August 26, 2025

The Right to Mobility is being Abridged

Timothy Birdnow

We (at least we at The Aviary) have known this all along.

Why states are quietly moving to restrict how much you drive

Yes, Progressives are falsely using concerns about climate and air quality to take away your God-given right to travel as you see fit. That is, of course, one of the early steps to controlling the population and imposing their will on people.

They tried for years by pushing public transportation but it never caught on so they went to "climate change" as a weapon to say you are hurting people by driving. Now they are quietly taking steps to restrict driving by Americans and to push "fifteen minute cities" with people living in high rise apartments cheek-by-jowel as it were. They've tried to make such overcrowding look cool but there is nothing cool about it - just look at Pruitt-Igo the poster boy for high-rise housing projects. PI was built in St. Louis and was promised to solve the problem of slums in the area. People were transitioned to these projects and they quickly became crime riddled hellholes, falling down and decaying. Rats wandered the halls. Bugs infested the apartments. There were regular shootings there and everyone knew not to go anywhere near them in the dark. Eventually they were torn down - a huge waste of money.

There were other such housing projects in St. Louis. They were all equally terrible. My father was driving by one of them and related this story; it was a hot day and this was before cars had air conditioning, or most didn't anyway. A couple was in their car with the windows down. A thug reached into the car and grabbed thw woman's purse. The husband stupidly got out and chased the kid - and Dad said the man came running out a moment later, half a dozen black men on his tail. That was a common occurance at any of these projects.

So high rises failed and they decided to try a different tactic. They build a series of detached townhomes "Laclede Village" which was intended to be a multiracial affair with rental assisatance. It was multiracial - the first year. After that it was entirely black and utterly crime riddled. The remains of Laclede Village were still there when I went to college (it was just east of St. Louis University) and everyone knew not to park on the east side of the cmapus. These townhomes are now gone, needless to say.

We've tried this condensing of the populate before; it doesn't work.

But they Left will keep trying because they need to corral the populace, just as one must corral a horse. It's the way they can control us, by having us all in one place where they can take actions to compel "right" behavior. If you train a horse you must first catch it and put it in the corral.

I wrote about this some years back. Mobility is more akin to a civil right than a privilege. That's why the Left hates it so much; it thwarts their scheme of controlling us.

so liberal politicians want to restrict how much we drive, eh? Maybe we should restrict how far THEY drive, or walk, for that matter. A few years in the state pen would do wonders for 'em.

Mileage taxes, peak time toll pricing, etc.are all becoming fixtures in Blue cities as a way to force people onto public transit - or stay at home. This will need to be taken to the Supreme Court at some point; we need a definitive ruling on the rights of the citizenry to travel unmolested by government.

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Energy for a Strong China

Timothy Birdnow

China is burning record levels of coal while the U.S. has largely eschewed her own coal, and the U.S. is the to coal what Saudi Arabia is to oil.

Yes, China has gone into "renewables" big time, but it's gone into coal and oil even bigger. Now why do you suppose that is, if "renewables" offer such a great bargain?

China put 21 gigawatts (GW) of coal power online in the first six months of 2025. Just one megawatt powers 164 American homes, and American homes use far more power than do Chinese. A megawatt amount to a million watts - a gigawatt to a billion watts. The Chinese have another 46 gigawatts about ready to come online and plans to build more plants to produce a further 75 gigawatts.

They are going all out in power production in China, no question.

President Xi had promised to phase coal downa and eventually out, yet he's increasing it's use. Why? Because he knows renewables are unreliables and isn't going to trust his nation's fate to them. Watch what the Chicoms do,not what they say.

Time America started building new coal fired plants aned relax emissions standards. We need energy, moreso than the chinese.

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Funding Evil

Timothy Birdnow

Here is a brief conversation between reader Mike and yours truly:

In a discussion about Kilmar Obrego Garcia, the human trafficking scumbag who beat people up (including his wife) and was deported but a Biden judge ordered he be allowed to remain in Ameria, Mike observes:

Wherever he lands he will be fine as the leftist will open a go fund me to make sure he is kept snug as a bug in a rug. The illegal that killed the three people in Florida has a online petition to be freed with over 2 million signatures. 2 million people want a murder to go free. The lives of the 3 people he killed mean nothing. If you havent seen the video he never looked back when he made the Illegal Uturn. Intentional murder is what I see it as.

I rply:

Yikes! I haven't seen the video Mike.

So many people these days are so hyper-partisan they don't care about the country or about decency or anything else; they just want to continue the policies that were destined to break America. It's a form of madness. They hate this country because it gave them so much and allowed them to speak their minds in the first place. A bad country wouldn't tolerate such people and such people would be too hard at work, have too little leisure and freedom to send money to Gofundme pages for killers.

This also illustrates how out of touch with reality people have become. Computer technology has completed what the television started, making people see reality as an act, a play, and not understanding that there were real people who really did die because of what this bastard did.

But since the Trump Administration is going after this guy then they are all for him! Yessirree!

I do wonder though at that two million business; I wouldn't be at all surprised if the real number was tiny and some Soros-connected outfit wasn't funneling money and making it LOOK like individual donations. They have done such in times gone by.

Rush Limbaugh often discussed that. He was embroiled in some tempest-in-a-teapot and his staff did the research and found the huge outpouring of anger at him (being sent to his sponsors) was actually something like five guys using computer algorithms to generate new accounts with new complaints. It was fake, phony. But it worked most of the time and continues to work. I remember Mike Pence, when he was governor of Indiana, didn't sign a bill to prottect Christian bakers from having to bake cakes for gay weddings because of such an outpouring - which Rush researched and found was just another hoax campaign. But Pence walked back anyway.

So this may not be as large a group as it appears. But no doubt it still is a sizable chunk of people and that is incredible. People have way too much time and way too little information on their hands.

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Untenable Position; How Black People will Lose a Race War

Timothy Birdnow

In a recent post I quoted Kurt Schlichter about how the Left is pushing white America and he observed they were playing with fire because of the white people rediscover tribalism it's all over for the Left and for the minorities who are the foot soldiers of their movement.

Dana Mathewson agrees:

Right! The Joy Reids of the world are playing with fire and don't know it.

Tim responds:

Indeed they are Dana. For the last seventy five years minorities made huge strides in America and that was entirely by favor of the majority. I've spoken with (and listened to) many black people who are under the delusion that they somehow forced white America to change policies for them. They think it was because they were so strong and so tough and we feared them and so cravenly changed the laws and the culture to protect ourselves. Nothing can be further from the truth; the civil rights movement only flourished because it tapped into white guilt, and that movement was at it's core white people who felt bad about how minorities had been treated. It was never bottom up - it was always top down.

I would add that there are many blacks who claim they cannot be racist because racism "presupposes power". So they admit to a lack of power. But if they lack power now how did the civil rights era ever begin if it worked the way they claim? You can't force anything without power.

You will notice that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was just twenty years after WWII, and no doubt the war was the impetus for this transition in American thinking. We had fought Hitler and seen first hand the ugliness of a society where race alone was the determinant of society.

So I say again it was by favor of the white majority; blacks did not have any power to make that happen. Yet here we are with many black influencers pushing for what will amount to a civil war between races in this country. Well, if pushed too far the majority will find it's tribal roots as Caucasians - and considering that only 14.4% of people identify as black in this country, they are not likely to win in a civil war. Oh, and Asians will join the white majority, and probably a majority of Hispanics too.

People like Reid are absolutely bonkers if they think they can win should it come to this. Their only hope is to bluff, acting more confident than they have any right to be. But that won't last long if white America has decided they have had enough.

Ditto in Europe. And Australia and New Zealand.

Many black folks have an illusion of strength that they do not possess. I would point out that real strength lies in good character and in knowledge - both of which are eschewed in some circles in the black community as "too white". Good luck with that!

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August 25, 2025

Keep an Eye on J.D.

Timothy Birdnow

Sundance at Conservative Treehouse discusses how much like Barack Obama our friend J.D. Vance really is, and how he's largely an artificial construct.

Vance isn''t even his name; he started life as James Donald Bowman,changed to James David Bowman, changed his name to James David Himmel, then when he wrote Hillbilly Ellegy he changed it yet again - to J.D. Vance.

He was an insider from the get-go and was tapped by Peter Thiel while finishing law school to work for his money laundering, er, venture capital firm. Hillbilly Elegy was published by Rrubert-Murdoch owned Harper Collins (do you know how hard it is to get a major publishing firm to publish a first time author?) and Netflix made a movie of it directed by Ron Howard, not some no-name film student.

Thiel and Jeff Bezos bankrolled his solo investment capital firm. So did Eric Schmidt.

People have been grooming this guy all his life. Powerful people.

His background is more than a little murky, I might add, just like Barack Hussein Obama (pee, er peace be upon him!)

And you must remember Vance was a bitter critic of Donald Trump until he decided to run for the Senate and asked for Trump's help (in 2022). He called Trump "morally reprehensible" and compared him to Hitler in private e-mails. He once called himself a "Never Trump guy".

That was when Trump appeared to be destined for oblivion. But when it became obvious Trump was not only not going away but very well could win Vance changed his tune and became his most ardent supporter.

Now, it is fine to change one's mind and admit to being wrong (as Vance has candidly done) but it's always something to be a bit concerned about. It suggests he either lacks a proper moral core or he believes the lies of the media or he is just a political opportunist. None of these things speaks well of the man.

I'v'e been quite pleased with his actions and behavior as Veep and as a candidate. But I am still wary of the man; there seems to be something amiss to me about him.

And clearly his background with the Deep State Republicans is cause for concern; the RINO wing is as dangerous, if not more so, than the Democrats because the RINO comes at you as a friend, smiling and amiable, like a mafiosa about to whack a made guy. At least with a Democrat you know where you stand.

I hope my fears are misplaced, but we need to keep an eye on Vance. He's likely to be the heir apparent to Mr. Trump.

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The Leeches and Eisenhower

Timothy Birdnow

"Imagine where we sit today, with all the things going on around the world, and the President has to have the DOJ, the FBI, the CIA, his own intelligence board, all making sure the intelligence is not weaponized. I mean it’s rather incredible, this is something that is unprecedented in the United States of America.”

Devin Nunes
Chair of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board in an interview with Laura Trump about Russiagate.

Ponder that statement if you will; Nunis is saying our national security apparatus is completely rogue and cannot be trusted. That is a prfound statement.

By neglect or design (or both) these agencies have become wholly autonomous and they tamper with our political process to such a degree that Tulsi Gabbart was forced to stop information sharing with foreign countries because she didn't believe our own inttelligence and feared they would be feeding false information to our allies. That's how bad it's gotten.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower knew this was going to happen too. In his farewell address he warned of the "potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power” and was especially worried about the partnering of military and industry, as well as the universities and the intelligence community. Read it here.

He was also very worried Americans would get fat and lazy and let the machine built on his watch take over. Looks like it has.

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist."

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NSAgate

Timothy Birdnow

Sundance at Conservative Treehouse discusses the two worst scandals in the Biden era and notes that Russiagate is NOT the worst one - it's the use of NSA data to spy on Americans.

Read about it here.

FTTA:

What is the bigger threat to our nation?

♦ Russiagate, where the Hillary Clinton campaign manufactured a dirty political story during a presidential election that was supported by Barack Obama and the DOJ/FBI?
OR…

♦ Spygate, where full spectrum political surveillance was conducted on all political opposition using government access to the NSA database that contains the private metadata of every American citizen?

If you are a person of stable and reasonable mindset, you likely identify the second issue as a much bigger threat. Not only is using the NSA database to conduct illegal surveillance a bigger threat; but it is also a threat that remains as current declassified FISA court statements show the NSA database is still being exploited.

Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, I would argue the first issue, Russiagate, is intentionally being leveraged as a shiny thing to stop people from realizing the second, much more unlawful issue took place.

Focusing on "Russiagate” leads you to a political storyline that is: harder to outline as unlawful, easily obfuscated, downplayed and subsequently dismissed. Focusing on the use of the NSA database to spy on people is simple to understand, completely unlawful and in stunningly unconstitutional when contrast against 4th amendment protections.

He's right, although we can walk and chew gum at the same time, methinks. We need to pursue both.

And I would point out the very worst that will happen with Russiagate is there may be charges against guys like Comey or Brennan, but the NSA scandal is breathtaking in scope and should bring down far more people who have generally covered their tracks, burrowed in like leeches, whereas Russiagate will wind up simply taking a few bad men.

Anyway read the article.

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Pushing White America Into Tribalism

Timothy Birdnow

Words of wisdom from Kurt Schlichter:

I keep warning people that you don’t want to make the majority ethnic group identify by its ethnicity. In America, it did not, and that was remarkable. But stupid, arrogant, greedy and historically, illiterate people decided doing that was worth the short term political gain. It… https://t.co/H4LWQckreq

— Kurt Schlichter

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Mamdani Wants to End Misdemeanors

Timothy Birdnow

Didn't California just experiment with something similar and had to pull back on it?

Zohran Mamdani wants to end all misdemeanor charges: ‘E-ZPass for criminals’

There is always law - it's just a matter of whose law will be paramount. Crime, in it's own way, is the imposition of law by evil men through the use of power. Even if it is only an autocracy of one. Stop enforcing criminal law and the criminals will enforce their own version of it.

A lawless society is terrible and usually is followed by a dictatorship.

FTA:

Democratic mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani and his comrades at the Democratic Socialists of America want to wipe out the enforcement of all misdemeanor offenses, The Post has learned.

In its most recent platform, the group blasts policing and detention as "instruments of class war” designed to "guarantee the domination of the working class” — and demands an end what it calls "the criminalization of working-class survival.”
"For all of the working class to achieve collective liberation we must constrain, diminish, and abolish the carceral forces of the state — from prisons and police themselves, to their manifestations in all forms throughout society,” according to the national party’s latest platform, adopted in 2021.

On the campaign trail, Mamdani has repeatedly called for police to stop focusing on what he’s referred to as "non serious crimes.”

"Police have a critical role to play but right now we’re relying on them to deal with the failures of our social safety net, which is preventing them from doing their actual jobs,” he said in a campaign video posted to X Wednesday.

No, the social safety net has failed and that is because people like Mamdani had never intended it to even do what they claim they want it to do. The problem is we have created a whole generational underclass (what sociologists refer to as "generational poverty") who have long been taught not to serve their fellow man and thus succeed in life but rather to take what is not theirs. Theft and poverty walk hand-in-hand and that poverty is there because people like Mamdani seek to create a dependent culture bereft of hope. So the poor cannot even count on a stable situation from which to dig out. And he blames that on American free markets, which has made our poor the richest poor in the world and actually most of our poor live better than the more well-to-do in many places. Most poor have heat, air conditioning, refrigerators, running water televisions, cars, computers. They can access free health care just by going to the emergency room. They have had the option to learn to read and write.

By stopping the enforcement of misdemeanors you would create an increasingly lawless atmosphere. Rudy Giulliani proved that when he took over a chaotic, crime riddled city and made it flourish. It flourished because he didn't just go after the big criminals but after the scofflaws and petty crooks and made the social atmosphere tolerable so people could improve their lives.

All this will do is "rub raw the sores of discontent" as Saul Alinski admonished, and I am sure Mamdani has read his Alinski.

Mamdani says:

"What violent crime is – is defined by the state,” he said at a 2021 protest outside the Manhattan DA’s office to nix cash bail and shut down Rikers – a promise he’s still making. ” Violence is an artificial construction,”

So, if I go up to him and punch him in the snout was that an "artificial construct"? Think I wouldn't be prosecuted and put in jail for doing this? Itt's just government defining my actions, not what I actually did.

I would never do it of course but he makes the fanttasy come alive....

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Into Africa

Timothy Birdnow

Trump once mentioned "Sh#&hole" countries. Now he calls them sanctuaries.

Is Africa becoming the US dumping ground for migrants?

Seems Uganda has become the lastest place to disgorge illegals for cash. That is a great idea! If someone comes here illegally to the U.S. they need to know they may wind up in a worse place than the one they left.

Uganda joins Eswatini (?), Rwanda, and South Sudan in taking in our poor, our tired, our huddled masses yearning to be free.

(BTW what will they bring you if you order an Eswatini in a nightclub?)

BTW I had to look it up; Eswatini was formerly Swaziland.

At any rate I doubt you can FIND a nightclub there, or a waiter to bring you any sort of martini. And really, really don't expect ice in your cocktail.

That is monstrous; sending illegal aliens to places where they can't get a cold martini! How do we live with ourselves?

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August 23, 2025

Deutch! That's Gotta Hurt!

Timothy Birdnow

This is what happens when you vote socialists into power.

Germany updates: Economy shrinks more than expected


Germany, roiled by hordes of Middle Eastern immigrants and drowning in ESG/DEI is seeing the fruits of all that; the economy is going south faster than Sherman. The only surprise is it took so long.

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No More Winkin, Blinkin, or Noddin

Timothy Birdnow

First we had Letitia James, now this Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook has been caught with her hand in the cookie jar.

Trump 'Will Fire Cook' If She Doesn't Resign After Pulte Drops New Receipts

Who HASN'T fudged on their loan applications in government?

This chick and Letitia James and all the others (like Adam Schiff)

I read a number of websites claiming Trump is "weaponizing mortgages" and yet they conveniently forget it was they, particularly Letitia James, who did that first with their ridiculous devaluing of Trump's Mar-a-Lago property to make fraud charges stick. They fired the first shot in this; Trump is simply ferreting out the sins of his accusers. How is that weaponizing anything? They set the rules.

Turnabout is fair play.

At any rate it seems everyone in the higher levels of government are doing it. Yes, it's an issue now because Trump is applying the same standard to them with which he was judged, but in the end we either have laws on the books and enforce them or we should remove them from the books. The wink and nod has gone on for far too long.

Paperwork showed Cook applied for a condo loan in Georgia and said it was going to be her primary residence, thus getting more favorable terms. The condo went up for sale shortly thereafter and Cook applied for ANOTHER loan in Michigan as her "primary residence".

Cook, in a response to questions about this, said:

"I have no intention of being bullied to step down from my position because of some questions raised in a tweet,”

"I do intend to take any questions about my financial history seriously as a member of the Federal Reserve and so I am gathering the accurate information to answer any legitimate questions and provide the facts.”

What does she need to "gather"? It's fairly easy to disprove this assertion; just answer it and if needed then provide the paperwork. If she was living in Atlanta then she can get the building manager to say so (condos all have management). She could provide a reason for the Michigan mortgage application (I planned on staying in Atlanta but had to move suddenly...) Her non-answer is itself a powerful indication she's lying.

All she has done here is say "nuh-uh".

Cook was appointed a Fed governor by Joe Biden.

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August 22, 2025

Majority Wants New Census

Timothy Birdnow

A majority of likely voters in America want a new census that discounts illegals, according to a new survey by Rasmussen.

FTA:

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 57% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of Trump’s decision to order a new census, including 36% who Strongly Approve. Thirty-four percent (34%) disapprove of Trump ordering a new census, including 24% who Strongly Disapprove. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

This will overturn much of the Democrat's current power if it happens and they know it, which is why they are so upset about it. And Trump just had to suggest it to America and explain what was happening. Any other Republican could have done this but lacked the courage.

As the Bible says "resist the Devil and he will flee from you". All we have needed was one man to resist.

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It's the Coverup - and the Crime

Timothy Birdnow

The plot to hide the fact Covid was man-made.


a Deep State Cabal Suppressed Intel in Historic Deception

From the Daily Caller:

Senior American intelligence officials broke protocol to conceal classified intelligence that COVID-19 came from a lab from the president and the public, granting Anthony Fauci’s inner circle extraordinary influence while silencing their own spy scientists, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation found.

Evidence pointing to a lab leak included signals intelligence collected from Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leaders in 2019 between Beijing and Wuhan revealing a major emergency, one former official told the DCNF. An increasingly political deep state concealed it from President Donald Trump during the first two months of the pandemic, deflecting blame from China as political rival Joe Biden sought to lay responsibility for the pandemic squarely at Trump’s feet.

Higher-ups continued to dismiss evidence for a lab leak as the fodder for a conspiracy theory and Trump’s hardline stance against China, deceiving millions of Americans about a disease that upended their lives and felled loved ones.

This was political from the very beginning. I remember when they first started talking about the Pandemic and media outlets were saying "this could provide the Democrats with an opportunity". This was at a time when the economy was simply roaring and the Democrats were in a desperate position. They were going to get trounced by Trump. The Deep State folks, in the FBI, the CIA and elsewhere, knew it too. They decided to run a color revolution on Trump and they did it with aid of the pandemic (which may or may not have been a lab leak "accident"; I've long thought the Chicoms colluded with the CIA to release this as it wasn't THAT deadly and they thought it worth the cost to stop the upending of the New World Order).

It may just have been a golden opportunity, but I have long suspected the Chicoms did it to get rid of Trump. As I said, the CIA and other Deep State types had similar reasons to at least cover up China's actions.

Certainly these people understood what a great chance Covid provided, a game-changing event. Sadly Trump fell for the bait at first, long enough to entrench all this stupidity in place and allow the public to become terrified and willing to accept the draconian regulations imposed on them.

BTW I read an essay in Psychology Today in which the author, a stuffed shirt type with too many letters behind his name, argue how the Pandemic was a welcome thing because it was going to "restore the trust of the American People in the Science establishment" a trust that was falling as we were repeatedly treated to apocalyptic predictions that never came true (like climate change was going to lead to mass starvation by 2020). The pandemic was perfect; when it passed they could claim it was their brillian policies that "fixed" it and there would be no way possible to disprove them (well, there actually was because some places refused to go along - like Florida, or worse, Sweden - and they actually fared better than the places listening to "big science".) It didn't work because you can, as old Abe Lincoln said, fool some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. What they were attempting to do is fool all of the people all of the time. Some knew it was b.s. right away, some figured it out over time. But the truth will out.

But there was more than just espionage suggesting there was a paper trail to the Chicoms. From the article:

Spy scientists also decoded engineering in the COVID-19 genome — clues Chinese authorities were powerless to hide, two spy scientists said. But this evidence was conspicuously omitted from public reports released by the intelligence community under then-President Biden, as senior officials instead elevated the analyses of Fauci’s inner circle, who argued the virus was assuredly natural. The omission prompted a formal complaint from one agency, one spy scientist said.

You can hide documents, you can hide testimony, but you are going to have a hard time hiding DNA, especially now as we have much cheaper and more ubiquitous DNA sequencing technology. They could have pulled this off thirty years ago, but not now.

So we can see clearly how the genes had been tampered with.

In fact we have been able to deduce how it went down, coming from the U.s. via Canada to China's Wuhan lab. And there is "uncanny" similarities between the Covid 19 virus and HIV-1 , the original AIDS virus which is so hard to detect in the early stages. Why, it's as if someone spliced those genes.

That would make a poor bioweapon for mass killings, but there would be a great use for a slow-acting weapon that would damage economic growth and lead to reforms that would empower certain individuals and groups. If China had unleashed an influenze/ebola virus we would have nuked them (probably) but unleashing this made it too murky to actually punish China. It's a weapon to use when you don't want retaliation.

And such a weapon is great for fomenting a color revolution.

So the national security apparatus never told Trump about the likely origin of Covid and Fauci's people purposely suppressed it. Now why do you suppose that was?

Also EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak, communicated with the FBI 13 times from 2020 to 2022. What did he have to talk about with the FBI?

And one of the intelligence community's longtime science advisers - Ralph Baric - wrote a proposal for funding to engineer the coronavirus years before and he testified before Congress that he had indeed told the intelligence people this virus was likely a lab leak. Yet he said nothing about it after that. Hmm....

There is much more in this article and it names names.

The more we look at this the more likely it is that this was not just a lab leak but a major coverup and a coverup for what is the question. Why do a coverup? It wasn't the crime but the coverup they used to say about Nixon and Watergate. Yet these scientists risked EVERYTHING to protect China. Why. There is something very foul afoot (and it's not toe jam).

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The Ongoing Plot

Timothy Birdnow

None dare call it conspiracy.

Globalists Are Rebranding Their "Woke Capitalism” Agenda After Crushing Defeat

Actually many now DO call it conspiracy because it has now exposed itself like a perverted old geezer wearing a trench coat in a girl's locker room.

Everyone used to laugh at the John Birch Society for their conspiracy theories; who's getting the last laugh? (Well, it's STILL the globalist clowns, but you get the point.)

At any rate ESG and DEI and all the other cute little acronyms used to hide the ugly, authoritarian march to depravity and insanity are not gone, just in hiding. They will come back. Ideas don't just go away; look at how so many of the ideas of National Socialism we see in our society today, be it hatred for Jews or the Green movement or government overregulation of the free markets. The Nazis lost all the battles but in some ways one the war; the only thing they lost was the Aryan part of their philosophy, which has since flipped on it's head and now supports minorities over anything not just Aryan but caucasian.

The "free love movement" of the latter 19th century was reborn in the "sexual revolution" of the 19h70's and is with us today in the guise of the ever-growing lgbtq expansion of permissible sexual deviations. Gay marriage came out of the free love movement, ultimately. so too it arose from the philosophy of the Marquis de Sade, who advocated almost every sort of perversion, but he also advocated the view that sex should be as ubiquitous as eating or drinking. Sigmund Freud promoted the ideas of de Sade and it is now thoroughly rooted in our culture, even if we still haven't totally mainstreamed beating your sex partner to a bloody pulp (it's not for lack of trying - remember "Fifty Shades of Gray"?) These ideas took root and won't go away precisely because Man is inherently evil as Christianity always suggested and will sink to the lowest level if given the chance - and actively recruit others to sink along with them. (It's what the Bible means when it says "broad and easy is the path that leads to damnation"; misery loves - and gets -company.)

It's why socialism, after Rousseau invented the idea in his book Du contrat social; ou, Principes du droit politique ( On the Social Contract; or, Principles of Political Right) in 1762 remains one of the driving forces in the globalist movement and around the world even though it was repeatedly proven an abject failure. It SOUNDED good then, especially to those who were downtrodden, and it sounds good today to those who are NOT downtrodden but who are envious of their more successful neighbors. Socialism appeals to envy and always has - and is the religion of those who want to decimate our culture and society. Once thought of it cannot be unthought.

So do not expect these latest incarnations of evil to go away any time soon. What the globalists will do is put it on a back burner until the publlic is "properly prepared" aka has forgotten about it. This is how they operate; they outwait us. We forget overr time and then this stuff roars back. This time it must be different; we must never forget.

But we've already forgotten the lessons of the Holocaust after a scant eighty years. I doubt we'll remember ESG and DEI and all the rest another twenty years, tops.

People have to see this as more than just a political or economic issue. They have to see it for what it is; a spiritual assault on America and on our citizenry, something evil to be hated as one would hate cannibalism or sacrificing young children. It has to become unthinkable evil. Until we manage to make it clear that that is precisely what it is it won't go away. In time even some opponents may look back with nostalgia, or their kids will anyway. Just like the way many Russians are now looking back with fondness at the old Soviet Union, a thing everyone despised and whose death was wholly unlamented at the time.

We have to go after the people in these organizations like the World Economic Forum. Not after the WEF alone but after the core, the people promoting this. We have to find ways to defang them, and that means erasing their money. Without money they are just some aging hippies. The problem is they have money, lots and lots of money. We need to find ways to bankrupt them.

This isn't going away any time soon.

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Walrus Hunt

Timothy Birdnow

The FBI has raided the home of John Bolton aka The Walrus and the prosecution that had been in the works for the Eggman which Joe Biden promptly killed upon his election to office appears to be reinvigorated.

According to the Blaze:

A Trump administration official told the New York Post that federal agents stormed Bolton's Bethesda, Maryland, house at 7 a.m. on Patel's orders.

The raid is in connection to a probe reportedly involving classified documents that was launched years ago but torpedoed by President Joe Biden's administration for "political reasons," according a top U.S. official.

The Department of Justice during Trump's first term opened a criminal investigation in 2020 into whether Bolton disclosed classified information in his book, "The Room Where It Happened," after first proving unable to stop the publication of the book with a lawsuit.

The case was referred to the DOJ by then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe.

Trump noted in June 2020, "Washed up Creepster John Bolton is a lowlife who should be in jail, money seized, for disseminating, for profit, highly Classified information.

Bolton served as a national security adviser to President Trump during his first tterm of office but then, like so many in the Deep State, turned against the President in a vicious way. Bolton had been ambassador to the United Nations under George W. Bush for a time (so he was a Bush man, and Bush has always hated Trump).

Coo coo ca choo!

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Federal Judge Sides with Drug Dealers, Rules Habba is Unlawful

Timothy Birdnow

You may use whatever explative you care to use. I hurled a series of quite graphic expletives upon seeing this.

Federal judge rules Alina Habba is not lawfully acting as US attorney for NJ

FTA"

President Donald Trump used a "novel series of legal and personnel moves" as described by U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann to keep Habba as the AG after her 120-day period as interim U.S. attorney ran out.

'I conclude that Ms. Habba was ineligible to assume the functions and duties of the office of the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey.'

Two defendants facing federal drug trafficking charges in New Jersey objected on the basis that Habba did not have the authority to prosecute them. On Thursday, Judge Brann sided with the alleged drug traffickers.

"Faced with the question of whether Ms. Habba is lawfully performing the functions and duties of the office of the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, I conclude that she is not," Brann wrote.

When Habba's 120-day period ended, New Jersey federal judges declined to extend it and instead appointed attorney Desiree Leigh Grace in her place.

This is nothing more than continuing lawfare to slow down President' Trump's efforts to Make America SAfe Again. And to keep political opposition in positions of authority so they can undermine this Administration.

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August 21, 2025

Trump's Plays the Left in Joke with Zelensky

Timothy Birdnow

Trump can play the Left like a fiddle!

Absolutely Disgusting: Trump Sparks Fury by Joking He Can Cancel Future Elections if U.S. Gets into War

Well that at least shows some improvement! They realize he is pulling their legs, anyway.

Of course Trump was saying that because of Zelensky, who cancelled elections after getting into a war. If Big Z can do it and still get the awe and reverance of the media why can't Trump?

This is lost on them, of course.

The fact that left-wing Mediaite has to waste time on this tempest-in-a-teapot shows how easily Trump can manipulate them.

Trump's tactic is to keep hitting them from multiple directions and making them scramble. They are too busy defending to attack. It is what they always do to our guys and now it's happening to them. This shows politics never was that hard - it just took someone willing to take the slings and arrows.

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Sour Lemonheads: The Hypocrisy of Banning the Ten Commandments

Timothy Birdnow

A federal judge has blocked a Texas law allowing the state to requirre the posting of the Ten Commandments in schools.

This judge is relying on court rulings going back to the early '70's in a fit of retro pique. But much of the underpinnings of those rulings has been knocked out by subsequent Court rulings and so there is a real reason to be hopeful this judge will be overturned on appeal.

SCOTUSBLOG shows why the issue was not settled after the 1971 "Lemon Test" was imposed by predecessors which created strict guidelines for Separation of Church and State policies.

SCOTUSBLOG has this to say on the subject:

The 5-4 opinion in Stone v. Graham centered on what’s known as the Lemon test, which came from a 1971 ruling, Lemon v. Kurtzman, which considered how to determine whether a state statute violates the establishment clause.

In that case, the court outlined a three-part test. First, a statute had to be found to have a secular purpose. Second, the statute could not promote or restrict religious beliefs or practices. And third, the statute could not foster excessive church-state entanglement (an admittedly nebulous standard).

In Stone, the majority determined Kentucky’s law violated the first prong, since the "preeminent purpose of posting the Ten Commandments” was "plainly religious in nature,” even if Kentucky lawmakers claimed they were celebrating the Ten Commandments’ historical, rather than religious, value.

As the court wrote: "The Ten Commandments are undeniably a sacred text in the Jewish and Christian faiths, and no legislative recitation of a supposed secular purpose can blind us to that fact. The Commandments do not confine themselves to arguably secular material, such as honoring one’s parents, killing or murder, adultery, stealing, false witness, and covetousness. Rather, the first part of the Commandments concerns the religious duties of believers: worshipping the Lord God alone, avoiding idolatry, not using the Lord’s name in vain, and observing the Sabbath Day.”

In the 45 years since that decision was released, the content of the Ten Commandments (obviously) hasn’t changed, but the Supreme Court’s approach to the establishment clause has.

In the 2022 case of Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, the court ruled that a school district in Washington state had violated the First Amendment rights of a football coach when it suspended him for praying on the field after games, often with students. In reaching that conclusion, the majority rejected the school district’s contention that it had to suspend him to avoid violating the establishment clause. In a 6-3 opinion, the court officially cast aside the Lemon test (once described by Justice Antonin Scalia as resembling "some ghoul in a late night horror movie”) and instructed judges to consider history and "the understanding of the Founding Fathers” when weighing establishment clause questions, instead of balancing the interests in play as prescribed by the Lemon test.

Since Stone relied on the Lemon test, and the Lemon test has now been essentially abrogated, it is uncertain what the Supreme Court will do if and when it weighs in on these latest challenges to displaying the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms.

So the Supreme Court gutted the original ruling's foundation. And without being able to state plainly that there is a specific legal reason to abrogate the righrts of states in this matter then the point should be moot; this becomes entirely a state matter.

The article continues:

Thus, today’s court is more likely to draw on the other 2005 case, Van Orden v. Perry, in which a majority of the justices, after openly setting aside the Lemon test, allowed a Ten Commandments display at the Texas State Capitol to remain standing precisely because they felt it appropriately acknowledged the Ten Commandments’ historical significance to the United States.

The court, in an opinion by then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist, acknowledged that "the Ten Commandments are religious—they were so viewed at their inception and so remain. The monument, therefore, has religious significance. … But Moses was a lawgiver as well as a religious leader. And the Ten Commandments have an undeniable historical meaning, as the foregoing examples demonstrate. Simply having religious content or promoting a message consistent with a religious doctrine does not run afoul of the Establishment Clause.

That last is important; ancient Israel was indeed theocratic in nature and the Founding Fathers modeled our nation on ancient Israel in no small part. The Establishment Clause states "Congress shall make no law concerning the Establishment of religion, nor prohibit the free expression thereof". Of course this isn't CONGRESS making these laws but the states, so already the courts are on shaky ground (yes, they have previously ruled that the Constitution applies to states as well as the Federal government).

How, pray tell, is this establishing religion? This clause was put in the Constitution to avoid having state religions in which you had to be a member of get out of the state. It was not a device to purge religion from society, most especially from our schools which are not mentioned in the Constitution one way or another.

I ask you, what other "establishment" violations do we regularly ignore? I write this on a Thursday and no doubt the courts all file documents with the word Thursday on them. But isn't this an establishment violation? Thursday is named for Thor, the Scandinavian god. Wednesday is named for Woden. Saturday for Saturn, Sunday for the sun, which many pagans worship. Monday for the Moon.

And what of January" Named for the Roman god Janus. March is named for Mars. June for Juno. You see where I'm going with this, right?

So the courts may want to first look to their own establishment clause sins. They violate it all the time BY THEIR RECONING.

But, but, but...the Lemon test says there has to be a secular purpose!

Well, the Lemon test was junked by SCOTUS but even if it were not who says the Ten Commandments - which were used heavily by the Founding Fathers to create our laws and to founed our nation, has no secular purpose?

Alcoholics anonymous is a very successful alcohol treatment program and one of it's core principles is to acknowlege a higher power. In fact, they recite the serenity Prayer which acknowledges God and asks for His aid in their effort. Courts regularly remand drunk drivers and people with alcohol issues to AA on a regular basis, because although they have a secular purpose at their core is a religious belief and some could argue it is the establishment of a religion using this reasoning employed against the Ten Commandments.

So we violate the principle being employed by this judge and others all the time. And we should; freedom of religion was never about freedom from being exposed to religion. You have always had the right to just ignore it - just as we do with free speech issues. Everyone has a right to speech, and we have a duty to allow them to speak even if we find them offensive. But we don't have to listen to them.

Essentially banning Judeo-Christian views from our society is qualitatively no different than speech codes which control what we say. We are largely in agreement in our society that such codes are evil (although the Left tried hard to impose them) but similar codes by the enemies of religion and decency are a necessity based on the Constitution. It's an amazing twisting of the original intent.

If courts can ban the Ten Commandments from schools, why cannot they ban the prayer before Congress?

If courts can ban the Ten Commandments from schools, why can't they ban laws against, say, marrying a sixtee year old? That comes from our Judeo-Christian heritage; in the Islamic world child brides are as common as the cold. Muhammad himself married a four year old (and was gentleman enough to wait until she was nine to consummate the marriage). Legal age of consent is not secular in nature; it comes from religion.

I could go on with more examples but you can probably think up your own. MOST of our legalprecepts are gleaned from religion, especially from Christianity and Judaism.

The Ten Commandments are an historical document and cannot be simply removed based on the establishment clause. IF they were to say "come join your local Mehodist church today" or some such then the case could be made. But these are like political advertising; there are many ads that are run during election cycles that don't mention a specific candidate whom they are supporting and that allows non-profits to run political ads. If that principle is fine for election law why is it not fine for a deeply embedded cultural document like the Ten Commandments?

This issue is chock-full of hypocrisy. And our Founding Fathers wuld be horrified at how the enemies of God have twisted what they were trying to do, fashioning a weapon to use against the Most High and against society.

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Make America Poor Again

Timothy Birdnow

Trump had Make America Great Again (MAGA). Bobby Kennedy had Make America Healthy Again (MAHA). So not to be outdone the Democrats, via one of their pet activists in funeral drag, has come up with their own version - Make America Poor Again (MAPA)!

Copper: Trump slams 'anti-American' pushback over Arizona project

An Arizona judge blocked his plans for copper mining in the desolate wasteland known as Arizona.

This is nothing but an attempt to stop any and all development that will improve the lives of Americans. It's just resistance to Trump for resistance' sake.

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