U.S. Admiral John Aquilino, head of Indo-Pacific Command, said “all indications” point to the Chinese military being ready for a potential invasion of Taiwan by 2027, the date China’s leader Xi Jinping has set for a possible military operation. https://t.co/4ELFGYpoDY

— The Hill (@thehill) March 22, 2024

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• SPECIAL COMMENT: His Republican minions in the House thought releasing the previously unreported January 6 Committee transcript of an interview with a White House valet would help the desperate need to “prove” Trump tried to stop January 6th.
• Instead it shows that he was told that Ashli Babbitt had been shot in the chest and he did and said nothing, and now he uses her at his fascist rallies and his inhumanity and selfishness is more apparent than ever. The testimony also shows Trump thought to call General Mark Milley and then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi [or was that Nikki Haley? — P] about the National Guard (the GOP will play that part up) and then … didn’t (the GOP will ignore that part). And it details how he threatened Mike Pence that morning and even as the coup failed his only concern was himself, and how Pence “let me down.”
• It is an amazing self-own by Trump’s congresswhores.
• ALSO the NY Attorney General has begun the paperwork to seize at least one Trump property, the NYC DA says that 100,000 page document dump is virtually irrelevant to the case and trial should begin April 15. And Merrick Garland makes a jackass out of himself yet again.
• THE SHOHEI ME THE MONEY SCANDAL: Yesterday, I said they had to answer — as quickly as possible — the old Watergate cliché: What did Shohei Ohtani Know And When Did He Know It? Since then, the actions of Ohtani and his representatives and the Dodgers and Baseball (keeping Ohtani away from the press; insisting there’s no MLB investigation) have QUINTUPLED the number of questions that must be satisfied as quickly and thoroughly as possible:
  • WHY have you issued two or maybe three different official versions of this story;
  • HOW could Ohtani have acknowledged he sent the bookie four and a half million dollars then insist the money had been stolen from him AND then insist he knew nothing about any of this;
  • HOW long did the TEAM know about this disaster;
  • IS the interpreter just trying to take the fall for Ohtani;
  • WHY did a Dodgers source remind ESPN that whatever happened, it happened when Ohtani was playing for the Angels (the answer is: the Dodgers are covering their asses if Ohtani goes down); and maybe most saliently:
  • the fired translator Mizuhara told ESPN his annual salary was between $300,000 and $500,000 dollars. What kind of self-respecting bookie would let a guy with THAT level of income, run up four and a half million dollars in unpaid gambling losses?

B-Block

• THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: The Tampa Bay Rays spoil it. The pitcher for whom they just traded will NOT become Joe Rock of The Rockies. Republican congressman Tim Burchett retweets the GOP’s favorite news source: Russian State TV. And Liz Harrington thinks Peter Navarro can appeal the Supreme Court’s verdict to … Jesus. (Jesus!)

C-Block

• FRIDAYS WITH THURBER: It’s the start of another baseball season (and maybe another baseball scandal of biblical proportions!) so let’s celebrate with Thurber’s epic mixture of Brooklyn Dodgers Play-by-Play and the jujitsu of the little man: “The Catbird Seat”

Episode 145 has been uploaded.

Preview:

YouTube, later

A-Block

• SPECIAL COMMENT: His Republican minions in the House thought releasing the previously unreported January 6 Committee transcript of an interview with a White House valet would help the desperate need to “prove” Trump tried to stop January 6th.
• Instead it shows that he was told that Ashli Babbitt had been shot in the chest and he did and said nothing, and now he uses her at his fascist rallies and his inhumanity and selfishness is more apparent than ever. The testimony also shows Trump thought to call General Mark Milley and then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi [or was that Nikki Haley? — P] about the National Guard (the GOP will play that part up) and then … didn’t (the GOP will ignore that part). And it details how he threatened Mike Pence that morning and even as the coup failed his only concern was himself, and how Pence “let me down.”
• It is an amazing self-own by Trump’s congresswhores.
• ALSO the NY Attorney General has begun the paperwork to seize at least one Trump property, the NYC DA says that 100,000 page document dump is virtually irrelevant to the case and trial should begin April 15. And Merrick Garland makes a jackass out of himself yet again.
• THE SHOHEI ME THE MONEY SCANDAL: Yesterday, I said they had to answer — as quickly as possible — the old Watergate cliché: What did Shohei Ohtani Know And When Did He Know It? Since then, the actions of Ohtani and his representatives and the Dodgers and Baseball (keeping Ohtani away from the press; insisting there’s no MLB investigation) have QUINTUPLED the number of questions that must be satisfied as quickly and thoroughly as possible:
  • WHY have you issued two or maybe three different official versions of this story;
  • HOW could Ohtani have acknowledged he sent the bookie four and a half million dollars then insist the money had been stolen from him AND then insist he knew nothing about any of this;
  • HOW long did the TEAM know about this disaster;
  • IS the interpreter just trying to take the fall for Ohtani;
  • WHY did a Dodgers source remind ESPN that whatever happened, it happened when Ohtani was playing for the Angels (the answer is: the Dodgers are covering their asses if Ohtani goes down); and maybe most saliently:
  • the fired translator Mizuhara told ESPN his annual salary was between $300,000 and $500,000 dollars. What kind of self-respecting bookie would let a guy with THAT level of income, run up four and a half million dollars in unpaid gambling losses?

B-Block

• THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: The Tampa Bay Rays spoil it. The pitcher for whom they just traded will NOT become Joe Rock of The Rockies. Republican congressman Tim Burchett retweets the GOP’s favorite news source: Russian State TV. And Liz Harrington thinks Peter Navarro can appeal the Supreme Court’s verdict to … Jesus. (Jesus!)

C-Block

• FRIDAYS WITH THURBER: It’s the start of another baseball season (and maybe another baseball scandal of biblical proportions!) so let’s celebrate with Thurber’s epic mixture of Brooklyn Dodgers Play-by-Play and the jujitsu of the little man: “The Catbird Seat”

Episode 145 has been uploaded.

Preview:

YouTube, later

A-Block

• SPECIAL COMMENT: His Republican minions in the House thought releasing the previously unreported January 6 Committee transcript of an interview with a White House valet would help the desperate need to “prove” Trump tried to stop January 6th.
• Instead it shows that he was told that Ashli Babbitt had been shot in the chest and he did and said nothing, and now he uses her at his fascist rallies and his inhumanity and selfishness is more apparent than ever. The testimony also shows Trump thought to call General Mark Milley and then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi [or was that Nikki Haley? — P] about the National Guard (the GOP will play that part up) and then … didn’t (the GOP will ignore that part). And it details how he threatened Mike Pence that morning and even as the coup failed his only concern was himself, and how Pence “let me down.”
• It is an amazing self-own by Trump’s congresswhores.
• ALSO the NY Attorney General has begun the paperwork to seize at least one Trump property, the NYC DA says that 100,000 page document dump is virtually irrelevant to the case and trial should begin April 15. And Merrick Garland makes a jackass out of himself yet again.
• THE SHOHEI ME THE MONEY SCANDAL: Yesterday, I said they had to answer — as quickly as possible — the old Watergate cliché: What did Shohei Ohtani Know And When Did He Know It? Since then, the actions of Ohtani and his representatives and the Dodgers and Baseball (keeping Ohtani away from the press; insisting there’s no MLB investigation) have QUINTUPLED the number of questions that must be satisfied as quickly and thoroughly as possible:
  • WHY have you issued two or maybe three different official versions of this story;
  • HOW could Ohtani have acknowledged he sent the bookie four and a half million dollars then insist the money had been stolen from him AND then insist he knew nothing about any of this;
  • HOW long did the TEAM know about this disaster;
  • IS the interpreter just trying to take the fall for Ohtani;
  • WHY did a Dodgers source remind ESPN that whatever happened, it happened when Ohtani was playing for the Angels (the answer is: the Dodgers are covering their asses if Ohtani goes down); and maybe most saliently:
  • the fired translator Mizuhara told ESPN his annual salary was between $300,000 and $500,000 dollars. What kind of self-respecting bookie would let a guy with THAT level of income, run up four and a half million dollars in unpaid gambling losses?

B-Block

• THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: The Tampa Bay Rays spoil it. The pitcher for whom they just traded will NOT become Joe Rock of The Rockies. Republican congressman Tim Burchett retweets the GOP’s favorite news source: Russian State TV. And Liz Harrington thinks Peter Navarro can appeal the Supreme Court’s verdict to … Jesus. (Jesus!)

C-Block

• FRIDAYS WITH THURBER: It’s the start of another baseball season (and maybe another baseball scandal of biblical proportions!) so let’s celebrate with Thurber’s epic mixture of Brooklyn Dodgers Play-by-Play and the jujitsu of the little man: “The Catbird Seat”

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 1:27 AM 3/22/2024

I met with @CMC_NATO Admiral Robert Bauer.

We discussed Ukraine’s priority defense needs, including additional air defense systems. They can help reliably protect Ukrainians from Russian missile and drone attacks.

I thanked Admiral Bauer for his first visit to Ukraine since the… pic.twitter.com/ZopdcSczpq

— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) March 21, 2024

Russians sank their own ship during a training exercise

On March 19, a missile hit the trawler “Kapitan Lobanov”, killing 3 crew members and injuring four others. The missile was fired during a Baltic Fleet exercise, Russian media reported. The trawler sank after a fire. pic.twitter.com/yuTND4rC7a

— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) March 21, 2024