Stone Cold Lloyd Austin

General Austin is an American hero and a solid pick for Defense Secretary. Especially when the leading alternative was a woman (undoubtedly polished and brilliant) who has made a career fighting through the swamps and trenches of academia, think tanks, and the Pentagon bureaucracy.

Austin and Biden overlapped in Iraq in 2010-2011 when Biden was leading the US effort down the drain. But they also overlapped when Austin began leading the pushback against ISIS, so there's that.

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[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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1h
RIGGED ELECTION!

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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46m
We will soon be learning about the word “courage”, and saving our Country. I received hundreds of thousands of legal votes more, in all of the Swing States, than did my opponent. ALL Data taken after the vote says that it was impossible for me to lose, unless FIXED!

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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45m
No candidate has ever won both Florida and Ohio and lost. I won them both, by a lot! #SupremeCourt

[Porchlight]

Patrick Howley
@HowleyReporter
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1h
The political establishment hates Trump because he does rallies where he makes poor white people feel like they have representation in politics.

That's 100 percent of why they hate him

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Barack Ebola, jeenyus;

"If we do not have the capacity to distinguish what’s true from what’s false, then by definition the marketplace of ideas doesn’t work. And by definition our democracy doesn’t work," he fumes.

I'm surprised he didn't start yakkin about profit and overhead in that there marketplace.
To paraphrase Milton Friedmn just who are these angels who have that capacity, Barry? The other sooper jeenyuss gatekeepers like you who our tech overlords appoint?
This is actually a very unpleasantly valuable lesson for those of us awake. We are watching the accelerating transformation of garden variety social liberals into literal totalitarians in real time as they convince themselves or provide themselves with cover that their rapidly evolving rhetoric and beliefs are not what they very clearly are. In the space of four or five years, opinions they disagree with, opinions long held by vast swaths of the country, often by the budding totalitarians themselves just a few years ago, have gone from good faith disagreements to unpleasant opinions, to oppressive world views, to disputed and destructive privilege and bigotry to deranged misperceptions and hateful inaccuracies to just plain old lies and falsehoods as told by Nazis. Fascist falsehoods that must be quashed and silenced.
And part of the reason that evolution is so rapid is because these are the logical extensions of their ideology that lie dormant inside until activated. The activation is IMO the peeling away of a false front they adopt, usually subconsciously, to adapt to cultural norms that they in fact disagree with and deep down despise. Change the norms and their prepackaged radicalism is ready to pop out at a moment's notice. They might have been wearing a Brooks Brother's suit or LL Bean flannel PJs but underneath they've always got their Chairman Mao suit on in case of emergency.

And that acceleration of craziness leads directly to their inability to understand or their rabid longing for things like JimSV's observation from the PL comments section at 12:49;
--“I wonder if the left, and the court realize this is a Hail Mary to prevent a civil war, not to keep trump in office. 30% of democrats and 80+% of republicans think the election was stolen. That is a loss of legitimacy of the nation’s governments from the state level through the federal.”--

[James D.]

I don't either. He makes good points, then goes down the "DC is laid out on Satanic occult symbols/geometry" path and while I think there is a great amount of evil in DC, I don't know that something like that will help.

Maybe Wood is right about everything.

Would you have believed a few years ago that high-ranking members of the House and Senate were compromised by Chinese Communist spies who'd worked for them for years, and when it was uncovered, there would be absolutely zero consequences?

Would you have believed that a family of Pakistani scammers would be allowed to run the IT departments for dozens of Congresspeople, steal God only knows how much sensitive data, as well as millions of dollars, and be allowed to leave the country with no consequence, and the Congresspeople who hired them and compromised national security would face zero repercussions for it?

Would you have believed that every Democrat, many Republicans and all our major media would approve of sending billions of dollars in cash to a terrorist regime that openly admitted it would use the money to fund more terrorism and kill American citizens?

I could go on and on and on...it's clear that, even with what we know now, our government and our "elites" are SO much more corrupt and compromised than we can imagine. There's nothing I wouldn't believe at this point.

[Young Lurker]

I also suspect Wood is right about a lot of this stuff, but I don't think it's helping at this moment in time. We really need to keep our eye on the ball and we need to focus our collective public-facing arguments on those that can most realistically be believed/demonstrated. Plenty of time for satanic cult stuff starting Jan 21..

[Tom R]

I also suspect Wood is right about a lot of this stuff, but I don't think it's helping at this moment in time.

I think someone from Team Trump is providing Powell, Wood, Rudy and others with all the information they are releasing to the public.

[MissMarple2]

Young Lurker,

I agree, and frankly, there is a LOT of weird occult stuff ringing true that I hesitate to talk about because I don't want it attributed to my seizure or bump on the head.

I hope my guy Dilley hasn't been disappeared by You Tube yet. He's who I watch at noon. I also watch Thomas Wictor's videos; I used to post his threads here as Carlos Osweda. He's gone to a cryptic format and I imagine he has done so in anticipation of more censorship.

[Buckeye]

I think it all intended to put pressure on SCOTUS.

My gut tells me they will still do the wrong thing.

Hope I’m wrong.

[Captain Hate]

These Senate problems in Georgia are caused by the 17th amendment.

[MissMarple2]

Tom R,

I also think so. Flynn said in one of his speeches BEFORE he was put through the 4 years of hell that there was far more evil in DC than was anticipated.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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1h
#OVERTURN

[Sidwhite]

Good morning JOM
Regarding yesterday’s discussion about the Dec 14th day for naming electors and the constitution stating the date is to be set by the congress. What if a specific congress neglects to set the date. I mean can a congress 150 years ago set procedures for the congress today? ISTM that this needed to be done by each election year congress? If congress can “reset” the date, then it is not permanently fixed by the first constitutionally set date. Is so, is there even a “set” date if this congress has never “set” it? IANAL but I do get into the tiny details of contracts. I don’t see how one congress can bind the next ones, unless all successors yield. Senate can set a new date = 3 working days after all litigation is settled but no later than 3 working days prior to date constitutionally mandated for new president to be inaugurated. If house does not act, then let the court (supreme) decide

As the above is probably off-base for thousands of reasons, it is obvious that this construction exec is not a constitutional lawyer.

Also obvious, I am about a day behind.

[sbwaters]

Len: Having cancelled, however, why should they care about my opinion?

Our editors do not know or care whether a letter writer is a subscriber or not. Community contributions are in short supply at our small newspaper.

One gentlemen writes every month and we run it, although I know him to be basically intelligent, he insists on crafting letters that are rhetorically deficient in the classical sense. We still run his flawed letters.

After the fall of Rome, Aristotelian rhetoric became separated from its requirement to reflect reality.

Classical Rhetoric consisted of invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery. Unfortunately, in the 1500s, invention and arrangement—the ordering and testing of evidence—were removed leaving Rhetoric absent its honesty, to focus on presentation alone.

[Barbara]

It seems that the watch word these days is patience. We have to wait and see what the Supreme Court does. Perhaps that is true. We certainly can't move forward until the Court decides on the cases before it.

What troubles me is what the Supreme Court is not doing and what may be reluctant to do. I recall this same reluctance in 2000 during the Bush v. Gore case. Perhaps the Court will surprise us all and take a stand in the numerous and obvious problems with the 2020 election. So far, the lower courts have relied on process to avoid tackling the issues head on. If the Supreme Court does not fulfill its responsibilities wrt these cases, the words on its building should be changed from "Equal Justice Under Law" to "Let This Cup Pass From Me".

[Melinda]

Ron
@CodeMonkeyZ
This video is a few years old, but the message is clear.
Some US governors are owned by China.
youtube.com/watch?v=tVn_Y9…

https://twitter.com/CodeMonkeyZ/status/1336711116890669056

[Young Lurker]

Barbara, I agree and I have of course also worried about what the court won't do. But then I think about it from the other angle: if they don't act on this, what is that saying? That would effectively be saying "sure, any individual in a position of power in a state can think of any reason they want to just unilaterally without the legislature make up a rule about how voting can be conducted, and there's absolutely no consequence or recourse to that. You can unilaterally "count" "votes" without the opposing party present and just declare whatever winner you want and there's no problem with that. IANAL so there might be specific legal nitty gritty issues with this TX suit that tank the effort, but at a high level, that's kinda the gist. and that would be... (insert head exploding emoji here)

[Buckeye]

Rumor has it that the military is scrambling at the moment.

I don’t know whether it is to move vaccines or to move human beings and their supplies.

I saw a C-130 this morning on an unusual route. Particularly odd for a Wednesday.

Anybody have better insight?

[lyle]

https://www.outkick.com/vanderbilt-womens-basketball-will-remain-in-the-locker-room-for-the-national-anthem-all-season/

Dammit. How can I stop watching in protest when I’ve never watched much more than a millisecond of women’s b-ball? Okay, I’ll try to cut it down to a nanosecond...😬

[Melinda]

Hump Day Humor::

Chad Pergram
@ChadPergram
From colleague Mike Emanuel Pelosi spox on Swalwell: McCarthy is trying to distract from..kowtowing to QAnon,..The Speaker has full confidence in Congressman Swalwell’s service in the Congress and on the Intelligence Committee.

https://twitter.com/ChadPergram/status/1336722294421532672

WE are the system. @wakeywakey16
4m
Replying to @ChadPergram

Well yeah, she wouldn’t keep him around if he wasn’t so serviceable.

https://twitter.com/wakeywakey16/status/1336723657184382978

[Jane]

I’m not sure the SC is unwilling or reluctant. I suspect they are waiting for the right case, where they can follow the law rather than take a side. The Texas case may be it. One can dream!

[Jim Eagle]

We get a lot of choopers fly by where I am. Mostly MH-60 Seahawks out of Jax NAS but lately we are also getting fleets of Chinook's (the twin rotor, fore and aft) troop and cargo transports. Somethings up plus local JAX radio keeps reminding people that they will hear gunfire, and cannon fire out of JAX NAS but not to be alarmed. Just practice. Yeah but for what?

[Melinda]

Institutionalizing Grift will now be encouraged:

POLITICS
SPAC with ties to Biden Cabinet picks sees surge in support from Wall Street after offering ‘access’

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/09/spac-with-ties-to-biden-cabinet-picks-sees-surge-in-wall-street-support.html

[Melinda]

People with 'significant' food or medicine allergies are urged NOT to have Pfizer shot after two UK healthcare workers suffer 'anaphylactic reaction'. So, was Fauci right about Britain rushing its approval?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9034479/Allergy-risk-Pfizer-jab-ahead-key-FDA-meeting-tomorrow.html

[lyle]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democratic-gretchen-whitmer-co-chair-joe-biden-inauguration

A scrunt for a scrunt.

[Melinda]

Live Ammo practice this AM at Great Lakes. A LOT of rifles practicing. Most unusual.

[henry]

Openly for sale.

@schwartzbnbc

NEW: After a pitch featuring special access, a SPAC with ties to Biden cabinet picks is seeing a surge in Wall Street investments
- NEW RECORDS: Citadel and Millennium each have an over 5% ownership stake
-Blinken + Austin leaders of affiliated firm

https://twitter.com/schwartzbcnbc/status/1336705066162663426?s=21

[Barbara]

With apologies to Jesse Unruh, Money is the mother's milk of treason.

[Narciso]

So does that make wynken or nod.

[lyle]

Our little tyrants, otherwise known as Central Health District, were meeting last night via Zoom to plan an even more tyrannical lockdown when it was shut down due to “public health danger” because—please sit down—there were protesters outside two of their homes.

[Narciso]

Notice anything

https://hedgefollow.com/funds/Citadel+Advisors

[Narciso]

Does ankara have a node:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Doranimated?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

[Narciso]

A good start

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-12-08/australia-passes-law-that-can-scrap-china-belt-and-road-accords

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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7m
If somebody cheated in the Election, which the Democrats did, why wouldn’t the Election be immediately overturned? How can a Country be run like this?

[rse]

We can add dobbins to list of unusual activity. Less a matter of volume than not the aircraft I would typically hear or see.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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2m
At 10:00 P.M. on Election Evening, we were at 97% win with the so-called “bookies”.

[Rocco]

From TDW

https://thedonald.win/p/11QlYWg0bA/82nd-airborne-says-a-storm-is-co/c/

[Rocco]

General Flynn gives Durham a boot in the ass.

https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/general-flynn-raises-hell-with-maria/

[MissMarple2]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/pompeo-accuses-us-university-of-abandoning-student-in-reeducation-camp

Headline: Pompeo accuses US university of abandoning student in reeducation camp

[Threadkiller]

Wood’s role is to whip the rally goers into lean mean CWII fighting machines.

He and his crack team of Twit-nonymous experts are the equivalent of the “Fight! Fight!!” nerds that wandered the halls of some derelict high school hoping to stir up chaos.

[clarice]

https://www.theepochtimes.com/this-election-doesnt-pass-the-smell-test_3609435.html?utm_source=partner

[Narciso]

As opposed to what tk

https://mobile.twitter.com/Jkylebass/status/1336140770257072129

[Threadkiller]

I will be taking another intermittent hiatus. The ultrasound results weren’t favorable for my pup. A large tumor extends from his stomach to his intestine. He is finally rejecting all forms of food. Vet said it would about kill him to perform surgery. She has him on a steroid to ease the inflammation.

Thanks again for everyones concern. If you don’t see me writing acknowledgment of you comments, please know that I will read everyone and reflect on how grateful I am for this family.

TK

[Narciso]

This davinci coast/assassins creed tangent is silly.

[Narciso]

So sorry to here that tk

[Threadkiller]

As opposed to what tk

As opposed to an Article III Kraken.

[Threadkiller]

Thanks Narc.

Gotta run.

[James D.]

I’m so sorry to hear that, tk.

[Rocco]

If you FF to 1:06:00, you can hear Lin Wood ask us to pledge our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. Call me crazy but it sure sounds like he's trying to incite rile up the crowd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs1r_eXuspM

[Rocco]

Prayers Tk

[Narciso]

Nothing to see here

https://mobile.twitter.com/UncleGulag/status/1336531504869076993

[jimmyk]

Sorry tk.

[Narciso]

Surprise

https://mobile.twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1336722090582405129

[lyle]

So sorry, TK. God bless you and your pup.

[Rocco]

We need a nickname for Swalwell like Eric The Red or Me So Horny Swalwell.

[Dave (in MA)]

Haven't checked yet, but:
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/419145/#comment-5182836596

"YouTube has taken down Right Side Broadcasting for coverage of election controversy..."

[Narciso]

Dim sum or szechuan swallwell

[Narciso]

It was mutual

https://mobile.twitter.com/RSBNetwork/status/1336708080491520006

[hrtshpdbox]

Sorry about your pup, tk.

[clarice]

So sorry, TK

[Dave (in MA)]

Best wishes, TK.

[henry]

The fraud machine gets new fuel.

@paulwsj

Immigrant children and families are again heading north to the U.S.-Mexico border—signaling the possibility of a humanitarian crisis and early challenge for the Biden administration - latest from @acaldwellwsj & @MHackman

[Dave (in MA)]

It was mutual

So they're using two other branches of the Democrat Ministry of Truth to replace the one that has decided to censor them... I'm sure that'll work out just fine.

[Captain Hate]

Condolences on your dog, TK.

[Marlene]

TK, so sorry about your dog.

[Jim Eagle]

rse,

Dobbins is an Air Force Reserve Base, so if you are seeing more activity than normal its another indicator that something is up. Plus it also has units from all services plus Coast Guard, IIRC.

[Old Lurker]

I am sorry too, TK.

[henry]

Sorry for the pup, TK.

[henry]

WI ANG lost an F16 over the UP last night. Activity all over.

[Sable1]

So sorry,TK.

[Melinda]

Prayers to you, your family, and your pup, TK.

[Neo]

A capitalist walked into a bar, sat down between Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders. Just then the 10 o’clock news came on. The lead story was of a man on a ledge of a skyscraper preparing to commit suicide by jumping off of it. Bernie looked at the capitalist and said, “You think he’ll jump?” The capitalist replied, “Yep. I bet he will.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie both shot back, “Well, we bet that he won’t.” The capitalist put 10 bucks on the bar, said, “You’re on.” Just as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders placed their money on the bar, the guy did a swan dive off the building. He took a plunge toward room temperature. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie were very upset, bitterly, bitterly tried not to hand their money over to the capitalist. They didn’t want to do it. They felt somehow they had been cheated, screwed, tricked.

With a slight smile, the capitalist said, “Look. I can’t take your money. Keep your money. I saw this earlier on the 5 o’clock news, and I knew the guy jumped. It’s the 10 o’clock news. It happened earlier today. I’ve already seen this.” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shot back, “Well, we saw it, too, but we didn’t think he’d do it again.”

[Jim Eagle]

My 3 guesses:

1. Planned joint forces activity (war gaming).

2. Alert status for some threat our G2 calculated.

3. Possibility of martial law being declared if insurrection depending on severity of No.2.

When I did my 10 years Reserve duty it was in Air Intel at Bolling Field. Being adjacent to DC, we always practiced 2 & 3 above.

[Captain Hate]

Neo with the timely fart in the elevator.

[Robin, eff 'em all]

So sorry about your Aussie, TK. Shepherds make such great companions.

[Jane]

TK

I’m so so sorry.

[Dave (in MA)]

A capitalist walked into a bar, sat down between Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders.

Bernie said, "Buy us a round."

[Jane]

Neo,

You made me
Laugh after TK made me cry . Thank
You

[JohnH]

Lots of very loud, deep rumbles from aircraft last night probably out of Truax (Dane County). Usually they are good about providing training times in advance but nothing about last night.

[henry]

JohnH, the F16 that crashed last night was out of Truax.

JiB, which side is the military going to enforce martial law for, Theif-elect Biden?

[Captain Hate]

An emotional Idaho health official had to abruptly leave a Zoom meeting where they were voting on a local mask mandate after her 12-year-old son called to say dozens of armed anti-mask protesters were surrounding her home and banging on the door.

Ada County Commissioner Diana Lachiondo (left) tearfully interrupted the Central District Health's online board meeting on Tuesday night, saying that the anti-mask protesters were outside her home.

Lachiondo, who was at her office at the Ada County Courthouse, initially excused herself so she could call police.

She interrupted again just moments later saying she had to rush home to be with her son. The board had been expected to vote on a four-county mask mandate in Idaho's most populated region.

The Boise Police Department later confirmed that anti-mask protesters had gathered outside at least three board members' homes, as well as the health department building (right), while the meeting was underway.

Posted by: will choose a nic later at December 09, 2020 02:30 PM (GIeIM)

[Captain Hate]

off

[Rocco]

The capitalist offered to buy Bernie and AOC a drink so when the barkeep asked them what they wanted they answered vinegar and water.

[Melinda]

MI Attorney Gives Incredible Behind The Scenes Account Of Forensic Examination of 16 Dominion Machines In Antrim County

https://100percentfedup.com/mi-attorney-gives-incredible-behind-the-scenes-account-of-forensic-examination-of-16-dominion-machines-in-antrim-county/

[lyle]

Nice Neo, CH! 😉

[lyle]

Heh™ Rocco.

[henry]

@cnbcnow

BREAKING: FTC and group of 48 states launch antitrust lawsuits against Facebook

[Captain Hate]

Hey, I provided slightly more detail.

[Dave (in MA)]

Please do not spread this photo of Fidel Castro speaking at Raphael Warnock's church pic.twitter.com/X3gZZIU9tk

— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) December 9, 2020

[lyle]

Well, there’s that...

[Jim Eagle]

Any electro/mechanical device such as a voting machine with a USB port and connected to the internet is 100% susceptible to fraud. Any 12 year old who can code can also fix those machines for any candidate.

I am surprised that there has been less court and legislative action to do a forensic on them. Just like anything on your hard-drive you think you have erased, they can still find what you erased.

[lyle]

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/12/08/david-brooks-weighs-in-on-rural-americans-who-have-no-contact-with-the-expert-class-living-in-thriving-blue-cities/

Thriving blue cities, people!

[Dave (in MA)]

Just as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders placed their money on the bar

Sometimes a certain level of suspension of disbelief on the part of the audience is needed when a joke is being told.

[Jim Eagle]

Henry,

US Armed Forces are majority GOP or rather conservative constitutionalists.

It may be changing since they lowered the entrance standards going to all-volunteer.

[Melinda]

JiB-

Not if you wipe it with a cloth! You know that's true!

[MissMarple2]

TK,

I am so sorry I was gone when you posted your sad news. I will be praying for your Aussie, you, and your family.

[Narciso]

So says szechuan swallwell

http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=391620

[Jim Eagle]

Go ahead and wipe it with a cloth, Mel. It probably needs a good cleaning:)

BTW, my son, Frederick, besides learning "cliff rescue & life boatmanship" is also building a work shed using particle board walls, corrugated steel roofing and bricked exterior. Co-curricular at Atlantic College.

He is printing up business cards as a qualified handy-man for the summer.

[Buckeye]

So sorry to read of the poor prognosis for your pup TK.