WE CAN STILL FACT-CHECK YOUR A**:

Spoiler: Reuters has no desire to be a credible news outlet.

CENSOR WIKIPEDIA, GET HIRED BY NPR: Larry Sanger Speaks Out. The Wikipedia co-founder discusses NPR’s Katherine Maher and the corruption of the Internet.

YOU DON’T SAY: IMF sounds alarm on ballooning US national debt: ‘Something will have to give.’

Under current policies, public debt in the U.S. is projected to nearly double by 2053. The IMF identified “large fiscal slippages” in the U.S. in 2023, with government spending surpassing revenue by 8.8% of GDP – a 4.1% increase from the previous year, despite strong economic growth.

If this trend continues, the Congressional Budget Office anticipates the national debt will grow to an astonishing $54 trillion in the next decade. Higher interest rates are also compounding the pain of higher debt.

Should that debt materialize, it could risk America’s economic standing in the world.

The IMF is talking down to Washington like we’re a Third World country because that’s the direction Washington is taking us.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT [VIP]: White House Blows Up as Israel Hits Iran. “There’s an old joke about how the New York Times would announce the end of the world. ‘World to End Tomorrow; Women and Minorities Affected Most.’ I’m here to tell you today that the real ‘victims’ of Israel’s Thursday night airstrikes on Iran are in the Biden White House — and just two miles away in Washington’s exclusive Kalorama neighborhood.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Joe Biden and the Wawa Cannibals—An American Tragedy. “One of the most galling results of the mainstream media’s dereliction of duty is that every syllable that Donald Trump utters is fact-checked seven or eight thousand times, while Biden is given carte blanche to keep repeating stories that are truth-free garbage. They don’t even call him on his oft-recited lie that his son Beau was a casualty of war. This isn’t merely an elderly man’s confusion about a date or a place; either he’s so addled that he truly doesn’t remember where and how his son died, or he knows he’s deliberately lying.”

HMM…: Might Turn Out That POTATUS’ Gonzo Gaza Pier Plan Was a Blessing in Disguise.

Last October I wrote about the potentially catastrophic state of our country’s maritime support system, the U.S. Maritime Support Fleet. Biden has someone in charge right now they mockingly refer to as “The Ghost Admiral.” We have already lost the capacity to mobilize a tanker fleet to fuel our naval vessels at sea in event of a large scale conflict.

CDR Salamander, along with other experienced naval and maritime observers, have been raising alarms for years about the state of readiness of our vessels, and the shrunken posture of our force. You cannot continue to carve and carve away and still expect there to be meat on bones or good morale in overtaxed, understaffed, over-deployed ships companies.

We’ve all been railing against the money wasted on high-tech, whizbang boondoggles instead of maintaining a healthy, viable, lethal fleet (looking at YOU, LCS class).

What this exercise attempting to cross the Atlantic has proven is that we may not need tankers. Our poorly maintained and continually neglected naval vessels, be they Navy or Army, may not be capable of making it to the conflict to begin with.

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