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mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 4d

MrG's Blog & Notes for Week 41 / 2025
dv.airvectors.net
-- internet radio in my home
-- antijam drones
-- renewable energy in Ukraine
-- AI is not killing jobs yet
-- Trump wants to send in the National Guard ...
-- & prosecute his enemies ...
-- & won't get Nobel Peace Prize

MrG's Blog & Notes For Week 41

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mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah, that would be very interesting, but I doubt that he would be critical of Garland. Some of the judiciary, probably so.

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mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 1h

Hm? The whole sad story is fully documented.

The #1 problem with convicting Trump is that the Republicans backed him up. Had they convicted him in the second impeachment, he probably wouldn't have been able to run again.

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 1h

"What did he have to lose?"

The case. Trump having been POTUS, that case had to be completely air-tight to expect a conviction. Notice that SCOTUS gave Trump every benefit of doubt.

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mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah ... prosecuting the President of the United States was not something that could be done lightly -- and of course, Bondi is the WORST example to copy from.

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mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 1h

I do not know, and you could not tell me, of a messier and more politically booby-trapped case than there was against Trump.

It took five years of investigation to even indict gangster John Gotti, and that was a much easier case.

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mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 2h

"Old [and stale] politics." Hey, Adams quit -- I wish Cuomo were that smart. But he's not.

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 2h

I'm less impressed by Zohran's policy positions -- not that I have a problem with them at all -- than I am with his slick campaigning.

He has clearly realized that picking fights with Dem voters to the Right of him makes no sense -- and focuses on beating up Cuomo. He wins on both counts.

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 2h

They did what they could ... but please remember that Judge Cannon came up with lame objections to delay the case, and then simply dismissed it.

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mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 3h

Measles is bad in itself -- but it's made worse because it causes "immunity amnesia", wiping out existing immunities from other diseases for periods up to years -- and leaving victims vulnerable to secondary infections.

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 3h

It doesn't scare me. It infuriates me.

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah. Unarmed boats on the open seas, with no hint of military function ... so just blow them up because they don't look right? I don't think so.

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mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah -- wow, such a burn!

ZM has been very careful not to step on any toes unnecessarily -- but AC is his political opponent, and people expect him to rough up AC.

AC asks for it, anyway.

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 4h

Biomed statistics from RFK-Q? From the same guy who's talking about investigating chemtrails?

I came up with this term "anti-skeptical" -- meaning people who believe things not in spite of them being preposterous, but because of it.

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mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 4h

This is yet another way in which Trump's trade war is foolish. The US cannot match China's labor force -- but also cannot match China's robot force.

Futurism @futurism.com · 4h

"There are no people — everything is robotic."

Western Executives Shaken After Visiting China

Western executives warn that China's heavily roboticized manufacturing industry could quickly leave the West behind.

trib.al

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 5h

A generation? I think a year to get back on track, and in ten years it will be a distant memory.

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 5h

I wasn't seeing her here, so I checked Clearsky -- I blocked her back in July.

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mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 6h

The GOP clings to Trump because, when he fades out, they've got nothing left.

Jack Hopkins had interesting things to say about that:

bsky.app/profile/gvgo...

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · Sep 1

DAYLOG MON 01 SEP 25: Donald Trump has been out of public communications for the last week, strongly implying that his health, not good to begin with, has gone south. Not much more to be said right now, but the public buzz is getting louder. [1/more]

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 6h

I want to watch him fall until there's nothing left of hm. Trump obviously has no future -- the thing is that the GOP falls with him.

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mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 6h

When Trump talks, all I hear is animal noises. The noises are gradually getting ever more incoherent.

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 6h

That news does not encourage me.

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 6h

Good stuff.

Myself, I will be very surprised if the Dems cave in on the government shutdown -- because caving in would cost them a lot and win them nothing.

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 6h

LINK:

www.publicnotice.co/p/emma-goldm...

Lessons from a Red Scare

The American people are capable of turning the tide against repression.

www.publicnotice.co

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 6h

Today's ICE raids are making far more arrests and deportations, but public disgust is growing while support is declining. History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme, and the ICE raids would seem to contain the seeds of their own defeat. [10/more]

mrg / greg v goebel / NAFO @gvgoebel.bsky.social · 6h

The hysteria died down. Of about 10,000 arrested, there were only 556 deportations. The raids helped lead to the foundation of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in 1920, with the ACLU documenting the excesses. [9/more]