More #SCsen debates please?

 #SCsen #China #AI #DataCenters #Wind #Solar #DrillBabyDrill #GasPrices #Nuclear #Regulation

Random snarky comments before attempting to digest nuance:

Libertarians are always good for keeping a conversation out of some possible ruts.

Shout out to Sen. Graham for celebrating the fact that all three people on the stage including the Libertarian are women.

RantWoman promises to find some male candidates whose hair merits opining but does want to observe that all the candidates looked professional. RantWoman especially appreciates that Sen. Graham seems to have gotten a bit of a makeover about both hair and glasses. As an aside, RantWoman will be happy to narrate an exhaustive description of her own visual experience and how with 3X magnification and a 27" monitor she is in a position to comment on people's hair.

RantWoman was not fully tracking the context when Sen. Graham exclaimed "My husband imports toy guns from China." REALLY? Get 'em started early with gun violence training." MAYBE RantWoman will revisit the context.

South Carolina Senate Debate on Iran

Concise Clip about the war on Iran. Senator Graham appears to have drunk the Koolaid being poured out by President #StableGenius and the Secretary of #WarCrimes. Iran was abiding by the #JCPOA until #DonSnoreleone tore up the agreement.

God knows: there is probably no point in trying to insert comments about nuclear deterrence or a global nonproliferation regime into debate time limits. Plus, there are plenty of active wars just now, none of which, THANK HEAVEN, have involved actual nuclear weapons.

This is an interesting presentation of additional commentary intercut with the other candidates' questions. RantWoman did not have a great experience with the audio but is linking it here just as an artifact.

SC U.S Senate Debate - The 4th Candidate

Election safety planning advice from J6 officer Michael Fannone

 #ElectionSecurity

The problem with the phrase "Walk in the Light

 

A lighted mobility cane in front of
some kind of artwork

Please read on for why literalist "walk in the Light" is not a fun thing just because one has a "light sword" mobility cane.

Adventures of RantWoman: Blindness gear for Star Wars groupies--and people who just need to get to work?

The St. Helena?

 #StraitOfHormuz

Speculation about why 8 Marines were injured on a freighter.

NDEAM: Reprise of Binge blogs past

 It's National Disability Employment Awareness Month, #NDEAM

RantWoman promises binge blog.

Will RantWoman turn reflective?

Um, check out some greatest hits.

RantWoman and the RSOF: Search results for #NDEAM

RantWoman's first binge blog on the topic was in October 2011. Ay-yi-yi. Check it out?

October 2011 before RantWomam started getting all flashy.

Stay tunnnned

An affection for murderous dictators

 #Trump #Russia #Putin

Monitoring the bear and WTF CIA

 #Russia #BalticRepublics #CIA #Europe #NATO #Article5 #HybridWarfare #StateTerror

#SabotageOperations #Intelligence #ClickbaitMediaBullshit #StoogesForRussia #Ukraine

RantWoman wondered about this entire news cycle when it first broke.

Leaked Report Reveals What Europe Really Thinks About Trump

Family and Community in the 21st Century: how we care for each other: ONE interest group

 RantWoman is working at as much "homework" before Pacific NW quarterly meeting as can be managed.

The only interest group that has made it onto the online listing is one by two Friends with a leading to address Christian nationalism. Here is the declaration they want to seed group discernment.

Statement of Faith Toward a Shared Declaration

RantWoman is getting very good at trying to witness movement of God in ways that are not always obvious.

Case in point: The Secretary of War Crimes whose job is to protect Freedom of Religion not cram his religion down others' throats.

Enough said?

Sean Hannity interviews Darline Graham

 #SCsen #DarlineGraham #SeanHannity

If RantWoman were a slightly more responsible commentator, she would go look for the entire interview clipped here. RantWoman is pointedly not offering some observations related to the comments below.

Instead, RantWoman offers the rant she posted in the comments.

Y'all aren't following enough #SCsen social media. Ralph Norman set an example for #GOP candidates everywhere. He lost the runoff to Darline. He said "I don't like it but I accept it." A whole bunch of #GOP voters don't like Darline for a bunch of different reasons. Some of them plan to write in Ralph Norman. Some will vote Democrat. Among Darline's "sins:" --as Commissioner of the SC Commission for the Blind she, HORRORS, had a strong #DEI program --She once gave money to Lisa Murkowski --She supported an SC legislator taking a pro-choice position. --Her travel budget for the year after the pandemic lockdowns ended was about 10x the previous year when NOBODY was travelling either for trainings to maintain certifications or to serve agency clients. As a social services professional and head of a state agency, she certainly would have worked closely with the governor. To me that makes the leap to appointing her to fill Lindsay's seat justifiable but I don't live in SC I get that Darline does not know much about foreign policy. As screwed up as US foreign policy is right now, someone willing to engage about fresh ideas could be really valuable. But I don't live in SC and I can't tell how hot the supposed hot buttons really are.

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RantWoman notes to herself:

--There will be a debate. What questions would RantWoman ask

--SC has a lot of both active duty military and vets. Neither candidate is talking about the war but what strands of discontent are there?

Stay tuned.

President #StableGenius goes golfing in Ireland

 

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🚨Trump SNAPS As IRELAND Gives Him THE WORST SURPRISE!

President Trump is coming to Ireland; Command Units flown in by military aircraft

Military transporters continue to fly President Trump's cargo into Ireland

Five planes fly President Trump's new cars and motorcades to Ireland 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 

Houthis? Saudis?

 #BabElMandab #Houthis #Saudis #escalation

Anti-Transgender measures in KS

 Posting as is.

By no means is RantWoman in touch with all the other places where things like this are happening.

Now iit's The Damage Report ranting about Darline Graham.

 #SCsen #SCpol #DarlineGraham

Darline Graham has decades of professional experience as head of a state agency. She is probably good friends with the governor, She did not know why Taiwan is important in a debate but SHE CAN LEARN. The President is an old guy who needs a friend. Unfortunately, sometimes it falls to friends to tell someone that what they are doing is no working. Is it too much to hope Darline might be that friend? LOTS of cringeworthy moments during the runoff so I am not making bets. I have a ridiculous sexist bias though: The news is all Epstein, Epstein, Epstein #GOP pedophiles and pedophile enablers. I think it would be great to have two women going head to head in November. Darline is trying to say things that make me cringe for example about immigration. And I am not excited by her Dem. Opponent claiming that decades of professional work in state government is no qualifiations. Finally, for everyone in SC who says people out of state should stay the hell out, two points: Because of Darline's professional background she is known by people in similar roles from other states. Also, the people of SC like the people of other states have much to gain from electing a Congress that can work for the US people, not jut get mad and go home when things get hard. Could Darline pull any of that off? Who knows? I am just tired of everyone in the media dissing her background.

Well-read Black Girl on Labels

 Posting this here just because

35 years ago today in the USSR / Russia

 #USSR #Russia #Eltsin #Putin

Grieving sucks...and then there are bagpipes

 Pssst: RantWoman likes bagpipes more than many people do.

RantWoman has no idea what makes a bagpipe band the champions. Comments at the end explain a little. 

RantWoman is simply posting this video in fond memory of the bagpipers who practiced in the park across the alley from the RantFamily home in MT.

Grieving gets month anniversaries right now.

Grieving as in working out love and rage, grief and gratitude, gratitude for others sharing the thoughts, encrusted with different details.

Seaborne shipping Chokepoints!

 

#StraitOfHormuz #BabAlMandab #PanamaCanal #BlackSea #ArcticRoute #SouthChinaSea #RhineRiver #DanubeRiver #GlobalFoodSystem #OilPrices #FoodPrices

An excellent rundown of all the ways global conflicts as well as the effects of climate change in the Panama Canal or European rivers are affecting oil and food prices.

RantWoman has no topical policy or diplomatic suggestions but hopes this outline gives readers info to counteract streams of media nonsense. RantWoman is also looking into more local food production and a solar battery for some key household needs. 

 

The "Golden Dome:" another dumb weapon system idea

 In case anyone needs some "do not build this" pointers

No. No! No! DO NOT say a woman candidate with decades of service in state government is UNQUALIFIED. DO NOT DO IT!

 #SCpol

Tomorrow is the SC #GOP Senate Primary.

First, a debate video.

Adventures of RantWoman: Spectator in Someone Else's Election: the SC GOP Senate primary

RantWoman's instinct is "vote for the woman." RantWoman would SO prefer that Darline Grham had focused more on her experience working in state government in SC than on national GOP talking points.

HOWEVER, here is how Annie Andrews, the Democratic candidate describes the rest of the SC primary field in a fundraising email entitled "Quite the Lineup"

Someone endorsed by Trump, and utterly unqualified.

Dr. Andrews is referring to Darline Graham, younger sister of the late Lindsay Graham. 

RantWoman's reaction: "Oh HELL NO." You do not get to proclaim someone  with decades of leadership experience in state government unqualified either because of her pedigree or because of her gender. Oh HELL NO!

Someone who lied about being on the Appalachian Trail, while he was actually having an extramarital affair.

Someone with a career of votes against the healthcare, food assistance, and public schools South Carolina families count on.

Quite the lineup, right?

Here's a wild idea: a Senator who's spent her career caring for the communities she’s running to represent, who’s honest, and who will vote to protect your family.

I'm a pediatrician and a mom of three. I've spent decades taking care of kids in this state, I don't take a dime of corporate PAC money, and I'm not running to be another rubber stamp for Donald Trump’s chaos — I'm running for you.

But here's the reality: Whomever Republicans pick out of that mess tomorrow walks away with a multi-million war chest, Trump's machine, and super PACs behind them. The only way we'll be ready to meet that is if our grassroots movement builds up strength — right now.

RantWoman votes in WA, not in SC

RantWoman still thinks it would be just fine if there were two women on the SC Senate ballot.

In the meantime, RantWoman is not sending anyone any money in this race!

Scott Bessent making himself irrelevant? You broke it; you bought it!

 #Iran #StraitOfHormuz #commodities #Houthis 

In case anyone is tempted to take US Secretary of the Treasury seriously about world trade.

OR is Secretary Bessent trying to deflect attention to some ship movement, some or all of which may be covert, eg sailing "dark."