I watched an Estonian moving called 1944; highly recommend. It is in Estonian and so has subtitles but it is just a good movie. It involves Estonians who have been forced by circumstances to fight in both the German and Soviet armies in WWII, naturally ending up fighting each other. Aside from some good acting and direction, it is worthwhile to watch because it does get into that moral dilemma of just what is the right thing to do? You feel for the soldiers on both sides; caught in a web, a small nation between overwhelming neighbors. The Estonians in the Waffen SS mostly despising Hitler but hating the Soviets for deporting their families in 1940…the Estonians in the Red Army mostly despising Stalin and his regime but wanting the Germans out of their nation. Give it a watch.
Pudding Brain and his people are all-in on open borders. Actually saying it out loud and on the cameras, though absurdly claiming that Trump is responsible for a broken immigration system that they’re fixing. They’re also all-in on medical mutilation of minors. Keeping prices high. I think what we’ve really got is a senile Executive and all the little Commies lower down have nobody to stop them…and so they’re pushing Left on the long-help Leftist theory that the reason the American people haven’t embraced Communism is lack of Leftist policy. This may not work out as they hoped.
On the other hand, the GOP is also all-in on helping out Pudding Brain in Ukraine. I just don’t understand it. I mean, outside of bribery. There is zero political downside for the GOP standing aside here – don’t even have to actively oppose the Ukraine war…but for goodness sake don’t be out there being a booster for it. It is bound to end in failure…and all they’re doing is ensuring that the blame for the loss sits on the GOP. The Base doesn’t want this war.
Polls says this and that – and some special elections have gone against us. How will 2024 come out? Beats the heck out of me. But some Leftists are sounding the alarm just as they did in 2016: on the ground, there does appear to be a shift to the GOP. Pennsylvania voter registration continues to favor the GOP. Looks like there won’t be unlimited drop boxes in Wisconsin for 2024. I do think the GOP can win – if it can unite.
That unity will be hard to gain because the Democrats will pay for “GOPers” to sow division. They’re already doing it. There are two equally stupid positions to hold: Never Trump and Only Trump. I don’t care how much a RINO the person is: better than any Democrat. I don’t care how Trumpy a candidate is: still better than any Democrat. Time for everyone to grow up and just do the right thing.
Menedez gets indicted again. Don’t for a minute think this is because the Ruling Class is opposed to corruption. If the charges are true – and remember DOJ does just make things up – then his problem was either stealing above his station or not sharing out properly. Also, could be a back door to force Pudding Brain out: apparently, there is at least some connection between what Menendez is accused of doing and Hunter’s dealings. And keep in mind what they’re charging Menedez with: profiting off of his wife’s actions. Sound familiar?
Couple of minority kids deliberately ran over a retired cop here in Vegas. They were booked as “white”. Not the first time I’ve seen this; and it is clearly deliberate. They are fudging crime stats right in front of us. Trying to lower the amount of POC crime and make out white men to be far more dangerous than they are. All part of a program designed to eventually arrest every troublesome MAGA person as a terrorist.
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Aside from some good acting and direction, it is worthwhile to watch because it does get into that moral dilemma of just what is the right thing to do?
That’s going to be OUR dilemma as well, at least for many. When our fight comes, (and I’m still hoping against hope that we avoid killing each other as a practical solution), we’re going to be fighting neighbor against neighbor, brother against brother, just like we did 160 years ago. And just as then, we’re going to be fighting for a way of life, to either be controlled by others or to be free to pursue our own destiny. That over-simplifies it, of course, but when you boil it down, that’s essentially what we’re looking at. The irony is that slavery is involved again, albeit a different kind of plantation.
The thing is, I don’t see most Dems as fighters. They are not ideologues. They are not Dems because they are committed to a political belief system of how best to govern the nation, much less willing to die to defend it. When pinned down, I think most Dems would answer most questions the way we would. It’s just that they are never pinned down.
Ask your average Dem “Do you think second graders should see cartoons showing how boys can suck on other boys’ wieners?” and the answer would be either “No” or the evasive “But that’s not what’s in those books you want to ban”. I don’t think most Dems have taken the time to wade through the obfuscations and lies and general noise about sexually graphic books in school libraries to then take a stand on the content of those books—their stand is on objecting to the Invented Other “banning books” just like the Nazis did. We see this when parents force them to face the reality of what they are fighting for by reading these books out loud to them, and when that happens they literally run out of the room or they call the police to take away the people daring to make them face what they are doing. But as far as I can tell none of these supporters of early sexualization of children has come back and said “Wow—now that I realize what’s in those books I agree they should not be in grade school libraries” because the emotional pressure to fight that Invented Other is too great, so the elaborate tapestry of denial of reality is what matters.
The same pattern is true regarding every conflict we have. It’s not that we have the same reality but just have different perspectives of how to deal with it—we have wildly different realities. If you could get a Dem to admit that ballot harvesting is wrong or illegal or enables voter fraud, he would still deny that “2000 Mules” was an accurate portrayal of ballot harvesting.
I can see the disinclination of some people to admit they have based their very passionate beliefs on falsehoods but I don’t see that extending to picking up a gun and standing behind a barricade. A war of ideas, of thought, of words, is not going to be very bloody and that’s the war we will be fighting. The problem with this is that the other side has all the armament, all the weaponry, because it controls nearly all of the information flow.
The problem with this is that the other side has all the armament, all the weaponry, because it controls nearly all of the information flow.
Are we grossly over estimating the numbers on the “other side”?? They do have all the power levers behind them, ie; media and deep state, but I think the Democrat base is smaller than we think. in 2020, Biden only received 60 million votes or so, and that was when the Democrat electorate was highly motivated. I don’t think Biden, or any Democrat gets anything close to that in 2024.
Well, if the “other side” is so small then obviously we should not be worried about potentially ” fighting neighbor against neighbor, brother against brother, just like we did 160 years ago.”
I am just responding to a concern posted about a possible armed conflict.
I guess if there are only 60 million or so Dems we should just not bother with trying to change the narrative.
I’m just wondering, but I think we do over estimate their numbers, which are shrinking daily. Whether we battle in the streets or not is up to them, and keep in mind, they’ve already shown us how violent they are so ??? It could happen
The thing is, I don’t see most Dems as fighters.
I agree. Canon fodder maybe, but not fighters.
A war of ideas, of thought, of words, is not going to be very bloody and that’s the war we will be fighting. The problem with this is that the other side has all the armament, all the weaponry, because it controls nearly all of the information flow.
I agree on this as well, but we’re not going to level the battlefield of ideas by suddenly gaining control of the media or education. Absent some billionaire Conservative or consortium buying up a network or some other major platform, we’re just not going to win that fight. Look at the pushback Musk is getting on X. OTOH, the Left will never get to the point where they can just say jump and we ask, “how high.” Maybe there will be a slow and deliberate shift of the pendulum in the other direction, but I’d bet on some sudden event or series of events that will either tilt us all the way to totalitarianism or result in a sudden and seismic shift in the other direction. As I said the other day, some sort of black swan event, and there are so many possibilities, I’m not even going to speculate.
The anti-Republican bias is so deep I don’t think it can be overcome, but perhaps a new party based on coherent and clearly laid-out Constitutional principles would let the brainwashed Republican haters vote for a party other than the Dems.
A perfect depiction of most Democrats:
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow
There’s been a lot of discussion in my circle of friends and neighbors as to what constitutes “bad enough,” that is how bad do things need to get for the majority to finally say, “enough, we need to change course.” I, and almost everyone I know who shares my views thought 2022 was that tipping point. Obviously it wasn’t, and, unfortunately, I think things are going to have to get a whole lot worse.
I think the problem is not going to be how bad things get but getting past the barriers to connecting the dots so people understand WHY they are so bad. Which takes me back to the Left’s control of the media.
People are catching onto the seriousness of the invasions across the border. They are getting over the pious pseudo-compassionate murmuring of “they just want a better life” and realizing that this is a real problem for the nation. But the dots they are given to connect all lead to blaming Trump for the problem. We lack the mechanism for providing a different, more realistic, set of dots so people can tie the problem to the real cause.
People know the economy is a mess, but the dots they have been given to connect all create a picture of a hapless but energetic Joe Biden doing his best to overcome the horrible awful terrible economy he INHERITED from Trump.
There are enough facts out there to scare people and make them realize something has to change, but the media are too successful in convincing them that the necessary change is to continue moving away from what they are convinced is the source of the problem—Donald Trump, and by association the rest of the Invented Other
Tell me again how a Biden impeachment hearing is going to influence the thinking of Americans, if they never hear it. All the American public is going to “know” is that mean old Republicans are picking on this nice old man because they are mad that he won the election and want revenge, and that none of the allegations were “supported by fact”. I think the way the Garland hearing is being covered—-or not covered—–and explained away is a pretty good harbinger of what to expect from media coverage of a Biden hearing.
Attorney General Merrick Garland offered a “fiery defense” in a “grueling hearing” of a House Judiciary Committee “stocked with far-right stalwarts,” as The New York Times described it. The front-page story by Glenn Thrush quoted no Republicans on the cover, just Garland, as Thrush said many Republican “insinuations” against Garland “were not supported by fact.”
At least it made the front page. The Washington Post didn’t even manage that. CNN and MSNBC joined Fox News in offering a decent amount of live coverage, interrupted on CNN by anchor Brianna Keilar calling it an “unserious circus” and reporter Evan Perez wrongly claiming Hunter Biden “has struggled” to sell his amateurish paintings (they made $1.3 million).
A special bucket of opprobrium should go to what they call “public broadcasting,” PBS, and NPR. On “PBS NewsHour,” they could barely manage a two-minute story on the Garland hearing.
Reporter Lisa Desjardins quoted from Republicans, then added, “Democrats were frank in cross-examination.” Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee asked Garland: “Does the rhetoric regarding the Biden case have any basis in reality?” Garland replied: “No, it does not.”
Poland just ended their commitment to Ukraine, and IF you believe American Democrats on Russia aggression, wouldn’t Poland have the most to lose?? This doesn’t make sense. No more money for Ukraine until peace talks begin. That would be my position.
One thing to also notice is the ramped up climate change hysteria. The Pedophile was just in Vietnam saying that the biggest threat to world peace is climate change, and I’m still trying to figure out how storms would threaten world peace, but the effort here is to instill FEAR, and oh boy does the Democrat base love fear. They are afraid of everything and fear is a strong motivator.
The requirement to impeach Biden, and it is imperative that we do that, should not be determined by whether or not the agenda media will cover it, or if their mouth breathing base will hear it. Critical mass must be reached here and we are seeing a good example of that with the border crisis. The agenda media is actually now being forced to cover the border and that’s what we will force them to do with the impeachment. Considering the Menedez revelations the timing is perfect because the Biden’s were doing the exact same thing. As was Pelosi, as was McConnell, as was Kerry, etc., etc. Let’s cause chaos in the Democrat Party, one day at a time. Never relent.
Well, a hearing not covered by the agenda media or heard by their mouth breathing base will be like the tree falling in the forest with no one to hear it. It might make a noise, but it won’t matter.
I’d be more impressed by this “imperative” to illustrate our commitment to holding criminals accountable if it were accompanied by some coherent plan to make this all available to the people who need to hear it. Merely acting out a moral imperative in a bubble where it is only heard by people already convinced of the problem is not going to accomplish much.
I know you hate the phrase “then what?” but it’s an important question to ask here, too. A plan that has a dead end isn’t much of a plan, and hoping the information will somehow make it through the information blockade isn’t much of a strategy. So what’s the plan? How are we going to inform the people who get their “news” from the alphabet networks if the hearing is not covered, or if it is dismissed with editorial commentary like “not supported by fact”?
We just have to keep putting the information out there, every day. A slow drip of water can destroy the strongest of cement foundations over time, and we are seeing that with the border issue and the Ukraine war. Public opinion is turning against those issues and it’s because of the daily barrage of information which just becomes too much to ignore. And the timing is excellent, gas prices are going up, the border is worse than it’s ever been, crime is at historic high levels, the Menedez issue, etc., etc. Democrats are currently losing support from blacks and suburban white women because of these issues, and we need to accelerate that division.
So let’s curate the information we “put out there” to have the widest and deepest impact.
For example, there is buzz about Michelle Obama being the Dem candidate. So what about using the information on the VP Biden corruption to link it to Obama, and specifically the scam using Michelle’s friends to do the website for Obamacare. Do a preemptive strike before she even declares, tying her personally to the abuse of her position to rip off the taxpayers for billions of dollars to enrich her friends. Instead of just a Hunter/Joe focus, make it a whole Obama-era focus, and link Michelle herself to the website scam.
This lead segment from this morning’s Coffee & Covid is one of the best examples I’ve seen of where the global elite want to take civilization (OK, maybe “civilization” is not exactly the right word.)
I also read that Biden is appointing billionaire Penny Pritzker to oversea Ukraine rebuilding projects, assuring that a lot of American tax payer money will flow back into her coffers. Are people not seeing this????? Lot’s of Democrats are getting very rich off of “Russia aggression”
Our Ruling Class is corrupt and stupid but the worst thing is that it is vile. Is there a global pedophile ring ruling the world? At best we can say we don’t know. Truth be told I doubt that it is specifically geared to protecting pedophiles, but it does protect them. Along with any other sort of depravity as long as the perpetrator is “in”. I don’t know why Menendez is “out” but what I do guess – outside of maybe he didn’t share properly – is that he knows full well about it (given allegations that he’s a participant; but maybe he went, saw, didn’t participate but now uses that as leverage?) but for one reason or another he’s considered unreliable by the rest of them…so, the protection has been withdrawn.
I couldn’t help but take a swipe at them via my character Jerome – no spoilers but he does come from the Ruling Class and so it is mentioned…this utter greed and immorality we see among it.
When the child trafficking movie “The Sound Of Freedom” was getting a lot of press, mostly from Lefties who were deeply concerned about its shining of a light on child sex trafficking, I learned that the United States is the biggest market not just for child porn but for actual sex trafficking of children.
I knew this reminded me of something and it finally came to me.
In what is undoubtedly the most bizarre Wikileaks revelation to date, Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta was invited to a “spirit cooking dinner” by performance artist Marina Abramovic, to take part in an occult ritual founded by Satanist Aleister Crowley.
In an email dated June 28, 2015, Abramovic wrote, “I am so looking forward to the Spirit Cooking dinner at my place. Do you think you will be able to let me know if your brother is joining? All my love, Marina.”
Tony Podesta then forwarded the email to his brother John Podesta (Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman), asking him, “Are you in NYC Thursday July 9 Marina wants you to come to dinner.”
What is “spirit cooking”?
Spirit cooking refers to “a sacrament in the religion of Thelema which was founded by Aleister Crowley” and involves an occult performance during which menstrual blood, breast milk, urine and sperm are used to create a “painting”.
According to Marina Abramovic, if the ritual is performed in an art gallery, it is merely art, but if the ritual is performed privately, then it represents an intimate spiritual ceremony.
Forget Kevin Bacon’s “7 Degrees of Separation”. When you are talking about degeneracy in any form, including Satanism, the separation among Leftist elites is a lot closer than 7 degrees.
Robert Malone has an excellent, short essay this morning about mind control.
This is how we do it. Good job Rand
https://x.com/RandPaul/status/1705599289479602305?s=20
I came here to link to the very very funny Jeff Charles AI-generated pictures of various outfits worn by Senators, and this one of Rand Paul is definitely my favorite. Though the Cory Booker one is…interesting.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F6kyUPpWYAAupDj?format=jpg&name=medium
The debate between between Maria Bartiromo and Matt Gaetz this morning was interesting. IMO, more people need to listen to Gaetz. He’s going for the jugular, and I think that’s what we need to do.
In the Comments section of the latest Kurt Schlichter column (as usual, highly recommended) refers to an old Rush song called “Red Barchetta“. I don’t know it, being a music agnostic with limited interest in popular music, but I looked it up, and given the fact I had gone to Col. Schlichter’s column directly from one about Bootyjuice and his new cabal of anti-auto lunatics (CARS ARE RACIST !!!) it is extremely appropriate.
The description of the song: “Red Barchetta” is the story of a car chase in an Orwellian future. The song’s narrator seeks to escape urban dystopia by driving an illegal antique motor car around the countryside, while two hovering law enforcement vehicles pursue and attempt to apprehend him.
Chilling lines: “Motor Laws” and “outside the wire”
(I’ve got the song playing as I write this. Even I can learn something new every now and then 😉 😉 😉 )
Excellent article on Ukraine, addressing the realities of the situation (President Biden just appointed the multi-billionaire heiress Penny Pritzker – Obama’s chief mega-donor – to oversee the profiteering plans in Ukraine of BlackRock, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs: to “rebuild” the country with US funds once Raytheon and Boeing are done profiteering from its destruction.) and concluding with this:
In other words, the Ukraine tragedy will not be over if and when the war ends. Americans should be embarrassed that we plan to add investor looting to the damage, even though as indicated that is actually unlikely to get much of anywhere.
Look what the Clinton Global Initiative did to Haiti. Those poor people were raped by American profiteers. The grift is enormous. Foreign wars and endless foreign aid is simply a money laundering op for Americas billionaires and elites. It has to end.
We talk a lot here about getting tough, fighting fire with fire and using the tactics against the Left against them. Zero Hedge has a great article on how, theoretically, we could do that. It’s far-fetched but interesting, and who knows—if the Left continues its death spiral into Stalinland where the forces of the State (or, as in this case, the States) are used to crush opposition the backlash could conceivably lead to something like this.
Basically, it is that if states succeed in keeping Trump off the ballot (election interference but that’s another topic) then Republicans could do it in their swing states, throwing President Joe Biden off the ballot.
They could say his alleged bribes from Communist China disqualify him under the 14th amendment’s Section 3 wording for having “given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”
Which would mean neither candidate could get 270 votes in the Electoral College, throwing the election to the House of Representatives.
After all, now that the United States is an impotent dumpster fire of a nation, an international laughingstock as Kurt Schlichter has pointed out, why not go for the gold and make the election even more blatantly a farce than the last one was?
Again, none of this is likely to happen.
If any state tries to keep him off the ballot, the courts almost certainly would put him back on but it’s interesting to see possible outcomes and, more to the point, reversals of intended actions by the Left.
They could say his alleged bribes from Communist China disqualify him under the 14th amendment’s Section 3 wording for having “given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”
Brilliant. The tide is turning … this is an ABC poll
Trump edges out Biden 51-42 in head-to-head matchup: POLL
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/troubles-biden-age-reelection-campaign-poll/story?id=103436611
A nine point lead seems a little stronger than just “edging out” but I am a hard-core poll skeptic, feeling that many if not most if not all of them are what I call “herding polls”, designed to herd people in a certain direction.
But we should definitely start talking about it – to let the Left know that we’re serious.
We have to stop being the low-hanging fruit, the easy targets because of the confidence that we won’t fight back.
It’s just that a lot of the “fighting back” I see so passionately advocated seems superficial, emotion-generated and so disorganized and lacking focus that it feels counterproductive.
I have often commented that trying to have a linear conversation with a Lib is impossible because they skitter from one half-formed “thought” to another like fleas on a hot skillet, and there is no way to establish an actual coherent thought. Reading comments and articles in which the same phrases dominate has led me to see the same kind of pattern in what passes for thought in so many people.
Look at the Leftist narrative about January 6. It is that Trump supporters were trying to “overturn the election”. The reality had several potential steps but basically what they wanted to accomplish was this:
(1) Petition Congress (per 1st Amendment right) to temporarily postpone the certification process to allow for at least a partial investigation into the proven irregularities in the election
(2) Hopefully this would reveal serious defects in the way the election was run, at least in the key states investigated
(3) These significant defects would, hopefully, result in disqualifying the vote tallies from those states (Both of these steps would have been legislative decisions made by Congress)
(4) This would affect the Electoral Vote count, possibly depriving Joe Biden of enough votes to be named president
(5) Without 270 electoral votes the election would go the House of Representatives
(6) Given the math regarding political division in the House, it would probably name Trump as president
(7) This could then be referred to as “overturning the election” because the outcome would not be the same as that decreed by the original vote count (though it would actually be determining that the original vote count and therefore the election itself was never valid)
The procession from Step One to Step Seven was dependent on the success of Step One, that of convincing Congress to temporarily postpone certification, then on the success of Step Two, which would be proving that the original vote tally was not legitimate and then on Step Three, which would have been the disqualification of the votes from those states. Again, Step Two would have been a conclusion reached after Congressional investigation and Step Three a Congressional decision, neither of which would have been under the control of Trump supporters. While the hoped-for end result was what could be referred to as “overturning the election” the actual effort was to enact Step One, hoping it would lead to the other steps. Trump supporters understood that their goal was to accomplish Step 1, and that is why they went to Washington.
To the Left, the sequence went like this:
(1) Trump supporters conspired to engage in violent behavior near and then in the Capitol Building, which was intended in some unnamed unexplained way to force Congress to do something it was not authorized to do and somehow just transfer the presidency to Trump, so the whole thing was just an effort to
(2) OVERTURN A LEGITIMATE ELECTION.
They have to ignore Step One and just make a wild leap from observing some violent behavior to attributing it all to Trump supporters to assigning it a motive never stated or implied by any Trump supporter to the hysterical outrage of (how DARE they!) trying to overturn a legitimate election.
This random surging from one perception to another, without any logic or linear thought, defines the reactive impulse of the average Lefty and explains why it is impossible to have a coherent conversation with them. And the urgency with which they feel these emotions leads to the urgency with which they argue them and explains why so many of them resort to out and out lying in shrill efforts to defend them. So we see redefinitions of words like “insurrection” and even of “find”, we see crystal ball explanations of what people “really think” and “really mean” no matter what they say or actually do and we see blatant revisions of history as actions are rewritten to fit narratives.
It’s a toxic mess of gullibility mixed with malicious determination to believe the worst that makes these people so vulnerable to the careful manipulation by their masters. It’s harmful and destructive when it happens, but it also has a cumulative effect and it rewrites history, so falsehood are entered into the collective memory as fact. The other day I mentioned things we “know” that never happened, citing the false narrative about Matthew Shepherd. Something recently reminded me of the elaborate and no doubt now-permanently-established lies about Valerie Plame and how that carefully constructed narrative destroyed a good man only because he was close to someone the Left deemed an enemy who needed to be brought down.
The purpose of the Trump rally was to show Congress there was massive support for the letter being read by Senator Cruz, ending with these statements: emphasis mine
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), John Kennedy (R-La.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), and Mike Braun (R-Ind.), and Senators-Elect Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), and Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) issued the following statement in advance of the Electoral College certification process on January 6, 2021:
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“On January 6, it is incumbent on Congress to vote on whether to certify the 2020 election results. That vote is the lone constitutional power remaining to consider and force resolution of the multiple allegations of serious voter fraud.
“At that quadrennial joint session, there is long precedent of Democratic Members of Congress raising objections to presidential election results, as they did in 1969, 2001, 2005, and 2017. And, in both 1969 and 2005, a Democratic Senator joined with a Democratic House Member in forcing votes in both houses on whether to accept the presidential electors being challenged.
“The most direct precedent on this question arose in 1877, following serious allegations of fraud and illegal conduct in the Hayes-Tilden presidential race. Specifically, the elections in three states-Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina-were alleged to have been conducted illegally.
“In 1877, Congress did not ignore those allegations, nor did the media simply dismiss those raising them as radicals trying to undermine democracy. Instead, Congress appointed an Electoral Commission-consisting of five Senators, five House Members, and five Supreme Court Justices-to consider and resolve the disputed returns.
“We should follow that precedent. To wit, Congress should immediately appoint an Electoral Commission, with full investigatory and fact-finding authority, to conduct an emergency 10-day audit of the election returns in the disputed states. Once completed, individual states would evaluate the Commission’s findings and could convene a special legislative session to certify a change in their vote, if needed.
“Accordingly, we intend to vote on January 6 to reject the electors from disputed states as not ‘regularly given’ and ‘lawfully certified’ (the statutory requisite), unless and until that emergency 10-day audit is completed.
“We are not naïve. We fully expect most if not all Democrats, and perhaps more than a few Republicans, to vote otherwise. But support of election integrity should not be a partisan issue. A fair and credible audit-conducted expeditiously and completed well before January 20-would dramatically improve Americans’ faith in our electoral process and would significantly enhance the legitimacy of whoever becomes our next President. We owe that to the People.
“These are matters worthy of the Congress, and entrusted to us to defend. We do not take this action lightly. We are acting not to thwart the democratic process, but rather to protect it. And every one of us should act together to ensure that the election was lawfully conducted under the Constitution and to do everything we can to restore faith in our Democracy.”
For all the accusations of an intent to “overturn a free and fair election via violent means” there is (1) lack of proof it was a free and fair election, with more and more information coming out about voter fraud, and (2) any description of how the very limited violence seen on that day would have, could have, resulted in overturning the election. There has simply never been any effort to describe the mechanism by which these few rowdy people expected their actions to “overturn the election”. A motive to do would have required more than simple resentment about the outcome of the election. There would have had to be an actual plan in place, by which the few discrete and uncoordinated acts of violence against random people who had no authority over the election could possibly have been applied to changing the outcome of the election.
My “cute story” was a description of the intent of the people who attended the rally to support Trump and the efforts of the Senators who joined in the writing of the statement. Therefore it is silly and irrelevant to claim it “falls flat on its face”. It was what it was. At the time of the rally there were already proofs of irregularities including illegal changing of election rules (which would mean those elections were conducted illegally) and proofs of people voting multiple times, etc.
Clearly “gaslighting does not mean what you seem to think it does.
By Mark Lewis:
Just keep in mind Hitler couldn’t kill massive numbers of Jews until AFTER he came to power. Stalin couldn’t institute his Great Terror until AFTER he came to power. Mao couldn’t collectivize agriculture and create a great famine or have a “cultural revolution” until AFTER he came to power. Pol Pot couldn’t kill 25-30% of Cambodians until AFTER he came to power. But once they did gain totalitarian power, these Leftists DID do these things. That’s what history teaches us that Leftists/socialists do. So, please explain to me WHY Democrats/Leftists in America WON’T do these things if they ever gain totalitarian power in our country. What makes Leftists in America different from Leftists everywhere else in the world? Leftism is Leftism is Leftism—everywhere, in all places, at all times. Why are Leftists in America different?
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We all know other examples of Democrats trying to implement unconstitutional power to learn what the country will tolerate to see how far they can currently stretch their power. But we still have a Constitutional Republic in America. Democrats cannot do in America what the CCP can do in China. But, having lived in China, I see the seeds of totalitarianism in America that I saw in China. A journey isn’t completed in one step. But we are witnessing a Leftist mindset in America, with examples of what they WANT to do. And pardon me if I believe they WILL do these things if they ever get the power to do so. And you Leftists must explain why they WON’T do them if they get that power when, again, they’ve done them everywhere else they have ever gained power.
We are seeing children taken out of loving homes because the parents are not in ideological lockstep with the State. We are seeing people get huge sentences of decades in federal prisons for offenses blatantly less serious than those committed by activists and agitators in line with State ideology, just because they support an opponent. We are seeing the powers of the State massed to persecute and silence a political opponent. We lived through a period when a single man, with the stroke of a pen, imposed laws forcing people to inject an experimental drug or lose their jobs and freedom to travel. We live in a nation where State-sponsored media control most of what the people are told, and where Orwellian phrases like “misinformation” are now routinely used to justify various penalties. In our nation right now, a majority of Millennials believe people should be imprisoned for using the “wrong” pronouns for people—that is, pronouns that reflect actual, scientific, gender. Our “leaders” have rejected the concept of national sovereignty and opened our borders to all, including rapists, murderers and known terrorists. (But not squirrels.) We no longer apply actual definitions to words, allowing people to invent and then act on their own preferences for definition—words such as gender, insurrection, find, man, woman, treason and science.
These are not things that can happen in a serious, sane, well-ordered nation governed by the rule of law and its own Constitution. So how much farther off is that line between The Land Of The Free and overt tyranny—and its inevitable offenses.
Its why I say that they’ll jail or kill us all as soon as they can.
A lot of libertarian Right doesn’t like to hear it – but people who are ok with elective abortion have no sense of right and wrong. They can’t. Once you accept that as legitimate then there is nothing stopping you…and, indeed, in order to sustain that view all evidence of decency must be stamped out because they are a standing indictment. Once the Left made the Roe definition of abortion rights their dogma, there was no going back for them…and they have just got worse and worse as time goes on.
The only thing which can stop them is opposing force.
One generation has already said they are in favor of imprisoning us for “misgendering” and/or using the “wrong” pronoun. Not for robbing or looting or carjacking, but for a Thought Crime. Cheney’s J6 committee was a test to see how far they could go with criminalizing freedom of speech and assembly, when they started to depose people to grill them on what Trump had said about the legitimacy of the election AND IF THEY AGREED WITH HIM.
Lots of chatter about who will replace Biden on the ticket. Oh, I know, the Left is working diligently to convince us all that he will be the party’s choice, though that makes less than zero sense. Yeah, they’re going to back a blatantly senile and decrepit fossil who is clearly not competent to campaign, with all his legal baggage besides. But they will continue to effectively head-fake us so we run howling off after the ball they are pretending to throw, all wound up about how we can gain so much ground by convincing the nation what a crook and jerk Biden is.
Big Mike is mentioned as a possible alternative. S/he has name recognition, the Obama brand, has gotten enough tongue baths from fawning media to mask her* many defects, and she* might even consider it. Newsome still wants the nod, but he has California as his burden, and that would be tough to overcome. Liawatha would love a chance, but is too tainted and too obnoxious, and Bernie’s day in the sun is long past. Bootyjuice never had a chance even before Biden renamed him, and to ensure his permanent exile into NeverWasLand he’s got a whole new band of radical activists all explaining how owning a car is proof of racism.
RFK Jr. will bleed off a lot of votes, and might even take the nomination, depending on how desperate the Dems get.
But one name never comes up, and it’s someone I picked as a threat well over a year ago, when Fox folks started having her as a guest, as a guest host, and getting her out in front of the public. And, of course, that is Tulsi Gabbard. She’s smart, she’s pretty, she’s super-articulate, she’s a Lefty but whose persona screams “MODERATE!!” and she’s new, with no baggage and nothing to scare off any Dem looking for a landing spot after dumping the Biden/Harris albatross.
I also think she would beat Donald Trump like a tin drum, because what would make her appeal to Dems would also win over Independents and a lot of anti-Trumpers who wouldn’t find her to be a threat. Not an ideal choice, but not awful either.
I think the only one who could beat Gabbard would be DeSantis, and even that might need a boost from a third-party Kennedy campaign bleeding off some Dem support.
IMO, Tulsi, who is now an independent, has zero chance of getting the Democrat nod. She is a moderate but that position is considered far right in the left’s current lexicon.
“Big Mike”, lol love it. Isn’t it funny how this notion is becoming more and more accepted as fact? I think it was Joan Rivers who first said that Michelle was trans, and it’s pretty hard to deny. We’ve all seen the bulge on that middle linebacker frame of hers so ??? If it walks like a duck. S/he maybe the only one however that they could replace Biden with, without being labeled racists or misogynists for passing up Kamala. I don’t know how they would put Gavin ahead of Kamala without black women burning the whole thing down to the ground.
As long as Biden is alive and somewhat lucid and ambulatory, he is the candidate. Those conditions may change though.
I know Tulsi’s switch from Dem to Independent riled a lot of Dems, but it wasn’t a big leap, and I think if she spent a little time soothing some ruffled feathers and came back into the fold they would accept her. It’s not as if they have many choices. And she never stopped being a Leftist, just stepped away from the more radical aspects of the party, which is also turning off a lot of Legacy Dems.
Yes, Mike has some very suspicious bulges, not to mention the shoulders and walking like she* is trying to kill ants. Over the years a lot of that has been smoothed out, probably with surgery and also with training on how to appear more feminine. If it were not for Obama choosing a church that was led by a man known to see his job as that of providing cover for gay black men it would seem more far-fetched. The girls bear no resemblance to either one of them. This is where a little DNA testing would be interesting.
Biden is not only less than lucid right now, his decline is so rapid it can’t be ignored even by the fawning Agenda Media, and he is barely ambulatory. The only way he can “campaign” will be if we mysteriously find ourselves in the midst of another deadly pandemic calling for him to remain in his basement again. (And, of course, demanding all mail-in ballots again.)
As long as Biden is alive and somewhat lucid and ambulatory, he is the candidate. Those conditions may change though.
Kurt Schlichter is pretty sure they will.
America admits it currently has no president. If Trump is nominated, the Dems will probably act to make the switch. If someone besides Trump is nominated, the Dems will certainly act to make the switch. How they will do it and when they will do it are the big questions. Joe may punch out during the primaries, claiming he wants to spend more time with his family and their lawyers or with his kids in their showers. He may quit just before the convention, avoiding any unhelpful input into the nominee from Democrat voters – though the Dem base will accept whatever they are told to accept because they are hive-minded communists.
OK, so he said it first…..
Prescient
Hat tip Jeff Childers:
Tucker unleashed is the best. And I agree, I think there’s a revival going on, both in terms of Faith but also culturally. I think the majority of Americans are tired of Democrats normalizing freaks, criminals, and chaos.
And pretty soon the GOP needs to stop pretending and convincing themselves that Trump is unelectable … because he will be reelected. And all the other candidates are just wasting their time at this point. The fact is, Americans remember how good they had it under Trump and they want that America back. No other candidate can match that with the slight exception of DeSantis the way he has run Florida, and in any other election cycle, he would be on top.
And pretty soon the GOP needs to stop pretending and convincing themselves that Trump is unelectable … because he will be reelected.
I hope you are right, though I do think you and your fellow Trumpists might be a little high on hopium.
And I hope if he falters, or DeSantis catches up, you all will support him and not withhold support out of pique.
I may be the only one here but I am tired of how men are portrayed in commercials, movies, etc. … In this new “enlightened” day, men are now the weak ones, the confused ones, and the dependent ones. Just take notice of the commercials and how women, and particularly POC’s, are now the care givers, the counselors, the managers, the bosses, etc. Just yesterday I saw a Pfizer commercial and a white man in his 60’s was looking sheepish as he was asked by his black woman doctor when was the last time he had a physical to which he couldn’t answer … he seemed confused and said he had no idea, to which she comforted him and said “it’s alright, let’s get you taken care of”. How pathetic. Men like that have been emasculated, and there are a lot of them unfortunately. I believe much of the chaos we see in our country and our world is because good strong men have abandoned their roles.
It’s an observation sweetheart. You’re being too emotional ….. again
Which is one reason a recent discussion among the administrators came to the unanimous decision that forty should simply not be allowed to post here any more.
It’s not just the whining. It’s that forty is, for lack of a better word, ugly. And unfit to be here.
You’re right. Once upon a time a man could be portrayed as sensitive and caring but still be a man—-thinking of Atticus Finch as one example.
As a woman, I admit to sometimes evaluating famous or prominent men on my personal scale of manliness, and offhand I can’t think of a Lefty I’d put higher than a 2 or a 3 on a 10-scale. When I see a Democrat Senator or Congressman on TV what I notice is usually a significant element of sniveling and whining. Look at who they send out as their warriors to project strength—-the Adams, Kinzinger and Schiff. And Schumer, peering over bright red granny glasses perched on the end of his nose like a near-sighted addled old duck. When Hillary Clinton has more balls than all of the Dem Congress put together you know you’ve got quite a gaggle of low-T over there.
Then there are Leftist media. Don Lemon? That’s funny. The silly posturing of the Cuomos? (Oh, give me a moment to wipe the manly sweat off my brow after such a strenuous workout, LOL)
(We’ve got Jim Jordan, Jim Banks, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and of course Kurt Schlichter, just to start off what would be a long list of masculine men on our side of the aisle, in politics and in media. Not a sniffle or snark among them.)
Naturally the entertainment medium is going to pattern its “men” after what they see in their own movement. So they are going to give us sad, pathetic, wimps being dominated by big strong women. (Now that I think of it, that may have been inspired by Obama.)
“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.”
We’ve had decades of good times, and are reaping the consequences of generations of weak men as we move into a period of very bad times.
I can’t imagine a better illustration of a nation’s decline than a military based on “diversity” with men pretending to be women and paying for women to kill their babies. When I take comfort from the observation that “We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm” I don’t envision the “rough men” as wearing dresses and pretending to have PMS. If I want violence visited on those who would do us harm I want it to be more emphatic than a slap fight.
I did a quick trip to the local Walmart yesterday and a Walmart worker, male, approximately mid 20’s, was wearing false eyelashes, mascara, and lipstick … and we are all suppose to pretend that that’s normal. We have a Crisis of Men in this country.
Re: Trump winning. The ABC/WaPo poll out the the other day showed Trump up by nine points over Biden, and this is a liberal Democrat poll. The internals of the poll are also telling:
– Biden has just 50% support from members of racial and ethnic minority groups (the same as in May), while Trump has inched up from 32 to 39 to 43% support in this group in this year’s ABC/Post polls. Among Hispanics, it’s a surprising 50-44%, Trump-Biden, albeit with a small sample.
– Among 18- to 35-year-olds, Trump has a slight 53-38% advantage (marginally significant at this sample size). Still, that essentially matches what it was in May, and Trump also was numerically ahead in this group (albeit not significantly) by 50-43% in February.
Democrats have made Trump cool again … to the younger generation, to black men, to hispanics, etc. They have made him out to be an American legend with all the indictments and impeachments. If these numbers are accurate, Trump wins in a landslide.
If DeSantis is the nominee, I will be happy to vote for him. He just happens to be up against a force of nature right now.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/troubles-biden-age-reelection-campaign-poll/story?id=103436611
As I keep saying, I want you to be right. As I keep saying, trusting polls can be dangerous if the purpose of the polls is to direct thought and behavior.
And as I keep saying, I think the most fanatical Trump supporters are a group posing the greatest danger if their emotional connection to Trump means they will not support anyone else—as many have threatened.
And off-the-rails ranting like this is discouraging: Comcast, with its one-side and vicious coverage by NBC NEWS, and in particular MSNBC, often and correctly referred to as MSDNC (Democrat National Committee!), should be investigated for its ‘Country Threatening Treason,’” the Republican frontrunner raged on his Truth Social platform on Sunday evening.
Democrats are killing themselves and I couldn’t be happier. They have made Trump out to be an infamous American legend to many of their younger voters, and now they are also in the process of alienating traditional Democrats by ignoring and demeaning RFK Jr. I just watched Biden surrogate Jim Messina saying that RFK is “not a serious candidate” and is a “conspiracy theorist” because of his stance on the Covid vaccine.
This current group of Biden acolytes are straight up authoritarians and they are preaching to an increasingly shrinking fan base.
This interview is a must see. Gaetz is 100% correct
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediaite.com%2Fnews%2Fmatt-gaetz-throws-down-with-maria-bartiromo-after-fox-anchor-accuses-congressman-of-blowing-up-gop-wins-which-wins-please-enumerate-them%2F
I have been remiss in mentioning Jesse Waters take on the ABC/WaPo which I thought was excellent. Jesse said that the poll is a hit on Biden by Bezos, the Deep State, and the billionaire class. Bezos is no fan of Biden after Biden called for unionizing Amazon, and Bezos has the CIA in his back pocket because of all the Amazon/Google services used by the CIA. I think he might be right
Good line from Glenn Beck, “we just need a 15-day (government) shutdown to slow the spread.
It’s a misdemeanor. See Ray Epps. You’re such a joke. And an over emotional one at that
I assume you are replying to another forty brain fart.
There is something deeply disturbing about people who get such glee from seeing bad things happen to people. It goes beyond schadenfreude into a visceral pathological pleasure at the misery of others. It makes me think this must be a component of the pathology of torturers and other sadists.
As I said—ugly.
Why is this little asswipe so obsessed with me?
Lol. S/he has no life. I’m convinced Forty is a paid provocateur. This is how pathetic they are, and the obsession with Jan 6 is comical. When compared with antifa/BLM violence, Jan 6 was a picnic hosted by the FBI
I know all that, but this obsession with me is downright creepy. I’ve joked about forty having Mommy Issues, so that might be it. I think it’s really a narcissistic conviction that only one person finds him/her so distasteful, and that if weren’t for me ( The Boss of Everything) s/he would be welcome to use the blog as a personal litter box.
What is so funny is that I am not the administrator who brought up the topic of just banning forty, nor am I the one who tried to do so several times only to find that an evasive tactic to hide or change the IP address being used—-a typical ploy of the troll or bot. For being the BOE I was late to that party.
But I mentioned something my response to forty—something I never do, but s/he gave me a great opportunity to expound on a theory so I took it. That is the total lack of an explanation from the mouthbreathing Left about just how anyone COULD “overturn an election”.
So how would that have worked?
First of all, the overthrow of the government thing—“insurrection”, which is now never brought up because it was so stupid. But seriously—DONALD TRUMP WAS STILL PRESIDENT and would be for another two weeks. So, what exactly, was his plan? He was in office, he had the power. He sent people out to overthrow himself? An insurrection is an effort to assume the powers of the government, and he already had them. If he wanted to thwart the stated outcome of the election it would have been so much easier to just refuse to leave than to go through all that melodrama.
Second, how exactly would a handful of untrained, middle aged, Middle Americans, even if inclined toward violence, accomplish “overturning an election”? Who is in charge of “overturning an election”? It seems to me that any such effort would have to first identify the authority, then have a plan to gain access to that authority, then have a way to force that authority to do the overturning thing. And what, exactly, would that look like? Like Nancy Pelosi ripping up a speech?
I had a private little image of this. Years ago my husband and I and another couple crossed the Atlantic from New York to London on a large ship, and our friend Carol was very frustrated by one little old man who seemed to be her nemesis. She couldn’t get around him on the stairs, she couldn’t get past him in the halls. she had to wait while he dithered in line ahead of her, etc. Everywhere she went, he was in her way. One day we had a tour of the bridge of the ship and she looked over to see this old guy tottering around the center control console and kept saying to us “They need to get him away from there before he sinks the ship”. I finally said “Yes, you’re right—he IS really close to that big red button that says “To sink ship press here”.
It seemed that the Loony Left had some sort of image of some mechanism, some kind of “to overturn election press here” button or switch, that the savvy rioters knew about and were trying to get to. Because when you thought about it, there is no real official mechanism for “overturning an election”.
There is a process, described in the statement read by Cruz, that has been used to declare a local election invalid and call for it to be rerun. But that was never, as far as I could tell, a stated goal of anyone for the national election. For one thing, the Constitution was quite firm in its deadlines, including an inauguration on January 20. There was the option, as outlined by Cruz, to refuse to certify the results of a few states if an investigation were to prove that the results were not valid, but that would not “overturn” the election, just change the final step in determining the winner if certification was no longer possible. If some state tallies were illegitimate then there was no legitimate election to “overturn” and the House would have had to step in to resolve the issue.
And Trump knew this, his followers knew this, and that is why their goal was to convince Congress to put that mechanism into play—to start an investigation. Period. That was literally all they could do. If a giant truly dangerous mob had managed to corral the entire Senate and force them to refuse to certify, that would have been something that any court would overturn, even if it were remotely possible. That was just never considered. No, it was just the petitioning that had a chance.
And the rowdiness of the mob blew that right out of the water. I am pretty sure that when Trump saw the violence developing he realized his only chance had just been destroyed. The riots were 100% counterproductive to his hopes.
But to the Left, a few random acts of violence visited upon a few random people in random locations were all done to advance the goal of OVERTURNING THE ELECTION and this is such a beloved theme, nonsensical as it is, that they will never turn loose of it. They even like to dress it up by adding “with violence”.
This kind of follow-through is what I like about Spook’s “and then what?” response. Because following that question to its logical conclusion will lead you right to the dead end, if there is one. Right off the cliff, if there is one. But right to an answer—if there is one.
Antifa nailed doors shut in a federal building where people were hiding and then tried to set the building on fire, to burn people alive.
Arrests? 0
Prosecutions? 0
But let a guy spray a cop with pepper spray, if the guy can be identified as a Trump supporter, and it’s ten years of hard time in a federal penitentiary.
Justice in today’s world seems so unevenly applied depending on a multitude of subjective variances, or ignored altogether, typically to protect certain individuals, or politically connected, or the ultra wealthy. That is, until their usefulness is done, when their connections, popularity or wealth won’t protect them. Such is the way of satan. This much is clear; justice is neither blind nor universal, and sadly it is often highly unjust. Below are 2 separate cases listed in the local newspaper of how justice was applied.
Case One:
Teen who drove through Driver’s Village showroom was out on visit from detention center
Syracuse, N.Y. — One of the teens accused of stealing a Lexus and driving it through the glass showroom at Driver’s Village went on a crime spree while he was home on a visit from a youth detention center, police said.
It’s unclear exactly how many crimes the teen was involved in last month when he absconded, but so far he’s been charged with the car theft, having a loaded handgun and having 130 bags of fentanyl, said Tom Newton, a spokesman for the Onondaga County Sheriff’s office. All are felonies.
The teen’s arrest comes less than a year after a Syracuse 16-year-old was charged with murder while he was on a home visit from a youth detention center. Deckyse Bridges had been released from Lincoln Hall when he was charged in the killing of 11-year-old Brexialee Torres-Ortiz in January.
Bridges had been arrested by police 10 times by the time he was 15 but was sentenced to a low-security facility that allowed him to have largely unsupervised visits home.
Case Two:
New trial set for 16-year-old girl accused of stabbing 13-year-old to death
Syracuse, N.Y. — A new trial date has been set for a 16-year-old girl accused of stabbing a 13-year-old girl to death.
Naj’ee Wright, of Auburn, was stabbed to death on May 24, 2021 on West Onondaga Street. Xomara Diaz was arrested and charged with Wright’s death.
Xomara’s trial was originally scheduled for February 2023. However, her lawyer Stephen Lance Cimino, said she needed to be evaluated by a psychiatrist for “diminished” mental capacity.
Xomara faces a possible life sentence if convicted of murder, despite her young age.
Two murders, 2 very different examples of justice, both approximately the same age when they committed their murders. In the first case, a young career criminal with an increased taste for violence gets sent to a detention center with regular unsupervised release privileges, while in the second case the guilty person faces the possibility of a life sentence.
These considerably different examples of applied justice pales in comparison to how justice is playing out in the much bigger and more catastrophic world of politics and big business. Justice is quickly becoming a weaponized tool for a few select who hold control. In order for this unequal application of justice to gain foothold, at least 2 things must happen, both of which are currently being employed.
First, freedoms must be stripped or severely curtailed from the general public. This is happening in the form of gun control, adoption of a slew of new friendly sounding laws that are in reality a disguised way to impose cultural control and loss of freedoms, along with unlegislated power grab such as what we saw with regards to covid restrictions, along with certain government institutions utilizing powers never legally granted to them such as the EPA, among other things.
Second, all forms of communication, whether written, oral, or visual, are being subjected to scrutiny for the purpose of controlling the public narrative. This encompasses control of real information, intentionally disseminated misinformation (lies) or truth falsely labeled as misinformation. Any who speak out against the narrative face all kinds of backlash including insults, ridicule, being blocked from popular social media platforms, being removed or ostracized from prestigious groups or institutions, being delisted from financial institutions – banks & credit cards, loss of license or employment, and even death threats.
Communism is satan’s tool used to lie, steal and destroy. Unfortunately, there are far too many eager and deceived individuals who willingly carry out satan’s plan. Though we fight evil on the physical whelm in whatever manner we feel best, this is really a spiritual battle that can only be won with Our Lord’s intervention. And it seems His intervention is closely tied to whether we turn to Him with our prayers and requests or increasingly turn away from Him. It is also unfortunate that many individuals within religious institutions have been duped into playing for the wrong side, making it even more difficult for those remaining faithful to Our Lord.
Fortunately, we faithful know the ultimate outcome. For us, there is no doubt that God will prevail. While some may profess lack of belief (even if deep inside they know or at least have misgivings) they will still be judged, as we all will. Prayer is a far more powerful tool than most realize.