Tuesday, November 08, 2022

Black Men Aren't Leaving The Democratic Party. The Democrats Left Us | Opinion via NEWSWEEK

 via NW

In a Saturday morning interview with MSNBC, Democrat nominee for governor Stacey Abrams tested out the narrative. When asked about her poll numbers at the end of a lackluster campaign in Georgia, Abrams chose to blame... Black men: for being too dumb, too ignorant, and just not sharp enough to see through so called "disinformation."

"Unfortunately, this year, Black men have been a very targeted population for misinformation," Abrams said. "Not misinformation about what they want but about why they want what they deserve."

As one of those Black men, I'd like to pose a few questions to the woman vying to be the governor of my home state:

Is it misinformation that inflation, according to government statistics, is at a record high?

Is it misinformation that while the cost of consumer goods has risen, according to the Washington Post, wages have failed to keep up?

Is it misinformation that in urban cities across America, it has become a game of Russian Roulette every single time you step out of your door as to whether or not you'll return home alive and unharmed?

The reality is that none of these things are misinformation, so much so that even the liberal corporate media can no longer choose to ignore them.

As to Abrams' point that Black men are confused about what they deserve, I take particular offense to that. Do Black men not deserve to live in safe communities? Do Black men not deserve affordable consumer goods? Do Black men not deserve the respect of progressive politicians, whom up until recently, they supported nearly unequivocally and almost always without challenge?

Let me answer those questions: Yes. Yes, yes, yes.

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Warrior Heart is the new Pentagon Buzzword, but what concerns me is that the Follow On Force will have to "fight to get to the fight"!

 

Geez.

Did you hear what she just said?

That means that our forward deployed forces will have to hold on for dear life while the rest of the Joint Force, "fights to get to the fight"?

This is fucking ominous.

That basically means that from the very start of hostilities our forces will be TOTALLY DEFENSIVE.  Fighting a holding action.


Russian Hybrid Warfare is working....Putin's Chef's statement now makes sense.

I would like to make a point. Rather a counterpoint.

I contend that a conventional war with China will chew thru so much equipment and people that we will rely on our existing warstock and even gear from our boneyards to keep us in the fight (as well as accelerated, truncated training of replacements) that to continue to supply Ukraine is actually NOT in our best interests.

But onto this post.

So many have bought into the Russian interference meme that few consider how Ludacris the claim actually is.

Americans are bombarded with all kinds of information from a WIDE VARIETY of sources.

From the far left to far right each individual can basically pick and choose what he/she consumes.

To think that an outside country can come into our political sphere and make a difference in a country as divided as we currently are is LAUGHABLE.

But what can they ACTUALLY DO?

They can form themselves into being a big bad with outsized capability to fuck with us.

That is what Russia is doing and the FBI, News Media and even average citizens are biting on.

My guess?

We've done more to fuck with other nation's elections with DIRECT CONSEQUENCES than anyone has ever done to fuck with our own.

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3d LAAB deploys G/ATOR during BVII

 I wonder how long it takes to set all this up. It looks so slow. I know. Stealth will save them. But if discovered these boys are gonna be pounded like cold meat.

 

U.S. Marines with 3d Littoral Anti-Air Battalion, 3d Marine Littoral Regiment, 3d Marine Division, establish a sensing unit of employment during exercise Bougainville II at Kalaeloa Airfield, Hawaii, Oct. 28, 2022. To rehearse flexibility, a 3d MLR sensing unit of employment displaced and established a sensor EAB to enable early warning of air and missile threats. Bougainville II is a field exercise that allows the MLR and its subordinate units to conduct expeditionary advanced base operations across the island of Oahu. BVII displays the MLR’s ability to rapidly establish and displace EABs while executing command and control in a dispersed environment. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Israel Chincio)

Geez.

These Marines are playing the role of a modern day picket ship. 

Hypothetical. If Republicans win the midterms and start pushing oversight on money/weapons sent to Ukraine, then will Europe step up to fill the void?

 via AXIOS

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Thursday that Ukraine will not receive any more funding if Republicans retake control of Congress in the upcoming midterm elections, per the Hill.

Driving the news: "Under Republicans, not another penny will go to Ukraine," Greene said at a Trump rally in Iowa. "Our country comes first."

"The only border they care about is Ukraine, not America’s southern border," she said of Democrats. "They don’t care about our border or our people."

Greene is not the only Republican that feels this way.  Republican leadership has been vacillating between promising restrictions/tough oversight/cuts to keeping the aid flowing like water in the ocean. 

Let's assume that the current recession we're in (amazed that the news media and business is actually going along with the changed definition of two quarters of falling GDP) is actually acknowledged next and things get a bit rougher at home.

High energy prices continue.  High food prices continue.  Just a terrible economy.

With the Republicans in control, their base demands a focus on problems here in the United States.

If Congress ties the hands of the President, then how does Europe fill the void?

Could they fill the void?

Do they have the military industrial capability to supply Ukraine without US assistance?

2nd Cavalry Regiment Field Artillery Squadron fire the M777 Howitzer during a live fire exercise at the Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany

2nd Marine Aircraft Wing at Exercise Cold Response 2022

USAF 1st Expeditionary Rescue Group (ERQG) personnel conducted jump operations...

U.S. Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallion lifts an M777 Howitzer during a training event at Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan