by | Feb 24, 2024 | Aggregate
President Trump and Argentina’s President Javier Milei exchanged pleasantries and took photos together backstage at CPAC on Saturday.
Milei walked right up to Trump and gave him a bear hug.
President Milei was all smiles as he posed next to Trump.
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HAPPENING NOW! @realDonaldTrump @JMilei pic.twitter.com/Aye7Rd1yH8
— Dan Scavino Jr. (@DanScavino) February 24, 2024
Milei received a rock star when he took the stage on Saturday.
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MILEI OVACIONADO EN EL CPAC
Ni TRUMP fue tan ELOGIADO.
DIFUNDAN al “FENÓMENO BARRIAL” pic.twitter.com/Dfzp8Kb5Ko
— Maty (@Maty191123) February 24, 2024
Javier Milei’s landslide victory in Argentina’s Presidential runoff election last year was a historic moment for conservatives worldwide, hailed by the likes of Trump, Bolsonaro, Orbán and so many others.
Trump congratulated Milei on Truth Social last year with his signature “MAKE ARGENTINA GREAT AGAIN!”
“Congratulations to Javier Milei on a great race for President of Argentina. The whole world was watching! I am very proud of you. You will turn your Country around and truly Make Argentina Great Again!” Trump said.
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by | Feb 24, 2024 | Aggregate
Odysseus has reached the moon surface in a feat worthy of the old mythology books – but like those age-old sagas, many perils and obstacles had to be conquered.
In the case of the Nova-C lunar lander, it now has surfaced that it may have tripped during touchdown, and it’s believed to be now tipped over, resting on its side with its ‘head’ resting on a rock.
One can almost look at it like a ‘new trend’ in space exploration, after the equally historic Japanese SLIM moon lander ended up upside down in the moon surface, and was still able to perform many of its prepared missions.
Houston-based Intuitive Machines has assured us that the moon lander is ‘alive and well’, a day after its ‘white-knuckle touchdown’ as the first private spacecraft ever to reach the lunar surface – and the first from the U.S. since 1972.
They revealed a human error led to a failure of the spacecraft’s laser-based range finders. Engineers detected the glitch by chance hours before landing time, and they improvised an ’emergency fix’ that saved the mission from a probable crash.
Reuters reported:
“Although the Odysseus made it to the surface intact on Thursday, analysis of data by flight engineers showed the six-legged craft apparently tripped over its own feet as it neared the end of its final descent, company officials said at a briefing the next day.
The spacecraft is believed to have caught one of its landing feet on the uneven lunar surface and tipped over, coming to rest sideways, propped up on a rock at one end, said CEO Stephen Altemus, whose company built and flew the lander.”
Odysseus ‘is stable near or at our intended landing site’, close to a crater called Malapert A in the region of the moon’s south pole, Altemus told reporters.
“‘We do have communications with the lander’, and mission control operators are sending commands to the vehicle, Altemus said, adding that they were working to obtain the first photo images from the lunar surface from the landing site. A brief mission status report posted to the company’s website earlier on Friday described Odysseus ‘alive and well’.”
All but one of its six NASA science and technology payloads are mounted on portions of the vehicle left exposed and receptive to communications, but two antennae were left pointed at the surface, which will limit communications with the lander.
One solar energy panel on the top of Odysseus is now facing the wrong way, but a second array on the side of the spacecraft is in working order, and the spacecraft’s batteries had been fully charged.
“The uncrewed robot spacecraft reached the lunar surface on Thursday after a nail-biting final approach and descent in which a problem with its navigation system surfaced, requiring flight controllers on the ground to employ an untested work-around to avoid what could have been a catastrophic crash landing.
[…] Crain said the spacecraft, burning a propulsion fuel of liquid methane and liquid oxygen for the first time in space, “performed flawlessly” during its seven-day flight to and in orbit around the moon.”
The payloads aboard the lander are expected to operate for about nine or 10 days, after which sun will have set on the polar landing site.
BBC reported:
“Steve Altemus, the CEO and co-founder of IM, said it wasn’t totally clear what had happened but the data suggested the robot caught a foot on the surface and then fell because it still had some lateral motion at the moment of landing.
Another possibility is that Odysseus broke a leg as it came down. Certainly, inertial measurement sensors indicate the body of the vehicle to be in a horizontal pose.
[…] ‘We’re hopeful to get pictures and really do an assessment of the structure and assessment of all the external equipment’, Mr Altemus told reporters. ‘So far, we have quite a bit of operational capability even though we’re tipped over. And so that’s really exciting for us, and we are continuing the surface operations mission as a result of it’.”
A US satellite called the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will search for Odysseus this weekend, to confirm its whereabouts.
“‘Once the Sun sets on ‘Oddie’, the batteries will attempt to keep the vehicle warm and alive but eventually it’ll fall into a deep cold and then the electronics that we produce just won’t survive the deep cold of lunar night. And so, best case scenario, we’re looking at another nine to 10 days (of operations)’, said Tim Crain, IM’s CTO and co-founder.”
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by | Feb 24, 2024 | Aggregate
Bob Costas, former sportscaster for NBC, appeared on CNN’s “Smerconish” early Saturday bashing President Trump and his millions of supporters.
He said that Trump supporters were a “toxic cult” and claimed that Trump himself was the “most disgraceful figure in modern presidential history.”
He also expressed disapproval of Joe Biden running for reelection only for the concern that Trump would win the election against him for being weak.
Fox News reported:
Former NBC Sports broadcaster Bob Costas unloaded on former President Trump during a recent TV appearance, calling him the “most disgraceful figure in modern presidential history.”
The journalist appeared on CNN’s “Smerconish” on Saturday morning, where he laid into Trump and his supporters, which he also called a “toxic cult.”
Additionally, he handed President Biden a stiff rebuke for running for office again, claiming that Biden is risking plunging the country into “insanity” under Trump by not stepping aside and letting someone stronger run against the 45th president.
“You come at this from a position of not wanting to see Trump get elected. You should state that at the outset. True?” Michael Smerconish asked Costas.
“Yes, absolutely. He is by far the most disgraceful figure in modern presidential history. He’s only become more disgraceful since 2016 and since 2020. He’s a bubbling cauldron of loathsome traits. You have to be in the throws of some sort of toxic delusion in a toxic cult to believe that Donald Trump has ever been in any sense emotionally, psychologically, intellectually or ethically fit to be President of the United States,” Costas replied.
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Costas had made comments about Biden and how he could be perceived if he stepped aside from running for a second term.
“He had a chance to be seen as a statesman and a patriot. Now his legacy is likely to be that of a man whose hubris prevented him from seizing the moment in an appropriate way, and at best, he can squeak by Trump – that’s at best,” Fox News reported.
Costas made reference to Biden being weak and implied another candidate should run against Trump.
He continued hurling insults at President Trump by calling him a “monster.”
“Trump is a monster. You shouldn‘t send this guy out there at this point in his life to try and slay the dragon,” Fox News reported.
This isn’t surprising behavior on the part of the left considering President Trump is leading in a recent Harris X poll 9 points over Biden.
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by | Feb 24, 2024 | Aggregate
America’s housing law loopholes are just big enough for illegal immigrants to crawl through, according to one expert who warns that tenants’ rights laws make it hard to dislodge squatters.
“We have masses coming in. They’re going to be looking for places to live. And if we don’t have the housing for them, if they’re coming in with no money, they can’t rent the traditional way,” Flash Shelton, founder of the United Handyman Association and SquatterHunters.com, said, according to Fox News.
Shelton used innovative tactics to dislodge squatters from his mother’s house in 2019, and has emerged as an advocate to help others facing the difficult chore of ridding a property of people who choose to remain.
The map of tenants’ rights laws is varied, because it is a local or state issue. Many states require a civil suit process to evict someone, which is burdensome and time-consuming.
Once illegal immigrants get wind of the rights they have as squatters, “our squatter situation is going to go beyond control,” Shelton said.
Shelton noted that squatters are already emboldened by local laws, adding, “What are we going to do later when we have a million people squatting in this country?”
Shelton said the housing picture will grow worse “when, not only do we have a border issue that we can’t even figure out, but now we have people that are being mentally, financially, physically messed with because they’ve lost their home to all of these people?”
“Regardless of how you feel politically or morally about the situation, put that aside and just think about the masses,” Shelton said.
Almost 7.3 million illegal immigrants have entered the U.S. since the beginning of 2021, according to Fox News.
“We have irresponsibly opened a door for a whole lot of people to come into this country, and we aren’t prepared to deal with them,” Shelton said.
“What’s the negative for these people to then start taking over these houses?” he said.
Shelton predicted a “nightmare scenario” without laws that crack down on squatters.
“I’m spending all this time trying to bring awareness to squatting and bring awareness to how the law needs to change,” Shelton said. “Is it going to get worse before it gets better? I think it’s already there.”
“I think it’s going to just get beyond repair at some point,” he said.
Atlanta is already reeling with an estimated 1,200 homes taken over by squatters, according to Fox News. Shelton said making squatting a terrorist act might be the next step needed to regain control.
“If we were to criminalize it, that would enable us to send in the National Guard to sweep that whole neighborhood and get those 1,200 houses clear,” he said.
Shelton has posted a petition on Change.org to support making squatting illegal. He also set up a GoFundMe appeal that has raised more than $8,000 toward the cause.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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by | Feb 24, 2024 | Aggregate
Toxic RINO Nikki Haley refused to drop out of the 2024 presidential race after Trump decimated her in the South Carolina primary on Saturday night.
President Trump crushed Nikki Haley in her home state in South Carolina’s presidential primary.
Trump scooped up the 50 delegates in South Carolina after he was the projected winner one minute after the polls closed.
It wasn’t even close. Trump won South Carolina by double digits: Trump 59% – Haley 40%
Trump has swept four states so far: Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina.
Despite losing every primary so far to Trump, former UN Ambassador and South Carolina governor Nikki Haley has vowed to stay in the race.
Nikki Haley spoke with reporters in Charleston on Saturday evening 90 minutes after the polls closed.
“I want to thank the people of South Carolina for using the power of your voice,” Haley said. “No matter the results, I love the people of our state.”
“America will come apart if we make the wrong choice. We need to beat Joe Biden in November. I don’t believe Donald Trump can beat Joe Biden,” Haley added.
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JUST IN: Nikki Haley appears to still be in denial after getting demolished by Trump in her home state of South Carolina.
This is some next level delusion
In what should have been her dropout speech, Haley said she wasn’t backing down.
“I said earlier this week that no… pic.twitter.com/8xkmbsKcWK
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 25, 2024
Americans are fed up with Nikki Haley and called on her to drop out of the race and throw her support behind Trump.
Nikki Haley spent $16M in her home state of South Carolina trying to defeat Donald Trump.
The outcome? She got absolutely blown out and is walking away with zero delegates.
Drop out birdbrain!
— Alex Bruesewitz (@alexbruesewitz) February 25, 2024
Nikki Haley won’t drop out of the Presidential race.
Typical neocon. She loves to spend other peoples money to fight in wars where she doesn’t belong. #Trump2024
— JR Majewski (@JRMajewski) February 25, 2024
President Trump is going to beat Nikki Haley in her own state by over 30 points.
The GOP primary election in South Carolina today will be called for Trump within 2 minutes of the polls closing.
It’s time for Nikki to face the music and DROP OUT!
— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) February 24, 2024
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