@#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?]

There as a song in 1988 or so by a group Big Mouth, from their album Quite Not Right, the CD of which I do have here (not yet convinced that is something I might want to admit..).

The song, apparently based upon a Netflix series, and for which I find no video, has the lyrics..
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