It does feel like a misprint. Mail is working a little better for Democrats…but not nearly enough. Even TDS-Ralston is conceding that the Clark County firewall isn’t nearly big enough for Democrats. Don’t bet the ranch on this…but, let’s face it, this sort of data is happening all around the country. You’d much rather be a Republican candidate right now than a Democrat.
In 2020 the Conservative Party in British Columbia – pretty much moribund at the time – got 36,000 votes. So far this year, they are just a hair under 888,000. The bad news? So far they are also just a hair under a majority of the seats (and, naturally, the commie ruling party – the NDP – is saying it may take a while to get final results…especially in the seat where they lead by 23 votes). The Conservative Party leader has already pledged to provoke an early election if NDP gets back in. Basically, after many years of British Columbia varying between Commie and Super Commie governments, it looks like people have had enough. Lets hope that translates here south of the border.
Elon Musk is pouring it on for Trump and the GOP. Do keep in mind that a lot of Elon’s basic views are Liberal. Globalist. Free Trade. All that stuff. But he sees, because he’s trying to build rocket ships, that government has become poison to effort. And he knows the only way out is to get Trump and the GOP in – not because they are totally in line with him, but because they aren’t insane against effort. This is the first time we’ve had someone like him really do this – the cool, tech billionaire guy on the GOP side. And it is driving the Democrats nuts! This is a beautiful thing.
Ireland continues to show that sending condolences over Hitler killing himself (they really did it!) wasn’t a one-off thing – Ireland will now impose a trade embargo on Israel. This is more than just now having Muslims in Ireland…this is a deep-seated bit of anti-Semitism that I really didn’t know existed in Ireland until lately. They just don’t like Jews.
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This really belonged in the previous thread, but since this is an OPEN thread…….
Excellent question.
A friend and I were talking about what kind of sign we should put up at my ranch gate to indicate that we have a security system and as a joke I thought I would suggest a picture of one of those military MAGA cats that have shown up on some web sites. Something like this. Kind of a cross between Childless Cat Lady and Don’t Tread On Me. Naturally you can never find something like this when you want to, but my search for MAGA cat memes took me to some typical Lefty whining about the Trump/cats/ducks/Haitian-pet-eating memes and comments that have popped up. What is interesting about this is that they think we’re being serious when we post things like this. They simply cannot grasp the concept that we just think it’s funny to riff on things like this.
Simply not having a sense of humor is not enough. That would put you at zero on the humor-meter. No, these people are so far below the line, so deep in the negatives, that the very CONCEPT of humor sails over their heads faster than Kamala’s heels during Fleet Week.
Between the animal memes and the hat, these poor Libs are so furious, and so confused, they have become their own meme. In the meantime, there is this:
Former S.F. Mayor Willie Brown writes about dating Kamala Harris, appointing her to posts
1981: Graduated High School in CANADA, where she grew up since the age of 12.
1981: Attended Vanier College in Montreal, for 1yr.
1982: Transferred to Howard University, is held back.
1986: Graduated Howard University
No US Diploma & took 5yrs to complete a 4yr undergraduate degree.
1987: #82 Law School in US
1988: #82 Law School in US
1989: Graduated from it: Hasting College of Law
1990: Staff Lawyer DAs office in Bay Area (all newbies are called eg “Assistant DAs” or “Deputy DAs”, etc.)
FAILED Bar Exam and, after a do-over or 2, eventually passed.
1991: Staff Lawyer
1992: Staff Lawyer, then Employment is terminated.
1993: Began affair w/Willie Brown, twice her age.
1994: Willie appointed her to high-paying job on Unemployment Insurance Board.
Kamala had no Insurance Experience though, so the Press took notice of inappropriately appointing his mistress to public political positions & wrote about it, even in, eg, The Los Angeles Times, etc.
1995: Kamala quit that Board as Willie appointed her to a different high-paying 1 that required fewer hours & just once a month meetings – CA Medical Asst. Commission.
Yet again, Kamala had no Medical or relevant Legal experience, though. More bad Press shared this truth.
1996: Nothing Else
1997: Nothing Else
1998: Willie sent her back to a Staff Attorney job, managing fine & fee processing, filing at CCU in SF for that DAs Office.
1999: Caught neglecting to properly file exculpatory evidence in George Gage case—led to 70 year prison sentence. Press was all over it.
2000: Had to leave there, so Willie sent her to work as a Staff Attorney at SF City Hall, working for city attorney Louise Renne, doing filing for child abuse & neglect cases.
2001: Same
2002: Lied about Prosecutorial Record. Press was all over it.
( Google Search shows no video, pics or any evidence of Kamala Harris actually prosecuting a case, talking to press after she did, etc., like normal DAs Office Attorneys do, etc., bc she never actually did.)
2003: NONETHELESS, powerful local politician & Mayor now, Willie Brown, admitted he miraculously helped get Staff Attorney Kamala elected as San Francisco DA!!
2004: Refused to seek death penalty for cop murderer.
2005: Refused to release records of sexually abusive Priests.
2006:
2007:
2008:
2009:
2010: Elected as CA AG by 0.5% margin.
2011: Withheld information leading to 600+ drug-related cases being tossed.
2012: } Threw 1,500+ people behind
2013: } bars over marijuana offenses
2014: } and refused early release of
2015: } prisoners bc of cheap labor.
2016: Elected to the CA U.S. Senate seat.
2017:
2018: Chanted “down, down with deportation” at parade w/hoaxter Jussie Smollett.
2019: Entered 2020 presidential race—dropped out over no support from her own State, due to her publicized abysmal history & lack of real experience.
“I have also helped the careers of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Gov. Gavin Newsom, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and a host of other politicians,” he added.
“The difference is that Harris is the only one who, after I helped her, sent word that I would be indicted if I ‘so much as jaywalked’ while she was D.A.,” Brown wrote. “That’s politics for ya.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2019/01/27/willie-brown-kamala-harris-san-francisco-chronicle-letter/2695143002/
Well, now I can see why Casper admires her. Water seeks its own level, and I think the same holds true with mediocrity.
The reason that former Democrats are now leading the conservative cause, ie; Trump, Musk, RFK, and Tulsi Gabbard is because there is a fundamental baseline in America that Democrats have crossed. Democrats have violated the most sacred tenets of American life; Faith, Family, Freedom. They mock religion and shut down churches in 2020, they attack family by sexualizing children and under educating our children, and they restrict freedom through excessive taxation and censorship.
The current Democrat leadership sold their souls to the globalists in return for permanent power, which they thought they were on the way of securing. I think they are in for a very rude awakening.
I didn’t watch Gutfeld! Friday night but will check out the replay after reading this about RFK and Gutfeld discussing the Democrat Party. The Kennedys have been the royalty of the Democrats for more than half a century, and to have a Kennedy analyze today’s Democrat Party in this way is powerful: emphasis mine
“There’s tribalism, and the orthodoxies are much more insidious in the Democratic Party. And it’s disturbing to me, because I think the polarization is the worst thing for our country, and that, you know, we have huge problems in this country, but we also are very resilient, but we’re never going to solve them if … we’re not able to come together. And I think that the Democrats are much more tend to be much more intolerant than Republicans on these issues.”
Gutfeld responded by reflecting on his experiences as a former liberal and now as a conservative, observing that liberals tend to tie their political beliefs more closely to their identity. He contrasts this with Republicans, who he says “put their politics in a box,” keeping it separate from other aspects of life like family, work, and recreation. Gutfeld suggests that for Democrats, politics often becomes a core part of who they are.
Kennedy agreed.
“I think that the people these days who tend to be Republican or conservative are much more inclined to critical thinking,” he said. “And I think that used to be the purview of the Democratic Party. But you had said before that we left the Democratic Party—that Elon, myself, and Tulsi—I think all of us feel like the Democratic Party left us, that the party of Robert Kennedy and John Kennedy doesn’t exist anymore.”
“That was the party of that was anti-war, it was the party that was against censorship. It was the party that opposed the corporate takeover of our government,” Kennedy continued. “Today, the Democratic Party is the party of war, it’s the party of censorship, it’s the party of Wall Street, a big pharma, big tech, big data, big banking, and the military industrial complex.”
100%
There’s a lot of chatter about Trump’s comment on the “enemy within” and I am having a good time on X confirming that opinion by posting the fact that Democrats have allowed foreign national gangs into our country to prey on our citizens … and that is in fact, an enemy within
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/texas/article-13947303/venezuelan-gang-tren-aragua-american-cities-crime.html
The poor Dems, having to scavenge among anything said by any conservative to try to find something to be furious about. Now it’s the term “the enemy within” as if this is some term invented by Trump to convey some sinister, nefarious, paranoid and no doubt incendiary message meant to incite ……oh, heck, there is no way to figure out what these maniacs are trying to apply to the use of the words. No doubt someone will do a word search and discover than in various speeches over the decades several dictators have used the words “enemy” and “within” and try to attach some meaning to that as well.
The apostle Paul recognized the fact there is an internal battle within each one of us; every believer has an “enemy within” that we must fight. This lifelong battle between the flesh and the Spirit will rage until our death. It has always been used to describe the inner battle between good and evil, or strength and temptation, experienced by all humans. (Well, with the exception of today’s Democrats, who don’t even try and just go with the Dark Side. But I digress….)
It was also the title of a book written by a Leftist hero and martyr, Robert F. Kennedy (Sr.)
And, of course, used by people of many nations to describe the dangers of infiltration by enemies into their societies.
Not that we need another reason to like Elon Musk, but…..he explains why his rockets are “pointy”
The apron was a brilliant idea. Great visuals.
And let’s not forget the line at the second Butler rally when he started off by saying “as I was saying…” LOLOLOL Classic
We’re seeing a completely different Trump, or at least a different side of Trump this time around.
I think we’re seeing the Trump his friends have been telling us is the Real Trump, and for the first time I really LIKE him.
I was really impressed when I saw video of one of his visits to NC. People were lined up to see him and when he saw a couple that looked really distressed he hugged them—and really, deeply, sincerely hugged them, not just that “politician hug” you usually see. These people just hung onto him for comfort, and it was very real and very touching.
I could not agree more (hat-tip Jeff Childers).
I’d be perfectly happy to debate actual political philosophy with Musk, but in the meantime love his sense of humor. And he must be fun to work for. When his entire engineering crew loved the idea of making his rockets more “pointy” because of that movie, it told me it must be a great place to work.
As for the attacks on Musk, I have to wonder how many started up after he started to support the Right. After all, in California they admitted in their refusal to allow Musk to use a California site to launch rockets that the reason was his politics. As they have also said about Trump, “If you’re getting flack it means you’re over the target”.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GaTP8WvbAAAflj2?format=jpg&name=small
The memes practically write themselves.
I found a hat for Mark.
He can wear it with this shirt.
I’d also like to find one that says Make Orwell Fiction Again
I love it!
There won’t be any election fraud! There can’t be any election fraud! Because, you know, like it’s, like, IMPOSSIBLE and it’s just a right-wing conspiracy theory!
Except when it’s easy…..
Heather Heying from Natural Selections<naturalselections+science-and-scientism@substack.com> has a good column on the claims that AGW made the recent hurricanes worse. She says, echoing the thoughts of many of us:
She does not point out that the “wetter” aspect of these two big hurricanes was far more likely to be due to the massive amount of water vapor shot into the stratosphere by the Hunga Tonga underwater volcano, under the scientific theory of “what goes up must come down”, or that this water vapor probably contributes to, if not actually causing, higher temperatures. (Something else studiously ignored by the AGW hysterics is the underwater activity of other volcanoes, as well as heat coming from the core of the Earth miles below the surface of the oceans that is, in some cases, hot enough to melt metal, some of it in “mantle plumes” or “hotspots”—-“It is evident that mantle plumes are very long-lived phenomena, lasting for at least tens of millions of years, possibly for hundreds of millions of years in some cases.”. It is far more likely that the water is heated from below and then radiates heat into the air, rather than the other way around, but the AGW hysterics need the narrative that we are making the air hotter and that is making the oceans hotter.)
Hmmm. So, not a science article at all. We see a lot of this—-we look up something to find that it attributes its content to something else, and then learn that the whole flurry of articles all goes back to an original article. The impression is that a whole lot of experts are writing about something and then it turns out, if we do the research, that only one person who might or might not be an “expert” wrote something that is then the basis for everything else written. As she says:
But it’s just too hard to tax volcanoes.
Underwater volcanoes at spreading ridges and convergent plate boundaries produce hot springs known as hydrothermal vents.
Scientists first discovered hydrothermal vents in 1977 while exploring an oceanic spreading ridge near the Galapagos Islands. To their amazement, the scientists also found that the hydrothermal vents were surrounded by large numbers of organisms that had never been seen before. These biological communities depend upon chemical processes that result from the interaction of seawater and hot magma associated with underwater volcanoes.
Hydrothermal vents are the result of seawater percolating down through fissures in the ocean crust in the vicinity of spreading centers or subduction zones (places on Earth where two tectonic plates move away or towards one another). The cold seawater is heated by hot magma and reemerges to form the vents. Seawater in hydrothermal vents may reach temperatures of over 700° Fahrenheit.
Hot seawater in hydrothermal vents does not boil because of the extreme pressure at the depths where the vents are formed.
700 degrees F. That’s pretty hot. I wonder if any of these “scientists” have wondered if there was additional underwater volcano activity that might have contributed to the higher water temperatures in the South Atlantic, or looked at any of these hydrothermal vents. ‘jes askin’
Some years back there was a particular shelf of ice in Antarctica which was supposedly set to collapse due to me grilling a steak out back…turns out, there was some vulcanism underneath the ice that was the culprit and, anyway, the collapse of the shelf never happened. Which was pretty obvious how it was going to go because the ice and the volcanism had been there all along.
The Antarctic ice sheet is approximately 60 million years old. We’ve had actual measurements of temperature across Antarctica for about 20 years. But they are sure its melting away! Of course if you check their estimates the melt off will take anywhere from 500 to 13,000 years.
Bottom line: they don’t really know. We don’t have enough data. Not about anything in this area.
“The volcanoes at mid-ocean ridges alone are estimated to account for 75% of the magma output on Earth.”
That’s a lot of molten rock! Or, as Harris would say, “a lot of stuff”. One article on undersea volcanoes, hotspots, etc. referred to undersea “pools of molten sulfur”. Somehow this all sounds like a lot of potential heat transfer.
Anecdotally, I have run a hot bath and had the temperature in the bathroom (air) rise, but I have also run a cooler bath and never had the room temp raise the temperature of the water.
Why We Hate The Media, Chapter 8456:
Headline: Patriots Owner Turns On Longtime Friend Trump
But then when you read the article, you find that they were never really friends at all. “Kraft identified himself as a Democrat but shared that Trump became a social acquaintance in the early 1990s during his visits to Florida.”
So now the “friendship” has been diluted to a mere “social acquaintance” relationship. That’s quite a difference.
Kraft goes on to admit that “After his wife passed away 13 years ago, Kraft noted that Trump was one of the few who offered him support, mentioning, “he was one of four or five people who reached out to me and was really, really nice.” Clearly not nice enough, in Kraft’s eyes, to warrant any degree of loyalty, but that seems to say a lot more about Kraft than it does about Trump.
And that seems to be the sum total of the alleged “friendship” touted in the dishonest headline. All Kraft ever did that might seem reciprocal was to make a “sizable” donation to Trump’s inauguration–we don’t know what “sizable” meant in this context, and waiting till the guy became president to be nice to him seems pretty self-serving.
So the headline intended to show that Trump is such a jerk even his old friends have turned on him actually says that the “old friend” is the jerk even though Trump was kind and generous to him. I think a lot of the anti-Trump stories would turn out to be very similar to this, if examined closely.
Why do they even try? From cheese on a cold raw hamburger patty on a cold grill to Jazz Hands Walz showing us how he loads his own shotgun to Kamala “working” with ear buds not plugged in and blank paper scattered around, these poor clowns just don’t get it. And here is another example--sponsored, to borrow a great comment, by Low-T. Some manly Dem men decided to do what manly men do and shoot some guns. It’s only funny because no one got killed and there was just a little blood. This comment by a real shooter, is hysterical.
Katie Hobbs, Kris Mayes, and the State of AZ is preparing to cheat again. Even the dumbest of Democrats can count ballots faster than 10 days, but not when you’re counting to find how many more are needed
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1849065237346914621
Jeff Childers is on a roll this week.
My sense is that, if Harris is elected, America will no longer be the leader of the free world.
In the meantime, I just saw a great slogan and what is really the theme of this election: It’s the makers vs the takers.
In a real sense, we already aren’t the leader. Our position in the world now is piggy bank with nuclear weapons…if the money stops flowing, then the only thing that will keep the world from totally ignoring us is our nuclear weapons. They know we can’t fight right now – that our military is understrength, badly trained and equipped and led by officers promoted based on political connections. They also have utter contempt for a government system that it totally penetrated by foreign intelligence services and bribery.
I’m fine with being ignored, as long as there is the awareness that we are still here, still strong, and still ready to do what needs to be done. I just don’t want to continue to be the butt of jokes and not receiving any respect. We can be a major player on the world stage without being an uncritical piggy bank, and carefully choosing where our money is going to benefit us the most.