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February 20, 2026

Judge Not

This from E. Calvin Beisner

On the Biblical prophets: "The rich are not denounced because they are rich but because they oppress the poor. The prophets do not speak on behalf of the oppressed; they speak n behalf of the God who 'secures justice for the poor and upholds the cause of the needy' (Psalm 140:12). This pattern stands in contrast to trends in contemporary society that show a tendency to judge people based on their social group, not on their behavior." Christopher Watkin, Biblical Critical Theory, 301.

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Village Idiots

Timothy Birdnow

Lookie here! Newsome lied about being cixelsyd, er, dyslexic

He joins such luminaries as Faux Indian Elizabeth "Big Smelly Sqwah" Warren or "stuttering" Joe Biden and a host of fake soldiers and spray on tan black folks in the Democratic Party.

The Democrats increasingly resemble the Village People, only they weren't serious about their faux identities.

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FCC Says Talk Shows Aren't News, Can't Skip Equal Time Rule

Timothy Birdnow

The FCC has declared talk shows are not news and thus do not qualify for the news exemption to equal time regulations.

That means guys like Kimmel and Colbert can no longer bring on candidates without giving equal time to their rivals.

Not sure how I feel about this but it is satisfying to see that these clowns can't keep their one-sided attacks going. Of course this could just as easily be used against our side. If, say, Sean Hannity has Ted Cruz on his radio show he will have to give his opponent equal time. Hannity would be willing to do that, of course, but you can see how this can be used to stifle our own efforts.

But it's still nice to stick it to 'em.

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James Threatens Legal Harassment for Paarents Challenging Transgenders in Girl's Sports

Timothy Birdnow

Letitia James is openly saying she won't allow parents to question transgendered boys playing in girl's sports in a gross violation of the First Amendment.

AG Warns School Boards Not to Allow Public to Question Boys Playing Against Girls

We had the chance to get rid of this puta but failed to do so in liberal New York. Now we reap the whirlwind.

She is a tyrant and needs to be impeached.

The "guidance letter" from the AG office threatens schools for "misgendering" and opposing dudes in dresses on the playing field, but it goes further, saying they are not allowed to entertain complaints from parents to avoid "bullying" under penalty of law:

Liberals claim that Trump represents a threat to free speech.

Meanwhile, New York Attorney General Letitia James, during her sordid career, targeted the NRA, Vdare an anti-immigration group, Betar, a pro-Israel organization, and now local school boards.

Legal Insurrection has the story.

Attorney General Letitia James and Education Commissioner Betty A. Rosa issued a "Joint Guidance on Harassment and Bullying at School Board Meetings.”

The vaguely worded "Guidance Letter” warned school boards statewide that "misgendering” students—using pronouns based on biological sex—or publicly supporting sex-segregated sports and facilities could lead to board members’ removal from office.

The letter doesn’t just threaten board members directly, it warns against even allowing any questioning of transgender policies by members of the public.

Board members who permit the harassment of LGBTQ+ students may expose their school districts to liability under New York law.

Under the First Amendment, school board meetings are considered limited public fora. This means that school boards that allow public comment "may make reasonable, viewpoint-neutral rules governing the content of speech allowed,” including prohibiting all comments on a particular topic that would have discriminatory, harassing, or bullying effects.

School boards in New York should be mindful that their "meetings are an inappropriate venue to air personal or political grievances.” Members of the public can ask local school boards questions about a wide range of issues. But purely ideological statements opposing students’ rights under New York law are an unproductive diversion from boards’ important work. Such statements can harm children, who unwillingly find themselves held up to public scrutiny and recrimination by members of their school community.

SED and OAG caution New York school boards against exposing students to these harms. For example, school boards should not entertain baseless allegations that transgender students’ identities and experiences are illegitimate, or that their mere presence in school spaces and participation in school activities is harmful to other students. Nor should boards allow individuals to intentionally misgender district student

…boards of education that permit harassing and stigmatizing comments about LGBTQ students in public meetings may expose districts to liability under this law

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This is the act of a tyrant. James is completely out of control and must be removed from office. Sadly that won't happen in leftist New York state.

Republicans desperately need to win the governorship there.

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Judge Orders Hospital to Castrate Minor

Timothy Birdnow

Maybe this judge should lead by example and let the doc show the world it ain't so bad by offering himself first.

-child-sex-changes-after-doctors-stop-practice]California Judge Orders Children’s Hospital to Mutilate Children With "Sex Changes” after Doctors

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SCOTUS Screws America

Timothy Birdnow

The U.S. Supreme Court just gutted Trump's Entire Foreign and Tax policy, declaring his tariffs are illegal.

They actually went and did this even though the aw states the President can impose tariffs and every President before him has done so repeatedly.

The majority opinion was written by Chief Justice John Roberts and co-signed by Amy Coney Barrett (nobody expects sensibility from HER) and sadly Neil Gorsuch. I suspect Gorsuch and Roberts rejected this because they wanted to appear "unbiased" and give Trump a major loss. Certainly Roberts has never been hung up on Constitutional originalism and he has to know that every President has exercised this power and in much the same way as Trump has albeit to a lesser degree.

Justices Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh and Samuel Alito all dissented.

The majority ruled the President overstepped his bounds by implementing

the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, known as IEEPA, which authorized the President to impose tariffs in a state of emergency, which the President is authorized to declare. Mr. Trump had declared several states of emergency to utilize his authority under the law.

Kavanaugh, writing the majority opinion, noted that tariffs have always been a power the Executive Branch has wielded and nobody complained:

"(Tariffs) are a traditional and common tool to regulate importation.” Moreover, he suggested, although "I firmly disagree with the Court’s holding today, the decision might not substantially constrain a President’s ability to order tariffs going forward … because numerous other federal statutes authorize the President to impose tariffs and might justify most (if not all) of the tariffs at issue in this case.”

And right he is.

As Kavanaugh pointed out:

The United States may be required to refund billions of dollars to importers who paid the IEEPA tariffs, even though some importers may have already passed on costs to consumers or others."

Trump has now lost ALL economic leverage with foreign countries and don't think for a minute they don't know that. I promise you the flood gates will re-open at our southern border now that Mexico knows it's safe to invade us again. And all the factories that were moving here will rethink that now that they know they can avoid doint that and paying more for American labor. Canada and other countries can then have their tilted playing fields. China will again flood our markets with their goods and grow rich.

Trump's tariffs were working extremely well and our economy was flourishing. Now it's anybody's guess how this will go.

Republicans in Congress can try to amend the law and authorize these tariffs but I doubt they will, and if they do the Democrats will filibuster.

Trump's entire foreign policy is now in tatters and I hope those bastards in black robes are happy. They just did irreparable damage to the Republic.

Maybe Trump should tell them he doesn't have the money to pay them! (He can't according to the Constitution, damnitall!)

Until the passage of the 16th Amendment in 1913 the primary sources of revenue for the United States government (which was forbidden to impose a direct tax on the citizenry) were tariffs, along with an excise tax and the sale of public lands. After the creation of the income tax tariffs fell out of favor, and particularly after Smoot Hawley was imposed by Congress and the tariff war exacerbated the Great Depression. But Smoot Hawley was not the problem - monetary manipulation, particularly, a sudden contraction of the money supply by the Federal Reserve, was the primary cause. Smoot Hawley was just timed wrong, coming in when the country needed more trade, not a trade war.

As I have said every President has used tariffs to impose their will on foreign actors and Trump is hardly an exception. And this was all done by Presidents using this exact same statute.

So to state now that it is illegal after almost fifty years is disingenuous in the extreme.

Yes, Congress has the power of the purse. But it was Congress that gave this power to the President in the first place and if they don't like it it is up to them to amend the law, not SCOTUS which has no right to meddle in government funding. SCOTUS just usurped the authority of the other two branches of government.

If they are going to strike down taxes because a minority in governmeht doesn't like them then why not strike down the Income Tax? Yes,, there is a Constitutional amendment making it legal, but nowhere is the IRS specifically mentioned, nor is the RATE of taxation mentioned. Why can't the Court simply rule it's not Constitutional to have a progressive income tax and that IRS enforcement is illegal? I don't see any way this is any different.

If they are going to make their own rules maybe the President should make HIS own and simply ignore the ruling? That is what Alexander Hamilton argued should be done if the Courts became too big for their britches. Read Federalist 78:

Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them. The Executive not only dispenses the honors, but holds the sword of the community. The legislature not only commands the purse, but prescribes the rules by which the duties and rights of every citizen are to be regulated. The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments. .

Congress and the President are both elected officials and therefore responsive to the Will of the People, something Hamilton hammers in this particular paper. SCOTUS is appointed and for life, and Hamilton thought the other branches of government would rein them in. Sadly the Democrats figured out they could use the courts as weapons to advance their agenda when out of power and certainly this ruling hsa done that for them. The Gorsuch and Barrett were appointed by Trump and they screwed him. They are tools of the Democrats, activist judges who usurp the authority of the legislative and judicial branches of government.

If they were serious about this they would have struck down the law that authorized Trump to take this action but they chose not to. Insread they simply struck down Trump's use of that law. That is legislating from the bench.

A pox upon their houses!

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Omar: Goal is to Eliminate DHS

Timothy Birdnow

Actually I love this idea; it would eliminate a whole cabinet-level bureaucracy and the Democrats would lose all those voters who have been one of their power bases. George W. Bush was a fool in creating the Department of Homeland Security in the first place, and the TSA too.

Ilhan Omar Says the Democrats Don't Just Want to Abolish ICE They Plan to Dismantle DHS

We handled these functions just fine prior to 911 in other branches of government, and using private sector people. I don't think anyone can credibly argue we've seen any real improvement in air traffic safety or otherwise by making these changes - we just grew the government.

How has strip-searching little old grandmothers and refusing to racially profile protect us?

Yes, 911 was a spectacular security failure, but it probably would have happened even if we had a Department of Homeland Security, it just would have gone down differently. The terrorists exploited loopholes that were there, and would have done likewise with other loopholes. The only reason we haven't had another major attack is because we wiped out Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations with an international reach.

According to Wikipedia (not a reliable source but usually pretty good on this sort of thing:

Between 2010 and 2021, at least 231 terrorist incidents or plots were documented in the United States, resulting in approximately 145 deaths and more than 370 injuries.[3] In 2021 alone, there were 73 recorded plots or attacks, compared with 29 in 2015.[4]

And that included the Pulse Nightclub attack which killed 50 people in 2016.

Yes, hijackings have declines (there have onliy been 55 since the 911 attacks) but that would have been the case if we hadn't federalized airport security too - just changing the way we handle screening would have sufficed.

And we know that people testing the system have gotten all sorts of things through airport security that shouldn't have been allowed. Basically TSA is the Post Office with metal detectors.

So you go girl! We'll move ICE to the War Department and then run it like a military operation and quit this futzing about.

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The Shit Hits the Fani

Timothy Birdnow

Fani Willis, the love sick radical prosecutor in Georgia who went after President Trump on trumped up charges of election tampering, is now balking at paying his legal fees even though Georgia law makes it quite clear that if a prosecutor in a case is removed for cause, as was Willis, the Prosecuting Attorney's office had to foot the bill.

She claims the $17 million should instead be eaten by the President because it's her entire budget.

Tough beans old girl; you made your bed and now have to lie in it. I know; you've been "lying" in it all along, mostly with the guy you hired to get Trump, but in this case I mean bodily lie in it.

Clay Fuller

@Clay4MainStreet

Fani Willis abused her power as Fulton County DA to launch a witch hunt against President Trump.

Now, she doesn't want to pay President Trump back the $17M in legal fees she owes, claiming it'd wipe out her budget.

When you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes.

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VDH on Unforced Errors

Timothy Birdnow

Victor Davis Hansen warns of unforced errors by Trump that could derail the whole counter-revolution.

In particular he points out the meme portraying Obama and his lovely Bride of Frankenstein as apes.

Yes, that was as stupid as it gets and whoever posted it (Trump says it was posted in error and as soon as he learned of it he immediately yanked it) needs to be fired.

That explains why Trump had such effusive praise for Jesse Jackson upon his timely demise. Jackson was the greatest racial huckster of his age, a man who milked millions of dollars off of corporations by blackmailing them. His son went to prison, you may remember, for corruption and I would argue the apple didn't fall far from the tree. But here we had Trump writing about how wonderful a man he was. Read Trump's Truth Social post here.

Jackson was an anti-Semite who called New York "Hymietown" and who tampered with U.S. foreign policy, meeting with Yasser Arafat in violation of U.S. law, for instance. He embraced the racist Louis "Calypso Louis" Farrakhan.

His Operation Push blackmailed multiple businesses, the big one being Anheuser Busch, demanding more jobs for black people and donations to Jesse. He won that one, turning A-B into one of the most woke companies in the country.

He was the architect of such blackmail, boycotting anyone who wouldn't pay up. And that sparked the whole DEI movement in corporate America.

By any stretch of the imagination Jackson was a villain, yet here we have Trump praising him. After Trump's big screwup with the Gorilla Obama is it any wonder?

Another thing Hansen argues is for ICE to just pull out of these Democratic enclaves and catch illegals in cooperative jurisdictions. While this might appear to be a valid way to win the election it bespeaks weakness and cowardice and the public will see it. When Tim Walz crows about winning the battle of wills, does anyone think the media won't proclaim that? Trump will look soft and everyone will know it. Trump gains no good will by allowing insurrectionists to hijack the law and his enforcement of it. IF we are to do something to "de-escalate" we need to go after Walz and Frey and Keith Ellison in Minnesota with the force of law; there has to be punishment, and that meted out through legal channels. You can't just let them get away with this; every blue state will do it.

Hansen is applying the old Republican/Karl Rove theory of "move on" and ignore bad actions. But that's why Donald Trump was elected in the first place; the public was sick of letting the Left get their way. There had to be an accounting.

How many temper tantrums can you let a child throw before you top giving in? That is what is happening in Minnesota.

At any rate Trump already seems to have adopted Hansen's prescription. But I think in the long run it is a mistake; certainly it makes the base less enthused. Trump needs that base out in full force in November.

I love VDH but he seems to have missed a few things here.

BTW here is Donald Trump's Truth Social tribute to Jackson:

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

The Reverend Jesse Jackson is Dead at 84. I knew him well, long before becoming President. He was a good man, with lots of personality, grit, and "street smarts.” He was very gregarious - Someone who truly loved people! Despite the fact that I am falsely and consistently called a Racist by the Scoundrels and Lunatics on the Radical Left, Democrats ALL, it was always my pleasure to help Jesse along the way. I provided office space for him and his Rainbow Coalition, for years, in the Trump Building at 40 Wall Street; Responded to his request for help in getting CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM passed and signed, when no other President would even try; Single handedly pushed and passed long term funding for Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs), which Jesse loved, but also, which other Presidents would not do; Responded to Jesse’s support for Opportunity Zones, the single most successful economic development package yet approved for Black business men/women, and much more. Jesse was a force of nature like few others before him. He had much to do with the Election, without acknowledgment or credit, of Barack Hussein Obama, a man who Jesse could not stand. He loved his family greatly, and to them I send my deepest sympathies and condolences. Jesse will be missed! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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DOJ Hides in Darkness

Timothy Birdnow

The Trump DOJ has asked judge James "Bozo" Boasberg to issue summary judgment to block Judicial Watch from getting the dollar amounts paid by the Biden Administration's FBI to Twitter to censor public discourse. Yes, you read that correctly; the DOJ is suing to prevent the release of material evidence that proves the Biden Administration was openly violating rhe First Amendment.

Pam Bondi needs to go.

But wait! It get's worse:

In its request for summary judgement, US Attorney Jeanine Pirro's office (say it ain't so!) argued that revealing payments that are tied to real investigations could reveal super secret investigative methods - such as how much the FBI is "engaging" with Twitter vs. other platforms, which could lead to 'bad guys' (criminals, hackers, foreign spies) to switch to platforms with less FBI activity, and that it might reveal shifts in FBI priorities over time.

Revealing the quarterly totals could also betray "mosaic theory," where seemingly harmless info (like one quarter's payment) can be pieced together with public data (e.g., Twitter's transparency reports) to form a big picture of FBI strategies.

Earlier this month, Boasberg agreed - ruling that revealing the payments could expose FBI "techniques and procedures" (how they monitor online threats) and help bad actors figure out what the FBI is focused on, allowing them to adapt and change strategies.

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Yes, former Judge Pirro spearheaded this travesty!

What is the point of having a freedom of information act when the government can hide behind this exemption all the time? I get it; sometimes it is necessary to hide methods to protect agents and investigations, but the whole point of the law is so government can't break it and cover it up. That's what is happening here.

Bondi and Pirro ought to understand that the time for endless investigations leading nowhere is over. We neec action NOW. Next year may be too late; certainly by '28 it will be too late. Get off your backsides and do something already!

I fear these folks may have gone native, like Jeff Session and Cjristopher Wray had done previously.

I've always loved Jeannine Pirro, but she's been one of those hanger-ons, working at Fox, a GOPe operation, and maybe she's less interested in a revolution than in restoring the fortunes of the Ruling Class? I don't know but she needs to be made to answer for this. Why is nobody asking her?

I'm sick of this footdragging and protecting the status quo. We elected Trump in a bloodless revolution, to make real change, to shine light on the darkness and chase out the cockroaches. Now many in the Trump Administration are struggling to keep the lights off. Disgraceful.

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China Stockpiling OIl

Timothy Birdnow

China has been stockpiling oil and other necessities since 2019 and now has a sizable supply of oil. Why?

From the Zerohedge article:

China’s stocks of crude oil apparently increased by 54 million tonnes (about 400 million barrels or 1.1 million barrels per day) during 2025 after a similar increase in 2024. China’s massive inventory build-up has helped avert the accumulation of stocks in other areas and limited the fall in prices even as Saudi Arabia and its OPEC partners have boosted production.

Inventory accumulation, Kemp writes echoing what we said years ago, has also been described as a "strategic warning indicator” that could indicate the country’s leaders are preparing for a future conflict with the United States over Taiwan.

"Energy production and stockpile buildups often precede great power industrial wars,” one analyst told the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission established by the U.S. Congress.

In building strategic reserves to enable its economy to keep functioning and armed forces to keep fighting during a future conflict, the country is following long-standing precedent.

Also, this large a stockpile could be used to manipulate fuel prices at a critical juncture by dumping supply and thus driving down costs. Remember, by buying up all this oil the Chicoms artificially inflated oil prices in the first place. Id trhey should dump them at a critical point the prices will drop (even if only temporarily) and that could hold the key to victory on, say, the political front; dump them just before an American election and you get a crazy Democrat (but I repeat myself) in office.

I would add the reverse holds true, and interestingly enough Xi's been buying while the Russo-Ukrainian war has been raging. He's helped keep oil prices up, which has funded the Putin war machine. Putin needs the higher priced oil to keep his economy grinding along. Get oil down enough and Putin has no income and thus has to sue for peace.

But Tyler Durden is correct and this could well be a sign China is preparing for war.

At any rare there is a plot afoot and the Chinese have a long term strategy here. But they are prepared and have been preparing since Trump's firsr Presidency. Considering they are the ones who unleashed Covid on us I suspect that they've been preparing for war all the way back then. Now they are ready, or nearly enough.

IF they plan to invade Taiwan (and they will only do that if they think they need it for internal reasons; right now it's a useful tool to gin up public support and their country is not doing as well as they pretend it is) they will probably do it after the next general election, in my opinion. They know there will be chaos in the U.S. at that point and they will need that to keep us at bay, make sure our leadership is paralyzed. It's why Putin invaded Georgia right after Obama was elected, for instance.

At any rate in this life you always follow the money, and theuy are putting theirs into oil reserves. We should do the same. Oh, and our oil industry is very vulnerable to market manipulation as it is more expensive to frack than it is to just drill and pump it out.

Keep a sharp eye.

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February 19, 2026

Elevating Envy

This from our old friend Chester McAteer:

The modern advocacy for equality of outcome, rather than equality of opportunity, subtly elevates envy into the primary organizing principle of society. By insisting that income, status, housing, and prestige must be roughly equalized regardless of differences in talent, effort, risk, or fortune, this doctrine fosters perpetual comparison against the most visible successes of others.

Individuals cease to be evaluated by their own achievements or objective standards; instead, any disparity becomes evidence of injustice rather than a spur to personal improvement. When inevitable differences persist—because people are not identical units—the resulting frustration manifests as raw envy, no longer a private failing but a publicly sanctioned grievance and political entitlement.

Socialism offers no rational remedy for this envy because the system itself relies on it as fuel. Once the premise is accepted that no one may legitimately possess more than another without redistribution, every visible sign of success—a yacht, a private jet, a fine home, a high-earning career—becomes perceived as a direct theft from everyone else.

The socialist does not extinguish envy; he institutionalizes and weaponizes it, channeling resentment from the patient toward the doctor, the tenant toward the landlord, the worker toward the entrepreneur. Without this cultivated sense of unfairness, the justification for widespread expropriation evaporates.

Moreover, socialism lacks any mechanism to halt the process. Historical experience shows that even after revolutions nationalize industry and displace the wealthy, new hierarchies quickly emerge among party officials, bureaucrats, and insiders.

The old envy simply shifts targets—to the commissar’s dacha, the apparatchik’s privileged child, the leader’s luxuries—now rendered more infuriating because they lack market justification or legal protection. Inequality reappears almost immediately, but in a form that is politically unearned and legally undefended, intensifying resentment and triggering purges in a repeating cycle.

Capitalism, despite its imperfections, provides at least a partial counterbalance: the realistic prospect that individual effort can lead to personal advancement tomorrow. It directs ambition toward creation and self-improvement.

Socialism, by contrast, confines ambition within a framework of mutual resentment, where the only apparent path to satisfaction is leveling others downward. This ensures an endless supply of designated villains, as each eliminated "exploiter” class must be replaced to sustain the narrative.

Ultimately, the socialist project is self-undermining because it treats envy—a destructive passion—as a legitimate basis for justice. Envy is not appeased by redistribution; its core is not merely desiring what others possess, but desiring that others not possess it. No scheme of equalization has ever satisfied this impulse.

Until this emotional reality is acknowledged, every new redistribution policy, equity initiative, or call to "tax the rich” will only inflame the very resentment it purports to resolve, leading societies toward suspicion, denunciation, and eventual disintegration.

-cmcateer

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February 18, 2026

The Vax Police

Timothy Birdnow

The pharmaceutical industry is trying to criminalize opposition to vaccinations in a breathtaking planned power grab.

A paper written by industry-funded scientists, calls for:

"(1) implementing epidemiological surveillance through social listening; (2) establishing a transparent, efficient, and agile communication strategy from public health authorities; and (3) enforcing stringent regulations and accountability measures for online disinformation.”

So their scheme is to spy on everyone's social media to search for thought crimes, then overwhelm the arguments with industry propaganda and then use the force of law to punish the transgressors for thought crimes.

This is simply staggering, like something from the Soviet Union or Joseph Goebbels. Why not put up posters of Big Brother while we're at it and make the thought criminals say "I love big brother" as part of their "re-education"?

Anybody who thinks we have moved past this type of society should disabuse themselves of that notion. This certainly illustrates the totalitarian mindset in action.

OH, and who determines if something is "misinformation" and decides what is true or false? Industry funded studies, I guess?

I'm not anti-vax by and large. I do think it is overused sometimes and I never, ever get the flu shot because I get the flu if I do. But if others want to take it more power to 'em, sez I. But this shows plainly that the people behind these vaccines are all about the Benjamins and will use the force of law to profit. Maybe the anti-vax people are right after all.

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When You Poo Where You Eat

Timothy Birdnow

This guy really stepped in it, didn't he! But then that's what happens when the shit hits the fan:

End Wokeness

@EndWokeness

DC Water's Manager David Gadis:

"We had too many white men in charge"

"The executives should reflect the city"

DC just had the largest sewage spill in US history:240 million gallons in one month FLOODING the Potomac

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But wait! There's more!

NOVA Campaigns

@NoVA_Campaigns

The Chair of @dcwater board isn’t an engineer, or city planner

Dr. Unique N. Morris-Hughes is a DEI bureaucrat, non profit "educator”, grant disperser of taxpayer money, & former asst head of a boys charter school

She’s now head of the largest raw sewage spill in US history

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The Big Truth

Timothy Birdnow

It's related to Goebbels "the Big Lie"; do something so insane nobody believes it's NOT a lie:

Guy Benson

@guypbenson

Republican pollsters have complained that some of their best ads and attack lines don’t poll well because voters simply don’t believe true things that Democrats are actually doing could possibly be real.

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Megan McArdle

@asymmetricinfo

21h

This is what I dubbed "stealth extremism": mainstream liberal institutions, including the Democratic Party, routinely doing stuff their own supporters dismiss as an urban legend, because no one would *do* that https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/09/16/harris-democrats-extremism/

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The Truth Won't Matter

Timothy Birdnow

John Solomon is wrong.

Oh, he's right about so very many things but he's missing the boat on this issue.

Solomon, proprietor of Just the News, says that Donald Trump will soon release evidence foreign entities, notably China, tampered with the Presidential election in 2020. He's right - they did and Trump probably has the goods. But releasing those goods is difficult and I suspect will cause a firestorm in it's own right not because aliens were tampering with our elections but because Trump is releasing the evidence. The Democrats and media will howl that Trump is endangering our spy networks and HE will become the story.

But here's where Solomon really misses the mark:

He claimed that foreign actors had greater involvement than previously acknowledged.

"And we’re going to see that our foreign adversaries have monkeyed with our system more than we knew, more than those driver’s licenses coming into Chicago that you helped get all of us to understand about a few months ago about China sending fake driver’s licenses to help Joe Biden in,” Solomon said.

Solomon continued, "There are going to be significant efforts by foreign power, some friends, some enemies that were trying to meddle in the system, and they got pretty far down that path.”

He said he believes the potential impact of those revelations could resonate with lawmakers.

"And I think when senators realized their state could have been targeted, when senators realized that the intention of the identities of some of the voters might have been assumed. I think there’s going to be a different debate in America,” Solomon said.

Solomon added that public education on the issue could generate political pressure.

"I think if the President takes the time to educate people and show them that maybe the stories we got from the last leadership weren’t true, I think he’s going to pick off the votes,” Solomon said.

Solomon is engaging in wishful thinking here. There is no way any Senate vote will be changed by any of this. What will happen is the Democrats will dig in their heels and the RINO Republicans will hem and haw and talk about the great institution of the filibuster and how we dare not tamper with it and the rest. Even if the public is angry they will slow everything down to a point where nothing happens and people tire of the story and move on.

The only way this could work is if John Thune pulls the trigger and eliminates the filibuster.

I appreciate what John Solomon is doing, and what he does every day, and thank him for his service to us. But in this instance I think anyone who believes for a minute that even exposing these people for what they are - traitors - will "blow the lid off" Washington just doesn't understand how the system works.

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