The Day in Posts 5/23
The Day in Posts 5/23
Trump rocks the Bronx, China gets set to invade Taiwan, House bans CBDC, Interest on the debt surpasses defense spending, DEI docs in CA, Haaretz opinion calls for Netanyahu arrest, memes & more!
The Meme of the Day is pretty much how I feel reading the news some days:
Not a lot of happiness outside the Bronx today, especially since China seems to be gearing up to move on Taiwan—lots on that below, none of it from the mainstream media. It’s been an interesting day, and who knows what the weekend will bring?
The Top 5 Posts:
Link. Crowd estimates are for 10,000+ with 120,000 watching via RSBN stream. Videos show a very diverse, high energy crowd. AOC is probably loosing her tiny (alleged) mind right about now. Meanwhile, old Joe was looking especially demented during today’s events with the President of Kenya. 🤦♂️
Link Is it any wonder Bibi & his cabinet don’t like Haaretz? There have already been calls to shut it down by Likud members for being insufficiently pro-Israel (it’s an Israeli newspaper). I wonder how long it will be before it gets the sane treatment Al Jazeera and the AP got?
Link with video of the Chinese robodog.
Honorable Mention:
Watch the mad crowds gathering to see President Trump in the Bronx
You have to watch it, just for the yellow tape outfit, if nothing else.
Link Dementia is a horrible disease.
Watch yet another shining example of the Biden Regime’s policies in action.
MEANWHILE, just off the coast of our principle source for cutting-edge semiconductors & other high-tech toys:
This is what China is doing to Taiwan. Bangladesh News 24 is calling it “punishment drills” in response to ‘separatist activity.” The little red boats & planes are the CCP’s.
Link. I’m sure this is nothing, because Blinkin asked Xi nicely not to invade Taiwan recently. Just like he asked Xi not to be friendly with Putin (Xi & Putin had a grand time & hugged as Cousin Vlad was leaving). I’m sure Biden’s obvious weakness & three years of global bungling has NOTHING to do with all this. Oddly enough, it’s barely even getting mentioned in the Mockingbird media…🤔
Link. Now keep scrolling to see China’s response:
Link to thread with a possible China vs Taiwan scenario. It begins from a premise that it would begin similarly to the current "Joint Sword 2024A" exercises and ultimately would devolve into a war of attrition which, due to its proximity to its factories and supply lines, China will win. A land invasion isn’t likely, mainly because it wouldn’t be needed. A naval blockade would be all that’s needed to being Taiwan to its knees.
Part of a significant thread on just what a China/Taiwan conflict might involve. TLDR: Taiwan’s Plan C, D, E, F…are basically to dig in & try to hold out until the US arrives. In other words, they’re screwed. One hypersonic missile popping one US carrier and the Navy will run screaming like little drag queens back to Pearl. Maybe San Diego. That’s been accepted for years, and recent Navy (un)readiness reports aren’t exactly reassuring. When Taiwan falls, hope you don’t need a new computer or iPhone. Or parts for any appliance less than 10 years old. Ditto cars, trucks, tractors…. Get the picture?
Of course, both of these scenarios could be wrong—I hope they are. It may just be sabre-rattling…but I don’t think so. Xi has domestic problems that annexing Taiwan would neatly paper over, and he knows he’ll never get a better chance than now. The US military is at its weakest in ages, both in numbers & readiness (but it is the third largest employer of trans people! Whee!) and Biden is, well, Biden. Blinkin is a non-entity, Harris is worse, Miley has cancer, the warehouses have been emptied into Ukraine, US industrial production is in the toilet, and you can’t fight a war with derivatives and mortgage-backed securities. Service economies don’t win wars, especially when there are unknown numbers of spies & saboteurs who’ve infiltrated and are raising merry hell with your infrastructure.
I honestly done see much to be optimistic about here.
Russia offers 500 POWs, Zelenskyy only wants 38, mostly Azov Battalion Nazis. 🤔 This is what all those Congresscum were waving those 🇺🇦 flags for. Feel free to remind people of that.
Well, well, well. Into the memory hole it goes. And all on one particular topic 🤔
Link to this mind-blowing post and article. I wish I could say this was a new development and only in California, but it’s not. This has been going on for decades with perfectly predictable results. I’ve seen it, and been part of a program trying to make silk purses out of sow’s ears. Fortunately, most of the ones who shouldn’t have been allowed into med school in the first place were eventually weeded out, but I’ve always thought it was a tremendous waste of time and energy for all concerned. It also casts dispersions on those minority applicants, students, and residents who are truly outstanding, and make fantastic doctors. I’ve been blessed to know quite a few of them over the years. The bottom line is that affirmative action or DEI or whatever we’re going to call it next week doesn’t really help anyone – it can’t. The sooner we all realize that, the better off we’ll be.
Link Short version: Windows will screenshot your work every two minutes and store it on device in an allegedly secure area that can only be accessed by someone with access to the device. Meaning, when the alphabets send the SWAT team in to raid you and take your stuff, they’ll be able to see everything that you looked at since this “feature” was activated. Bought a Bible online? Went to a conservative website? Checked Bass Pro Shop to see if anything cool is on sale? Screenshots of that will prove to the Alphabets that you, Sir or Madame, are indeed a domestic terrorist, and a Threat To Our Democracy(tm). What could possibly be wrong with that? 🤔
Link. Grok’s not there yet, but it’s already significantly less heinously woke than the others. I know some of you just wish AI would go away—tough. I wish I had a pony. Neither one is going to happen.
And the Snark perfectly illustrates just what kinds of things a major American company focuses on these days:
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