Today is the last day of the heat wave, I think.
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Brendan was considerate enough to snap the mist sprayer I ride under almost every day when I’m in downtown Kyiv.
Day 1,000 will be Saturday, October 12, 2024, only 124 days from today. Until then, we will not brood over past screw-ups but focus on those in progress.
I slurped up the last hour or so of animatronic speeches at the Republican National Convention. I liked Usha’s the best. She is the wife of Trump’s choice for vice president, James David Vance.
One of the first questions I asked AI after getting to the office was “Has JD Vance ever travelled abroad?”
Based on the search results provided, there is no information about whether JD Vance has travelled abroad or has any foreign language skills. The results focus on Vance's background, political career, and views, but do not mention anything about him living, working, or travelling outside the United States. The search results do not indicate that Vance has any significant international experience or fluency in languages other than English.
AI isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. I remember James David at the Munich Security Conference this February talking about how Team USA can’t afford to help Ukraine repel Russian invaders1.
And Z’s response.
[James David] does not understand what is going on here. To understand it is to come to the frontline to see what’s going on… Without [American] support, he will understand [that] millions of people will be killed. He doesn’t understand this, of course.
We rarely agree with Z about anything. This was an exception.
During the months following the conference, James David has continued blowing bubbles out his ass into the Twittersphere about our little bloody mess which, obviously, he is either incapable of understanding or doesn’t want to, at least not publicly.
Today James David has many supporters, including Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Yes, the war will end. And we might be dead.
Genocidal acts are carried out when those who should speak out remain silent about them. The crimes are allowed to proceed unpunished when those who are formally committed to their prevention and punishment decide they have other priorities.
Like, er, MAGA?
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James David’s largest benefactor has been Peter Thiel, one of the world’s richest data scrapers. I remember his essay, The Education of a Libertarian, caused a stir more than a decade ago. Thiel, along with other members of the PayPal Mafia, including Elon Musk and David Sachs, strongly support the Trump/Vance ticket.
Yes we have to fight like hell to keep him out of office…a nationalist and the worst kind!