The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area. – Article 5, North Atlantic Treaty, 4/4/1949
This is the teeth of NATO – the part where all contracting Parties agree to come to the aid of any Party attacked by a Third Party. But do note the wording: it does not require any NATO member to use military force in support of an attacked NATO member. I think this was put in place to make sure that the Europeans could weasel out of helping the United States if we weren’t attacked by the Soviet Union. The treaty, of course, had the purpose of keeping the USSR out, the USA in and the Germans down. It was built for the very particular circumstances existing in Europe in the immediate aftermath of WWII. I would like to note that WWII ended 78 years ago.
There are hardly any people left alive who can even remember the war.
But here it is, 2023 and NATO is going strong – expanding. There’s talk of even letting Ukraine in. This has caused some comment about it immediately triggering WWIII but as you can see from the text of the treaty, it would only do that if Russia decided to treat it as a de-facto declaration of war by NATO. But if Russia refrained from attacking outside Ukraine it is almost certain that no other NATO member would declare war on Russia in support or Ukraine. In other words, Ukrainian membership in NATO would be symbolic. Kinda like the whole NATO exercise has been since the fall of the Soviet Union.
Ronald Reagan once said there is nothing so akin to immortality as a temporary government program. This has been true ever since government programs were invented. But the newest innovation of this is to keep treaties going eternally, regardless of changed circumstances. And just as we must at last kill off the idea of an eternal government program, so much we kill off the idea of an eternal treaty. Government programs are to be used to deal with a particular need or problem. So, too, are treaties.
In the aftermath of WWII with that horrendously bloody conflict and its shameful origins fresh in mind, what the leaders of the free world wanted was some assurance that they wouldn’t have that problem again: that is, a megalomaniac launching wars of conquest and extermination. In retrospect: figure the odds. Hitler was unique: never had been one like him, can’t imagine a set of circumstances where we get another. But you can at least see the logic of the people who signed the NATO treaty in 1949. Stalin was also a megalomaniac and the USSR was committed to carrying Communism all over the world. It was felt – reasonably – that a bit of collective security by the non-Communist powers would guarantee against the USSR launching a war of conquest.
We should have been paying a little more attention to Stalin’s history on that – it was Stalin who shut down the Leninist/Trotskyite project of using direct force to spread Communism. Stalin – correctly – felt the USSR lacked the power to do that and, also, that direct conflict had incalculable possibilities which could easily end in disaster for the USSR. Stalin would grab what he could, subvert as much as possible: but he was never going to launch a direct attack on the West…and his successors, sitting pretty with swell lives, were even less inclined for any direct conflict. And if they had been a bit frisky, the fact that it was the mid 1960s before the USSR recovered from WWII was also a restraining factor.
Be that as it may, the NATO treaty was signed and we had our collective security against the remote possibility of the USSR launching an attack through the Fulda Gap. NATO provided zero security against internal subversion by the USSR of NATO States and as this was the primary means of Soviet attack that is…kinda strange that it wasn’t integral to NATO. Almost like, just maybe, some of the people in charge of crafting NATO put together something only useful at stopping what wasn’t going to happen but did nothing to stop what was already happening in spades. Weird, huh? But, the Cambridge Five were still active as NATO was created – as were various spy networks in the US State Department…and it isn’t like even to this day we’ve uncovered everyone who was working for the USSR at the time. Interesting thing to look into, but it need not detain us here for long. Though I would like to point out that the Cold War would have been over in a few years if NATO was a replacement for the UN with all NATO members breaking off relations with the USSR and allies and refusing to have any dealings with them. But, such was not seen as the thing to do at the time.
At all events, we had our defense against the 8th Guards Army – we were definitely ready at a moment’s notice to stop it from driving to the Rhine. But just FYI, the 8th Guards Army – currently constituted as Russia’s 8th Guards Combined Arms Army – isn’t in the Fulda Gap preparing to drive to the Rhine. It is, in fact, in Ukraine. It is, then, nothing we need to be too concerned about. It would take a rather stunning bit of Russian military success to bring the 8th Guards Combined Arms Army into a position threatening NATO. And yet we still have NATO as if the 8th Guards Combined Arms Army were an imminent threat (which is never really was, even way back when). So, why are we keeping NATO?
Same reason we are keeping the government programs: vested interests. Financial and political powers obtain a great deal of their money and political influence via NATO. They will keep it going forever if they can – and just like the government bureaucrats inventing new problems for bureaucrats to solve, so NATO keeps finding new security threats to guard against. But still nothing about the internal subversion of the West. NATO didn’t care about that then, doesn’t care about it now. We’ve got Marxist nimrods destroying our nations but NATO isn’t fighting against that! Nope: gotta worry about the 8th Guards Combined Arms Army trying to conquer the Donbas. As if that matters when domestic threats are trying to destroy family, faith and property.
It is time for a bit of a reality check.
59% of the world’s population lives in Asia. 17% lives in Africa. Only 9% lives in Europe. It is just a fact that Europe is not remotely the most important region on Earth. By far it is Asia with Africa coming in second. American political, trade and military thought should be geared towards dealing with the risks and rewards of Asia and Africa. Europe is a backwater. Declining share of global GDP. Declining population. Militarily nearly impotent. There is absolutely zero chance that Europe would send an army to help us fight a major war in Asia or Africa, let alone help defend American territory here in North America. There is nothing we need in Europe. World War Two was a long time ago. There will not rise in Europe a Hitlerian monster to threaten the world…no matter how much NATO propagandists try to make out Putin to be Hitler’s mini-me. And even if Putin were a Hitler…Russia’s GDP is along the size of South Korea’s. They simply don’t have the physical power to threaten the USA.
Whatever use NATO ever had for the United States is long past now. We don’t need NATO. In fact, by remaining in NATO and keeping significant military resources in Europe we actively weaken our ability to influence the course of policy in Asia and Africa. To put it bluntly: remaining in NATO is tailor-made to help China flex muscle in Asia and Africa. And the Chinese are flexing that muscle. Just look up how deeply Chinese money and influence have penetrated Africa (and now moving into South America) and you can see how downright asinine our concentration on Europe has been. If our foreign policy was directly controlled from Beijing they wouldn’t do it any different than we are right now. It is time to move in a new direction.
It is time to leave NATO. Pull out of it: give our notice and leave. Our risks and rewards are in Africa and Asia. But cutting our ties to Europe we’ll no longer have the political disadvantage of ties with those Powers who colonized Africa and Asia. We’ll be able to craft policy based entirely on identified mutual needs with Asian and African nations. Rely on it, India doesn’t want a powerful China. Russia doesn’t, either, but we’ve burned so many bridges there it will be a while before we can sensibly talk to the Russians. But not being in NATO would be an immense relief to Russo-American relations. If you look at a map of the globe, the USA and Russia are natural allies. It was a shame we came into conflict with Russia. Well past time to bury the hatchet. But even absent that – Vietnam, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Australia and a host of other Asian nations have a vested interest in curbing Chinese ambitions. An alliance with the USA – with our absolute pledge to remain out of their internal affairs – is just what they need…just as what we need is a collection of powers bordering or near China tying down Chinese power which would otherwise be directed against us. Meanwhile, over in Africa and freed from our connections to the former colonial overlords, we’ll be able to work deals with Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya, etc to build up their economies and tie them to us rather than to China (much more valuable to us to build an Interstate quality highway in Nigeria than to spend money on NATO). A China directly challenged by the USA and allies in Asia and Africa will have no resources to spend on penetrating South America. It is all win. If we change with the times.
Or we can hang on to the antique NATO alliance, be tied down uselessly in Europe while China builds alliances with India and Russia against us.
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If I were a betting man, I’d bet that our idiot President will have American troops fighting a ground war in Europe before we’ll leave Nato.
That does worry me a lot – both on the risk of war and the fact that recruitment and retention are so bad that we have to drag back guys who finished their service.
I can’t imagine there are too many people on either side of the aisle who would support sending ground troops to Europe. I’m glad I’m retired.
The original concept of NATO was great, but like anything that depends on bureaucracies it degenerated into a morass of corruption and laziness. My concern is that without a coalition of mutually defensive countries aligned against a couple of huge and powerful nations one or both of those nations will march into and take over those smaller countries, one by one, as we are seeing in Ukraine.
When Eastern Europe, and then Western Europe, are subsumed by the Borg that is Russia, and the United States is next on the agenda, what will we be able to do? That’s not even taking into consideration that the way things are going our military wouldn’t be able to mount a defense more impressive than a meek request to please stop it because the men are busy chestfeeding their surrogate-borne children.
Trump saw the need for NATO, but for a functioning NATO and one where everyone had a dog in the hunt, everyone was paying into the fund to keep it going. I think that makes a lot more sense than just dismantling it because it has sunk into disrepair. My understanding is that Russia invaded Ukraine partly if not mostly to act preemptively, before Ukraine became part of that mutually defensive organization and acquired allies for protection against its large and belligerent neighbor. This seems to me to be a message that if Ukraine had been a member of NATO Russia would not have acted.
Focusing on the inherent corruption of Ukraine, and/or the mess that the management of NATO has become seem to be unproductive and a distraction. It still doesn’t make sense to me to break up the only mechanism for mutual protection in Eastern and Western Europe.
I don’t think it is an either/or. I don’t think that working to reform NATO and being part of it necessarily means to “be tied down uselessly in Europe”. If NATO is, as you say, primarily a symbolic construct at this time, then we can symbolically be part of it and still shift most of our focus to Asia and Africa where, I agree, our future lies.
I honestly think everyone is completely misreading Putins intention and/or ambitions … and NATO has very little do with it. IMHO, Putin wants the Donbas region, that’s all, and I think if the majority of people who live in the Donbas region had their choice, they would agree with that. Just like Western Canada … I know if they had their choice, they would prefer to be Americans. The Military Industrial Complex wants us to believe that Putin will go into Poland once he acquires Ukraine, and that’s nonsense. Putin is less of a war monger than Biden is ….
This seems like an odd agenda for someone who will supposedly be running against a former president who has, as part of his campaign, the fact that he is the only president for decades who did not get us into a war.
And I clearly remember the 60s anti-war protests coming from the Left. My oh my, how things have changed. Though it is quite possible, even likely, to see Dems posturing as being against war while promoting it, just as they are “anti-racist” while openly advocating for racism.
NATO has become a joke, and much like everything else, a money grab from American taxpayers. 90% of the countries in NATO are there only because because they receive a financial benefit, and American politicians continue to let them slide on their obligations because it makes American politicians feel powerful and important as they “save democracy”, and employ the Military Industrial Complex to drop bombs on some unsuspecting populace. Trump upset the comfy confines of NATO as he demanded they pay their fare share, but more importantly, Trump wasn’t going to employ the Military industrial Complex and that’s what really had everyone upset.
Before the war, Ukraine was the most corrupt country in the world. Today, Ukraine is the most corrupt country in the world.
The political supporters of the Military Industrial Complex don’t seem to have a clue that public support for endless war is low and getting lower. The next anti-war movement will be populated with Americans from all walks of life. Reminds me of the old saying, “politics makes strange bedfellows.” Wouldn’t it be ironic if an anti-war movement became the catalyst for a major political shift in the United States? I can’t imagine anything more satisfying at this point than a giant battering ram slamming into the political establishment with the message, “we will not comply!”
Something will happen, because this entire charade is unsustainable.
Not sure how many of you saw John Francois Kerry testify yesterday but it was embarrassing. Hard to wrap your head around the “God complex” this clown has. Kerry admitted that none of the countries in the Paris accord have met any of the goals they agreed to, and said the accord was more of a “message” agreement than anything else. Meaning, it was nothing more than a strongly worded letter. The fact is, carbon output has increased in India and China and other countries. Kerry is also saying that the world needs to “extract” 1.5 million cubic metric tons of carbon from the atmosphere. Now I’m not sure how that is done, or if you can buy something like that on Amazon, but Kerry was emphatic that he has the climate recipe to help us avoid the pending disaster. I mean he previously said the polar ice caps will be gone by 2013 and that should alarm everyone …. oh wait.
The favored way to extract carbon from the atmosphere is to extract dollars from the taxpayer and transfer them to consultants and companies claiming to be able to extract carbon from the atmosphere.
“Climate change” is merely a catchphrase to describe the redistribution of wealth.
Cluster, you are always talking about those “cocktail parties” that seduce otherwise serious people into abandoning their principles just to get on guest lists. I just read about a party that might be similar to those you fantasize about:
“….a fancy press dinner on New York’s Upper East Side with Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Kennedy is merely adjacent to the cocktail party kerfuffle involving “drunk gossip columnist-turned-flack Doug Dechert” and “octogenarian art critic Anthony Haden-Guest, who appeared to have been sleeping happily for most of the dinner,” reports Page Six, with writing worthy of “The Lively Art of Writing.”
The two old windbags (pun intended) got into a heated discussion about climate change, with Dechert screaming about “the climate hoax!” at the top of his lungs. That was enough to rouse Haden-Guest, who awoke from his slumber to call Dechert a “miserable blob.”
“Dechert continued to scream wildly about the climate change ‘scam’ while Haden-Guest peppered him with verbal volleys from across the table, calling him variously ‘f–king insane’ and ‘insignificant,’” the gossip rag explained. But then Dechert volleyed something else out his (no doubt expensively clad) backside:
Here, it seems, Dechert sensed the need for a new rhetorical tack, and let rip a loud, prolonged fart while yelling, as if to underscore his point, “I’m farting!”
The room, which included a handful of journalists as well as Kennedy’s campaign manager, former Rep. Dennis Kucinich, was stunned, seemingly unsure about whether Dechert was farting at Haden-Guest personally or at the very notion of global warming.
(Regrettably, we may assure readers that there was no room for doubt that the climate changed in the immediate environs of the dinner table.)
Flatulence aside, I love the image of a fancy-shmancy NY dinner party with a couple of old farts (see what I did there?) yelling across the table at each other. I don’t know which is funnier, that story or the fact that Dennis Kucinich has been hired as a campaign manager. That’s like hearing that DOCTOR Jill has a side gig as a fashion consultant.
…those “cocktail parties” that seduce otherwise serious people into abandoning their principles just to get on guest lists.
Chris Christie and Mitt Romney are two great examples. Glad to read there was finally some discord at one of these parties, and of course I agree with Dechert. I think climate change will come to be known as the largest government money laundering operation ever.
I am always just amused by the phrase “cocktail parties”, as if the old 1950s social event of gathering people in the early evening for snacks and cocktails is still a thing. (These days, even “cocktails” is a quaint term, as young people just slam shots and older ones tend to drink straight booze.) Once out of college, recreational drinking isn’t really much of a part of socializing, especially among older people. The idea of getting dressed up to go stand around drinking and chatting while eating some canapes for a couple of hours just doesn’t resonate the way it did back when it was expected that adults would spend their evenings with their families.
Dinner parties, yes. If you want to get powerful people together, you’d better feed them well and have a venue where they can sit down while meeting and greeting.
I haven’t seen or read any positive news about Bidenomics, but the meme creators are sure having fun with it.
The meme creators have plenty to work with, but the zombie press are all kinds of giddy over the glorious news that INFLATION IS OVER !!!! Yep, it’s gone, a relic of the past (“inherited” from Trump–the one thing Biden learned in the Obama White House was how to blame every disaster on the prior administration).
Of course, everything still costs more, and no prices show signs of retreating back to pre-Biden levels, but a slowing in the rise of the cost of everything has the Agenda Media flacks ‘splaining all over the place that Bidenomics is working, dude, really like super effective!
Proving, of course, that it’s always how you spin it more than how it is. Now a mild recovery of jobs lost due to Biden dictates that cost millions of jobs is touted as “creating new jobs” instead of some old jobs starting to revive. And the unemployment figures they are swooning about? Unemployment figures are based on how many people are actively looking for jobs. When people aren’t interested in working, they’re not looking for work, so they don’t get counted in the unemployment figures. But an administration that killed jobs by paying people not to work and an increasingly Leftist mentality that has so-called “adults” still mooching off their parents well into their 20s and 30s (and sometimes beyond) has resulted in millions of unproductive people who aren’t working but also not looking for work, allowing the flacks to preen about “low unemployment”.
The GOP should be letting all hard working blue collar black and brown folks know that they will now be paying the student debt for white Democrats. Thanks to Joe
Biden forgives $39 BILLION in student debt for 804,000 Americans
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12299325/Biden-forgives-39-BILLION-student-debt-804-000-Americans.html
He keeps trying, doesn’t he? And the vote-buying effort just keeps getting more obvious. Fortunately for him, his base of Zombie Democrats won’t register that this will never happen because it just isn’t legal, and that Pudding Brain scribbling his signature on a some document just isn’t all it takes to make things happen. This will go through the usual courts, be upheld by some Liberal judges and slapped down by judges who care about the Constitution, and end up in the dumpster along with his last pathetic effort. But he’s getting the temporary rush of performative social justice, which is all that Zombie Dems really care about.
At some point, when a Biden voter is asked what Biden ever accomplished, “canceling student loan debt” will be mentioned, though it has not yet happened and probably never will.
The only way to fix this is to start “dropping” some of these people.
Nightmarish video shows HUGE swarm of masked burglars roaming Bay Area street at 2am and breaking into cars:
OK, this motherf**ker needs to be stopped ASAP
Earlier this year John Kerry expressed that he was part of a “select group of human beings” who were called to save the planet.
Can you believe the hubris of these demonstrable morons?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/john-kerry-throws-tantrum-after-lawmaker-asks-about/
I did not read this article because it is a NYT article and behind a paywall, and I refuse to pay a cent for this birdcage liner. But the headline and lead-in sentence are pretty indicative of the ongoing effort to criminalize thought if it is determined by the State to be Wrongthink.
Prosecutors have questioned witnesses, including Jared Kushner, about whether Donald Trump privately acknowledged he lost the 2020 election.
Prosecutors appeared to be trying to establish if the former president knew his efforts to stay in power were built on a lie.
What difference could it make, legally speaking, even if Trump truly believed that Joe Biden got more people to vote for him than The One We Have All Been Waiting for at the height of white-guilt voting? Legally speaking, I can’t think of a single reason to care.
Except, of course, for the fact that Zombie Democrats will obediently adopt the belief that if Trump lied then this was a crime. Just as the J6 Inquisition, after failing so miserably to prove that Trump did anything wrong on that day in January, shifted to the strategy of having publicized (but not public) depositions of Trump associates to find out if Trump had talked about the election being stolen, and if they agreed with him, in a new tactic of weaponizing freedom of speech and assembly.
Speaking of the J6 Inquisition, there has been a shift in the narrative. Now that Ray Epps is suing Fox, reinforcing his status as the hero of January 6 beloved by the Left because because, his participation in the event means it was not an “insurrection” after all, but was just a rally or a protest or a demonstration or maybe, just maybe, actually a riot—but suddenly not an “insurrection” at all!
The Left, no doubt encouraged by the evident willingness of Americans to distrust their lying eyes and to accept that they didn’t really see what they saw or hear what they heard, has decided to back Epps in his effort to extort money from Fox by convincing a jury that the videos of him inciting a riot and attack on the Capitol were not really videos of him inciting a riot and attack on the Capitol. But to have these videos in the context of him participating in an “insurrection” would be…..inconvenient. So now he was just enthusiastically participating in a rally, or a demonstration, or maybe even a protest, all Constitutionally protected elements of freedom of speech.
(Those other guys, those still stuck in the J6 Gulag—they were part of an insurrection. Try to keep up….)
Good to know you’re having things explained to you Forty. Wouldn’t want someone like you to think on your own.
Got another string dragged past you?
You can file this under “Inconvenient Truths”:
In today’s real-world economy, Ford projects it will lose $3 billion on electric vehicles in 2023, bringing its EV losses to $5.1 billion over two years. In 2021, Ford reportedly lost $34,000 on every EV it made. This year, it was losing more than $58,000 on every EV. In a normal world, Ford would be dramatically scaling back EV production, not expanding it. Remember that next time; we need to bail out Detroit.
In 2019, after General Motors — which also loses money on every EV sold — shut down a plant in Lordstown, Ohio, then-President Donald Trump made a big deal of publicly pressuring the auto giant to rectify the situation. CEO Mary Barra lent Lordstown Motors, a new EV outfit, $40 million to retrofit the plant. Ohio also gave GM another $60 million.
You may remember the widespread glowing coverage of Lordstown. After Biden signed his “Buy American” executive order, promising to replace the entire U.S. federal fleet with EVs, Lordstown’s stock shot up.
By the start of this year, Lordstown had manufactured 31 vehicles in total. Six had been sold to actual consumers. (Most of them would be recalled.) The stock was trading at barely a dollar. Tech-funding giant Foxconn was pulling its $170 million. And this week, the company filed for bankruptcy.
Lucid, an EV manufacturing company here in AZ is losing huge amounts of money and has shut down production, which is the right call considering they can’t sell the vehicles they’ve already made. I guess people don’t want to pay $90,000 for a car that will go 200 miles.
And God help you if it catches on fire, because your fire department won’t be able to do anything but push it off to the side and let it burn—and hope it doesn’t happen in your garage.
Tens of thousands of gallons: That’s how much water it takes to extinguish a single electric vehicle fire. As EVs becomes more prevalent on our roads — possibly reaching 50 percent of all new car sales by 2030 — firefighters are still struggling to get proper training on how to quickly and effectively put out these incredibly intense blazes.
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It took General Motors several tries to remedy a fire problem with the Chevy Bolt, at one point instructing owners not to park their vehicles inside garages or near structures and to only charge their vehicles a certain amount. And these are cars that hadn’t even crashed. They’d just go up randomly.
Anyone who thinks half of all new car sales within 7 years will be electric cars is delusional.
Agree. The EV phenomenon is hand out to Democrat donors, an extension of the climate change money laundering op, and an authoritarian effort to control the movement of people. It will fail spectacularly and like you said, will result in another bail out.
VERY INTERESTING
And Just Like That, It’s No Longer an Insurrection
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2023/07/13/and-just-like-that-its-no-longer-an-insurrection-n1710334
That’s the link I just sent if you clicked the Ray Epps link. Pretty funny.
As I keep saying, if we take away the Left’s ability to constantly redefine words they will be mute.
Discovery should be fun if the lawsuit ever goes to trial.
The brain damage is real ….
Those stealthy Republican ninjas were at it again! Earlier this year, the Cackling Coven of ABC’s The View claimed Republicans were “behind” the classified documents found in President Biden’s Delaware garage. Now, on Friday, they were claimed Republicans infiltrated the White House and “planted” cocaine in the West Wing to “advance the Hunter Biden narrative.” At least that’s what Joy Behar and Ana Navarro wanted people to believe.
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2023/07/14/view-claims-republicans-planted-cocaine-white-house
I’m not even sure if they care if people believe them any more. They’ve got their scripts, they’ve got their paychecks, they’ve got whatever sleazy fame comes from being on the View, and they’ve got the grins and giggles of seeing just how wildly crazy they can get with their insanity.
Of course these hags are way too stupid to realize their real message is that Republicans are so powerful and so smart they are attributing to them vast powers of stealth, cunning, foresight, analysis of Biden’s acuity and control over the actions of other. Seriously—it takes a mastermind to get hold of documents from the Biden years in the Senate and as Vice President, slip them into his garage, slyly stack them next to his Corvette and take pictures of them there to firmly establish where they are and who they belonged to, and (re: Biden’s powers of observation and thought processes) be confident that even when he saw them there he would have no idea of what their significance might be. Not to mention linking the lack of security of sensitive documents with the Chinese influence over Biden and the university by putting classified information in various places in Biden’s office there.
People this smart should be in the White House!
And no, I don’t mean using that secret key Trump kept when he left so someone could sneak in and plant cocaine in the library. Here’s where they slipped up, though—they didn’t fully anticipate the need for the Secret Service to provide cover by claiming the stash had really been found in a nearly public area where, like, thousands of people stroll through all the time without being screened or caught on camera, or that the fingerprints on the baggie would mysteriously disappear. But even the wiliest of Republicans can’t predict every way the Bidens can slither out of being caught.
it takes a mastermind to get hold of documents from the Biden years in the Senate and as Vice President, slip them into his garage, slyly stack them next to his Corvette and take pictures of them there to firmly establish where they are and who they belonged to
Besides, Biden said the garage was locked, so there’s that.
Surely a standard garage door lock would pose no deterrent to skillful political ninjas like Republicans.
The viewers of The View are fully as stupid as the hosts of The View…so, the ridiculous lie works on its intended audience.
Amazing story
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12299937/Marine-biologist-relives-incredible-moment-50-000-pound-humpback-whale-saved-shark.html
One of the most outrageous entries to the YCMTSU file in recent memory. Hat tip – Jeff Childs.
Good to keep in mind that our Ruling Class in addition to being corrupt is also monumentally stupid. I really do weep for our nation – even those who aren’t obviously bought by foreign interests are too ignorant to know when they are being manipulated by foreign interests.
Given the costly war in Ukraine, monetary costs, destroyed military equipment and lives, I wonder if Russia would find it beneficial to use its influence to put Trump back in office in the likelihood that Trump would pull the plug on the US sending money, military equipment and anything else meant to work against Russia’s efforts that Bidum and the democrats are providing? Of course, the left would scream that any influence would amount to election interference or collusion, but that would only gain traction if they were able to fabricate Trump’s connection to such influence. Gee, where have we seen that before?