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Is it true Carter did not want Trump at the funeral but the protocols required he be invited? I had heard that in passing from the wife but can't find any source.

Sentencing Trump is the Michigan-beating-OSU-on-OSU's-path-to-a-Natty of politics in the 2020s. Satisfying, necessary but ultimately of less importance after 1/21.

This is really an incredible story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzagate_conspiracy_theory https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/07/us/edgar-welch-comet-pizza-fake-news.html Think of all the people who propagated the lies that propelled this otherwise regular human to his death.

And the Australians on this site love that sort of mischief https://chaser.com.au/general-news/top-10-real-mark-zuckerberg-quotes/

Looks like the lack of fact checking on Meta platforms has led to a lot of mischief https://bsky.app/profile/numb.comfortab.ly/post/3lfe6ma7dhk2v

NYTPITCHBOT has competition https://bsky.app/profile/numb.comfortab.ly

Ok, so Judge Cannon, aka person-anticipating-quid-pro-quo-job-in-next-administration, block on this can only last until Sunday. None of this matters except for History. Trump will do 5 things that would get all preceding presidents impeached by February.

Dead on.

Looks like another hapless victim of crank ideologies has died https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/crime/article298247913.html

Works for me. https://bsky.app/profile/joshuajfriedman.com/post/3lfdw4nifjc2z Joshua J. Friedman ‪@joshuajfriedman.com‬ 5–4, with Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh in dissent. Just incredible that there were 4 conservative votes for what would have been a blatantly improper action. ‪Steve Vladeck‬ ‪@stevevladeck.bsky.social‬ · 31m #BREAKING: #SCOTUS *rejects* President-Elect Trump's bid to put off his sentencing in the NY hush money case.

https://bsky.app/profile/adamparkhomenko.bsky.social/post/3lfdhplbtu22a

Trump probably too busy dunking on Los Angeles

Biden glared at Trump while saying a bunch of things…

“Nuclear engineer, right?” totally human thing right there.

Just watched the final episode of Chernobyl last night as a reminder of how things will be in Trump's administration. No finer lesson on how COVID spiraled out of control than that. He's got the KGB guy telling him it doesn't matter if the RBMK reactor has a critical flaw because the system has decreed that they are safe. Global warming, COVID, Russia taking over Ukraine....just a few of the outcomes that will be made worse.

They have their blinders just as we do.

Yeah, that is part of their attempt to pay down that debt with more debt. The other part of the PRC's rapid debt accumulation effort has been their Belt and Road Initiative overseas. Saw a statistic from this website today...https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/china China is losing 2.8M people per year while the US is gaining 1.6M. While the UK is gaining 380k, while Canada is gaining 330k. Only the countries where they crap on immigrants from the poor South do we see western countries in decline.

Interesting Wall Street Journal article about PRC muzzling criticism of its economy. Per the article, Debt as ratio of GDP approaches 300% which does not match their public/propaganda statistics which places them in the normal-ish 70% range. https://www.wsj.com/world/china/xi-jinping-muzzles-chinese-economist-who-dared-to-doubt-gdp-numbers-2a2468ef That combined with rapid population decline…aye carumba!

Never that simple.

The main issue is the entanglement of the Chinese military in the deal. Nobody wants to have them hanging around your town.

Former employee of mine was a very very smart female -- very pretty too but not relevant except to say -- memorable person, who while playing in a goth metal band during the immediate post 9/11 era had her car keyed while in Quebec City. She immediately dropped the band, went to the first US city she could reach and joined the military (forgot the branch) to become a linguist/crypto person at Ft. Meade. She remains one of the most interesting brains I've ever met. The intellectual leap she made between keying of her car by French Canadians and jumping headlong into the GWOT for the next 4 years of her life was one involving a bunch of 3 body problem quality calculations I'll never quite get.

This is a very interesting development. https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/ford/2025/01/07/ford-chinese-ev-batteries-catl-marshall-megasite/77519832007/

Yeah shocker. I have never known the peoples of the Mediterranean diaspora to hold grudges. And of course my scot’s-irish in-laws just forgive and forget.

Verlander maybe…Scherzer broke it up bad with the Illitch family.

Another observation about FB: a lot of supposed military fan sites that show Chinese and Russian and weirdly enough Turkish aircraft and ships as superior to US and NATO (yes, I know Turkey is still in NATO). "Gosh, Vern... that F-35 is soops expensive we should buy that Chengdu J-20 from the Chinese instead."