Trump Favored as Time Person of the Year
https://www.newsmax.com/us/trump-time-magazine/2024/11/25/id/1189352/
Betting sites have placed President-elect Donald Trump as the favorite to win Time magazine's Person of the Year.
"Gambling Sites" reported Trump's odds of winning are currently at -500. Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris stands at +800. Artificial intelligence has an odds stake of +900, with singer Taylor Swift at +1,200 and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at +1,500.
Nonetheless, it wouldn't be the first time Trump grabbed the accolade. Time made Trump its Person of the Year in 2016 after he defeated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the presidential election.
Israeli Media Reports on Tentative Acceptance of U.S.-Brokered Ceasefire with Hezbollah
https://saraacarter.com/israeli-media-reports-on-tentative-acceptance-of-u-s-brokered-ceasefire-with-hezbollah/
Israeli media reported Sunday that Jerusalem has provisionally agreed to a U.S.-brokered ceasefire proposal with Hezbollah, the Islamic Republic-backed militia in Lebanon. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved the framework after consultations with senior cabinet members and defense officials, according to Haaretz, Kan, and Ynet.
Foreign Desk News reports that the proposed ceasefire involves a three-phase process. First, Hezbollah operatives would relocate north of the Litani River. Next, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) would withdraw to within Israel’s borders. Finally, mediation would begin between Israel and Lebanon to address unresolved territorial disputes.
Key to Israel’s agreement is a U.S. assurance letter permitting military action in the demilitarized zone if Hezbollah attempts to rearm and the Lebanese armed forces fail to intervene. A U.S.-led international oversight committee will enforce the terms of the agreement.
While Netanyahu expressed some concerns, sources indicate he accepted the core elements of the deal. Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, is expected to arrive in Tel Aviv on Monday to finalize the details.
The agreement marks a significant diplomatic effort to de-escalate tensions between Israel and Hezbollah, amid ongoing regional instability.
There's a lot of people that need to read this about tariffs before they get their panties in a wad.
What Is A Tariff; Who Pays Tariffs, And What Are Their Impacts?
https://www.investors.com/news/economy/what-is-a-tariff/
Didn't that used to be a gif?
There will be, "I told you so's"
More, I told you so's!
https://truthsocial.com/@marklevinshow/posts/113549153504127219
Musk Takes Aim at 'Idiots' Still Building 'Obsolete' F-35s
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/elon-musk-pentagon-f35-program/2024/11/25/id/1189382/
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took several swipes at the Pentagon's F-35 program over the past two days as well as at the "idiots" who continue to build the stealth fighter jet.
Musk, who has been tasked by President-elect Donald Trump to lead the Department of Government Efficiency with Vivek Ramaswamy in his new administration, signaled that the $2 trillion lifetime cost of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter, developed by Lockheed Martin, could be a subject of his cost-reduction recommendations.
"The F-35 design was broken at the requirements level, because it was required to be too many things to too many people," Musk said in a post on X on Monday, days after a declassified Pentagon study on the fighter jet detailed reliability and security woes, Bloomberg reported.
"This made it an expensive & complex jack of all trades, master of none. Success was never in the set of possible outcomes. And manned fighter jets are obsolete in the age of drones anyway. Will just get pilots killed," Musk added.
That followed Musk's Sunday post alongside a video of synchronized Chinese drones, in which he blasted "idiots" who "are still building manned fighter jets like the F-35."
"Crewed fighter jets are an inefficient way to extend the range of missiles or drop bombs. A reusable drone can do so without all the overhead of a human pilot," Musk wrote in another post Sunday. "And fighter jets will be shot down very quickly if the opposing force has sophisticated SAM [surface-to-air missile] or drones, as shown by the Russia-Ukraine conflict."
The Pentagon released a statement defending the program.
"We have combat capable aircraft in operation today and they perform exceptionally well against the threat for which they were designed," a spokesperson said. "Pilots continually emphasize that this is the fighter they want to take to war if called upon."
The F-35 is expected to remain in service until 2088 at an estimated cost of more than $2 trillion over its lifetime, the Government Accountability Office wrote in May, even as the military planned to fly it less, it said.
Musk vowed during Trump's campaign that he could cut at least $2 trillion from the federal budget.
In a guest opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal last week, Musk and Ramaswamy criticized several areas of waste within the federal government, the Pentagon among them.
"The Pentagon recently failed its seventh consecutive audit, suggesting that the agency's leadership has little idea how its annual budget of more than $800 billion is spent," they wrote.
Trying to eat better cost way more than eating bad.