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It’s been a strange and rough week on the international stage, locally with criminal doxxing - and I’ve had my own bumps. I like to sit in the dark and listen to music when I want to calm down and realize whatever is going on - things will be ok. This is the complete slow section of Beethoven’s 8th Piano Sonata. Everyone familiar with classical era music will know it already. People who don’t listen to this music probably have heard it on TV or excerpts in a film. It’s a good movement to teach someone ‘Rondo form’ because it’s so easy to follow. You will hear the main theme right up front for over a minute - and then two more times. In between you will hear two departing episodes that exist to make the movement more interesting. But this is very easy to follow, is beautiful - and it’s a courtesy of a great composer to his audience. And if you’ve had a rough day or week - it will hit the spot.

Foreign aid is a scam. But you can at least say it’s a form of ‘soft power’ that gives the USA leverage. But importing foreigners and then bankrolling their entire lives - while millions of Americans are one health crisis away from bankruptcy - is just deeply sick.

Yeah the idea that Comey’s major crimes and subversion would be reduced to seashells really bothers me. I could have put him, Obama and Susan Rice away in 2020. Just from what we discovered making a fucking movie. How is it this hard? patpmovie.com

Yeah. Everyone is tired of these stupid little games. Comey was FBI director. In a real society, you either don’t get the position or you are held to the standard of the position. It would honestly be worse if he didn’t know.

Seen a lot of conversation about how predatory the American medical system is. So I will weigh in. I ended up going to the ER about 2 weeks ago for crippling pain. Turned out to be a ruptured ovarian cyst. I was there for MAYBE 4 hours. My bill? $13,500 dollars. Because I'm uninsured (by choice, that shit is a SCAM), the hospital dropped my bill down to $8,100 and some change as an "uninsured" discount. For starters, $13,500 for a 4 hour hospital visit is insane as it is. But the fact the hospital can wipe $5,000 off the bill "just because" should show you how utterly fucked this system is. And to be clear - $8,000 is still an absolutely insane sum of money when all these people did was scan my stomach and give me some pain killers. On my itemized bill, my CT scan was 7k. The iodine they used was $900. Just being in the ER room alone was $2,500. We phoned the hospital to haggle. They dropped the price by $20. Normal people can't survive this shit. I do okay and $8,000 is still an INSANE chunk of money out of my savings. Anyone who argues this isn't a disgusting, predatory system is crazy. And it is even crazier that Americans accept this. And for those of you who argue this is the free market, I need you to be quiet. There can never be a true free market here when government and insurance have their creepy little fingers in this pie. People shouldn't go bankrupt trying to pay medical bills. This has to change.

DOJ sent Douglass Mackey to prison for a meme.

@RudolphTroha @Cernovich you would have to tie it into Florida and do it there. There are rumors they are moving in that direction - but we'll see.

@FischerKing64 @Cernovich Agreed, though I wonder how the trial would go with a DC jury. What are the chances they could get the venue moved?

The prosecution that really needs to happen is the conspiracy to destroy Trump's first term through false allegations of collusion with Russia. That is the real kryptonite for deep state actors - and a public trial about that would do most to educate the American public.

yeah people have told me this. I'm just telling you that I've never heard the term personally to mean "kill someone." So this will come down to the experience of the jurors, what they think it means, and what Comey thought it meant and whether people believe him. In any event - he was stupid beyond belief to post this.

@FischerKing64 In the military, “86” is used all the time and every vet knows exactly what it means.

I've only heard the term "86" referring to a guy being tossed from a bar. If it were anyone but the former FBI director, this would be a joke. But he was the FBI director, he should know better. North Carolina also isn't Virginia. I would be a little worried if I were Comey.

You also have to add in the fact that there has been assassination porn against Trump going back to his first term. The "Shakespeare in the Park" production of Julius Caesar, where "Trump" is killed for instance. And 3 real assassination attempts. As the former FBI director you just don't screw around with this.

Democrats will spend years stoking a climate of hysteria that appears designed to lead mentally unstable people to become assassins - and then turn around and claim the actual attempts to kill Trump are ‘staged.’ And some of them might even believe this stuff.

The White House theater was in the now demolished East Wing though - so Trump will have to just pull it up on his iPad, and then watch it sitting on the couch, have the King sit next to him, in the Oval Office or something.

Trump should bring King Charles III into the White House and watch Mel Gibson's The Patriot with him.

@visegrad24 She looks like a younger, plumper Hilary Clinton

🇺🇸 Illinois woman pleads guilty to distributing violent, sexual animal crushing videos Amanda Leigh Fourez, 33, of Catlin, Illinois, pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy to create and distribute animal crush videos. She paid thousands of dollars to produce sexual torture videos involving adult and baby monkeys for online chat groups. These videos show monkeys being burned alive and mutilated. Fourez made at least 11 payments to fund and distribute them on at least 10 occasions. She faces up to seven years in federal prison.

Here is the painting - you can see the boys legs sticking out of the water on the lower right. And everyone is just going about his business.

I like the poem Musée des Beaux Arts from W.H. Auden. In its final stanza he describes Bruegel's depiction of the fall of Icarus - the boy from classical mythology who flew too close to the sun. Auden notes that people must see what happened, a boy falling out of the sky - but don't care, as they have their own mundane concerns. Sometimes I come on here and read about one of our various foreign adventures, or a mass shooting - and then remember I need to throw together a potato salad for dinner.

legal restrictions at home, sometimes it's cheaper to buy their oil - like fracking is expensive for instance, and when it got big back in the 2000s, some OPEC members ramped up production to drive prices so low that fracking wasn't worth it - was an effort to drive competition out

@FischerKing64 If the US has enough oil to be energy independent like many experts claim, why are we still buying oil from any of these foreign governments?

Interesting that UAE is leaving OPEC, but I doubt it's the end of the organization. It's basically an international, state-operated cartel that restricts oil production to keep prices high. It's useful to the members - who all cheat on the rules now and then for their own financial reasons and then lie about it to one another. So it's a way to coordinate global oil prices, but isn't overly strict. Fun legal wrinkle - this behavior is a clear violation of US antitrust law. If domestic oil companies were restricting production this way, they would face civil and criminal liability. But it's considered immune under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act as actions of foreign governments. So we should just have to take it - and bully our "allies" who are members of OPEC now and then to raise production when we're getting pinched at home.

"Hannibal's cruelty, not to say inhuman cruelty, was justified by the fact that he was the captain of an army which consisted of men of many races. Could it be that the government of an ethnically heterogeneous mixed body, of a society embracing members of many nations, not to say all nations, requires a degree of severity which would not be needed for the good government of a homogeneous society?" Leo Strauss, Thoughts on Machiavelli 187

U.S. Grant working on his memoirs, less than a month before his death