December 1, 2020

Thought experiment.

What would have become of the thousands upon thousands of SA (stormtroopers) and Nazi supporters if Hitler had been abruptly removed as Chancellor in 1934 by Paul von Hindenburg at that very last hour when he and Franz von Papen finally began to have grave doubts about him?

November 27, 2020

Hmmm. Page 608 of "Rise and Kill First" by Ronen Bergman

details Mossad's plans to take out Iranian nuclear scientists. They did assassinate a number of them and the page closes by explaining that Fakhrizadeh was the scientist they were most worried about. Iran placed massive security around him. Meir Dagan was the brains behind the plan to assassinate the Iranian nuclear scientists. Dagan died in March 2016.

That's near the end of the book.

(It's a really good book, by the way)

November 27, 2020

I was sure it was Photoshopped too. Trump's thing is that he

always wants to project power, so I can't get over the fact that he did this.

His heroes--Bolsonaro, Duterte, Erdogan and Putin--wouldn't be caught dead in a photo op like that. It's inconceivable. They would probably execute any underling who suggested such a thing.

November 27, 2020

Disastrous. Who thought of this?

The first time I saw this I thought it was photoshopped by some clever anti-Trumper.

It's on the same level with the baby trump blimp.

Where are Spanky and Alfalfa?

November 26, 2020

Seriously, read or show her this:

https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-bob-woodward-conversation-transcript-trump-playing-down-coronavirus

November 26, 2020

Does she know about that taped Feb. 7 conversation between Trump and Bob Woodward

in which Trump warns Woodward that the virus is airborne and five times more lethal than the flu?

Maybe she'd believe it if it came from the president's mouth.

November 25, 2020

I love that quote. I think what he was getting at...

I think what he was getting at is that anxiety and being backed into a corner stimulates survival instincts, and anger coupled with creativity that moves people who otherwise not do much to take action.

Stress triggers ingenuity.

But others will certainly have different interpretations.

I know that I got pushed by this administration into dropping almost every normal aspect of my life to just immerse myself in this chaos, rather than get paralyzed by it. But at times, I have felt paralyzed too. But luckily, those moments passed.

During our last fundraiser, I posted that quote twice on "stickies". It really is a quote that speaks to me for some reason. I miss Hunter S. Thompson and wonder what he would think about the last four years.

G O N Z O

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

November 25, 2020

I still want to know why he lied and what he really talked about.

Peter Strzok was one of the two agents who interviewed him. What they observed was a man telling bald-face lies whose body language was that of someone being completely honest.

Strzok said he had never seen anyone lie in that way before.

Also, the agents wanted to end the interview, but Flynn kept it going, going on and on, and gave them a tour of the West Wing.

Does anybody else think the discussion had to to with the Magnitsky Act?

November 25, 2020

I received a personal reply from someone in Prime Minister Ardern's office (New Zealand)

I'm posting this because I've written hundreds and hundreds of emails to U.S. politicians over the last four years and only received automated replies every single time, often not even relevant to what I wrote about. I just melted when I received this, short as it is, because it was a response to a heartfelt thank you I wrote to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern after reading on DU that she had reached out to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to help us with COVID-19. I was incredibly grateful to be part of the world again.

It just blows my mind that someone in her office would take the time to respond to some nobody in the United States, whereas my own representatives can't be troubled to respond to my emails. Why can't we do better? Maybe this will change under Joe and Kamala.

November 24, 2020

More on the Parler Hack. (Miscellaneous chaos)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25203846

https://twitter.com/CopingMAGA/status/1331362619396149251

Text: BREAKING: There was just a #parlerhack, this was publicly available and unencrypted on their public API endpoint. Not sure what they've changed yet, although expect a ton of data shortly, we will post updates. #ParlerLeaks

Link to something called an ENV Dump (DU computer and tech experts needed here!)

https://archive.ph/Mll5H

Sample from the ENV Dump:

# Database Configuration
define( 'DB_NAME', 'wp_parler' );
define( 'DB_USER', 'parler' );
define( 'DB_PASSWORD', 'hIP9PEV6u1GXfG4F8jEA' );
define( 'DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1' );
define( 'DB_HOST_SLAVE', '127.0.0.1' );
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
define('DB_COLLATE', '');
$table_prefix = 'wp_';

# Security Salts, Keys, Etc
define('AUTH_KEY', '@,*9_voP3sKC3z&&P}[(-h2#UOM_0]*[02%]MW:h7}L,G.IN1j@bKY0ohOqH');
define('NONCE_KEY', 'E@V!WK#Z0h%ZRs5dRg?7!orCFbGAUWLXxf3|:55g(++`$CQVc53n7]U}}]ck5{;l');
define('AUTH_SALT', '+!5MfxQ7]x >FNiuS|/c:nX yG=ksoW)+jZbgjogXQar)*,&HY>{|*v8pBA;$|-w');
define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', '+bq>0u,c^1#[7l1#|R+7-[;$iw>3sQ@N|^l>x7-eci(>}');


# Localized Language Stuff

define( 'WP_CACHE', TRUE );

define( 'WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE', false );

define( 'PWP_NAME', 'parler' );

define( 'FS_METHOD', 'direct' );

define( 'FS_CHMOD_DIR', 0775 );

define( 'FS_CHMOD_FILE', 0664 );

define( 'PWP_ROOT_DIR', '/nas/wp' );

define( 'WPE_APIKEY', 'a1495db2888c2a21d556a9d9d0617935fbb5be57' );

define( 'WPE_CLUSTER_ID', '151738' );

define( 'WPE_CLUSTER_TYPE', 'pod' );

define( 'WPE_ISP', true );

define( 'WPE_BPOD', false );

define( 'WPE_RO_FILESYSTEM', false );

define( 'WPE_LARGEFS_BUCKET', 'largefs.wpengine' );