Diamondplate Dave

Diamondplate Dave

@diamondplatedave.bsky.social

Geek, sniggler, JOAT, based in Upstate NY. He, him.

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High food prices? Biden's fault. High energy prices? Zelenskyy and Blue state's fault. Lost elections? Democrat fraud's fault. Jan. 6 insurrection? Didn't happen and was Antifa/BLM's fault. Reflecting pool's failure? Vandal's fault.

Sorry, I had to fill my tank and buy groceries, so I'm a little short on the $100,000 subscription early Trump 'Truths'. Will the market-moving 'Truth' drop tonight as usual, or will it be announced Monday night because the markets are closed for the holiday?

A 10-09-26 article in *The Guardian* quotes Sharon Anderson, 70, from Etowah, TN, MAGA Republican. Google reveals she's a prominent Trump supporter. It also reveals a GoFundMe for her son, who was struck by a vehicle and has no health insurance through his employer of 7 years.You can't make this up.

From the article: "When you have a leader that is confident in his ability and he says what he means and he means what he says and he leads with confidence, I think people respect that. So I think that we’re being respected a lot more than we were in the last administration."- Sharon Anderson

Reports on the lab worker's possible plague death say she broke a test tube. I remember breaking test tubes in the 1970s. It's 50 years later, do our labs not have better glassware to work with lethal bio-agents?

MAHA! Mumps Are Here Again. (KPBS) "An outbreak of mumps among San Diego State's football team has now increased to 14 confirmed cases and one probable case, the university announced Wednesday." I never had measles; pretty sure I had mumps and it sucked, and I still have my chickenpox scar.

From CBS News: 'Trump announces plans for largest steel plant in U.S. history to be built in Iowa' 'It's not clear why the steel plant is in Iowa, instead of Minnesota, closer to the iron ore mine. ' "And they're going to <...> a place called Iowa. I love Iowa. I won Iowa every time," said Trump.

Measles Are Going Around Wisconsin! "With 21 more cases added between Sept. 22 and Sept. 25, there have now been 192 measles cases in Wisconsin in 2026, data from the state Department of Health Services show. " "All but one case involve people who have not been vaccinated." Thanks, RFK Jr.!

2/2. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services said the possible exposures occurred between Sept. 12 and Sept. 14 and included local bars, a cafe, a restaurant, a sandwich shop, a grocery store and a convenience store.

From TNR: Donald Trump’s deputy assistant Kaelan Dorr described the need for such a platform on X shortly after its launch, lamenting that “the press, in some cases, reported inaccurately or not at all on the Administration’s many record breaking accomplishments on behalf of all Americans.” 1/2

New York State Gubernatorial candidate sounds like mini-Trump: He's going to halve our utility bills-by fracking. He's against solar and wind. He thinks American elections are rigged. He's pro data-centers and against transpersons. He's 'tough on crime' but OK with the Trump Crime Family.

I just listened to an NPR segment about an undocumented woman whose US citizen son needed urgent medical care. She was afraid of driving, of using public transport, of going to the hospital, out of fear of ICE. What it reminded me is the stories of 1930s Germany. "Papers, please."

So, reports are saying Iran destroyed about 30 Reaper drones on the ground in the Middle East. At $30 million each, that's close to $1 billion; it's probably going to cost more than that to replace them, especially in a hurry. I realize we can't move buildings and airstrips, but should this happen?

Whenever I see a username containing "Truth", "Patriot", Freedom", "Liberty" or "Common Sense" , I know there's a 98% chance the poster is, at best, an idiot, and at worst some kind of foreign disinformation bot.

At one time, it would have been unthinkable for the President of the US to lie about what he did on 9/11/01. Today, the media are featuring articles along the lines of "Donald Trump's 6 Biggest 9/11 Lies" and nobody bats an eye. America has fallen just like the towers.

Republicans: "The Radical Socialist Democrats just want to give everybody free stuff! Free healthcare,free childcare, free school lunches, free education, free free free!!!" Republicans: "We can't afford healthcare, childcare, education, food, shelter. There's wars to fight, ballrooms and walls to

build, billionaires and corporations to give tax breaks to, people need to pull themselves up by the bootstraps!" Also Republicans: "Vote us in, and we'll give you a free DOGE/Tariff/Trump check! Cross our hearts!"

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