@#7 ... Some photo evidence that the stabilizer came off. ...

If that bears out, a manufacturing defect or a maintenance defect?

I know, too soon to tell. ...

@10 ... Nothing says "I'm your leader" like being forced to flee the country. ...

Being forced to flee, or deciding to flee?

@#12 ... You can't vote communists out of power once they're in charge. ...

Is your current trolling alias calling Pres Trump a communist?

@#25

Forgot to add ...

Similar to the apparent tactics of the lfthndthrds current trolling alias.

@#24

Nah, not really.

All it seems to want to do is disrupt.

And I do want to add ...

Polling is little more than a snapshot in time. A snapshot that may indicate the current opinion at the time the question was asked.

How a person answers a poll questioner as compared to how that person votes when faced with little more than their conscience in the polling booth is an unknown.

@#55

OK, after looking through my vinyl records, maybe not so much off-topic. :)

To wit ...

@#41 ... Opal ... Mazzy Star ...

OK, two bands I've enjoyed.

But a bit off-topic on this current thread. So, I'll leave it there.

@#2 ... Is the cost of repairing the damage to those US bases added into Sec Def Hegseth's total cost of Pres Trump's war of choice? ...

While this article does not seem to specifically address the question I had asked, it does provide some good info ...

As some background ...

@#2 ... That book that lived on DJT's nightstand was a book of Hitler's speeches. ...

Probably one of the few things Pres Trump has ever read.

Not a surprise to me that it has apparently been an operative coming up with all these election-control strategies.

They seemed, to me, to be too complex and longer-term than the usual stuff Pres Trump comes up with.

More from the article ...

...In one incident, about five drones flew roughly 100 feet above the reactor building at River Bend Station in Louisiana.

The story was first reported by the publication The Liberation Times. The NRC published the documents on its website in response to the publication's freedom of information request.

The NRC compiled the incidents in a table of security incident reports and posted it in its public document database this week. Plant security officers and other staff reported most of the incidents. In a few cases, local police alerted the plants.

Every entry carries the status "Closed Unresolved." Nearly all also state that the report remains open pending internal NRC review.

The NRC log describes the Jan. 6, 2025, incident at River Bend:

"On January 6, 2025, at 1746 CST, River Bend security observed approximately 5 drones flying over the reactor building before being visually lost to the south at 1750. The drones appeared as rectangular and black. No lights were observed. The approximate altitude was 100 feet above the reactor building. The licensee heightened the security posture awareness after the drone sightings. The licensee notified the West Feliciana Sheriff department, FAA, and the FBI."

River Bend is a single-reactor plant with about 970 megawatts of capacity, according to owner Entergy.

The reports of these incursions -- following other reports earlier this decade -- come as both the tech industry and the Trump Administration have been working hard to boost expansion of the U.S. nuclear power fleet. ...

@#6 ... Haley Stevens
August 1
Mike Rogers will be another rubber stamp for Donald Trump's dangerous agenda. We can't afford to give MAGA another Senate seat in November. #MISEN
www.facebook.com ...

So, Ms Stevens seems to against, in a pique, supporting her Party's candidate because of one possible issue on which she seems to disagree, than she is concerned about supporting the other Party's candidate for being, as she seems to ascribe to him, being a Trump toady?

OK.

But wow.

It will be quite interesting how the good people of Michigan work through this on Election Day.

@#1

imo, it still might be a long journey to certification of the results if the Democrat wins.

The "most transparent administration ever," the self-given appellation of the Trump admin, still has not yet stated (that I have seen) who authorized Ms Maxwell to the country-club detention center where she apparently has room-service.

I saw (and posted) an article that reported her move looked like "witness tampering." I don't know if that accusation would hold up but I have to ask, why else would she be moved?

More from the book review ...

... Almost no one, whether in Germany or outside, had expected it: In January, political experts from across the spectrum had assumed that Hitler was a cipher who had been captured by the conservative establishment, led by Reich President Paul von Hindenburg, former Chancellor Franz von Papen, and others of their ilk.

What followed Hitler's appointment as chancellor was a kind of "flood the zone" strategy"an early election call, a blizzard of executive orders curtailing press freedom and giving Hitler's paramilitaries police powers, a crescendo of violence, then the shock of the Reichstag fire followed by thousands of arrests. The election of March 5 produced somewhat underwhelming results for the Nazis -- contrary to their own expectations, they fell short of a majority -- but at the end of the month they got their Enabling Act anyway.

Ryback tells this story well in a concise 194 pages. His book has two main arguments, both of them implicit rather than stated expressly. In fact, on the evidence of the text, I am not even sure he is conscious of the second argument.

Ryback is certainly conscious of the first argument though: The process by which Hitler consolidated dictatorial power provides a strong parallel and perhaps precedent to that of Donald Trump's second term, especially through most of the year 2025. The chapter titles alone make this clear enough: "War on the Press," "Purging the Civil Service," "Co-opting the Corporates," "Guardrails." We learn of Hitler's use of emergency decrees under the famous Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution to curb the press, give his paramilitary followers police powers, and remove Jews and likely political opponents from the civil service.

When Ryback describes Reichstag president Paul Lbe and statistician Ernst Julius Gumbel talking about the reasons for the political failure of Germany's Social Democrats, any reader in 2026 will feel they could have been talking about today's feckless American Democrats. ...

The OpEd goes on ...

... A short summation

While "good character ≠ good president (necessarily)," nor does "bad character = bad president (necessarily)." All of the bad and mediocre presidents above had at least some redeeming qualities. Trump has none. Ethically, he is a suppurating sore on the body politic. ...

... and continues past that ...

Is the cost of repairing the damage to those US bases added into Sec Def Hegseth's total cost of Pres Trump's war of choice?

Imagine having filed a $10billion lawsuit, and the judge then dismisses it (with prejudice) because, as the Judge seems to say, the lawsuit was "grasping at straws" as it attempted to "manufacture" flaws in the WSJ's investigative reporting. ...

... There are sore losers and then there's this twunt. ...

I was going to be a little more subtle in my comment, but there it is.

Supposedly she does not like Mr El-Sayed's stance on Israel.

More from the article ...

... Voyager 1 gave controllers the silent treatment for a few days this month before resuming communication weeks before the spacecraft reaches the one-light-day milestone.

The incident happened on October 18: NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) couldn't detect a signal from the probe. On October 19, on the next scheduled communication attempt, there was still nothing. Was this it? Had the decades-long galactic venture finally ended?

Things are operating on a knife's edge for the two veteran spacecraft, which will reach their half-century next year. Voyager 2 suffered an antenna pointing issue in 2023, and a low power condition caused Voyager 1 to unexpectedly turn off one of its two radio transmitters.

The good news is that on October 20, the signal reappeared, leaving engineers wondering why Voyager 1 temporarily went silent.

Thus far, it seems a group of thrusters went offline and their backups were turned on. This could indicate onboard computers detected a problem and put the spacecraft into a safe mode.

Kareem Badaruddin, Voyager mission manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said: "This is the first time we've seen the spacecraft do something like this, but we are also at a point in the mission where we have to expect the unexpected.

"We're relieved to be back in contact with Voyager 1 and are eager to understand what happened." ...

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