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November 11, 2026

Happy Veteran's Day!

Thank you veterans. We owe you all more than words can express.

Without you there would be no America.

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Trump Now Wants to "Work With Democrats" on Immigration

Timothy Birdnow

This is the end of Trump and the end of the GOP if he is serious about this.

Trump Says He Can Work With Dems On Immigration After GOP Gets Smoked In Midterms

Part of why the GOP lost was the Administration was moving too slowly on deportations.

It is impossible to work with Democrats on this issue; they want to replace Americans with a more pliable electorate. If Trump seriously thinks they will work with him then he is in need of Adderall...

Anything they give him will be a poison pill.

If Hispanics don't like the Trump policy they should go back home. But the fact is while everyone cites the drop in support from Hispanics they don't actually delve into WHY Hispanic support dropped. I suspect it was a variety of things, most especially inflation.

You don't tailor your policy to buy votes based on bad demands, you explain your policy, promote it, and sell it. Politics is sales; you have to sell your people to the audience. And it is better to go down based on a righteous policy than to sell your soul to a bad one. The public sees through that usually.

Now is the time for Trump to double down on Trumpism. We need the old "give 'em hell" President we all know and love. That guy has largely been absent the last year; it's part of why the GOP lost. He wants to project a softer, gentler Trump so his legacy won't be so tarnished. But that is foolish, not what America voted for.

If he shows weakness the barbarians will storm the gates.

Trump is, I am sure, looking at a way he can extricate himself after his term of office is over. He figures he needs to go soft now, play nice, and hope the Demo-left lets him simply go into quiet retirement. Foolish if he believes that; they will destroy him, and his children too, no matter where he goes. They simply cannot allow a guy who thwarted them so effectively to just walk away because others might try it. This is gangster government and the Democrats are the Five Families. They have to get him to make it clear you NEVER cross them like that again.

Good luck with getting them to back off.

I hope Trump has a much better exit strategy.

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The Consulting Class Gave us the GOP Candidates that Cost the Election

Timothy Birdnow

The bottom line is that candidate quality does matter, but candidate quality isn’t necessarily what a lot of pundits will tell you according to Kurt Schlichter at Townhall.

He goes through and shows how it was primarily moderate and mediocre candidates who lost, the pastels the GOP consulting class is always saying are the winners. It wasn't MAGA except for Paxton in Texas, and there were other factors at work there (and Paxton got no money at all from the GOP.)

But the Karl Roves and other old guard Bush folks will tell us it was because MAGA is nuts and needed to be put in the ashbin of history, and we need to put the "adults" back in charge. You know, the guys who presided over America's decline and the extreme leftward movement of the country.

You may remember at the start of the Bush era we were a nation that opposed gay marriage, opposed transing children, wanted more oil and gas and more manufacturing, etc. By the end of Bush we were back to windmills and solar panels ala Jimmy Carter, had homosexual marriage and were promoting cutting off little boy's penises, were killing oil and gas exploration and production, were outsourcing most of our industry, and importing millions of illegal aliens. All on Bush's watch. Why? Because Bush did what those who put him in power wanted, and it was all of this leftist crap. We moved very far to the left under him, and that continued under Obama.

Trump was a reaction to that, a counter-revolution. But these people lurked in the tall grass, awaiting their chance. I believe they wanted to lose this election so they could take back "their" party.

Anyway Schlichter goes through many of these candidates the GOP ran and shows how their milquetoast mediocrity spelled doom for them. He didn't even go into the vote fraud, which was clear.

When Susan Collins is the best candidate you are fielding you are in big trouble.

The GOP deserved to lose.

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Calls for RINO Comeback

Timothy BIrdnow

At Hot Air Ed Morrissey discusses Ron DeSantis' call for a reform for conservative media.

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/11/09/desantis-time-for-a-bottom-up-reform-of-conservative-media-n3820805

Ed states:

"The future of the GOP will likely belong to a well-seasoned politician with a substantial track record of success in elections and policymaking, not a celebrity tycoon with a gift for connecting with the working class and charming media influencers into cheerleading roles. "

In other words, an Establishment Republican. This is the very thing that led to Donald Trump in the first place; it was Trump or the uniparty. Trump not only tried to work our will but he fought against odds that no "experienced politician" would dare stand against.

So much of this shellacking - massive fraud aside - stemmed from the GOP Congress not doing anything at all, not moving the Trump agenda through, and whose fault was that? The "experienced politicians" who insisted they knew better than Trump.

The very worst thing we can do is draw our next candidates from the pool of experienced politicians. Yes, they don't make the mistakes that the novices make, but they also mostly have sold their souls for power and they will do nothing to restore America. They will just promise to manage our decline better.

Folks, it's the last thing we need.

He's right about the need to reform conservative media, largely because Fox News and the rest f the Murdoch empire is in bed with the RINO wing (Karl Rove is on the board, for crying out loud) and they have been moving leftward for a long time now. They have been erstwhile friends of the People, but great friends to the pro-amnesty, pro-internationalism of the Establishment. That is what was killing this country in the first place.

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Iran Demands U.S. Surrender

Timothy Birdnow

You almost have to admire the gigantic balls on these jerks.

Diplomacy: Iran Demands U.S. ‘Surrender’ to All Its Demands

"The war on Iran has already wrecked the U.S. government. But Washington flails like a desperate gambler,” Rezaei sneered in a Monday night post on social media platform X.

"FOLD YOUR HAND. STOP manufacturing FAKE NEWS about imaginary talks. Stop denying the West Asian NEW ORDER,” he wrote.

"Time to SURRENDER to the seven conditions Iran has repeatedly set out,” he demanded.

Might I suggest he fold HIS hands and kiss his anus goodbye.

The 7 terms include what was in the Memorandum of Understanding the U.S. agreed to and that Iran violated, plus a promise of no new military action and reparations to be paid by the United States while Iran promises no concessions at all.

Yeah...right.

Iran is like the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail; after having all four limbs severed he offers to call the fight a draw, then says he'll bite King Arthur's leg off as Arthur steps around him.

Until we get back to bombing them into the stone age they will continue to play their little games and act as if they won the war.

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And The Dead Shall Rise - and Go Into Public Service

Timothy Birdnow

The Bible says in the End Times the dead shall rise. Why not elect them to office?

Why not. Missouri elected a dead guy to the U.S. Senate some years back when Mel Carnahan (I'm related to him) died in a plane crash.

Literal Dead Guy Leading In Too Close To Call California Election

From the Daily Caller:

Candidate Bruce Giudici is currently leading the race for Board of Supervisors in Calaveras County, California, over two months after he suddenly died in August.

Giudici is currently leading the race with 56.99 percent of the vote despite the fact that he passed away on Aug. 31 after he fell while door-knocking in the area. He was just two weeks shy of his 69th birthday.

fin

If there was ever proof that God didn't want this guy on the board it is this, yet the lunatics in that great funny farm on the Pacific are actually voting for this guy anyway.

We live in interesting times.

How will the dead guy exercise his vote on the boards?

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They Throw Ole Massie Into the Ditch

Timothy Birdnow

The horse he run, he jump, he kick, he throw ole Massie into the ditch...

House Rejects Rep. Massie’s Impeachment Effort Targeting Hegseth

Thomas Massie has shown who he truly is in these final days in office and it isn't pretty. We are well-rid of the creep.

There ought to be a rule that says lame ducks can't file such articles on their way out the door. In fact we need to turn Congress over much more quickly in general.

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Jordan Takes Reins of House Republicans

Timothy Birdnow

Republicans in the House are scared and they showed the fact by electing Jim Jordan as Minority Leader with minimal opposition.

Two years ago they fought bitterly over who would be Squeeker, and rejected Jordan out of hand because he was too conservative - and combative - for their tastes. Instead they chose Mike Johnson (who I designated "tiny" because he came in so squishy, even though he got better in time) as a man everyone could tolerate, a vanilla candidate.

But now they know they are going to war and need a warrior.

It's a good sign. Now we have to see who steps up to the plate in the Senate. John Thune was the main problem in the whole Congress since Trump's re-election and it was he who blocked almost all legislation, souring the American People on the GOP.

Thune was working on behalf of the RINO wing of the party and it showed; he blocked President Trump at every turn even though Trump endorsed him for Majority Leader. Thune refused to bring issues up for votes, claiming he didn't have the numbers. Issues like the SAVE America Act, which were hugely popular with the general public. He never realized that just putting that up for a vote put everyone on record, and the Democrats would be on defensive, having voted against this bill. That's how politics works; you don't just sit and wait for the numbers to favor passage.

And you whip. You cajole, horse-trade, and threaten to get the votes. You don't just ay "the votes aren't there" and leave it at that.

I would add Thune kept the Senate in a pro-forma session so Trump couldn't make any recess appointments; no other reason.

The public wanted action and it got nothing at all from the Senate. At least Tiny passed some bills which the Senate killed.

This recent election was a referendum on Congress, not President Trump. Congress lost big time.

(Yes, the election was stolen and we even know the algorithm they used to drastically increase Democrat votes, but that is a story for another post.)

So the GOP picking Jordan, and his easy victory, speaks volumes; the House at least understands what they need to do. I rather doubt the Senate will do likewise.

UPDATE: It's Thune again in the Senate. Rather like picking George Armstrong Custer to be your next general after Little Big Horn.

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Uncivil War

Timothy Birdnow

Sorry but wishful thinking isn't going to fix the problem of stolen elections, and that is what this is.

Can President Trump Beat the Cheat?

If he couldn't STOP the cheat before the election he sure can't fix it after. The Democrats now have a nationwide machine and they will own America forever. WE have become a political gulag.

Most of the commenters on this article agree; this is dim-witted optimism.

Many of them are saying they see no point in voting and I get that, but it is foolish. At least we should make the Democrats expose themselves more each election cycle. If you don't want to vote Republican anymore - and I get that as the GOP Establishment was in cahoots with the Democrats in my opinion - fine but pick another party. Maybe we should all move to the Constitution Party and let the GOP die with the RINO's who so dearly love their power there.

The GOP is not just a tarnished brand, it's a toxic brand and the public has now seen they do not do what they promise. Winning the public back is going to be a big task and it's not going to happen because the party is still full of those Establishment types (like John Thune) who refused to move Trump's agenda in the first place and who didn't care about the concerns of the voters and who refused to defend the President and his record.

I would add this smells much like a Color Revolution. I am always blaming the CIA for this kind of stuff but given the fact there was a clear algorithm that took 15% of Republican votes and flipped them to the Democrats it really stinks of their hand in it. Trump should have completely gutted the CIA but he failed to do that.

At any rate the cow has left the barn, the ills have left Pandora's box, and America's free and fair elections are now just memories. We live in a one party state now and if they don't like what you say...

I've studied Communist nations quite a bit over the years and often this is how it happens. Yes, on occasion they actually seize power, but more often they "win" power through electoral fraud and stirring up riots and "protests" and bullying the public into either not voting or they just change those votes when they count them. America has gone the very same path as did Venezuela. And we'll have the same outcome; poverty, starvation, etc.

It is a rare thing indeed for a Communist country to come back, at least not without foreign intervention (as in the Eastern Block). Communists are idiots in terms of what they want but they are masters at the tactics to acquire the power to get what they want - and extremely dangerous combination.

Now is perhaps the time to look to the Founding Fathers and follow in their footsteps.

The term Civil War is a misnomer and the Southerners were right to call it the War Between the States; it wasn't a civil war. Calling it that was pure propaganda as Lincoln and the Unionists could not legally invade those states - there is nothing in the Constitution that says membership is eternal - so he had to devise a way to pass legal muster and that was by calling it an INSURRECTION which he legally could suppress by force. So his Administration pronounced it a civil war as opposed to a war between states because the latter had an aura of legitimacy for the Confederate cause.

The only place there was a true civil war was in Missouri and Kansas.

When Kansas was opened for settlement it was under the horrible idea of Popular Sovereignty devised by Stephen Douglass. This ended the Missouri Compromise which said that every slave state admitted to the Union had to be balanced by a free state. Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland,, and Delaware were north of the arbitrary line dividing free and slave areas - the Mason Dixon line. Douglass and the other Southern leaders knew that both Nebraska and Kansas were going to come in as free states, and California had already come in as a free state despite a good chunk of it being south of the Mason Dixon line, and the territories in the Southwest were underpopulated and when they did come in would likely come in as non-slave states (during the war Nevada was admitted, mostly because that was Lincoln country and he needed their electoral college votes in the election of 1864.)

So the idea was everyone would vote on what kind of state they would be.

The end result was chaos. People from all over the north flocked to Kansas (Nebraska was never going to be an issue) and tried to turn it into a free state, and southerners likewise flocked there for cheap land and to keep Kansas in the fold. Civil disorder and violence came almost immediately to Kansas, and to south-western Missouri. There were the Border Ruffians, Southern men who were trying to drive the northern settlers out. (They had established their base in a town they named Lawrence, and it became the equivalent of Carthage to a Roman to the Southerners.)

The Northerners were no choir boys; they established the Jayhawkers, groups of irregulars, who would raid Missouri farms and take the slaves away but also usually stole everything that wasn't nailed down and burned the homes of the residents, and often hanged the men. The James Farm, sitting at a major crossroads, was raided multiple times, and in fact the James women were raped and beaten almost to death while the elder James was hanged and, while he did not die, he was brain damaged thereafter and required a lot of care. After that young Jesse, who had been out hunting, rode off to join his brother in Quantrill's irregulars.

Quantrill and his troops were amazingly successful at guerilla fighters, and they ran the Union Army a merry chase as Missouri fell into the grip of the North. Eventually they raided Lawrence but failed to get Senator James Lane, the principle architect of the policies of abusing Confederate Missourians and the guy who pretty much ran the Red Legs, the most hated group of Jayhawkers. Thomas Ewing, the brother in law of William Tecumseh Sherman, was one of the founders of the Red Legs. Read more about them here.

Read my own, lengthy post about the Bushwackers here.

Anyway, to get to the point, this was a true civil war, not the battles between generals in the East.

But there is more to this and it ties in with the current situation. The Governor of Missouri and the state legislature wanted to secede, and so probably did a majority of Missourians (they didn't do all the polling like now). So they created a 100 man committee to draft a new Constitution in which Missouri would declare it's dissolution of union and join the Confederacy. Funny thing though; somehow the abolitionists managed to pack this committee and they voted 99 to 0 to remain in the Union (in violation of their charter) and they then declared the entire state government illegal and made themselves the new state government.

As you can imagine the legislature and governor were appalled. They refused to recognize the legitimacy of this body. Enter Nathaniel Lyon, Lincoln's point man. He rounded up a bunch of Germans and marched on the state militia, which was doing drills in St. Louis, They arrested the militia (who did not have much live ammo) and marched them through the city to the Federal Arsenal (where Anheuser Busch now sits). At one point a woman hurled insults at the Germans, a scuffle started, and then shooting broke out with the locals shooting at the recruits. Sherman was there with his little son and had to lay on top of the kid to protect him.

After this Lyon went on the offensive; chasing the Legislature out of Jefferson city and all the way down to the southwest corner of the state where he was finally stopped (by a bullet).Quantrill was there, fighting on the side of the Confederates at the time (Quantrill had come to Kansas as one of the abolitionists but he turned against them in a big way.)

At any rate this led to open warfare across the state, with the Confederates not really having any troops to fight the Union but with the nastiest type of warfare - Guerilla warfare - being ongoing. Quantrill's lieutenant was a man named Bill Anderson, and Anderson became known as Bloody Bill, and he was too blood thirsty even for Quantrill so he split off. Quantrill's band was a who's who of the old West - the James=Younger Gang, the Dalton Gang, and their brother frank Dalton who woud become a legend as sheriff of Ft. Smith Arkansas (while his brothers were pretty dim and incompetent for outlaws). A bunch of others came out of this band.

My point is it was a dirty political move that triggered the true civil war in America back then, and it just may trigger another. When the public is denied their basic civil rights they rebel, and when it's done is so devious a way they really rebel. We still have our guns after all.

And I doubt the military will be willing to fire on American civilians with their best weaponry. Maybe they might shoot back if shot at, but I suspect if they are ordered to go into a protest and shoot the people there most of them will refuse those unlawful orders.

I once wrote a blogpost about Nathaniel Lyon but can't find it now; too bad.

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South Korean Vote Fraud

Timothy Birdnow

They did the same thing in South Korea that they did here.

Worldwide the Ruling Class has made their move to take power permanently. The Kingdom of Antichrist is rising.

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The Texas Two Step

Timothy Birdnow

More on the big steal.

From the article:

I had Gemini take the information in Bass’s chart and apply the same analysis to midterm turnout going back to 1960. To show the difference between presidential years and midterms, I had it look at turnout in both types of elections.

The data is simply staggering. Over the last 66 years, the average decline for Democrats in midterm elections from the prior presidential election was 22.8%, while for Republicans it was 23.1%.

However, the 2018 midterms were different. While GOP turnout declined by 19.3% from the presidential election, consistent with previous patterns, the Democrat decline from 2016 was only 1.8%, which stands out as anomalous.

In 2026, if the numbers hold, the GOP will again hew to this 66-year pattern, with turnout 25.5% lower than in 2024. Meanwhile, the Democrat turnout in the midterm will be a mere .6% lower than in 2024.

So basically, Republicans voted normally in 2018 and 2016 while Democrats turned out in numbers literally never seen before, and it’s not even close.

That simply doesn’t hold water. Sure, Democrats hate Trump, but they hated Nixon even more. Nevertheless, in 1970, with Vietnam raging and the Weather Underground leftists carrying out bombings from Berkeley to New York to Chicago, the Democrat decline in turnout from 1968 was 18%.

So what can be done about this? Maybe if we find clear evidence of fraud in one or two elections we can challenge the outcomes (especially in Texas) but in the end this was so sweeping nothing at all will happen and the Democrats will have stolen our entire government and there is nothing we can do about it. Frankly we should toss the entire election out and hold a new one but that will never happen.

This is absolutely inexcusable and something MUST be done, something that addresses any foreign actors involved as well as our Deep State and the Democratic Party. But Trump will be alone in this as the RIN wing will say it's time to "move on" and Karl Rove will be out there in his usual, fat, self satisfied way calling for the GOP to move to the middle and reject MAGA.

If we had lost fair and square so be it, but we did not. More and more this looks like something Fidel Castro would have done.

There is more:

And in Texas some strange things are going on. In what was, until Tuesday, one of the reddest and most prosperous states in the Union, Democrats suddenly increased their off-year election total by almost two million, or 47% (3.55M to 5.23M). Moreover, they did so in a state where the population grew by fewer than 2 million American citizens between 2022 and 2026. What’s more, of that 2M population growth, at least 30% were children, who can’t legally vote.

That’s about 1.4 million new potential voters. Generally, 65% of American adults vote in any given election, which should mean about 1 million new voters in Texas. But we’re supposed to believe that in one of America’s reddest states Democrats not only took 100% of the new voters, but drew an additional million voters from the GOP or elsewhere? All while the Republicans showed up in exactly the expected numbers?

And somehow, the Democrat gubernatorial candidate, Gina Hinojosa, someone whom practically no one knew, who had been down by 2 points going into Tuesday, magically ends up winning by 8 points.

Texas was unquestionably a Charlie foxtrot theft and what the hell was the Secretary of State doing there? I don't blame the guy who took over as SOS in July; I blame the deep state woman (Nelson) who was in charge for the last few years. This doesn't seem like a problem of incompetence; it seems like a purposeful act BY THE REPUBLICANS to turn Texas purple. Nelson had to have gotten wind to some of what was happening.

I feel like Glenn Ford inThe Brotherhood of the Bell "Did you go to the college of St. George?" I suspect the beauteous Jane Nelson did indeed go to the college of St. George, or it's deep state equivalent. Nelson had to either but grossly incompetent (something that does not appear to be the case) or she was in on it. I believe the latter.

Case in point; Nelson asked a court to close a lawsuit BY REPUBLICANS to force a closing of party primaries. Democrats can vote in Republican primaries in Texas and Nelson wanted that to continue.

I am convinced this woman is dirty. She was a machine politician and I think the GOP wanted a blowout to end MAGA in Texas forever. If it meant being in the minority so be it; they like being the minority as it means they don't have to do any work, just enjoy the fruits of power without having to stick their bejeweled necks out.

From the article:

The Republican Party of Texas has moved in recent years to end open primaries, arguing Democrats and independents routinely cross over to influence Republican nominations.

In 2024, GOP primary voters approved a ballot proposition supporting closed primaries, and delegates to the party’s convention that same year later adopted Rule 46, which would limit participation in Republican primaries to registered Republicans.

However, Nelson argues the current version of Rule 46 that was approved by the State Republican Executive Committee is temporary and will not take effect unless it is ratified by party delegates at a future state convention.

In her reply supporting a motion to dismiss, Nelson argues that the party is asking the court to strike down state election law without first finalizing how its own closed-primary system would operate.

"Because the Party did not have a closed-primary rule set to govern any primary when it filed its complaint—and still does not have one even now—it does not presently have any associational injury to assert,” the filing states.

Nelson also argues the case is not ripe for judicial review, stating that even under the GOP’s own internal rules, any closed-primary system could not apply until at least 2028—meaning the 2026 Primary Election would proceed under existing open-primary law regardless of the lawsuit’s outcome.

The reply further challenges Attorney General Ken Paxton’s decision to side with the Texas GOP and seek a fast resolution through a joint motion for consent judgment declaring the open-primary system unconstitutional.

Nelson argues Paxton lacks authority to waive the state’s sovereign immunity or bind Texas to an agreed judgment.

So she did not side with her own party here. Why is that? She is Secretary of State and it is her job to guarantee free and fair elections and letting Democrats tamper with the primaries is not fulfilling her oath of office.

I am convinced this woman had her hand in the steal.

Oh, and here's a little something more:

The changing of the guard is not unique,” said Chris McGinn, executive director for Texas Association of County Election Officials. "It is just more so the timing. And I think just from the greater political atmosphere, the concern is ‘why now?’”

McGinn said appointing an election denier could disrupt the election and sow distrust in the electoral process. He pointed to Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who stood against efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 presidential election results despite the political pressures from Trump.

"If he weren't in place in Georgia, we could have a very different outcome,” McGinn said. "So, I think the fear is, if we don't have that support from the secretary of state’s office in Texas, who knows what the outcome can be.”

So this director of county election officials worries about "deniers" and wants a creep like Raffensburger in place so nobody would look too closely at the election results and procedures. I don't know how powerful this guy's position is, but he shouldn't be there in the first place.

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And the Skies are not Cloudy all Day!

Timothy Birdnow

It's the clouds, stupid!

Trends and Variability of Surface Solar Radiation in Europe Based On Surface- and Satellite-Based Data Records

Plain Language Summary

The incoming solar radiation is the essential climate variable that determines the Earth's climate. As surface measurements of solar radiation are rare, satellite data are used to derive more information in space and time. Recently, the EUMETSAT Satellite Application on Climate Monitoring (CM SAF) has published two new satellite-based climate data records: Surface Solar Radiation Data Set-Heliosat, Edition 2 (SARAH-2), and Clouds and Radiation Data Set based on AVHRR (advanced very high resolution radiometer) Satellite Measurements, Edition 2 (CLARA-A2). Both satellite-based data records provide estimates of surface solar radiation and can capture what is observed by station measurements in Europe. The proven high accuracy of the CM SAF's climate data records allows the detailed analysis of surface solar radiation during the last three decades. A positive trend is observed by the station and satellite data, meaning surface radiation has increased since the 1980s, mainly in eastern and northwestern Europe. Some discrepancies between satellite and station data are found in the Mediterranean summer likely due to aerosol effects. It is concluded that the main reason for the observed positive trend in surface solar radiation in Europe since the 1980s is a change in clouds.

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And the Skies are not Cloudy all Day!

Timothy Birdnow

It's the clouds, stupid!

Trends and Variability of Surface Solar Radiation in Europe Based On Surface- and Satellite-Based Data Records

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November 09, 2026

The Red Swastika

Chet McAteer

THE RED SWASTIKA: HOW HITLER, MUSSOLINI, AND LENIN WERE BROTHERS IN COLLECTIVISM AND WHY THE "RIGHT-WING NAZI” IS THE GREATEST LIE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

[If Nazism was Right-wing, then define Right-wing.

Not by pointing at the Left and saying "the opposite of that.” Not by saying "not-Communist.” Not by borrowing the Left’s own taxonomy and flipping it. You can’t. Because no one can. Oddly, I’ve yet to find anyone who can define Right-Wing outside the definition of Left-Wing — which is exactly the tell....there is little, if any difference. Show how the so-called Right-Wing is any different than the Left-Wing?]

For eighty years the world has been taught a false taxonomy. Communism is placed on the Left. Fascism and Nazism are placed on the Right.

That lie was invented by Communists after 1945. It was invented to wash their own hands of their German cousins. It has been repeated ever since by schools, universities, and media.

The truth is simpler and far more damning. National Socialism was a Socialist movement. It was born of Marxism. It was raised in the German Social-Democratic tradition. It was carried to its logical conclusion by men who never once defended individual liberty, free markets, limited government, private property, or the rule of law. Those are the actual principles of the Right.

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November 08, 2026

When a Donut Just Won't Do

Timothy Birdnow

It's just a little three footer, a baby.

Alligator sneaks into North Carolina bagel shop, sends owner scrambling in encounter caught on camera

This is actually a great opportunity for this company; they should use a gator is it's mascot.

When I worked in real estate I went into an apartment to do a move-out inspection. I went into the bathroom and started looking at the sink when movement caught my eye in the mirror. I turned around to find not one but TWO three foot alligators in the bathtub, eyeing me hungrily. They obviously hadn't eaten in a while and the were both up on the edge of the tub, jaws wide open, staring at me. I was out the door in one leap! The very last thing you expect is to find two alligators taking a bath in an apartment.

One of the guys who worked for us was an expert on reptiles and he went and got them out and took them to a special farm where they could live out their days. That guy had some stones; he would pick up snakes without thinking twice. In fact, he was one of the very few people on Earth to survive a bite by a Gila Monster. And he had a cobra that got out of it's cage and crawled into the wall of his apartment. He wasn't worried; slept there every night. The thing was on the loose for months before he finally caught it. Crazy so and so.

I wonder if the authorities sent a veterinarian along with animal control. After all, the critter was probably thirsty and needed some gator-aid...

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The FAA is SO Retro!

Timothy Birdnow

Glad to see our government is so cutting edge!

FAA says air traffic control will phase out floppy disks in the next two years

Now maybe they can get rid of their old Betamax training tapes and use VHS!

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Steal Magnolias

Timothy Birdnow

The Big Steal:

Election Worker Claims Republican Votes for Andy Biggs Were Discarded During Ballot Adjudication — Over 54% of Adjudicated Ballots Flagged as Overvotes

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MORE IMPOSSIBLE 2026 ELECTION RESULTS: In State After State, GOP Down-Ballot Republicans Received More Votes than the Senate and Governor Races

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Triple Amputee Vet Charged $3 M, Made to do 750 hours of manual labor with just one hand

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Why hasn't anyone alerted Trump to this? Trump can issue a pardon, can't he?

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Democrat feds who put triple-amputee veteran Brian Kolfage in prison for getting privately funded border walls constructed are now telling him he must perform 750 hours of MANUAL labor as part of his community service on TOP of the almost $3M restitution. NO work from home options.

This is a video I took of Brian getting off a bus before one of our border town halls in 2019. He literally always needs someone to help him when he goes anywhere.

You can't do Manual labor with one hand. DISGUSTING behavior by America-hating leftist feds.

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Help Triple-Amputee Veteran Brian Kolfage. Kolfage was wrongfully imprisoned by the infamous SDNY Democrat operatives for being paid an approved salary for his part in getting miles of privately funded border wall built in Texas and New Mexico.

The Obama activist judge abused

Disgusting indeed and the Trump Administration needs to take action. If nothing else Trump should pardon this poor soul.

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The Cool Hand Luke Election

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As in Cool Hand Luke "what we have here is a failure to communicate".

I agree; this was primarily a problem of messaging - not the war, and not "affordability" and not anything else based on policy. Trump's policies would all have been popular had the GOP defended them to the American People.

Reasons for GOP losses — a failure of communication — prices same without the "war”

Prices would have been the same no matter what Trump did because the money supply remains inflated and Trump has no control over that, plus the interest rates remain high and Trump has no control over that either. Trump's big mistake was appointing to head up the Federal Reserve another Keynsian, this one an "inflation hawk" meaning he will raise rates to "keep the economy from overheating" aka to avoid economic growth on the ridiculous theory that people buying more raises the price of things (as if businesses don't just make more stuff.

Yes, Trump did impose tariffs on goods, but there is zero actual evidence tariffs drive up prices in any major way. History is full of raised tariffs and was not accompanied by inflation.

Trump needed to explain all this. For reasons that are baffling he didn't. I suspect it was because his top advisers - especially Susie Wiles - told him to back off, to avoid getting into those fights because the big donors wouldn't give to these candidates. Well, how did that work out for ya?

Trump wins when he's being Trump. The problem is there are always people trying to reshape him and push him into doing things that he doesn't think is right. We needed the old "give 'em hell Donald" but got Bush II this election. Someone convinced him to tone it down. Of course, I've heard that from Republicans for years now, saying "I love his policies but wish he'd tone it down" well, this is what you get when Trump tones it down. The public may claim they don't like that but the reality is they love it, it's the very same reason pro-wrestling is popular. It was why Bill Clinton had such high poll numbers.

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The Fetid Swamp

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This morning Western Journalism is chock-full of stories about the corruption and duplicity of the bureaucracy and even White House insiders who appear to have plotted the overthrow of the GOP.

First, we have this report in which former RFK Jr. adviser Calley Means dishes to Joe Rogain, er Rogan:

The advisor who broached the alliance between President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. expressed disappointment with remarkable candor in an interview on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast on Friday.

"There is a very concentrated group of people in the Trump administration that are antagonistic to what people voted for and, I think it’s very clear, are doing things for other reasons, particularly in many cases to enrich their families,” said former Kennedy advisor Calley Means.

"The way this White House is set up, it has the most centralized control, up to the chief of staff’s office, of any administration in American history.”

That chief of staff was, of course, Susie Wiles, the recently departed Ice queen.

Means has more to say on that:

In the first Trump administration, the White House policy shop operated separately from the political fundraising apparatus. But according to Means, they were indistinguishable in his second administration.

"Day one, we made the midterm strategy the policy strategy. So she would often say that we can’t do certain things because that would hurt special interest configurations for the midterms,” he said.

Wiles was the head of Trump's campaign arm and was his primary fundraiser.

This explains much, because Wiles courted the same donors who the Bush family courted, and they expected the same tired policies. That's why Trump seemed so much less, well, fun to be a bit imprecise, in this term. He was a hellraiser in his first term but seemed much more circumspect this time around. It seems that was the workings of Wiles and no doubt the other big money peeps in the Administration - Tony Fabrizio, a pollster, political fundraisers James Blair and Chris LaCivita are mentioned in the article. Wiles was a standard issue political call girl.

And Fabrizio was a pollster so we had Clinton-style governance by polling. Well, he isn't a very good pollster apparently...

Means has more to say in the second article, warning a bunch of insiders are purposely trying to bring hte Trump presidency down.

Meanwhile, a bunch of government employees with high level security clearances were caught spying for foreign powers.

One was a guy spying for Ethiopia, one Ibraham Teklu Lemma. Now, a man named Ibraham Teklu Lemma is undoubtedly going to be spying for Ethiopia, and he should never have had a security clearance in the first place. The article does not state if he's an immigrant or not, but top security clearances should only go to native born Americans. Our love of "diversity" is going to be the death of us.

The Ethiopian spy worked at State Department, Justice Department and National Reconnaissance Office, according to the article.

I must complain; when I was a young man I couldn't get hired on in government work, despite the Cold War still ongoing and I a Russian and history major. Neither could anyone else from the Russian program. But some goat herder from the land of very skinny people comes here and gets a top job at State. That is bullpoop. There are plenty of qualified Americans who could take those jobs, but our government decided it was more important to have foreigners running things because, like diversity is our strength and stuff!

The article does not say this guy is an immigrant, but I suspect that is the case.

Just so you know I'm not picking on ferners, another sleezeball traitor - this guy a top CIA contractor named Thomas Ashbacher, got busted for leaking top secret stuff to his journalist girlfriend.

And the best is of course James "86 47" Comey was arrested and is facing felony charges. Hopefully they will get the rotten scumbag this time. Comeover is charged with leaking classified information to the press.

At any rate our government is just crawling with swamp creatures great and small and Trump has been unable to drain it - no doubt do to the gentle intervention of Wiles, who appears to be as swampy as it comes.

I am so glad she's gone.

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