Lucky strike! Shocking moment LIGHTNING strikes a man's umbrella and knocks it out of his hand during a vicious storm - but he somehow escapes unhurt in South Carolina, US. ⚡️ #fuck_lucky

"Though the stock market is massively larger than it was in our early years, today's active participants are neither more emotionally stable nor better taught than I was in school. For whatever reasons, markets now exhibit far more casino-like behavior than they did when I was young. The casino now resides in many homes and daily tempts the occupants." -Warren Buffett

https://www.fool.com/investing/2024/08/05/warren-buffett-selling-38-billion-bank-of-america/

If you’ve never heard about how the CIA caused Watergate and got their man (Gerald Ford) into the White House, check this out.

https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/the-most-important-tucker-carlson

"The Crew 9 delay is relevant to the Starliner dilemma for a couple of reasons. One, it gives NASA more time to determine the flight-worthiness of Starliner. However, there is also another surprising reason for the delay—the need to update Starliner’s flight software. Three separate, well-placed sources have confirmed to Ars that the current flight software on board Starliner cannot perform an automated undocking from the space station and entry into Earth’s atmosphere.

"At first blush, this seems absurd. After all, Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test 2 mission in May 2022 was a fully automated test of the Starliner vehicle. During this mission, the spacecraft flew up to the space station without crew on board and then returned to Earth six days later. Although the 2022 flight test was completed by a different Starliner vehicle, it clearly demonstrated the ability of the program's flight software to autonomously dock and return to Earth. Boeing did not respond to a media query about why this capability was removed for the crew flight test."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/nasa-likely-to-significantly-delay-the-launch-of-crew-9-due-to-starliner-issues/#:~:text=The%20Crew%209%20delay,the%20crew%20flight%20test.

🇺🇸🏴‍☠️💥🇯🇵 On the morning of August 6, 1945, an American B-29 named after the mother of the crew commander dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima.

Photo - from the bomb bay of the Superfortress "Enola Gay"

An Absence of Alpha

The inevitable downfall of an organization

https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/an-absence-of-alpha

If only there were some more generally applicable message that could be drawn from this.

BREAKING: Minnesota National Guard Leaders publish letter exposing Tim Walz for Stolen Valor

Walz lied about his rank, and quit when he heard his unit was going to mobilize to Iraq

https://www.wctrib.com/community/letters/the-truth-about-tim-walz

In a strange move, the official X account of the Democratic Party chose to upload an image of Kamala Harris that is 16 years old, surrounded by signs that say ‘Michelle’ as a way of promoting the upcoming Democratic National Convention.

https://modernity.news/2024/08/05/weird-dems-use-16-year-old-photo-of-kamala-surrounded-by-michelle-signs-to-promote-dnc/

Kamala’s new running mate Tim Walz offered teens chance to win $100k scholarship for taking COVID jab

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/kamalas-new-running-mate-tim-walz-offered-teens-chance-to-win-100k-scholarship-for-taking-covid-jab/?utm_source=telegram

During the deadly 2020 riots in Minnesota, Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, delayed sending in the state national guard. His daughter openly supported the riots on social media and appeared to have passed intel onto rioters she received from her father. Read: https://thepostmillennial.com/tim-walz-delayed-sending-national-guard-to-quell-minneapolis-riots-after-george-floyds-death-his-daughter-backed-the-protests?utm_campaign=64470

"Every law abiding citizen and child in America will be caught in the left’s crosshairs if these two radicals get anywhere near the White House. And now, thanks to a DEI hire, who wasn’t even nominated, these two extremists could end up in charge of the most powerful country on Earth."

https://revolver.news/2024/08/kamala-chooses-an-old-riot-loving-stolen-valor-extremist-for-vp/