Open Thread

The judicial orders against Trump are getting ever more absurd – to the point now there Judges are maliciously ignoring the written law and Supreme Court orders. Why are they doing this? Are they just insane?

No.

Well, ok, fine; they are insane. But there is also a plan here. It seems pretty obvious to me that they are now hoping they make rulings so absurd that Trump is force to openly defy them. Their theory then goes that the American people will reject this defiance and turn against Trump, thus ensuring he’s hamstrung for the next two years as Democrats hope to take back the House in 2026 whereupon the Trump agenda dies. Could they be right? That is, would the American people choose the judges over Trump? It is a possibility. I don’t think it would come out that way, but it is something that might happen. It is basically a hail Mary move – there is absolutely nothing else in the Democrats’ arsenal to stop or even slow down Trump. And Trump II is a much graver threat than Trump I…the new Trump is determined to fix the problems. Trouble for Democrats is that they made the problems on purpose to sustain their power and wealth. Fixing them means the effective end of the Democrat party.

So, there’s this long shot – and the longer shot of, well, a shot. Trump’s people better keep their heads on a swivel.

The latest effort to keep the immigration spigot open has been pushed by the Libertarians: their objections are that we can’t allow the government to decide who a college admits or an employer hires. Also, Trump is deporting Albert Einstein when he kicks a Palestinian activist out. Hey, they are Libertarians: they are by nature pretty dumb. Keeping in mind that most Libertarians are just Leftists who want low taxes and gun rights.

But, nobody is buying it. We know who’s being kicked out – totally useless people when not actually wicked. And here’s my challenge – if these people are so great then ten years from now they’ll have made their homelands a paradise for Americans to envy. So I say to the Libertarians, let this happen so you can tell me “I told you so”. So far, none have taken me up on my offer…almost like they know we’re not deporting great people.

Actually useful polling shows Trump about where he was on Election Day. Anecdotal evidence – that is, me talking to people in real life – indicates that his support is growing. Non-anecdotal is that the GOP continues to win the voter registration battle. Been a little blip of late in PA as the Democrats have a hotly contested primary but even that wasn’t much…and the overall trend still favors the GOP. Even in deep Blue bastions like California the GOP is winning the registration battle (though CA is so Blue that it’ll take a decade or more to make the State competitive). People are, by and large, liking what they see. And, guys, the Democrats know this. Nobody told Harris but her own pollsters showed her a sure loser from Day One to Election Day (rumor has it that until about 11pm Eastern on Election Day she thought she was going to win…this is why the calls on the Battlegrounds came in so slow…once again, the MSM will not call a race until the Democrats give them permission to do so…had Harris been told she was a sure loser, they would have called the race as soon as California closed). Democrats have their own polls and they are likely showing Trump as popular…and this once again gets us back to their desperate judicial attempts to slow it down.

17 thoughts on “Open Thread

  1. Amazona's avatar Amazona May 24, 2025 / 11:44 am

    In short, Comer’s Congressional hearings are making history. Despite a trifecta of Democrat malfeasance during the last century, until now, no Congress has summoned the courage to lift the lid on a terrifying tactic that has always worked out well for the donkey party.

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    If Comer’s swelling investigation confirms, as seems likely, that Joe Biden was effectively a placeholder president controlled by deep-state drone operators, it could shatter the last remaining illusion that the Democrat Party’s gerontocracy is a feature, rather than a clear and present danger. Younger Democrats —the vaunted youth vote— might revolt in disgust, saying “We’re not carrying water for the nursing home anymore.”

    And it would validate the growing suspicion —already held by many voters— that the Democratic Party uses octogenarian figureheads as puppets whose strings are quietly pulled by hidden staffers, lobbyists, and deep-state technocrats.

    In other words, this could be the start of something much bigger than just reversing Biden’s Autopen orders. If Biden’s “Not a Joke” presidency was “Weekend at Bernie’s,” the next logical question is: How many other Democrats are being propped up with wires and interns while the “real” decisions are made in shadowy conference rooms? Pelosi? Fetterman? Feinstein? Schumer?

    Is the Democrat party a false Hollywood mirage? Not fake in the lizard-people sense (but who knows). But is the Democratic Party, as currently presented to the public, a genuine vehicle of representative governance? Or is it a front, for something else? Is it just a sham, the permanent government’s political wing? Is the Blue Party really only the customer service desk for the administrative state?

    House Oversight Chair Comer’s investigation is breaking new historic ground. Could it finally bring an end to the Democrat Party’s win-at-all-costs obsession with nominating presidential candidates who have the mental acuity of a medium-sized Mexican asparagus? We shall see. And it will all unfold just in time for the 2026 midterms.

  2. Amazona's avatar Amazona May 24, 2025 / 12:00 pm

    Louisiana Secretary of State Nancy Landry announced that Louisiana will become the first state to deploy a new voter maintenance database provided by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The DOGE database combines immigration status and death records, and Landry intends to use it to make Louisiana’s voter rolls more accurate. “Since taking office, I have repeatedly requested this critical data from the federal government to check Louisiana’s voter registration list,” Ms. Landry explained.

    Recent posts on Substack have talked about the successes of quantum computing in uncovering problems in voter registration rolls, and there has been some criticism of what the author thinks is a much less successful approach by DOGE. Hopefully the two systems will turn out to be similar and work together, as the quantum computing approach is truly stunning in its scope and detail.

    Within hours (perhaps minutes) it can cross-reference voter registration data on stated addresses of registrants with city and county records and determine if the address is a residence, a vacant lot or a Denny’s. It can tell if a one-bedroom apartment is shown as a residence address for hundreds of people.

    It not only gives information but can back it up with photos of the buildings or vacant lots in question. This system also cross-references change of address filings, voter registrations in other states, and various data sources to track down fraudulent or multiple voter registrations.

    It can also then cross reference this information with data on whether or not a registered voter voted, and where he voted, and if he voted in more than one state or outside his legal voting area.

    The thing is, a state doesn’t have to request or even approve of this kind of analysis of public records, so even a corrupt and blue state like Colorado can be identified as a state with X number of fraudulent or illegal voter registrations, and even with X number of those registrations resulting in actual votes. This could even lead to challenges of so-called “certification” if a state “certifies” a vote count with proven illegitimate votes.

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona May 24, 2025 / 12:13 pm

      omega4america.substack.com is a valuable source of information on quantum computing/fractal computing. (Is there a difference? I’m not the person to ask.)

      In one article the author addresses the work of Musk and DOGE:

      Bernie Madoff or Charles Ponzi himself never attempted to steal as brazenly as the Institute for Peace or other orgs who deleted files while Elon’s guys knocked at their front door.

      The question remains – so how bad is it?

      We are here with evidence, parallel evidence, showing the “trillion dollars in fraud, waste and abuse” is closer to the trillion than it is to the $200 billion D.O.G.E. found.

      Why didn’t Elon’s guys find the trillion?

      First, they are using 1980s technology, which in their hands is pretty good but it misses the overwhelming amount of fraud because it cannot perform real time cross database reconciliation.

      That means comparing identity information across multiple databases in real time. Elon admitted this when he said government databases don’t talk to each other.

      We can prove that because the fraud we found in voter rolls alone – was never found by Elon’s D.O.G.E. guys who showed up last month in Wisconsin and were stymied by the complexity of voter data.

      It looks like we have a lot of really smart people focused on the same basic goals who can, if they coordinate their efforts and share their technology, make election fraud a thing of the past, or at least too difficult to pull off on a large scale.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona May 24, 2025 / 12:29 pm

        It is NOT too early to focus on election fraud. So we won the presidency—-we still lost at least four Senate seats to election rigging. And so far little has been done to keep this from happening again.

        In 2021, Sheriff David Clarke changed that trajectory when he brought Fractal technology to the Wisconsin voter rolls – and for the first time voter rolls were reconciled – they were checked against something else.

        Let’s review the score here.

        The teams using Fractal technology in over a dozen states demonstrated throughout the last 4 years – enough registered, active voters living in hotels, marinas, colleges for 15 years, shelters for just as long, RV parks with a sign on the front saying no reservations for more than 2 weeks – all of these missed by the national voter integrity orgs for decades – enough ballots to change the outcome of a statewide election.

        ………………………………………………..

        You probably do not remember right after 2020, days after the stolen presidential election, some high school kid published lists of people who received a ballot on October 25th, mailed it back on October 20th and it was received by the registrar on October 15th!

        All he did was cross reference outgoing mail-in ballot dates with the return dates and showed thousands of ballots going backward in time. Within days, states stopped publishing this info until they could cover their digital tracks.

        You did not see this little gem – showing prima facie mail-in ballot anomaly – from the national voter orgs – because they cannot find it. They were doing media appearances – talking about the largest election steal in history – which they 100% missed!

        That kid was a feedback loop – showing national orgs what they too missed – so obvious a high schooler with Microsoft Excel found it between video games.

        Around that time Sheriff Clarke called our team and we examined Michigan and Wisconsin voter rolls. We immediately found anomalies by the tens of thousands by comparing (reconciling) the official voter rolls with the official address information for every building in Wisconsin.

        This had never been done before – today we are still the only ones who can do it.

        We found tens of thousands of locations where a mail-in ballot would go but the guy who was supposed to be there was anomalous – like he lived in a laundromat, Walmart, prison, hotel or a score of other crazy locations.

        Our teams were using a “known address database” gathered from the internet – lists of every Marriott, Days Inn, Hilton. The database picked up addresses of RV Parks and marinas – and was a good start.

        In Fractal, as we come to know a domain – voter lists are a domain – we find new ways to reconcile the data. Known addresses did not show us the physical building – so we ingested the property tax records for the major metro areas.

        A voter roll may tell us 11 people vote from a particular address – the property tax roll tells us that address is an empty lot. The instantaneous Google map shows there is a trash pile in the middle of it. The building permit database tells us there is a convenience store being built there in 2 months.

        One click – across ten million records – shows a clear ballot scam.

  3. Amazona's avatar Amazona May 24, 2025 / 12:35 pm

    The Republican billionaire class and their “trusted gatekeepers” fund state and national party television buys (for which the grifter campaign manager gets a hefty cut), 501c orgs taking in millions of dollars a year and producing nothing of value – while the Left concentrates on one and only one leverage point – mail-in ballots, from real people, at real addresses – which are temporally ineligible.

    What does that mean?

    Look, if you run the voter rolls for over 20 states, provide deep data analysis of voter rolls cross-searched against other databases – which only we have – you are bound to see something not previously discovered.

    Sure there are phantoms on voter rolls. There are dead people on voter rolls. There are illegal aliens registered to vote. That is not how you steal a 2026 election – because that data is too easy to check – but most importantly, you do not have control of that mail-in ballot.

    If you want to steal an election in 2026, the way to do it is to send mail-in ballots to addresses where they will collect on the floor (dorms, apartment buildings) or be rejected and returned to the Postal Service (location cannot get mail, person filled out change of address card).

    There are a hundred other such examples. We published 1.2 million in Pennsylvania and around 500,000 in most swing states on our StopBogusBallots.com site earlier.

    The dominant concept is control of the mail-in ballot – that means you must get your hands on it. Mailing a ballot to the dead guy – maybe his widow tosses it.

    The U.S.P.S. infrastructure is in place – has been since Obama.

    Ever wonder why in many of the swing states all mail now goes to central locations in large, BLUE, urban areas for base sorting – then back to the local Post Office?

    That wasn’t always the case – it’s an Obama thing.

    Our team in Wisconsin interviewed Postal workers who told them they collect the undeliverable mail-in ballots in Milwaukee for much of the state, put them in bundles for “recycling” and they are held by 6 – always 6 – rubber bands for a bundle – and left OUTSIDE in recycle bins. Somehow, those bundles with 6 rubber bands disappear with the recycling fairy.

    Mail-in ballot control is how they do it – which we proved in Wisconsin in 2024 – and can prove in the 4 stolen U.S. Senate elections we discussed previously – all in 2024.

    In 2026, the Repubs are re-hiring the grifters to do door-to-door canvassing (getting paid for a useless phone app they have with 52% incorrect lists). The Repubs for sure will pay big to register low propensity voters who will mostly not vote – but will appear on those canvassing phone apps sucking up the time and calls from those as well.

    What the Repubs are about to learn in a very big way – the Republican feedback loop – we know already because we are now seeing some of the 2024 data cross searched against who actually voted – Repubs are about to learn that without Trump on the ticket to hide the ineffectiveness of their ground game – they are going to get smoked big time – losing House seats they never expected to lose and losing all the ones they did expect.

    The feedback loop for Repub ground game effectiveness is apparent only in the data for those senate races – and nobody wants to look at those.

    The Repubs cleverly made the case that Trump won, thus their voter fraud efforts and ground game were great – which we can prove is not the case. Just ignore those 4 senate races – and about a dozen to 18 House races – don’t look over there.

    2026, like 2020, and like 2024 in those senate races – will be determined by real, legitimate, mail-in ballots, sent to real people, at real addresses – which are ineligible for one reason or another.

    Those ballots will aggregate into 6 figures in every large to medium state – and the Leftists need only about 5,000 or so to win a House seat.

    • Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook May 24, 2025 / 4:13 pm

      Oh, What a tangled web we weave……….

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona May 24, 2025 / 6:30 pm

        Assuming this analysis of Republican efforts to address voter fraud is accurate, the next question is whether it is honest and sincere but hopelessly outdated, or a purposeful effort to milk the party out of a lot of money.

        Or, to use a phrase I love, do we just embrace the power of “and” ?

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona May 24, 2025 / 6:33 pm

        The dominant concept is control of the mail-in ballot – that means you must get your hands on it. Mailing a ballot to the dead guy – maybe his widow tosses it.

        The U.S.P.S. infrastructure is in place – has been since Obama.

        Ever wonder why in many of the swing states all mail now goes to central locations in large, BLUE, urban areas for base sorting – then back to the local Post Office?

        That wasn’t always the case – it’s an Obama thing.

        Our team in Wisconsin interviewed Postal workers who told them they collect the undeliverable mail-in ballots in Milwaukee for much of the state, put them in bundles for “recycling” and they are held by 6 – always 6 – rubber bands for a bundle – and left OUTSIDE in recycle bins. Somehow, those bundles with 6 rubber bands disappear with the recycling fairy.

        So, does anyone think that the RNC might rethink its strategy after reading this stuff? Or will it be up to individuals, like Scott Pressler in 2024, to make a difference?

      • Mark Noonan's avatar Mark Noonan May 25, 2025 / 12:57 pm

        That reminds me that I still have my doubts about 2012. The whole tilt of the election was heading towards Romney and then, hey presto, it goes back to Obama at the last minute. It wasn’t like Obama was doing this fantastic job and everything was going peachy in 2012. To be fair, Romney kept pulling his punches and, well, he is Romney but for a President to be re-elected with fewer votes than originally elected with is…weird.

        It will partially be up to Scott Pressler but I also notice that a lot of people are getting arrested with charges of voter fraud of late…almost as if someone at Justice has been given orders to go after it. The real deal will be, of course, flipping some of the small fry who did the actual work of voter fraud. Get them to turn on their bosses…someone hired them, someone paid them. Nobody just breaks the law for the heck of it (this is why the claim that voter fraud is rare is so stupid – nobody cheats just a little bit…you either don’t cheat at all or you cheat enough to matter). I suspect that Team Trump – the primary victim of massive voter fraud – isn’t going to let this one go. Trump would love nothing more than to exit office with it firmly established in the public mind that he was cheated out of victory in 2020.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona May 25, 2025 / 1:41 pm

        Every state has a GOP chapter. Some are impotent, like the Colorado GOP, but they are there. They can’t force a state to clean up its voter registrations and mail-in ballot practices, but what they can do is raise enough money to hire the fractal computing people to do their analysis of the state’s practices, make them public before the election, and then promise to sue the state, the election officials, the Secretary of State, the governor, et al for participating in and enabling election fraud. Ditto, threaten to sue for false certification if results are “certified” even after proof is presented that a significant number of bogus ballots had been mailed out and returned.

        In Colorado, for example, the Leftist control comes from a narrow band of population mostly centered in the Boulder/Denver corridor. The rest of the state is conservative and fed up with the abuses by the Left as this once-great state is in a death spiral of Leftist control. I believe that a coordinated effort by the state GOP to get signatures demanding the state purge the bogus registrations uncovered by the fractal computing process could come up with a million signatures. Or many hundreds of thousands of signatures supporting the legal actions I mentioned.

        And I think this is probably true of every blue state, and definitely in the red states, which still have the same problems.

        The thing is, these efforts can now be documented and proven. Say for example the election commission, or whoever is in charge of mailing ballots, is presented with proof that 364 registrations give a residence address that is a vacant lot, along with a photo of the vacant lot, and a demand that these names be removed from the registration rolls and mailing list. Then if ballots are mailed to these people, and/or to this address, there is prima facie evidence of at the very least election official incompetence if not purposeful manipulation. Then if any of those ballots are cast as votes and counted, there are that number of people who have been disenfranchised by having their votes illegally cancelled by illegal votes. If fractal computing can prove that (1) officials were given the names and addresses in question; (2) still sent ballots to those people/addresses; and (3) those ballots were cast and counted as votes there should be no problem in mounting a class action suit with the number of votes cancelled by the bogus votes forming the plaintiff pool.

        If the legislature or Secretary of State or whoever the controlling entity is proceeds to “certify” a proven false vote count, that should result in a lawsuit against the individuals and the state and the removal of that state’s Electoral College votes.

        Remember, Leftists are cowards, hiding behind anonymity and the cloaking of official titles. So name them. Make each and every one publicly responsible for everything that is done, and legally liable as well.

      • Amazona's avatar Amazona May 25, 2025 / 1:55 pm

        What ever happened regarding that midnight shipment of filled-in ballots from New York to Pennsylvania? The truck driver signed a sworn affidavit that he was told to drive thousands of these ballots to a site in Pennsylvania and unhook his trailer and drive off, and he was attacked and ridiculed. Then four years later the Post Office admitted that yes, this happened, and no, it was not something that was part of official or normal business, and yes, that trailer with its thousands of completed ballots was never accounted for. So what happened to them? Are we supposed to believe that a “someone” or many “someones” arranged to acquire thousands of mail ballots, fill them out, put them in “gaylords” or Post Office bins, load them onto a Post Office trailer, find a driver to take them across state lines (which ought to be significant) and arrange for that trailer and its cargo to “disappear” without ever counting those ballots?

        And then….crickets. The entire thing was shoved into the void. But an investigation ought to be able to find out who did what. We have the name of the driver, and he has the name of the supervisor who told him what to do. The trail of those involved is documented in employment records of the Post Office, at least back to a point where a third party got them involved. Don’t tell me that there is no back trail leading back to…..someone. As you say, “Get them to turn on their bosses…someone hired them, someone paid them.”

  4. jdge's avatar jdge May 25, 2025 / 9:30 pm

    Pope Leo confirms the church’s stance on marriage as the communion of 1 man and 1 woman. Given the many ambiguous statements from the last pope, this is a significant, needed clarification.

    “Every great crisis of truth is preceded by the corrupted of language. Language cannot be severed from reality without spiritual ruin. In the present hour a quiet revolution has taken place. Not by the sword but by syllables. Words uttered without reflection have become the scaffolding upon which the modern rejection of divine order is built. These words do not shout rebellion they whisper it. But their effect is no less corrosive to the moral and theological foundations of Christian civilization. These are not profanity in sound but in intent. Love is love, my truth, consenting adults, gender identity, assigned at birth, family is fluid, inclusivity, tolerance, affirming, safe space, hate speech, and progress. Each of these terms when wielded by the spirit of the age conceals more than it reveals. They are employed to silence conscience, to delegitimize divine law, and to enthrone the self as the final arbitrator of morality. Love severed from truth is no longer love but sentiment. And sentiment unmoored from objective reality quickly becomes the cloak for lies.

    Likewise, the term marriage equality cloaks a lie that all unions regardless of form or purpose are morally and socially interchangeable. Yet, equality in error in not justice, it is chaos disguised as compassion. And when tolerance becomes the supreme virtue, truth is banished as intolerance, and the gospel itself is recast as hate. These words are not merely linguistic choices they are ideological weapons. They form the catechism of a new creed. One that bows not to the cross but to the self. Not to the creator but to the creature.”

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona May 25, 2025 / 11:10 pm

      when tolerance becomes the supreme virtue, truth is banished as intolerance

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona May 26, 2025 / 8:35 am

      This is the most eloquent and profound statement I have ever read, and it gives me hope for this Pope and the Church.

      Love is love, my truth, consenting adults, gender identity, assigned at birth, family is fluid, inclusivity, tolerance, affirming, safe space, hate speech, and progress. Each of these terms when wielded by the spirit of the age conceals more than it reveals. They are employed to silence conscience, to delegitimize divine law, and to enthrone the self as the final arbitrator of morality.

  5. Retired Spook's avatar Retired Spook May 26, 2025 / 11:31 am

    Jeff Childers ends his Memorial Day post with these two simple, let eloquent sentences:

    May we never forget the cost of freedom. And may we, who do not fight, never stop being the kind of people who are worth fighting for.

    • Amazona's avatar Amazona May 27, 2025 / 12:16 pm

      One of the most poignant and meaningful phrases I have heard about our military is this:

      ALL GAVE SOME AND SOME GAVE ALL

  6. Amazona's avatar Amazona May 27, 2025 / 1:01 pm

    It’s a step in the right direction. Kaiser is still urging me to get my Covid jab, to which I once told an aide “Come toward me with a needle in your hand and I will hurt you”.

    I’m listening to a Michael Connolly book about Harry Bosch and Renee Ballard, taking place in early 2021, and it’s odd to hear what passed for rational thought and action just four short years ago. She is taking Harry to get the jab, though he has been putting it off, saying “we have to follow the science” and my reaction, listening to this as I am driving, is much like that of people in a movie theater when the kids in the woods, hearing the wolves howling, decide to go look for their missing friends:

    NO, HARRY, DON’T DO IT! RUN, HARRY, RUN!

    Everyone is wearing masks, or at least pulling them on when they need to interact with people. It’s funny/sad/tragic. Renee had Covid and thinks she has antibodies (a little nod to real science) but was really sick, and of course I thought if she only had a friend who brought back ivermectin from Mexico she would probably have been fine in a couple of days (nudge nudge wink wink).

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