So, I’m suspended on X for a week – kinda surprising as I’m a verified account but my assumption is that I got mass reported by the Left. It still mostly works via automated systems, after all! Anyways, I’ve appealed the suspension and we’ll see how that goes.
But, still a great overall site – and one of the things I saw recently was people talking about what made them wake up from Woke. We already know that quite a lot of prominent people who used to gravitate Left are now supporting Trump – but aside from the bigs like Musk and RFK, plenty of small fry are also discussing this. What it is all coming down to, from what I’ve seen, is people hitting that tipping point where the lies about Trump become so absurd that they can’t be ignored. This point is going to vary from person to person, of course; and most people on the Left will swallowing anything and will never hit that point…but the more intelligent do, and I think they all will over the next couple years if they haven’t already.
And it isn’t just lies about Trump – though that is most prominent – but the lies in general. Another big who went from Left to sane is J K Rowling of Harry Potter fame. Make no mistake about it, she’s still Left – and still doesn’t fully see that it was the early parts of the Left program which led to where we are today – but she just couldn’t stand the lies about men in women’s spaces. It is so obviously false to have men in women’s sports and private spaces that she rejected it and now gets massive Left pushback…which she laughs off as she sleeps peacefully on her pile of money. But she, like other bigs, has it easy on that score: having that much money does make you pretty much immune. The smaller people have to have real courage to come out as sane – and all glory to them, even if they do retain many Left positions.
As I’ve yammered on about endlessly, it is the lies that are the problem. We could have full on socialism and it wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t built on a fabric of lies (yes, I know; you can only have socialism via lies but supposing there was some perfect world where you didn’t have to lie to be Socialist). Everything is endurable, no matter how tyrannical and even cruel, if the truth is still demanded. It might be harsh to be shot for opposing the dictator…but it is much worse to be socially and financially ruined by liars who are themselves immune from such ruination. You can obey the dictator and live…but under Woke Rule, you can only live peacefully if you agree to lie. I don’t mind people thinking I’m wrong…I can’t stand people lying about what I believe.
I do believe this is going to become an increasing trend – 18-29 year old males went heavily for Trump on 11/5. That is, the people most lied about and most often compelled to lie just to live went for their way out. But so is everyone – I believe the only demographic that didn’t swing to Trump is unmarried, upper class urban and suburban women with college degrees…in other words, only the most relentlessly propagandized people still haven’t shifted. But even they will – there is just so long you can keep the “refugees welcome” sign out as you barricade your door against South American gangsters roaming your neighborhoods. We are waking from woke…sanity is returning…and with it, the chance to really reform our nation.
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We are waking from woke…sanity is returning…and with it, the chance to really reform our nation.
I think it’s one of the reasons Trump won. Many, if not most of the people I know who voted for Trump this time around did so, not because they like him, but because they like what he did in his first term. In other words, they divorced themselves from identity politics and voted in their own self interest. And, if there’s a single thing that they all say where the country went off the rails during the last 4 years, it the explosion of woke bullshit. I think the majority of Americans are just anxious to get back to some semblance of normal, and Democrats offer little if anything that could be described as normal.
One of the most fascinating reads in recent memory.
It is rabbit hole after rabbit hole with this stuff.
Can I say that linked article is 100% true? Of course not; but the details provided all fit together and some pretty substantial receipts are embedded in it. But here’s the buried lede – and what I think is the real reason Trump wanted Gaetz:
There is such a thing as a “sugar daddy” website.
As they say with Rule 34: if a thing exists, there’s a porn for it. I don’t recommend Googling “Rule 34” but if you do you’ll immediately see this is correct. And one of the things there is a porn for is sexual activity with underage girls. Now, the legal part of it is that most of the girls involved – both in porn and prostitution – aren’t underage. They are very young looking girls (small, thin and 18 or 19 years old…as well as dressed to look as young as possible) but still legal. But think about it for a moment: Even the most legal such website is social ruin for any adult male caught frequenting it. The whole existence of the genre is a trap: once you set up your account, no matter how well you hide your identity, you are caught. You’ve no way out – if you are a man of any wealth or prominence you are completely owned from that moment on. Only complete (and humiliating) public confession gets you out of the clutches of anyone who wants to own you…but that act of confession causes social ruin (even if moral redemption) and leaves you immediately open to civil and criminal investigation.
And here’s the thing: you can’t hide this stuff. It is all done over the internet, which always leaves a trail. The combined resources of the NSA, CIA and FBI can easily expose the entire network for this and find the underage girls, rescue them and arrest the purveyors and customers in a snap. You wouldn’t have to do it very much – just knocking off one or two such networks and everyone will flee from the genre or only avail themselves of definitely provable legal age networks…with the purveyors being very diligent and probably sticking with girls at least 21 to be sure. But that doesn’t happen, now does it? Someone runs afoul of the Ruling Class and has any connection to it…well, into the meat grinder they go (and most men caught in this will do and say anything to keep it out of the public square). But the actual thing – this entire ecosystem of sexual abuse and blackmail – remains untouched.
Almost as if people in power want it to remain untouched…both for personal use and to keep hold of everyone prominent who gets involved, no matter how remotely.
Gaetz was nearly destroyed by this – and he’s out because, at the end of the day, he was involved in some way…the DOJ couldn’t charge him so he almost certainly is innocent of a crime, but as I said, even if you are around this sort of thing, it is social ruin if it gets out…you are tagged as a perv no matter the particular facts. Only completely staying away from it keeps you clear of it. Gaetz apparently had no more than one degree of separation from it and so Trump dropped him…it would have been enough to get 4 GOPers to vote against (and just how many Senators – in both parties – share the “sugar daddy” kink? And are thus willing to do anything to keep it from coming out?).
But the network is still there…and that’s why they wanted Gaetz rejected…because he knows its there and knows at least some of the powers and people who are connected to it. The biggest fear of the Ruling Class right now is an AG who will just enforce the law. Hopefully Biondi is willing to do that…and some of the over-the-top opposition to her indicates she might.
I just read that Gaetz is not returning to Congress but is going to work within the Trump administration, which has to upset those who thought that getting him out of the AG slot would make him disappear and stop being a threat. Freelancing might make him even more dangerous to certain element, as he can move among different agencies to inform and influence them.
Heh!
Touche’
Looks to me like Oklahoma might be a good place to live.
Wouldn’t it be hysterical if Elon bought MSNBC?
It would also be great – and he could even keep it very liberal. But if he just insisted that nothing but verified facts be reported, he’d be doing a service to the people.
I’ve been saying for years that conservatives need a network station. John Malone, who is a major stockholder in Comcast (he started the company) tried to influence CNN and push it more toward actual news reporting but that fizzled out. Phil Anschutz owns the Washington Examiner but it’s a small player in online news and basically invisible. These two men alone have conservative cred and media experience and the money to buy a network, and they certainly move in circles that could put together a consortium to buy a network. For a while Disney was muttering about selling ABC and now NBC might be on the market. (Anschutz and Malone are neighbors in Colorado and Wyoming, and probably know Timothy Mellon, who is also a Wyoming neighbor and active conservative. They all have ranches in a small Wyoming county I refer to as The Billionaire’s Boy’s Club, along with other super-wealthy people like Bruce White.)
I don’t think content would need to be “conservative” unless “conservative” just means a return to old-fashioned objective news reporting. I would like to see a “60 Minutes” type of weekly hour which provides clarification on the distorted “news” stories that have been out there influencing the gullible, a kind of “The Rest Of The Story” format that takes on cultural myths like the Left’s version of the stories of Trayvon Martin, Matthew Shepherd, George Floyd and Michael Brown—drugs and/or sex fueled bad decisions by these men led directly to their deaths yet they were portrayed by the Complicit Agenda Media as heroes and their invented stories prompted massive societal upheaval and often violence and destruction.
There is plenty of good wholesome entertainment out there that is family friendly, or could easily be cleaned up by having some material removed that looks like it was tacked on anyway to make it appear more “edgy” and appeal to a different audience. I have always said that family-friendly prime time material would probably attract half of network viewers if not more, and actual journalism would do the same. Conservatives tired of the propaganda “news’ available now would flock to such a station, and Libs would check in if only to find things to enrage them. It’s a built-in market if done right, but I think it needs a single controlling hand, like Musk, and not a board which can be bent to pressure like Fox has been.
… yet they were portrayed by the Complicit Agenda Media as heroes…
Actually, they were portrayed as victims, something the left holds in a much higher regard. And not just any victim, but one fabricated out of distortions and lies, something the left also does with impunity.
MTG to Chair a New DOGE Subcommittee
Never knew she has a business background running construction companies though it doesn’t surprise me. What became obvious over the past few years is; she’s aggressive in going after political situations she deems important. This should work well joining the Musk / Ramaswamy team. With each new nomination, many of which I’m not familiar with but find it interesting when the left goes berserk over, the excitement for Trump’s new term to begin grows.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2024/11/22/greene-to-chair-doge-house-subcommittee-n2648135?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=52ce413f6fb58c7873c6b911b92d704d389047e1deec5d09abd903754eeb0b1f&lctg=26664402
When I see the howling on the Left about qualificationsqualificationsqualifications I have to laugh, as these clowns are doing nothing but advertising their ignorance and lack of life experience. I am always reminded of the fussing about Bush’s appointment of attorney Michael Brown to head up FEMA–“Why, all he has done is run a horse registry!”
Because these people have such limited business experience, working for other people and being given specific job duties, they have no concept of the wide range of skills needed to be successful in different areas. Putting together a successful national horse show in a huge breed like the Arabian Horse world requires an extensive skill set of organization on many levels, all while dealing with hyper-emotional people with specific demands. Looking at the organization he did to prepare for Hurricane Katrina I could easily see how he applied the skills and experience he had in the horse world to getting supplies identified, organized and transported to New Orleans. (This is another story I would love to see in an episode of my fantasy conservative news hour—-Brown had everything lined out and delivered and in New Orleans ahead of the storm, prompting Bush to tell him “Helluva job, Brownie”. But the mayor of New Orleans refused to allow them to set up at the Superdome and forced them to stage in a big warehouse across town—he said he wanted residents to evacuate, not be encouraged to ride out the storm because of the protections provided at the Superdome. So by the time the situation became critical it was impossible to move the supplies and staff, and FEMA’s food, bedding, medical supplies, portable kitchens and first aid stations and skilled staff were all trapped miles from where they could do any good. But the anti-Bush political narrative had Brown and Bush and FEMA blamed as incompetent.)
But the thing is, a basic skill set like knowing how to set up a complicated system can then be applied to many different situations. Knowing vendors, supply chains, staffing needs, food and sanitation requirements, transportation details and the types of provisions needed for thousands of people over many days is a complex skill set that can be applied to a huge national horse show or providing necessary supplies in a national disaster.
So the whining and moaning and hysterical carrying-on by the Left because a Trump appointee might not have already dealt with a specific situation merely illustrates a core difference between the personal-responsibility, entrepreneurial, independent can-do attitude of so many conservatives and the hive mind of the Left as it sits around waiting to be told what to do.
How humorous of the left to howl about Trump’s nominations. Wanna see what horrid cabinet picks look like?
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/11/14/who-really-is-the-worst-cabinet-pick-in-history-n4934278
And from a different article there’s this…
Take Biden’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra. Becerra has neither extensive managerial experience nor particular expertise relevant to fighting the pandemic — both qualifications that might seem important when preparing to roll out a national vaccination effort with unprecedented speed. What he does have is experience fighting against the Trump administration in court, and before that, working on the Affordable Care Act during his time in Congress. For this reason, his choice has been widely seen as a political shot across the bow — a sign that Biden intends to move swiftly using executive power to reverse a whole suite of policies enacted by President Trump.
Becerra has also been characterized by New York Times columnist Ross Douthat as “an abortion-rights maximalist who has used his attorney general’s office to sue the Little Sisters of the Poor” and “to pursue felony convictions against the pro-life filmmakers who made undercover videos of Planned Parenthood executives talking about the sale of fetal body parts.”
Keep in mind that Democrats are still asserting that Harris was over-qualified to be President…they’re outraged that she we rejected in favor of the unqualified Trump (who, well, was President before).
Democrats only care about credentials…that’s how you decide if they’re worthy. Has to be that way for them: because all of them are in their positions based on credentials, not accomplishments.
I’m not sure what got you suspended from X but on smaller venues like Next Door it’s pretty easy. I got kicked off for posting “misinformation” about Ivermectin—that is, that it was originally developed for human use and the developer received a Nobel Prize for it and it has been used safely for about half a century, and posting links to three GOVERNMENT websites about it. Somehow I don’t think that Next Door Tyrant sees the irony and possible inadvertent admissions in her claim that posting dot-gov links is posting “misinformation” but I digress.
Spook’s post on Gaetz introduced me to @villgecrazylady, and find her to be an amazing in-depth researcher and good writer to boot. Her long piece on Adam Kinzinger explains a lot about why he is still around, and the money pit he has discovered.
I love her “Democracy™” and “Our Democracy™ “and of course “Republican Man of Conscience®” to describe Adam.
You might find some other interesting work by her.
I always thought Adam Kinzinger was a nitwit. Turns out he’s smarter than I thought, albeit still a greedy, unprincipled, SOB. I hope there’s a particularly hot corner of hell reserved for him.
I am really impressed by this “Mel”. She seems to be a serious researcher, and funny to boot. This is a post from April:
Remember that time 5 vehicles rented by the Biden family over Thanksgiving weekend burst into flames just hours after the Secret Service returned them to Hertz and the entire mainstream media treated folks who found this wildly suspicious as “conspiracy theorists”?
And then like 3 days later the entire incident was memory holed?
I wonder how Ford feels about having its Expeditions libeled. A “faulty battery” that explodes? So much for buying an Expedition, says everyone who read this.
They said it was a faulty battery in the Ford Expedition that was under recall from May, 2022.
From Kelly Blue Book:
2022 Ford Expedition Recalls
Equipment: other: owners/service/other manual
Electrical system: integrated trailer brake control
Equipment: other: labels
Do you think this was some weasel-wording? After all, the Expedition WAS “under recall” from 2022. Just not for battery-exploding issues. And the Expedition was only one of the five destroyed vehicles. Are they saying that one vehicle burst into flames because one of them had a bad battery, which then spread to the engine compartments of four others that just happened to be parked close-by? Nose-in so the engine compartments were close to each other? One Twitter/X theory is that the computer(s) showed travel and times of stops that had to be destroyed.
This story intrigues me on several points. One, of course, is that FIVE vehicles rented to the Secret Service for some role in a Presidential visit (we don’t know if a Biden rode in one or if they were just for SS detail) suddenly broke into flames at the same time. And because they were rented by the SS doesn’t mean they were all driven by the SS. Any of them could have been driven by anyone in the Biden family. Then there is the fact that of all the vehicles in the lot, these five were the only ones parked nose-in instead of being backed into place. If the SS drivers did that, I can accept that they are just lazy or don’t know how to back into a parking slot, but still….. And one is the effort to imply that Hertz rented a car that was under recall for two years (though a little research fails to show “possibly exploding battery” as a recall item.)
But my questions are: Why was it necessary to destroy the engines of these five vehicles, and why is the Secret Service so inept that it had to resort to such a “solution” to whatever problem it may have perceived and then thought no one would check on the “recall” story? I think it’s the latter that bothers me the most. I get that possibly the onboard computers might have showed travel that the Bidens might find inconvenient if made public. Evidently this might be accessed at some future time by anyone—a new vehicle owner, a mechanic, etc. But what I keep coming back to, especially after the fiasco in Butler, is “when did the Secret Service turn into the Keystone Kops?”
And then there is this: . The CCTV footage of the lot, which is what alerted security to the fires to begin with, subsequently went “missing.”
It’s almost as if the agents were kicking back after the assignment with a few adult beverages and one said “You know what just occurred to me? You know when we went to ??????? ? You guys do realize that information is all stored on the vehicle computers, don’t you?” Another agent says “Crap. I forgot about that. So let’s rent the same cars again and have our guys swap out the SyncGen 4 ECU’s. We can always tweak the info in the cloud.” And a third agent, pouring another drink, says “Screw it. Let’s just burn them.” Because who would notice, right? And later when they sobered up a little one of them said “Shit! Cameras! That’s what alerted them to the fires!” And then the video evidence of the event disappeared.
I never heard of that – which is plausible because if it happened around a major holiday, I might have been temporarily disconnected from news sources…and if it was buried by Monday…
Wow!
That was to destroy the cocaine and other forensic evidence…no other reason for it; and no way 5 cars just catch fire all at once.
There was speculation about destroying forensic evidence but if so it was an even greater indictment of the competence of the Service–unless the evidence was in the engine compartments.
They made me delete the comment and I did suggest that some bad people get shot for what they did – but what I really did was break Social Medial Rule One: argued with an idiot, who then likely reported me. Most of these things are automated from then on and while I’ve appealed, they probably get thousands of such appeals per week and my week suspension will probably be expired before they get to it. I hardly ever argue with idiots…but I thought that since I was verified, X would be less likely to allow such a suspension. Wrong! Back to never arguing with idiots!
Also, once my follower count is up along with engagement, I’ll go to Premium…and I’ll bet $14 per month to donuts that when you’re Premium on X, suspensions happen a lot less often…
Color me shocked/NOT!
I can’t imagine anyone being surprised to learn that Joe Biden is a vicious, sneaky, unprincipled snake. After all, why change after all these years? He’s pissed off at the Democrat Party and probably doesn’t care much about putting them in a better position, but he also hates Trump so any chance to screw him over is too good to pass up. The best interests of the nation? Never been a concern for Joe in the past so why start now?