March 23, 2026
Push Polling
Timothy Birdnow
Well duh! If you ask people if they LIKE higher gas prices what do you think they will say?
Poll: 66% of Americans disapprove of Trump on gas prices as they feel effects of Iran war
I suspect there was no context or nuance to this poll. They just talked about gas prices and asked the participants if they approve.
FTA:
The Yahoo/YouGov poll finds that 80% of Americans — including 71% of Republicans — already say gas prices are too high, and more than two thirds (67%) expect those prices to go up over the next few months. Forty-five percent of Americans think gas prices will go up "a lot.” Even Republicans are more likely to think that gas prices will go up (about 45%) than down (40%) in the months ahead.
And among Americans who think gas prices are going up, 60% say Trump "deserves the most blame” — far more than the number who say the same about Iran (13%) or oil companies (12%).
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In general, a majority of Americans have a negative view of the U.S. economy right now:
71% now say the economy is in fair or poor condition
75% now say they are paying more for the same goods and services than they were a few years ago
61% now say inflation is getting worse; just 16% say it’s getting better
58% now say the economy is getting worse; just 20% say it’s getting better
54% now say the country is either headed for a recession or already in one
Three weeks into the war, more Americans disapprove (55%) than approve (36%) of the way Trump is handling Iran. His approval rating on foreign policy in general has decreased from 39% approve, 51% disapprove in January to 35% approve, 56% disapprove today.
Trump’s overall approval rating — 38% approve, 59% disapprove — hasn’t changed significantly over the last month. But among Republicans, a gap seems to be forming between perceptions of Trump and perceptions of how he’s handling key aspects of his job. For example: while only 17% of Republicans express general disapproval of Trump’s performance as president, roughly twice as many disapprove of his handling of gas prices (33%) and the cost of living (33%)
And yet this stands at odds with recent polling showing an approval of the war at 43% among the American public. 33% disapprove, and the middle remains in a muddle as always.
So more people approve of the attack than not, and Yahoo/YouGov. can't report THAT so they backdoor it by narrowing their focus to gas prices. Nobody likes high gas prices, except maybe Democrats.
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Germany to Double Down on Immigration
Timothy Birdnow
The Germans are absolutely determined to erase their nation.
At least they wised up and aren't importing Middle Easterners or Islamic Africans, but that will be cold comfort when the nation becomes a Third World hellhole.
The Europeans bought into The Population Bomb, the seminal work of the recently deceased Paul Ehrlich, and they have taken steps to cut their population growth. But who does the work when you aren't having children? The European answer was to open the borders and take in Third World people. And not just take them in but keep them to encourage the immigration to keep coming. No guest worker program only.
One of the big problems in our modern day is automation takes jobs from people and there is no reason why Germany couldn't automate more. But they aren't because that is not in the interests of the ruling class, which wants to provide a hammock for voters so they continue to keep them in power, and automation requires people to actually do something. Germany, quasi socialist in her leanings, doesn't want that; they want sloth, because lazy people won't care about the mechanisms of running their country.
So answer me this; Germany is the fourth richest nation on Earth, but then India is the fifth so why do the Germans need them? For that matter why do the Indians, whom we regard as impoverished Third World types, need German jobs?
Because Germany simply discourages work while India encourages not just work but anything that helps attract capital.
It's a tale of two mindsets - Germany does not think like a nation on the rise but rather of one managing it's inevitable and absolute decline while India, after centuries of poverty and learning what NOT to do, is rising. They WANT to work, to earn, to be more than they are now. The Krauts are completely content living the easy life and going quietly into that good night.
Oh, this little nugget is interesting:
His first call was to the head of the local butchers' guild. Butchers all over Germany were having a particularly hard time. It was a sector in marked decline.
From 19,000 small, family-run businesses in 2002, there were fewer than 11,000 left by 2021. Employers were finding it almost impossible to recruit young people to take up an apprenticeship.
"The butchery trade is hard work," says the butchers' guild head, Joachim Lederer. "And for the last 25 years or so, young people have been going in other directions."
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What is left unsaid is that the vast immigration of Muslims to Germany is as much responsible for this lack of butchers than anything; Muslims can only eat Halal foods, and a German butcher isn't acceptable. So what happens? They have to go looking for Hindus to do the work Muslims Just Won't Do.
It is exactly what happened to the Romans; they had it so good they stopped working, living off the charity of Caesar (and their fellow Roman's taxes) and they became useless while the Germans showed up and did the work for them. In the end there was not just a Roman culture but a German one occupying the same space - they had the very multiculturalism that has been the dream of the Western liberals for a generation now. In the end the more vigorous culture won out and Rome died.
Germany will die if they don't stop this, as will "Great" Britain (we should call it Lesser Britain now) and France and every other useless nation that voluntarily submitted to their own demise. Oh, and let's not forget Australia and Canada. The U.S. is doing better now but it's still not out of the woods. This was an intellectual and spiritual plague.
BTW I am mindful of the Old Testament when the Israelites were first coming into the Promised Land. God told them that if they failed to keep His statutes "the land will vomit you out, just as it vomited out the Canaanites". That is what is currently happening to the Western World; the land is vomiting everyone out because Christendom rejected Christ and accepted a dark, unholy god called Progressivism.
Eventually Germany will not be German in anything but name, and then it won't even be that. Spain was once Iberia. France was Gaul. Even the names change when the People change.
So c'est Lavie, Germany. You made your bed and now are going to find a stranger lying in it.
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More Climate Kookiness
Timothy Birdnow
Uh, there has been no net increase in planetary ice loss despite what these clowns are claiming.
So what was the Earth doing during non-ice age times, lie the Silurian or the Jurassic or early Cretaceous?
The claim here is melting ice from the poles is causing the Earth's rotation to slow, even though the overall mass of the Earth's hydrological system remains unchanged.
From the so-called article:
New research shows that rising sea levels caused by melting ice sheets are redistributing mass across the planet, reducing how fast Earth spins and gradually lengthening the day. Researchers found that days are currently increasing by about 1.33 milliseconds per century due to climate-related factors, a pace that stands out sharply in the planet’s recent geological history.
I can tell you that we don't know for sure about the Silurian, but during the Jurassic it was [lin=https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=1eb495325707f905fca518754a8d46b5824cc753357e93cacf2936d4c9b1da65JmltdHM9MTc3NDA1MTIwMA&ptn=3&ver=2&hsh=4&fclid=1c2f0888-4c6b-6ebb-2cce-1e464d3e6fbc&psq=how+long+ws+the+day+during+the+jurassic+compared+to+now&u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY25uLmNvbS8yMDIwLzAzLzEzL3dvcmxkL2Vhcmx5LWVhcnRoLXNob3J0ZXItZGF5LXNjbi8]shorter than it is now (23.5 hours) and during the Cretaceous it was about the same. Both periods were noted for there being NO icecaps anywhere, no glaciers. The late Cretaceous was also ice free. BTW a wobble in the Earth's axial tilt was likely responsible for the cold snap in the early Cretaceous and the later warming period and NOT atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Here's more on the axial tilt business:
When audiences watched The Day After Tomorrow, they saw a dramatic Hollywood depiction of sudden climate chaos. The film greatly compresses the timeline, but the underlying idea that Earth’s climate can change abruptly is supported by scientific evidence. During the last Ice Age, for instance, temperatures in Greenland rose by as much as 16°C (about 29°F) within just a few decades. At the same time, enormous surges of icebergs repeatedly disrupted the North Atlantic Ocean. Scientists refer to these episodes as Dansgaard–Oeschger and Heinrich events. These rapid changes, known as millennial-scale climate events, show that the climate system can reorganize much faster than would be expected from slow orbital cycles alone.
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So now we are enjoying a fairly rapid warming period and suddenly it's all Man's fault and we are all going to die in the Inferno.
The article continues:
Scientists have often connected these dramatic swings to the behavior of massive ice sheets. That link has created an important question. If large ice sheets played a central role, how could similar millennial-scale climate variability occur during warm greenhouse periods of Earth’s history when such ice sheets did not exist? Researchers have struggled with this puzzle for many years.
A new study now offers an explanation. An international team led by Professor Chengshan Wang at the China University of Geosciences (Beijing) has found evidence that Earth’s precession cycles, which describe the slow wobble of the planet’s rotational axis, can generate abrupt millennial-scale climate fluctuations even when the planet is largely ice-free.
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Yet here we are being treated to the old, outdated idea that ice sheets change the precession of the Earth's axial tilt (and slows the planet's motion) because of a very modest planetary warming. Ri-ight.
While the precession cycles are 25,000 years there are sub cycles that happen every four to five thousand years. Five thousand years ago Earth was in a warm period - the Holocene Climate Optimum. Temps were 4.9*C warmer than today on average. And 13,000 years ago we enjoyed the Younger-Dryas, with temperatures plummeting.
Climate changes and sometimes quite rapidly. Younger dryas happened within decades, for instance.
The more we learn the less likely it is that carbon dioxide is going to burn us up.
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March 21, 2026
The Iranian Threat was Immanent
This from James Doogue:
Was Iran An Imminent Threat To Israel And To US Bases In The Region?
Iran began enriching uranium to 60% purity in April 2021, specifically on or around April 13–17, 2021. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed on April 17, 2021, that Iran had started producing uranium hexafluoride (UF₆) enriched up to 60% U-235 at the Natanz Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant (above-ground section).
Important clarification: 60% enriched uranium is highly enriched uranium (HEU) and a major proliferation concern, but it is not fully "weapons-grade.”
Weapons-grade typically means ~90%+ U-235. At 60%, the material cannot directly make a practical nuclear explosive without further enrichment (though a crude device is theoretically possible). It is often called "near-weapons-grade” because the final step from 60% to 90% is technically quick and requires relatively little additional effort.
By mid-2025 (just before the June 2025 U.S./Israeli strikes in Operation Midnight Hammer), Iran’s stockpile had grown to approximately 440.9 kg of 60% enriched uranium — enough, if further processed to 90%, for material equivalent to roughly 9–10 nuclear weapons (using the IAEA’s "significant quantity” benchmark of ~25 kg of 90% material per weapon).
Much of this was stored in a tunnel complex at Isfahan that largely survived the strikes.
Post-strike assessments (IAEA and U.S. intelligence through early 2026) indicate the stockpile itself remained largely intact, though new enrichment has effectively stopped due to damage to centrifuges and facilities at Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan.
Why enrich to 60% if U.S./IAEA intelligence says there is no active nuclear weapons program?
Iranian officials have framed it as reversible and for "research” or civilian purposes (e.g., medical isotopes or research reactors).
However, the IAEA and independent experts (including SIPRI) state there is no credible civilian justification for producing and stockpiling hundreds of kilograms at 60% — Iran’s power reactors and medical isotope needs do not require it.
The consensus expert view is that it was primarily a political and strategic move:
It dramatically shortened Iran’s "breakout time” (the time to produce one bomb’s worth of weapons-grade material) to days or weeks if a political decision were ever made.
It sent a message: "We can go right up to the edge of weapons-grade without crossing it,” while staying technically consistent with the U.S. Intelligence Community’s long-standing assessment (since the 2007 NIE and reaffirmed through 2026) that Iran halted structured weaponization work in 2003 and has not restarted it.
This is why the same agencies can say "no active weapons program” while still viewing the 60% stockpile and enrichment as a serious proliferation risk.
Current ballistic missile arsenal: Iran possesses the largest stockpile in the Middle East, with medium-range ballistic missiles (MRBMs) like the Shahab-3 variants, Emad, Ghadr, Khorramshahr, and Sejjil, reaching up to ~2,000–3,000 km (enough for regional targets like Israel, U.S. bases in the Middle East, and parts of Europe). Many of these are inherently nuclear-capable in design (payload capacity, re-entry vehicle shape, etc.), meaning they could theoretically deliver a nuclear warhead if Iran developed one.
Iran self-limits declared ranges to ~2,000 km, but experts note the technology allows extension.
ICBM pathway via SLVs: Iran's space program (e.g., Simorgh, Qased, Safir, and others) uses rocket technologies (multi-stage, guidance, propulsion) that are directly transferable to ICBMs (>5,500 km range to reach the U.S. homeland). U.S. intelligence has long flagged this dual-use nature.
U.S. intelligence assessments (2025–2026):The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) 2025 report (supporting the "Golden Dome" missile defense concept) assessed that Iran "has space launch vehicles it could use to develop a militarily-viable ICBM.
Did Iran's Major Stockpiles Of Missiles Put Israel And US Based In The Region At Grave Danger Of An Iranian Preemptive Strike?
Pre-Strike Iranian Arsenal (Early 2025–Early 2026 Estimates)
Before major U.S./Israeli strikes degraded the force:
Ballistic missiles: Roughly 2,000–3,000+ medium-range ballistic missiles (MRBMs) capable of reaching Israel (e.g., Emad, Ghadr, Khorramshahr, Sejjil variants, ~1,300–3,000 km range), plus 6,000–8,000 short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) for Gulf/U.S. bases.
Total often cited as over 3,000 ballistic missiles (U.S. CENTCOM 2022 baseline, updated IDF assessments pre-2025 war).
Launchers: Approximately 200–400 mobile transporter-erector-launchers (TELs), the critical bottleneck.
Additional assets: Hundreds to thousands of drones (Shahed-136 variants) and land-attack cruise missiles (e.g., Hoveyzeh).
This was the largest ballistic missile force in the Middle East, with many systems nuclear-capable in design.
Why Overwhelm Was Conceivable
Missile defenses are finite:
Israel’s layered system (Iron Dome for short-range, David’s Sling for medium, Arrow 2/3 for ballistic) has limited interceptors per battery and relies on early warning.
U.S. bases (Gulf region) use Patriot, THAAD, and Aegis systems, also with finite stocks.
A massive, coordinated barrage (hundreds per wave over hours/days) creates a "saturation” effect: too many incoming threats for radars and interceptors to handle simultaneously.
Real-world precedent:
Iran’s April 2024 (300 missiles/drones) and October 2024 (200) attacks had "leakers” that caused damage despite high interception rates (~86–99%).
In the June 2025 Twelve-Day War, initial Iranian salvos reached hundreds per day (e.g., one reported 504 on Day 1 of related operations), with some penetrations before strikes reduced capability.
Expert consensus (IDF, JINSA, CSIS-style analyses): A pre-emptive full-force Iranian attack of 500–1,000+ missiles in coordinated waves could exhaust interceptor stocks and allow dozens to hundreds of leakers.
Israeli officials privately acknowledged that Iran’s projected 5,000-missile arsenal by 2027 (or even the 2,000–3,000 pre-strike level) posed a saturation risk capable of overwhelming defenses.
Potential Scale of Damage
To Israel: Many MRBMs have poor accuracy (CEP 30–300+ meters), so hits would be scattered rather than precision strikes on military targets. Still, extensive civilian casualties and infrastructure damage (cities, power grids, airports) are realistic—potentially hundreds to low thousands dead/injured if 10–20% leakers hit populated areas, as seen in limited 2024/2025 barrages.
To U.S. bases (e.g., in Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Iraq): SRBMs and cruise missiles could target airfields, ports, and command centers. Saturation could cause significant casualties, aircraft losses, and temporary base disruption, especially if U.S. interceptors were stretched across multiple sites.
Iran’s launchers limit simultaneous fire (not all 2,000–3,000 missiles at once), but waves over 24–48 hours were feasible with mobile TELs and pre-positioning.
In short: Without pre-emptive strikes, a full Iranian first-strike barrage was realistically capable of overwhelming segments of the defenses and inflicting extensive death and destruction—far beyond the limited impacts seen in 2024 attacks.
This is why U.S. and Israeli planners viewed Iran’s arsenal as an urgent threat requiring degradation.
Tim adds:
An atomic bomb will actually work at under 90% but it has to be over 80 (I can't remember the exact number but I think it was over 86%)and there is no reason to waste that enriched uranium (which does not work as well) when you can go to ninety. It is rather like sprinkling salt on your food after you cook it.
Previously Iran admitted to enriching up to 84%.
https://apnews.com/article/iran-politics-international-atomic-energy-agency-israel-government-benjamin-netanyahu-45b623742bb6bd4c7314de7df6c3f1e9
So what was Iran waiting for?
First, they wanted the means to deliver the weapon long range. A while ago I read Iran was experimenting with an implosion trigger - a far more complicated way to detonate a nuke than the old fashioned gun style trigger used by Little Boy and the Pakistanis and no doubt the Indians. Why would they need an implosion trigger? The bomb alone would be adequate for defensive purposes. It was because the implosion trigger would significantly decrease the weight of the device, making it far easier to deliver on a ballistic missile. The Iranians wanted to be able to threaten nations that were far away from them.
Also, the Iranians didn't want just one bomb, or they would have tested it and shown the world they had it. They wanted an arsenal.
As for testing, why should they? The U.S. uses computers to test nuclear weapons these days; no more air burst or underground explosions. We just model it. Iran no doubt has similar computer capabilities. Of course if they had detonated a test it would have exposed their program to the world. They didn't want that because it increased the danger. And if the test didn't go well then the U.S. and Israel would likely strike before they could fix the problem. So they had to buy time - everything they have done for some time now has been in that quest.
At any rate this was a fine piece of work James!
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Not De-Fang Fanged: Judge to Save Swalwell
Timothy Birdnow
The Democrats figured out the importance of control of judgeships long ago. And now they are using that control to it's maximum:
Yes, one of their pet judges will probably let Swalwell remain on the ballot for California governor despite his living outside of the state.
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Not De-Fang Fanged: Judge to Save Swalwell
Timothy Birdnow
The Democrats figured out the importance of control of judgeships long ago. And now they are using that control to it's maximum:
Yes, one of their pet judges will probably let Swalwell remain on the ballot for California governor despite his living outside of the state.
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Seizeher's Grabby Hands
Timothy Birdnow
Maybe we should start calling him Seizeher Shovass.
Leftists wind up being pervs and rapists more often than not.
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Early 20th Century was Warmer than they Say
Timothy Birdnow
This is a year old but I just stumbled upon it. It says, well:
It says that, contrary to what the climate kooks have insisted, it was actually warmer during the early part of the 20th century, thus shooting to hell the narrative that we experienced sudden, dramatic warming since the industrial age led to large increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Unfortunately Nature is a pay site and only a teaser is provided but the paper they cite - Sippel et. al. - upgrades the warming from 1900 to 1930 considerably, meaning it really hasn't warmed so much after all.
Given the climate frauds keep downgrading the temperature trends in the past it is a welcome development.
I managed to get the abstract anyway:
The observed temperature record, which combines sea surface temperatures with near-surface air temperatures over land, is crucial for understanding climate variability and change1,2,3,4. However, early records of global mean surface temperature are uncertain owing to changes in measurement technology and practice, partial documentation5,6,7,8, and incomplete spatial coverage9. Here we show that existing estimates of ocean temperatures in the early twentieth century (1900–1930) are too cold, based on independent statistical reconstructions of the global mean surface temperature from either ocean or land data. The ocean-based reconstruction is on average about 0.26 °C colder than the land-based one, despite very high agreement in all other periods. The ocean cold anomaly is unforced, and internal variability in climate models cannot explain the observed land–ocean discrepancy. Several lines of evidence based on attribution, timescale analysis, coastal grid cells and palaeoclimate data support the argument of a substantial cold bias in the observed global sea-surface-temperature record in the early twentieth century. Although estimates of global warming since the mid-nineteenth century are not affected, correcting the ocean cold bias would result in a more modest early-twentieth-century warming trend10, a lower estimate of decadal-scale variability inferred from the instrumental record3, and better agreement between simulated and observed warming than existing datasets suggest2.
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As this observed warming is not even one degree since 1850 one must ask why all the fuss? Now that we know the temperature rise was less than they claim we know it's well below the one degree level the Gang Green claims.
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Iran Says it May Tax Ships Heading through Strait of Hormuz (You May Stop Laughing Now)
Timothy Birdnow
Hahahahaha!
How do they plan to collect this toll? And what has Qatar have to say about it? it's their strait too.
This shows the Iranians are getting desperate. They screwed up big time attacking all their neighbors, and now they are broke and desperate to regain any shred of sympathy.
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Charging transit fees for passage through the Strait of Hormuz would be a normal step under international practice, an Iranian lawmaker said on Saturday, adding that the parliament was ready to pass legislation for it.
Collecting such fees was common on many important maritime routes around the world and could help strengthen Iran’s revenue and improve safety and maritime services in the strait, said Saeed Rahmatzadeh, a member of parliament’s economic committee.
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They are acting as if they are still in control of the seas around the Gulf of Arabia and that they are just a normal country doing normal country things.
And if Parliament is going to meet, perhaps we should take advantage? We killed Khamenei and the rest when THEY got together for a goat-sodomzing hoedown, why not send the Iranian parliament to their reward of 72 virgin goats and a mule?
So good luck with your new excise tax Iran. Maybe you can use it to buy artificial limbs when American bombs blow yours off.
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Report: Trump May Get Iranian Enriched Uranium with Special Forces
Timothy Birdnow
Not sure how you get special forces into hostile territory in the middle of a hot war and cart away this much material - and that after digging it up from underground and covered with piles of rubble.
[linjk=https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/us-weighs-special-forces-operation-to-seize-irans-enriched-uranium-stockpile-report/3873626]US weighs special forces operation to seize Iran's enriched uranium stockpile: Report
I strongly suspect this is disinformation designed to panic the surviving members of the regime.
Most of this material is in Uranium Hexafloride gas in cylinders, and some of those could be cracked and could leak. That would mean our guys exposed to radioactive material. And even if not these cannisters would be bulky.
The enrichment process for uranium involves making it into Uranium Hexafloride gas and then centrifuging that to separate the U235 from the U238. That is much easier than the original process employed by Oak Ridge for the first bomb which used magnets to actually separate the enriched material molecule by molecule.
Iran was currently at 60% enrichment; it takes less than a week to get past 90%, the rate generally required for atomic bombs (although it is possible to make a fission bomb with enrichment in the high eighties, but why bother?) In fact the first 10% is the most time consuming; after ten percent it takes about a month to get to the critical enrichment.
I don't see any way special forces could do this; it would be a monumental undertaking in a hot warzone. But if anyone could it would be our special forces guys.
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Paxton Crushing Cornyn
Timothy Birdnow
Ken Paxton is crushing John Cornhole, er, Cornyn, at least in this poll:
InteractivePolls
@IAPolls2022
TEXAS SENATE GOP RUNOFF
Ken Paxton: 53%
John Cornyn: 37%
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Ken Paxton: 64-31 (+33)
John Cornyn: 45-47 (-2)
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Act Blue Blues
Timothy Birdnow
Tom Fitton doesn't say it baldly but Act Blue is nothing more than a money-laundering scheme.
The Democrats are now finding it hard to raise funds. Gee; I wonder why?
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The Land of the Free
Timothy Birdnow
Did anyone doubt it?
I fear they all misunderstood when they heard the expression "the land of the free".
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NBC, the Fake News Network
Timothy Birdnow
Does NBC News EVER tell the truth?
After finding one father who met with Hegseth separately who said the matter of finishing the job in Iran never came up, the man said his son told him:
Simmons recalled something his son had told him before volunteering for the mission that ended his life.
"He said, ‘Dad, I can’t give you any details, but if civilians knew what we knew, a lot of the criticism [of the war] would cease,” he said.
Strange how THAT never made it into the NBC story.
NBC has long been a source of lies and a depository of liars. Anyone remember Brian Williams? Remember when it rigged the crash results to claim GM cars were unsafe?
NBC is one of the worst outlets for fake news and outright lies.
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Musk-Rat Love; Elon Offers to Pay TSA
Timothy Birdnow
God bless Elon Musk!
If Musk pays them then Chuckie Doll Schumer loses his leverage.
Hard cheese old Chuck!
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Oils Well Won't End Well
Timothy Birdnow
Ae we going to have to do a Cuba blockade like we did during the missile crisis?
Putin does not have the ability to project power in this fashion and certainly he doesn't need to be doing this while he's still at war with a country he still hasn't broken. We are here - he is there. Good luck with breaking our blockade.
One of the tankers is flying a Chinese flag, ostensibly to pressure the U.S. into not interfering with it. Trump doesn't cave to those kinds of tricks even if previous Presidents would have done so.
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I'll Have a Manhattan on the Rocks
Timothy Birdnow
Chuck Schumer, Leader of the Senate Democrats, is on the rocks as a full blown revolt seems to be brewing in his caucus.
You might say Chuck's a Manhattan on the rocks.
His underlings are growing increasingly desperate as Schumer's schemes keep backfiring and I have little doubt internal polling shows this TSA shutdown is being blamed on the Democrats (which is why we are not seeing any polling about the shutdown in the news). They have about had enough of his Old Fashioned approach.
From the P.J. Media article:
According to this latest report, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) sat down to dinner with progressive activists at a French restaurant in Georgetown last month, during which Murphy told the group that some lawmakers had already done informal vote counts to gauge whether enough support existed to remove Schumer from leadership.
Murphy added that Schumer had the votes to survive — for now.
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Despite Murphy’s attempts to downplay the situation, more than four dozen interviews with Democratic senators, candidates, current and former aides, activists, and advisers point to the same conclusion: concern about Schumer's leadership is widespread and growing.
Bear in mind Schumer couldn't be playing any harder ball than he already is; he's shut down the branch of government tasked with stopping terrorism at a time when we are at war with the world's top sponsor of terrorism. What more can Schumer do? So it isn't that.
I have little doubt Schumer is the one pushing the shutdown because he fears a backlash by the lunatic fringe in his party. And the rest of the Democrats in the Senate probably realize this is killing them.
I find this little nugget interesting:
Donor frustration with Schumer has already been hurting a super PAC aligned with the Democratic leader, donors and consultants said. Senate Majority PAC was outraised by the Republican leadership-aligned super PAC last year; the Democratic super PAC started 2026 with $36 million in the bank and $12.4 million in debt, while its GOP counterpart had $100 million and no debt, according to Federal Election Commission filings.
Well, well, well....
Have donations dropped off OR has the Trump Administration disrupted the flow of dark money that the Democras were receiving through nefarious means, like Somali daycares or foreign aid handed out by USAID? I've long believed the Democrats have always been flush with cash because they were gaming the system, stealing taxpayer dollars and laundering it back to themselves. Trump and Musk have disrupted that flow and now the Democrats are struggling to raise money. Surprise?
It's certainly not Schumer's fault; he tried to save the embezzlement but couldn't do it.
The article blames the radicals in the Democratic Party for Schumer's problems and they are unquestionably a big part of that - they want Schumer to invade the White House with troops to seize Trump and hang him from the roof of the building. Schumer knows he can't oppose Trump any more than he has but the radicals are insane and want blood. But they are not his ultimate problem; it's the moderate (for Democrats) Senators who see disaster looming and want to fix it. Yes, they want the money the crazies donate, but those donations aren't the bulk of their funding anyway. The bulk comes from people like George Soros, or Big Tech, or the dwindling labor movement. And Trump has co-opted many working class folks, the traditional base of the Democrats.
No, I think the problem is that the Democrats are swimming against the tide, promoting illegal aliens over native born Americans, pushing increased taxes and regulations in an era where the public wants things to be cheaper, and now this government shutdown which is intentionally designed to cause pain to the American People in a hail-mary pass designed to change the narrative and force the President to bow to their will about illegal aliens (their base now). The public just isn't buying it. Americans overwhelmingly support the changes to immigration Trump has made. OH, and crime dropped to the lowest level we have seen in a hundred years; that doesn't hurt the GOP either.
Schumer is between a rock and hard place.
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He Doesn't Sound Texan to Me
Timothy Birdnow
Famous quotes from Texans:
"Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.” ~Sam Houston
"You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas” – Davy Crockett
"A born Texan has instilled in his system a mindset of no retreat and no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.” – Billy Clayton
"The enemy never sees the backs of my Texans!” – General Robert E. Lee, CSA
And now we have James Talarico, Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate:
#AhmaudArbery is the latest American killed by the virus of racism.
The virus kills our black neighbors if they’re jogging, playing music, sitting in church, selling CDs, or carrying a bag of Skittles… pic.twitter.com/6fuLFgyPGn
— James Talarico (@jamestalarico) May 8, 2020
Funny; he doesn't SOUND very Texan to me!
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Never Trust an Islamist: Diego Garcia and Iran
Timothy Birdnow
Iran has fired two ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, the British-controlled island in the Indian Ocean where a major American base is located.
Neither missile hit anything; one failed in flight and the other was shot down.
What is interesting about this is that Iran had said it did not have any missiles capable of traveling this far. Diego Garcia is 2,480 some-odd miles from Iran, and the Iranians had claimed they had no missiles capable of going beyond 1,242 miles. So they have been lying to hide their military capabilities. This strongly suggests they have also been lying about their nuclear program.
This vindicates President Trump's actions.
BTW it also vindicates Trump pushing Britain into not paying Mauritus to take the island away from them. British P.M. Stammer, er, Stamer wanted to hand Diego Garcia and the Chagos Archipelego over to Mauritus simply because they told him they wanted it, and given there is a major base at Diego Garcia Trump pressured him into holding onto it. Now it's been one of the places used as a staging ground for strikes on Iran.
Th9ngs all work together and when you start pulling back, retreating, you wind up in a worse and worse position. When you move forward you improve your position. Sun Tzu famously stated that "Opportunities multiply as they are seized" and the corollary to that is they dry up when you do nothing or worse, retreat.
At any rate the lesson we should draw from this is that we need to hold on to what is ours and maybe get a little more, and that we should never, ever trust an Islamist.
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Babbling Idiots
Timothy Birdnow
You want to see obvious,blatant media bias just read the title of this article.
It is "Supreme Court petition to stop Donald Trump approaches major milestone".
They are discussing a petition by the leftist ACLU to prevent the Trump Administration from not enforcing an executive order that has already been suspended pending the Supreme Court's ruling.
This peptition has garnered 193,000 signatures - hardly record breaking - and it claims falsely that birthright citizenship goes back to the founding of the country (it doesn't; it is an interpretation of the 14th Amendment passed after the Civil War guaranteeing citizenship to former slaves. Prior to that there was no such thing as birthright citizenship - but it wasn't a big issue either, largely because the country was mostly empty space and how could you enforce legal status on the frontier?
At any rate this isn't even a story, just a piece of political propaganda pretending to be a story, yet here it i in a CNBC "article".
If the media wants to advocate for one side or another they should be honest enough to admit it. This isn't an editorial.
And the presupposition is that Trump is illegally doing this in a vacuum, even though he's waiting for the Supreme Court to decide the issue and a solid majority of Americans want this.
If CNBC wants birthright citizenship why don't they ask Congress to do it? That's because they fear they will lose and right they are; Conngress dare not pass such legislation. Instead they want to pressure the Court into keeping the status quo.
Now why would a news service want to allow people to simply stroll into the country and become citizens? Why risk losing more customers?
Because they think of themselves as the "fourth Estate" and believe they have a special right to power. And as liberals they want not an America ascendant but a world as one. They are doing exactly what the ancient king Nimrod did when he constructed his tower to Heaven at Babel.
Which is why these clowns sound like babbeling idiots.
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