(1111) Not everyday I get to start a post at that time … sky going to fall, asteroid hit? (Been watching Fawlty Towers, explains my attitude. 🫣) I dunno .. we finally get some good weather and the bleedin’ bees and wasps decide to come out en masse and have a look around, hot cross bun’s nice, plenty of fruit ….. (1141)
11. Moosh corner
10. An interesting exchange
Luv it … simply luv it!
9. More snippets
(0735) Morning all … better sky than recently. (0832)
8. Roundup of snippets
Think I might just call this “snippets” hereonin because it conveys that such a sub-item contains just signposts, summaries, nothing in depth per se … you can always ask for more detail, I’ll try to track down the original and see if there’s anything more to report.
7. TCW item
6. Steve summary of 975
Quick note … if I don’t do an expanded piece on each and every sub-item … well Steve graces us already with a mass of reading, which I usually reserve for the quiet part of the day later.
Four: Trump Announces Plan to Inspect Fort Knox Gold Reserves to ‘Make Sure the Gold is There’ … Musk personal security … Christian massacre in the Congo … much more…..
Three: Bondi Epstein list … see Jstack for comparison later … Biden employees gone … Maine Gov meathead … ICE … much more…..
Two: Uke sit-rep … Uke fires … Zelensky … much more…..
One: Post-Vaccine Brain Fog, Immune Dysfunction … SPAFF by the Speccie … 70 Christians beheaded in a church … much more…..
JH: Both DAD and Steve are using terms, minus euphemisms, out of their understandable “high dudgeon” but NOWP is not free of WP control, as with UHC and it can rebound on the site (as in shutdown) … onus is on me, yes, but I’m loathe to edit your text unless absolutely necessary for site safety. Juss sayin’, lads.
5. Looking at just three items at TDS
… in not great detail:
The reason I don’t place as much store by TDS these days is partly the Lord Toby factor, a bit Lord Richard Tice if it happened, plus the appalling corporate layout of what was once a good source for comment, never really up to date and time … but the obstacles they place in our path to get money from us … bad move. As a fellow pundit … on yer bike.
First item above … nothing special, someone called Laurie … might be ok but I’m not jumping through hoops to read it. Second item … ain’t that the truth … always blame far right, Trump, misinformation or racism as a first reaction … never thin or delve. Third item … an opinion piece from a limited view, as DJT himself has, though his is better than everyone else’s except the Russian people, p,us Gen. Macgregor.
For those wanting to check for themselves (wise), then blogrolls have TDS.
(0131) Taking us into the daylight, Saturday … Steve’s will be in the next post. (0715)
4. Back with DAD at 975 at 0644
This is by JH on DAD’s drop over there:
a) “It comes from the unofficial IS associate outfit ‘Al Saif Media’….” writes DAD … telling those of the faith to drive into crowds … this is (quick glance) in Germany. All right, interesting because the main news headline in Geelong’s local rag, near Melbourne, Oz, has this:
You wot? For a start … heatwave in late Feb downunder? Hmmmm, in some years but usually by Labor Day (March 10 or so down there), it’s getting cool. No matter … onto the Pako reference … does that mean what I think it does? As a main regional daily’s lead headline?
Yep, it certainly does … paywall prevents me seeing more than a paragraph confirmation below it. Whoa … let’s “unpack this”, as pundits seem to say these days. To get away with that, obviously race relations are far better in Oz than in Britland … plus, the Kash Patel item celebrated an Indian, said Kash, in high office.
Whoa again … so could we say race relations are far better in both Oz and the US than in Britland and Frogland? Or maybe it’s just headline writers wanting it so. Plus, why would a heatwave wipe out a “Pako” fest? They come from a hot land themselves. And are Ozlanders unaware of the war we’re in in Europe? Sleepy hollow, still completely controlled by the MSM?
Hmmmmm, more on all this later.
b) “Deprived of power and majority for many months, President Macron is trying to rebuild his image and regain his political legitimacy by taking centre stage” … well, dictators do, do they not?
c) “A right-wing mayor is being prosecuted for refusing to perform the civil wedding ceremony of an Algerian national who was under an obligation to leave French territory.” Uh huh … compare to ICE in the States.
d) “In Marseille, jackets with an integrated hood to hide your face are all the rage, especially among young people. However, wearing clothes that prevent you from being identified in public places can result in a fine.”. Well yes … Marseilles has always been a crim hotbed … film and song mention it quite often.
3. Patel
2. Leavitt and Kelly
We missed out on ladies at lunchtime yesterday … will this suffice?
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Snakes and Allies
I should not have woken up, having crashed for the night … there are reasons I’ll go into one day soon, mainly neighbours doing shiftwork … anyway, here we are, not even Saturday, first sleep over with, thought I’d check X and there’s Publius, a key anon pundit close to MAGA.
Rand Paul tried to “@DOGE” the Senate Budget last night with a $1.5 trillion Spending Cut Amendment, but it crashed 24-76. All Democrats voted NO, joined by 29 RINOs like McConnell, Graham, Cornyn, Tillis, and Thune – thwarting his attempt to reduce inflation and debt.
Here are the 29 “Republicans” who joined every Democrat in voting this down:
Banks (R-IN) – 2030 (Elected 2024) Blackburn (R-TN) – 2030 (Elected 2024) Boozman (R-AR) – 2028 (Elected 2022) Budd (R-NC) – 2028 (Elected 2022) Capito (R-WV) – 2026 (Elected 2020) Collins (R-ME) – 2026 (Elected 2020) Cornyn (R-TX) – 2026 (Elected 2020) Cotton (R-AR) – 2026 (Elected 2020) Cramer (R-ND) – 2030 (Elected 2024) Crapo (R-ID) – 2028 (Elected 2022) Fischer (R-NE) – 2030 (Elected 2024) Graham (R-SC) – 2026 (Elected 2020) Grassley (R-IA) – 2028 (Elected 2022) Hawley (R-MO) – 2030 (Elected 2024) Hoeven (R-ND) – 2028 (Elected 2022) Hyde-Smith (R-MS) – 2026 (Elected 2020) Lankford (R-OK) – 2028 (Elected 2022) Marshall (R-KS) – 2026 (Elected 2020) McConnell (R-KY) – 2026 (Elected 2020) Moran (R-KS) – 2028 (Elected 2022) Mullin (R-OK) – 2028 (Elected 2022) Murkowski (R-AK) – 2028 (Elected 2022) Ricketts (R-NE) – 2030 (Elected 2024) Rounds (R-SD) – 2026 (Elected 2020) Scott (R-SC) – 2028 (Elected 2022) Sullivan (R-AK) – 2026 (Elected 2020) Thune (R-SD) – 2028 (Elected 2022) Tillis (R-NC) – 2026 (Elected 2020) Wicker (R-MS) – 2030 (Elected 2024)
*NOTE: These dates assume no resignations, special elections, or other unforeseen changes.
All right … the context for non-Americans and for Americans unaware:
Yes and no … the combined House and Executive does have a say and POTUS does have the right of veto on actual bills … which one would assume he would use with Thune’s big-spending bill, inc. the Ukraine money Zelensky demanded.
Remember that this just now was a vote against a bill, not a bill in itself … in other words, the Senate “vetoed” (voted against) Rand Paul’s amendment. POTUS therefore will instead veto (hopefully) the Thune bill itself to stop it becoming law … the one which bypassed the House proposed bill, backed by POTUS.
Are there any mitigating circumstances for those Republicans above voting with the demonrats?
Well there may be. If House plus POTUS already have a way to kill the bill later, then the Rand Paul amendment might have just been an opening play to flush out the RINOs … or else certain Senators knew of the later play (to come) and did not impede it … it’s a wafer thin argument imho and who am I … not an expert in US division of powers.
But to employ that overused word … the optics certainly look bad to MAGA eyes. They, MAGA, and the RINO GOP, are certainly a house divided, as Lincoln put it long ago. I’ll be interested to see Mike Davis’s comment, though he’s judiciary.
Now, let’s jump across the pond to us and the Llama-Harmer’s latest, as reported and commented on by Vance and one other (Musk? Bondi?):
Also, this comment below appears to be on part of Vance’s speech at CPAC:
The US MAGA govt seems here to be going in to bat for the common folk across Britain and Europe, against their govts.