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July 25, 2024

The Secret Battle for the future of the Murdoch Empire

Rupert Murdoch, the patriarch, has moved to change the family’s irrevocable trust to preserve his media businesses as a conservative force. Several of his children are fighting back.

[link:https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/business/media/rupert-murdoch-succession-fox.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare|


And guess who is handling the case? Bill Barr.

July 25, 2024

The New Right and big plan Project 2025 is exactly why Vance was chosen. He is more dangerous than TSF.

And the SCOTUS and Judges in every state are ready and willing to start Project 2025.


Thiel has given more than $10 million to super PACs supporting the men’s candidacies, and both are personally close to him. Vance is a former employee of Thiel’s Mithril Capital, and Masters, until recently the COO of Thiel’s so-called “family office,” also ran the Thiel Foundation, which has become increasingly intertwined with this New Right ecosystem. These three—Thiel, Vance, Masters—are all friends with Curtis Yarvin, a 48-year-old ex-programmer and blogger who has done more than anyone to articulate the world historical critique and popularize the key terms of the New Right. You’ll often hear people in this world—again under many layers of irony—call him things like Lord Yarvin, or Our Prophet.


2 articles for your pleasure. Link for vanity Fair( above)
][link:http://archive.today/C6sbK

[link:https://www.vox.com/politics/362917/jd-vance-project-2025-book-kevin-roberts-trump|
Vance, as I wrote last week, has backed a maximalist version of this agenda. In 2021, Vance said that in Trump’s second term, Trump should “fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.” The courts would try to stop this, Vance continued, and Trump should then “stand before the country like Andrew Jackson did, and say, ‘The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.’”
July 22, 2024

Joe's Swan Song What will he do before the election?

Joe is still at the controls and can legislate to his hearts desire without having to worry about getting re-elected.

What will it be? The SCOTUS redux?
Kill Citizens United?
The electoral college?
(I know he won’t …. just dreaming)

July 20, 2024

Interesting article about High Tech companies and JD Vance from NPR.

Andreessen, who has historically supported Democrats, said the “final straw” with his shift away from Biden was the president’s policy aimed at the super rich: a 25% tax on unrealized gains on households that are worth more than $100 million.

That kind of levy on the wealthiest Americans “makes start-ups completely implausible,” Andreessen claimed on the podcast. “Venture capital just ends. Firms like ours just don’t exist.”

The remarks underscore a fusing of the right-wing flank of Silicon Valley and Trump's populist movement.


[link:https://www.npr.org/2024/07/17/g-s1-11654/five-things-to-know-about-jd-vances-connections-to-tech-billionaires|

July 5, 2024

I'm seeing online rumors that Trump has picked Gen Flynn for his his VP.

Can’t confirm it but this site is claiming that it was filed tonight.

July 4, 2024

So am I overreacting? Ft Worth reverses the meeting of True Texas Project because weak kneed 'leaders'.

They allowed it but liberals complained so they stopped it then Magas complained.
Now it’s back on. GRRRRRRRRR
“ The review comes as city officials face heightened scrutiny for approving an event reservation at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden by the Tarrant County-based True Texas Project, a conservative activist group that started as the Northeast Tarrant Tea Party and has since appeared on a national list of extremist groups.”
Guest speaker includes Kyle Rittenhouse, among others.
Think ACLU would help?

[link:https://apple.news/Ai6OgITRzQYSMc8uLisUe9A|

July 2, 2024

And still the Orange wanna be Dictator STILL hasn't picked a VP?!? Guess he's planning on ruling alone.

He hasn’t said one peep about disclosing financial records, either.

June 30, 2024

They are keeping a list on all Federal workers for the coming purge after a grant from the Heritage foundation.


[link:https://wacotrib.com/ap/washington/conservative-backed-group-is-creating-a-list-of-federal-workers-it-suspects-could-resist-trump/article_68b047b8-aec7-526d-b543-de671ec34e6e.html|

From his home office in small-town Kentucky, a seasoned political operative is quietly investigating scores of federal employees suspected of being hostile to the policies of Republican Donald Trump, a highly unusual and potentially chilling eff ort that dovetails with broader conservative preparations for a new White House.
Tom Jones and his American Accountability Foundation are digging into the backgrounds, social media posts and commentary of key high-ranking government employees, starting with the Department of Homeland Security. They're relying in part on tips from his network of conservative contacts, including workers. In a move that alarms some, they're preparing to publish the findings online.

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