DRONES IN WARFARE-----AND MUSK CAN CONTROL WHAT SIDE WINS-----IS THIS CRAZY ENOUGH FOR YOU?

 

Ukraine regained significant territory after Starlink was blocked for Russian forces – US intelligence

I saw this headline after watching several videos about the increasing use of drones on the battlefield in Ukraine. 

I had no idea of the prevalence and ingenuity of the Ukrainian drone industry being used to hold Russian troops back.

From my reading this drone and military connection is a business growing and changing from month to month. I watched Ukrainian drone pilots launching, directing, and bombing targets with a couple of different drone types. Great stuff!

The big problem here, one that gets no public media attention that I have seen, is that the 10,000 satellites that Musk controls through his STARLINK business under SPACEX literally has the power to shut off service to Starlink terminals wherever and whenever he wants!

And from where does he get the money and authority to build his rockets and offload his satellites in low earth orbit? From US taxpayers. NASA historically received taxpayer funding and Congress had control. No more.

The president controls the flow of money, and he is not a benevolent dictator!

One guy, Musk, can shut down damn near the entire globe's communications. It is NUTSO!

And the public is oblivious to the danger. The nuclear launch codes are protected via a chain of secret protocols and events and multiple people needed to launch, but one weird guy has a similar power and we taxpayers keep giving him more and more billions. (I don't think that I'm the crazy guy here.)

Think about it.

PRICE OF GAS

 

I filled up my Corolla last week in California and paid $6.35 per gallon.

The average gas price in the US is $4.83 per gallon.

We pay more in California because the state taxes it and also requires some kind of cleaner-burning type of fuel. I don't know and I don't care.

For the country as a whole, the $4.83 is remarkably high and the typical family in the US is unhappy.

I predict that our federal government will resolve this price shock by requiring gasoline prices to be posted as dollars per liter.

Since 1 gallon is equal to 3.79 liters, the big gas price signs will show a much smaller number, and the average oblivious American will be relieved to see that gas prices have greatly decreased.

The $4.83/gallon will be read as $1.68 per liter. Terrific!

Trump will brag at how much he lowered gas prices and the masses will believe!

Just divide your per-gallon price by 3.79 to yield $1.68/liter.

It's coming. It is done this way in many other countries.

San Diego County Ballot Voting by Mail

 

This is the way to vote! Thank you San Diego County for mailing me a mail-in ballot for the June election, including an envelope requiring NO Postage!

This is smart, efficient, and certainly not subject to voter fraud as the president would have us believe.

I voted.

Meanwhile, the president and weak-spined Republicans in Congress work assiduously to restrict voting rights!

For shame, for shame!

I have one vote but how does my vote compare to the big money backed candidates who, in reality, get the benefit of many, many votes to my single vote.

Money, dark money must get out of our elections. It shrinks our personal one vote to obscurity. 

Graham Platner of Maine for Senate!

 

This Marine vet will win handily against Susan Collins. He is an answer to the quasi-Democratic mouthpieces on the internet who repeatedly criticize Democrats in Congress for not having clear policy goals.

I'm sooo tired of hearing that US problems are the fault of a weak Democratic leadership. And I also am tired of hearing Pelosi and her husband's bundle of millions probably acquired by her inside knowledge of government contracts used as a rough EQUIVALENT to the seemingly universal financial corruption of this administration.

Pelosi is one name. Trump's insiders profiting are MANY!

I do not excuse Pelosi. But there is no comparison of who is better at stealing between Democrats in Congress versus Republicans in Congress. I hope there will be follow-up criminal prosecutions if we get a functioning democratic republic again.

This Graham Platner is clearly elucidating his platform. He's a start. 

Medicare for all.

Unionization of workers.

Stop wasting lives and billions in conflicts that make no sense.

The Supreme Court corruption to be disrupted.

Money out of elections...Citizens United must go away.

Voters rights eliminated by gerrymandering and absurd document requirements...all to skew election results in favor of Republicans.

REPUBLICS: HOW THEY DIE

 

Republics don't exist forever without constant vigilance by the people of the republic. 

They can come into being after violent struggles or fade away if the populace permits it.

When the Republicans, and in this designation today I include Democrats & Republican representatives, allow the country's military might to be gradually merged with the elected leaders, the republic is in peril.

We have seen many generals and flag officers fired without cause by this administration, then replaced by flag officers essentially swearing loyalty oaths to the president. Who controls the military will control the republic. What can follow is the decline of the republic into an autocracy, an empire, a military dictatorship...NOT a true republic.

The Roman Republic eroded in this matter with generals allying themselves, and thus their soldiers and weaponry, to the next likely Emperor. 

The US is undergoing this similar erosion now.