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George Rebane

Democrat shills

Democrats’ demonstrators are paid shills.  There is no end to the evil that this political party practices and foists on the country.  There is actually a booming business for outfits like Crowds on Demand who hire low-lifes to masquerade as concerned citizens expressing their scripted First Amendment rights in the streets.  And the Democrats are their prime politically oriented market.  This is just one more confirmation that the party is historically and organically evil.  It all began in the ante-bellum years when the Democrats promoted and fought for slavery, then they became the sponsors of corrupt unions, then they promoted eugenics and the KKK, then they latched on to socialism cum communism, now they seek to control the country through ever bigger government, higher taxes, and stifling regulations.  The individual means nothing to them, only his class membership matters.  (more here)

Trump wants Greenland for enhancing national security and controlling America’s access to important minerals and ‘rare earths’.  This isn’t the first time America has had its eye on a closer relationship with the frozen Arctic island that historically belongs to Denmark.  Since WW2 we have had military bases there and continue to maintain a radar early warning base.  To me it makes a lot of sense for Greenland to become at least an American protectorate.  Given a properly negotiated agreement, I think the Danes and the Greenlanders would enjoy such a relationship for all the obvious security and economic reasons.  Puzzling over this I have a proposal for a treaty that would be a consistent addition to Rebane Doctrine.  The outcome of the negotiations would have America assume military and foreign policy control of Greenland, in addition to the economic control of its natural resources.  America would also commit to insuring the security of Denmark in perpetuity against all foreign aggression by a status of forces agreement that allows us to maintain air and naval bases on the Jutland peninsula.  This would provide a triple economic boon to both Greenland and Denmark.  The presence of American bases bolsters the host country’s economy, here the host country/territory would no longer have to spend monies on its military, only on in-country police and coast guard, and the hosts would share in the economic gains from the plethora of new mines on Greenland.  Local governments, control, and cultures would not be affected by the American presence.  What’s not to like?

The resurrection of yesteryear’s stars is now possible and will be demonstrated this year through Bollywood’s release of a feature length film that is completely AI generated by Intelliflicks Studios in India. I started describing this future to friends over fifty years ago when I first got into AI in defense work.  Now it has arrived as you can see from the movie’s trailer (here and here).  The making of movies will never be the same.  As the software and hardware becomes cheaper, we will all be able to compose stories, write the screenplays, and produce realistic films.  Selling them will still be a problem with a flooded marketplace.  I wonder who owns the intellectual property for John Wayne, Fred Astaire, Marilyn Monroe, … ?

On to the inauguration – hallelujah!

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42 responses to “Scattershots – 19jan25”

  1. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    hallelujah?
    Hallelujah is a Yang worship word. You shall not speak it!
    (with apologies to Gene Roddenbury)

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  2. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Couldn’t happen to a better class of s spook:
    Mike Hayden, former CIA director, now analyst for CNN
    Jim Clapper, former director of national intelligence, now CNN pundit
    Leon Panetta, former CIA director and defense secretary
    John Brennan, former CIA director, now analyst for NBC and MSNBC
    Thomas Fingar, former National Intelligence Council chair, now teaches at Stanford University
    Rick Ledgett, former National Security Agency deputy director, now a director at M&T Bank
    John McLaughlin, former CIA acting director, now teaches at Johns Hopkins University
    Michael Morell, former CIA acting director, now at George Mason University
    Mike Vickers, former defense undersecretary for intelligence, now on board of BAE Systems
    Doug Wise, former Defense Intelligence Agency deputy director, teaches at University of New Mexico
    Nick Rasmussen, former National Counterterrorism Center director, now executive director, Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism
    Russ Travers, former National Counterterrorism Center acting director
    Andy Liepman, former National Counterterrorism Center deputy director
    John Moseman, former CIA chief of staf
    Larry Pfeiffer, former CIA chief of staff, now senior advisor to The Chertoff Group
    Jeremy Bash, former CIA chief of staff, now analyst for NBC and MSNBC
    Rodney Snyder, former CIA chief of staff
    Glenn Gerstell, former National Security Agency general counsel
    David Priess, former CIA analyst and manager
    Pam Purcilly, former CIA deputy director of analysis
    Marc Polymeropoulos, former CIA senior operations officer
    Chris Savos, former CIA senior operations officer
    John Tullius, former CIA senior intelligence officer
    David A. Vanell, former CIA senior operations officer
    Kristin Wood, former CIA senior intelligence officer, now non-resident fellow, Harvard
    David Buckley, former CIA inspector general
    Nada Bakos, former CIA analyst and targeting officer, now senior fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute
    Patty Brandmaier, former CIA senior intelligence officer
    James B. Bruce, former CIA senior intelligence office
    David Cariens, former CIA intelligence analyst
    Janice Cariens, former CIA operational support officer
    Paul Kolbe, former CIA senior operations officer
    Peter Corsell, former CIA analyst
    Brett Davis, former CIA senior intelligence officer
    Roger Zane George, former national intelligence officer:
    Steven L. Hall, former CIA senior intelligence officer
    Kent Harrington, former national intelligence officer
    Don Hepburn, former national security executive, now president of Boanerges Solutions LLC
    Timothy D. Kilbourn, former dean of CIA’s Kent School of Intelligence Analysis
    Ron Marks, former CIA officer
    Jonna Hiestand Mendez, former CIA technical operations officer, now on board of the International Spy Museum
    Emile Nakhleh, former director of CIA’s Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program, now at University of New Mexico
    Gerald A. O’Shea, former CIA senior operations officer
    Nick Shapiro, former CIA deputy chief of staff and senior adviser to the director
    John Sipher, former CIA senior operations officer
    Stephen Slick, former National Security Council senior director for intelligence programs
    Cynthia Strand, former CIA deputy assistant director for global issues
    Greg Tarbell, former CIA deputy executive director
    David Terry, former National Intelligence Collection Board chairman
    Greg Treverton, former National Intelligence Council chair, now senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
    Winston Wiley, former CIA director of analysis

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  3. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    roflmao. Blast from the Past.
    “President-elect Joe Biden told CNN’s Jake Tapper that he was concerned about reports that President Trump is considering a host of preemptive pardons for his adult children and lawyer Rudy Giuliani, as well as the possibility of one for himself.
    “It concerns me in terms of what kind of precedent it sets and how the rest of the world looks (at) us as a nation of laws and justice,” Biden said during his first joint interview with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris since winning the election.”

    https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/biden-trump-us-election-news-12-03-20#h_d58f958cc30c727786086bc83e861f84

    The ability for the Democratic elite to tell whoppers and, more importantly, actually believe them, is utterly astounding.

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  4. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Joe Biden using his last day in office to pardon Liz Cheney, among others, is the perfect expression of American political realignment and the rotted soul of the Democratic Party.”
    – Glenn Greenwald on X

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  5. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    I just saw the live video feed of Joe Biden walking into his swearing out ceremony…

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  6. fish Avatar
    fish

    The acceptance of a pardon is a tacit admission that one is guilty…..

    Biden pardons Dr. Anthony Fauci, Gen. Milley, Jan. 6 committee members

    The Pride of Scranton going out just like he served! 50 years of graft, “back scratching, and shameless lying.
    Remember this the next time some progressive empty head tells you that “if you haven’t done anything wrong you have no reason to be frightened”.
    https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1881334756304118234/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1881334756304118234&currentTweetUser=mazemoore

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  7. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Biden sas not my first choice but I find him to be a man of integrity ”
    – Paul Emery on RR
    Honestly, George should put this in the banner.

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  8. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Reporting from the White House is that Joe Biden is angry, and bitter that he was pushed out. Hey idiot, you’re polling at 25% of Americans thinking you did a good or great job. The worst of any president in our lifetimes. Joe and Jill Biden’s gigantic egos cost us this election.
    And, of course, everyone in DC who kissed their ass and helped them lie to the country, including every major reporter and cable news anchor. The same people pretending to be upset they were hoodwinked. They’re all guilty of covering up for him because they slavishly serve power.”
    – Cenk Uygur on X

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  9. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Am listening to the swearing out broadcast on JBL headphones… the music is great, I assume it’s the President’s Own, the U.S. Marine Corp Band. Truly first rate.
    Inside is easier … better mikes, warmer instruments, warmer instrumentalists.

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  10. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Drill Baby, Drill is the order of the day.

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  11. fish Avatar
    fish

    How could it be otherwise for the “Worst President in US History” not to mention the biggest political loser in American history as well?!

    CNN Poll: Biden leaves office with his approval rating matching the lowest of his term

    https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/15/politics/cnn-poll-biden-presidency/?dicbo=v2-WBRE0KZ&iid=ob_mobile_article_footer_expansion

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  12. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Trump was not my first choice but I find him to be a man of integrity.

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  13. Scott O Avatar

    I was looking though the list of Biden’s pardons and noticed the wealthy white male tax cheats, crooked Dem politicians, cop murderers, all his family members, but nothing for Garland.
    Interesting.

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  14. Scott O Avatar

    Trump was far from my first choice but it was him or complete insanity.
    A sort of Hobson’s choice.
    Do you want a president or not?

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  15. George Rebane Avatar

    scenes 758am – this statement by a leftwinger says it all. Biden has been for them a “man of integrity” because that is how they see integrity in operation. Their fundamental understanding of mores and ethics is completely different from ours.

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    scene

    DJT: We’ll plant the Stars and Stripes on the Planet Mars.
    For Elon Musk. Game, set, match. Well played.

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  17. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    The President’s Own planted Stars and Stripes Forever, the national march of the USA, as a recessional after the President spoke.

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  18. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    No resistance? No resisters?
    Wow.

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  19. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “No resistance? No resisters?
    Wow.”
    About all I’ve run into is semi-crazy middle aged+ people on social media who neener on and on about Trump.
    Naturally, he’s a RAPIST because some woman accused him of something from 40 years ago but can’t remember when or where. He’s a FELON because some DNC-appointed judge went after him for writing off a trivial expense in some sketchy way. He’s a NAZI because, well, he’s HITLER.
    Funny thing is that Trump ratings trend higher the younger the person polled.
    There’s something broken with these people.
    From some guy on ‘X’
    “I’m thrilled about these pardons. I really am.
    Nobody has shattered the illusions of more people than the Biden administration. It’s getting damn near impossible to deny the political realities of our time.”

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  20. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “No resisters?”
    Speaking of which, did this occur?
    https://www.theunion.com/news/national-peoples-day-march-planned-for-saturday/article_b4298502-d466-11ef-afa4-7fd9e00d14b9.html
    I’m all for the Perpetual March of the Karens. Mask as uniform. The trick is to harness the energy somehow. No more power outages in NC.

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  21. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    skenes 210p
    No mention I can find on the KNCO or Yubanet websites. Maybe it didn’t happen.

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  22. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Gregory@3:34PM
    A bit of perusing on YouTube shows smallish marches in the usual suspect cities.
    As usual, mostly post-menopausal women with pro-abortion signs and pussy hats. I guess that physiognomy really is destiny. It gives them something to do but I pray they don’t get hit by a bus.
    General Milley’s ten-day-old official photograph getting thrown in the skip does crack me up, but there’s going to be a lot of amazing things over the next week.

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  23. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    We are out of the Paris Climate Accords. No more IPCC.
    Little Marco is confirmed as Secy of State.
    And federal employees need to come in to work…

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  24. Scott O Avatar

    “national peoples day” – so species-centric.
    What about the Furrys?
    As far as:
    “…Nobody has shattered the illusions of more people than the Biden administration. It’s getting damn near impossible to deny the political realities of our time.”
    It appears many, such as a couple of Pauls are immune to reality – Krugman:
    “The point is this: Trump ran a campaign based entirely on lies, and his victory doesn’t make those lies true.”
    Oh, it’s going to be a painful 4 years for more than a few.

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  25. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Perhaps Paul can serenade us with a little “Biggest political loser evah!”.
    Dems and farther left seem to be demoralized. Awwwww…

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    scenes

    From Sputnik news on X:
    TRUMP SIGNS A PACKAGE OF EXECUTIVE ORDERS AT THE CAPITAL ONE ARENA IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
    List of Executive Orders:
    📜 Rescission of Biden-era Executive Actions: Rescinds 78 Biden-era executive orders, presidential memoranda, and other executive actions.
    📜 Regulatory Freeze: Implements a freeze on new regulations until the administration gains full control of the government.
    📜 Federal Hiring Freeze: Imposes a hiring freeze on all federal employment, excluding the military and certain other categories, until full control of the government is established.
    📜 Return to In-Person Work for Federal Employees: Mandates that all federal workers return to full-time, in-person work immediately.
    📜 Addressing Cost of Living Crisis: Directs every department and agency in the federal government to address the cost of living crisis affecting Americans.
    📜 Withdrawal from Paris Climate Treaty: Officially withdraws the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement.
    📜 Restoration of Freedom of Speech: Orders the federal government to restore freedom of speech and prevent government censorship.
    📜 Ending Weaponization of Government: Directs the federal government to stop the weaponization of government against political adversaries of the previous administration.

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    scenes

    lol. Man oh man, the interwebz news is popping right now with people fired, J6 political prisoners being pardoned, beaucoup things from the naughty or nice list happening. The next few weeks should be amazing.
    psul!! Please come back to tell us about Arnold Palmer’s dick. All is forgiven.

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    scenes

    The winning never stops.
    “Jake Paul puts Mike Tyson on his back while Logan films”
    https://x.com/realDerekUtley/status/1881532810361745597

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  29. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Birthright citizenship is heating up.
    No, it isn’t so clear cut.

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  30. George Boardman Avatar

    The biggest mistake the Mexican drug cartels made was to not “strongly” support Trump:
    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/21/trump-pardons-silk-road-ross-ulbricht-.html

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  31. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    bored georgeman 945a
    That’s perhaps the most bizarre claim you’ve ever made… so you think the pardon makes Ubricht into the equivalent of a Mexican drug cartel?

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  32. George Boardman Avatar

    Goodknight 10:54 a.m.: They were both in the same business. The only difference was he dealt in bitcoins and the cartels use cash.

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  33. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    The cartels deal in bullets and decapitations.

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  34. George Rebane Avatar

    Re Gregory and GeorgeB – Never the twain shall meet (and for good reason).

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  35. fish Avatar
    fish

    I notice that your local bird cage liner is so starved for content that it still prints letters from Terry Lamphier.
    Maybe it’s time to start thinking about winding things down if this is what things have been reduced to! I mean input from Tom Durkin is bad enough… but this…this should be a wake up call!

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  36. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Cartels also deal in human flesh. Live, dead and inbetween.
    Ulbricht dealt in bits and bytes, and was given a sentence way out of line with the crime. Let’s make an example of this one.

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  37. fish Avatar
    fish

    The headlines….they write themselves!

    BEASTMODE: CNN’s Ratings Are Lower Than ‘SpongeBob’ Reruns, GOP Rep Tells Jim Acosta

    More cogent political analysis from Spongbob as well! The work will be done when the last “journalist” starves to death!
    https://freebeacon.com/media/beastmode-cnns-ratings-are-lower-than-spongebob-reruns-rep-tim-burchett-says/

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  38. Scott O Avatar

    Boardman is now equating Ulbricht’s crimes to the Mex cartel’s??!!
    TDS has obviously claimed another victim. It completely destroys rational thought.
    Sad.

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  39. Scott O Avatar

    fish 12:23 – As seen in the Hits and Misses in Nevada County’s local paper:
    “To sesquipedalian George Rebane for trying to impress readers with his use of rare words hoping that everyone will think he’s intelligent.”
    Sesquipedalian:
    1. A long word.
    2. A person who uses long words.
    Such as – ‘hippopotamus’.
    So the writer slams George for using long words by using a long word himself. OK. Then he claims that George uses ‘rare’ words to try to make himself appear intelligent.
    Pretty sure it’s the other way around. Intelligent people often use some words that less educated folks are unfamiliar with because they are well read and have an expanded vocabulary.
    At any rate, it continues to show how pathetic the left is when all they seem to have in their arsenal of arguments are absurdisms.

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  40. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    This explains it well…
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/01/24/the_addicted_petty_and_hysterical_left_152245.html
    Punchy will note it’s by VDH and his allergy prevents his reading it.

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  41. fish Avatar
    fish

    Do try to never forget just how much progressives hate this country…..

    The ‘Trump Effect’: Migrant encounters at border ports of entry have dramatically declined since Trump took office on Monday. Imagine that—the Biden-Harris regime had the ability all along to slow or stop the migrant invasion but chose not to, suggesting the crisis may have been intentional. The American people must hold the Democratic Party accountable at the ballot box in future elections for years of chaos.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/military/deportation-flights-begin-white-house-announces-first-jumbo-jet-illegals-departs-america

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