Rumors abound of Democrat groups prepping for Trump II – getting their legal affairs in order, getting ready for IRS audits. The sort of things you do if you’re spent years breaking the law to get a guy and that guy is about to obtain the power to get you. The thing about a Lawfare battle is that if we engage in it, the Democrats routinely commit crimes. They’re out there breaking the law all the live long day. Any Liberal reading this will get all huffy and say there’s been investigations and they’ve been cleared. Not so: there was a phony investigation by Liberals of Liberals and the Liberals decided that the Liberals did nothing wrong. Gonna be a bit different if there’s a MAGA prosecutor.
Let’s go back a moment in history – to Joe McCarthy. He was politically destroyed on the notion that he falsely accused patriotic Americans of being Communists. He made his list – with supposedly endlessly changing numbers of people on it – and after a while the decent people of the Ruling Class smacked him down by having people investigated and they were all cleared! Well, not quite like that.
The list, of course, wasn’t made by McCarthy. There were several of them and all made by Democrats. McCarthy just brought attention to the work of others. As for the investigations, they were done by people who wanted it all buried and so they deliberately sabotaged their own grand juries to ensure against indictments so that the Commies could walk out claiming vindication and McCarthy would look bad. That basic model has been used ever since – when something bad does happen, make sure a Liberal in in charge of the investigation. First to make it go away entirely, secondly if there must be an indictment, make it of a small fry who doesn’t lead to anyone big. We’re so used to this happening that we hardly notice it any longer. It will change if Trump gets in. Any person selected for AG and FBI Director will be someone with no interest in protecting the system – the only question will be how aggressively Justice goes after the system. My hope is that Trump appoints wrecking balls to both positions.
They are dirty, dirty, dirty. All of them: the entire uniparty. People keep forgetting that Congress has paid out millions to settle sexual harassment claims and continues to do so. There are so many perverts and thieves in government that we’ll be years getting after the all…if we have someone willing to get after them. It’ll be like pulling a string on a sweater…once we get a few, the whole thing unravels and low level people run for cover by becoming cooperating witnesses. It’ll be glorious.
Sudan is on the verge of famine. There’s been a horrific and cruel civil war going on there for years. Millions of lives are at risk. You’re not hearing about it because Jews aren’t involved and nobody in Sudan passed out 50 grand a month no-show jobs to a politician’s crackhead son. This is a catastrophe in the making – and nobody cares. Keep this in mind: it is so very crucial. The power the MSM still retains is selection on what we’ll care about. If the MSM doesn’t make it front and center in the American conscience, it simply doesn’t get there. This is still a very crucial power for the Left: the ability to decide what we see. It is breaking down more and more – that is why in spite of MSM blackouts, the border is an issue – but for the most part, if it ain’t on the idiot box, the people don’t know or care about it. We really do need to duplicate the entire media complex – radio, TV, movies, books, art – to make sure that what we care about has a shot at being noticed.
Scott Pressler continues to do the work – in 2020, Bucks County, PA had a Dem voter registration advantage of 15,582. As of today, he announced that advantage is down to 720. I’ve been watching Pennsylvania voter registration trends since 2015 and it is remarkable how fast the Democrat registration advantage has melted away – even after the Democrats cooked up a new motor-voter scheme, GOP registration increased. I have been informed by multiple Experts that none of this matters – Pennsylvania remains a purple-to-blue State. And, indeed, the Democrats have done well lately. OTOH, Florida Dems were doing great until it all fell apart over a couple of election cycles. I think Pennsylvania is the next Florida – and this November could be the start of the Democrat collapse there.
Long term: yes, even California will be GOP again. You can’t see it now. But the build starts at the bottom and works its way up. Before I die, California’s electoral votes will go GOP.
As more and more videos emerge of Biden malfunctioning in public – pretty much every public event has a glitch large or small – Democrats have decided that the best way to handle this is to claim that the video is wrong. You didn’t see Biden drop a bomb at Normandy. You didn’t see Obama guide Biden off stage. Biden is a sharp, vigorous Executive. He just has a stiff gait. And a stutter. And we’ve heard that behind closed doors, Trump is glitching out! Forget that you can watch Trump do 90 minutes extemporaneously…we’ve got “‘sources” who say he’s gaga!
This is the same tactic they’re using on inflation: just telling us again and again that it isn’t happening.
I do not think this will work.
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More people need to vote for more global warming, at least if we want fewer hurricanes. It turns out that colder weather produces more hurricanes. All sorts of hurricane information in this article related to temperature changes in the atmosphere as well as the oceans. (Spoiler alert: “climate change” hysterics will find no joy)
There’s this youngster on X – wish I could immediately recall the account name – and he’s a physicist and he’s getting all sorts of grief for applying basic science to the actual claims. One I saw that impressed me the most was a reply to this Greenie saying that the antarctic ice sheet is melting at a record pace (as if we have long term records on that). Anyways, the kid just blew past the claim that the ice is melting and, for the sake of argument, agreed…then he broke out the math and explained how much ice is there and then did a simple sum: if the ice sheet melts at this pace, it’ll be gone in 162,000 years.
Do keep in mind that in the past, there were no ice sheets at all. There were periods in Earth’s past where the global temperature precluded ice sheets even if higher elevations would get snow in winter. There used to be palm trees in Antarctica. It isn’t like life on Earth can’t exist even with a much higher global temp. Sure, it would cause a lot of dislocation and need to adapt if the ice really all went away…but even at the most rapid melt off, its many tens of thousands of years before the problem fully arises, giving life plenty of time to adjust to the changed conditions. A lot of people watch the documentaries and don’t fully realize that when they’re talking about the changes to Earth over the ages, we’re dealing short term in 100,000 year increments and for the really big changes to go from start to finish, millions of years. Only something like a comet slamming into the Earth causes genuinely rapid change.
But they go with “the ice sheets are melting at a record pace!” just so they can scare the ignorant who imagine a gigantic iceberg flowing into the sea and resultant flooding in New York City.
I’m much more concerned about global cooling—-less food, more resources expended to survive, etc. And there is a lot more science predicting that this is in our future.
I thought Spook had the best response to a global warming hysteric—“So what is the RIGHT temperature for the planet, anyway?” (sorry if I misquoted you, Spook)
But it’s a good question. I have expanded on it and driven some of the AGW fanatics into frenzies of fury–“If we don’t know the correct temperature of the earth, then how do we know that this warming trend you keep talking about isn’t necessary to get to that temperature? What if we’re slowly getting back to normal and you’re trying to stop that?”
And then the observation that the only way to emerge from an Ice Age (even a Little Ice Age) is to get warmer also elicits impotent rage. “But the ice has never melted like this in the Arctic!” Tell that to Roald Amundsen and all who navigated the Northwest Passage in the last century.
“Democrats have decided that the best way to handle this is to claim that the video is wrong.”
As well as declaring that, well, maybe Biden makes a little mistake every now and then BUT TRUMP IS SLURRING HIS WORDS. The new strategy is to claim that it’s TRUMP who is senile, not Biden. (In other words, when they pull Biden out of the race for what will definitely for sure guaranteed 100% NOT be due to his dementia! then his replacement will be running against a senile old man.)
Trump’s brain is not always well-synced with his mouth, so while his brain gives him an image, such as that of someone having to choose between staying on a boat with a massive electrical battery ready to short out or jump into a water next to a shark, his mouth adds more words than necessary linking that image to the actual thought. We all do this to some extent. Trump, speaking extemporaneously for an hour and a half, might do it a little more than most. He’s in the middle of a long speech. He can’t stop for few seconds (SENILE TRUMP BLANKS OUT DURING SPEECH !!) to accurately explain and verbalize the image, so he has to keep talking while that happens. And it’s this kind of quirk that the Left has decided to ‘pounce’ on (see what I did there?) and try to equate with a rambling story of a wholly invented history, such as traveling millions of miles on Amtrack while having long meaningful conversations with a man who just happened to have died long before these trips began.
I think what we are seeing is the growing awareness that the strategies of 2020 (Biden is smart and competent and Trump was an awful president) are not going to work this time, as the harsh reality of Biden is becoming more and more apparent in many ways from corruption to senility and no one can deny that the country was run better under Trump. Because they can get so few True Believers to actually vote FOR Biden, their only option is to ramp up reasons to vote AGAINST Trump.
The escalating attacks on the Supreme Court are a corollary to this: This strategy is “You don’t have to think Biden is competent, you just have to vote for him so we can fix this filthy corrupt Supreme Court!”
We really do need to duplicate the entire media complex – radio, TV, movies, books, art – to make sure that what we care about has a shot at being noticed.
I might have made this same point oh, maybe a million times or so. There is enough money on the Right to put together a consortium to buy one of the network stations the next time one of them is in deep financial trouble. There were rumors that a struggling Disney was thinking of selling ABC.
Think about it—right now all the television media have to fight for the same audience, made up of Liberals and Conservatives and those squishy Independents who just can’t make up their minds. Put a Conservative station in there and the remaining stations will be dividing up the Libs and some of the Indies, while the Conservatives will at least give the new kid a chance. And a lot of the Libs and Indies will check in to see what it’s all about.
Entertainment television is not that hard—-I have a weakness for sitcoms and I watch with with awareness of political messaging, and I have seen many which are clean and unbiased as well as funny. A Conservative-owned station wouldn’t have to lecture—on the contrary, it should not. As for news, it shouldn’t slant that either, but just do what is now bold and daring and report things as they occur, without any effort to editorialize or slant perspective.
I spent Friday, Saturday, and yesterday at my daughter’s place in Michigan – one of the best Father’s Day weekends ever. Caught a small (just under 4 lbs) King Salmon and my son-in-law smoked it on his pellet smoker/grille.
Anyway, the subject of their governor, Gretched Witless, came, (and not in a good way – they hate her) and I mentioned that they might be getting rid of her as her name has been mentioned as either a replacement for Harris in the next Biden Administration or as a replacement for Biden himself if Democrats finally admit the obvious, that he’s not mentally or physically capable of serving a second term. Well, they didn’t particularly like either of those ideas. I told them beggars can’t be choosers.
That salmon sounds wonderful. I’ve been thinking of getting one of those smoker/grills when I go back to Florida for some of those redfish or snappers. That’s the perfect size salmon for grilling.
I would love to see Witless replace Harris and/or Biden. She has literally nothing going for her except gender. She’s managed to hold on in Michigan, but I don’t think she has any national reputation that isn’t bad. But then, compared to Harris…………..
Whitmer just comes across as nasty and condescending. She’s the poster child for “rules are for thee, not for me.” Had her opponent in the last election not had such a strict stand on abortion (zero – NO exceptions), Whitmer would probably not have been re-elected. Although, when my daughter brought that up during the election, I asked her if she was going to have an abortion, or if she knew anyone who was likely to have an abortion, and she said no, so it was kind of s stupid reason for keeping Whitmer in office – kind of like eating your dog’s shit because you don’t like broccoli.
I think you just hit on an important aspect of the so-called “abortion issue”. I made a point about it a few posts back in response to casper’s bleat about how he’s not really about abortion, he’s just about “choice” and the Left’s use of that word is brilliant because it shifts the entire discourse from killing babies to the rather noble-sounding libertarian freedom issue of being able to CHOOSE.
My point is that the pro-abortionists are adamantly against true choice. If they believed in choice they would make sure that every panicked woman who just learned she is pregnant would have full access to all the information there is about her pregnancy, the stage of development of her child, and all the options available to her—-of which abortion is only one, and the most dramatic.
So don’t tell me you are just about CHOICE, abortion defenders, if you fight so hard to keep newly pregnant women from having ultrasounds, for example, or learning about options like private adoptions. A woman in her 60s or 70s is now in prison, probably for the rest of her life, for trying to make sure that newly pregnant women would actually have real CHOICES
I think if we were to hammer this we might make some progress. Talk about making every abortion provider be in a building where any woman walking in sees information, maybe even counselors, to provide them with enough information to allow them to make actual CHOICES instead of panicky guesses. Back off on trying to ban abortion and focus instead on providing a reasoned and rational approach like this and then let the abortion howlers dig their own graves when they object, as they will, to anything at all that gets between the terrified and confused pregnant woman and their knives and suction machines.
Instead of going after abortion, go after the word CHOICE.
That’s the perfect size salmon for grilling.
It was the only one we got in the boat, but my son-in-law lost one that he said might have been a record setter. The biggest Salmon he’s ever caught was 18 lbs, early last summer, and he said this one Saturday felt bigger. His drag was singing, and the line counter said he had 40 feet left, so he tightened the drag, and it snapped his line. We lost two others that we got to the surface, but they flopped off, probably in the 3-5 lb. range. Fun day.
If you’re thinking about getting a pellet smoker/grille, he has a Camp Chef that he loves.
Now you’re getting me antsy about getting back on my boat, but we’re still in the heart of hurricane season and swinging wildly between 99 degree heat and heavy rain down in Florida. (I guess that will teach me not to vote for flooding!) I guess they do have salmon there, in the Gulf. The last time I had my drag singing and was watching to see how much line I had left was when I hooked a tarpon in the mouth of the Peace River. I lost it, too, but the captain on the boat said he guessed it would have run about 50-55 pounds. Small for tarpon but enough to get my heartrate up. But yesterday as I drove across the North Platte River I thought I really need to renew my Wyoming fishing license and get a line in the water. No salmon (or tarpon) here but a friend caught a beautiful walleye in that same spot.
Now you’re making MY heart flutter. Walleye is one of the best eating freshwater fish.
I hear that but have never had it. Fingers crossed for a productive fishing season here. The best fish I ever had was mangrove snapper, in Florida, and I know I have some living around the mangrove next to my dock along my seawall. I haven’t tried to catch any after the first time I caught two and put them back because I wasn’t set up for cleaning and cooking yet, but this winter I have some plans to do some fishing.
Anyone influenced by the report of a “study” should read this article, rather long but very informative, about how a study can be manipulated to give erroneous results. In this case, the “study” was supposedly an investigation of the effectiveness of Ivermectin in the treatment of Covid:
How Ivermectin Trials Were Designed to Fail
It’s important because it’s a reminder that we need to be skeptical of most if not all “studies”, especially when they pop up to support a particular agenda.
Yep – just like the studies that said eggs or coffee would kill us all.
To touch a subject – even the smoking studies. There is no doubt that smoking increases the risk for cancer and heart disease…but if you check the CDC website, they’re saying that any exposure to cigarette smoke (including second hand smoke) causes an immediate negative effect on health. That is obvious drivel. But they’ve got “studies” to back it up and its why you can’t smoke a cigarette in a bar any longer. If second hand smoke causes immediate negative effects then smokers would all die within a short time of starting to smoke. As I’ve been smoking since 1978 and I’m typing today, that isn’t a correct assertion. It is, in short, a lie.
And I do get it: non-smokers don’t like the smell of smoke. Smoking is unhealthy. As a smoker, I’ve really got no problem with going outside for a smoke: after all, I don’t even smoke in my own house. I’ve had people who knew me for years and didn’t realize I smoke – because they’re non-smokers, I don’t smoke around them (and most of the smoke smell on smokers is on their hands: give it a wash before arriving at the party and almost all the smoke smell is gone). But it still irritates me like no tomorrow that the smoking bans were based on lies. And the lies preclude a private business owner from opening up a smoking bar – you know, advertised as such. With all employees also being smokers. A place where smokers can go and be sure of not offending a non-smoker. Nope; can’t have that. Total ban! Because of nonsense.
I get physically ill when around cigarette smoke in any strong concentration, such as in a bar or even a house where people are smoking. My head hurts and my stomach churns and my lungs burn. It isn’t just a psychological reaction to the awful smell, but an actual physical reaction. Maybe I became sensitized to cigarette smoke from smoking for many years, but I do know that I can’t be around it. And when you have such a strong physical reaction to second hand smoke it’s hard to believe it isn’t having some effect on your body. Logic says that if smoke is coming out the end of a cigarette it is going to have much the same effect if it is quickly inhaled by the smoker or just floats through the air to someone else. The term “secondhand smoke” implies that the smoke referenced is what has been exhaled by the smoker, but that is not the problem—it’s the smoke that was not inhaled but just drifted into the air from the end of the cigarette.
I let a smoker friend live in my upstairs bedroom because she promised she would never smoke indoors. I finally had to tell her to keep her door closed because it was almost like a visible cloud of stench rolling down the stairs when the door was open. However, when she smoked she cupped her cigarette close to her chest, so she was saturated—skin, hair, clothes—-and she smoked Marlboro Lights which seem to have the worst smell of any cigarettes I have known. When she moved out I had to paint the walls with Kilz and replace the carpet because I just could not get the smell out. My husband smoked, only outside after I quit, and he seldom smelled like smoke, but when he quit he said he, too, had a bad physical reaction to other peoples’ smoke.
Having said that, I agree that it should be OK to have a smokers’ bar or restaurant. And it’s ridiculous to claim that cigarette (or cigar) smoke has an immediate effect on health. Well, to some extent it must, as it immediately starts to deposit tars on the lining of the lungs, but it takes a long time for that to have a permanent effect on health.
And that is why I don’t smoke around non-smokers! I know: I’ve encountered it before, especially among former smokers!
I do think that smoking, especially heavy smoking for a long time, sensitizes the lungs in particular to make them more reactive to smoke. Every former smoker I’ve talked to about not being able to tolerate smoke any more has had the same perception—it’s not in our heads, but our bodies’ reactions.
I think I’m starting to understand why the White House finds nothing strange in Biden’s incoherent ramblings—this seems to be a standard in the Biden administration. While Mattressback Kammy has come to own the term “word salad” Biden’s economics advisor is giving her a run for her money. Keep in mind, as you read his “explanation” of American economics, that he is the chairman of Biden’s “economic group”. If you are wondering just what the president’s “economic group” is, here is an example of its expertise and, no doubt, “advice” as he struggles with the question of the government simply printing more money.
Bernstein begins by saying the government can’t go bankrupt “because we can print our own money.”
Interviewer: “It obviously begs the question: why exactly are we borrowing in a currency that we print ourselves…?”
This does explain a lot, as the chairman of Biden’s “economic group” thinks money is just paper, without the slightest clue that it has to be backed up by something with intrinsic value. Bernstein may go down in history as the first Democrat to make an argument for returning to the gold standard.
“the government clearly prints money. It does it all the time and it clearly borrows, otherwise you wouldn’t be having this debt and deficit conversation,“
Well, DUH! That’s the point, Jared! Though we should say “trying to have this conversation” as clearly the chairman of the president’s “economic group” is not qualified to have it.
some of the language that the … some of the language and concepts are just confused.
Can’t spell it out any plainer than that. God help us!
I’d say that ALL of the concepts of this administration are confused, and that the language just reflects this.
We talk a lot about the Complicit Agenda Media efforts to influence the 2020 presidential election by hiding information about Joe Biden but we forget about the successful media effort to shield Hillary Clinton from blowback from the Benghazi massacre of Americans.
As Secretary of State, Clinton was determined to support anti-Khadafy forces in Libya so when the Secretary of Defense refused to arm them she went around the DOD and arranged for shipments of weaponry to be delivered via the CIA to Qatar but intended to eventually reach the anti-Khadafy forces. However, it appears that the Quataris instead gave the weapons to the Taliban.
Oops. So now somewhere between 50 and 60 anti-aircraft Stingers were in the hands of the Taliban because of the actions of Hillary Clinton, doing an end run around the Defense Department.
Then one of these Stingers was used to try to shoot down an American Chinook helicopter on July 25, 2012. The Taliban hadn’t armed the Stinger correctly so it did not explode and the helicopter was able to land safely, and a fragment of the Stinger casing showed a serial number tracked back to the CIA. Another oops.
So Hillary Clinton, planning to run for the presidency in 2016, needed to get the remaining arms returned before they were used again against American troops and traced back to her. This is why Christopher Stevens, ambassador to Libya and former arms dealer, was sent to Benghazi in September of 2012.
And, it is speculated, this is why, when Stevens and his security detail were attacked, no help was sent even though there were troops in nearby Italy who could have been sent as soon as the mobs started to look threatening—the fear that other U.S. aircraft would also be shot down by U.S. weaponry they got through Hillary Clinton.
We were given an official account of the Benghazi attack (mob was Big Mad about a video) and excuses for failing to support our people when they were in danger, with careful evasions of the reasons for the attack and for refusing to provide aid to our people. ( One excuse given behind closed doors was that “Revealing that the Taliban had US-made Stingers risked demoralizing coalition troops”.)
And in 2016, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton ran with media protection from the potential fallout of her disastrous meddling in both foreign affairs and domestic DOD decisions even as they also tried to excuse her other failings as Secretary of State, such as exposing protected information by running it through an illegal and unsecured email server to avoid FOIA demands.
“There was some baseless speculation that the diplomatic post in Benghazi was used by the CIA to smuggle weapons from Libya to anti-Assad rebels in Syria” (Note the careful phrasing, as well as the editorial comment that this was “baseless speculation”. Whenever we see the word “baseless” we know it’s spin. Also note the evasion inherent in denying smuggling to Syria, knowing the smuggled arms went through Qatar.)
Investigative journalist Seymor Hersh cites an anonymous former senior Defense Department Intelligence Official, saying “The consulate’s only mission was to provide cover for the moving of arms. It had no real political role.” The attack allegedly brought an end to the purported United States involvement, but did not stop the smuggling according to Hersh’s source.
The Complicit Agenda Media refused to investigate, or at least report on, anything that would reflect badly on the Obama presidency or its State Department or its presumed heir to the throne, so its subsequent covering for Joe Biden is just more of the Same Old Same Old.
The government also provided cover for her, and the CIA. The excruciatingly careful phrasing of the January 14, 2014, report from the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence did what it could to hide the facts: “On-the-record testimony establishes that the CIA was not sending weapons … from Libya to Syria, or facilitating other organizations or states that were transferring weapons from Libya to Syria. However, what happened had nothing to do with “sending weapons from Libya to Syria” or to any other state that was “transferring weapons from Libya to Syria”. No, the weapons were transferred to Qatar. The denial of transferring weapons FROM LIBYA TO SYRIA is purposely misleading but typical of government obfuscation.
Yep – and goes with the “investigated and cleared” mantra Democrats will use. Meanwhile, Bannon for his misdemeanor conviction might be sent to a hard-time prison…almost as if they’re hoping someone will kill the guy. But even if he gets out of it ok, the thought of going to such a prison will make everyone more wary of supporting Trump. This is what we mean when we say the system is rigged: there is no accountability for the favored while the disfavored will not just have the law thrown at them, but the laws will be broken to get them.
the thought of going to such a prison will make everyone more wary of supporting Trump which is what this is really all about, and has been ever since they started dawn raids by SWAT teams, accompanied by media, to arrest a man in his 60s for some piddling process crime, and doing airport takedowns complete with shackles, for similar nonviolent offenses.
They can go after Trump directly, and they can go after Trump supporters directly, but the strategy that is most far-reaching is that of making oridnary people afraid to openly support Trump. Just ask the J6 protesters held in solitary confinement without a trial for nearly a year and then sent to do hard time in prisons for minor offenses ignored in other circumstances.
It’s all a big WE’LL SHOW YOU WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU SUPPORT TRUMP! message, with examples carried out by police departments, federal agencies and the judicial system. It’s what we get when we sit back and watch our country devolve into the United Soviet States of America–in other words, what we get when Democrats are in power.
The Left seems intent on making us laugh, though they don’t seem to understand why we think they are so funny. A perfect example is this whimpering headline from the Washington Post. (I refuse to pay this rag to be able to read it, but I think this headline is self-explanatory.) “Unbearable heaviness”—sounds like reality might be sinking in.
The unbearable heaviness of thinking everything is good for Trump