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the chickens coming home to roost (pardon the pun)

and the largest supporters of our president in that region are screaming bloody murder.......LOL

Donald Trump's Shock Factor on the Global Stage Is Wearing Thin
www.bloomberg.com

... On Tuesday morning, as President Donald Trump meandered through a speech about himself at the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York, the reaction from world leaders gathered in the hall was telling.

In past lectures from that same podium, Trump's fiery dismissal of his counterparts as weak and the UN as useless got a rise out of the audience. Attendees were startled when he threatened to "totally destroy North Korea" during his first UN appearance in 2017, and shocked when he told fellow leaders that "your countries are going to hell" in last year's speech.

This time, though, Trump's words were met with what appeared to be a collective meh.

Just over 20 tumultuous months into Trump Part II, heads of state are learning to pay less mind to what the logorrheic US president says than what he does, and there was a notable mismatch between Trump's words inside the UN and his acts outside its walls. ...


Found this link ...

With more from the article ...

Saudi Arabia restarts East-West oil pipeline, sources say
www.reuters.com

... FULL RESUMPTION COULD TAKE WEEKS, SOURCES SAY

The pipeline was pumping at a low rate after its restart, two of the sources said.

Aramco was seeking to get the pumping rate back to 4 million bpd, one of the sources said. The pipeline has a capacity of 7 million bpd.

Reaching a rate of 40% of capacity will take a couple of days and a full restart will take 6 to 8 weeks, a security source said. A separate oil industry source said a return to full pumping rates would take up to six weeks.

Three pumping stations serving the pipeline were damaged in the drone attack, according to satellite imagery and industry sources. The line is serviced by 11 pumping stations and two separate pressure relief stations, according to industry assessments. ...



I Watched Trump TV for a Day -- This Is What I Learned
www.newsweek.com

... At 10:31 a.m. on Tuesday, President Donald Trump was addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The White House and other broadcasters were carrying his remarks live.

Trump TV, the new 24-hour YouTube stream dedicated to the president and his administration, was showing a recording of the National Prayer Breakfast from February.

The channel eventually aired Trump's U.N. speech shortly after midday, but the delay exposed an ambiguity at the heart of the White House's new venture: Is Trump TV a live channel, an archive or an around-the-clock presidential highlight reel?

After spending much of the day watching it, I found something less polished than its branding suggests.

The White House describes Trump TV: The Essentials Station as a place to watch the administration's "biggest moments," with "top videos, major remarks, and must-see highlights" streaming continuously and "updated in real time." White House digital strategist Kaelan Dorr has called it a livestream of the administration's "greatest hits, unfiltered."

In practice, it functions more like a continuously shuffled White House playlist, mixing archived speeches, policy announcements, promotional films and appearances by administration officials.

There are no anchors, interviews or reporters examining the claims being made. Often, there was little on screen to tell viewers when an event happened or why it was selected. ...


More from the article ...

... US states may have added more than 30,000 self-declared non-citizens to the nation's voter rolls since 2000 because of software glitches and clerical errors made while processing their driver's license and state ID applications, according to official records reviewed by Reuters.

The cases expose weaknesses in voter registration systems across a dozen US states governed by both Democrats and Republicans, but at numbers that experts said were too small relative to the country's more than 170 million registered voters to impact elections. Reuters was not able to determine how many of these non-citizens actually cast a ballot. ...

The findings suggest that inadvertent bureaucratic failures, rather than organized efforts to register immigrants illegally, are a major source of non-citizen registrations, and raise questions about whether legislative efforts to require proof of citizenship for voter registration would eliminate the issue.

President Donald Trump and his supporters have claimed, without evidence, that non-citizen voting is widespread and part of an organized conspiracy led by Democrats who hope to retake Congress in November's midterm elections, and are pushing lawmakers to toughen up voting requirements.

Bureaucratic errors have also been reported in at least 11 other states " including Republican strongholds like Iowa, Texas and South Dakota - bringing the nationwide figure above 30,000 since 2000, according to the Reuters reporting.
A nationwide tally of such mistakes has not previously been reported.

Reuters used data from the Center for Election Innovation & Research, a non-profit group that tracks claims of non-citizen voter registration and voting, to identify states where self-declared non-citizens were registered. Reuters then verified the numbers with state officials, court records, and local media reports.

The data showed errors occurred in California, Illinois, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Virginia.

The numbers are inexact because state data is often tentative and subject to revision.

Such mistakes are likely a top reason non-citizens make it onto the nation's voter rolls, according to Don Palmer, a senior legal fellow for election integrity at the conservative Heritage Foundation and former Trump-appointed chair of the US Election Assistance Commission.

"I think that's the primary issue," Palmer said. "Driver's license agencies often make mistakes, and they often are not taking this as seriously as election officials." He said states also need to do more to verify voter eligibility. ...



... Curtis also called for the same scrutiny of Hunter Biden. ...

Hunter Biden responds to GOP senator's request: I'll sit next to Don Jr. and testify any time
thehill.com

...Hunter Biden, former President Biden's son, on Tuesday responded to a request from a GOP senator for both himself and President Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr. to testify before Congress.

"Sen. Curtis of Utah has suggested that Don Jr. and I should testify before Congress," the younger Biden said in a post on the social platform X Tuesday. "I say bring it on. I've already given more than seven hours of sworn testimony. More than three dozen witnesses testified across two chambers."

"I had no foreign business dealings while my father was president. None. I painted paintings, and I still do," he added. "I'll sit next to Don Jr. and testify any time, any place."

Republican Sen. John Curtis (Utah) sent a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee leaders requesting they investigate President Trump's and former President Biden's business dealings and subpoena their sons to testify in front of Congress. ...


'Reasonable Grounds' to Believe US Strike on Iran School Amounts to War Crime
www.military.com

... Experts commissioned by the U.N.'s top human rights body say they have found "reasonable grounds" to believe the U.S. committed war crimes in two strikes in Iran, including on a school in the southern city of Minab. ...

Well John is not up for election this year, so why would he suddenly turn on the Trump family?

Utah voters turn on incumbents as statewide approval ratings drop into the red
www.ksl.com

The poll of nearly 800 registered Utah voters revealed an anti-incumbent mood that left no one untouched. The state Legislature and Sen. John Curtis dipped into negative territory, while Sen. Mike Lee and Cox took a plunge.

As one of Utah's newest statewide officials, Curtis also saw his overall approval rating fluctuate downward. A positive margin of more than 10 percentage points from early 2025 closed in recent months, disappearing in the August polling.

Curtis now stands at 37% total approval and 38% disapproval among Utah voters. However, more than a quarter of Utah voters did not have their mind made up about Curtis " around double the share who said "don't know" for Lee or Cox.

Damage control.

Stinky's crime family is taking all GOP members down.

What a list of losers (from the article):

We now have, as a result of Trump's choices and the endorsement of every or virtually every Republican in the US Senate:

" An alcoholic B-list weekend TV star in charge of our military,
" A formerly heroin- and sex-addicted brainworm-infected lawyer in charge of our public health,
" A wrestling promoter in charge of our Education Department,
" The president's personal criminal defense lawyer in charge of the Justice Department,
" A C-list reality TV star in charge of our air traffic control system,
" A plumber in charge of Homeland Security,
" A "miracle weight-loss pill" TV hawker in charge of Medicare and Medicaid,
" A social media hustler and children's book author in charge of the FBI,
" A predatory hedge fund guy in charge of the Treasury,
" A fracking CEO who denies the climate crisis in charge of the Energy Department,
" Jeffrey Epstein's former next-door neighbor and Epstein Island visitor in charge of the Commerce Department,
" A politician who built his career on a phony story about his parents fleeing Castro in charge of telling America's story to the world,
" The mentee of an anti-democracy billionaire as our VP,
" A Project 2025 architect who was excited to put federal workers "in trauma" in charge of America's federal budget,
" A racist whose own uncle publicly denounced him as an immigration hypocrite, and whose leaked emails pushed white nationalist material to Breitbart, in charge of immigration policy,
" A former NFL player in charge of public housing,
" A real estate developer and golf buddy with no diplomatic experience whatsoever negotiating with and sucking up to Vladimir Putin,
" The world's richest man firing people investigating him and his companies while gutting the federal government and killing millions by "feeding USAID into the wood chipper,"
" And a self-described "proud Islamophobe" with no government job vetting the National Security Council staff.

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