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  1. red750

    Brain Teaser

    Yes Nev, you are correct. However, the point of the question was to highlight that while "right" can be the opposite of both "left" and "wrong", "hard" can also be the opposite of both "easy" and "soft", so the disired answer was simply "hard".
  2. red750

    Brain Teaser

    Correct Nev.
  3. It is interesting that Chump has been busy kissing the a** of jihadist supporters, while signing an executive order directing the immediate deporting of foreign nationals including students who support pro Palestinian and jihadist protests.
  4. I post this from Facebook. Read it or ignore it as you choose. The $400 million jet from Qatar and the late night Taylor Swift posts are designed to distract you from what happened on the first overseas trip of Trump's second term. I am not referring to the highly choreographed, censored, Hollywood version of his Middle East tour. I am not talking about the tepid and inaccurate reporting from failed legacy media outlets, who only repeated his claim of 'hundreds of billions in deals'. I'm talking about what really happened between the Trump family, the US oligarchs, and the Sunni dynasties which control the Gulf states. Let's provide some proper grounding. Before departing on Air Force One, the White House informed the most reliable global news agencies, often referred to as 'the wire', that they would not be joining the administration. This marks the first time in history that journalists from the wire services (like Reuters, Associated Press, UPI, etc) would not accompany the US president on an overseas trip, especially one of this magnitude. Upon landing, Trump and his family, top aides, and the CEOs of at least 20 major companies scurried to make deals as fast as they could. Trump's large adult sons wrangled a few billion out of Qatar and Saudi Arabia for golf course resorts. They also landed major crypto deals where cartel members, terrorists, and other illicit offshore wealth will be funneled into their own crypto coins. There's nearly one crypto coin for each member of the Trump family. The biggest single item of the deal was Saudi Arabia's pledge to purchase 500,000 semiconductor chips from Nvdia, for purposes that remain unclear. Saudi Arabia has zero computer talent as their ruling families are accustomed to not working for anything or providing any value whatsoever. Saudi Arabia is apparently going to buy 500,000 AI chips, at a cost of $50,000 per chip, to put them in the desert where server rooms need to to remain a temperature of 65 degrees, all without any local talent to do anything of value. China's President Xi must be laughing in DeepSeek. No one groveled more than Amazon's founder, Jeff Bezos. Bezos bowed before Mohammad bin Salman, a man who kidnapped, sexually tortured, and dismembered one of Bezos' journalists, Jamal Ahmad Hamza Khashoggi, employed at the Washington Post. The few remaining talented reporters still employed by Washington Post must rest easy at night knowing in the event someone murders them because they dislike their reporting, the boss will kiss their killer's hand. Not exactly a fantastic workplace vibe for a newspaper, but I digress. To be honest, there isn't enough space in this post, or any post, to describe the torrent of deals that happened. We are talking about the 60 most powerful companies on earth, mingling with 20 or so members of the Saudi and Qatari ruling families, all pitching deals to channel oil money into their pockets. Elon Musk landed a significant deal with Saudi Arabia to use his Starlink system for aviation and nautical systems. The military industrial complex, the tech CEOs, and the crypto creeps emerged from the summit with ear to ear smiles. It was a spectacle for the ages as the ruling elites of Saudi Arabia sought to greenwash, tech wash, and generally launder their oil wealth into the coffers of America's tech titans. To be clear, Saudi Arabia is a backward nation of women-hating oil thieves and slavers who have nothing but contempt for our democracy and values. They have financed terrorist atrocities across the world, including 9/11. The Saudi sultans and sheiks attempt to spin their countries as reformed and modern by investing in goofy golf tournaments, but every single strip, brick, and building of the 'new Middle East' was built on the backs of chattel slaves from South Asia. These Sunni sultans and sheiks, like the Trump family and the Silicon Valley tech bros, are the takers of the world. They contribute nothing. They live solely to extract as much wealth and amass as much power as they can. And the takers of the world, like the Sunni elite and the wannabe dictators like Trump, share a similar model: that vision rests on holding the workers and makers of society in total contempt. The people who build our cities, teach our kids, manage our National Parks, research cancer cures, staff our hospital and hotels, farm our food, and generally provide the entire structure and foundation of modern life are deserving of nothing more than squalor, poverty, terror, cruelty, and denied even the basic recognition of citizenship. This is the model of Dubai. This is the vision of Trump's America. Trump and his dopey sons aren't the captains of this ill-fated journey. Not by any stretch... Peep🧐 Trump's little hands holding onto King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud's hand. At first glance, it appears Trump is gently supporting an old and enfeebled man. Which is weird, because he doesn't even hold his own wife's hand. But upon closer examination, it's the King who has stuck his middle finger right through Trump's palm as he grips his wrists with the other fingers. He is guiding him around like a donkey. Trump is being groomed. The Saudis played the President of the United States like Pinocchio at Pleasure Island. They rolled out their silly lavender carpet. They bussed in a McDonald's trailer so bozo could enjoy a Big Mac in the sweltering 110 degree heat while he canoodled with the people who funded 9/11. They adorned him a Toys R' Us gold chain. They even pawned off a rusted jet they were unsuccessfully trying to offload for years. The only thing the Saudis wanted was the ability to launder their money into America's leading semiconductor technologies and boatloads of our latest weapon systems. In the end, hundreds of billions of dollars changed hands. The number of hands numbered no more than two dozen. The 77 million MAGA muppets who voted for this traitor were not part of any deal. People are asking for sources, which is totally reasonable. This is a highly editorialized version of events, distilled from a dozen or so reports from media. I stitched together from here and there. I'll provide a few here, but it's important to know this is editorialized, which means I authored it. I didn't use AI, so if you steal this, I will legally pursue you. I'll post some sources here but this is original work. https://apnews.com/article/trump-business-interests-family-middle-east-cryptocurrency-cbb7d2354304ce0308800819944cf3f8 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-so-many-ceos-crossed-paths-with-trump-in-the-middle-east-from-sam-altman-to-jensen-huang-080000141.html
  5. red750

    Brain Teaser

    Correct. The brother and sister rubbish thrown in to confuse when you only have 30 sec to answer.
  6. red750

    Brain Teaser

    Correct Pete.
  7. Why women live longer.
  8. red750

    Brain Teaser

    Correct Marty.
  9. red750

    Quickies part 2

    This was presented as a joke on FB, but I bet there's more than a hint of truth to it, knowing American education. Billy comes home from school very upset that he got zero for geography. His mother says, "What was the question?" Billy says, "Where is Portugal?" His mother says "It can't be too far away." and gets out a map of the suburb. After looking all over the map, and not finding Portugal, she gets a map of the region. After the same result, she looks at a map of the state Still no Portugal. She says, "I'm going down to speak to that teacher. There is no Portugal anywhere. Our maid comes from Portugal and she rides here every day on her bike."
  10. red750

    Brain Teaser

    Correct. The lowest number divisible by all three frequencies. \
  11. Trump Implementing Self-Deportation Plan For Illegal Migrants https://conservativebrief.com/trump-plan-2-91481/?utm_source=CB&utm_medium=573
  12. There was another article in The Telegraph. It said to read this article, I had to enter my email. I have an anonomous email which I put in, and a screen came up asking for more information to get 30 days free access. Too much like a trap, so I scrapped it. I did a web search "kill switches in solar panels". There are at least half a dozen possible hits.
  13. This quote from the Australian Financial Review: Qatar orders 210 Boeing jets during red carpet Trump visit The White House says President Donald Trump has secured deals totaling more than $US243.5 billion ($378 billion) with Qatar, laying the groundwork for a bigger $US1.2 trillion economic pledge with the tiny Gulf country. This is just the teaser, but you have to log in to see more.
  14. China plants kill switches in solar panels sold to the west. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14718749/China-secretly-installed-kill-switches-solar-panels-sold-West-Beijing-plunge-enemies-darkness-event-WW3.html?ito=social-facebook
  15. Guess who: "When you look at what's happening with Russia and Ukraine the drone is killing tremendous numbers of people," Trump said during a press conference in Doha, Qatar. "You hide behind a tree and the drone comes down and it circles you with fire. You don't have a chance and the tree comes down also by the way." "It's so intense the— I mean you see these trees being knocked down like..." he continued. "Like they're being sawed down by a top of the line, uhh, timberman like... Like... You know who? Sean... Duffy." "Do you know that Sean Duffy, the head of the Transportation Department, who's working right now on the airports and getting a system because Biden didn't do a thing for four years and Pete Buttigieg was the head and he goes bicycling to work," said Trump. "He takes a bicycle to work, can you believe it? He's head— He's running the biggest air system in the world and he takes a bicycle to work. What a— And they say he's going to run for president, I don't see it." Trump went on. "Who knows right? But I don't see it." "But, uh, when I look at what they've done uh, it's so horrible what they've done and the work they did do they wasted billions of dollars," Trump went on. "They tried to hook up air systems to... To copper. They tried to hook up copper to glass and the glass doesn't work with the copper and..." "Uh they had 30,000 different contractors doing 30,000 jobs and when they put it all together they spent billions of dollars. It didn't even come close to working and we're going to be giving out a brand new system," said Trump. "It's very important. We'll have the best system. And we think we know who that system is but we have a lot of bidding," he went on. "But we want one check," he continued. "We want a unified system. We don't have, uh, 5,000 contractors and all different places, some digging ditches and some not doing ditches because they want to go by satellite. Satellite seems to be the way to go. We're going to be giving that out pretty soon." "But what people don't know about Sean cause I mentioned lumberjacks that Sean — you probably didn't know this that uh — I'm not talking about this Sean, this Sean no, not, this is not... This is a different Sean," Trump said. "Sean Duffy, the head of Transportation. He's a great Sean though, I have to tell you but Sean Duffy was the world champion for five years climbing trees and down, up and down, world champion!" Trump said, struggling to string together his thoughts. "So that's what you call a serious a lumberjack." "And he's doing a fantastic job too, a really respected guy and terrific guy and I mentioned the champion because when somebody's the champion — he's the world champion for a long time — he came down, when you come down those trees, coming down at a rapid... He said that started getting your back. You will often break your back! You... You miss... You miss a shot and you're coming down a lot faster than the human body was meant to come down. But he's doing a fantastic job at Transportation. But this has been a very, uh, historic trip." And HE has no cognative problems???
  16. Sir Derek George Jacobi (/ˈdʒækəbi/; born 22 October 1938) is an English actor. He is known for his work at the Royal National Theatre and for his film and television roles. He has received numerous accolades including a BAFTA Award, two Olivier Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Tony Award. He was given a knighthood for his services to theatre by Queen Elizabeth II in 1994.
  17. This ad has been doing the rounds on FB. The comment is mine. This is spam AI deepfake bullshit. More warning bells than an air raid warning. This is the sort of crap that cost a woman her life savings. Any comments hidden so you can't see what people are saying.
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