We respond…
So… now do Melania, Billingsley.
Or better yet, explain Tangerine with Stormy while Melania was home with the kids. Or when he forcibly sexually assaulted a woman.
Crickets… that’s your candidate, himself. Not a prior marriage to a partner.
‘Nuff said.
Out.
So — Bitcoin looks like next support level will be around $45,000. Down from near $71,000 when Tangerine touted it — in Nashville — about nine days ago.
In the mean time, Riot Platforms may by then be a sub-$5 NASDAQ stock (again). [It has apparently spent cash again on last Friday, to get to 16.9% of Bitfarms, too. Yikes! What a dumpster fire!]
And… right on cue, Tangerine shows up to prove he has no idea what it is or how it works. It is a string of ones and zeros. He cannot “hand it” to anyone to cover the national deficit.
To dent the deficit, he’d need to find willing buyers of the Bitcoin the US holds (in exchange for hard US dollars), as crime proceeds (forfeited). That total is not even four one-hundredths of one percent of the total national deficit ($35 trillion). The US holds about $13 billion in Bitcoin, at today’s spot prices.
And if Tangerine were somehow to sell $13 billion in the crime proceeds off, using the inflowing US dollars to pay down a tiny portion of the deficit… he will have single handedly destroyed the entire Bitcoin markets.
These markets lack depth and thus very quickly lock up; freeze and go illiquid when facing even $3 billion of selling pressure. This would be four times that pressure.
He is fecklessly clueless (as ever!).
Sure. One Bitcoin will be worth two pepperoni pizzas again. This is what the mooners regard as their “hero”?! Hilarious. Here’s his quote — of tonight:
…Maybe we’ll pay off our $35 trillion dollars, hand them a little crypto check, right? We’ll hand them a little bitcoin and wipe out our $35 trillion…
This guy… is a complete moron. And, a felonious crook.
Yeh — not really a serious Presidential candidate, John. Out.
This was an item from last week, just getting to it. [And separately, the ALU in JFK8 voted in new management. Mr. Smalls is no longer the president.]
But down in Atlanta, the non-unionized workers are frustrated with a workplace that is like a roaster oven, in the summer months:
…On Wednesday, a group of Amazon workers in Atlanta picketed outside one of the company’s warehouses in East Point, calling for better working conditions and protection from extreme heat.
On the outskirts of the location’s security gate, picketing workers walk resolutely with signs in one hand and bottles of water in the other.
Joan Morris, an employee at the South Atlanta facility, states that on some workdays, the heat can become unbearable due to the lack of air conditioning….
Now you know — and with or without Mr. Smalls, the affiliated Teamsters will help this largely voiceless workforce of over 1.5 million people, nationwide. Onward.
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Trivia… but John types the wrong word into his headline.
He’s also wrong about rioters being “understandable”.
Y A W N.
See ‘ya John — you overpaid for that Dartmouth sheepskin. Heh.
Well… I guess it was prescient not to make a graphic last night. The Cygnus is in a stable orbit, but so far has missed two attempts to fire up the engines to lift it to an orbit where the ISS CanArm might pluck it — and attach it to the station on Tuesday night.
The plan is to de-bug the underpressure reading, and then fire the engine — likely in the next 12 hours, so Cygnus will still be on schedule for ISS intercept in the wee hours of Tuesday night. Here’s the latest, from NASA’s blog on it all:
…Shortly after launch, the spacecraft missed its first burn slated for 11:44 a.m. due to a late entry to burn sequencing. Known as the targeted altitude burn, or TB1, it was rescheduled for 12:34 p.m., but aborted the maneuver shortly after the engine ignited due to a slightly low initial pressure state. There is no indication the engine itself has any problem at this time.
Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft completed the deployment of its two solar arrays at 2:21 p.m. EDT after launching at 11:02 a.m. Aug. 4 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida to the International Space Station for NASA….
Cygnus is at a safe altitude, and Northrop Grumman engineers are working a new burn and trajectory plan. The team aims to achieve the spacecraft’s original capture time on station, which is currently slated for 3:10 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 6….
Not the “A” answer, to be certain — but as we’ve long said — space is… hard. It leaves me again marvelling, at all the Apollo missions, and most of the Mercury ones… that went off exactly as drawn up. Amazing — those were wildly-capable engineers, without a doubt. More, as we get it from NASA’s blogs. Onward.
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Mirengoff — like Hinderaker — has argued (since 9/11!) that we should have promptly tortured and executed KSM.
We didn’t. Now he wants to put the death penalty back on the table. I don’t.
It is a stupid expense to keep pursuing a death sentence. One I’m done wasting time on.
We have federal SuperMax prisons for a reason.
If they can hold El Chapo at about $75,000 a year… that same essentially solitary confinement wing can hold… KSM. Safely, forever.
We are now paying $13 million a year to keep Gitmo open for an increasingly small number of detainees.
KSM is a monster. I now advocate locking him away in the cheapest secure option available.
That’s the Florence SuperMax. [Funny, Paul and John don’t mind that he was tortured for a decade, at Gitmo. But whatever. He will go clinically insane (if the boys are just interested in cruelty — this is it!) in solitary, at Florence.]
Everything else Paul (and John) write is simply a burping bunch of “woulda’ coulda’ shouldas‘” — all of which are their party’s fault.
See Cheney / Bush 43. There’s your look backward, in anger. No place else. All you write is theater — ignoring your own culpability for pushing the 2004 agendas you did.
All that is left now (in my estimation) is to protect US taxpayers… by doing it as cheaply as possible. We cannot undo the mistakes Paul and John made.
I D I O T S.
Well… this will be one additional benefit of the incoming Harris Administration: she will be laser focused on ending these abuses. Frankly, Mr. Biden got distracted — and didn’t ever give direct orders to summarily fire any agents in the field still violating the long standing USDC court orders, of USDC Judges Gee, Tigar and Sabraw — in California.
That is what needs to happen next — shortly after November 2024. Perhaps even entire units will need to be walked out, and replaced with National Guard, on a temporary basis. Each time, no matter where the crossing occurs, if a traveller or family says they are seeking asylum, even if uttered in a language other than English, the due process rights attach. Rights in treaties and federal statutes and long standing immigration rules. Here’s the latest timeline, and update, on hearings in the litigation — but this remains a shameful stain, on the legacy of the lady with the torch, in the harbor out East:
MINUTE ORDER IN CHAMBERS by Judge Dolly M. Gee.
…The court has duly considered the parties’ joint status report and their oral presentations at the August 2, 2024 status conference. As the parties have not yet come to an agreement on the appropriate protocols at the OADS — to ensure compliance with the April 3, 2024 order, and they dispute the facts, regarding CPB‘s compliance with the FSA and the court’s April 3, 2024 order, the court orders the following:
Defendants shall file a copy of CBP’s June 5, 2024 guidance memorandum, under seal, by 08/06/2024.
The CBP Juvenile Coordinator, Henry A. Moak, Jr., shall file a further interim report to supplement his prior 05/10/2024 interim report [Doc. # [1413-1]] (covering the same topics) by 09/06/2024 and to provide the Court with an update regarding the present conditions at the OADS.
The parties shall meet and confer regarding the conditions at the OADS, the status of any minors held at the OADS, and how to remedy any continuing disagreement as to CBP’s compliance with both the FSA and the Court’s April 3, 2024 Order.
The parties may seek the assistance of the Juvenile Case Monitor if necessary. The parties shall file a Joint Status Report as to their efforts by 09/13/2024, including a summary of what, if any, disputed facts remain. If still necessary following the parties’ meet and confer efforts, the Court shall hold an evidentiary hearing as to any disputed facts and/or a further status conference on September 20, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. (see order for complete details….)
These are children, some travelling all alone, on foot — over several thousands of miles. What is wrong with these recalcitrant field agents, primarily in Texas, but also some south of San Diego? Who could look themselves in the mirror in the morning — if this was how they were “doing” their jobs? Out.
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Tonight, Hinderaker’s Klansman persona again appears.
He claims to know what people in black-owned barbershops talk about. He doesn’t. I do. They claim her — by an 80-20 margin.
He says this:
“…Personally, I couldn’t possibly care less [he lies — he’s race obsessed, for whyte ppl]. She certainly has some African ancestry, and by the [Jim Crow southern] “one drop rule,” dating to the 19th 17th [correcting his willful lies] century, she is entitled to claim black identity. For what that is worth…” [Wait! He thinks he gets to decide how she may refer to herself?!? Yikes!]
So — in speaking of John — we will assume turnabout is fair play:
“Is Hinderaker a… Klanner?” Yes — his rhetoric would prove it. He blames the modern Democrats for the 180 year gone Confederate treasons. In fact, it was people like… him.
“Is Hinderaker a Neo-Nazi?” Sure supports long discredited race-tropes. [Especially about crime.]
I don’t care — but if the shoe fits… Right?
Right.
G’night to all of good will — all as Tangerine wimps out on the ABC debate, and lies when his people never talked to his opponent about one on Faux. Either way she’ll kick his dumb ass; but I’d make him wait to October to learn if she will meet him.
Putz.
Not exactly… relevant, is it?
Nope. Not a candidate for any office; prior marriage.
But at right… is. Not that Powerliners will ever admit it.
Stupid is… as stupid… does.
It was alleged in sworn New York State divorce court filings — that the present GOP nominee for 1600 Penn., Tangerine, both physically abused, and raped his first wife, Marla.
That’s relevant.
Out.
This is all I need say. Not worth any real analysis — just Auntie Ruckus, doin’ her usual.
Out. Atta’ boy, Candace.
