August 03, 2026
Litany of Wrong Predictions from the Climate Alarmists
Timothy Birdnow
Your typical Gang Green troll mocked Climate Realists on a closed site on Facebook of which I'm a member and another reader posted this timeline of failure from the alarmists:
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Many of us have a very good grasp of scientific principles, and we believe the threat of apocalyptic man-made global warming is a scam. Why do I say that? The scientific method tells us that if you use your hypothesis to make predictions concerning system behavior, and they prove to be untrue, then you have to change your hypothesis. But it has been only in the past year that the IPCC confessed that the assumptions they were using in their computer models for years were grossly exaggerated.
Here are some of the public predictions made by the leading climate scientists – people like Dr. James E. Hansen at NASA, Dr. Michael Oppenheimer at Princeton, the brilliant Dr. Michael E. Mann, Dr. Phil E. Jones of the University of East Anglia and of course collectively the scientists of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the body whose work formed the basis for the Paris Climate Accords.
1969 - It is now pretty clearly agreed that CO2 content [in the atmosphere] will rise 25% by 2000. This could increase the average temperature near the earth’s surface by 7 degrees Fahrenheit. This in turn could raise the level of the sea by 10 feet. Goodbye New York. Goodbye Washington, for that matter.
1970 - The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”
1976 - This cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000.”
1986 - The Earth will heat up by two degrees within 20 years.
1988 - By 2008, New York City’s West Side Highway would be under water, and there would be tape across the windows across the street because of high winds. And the same birds won’t be there. The trees in the median strip will change.... There will be more police cars … [since] you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up.
1989 - Entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if global warming is not reversed by the year 2000. Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of ‘eco-refugees,’ threatening political chaos, . . . and governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect.
1989 - New York will probably be like Florida 15 years from now.
1990 - By 1995, the "greenhouse effect” would be desolating the heartlands of North America and Eurasia with horrific drought, causing crop failures and food riots.
1990 - By 1996, the Platte River of Nebraska would be dry, while a continent-wide black blizzard of prairie topsoil will stop traffic on interstates, strip paint from houses and shut down computers. The situation will get so bad that Mexican police will round up illegal American migrants surging into Mexico seeking work as field hands.
1990 - By the year 2000 – that’s less than ten years away–earth’s climate will be warmer than it’s been in over 100,000 years. If we don’t do something, there’ll be enormous calamities in a very short time.
1999 - Scientists are warning that some of the Himalayan glaciers could vanish within ten years because of global warming. A build-up of greenhouse gases is blamed for the meltdown, which could lead to drought and flooding in the region affecting millions of people.
2000 - Within a few years, snowfall would become a very rare and exciting event in Britain. Children just aren’t going to know what snow is.
2001 - In ten year’s time, most of the low-lying atolls surrounding Tuvalu’s nine islands in the South Pacific Ocean will be submerged under water as global warming rises sea levels.
2003 - By 2013, California will be flooded with inland seas, parts of the Netherlands would be "unlivable,” polar ice would be all but gone in the summers, and we would all face unbearable temperatures. There will also be huge increases in hurricanes, tornadoes, and other natural disasters. All of that would spark wars over dry land and resources, and all sorts of other horrors.
2004 - Skiing in Scotland will soon become just a memory, thanks to global warming.
2004 - With the pace of global warming increasing, some climate change experts predict that the Scottish ski industry will cease to exist within 20 years.
2005 - Climate change will create 50 million climate refugees by 2010. These people will flee a range of disasters including sea level rise, increases in the numbers and severity of hurricanes, and disruption to food production.
2005 - We have seen that in the last years and decades that winters have become much milder than before and that there isn’t nearly as much snowfall. All simulations show this trend will continue in the future and that we have to expect an intense warming in the Alps…especially in the foothills, snow will turn to rain and winter sports will no longer be possible anymore.
2006 - Spring is arriving earlier each year as a result of climate change, the first ‘conclusive proof’ that global warming is altering the timing of the seasons.
2006 - I think the biggest lesson from Katrina a year later is that those same ingredients, you know, a city below sea level hit by a major hurricane, will be replicated by global warming all along our Atlantic and Gulf Coast lines. Cities all along the coast would be underwater due to increased hurricane activity and intensity unless we stop global warming.
2007 - Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035 or sooner.
2007 - Snowlines are going up in altitude all over the world. The idea that we will get less snow is absolutely in line with what we expect from global warming.
2008 - You could potentially sail, kayak, or even swim to the North Pole by the end of the summer. Climate scientists say that the Arctic ice…is currently on track to melt sometime in 2008.
2007, 2008, and 2009 - The North Pole will be "ice-free” in the summer by around 2013.
2025 - the Arctic will be ice free within 10 years.
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Bronze Age Emissions
Timothy Birdnow
I guess it was all those SUV chariots they were dri ving...
Scientists Reveal the Climate "Perfect Storm” Behind an Ancient Civilizational Collapse
This article claims climate changes led to droughts and other climate disasters that led to the collapse of the Bronze Age civilization.
Maybe in part. Part of it though was that the Bronze Age civilizations were, as now, heavily dependent on international trade and when the Sea People showed up and disrupted that trade their economies collapsed.
At any rate how could they have faced climate change when they didn't have industrial emissions or internal combustion engines to emit greenhouse gases? We've been told repeatedly that that is the cause of any planetary warming, that carbon dioxide is the "thermostat" of the climate.
Maybe they had cap and trade back then to guarantee low emissions from the tailpipes of their chariots and wagons.
Here is the money quote:
"Our results show that the region underwent a gradual drying trend over thousands of years, driven by slow changes in Earth’s orbit."
So, it wasn't carbon dioxide levels at all but slow changes in Earth's orbit. How interesting!
The article continues:
"Their combined effects reinforced one another, creating dry periods much more severe than the gradual long-term decline alone would have produced."
well, what do you know? Natural forces came together over a longer period to cause relatively rapid climate change - the very condition we are seeing today that is being blamed on industrial emissions and are being called "too quick" for natural processes.
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August 02, 2026
Hitting a Birx Wall
Timothy Birdnow
I don't believe Birx received a pardon from President Autopen.
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In March 2020, Dr. Anthony Fauci and the former CDC director met at her home. Their plan, according to Birx: "block any of the president’s escape routes” so Trump would have no choice but to accept their flatten-the-curve measures.
Two days later, the "15 Days to Slow the Spread” was announced.
This wasn’t neutral science. It was a calculated effort to corner the President of the United States and force nationwide lockdowns.
The American people were never told the full story.12:15 PM · Jul 31, 2026163KViews
In other words this was a political hit on President Trump from the very beginning, and Fauxi and Birx colluded to take the man who was ultimately their boss out.
Birx also lied and said the vaccine would protect Americans and has since admitted she knew they would not.
After Trump fired Birx she became CEO of Armata Pharmaceuticals. She made out quite well.
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Spanberger Restores Felon Right to Vote
Timothy Birdnow
Virginia Governor Spanberger just created 66,000 new Democratic voters with the stroke of her poison pen, restoring voting rights to felons.
While former Governor Glenn Youngkin had implemented a limited restoration which requires individuals apply and be approved the insane leftist Abby something or other (Abby who? Abby-Normal) just made it a blanket restoration.
The Democrats will do whatever it takes to acquire and hold power.
Felons, by the very nature of their anti-social acts, lose the right to have a say in the direction of the country. Why should they get to control the destiny of their fellow Americans, people who they tried to prey upon?
So this is a key demographic for the Democrats - convicted felons. The Dems never met a monster or vicious thug they didn't like.
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Rest in Peace Great Britain
Timothy Birdnow
Bye bye Great Britain!
A nation that won't display it's own flag out of fear of making immigrants uncomfortable has died. The corpse is already starting to stink.
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GOP Giving No Money to Paxton in Texas
Timothy Birdnow
The GOP Establishment would rather lose the Senate than hold their noses and fund Ken Paxton, then when he loses they will say "see!"
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Thune's Senate LeadershipFund plans to spend $115 million in Georgia and North Carolina, but has allocated $0 to Texas so far.
We have SOOO got to clean house in the GOP.
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Lettuce Talk Sense
Timothy Birdnow
I've always said green leafy vegetables are bad for you.
The Cyclospora outbreak is just one of the many party favors we receive from globalism. We import a lot of our produce from Mexico and other Third World countries, and what we buy that is American made is often handled and picked by Third World people working in the fields and the packing plants.
Lettuce is particularly vulnerable because it is not cooked but eaten raw.
Cyclospora is transmitted through infected produce and water contaminated by human excrement (and, as it causes diarrhea it becomes a self-perpetuating system).
Michigan seems to be the center of all of this. Interesting; Michigan has a LOT of migrant farm workers and they live under Third world conditions (since they come from the Third World) and that probably has something to do with it.
From the University of Michigan article:
In interviews conducted as part of the Michigan Farmworker Project, workers described crowded housing, being provided dirty mattresses, sewage and other odors from bathrooms. They detailed common areas such as living rooms often doubling as bedrooms and a lack of air conditioning.
Additionally, some said they experienced food insecurity, fears of polluted drinking water, high rents, low wages and a general lack of safe, affordable and quality housing—not unlike the situation many US residents are facing.
The five-year-old community-engaged research project led by Lisbeth Iglesias-Rios and Alexis Handal of the University of Michigan School of Public Health has examined a variety of topics related to treatment by farm owners and supervisors over time.
The latest study, published in the Journal of Agromedicine, assessed housing, labor conditions and general health, using phone interviews with 63 seasonal, migrant and H-2A farmworkers, who, the researchers say, are relied upon to bring produce to market each year. The findings are especially important given the miniscule pool of US workers seeking farming jobs, the researchers say.
"This is about basic human rights, and it’s also about treating these workers as the valuable contributors to the state’s $104.7 billion agricultural economy that they are. They are not afforded the same protections as other workers with federal and state occupational health and safety rules, and the treatment reported by some is dehumanizing and unhealthy,” Iglesias-Rios said.
Housing conditions are especially relevant as local, state and federal officials continue to monitor the spread of avian flu, which was detected in another Michigan dairy herd this week. It has also infected two farm workers in Michigan and one in Texas.
The workers live in a mix of employer-provided agricultural housing or in rental properties in the farming communities where they work. About 19,000 migrant, H-2A and seasonal farmworkers, either live in Michigan or travel from other states or countries to provide the labor for Michigan farming operations each season.
Naturally the solution wouldn't be to not let these people come for those jobs but to make taxpayers fund better living conditions for them.
But you can take the boy out of the Third World but you can't take the Third World out of the boy. Expecting these people to maintain First World hygiene is like expecting people in India to use birth control.
They are naturally unsanitary. In their homes it's not so bad but here, doubled up as they are, it's an epidemic waiting to happen.
Infected produce is just one of many reasons why unrestrained immigration and open borders is a terrible idea. Migrants drove the cost of housing through the roof. Migrants brought a crime wave with them. Migrants clog up emergency services and make an ER visit into a day-long affair. They drive prices up around the country on all manner of goods and services. And in the end the American taxpayer gets to foot the bill. Why? So some people - Jefe - can get cheap labor and so the Democratic Party can mint new voters to keep their party in power (and they ARE voting whether one wants to admit it or not).
We've seen this with other diseases, Third World diseases that are making a comeback in the U.S. T.B., Scarlet Fever, and Plague are all roaring back and we act as if it is a big mystery why.
In fact a whole plethora of Third World diseases are coming back to the U.S. The powers that be want us to believe it's because people aren't vaccinating their children and while there may be a kernel of truth to that the more obvious answer is because we have millions of aliens who have come here from the Third World, who aren't vaccinated and who are living as Third World people in America. Third World lifestyles mean Third World problems.
People carry diseases and mix them all together and you have a petri dish of unique illnesses that get to march through non-immune communities. There is fertile ground for mutation, and antibiotics become less effective.
Our fault, dear Brutus is not in ourselves but in our immigrants.
While I do not wish them ill, and certainly understand why many of them come for work, we aren't doing them any favors in the long run. Their countries will never reform as long as they have the safety valve of outsourcing their "problems" to the U.S. And our economy cannot prosper with a permanent serf class. We saw what dirt cheap labor did to the economy of the Antebellum South; the Southern economy was much poorer than in the North and was largely a caste system with wealthy planters and the rabble. Most of the rabble couldn't find work, or if they could fin it were horribly underpaid, because the plantation owners owned slaves to do the work southern Americans Just Wouldn't Do. How do you compete if you own a cotton plantation and have to pay employees while your competitor does not? It is a terribly destructive thing for a nation. I wrote about that some years ago.
Cheap farm labor via aliens is much the same. While they are paid they are paid less than market rates (which is why the farmers want them in the first place) and they suppress wages for everyone. Oh, and it's a machine; as a farm laborer's position improves he will seek better work, taking a good job from an American. But his job will still need to be filled so the jefe farmer will just go and recruit himself another. More illegal aliens come and the cycle repeats.
Meanwhile we wind up with cyclospora on our lettuce and other produce. And with tuberculosis and the Black Death infecting our children. And with fewer jobs for our families, and higher taxes, higher costs of living, etc.We might die waiting for medical treatment because the hospitals are overfull with migrant laborers who don't have insurance.
Illegal immigration is not a victimless crime. We all pay for it.
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We Miss You Roseanne!
OH, in another video from the Gateway Pundit, you may want to listen to this rendition of the national anthem at the premier game of the women's baseball league. Makes me miss Roseanne Barr!
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Kennedy Bashes Bash
Timothy Birdnow
He just made me proud to be related to the Kennedy's!
You go Bobby!
Dana Bash openly lied and claimed the Covid vaccine "worked".
How? It didn't prevent you from getting the disease. It didn't keep you from spreading it. The only claim made by Big Science was that it would keep you from getting as sick as you otherwise would be and that is entirely unprovable. It was a claim wholly unsupportable by empirical evidence.
Many countries never had a vaccine mandate and did as well as those that did in terms of cases of Covid and severity. Sweden, for instance, refused to implement the international protocols (social distancing, mask mandates etc.) and it did btter than most of the countries that required vaccinations. The clot shot did not work. But it did cause all sorts other problems involving heart and lungs and strokes.
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The Death of Freedom of Speech
Timothy Birdnow
This is a very dangerous precedent. It is a matter of free speech to use racial epithets if one wishes. The law has zero say in the matter.
So would this blond white mother have been convicted if instead she called the child a Mother effer?
Would she have been convicted if she herself had been black?
We do not have speech codes in America; we have a First Amendment, after all. But the Left simply acts as if we do. Control of speech has always been the goal of every Leftist.
Is this woman a hero? Far from it. She used language to a child that was wholly inappropriate. But it does not involve the law.
Selwyn posts up the video of the event and the man is immediately talking about hate crimes law. He was clearly ready for something like this to happen at some point in time.
I suspect this woman will win on appeal but it's going to cost her a huge amount of money. That is the whole point; the process is the punishment.
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Pirro-uette
Timothy Birdnow
Judge Jeanine Pirro has gone native, it seems, refusing to prosecute the reflecting pool slasher.
Her reason? She thinks the contractor screwed up and so the pools was compromised anyway.
That doesn't matter; the act in and of itself is illegal, not whether the vandal was successful or not.
David Hearn, the vandal, was a former Olympian who attempted to vandalize the pool by yanking "forcefully" on the soft liner. When a Parks Service employee told him to stop he screamed at him and refused to quit.
Hearn was indicted by a Grand Jury for felony destruction of property in a D.C. Superior Court.
Pirro believes that this case will not hold after seeing the drained pool. She believes the contractors screwed up the installation in a rush to be ready for July 4.
But this doesn't change the fact Hearn was TRYING to vandalize the pool.
Pirro dismissed the charges without prejudice, meaning Hearn could be prosecuted at a later date.
This may be because Pirro didn't think she could ger a conviction but I wonder; so many Republicans go native once they get inside the beltway and Pirro always seemed to me to be a self-promoter, at least to a degree. I wonder if some Republicans didn't talk to her and get her to drop the case to avoid a messy situation going into the elections.
No doubt Democrats would use this case to argue the GOP was "out of control" and launching political witch-hunts. Of course the irony is lost in that they bitterly opposed Trump's anti-weaponization fund which compensated people for being abused by legal authority for political reasons yet they would accuse Trump of abusing people with the weaponization of the law for political reasons. But hypocrisy never sticks to Democrats because the media sees to it that it does not.
I suspect some of the Republicans closeted her and pressured her into dropping the charges. Pirro wasn't one to let the law be broken and the lawbreaker get away with it - which is precisely what is happening here.
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Is China Supplying ABM Systems to Iran?
Timothy Birdnow
Is China planning to send Iran with air defense systems? It appears they just might be.
Naturally China is denying it.
Iran normally uses home-made systems but they are running out of them and now are going to neeed to buy such systems to stave off American attacks. China might say they are not doing this but China has waged a cold war against us for some time now.
I sought to link the original Reuters report but it has a "sign up" popup that I can't take down so I found another source.
At any rate China has every interest in an Iranian victory, and Iran need but survive this to finish victorious. I don't think it's a question of IF China is meddling, just how it is meddling.
China needs Iranian oil. China wants to weaken the United States. China wants to keep the Middle East burning so it can increase it's influence in the region and also so it can keep the U.S. distracted. If war ever becomes necessary with the West Iran will be the silk road of death, with China using it to invade the Mediterranean theater.
Iran is crucial to China's long-term interests.
We also know the Chicoms had no problem unleashing Covid on the whole world, be it an accidental lab leak or a purposeful event (I believe it was the latter, to get rid of Trump and sow chaos in the West.) They are Communists and think only about power.
At any rate while I do not know if this is true it could easily be.
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August 01, 2026
Newsom's Tax Returns
Timothy Birdnow
Gavin "Nuisance" Newsom has made eleven million bucks since he took office, predominantly from "wineries, restaurants, and other investments" as the article states. That was in five years, between 2019 and 2024.
Restaurants are notoriously low percentage businesses and most fail within their first year. There is a saying in the wine business "to make a small fortune in the wine business you first start with a large one". Both of these businesses are not for the novice and not high profit.
So what is going on? I'll tell you what is going on; the left is laundering money to Newsom in much the same way as they were doing to "Brotherly love" Ilhan Omar's husband made a fortune with a winery that did not even exist. Someone is creating fictional wineries and putting money into their accounts that way.
It's possible that Newsom actually owns a winery, but it's flourishing and that only because someone wants it to flourish. I suspect he's not actually making any money with the sale of wine, except where the wine is given away by the purchaser, much like book sales of politicians. John F. Kennedy was never without a copy of "Profiles in Courage" because his father bought all his books to make it a best-seller.
But, but, but..Newsom's money is in a blind trust! In blindness we trust!
I suspect this is the very same trick used by Hillary Clinton to make a killing in cattle futures. It's an old game; take two investors, one a politician and the other a would-be donor. Match them in a fund that balances out then give the one that earns money to Hillary and let the loser take the hit. The loser knows he's taking the hit - he's donating money without actually donating money. Newsom's "blind trust" is no doubt run by Democrats who are making him money but swindling or volunteering other people's money.
Here is a quote from the article that gets me:
"The governor’s income included his government salary, which ranged from $167,647 in 2021 to $192,087 in 2024."
With millions rolling in why does he need to take that from the taxpayers? You know what President Trump takes? One American dollar per year. The rest he donates to charity. That is for being President of the United States and pputting up with the massive amount of crap that he has to take. Newsom could easily donate his salary to charity. But he won't because liberals always are free with other people's money but rarely with their own.
Newsom also was paid a hundred and fifty grand for his children's book about a kid with dyslexia. Did Mr. Newsom write this while he was supposed to be working for the public? If so he was neglecting his job. Or did he have it ghost-written (more likely) and not mention how much the ghost-writer got paid or who paid him (it could be seen as an illegal campaign donation.)
This guy is as corrupt as they come. Hopefully Nick Shirley will show up to interview him, or some other analysts who can analyze these tax returns and show Newsom is taking graft. I have little doubt he's doing that very thing.
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Judiciary of Dunces
Timothy Birdnow
This is why we keep losing; we've got double-minded dimwits at the very pinnacle of our government.
Gorsuch has been a decent enough Justice but he's clearly malinformed about American history. America was overwhelmingly a Christian nation. The Establishment Clause was put in place to prevent government from putting it's thumb on the scale by deciding WHICH sect of Christianity would be dominant. Had the Founders thought Islam or Hinduism or any other religion would become dominant they would never have included that clause.
Forsuch told PBS' Margaret Hoover:
"We were never supposed to be a nation that was about one race or one religion … It was about those ideas [in the Declaration of Independence] … We have a First Amendment, for crying out loud. No established religion.”
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Why, pray tell, was slavery no abolished at that point then? Why weren't Indians given citizenship at first? Clearly they were thinking about race.
Race neutrality came later as a result of a long and very painful process - a process we have yet to complete as we simply flipped the dominant races.
But as for religion, yes, there is nothing specific in the Constitution about religion other to ban government from meddling in it, but that is a far cry from saying Christianity is not the core of our nation. Multiple Founding Fathers said so.
This illustrates that Gorsuch is not an originalist but a textualist; he doesn't divine the wishes of the Founders and why they said a thing in the Constitution but rather simply looks at the text as written (and using our modern figures of speech as opposed to theirs). He joins Amy Conehead Barrett and Jumpin' John Roberts as textualists.
The Founders could not possibly state every position in a way that could not be misinterpreted. They relied on their successors understanding this point and interpreting the Constitution based on their original intent. Textualism is silly; it allows for reinterpretation. Gorsuch is dead wrong about America and it's Christian bedrock.
As the article points out, most states had their own preferred religion and imposed all sorts of laws based upon them. Nobody ever suggested they couldn't do that.
In fact many states had religious tests for running for public office and you couldn't run if you weren't a Christian. Those laws lasted until 1961 in some states. It was the leftist Warren Court that struck such laws down as unconstitutional.
How did this practice continue so long if the Founders had opposed the idea that America was a Chrstian nation?
And what of the practice of opening both houses of Congress with prayers led by chaplains? Until recently it was always assumed they be Christian ministers.
Gorsuch is an example of how specialization rots the brain. He studied the law and clearly did not absorb a whole lot else. Law schools rot the brain, and working in the legal field REALLY rots the brain. Legal thought tends to be confused, to put it mildly.
Gorsuch got this idea not from original sources but by reading what other lawyers, his contemporaries, had to say about what the Founders believed.
This is America's problem. Rule by expert has destroyed our country because experts read and quote other experts and avoid doing a couple of simple things - reading the source material directly and using common sense. Scholars rarely do either. Most want to impress their collegues rather than get too the heart of what it is they are examining.
So the modern interpretation of the founding of America is that we have "separation of Church and State" and a guy like Gorsch isn't going to risk being thought a fool - he'll just open his mouth and remove all doubt.
The truly scary thing is Gorsuch is one of the better Justices on the Court. We are governed by a collection of idiots.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Timothy Birdnow
I'll be surprised if she can win.
She's running against Wesley Bell, a leftist Democrat to be certain, but one who is not completely crazy. Bell has a lot of money it seems, and I am seeing all sorts of adds for Bell and none Cori Bush. Bell is the incumbent and he had been around for a while, including being the Prosecuting Attorney in St. Louis County.
Bell is being cagey; he's attacking her for attacking other Democrats while he starts his commercials attacking Donald Trump and then mentioning Bush is dividing the Democrats. I doubt this strategy would work ina purple district but it probably will in the very blue Missouri 1st.
Democrat Russ Carnahan lost his seat in Mo. 3 when his district was eliminated and a sizable chunk of the south-side area then went to the first district (where I am a resident). At the time it was the stronghold of toothless Lacy Clay, son of the former grifter Congressman William Clay, the man who won his seat from Jelly Roll Hogan, the head of the Hogan crime gang. Forty five percent of the population is black while forty percent is white. There is zero chance of ever electing a Republican in this district. I will probably take a Democrat ballot on tuesday to vote for Bell. (In Missouri you don't have to register party preference for primaries as in most other states.)
At any rate I'm fairly certain Bell will win and Bush will lose but I'm not taking any chances. I'm a Bell man at least where the primary is concerned.
Not sure who the Republicans are running if anybody but I will certainly vote for whoever shows up there - or for, say, the Constitution Party or Libertarians. I might even write myself in if it comes to that. I often do that.
Bush was an embarrassment. Bell isn't a whole lot better but he's not the same sort of chip-on-the-shoulder buffoon as is Bush.
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Walz to Blame for Water Hack
Timothy Birdnow
Media aketh and Trump answereth:
Question: Can you rule out that Iran was behind the water attack? Can you rule out that Iran was behind that cyber-attack?
President Trump: No, I think Minnesota is behind it. You know who's behind it? Minnesota, because they're grossly incompetent. I think the governor's behind it. I don't think there was an Iranian cyber-attack. I think that Minnesota ought to get its act together. It's one of the worst-run states... JD will tell you. In fact, tremendous corruption in Minnesota. And by the way, just gave me a report, massive, massive future things having to do with corruption in Minnesota are happening right now.
While it seems unlikely Walz was in the Governor's mansion with a laptop hacking the water system himself Trump's point is that the gross incompetence and inattention made Minnesota a prime target.
This article surmises as much. But there is more if one wishes to consider it.
It seems to me Walz would be happy to point to an Iranian cyber attack to divert attention away from his many scandals. This way he can act as the aggrieved party and at the same time suggest he's out there fighting for his own people when in fact this works to his advantage by distracting attention. And you never know; there is always a slim possibility the Governor found some hacker to spoof the Iranians. Democrats have done such things before.
For that matter Iran would be smart enough to realize this.
Walz has suggeste China negotiate a peace deal between the U.S. and Iran - something that no doubt would be pleasing to the Iranians. And Walz also was a big supporter of Muslims in his state. There is every reason to believe the Iranians would want to throw Walz a lifeline.
If nothing else this helps to sow discord between the Administration and the Democrats in Minnesota that may well help the Iranians.
So while I doubt Walz actually paid someone to hack the water system I do think he's at fault to no small degree, and that he's probably also happy with the outcome.
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Hit Squad?
Timothy Birdnow
One question; is the victim related to AOC?
Pressley is a "squad" member.
Yoseliani Ann Marte Ocasio is the 18 year old victim found at Pressley's home. Ocasio is, after all, part of the hyphenated name for Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, or Sandy Occluded Cortex - AOC.
At any rate this is a house owned by Pressley's husband and it was on the market for a million and a half. How does someone who is in league with the socialists worth enough to own a house worth that? It's GOOD to be a social democrat!
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Stay Out of Eastern European Fight
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This mirrors much of my own thinking about the Ukraine/Russia conflict. The author gets a bit more pointed in his criticisms of Ukraine but his points are essentially valid.
Remember, we gave Russia a verbal promise to not expand NATO into the old Warsaw Pact then we broke it. Russia tolerated our moving NATO right up to their border (they ddn't really have a choice) but the Ukraine (I'm going back to putting THE in front of the name like we used to) was always hands-off because it was one of the "Russias" along with Byeloru aka White Russia and Great Russia. The Ukraine is rather like Texas is to America. Imagine if the Soviets had taken control of Texas during the Cold War.
And for a time we did not. But then when the Ukraine elected a pro-Russian President the CIA began fomenting the Orange Revolution to overthrow him and install a pro-western guy who was willing to "do busisness" with all our dirtbags. That's why Hillary Clinton got involved with them. That's why Hunter Biden got involved with them. It never would have happened had we not kicked out the elected government and replaced it with one more pleasing to ourselves.
This war has nothing to do with sympathy for an underdog democracy - Ukraine is as corrupt as Russia if not more so and it's no longer even remotely democratic as Zelensky has suspended elecctions and suppressed free speech and suppressed the Orthodox Church and imposed universal drafting of young men (thus getting rid of those who would oppose his remaining in office). Putin is certainly no better but this is rather like a fight between an alligator and a Burmese Python in the Everglades - you can't really root for either.
No, what this is about is money and power. The Ukraine was laundering vast sums of Western cash. But there is more than just a desire to make money involved; it is all about the New World Order. Russia, under Putin, was trying to build an alternative to the New World Order system the elites of the West were trying to put in place. Russia was fouling up their whole scheme. So they want to squeeze Russia dry, bankrupt her, empty her out so the remnant is forced to come hat-in-hand to Western bankers and diplomats and join the NWO as penitents, trustees.
And let us not forget what Tulsi Gabbard admitted; we had dozens of biological labs in the Ukraine doing gain of function research. In other words we had weapons labs, right next door to Russia.
Yes, Russia did invade Crimea, and then the eastern portion of the Ukraine as well. But the Ukrainians had been shelling the Crimea for years. They also put a dam on the Dneiper river and diverted all of Crimea's fresh water. They provoked Russia at every turn.
Again I am not excusing Russia. Putin is a bastard and will do whatever he can get away with doing. But there is another side to this. The Western elites won't tell us that other side because they bafflingly want war with Russia and don't seem to care about the dangers of it going nuclear.
A nuclear war can ruin your whole day.
I believe we have no material national interest in the Ukraine. I further believe this could well have been prevented by remotely competent diplomacy before it began, but the elites wanted this. Biden screwed it up bigly. But that, I believe, was by design. Putin is an opportunist and saw he could get away with it.
I really don't believe Russia is in that bad a shape either. I think we are being gaslit by the media and by these internationalist think tanks. The reporting suggests the Russians are nearing the end but I suspect the reality on the ground is a bit different.
I will say this; Putin cannot afford to lose this war. He will be removed from office, and by office I mean the body politic, sans body. His head will roll. He's not going to allow that.
And everyone who could replace him is worse than is he.
So what will Putin do? Tactical nuclear weapons come to mind. Use tactical nukes on the Ukrainian battlefield and dare the West to start the big one. We'll probably back down from that and Putin knows it. Even Trump won't risk all-out nuclear war, despite Trump having the balls to fight.
Putin won't do that unless he's trapped like the rat he is, but if it is that or face assassination and overthrow he'll do it, I suspect.
Oh, and while the old Soviet arsenal had been under the control of a number of agencies that limited single-man launches the current Russian nuclear arsenal very likely is not; it was Putin's creation. I rather suspect he has complete control over their use.
At any rate whoever wins this war isn't worth our time one way or another. All that we've done by dragging this out is battle harden both sides and when it finally ends they will likely go around the world selling their skills to the highest bidder. There is a reason why the Albanian mob took over the Sicilian Mafia; they were so hardened by the war in Bosnia that they were too tough for the Mafia and are now in control of it. That is what we will see with the Russians and Ukrainians in times to come.
Also, Russia and Ukraine will BOTH have to replace their populations with men from elsewhere. Ukraine, in particular, will be filled with Middle Easterners and other non-European types who mean us ill. See here, here, and here for just a few articles singing the praises of the glory of immigration to replenish the population of the Ukraine. The Ukrainians will become a remnant in their own countries, and that is just fine by the standards of the Western Ruling Class.
I suspect it will happen less with Russia, although the Russians are going to have some big problems too. But Putin is no fool (unlike Zelensky) and he will fight to prevent that from happening to his own country. He may not be able to succeed but he'll try. Mostly he'll encourage a population boom. Once the war is over Russia will be a good place for young white men to go; lots of Russian women for the having.
In the end this is a proxy war by the West, which was angry about things like BRICS. We are leaving our children with a nightmare to clean up so Progressives can make money and feed their scheme for the New World Order.
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