I’m listening to PDJT’s beginning and he announced Gaetz, Luna and Donalds but he didn’t announce MTG, I thought she was there. Was that a slip up or was she not there?
I don’t particularly like her, she is responsible for McCarthy, so I don’t care if she got announced but if she was there, she probably feels slighted.
Kek, boebert is pretty scrappy! MTG’s voice grates on me, especially when she repeats, “Let me tell you something…”. It’s so arrogant
Tonight’s speech:
President Trump: I always respected the Office of the President and Vice President, and I never was hard on Bidan. But now that they raided my home, (which was unprecedented), violated my 4th amendment rights, but with my indictment over nonsense… for purposes of election interferenceI said now the gloves can come off, because I never thought anyone could do a thing like that! Neither did anyone else!
Paraphrased—at about 00:49 minutes
Bongino has been warningfor days that there’s something serious going on with Russia and China, everyone should get supplies, water, flashlights and things that work without electricity. He said a warning came out that they could release a bioweapon and EMP that could turn off all electricity, directed at the US
16 Jul, 2023 03:39
‘Massive’ drone raid on Russian naval base repelled – governor
Ukraine’s attack on the Black Sea Fleet headquarters in Crimea has failed, the head of Sevastopol said
Ukrainian aerial and seaborne drones have unsuccessfully tried to attack Sevastopol, the home to Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Crimea, the port city’s top official, Mikhail Razvozhayev, said in the early hours of Sunday.
According to Razvozhayev, one UAV was shot down over the water and five others were disabled with signal-jamming. He added that two seaborne drones were destroyed while approaching the port.
“The attack was massive and prolonged,” Razvozhayev wrote on his Telegram channel. He said no damage was done to the ships or sites on the shore.
DETAILS TO FOLLOW
https://www.rt.com/russia/579774-sevastopol-drone-attack-repelled/
15 Jul, 2023 21:32
Crimea invasion would kill 200,000 Ukrainian soldiers – ex-Zelensky aide
Kiev is “totally dependent” on the West and cannot take back territory through military means, Aleksey Arestovich has said
The cost of invading Crimea would be too high for Kiev, a former adviser to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, Aleksey Arestovich, said this week. The operation would likely lead to hundreds of thousands of casualties, he said, speaking to Russian journalist Yulia Latynina.
There are “few prospects” of seizing the Crimean Peninsula through military means, Arestovich said, when discussing the options remaining to Kiev in its ongoing conflict with Moscow.“What will be the cost? Extermination of 200,000 of the adult male population?”he added, referring to the number of soldiers Ukraine would be likely to lose. Ukraine’s economy might also be “totally destroyed” in the process, he warned.
Kiev is already “totally dependent” on its Western backers, the former presidential adviser admitted. Should the US and its allies stop supplying Ukrainian troops with weapons, they would not only beunable to take back territoriesthat had joined Russia, but would also struggle to defend their current positions, he said.
Arestovich also openly charged that Washington and its allies were pursuing their own interests in the conflict. “Let’s be honest: our foreign policy goals in this war contrast sharply with the foreign policy goals of our sponsors and backers,” he said, adding that the West was willing to sacrifice Ukraine’s territory and lives of its people to achieve the desired outcome.
Ukraine can now only influence the Western leaders at an “emotional” level, the former presidential adviser said, adding thatKiev should have focused on building up its own sovereignty instead. “We need relations… based on real profits. That’s the only thing they [the West] understand,” he added. Arestovich also said that “immoral policies… and inability to take serious decisions” are the “major weakness of the West.”
Still, Ukraine cannot just abandon its Western backers and pursue its own goals “at any cost,” the former adviser insisted, adding that that would be a “dead end” for Kiev. The only consolation would be the prospect of joining NATO in exchange for peace with Russia.
“Stop the war and join NATO? Many people would say it is a historical chance,” the former presidential confidant said. He also described NATO guarantees in exchange for consenting to a peace with Russia along the current contact line as a “fairly good deal.” According to Arestovich, such an agreement would also likely require the West to lift some of its anti-Russian sanctions to convince Moscow to agree to such terms.
His remarks come amid the much-touted Ukrainian summer offensive, which has failed to bring about significant changes on the battlefield almost a month and a half after it was launched. Ukrainian troops have suffered heavy losses, including in Western-supplied heavy armor, during their largely unsuccessful attacks on the Russian defenses. According to Western media, Kiev’s backers have also been frustrated over the slow pace of the operation.
Moscow has repeatedly signaled it was ready for peace talks with Ukraine. It has also blamed Kiev for the lack of progress in the diplomatic field, citing a decree signed last year by Zelensky that prohibits talks for as long as Russian President Vladimir Putin remains in power.
Kiev put forth its own peace plan demanding Russia withdraw its troops from all the territories within Ukraine’s 1991 borders. Moscow has rejected the proposal, calling it detached from reality.
https://www.rt.com/russia/579769-crimea-invasion-kill-ukrainian-soldiers/
15 Jul, 2023 15:31
20% of Ukrainian weapons destroyed in just two weeks – New York Times
Kiev’s Western-supplied tanks and armored vehicles “all burned,” one soldier told the newspaper
The Ukrainian military lost 20% of the equipment it sent to the battlefield during the first two weeks of its counteroffensive, the New York Times reported on Saturday. This high attrition rate was reportedly akey factor in Kiev’s decision to pause the operation.
Beginning in early June, Ukrainian forces launched a series of attacks all along the front line from Kherson to Donetsk. Advancing through minefields and without air support, the Ukrainian military lost 26,000 men and more than 3,000 pieces of military hardware, according to the latest figures from the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Ukrainian losses were at their highest during the initial two weeks of the offensive, the New York Times claimed, citing unnamed American and European officials. These officials said that up to 20% of Ukraine’s tanks and armored vehicles were destroyed in this period, including many Western-provided vehicles.
For some units, Western equipment was lost at an even higher rate, the Times continued, citing figures from a pro-Ukrainian organization. Ukraine’s 47th Mechanized Brigade – a NATO-trained unit – apparently lost 30% of its 99 Bradley Infantry Fighting vehicles in two weeks, while the 33rd Mechanized Brigade lost nearly a third of its 32 German-made Leopard tanks in a single week.
“They all burned,” said one Ukrainian soldier who witnessed at least six Western vehicles destroyedin a single Russian artillery barrage. Another Ukrainian fighter told the Times that his unit’s Bradleys run over anti-tank mines on a daily basis. While the troops inside often survive, the vehicles are left immobilized long before they reach Russian lines.
According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian forces have destroyed a total of 311 Ukrainian tanks since June 4. “At least a third of them, I believe, were Western-made tanks, including Leopards,” Putin told Russia 24 TV on Thursday.
After the first two weeks, Ukrainian commanders decided to pause the counteroffensive, and losses subsequently dropped to 10%, the Times claimed. President Vladimir Zelensky acknowledged the pause this week, but blamed the West for failing to supply him with enough weapons and equipment for a successful operation.
With little territorial gain to show for Kiev’s losses, Western officials have expressed disappointment at the pace of the offensive, according to a steady trickle of media reports since mid-June. Zelensky and some of his top officials still insist that the decisive phase of their counteroffensive has yet to begin.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s Western backers are running low on ammunition, particularly155mm artillery shells. US President Joe Biden admitted this week that “we’re low” on these shells, explaining that the shortage compelled him to send controversial cluster munitions in their stead. The US has also stalled on approving the training of Ukrainian pilots on F-16 fighter jets, something that Kiev insists will help restart the faltering counteroffensive.
https://www.rt.com/russia/579761-ukraine-counteroffensive-vehicles-lost/
DeSantis Fires a Dozen Staffers As Campaign Payroll Burn Rate Nears 30%, Meanwhile Two-Thirds of All Campaign Funds Come from Big Donors, 15% from Small Donors
July 15, 2023 | Sundance1/2
There is a lot of granular dissection of the DeSantis campaign taking place as the music stops and the staff clamor for a chair.
Keep in mind, Donald Trump released his campaign fundraising details showing over a million small donors helped raise $35 million with an average contribution of $34.20. Small donors, that’s millions of middle-class and working-class MAGA folks, are the fuel for President Trump’s campaign.
According to the latest FEC filing [DATA HERE] the DeSantis campaign team took in $20.1 million, butburned through $7.9 million in just six weeks. This presents a major problem for the campaign becauseover two-thirds of those contributions were from maxed-out donorswho cannot contribute again. Only 15% of DeSantis campaign fundraising came from small
As NBC notes, “the numbers suggest, for the first time, that solvency could be a threat to DeSantis’ campaign, which has touted its fundraising ability as a key measure of viability.” The big problem for Ron DeSantis is his reliance on big donors.
(NBC) – […] more than two-thirds of DeSantis’ money — nearly $14 million — came from donors who gave the legal maximum and cannot donate again, NBC’s analysis shows. Some of those donors gave the $3,300 limit for both the primary and general elections, boosting DeSantis’ totals with cash that can’t be used to try to defeat Trump.
DeSantis finished June with more than $12.2 million in the bank, but his filing indicates that $3 million of that can only be used in the general election. Trump’s campaign ended the quarter with $22.5 million on hand. At the same time, DeSantis spent about 40 percent of what he raised, in part bypaying salaries to 92 people(before the staff firings). (article here)
The issue of relying on billionaires, rich people, corporations and Wall Street was always an achilles heel for DeSantis. Once those donors have contributed the maximum amount, either individually or through bundling their friends to support him, that’s it.
Every campaign needs a wide and deep donor group from the voters in order to tap them intermittently for assistance as the campaign continues. DeSantis just doesn’t have that withonly 15% of his total raised coming from small donors. That makes the burn rate a major problem and with the scale of payroll assembled, he needs to cut expenses after less than two months of campaigning. Casey will not be happy.
(NBC) – Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign has fired roughly a dozen staffers — and more are expected in the coming weeks as he shakes up his big-money political operations after less than two months on the campaign trail.
Those who were let go were described to NBC News by a source familiar as mid-level staffers across several departments whose departures were related to cutting costs. The exits come after the departures of David Abrams and Tucker Obenshain, veterans of DeSantis’ political orbit, which were first reported by Politico.
Sources involved with the DeSantis campaign say there is an internal assessment among some that they hired too many staffers too early, and despite bringing in $20 million during its first six weeks, it was becoming clear their costs needed to be brought down.
[…] DeSantis’ campaign had 92 people listed as being on the payroll for at least some period of time during its first fundraising period, according to campaign finance reports filed Saturday with the Federal Election Commission.It is by far the most of any Republican presidential candidate, and it has left his campaign with huge payroll expenses and, the new filings show, fewer resources than originally thought. (read more)
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/07/15/desantis-fires-a-dozen-staffers-as-campaign-payroll-burn-rate-nears-30-meanwhile-two-thirds-of-all-campaign-funds-come-from-big-donors-15-from-small-donors/
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Team DeSantis is having a crisis and coping party this weekend in Tallahassee where they will address the issues of greatest concern to the billionaires. However, absent a structural change in the candidate, the team, the outlook and the entire purpose of their assembly, nothing will work.
As noted by those connected to the campaign, “they think DeSantis’ inner circle underestimated just how hard — and expensive — it would be to break the grip on the Republican base held by Trump, who has a commanding lead and is seen as the overwhelming frontrunner. Even in Florida, a state that re-elected DeSantis by nearly 20 percentage-points just seven months ago, Trump now has his own 20-point lead on DeSantis, according to a Florida Atlantic University poll released last week.”
I said last year not to worry about DeSantis too much because the more people would be exposed to him the less likely his campaign would succeed. This was not snark on my part, this is just the reality that is Ron DeSantis. The reason why theinfluencers recruited by Christina Pushaware so abrasive, sanctimonious, condescending, annoying and detrimental to his campaign, is because his influencers are just like him Pushaw factually enlisted the help of people who have the samepersonality of Ron DeSantis; which is to say they are a miserable unlikeable bunch.
There are not enough uppity jerks in the base of the Republican Party, people who look down on others while taking selfies of their lunches, to overwhelm the ordinary base of regular folks who comprise the MAGA community.DeSantis polls well with a very narrow segment of rude, affluent people and there just are not enough of them.
The issues for the DeSantis campaign are structural and embedded in the DNA of the campaign participants. This is not a fixable flaw. I knew this last year when I was watching the team assemble; these are the same GOPe types that form the core of the never-trumpets. Just a miserable bunch of out-of-touch political types.
The Sea Island Super PAC (Never Back Down) has money, around $200 million, but the campaign itself is on life-support after only a few months. Even with the super pac buying off everyone they can, they don’t end up changing the dynamic of the voting base.
You might say I have been a little hard on DeSantis and if he just stayed as governor all would be ok. Unfortunately, that’s not accurate or possible. Ron DeSantis could not avoid running for 2024 because this 2024 race was the entire reason he was put into the 2018 Florida Governor’s contest to begin with. Once you realizeDeSantis is a long-planned operation going back to Trump’s 2018 mid-term, then you realize why he needs to be removed.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/07/15/desantis-fires-a-dozen-staffers-as-campaign-payroll-burn-rate-nears-30-meanwhile-two-thirds-of-all-campaign-funds-come-from-big-donors-15-from-small-donors/
A Pundit With a Point
July 15, 2023 | Sundance |
Generally speaking I skip most punditry stuff nowadays simply because it is fraught with too much pretending. Factually, when the baseline of the review is grounded on a false premise, the sequential review of potential outcomes is flawed and generally irrelevant.
That said, this is one of the rare punditry opinions that hits close to accurate {direct rumble link}. Everything in this brief segment is close to the mark, Ned Ryun is at least one of those pundits who actually hits the target. The flaw, part of the pretending that he misses, is in the outlook that if “republicans” -implying the RNC- can generate a ballot harvesting operation to compete, then Trump will defeat Newsom.
The issue Ryun misses is that professional republicans, the private corporations that are assembled under the unity banner of the professionalrepublican apparatus (RNC), when given the Trump vs Newsom scenario, do not want Trump to defeat Newsom. The win/win scenario for the multinationals is a Trump defeat, irrelevant of the victor, that’s the major flaw within the pretending issue inherent in almost all political analysis. WATCH:
1:24 minutes
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/07/15/a-pundit-with-a-point/
https://rumble.com/embed/v2xiegi/?pub=4
Excellent KEK!
‘Don’t trust a man with numb gums’: Tucker Goes off on the White House Cocaine
1:52 minutes
https://rumble.com/embed/v2xnsms/?pub=4