“We reached out to Trump’s representatives to see if they had any supplemental evidence to help substantiate their denial, as well as for a response to renewed attention on the comments in 2023”
How can you ‘substatiate’ something didn’t happen when there is no evidence that it did happen?

The Week in Pictures: The Most Schadenfreudey Edition Evah!

Greetings from Dubrovnik! Hot as Hades and full as a goog.

We were ripped off for cool drinks and jostled and elbowed from one end of town to the other. Despairing of ever getting a seat on a shuttle, we were ripped of again for a taxi ride back to the wharf. Never again.

On a positive note, I had fun at lunch yesterday. A table mixture of Aussies and Americans, conversation inevitably turned to the candidates.

In for a penny, in for a pound and going where angels fear to tread…”I quite like Trump.”

The horror! Gazing around the concerned faces like a naughty child, I caught a twinkle and a grin. She was a Texan. 😀

As the major political parties have abandoned the ideologies – conservatism, social democracy, liberalism – that once gave them meaning, ‘saving the planet’ and posing as the guardians of minorities have provided a semblance of mission to their otherwise deathly technocracy.

The revenge of the centrist dads – spiked (spiked-online.com)

Zippster,
thanks for the Tucker link. It was great.
My favourite part, “Jakinda Ardhern, the retarded girl with BIG teeth”.

A perfect description of the former Kiwi PM. 😀

So I watched the CNN debate again. Despite all of CNN’s purported ‘strict rules’ of no notes, pen and paper only etc, it seems pretty clear to me that Biden had an earpiece and he was being told what to say.

Much of the time when Trump was speaking, Biden was not reacting at all to what Trump was saying, even when Trump was landing blows on him and, if he were listening, we should have seen head shakes or facial reactions. And it wasn’t that he was incapable of understanding Trump, as there were times when he was listening and following along and making the appropriate gesticulations, facial gestures and so forth.

Now I know people might say he was zoning out when he fairly obviously wasn’t listening to Trump’s responses, and that was no doubt true some of the time, but I watched him closely and there were several spells when he appeared to be listening to something else rather than staring vacantly into the void, his mouth agape. After these particular occasions, when it was his turn to speak next, he tended to jump straight out of the gate with relatively detailed information, as if he had literally just been told it. Which I suspect was the case. There was one time after one of these moments of paying no attention to Trump when he got the first question of a new topic; he started answering the question way too quickly relative to his previous responses. It seemed fairly clear to me that he’d just been told the question was coming up and to be ready with his answer.

At least twice he touched his right ear in an unnatural way. The first time could maybe be described as a one-off but the second was a fairly clear signal – he appeared to be staring at someone with a panicked look on his face when he did it, and it was much more of an indicative gesture rather than a tweak – it looked to me to be a ‘tell me wtf to say, man!’ kind of gesture.

When I first watched the debate, I noticed there were times when CNN unexpectedly cut away from the side-by-side headshots whilst Trump was speaking to show only Trump, and this looked suspicious. I reckon these were times when old Joe was too clearly taking instructions from his handlers and CNN didn’t want to show that. After all, it was clear they were making an effort to depict themselves as being super impartial, so they wouldn’t want to broadcast any evidence that they’d fed Biden’s team the questions in advance, the order in which they’d be asked, and the fact he was permitted to use an earpiece…and their ‘strict rules’ about what each candidate could bring to the podium were an illusion (for Biden, anyway).

To be fair to CNN – not that they deserve it – they kind of had to let him cheat. I mean, if they allowed him to go up there entirely unaided, he would have been unable to answer the questions beyond superficialities.

Actually, on second thoughts, CNN doesn’t deserve it. The American public should know exactly how incapable their CinC is. By permitting Biden to use an earpiece, CNN obscured this from them. Suspicions that otherwise might have arisen did not due to moderators’ appearance of being super duper fair and balanced in their questioning, the time given for each candidates to respond and the unusual lack of editorialising from Tapper and Bash, who are clearly in the tank for whomever isn’t Trump. CNN’s ostensible discovery of journalistic ethics during the debate was itself an unscrupulous pretense, erected to deceive viewers into thinking old Joe was on his own up there. No, he had someone in his ear the whole time, and CNN facilitated this.

In Hey Siri, define ‘first world problem’ news:

I like my toast really, really toasted – threshold setting off the fire alarm toasted.

We had a designer toaster that at full blast setting produced Assange-coloured toast requiring two+ sessions for adequate bronzing. I rejoiced (quietly) when it died.

The $20 K-Mart replacement that I bought didn’t do much better. I binned it.

Mrs F has now brought a digital toaster to the family home. This morning I discovered that even AI and the computing power of an Apollo spacecraft is unable to achieve proper darkness and crunch.

There must be some Australian design standard behind this mischief.

Despite all of CNN’s purported ‘strict rules’ of no notes, pen and paper only etc, it seems pretty clear to me that Biden had an earpiece and he was being told what to say.

This was the genius strategy of Trump. He realised that all that would be necessary was to get Biden in front of a camera.

So what he did was agree to every term for the CNN debate, then kept to the rules meekly no matter what indignity and unfairness they meted out. For tactical effect Trump certainly would not mention Biden’s earpiece, since his whole aim was to make it about Joe and not let the MSM make it about him.

And it worked. In spades. Probably too well, since despite Obama and his team of puppetmeisters it looks pretty likely the panicking Democrats are going to dig up another candidate from somewhere.

NY Times:

• “Voters cannot be expected to ignore what was instead plain to see: Mr. Biden is not the man he was four years ago.”

Actually Biden is pretty much the man he was four years ago. I’m old enough to remember how he was hidden away to avoid his then obvious infirmity being ‘plain to see’.

Anyone who has, or had, someone with dementia in their lives would have recognised the dreadful lost look in his eyes.

I guess the other question is when (or should) Trump start to express pity for Biden, and expressly call out the people who continue to use him in the manner that is now clear. There have long been jokes about elder abuse and Biden, but even those with TDS who refused to see the reality until it smashed them about the head during the debate will not be able to escape the conclusion that what they’re doing to Biden is cruel to the point of sadistic.

I understand that Biden has gone after Trump and his family in a way that would be hard to overlook. However, can it be said that Biden is truly responsible for this? He’s evidently a meat puppet at this stage, and has likely been for a good long while. Trump would have long had detailed intel on this.

I can’t stand Biden – he’s a truly loathsome individual and he always has been. You still see glimpses of that awful person in his current decrepitude. However, he really is no longer that person anymore and should not be held responsible for what is being done in his name.

Once someone has lost their marbles, it is at that point a civilised society no longer seeks punitive justice against the body of that person, even if it was inhabited by the most abhorrent of individuals you can think of – any of history’s monsters, I don’t care. The principle remains. A civilised society instead places that living body, as innocent as a newborn, in an environment where it is comfortable, safe and able to spend its last days in privacy and dignity – even if the person that body once was is not remotely deserving of such mercy.

If we haven’t quite yet approached this point with Biden, we certainly aren’t far off it. Perhaps Trump should acknowledge this.

I feel a movement in the force, like a billion incels all Reeeeed at once and were suddenly silenced…

See this – this is why I should not pay tax anymore.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/jun/29/this-is-how-we-do-it-in-australia-susan-and-samuel

Every month, I pay Samuel £840 to meet me for four hours in a Brisbane motel room. I always book the same motel, because it’s wheelchair-accessible: I’m paraplegic, so I have certain accessibility needs. I make sure to arrive early, so I can do my makeup. We’ve been meeting this way for a year, but I still feel a flutter of nerves as I’m waiting for his knock on the door. As soon as I set eyes on him, I feel calmer. He has a gentlemanly, soft way about him, which is what attracted me when I found his escort profile online. He always arrives in a button-down shirt and jacket, and he is never quite clean-shaven. We start with a chat and he mixes me a cocktail. Then he carries me into the bedroom.
I’m not sure if the motel staff know that Samuel is a sex worker, but I’m not bothered if they do. In most of Australia, sex work is decriminalised – and my time with Samuel is even subsidised by the government. At the end of each session, Samuel sends an invoice marked “support worker” to my plan manager at the national disability insurance scheme. In 2020, a woman with multiple sclerosis won the legal right to get the NDIS to pay for her sessions with a sex worker. Reading about that case gave me the idea of meeting an escort.
The term “support worker” is vague, but feels right to me. I do feel supported by Samuel. When I contacted him, I was recovering from a nasty separation. I’d been with my ex for a decade, and his approach to intimacy had been rough and unfeeling. Single again at 56, I didn’t feel hopeful about meeting another man. Trying to date as a wheelchair user makes you very vulnerable. If I go home with someone and he takes advantage of me, I can’t run away or fight back.
Being paraplegic, I feel exposed – but also invisible. I’m a sexual person, but a lot of men simply look through me. Samuel sees me as a sexual being. He works with a number of disabled clients, so isn’t afraid to put me on top or experiment with acrobatic positions. He’s got a beautiful, sturdy body, what he describes as a “dad bod”. I looked at other escorts online but they were all so buffed-up and young – the thought of being with a man like that made me feel insecure. Samuel is greying in a lovely way; he’s in his late 40s and has depth.
I never lose sight of the fact that there is a boundary between us. I am aware I pay to see a shiny, perfect version of Samuel and, in a way, I am relieved I’m not burdened with a full-time relationship. I’ve given too much of myself away to men in the past. I don’t think I would want to see Samuel more than once a month. Apart from anything else, I don’t have the stamina.

Leading to.
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/ndis-cost-could-blow-out-to-125b-a-year-20240118-p5eye5

Oh come on
June 30, 2024 10:17 am

So I watched the CNN debate again. Despite all of CNN’s purported ‘strict rules’ of no notes, pen and paper only etc, it seems pretty clear to me that Biden had an earpiece and he was being told what to say.

I wasn’t aware that notes were verboten, so it didn’t register at the time I first saw it, (and now can’t be bothered to watch the debate again), but I could have sworn that the demented carcass was looking at notes on the lectern, while Trump was talking, on at least one occasion.
Have other observant Cats noticed this?

Also, can an earpiece be so small that it can be totally hidden from view? A modern, expensive (small), simple hearing aid ie. just a battery-powered amplifier with no RF receiver still sticks out of the ear like the proverbials.

Shenanigans from the CNN leftist sewer are a 100% certainty, however, the way the Machine works, we will probably read about it in an upcoming hard-cover reveal-all sometimes in the next 3 decades.

NBC:

Despite delivering a rousing speech at a rally in North Carolina on Friday that calmed some of his allies, Biden was described by one person familiar with his mood as humiliated, devoid of confidence and painfully aware that the physical images of him at the debate — eyes staring into the distance, mouth agape — will live beyond his presidency, along with a performance that at times was meandering, incoherent and difficult to hear.

“It’s a mess,” this person said.

Another person familiar with the dynamics said Biden will ultimately listen to only one adviser.

“The only person who has ultimate influence with him is the first lady,” this person said. “If she decides there should be a change of course, there will be a change of course.”

chatter coming from the administration, other then the fact the corpse had a cold

Ha.

SCOTUS has over turned this. Federal prosecutors have threatened to introduce new charges and seek higher sentences if appeals based on the SCOTUS Judgment are made and upheld.

I’m an NDIS sex worker, not a lawyer, so I have to reach down amongst the dead men for advice here.

Is the above not legally outrageous and contemptuous?