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What a strange fetish it all is…

by Kym Robinson | Jul 20, 2024 | Blog

Is it a fetish? There are some fascinating memes and clips doing the rounds of Trump lately. The populist appeal has become silly. The trouble is that some supposedly serious people are unironically aroused by it all. Then again, maybe it’s just for the LOLs? Grown men reliving the great Tumblr vs 4chan war, now those veterans find themselves on X and TikTok waging battle against the evil globalists or lizards or satanists or deep state. The forces of Zuck, Obama and Biden. Only one man can save them, Donald Trump.

When Shia Lebouf did his anti-Trump art piece, “he will not divide us!” little would he know that in time, Trump would become unifying. The oppositionis running the F grade team, not even really trying to win and in his surviving an assassin’s bullet Trump has become ubericonic. The machismo strong man that is the hall mark of all historical moments usually leading to government peaks, is usually thanks to prior failings and incompetence, thus ascending into a figurehead moment.

The obsession with Trump has been quite curious since early on, in 2015 Hilary Clinton pushed for him during the Republican primaries. He was just not taken seriously by the establishment aristocracy of government. She and her experts considered him the beatable one in the bunch. But a gap toothed Leon Spinks managed to beat Ali, and Trump was a better contender than even an Olympic gold medallist in that race plus Clinton is not Ali. When Trump won, her supporters squealed loud enough to wake a Snyder-cut mother box. His supporters cheered, and well we know what happened. Promises dwindled into a period of business as usual.

“At least he didn’t start any NEW wars,” we were told. A high water mark of US liberal democracy and the revelation at just how comfortable the American public is with their governments foreign policy and imperial ambitions to wage war. But alas, he lost to Joe Sniffer Biden. Even with the laptop and revelations of corruption, debauchery of him and his son, conspiracy theories and general stench of a candidate who looked soiled. Trump lost, however controversial it may be. Gore vs Bush as a conspiracy of election fraud kept Michael Moore well fed as much as those of today indulge in the decadence of sweet sweet government corruption of the past presidential switch.

This time it will be better. The charges pressed against Trump seem pretty lame. Given the whole corrupt nature of most upper tier politicians. I guess all of them are just too big to fail. Whether deleting emails, receiving money from conflicting sources, taking home documents whatever none of that is really as bad as blowing up children. But, Bill Clinton survived Waco and the numerous tomahawk missile strikes and embargoes that took thousands of lives, it was a blowjob from an intern that seemed to upset the government fetishists the most. Just as Watergate was the blotch against Nixon not blowing to pieces millions of South East Asians.

There is even talk of Biden’s presidency being a form of ‘elder abuse.’ As though his Weekend at Bernies treatment means we should feel sorry for the man. He is scum. Has always been. For those with goldfish brains, look at his history and peel back the withered and decayed facade of a man who has profited from the theft of taxation and embraced government growth to the detriment of millions. Wasn’t he a segregationist…? That does not make Donald Trump a saint, eminent domain real estate makes some people very wealthy.

The concern is not so much who the president is, rather the rallying of a lot of people to this father figure. Online a lot of men are fetishising him. A feminist once told me that men have a childish obsession with hierarchies, many are drawn to careers and sports where they need a fixed leadership. They worship the military chain of command, though most are aware the higher it climbs the more political and less capable individuals tend to be. That is true for much of life. Though as she put it, men still see themselves as kings, despite clamouring for these figures who that want to be their king. Whether she is right or wrong is not for me, I am just making this known as I watch mostly men share gleefully in a ritual of worship of a man who is certainly enigmatic and revels in the celebrity. But why must people lust such a man to lead them?

Even many who claim to despise the government or the corporate world for that matter, they seem drawn to it. They rationalise that either the right management or leader will bring change, or perhaps they just lack imagination or even just like the security of the familiar. The status quo is understood…devil you know and all that. And for those who profess faith in a spiritual deity, the idol worship of a man whose almost an NFT and trademark, is a revelation. Is the god that many claim guides them really more powerful than nation and government? Or is this golden idol sent by the heavens to lead them, as a saviour of sorts?Divine rule of memes and all that.

Do so many just have daddy issues? Do they need a Christian Grey in their lives? A wealthy dominant to tell them what to do, to take care of them through promises of welfare and subsidies. To be controlled in every aspect of their lives, to be shielded by other potential dominants that may come by. And every so often they need to be spanked and sodomised…well you get the rest of the metaphor. Is that really it? Or is it just a ritual that is so traditional and regimented that it’s normal to simply accept and adore it.

Is it abnormal to raise a hand and ask, “what does God need with a starship?” Most of you likely don’t value the greatness of the Shatner period Star Trek films but there was a healthy level of dissent found within. When a “god” requested a star ship be taken to him, his followers, those brainwashed and the willing prophet never once questioned. It was Kirk who alone asked that question and defied the powerful. Are we in that world, where absurdity and power itself is a self fulfilling cycle. The supposed powerless, continue to bring star ships and feed the power of the state and leaders by obeying and indulging in their whims. And, worshipping politicians them in strange and unusual ways. Wanna feel sick, check out how media types and especially lady journalists humped the leg of Victorian premiere Dan Andrews, over his “covid leadership.” Not even the flu would make you that sick as to witness such a thing.

They are all just human beings. The experts, the masters, the mercenaries who serve them are not omnipotent. We witnessed the failure of security, where Trump survived by chance of timing. You want that monopoly to protect your family? And the theorists who don’t believe the lone gun man story, for them it means they fucked up the assassination too. They can’t even do wars well, just kill, die and spend. But alas all of us in the world will watch the next most important election. But we know Trump has basically won. A faded Ali had a better chance versus a prime Holmes but, this is not a prize fight merely another ritual of government so it’s more than just a contest of the mobs favourite ghoul, so stuff can happen too. Trump is funny and Liberal tears….are you not entertained?

It would be entertaining if it wasn’t a coercive monopoly but for some reason most just love government so much. The absurdity is mandatory. And, even though for most of us it’s in another country we suffer the consequences. Australia for example is but a vassal of empire. Alex Jones is right, it’s turned the frogs ghey, Pepe included. But in the end daddy Trump won’t cuddle you either.

July, 2024

Tariffs Violate Freedom

by Sheldon Richman | Jul 18, 2024 | Blog, Economics, Libertarianism

Debate goes on over who suffers from U.S. tariffs. Biden and Trump, for example, think U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods hurt China, not Americans. This is nonsense. Even if they hurt Chinese producers (who can sell their goods elsewhere), the tariffs still hurt Americans. Whatever the Chinese do, prices in America for the relevant consumer and producer goods, imported and domestic, will rise—that’s the point of the tariff—and choice will shrink. Here’s what Henry George had to say in Protection or Free Trade:

If Americans did not want to buy foreign goods, foreign goods could not be sold here even if there were no tariff. The efficient cause of the trade which our tariff aims to prevent is the desire of Americans to buy foreign goods, not the desire of foreign producers to sell them…. It is not from foreigners that protection preserves and defends us; it is from ourselves.

He also wrote:

Free trade consists simply in letting people buy and sell as they want to buy and sell. It is protection that requires force, for it consists in preventing people from doing what they want to do. Protective tariffs are as much applications of force as are blockading squadrons, and their object is the same—to prevent trade. The difference between the two is that blockading squadrons are a means whereby nations seek to prevent their enemies from trading; protective tariffs are a means whereby nations attempt to prevent their own people from trading. What protection teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war. [Emphasis added.]

If Pigs Could Fly: The F35 Continues to Miss the Mark

by Bill Buppert | Jul 18, 2024 | Blog

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The Pentagon will continue to pay Bugatti prices for Yugos until the morale improves.

Software upgrades have haunted this flying circus since its “full operational status” was fabricated years ago.

The combination of a severely Sovietized acquisition system married to the trillions spent on “defense” makes for a witches brew of chaos avalanches that keep on giving. And remember, the GAO further highlighted that the defense contractor’s liability cap is $100,000 per F-35 jet, despite each aircraft’s price tag ranging from $82.5 million to $109 million.

Not only is the aircraft idling at a roughly 30 percent readiness rating (35B/C models) for the fleet, cost in excess of 40,000 an hour to fly and a relatively short combat radius but no one has lost their job, faced a tribunal or gone to jail over this trillion[s] dollar cock-up.

The delays in the Technology Refresh 3 (TR-3) hardware and software upgrade, originally set for completion by July 2023, have left newly delivered F-35s parked at an airfield in Fort Worth, Texas, exposing them to the risks of severe weather. That delay is now a year and counting.

Blocks 1,2, and 3 were initial capabilities with Block 3 providing basic combat capability. Block 4 is the full combat capability. Many of the planned Block 4 capabilities have now been pushed into the indefinitely-delayed-to-some-future-date category which means they’ll never happen.

Blocks 1A and 1B – initial pilot training and multi-level security
Block 2A – improved training capabilities
Block 2B – basic air-to-air combat capability; basic air-to-ground combat capability
Block 3i – Block 2B plus new hardware to support USAF Initial Operating Capability (IOC)
Block 3F – full flight envelope and baseline combat capabilities; began 2018 and completed 2023
Block 4 – full weapons (17 new weapons) and ESM capabilities; pending; requires TR-3

The delays in delivery to the Pentagon were linked to the lingering issue with the TR-3 tech refresh, which refers to a series of software and hardware improvements to the F-35, giving the jets better displays, computer memory, and processing power. But now, as is a DoD habit, the forces will accept the “training” birds which are NOT combat capable according to the DoD.

COMNAVOPS avers in his splendid fashion flensing the corpus of bureaucratic bungling:

About a year ago, the Pentagon put a freeze on deliveries of new F-35s pending fixes for the TR-3 implementation. F-35s have been piling up in warehouses awaiting a resolution of the software issues.

Honestly, the freeze on deliveries has been more symbolic than effective since the Pentagon has continued payments for the new aircraft with just a $7M withholding per aircraft.[1] That means that Lockheed has still been getting around 91% of the contract price for aircraft that don’t meet spec and can’t be delivered. That’s not a bad deal if you can get it!

Financial aspects aside, I’m not sure any of us fully appreciate just how badly broken the software side of things are in the F-35 program. The Pentagon has just caved to various pressures and announced that the delivery freeze has been lifted despite the software problem remaining unresolved. Hmm …

Bowing to operational demands, the Pentagon has lifted a year-long freeze on accepting new F-35 stealth fighters — even though the problem that prompted the standstill has not been fully resolved.[1]

Persistent problems with TR-3 prompted officials to eventually capitulate to an interim software fix …[1]
Read this next quote slowly and carefully and fully grasp the meaning and implications.

… jets will be delivered with interim software that facilitates training, but a second software drop that enables combat capabilities likely won’t be available for at least another year.[1]

That’s right. We’re delivering training jets but not fully combat capable jets. We’re decades into this program, have built a thousand aircraft, and still don’t have a fully combat capable aircraft. Someone should face a firing squad for this.

https://navy-matters.blogspot.com/2024/07/f-35-software-problems-continue.html

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The Empire Strikes Back: Soldiering and Brain Injury

by Bill Buppert | Jul 17, 2024 | Blog

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Whatever empires do abroad eventually comes home. Yet another unintended consequences come home in a tidal wave.

This is personal; I was diagnosed with Traumatic Brain Injury in 2019. I spent nearly a quarter century in the US military. I know there’s a connection. This isn’t isolated to the military, concussion in amateur and professional sports is real along with a number of blue collar jobs. The downstream effects of so many soldiers deployed overseas in combat theaters for the first two decades of the 21st century will resonate through American society for generations and even on the margin, accelerate civilizational decay. It may be yet another manifestation of the competency crisis in the chaos avalanche of American incipient degradation now.

Aside from the moral injury from war that every soldier with a conscience takes to the end of his life, here is yet another. Brain injury in the military is real.

This is yet another gift to America from imperial wars overseas.

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The New York Times isolates the inquiry to the connection between brain injury and suicide but it is far greater in range effects than that. The cognition degradation is real.

I don’t normally quote the New York Times but here is a rare instance where they seem to ask the right questions and arrive at the right answers.

Ms. Collins is the reason that the brains of a high proportion of the SEALs who died by suicide made it to the Defense Department’s lab.

Her husband was in many ways a typical SEAL: smart, confident, easygoing and high-achieving. He deployed to Afghanistan twice and to Iraq three times. When he was not deployed, he was away from home for hundreds of days each year in training.

Combat never seemed to faze Mr. Collins, but near the end of his Navy career, he started to change in subtle ways that Ms. Collins pieced together only in retrospect. He began to avoid social gatherings. He struggled to sleep. He started to make strange, obsessive family schedules and become irritated when they were not followed. Some simple chores, like raking leaves into a tarp, started to confound him. He would step out the door to go to work, realize that he had forgotten his keys, go back inside to get them and then forget why he had returned.

All were signs of brain injury. But at the time, the military generally associated brain injury with big blasts from roadside bombs — something Mr. Collins never experienced. No one was telling the troops that repeated exposure to routine blasts from their own weapons might be a risk.

The SEALs are emblematic of a much larger and more pervasive happenstance of brain injury in all the services. The combination of the day-to-day training around munitions and explosions in concert with combat operations makes for a lethal cocktail that arguably, even in a correlative fashion, ends up causing significant brain and cognitive degradation and failure.

The men who died by suicide represent only a small fraction of the career SEALs with signs of brain injuries after years around blasts.

Several SEAL veterans said in interviews that many of their former teammates are now divorced and grappling with depression, paranoia and substance abuse — all of which can be caused by deteriorating brain function. Desperate calls from suicidal friends are common, they said.

Ms. Metcalf saw how broad the problem was when she read the letter her husband had left about his brain injury symptoms to two of his SEAL friends.

“One of them was crying on my lap, saying, ‘That’s me, that’s me,’” she said. “And the other told me a lot of them have problems, but don’t know what to do.”

https://archive.ph/MzZMw

Great insight in 2022 from a SOF conference on Brain Injury:

SOF Health Deep Dive: Traumatic Brain Injury

2015 TBI Conference

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US Surface Navy is No Longer a Global Force

by Bill Buppert | Jul 16, 2024 | Blog

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The US Navy may credibly dominate the Atlantic but the Pacific Ocean is no longer an exclusive US naval domination calculus.

The Arctic is still dominated by the Russians and will remain so.

The US Navy’s ability to build functioning surface ships is compromised beyond repair due to a lack of proper planning, enormous maintenance backlogs, and global “commitments” taking the remaining surface fleet endlessly steaming circles in hulls with limited lifespans.

Do hulls have an expiration date? Yes, they do hence the Navy retiring all 22 remaining cruisers in the fleet by 2027.

Not to mention the premature retirement of the entire class of Little Crappy Ships (LCS).

Along with Vicksburg, the Navy wants to decommission USS Bunker Hill (CG-52), USS Mobile Bay (CG-53), USS San Jacinto (CG-56) and USS Lake Champlain (CG-57) in FY 2023 and is already cleared to decommission USS Monterey (CG-61), USS Hué City (CG-66), USS Anzio (CG-68), USS Vella Gulf (CG-72) and USS Port Royal (CG-73) this year.

All 22 remaining cruisers are set to leave the fleet by 2027.

https://news.usni.org/2022/04/21/navy-plans-for-all-22-ticonderoga-cruisers-to-exit-fleet-in-5-years

The perfect storm of inadequate design since 1991 for all new US Navy surface warfare vessels, inadequate maintenance funds and insufficient shipyard throughput is reaching a point of no return. The era of US Navy surface superiority and supremacy planet-wide is over.

Three Los Angeles-class submarines, two Ticonderoga-class cruisers and four mine-detection ships have passed their expected service life dates and are among the 19 ships targeted for retirement by the Navy. However, the other 10 that the Navy wants to remove from the fleet are still short of retirement age. The gaps range from one and two years for two more Ticonderoga-class cruisers to 29 years for USNS John Glenn, an expeditionary land dock vessel only 11 years into its expected 40-year service.

More here:

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2024-03-18/navy-budget-ships-submarines-f-35s-retirements-cuts-13358793.html

One of the commenters made this keen point:

One of the basic criteria in successful shipbuilding is you do not commence build until design is 100% complete, not 90 or 95% , as nearly always the the last few percent of the design the most difficult, but Navy authorized F/MM start build in August 2022 even though they said the detail design was only just over 80 percent finished. Congress had previously mandated in 2020 that design must be “complete” before build can commence, as the Navy doesn’t understand the meaning of the word “complete” in the FY2025 NDAA House legislators were said to be changing the wording to “100% complete”, though Senate draft wording reported to be 95% of functional design drawings have to been approved.

No wonder Constellation expected delivery will be three years late and 10 percent above the shipbuilder’s June 2020 weight estimate.

You cannot complete a complex ship design of the plans aren’t complete on initiation of building.

Period.

In contrast, because the Navy no longer designs ships, generates blueprints, or even requires complete designs and blueprints prior to the start of construction, only the contracted yard can build a given ship. The LCS is the standout example of this badly flawed approach. Lacking any guidance or blueprints, both Lockheed and Austal generated their own LCS designs, spec’ed their own equipment and combat systems, and no one else could build them. Thus, we wound up with two LCS classes that had almost nothing in common; the epitome of inefficiency.

What should have happened is that the Navy should have generated a complete design concept – and locked it down instead of continuously changing it! – followed by a complete set of construction blueprints. They could have then shopped around for the best manufacturing deal and, if necessary, utilized multiple shipyards to in competition to ensure that costs and quality were well controlled.

https://navy-matters.blogspot.com/2024/07/efficiency-and-competition.html

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The Family Will Never Get Over It – Anti-War Blog

by Kym Robinson | Jul 15, 2024 | Blog

The Middle East Eye reports of desperate screams as Muhammad Bhar, a 24-year old Palestinian man with down syndrome was attacked by Israelil military dogs. The IDF soldiers watched on as the animals mauled the helpless Muhammad. He was then left to die from his wounds. Those close to Muhammad said that he was mentally “one years of age.” To those who set their dogs onto him, he was just a Palestinian.

Muhammad another victim of the Israel government as it executes its 21^st century settler colonialism. Dogs mauling the innocent as their handlers watch on is not new, in fact it’s ancient. It occurred to the Aboriginal Australians and Native Americans as their conquerors “civilised” the land by spilling native blood. We bear witness through our screens the modern incarnation of such conquest

“They Will Get Over It. The Japanese Did.” – Corey Comperartore from his X account in regards to the Palestinians of Gaza.

The bystander who was murdered during the attempted assassination of Donald Trump has been named. The fifty-year old retired fire chief died while shielding his young daughter and wife during the shooting. A church goer and family man who loved and gave to is community with courage as a firefighter. Corey Comperatore is the man who was killed. It is likely that Corey would have rescued Muhammad from mauling dogs, he would have carried him from a blazing fire never once concerned where the young man had been born. In such moments, to a man of action, the fact that Muhammad was a Palestinian would not matter.

Politics, especially from a distance is putrid thing. It relegates individual humans into camps and demographics. A father and husband, fire fighter killed is celebrated with “good riddance” by those who despise Trump and MAGA politics. Corey did died at the Trump rally, therefore through the prism of partisan politics is an enemy to some. While a young man like Muhammad is dismissed as a human being, his horrible death shrugged away, his family told that, “they will get over it.”

Collectivism is frightening. It turns entire groups into an enemy, so pariah that dogs mauling a young man with down syndrome is tolerated. Dismissed as the reality of war or the consequences of policy. On a human level, few ask what ones religion or political ideology is when they shake hands as strangers or buy goods in a market. It’s when coercive funding and war mentality arises, especially when separated through screens that an insane sociopathic normality arises. Where men of good actions, heroic conduct and who love and have saved lives could look at images on a screen and dismiss thousands of mostly children so callously. Including Muhammad who would die to dog attack. “They Will Get Over it…”

Or for those so caught up in partisan politics that they would celebrate, “One Less Trumper,” over the corpse of a dead father. Nietzsche argued that one should be wary of those who would try and shame others. Then perhaps be wary of my words, because if shame does not reach ones heart and conscience then there is a delusion that is so perverse it seems to be normal. Accepted. History shall go on, a bullet takes a man’s life and dogs kill a younger one, for what? Policy, manifest destiny, democracy, politics, ideology, religion? All of it, or none of it.

Life is complicated. A man can have an active politic presence on social media, expressing views that come across as simplistic and terrible. A troll if you will. Though in the real world, where flesh and blood are not pixelated, he was a good man. For Muhammad, what did he do to deserve his death? What abhorrent exceptionalism sees him as an enemy? I can only ask questions, those who worship government and the religions of imperial violence, demand others yield to their politics or ideologies through threat of violence or by bullet or from the mouth of war dogs. I don’t expect an answer. Two lay dead, thousands more to follow. Rest in peace.

July, 2024

Assassin Murders Bystander

by Kym Robinson | Jul 14, 2024 | Blog

Twenty Year old Thomas Mathew Crooks murdered a bystander and injured others in an attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. Trump suffered, a bullet injuring his ear. The killer was shot dead by a secret service counter sniper. The crowd cheered, “USA, USA!” once Trump raised his fists in defiance, proof of life. A relief for his supporters. Those shot and close to the dead and wounded struggled with life and death in desperate and confused moments. Though history will now relegate them as props to an event of significance, as human beings they lived a life. In politics they matter nought, just faces in the crowd wearing slogans on their shirts.

At this time just another ‘lone gun man’, American political assassinations are enshrined in such a killer tradition. If only, the killer of Arch Duke Frans Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian empire was deemed as such, then the stupidity that led to World War One may not occurred, instead contained between killer and slain. The US is different. At crucial historical moments a deranged man can swipe away the politically important. The bystanders hit, need not matter.

Before presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy died, after being shot by an assassin, he asked, “Is every body OK?” The 18-year old hotel busboy Juan Romero who held his hand as he lay bleeding on the floor, nodded, “Yes.” To which RFK replied, “Everything will be OK.” Kennedy died moments later. His murderer Sirhan Sirhan would go on to be immortalised alongside John Wilkes Boothe and Lee Harvey Oswald. If Thomas Mathew Crooks had of been slightly more accurate and Trump had not of turned to face the direction of the shooter, then his name would have become as historically significant. The bystanders he shot as forgotten.

In an attempt to prevent the former president of reclaiming his mantle in the oval office, the would be assassin has ensured his victory. Biden is out of ice cream cones and children to sniff, the senile in chief has been abandoned by the media and party diehards who had pretended that he was of sound mind and body. Robert F Kennedy, Jr now may be the candidate to face the former president. He could wear his Democrat feathers again, with a fringe following online and has his father and dead uncles last name. He is like Trump, royalty from the long 20^th century, sacred to Pax Americana. What’s her face, Kamala Harris doesn’t even have supporters in her own household and despite the media suddenly reminding the world that she exists, her likeliness of contesting the former president is as enthralling as running Walter Mondale again.

Rest in peace the forgotten fallen of history, those who see themselves as your betters will stand upon the corpse you lived in so that they may ascend. Politics is that ugly place where those who seek to rule use the violent monopoly, they may even sometimes come to a violent end themselves. Politics is that ugly thing where those who politically oppose mutter, “pity they missed.” All the while pretending to be a peaceful person or that the religion of government is anything other than violent absurdity. Politics is the craziness that motivates not just the lone gun men of history but the marching hordes of genocide to do bloody deeds. Politics validates both.

Rejoice those who believe in popular messiahs, The Donald lives. If an assassin’s bullets hissed past his head to which his fists raise in response imagine how pointless the many “rhee!”of screams are should he find re-election again. Rest assured, Trump or Biden, same government. But with the magic wand of executive powers Orange man 2.0 shall dust off the 4d chess board and attempt to drain the swamp, again and make the place great again for the usual types. It’s not that Trump is that great a candidate, be honest, Biden, Hilary. “Vote Blue No Matter Who!” has led to a very embarrassing period for the devoted believers in government and party politics. But we have the Butterbean era of politics, smoker fights for the low attention spans. Simple slogans to seduce and placate, complex issues be damned, raise the debt ceiling and bomb Tehran or Moscow or a tent in the Yemen. All presidential things.

“USA! USA!” Cheers the crowd. And unlike other political candidates, real human beings like this one. Those outside of the status quo sectors that is. Donald Trump survived, he walks on now vindicated. He is a living martyr having bled for the cause, to his supporters and those on the fence, it means Vote One for him. RFK, Jr even with namesake and the podcast generation and all their memes doesn’t stand a chance. If anyone really wanted an alternative to the status quo, Jill Stein and Chase Oliver exist. But Red and Blue is choice enough.

Rest in Peace, the at present unknown bystander who was murdered. A real person lays dead.

July, 2024

Kyle Anzalone on Judge Nap: The Hannibal Directive

by Will Porter | Jul 11, 2024 | Blog

Check out Kyle’s latest appearance on Judge Napolitano’s show, ‘Judging Freedom,’ where they discuss recent reporting by Haaretz suggesting Israel’s military repeatedly invoked the infamous ‘Hannibal Directive’ during Hamas’ October 7 attack.

The Hannibal policy calls on IDF troops to kill their own people in order to prevent capture.