February 01, 2025
Pinko.
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The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals aka PETA want to end the use of the groundhog to predict the coming end of winter and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapira had the good sense to tell them to bugger off.
"Come and take it" he wrote on social media when the ppops at Peta demanded he replace Punxsatawney Phil with a vegan cake. Shapiro was right to tell Peta to kiss his feeta.
I think Shapiro is positioning himself like Bill Clinton did back in before he was elected - as a centerist Democrat. I don't know if it will work; the radicals have such a hold on the party it may not be possible to pry it away from their grubby little paws. But Shapiro is clearly trying.
If somehow he gets the nomination for President he would be a formidable foe, from what I've seen of him. An idiot in the end, certainly, as are all Democrats, but formidable. Democrats are great at tactics, horrible at fundamental reasoning. They know how to get what they want; their minds work that way. But they don't understand why they want what they want and what the repercussions of their hearts' desires will be. Oh, and they are great at forgetting the damage they do - and blaming it on others.
We need to keep the Democrats divided. We should fire up the lunatic fringe that is there base whenever possible. I don't think that too hard; they already have years of Trump Derangement Syndrome and the next four years should prove most fruitful in that regard, especially as Trump will be very successful. You can only pull a 2020 rabbitt out of your hat so many times, I might add. The Pandemic and the endless lawfare brought Trump down, but the public seems to have realized their mistake at last. I suspect their brand will be tarnished in the next election as well, but perhaps '32 will go better for them. I hope not but the American People just aren't intelligent in terms of ideology.
So we have to keep fighting. Shapiro is one guy we need to keep an eye on (I used to worry about Gavin "firechief" Newsom but not anymore; he's jumped the shark in his viability since fumbling so badly on the whole fire issue.)
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What? He'll send a nicely worded letter. Then if that fails he'll have no choice but send a nicely worded letter again.
Trudeau promises 'forceful and immediate' response from Canada to Trump's tariffs
While Baby Doc has been a feckless weakling he's in political trouble and will probably want to take a hard line against Trump to show how tough he can be. But there are plenty of fish in the sea and we can get from other countries what we currently buy from Canada. The inverse is not entirely true.
And Mexico? Fuggetabout it! We only import goods as a matter of convenience from them. If Trump squeezes the main employers down there - mostly American companies that moved to avoid regulations and high wages - will move back to the U.S., exactly as planned.
According to the U.S. State Department, since 2008, the U.S. has provided over $3 billion in assistance to Mexico to address crime and violence and enhance the country's rule of law. They won't get another penny from us.
According to government statistics:
"U.S. goods exports to Mexico in 2022 were $324.3 billion, up 17.0 percent ($47.2 billion) from 2021 and up 50 percent from 2012. U.S. goods imports from Mexico totaled $454.8 billion in 2022, up 18.9 percent ($72.2 billion) from 2021, and up 64 percent from 2012."
So we have less to lose than Mexico, decidedly so. And what goods are we importing and what exporting?
Mexico exports commodities and crude oil to the U.S. as well as auto parts and cars (made by American companies). The U.S. exports complex electronics, computers, all the tech stuff which Mexico MUST have but can't make for itself. We can replace most of Mexico's exports - they can't. Same as with Canada (although the trade imbalance is reversed with Canada.)
Trump knows what he's doing with all this. Just forcing Mexico to take back their invading illegals is going to squeeze them into negotiations. And Canada may be a tougher nut to crack but they need us and know it. You can't piss off a neighbor with an economy ten times the ssize of your own and expect to win.
Mexico has a GDP of $1.818 trillion U.S. collars. Canada $2.117 trillion. The U.S. comes in at $30.340 trillion dollars. You do the math.
This is like a chipmonk trying to fight a bear.
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Because Bozo just wouldn't take the job...
Ken Martin Elected New DNC Chair
No mention in the article if Martin will wear his giant shoes and red nose.
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So the famous Sully Sullenberg, the pilot who landed the plane on the Hudson in a miraculous emergency landing, said when asked by Lawrence O'Donnell what he thought of Trump blaming this crash on DEI:
"Not surprised, disgusted" and left it at that.
What does that mean? Does it mean as the left is claiming Sullenberg is disgusted at Trump's remark, or at the truth they underline?
It can just as easily be argued Sullenberg was displaying his disgust at the fact that DeI has ruined the industry and he's not surprised by the statement and is disgusted by the policies in place.
Naturally the libiots (to coin a phrase) assume the former and didn't seek to clarify.
But even if Sullenberg means what they think, I would point out that it was THEY who harangued the man in the first place after his heroic "miracle on the Hudson". The NTSB raked him over the coals over his actions on that day, an NTSB owned by the Democrats and Mr. Barack Hussein Obama.
From the NTSB report:
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NTSB report on Flight 1549
US Airways violated Federal migratory bird regulations by hunting geese with an A320 Airbus jetliner, claim anonymous government sources. The pilot of flight 1549, Air Force veteran and avid hunter Chesley B. Sullenberger, tried combining both of his interests by bagging a brace of geese over the wetlands near New York's LaGuardia airport after takeoff, on his way to Charlotte, North Carolina.
The imported European $77 million A320 airliner is not certified for either waterfowl or upland bird hunting, so it was not surprising that the aircraft malfunctioned. When he realized that both New York and New Jersey State Game and Fish enforcement officers would soon be approaching, Captain Sullenberger unsuccessfully attempted to hide the plane in the Hudson River.
The crew and 150 passengers were chilled and shaken but unhurt. Most were simply grateful to avoid spending the weekend in Charlotte.
National Transportation Safety Board inspectors rushed to the scene, and reportedly found no Duck Stamps on the downed aircraft's fuselage. Captain Sullenberger has not been charged, but is being held incommunicado at an undisclosed location.
PETA is urging the government to prosecute the pilot for double honkercide and poaching, and the animal rights group is expected to file a civil suit on behalf of the flock. The two victims were undocumented aliens, according to sources close to the investigation, Canada geese who had over-stayed their visas. Their goose gang scandalized their quiet Queens community by squatting in local cemeteries and golf courses, parking on the grass, cooking strange-smelling food and throwing wild parties late into the night. Neighbors say police dogs were called out on several occasions."
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And Sullenberg had been a staunch critic of efforts by ailines to reduce requiements for pilots (prompting him to resign from the International Civil Aviation Organization or ICAO.)
Sullenberg also complained bitterly about the antiquated technology used at Reagan.
So, despite the multiple media accounts trying to make Sully a Nevertrumper, the fact remains he is probably complaining about the decline of the American airline industry under O'Biden. And if Sullenberg tries to set the record straight we won't hear it from them.
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The Trump Administration is looking to defund something that has long been a thumb in the eye of good Americans. They are looking to defund PBS and NPR, two publicly funded leftist political propaganda arms. May as well call them Democrat Broadcasting.
I had my fifteen minutes of fame when I noticed PBS published a "transcript" that omitted a gaffe by Barack Obama and I wrote about it at American Thinker and the story went viral. For a couple of days it was the talk of the internet, and PBS had to issue a retraction. Their ombudsmen had to do a mea culpa. although they blamed it on publishing the transcript as provided by the White House prior to the speech. But it said "transcript right on it" and they sneakily changed it to "transcript as provided" and a lot of idiot liberals were mocking me over it. Naturally they didn't go to the AT piece because editor Thomas Lifson thoughtfully provided a screen shot.
Anyway this got the web a buzzing and people like Hugh Hewitt and Jonah Goldberg weighed in. (A Google search won't show that now though. I do have a piece from the liberal Meciaite showing up.)
The point is this is just one instance of PBS and NPB twisting facts to suit themselves. They've done it repeatedly and they've done it on our dime. It's time we stop funding them.
PBS does quarterly fundraisers and always brags it doesn't take much government money, so why don't they just eschew it all? They run commercials between their programs anyway; maybe they should stop giving away freebies to leftist groups and start looking for serious, high dollar advertisers? And if they should fall? There are plenty of others who will take Sesame Street or The Electric Company (which I remember watching as a boy and hated because it was full of hippies - even then). Won't CNN pick up Bill Moyer's Journal? (Well, fat lot of good THAT would be.) If their programming is so important and in demand why don't they put it out there on the commercial market? Could it be most of it is just crap nobody cares about? Does ANYBODY watch Independent lens, or Reframing America?
I watch some stuff on PBS; the travel shows, the cooking shows, National Geographic and Nature. But most of it competes with drying paint.
So, to quote Obama a while back, it's time to "bring the hammer down on Big Bird". That oversized chicken would do better Ala King anyway.
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The Blackhawk that crashed into the passenger jet in D.C. was on a doomsday training exercise. It was a "continuity of government" mission, one to practice evacuating high government officials in the even of a disaster.
Seems it was the exercise that caused a disaster.
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Illinois Governor J.D. Pritzker has banned all J6 people from state employment in a move that is guaranteed to wind up in court.
Unless these folks were charged with state crimes Pritzker has no authority over them. He cannot ban them from employment just because he doesn't like it.
A pardon absolves the pardonee from any and all consequences of their crime. And since these folks haven't been charged in a state court for violating a state law they cannot be punished. This is much like refusing employment to a person because they are, say, a recovering alcoholic and MIGHT get drunk on the job.
Which is what I think old J.B. often does; he certainly behaves like a man with a snootful!
I hope he loses his shirt, pants, and underwear in the upcoming lawsuits! Only a tyrant wannabee pulls something like this.
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The leftmedia is astounding!
CNN Hit with Backlash After Attempting to Blame President Trump for American Airlines Crash
Trump has been in office TWELVE DAYS dummies!
I suppose he's been sneaking out of the White House and sabotaging airlines in his apare time?
Department of Transportation Inspector General Mary Schiavo made the following statement:
"Air traffic controllers do not come and go with the change of an administration … The politics of the situation should have had no impact whatsoever on air traffic controllers,”
And one CNN dolt tried to claim it was Trump's hiring freeze that caused all the problems!
The media is going to blame every bad thing that happens on Trump. It's what they did last time and what they will do now. But whose fault is this? Joe Biden had control of this for four years and it was HIS policies in place, not Trump's.
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Payback's a bitch!
BREAKING: The 51 former intel officials who engaged in brazen election interference and lied about the Hunter Biden laptop, have now been banned from entering federal buildings.
It should be noted that this will likely negatively impact their consulting and lobbying grift. pic.twitter.com/0lzi263kfc
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) January 31, 2025
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This from Tony Heller at Realclimate:
During 1953, Harrisburg, Illinois had 100 days over 90F. Last year they 42 days over 90F. The percent of hot afternoons has plummeted in Illinois over the past ninety years.
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Human error!
The Inside Scoop About How Covid and Affirmative Action Policy Gutted Aviation Safety
Back around 1990 I took the air traffic controller exam. I did VERY well, and the letter they sent me said I was absolutely qualified to be an air traffic controller BUT there was a hiring freeze, and any new controllers hired would have to be over a hundred percent on the test (which was possible because ex military got ten points automatically - fair enough - but women and minorities did likewise.) So I never did get the job. I was squeezed out by political correctness.
So someone with a poorer score than me probably got the job I was qualified to do. This has been going on for a LONG time.
It's probably for the best; I'm not a calm person and I might have cracked under the pressure (although I'm usually very calm in an emergency situation, oddly enough). But that's not the point; the point is I was bumped because of the color of my skin and the shape of my body.
DEI just metastasized this. It is deadly, as it is now being proven. We have to go back to a merit-based system. Or many more will die.
But to the Left you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet...
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Probably. But certainly it will never wind up taking Obama down. Holder maybe.
Unearthed video: Did Obama and Eric Holder get paid to rig court cases?
Eric Holder should have been pursued to the ends of the Earth by the GOP. He was corrupt and he abused his power. There were multiple examples of criminality by Holder. But the GOP wouldn't even convict him of Contempt of Congress for doing what they sent Steve Bannon to prison for doing. Worse actually. They listen to Karl Rove still and let bygones be bygones. That is foolish; if someone transgresses the law they should be punished. Leave an enemy at your back and you will regret it. Holder was and is an enemy.
Prosecuting him wouldn't be retribution, it would be justice.
From the Revolver article:
The video was posted by an account "Against the Giants,” and it exposes a shocking timeline that suggests Big Tech, the Obama regime, and his DOJ may have colluded to rig our nation’s courts.
The building blocks of the left’s lawfare?
This disturbing story centers around a small, relatively unknown innovator who developed some cutting-edge wireless technology—and then had it allegedly stolen by Qualcomm.
When he sued for patent infringement, the court ruled in his favor.
But here’s where things get deeply disturbing and very interesting…
In shocking twist, that decision was mysteriously overturned right after Eric Holder’s DOJ was caught tracking the case. Suspicious? Yes. But there’s more…
The White House Executive Office was apparently busted visiting the inventor’s website, specifically looking at information related to the lawsuit against Qualcomm.
This has many people asking some very serious questions: Did the company Qualcomm grease the wheels inside the Obama regime to protect their billion-dollar empire?
Many would argue that the dots are connecting fast and furious (pun intended).
And to make matters more curious, Qualcomm’s founder met with Obama White House officials just days before the case was overturned, raising more concerns that perhaps campaign cash or political favors may have been exchanged for some favorable court rulings.
Take a look for yourself:
Big tech’s betrayal of America — unveiled.
Inside the untold story of how big tech giant Qualcomm ripped-off one of the most important patented innovations in American history and shipped it off to China with the help from the US government.
Did the Obama Admin provide cover? pic.twitter.com/bOvjq6Zv27
— Against the Giants (@Against_Giants) January 30, 2025
If this is true, it means Big Tech and the government worked together to rig the courts, crush competition, and sell out American innovators—and they did it while China swooped in and profited from stolen US technology."
We know this sort of thing goes on and has through history. We've seen some very suspicious actions by, say, the Clinton Administration back then (but the public didn't want to pursue it any more than they wanted to pursue the Obama folks). But if we find this is true then it at least goes back to Holder.
I suspect it's just the tip of the iceberg too.
Since these people went after Donald Trump they opened the door to politics by lawsuit and we must respond in kind. Mutual Assured Destruction. The only way to end this is to make it clear nobody comes out ahead in the end. The GOP has never understood that. They think if they unilaterally disarm the other side will too. Like the old Nuclear Feeze crowd, they believe we are all the same. We aren't. Until we disarm the Democrats they will keep coming. We can take this weapon out of their hands by employing it ourselves. In fact it's the only way to stop it.
Eric Holder was Obama's "wing man" and has a lot of things he can be charged with. Time for the Republicans to charge!
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Time to bring back the old women driver jokes...
Fox News identifies helicopter pilots involved in crash… female pilot in command, male crew chief…
Back in the 90's my brother taught college level history courses on Navy ships. There was a big push to get female aviators into the service. They changed the rules for these chicks. They called "downs" on them less (a down is an observational demerit for a bad landing) and gave the gals extra downs before they were benched. There was an incident that was a major news story where this allegedly ace woman pilot crashed. Brian got the story from people directly involved; she was crying because she was having trouble and eventually turned off her radio so the controllers couldn't hear her freakout. In other words she may have had the technical skill but lacked the emotional control needed for this top gun slot.
I get it. I always thought I'd have made a great pilot too but would have washed out as a fighter pilot because I wouldn't be able to keep my head under the pressure, I don't believe. But that's why I would never have tried for that in the first place. As Clint Eastwood said "a man has to know his limitations". Sadly women and minorities don't and are encouraged not to under the theory that there is a white male patriarchy and So many are pushed into roles for which they just aren't suited. I strongly suspect this chopper pilot is one example.
There were plenty of other examples of this. My brother told me women techs were assigned grunts to carry their toolboxes (which weigh a hundred pounds) since they obviously were not strong enough. So it takes two people to do the job one MAN can do. And one of them is a man.
You don't win wars that way. It becomes a hobby activity, like Junior ROTC.
And the exercise regimen had a lower bar. Women didn't have to do chinups. They had to do fewer situps and other such exercises.
Just because somebody wants to do something doesn't automatically mean they have a right to do it. I'll never play in the NBA. I'd make a lousy politician (can't remember names and faces and don't like to gladhand). I would bomb as a mathematician. I have come to terms with that; it's who and what I am and God has blessed me with different talents. I'll think of one of them by tomorrow, maybe.
The point is women can have a place in the military, but we've got to be realistic. If they are going for a given job they MUST be equally qualified. This notion of women for women's sake, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, is batcrap crazy. We don't have to balance testosterone with estrogen, nor light skin pigmentation with heavier. It MUST be based on job performance. Nothing else should matter.(Well, almost nothing; an 85 year old man may be competent until you put them in a certain situation. Age can be taken into account because abilities decline and that is often invisible to us. I wouldn't feel very confident having an old guy show up to rescue me from a burning building...)
Anyway, while the old "women driver" stereotype is not true of everyone, it became a stereotype precisely because there was a KERNAL of truth in it at one time. Why? Probably because women had less experience doing it when they started driving. But men are recognized as better at mechanical things than women and always have been. Men and women are different. The Left refuses to recognize any distinction, except the idea of "male toxicity". All one need do is look at children and how they play. The Left's answer is to make children play just the same, and they think it's purely a learned behavior. But it's not; it's natural.
These sorts of thing will continue as long as we continue to place a wrong-headed and unnatural ideology above human life.
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January 31, 2025
Four senior FBI freeloaders directors have been told to getout by Monday.
Well begun is half done. But Kash Patel needs to do much, much more.
Too bad Julia Louis Dreyfus is a big Democrat; I'd love for her to show up and do her Seinfeld Schtick on these clowns.
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California Democrats are trying to link the reconstruction of the Pacific Pallisades area to the construction of low-income housing there.
This goes to show they don't care at all about Americans.
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Immigration negatively impacts the fertility of Americans, especially the middle and working classes.
FTA:
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Trump is actually doing pretty well in the polls especially on immigration, according to this analysis by Mark Krikorian at the Center for Immigration Studies.
That poll does include internals, and it has a margin of error of between +/- 3.2 percent overall, and +/- 3.3 percent with respect to responses from registered voters.
Trump received higher marks in that poll, with half of both respondents generally and registered voters in particular — 50 percent — having a favorable impression of the president, compared to the 48 percent of respondents generally and 49 percent of registered voters who have an unfavorable view of him."
There is much more analysis in this article; be sure to read it all.
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