She's on her world tour! She's getting around to all of them from the from the Ruskies,the Krouts, the Spicks, and the Chinks! Dave,I'll let you know when she gets to Australia so you can get a piece of the ol' gal!
I keep seeing reports about Democrats crying because Kamala Harris lost and Trump won. Have any of you ever cried because your presidential candidate of choice lost? I sure as hell haven't.
That's pretty unhinged and over the deep end from the outset. And this isn't the first time either. I recall during the Nov 2016 election when Hillary Clinton lost, Democrats at that time were doing the same thing. And on that occasion, in Nov 2016, you could see Democrats gathered on election night at the Hillary Clinton headquarters who were openly crying in front of the media cameras. And even more disturbing in 2016, several reporters, such as Martha Raddatz, cried on air, while reporting. That makes clear they are partisan to a disturbing level and don't have the objectivity needed to fairly report the news. Ann Coulter in her book Slander detailing media bias, said that on election night 2000, CBS news admonished their staff behind the scenes before the election not to openly cheer when states were called for Al Gore, so that viewers could hear them, and obviously, become aware of their bias. And for CBS management to give that order to employees in advance, that makes clear it had occurred in previous elections. And late night TV hosts broke down and cried on air (both 2016 and now in 2024) , and gave angry rants about how awful it is that Trump won, and scolded the voters for choosing Trump.
And now you have a wave of celebrities like Barbara Streisand and Eva Longoria saying they are leaving the country because of Trump winning the election.
And so many inquiries about immigration to Canada, that the Canada immigration/VISA site crashed, and they told U.S. inquirers to wait and make their further inquiries at a later time.
Fleeing from WHAT exactly?!? Trump for all the hyperbole of being another "Hitler", was already president of the country for 4 years from Jan 2017-Jan 2021, and he didn't committ genocide on his political opposition, he didn'tt put them in concentration camps, Trump didn't arrest reporters and label them as "domestic terrorists" , and do 6AM raids on their homes and incarcerate them indefinitely without trial.
But... Are these stupid Democrat voters AND REPORTERS blind to the fact that Obama and especially Biden actually DID all these authoritarian moves on Republicans over he last few years?
Since at least the Bill Clinton and Barack Obama years, a Democrat-weaponized IRS has maliciously audited their political opponents, such as Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity on an annual basis while they were president. The IRS under Lois Lerner and John Koskinen harassed Tea Party groups with time-consuming paperwork, and audited every chapter and leader of the Tea Party movement in 2010-2012, to the point that (as Obama and the IRS intended) they closed their chapters and were in advance of 2012 unable to gain IRS non-profit tax-free status for their chapters, that prevented them from organizing and grassroots campaigning in the 2012 election, an orchestrated obstruction that gave Barack Obama a very narrowly won 2nd term in the 2012 election, that he should not have had, except for that authoritarian suppression, through weaponization of the IRS.
Do Democrat voters and crying reporters not know that it was Democrats (not Trump or Republicans) who arrested reporters like James Rosen (then of Fox News) just for inquiring and getting sources within the Obama White House? Getting sources, as reporters have of every White House for at least a century? That even a liberal New York Times reporter with 40 years' experience covering the White House over many presidencies called the Obama White House "the most control freak presidency" he had ever covered. And the Obama administration also aggressively tracked down and prosecuted leakers within their own administration.
Do these crying Democrat voters and reporters know that Barack Obama himself publicly called Fox News "not a real news agency" and for a while banned Fox News from White House press conferences? Until EVERY OTHER news agency in the White House press corps said they would not attend press briefings either, if Fox were banned. Because these other news groups knew if Obama was successful with banning Fox, Obama would pick off and punish every news agency that continued to report objectively about Obama's White House. That would force ALL the news agencies to report exactly how Obama wanted going forward, or suffer one by one the same fate as Fox News.
Multiple Democrat officials have made clear since the Obama years their goal to take Fox News off the air, to 'de-platform" Fox News. They successfully took One America News (OAN) off of cable in early 2022. In early 2023, they did the same to Newsmax for several months, until Direct TV viewers cancelled their cable service in the tens of thousands, and got Direct TV to relent and let Newsmax's channel back on Direct TV. Is there ***ONE*** example of Trump, the Republicans, or anyone on the "right wing", trying to do the same to LIBERAL media sources? Or even voicing a DESIRE to do this to liberal media outlets?!? Not even retaliating after it was already done by Democrats to Fox, OAN and Newsmax ? No, there isn't. So Democrats have nothing to fear in Trump being elected, either in 2016 or now.
Are Democrat voters and crying liberal media reporters unaware that the split second Trump conceded the election to Biden on Jan 6 2021, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and a dozen other social media platforms banned Donald Trump and deprived him and his supporters of any communication between them? That is authoritarian power, directed by puppetmasters in the Biden administration, and their allies in big tech/social media, and in the FBI and CIA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Files
Where the paper ballots were shredded, the election voting machines and flash drives wiped clean in the weeks immediately after the 2020 election (despite being legally required to be kept on file for 22 months after every election, available for a re-count or audit)? So much for free elections and legally required accountability.
Are Democrat voters and crying liberal reporters unaware the FBI set up Trump supporters on January 6th in a false-flag operation, with at least 50 undercover agents disguised as Trump supporters (and those are only the 50 they admit to, 20 FBI agents, 20 DHS agents, 10 DC Metro police. Plus at least 20 Antifa led by John Earle Sullivan, ALSO disguised as Trump supporters).
And after January 6th, are Democrat voters and crying liberal reporters unaware the FBI did 6 AM raids on over 600 people in their homes, at least 90% of whom did nothing violent on Jan 6th, but had their doors smashed in and were thrown to the floor and arrested with laser-dots of AR-15's pointed at their heads in front of their families, and then thrown in the worst jails, and held indefinitely for years without even clean water or flushing toilets or the ability to bathe and shave or talk to a lawyer in many cases. Held indefinitely for years, without trial. A number of whom were beaten in their cells by fanatical Trump-hating guards, especially if they dared tto complain or talk about their conditions with their lawyers or families.
The same type of treatment and 6AM arrests were given to peaceful pro-life activists, arrested, prosecuted, and given outrageously long and disproportionate prison sentences. Because they were conservative dissenters, labelled enemies of the Biden/Democrat regime, that HAD TO be intimidated, silenced, punished, made examples of, to anyone who would resist their authoritarian over-reach.
The same treatment and arrests given to parents who objected at PTA meetings, to "woke" indoctrination of their children in schools, who were likewise arrested by FBI agents in 6AM raids, again intimidated, silenced, punished, and sentenced to disproportionately long prison sentences. The lucky ones only saw FBI agents write down their license plate numbers as the walked to their cars after the PTA meetings, and didn't get the full 6 AM raid and arrest treatment.
So...
Which should the country be afraid of? Trump, who took abuse from the media every day, and never arrested a reporter, never arrested anyone anyone else for political activities or speech. Quite the opposite, Trump was out doing press conferences every day, sometimes for hours a day, holding himself accountable and answering any questions despite an overwhelmingly hostile media. No one arrested, no one imprisoned without trial, no one maliciously prosecuted, let alone to unfairly long prison sentences. But under Biden/Harris? Jailed their political opponents by the thousands.
Who should the country be afraid of? You know the answer.
And I fear that if the Democrats ever again regain power in our lifetime, without being punished for the above abuses, Democrats will be emboldened, quickly re-politicize/weaponize every federal agency, and do the exact same as Obama and Biden/Harris again, or likely worse. The Democrats will only be deterred and back off, if Republicans use their full force to prosecute the James Comeys, the Andrew McCabes, the Adrew Weissmanns, the Peter Strzoks, the John Brennans, Bruce Ohrs, the Sally Yates's and Loretta Lynches. And Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton as well, who orchestrated these abuses for a least the last 8 years, and probably a lot more years. Everyone who was in the Oval Office and planned the takedown to frame Michael Flynn on January 5th 2021, EVERY ONE OF THEM should go to jail. And as they did to Flynn, did the same to Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Peter Navarro, and many more. And while they didn't successfully frame K T McFarland and Michael Caputo and other Trump officials, they still buried them in hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees, and in Caputo's case, FBI deliberately interviewed and intimidated away all his law clients, so he could no longer even pay his own legal fees from the FBI's (fake and political) indictment. Obama, Biden, and their zealots in the DOJ and FBI deliberately indicted formerly rich and innocent men and women, and deliberately bankrupted them, in their legal fees paid to fight malicious fake charges. And put a number of them in jail.
Trump's new DOJ and FBI needs to also fully punish all the lower-level conspirators, the Kevin Clinesmiths and FBI / DOJ agents and lawyers below who were eagerly and willingly delegated to zealously do these abuses of Trump officials, pro-life activists, PTA-attending parents, and Jan 6th peaceful protesters. The FBI agents who willingly and knowingly overcharged and maliciously prosecuted and incarcerated innocent people. Buried them in legal fees and bankrupted them, caused hem to lose their businesses and their homes. rump's reformed DOJ and FBI needs o go after the fanatical Trump-hating warden and jailers who mistreated helpless Jan 6th prisoners in their cells. They need to be appropriately proportionately punished, to deter the Democrat-Bolsheviks from ever again thinking about unleashing these kinds of abuses of power in the future. ANY LESS than this legal punishment, and these Democrat-Bolshevik fanatics will just be emboldened to do it again. They should be severely prosecuted. Within the law, but severely prosecuted. Let the punishment fit the crime. Abuses in the 2006, 2008, and 2010-2012 elections. FBI maliciously going after Trump in 2016, while FBI simultaneously scrapped their own cases and gave a free pass to Hillary Clinton in 2016. The massive rigged election, and intimidation to deter any inquiry in the 2020 eleciton. Each time getting away with i, emboldened to even greater and more grandiose abuses of power. threatening and deposing Trump, an American president !! And even more threatening to the American people, who unlike Trump don' have the resources to fight back, as in many of he examples I cited above. Many in Trump's administration were MILLIONAIRES, and EVEN THEY didn't have the resources to stop these abuses of power. And despite paying millions in legal fees against bogus charges, where FBI had judge-shopped Democrat-Bolshevik judges in 90%-plus Trump-hating Democrat districts, to select 90%-plus Democrat juries, in rigged court cases with skewed evidence and denied inclusion of exculpatory evidence, they STILL went to jail. And but for a pardon from then-President Trump, these innocent man would have remained in jail. The Kafka-esque persecutions went on after Biden was inaugurated, and Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro are he two latest added to the club. Innocent men, bankrupted by legal fees, sent to jail for doing nothing wrong. Along with thousands of other regular Americans, peaceful January 6th protesters, peaceful pro-Life activists, parents just voicing their concerns at PTA meetings about "woke"education they object to. One that particularly angered me was the arrest, trial and imprisonment of an elderly pro-life activist woman, arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned, right after her husband died. But hey, the Antifa and BLM rioters who violently attack people, who throw Molotov cocktails in police cars to kill police officers, who burn federal buildings and deliberately permanently blind federal agents and police officers by directing high-power lasers at their eyes during protests and riots, FBI and DOJ selectively doesn't prosecute these offenders, just lets them go. They don't even need to hire an attorney ! But the just-widowed grandma who only knelt and prayed outside an abortion clinic, SHE has to go to jail.
It should have been REPUBLICANS who were deathly afraid of the Democrat-Bolsheviks winning in 2024. And if they had won in 2024, would have been emboldened to EVEN WORSE abuses of power. As they were emboldened each time by getting away with it in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2016, and 2020. And with Senator Ted Stevens' Democrat-weaponized malicious FBI prosecution (overturned by the U S Supreme Court unanimously.) as with Scooter Libby's malicious FBI prosecution (maliciously prosecuted and jailed for years, till pardoned by Trump.) Each time Democrats in power are motivated to even greater abuses of federal, FBI, DOJ, intelligence agency, and Democrat White House power, by having gotten away with it before.
Going forward, it is Republicans who should be afraid of these Democrat criminals ever again regaining power. They have to be deterred, there has to be a terrible price paid, or he Democrat-Bolsheviks in government will just do it again and again. And worse, destroy our Constitutional republic beyond the ability to repair it.
I feel so unsure As I take your hand and lead you to the dance floor, mother fucker As the music dies, something in your eyes Calls to mind a silver screen and all its sad goodbyes
I'm never gonna dance again, guilty feet have got no rhythm Though it's easy to pretend, I know you're not a fool, mother fucker I should have known better than to cheat a friend And waste the chance that I'd been given So I'm never gonna dance again the way I danced with you, oh mother fucker
Time can never mend The careless whispers of a good friend To the heart and mind, ignorance is kind There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find mother fucker
I'm never gonna dance again, guilty feet have got no rhythm Though it's easy to pretend, I know you're not a fool, mother fucker I should have known better than to cheat a friend (shoulda known better, yeah) And waste the chance that I'd been given So I'm never gonna dance again the way I danced with you, oh mother fucker
Never without your love
Tonight, the music seems so loud I wish that we could lose this crowd Maybe it's better this way We'd hurt each other with the things we want to say We could have been so good together mother fucker We could have lived this dance forever But now who's gonna dance with me? Please stay mother fucker
And I'm never gonna dance again, guilty feet have got no rhythm Though it's easy to pretend, I know you're not a fool, mother fucker I should have known better than to cheat a friend And waste a chance that I'd been given So I'm never gonna dance again the way I danced with you, oh mother fucker
Now that you're gone Now, that you're gone mother Now that you're gone mother fucker Was what I did so wrong, so wrong That you had to leave me alone?
Wow, what an odd coincidence. The DOJ / FBI is 97% on the side of Kamala Harris and the Democrats, the candidate who lost. And just by pure osmosis, I guess, a deeply Democrat-invested DOJ / FBI raids the home of the CEO of a betting company that favorably reported likely betting odds for Donald Trump over Kamala Harris on election day.
Because the FBI would never EVER weaponize itself and launch punishing raids on their political opposition, just to intimidate or punish them. That would never happen !
Others, I forget. But in a nutshell, at least 20 to 25 years of straight politicized Democrat-weaponized abuse of FBI / DOJ power. Protecting Democrat officials, while simultaneously framing and maliciously prosecuting Republican officials, to benefit the Democrat party and help Democrats win elections, by smearing, indicting and posecuting their Republican opponents.
I don't know the current policy between he U.S. and the Phillipines,
But according to Wikipedia...
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The Empire of Japan invaded the Philippines in December 1941 during World War II,[125] and the Second Philippine Republic was established as a puppet state governed by Jose P. Laurel.[126][127] Beginning in 1942, the Japanese occupation of the Philippines was opposed by large-scale underground guerrilla activity.[128][129][130] Atrocities and war crimes were committed during the war, including the Bataan Death March and the Manila massacre.[131][132] The Philippine resistance and Allied troops defeated the Japanese in 1944 and 1945. Over one million Filipinos were estimated to have died by the end of the war.[133][134] On October 11, 1945, the Philippines became a founding member of the United Nations.[135][136]:?38–41? On July 4, 1946, during the presidency of Manuel Roxas, the country's independence was recognized by the United States with the Treaty of Manila.[136]:?38–41?[137]
That's the Reader's Digest version. And being local for you, you likely know the history way better than I do. But basically, at the same time, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, took oil fields in Indonesia, and invaded the Philllippines in a pretty rapid clip. With limited U.S. forces stationed beforehand in the Phillippines, and outnumbered, Macarthur had to make a tactical retreat to avoid being captured, and later returned in 1944 to push out the Japanese. But as they were in every country they occupied, the Japanese were awful in what they did to the Phillippine people.
As I mentioned before, I had a Phillippine girlfriend in 2001-2003, and she told me that when the Japanese invaded their rural island (Bohol) the Japanese killed every male member of her family, and raped every female in her family.
Because the Japanese were so awful to every country they invaded, they were met with heavy resistance and geurrillla fighters in every country they occupied. And Japan conscripted several hundred thousand women from these countries as basically slave prostitutes, termed "comfort women" to sexually service Japanese soldiers, many of them so abused they were no longer able to have children after the war.
The Japanese Bushido secret society were the inspiration for creation of the Nazi SS. A book I read that gives a history of the rise of medeival Japan and its rapid consolidation into an empire and its rapid industrialization from roughly 1866-1905, and its atrocities in the 1930's in Manchuria, is documented in The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang. It explains that unlike post-war Germany that was forced to educate future generations in schools about Nazi atrocities, Japanese citizens did not have to receive similar education about their war crimes, and largely remain unaware of that part of their history.
My knowledge of the beginning of U.S. involvement with the Phillippines starts with Spanish-American war in 1898, where in the treaty ending the war, Spain conceded Guantanamo Bay (Cuba), Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Phillipines to the U.S. For the first time the U.S. had territory outside the United States, and this was controversial inside the U.S. even then, with many in government arguing it (along with Hawaii) turned us overnight into a colonial power like the nations of Europe. For reasons I don't understand, the U.S. held control militarily over the Phillipines for several decades instead of just letting it become independent, occupied from roughly 1900-1942, until the Japanese took it. And the Phillippines got its independence after in 1945.
You can look up "First Island Chain, Second Island Chain, Third Island Chain" (mentioned earlier in the topic), to see China's imperial plans for the Pacific region, that includes not only possession of the Philippines, but Guam and Hawaii as well, that China intends to turn into concentric rings of defensive islands around China.
I understand China is in terrible shape right now politically and economically. On the one hand, that should make China more weak and reluctant to make war on anyone. But on the other hand, Xi Xiinping sabre-rattles about seizing Taiwan , and war with other countries, as a way to rally nationalist popular support within his own country. From what I've seen said by U.S. generals interviewed, China is preparing o be ready for war with Taiwan by 2027 or 2028.
Thank God Trump was elected, because he is the one presidential choice that will rapidly re-arm the U.S. military, and hopefully deter China from starting a war. As in the many videos I've posted above, some say China is already more prepared for war with us and would win, and others say China is weaker than it seems and has vulnerabilities such as dependence on imports of energy and food that could bring China to is knees in a war. I don't want to find out, so I'm hoping for deterrence and a peaceful alternative !
By Zachary Faria, Washington Times, November 13, 2024
Believe it or not, Election Day was one week ago. Apparently, no one thought to tell California.
California is still counting votes at a glacial pace, with fewer than 76% of statewide votes counted as of Monday night. According to the New York Times election results tracker, there are still nine House races in California where we do not know who won, along with nine state Senate races, 21 state Assembly races, and two of the ten statewide ballot propositions. In 43 House, state Senate, and Assembly races, California hasn’t even counted 70% of the votes.
One week after the election, there isn’t a single race where the state has even counted 90% of the votes. For comparison, Florida, which is the third most populous state in the country and stretches across two time zones, publicly reported 93% of the vote on election night, 90 minutes after polls closed.
California is as incompetent when it comes to counting votes as it is in addressing homelessness, the housing crisis, and crime. California mails ballots to every single voter and then stretches out its election deadlines to accommodate lazy voters. Despite the fact that voters receive those ballots months in advance of “Election Day,” California still counts ballots that arrive a week late.
Lazy counties are also given lax “deadlines,” with the state giving them a full month to submit results, which leads to many counties taking multiple days off from counting. Democratic Contra Costa County, for example, stopped counting Friday night and took three days off before resuming the count Tuesday morning. The only way this could better represent California’s terrible decision-making is if the state put a bunch of liberal nonprofit organizations in charge of counting the votes and didn’t bother to check on their progress.
Not content with ruining their own state, California Democrats now consistently undermine trust in elections by dragging out results that could flip control of the House and change the direction of the country. Just try and imagine what would happen if California were to become a presidential swing state again (it is roughly as competitive now as former swing state Florida). We may not know the results of California’s competitive House races until after Thanksgiving.
If California Democrats cannot do something as basic as counting votes in a timely matter, it is no surprise that they can’t address the poverty, housing, homelessness, drug addiction, and educational crises the state has been saddled with for years. California remains the gold standard for terribly run states, with a government that is as lazy as it is incompetent.
This raises suspicions of a rigged election. Particularly in countries like Cuba or Venezuela, they announce a stop in counting during the night, to resume the next day. But in reality, they secretly stay counting all night, to determine how far ahead their undesired candidate is, then they manufacture enough fake ballots to rig a narrow win for the guy they want to win.
And I think that is exactly what happened in the batleground states in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Trump was ahead in every battleground state up till 3 AM, when Democrat-controlled elecion centers "stopped counting for the night", sent the Republican observers home, and then only Democrats secretly stayed and counted votes all night in mutliple batleground states. And despite that in many states 80% of the vote were already counted before the Republican observers were sent home, lo and behold, Biden narrowly "won" in these states overnight when only Democrats were there and counting vote. Just by he weirdest of coincidences !
I call it the "Al Franken effect". Where the Republican wins in a close election. And then in a Democrat region, somehow they "find" a batch of several hundred or several thousand uncounted ballots, just pull them out of a magic hat, and (as in the Al Franken senate race) in a last-minute upset with "discovered" ballots, and call their Democrat opponent the winner.
Kyrsten Sinema's Senate election in 2018 against Republican opponent Marttha McSally is another example, where McSally was ahead for many days, and at the last minute votes came out of the blue o give the race to Sinema.
The irregularities on election day 2 years ago in the 2022 Arizona governor race between Katie Hobbs and Kari Lake is another prime example.
The more prolonged and drawn out, the more opportunity for foul play.
I was surprised that U.S. bases in the Phillipines are considered a major part of the defense of Taiwan. And that the Phillipines has recently allowed the U.S to add bases in their northernmost islands right next to Taiwan. But the video also cites that a change of Phillipine presidential leadership could cause the U.S. and Taiwan to lose that advantage, and the deterrence it gives against a potential invasion of Taiwan.
At first glance, it looks like the Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean and South China Sea are wide open areas. But this and other videos clarify that from a military / naval standpoint, the shipping lanes through these areas are not as open as they look, and are vulnerable to being completely cut off at a few narrow choke points by naval blockade.
The US still has bases in here? I already told all of them to pack their bags and leave. I'll do it again tomorrow.
The last time we got dragged into the US' war, they got their asses kicked by the Japanese and then Gen. Douglas McArthur left us high and dry.
DAREDEVIL 158 (May 1979), Miller's debut on that title, was the finale of an ongoing story written by Roger McKenzie and inked by Klaus Janson. After this issue, Miller became one of Marvel's rising stars.[18] However, sales on Daredevil did not improve, Marvel's management continued to discuss cancellation, and Miller himself almost quit the series, as he disliked McKenzie's scripts.[13]
Miller's fortunes changed with the arrival of Denny O'Neil as editor. Realizing Miller's unhappiness with the series, and impressed by a backup story Miller had written, O'Neil moved McKenzie to another project so that Miller could try writing the series himself.[13][19] Miller and O'Neil maintained a friendly working relationship throughout his run on the series.[20]
With issue #168 (Jan. 1981), Miller took over full duties as writer and penciller. Sales rose so swiftly that Marvel once again began publishing Daredevil monthly rather than bimonthly just three issues after Miller became its writer.[21]
I previously knew that Miller didn't like working (for whatever reason) with writer Bob McKenzie. But I didn't know that the book was unpopular and not selling, to the point it was on the verge of being cancelled. I knew O'Neil basically fired McKenzie, and replaced McKanzie, assigning Frank Miller as both wrtier and penciller beginning with issue 168.
I didn't know that move saved the book from cancellation, and I didn't know that beginning with 168, it very quickly became a top seller. I was aware that when buying these issues off the stands, that the series became monthly with issue 170, but had no idea it was on the verge of cancellation just 3 issues prior to that.
So O'Neil's assigning Miller as writer saved DAREDEVIL from cancellation, going completely the other way, and becoming a top seller. This turnaround in sales must have made O'Neil a big hero in the Marvel editorial offices, and definitely showed his judgement and skill as an editor. From 171-up, DAREDEVIL became one of Marvel's bestselling titles in 1981-1982, right next to X-MEN in sales, and with some issues surpassing it. And also neck and neck with DD and X-MEN was Byrne's FF run.
I fell bad for Roger McKenzie though, and I actually like, and even prefer the early Miller issues McKenzie scripted, from 158-166. (167 was scripted by David Michelinie) I like the human interest angle of McKenzie's stories, particularly in issues 163 and 164, and how clean and detailed Miller's art was in these early issues. My impression is that Miller poured his heart and soul into these early bi-monthly issues,spent a lot of time on them, making them the very best they could be, to solidify his reputation as an artist early on.
Don't get me wrong, I love the DD issues Miller scripted too, particularly 168, 169, and 170-172. But I think because Miller was more restrained for time beyond that point, stretched thin working as both writer and artist, on a suddenly now- monthly series, Miller's DAREDEVIL art became less detailed and at times rushed looking, with oddly distorted anatomy on some pages. . I can' be sure, but I also see O'Neil, who clearly mentored Miller in this period, as also possibly contributing more to the stories than is credited, possibly co-plotting these issues with Miller. O'Neil and Miller seemed to mesh very well, both in issues 168-191, and later during the Miller/ Mazzucchelli "Born Again" run as well in 226-233. And after Miller's absence, O'Neil scripted many issues in between Miller's last issue in 191, up till Miller's return on issue 226.
Also of note, the "Child's Play" drug awareness/angel-dust story in DAREDEVIL 183 and 184, was the last collaboration between writer McKenzie with Frank Miller art. It was originally to run in DD 167, but was pulled from publication due to rejection by the Comics Code Authority. Marvel (and editor O'Neil) struggled to overcome Comics Code objections, and O'Neil toyed with running it in a number of possible formats, as a magazine, as a direct-only title, as a stand-alone one-shot, but finally settled on running it in the regular DAREDEVIL series in issues 183-184, stretching it into a 2 issue story, with new material added. I'd still like to see the initial full story published somewhere in its original form.
(Cover to DAREDEVIL CHRONICLES, published by Fantaco in 1982 )
Simonson shattered the logo on his first issue as writer/artist, replacing it next issue with a new logo. That could be seen as symbolic of how he would go on to shatter the rules and continue to blow our minds every issue for the next 5 straight years.
Oh yeah. In Democrat Newspeak, it's REPUBLICANS who are "insurrectionists" who undermine the Constitution and overthrow democracy. Even as Democrats themselves manufacture pseudo-constitutional schemes to circumnavigate the law and implement Marxist/socialist authoritarian destruction of actual constitutional checks and balances, to create a system where they can never lose another election.
1) Democrats openly saying they want to federalize elections, and take away individual laws of the 50 states of how each chooses to conduct their elections. So that only the party in power (the Democrats, of course !) can even challenge a fraudulent election. And so Democrat-Bolsheviks can have permanent control of the country for at least 100 years.
2) Democrats openly saying they plan to make Washington DC and Puerto Rico states. (Despite that DC was created as a district, purposely made separate from all 50 states, specifically so no state would have undue influence over the nation, by having the federal Capitol in it. It was specifically created to NOT be a state, or be included in one. And Puerto Rico has never met the criteria to become a state by making English its territorial language, as is required to qualify to become a state. But Democrats plot to make these two places into states because they are overwhelmingly Democrat. Which would add 4 more permanently Democrat senators, thus giving the Democrats a permanent unbreakable Senate majority. )
3) Democrats want to eliminate the Senate filibuster that allows the minority party to still have a voice and propose legislation. Eliminate it to further marginalize and crush all Republican dissent and representation.
4) Democrats want to eliminate the electoral college voting system. That despite the founders' Constitutional system of checks and balances, put in place to prevent population centers from eclipsing the voting power of smaller states, Democrats want to eliminate that electoral college check, again just to cheat the system and crush all dissent, allowing a few population centers like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles to snuff out all representation in future elections for smaller states.
5) Democrats want (as was last tried by FDR) to stack the U S Supreme Court with liberal/Democrat justices, to again rig a branch of government so Democrats never again lose a legal battle. They want to expand the number of justices from the current 9 justices to 12 or 16, however many it takes to eclipse the number of Republican/conservative justices, and again create a Democrat-Bolshevik permanent majority in yet another branch of government. Another constitutional check and balance to be destroyed, just so Democrats can consolidate permanent unbreakable power over another branch of government.
6) "Green New Deal", "Cap and Trade" and other controls, done in the name of ecological preservation and preventing global warming. But this is another scheme to crush our economy and free market system with punishing federal controls to drive private industry out of business, and make the entire country dependent on federal government to provide them with jobs, income, food, healthcare, and all other needs. Monitors put in cars and in homes to measure individual energy usage is yet another scheme to control people, to monitor or limit their ability to travel, by making travel or car ownership unaffordable to most people, and even if affordable, government can track their movements. (This is also in unison with the U.N.'s "Agenda 21", using environmentalist concerns as an excuse to drive self-sufficent people out of rural farms and towns, into densely populated metropolitan areas, where they can control large populations with surveillance, and if they dissent, deprived of the ability to have independent incomes or grow heir own food, can be starved ino submission.
7) Central Bank Digittal Currency (CBDC), where as is done in China, if the federal government doesn't like the speech and actions of any citizen, they can freeze their bank accounts and destroy heir dissent. I'd add that the Canadian-Bolshevik government did this to a Covid-related truck drivers' strike a few years ago, and even to the people who gave them food and support, to shut down their strike. A Canadian governmen tactic that drew praise from Democrat leaders in the U.S., and fired their imaginations of how to implement the same type of authoritarian controls here in the U.S.
Others, I forget. This is not speculation, Democrats have clearly said they plan to do these things. As clearly as Raskin above.
So.... Which are the insurrectionists trying to overthrow our Constitution, create authoritarian controls, and enslave its people, and which is protecting our contract government and its people ?
You know the answer. And so do a majority who voted in the 2024 election.
In less than 36 hours after Trump was elected, Vladimir Putin called Trump to discuss potentially ending the Ukraine-Russia war. (NOTE: Joe Biden has not spoken with Putin in 2 and half years to negotiate. NEVER made any effort to resolve that conflict, the hundreds of billions spent on war, and the hundreds of thousands dying in what has been called a brutal and almost medeival war.)
China's ruler Xi Xinping likewise called Trump to congratulate him on his election victory, and to express wishes for peaceful co-existence.
The stock market the day after Trump was elected immediately saw its greatest increase in 2 years.
Caravans of illegal immigrants headed for the U.S. border through Mexico immediately began to break up.
Leaders of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis also made phone calls, suddenly offering to negotiate peace.
Without any action or comment of any kind by Trump yet, the Iranian currency saw a massive collapse in value that first day after the election, in global anticipation of the sanctions Trump will enact upon Iran immediately after he is inaugurated. Instantly shriveling Iran's capacity to fund continued war and terrorism.
Just the KNOWING that Biden and Harris will be gone, and that in polar opposition to the feckless last 4 years, Trump will be coming back into office with a clear and decisive plan to deal with all these conflicts, has brought about all this, and more. The mere idea of Trump in office is restoring sanity in the world, and sowing peace and economic growth.
And as of this writing, just 8 days after the election, Trump has appointed virtually all of his cabinet and administration at a remarkably fast pace. Names that make clear a sharp change for the better, names recognizable, proven and experienced, fiercely patriotic and America-first, strongly pro-Israel, loyal to Trump, who have great respect for Constitutional law and freedoms, and vision to set in place a future consistent with that history. And above all, respect for the will of the American people who elected them.
That is a massive sea change from the Marxist/socialist authoritarianism and power-grabs of the Democrats since 2008, even resisting Trump and trying to usurp Trump from within the federal government during his first 2017-2021 term, with a weaponized FBI, DOJ, CIA, NSC, IRS and other federal agencies. Trump attempted to be bi-partisan and inclusive in his first term, but the Democrat-Bolsheviks and RINO Republicans used that inclusion to undermine and to overthrow him, and at the very least succeeded in crippling his presidency, using an FBI "Russia collusion" probe based on nothing (butt giving a free pass to Hillary Clinton and her staff, who actually did all the thingss Trump was falsely accused of), a Mueller investigation (all Democrat lawyers and campaign donors), 2 malicious and completely political impeachments (by a Democrat-controoled house, with a handful of RINOs who quickly were voted out themselves in the very next election), hundreds of leaks mostly from Obama leftovers in the NSC, endless other investigations and further sourceless outrageous unproven false allegations. Ohh, ohh !! How AWFUL that Trump demands strong loyalty in his new administration picks !! , whine Democrat leaders and the aligned Democrat-Bolshevik liberal media. Yeah, because he was burned so badly before in his first term when he tried to be all-inclusive. Never has a president been stabbed in the back so many times, except maybe Julius Ceasar. So fuck yes, loyalty in his selected team is crucial, so that can't be done again. Gee, what a surprise.
Trump is moving quickly and with great forethought, so his administration can hit the ground running on January 20th.
Well after watching Alien:Romulus I change my mind. That movie was supposed to be a return to form but you’re right: I’m far too familiar with the franchise to be shocked or horrified. I honestly don’t know what I would do here. I think I’d just prefer Aliens be retired.
If Kamala Harris were elected a few days ago, we were already on a trajectory for world war with China, in about 5 years.
With Trump, there is a chance to break that trajectory,and create a strong U.S. policy that can rally and renew alliances in U.S. coalition with other nations, Nations that now have renewed confidence in U.S. leadership, that can deter or dissolve that China threat.
In both interviews, detailing how a weakened open U.S. southern border, that allows over 20 million illegal immigrants to enter, not only lets in illegal immigrants, criminals, drug cartels and terrorists, but how this is all intertwined with China waging an undeclared larger war on the United States, through multiple arms of attack:
1) Providing and shipping the chemicals to Mexico, for drug cartels to make fentanyl and other narcotics smuggled into the U.S., that now kills over 100,000 Americans annually, higher losses than in any war in U.S. history. Fentanyl is now the largest cause of death for Americans between the ages of 15 to 45.
2) U.S. deficit trade with China, costing the U.S. $850 billion a year, and that funds China's fentanyl trafficking, and also funds China's buildup of both conventional and nuclear military forces, to use on us at a later date.
3) Chine's cyber-theft from U.S. companies, that costs at least another $500 billion a year, and hacks not only private companies, but also hacks every U.S. government agency, including the Pentagon.
4) "Elite capture" of U.S. government officials, such as Joe and Hunter Biden, the late Senator Dianne Feinstein, Rep. Eric Swallwell (who had a Chinese mistress who also worked in his House government office, to more easily steal information while he served on the House Intelligence Committee. And incredibly, Swallwell STILL remains in the House). And Democrat vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, among others. Whether out of greed, blackmail or other motivations, these treasonous Democrats do the bidding and share classified national security information with the Chinese government.
5) Chinese "Confucious Insitute" branch ideological indoctrination centers in hundreds of universities and schools, across the U.S., molding the brains of young Americans, to turn them into future Eric Swallwells and Tim Walzes.
6) TikTok social media app, that allows the Chinese government to gather personal data and location from every app user, including about U.S. military personnel and their families and children, for intelligence use in a future war against the U.S.
7) Covid-19, that appears to have been developed as a bio-weapon at the Wuhan Research Institute, but backfired on China, and then China allowed it to spread to the rest of the world, by ceasing internal flights WITHIIN China in early 2020, but allowed Covid-infected passenger flights OUT of China, to every other part of the world. This was not the original intent of China at the time, but when China suffered from its own bio-research outbreak, they decided to make sure the rest of the world suffered from it too. China similarly gathers data from 23AndMe genetic tests of Americans, to design other more deadly diseases that can be used at some later time to infect and cripple the U.S. and its allies on a massive scale worldwide, as part of a future war.
8) Chinese-made cel phones, drones, energy equipment, computers, software, and other electronics made and exported from China, that can also be used to steal data, or in other ways be weaponized or shut down remotely in advance of a Chinese military attack.
9) Interference in our 2020 and 2024 elections, to whatever degree they were successful.
10) Funding of Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and the open borders movement. These are just other ways for China to de-stablilize the U.S., and weaken us and the broader West. Russia and Iran do these things as well. And Russia in particular has been doing so since at least 1945, secretly funding communist front groups, communist newspapers, and other radical groups like the Black Panthers (who by the way, Georgia/Fulton Countty prosecutor Fani Willis' father was a very active part of).
These are just some of the components of China's undeclared asymmetric war on the U.S., preceding an actual military war.
Former House speaker New Gingrich, on the underlying cause and ramifications of Trump's presidential victory for a second term. And the significant shift in the nation, in the Republican party, and how it makes Trump an even stronger president in his second term. How he is actually stronger by learning from his first term mistakes, and even from from losing, and re-strategizing from that after the 2020 election.
And Hungary is a country committed to preserving their security and national idenity, the only European nation that adequately guards its borders and deports illegal immigrants, particularly Islamic illegal immigrants.
Conversely, Angela Merkel a few years ago admitted that "Multiculturalism has been a failure in Germeny", inundated with millions of mostly Turkish immigrants who are not assimilating, and are raping women and otherwise violently attacking German citizens. Violent crime in every European nation has risen, particularly rapes of European women. Trump made a comment while president about Islamic immigration to Sweden creating an exponential surge in rapes there. President Trump was condemned in the liberal media as a racist, despite that he was proven to be absolutely right by crime statistics in Sweden.
Hey, why let a silly thing like, y'know, THE ACTUAL FACTS get in the way of leftist multicultural ideology and political narrative.
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