This thing about the FAA closing airspace around El Paso and parts of New Mexico, for a week on pain of pain sounds batshit crazy until you remember that it's just across the border from Ciudad Juárez in Mexico.
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@graydon It's a distraction from Epstein Island, sure. And the 3 million odd Epstein files that *haven't* been released. Given the shit in the files that *were* dumped, I can't to imagine what worse things are lurking in them.
@cstross You pick an island because it makes corpse disposal really easy.
I think it's been obvious for years that a lot of the abducted kids never left the island alive; I think it's further obvious that Epstein's sponsor ("where did Epstein's money come from?" remains an open question) and heavy cover had to have components of the US state involved. These are trees no one is barking up, to torment the metaphor; in part because the native nazi billionaires involved fear an uprising.
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This thing about the FAA closing airspace around El Paso and parts of New Mexico, for a week on pain of pain sounds batshit crazy until you remember that it's just across the border from Ciudad Juárez in Mexico.
The Trumpzilla is about to go on a rampage in Mexico, isn't he.
@cstross may he experience Montezuma’s Revenge
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@cstross You pick an island because it makes corpse disposal really easy.
I think it's been obvious for years that a lot of the abducted kids never left the island alive; I think it's further obvious that Epstein's sponsor ("where did Epstein's money come from?" remains an open question) and heavy cover had to have components of the US state involved. These are trees no one is barking up, to torment the metaphor; in part because the native nazi billionaires involved fear an uprising.
@graydon Yeah.
A sufficiently dark picture would be: Trump funded Epstein b/c he liked throttling kids; Epstein ran a fresh meat disposal operation from his island: the CIA were running it as an intel gathering exercise: the GRU and/or Mossad or similar obtained Epstein's cooperation: every US republican admin going back to GHWB is to some extent implicated.
"The US government has been run by and for paedophile serial killers since the end of the cold war" would be quite a look.
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This thing about the FAA closing airspace around El Paso and parts of New Mexico, for a week on pain of pain sounds batshit crazy until you remember that it's just across the border from Ciudad Juárez in Mexico.
The Trumpzilla is about to go on a rampage in Mexico, isn't he.
@cstross the closure has been lifted:
Live updates: Trump administration ties El Paso airspace closure to Mexican cartel drones
The Federal Aviation Administration reopened the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas. A Trump administration official tied the closure to Mexican cartel drones.
AP News (apnews.com)
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@graydon Yeah.
A sufficiently dark picture would be: Trump funded Epstein b/c he liked throttling kids; Epstein ran a fresh meat disposal operation from his island: the CIA were running it as an intel gathering exercise: the GRU and/or Mossad or similar obtained Epstein's cooperation: every US republican admin going back to GHWB is to some extent implicated.
"The US government has been run by and for paedophile serial killers since the end of the cold war" would be quite a look.
@cstross Like that, but it's too small.
The central point to all of this, irrespective of rationalization or obfuscation, is a bunch of the great and good who deal with insecurity by doing stuff to prove they can do anything they want. (Emphatically "fuck who they want", but in practice much broader.) No law binds me, etc.
Consider the hate for Obama as a result of Obama being the first president since Carter who wasn't part of the club. Or every intelligence agency functioning as a fiefdom.
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@cstross I don't think we have enough information to even suggest which is might be and I'd be loathe to avoid option five, which is "someone wants us to look at El Paso and not $OTHER_LOCATION".
I would right now assume Option Five; we're being disinformed. I'd put "you call that succession planning?" at the top of the list for why, but dying mad king, ongoing courtier power grabs, damaging revelations, etc. It could be nigh-anything. (It could be someone pranking Ted Cruz.)
@graydon @cstross There is not much they do care at the moment to hide of the really fucking disturbing plans. https://www.commondreams.org/news/military-contract-concentration-camps
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Of COURSE he wants a war.
The Iranian government has cracked down and is now a hard target (again).
Wise heads at the Pentagon probably looked at Canada's proposed resistance plan, shat a brick, and said "nope" (to going up against NATO-spec Taliban style resistance in the deep freeze with widespread popular support). Greenland is stupidly hard to get to, Venezuela's already done, so that leaves the Mexican cartels (who nobody loves).
@cstross
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This thing about the FAA closing airspace around El Paso and parts of New Mexico, for a week on pain of pain sounds batshit crazy until you remember that it's just across the border from Ciudad Juárez in Mexico.
The Trumpzilla is about to go on a rampage in Mexico, isn't he.
Looking like a SNAFU. TFR lifted, per @mattblaze
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Looking like a SNAFU. TFR lifted, per @mattblaze
@wolfinpdx @mattblaze Absolutely crazycakes in the USA at this time. Nobody seems to know WTF is going on from one hour to the next.
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@wolfinpdx @mattblaze Absolutely crazycakes in the USA at this time. Nobody seems to know WTF is going on from one hour to the next.
We know. Trust me. It's exhausting.
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We know. Trust me. It's exhausting.
Was going to go on a bike ride last Saturday in Portland. Vigil for Alex Pretti. Got sick with the flu, and missed it. But I didn't get tear gassed by ICE, so I have that going for me.
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This thing about the FAA closing airspace around El Paso and parts of New Mexico, for a week on pain of pain sounds batshit crazy until you remember that it's just across the border from Ciudad Juárez in Mexico.
The Trumpzilla is about to go on a rampage in Mexico, isn't he.
@cstross If Donnie’s planning anything, he’ll have forgotten about it in a week.
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This thing about the FAA closing airspace around El Paso and parts of New Mexico, for a week on pain of pain sounds batshit crazy until you remember that it's just across the border from Ciudad Juárez in Mexico.
The Trumpzilla is about to go on a rampage in Mexico, isn't he.
August 31, 1939 The Gleiwitz radio station (now Gliwice, Poland) was seized by seven SS men dressed as Polish soldiers, who seized the radio station and broadcast a short anti-German message in Polish. The invasion was the next day, September 1.
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@graydon Yeah.
A sufficiently dark picture would be: Trump funded Epstein b/c he liked throttling kids; Epstein ran a fresh meat disposal operation from his island: the CIA were running it as an intel gathering exercise: the GRU and/or Mossad or similar obtained Epstein's cooperation: every US republican admin going back to GHWB is to some extent implicated.
"The US government has been run by and for paedophile serial killers since the end of the cold war" would be quite a look.
@cstross @graydon just goes to show that reality always eventually gives fantasy a run for its money. Even the dark stuff. Stealing a turn of phrase from a Web review of a 1930s USSR Call of Cthulhu module:
"In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking [Lovecraftian] monsters there."
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@graydon @cstross There is not much they do care at the moment to hide of the really fucking disturbing plans. https://www.commondreams.org/news/military-contract-concentration-camps
@Illuminatus @cstross That's the "I never want to see non-white people" policy people voted for. (Not all the people, but a lot of people.)
Nobody voted for "girls are disposable"; even if they agree (which, on the whole and by and large, the male population does) that women are chattel, they don't agree you're allowed to kill them for fun.
Which is where the politics gets into it.
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@Illuminatus @cstross That's the "I never want to see non-white people" policy people voted for. (Not all the people, but a lot of people.)
Nobody voted for "girls are disposable"; even if they agree (which, on the whole and by and large, the male population does) that women are chattel, they don't agree you're allowed to kill them for fun.
Which is where the politics gets into it.
