April 30, 2026
Iran Says Near a State pf Collapse, Beg for Blockade Relief
Timothy Birdnow
Well isn't this special!
The Iranians sent him a message saying they are "in a state of collapse" and ask for a pause in the blockade so they can get their leadership situation straightened out.
I have no doubt this is true; they are desperate to end the blockade. Soon their ability to produce oil wil be permanently damaged. They are running out of storage and if they shut the wells down will lose much of their output.
They have to achieve diplomatically what they can't win militarily; the U.S. has to take it's boot of their throats.
Which would be a huge mistake, of course. Now is the time to tighten it up, not the other way around.
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Canada's Military Problems
Timothy Birdnow
This would be funny if it weren't so sad - and predictable. Canadian armed forces are so full of aliens that they are devolving into a quagmire of ethnic strife.
Hatred of female troops, and old ethnic rivalries (like Camaroons and Cote D Ivory people) has led to fighting and chaos throughout the Canadian military.
They only have themselves to blame; recruitment was down thanks to all the woke DEI policies, and to make up the shortfall they began recruiting people who had been in the country as little as three months.
Rome used Germans to defend themselves and look what happened there.
This is yet one more sign that most of the West is in the process of committing Hari Kari.
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Big Win at SCOTUS: States Can't Redistrict Based Solely on Race
Timoothy Birdnow
We got a big win at SCOTUS, which says Democrats can't gerrymander by using race to take Congressional seats.
[linj=https://thefederalist.com/2026/04/29/supreme-court-smacks-down-rampant-race-based-gerrymandering/]Supreme Court Smacks Down Rampant Race-Based Gerrymandering
For decades the Democrats have drawn districts and gerrymandered sizable black communities into what had been predominantly white and they did so to allow themselves to win those seats. Their pretense was that it was about "fairnesss" and "making all voices count" but in reality it was just another naked power grab.
In his opinion on the Louisiana case Sam Alito said:
"Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 … was designed to enforce the Constitution — not collide with it. Unfortunately, lower courts have sometimes applied this Court’s §2 precedents in a way that forces States to engage in the very race-based discrimination that the Constitution forbids,”
A judge had ordered Louisiana to draw up a second majority black (aka Democrat) district based on the Voting Rights Act. This led to a lawsuit before a different judge and ultimately came to the Supreme Court, which has slapped down the first judge fairly harshly.
Alito argued that the statute in the VRA did not justify race-based gerrymandering. Clarence Thomas - a black man - went further, arguing the section of the voting rights act does not pertain to redistricting at all. Neil Gorsuch joined in Thomas' opinion. He argues that the Voting Rights Act applies to voting and vote counting and says nothing about districting, which is a matter of Federalism. I would add most states have their own laws regarding civil rights and so the Federal statute shouldn't enter into tis.
This is a big win; it's going to be harder for Democrats to steal House seats in the future.
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Iran Cutting Off Nose to Spite Face, Hurt by Cartel Breakup
Timothy Birdnow
Thiscourtesy of Cornelius Carroll:
The Iran Watcher - " Iran just threatened the United Arab Emirates after its bombshell exit from OPEC.
This move hits the regime at the worst possible time.
The reaction from Tehran was fast and furious. Iranian MP Ali Khodrian from the National Security Commission accused the UAE of aligning with America for another strike on Iran and warned the Emirates would be "taught a harsh lesson” in any future conflict.
During the recent 2026 war, the UAE bore the brunt of Iranian retaliation:
⚪️ 2,800 total incoming systems
⚪️ 2,256 drones
⚪️ 563 missiles
More than any other country in the region, including Israel. The Islamic Republic is now an existential threat to the small Persian Gulf emirate.
With rising tensions around the Strait of Hormuz, the UAE timed its departure well. It can now break free from quotas and ramp up production later without triggering immediate global chaos.
More UAE oil on the market long term means lower prices and a direct squeeze on the regime’s lifeline.
The harsh truth is that oil revenue is the Islamic Republic’s oxygen.
The UAE just turned up the pressure on that lifeline while flexing its independence from the cartel.
This is not just about energy policy. It is a geopolitical gut punch that exposes Iran’s vulnerability and growing isolation, even among Gulf neighbors.
The mullahs are seething. The UAE hit them right where it hurts most.
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Taxpayers Funding Anti-ICE Mayhem
Timothy Birdnow
Looks like taxpayers were funding the anti-Ice protests in Minnesota.
There is no greater insult to American voterrs than using our own money to fund our own replacement, yet here we are.
From the article:
A pro-illegal immigrant group received more than $8.7 million from taxpayers in the year that it helped spark destructive protests, but despite outcry and probes from Washington, it faces no consequences.
The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) reported the government grants in its latest tax filing covering July 2024 through June 2025, the month that Los Angeles, California, was set ablaze by anti-deportation rioters. The chaos kicked off in June 2025 after CHIRLA created an anti-ICE network that led to a union leader’s arrest and encouraged supporters to arrive at a federal building for a rally that turned violent, the Daily Caller News Foundation previously reported. CHIRLA defended the mob as rioting against deportations spread across central California for days and caused damages somewhere between $32 million and $1 billion, according to local and federal agencies.
House and Senate lawmakers responded by announcing investigations into CHIRLA that have produced no findings or legislative reforms as leftists use the tax-exempt nonprofit system to fund radical causes. The House Judiciary Committee and Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri sent CHIRLA letters in June demanding records of its finances and internal communications.
Always investigations and never any action from our esteemed friends in the legislature. In the end they will do what they always do - nothing. If they are under enough pressure they will make the organization disband and let it reopen under a new name, like they did with ACORN and other such activist entities.
The article continues:
There have been no reports of CHIRLA handing over the information, and lawmakers have announced no further action. The House Judiciary Committee did not threaten a subpoena if CHIRLA ignored its requests, while Hawley threatened "potential referral for criminal investigation.” The IRS and First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli did not respond to the requests for comment about a probe they announced last year into the anti-ICE riots, while the FBI’s Los Angeles office declined to comment.
CHIRLA’s $8,726,683 from taxpayers in fiscal year 2024 made up 35% of its total revenue, according to its records. CHIRLA has received more than $80.6 million in government grants since former President Joe Biden took office and opened the U.S. border to historic illegal immigration, tax filings show.
So essentially CHIRLA has been able to promote all this societal unrest with our money and nobody is doing a thing to stop it.
Among other things CHIRLA joined the SEIU in founding the Los Angeles Rapid Response Network, which flagrantly breaks the law by interfering with Federal law enforcement.
We elected these clowns to clean this up. Where are they?
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April 29, 2026
Zelensky the Dictator
Timothy Birdnow
Volodoymyr Zelensky is promoting legislation to continue the state of emergency so he doesn't have to run for re-election again. And it will let him keep all the war powers he's usurped, making him a dictator on a par with Putin.
Now Putin and Zelensky share more than the same first name I=(which means prince in both Russian and Ukrainian).
The state of emergency allows Put, er, Zelensky to suppress freedom of speech and the press, as well as the Russian Orthodox Church. It also gives him the right to draft Ukrainians for military service and a host of other things that tyrants typically lilke. Hitler and the Nazis did the same thing after the Reichstag fire.
Oh, did I mention it bans opposition parties too?
Zelensky doesn't want to end this war; he wants it to wind down but simmer on so he can make himself into Marshall Tito.
"If our partners want elections, let them send money. I will not take money from the war to hold elections.” – Volodymyr Zelensky.
And no doubt he and his henchmen will steal every penny they would receive.
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GOP Tied with Democrats in Poll
Timothy Birdnow
Which means the GOP is actually up several points.
Even the polls that attempt to be honest tend to favor Democrats. Oh, and right now the public still isn't thinking seriously about the elections. They will start around August and unless the GOP self destructs (something they are great at doing) the numbers are going to seriously favor them.
This was a Harvard/Harris poll that showed a 50/50 split.
This election is going to be decided by turnout. No doubt the Democrats are going to get out the vote in a big way and the Republicans are going to need to do likewise.
Trump had majority support for his Iran policies and for immigration but was shakey on the economy (which makes no sense but people are being gaslit by the Media to believe the economy is bad when it's actually quite good.)
Sadly the Democrats have won most special elections since '24 because of poor turnout by Republicans.
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Fox in the Henhouse
Timothy Birdnow
Over at Canada Free Press Judi McLeod pens a piece about how Fox News is writing a eulogy for President Trump in a rather pathetic effort to make it appear Trump's Presidency is toast.
With friends like these...
She points out that Meghan Kelly, Tucker Carlson and the others who were fired by FOX are actually still being paid by them and they do podcasts and the like supported by Fox so they represent the thinking of Newscorp.
She makes some great points; be sure to check it out.
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ABC Disney Under Investigation
Timothy Birdnow
Well past time.
After Jimmy kimmel's latest stunt (talking about how Melania Trump had the glow of an expectant widow) they should have fired Kimmel but are standing with him. That was hate speech, plain and simple, and no decent person or company should tolerate that. The fact ABC is willing to let Kimmel get away with this shows they do not deserve to keep their broadcaster's license.
The media has gotten away with murder for decades now. Time to take them to the woodshed.
BTW it's really sad what the Left has done to Disney. Walt Disney was a conservative fellow and he's rolling over in his grave about what has become of his company.
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April 28, 2026
UAE Leaving OPEC
Timothy Birdnow
The United Arab Emirates has just announced they are leaving OPEC in what can only be considered a blow for ending the oppressive cartel.
This will go a long way to cheaper oil, and it shows the monolithic nature of the Arab world is cracking under the strain of a new world order engineered by President Trump.
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"Bugger Off!" and Keep Bombing
Timothy Birdnow
Iran offers to open the Strait of Hormuz but not pledge to stop enriching uranium.
I've read many in the Administration want to take this deal and then work on the nuke thing later. That is stupid beyond words. Make this deal now and we lose all leverage over the Iranians. We need to keep the screws tightening. Give them a chance to regroup and they will find ways around any renewed attacks from us.
It is axiomatic in war you don't let the pressure off when you have the enemy defeated. During the Revolutionary War the British cornered Washington's Continental Army several times and failed to finish him off, allowing him to slip away and fight again. In the end Washington won and Britain lost that war.
The Strait is small peanuts to us; this war was started to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons and allowing them to retain their uranium and the right to enrich would mean our defeat. Don't think the Iranians won't crow about that too. All of our Arab allies will start cutting deals with Iran because we will have been shown to be cowards.
Trump should tell them to bugger off and resume bombing.
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Agent Who was Shot was Only Agent to Shoot at Assassin
Timothy birdnow
Yes but in that crowded ballroom return fire could have killed a lot of innocent bystanders.
These secret service agents had to make a lot of calculations swiftly and I imagine most of them dared not risk killing a lot of people. Some may just have frozen up.
Still, this hardly excuses the very lax security at the hotel. The Secret Service is supposed to be more like a priesthood than a cadre of mall cops.
Obviously we need major reforms to the SS. In fact, given the security breaches at all of the Trump assassination attempts one has to wonder if there aren't moles in the Secret Service who are paving the way for these amateur assassins. I wouldn't put anything past the deep state.
When the Secret Service was under the Treasury Department it functioned well. Now, under the Department of Homeland Security, it sucks. Coincidence?
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Leftist Haters Gotta Hate, Hate, Hate
Timothy Birdnow
Translation: Libs be crazy!
AbstractIn two pre-registered studies, we investigated the relationship of left-wing authoritarianism with the ego-focused trait of narcissism. Based on existing research, we expected individuals with higher levels of left-wing authoritarianism to also report higher levels of narcissism. Further, as individuals with leftist political attitudes can be assumed to be striving for social equality, we expected left-wing authoritarianism to also be positively related to prosocial traits, but narcissism to remain a significant predictor of left-wing authoritarianism above and beyond those prosocial dispositions. We investigated our hypotheses in two studies using cross-sectional correlational designs. Two nearly representative US samples (Study 1: N = 391; Study 2: N = 377) completed online measures of left-wing authoritarianism, the Dark Triad personality traits, and two variables with a prosocial focus (i.e., altruism and social justice commitment). In addition, we assessed relevant covariates (i.e., age, gender, socially desirable responding, and virtue signaling). The results of multiple regression analyses showed that a strong ideological view, according to which a violent revolution against existing societal structures is legitimate (i.e., anti-hierarchical aggression), was associated with antagonistic narcissism (Study 1) and psychopathy (Study 2). However, neither dispositional altruism nor social justice commitment was related to left-wing anti-hierarchical aggression. Considering these results, we assume that some leftist political activists do not actually strive for social justice and equality but rather use political activism to endorse or exercise violence against others to satisfy their own ego-focused needs. We discuss these results in relation to the dark-ego-vehicle principle.
I could have told them that; the faux altruism and commitment to social justice are just tools used by the Left to put a veneer of decency on what is entirely unjustifiable. In the end they do it because they are full of hatred and are self-aggrandizing.
David Horowitz will tell you that. Horowitz was a red-diaper baby, raised as a Communist, and he spent his youth as part of the New Left, advancing the Revolution in the Sixties and Seventies. He awakened because he saw what the revolutionaries were really like; it was never about helping the people it was claiming to help but about using them as tools; it was always about indulging hatred and narcissism. Horowitz left the movement and is now considered an extreme right-winger. The Left hates him because he knows them and knows how they function.
Current psychology is a peer-reviewed journal, not a blog.
The authors of this study dubbed this the "dark-ego-vehicle principle.” "Altruism" and "Social Justice" are mere vehicles to indulge their pathologis.
Back in the early nineties I briefly flirted with the idea of getting a teaching certificate. I wasn't having any luck in my chosen field (Sovietology) nor any luck with any other decent job (I aced the Air Traffic Controller's exam but there was a moratorium on hiring so that was that) so thought maybe I'd be a school teacher.
Being a white kid from the suburbs I naturally went to an historic all black college to acquire one.
I already had a degree; I wanted the certificate and I wanted it cheap. This was the cheapest college where I could acquire one. I was onne of only three white students in my class.
I never did get the certificate; couldn't stand the stupidity of the education courses. But I did have a older black professor who had been a fireman and he and I had a discussion about the problems in the black community. He argued that the main problem was the girls, not the boys. They all grew up without fathers and they all desperately wanted a daddy. This made them angry, and guaranteed the perpetuation of this cycle as men would impregnate them but not stay around.
That was then, before divorce was as bad as now in the white community and when out-of-wedlock births were still frowned upon. Now the white women mostly grow up in broken homes too and are now very angry and we increasingly see the kind of sociopathology mentioned in this paper among white women (crazy white hoe's). The most hateful, spiteful, radical leftist these days are white women.
Granted there are many cray, hateful black women too, but they seem less affected than the white ones. But then you look at Whoopie Goldberg and Joy Behar and the like and you wonder if that is true.
At any rate this just gives us scientific evidence to support what we have long believed; Leftists have dark, twisted, angry personalities and they become Leftist to indulge their worst personality traits.
In short, Conservatives are the ones who love our fellow man, the Lefties are nothing but haters. A hater's gotta hate, hate, hate! (to quote a dimwit liberal named Taylor swift).
The very fact the Southern Poverty Law Center had to pay racists they could tar the Right with is further evidence of this fact; they wanted to gin up hatred and acrimony. Would a Conservative ever think to do that? No he would not.
This also explains the love of collectivism; they seek the approval of the group because in their hearts they know they are sick and twisted. It's part of why so many trannies are committing mass murder these days.
We would have all sorts of this kind of research if Psychology was not one of the "sciences" wholly owned by the Left. BTW I fear this may be the last peer reviewed paper these researchers ever get published; we'll be seeing less and less of them as time goes by. The Left hates exposure more than anything else and will destroy anyone who shines the light on their twisted minds.
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Carbon Dioxide is not the "Thermostat"
Timothy Birdnow
Carbon dioxide levels did not change very much - even during massive climate shifts - in the three million year geological record as revealed by ice core samplings.
Climate alarmists have insisted that carbon dioxide is the primary driver of planetary temperatures, the "thermostat" and that warming and cooling are caused by drops in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. This shoots that theory down.
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April 24, 2026Source:Oregon State UniversitySummary:Ancient Antarctic ice is revealing a surprising new chapter in Earth’s climate story, stretching back 3 million years. By analyzing tiny pockets of trapped air and rare gases, scientists have discovered that while the planet cooled significantly—especially in the oceans—levels of key greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane changed only modestly. This unexpected mismatch suggests other powerful forces, such as shifting ice sheets, ocean circulation, and Earth’s reflectivity, played major roles in driving long-term climate change.
Suck on that Gang Green!
Climate change as it is misnomered (it's not about change but about warming, but since people just weren't seeing the warming they switched the name to "hide the decline" as Phil Jones of CRU said of Michael Mann's paper in the journal Nature) is predicated on carbon dioxide being the principle forcing that drives planetary temperatures. If it is only a minor forcing (or none at all) then the theory - and the proposed draconian regulations the proponents want to impose that will radically change our lives (the Great Reset) are unnecessary.
This strongly suggests we have been chasing a wwill-o-the-wisp and ignoring the real causes of climate change. Changes in planetary albedo (reflectivity), changes in the Earth's magnetic field, changes in the Earth's rotational and orbital positionings (Milankovitch Cycles), volcanic activity, and even micrometeor bombardment all play a part, as does solar irradiance (and not just total solar irradiance - TSI - but the wave lengths the sun is putting out), and solar storm activity all play a part. So do cosmic rays. Carbon dioxide is just one factor among many but it is the one the Gang Green has zeroed in on because it ultimately empowers governments and enriches a lot of people and is being used as a tool by internationalist types to promote world government and international socialism. (Read the minutes of the Endangered Atmospheres Conference from the Seventies.) And then many climatologists don't understand the astrophysical and geological angles of this but zero in on atmospheric gases because that is what they have been taught to do and it's where they think to go.
Does carbon dioxide contribute to planetary warming? To a point, but the wavelength saturates quickly and about all you get is a two degrees rise. It's logarithmic; a doubling of co2 gives you a half return until the two degree mark is hit then it's over. But the warmiacs insist on positive feedbacks - especially the evaporation of water vapor to increase planetary warming and then the release of methane from permafrost. But water vapor makes more cloud cover which has a cooling effect and we have seen no evidence of that - the planet's albedo (reflectivity) has dropped, not risen. And there is zero evidence of increased precipitation planet-wide. They ignore this, and point to DROUGHTS as proof of climate change when in fact the theory at it's core predicts FLOODING. Flooding has not increased; the only reason we see more payouts from insurance over flooding is because people are now building in flood plains, places they never built before because they would lose their investments. Drownings are down worldwide too, showing there is no increase in water levels worldwide.
But try telling the Gang Green that. They insist on a high level of climate sensitivity (negative feedbacks) because otherwise people would shrug and say "so what? This has never been about science; it's been political since the first time the IPCC met to "study" the matter.
I would also like to point out that the "smoking gun" often provided by the alarmists has largely been upended by ice core research; those are showing the same isotope rates in the past as now.
"We conclude that a pronounced 0.3 per mil decrease in δ13Catm during the early deglaciation can be best explained by upwelling of old, carbon-enriched waters in the Southern Ocean. Later in the deglaciation, regrowth of the terrestrial biosphere, changes in sea surface temperature, and ocean circulation governed the δ13Catm evolution."
This as the Earth moved out of the last glacial period; the heavier isotope declined, much as it is doing now, which the climate alarmists are blaming on human activity.
See also this which showed an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide - and a change in isotope ratios to boot.
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April 27, 2026
Coddling Hate
Timothy Birdnow
How long indeed!
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Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn’t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America.
People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate.
A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him.
Enough is enough. It is time for ABC to take a stand. How many times will ABC’s leadership enable Kimmel’s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community.
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Arguing with Idiots; Carbon Isotope Edition
Timothy Birdnow
An argument over climate change with your standard-issue idiot:
Bob Sundahl
Tim Birdnow Try to keep up. We know with absolute certainty, from the changes in the C12/C13 ratios that the excess CO2 is from ancient fossil CO2.
There are no other POSSIBLE explanations.
Tim Birdnow
Hal Hagenson And you know this with such certainly how? We don't really even know where the carbon dioxide is coming from. We guesstimate the amount and look at what we think the natural outputs are then subtract that from what we are recording and say the discrepancy is all from burning oil and gas and coal. But we don't know that; there are a lot of other possible explanations.
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Tim Birdnow Try to keep up. We know with absolute certainty, from the changes in the C12/C13 ratios that the excess CO2 is from ancient fossil CO2.
There are no other POSSIBLE explanations.
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I think you are the one who needs to keep up. Carbon 12 accounts for 98.9% of atmospheric carbon dioxide with another 1.6% of carbon 13. Your argument is that carbon 12 levels have increased in the upper atmosphere and that "proves" climate change is caused by Man and is warming the Earth (both assumptions you cannot necessarily make; correlation is not causality). But is that the case? The reality is the Earth's albedo has been decreasing and there is more plant growth. we don't know for sure if the new plant life on Earth is respirating in the same fashion that old growth does, as just one possible example.
In fact there are a number of natural phenomenon that mimic the "signature" of which you speak so glibly. https://climatechangedispatch.com/new-evidence-questions.../
Permafrost melting releases carbon dioxide low in c14 and c13, as does the weathering of sedimentary rocks and it is entirely possible upwelling from the oceans releases similar isotopes. In fact, a study of ice cores showed no change in isotopic ratios since the Little Ice Age. https://www.mdpi.com/2413-4155/6/1/17
So once again you guys jump to conclusions with inadequate evidence and believe you have a "smoking gun" when in reality what you have is a theory that may or may not have some scientific validity. It was a nice try though.
Bob Sundahl
Tim Birdnow No. YOU don't know these things. WE have a very good measure as to how much fossil fuels we burn each year and ANY person with a high school background in chemistry can calculate directly how much CO2 we dump into the atmosphere.
Some of it is absorbed by the ocean, making it more acidic. That, too tells us how much CO2 went into the ocean.
Tim Birdnow
Bob Sundahl Careful; your arrogance and ignorance are showing. We do NOT "have a very good measure of how much fossil levels we bur each year". We have some guesstimates based on how much the atmospheric carbon dioxide is rising. But I'm glad your high school diploma prepared you to expound on this as if you are an expert. Oh, and the freaking oceans are not acidic; they are alkaline. There has been a very minor drop in alkalinity in SOME places and you think that is a general principle because you cannot graps how large the Earth is and how little of it we have good data on. BTW we can't even explain where the "missing heat" went into the deep oceans, or how it happened but by all means your high school chemistry class gives you unique expertise on the field. Grow up for crying out loud! If you were either honest of smart you would know that so much of the data we've accumulated is fudged or erroneous and we don't really know what is happening. So where is the missing heat? Argo probes can't find it. Why is ice growing in Antarctica, both on land and in the sea? Why are may atolls actually growing and not shrinking as climate alarmists contend? Why are the low-lying Maldives building multiple new airports? https://maldives-magazine.com/.../maldives-develops-six... Where is the tropical tropospheric hot spot? Why, despite warming, are we not seeing an increase in planetary precipitation or cloud cover? In fact it's going the opposite direction in violation of the basic theory. (Drownings are down worldwide and have been declining despite claims of rising seas and more extreme weather events.) Why are hurricanes and tornadoes down? We were told they should be rising in frequency and strength yet neither is true. Why did Canada and Alaska undergo an unusually cold winter season this year? I could go on but if you were an honest person you would look all this up for yourself. You are free to believe in anthropogenic climate change or not but you should at least move out of your smug comfort zone and look at the evidence - which is exactly what I did. I watched this from the beginning and believed in it at first but then saw how much manipulation was occurring and how politicized it was and realized we all were being played. I remember the Global Cooling scare from the seventies and I read many of the papers written back then arguing aerosols were going to trigger another ice age. The same people pushing that switched to global warming without missing a beat. You should be an honest enough person to at least consider that this theory is wrong - and so many of the model predictions suggest it is, or at least it doesn't work the way we think. These models cannot even predict current climate conditions using past data.
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This guy stopped responding after I spanked him in this fashion. No doubt he'll be blathering on somewhere else about carbon ratios and how we know with absolute certainty we are destroying the atmosphere and are all going to die.
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The Political Ramifications of the Assassination Attempt
Timothy Birdnow
Here is an article in Pajamas Media arguing that the recent assassination attempt on Trump is going to hurt the Democrats. The author is correct (which is why many on the Left are calling this a false flag; they realize it hurts their chances politically and it's the kind of thing THEY would do to gin up support) but I do think he misses the boat on a few of his ideas. I will let you judge the article yourself, but want to just make a point or two about the details.
Take this quote from Newsweak the author quotes, for intance:
Even as President Donald Trump’s approval rating has slipped, recent polls show that many Americans still view him more favorably than the Democratic Party.
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These polls could be a red flag for Democrats about how voters view the party and its leadership as it approaches the 2026 midterm elections, when members hope to reclaim control of the House and Senate.
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"Democrats have also, for the most part, decided to try to match a lot of the over-the-top rhetoric of President Trump, and that doesn’t serve them well. People want a fresher and less divisive alternative, and they’re not getting it from the Democrats,” [Grant Davis Reeher, professor of political science at Syracuse University, told Newsweek.]
Trump's "over the top rhetoric" is just telling the Truth. In times of universal deceit telling the Truth is a revolutionary act, as has been attributed to George Orwell. They killed Jesus for doing that very thing, BTW.
As the author himself says:
"And so far, so good. In opinion poll after opinion poll, we’re still seeing the same thing we saw in 2024: The American people don’t like Republicans — but they DESPISE Democrats."
True enough but the author doesn't seem to understand WHY the public doesn't like the Republicans and the Neewsweek People REALLY don't understand this.
The left hates Trump and the GOP by base reflex, of course, but many people hate the Republicans because they show themselves almost every day to be corrupt and hypocritical. They campaign on issues then when in power simply disregard their promises, or make half-hearted attempts and then give up. Look at Obamacare; the GOP railed against it for years, campaigned with funds raised over promises to "repeal and replace" and yet when in power they did absolutely nothing about it. Zip, zero, nada, the null set. There are multiple other examples of this, from promises to fix social security to promises to control spending and waste to promises to bring moral decency back. It's become glaringly obvious the Republican Party has no interest in fixing anything; they want something to campaign on and they want their slice of the pie.
Trump is different and he actually is trying to do what he promised, but reformers are always hated and Trump has a combative personality; his approach is similar to a honey badger. And since many in his own party have repeatedly thrown him under the bus a lot of the independents have turned on Trump, thinking if we get someone new the problems will go away. Moderates and "Independent voters" often think in a simplistic way, believing that a simple change at the top will fix everything. They are wrong and learned they were wrong after the election of 2020. Biden represented "normalcy" to them and they voted for him - and found out he was just a figurehead in a grand conspiracy to fleece Americans and oppress them. So they re-elected Trump and now many are turning on Trump because they can't understand the complexity of what Trump faces. And they have ESPECIALLY turned on the GOP.
But perhaps not as bad as they have the Democrats.
I would add that the public actually feigns disgust with all the in-fighting but I actually dispute that claim. Americans love that sort of thing. There is a reason why professional wrestling is quite popular and it isn't because of the athleticism. Everyone loves a good Twitter grudge match. Everyone loved Bill Clinton because Clinton was the Jerry Springer show in the White House. All the acrimony during Clinton's presidency only raised the man's poll numbers. People were excited to see how he was going to get out of the next fight.
And I suspect that is why many people love Trump, and probably the polls do not reflect Trump's strength because of the Wilder Effect (or sometimes called the Bradley Effect) which is where people tell pollsters what they think they want to hear out of fear of being labeled. Wilder was black so the public told the pollsters they supported him when they did not to avoid appearing racist. And I suspect this is where Trump lies; with higher numbers than the polls suggest because nobody wants to say they support "Hitler" but they like what they see. His scrappy nature appeals to many (including me, but not because it spices up a dull life but because we desperately needed a Republican willing to fight back). But they dare not tell the pollsters.
The Congressional Republicans are a different story; faceless clones in Brooks Brothers suits, all with the same little flag pins. They are Stepford Husbands, and they speak out of both sides of their mouths all the time. They promise things like controlling immigration then turn around and introduce an amnesty bill. They promise to end Obamacare but wind up funding it. They say they will fight for clean elections then refuse to pass the SAVE America Act. You could replace most of them with a CGI image and nobody would notice. Most of them are not real people; they are just composites created by political consultants and they have no moral core and the public knows it.
Of course they are better than the Democrats, who actively hate America and Americans, but at least the Democrats are genuine. Genuine monsters but genuine.
So it comes down to who are you going to vote for, an idiot clone or a monster? The balance leads to swings as both sides take power and show their cards and then the public switches sides in the vain hope that this time someone will actually listen to them.
Naturally most of the low info types have no idea of the gravity of their Congressional votes and why it's so critical to have a consistent, philosophically derived position.
So I dispute this notion that the public hates both sides and especially Trump. They do hate them both but for entirely different reasons. And of course they hate Trump because the media told them to hate Trump and the GOP never tried to defend him. The GOP insiders all hate Trump too; he screwed up the whole carefully-laid-out balance of power they had worked out with their Democrat "rivals".
That said, the author is correct in saying the more "ordinary" Mr. Allen appears the more obvious it will be he's in the mainstream of the Democratic Party and that may well shock enough soccer moms and others to vote for a Republican, even if it means holding their noses.
Actually soccer moms are a bad example; young white suburban women have gone off their rockers and this would probably aid the Democrats with this demographic. But a lot of people who are moderate may well turn away from the Ass Party.
But the author thinks the media, in their own self-aggrandizement, will keep pushing this story. I don't know that they will. I suspect they will talk about it for a couple of weeks then shut it down. This is way too damaging to their cause. Did we hear about the Las vegas shooter for more than a week or so? No we did not. Why not?
That's why it's up to Republicans to keep this story alive. Sadly most of the GOP is reactive and not proactive and will let this story die when the media finds some shiny new object to dangle in front of them.
At the very best Republicans are rank amateurs, like a high school football team going up against the New England Patriots. I have great faith in them to steal defeat from the jaws of victory.
One last thought; had this attempt been successful the GOP would almost certainly win the midterms and handily. If Allen had help then perhaps it wasn't meant to succeed? Maybe they just wanted to keep taking pot shots at the President to gin up the disspirited base of the Democrats and to perhaps put some fear into Mr. Trump in hopes of moderating him (who wouldn't worry about their future survival after so many assassination attempts; those will likely continue after he's out of office - anyone remember Trotsky?)
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Who Helped Allen?
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See new postsConversationEric Schwalm@Schwalm5132So let's unpack a few things right up front...
1) He left California and was in DC at the hotel where the WHCD was veing held.2) Imagine the intent he had to have in order to travel that distance all the while thinking about what he was going to do.3) He either moved several weapons or procured them in/around DC and figured out a way to get them in proximity to the WHCD.4) He took the time to load the weapons on to his body (to reportedly include several knives) and nobody noticed.5) Now here is the kicker...in his hidden location he was somehow aware that the President was in the room and was seated. How/when was he aware of that part?6) If he wasn't a guest at the WHCD and he couldn't see the President from where he was....how did he know?7) It's not like he could go look in the room and then go load up with his gear.8) He was supposedly a guest at the exact hotel? Like every room in that place wasn't booked full over a month in advance? In DC, on a Saturday, with the WHCD in the same hotel....have you ever booked a hotel in DC during a Major Presidential event? Good luck!!!
All of it screams that he had help from someone in DC. Someone with some serious knowledge and capabilities.
You just don't pull off something like that on a whim and without some serious reconnaissance ahead of time.12:26 AM · Apr 26, 2026·1.3MViews
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I was wondering how this jerk got a hotel room in the very hotel that the event was being held; how could the rooms NOT all be booked? He just rode his little choo-choo into town and registered for a room (lefties always love to play choo-choo) and there just happened to be one available.
I have not ruled out the Iranians in this; they may have recruited Allen and cleared the way for him. I also have not ruled out the World Economic Forum and the other New World Order people, nor the CIA. Every one of these groups would have an interest in killing Trump and making it look like an amateur did it. The CIA suggests using dead-heads in their training manuals.
The Iranians know they would be hard-pressed to get close enough to Trump but getting a deranged leftist (is there any other kind) might work, plus it would prevent a massive retaliatory strike on Iran. Right now Iran is playing for time and they can't afford something that would galvanize the American public. An assassination by a foreign power would do that and they know it.
The New World Order has long hated Trump and MAGA. Oh, and this Cole Allen guy was a huge supporter of the NWO's favorite war, the Ukraine conflict. I can see this being a plot by the Klaus Schwab's of this world.
So I wouldn't dismiss the notion that this guy had outside help. There is no evidence as of yet but there might be.
BTW Jimmy Kimmel said shortly before the attempted assassination that Melania Trump had "a glow like an expectant widow."
What did Kimmel know and when did he know it?
Probably nothing, since he's an idiot anyway, but it shows how all the Left is sailing in the same direction and they are going to keep trying to kill Trump and this will only ramp up after the next election if the Republicans manage to hold Congress.
Now that death by firing squad is back it's time to publicly execute Ryan Routh by firing squad. Nobody dallied when they caught Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber; he was executed quite quickly after his trial. That is what one must do to stop this sort of thing. Years of fiddling around and endless appeals won't get the job done.
Once Routh is gone then it should be Allen's turn.
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Outpouring of Hate
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We can't deny it any longer; we are in a civil war, and not just a cold war.
This is only going to get worse as we are still not taking any action against these people. It's good Pam Bondi is gone; maybe Todd Blanche will take a more aggressive role in stopping this.
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Trump Shooter and Ukraine
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Here's an interesting connection.
Maybe old king Cole here and Ryan Routh can share a cell!
Cole Allen complained on Bluesky that J.D. Vance was a "piece of shit" because "he doesn't want to live up to our commitments" to Ukraine. I don't know where he has the idea we had any to the non-Nato country.
I understand the Establishment Republicans backing war in Ukraine, but I've never understood the Left's obsession with it. Actually I do; this is a war to bleed Russia dry and force it into the New World Order. But the passion of rank and file dimwits like this Allen guy is what is so astounding. They really can't elucidate the reason for this passion. It's odd.
It's not like Zelensky is any better than Putin. In fact he's used the war to make himself a dictator with powers similar to Putin's and if Russia were to surrender tomorrow Zelensky would not give any of those powers away. He's their strongman for as long as he lives now.
At any rate I find this an interesting confluence of interests.
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