July 03, 2026
Who's Tearing America Apart?
Timothy Birdnow
He might well be right but for reasons diametrically opposed to the ones he believes.
The Left is growing increasingly militant and rebellious and many leftist states may well try to secede if they can't take the country over at the ballot box - which also is a possibility as they are winning elections with radical nutjobs.
They have successfully hollowed out our institutions and now they are furious because Trump threw a monkey wrench in their drive towards the glorious socialist revolution. That's why they are so mad and hate Trump so much; they thought they had won it all and then Trump came along to dismantle some of what they had built and thus push off the worker's paradise for a while.
America is increasingly divided and whose fault is that? Certainly not Trump's, who is just taking us back to the early days of Barack Obama,not even back to Bush II.
No, it's the Left's fault because they refused to accept Trump as a legitimate President when he beat Hillary Clinton and they tried desperately to destroy him. That failed so now they are willing to destroy the whole country, I suspect.
Here's what the oracle of Dufi had to say:
LLIE GEIST: So Richard, we are two days away from the Fourth of July and the official 250th birthday of the United States of America, all the celebration that will come with it across the country.
I'm curious, just given your long understanding, and experience with history across several presidents, about where you feel we are right now on this 250th birthday?
RICHARD HAASS: Well, look, the great news is, we made it. Democracy is tough. We're the world's oldest democracy, so that's an impressive accomplishment. I think the Founders would have been pleasantly surprised if they had been told, 250 years later we'd be celebrating.
But the honest news is, our democracy is not in great shape. Coming back now, we remember the president talking about 401k's, Willie. Well, if they were a measure of American democracy, it would have suffered a significant correction over, over recent years.
Checks and balances are not working in any way like James Madison set out in the Federalist Papers. You have the abuse of the pardon power. We've been talking about the, the corruption and the lack of accountability of people in office. We have a president going to war without the, involvement of the American people or the Congress, talking about rigged elections. You know, it's a long list.
So I think, and the lesson we all ought to take from this, is not to be sanguine. So yeah, we can celebrate the 250th, but it's got to be a really sober celebration.
We've got to think, what do we do to make sure we still have a democracy to celebrate, not just in another 250 years—how about in five years or, or ten years?
What do we have to do to strengthen the resilience? Cause we've learned that democracy is, is not guaranteed. That so much depends upon the character of the people in government, whether it's the president or those in Congress. And I would just say we have a, a shortage of that these days.
So American democracy is vulnerable. So I actually think we need to have a serious conversation about what do we need to do to, to strengthen it.
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First, America is not a "democracy" but a democratic limited republic. I hate that we've let them trick the American People into thinking we are a democracy. The Founders hated and feared democracy.
Second, who abused pardon powers? Not only did Biden pardon his own son (who was obviously guilty of crimes that may well have gone back to Mr. Biden himself) but he pardoned just about everyone he could, including Anthony Fauci, who may well turn out to be the greatest mass murderer in human history.
All Trump did was pardon J6 folks who had been given unduly harsh sentences by over-aggressive prosecutions solely for political reasons.
I notice he doesn't mention the abuses of power by the Biden camp, such as shadow banning us on social media or the many political prosecutions of Biden opponents.
Presidents have been granted war powers and almost every President since Eisenhower have used them. I notice this numbskull doesn't mention Obama's use of military power in Lebanon, for instance.
What is this stupidity about "checks and balances"? We've got them in spades and Trump has repeatedly been delayed by court orders that eventually were overturned because they were always extra-constitutional, just ways of slowing Trump down. Congress has supported their guy too, whic is entirely within the purview of how America is supposed to work - the Republicans won, the Democrats lost. That is how "democracy" work chum!
And since when is holding the opinion the election was stolen (which it was) illegal? I thought we had a First Amendment in this country.
It is the twisting of facts by the Left to attempt to make Trump, who has been quite fastidious in following the law, into a lawless monster by people like this that is tearing the nation apart. It is the legacy media creating the rift, not Trump, and not MAGA.
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Daughters of the Revolution Goes Trans
Timothy Birdnow
I guess the Continental Army had a bunch of men in dresses then? Maybe it was a kind of chorus line of dancing transvestites and the British died laughing!
Yes, the leadership of the DAR is cancelling anyone who doesn't want dudes in dresses to invade what is a women-only group.
The Left bespoils EVERYTHING!
From the Federalist:
After the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) rejected a resolution defining "woman” as "born female,” the head of the Texas branch of DAR sent out an email threatening those who speak out against the decision. The vote on the resolution, held at Memorial Continental Hall in Washington, D.C. during DAR’s 135th Continental Congress, was 1,481 to 984.
"Please note that giving interviews to the press on National Society governance matters is a serious violation of NSDAR policy, which could result in disciplinary action against a member,” DAR Texas Regent Susan Johnston said in an email obtained by The Federalist.
So the very freedom of speech that the Revolutionaries fought for is not allowed in an organization ostensibly for "daughters of the Revolution". In other words they are trying to create a new revolution. I guess it's the October one, or Mayday they celebrate then?
The article continues:
Despite Storage’s clear ideological leanings, Johnston insisted that she is the only acceptable spokesperson for the organization. She continued: "Before you accept the claim that DAR’s leaders are corrupt, political, ‘woke,’ or otherwise harmful to our organization, take a few minutes to study the issue yourself. The world is not simply good versus evil, and the truth rarely lies at the extremes.”
This seems to call out the Daughters Advocating for Restoration, who chose the colors black and white to represent their side "to represent the spiritual battle that we’re in — the dark vs. the light — good vs. evil,” according to their website.
Almost all of the Founding Fathers were devout Christians and made no bones about it. America was founded on Christian principles and Biblical admonitions. You can read it for yourself; don't take my word for it. (America wasn't founded as a theocratic nation and we had freedom of religion because we had multiple Christian sects that wanted to be left alone, but the guiding principles that founded our laws came from the Bible and every state had something about Christianity in it's charter and almost all legislatures started session with prayers.)
Here is a collection of quotes by Founding Fathers about Christianity. It was the rock upon which this nation was built.
Now 1Cornthians 6:9 says that homosexuals and the effeminate (trans) shall not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven. This comports with other passages in the Bible.
"Male and female He created them" it says quite plainly. Saying you are "trans" is a denial of this claim. Gen.1:26-27 There is no mention of a spectrum; it's clear.
1 Corinthians 11:14–15 and Deuteronomy 22:5 both say it's wrong, with Deuteronomy being quite explicit about how it is an abomination. Death by stoning is the assumed punishment, as that was what was called for in most cases where God said something was abhorrent.
Our bodies are temples for the Holy Spirit and thus cannot be mistakes (1 Corinthians 6:19-20).
Christianity makes it plain that we are triune - Soul, Spirit, and body (1 Thessalonians 5:23). That means our bodies are more are not malleable to our will. See also Philippians 1:20. Our bodies are not our own; they belong to God.
The Founders understood all this and they would be horrified to learn an organization for women that celebrated the Revolution was going in this direction.
Imagine Washington's reaction if some dudes showed up in high heels and long skirts with their hair coiffured and volunteered for service; he's be truly shocked. So why is it o.k. for some dudes to prance about in women's clothing and demand entry into the DAR?
The Left befouls everything, and this is no exception. Members of the DAR should break off and form their own organization if they can't take this back from the radicals who have risen to power.
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Another Insane Court Ruling
Timothy Birdnow
Uh, illegal aliens do not have legal rights in matters such as being released on bond.
While the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that aliens must be given basic Constitutional rights it never ruled they have the right to cash bail and release INTO THE UNITED STATES on the promise they will show up in court. This is insane; if there were ever a flight risk, it is an illegal alien.
Our judicial system has gone completely off it's rocker. Total lunatics sitting on benches these days. Any sensible person would understand you can't offer bail to illegal aliens.
So what needs to happen? Trump needs to surge immigration judges into the Fifth District so we can deport these people within the 90 day limit.
I would like to deport this judge but I fear it may be a bit difficult.
Leslie Southwick, who wrote the majority opinion, needs to awaken in some Third World hellhole with no I.D. and enjoy illegal alien status in, say, Pakistan. Maybe then she would appreciate how easy we've made it for illegals.
Trump will appeal this and if SCOTUS takes it they might overturn this ruling. But considering the horrible decisions coming out of the Supreme Court in the last few weeks it is anyone's guess which way they will jump.
This is about more than just a few immigrants; it's about the very survival of the nation. We can't survive these massive surges of invaders and Rome proved that. No nation can. Yet these dimwitted liberals keep pushing to make it easier for invading aliens to stay here. They are destroying their own homeland. They are a clear and present danger to the Republic they took an oath to serve and must be removed from office. But we have a Congress that is equally bad, so they will get in no trouble.
We have GOT to have some sort of recall for judges.
But then, if we do, the Left will use it over and over to try to get rid of Constitutionalists. The Left is relentless and power is all they can think about.
America is soooo screwed.
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Where's Mitch?
Timothy Birdnow
Mitch "the Bitch" McConnell remains hospitalized after disappearing for weeks.
If the RINO McConnell dies Democrat Governor Andy Bashir has two options 1. appoint a Republican to the seat or 2. call a special election. He cannot appoint a Democrat.
This goes back to changes in Kentucky law in 2021 and it says the Governor must appoint a candidate from a list provided by the Senator's party.
A 22024 law provided for a special election to be called and run with weeks, so that is probably the route Bashir will take if the old boy bites the dust. Given how well the Democrats have done in special elections around the country since the last election there is a real danger they could win McConnell's Senate seat. This won't be enough to flip the Senate but it will make moving anything more difficult and clowns like Thom Tillis will be empowered. Also, an incumbent Democrat would be much harder to beat in the mid-terms than a challenger.
Right now we need McConnell to stay alive, even if he isn't voting, until the mid-terms. He was going to retire anyway.
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Animal Training and Election Stealing
Timothy Birdnow
If there are bad ballots, illegal ballots, in with the good and we have a hand count of the ballots and count the bad with the good how is it an accurate account of the will of the People? it's like having a drinking contest and one guy gets watered down drinks.
Georgia's Secretary of State said the vote tally was accurate. He was probably right - the TALLY was accurate. But the votes themselves were not.
We've been told ad-nauseum that there is no evidence of vote fraud and that has largely been true, because the evidence was kept under wraps and we did not get an opportunity to see it. But they repeated that over and over, trying to plant the notion in the minds of the public. That is brainwashing 101 and we also do such things when training animals. You repeat a command to a dog over and over until it becomes second nature to the dog. That's what the Left tried to do with vote fraud. Every news story had the mandatory "Trump lies about vote fraud with no evidence" and then they won't let us see the evidence.
There actually was all kinds of evidence that was statistical in nature that suggested some fairly massive fraud - like more votes than voters in counties. But the media kept insisting there was zero fraud, cleanest election in history.
If that is the case why have so many Democrat-controlled jurisdictions fought so hard in court to stop qualified people from seeing their records? From checking votes against voter rolls?
Counties have limited resources and wouldn't waste a ton of money to "protect the privacy" of citizens as they claim. Yet that is exactly what they did. These are political folk, practical people. They aren't going to waste a bunch of resources if their hands are clean and they can then laugh at the Trump efforts when nothing shows up.
The 2020 elections were probably the worst in American history; Covid gave the Democrats the tools they needed to steal it. Without Covid they would never have had mail-in balloting, never have been able to play many of the little games they played (like chain-of-custody three card monty and other tricks used). Covid was the biggest fraud in human history; the election was the bastard child of Covid.
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Criminal Neglect by Secret Service
Timothy Birdnow
I will never be convinced that forces inside the Secret Service wanted Trump dead.
FTA:
The U.S. Secret Service missed multiple opportunities to detect, prevent, and disrupt the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, in 2024, including missing more than 102 radio transmissions warning of a suspicious person, a Department of Homeland Security report concluded.
The report, released on July 2 by the department’s Office of Inspector General, chronicles a series of communication failures, inadequate planning, limited intelligence sharing, and security lapses that combined to create the conditions that allowed gunman Thomas Crooks to open fire from the roof of a nearby building during a July 13, 2024, campaign rally in Butler. Crooks was fatally shot by a Secret Service agent.
Among the report’s most significant findings was that Secret Service members did not receive 102 radio transmissions "that local law enforcement officers in a separate communications room received concerning an increasingly intense search for a suspicious person. Instead, we found that the Secret Service received only five phone calls and three text messages about Crooks. As a result, Secret Service members did not alert President Trump’s protective detail about concerns of a suspicious person.”
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I do not believe the Secret Service could possibly be that incompetent. That is on the level of mall cops.
I think there was a careful plan in place to clear the way for any would-be assassin. We know the CIA does stuff this way. Apparently there were forces inside the Secret Service that employed similar tactics.
The Ruling Class has wanted Trump gone for a long time now. And while they tried to persuade him with threats of jail and loss of money he was too bull-headed to heed those warnings. Assassination was the next logical step. But it couldn't be too obvious; they needed a patsy to do it, not a professional. If a professional hit was done on Trump (and a pro wouldn't have missed) the footprints would be there and everyone would know. They needed a dufus who would do it and then be shot escaping. They needed Thomas Crooks.
I will never believe that this was just a lone wolf gunman. We hear that with every assassination in America and usually it turns out not to be the case one way or another. Or does anyone believe Jack Ruby really was just angry about Kennedy's shooting, angry enough to go to jail and perhaps die just to kill the guy who shot him? Ruby wasn't exactly a man of conscience; he was a strip club owner after all.
Trump has survived a couple of assassination plots and now all is relatively quiet. Why? If it were just popular anger at Trump it should happen again and again. It's not. That might be because the Secret Service has improved but my guess is that the powers that be saw Trump's popularity soar with each assassination attempt and they realized it was killing their political hopes. So they've backed off.
They'll get him when he gets out of office and can no longer protect himself. Likely send him to prison rather than kill him - which is what they tried to dissuade him from running in the first place. But make no mistake; the Ruling Class is going to wait Trump out and take back what is "rightfully theirs".
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July 02, 2026
Planned Parenthood Funding Ban Set to Expire
Timothy Birdnow
A funding ban is set to expire, thus re-empowering the evil Planned Parenthood while Congress enjoys time off for Independence Day.
Planned Parenthood is also ramping up their transgender neutering of American children, yet funding is about to resume.
Mike "Tiny" Johnson needs to get on this and get the ban renewed. The ban was only for one year because the (Democrat) parliamentarian pushed Congress not to issue a ten year ban since it passed through reconciliation. (I suppose I should stop calling Johnson tiny; he's been doing a pretty good job of late.)
At any rate there is no reason whatsoever for PP to receive taxpayer dollars. None.
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CIA Investigated Employees for Espionage if they didn't Take the Covid Vaccine
Timothy Birdnow
The CIA investigated their employees FOR ESPIONAGE if they refused to take the Covid 19 clot shot!
Espionage.
From the Epoch Times:
In 2021, then-President Joe Biden imposed COVID-19 vaccine mandates for federal employees and contractors. Shortly after, the CIA’s chief operating officer directed the CIA’s Counter Espionage Department to investigate all unvaccinated contractors and workers within the agency, plaintiffs said in the suit, which was filed on June 30 in federal court in Virginia."Any employee or contractor who refused the vaccine was treated by the Agency as a threat to the United States government and ordered to be investigated as the same,” the suit reads.
A cross-agency group established by former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard learned in 2025 from a whistleblower of the order and asked for confirmation from the CIA. The CIA responded by confirming the investigation of thousands of employees and contractors, according to the legal complaint. The CIA declined to cite an authority for the investigation order.
The term hell-bent, or damned and determined come to mind. Why were they so absolutely determined to force everyone to get that shot?
Why were they willing to violate basic civil rights to enforce an edict (not a law) compelling people to take an experimental vaccine that had not been given adequate time in trials before being forced on people?
There is more to the whole Covid story than is yet visible. I suspect something very ugly is hidden in all this (and I'm not talking about Kamala Harris.)
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Subject to the Jurisdiction Thereof
Timothy Birdnow
I hope this is readable.
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June 30, 2026
SCOTUS Ducks Vax Mandate Case
Timothy Birdnow
‘I hope, too, that one day soon this Court will choose to settle the question so that other Americans seeking to vindicate their civil rights do not suffer the same fate as those now before us.’
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch on the refusal of the Supreme Court to rule on vaccine mandates.
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SCOTUS Refuses to Hear E. Jean Carroll Case
Timothy Birdnow
Another SCOTUS dropped ball. This time the Supreme Court refused to hear the E. Jean Carroll case which Mr. Trump had tried to appeal. YOu may remember Carroll was the woman who, decades after the fact, accused Trump of raping her and won five million bucks from him (but of course no criminal conviction).
Trump doesn't care about five million clams. He DOES care about his good name, which this woman sullied. He wants to be exhonerated. The judge in this case "confirmed" Trump "sexually assaulted" her even though there was no evidence but the word of the accuser.
SCOTUS refused to hear this case, thus leaving the accusation hanging over Mr. Trump like a dark cloud.
The U.S. Supreme Court is a joke. Sadly the joke is on America.
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Pray for the People of the Congo
Timothy Birdnow
Let us pray for the People of the Democratic Republic of the Congo as they suffer from a nasty Ebola outbreak.
Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this ay our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive those who trespass against us
and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.
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Mr. Bumble was Right; the Law is an Ass
Timothy Birdnow
Clarence Thomas ain't happy about this ridiculous court ruling about birthright citizenship.
According to the article:
In his dissent, Justice Thomas argues that Dred Scott-era critics rejected the idea that citizenship hinged solely on birthplace, emphasizing instead domicile, permanent residence, as the key standard. Under that framework, he suggests, citizenship would not extend to children of illegal aliens or temporary visa holders who give birth in the United States.
He also pointed to the 14th Amendment’s original understanding, asserting it applied only to those "not subject to any foreign power,” and lamented the fact that today’s ruling expands birthright citizenship well beyond what the 14th Amendment’s framers intended.
"I am not sure that today’s opinion will stand the test of time. The Citizenship Clause 'added greatly to the dignity and glory of American citizenship. Today’s opinion devalues that citizenship."
Damned right it does. It means my having been born here and lived here, paid taxes, contributed to the great tapestry that is America, is worth no more than some kid spit out by a scofflaw who wants to milk America for what she can get out of it. I'm sorry but my citizenship should be valued more highly. Many institutions require you start as an apprentice. A lot of the same Justices who signed the majority opinion served as court clerks when they first started their careers. This decision is like letting a young lawyer skip this step and go to a job as a Justice on the Court immediately.
It's like eliminating the pledging phase of joining a fraternity.
I can't join MENSA without proving my I.Q. is high enough (Richard Feynman was offered a spot in MENSA but turned it down because his I.Q. only tested at 126 - the tests were incapable of giving a proper answer because of his genius - and so he did not meet the standards of that institution.) By the logic of the majority MENSA should have to let anyone in if they can prove they have a measurable I.Q..
Almost any organization of peoples has membership requirements and usually an initiation phase. But America, apparently does not. Heck; we are the only country on Earth that allows this.
While this opinion relied on lower court precedent (precedent usually motivated by limited, specific details in cases or by politics) it was still stupid and did not comport with the intent of the framers of the 14th Amendment. Coney Barrett, Kavanaugh, and Roberts are shameful dimwits. Of course the Democrat appointees are shameful dimwits too but I don't think hat needs to be spelled out. This court had an historic opportunity to correct a terrible legal precedent and failed miserably. It's going to go down in history with Dredd Scott as one of the worst decisions ever made by a Supreme Court.
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The Lie of "Declining Neighborhoods"
Timothy Birdnow
Here is a decent article about white flight, how it was mischaracterized by the media and portrayed as white racism when in fact it was a logical response to a deteriorating situation.
I agree; the neighborhood I grew up in is now basically the ghetto and the place where I bought my first house is now a war zone, wholly uninhabitable. This didn't happen because white folks moved out; the neighborhood went to pot THEN the white people left.
And in fact many of the kids I went to grade school with had grown up deeper in the city and had moved out to my near-suburb largely to escape crime. For instance, my best friend's family moved only after one of his sisters got beaten up by some black girls.
And nothing has changed as of yet. I worked in real estate and a lot of black folks would call me and ask me to help them find a place "with white people". They would tell me they feared living in black neighborhoods.
Of course this would mean ruining a white neighborhood. These were decent black people but they were also the primary prey of the bad ones, and where they moved the bad ones followed. Prides of lions follow gazelles, and packs of wolves follow deer or caribou Criminals follow black people.
Growing up we lived a few blocks away from a shopping mall. My grandparents, who lived across the street (having fled from their own declining neighborhood in the city) were followed home from the mall twice and robbed right in front of their home - after the public busses started using that mall as a hub. It was right about that time that good black people moved into the neighborhood. They were good neighbors and until my father died many of them watched out for him. But of course their children had friends and a lot of times bad friends. And even if they didn't they still made the criminals comfortable in what had been hostile territory before; thuggish looking black men riding around with loud music blaring would have been noticed when the neighborhood was predominantly white.
It wasn't that the white people moved then the neighborhood declined, it was because the neighborhood was declining the white people moved. Most everyone I knew loved my neighborhood and would be there still if it was safe. For years the local bars there had a lot of patrons from the exurbs drive in - they wanted to hang with their old friends at the old haunts even though they had abandoned the neighborhood because it was unsafe. Of course that lack of safety eventually killed even the bars.
At any rate the lies about white flight go way back. I remember an episode of the old T.V. show The Equalizer (the Edward Woodward one, not the modern version with Queen Latifa) where a character complained "so much has happened. The plant closed, throwing a lot of us out of work, then the blacks started moving in". That's not how it usually went; it was the blacks moving in that often led to the plant closures and definitely led to the white folks moving out. And it had nothing to do with racism and everything to do with security. The good black people in those neighborhoods moved out as soon as they could too.
Yes, there are bad white people but the bad white people were not so well protected by the law as were the bad blacks. Cops wouldn't tolerate from the bad whites what they tolerated from bad blacks out of fear of being accused of racism and disciplined. Ferguson Missouri is a prime example of how that happens. Ferguson was once a lilly-white community (I grew up not far from there) and actually well-to-do in many places. Beautiful Victorian homes! It had been a country town when St. Louis County was just a rural area. But the City of St. Louis, which owns Lambert International Airport, decided to expand and add runways - right across the historic black community of Kinloch. (Kinloch had always been black.) The people there moved into Ferguson, which was next door. Soon the problems that beset declining neighborhoods showed up in Ferguson, with gang activity and violence becoming common. So Mike Brown robbed a convenience store by beating up the clerk and stealing cigars he intended to use to make "blunts" and he confidently strolled down the middle of the street, fearing nothing because he knew the law would protect him from law enforcement. Officer Daron Wilson saw him and asked him to move to the sidewalk, which he did but then he moved right back to the middle of the street. Wilson came back and Brown assaulted him in is car. Wilson got out and Brown's friend was looping around to get him from behind and Wilson had no choice but shoot Brown. And then the shit hit the fan.
That would never have happened had the neighborhood not been declining thanks to a major influx of black folks - good and bad.
So what do you do? We can't implement a kind of apartheid. The good black folks deserve to live in safe, secure neighborhoods. What we need is for the government to get out of the way and stop the enforcement of laws. Let cops enforce the laws on blacks as they do on whites. And the Federal government has long had programs to integrate neighborhoods. I know; when I was in real estate I dealt with a lot of such, and heard stories. A lot of black folks moved way out into rural areas because the government paid for them to do so, to bust the rural areas open for integration. That kind of thing has to end. Government needs to get out of the business of subsidizing block busting.
For decades we have encouraged criminality and bad behavior in the black community, especially among the young. And we have systematically DISCOURAGED stable families with welfare programs and other things that destroyed the black family. That too must end.
But to do anything of any value we must first admit what the problem is, and we seem unwilling to do so. It is not poverty that causes crime but rather often crime that causes poverty. How do you find a job when all the businesses are gone? And who wants to hire you if you come from an area with a lot of criminals?
Until we honestly admit the truth of this we won't make any headway. Liberal social theories are crackpot and have caused a disaster in America, and indeed throughout the Western World. It's pure racism, only a different sort, one that puts minorities on a pedestal. We've turned racism upside down, but it's still racism. We now discriminate FOR minorities (and aliens) instead of against them, but discriminate we do.
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America Loses Bigly in SCOTUS Birthright Citizenship Decision
Timothy Birdnow
In my best Lurch voice (from the Adams Family) Ugggghhhh....
I figured this would happen. While birthright citizenship is entirely extra-constitutional and not what the 14th amendment ever intended it was how courts have interpreted the law and I knew, especially after oral arguments, the Court would take the path of least resistance here.
Naturally it was John Roberts who wrote the majority decision.
Sam Alito, writing the dissent, called this ruling a disaster and stated:
"Careful analysis of the text of the Fourteenth Amendment and the process that led to its adoption shows that it does not degrade the concept of United States citizenship in this way. Instead the Fourteenth Amendment confers citizenship on only those children who, at birth, owe allegiance solely to this country.”
I recently posted a piece by Selwyn Duke which explains Robett's approach to jurisprudence; he's small c conservative, unwilling to go against most legal precedents (except where things like gay marriage and socialized medicine are concerned) and so he went with the conventional wisdom here. But the text speaks otherwise with it's mention of "subject to the jurisdiction thereof". Illegal aliens were not subject to the jurisdiction thereof and so have no claim on citizenship for children spit out of women at the goal-line.)
This ruling could be fixed by Congress in a number of ways but Congress lacks the appetite to do so. What is really needed is a constitutional amendment to fix it but there isn't a snowman's chance in the nether regions that will happen.
So now we are going to have to make our borders tighter than Jack Benny and that can only happen when we have a President and administration serious about border security. Put a Democrat in office and we will have millions of new Americans, Americans who know nothing about America and won't learn about her either.
We will also have to pass laws restricting pregnant women from visiting the U.S. lest they give birth here.
Roberts, that POS, knows all this and knows furthermore the intent of the 14th had nothing to do with illegal immigrants. This proves he is not an originalist; he is interpreting the Constitution based not on the intent of the people who wrote the Amendment but on how later jurists interpreted it.
The vote was 6 to 3 with Amy Conehead Barrett and Brett Kavanagh joining John Roberts and ever single Democrat appointed Justice to continue the ridiculous and stupid policy of birthright citizenship. A pox upon them and their house!
President Trump ought to buy property next door or near every one of these Justice's homes and open shelters for illegal aliens. Make them live with the consequences of their votes.
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SCOTUS "Just Keep on Counting!"
Timothy Birdnow
The U.S. Supreme Court Jesters, in a 5-4 split, said states can continue counting ballots long after election day so Democrats may count and count until they win.
What I find interesting about this is that it flies in the face of what the Supreme Court said in the election of 2000, namely that you can't just count and count until you get the results you want. They pulled the plug on Al Gore then. Why are they supporting this now?
Well, because unfortunately we have Amy Coney Barrett, who authored the majority opinion.
American Thinker looks at this in a piece this morning.
John Rober, er, Roberts joined Barrett and the liberals on the Court naturally.
The opinion decided five business days are good. But why five days AFTER the election? Why not say all mail in ballots must be there by election day? If we are going to pick arbitrary deadlines why have any at all?
The article states:
In his dissent, Justice Samuel Alito stated that Justice Amy Comey Barrett's opinion was clearly inconsistent with the plain text of the laws and of historical practice and precedents, adding that it "risks further undermining Americans' confidence in election integrity."
Yawp. Deadlines are DEADLINES, cutoffs. If the text of the Constitution says election DAY it does not mean election week. We have a filing day for taxes and if I should mail mine in several days late I get a penalty. Should I not then be able to use this same argument and send in my taxes late and insist the IRS accept it without penalty? I dare Amy Coney Barrett to try THAT experiment.
Ad deadline exists for a reason. It is a cutoff to prevent the sort of thing that the Democrats are trying to do in places like California, manufacture votes to overturn election results they don't like.
The article continues:
But SCOTUS rulings are no longer about interpreting the Constitution, legal precedent — or right or wrong — but about advancing a political agenda.
This ruling is doubly damaging, as it calls into question the legitimacy of the Supreme Court itself, a disaster for the republic, but also further degrades any possible confidence in election integrity and results, the death knell for a "democracy.” Given the existing political climate and pervasive doubt about the validity of our elections, this ruling is an existential threat to the United States as it approaches its 250th birthday celebration.
He's right; it strikes at the very heart of our electoral system and by extension to the Republic itself. When there are no rules to counting votes the votes themselves no longer matter, and when the votes don't matter we no longer have a constitutional republic. We have an arbitrary system of government and the votes are a a charade.
I'm not sure who told Trump to nominate Conehead Barrett but whoever it was really effed up. She's terrible. So is Roberts and I said so at the time but nobody listened.
Barrett was solidly pro-life and that went in her favor. But that' s about the only good thing about her.
I don't know why it's so hard to pick good people who won't turn left once on the Court. We've seen it time and time again with people including Roberts and Stephen Bryer and Sandra Day O'Conner and a hst of others.
At any rate I'm not sure what is so confusing about the words in the Constitution. Barrett doesn't seem to know what the meaning of is is (to quote Bill Clinton).
So which is it; is there a cutoff to vote counting as was ruled by SCOTUS in 2000, or is there not? Seems to me this case was already settled before Barrett stuck her nose in it.
I submit this for your consideration:
While the counties began to comply with this request, they became concerned that they could not meet the state deadline for certifying election returns to the Florida Secretary of State within seven days of the election. The Florida court upheld the deadline but allowed the counties to amend their returns and found that the Secretary of State could use the amended returns. Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade Counties missed the seven-day deadline. Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris required counties seeking to make a late filing to submit a written explanation for why it was necessary. She found that none of the explanations met the criteria that she had imposed on herself for determining whether late filings would be admitted. Harris thus certified Bush the winner of the election in Florida after receiving overseas absentee ballots.
A few weeks later, Gore's campaign obtained an order from the Florida Supreme Court for a statewide manual recount. On the next day, December 9, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered a stay of the recount. Writing for the five-Justice majority, Antonin Scalia argued that the votes that were ordered to be counted were not legally cast, and thus a recount could cause irreparable harm to Bush and the legitimacy of the democratic process. The dissenters felt that not ordering a recount would undermine the legitimacy of the democratic process and that the Court should be careful about taking actions that could determine the result of an election, which lay outside the judicial power.
Get that? The late votes were not legally cast and thus another manual recount was not justifiable.
Well, counting votes coming in late meet this same criteria now - many are not legally cast.
The very same logic that was applied in Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 is applicable here. What is different? Nothing except there are different people on the Court now and Roberts and Barrett couldn't be bothered to read Bush v. Gore.
I wonder if these two aren't worried they have been making too many pro-Trump rulings in recent days and wanted a "makeup call" as is often seen in sports. That's to maintain the illusion of even-handedness in sports, and it may well be an attempt by these two to try to make themselves appear "unbiased" to the media. That's a game you can't win.
This was a terrible ruling and it needs to be reviewed down the road. Congress, of course, could fix this by passing a law requiring certification of the vote in, say, three days of the election or doing some other such thing but then the lower courts would undoubtedly rule against Congress and it would be back to SCOTUS and the same idiots who made this terrible ruling.
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The Socialist Party and Inevitable Hangover
Timothy Birdnow
This is interesting (though not surprising); most of the support for these socialists who won recent Democrat primaries come from the young and college educated in dense urban areas.
Now this borders on the cliche' and it's probably quite uninteresting to many readers, so why am I bothering with it? Because it once again illustrates the point that socialism is hopelessly unappealing to the actual workers, the very people it purportedly has the greatest appeal to while it is beloved by the rich and privileged - the very people who supposedly are targeted by the ideology.
Socialism is a toy of the rich.
FTA:
In recent months, several self-described democratic socialists and candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) won their primary races against centrist-leaning Democrats in cities on both coasts. Frequent patterns among precinct data showed that young voters in densely-populated and higher-income areas tended to support the more left-wing candidates, while lower-income and non-college educated voters typically supported their opponents.
All three candidates endorsed by Democratic New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a DSA member, won their races in New York’s Seventh, Tenth and 13th Congressional Districts on June 23. Patterns showed the DSA candidates won among young, college-educated and higher-income demographics, while lower-income and non-college educated voters were more likely to vote for the non-DSA candidate.
In other words it's a rich man's world.
I rather suspect most working people (at least those not in labor unions which are all leftist and tell their members to vote socialist) understand the basics of economics enough to know that these people are making pie-in-the-sky promises and that their tempting apples are full of poison. Socialism sounds great because it promises free stuff and even delivers free stuff at first. But in the end it winds down and pours out like milk from a carton because it produces nothing but rather limits and takes from the producer. The average American seems to know that these days, which is why so many in the working class are now MAGA.
MAGA is where blue collar conservatives go. The problem the Conservative movement always had, and especially the Republican Party, was it was full of rich people who saw conservatism as being a tool to keep their taxes down and little else. It was inherently upper-crust, aristocratic. William F. Buckley did a lot of good for the country but he epitomized this branch of Conservatism, the "House of Lords Conservative" types. They held sway in the GOP and in the Conservative movement for decades, and that is why the GOP was the minority party for so long. It had no appeal to the common man, who wished for conservative Democrats to represent their interests but who could not find such. The Democrats walked away from their more conservative base. Social inertia made it hard for such folks to pull the lever for a Republican, the guys who disdained them for so long.
Even now that inertia has many labor types pulling that lever for the D. But the times they are a changin' and Donald Trump found the Rosetta Stone to speak to them. The working class is now the base of Republicanism whether the elite types like it or not (and they don't; look at National Review and how it has nbecome a Never Trump operation more concerned with TDS than with fighting Lefism).
This rejection of socialism by the working class and the rural areas reinforces our understanding of this. The country rejects socialism - the rich urbanits are the only ones who want it.
Of course many of them have no idea what socialism is and think social security is believed to be socialist by conservatives, which is ridiculous. SS isn't socialism but it is a rather radical, ridiculous pyramid scheme and the current generation of codgers are at the bottom of the pyramid. The thing is going belly up because it has run out of money. Of course, if one should say SS is socialist then it is a prime example of why socialism doesn't work, but then you won't hear that from the likes of James Carville (who, on Fox News this Sunday, used it as an example of how there is no definition of socialism). Carville argued most of the current new "socialists" don't know what it means and are defining it as the welfare state. He's probably right on that score, but it is the very ignorance of what socialism is that makes it so dangerous. Many people supported Naziism too because they didn't understand what it meant and thought it was about pride in one's country too. Evil always succeeds by masquerading as a good thing.
Notice too how the advocates of socialism never offer their own money. Bernie Sanders owns three homes and has a worth of several million bucks and yet he pushes for other people to have their wealth confiscated and redistributed. Maybe he should hand over two of his homes to the homeless? There is a reason why Jesus told His disciples to give what you have to the poor and follow me; He did not say for Caesar to do it but for the individual. Caesar would just squander it.
I believe working folks understand this. I think they know that the rich will always find a way to stay on top. Anyone remember Dr. Zhivago? In it the rich guy - Komorowski - winds up an important man under the Bolsheviks as he had been under the Tsar. Some rise, some fall, but in the end the wealthy are better positioned than the laboring class to make good no matter what sort of social structure gets put in place.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
So the best one can hope for is a government that stays off your back and lets you make a living. Governments that offer all sorts of dandy "services" don't do that. There is a price to pay.
So don't fear this apparent rise of socialism. It's not the People who are doing it - it's the rich and the stupid. Don't take it too lightly but don't think for a minute that we are losing this country; it is alive and well in the heartland and in rural areas and in the suburbs and even in the poorer parts of the cities to a degree. Socialism is a kind of liquor and some have just partied hearty; the hangover will come soon enough.
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Greater Evils to Fight Than Roundup
Timothy Birdnow
I am not MAHA. I do not think we are less healthy now than we were in olden days; our life expectancy is WAY higher now than even when I was a child. I'm about at the life expectancy back then; now I've got a good twenty years left. We DO have more health problems from things like obesity, but why wouldn't we? Life is so much easier now than it was even when I was a boy. People who worked in mines or factories or did other forms of manual labor now code or do paper work, and entertainment now cconsists of using computers in some way rather than going out and playing bush-league softball or whatnot.
No, we are in a golden age. Even cancer is a coefficient of this golden age; there are so few stresses on the body that some of the cells are getting bored. In fact autoimmune diseases have been rising and that is a function of our success; the immune system has nothing better to do so it attacks anything that might be a threat - even if it is just another part of the body doing it's job.
No, we live in a medical golden age. Sickness and death are inevitable, but we don't want even that so we complain that it is caused by our own hand. It's not; it's usually a case of "shit happens".
So I do not agree with MAHA on most issues.
That said we come to the reason for this rather long soliloquy; the MAHA folks are furious at Trump's EPA over Roundup.
The Daily Signal dishes on the issue:
Despite the backlash since Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling shielding Monsanto from liability, the Environmental Protection Agency is pushing ahead on glyphosate, telling the Daily Signal how it plans to navigate the Make America Healthy Again movement’s growing outrage.
In a 7-2 decision on Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Monsanto, now owned by Bayer, will be shielded from liability over Roundup, its widely used brand of weed and grass killer. In response, MAHA activists are firing back at the Trump administration and Zeldin’s leadership at the EPA.
Roundup has been around for decades and has been studied repeatedly and found not wanting. It complied with EPA rules forcing it to disclose that if used improperly it could be hazardous to health. There is no reason to believe Monsanto did anything wrong and thus holds liability for anyone's problem.
A Missouri farmer set this whole thing in motion by suing Baer and Monsanto (Baer is the parent company) over his cancer. Wh9le I sympathize with him it's still a matter of "shit happens" and correlation is not causality. The guy got cancer. He used Roundup. It does not follow that therefore Roundup caused his cancer. There are thousands of other factors that might have contributed to his getting cancer. That is a non-sequitur. It is like saying "John drinks water. John has cancer. Water caused John's cancer".
Who knows; water MIGHT WELL have caused John's cancer; it could be the fluoride put in it or something. But you cannot say definitively that is the case. Frankly I'm more worried about fluoride in water than glyphosate, but I'm not a farmer, of course.
At any rate correlation is not causality.
The problem is the WHO declared glyphosate a carcinogenic in a report they issued and all the sharks smelled blood - and are now systematically picking the carcass of Monsanto.
I wrote about this a while back. The original draft of the report concluded there was no evidence Roundup caused cancer. Environmental activists got their grubby paws on the report and altered it to say it was wildly carcinogenic, pure evil in a spray can.
I don't believe it; we've had decades of review of this product and only now have figured out that it is dangerous.
And there is no good replacement for glyphosates. Eliminating them will raise the price of our food substantially.
Anyway the EPA under Lee Zelden isn't taking the WHO's word for it. They are conducting their own review:
"The EPA is committed to advancing science-based innovation and stewardship in pesticide use. Working closely with federal partners, the agency is promoting more sustainable practices, including steps to minimize reliance on preharvest desiccation applications of glyphosate,” a spokesperson at the EPA told the Daily Signal.
"This year, EPA is undertaking a comprehensive, transparent, and rigorous scientific review of glyphosate to evaluate its use and ensure decisions are fully aligned with the best available evidence and public health and environmental protections.”
That review is likely to find what previous EPA reviews found; there is no great danger from glyphosates if used properly. That is what all former EPA studies have concluded.
MAHA people are yelling about how they rely on "industry studies" and use the same complaints and tactics the Gang Green uses in Global Warming arguments (I'm still waiting for my check from Big Oil). It's always a deep, dark conspiracy but big corporations to kill their customers with dangerous products. And the remedy is always to sue and take money from a corporation which will just pass that cost along to everyone else - a stealth tax on the public for the benefit of a very small few.
In the end these sorts of campaigns wind up simply making food (or whatever product) less affordable and often of lower quality. Do people really want bugs on their food, eating holes in it? That's what happens when you restrict pesticides (glyphosates are a herbicide but the same holds true for pesticides). I used to work in produce and we bought "organic" vegetables; mealy and full of bugs. The fact is our food quality and quantity is in no small part dependent on our chemicals, and Roundup helped to give us this golden age we live in.
Anyway the MAHA people are popping their corks and I suppose that was inevitable; they were only in the MAGA movement because they were against the status quo, not because they had reasoned, well-thought-out positions on other issues. There was no way they could be satisfied since they are essentially environmentalist wacko's sans the Bolshevism. Not all, surely; there were a lot of folks who hated the Covid vaccine who are MAHA, for instance, and they are right insofar as the Covid vaccine was a sop to big pharma all along and it has proven dangerous. Of course it's dangerous; it was entirely experimental. Nobody had ever used an mRNA vaccine before and we could have taken the time to make a regular vaccine using dead Covid like we do with other diseases. Covid vaccine mandates were a massive clinical experiment using the public as a huge test group.
That said, I get the MAHA folks where some things are concerned (like the Covid stuff, or the over-reliance on vaccinations in general) but they are wrong to go after RoTheundup. There are other, better hills to die on. Roundup isn't a hill on a battlefield at all; it's a parking lot in an Aldis store.
The Bible speaks much about discernment, the ability to see good and evil in everyday things. What is lacking in this is discernment. There are greater evils to fight than Roundup.
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June 29, 2026
It is NOT a Two Sided Moral Judgment
Timothy Birdnow
The author is right until he says both sides engage in this absolutist moral judgment.
He is complaining about ARBITRARY moral judgments, such as the woke oppression of speech and the like, but then says the Right does the same thing. No, we do not. Rather we impose a political judgment based on logic over stupidity. We DO impose moral judgments on occasion, but they are rooted in solid Christian moral thinking. It's a world of difference over what he claims. I notice he provides no examples.
This author just wants to be seen as "fair and balanced" and thus accuses both sides of what is clearly the work of one side. When Conservatives castigate people it's because they have started playing footsie with those on the Left, when they betray us. But the Left attacks and destroys anyone who does not follow their strict orthodoxy. World of difference.
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Plastic Man
Timothy Birdnow
American Thinker has a terrific article about microplastics in the human body and why the latest media panic is probably wrong. The same flawed techniques have been used to repeat research that finds evidence we are all swimming in plastics (fatty acids give the same signature). Once again it's the Michael Crichton theory of the use of mass hysteria to promote societal change "state of fear".
This is a good read.
BTW I remember researchers found that much of the plastics seen in the slides of these alarmists was actually residual plastic from their latex gloves.
My question; will we develop super powers like the comic book Plasticman and learn to stretch way the heck out? I sure would like to be able to do that when I'm watching t.v. and need to grab something.
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