Open Thread

I admit to feeling a little sick about how the campaign is going – what I read this morning placed a deep bit of fear on my heart.

No, not the ridiculous polls that came out Sunday – and were, at any rate, totally contradicted by the polls that came out Monday. It was when the FBI decided to release the “bounty” letter from the Florida shooter. An FBI which never releases anything suddenly decided that today was a good day to release a letter allegedly from the shooter calling on others to finish the job for him. It doesn’t matter the actual provenance of the letter – the fact that it was released was the bad thing. It was a call for every Leftwing nutjob to grab a gun and get busy. It disgusted me.

Trump is being hunted and the agencies tasked by law to protect him are doing everything they can via calculated incompetence to help it along. I really do hope that Trump has contracted private security…some of those former Navy Seal or SAS Commando types who hire themselves out to provide security for those really at risk. You know: the kind of guys who held off Jihadists in Benghazi back in 2012 when outnumbered literal hundreds to one. The kind of guys who almost ensure you never get a first shot and definitely never get a second.

What has happened to our country? What has become of us? We still have people on the Right objecting to Trump on moral grounds as if the Ruling Class, in all its nauseating elements, isn’t simply anti-human. Trump isn’t our savior – he’s not even the guy to save America, really. He’s just a stopgap for us. A desperate attempt to hold the Ruling Class at bay as we look for the means to destroy it utterly. These people simply cannot be allowed to retain any power anywhere in the USA.

Of course, we all bear our share of responsibility for this. On X yesterday someone claimed that Warren Zevon’s Werewolves of London was an allegory of the overall Entertainment industry creepiness. Don’t know for sure – and I can’t find anything where Zevon, who died in 2003, made the explicit connection. But then you think about the lyrics (for instance, “I saw werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vick’s and his hair was perfect”) and match it up to the “open secret” perversions of Jimmy Savile when the song came out and you think, “sure, maybe”. The main thing here – and with the Epstein, Weinstein, Cosby and now Diddy revelations – is that they all knew. None of it is actually secret. Nor are things like the insider trading, kickbacks and other such corruptions a secret. We’re being run by a corrupt, cruel and stupid Ruling Class and they are ever more just throwing it in our faces, confident that we’ll just continue to put up with it.

We can’t. We must elect Trump. I do believe we will but now its a matter of simple national survival. And then starting with Trump and continuing as long as it is necessary we simply must cut down these people. Expose them all. Jail them. Turn them against each other so that some will talk. It is either them or us, and I choose us.

29 thoughts on “Open Thread

  1. Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook September 24, 2024 / 6:45 am

    Looks like I missed quite a bit while I was gone on 3 week cross-country road trip. The first thing I need to do is go through my 783 emails and delete the 775 that are junk. Then I need to catch up on what happened while I was gone. My sense, though, is that the world got along just fine without me. Had a great visit with Amazona, and she actually took care of my dog while I visited another friend in California (who has a cat).

    Good to be back. I drove nearly 700 miles in the rain yesterday from eastern Kansas to northeastern Indiana, much of it driving rain with 100 foot visibility. Fortunately, there wasn’t a lot of traffic. I crashed about 9:30 last night and didn’t get up until after 5 AM, not even to go to the bathroom (Mark and cluster will get that).

    43 days until we find out if America is smart of stupid.

    • Cluster's avatar Cluster September 24, 2024 / 8:51 am

      Good to have you back Spook and stop bragging lol.

      to release a letter allegedly from the shooter calling on others to finish the job for him.

      And $150,000 reward money!!! Gotta mention that. I was taken back a bit too with the release of that letter. And how did the guy know he wouldn’t be successful??? Nothing about this guy passes the smell test, in fact, I’d bet my mortgage he is paid by George Soros. How did this guy get the money to go to Ukraine and live their for 8 months? This has deep state shit written all over it.

      Jan 6 is still a lynch pin in the Democrat grenade against Trump and now I think MAGA has approached that all wrong. We should have never been shamed by that, and we should always be proud of Jan 6. That is when true patriots confronted the Deep State for the first time, and hopefully not the last. I made the same comment on X the other day to a post about Jan 6, and many conservatives liked it. Think about it, the only two people who were killed that day were two MAGA women, Rosland Boyland and Ashli Babbitt, and the rubber bullets and tear gas were from the Deep State aimed at unarmed Americans. Should we put up with that??? It’s time our government starts to fear us for the shit they have imposed upon us and the best way to do that is with a Trump landslide.

      • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan September 24, 2024 / 9:26 am

        Paid by someone, that’s for sure. In fact, everyone is getting paid – the whole purpose of the current system is theft. That, rather than some of the conspiracy theories, really explains it all…a bunch of amoral cretins want to steal and so they cook up mutually supporting lies to justify it. Like those who are abetting the foreigners coming – from NGOs to politicians to business interests the whole thing is to steal…the money, American liberty, foreign labor. But theft is the central, unifying theme. Saw an article claiming that Venezuelan gangs are “luring” girls to work in prostitution in America’s cities…it isn’t “luring”: those girls are slaves. Like the rest of the foreigners being dragged in here.They are being stolen…and our own MSM lies about it, softens it up…because they live by stealing credibility they don’t earn.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona September 24, 2024 / 9:35 am

        It is against the law to solicit murder, or murder-for-hire. Let’s see if this guy is accused of this. The last I heard he wasn’t going to be charged with attempted assassination because he didn’t actually shoot at anyone so it has looked like he was going to get pelted with a bunch of much more minor charges and given a slap on the wrist. (Though I supposed they might have considered elevating one of them to felony trespassing, like they did J6 defendants, to justify more than a year without a trial and solitary confinement and then a heavy prison sentence. //sarc)

        But the FBI chose to make public a solicitation of murder for hire, of the man the Left most fears, a few days before the election—-and we are not supposed to see anything sinister in that?

        (Just a note: “Sinister” comes from a Latin word meaning “on the left side,” and while the earliest uses of the word in English—dating from the 14th century—pertain to some measure of evil, forboding, or malevolence, others retain the Latin meaning of “left”

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona September 24, 2024 / 10:39 am

        This is the kind of thing that gets ZERO press coverage, because it reflects the utter failure, to the point of criminality, of the Biden/Harris border policies and her alleged job of Border Czar.

        This should be in a Trump ad

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona September 24, 2024 / 10:44 am

      It was great, having Spook here. My cat/his dog—not so much.

    • jdge's avatar jdge1 September 24, 2024 / 10:51 am

      I returned back home last weekend after driving from Phoenix AZ to Syracuse NY. Though about possibly connecting with both Cluster and Spook but wasn’t sure about timing. 37 hours with stops for gas and 3 meals. Maybe another time. I occasionally get to FL. but have no idea what town Amazona stays in or when she’s there.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona September 24, 2024 / 12:34 pm

        I’m in Colorado and Wyoming for the summer and fall, kind of on your route on that trip. Get in touch with me off-blog and I’ll fill you in on where I spend my winters in Florida. I’ve been thinking it would be fun for the five of us (plus a former blogger Spook and I still chat with) to get together for a day or so of adult beverages and solving the problems of the universe. My house in Colorado has room for everyone. Florida (SW Gulf coast) is a modest little bungalow but with guest rooms and a pool and a boat.

        I miss having a dog but realize that would mean driving back and forth instead of flying (my cat is a frequent flyer now and very good at it) and that would be 2000 miles, or about 30 hours if I average 60 mph, which is what it usually comes out to after bad traffic, stops for gas etc. I used to think nothing of loading up 8 horses, hooking up my deuce-and-a-half and heading out to Edmonton or British Columbia or Memphis, but these days get a little hesitant about a few days on the road in a nice car with a couple of small animals and no time frame. I quit the marathon drives many years ago. (I’ve reached the point where a “friend with benefits” means someone who can drive at night.)

      • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan September 24, 2024 / 1:31 pm

        That would be awesome…probably hard to figure out timing, but if it could be done, it’d be great.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona September 24, 2024 / 1:41 pm

        Just make it happen. Overthinking ruins way too many otherwise great ideas. I’ll spring for some top-shelf bourbon and I make good snacks.

      • Cluster's avatar Cluster September 24, 2024 / 1:00 pm

        Get a hold of me any time JDGE1 next time you’re in Phoenix, would love the meet ya.

  2. Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook September 24, 2024 / 9:23 am

    This arrived in my inbox right after I left on September 5th. I haven’t read back through the posts while I was gone yet, so if it’s a duplication I apologize. I jut thought it was very well put.

    Someone recently asked me why I like Trump. My answer was that I don’t really have to like Trump. 

    This election is not about choosing the most likeable person.

    We are voting between two vastly different ideologies. We are voting for the country we want to leave our children and grandchildren.

    Trump represents that future and has proven that he can deliver. He is a patriot to the core and even served his country for 4 years without pay.

    That moment when someone says,
    “I can’t believe you’re voting for Trump”. I simply reply, “I’m NOT voting for Trump.”

    I’m voting for the First Amendment and freedom of speech. I’m voting for the right to speak my opinion and not be censored.

    I’m voting for secure borders and LEGAL immigration. I am voting for election integrity to include mandatory voter ID.  (Why would anyone vote against this?)

    I’m voting for the Second Amendment and my right to defend my life and my family.

    I’m voting for the police to be respected once again.

    I am voting for law & order and an end to allowing protesters to trespass and burn our cities, destroying innocent small business. (Tim Walz)

    I am voting for personal responsibility and the end of the revolving door where criminals are being put back on the street. (Kamala Harris)

    I’m voting for the next Supreme Court Justice(s) to protect the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

    I’m voting for a return of our troops from foreign countries and the end to America’s involvement in foreign conflicts.

    I’m voting for the Electoral College and for the Republic in which we live.

    I’m voting for the continued appointment of Federal Judges who respect the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

    I’m voting for keeping our jobs to remain in America and not be outsourced all over the world – to China, Mexico and other foreign countries.

    I am voting for doing away with all of the freebies given to all of the illegals and not looking after the needs of the American citizens and homeless veterans.

    I’m voting for the military & the veterans who fought for this country

    I’m voting to keep men out of women’s sports.

    I’m voting for peace progress in the Middle East.

    I’m voting to fight against human/child trafficking.

    I’m voting for Freedom of Religion.

    I am voting for the return of teaching math, history, and science instead of the indoctrination of our children.

    I’m not just voting for one person.
    I’m voting for the future of my Country.

    I’m voting for my children and my grandchildren to ensure their freedoms

    America is the greatest country in the world, hense why everyone wants to immigrate here. So why do you want to change it?

    Why do politicians want to enact policies that have failed in other countries throughout history? 

    I’m not voting for Trump.
    I’m voting for America.

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona September 24, 2024 / 10:40 am

      As I always said when someone asked, in horror, how I could vote for Trump:

      “I don’t want to date him, I want to HIRE him”

  3. Amazona's avatar Amazona September 24, 2024 / 12:08 pm

    Watch this. Just…..watch this. And thank God for Elon Musk, who is using his power the way power should be used

    Watch it on full screen, then scroll down to the video of Obama posted by Florida Dan. They tell us their agendas and strategies, and we just don’t pay attention!

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona September 24, 2024 / 12:43 pm

      If you watch this and then scroll down to reactions you will find a plethora of but….but….but TRUMP!!! whines and some repetition of favorite Leftist themes, like J6 and “insurrection insurrection insurrection” but not a single word about killing Joe Biden, or Democrats in general. As usual, it is the playbook of Leftists projecting their own pathologies onto others, with a heavy dependence on those old crystal balls explaining what is REALLY MEANT by statements that don’t actually say “that”.

      Another key element that is always missing from the Left’s Hysteria Handbook is anything specific. That is, an example of Trump being “like Hitler” or anyone on J6 actually advocating for the overthrow of the government and assuming its powers. (Not even the false flag infiltrators went that far.) It always comes down to “well, that’s what he REALLY MEANT” when there is no direct quote.

    • Cluster's avatar Cluster September 24, 2024 / 1:05 pm

      That’s a great post by Elon showing just how constant repetition of propaganda can weaponize people. It’s a proven fact.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona September 24, 2024 / 1:46 pm

        One of the funniest Leftist claims is that the FBI did not release this alleged letter to incite violence and get the word out there is a big bounty on Trump’s head, but just to show the accumulation of evidence against the guy.

        Because the FBI ALWAYS publishes all its “evidence” well in advance of any legal proceeding. //sarc

        And, as Cluster pointed out, there is that little detail of writing about failing long before failing. It looks like the FBI needs to work a little harder on getting its sequences of events lined out.

    • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan September 24, 2024 / 1:45 pm

      Yep.

      See if this sounds familiar:

      A government elected just to clear out the problems of the immediately preceding Administration imposed massive reforms to fundamentally alter the country. They started using thugs and fools to exert pressure via violence to cow their opposition…but their reforms were increasingly unpopular so at the next election the people voted for change…someone more in line with the needs of the people rather than a grand reformist party. But the ruling elite didn’t like these guys who won…they might try to reverse the grand reforms! So, they simply used political chicanery to force the victors out and install their own regime…which then went on to impose even more radical reforms and used even more violence to cow and intimidate their opponents. Calls for violence rose. The “bad guys” were an existential threat and no action was wrong if it stopped those damned people who had been elected but then cheated out of power.

      And then, facing a complete route at the next election, some people beholden to the ruling elite assassinated the leader of the opposition.

      Not the USA…it was Spain in the 1930s. So far, we’ve dodged the bullet twice…how long can our luck hold? I hope long enough.

      Given that our opponents have no clue about history, it is likely they don’t know where this is heading if they really get their way…they only know they have an existential threat to their power. And like all ruling elites faced with this, they’ll stop at nothing to keep their power.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona September 24, 2024 / 2:21 pm

        And let’s remember the actual definition of “existential threat”—-it is a threat to the actual existence of something. It’s a term tossed around by the Left in its ongoing abuses of the English language, but in the case of Trump it is wholly accurate—-his re-assumption of power and authority in this country, after the hard lessons he has learned, means that the very existence of the power structure so assiduously and patiently assembled by the Left over the past half century could be, if not totally demolished, at least crucially damaged.

        What are the pillars of this power structure:

        Control of education
        Control of the upper echelons of the military
        Control of the media
        Control of the judiciary
        Control of a carefully developed de facto fourth branch of government that can and does rule by administrative fiat rather than by legislation by Congress.

        Reform education? Doable, if a long-term project. But get rid of teachers’ unions, reform student loan programs so schools fund them, not banks or the government, and initiate some changes such as merit-based hiring and promotion.

        Reform the military? Here the absolute authority of the Commander in Chief plays a crucial role

        Control of the media? The development of alternative media is already making a difference. Perhaps some legislation regarding considering some types of media production as in-kind campaign contributions and therefore taxable might be implemented. But the acquisition of a major media network by non-Leftists who then engage in true journalism will undermine the current Leftist chokehold on information by attrition.

        Control of the judiciary? A tougher one, but my idea of making the oath of office a binding employment contract would rein in a lot of judicial activism when it involves bypassing or thwarting Constitutional protections. Something similar that reduces the absolute authority of judges is called for, in some form. This would demand more active and focused involvement of the confirmation process more than anything.

        Control of the Bureaucratic or Administrative State? Eminently doable, and begun by Trump.

        A tightly focused and muscular campaign by Trump could and would erode these four pillars so dramatically that a followup eight years by Vance, DeSantis or maybe someone still not prominent could put the ugly specter of Leftist control of our country to rest, at least set it back.

        In the meantime the Right has to learn from the Left and develop a ground game of local government, from governors right down to school boards. We’ve been pretty nonchalant about positions like Secretary of State and school boards, till these entities exert some kind of control or influence that takes us by surprise.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona September 24, 2024 / 2:24 pm

        Spook and I commented, in one of our free-wheeling conversations, on our respect for the scope and depth of your knowledge of history. I have often thought of commenting on this, and wish I had before now.

  4. jdge's avatar jdge1 September 24, 2024 / 1:21 pm

    The UK is getting dangerously close to full-scale war with Russia

    <a href= https://www.lifesitenews.com/analysis/the-uk-is-getting-dangerously-close-to-full-scale-war-with-russia/?utm_source=digest-catholic-2024-09-24&utm_medium=email  => <b> Imagine this </a> </b> situation with Harris in the big chair. She would be clueless on how to handle anything, totally relying on of others with their own agenda -AND- a full willingness to put the lives of Americans at foolish risk. Easy to understand why military recruitment is so low. What few people grasp in this discussion is, China will most definitely not be sitting on the sideline. They have an agenda that requires the US to be weakened or at least, unable to fully respond to her aggressions. It wasn’t that long ago where the Right was viewed as the war party. This is definitely another point Trump needs to make in his campaign efforts. There is FAR more at stake here than most people realize, and should Trump win the next election, you can be absolutely sure the left is already planning to do “whatever is necessary” to keep Trump from exercising any real control. The battle is not just the election.

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona September 24, 2024 / 1:50 pm

      should Trump win the next election, you can be absolutely sure the left is already planning to do “whatever is necessary” to keep Trump from exercising any real control.

      This is why this is an area where absolute secrecy is essential, no leaking of plans to immediately cut off the heads of the relevant snakes. Hopefully lessons have been learned from the #RESIST movement.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona September 24, 2024 / 2:00 pm

        I used to know a man who had been an Army Ranger who then worked in security for a couple of overseas embassies. He was approached, early in the GW Bush years, about a possible recruitment if people with certain skill sets and security clearances were ever needed. As I understand it, this was the genius of Dick Cheney and maybe Don Rumsfeld—the understanding that in our modern world we had to be prepared, in advance, to act quickly. They had the equivalent of a huge military Rolodex of names, skill sets and security clearances of men who could be tapped at a moment’s notice to fill essential positions.

        True, this was also used for the advantage of private enterprise, as later my friend was tapped to head up security for Brown and Root when Halliburton was given the contract to do government work in Bosnia. He could step right into the job because he had been precleared regarding security clearances and prior experiences in security as well as combat. Forget about the issues of collusion, corruption, whatever—what I am talking about here is simply foresight and advance planning, two areas in which the Right seems to be consistently behind the curve.

        Which leads me to an admittedly tinfoil-hat thought that if necessary perhaps a new Trump administration could temporarily shore up a depleted military by bringing back, with bonuses, some retired Tier One types to help reorganize and even train new military recruits.

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona September 25, 2024 / 11:04 am

      While this article does touch on the evident concern that the House of Representatives could be severely reduced for some reason, calling for intervention (they don’t mention implementing martial law but that is always a possibility when dealing with the Left) it overlooks the fact that vacancies in the House are filled by appointment until a special election can be held. They seem to be saying that this special election would not be enough, they need a different, more special, special election.

      The article does, finally, make the statement that needs to be made in every single comment on J6:

      Following the election in 2020, Trump supporters stood in unity at the Capitol building on January 6th, to protest the certification of the election over fears that their votes were disenfranchised by fraudulent activity.

      During the protest, supporters were ushered into the building by officers in what appeared to be a false flag operation to frame patriots as insurrections (sic), despite no proof of the claim and therefore no insurrection charges against anyone arrested.

  5. Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook September 24, 2024 / 7:16 pm

    Malone’s substack today stands the entire J6/agenda media narrative on it’s head.

    In the end, the Sept. 20, 2024, House Press Release poses even more questions than answers. Yet one thing is clear: President Trump needs to be exonerated now. The promotion of false narratives surrounding January 06 must stop, and those responsible for crafting and promoting these intentional lies and misrepresentations must be held accountable. They are the insurrectionists.

    • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan September 25, 2024 / 1:05 pm

      Jail time is definitely needed – we have to teach these people that you can’t actually do that. I still favor eventually bringing the charges under the umbrella of a conspiracy to deny civil rights – Donald Trump’s, his aides, the J6ers and, overall, the American people as a whole. What they did was a deliberate and malicious effort to see to is that the laws of the USA were not enforced and that people were unjustly indicted and convicted in service of this conspiracy…and, remember, a conspiracy doesn’t require proving that everyone met one day and worked out all the details…you can be part of it if your actions clearly show that you knew what you were doing was furthering the conspiracy.

      And the really cool thing? Enough GOPers are involved to make the prosecutions clearly bi-partisan…it won’t seem like we’re just persecuting our opponents.

      • Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook September 25, 2024 / 1:30 pm

        What would be really cool would be that there are SO MANY indictments and convictions that the government has to build a new wing on the Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth, KS, AND that Trump donates a substantial enough sum that they name it The Trump Wing. Karma!

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