Open Thread

I guess there is some coup-like activity going on in Russia at the moment – nobody really knows what is going on but it appears that Putin’s Wagner mercenaries are angry and they are claiming they are heading to Moscow to wipe out the Ministry of Defense. Could be a host of things running from a fake coup set up by Putin to consolidate power and eliminate enemies all the way to a real coup attempt. In a few days, we’ll know. Meanwhile, the Ukrainians should be attacking all along the line right now with whatever they’ve got – if it is a real coup attempt. Because if it is, they’d likely find a demoralized enemy in front of them who might collapse at a blow. But if they keep just slogging it out with the Russian army in their counter-offensive as for the past couple weeks, then it means at least Ukrainian intel doesn’t think its a real coup.

I retain my standard position: don’t care. Not our problem.

So that jury-rigged sub apparently imploded pretty much right away after it got down to the ocean floor. It was made at least partially with carbon fiber material and from what I understand, never make a sub out of carbon fiber material. Something to do with the nature of carbon fiber that makes it unsuitable for submersibles. The nimrod zillionaire who built the thing was warned about this but he wasn’t going to let experts who know what they’re talking about stop him! The event is an exemplar of modern life: narcissists who don’t know anything wasting money doing things which don’t need to be done but which give an ego boost. I’ve no sympathy for anyone on that sub – even going down there in a properly constructed sub is horribly dangerous and unless you are a scientific researcher you’ve no business going there. To go down in a rich guy’s vanity boat is simply stupid.

The release of all that Hunter Biden info pretty conclusively shows that Hunter has been running a scam based on his father’s name for years. Naturally, Never Trump’s reaction is: “well, we’re still not sure there was a crime”. They assert this because they are so filled with hatred of Trump it has made them stupid. You see, they can’t admit that the DOJ is letting Hunter skate because if they do, it calls into question the indictment of Trump. After all, if the DOJ is so corrupt as to let obvious law-breaking slide for political reasons, what’s to stop them from prosecuting an innocent man for political reasons? On the other hand, you do have to give Hunter credit for trying to write off the sex club membership fees on his taxes – that takes some guts. On the other, other hand, it let me know there are “elite sex clubs” in the USA…which makes me want to burn the system down to the ground, twice.

Garland is now claiming that if we complain about his corrupt DOJ, we’re a threat to Democracy. Don’t take this lightly: he is threatening you. The FBI has become a de-facto secret police along the lines of the NKVD.

28 thoughts on “Open Thread

  1. Cluster's avatar Cluster June 24, 2023 / 9:26 am

    On the other, other hand, it let me know there are “elite sex clubs” in the USA…which makes me want to burn the system down to the ground, twice.

    LOL, thank you. I agree. This world could not get more bizarre.

    We’re coming to get you! Wagner forces head to Moscow as tanks are spotted on highways and oil depot goes up in flames

    Just take a moment and think about the downward spiral this country, and the world has been on since the fake covid pandemic and election fraud took place in 2020. Nothing has been the same since. And we can thank Trump for revealing to all of us how stupid and dangerous all these people really are. Every single one of them from Biden to Putin to Macron to Boris Johnson to Garland to Zelensky to Klaus Schwab to Bill Gates to Trudeau to Fauci to Walensky to Weingarten to Milley to Schiff to Pelosi to Schumer, they are all deeply entrenched, deeply corrupt, deeply narcissistic, deeply ignorant and deeply dangerous. And it’s all playing out in real time.

    If you’ll remember, Biden and Harris encouraged Putin to invade Ukraine. Biden saying that a “small incursion” may be acceptable to Harris demanding Ukraine join Nato immediately. And Putin fell for it. This was all done of course to keep the Military industrial Complex in business. Afghanistan was “going out of business” so they shuttered the doors there and started a new fresh war.

    And I’m sure no one will forget how Fauci almost single handedly started the Covid pandemic, and then made it worse by fear mongering. Remember the ridiculous “mask mandates”? And even more worrisome, The United States continues to fund gain of function research.

    This is all of course completely unsustainable. This country will never survive a two tiered justice system and one political faction declaring their opponents to be extremists and a threat. That’s what happened in 1930’s Germany. You’d think the “smart ones” would realize that. Oh and Chris Christie is a fat moron.

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona June 25, 2023 / 8:28 am

      one political faction declaring their opponents to be extremists and a threat.

      Yet this is never based on an analysis of and objection to the actual political philosophy of the opponents. It is Identity Politics on steroids, run amok. It is totally, 100%, about the PEOPLE who have been identified as enemies, whereas on the Right the objection is to the SYSTEM.

      The American Left has devolved into nothing but a savage tribe, intent on destroying the other tribe.

  2. Cluster's avatar Cluster June 24, 2023 / 11:02 am

    Isn’t it ironic that just like 1776, the people who just want to be free and left alone in America, are once again the extremist rebels?

    Michigan’s Democratic House passed legislation on Tuesday that enables attorneys to shut down “hate speech.” The new House Bill 4474 is a vague and unconstitutional censorship law that determines “feeling threatened” as reasonable grounds to prosecute offenders.

    So it’s illegal now to offend someone?? wow. The feminization of America is complete. Rush Limbaugh warned us about this.

    https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/06/24/michigan-is-criminalizing-opinions-n560291

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona June 24, 2023 / 9:15 pm

      So Michigan is leading the way in establishing actual Thought Crimes.

      I started saying during the J6 hearings that they were trying to criminalize freedom of speech and assembly when they started dragging people in for depositions to grill them on what Trump had said and if they agreed or not, which was basically an effort to convey the impression that some thoughts, and expression of some thoughts, and association with some people who had and expressed some thoughts, all constituted crimes of some sort.

      Their attitude was clearly that Trump simply did not have the Constitutional right to have or express an opinion they didn’t like.

      I think the legislature should be prosecuted for making so many people feel threatened by this law.

  3. Cluster's avatar Cluster June 24, 2023 / 11:18 am

    This is awesome … awareness of the Biden Crime Family is reaching critical mass. The agenda media is starting to turn on Biden meaning this is the beginning of the end for him, and the beginning of the Gavin Newsome ascension. It’s plain as day

    • Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook June 24, 2023 / 12:20 pm

      It’s entertaining to watch our adversaries implode for a change instead of OUR party.

  4. Tim's avatar Tim June 24, 2023 / 10:23 pm

    “The walls are closing in”

    Are you sure the wheels aren’t coming off instead?

    Is this the end??

    It has to be the end!!!

    Tell me this is the end!!!

    Lie to me if you have to. I’m getting sick of this crap.

    • Cluster's avatar Cluster June 25, 2023 / 8:12 am

      No kidding. To steal a phrase from Adam Shit, excuse me Shift, “there is corruption in plain sight”, yet the DOJ and the Media continue to lay cover, and all our GOP reps are doing so far is complaining in front of microphones.

      However Peter Baker with the NYT started asking the black French bish some difficult questions the other day in the press room so the tide could be turning. And Jonathan Turley has an excellent piece here

      “Everybody Needs to Back Off!”: The Media and Political Figures Continue to Ignore the Biden Corruption Scandal

  5. Jeremiah's avatar Jeremiah June 24, 2023 / 11:14 pm

    From Mat Staver at Liberty Counsel –
    “On Monday, the world’s most powerful globalists are meeting to discuss the freedom-ending, life-killing mandates that America experienced during COVID. And their goal is to do more of the same, and even worse.

    Instead of runaway governors and mayors, Joe Biden wants to expand this authority and place it in the hands of the United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO), which has a shocking track record and immunity from any lawsuit!

    In 48 hours, the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) of the WHO will be strategizing on how to amass the power it needs to have global control over the next pandemic — including the objections of any nation. The WHO wants to expand control over 194 nations — including America!”

    • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan June 25, 2023 / 12:53 pm

      It is bizarre how committed that demographic is to abortion – I can only imagine its because they were routinely pumped and dumped when young and so figured they needed abortion…after all, if you’re screwing the boss for a promotion that goes out the window if you wind up pregnant.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona June 26, 2023 / 9:31 am

        They just leave the humanity out of it. I had a friend who counseled women who had had abortions and were suffering from crippling guilt and sadness afterward, and the general pattern was that they made the decision very quickly, under great pressure from family and/or boyfriends and especially from abortion mill employees, and did so under the belief that they were simply removing a “clump of cells” that would later, if not stopped, turn into a baby.

        But then time passed. They saw ultrasounds of their sisters, cousins, friends, or their own when the decided to have a family. And the realization of what they had done was crushing.

        I will say this in defense of many abortion defenders—when they see ultrasounds of their unborn babies many of them decide not to kill them. This is why the Left fights so strenuously against any effort to encourage pregnant women to have ultrasounds before making that final, lethal, decision.

        Abortion is two things to the Left. One, it is big business, a billion-dollar industry. They never want to admit this. bleating as they do about “reproductive health care” and so on, but this is a cash cow for the abortion providers. And two, it is a sacrament of the Left, a rite and a symbol that they use to unify that part of their base.

      • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan June 26, 2023 / 9:02 pm

        Oh, I get that – I, too, have known women who have had abortions. I can easily see how in the pressure of the moment – and often the pressure of boyfriend and family – that decision can be made. This, I think, is why most people don’t want the practice banned altogether…they can easily see how it happens.

        But I’m talking about the female demographic which is just sold on the most extreme pro-abortion view. I think it is why when they to opinion polls you see pretty normal everywhere (you know, roughly equal splits) but when it comes to white women college grads you get these lopsided 80/20 results for the Democrats.

        Of course, it could be that most of them don’t know the actual Democrat position – federally funded to the moment of birth. It isn’t like the Democrats actively campaign on that.

      • Cluster's avatar Cluster June 26, 2023 / 9:39 am

        But Amazona, to people like Fielding, abortion is simply a light and airy procedure and most importantly, it “moves votes”, and isn’t that what really matters? Democrats have successfully dumbed down women to think that abortion is just a choice, that’s all. No consequences and nothing but celebration afterwards.

        Democrats have zero appreciation for beauty, life, love, and sacrifice. To them, it’s just power and demonizing their opponents. They are a tribal cult.

      • Cluster's avatar Cluster June 26, 2023 / 9:56 am

        At least your honest. Amongst Democrats; dead babies = votes. And that’s really all we need to know about Democrats.

      • Cluster's avatar Cluster June 26, 2023 / 10:11 am

        Even more revealing. That’s a creepy, heartless, and sacrilegious mindset, but at least your honest with your embrace of calculated evil.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona June 27, 2023 / 12:32 pm

        A clump of tissue with a face, with hands and feet, fingers and toes. and its own unique wholly human DNA. By your definition, you are nothing but a clump of tissue, just marginally more developed.

  6. Cluster's avatar Cluster June 25, 2023 / 8:18 am

    Here’s another observation of our current SS DOJ. Last week a gentleman in NY was arrested for publicly citing Bible verses to pro abortionists. Yet, just a few days ago, these “Nazis” were allowed to fly their flags in front of a Synagogue because that was their “free speech”. You know, because the DOJ is all about free speech, right?

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12231125/Most-frightening-thing-seen-life-Neo-Nazis-wave-swastikas-Georgia-synagogue.html

    • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan June 25, 2023 / 12:51 pm

      In Michigan they are passing a law which will define speech which makes a person uncomfortable as “harm”. They’re going to try to thread a 1A needle by saying as it isn’t prior restraint, it isn’t censorship…but on the subjective judgement of a Leftist you’ll now be dragged into Court with the process as the punishment and so speech will be chilled for fear of having to go through the process.

      Naturally this will eventually get a challenge and possibly all the way to the Supreme Court…but that takes years. Meanwhile, for those years, the Right will essentially be frozen out of the public square in Michigan.

      It is important to remember that the Left does not care about any standard of decency – all they want is power and they’ve been proclaiming for decades that they will achieve it by any means necessary. They’ll do whatever they can to move the ball, no matter how small.

      Meanwhile, voices on the Right are telling us we still have to trust the DOJ…

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona June 26, 2023 / 9:23 am

        Remember, we just saw a whine from a Lefty that seeing American flags made him uncomfortable. The J6 committee worked very hard to convey the message that Donald Trump was a criminal for voicing an opinion they did not like about the 2020 election—and to extend this to anyone who might have agreed with him

      • Cluster's avatar Cluster June 26, 2023 / 9:32 am

        “Wrongthink” is absolutely becoming a dangerous thing in America. Kind of like 1930’s Germany.

  7. Cluster's avatar Cluster June 26, 2023 / 9:41 am

    Fielding’s friends had a hell of a weekend … literally. They are sick f***ing people.

    Trans rights ‘whistleblower’ with sign saying ‘stop female erasure’ is attacked at NYC Pride March – while naked men on bikes ride past children in Seattle as thousands gather for LBGTQ+ events

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona June 28, 2023 / 10:46 am

      What is missing in all the (justified) outrage about the exhibitionism in these parades is the total lack of parental responsibility. WHY ARE THERE CHILDREN THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE?

      Take your kid to a strip club and end up losing custody, for child abuse and endangerment. Take him to a Pride Parade where he doesn’t just see nekkid women but sees nude people acting out sexual degeneracy and you’re just tolerant and supporting “rights”.

      You talked about the stupidity of suburban women, but you didn’t touch on the hypocrisy. For all the squealing about “women’s rights” and “feminism” these women are traitors to their sex. While posturing as being all about “women’s RIGHTS” (which is now defined solely as killing their own babies) they are quite supportive of the grotesque mockery of women that is the very essence of the whole drag queen phenomenon. They are all about reinforcing the message that womanhood is just about huge hooters and big hair and layers of makeup and making fun of stereotypes and caricatures of women. They howl about income inequality and the glass ceiling and then teach their daughters that it’s fine to earn money by emulating sex acts and having people shove money into their underwear.

      They are happily supporting the destruction of women’s sports, watching girls who have worked their entire lives to excel at their chosen sports then losing not just titles but scholarships to men who pretend to be women and take over their competitions.

      I don’t think there is anyone more hypocritical than a Democrat woman.

  8. Cluster's avatar Cluster June 26, 2023 / 9:55 am

    Behold the truly unAmerican, authoritarian, self indulging, nature of this recent screed from former CNN gay boy Don Lemon

    Don Lemon claimed in a new sit-down interview he was fired from CNN for simply telling the truth and slammed former boss Chris Licht’s proposal to have more conservative voices on the air as a ‘dereliction of journalistic duties. Lemon, 57, said he was unceremoniously sacked in April for ‘refusing to platform liars, bigots, insurrectionists and election deniers.’ The longtime host’s ousting came after he got into arguments with his co-hosts and following a cringe-worthy interview with Vivek Ramaswamy. Lemon now says he was ‘standing up for what is right’ as he slammed Licht who has also since lost his job. ‘In order to fulfill the promise of the Constitution, we have to stand up for what is right,’ Lemon said. CNN is struggling to survive, with some insiders saying its parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, is even considering selling the property all together.

    Like all Democrats, Lemon sees himself as the purveyor of truth. They are comically that stupid.

  9. jdge's avatar jdge1 June 26, 2023 / 11:08 am

    As Fuel Taxes Plummet, States Weigh Charging by the Mile Instead of the Tank

    Law of unintended consequences. Force a switch to electric vehicles and lose gas tax revenues. Then, implement a charge-by-the-mile scheme that requires a vehicle tracking device, another form of government surveillance. Gee, what could go wrong? Forget about the fact that we’re already charged taxes on our electricity use. Just another example of double dipping. If you’re going to be charged a mileage fee because your EV isn’t paying gas tax, doesn’t that dissuade people from buying EV’s?

    • Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook June 26, 2023 / 11:53 am

      because your EV isn’t paying gas tax, doesn’t that dissuade people from buying EV’s?

      The Left has transferred their mastery of the circular argument to the law of unintended consequences.

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