Just… ugh.
Wednesday, the 17th of June 2024. (Hat-tip to Walter Cronkite.)
The only other snappy and relevant quote that springs to mind after hearing/reading this is: “A fine mess!” - Laurel & Hardy, 20BC
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• US authorities received intelligence about an Iranian plot to kill former President Donald Trump, prompting increased security measures by the Secret Service.
• The suspected assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks, who tried to kill Trump on Saturday, is not linked to the Iranian plot.
• The Secret Service has warned the Trump campaign about the risks of outdoor rallies, which pose greater security challenges.
• Iran has a history of retaliation for the US killing of Qasem Soleimani, and former Trump administration officials are under heavy security surveillance due to death threats.
#CNN #Propaganda #ManufacturingConcent #Trump #FalseFlag #Assasination #Soleimani #Politics #USpolitics
The man is the younger and smarter militant version of Mullah Omar Pence with eyes on starting a war with Iran and China, And at home to crush every secular laws and regulations to turn US into a Christian Caliphat of north America.
#USelection #Politics #ChristianTaliban #Trumpistan #USPolitics #Fascism #Theocracy
It's just sickening to see how stupidly gullible and cheerfully ignorant these idiots are.
Paying $35 for this crap and proudly wearing it.
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American Rounds manufactures these kiosks, which operate 24/7 like ATMs. Users select their desired ammunition on a touchscreen, scan their ID, and collect the bullets from the machine.
The machines, equipped with AI, card scanning, and facial recognition, verify the buyer’s age and identity.
American Rounds plans to expand these kiosks to other states where hunting is popular.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-9-2024
July 9, 2024
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON #uspolitics
JUL 10, 2024
..."In this morning’s Talking Points Memo, David Kurtz observed that “much of political journalism is divorced from policy and the substance of politics.” It’s all about a horse race, he wrote, while complex questions, competing public interests, and the history of an issue get distilled to “whether it’s good or bad politically.”
Today, he noted, that horse-race coverage means that “[a]n election about whether the United States will continue its two and half century long experiment in representative democracy, where a convicted felon is running to return to the office he tried to seize through extralegal means, where the specter of a new form of fascism looms on the horizon is suddenly consumed by a political death watch for the only person at present standing between democracy and another Trump term in the White House.”
...
Democrats are “protecting the freedoms of Americans,” while Trump’s people are “taking them away.” He pointed to the right-wing attacks on abortion rights, IVF, contraception, and gay marriage. Biden reiterated that he will sign a law making Roe v. Wade the law of the land if the nation elects a Democratic House and Senate. Finally, he pointed out that Democrats are protecting the rule of law and democracy, while Trump is actively working to destroy both. Trump, he wrote, has proven himself “unfit ever to hold the office of President.” “My fellow Democrats,” Biden wrote, “we have the record, the vision, and the fundamental commitment to America’s freedoms and our Democracy to win.”
Hours later, the New York Times joined the tabloid New York Post in noting that visitor logs showed that Dr. Kevin Cannard, an expert on Parkinson’s disease, visited the White House eight times between July 2023 and March 2024. After pressing White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre for information beyond her statements that Biden is not being, and has not been, treated for Parkinson’s and that he sees a neurologist as part of his annual physical exams, a CBS News White House reporter accused Jean-Pierre of deliberately withholding information. Jean-Pierre pointed out that “personal attacks” are not appropriate from the press corps and that the press team does its best to give the information they have. She said she took offense at the reporter’s tone.
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Now that’s a story. Are they backing Trump because they care more about culture wars than their economic security? Or are they ill informed?
Meanwhile, Republicans in the House today passed the Refrigerator Freedom Act and the Stop Unaffordable Dishwasher Standards (SUDS) Act, prohibiting the Secretary of Energy from prescribing or enforcing energy efficiency standards for residential refrigerators, freezers, and dishwashers.
After noting that the average monthly cost of operating a dishwasher is two to four dollars, and establishing that the people pushing this measure had no idea how much a dishwasher costs, Representative Katie Porter (D-CA) said: “This bill… Congress at its worst. A bunch of people who haven’t unloaded a dishwasher ever telling the American people what dishwashers they should or should not have.” ...
Any other country, and US would be there to invade, bomb, sanction and blockade the country to submission.
But the god blessed US of A is turning into an an open and uncensored banana republic with the backing of the the Christian Taliban members of the Supreme Court and their corrupt conservative buddies.
With its immunity ruling on Monday, the Supreme Court granted former President Donald Trump’s wish of all but guaranteeing that his criminal trial for trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election will not go to trial before the 2024 election in November.
It also granted presidents in general a definitive “absolute immunity” from prosecution for core official acts and said presidents should be presumed immune for a much more expansive list of acts.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/07/01/politics/presidents-immunity-supreme-court-what-matters
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And put them to work in American communities, building clinics and schools for the 40 million Americans living in poverty, Securing American borders instead of "guarding" someone else's.
Really defending America, instead of propping up a Ponzi Scheme military industrial complex that feeds on Wars created by idiotic foreign policies, peddled by politicans intimately linked to the grimy trade of War.
Imagine what the $916 Billion spent on the US Military in 2023 would do if it was actually invested in American lives and wellbeing rather than on fear, domination, and War?
Imagine.
#Military #USpolitics #Politics #Pentagon #Imperialism #Idiocracy #Economy
We have a saying in Farsi, "the soup was so salty, that even the king tasted it" which really means that things have gotten so bad that even those who usually don't admit to existence of a problem are talking about it.
Obama knows #Biden is fucked, he has the whole media and an army of trumpists against him and his dementia and his strange behavior in public and his unquestionable support of #Ukraine and #Israel is costing him among conservative Americans and progressive ones (mostly young voters who don't have the same loyalty to Israeli genocidal regime as the older Americans).
It is sad and kind of scary that we are facing the sole super power in the word having to chose between 2 disgusting people who were fighting in public to show how much they suck up to Israel as their show of strength and leadership!
Re: 2024 US Presidential Debate # 1
Amid the analyses, eulogies, warnings, hand-wringing, alarms & pockets of glee...
Here is one of the more impartial/detached snapshots, of the moment, anyway.
From outside the forest but close enough to see, our still-sane neighbors to the North, Canada (CBC)
With many links to relevant aspects and related stories. [Thank you Adam Hunt.]
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Countdown to..... 'the happening'.
These would be a great set of questions for the Stable Genius, Sir #TrumpVirus
number one: what the f^*k is wrong with you?
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It's sadly accurate.. it's so pathetic that these 2 ass holes are the ones US can come up with to run for presidency.
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#FunnyAndSad
from #WashingtonPost [gift article below]
Israel- #Gaza war live updates - 6/9
#WorldFoodProgram pauses Gaza work after #Israeli raid
#Gantz to leave emergency government in rebuke of #Netanyahu
#USA intelligence aided #Israeli hostage rescue
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