November 16, 2024
How Nations Die
Timothy Birdnow
From the Captain Obvious files:
Democrat Governors and Congress Members Vow to Form Shadow Government
This is rather like reading the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1944. There has BEEN a shadow government all along, especially during Trump's first term.
So Donald Trump is a "threat to democracy" and yet these people are perfectly content to overturn the will of the People with a Mafia-style organization to thwart that will. Who are the insurrectionists? That they would even suggest such a thing openly shows the Democratic (sic) Party is turning into a purely Bolshevik entity.
J.B. "No Neck" Pritzker wants an entente, a coalition of Democrat-controlled states to join together to resist Trump. That is illegal, as Article 1, Sec. 10, clause 3 of the U.S. constitution makes perfectly clear.
So these clowns are advocating breaking the law, but then when did the Demo-Left worry about such things as the Constitution or the law? I mean, the Constitution has a whole amendment specifically for the rights to own firearms and the Left simply dismisses that as a suggestion as long as they allow Kamala Harris to own a gun, and perhaps losing Missouri Senatorial candidate Lucas Kunz, who accidentally shot a reporter while showing off about how big a gun nut he was. (Kunz is the poster boy for gun control, if you ask me. And Harris has no need of one; who would touch her?)
They have ALWAYS ignored the Tenth and Ninth Amendments. And the First? Fuggetaboutit! They suppressed free speech on the old Twitter, on Facebook, and that in cooperation with the government. They suppressed freedom of religion in many states during the Covid pandemic. They spied on numerous conservative (and some not so conservative) journalists and charged them with crimes and whatnot. Just ask Sharyl Atkisson for one example. They created forfeiture laws, thus violating the constitutional protections against illegal search and seizure. Currently a bunch of people are sitting in jail for extended periods or facing prosecution for exercising their right to assemble and petition for the redress of grievances.
So don't tell me these jackasses are even remotely interested in "democracy". They are interested in power and reshaping America into the moldy oldie mold of 19th century democratic socialism.
If anyone like Pritzker tries to pull this there should be a warrant issued for their arrest. Maybe we can't pluck them out of their lairs, but we can make sure they can't leave. They would do that to us. Shoot; they DID that to us, even worse - look at the raid on Mar-a-Largo where the FBI was sniffing Melania's panties!
I don't think we should use that approach; it would only turn the public from a noble cause. But we can issue arrest warrants and pick up a guy like J.B. if he tries to disembark from a plane anywhere.
One thing is certain; this is the spirit of 1860 and by the same Party. What Pritzker and the governor of Colorado are doing is essentially nullification. They seek to nullify the law because they do not agree with it. Nullification and hatred of the man who won the Presidency in 1860 led the Southern States to secede (something I believe they had a right to do) but plunged America into the nastiest war in our history and left countless Americans dead and created a wound that still has not healed. At least back then the Confederates had a point. Today the Left's point is they lust for power and we aren't giving it to them. They are vile, and they are prepared to burn it all down if they can't have it.
Naturally they refuse to just leave and make their own country. They demand it all.
This is how nations die.
From the Captain Obvious files:
Democrat Governors and Congress Members Vow to Form Shadow Government
This is rather like reading the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1944. There has BEEN a shadow government all along, especially during Trump's first term.
So Donald Trump is a "threat to democracy" and yet these people are perfectly content to overturn the will of the People with a Mafia-style organization to thwart that will. Who are the insurrectionists? That they would even suggest such a thing openly shows the Democratic (sic) Party is turning into a purely Bolshevik entity.
J.B. "No Neck" Pritzker wants an entente, a coalition of Democrat-controlled states to join together to resist Trump. That is illegal, as Article 1, Sec. 10, clause 3 of the U.S. constitution makes perfectly clear.
So these clowns are advocating breaking the law, but then when did the Demo-Left worry about such things as the Constitution or the law? I mean, the Constitution has a whole amendment specifically for the rights to own firearms and the Left simply dismisses that as a suggestion as long as they allow Kamala Harris to own a gun, and perhaps losing Missouri Senatorial candidate Lucas Kunz, who accidentally shot a reporter while showing off about how big a gun nut he was. (Kunz is the poster boy for gun control, if you ask me. And Harris has no need of one; who would touch her?)
They have ALWAYS ignored the Tenth and Ninth Amendments. And the First? Fuggetaboutit! They suppressed free speech on the old Twitter, on Facebook, and that in cooperation with the government. They suppressed freedom of religion in many states during the Covid pandemic. They spied on numerous conservative (and some not so conservative) journalists and charged them with crimes and whatnot. Just ask Sharyl Atkisson for one example. They created forfeiture laws, thus violating the constitutional protections against illegal search and seizure. Currently a bunch of people are sitting in jail for extended periods or facing prosecution for exercising their right to assemble and petition for the redress of grievances.
So don't tell me these jackasses are even remotely interested in "democracy". They are interested in power and reshaping America into the moldy oldie mold of 19th century democratic socialism.
If anyone like Pritzker tries to pull this there should be a warrant issued for their arrest. Maybe we can't pluck them out of their lairs, but we can make sure they can't leave. They would do that to us. Shoot; they DID that to us, even worse - look at the raid on Mar-a-Largo where the FBI was sniffing Melania's panties!
I don't think we should use that approach; it would only turn the public from a noble cause. But we can issue arrest warrants and pick up a guy like J.B. if he tries to disembark from a plane anywhere.
One thing is certain; this is the spirit of 1860 and by the same Party. What Pritzker and the governor of Colorado are doing is essentially nullification. They seek to nullify the law because they do not agree with it. Nullification and hatred of the man who won the Presidency in 1860 led the Southern States to secede (something I believe they had a right to do) but plunged America into the nastiest war in our history and left countless Americans dead and created a wound that still has not healed. At least back then the Confederates had a point. Today the Left's point is they lust for power and we aren't giving it to them. They are vile, and they are prepared to burn it all down if they can't have it.
Naturally they refuse to just leave and make their own country. They demand it all.
This is how nations die.
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Be More Here!
Timothy Birdnow
(In my best Lou costello voice) Hey Abbooootttt....and Desantis! Time to turn chicago into the next NYC or Martha's Vineyard.
Illinois Gov. Confirms He’ll Try to Block Trump Immigration Agenda... After Complaining About Illegals Being Bussed to His State
I suggest setting these vagrant migrants up in Hyatt hotels across northern Illinois and in Springfield. Let's see how the neckless Oliver Hardy clone with the billions of dollars likes his hotels being run by street gangs from Venezuela.
The Hyatt Hotel's branding slogan is "It's good not to be home”. Wonder if that will apply to gangsters and non-paying aliens?
Another of their slogans is "Be More Here" . Well, if you insist...
(In my best Lou costello voice) Hey Abbooootttt....and Desantis! Time to turn chicago into the next NYC or Martha's Vineyard.
Illinois Gov. Confirms He’ll Try to Block Trump Immigration Agenda... After Complaining About Illegals Being Bussed to His State
I suggest setting these vagrant migrants up in Hyatt hotels across northern Illinois and in Springfield. Let's see how the neckless Oliver Hardy clone with the billions of dollars likes his hotels being run by street gangs from Venezuela.
The Hyatt Hotel's branding slogan is "It's good not to be home”. Wonder if that will apply to gangsters and non-paying aliens?
Another of their slogans is "Be More Here" . Well, if you insist...
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Dems and the Popular Vote
Timothy Birdnow
On November 6 Donald J. Trump was up in the popular vote by over 5 million.
California Still Has 1.7 Million Uncounted Ballots From 2024 Election in Latest Reminder of Liberal Incompetence
This is not "incompetence". It serves a number of purposes. It is designed to steal down-ballot races, and take more House seats. It also is designed to run the numbers up so as to perhaps overturn the popular vote victory, or failing that to at least make it very close so they can claim Trump just squeeked by and does not have a mandate. I couldn't find the current popular vote tally but I know it has dropped significantly and with 1.7 million ballots being added at the last minute probably won't drop it below a popular win but it will make it razor-thin. I found dozens of articles on a Google search talking about how this was no landslide at all, for instance. They will use every vote they can manufacture to create the image of a close race and thus justify total resistance to the duly elected President and his program.
Chuck Schumer was saying this the other day, saying the Senate needs power-sharing because it's so close. Sadly I see John Thune pulling a Trent Lott and actually doing that!
Politics is all about perception, and with the Democrats complete control of the media and of social media and the search engines they control that perception and thus the narrative. We have to be on the offensive. I fear we are already sliding into lethargy as our side is too busy high-fiving to actually stop the Left from turning our victory into dust in our mouths.
The real work has only just begun!
On November 6 Donald J. Trump was up in the popular vote by over 5 million.
California Still Has 1.7 Million Uncounted Ballots From 2024 Election in Latest Reminder of Liberal Incompetence
This is not "incompetence". It serves a number of purposes. It is designed to steal down-ballot races, and take more House seats. It also is designed to run the numbers up so as to perhaps overturn the popular vote victory, or failing that to at least make it very close so they can claim Trump just squeeked by and does not have a mandate. I couldn't find the current popular vote tally but I know it has dropped significantly and with 1.7 million ballots being added at the last minute probably won't drop it below a popular win but it will make it razor-thin. I found dozens of articles on a Google search talking about how this was no landslide at all, for instance. They will use every vote they can manufacture to create the image of a close race and thus justify total resistance to the duly elected President and his program.
Chuck Schumer was saying this the other day, saying the Senate needs power-sharing because it's so close. Sadly I see John Thune pulling a Trent Lott and actually doing that!
Politics is all about perception, and with the Democrats complete control of the media and of social media and the search engines they control that perception and thus the narrative. We have to be on the offensive. I fear we are already sliding into lethargy as our side is too busy high-fiving to actually stop the Left from turning our victory into dust in our mouths.
The real work has only just begun!
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Trump to Appoint Review Board for Generals, Admirals
Timotthy Birdnow
A very wise policy.
Trump Assembling a "Review Board” to Investigate Our Military Generals
Why should generals have eternal appointments? These clowns can't win wars; we've lost every war we've fought with the exception of the fight against ISIS under Trump, at least since Gulf War I. If a sports coach had that kind of record he'd be long gone.
If an employee of a corporation lost the amount of money and hardware they lost in the Afghanistan withdrawel they would be fired.
But here we are with the very same people running the military after having done an atrocious job over the years. All the generals seem to care about is social engneering.
I guess fighting climate change or racial discrimination is easier than actually facng down bullets. What does that make them? We used to call them cowards.
A very wise policy.
Trump Assembling a "Review Board” to Investigate Our Military Generals
Why should generals have eternal appointments? These clowns can't win wars; we've lost every war we've fought with the exception of the fight against ISIS under Trump, at least since Gulf War I. If a sports coach had that kind of record he'd be long gone.
If an employee of a corporation lost the amount of money and hardware they lost in the Afghanistan withdrawel they would be fired.
But here we are with the very same people running the military after having done an atrocious job over the years. All the generals seem to care about is social engneering.
I guess fighting climate change or racial discrimination is easier than actually facng down bullets. What does that make them? We used to call them cowards.
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November 15, 2024
Commie Editor of Scientific American Resigns
Timothy Birdnow
The editor-in-chief of Scientific American went on a tirade, insulting much of America, on social medoa on election night and has been forced to resign.
Laura Helmuth had such choice comments as:
and
Also
This not only shows her utter disdain for the average American it also shows she is a radical who was using Scientific American as yet another tool of propaganda.
After an explosive backlash on the Sci-Am boards, she deleted all the critical messages and then posted up a ridiculous article in the magazine about dealing with "the very real" stress of Trump Derangement Syndrome Election Grief (Good Grief!)
Sci-Am claims she chose to resign (right!) but she did so only after making a spectacle of herself.
She is par for the course in our modern times - a radical activist who somehow worms her way into a position of authority and then corrupts a once venerable institution.
Helmuth (To paraphrase Rick Moranis in Spacceballs "I'll bet she gives great helmuth")has a doctorate in cognitive neuroscience from UC Berkeley (is any of that a surprise - "cognitive neuroscience is pretty much a pseudoscience and what it has given us are ridiculous claims that conservatives are fearful and despotic based on junk science like the study I rebutted a few years ago) and anything from Berkeley is red and infected. She went on to U.C. Santa Cruz’s science communication program, then from there as an editor at leftist Smithsonian magazine, leftist Slate, Science magazine, and the leftist Washington Post. None of her previous employment suggests anything but a radical in a lab coat.
I'm glad she's gone but we need to be much more proactive. The Left would guarantee a right-winger would never work again and we should return the favor, seeing to it people like this are blackballed. What always happens when these radicals cross the line is they simply keep their heads low for a while then emerge with another important job, usually better than the last. Our people wither away. It's time we start holding grudges.
Now is the time to push Sci-Am to find a real editor, one who will have scientific objectivity, at a minimum. I favor Steven Milloy, for instance, or Mark Morano.
The editor-in-chief of Scientific American went on a tirade, insulting much of America, on social medoa on election night and has been forced to resign.
Laura Helmuth had such choice comments as:
"Solidarity to everybody whose meanest, dumbest, most bigoted high-school classmates are celebrating early results because f–k them to the moon and back,”
and
"I apologize to younger voters that my Gen X is full of f–king fascists.”
Also
"Every four years I remember why I left Indiana (where I grew up) and remember why I respect the people who stayed and are trying to make it less racist and sexist. The moral arc of the universe isn’t going to bend itself,”
This not only shows her utter disdain for the average American it also shows she is a radical who was using Scientific American as yet another tool of propaganda.
After an explosive backlash on the Sci-Am boards, she deleted all the critical messages and then posted up a ridiculous article in the magazine about dealing with "the very real" stress of Trump Derangement Syndrome Election Grief (Good Grief!)
Sci-Am claims she chose to resign (right!) but she did so only after making a spectacle of herself.
She is par for the course in our modern times - a radical activist who somehow worms her way into a position of authority and then corrupts a once venerable institution.
Helmuth (To paraphrase Rick Moranis in Spacceballs "I'll bet she gives great helmuth")has a doctorate in cognitive neuroscience from UC Berkeley (is any of that a surprise - "cognitive neuroscience is pretty much a pseudoscience and what it has given us are ridiculous claims that conservatives are fearful and despotic based on junk science like the study I rebutted a few years ago) and anything from Berkeley is red and infected. She went on to U.C. Santa Cruz’s science communication program, then from there as an editor at leftist Smithsonian magazine, leftist Slate, Science magazine, and the leftist Washington Post. None of her previous employment suggests anything but a radical in a lab coat.
I'm glad she's gone but we need to be much more proactive. The Left would guarantee a right-winger would never work again and we should return the favor, seeing to it people like this are blackballed. What always happens when these radicals cross the line is they simply keep their heads low for a while then emerge with another important job, usually better than the last. Our people wither away. It's time we start holding grudges.
Now is the time to push Sci-Am to find a real editor, one who will have scientific objectivity, at a minimum. I favor Steven Milloy, for instance, or Mark Morano.
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House Fails to Pass Bill to Defund Pro-Hamas NGO"s
Timothy Birdnow
Anyone who expects anything out of the next GOP House and Squeeker Mike "Mikerophallus" Johnson should ponder this bit of news.
House rejects bill enabling punishment of non-profits supporting ‘terrorism’
Johnson and the Republicans control the House and yet cannot get so basic a law passed? OF COURSE NGO's who give aid and comfort to Hamas or any other terrorist organization should be punished by law!
Yet the king of genital dwarfism couldn't even get that done.
Why didn't they? Because and I quote:
Democrats went on to howl about how Trump will use this to go after pro-abortion groups or to target other groups with which he does not agree.
The irony is apparently lost on them; it was Biden who unleashed the dogs of war on Conservative groups and prosecuted them to the fullest exttent of the law, while Trump was qaute solicitious to obey the law when he was president.
The point is Mike Johnson couldn't get so reasonable and logical a bill through; why do we think he will move any of Trump's agenda forward?
Another question; why didn't Johnson see to it this bill was brought up for a vote BEFORE the election? It's failure would have rebounded against the Democrats. But he waited until after the election, thus allowing Democrats cover.
As GOP control of the House will remain razor-thin it seems unlikely Mr. Johnson will be able to move anything even if he tries (and I'm not sure he will try very hard). It was so unnecessary; the GOP failed to expand only because of it's weak and vacillating leadership.
Couple that with the Senate under John "Mini-Me" Thune and we are assured of four years of nothing out of them. Trump is going to have to act via exective order, as he did in his first term, despite his startling electoral victory.
Many Conservative pundits are saying Johnson and Thune are going to be too frightened to not go along with Trump. I say nonsense; Trump can only embrarrass them, and they will happily fire back. They are the co-heads of a coequal branch of government.
No, right now the RINO wing still controls our government by and large and it will be Trump who is forced to genuflect, not Johnson and Thune. And this is by design, in accordance with the plans of Mitch McConnell and the ghost of John Boehner (who has become a major adviser to Mike Johnson). The GOP in Congress doesn't really want to win, they prefer a balance of power so nobody dare throw them out or move against their own agendas.
Hate to dump cold water on our parade but I think this failure speaks volumes.
Anyone who expects anything out of the next GOP House and Squeeker Mike "Mikerophallus" Johnson should ponder this bit of news.
House rejects bill enabling punishment of non-profits supporting ‘terrorism’
Johnson and the Republicans control the House and yet cannot get so basic a law passed? OF COURSE NGO's who give aid and comfort to Hamas or any other terrorist organization should be punished by law!
Yet the king of genital dwarfism couldn't even get that done.
Why didn't they? Because and I quote:
"Fears Trump could use bill to target ‘enemies’ by deeming groups ‘terrorist-supporting’ to withhold tax-exempt status"
More from the article:
The bill, called Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, or HR 9495, joined two measures together – one allowing the treasury department to withhold tax-exempt status from any non-profit it decides is a "terrorist-supporting organization” and another, less controversial measure, which would offer tax relief to Americans imprisoned unjustly abroad or held by terrorist groups.
Providing material support to US-designated terrorist groups is already illegal.
Critics of the bill argued that Republicans cynically pushed to fast-track the bill by merging the measure targeting non-profits with the provision offering tax relief to Americans imprisoned abroad, and described it as a gift to Trump, who made retaliation against "enemies” within the US a centerpiece of his campaign.
"This bill authorizes Donald Trump to recklessly impose a death penalty on any non-profit in America that happens to be on his enemies list,” said the Texas Democratic congressman Lloyd Doggett before the bill was taken to a vote. "With this bill, he can destroy the very life of civil society in this country, one group after another, even though the group involved that he targets as a terrorist supporting group has not violated a single law.
More from the article:
The bill, called Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, or HR 9495, joined two measures together – one allowing the treasury department to withhold tax-exempt status from any non-profit it decides is a "terrorist-supporting organization” and another, less controversial measure, which would offer tax relief to Americans imprisoned unjustly abroad or held by terrorist groups.
Providing material support to US-designated terrorist groups is already illegal.
Critics of the bill argued that Republicans cynically pushed to fast-track the bill by merging the measure targeting non-profits with the provision offering tax relief to Americans imprisoned abroad, and described it as a gift to Trump, who made retaliation against "enemies” within the US a centerpiece of his campaign.
"This bill authorizes Donald Trump to recklessly impose a death penalty on any non-profit in America that happens to be on his enemies list,” said the Texas Democratic congressman Lloyd Doggett before the bill was taken to a vote. "With this bill, he can destroy the very life of civil society in this country, one group after another, even though the group involved that he targets as a terrorist supporting group has not violated a single law.
Democrats went on to howl about how Trump will use this to go after pro-abortion groups or to target other groups with which he does not agree.
The irony is apparently lost on them; it was Biden who unleashed the dogs of war on Conservative groups and prosecuted them to the fullest exttent of the law, while Trump was qaute solicitious to obey the law when he was president.
The point is Mike Johnson couldn't get so reasonable and logical a bill through; why do we think he will move any of Trump's agenda forward?
Another question; why didn't Johnson see to it this bill was brought up for a vote BEFORE the election? It's failure would have rebounded against the Democrats. But he waited until after the election, thus allowing Democrats cover.
As GOP control of the House will remain razor-thin it seems unlikely Mr. Johnson will be able to move anything even if he tries (and I'm not sure he will try very hard). It was so unnecessary; the GOP failed to expand only because of it's weak and vacillating leadership.
Couple that with the Senate under John "Mini-Me" Thune and we are assured of four years of nothing out of them. Trump is going to have to act via exective order, as he did in his first term, despite his startling electoral victory.
Many Conservative pundits are saying Johnson and Thune are going to be too frightened to not go along with Trump. I say nonsense; Trump can only embrarrass them, and they will happily fire back. They are the co-heads of a coequal branch of government.
No, right now the RINO wing still controls our government by and large and it will be Trump who is forced to genuflect, not Johnson and Thune. And this is by design, in accordance with the plans of Mitch McConnell and the ghost of John Boehner (who has become a major adviser to Mike Johnson). The GOP in Congress doesn't really want to win, they prefer a balance of power so nobody dare throw them out or move against their own agendas.
Hate to dump cold water on our parade but I think this failure speaks volumes.
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Alaska STILL Counting Voteson Ranked Choice
Timothy Birdnow
So, Ranked Choice is losing in Alaska but by a whisker as the vote continues to be counted.
Now, why is it taking so long to count the vote? The population of Alaska is a scant 733 THOUSAND souls and no doubt many of them don't vote. Yet here we are over a week out from the election and they STILL don't have them counted! Something stinks about that.
Apparently 35,000 ballots remain uncounted.
Rank Choice (pew!), er, Ranked Choice is a scheme adopted by Alaska and other states to choose people from a list where you rank your preferences. So someone who loses the total vote but wins more runner up slots can wind up in power. It is rightly seen as a tool to allow Democrats to win more offices as freqUENTLY THE RUNNER UP WILL BE A Democrat (since most of the time they are also on the ballot) and while the people who vote Republican may not be doctrinaire MAGA types but they will fill out the ballot while Democrats simply won't list a ranking.
Ranked choice also complicates the vote tabulation, as is seen right here, and allows more time for the Left to manufacture votes.
Here are some reasons why Conservatives should worry about ranked choice.
So, Ranked Choice is losing in Alaska but by a whisker as the vote continues to be counted.
Now, why is it taking so long to count the vote? The population of Alaska is a scant 733 THOUSAND souls and no doubt many of them don't vote. Yet here we are over a week out from the election and they STILL don't have them counted! Something stinks about that.
Apparently 35,000 ballots remain uncounted.
Rank Choice (pew!), er, Ranked Choice is a scheme adopted by Alaska and other states to choose people from a list where you rank your preferences. So someone who loses the total vote but wins more runner up slots can wind up in power. It is rightly seen as a tool to allow Democrats to win more offices as freqUENTLY THE RUNNER UP WILL BE A Democrat (since most of the time they are also on the ballot) and while the people who vote Republican may not be doctrinaire MAGA types but they will fill out the ballot while Democrats simply won't list a ranking.
Ranked choice also complicates the vote tabulation, as is seen right here, and allows more time for the Left to manufacture votes.
Here are some reasons why Conservatives should worry about ranked choice.
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The Pennsylvania Hustle
Timothy Birdnow
The Bucks County Commissioner who is acttively working to steal the election for Bob Casey in Pennsylvania admitted she was breaking the law by counting bad ballots and in fact was quite proud of herself for doing so.
Diane Marseglia was caught on tape admitting they were keeping ballots that did not comport with Pennsylvania law.
This should get the whole recount business stopped, but of course the courts have to rule on this evidence and they will be reluctant to do so.
Election after election Philadelphia tampers with the vote and nothing is ever done. This woman needs to be put in jail.
Hornswaggler, er, Marseglia actually endorsed Harris before the election and promised to deliver the country for her in a gross violation of ethics.
There has to be a day of accounting for these people.
The Bucks County Commissioner who is acttively working to steal the election for Bob Casey in Pennsylvania admitted she was breaking the law by counting bad ballots and in fact was quite proud of herself for doing so.
Diane Marseglia was caught on tape admitting they were keeping ballots that did not comport with Pennsylvania law.
This should get the whole recount business stopped, but of course the courts have to rule on this evidence and they will be reluctant to do so.
Election after election Philadelphia tampers with the vote and nothing is ever done. This woman needs to be put in jail.
Hornswaggler, er, Marseglia actually endorsed Harris before the election and promised to deliver the country for her in a gross violation of ethics.
There has to be a day of accounting for these people.
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American Stasi
Timothy Birdnow
The FBI, in a case of pure Stasi tactics, made a six a.m. raid on the home of the head of Polymarkets in what appears to be retribution for that company predicting a Harris loss.
CEO Shayne Coplan had his New York City home raided by the jackbooted thugs who took his computers and phone.
Why? Probably looking for contact with Donald Trump's people.
Speculation is that ostensibly this was done because Polymarkets - an offshore company - allowed U.S. citizens to bet on it's site in violation of the law. But when did this lawless regime give a flying frig about the law?
There has been no comment from the FBI or DOJ.
The point is this bears a striking resemblence to raids made against Trumpers - be it the raid on Guilliani's home, or on Roger Stone's home, or on Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate (where they seemed more interested in a panty raid than in actually seeking evidence for some crime). This has become a common tactic of the FBI, under the thumb of Christopher Wray and Merrick Garland.
This Newsweek Article from last year shows that many groups associated with Trump were targeted by the FBI. Also, the FBI appears to have run a purge on Conservative and Trump-supporting agents and employees.
The FBI is now more akin to the East German Stasi than to the honorable law enforcement agency we used to believe it had been.
The FBI, in a case of pure Stasi tactics, made a six a.m. raid on the home of the head of Polymarkets in what appears to be retribution for that company predicting a Harris loss.
CEO Shayne Coplan had his New York City home raided by the jackbooted thugs who took his computers and phone.
Why? Probably looking for contact with Donald Trump's people.
Speculation is that ostensibly this was done because Polymarkets - an offshore company - allowed U.S. citizens to bet on it's site in violation of the law. But when did this lawless regime give a flying frig about the law?
There has been no comment from the FBI or DOJ.
The point is this bears a striking resemblence to raids made against Trumpers - be it the raid on Guilliani's home, or on Roger Stone's home, or on Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate (where they seemed more interested in a panty raid than in actually seeking evidence for some crime). This has become a common tactic of the FBI, under the thumb of Christopher Wray and Merrick Garland.
This Newsweek Article from last year shows that many groups associated with Trump were targeted by the FBI. Also, the FBI appears to have run a purge on Conservative and Trump-supporting agents and employees.
The FBI is now more akin to the East German Stasi than to the honorable law enforcement agency we used to believe it had been.
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Chicago Mayor "Trump Will Deport Black People"
Timothy Birdnow
Oh for crying out loud!
Chicago Mayor Johnson labels Trump a ‘threat’ to ‘black families’ in vow to shield illegal aliens from deportation
If the U.S. didn't deport black people during the eugenics era how can this dimwit think that would happen now? This fool doesn't understand the meaning of the word CITIZEN - or legal.
Yes, blacks will be deported IF THEY ARE ILLEGAL ALIENS just as will be Hispanics, whites, and Asians.
What kills me is he does know how ridiculous this is, I am sure, but thinks so little of his black constituents that he tries to pull this on them and expects them to swallow it.
We might be better off just deporting HIM.
Texas and Florida need to start loading Chicago with busloads of illegals and make Johnson explain to Chicagoans the benefits of being a sanctuary city then.
Oh for crying out loud!
Chicago Mayor Johnson labels Trump a ‘threat’ to ‘black families’ in vow to shield illegal aliens from deportation
"The president-elect, former President Trump, his threat is not just toward new arrivals and undocumented families. His threats are also against black families," he stated. "We're going to stand up and protect undocumented individuals."
If the U.S. didn't deport black people during the eugenics era how can this dimwit think that would happen now? This fool doesn't understand the meaning of the word CITIZEN - or legal.
Yes, blacks will be deported IF THEY ARE ILLEGAL ALIENS just as will be Hispanics, whites, and Asians.
What kills me is he does know how ridiculous this is, I am sure, but thinks so little of his black constituents that he tries to pull this on them and expects them to swallow it.
We might be better off just deporting HIM.
Texas and Florida need to start loading Chicago with busloads of illegals and make Johnson explain to Chicagoans the benefits of being a sanctuary city then.
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Casey's Trainwreck
Timothy Birdnow
Tthe sore loser Democrats are about to try the big steal in Pennsylvania as they have triggered a recount in the Senate race lost by Bob Casey.
As is usual the Republican Dave McCormick was ahead and a sudden surge made this into a "photo finish" and now the incumbent Casey - who has refused to concede - has "found" enough votes to send this to a recount. This is par for the course with the Democrats; they cannot accept losing, especially when it's an old incombent.
The GOP will face a daunting challenge as the Pa. courts were packed by Democrats and if this is litigated (something the sore loser Casey is vowing to do) the GOP will likely lose in court. The only way they will get a fair shake, in my opinion, is if this is appealed to the Feds, who generally won't take wsuch cases as elections clearly fall within the purview of the states.
That might well steal this seat.
Tthe sore loser Democrats are about to try the big steal in Pennsylvania as they have triggered a recount in the Senate race lost by Bob Casey.
As is usual the Republican Dave McCormick was ahead and a sudden surge made this into a "photo finish" and now the incumbent Casey - who has refused to concede - has "found" enough votes to send this to a recount. This is par for the course with the Democrats; they cannot accept losing, especially when it's an old incombent.
The GOP will face a daunting challenge as the Pa. courts were packed by Democrats and if this is litigated (something the sore loser Casey is vowing to do) the GOP will likely lose in court. The only way they will get a fair shake, in my opinion, is if this is appealed to the Feds, who generally won't take wsuch cases as elections clearly fall within the purview of the states.
That might well steal this seat.
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November 14, 2024
Light Blogging
Timothy Birdnow
Light blogging today and tomorrow. I've been very busy here of late and it will give you all time to catch up with older posts.
Thanks for your patience!
Light blogging today and tomorrow. I've been very busy here of late and it will give you all time to catch up with older posts.
Thanks for your patience!
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Gaetz Gets 'Em
Timothy Birdnow
Trump has chosen the firebrand Matt Gaetz to be Attorney General.
I hope Trump knows what he is doing.
First, while I love Gaetz a lot of folks hate him, and his path to confirmation will be very difficult. I get the temptation; the GOP RINO wing were talking about kicking him out of the party just a short time ago, This is, of course, a shot across the bow of Mike Johnson, whom Gaetz tried to remove as Speaker. It's Trump's way of marking a bulls-eye on the timid and feckless and duplicitous Squeeker Johnson. It also sayss to the Democrats there is a new sheriff in town.
BUt it's all for naught if the Senate doens't confirm him. I suspect they won't.
And while he's from Florida and his seat will probably be replaced by a Republican it's no sure thing, and with the razor-thin margin in the House I'm not sure how good an idea that may be. The seat has to be filled by special election; the governor cannot appoint anyone as with the Senate.
Democrats are GREAT at winning those special elections.
I also think it sets a bad precedent in that it is keeping just another guy from inside the beltway rather than looking outside of washington for new blood. There is plenty; I favor Andrew Bailey, my home-state Attorney General (Missouri) for the position. He has no ties to D.C. It's hard to spend a lot of time in D.C., making friends with people, then distance yourself from them in the execution of your duties, maybe prosecuting them (and plenty of them need prosecuting). The AG should be an outside and should always REMAIN an outsider. The Old Boys Club is a big part of our problem.
But Gaetz IS a fighter and should do a good job of it, although I would prefer someone with some prosecutorial experience; we don't need the DOJ losing a bunch of cases because Gaetz screws up.
Another point; Trump MAY be tossing up Gaetz as a throwaway, knowing his pick will be rejected no matter what. He can then move on to candidate two, his real first choice. But I doubt it; time is precious and I believe Trump knows that. He can ill-afford to not have his man at the helm.
At any rate let us hope Gaetz gets 'em!
Trump has chosen the firebrand Matt Gaetz to be Attorney General.
I hope Trump knows what he is doing.
First, while I love Gaetz a lot of folks hate him, and his path to confirmation will be very difficult. I get the temptation; the GOP RINO wing were talking about kicking him out of the party just a short time ago, This is, of course, a shot across the bow of Mike Johnson, whom Gaetz tried to remove as Speaker. It's Trump's way of marking a bulls-eye on the timid and feckless and duplicitous Squeeker Johnson. It also sayss to the Democrats there is a new sheriff in town.
BUt it's all for naught if the Senate doens't confirm him. I suspect they won't.
And while he's from Florida and his seat will probably be replaced by a Republican it's no sure thing, and with the razor-thin margin in the House I'm not sure how good an idea that may be. The seat has to be filled by special election; the governor cannot appoint anyone as with the Senate.
Democrats are GREAT at winning those special elections.
I also think it sets a bad precedent in that it is keeping just another guy from inside the beltway rather than looking outside of washington for new blood. There is plenty; I favor Andrew Bailey, my home-state Attorney General (Missouri) for the position. He has no ties to D.C. It's hard to spend a lot of time in D.C., making friends with people, then distance yourself from them in the execution of your duties, maybe prosecuting them (and plenty of them need prosecuting). The AG should be an outside and should always REMAIN an outsider. The Old Boys Club is a big part of our problem.
But Gaetz IS a fighter and should do a good job of it, although I would prefer someone with some prosecutorial experience; we don't need the DOJ losing a bunch of cases because Gaetz screws up.
Another point; Trump MAY be tossing up Gaetz as a throwaway, knowing his pick will be rejected no matter what. He can then move on to candidate two, his real first choice. But I doubt it; time is precious and I believe Trump knows that. He can ill-afford to not have his man at the helm.
At any rate let us hope Gaetz gets 'em!
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ossessing an electric skateboard with a lithium-ion battery means you're safe to roll over surfaces for quite a long time.
Ramaswamy to Help Run D.O.G.E.
Timothy Birdnow
Vivek Ramaswamy is going to head up D.O.G.E., the Department of Government Efficiency, along with Elon Musk. Ron Paul may also join them, it is rumored.
The two (and hopefully three) billionaires will hopefully take a buzz saw to multiple government agencies, and could save us billions, perhaps trillions over time. This is well past due.
We should call these guys the Roto Rooter men; they are going to unclog the drains and let all the poop wash away!
Hat tip; Dana Mathewson
Vivek Ramaswamy is going to head up D.O.G.E., the Department of Government Efficiency, along with Elon Musk. Ron Paul may also join them, it is rumored.
The two (and hopefully three) billionaires will hopefully take a buzz saw to multiple government agencies, and could save us billions, perhaps trillions over time. This is well past due.
We should call these guys the Roto Rooter men; they are going to unclog the drains and let all the poop wash away!
Hat tip; Dana Mathewson
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November 13, 2024
Judge: Musk did not Run an Illegal Lottery
Timothy Birdnow
Elon Musk did not run an illegal lottery according to a PA. judge who allowed it to continue.
So yet another case of lawfare failing when confronted by actual jurists.
Elon Musk did not run an illegal lottery according to a PA. judge who allowed it to continue.
So yet another case of lawfare failing when confronted by actual jurists.
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Revelation 12
Timothy Birdnow
While surfing Google results for news aggregates I found this little tidbit that appeared in The Atlantic back in April.
I didn't see this sort of thing anywhere before the election, but the author is crowing about how Conservative websites/blogs were seeing their traffic collapse.
Needless to say they blamed it on Trump, but what it actually tells us is that Google and the other gatekeepers had shadow-banned conservative sites.
I know this is true. Our own Aviary is pretty much disappeared from search results when it used to be easy to find, and as a result our traffic dropped down in a major way some years back. The Gateway Pundit was huge and now you struggle to find it and THAT was because Google decided to simply disappear it.
So what does that tell us? It tells us that the mandarins of information have purposely suppressed conservvative thought to tamper with the election, that's what it tells us.
The next Attorney General needs to file a number of anti-trust lawsuits - against Google,against Meta, against network news. They have colluded, and with the aid of our government, to strangle free speech.
That is why small blogs like the Aviary largely no longer exist; just a few die-hards keep at it. You cannot profit from it, certainly; advertisers aren't going to pay for a platform nobody can find.
I had a friend who worked in radio and his wife took a sales job with the tiny station he worked at in North Carolina. She quit after a couple of weeks, largely because you couldn't pick up the station outisid of a few miles from the transmission tower. Nobody advertises on a station they can't even tune in. And that is what happened to most conservative blogs.
I stay at it because it's good for my emotiional health; I like to get my thoughts out. It's like a diary to some. But it doesn't pay anything (I never monetized it and now never will) and it takes a lot of time and effort. Few are stalwart enough to hang in with this, especially since I know that Ihave no audience, just a few loyal readers (like Bill and MIke).
But it wasn't always so. My blog posts were linked up by a lot of writers, and in fact it made it into a number of books written by different authors over the years. We hadn't made it big but we teetered on the edge. Now it's the equivalent of a Facebook page, only without even the readers that those attract. I wonder sometimes why I bother with this.
We had a good online ranking until Google suppressed us. Now I think we are rating at well under the two million mark. In other words we aren't even gnat-like.
We used to have some illustrious readers too. I am certain Rush Limbaugh was a fan, for instance. He lifted my phrase "the Max Headroom President" when speaking about Obama the day I said it here, and nobody said that as a web search showed. He also mentioned a number of articles in the exact same order I mentioned over global warming once, and some of these articles were quite obscure. I know Rush knew about me; he had me in his stack of stuff when I wrote for American Thinker on a couple of occasions.
But now I doubt anyone even remembers me or the old Birdblog, or the Aviary.
Sometimes I consider turning this into a satire site like the Babylon Bee, or making it a literary magazine featuring my own writing. I may wind up doing that yet.
So I may have an ax to grind, but I'd like to grind it in the skull of that "don't be evil" corporation that has decided my website should be banished to oblivion. But the point is control of the means of disseminating information is the key to political power and the Left has always understood that and has largely controlled it - first with newspapers, then with radio and then television and now with their dominance of the internet. They don't so much defeat us as simply silence us so we can't compete. Like Barack Obama, they clear the field of any competition using dirty tactics. We have to fight fire with fire.
I hope Trump understands this. The only we we can make permanent changes is to break the power of their tongues. I am mindful of the Book of Revelation where the Woman and her newborn child are carried away by a flood from the mouth of the dragon; that SO fits the current situation where the dragon of liberalism is drowning us with a flood of lies. Well, how do you fight a dragon like an alligator? You first grab their mouths and hold them shut. The leftist media are nothing more than crocodiles and if we let them open their mouths they will clamp down on us and we will be dragged to their meat locker after a crazy death roll.
Another analogy; the King Cobra is lethal but the Mongoose usually kills it. We are the Mongeese (Mongooses?) We can kill the poisonous viper, but we have to be quick.
So whoever heads up the DOJ needs to go after the liars who are strangling us.
While surfing Google results for news aggregates I found this little tidbit that appeared in The Atlantic back in April.
I didn't see this sort of thing anywhere before the election, but the author is crowing about how Conservative websites/blogs were seeing their traffic collapse.
Needless to say they blamed it on Trump, but what it actually tells us is that Google and the other gatekeepers had shadow-banned conservative sites.
I know this is true. Our own Aviary is pretty much disappeared from search results when it used to be easy to find, and as a result our traffic dropped down in a major way some years back. The Gateway Pundit was huge and now you struggle to find it and THAT was because Google decided to simply disappear it.
So what does that tell us? It tells us that the mandarins of information have purposely suppressed conservvative thought to tamper with the election, that's what it tells us.
The next Attorney General needs to file a number of anti-trust lawsuits - against Google,against Meta, against network news. They have colluded, and with the aid of our government, to strangle free speech.
That is why small blogs like the Aviary largely no longer exist; just a few die-hards keep at it. You cannot profit from it, certainly; advertisers aren't going to pay for a platform nobody can find.
I had a friend who worked in radio and his wife took a sales job with the tiny station he worked at in North Carolina. She quit after a couple of weeks, largely because you couldn't pick up the station outisid of a few miles from the transmission tower. Nobody advertises on a station they can't even tune in. And that is what happened to most conservative blogs.
I stay at it because it's good for my emotiional health; I like to get my thoughts out. It's like a diary to some. But it doesn't pay anything (I never monetized it and now never will) and it takes a lot of time and effort. Few are stalwart enough to hang in with this, especially since I know that Ihave no audience, just a few loyal readers (like Bill and MIke).
But it wasn't always so. My blog posts were linked up by a lot of writers, and in fact it made it into a number of books written by different authors over the years. We hadn't made it big but we teetered on the edge. Now it's the equivalent of a Facebook page, only without even the readers that those attract. I wonder sometimes why I bother with this.
We had a good online ranking until Google suppressed us. Now I think we are rating at well under the two million mark. In other words we aren't even gnat-like.
We used to have some illustrious readers too. I am certain Rush Limbaugh was a fan, for instance. He lifted my phrase "the Max Headroom President" when speaking about Obama the day I said it here, and nobody said that as a web search showed. He also mentioned a number of articles in the exact same order I mentioned over global warming once, and some of these articles were quite obscure. I know Rush knew about me; he had me in his stack of stuff when I wrote for American Thinker on a couple of occasions.
But now I doubt anyone even remembers me or the old Birdblog, or the Aviary.
Sometimes I consider turning this into a satire site like the Babylon Bee, or making it a literary magazine featuring my own writing. I may wind up doing that yet.
So I may have an ax to grind, but I'd like to grind it in the skull of that "don't be evil" corporation that has decided my website should be banished to oblivion. But the point is control of the means of disseminating information is the key to political power and the Left has always understood that and has largely controlled it - first with newspapers, then with radio and then television and now with their dominance of the internet. They don't so much defeat us as simply silence us so we can't compete. Like Barack Obama, they clear the field of any competition using dirty tactics. We have to fight fire with fire.
I hope Trump understands this. The only we we can make permanent changes is to break the power of their tongues. I am mindful of the Book of Revelation where the Woman and her newborn child are carried away by a flood from the mouth of the dragon; that SO fits the current situation where the dragon of liberalism is drowning us with a flood of lies. Well, how do you fight a dragon like an alligator? You first grab their mouths and hold them shut. The leftist media are nothing more than crocodiles and if we let them open their mouths they will clamp down on us and we will be dragged to their meat locker after a crazy death roll.
Another analogy; the King Cobra is lethal but the Mongoose usually kills it. We are the Mongeese (Mongooses?) We can kill the poisonous viper, but we have to be quick.
So whoever heads up the DOJ needs to go after the liars who are strangling us.
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Climate Apocalypse in Ten Years (Again)
Timothy Birdnow
It's the end of the world as we know it.
"BREAKING: senior IPCC scientists say exceeding the Paris 1.5°C limit is now inevitable, imminent, and may well have already occured as unsurvivable 2°C by 2034-2038 looms"
I find it fascinating that we get these predictions every time there is a U.N. Climate conference sullies our news cycle. And it's always ten years away. They've been saying this since the '80's.
This whole scam reminds me of the Salem Wtich panic. There were witches under every bed and behind every tree, but after killing a bunch of innocents sanity returned. Sadly sanity has not returned.
This is much like Orson Well's War of the Worlds scare, only it has lasted over forty years now.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
"BREAKING: senior IPCC scientists say exceeding the Paris 1.5°C limit is now inevitable, imminent, and may well have already occured as unsurvivable 2°C by 2034-2038 looms"
I find it fascinating that we get these predictions every time there is a U.N. Climate conference sullies our news cycle. And it's always ten years away. They've been saying this since the '80's.
This whole scam reminds me of the Salem Wtich panic. There were witches under every bed and behind every tree, but after killing a bunch of innocents sanity returned. Sadly sanity has not returned.
This is much like Orson Well's War of the Worlds scare, only it has lasted over forty years now.
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Mexico Threatens Trade War
Timothy Birdnow
Bring it on!
Mexico Threatens Trade War with Trump
Exports to Mexico from the U.S. were $362.0 billion; imports were $493.1 billion. Who loses a trade war?
And there are lots of countries willing to take on the roll of Mexico as a cheap labor market for companies, those companies that don't move back to the U.S. under Trump. We can just as easily get goods from Guatemala or South America or whatnot.
FDI - Foreign Direct Assisstance - to Mexico in 2023 amounted to $38.3 billion . How is Mexico going to fare without that nice little chunk of change?
I dare the narco-state of Mexico to go to war with us over trade; they will get creamed. It is America that funds Mexico. The remissions from Mexican expatriates working here alone keeps the Mexican junta in power. That will change if we squeeze these remissions.
Good luck with that trade war!
Bring it on!
Mexico Threatens Trade War with Trump
Exports to Mexico from the U.S. were $362.0 billion; imports were $493.1 billion. Who loses a trade war?
And there are lots of countries willing to take on the roll of Mexico as a cheap labor market for companies, those companies that don't move back to the U.S. under Trump. We can just as easily get goods from Guatemala or South America or whatnot.
FDI - Foreign Direct Assisstance - to Mexico in 2023 amounted to $38.3 billion . How is Mexico going to fare without that nice little chunk of change?
I dare the narco-state of Mexico to go to war with us over trade; they will get creamed. It is America that funds Mexico. The remissions from Mexican expatriates working here alone keeps the Mexican junta in power. That will change if we squeeze these remissions.
Good luck with that trade war!
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Same Old Tune; It's John Thune
Timothy Birdnow
Looks like it's McConnell's mini-me to head up the Senate.
Republicans choose John Thune as next Senate majority leader
He is the worst possible choice for the senate leadership (well, worst of the candidates under consideration). This shows McConnell is going nowhere; he's planning on pulling the strings from behind the scenes rather than as the leader, and probably will continue to do so even after he leaves the Senate.
We can't be rid of McConnell soon enough, in my view.
Cornyne would have sucked but been better than Thune, and Scott would have been mediocre but better than Cornyne.
The Republicans should have picked up ten seats in this election; the Democrats were defending a bunch of them. But they barely took control of the Senate and in the next election it will be the GOP with a lot of seats to defend. Election after election the GOP has underperformed in the Senate, and that under the tutelage of Mitch McConnell, who preferred losing a seat to the Democrats to allowing a Conservative to sit in "his" Senate. His record of failure justified a drastic break from the status quo, yet here we are with the GOP majority choosing his flunky and thus continuing the McConnell doctrine, the path of the eternal loser.
We may well lose the Senate in the next election and that will be because we didn't win as we should have in the Senate. (I would add we underperformed in the House too and I place blame for that on Mike Johnson and his predecessors, who never stood up to the bullies in the Democratic Party and in the media.)
Insanity, in the words of Albert Einstein, is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. The American People did their part,electing Trump. But congress has failed us and did not succeed not because the American People didn't support them properly but because they didn't support US properly, preferring to dance with the Devil for the good life in D.C. It's hard to have enthusiasm for a party that takes you for granted and whose nose is as brown as one of those discontinued M and M's that often led to the trashing of hotel rooms by rock stars upon their discovery in the candy mix. They were obviously more interested in their own fortunes and corporate desires than in the public interest and so they have struggled. Most of us know we need Congress, but many of us are unmotivated to get out the vote for a bunch of weenies and losers.
So John Thunne is just another in a long line of men with hollow chests (and double chins) to lead the Republicans into the glorious land of surrender. We deserve better.
Trump showed the way. He showed that if you fight and remain firm and do not cower you will win. This is at odds with the GOP consultant class, which argues you should be everything to everybody and hold no principles. Trump blew that notion away.
Political opinions in the nation are not set in stone, and they change all the time. You have to LEAD and the public will follow. The GOP has spent decades leading from behind, then wonder why they cannot beat the damned Bolshevik Democrats. It's not that they can't; it's that they refuse to try. McConnell and his ilk were quite happy with a Senate that was neck-and-neck so that the voters dared not turn out the RINO wing out of fear of losing the seat (just look at Kari Lake in Arizona, who could have won had McConnell lifted a finger to win that seat). McConnell's fundamental strategy is predicated on a balance of power between the two parties, and he is happy to lose a few elections to maintain his grip on the GOP. That is a loser's strategy; it benefits no-one except the Party insiders. America has been in serious decline since McConnell assumed power in the Senate and it will continue under Thune unless Thune is so afraid of Trump he obeys Trump's orders. But even then he'll probably work behind the scenes to sabotage Trump.
BTW we need the vote for Majority Leader to be public and not secret. Why make it secret? Are Senators so cowardly as to be unwilling to put themselves out there? It's not the PARTY'S decision or the Senate's; it belongs to the voters who put these people in power. They REPRESENT us; they do not rule over us. They owe us the vote tally so we know who to punish and who to reward.
Thune had nothing but bad things to say about Trump until he saw which way the wind was blowing, I might add.
"What former President Trump did to undermine faith in our election system and disrupt the peaceful transfer of power is inexcusable,”
Senator John Thune
Senator John Thune
Looks like it's McConnell's mini-me to head up the Senate.
Republicans choose John Thune as next Senate majority leader
He is the worst possible choice for the senate leadership (well, worst of the candidates under consideration). This shows McConnell is going nowhere; he's planning on pulling the strings from behind the scenes rather than as the leader, and probably will continue to do so even after he leaves the Senate.
We can't be rid of McConnell soon enough, in my view.
Cornyne would have sucked but been better than Thune, and Scott would have been mediocre but better than Cornyne.
The Republicans should have picked up ten seats in this election; the Democrats were defending a bunch of them. But they barely took control of the Senate and in the next election it will be the GOP with a lot of seats to defend. Election after election the GOP has underperformed in the Senate, and that under the tutelage of Mitch McConnell, who preferred losing a seat to the Democrats to allowing a Conservative to sit in "his" Senate. His record of failure justified a drastic break from the status quo, yet here we are with the GOP majority choosing his flunky and thus continuing the McConnell doctrine, the path of the eternal loser.
We may well lose the Senate in the next election and that will be because we didn't win as we should have in the Senate. (I would add we underperformed in the House too and I place blame for that on Mike Johnson and his predecessors, who never stood up to the bullies in the Democratic Party and in the media.)
Insanity, in the words of Albert Einstein, is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. The American People did their part,electing Trump. But congress has failed us and did not succeed not because the American People didn't support them properly but because they didn't support US properly, preferring to dance with the Devil for the good life in D.C. It's hard to have enthusiasm for a party that takes you for granted and whose nose is as brown as one of those discontinued M and M's that often led to the trashing of hotel rooms by rock stars upon their discovery in the candy mix. They were obviously more interested in their own fortunes and corporate desires than in the public interest and so they have struggled. Most of us know we need Congress, but many of us are unmotivated to get out the vote for a bunch of weenies and losers.
So John Thunne is just another in a long line of men with hollow chests (and double chins) to lead the Republicans into the glorious land of surrender. We deserve better.
Trump showed the way. He showed that if you fight and remain firm and do not cower you will win. This is at odds with the GOP consultant class, which argues you should be everything to everybody and hold no principles. Trump blew that notion away.
Political opinions in the nation are not set in stone, and they change all the time. You have to LEAD and the public will follow. The GOP has spent decades leading from behind, then wonder why they cannot beat the damned Bolshevik Democrats. It's not that they can't; it's that they refuse to try. McConnell and his ilk were quite happy with a Senate that was neck-and-neck so that the voters dared not turn out the RINO wing out of fear of losing the seat (just look at Kari Lake in Arizona, who could have won had McConnell lifted a finger to win that seat). McConnell's fundamental strategy is predicated on a balance of power between the two parties, and he is happy to lose a few elections to maintain his grip on the GOP. That is a loser's strategy; it benefits no-one except the Party insiders. America has been in serious decline since McConnell assumed power in the Senate and it will continue under Thune unless Thune is so afraid of Trump he obeys Trump's orders. But even then he'll probably work behind the scenes to sabotage Trump.
BTW we need the vote for Majority Leader to be public and not secret. Why make it secret? Are Senators so cowardly as to be unwilling to put themselves out there? It's not the PARTY'S decision or the Senate's; it belongs to the voters who put these people in power. They REPRESENT us; they do not rule over us. They owe us the vote tally so we know who to punish and who to reward.
Thune had nothing but bad things to say about Trump until he saw which way the wind was blowing, I might add.
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Lara Trump for Senate?
Timothy Birdnow
Rumor has it Lara Trump may replace Marco Rubio in the U.S. Senate.
That would be awesome, although I hate losing Lara from the Republican National Committee where she did so steallar a job in this last election.
Sorry, no link except a tweet on X.
Rumor has it Lara Trump may replace Marco Rubio in the U.S. Senate.
That would be awesome, although I hate losing Lara from the Republican National Committee where she did so steallar a job in this last election.
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