@#44

Yep. Trolling.

So then the question seems to become, why the trolling?

A lame attempt to disrupt or deflect?

If so, why?

The presence and activity of those trolling aliases speaks volumes about what is discussed here on this most august site.

Stated differently, if the discussions on this site were not so good, then why would there seem to be the need to dispatch trolls to disrupt those discussions?

@#41 ... You lost your paper route?!...

Nah.

At this point, that current trolling alias just looks like it is trying to get replies and disrupt.

Gee, what other aliases have done that?

;)

OK, imo, Pres Trump's response indicates to me that he may be trying to hide something.

So, what might he be trying to hide, beside the Epstein files?

Whoa ...

@#38

Do try harder.

Are the Republicans in Congress finally growing a spine?

imo, too soon to tell, but worth watching.

Get yer popcorn ready ...

Interesting ...

@#66

Found this ...

... The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case on whether some children born in the US have a constitutional right to citizenship ...

What does the Constitution say about this?

@#64 ... You are missing the nuance. Many states require ID to vote. I'm okay with that. I'm not aware of any state that requires ID to register, that is what I addressed not ID to vote. ...

Good point.

I just checked.

I don't see an ID requirement in my state (CT) to register.

While I do see an ID requirement to vote.

Thanks, I may start asking questions of State officials. :)

More from the article ...

... President Donald Trump presided over a roundtable on Monday afternoon with a handful of farmers, along with lawmakers and members of his administration to announce the aid package.

Rollins said that $11 billion will be provided to commodity producers, while USDA will hold back $1 billion for specialty crop producers.

"So, you are going to your lender, as you are working to ensure and understanding what you can plant for next year, you will have that number in hand," Rollins said.

FARMER BRIDGE ASSISTANCE

FBA payments will provide aid to the primary commodity crops: barley, chickpeas, corn, cotton, lentils, oats, peanuts, peas, rice, sorghum, soybeans, wheat, canola, crambe, flax, mustard, rapeseed, safflower, sesame and sunflower.

USDA stated the aid will support farmers dealing with a host of challenges. "FBA will help address market disruptions, elevated input costs, persistent inflation, and market losses from foreign competitors engaging in unfair trade practices that impede exports."

USDA will use a "uniform formula to cover a portion of modeled losses during the crop year." ...

@#5 ... Life is a mystery, ...

Perhaps not as much of a mystery as your current alias seeks to hide behind.

:)

Threads need to be merged ...

@#4 ... The population density of the blue areas outside NYC in the embedded map above are far less than super-packed NYC. ...

Back to the topic at hand ...

Perhaps that is why Pres Trump seemed to be so, well, soiling of his diapers, when Mayor-elect Mamdani won.

Pres Trump saw the political ramifications of such a win in NYC, and I won't go into detail at this point. Ask if you have a question..

Then there was that meeting between Mayor-elect Mamdani and Pres Trump in the Oval Office.

Pres Trump's admiration of the Mayor-elect during that meeting still is a wonder for me.

I mean that in the sense of, ~WTF happened there?~

@#4 ... The population density of the blue areas outside NYC in the embedded map above are far less than super-packed NYC. ...

I do not disagree.

(to be honest with you, I posted that comment an embedded map mainly to see if my alias was still on your "ignore" list.) :)

... Without the Big Apple, NYS is a Red State ...

I have offered that view here in my comments in the past.

Thanks for providing the numbers to back it up.

... Honduras's top prosecutor has issued an international arrest warrant for former President Juan Orlando Hernandez, intensifying legal and political turmoil just days after the ex-leader walked free from a United States prison. ...

What may have been given to Pres Trump in the transaction to allow this convicted drug trafficker to be pardoned?

A drug trafficker who was convicted of bringing over 400 tons of cocaine into the United States.

@#1 ... "Today, under Trump and three decades of Republican rule in Texas, those very Texans are under daily attack," Crockett wrote on her campaign website. "I'm running to protect Texans from these attacks and safeguard the rights our Constitution guarantees." ...

OK, I do not live in Texas, nor do I presuppose I understand the political thinking of Texans.

Given that, my first question might be along the lines of ... is that really your opening volley in the current political environment?

To me, at this point, this race for the Senate may turn into the usual Democratic loss due to ineffectual messaging, i.e., pushing policies rather than listening about concerns.

But that's just me opining ...

More from the article ...

... Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a rising star within the party who has built a reputation as one of President Trump's fiercest critics in Congress, has joined the race for the U.S. Senate in Texas. She is seeking to unseat Republican Sen. John Cornyn and provide Democrats a critical victory in their pursuit of flipping the Senate in next year's midterms.

"Today, under Trump and three decades of Republican rule in Texas, those very Texans are under daily attack," Crockett wrote on her campaign website. "I'm running to protect Texans from these attacks and safeguard the rights our Constitution guarantees."

Her decision comes just hours after Colin Allred, who led Democrats' unsuccessful bid to oust Sen. Ted Cruz in 2024, announced that he is dropping out of next year's race.

Allred, who lost to Cruz by more than 8 points last year, didn't mention Crockett in his statement explaining his decision to drop out of the race. But he did make the case that a "bruising" Democratic primary could undermine their chances of ousting Cornyn in the general election, arguing that his party will need to be "unified" if it stands a chance at pulling off an upset in November. ...

... and please explain once again the ~worst and the violent~ aspect of those being deported?

OK, now do ...

More from the article ...

... Bruna Ferreira, 33, a longtime Massachusetts resident, was previously engaged to Leavitt's brother, Michael. She was driving to pick up their 11-year-old son in New Hampshire when she was arrested by ICE agents in Revere, Massachusetts, on Nov. 12.

Ferreira later was moved to a detention facility in Louisiana, where an immigration judge ordered that she be released on $1,500 bond, her attorney Todd Pomerleau said.

"We argued that she wasn't a danger or a flight risk," he said in a text message. "The government stipulated to our argument and never once argued that she was criminal illegal alien and waived appeal."

A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson in an email Monday called Ferreira a "criminal illegal alien" and said she had been arrested for battery, an allegation her attorney denied.

"She will have periodic mandatory check-ins with ICE law enforcement to ensure she is abiding by the terms of her release," the spokesperson said. "The Department of Homeland Security will continue to work to remove all aliens illegally present in the country as quickly as possible."

Pomerleau said his client came to the U.S. as a toddler and later enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, the Obama-era policy that shields immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children. He said she was in the process of applying for a green card. ...

@#5 ... Do we dare say Monkeybars three times? ...

... and a trolling current alias appears, along with another.

Coincidence?

Netflix offered about $27 a share for WB, but that offer excluded the broadcast and media channels of WB.

-- should be --

Netflix offered about $27 a share for WB, but that offer excluded the broadcast and cable channels of WB.

@#7 ... Larry Ellison discussed axing CNN hosts with White House in takeover bid talks ...

Thanks for mentioning that.

It also brings up another aspect of this buyout that is often overlooked, as I currently understand it. ...

Netflix offered about $27 a share for WB, but that offer excluded the broadcast and media channels of WB.

Ellison's Paramount offered about $30 a share for WB, including the cable and broadcast channels.

OK, on the surface, it looks like the Paramount offer is better. But is it?

The cable and broadcast channels of WB could bring in $5 a share.

So, the Netflix offer looks to be $2 a share above what Paramount is offering.

Perhaps that is why Pres Trump is promising to become ~personally involved~ in the transaction, i.e., to skew the transaction towards his acolytes.

@#3 ... I can think of no other better candidate than this murderous monstress. ...

imo, she's just obeying orders.

Go up a notch.

@#7 ... Lewzer prefers real, loyal allies. Like FIFA. ...

That FIFA prize that they awarded to Pres Trump was a joke.

And in doing so, FIFA did little more than lower its esteem on the world stage of their sport.

All I can say at this point is that I hope FIFA got enough in return from Pres Trump for lowering itself in that transaction.

@#5 ... Admiral Bradley ...

His under oath testimony was interesting.

In my experience, I look at the My Lai massacre of the Vietnam War, and how many tried (lied?) to try to cover up that atrocity.

Eventually, the truth prevailed.

Which leads me to ask, will the truth eventually prevail here?

@#1 ... If not for NYC, NYS would be a Red State ...

Not just NYC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election_in_New_York

Anyone can run for office. That is what I think is great about the Country.

I mean, just look at it, Pres Trump ran for office and he won.

OK, that may not be the best substantiation for my argument.

@#5 ... Access to good healthcare matters. ...

I am currently in the process of a "medical procedure."

I'm in the ~entry~ stages at this point.

At this point it requires cooperation between various medical entities.

So far, that cooperation seems not to have occurred.

So now I wonder. what do I do, how do I proceed?

Which entity is stopping the progress?

Who do I call?

Is it the insurance company that is stopping progress>

Healthcare should not be this difficult.

... More than a third of the roughly 220,000 people arrested by ICE officers in the first nine months of the Trump administration had no criminal histories, according to new data. ...

@#1 ... "worst of the worst." ...

The "worst of the worst" seem to be turning out to be the masked, unidentified ICE agents.

@#18 ... Just wait until the BBB calcifies, the rural hospitals start closing, and no more ACA subsidies. ...

That is already starting to effect the farmers, and other rural Americans.

But the tariffs have been hitting the manufacturers of farm equipment ...

More from the article (OpEd?) ...

... As a bioethicist and philosopher who has spent years studying the ethics of using organs grown in animals " including serving on an NIH-funded national working group examining oversight for research on human-animal chimeras " I was perplexed by the decision.

The ban assumed the danger was making pigs too human. Yet regulators now seem comfortable making humans a little more pig.

Why is it considered ethical to put pig organs in humans but not to grow human organs in pigs? ...

Apologies for the messed up link.

drudge.com seems to have issues with WikiPedia links.

I saw Sen Kelly saying that he has faced tougher situations than this one.

@#3 ... He prolly means that Daddykins will crawl away on his knees just as planned. Which is convenient as he's always in that position for Vlad. ...

Yup.

And now Pres Trump seems to have his son making up the rationale for deserting an ally.

An excellent cover version ...

@#6 ... Yeah, the ignorance of that was difficult to read. ...

To be specific...

Not the ignorance of the #6 comment or the person who posted it.

But the ignorance of Pres Trump in his citation of peace, as noted in the article cited in #2.

(apologies to reinheitsgebot for my ambiguity)

... The top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee [Adam Smith] said Sunday that surveillance video of U.S. military strikes targeting an alleged drug trafficking vessel in the Caribbean Sea on Sept. 2 would contradict how Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and other Republicans have described it. ...

The Trump admin seems to be claiming the release of that second video would expose intelligence sources and methods.

But if that is so, then why has the Trump admin release so many other videos of the boat strikes?

Would not those other videos also expose sources and methods?

@#55 ... Years back in Kansas, Kris Kobach begged the legislature to empower him to go after illegal alien voter fraud, saying he had over 100 cases ready to file. They empowered him, and budgeted millions of dollars.

After four years, he had NINE convictions: a pair of addled old retirees, 4 folks who moved from Western Kansas (super red country) to Eastern Colorado (super red country) and voted in both, 2 folks who voted for a deceased member of the household (one was caught when he properly dated the dead voter's "signature"), and ONE ILLEGAL ALIEN.

Kobach also famously headed up Trump's quest to find the "three million" fraudulent votes, which had been falsely claimed.

He couldn't find a single one. ...

That seems to have been repeated over and over.

Lots of accusations of widespread voter fraud, but little to back up those accusations.

My summary:

DJT, Jr is fielding a new cover-theory for Pres Trump to walk away from supporting Ukraine and claim a victory in doing so.

The problem is Pres Putin, not Pres Zelenskyy.

Pres Zelenskyy is steadfastly trying to protect his country from an unprovoked invasion from Pres Putin.

And Pres Trump now seems to be ready to toss Pres Zelenskyy aside?

More from the article ...

... Trump Jr., the eldest son of President Donald Trump, was speaking at the Doha Forum, a major gathering of government officials and other international players. Trump Jr. stressed that Ukraine has long been hamstrung by corruption in its official ranks and argued that such graft is fueling the war in both Moscow and Kyiv. ...

@#4 ... You mean the conservative justices are trying to blow up the government but realize that destroying the independence of the fed would tank the economy, nay the global economy? ...

Yup.

Will be interesting to see how they walk that fine line.

I don't think we will find out anything to that point in this current case.

But when the Cook case comes up, that will be the important one, imo.

[I am not a lawyer, so what do I know?]