June 27, 2026
The Eloi Elites
Timothy Birdnow
This is exactly how the Morlocks separated from the Eloi:
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Dave Chappelle says no one needs to think anymore because of AI: "Thinking is for poor people”
"I was talking to a friend of mine and we were laughing about how no one really would know what to teach a kid now. What skill sets are going to matter 10 or 20 years from now as the world becomes automated”
"We decided your character is your destiny. If you’re a good person that’s all you can ask from anybody and hope for the best”
"I don’t know if anyone needs to think anymore. It’s AI, quantum computing, it seems like thinking is for poor people”
In H.G. Wells' famous novel The Time Machine the time traveler found that humanity had split into two separate species - the passive, beautiful, and completely stupid Eloi who lived on the surface of the Earth in a veritable Garden of Eden and the Morlocks, underground dwellers who had vast machines and industry. Turns out the Morlocks bred the Eloi as cattle for their dinner tables.
Wells believed that the wealthy elites would find life increasingly easy and would no longer have to think, eventually atrophying their mental capacity while the Morlocks, the laboring class who had to think to survive, would become the dominant species, living underground as they had been forced to do and laboring on the machines which made the surface a paradise.
Wells hinted at this in other works as well. He believed this was humanity's fate.
At any rate if Chappelle is correct and thinking is going to be just for poor people Wells' dystopic vision may yet come to pass.
What separates us from the animals? Our ability to think. Animals think in their own way but not even remotely as do we. And the wealthy elites are increasingly stupid thanks to a life of ease and the increasing stupidity of what passes for education these days. Their parents were smart, people who were bright enough to make a lot of money, but as time goes by and the universities teach inane nonsense the intelligence of the progeny will keep dropping. Now with AI there is no longer any need to actually think and the wealthy may well wind up with ever-dropping I.Q.'s while the working class is forced to solve problems. In the end MAGA will win just as it did in Wells' dystopian future. In his future the Morlocks ate the Eloi (a cautionary tale since Wells was a socialist) but the reality is more mundane; they will simply supplant them. Like the Bourgouis in Europe supplanted the old aristocracy so too the modern Morlocks will eventually supplant the Ruling Class in this world. It might take a long time but it will eventually happen. The Eloi are slowly but surely losing the very thing that gave them the hubris to think they could fundamentally transform the world in the first place.
No dining on them - they probably would taste bad anyway. But certainly they can meet the fate of the House of Lords in Britain - obscurity and irrelevance.
AI may well accelerate that process. I sure do hope so.
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Thomistic Wisdom
Timothy Birdnow
Clarence Thomas cuts to the quick:
"Even assuming jurisdiction, the equal protection claim fails for the additional reason that aliens have no equal protection rights against the federal government."
And that, boys and girls, is why illegal aliens can't petition to stay in America and force President Trump to extend protected status to them.
This is crystal clarity of thought. We are going to sorely miss Justice Thomas when he retires (or passes away in office).
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Moreno Joins Fauxcohontas in Calling for Tax Increase
Timothy Birdnow
Senator Bernie Moreno (R-OH) and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) join forces to push the biggest tax increase in history.
The Senators write that instead of reducing the benefits, the government should adopt what they call a common-sense solution: lifting the Social Security payroll tax cap.
Warren and Moreno say that this is one way to make the payroll tax and solve the Social Security funding crisis for "another generation.”
More From the New York Times:
For 2026, the payroll tax cap, or taxable maximum, is $184,500. Workers and their employers each pay 6.2 percent on wages up to that amount. (Self-employed individuals pay 12.4 percent.) Today, the maximum Social Security withholding for one worker is $22,878, or 12.4 percent of $184,500. Not a penny more, even if an individual’s salary far exceeds $184,500.
Since the vast majority of Americans make less than that, most people are paying Social Security taxes on 100 percent of their earnings, while the highest earners are paying on only part of theirs.
Why should a middle-class nurse pay a larger share of her paycheck than a wealthy corporate lawyer? This is doubly unfair in an economy in which top earners’ wages, over time, have pulled far ahead of those of the average worker.
According to one estimate, eliminating the payroll tax cap would inject around $3 trillion into the program over the next 10 years. Lifting the cap so that all income is treated the same would generate substantial revenue that would extend the solvency of Social Security for another generation.
But what Warren and Moreno do not tell readers is that lifting the payroll tax cap would result in the largest tax increase in more than four decades.
What is the point of electing Republicans if they are going to play footsie with fake Indians and socialists? If Big Smelly Sqaw is on board you know you are on the wrong side.
Just another Republican who needs to be primaried, it seems to me.
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June 26, 2026
Don't Let 'em Call it "Democratic Socialism"
Timothy Birdnow
This article is correct if rather mundane, bordering on cliche'. The reason I'm linking it is just to complain about how so many on our side have allowed the misconception of "Democratic Socialism" to become conventional wisdom in recent years. There is no such thing.
Socialism is usually voted in, not seized by force as in the Russian Revolution. All of the Eastern Block elected Communists shortly after the Soviets came in following WWII. Now there was duress, certainly, but the Communists in Poland or Czechoslovakia were elected, by hook or by crook, and that was that.
"Democratic socialism" is often portrayed as Scandinavia and Greece and other such places, but those places are in no way socialist. Yes, they have big welfare systems, funded by their not having to pay for any sort of national defense (the U.S. has done that for them for decades) but they are in many cases MORE capitalistic than the U.S., with fewer regulations on businesses and lower corporate taxes. They are big on inviting foreign investment. Likewise they have protectionist legislation and tariffs on foreign imports to encourage their own industries.
Socialism is the ownership or control of the means of production, that is the definition. I've had this argument with many liberals, and eventually they have to concede they are in error by promoting "democratic socialism" insofar as they cannot justify it based on historical evidence. In point of fact the Fascist economies - Italy and Nazi Germany - were socialist and after a few years they began winding down in their abilities to produce wealth as the loss of competition stagnated them. Both Italy and Germany tried to keep a permanent wartime economy running to keep production and consumption up but all that did was make life harder for the citizenry. We know how it ended.
But other types of countries experimented with this and failed. Sweden tried it during the seventies and gave up on it as a terrible idea, one that was ruining their economy. The government sold off the industries and companies it owned.
"Democratic socialism" is just a nice-sounding phrase but what does it mean? It means socialism in it's infancy in a society. Socialism is always soft words and velvet gloves until it stops working and the iron boots and war hammers come out. MOST socialist countries started out with the velvet glove and then wound up with gulags.
Yet we on the right have allowed the Left to co-opt the language yet again, tricking young people into thinking "democratic socialism" is somehow inherently different and untried and workable. They know the record of socialism otherwise - poverty, despair, gulags, medical abuse of people based on "insanity" claims, etc. They know the Little Black Book of Communism. So they repackaged the damned evil thing and called it "democratic socialism" - and everyone has forgotten that the most Communist countries called themselves democratic and it was even in their names. One of the most evil, tyrannical states to ever exist was called the German Democratic Republic, for instance. Many more use "Peoples Republic" in theirs, such as the People's Republic of China. But the People have no say in how the country is run. Democratic socialist states do neither as the governments suppress free speech and free assembly and other things that may remove the boot from the economic throat of the producers.
You can't have socialism without that boot. It is not in the nature of human beings to give away the fruits of their labor for free. That fruit must be plucked from the hands of those who tended the trees by force, and that is in no way a free system.
It is democratic only insofar as the old idea of democracy devoid of any moral restrictions is implemented. We know that Plato said pure democracy is the last stage before tyranny and history has born him out.
We've got to take back the language and to do that we've got to stop acquiescing to these sorts of linguistic tricks. Whenever someone starts blathering about democratic socialism we need to come down on them like a ton of bricks (which, if you are lucky, the government will pay you with in a democratic socialist state - you can at least barter that. We need to drag the language back, stop this Overton Window crap where they slowly but steadily erode our understanding of words. Sociallism is about power, the use and abuse of power to steal from the productive and give to thos e politically connected or politically expedient. It is a slow poison, but in the end it will kill you. Think Madam Curie and radium.
We need to "true the language" as Confucious said was necessary in ancient China to restore a nation. As long as they can gloss over what htey actually are doing and will do they can trick the maleducated. And of course most people who attended public schooling are maleducated.
"Democratic socialism" is nothing but Venus fly trap for human insects. It smells goods and you fly into the maw and then that's it - a slow, horrible death and eventual digestation by the horrid weed.
Every time someone uses the phrase we need to say "there is no such thing". There isn't after all. All socialism is inherently non-democratic. It requires force to compel.
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Texas Two Step: Dallas Board of Education Eliminates American Revolution in Favor of Oprah Winfrey's Biography
Timothy Birdnow
And the Left continues to erase America and her history, this time in Dallas as the Lone Star State (is that single star about their flag or their intelligence level?) just saw the Dallas Board of Education vote to remove all mention of the American revolution from history classes for high school sophomores.
Insted they are replacing it with discussions about Oprah Winfrey.
I kid you not.
Three Republicans on the board joined all the Democrats in voting to remove any discussion of the American Revolution in favor of a biography of Oprah Winfrey, a successful woman, surely, but hardly on a par with Samuel Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklyn, John Adams etc. Her television show hardly competes with Lexington and Concord or or Saratoga or Yorktown.
In Texas American history is not taught until high school; the state prefers to teach children Texas history first. Eighth graders know more about William Travis or Sam Houston than about George Washington or Alexander Hamilton. So it is vital this segment of history be taught in high school, but apparently this BOA thinks otherwise.
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
The state legislature needs to step in, and that means that Gov. Abbott needs to push against this.
This is how the Left hijacks countries; they first erase their history, downplay their successes and their strengths and rebuilds the nation along internationalist and socialist lines. Getting us to forget who we are is the key to any successful socialist revolution.
And Texas, the cornerstone of Americanism these days, needs to know who we are. If Texas falls to the Left it's all over. Leftists can take other states but if Texas goes the whole thing crumbles and the Left obtains eternal power. They know it too. And Texas, despite being known as a right wing stronghold, is actually full of liberals and they are out of political power but not by much. The balance could shift quite easily. Maleducate children and in a decade the state could become the next California.
This is something truly disgraceful and I am not sure why the conservative media isn't all over this. This needs to be a national story.
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SCOTUS Knocks the Legs Out from Under Left on Immigration
Timothy Birdnow
How the two latest Supreme Court rulings have demolished the Left's schemes to keep the immigration pipeline flowing.
By declaring Temporary Protected Status (TPS) unreviewable by the courts and by denying due process privileges to "refugees" who never enter the U.S. the Supreme Court has knocked the legs out of the Left's primary tool in stopping the Trump immigration agenda.
Read all about it at Revolver.
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Yes, 2020 was Stolen
Timothy Birdnow
This post from X shows how the 2020 election was stolen. He includes the documentation, which I cannot reproduce here:
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Significant findings from the NEW 799-page DOMINION documents and the STOLEN 2020 Election.
Ballots Exceed Voters in 3 Decisive States in the 2020 Election.
Michigan: 499,850 more ballots than voters.
Margin: 154,188.
Pennsylvania: 155,053 more ballots than voters Margin: 80,555.
Georgia, Fulton County alone: 22,534 more ballots than voters.
Margin: 11,779.
Each discrepancy independently exceeds its state's margin of victory.
The Public Interest Legal Foundation documented that Pennsylvania distributed approximately 3.1 million mail ballots in 2020 and that 440,781 of those ballots were classified "unknown," meaning election officials had no record of what happened to them, whether they were returned, not returned, counted, or discarded.
Pennsylvania's certified presidential margin of victory was 81,660 votes. The number of mail ballots whose chain of custody could not be reconstructed exceeded the certified margin by more than five to one.
In Delaware County specifically, officials destroyed election-night paper tapes, ordered the Blue Crest ballot sorter wiped of all November 3, 2020, data immediately before open-records production, and failed to produce required return sheets from more than half the county’s precincts.
The Digital Records, Logs, Images, Cryptographic Hashes, were Wiped:
Antrim County's Election Management System had all 2020 adjudication logs manually removed while prior-year logs remained intact; the 68.05% tabulator-log error rate that triggered mass adjudication cannot be audited because there is no record of who adjudicated what. Maricopa County's EMS database and Windows security event logs were deleted or overwritten, and 284,412 ballot images were found corrupt or missing.
In Mesa County, Colorado, a state-supervised Dominion "trusted build" deleted 28,989 files from the EMS server, including at least 695 log and event-log files required by federal and state law to be retained for 22 months.
In Fulton County, Georgia, SHA authentication files for 132,286 of 148,318 absentee ballot images were intentionally removed, 17,852 ballot images were missing from the official recount, and the county admitted in federal court it did not preserve the majority of in-person ballot images for the November 3 original count.
These findings describe not isolated mismanagement but a layered collapse of election record integrity in precisely the jurisdictions that decide national power.
Inflated rolls create capacity for fraudulent ballots; broken poll-books and voter histories sever the voter-to-ballot link, ballot custody gaps and mass adjudication obscure which ballots are real and how they were interpreted, manipulated or opaque tally systems convert those ballots into unprovable totals, and targeted destruction of logs and images eliminates the forensic trail that could expose or disprove manipulation.
From a national security perspective, this means U.S. election infrastructure, formally designated as critical infrastructure, is currently a high-value, low-risk target for foreign intelligence services and aligned domestic networks, and that the United States lacks both the evidentiary resilience and the deterrent posture expected of a system that allocates sovereign authority.
Fictitious Ballots & Ineligible Registrants were Injected at Scale:
6,691 fictitious ballots identified in at least one state; thousands of ineligible registrants entered via a "1/1/1900" placeholder birthdate; private NGOs obtained real-time API access to statewide voter files without public contracting or security vetting.
Systematic Destruction of Ballot Images and Cryptographic Authentication Files:
315,000+ advance vote ballot images destroyed in one state, 132,286 SHA cryptographic authentication files intentionally deleted in one county, permanently eliminating ballot-image integrity verification. Machine tally tapes physically destroyed before a records request, with a sworn admission they "wouldn't match the election results."
Targeted Deletion of All 2020 Adjudication Logs, Prior Years Intact:
Every adjudication log for 2020 was absent in one county while prior-year logs on the identical system remained intact, consistent only with targeted deletion. 37,000 database queries were run against one county's Election Management System following a legislative subpoena.
Vendor-Directed Log Destruction & Selective Prosecution of the Whistleblower:
"Trusted build" updates approved by state officials deleted tens of thousands of legally mandated log files across multiple jurisdictions. The official who preserved forensic images was criminally prosecuted, no official who ordered destruction in any jurisdiction has been charged.
This is just a slice and a fraction of how the 2020 election was stolen, facts, examples, figures, etc. There is so much more, but one thing is for sure.
The 2020 Election was STOLEN.
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California Dreaming in Louisiana
Timothy Birdnow
One of the reasons the Demcrats keep getting away with voter fraud is that they change up the approach every election cycle, seeing the direction that reformers who want to clean up the system are headed and attacking from another direction.
That is why it's been so difficult to stop them; they change up their approach every election.
It's rather like playing whack-a-Mole; you bash the little farmint when it comes out of the hole and it pops up somewhere else.
At any rate under the Trump Presidency we've seen a major effort to clean up voter rolls and do other things to minimize election fraud nationwise. But don't think for a minute the Democrats aren't plotting newe and fun ways to steal elections.
Joe Hoft published an article discussing the newest dirty tricks being schemed for Louisiana.
From the article:
Since Secretary of State Nancy Landry took office following her 2023 election, a systematic dismantling of mail-in ballot safeguards has been quietly codified into law. If this trend continues, Louisiana could soon mirror states like California, where loose mail-in voting regulations open the door to massive vulnerabilities and days of post-election counting.
To understand the threat, one must understand how a mail-in ballot works. The ballot itself does not contain the voter’s name; once it is removed from the envelope, it is anonymous. Therefore, any fraud must be caught at the envelope verification stage. If a fraudulent envelope passes inspection, the illegal vote inside is counted, and the damage cannot be undone.
Yet, a look at the legislative track record since 2024 reveals a disturbing pattern of watering down these exact verifications.
The article continues by giving details in how the Democrats changed the laws to allow mail-in ballots to pass muster when they should not:
HB 581 (Act 712) by Polly Thomas: This bill ostensibly added a requirement for a witness’s mailing address to be included on the ballot envelope. Common sense, right? Except a loophole was quietly amended into R.S. 18:1315(B), stating: "Failure to include a witness’s mailing address on an absentee ballot certificate shall not be grounds to challenge an absentee by mail ballot.” The bill created a security requirement and immediately declared that violating it carries zero consequences. Why?SB 226 (Act 321) by Heather Cloud: This was designed to automatically challenge ballots missing required information. However, another crucial carve-out was added to 18:1315(C): "However, an absentee by mail ballot shall not be deemed challenged solely because the voter indicates on the absentee by mail certificate that he does not know his mother’s maiden name.” By eliminating the requirement for this vital piece of identifying information, a primary layer of fraud prevention was neutralized. Why?
But there's more:
In 2025, Rep. Beau Beaullieu carried the Secretary of State’s Omnibus Election Bill, HB 592 (Act 386). Buried inside the 45-page document were significant changes to Louisiana law regarding eligibility to register to vote.
Prior to HB 592, the law relied heavily on the United States Postal Service (USPS) for address data verification during the annual canvass. The new law introduced language allowing the Secretary of State to enter into agreements with private vendors for voter registration eligibility and address data.
Because the new law uses flexible "and/or” language, the state is no longer strictly bound to federal or state agency verifications. Instead, a third-party private vendor could potentially become the sole gatekeeper of voter roll accuracy—raising serious questions about accountability, data privacy, and the potential for outsourced corruption.
2026: The Midnight Raid on the "Printed Name” RequirementHB 842 by Rep. Beaullieu in 2026 perhaps best highlights the lengths to which some lawmakers will go to pass these changes. The bill provided that a witness’s failure to provide a printed name or address should not be considered a deficiency requiring a cure.
If a witness’s printed name is optional, the only remaining safeguards are the voter and witness signatures—both of which can easily be forged or scribbled, as signature matching is not routinely or rigorously enforced. There is simply nothing that stops a bad actor from posing, by way of forged signatures, as both the voter and the witness on a mail-in ballot. This should alarm every voter in Louisiana.
The sad thing is that all of this was pushed through with backroom deals and late-night votes BY THE REPUBLICANS. IF the Republicans think to do a California-style vote theft scheme then they are no better than Democrats and do not deserve power. More to the point if they think they can outcheat Democrats they have another thing coming.
This will not end well for the GOP. I suspect it's sole intent is to keep the Establishment Republicans in power in Louisiana, to avoid any takeover by the MAGA wing of the party.
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Is Clark Getting Womanhandled Because She's a Little White Girl?
Timothhy Birdnow
More on the Caitlin Clark saga.
While I know little about the WNBA and care even less I do know Clark has made the League rich and nobody cared about women's basketball until she came into the league. And I also am given to understand that Clark gets beaten around quite a bit with no fouls called.
Can we speak about the elephant in the room? While it appears the women who mugged her were not minorities I am fairly confident that if she were a black player, or Hispanic, the calls would be coming fast and furious while Clark, a very white white girl, is allowed to be mauled and womanhandled. I am of the opinion that this is just another example of institutijonal racism playing out in another cultural entity. You aren't supposed to be a great basketball player if you are white in America.
Having seen the clip just once it appears the players who fouled her may well also have been white, but that's not the point; the pont is that the officials just ignored it because it was CC, the WHITE superstar. If she had been a black superstar the whistles would have blown so loudly you would have heard them in Hoboken.
Maybe I'm wrong about this and maybe the WNBA is just letting their league play rough so as to prevent any accusations that the women are daintier than the men. Oh, and maybe it's the idea of a catfight, adding a little sexual tension to the game. I don't know but I suspect if Caitlin were Consuela there would have been a call.
Anyone dispute this? If so I'm happy to hear the case. As I say, I know little about the WNBA; I am no fan of any basketball, which I think is just dull. But I know how modern America works and I know that most things, especially most big things involving a lot of money, are infested with political ideology.
Please correct me if this isn't the case.
BTW the media is making a big thing out of this. Why? Because they are rather desperately trying to change the subject from the successes that Donald Trump has been having of late. They fear discussing stories about a rising economy or Trump's big wins on border security in court or other such. They need a distraction, a shiny object to diver everyone's attention until this is old news, not worth mentioning. Stories about a woman basketballer being fouled is hardly front page news, no matter who it is. I only mention it because it's the hot topic right now and if you ask me it's a sign of how DEI is alive and well, not that it's of any great existential importance.
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The Walrus May Be Penned
Timothy Birdnow
Looks like the Walrus is going to cop a plea!
FTA:
Bolton is expected to plead guilty to one count of retaining sensitive government information, according to The Washington Post.
The deal would vastly reduce any prison time Bolton would serve if found guilty at trial.
Bolton was accused of sending "diary-like” recollections of highly secret work to various relatives who he said would help him with his memoirs.
Bolton has agreed to pay a $2.25 million fine.
The Walrus was highly critical of President Trump after he was sacked as National Security Advisor. Mr. Bolton is and remains a war hawk -ever eager for U.S. involvement in foreign wars, a philosophy at odds with hte President who has largely sought to stay out of war as much as possible.
I'm not sure what Bolton thinks about the President's approach to Iran but I'm sure he is not in favor of this negotiated settlement strategy.
At any rateHe faces a two million dollar fine and up to five years in the slammer. No doubt the negotiations are to keep him out of prison.
Bolton is accused of leaking classified information in his 2020 book.
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June 24, 2026
Deportations Give Us Affordable Housing
Timothy Birdnow
Well duh! This is what happens when demand drops.
Aliens were snatching up all the available properties - that drives rent prices up.
According to the article the Sun Belt is seeing the big drops and the Northeast and West Coast are still seeing rents tick upward. That makes sense; these are the areas that have "rent control" and which offer the primary "sanctuary city" policies, protecting the aliens who are trying to remain.
Those will come down in time.
Other things will come down, like electricity costs or food prices.
Fewer people means less demand and that forces landlords to cut prices.
Now, this will hurt the landlords who bought at the top of the market, but most of those are going to be corporations anyway. And if you bought at the top of the market you have nobody to blame but yourself; you rolled the dice, thinking the market would just keep going up. The housing crash of '08 should have taught everyone there is a danger in buying when the market is red hot.
But again I suspect it won't hurt too many small land holders so much as the big corporate entities, many of whom will probably sell out to the smaller guys, thus returning control of property to the community. Do we really need foreign corporations owning a lot of our housing? I think not.
And it will help the People.
Remember when the Democrats were pushing easy mortgages and rents in the name of "affordable housing"? I remember Barney Frank spitting all over audiences with his endless talk of "affordable housing". But it turns out they meant affordable housing for the illegal alien.
The more we deport the better it will get. Gee; why didn't anyone think to do this before now?
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VDH on the Iran Memorandum
Timothy Birdnow
The incomparable Victor Davis Hansen explains to us what is happening with Iran and why Trump is doing what he is doing. I agree, even if I think Trump is wasting precious time.
VDH has argued in other articles and podcasts that the U.S. has already done immesurable damage to Iran and can do absolutely amazing damage in future should President Trump choose - and he'll choose if Iran reneges on the deal.
He's right, of course.
What VDH is attempting to convey is the polemic by Richard Nixon "don't play your hole card because then you don't have it". Nixon rightly understood that the hole card is held and not to be played except when there are no other options - it's the ace up your sleeve. If Trump bombs Iran now and Iran does not fold then Trump cannot bomb them anymore and the public will tire of it. He bombed them enough to soften them up but is keeping a major aerial campaign as his hole card, to be used if and only if Iran breaks the deal.
And as Saul Alinsky said "sometimes the fear of a thing is worse than the thing itself". By NOT bombing Iran into the stone age the rulers there are forever on pins-and-needles in fear of the next shoe dropping. It is a powerful psychological tool.
Hansen thinks Trump knows what he is doing and I have great faith in Hansen.
Which is at odds with the National Review, which turned Trump-hater and which I made the rather stupid mistake of visiting online the other day. It was an endless screed of Trump bashing and doom-and-gloomerism. They WANT Trump to fail and if it hurts the U.S. that is a price they are willing to pay. NRO jas gpne the way of the carrier pigeon or other such antiquated things (Zeppelins, telegraphs); it sold itself to the Establishment in the GOP decades ago and now has nothing original or useful to say. It just keeps complaining about Trump. And while William F. Buckley probably wouldn't have liked Trump (Buckley was a snob of sorts) he did support Rush Limbaugh when he was coming up - and Rush was a big Trump supporter because Rush came from Middle America and knew that Trump supported Middle America's values and aspirations. Rush was himself "crass" and "uncouth" but Buckley took him under his wing anyway. I wonder if he would have embraced Trump after initial opposition? I did because Trump is, despite being a bit of a jackass, the only guy who actually is capable of advancing our agenda and is faithful to us by and large. No politician is truly faithful but Trump at least tries to be. Can't ask for much more than that. There are the few who ARE faithful but who can't move the ball, and the unfaithful who can, but Trump has both qualities at once. Like him or not he stands on our side.
NRO can't understand that. Neither can the American Spectator these days, which is why they too are no longer the force they once were. Back in the nineties they made their name resisting Bill Clinton. Now they pine for the days of Clinton and flip the bird to the one man who is fighting to stop the even worse leftists.
And he's doing it at his own peril and at his own expense.
It really is sad to watch petty egos and small mindedness divide the Conservative movement and allow the Left to triumph, but so many are willing to do so.
At any rate I was reading National Review and one commentor on an article about how Trump lost the war with Iran said "when VDH says the war is lost then I'll believe the war is lost". He was soooo right. Mr. Hansen says things are going according to plan and we can bring the wrath of the Most High down on them at any time we choose. I'll believe him over NRO or TAS or any of the others who want to return to the way it used to be where they can write their white papers and bemoan the decline of America into the sewer.
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Fatuous O'Donnell Taking Over for Kimmel?
Timothy Birdnow
YIKES!
The angry oversized lesbian is auditioning to take Kimmel's job and Kimmel is said to have hand-picked her, bringing her out of her retirement in Ireland to shriek at average Amerricans about how much she hates Donald J. Trump.
Well, at least she's a Trump hater going way back. Her feud with Trump began before he even got into politics.
When I first got a computer back around the turn of the century I downloaded a game "Rosie v. Donald" in which Rosie's forked tongue came out to lash Trump and he responded by flipping his orange hair at her. Silly fun then. But who would have thought people would take her seriously and she would wind up being brought in as a guest host for the departing Kimmel, who is leaving because of terrible ratings? And why does the network believe O'Donnell will fare any better with her unique brand of rage and Trump hatred? How is she any sort of change?
Real change would be replacing Kimmel with a conservative comedian. But that won't happen, no matter how much someone would love Dennis Miller or Joe Rogan.
This is proof that the networks are all about "how can we fool 'em today" rather than about reflecting America. Not one single network would consider appealing to what is obviously a major part of the market. Instead the appeal to the fringe and can't understand why the public doesn't support their choice.
Well, they believe they can MAKE the public support their choices by sheer repetition and cornering the market. It used to work, too, when there was no other options. But now we have a multiplicity of choices; why put up with being insulted when you can go elsewhere?
Brining Rosie back is like bringing back O.J. Simpson as a movie star. Nobody has any use for it.
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Fast and Furious Fentanyl
Timothy Birdnow
Just more proof the Biden Administration was completely out of control and cared little about ruining lives.
FTA:
AU.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent has evidence that his agency and federal prosecutors let more than 1 million fentanyl pills flow onto the streets of New Mexico during the Biden era and then tried to silence him from testifying after he blew the whistle, the agent's lawyer tells Just the News.
"DEA has a campaign that says one pill can kill, and so the DEA allowing this to happen was really significant. It was driven also by the US Attorney's Office in New Mexico," Attorney Tristan Leavitt, president of the Empower Oversight, whistleblower center, said in an interview Monday night.
Leavitt's group represents DEA Special Agent David Howell, a 14-year veteran of the agency whose whistleblower complaint was chronicled by The Associated Press in a bombshell article Monday.
Leavitt compared his client's allegations to the Obama-era Fast and Furious scandal in which the federal government allowed semiautomatic weapons to flow across the border to the drug cartels, putting American lives in danger.
"After Fast and Furious, the Justice Department headquarters adopted a protocol that said if you have a wiretap and you know that firearms are going to be trafficked, you have to try and stop them," he said in an interview on the Just the News, No Noise television show. "Well, in 2019 they adopted a similar protocol for fentanyl.
"So the Justice Department's guidance was really ignored in Albuquerque, because the U.S. attorney decided to cowboy and do his own thing in hopes of making a bigger case," he added.
Howell first filed a whistleblower complaint in late 2023 with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel disclosing that the DEA and U.S. Attorney's Office in New Mexico deliberately did not seize large shipments of fentanyl, including deliveries of 150,000 and 50,000 pills.
The Biden Administration was no doubt the worst in U.S. history. And with them the state and local authorities - usually run by Democrats - were in bed to screw the American People.
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And the Bag He Came In
Timothy Birdnow
Thank God this jackass is going to be out of the Senate soon.
"I don’t know what’s worse to you, vandalizing a pool or assaulting a police officer?” he said, according to The Hill. "Now we got somebody, let’s say they took a pen knife to a damn pool liner, you’re going to prosecute them for 10 years?”
"And you’ve let people that admitted to assaulting a police officer go and think I can take that person seriously? Nuh-uh,"
Well, if Trump chooses to pardon the reflecting pool vandals so be it; it's his right and if it's o.k. for Joe Biden to pardon his son and Anthony Fauci then it's o.k. for Trump to pardon people who trespassed in the Capitol or even scuffled with the cops when they were pushing and shoving them.
But it is the duty of any law enforcement officer to, oh, I don't know....enforce the law. If Trump then pardons these people it's his prerogative.
But there is a huge difference here. The J6 thing was a protest over a legitimate grievance - the perceived theft of the entire government - and while it may have gotten out of hand we do know there were agent provocateurs from the friggin' government in the crowd trying to egg them on. We know this for a fact. And we also know most of the people charged were in no way violent. The majority of them were just present on the scene - and some of them weren't even present on the scene.
Tillis knows all this. The reflecting pool vandals went to the pool with malice aforethought to vandalize it solely because President Trump had fixed a longstanding problem, cleaning up what had essentially become a filthy stagnant puddle. They went there purposely to destroy the work which was done on behalf of all Americans to beautiful the city - no partisan reason at all.
What would Tillis say to the vandals who were attacking priceless paintings in not so long ago days? Would he be equally blaise' about it if vandals broke into the Louvre and spray painted a penis on the Mona Lisa (assuming coy little Mona is at the Louvre')?
Granted the reflecting pool is no work of great art but the action is more or less the same. It is as similar to a politically-charged riot as you can find.
And I notice Tillis wasn't much concerned about Black Lives Matter riots, or when Antifa rioted, or when labor union thugs rioted and seized the Wisconsin state capitol a few years before J6; he shrugged that off then. But he saw it as an insurrection, a "threat to democracy" when the MAGA crowd lost their cool.
Why? Because the J6 crowd represented the very heart and core of the country, not the lunatic fringe, and it showed guys like Tillis that the base of the Party had grown wise to them. They needed to severely punish the people at the Capitol that day because if they did not the public might get too uppity.
Ferguson Mo. burning didn't bother Tillis but a few people invading the Capitol did. And defacing the public property in the Mall in D.C. doesn't bother him either. But God help you if you inconvenience HIM!
Tillis isn't running for re-election and we are so well served to be shed of such a huge feminine hygiene product and the bag he came in.
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Junk Food News Still Strong
Timothy Birdnow
Someone tell me how NBC World News Tonight drew 7.6 million viewers in one week.
How can Americans of any stripe be consuming ANY mainstream media news at this point, after these "news" sources have repeatedly lied to us?
Mainstream news is to information what Pork Rinds are to nutrition.
Yet Americans are STILL dutifully consuming it as if it were accurate and fair. What is wrong with the people in this country? How many times do we have to be lied to before we say "no mas" and move to more reliable news sources?
Until we get the public to turn away from the liars at the networks we will never be able to restore the American republic.
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June 23, 2026
Fauci Facing the Gavel
Timothy Birdnow
Dr. Anthony "Strangelove" Fauci is now known to have funded the Wuhan lab's experiments with SARS Covid 2 which gave us the Covid 19 pandemic. We also know he perjured himself before Congress and he was at the forefront of silencing anyone critical of the clot shot. Fauci is to virology what Dr. Strangelove was to nuclear weapons in the terrific dark comedy by Peter Sellers. Or for the younger crowd he's Dr. Evil from Austin Powers sans his cat Mr. Bigglesworth.
But the Fauc received a full and complete pardon from President Autopen and that is that, right?
Wayne Alen Root observes the obvious - that Fauci can stil be charged at the state level. Why hasn't a red state filed charges against him? Katherine Hanaway, where are you? (Hanaway is Missouri's current Attorney General.)
Every single Republican-controlled state should file agains this man.
But wait! There's more!
How many countries outside of the United States were hurt by this? Why don't they all indict Fauci? Surely places like Hungary or Argentina or Paraguay or any number of Third World countries could file indictments against the man who cost their economies and their citizens so very much. Why won't they file?
Mostly because the World Health Organization is still carrying Fauci's water, methinks, and these nations figure it is a lost cause. But is it?
Would Trump hand over the Fauc?
But even if that doesn't happen these countries can still make it difficult for Fauci to travel abroad out of fear of being arrested. He would have to stay in America and face whatever music MAGA states are playing.
I don't know why we aren't seeing indictments already, but I think now that Tulsi Gabbard has released the documents we are going to see Mr. Fauci finally face judgment. At least one must hope so. He's killed more people than any mass murderer put away or executed.
Timothy McVeigh was executed for killing 168 people in the Oklahoma City bombing. How many more has Fauci killed?
I know; he didn't do it on purpose, but he's still a mass killer, a killer who killed not out of malice or for profit or out of anger but out of cold-blooded scientific hubris. He reminds me of Viktor Frankenstein from Mary Shelley's novel.
That is, I am sure, worth a few decades in the state pen, or in a Turkish prison.
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CA Lawmaker: the Bible Hijacked the Rainbow
TTimothy Birdnow
When the Bible said "and the dumb shall speak" it wasn't kidding!
Yes, the guy's name really is Weiner, same as a particularly immodest New York Congressman who was drummed out of government service.
Second, how stupid do you have to be to believe the BIBLE - a document going back over three thousand years - hijacked the rainbow from homosexuals?
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We’re not letting them hijack the Bible to "take back” the rainbow. The rainbow is about Pride. It’s about our beautiful LGBTQ community. And it’s about San Francisco beauty & joy.
Happy Pride!
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Who hijacked what from whom?
I would add Hell is not a place noted for it's "beauty and joy" as is San Francisco and those who vacation there will find the accomodations less than satisfactory - and the stay far too long. Love demands that those who are courting a one way trip to the warmest of vacation spots be at least warned about the possibility of getting their ticket punched for Club Dead.
That is love, and that is beauty. Christians refusing to allow the rainbow - God's sign to us He would never drown the world again - to be hijacked and used to promote something that will murder the soul. The salvation of souls from ANY sin is the real beauty, be it sexual immorality or wrath or greed or any other deadly sin. God wants us all with Him. If it takes offending a few people who want it all their own way so be it. There is and never was anything beautiful about sin in any form.
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Hard Luck Ilhan: Brother Can You Spare a Dime?
imothy Birdnow
Ilhan Omar was rich before she was poor!
Having valued their capital investment and wine empire at $30 million a couple of years ago they are now saying Mr. Omar Tim "blind man" Mynett made a whopping $200 dollars last year from the winery and nothing from his investment job.
If this were 1930 Mr. Omar would have leapt off the top of his skyscraper by now. In fact he should be out panhandling and squeegeeing cars.
I suppose having his wife living off the fat of the land in Washington helps. Best relief program for the unemployables there is.
Rose Lake Capital, Mr. Omar's investment firm, was valued by him at between $1 and $1000 in 2023 but it's valuation jumped to between five million and twenty five million in just one year. But they are broke, according to Omar.
How can this be? This is the ultimate hard-luck story and one is tempted to suspect a lack of, uh, transparency. And honesty.
This woman has been milking America since she got here and will continue until we revoke her citizenship and ship her back to Somalia. Then her husband can see what REAL poverty looks like - and Ilhan will learn that America was not the horrible place she claimed it to be for fun and profit.
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MLB Nebuchadnezzar Surrenders
Timothy Birdnow
We stood eyeball to eyeball with Major League Baseball and the other guy blinked.
MLB tried to bully these Christians into promoting something that is forbidden by their (our) religion but the backlash forced them to back down.
So often when Leftists attack if we would stand our ground we would win. Unfortunately people fear for their livelihoods and worry about being canceled and so just knuckle under - just as the Left planned. God bless (literally) these three valiant heroes.
They are rather like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, the three Jews who were tossed into the belly of the furnace for refusing to worship Nebuchadnezzar and his gods. Only instead of a fiery furnace they were thrown into a media maelstrom and angry gay activists. Not as horrific perhaps but the situation was analogous.
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