Still no major movement into Gaza and now we’re providing aid for Hamas. But don’t worry, Pudding Brain’s people say that if Hamas tries to steal the aid, they’ll condemn it. This is not looking good.
On the other hand, the IDF is still talking victory – that they will totally destroy Hamas in Gaza. Can’t see how they do that while allowing us to feed Hamas…but I can only assume they at least think they’ve got a plan that’ll work. We’re going to find out.
Pudding Brain went to Israel and it was just so entirely humiliating…this aged, senile crook out there to provide cover for aids who are desperately trying to get Israel to surrender to Hamas. We are a very pathetic nation right now. The pissant King of Jordan refused to even meet with Biden. I’m sure the Israelis didn’t want to…but as he’s the guy signing the checks, they had to put up with it. While Israel has built a robust domestic arms industry, there are still come crucial elements which come from us so I guess Israel still feels over a barrel.
For future reference on Israel’s part, I’d buy about 100 Panzerhaubitze 2000 from the Krauts (given the past, the Germans would likely do an easy-payment deal); its a 155mm self propelled howitzer which has an effective range of 67 kilometers. This means, depending on where positioned on Israeli-controlled territory, it can hit anywhere in Gaza or the West bank and very deep into Lebanon and Jordan, as well. Get about a million rounds of ammo for it (the stuff keeps forever) and anytime anyone in range causes trouble, just level an area with cannon fire. 155 mm is very common and no matter what is going on, you’d be able to replenish ammunition from some source. One thing the IDF has always had a lack of is tube artillery; when fighting conventional forces, that isn’t much of a handicap but when confronting dug in irregular forces like Hamas, it is just what the doctor ordered.
The GOP still can’t come up with a Speaker. The battle is between those who want a MAGA purist and those who want a conventional GOPer who can be relied upon to fully fund Democrat priorities. To me the easy deal is to agree to the RINO with a proviso that any funding bill will, once it gets to the floor, be stripped down to its components for an up or down vote. For instance, Pudding Brain wants us to cobble together a bill for Ukraine, Israel and border security. Fine. But once it comes time for a vote, it is broken up into 3 separate bills. This doesn’t mean all of it fails…but it does mean there will have to be some real horse trading…like in return for Ukraine aid, we get, say, funding to Texas for building a border wall (if we give the money to Biden, his people either won’t spend it or will buy something ineffective). On and on like that.
This battle over the Speakership is causing all sorts of heartache…in government and the pundit class. Most Americans are probably only vaguely aware of it and don’t care one way or the other. This will not hurt GOP prospects for 2024 unless something really ridiculous happens, like some RINOs joining Democrats to make Jeffries Speaker. I really do discount this – though the rumor does abound. Any GOPer voting for such a thing has got to know the career ends with that vote. There will be a successful primary challenge.
Meanwhile, GOP prospects brighten by the day – some recent polling shows any of Trump, DeSantis or Haley beating Biden (keeping in mind that anything less than Biden +5 in the popular vote likely means a GOP victory). This is not because the GOP is any good – it isn’t, and we just about universally despise it, as a thing – but because Biden is just so very bad. There have been rumors of Democrats trying to ditch Biden but I don’t think it’ll happen. Though Obama and Clinton people are all over the Democrat establishment, they generally don’t like each other and getting them to agree to an alternative is going to be hard (especially as Clinton’s people would probably want Clinton to be the alternative); if they don’t come together, then the Biden people hold sway…and as they only survive in power as long as Joe does, they simply will not let it go. Unless Biden dies, he’s the guy. And there may come a point when the Democrat powers that be just let it alone – knowing that Joe is a goner. Trump if he gets back in is only for one term; if its DeSantis they figure they can still win Congress in 2026 and do to him in 2028 what they did to Trump in 2020.
As the Gaza war has gone on we’ve been treated to some MSM lies astonishing in their scope and, indeed, arrogance. Some people are pretending to be shocked about this. They also pretend to be shocked when the corruption of our government is revealed. Everyone knows. It isn’t a surprise. The MSM lies, it lies all the time and about everything. So, too, the government. But here’s why a lot of people pretend it is all shocking: they know what it means to admit that our government and media are just liars. It means we can’t allow either to go on as is.
I’ve been pointing out for a while that the First Amendment cannot sanely be construed to protect lying. That our Founders knew we would have liars does not mean they were trying to secure a right to lie. They were trying to secure a right to tell the truth – what we Catholics called rightly ordered freedom: The freedom to do what is right. While we all can do evil, we are not being free when we do so…we are, in fact, enslaving ourselves when we do wrong. What I’m saying is that we, the people, can enact laws punishing lies. We can make anyone who publicly utters a lie pay for it – in civil or criminal court, or both. And we are going to have to do this – because the MSM cannot at this point correct itself. It is, as it were, determined to lie at this point. In a sense, they’ve told so many lies that they are committed to lying. Not really, of course; anyone can repent. But in their minds to admit that they’ve been lying for years is too humiliating. So, they’ll just double and triple down on the lies. But we can’t have a Republic if liars are allow to lie with impunity…so we will have to stop them.
The other thing I’ve been yammering on about is the need to end government secrecy. It really does have to go, and in its entirety. Whatever tiny advantage we gain against foreign adversaries by having secrets is vastly outweighed by government’s ability to hide corruption and incompetence under a veil of secrecy. For us to have a Republic we must know what the government is doing as it does it. Only thus can we judge if our agencies of government are working in our interest. We must enact laws requiring the government to do everything out in the open. No secrets. Ever.
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A lawyer’s take on the Sydney Powell plea bargain from Jeff Childers:
I wonder when men and women will once again realize that Corporate American and consumerism can NEVER bring fulfillment or happiness.
Graduate who’s just started her first 9-5 job breaks down in tears over her ‘crazy’ schedule – and moans that she has no energy to cook dinner or see friends
Many corporations pay for abortions, not too be kind to women, but simply to increase productivity. Do you think women realize that? Democrats don’t and think it’s wonderful but then again, I don’t credit Democrats for clearly thinking through anything. Real joy and happiness only comes from the family unit, not the corporate office.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12669703/Ive-started-9-5-job-schedule-crazy-dont-energy-cook-dinner-friends.html
I’m still trying to figure out how a Nikki Haley presidency would be any different than a Biden presidency. She loves war and has already offered to bring in Palestinian refugees, all the while not addressing any of the domestic problems. Nikki is the type of establishment Republican we need to get rid of.
Some people who still have a healthy brain are noticing …
Billionaire and Democrat voter Chamath Palihapitiya admits that he was wrong about President Trump and says he now “appreciates” what Trump was able to do. Chamath also said Trump Derangement Syndrome did more damage than Trump ever did.
It is yet to be decided if there are enough people who were previously anti-Trump during the last election who’ve since expressed a change of mind, that can overcome the volume of election fraud. While there have been “some” steps taken to curtail election fraud in select areas, I doubt the left will put on the brakes. To them, the ends justify the means – at all costs, especially the entrenched who have so much to lose. If a republican were to win the next presidential election, I suspect s/he will take significant steps to dismantle the dark side of government, corporate and media corruption, unless of course they too are part of the swamp. Evil will ultimately fail and fail catastrophically, whether perpetrated by man or satan. God will choose the time and means. We may be fortunate enough to see it in our lifetime but that doesn’t change the final outcome.
Democrats have been cheating in elections for a long time in Chicago, SF, etc.. They nationalized their cheating in 2020 and now that they know they can do it and get away with it, they WILL do it, so we can expect more ballot fraud in 2024.
What ever happened in those states where election rules were illegally changed right before the election? Are those illegitimate rules still in place? Have those legislatures just figured we’d forget how corrupt they were and go along with using the same illegitimate rules again?
Congratulations Mike Johnson, (R-LA) new Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Check out the headlines already lol
Dad-of-four is college football fanatic and son of firefighter who voted to overturn 2020 election
He voted to overturn an election??? Wow, that’s scary. Mike should have just hired a law firm to generate a fake dossier and then leak it to the media … that’s how it’s done. Everyone knows that
I am fascinated by the theme that someone tried to “overturn the election”. An even funnier version is that it was a “fair and free election”.
Of course, what actually happened was that people who actually DO believe in the Constitution and the rule of law wanted to examine the election to determine if it was legitimate or not, because we feel that it is important to our nation to have a legally, legitimately, elected president. And it’s important to the stability of the nation to have elections that we can believe in. Without confidence that our votes will be fairly counted and not offset by fraud, we undermine the very foundation of our republic.
Certainly if it was conclusively proved that the stated election outcome was fraudulent, there would have had to be some way to address this. This is where the people who DON’T believe we should be governed by our Constitution or the rule of law step in, determined to halt any enquiry into the legitimacy of the election because they like the outcome and don’t care if it is legitimate or not.
I can’t remember anyone ever saying that with proof the election was fraudulent then Trump should just be named president. No, all I ever heard discussed were how to deal with an election that was illegitimate. One way was to go back to the Constitution and how to handle a situation in which there were not enough valid Electoral College votes to name a president, and just turn it over to the House of Representatives. Another was to hold another election. But I never heard anyone advocate for what would have been “overturning the election” by just naming someone else as the winner.
So, going back to Spook’s comments on forty claiming to believe we should be governed by our Constitution, it is clear that a significant number of people claim to believe this until it comes down to actually living by that belief. So they don’t believe we have a Constitutional right to petition Congress for redress of wrongs, at least not unless it is done according to their own standards of acceptability. And they claim that wanting to confirm the legitimacy of a president is violating the Constitution.
Isn’t it funny how Conflict of Visions just went right over the head of our resident WOKE millennials? And just as there’s no evidence of ballot fraud, there’s also no evidence of Joe Biden’s corruption!!! See that’s how they operate … they make up their own reality and expect us to live in it. They are definitely products of Casper’s teacher unions.
Mike Johnson will make a great Speaker. Thank you Matt Gaetz for for having the balls to upset DC’s “regular order”.
They constantly move the goal posts. So they focus on the word “stolen” about the election, which lets them claim that (according to all Leftists ever) it’s OK if there was fraud “as long as it was not enough to change the outcome” so, because according to them this was not the case, the election was legitimately decided.
Of course, this depends on a lot of allegations and tap dancing. For example, only three states had to have their electoral votes disqualified because the fraud in those states was proof the count upon which they were basing their votes was inaccurate. Not just a few votes inaccurate, but by a margin greater than that between Trump and Biden. Arizona, for example, had absolute proof of more ineligible votes than accounted for the difference between Trump and Biden, documented fraud as the records proved that dead people voted, people voted twice, unregistered people voted and people who did not live in Arizona voted. Logic would say that this meant Arizona could not certify its original vote count because there was no way to accurately know how many votes either candidate got. Arizona should have withdrawn its Electoral College representatives but instead it falsely certified a known bogus vote count.
Pennsylvania accepted tens of thousands of ballots sent in under illegally changed election laws and then counted them as votes. In any other legal setting these ballots would never have been accepted, but in Pennsylvania they were not just accepted and folded into the vote tally of legitimate votes, the subsequent total was “certified” even knowing it was false.
Georgia officials allowed approximately 100,000 unqualified persons to register and cast votes that are illegal, including 40,279 persons who moved without reregistering/ voting in their new county and 66,247 underage persons were allowed to register illegally, then voted. In addition, had the statutory procedure been followed, applying the historic rejection rate,
30,000 to 40,000 absentee ballots lacking proper signatures would have been rejected and not included in the vote totals. There were other violations of statutes in Georgia resulting in well over 100,000 illegitimate votes, yet Georgia “certified” these votes.
Disqualifying just these three states from casting votes in the Electoral College would have changed the outcome of the election. Each of these examples of fraud has been extensively investigated and proved. People determined to block examination of election results have depended on shell games like constantly recounting the same votes and claiming this is proof of legitimacy when the issue is whether or not they should have been accepted in the first place due to various violations of election laws.
Just as Palestine “supporters” are really supporting the vicious and violent raping of old women as well as girls, the killing of babies in their cribs, the burning alive of toddlers and families and the sneak attacks on unarmed civilians (as well as the atrocities of animal abuse seldom discussed as animals were shot or left to starve), objections to stringent examination of all election materials are really supporting election fraud and the violation of the Constitution.
America now needs an express lane to public executions for these criminals
The Vegas teens who callously mowed down a biking retired police chief over the summer laughed in court on Tuesday and flipped off the deceased officer’s family.
There’s no need to hear from Democrats on any subject ever again. If they want to sit in the back of the bus and keep their mouths shut, that’s fine, but they have proven themselves to be wholly ignorant and sub human and not worthy of any audience. Conservatives need to go full Hamas on American democrats and I am ready to do just that.
This blog should only accept opinions from people who have a modicum of objectivity, and from people who are not diabolically obsessed with former Presidents.
I’d certainly prefer objective discourse, but even biased opinions are OK if presented in an honest effort to exchange ideas. It’s the vandalism aspect of the two trolls in question that makes them unacceptable, because there is no hint of actual honesty in their posts, just a pathological need to attack anything considered “conservative” and the constant repetition of lies.
And, let’s face it, there is the stupidity element. It’s just annoying.
Democrats are openly advocating for the extermination of the Jewish people. Now you know me, I have a high threshold for ignorance and progressive opinion but this is a bridge I can not cross. Democrats are increasingly becoming the NAZI party of 1930’s Germany right here in current day America, and unlike the placid Germans who did nothing at the time, this current movement needs to be put down. Permanently.
This is just unacceptable … we can not allow the Democrat Party to continue in it’s current form. They need to be put down
High schoolers in Oregon won’t need to demonstrate basic competency in reading, writing or math in order to graduate for at least five more years because, according to education officials, such requirements are unnecessary and disproportionately harm students of color.
This is how it’s done …. great job Mr. Speaker
https://x.com/DesireeAmerica4/status/1717267798504689984?s=20
Whatever civility happened in the past on this blog, all Democrats are now held accountable to their parties positions of supporting the sexual mutilation of children and the extermination of the Jewish people, and will be ostracized like the reprobates they have become. You’re not welcome anywhere, anymore.
Being civil has nothing to do with anything. I’m reminded of the definition of “tact:” the ability to tell someone to go to hell and make them anticipate the trip.
BTW, there’s an old Trump joke that perfectly illustrates your point.
Donald Trump is out on a charter fishing trip with several friends. It’s pretty windy and one of his friends’ hat blows off. Trump says, “don’t worry, I’ll get it,” and he climbs over the rail and walks across the water, retrieves the hat and climbs back on board. The headline in the Washington Post the next morning says, “Trump can’t swim,” and the headline in the NYT says, “fishing story compares Trump to Christ.”
Lol. Democrats obsession with Trump has reached disturbing levels. But today Trump was once again, Trump, hilariously so. On the stand today at his trial the judge asked him if he had called the judge a partisan to which Trump replied … yes. The judge fined him $10,000. Gotta love him.
It’s so much worse than this. Trump had said “a person who’s very partisan sitting alongside” the judge was partisan. When asked, he said he meant Michael Cohen, who was on the stand at the time, but the judge, proving that HE is not partisan, said no, his clerk sits closer to him than Cohen was, therefore Trump meant the clerk, so fined him $10,000 based on the JUDGE’S interpretation of what was meant.
Then in testimony Cohen testified that Trump never told him to falsify records. As the trial is based on the claim that Trump falsified records, this should have ended it, but the “non-partisan” judge refused to dismiss the charges after testimony that they were baseless. Later, Cohen “explained” that although Trump never TOLD him what to do, he just kind of knew what was expected of him, like Mafia underlings knew what was expected of them without being told. So the trial for falsifying records continues in spite of the testimony that the man who actually did the entries did so under psychic instructions conveyed by silent and invisible brain waves (and maybe a few too many viewings of The Godfather) without any real instructions to do so, and the man being charged never did what he is charged with doing but is under the jurisdiction of a blatantly biased judge who just decides what Trump REALLY MEANT—which is, I guess, consistent with accepting testimony from someone who admitted he acted not on what he was told but on guessing what Trump REALLY MEANT.
(I don’t think anyone has bothered to ask why the bias of a clerk would matter more to Trump than that of a witness against him, but hey, the judge decided the comment was about the clerk and not the witness so whatever……)
When you read or the extensive list of Trump’s accomplishments while President that JDGE posted a while back, you have to ask yourself, why would any American oppose him. I understand not liking the guy, but I don’t understand not liking what he did for ordinary Americans. The answer, of course, is that people entrenched in power hate him because he threatens that power.
The problem is that between the Americans intelligent and objective enough to understand and appreciate what Trump did solely as advancing good government and the elites who fear him because of his threat to their power is a seething mass of emotion-driven people wholly dependent on reacting to what their masters tell them. This herd mentality is very vulnerable to the melodramatic scenarios painted for them of INSURRECTION !!! and TRIED TO OVERTURN THE ELECTION!!! and, possibly still even some mumblings of COLLUSION!!!
This is the demographic that enabled trash like the Jerry Springer Show to continue, that enables The View to stay on the air, that never misses an episode of TMZ, that thinks “reality TV” is real. They feed on negative destructive emotion, so being constantly fed negative destructive narratives about Donald Trump keeps them stirred up and angry and fearful. And their ignorance makes this easy.
A perfect example is the hysteria about Trump being a “dictator”. The Left has shied away from claiming he WAS a dictator, but claims this is what he WANTS to be (going back to that Leftist standby, the crystal ball) and the Lefty Lemmings get all frantic about this. Yet in Trump’s term the presidency was far less controlling than any other in recent memory. When he was savaged for all his Executive Orders what he was doing was rescinding the previous overreaching Executive Orders of the prior president and telling Congress to “do your damned job” and legislate instead of letting presidents and federal agencies make laws. But to understand this would mean understanding the Constitution, the division of powers among the three branches and the excesses of prior presidents, and thinking is just not part of the makeup of these people. They react to what they are told.