The Amazing Kamala Harris and the Crumbling of Donald J Trump

 Written by Grant G

 I'll be the first to admit it, I didn't see this coming......

Kamala Harris will be the next president of the USA

I had Joe Biden beating Trump until.....until the debate disaster, and the week following, Biden's public appearances even after the debate were ineffectual and weak, he had no vocal projection, even though he spoke the right words, as clumsy as he did, spoke patriotic, spoke of saving democracy his verbal force was diminished, along with the visual, he walked ginger footed old and his face was gaunt....it was over for Biden...

Political procedure and protocol told me the nomination/endorsement from President Biden after his resignation from the 2024 ticket had to go to Kamala Harris....And that's where I initially thought, oh no, there's no way in hell 2024 America would elect a woman of colour, regardless of her many career and political successes...from a local prosecutor, to district attorney to Attorney General of California, then on to the US senate, an elite group of 100.....Only to further ascend to VP of the United States....WOW...All that by age 55 years young.

Even with that, I thought America wouldn't gravitate to her....Boy was I wrong...

Not only has Kamala Harris energized Democrats, she's energized me, energized republicans, independents, the young, females from coast to coast, all ages, seniors trust her, double haters love Kamala, double haters were a large group of polled Americans who disliked both Biden and Trump, for whatever reason...Kamala is plus 25 with those previous polled double haters...

We have one of the most amazing dynamics in modern politics playing out before our eyes....The first female American president, an attractive woman of colour with a resume one could only wish for.

The energy behind, beside, blessing Kamala is organic, it's fresh, it's real, it's teary eye euphoria..and more importantly....it's unstoppable, a freight train going down hill, a shooting star and Kamala Harris wears the euphoria like a proud college graduate, like an expecting mom, like a graciously humbled winner.....it is contagious, infectious, irresistible and oh so rare...

We are not going back.....I love it.

Kamala is up 11 points in Michigan, up in Nevada, up in Arizona, N. Carolina, polling is dead even in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania after a week....200,000 volunteers in a week....There are scant few identified democrats who won't vote for Kamala, along with a surge in new support from young voters, Swifties, from females everywhere, a resurgence in Hispanic and reinvigorated support from black males....

Kamala Harris makes you smile, makes one glow from the inside, makes you believe in a bright progressive future....and..

Perhaps, just perhaps my dislike of everything Trump has tainted my thoughts?...well, seems like the hatred of Trump was already baked in to the minds of most Americans, for even after a WWE style GOP madcap convention and the attempted assassination of Donald Trump his approval rating never moved, the same 40% support he's had for the last 8 years, his ceiling, his demise...

Donald J Trump, a stupid man, an evil lying monster, self absorbed maniac who acts more demented by the day.....Trump is all those things and worse, but, he is very adept at reading the room, he may lie about the room but he knows how to read the room, .....Donald Trump sees his campaign slipping away, he's showbiz, he knows ratings, he knows how shooting stars work.......And it's eating him alive..

Trump has posted thousands of deranged things on Twitter past and Truth Social today but no better post encapsulates Donald's mind melt than what he posted tonight ...

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Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

RUSSIA NEVER INVADED UKRAINE UNDER TRUMP! IRAN NEVER INVADED ISRAEL UNDER TRUMP! NOBODY INVADED ANYBODY UNDER TRUMP! CHINA NEVER EVEN THOUGHT OF INVADING TAIWAN UNDER TRUMP! BIGGEST EVER EMBARRASSMENT IN AFGHANISTAN WOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED UNDER TRUMP! THERE WAS NO INFLATION UNDER TRUMP! WHAT A DIFFERENT WORLD IT WOULD BE UNDER TRUMP!!!

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This from a former president...can you see it, ketchup bottles flying, and even in his unhinged rant, the lies are aplenty......now he knows what China was thinking......? Iran invaded Israel...?

None of Trump's childish attacks on Kamala are sticking, nor will they...Trump has insulted her laugh on Fox interviews....Calling her radical, Kamala spent decades in courts trying criminals and the like...Trump's new nickname for Kamala Harris is...."Crazy Kamala".....That ain't sticking either...But the name weird old Trump is viral.....Kamala challenges Trump, dares him to defend his record in a debate face to face....Trump is scared...more than that, Trump is trapped, JD Vance went over like a lead balloon and I wouldn't be surprised if JD Vance suddenly becomes ill and self drops, or...Trump dumps him, and even so, it would look weak and desperate....

Trump knows all this...expect the 2024 election theft conspiracies to ramp up...and expect Trump to clumsily use stochastic terrorism to rile up the red neck rubes, expect republican intimidation, expect Trump to be the most hatred spewing monster on earth, he knows his only chance to avoid accountability for his many crimes is to take the presidency.....

Trump may have convinced 70% of Republicans to pretend he won the 2020 election, but 80% of all Americans know he lost the 2020 election and despite most Republicans willing to back this deeply flawed human being/candidate the majority of Americans won't.

It's over, i'm calling the 2024 US Presidential election for Kamala Harris in a landslide...

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P.S......Lastly.....Election night 2016 I sat with my mom and watched in horror as Trump won....

In 2020 I watched the election with mom and gleefully told my 86 year old mother that night that we were done with Trump....I was wrong....He's still here...

Well, my now 90 year old mom, who hasn't been in a hospital in 4 years(I took over ALL her care, everything, 4 years ago, no care aids, no respites, no holidays, ...she says hello to all you Straight Goods readers....

Anyway...Mom decided she's not going anywhere until she sees the end of Trump, and his diseased maga army...

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The Age of Deliberate Idiots, and The Fall of Donald J Trump

 

Written by Grant G

I'm grateful, and we all should be grateful that there are so many stupid people in America. 

Donald Trump's followers, the cult, the poorly educated, the weak-minded, the religious zealots beholden to the words of false prophets, and yes, we can't forget about the racists, the haters and those afraid of a progressive future. Those are Trump's people, the Republican base, they all fall into the category of 21st century "Deliberately Stupid" humans.

You'll notice I used the word deliberate in describing Trump's base, because their stupidity is not by accident, these people, not all but most their stupidity is deliberate, they can follow internet conspiracy threads with razor wire intensity, they can wait with bated breath for the next Q-drop, or sit on the edge of their chair with anxious anticipation of self proclaimed prophet Julie Green's reciting God's latest message.

Looney tunes are us

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Being an idiot, in Trump's case, a very dangerous idiot but nevertheless, an idiot that brought himself down, for if Trump was smart, if he hid his ball, if he disguised the game, if he played the walk quietly and carry a big stick long game he perhaps could have pulled it off, but Trump was and is too stupid to pull it off.

His followers, also known as magamorons, from hundreds of interviews of these people on youtube from podcasters like David Pakman, Luke Beasley, The Good Liars and countless others, including RSBN network's Brian Glenn.....

This is Trump's base

It's clear where these obtuse morons get their information...They get their info from Alex Jones(a convicted serial liar)...Steve Bannon(soon to be convicted felon)....Mike Lindell(another serial liar and soon to be bankrupted conman)....Rudy Giuliani(convicted conman)....

There are many more conmen, grifters and serial liars, far too many to list them all here, but nevertheless, those are the sources where magamorons get their data and talking points.

Those entities and magamoron idols are accessed on the internet, on Rumble, on youtube, on Twitter/X, on Facebook...and...And alongside the rabid spew from these fringe grifters is truth, is data, is reality, but none of that matters, as mentioned above, Trump's cult are deliberately stupid, it's a choice, those cultists can text, tweet, email and access internet sources with a click of a button.

Fraudulent junk like Dinesh D Souza's 2000 mules fictionary movie is thoroughly debunked by 100,s of sources, sources with no partisan skin in the right versus left battle for control game.

Dinesh D Souza claims there were thousands of ballot mules in multiple states, mules that made money collecting ballots, mules that made mere $thousands of dollars, not millions, not hundreds of thousands of dollars but mere thousands, making $10 to $20 dollars a ballot....Dinesh's claim that thousands of ballot toting mules risked a decade in prison for $10k..or $20k..?

Did Donald Trump, did Mike Lindell, did any ultra rich peddler of election lies find even one ballot mule, did these rich assholes offer a 1 $million dollars to mules to come forward with proof? No they didn't make the offer because they don't exist and the grifters know they don't exist. 

It's not possible to keep thousands of mule voices silent, leaks and confession, money trails and taxes, even the Supreme Court leaks, yet we are to believe thousands of lowly ballot mules hide in plain sight?

Trump spending $10,s of millions of donor dollars on lackluster lawyers claiming election fraud but no money offered for mules, Tru the vote couldn't find mules, Dinesh D Souza couldn't find mules, Kari Lake, Steve Bannon, Mike lindell, Charlie Kirk and thousands more wealthy rightwing social media influencers and not a single ballot mule to be found....And yet, the deliberately obtuse pretend to believe ballot mules are real, that Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss stuffed ballots, that JFK is rising from the dead to be Trump's running mate, that Trump is still president, that the military is going to hold thousand of tribunals and execute thousands for treason and on and on...

Author of Trump’s FRAUDULENT Evidence Finally OUTED

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Not in any particular order but, the Bronze age, the dark ages, the age of enlightenment, the space age, and the 2020,s through 2024 and maybe more we have ...

The Age of Deliberate Idiots

And that brings us back to Donald J Trump and his impending downfall..

It won't be magamorons that bring Trump down, it won't be the Democrats that bring Trump down, it will be........

The educated that bring Trump down....

SCOTUS

The Supreme Court of the United States will be Trump's downfall.

Indeed, you can say what you want about SCOTUS, their biases, who appointed them, their philosophy, their allegiance to who appointed them, say anything you want, they, all nine of them have one thing in common, something Trump doesn't possess, something Trump's deliberate idiots don't possess.

SCOTUS justices are all highly educated and can see the difference between sanity and Trump's burn it all to the ground dementia, oh indeed, this isn't about women being able to choose, or ramming religion down the populous' throats, not about tax cuts for the wealthy this is about the future of the world.

SCOTUS can see that Trump is not in sound mind, they see his deranged posts to Truth Social, they see his words about purging color from America, the Supreme Court Justices can clearly see that Trump is totally insane, and getting worse by the day, his threats, his malignant narcissism and realize that allowing that deranged and in serious decline power hungry madman to be in control of weapons of mass destruction capable of destroying planet earth for human habitation is a bridge too far.

SCOTUS knows Dinesh D Souza is full of shit, they know Trump has no election fraud proof, they know he incites scholastic terrorism, they know he is a lifelong conman, rapist and overall foul person, they also know that Trump is capable of ending not only Democracy for Scotus's offspring but ending the planet for all persons of earth, including The Age of Deliberate Idiots, Trump's base.

There will be no presidential immunity granted to Trump, not by the DC appeals court or SCOTUS.

From my most trusted American source........SCOTUS quietly hoped that Mitch McConnell and GOP senators when they had the chance to affirm Trump's deserved second impeachment that they voted yes on impeaching him...But alas, the GOP lacked a spine and courage to do what was necessary and now there is only one branch of government left with authority to stop Trump and his army of idiots.

SCOTUS

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Written by Grant G

 

The Rise and Fall of Trump and Magadonia

 

Written by Grant G

I've been waiting a longtime to write this article, my faith in the forces of good kept me grounded, and sane, kept me from pulling out my hair which is a good thing as I can't afford to lose much more...

The Trump maga movement reached it's highpoint last week, Thursday October 13th to be exact, when Jim Jordan came within spitting distance of being the Speaker of the House....

That MAGA highpoint achieved that October 13th/2023 day will never be reached again, it's all downhill from here on out....Trump will never recover from his self-inflicted wounds, his crimes, his moral depravity, his self-absorbed insanity......Destiny has arrived..

Absolutely terrifying, watching over the course of 7 years, Trump inspired millions of lost souls, low information, poorly educated mostly rural people, along with the haters, racists and a large cadre of grifters, scammers, religious zealots and demented rightwing social media influencers...

This group of destroyers peddled fear, lies, racism, white nationalism, hatred of all others outside of the maga echo chamber...

To this day it boggles my mind how so many became enamored in Trump, an obviously flawed man, flawed his entire life, Trump was a scum-dog racist, cheat, immoral soul and outright conman for decades, 10's of thousands of proven Trump lies, 1000's of lawsuits for crimes before he became the 45th president..

Trump, a man who not only dog whistles to the crazies, he bullhorns it, he spells out in direct and indirect threats, nothing subtle from Trump, not subjective no nuance, nothing like saying......

 "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest" 

No, Trump uses full-throated threats and it's one of those threats that led to and will lead to the fall of Trump and Magadonia, and it couldn't be more fitting than to have the below people bring Trump down..

Donald Trump brought up Ruby Freeman's name 18 times during that infamous 1 hour+ long phone call to Brad Raffensperger .....A call in which Donald Trump stated, and said this to Brad Raffensberg .... 

quote..

"I mean, I’ll, I’ll take on to anybody you want with regard to Ruby Freeman and her lovely daughter, a very lovely young lady, I’m sure. But, but Ruby Freeman … I will take on anybody you want. " 

Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss and a female, black prosecutor named Fani Willis....The misogynist and racist Donald John Trump has been brought to heel by three black ladies, with assists going to Brad Raffensberger, Brian Kemp and other Georgia officials...

I mentioned how close the world was to seeing Congress hijacked by a minority group of MAGA extremists and having a Trump bootlicking pitbull attack dog elected speaker.....Jim(gym)Jordan got close, moderate GOPers(not many)repelled Jim Jordan..and then?

And then this week Sidney Powell, after seeing the mountains of evidence against her pled guilty in the Fani Willis sprawling RICO election corruption case.... Sidney Powell was the second of the 19 defendants to plead guilty....When that news broke yesterday it sent shockwaves everywhere, especially through Magaville and Magadonia.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/19/politics/sidney-powell-fulton-county-georgia-2020-election-subversion/index.html

 The Sidney Powell plea deal and agreeing to turn witness against Trump and the remaining 16 defendants led directly to Jim Jordan losing more votes today on his third attempt to become speaker....

And, after the failed Jim Jordan speaker vote today news broke about Kenneth Cheseboro.....Ken bailed and plead guilty too, and agrees to become a state witness..

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/20/kenneth-chesebro-an-architect-of-trumps-fake-elector-scheme-pleads-guilty-in-georgia-00122758

What does this all mean?....

It means the so-called GOP moderates and maga extremists, these Republican congress-people can see the writing on the wall, Trump is going down in Georgia for trying to steal that State's election and only a fool political party would prop up the face of Trump and maga-extremism in Jim Jordan with what's coming down the pipe..

Had the Georgia RICO trial had no pleaders and was ongoing, perhaps Jim Jordan could have pressured, threatened enough GOP hold-outs to vote for him as speaker, but after these first three of many defendants cutting deals and running away from Trump, and willing to turn State's evidence..

That directly resulted in Jim Jordan OUT..OUT...and OUT!

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/house-speaker-vote-10-20-23/index.html

That my friends is Game, Set, and Match for Jim Jordan....and for Trump.

Rumors have it that Mark Meadows, and a bunch of fake electors are going for plea deals too..

By the time this goes to trial, there may be only two defendants left, Donald J Trump and Rudy Giuliani, and I have my doubts about Rudy, with his financial woes at the hands of Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss....My guess is Rudy will look for a deal too.,,,

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/giuliani-snubbed-judges-order-defamation-case-election-worker-says-rcna111484

Leaving just Trump, to throw everyone under the bus, including the 18 other defendants that turned State's evidence against him...When that happens, Trump will be left with one out...I wrote about it, a form of insanity defense, insane by default.

https://powellriverpersuader.blogspot.com/2023/08/donald-j-trumphis-latest-indictmenta-no.html

Despite all off that....Trump, if not jailed and runs for president, will still garner a lot of votes, millions of votes, but he won't even come close to winning....He'll lose in a landslide..

As for the harm Trump has done to the world.....It will take a longtime for Maga to recognize the Trump movement is dead, but, for millions of these magamorons they are lost, lost for their entire lives, no chance to bring them back into reality.....Ticking timebombs planted all around America, maga bombs waiting to explode.

Anyway, one battle at a time, Trump and Trumpism is done, and the Georgia RICO case has ended extreme maga threat in Congress....Adios Gym Jordan

Well, Trump said he would take on anybody on Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.....He got what he wished for...Those lovely brave black ladies with a little assist from AG Fani Willis and Georgia state laws  took-down Donald John Trump and bankrupted Rudy Giuliani...

The dirty 19?...Down to the dirty 16...

https://www.vox.com/trump-investigations/2023/8/25/23845901/mugshots-trump-giuliani-ellis-georgia-case

Georgia....How sweet it is.

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Donald J Trump....His Latest Indictment....A No Win Situation, Even if He Wins, He Loses

 

Donald J Trump....His Latest Indictment....A No Win Situation, Even if He Wins, He Loses

Written by Grant G

Fascinating to watch Trump squirm, finally, after decades of avoiding any accountability on his too many to list lifetime of crimes, Donald Trump has finally been cornered, boxed in, a no-win situation, like Captain Kirk's Kobayashi Maru.

Even if Trump wins, even if the court jury finds Trump not guilty of these latest election interference indictments from prosecutor Jack Smith, he loses....Let me explain.

From all reports, from Trump's own lawyer's mouths...Trump is going to use as a defense to these charges is...

That he actually believes the election was stolen, so all incidents post 2020 election were justified, because Trump actually believed he was robbed of a rightful election win..

Trumps Lawyers ADMIT TO HIS CRIMES in Bizarre Press Appearances

Alina Habba, Trump's mouthpiece stated when asked questions.....She was asked by reporter...Trump was told by DOJ, NSA, CISA, by his top campaign staffers, told by his attorney general William Barr, by state officials, by top staffers in his adminstration that he lost the 2020 election, that the fraud allegations have been investigated and have no merit...Alina Habba responded by saying..

Yes, that's true, Trump was told he had lost the 2020 but he was also told by other lawyers, other officials that there were many elections issues and he won......

Trump lawyer: Election fraud case will be ‘

 

Those "others" are....Rudy Giuliani, who is disbarred, and facing more disbarments as well as lawsuits pending involving Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss and another lawsuit where he's being sued for being a sick pervert, liar and more...

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/05/politics/giuliani-lawsuit-2020-election/index.html

Sidney Powell, disbarment proceedings for her are ongoing, she's been sanctioned by the courts already for false, frivolous election fraud claims..

Sidney Powell will be bankrupted by Dominion.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/04/dominion-fox-lawsuit-newsmax-oan-news

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/sanctions-against-sidney-powell-over-trump-election-claims-largely-upheld-2023-06-23/

Jeffery Clark......John Eastman....Both facing serious criminal charges too...

https://www.eenews.net/articles/legal-expert-trump-indictment-bad-news-for-jeff-clark/

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/11/john-eastman-disbarment-trial-trump-00101407

Before we get started, lets have a look at Trump's revolving, changing, moving election fraud claims....

Trump claimed Dominion voting machines, through internal algorithms switched votes from Trump to Biden.....That claim was fostered by disbarred and sanctioned attorney Sidney Powell....Sidney Powell in 2023 still doesn't have a shred of evidence backing her claims, ....A nutterbutter using the ghost of Hugo Chavez to invoke election fraud through a vast network of adversarial countries, like China...

Trump claimed Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss pulled illegal votes out from under a table, scanned them multiple times, ..Trump claimed Ruby and Shaye were professional vote hustlers, that they passed around USB flash drives like vials of heroine...Trump got that from disbarred and sanctioned attorney Rudy Giuliani...

Trump claimed a network of 2000 mules and vote harvesting stole the election...

Trump got that from convicted felon Dinesh DSouza ...Whom Trump pardoned for his crimes....Dinesh's fiction movie has been thoroughly debunked...

Trump's election fraud claims keep changing, Trump now says.....

Twitter censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story cost him at least 17% points in the 2020 election and Facebook censoring too...

Again, the Hunter Biden laptop story was suppressed for 24 hours only, and, as a result of the suppression the Hunter Biden laptop story got amplified a hundred fold...Trump's claim is speculative at best, and the facts don't bear it out, after the 2020 election.... GOP 2022 midterm hopefuls dined out near exclusively on Hunter Biden, for two years all we heard from GOP candidates is Hunter Biden...

The 2022 midterms, all of Trump's big endorsements, election deniers like Kari Lake, Mark Finchem, Matt Deperno, Tudor Dixon and many others....They lost badly....The predicted GOP redwave didn't happen, after two solid years of Hunter and Joe Biden stories from GOP hopefuls they got clocked at the polls...Democrats gained in the Senate, State Houses, Governorships, State Attorney Generals, the GOP barely squeaked out a majority in Congress..

Bottom line....

Donald J Trump rejected what DOJ told him about the 2020 election, rejected William Barr, Trump rejected his top campaign staffers, rejected CISA, rejected the courts, rejected state officials, Rejected NSA,....Trump even rejected the two reports and investigations his campaign paid for....Even Cyber Ninja Arizona audit found no difference in hand count from machine count...Found no bamboo either..

Donald J Trump rejected the top investigatory apparatus in the world...The US federal Government, Trump Dumpy rejected all that and latched onto...

 https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/03/17/trump-campaign-reportedly-commissioned-study-showing-no-widespread-election-fraud-but-continued-to-push-claims-anyway/?sh=5894d0261a07

 

Donald J Trump rejected the top investigatory apparatus in the world...The US federal Government, Trump Dumpy rejected all that and latched onto.....

Trumpy Dumpy latched onto Drunken, disbarred, sanctioned Rudy Giuliani, who had no proof in 2020 of election fraud because in 2023 Rudy still has no evidence of election fraud...

Disbarred, sanctioned attorney Sydney Powell had no proof of voting machine fraud in 2020 because in 2023 she still has no evidence of election fraud from any voting machine or tabulator, and she's currently facing defamation lawsuits from Dominion and others...

Jeffery Clark and John Eastman.....Their unconstitutional legal theories, their fake electors scams, their advice to Mike Pence, telling him to break the law, go against the constitution, pick his own electors or even send electors back to the swing states, ....Their fringe legal theories were soundly rejected well before the J6 insurrection/coup attempt...

Here is where Trump's Kobayashi Maru moment rears up..

Trump might convince a jury that despite the most powerful government voices, justice department, his top legal staff, after they investigated all of Trump's election fraud claims, after they told him he lost, but, that Trump himself instead chose to disregard all the departments, DOJ, CISA, his own campaign, his family, his chief of staff, his attorney general, state attorney generals and.......

and then decide to believe Rudy Giuliani, Sydney Powell, Jenna Ellis, Steve Bannon, Mike Lindell...

When none of those people possessed a shred of evidence that would stand up in court...

Yes indeed, Trump and his legal team might be able to prove that Trump actually believed the deranged, discredited lunatics and by default, find Trump innocent.

Yes, that is Trump's legal strategy, it's actually a modified form of an insanity defense...

This is what we may see in the near future....

And so, by reason of insanity this jury, this court finds the defendant Donald J Trump innocent of all charges.

That folks is Trump's Kobayashi Maru moment....The only way Trump beats the charges is an insanity defense..

An insanity defense does not make a very good 2024 campaign slogan....And it calls into Trump's mental state, when he denies and goes against the entire government. An insanity defense, or even temporary insanity defense will be the last nail in Trump's presidential coffin.

The only way Trump beats this latest set of indictments is a modified insanity plea, and that will kill any of his faint chances...

One more thing....It will be entertaining watching/reading how Trump and his legal team throw Rudy, Sidney, Jeffery and John under the bus...Gonna get crowded, gonna need another bus.

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Titanic Disaster ........Too many questions, too many mistakes

 

Written by Grant G

Saddens me to write this, and I do hope that i'm wrong, however my gut instincts tell me it's already over..

From what i've read the company owner is a risk taker, innovator and is very strident, very strong in his belief that fast innovation requires an element of risk....He also seems to be prepared to personally take that risk, that risk being death....

The part that bothers me the most, risk and all is fine, but to try and turn this risk into a money making venture...we haven't got there yet, not for 13,000 feet below the surface....This submersible was a ticking time bomb....wasn't a matter of if, but when it failed.

https://newrepublic.com/post/173802/missing-titanic-sub-faced-lawsuit-depths-safely-travel-oceangate

Too early to write a longer post....however..

The surface support lost contact/communications with the submersible about 2 hours into descent....Probably between 9000 and 10,000 feet....

We know the submersible had more than just communication issues, because it never resurfaced, ..i'm sure if communications failed 3/4 of the way down the submersible would abort and head back up to the surface, if it could....So that suggests that the sub lost all power, and according to reports read, there was no back up power.....Like said, too many mistakes, why didn't the sub have the ability to send a sonic pulse out in case of power loss, in fact why didn't the sub have a regular sonic pulse denoting it's position, perhaps a pulse every 5 minutes, or ever 20 minutes, something, anything....a sonic pulse with a separate/single isolated power source, at least the surface would know it's intact

Again, that brings me back to the company owner, his go it bold strategy, his keep it simple strident personality..

When communications went out on the descent, and propulsion power(air pressure buoyancy to bring the sub up)went out....Did the sub continue to fall....is it laying on the bottom....did the heavy deep currents take it away, to who knows where....6000 pounds per square inch of pressure on the hull/shell/tube.....on a submersible that apparently was never pressure tested...as the company owner stated.."There is no way to pressure test it"

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OceanGate sued Lochridge that year, accusing him of breaching a non-disclosure agreement, and he filed a counterclaim alleging that he was wrongfully fired for raising questions about testing and safety. The case settled on undisclosed terms several months after it was filed.

Lochridge’s concerns primarily focused on the company’s decision to rely on sensitive acoustic monitoring — cracking or popping sounds made by the hull under pressure — to detect flaws, rather than a scan of the hull. Lochridge said the company told him no equipment existed that could perform such a test on the 5-inch-thick (12.7-centimeter-thick) carbon-fiber hull.

“This was problematic because this type of acoustic analysis would only show when a component is about to fail — often milliseconds before an implosion — and would not detect any existing flaws prior to putting pressure onto the hull,” Lochridge’s counterclaim said.

Further, the craft was designed to reach depths of 4,000 meters (13,123 feet), where the Titanic rested. But, according to Lochridge, the passenger viewport was only certified for depths of up to 1,300 meters (4,265 feet), and OceanGate would not pay for the manufacturer to build a viewport certified for 4,000 meters.

OceanGate’s choices would “subject passengers to potential extreme danger in an experimental submersible,” the counterclaim said.

However, the company said in its complaint that Lochridge “is not an engineer and was not hired or asked to perform engineering services on the Titan.” He was fired after refusing to accept assurances from OceanGate’s lead engineer that the acoustic monitoring and testing protocol was, in fact, better suited to detect any flaws than a scan would be, the complaint said.

https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/lawsuit-companys-insufficient-testing-of-titanic-sub-put-passengers-in-potential-extreme-danger/?utm_content=national-world&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=socialflow

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However, with the extreme temperature changes from bottom to top, the very extreme outside pressure, from 6000 psi to 0 psi of outside pressure...A carbon fiber shell, 5 inches thick, when one expert, maybe more stated it should be 7 inches thick, and the one window, from what I read, is only rated to a depth of 1300 meters, not 3900 meters to where the titanic was..

I suspect it imploded.....Which, in thinking about it, would be instant, a blink of an eye, no suffering...Tragic, reckless, greedy and the very strident owner, taking innovative risks for advancement, maybe even a belief that the  knowledge gained was worth the lost lives, personally, i'm not so sure about that..

Lastly...In the event that the submersible is laying on the bottom, 13,000 feet down....There is no sub that can retrieve it, nothing can dive down there, nothing that has a hook or tow line that could grasp the powerless sub and return it to the surface....That type of passing would be painful, terrifying and slow, also, inevitable..

Here's the best read i've found so far ....here are a few snippets..

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In a 2020 article, technology news site Geekwire reported that tests on OceanGate’s carbon-hulled Titan submersible – built for Titanic journeys – that were conducted at the Deep Ocean Test Facility in Annapolis, Maryland, in the US, revealed that its hull at that time “showed signs of cyclic fatigue” at lower depths, with the hull’s depth rating reduced to 3,000 metres as a result.

OceanGate’s website states that the current five-man Titan sub used in Titanic expeditions can now descend to depths of 13,123 feet – or 4,000 metres, with the company stating in a May 2021 court filing that the Titan had an “unparalleled safety feature” that assesses the integrity of the hull throughout every dive

.“That sub has a crush depth of 4,000m, the Titanic is down 3,800 metres,” he said. “So [the vessel] had gone into the red zone. It wasn’t designed to continually go down to that depth.”

The British passenger also raised concerns that there was no “umbilical cord” attaching the Titan to a vessel on the surface that would allow it to rise in case of an emergency.

A three-person research submersible named Alvin, involved in a 1986 exploration of the site of the Titanic shipwreck, was built with an emergency mechanism that would allow a titanium sphere containing the crew to separate and rise to the surface, he argued.

Instead, he said the search mission currently being launched was like “looking for a needle in a haystack”.

https://liveapp.inews.co.uk/2023/06/20/missing-sub-british-titanic-enthusiast-decided-against-oceangate-sub-trip-after-raising-safety-concerns/content.html

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Here's good video(also in below twitter feed), showing failure at 4200 meters....Same company..

Cyclops Next Gen: New Hull Design and Testing

https://twitter.com/ColeDaigneault/status/1671296070440325120

In a nutshell...The submersible was being pushed to it's max every dive.....One tiny flaw, one stressed anything and....Good bye..

Too many questions......Too many mistakes

There could have been a fire on board’

Hope i'm wrong and a miracle happens......Thoughts and prayers..

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