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     Aesquire |
The Chinese have put back doors in the chips they make for us. Obviously someone watched the Battlestar Galactica reboot. ( great, btw, if weirdly pseudo spiritual in spots ) If you missed it, when the robots attack, they have the software codes from espionage, and just as the good guys start to fight back, just..... Shut off the fighters, missiles and ships. The Galactica, now a museum, has no networks, it's Korean war tech that works while the modern Aegis Cruiser stuff is turned off by remote control. This isn't just science fiction. U.S. electronic warfare people shot down in Vietnam were sent to Russia to be tortured, and killed, to get our technology. The Yom Kippur War against Israel used anti aircraft missiles and radars deliberately designed to be invisible on U.S. Gear. Many planes were shot down, until a rush shipment of new gear, ( not even used in front line U.S. aircraft!) was sent over & hurriedly installed. Another true anecdote. Top Gun & USAF dissimilar combat training A-4 & F-5 instructor planes had the radar gear removed, to save weight, and civilian automotive radar detectors mounted on top of the instrument panel, ( just like your car without the Kleenex box ) to detect our front line fighter systems. Old Skyhawks and Tigers prove more than capable of killing the latest fighters if they have competent ground control & we operate on Rules of Engagement requiring visual confirmation that the bogey is the enemy. Small, hard to see, highly maneuverable, unsophisticated planes, flown by expert pilots routinely win over the most expensive machines on Earth. The Navy has replaced most of the older generation planes with customized older F-16s, stripped, and equipped with the same late 1950's tech from old Skyhawks, that are now, ironically, the most maneuverable and deadly F-16s under visual ROEs. Civilian contractors still use the Skyhawks and Tigers, as well as Migs & even Draken fighters to train American forces after the budget cuts after the Fall of the Iron Curtain. And...... Have you noticed the sudden number of ship collisions the Navy has had lately? That's highly unusual. | ||
| Crusty |
Quote of the day: "Today’s Supreme Court ruling is a tremendous victory for the American People and the Constitution. The Supreme Court has upheld the clear authority of the President to defend the national security of the United States. In this era of worldwide terrorism and extremist movements bent on harming innocent civilians, we must properly vet those coming into our country. This ruling is also a moment of profound vindication following months of hysterical commentary from the media and Democratic politicians who refuse to do what it takes to secure our border and our country. As long as I am President, I will defend the sovereignty, safety, and security of the American People, and fight for an immigration system that serves the national interests of the United States and its citizens. Our country will always be safe, secure, and protected on my watch." (Message edited by Crusty on June 26, 2018) | ||
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| Gregtonn |
Supreme Court Justice Kennedy just announced his retirement. Can Bader Ginsburg be far behind? This is getting really good. G | ||
| Hootowl |
She won't retire as long as there is a republican in the write house. She's about as partisan as they come. She will die in office if Trump gets another term. | ||
| Court |
Agree | ||
| Ratbuell |
Gee. If she were anti-Hillary, she'd commit suicide with 2 shots to the back of her own head, for standing in the way of "progress".... | ||
| Blake |
Breyer is about to turn 80. I can see Ginsberg and Bryer being replaced by Trump picks. It will be glorious. | ||
| Blake |
Exactly right. The mayor of Livermore California explains Trump’s popularity and success. This is perhaps the best explanation for Trump's popularity .... Marshall Kamena is a registered Democrat and was elected mayor of Livermore, CA.. He ran on the Democratic ticket as he knew a Bay Area city would never vote for a Republican. He is as conservative as they come. He wrote the following: Trump’s 'lack of decorum, dignity, and statesmanship, By Marshall Kamena, Mayor of Livermore, CA. My Leftist friends (as well as many ardent #NeverTrumpers) constantly ask me if I’m not bothered by Donald Trump’s lack of decorum. They ask if I don’t think his tweets are “beneath the dignity of the office.” Here’s my answer: We Right-thinking people have tried dignity. There could not have been a man of more quiet dignity than George W. Bush as he suffered the outrageous lies and politically motivated hatreds that undermined his presidency. We tried statesmanship. Could there be another human being on this earth who so desperately prized “collegiality” as John McCain? We tried propriety – has there been a nicer human being ever than Mitt Romney? And the results were always the same. This is because, while we were playing by the rules of dignity, collegiality and propriety, the Left has been, for the past 60 years, engaged in a knife fight where the only rules are those of Saul Alinsky and the Chicago mob. I don’t find anything “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper” about Barack Obama’s lying about what went down on the streets of Ferguson in order to ramp up racial hatreds because racial hatreds serve the Democratic Party. I don’t see anything “dignified” in lying about the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi and imprisoning an innocent filmmaker to cover your tracks. I don’t see anything “statesman-like” in weaponizing the IRS to be used to destroy your political opponents and any dissent. Yes, Obama was “articulate” and “polished” but in no way was he in the least bit “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper.” The Left has been engaged in a war against America since the rise of the Children of the ‘60s. To them, it has been an all-out war where nothing is held sacred and nothing is seen as beyond the pale.. It has been a war they’ve fought with violence, the threat of violence, demagoguery and lies from day one – the violent take-over of the universities – till today. The problem is that, through these years, the Left has been the only side fighting this war. While the Left has been taking a knife to anyone who stands in their way, the Right has continued to act with dignity, collegiality and propriety. With Donald Trump, this all has come to an end. Donald Trump is America ’s first wartime president in the Culture War. During wartime, things like “dignity” and “collegiality” simply aren’t the most essential qualities one looks for in their warriors. Ulysses Grant was a drunk whose behavior in peacetime might well have seen him drummed out of the Army for conduct unbecoming. Had Abraham Lincoln applied the peacetime rules of propriety and booted Grant, the Democrats might well still be holding their slaves today. Lincoln rightly recognized that, “I cannot spare this man. He fights.” General George Patton was a vulgar-talking.. In peacetime, this might have seen him stripped of rank. But, had Franklin Roosevelt applied the normal rules of decorum then, Hitler and the Socialists would barely be five decades into their thousand-year Reich. Trump is fighting. And what’s particularly delicious is that, like Patton standing over the battlefield as his tanks obliterated Rommel’s, he’s shouting, “You magnificent bastards, I read your book!” That is just the icing on the cake, but it’s wonderful to see that not only is Trump fighting, he’s defeating the Left using their own tactics. That book is Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals – a book so essential to the Liberals’ war against America that it is and was the playbook for the entire Obama administration and the subject of Hillary Clinton’s senior thesis. It is a book of such pure evil, that, just as the rest of us would dedicate our book to those we most love or those to whom we are most indebted, Alinsky dedicated his book to Lucifer. Trump’s tweets may seem rash and unconsidered but, in reality, he is doing exactly what Alinsky suggested his followers do. First, instead of going after “the fake media” — and they are so fake that they have literally gotten every single significant story of the past 60 years not just wrong, but diametrically opposed to the truth, from the Tet Offensive to Benghazi, to what really happened on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri — Trump isolated CNN.. He made it personal. Then, just as Alinsky suggests, he employs ridicule which Alinsky described as “the most powerful weapon of all.”... Most importantly, Trump’s tweets have put CNN in an untenable and unwinnable position. ... They need to respond. This leaves them with only two choices. They can either “go high” (as Hillary would disingenuously declare of herself and the fake news would disingenuously report as the truth) and begin to honestly and accurately report the news or they can double-down on their usual tactics and hope to defeat Trump with twice their usual hysteria and demagoguery. The problem for CNN (et al.) with the former is that, if they were to start honestly reporting the news, that would be the end of the Democratic Party they serve. It is nothing but the incessant use of fake news (read: propaganda) that keeps the Left alive. Imagine, for example, if CNN had honestly and accurately reported then-candidate Barack Obama’s close ties to foreign terrorists (Rashid Khalidi), domestic terrorists (William Ayers & Bernardine Dohrn), the mafia (Tony Rezko) or the true evils of his spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright’s church. Imagine if they had honestly and accurately conveyed the evils of the Obama administration’s weaponizing of the IRS to be used against their political opponents or his running of guns to the Mexican cartels or the truth about the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the Obama administration’s cover-up. So, to my friends on the Left — and the #NeverTrumpers as well — do I wish we lived in a time when our president could be “collegial” and “dignified” and “proper”? Of course I do. These aren’t those times. This is war. And it’s a war that the Left has been fighting without opposition for the past 50 years. So, say anything you want about this president - I get it - he can be vulgar, he can be crude, he can be undignified at times. I don’t care. I can’t spare this man. He fights for America. Please pass this on..over and over, and again and again... | ||
| Macbuell |
That was written by Evan Syatt for Townhall.com | ||
| Ducbsa |
A Lefty friend sent me this link: https://www.facebook.com/Teanderthal/posts/1783667 515004270 I scrolled through the comments and found this: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/us/politics/ no-harley-davidsons-ceo-did-not-punch-back-at-trum p.html and sent it to my friend and said, "Seriously? The left apparently has to settle on their Fake News, since the reality is the opposite. More research next time would be appropriate." | ||
| Ratbuell |
The left holds their breath, plugs their ears, and chants "nananananana" to avoid the facts. They don't just "miss" the truth, they actively AVOID it. | ||
| Ebutch |
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| Fb1 |
There's so much winning of late it's hard to keep up.
^: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1012409 641911930881 | ||
| Fb1 |
Source, more: https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/foxconn-invest ment-sign-come/ | ||
| Hughlysses |
 I LOL’ed. | ||
| Steveford |
And your tax returns. | ||
| Sifo |
That's a great one Hugh! A Lefty friend sent me this link: https://www.facebook.com/Teanderthal/posts/1783667 515004270 I scrolled through the comments and found this: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/us/politics/ no-harley-davidsons-ceo-did-not-punch-back-at-trum p.html and sent it to my friend and said, "Seriously? The left apparently has to settle on their Fake News, since the reality is the opposite. More research next time would be appropriate." So in a nutshell... FarceBook continues to push fake news. Now where did I put my shocked face? | ||
| Ducbsa |
A good comparison: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/06/far_l eft_versus_far_right_spot_the_facists.html | ||
| Rick_a |
Only a communist or socialist would consider fascism right wing. People like that are clearly on a whole 'nother political scale...or something... The progressive messiah, Bernie Sanders, advocates for complete government control of private industry. Sounds a lot like fascism to me. Mention this to the socialists, and crickets. The media drones and useful idiots like to call everyone else Russian propagandists and uneducated red necks. My formal education may comprise of vocational skills, but I wasn't born yesterday. The left relishes in the exploitation of generational ignorance. | ||
| Fb1 |
^: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1012759 156426670083 | ||
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| Tootal |
I went to a Teamster union retiree breakfast last month. I wasn't a Teamster but I did work with these guys and they're a great group but many don't think for themselves and just follow what they are told by the Union. So somebody brought up that they got a raise on their pension check and they couldn't figure out why. One said it must be a cost a living increase. Since I'm in the same pension fund as they are I explained that we don't get any raises. Then they did what I hoped they would do, they asked me why then did they get a raise? I smiled and told them that since the Trump tax cuts were coming they are taking less money out of your check to compensate for them. The look on their faces was priceless! Shock, disbelief with a bit a hatred! Oh, did I mention silence! | ||
| Fb1 |
^: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1013037 916216614912 | ||
| H0gwash |
"Increasing international production to alleviate the EU tariff burden is not the company's preference, but represents the only sustainable option to make its motorcycles accessible to customers in the EU and maintain a viable business in Europe," the Milwaukee-based company said in a regulatory filing. "Europe is a critical market for Harley-Davidson." The rest of the fox6now article is at https://fox6now.com/2018/06/25/harley-stung-by-tar iffs-shifts-some-production-overseas/ Europe is important to future sales for Harley as sales in the United States slump. Harley-Davidson's US bike revenue dropped 8.5% last year from 2016, but only 0.4% in Europe. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.breitbart.com/2018-elections/2018/06/2 9/washpo-rising-trucker-wages-are-economic-threat/ ?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+breitbart+%28Breitbart+News%29 Yes, it's true. Better pay is inflationary. But not job killing inflation like government mandates. The real world feedback of supply and demand. Notice that the ones that suffer are the billionaires who may have to cut back on buying more yachts from Italian companies. ( because Clinton's luxury tax killed the business here ) Want to guess that the owner of the Washington Post is upset? Usually it's "poor and minorities hardest hit". This is "leftist billionaires hardest hit". What a change. ( full disclosure, I recently worked for the company that delivers much of Amazon's packages. ) | ||
| Court |
I think the Harley-Davidson thing . . . pardon the pun . . . is pretty much Hogwash. The closing of the Kansas City production facility was announced months ago and long before any talk of tariffs. The Live Wire and VROD died their slow deaths not as Harley "lost" market . . . but as they squandered it . . . . treating demand as a birthright to profits and clawing to try to recreate the days when we paid $7K over MSRP, waited a year and took any color a dealer could get. Like a hard on . . . . it was lots of fun . . . while it lasted. I watched when Harley-Davidson flushed their lottery ticket to own the future down the toilet in 2009. They not only ended Buell . . . .they did so in a mean, spiteful, vengeful way that, at the expense of shareholders, played out what some saw as a personal vendetta. Ya gotta love a company that announced the new consolidated Buell World Headquarters campus . . . that would have been on the other side of I-43 and then, less than 60 days hence not only pulls the plug from performs their own version of "dumping" (see the Japanese vs. HD) order dealers and distributors to remove any and every sign that Buell ever existed. I read the 8K and it's fun reading but largely a crock of shit by folks who watched geniuses build the company and now look like a group of whining sniffling MBA students ended their rightful entitlement. | ||
| Sifo |
"Increasing international production to alleviate the EU tariff burden is not the company's preference, but represents the only sustainable option to make its motorcycles accessible to customers in the EU and maintain a viable business in Europe," the Milwaukee-based company said in a regulatory filing. "Europe is a critical market for Harley-Davidson." The rest of the fox6now article is at https://fox6now.com/2018/06/25/harley-stung-by-tar iffs-shifts-some-production-overseas/ Europe is important to future sales for Harley as sales in the United States slump. Harley-Davidson's US bike revenue dropped 8.5% last year from 2016, but only 0.4% in Europe. That article is a great example of pushing an agenda by the writer. They quote the HD 8-K filing on June 25. The imply that this is being done in response to new tariffs because of Trump's tariffs. They make a big issue, with a big graphic with this quote... "$2,200 per average motorcycle exported from the U.S. to the EU." Here's that quote in context... "The European Union has enacted tariffs on various U.S.-manufactured products, including Harley-Davidson motorcycles. These tariffs, which became effective June 22, 2018, were imposed in response to the tariffs the U.S. imposed on steel and aluminum exported from the EU to the U.S. Consequently, EU tariffs on Harley-Davidson motorcycles exported from the U.S. have increased from 6% to 31%. Harley-Davidson expects these tariffs will result in an incremental cost of approximately $2,200 per average motorcycle exported from the U.S. to the EU." First, are we really to believe that by June 25, they are already responding to a tariff that went into effect 3 days earlier? Keep in mind, the report needs some time to be put together, proof read, etc. That's a mighty short time frame to make a move as major as moving production to another country. I'm pretty sure that plan has been in the works for quite some time. It simply isn't something you do on a whim. It's also worth noting that the EU had already been taxing HD imports at 6% before Trump did anything. This is exactly what Trump is talking about. We have been getting screwed by our "friends" for many, many years. It's sad that our "friends" have responded in such a way when it's pointed out they have been screwing us for so long. It makes me wonder about what they thing the word "friends" means. Here's a link to the SEC filing by HD. http://investor.harley-davidson.com/node/17401/htm l | ||
| H0gwash |
The Harley Davidson thing... it is what it is, it's not a fairy tale but it is a story of survival over 100+ years. They have every right to squander their money as they see best fit for them, that's capitalism. Maybe they can write a law forbidding companies from doing this, but I'm sure American manufacturing will complain that is socialism. |
