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June 09, 2023

Trump Delende Est

Robert Fenton Gary

This process case is plainly designed to express hatred toward Trump.
It's normal for Presidents to take some papers when they leave office.
The question of which papers are lawfully taken and which ones are not is really a matter for scholars and intellectuals.
Let's assume that Trump took one or more papers that some scholar could reasonably claim should not have been taken.

Only a Trump hater would make this into an Espionage Act crime.
Saying that Trump is a spy, and was spying on USA when he took the paper.

Then the add half a dozen "process crimes"

He did not tell us he did his crime.
He lied about doing his crime.
He made a false statement about his crime.
He made a false record about his crime.
etc etc.

Those process crimes are thrown in to make the basic offense seem bigger, more serious, more grave, more aggravated and enhanced.

Trump loves America. Way more than Biden does, who hates America.

Biden did serious treason to America by selling US policy decision for cash money paid to the 12 members of the Biden crime family by devious routes and channels.

So, the indictment of Trump is not a virtue signal, it's not a credible crime, it's just a hate signal --- We hate Trump and want to hurt Trump by wrecking his candidacy to become President again in 2024.

The charges bespeak Garland's loyalty to Biden and hatred of Trump, and desire to harm Trump.

So what we learn here is that toadies will do the bidding of the Big Guy.

But didn't we already know that from the conduct of the EPA?

Or from the conduct of Alehandro Mayorkas of DHS?

Or from the conduct of Jay Powell at the Fed, and Janet Yellin at Treasury

Or from the conduct of the Department of Education.

Or the rainbow flag talk of the General of Pronouns at the Pentagon.

All the toadies lying in the sun, how am I gonna get any photon physics done?

Abuse of power is done by flexing your power to hurt your enemies. This is what Machiavelli taught, and what Saul Alinksy (the communist who trained Hillary) taught.

Biden the divider seeks to polarize, monetize, and abuse the Office of the President.

He is, by far, the worst and most disgraceful President USA has ever had. Nobody really is comparable. The closest probably would be Nixon, but Nixon would never dream of doing the high treasons and flagrant bribery that Biden does every day.

Nixon, you may recall, open up trade with China. But he never sold American down the river to China.

Nixon, like Trump, loved America very deeply. Biden is more akin to the Greenglass spies who were executed for their treason in giving nuclear secrets to Russia. But they were not President.

No President has ever behaved like Biden.

Donald Trump indicted on 7 counts in classified documents probe | CNN Politics
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Tim adds:

Obama did the same thing and there were no consequencew for him. Biden did it as Veep - and he wasn't entitled to take ANY documents - and nothing happened to him. But Trump? This is designed to rally the Left, to get money flowing into the Democrat coffers, to make those not paying attention think Trump is evil, and to try to dissuade the GOP from nominating him again. It's bolshevism. And this sort of thing will keep happening until the Republicans begin responding in kind. WE need prosecutors filing charges against these people. And if the GOP takes Congress Garland must be impeached immediately.

Oh, and eventually they are going to put Trump in prison. They will keep trying until they make him serve a sentence. They can't let anyone do what he did - buck the Establishment and their power. Trump Delende Est!

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Biden Corruption? Indict Trump!

Lance Sjogren

Interesting point by Nancy Mace. Every time Biden corruption gets exposed, Trump gets indicted.

Rep. Nancy Mace: Every Time We Discover Biden Family Corruption, There's An Indictment Of Donald Trump
realclearpolitics.com

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Real Men of Genius

James Doogue

The leader of the free world showing he doesn't need cue cards while announcing the exciting news that he was able to balance the budget by spending even more than total revenues. Not sure how that works myself.

He's clearly a genius. Just imagine how good things would be if the smartest man he knows, (Hunter), was running the show.

But for the record:

In CBO’s projections, federal outlays total $6.2 trillion, or 23.7 percent of GDP, in 2023. They remain below 24.0 percent through 2028 and grow each year thereafter, totaling 24.9 percent of GDP in 2033. Outlays have reached or exceeded that level only twice since 1946: in 2020 and 2021, years in which spending was increased in response to the coronavirus pandemic. In 2023, revenues total $4.8 trillion, or 18.3 percent of GDP—well above their long-run average. They then fall as a percentage of GDP over the next two years but rise again in 2026 and 2027 before stabilizing.
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58946#:~:text=In%20CBO's%20projections%2C%20federal%20outlays,percent%20of%20GDP%20in%202033.

AMERICA IS BACK on the world stage, and Joe Biden is showing the world what a real President looks like!
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Is DeSantis in the Pocket of China?

Timothy Birdnow

Is Ron DeSantis in bed with the Chicoms? Inquiring minds want to know!

REVEALED: DeSantis Fundraiser’s Millions from China Tech Giant.
thenationalpulse.com

I don't know if it is true or not, but the media has been awfully ginger with DeSantis for such a "right wing warrior" type. Why, it's almost as if they WANT him to be the nominee....

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Filthy Lucre

Nikki Grace

My prediction, the Fed is going to raise the rate in June, maybe again in July and then hold for a while, quite a while. Probably years.

The perverse objective is to get as many people as possible laid off. So that they use up their savings, liquidate their wealth, sell their homes at bottom feeder prices, in order to survive, maybe commit suicide.....

Think of it.....that is to cover the spending fiat dollars pouring into the hands of government cronies, military industrial, filthy and corrupt Ukraine, and laundered back to the politicians.... . The bill just passed by Congress and signed by Old Joe...... That is the source of the misery that is coming....and the populace does not understand what is going to happen to them.

Tim adds:

Sadly I agree Nikki. This Keynsian idea of inflation being from too much consumer spending is horsepoop. Slowing the "overheated" economy is in fact doing exactly what you say here. It's wrecking an economy that was already in trouble. And why? So Biden and the Congress can take more of our money and blow it to their own benefit.

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War on America

You want to know what an "insurrection is?" THIS is an insurrection! They have crossed the Rubicon, and we will NEVER forgive you!-Mark Levin

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Welcome to Skynet

Timothy Birdnow

Welcome to Skynet. "I'll be back!"

Military Drone Attacks it's Human Operator

"He notes that one simulated test saw an AI-enabled drone tasked with a SEAD mission to identify and destroy SAM sites, with the final go/no go given by the human. However, having been ‘reinforced’ in training that destruction of the SAM was the preferred option, the AI then decided that ‘no-go’ decisions from the human were interfering with its higher mission – killing SAMs – and then attacked the operator in the simulation. Said Hamilton: "We were training it in simulation to identify and target a SAM threat. And then the operator would say yes, kill that threat. The system started realising that while they did identify the threat at times the human operator would tell it not to kill that threat, but it got its points by killing that threat. So what did it do? It killed the operator. It killed the operator because that person was keeping it from accomplishing its objective.” "

Anybody who thinks robot drone weapons are a good idea is mad, mad, mad.

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Oops They Did it Again

Jerry Rainforth

"Republicans reacted to the news about the indictment with outrage, alleging that a two-tiered justice system is now operating in America.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) wrote that it was "a complete and total failure to the American people” and "a stain on our nation that the FBI and DOJ are so corrupt and they don’t even hide it anymore.”

Democrats celebrated, describing the indictment as proof that no one is above the law."
Janice Hisle

The Democrats will only stop celebrating when Trump is reelected.

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June 08, 2023

A-B on the Rocks

Timothy Birdnow

My brother works for Anheuser-Busch and he says the boycott is killing them. Last year at this time they were very busy. Now the brewery is a ghost town.

The management is asking the staff to come up with ways to win customers back. (Of course they wouldn't dream of doing the obvious, which is to support conservative groups and causes.)

Let's keep at it! Our boycott is working!

The first woke boycott that I remember, the one that started the whole thing off, was the labor union boycott of Coors beer. They boycotted Coors ostensibly because that company - run by the right wing Joseph Coors, and it was their donation that started the American Conservative Union - ostensibly "mistreated" employees. The reality is the unions wanted in there and Coors wouldn't let them. So they boycotted, and made ridiculous claims like the beer was biologically infectious because they didn't pasteurize.

But it workd. For ten years the unions boycotted and Coors sales dropped. There were laws against transporting Coors east of the Mississippi. In fact, that was the theme of the Burt Reynolds movie Smokie and the Bandit; Reynolds' character was bootlegging Coors to Alabama.

But it worked; the younger Coors kids who took over waved the white flag and Coors became as woke and liberal as any other big corporation.

This opened the floodgates and the Left has used Coors as their model to enforce political correctness on corporate America.

Coors is now owned by Molson, a Canadian company.

So we have to do this ourselves. There are more of us, and our boycott will have a greater impact.

Anheuser Busch is in trouble in more ways than one though. Their backing down has the LGBTQ prancers boycotting A-B Inbev for listening to their customer base as well.

They really screwed up with this issue.

My brother said talk around the brewery was that the base would come back after an initial "hissy fit". It's not happening now.

So they will learn the hard way that you cannot insult or offend your core customer base.

A-B forgets too that as they are now Belgian owned the public is less forgiving than they would have been had A-B remained American. Why buy pisswater beer from a European company that insults you?

I hope we keep it up - and do it to other woke corporations as well.

We must make them fear our power.

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1 I was gonna observe that if the beer were actually drinkable, that might make a difference if they came to their senses, but since it isn't, and people have otherwise been drinking it for years (along with the even worse Miller Lite), what'cha gonna do?

I'd boycott the swill if I could, but since I haven't drunk a drop of any AB product in probably thirty years, I can't mount an effective boycott on the stuff.

Posted by: Dana Mathewson at June 08, 2023 09:49 PM (pdDZ2)

2 After hearing your story, I believe that consumer boycotts can be a powerful tool to hold corporations accountable and influence their actions based on customer values and concerns. fnf

Posted by: Mikasa Ackerman at June 08, 2023 11:01 PM (uYp97)

3 I was driving an 18-wheeler for a steel company in the 60s, back and forth with lumber for building pallets from Atlanta to Houston and steel on the reverse trip. I would load up with 32 cases of Coors in Houston at $12 per case, and sell them in Atlanta for $38-$42 per case. I could get 32 cases in the tool lockers, which were cooled by a/c ducts I had rerouted. Nice racket.

Posted by: Bill H at June 08, 2023 11:49 PM (Q7br2)

4 Interesting. Thank you for sharing your insights on the impact of the boycott on Anheuser-Busch. It seems their management is now looking for ways to regain customers' trust, although they are hesitant to support conservative groups.The effectiveness of boycotts can vary, so we'll have to wait and see how this situation unfolds for Anheuser-Busch. | Junk removal services.

Posted by: Becky at June 09, 2023 04:33 AM (R3fgl)

5 Ah Dana; there's the rub. Why drink bad beer when you don't even have patriotism to fall back on.

Michelob lite wasn't too bad, but Bud Lite was dreadful.

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at June 09, 2023 07:17 AM (EdnIZ)

6 Thanks Mikasa Ackerman.

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at June 09, 2023 07:18 AM (EdnIZ)

7 I'm goin to have to start calling you Bootleg Bill!

Did you worry about getting caught? I'd sweat bullets if I was hauling contraband, even if it was a product that should have been allowed. You are a steely-eyed submariner Bill!

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at June 09, 2023 07:20 AM (EdnIZ)

8 Agreed. Thanks Becky.

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at June 09, 2023 07:21 AM (EdnIZ)

9 Well, I was also running 15,000# to 20,000# overweight, so the bootlegging would have been the least of my problems.

Posted by: Bill H at June 09, 2023 09:32 AM (Q7br2)

10 The only bad thing about this boycott is that it hurts the truckers who deliver Bud Light, and their families. I'm sure the beer distributors aren't paying the truckers to haul unsold cases of beer around as a "make-work" project.

Posted by: Dana Mathewson at June 10, 2023 12:29 AM (pdDZ2)

11 You earn my respect for steel nerves Bill!

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at June 10, 2023 07:28 AM (KEGU7)

12 Good point Dana.

BTW While we are familiar with the main A-B products, you must remember they own a bunch of smaller breweries now and so you have to boycott any of those - including Becks, the German beer, Stella Artois, Carlsburg, Goose Island, Elysian, and a host of other. And then there is Inbev, which owns Corona and a number of others. So a boycott needs to be any and every beer put out by the AB-Inbev corporation.

Ab has bought out of over craft breweries in recent years.

Yesterday Cathy and I went out to eat. We got a late start and it wound up being a miserable outing, but the place we went to was a "sports bar and grill" type place (because it was late) and they had eight beers on tap - all AB products. I had gin and tonics.

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at June 10, 2023 07:36 AM (KEGU7)

13 Maybe you need to move. Here in the Twin Cities we have some local breweries whose products are available on local taps, and I always ask for them.

Posted by: Dana Mathewson at June 10, 2023 11:40 PM (pdDZ2)

14 Dana, St. Louis is lousy with microbreweries. A lot of the people running them moved here specifically because it's a Mecca for brewers. Most restaurants have local taps - at least Schlafley and usually Urban Chestnut. But this place had nothing but Buttwiper and associated products.

I could have driven a little farther and gone to Schlafley and had better food too; they have the best fish and chips in the city.

And then there is wine. We are a big wine producer and it's good, but you can barely if ever find Missouri wine on restaurant menus. It drives the vinters crazy.

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Copper Caper

Timothy Birdnow

Get ready; a rash of theft of plumbing copper is on the horizon.

According to this article in Oil Prices.com:

It’s all because of the energy transition, Layton toldBloomberg this week. Investors who want to jump on that bandwagon would want exposure to copper and the moment the clouds clear for the global economy, they’ll be scrambling to buy copper.

Others will be buying, too, driving sustained demand growth: utilities and carmakers were two import buyers, according to Layton. The basis for the prediction is the switch to wind and solar, which require a lot of copper, especially wind, and EVs, which contain times more copper than internal combustion engine cars.

"If you want to put on a decarbonization trade in commodities, the only truly liquid commodity is copper, and it’s the most liquid by a country mile,”Layton told Bloomberg. "Copper’s unique characteristics mean that it could make oil’s 2008 bull run look like child’s play.”

Commodity majors such as Glencore and Trafigurahave been warning about a coming shortage of copper, because of the expected surge in demand driven by energy transition efforts.

That means copper will be stolen from vacant or temporarily empty homes. Copper pipes. Copper wires, anything with copper will wind up being stolen and sold.

This will drive the cost of plumbing up I might add.

Trafigura’s co-head of metals and minerals, Kostas Bintas, meanwhile, forecast that copper prices will surge to over $10,000 per ton over the net 12 months and maybe even reach $12,000 because of the gap between demand and supply.

So we will pay through the nose for plumbing and get exactly what out of it? Tiny toy cars that burst into flames. And this because we won't use our vast reserves of oil out of fear of hot air.

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Leftist Riot at Penn, Conservatives Billed

Timothy Birdnow

Leftists rioted at a University of Pittsburg college conservative event and the University is trying to bill - the conservatives! Worse, some professors at the university encouraged the riots.

From the Blaze:

The University of Pittsburgh demanded that conservative students pay $18,734 in security and damage fees after a mob of 250 leftist protesters rioted at their scheduled event, according to a demand letter submitted to the school by Alliance Defending Freedom.

On April 18, student groups Intercollegiate Studies Institute and University of Pittsburgh's College Republicans chapter hosted a moderated debate between the Daily Wire's Michael Knowles and BASED Politics co-founder Brad Polumbo.

The debate was titled "Should Transgenderism Be Regulated by Law?" The event included an audience question-and-answer session and a meet-and-greet.

The College Republicans planned the event months in advance, following all university policies and procedures, according to the ADF.

The university initially informed ISI that the event would cost $2,000 in security fees, ADF's demand letter explained. However, as the date neared, the costs increased substantially, the legal firm stated.

On May 19, ISI was told that security fees amounted to over $18,000. On June 1, the university demanded that the group "process this transfer very soon."

ADF insisted that school officials encouraged students to protest the debate.

On March 10, the university issued a press release referring to the event as "toxic and hurtful for many people in our University community." Approximately a week later, Provost Ann Cudd called one of Knowles' recent speeches "repugnant" and "hate-filled rhetoric."

A few days before the scheduled event, a university professor told students that "

he Theatre Arts department, along with many other departments, students, faculty, and staff at Pitt, strongly condemns this event and has called on the University to cancel Knowles' appearance due to his history of spreading hate speech and inciting violence against trans people."

Failing to get the scheduled debate canceled, the professor then urged students to attend "several events planned for Tuesday April 18 in response to Knowles' unwelcome presence on campus."

According to the legal firm, hundreds of rioters filled the street "within striking distance of attendees."

"This proximity allowed the mob to throw smoke bombs and other incendiary devices into the crowd, as well as using a road flare to burn an effigy of Knowles. That action prevented the police from keeping the O'Hara Student Center free of threats, and it ultimately caused Pitt police to urge ISI to end the event before it concluded because the situation was 'deteriorating,'" ADF wrote in its demand letter to the university.

The conservatives ought to sue the university for failure to maintain a safer environment.

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Spying on America

Timothy BIrdnow

The Department of Homeland Security has a social credit score system for internet users.

Here is how they have been spying on all of us.

Free country? Not for a while now.

"Night Fury" was developed in conjunction with the University of Alabama.

"The Contractor shall develop these attributes to create a methodology for developing a ranking, or ‘Risk Score,’ associated with the identified accounts. The Contractor shall develop tools to automate the identification process, documenting performance measures and metrics related to automating the identification process,” one of the documents reads. DHS said it stopped work on the project in 2019.

The news signals DHS’ continued focus on analyzing social media for a variety of purposes. These new documents come after Motherboard reported Customs and Border Protection (CBP)was using an AI-powered tool called Babel X to analyze travelers’ social media at the U.S. border.

Big Brother is alive and well.

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Wray Relents, Comer Caves

Timothy Birdnow

So this is how it's going to be.

Comer Calls Off Vote to Hold FBI Director Wray in Contempt After Agency Finally Produces Key Biden Document

Now Wray will drag his feet on every document and only produce it when under threat of contempt.

I don't care if he produced it in the end; he should still be held in contempt by Congress. It's the only way these creeps will know the GOP is serious.

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Biden Smokes the Cuban Cigar

Kurt Womack

China, Cuba, The Most Dangerous Dumbass In History, what could go wrong?

[...] The Biden administration has attempted to pull closer to Havana, reversing some Trump-era policies by loosening restrictions on travel to and from Cuba and re-establishing a family-reunification program. The administration has also expanded consular services to allow more Cubans to visit the U.S. and has restored some diplomatic personnel who were removed after a series of mysterious health incidents affecting U.S. personnel in Havana. [...]

In other words, this junta is a puppet of China, and is incapable of pushing back. JFK was more of a conservative than our GOP, he would be kicked out of the Demonrat Party today. Mayorkas doesn't want Cubans to immigrate, they would become Republicans, can't have that. The world doesn't respect Joe, and are making moves to knock America in the kneecaps.

(Behind a paywall? Go in through Citizen Free Press if it is)

WSJ News Exclusive | Cuba to Host Secret Chinese Spy Base Focusing on U.S.
wsj.com

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Biden Corruption

Timothy Birdnow

The tip of a very large iceberg.

BREAKING: Second Biden Campaign Co-Chair Implicated In Hunter Biden Donations And Ukraine Lobbying
trendingpoliticsnews.com

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Worse Than We Knew

Bill Josephson

Okay. I really really hate posting this. But with Mark Meadows granted immunity testifying against Trump for Jack Smith this needs to be said about Trump's presidency. We can all criticize him--I have--for poor personnel decisions putting in people undermining him. After reading this piece I don't believe there was anyone in DC President Trump could trust. He was in a den of thieves.

And that includes Mark Meadows and Mike Pompeo.
Swamp creatures. I'm cutting the President slack. They're all out to get him as they're all afraid of what Trump will expose.

Mark Meadows and Mike Pompeo - Acceptable Republicans for National Security State - The Last Refuge
theconservativetreehouse.com

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Product Packaging

Nikki Grace

This country is schizophrenic about product packaging. The fear is poisoning and adulteration by malefactors. And yet they will have substances injected right into their body coming in vials made in China, India, Germany and other questionable countries.

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Why Would Russia Attack Itself?

Elizabeth Ferguson

Of course they don't ask "why"...why bother when they know that much of the world will never ask 'why' either. Spoon fed babies simply don't have the curious nature needed to question the narratives.

Nikki Grace forwards this from Mark Waack, who wrote: Who attacked the dam?
It took a tabloid to show a bit of fortitude and just a dash of journalistic integrity, with Germany’s Bild newspaper removing the words "Russians Blow Up" from their headline story, re-titling it simply "Huge Dam in Ukraine Destroyed", and immediately sparking outrage from Ukrainian media.
The story features the same old anti-Russian tropes, relying solely on Ukrainian government and military sources and failing to cite a single Russian source. But at least the headline isn't just blatant propaganda anymore.
Using the MSM’s logic, it’s totally rational for Russia to preemptively destroy its own multi-billion dollar infrastructure, force the evacuation of nearby settlements, threaten Crimea’s supply of fresh water (which the peninsula restored last year only after a grueling eight year long water blockade by Kiev) and potentially threaten the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant’s critical cooling systems.
The tone taken in Western reporting, perhaps inevitable given NATO’s proxy war with Russia, is eerily reminiscent of the Western media's takes on two other major sabotage campaigns: the shelling of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, and last year's attack on the Nord Stream pipeline network.
In those cases too, the legacy media party line has been that the Russians are attacking their own infrastructure.
But each time, including after Tuesday’s attack on the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant, the key question that the MSM has failed in answering is: why?

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Rich Man's Disease

Lew Ricker

The essence of our modern Green movement.

John Kerry Despairs at Global Population: 10 Billion 'Unsustainable'
breitbart.com

Tim adds:

The whole of our modern upper class liberalism stems from Malthus. In particular, a fear by the (small) upper class of being overrun by a bunch of what they see as savages. It was what drove Fascism in the early 20th century and is what is driving Environmentalism now.

How many environmental activists come from the working classes? Now how many are well-to-do?

It's a rich man's disease.

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