Chaos in USA

[Dushan]

He is counting his voter base, the illegals and the deceased.

[llondel]

He is counting his voter base, the illegals and the deceased.

By all accounts, the GOP has begun to realise that if the virus is predominantly killing the unvaccinated, and due to them playing down the threat of the virus and banging on about how it's their right to not get vaccinated, it's their voters who are going to be the deceased.

There was a noticeable shift in GOP/Fox News policy recently where all the top people suddenly started calling for everyone to go get vaccinated. What happened to cause that change?

[PHXPhlyer]

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PP

[PHXPhlyer]

Sick Fcuking People

California dad killed his kids over QAnon and 'serpent DNA' conspiracy theories, feds say
Matthew Taylor Coleman allegedly confessed to murdering his two young children in Mexico, telling officials he thought they would "grow into monsters."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ca ... y-n1276611

A California surfing school owner who was charged with killing his two children in Mexico is a follower of QAnon and Illuminati conspiracy theories who thought the children “were going to grow into monsters so he had to kill them,” federal officials say.

Matthew Taylor Coleman, 40, was charged Wednesday with foreign murder of U.S. nationals in connection with the death of his 2-year-old son and 10-month-old daughter, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California. Coleman confessed to the killings, telling the FBI he used a spear fishing gun to stab them, authorities said.

He told the FBI he killed his children because he believed they “were going to grow into monsters” and that conspiracy theories led him to believe his wife had passed down her “serpent DNA” to the kids, according to a criminal complaint.

Forensic technicians work at the scene where two young American children were found dead, in Rosarito, Baja California state, Mexico, on Aug. 9, 2021.Reuters
Coleman’s wife, identified only by her initials, contacted the Santa Barbara Police after her husband had taken the kids out on Saturday, but did not tell her where they were going, the complaint said. She grew concerned after he failed to respond to her messages and knowing that her husband didn’t have a car seat with him, she told police.

A missing person’s report was filed on Sunday and officers asked her to use Apple’s “Find my iPhone” feature to see if she could find Coleman. The program showed Coleman’s last known location in Rosarito, Mexico, the complaint said.

Police alerted the FBI to the investigation as it became a case of suspected parental kidnapping. Coleman was detained Monday after an inspection by Customs and Border Control of his van upon re-entry into the U.S., where agents did not see his children and found blood in the vehicle.

Coleman confessed to the killings upon being interviewed Monday, giving authorities the location to the murder weapon and discarded bloody clothing, the complaint said. He also identified two bodies recovered by Mexican authorities as his children, it said.

A judge ordered Coleman be held without bond Wednesday and scheduled his arraignment for Aug. 31.

He said he knew what he did was wrong, but “it was the only course of action that would save the world,” according to the complaint.

“Serpent DNA” is a likely a reference to the lizard people conspiracy theory, which falsely purports that reptilian aliens secretly run the world and have taken over important positions in government, banking and Hollywood.

The complaint states that Coleman told authorities he learned about “serpent DNA” through QAnon and Illuminati conspiracy theories, although the lizard people conspiracy theory predates both by several decades.

The believers in each conspiracy theory have melded together over the last several years due to conspiracy theory influencers and algorithms on social media that frequently lump the theories together.

QAnon is a more recent conspiracy theory premised on the belief that a similar global cabal at the top of the U.S. government is secretly murdering and eating children, and that Donald Trump was quietly working to defeat them during his time in office.

Anthony Quinn Warner, who bombed his own RV outside of an AT&T building in Nashville on Christmas Day last year, claimed lizard people were taking over Hollywood and the U.S. government before the explosion. Warner died and three others were injured in the explosion.

PP

[Pontius Navigator]

PP, sounds like the theory might have some truth, except it was his DNA not his wife's.

[Boac]

From 'World News':

"US intel concerned for Kabul as the Taliban claims capture of at least nine provincial capitals in Afghanistan in less than a week

A ninth provincial capital has been captured in less than a week as Faizabad, capital of the northern province of Badakhshan, has fallen to the Taliban, AFP reports. Clashes between the Taliban and Afghan forces have intensified as foreign militaries, including the US and NATO, are scheduled to withdraw from Afghanistan by August 31. A US intelligence assessment anticipates that the country's capital Kabul could fall to Taliban within 90 days, according to Reuters."

Amazing.

[PHXPhlyer]

From 'World News':

"US intel concerned for Kabul as the Taliban claims capture of at least nine provincial capitals in Afghanistan in less than a week

A ninth provincial capital has been captured in less than a week as Faizabad, capital of the northern province of Badakhshan, has fallen to the Taliban, AFP reports. Clashes between the Taliban and Afghan forces have intensified as foreign militaries, including the US and NATO, are scheduled to withdraw from Afghanistan by August 31. A US intelligence assessment anticipates that the country's capital Kabul could fall to Taliban within 90 days, according to Reuters."

Amazing.

This should be moved to the "Chaos in Afghanistan" thread.

PP

[boing]

‘Pathetic and embarrassing’: Biden asks OPEC to up oil output while limiting U.S. energy production

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/20 ... 8762137046

Forget about whether the idea is practical, go for the ideology.

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[Dushan]

Virtue signaling the battle cry of the Democrats.

[boing]

Why Biden may want to take a page from Trump's OPEC playbook

From CNN even, now we know Biden is doomed.

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[Undried Plum]

Exactly 50 years ago today, the decline of the dollar into oblivion began.

Tricky Dicky needed to fund his insane American War against Vietnam, so he took the dollar off the gold standard. Thereby he rendered he dollar practically worthless in real terms.

In exactly half a century the dollar has declined by over 98% in real terms. It's now worth just 1.974% in real terms of what it was 50 years ago.

It took 50 years to wipe out 98% of the real value of the Dollar. At the present rate of money-printing, how long do you think it will take them to wipe out the other 2%?

My calculation is based on the $35 gold price then, against today's price of $1,773.

[prospector]

How long before the White House is renamed the Black House??

https://www.rt.com/sport/532891-biden-k ... aign=Email

[bob2s]

How long before the White House is renamed the Black House??

https://www.rt.com/sport/532891-biden-k ... aign=Email

Are you sure it wasn't his knee giving out in him just like his mind.

[Pontius Navigator]

All credit to the man. I wouldn't dare to go that and certainly could not get up unassisted.

[TheGreenGoblin]

HR McMaster, one of Donald Trump’s former national security advisers, has condemned the deal struck with the Taliban during the previous administration as a “surrender agreement”.

“Our secretary of state [Mike Pompeo] signed a surrender agreement with the Taliban,” Mr McMaster said on Bari Weiss’ podcast Honestly.

“This collapse goes back to the capitulation agreement of 2020. The Taliban didn’t defeat us. We defeated ourselves.”

Mr McMaster has hit out at both the Trump and Biden administrations for their handling of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, but he has long been critical of the agreement signed during his former boss’s term in office.

The retired US Army lieutenant general is one of many former senior Trump officials who have sought to distance themselves from the Taliban peace deal that was signed in February 2020, as chaos gripped the capital Kabul over the past week.

In light of the tumult on the ground in Afghanistan, new scrutiny is being applied to the terms agreed to in the deal as it laid out the US military withdrawal and the Taliban subsequently sweeping across the country and taking Kabul.

Originally, the Trump administration agreed to withdraw from the country by 1 May, if the Taliban negotiated a peace agreement with the Afghan government and promised to prevent terrorist groups like al-Qaeda and the Islamic State from using the country as a base.

When elected president, Joe Biden said he had to follow through with the agreement or risk new conflicts with the Taliban, which might have required an additional troop surge into Afghanistan.

However, by pushing back the withdrawal date to 31 August, the president showed there was some room for manoeuvre under the terms of the agreement.

Mr Biden blamed the Trump administration for the chaos that ensued this week saying that his predecessor had emboldened the Taliban and left the group “in the strongest position militarily since 2001”.

The president has said that he would ultimately have withdrawn all troops from Afghanistan even if no deal had already been struck with the Taliban. Mr Biden said that he saw no way to complete a withdrawal “without chaos ensuing”.

John Bolton, another of Mr Trump’s former National Security Advisers, told CNN: “Had Trump been re-elected, he’d be doing the same thing. On this question of withdrawal from Afghanistan, Trump and Biden are like Tweedledee and Tweedledum.”

Mr Pompeo, who met with Taliban officials in person at the signing ceremony of the agreement in Doha in September 2020 while secretary of state, told Fox News the administration never trusted the group and does not believe the negotiations legitimised them.

He insists that the agreement was conditions-based and that the US would have retaliated against the militant group if it did not follow through with its guarantees.

From The Independent

Biden's idiocy is that he persisted with Trump's idiocy!

[Undried Plum]

BLiar's idiocy was that he slavishly followed Shrub's idiocy.

[PHXPhlyer]

Taliban show off captured weapons at Kandahar victory parade

Texans can now openly carry guns in public without a permit or training

Side by side headlines from CNN.com
Any irony?

PP

[Dushan]

What's the news? Open carry has always been a norm in TX.

[Undried Plum]

Open carry has always been a norm in TX.

Hence: normality of death by gunfire.

It's what they do.

It's a way of life, and consequently of death, that they displace civilisation.

[Boac]

A tragic loos of life in the USA from the flooding, but I cannot understand why people died 'trapped' in their basements? Surely with a warning of floods the basement would not be a sensible place to shelter?