(RantWoman is a VERY bad friend. Just as a pro free-speech protest, RantWoman would consider making a series of T-shirts that have the offensive numbers and words like RETIRE or "VOTE THEM OUT" or "which nap is the President on so far?" or maybe Impeach, though the third time is not the charm.)
Sorry Your Highness. RantWoman needed the intro and consternation about numbers from Lawrence O'Donnell as an intro ahead of your speech.. We thank you, though, for reminding the #StableGenius in the White House and the Congress about the importance of #ChecksAnd Balances.
This is horrifying and barely getting media coverage.
Trump set April 30 as a deadline for the Zambian Govt. They must either accept Trump's new health funding agreement to have access to critical AIDS meds—and thus give the USA expanded access to its precious mineral resources…
RantWoman has probably spent too much time down YouTube rabbit holes about the gunman at this year's White House Correspondents' dinner.
RantWoman has not watched every second of all the videos linked here but has tried to pull out points that seem important to her but is seasoning further comment.
Harry Litman outlines a lot of details without all the fluff and angles other sources are chasing.
"By the time I heard about it, the conversation was about ballroom....The WH ballroom does not become any more legal because someone did something illegal and stupid at another ballroom."
Cenk (Jenk) Uygur is as good a source as anyone to go point by point through a bunch of "too early to tell" points about the gunman outside the White House correspondents' dinner. Cenk has not picked up that security was less than usual for a gathering with 5 of 6 people in the Presidential line of succession in attendance.
The last part of the video Cenk heads straight toward all the ways Israel is not held to the same standards as everyone else and reads comments from his channels.
Full disclosure: the Washington Hilton hosts manty academic conferences. RantWoman once attended an area studies conference there. The conference was in November after the 1991 disintegration of the Soviet Union. Aside from a range of humanities topics, there were many papers about pipelines. There was a sense of many people needing to redefine their lives with the national security environment changing. Drug trafficking was on the minds of many as a national security concern.
The moment that most sticks out to RantWoman: the session with a CIA recruiter getting regaled from the lobby / hallway by a flock of women attending a Salvation Army event. As the recruiter was trying to interest area studies scholars in careers, the Salvation Army came through singing "Ain't gonna study war no more."
TRUTH
RantWoman considers this divine intervention rather than a security problem and frets that there might be a much more uptight reaction these days.
Iran-linked video diss tracks based on the weekly news stream are one of RantWoman's very guilty pleasures, with the following additional comments.
Gee: shouldn't the people of Iran have the opportunity to make fun of their leaders without getting mowed down by the tens of thousands? Welp, hard to gain access right now with SEVERE internet information control within the country. Oh, and if only the fate of formerly very valuable examples of US democracy at its best, the Radio Liberty / Radio Free Europe franchise were not up in the air thanks to the ravages of DOGE and some step in court-based limbo.
Iran seems to be following the advice of Sun Tzu (?): never interrupt your enemy when they are in the process of making a mistake."
And US-based interests seem to be grabbing advice from an authoritarian playbook: penalize channels who host the content, oh and eat away at (or monetize?) the wayback machine internet archive all the better to try to make history tell only the most flattering stories. RantWoman almost feels as if she should download content in case key items get erased. Almost.
With all that to set the mood, please enjoy the videos.
They reflect depressing truths which, among other things are serious deviations from concerns from RantWoman's grad school colleagues wanting to keep their reputations as clean as possible in order to qualify for security clearances.
Speaking of Overkill, both textually and in the "kinetic" sense, this link should yield the verse in all English translations available on Bible Gateway.
RantWoman is not going to chase down the Pulp Fiction quote. This quote is consistent with Hegseth's previous quote from the Psalms about breaking the teeth of enemies. Isn't that threat alone supposed to be a war crime?
And Kash Patel, the Epstein Class, hostile work environments
Shouldn't reasonable vetting have caught alcohol issues before confirmation.
Why would a security team need a battering ram. Couldn't they just think of some reason to ask for help from hotel staff or were they complicit in hiding the unacceptable behavior.
President #StableGenius promised to drain the swamp and hire only the best people. Instead everything is SO MUCH swampier and the best he can do is the bottom of the barrel, drunks when he hates drunkenness....
Oh swell. It's a wild Saturday night Play the sea shanty again.
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