Etiquette



DP Etiquette

First rule: Don't be a jackass. Most people are good.

Other rules: Do not attack or insult people you disagree with. Engage with facts, logic and beliefs. Out of respect for others, please provide some sources for the facts and truths you rely on if you are asked for that. If emotion is getting out of hand, get it back in hand. To limit dehumanizing people, don't call people or whole groups of people disrespectful names, e.g., stupid, dumb or liar. Insulting people is counterproductive to rational discussion. Insult makes people angry and defensive. All points of view are welcome, right, center, left and elsewhere. Just disagree, but don't be belligerent or reject inconvenient facts, truths or defensible reasoning.

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Biden campaign slams DJT (finally); Regarding DJT’s lies & slanders campaign

Maybe months of widespread criticism of Biden’s feeble campaign tactics is starting to sink in. His campaign released this statement recently.


That is starting to get to the point. Let’s see if this continues or if it is just a one-off fluke. 
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Meanwhile, DJT’s campaign of lies and slanders is firing on all 3⅓ cylinders. MTN (Meidas Touch News) reports that he is taking published news items from various sources, deleting inconvenient bits, and then reposting the whitewashed article on Lies Antisocial. The example MTN cites is an article from the National Review, which is sympathetic to DJT:
The article covered District Attorney Alvin Braggs’ prosecution of Trump, accusing Bragg of manipulating business records. It’s ironic that Trump is manipulating coverage of this topic. The National Review is right leaning and supports DJT, but Trump nonetheless deleted many inconvenient facts from the piece. Here’s a summary of the unfavorable items that DJT deleted from the National Review article (the original NR article is here):

1. Stormy Daniels claim of an affair with Trump is credible

2. Trump's bookkeeping “might indeed have been a minor crime”

3. Federal prosecutors probably believe Trump’s NDA was “motivated by his election prospects”

4. The hush money “expenditure [is] within the coverage of federal campaign-finance law”

5. An admission that “Trump booked” the hush money payment “as if it had been for a different purpose”

6. Trump's payment to then lawyer Michael Cohen “significantly exceeded the $130,000 loan amount”

7. Trump insisting that he was paying Cohen for legal services "would muddy the water"

8. Trump’s Access Hollywood tape will be heard a evidence

9. Trump boasted “about being sexually aggressive with women” in the Access Hollywood tape

10. Trump wanted to cover up his “unsavory disclosures of a sexual nature” after the Access Hollywood tape story broke “about a month before Election Day”

11. Trump’s National Enquirer friends alerted Cohen to Stormy Daniels “demand to be paid for her silence”

12. Trump wanted to delay payment hoping Election Day would pass and he could pay less, but pressure from Daniels’ lawyer remained

13. Cohen paid Stormy Daniels on October 26 “after getting assurance that Trump would pay him back post-election”

14. Trump’s affair with Playboy model Karen McDougal and subsequent effort to buy McDougal’s silence will be used as evidence against Trump 

15. Trump’s effort to payoff a Trump Tower doorman who claimed “that Trump fathered a child out of wedlock in the 1980s”

16. Bragg claims these payoffs are campaign expenditures that Trump was attempting to hide

17. Bragg is attempting to prove Trump committed a felony under New York’s business records falsification provision and acted with “an intent to defraud” which included “an intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the admission thereof”
For just one article, that is a heck of a lot of whitewashing! Many gallons of paint there. MTN asserts that this is the 3rd whitewashed article that it found on Lies Antisocial so far in March. Lies and deceit are now fully normalized and morally accepted by America's radical right authoritarian wealth and power movement. Will that same poison overwhelm all other places in America? Probably not, but the impact of increasing blatancy of lies and deceit will be interesting to watch.  
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Israel continues to slowly absorb Palestine by taking land. The WaPo reports:
Israel announces largest West Bank land seizure
since 1993 during Blinken visit

Israel’s far-right [authoritarian] finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, announced the seizure of 10 square kilometers (3.8 square miles) of Palestinian territory in the West Bank on Friday. The move marks the single largest land seizure by the Israeli government since the 1993 Oslo accords, according to Peace Now, a settlement watchdog group.

Israeli settlements in the West Bank are considered illegal under international law. Still, Israel has used land orders like the one issued Friday to gain control over 16 percent of Palestinian-controlled lands in the West Bank.

More than 40 percent of the West Bank is under the control of Israeli settlers, according to the Israel-based rights group B’Tselem, and more than half-a-million Jewish residents now live in the West Bank. Israel’s government has also used incentive programs to move Jewish residents into West Bank settlements, where more than 200 settlements and unofficial outposts have fractured the Palestinian territory and displaced Palestinian residents. In recent years, the Housing Ministry has offered subsidized apartments in the West Bank through a lottery system.

This data does not make sense to me because my  
understanding was that Israel has assimilated a lot more 
than a mere 38 sq kilometers 

Palestinians have little ability to stop the land transfers. After the 1967 war, Israel issued a military order that stopped the process of land registration across the West Bank. Now families lack the paperwork to prove that they have private ownership over their land. And tax records, the only other evidence of West Bank property rights, are not accepted by Israeli authorities.
If West Bank Palestinians cannot prove they own their own land, Israel would seem to be in a position to keep absorbing land until all of it is Israeli. The next step would be ethnic cleansing of the West Bank or something worse.

Monday, March 25, 2024

News bit: Once again, DJT gets off the hook as US justice system collapses

The Hill reports:
Appeals court pauses $464M judgment in Trump’s 
New York fraud case

A New York appeals court on Monday temporarily stopped the clock on the looming enforcement of a multimillion-dollar judgment against former President Trump and his company over deceitful business practices.

In a terse order, a five-judge state appeals court panel said it would pause the enforcement of the $464 million judgment against Trump, the Trump Organization and top executives, plus interest, if within 10 days they post a $175 million bond.  
New York Attorney General Letitia James’s office had urged the state appeals court to make Trump put up a full bond before pausing the eye-popping judgment.

The office argued that there is no rule limiting Trump to a single bond from a single surety for the full judgment amount. Instead, he could seek several bonds to limit “any individual surety’s risk” and still post the full amount, they said.

The appeals court order Monday also paused the enforcement of other penalties, including those barring Trump and top executives from serving in top leadership positions in New York businesses for several years.
What can one say? It looks increasingly likely that DJT will never face any serious consequences for his treason and crimes. Maybe he will get a wrist slap or two and a stern talking to, but that is about all.


Q: Is the US system of justice (i) in full-blown collapse or close to it, (ii) just fine and dandy or close to fine and dandy, or (iii) something in between?

Going woke, one mind at a time; CN hate & lies du jour; A restraint on social media poison?

Several sources are reporting that US senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) has gone woke about DJT. CNN reports:
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, aghast at Donald Trump’s candidacy and the direction of her party, won’t rule out bolting from the GOP.

The veteran Alaska Republican, one of seven Republicans who voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial amid the aftermath of January 6, 2021, is done with the former president and said she “absolutely” would not vote for him.

“I wish that as Republicans, we had … a nominee that I could get behind,” Murkowski told CNN. “I certainly can’t get behind Donald Trump.”
Wow, it took her this long to see the blatantly obvious? Bravo Lisa, do it again! (sarcasm)

If I recall right, Murkowski, along with Maine senator Susan Collins, were reassured by DJT’s morally rotted Supreme Court nominees that abortion rights protected by Roe v. Wade would remain viable law. At the time, I thought, OMG!! How freaking blind, clueless and tribal are these people, or are they cynical liars, just plain stupid or some combination? At the time, cynical liar seemed to be the single best explanation. Now maybe the best explanation is blind, clueless and tribal coupled with stupid. 

That is the problem with trying to get into the minds of people doing politics. They lie as easily as they breathe. Some of them are shockingly ignorant to the point of being literally stupid. Oh well, the quest for insight and knowledge continues.
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Christian nationalism (CN). What can one say. Sacred CN poison, hate, bigotry, mendacity, hypocrisy, corruption, sexual perversions (yup, I said it -- and do mean perversions) and lust for Christian Sharia theocracy are all out in the open now. Most everyone can see it for what it is. Well, maybe not Murkowski, Collins and the clueless. Who knows what they can see, if much of anything. 

Mediaite reportsKellyanne Conway Claims Democrats Are ‘Hostile to Religion’ and Are ‘Jogging and Having Brunch’ Instead of Attending Church -- Fox News contributor Kellyanne Conway said Democrats are hemorrhaging non-White voters thanks in large part to their “hostility to religion.” “Now, the other thing that’s so interesting about this – particularly with the minority groups, Kellyanne – there’s a cultural point here,” host Larry Kudlow said. “They’re tired of the Democrats’ woke[ness] and cancel culture and no Americana, no American history, and so forth. That whole story has backfired on Democrats. And these are working folks, right? These are Latinos, these are African Americans.”

As time passes, I increasingly want to cancel (i) Faux News lies and slanders, (ii) fake CN American history, and (iii) TTKP (Trump Tyranny & Kleptocracy Party) lies, sleaze & slanders.

CN operatives are hypocrites. They are deeply insulting, shamelessly mendacious and profoundly threatening to normal Americans, including real Christians. They have declared all-out war on respect for us regular people, and on truth, reason, our democracy and our civil liberties. I want all of their tax breaks revoked.
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Reuters reports about a possible private sector-imposed restraint on the lies, slanders, crackpot conspiracy theories and the like on the Reddit social media platform. This one is a puzzler. Reuters reports:
Reddit may need to ramp up spending on 
content moderation, analysts say

Reddit will need to spend heavily on content moderation as it may face greater scrutiny as a public company, analysts said, threatening its longstanding policy of relying on an army of volunteers to maintain order on its platform.

The newly listed company warned in its initial public offering (IPO) paperwork that its unique approach to content moderation can sometimes subject it to disruptions like in 2023, when several moderators protested against its decision to charge third-party app developers for access to its data.

Depending on volunteers is not sustainable, given the regulatory scrutiny that the company will now face, said Julian Klymochko, CEO of alternative investment solutions firm Accelerate Financial Technologies.

“It's like relying on unpaid labor when the company has nearly a billion dollars in revenue,” he added. Reddit reported revenue of $804 million in 2023, according to an earlier filing. 
Reddit will need to make substantial investments in trust and safety, which could lead to a “dramatic” rise in expenses, Klymochko said.  
A spokesperson for Reddit said that alongside moderators, it also had robust internal safety teams, which used a combination of artificial intelligence, machine learning and human review to enforce its content policy.  
The company would need to ramp up spending on anti-misinformation efforts especially as the U.S. prepares for the presidential election later this year.
If Reddit needs to limit toxic content to keep advertisers, why doesn’t that same pressure apply to X, Facebook, YouTube, DJT’s Lies Antisocial” and other social media platforms? It is possible there is a limit to the darkness, immorality and evil that advertisers will tolerate? This baffles me. Maybe there is a ray of hope somewhere in the toxic mess called social media. 

Sunday, March 24, 2024

APOCALYPSE NOW!

 

The Great Tribulation, Fourth Turning, Seventh Seal or All 3

APRIL 2024: All the Signs and Omens point
to the Commencement of the End Times
Donald Trump

Donald Trump was born on June 14, 1946—the night of a total lunar eclipse. Both his temperament and the way he projects publicly reflects the astrological affects of such an afflicted birthday chart.


Joe Biden

Joe Biden’s birth chart shows that he has 4 planets (Sun, Mercury, Venus, & Mars) in Scorpio as follows.  He also has two planets in Gemini.

These planet placements and other key configurations and transits reveal a character who will say and do anything — ANYTHING — whatsoever to advance his very narrow and self-interested scorpionic [SATANIC] agenda.

First, look at how the communist-run Democrat Party completely destroyed Trump’s presidency at every turn.

Then consider the COVID-19 biowar waged against the American people in 2020, as well as the weaponized Covid ‘vaccines’ since the end of that same year.  The Covid killshots, clotshots and cancershots will be killing Americans for decades to come.

Then there was the most brazenly stolen POTUS election in November of that same year followed by the COINTELPRO-staged J6 entrapment scheme of 2021 run by the U.S. Intelligence Community.

However, what we are seeing with the April 8th total solar eclipse is a withering campaign of predictive programming and social engineering the likes of which the US citizenry has never been exposed to.  The entire Mainstream Media has never been so determined to get every single American outside to watch this quite dramatic daytime blocking of the solar rays.  Remember the dark side knows the secret workings of astrology, numerology, alchemy, geomancy and all the other occult arts and sciences.

Hence, TPTB really want everyone on planet Earth staring at this eclipse for as long as possible as it will greatly facilitate the next phase of their New World Order implementation plan and especially the long planned Great Reset.

Lastly, as if that’s not enough to deal with, there is also the 2024 return of the ‘horned’ comet 12P/Pons-Brooks also known as the Devil’s comet.  In fact, this comet is forecast to reach the brightest point in its 2024 apparition on 21 April, which makes for an exceptionally interesting and explosive month of April.