Biden promised to unify us – and if you click here you’ll see Right and Left both shouting “F*** Joe Biden”. Unity: achieved. Biden doesn’t win with this sort of attitude at large in the Republic. Its not that the Hamasses will vote Trump, but they’ll vote third party or stay home. I remember the Carter years: I don’t recall anyone held in as much contempt as Biden is.
Trump is doing well right now – and we are getting to the point in time where it would take something massive to shift it back to Biden. One can’t predict massive events, of course – they come when they come. But if polling is still tied or favoring Trump by June, then the November result is probably baked in. That said, we are having trouble down ballot. Lots of it. To be sure, special elections are not very predictive of general election results, but we are seeing a general lack of enthusiasm for GOP Congressional candidates all across the country.
Democrats are, naturally, pointing to this as an endorsement of Biden…but its is more that GOPers just aren’t showing up. And I believe this is because there’s no reason for them to. The Congressional GOP has knifed the base in the back over and over again…so what does it matter if the GOP keeps the House? We used to all think that at least we’d get something if we had a majority…now we know we won’t just get nothing, but we’ll get nothing along with egregious insults. If the GOP wants to win Congress, they’d better pick a fight with Biden. A big one. As it stands right now, the only thing that can possibly save them is a big Trump win dragging a few marginal GOPers over the finish line (this is why there’s still a solid shot at the GOP retaining a House majority and gaining one in the Senate). But we could have had a Red Wave year in Congress…if the GOP had just given GOPers any reason to fight for one.
Red State colleges are being brought under control. Blue State colleges are still the home of raving anti-Semites. One funny note – at one college, some frat boys dragged down a Palestine flag and raised Old Glory. There’s now a go fund me to give them a party and last I checked it was over $270,000.00. It is all great and fun – and watching our flag go up was moving. But I think the GOP – and Trump – could make a big impact. They should have the party – and Trump should be there. It just so perfectly encapsulates what is going on…Democrats coddling foreign savages and domestic traitors while we patriots stand tall for America.
It is just terrible what we’re seeing here – Jewish kids being denied access and physically assaulted. As if an American who happens to be Jewish has anything to do with Israel. Even if one wants to say that Israel is the bad guy, what does a 20 year old college kid in New York have to do with it?
Nothing, of course. But, neither did the 20 year old Israeli girl who was raped and murdered on 10/7 have anything to do with Israeli policy. This is the wages of anti-Semitism. Once you start down the road of saying “the Jews” then you’ll become an increasingly evil person…willing to commit and tolerate all manner of horrors. I blocked yesterday a Catholic account on X because they started in on “the Jews”. I know that ignorance is the foundation of it all, but I think, also, there is something more sinister…something deeply embedded within Fallen Man. That is, to find the scapegoat. To relieve ourselves of responsibility by finding someone at fault for our own shortcomings…or even our own cowardice when faced with a difficult problem. It is hard to do things…but blaming someone is easy. And it is an ego-stroke when it presents itself as esoteric knowledge that only the Wise have access. Rely on it: if you confront an anti-Semite and find an unanswerable argument, their response will be “educate yourself” as if it was you, not they, who is ignorant. But that sort of ego boost is what keeps people on the train…and makes them become worse over time as they must either repent or go all the way.
There is a bill now passed by the House which makes anti-Semitism illegal. This is Democrat/Uniparty window dressing – something to do to make it appear they are doing something (and you know darned well that if the law is enacted it’ll be turned against us in a heartbeat). The bottom line is that the Hamas protestors on campus are already violating civil rights laws. If two or more people conspire to deny a right or privilege then that is a civil rights violation carrying a max of ten years for each offense. When a Jewish kid is blocked from access to campus because he’s Jewish, that is against the law. Period. Under US law you are allowed to hate Jews all you want, but you can’t stop them from enjoying the rights and privileges that all have under law. All of these kids are looking at hundreds of years in jail…if they get prosecuted. And that isn’t happening. And nobody in the Ruling Class wants it to happen. Why? Because of Arab oil money – nobody wants to jeopardize that. Huge amounts of it flow through American institutions and it is all predicated upon allowing the anti-Semitic tropes about Israel to persist.
If we do get Trump in, my hope is that he goes after these people – the statute of limitations is 7 years for these offenses. I want hundreds of these rich, privileged white kids dragged through the judicial system for years over this. We must instruct them: you can’t do that. You can’t, that is, sign on to a fashionable cause and violate rights and think you’ll just walk away from it.
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”The (fill in the blank)” is a shibboleth of the left. ‘The Rich’, ‘The Poor’, ‘The Oppressed’. People are sorted into categories and then completely defined by those categories as unable to be anything but the role they’ve been assigned. It might as well be ‘the blacks’ even if ‘the’ is silent in most cases. If you are black you have a role assigned to you and that is the only role you may play or you aren’t a ‘real’ black. You must hold these beliefs or you aren’t a ‘real’ woman. If you are a Jew you are also “X y and Z” etcetera. Leftism is the religion of treating people like objects instead of people.
You’re describing one of the elements of a collectivist mentality.
but we are seeing a general lack of enthusiasm for GOP Congressional candidates all across the country.
We’ve got an interesting situation in my Indiana Congressional district. Jim Banks, who has been my Congressman for the last 6 years (and who I know personally) has been one of our more popular Congressmen, winning his last two elections by 65-35. He’s giving up his House seat to run for the Senate seat that Mike Braun is vacating to run for Governor. Banks is so popular that he’s running unopposed for the Senate nomination, but there are 9 people running for his old House seat. Half of them are running positive campaigns, and the other half are running vicious smear campaigns against the others. Lots of outside PAC money involved. I can’t ever remember 9 people running for that seat in a primary. Five more days, and we’ll have a better idea of how things look.
Leftism is the religion of treating people like objects instead of people.
100%. That’s what Communism is. And that’s who Democrats have become.
Kevin O’Leary had an interesting comment yesterday, and that was about the sophistication of AI. He said that AI has advanced to the point that even from quite a distance, AI can facially recognize every single one of these protestors. I just wonder if the DOJ will spend as much time pursuing this as they did Jan 6 protestors LMAO, I think we all know the answer to that.
We are all currently watching what we have all predicted in the last several years. The competing identity factions of the Democrat Party are beginning to turn on each other. Despite the chaos, it’s a thing of beauty. The Pelosi/Schumer/Obama Democrat Party is imploding.
I think you’re right – they going from the party that was slowly destroying our Republic to the party that’s destroying itself. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of people.
My dream team is a Trump presidency with vice president Ron DeSantis assigned the responsibility of dealing with the Bureaucratic State and Ted Cruz as Attorney General. This is a team that would strike fear into the hearts of the Left and make it possible to effectively deal with the rot and the corruption that goes through to the roots of the Department of Justice while paring down the Bureaucratic State and getting all of those agencies back to their original charters.
This would free the president up to rescind erroneous executive orders, make necessary appointments, deal with International diplomacy and address the other issues of the presidency while Cruz and DeSantis clean house. The president could then move those agencies out of the Beltway and scatter them around the country, as he started to do when he moved the BLM and the Department of Agriculture. In a perfect world we’d have enough control over Congress to implement the Fair Tax and basically get rid of the American Gestapo, otherwise known as the IRS. In a country increasingly sensitive to the dangers of federal agencies being used against political opposition this is an idea that might start to gain some traction, and it’s one that DeSantis repeatedly tried to get up for a vote when he was in the House of Representatives.
I like this idea a lot. Trump had a meeting with RDS the other day and I think he told Ron that he is the only one who should be President in 2028 and the best way to make that happen, is if he becomes Trump’s VP. I hope Ron is slowly warming up to that idea.
“Slowly warming” or always moving in that direction? I think anyone capable of reading the political tea leaves in 2023 knew that he couldn’t possibly attack Trump. Trump supporters are too rabid, too passionate, too cultish to tolerate their idol being attacked or criticized. DeSantis was way too smart to fall into that trap. If you look at what he did say about Trump, it was measured, it was calm and it was objective and focused on things Trump did, not on the man himself. He never attacked him personally. What he did was get himself on the national stage, get people to pay attention to him, stand out in the debates as the only adult in the room, and then step back and let things play out.
I think the pattern in these campaigns where there are many potential candidates is that when one candidate surges ahead and has a decisive lead the others keeps flailing along desperately trying to gain traction. But they just drift off to the edge and get stuck in the weeds, and most of them never get out of those weeds. DeSantis avoided that pattern. He got in, he got himself nationally recognized, he made some important points and then he stepped back and watched the others melt down or fall apart. Of all the wannabes in that big field that started out a few months ago he’s the only one left standing, dignity and credibility intact. And in the meantime, he’s been racking up victories in his role as governor of Florida. I think if he ends up as Trump’s vice president and well set up for the 2028 campaign people will look back on this whole series of events and recognize his strategy as absolutely brilliant.
I wonder if Trump apologized for calling him Ron De-Sanctimonious, and a loser, and a mediocre governor, and……….
Probably not; but DeSantis is tough enough for it. Politics ain’t beanbag.
That’s just politics. If we are win to this battle, we all need thicker skins. You should see what many DeSantis supporters have called MAGA on X. LOL
I pay little or no attention to how people identify themselves. I’ve seen too many false flag attacks to really have a lot of confidence in how someone identifies himself if he’s trashing somebody else. Since DeSantis supporters probably support the core principles of MAGA I can see how they might criticize Trump, especially after Trump’s infantile attacks on DeSantis, but not the movement itself. That just doesn’t make sense. That sounds like mischief-making to me.
ted Cruz for Supreme Court if it comes up!
Agree, I’ve always thought he should be on the Court. But in the meantime, I’d really like to see him as attorney general. This is a guy who could kick ass and take names. Evidently Sotomayor has a diabetic condition that’s getting worse and her health is pretty fragile right now. So we might very well be looking at a new Supreme Court Justice next year. All the more reason to make sure it’s not appointed by Biden.
Does this raise any suspicions?? It sure as hell does with me …
Another Boeing whistleblower dies suddenly after claiming supplier ignored safety flaws in 737 Max production – just months after former quality control manager was found shot in his truck
That was my first thought too. Evidently this guy had a sudden onset illness that just went downhill rapidly into a whole sequence of worse and worse conditions. Something like that can certainly happen, especially with people who got the jab. But given the so called suicide of the other guy it does raise questions.
Tuberculosis is back in California and officials have identified the location of the outbreak but refuse to say where and why. Note the second paragraph. I’m not sure how much more abuse Americans can put up with before realizing that most elected American officials on every level are either incompetent or on the take and definitely not governing this country the way I, and all of us, expect this country to be governed. They are just not good enough. Period.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13378731/Tuberculosis-outbreak-public-health-emergency-California.html
We’re becoming Third World.
Here’s the thing – we have about ten years to turn this around. That is, if at any point in the next ten years, we get a pro-American government, we can fix this…and fairly easily. The skills are still here. We can revive the America of, say, 1985. But only if we act quickly before the memory of how to do it is lost.
I think it’s imperative we get to the “root causes” of Democrat protests. These are professional activists and someone is paying them.
18 U.S. Code § 2101 – Riots
U.S. Code
(a) Whoever travels in interstate or foreign commerce or uses any facility of interstate or foreign commerce , including, but not limited to, the mail, telegraph, telephone, radio, or television, with intent—
(1) to incite a riot; or
(2) to organize, promote, encourage, participate in, or carry on a riot; or
(3) to commit any act of violence in furtherance of a riot; or
(4) to aid or abet any person in inciting or participating in or carrying on a riot or committing any act of violence in furtherance of a riot;
and who either during the course of any such travel or use or thereafter performs or attempts to perform any other overt act for any purpose specified in subparagraph (A), (B), (C), or (D) of this paragraph—
Shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
In other words, we’ve got the law and this is a federal law. We know that professional agitators are traveling from state to state on public transportation for the purpose of inciting and promoting violent riots. Someone is paying for those tickets. When they arrived they have rental cars waiting for them. Someone is renting those cars for them and paying the bill. Someone is paying their hotel bills. Someone is paying for their food. Someone is even arranging to have riot materials like pallets of bricks delivered to the sites where riots are planned to take place.
It doesn’t seem like it would be that big a deal for the most highly skilled law enforcement agency in the world—- or so the FBI likes to portray itself—–to follow the money.
The only question is why don’t they?
Is law enforcement identifying these professional riot agitators, following them when they leave the riot once they get it going, and intercepting them at train stations and airports? Obviously not. Is law enforcement identifying the cars that they drive to and from the sites of the riots and tracking them down to the rental agencies and following up on who’s paying for them?
Obviously not.
I think the report is that about 40% of the “students” arrested in New York weren’t enrolled in the schools. And then you see people doing the “man on the street” (errr…sorry, Xir on the street) interviews asking why they’re protesting and none of these “student activists” want to talk…they direct people to the organizers of the protest without even engaging in rote sloganeering. Add in the “Covid masks” which neatly hide identity and its pretty clear to me the whole thing is astro-turf – and, furthermore, must be known to be such by the authorities.
This goes back to my oft repeated comment that the Left have no idea what they’re even talking about. None of them seem to really grasp the actual structure of Leftist governance much less be ready to explain it or defend it. But they will happily march along screeching and hollering and throwing rocks to defend it.
But we enable it with open-ended questions like “Why are you protesting?” We need questions “Why do you support gang raping old women until their internal organs are damaged? What is it about burning babies alive that you defend?” Or: “Can you explain why you are taking the same position that was taken by the Nazis in the 1930s and 40s about the destruction of all Jews?” Or even: “Do you understand that public perception of you around the country is that you are neo-nazis or the modern version of Nazis based on your hatred of Jews?”
Any competent cross-examining attorney knows better than to ask open-ended questions that let people waffle and evade. But our so called journalists don’t seem to understand that concept.
We have settled for general commentary on issues. When we talk to people like Tulsi Gabbard, we never pin her down on the actual specifics of her political philosophy. No one ever says “Tulsi, you make some excellent points about several issues. But what is your core belief about the best way to govern our nation? Apparently in the past it has been supportive of a powerful Central Authority and not the Constitutional model of state sovereignty. Can you please explain this?” Or: “When you left the Democrat Party, it was apparently based on the position of the party on several issues. Have you also rejected the core elements of leftist governance that form the structure of the Democrat Party?” Or even a simple: “Do you think we should govern our country according to the principles outlined in the 10th Amendment?”
I loved watching the freak-out when cops started pulling masks off people they were arresting. And was it Harvard where someone put the photographs of people involved in some far left protest on the sides of vans and drove around so people could actually see the faces of people who were involved in these riots? There was sure a lot of hysteria about the idea of losing anonymity.
I’d love to see billboards all around the country with a photo of Klu Klux Klan people in their hoods on one side and screeching Leftist masked protesters on the other, with the caption THEN AND NOW.
In response to the commentaries I’ve seen here that the only solution is an armed revolution, I agree with you that it’s well within our ability to turn things around. While it might take as much as 10 years to do a really thorough reversal of the damaging direction this country has been going in, I think one term of a solid aggressive presidency can make a huge difference.
If we dig down to the core problems in our government I think they come down to:
1. Basically the dominance of a de facto fourth branch of government that is essentially legislating without the participation or even oversight of Congress. That is the Bureaucratic State. This includes every agency including those under the control of the Executive Branch. To a great extent this can be controlled by a strong president and a strong Attorney General even given the Civil Service laws and so on that are in place now. (One thing on the Trump agenda that got practically no attention was his desire to reform the Civil Service laws. He understood the problem and recognized that it might require legislation to fully deal with it now and in the future.) But a lot can still be done. Simply moving these agencies out of the Beltway will result in a lot of voluntary attrition. Gutting budgets will result in more. We simply don’t replace the people who leave. And we insist that every agency is returned to its original charter.
2. We have to deal with the corruption in our judicial and law enforcement agencies. This is going to basically come down to a very aggressive president and a very aggressive and knowledgeable Attorney General. But I think it can be done. These are all under the control of the Executive Branch, which gives the president a huge amount of power when it comes to reforming them and weeding out the bad actors.
The third element which I’ve been complaining about for years, but which seems to have just stayed under the radar from most on the Right, is an effective communication arm for the Right. We need the ability to explain what’s going on to the people. We need the ability to explain the Constitution, particularly the 10th Amendment. We need to explain and illustrate the corruption that’s been going on and illustrate the degeneration of our federal government into an almost Soviet Style tyranny In which the executive branch imposes its own agenda on the country without the participation or oversight of Congress. People don’t understand our Constitution. They don’t understand what’s going on. We need to explain it.
The communication is the huge thing, isn’t it? And its not just that we need news outfits…we need the whole thing. On Facebook yesterday someone posted a direct quote from Fifty Shades of Grey and it was the most cringe-inducing thing I had ever read. And not just on the pornographic aspect of it – it was bad as pornography. The series has sold over 150 million books; a hit movie was made. Hey, all power to the author – that was one heck of a jackpot. But the reason why garbage like that works is because the population has been conditioned by an increasingly garbage pop-culture to believe that feces are food. We’re dealing with a society that used to read truly great books as a matter of course…now they’re just at the trough, shoveling down swill. This will take some effort to overcome.
But I think we can. The 2005 movie Idiocracy wasn’t intended to be other than a small gag stretched out to a feature film…but it has become thought provoking. And it shows how we on the Right could easily use such a vehicle to impart our message. The movie’s premise was that only stupid people were breeding because they could survive being stupid and so 500 years from now only morons are living. A movie made with a Right perspective would have stupid people getting in charge on the basis of its unfair to be smart…our time traveling hero would be the fish out of water not because he’s smart, but because he doesn’t understand you have to hide being smart. In our movie, he would have found the Underground where people still know how to read.
It will take a full coverage effort to do this – every aspect of life must have a Right message imparted to it. Not with a hammer, but with a needle…to just get people to start laughing at the whole idea of the Left and so mentally prepare them to entirely reject it.
It’s impossible to overestimate the shift in perceptions created by the brilliant propaganda campaigns of the Left. George Orwell scared generations of Americans by depicting the monsters of totalitarianism. The Left didn’t even try to deny that these monsters exist. They couldn’t because the monsters are in front of us every day, so they merely sanitized them and recast them as perfectly normal and benign.
We are now under constant surveillance and we accept that. We now voluntarily carry tracking devices with us so if a government chooses it can not only know exactly where we are and where we’ve been but can even eavesdrop on us as we go about our daily lives, and monitor our communications with others. They have even sanitized the term Big Brother by applying it to a cheesy TV show. We now watch shows like A Person of Interest and Pine Gap as entertainment, not as warnings of the powers of our government in monitoring our every movement and speech.
Shame has always been an effective aid in reining in certain undesirable behaviors so the Left simply redefined shame as something that is in and of itself evil and to be avoided and punished, and replaced it with acceptance and even celebration of the very things that shame used to help control. Now according to the LelLft the things that used to generate a sense of embarrassment and shame are promoted, accepted and celebrated. We’ve always had promiscuity and sexual deviancy but shame provided a boundary for these behaviors and kept them from becoming part of mainstream culture. Now the Left is holding them up as examples of what mainstream culture should strive to be. Women have always panicked at unwelcome pregnancies and sought to kill those unwanted babies but there was always an awareness that this was socially and culturally unacceptable, which kept this behavior restricted. Now the left has made abortion the primary sacrament of its secular religion and presents it as a natural and wholesome nd even necessary part of being a woman.
Now, according to the Left, the things that used to be associated with virtue are maligned or at the very least ridiculed. So now patriotism, which has always been considered an element of good citizenship, is derided as “nationalism” and defined as a negative, often linked with claims of racism.
The Left has taken everything that has been a component of a strong healthy and happy culture and turned it inside out and upside down and redefined it, substituting the things that culture has always identified as negative and damaging.
They are clever at messaging, aren’t they?
For 2024 the Democrats are campaigning on saving “our Democracy”. On the face of it, this seems a good thing but then you think a moment and realizing they’re not trying to save “our America”…this wondrous, 250 year old contraption which has to now done a very good job of preserving our Liberty. Now we have to save “our Democracy”; but not our Liberty. That’s when you see it – they are only concerned with retaining a system whereby most votes win and they are forever working out the ways and means of ensuring they have the most votes no matter how the actual votes go. Biden getting “81 million votes” is “our Democracy” in action…and they are deathly afraid of losing that. So, they are trying to convince Americans to vote them more power so they can destroy the ability of Americans to have influence on the government. Clever.
And I do think the proper response is to campaign on saving our Liberty. In fact, I think we have to – the Democrats are also playing the abortion angle as the purpose for saving “our Democracy”. We need to point out that saving our Liberty means, among other things (though this might be most crucial in such a debate) preserving the parent’s right to determine the child’s education.
If Democrats want to represent democracy as the fair evaluation of the will of the people then they should agree to start dividing states. Right now people outside big metropolitan areas in states like California, Maryland, New York and Illinois have no real representation because the cities dominate the voting of the states. If the Democrats are serious about wanting a democracy where everyone has a voice then they should be all over the idea of breaking up some of our largest states to give people outside the metropolitan areas a better voice.
I remember a conversation at work when 50 Shades of Grey came out. Our office manager was quite impressed by the book and explained that it was not demeaning to women because the woman was always in control. She explained that with bondage and S&M there is no danger to the woman because she has a “safe word” that will tell her partner to stop. My response was simply “what if he doesn’t”? Her reaction was that I just didn’t understand the concept, that a woman actually had control even when she was submitting to bondage or S&M because she had the ability to stop it at any time just by uttering a word or two. And I kept saying “who’s going to enforce that”?
Her reaction was comical. She was absolutely baffled by the idea that in a situation like that the man, even a man who was a relative stranger and not someone in a long-term relationship, would not immediately respond to a request to stop doing what he was doing. She had so thoroughly accepted the narrative that had been fed to her that merely introducing the possibility that it wasn’t very accurate had her absolutely bumfuddled.
I pointed out that even in public in situations where there is a law with a legal penalty, such as stopping for a red light, people still violate that law. So, why did she think that in private, in a highly charged situation like sexual intercourse, the equivalent of a verbal red light could not be ignored? She simply rejected this. She knew without any question or doubt that she could get into any situation with any man and if they he had already told her that he would honor a verbal request that he would.
I always thought of her as the perfect example of the accuracy of “Idiocracy”.
I’ve commented in the past about generation gaps and how a lot of young people don’t understand some of the cultural references that I make. In that vein, some people might need to go back and listen to the old Allan Sherman classic about Camp Granada to really understand the context of the following video.
As usual, an element of truth.