I’m not good with it if the GOP is going to be counting the votes.
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Nothing Trump does is legitimate.
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I’m glad they seem to have improved. Albuquerque had a contract for BYD electric buses for the new route on Central Ave (old Route 66). Sadly, BYD was dropped and the city had to go with combustion engine models elsewhere because the Chinese buses couldn’t handle the (very moderate) grade.
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Exacrtly. The idea that “American” means “northern European-derived Protestant white man who speaks English (kinda)” is nowhere near it. Nor is it land-based. The rest of the world had defined “American” by the principles of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Gettysburg Address, and all that originating philosophical stuff.
Which these days would be dismissed as “woke.”
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RE: “Ammon Bundy is All Alone”
Heh. The old guy is still stuck in the mindset that “armed government thugs” are a bad thing. Get with the times, old codger!
You must be kidding. That’s not what he’s advocating.
That IPO is a great opportunity for Mr. Soros!
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Are you talking about the grade from Old Town to UNM? That’s about 4 miles and is it even 100 feet change in elevation?
Spare us Trumps face!
Ironically, the choice there is between a car company run by a Nazi and one funded by a journalist murderer (MBS from KSA). Then there’s Rivian, bankrolled initially by another billionaire (Bezos)
Maybe increase the Federal minimum wage then? Oh I forgot, that’s communism…
Martin is an ignorant thug. Blanche is better educated and thinks/works more strategically.
It’s like the Brown Shirts and the Gestapo.
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Kinda like when Hitler was convinced the Invasion of Europe by the Allies would come ashore in Calais vs. Normandy Beach ? The Invasion that Gen. Rommel was not allowed to move to stop for almost one week ? That kind of myth ?? It is just proof that history may not repeat - but it sure as Hell rhymes with regularity.
These bozos are as predictable as the Sun coming up in the East once day. Dumber than fence posts.
As veteran detectives often say, most criminals get caught because they are not very clever and they do stupid things. These ReThugs are no different.
The issue of 2029 and beyond is, do the rest of us have the cajones to hold them ALL truly and wholly accountable for all their bad acts. Including the Ones in Robes that rendered the OBVIOUSLY AND CORRUPTLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL decision last June the Trump is immune from prosecution. THEY NEED TO BE THE FIRST TO BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE AND PUNISHED.
TL/DR - The Allies carried out an amazingly clever program of deception that fooled the German High Command. Let’s not compare them with the incredibly stupid dipshits surrounding the Orange Shit Stain, who have simply proven themselves completely and utterly clueless. I’ll accept comparisons between Hitler and the Shitstain, but let’s not compare TSF’s crew with anything else but a bunch of idiots grifting without a clue.
(Geek Alert! If you don’t like massive amounts of extraneous detail you might want to skip the rest of this, in which I demonstrate just how much clever work went into fooling the Germans. If you think geeks and nerds rambling on is cute, read on…)
To be fair, a lot of very smart people put in an unbelievable amount of effort convincing the German High Command that the invasion was going to go into Pas de Calais, and that it wasn’t going in on June 6th, 1944.
- The British air group assigned the task of knocking out all the German radar installations along the French coast were specifically forbidden from knocking out the one at Pas de Calais, and a couple down south in Normandy - the former so they could spoof the Germans, the later to avoid them getting suspicious that only the one station was not being attacked. They were required to bomb them, but also required to miss, which apparently pissed the air crews off no end.
So, they pretended to bomb them, but the pilots were forbidden from actually hitting the targets for weeks. Finally, the day before D-Day they were cleared for one more miss on Pas de Calais and allowed to take out the Normandy stations. The pilots reportedly were in ecstasy to be allowed to take them out and gave it all they had.
At the same time they were knocking out all appropriate radar stations, the Allies were knocking out most of the key bridges and other connections from northern France down to Normandy. To avoid making it clear that Normandy was the intended target, again specific bridges were allowed to stand, and a lot of stuff in northern France was knocked out to convince the Germans that this was their primary focus. All in all, a very closely coordinated, and successful interference campaign.
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The night before the attack went in, an Aussie air group (the only Aussies present for that campaign) flew from Britain in a box formation that moved sideway at about the speed of a very large convoy, with the bomber crews dropping “chaff” (strips of metal foil that gave an excellent response to the German radar, who reported a massive convoy approaching all night). This “convoy” abruptly disappeared just as the sun came up and the “convoy” should have come into view, because the Aussies stopped dropping chaff and turned for home.
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Meanwhile, the Allies dropped hundreds of dummy parachutists (nicknamed “Ruperts”) fitted with firecrackers into the area around Pas de Calais. As the crackers went off, the sentries were constantly reporting airborne assaults and that initial combat was underway. When reports started to come in about the tens of thousands of US, British and Canadian airborne troops dropping into Normandy throughout the night, they were initially discounted as additional dummies, sent to distract from the “clear threat” from the “convoy” perceived to be approaching Calais.
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Meanwhile, French Maquis were cutting phone lines from observation posts across Normandy to further complicate things.
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Meanwhile, the most successful American General to that point in the Allied European campaign, General George Patton, had been assigned to command a dummy army that was formed in southern England, well within the sight of German scouts and a few captured and turned spies. This fake army was deliberately kept idle, while being stocked with fake inflatable tanks and rows of tents with almost zero men in them. Meanwhile, communication crews constantly exchanged dummy radio messages to spoof those a real army would be sending, which the Germans intercepted. This dummy traffic convinced the Germans that the threat of invasion wasn’t real, since clearly the Allies wouldn’t attack without Patton and his troops weren’t even on the move. And of course, the morning of D-Day Patton assumed his position as commander of the landing US troops, which he’d been holding all along.
All of these seperate ruses, and many, many more so firmly convinced the Germans that there was no real active threat of invasion, that Rommel actually had gone home for a visit to his family and the Germans with Hitler refused to wake him from his sleep to deliver reports of the “fake” attack. And yes, they delayed moving the German armour in France to the south for days because even after the landing had occured, the Germans were still convinced it was all a ruse.
I could go on (if you buy me another glass of Pinot Grigio) but the point here is that it’s criminal to compare the Orange Stain’s minions to actual thinking human beings, even ones as evil as Hitler’s crew. The blob currently bumbling around America couldn’t pour water out of a boot if the instructions were printed on the sole, so let’s not give them any credit for thinking whatsover. They’re losing losers who will lose, it’s only a question of when… 
(And yes, it was fun digging up some memories of a happier time, when I was learning about all this D-Day invasion stuff…)
Great book by Churchill’s Scientific Advisor that goes into tremendous detail on all sorts of magic from WW II, including the radar wars, the D-D spoofing and much, much more. He comes across as a bit of an “upper-class twit” but the stories are worth it!) 
Some details on Ruperts:
A summary of the airborne assualt:
And here’s some more details on Patton’s “Ghost Army” and how the deception played out:
(So tune in again next week folks, when we might summarize all the incredible stuff that the Allies did during and after the landings to make it stick! (Hint: they fabricated multiple artificial harbours, they ran a pipeline from Britain to France to supply truck fuel, they remapped the French rural road system into a network of one-ways to allow continuous truck convoys delivering supplies to an army that by the end of June, 1944 (roughly three weeks after D-Day) had grown to over 850,000 troops, nearly 150,000 vehicles, and 570,000 tons of supplies).
And they did all this while battling a huge storm and a German army that was gradually getting its act together!
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Whadda wanna bet that those 11K+ votes suddenly turn up now that the Orange Felon has his hands on the ballots? It would mean nothing, since he did not win, Biden Did, and Biden served the 4 years that donnie is whining about. But this is for his MAGGOTS, who will believe his big lie, and will demand that we turn the clock back and put Donnie in the White House for a third term in retrospect. Can we PLEASE stop the insanity???
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