January 18, 2026
Minnesota Judge's Ruling Against ICE is a Trap
Timothy Birdnow
Here is a Conservative who just doesn't get it.
This was not and is not about the Law, it's about setting a trap to use for PR and political purposes, nothing less.
From American Thinker:
It’s time to read, not react. A leftist judge ordered ICE to not do something. No surprise there. But the actual order is, shall we say, far less than it appears.
The judge recites several accounts of people supposedly being abused by ICE agents. A common thread runs through the stories. ICE was in the field doing its job. During the event, various agitators began interfering with ICE. The events run from stepping within arm’s reach to do video recording to physically attacking officers in the act of arresting an offender. Along the way, there are multiple accounts of resisting arrest.
Some events are uncorroborated, whereas others are documented by video. In short, the common thread is illegal activity by protesters.
By definition, no illegal activity is peaceful. Assaulting an officer, resisting arrest, and interfering with an officer in performance of his duty are all felonies.
But the Left's lawfare warriors will SAY it was peaceful and who is going to argue with them? Certainly not this Biden-appointed judge. No doubt when ICE shoots another person or even pepper sprays them charges will be brought and this judge will issue a contempt citation for ICE and the Administration will eventually win on appeal but that is not the point. This is something designed to gin up the Left, to incite the radicals and give them a false sense of security so they don't stop, and give the media a weapon to use against the Administration. The law doesn't enter ito it.
If it did this judge wouldn't have issued any sort of edict; he would just have pointed out the law is already in place. And if he had examples of lawbreaking he would have said so and forwarded it to the state attorney general.
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Judge Mendez ordered that ICE officers in Operation Metro Surge, not the regular ICE officers in Minneapolis, are not allowed to do certain things to "persons who are engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity.” At this point we have to ask how that term is defined by the judge. Is it lawful activity that stays out of the officers’ way and doesn’t warn potential targets that ICE is coming? Or is it like the "mostly peaceful protests” in the George Floyd Summer of Love?
The real problem here is definitions. ICE isn’t supposed to "retaliate’ (Injunction item a). It can’t arrest or detain "persons who are engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity.” Pepper spray, non-lethal munitions, and crowd dispersal tools are forbidden (c). ICE can’t stop or detain drivers or passengers following ICE vehicles without articulable suspicion that they are acting unlawfully. Simply following isn’t enough (d).
On their face, these orders are a nothingburger. The judge is merely ordering ICE to follow the law. And there is very little, if any, evidence that ICE is breaking the law.
This will come down to a parsing of words in Clintonesque fashion "it depends on what the meaning of is is". This judge has essentially set himself up as arbiter of any action taken by ICE to defend itself.
IF as the author states, there is little to no evidence ICE is not following the law why didn't the judge dismiss the case or find in favor of the feds? It's because he wants the order on record so he can meddle with ICE protocols, and can hand an issue to the Democrats.
He cites Justice Kavanaugh and thinks that is the end of it, but he misses the whole point; it's the initial court ruling/rulings that will matter in terms of public opinion and this judge knows it. He knows he'll be overturned if he cites contempt but that is a small price to pay for the political benefits to be derived from it.
I wish our side would learn how this stuff works. It's not what you have but what the enemy thinks you have, to quote Saul Alinsky. The psychological and propaganda factors often trump the legal or moral, at least where politics is concerned.
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Three Commies Walk into a Bar
Timthy Birdnow
A friend on Facebook posted this. Sums it up nicely:
3 Communists walk into a bar, one orders a $15 mixed drink, one a $10 Martini, and the other a $6 beer. When the bill comes, based on their mantra, they are forced to split the bill equally.
Next week, the three, once again, return to the bar, but this time, they all ask for separate checks, so the bartender asks them, why aren’t they splitting the bill equally, since in communism, everyone pays the same fair share. The three communists reluctantly agree, and once again split the check 3 ways.
The following week, the three communists return, but with a mob of devoted followers, and protest the bartender, to change the prices of all their drinks, to the cheapest drink on the menu.
In fear of his business vandalized or burned down, the bartender agrees. So the following week all the communists come in and enjoy their $6 equally priced drinks, and celebrate the successes of communism.
The Communists continue this for several more weeks, until one Friday they return to the bar, to find it closed, with a sign out front, stating that the bar is out of business.
And that comrades, is how communism works.
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Paddy walks into his favorite pub in Dublin one fine Friday and orders three mugs of Guinness. The bartender pulls them and sets them down in front of him and watches him as he takes a slug from each one in turn, then continues to do so.
The bartender says "Wouldn't you prefer a single mug to drain, one at a time?" Paddy responds "No, I'm drinking with my brothers William, in New York, and Seamus in Chicago, and we're drinking in synchronization." So the bartender says "Fine," and just keeps track, until Paddy finally asks for another mug.
And so it goes for many weeks, until finally one Friday Paddy just asks for two mugs instead of three. The bartender pours them, then gently says "Not to be nosy, but I'm sorry for your loss." Paddy looks confused, takes a drink and says "What loss?"
The bartender says "Oh, I thought you may have lost one of your brothers."
Paddy laughs and says "Oh no, it's just that I myself have given up drinking."
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Trump Blowing Opportunity in Venezuela
Timothy Birdnow
I think this is a foolish mistake by the President.
His theory seems to be that if he pushes the old, illegitimate regime out there will be civil war and it would "destablilize" the region. But who has been destabilizizing the region all along? It wa Maduro who sought to export the revolution.
The fact is the opposition was duly elected but cheated out of power - and the current junta has no legitimacy to the People of Venezuela nor before the world .
Leave the Communists in power and they will destabilize the region without any help from us
I'm not arguing for an American military intervention with boots on the ground, but we certainly have shown we can take out leaders and force a weakened government out if we choose just using drones and air strikes and covert operations
You don't make deals with the devil but Trump seems to believe he can do so in this instance.
This isn't Iraq. Our problem in Iraq stemmed from the long time lag between Bush threatening invasion and the actual process, which allowed Saddam Hussein to set up a covert network to use guerilla fighting techniques and to move all of his weapons out of country. Also, Iraq because a cause celebre' for jihadists all over the world who poured into Iraq to fight the infidels' and we did nothing about that. Iran poured all sorts of people and weaponry into Iraq, their being a next-door neighbor And Iraq was fought using Rumsfeld's "light footprint" notion which didn't work; the war only turned around when we surged more troops into the region
Venezuela is completely different. No American boots will be on the ground Venezuela has just two friends in the region - Cuba and Nicaragua - and both would have to send aid overseas, a place we have complete control over. Unlike Iraq which could move oil north into Russia the Venezuelans have nowhere to go with it, and oil is the lifeblood of their economy.
And as I pointed out the regime in power has no legitimacy, having stolen the last election. There are a LOT of angry Veezuelans who were disenfranchised. There was no popular rebel movement in Iraq and it was easy to spin it as American imperialism to the public.
Also there is a different cultural and religious outlook in the two countries Iraq was Muslim and Americans were kaffirs, infidels, and as such even those who hated Hussein still couldn't bring themselves to support such as we. Venezuelans are either Christian or non believers and while Hispanic culture is a bit different from ours it's got the same basic roots. They may not like Anglos all that much but it's a completely different mindset. We're just Gringos to them, not enemies of Allah as the Muhammedans see us.
And remember this is a popular uprising; the CIA didn't manufacture it. In fact I suspect the CIA is pushing Trump to take just this course of action.
I get it; Trump has a lot on his plate and probably fears taking on such a big project. But it has to be done at some point. It may be he's waiting until after the elections when he needn't fear a temporary oil price spike hurting the GOP in the midterms.
Oh, and it turns out Maduro was being guarded by Cuban regulars, not Venezuelans. That illustrates just how weak the Communist grip on the country truly is. A medium-sized push will topple it.
Trump stated:
"This partnership between the United States of America and Venezuela will be spectacular one FOR ALL. Venezuela will soon be great and prosperous again, perhaps more so than ever before!”
Uh, how is that going to work when you are leaving the Communists in power? Communists never made any country work except for themselves, and they always export their errors because the only way Communism will succeed in their minds is if everyone is doing it. They know in their hearts their rotten system can't compete with free markets.
This is rather like taking out Adolf Hitler and letting Goehring run Germany; the infection is still there and as hot as ever. You need to sterilize it, denazify. Taking Maduro was a good thing but history is going to judge Mr. Trump harshly for taking such a half-measure. The Communists need to go.
I know there are many good conservatives who want us out of all foreign entanglements, period. But we have NEVER been out of all foreign entanglements; James Monroe, for instance, had the Monroe Doctrine, which committed the U.S. to fight foreign powers intervening in the Western Hemisphere. We had the War of the Barbary Pirates under Jefferson, which the paleocons would be horrified by if Trump were to do the exact same thing for the exact same reasons. We invaded Canada during the War of 1812, Mexico during the Mexican War, and Cuba and other Caribbean islands plus the Philippines during the Spanish American war. Intervention isn't necessarily bad, nor does it necessarily lead to disaster. We have just overused it in recent years, and often on the wrong people.
But Venezuela is in our hemisphere, and it poses a threat to the stability of the region. Trump has a golden opportunity to kick the Communists out and he's blowing it.
History isn't kind to people when they blow it.
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January 17, 2026
How Kathleen Kennedy Wrecked Star Wars
Timothy Birdnow
Here is a good analysis of how Kathleen Kennedy destroyed the Star Wars franchise with her woke feminism, and how she blames the fans for not liking her Karenesque lecturing.
She bemoans the fact that true fans of the Star Wars saga didn't care for much of what she injected into the film and can't understand that "doing something new" as she put it was in fact taking something out - the heart and soul of what made Star Wars such a huge success in the first place.
The appeal of Star Wars was it's return to the roots of American filmmaking. There was a clear demarcation between good and evil. The hero was self-sacrificing and chaste and true. What was right and good was Luke Skywalker's goal. And there was repentence - from Han Solo, from even Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker. Men are men and women are glad of it in the originals. The original franchise celebrated the old virtues.
And this was blended with cutting edge technology, making special effects that were amazing at the time.
There was no sex, no drugs, no sleazy underbelly in the film, no trannies or sexual perverts (except insofar as the bad guys sometimes were seen as such - Jabba the Hut was a human slaver who kept women as sex slaves and killed them as he tired of them, but of course he was a giant slug.)
There was heroism and not all the explosions and other gimmicks used by modern filmmakers to cover up their inability to tell a good story.
Kennedy wanted to overturn this, to "modernize" the franchise. The result was that people lost interest. She tore the soul out of the very thing she claimed to love.
Anyway, read the article; it makes great points.
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Trump Scews Up, Appoints Conrad Poos to Peace Panel
Timothy Birdnow
I wonder about Trump's personnel decisions sometimes. Choosing the former Labour Prime Minister and refugee from a Monty Python sketch is just a terrible idea.
Along with Blair Trump has appointed to his "Peace Council" World Bank President Ajay Banga, an Indian-born American businessman; billionaire US financier Marc Rowan and other deep state/internationalist types, the very people from whom we are trying to rid ourselves.
You may remember that Tony Blair was one of the principle architects of the "Roadmap to Peace" in 2002, which only made things worse. The cornerstone of that plan was the creation of a Palestinian state - something untenable to Israeli security as it would only be a weapons platform to attack Israel. Yet he believed in that deeply. It's a fool's game.
There is no reason to believe Blair will offer any new ideas to a situation that has been essentially stagnant for decades. The "peace process" has been little more than a huge exercise in diplomatic onanism with nothing to show for it. Blair presents more of the same.
Not sure what Trump is doing with this but he seems to not see that putting someone who is opposed to his value set and ideas in a position of authority is setting himself up for failure. Trump has a huge blind spot in that regard.
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Judicial Usurpation
Timothy Birdnow
One of the tactics the Demo-Left is using to thwart the President is to stop the appointment of Federal prosecutors. They are using the blue slip process whereby both Senators from the home state of the appointee have to concur. This was rarely used in times past, and when it was - such as the case of
Ronnie White, who was blackballed (pardon the expression) by then Missouri Senator John Ashcroft for good cause (among other things White called a plaintiff a "mother effer" in a legal opinion) the Democrats have gone bananas and demander the blue slip process be rejected. But now they are using it as a weapon to stop the MAGA movement.
And there is another issue; they are using judges to disqualify presidential appointees as interim prosecutors. This has led to the dismissal of multiple charges against crooked folks like Letitia James; it's purely a legal maneuver and has gotten James and James Comey and others off scott-free despite obvious guilt.
This article analyzes the problem; it's putting the judiciary in a position of making executive decisions in a flagrant violation of separation of powers. Courts are not supposed to make or enforce the law - they are supposed to apply it.
The article deals with the complicated matter and says we've had this for some time and the author believes the Founders wanted to let the courts have this power for inferior officials (I think he's wrong, and base that on my reading of the Federalist Papers but he looks at this more as a lawyer than do I).
So what can Trump do? One question is can the President simply put a new guy in the interim before the 120 time frame expires? That has never been fully dealt with. There is no reason if the President has put the name of his chosen appointee before Congress, which is failing to do it's job, that the courts should then usurp his authority and appoint their own choice. If the letter of the law only allows 120 days then the President should be able to appoint a new guy, maybe rotate them. But it's not the courts that should have any right to decide; these appointments are supposed to be political matrers, and the People choose the President. The courts are lifetime appointments and so you get the very thing we are seeing - self-serving scoundrels and partisan hacks who twist the political landscape for decades because of lifetime tenure. The anti-federalists warned about this and they were right. Hamilton argued the courts could simply be ignored. He was wrong.
I suspect this is but another issue that will wind up at the Supreme Court. How can the President represent the people who voted him into office if Congress simply shirks it's responsibility and then courts simply overrule him on his selection to staff his own branch of government? In a sane world Congress would rein in these courts but this is not a sane world and Congress has no real interest in anything that doesn't cement their own power and privilege.
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Biden Judge Hamstrings ICE in Minnesota
Timothy Birdnow
A Biden-appointed judge has issued an insane ruling saying ICE cannot detain or disperse "peaceful protesters" no matter how much danger it puts the agents in.
Law enforcement has NEVER worked that way.
According to Politico:
A federal judge on Friday barred federal agents in Minneapolis from arresting peaceful protesters, or using nonlethal munitions and crowd control tools against them.
The 80-page ruling by U.S. District Judge Kate Menendez, a Biden appointee who sits in Minneapolis, lands amid an increasingly confrontational dynamic between the Trump administration and Minnesota officials who have accused Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents of stoking fear and violence on local streets. And it comes a week after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good.
Menendez’s order bars Homeland Security and ICE officials involved in Operation Metro Surge from "using pepper-spray or similar nonlethal munitions and crowd dispersal tools against persons who are engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity.” The judge also prohibited federal agents from stopping vehicles following them, as long as those vehicles are maintaining a safe and "appropriate” distance.
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Ths puta is simply writing her own laws.
Trump should invoke the Insurrection Act at this point rather than bother with trying to work his way through the court system. And maybe we should dig a bit into judge Menendez to see what illegal allien skeletons reside in HER closet.
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Walz, Frei Called before Grand Jury (Maube)
Timothy Birdnow
Couldn't happen to two nicer guys!
Let's see if they refuse to testify. I'll bet they do, citing the fifth amendment.
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Venezuelans Attack Ice in Minnesota
Timothy Birdnow
Sleeper soldiers?
THESE ae the people Tampon Tim and the rest of the Minnesota crowd is protecting.
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January 16, 2026
The Frozen South
Timothy Birdnow
Didn't they tell us snow was a thing of the past? Isn't global warming supposed to mean less snow, not more?
Isn't this just more proof that the whole thing is a gigantic scam?
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At quarter after midnight it's about 8 degrees above zero here in the semi-tropical paradise of Minnesota. We're keeping it cool to try to discourage the anti-ICE activity, of course.
Speaking of ice, I attended the funeral of an old musician friend of mine this afternoon and we started to get some snow by the time I got to the church. When I came out there was some ice on my windshield which I should have scraped off before I drove home. It didn't look too bad, though, so I got the defroster roaring and started home -- which was a bad idea, as it didn't start to clear until I got pretty close to home; but that worst of it was before I encountered any serious traffic, and by the time I hit the real stuff things were clear.
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My, eight degrees is positively balmy for you guys up in the land of polar bears and igloos. What was it in "frostbite falls" I wonder?
You were lucky Dana. That could have been very bad indeed. We've all done it in cold weather but it's not a good idea.
When I was a teenager I had an orange 1968 Volkswagon hippie bus. No heat to speak of and only one windshield wiper. Man that was dangerous to drive in winter weather! I remember driving while looking out a patvh of clear windshield about an inch and a half in diameter - all that the "defrosters" could manage.
But I lovec that oldpile of junk anyway; if something fell off of it I didn't care. It was meant for abuse. I was sad to see it go.
Oh, it had a "if this van is rockin' don't bother knockin'" bumper sticker too. If I had a date I would borrowed my father's car because a girl's parents wouldn't have been too keen on that! Oh, and it had no radio. I wired up an old eight track player and put it in the glove compartmet. I was at a party once and my friend asked me to take his friend home. I never met the guy before. Long story short the eight track caught the dashboard on fire and I casually said "hey would you mind putting that out". That guy was rather eager to get out of the van; I can't imagine why.
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January 15, 2026
Torie Crack-up
Timothy Birdnow
The "Conservative" Party in Britain (aka the Tories) is
imploding because it is about as conservative as The Nation publication which is reporting this, and the public in Great Britain is reaching the boiling point at the overrunning of the country by radicalism and aliens.
Nigerian leader of the Tories - Olukemi "Kemi” Badenoch - just sacked Robert Jenrick, the "shadow minister of Justice" for allegedly "plotting" to quit the Conservative Party and join with Nigel Farange and UKIP (or whatever it's called now, the reform party).
Seems Badenoff, er, Badenoch couldn't take the risk of the Tories turning against his peeps oversees.
The party, which talks a good game but is a meetoo to Labour, is dropping faster than a bottle of scotch on an Edinburgh golf course Membership is dropping precipitously, officials are leaving to join the reformers, and they have terrible numbers at the polls. That is because, when they had the opportunity, they kept the floodgates open and continued to promote the radical left agenda. They are doing so even now, refusing to attempt to stop the Labor Party from radicalizing the whole country.
UKIP is the only hope for Britain.
Farage is our kind of guy; he would be MAGA if he were an American.
Friends of Jerick say he had no plans to defect but the libs in the CP simply want to take him out. No doubt he's a bit too far to the right for their tastes. He has moved to the right; he had opposed Brexit when his party did, but has recently adopted strong anti-immigrant policies after seeing what the Torie policies have caused.
It's time for the Reform Party. The Conservatives need to exit stage left.
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Migod! Brit politicians are really a mess these days. Winston Churchill and Maggie Thatcher are only a distant dream.
But I suppose I have no right to carp when I look at ours. Take Mr. Trump off the list and we have few decent ones ourselves.
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Truer words were never spoken Dana. British politics is f, er, screwed and without Trump America would follow lsuit.
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Well, Tim, you will have noticed that most of Western Europe is in terrible shape. Germany is, politically, nothing to write home about. France's Macaroon is a fool. Italy's lovely blonde babe is the exception that proves the rule.
I must confess that I don't know much of what's going on in Spain and Portugal, but that's mostly because they seem to be keeping their heads down and behaving themselves. Hungary's doing well, and I believe Poland is likewise.
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Republican Quisling Knife's Trump in Back Over Greenland
Timothy Birdnow
A Republican rep. from Nebraska - Don Bacon -hams it up with the Omaha World Herald but winds up with egg on his face.
Bacon says he'd vote for impeaching President Trump if Trump invaded Greenland.
Why would he even answer such a hypothetical question in the first place? There is zero evidence Trump plans on an unauthorized invasion of Greenland and this dimwit has to know that. All of the troops being sent there by Denmark and from other Euroweenie countries are just for show, to try to puff out their chests against a non-threat. It's easy to be tough when there isn't anything to be tough about.
The point is just because you are asked a question like that doesn't mean you answer it. He should simply have said "I won't deal with hypotheticals" and that would have been that.
Breakfast meathead announced he is retiring so feels free to knife Trump in the back now. Trump should take steps to squeeze him, to wreck any lobbying posts he's seeking or whatnot. This is the kind of thing that needs to be answered.
"I’ll be candid with you. There’s so many Republicans mad about this,” Bacon told the paper. "If he went through with the threats, I think it would be the end of his presidency.”
Uh, name them. They should be proud to be named publicly. Also, WHY exactly are they angry? He doesn't explain that at all. Is it because Trump is somehow circumventing Congress? IT HASN'T COME TO ANY OVERT ACTION yet so there is nothing to be angry about. Do they not want a greater influence over Greenland? Are they content letting the Chinese sniff around it? If they are angry is it because Trump wants to exploit the natural resources of the huge island? Why exactly are they angry?
Trump said as much when the media harangued him over this. He said "you don't know what I plan to do".
Seems to me if there are Republicans angry about it it's because they are mad Trump and MAGA are doing something that limits their power. The Establishment GOP has been angry about THAT since Trump walked down that escalator years ago. He shows them to be do-nothing sycophants to the media and the Demo-left.
Trump needs to mete out some sort of punishment. No doubt this guy is going to get a job at CNN or as a lobbyist; Trump should take steps to squash any income this guy plans to raise off his Trump Derangement Syndrome. We have got to stop pussyfooting around with these sorts of creeps. They are the very reason America is in such bad shape; for decades a bunch of self-seeking scoundrels in the GOP have gone along with the Democrats in systemaatically raping the American People. And they have sabotaged every effort to clean this system up thereby making a near disaster. This guy needs to become radioactive, needs to have everyone terrified of having anything to do with him. That's what the Left would do to a turncoat of their own.
Unfortunately we don't do things that way. But we probably should.
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Who's ever heard of this Bacon character, until he popped up with this remark? Now it's out of the pan, into the fire for him. Quick, give him five minutes of fame, he doesn't need fifteen.
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Agreed. No doubt he wanted to go out with a bang so he would improve his employment prospects after leaving Congress. That's why we need to make sure he doesn't profit from this.
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This Greenland thing presents an interesting challenge for me. Russia did not have the right to annex Crimea, but we have the right to annex Greenland. The difference is unclear to me.
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I hear ya, Bill. I am greatly hoping that Trump is just making this a stunt; otherwise I will begin to fear for his sanity. OTOH, it is well-known that when Trump starts dealing over something, the first thing he does is throw a grenade -- a live one -- and then he starts talking once the smoke has almost cleared. I think the Danes have yet to read "The Art of the Deal." My idea, though I am scarcely an expert on this sort of thing, is that he needs to be huddling with the Danes over what he sees as our security needs that can be met by co-operation over Greenland.
I really don't think we need to actually take it over. But if certain other non-friendly countries thought we actually did take it over, it might very well slow them down.
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Walz Goes Full John C. Breckenridge
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Y'all best be getting outta our sovereign state, ya hear!
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Todd on Tim Walz: "Well, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Tim Walz said it was a federal occupation. He put the National Guard on notice. he's everything short of Fort Sumter right now."
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All I'll say at this point are two things, and I've probably said them before: 1. Trump was right when he called Walz "retarded," and 2. Walz is probably making all this noise to try to detract from all the fuss about the fraud (and that seems to be working).
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Right on both counts Dana. In the end he wouldn't dare use the state national guard to resist the Feds. If Trump invokes the Insurrection Act he'll be going to prison.
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She Fought the Law and the Law Won
Timothy Birdnow
The father of Renee Good told DNN "I don't blame anybody".
While I'm sure the man is sad he probably knows his daughter well enough to know she provoked it.
This is what happens when you fight the Law As the Bible says, the King is "given the power of the sword" to "punish evildoers" and you mess with that at your peril.
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Not one of your better metaphors, Timothy. Trump, and in fact the government, does not have the powers of a king. The founders, in fact, made that specification very explicitly.
Posted by: Bill H at January 16, 2026 10:06 AM (FRG6e)
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Statehood for Greenland
Timothy Birdnow
A Republican Congressman introduced a bill to make Greenland the 51st state.
With just 57,000 people spread over an area of 836,330 mi² Greenland cannot even function as a local government on it's own, which is why it's been part of Denmark for so long. I would add more people attended the Super Bowl last year than live i the entire subcontinent of Greenland (61,629 people packed into Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas last year to watch the game).
From a political standpoint the Greenlanders are very poor and will almost certainly vote Democrat once they are given citizenship. That means the Senate flips to the Democrats and the House may possibly as well (although Greenland would probably only have one Representative). The only way Greenland becomes Republican is if it is flooded with American military personnel and the more conservative business types, until they overwhelm the aboriginal population.
The average income for Greenlanders at present is 332,500 DKK, or about $3,800 U.S. so the whole country would become a drag on U.S. assistance programs.
Taking control of Greenland is fine but it must be done gradually, and it should be a protectorate in the fashion of Puerto Rico, not brought in as a state immediately. The People of Greenland need to decide too.
It took Arizona 49 years to achieve statehood, for example, the longest wait of any former territory. Greenland should be moved on that cautiously.
But there is no reason it can't be a U.S. territory.
We need to think this through before jumping into something that might bite us in the frostbitten posterior.
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Hold on a minute, boys and girls. Denmark has a few things to say about it. We can't just yank Greenland away from them. Trump knows that, so we have to "wait and see" what everybody can do here.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at January 16, 2026 01:22 AM (Kg0VH)
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You're right and I am sure Trump at least knows that. But the Greenlanders themselves can vote to separate from Denmark and join the U.S. if they so choose. That's the path we have to take to obtain the island.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at January 16, 2026 09:02 AM (umJ+Y)
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See Bill H. and my remarks upstream in the "Republican Quisling" posting regarding Greenland.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at January 17, 2026 12:47 AM (W165o)
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Just Say No to the Superflu
Timothy Birdnow
So they are going back to an oldie but goodie.
I suspect the media is trying to revive the pandemic scare, and I do mean scare, in order to make people turn over Congress. The hope is people will remember Trump was in office when the country was shut down the first time and are hoping they will associate the flu season with Trump and be more amenable to voting Democrat.
I doubt it will work because I suspect most people remember it was Joe Biden who wouldn't let it end, and it was the Democrats who shut down society in their states. I suspect if this issue doesn't gain them much traction they will drop it. They will REALLY drop it if polling shows a negative reaction.
Are we having a bad flu season? I'm sure we are; people who were locked down for years have now gotten back out, with their immune systems weakened by the enforced isolation of the pandemic and the Covid shot. But is it a "superflu" as they are putting it? I seriously doubt it. Just a normal flu bug that is having a nastier effect than usual on weakened immune systems.
We'll develop herd immunity soon enough if we don't go into a panic. That panic is the fondest hope of the media and the Democrats, I might add.
Like we were told with drugs, we should JUST SAY NO!
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Just Say No to the Superflu
Timothy Birdnow
So they are going back to an oldie but goodie.
I suspect the media is trying to revive the pandemic scare, and I do mean scare, in order to make people turn over Congress. The hope is people will remember Trump was in office when the country was shut down the first time and are hoping they will associate the flu season with Trump and be more amenable to voting Democrat.
I doubt it will work because I suspect most people remember it was Joe Biden who wouldn't let it end, and it was the Democrats who shut down society in their states. I suspect if this issue doesn't gain them much traction they will drop it. They will REALLY drop it if polling shows a negative reaction.
Are we having a bad flu season? I'm sure we are; people who were locked down for years have now gotten back out, with their immune systems weakened by the enforced isolation of the pandemic and the Covid shot. But is it a "superflu" as they are putting it? I seriously doubt it. Just a normal flu bug that is having a nastier effect than usual on weakened immune systems.
We'll develop herd immunity soon enough if we don't go into a panic. That panic is the fondest hope of the media and the Democrats, I might add.
Like we were told with drugs, we should JUST SAY N!
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It Does a Body Good
Timothy Birdnow
Whole milk is
coming back to schools as President Trump has repealed an Obama-era Executive Order forcing kids to drink the weak stuff.
When I was young it was understood growing bodies needed more butter fat and the extra nutrition provided by whole milk and we were all encouraged to drink the strong stuff. That had gone on a long time, well before the rise in obesity among American children. Yet American children got hugely fat, mostly because of the food pyramid government foisted on the country which emphasized eating lots of grain products and less meat and dairy. As always the government made the problem in the first place, then doubled down on the problem as the solution.
Michelle Obama, the busybody with the body of a man, imposed this on American children. Kids were hungry all day because of her "healthy" diet. Parents were sending food to schools with the kids so they weren't starving and the schools were searching the kids for snacks and taking them away. And they wouldn't even let the little tykes drink whole milk.
If they had had whole milk they wouldn't have needed snacks in the first place.
In 2012 Congress passed a law restricting whole milk in schools to codify the Obama EO.
Sadly, while this bill makes milk not counted towards the 10% limit on saturated fat, it leaves the limit in place, a ridiculous overreach by government in the first place Government should be getting out of the food business entirely. I suppose if it's a subsidized meal program they have some say, but it really is none of their business what kids eat at a government school where the youths are mandated to attend.
Dietary restrictions by government is as onerously paternalistic as can be imagined A free society has the right to choose what food it wants
At any rate this is a welcome development It's too bad Congress didn't go farther.
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Vance Leaker is a Late Arrival Immigrant
Timothy Birdnow
Well, well, well.
Shouldn't we be a little choosier about who we let have such information?
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