April 07, 2026
Kurds Steal Guns Meant for Iranian People
Timothy Birdnow
President Trump tried to send weapons to the Iranian people through the Kurds and the Kurds just kept them for themselves thus dooming any Iranian uprising against the regime.
You can't trust anyone over there!
We've been told repeatedly that the Kurds were honorable and our friends but when we needed them to step up they screwed us. President Trump promises to punish them.
The plan was for the Kurds to not only give the weapons to the Iranians but to launch an invasion of western Iran to disrupt and distract the government there. The Kurds failed to do either.
That was Trump's plan to overthrow the Mullahs and it has now failed not because it wasn't a good one but because our "friends" are simply dirtbags.
Now the President has no choice but use military power to destroy the infrastructure there. His options are far more limited than they were just a couple of weeks ago.
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Johnson Turns Chicken
Timothy Birdnow
The rats are starting to jump ship.
First, we may not be at war with the Iranian People but we are at war with their government, and that is a difference without that much of a distinction. It is quite unfortunate that they may be caught in the crossfire but that is what happens in war.
Second we are not at war to "liberate the Iranian People" - Trump has been crystal clear about why we are at war. We are at war to prevent the terror masters in Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, which they will use as soon as they have it. As an corollary to that we are threatening to bomb Iran's infrastructure because killing the top leadership has seemed to fail to properly motivate the government there and they have closed the Strait of Hormuz, disrupting the world's flow of energy. One of Trump's demands is that they allow shipping to resume.
While Mr. Trump would like to help the Iranian People it's not his top priority.
So what exactly does Sen. Johnson suggest Trump do? He reminds me of an episode of The Simpsons where Homer is drinking slurpees straight from the tap in the Quickie Mart and Apu, the owner, threatens him "I have asked you nicely to stop and you refuse. You leave me no choice but to ask you nicely again".
That appears to be Sen. Johnson's strategy in dealing with the Mullahs.
The Iranian leadership's strategy is patently obvious and it may yet work. They are buying time. They saw what happened with this partial government shutdown as the Democrats just stuck to their guns and refused to cut a deal and eventually the GOP caved, as usual. They know the GOP is chock-full of knock-kneed cowards. And they know the elections are coming in November and the Republicans are going to be increasingly frightened as that time nears if this thing isn't over. So the Mullahs are playing for time, dragging this out. I suspect they will have another big breakthrough just as Trump is about to start the bombing, then renege on it.
They know they will get people like Johnson to carry their water.
NOT taking this action is a disservice to the Iranian People because it cements the regime in power. Johnson should know that.
So what does he propose we do? If he has a better idea he should brig it forward. It's easy to criticize when you aren't the one who has to take the heat for it.
Oh, wait; here's his answer:
"They ought to be putting pressure on their client states to open up the strait to everybody," Johnson said. "Your freedom of navigation. That's what the American Navy has done for 75-80 years. We've assured freedom of navigation, which has opened up the world economy. That is a principle that still has to be upheld, but the world has to be engaged in that."
What does Johnson think Trump's been doing all along? He's been putting pressure on our erstwhile allies to step up and they haven't been willing to do that.
This is simply egregious armchair quarterbacking by a guy who wants to get some good press at the expense of the Administration and the nation.
It's guys like this that make us question the whole point of electing Republicans. We put them in and then they turn on us when it's convenient. Johnson is actually one of the better Republicans too, and he may actually believe what he is saying, but he's simply a fool. This is nothing but pandering to easy shibboleths that have no concrete, constructive benefits.
We are at WAR, even if there is no formal declaration from Congress (something that couldn't possibly happen with the Democratic Party hating the President more than they love America). Wars are messy and people get killed and stuff gets smashed. Going after infrastructure is necessary on occasion. Or did we win the Second World War without bombing German and Japanese infrastructure? Shoot; we firebombed the daylights out of Tokyo and incinerated two other Japanese cities with nuclear weapons. If Ron Johnson had been a Senator then would he have called for a "kinder, gentler" approach to fighting the Japanese? Probably, but we would have lost the war. Wars aren't won by winning hearts and minds; they are won by crushing the enemy to the point they realize there is no hope of winning. That has been the great fallacy in modern times, that you win wars but building hospitals and schools. You don't and Iraq should have taught us that.
I cannot fathom how the Republicans became such timid, pucillanimous craven cowards but they are and that will be America's undoing. Nobody expects rationality from the Democrats, not anymore, but the Republicans have a duty to protect this country not just from the Democrats but from foreign threats and they are just unwilling to do the hard work of leading. If they don't want to do the right thing they should leave Congress and let those willing to step up take their places.
Of course most of them aren't there to lead but rather to enjoy the perks and fame that comes with power. Nobody ever made work a part of the deal.
Ron Johnson and the others in the GOP remind me of this.
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America the Hammock; Aliens not Self-Deporting Fast Enough
Timothy Birdnow
According to DHS, 72.000 illegals have self-deported since Trump took office.
That is terribly disappointing; we needed a LOT more than that to leave, given the millions let in by Joe Biden.
It's still way too comfortable for them here; they aren't going to leave if they find the living easy.
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The International Oil Socialism
Timothy Birdnow
Alan Dershowitz pens a fine essay in which he asks why oil is tied to the global market and why the U.S. has to guarantee the Strait of Hormuz is reopened.
As he points out, there is no reason for oil to have it's price set by an international market when it is produced in many places (most especially the United States) and should be subject to competitive pressures. Professor Dershowitz asks:
There may be good reasons for such global price fixing, but they are not inherent in the nature of the product itself or in the nature of world markets in general. Most informed people with whom I have discussed this issue have no idea why the pricing of oil is not subject to the usual competition involving most other commodities. Even local gas stations compete with other over the retail price of a fill up, so why should the wholesale price of oil fixed by global conglomerates? An understandable explanation — more than just "that’s the way it’s always been” — is required.
Actually there are a number of reasons and they all stem from the post-war era.
Oil was the lifeblood of the Allied military machine and so it was agreed that we would "share and share alike" during the great struggle that was WWII. Then, with Europe being in ruins after the war, we continued that policy because cheap, reliable oil was necessary for rebuilding, as it was in the struggle against the Hegemony of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Couple that with the fact that oil was only to be had in certain key places and you had a situation ripe for a quasi-socialist system that Kept everyone intimately tied to a world order devised by the Internationalists who did the post-war planning.
Of course the discovery of large quantities of oil and gas in the Arab world, oil and gas that is easy to obtain (as opposed to many other places) and you had a recipe for the current system. OPEC was born out of the understanding that these primarily third world countries had real power because they had the one thing nobody dared interrupt - the lifeblood of modern civilization. OPEC flexed its muscle on a number of occasions and we saw some rather unpleasant results.
Then there was the end of the gold standard.
Money used to be backed by gold, then we went to a bimetallic standard, with gold and silver backing currency. But that was too limiting for governments, which wanted to spend more than they could back. What to do? While we today call it fiat currency the fact is our money IS backed, indirectly, by a commodity - oil. We have the petrodollar and it's worth is determined by how much oil it can purchase on the world market. But for this scheme to work there has to BE a world market with a set price; it wouldn't work if oil was priced on a competitive scale.
The end result was the American dollar became the world's fiat currency and it ultimately derived its international value based on oil.
Now every internationalist in the world loved this scheme because it tied us all together and that was what they long sought. The U.N. loved it. Big international corporations loved it. All the libera NGO's loved it. That is because they believed that by tying the world's economies into one uber-economy the political structures would follow, just as they did with the creation of the European Union. The E.U. started as a coal and steel entente' and morphed into the Common Market, then into a political entity that governed Europe with an iron hand. It couldn't have happened except for the economic Anschluss, the marriage between the German and French economies. This was a conscious, purposeful decision by the French to make it impossible for Germany to attack them again, to weld their economies together so Germany would be hurting themselves by attacking France. In the end this led to a new political entity.
That's been the model of the Left for a long time and we've seen less successful efforts at this, with the short-lived union of Egypt and Syria, for instance, or with the attempted creation of a North American Union (which started with NAFTA) that has thankfully failed. There is an African League, which is also an attempt to create a pan-Africa. And of course we have BRICKS now.
All of these towers of Babel have met with limited success, and even the E.U. is teetering now because the countries do not have enough in common.
But the point is there was a purposeful attempt to use oil to weld the world's economy together and they had some success in that. Certainly the "free trade" craze was as much about that as it was about making it easier to trade without government interference. That craze decimated both the United States' manufacturing and productive centers as well as the Europeans.
And of course now with the Climate Change scare pushing Europeans into not getting their own oil we witness the perfect storm; utter dependence on oil from enemy and rogue states on the Continent.
The problem is if we decouple the price of oil from the world market we run the risk of losing the petrodollar as the world's default currency, then the U.S. suffers economic catastrophe' as our debt becomes more than just theoretical. Now the whole world goes easy on us because if we fall the party is over for them. But decouple oil from the dollar and they are all going to start pulling out of the American economy over our ludicrous debt.
It's a real problem and while I think Trump understands it I can't be sure he does.
Dersh gives one possible solution to the Hormuz problem:
Israel has suggested yet another alternative: to reroute oil currently shipped through Hormuz in overland pipelines in nations that would not misuse their geographical power over international waterways as part of a military strategy. This would obviously take time and regional cooperation. Delinking the price of American produced oil from the price of oil produced by foreign countries could probably be done more quickly.
Actually there is an easy way to do this; just bypass the Strait in the Persian Gulf with large pipelines cutting across Qatar. Gulf tankers could ship to the Gulf shore of Qatar and the oil could be pumped across the peninsula that forms the Strait of Hormuz, to be loaded on another ship in the Sea of Arabia. It wouldn't be that hard to construct a large pipeline to do this, and in fact the Qataris were already working on such a plan, but it was low priority because it wouldn't be a whole lot of use with the strait open.
I had long through a canal would be a good solution but it would require a number of locks, and oil tankers are too big for that apparently. But a pipeline would be easy. Maybe not all that profitable but easy.
Dersh is right; we need to address this issue in a way that helps the American consumer and decentralizes the issue. Now we have a central planning scheme that is intimately tied to a bunch of Arabs and Russians and there is nothing we can do about it, except go to war when the supply chain is threatened (and thus we have to hear the endless drivel from the Left about "No blood for oil!"
And of course the Gang Green, the environmentalists, love this because it punishes Americans for relying on an energy supply they deem bad and not buying the expensive and largely useless "renewable" energy that they keep pushing to reduce our living standards and force us all down the socialist rabbit hole.
By squeezing the price of oil in any manner they can the Gang Green wants to force us to use unreliable wind and solar, to run our cars on electricity generated by them, etc. This is a bait and switch; they know renewables will fail but once they get rid of oil and gas (as they largely have gotten rid of coal, at least in the U.S. and Europe) that we will not be able to go back, and they can then regulate energy usage "for the greater good" when shortages or brownouts occur. Then they own you.
At any rate Dershowitz is right about the need to make petroleum a capitalist commodity like others. But it's going to be very, very difficult to do it without wrecking our own economy. You can thank the political class here in America for that.
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The International Oil Socialism
Timothy Birdnow
Alan Dershowitz pens a fine essay in which he asks why oil is tied to the global market and why the U.S. has to guarantee the Strait of Hormuz is reopened.
As he points out, there is no reason for oil to have it's price set by an international market when it is produced in many places (most especially the United States) and should be subject to competitive pressures. Professor Dershowitz asks:
There may be good reasons for such global price fixing, but they are not inherent in the nature of the product itself or in the nature of world markets in general. Most informed people with whom I have discussed this issue have no idea why the pricing of oil is not subject to the usual competition involving most other commodities. Even local gas stations compete with other over the retail price of a fill up, so why should the wholesale price of oil fixed by global conglomerates? An understandable explanation — more than just "that’s the way it’s always been” — is required.
Actually there are a number of reasons and they all stem from the post-war era.
Oil was the lifeblood of the Allied military machine and so it was agreed that we would "share and share alike" during the great struggle that was WWII. Then, with Europe being in ruins after the war, we continued that policy because cheap, reliable oil was necessary for rebuilding, as it was in the struggle against the Hegemony of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Couple that with the fact that oil was only to be had in certain key places and you had a situation ripe for a quasi-socialist system that Kept everyone intimately tied to a world order devised by the Internationalists who did the post-war planning.
Of course the discovery of large quantities of oil and gas in the Arab world, oil and gas that is easy to obtain (as opposed to many other places) and you had a recipe for the current system. OPEC was born out of the understanding that these primarily third world countries had real power because they had the one thing nobody dared interrupt - the lifeblood of modern civilization. OPEC flexed its muscle on a number of occasions and we saw some rather unpleasant results.
Then there was the end of the gold standard.
Money used to be backed by gold, then we went to a bimetallic standard, with gold and silver backing currency. But that was too limiting for governments, which wanted to spend more than they could back. What to do? While we today call it fiat currency the fact is our money IS backed, indirectly, by a commodity - oil. We have the petrodollar and it's worth is determined by how much oil it can purchase on the world market. But for this scheme to work there has to BE a world market with a set price; it wouldn't work if oil was priced on a competitive scale.
The end result was the American dollar became the world's fiat currency and it ultimately derived its international value based on oil.
Now every internationalist in the world loved this scheme because it tied us all together and that was what they long sought. The U.N. loved it. Big international corporations loved it. All the libera NGO's loved it. That is because they believed that by tying the world's economies into one uber-economy the political structures would follow, just as they did with the creation of the European Union. The E.U. started as a coal and steel entente' and morphed into the Common Market, then into a political entity that governed Europe with an iron hand. It couldn't have happened except for the economic Anschluss, the marriage between the German and French economies. This was a conscious, purposeful decision by the French to make it impossible for Germany to attack them again, to weld their economies together so Germany would be hurting themselves by attacking France. In the end this led to a new political entity.
That's been the model of the Left for a long time and we've seen less successful efforts at this, with the short-lived union of Egypt and Syria, for instance, or with the attempted creation of a North American Union (which started with NAFTA) that has thankfully failed. There is an African League, which is also an attempt to create a pan-Africa. And of course we have BRICKS now.
All of these towers of Babel have met with limited success, and even the E.U. is teetering now because the countries do not have enough in common.
But the point is there was a purposeful attempt to use oil to weld the world's economy together and they had some success in that. Certainly the "free trade" craze was as much about that as it was about making it easier to trade without government interference. That craze decimated both the United States' manufacturing and productive centers as well as the Europeans.
And of course now with the Climate Change scare pushing Europeans into not getting their own oil we witness the perfect storm; utter dependence on oil from enemy and rogue states on the Continent.
The problem is if we decouple the price of oil from the world market we run the risk of losing the petrodollar as the world's default currency, then the U.S. suffers economic catastrophe' as our debt becomes more than just theoretical. Now the whole world goes easy on us because if we fall the party is over for them. But decouple oil from the dollar and they are all going to start pulling out of the American economy over our ludicrous debt.
It's a real problem and while I think Trump understands it I can't be sure he does.
Dersh gives one possible solution to the Hormuz problem:
Israel has suggested yet another alternative: to reroute oil currently shipped through Hormuz in overland pipelines in nations that would not misuse their geographical power over international waterways as part of a military strategy. This would obviously take time and regional cooperation. Delinking the price of American produced oil from the price of oil produced by foreign countries could probably be done more quickly.
Actually there is an easy way to do this; just bypass the Strait in the Persian Gulf with large pipelines cutting across Qatar. Gulf tankers could ship to the Gulf shore of Qatar and the oil could be pumped across the peninsula that forms the Strait of Hormuz, to be loaded on another ship in the Sea of Arabia. It wouldn't be that hard to construct a large pipeline to do this, and in fact the Qataris were already working on such a plan, but it was low priority because it wouldn't be a whole lot of use with the strait open.
I had long through a canal would be a good solution but it would require a number of locks, and oil tankers are too big for that apparently. But a pipeline would be easy. Maybe not all that profitable but easy.
Dersh is right; we need to address this issue in a way that helps the American consumer and decentralizes the issue. Now we have a central planning scheme that is intimately tied to a bunch of Arabs and Russians and there is nothing we can do about it, except go to war when the supply chain is threatened (and thus we have to hear the endless drivel from the Left about "No blood for oil!"
And of course the Gang Green, the environmentalists, love this because it punishes Americans for relying on an energy supply they deem bad and not buying the expensive and largely useless "renewable" energy that they keep pushing to reduce our living standards and force us all down the socialist rabbit hole.
By squeezing the price of oil in any manner they can the Gang Green wants to force us to use unreliable wind and solar, to run our cars on electricity generated by them, etc. This is a bait and switch; they know renewables will fail but once they get rid of oil and gas (as they largely have gotten rid of coal, at least in the U.S. and Europe) that we will not be able to go back, and they can then regulate energy usage "for the greater good" when shortages or brownouts occur. Then they own you.
At any rate Dershowitz is right about the need to make petroleum a capitalist commodity like others. But it's going to be very, very difficult to do it without wrecking our own economy. You can thank the political class here in America for that.
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American Communists
Timothy Birdnow
The Soviet era communists who are working to undercut our Cuba policy.
Communism is alive and well - it's just not being quite as direct as it used to be.
This was inevitable; the Soviets built the greatest network in history and that never went away. Obama may well have been one of their sleeper agents, for instance.
Our destroying the Soviet Union meant the Communists went underground, into the Green movement, into "DEI", into academia and elsewhere and are doing more damage now than ever. There is a reason why we think so much more like Communists than we ever did when we had the Soviet Union around to show how bankrupt the belief system really is.
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April 06, 2026
How British Socialists Conquered the World
Timothy Birdnow
Here is an interesting read about the foundations of our modern world, how it was laid by socialists and big money interests in Britain early in the 20th century. It's too convoluted to excerpt; you need to read it for yourself.
This shows how a cabal of socialists and high finance capitalists conspired to give us the world we currently live in, the international order and the Green movement and all the rest of it.
Do read the whole thing.
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Deport 'em to the Congo!
Timothy Birdnow
Ii think SCOTUS will strike this agreement down. It IS cruel and unusual punishment, after all...
Half the country is fighting over a single can of tuna after all.
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Trying to Snatch Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
Timothy Birdnow
This is from The Daily Mail, an allegedly conservative British company:
You will notice Fox hasn't been much better in their coverage of this.
Trump’s daring extraction of US airman trapped in Iran almost failed and cost dozens of American lives https://t.co/hmoLW3wAXA
— Daily Mail (@DailyMail) April 5, 2026
That is a lie; no lives were lost. And it was a spectacular success, plucking a pilot right out of the jaws of the IRGC.
The author of the accompanying article is one Tom Lawrence, a complete Nevertrumper. But the editors posted it, which speaks volumes.
With friends like these...
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Media Misses the Boat
This from Mike
I hope Trump leaves something for the Iranians to build back better. Israel wants total decimation of Iran with cause. They have witnessed first hand that until you cut off the snakes head the snake will come back to bite you. They beat hamas bloody how many times? The same with hezbollah and yet they came back thanks to money and materials that came from Iran.Leaving Iran penniless will see terrorists hamas, hezbollah and houthis become extinct. The wonderful media got the story all wrong on the Iranians peoples part in the rescue of the weapons tech, including Fox who probably still are broadcasting it. The Iranian people came out in mass to impede where they could the IRGC from finding him. In one city they were walking around the streets en mass blocking traffic. They are so out of touch with reality it boggles the mind that people still pay attention to them.
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April 05, 2026
Yes, Fascism and Naziism were Socialist
Chester McAteer
National Socialism as the Dark Heir of Marxism: When Hitler Finished What Marx Began
National Socialism, despite its later vilification in the West, was not, in its own self‑understanding, some kind of generic "anti‑left” ideology. On the contrary, its leading figures repeatedly presented it as a species of Socialism: a radical, anti‑capitalist, collectivist system that consciously claimed territory next to Marxism, even while rejecting internationalism and substituting race and nation for class.
When one reads the programmatic speeches and private reflections of Hitler, Goebbels, Gregor Strasser, and Otto Wagener, a clear picture emerges: National Socialism is best grasped not as the opposite of Marxism, but as a nationalist mutation of the same basic socialist Weltanschauung, one that seeks to realize "the pure idea” of socialism within the framework of the German Volk rather than the "international proletariat.”
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He is Risen
He is risen!
28 After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.
2 There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. 3 His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. 4 The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men.
5 The angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. 6 He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. 7 Then go quickly and tell his disciples: ‘He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.’ Now I have told you.”
8 So the women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled with joy, and ran to tell his disciples. 9 Suddenly Jesus met them. "Greetings,” he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him. 10 Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me.”
The Guards’ Report
11 While the women were on their way, some of the guards went into the city and reported to the chief priests everything that had happened. 12 When the chief priests had met with the elders and devised a plan, they gave the soldiers a large sum of money, 13 telling them, "You are to say, ‘His disciples came during the night and stole him away while we were asleep.’ 14 If this report gets to the governor, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.” 15 So the soldiers took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story has been widely circulated among the Jews to this very day.
Happy Easter!
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ex injuria jus non oritur
Lynn Chu
The common law doctrine most relevant to the birthright citizenship issue is ex injuria jus non oritur. No rights can arise from an unlawful act.
You just freaking cannot confer citizenship on your baby and by extension yourself and most of your family by breaking into the country to drop it there. It’s the commission of a crime. Several in fact. Illegal border crossing and fraud. To hold that you can confer citizenship on yourself by your own illegal acts encourages and fosters egregious moral turpitude.
Britain’s assertion that everyone in their colonies be considered British property and cannon fodder was exactly what the American colony overthrew.
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No, I Said I Want a BIG MAC!
Timothy Birdnow
"I thought this was a protest criticizing Burger King..."
Half of these nitwits have no idea what they are doing at those rallies.
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The Great Psy-Op and Iran
Timothy Birdnow
We saw this in operation with Covid and with the trans issue and with gay marriage. Now they are doing it with Iran.
AG
@AGHamilton29
In the 1970’s, the KGB put together an operational plan for undermining America via informational warfare and ideological subversion:
"To change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their family, their community, and their country”
That same strategy has been actively deployed by America’s enemies with the assistance of some people at home now.
They are trying to make the Islamic Republic seem like peaceful victims just a few months after the regime in Tehran murdered tens of thousands of their own people in the streets. A regime that has spent decades murdering Americans and pushing terrorism throughout the world.
There’s a reason people like Tucker Carlson and Ana Kasparian downplayed the January massacres while trying to convince their audiences that years of Islamic Republic terrorism was exaggerated and they don’t actually mean it when the chant "death to America”
It’s not easy to get people to completely abandon reality, but this is where a constant stream of misinformation, propaganda, and conspiracies become critical.
Our enemies have spent decades creating an environment to try to bring about the destruction of America. Now they have a bunch of allies in America actively trying to assist, whether because they don’t like the current administration or because they want to undermine our current system. But what they are doing is obvious and no one should forget who is playing a role in it.
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The Experts Who Cried Wolf
Timothy Birdnow
A writer for the Atlantic asked a question about why the public lost faith in Big Science after the Covid years. He was truly at a loss:
"A question for everyone: survey data suggests that by the end of the Covid-19 emergency trust in public health institutions had decreased significantly. If you are among the people who reacted that way, why specifically? I'm hoping for long, diverse, individualized answers."
I would have left this reply but am not on X, alas:
My sister-in-law's husband's mother died alone because they wouldn't let anyone in to see her out of fear of Covid, even though they knew she was dying. That was a disgraceful act of pseudo-scientific abuse.
My wife was disabled and she needed help walking and I took her to the hospital eye clinic for a treatment and was holding her up - and a woman who worked there came up to me and began screaming at me about social distancing. I had a huge fight with her. She was only doing what the authorities had encouraged her to do.
Because the gaps in the fabric fibers of most masks were far larger than the virus itself and so the virus could easily move through the mask. It was obvious the masking was intended as a psychological tool, not a medical aid. It was aimed at making people FEEL like we were in a crisis.
Because not just the Democrats but some psychology journals argued that this would reinstate broke trust for government and in "experts" and it would help the Democratic Party since Trump was the "anti-science" President as they claimed. The obvious political nature of the lockdowns and masking and all the rest were apparent.
Because the places that imposed the harshest measures wound up being the places with the worst Covid. Look at New York where the governor forced nursing homes to take in Covid patients and it led to mass infections. Whereas the places that took the boot off the throat - like Florida - did far better.
In fact where I live in St. Louis the city and county both closed most things (keeping liquor stores open though) and when they did open up bars there were strict limitations, facemasking required (you could only pull it down to take a sip) and social distancing which broke up groups. St. Charles County, across the Missouri river, eschewed such draconian regulations. Guess which one had the higher infection rate? They were largely living normally in St. Charles and they were healthier.
Because they promised it would only be two weeks to "flatten the curve". They lied.
Because they were proven to have been fudging the data of infections. I knew a number of people who had been informed they had Covid when in fact they had not even been tested. And there was no flu season those years, not because there was no flu going around but because it was being misdiagnosed as Covid to pump up the numbers.
Because it became increasingly obvious there was a cabal inside the CDC and elsewhere (notably Fauci) who were making lots of money off the drug manufacturers and so pushed the vaccine, a vaccine which did not prevent you from getting Covid, nor spreading Covid.
Because they denied there were serious side effects, like heart issues and other things that led to death. We know a lot of young athletes died of strange heart conditions after being vaccinated, for instance.
Because they used it to impose mail-in voting, thus roiling traditional voting patterns and winning the election for Joe Biden by the largest number of votes in American history, while the man never left his home. Mail in voting was condemned by the bipartisan Carter Baker Commission which examined election integrity after the election of 2000 as ripe for vote fraud.
At best, all the lockcdowns and masking and social distancing was delay herd immunity as people were exposed to the disease at a slower rate and just caught it later.
It wasn't just a stupid policy, it was a monstrous, dishonest, corrupt, and entirely unnecessary set of policies pushed by a technocratic elite who often exempted themselves from their own policies (Remember Gavin Newsom being caught partying sans mask or social distancing?) When they told us Black Lives Matter was exempt from Covid regulations because, well, they couldn't catch it if they were protesting or whatever was proof the whole thig was an enormous lie.
There is absolutely no reason to believe the people involved in this scam have gone away. Most are still there and waiting for another chance to push these policies again.
BTW most of the Covid response was based on a school science project of a thirteen year old boy whose father was a scientist. It was directed to the Bush Administration which rejected these proposals as wholly unworkable. Then it was adopted by the Obama Administration. I would point out the movie Contagion came out in 2011 and the response in that movie was almost identical to the one from our government. One suspects they used the movie to ease the public's mind when they implemented it. Oh, and there was a drill done in October of 2019 about a potential outbreak of a new covid virus just before it hit. Coincidence? Maybe, but maybe not too. That was called Event 201. https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/tabletop-exercises/event-201-pandemic-tabletop-exercise
We were lied to from beginning to end by the authorities; why would we trust them now?
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D'Artagnan Body Found?
Timothy Birdnow
WOW! I never knew D'Artagnan was a real person!
One for all! All for one! Every man for himself!
This is from Not the Bee, so you know it's actual news and not to bee...
If you didn't know, d'Artagnan was not purely a figment of Alexandre Dumas's imagination.
The famed musketeer of the novels was based on real-life musketeer Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan who served as Captain-Lieutenant of the Musketeers at the leisure of Louis XIV.
The real d'Artagnan was recorded as being killed somewhere around Maastricht, so when an unknown skeleton was discovered beneath the tiles of St Peter and Paul Church in the area, archeologists got very excited.
The "Fourth Musketeer" was killed very close to the church where the skeleton was found with a coin proving it was the same time frame and a bullet wound to the throat - exactly as D'Artagnan was killed. Researchers hope to prove this was him by checking the DNA of his descendants (who are actually still around).
Of course Big D has become a legend thanks to Dumas, which must be nice. But he was actually a guy well worth celebrating before his demise.
BTW the Mars corporation completely dissed the poor swordsman, naming their candy bar the THREE Musketeers and ignoring poor D'Artagnan completely. If they were going to do that they should have come out with a "D'Artagnan bar" and maybe made it better than the Three Musketeer bar, which is pretty plain jane if you ask me.
I always like when legend and history wind up coinciding.
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Alito Knocks it Out of the Park
Timothy Birdnow
"They have the duty of military service. It seems that makes them subject to a FOREIGN POWER!”
"Not subject to any foreign power is pretty straightforward. So let me give you these examples. A boy is born here to an Iranian father who has entered the country illegally.”
"That boy is automatically an Iranian national at birth and he has a duty to provide military service to the Iranian government, is he not subject to any foreign power?”
"What I said about a boy born to an Iranian father is true of children born here to parents who were nationals of other countries. It’s true to a child who’s born here to Russian parents.”
Justice Sam Alito during oral arguments on Birthright Citizenship.
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The Shit Hits the Fan on Artemis II
Timothy Birdnow
For the love of all things holy, would you at NASA PLEASE stop sending up teachers or whatnot and just include a bloody plumber!
I've got a friend who is a master plumber, and he's in good shape and a tremendous athlete who would pass all of NASA's tests. If you want his number I would be happy to give it to you.
And this has happened before; remember the toilet was broken on the International Space Station for a while too.
This is particularly ironic as they are coming out with a new Super Mario Brothers movie. They need a couple of Italian plumbers on Artemis right about now.
BTW this titanium toilet cost taxpayers $23 million dollars. I'm guessing it should be under warranty from the manufacturer.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who thought of the Wallowitz Zero Gravity Space Disposal Unit from the Big Bang Theory...
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