Open Thread

I’ll have it out hopefully very soon – still shooting for a February 14th release date, but that might slip.

If you haven’t started the series, you can easily pick it up with Book VI: Heirs. But even The Crimson Blade is a rather stand-alone part of the Narrative. Anyways, they’re getting better as I go along. The upcoming Home World is very high end, I think. In The Crimson Blade I delve into both the honor and the guilt of the combat veteran, how children can feel about their parents, the stumbling block of bigotry. With lots of love, laughs and battles, of course!

It didn’t really matter but Nevada had a GOP Primary (the delegates are awarded in a week via caucus) and Nikki Haley managed to come in massively behind “None of these candidates” in the vote. Word is that she’s still rolling in campaign money; that’s why she’s staying in. Perhaps with a hope that something, anything will happen to Trump and she’ll be the only alternative. But she’s about to get wiped out in South Carolina and then Super Tuesday is she sticks.

The White House is threatening to reduce deportations if the border deal isn’t passed…which proves conclusively that the border is under the control of the Executive and they can secure it any time they want. They are really garbage people running our country right now. Essentially trying to blackmail Congress.

Tucker did an interview with Putin and heads exploded – from Neocons to Commies, everyone in the USA and the larger West is furious. Why? Because Putin might say something the American people find reasonable. That is, Putin might not come off as Hitler II. Can’t have that! Gotta keep the money rolling in. Sure, 650,000 military-aged Ukranian males have fled rather than serve, but any day now the Glorious Ukrainian Offensive will push the Russians out. Just need $60 billion more!

All of that is jeopardized if people see Putin as someone reasonable. Of course Putin is going to lie…but the Ukrainians lie, too. Perhaps if we bounce lie against lie we might get to truth? That’s why we’re not allowed to talk to Putin…because the truth might not justify $60 billion.

24 thoughts on “Open Thread

  1. Cluster's avatar Cluster February 8, 2024 / 10:07 am

    Janet Yellin admitted yesterday that the Treasury has been tracking Trump supporters through their purchases at Cabella’s, Bass Pro Shops, etc. I am reviewing the Constitution now to see where that is permissible … haven’t found it yet but knowing that Democrats are fighting tooth and nail to save our democracy, I’m sure it’s there somewhere.

    NBC interviewed Putin in 2021 and no one seemed to care, but I’m sure those were carefully crafted, Uni Party approved questions. Tucker has no such restraints so the questions and answers may be very uncomfortable for the Uni Party to hear, but isn’t that what journalism actually is?

  2. Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook February 8, 2024 / 10:20 am

    Glenn Beck just made a statement that needs to be re shouted from the rooftops – repeated over and over, put on billboards and bumper stickers: “if you’re on the side of freedom you can’t be a fascist.”

  3. Cluster's avatar Cluster February 8, 2024 / 10:30 am

    Americas only successful independent political party, MAGA, is winning!! Ronna McDaniel OUT. Kevin McCarthy OUT. Nikki Haley DONE. Mitch McConnell DONE. And Trump leads by double digits in issues Americans care about, ie; economy, immigration, foreign wars. Let’s keep the momentum going.

    • casper3031's avatar casper3031 February 8, 2024 / 2:26 pm

      Prepare for another win. The SC is going to reverse The Colorado decision and allow Trump to stay on The ballot. 

      • Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook February 8, 2024 / 2:45 pm

        They don’t really have a choice. The Colorado Solicitor General embarrassed himself.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona February 8, 2024 / 6:03 pm

        I wonder if the news that the position of Secretary of State is really the most powerful office in the state will change the way people vote.

  4. jdge's avatar jdge1 February 8, 2024 / 2:38 pm

    Trump suggests giving Bud Light ‘second chance’ as company lobbyist announces campaign fundraiser

    This, IMHO is just one of many examples where Trump is not doing himself any favors. InBev in their stupidity decided to hire marketing executives who thought it best to ignore their base and place their money on a woke platform. Then, instead of owning up to this, they double down by throwing more dirt in the faces of their previous supporters. Only after this disaster begins play out financially, a result that only surprises upper management and the woke community, do they half-heartedly attempt any apology. So, they do what most rich corporations do to regain losses. They throw money at it, hoping something will trigger a positive response. But mind you, their underlying mindset and philosophy still hasn’t changed. They will still be a stupid woke company.

    While I can understand a politician accepting money from these types of sources, this does not mean they need to or even should endorse them. Not sure this will hurt Trump, but it certainly doesn’t help. Trump trying to blame pro-life people as part of the cause for the 2022 election defeats, is another such foolish move. These are the very people who are your strongest advocates. While I will certainly vote for him in 2024 (barring unforeseen circumstances), these kinds of unforced blunders suggest to me, Trump still has a GREAT deal more to learn about getting elected, placing competent loyal people in his inner circle, and running the country.

    His biggest saving grace is that he’s (still) not a Washington insider -AND- he still has a great deal of international experiences that few people have, the type of experience necessary in today’s world to move us in a forward direction.

    https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/trump-bud-light-second-chance/?utm_source=daily-usa-2024-02-08&utm_medium=email

    • Cluster's avatar Cluster February 8, 2024 / 4:58 pm

      WOKE is dying from the sheer weight of it’s absurdity and nothing will change that. Re: Bud Lite, the marketing team responsible for the campaign were quickly dismissed and from what I have read, the CEO of Anheuser was unaware of that campaign before it went public so IMHO I don’t mind Trump and others supporting them. They are after all an iconic American company who employ tens of thousands of patriotic Americans.

  5. Cluster's avatar Cluster February 8, 2024 / 4:48 pm

    Stupidity is now a legal defense for Democrats. And I have to admit, it kind of makes sense. It is undeniable after all.

    • Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook February 8, 2024 / 5:08 pm

      Trump should have kept his classified documents in the garage next to his car.

  6. jdge's avatar jdge1 February 9, 2024 / 8:27 am

    Special Counsel Cited Biden’s ‘Poor Memory’ as Reason for Closing Classified Docs Case

    Biden did “willfully” retain and disclose highly classified materials when he was a private citizen, Hur admitted.

    Hur’s report says evidence suggests that many of the classified documents recovered by investigators at the Penn Biden Center, in parts of Biden’s Delaware home, and in his Senate papers at the University of Delaware were retained by “mistake.”

    1. Those 2 statements are incompatible with each other. How can he “willfully” retain documents while at the same time retain them by “mistake”?
    2. I’ve read several articles that indicated, that Bidum removed these documents when he was a senator and vp, something he was never legally allowed to do.
    3. The fact that Bidum retained documents in at least 4 different unsecured location, locations where any number of individuals without ANY security clearance could access them, makes his case far more serious than anything Trump is accused of.

    But that’s ok, Bidum is still coherent enough to run for the most powerful office in the world.   

    https://headlineusa.com/special-counsel-cited-bidens-poor-memory-as-reason-for-closing-classified-docs-case/?utm_source=HUSA_EMAIL_NSP1700&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HUSAemail

    • Cluster's avatar Cluster February 9, 2024 / 9:07 am

      That report, and Biden’s performance last night, may be a game changer. He referred to President CC in Mexico as someone he worked with to get humanitarian aid to Gaza, and this was a presser to assure people he has his faculties about him. I don’t think this turned out the way Democrats wanted it to. Of course, not much is anymore.

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona February 9, 2024 / 11:45 am

      I’m intrigued by the verbal shell game of claiming that he just doesn’t have the mental capacity to have intent—-which completely, and I think purposely, attempts to distract from the fact we are talking about actions of more than a decade ago. So is Hur admitting that even back then, all the way back to Biden’s days in the Senate and as Vice President, he was mentally incompetent and incapable of forming intent?

      Remember, some of these documents were taken from a SCIF. That means they were purposely smuggled out in overt defiance of SCIF rules. No one can take an electronic device or even a briefcase into a SCIF, where highly sensitive documents can merely be examined and discussed but not even copied, and no documents can be removed. The only way to get documents out of a SCIF is to purposely hide them, as in clothing, and smuggle them out. Which was evidently done by Joe Biden. Or by someone else who did it and then gave Biden the documents, and given the limited number of people even given access to a SCIF it is highly unlikely it was anyone else.

  7. Amazona's avatar Amazona February 9, 2024 / 12:58 pm

    Who says Democrats don’t have a sense of humor? Who says their “comedians” aren’t funny? James Carville puts the lie to that as he comes out as a comedian in his own right, explaining the amazing depth on the bench of absolutely wonderful potential Democrat candidates. It’s a real laff riot!

    “The potential Democratic field is better…Josh Shapiro is such a skilled politician…Whitmer, Andy Beshear, Wes Moore, Raphael Warnock, Gina Raimondo, Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris. My point is, don’t worry. There’s plenty of people to pick up the ball.”

    Warnock! It doesn’t get much funnier than that! (Oh, right—I was just reminded that he had to slip a black guy in there, somehow. Never mind…..)

  8. Amazona's avatar Amazona February 9, 2024 / 2:05 pm
    • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan February 9, 2024 / 8:45 pm

      ROFL!

  9. Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook February 9, 2024 / 4:02 pm

    In the list of all-time most damaging statements by a politician, “my memory is just fine” is going to be right up there with “I am not a witch.”

  10. jdge's avatar jdge1 February 9, 2024 / 4:05 pm

    T-Shirt Humor

    Men are from Mars

    Women are from Venus

    All other genders are from Uranus

  11. jdge's avatar jdge1 February 9, 2024 / 4:07 pm

    I didn’t mean to push ALL your buttons

    I was just looking for Mute

  12. Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook February 9, 2024 / 7:17 pm

    Damage control is supposed to ameliorate damage, not exacerbate it. This week is possibly the worst week for Democrats in my lifetime.

    • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan February 9, 2024 / 8:45 pm

      Been funny as heck…with the funniest being the loyal footsoldiers essentially saying that our handsome and charismatic Leader and Teacher is vigorous and manly.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona February 9, 2024 / 8:51 pm

        And role model for today’s youth…..

      • Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook February 9, 2024 / 8:54 pm

        The YCMTSU file got a whole lot thicker this week.

  13. Amazona's avatar Amazona February 10, 2024 / 10:05 am

    A few posts ago Casper claimed that an effort to enforce federal law was just a “political stunt”. That seemed remarkably stupid, even for Casper, but today I see that the phrase is really just part of the Leftist narrative. The Dem party in Utah made the same comment, in its whining about the governor of Utah agreeing to send Utah National Guard to help out Texas in policing its borders. 

    Hey @SpencerJCox, just in case you needed a reminder that Utah does not share a border with Mexico. Maybe our Governor should be more focused on the pressing issues in our backyard than using taxpayer resources for political stunts 1,257 miles away.

    Whenever Casper comes up with an “idea” we can be pretty sure it was fed to him by his Leftist masters. (But kudos for the Utah Democrat Party for doing such good research on the precise distance from some place in Utah to some place in Texas.)

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