You Can't Silence Us

They Held Here

Even though there was a nationwide bloodbath for Republicans, as I predicted

It won’t change what is coming this election. I still believe the Republicans are losing the Senate and perhaps even the house. There is also a chance that a good number of states governed by Republicans are about to get Democrats for governors. I predict it will be ugly, as a good number of swing voters are going to shy away from Republicans.

Central Florida did well. We got huge property tax cuts, and Democrats lost most races. The two notable Dem wins were Dan Soto (Democrat incumbent) winning reelection and Orlando electing hard leftist as Mayor, but Orlando always votes left.

The next two years will be filled with bullshit, but will mostly be the lull before the storm.

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By Divemedic, ago

So Arrest Them

Greenpeace illegally dropped 2 ton boulders in fishing areas to disrupt fishing. They’ve been doing this for at least 4 years. The UK says they are disappointed.

The UK, which will toss you in jail for 10 years over a mean social media post, can only complain to the press.

Make no mistake, what Greepeace has done here is no different than standing on the street to block traffic. What the UK should do is arrest everyone on the crew and impound the ship.

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By Divemedic, ago

Investment Opportunity

University of Central Florida was fined $100,000 because some of their fans chanted anti-Morman slogans. The NCAA said ejection of the fans and a monetary fine to the school is assessed for a first offense, and penalties in the game for second and subsequent occurrences would be assessed against the team.

Hear me out. Place a large sports bet in favor of a heavy underdog- at least 3 or 4 to one. Buy a large number of tickets to the game and some t-shirts with the other team’s logo on them. Hire some people to use those tickets to go to the game wearing those shirts and chant rude things at key points in the game. The favored team gets a penalty at a key moment.

Advantage to the underdog, who wins as a result. It isnt gambling when you can make sure you win.

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By Divemedic, ago

Europe

What is going on in Europe? First France, then the problems in the UK, then:

1. Widespread civil unrest and riots in France.

2. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Albania.

3. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Italy.

4. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Spain.

5. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Portugal.

6. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Belgium.

7. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Serbia.

8. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Georgia.

9. Widespread civil unrest and an apparent judicial coup in Poland.

10. Widespread civil unrest and riots in Czechia (including an attempted takeover of the Parliament building).

11. Widespread student protests in Greece.

12. Targeted student protests in Indonesia.

13. Localized violent protests in India.

14. An apparently fraudulent election in Brazil where the presumed presidential election winner was forced to flee the country under threat of arrest by his opponent.

15. The uncovering of a Color Revolution plot in the USA led by embittered former USAID employees and ex-military members.

That’s a lot to be happening all at once, don’t you think? And the USA is having midterm elections next week.

You know, if I was a conspiracy-minded type I might be connecting some dots here.

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By Divemedic, ago

Bang. Boom. Stab.

There was a joke I heard from my uncle (Mom’s younger brother)
The Polish Army was worried about not having enough rifles to arrange for training. Instead, they issued their new recruits wooden rifles. They told the recruits to yell “Bang! Bang” while they were shooting at other recruits. The same story went with hand grenades- all of the grenades were being used in the war effort, with none left for training. In this case, the recruits were given a segment of weighted broomstick told to yell “BOOM” when they intended to throw a grenade. The same went for bayonet training: they would poke the other recruit with their wooden rifle while yelling “Stab! Stab!”

As luck would have it, one recruit fell through the cracks of Polish Army bureaucracy and was sent into the field without any weapons. Shortly, there was a large battle. They found this private surrounded by dozens of dead German soldiers as he yelled “Bang! Bang! Stab! Boom! Bang!” and so on. Scores of Germans were falling in the wake of his ferocious and false attack.

The Polish generals thought they were on to something, so they created an entire unit on this principle. They won several battles. The generals laughed at the stupidity of the German army, to fall for such a trick.

One day, the Polish unit charged over a hill, then immediately returned, running for their lives, screaming that they had no weapons to hold off the German unit headed their way. Just then, the saw 100 German troops cresting the hill with thier arms extended in what appeared to be a NAZI salute. As the troops grew closer, the Germans could be heard:

“Tank! Tank! Clank! Clank”

Poland fell the next day.

Seeing the below exchange was what reminded me of that story.

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By Divemedic, ago

Talent

I’m sure each of these people were selected for talent, and in no way was anything approaching DEI was even a small factor.

The rest of the cabinet isn’t pictured. There are only three white dudes, and one of them is openly gay. One of the straight ones earned his spot because during his tenure as Special Agent-in-Charge, a controversial internal memo was leaked from the Richmond Field Office that identified “traditionalist Catholics” as potential violent domestic extremists. He was placed on administrative leave due to his role in the memo. The DOJ Inspector General found that while the memo violated the department’s own standards, it lacked any evidence of bias or malicious intent, but this was during the Biden admin, so take that with a grain of salt.

Nope. Talent, not DEI and politics.

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By Divemedic, ago

Nuclear Radiological Release

The FAA temporarily closed the airspace around the Savannah River nuclear facility in Aiken, South Carolina due to a fire at the plant that released nuclear contamination at ground level. The FAA imposed a temporary flight restriction over the site, with its notice describing a “U.S. Gov’t Nuclear Incident.” Radiological surveys indicated no detectable levels of contamination.

The Savannah River Site (SRS) was built in the early 1950s to produce tritium and plutonium-239, in support of defense programs. Five reactors and a number of support facilities, including two chemical separation plants, a heavy water extraction plant, a nuclear fuel and target fabrication facility, a tritium extraction facility, and waste management facilities, were built to produce these materials.

The area has since been reopened.

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By Divemedic, ago