#cb Russia

[nyeobium]

Russians falling at terminal velocity

Don't worry, they're gonna be fine. They're russians, they know all about snow! /ref

[polarized-here]

Not to be cringe on main again. But chat guys. Please I’m sobbing look at them. LOOK AT THEM

LOOK AT THEM ALL… irresponsible financial decision galore… gosh my cuties

[toonys-conundrum-of-madness]

“Only you have the power within you.” Starlight Express designs #1

[selfmaderibcageman]

been thinking quite a bit about the uh, "you get a death note, fix particulate emissions" thing recently. I've kind of settled on "Sunak and Scholz get either novichok'd or Po-210'd" since they're both cunts I don't like but also at least allegedly anti russia which makes the framing make a lot more sense. The problem with the US is I think things are so polarized there's not really any good candidates for people that are 1) sufficiently beloved by most 2) somewhat but not too important and 3) actually make sense to stage as "assassinated by russia". Unsure with the rules as to whether I can actually make them get assassinated or what though. Like can the death note summon an assassin? not really i think.

[cherryblossomshadow]

Irony Dies—Again

Mary L. Trump Sep 30, 2024

Excerpts

CBS recently reported on a decade-long initiative in Finland to educate students in media literacy.

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The goal is to teach students how to avoid scams, identify false information, and debunk propaganda—to learn, that is, how to separate fact from fiction. What, for example, is the difference between ads and stories, between poems and publicity? Li Andersson, former education minister, said, “I think it should be seen as a civic skill in the current society that we live in, because we all live in an information society nowadays, or it’s called an information society; but, actually some of the information is mis- or disinformation.” The urgency of this mission has been increased by the fact that Finland has often been the target of propaganda campaigns (including the stoking of anti-migrant sentiment—sound familiar?) by its hostile neighbor, Russia, with which it shares an 818-mile border.

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According to a New York Times report, “Finland has advantages in countering misinformation. Its public school system is among the best in the world. College is free. There is high trust in the government. Teachers are highly respected.”

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The United States wasn’t included in the survey, but a Gallup survey released in 2022 found that only 34 percent of Americans trusted media to report the news fully, accurately and fairly.

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If the First Amendment allows people to lie and spread disinformation, if media organizations refuse to perform the basic task of making sure viewers know if lies are being told during a vice-presidential debate, than it is incumbent upon us to make sure our children (and our adults) know how to spot a lie when they hear or read one. If only.

[touchaheartnews]

Havana Syndrome: Report Links Mystery Illness To Russia

  In a significant development, a joint investigation by The Insider, Der Spiegel, and CBS’s 60 Minutes has shed light on the mysterious “Havana Syndrome” affecting US diplomats worldwide. The investigation suggests a possible connection between the illness and a Russian military intelligence unit, sparking controversy and concern. As gathered from BBC, The “Havana Syndrome” has puzzled medical…

[paulthepoke]

This Week in Prophecy: CBS & Red Heifers, Crocus Hall, Putin Re Elected, Sea Security Belt

This Week in Prophecy: CBS & Red Heifers, Crocus Hall, Putin Re Elected, Sea Security Belt

Numbers 19:5-6 And the heifer shall be burned in his sight. Its skin, its flesh, and its blood, with its dung, shall be burned. And the priest shall take cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet yarn, and throw them into the fire burning the heifer. Since when does CBS care about the Bible, specifically Numbers 19 and what it has to say about a red heifer? All credit to CBS and Chris Livesay, they…

[msclaritea]

The more Ageist attacks that our Israeli-loyal MSM makes on Biden, the more pissed off I get.

" ABC News/Ipsos PollConducted by Ipsos using the probability-based KnowledgePanel®A survey of the American general population (ages 18+)Interview dates: February 9-10, 2024, Number of interviews, adults: 528"

Bottom line, it's pretty clear that Bibi Netanyahu and HIS backers are not pleased with having someone so Pro-American, in the White House. We were supposed to be toast, by now. It should not be up to Israel, whom we have as our representative.

[blasphemister]

A

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/07/business/media/russia-tenet-media-tim-pool.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JE4.bcFy.g31NNgNvSOtS&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

[dlnorton]

Getting Into Shortwave, A Reason To Do It by DLNorton

I'm 62 years old.. in case you were wondering. This is why I'm bringing this up for our younger readers on Tumblr (and Bluesky) because I feel it's going to be important starting next year.

This is it... and listen closely..

--Get into listening on shortwave.. and get into ham radio operation.

Yes, I know a lot of far right evangelical churches use this medium to spread their own brand of bullshit to the older generations and the few nutcase survivalists out there, but hear me out. Not everyone uses this medium anymore.. but it's stagnant as far as the left agenda is concerned, especially here in the U.S.A. It's on there, but it's far and few between. It needs to grow.

I listen a lot to the stuff coming out of other countries, and from what I hear.. they're talking about us.. Americans.. and they're right. We really do not give one f u c k about what goes on out there.. unless it's on our cellphones, and even then we pick and choose who we want to watch.. not listen.. and a lot of them are these pointless "influencers" which, quite frankly, helped to get D*n*ld Tr*mp back into the White House.

So why am I asking the younger folks to get into shortwave listening and get into ham radio operation? Because of Starlink. El*n M*sk basically owns Starlink.. and El*n M*sk at any time can have it shut down.. on a whim. Yes, there are other satellite communications providers out there, but as does Starlink, so does these other providers.

We need an alternative to fall back on.. and it's the old school method of communication that has been around since Guglielmo Marconi sent out the first wireless transmission of carrier (radio) wave morse code back in the very early 1900s. If M*sk shuts down the satellite systems and in turn, all the cell towers shut down.. which is funny because that's also radio frequency based (Thank you Hedy Lamarr).. we're going to be left high and dry as far as cellular communication is concerned. They did this on a small scale in San Francisco back in 2011 when BART shut down cellular service to those who were planning a protest of a BART police shooting of a homeless man. This created a lot of chaos since this communication was no longer available, and no one had a way of coordinating the protest. If they had simple FRS (Family Radio Service) or GMRS (General Mobil Radio Service) or even the old tried and true CB radios.. then they could still communicate efforts in this event.

Simple.

Why these? Because no one really monitors these frequencies anymore. Oh sure, the FCC has their own monitors, but do they also really hang on to every word? No.. they do not. I know this because I used to run a CB radio transmit station and the shit that goes on on those airwaves, you'de think the FCC would be cracking down on it.. but they don't, they have much bigger fish to fry like... Internet communications? Fucking LOL!!

Could the local, state or federal authorities jam all radio frequencies? Sure, but simple over the air jamming is a real military effort, and most municipalities, et al.. (especially local) do not have that capability readily available.. but shutting off cell towers by just one order..? That could create MAJOR chaos..!!

Also, the Internet can too be shut down with a flick of the switch. It's pretty much shut down (or limited) in North Korea, Iran, China (to some extent) and any other dictatorship, hell.. even Russia has it limited.. You think P*t*n wants us to know what's really going on over there? If Tr*mp gives the word, M*sk will shut down Starlink and any other Internet/cellular provider faster than you can say "KKKlandestine" or "Pr*ject 2*25" or "Punch that MF'ing Nazi asshole!" .. It's scary to think about if and when your eyes and ears get punched out or shut off. I panic when I can't find my iPhone.

Shortwave is SO easy to listen to. You can actually listen to shortwave on the Internet using any WebSDR site. SDRUtah has a good one. Google it, and give it a whirl. Now, it is on the Internet and the Internet is vulnerable to shutdown. So what do you do? Get a cheap shortwave radio and a length of wire, some batteries and tune in. Oh.. I say batteries because the electrical grid can be shut down too, like in the case of when Texas had that horrific snow storm back in 2021..? It completely FUBARed their power grid thanks to deregulation of the power companies, and ERCOT got "caught" with their preverbal pants down..? But enough on the Lone Star states bureaucratic fuck foul ups.

So the electrical grid is defenseless too.. which is why having alternative power sources is a good idea. But I hear you say, "God dammit dude, are you trying to turn us into these wack job survivalists you see roaming the Internet and other survivalist modes of communication?"

Not necessarily.. but we can use one aspect of their "bonkerz" methods and ideologies to at least give ourselves a little something to fall back on.. and why not start with listening to shortwave? It's simple to do. You can find any number of shortwave radios on the Internet (Amazon, eBay.. who ever.. Temu? *shudder*) at any price practically.

Now I have two shortwave radios, a Radio Shack DX-394 I got back in 1996 at a Radio Shack that was shutting down, along with a couple of inexpensive police/fire scanners for listening to the 2 meter bands and to listen to the weather band on 162.550 MHz. And I also have an old Halicrafters S-120 vacuum tubed unit which I don't listen to anymore since it's practically unsafe to use because of how it's wired for use back when it was manufactured back in the late 1950s. I did find a YouTube video on how to modify the old S-120 to make it safe, but it's a lot of work that I don't really want to get into right now. Maybe in the future I'll crack that old puppy open and go at it with a soldering iron.

Now the other item I mentioned was ham radio, or amateur radio. I do not have the capability to operate a ham radio.. not yet, I'm working on that. I'm going to try to get my "Tech" level license so's I can operate on the 2 meter bands. I attempted it back in the mid 1990s.. but got sidetracked somehow and lost interest. I'm kicking myself over that one still. *sigh*

Now, I say "Tech" level because there's actually 3 levels of ham radio operation (license).. an AI overview spewed this out on Google to give you an idea:

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-The three levels of ham radio license in the United States are: 

Technician Class- The entry-level license, which is the choice for most new operators. It allows access to Amateur Radio frequencies above 30 megahertz, and some limited privileges on the HF bands. 

General Class- Grants operating privileges on all Amateur Radio bands and all operating modes. To earn this license, you must pass the Technician written examination and a 35-question examination. 

Amateur Extra ClassAllows access to all the same bands as General class licensees, plus some additional segments within those bands. 

To get a ham radio license, you must: 

Pass an examination administered by a team of volunteer examiners (VEs)

Contact a Volunteer Examiner Coordinator (VEC) to request an examination

Pay any reimbursement fees charged by the VEs

You can stay at any class for as long as you want before upgrading. US licenses are valid for 10 years before renewal. 

You can study for the exam using: 

Study guides

Training courses

Question pools, which are normally valid for 4 years

Study tools from HamStudy.org

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That's basically it in a nutshell as far as ham radio is concerned.

And remember,

CB radio and FRS are basically free to use, GMRS is free to use too, but you'll need to pay a $35.00 fee on the FCC website to register you and your family.. which is one basic fee (35 bux) and you're off to the races as far as GMRS goes. I forget how long the GMRS permit is to use.. but I think it's 5 years.. but I could be wrong..

So that's it. The take away here is, start by listening to shortwave.. and hopefully, the rest with blossom from there.

Be proactive as far as your communication goes. I know there's probably more I didn't touch on, but I know you're smart "young" and mostly woke people.. I'm an old fuckin' boomer, and I know some of my boomer peers are crusty far-right motherfuckers and they're trying to get the proceeding generations to follow their lead. It's up to you guys to take a stand and fight them.. and I hope this will give you one method of staying in touch with your peers when all else fails to deliver.

so... GO!! NOW!!

-DLNorton, 12-28-2024

[[Repost this far and wide.. PLEASE!]]

[eugenedebs1920]

When we look back at dictatorships, whether in fascist regimes, communist states, autocratic rule, and totalitarianism, ect. the philosophy’s don’t have all that much in common. One thing they do have in common is a “great leader” or an “emperor”, and more so nowadays a “strongman” who lords over the population with ”an iron fist”, a fancy way of saying they oppress thier people.

Let’s look at WWII. What did Germany’s leader (I heard we weren’t supposed to use the H word but you know who I’m referring to) and the emperor of Japan share in similarities? Not much, if anything at all. After Pearl Harbor America declared war with Japan and as a result of the treaty between Japan and Germany, Germany declared war with America (DUMB!!). What did germanys leader and the emperor of Japan have in common? Did they share any common ground other than the leader was almighty and the subjects were expendable? No. What they had in common is their oppressive rule and the fact that the free countries condemned their style of governance. So whether you have any similarities or not, as an oppressive regime, your only allies are other oppressive regimes. The idiom, your enemies, enemy, is your friend.

Fast forward to now and we don’t have the same style of fascism and dictatorships, in the more developed countries, as back then. Hence it’s not the same kind of harsh oppressive system. More of a soft autocracy. Orban in Hungary and Erdogan in Turkey are a prime example of the “soft autocracy”. Russia is an authoritarian state. Their sham government is a front for the pleasing of the world but, Putin rules Russia as a dictator.

The last thing these authoritarians want is their people to get any wild ideas of individual freedom and liberty. We did screw Russia over good after WWII, and I promise they didn’t forget, but beyond that, they want any democracy to fail. They don’t want their people to see that it is possible to have a thriving free nation. Who is the most power, wealthiest, freest nation on the planet? The United States of America.

China, Russia, Turkey, Hungary, North Korea, they would LOVE to see us destroy ourselves. All that they can do without invoking a military conflict, they will to undermine us, make us seem as if our system of government is feeble, flawed, corrupted, they will, and are. They want to rule over their citizens with fear and divisiveness. Making the population too scared to rise up against them.

This is why, in particular, Russia has been caught meddling in elections all throughout Europe and here in America. It is also why it’s so troubling that Republicans, and Trump in particular, are so keen on people such as Orban and not willing to help a democracy like Ukraine. Trump and Putin being “friends” is not a good thing. Trump is the easiest person to manipulate! All you have to do is complement him or offer him money and he’ll do whatever you want. Orban is an authoritarian! Why is he going and having private meetings with Trump directly after he met with Putin. This isn’t a Sherlock Holmes mystery here! It’s pretty damn easy to see!

Long story shorter than it could be. Russia will be putting out all kinds of misinformation and deepfakes, false stories and made up articles. Check the source! Despite what Trump says, because he only says it due to them being critical of him and covering him appropriately, the established sources, your NBC’s, CBS, ABC, CNN, Washington Post, NY Times, ect. these are credible sources. Are they corporate money making organizations? Yes. Does the press situation in this country need an overhaul? Yes. But these aren’t fake news (I had to laugh while typing that because that’s LITERALLY what Trump calls them) their flawed news but they aren’t social media deepfake, made up, complete fabrications to throw our democracy into turmoil. They will tell you the story as it is happening. The first step in autocratic rule is to limit information to what suits your narrative. Thats why Trump calls them fake. I can’t believe I’m sticking up for the media so much right now but , for reals!…

Check your sources. Know that their is forces that want to see us fail. Want us to be angry and rioting and questioning if democracy works. It does. Trump is a Russian asset, that’s why all this nonsense is amplified the way it is. In 248 years, 60 presidential elections, only the three involving Trump has this whole fraud, stolen election, noncitizen voting bullsh*t ever came up. Just Trump being a traitor. Don’t let the country’s most notorious conman con ya.

[beardedmrbean]

Kamala Harris appeared to struggle to explain her economic policies and how she will get them through Congress in an interview with CBS' 60 Minutes. 

The Vice President's full interview will air at 8pm ET Monday as part of an election special, showing her repeatedly asked about her plans for the economy.

'My plan is about saying that when you invest in small businesses, you invest in the middle class, and you strengthen America's economy. Small businesses are part of the backbone of America's economy,' she said. 

But when CBS' Bill Whitaker continued to grill her what her plan does and how she would pay for it, Harris didn't offer any specifics, just staying she knew lawmakers agreed with her. 

'I'm going to make sure that the richest among us who can afford it, pay their fair share in taxes. It is not right that teachers and nurses and firefighters are paying a higher tax rate than billionaires and the biggest corporations. And I plan on making that fair,' she said. 

'But we're dealing with the real world here,' Whitaker told her, asking her how she would get it approved by Congress. 

'You know, when you talk quietly with a lot of folks in Congress, they know exactly what I'm talking about, because their constituents know exactly what I'm talking about. Their constituents are those firefighters and teachers and nurses,' Harris replies.

The Democratic presidential nominee released part of her economic plan last week. It focuses on lowering middle-class taxes, cutting food and grocery costs, and lowering prescription drug prices. 

She also talks about creating an 'opportunity economy' for Americans to buy their first home or start a business. 

Voters rate the economy as one of their top issues for the 2024 presidential election. Harris is seeking to distance herself from President Joe Biden, who receives low marks from voters on his handling of the economy.

Biden was hammered for high inflation during his tenure, which led to a spike in prices in groceries, gas and rent. 

'While real gross domestic product growth slowed in the first quarter of this year, growth rebounded to a strong 3.0% in the second quarter. All available evidence suggests policymakers may have managed to bring inflation under control without causing a recession,' analysts wrote.

Harris sat down with 60 Minutes for a pre-election special that will air on Monday night. CBS released some early excerpts of the interview, which will also address the war in the Middle East. 

The news program also asked to interview Donald Trump as part of their special. The former president agreed and then backed out, saying he felt 60 Minutes owed him an apology for some of its previous reporting on him.

Trump appeared to be referring to his last interview with program, which took place in 2020 while he was president. He walked out on correspondent Lesley Stahl.

'They came to me and would like me to do an interview, but first I want to get an apology, because the last time I did an interview with them, if you remember, they challenged me on the computer,' Trump said last week. 

'They said the 'laptop from hell' was from Russia, and I said it wasn't from Russia. It was from Hunter, and I never got an apology, so I'm sort of waiting. I'd love to do '60 Minutes.' I do everything.' 

Harris, meanwhile, is on an interview blitz in the final days of the election.

In addition to appearing on 60 Minutes, she also taped an interview with the popular Call Her Daddy podcast, which has a target audience of young women.

On Tuesday, Harris will be live on ABC's The View, visit The Howard Stern Show, and appear with Stephen Colbert on CBS's The Late Show.

On Thursday, she will participate in a Univision town hall.

Many of the interviews are considered 'friendly' territory for the candidate. Trump employs a similar strategy, often appearing on Fox News.   _________________________

[mariacallous]

How do you solve a problem like the Houthis?

The U.S. Navy has certainly tried. It’s fired missiles at the militia’s facilities in Yemen. Together with the British Royal Navy, it has intercepted Houthi missiles being fired at ships in the Red Sea. All sorts of Western navies are conducting patrols in the troubled waters. But the Houthis are not relenting. On the contrary, they have asked the world’s most notorious arms dealer for more weapons. And the arrival of Russia’s Viktor Bout in the Red Sea is bad news for global shipping.

The Houthis are unlike any other adversary that Western militaries have faced in the past few decades. They’re not traditional armed forces. They’re not a Taliban-like insurgency outfit whose only objective is to seize territorial power. And they’re definitely not a mere criminal gang, like Somalia’s pirates.

Instead, the group is a powerful militia that has discovered that it can attack ships to get global attention, and it uses weapons ordinarily reserved for official armed forces.

Not even Hezbollah has such capabilities—or at least, it doesn’t use them, perhaps because Lebanon depends on shipping for its survival. Since the Houthis launched their campaign against Western-linked vessels, they’ve certainly been getting the attention they crave, and they’ve been demonstrating that they have access to highly sophisticated weaponry.

On Oct. 10, for example, the Yemeni outfit struck a Liberian-flagged ship with drones and missiles, and less than a month before that, they fired a missile that reached central Israel before being disabled by an Israeli interceptor.

The Houthis claimed the missile they directed at Israel was hypersonic, which has not been confirmed and is unlikely, but they like to brag. Their attacks seem designed to keep the global public in a state of fear over what might come next. And now, the Wall Street Journal reports, the group is in talks with Viktor Bout over the delivery of additional weapons.

Bout, you may remember, is the world’s most notorious arms dealer. The Russian merchant—who is known as the “merchant of death” and has also worked for Russia’s GRU intelligence service—spent nearly two decades selling weapons to armed groups around the world. Death and destruction followed wherever his weapons went.

But in 2008, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) managed to get him arrested in a sting operation in Thailand. He was subsequently extradited to the United States and sentenced to 25 years in prison on several counts, including conspiracy to kill Americans.

“He’s one of the most dangerous men on the face of the earth,” Michael Braun—the DEA’s chief of operations until 2008—told CBS’s 60 Minutes in 2010.

But two years ago, the United States decided to trade Bout for an American citizen imprisoned in Russia, basketballer Brittney Griner. Former DEA officials were aghast. So were U.S. military personnel, who had seen the immense harm that Bout’s weapons were doing.

Writing in Foreign Policy, Braun strongly advised against the exchange, noting that Bout remained close to the Kremlin: “Even after formally leaving the GRU, Bout enjoyed the backing of—and at times took assignments from—his former employer.” But the Biden administration believed, or wanted to believe, that the Bout of 2022 was much less dangerous than the Bout of 2008.

And now the Houthis have turned to the wily arms dealer. Before his arrest one-and-a-half decades ago, he specialized AK-47s and grenade launchers, but he seems to be able to deliver whatever his clients need.

In 2008, he offered two FARC guerrillas who’d arranged to meet him in Thailand 30,000 AK-47s, “10 million rounds of ammunition, or more, five tons of C-4 plastic explosives, ultralight airplanes outfitted with grenade launchers, mortars, unmanned aerial vehicles, Dragunov sniper rifles with night vision, vehicle-mounted anti-aircraft cannons that could take down an airliner,” not to mention some 700 to 800 MANPADs (man-portable air-defense systems), as Politico subsequently reported. (Alas for Bout, the guerillas had been turned by the DEA, and Bout was arrested.)

That means that Western navies and shipping companies have to prepare for the potential arrival of new weaponry in the Red Sea. The first two deliveries facilitated by Bout, expected as early as this month, “will be mostly AK-74s, an upgraded version of the AK-47 assault rifle,” the Wall Street Journal reported in early October. Bout and the Houthis have also discussed Kornet anti-tank missiles and anti-aircraft weapons.

The Houthis may well need automatic assault rifles in their armed conflict against Yemen’s official government, but it’s the larger weapons that Western countries should worry most about. If Bout’s relationship with the Houthis takes off, anti-ship weapons could well follow. Thanks to Iran, the Houthis already have access to drones and missiles, but Iran is weakened and may not be able to focus much on the Houthis. That’s where Bout could be useful.

And the arms dealer’s talks with the Houthis are hardly a freelance venture. Since his return from a U.S. prison, Bout—hailed as a hero by Russian state media—has entered the warm embrace of the Russian state, and in last year’s regional elections, he was elected a member of the Ulyanovsk state parliament. If he procures weapons for the Houthis, it will be with the knowledge or even assistance of the Kremlin.

The Kremlin has already shown a desire to help the Houthis. Iran is brokering talks between Russia and the militia that would see Russian P-800 Oniks anti-ship missiles delivered to the Houthis, Reuters reported in September.

The powerful missiles, which have a range of 300 kilometers (186 miles) and carry a 200-kilogram (440 pound) high-explosive warhead, would significantly increase the risk for merchant vessels in the Red Sea—and even for the Western naval vessels there to protect them. Indeed, the arrival of the nasty P-800 Oniks would trigger the departure of the remaining few shipping companies still sending their vessels through the Red Sea.

“The very notion of the high seas is now challenged, and once state and/or nonstate actors, especially proxies, discover a new approach that has strategic, operational, and tactical impact, it will only be mimicked by others,” retired Vice Adm. Duncan Potts, who commanded the European Union’s counter-piracy operation in the Indian Ocean at the height of the piracy resurgence there in the early 2010s, told Foreign Policy. “I fear this is a game-changer,” he added. “Defending against complex weapons needs complex weapons, and there are relatively few navies who have the capability, number of platforms, and will to do anything about it.”

It’s also about the dividing world. Ever since launching its campaign against shipping last November, the Yemeni militia has spared Russian and Chinese vessels. The two powers have shown their appreciation by not pressuring the Houthis to end their campaign and—unlike earlier operations against Red Sea pirates, where China participated—by not taking part in escort plans. (Western countries are conducting the escorts and fighting of Houthi attacks regardless of what flag ships fly and in which country they’re owned.)

The fact that Moscow appears so willing to fund an assault on Western vessels shows that global shipping is splitting in two—and a divided ocean will be a far riskier and more costly place.

[reading-writing-revolution]

Yeah, we know, but she still supported him.

Nick Visser at HuffPost:

GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley said former President Donald Trump regularly tried to “buddy up with dictators” while he was in the Oval Office, pointing to his longstanding praise of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his support of Chinese President Xi Jinping. Haley, Trump’s last remaining major competitor after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis dropped out of the race Sunday, made the comments as the two up their attacks against each other ahead of Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary. Haley has increasingly blasted Trump’s mental fitness, questioned his and President Joe Biden’s age and warned about the “chaos” he courts. In an interview with “Face the Nation” Sunday, she said America was tired of the former president’s magnetism toward conflict. “I remember at the United Nations, I had to sit him down and tell him to stop this bromance with Putin,” Haley, who served as the U.S. ambassador to the UN under Trump, said. “I mean, you can’t have someone who’s trying to buddy up with dictators that want to kill us. Instead, you have to let them know what we expect of them.”

Appearing on CBS's Face The Nation Sunday, 2024 GOP candidate Nikki Haley noted what we anti-Trump folks have long known: Donald Trump likes to "buddy up with dictators."

From the 01.21.2024 edition of CBS's Face The Nation:

[darkmaga-returns]

The Vigilant Fox

Nov 25, 2024

10 - Tucker Carlson warns that the Deep State has decided that WW3 is the only way to stop Trump from exposing their crimes.

“Those people, out of options, have decided the only way to stop Trump and... having their crimes revealed is with a world war,” Carlson said.

Carlson explained that Permanent Washington doesn’t care about domestic policy or making the country better. Instead, they only care about foreign policy because “killing people” makes them “feel like God” and “that’s where the money is.”

“I remain deeply concerned that this group, which includes nearly everyone in DC from both parties, wants Trump to take the country to war—either against Russia or, far more likely, Iran,” Carlson warned, emphasizing, “A war with Iran is a world war.”

He explained that Iran is now aligned with some of the world’s largest economies and most powerful militaries. As such, “A war with Iran means a war, in effect or by proxy, with Russia, China, Turkey, and much of the rest of the world. So that’s a world war.”

Meanwhile, despite a mandate from the American people to an end to the war in Ukraine, the current regime is now considering the unthinkable—arming Ukraine with nuclear weapons.

H/T: @TheChiefNerd

(See 9 More Revealing Stories Below)

9 - Whoopi Goldberg unexpectedly SHUTS DOWN co-host’s attempt to fearmonger about Trump before he even takes office.

ANA NAVARRO: “I'm not going to wait and see. I mean, this guy has told us he's a retribution. He's going to be a dictator.”

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: “There's nothing to be done until you know what you're fighting. Pissing in the wind doesn't help—you just get a wet face.”

ANA NAVARRO: “What I'm saying is I have no false expectations that at 78, he's going to, all of a sudden, turn into another human being. I spent weeks telling people that he was apocalyptic. I'm not going to change now.”

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: “You lose credibility in many different ways. If you don't know what you're talking about and you accuse him of something, then they're going to blow it back. That's why I say we need to wait and see.”

8 - Axios CEO melts down over Elon Musk telling 𝕏 users, “You are the media now” — mounts passionate defense of dying legacy media

"My message to Elon Musk is b*llshit. You're not the media!"

The MSNBC panel applauds:

“Social media people lying every day, every hour, every minute about the news, what you do matters. What the New York Times does matters. What the Wall Street Journal does matters."

They are incensed that 𝕏 exposes their lies — one reason their industry is in total collapse.

Credit: https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/1861051982229786713?t=5YrNdN4JT0ZeFU3WVnvvXQ&s=19

7 - Trump Transition Has 59% Approval in CBS News Poll

President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration starts off with mostly good will from the public: a majority of Americans overall are either happy or at least satisfied that he won and are either excited or optimistic about what he'll do as president. 

Trump's handling of his presidential transition gets approval from most Americans overall and brings near-universal approval from his voters, along with a net-positive response about his selections for Cabinet posts, in particular, Sen. Marco Rubio, who is Trump's pick to be secretary of state. 

Overall, Republicans today are more excited about what Trump will do as president now than they were in 2016 when he was first elected.

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6 - Stephen A. Smith admits Democrats got their “ass kicked” this election, and to make matters worse, “they have no bullpen.”

“A blind man could see the Democrats got their ass kicked.”

The problem with the Democrats, Stephen A. says, is that they “greased the skids” on the Democratic process.

While Republicans chose Trump because that’s who they genuinely wanted, Democrats sabotaged Bernie Sanders in 2016 simply because it was Hillary’s “turn.”

Now, the Democrats’ bench is so weak that they seriously entertained running an 82-year-old (Biden) as their top option.

“What are you thinking [with Biden]? And then I looked at the bullpen, and they had no one. They had no one. They had no one that could compete with Donald Trump,” Smith concluded.

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#5 - US officials looking at giving nuclear weapons to Ukraine.

#4 - Australians Stunned by Professor Dalgleish on Sky News: mRNA Vaccines Linked to Unbelievable Damage

Dalgleish minced no words in criticizing the hasty implementation and widespread use of mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna.

He expressed grave concerns about these vaccines, stating, “These vaccines were not vaccines, particularly the ones that ended up after AstraZeneca with all the clots, and they were shut down. But the messenger RNA vaccines of Pfizer and Moderna have caused unbelievable problems and damage to people, and I don't think we will ever really be able to get over that!”

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#3 - Rand Paul Warns Denver Mayor Who Threatened Trump on Deportations: You Will Lose, and You Will Be Removed

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) issued a rather stern warning to Denver Mayor Mike Johnston (D), suggesting that any effort to deny the new administration's mass deportation efforts could result in his removal from office.

Senator Paul concurs with the insurrection label and suggests that the Supreme Court would squash any such effort by Johnston. He further speculates on whether someone like Johnston might face criminal prosecution and predicts he'd likely be removed from office.

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#2 - Tucker Carlson makes stunning claim on who is really running the White House.

He told Clayton Morris on Redacted that he used to think Tony Blinken was running the White House. Now, he thinks it has to be Satan himself.

“I really think that you’ve got dark forces in charge.”

Tucker says the only reason the US would approve anti-personnel mines and long-range missiles against Russian forces is to “kill innocents, period.”

“That’s the only effect,” Carlson stressed.

“And they know that. And so they’re doing it anyway because killing is the point. So it’s evil. I think we should say that. I don’t think it’s a matter of defending democracy. The president of Ukraine is not elected. He’s a dictator. He literally passed his term and kept serving,” Carlson continued.

“And that country shut down a Christian denomination — put priests in jail. How many more markers of dictatorship do you need to call it what it is? Which is totalitarian. So everything about it is horrifying.”

#1 - Former Polish Minister Says At Least Half of US Aid Was Laundered by Ukrainians, and Much Was Given to Democrats

Kiev laundered money for the Democrats, taking a cut of what was left over, Piotr Kulpa has claimed President Biden meets with Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky at the White House.

Ukraine did not receive as much foreign aid as claimed by the administration of US President Joe Biden, and whatever help it did get was largely embezzled, a former Polish deputy minister has claimed. Up to a half of the funds that reached Kiev was stolen by Ukrainian officials, Piotr Kulpa has alleged.

US aid programs are a mechanism to “write off large sums of money that finance shady systems under the Democratic Party’s control,” he alleged. The incoming Trump administration could review government finances and discover the truth that “Ukraine got very little” compared to the amounts mentioned in public statements, Kulpa claimed.

Read More: https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/ukrainians-have-stolen-up-to-half-of-us-aid-ex-polish-deputy-minister/

BONUS #1 - Trump to Remove ALL Transgender Personnel from Military on Day One

BONUS #2 - Hillary Clinton exposed in yet another massive hoax.

BONUS #3 - The Greatest Medication You’ve Never Heard of

BONUS #4 - Google AI threatens student with a bone-chilling message.

BONUS #5 - Bill O’Reilly drops a METEOR story, leaving NewsNation panel speechless.