I missed this yesterday, having mostly skimmed Seymour Hersh’s latest substack—which I actually linked with regard to the Dem desperation to sideline Zhou sooner rather than later: Fear and Loathing on Air Force One Tom Luongo picked up on the important news in the second half of the article:
The Ukraine Zone is a dimension between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. It is a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. Or so it appears to be for the oligarchical ruling class of the West.
Ever present are the dichotomies between what these people want to do and what they can do; and what they think they know (for example, about Russia and the state of the war) and what is the case. How much do they REALLY know? Are their action plans for NATO based on fantasies of which they are aware but cannot admit? Are they simply lying to preserve their status? Or are they uninformed, misinformed, or deluded?
The scariest of scary things is that the way things are currently structured our lives depend on these people. Their plans will likely be stopped by reality - but at what cost - to us? We can hope that the political change that Mark expects to happen does. In the mean time, the Russians are smart to take Napoleon's advice about one's enemies destroying themselves.
Can anyone explain, how did Kamala get to be a lawyer, Attorney General, Senator and now VP? She can't seem to talk at above an elementary school level. I am quite baffled. No wonder most of her staff quit. Is she the ultimate diversity candidate? I have never heard her speak intelligently. I recently read that she might have dislexia.
Search "Willie Brown and Kamala Harris". Willie was a political master and king maker in Cali politics for a very long time. Kamala was his mistress and that explains her rise to the heights.
Not just Harris. He's also helped the careers of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Gov. Gavin Newsom, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and many others.
"During Brown’s stints in office and after his mayoralty ended in 2004, he has also been a powerful political patron who could make or break the political careers of others. Now, at age 84, he has seen his protégés climb to the top of California’s political ladder and become national figures."
"Along the way, be became a bon vivant, swathed in expensive, hand-tailored suits, and, until his eyesight failed, driving exotic sports cars at high speed. An understanding with his long-separated wife, Blanche, freed him to dally with an ever-changing array of attractive women, including one who bore him a late-life child."
I hadn't heard about Nuland being blocked as replacement for the "much respected" Sherman (I'll let that one pass). That's great news! The final paragraph is spot on: the Russians can afford to wait and see if the near future throws up someone in the West who is willing to negotiate in good faith.
Ben Wallace has announced he's standing down as Defence Sec just now. He didn't get to play in the big sandcastle so now he's taking his bucket and spade and he's going home to mummy.
Innaddition, Mercouris offers the possibility that Wallace’s last encounter with Zelensky at Vil-nil-ius could have been the straw that broke the camel’s back. Once again peevish and ungrateful for the West’s unending (?) shipments of war materiel, Wallace informed Z that the US/UK were not Amazon, and that being supplied with ammo or tanks or advisors was not just a matter of clicking the “send” button…you can’t make this stuff up.
Yep - weapons trafficking from Eastern Europe has been going on for decades. I worked with Romanian police officer on attachment who said his main line of work was stopping Ukrainian traffickers. It must be off the charts now.
We have seen a few toppled recently. Curious that he was snarky about Zelensky a couple of days ago and now he's standing down from govt. He's clearly annoyed so I wonder if now he'll go off script even more. Anyway - yes, another skittle down. I'd love to have seen Nuland's face when she was told she'd been blocked. I bet she looked like a bulldog licking p**s off a nettle.
Thinking regime change will include Susan Rice as VP to finish Zhou term and probably run. Kamala agrees to take Feinstein senate seat when she's kicked to curb. Burns to SecState. Behind the stage, Barack gets to play puppet master and Zhou get to pardon Hunter and other family members for cooperation on regime change. Any embarrassment over Ukraine debacle pinned on Sullivan (Hillary's boy), Blinkin, Nuland and Austin for giving bad info to Zhou. EU shut up with threat to leave NATO.
It's a creative solution. Get Feinstein to step down, provide her seat to Kama Sutra. Rice to VP might make sense for Dems, but the difficulty remains--a VP in this situation has to be approved by majority vote in both the House and Senate. GOP has incentive to disrupt that smooth transition. Part of the political disarray of the collective West.
The Wise Latina is said to be in poor health. Promise her seat to Kamala. A lifetime gig. This, to me, is the only offer she can't refuse. Just as Mike Downing opined, a deal with McConnell and McCarthy can be had to assure her confirmation.
If the Wise Latina is potential departure, RBG lesson would be to not delay and risk losing the chance.
Reminds me of the adage "Do No Harm." Kamala to SCOTUS puts her out of the way with limited damage potential, providing GOP gets/maintains Senate or the Big House. Also shuts her up (Dem win).
Would pay a ticket to watch John Kennedy grill her on legal and constitutional knowledge. Price of SCOTUS admission for Kamala is humiliation preserved for all time :-)
There's no way for McConnell to rein in John Kennedy. I love, love, love watching him humiliate Biden's diversity nominees! However, despite Kennedy's best efforts, I'm afraid the fix would be in, despite the fact that Kamala is even less qualified than Ketanji Brown-Jackson, who is wholly unqualified based on not only her confirmation hearing testimony but her ludicrous first dissent.
Oh my, what will the Dems do to fill the Hispanic quota on the Court? Maybe Kamala can find a long lost Hispanic ancestor hidden amongst her Jamaican roots?
I, too, would relish watching Kamala try to respond to Kennedy's grilling on first-year law school questions! Particularly because she is known to be (according to her staff) either too lazy or too arrogant to prepare before giving her word salad speeches and pronouncements.
GOP (Mitch & Kevin Show) does some type of deal to roll over (their typical position). Thinking Rice and Michelle agree not to run. Happy to face Gavin. Remember, GOP doesn't want to risk Kamala getting the big seat so this gets her out of the way and Rice into caretaker role. Zhou is POTUS in appearance only, with Rice running show day to day.
GOP sellouts (redundancy alert!) might be okay with it, you're probably right. But it's worth adding that since she'd probably be thoroughly controlled by the baddies just as the current thing is,* the rest of us should dread it with every fiber of our being.
*Maybe not at first, but eventually. As Mike Downing gets at above with his "file" comment, the baddies have ways of bringing uncooperative Dems to heel, and that right quick.
I do agree she will all but certainly never be allowed to get to the presidency. I was just saying that even if McCarthy, et al were okay with it, the rest of us should be very afraid should it actually come to pass. Her incompetence would mean not a minimization of the damage done but a maximization of her getting controlled just like the current White House occupant.
My guess is anyone who gets the WH as a Dem, will be controlled by the forces currently running the show behind the scenes. We all have theories on just who that might be,
Rush Limbaugh said something very interesting a short time before he passed. He said that yes Obama and Rice were controlling Zhou, but there were others above them that no of us, including him had a clue about.
I greatly appreciate your comment above that Trump insisted on " a safe and effective vaccine, the contract repeats that requirement numerous times." That intervectin recommended by him was not made readily available amounts to murder in my eyes. I take issue with your comment that Trump lacks bureaucracy expertise. A President has every right to expect that those working under him are there to further his objectives, and what went on is shocking to the extent they sabotaged his Presidency, the Constitution, the Rule of Law and the best interests of America. I am pessimistic for the future, as should he ever be President again there will be a shakeup in Washington as never before. They can't allow it to happen.
You’re probably right. I’ve only just started watching Veep which is savagely funny until you realise Selina Meyer is probably the inspiration for Kamala Harris!
Very true. Even with a few new and saner faces, the whole train is still heading towards the buffers. Concerning Ukraine, the speed seems to be picking up too. It has that "gradually then suddenly" feel that it had with Afghanistan.
The Ukraine Zone is a dimension between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. It is a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. Or so it appears to be for the oligarchical ruling class of the West.
Ever present are the dichotomies between what these people want to do and what they can do; and what they think they know (for example, about Russia and the state of the war) and what is the case. How much do they REALLY know? Are their action plans for NATO based on fantasies of which they are aware but cannot admit? Are they simply lying to preserve their status? Or are they uninformed, misinformed, or deluded?
The scariest of scary things is that the way things are currently structured our lives depend on these people. Their plans will likely be stopped by reality - but at what cost - to us? We can hope that the political change that Mark expects to happen does. In the mean time, the Russians are smart to take Napoleon's advice about one's enemies destroying themselves.
Can anyone explain, how did Kamala get to be a lawyer, Attorney General, Senator and now VP? She can't seem to talk at above an elementary school level. I am quite baffled. No wonder most of her staff quit. Is she the ultimate diversity candidate? I have never heard her speak intelligently. I recently read that she might have dislexia.
Search "Willie Brown and Kamala Harris". Willie was a political master and king maker in Cali politics for a very long time. Kamala was his mistress and that explains her rise to the heights.
Not just Harris. He's also helped the careers of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Gov. Gavin Newsom, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and many others.
"During Brown’s stints in office and after his mayoralty ended in 2004, he has also been a powerful political patron who could make or break the political careers of others. Now, at age 84, he has seen his protégés climb to the top of California’s political ladder and become national figures."
"Along the way, be became a bon vivant, swathed in expensive, hand-tailored suits, and, until his eyesight failed, driving exotic sports cars at high speed. An understanding with his long-separated wife, Blanche, freed him to dally with an ever-changing array of attractive women, including one who bore him a late-life child."
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/01/31/walters-willie-brown-sees-his-proteges-rising-to-the-top/
She also probably paid someone to take the bar exam for her.
I hadn't heard about Nuland being blocked as replacement for the "much respected" Sherman (I'll let that one pass). That's great news! The final paragraph is spot on: the Russians can afford to wait and see if the near future throws up someone in the West who is willing to negotiate in good faith.
As in respected by whom? Where?
By Nuland, probably. Praise indeed!
Amazing:
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/07/15/andrew-weissmann-muellers-top-guy-decimates-story-on-white-house-cocaine-with-hilarious-comment-n776946
When the Deep State has lost Weissmann, you know things are bad for Biden.
Drip...drip...drip. Almost too many holes in the dike for Johnny to plug.
The knives are out.
Yep. Lowlives like Weissmann know that Biden is on the way out. Newsom + Dominion for 2024!
Guaranteed Installation-80,00 votes.
Ben Wallace has announced he's standing down as Defence Sec just now. He didn't get to play in the big sandcastle so now he's taking his bucket and spade and he's going home to mummy.
Innaddition, Mercouris offers the possibility that Wallace’s last encounter with Zelensky at Vil-nil-ius could have been the straw that broke the camel’s back. Once again peevish and ungrateful for the West’s unending (?) shipments of war materiel, Wallace informed Z that the US/UK were not Amazon, and that being supplied with ammo or tanks or advisors was not just a matter of clicking the “send” button…you can’t make this stuff up.
Also, the fact that some of the weapons NATO has supplied to Z have shown up in the strangest of places outside Ukraine.
Yep - weapons trafficking from Eastern Europe has been going on for decades. I worked with Romanian police officer on attachment who said his main line of work was stopping Ukrainian traffickers. It must be off the charts now.
Screaming all the while that Biden has been "thoroughly beastly" to him. Good riddance. May he be the first of many neocons to fall from grace.
We have seen a few toppled recently. Curious that he was snarky about Zelensky a couple of days ago and now he's standing down from govt. He's clearly annoyed so I wonder if now he'll go off script even more. Anyway - yes, another skittle down. I'd love to have seen Nuland's face when she was told she'd been blocked. I bet she looked like a bulldog licking p**s off a nettle.
How about jailed? That would be really good news.
Hanged for war crimes
Thinking regime change will include Susan Rice as VP to finish Zhou term and probably run. Kamala agrees to take Feinstein senate seat when she's kicked to curb. Burns to SecState. Behind the stage, Barack gets to play puppet master and Zhou get to pardon Hunter and other family members for cooperation on regime change. Any embarrassment over Ukraine debacle pinned on Sullivan (Hillary's boy), Blinkin, Nuland and Austin for giving bad info to Zhou. EU shut up with threat to leave NATO.
Are these people the best that a great nation like the US can do? Susan Rice? Scary.
Barack proxy.
Obama Talks About Using a 'Stand-in, a Front-Man' for a Third Term" By C. Douglas Golden December 15, 2020
"Obama discusses being behind-the-scenes string-puller on ‘Late Show’ with Colbert"
By J.E. Dyer December 16, 2020
"Behind the scenes, Obama never left" By Lee Smith Nov 17, 2020
Maybe we need Bukele to come over here and drain the swamp.
It's a creative solution. Get Feinstein to step down, provide her seat to Kama Sutra. Rice to VP might make sense for Dems, but the difficulty remains--a VP in this situation has to be approved by majority vote in both the House and Senate. GOP has incentive to disrupt that smooth transition. Part of the political disarray of the collective West.
Rice could never be confirmed as VP, in my opinion. Her comments on Bengazi and Beau Bergdahl are still too fresh in the minds of everyone.
I agree. Very, very hard sale.
The Wise Latina is said to be in poor health. Promise her seat to Kamala. A lifetime gig. This, to me, is the only offer she can't refuse. Just as Mike Downing opined, a deal with McConnell and McCarthy can be had to assure her confirmation.
If the Wise Latina is potential departure, RBG lesson would be to not delay and risk losing the chance.
Reminds me of the adage "Do No Harm." Kamala to SCOTUS puts her out of the way with limited damage potential, providing GOP gets/maintains Senate or the Big House. Also shuts her up (Dem win).
Would pay a ticket to watch John Kennedy grill her on legal and constitutional knowledge. Price of SCOTUS admission for Kamala is humiliation preserved for all time :-)
There's no way for McConnell to rein in John Kennedy. I love, love, love watching him humiliate Biden's diversity nominees! However, despite Kennedy's best efforts, I'm afraid the fix would be in, despite the fact that Kamala is even less qualified than Ketanji Brown-Jackson, who is wholly unqualified based on not only her confirmation hearing testimony but her ludicrous first dissent.
Oh my, what will the Dems do to fill the Hispanic quota on the Court? Maybe Kamala can find a long lost Hispanic ancestor hidden amongst her Jamaican roots?
I, too, would relish watching Kamala try to respond to Kennedy's grilling on first-year law school questions! Particularly because she is known to be (according to her staff) either too lazy or too arrogant to prepare before giving her word salad speeches and pronouncements.
What does it take to impeach a scotus judge when the R's retake the senate?
There's long be an under representation of Jamaican/Indian members on SCOTUS. Kamala could be helpful there.
GOP (Mitch & Kevin Show) does some type of deal to roll over (their typical position). Thinking Rice and Michelle agree not to run. Happy to face Gavin. Remember, GOP doesn't want to risk Kamala getting the big seat so this gets her out of the way and Rice into caretaker role. Zhou is POTUS in appearance only, with Rice running show day to day.
I'm trying here to make a sentence out of the phrases "deckchairs" and "Titanic". Can anyone help me out?
"GOP doesn't want to risk Kamala getting the big seat"
Don't be too sure about that. She's such a disaster that that could be the GOP's preferred outcome.
Kamala and Dominion should see her safely in the WH.
GOP sellouts (redundancy alert!) might be okay with it, you're probably right. But it's worth adding that since she'd probably be thoroughly controlled by the baddies just as the current thing is,* the rest of us should dread it with every fiber of our being.
*Maybe not at first, but eventually. As Mike Downing gets at above with his "file" comment, the baddies have ways of bringing uncooperative Dems to heel, and that right quick.
Kamala is chaos...gov't control in disarray. Both sides understand this and associated risks. Probably the reason Zhou still allowed to hang around.
I do agree she will all but certainly never be allowed to get to the presidency. I was just saying that even if McCarthy, et al were okay with it, the rest of us should be very afraid should it actually come to pass. Her incompetence would mean not a minimization of the damage done but a maximization of her getting controlled just like the current White House occupant.
And that's not good.
My guess is anyone who gets the WH as a Dem, will be controlled by the forces currently running the show behind the scenes. We all have theories on just who that might be,
Rush Limbaugh said something very interesting a short time before he passed. He said that yes Obama and Rice were controlling Zhou, but there were others above them that no of us, including him had a clue about.
Anyone here remember Dan Quayle and how terrified people were that he was only a heartbeat away from the WH? Harris makes him seem like Reagan.
Kevin knows he's toast if he were to let it happen. In the Senate the GOP can make a deal with Joe Machin for his survival.
They will make her an offer she can't refuse. Think they don't have a file?
Any thoughts on Tulsi as VP for either RFK Jr or Trump?
I greatly appreciate your comment above that Trump insisted on " a safe and effective vaccine, the contract repeats that requirement numerous times." That intervectin recommended by him was not made readily available amounts to murder in my eyes. I take issue with your comment that Trump lacks bureaucracy expertise. A President has every right to expect that those working under him are there to further his objectives, and what went on is shocking to the extent they sabotaged his Presidency, the Constitution, the Rule of Law and the best interests of America. I am pessimistic for the future, as should he ever be President again there will be a shakeup in Washington as never before. They can't allow it to happen.
You put it much better. Whatever team he put together was decimated by the deep state immediately.
So you're not a fan of Mike Pence? Or those former generals?
Tulsi was in the military - maybe she got some experience with bureaucracy then 😊
You’re probably right. I’ve only just started watching Veep which is savagely funny until you realise Selina Meyer is probably the inspiration for Kamala Harris!
Very true. Even with a few new and saner faces, the whole train is still heading towards the buffers. Concerning Ukraine, the speed seems to be picking up too. It has that "gradually then suddenly" feel that it had with Afghanistan.
Salvadoran President Bukele —
isn't he the one who got rid of the drug cartels running things in his country?