(--service-font),arial,"helvetica neue",helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.125rem; margin: 0px;"><a class="link" href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-03-03/supreme-court-donald-trump-jack-smith" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; opacity: 0.8; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Calmes: We can’t count on the courts to hold Trump accountable before November. It’s up to us</span></a></h2></div></div></div></ps-promo></li></ul><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">And:</span></b></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><a href="http://brane-space.blogspot.com/2023/12/voters-brains-turn-to-mush-majority-now.html"><span style="font-size: large;">Voters’ Memories Crater: A Majority Now Believe Trump Was A Better President Than Biden </span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">And:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://brane-space.blogspot.com/2024/01/german-political-author-of-80-years-ago.html"><span style="font-size: large;">German Author - And Contemporary Of Hitler's - Has Words Of Warning For Americans Today </span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">And:</span></b></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><a href="http://brane-space.blogspot.com/2024/02/in-michigan-young-voters-displeased.html"><span style="font-size: large;"> In Michigan Young Voters Displeased With Choices Opt Out: Give 'Em Their Sippy Cups </span></a></p><p><br /></p></div>Copernicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16699554476216140859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301096656497422535.post-55752301029641714102024-03-01T04:43:00.000-08:002024-03-01T04:43:35.263-08:00Solution To Math Squares Problem<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXkEEj35Ho_LPDI7sF6sNUqmyEU9cyO0Az8SHm40WKdrYbUhZnrR4SMmbmdz7MjxXFK4gmIvvHlxIAIMNw3X_H66VKjDnBBq8vNOETwEhy3UVfCyTMIZ5ICsLvTtBtGdgekv4R0lKA6sUUJ_grC0wqUCdWS-EfoFaCruxT8UR106xm6zupCpzyUQS5lg/s466/Squares%20Soln.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="329" data-original-width="466" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXkEEj35Ho_LPDI7sF6sNUqmyEU9cyO0Az8SHm40WKdrYbUhZnrR4SMmbmdz7MjxXFK4gmIvvHlxIAIMNw3X_H66VKjDnBBq8vNOETwEhy3UVfCyTMIZ5ICsLvTtBtGdgekv4R0lKA6sUUJ_grC0wqUCdWS-EfoFaCruxT8UR106xm6zupCpzyUQS5lg/w459-h324/Squares%20Soln.jpg" width="459" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The solution is straightforward once one constructs an additional square around D with one side on the horizontal line. Then the 4 right triangles surrounding square D are identical. We then let the sides (lengths) of those triangles be x and y.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The area of square D is then equal to the area of the square around square D minus the area of the 4 right triangles surrounding square D. Working:</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">A =</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">(x + y)</span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><sup>2</sup></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">-</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> 4 (</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">½ </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;">xy )</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> = </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;">x</span></span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><sup>2</sup></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">+ 2xy + </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;">y</span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><sup>2</sup></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> - 2xy =</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;">x</span></span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><sup>2</sup></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">+ </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;">y</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><sup>2</sup></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: x-large;"><sup><br /></sup></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><sup><span style="font-size: large;">The length of a side of square D is then: </span></sup></span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #333333; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ö</span></span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #333333; font-family: Symbol; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;">x</span></span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><sup>2</sup></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">+ </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;">y </span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: x-large;"><sup>2</sup></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;">We next construct a square around square B so the four right triangles surrounding square B are identical - and the lengths of the sides can then be derived. This would be from the already derived lengths of the triangles and rectangles written in terms of x and y. Thus, the length of the side of square <i>surrounding</i> square B is:</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16pt;">L </span><sub style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;">(b ) </sub><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;">= 2 (x + y). The area of square B is equal to the area of the square around square B minus the area of the four right triangles surrounding square B. Working:</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;">A</span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><sub style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 17.12px;">b</span></sub><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> = 2</span><span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">(x + y)</span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><sup>2</sup></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;">-</span><span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;">4 [</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">½ (2</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;">x) (2y)] =</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;">4</span><span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;">x</span></span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><sup>2</sup></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">+ 8xy + </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;">4</span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;">y</span></span><span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><sup>2</sup></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> - 8xy = </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;">4</span><span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;">x</span></span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><sup>2</sup></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">+ </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;">4</span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;">y</span></span><span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><sup>2</sup></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;">The length of the side of square B itself is then:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span>L</span></span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><sub style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 17.12px;">b</span></sub><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> = </span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #333333; font-family: Symbol;">Ö </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;">4(</span><span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;">x</span></span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><sup>2</sup></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">+ </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;">4</span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;">y</span></span><span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><sup>2</sup></span></span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #333333; font-family: Symbol;">) = 2</span></span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #333333; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ö</span></span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #333333; font-family: Symbol; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;">x</span></span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><sup>2</sup></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">+ </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;">y </span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><sup>2</sup></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;">which is twice the length of a side of square D</span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: x-large;">.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Copernicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16699554476216140859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301096656497422535.post-89159428517461731652024-02-29T07:00:00.000-08:002024-03-02T07:38:01.119-08:00Supreme Court Attempts Suicide By Using "Cert" Interference To Delay Trump's Day Of Reckoning<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig2BTU7htRBR2_3ngRFKOaI8srRR_hU76S3W-g47RhzArlW-0cV0q4jmT-A5bmW_Oo6qDtf1fkXN__JNtky6P7UoL66t68soPxkmEik7qcwGh4Z2DvKdP5VWLgT0EfsW9qkUIZGC8D2B-UXLobryVvL_FLYDMr99DSNSU83Cv_qdqVR4oaXy2NVpxYhw/s232/MAGA%20traitors.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="120" data-original-width="232" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig2BTU7htRBR2_3ngRFKOaI8srRR_hU76S3W-g47RhzArlW-0cV0q4jmT-A5bmW_Oo6qDtf1fkXN__JNtky6P7UoL66t68soPxkmEik7qcwGh4Z2DvKdP5VWLgT0EfsW9qkUIZGC8D2B-UXLobryVvL_FLYDMr99DSNSU83Cv_qdqVR4oaXy2NVpxYhw/w430-h223/MAGA%20traitors.jpg" width="430" /></a></div> <i><b>Rogue's Gallery:</b></i> <b><i>Trump's treasonous Supreme Court thugs</i></b><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjSfybfo0uWTKgSa08mSyJj2VWfY2MwDG7suVOty9Bnh3QrRe10qwKeDKvv9yU27clVtttR4AiTzOezv-A0aV7oTDMoXZGbqNirBWE2ekUGj1iqoOQEcFzYS8z4uyoU4xEw-JLdHU_kv-DJUg2ybfwbFk3Hm4Jq_IuaDtHon44qJrogSc2_ztYxGpa7g/s495/Trump%20-%20Constitution.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="295" data-original-width="495" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjSfybfo0uWTKgSa08mSyJj2VWfY2MwDG7suVOty9Bnh3QrRe10qwKeDKvv9yU27clVtttR4AiTzOezv-A0aV7oTDMoXZGbqNirBWE2ekUGj1iqoOQEcFzYS8z4uyoU4xEw-JLdHU_kv-DJUg2ybfwbFk3Hm4Jq_IuaDtHon44qJrogSc2_ztYxGpa7g/s320/Trump%20-%20Constitution.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> </span><b><i>"Thank you, my dear friends!</i></b><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">"</span></span><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;"><b><i></i></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #800180; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;"><b><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHFoNIfDIIJBeompbFKGqjuvLFLeQgRRMbTYVFAePFgV_f2yilHFfBdKF84C8xbWPHZ7FXLHSgujGMksYwqpPJUcALEUvd_eTQqM1sNrhHUN7CYCWQCYVm_6-GYwBtHVwCcvPrV8clOEUUIHkTk6C1iwLAKnPEQHieDrNsnm4InkoAI5H5wGA6sLklug/s303/Clarence%20Laughs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="189" data-original-width="303" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHFoNIfDIIJBeompbFKGqjuvLFLeQgRRMbTYVFAePFgV_f2yilHFfBdKF84C8xbWPHZ7FXLHSgujGMksYwqpPJUcALEUvd_eTQqM1sNrhHUN7CYCWQCYVm_6-GYwBtHVwCcvPrV8clOEUUIHkTk6C1iwLAKnPEQHieDrNsnm4InkoAI5H5wGA6sLklug/s1600/Clarence%20Laughs.jpg" width="303" /></a></i></b></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;"><b><i><span style="color: #800180;"> </span>"Ha, ha, ha! You're welcome, Boss!"</i></b></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #800180; font-family: Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;"><b><i>"The Supreme Court has just given Trump the biggest possible gift anyone could give him. The biggest possible gift yet. Remember Donald Trump participated in a violent coup to overthrow democracy, the first president to squarely set himself against the constitutional order in history. He rallied supporters to storm the Capitol and steal an election he lost. And he was indicted by our justice system on four federal felony counts and by a grand jury for his role in that insurrection.</i></b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b><i>But now the court has issued an order considering Trump's role. But the order itself is not the story here, it's the timing. It all comes back to the timing. The trial was originally set to begin days from now in March. But all that is now on hold because the Supreme Court wants to hear oral arguments seven weeks from now on April 22nd. Thus making it a likelihood Donald Trump will not face a trial for the crime of attempting to overthrow the American Republic. He will not face a jury of his peers until after the next election in which he is the likely Republican candidate." </i></b></span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">- Chris Hayes, last night on <i><u>All In</u></i></span></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><b><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">"Yesterday the right-wing-dominated Supreme Court decided to step in and rescue Donald Trump’s presidential aspirations, agreeing to hear his claim of broad immunity and to delay his federal trial on charges of election interference stemming from his involvement in the January 6 insurrection. But it’s much worse than that. We </span><a href="https://twitter.com/timothydsnyder/status/1763207244378738905?s=10" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">agree with Timothy Snyder</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> that this is no simple stalling tactic. By taking up the question of whether a single American citizen is above the law — simply by entertaining a question that shouldn’t be — the right-wing justices are undermining the legitimacy of the Court itself, and the very notion of a nation of laws.</span></b></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;"><b><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"></span></b></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><b style="color: #404040; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px;">The Supreme Court is attempting to end its own life as an institution above politics. If it has been doing moving in this direction for some time, this week it came to a head." - </b><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 19px;"><span face="Spectral, serif, -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol" style="color: #404040;">Anand Giridharadas, The Ink</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">"</span><span style="color: #800180; font-family: arial;"><b><i>This president will have now ended up being above the law because he will have managed to have used the procedural gimmicks and gears of the legal system to avoid being held accountable before he could again assume office and make the whole trial go away. It's not the way a country concerned about preserving the rule of law and its constitutional democracy would proceed."</i></b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> - Harvard law professor Lawrence Tribe, last night on The Last Word'.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;">The Supreme Court's MAGA faction of right wing imps have now confirmed they are in Trump's pocket to keep him out of harm's way before the November election. Their anodyne <i>a certiorari ("cert") </i>acceptance of his claim for absolute presidential immunity case yesterday confirms it. The reason is that such interference was totally unnecessary given the D.C. Appellate Court had already given an exhaustive ruling. Especially exposing the insanity of Trump's lawyer John Sauer claiming absolute immunity even for the use of assassination for a political opponent would be justified under certain circumstances. Given the D.C. ruling the Supremes should have butted out and allowed the trial with Jack Smith to go forward - in MARCH.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;">Thus, we must now consign this MAGA faction to also being traitors like Trump given they are willing to protect him. But at what cost? By enabling a traitor and self-proclaimed fascist tyrant to possibly take power as well as signing a 'death warrant' for any remaining legitimacy of the court - and with it any respect for the rule of law.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;">Ok, let's explain this a bit, given they haven't yet ruled only asserted they will hear arguments on April 22. But they have already delayed 2 1/2 weeks to come to that decision, and have now added another 7 weeks just to hear arguments. That means the case will not likely get tried until June or July and may not be tried at all! In effect, the MAGA court faction has given Trump a win by delaying any court trial for his January 6th treason, and denying American voters the opportunity to have him held accountable. Given 40 percent of voters have agreed a conviction would likely make them rethink any vote for Trump this means justice delayed has been justice denied. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;">If the MAGA Supremes were at all conscious of how corrupt they now appear, they'd have taken the only rational and just route open to them and let the lower Appellate (D.C.) Court stand, not taking this case </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;">a certiorari . </i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;">Any Supreme Court with any ethical decency would have done this, and allowed the trial to begin in March. But not this corrupt court, subverted by cockroaches Trump himself put in place during his term to protect him. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;">As Rachel Maddow put it last night on the lead segment to ALL In, "the fix is now in".</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;">See e.g.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWSV2GZL6GU"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">‘</span><b><span style="font-size: large;">This is B.S.’: Maddow shreds ‘cravenness’ of Supreme Court delaying Trump trial (youtube.com)</span></b></a></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;">The "fix" being the craven decision to allow Trump to delay court action again - as the rat maggot has been doing the past 4 decades. As Maddow noted last night:</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;">"<span style="color: #800180;">The conclusion we can arrive at now without even having to wait for the ruling is that they are ensuring Trump will not face trial. And when they eventually rule presidents are not immune when they leave office, what that will tell Donald Trump - <i>if by then he is president - is </i>he can never leave the office of the presidency."</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;">Once more, showing how deformed and broken our exalted justice system is. A justice system that up to now has been unable to stop or neutralize one of the most vile political criminals in U.S. history. The first president ever to have set himself against the Constitution and attempted to overthrow an elected government. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;">One who has no use for laws and even declared openly what he intends to do if voted back into power, including burning the Constitution and using martial law to quell protests as well as setting up deportation camps.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;">Maddow continues:</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #800180; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;">"And if he is voted out in 2028 he cannot leave office. So if that is the case he is still welcome to commit any crimes that he wants to so long as he is still president and is able to stay in power for life. Because otherwise he is going to go to prison when he gets out. </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #800180; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;"><i>This is the way this is going to go unless the country votes Biden and against Trump in November</i></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #800180; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;">.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;">Giving notice it is up to we the people again - as it was in 2020 - to do what the other external agents, forces have not. Including our neutered justice system, unable or unwilling to withstand his manipulation, threats and cajoling - not to mention appeals and delay tactics. This reinforces the point made in my previous post that this is no time for weak knees, weak wills, or using the ballot box for political protest- again Biden's "role" in Gaza, inflation, immigration, oil drilling or anything else. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;">All sentient voters' eyes must be kept "on the ball": ridding the nation of the Trump pestilence once and for all. As for the Supreme Court, even if it has not totally succeeded in self-immolation it has certainly reached the point of self-degradation to the point of no longer being a legitimate agent of justice.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;"><b>See Also:</b></span></p><div class="nodebar" style="background-color: #0000aa; color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/topics/the-trump-administration/donald-trump" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Donald Trump</a> | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/topics/law/supreme_court" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Supreme Court</a></div><div class="nodetitle" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 4px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/carl-gibson/109559/political-and-traitorous-decision-experts-outraged-by-scotus-taking-trump-immunity-case" style="color: #660000; text-decoration-line: none;">‘Political and Traitorous Decision’: Experts Outraged by SCOTUS Taking Trump Immunity Case</a></div><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;"><span class="nodeby" style="color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: normal; padding-bottom: 3px;">by <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/profile/carl-gibson" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Carl Gibson</a> | February 29, 2024 - 7:52am | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/carl-gibson/109559/political-and-traitorous-decision-experts-outraged-by-scotus-taking-trump-immunity-case" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">permalink</a></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: normal;"></span></span></p><div class="nodebody" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-size: 14px;"><b><i><a href="https://www.alternet.org/experts-outraged-scotus-immunity/" style="color: #0000aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">— from Alternet</a></i></b></p><p style="font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" height="203" src="https://www.alternet.org/media-library/image.jpg?id=24949221&width=1245&height=700&quality=85&coordinates=0%2C11%2C0%2C12" style="border: 0px;" width="360" /></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) announced Wednesday it would hear former President Donald Trump's argument claiming absolute broad immunity from federal prosecution, which is being viewed as a gift to Trump in his efforts to delay a trial until after the November election.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><a class="rm-stats-tracked" href="https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1762962568342024577" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">According to CNN legal analyst Joan Biskupic</a>, SCOTUS won't hear oral arguments in the immunity case until April 22. And as Politico legal correspondent Kyle Cheney <a class="rm-stats-tracked" href="https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1762962505704321355" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">tweeted</a>, the Court "could tee up his trial for August or September" assuming it doesn't take too long to issue a ruling after the late April hearing. However, he added "the trial is unlikely to come much earlier than that, given [US District Judge] Chutkan's promise to ensure he has another few months of prep."</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Following the Court's issuing of a <em>writ of certiorari</em> on Wednesday, numerous legal experts and journalists blasted SCOTUS on social media for what they viewed as a decision in Trump's favor.</span></p></div><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;"><b>And:</b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;"><a href="https://the.ink/p/the-supreme-courts-attempted-suicide">The Supreme Court's attempted suicide - by The Ink</a></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;"><b>And:</b></span></p><div class="nodetitle" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 4px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/thom-hartmann/109572/will-the-most-corrupt-supreme-court-in-history-assist-the-trump-coup" style="color: #660000; text-decoration-line: none;">Will the Most Corrupt Supreme Court in History Assist the Trump Coup?</a></div><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;"><span class="nodeby" style="color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: normal; padding-bottom: 3px;">by <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/user/thom-hartmann" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Thom Hartmann</a> | March 1, 2024 - 7:56am | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/thom-hartmann/109572/will-the-most-corrupt-supreme-court-in-history-assist-the-trump-coup" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">permalink</a></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: normal;"></span></span></p><div class="nodebody" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-size: 14px;"><b><i><a href="https://hartmannreport.com/p/will-the-most-corrupt-supreme-court-f66" style="color: #0000aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">— from The Hartmann Report</a></i></b></p><p style="font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" height="240" src="https://media.spoutible.com/upload/images/2023/07/g56J6Lv7JkbIMKpQq9bH_03_dd6394282bab4334c7eda93f24aad872_thumbnail_og_img.jpg" style="border: 0px;" width="360" /></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">At least four members of the most corrupt Supreme Court in American history have decided to help Trump delay his trial for trying to overthrow the government of the United States.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Just like in 2000, when five Republicans on the Court ignored Al Gore’s probable (<a href="https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-56-year-long-crisis-of-treasonous-3fe" rel="" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">later found to be definite</a>) win in Florida to put Bush in the White House, today’s Court is doing as much as they can to help Trump win this November.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">In a hail-Mary attempt to push his trials beyond the election, hoping he’d win with Putin’s help and could then pardon himself and gut the DOJ, Trump’s attorneys filed a claim that his efforts to overturn the 2020 election were “official acts” and that all presidents have “absolute immunity” while in office <i>and</i> for the rest of their lives thereafter.</span></p><p style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></p></div><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;"><b>And:</b></span></p><div class="headline relative gray-darkest pb-xs" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-ui-gray-dark); font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><h2 class="wpds-c-iiQaMf wpds-c-iiQaMf-igUpeQR-css" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-headline); font-size: var(--wpds-fontSizes-250); font-weight: var(--wpds-fontWeights-bold); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-110); margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a data-pb-local-content-field="web_headline" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/02/28/trump-supreme-court-immunity-claim-dc-trial/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Supreme Court to weigh Trump’s immunity claim in D.C. 2020 election trial</a></h2></div><div class="pb-xs font-size-blurb lh-fronts-tiny font-light gray-dark" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-ui-gray-dark); font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3; padding-bottom: 8px;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/02/28/trump-supreme-court-immunity-claim-dc-trial/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Justices set oral argument for the week of April 22, likely delaying Donald Trump’s D.C. election-obstruction trial until at least late spring or summer.</a></div>Copernicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16699554476216140859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301096656497422535.post-37216383054346799952024-02-28T07:05:00.000-08:002024-03-06T22:39:32.507-08:00In Michigan Young Voters Displeased With Choices Opt Out: Give 'Em Their Sippy Cups<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqZ6xCvR3L-4tzUC0QN1y_e6VJejaEfej_9M60dLw2-GOp_UrK6YRuO51i8TA_zQn05OeCuvs75S-onLbKsihyphenhyphenR8oyiB4_6abUzhDEZ5dJpczT5R4s7C3q7htA5UBzs0AbcIU0lXqihuWnN7zXIBqTPk5qX44zWMVcUxPiCuOX2V4HRN_9XA1PSFAz-w/s276/COnservo%20crybaby.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="276" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqZ6xCvR3L-4tzUC0QN1y_e6VJejaEfej_9M60dLw2-GOp_UrK6YRuO51i8TA_zQn05OeCuvs75S-onLbKsihyphenhyphenR8oyiB4_6abUzhDEZ5dJpczT5R4s7C3q7htA5UBzs0AbcIU0lXqihuWnN7zXIBqTPk5qX44zWMVcUxPiCuOX2V4HRN_9XA1PSFAz-w/s1600/COnservo%20crybaby.jpg" width="276" /></a></div> "<b>Waaahhh! I wanna have better choices than them two! Wah!"</b><p></p><p class="css-at9mc1" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><br /></span></p><p class="css-at9mc1" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">According
to the NYT interviews <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tuesday night “</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">with</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">more than two dozen Michigan college students across the state indicated a deeper well of
dissatisfaction</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">”, i.e. than the Gaza destruction<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- which btw is largely on the autocratic imp
Netanyahu.</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">What pray tell is this deeper well of dissatisfaction? We are informed:</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">“Not
just with the incumbent president, but with the prospect of once again having
to choose between two candidates — Mr. Biden and former President Donald J.
Trump — decades older than them.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">”</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Awwww…..too
bad. Want a nappy?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How about a sippy cup? Maybe send you back to your infant days?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Back to mommy to rock you to sleep with a lullaby?
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look, kiddies, this is the way it is. You want
to be treated like grown ups, like adults, then act the part. That means
dealing with the existing political- electoral situation within its context and
not trying to escape using fantasy aspirations or delusional thinking to excuse o<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">pting out: voting 'uncommitted' or not at all. </span> This is a binary election, between one decent candidate
(whom the media has piled onto) and a traitor loser wannabe dictator you do not
want in power. No you don’t. </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Not if
you want to have any chance of having a viable future, finally getting your
student loans paid off, having autonomy over your own reproductive rights, and
being able to afford (finally) a decent home. You think Trump will give you
that? No he will not! He is planning to impose a 10 percent “universal tariff”
on all nations’ goods if he gets in which means you will not be able to afford
bupkis. </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">According
to Adam Lacasse, a co-chairman of the College Democrats at the University of
Michigan, quoted by the Times:</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1" style="background: white; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">“</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">It’s
been a tense atmosphere on campus. A lot of people, if they’re not upset with
what’s going on, with the administration’s handling of that conflict, they’re
turned off from politics because they don’t want to get engaged in it.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">”</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="css-at9mc1" style="background: white; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: large; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><br /></span></p><p class="css-at9mc1" style="background: white; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: large; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">One big reason? From the Times:</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1" style="background: white; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: large; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><br /></span></p><p class="css-at9mc1" style="background: white; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">"<span style="color: #2b00fe;">For some young people in Michigan and elsewhere, Mr. Biden’s alignment with Israel has presented a new concern. Voters under 30 </span></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/19/upshot/poll-biden-trump-israel-youth.html" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">overwhelmingly voiced their opposition</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> to the conflict in a December New York Times/Siena College poll, saying that Israel hadn’t done enough to prevent civilian casualties in Gaza and that the military campaign should stop</span>."</span></span></p><p class="css-at9mc1" style="background: white; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="css-at9mc1" style="background: white; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;">Ever played three-dimensional chess? That is the rough equivalent of what President Biden is playing right now to try to get the autocratic fool Benji Netanyahu under control. It's not easy because the conflict for which Gaza is now the pivot has been going on since 1948. It will not be solved overnight or even in one election year. That means maturity of mind is needed to parse all its dimensions. Want to know what I suggest for these young twitchy Turks (who some recent polls also show that 20% believe the Holocaust was a myth): Get a hold of the book '<i><u>O Jerusalem'</u></i> and read it! Then you will at least have some grasp of the issues.</span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1" style="background: white; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: large;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1" style="background: white; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Another reason the collegiate set are turned off? Because they don’t have the perfect choice of candidate arranged
for them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unlike getting all guaranteed
As on their assorted courses due to grade inflation. (Which itself traces to
student evaluations of profs – who then become terrified of giving the little
imps anything but As, Bs.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we go on
to learn this chestnut:</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">“<i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">National
polls have for months reflected a similar sentiment: Voters under 30, who
backed Mr. Biden by <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/06/30/behind-bidens-2020-victory/" style="text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">more than 20 points</span></a> in
2020, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/05/us/politics/young-voters-biden-trump-2024.html" style="text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">are unenthusiastic</span></a> about
a rematch between Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump</span></i>.”</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Want
my reply? Tough shit! That’s life, that’s our political, electoral reality, fucking deal with it. Those
are your – and our<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> - </span>real world choices.
Are you going to be a fucking baby and cry about those choices, or will you
act the only realistic and adult way possible? That means to put on your big boy pants and ensure a craven traitor degenerate, criminal rapist
and wannabe dictator does not assume power again.</span></span></p><p class="css-at9mc1" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: large; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">The kid who offered this quote to the Times is among the whining brat brigade who proudly shows he's not got any 'big boy' pants to put on:</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif" style="color: #363636; font-size: 20px;">“</span><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif" style="font-size: 20px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">I acknowledge the American right to vote, but we also have the right to not do so, especially if you don’t agree with any of the candidates,”</span></span></span></p><p class="css-at9mc1" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif" style="color: #363636; font-size: large;">Yes, you do you spineless, gutless little worm. You <u>do</u> have the right not to vote, a right that hundreds of thousands of our troops fought (and died) for you to exercise, like my dad fighting in World War Two. But just know that not voting is also a choice. In this case the choice to enable a possible return to power of Traitor Trump by giving your vote away to others who may not have the nation's interests at heart.</span></span></p>
<p class="css-at9mc1" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"> <span>Meanwhile Alyssa Bradley, </span></span><span><span color="var(--color-content-secondary,#363636)" face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif">Michigan communications director for the Biden campaign, said Mr. Biden “<span style="color: #800180;">has taken historic action to support young Americans</span>,” pointing to his</span><span color="var(--color-content-secondary,#363636)" face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif"> </span><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/climate/inflation-reduction-act-progress-climate.html" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">passage of climate policy</a><span color="var(--color-content-secondary,#363636)" face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif">, millions in</span><span color="var(--color-content-secondary,#363636)" face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif"> </span><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/us/politics/biden-student-loan-forgiveness-debt.html#:~:text=Mr.%20Biden%20on%20Wednesday%20canceled,for%20about%2043%20million%20borrowers." style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">student loan forgiveness</a><span color="var(--color-content-secondary,#363636)" face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif">, and his</span><span color="var(--color-content-secondary,#363636)" face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif"> </span><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/20/us/politics/biden-harris-roe-abortion.html#:~:text=Politics-,Biden%20Campaign%20Sharpens%20Its%20Post%2DRoe%20Message%3A%20Abortion%20Is%20About,Trump%20is%20re%2Delected." style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">backing of abortion access</a>.</span></span></p><p class="css-at9mc1" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span><span color="var(--color-content-secondary,#363636)" face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif" style="font-size: large;">The collegiate and under 30s need to remember that and to also bear in mind:</span></span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #800180;">“Our rights, our future and our democracy are on the line this election</span><span style="color: #ba0000;">."</span></span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">To me that ought to be ample to get any young sprat motivated and energized enough to go out there to help canvass votes for Joe Biden. </span></span></p><p class="css-at9mc1" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: large; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><b>See Also:</b></span></p><p class="css-at9mc1" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: large; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://brane-space.blogspot.com/2023/09/note-to-age-biased-voters-it-will-be.html">Note To Age-Biased Voters: It WILL Be Biden Vs. Trump Next Year - And Don't Even Think Of Sitting This One Out - Or Voting 3rd Party!</a></span></p><p class="css-at9mc1" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: medium; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><b>And:</b></span></p><ul class="posts" style="background-color: #fff9ee; border-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: 1.2; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -15px;"><li style="background: none; border-width: 0px; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0.25em 0px; padding: 0.25em 0px 0.25em 1.3em;"><a href="https://brane-space.blogspot.com/2022/10/young-18-29-yrs-voters-confused-and.html" style="color: #ff1900;"><span style="font-size: large;">Young (18-29 Yrs.) Voters "Confused" And "Paralyzed...</span></a></li><li style="background: none; border-width: 0px; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0.25em 0px; padding: 0.25em 0px 0.25em 1.3em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; text-indent: 0px;"><b>And:</b></span></li></ul><div><a href="https://brane-space.blogspot.com/2024/01/german-political-author-of-80-years-ago.html"><span style="font-size: large;"> German Author - And Contemporary Of Hitler's - Has Words Of Warning For Americans Today</span></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>And:</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="nodebar" style="background-color: #0000aa; color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/topics/in-the-news/2024-elections" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">2024 Elections</a> | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/topics/the-trump-administration/donald-trump" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Donald Trump</a> | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/taxonomy/term/2" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Republicans</a></div><div class="nodetitle" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 4px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/thom-hartmann/109530/the-new-over-the-top-secret-plan-on-how-fascists-could-win-in-2024" style="color: #660000; text-decoration-line: none;">The New "Over the Top" Secret Plan on How Fascists Could Win in 2024</a></div><span class="nodeby" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; padding-bottom: 3px;">by <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/user/thom-hartmann" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Thom Hartmann</a> | February 27, 2024 - 7:38am | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/thom-hartmann/109530/the-new-over-the-top-secret-plan-on-how-fascists-could-win-in-2024" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">permalink</a></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11px;"></span><div class="nodebody" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-size: 14px;"><b><i><a href="https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-new-over-the-top-secret-plan-518" style="color: #0000aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">— from The Hartmann Report</a></i></b></p><p style="font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" height="203" src="https://i.imgflip.com/6xoh32.jpg" style="border: 0px;" width="360" /></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Back on March 13, 2020 — almost exactly four years ago — I <a href="https://hartmannreport.com/p/trumps-secret-plan-was-no-secret" rel="" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">wrote an article</a> that was published at <a href="https://hartmannreport.com/p/trumps-secret-plan-was-no-secret" rel="" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">alternet.org</a> laying out how Republicans were then, ten months before January 6th, planning to partially repeat the debacle of the election of 1876 by having Vice President Pence refuse to certify swing state votes and thus throw the election to the House to keep Trump in office, no matter how the election went.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">When I published the <a href="https://hartmannreport.com/p/trumps-secret-plan-was-no-secret" rel="" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">article</a> ten months <em>before</em> January 6th, I received concerned and even alarmed communications from several Democratic strategists and a few elected officials who basically said they didn’t think there was any way Trump would try such an audacious move and, if he did, he wouldn’t get away with it.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">But I was right and that was exactly what Trump had up his sleeve. We saw it play out on January 6th. The only thing that stopped him was Pence’s unwillingness to go along with stealing an election.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Now I’m hearing a new story from those same GOP insiders (as well as other commentators) about Trump’s schemes for 2024. Here’s what I’m hearing Republicans are planning in the event Joe Biden wins re-election and Democrats hold the Senate and take the House this November:</span></p></div></span></div>Copernicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16699554476216140859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301096656497422535.post-11496678166073387182024-02-26T07:33:00.000-08:002024-02-26T13:30:23.224-08:00One-Of-A-Kind Puzzle For The Math Whiz<p> </p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjrjSiJEe22QzgRbEoZoEy1C44dnCGR95km4QyGXJYusQOn7WC2Vk7CDSt3jj8aXY0rFV_W3qn48jB952XSAgigD-ExC6LjOkXewugt8FlTSzz3XFABw7nxqbyPAsz1JPuGAfNluUsoZRTcT4ja0jWTgeCX96mk9xJrzYkQJr19klEdOCsvt2tWiIGWA/s598/MATH%20Mensa%20Puzzle.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="353" data-original-width="598" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjrjSiJEe22QzgRbEoZoEy1C44dnCGR95km4QyGXJYusQOn7WC2Vk7CDSt3jj8aXY0rFV_W3qn48jB952XSAgigD-ExC6LjOkXewugt8FlTSzz3XFABw7nxqbyPAsz1JPuGAfNluUsoZRTcT4ja0jWTgeCX96mk9xJrzYkQJr19klEdOCsvt2tWiIGWA/w403-h238/MATH%20Mensa%20Puzzle.jpg" width="403" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The figure shown above contains four squares which are arranged such that:</span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">i) No two squares overlap, only touch at corners</span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">ii) Squares A and C touch B and D, but not each other.</span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">iii)Squares B and D touch every other square.</span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">iv) Squares A, C and D each have a corner on a common line.</span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Show that the length of a side of square B is <b><i>twice the length of a side of square D</i></b>.</span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Solution will be posted by the end of the week.</span></p>Copernicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16699554476216140859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301096656497422535.post-20124986631033843962024-02-23T06:43:00.000-08:002024-02-24T06:53:22.211-08:00Commercial Lunar Landing Of 'Odysseus' Should Not Be Hailed As Any "Major" U.S. Space Accomplishment<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpSqcm9CfmaYMhsFyki1OBevT6KlLjytZnQ7CmdjgKNqL9BVA1yyiAEGIlG6sBvvYSMsszazcMrJNY2Nx1RUpG-sbbnDxAH_urYHqCtj4Cf4N_mafdQNRBFYBfPsPskdobdIdFdxhwH-w08EnQEWjx5BAhdutk2AwB2dIf3WUXDgoUpENVkohYmDeMog/s369/Apollo%2017%20.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="328" data-original-width="369" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpSqcm9CfmaYMhsFyki1OBevT6KlLjytZnQ7CmdjgKNqL9BVA1yyiAEGIlG6sBvvYSMsszazcMrJNY2Nx1RUpG-sbbnDxAH_urYHqCtj4Cf4N_mafdQNRBFYBfPsPskdobdIdFdxhwH-w08EnQEWjx5BAhdutk2AwB2dIf3WUXDgoUpENVkohYmDeMog/w355-h315/Apollo%2017%20.jpg" width="355" /></a></div> <b><i> Last successful U.S. Moon landing - Apollo 17 in December, 1972</i></b><p></p><p class="live-blog-post-content" style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Yesterday, a robotic lander named "Odysseus" succeeded in making the first U.S. landing on the Moon’s surface in more than 50 years. A tense </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">several minutes elapsed in which ground controllers were unsure about the health of the spacecraft, designed and operated by Houston-based <i>Intuitive Machines</i>, a private company. Shortly, however, company officials declared it had landed successfully and was communicating with Earth. About two hours after the landing, the company confirmed that “</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">after troubleshooting communications</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">” the spacecraft was indeed standing upright, a momentous feat for the growing commercial space industry. </span></p><p class="live-blog-post-content" style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" style="background-color: white; font-size: 1.25rem;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Odysseus touched down at 6:23 p.m. Eastern, near the lunar south pole, after a week-long journey that appeared to go very well from the moment it launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center. </span></span><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 1.25rem;">But as it prepared to descend to the surface ground controllers realized that lasers intended to determine its altitude and horizontal velocity, key data points for it autonomously to land softly on the surface of the moon, weren’t working. </span></p><p class="live-blog-post-content" style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 1.25rem;">They then ordered the craft to take an additional orbit around the moon before the landing attempt</span><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: bolder;"> </span><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 1.25rem;">while uploading a software patch that would allow the spacecraft to begin using a <b>NASA Doppler Lidar</b></span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: georgia; font-size: 1.25rem;"><b> </b></i><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 1.25rem;"><b>system </b>that was to have been a technology demonstration during the flight. In other words, NASA saved the butts of the private company to enable its landing over 50 years post -Apollo.</span></p><p class="live-blog-post-content" style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 1.25rem;">While the event does mark a major accomplishment, it needs to be viewed in a broader perspective. True enough, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">the company’s 14-foot-tall Nova-C lander (unmanned) marks the first time a commercial spacecraft has reached the lunar surface. Other private missions have all ended in disaster, e.g. landers from </span><span style="color: #121212; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/26/science/moon-crash-japan-ispace.html" style="color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-indent: -0.25in; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">a Japanese company</span></a><span style="color: #121212; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;"> and </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/science/israel-moon-landing-beresheet.html" style="color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-indent: -0.25in; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">an Israeli nonprofit</span></a><span style="color: #121212; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;"> each crashed onto the Moon's surface. Another American company's craft malfunctioned en route to the Moon and </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/18/science/moon-lander-peregrine-nasa.html" style="color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-indent: -0.25in; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">burned up in Earth’s atmosphere</span></a><span style="color: #121212; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-indent: -0.25in;">.</span></p><p class="live-blog-post-content" style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">Yes, it also validates a big bet that NASA placed several years ago when it started a $2.9 billion program to hire a fleet of robotic, private-sector spacecraft to carry science experiments, technology instruments and eventually cargo to the moon. But from a decades' long perspective, it isn't truly that heart -stopping. Think of it! Over fifty years ago, December 7, 1972, Apollo 17 actually touched down on the lunar surface with humans aboard. In addition, the mission featured </span><span style="background: rgb(248, 249, 250); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Lunar_Module" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Apollo Lunar Module"><span style="background: rgb(248, 249, 250); color: #3366cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Apollo Lunar
Module</span></a></span><span style="background: rgb(248, 249, 250); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><i><span style="font-size: large;">Challenger</span></i><span style="font-size: large;"> and a </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Roving_Vehicle" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Lunar Roving Vehicle"><span style="background: rgb(248, 249, 250); color: #3366cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Lunar Roving
Vehicle</span></a>. </span></p><p class="live-blog-post-content" style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">That was over 50 years ago, a half century- and before the invention of cell phones and the internet - and you're telling me the best we can do now is land a 14-foot-tall tin can, no humans. And not even mobile machines to scout around as seen in the top image? Give me a break. In my thinking, we have barely gone back to 'mark zero', even before the manned lunar missions began in 1969. That isn't any kind of progress, but given the hiatus, yes I admit, it <u><i>appears</i></u> to be an advancement. </span></p><p class="live-blog-post-content" style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">But what I am really waiting for is for the U.S. to get back to 'match point' and <i><b>human lunar landings</b></i> which will at least equal what was accomplished via Apollo back in December, 1972. That, alas, must await the start of the Artemis manned lunar missions, e.g.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><a href="https://brane-space.blogspot.com/2022/11/artemis-finally-blasts-off-and-one.html"><span style="font-size: large;">Artemis Finally Blasts Off - And One Hopes The Trio Of Anatomical Dummies Aboard Survive </span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">Trouble is there are doubts even accomplishing that.</span></span> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Appearing in a CBS Morning interview on Aug. 24, 2022 NASA Inspector General <b>Paul Martin</b> is not convinced the Artemis mission will land on the Moon with a human crew before late 2026. Thereby contradicting NASA Director Bill Nelson who argued (in the same segment) that
2025 "is doable." <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Martin cited two prime reasons for the delay: 1)
the Technological complexity of the missions, and 2) Poor project
planning. Already at the time of the CBS interview there was a cost overrun of $40 billion and Martin
estimated the total cost would mount to $93 billon through 2025. Now, while
this sounds like a lot let’s bear in mind each year the Pentagon gets $800
billion. And it still can’t account (in spending) for $2.2 trillion
amassed during the 1990s.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Artemis, all Intuitive Machines
exploits aside, will be the <b>real test</b> for a lunar landing: i.e. getting humans
back matching the last Apollo mission in 1972. While it is cool to see a private American company roughly match what the Russians' 1973</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; line-height: 107%;"> <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_21" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Luna 21">Luna 21</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> mission achieved, it leaves lots to be desired. Recall the Luna 21 carried</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #3366cc; font-family: georgia; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Lunokhod">Lunokhod</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: georgia;"> vehicles- the first robotic wheeled vehicles to explore the Moon's terrain.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">The main takeaway here is that while the Odysseus landing reminds us - those of us who lived in the 50s - 60s - of how great American space achievements can be, it is still small potatoes by comparison. We have basically 50 plus years of actual advancement in space to make up for, and I am still waiting for that to happen. </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>See Also:</b></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://brane-space.blogspot.com/2014/07/remembering-apollo-moon-landing-and-how.html"><b>Remembering the Apollo Moon Landing - And How Far Our Manned Space Vision Has Regressed </b></a></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>And:</i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/video/odysseus-spacecraft-makes-first-us-moon-landing-in-over-50-years/20D956CC-AE86-4DFD-B875-74AB9B80621F?mod=hp_trending_now_video_pos2"><span style="font-size: large;">Odysseus Spacecraft Makes First U.S. Moon Landing In Over 50 Years (wsj.com)</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /><a class="WSJTheme--link--c8R_c_Vx WSJTheme--video-link--2xKPKh9g" href="https://www.wsj.com/video/odysseus-spacecraft-makes-first-us-moon-landing-in-over-50-years/20D956CC-AE86-4DFD-B875-74AB9B80621F.html?mod=hp_trending_now_video_pos2" style="align-items: center; border-top: 1px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); color: black; display: flex; outline-offset: 1px; outline: none; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; width: 306.854px;"></a></p>Copernicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16699554476216140859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301096656497422535.post-6185266214561002462024-02-22T07:17:00.000-08:002024-02-23T09:51:01.494-08:00Alabama SC Ruling Overshadows Trump Allies Draconian Plan To Ban Abortions Nationwide Using 1873 Law<p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYhbgsOSgstbSUDh35PgtsGBDVN96b276GPv90-d_nX8Q7rxwc2Aj7-BLAWr6gD2nbN5dRshOorytmVHW1CXbcaH0WHE34XotIxSumckr-CBnFwa4xsAZH9xcMa_XKwh4pnZ7qqyKZIjNiWxEQ9ieUlB1Gln9spKegFmwNP5orlaGQSGKHn_3DD7Ou1A/s400/Doofus10-%20Fetus.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="400" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYhbgsOSgstbSUDh35PgtsGBDVN96b276GPv90-d_nX8Q7rxwc2Aj7-BLAWr6gD2nbN5dRshOorytmVHW1CXbcaH0WHE34XotIxSumckr-CBnFwa4xsAZH9xcMa_XKwh4pnZ7qqyKZIjNiWxEQ9ieUlB1Gln9spKegFmwNP5orlaGQSGKHn_3DD7Ou1A/w493-h225/Doofus10-%20Fetus.jpg" width="493" /></a></span></span></div><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">With the new Alabama Supreme Court Ruling that embryos are "children", i.e.</span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="headline relative gray-darkest pb-xs" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><h2 class="wpds-c-iiQaMf wpds-c-iiQaMf-igUpeQR-css" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-headline); font-size: var(--wpds-fontSizes-250); font-weight: var(--wpds-fontWeights-bold); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-110); margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a data-pb-local-content-field="web_headline" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/02/20/alabama-supreme-court-ivf-embryos/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Shock, anger, confusion grip Alabama after court ruling on embryos</a></h2></div><div class="pb-xs font-size-blurb lh-fronts-tiny font-light gray-dark" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3; padding-bottom: 8px;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/02/20/alabama-supreme-court-ivf-embryos/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">The state Supreme Court decision signals a new chapter in America’s fight over reproductive rights and marks another blow to women’s rights groups who expect similar challenges in other conservative states.</a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">Women in the middle of In-Vitro Fertilization procedures have been knocked for a loop. That this ruling is a cockeyed abomination is self-evident. Leave aside for the moment the fact that no sane person in his or her right mind can possibly regard a "<em>zygote</em>" as a person (i.e. child), or a fetus as an (<em>already born</em>) "baby". It follows that neither can an embryo be regarded as a child either.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">There is simply no standard by which that passes even elemental laws or tests of logic, or science. A child cannot be an "unborn" embryo because by definition it <em>has already been born</em>! Thus, we send the 'child' to school, get him to do his homework, to take his medicine, cross streets safely, respect his elders and so on. If unborn, it's a <strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">fetus</span></strong><b>,</b> or an embryo but not a "child" - so all those activities are preposterous. They also show the entity is not a person. Don't these ignorant twits know any better? Did they even take basic high school biology?</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-size: 1.25rem;">Look for other red state supreme courts to now run muck following the first cracker state's lead to implement more stringent anti-abortion legislation. </span> </p><p><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-size: 20px;">This has also come on the heels of the recent report by Lisa Lerer and Elizabeth Dias (<u><i>NY Times</i></u>) that allies of Trump are now getting ready to implement some of the most draconian anti-abortion laws on the planet, one wonders how many Americans are on to it. According to the pair's Feb. 16 reporting:</span></p><p><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-size: 20px;">"</span><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px;"><span style="color: #800180;">Allies of former president Donald Trump and officials who served in his </span></span><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, times new roman, times, serif"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span style="color: #800180;">administration are now planning ways to restrict abortion in ways hitherto unseen. This assumes a return to power in November in which case an impetus for a national ban on abortion will take hold which goes far beyond laws already enacted in conservative states across the country</span><span style="color: #363636;">."</span></span></span></p><p><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, times new roman, times, serif"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span style="color: #363636;">Adding: </span><span style="color: #800180;">"Behind the scenes the specific anti-abortion bans being proposed by Trump's allies are sweeping and legally sophisticated. Some of their proposals would rely on enforcing the long dormant Comstock Act of 1873 to criminalize the shipping of any materials used in abortion to anywhere in the U.S</span><span style="color: #363636;">." </span></span></span></p><p><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, times new roman, times, serif"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span style="color: #363636;">For those who need reminders of the Comstock Act and its background please see:</span></span></span></p><p><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, times new roman, times, serif"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span style="color: #363636;"></span></span></span></p><ul class="posts" style="background-color: #fff9ee; border-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: 1.2; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -15px;"><li style="background: none; border-width: 0px; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0.25em 0px; padding: 0.25em 0px 0.25em 1.3em;"><a href="https://brane-space.blogspot.com/2023/04/could-revival-of-1873-really-make.html" style="color: #ff1900;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Could Revival Of An 1873 Law Really Make Medicated Abortion Illegal Nationwide?...</span></b></a></li></ul><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span face=""var(--wpds-fonts-body)", serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">And:</span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span face=""var(--wpds-fonts-body)", serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span face=""var(--wpds-fonts-body)", serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></p><ul class="posts" style="background-color: #fff9ee; border-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: 1.2; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -15px;"><li style="background: none; border-width: 0px; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0.25em 0px; padding: 0.25em 0px 0.25em 1.3em;"><a href="https://brane-space.blogspot.com/2014/08/anthony-comstock-and-legacy-of-anti.html" style="color: #ff1900;"><span style="font-size: large;">Anthony Comstock: The Legacy of an Anti-Sex Zealot</span></a></li></ul><div style="text-indent: -15px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><br /></span></div><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="background-color: white; color: #363636; font-size: 1.25rem;"> Much of this will also mark the take off point for the campaign being planned by Trump allies to toll back all abortion access is people are stupid enough to vote him back in. Or get distracted, i.e. by Biden's age, Gaza, inflation or what not to not vote at all or leave the presidential choice blank. We know in the midst of chaos and distracting events and issues voter IQs can crater. But this election is not the time to let it happen. </span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="background-color: white;"> Jonathan F. Mitchell, the deranged brain behind the 2021 Texas law that enabled vigilantes to track women seeking abortions in that state, has been forthright in his aims if Trump gets back in. As reported by Lerer and Dias, quoting the zealot:</span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="background-color: white;">"We don't need a federal ban when we have Comstock on the books. We have a smorgasbord of options."</span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="background-color: white;">Adding:</span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">"I hope he (Trump) doesn't know about Comstock, because I just don't want him shooting his mouth off prematurely. We need to get elected first. I also think the pro-life groups should keep their mouths shut as much as possible until the election.</span><span style="color: #363636;">" </span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="background-color: white;">In other words, these verminous rats are ready to spring it on a mostly unwary populace in the wake of the Nov. 5 election, when most might just have pulled the lever to get rid of a too-old guy like Biden. Who is seen as barely able to walk with an ounce of vigor, and whom the Right media has painted as the next thing to an animated vegetable. But beware, because this is just the sort of distraction the Right's fevered loons want.</span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="background-color: white;">To be sure, polling clearly shows that plans banning or severely limiting abortion would be severely unpopular. But let's be frank: unpopular laws - like those giving inordinate protection to gun owners- have a way of getting passed just the same. In the case of the Comstock anti-abortion legislation envisaged by Mitchell and his Trumper apes, it would be a simple matter of applying the Comstock law to whatever impediment they can conceive.</span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="background-color: white;">Let us further note the irony here in all these planned anti-abortion laws. That is, even if passed widely or if a national ban is enacted, the Rights legal maestros have no intention of helping those millions of newly hatched embryos - who now have become actual children. Children who need school meals, or just basic nutrition in homes stretched too thin.</span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="background-color: white;">Thus, we have seen the recent spectacle of Nebraska governor Jim Pillen who rejected free government nutritional aid to his state, declaring: "I don't believe in welfare". Later reversing course after a state legislator introduced a bill to require participation. But other red states have not been so compliant. Gov. Tate Reeves in Mississippi, for example, declared the nutrition assistance an "unnecessary big government program". This prompted a pregnant Mississippian to remark: "Why do you care so much about how many babies I'm having or aborting when I still have to feed this child? Why do you care, when you are not helping me to do that?"</span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="background-color: white;">Well, because none of these crackers, whether in Mississippi, Alabama or Texas really care if an embryo is a human or not. Once it actually gets born, exits the womb and becomes an actual child - they want no part in facilitating any sustained nutrition program. Too much money! Too much welfare! Just use the anti-abortion and "personhood" themes as cudgels to try to keep American women barefoot and pregnant - under the thumbs of their respective red states. </span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="background-color: white;">And just in case you think this plot by Trump's allies to savage abortion rights is the only thing they've got up their sleeve, think again! They also have a plan for military mass deportations and detention camps e.g.</span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><h2 class="wpds-c-iiQaMf wpds-c-iiQaMf-ikZTsyd-css" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-headline); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-110); margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a data-pb-local-content-field="web_headline" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/20/trump-mass-deportations-immigration/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Trump and allies plotting militarized mass deportations, detention camps</span></a></h2><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="background-color: white;">Should this slimy traitor refuse manage to grab power again, or entice enough dummies to vote for him.</span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>See Also:</b></span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/19/alabama-supreme-court-embryos-children-ivf/"><b>Alabama Supreme Court rules frozen embryos are children, imperiling IVF - The Washington Post</b></a></span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b style="font-size: 20px;">And:</b></span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b style="font-size: 20px;"><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b style="font-size: 20px;"></b></span></span></p><h3 class="WSJTheme--headline--unZqjb45 undefined WSJTheme--heading-4--2dw6NZJL typography--serif-display--ZXeuhS5E" style="font-family: "Escrow Condensed", Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/alabama-supreme-court-embryo-ivf-uncertainty-88cf2146?mod=hp_lead_pos11" style="color: #0080c3; outline-offset: -2px; outline: rgb(0, 128, 195) solid 3px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="WSJTheme--headlineText--He1ANr9C" style="padding-inline-end: 12px;">Alabama’s Embryo Ruling Challenges IVF Practices Nationwide</span></a></h3><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b style="font-size: 20px;"><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b style="font-size: 20px;">And:</b></span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b style="font-size: 20px;"><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><a href="https://brane-space.blogspot.com/2021/09/texas-version-of-taliban-imposes.html"><b>Texas Version Of Taliban Imposes Draconian Abortion Law - Time To Boycott & Strike</b></a></span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>And:</b></span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="nodetitle" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 4px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/jim-hightower/109479/abortion-ban-extremists-are-using-a-slave-law-to-repress-women" style="color: #660000; text-decoration-line: none;">Abortion Ban Extremists Are Using a Slave Law to Repress Women</a></div><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0in; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #363636;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="nodeby" style="color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; padding-bottom: 3px;">by <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/profile/jim-hightower" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Jim Hightower</a> | February 22, 2024 - 6:42am | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/jim-hightower/109479/abortion-ban-extremists-are-using-a-slave-law-to-repress-women" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">permalink</a></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11px;"></span></span></span></p><div class="nodebody" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-size: 14px;"><b><i><a href="https://otherwords.org/abortion-ban-extremists-are-using-a-slave-law-to-repress-women/" style="color: #0000aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">— from OtherWords</a></i></b></p><p style="font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" height="240" src="https://i0.wp.com/otherwords.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/shutterstock_1012683409.jpg?resize=1000%2C667&ssl=1" style="border: 0px;" width="360" /></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Excerpt:</span></b></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Here’s our big word of the day: <i>extraterritoriality</i>. It expresses a sketchy legal theory asserting that rulers in one state have a right to enforce their laws in another state.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Its most prominent was in the infamous Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which required officials in Northern anti-slave states to capture and return escaped slaves to their plantation “owners” in the South, thus applying Southern slave laws in Northern jurisdictions. This abomination was finally repealed in 1864.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">But 160 years later, here comes another faction of right-wing zealots trying to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/11/01/texas-abortion-law-history-rights-suppressed/" role="link" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">revive the slave-law concept of extraterritoriality</a> — this time applying it to any and all American women who dare to make their own reproductive health decisions.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">I’m ashamed to say that this repressive use of the doctrine is being led by my state’s misogynistic governor, Greg Abbott, and our corrupt attorney general, Ken Paxton. These two tyrannical men have already saddled Texas women with the most draconian abortion ban in the country, including piously forbidding abortion in cases of rape and incest.</span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>Copernicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16699554476216140859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301096656497422535.post-60349298823093499332024-02-21T06:06:00.000-08:002024-02-26T07:42:24.792-08:00Facing A Half-Billion Bond To Appeal How Many More Grifter Gimmicks Has Trump Up His Sleeve?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV8glrueC9MTxF5eRgsKVqSI6iO6DzzE60IszDAYzaWxXQYGa7I7r0TCKkwph7X8Jg6F-bzjE9E_0FfCsz67PcVWXBcjOqF4eE_bvi-SBf9aMpy3L3wrI04J3n8Oi_SU1NCm0CHHH3F24nTB2-sNp8j7OLic3UALqk07lBKYEv1b535S-BnBwpydb5Qg/s849/Trump%20Gold%20shoes.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="637" data-original-width="849" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV8glrueC9MTxF5eRgsKVqSI6iO6DzzE60IszDAYzaWxXQYGa7I7r0TCKkwph7X8Jg6F-bzjE9E_0FfCsz67PcVWXBcjOqF4eE_bvi-SBf9aMpy3L3wrI04J3n8Oi_SU1NCm0CHHH3F24nTB2-sNp8j7OLic3UALqk07lBKYEv1b535S-BnBwpydb5Qg/w408-h306/Trump%20Gold%20shoes.jpg" width="408" /></a></div> <b><i> Trump trots out his $399 gold sneakers at 'Sneaker Con' in Philly</i></b><p></p><p><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" face="var(--wpds-fonts-body)" style="font-size: 1.25rem;"><br /></span></p><p><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" face="var(--wpds-fonts-body)" style="font-size: 1.25rem;">Bleeding cash, after facing pressure from NYC AG Letitia James to put up almost $500m for a bond in order to appeal his tax inflation-deflation conviction, Traitor Trump appeared this past weekend at Philly's Sneaker Con — a footwear convention for shoe aficionados and collectors.</span></p><p><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" face="var(--wpds-fonts-body)" style="font-size: 1.25rem;"> </span><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" face="var(--wpds-fonts-body)" style="font-size: 1.25rem;">Onstage, the Reepos' front-running, Putin-loving traitor - who has doubled down on inviting Russian attacks on NATO countries- held up golden sneakers emblazoned with his “T” logo and the American flag. Some in the crowd cheered as the president called the shoes “<b><i>the real deal</i></b>.” </span></p><p><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" face="var(--wpds-fonts-body)" style="font-size: 1.25rem;">What real deal, maestro? You mean they won't not fall apart after walking or running in them for a block, like your Trump University cratered? Then boasting:</span></p><p><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" face="var(--wpds-fonts-body)" style="font-size: 1.25rem;">“<span style="color: #2b00fe;">I’ve wanted to do this for a long time! I think it’s gonna be a big success.”</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">The only "big success" in fact, is likely going to be the scamming of a multitude of dummies and suckers into buying his</span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;"> “N<i>ever Surrender High-Tops</i>”. These garish clown shoes are just the latest product in the endless line up of grifter gimmicks to entice the low IQ demographic to dump money into his bogus presidential campaign or subsidize his gargantuan legal bills. </span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;"> The moronic red '<i>Make America Great Again</i>' ball caps have already made scads of money for him to lure millions of bucks from the pockets and bank accounts of millions of grievance-filled dopes. </span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">Nor will these likely be the last. This grifter needs tons of money - literally hundreds of millions - to pay off all his fines, legal penalties as well as billable hours (which by now must total 1 billion).These have now exploded after two verdicts, one awarding $83.3 million to E. Jean Carroll and $355m in fines for his New York tax manipulation schemes.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" face="var(--wpds-fonts-body)">Aside from the infamous “<i>Make America Great</i></span><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" face="var(--wpds-fonts-body)" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"><i> </i></span><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" face="var(--wpds-fonts-body)"><i>Again</i>” red caps, the insurrectionist's lines of merchandise have included</span><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" face="var(--wpds-fonts-body)"> </span><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-mug-shot-shirt-mug-merchandise-campaign-never-surrender/" style="border-bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">shirts sporting his mug shot </a><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" face="var(--wpds-fonts-body)">as well as</span><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" face="var(--wpds-fonts-body)"> </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-products/?itid=lk_inline_manual_12" style="border-bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">Trump-branded vodka, cologne, shirts, ties — even furniture</a><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" face="var(--wpds-fonts-body)">. </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">According to a website dedicated solely to Trump’s sneakers, the shoe line is “super limited” — only 1,000 pairs were being sold.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">In other words, assuming all the shoes have sold out - i.e. at least a thousand dummies with four hundreds bucks each to blow on sneakers, the orange imp will make $400,000. But that isn't even enough to cover lawyer Alina Alba's billable hours for one week. So no, I don't buy it's "super limited", I buy it's a test run to see if Trump's minions are prepared to shell out even more $$$ to support him. </span></p><p><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" face="var(--wpds-fonts-body)" style="font-size: large;">The small print on the site notes that the shoes are not “designed, manufactured, distributed or sold” by Trump or his organization but rather by a company identified as 45Footwear, LLC, which uses Trump’s name and likeness under a license agreement. The site claims to be “not political and has nothing to do with any political campaign.”</span></p><p><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" face="var(--wpds-fonts-body)" style="font-size: large;">But Dotard seemed to imply that the shoes were part of an effort to reach younger voters, saying: “<span style="color: #2b00fe;">We’ve got to get the young people out to vote</span>.”</span></p><p><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" face="var(--wpds-fonts-body)" style="font-size: large;">Why any young person - say between 18 and 24 - would cast a vote for this orange pestilence is beyond me. That would mean they do not give a rat's ass about the planet's climate, their own future reproductive rights, or the nation's future - not necessarily in that order.</span></p><p><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" face="var(--wpds-fonts-body)" style="font-size: large;">But never fear. There appear to be plenty of dummies Trump has hooked on his fake success shtick. By Sunday morning, the shoes appeared to have sold out and Trump’s site promised they are estimated to ship in July.</span></p><p><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" face="var(--wpds-fonts-body)" style="font-size: large;">The site also offers two different $199 pairs of Trump shoes — not gold, but red or white. The perennial traitor misfit is also selling a new cologne on the site, “<i>Victory,</i>” which the site promises to ship out by June. The stuff is described as “<i>the signature scent of strength and success” d</i>esigned “<i>for the decisive and the bold.” Read: </i>Insurrectionist loons and traitors. </span></p><p><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" face="var(--wpds-fonts-body)" style="font-size: large;">Also dummies. Buying grift from this orange baboon and thinking he has superior mastery in economics over Biden as a "businessman". Never mind he cratered 6 businesses into bankruptcy before even running for president.</span></p><p><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" face="var(--wpds-fonts-body)" style="font-size: 1.25rem;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">In his speech on
Saturday Trump brought a crying supporter on stage. The woman exclaimed: </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">"<i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">My kids need you, Trump. I love this man, we need him. He's a good
Christian. He's a good honest man, go out and vote for Trump</span></i>."</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Lady, a "good Christian" doesn't grab pussies, rape other women (like E. Jean Carroll) and brag about putting to death our top generals (like Gen. Mark Milley), while vowing that if elected he would allow Russia to "do anything they want" to NATO countries.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" face="var(--wpds-fonts-body)">Now as to some good news, though we know it may not impact the November election as much as a real patriot might want: </span><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #363636;">A </span><a class="css-yywogo" href="http://www.brandonrottinghaus.com/uploads/1/0/8/7/108798321/presidential_greatness_white_paper_2024.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">new poll of historians</a><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, times new roman, times, serif" style="color: #363636;"><span> which came out on Presidents’ Day weekend ranked Joe Biden as the 14th-best president in American history, just ahead of Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan and Ulysses S. Grant. True, that may not get Mr. Biden a spot-on Mount Rushmore, but it certainly puts him well ahead of Mr. Trump, who places dead last as the worst president ever. But you already knew that, right?</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, times new roman, times, serif" style="color: #363636;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>See Also:</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, times new roman, times, serif" style="color: #363636;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></p><div class="node" style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><div class="nodebar" style="background-color: #0000aa; color: white; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/topics/the-trump-administration/donald-trump" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Donald Trump</a></div><div class="nodetitle" style="color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 4px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/carl-gibson/109447/trump-s-brand-is-now-synonymous-with-fraud-and-failure-after-450m-judgment" style="color: #660000; text-decoration-line: none;">Trump’s Brand Is Now Synonymous With Fraud and Failure After $450M Judgment</a></div><span class="nodeby" style="color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; padding-bottom: 3px;">by <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/profile/carl-gibson" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Carl Gibson</a> | February 18, 2024 - 7:01am | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/carl-gibson/109447/trump-s-brand-is-now-synonymous-with-fraud-and-failure-after-450m-judgment" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">permalink</a></span><span style="font-size: 11px;"></span><div class="nodebody" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-size: 14px;"><b><i><a href="https://www.alternet.org/trump-brand-fraud-failure/" style="color: #0000aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">— from Alternet</a></i></b></p><p style="font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" height="203" src="https://www.alternet.org/media-library/image.jpg?id=25190878&width=1245&height=700&quality=85&coordinates=0%2C11%2C0%2C11" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px;" width="360" /></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Former President Donald Trump's business empire was dealt a severe blow by New York Judge Arthur Engoron on Friday, and one longtime Democratic strategist is arguing that the nine-figure judgment is a lasting stain on Trump's image as a savvy business magnate.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">In a <a class="rm-stats-tracked" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/17/trump-hubris-family-empire-new-york" style="color: #993300; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Saturday column for the Guardian</a>, Sidney Blumenthal — who was a senior adviser to former President Bill Clinton — wrote that despite his father, Fred, trusting him with both his sizable real estate portfolio and the family's name, Trump has been "steering the family legacy on to the rocks."</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">"Judge Arthur Engoron’s ruling on Friday concludes the nearly century-long history of the Trump Organization in New York in disgrace and ruin," Blumenthal wrote. "The Trump brand is now adjudicated to be synonymous with fraud and failure."</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">The $355 million judgment Engoron handed down <a class="rm-stats-tracked" href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-faces-massive-fines-court-cases-struggle-pay/story?id=107236168" style="color: #993300; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">comes with roughly $90 million in interest</a> that accrues every day the sum is not paid, according to New York Attorney General Letitia James. That means the former president's civil fraud judgment hovers around the half-billion mark. According to Blumenthal, this marks a new low for Trump, who — along with his father Fred — reached their "pinnacle of acceptance" in New York City in the late 1970s.</span></p></div></div><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, times new roman, times, serif" style="color: #363636;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>And:</b></span></span></span></p><div class="nodebar" style="background-color: #0000aa; color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/topics/the-trump-administration/donald-trump" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Donald Trump</a> | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/taxonomy/term/2" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Republicans</a></div><div class="nodetitle" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 4px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/carl-gibson/109509/they-are-going-to-empty-the-coffers-gop-panics-as-trump-s-legal-costs-hurt-fundraising" style="color: #660000; text-decoration-line: none;">‘They Are Going To Empty the Coffers’: GOP Panics As Trump’s Legal Costs Hurt Fundraising</a></div><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, times new roman, times, serif" style="color: #363636;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="nodeby" style="color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; padding-bottom: 3px;">by <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/profile/carl-gibson" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Carl Gibson</a> | February 25, 2024 - 7:19am | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/carl-gibson/109509/they-are-going-to-empty-the-coffers-gop-panics-as-trump-s-legal-costs-hurt-fundraising" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">permalink</a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="nodebody" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-size: 14px;"><b><i><a href="https://www.alternet.org/empty-coffers-gop-trump/" style="color: #0000aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">— from Alternet</a></i></b></p><p style="font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" height="203" src="https://www.alternet.org/media-library/image.png?id=50728861&width=1245&height=700&quality=85&coordinates=0%2C37%2C0%2C38" style="border: 0px;" width="360" /></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Former President Donald Trump's mounting legal bills are threatening the Republican Party's ability to fundraise ahead of a pivotal presidential election.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><a class="rm-stats-tracked" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/23/trump-cash-campaign-biden/" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Washington Post reports</a> that the Republican National Committee (RNC) is already starting to fret about its finances given that it's trailing the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in fundraising by an almost three-to-one margin. The DNC has roughly $25 million in cash on hand, compared to the RNC's $8.7 million. And between President Joe Biden's campaign and the Trump campaign, the difference looms even larger: Biden had more than $56 million in cash available by the end of January 2024, whereas Trump had less than $31 million. At the end of 2023, Biden also led in unique donors, with 172,000 to Trump's 143,000 unique donors.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Leading GOP figures are now starting to question whether that gap can be closed at all given that Trump still needs to pay for his legal defense in four looming criminal trials this year.</span></p></div><h2 class="wpds-c-iiQaMf wpds-c-iiQaMf-ihElTZa-css" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-headline); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-110); margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a data-pb-local-content-field="web_headline" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/02/20/trump-comments-navalny-death-russia-putin/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></a></h2>Copernicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16699554476216140859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301096656497422535.post-36208357028797605692024-02-19T06:37:00.000-08:002024-02-19T06:38:37.204-08:00Michigan State Univ. Adopts A New 'Rubric' For Graduate Physics Admissions: Is It Really A Better Way?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZcpHFi6NpVJEFp3hdi_UopS2y6x0iIImQOKTHHnhDsHhXghti50jYtcdA6o7X3UVxHTfUYxslv0IIhPFWgoejTo01dkG4Wm9h_dwUYr-xSeKPJ7DhudCThlp8VKyhIjH4FkMLQMMQEMlRzUu6IbQzVt87V9ZfHflj8Lt1VMkAzD9vvwp97e8d4VzS0w/s738/MSU%20grad%20students.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="310" data-original-width="738" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZcpHFi6NpVJEFp3hdi_UopS2y6x0iIImQOKTHHnhDsHhXghti50jYtcdA6o7X3UVxHTfUYxslv0IIhPFWgoejTo01dkG4Wm9h_dwUYr-xSeKPJ7DhudCThlp8VKyhIjH4FkMLQMMQEMlRzUu6IbQzVt87V9ZfHflj8Lt1VMkAzD9vvwp97e8d4VzS0w/w392-h164/MSU%20grad%20students.jpg" width="392" /></a></div> <b><i>MSU physics grad students work on a problem in class.</i></b><p></p><p><b><i></i></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGMlW8LfwdorwI94ygH0HTCAPjHW7oQolrI6UhfzpsiCOfRgcd_QPv_FyoBeUjODBdXxAcWi46C8BWbLLqnbTEj58nYLoVFV4mHmQhENbJzubpvUicAumBYgA4HGbcOCTAjJo1_ztsqa6XRKE8eAQCNrPoWp7axOafqerNClRs4ial_51mEEajvZw-_g/s622/MSU%20grad%20variables.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="622" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGMlW8LfwdorwI94ygH0HTCAPjHW7oQolrI6UhfzpsiCOfRgcd_QPv_FyoBeUjODBdXxAcWi46C8BWbLLqnbTEj58nYLoVFV4mHmQhENbJzubpvUicAumBYgA4HGbcOCTAjJo1_ztsqa6XRKE8eAQCNrPoWp7axOafqerNClRs4ial_51mEEajvZw-_g/w399-h382/MSU%20grad%20variables.jpg" width="399" /></a></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i>Entry criteria for MSU Physics Grad students</i></b></div><b><i><br /></i></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">The
admission of graduate students to post-bachelor’s physics programs is a complex
and challenging system. Any graduate director, faculty member, or graduate
student can recount their own vivid experience with that complicated and, quite
often, opaque process</span>, <span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">but
in the late 1970s not so much. My graduate school entry was based on submitting </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">undergraduate transcripts, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">GRE test
score results and passing a physics qualifying exam.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">But
Michigan State in its latest iteration for setting admission standards has
evidently gone ‘over the top’. While an applicant to a US physics graduate
program will typically submit their CV, undergraduate transcripts, letters of
recommendation, and multiple written statements covering such topics as their
personal history, research experience, motivations and goals for attending
graduate school, my own requirements to attend U.W.I. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">But
according to Physics profs at MSU, writing in the July, 2023 issue of <i><u>Physics
Today</u></i> : <i>“Our department began to rethink its graduate admissions
process in 2016</i></span><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #1a1a1a;">.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">That
led to the faculty members deciding on five categories for a rubric that
aligned with both their previous experience from reviewing applications and the
recommendations of the workshop leaders: academic preparation, research
experience, noncognitive competencies, fit with program, and GRE scores</span>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Each
of the categories was then further divided into subcategories that mapped onto
specific information about the applicant, such as their technical skills, their
GPA in physics courses, and whether their research interests aligned with those
of faculty members. Information to assess the subcategories, of which there are
18 in total, comes from the applicant’s materials, which include transcripts, a
CV, a personal statement, a research statement, and letters of recommendation. (Refer to the lower graphic above).</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Was this a case of academic overkill? That can be debated. At first blush it appeared the team's approach made sense and was practical, as they noted:</span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noto Serif";">"</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noto Serif";">We found that before we started using the rubric, our model
could correctly predict whether three out of every four applicants would be
admitted based on only the applicant’s GREP score, GPA, and score on the
quantitative portion of the standard GRE</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noto Serif";">. "</span></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noto Serif";">But then the MSU team admitted (ibid.):</span></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noto Serif";"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noto Serif";">"The data from after we started using
the rubric are murkier. Those three numbers are no longer determinative of
whether an applicant will be admitted, which does make it seem like we are
evaluating applicants on a broader set of criteria.</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noto Serif";">"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noto Serif";"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noto Serif";">Which is true, as inspection of the table shows. Statistically, it makes sense the determinative aspect would lessen as the number of subcategories for evaluation increase. This is particularly so for the more subjective subcategories, like: research disposition, achievement orientation, conscientiousness, perseverance and alignment with faculty. All of which, I'd argue, can be dropped with minimal loss of evaluation accuracy. After all, who is to say how much perseverance a grad student really displays? Is that observer monitoring the student all the time, seeing the late night burning of the "midnight oil" invested? Likely not. As for "alignment with faculty" that is about as subjective and variable as one can get given faculty interest in research can often turn on a dime even in the same semester or quarter.</span></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noto Serif";"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noto Serif";">The MSU team then goes on to admit:</span></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noto Serif";"><br /></span></p>
<p style="background: white; font-size: 1rem; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noto Serif";">"</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noto Serif";">But even when we used the rubric scores to build a model, the
resulting simulation was not able to predict whether a given student will be
admitted. Perhaps the lack of a few predictive features signifies that our
admissions process has become more holistic and that the rubric has created
multiple routes to admission.</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noto Serif";"> "</span></p><p style="background: white; font-size: 1rem; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noto Serif";"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; font-size: 1rem; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noto Serif";">This obviously constitutes a major failing of the MSU rubric scores, if they can't predict whether a student will be admitted. It kind of defeats the purpose and I attribute that to the imbalance of actually predictive (or determinate) criteria. Hence, I'd argue the model stands a better chance of predicting future admission using the original criteria.</span></p><p style="background: white; font-size: 1rem; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noto Serif";"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; font-size: 1rem; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noto Serif";">Still it is gratifying to read:</span></p><p style="background: white; font-size: 1rem; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noto Serif";"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; font-size: 1rem; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">"</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">We’re currently working on determining what parts
of the application are driving admissions decisions so that we can know for
sure.</span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">"</span></p><p style="background: white; font-size: 1rem; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noto Serif";"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; font-size: 1rem; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noto Serif";">While also acknowledging that the new rubric with all the 18 subcategories has succeeded in: "</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">a</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">dmitting more applicants
from underrepresented groups in physics without increasing the time required
for faculty to review applications</span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">."</span></p><p style="background: white; font-size: 1rem; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; font-size: 1rem; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> That's definitely a plus and physics graduate department observers will impatiently await the MSU team's next moves in showing what sections of its application process delivers most 'bang for the buck."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><o:p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><b><span style="font-size: large;">See Also:</span></b></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><o:p><a href="https://brane-space.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-gre-can-still-be-of-significant.html">The GRE Can Still Be Of Significant Value In Predicting Physics & Astronomy Ph.D. Success </a></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Copernicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16699554476216140859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301096656497422535.post-30708920800057008352024-02-16T05:06:00.000-08:002024-02-20T09:20:53.811-08:00Now We Know: Media Focus On Biden's Age Is A Case Of Media Malpractice<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipZcqsP-v6TMkzlUG9D4duHZTPhTCZlUVY0vaRb8-gsELSQ81jAi2sQFs8EoFcSp29coA9eZUxaAG2ubcPJTa7tDln0nyr0k7fM_0WV843Nt5Xb48-g5_ipILWDQFAQtsVXG__YDyK7C_LT08fO1VEe7BXANRqyBaeGymYifas-G1Ho_2-785YKOjB1A/s586/Dotard%20and%20Stormy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="310" data-original-width="586" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipZcqsP-v6TMkzlUG9D4duHZTPhTCZlUVY0vaRb8-gsELSQ81jAi2sQFs8EoFcSp29coA9eZUxaAG2ubcPJTa7tDln0nyr0k7fM_0WV843Nt5Xb48-g5_ipILWDQFAQtsVXG__YDyK7C_LT08fO1VEe7BXANRqyBaeGymYifas-G1Ho_2-785YKOjB1A/w370-h196/Dotard%20and%20Stormy.jpg" width="370" /></a></div><b><i> "Maybe the media will ignore this trial for my sake!"</i></b><p></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt;">“<span style="color: #800180;"><i>Surely,
our fearless media, defender of truth and our Republic, will ensure that all
Americans are aware of this critical fact of an FBI guy</i></span></span><span style="color: #800180;"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt;">(Smirnov) lying for Republicans during a
pivotal election in our history ...</span></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #800180;"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt;">Nah, too busy with Biden's mental state.
Just like they were with Clinton's email and the Clinton Foundation in 2016,
which was part of the reason we ended with Trump in the first place.”</span></i></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt;">- Commenter on Washington Post after an FBI
informant was charged with lying about Hunter Biden and Burisma </span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It has now become painfully clear again that the U.S. print media cannot be trusted to do its job. This imbalance in our media - treating both Trump and Biden as normal candidates (but one with major mental decline) while the traitor seditionist gets numerous passes is at the core of it. This may be why media analyst Margaret Sullivan came right out writing current media coverage is "nothing short of journalistic malpractice."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">She referred to how the Hur Hack report by a dubious special counsel (or rather a Reep plant masquerading as one) circulated on all major papers and their websites with very little in the way of fact checking. Including that Robert Hur violated a number of DOJ guidelines to produce that hit job on President Biden. When in fact. as former DOJ prosecutor <b><i>Andrew Weismann</i></b> observed a week ago on <u><i>ALL In</i></u>, his report should have been no more than 1 page (not 345), the same as the one clearing Mike Pence for his own documents case. He thus had no warrant to perform an expansive 344 page editorialization of Biden's mental state when he lacked any professional background for such. He overstepped the bounds of justice and propriety by doing such a hack job on a president who stands at the gate guarding against a traitor's advance. Is Hur a traitor's accomplice? His actions suggest as much, but one thing for sure, the media would have to act as accomplices too given all the coverage they gave to it,</span></span></p><h3 class="css-fsvegl" style="--headline-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --headline-link-hover-color: var(--color-blue); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Retina, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-block: 12px 0px; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a class="ecp2yqm7 css-1me4f21-HeadlineLink" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-biden-robert-hur-report-classified-documents-119fbb16?mod=opinion_lead_pos1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; display: block; outline-offset: 1px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 200ms, 200ms; transition-property: color, fill; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0, 0, 0.5, 1), cubic-bezier(0, 0, 0.5, 1);" text-decoration="none"><span class="css-17x5lw" style="-webkit-box-align: center; -webkit-box-pack: start; align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: row; height: 59.0521px; justify-content: flex-start;"><p class="ecp2yqm4 css-1ciya1v-HeadlineTextBlock" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: inherit; font-family: "Escrow Condensed", Georgia, serif; font-stretch: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5px 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Biden’s Doddering Document Defense</span></p></span></a></h3><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="background-color: #fff9ee; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem;"></span></p><p class="css-m54ll1" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Retina, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-block-start: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5px 0px;">Special counsel Robert Hur says a jury might not convict the elderly, forgetful President.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Let's recall the media already acted the part of bad actors in 2016 when the cumulative negative coverage of Hillary Clinton's email habits generated a pseudo - scandal that helped propel the pussy grabber Trump into the White House (along with Russian help). The same media basically is at it again, this time harping on Biden's age and cognitive fitness onto which the bogus Hur report tossed gasoline. This despite Trump only being three years and 7 months younger but he gets a pass because "he talks with energy and calls people names, yells </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">insults". Yeah, well my niece's three- year old does too but that doesn't make the toddler presidential. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Never mind. The U.S. media continues to play the "both sides" game, somehow convinced that if they offer any consistent, sustained negative coverage of Trump - as when he bellowed Saturday about getting the Russians to attack NATO nations - then they must go after Biden on the age side. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This despite the fact Trump displays just as many or even more mental lapses, as well as lies, name mix ups and gaffes (e.g. mixing up Nikki Hayley and Nancy Pelosi, China with North Korea). A guy so addled he thinks repeating "<i>person, man, woman, camera, TV</i>" proves otherwise (yet really only proving his vocabulary is no more than 400 words as Anne Coulter insisted not long ago). But all this gets far less examination than Biden's word gaffes.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">As for the <b>"Russia go attack 'em</b>" yelp which he's now doubled down on, historian Douglas Brinkley called him out yesterday on 'Morning Joe' noting:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #800180;">“I never would have thought
Trump could go lower than his dictator for a day remarks, but his proposed
mafiosi shakedown of NATO countries did just that and his doubling down on
those remarks makes him unfit for command. Ronald Reagan would have gone
ballistic against Russia even thinking about using nukes to take out
satellites.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #800180;">And here now is Trump, in an
age Russia is prepared to put nuclear weapons in space saying like ‘Ah Putin’s
not so bad and I’ll back him if he attacks Lithuania”</span></span><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><h2 class="slide-title-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 35px; margin: 0px;"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">Adding:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: LabGrotesque, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #800180;"> “I blame people like Lindsey Graham who are
too afraid to break with Trump</span></span><span style="color: #222222;">. </span><span style="color: #800180;">Ronald Reagan would have gone ballistic again Russia - and any former American president for even thinking such a thing."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">But sadly, our media is cool playing this degraded, despicable game which they are convinced confers journalistic "objectivity" on them. It doesn't. It's journalistic malpractice as Ms. Sullivan has noted. The media, like the sleepwalking public, has now become so inured to Trump's outrages, falsehoods and malevolence we have entered the realm of white noise. A deadly state of numbness and mental detachment that may well cost us our democracy. </p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">Add to this the pundits, like the hare-brained WSJ op-ed columnist Peggy Noonan, e.g.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/democrats-are-too-resigned-to-biden-2024-presidential-election-24651750?mod=hp_trending_now_opn_pos3">Democrats Are Too Resigned to Biden - WSJ</a></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">Who insists Biden "step aside" and "be a hero", and you grasp the extent of the problem. This suggested for a president who has been responsible for:</p></h2><h2 class="slide-title-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: LabGrotesque, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 35px; margin: 0px;"><div style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Franklin, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300;">- Booming jobs and an economy outdoing all others in the world.<br /></div><div style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Franklin, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300;">- Keeping NATO in support of Ukraine.(Trump didn't even have the basic decency to mention the death of Putin opponent Alexei Navalny).<br /></div><div style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Franklin, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300;">- Bringing respect, responsibility and resolve to America by supporting allies. </div></h2><h2 class="slide-title-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 35px; margin: 0px;"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><br /></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">Peggy, daft as ever, writes:</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">“</span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 107%;">This is what Democrats
argue: </span><em data-type="emphasis" style="box-sizing: border-box;">There is nobody else. </em>But there is. Here we summon the usual names, starting with
the Gs—Gov. Gavin Newsom, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. Add Jared Polis, Josh Shapiro, all the candidates of the 2020 primary.</span>”</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">None of whom, possibly with the exception of Newsome, have any serious name recognition, and nine months is inadequate time to build it. Plus, they lack the power of incumbency Biden has. As for Newsome, Atlantic staff writer Caitlin Flanagan shot down that option last Friday night on <i>Real Time</i>, noting how the GOP already has an attack plan ready for him based on: San Francisco crime waves and homelessness, soaring home prices in the Golden State, and coddling migrants with "sanctuary cities." But maybe Peggy is too dumb to know - or have researched- any of that. As when she also brain farts:</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: small;">"<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 107%;">Lyndon B. Johnson</span>, the last president to decline to seek a second term,
dropped out on March 31, 1968. There was still time for contenders to launch
and fund races. </span><span style="color: #111111; font-size: 1.25rem;">"</span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"> Ah yes, LBJ, four years after he launched the Vietnam War based on the pretext of the Tonkin Gulf incident. He <u>did</u> drop out, only to hand the election to Richard Milhous Nixon who stomped LBJ's Veep Hubert Humphrey. Next up for Pegs?</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;">"<span style="font-size: 13pt;">The Democratic Party is a mess,"</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">Uh, no Peggy, the Reeptard party is a mess. They couldn't even get a bipartisan border bill through after yammering about it for donkey's years. One of their own in the Senate - conservo Paul Lankford - negotiated it and the imps shot it down. Then their moronic impeachment effort of Biden went up in flames yesterday when the key witness- an FBI informant - was charged with lying his ass off. And you talk about the Dems being a "mess". Let me give you a clue: Any party that takes orders from a two-bit traitor criminal like Trump is not only a mess but an unmitigated disaster. It ought to have the living daylights stomped out of it and its leader - assuming a sane media and rational voting populace.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">Fortunately, we have powerful voices like former DOJ spokesperson Neal Katyal who articulately summed up Trump's circular immunity arguments last night, e.g.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/-recipe-for-disaster-neal-katyal-breaks-down-trump-s-circular-immunity-argument-204323909860">'Recipe for disaster': Neal Katyal breaks down Trump's circular immunity argument (msnbc.com)</a></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">As fellow guest (and former DOJ prosecutor) Andrew Weismann also pointed out, the payoff case which will now begin March 25- and which have Trump's lawyers bawling- is not minor. It entails serious election violations including paying off a porn star to hide Trump's sex escapades in order to get elected in 2016. In addition falsifying 34 business records to ensure the concealment. </p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">All this could earn the swine 4 years in the slammer. <span style="font-size: 1.25rem;"> </span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: LabGrotesque, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZj1QjIBML4XG1eqm_uj1-rZweURJTyVfISCpE3BpAUfWEcGcc1rPo3CineVcmrMSiTkjsjHa6QJYu-ZA73xDTkDKY-o1Jrk_Ljp7i63IdPLwmjnaRTxTeQtJafZVk8s1f8BX1THh256974_9pZTbSzyzbue8sSWfIQYZqBHee49AnStFdGrnsFa6EUw/s457/Trump%20swine.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="261" data-original-width="457" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZj1QjIBML4XG1eqm_uj1-rZweURJTyVfISCpE3BpAUfWEcGcc1rPo3CineVcmrMSiTkjsjHa6QJYu-ZA73xDTkDKY-o1Jrk_Ljp7i63IdPLwmjnaRTxTeQtJafZVk8s1f8BX1THh256974_9pZTbSzyzbue8sSWfIQYZqBHee49AnStFdGrnsFa6EUw/s320/Trump%20swine.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span face="LabGrotesque, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> "</span><i style="font-family: LabGrotesque, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Bring it on!"</span></i><p style="font-family: LabGrotesque, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">So as Mr. Weissmann warned, never mind the scatter -brained pundits who insist this is a 'nothingburger'. It is major and may well be the actual case that nets a conviction. Diss and exploit porn stars at your own peril.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">See Also:</p><div class="nodebar" style="background-color: #0000aa; color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/topics/the-trump-administration/donald-trump" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Donald Trump</a> | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/taxonomy/term/10" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Media</a></div><div class="nodetitle" style="color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 4px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/chris-edelson/109461/journalists-have-already-moved-on-from-trump-s-fascist-rhetoric-that-is-a-serious-mistake" style="color: #660000; text-decoration-line: none;">Journalists Have Already Moved on From Trump’s Fascist Rhetoric—That Is a Serious Mistake</a></div><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><span class="nodeby" style="color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; padding-bottom: 3px;">by <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/profile/chris-edelson" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Chris Edelson</a> | February 20, 2024 - 6:50am | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/chris-edelson/109461/journalists-have-already-moved-on-from-trump-s-fascist-rhetoric-that-is-a-serious-mistake" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">permalink</a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 400;"></span></p><div class="nodebody" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400;"><img alt="" height="180" src="https://ic-cdn.flipboard.com/commondreams.org/6d9f0a4a8b34c67853881538540c12b3d92ae568/_xlarge.jpeg" style="border: 0px;" width="360" /></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Excerpt:</span></p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">It is profoundly surreal to observe that, in the year 2024, Donald Trump’s breath is rank with the fetid stench of fascism. Of course, <a class="rm-stats-tracked" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/15/books/review/prequel-rachel-maddow-democracy-awakening-heather-cox-richardson.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">fascism has visited the United States in the past</a>, but it was still dizzying, late last year, to hear a former U.S. president pledge to “<a class="rm-stats-tracked" href="https://www.vox.com/2023/11/14/23958866/trump-vermin-authoritarian-democracy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">root out the communists, Marxists…and radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of the country</a>” while despicably slandering immigrants for “<a class="rm-stats-tracked" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/18/poisoning-blood-trumps-ugliest-moments-immigrants/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">poisoning the blood of our country.</a>” There is no mystery here. Trump is parroting <a class="rm-stats-tracked" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/18/trump-immigrants-rally-congress-reaction-pramila-jayapal" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">classic fascist rhetoric</a> of the sort deployed by Hitler and Mussolini.</span></p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">It would be tempting to dismiss Trump as a backward-thinking Neanderthal, like the character in <em>The Great Gatsby</em> who, after insisting that others heed his warnings about the imminent collapse of the “<a class="rm-stats-tracked" href="https://www.allgreatquotes.com/the-great-gatsby-quotes-157/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Nordic race”, is dismissed by the narrator as an ignoramus reduced to “nibbl[ing] at the edge of stale ideas</a>.” The problem, of course, is that Trump is not a fictional character but rather someone with a very real chance of returning to the White House in this year’s election.</span></p><p style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Unfortunately, media attention seems already to have moved on from Trump’s fascist rhetoric. This is serious stuff that will demand close and sustained scrutiny. Trump is putting fascism on the ballot and it is essential that voters understand exactly what his election would mean.</span></p></div><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><span style="font-size: small;">And:</span></p><div class="nodebar" style="background-color: #0000aa; color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/topics/the-trump-administration/donald-trump" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Donald Trump</a></div><div class="nodetitle" style="color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 4px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/thom-hartmann/109418/fix-the-insurrection-act-before-trump-uses-it-to-create-a-police-state" style="color: #660000; text-decoration-line: none;">Fix the Insurrection Act Before Trump Uses it to Create a Police State</a></div><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><span class="nodeby" style="color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; padding-bottom: 3px;">by <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/user/thom-hartmann" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Thom Hartmann</a> | February 15, 2024 - 7:56am | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/thom-hartmann/109418/fix-the-insurrection-act-before-trump-uses-it-to-create-a-police-state" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">permalink</a></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11px;"></span></p><div class="nodebody" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-size: 14px;"><b><i><a href="https://hartmannreport.com/p/fix-the-insurrection-act-before-trump-05d" style="color: #0000aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">— from The Hartmann Report</a></i></b></p><p style="font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" height="240" src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/AP_20347735608828.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80" style="border: 0px;" width="360" /></p><p style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: 700;">Excerpt:</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">When Senator Tommy Tuberville (who just <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/tuberville-appears-willing-give-putin-benefit-doubt-rcna138391" rel="" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">took Putin’s side</a> on the Ukraine invasion) was <a href="https://hartmannreport.com/p/is-tubervilles-senate-hold-on-military-1ad" rel="" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">meeting</a> with the Trump family and team the night of January 5th in the DC Trump Hotel, plans had already been laid for the Proud Boys and other fascist street gangs to seize control of the Capitol to prevent the certification of Joe Biden’s 7-million-vote victory.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">The key would be invoking the Insurrection Act, a basket of laws dating from 1792 to 1874 that’s been used a bit over two dozen times, the first by George Washington and the most recent by President George HW Bush in response to the riots that erupted around the police beating of Rodney King.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">The Act gives the president wide latitude to decide what is and isn’t an insurrection, and how to respond to one.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">There is virtually no congressional or judicial oversight: this act is the single most powerful weapon a rogue president can use to execute a coup and seize complete control of the nation.</span></p></div><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">And:</p><div class="nodebar" style="background-color: #0000aa; color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/taxonomy/term/2" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Republicans</a></div><div class="nodetitle" style="color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 4px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/joan-mccarter/109427/house-gop-can-t-wait-to-have-hearings-on-how-old-biden-really-is" style="color: #660000; text-decoration-line: none;">House GOP Can’t Wait To Have Hearings on How Old Biden Really Is</a></div><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #111111; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><span class="nodeby" style="color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; padding-bottom: 3px;">by <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/profile/joan-mccarter" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Joan McCarter</a> | February 16, 2024 - 7:44am | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/joan-mccarter/109427/house-gop-can-t-wait-to-have-hearings-on-how-old-biden-really-is" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">permalink</a></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11px;"></span></p><div class="nodebody" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-size: 14px;"><b><i><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/15/2223677/-House-GOP-can-t-wait-to-have-hearings-on-how-old-Biden-really-is" style="color: #0000aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">— from Daily Kos</a></i></b></p><p style="font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" height="240" src="https://ic-cdn.flipboard.com/dailykos.com/b6e11250397887bd5024032b7d93fecca990001e/_large.jpeg" style="border: 0px;" width="360" /></p><p style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: 700;">Excerpt:</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">House Republicans aren’t even waiting for the Justice Department to <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/13/2223228/-House-GOP-to-launch-critical-investigation-into-just-how-old-Biden-is" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">respond to their demand</a> for the transcripts of President Joe Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur. They are <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/02/15/robert-hur-congress-testimony-biden-memory" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">already planning</a> the hearing with Hur probing into how old Biden really is. Hur has been preparing for his starring role.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Hur found no evidence against Biden in the documents-handling case he was investigating, which rose to a prosecutable level. But the former Trump official needed to do a solid for Republicans, so he added in a lot of gratuitous hits on Biden’s age in his report, which legal experts have <a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/178924/partisan-hit-job-legal-experts-slam-special-counsel-biden-report" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="">called</a> “a partisan hit job.”</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">According to Axios, Hur has been consulting with fellow former Trump official Sarah Isgur, who was Trump’s Department of Justice PR flak. Isgur has been helping him prepare to “navigate a congressional hearing.” Isgur has also been <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/politifact/2024/02/15/fact-checking-sunday-show-spin-on-biden-classified-document-report/72585382007/" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">making the rounds</a> of the Sunday shows and lying about Hur’s findings. Isgur said on ABC’s “This Week,” "They found evidence that (Biden) willfully retained national security information. And even probably beyond a reasonable doubt." The report actually said "we conclude that the evidence does not establish Mr. Biden's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt," hinting at just how much of a set-up for the GOP his report was.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif" style="color: #111111; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700;">And:</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;"><a href="https://brane-space.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-route-to-avoiding-authoritarianism.html">How Not To Become "Sheeple" For Authoritarians And Why The U.S. Media Must Do Its Part </a></span></p></div></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>Copernicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16699554476216140859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301096656497422535.post-17677722575507440922024-02-14T06:38:00.000-08:002024-02-14T06:38:32.148-08:00Improving Proton Beam Therapy For Better Cancer Treatment - Depends On Tweaking Cyclotron Energies<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1RUCld56XIjo88n3LHQDjzjumD1khh4dtqd8bTT5FoUB-rJlzLLIjOnA4pjMMuCtvXGvx_a2pr8GpENDNEaBq0uOmYTktUKVJyO7rG3DE658txkc4jphh0cIlZnJ9zcxD3VHeO4y_Fc3irZZxuouKHSczDmj6AItNubpc87vclxoOiOXc9Lb4Z_Yifw/s457/Proton%20beams.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="457" data-original-width="412" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1RUCld56XIjo88n3LHQDjzjumD1khh4dtqd8bTT5FoUB-rJlzLLIjOnA4pjMMuCtvXGvx_a2pr8GpENDNEaBq0uOmYTktUKVJyO7rG3DE658txkc4jphh0cIlZnJ9zcxD3VHeO4y_Fc3irZZxuouKHSczDmj6AItNubpc87vclxoOiOXc9Lb4Z_Yifw/s320/Proton%20beams.jpg" width="288" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; text-align: start;"><em>Comparing degrees of localization of proton beam therapy with other treatment modalities, in terms of dose v, tissue depth.</em></strong></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6faKttmYWNpSIE3omSwPtGrWJU24JJxvFhRgipd-AvIy334ev0Tvv4-Im-wUT58DM61WfZK4eQ0VnuhIG3jrxEpCmW7k2kGXlvXJGefeQmszMt3-2cgRQhgQy1UK9gMqm-SuDrZPdO8366kH_1AtE-yp_jEW1NTBfD70HLYDykJx7occorph1Qav0ww/s654/Proton%20cooling%20therapy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="325" data-original-width="654" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6faKttmYWNpSIE3omSwPtGrWJU24JJxvFhRgipd-AvIy334ev0Tvv4-Im-wUT58DM61WfZK4eQ0VnuhIG3jrxEpCmW7k2kGXlvXJGefeQmszMt3-2cgRQhgQy1UK9gMqm-SuDrZPdO8366kH_1AtE-yp_jEW1NTBfD70HLYDykJx7occorph1Qav0ww/w536-h266/Proton%20cooling%20therapy.jpg" width="536" /></a></div> <span style="color: #800180;"><b>The basis of 'momentum cooling' for proton beam therapy<br /></b></span><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I (briefly) considered getting proton beam therapy when my prostate cancer was first diagnosed back in July, 2012. However, my wife (a former radiotherapy software specialist) convinced me that high dose rate brachytherapy - which her company specialized in - was the better option. Plus, she knew the best center in the nation to get it: the Helen Diller Cancer Center at University of California - San Francisco and had worked with the world-famous oncologists there . She was also skeptical proton beam centers existed that could give 100 percent assurance and confidence that through all the 30 or so days of treatment one would not see a "<em>geographical miss</em>". That is, the proton beam hitting a critical region like the bladder or lower bowel instead of the cancer, putting an unwanted micro-hole in either. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">For those not aware, proton beam treatment is a form of <strong><em>external beam therapy</em></strong> in which positively charged particles (protons) are accelerated to 60 percent of the speed of light, or 180,000 kilometers per second. They are constrained to form a powerful beam that can be programmed to deposit most of its energy directly into a target tumor - say in the prostate gland - minimizing radiation exposure to surrounding healthy tissues (say bladder and lower bowel in the case of prostate tumors)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">As seen in the graphic at top, x-rays still remain the tool for most radiotherapy. They deposit their energy <i>everywhere </i>along their path in tumor and healthy cells alike. Hence, the potential for averse side effects. Protons, by contrast, have scattering cross sections that depend inversely on their kinetic energy. So a proton passing into tissues slows down in increments and leaves most of its energy right before it stops. By controlling the beam's direction and initial kinetic energy clinicians can position the radiation-affected region in all 3 dimensions. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> In practical terms, however, controlling proton kinetic energy is not so simple. Clinicians and oncologists basically need proton energies ranging from 60 Mev - for tumors close to the body's surface- to 230 Mev for tumors tens of centimeters deep. Problem is that a single cyclotron produces proton beams at just one energy and it would be exorbitantly expensive to have a cyclotron for every energy needed. Most proton therapy centers use cyclotrons at the top of the energy range, 230-250 MeV, but this is where the greatest inefficiency enters.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">True, </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">one can turn
high-energy protons into lower-energy protons by passing them through a chunk
of solid material, usually carbon</span><span style="background-color: white;">.</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> But
the energy-degradation process also turns a monoenergetic proton beam into one
with a considerable energy spread—no longer suitable for clinical use, because
the protons’ localized depositions of energy, known as Bragg peaks, are no
longer all in the same place. The standard approach is to use a dipole magnet
to disperse the protons by energy and then pass them through a slit to select
protons with as close to a single energy as possible. Most of the protons, as a
result, are thrown away.</span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noto Serif";">The waste is worst at low clinical energies. The more the
cyclotron protons need to be degraded, the larger their energy spread, and the
lower the fraction transmitted through the energy-selection slit. For target
energies greater than 200 MeV, perhaps 10% or more of the initial protons can
be salvaged. But for target energies less than 100 MeV, less than 1% can.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noto Serif";"> </span></p>
<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noto Serif"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Existing ion-optics setups treat the two dimensions
perpendicular to the beam symmetrically, and they apply the same focusing and
defocusing forces in both directions. But the dimensions aren’t symmetrical—in
part, because the protons are dispersed by energy in one direction but not the
other. </span><span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">It turns out that recent research by V. Maradia et al (1, 2) has
shown that by accounting for that asymmetry, they could improve transmission by
up to a factor of six.</span><p style="background: white; font-size: large; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noto Serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; font-size: large; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noto Serif";">There remains the greatest source of inefficiency: the protons
discarded at the energy-selection slit. The solution, it turned out, was
deceptively simple. The protons were already dispersed by energy, and their
momentum can be slowed by passing them through solid material. So Maradia et al proposed sticking a wedge into the beam, as shown in the lower graphic at top of post. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">from </span><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">a cyclotron are tuned
to the energies required for proton-beam therapy, they end up with a momentum
spread </span><em style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">p</span></em><span style="background-color: transparent;"> ± Δ</span><em style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">p</span></em><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">that’s
too wide for clinical use. The conventional approach is to use a dipole magnet
(dark blue) to disperse the protons by momentum and then pass them through a
slit to select out the protons with just one momentum value, </span><em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">p</span></em>. </p><p style="background: white; font-size: large; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background: white; font-size: large; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But if, instead, a wedge-shaped absorber is
used to cool all the protons momentum to </span><em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">p</span></em> – Δ<em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">p</span></em>, <span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">more protons can make it through the beamline
and into the patient. </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Long
story short, Maradia came up with the momentum-cooling idea on his own, but he
noticed afterward that wedge-shaped absorbers had been used before in other
areas of particle physics, such as muon experiments.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><a data-modal-source-id="c3" style="cursor: pointer;"><b><sup style="font-size: 0.625rem;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #0066cc; padding: 0in;">3</span></sup></b></a></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> To be sure muons
had not been considered before for proton therapy, perhaps because when the
protons scatter off the wedge, their momentum spread perpendicular to the beam
increases. But Maradia and colleagues’ improved ion optics were equipped to
handle the increased spread.</span></p><p style="background: white; font-size: large; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; font-size: large; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><p style="background: white; font-size: large; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><p style="background: white; font-size: large; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noto Serif";">The results have been positive but modest: From an initial
fraction of 0.27% of protons, the wedge increased transmission almost twofold,
to 0.5%. Why such a small improvement? The beamline as a whole was designed on
the basis of the assumption that only protons with one specific energy would
ever make it through to the patient. After being dispersed by the dipole
magnet, most of them collide into the beamline walls before they even reach the
wedge. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">If the dipole magnet deflected the protons at a shallower angle,
the loss could be mitigated, and the researchers estimate that transmission at
the lowest energies could be boosted to perhaps 7%. Making such a change to an
existing beamline is probably not feasible.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But according to Maradia it would be relatively easy to incorporate
momentum cooling into future proton-therapy centers. </span></p><p style="background: white; font-size: large; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; font-size: large; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Alas, all these improvements would simply be too long in coming to have any benefit to me now, though my urologist has proposed the nanoknife as a radiotherapy option to deal with further metastasis. The problem is that this procedure entails general anesthesia and I have already suffered significant memory dropouts from three administrations of such over 18 months in 2016-17, see e.g.</span></p><p style="background: white; font-size: large; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; font-size: large; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><ul class="posts" style="background-color: #fff9ee; border-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: 1.2; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -15px;"><li style="background: none; border-width: 0px; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0.25em 0px; padding: 0.25em 0px 0.25em 1.3em;"><a href="https://brane-space.blogspot.com/2017/07/dealing-with-memory-loss-after-general.html" style="color: #ff1900;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dealing With Memory Loss After General Anesthesia</span></a></li></ul><p style="background: white; font-size: large; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: white; font-size: large; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">----</span></p><p style="font-size: large;"></p><p style="font-size: large;"></p><div class="ref-content" style="align-items: baseline; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 1.5rem 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="label title-label" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0.75rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1.</span><div class="citation mixed-citation" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="name string-name" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="given-names" style="border: 0px; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;">V.</div><span> </span><div class="surname" style="border: 0px; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;">Maradia</div></span><span> </span>et al,<span> </span><div class="source" style="border: 0px; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nat. 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font-family: arial;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_ElozRiLeoOHOKJv1rbM8fK_stCdsjRwu70JoGgQ__vwk6474S-atfi28BeP5tUI5qzNRpvyRc3qQAG2B4QUu_UNDAnFFgo3rJ8Ucowtg3WKqSz00si4z_Qfhe4295Jeas1QYuUjFo7guEXkki3gcRfG1em6lbRmQo9jRR-RXxIksuhRUlQ-dl2h1uA/s626/Trump%20hanging.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="626" data-original-width="401" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_ElozRiLeoOHOKJv1rbM8fK_stCdsjRwu70JoGgQ__vwk6474S-atfi28BeP5tUI5qzNRpvyRc3qQAG2B4QUu_UNDAnFFgo3rJ8Ucowtg3WKqSz00si4z_Qfhe4295Jeas1QYuUjFo7guEXkki3gcRfG1em6lbRmQo9jRR-RXxIksuhRUlQ-dl2h1uA/s320/Trump%20hanging.jpg" width="205" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;"> The only 'reward' Traitor Trump deserves</span><p></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">"<a class="css-1h1us5y-StyledLink el06won0" data-type="phrase" href="https://www.wsj.com/topics/person/donald-trump" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px;">Donald Trump</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px;"> says many provocative things, often intentionally, to rile up opponents and dominate the airwaves. But his comments Saturday that he once told the leader of a NATO ally that he’d invite </span><a class="css-1h1us5y-StyledLink el06won0" data-type="phrase" href="https://www.wsj.com/topics/person/vladimir-putin" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px;">Vladimir Putin</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px;"> to invade is the reason many Americans won’t vote for him again even against a mentally declining President Biden. </span></span></span><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Chronicle SSm", serif; font-size: 17.6px;">A charitable interpretation is that this is an extreme version of his boasts that he forced NATO countries in Europe to increase defense spending....</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Chronicle SSm", serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">But this isn’t 2020 any more. Russia has invaded Ukraine, bombed its cities and civilians, mused about using nuclear weapons, and threatened Finland and Sweden for seeking to join NATO. </span><span style="color: #f6b26b;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Chronicle SSm", serif; font-size: 17.6px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Trump’s boasts that he wouldn’t aid an ally <b><i>will sow doubt in the minds of our allies and might encourage Mr. Putin to think he could get away with another invasion.</i></b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px;">" </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px;">- WSJ Editorial today p. A20, </span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px;">Trump and NATO Deterrence</i></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: arial;">"<span face="Franklin, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Does anyone still doubt that this bleeping traitor is a Russian asset??? How is this thing being allowed to run for ANY public office??? It should be in prison!"</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #800180; font-family: arial; font-size: 18px;">"Interesting that Putin-loving Traitor Trump is headline news in WaPo and NYT but NO MENTION OF THIS in WSJ. Right wingers being coddled, again, from knowing the truth!"</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #800180; font-family: arial; font-size: 18px;">"It’s sick to see all the MAGA morons holding stupid signs and mindlessly cheering for the deranged Fascist Nazi, Donald Trump. Fox News and its copycat right wing propagandist liars are destroying this country."</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 18px;">Comments from WaPo readers yesterday</span></p><p><span face="Franklin, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></p><p> <span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">Even as the political firestorm in the wake of the hit job by special counsel Robert Hur smolders on, voters - sane ones - have been reminded why voting for Donald Trump is not a better bet than Biden. Never mind the bullshit meme that "<i>he may be just 3 years younger but he has more energy</i>." That "energy" is all feral, demonic, traitorous - for a seditionist and insurrectionist my Revolutionay War ancestors would have hung several times by now. See e.g.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://brane-space.blogspot.com/2021/07/what-would-my-revolutionary-war.html">What Would My Revolutionary War Ancestors Think Of The State Of The Country Now?</a></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">Think I'm being hyperbolic? Then you weren't paying attention when the odious scum </span><a class="contextual_link" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/donald-trump/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2" style="border-bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">Donald Trump</a><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;"> ramped up his attacks on NATO on Saturday. Even claiming he suggested to a foreign leader that he would<b><i> encourage Russia to do “whatever the hell they want”</i></b> to NATO member countries</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bolder;"> </span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">he views as not spending enough on their own defense. If that isn't cause for summary incarceration of this traitor maggot in Gitmo I don't know what is. Yet even as I write this the Supreme Court seems to be dithering about whether to apply the 14th amendment, section 3 to disqualify his ass from being on the Colorado ballot.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">During a rally at Coastal Carolina University, this orange fungal cockroach actually barked, after hypothetically posing a request by a NATO nation for protection from a Russian attack:</span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;"> "</span><span style="font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">No, I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want.</span></span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">”</span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;"> Might that include the use of tactical nuclear weapons, to also ward off other NATO countries from coming to the rescue of the attacked nation? Of course, if Trump says encourage them to <i>"do whatever they want"</i>. Nothing would be left off the table.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">Further, u</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 20px;">nder </span><a href="https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_110496.htm#:~:text=Article%205%20provides%20that%20if,to%20assist%20the%20Ally%20attacked" style="border-bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia; font-size: 20px; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">Article 5</a><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 20px;"> of NATO's collective defense clause if a NATO ally is attacked, other member countries (including the U.S.) must consider it <i><b>“an armed attack against all members</b></i>". In effect, Trump at his SC rally Saturday just proposed also an attack on the United States by implication. An attack by Russia, no less. If this doesn't prove once and for all this scum is a traitor I don't know what does. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 20px;">Nikki Hayley, indeed, at a separate rally on Saturday noted how this POS mocked her own husband - away for military service. She promptly called the verminous beast out asserting he "is unfit to have a driver's license never mind the presidency".</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 20px;"> Nor is this the first time Trump has </span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">threatened not to protect NATO allies from a Russian attack. During a 2022 event</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bolder;"> </span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">at the Heritage Foundation, the fungal offal recounted a meeting where he told fellow foreign leaders that he may not follow NATO’s Article 5 collective defense clause if other countries did not spend more for their own defense. </span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">But this mindless scum has been called out more than once on his transactional bullshit. For example, </span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">Alina Polyakova, president and CEO of the Center for European Policy Analysis, in an email to the WaPo after Trump's tirade wrote:</span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">“</span><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">NATO isn’t a pay to play set up, as Trump seems to think. It’s an Alliance that is first and foremost about US national security interests to prevent another world war originating in Europe</span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">. </span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;"> </span><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">T</span><span style="font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">he only time that the article 5 collective defense clause was initiated was in response to 9/11. Our Allies came to our aid then, and it would be shameful and misguided to not do the same.</span></span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">”</span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">But see, a narcissist buttsucker like Donald Trump would never grasp that. All he grasps is that money must change hands to gain U.S. protection- which he deems "favors". That's why he tried to rope Volodymyr Zelenskiy into doing a hatchet job for him on Hunter Biden to get more U.S. defensive support for Ukraine. This indeed was the basis for the first Trump impeachment which should have seen the rat convicted by the full Senate. </span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">This would have pre-emptively kneecapped his return to a presidential campaign this year, in which case Joe Biden would not have found it necessary to run again. He could have retired after one term as he originally envisaged. But since the Trump zombie traitor has resurrected himself (thanks to his MAGA mutts), and even warned of retribution and 'burning the constitution' Biden realized he had no choice than to run. Given he was the only one who beat Trump before, in 2020.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">The lollygagging buffoons who argue '<i>Oh no, Gavin Newsome could beat him</i>' (or any other current Dem) are dreaming and need to watch the last <u><i>Real Time</i></u> and how guest and Atlantic staff writer </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #464646; font-size: 15px;"> </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #464646; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Caitlin Flanagan</strong><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;"> punctured that brain fart after Bob Costas (who'd do better to stick with sports) proposed it.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">This latest Trump evidence of Russian adoration and support has come up as t</span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">he Senate is considering legislation that would give $60 billion to Ukraine. House Republicans, however, have echoed Trump’s skepticism about doing so. And little wonder! They desperately want their traitorous, Russian-Putin loving rat to be the next president. </span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">Then they can celebrate an authoritarian 'trifecta' - with Trump (USA), Putin (Russia) and Orban (Hungary) all destroying NATO as well as the U.S. from within. All likely thanks to too many stupid Americans willing to vote this pestilence into power because they believe Joe Biden is too old or brain-scrambled to do the job. No, they'd rather have a fucking traitor doing the job - on all of us.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">White House spokesperson Andrew Bates hit the right note in the wake of Trump's latest traitorous outburst:</span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">“</span><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">Encouraging invasions of our closest allies by murderous regimes is appalling and unhinged – and it endangers American national security, global stability, and our economy at home,</span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">” </span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">It is also a further traitorous act- in addition to the January 6th insurrection - which ought to have this maggot disqualified from being on any state's ballot, anywhere. </span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">Trump is no bona fide presidential candidate, let's get that clear. Nor should he be treated as such by voters or the press. He's a criminal and insurrectionist traitor who is exploiting the multifold weaknesses of our democratic and judicial systems to storm back into unearned, unmerited power. At which point he has openly proclaimed he will 'burn the constitution' and exact vengeance against all perceived enemies while he enlists fellow thugs to help him turn this nation into another authoritarian state. It is time for Americans to "wake up and smell the coffee".</span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;"><b>See Also:</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;"><a aria-hidden="false" class="css-9mylee" data-uri="nyt://article/e36532d9-f02f-5154-ab43-ff132acb2415" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/11/us/politics/trump-nato.html" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></span></p><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="css-xdandi" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="indicate-hover css-vf1hbp" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-tertiary,#5A5A5A); font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.15em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/11/us/politics/trump-nato.html" style="font-family: nyt-imperial; letter-spacing: 0.1px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Favoring Foes Over Friends, Trump Threatens to Upend International Order - The New York Times (nytimes.com)</b></span></a></p></div><p class="summary-class css-dcsqcp" style="border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-tertiary,#5A5A5A); font-family: nyt-imperial; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 0.875rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 1.1875rem; margin: 0.5rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Donald Trump suggested that he would incite Russia to attack “delinquent” U.S. allies, foreshadowing potential changes in the world order if he wins the election.</p></div><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b>And:</b></span></p><div class="nodebar" style="background-color: #0000aa; color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/topics/the-trump-administration/donald-trump" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Donald Trump</a></div><div class="nodetitle" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 4px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/thom-hartmann/109390/trump-and-his-traitors-to-democracy-are-shockingly-brazen" style="color: #660000; text-decoration-line: none;">Trump and His Traitors to Democracy are Shockingly Brazen</a></div><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="nodeby" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; padding-bottom: 3px;">by <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/user/thom-hartmann" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Thom Hartmann</a> | February 13, 2024 - 7:29am | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/thom-hartmann/109390/trump-and-his-traitors-to-democracy-are-shockingly-brazen" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">permalink</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"></span></span></p><div class="nodebody" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-size: 14px;"><b><i><a href="https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-and-his-traitors-to-democracy" style="color: #0000aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">— from The Hartmann Report</a></i></b></p><p style="font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" height="180" src="https://thelondonglobalist.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Putin-and-Trump.jpg" style="border: 0px;" width="360" /></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Trump and Putin are collaborating to tear America apart. And Trump and his allies in Congress and across the spectrum of rightwing hate media aren’t even trying to hide it.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Americans aren’t used to thinking of our country as a battleground. We haven’t been invaded by another country’s military since the War of 1812 and haven’t seen blood shed on our soil in formal armed conflict since the Civil War.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">But the United States is very much a battlefield today; instead of bullets and bombs, the weapons being used are digital, psychological, and social.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">And increasingly Americans are being forced to choose sides: are we with democracy, or will we elect Trump and join Russia, China, and North Korea in making the world safe for dictators?</span></p></div><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b>And:</b></span></p><div id="new_second_nav_bar" style="background-color: navy; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; height: 29px; margin: 4px auto 18px; width: 980px;"><div id="new_header_nav_left" style="float: left; height: 29px; 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font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; padding-bottom: 3px;">by <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/profile/robert-reich" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Robert Reich</a> | February 12, 2024 - 7:28am | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/robert-reich/109380/who-s-vladimir-putin-s-best-friend-in-the-world" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">permalink</a></span><div class="nodebody" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-size: 14px;"><b><i><a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/whos-vladimir-putins-best-friend-055" style="color: #0000aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">— from Robert Reich's Substack</a></i></b></p><p style="font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" height="240" src="https://ktvz.b-cdn.net/2023/04/hypatia-h_1569c9d3c9d1cf20e0c37af91059f1e7-h_7762076966e5ef6f5c6c6a17eab660d9-300-scaled.jpg" style="border: 0px;" width="360" /></p><p><b>Excerpt:</b></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">The mainstream media doesn’t seem to want to talk about this, but it’s important that America and the world face what seems increasingly clear: Vladimir Putin’s best friend in the world — the person prepared to allow Putin to mount additional wars of aggression in Europe — is the leading Republican contender for president of the United States, Donald Trump.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">On Saturday, during a rally at Coastal Carolina University, Trump ramped up his attacks on NATO, claiming he suggested to a European leader that he would encourage Russia to do “whatever the hell they want” to member countries<strong> </strong>he views as not spending enough on their own defense:</span></p><blockquote style="background-color: #eeeeee; border-color: rgb(187, 187, 187); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; margin: 6px; padding: 6px;"><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">“One of the presidents of a big country stood up and said, ‘Well, sir, if we don’t pay and we’re attacked by Russia, will you protect us?. I said, ‘You didn’t pay. You’re delinquent.’ He said, ‘Yes, let’s say that happened.’ No, I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want.”</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Trump’s comment puts into context his strong opposition to providing more aid for Ukraine, and why Republican lawmakers are now backing off such funding.</span></p></div></div></div></div></div><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><b>And:</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;"><a href="https://brane-space.blogspot.com/2023/09/note-to-age-biased-voters-it-will-be.html">Note To Age-Biased Voters: It WILL Be Biden Vs. Trump Next Year - And Don't Even Think Of Sitting This One Out - Or Voting 3rd Party!</a></span></p>Copernicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16699554476216140859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301096656497422535.post-29426944316061935122024-02-09T06:00:00.000-08:002024-02-10T09:12:16.780-08:00Supremes Suddenly Get Humility Compared To Past Rulings - & Are Ready To Punt On Colorado 14th Amendment Case<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKTdicNe0lZ-3abfgyapGv4Bvlidp8b1oscLQYMidHvAkn1ip8XtQjpM9_lAWvqVPEGexmCuE1dbheB7Ouu1JNP37P7uhpV4dh6rE7Ji5N0WtwjbhpWkccFXM1dqdxDyRD6J61QmynU1ecAAtkYbroDLs___LYpm4YNR1geLLjytPxCWab4NocAthYUA/s546/Traitor%20Trump.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="546" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKTdicNe0lZ-3abfgyapGv4Bvlidp8b1oscLQYMidHvAkn1ip8XtQjpM9_lAWvqVPEGexmCuE1dbheB7Ouu1JNP37P7uhpV4dh6rE7Ji5N0WtwjbhpWkccFXM1dqdxDyRD6J61QmynU1ecAAtkYbroDLs___LYpm4YNR1geLLjytPxCWab4NocAthYUA/s320/Traitor%20Trump.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-RzmHQvbV5v_c8Hk_Gv4NvPYMUtm__STMIIMvU3FD5K2r80q60_LDnG32dDAAJNe4xmOZMcR7dsBi3bT-fMqlSB8i6iFphYKndo980er2zuVmqIQ5OET_oRMFOeWAdtvcPGMMM7vxrd6Qe2bQR4TSbfNl-dl-_BTig0pJ6myHwpIjk_gpGZd8Bx9iew/s1000/SC%20protesters-%20CO%20case.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="1000" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-RzmHQvbV5v_c8Hk_Gv4NvPYMUtm__STMIIMvU3FD5K2r80q60_LDnG32dDAAJNe4xmOZMcR7dsBi3bT-fMqlSB8i6iFphYKndo980er2zuVmqIQ5OET_oRMFOeWAdtvcPGMMM7vxrd6Qe2bQR4TSbfNl-dl-_BTig0pJ6myHwpIjk_gpGZd8Bx9iew/w372-h251/SC%20protesters-%20CO%20case.jpg" width="372" /></a></div> <b><i>Protesters outside the Supreme Court yesterday</i></b><p></p><p><b><i> </i></b></p><p></p><p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">The Supreme Court considering the Colorado Case to disqualify Donald Trump from elections- based on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment- i.e.</span></p><p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><a href="https://brane-space.blogspot.com/2023/12/in-watershed-decision-colorado-supreme.html">In Watershed Decision Colorado Supreme Court Merits Kudos For Disqualifying A Traitor From Ballot (brane-space.blogspot.com)</a></span></p><p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Has thus far disclosed the danger of brains trapped in over thinking, and mental gyrations to defend abject cowardice. There's no other way to put it. The Colorado Supreme Court decision, after all, was solidly based on a defined amendment to the Constitution and merely because it's dated does not mean it's irrelevant! As the decision summarized:</span></p><p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 16.5px; letter-spacing: -0.165px;">“</span><span style="color: #800180; font-size: 16.5px; letter-spacing: -0.165px;">We conclude that because President Trump is disqualified from holding the office of President under Section Three (of the 14th Amendment), it would be a wrongful act under the Election Code for the Secretary to list President Trump as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot,” the court’s majority opinion says. <i>“Therefore, the Secretary may not list President Trump’s name on the 2024 presidential primary ballot, nor may she count any write-in votes cast for him.</i>”</span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Specifically, Section 3 states in full:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cydrxm" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif" style="color: #363636; font-size: 20px;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 21.4px;">“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."</span></p><p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif" style="color: #363636; font-size: 20px;">But the justices (most) seemed to twist themselves into knots to try to avoid coming down on the side of the Colorado Supreme Court. As noted by two NY Times contributors:</span></p><p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif" style="color: #363636; font-size: 20px;">Jesse Wegman:</span></p><p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif" style="color: #800180; font-size: 20px;">"No one disputed that Trump is an insurrectionist! Not even his own lawyer, who at one point said that states can’t remove him from the ballot because Congress has the power to requalify him by a two-thirds vote, and “we don’t know whether Trump will be excused before he’s sworn in.” That is remarkable. Instead of arcane process questions, the debate should have been about whether the world’s oldest representative democracy will allow a man who tried to overthrow the government back into power."</span></p><p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">David French:</span></p><p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><span face="nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif" style="font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: normal;">"The sweep of Section 3 is broad because the scope of the underlying problem was broad. The authors of the 14th Amendment were concerned about countless former Confederates penetrating all levels of government. Moreover, delegating the rules for selecting presidential electors to state legislatures is part of the nation’s constitutional fabric. State legislatures are responsible for enforcing the Constitution as well."</span></span></p><p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">But the Roberts' court's primary concern was whether Congress must act before
states can invoke a constitutional provision that was adopted after the Civil
War to prevent former officeholders who “engaged in insurrection” from holding
office again. There also were questions about whether the president is covered
by the provision.</span></p><p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;">Answers: 1) NO Congress need not act. The state elections are under the separate states purview, case closed. The Amendment section itself is self-executing. The states then get to decide who is disqualified under Sec. 3 and who isn't. There is no need for any congressional intrusion, especially given these clowns can 't even get a damned border bill passed! (And Roberts and his crew are going to expect a two thirds majority to come to a conclusion on disqualification? You are looking at a monumental clusterfuck come January 6, 2025 when half the states may refuse to certify electoral votes if they have concluded - like Maine and Colorado- that Trump is disqualified on the basis of inciting an insurrection._</span></span></p><p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; letter-spacing: -0.133333px;">2) Of course the president is covered by the provision because he is a damned "officer." Deal with it.</span></span></p><p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;">Trump’s backers and hack lawyer</span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;">bootlickers will no doubt argue that “an officer of the United States” does not include presidents.</span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;">Which is pure bollocks. If presidents who act as commanders in chief (i.e. of the armed forces) aren’t officers, what the hell are they?</span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;">So it’s reckless and egregious to claim those offices are for military officers and postmasters, not presidents. So congressional legislation is not needed!</span></p><p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;">Despite that, Justice Elena Kagan was among several justices who wanted to know "<i>why a single state should decide who gets to be president of the United States</i>." </span></p><p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;">Actually, no single state does so decide. It only decides - for its own ballots- on the basis of the amendment, who is disqualified. But that is adhering to the letter of the constitution's text which is what the Supremes' textualists are supposed to be about. As the Colorado Solicitor General also pointed out to the court, Colorado makes such decisions about its ballots all the time. And currently has prevented a non-native born person from being on the state ballot. Other candidate - i.e. independents - may not be put on if they lack the credentials or meet the requirements.</span></p><p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;"> The Roberts' court conservatives often call themselves "originalists" or "</span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;">textualists"</span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;"> when applying the constitution to 2nd amendment issues. But it appears more and more that if an issue or decision emerges that is discomfiting then textualism-originalism depends on whether they're in the mood or not. In this case of the Colorado disqualification of Trump it appears they aren't. As legal specialist Dahlia Lithwick put it in an MSNBC Roundtable discussion last night: </span></p><p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">"</span><i><span style="color: #800180;">You kind of get the feeling the justices are hurtling their bodies against the sides of the train, screaming 'Get me off this train! I don't care what the rationale is! I'll go with the one state shouldn't decide rationale, I'll go with he wasn't an officer rationale, I'll go with the no due process for the president rationale. I don't care I need to be off! </span></i></span></p><p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;"><i><span style="color: #800180;">And that anxiety was palpable.</span><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">"</span></i></span></p><p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;">In other words, fleeing the issue like spineless cowards, terrified to make a determination - for example- of what constitutes an insurrection. As Lithwick, Colorado state lawyer Jason Murray and MSNBC legal specialist Ari Melber observed, Colorado is saying it's the justices' job to answer and settle the hard questions. No dodging. </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; font-size: 20px;">It is your job to decide for the entire country if Amendment 14, Section 3 is self-executing, whether the office-officer dichotomy holds, whether we can allow insurrectionists to run for office or not hold office. These are all exigent questions but as Ms. Lithwick pointed out, she noted 5 or 6 justices would simply rather hang their hats on the dopey, pragmatic argument '<i>we don't wanna decide 'cause it will allow shenanigans in other states.</i>'</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">Basically, we found a court which - incredibly - for the first time in 20 years yesterday found judicial humility. This was a court that has had no problems deciding air pollution limits, extent of allowable water pollution, vaccine policies, and what ER doctors can do when there's an abortion occurring. Yet they can't determine what an insurrection is or defer to a trial court's definition? As Dahlia noted: "<b><i>Very, very weird!</i></b>"</span></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">Or maybe, just plain cowardly to the point of enabling a traitor to destroy what's left of the country after his initial insurrection. Accomplices before the fact and ready to terminate whatever shred of legitimacy they retain.</span></span></span></p><p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;">Even more insane, 8 of 9 justices suggested they were open to at least some of the arguments made by Jonathan Mitchell, Trump's lawyer. Thus, Trump could win his case if just one of those absurd arguments is found to be persuasive. The most retarded and egregious Mitchell argument was that what happened on January 6th was a riot and not an insurrection. And even if it was an insurrection, Trump did not participate. But a</span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15pt;">s former Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Reich put it in a blog post two days after the insurrection:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 14.98px;">"</span><b><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 19.26px;">When the president of the United States encourages armed insurgents to breach the Capitol and threaten the physical safety of Congress, in order to remain in power, I call it an attempted coup. Last week’ rampage left five dead, including a Capitol Hill police officer who was injured when he tangled with the pro-Trump mob. We’re fortunate the carnage wasn’t greater."</span></b></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;">Only Justice Sonia Sotomayor, sadly, appeared to have the intelligence and courage to see what was needed. She thus sounded like she might be the only justice to uphold the Colorado Supreme Court ruling that Trump engaged in insurrection and is therefore ineligible to be president or run for president. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;">As for Trump's loopy lawyer Mitchell claiming there was no insurrection, what would you expect him to do other than lick Trump's boots before the court? But t</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">he lawyers
for Republican and independent voters who sued to remove Trump’s name from the
Colorado ballot counter that there is ample evidence that the events of Jan. 6
constituted an insurrection and that Trump incited it. They say it would be
absurd to apply Section 3 to everything but the presidency or that Trump is
somehow exempt. And the provision needs no enabling legislation, they argue.</span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">A decision
upholding the Colorado decision would amount to a declaration from the Supreme
Court that Trump did engage in insurrection and is barred by the 14th Amendment
from holding office again. That would allow states to keep him off the ballot
and imperil his campaign. It will also certainly finally put this miserable rat's campaign to an end and with it any aspirations to reclaim power and realize his dictatorial ambitions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.133333px;">But a definitive ruling for Trump would largely end efforts in Colorado, Maine and elsewhere to prevent his name from appearing on the ballot. It will also end any remaining residue of legitimacy for this Supreme Court - as if it had any after the wretched Dobbs decision.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: normal;">The court has signaled it will make every endeavor to act quickly, dramatically shortening the period in which it received a written briefing and holds arguments in the court room. Let us hope they make the right ruling, for the sake of this country. </span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: normal;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large; letter-spacing: normal;"><b>See Also:</b></span></span></p><div class="nodebar" style="background-color: #0000aa; color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/topics/the-trump-administration/donald-trump" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Donald Trump</a> | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/topics/law/supreme_court" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Supreme Court</a></div><div class="nodetitle" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 4px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/thom-hartmann/109365/the-shameful-failure-of-yesterday-s-scotus-14th-amendment-arguments" style="color: #660000; text-decoration-line: none;">The Shameful Failure of Yesterday’s SCOTUS 14th Amendment Arguments</a></div><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: large; letter-spacing: normal;"><span class="nodeby" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; padding-bottom: 3px;">by <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/user/thom-hartmann" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Thom Hartmann</a> | February 10, 2024 - 7:29am | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/thom-hartmann/109365/the-shameful-failure-of-yesterday-s-scotus-14th-amendment-arguments" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">permalink</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"></span></span></span></p><div class="nodebody" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-size: 14px;"><b><i><a href="https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-shameful-failure-of-yesterdays-11f" style="color: #0000aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">— from The Hartmmann Report</a></i></b></p><p style="font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" height="203" src="https://forwardky.com/content/images/2023/01/stencil-14thAmendment.jpg" style="border: 0px;" width="360" /></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Excerpt:</span></b></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">The single most astonishing thing about <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2023/23-719_feah.pdf" rel="" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">yesterday’s oral arguments</a> before the Supreme Court was the almost complete lack of historical context in those arguments about an insurrectionist staying on the ballot.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">The fear that led Colorado to ban Trump from the ballot was that he’d keep his word and “suspend the Constitution” and “be a dictator on day one.” Neither were mentioned even once: the words “suspend” and “dictator” don’t appear anywhere in the transcript.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">And yet that is exactly what provoked Pennsylvania Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, Michigan’s Senator Jacob Howard, and New York’s Senator Roscoe Conkling (and 12 others) to write and push through Congress the 14th Amendment.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">The Confederate states had ceased to be a democracy in any real sense by the late 1830s, as I detail in <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-History-American-Oligarchy-Reclaiming/dp/1523091584/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3N0IV4K5SP9DY&keywords=american+oligarchy&qid=1707439953&s=books&sprefix=american+oligarchy%2Cstripbooks%2C182&sr=1-3" rel="" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Hidden History of American Oligarchy</a></em>, with the wealthiest families in each of those states running them like dictatorial fiefdoms.</span></p></div><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #2a2a2a; letter-spacing: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">And</span><span style="font-size: large;">:</span></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/topics/the-trump-administration/donald-trump" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">p</a></p><div class="nodetitle" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 4px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/amanda-marcotte/109356/of-course-trump-s-supreme-court-lawyer-is-the-same-guy-behind-texas-sadistic-abortion-ban" style="color: #660000; text-decoration-line: none;">Of Course Trump’s Supreme Court Lawyer Is the Same Guy Behind Texas’ Sadistic Abortion Ban</a></div><span class="nodeby" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; padding-bottom: 3px;">by <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/profile/amanda-marcotte" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Amanda Marcotte</a> | February 9, 2024 - 7:27am | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/amanda-marcotte/109356/of-course-trump-s-supreme-court-lawyer-is-the-same-guy-behind-texas-sadistic-abortion-ban" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">permalink</a></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11px;"></span><div class="nodebody" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-size: 14px;"><b><i><a href="https://www.salon.com/2024/02/08/of-course-lawyer-is-the-same-guy-behind-texas-sadistic-abortion-ban/" style="color: #0000aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">— from Salon</a></i></b></p><p style="font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" height="240" src="https://ic-cdn.flipboard.com/salon.com/4ee7c575a618f81e6be2cf18910843bfa62116f8/_xlarge.jpeg" style="border: 0px;" width="360" /></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Excerpt:</span></b></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">The big news that kicked off this week was that the Supreme Court set Thursday to hear oral arguments over whether or not Donald Trump should be kicked off the ballot per the 14th Amendment, <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">which bars those who have "engaged in insurrection or rebellion"</a> against the government from holding office. What got a lot less attention was the announcement of which lawyer would argue on Trump's behalf: <a href="https://twitter.com/lawofruby/status/1754538282128421168" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">former Texas solicitor general Jonathan Mitchell</a>. Reproductive rights activists sure sat up and took notice of the mention of Mitchell. He is one of the most odious men in the entire anti-abortion world, which is quite an achievement, considering the misogyny that fuels that movement.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Mitchell earned this "worst of the worst" title by being the architect behind the Texas "bounty hunter" law, which adds a level of creative sadism to abortion bans that would make the villain in the "Saw" movies envious. There have been so many vicious abortion bans passed <a href="https://www.salon.com/2022/06/24/the-end-of-roe-v-wade-american-democracy-is-collapsing/" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022</a> that readers could be forgiven for forgetting how ugly the Texas law is. To recap: Beyond just banning abortion, the <a href="https://www.salon.com/2021/09/02/are-women-people-why-the-supreme-court-just-signed-off-on-a-texas-law-that-denies-womens-humanity/" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Mitchell-penned law offers a $10,000 bounty</a> to any person who <a href="https://www.salon.com/2021/09/07/abortion-bounty-hunters-in-texas-arent-whistleblowers--theyre-vicious-vigilantes/" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">sues someone who "aids and abets" an abortion</a>.</span></p></div><b><i></i></b><p></p>Copernicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16699554476216140859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301096656497422535.post-16471907190567900122024-02-09T05:46:00.000-08:002024-03-12T08:08:51.961-07:00Joe Punches Back At Trump Holdover Hur's Partisan Report Bollocks <p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd9R1YGlOWvnYaUryHthu83hlKpU73KFTQH8g_SZF28poho55slrUmSTSsPj-iQp3U5TcqAKB6BWKjOhlfBNzfmi78CQ5L1T2qngdWQlp9m68xqPdD6Tuo3FnlejHL5QKpJzGvBRGy8gRI7cAYVUPFZv7kfqWpgEdIsXol4lqoF07pdtVF-Vb4nYWeGg/s320/Durham-%20Barr.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="192" data-original-width="320" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd9R1YGlOWvnYaUryHthu83hlKpU73KFTQH8g_SZF28poho55slrUmSTSsPj-iQp3U5TcqAKB6BWKjOhlfBNzfmi78CQ5L1T2qngdWQlp9m68xqPdD6Tuo3FnlejHL5QKpJzGvBRGy8gRI7cAYVUPFZv7kfqWpgEdIsXol4lqoF07pdtVF-Vb4nYWeGg/s1600/Durham-%20Barr.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"> </span><b><i>Previous hack iteration: John Durham(L), Bill Barr</i></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihZlz5EyQ9wiw_zsNvaI8kt5_De4mMQzZkH_OVT926daA4KkYJrCUbeL6uGku7TV_uzyeHeyeBcq8Tya8PaTbZ3yaEiS4UQP1dR8UB_UytUpPMeeG-vibRIk40i8oa6FqtOTMzytjG0JTiuzsue_xM6yaOUyjDboYYa0kCwTy93rU21IxsCmy0cCESKg/s487/Hur%20the%20Hack.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="487" data-original-width="403" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihZlz5EyQ9wiw_zsNvaI8kt5_De4mMQzZkH_OVT926daA4KkYJrCUbeL6uGku7TV_uzyeHeyeBcq8Tya8PaTbZ3yaEiS4UQP1dR8UB_UytUpPMeeG-vibRIk40i8oa6FqtOTMzytjG0JTiuzsue_xM6yaOUyjDboYYa0kCwTy93rU21IxsCmy0cCESKg/w152-h184/Hur%20the%20Hack.jpg" width="152" /></a></div> <b><i>Hur, the latest DOJ hack exposed as such<br /></i></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b><i>"You either put up or you shut up. Meaning you either decide you are going to charge or shut up. No one cares about your personal views of the evidence or the people involved</i></b>.</span></span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem;">" - Former DOJ Prosecutor Andrew Weismann last night on MSNBC, reacting to the special counsel report by Robert K. Hur on Biden's documents</span></span><div><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Franklin, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 18px;">"</span><span face="Franklin, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b><i>Who is Robert Hur? Hur is a pal of Brett Kavanaugh. Hur is a Trump appointee. Hur is a featured member of the Federalist Society. Hur is a clear and present danger to the fair administration of justice and an unbiased investigation of the Biden nothingburger. He could easily turn out to be Ken Starr redux</i></b></span></span><span face="Franklin, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 18px;">." - Washington Post commenter </span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">"</span><span style="color: #800180; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;"><b><i>It seems to me that Mr. Hur would be better served looking for a job as White House physician</i></b></span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">." Ari Melber last night on MSNBC</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">"</span><span style="color: #800180; font-family: verdana;">Regarding the special counsel’s report on President
Biden’s mishandling of classified documents, could someone please explain what
qualifies Robert Hur to<em style="font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"> diagnose</span></em> memory problems? If the special counsel thought that the president’s
memory was germane to making a legal determination regarding the handling of
the documents, surely he could have subpoenaed and questioned a neurologist or
a doctor with specialized training in diagnosing and treating memory disorders.</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: verdana;">To use a legal term and analogy that Mr. Hur will
understand, he did not have <em style="font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">standing</span></em> to include a medical opinion in his
legal report.</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color: #800180;">” - </span>Letter writer, NY Times</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="color: #800180;">The
special counsel’s report about classified documents in President Biden’s
possession has some echoes of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/31/us/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-james-comey.html" style="text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">James Comey’s exoneration of
Hillary Clinton</span></a> just before the 2016 election, calling her
“extremely careless. </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="color: #800180;">This
report seems even more egregious to me. I would go so far as to say that it
appears to be a political hit job.</span>" - Letter writer, NY Times</span></span></p><p class="css-at9mc1" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="css-at9mc1" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">
</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1" style="background: white; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">That Special Counsel Robert Hur is a political hack like John Durham, sicced on Trump's investigators (by then AG Bill Barr) to find a counter point to the Mueller probe is now beyond doubt. Former DOJ prosecutor Andrew Weismann pulled no punches last night basically exposing Trump holdover Robert Hur as a two bit political hack. Just as Durham's pseudo investigation was done, and found to be hollow, e.g.</span></p><ul class="posts" style="background-color: #fff9ee; border-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: 1.2; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -15px;"><li style="background: none; border-width: 0px; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0.25em 0px; padding: 0.25em 0px 0.25em 1.3em; text-indent: 0px;"><a href="http://brane-space.blogspot.com/2021/09/no-durham-didnt-crack-russia-case-wide.html" style="color: #ff1900;"><span style="font-size: large;">No, DOJ's John Durham Didn' t "Crack The Russia Case Wide Open...</span></a></li></ul><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">So also Hur's specious document witch hunt - done to balance out the legitimate one into Trump's own classified document crimes (at Mar-a-lago) - was found empty. Never mind all his blatant partisan hack editorializing about Joe's memory. Mr. Weismann made it clear (see at end) Hur - instead of treating the Biden docs case like Mike Pence's- ran off the DOJ professional guardrails with his irrelevant BS about Biden's memory and age. So Biden had every right to blast him in a news conference last night, and technically AG Garland ought to fire his ass for this deliberate partisan hit job on the incumbent president.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">Hur's </span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/84519e20-057e-4968-8dd1-e373df9e465e.pdf?itid=lk_inline_manual_4" style="border-bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">345-page special counsel report</a><span style="font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;"> </span></span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">portrays Biden, 81, as someone who haphazardly kept notebooks and documents with classified information at his home, and struggled to recall key dates in his life. Predictably, rodent Republicans quickly seized on that stinging characterization to attack the Democratic incumbent as unfit for office. The question is why was this aspect even included given Hur has no medical degrees. As Lawrence O'Donnell put it last night:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">"</span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">What is a good test of memory? Might it be Donald Trump saying 'I don't recall' over four hundred times while taking a deposition? Might it be that witnesses over a 40 year time interval don't remember everything? Is it a person who graduates in June but can't recall where his diploma is in September? That seems to be the condition this special counsel doesn't understand about the human mind. And what is it that makes you stress a lack of memory in this particular case?</span><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">"</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">As Ari Melber added on MSNBC last night, Hur's irrelevancies concerning Biden's memory also amounted to "cheap shots" with which I agree. (Janice called it a "hit job") It was the type of thing a hack would release, confusing the issue with irrelevant subjective dross and personal opinion. Instead of what should have been a black and white report: No adjectives, no adverbs ("painfully"), no editorializing. Especially over a critical election year in which low IQ media mavens and a selective attention public may well draw exactly the wrong conclusions.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">Trumper s</span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">pecial counsel Robert K. Hur’s report also said Biden <i>"could not remember the year in which his son Beau died of cancer</i>." This is total tommyrot given Joe and Jill preserve Beau's memory every year in a special personal memorial. So this humbug elicited a righteous blast from Joe in a presser that followed on the heels of the release:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="var(--wpds-fonts-body)"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">"How in the hell dare he raise that,</span></span><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" face="var(--wpds-fonts-body)">”</span></span><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" face="var(--wpds-fonts-body)" style="font-size: 1.25rem;"> a</span><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" face="var(--wpds-fonts-body)" style="font-size: 1.25rem;"> </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/08/biden-hur-response/?itid=lk_inline_manual_8" style="border-bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); font-size: 1.25rem; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); text-decoration-thickness: 0.0625em; text-underline-offset: 0.125em;" target="_blank">furious president Biden said to reporters summoned to the White House</a><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" face="var(--wpds-fonts-body)" style="font-size: 1.25rem;"> </span><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" face="var(--wpds-fonts-body)" style="font-size: 1.25rem;">on Thursday evening.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" face="var(--wpds-fonts-body)"> </span><span face="var(--wpds-fonts-body)"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">“It wasn’t any of their damn business. … I don’t need anyone to remind me when he passed away</span></span><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" face="var(--wpds-fonts-body)">.”</span></span></p><div class="wpds-c-PJLV article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I</span><span color="var(--wpds-colors-gray40)" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 1.25rem;">n an exchange with reporters (most of whom screamed like school children - something that never would have been allowed at a 1961-62 JFK press conference) the inane shouted questions from the peanut gallery veered from possible national security crimes to the president’s mental faculties to the ongoing U.S. response to the war in the Middle East, Biden insisted he never improperly shared classified information with anyone and was fit to be president and run for reelection. </span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem;">Ultimately, the report said a jury would find Biden to be a sympathetic figure and “<i>a well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.</i>”</span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem;"><br /></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem;">This and other irrelevant elaboration elicited blasts and criticism from MSNBC legal specialist Andrew Weismann, who served as a special prosecutor in Robert Mueller's office. As Mr. Weismann observed:</span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem;"><br /></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem;">"</span><span style="font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem;"><span style="color: #800180;">I look at this as someone who's worked in the Justice Department for twenty years and participated in writing reports like this, but without the adverbs. What you do as a prosecutor is look at intent and knowledge, you look for facts and cooperation. Here you have what is similar to the case of Mike Pence. </span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem;"><span style="color: #800180;">There is inadequate proof of any bad intent or knowledge or evidence of obstruction, and you have evidence of cooperation. That is why this case is like Mike Pence's case. And that should be the end of discussion.</span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem;"><span style="color: #800180;">What we have here, unfortunately, is a repetition of James Comey (with Hillary Clinton). The use of adverbs and adjectives that are not the province of the Department of Justice. That is not their role. It is completely irrelevant to the discussion. It is quite clearly a partisan swipe, which is literally on page one. How Joe Biden sees himself as a historic figure, comments about his memory. None of that is relevant because the whole issue here is proof that shows knowledge and intent to retain or disseminate classified information.</span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem;"><span style="color: #800180;">And the report says, 'no we don't'. In fact, it says there are innocent explanations that we cannot refute. That is the end. All the other stuff is a testament to somebody who was appointed a special counsel within the Department of Justice and who is not following the rules of the Department of Justice. </span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b><i>So you either put up or you shut up. Meaning you either decide you are going to charge or shut up. No one cares about your personal views of the evidence or the people involved</i></b>.</span></span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem;">"</span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem;"><br /></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem;">In other words, Weissmann is saying Hur ran off the DOJ rails into hack-hood. He interjected personal, partisan views and speculations, elaborations about Biden which were totally irrelevant to the investigation. Worse the dumb media without any further examination or analysis is running with it like the leading editorial in today's WSJ, using Hur's detestable crank blatherings as a basis to attack Joe:</span></p><h3 class="css-fsvegl" style="--headline-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --headline-link-hover-color: var(--color-blue); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Retina, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-block: 12px 0px;"><a class="ecp2yqm7 css-1me4f21-HeadlineLink" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-biden-robert-hur-report-classified-documents-119fbb16?mod=opinion_lead_pos1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; display: block; outline-offset: 1px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 200ms, 200ms; transition-property: color, fill; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0, 0, 0.5, 1), cubic-bezier(0, 0, 0.5, 1);" text-decoration="none"><span class="css-17x5lw" style="-webkit-box-align: center; -webkit-box-pack: start; align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: row; height: 59.0521px; justify-content: flex-start;"><p class="ecp2yqm4 css-1ciya1v-HeadlineTextBlock" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: inherit; font-family: "Escrow Condensed", Georgia, serif; font-size: 32px; font-stretch: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5px 0px;">Biden’s Doddering Document Defense</p></span></a></h3><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem;"></span></p><p class="css-m54ll1" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Retina, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-block-start: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5px 0px;">Special counsel Robert Hur says a jury might not convict the elderly, forgetful President.</p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem;"> But which may now cost Joe the election and put a traitor back into power, especially if the Supreme Court does not side with Colorado in disqualifying the prick from running.</span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thanks a heap, Hur! </span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Update: 3/12/ 24</i>:</b> <u><i>Trump's Dog Hur To Testify - Don't Believe A Word</i></u></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></p><div class="nodebar" style="background-color: #0000aa; color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/taxonomy/term/2" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Republicans</a></div><div class="nodetitle" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 4px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/maya-boddie/109691/gop-has-mueller-moment-as-robert-hur-quits-doj-and-agrees-to-testify-as-private-citizen" style="color: #660000; text-decoration-line: none;">GOP Has ‘Mueller Moment’ As Robert Hur Quits DOJ and Agrees To Testify As Private Citizen</a></div><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="nodeby" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; padding-bottom: 3px;">by <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/profile/maya-boddie" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Maya Boddie</a> | March 12, 2024 - 6:06am | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/maya-boddie/109691/gop-has-mueller-moment-as-robert-hur-quits-doj-and-agrees-to-testify-as-private-citizen" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">permalink</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"></span></span></p><div class="nodebody" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-size: 14px;"><b><i><a href="https://www.alternet.org/gop-mueller-moment/" style="color: #0000aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">— from Alternet</a></i></b></p><p style="font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" height="203" src="https://www.alternet.org/media-library/image.jpg?id=51709583&width=1245&height=700&quality=85&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C107" style="border: 0px;" width="360" /></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">House Republicans are looking forward to, as of Monday, former Department of Justice special counsel Robert Hur's testimony before the Judiciary Committee Tuesday, March 12 — weeks after the prosecutor decided against charging President Joe Biden over his handling of classified documents.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><a class="rm-stats-tracked" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/robert-hur-trump-special-counsel-b2510944.html" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">According to The Independent</a>, Hur will testify "as a private citizen who has surrounded himself with Republican partisans and notorious figures linked to former president <a class="rm-stats-tracked" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/donald-trump" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Donald Trump</a>."</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">The Independent exclusively reports "multiple sources familiar with" the special counsel's plans, say that Hur, "at the request of the Republican majority led by Ohio Representative Jim Jordan, has arranged his departure from the Department of Justice to be official as of Monday 11 March, one day before he is scheduled to appear on Capitol Hill."</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">The special counsel's testimony, <a class="rm-stats-tracked" href="https://www.axios.com/2024/03/11/robert-hur-hearing-republicans-mueller" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">according to Axios</a>, "gives Republicans their Mueller moment."</span></p></div><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But at least Mueller had facts at hand including having already indicted 12 GRU agents! Hur has nothing, and has merely been Trump's- and now the GOP's pimp. </span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>See Also:</b></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a aria-hidden="false" class="css-rgq5s4" data-uri="nyt://article/1588e05e-5cb6-533d-910f-550fa2ef6635" href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/02/06/opinion/thepoint/krugman-biden-age" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"></a></span></p><div style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="css-1hgbvll" style="border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-quaternary,#727272); font-family: nyt-cheltenham-small, nyt-cheltenham, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 0.6875rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px 0px 0.25rem; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">PAUL KRUGMAN</p><p class="indicate-hover css-dgqyc1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-tertiary,#5A5A5A); font-family: nyt-cheltenham-text-cond, nyt-cheltenham, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.0025em; line-height: 1.15em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">The Disgusting Furor Over Biden’s Age</p><p class="indicate-hover css-dgqyc1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-tertiary,#5A5A5A); font-family: nyt-cheltenham-text-cond, nyt-cheltenham, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.0025em; line-height: 1.15em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p class="indicate-hover css-dgqyc1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.15em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/02/06/opinion/thepoint#krugman-biden-age">Conversations and insights about the moment. - The New York Times (nytimes.com)</a></p><p class="indicate-hover css-dgqyc1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.15em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p class="indicate-hover css-dgqyc1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-tertiary,#5A5A5A); font-family: nyt-cheltenham-text-cond, nyt-cheltenham, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.0025em; line-height: 1.15em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Excerpt:</p><p class="indicate-hover css-dgqyc1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-tertiary,#5A5A5A); font-family: nyt-cheltenham-text-cond, nyt-cheltenham, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.0025em; line-height: 1.15em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p class="live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px auto 0.9375rem; max-width: 600px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">My God, consider his opponent. When I listen to Donald Trump’s speeches, I find myself thinking about my father, who died in 2013 (something else I had to look up). During his last year my father suffered from <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/alzheimers-disease/expert-answers/sundowning/faq-20058511#:~:text=Answer%20From%20Jonathan%20Graff%2DRadford,lead%20to%20pacing%20or%20wandering." rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">sundowning</a>: He was lucid during the day, but would sometimes become incoherent and aggressive after dark. If we’re going to be doing amateur psychological diagnoses of elderly politicians, shouldn’t we be talking about a candidate who has confused <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/19/us/politics/trump-haley-pelosi-jan-6.html" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi</a> and whose ranting and raving sometimes reminds me of my father on a bad evening?</span></p><p class="live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px auto 0.9375rem; max-width: 600px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">So to everyone who’s piling on Biden right now, stop and look in the mirror. And ask yourself what you are doing.</span></p></div><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><b>And:</b></span></p><div class="nodebar" style="background-color: #0000aa; color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/topics/the-biden-administration/merrick-garland" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Merrick Garland</a></div><div class="nodetitle" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 4px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/carl-gibson/109368/the-villain-here-is-merrick-garland-white-house-upset-with-ag-s-handling-of-biden-probe" style="color: #660000; text-decoration-line: none;">‘The Villain Here Is Merrick Garland’: White House Upset With AG’s Handling of Biden Probe</a></div><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span class="nodeby" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; padding-bottom: 3px;">by <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/profile/carl-gibson" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Carl Gibson</a> | February 10, 2024 - 8:26am | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/carl-gibson/109368/the-villain-here-is-merrick-garland-white-house-upset-with-ag-s-handling-of-biden-probe" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">permalink</a></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11px;"></span></p><div class="nodebody" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-size: 14px;"><b><i><a href="https://www.alternet.org/biden-frustrated-merrick-garland/" style="color: #0000aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">— from Alternet</a></i></b></p><p style="font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" height="203" src="https://www.alternet.org/media-library/image.jpg?id=27093909&width=1245&height=700&quality=85&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C0" style="border: 0px;" width="360" /></p><p style="font-size: 14px;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Excerpt:</span></b></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">If President Joe Biden wins a second term in November, he's not likely to keep Attorney General Merrick Garland in his current role, according to a new report.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><a class="rm-stats-tracked" href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/09/white-house-frustration-with-garland-grows-00140813" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Politico reported Friday evening</a> that sources close to Biden who spoke anonymously to protect their positions say the president is privately "grumbling" about Garland's leadership of the Department of Justice. He's reportedly particularly upset about Garland's oversight of special counsel Robert Hur's and his hands-off approach to Hur's report summarizing the classified documents probe. Even though Hur ultimately ruled that no criminal charges were warranted, the special counsel — who was initially appointed as US Attorney for the District of Maryland by then-President Donald Trump in 2018 — made several unflattering observations about Biden's mental faculties that Republicans have seized on.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">"This has been building for a while," one of Politico's sources said. "No one is happy."</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">When Biden first appointed Garland to helm the DOJ, he did so out of a sense of duty to restore the DOJ's reputation as independent of the presidency, telling Garland that "you are not the president or the vice president's lawyer." However, some Biden aides say that in his decisions to select Trump-appointed prosecutors as special counsels in both the classified documents investigation and the probe into Hunter Biden (led by US Attorney for the District of Delaware David Weiss), Garland's attempts to go out of his way to not appear biased often led to over-correcting toward conservative prosecutors.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">"<b><i>What Democrats do is they bend over backwards not to look partisan, and then they end up hiring people that are partisan but in the other direction</i></b>,” an unnamed Biden donor told Politico.</span></p></div><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">And:</span></b></p><div class="nodebar" style="background-color: #0000aa; color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/taxonomy/term/7" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Democrats</a></div><div class="nodetitle" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 4px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/heather-digby-parton/109367/joe-biden-falls-victim-to-democrats-special-prosecutor-delusion" style="color: #660000; text-decoration-line: none;">Joe Biden Falls Victim to Democrats’ Special Prosecutor Delusion</a></div><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span class="nodeby" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; padding-bottom: 3px;">by <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/profile/heather-digby-parton" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Heather Digby Parton</a> | February 10, 2024 - 8:13am | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/heather-digby-parton/109367/joe-biden-falls-victim-to-democrats-special-prosecutor-delusion" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">permalink</a></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11px;"></span></p><div class="nodebody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><a href="https://www.salon.com/2024/02/09/joe-biden-falls-victim-to-democrats-special-prosecutor-delusion/" style="color: #0000aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">— from Salon</a></i></b></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" height="240" src="https://ic-cdn.flipboard.com/salon.com/f736d559d6fa4ce1d7997093233ed5464e2025c3/_xlarge.jpeg" style="border: 0px;" width="360" /></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Excerpt:</b></span></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Perhaps someday Democrats will learn their lesson but I'm not holding out much hope at this point. They suffer from an inexplicable habit of allowing only Republicans to hold the job of a special prosecutor. This has been going on for decades now and the results have been predictable each time.</span></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">For Democrats, the idea is to prove how noble and non-partisan they are in comparison to the hacks on the GOP side but it just ends up coming back to bite them in the end. The habit goes back to Watergate after President Richard Nixon fired special prosecutor Archibald Cox, a Democrat, in the Saturday Night Massacre. Nixon had Cox replaced with one of his supporters, Texas Judge Leon Jaworski, whom everyone assumed would be sympathetic to the president. As it turned out, Jaworski was appalled by what he saw and issued subpoenas for Nixon's White House tapes, a case that eventually wound up in the Supreme Court. However, <a href="https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/06/17/Watergate-grand-jury-tried-to-indict-President-Richard-Nixon/6784393134400/" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">it was later revealed </a>that Jaworski didn't agree with the Grand Jury's recommendation to criminally indict the president and resigned from the job just as the cover-up trials began. As we know, it all became moot when President Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon.</span></p></div><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">And:</span></b></p><div class="nodebar" style="background-color: #0000aa; color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/topics/the-trump-administration/donald-trump" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Donald Trump</a> | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/topics/the_obama_administration/joe_biden" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Joe Biden</a></div><div class="nodetitle" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 4px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/robert-reich/109359/bidens-brain-trumps-brain" style="color: #660000; text-decoration-line: none;">Biden's Brain, Trump's Brain</a></div><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span class="nodeby" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; padding-bottom: 3px;">by <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/profile/robert-reich" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Robert Reich</a> | February 9, 2024 - 8:32am | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/robert-reich/109359/bidens-brain-trumps-brain" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">permalink</a></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11px;"></span></p><div class="nodebody" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-size: 14px;"><b><i><a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/bidens-brain-trumps-brain" style="color: #0000aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">— from Robert Reich's Substack</a></i></b></p><p style="font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" height="203" src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/ws/800/cpsprodpb/A1C5/production/_115131414_biden_trump_gallery_header_2.jpg" style="border: 0px;" width="360" /></p><p><span style="font-size: 14px;">Y</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">esterday evening, special counsel, Robert K. Hur — appointed in January 2023 by Attorney General Merrick Garland to lead an inquiry into President Biden’s possible criminality after classified files were found in the garage and living areas of Biden’s home in Delaware — cleared Biden of any wrongdoing.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">But Hur also suggested that one reason Biden could not be prosecuted was because of his memory lapses — thereby underscoring one of the biggest issues that the public is concerned about in re-electing Biden: His aging brain.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">In recounting his interviews with Biden, Hur portrayed him as unable to remember key dates of his time in President Barack Obama’s White House.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Let me point out five things:</span></p><ol><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>Special counsel Hur has no professional background or experience diagnosing age-related memory loss.</strong> In fact, he has no medical background at all. His conclusion that Biden has a “poor memory” is entirely subjective, based on Hur’s own guess about how a jury would respond to Biden.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>Some memory loss naturally comes with aging, and both Biden (age 81) and his likely Republican opponent, Donald Trump (age 77) have demonstrated memory loss as well as confusion. </strong>(Trump recently confused Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi, for example.)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>For the purposes of electing the next president, the relevant question isn’t a candidate’s memory. It’s his knowledge, temperament, and judgment.</strong> </span></li></ol></div><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">And:</span></b></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p><div class="nodebar" style="background-color: #0000aa; color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/topics/the_obama_administration/joe_biden" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Joe Biden</a></div><div class="nodetitle" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 4px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/carl-gibson/109358/inaccurate-gratuitous-and-wrong-white-house-responds-to-special-counsel-s-biden-report" style="color: #660000; text-decoration-line: none;">‘Inaccurate, Gratuitous and Wrong’: White House Responds to Special Counsel’s Biden Report</a></div><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span class="nodeby" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; padding-bottom: 3px;">by <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/profile/carl-gibson" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Carl Gibson</a> | February 9, 2024 - 8:11am | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/carl-gibson/109358/inaccurate-gratuitous-and-wrong-white-house-responds-to-special-counsel-s-biden-report" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">permalink</a></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 11px;"></span></span></p><div class="nodebody" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-size: 14px;"><b><i><a href="https://www.alternet.org/white-house-responds-biden-report/" style="color: #0000aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">— from Alternet</a></i></b></p><p style="font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" height="203" src="https://www.alternet.org/media-library/image.jpg?id=51424510&width=1245&height=700&quality=85&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C137" style="border: 0px;" width="360" /></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Excerpt:</span></b></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Department of Justice special counsel Robert Hur issued his final <a class="rm-stats-tracked" href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24414202-240208-hur-report" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">388-page report</a> on Thursday exonerating President Joe Biden from any criminal wrongdoing in his probe into whether Biden mishandled classified documents that were among his personal belongings. However, Hur still made several digs at Biden's age and mental fortitude, which the White House publicly condemned.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Hur — whom former President Donald Trump appointed as US Attorney for the District of Maryland in 2018 — stated that "no criminal charges are warranted in this matter." But he also described Biden as a "<a class="rm-stats-tracked" href="https://twitter.com/Forbes/status/1755718694322229290" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory,</a>" and noted that Biden was unable to remember some of his time as vice president under former President Barack Obama, and other details like the year his son, Beau, passed away.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><a class="rm-stats-tracked" href="https://twitter.com/IanSams46/status/1755701207849390498/photo/1" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">In a recent tweet</a>, White House spokesperson Ian Sams slammed Hur's characterizations of the president, saying "The inappropriate criticisms of the President’s memory are inaccurate, gratuitous, and wrong."</span></p></div><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">And</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 1.25rem;">:</span></span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><a href="https://brane-space.blogspot.com/2023/01/conservos-go-ballistic-over-bidens-10.html" style="font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Critical Thinking Debacle: Comparing Biden Files Case To Trump's Intentional Malfeasance & Obstruction</span></a></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><b>Excerpt:</b></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" dir="null" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><br /></p><p class="paragraph" style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Archives wasn’t even looking for the Biden docs, as they were with Trump’s top-secret materials, and didn’t know they had been missing until informed by Biden’s lawyers.</span></span></p><p class="paragraph" style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> As Scott Frederickson also noted, this self-reporting was the single most important part of the situation which shows a <b><i>lack of intentional conduct.</i></b> This in distinction to the Mar a Lago case where there was an intentional attempt by Trump to hide documents.</span></span></p></div></div>Copernicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16699554476216140859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301096656497422535.post-81995133944421315192024-02-08T07:04:00.000-08:002024-02-14T06:43:00.365-08:00The 'Joe Rogan Experience': Attuned To Dullards, CT Spinners - RFK Jr. And Aaron Rodgers<p> <span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-size: 17px;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3dtzzHlmdqw0wmqtRRIPjAJLSa_Pxf8ZcYMKgjtPjXaxh0D5QoruuJaMNXIGpDKINqdYF7bb0zT8ehqE_gSvwsr89CW07ILADpd0QMp2BOZv5rg0W0pDv9CszZY4JV5JvzoZPaoyhlXPag0Iqeu5fCJhCNIBdcjhwTsTBEuX1X7wGn0uYaO-R7-2qHQ/s313/Joe%20Rogan.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="313" data-original-width="283" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3dtzzHlmdqw0wmqtRRIPjAJLSa_Pxf8ZcYMKgjtPjXaxh0D5QoruuJaMNXIGpDKINqdYF7bb0zT8ehqE_gSvwsr89CW07ILADpd0QMp2BOZv5rg0W0pDv9CszZY4JV5JvzoZPaoyhlXPag0Iqeu5fCJhCNIBdcjhwTsTBEuX1X7wGn0uYaO-R7-2qHQ/s1600/Joe%20Rogan.jpg" width="283" /></a></div> <span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b;"><i> "Hmmmmm....how many dopes can I snooker today?"</i></span><p></p><p><a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" href="https://open.spotify.com/show/4rOoJ6Egrf8K2IrywzwOMk?si=XMvIWTeCQfKNNU1WmVLgMg&nd=1&dlsi=36dafd372faa4b3d" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">"The Joe Rogan Experience"</a><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-size: 17px;"> according to a WSJ piece barely four days ago, has just made been awarded a whopping $250 million deal for Spotify to ensure the imp keeps spouting bollocks on his podcasts. The news confirmed for me once and for all the brains of too many 'Muricans have been hijacked. Mainly by disinformation pushing loons and nuts making tons off the gullibility of their low IQ followers and minions - probably most in the Trumper brigade. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Segoe UI, Segoe UI Midlevel, sans-serif" style="color: #2b2b2b;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">Most recently, on Wednesday, Rogan's wacko show allowed former Packer QB Aaron Rodgers to spiel f</span></span></span><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-size: 17px;">or over two hours about current events and conspiracies that have been in the open in recent years. Rodgers, let us note, gained infamy by his cockeyed views on Covid as the virus was ravaging the country in 2019. His most vile move was </span><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-size: 17px;">insinuating he was vaccinated during a Green Bay Packers training camp press conference - claiming he was "immunized." And knowing full damn well most viewers would automatically interpret that as meaning he was vaccinated. </span></p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">However, his actual vaccination status didn't come to light until his positive diagnosis in November 2021 - barely 7 weeks into the Packers' season and who knows how many teammates he'd infected. (Which may never be known given there were different thresholds for unvaccinated players in returning to play.)</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">The imp<a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/nfl/packers/2021/11/05/takeaways-aaron-rodgers-comments-covid-19-vaccine/6302764001/" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> then went on Pat McAfee's sh</a><a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/nfl/packers/2021/11/05/takeaways-aaron-rodgers-comments-covid-19-vaccine/6302764001/" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">ow a few days later</a> and started to <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" href="https://www.packersnews.com/story/sports/nfl/packers/2021/11/05/packers-quarterback-aaron-rodgers-talks-covid-19-sounds-off-nfl-protocols/6280790001/" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">unload on the NFL for what he called its "draconian" health and safety protocols that year</a>. He also employed the typical Trumper jargon in targeting "woke culture," and revealed that he sent the league "a 500-page report" on why he should have been considered vaccinated due to his homeopathic treatments, and said <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" href="https://www.packersnews.com/story/sports/nfl/packers/2021/12/21/aaron-rodgers-on-the-pat-mcafee-show-talks-covid-nfl-protocols-wears-cancel-culture-hoodie/8984180002/" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">there was a witch hunt for unvaccinated players</a>. Worst of all, the demented loon claimed to be a critical thinker. </p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">This twit, who admitted Rogan gave him medical recommendations on Covid treatments, which included <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/nfl/packers/2021/11/05/takeaways-aaron-rodgers-comments-covid-19-vaccine/6302764001/" target="_blank">ivermectin</a>, an anti-parasitic drug that has <a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" href="https://emergency.cdc.gov/newsletters/coca/020122.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">not been authorized or approved for use in preventing or treating COVID-19 by the FDA</a>. I already tattooed this lamebrain drug in a previous post, e.g.</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><a href="https://brane-space.blogspot.com/2021/08/ivermectin-horse-de-wormer-tabs-for.html"> Ivermectin -Horse De-Wormer Tabs For Covid Prevention - What Could Go Wrong? (You Don't Want To Know)</a></p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Asking:</p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="color: #3c3736; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.125px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"</span></span><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.125px;">Why would a person take a de-wormer med to get rid of a </span><i style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.125px;"><b>virus</b></i><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.125px;">? Or protect against a virus like the delta variant of Covid? Only a low I.Q. fool would do so, or someone so uneducated they'd take the word of a babble-brained FOX New host first, </span><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.125px;">before a doctor like Dr. Ashish Jha, or Anthony Fauci</span></span><span style="font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.125px;">.</span></span><span style="color: #3c3736; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.125px;">"</span></p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif" style="color: #2b2b2b;">The fact Rodgers would mindlessly just follow the advice of a clown like Rogan shows he's no critical thinker - because genuine critical thinkers don't rely on blabbering twits and half wits for medical advice. Especially given that </span><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif" style="color: #2b2b2b;">Rogan has been a critic of COVID vaccines and two years ago </span><a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/covid-misinformation-joe-rogan-spotify-petition-1282240/" style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif;" target="_blank">270 doctors called for Spotify to take action against Rogan</a><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif" style="color: #2b2b2b;"> over narratives his guests had shared about the vaccine. Did Spotify? Hell no. This new $250m deal shows he's simply being rewarded for spinning out rubbish.</span></p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif" style="color: #2b2b2b;">As for Rodgers, this bozo had the chutzpah to</span><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif" style="color: #2b2b2b;"> actually declare that other people "<i>didn't do critical thinking</i>" during the pandemic- meaning they chose well-researched mRNA vaccines (like Janice and me) as opposed to horse de-wormer. The moron also </span><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif"><span style="color: #2b2b2b;">alleged that "</span><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">as more research comes out, there’s more papers published in very reputable scientific publications that talk about all of the things I was stumping for and talking about."</span></i><span style="color: #2b2b2b;"> But Rodgers never specified the exact scientific publications, the journal titles, the authors or the dates of publication.</span></span></p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif"><span style="color: #2b2b2b;">Some critical thinker. </span></span></p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif" style="color: #2b2b2b;">Oh, and not surprisingly this crackpot - despite insisting he wants to stay out of politics - </span><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif" style="color: #2b2b2b;"> </span><a data-t="{"n":"destination","t":13,"b":1,"c.t":7}" href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/nfl/packers/2023/10/27/aaron-rodgers-is-voting-for-robert-kennedy-jr-rfk/71334362007/" style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif;" target="_blank">has essentially endorsed presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr.</a><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif" style="color: #2b2b2b;"> due to their shared viewpoint on the vaccine. The kook on one of his last McAffee shows even challenged Travis Kelce (who has done Pfizer vaccine ads) to a "debate" with him and RFK Jr.</span></p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif" style="color: #2b2b2b;">With mutts like Rodgers and Rogan getting millions to tune into their blathering nonsense you can be sure the national IQ falls even further, unfortunately before the Nov. 5 election.</span></p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif" style="color: #2b2b2b;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">See Also:</span></b></span></p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif" style="color: #2b2b2b; font-size: large;"><a href="https://brane-space.blogspot.com/2024/01/yeah-jimmy-kimmel-ought-to-take-aaron.html">Yeah, Jimmy Kimmel Ought To Take Aaron Rodgers To The Cleaners In A Lawsuit For Babbling Epstein-List Bollocks </a></span></p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><b><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif" style="color: #2b2b2b; font-size: 17px;"> A</span><span style="color: #2b2b2b;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">nd</span><span style="font-size: large;">:</span></span></b></p><ul class="posts" style="background-color: #fff9ee; border-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; line-height: 1.2; list-style: none none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -15px;"><li style="background: none; border-width: 0px; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0.25em 0px; padding: 0.25em 0px 0.25em 1.3em;"><a href="https://brane-space.blogspot.com/2023/07/rfk-jr-proves-hes-reeps-useful-idiot-on.html" style="color: #ff1900;"><span style="font-size: large;">RFK Jr. Proves He's REEPs' Useful Idiot On Fox & Friends...</span></a></li></ul><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><b><span style="color: #2b2b2b;">And:</span></b></p><p data-t="{"n":"blueLinks"}" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><a href="https://brane-space.blogspot.com/2021/11/aaron-rodgers-proves-hes-no-critical.html" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #ff1900; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-indent: -15px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Aaron Rodgers Proves He's No "Critical Thinker"</span></a></p>Copernicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16699554476216140859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301096656497422535.post-45044054891485059772024-02-07T06:18:00.000-08:002024-02-07T21:56:53.927-08:00GOP Goes To Obstruction of Sane Immigration Bill To Ding Biden - Under Orders From Trump<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlHngZ4BV5_rxU9NiveFy1S3gejJB2WjdypOH8ykKT6c1udHvbLgkMh51rM9hKu0-3-k_qap-NYWc6VkRDKoQs9eZFGBjk63SdZaboZN5yjwYmCHDWtK-u_crrJ5ma6MM14pGkhMDUmFf3GSdwC1bxQR4dUQCNERCU1vJ_mbttBq5MkIB2dZ7sRwuyfw/s1003/Trump%20wall.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="736" data-original-width="1003" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlHngZ4BV5_rxU9NiveFy1S3gejJB2WjdypOH8ykKT6c1udHvbLgkMh51rM9hKu0-3-k_qap-NYWc6VkRDKoQs9eZFGBjk63SdZaboZN5yjwYmCHDWtK-u_crrJ5ma6MM14pGkhMDUmFf3GSdwC1bxQR4dUQCNERCU1vJ_mbttBq5MkIB2dZ7sRwuyfw/w390-h286/Trump%20wall.jpg" width="390" /></a></div><p></p><p> <b><i>"Now none of those brown people can get into my world!"</i></b></p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAATaMevnb-prJk9UPe6ct8TpwmLcgEH-ClUsjZvLr4ENKKGBTfWLa4A370prTkD_9IV94wCoxXdketEPh_TiMJT45-PYjK5TQ-gYI_eQIQK6esAqU9_M-qdyVIP2tQrswp6g47oBMBvj7JH6p14OOXEGHdnAx2UmwWcYPWvm1JcyPtDtz1PuB0IEoGw/s598/GOP%20Pig%20snout.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="457" data-original-width="598" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAATaMevnb-prJk9UPe6ct8TpwmLcgEH-ClUsjZvLr4ENKKGBTfWLa4A370prTkD_9IV94wCoxXdketEPh_TiMJT45-PYjK5TQ-gYI_eQIQK6esAqU9_M-qdyVIP2tQrswp6g47oBMBvj7JH6p14OOXEGHdnAx2UmwWcYPWvm1JcyPtDtz1PuB0IEoGw/s320/GOP%20Pig%20snout.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span face="Franklin, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 18px;">"</span><span face="Franklin, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: medium;">As far as I'm concerned the Republicans can now shut their mouths about any issues at the border. They had their opportunity to pass something more far reaching than anything ever proposed before and instead they chose to bow down to their corrupt narcissistic psychopath cult leader</span></span><span face="Franklin, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 18px;">." - Commenter on Washington Post today</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The headline was fairly clear on page A4 of
yesterday's WSJ:</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><u>BORDER DEAL FACES DEFEAT AS GOP BALKS</u></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">And the reasons are clear as well. With the
economy humming, many more jobs added and inflation going down - with Fed
interest rate cuts on the horizon - the Reeps are needing another way to ding
Biden. Also, they have their marching order from the overgrown toddler traitor Trump to scuttle any and all such immigration bills that might in any way alleviate the influx of migrants. Why? Well, duh, because Trump knows it's the only thing left to keep Biden's poll numbers underwater and especially below his. This as too many Americans continue to be blase about the future of the country and Trump's threat to it, eg.</span></p><div class="nodebar" style="background-color: #0000aa; color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/taxonomy/term/124" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Fascism</a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="nodetitle" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 4px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/thom-hartmann/109255/why-are-too-many-americans-ignoring-the-ongoing-collapse-of-democracy-in-the-us" style="color: red;">Why are Too Many Americans Ignoring the Ongoing Collapse of Democracy in the US?</a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span class="fid14"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;">We note that Democrats currently have a 51-49 majority in the Senate and the bill now on offer - not a perfect bill but a sane one - needs 60 votes to advance. </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Any deal was always going to be a tough sell,
after decades of no progress on immigration law. This round was made more
difficult by election- year posturing and Traitor Insurrectionist Trump’s
stiff opposition. Even if the measure managed to pass the Democratic- led
Senate—no sure thing—it would face outright hostility in the GOP-led House.</span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="abody" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 11.25pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in; orphans: 2; overflow: hidden; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-overflow: ellipsis; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="fid14"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Indeed, a statement from House Speaker Mike Johnson (R.,
La.) and other party leaders called the Senate bill “riddled with loopholes”
and said it was “</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;">dead on arrival</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;">”</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> But even the Wall Street Journal Editorial (p. A14) yesterday sought to scold the GOP-MAGA Reepos into sanity noting:</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p>"</o:p></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Do
Republicans want to better secure the U.S. border, or do they want to keep what
has become an open sore festering for another year as an election issue?
That’s the choice presented to Congress this week with the rollout of the
Senate’s bipartisan border security bill, and we’ll soon learn what the GOP
really wants.</span></p>
<p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span class="fid5"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;">By any honest reckoning, this is the most
restrictive migrant legislation in decades. Previous immigration talks have
involved trading security measures for legalizing more immigration. There is
little of the latter in this bill—nothing for nearly all of the Dreamers who
were brought here illegally as children, no general pathway to citizenship or
green cards for most illegal immigrants already in the U.S.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span class="fid5"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></span></p>
<p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span class="fid5"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;">This is almost entirely a border security bill,
and its provisions include long-time GOP priorities that the party’s
restrictionists could never have passed only a few months ago.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;">" </span></span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span class="fid5"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span class="fid5"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;"> In other words, the bill before congress now is ideally suited to tamp down the flood of migrants pouring into the country. The bill's plusses are well articulated in the Journal's editorial (ibid.):</span></span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span class="fid5"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">“<span style="color: #2b00fe;">The
new bill raises the bar for that initial border screening for credible fear to
a “reasonable possibility” of persecution. Toughening the asylum standard was a
priority of the Trump Administration, but a statutory change is needed to make
it permanent. Migrants will have to show they couldn’t have moved elsewhere in
their own country to avoid persecution before seeking refuge in the U.S.</span></span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The bill also includes an
expedited review process for asylum with a stay-or-deport decision within
90-180 days. There is money for 50,000 detention beds while migrants are
awaiting review. If there are more migrants arriving than can be detained, the
overflow will be enrolled in mandatory alternatives-to-detention programs that
use tools such as ankle bracelets or reporting curfews. No more catch and
release without consequences. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">The bill also reforms
humanitarian parole. Migrants will no long be able to register using the Biden
CBP One App to gain free entry at a border crossing and an immediate work
permit</span></span><span color="var(--primary-text-color)" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">.” </span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span color="var(--primary-text-color)" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">I mean, if the conservative WSJ can be for this bill, why not the Reeps? After all, it delivers nearly all of what they've been yapping for the past ten years. The core reason for the obstruction was given less than a week ago when Texas Rep. Troy Nehls, in a comment to CNN, blabbered: </span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span color="var(--primary-text-color)" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">"</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial;"><b><i>I'm not willing to do too damned much right now to help Joe Biden's approval rating</i></b></span></span><span color="var(--primary-text-color)" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">." </span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span color="var(--primary-text-color)" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In other words, he wants to do everything possible to ensure a two-bit traitor who's vowed to burn the constitution and rule like Hitler gets into power again. Then to carry out his sordid plans for retribution and vengeance while letting Americans' pocket book issues rot, the stock market crater and inflation soar (especially after he imposes 10% tariffs on all foreign goods). </span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span color="var(--primary-text-color)" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">So no surprise we see the House Reeptards going all in via a desperate campaign to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for "egregious misconduct" for failing to shut the porous Southern border. This despite the fact that numerous constitutional scholars are adamant that the Reepos' effort doesn't meet the constitutional standards for "high crimes and misdemeanors."</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span color="var(--primary-text-color)" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But the Reeps don't care, given they are Trump knob polishers who will willingly demean themselves to extol a pervert and seditionist. Trump, meanwhile, has been furiously lobbying all the GOP lawmakers - despite he's an out-of -office loser - to dash any compromise bill that might work. The reason? The Turd wants to campaign against Biden on the issue and also be free - if elected (god forbid) - to impose his own draconian, unconstitutional plans.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span color="var(--primary-text-color)" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Let's also remind people, given so many forget the Trump years, that in 2019 Trump killed a more modest immigration compromise during a month long government shutdown incited by congressional refusal to fund the border wall, Which, incidentally, was one of his 2016 campaign promises i.e. to get Mexico to pay for such a wall. A question here for anyone considering voting Trump: How did that work out?</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span color="var(--primary-text-color)" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Reep scuttling of sound border bills even preceded the advent of Trump. A decade ago, 14 Republican senators joined all Democrats in a 68-32 vote for a bipartisan measure providing a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally. It resulted from months of negotiations, yet then GOP House Speaker John Boehner refused to bring it to the floor. He wanted no more legislative wins for Obama. </span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span color="var(--primary-text-color)" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">That cowardice helped set the stage for Trump, especially after the traitor tried to smear Obama with bollocks that he lacked U.S. citizenship - being born in Hawaii. That unleashed the current cowardice permeating the GOP that sees no one with any cojones prepared to defy Trump. Thus the House GOP, for example, finds itself acting like a branch of the Trump campaign instead of an independent, separate branch of the U.S. government. </span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-paragraph" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span color="var(--primary-text-color)" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Yes, American voters will see the border crisis worsen over the coming months, but it is well they know the root source of this moral morass: Donald Trump and the clueless, balless GOP wonders in thrall to him.</span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span class="fid5"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span class="fid5"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: large;"><b>See Also:</b></span></span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span class="fid5"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span class="fid5"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: large;"></span></b></span></p><h2 class="wpds-c-iiQaMf wpds-c-iiQaMf-igUpeQR-css" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-headline); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-110); margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a data-pb-local-content-field="web_headline" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/06/house-mayorkas-impeachment/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">In stunning vote, House fails to impeach Mayorkas over border issues</span></a></h2><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span class="fid5"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span class="fid5"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: medium;"><b>And:</b></span></span></p><div class="nodebar" style="background-color: #0000aa; color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/taxonomy/term/52" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">House of Representatives</a> | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/taxonomy/term/2" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Republicans</a></div><div class="nodetitle" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 4px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/joan-mccarter/109324/house-gop-s-unprecedented-stunt-to-impeach-mayorkas-fails" style="color: #660000; text-decoration-line: none;">House GOP’s Unprecedented Stunt To Impeach Mayorkas Fails</a></div><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span class="fid5"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: medium;"><span class="nodeby" style="color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; padding-bottom: 3px;">by <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/profile/joan-mccarter" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Joan McCarter</a> | February 7, 2024 - 7:58am | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/joan-mccarter/109324/house-gop-s-unprecedented-stunt-to-impeach-mayorkas-fails" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">permalink</a></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11px;"></span></span></span></p><div class="nodebody" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-size: 14px;"><b><i><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/6/2221850/-House-GOP-s-unprecedented-stunt-to-impeach-Mayorkas-fails" style="color: #0000aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">— from Daily Koos</a></i></b></p><p style="font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" height="240" src="https://ic-cdn.flipboard.com/dailykos.com/462232a40d14e87f1a243135fb3058b3cc86d587/_large.jpeg" style="border: 0px;" width="360" /></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">In a stunning collapse, House Republicans failed Tuesday to approve the impeachment resolution against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, with four Republicans voting against it. Reps. Ken Buck of Colorado, Tom McClintock of California, Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin, and Blake Moore of Utah—who switched his vote at the last minute to be able to <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4452038-in-stunner-house-gop-bid-to-impeach-mayorkas-fails/" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="">bring it to a vote again</a>—joined Democrats to defeat the resolution.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">One of those Republicans had an all-too rare moment of honesty in this debate, with McClintock calling the impeachment what it was: a “stunt.”</span></p></div><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span class="fid5"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="abody" style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0in 11.25pt 0in 0in; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span class="fid5"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: medium;"><b>And:</b></span></span></p><p></p><div><div class="nodetitle" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 4px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/jim-hightower/109250/border-wall-absurdity-is-reaching-new-heights" style="color: #660000; text-decoration-line: none;">Border Wall Absurdity Is Reaching New Heights</a></div><span class="nodeby" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; padding-bottom: 3px;">by <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/profile/jim-hightower" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Jim Hightower</a> | February 1, 2024 - 6:24am | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/jim-hightower/109250/border-wall-absurdity-is-reaching-new-heights" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">permalink</a></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11px;"></span><div class="nodebody" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-size: 14px;"><b><i><a href="https://otherwords.org/border-wall-absurdity-is-reaching-new-heights/" style="color: #0000aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">— from Otherwords</a></i></b></p><p style="font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" height="240" src="https://i0.wp.com/otherwords.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/shutterstock_790267084.jpg?resize=1000%2C664&ssl=1" style="border: 0px;" width="360" /></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Excerpt:</span></b></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">In the 1980s, many Texans were alarmed that hordes of immigrants were fleeing Rust Belt states and pouring across the Red River to take our jobs. So my friend Steve Fromholz recommended a big beautiful wall across our <i>northern </i>border to keep them out.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Fromholz, a popular singer-songwriter and renowned political sprite, was ahead of his time in the political sport of wall building.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Instead of steel barriers and miles of nasty razor wire, Steve proposed preventing Yankee refugees from entering the Lone Star State by planting a 10-foot high, 10-foot thick wall of jalapeño peppers along the length of the Red River. Eat your way through and you’d be accepted as a naturalized Texan.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">I thought of Steve’s impishness when I read that Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, and other Republicans were concocting a whole new xenophobic bugaboo to goose up their anti-immigrant demagoguery.</span></p></div></div>Copernicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16699554476216140859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301096656497422535.post-74620544152021876882024-02-05T07:37:00.000-08:002024-02-05T10:11:56.129-08:00Skewering The Taylor Swift Psyops Conspiracy Babble From The Deranged Right<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFgdjDHQss2C3q39mR-v-QGFpFrtqNel94Jh7VgPm5GVDOE9MDbYjwxtYJbKho6o8uXJc_vKsYOmACQCY-4SK1SxP-WzZSVOx5oKbwMFbduwcnglQISAi-NUKpkN8mnlMhZr7_0yjjwyHICf2CfwIIQyTxpculpuvk2WzuhAErrxfxkEVa0J1igKFlWA/s589/Kelce-%20Swift.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="589" data-original-width="456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFgdjDHQss2C3q39mR-v-QGFpFrtqNel94Jh7VgPm5GVDOE9MDbYjwxtYJbKho6o8uXJc_vKsYOmACQCY-4SK1SxP-WzZSVOx5oKbwMFbduwcnglQISAi-NUKpkN8mnlMhZr7_0yjjwyHICf2CfwIIQyTxpculpuvk2WzuhAErrxfxkEVa0J1igKFlWA/s320/Kelce-%20Swift.jpg" width="248" /></a></div> <b><i>Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift after Chiefs win vs. Ravens</i></b><div><b><i> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></i></b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #800180;"><i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia",serif; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">"</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: var(--fontJ-weight);">Thanks to a host of right-wing news sources with a wide collective audience, everyone with half a brain (but no more) is convinced that the Democratic Party and the NFL have joined in a conspiracy to assure that the Chiefs beat the 49ers. </span></i></span><span style="color: #800180; font-family: arial;"><span face="var(--fontJ),var(--fallbackFontJ)" style="font-weight: var(--fontJ-weight);"><span><i>Major right-wing media influencers, and even a one-time presidential hopeful, are uniting to spread the word of this devious plot, the purpose of which is to provide Swift an even greater platform from which to rock the 2024 vote in favor of Joe Biden</i></span>...</span><span>How the right will foil the plot is anyone’s guess, but they must find a way. Otherwise, Swift will entice people to vote, and if people vote, democracy is screwed. </span></span></span><span><span style="color: #800180; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"</span><span style="font-size: 1.125rem;"> Scott Ostler, </span><i style="font-size: 1.125rem;"><u>SF Chronicle</u></i><span style="font-size: 1.125rem;">, today</span></span></div><div><span face="var(--fontJ),var(--fallbackFontJ)" style="font-size: 1.125rem; font-weight: var(--fontJ-weight);"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background: white; color: #555555; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background: white; color: #555555; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">To say Janice was devastated by her Ravens' loss to the Kansas City's Chiefs last Sunday would be an understatement. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">In the parlance of Bill Russell's "<i><u>Russell Report</u></i>" summing up the post game malaise: </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">"<span style="color: #2b00fe;">You look and feel like a Zombie extra on the set of The Walking Dead. The world seems surreal. Things are happening around you but you feel an out of body kind of experience. It's as if you are looking down on a catastrophic scene where pain and agony coexist. You cling to the hope it was all a bad movie you can fast forward through</span>." </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But it wasn't a bad movie, a bad dream, or delusion. It was cold reality and Janice could barely deal with it for days on end, having fully expected the same team that thrashed the Niners some weeks ago would do the same to the pesky Chiefs and their former baseball pitcher QB Patrick Mahomes. And that such a conquest would mean the 3rd appearance in the Super Bowl for one of the best Ravens' teams ever assembled.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But on viewing the game with her I spotted multiple early warning signs that portended disaster. Among the first the Ravens getting the ball in the first series and going three and out. All three calls on the terrible level, no inspiration or creativity. Then the Chiefs and Mahomes took the ball and promptly marched down the field with short 5-10 yard controlled completions, as good as runs. In 10 plays they took over 8 minutes off the clock and had 7 points. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Why didn't the Ravens and Lamar Jackson do the same? Short, controlled, disciplined passes to take time off the clock instead of going for long bombs, holding the ball too long, taking sacks and getting picked? Who knows? The Ravens' D also was far from perfect, racking up 95 yards with 8 penalties. Simply put, you can't win a game against a top tier team - especially the reigning champs - giving away almost a football field length in free yards. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Janice admitted all the miscues but still wondered at suspicious activity on the field. Like Chiefs' tight end Travis Kelce repeatedly escaping any penalties for offensive pass interference. "<span style="color: #800180;">Look at that damned jerk getting away with murder!" J</span>anice screamed. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Pop music star girl Taylor Swift was also on her mind each time the CBS' cameras flicked over to see her cheering her star boy Kelce. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">For non-football fans or those living under a rock Swift has </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">been dating Kelce the past year or so. What has transpired, as Lawrence O'Donnell noted in his <i>'The Last Word</i>' show from last week, e.g.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; line-height: 19.9733px;"> </span><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-on-right-wing-s-taylor-swift-conspiracy-no-one-fuels-madness-like-trump-203386437523">Lawrence on right-wing's Taylor Swift conspiracy: No one fuels madness like Trump (msnbc.com)</a></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Is that Swift has effectively brought her pop mega star persona and culture into a union with the NFL via Kelce. Each time the cameras pan to see her cheering a Kelce catch or TD it resonates and reinforces the union of pop music icon and pro football heavy. It has also interjected a potent political bombshell into the never ending culture wars. To wit, the MAGA Right has now concocted a conspiracy ideation (check out Lawrence's excellent presentation in the previous ink) that the Biden Pentagon engineered a "psy ops" concatenation to ensure KC not only reached the Super Bowl, but will win it vs. SF. Whereupon when the Lombardi trophy is given, Swift will be with Kelce and announce her support for Joe Biden.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> Some may recall the
34-year-old singer endorsed President Biden in 2020, and news reports - according to the MAGAs say the
White House hopes she’ll do the same this year. Screwball punk and GOP wannabe prez candidate </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Vivek Ramaswamy actually wrote recently on social media:</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6wolyvfLYLbgo2HvSMwNiNcTbiQrpoaQxv7kj0cqvBGXKXOoN7mpSS0EftlxYnFAUidNImfMEi8WX7gOggwzi4yHtODN4Kppu4xcGuYWMSqdbQPo0J7ba_M_mcJbcvkAreQ93W1QHI2435Wq01Bl7myc7vAMBWvuMrgIh64hf9jUN2mWDk6KU-KDzhQ/s765/Vivek%20Viper.jpg" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="765" height="147" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6wolyvfLYLbgo2HvSMwNiNcTbiQrpoaQxv7kj0cqvBGXKXOoN7mpSS0EftlxYnFAUidNImfMEi8WX7gOggwzi4yHtODN4Kppu4xcGuYWMSqdbQPo0J7ba_M_mcJbcvkAreQ93W1QHI2435Wq01Bl7myc7vAMBWvuMrgIh64hf9jUN2mWDk6KU-KDzhQ/s320/Vivek%20Viper.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> To try to dignify his half-baked malarkey he also told the NY Times:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="color: black; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">“What your kind
of people call ‘conspiracy theories,’ I simply call an amalgam of collective
incentives hiding in plain sight</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> To which I say, bull pocky. It's actually an amalgam of insanity which - as Mr. O'Donnell noted - all becomes possible once people's microglia (in their brains) fall prey to horse shit. Like the NFL has rigged all its games to ensure KC prevails and Swift and Kelce give their endorsement of Biden at the Super Bowl.</o:p></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> The story is that the Super Bowl on
Feb. 11 will be rigged so that the Chiefs win in a dramatic fashion against the Niners. Ms. Swift
and Mr. Kelce will then get engaged. That way they’ll be at peak influence to cut a
joint October ad for Mr. Biden. But as Lawrence noted:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">"<span style="color: #800180;">No one ever said the Super Bowl was fixed before Trump’s madness took hold of so many people.</span>"</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Ramaswamy's deranged brain spasms would be bad enough but they have also been reinforced by another nitwit, Mike Crispi, e.g.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL8L9vwfumZaNsqx2ulcvojC_iDtGIgR7TiyGfYBc8hnwzkHP17mF4P2Ms1vBHSRQlYrgmCBY78WdHmjch9_-VMPuQ1pugTA_84FAMaKRIRSQNr5LB57KuLheFo3c4Q6Ka2N-_lrTp8N0sONOX3ezXfM9RYD3B6TsPdElpTET4BUnWE85L0B-wW3kqEg/s739/Crispi%20Crap.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="739" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL8L9vwfumZaNsqx2ulcvojC_iDtGIgR7TiyGfYBc8hnwzkHP17mF4P2Ms1vBHSRQlYrgmCBY78WdHmjch9_-VMPuQ1pugTA_84FAMaKRIRSQNr5LB57KuLheFo3c4Q6Ka2N-_lrTp8N0sONOX3ezXfM9RYD3B6TsPdElpTET4BUnWE85L0B-wW3kqEg/w374-h194/Crispi%20Crap.jpg" width="374" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">This is either lunacy or it’s theater. My guess is the
latter but Janice is convinced it's lunacy because the entire MAGA orbit is corrupted in its microglial cells and prey to psychotic phantasms. Many of them spun off from the sewers of QAnon like Dems conducting Satanic rites and cannibalizing babies. To reference Lawrence O'Donnell again, it's just a small step from believing the Pentagon and NFL are running "fake psy ops" to believing an entire political party is run by Satan and sacrifices babies. Which is also linked up to the bollocks of "Pizzagate" that appeared before the 2016 election:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><a href="https://brane-space.blogspot.com/2016/12/crackpot-pizzagate-bollocks-promoted-by.html"> Crackpot "Pizzagate" Tale Promoted By Michael G. Flynn Almost Led To D.C. Tragedy</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">True, as with Pizzagate, many of the Swift psyop purveyors well know they’re putting on an act, but there’s
fame and notoriety and money to be had from spinning conspiracy ideations, the
crazier the better. The problem is that weaker- minded, lower IQ denizens (from the bottom quintiles) will swallow this swill hook, line and sinker and then someone may pay for it. Like the guy who went hunting with his rifle for Satanic child sex slaves held by Hillary </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">at D.C.'s </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Comet Ping Pong </i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> - triggered by Pizzagate.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Cut the crap and the paranoia on the right about a romance between
the most popular singer in the world and an NFL player makes Republicans
seem, frankly, weird as well as pathetic. For sure, Americans who want a return to normalcy won’t find it in
a movement that demonizes two of America’s healthier entertainments. Or in a presidential candidate (Donald Trump) who demonizes all those on the left including Swift - who might come out against him - and against whom he vows to settle dozens of scores if enough stupid people elect him. Like the black students at a South Carolina college - interviewed on NBC News last Thursday night- who averred they were "excited" because Trump "</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">speaks his mind and shows more energy"</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> than Biden. And you really think HE will give you all a break if elected, as opposed to putting you to work for minimum wage at one of his golf clubs?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Look, maybe the Chiefs will win the Super Bowl, or maybe not.
Maybe Ms. Swift and Mr. Kelce will live happily ever after or become a pop singing duo. Who knows? Maybe Taylor will endorse Mr. Biden again, or maybe not. Given all the death threats circulating, including by the MAGAs against judges and prosecutors who can blame her if she defaults?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But the CIA and NSA aren’t orchestrating any "fake"psy op along with the NFL and neither are the Illuminati, the Freemasons, Opus Dei, or alien lizard people (whom QAnon has tied to Dems). Here's a</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> question, though, for the MAGA trolls: If they truly believe
defeating Traitor Trump is as easy as Joe Biden getting an
endorsement from a pop singer who backed him in 2020, doesn’t that imply the Reeps have nominated the wrong candidate? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">I mean think of it! An orange fungal slimeball guilty of rape (of E. Jean Carroll) confirmed in a civil trial, as well as now facing 91 felony counts and four indictments for his massive efforts to overthrow Biden's government and who hid top secret documents. Only a moron would vote for such a useless, mindless waste of space who has also vowed to burn the constitution and turn the country into his personal dictatorship. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Janice, meanwhile, is not assuaged by the fact the MAGA minions are all in for a Taylor Swift psy op conspiracy to ensure a KC win in SB LVIII. As noted at the end of the Russell Report - for Ravens' fans immersed in their malaise:</span></p></div><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-block: 0px 0.9rem; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: arial;"><b>"In a dastardly way, you encourage Swifties to consider Jonestown for their next vacation destination. You highly recommend the KoolAid. The meaning of life can change in this depression stage." </b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px 0.9rem; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">But she assures me it's all based on vengeful </span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">imaginings, and more </span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><i>importantly </i>that the Chiefs lose in the Super Bowl and Mahomes and Kelce be in tears after. That would kill two birds with one stone: </span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px 0.9rem; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">i) balance her own pain at the Ravens' AFC championship loss with the much more significant KC SB loss, and:</span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px 0.9rem; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">ii) Spatter the Reepo idiocy that the NFL and Swift are in collusion to ensure a Chiefs' SB win.</span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px 0.9rem; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">We will see next Sunday!</span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px 0.9rem; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><b>See Also:</b></span></span></p><div class="nodebar" style="background-color: #0000aa; color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/taxonomy/term/3" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Conservatives and the Right</a></div><div class="nodetitle" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 4px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/bill-berkowitz/109271/fox-hosts-and-ramaswamy-s-advice-to-taylor-swift-in-run-up-to-super-bowl-lviii-shut-up-and-sing" style="color: #660000; text-decoration-line: none;">Fox Hosts and Ramaswamy’s Advice To Taylor Swift in Run-Up to Super Bowl LVIII: Shut Up And Sing</a></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px 0.9rem; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span class="nodeby" style="color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; padding-bottom: 3px; text-align: left;">by <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/profile/bill-berkowitz" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Bill Berkowitz</a> | February 2, 2024 - 7:06am | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/bill-berkowitz/109271/fox-hosts-and-ramaswamy-s-advice-to-taylor-swift-in-run-up-to-super-bowl-lviii-shut-up-and-sing" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">permalink</a></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"></span></p><div class="nodebody" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" height="240" src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/01/29/multimedia/29pol-taylor-topart-ckzf/29pol-taylor-topart-ckzf-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale" style="border: 0px;" width="360" /></p><p style="font-size: 14px;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Excerpt:</span></b></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Two stories are capturing the nation’s attention as we approach Super Bowl LVIII, featuring the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers: Taylor Swift and the game itself!</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Included in the wall-to-wall Taylor Swift coverage are: her romance with Kansas City Chief tight end Travis Kelce; her game time fashion; bets on how often CBS (the network televising the Super Bowl) will pan to Swift in the suites; and, whether, as failed presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and other right wing conspiracy theorists have has speculated, the game will be fixed in favor of Kansas City so that Swift’s anticipated support of President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign will be seen as a championship endorsement.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">[In late November, <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/11/27/2208250/-CAN-TAYLOR-SWIFT-HELP-SAVE-JOE-BIDEN-s-ASS" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">I posted a story about Swift’s growing political influence</a> and whether she would endorse Biden again. Earlier this week, The New York Times ran a story headlined “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/29/us/politics/biden-trump-election-taylor-swift.html" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Inside Biden’s Anti-Trump Battle Plan (and Where Taylor Swift Fits In</a>.”]</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">The story of THE GAME ITSELF is probably of less interest to the many millions of Taylor Swift fans, and right-wing conspiracy theorists!</span></p><p style="font-size: 14px;"><b style="font-size: large;">And</b><span style="font-size: large;">:</span></p></div><div class="nodebar" style="background-color: #0000aa; color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/taxonomy/term/3" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Conservatives and the Right</a></div><div class="nodetitle" style="background-color: white; color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 4px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/amanda-marcotte/109287/taylor-swift-stanley-cups-and-a-brewing-backlash-to-maga-s-sexist-snobbery" style="color: #660000; text-decoration-line: none;">Taylor Swift, Stanley Cups and a Brewing Backlash to MAGA’s Sexist Snobbery</a></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px 0.9rem; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span class="nodeby" style="color: #000066; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 14px; padding-bottom: 3px; text-align: left;">by <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/profile/amanda-marcotte" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Amanda Marcotte</a> | February 3, 2024 - 7:36am | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/amanda-marcotte/109287/taylor-swift-stanley-cups-and-a-brewing-backlash-to-maga-s-sexist-snobbery" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">permalink</a></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"></span></p><div class="nodebody" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-size: 14px;"><b><i><a href="https://www.salon.com/2024/02/02/taylor-swift-stanley-cups-and-a-brewing-backlash-to-magas-sexist-snobbery/" style="color: #0000aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">— from Salon</a></i></b></p><p style="font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" height="240" src="https://ic-cdn.flipboard.com/salon.com/f814acd0c55cc4984fc152155afd8b6057b02a03/_xlarge.jpeg" style="border: 0px;" width="360" /></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Excerpt:</span></b></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Thursday brought people who are worried about the survival of democracy <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/31/gender-poll-2024-biden-trump-00138882" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">welcome polling news from Quinnipiac University</a>: For the first time in months, Joe Biden is cresting 50% in a head-to-head match-up with Donald Trump. That puts the current president 6 points ahead of the former president, who had been enjoying an alarming lead in polls for months, despite being under 91 felony indictments in four separate jurisdictions. We have women to thank for this swing towards basic sense and decency in the polls.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">"Women 58 - 36 percent support Biden, up from December when it was 53 - 41 percent," <a href="https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3889" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">explains the Quinnipiac analysis</a>. "Men 53 - 42 percent support Trump, largely unchanged from December when it was 51 - 41 percent."</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.salon.com/2024/01/31/why-maga-fears-taylor-swift-at-the-super-bowl/" style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">So you enjoy bashing Taylor Swift, Republicans</a>? Well, how's that working out for you?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>And</b>:</span></p><div class="nodebar" style="background-color: #0000aa; color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/topics/the-trump-administration/donald-trump" rel="tag" style="color: white; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Donald Trump</a></div><div class="nodetitle" style="color: #000066; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 4px;"><a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/phil-wilson/109282/americans-dead-inside-can-still-feel-trump" style="color: red;">Americans, Dead Inside, Can Still Feel Trump</a></div><p><span class="nodeby" style="color: #000066; font-size: 14px; padding-bottom: 3px;">by <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/profile/phil-wilson" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">Phil Wilson</a> | February 3, 2024 - 6:06am | <a href="http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/phil-wilson/109282/americans-dead-inside-can-still-feel-trump" style="color: #0000aa; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;">permalink</a></span><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11px;"></span></p><div class="nodebody" style="line-height: 18px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" height="180" src="https://ic-cdn.flipboard.com/commondreams.org/faf5df4e2f41c6a36f63dfa87d2f8b476b62094f/_xlarge.jpeg" style="border: 0px;" width="360" /></p><p style="font-size: 14px;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Excerpt:</span></b></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Trump barely exists outside of our imaginations. Our minds have constructed him from the detritus of America's decay. If we are dead inside and feel nothing, we can still feel Trump. Trump's putrid face is America's feeble pulse.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">What have we done to deserve having the world's ugliest infection decomposing inside of us? You can't kill it with antibiotics, can't severe its grip with the rusty blade of politics, or scrape it off with a chunk of coarse sand paper. Even if you could, it would grow right back like fungus on a dead log. How many of us have had the dream—either awake or asleep—of stabbing it with a sword, tossing it overboard into a whirlpool of famished sharks, or clubbing it with a Louisville Slugger until it has been reduced to a puddle of raw sewage. Have a hundred million people savored this same fantasy? No! It has to be more, way more, and that is the point—no amount of collective outrage has any use. The terrible malignancy gets bigger as if the gathering ire nourishes it with fresh methane-infused wastewater.</span></p></div></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px 0.9rem; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><br /></span></span></span></p></div>Copernicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16699554476216140859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301096656497422535.post-41938445261598919132024-02-02T09:45:00.000-08:002024-02-02T20:37:44.851-08:00Solutions to (Mensa) Brain Buster Challenge (#3)<p><span style="font-size: large;">1<b>)</b></span> <span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;">Arrange the 6 L-shaped pieces above into a 4 x 6 grid such that:</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">- Each row has the same number of stars</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">- Each column has the same number of stars.</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">- No diagonal has 4 stars.</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The pieces may be rotated but not reflected.</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Solution: The best approach is to cut the pieces out and assemble them - according to the rules - like a jigsaw puzzle, to get;</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1RH2Km1swrjOQtkMlph7a6QPqaQ6xtwIJ0AEUyUvY471C_hWujVvubuKP-ol_Vlj23t6LK53I6c4Ut0IQcJgMiVbtooyiyk6t1rjiIivr0w9xyF6NgVfK-uImj5cDMUQqWB_10zWCyqi2F1ssOZqW94wU_5DsvmLga9MbVgJCMvXMcBt3oTompvLJ8A/s382/Mensa%201a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="237" data-original-width="382" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1RH2Km1swrjOQtkMlph7a6QPqaQ6xtwIJ0AEUyUvY471C_hWujVvubuKP-ol_Vlj23t6LK53I6c4Ut0IQcJgMiVbtooyiyk6t1rjiIivr0w9xyF6NgVfK-uImj5cDMUQqWB_10zWCyqi2F1ssOZqW94wU_5DsvmLga9MbVgJCMvXMcBt3oTompvLJ8A/s320/Mensa%201a.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: large;">2) </span><span style="font-size: large;">Prove all square numbers (1,4,9,16, 25...) are either divisible by three OR have a remainder of one when divided by three.</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Solution: All numbers, including square numbers, are a multiple of 3 (or 3n). Or a one more than a multiple of 3, i.e. (3n + 1), or one less than a multiple of three, i.e. (3n - 1). Then:</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span>(</span><span>3 </span>n</span><span>)</span></span><span style="font-size: 15.4px;"> </span><sup style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15.4px;">2 </sup><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">= </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: large;">9 </span>n</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15.4px;"> </span><sup style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15.4px;">2 </sup><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15.4px;">= </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: medium;">3 </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: large;">(3 </span>n</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: medium;">)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15.4px;"> </span><sup style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15.4px;">2</sup><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;"> is divisible by 3</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">While:</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: large;">(3 </span>n + 1 </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: medium;">)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15.4px;"> </span><sup style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15.4px;">2 </sup><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;"> = 9n</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15.4px;"> </span><sup style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15.4px;">2 </sup><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15.4px;">+ </span><span style="font-size: large;">6n </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15.4px;">+ </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1 </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15.4px;">= </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: medium;">3 </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: large;">(3 </span>n</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15.4px;"> </span><sup style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15.4px;">2 </sup><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15.4px;">+ 2</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">n</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">) + 1</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">has a remainder of 1 when divided by 3.</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">Lastly:</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: large;">(3 </span>n - 1 </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: medium;">)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15.4px;"> </span><sup style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15.4px;">2 </sup><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;"> = 9n</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15.4px;"> </span><sup style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15.4px;">2 </sup><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15.4px;">- </span><span style="font-size: large;">6n </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15.4px;">+ </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1 </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15.4px;">= </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: medium;">3 </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: large;">(3 </span>n</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15.4px;"> </span><sup style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15.4px;">2 </sup><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15.4px;">- 2</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">n)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;"> + 1</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">has a remainder of 1 when divided by 3.</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">3) </span><span style="font-size: large;">Find all solutions for positive integers a and b (a > 1):</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: large;">(a + 2)! a! (a - 2)! = b!</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then prove there are no other solutions.</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Solution:</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: large;">There are two solutions: a = 3, b = 6</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: large;">I.e. </span><span style="font-size: large;">(a + 2)! a! (a - 2)! = b!</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: large;">= </span><span style="font-size: large;">(3 + 2)! 3! (3 - 2)! = 6! = 5! 3! (1!) = (5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x1) (1) (3 x 2 x 1)</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: large;">= 120 (6) = 720</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Also: a = 5, b = 10</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: large;">= </span><span style="font-size: large;">(5 + 2)! 10! (5 - 2)! = 7! 5! 3! = 362, 880</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: large;">We prove there are no solutions for a > 6:</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: large;">4) Given a rectangle of length (<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Symbol;">Ö2)</span></b> x and height x, we have one circle and two semi-circles inscribed within it, and all three intersect at two points, as shown below:</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: #fff9ee; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOe58cFWQ8rU97C8SB5lkoNkNbWHwT2UgmQWx4a1xw618PiU-yf7ISEAWCgif5SdFKhrjfTvON1oRj7ACfpvq-YV88pCAnVCOIdWxJcBAbbGC8TUIKBrctQGGfGyH2Q55lkzoigbUsj2-9uOZ0jkRJoUTZVjh4srtnE79w02SgaJzvocHE1XAM5Aq1zQ/s491/LUNE%20Puzzle.jpg" style="color: #993300; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="491" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOe58cFWQ8rU97C8SB5lkoNkNbWHwT2UgmQWx4a1xw618PiU-yf7ISEAWCgif5SdFKhrjfTvON1oRj7ACfpvq-YV88pCAnVCOIdWxJcBAbbGC8TUIKBrctQGGfGyH2Q55lkzoigbUsj2-9uOZ0jkRJoUTZVjh4srtnE79w02SgaJzvocHE1XAM5Aq1zQ/s320/LUNE%20Puzzle.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Find the area of either green crescent shape between the two arcs in terms of x. </span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Solution</i>:</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: large;">We render the sketch so it conforms to:</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiQlUS6C8lqiMQrkQFNs1gFEvRG0Owf1XCqFty3bz0afkhr7RJ4NL-nNs1vR2nCX4WO8lsyn1UFnCNTiO2Q59Xbg52-amGFPRUMn1MqmsC1Gz8qkwtNMOJRvub6_tEUJkx8f34ssvmVnlgDQje1uFL_aLpeSXpRp3XtyFc0zyq_zdhkawH-ydq6mhtFA/s479/Mensa%201b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="479" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiQlUS6C8lqiMQrkQFNs1gFEvRG0Owf1XCqFty3bz0afkhr7RJ4NL-nNs1vR2nCX4WO8lsyn1UFnCNTiO2Q59Xbg52-amGFPRUMn1MqmsC1Gz8qkwtNMOJRvub6_tEUJkx8f34ssvmVnlgDQje1uFL_aLpeSXpRp3XtyFc0zyq_zdhkawH-ydq6mhtFA/s320/Mensa%201b.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif; font-size: large;">Where u and v mark the end points where the circle and both semi-circles intersect. Then line segment uv is a diameter of the inscribed circle. We then let w (extreme mid point of bottom line of rectangle) be the point where the inscribed circle is tangent for the bottom side of the rectangle, which is also the diameter of the lower semi-circle. </span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif; font-size: large;">Note than an inscribed angle subtended by a diameter is a right angle. Therefore, angle uvw is a right angle. Further, line segment wv is a radius of the lower semi-circle, i.e.</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif; font-size: large;">wv = </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 24px;">½</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">(</span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Symbol;">Ö2p)</span></b></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: x-large;">x</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif; font-size: large;">And line segment uv is the hypotenuse of right triangle uvw, so:</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif; font-size: large;">uv = </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif; font-size: large;">1/2 </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">(</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Symbol;">Ö2)</span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: large;">(</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Symbol;">Ö2)<b> </b></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">x</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: xx-large;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">=</span><span style="font-size: xx-large;"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: x-large;">x</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: xx-large;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The area of the inscribed circle is then:</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A(c)= </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Symbol;">p<b> </b></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>(x/2)</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span><sup style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia, serif;">2 </sup></span><span style="font-size: large;"> = (</span><b style="background-color: transparent; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Symbol;">p</span></b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">/4</span><span style="font-size: large;">)</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span> x </span><sup style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia, serif;">2</sup></span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The area of the upper half of the inscribed circle is:</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">A(c1) = </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">(</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Symbol;">p</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15.4px;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">/8</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;"><span> x </span><sup style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">2</sup></span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">The area of sector uwv of the lower semicircle is:</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">A(uwv) </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">= (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Symbol;">p</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15.4px;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">/4</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">) </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">[½ (</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Ö2<b>)</b></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">x]</span><sup style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">2</span> </sup><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">=</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">(</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Symbol;">p</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15.4px;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">/8</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;"><span>x </span><sup style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">2</sup></span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The area of the chord uv of the lower semicircle is equal to the area of the sector uwv minus the area of the right triangle uwv:</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>A(uv^) = </span><span>A(uwv) - A(<uwv) =</span></span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">(</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Symbol;">p</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15.4px;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">/8</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;"><span> x </span><sup style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">2 </sup></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">- </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 24px;">½</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 25.68px;">[½ (</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 22.8267px;">Ö2<b>)</b></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 25.68px;">x]</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 25.68px;">[½</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 25.68px;">(</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 22.8267px;">Ö2<b>)</b></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 25.68px;">x] = </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">(</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Symbol;">p</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15.4px;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">/8</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;"><span>x </span><sup style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">2 </sup></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">- (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">¼</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;"><span> x </span><sup style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">2</sup></span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The area of the lune then is equal to the area of the upper half of the inscribed circle minus the area of the chord uv,</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>A(L) = </span><span>A(c1) - </span><span>A(uv^) =</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">(</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Symbol;">p</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15.4px;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">/8</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;"><span>x </span><sup style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">2 </sup></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">- [</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">(</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Symbol;">p</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15.4px;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">/8</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;"><span>x </span><sup style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">2 </sup></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">- (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">¼</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;"><span> x </span><sup style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">2</sup></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: x-large;">]</span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A(L) =</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">(</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Symbol;">p</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15.4px;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">/8</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;"><span>x </span><sup style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">2 </sup></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">- </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">(</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Symbol;">p</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15.4px;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">/8</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;"><span>x </span><sup style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">2 </sup></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">+ (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">¼</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;">)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: large;"><span> x </span><sup style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">2 </sup></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">= </span><span>x </span><sup style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">2</sup><span style="background-color: transparent;">/4</span></span></p><p style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">5) We are given the equation:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;">A</span><sup><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">B</span></sup><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> + C</span><sup><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">D</span></sup><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> = E</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><sup><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">F</span></sup><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> + G</span><sup><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">H</span></sup><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> + I</span><sup><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">J</span></sup><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> + K</span><sup><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">L</span></sup></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">We obtain on appropriate
replacement of letters A-L with integers 0-11:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">1</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;">1<sup>0</sup> + 5<sup>6</sup> =
0 </span><sup><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">7</span></sup> + 2<sup>8</sup> + 9<sup>3</sup> + 11<sup>4</sup></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">And:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;">1<sup>7</sup> + 5<sup>6</sup> =
0 </span><sup><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">10</span></sup> + 2<sup>8</sup> + 9<sup>3</sup> + 11<sup>4</sup></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">Of which there are 96 total
permutations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">There are in addition 96
total permutations for:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">1<sup>9</sup> + 4<sup>7</sup> =
0<sup>10</sup> + 2<sup>11</sup> + 3<sup>8</sup> + 6<sup>5</sup></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">And:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">1<sup>10</sup> + 4<sup>7</sup> =
0<sup>9</sup> + 2<sup>11</sup> + 3<sup>8</sup> + 6<sup>5</sup></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">There are in addition 96 <i>further</i>
total permutations for:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">3<sup>9</sup> + 7<sup>2</sup> =
0<sup>10</sup> + 5<sup>6</sup> + 11<sup>1</sup> + 8<sup>4</sup></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">And:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">3<sup>9</sup> + 7<sup>2</sup>
=<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>11<sup>0</sup> + 5<sup>6</sup> + 10<sup>1</sup> +
8<sup>4</sup></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">Yielding a total of: 96 + 96 + 96 = 288 answers/solutions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: rgb(255, 249, 238); color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span><p></p>Copernicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16699554476216140859noreply@blogger.com0