Now the news is trying to make something of Trump’s relationship with his aide, Natalie Harp.  If you were married to Melania, I don’t think Natalie Harp would spark an interest.  I hope there’s nothing to it. If he allowed the media to break up his marriage and there wasn’t anything to it, it would be a sad day indeed. They’re printing Natalie’s letters, but who knows what goes through the head of a beautiful woman.  She certainly takes her job seriously.  

We’re at war, and we hardly know it.  We have to consult the news to find out what’s going on, and even then we’re not sure. The Strait of Hormuz is in the news again. Donald Trump claims we are policing the narrow gap, and the media is making the most of our vulnerabilities.

To be clear, I thought the war with Iran would be over by now, but those wily suckers refuse to give up. It’s like the Old Testament. Sooner or later they’ll be forced to reveal the obvious. But for now they’ve got unexpended drones. This is why we didn’t pull the trigger before. One thing about people from that region, they won’t admit defeat. Trump’s advisors should have told him that. They talk big. Too big.

 With all their “Save the Planet” jargon, they’re about to destroy California, if the job hasn’t been already done. I don’t know what the situation is now, so I’m avoiding California. I’d love to go back, but things are never as you left them.  

We’re playing mind games over Taiwan. Would the Chinese dare attack?  If they did, it would have an impact. We couldn’t afford gadgets anymore. But Trump is trying to repatriate these industries so we won’t worry.  But if China attacked Taiwan it might escalate.  That’s what we have to worry about.  Most of the world’s concerns are much more immediate.

Post apocalyptic movies are making a comeback.  There’s one candidate from Colorado claiming, forget the claims, we don’t want to know.  Resist the Devil and he will flee from you.

Mark

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The news says Trump is sleeping through high level meetings.  Maybe he’s just resting his eyes.  Maybe he’s thinking of Melania.  Who knows?  They’ve got a load of photos with his eyes closed, but who hasn’t blinked?  We’ve all been guilty.  They’re all posting the same photo.  I don’t know if he’s just resting his eyes or what, but he’s got the weight of the world on his shoulders. I watched the video they’re all writing about, and it isn’t bad.

We’re at war with Iran, but we’re sleeping just fine.  I bet they’re not in Tehran.  It seems every time the Iranians balk, Trump stands at the ready.  He’d be fine with unleashing hell, but he doesn’t want to do it unnecessarily.  

Meanwhile, we’re supposed to be all upset at the way things are going at home.  Racism apparently is rampant, and we’re all guilty.  How are you going to respond when somebody calls you a racist?  Whatever.  That’s way down on my list of things to worry about.  But they never stop trying to stoke it.  Imagine a world where the media isn’t stoking racism.  If you can’t, we’ll understand.

They’re all shook up about 60 Minutes and Scott Pelley.  Apparently he’s had a bellyful and wants to be fired.  They’re giving him a big sendoff, and saying he hung the moon.  I haven’t watched in ages, so won’t miss him.  At all.  Imagine, we’re over here worrying about whether Scott Pelley is being treated fairly, and at the same time dealing with Iran.  It kind of puts things in perspective.

It looks like Netanyahu may be on his way out.  But who knows with Israel’s politics.  Dad wanted to interview him, so he’s been there a long time.  I think he may be ready to call it quits.  Apparently the Zionist party is voting the other way.  Never try to understand Israeli politics.  The media has done its best, but there’s an election coming, and hopes for him are dying.  They couldn’t do it with the scandals they cooked up.  They’ve got Arab parties, and that’s all you’ve got to know.

Word is Taiwan is making buddies with Israel to figure out how to defend against China.  Sounds like a reasonable comparison, if you disregard the ocean.  Taiwan is in a tight spot, and we will be too if our companies don’t start producing new age stuff in the U. S.  But I don’t see us cutting Taiwan loose just yet.  They still make too many things we buy.  

Liberals can’t stand Trump.  I know he’s vulgar sometimes, but he’s a man after all.  The liberal media is always on the attack, looking for something that will sway us.  A little bad language isn’t going to do it.

Mark

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The People’s Liberation Army Eastern Theater Command, which is in charge of the East China Sea, said on Monday it is dispatching Army, Navy, Air Force and Rocket Force troops to areas surrounding Taiwan.

The drills, code-named “Justice Mission 2025,” are the first such exercises since April.

The theater command said the drills serve as a “serious warning to ‘Taiwan Independence’ separatist forces and external interference forces.”

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The United States on Wednesday approved $11.1 billion US in arms sales to Taiwan, the largest ever weapons package for the island which is under increasing military pressure from China.

The Taiwan arms sale announcement is the second under U.S. President Donald Trump’s current administration, and comes as Beijing ramps up its military and diplomatic pressure against Taiwan, whose government rejects Beijing’s sovereignty claims.

The proposed arms sales cover eight items, including High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), howitzers, Javelin anti-tank missiles, Altius loitering munition drones and parts for other equipment, Taiwan’s Defence Ministry said in a statement.

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The director-general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry’s Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, Kanai Masaaki, arrived in Beijing on Monday afternoon.

During the visit, Kanai is expected to meet with Chinese officials, including the director-general of the Department of Asian Affairs of the Foreign Ministry, Liu Jinsong.

It is believed Kanai intends to explain that Takaichi’s remark about a possible Taiwan emergency did not deviate from the Japanese government’s position regarding Taiwan.

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The powerful storm dumped torrential rain on Taiwan’s eastern region. The downpour caused a barrier lake in the eastern county of Hualien to overflow. Fire authorities revised the death toll down from 17 to 14, citing duplicated information.

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China’s Commerce Ministry said it added 28 countries to an export-control list over national security concerns.

According to Chinese state media Xinhua citing the ministry, the companies include Lockheed Martin’s Missiles and Fire Control, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics and Lockheed Martin Missile System Integration Lab.

Other targeted companies included Raytheon Missile Systems and Boeing Defense.

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More than 150,000 people living in the south-eastern Chinese province of Fujan have been relocated to safer areas in anticipation of the storm.

It comes after widespread flooding and landslides across Taiwan and the Philippines, killing at least 21 people.

The Philippines says it is “racing against time” to contain an oil spill after a tanker carrying 1.5 million litres of industrial fuel capsized and sank off of the country’s coast.

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This year’s exercises have been updated to include what Taiwan’s Defense Ministry has called “unscripted” scenarios to better simulate wartime conditions, a change one defense analyst told Newsweek was adopted after the “wake-up call” of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

The drills, which will take place through Friday in strategic areas across Taiwan, come as Taipei faces increasing pressure from Beijing. China claims Taiwan as its territory, though Beijing’s Chinese Communist Party-led government has never ruled the island.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed that eventual unification with Taiwan is inevitable, through force if necessary. Chinese forces encircled Taiwan with major air, ground, and sea-based drills in May after the inauguration of Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te, a critic of Beijing who emphasized Taiwan’s sovereignty in his inaugural speech.

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Greetings from Tyler,

Joe Biden’s misstatements are at the top of the list.  Are these merely mix-ups which happen to everybody now and again, or something more serious.  You almost hate to watch him appear some-where, because you know it will be an embarrassment,  but it’s like a train-wreck.  You can’t look away.  To say that the Democrats are in disarray would be an understatement.  Good luck getting Jill out of there, and Joe would rather give up something valuable than make her mad.  

So purportedly Obama is scheming with other bigwigs, wondering what they do to get him out of the race, and the sooner the better.  You almost don’t want to know what they’ve decided, but it looks like they need to ditch him.  But who will take his place?  Everybody else is polling lower.  Maybe it doesn’t matter.  Have they already thrown in the towel?

They’ve already got Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon in jail, and they better be enjoying it, because they’re next, and they know it.  They’ve decided to go for broke in defeating Trump.  It almost doesn’t matter who they put forward, they’ve just got to beat Trump!  If he stoops to the level they have in their efforts to destroy and devastate, they’ve got a lot to worry about.  They’ve bankrupted Rudy Giuliani, and they still act like they can call the shots.  But not for much longer.  It’s almost refreshing watching them squirm.

Biden is embarrassing them every time he opens his mouth, something either incomprehensible or unbelievable comes out of his whispering mouth.  Can you imagine the histrionics of his handlers?  They must die a thousand deaths.  Behind the curtain of course.  

The leaders know they’ve got to put somebody else up, but who?  You know the choices, and none check all the boxes.  It’s come out that all the other candidates for the job have worse poll numbers than the pretender, so what to do?  

The media is expressing shock, but they’ve been running interference since the beginning.  It’s starting to look like they’re going to get their comeuppance.  

The rest of the world is having a good laugh at our expense.  They may be fooling somebody, but it’s so obvious that the dude can’t hack it anymore.  Who’s going to tell Jill?   And what happens after that?  The drumbeat continues and gets louder.  But Joe may be the best they can do.  

We here in Texas got the outer bands of the hurricane that has the power out for hundreds of thousands in Houston.  It’s cool here, especially for Summer.  They’ve been preaching this global warming gospel for the past 50 years, and the Summer is just like I remember it as a kid.  Think of it, we’ve got battery powered everything, and some of it actually works.  Unfortunately transportation is not ready for prime time.  They think they’ll put us all in battery cars by some chosen date?  Yeah, thanks anyway.  You hardly see battery cars around here, but this is Texas.  

Taiwan has seen Chinese fighter jets.  You wonder, with the United States in the present disarray, what will the bad guys do while we’ve got this situation?  It’s a dangerous time for the United States and our allies.  They must be scared to death.

The pretender is doing everything he can think of to reassure everybody, and mushes up his words too often.  Everybody’s going to make a mistake sooner or later, but this guy’s making them all the time.

Have things not gone wrong?  Do we not have a war in Ukraine that threatens to start WWIII? Do we not have a war in the Middle East that’s gone on too long already.  Who’s running the show?  Most think it’s Obama.  He doesn’t think things are fair!    

The next five months are a dangerous time for the United States.  They think they can bring Eastern Europe into NATO?  You think Russia is scared?  Putin sees everything we do.  Viktor Orban is making the rounds, but he supports Trump and claims his efforts are fact-finding. 

We’ve got all kinds of nonsense going on in the U. S. that our enemies are wise to.  Let’s pray our enemies don’t take advantage of the situation.

Mark

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