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The secretive donor circle that lifted JD Vance is now rewriting MAGA's future
www.washingtonpost.com

... Chris Buskirk put tech elites at the center of power in Trump's Washington. His efforts are grounded in a controversial theory: An "aristocracy" is needed to move the country forward.

In 2019, a small group of right-wing donors rented a resort outside the 100-person town of Rockbridge, Ohio, for a summit to secure the future of the MAGA movement. They aimed to turn a singular candidate -- President Donald Trump -- into an enduring political coalition, with a pipeline of voters, donors and candidates that would cement a radical transformation of the GOP. ...

[emphasis mine]


Nov 1st.

Carlos Manzo, mayor of Uruapan, #Michoacan, made a name for himself by criticizing his own party, #morena, for not doing enough against the cartels. He was just shot a few minutes ago and has been taken to the hospital in serious condition.

#Mexico #Narcostate
x.com

Its like Americans have no idea whats going on in Mexico, but somehow its got to be rightest or Trumps fault.

From everything I have seen Mexico, geography and climate is California, only bigger. Clean up the cartels and Mexico would be a Superpower in its own right.

More from the article ...

... Musk's company xAI launched Grokipedia last month to compete with Wikipedia " a crowdsourced information repository authored by humans that the billionaire and others on the American right have repeatedly accused of ideological bias.

"It is clear that sourcing guardrails have largely been lifted on Grokipedia," Cornell Tech researchers Harold Triedman and Alexios Mantzarlis wrote in a report seen by AFP.

"This results in the inclusion of questionable sources, and an overall higher prevalence of potentially problematic sources."

The study, which scraped hundreds of thousands of Grokipedia articles, said the trend was particularly notable in topics pertaining to elected officials and controversial political topics.

Grokipedia's entry for "Clinton body count" -- a widely debunked conspiracy theory that links the deaths of multiple people to former president Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary -- cites InfoWars, a far-right website notorious for peddling misinformation.

Other Grokipedia articles cite American and Indian right-wing media outlets, Chinese and Iranian state media, anti-immigration, antisemitic or anti-Muslim sites, and portals accused of promoting pseudoscience and conspiracy theories, the report said.

"Grokipedia cites these sources without qualifying their reliability," it said. ...

They are also 13 times more likely to include a "blacklisted" source which is blocked by Wikipedia, it added.

" Trustworthiness' "

AFP's request to xAI for comment generated this auto response: "Legacy Media Lies."


DEVELOPING, Mexico : It's being reported multiple states are undergoing mass civil unrest, with states like Guadalajara, Puebla, Mexico City, and others showing clashes between police and anti-cartel protestors.

Puebla, MX "

x.com

So, this most august message board does not appear to be the only place that has comments posted from agitators outside the Country?

Yeah sure blame outside agitators.

Reality: The Leftist Anti-Cartel Mayor, possibly the next President, was assassinated by the Cartel, leftist get upset ......

Gaslighter: Lets blame the online outside the country righty agitators.

Unreal.

Tori Amos - "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (1992)
www.youtube.com

Yeah, Nirvana seems to dislike covers of this tune, in general. But on this mellow cover, I disagree.

I mean, at least I can understand the lyrics sung ...


:)

Donald Trump Says He Had Standard' MRI: What We Know
www.newsweek.com

... President Donald Trump told reporters while on Air Force One Friday night that he had a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan as part of his "standard" physical last month and that "the result was outstanding."

Newsweek reached out to the White House via email Friday night for comment.

Why It Matters

The comments from Trump, 79, spark renewed focus on presidential health transparency and medical protocols for U.S. leaders. The absence of immediate details on the specific purpose of the MRI, combined with the president's repeated assertions of exceptional health, has generated lingering questions about both necessity and clarity in presidential health reporting.

What To Know

Trump confirmed to reporters that he received an MRI while at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in October as part of a "very standard" physical. He characterized the procedure as routine. "Getting an MRI is very standard. What, you think I shouldn't have it? Other people get it ... I had an MRI. The doctor said it was the best result he has ever seen as a doctor," the president said on Friday.

When asked which part of his body was specifically assessed by the scan, Trump said, "I have no idea what they analyzed, but whatever they analyzed, they analyzed it well, and they said that I had as good a result as they've ever seen." ...

What People Are Saying

Mehdi Hasan, progressive commentator and journalist, on X Friday: "Donald Trump says he does not know why he had an MRI. How is this not 25th Amendment territory?"

Symone D. Sanders Townsend, [MS NOW] co-host, on X Friday: "This is not routine. Why did the President need an MRI?"

Former Republican Congressman Joe Walsh, also on X Friday: "It's really something. The greatest country in the history of the world twice elected the most stupid, most ignorant, biggest idiot in the history of the world." ...


More from the article ...

... Canadian patriotism has surged since U.S. President Donald Trump referred to Canada this year as the "51st state." During the April federal election campaign, Prime Minister Mark Carney's embrace of the ice-hockey-themed phrase "elbows up" toward the U.S. helped him win a surprise reelection for his Liberal Party.

The American anthem has been booed at hockey games, and millions of Canadians supported baseball's Toronto Blue Jays in their World Series run. Now, Canadian football is stirring patriotic feelings.

'BLINDSIDED BY RULE CHANGES'

"Everyone who supports this league was blindsided by these substantial rule changes without any consultation with the fans or the players," said Patrick Land of Winnipeg, who moderates a Facebook group against the changes.

"Considering the current political climate with the USA, the CFL is guilty of bad timing and being tone-deaf to what it means to be Canadian. We don't like the idea of the Americanization of our game."

Fans of Canadian football have flocked to Winnipeg for a days-long festival leading to Sunday's game.

They are quick to reject any characterization of their sport as merely a version of American football. Many of the rugby-derived elements of the game developed jointly between Canada's McGill University and Harvard University in the 1870s.

Canada's football field is longer and wider than that in the U.S., the goalposts are at the front of the end zone rather than at the back, and the end zone is deeper, creating more touchdown opportunities. There are 12 players per side, rather than 11.

Most importantly, Canadian football allows teams only three downs to achieve a 10-yard gain, as opposed to the American four downs, forcing them to be aggressive. ...



Vance Warned About Groyper US Takeover of the GOP Venezuela

"Operation Southern Shield:" www.newsweek.com

This war should distract us from hyper-inflation, the Jeffrey Epstein files, spreading diseases in the US, loss of ACA tax subsidies, the Army National Guard occupation of American cities, rampant ICE abuses, state executions, Dummkopf Trumpf's rapidly declining mental capacities, obscene payouts/contracts/pardons for junta loyalists, or D/FBI Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel's flagrant abuse of USG aircraft.

@#21 ... MAGA is collapsing. Maybe they're finally seeing that fealty to Trump is a one way street. ...

Maybe. Probably too soon to tell, imo.

But there's this ...

Trump Is Losing His Grip on MAGA
www.newsweek.com

... Ten months into his second term, President Donald Trump is being challenged by the very base he prides himself on creating, and he finds himself besieged by an army of issues that could threaten his MAGA support and spell trouble for lawmakers who remain by his side.

Reeling over the farmer furor that has met his plan to import Argentine beef, and now from Democratic victories in last week's off-cycle elections, Trump is facing friendly fire over perceived pivots on immigration, the state of the economy and the latest episode of the long-running Epstein saga that has dogged his second administration's every step.

Many of these tensions came to a head in an interview with Laura Ingraham that aired on Monday, during which the Fox News host challenged the president on offering 600,000 visas to Chinese students and his unexpected praise for the H-1B visa program, characterizing these as decidedly anti-MAGA stances.

Trump's defense -- that China is no worse an adversary than France, and that foreign-born workers are needed to account for the U.S.'s lack of talent -- seems to have sparked as much backlash as the positions themselves, though the White House says Trump's core commitments remain unchanged. ...


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