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2 hours ago, Steve Thomas said:
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“A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.”
I wonder if Trump is going to form a new country, and what he will call it.
Steve Thomas
In the last week alone, Trump's already "MOST U.S. DEMOCRACY AND CONSTITUTION VIOLATING, THREATENING AND ATTACKING PRESIDENT EVER" legacy
was etched into Mount Rushmore sized stone even deeper than before...if that is imaginable and possible with the following trifecta of Trump's outrageously terrible actions:
His public displayed dinner at his personal home with two of the most well known American Democracy dumb and Jewish holocaust truth denying and defiling characters one could imagine.
Next comes Trump's nationally reported outrageous comments suggesting changing our constitution because he feels he was defrauded of the presidency under it's current form and implementation.
And thirdly, a loss of the most important U.S. Senate race in years by the Republicans because of Trump's inane pick for the Republican candidacy would cap this last week's disastrous Trump legacy pounding to an epic degree.
The man simply can't help himself.
He lives in a self-serving and self-aggrandizing and promoting delusional bubble so out of touch with reality it's scary...imo anyways.
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1 hour ago, Cliff Varnell said:
It was Trump who gave the rich a 6% tax cut and everyone else 0.5%.
Says it all.
The wealthy of America protecting and even enhancing their wealth.
The lower 75% can fight over the crumbs.
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62 Things Trump Did That You Forgot About To Preserve Your Sanity
Donald Trump's running for president again, so you can look forward to more of his "fun" ideas — like the time he tried to buy Greenland.Dec 3, 2022, 08:00 AM ESTDonald Trump has returned to the news cycle amid a deluge of stories about a dinner meeting he hosted with a white supremacist and Ye, the rapper previously known as Kanye West.
It’s a reminder of the chaotic years of his presidency, as well as a foreboding ― though hopefully instructive ― warning about how he would wield power if elected again.
If past is prologue, let’s take a moment to remember just how unsettling things got during the Trump administration, with this not-even-remotely-exhaustive list of weird and bad stuff he attempted while in office:
- Tried to buy Greenland.
- Wanted to nuke hurricanes.
- Doctored a hurricane forecast map with a Sharpie.
- Attempted a coup to stay in power.
- Absconded with thousands of classified documents, lied about it and refused to give them back when the feds asked nicely.
- Sent unidentified federal officers to Portland, Oregon, to abduct protesters and spark a conflagration that could be used as a pretense for implementing martial law.
- Ordered peaceful protesters tear-gassed so he could pose for a photo-op with a Bible outside a church.
- Tried to blackmail Ukraine into manufacturing dirt for his 2020 campaign.
- Asked Russia for help in his 2016 campaign — and got it.
- Had a weird affinity for Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Remember the Helsinki summit?)
- Invited Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to an in-person meeting in the Oval Office, where he accidentally revealed top-secret intelligence.
- Wanted to withdraw the U.S. from NATO.
- Separated migrant parents from their children, locked the kids in cages and then failed to reunite them.
- Insisted that “raking” would prevent forest fires because “you’ve got to take care of the floors. You know the floors of the forest, very important.”
- Covered for Saudi Arabia after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the gruesome murder and dismemberment of a U.S. journalist with a bone saw. (Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, owes Saudi Arabia $2 billion, and the crown prince has reportedly bragged about having Kushner “in his pocket.”)
- Intervened to get Kushner top-secret clearance after he was denied over concerns about foreign influence.
- Put Kushner in charge of Middle East peace.
- Embraced rampant nepotism.
- Touted injecting disinfectant as a COVID-19 cure.
- Touted ultraviolet light as a COVID-19 cure.
- Touted hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 cure.
- Touted ivermectin as a COVID-19 cure.
- Told people not to wear face masks to cut down the spread of COVID-19, even though they work.
- Actively discouraged COVID-19 testing.
- Refused to send federal aid to New York City amid the first COVID-19 wave because the virus was hitting Democratic-voting states hardest.
- “Jokingly” said on multiple occasions that he deserved to be president for more than two terms.
- Thought climate change was a Chinese hoax.
- Built an incomplete border wall that doesn’t work, wasn’t needed and wasn’t paid for by Mexico.
- Started a trade war with China that mainly hurt U.S. consumers.
- Threw food when angry.
- Saw no problem with his vice president potentially being hanged by a violent mob he’d summoned and sent to the U.S. Capitol to disrupt the peaceful transition of power.
- Stared directly at the sun.
Thought people needed an ID to buy cereal.- Fired James Comey as FBI director because he didn’t like the bureau investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election. (Later, it was revealed that Trump’s campaign manager gave detailed internal polling data to a Russian intelligence agent.)
- Was a “xxxxing moron,” according to Rex Tillerson, his secretary of state.
- Fired the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s China-based pandemic response team — and then when a pandemic happened years later, said, “I don’t take responsibility at all” for COVID-19.
- Repeatedly embraced racism.
- Thought repeating “person, woman, man, camera, TV” would assure Americans of his mental stability.
- Tweeted literal gibberish — a lot.
- Lied all the time. (And still does.)
- Openly embraced and amplified QAnon conspiracy theories.
- Got impeached twice.
- Passed huge tax cuts for wealthy corporations ― and massively grew the national debt.
- Flip-flopped on whether the White House had ordered the USS John McCain be hidden so he wouldn’t get mad. (It did.)
- Called American military members who died in the line of duty “losers” and “suckers.”
- Claimed to have bone spurs to get out of military service.
- Binge-watched Fox News when he should have been working.
- Played so, so much golf.
- Raked in cash from foreign interests at his Washington hotel in an operation sometimes described as the “epicenter” of a corrupt presidency.
- Held a rally that may have led to the death of Herman Cain.
- Allegedly directed his lawyer to commit campaign fraud to cover up that Trump cheated on his wife after she had recently given birth.
- Was accused of sexual misconduct by more than two dozen women.
- Dismissed any bad news about himself as “fake.”
- Lied about voluntarily turning over his tax returns.
- Ate well-done steak — with ketchup.
- Described white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, as “very fine people.”
- Grossly abused the presidential pardon on his way out the door.
- Used private communication services extensively after arguing that Hillary Clinton should be jailed for having a private email server.
- Refused to release White House visitor logs.
- Went to Puerto Rico and threw paper towels at people desperate for actual hurricane aid.
- Discouraged exercise because he believes bodies are like batteries, with a finite amount of energy.
- Tried to trick the parents of the young British man ( killed when an American service member's wife drove on the wrong side of the road there and hit him head-on) into a photo op which he thought would make him seem like a greatly skilled and soothing arbitrator who resolved the issue.
- The parents caught on to this and feeling offended refused to be used like that and immediately left the White House and flew back to England.
- Went with Melania to the World Series ball game and when introduced, the Trump "LOSER - LOSER - LOSER" yelling and booing was so loud the networks had to pan away and lower the volume on the broadcast.
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Can anyone bring back the pictures of the tall, thin, flat cap hat wearing, umbrella man seat mate black man walking around the knoll seconds after the shooting which clearly shows a bulge in his back coat or upper pants area?
My recollection was you could clearly see an unusual and pronounced protrusion from his backside which could not have been simple folds of the jacket or shadows.
Also, not one person to this day has ever come forward to identify this first shot close up sidewalk JFK hand and arm waving, 24 inch close sitting next to Umbrella man, aimless running around, Morgan Freeman look-alike fellow in 59 years?
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Still trying to downsize my next photo to be able to post it. Despite help from a member I just can't seem to figure out how to do this.
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1 hour ago, Miles Massicotte said:
Yes. The fact that an interrogation of a suspect for the biggest political assassination in history wasn't taped is still something that people should be upset about.
"Upset about?"
Outrageously suspicious about.
Not doing so was so illogically and professionally irresponsible it was absurd.
One of the most powerful dynamics in the deserved suspicion equation.
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Unbelievable that Oswald wasn't taped in his DPD interrogations.
Without a stenographer present and nothing tape recorded all we have are Fritz's notes?
Oswald on Ruth Paine ..."Don't try to pull her into this." ?
Oswald ... "now everyone will know who I am." ?
At least Oswald's comment "I am just a patsy" was officially recorded and heard worldwide. We "know" he said this.
Did the DPD tape record Lee O. and his brother Robert's jail house conversation? If they did, that proves they had the equipment on hand to do so.
Fritz interrogation style was generally not to have them tape recorded?
So he and his men could get away with any abuse in that process without a record of them doing so?
Oswald was screwed in the hands of the DPD. No legal counsel for him at any point?
Then the ultimate screwing...murdered in their custody right in their own building?
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On 11/8/2022 at 1:20 PM, James DiEugenio said:
Let us line it all up to see the evidence plainly.
1. The Marine Oswald, a radar operator, begins to "teach himself Russian". One of the most difficult languages to learn.
2. He takes a Russian test, in which he gets about half of the queries correct.
3. Oswald applies for a hardship discharge, which are hard to get. The only reason for this could be that his mom had an accident at work. Which disrupted her sinuses.
4. Oswald continues to study Russian. In fact when Dan Campbell goes to the base for rifle instruction, he missed his plane, so he was told to sleep in Oswald's bunk. The C. O. said, the guy misses a lot of days.
5. Oswald meets with a relative of a colleague, Rosaleen Quinn. Quinn had been tutored for a year in Russian in preparation for a State Dept. test. Quinn was impressed, she said Oswald spoke Russian better than she did.
6. Oswald applies for attendance at Albert Schweitzer College (ASC) in Switzerland, a college so obscure that the FBI could not find it! It took two months for the Swiss police to find it!
7. Oswald's assignment was to end on Dec 7, 1959. Instead, he applied for a hardship discharge on August 17, 1959, just four months before the expiration.
8. Question: if the excuse was to care for his mother and her sinuses, then why did he request a passport? You do not need a passport to go from California to Texas, and one destination listed was ASC.
9. Further, when his mother went to see a doctor about her sinuses, she told him her son wanted to defect to Russia. This was nine months before Oswald's discharge.
10. From when Oswald filed his petition to when it was approved, took ten days. Four days later it was directed that Oswald be released from active duty.
11. When the HSCA interviewed one of the board members on the discharge committee, he said it usually took 3-6 months to process a hardship discharge. Nelson Delgado also said, it usually took a long time to get a hardship discharge.
12. In other words, it should have been a shorter time for Oswald to just get his normal discharge than to apply for a hardship one.
13. What makes this even more strange is this. Oswald spent all of three days in Fort Worth once he got out. Hmm. What about his poor mother? That was obviously a pretext, perhaps on both sides.
14. On his application, he wrote that he was going to get into the import-export business in New Orleans. Well, he did pick up his passport at the ITM.
And we have not even got to the shenanigans at the CIA with his file, or what the Russians did with him. Or Otto Otepka!
Someone had to instruct Oswald in how to get to Russia. Can't believe he figured out the right travel plans to do this on his own.
Didn't doing so require specific train and flight info and routes through the right Euro countries. Especially for an American. Correct?
Was there a bookstore, public library access manual that explained all this?
Like James Earl Ray planned his escape route on his own as well?
Extremely uneducated and poor petty thief Ray had never traveled out of the country in his life. But after MLK he dons suits he never wore in his life. He gets a fake passport made up. He's got good money on him. He's already made a flight and was on his way to Europe?
International travel takes a lot different knowledge than simply running bootleg moonshine in the Kentucky backwoods.
Ray didn't plan and finance all this on his own. It was beyond his lifetime experience habits, knowledge and financial means.
So who set up Ray's escape plan and paid him more money than he ever had in his life?
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Assuming Oswald took the potshot at Walker.
He planned this for weeks. He had pictures. He had maps. He had an escape plan with timelines for the bus ride back home and a plan for burying his rifle near the railroad tracks. In a way that he could come back and retrieve it later.
He ran after one missed shot logically thinking Walker would be calling the cops and/or someone in the neighborhood hearing the loud rifle shot would also do so.
At least he had a somewhat rational escape plan and it worked.
I do wonder how he got his rifle to Walker's house while only riding buses?
With the JFK scenario however, he has to leave his rifle behind. He knows the authorities will soon find it and know it belongs to him. He knows there are pictures of him holding the rifle and carrying the pistol he allegedly used on Tippit.
Different than the Walker shooting, the JFK one was a no escape suicide mission. Oswald had to know this.
Or, it wasn't supposed to be and his escape ride never showed up and he soon knew his goose was cooked.
Oswald proclaiming his innocence from capture to his death, never wavering and also stating he was a patsy is just too contrary to the WC finding that his motive was for personal fame and recognition. A man that changed history for his perceived belief that what he was doing in taking out JFK would facilitate that change?
Yet, Oswald himself said things would not change with LBJ left to be president.
The conundrum about Oswald is too many things are contrary in everyway. Motive, actions, statements to the press, To a degree that you can't help but conclude that they are just too contrary.
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2 hours ago, Michael Clark said:
I would be glad to help you, Joe. PM me and I can walk you through it.
How do I PM you?
Will do so in the morning.
Thanks MC.
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2 minutes ago, Matt Allison said:
Seems like this could be a problem...
Wow!
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21 minutes ago, Tom Gram said:
This. I will add though that the motive proposed by lone assassin theorists for why Oswald denied killing JFK, whether he just wanted to be a “big man in history” or it was something political, requires such a ridiculous stretch of the imagination that the only way to reconcile it with Oswald’s alleged behavior that day, the Tippit shooting in particular, is if Oswald was just flat out psychotic.
I have also offered this same consideration.
Yet, Marina says she didn't see anything that crazy with her husband while they were in Russia, with the switch to the very risky violent talk and behavior starting a year or so after they arrived here in the states.
Shooting at Walker was crazy and telling his wife all about it must have been terrifying to her. I want to hijack a plane to Cuba and Marina you can help me do this.
What tripped the crazy murder minded switch in Oswald?
Did David Ferrie Manchurian Candidate hypnotize Oswald? Or could this have happened to Oswald in his time in Russia?
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Herschel Walker faces new violence claim
Former president to rally for Raphael Warnock against Trump-backed Republican as early voting closes in Senate runoff
Martin Pengelly in New YorkThe guy "admits" to being treated for multiple personality disorder?And it sounds like the guy was either bedding his harem women or grabbing them by the neck or holding a gun to their heads. I am going to blow your head off woman!Whew! What a winner!Will Georgians be the first to elect and send to our Senate a fake police badge wearing, multiple abortion demanding, multiple personality disorder diagnosed, domestic violence perpetrator whose main residence isn't even in Georgia?But in Texas?If so...I think I am going to stop buying peach pies from Georgia and I will re-watch the Georgia backwoods film "Deliverance" to try to understand why.WHY?Or should I say..."WHEEE, WHEEE?"Democratic party VP candidate Thomas Eagleton was instantly dropped by George McGovern in the 1972 presidential election because it came out that he had shock treatments in his past.Maybe Walker's thousands of violent head banging collisions on the football field had a similar effect and should be considered with similar concern? -
14 hours ago, Matt Allison said:
Reagan closed the mental hospitals back in the 80s, thus starting the homelessness crisis in America.
Reagan shut the mental ward doors when he was California's governor. Back in the late 60's and early 70's.
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Ran into a retired aerospace related career man walking outside of our local theater after watching Speilberg's latest film "The Fablemans."
We talked as our wives were late coming from their end of film relief jaunt.
I asked him..."are UFO's real?"
He responded ... "I think they are mostly ours."
End of discussion as my wife yelled at me " Quit jabbering and get your walker into the backseat."
"I'm hungry and need to eat."
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On 11/30/2022 at 7:15 PM, Matt Allison said:
Reagan closed the mental hospitals back in the 80s, thus starting the homelessness crisis in America.
Reagan did this back around 1970.
Yes, absolutely one of the initial homeless causes in California. Many of those mental patients were shuttled into apartment houses converted into residences/shelters.
I worked in one in Santa Monica back in 1972.
Almost all failed and reverted back into separate residence apartments.
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How do I change my member profile photo?
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Was the Mark Lane PB interview a good one?
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5 hours ago, Benjamin Cole said:
. Property zoning. I like to say there are no atheists in foxholes, and no libertarians or progressives when neighborhood property zoning is under review.
Where I live, the majority of city council members are rental property owners!
In Monterey recently, every one!
Rental property owners are so aggressive in protecting their interests.
I was told by someone high up in Water management that the main force against building new housing ( at least in our area ) was the wealthy that own rental property.
They don't want to lose the incredible one-sided supply and demand advantage they have in rental property.
That demand keeps their ability to charge higher than take home pay rental fees and 25 page 100% landlord favoring lease agreements intact.
These rental property owners know where the power is in this game. City, county and state government.
Studio apartments are $2,000 a month here. For each added bedrooms add $300 to $500 more a month.
A $16 an hour full time job pays $2,000 a month take home.
Not even enough to pay the rent, let alone water, utilities, food, transportation ( car repair, upkeep, registration, insurance and gas ) health care, clothing, etc. etc.
In the 1950's and 60's and even 1970's, the federal government General Services department actually issued cost of living advice which stated that American citizens ideally should not pay more than 1/3rd of their take home pay on housing.
To keep to that healthy living housing budget advice today...the typical Californian would have to earn at least 6,000 dollars take home pay a month. $45 to $50 an hour!
And people wonder why the homeless problem is exploding?
The cost of basic living in California versus wages for 65% of it's working or fixed income citizens is actually a real "Public Health" crisis.
It's stressing millions in unprecedented ways.
Doing without other basic needs, never ending mental worry and anxiety with related health problems day in and day out for years. Young people by the millions ( even 30 to 40 year olds ) can't even afford apartments on their own and have to live back with their parents.
Young people are not marrying and having kids because of the unprecedented imbalance of job pay versus rent.
Unaffordable housing on this scale and for decades now has had massive societal impact...in the worst possible ways.
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5 hours ago, Kirk Gallaway said:
Joe, That was my reaction, when I started hearing about all this stuff with Sinatra, Marilyn, JFK, the Kennedy's visiting. It always seemed pretty tacky to me in the late 60's early 70's. North shore. It must have been nicer in back then if you were well connected.Of course most of the action was down on South Shore.
I remember in my bed with a transistor radio under my pillow so I wouldn't risk my parents hearing it, and listening to the 16 inning shut out pitching duel between Juan Marichal and 40 year old Warren Spahn that was ended by a Mays Home Run in the bottom of the 16th! Probably the greatest pitching duel of all time! The Giants finished with 8 hits, and the Braves with 7!
You could wait at a place near the player parking lot at Candlestick for the players to come out. I got Willie Mays, Juan Marichal's and Willie Mac Covey's autographs during a couple of visits. But i don't have them anymore.
Thanks for sharing about that greatest pitching duel.
What an incredible game! I missed that one.
We kids loved listening to the Giants so much, we would carry a transister radio with us to do so.
Marichal so often had one-on-one duels with the likes of Hall Of Fame pitchers Koufax, Drysdale, Spahn, Gibson, Bunning, Ferguson Jenkins.
And incredibly, he won more times than he lost against those other super star pitchers. Check his career won/loss record!
Man, baseball in the 60's had so many superstars. Pitchers and hitters.
Hitters like Aaron, Mays, Mantle, Clemente, Banks, Cepeda, McCovey, Stargell, Frank Robinson, Jimmy Wynn, Ron Santo, Billy Williams, Lou Brock, Frank Howard, Harmon Killebrew, Richie ( Dick) Allen, and on and on.
Pitchers like I mentioned in the National League including Tom Seaver.
Others Whitey Ford,Gaylord Perry, Denny McClain, Mike Cuellar, Mel Stottlemeyer, Dave McNally, "Sudden" Sam McDowell, Jim Maloney, etc.
Great decade to watch and listen to the game. Ticket prices were even affordable as well as hot dog and beer prices!
Baseball was king in the US back then. Bigger than football and basketball.
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8 minutes ago, David Andrews said:
William, Joe - Kim Farber and Mark Lane in the February 1967 issue:
https://archive.org/details/youtube-rjEfn_qFCJE
The Nancy Kulp issue is, unfortunately for comedy, MIA.
Then, what year and month is the Garrison Playboy issue?
Looks like it was the October 1967 issue.
I stand corrected from my earlier post citing the February Issue.
I believe the February, 1967 issue is the "Mark Lane" issue.
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I'll delete this post as soon as I get info on how to change my member profile "photo."
The two info threads below don't seem to be accessible anymore.
Thanks.
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Cal Neva...what a dump.
David Talbot on the Mainstream Media Being Essentially a Propaganda Arm for the National Security State
in JFK Assassination Debate
Posted · Edited by Joe Bauer
Did any of our most powerful main stream media giants back in 1963/64 ever even consider doing a seriously well financed and well staffed journalistic investigation into the JFK and Oswald assassinations?
Anything close to our first independent and individual effort investigators and researchers?
Or were they told ( ordered ) by LBJ and Hoover to leave it all alone?
Seems like the only nationally famous MSM personality willing to do so was Dorothy Killgallen.
And that poor woman ( mother of a young child ) was found dead, sitting up fully dressed and made up ( still wearing her hair piece ) in a bed and air conditioning on full blast bedroom she rarely used, with a book sitting in front of her upside down, a water glass on a bed table beyond her reach and after telling her closest confidants she was about to blow the Jack Ruby trial story wide open ???