December 12, 2024
Rich Lowry misses the whole point.
Trump Must Resist Lawrare to Let Success be his Best Revenge
It ain't lawfare Rich; it's justice. We need to hold these leftists accountable for their crimes (and they are crimes). Break the law and take the paw!
Also, if there is not punishment for misusing the law the Left will do it again and again. The only way this stops is by making it clear the consequences are severe. Liberals are like children in that regard; they will do whatever they can get away with.
Trump should "let success be his best revenge" but how will he have success if they continue the lawfare against him? The only way to stop it is to pursue them with equal fervor. Success IS going after them; it is one of the reforms Trump was elected to make. The public was rightly horrified at what they did to Trump.
Again, we aren't talking about Lawfare, a point that seems to escape Mr. Lowry. We are talking about making them answer for their crimes.
But then Rich and National Review have hated Trump from the beginning and sought to destroy him along with the Democrats,so perhaps this is purely self-serving on Lowry's part. Maybe he fears the scales of justice too?
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The Left is going insane and Sunny Hostin is proof. She is excusing the murder of the United Healtcare CEO because, in her words, Sunny Hostin Excuses United Healthcare CEO Killer, Says "This Country Was Built On Violence”
Meanwhile cigar store Injun Elizabeth "Fauxcohonas" Warren calls tthe murder "a warning"
Let me issue my own warning to these radicals; if you keep promoting violence you will wind up in jail. There is a new sheriff in town and he won't tolerate your lawless mouths. And yes, freedom of speech ends at the tip of my nose; you can say what you please but when you are calling for violence that becomes another matter.
(Yes, Brandenberg v. Ohio sets a high bar for incitement to violence,but it doesn't eliminate it completely.)
I seem to remember Warren and Hostin both accusing Trump of inciting violence on J6, even though he called for peaceful protest. But what these two are doing transcends that.
And it is the rankest hypocrisy from them.
Even if it is not illegal it most assuredly bespeaks their revolutionary, violence-laden mindsets. The Left has become totally unhinged. And when the Left becomes unhinged they are not restrained by religious moral codes which restrain most on the right; it's nothing but a man-made law they are breaking and, in their minds, it is a necessary evil because the other side is so bad. Laws to the Left are always suggestions and they are rules that apply primarily to restrain the right.
So the defense of the murderer in this case should come as no surprise to anyone. But it needs to be sanctioned and punished to the best of our abilities lest the infection spread.
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Well past time. Of course the false narrative promoted by the Southern Poverty Law center is terrorism is all right-wing, which is pure projection, of course.
Timefor a National Conversation About Lef Wing Violence
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Not sure I agree with this, although he makes some good points.
Governor of 51st State Whines that Trump Isn't a Woman
The author thinks this will hurt Trudeau and I am not at all sure. Canada is NOT the U.S. They speak like we do, dress like we do, and in many ways are strikingly similar to us, but there are differences, as any Canadian will insist. They DO have some national pride. I suspect Trudeau is trying to touch on that pride by looking down his Frog-Canucck nose at Americans for electing so boorish a lout as Mr. Trump. He's hoping to draw on Canadian pride with this.
But Trudey certainly misses the mark. He's cruisin' for an ego bruisin from the master mocker.
He's not used to the kind of war of words that he'll get from Trump. Canada highly values politeness - Mr. Trump has no use for it.
This is a kid playing AA ball moving into the Majors. He's woefully out of his league.
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Nancy Pelosi was excommunicated by her Bishop for her pro-abortion and other anti-Catholic policy positions but the woman is just determined to reside in the nether regions and has openly defied the Church and is receiving Communion anyway.
To receive Communion unworthily is another sin, a bad one, a mortal sin, the kind leading to eternal damnation.
If Pelosi doesn't agree with the Church she should quit and join, say, the Old Catholics who I believe are o.k. with abortion.
But she continues to call herself Catholic and defies the Church openly and willfully.
We need to pray for her soul. I will, although my heart really isn't in it. But damnation is something you cannot wish on anyone, even the very worst people, because it is eternal. Purgatory, sure,but not damnation. We want justice - damnation really isn't justice but it's what some people choose.
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Christopher Wray runs for the tall grass.
Yes, the duplicitous Wray, who was appointed by Trump then went native and led the charge to take his benefactor out, is leaving town as fast as possible before the ax falls on his head.
The incoming Trump Administration should not let him get away that easily. He needs to answer for his crimes.
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December 11, 2024
Joe Biden wants to punish America and is content to blow up the whole world to do it.
Turns out he gave ten BILLION dollars in sanctions relief just days after Trump's election.
FTA:
The Biden State Department tweaked the waiver last year to allow Tehran to convert the funds from Iraqi dinars to euros, then hold those euros in bank accounts based in Oman.
Iran’s access to currencies like the euro allows it to easily spend cash in international markets.
And this while Iran was supporting terrorist attacks on Israel.
I fear for Joe Biden's soul, I really do. If he is the one making these decisions then he may face a very, very hot time in the hereafter. Whoever is making these decisions is facing damnation, in my view. Of course it could be a very COLD damnation if Dante was correct; traitors to kin or country wound up in Antenora, where their spiritual bodies were frozen in an icey lake, a lake chilled by the endless breeze from Satan's wings as he tried to fly out of his prison. That's where the whole Biden Administration will end up if Dante's vision was accurate.
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A crazy Idaho hair stylist has wrecked her own business after an unhinged anti-Trump rant in which she calls for her Trump-supporting customers to go away.
Says she'd rather work at Chipotles. Looks like she'll get the chance.
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Here is a story aboutt Luigi Mangione and his manifesto and other documents.
I won't summarize; you can read it for yourself. I just wanted to comment on one or two items.
First, the kid had a complete temper tantrum when being brought into his court hearing. He complained "it's totally unfair". Unfair? Isn't shooting a man in the back unfair? If he had any balls he would have given his victim a gun, or a knife and used a knife himself so there was a fair fight.
This only proves what an entitled, spoiled brat Mangione is.
Second, there is this little bit of horsepoop promoted by the leftist Daily Beast when discussing Mangione's hatred of health insurance companies:
"It claimed that the United States had the 'most expensive healthcare system in the world,' but blasted the system for making America only the 42nd in life expectancy.
According to the most recent data published by the World Health Organization in 2020 found that life expectancy in the US was 78-and-a-half years for both men and women - ranking it 40th compared to other countries.
A 2023 report by the World Economic Forum also found that the US had the most expensive healthcare compared to other mostly Western countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
It reported that Americans were spending an estimated $12,318 per person in 2021, compared to $7,383 spent per person in Germany, the second most expensive system."
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Notice this comes from the intenational socialist World Economic Forum.
But it in no way asks WHY and assumes the cause is greedy health insurance companies. But is it.
IF this data is correct (and I rather suspect not but am not going to waste a large amount of time digging for better data) one must ask why Canadians,with their wonderful free healthcare, come here for treatment on a regular basis. And it comes back to the dirty little secret - America is chock full of Third World immigrants, both legal and illegal, coming from nations where people die at an early age from diseases that are treatable.
America currently has sixty million aliens, legal and illegal, residing here. In other words we have a Third World nation hidden inside of the First World America. Many of the legals get decent healthcare, no doubt, but the illegals almost all do not go for care except when the must, and then it's to the emergency room.
The diseases they bring with them, and the damage to their bodies from their past lives, guarantees early senescence and death. And it is THEY who drive the life expectancy down.
Ditto with the black community, where many of the black folks don't go to doctors out of fear of some sort of genocide as many in their community paranoidly believe.
Also, life expectancy is dragged down through death by violence. Both the Hispanic community and the African American community suffers from that particular malady. Crime, my friends, leads America to a lower life expectancy. The people blaming insurance companies for that are the same folks who won't take criminals off the streets.
One must ask, too, why it's more expensive to get healthcare coverage in America. Well, for starters, the U.S. government makes these companies cover everyone regardless of their health status, which means they have to charge the rest of their customers more. It is illegal to deny coverage.
In Germany and the other European nations they have government run healthcare systems and so their population pays less AT THE SERVICE PROVIDER but pays more in taxes. And of course they don't have to pay much for national defense, something costing America and arm and a leg as we not only protect ourselves but much of the world and that means our taxes are rather high.
We have far superior health care, as that business about Canadians coming here proves.
I would add our current system is broken indeed, but who broke it? Mostly it was the government, going all the way back to FDR.
FDR started the employer-based healthcare system in America. He pushed taxes up so high on income that employers began offering compensation in other ways, ways not taxed. One such form of compensation was health insurance for their workers. It was cheap then. But it became the standard for obtaining insurance and the insurance companies worked it out so there were groups - usually companies - where the price was tied to the amount of money coming in from that group and the amount being handed out as benefits. Small businesses paid a lot more for insurance than big corporations as a result. You also had labor unions forming enormous groups which favored this approach.
Then came Medicare, which was a disaster for medical prices. Now the government was setting prices by refusing to pay market rates, and demanding companies lose money by following a schedual of compensation. These companies aren't in business to lose money; they simply raised prices to cover their losses. Hospitals too raised prices because the insurance companies always tried to lowball them - and because the government made them treat patients who couldn't pay. So they jacked up the rates to cover their losses elsewhere.
It's been on an upward trajectory ever since. And the solution the Left and our government has always turned to is more of the same, more government intervention, larger, more expansive medical alliances, etc. Consolidation and more government regulation just drove prices upward and care down.
At any rate we now have a quasi-government payer program thanks to Obama and it only metastasized the problem and eliminated competition. Most doctors are now part of these big healthcare corporations; the independent doctor is a rare critter indeed, and endangered species. And now all doctors are specialists because that is the only way they can make enough money to pay off their student loans. And pay their malpractice insurance, which has gone through the roof thanks to the big trial lawyers chasing million dollar malpractice cases. And THAT was another thing empowered by our government.
But nobody wants to talk about any of that, or look at the obvious which is that private market insurance would actually bring prices down and care up. We do not have a free market-based system,but a voluntary socialism, a socialism akin to Nazi economics.
It's called corporatism.
Look, I hate these big insurance companies as much as anyone. Anthem Blue Cross wanted to let me die from heart failure, and I do mean that. They refused to cover a lifevest, which is a gadget designed to restart your heart if it stops (and mine was about to stop). They said it was "not medically necessary" because they only approe it in cases of people waiting to get pacemaker/defibrilators installed and I was not eligible for one because they require "six months of careful study" before they will implant one. So I was supposed to wait six months when my heart was on the verge of stopping. May as well just tell me "go away and die already".
I appealed to the State of Missouri and went through arbitration. The arbitrator heard my side of the story and read their letter to me. Her exact words were "Oh MY God!" She couldn't believe how callous and idiotic they were. I won the case and got my $12,000 bill payed.
I've had many other problems with them.
So I don't have any love for these companies, but you cannot lay the blame for this solely on them; much of it is a case of very bad public policy, policy promoted by the Left, by The Daily Beast types.
Mangione could have taken action against these companies, sure, but legal action. More importantly he could have promoted free market competition - the best, quickest way to reform the system.
Corporations do what they do for a reason. Generally money is made by serving the public, but with these big corporations and with America's health care system money is to be made by pleasing government and the providers and not the patient. The patient isn't the customer, even though he's the one sending in money. They rightly see the patient as a captive market with no choice. That is what is wrong with the system; the only way these companies make money (their primary purpose for existing) is to treat the patient like a ward of the system and not a paying customer. They WANT few companies in any given market so they can make their profits and not have to worry about pleasing the patients. Competition would force them to be more responsive to the public.
But guys like Mangione and the folks at Daily Beast want to move in the exact opposite direction.
I remember a sketch by the good folks at Monty Python's Flying circus back in the '70's where a patient had turned into a skeleton while waiting to see a doctor at a British Health Service hospital. They saw back then how this worked. We should have listened to the good folks at Monty Python.
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Remember how Hitler gave orders not to use "Jewish science" to develop the atomic bomb or other weapons? Well, there has been a quiet by systematic effort to suppress "Jewish science" throughout the world and in America.
Rebottled Jew-Hate: The Boycott of Jewish Genius
Rebottled Jew-Hate: The Boycott of Jewish Genius
How did that work out for the Nazis?
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I didn't know Syria had a fleet; I rather thought they just sailed out to defend the coast in rafts or something.
Israel Destroys Syrian Fleet
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China is conducting a massive naval exercise right off the coast of Taiwan in a giant taunt of Joe Biden.
Accorig to the Daily Caller article:
Weakness usually leads to war. Biden has elevated weakness to an art form.
Meanwhile a Chinese citizen was arrested for flying drones over U.S. military installations.
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Keep on dreamin' Dreamers!
‘Big Win’: Trump-Appointed Judge Temporarily Closes Door To Obamacare For DACA Recipients
Some common sense from a judge for once!
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Washington has been very, very good to Nancy Pelosi - to the tune of $272 MILLION dollars!
Nice work when you can get it!
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Gee, one free trip to the grocery store, or maybe a couple tanks of gas!
NY Gov. Hochul Announces Questionable Plan to "Fight Inflation" by Giving Everyone $300
Of course this is money coming out of the pockets of people who are struggling with inflation to give them this shopping spree in the first place. At least with the Feds they just print more money; state governments cannot do that. It's just musical chairs.
Hochum's scheme was met with derision. From the article:
"If you cut taxes and spending as an actual leader would do, you don't have to rely on gimmicks that reek of desperation and incompetence," replied former state Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin, a Republican.
Others mocked her for trying to fight inflation with a "solution" that would likely lead to higher inflation.
"Maybe take a basic Econ 101 class before proposing legislation. What's next? Is your plan to fight obesity to give everyone over 250lbs free donuts?" read one response.
"Giving out more money to people as an 'Inflation Refund' is literally the dumbest and least intelligent solution to inflation ... maybe ever," responded entrepreneur Darin Feinstein.
"This reads like satire to me. Handing out government money in an inflationary environment is exactly how more inflation occurs. It’s adding fuel to the fire," read another response.
Wouldn't it be amazing if New York would elect a Republican governor? They've had them before, after all.
Hochul is attempting to do a magicians act here, making it appear she's doing something about inflation when in fact she's just waiving her magic wand and saying "hocus pocus" and hoping to fool the audience. Sadly she's a rank amateur magician who fools nobody.
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December 10, 2024
Ten Democrat members of Congress are seeking to sue Donald Trump over the January 6 business. This is an aggregious abuse of their positions and of the courts and should be dismissed based on standing and as frivolous.
I say based on standing because none of these people were actually damaged by Mr. Trump in any way. At worst some government property was damaged, not the individual congress critters. and Trump called for "peaceful and patriotic protest" not a riot.
If they do this they set a precedent and so we should sue them right back for defamation of character with the lies of the J6 Committee.
This shows how desperate they have become. They know the J6 Committee was a farce and they may be punished legally for crimes they committed through it. This is a pathetic attempt to regain the initiative, nothing more.
The Supreme Court could just dismiss the whole thing. Sadly I fear John Roberts may be too chicken-hearted to do so.
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Israel has launched over a hundred airstrikes and sent ground troops into Syria to clean out the remnants of terrorist groups after the fall of the Assad regime. Furthermore, it has struck at chemical weapons plants and other key military installations, and is establishing a "sterile zone" to protect itself.
so what happens next? This will leave a power vacuum that must be filled. Will the U.N. send in "peacekeepers" to shore up the country? Will Turkey move in? Israel cannot afford to allow the nation to fall into the hands of hard-core Islamists.
No doubt Iran is weighing their options. They would move in directly if they could but I doubt they can project power that way.
I don't know if most people understand the profound ramifications of the fall of Assad; the Assad family ruled Syria for fifty years and now are gone - and with them the whole political order of the region is turned upside-down. Lebanon was largely a protectorate of Syria, which stepped in during the civil war there, and it now has nobody holding it's leash. Israel would logically be the new Big Dog in the area except no Muslim will listen to Israel and they don't have the manpower to control the region.
I strongly suspect there will be a United Nations/NATO/EU coalition that will try to move in to stabilize things. Otherwise the Turks will try to annexx it, or at least to "stabilize" it with troops. The Kurds are the Turks mortal enemies and they will want to crush them now that Syria is no longer in their way.
How long before Biden mobilizes American "peacekeepers" to go into the region? I know; he said it's not our fight (and he's right) but he said he wouldn't pardon Hunter either.
This is a chaotic situation and likely to grow more chaotic as the different factions seek to grab this particular jump ball.
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The "green" market is bottoming out.
Lithium Prices Fall 90%
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I guess she decided this isn't the hill to die on; she would rather die on the Hill.
Key GOP holdout Joni Ernst says she will 'support' Pete Hegseth through nomination process
Ernst was destroying her own career with this and I suppose she finally realized that.
Time for her to go.
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Funny; I thought the People owned the government, not the other way around.
California pays schools to hide gender transition from parents.
So they are taking money from taxpayers to destroy the lives of innocent children and hide the fact from their parents. Only the most terrible tyrant would do such a thing.
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