Open Thread

The Crimson Blade goes live on March 10th! You can pre-order Kindle now. Having just done the very last review of it: gotta say, its awesome. There’s a growing conflict in the family, as it were. The Enemy is moving! But in ways that our heroes don’t fully understand. Everyone who likes a bit of history will enjoy the interaction between Fred and Celeste where it comes out, big surprise (/sarc), that Celeste is an ardent Monarchist!

So, the Michigan primary was a blowout win for Trump – and quite impressive numbers rolled up, including in traditionally Democrat areas. That plus the number of Democrat primary voters who voted “uncommitted” has Team Pudding Brain in a panic – that’s why they’re now overtly repeating Hamas lies and putting ever more pressure on Israel to quit. They are desperately worried they simply will not have enough votes in Michigan even given the invariable ballot box stuffing in Detriot.

To me, Israel continues to go far too slowly and carefully. I understand: they want to keep their own casualties low in addition to be chary of the blood of the Palestinians. These are noble sentiments, but celerity is key to success in war. You take too long and you can end up spilling more blood than if you just rammed through. And here’s the cruel truth: in war you must be willing to pour out whatever amount of blood is necessary to win. Nobody was more keen to keep casualties low than Wellington…but if the situation called for it, he would ruthlessly engage in quite bloody actions.

The vileness of our opponents becomes ever more clear, and it is finally costing them support. They were able to hide it for so long with their friendly media and, lets face it, some clever propaganda by Team Clinton and Team Obama…but with a senile Biden in charge, there’s no clear message and so the very worst aspects of the Left keep emerging where a Clinton or Obama would have skillfully hid them. The murder of that poor girl in Georgia is especially galvanizing…the Democrat attempts to sweep her death under the rug are leaving a very bad taste everywhere. We all know: she’s dead because illegals have been blithely released by the people specifically charged with keeping the people safe. You can’t work your way around that.

36 thoughts on “Open Thread

  1. Cluster's avatar Cluster March 1, 2024 / 9:59 am

    “Do you believe in miracles?”

    My nephew is a young doctor in California. He recently graduated medical school after being born with severe physical disabilities. He is a walking miracle and testament to the power of faith and prayer. For the past decade of college, medical school, and medical internship in California, everyone he met was a liberal Trump-hater.

    48 hours ago, my nephew the doctor was working at a medical office in Los Angeles and he witnessed what he describes as a “supernatural miracle.” The news came on the television in the doctors office. The topic was Trump’s primary landslide in Michigan. He was expecting either groans, or hatred from everyone in the office. But then he witnessed something that shocked him like never before…

    Someone in the office cheered Trump. And then another. And another. Soon the entire medical office was cheering and celebrating President Trump. Everyone. Patients, staff, doctors. Once they realized it was safe to express support for Trump, everyone let it all out. Everyone admitted they are on Trump’s side. In Los Angeles.

    God never chooses pure men. He chooses fallen men, and Trump is a fallen man. But something is happening with Trump that I am delighted to see. He is more focused, measured, and resolved than I have ever seen him, in spite of the litany of legal actions against him. Big Government, Big Money, Big Education, Big Pharma, Big Media, Big Entertainment, and every Globalist are arrayed against him, yet he is undeterred and marshals on. Despite 8 years of attacks and Big Media propaganda, Americans are beginning to see who and what Trump is, and what he stands for, and are beginning to rally around him. The most lethal force against the globalist communist push, are the free American people, and Trump is leading that force … that’s why they have to eliminate him by every means possible. But they have failed.

    Democrats have been dividing, shaming, aborting and raping America for too long now and the pendulum is swinging back, so now is the time to be loud and resolved. This is a 1776 moment, let’s seize it.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/wayne-root-do-you-believe-miracles-something-supernatural/

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona March 1, 2024 / 1:47 pm

      God never chooses pure men. He chooses fallen men, An elegant way of saying what I have been saying about Trump since the beginning, when “Christians” bragged about being the kind of Christians who never forgive anyone. I used to say that 2000 years ago these people would have wagged their fingers in Christ’s face and scolded him for surrounding himself with sinners. All the Apostles had been sinners, were forgiven and achieved redemption and salvation. The entire religion is based on redemption, salvation and forgiveness.

      We don’t know the nature or extent of Trump’s journey, and it’s none of our business, but we can see that his life has changed. When you read the rabid comments in various Comments sections the theme is basically one of “OK, so these charges are pretty bogus, but look at all the other bad stuff he has done” and then there is a litany of things ten or twenty years old. But that’s not how we work, or at least not how we are supposed to work.

      I do think Trump is squandering some valuable political capital by continuing to make this about him. The term “witch hunt” should be retired, permanently. Now is the time to point out that if the government can get away with this, and destroy him, it won’t stop there but will move on to the next political opponents. It’s already targeted concerned parents who don’t want their children exposed to porn in their schools, as well as Catholics and all MAGA citizens and now all of Middle America.

      I was still an Unexamined Liberal back when Richard Nixon used the phrase “Silent Majority” so I sneered at it, but I think now I am seeing it revived and hopefully on steroids.

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona March 1, 2024 / 1:52 pm

      What is really funny, and so typical of the Left, is that they have it completely reversed—-and people know this. It is Flyover Country objecting to election interference by simply preventing us from voting for our preferred candidate. It is Flyover Country objecting to the illegal invasion by millions of people essentially invited here by an out-of-control federal administration blatantly violating federal laws to change the identity of the nation. It is Flyover Country that has been concerned by the power grabs of the elites as they flex their muscles and expand their tyranny.

      If there is any “white rural rage”—-and there probably is—-it is directed at the Left and its systematic efforts to dismantle our Constitution and rule of law.

      • Cluster's avatar Cluster March 1, 2024 / 6:15 pm

        Sadly, I do not believe there is any more common ground.

  2. Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook March 1, 2024 / 11:51 am

    Steve Baker, former independent investigative reporter, now working for The Blaze, surrendered to the FBI this morning in Dallas for crimes allegedly committed on January 6, 2021. He’s been living under the threat of arrest for over two years, and they finally dropped the hammer on him today. If this becomes the norm, America is lost.

    • danhicks552's avatar danhicks552 March 1, 2024 / 6:57 pm

      “If this becomes the norm, America is lost.”

      I agree that if it becomes the norm that every presidential election Republicans lose is met with an armed mob of Republicans invading the capitol, then we are lost. But I doubt that’s what you meant.

      As for Steve Baker, he was not an independent journalist on January 6, 2021, nor did he have any journalist credentials that would identify himself as such. Instead, he went to the capitol of his own volition and video recorded himself and others making such as remarks as, “They got Pelosi’s office and, you know, it couldn’t happen to a better deserving bitch.”

      His case reminds me of Stephen Horn, who was convicted by a jury of four misdemeanors after claiming falsely to be an independent journalist. “His journalism started when he needed an excuse for his criminal liability,” the prosecutor told the jury.

      • Cluster's avatar Cluster March 2, 2024 / 9:07 am

        I remember in the summer of 2020 in Portland, OR when Democrat voters burnt down a police precinct and even locked the doors from the outside hoping to burn alive the policemen inside. I also remember in the summer of 2020 when Democrat voters killed Police Capt. David Dorn in St. Louis. I also remember on Jan 6 when Capital Police officer Michael Byrd shot and killed unarmed protestor Ashli Babbitt.

        I can somewhat understand your fear of unarmed senior citizen protestors at the Capital on J6 though, but I think it’s just your puberty blockers talking. You’ll be alright once the transition is complete.

      • Cluster's avatar Cluster March 2, 2024 / 9:12 am

        And hey dipshit, or I mean Dan Hicks, my apologies, Why was Russian Oligarch Elena Baturina left off the most recent Russia Sanction list? Do you think it had something to do with the $3.5 million she sent to Hunter Biden? Just curious.

      • Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook March 2, 2024 / 11:40 am

        but I think it’s just your puberty blockers talking. You’ll be alright once the transition is complete.

        LOL!!

      • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan March 2, 2024 / 12:36 pm

        I like it when those who will eagerly be secret police informants out themselves voluntarily.

      • Cluster's avatar Cluster March 2, 2024 / 1:06 pm

        Dan Hicks would have turned over Ann Frank. Quickly

      • Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook March 3, 2024 / 9:44 am

        “They got Pelosi’s office and, you know, it couldn’t happen to a better deserving bitch.”

        I’ve said worse things about Pelosi than that — A LOT WORSE.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona March 3, 2024 / 10:54 am

        But it was a Thought Crime, and so must be punished.

      • danhicks552's avatar danhicks552 March 3, 2024 / 6:16 pm

        That hundreds of people who rioted at the capitol on Jan. 6 were armed with weapons of various types is well documented. They came expected violence, or at least were prepared for it if it came. That doesn’t mean that the vast majority of those at the capitol were armed. But that that’s a nuance that you fail to acknowledge when it comes to the violent events that you describe above.

        Steve Baker wasn’t arrested for what he said. You can read the charges for yourself. I brought up one example of what he said at the capitol as an indication that he wasn’t a journalist at the time, as he now claims. Video recording yourself with your phone while breaking the law doesn’t make you a journalist, it makes you a criminal.

        As for his crimes, of course they weren’t the most serious crimes committed at the capitol that day. But they weren’t “thought crimes” as you disingenuously claim. I’m pretty sure if someone broke into your home or place of business, trespassed, stole things, and vandalized your property, you would feel entitled to defend your property up to and including shooting the trespassers dead on sight.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona March 4, 2024 / 11:34 am

        This man was hauled away in a public “perp walk” in shackles, after turning himself in, for charges admitted to be misdemeanors. What justified this treatment? Well, he was charged with “Knowingly Entering or Remaining in any Restricted Building or Grounds Without Lawful Authority” (this in spite of the many videos of Capitol police and guards opening doors and inviting people to enter, and then visiting with them without, evidently, even asking them to leave. Evidently Capitol guards are not considered Lawful Authority.) Then there is Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds and the redundant “Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building” (need to have at least four “crimes” to justify the shackles, I guess) and to top it off the worst of the worst, the charge that would put Baker in Group W if they had such a thing (generational/cultural reference—don’t bother) the dreaded, the Crime Of the Century—–Felony Parading.

        OK, we all know “parading” is not a felony, but gee the Left sure wishes it was. Maybe printing it with a capital P will make sure People Pay Attention To How Serious It Is. And now, evidently, Picketing and/or Demonstrating in the Capitol are now major crimes! Who knew? Real crimes, not just misdemeanors. Why else would Baker have to be put in chains and marched past a herd of obedient media flacks organized to make this public? (Did we miss the perp walk and trial of the demonstrators hauled out of Congressional hearings? You know, the people who actually disrupted the actual business of Congress, right there in the room with the Senators doing their Senator-stuff? When 12 morons were removed from the Senate chambers back in October for actually disrupting a speech by Blinken, they were not taken out in shackles, past a herd of drooling media lapdogs. I’m guessing they were not held in solitary confinement without being charged, then without bail, then without a trial for more than a year, and then sentenced to a decade or more of hard time in a federal prison.)

        I am going to see what statutes there are on the books for Capitalization When Not Appropriate. Evidently the seriousness of a crime can be amplified by the random use of capital letters. In the meantime, forty the hickster can figure out another way to hysterically insist that when a journalist is filmed recording a riot he is no longer a journalist.

      • danhicks552's avatar danhicks552 March 3, 2024 / 6:17 pm

        I should rephrase: Video recording yourself with your phone while breaking the law doesn’t make you a journalist, it makes you a dumb criminal.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona March 3, 2024 / 6:33 pm

        Hey, forty….long time, no hear the whining! Howya been? Not honing your skills, I see.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona March 4, 2024 / 11:43 am

        You should rephrase yourself: Video recording yourself as a journalist in the midst of a riot does not mean you are not a journalist.

        It’s not as if Baker appeared on the View or MSNBC or CNN, thereby firmly destroying any pretense of being a journalist. It’s not as if he got hired by the NYT and immediately lost any claim of being a journalist. No, he covered a riot from inside a building where it was taking place. It’s a journalist thing.

    • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan March 2, 2024 / 12:35 pm

      They put him in shackles. For misdemeanor charges.

      This, along with what they’re doing to Catherine Herridge, is deliberate – even if he beats the rap, he’s been warned…and everyone has been told to stay away. Don’t talk. They’re marked…if you talk to the them, the FBI will know it and will start looking into you.

      It is very much NKVD. The FBI must be abolished. There are no good agents.

      • Cluster's avatar Cluster March 3, 2024 / 10:36 am

        Agree 100%, the FBI and DHS need to be completely dismantled. And Democrats are doing their best to scare us into submission. They are hoping fear will keep us down … they are making a huge mistake. Fear nothing and keep all options on the table.

      • Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook March 3, 2024 / 10:49 am

        There are no good agents.

        There WERE, but now they’ve become whistle-blowers, and they’re being persecuted and fired.

  3. Cluster's avatar Cluster March 2, 2024 / 10:18 am

    Thank God for the new CDC guidelines this morning pertaining to Covid. The CDC says to “stay home if you’re feeling sick” and “it’s ok to resume normal activities if symptoms are gone after 48 hours”

    America is in good hands with leadership like this.

  4. Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook March 3, 2024 / 10:35 am

    Yup.

  5. Cluster's avatar Cluster March 3, 2024 / 11:06 am

    This is their plan

    MSNBC’s Donny Deutsch Says Democrats Need to ‘Scare the S**t Out of People’ Over Trump in 2024

    So how do we react? Do we shrink and try and make sure no one thinks we are racist, or xenophobic, or misogynistic? The only way to defeat bullies, is to out bully them. We need to be mob like and threaten them, scare the shit out of them, and make them uncomfortable in public. Wear your Trump and Amwerican gear with pride and NEVER BACK DOWN

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/msnbcs-donny-deutsch-says-democrats-need-scare-st/

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona March 3, 2024 / 6:31 pm

      I knew Donny was a clueless imbecile, but he has decided not to rest on his laurels and wants to make sure we don’t forget.

      What he doesn’t get is that we are already afraid of Democrats.

      We are afraid because we have seen the State use its powers to go after political opponents, even to the point of blatantly violating Constitutional protections, to both punish those who do not bend the knee to its demands and ideology and to intimidate others to discourage similar behaviors.

      We are afraid that a State run by Democrats will once again force us to inject dangerous experimental drugs or lose our livelihoods or military positions or even the ability to travel freely.

      We are afraid that the State will try to use its might to forcibly take our guns, so we can’t defend ourselves—defend against criminals, but also defend ourselves against the State.

      We are afraid that speaking up about our desire to protect our children from sexual grooming by exposing them to pornography, and from physical mutilation to advance political agendas, will have us declared Enemies of the State and lose custody of our children or even be imprisoned.

      We are afraid that if we have light colored skin we may be excluded from schools and professions.

      We are afraid that the State may use its power to reduce food supplies, leading to its ability to use food to control us: Submit or starve

      We are afraid that the Left (Democrats) will continue to erode the ability of citizens to choose their own leadership and government by flooding our voting rolls with foreigners who have no allegiance to this country but who are supporters of the Left, whether ideologically or simply due to what amounts to bribery, being paid with booty supplied by the government.

      We are afraid that merely exercising our Constitutional right to freedom of worship may target us in the eyes of Democrat officials as dangerous, threats to the nation and possibly criminals, subject to a wide variety of punishments.

      We are afraid that the feckless and impotent foreign policies of Democrats will result in crippling terrorist attacks including cyber attacks and shutting down our electrical grids, while our military frets about pronouns.

      The reasons for us to fear Democrats are already so numerous that fear of them being snotty to us is not even on our radar. They already call us names, they already admit they would like to put us in camps, they already oppress political disagreement, they already rig our elections and in spite of their successes even try to keep people off the ballots to prevent the electoral process from being enacted. And Donny-boy thinks we will be intimidated by Democrats acting like Democrats? That is, by being rude, hostile, belligerent, abusive, racist, sexist, and pathologically stupid? That, my friends, would just be another day ending in Y for the Left.

      • Cluster's avatar Cluster March 4, 2024 / 9:09 am

        And this is how far our political discourse has fallen. Remember when Obama said to “get in the face of your opponents and argue with them”, or when he said “when they bring a knife, we bring a gun”? That’s when Democrats started fighting us, and we are just now beginning to engage. We use to discuss tax policy, now we discuss stealing elections and imprisoning candidates … this has to stop and the only way to stop it, is to thoroughly beat and dismantle the Democrat Party. Obama was, and still is, the worst thing that ever happened to this country

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona March 4, 2024 / 11:48 am

        The Left used to say “We think we can have the federal government do these things in spite of the fact that according to the 10th Amendment it can’t, without actually violating the Constitution”. Now they say “F**k the Constitution, it’s crap and we hate it and we hate the Pledge of Allegiance and we hate the National Anthem and oh by the way we hate America”.

        Yes, it’s quite a change, initiated and spurred on by the Left, which is intent in recreating the old Soviet model right here in the U.S.A. , soon to be the U.S.S.A.

  6. Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook March 4, 2024 / 11:52 am
  7. Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook March 4, 2024 / 11:56 am

    Great interview with Steve Baker on Glenn Becks radio show this morning in which Baker puts into context the Pelosi/bitch comment, the regret that he didn’t steal Pelosi’s computer and the 100% behind what happened on January 6th. Other than being in a restricted area without authorization, it doesn’t sound like the government has much of a case, and he was one of 60 journalists who entered the building without authorization, about 10% of whom have been charged. The entire Jan. 6th narrative is beginning to unravel.

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona March 4, 2024 / 12:09 pm

      I suggest that if Baker was among those invited in by Capitol guards even the “without legal authority” thing falls apart.

      But there is still that awful Parading charge, which is what might hang Baker. If he is tried for this, I hope it’s televised, as it would be fun to see “parading” defined.

  8. Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook March 4, 2024 / 12:00 pm

    The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 this morning that states can’t kick Trump off the ballot by using Clause 3 of the 14th Amendment. That’s NINE to ZERO for you numerically challenged Lefties.

  9. Amazona's avatar Amazona March 4, 2024 / 12:36 pm

    The Biden administration leans on its latest National Climate Assessment report as evidence that global warming is accelerating because of human activities. The document states that human emissions of “greenhouse gases” such as carbon dioxide are dangerously warming the Earth.

    The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) holds the same view, and its leaders are pushing major global policy changes in response.

    But scientific experts from around the world in a variety of fields are pushing back. In peer-reviewed studies, they cite a wide range of flaws with the global temperature data used to reach the dire conclusions; they say it’s time to reexamine the whole narrative.

    Problems with temperature data include a lack of geographically and historically representative data, contamination of the records by heat from urban areas, and corruption of the data introduced by a process known as “homogenization.”

    The flaws are so significant that they make the temperature data—and the models based on it—essentially useless or worse, three independent scientists with the Center for Environmental Research and Earth Sciences (CERES) explained.

    The experts said that when data corruption is considered, the alleged “climate crisis” supposedly caused by human activities disappears.

    Instead, natural climate variability offers a much better explanation for what is being observed, they said.

    Some experts told The Epoch Times that deliberate fraud appeared to be at work, while others suggested more innocent explanations.

    But regardless of why the problems exist, the implications of the findings are hard to overstate.

    With no climate crisis, the justification for trillions of dollars in government spending and costly changes in public policy to restrict carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions collapses, the scientists explained in a series of interviews about their research.

    “For the last 35 years, the words of the IPCC have been taken to be gospel,” according to astrophysicist and CERES founder Willie Soon. Until recently, he was a researcher working with the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian.

    “And indeed, climate activism has become the new religion of the 21st century—heretics are not welcome and not allowed to ask questions,” Mr. Soon told The Epoch Times.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/very-bizarre-scientists-expose-major-problems-climate-change-data

    Let’s take another look at this: With no climate crisis, the justification for trillions of dollars in government spending and costly changes in public policy to restrict carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions collapses

    And…..

    Some experts told The Epoch Times that deliberate fraud appeared to be at work

    Gee, who woulda thunk it?

    • Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook March 4, 2024 / 12:45 pm

      Leftists engaged in fraud and data manipulation to further a scary narrative? I’m shocked.

  10. jdge's avatar jdge1 March 5, 2024 / 1:38 am

    Interesting comment from an article about Austin Tx, imploding.

    “The Forest was shrinking, yet the Trees kept voting for the Axe, for the Axe was clever and convinced the Trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them.”

    This fits almost every dying leftist city / state where the constituents keep voting in destructive politicians..

    • Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook March 5, 2024 / 8:16 am

      Something is going to have to give. Either a good portion of the people you describe have to realize the error of their ways, or we simply devolve into chaos. Stine’s Law applies. ”If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.”

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