The billionaire and the president elect joined in Texas to observe the launch of a Space X missile. Mr. Musk, owner of the company invited his new BFF to watch the show. The missile launch was successful and the returning section splashed down in the Caribbean Ocean.
Another success for Space X. One wonders will Jeff Bezos invite Trumoie to his 'next launch"? We'll see. Can't wait.
So, the internet is down. So a portion of NATO countires lost their connections. Hmmmmm. How does this happen today? Well, sometimes a ship drags an anchor across the cable, severing same. Then it is replaced or repaired. Sabotage is another method. Once located, it is relatively easy: drop the hook and pull and "snap" goes the wire, crash goes the internet, and laughing goes the Kremlin.
There's no end to the mischief spread about by the Kremlin. All those toadies saying yes, yes, yes, to Mad Vlad(VOVA). Remind you of someone? The wire connection was lost between 2 Scandinavian countries and Germany. This is a very important connection since Germany is the largest economic European nation on which many of the smaller countries depend for many, many things. To cut this cable is not catastrophic, but it is a finger in the eye of all parties involved. This comes from the Kremlin which recently joined forces with Kim Un of North Korea to provide an army division to fight alongside the poor Rus who are facing another long cold winter away from Mother Russya, fighting in a war none of them wanted at all.
And the Kremlin pays an insurance policy to the widows and orphans left behind. The money has been a boon to remote cities and villages across the largest country in the world. Business has improved considerably in those places that sent young men to die down south in the war nobody but Putin wanted.
Time now to revoke all visas for anybody living and working or studying abroad. all those countries that accepted those Russyans that fled the Mother Land should now have to return: no refugee status, no asylum sanctuaries. Enough. If Putin is skirting and evading sanctions, then add this to the list: no more Russyans accepted abroad-anywhere(excepting North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela, maybe Syria.
How will those Rus like that; getting sent home for Christmas; cold but probably lots of nat gas heat.
Trumpie appointed DR. Mahmet Oz as head of Medicare Program(s). He'll join Robert F Kennedy, Jr. as an important functionary in Trumpie's new administration come January 20, 2025. It appears to t his casual observer that Trumpie does as he said he would: make decisions based on his 'gut' feelings on the issue/appointment/program/ desired outcomes.
Dr. M. Oz has been around for a couple of decades after gaining some credibility as a guest on Oprah Winfrey's TV show. Yes, Dr. M. Oz is a noted cardiac surgeon. Yes, he 'was' associated with Columbia Medical School(that tie has now been erased quietly.) Once he recognized the possibilities as a talk show host, he ran with it(football term, sorry). Soon, he was hawking diet supplements on his show, selling suspect chemicals that offered little excepting an emptying of your wallet. Now he will be in charge of Medicare which affects almost half the population of the USA.
Trump being Trump; he wants to shake up "big pharma"; big Health, big government, bigley bigley. He will do it "his Way" which is the brainless, gut wrenching way of an ignoramus. So, of those 3 million Trumpie voters who carried the election for the Republicans, get ready, and please, don't claim ignorance: he told you all ahead of time what was coming.
Now we'll have Dr. Coocoo and the vax denier who visited American Samoa and 89 children died shortly afterward because the parents bought into Kennedy's anti-vaccine BS.
Get ready for Oz.
So, the generals running the Kremlin's Special Operations in Ukraine needed some manpower to counterattack the incursion of Ukrainian troops into the Kursk region of the Motherland. A shockinh development. The generals were ordered by Mad Vlad to attack this insult. What happened? Nothing. No manpower available. Remember, the Rus invaded their neighbor 1000 days ago. Yes, 1000 days ago. It has cost thr Kremlin hundreds of thousands of young men from a country that doesn't have very many young men left to expend their lives for a MAD MAN. So, what to do?
Call Kim Un, now. "Kim, I need a division pronto, price is no object." Ok, Vladdy, I'll give the order soon. The price: oil, lots at a favorable price, below Saudi price. Ok. done. SO Kim sends 10,000 North Koreans to Russya ready for action. Wait, they don't speak Rus. Ok, add a few Russyans to each unit for communications. Done. Now we have North Koreans dancing around in Kursk. Those North Koreans liek the fresh air, something they've never experienced. Some like the geography, so different that the peninsula with its hills and valleys and stinking weather and stinking Dear Leader. Oh, to be free of the dear Leader. yes, we still have the in house assassins watching us but we are here, not there.
As a result, Old Joe freed up some requested rocket munitions for Volodymyr which he promptly put to good use, raining some steel on to the heads of the North Korean conscripts digging around in the Ukrainian black soil. But now the Rus generals have the manpower to counterattack the intrusion. Never mind that the war has dragged on for 1000 days.(This means that MAd Vlad is 1000 days closer to the end of 'his' time, which is coming faster than even he anticipated). Oh, and he's trotted out the 'nuclear option' pony for the scaredy cats. Clear indication that he's losing it.
Wrlcome to the "new Russya".
Remember Hong Kong-the 'former' British colony operating within the boundary of the Red Menace? And then, Beijing decided that the treaty signed back then was a mistake. So, the Communist government jumped the piece of paper by 25 years and took over HK.
How did that work out? Ask the 45 citizens of Hong Kong that were sentenced to prison terms yesterday. Some got 4 years, and some got ten. I guess the judge(can a Communist be called judge?) wanted to break up the pattern for the sake of media terms. Many of these prisoners have been waiting awhile for the sentencing phase of their trials(are there 'real trials' in the Communist government? No) So, they'll join Jimmy Lai, the publisher who has been sentenced to life(what's left of it) in prison for publishing something Xi doesn't like or the PARTY doesn't like or the council of Commies doesn't like.
So, the Communists exalt on their victory over dissent, again. Lovely country China. Been there, smells like fish. These sentences send another message: don't oppose Beijing or Xi JP or else. Or else PRISON. Want to spend your time in a Chinese shithole? Then just keep quiet and eat your rice allocation. Oh, complain about real estate problems? Be careful, it's a very sensitive topic lately. Even the rest of the world knows about China/ Beijing's real estate fiasco. Can you believe it : millions and millions of condos rotting away, empty and the debt on the government's balance sheet(s). How does this happen? Communism, pure and simple. Sure the West has its problems but did the West build millions of condos on order of Washington? No.
Have a nice day, Hong Kongers.
Well, sports fans, get your snow boards ready: here it comes. That's the atmospheric bomba, guaranteed to dump the white stuff. Folks were starting to get concerned about the "season"; but now, here we go: WINTER.
Strolling around Homewood yesterday gives one the impression that the San Francisco-based owners care less about Tahoe than they do about their $$$$$. No surprises there. They are capitalists and thats what you get. However, the regulators are in charge here, thankfully. Can you imagine what the lakefront would look like without TRPA? Exactly, just like Vegas. We don't like Vegas; we like Tahoe Blue.
So, Palisades will probably be making snow by the ton tonight, tomorrow, and for months to come to satisfy the needs of their customers who will pay dearly for the privilege of skiing/boarding down Squaw Peak(don't say squaw). Get ready for the traffic-the holidays are on the near term horizon. Oh, well.
DJT's disdain for the legal profession only matches his disdain for Congress. In a move to insult all lawyers everywhere, DJT named Matt Gaetz as his choice for Attorney General of the USA. Can you imagine? This is what was expected from DJT: he could care less about those saps who voted him into another term in the White House. Now the chickens are coming home to roost. Republicans are clattering about their warrens chattering about the flood of appointments being made by the winner on Nov. 5th.
So the voters and those who abstained from voting will be spared the post election day protests and mass resignations that would have followed a defeat of Trumpism. Now they have to live with the new reality for 4 more years: a wackadoodle housed on Pennsylvania Avenue. Of course, much of his time will be spent on the golf course at Mar-A -Lago in Florida, his southern home of record where he housed all the documents he stole from the White House after being defeated by Joe Biden in 2020. Federal Judge Eileen Cannon took care of that problem for the Donald. She can probably play a round of 18 holes at Mar-a-Lago for free.
Matt Gaetz has been under investigation for sex crimes and other dark deeds while in Conress as a representative of Florida. He resigned before the report was released. Now he will face confirmation hearings in the Senate. How about that?
His Deputy is Todd Blanche, the pathetic counsel of DJT through many of his trials. He's another grabber/climber/status seeker/compromiser. If Gaetz gets dumped, Toddy Boy will be elevated into the leadership position.
This whole affair is great entertainment unless you prefer less drama, less facade, less fake truths, less corruption, less ignorance, less scary, less doomsday, less narcissism, less Orange hair.
Viva Italia
