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HALF-FULL REPORT 07/26/24

stand-with-evilWhen Israel’s Bibi Netanyahu addressed a Joint Session of Congress on Wednesday (7/24), he received a wildly enthusiastic reception by almost all Members, Democrat and Republican, who got a lot of exercise repeatedly rising to their feet giving him standing ovations.  A collection of excerpts (see video):

While his funniest line was comparing Palestinian protestors carrying “Gays for Gaza” signs to those proclaiming “Chickens for KFC,” his most solemnly truthful assertion was, “They stand with evil.”

With that, it was clear he wasn’t just condemning the “useful idiots” rioting and burning American flags right outside the Capitol Building where he was speaking, but those inside in attendance like Dem Rashida Tlaib holding a “War Criminal” sign, or who were boycotting his speech like Ilhan Omar… and the President of the Senate.

Here we go – this is both an important and fun HFR… and you won’t believe what Trump’s new position is on Ukraine.

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AESCHYLUS AND AMERICA

[Ereyesterday, July 20, was the 55th anniversary of humanity’s single greatest achievement.  This Monday’s Archive was originally published on August 31, 2004, and is acutely relevant to today.  This is a lengthy essay, which may be more easily read by clicking on the green Print button in the top right corner and printing a hard copy. It is a summation of my thoughts on America’s recent history and the choice America faces this November as it did twenty years ago.

It has the following sections: Aeschylus and Homer – Aeschylus and Neal Armstrong – Getting Drunk – Getting Sober – The Evil Eye – Terrorism As a Pathology of Envy – Liberalism As Fear of the Evil Eye  – The Masochism of Liberals  – The Pathology of Liberal Anti-Patriots  – Aeschylus and America.  Enjoy!]

 

TTP, August 31, 2004: Excerpt

Aeschylus and Neal Armstrong

On July 20, 1969, as I sat with a group of friends around a television in Honolulu, Hawaii, watching with awe a human being place his foot on the moon, I commented, "Neal Armstrong will be the most famous man of the 20th century." Obviously I turned out be very wrong.

America’s landing a man on the moon is the single greatest accomplishment in the history of the human race. It was an act of the purest Homeric fearless optimism. And yet after it, America — like Aeschylus and Ancient Athens –-- had a failure of nerve. Landing a man on the moon was epic heroism on a scale far beyond anything to which any other culture on earth could aspire.

It was a pinnacle that left the rest of the human race too far below. Landing a man on the moon, like the defeat of the Persians, was too unbelievably astonishing. It was a feat that placed Americans too far beyond the rest of humanity. The primordial anxiety that the gods would punish us for our succeeding too much caused us to give up. [And we have been giving up ever since, with the exception of Ronald Reagan, Bush after 9/11, and now, Donald Trump.]

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SKYE’S LINKS 07/25/24

So much has happened this week.  Biden finally had the towel thrown in for him…uh, quit his campaign. He shoe-horned in Heels Up as his replacement, much to Zero’s displeasure and our glee (talk about putting a fork in it). And the USSS sent their B Team (or possibly their D Team) in to protect President Trump and nearly succeeded in…uh, nearly let him be killed.

Seriously, though, we’re covering the attempt on PDJT’s life thoroughly today, and though most writers are being cautious in their speech, it is looking more and more like an inside job. Not even a DEI agency could be incompetent to that scale. The only agent who showed expertise was the sniper who silenced the assassin.

We’ll look at the campaign money that Heels Up expects to inherit, which is in question, and also look at just how much bang for the buck campaign money usually provides. The answer may surprise you. Microsoft will probably surprise you, too, with some unexpected lucidity about DEI, and then we’ll talk about the economy a bit. There’s lots to cover today; let’s get to it.

Xiden drops out. What happens to $100 million Xiden campaign bucks? That is very complicated. The current 'Crat head of the FEC says that they have to be returned to the donors:

FEC Chairman: Biden Donations 'Shall Be Either Returned or Refunded' After Drop Out

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AN URGENT MESSAGE TO TTPERS FROM JACK WHEELER

My Fellow TTPers –

Tragically, the GOP is once again living up to its deserved reputation as The Stupid Party. These headlines on Fox this morning (7/23) could not be more imbecilic:

JD Vance Calls On Democrats To Invoke 25th Amendment: If Biden 'can't run... he can't serve'

'Not fit to serve': Speaker Johnson Leads GOP Demands For Biden To Resign From Presidency

 

How massively idiotic can you get? Nowhere in these stories do Vance or Johnson evince any awareness that if Biden resigns, Kamala automatically becomes President in the White House.

Hyper-woketard Michael Moore understands all too well. Breitbart this morning (7/23): Michael Moore Urges Biden to Resign Presidency to Help Kamala. Moore posted this open plea to FJB, after praising him for “selflessly” quitting his attempt for a second term:

“May I ask you, Mr. President, for one more brave and bold action?

 

Kamala Harris will be in a much stronger position to win if she can run as the President of the United States. As the incumbent President. This will give the country a chance to see her in action — as the most powerful person in the world. She will have three and a half months (as they say, ‘an eternity in politics’) to show the American people her smarts, her strengths, her heart. She is fierce, and compassionate, and unstoppable. She will have the power to issue significant executive orders that can provide help to the middle class, protect the environment, restore basic women’s rights. And to face down the man who has promised to be a dictator on Day One. For this takedown, I want a front row seat. And a large popcorn.”

 

Ted Cruz already understood the danger of underestimating Kamala as the incumbent Vice-President. “This is not a layup,” he warned yesterday (7/22):

“I think people are underestimating what billions of dollars of free media, of the entire corrupt corporate media complex, pitching her as a combination of Mother Teresa, Oprah and Gandhi.”
 

Imagine the hagiography of Kamala Worship the media will flood our country with if she is the actual President in the Oval Office.

What to do? I cannot urge you more to write or call any and all GOP House and Senate Members you can with the simple message: PLEASE STOP THIS 25TH AMENDMENT LUNACY – DON’T MAKE KAMALA THE PRESIDENT. THIS IS MADNESS, PLEASE NO.

You might also pray that Vance and Johnson regain their sanity. Pray that the Dems don’t get FJB to resign on his own. America needs your action and your prayers.

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LAND OF THE THUNDER DRAGON

tigers-nestYou’ve seen a TTP Glimpse of  the Tiger’s Nest, Taktsang Monastery in the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan.  Now’s your opportunity to experience it for real.

Bhutan is a country as close to the Shangri-La of James Hilton’s 1933 classic “Lost Horizon” as you’ll find on earth today.  Smaller than West Virginia, hidden between Tibet and the crest of the Himalayas to the steamy jungles of India, Bhutan is known as the Land of the Thunder Dragon.  Independent for centuries and never colonized, Bhutan is a magic place that is spectacularly unique.

Experiencing Bhutan is a true adventure.  Quite frankly, Bhutan is as fabulously exotic as our world gets.  At the same time, no other country is as serenely peaceful as Bhutan, no people more contented and cheerful as the Bhutanese, no land more welcoming and hospitable.

Bhutan’s culture is a unique mix of the ancient Himalayan animism called Bön and Tibetan Tantric Buddhism. The Bhutanese are renowned for being among the happiest people on our planet. They love to laugh, sing, dance, and play – and you’ll be invited to join them.  Bhutanese happiness is infectious.  One very good reason we TTPers will have a happy time of our lives on our Bhutan adventure this coming November.  Read on for more info and cool photos.

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A DECADE OF CONSPIRACISTS?

Who has most peddled conspiracy allegations in the last nine years—all of them false and nearly all of them influencing national elections and public policies?

Once a target is constructed as Hitlerian, almost any means necessary to quash that perceived existential threat become justified. And we have seen a lot of them in the last nine years.

Russian collusion did not work.

Christopher Steele was a fraud.

Robert Mueller came up empty.

The Alfa Bank ping caper was a myth.

The Russian laptop disinformation was a lie and ruined the reputations of the “51 former intelligence authorities” who sanctioned it.

The first Trump impeachment was a strictly partisan vote, activated when Trump lost the House and Mueller had come up empty.

Only ten Republicans impeached Trump a second time; the Senate again acquitted then-private citizen Trump.

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THE DEMS’ ADMIRATION FOR BIDEN IS SINCERE

saint-biden“Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.”

That quotation comes from Macbeth.

The Thane of Cawdor had just been executed for treason, and the king’s son described his virtuous repentance on the block.

That phrase popped into my mind when I thought of all the Democrats sincerely praising Biden for pulling (or being pushed) out of the presidential race in the same way they’re now sincerely praising his presidency.

They’re not being hypocrites. Biden was great for the Democrat party and is now, by leaving, continuing to be great.

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OSCE DECLARES ‘DECOLONIZATION OF RUSSIA’ AS NECESSARY FOR PEACE

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe has declared that the “decolonization of the Russian Federation is a necessary condition for sustainable peace” and that Russia is pursuing a “policy of genocide” in Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine did not begin “suddenly” but was the logical result of the neo-imperial evolution of post-Soviet Russia’s politics and a lack of action from the West against this expansionism.

The decolonization of Russia will be a long process and should not be reduced to an ethnic conflict of “non-Russians against Russians,” which could lead to war throughout Eurasia.

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FLASHBACK FRIDAY – AT THE NORTH POLE WITH MY 10 YEAR-OLD SON

jacksons-at-north-poleApril, 2003. On my 21st expedition to 90 North, the geographic North Pole, I took my son Jackson. He was nine, but handled it like a trooper. And no wonder – it was his third time! The first was when he was just six, following his brother Brandon whom I had taken to the Pole back in 1990.

We landed our ski-equipped Twin Otter on the sea ice – and as it’s featureless with the ice slowly moving on the Arctic Ocean surface, nothing stays there for long. So if you want a physical candy-stripe North Pole, you have to bring your own! It is so indescribable to actually be on the very top of our planet that it has to be experienced to be understood. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #95 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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SCOUNDREL’S VIEW OF MOUNT EVEREST

scoundrels-view-of-everestYou’re looking face on Everest’s West Ridge, the border of Tibet and Nepal. On the right is the Southwest Face in Nepal, on the left is the North Face in Tibet. Called Scoundrel’s View because this is a better view than trekkers to Everest Base Camp see (a viewpoint called Kala Patthar).

You have to make another trek up the Ngozumpa glacier (longest in the Himalayas) in the Gokyo valley, where above the fifth Gokyo lake at 16,400 feet you get to call yourself a “scoundrel” for seeing what Everest trekkers don’t.

High on the Northeast Ridge on the left horizon is the last place Mallory and Irvine were seen heading for the summit in 1924, and then disappeared. Hillary and Tenzing summited in 1953 via the Southeast Ridge over the right horizon. Everest Base Camp in Nepal is at the foot of the big snowy buttress below the West Ridge. Called the West Shoulder, it blocks any view of Everest from Base Camp.

On our Himalaya Helicopter Expeditions, we get an abundance of spectacular views of Everest, up close and personal – Scoundrel’s View is only one of many. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #29 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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THE LAND OF THE DRAGON’S BLOOD TREE

dragons-blood-treeThis is the Dragon’s Blood Tree, Dracaena cinnabari. It can be found in only one place on earth, a remote island called a Lost World for its uniqueness, the “most alien-looking place on our planet.”

Although it’s known as the most alien, strangest, weirdest, and bizarre place you can go to, it’s also completely safe and incredibly beautiful. Anybody who comes here returns saying, “You have to see it to believe it.” What is this place?

It’s the World Heritage Site of the island of Socotra, the “Galapagos of the Indian Ocean,” 240 miles off the coast of Yemen and now secured by the UAE. It’s hidden, remote, and far away.

We were there in 2014, and it’s been almost impossible to get to ever since. But we’ll be back next year. Let me know if you’d like to be with us. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #34 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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THE WATERFALLS OF KUANG SI

kuang-si In the jungles of Laos less than 20 miles from the Laotian Royal Capital of Luang Prabang, you will find the entrancing waterfalls of Kuang Si. Multi-layered cascades of emerald green pure water pour into a series of pools ideal for swimming. The warm sun filters through the dark green jungle canopy. The laughter of Laotian children combined with that of the rushing waters adds to a unique serenity. Here is a place that will wash away all your woes. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #185 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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HALF-FULL REPORT 07/19/24

Easy to believe an Act of Providence saved his life for the sake of America, isn’t it?  The slightest turn of the head at the very last fraction of a second was the difference between life and death by a few millimeters:

trump-in-crosshairs

Glenn Beaton expressed the consequence many have noticed:

“(At) the Convention, Trump seemed different. He seemed more calm, more at peace. Fire no longer spews from his mouth. Rather, a radiance shines from his eyes.  He’s becoming a leader. Not the “FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT!” type, although those were his words as his fists pounded the air when he rose from the stage floor last Saturday afternoon.

 

That was then, when he’d been cowardly ambushed by another messed-up product of our messed-up culture. Trump’s defiance and fight were the natural and right reaction.  But bravado now is unnecessary and unhelpful. Now, he knows he’s been tasked with something big, and so do the people. Now, he and they know that he’s fully capable of performing this task. Now, he and they know his orange head has a purpose more noble than being exploded by a bullet, and more graceful than spouting inflammatory rhetoric.

 

His old opponents in the Republican Party have gathered round him. He has the endorsement of virtually all of them and many who are new to the Party – from Silicon Valley moguls, to one of the world’s richest men, to each of his vanquished rivals, to an ever-increasing share of Black America, to most Hispanic Americans. What they see is what I see: A quiet confidence, an unexpected patience, a deep resolve to complete – or at least resume – a task much bigger than he.

 

Trump is no longer a man, you see, but a movement. A mission. We’re witnessing something historic.”

 

Many of the RNC Convention speeches were inspiring and remarkable, but even more so was Trump’s last night – 92 minutes straight of dragon energy, eloquent and profoundly moving.  Watch at your convenience the full video here, read the full transcript here.

But before we discuss where we go from here, there’s something I have to get off my chest.

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GAME OVER

No Archive today – overtaken by the astonishing events of last Saturday afternoon (7/13) and since. The purpose here is to make one simple result of those events:

It’s Game Over. For FJB’s or any other Dem’s presidential candidacy.  For the woke scumbags who run the FJB White House. For the Dem woketards in the House & Senate. For the woke media.  For DEI hires in government and business (epitomized now by the head of security for Pepsi Cola in charge of the Secret Service). For the entire agenda of the Hate America Left to destroy our country.

There will be all manner of pathetic whimperings to uselessly prevent this.  What will end them quickly would be a full-throated demand by speaker after speaker at the RNC Convention starting today (7/15) that FJB personally, along with innumerable Dem politicians, their media propagandists, and brainless “celebrities” apologize to President Trump for creating the hate that made the assassination attempt upon him possible if not inevitable.

FJB must be made to personally apologize and take responsibility for the consequences of this:

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