Critical Thinking and Reasoning

  [July 11, 2025 (11:00 AM PDT)] Situation Nearing Civil War Conditions We are going to get to the continued ICE news, but first this, critical thinkers, CT&Reasonning is to a large degree a news aggregation site which is not heavy on a lot of opinion or cheerleading for one political or worldview ideology; that said, many--including myself--view the decision to drop the story of criminal investigations of John Brennan, James Comey, and James Clapper as a response to the fracturing of the Trump-base over the mishandling of the Epstein Investigation. Red-meat to calm the base, in my opinion For days now, the internet has been in an uproar over the weird comments from Trump at a presser on Epstein being old news; similarly, AG Bondi contradicting herself on the clients list and creation of a red-herring that releasing the personal child porn of Epstein cannot be allowed. . . .no, any sane person following this knows we were told ". . .there were thousands of hours--14 Terabytes-...

  [July 7, 2025 (20:30 PDT)] Today, the newscycle has been consumed by the alleged--renewed--cover-up of the Epstein files, Megan Kelly Show: Interview of Andrew Klavan  [18:52m] InfoWars:  CIA Mossad Blackmail Ring is Behind the Backpaddle: Politicians Corporate Leaders Compromised MEDIA-ITE:  'NO ONE BELIEVES THIS' MAGA INSIDERS REJECT DOJ CLAIMS OF NO CLIENT LIST CNN Decides All of the Epstein Evidence is a Right-wing Conspiracy Theory Two Things Do Not Hang Themselves: Christmas Lights & Epstein    Musk reacts Reports of the announcement were immediately met with outrage online, most notably from Trump’s erstwhile ally Elon Musk, who posted an image of a zeroed-out scoreboard titled “The Official Jeffrey Epstein Pedophile Arrest Counter.” “What’s the time? Oh look, it’s no-one-has-been-arrested-o’clock again,” Musk wrote in the  post on X . Six weeks ago, Musk claimed on X that “@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files,” later posting a video o...

  [JULY 6, 2025 (17:45 PDT)] Goodness Gracious Critical Thinkers, Have We Got News for You, Texas flood victims furious as local officials blame Trump's National Weather Service over failed warning First, the 69 People--Including 21 Children--Killed by Devastating Floods in Texas Piling-on: NY TIMES: As Flood Hits Key Roles Are Vacant at Weather Service Office in Texas FOX NEWS: DHS SAYS MSM DELIBERATELY LYING ABOUT EVENTS IN TEXAS FLOODING On the Other Hand:  Yahoo/Daily Beast: MTG Wants to Make Deadly Weather Manipulations a Felony Jones Did Not Have Enough Headroom to Don Tinfoil Hat in His Report InfoWars: Did Weather Weapons Cause Deadly Destruction  (?) Elon Musk Announcing New 'American Party' Epoch Times: Former White House Special Gov Employee Musk Targets UniParty Do not fail to punch-up the AI voiced audio [6:31m] Dodo Bird: Looks Like Voiceover Will Go the Way of AM/FM Radio . . . glad to have retired due to health reasons & other concerns  MIRANDA D...

  [JULY 3, 2025 (11:20 AM PDT)] YEA: 210 NAY 212 [5-R & 1-D have Not Voted] CSPAN LIVE FEED OF HOUSE FLOOR (11:25 AM) BILL PASSES 217/214 2 REPUBLICANS VOTE AGAINST House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images NBC NEWS: HOUSE PASSES SPRAWLING DOMESTIC POLICY BILL SENDT TO TRUMP'S DESK POLITICO: BILL TO BECOME LAW So, critical thinkers, In the coming days we shall learn what has been cut, what survived attempts to cut, etc.  We do know a lot of money will be going to an increase in spending for border enforcement, funding for deportation flights and holding facilities, and hiring of additional ICE agents. That is it for now, Drake

  [July 1, 2025 (10:34 PDT) Again, a busy newscycle is unfolding, critical thinkers, Over the past few months, little hope remained that these Epstein materials would not be memory-holed. Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks to the media, Friday, June 27, 2025, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) AP: MYSTERY SURROUNDS EPSTEIN FILES BONDI CLAIMS 'TEN's of Thousands of Video This story seems to contradict the headline. . ..  While looking at Drudge to see if they would be covering RFK Jr's remarks claiming in a Tucker Carlson interview [June 30,2025] alleging that Dr. Fauci funded was responsible for the creation of the covid-19 virus and this may be why he needed a preemptive pardon. DAILY BEAST: RFK CALLS FOR TRUTH COMMISSION FOR PLANDEDDEMIC SAYS VAXX MAY HAVE CAUSED MORE DEATHS THAN COVID There is a video outtake [3:52m} where RFK goes into why Fauci knew of the lab leak at Chapel Hill UNC and gave the research project to Wuhan!...

  [JUNE 27, 2025 (10:30 AM PDT)] The Supreme Court Alex Brandon / AP file Waking-up to news radio was a challenge with several rulings from the Supremes , critical thinkers, Keeping with the Diana Ross theme, let us call this first ruling, "You Can't Hurry Love." NY TIMES: JUSTICES LET PARENTS OPT OUT OF CLASSES WITH LGBTQ STORY BOOKS The storybooks included “Pride Puppy,” an alphabet primer about a family whose puppy gets lost at a Pride parade; “Love, Violet,” about a girl who develops a crush on her female classmate; “Born Ready,” about a transgender boy; and “Uncle Bobby’s Wedding,” about a same-sex union. I almost opened the blogpost with the musing of something along-these-lines:  "At least the fragile Israel vs Iran ceasefire is holding, because there is too much other news to cover." . . .then I just ran across the president's comments from just moments-ago: Trump Says He Would Bomb Iran if it Enriched Uranium Again EPOCH TIMES: After  Days of Sayin...