July 13, 2026
E. Jean Carroll Perjury in Deposition
Timothy Birdnow
E. Jean Carroll, the columnist who accused then citizen Trump of sexually assaulting her in a changing room of a clothing store was being funded by LinkedIn founder and billionaire leftist Reid Hoffman, despite the fact Carroll said in a deposition that her legal fees were not being paid by someone else.
This was perjury and as such it should get the civil judgment tossed out.
Trump's lawyers have asked that an ethics violation investigation be conducted on Carroll's lawyer Roberta Kaplan, who knew of the perjury and never reported it or asked to amend Carroll's statement.
Hoffman gave more than chump change to Carroll - seven million dollars for legal expenses.
This is important because it speaks towards motive, about why Carroll was bringing these accusations.
Hopefully the Supreme Court will revisit this issue. They declined to review the judgment against Mr. Trump recently, but perjury may make them take a second look.
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All Murders in the (Capitol) Building
Timothy Birdnow
How long before the conspiracy theories start to fly?
Trump Spoke to Lindsay Graham Shortly Before His Death, Offers Glowing Praise for Late Republican
No doubt Trump poisoned Graham to keep Lindsay silent because, like, he knew Trump had been flying regularly to Epstein's Slave Island and Graham was going to spill the beans!
See, Graham had been in contact with the alien UFO's (or whatever they call them now) and they assured him he needed to do the right thing and tell the truth about Epstein's ties to Trump. So Trump had him murdered. Oh, and Graham was also going to come clean about how Ericka Kirk plotted with Mossad to assassinate Charlie Kirk and cover it up. So Graham had to go.
See how easy it is to be a liberal!
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Remember the Coffee Party?
Timothy Birdnow
Mu question; how do we know these photos AREN'T from 2020 rather than from 2026? How do we know this "Joe Wrote" Bolshevik didn't just take old photos to show how much "excitement" was in the Democratic Socialist movement?
Yes, I know that many on the Left wear masks even now to show their allegiance. But this many?
I want to say this right now about the rising Democratic Socialists; I do not think they are an organic movement but rather an astroturfed movement, likely funded by George Sros and these other Billionaire-socialists. I further believe they are only winning in extreme leftist enclaves - mostly it's out with the old socialit and in with the new. The media is blowing these folks up beyond their natural state. I suspect we'll see them collapse on election day, and if so we won't hear a whole lot about it - the media will change the subject and even the Conservative media will forget. And of those who win (and a lot of them will as they are in radical leftist districts) the media will proclaim the era of MAGA over and the rise of the new Socialism.
But it will be a Potemkin Village, a series of facades.
I hope so at least; if I'm wrong we are in bigger trouble than I feared, and I'm a known paranoid, or at least a confirmed pessimist.
Sun Tzu, the ancient Chinese military strategist, said deception is the essence of warare. He's right and it has always been so from the first time a human being took down an antelope. The Left understands this more than the Right (who is constrained by Judeo-Christian morality) and they have always deceived the public. That is why they go into journalism and education - they know they need to control the dissemination of information. Right now they need to reinvigorate their left, which is feeling quite defeated to learn the public doesn't love them but loves that SOB Donald Trump and the MAGA movement, and to reinvigorate the Let they need to create the facade that suggests they are winning. This whole rising DSA is necessary to put new life into their moribund cause.
So they won a few non-competitive battles and proclaim this as victory on general principles and are hoping this will start momentum. It only works, of course, because the mainstream media is in the tank for them. But then this fact has twisted and distorted the political landscape (and cultural) for decades now.
Sadly a lot of people on our side will believe this and defeatism will spread through the ranks. That too is the intended goal.
We've watched as the media has taken great pains to split the MAGA movement. They basically have seduced people like Tucker Carlson or Marjorie Taylor Green with acceptance if they betray MAGA and by and large have succeeded. This splits our movement as it was intended to do.
Now they need to gin up the Left. This is phase II. It's working psychologically and our side is becoming dispirited.
Will it work? Maybe. Certainly a lot of people are now fretting about the "rising Democratic Socialism" (there isn't any such thing - socialism by it's very nature is imposed by those with guns and violates human nature.) But it will probably fail long term. That's not the goal; the goal is to win in the short term and thus end the MAGA revolution. They did something similar to end the Tea Party (you may remember the rise of Nancy Pelosi coincided with the decline of the Tea Party and she made a sharp left turn from the Clinton era's "triangulation".)
Anyone remember the Coffee Party? It was the Left's answer to the Tea Party and it failed because it was pure astroturf. But the Tea Party failed in the end because all the Coffee Party was doing was providing an alternative to the TP and the TP was then split from within in much the same way the media is trying to split MAGA now.
If nothing else this will clear away the old brush and make way for the new. It's a "rebuilding year" to use a sports metaphor.
There is always a danger in going too far and souring the public, of course, but what this does is makes the rest of the Democrats seem reasonable by comparison and thus more appealing to the average voters than they would otherwise have been.
At any rate that's my 2c worth on that.
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Keep Dreamin' California!
Timothy Birdnow
One of the tricks the Left pulls is to pass a ridiculous regulation in California then impose it across the country to comply with California law.
The most obvious example was the low-flow toilet. The whole nation had to suffer without toilets that would not push the poop down into the sewer solely because California thought it a good idea to conserve water and they didn't want their citizens buying real toilets from Arizona or Nevada or whatnot. So the whole country suffered with clogged toilets just so California could conserve water (a necessity because California wouldn't store enough in reservoirs out of environmentalist concerns).
Which brings us to
this.. California, in it's ravenous appetite for restraining anything the Gang Green wants to restrain, has banned the importation of car parts they deem "environmentally unsound" and expected the whole country to go along with them as before. Only thing is there is a new sheriff in town and he isn't playing this game.
The EPA and Lee Zeldin just issued a ruling that these parts will be permitted in every state except where banned by local law only. In other words, California can ban them inside of California, but the rest of us will still get them.
California rightly knows their ban will fail because people will just cross state lines and have their cars fixed. Essentially Zeldin annulled their law.
Good for him!
How long before they find some district court judge to issue an injunction even though nationwide injunctions are not legal, according to the Supreme Court?
FTA:
The Environmental Protection Agency recently announced that manufacturers could sell car parts that defy California’s "green” regulations in the other 49 U.S. states.Under the EPA’s advisory opinion, manufacturers can demonstrate compliance with the federal Clean Air Act through Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) emissions certificate program rather first obtaining approval from California regulators.
"Americans should not be forced to solely rely on California to certify aftermarket products. Starting today, Americans can trust that products certified by SEMA meet federal requirements and can be used to repair vehicles,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said in the agency’s July 1 press release.
"The Tampering Policy explains how a person may demonstrate that an aftermarket product does not adversely affect automotive emissions by documenting that an appropriate vehicle equipped with the product will pass the same emissions tests used by the original equipment manufacturer to certify the vehicle under the Clean Air Act,” EPA assistant administrator Jeffrey Hall stated in a letter to Specialty Equipment Market Association CEO Mike Spagnola on July 1.
"The EPA’s Tampering Policy provides guidance to aftermarket manufacturers for meeting the ‘reasonable basis’ criteria for emissions compliance. The policy indicates that certification level testing done in a fashion similar to that required by California Air Resources Board (CARB) for the EO process is appropriate,” SEMA Certified-Emissions’ website stated.
In other words go suck on it Ca!
California, and New York and Illinois, have long held an overly large impact over the rest of the country by using this trick - passing laws to regulate industries and thus becoming "industry standards" that everyone must follow. The EPA just said that this isn't going to continue.
California has been particularly impactful with this stuff because it is a major port area and also has been under the control of Democrats for decades now. New York, while being a huge market, is mostly land-locked with the exception of the Port of New York and of course Illinois is too except Chicago. But California? San Diego, L.A. and the Golden Gate all offer entry points into America. Oh, and there are no large barrier island chains as in the Gulf of America or along the Carolina coast.
So California has always had an outsized role in national commerce and they have long manipulated national policy as a result. But a the state drives people away, and as we are seeing more ports gaining importance in places like Florida or even Texas, and as we are importing less and producing more, California's influence is waning. And that is a very good thing.
Peaches come from Georgia and Arkansas and other places than California. Ditto lettuce. Ditto Tomatoes. Wine comes from all fifty states - not just California. In fact while California has an ideal climate for most agriculture it is not NEEDED - we grow everything we need in other states, all of whom could increase production to meet demand. California is not absolutely necessary to our national survival or even our convenience. It's time they learned that.
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July 11, 2026
Gone to Pot
Timothy Birdnow
I've seen it happen with people I've known. I have little doubt it's true with high levels and prolongued exposure.
When someone goes to pot it's quite literal.
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Happens with alcohol use as well.
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Thank you for sharing such insightful reflections on basketball stars and their influence beyond the court. I'm curious, how do you think their off-court activities shape public perceptions of them?
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Over prolongued exposure and you can damage organs for sure Bill, but pot stays in your system even when you aren't toking it.
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Party Discipline
This from Wretchard T. Cat
For those familiar with the Left, what happened to Karim Khan, Graham Platner and Cesar Chavez is straight out of the playbook of the purges: "bourgeois immorality". Here's how revolutionary discipline works. While people were were always purged for political reasons, the public charge to make it odious was nearly always personal "decadence".
For example Genrik Yagoda reported to Stalin about "pederast activists" involved in orgies and alleged espionage/counter-revolutionary activities. This is how he strung people up.
Then he himself was arrested and executed with raids on his apartments and dacha uncovering a large collection of pornographic materials. He died begging for his life from Yezhov his successor.
Yezhov (AKA "the dwarf") was later arrested and executed by Beria, for among other crimes organizing drunken sexual orgies in his Kremlin apartment, involving both male and female partners and engaging in the most perverted forms of debauchery. He too died pleading for mercy but none was given.
When he fell Beria himself was accused of kidnapping hundreds of young girls and raping them in a special soundproofed room. These acts were framed as "bourgeois immorality," sexual deviancy, and moral corruption — the same rhetorical category used against Yagoda and Yezhov. He met the same end as his predecessors.
The big mystery of the Communist Party is how it can be so strictly morally revolutionary and yet so full of perverts at the same time. How could an organization so skilled at parsing pronouns, quick to take umbrage at the slightest disrespect and of such ethical standards be so full of scumbags?
The obvious answer is it 's all a sham. The whole damn edifice is rotten and it's held together by reciprocal blackmail with each holding the goods on others. Just imagine the ICC sitting in judgment of creeps when it turns out to have been led by a creep all along.
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Bigger cause is voter indifference. They don't care about corruption so long as the legislator votes in favor of their pet cause, i.e. Social Security if the voter is over 65, parimutual betting if the voter likes to gamble, etc.
Ignorance is part and parcel of that. The voter doesn't read about what the legislator does, except for what he does with respect to their single issue.We get the government which we knowingly elect.
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You are right about voter indifference Bill. Take Bill Clinton (please). But Mr. Kat is right in that this is a tried and true technique used by the Left.
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The Eve of Civil War
This from John F. DiLeo
Another British patriot has been assassinated - this time it's 78 year old Reform UK Party spokesman Ann Widdecombe, a 28-year Conservative Party MP who joined Nigel Farage's Reform Party as the Conservatives collapsed.
We are in a civil war; the fight is existential, not just for Britain and the USA but for the entire West.
We have to recognize that a movement that happily riots, commits arson, lets murderers out of jail and floods the streets with drugs, advocates mass abortion-on-demand and government-pushed euthanasia, obviously isn't going to feel any moral restraint about things like political assassinations.
Their goal is to take over our governments to establish marxist dictatorships. What's amazing is that there haven't been that many murders yet, not that there are any at all.
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For those who have eyes to see, I think it's clear that we are now in the End Times.
Prove me wrong...
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at July 11, 2026 11:46 PM (gVePp)
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I agree Dana. This stuff used to happen here or there but now it's everywhere.
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July 10, 2026
God - the Logical Choice
Timothy Birdnow
This article in Psychology Today discusses phenomenon such as visions or special knowledge or sensing the presence of the dead. It is a universal phenomenon and a very common one at that.
The author links an earlier article he wrote giving the evidence for the individuals about to die or who have seen glimpses of an afterlife - this one talks about those present when someone has died or who had some special event occur.
I've had many such experiences over the years. My best friend died of cancer years ago and for a long time I had dreams where he and I hung out and just chatted. But I kept pressing him to tell me about the afterlife and he said I "got him in trouble" and he couldn't visit anymore. I've had a couple of dreams involving him but he never speaks in them now, not since I got him in Dutch.
And my wife too. As she was dying she had some experiences. She saw a bus outside in the back of the apartment we were living in and said people were getting on. She said "you don't believe me, do you" and I answered "I don't see it but I believe you do". When the time came for her to pass I was sick and in the hospital. She waited for five long days. They had stopped the water and food and there was no reason for her to live but she did. She died the evening after I got back, with me by her side.
Since then I've had unusual experiences that I know are her. I had a situation where this floor lamp kept going off. I would find it was turned off and would turn it back on and out it would go. That was something Cathy would do. I also felt someone slap my leg at one point. And I hear noises in the house that sound like someone walking around. Oh, and I dreamed she called me on the telephone! She said Heaven was great and she was very busy. That was all. I wish I'd had more from her but apparently you only get one phone call in Heaven (like prison, only it's a GREAT prison that everyone wants to break INTO.)
At any rate I've had my share of such experiences. I know many other people who have had similar things.
I remember my mother when she was dying, pointing at the ceiling and saying her brother's name. She could see him up above her!
These are the elephants in the rooms that the atheists refuse to discuss, or they dismiss these phenomenon because they are inconvenient. They blame near death experiences on carbon dioxide building up in the blood stream (what do they have against carbon dioxide?) but they never once think that it is a result of dying and not a cause. They are just desperate to find a purely material cause for such things because otherwise they have to admit there is a God and He really is in control of things and what we do in our lives really do have eternal consequences. They do not ever want to admit that.
So they twist and squirm to dismiss all of this as weak-minded people following an ancient superstition that some scam artist made up millenia ago and everyone just happened to believe.
When arguing with atheists I often bring up NDE's and these ancillary phenomenon as evidence and as witnesses and usually it's met with cricket chirps from our atheist friends. Very few try to argue against this, even though among themselves they will spout the carbon dioxide theory, something they cannot prove in the least. Well, the carbon dioxide theory may work for those who had NDE's, but how do you explain these associated phenomenon with survivors? Anybody?
These are powerful arguments for the existence of God. There are others - the Anthropic Principle, for instance, which is a theory in physics which points out that the universe is uniquely fine-tuned to us, that if you alter any one physical law even slightly, or put us anywhere but where we are life would be impossible. We hit the absolute sweet spot. Chance could not have caused this - while it's not possible to calculate the odds of this universe being capable of producing us, it is possible to calculate the odds of one major amino acid being produced through random chance. Astronomer Fred Hoyle calculated those odds as ridiculously low.
Proteins, for example, consist of long chains of 400 or more amino acids in a specific sequence. Each of the amino acids in the sequence is one of 20 different kinds, and if the sequence is altered slightly, the protein will not be functional. Moreover, 19 of the 20 kinds of amino acids[2] come in two forms—a left-handed and a right-handed form—but living things consist only of left-handed molecules. Outside of living things, amino acids occur only in a 50-50 ratio of right-handed and left-handed forms. Even if we artificially create a sample where one form or the other predominates, the sample will, with time, return to a 50-50 ratio through a process called racemation.
The odds of 400 left-handed amino acids linking up by chance is less than (0.5)380, and, since the simplest cell would need over 120 proteins, the combined probability would be less than (0.5)380x120 = 1.08x10-13,727.
In other words it couldn't happen in the lifetime of the Universe. That is why Hoyle, a devout atheist, created the Steady State theory which says the Universe has always existed so he could get around this pesky limitation. Life, he thought, evolved elsewhere and just floated in over time. But if it always existed how is there any energy left? Every virtual particle would have wound down by now and we would be in heat death, a cold, empty universe.
In fact Hoyle realized the difficulty, once saying "the chance that higher life forms might emerge from evolutionary processes is comparable to the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the material therein".
Here is a whole slew of statements made by the atheist Hoyle about the impossibility of life spontaneously generating out of the chaos of the universe.
DNA, and it's older, simpler cousin RNA, are both hellishly complex molecules that could never have come into existence spontaneously. There is no way environmental pressures could have created them - their structure is too complicated and they would have had to assemble by random chance. No "random mutations" would build such a structure.
There are other proofs of God Natural Law; we all understand "self-evident truths" as Jefferson spoke of in the Declaration of Independence. They are self evident because they are self-evident. We know they are correct even without understanding why. They are truths built into the fabric of reality. There is no reason why we couldn't eat our own children, but we all know it's a transgression of some sort of cosmic law that is immutable. Slavery was ended because, in the end, everyone realized it was a violation of natural law. Murder is a violation of natural law and every civilization and even primitive tribal groups ban it. You don't sodomize your mother. You don't do the Oedipus Rex thing. We know these are moral evils without having solid empirical, pragmatic reasons. They just are. Nature and Nature's God. Rights are rights and not privileges because we understand they transcend our human will. They are built into the fabric of reality.
Then there is the order seen in the universe. Concepts like Pi, or the Golden Spiral. Mandelbrot sets! The universe is full of such, be it the spiral on a sea shell and how it is fundamentally no different than the spiral shape of the milky Way galaxy.
Then there is consciousness, something we cannot define and do not understand. Is it created by the human brain? If so, why can the human brain rewire itself through an act of will by a person with, say, Obsessive Compulsive disorder through mindful meditation? How can you have half your brain removed and still live like a normal person? The brain simply rewires and life goes on. Oh, you may have problems, but life goes on. What about split brain disorder when the corpus collosum - the connecting tissue between the two hemispheres - is cut? Two brains, differing personalities, in one body. But again life goes on.
We cannot explain love, loyalty, friendship, beauty, peace of mind using purely material concepts. These all transcend the purely physical.
Take beauty. We don't know what it is but we know it when we see it. And in fact in physics and other hard sciences this concept is critical for determining if a thing is correct or not. The math has an "elegance" that appeals to the sense of beauty of the researcher. That is what tells them they are on the right track. How do you explain that?
That's because it is fundamentally no different than natural law. We knows it when we sees it.
It's why Donald Trump is popular. He's not eloquent. He's not reasonable. He's bombastic and bragadocious and one wouldn't say he was a seductive speaker. But he has something other politicians lack - he speaks with elegance. People hear him and realize what he says is true. It's like natural law or elegance in science -- we knows it when we hears it.
Trump merely speaks the way average Americans speak. He doesn't parse words or use cloying phrases or sugar coats things. Like George Patton he gives it to 'em loud and dirty and then they'll remember.
I digress. The point is there are all sorts of things that suggest the existence of God. The Big Bang sounds surprisingly like the Book of Genesis "God said 'let there be light'". Interestingly enough scientists now believe the Big Bang happened just after cosmic expansion began. This too comports with Genesis "and the Earth was malformed and void and darkness was upon it's face, and God said 'let there be light'". And the universe has been expanding ever since.
There are a lot of things in the Bible that predated scientific understanding. It mentions undersea volcanic vents. It mentions "sea monsters" in the deep, which we now know to be giant squid and like. It spoke of the Earth as "a circle in space sitting on nothing" which clearly shows the author was writing about a round Earth floating in a void. There are a bunch of other things from the Bible that told us what science would later tell us.
I could go on. There are all manner of evidence available to us. There is no smoking gun though, and that is how God wanted it. What is the point of having people worship you because they know for a fact you exist and are just afraid of you? Uncertainty makes everyone make a choice and prove who and what they are.
Just the fact that we have this discussion proves the existence of God. Why would we even think such a thing? The first guy to postulate a deity would have been stoned or otherwise killed by the ancient people when this so-called god failed to protect them despite all the virgins they sacrificed. The idea would have died a dull death for lack of evidence.
And there has never been a civilization based primarily on the atheist model.
I could also mention apparitions of Mary, seen by many people over the centuries, including Egyptian President Nasser who saw the apparition of Mary over a church in Zeitun, Egypt, along with thousands of others. It was on T.V. for crying out loud! We have video of her! But the media won't run them and refuse to report on it.
I myself have had some supernatural experiences involving the Blessed Virgin. I didn't see her; I'm not worthy for sure. But I did have a number of secondary experiences. I saw a giant dove fly above the very place where she was appearing to a visionary named Ray Doiron. (I got on t.v. myself over that one). I've seen some rather stunning things involving Marianne apparitions. So have many others, at places like Medjugorje or Fatima. A friend of mine, a very sober person, saw the "miracle of the Sun" at Medjugorje. as it happened at Fatima in 1917.
And down at my Ozark Hilton I once performed a miracle and stopped a storm by commanding it to cease. I had a memory of Jesus commanding a storm to cease and did likewise. It did. I know; it was the eye of the storm passing, but the time I really needed it
And there are demonic possessions which have been investigated and not just by churchmen. It is an ubiquitous human phenomenon if rare. Oh, and it responds to prayers to God. If there is a devil there must be a God.
Don't like the Catholicism of all this? What about people healed by prayer? Some of it is well-documented.
One or two such things would constitute a coincidence. There are way, way too many. There is a pattern that intersects with faith and with the Cross in particular. At what point do you say the "God Hypothesis" makes more sense than inventing multiple dimensions, unlimited numbers of universes, little green men seeding the universe with life like a cosmic Johnnie Appleseed, and inventing Dark Matter to explain why the Universe isn't expanding faster, then Dark Energy to explain why it's expanding too fast. Occam's razor makes God the simpler, more logical choice.
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I would postulate that God gave us the concept of Occam's razor.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at July 11, 2026 11:54 PM (gVePp)
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Yep. God is where the chicken and egg debate ends.
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The Nose of the Kamal in the Tent
Timothy Birdnow
It's because she's an idiot but not COMPLETELY insane.
Newsom has some serious baggage and it keeps growing all the time. He's now under investigation. Harris is the last great hope for them, like Jim Jeffries was the last great white hope to defeat the black Heavyweight champion Jack Johnson. Jeffries, an old, out of shape former undefeated champion, got creamed.
From the National Flatline, er, pulse:
Former Vice President Kamala Harris holds an early lead in the race for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, according to a new Quantus Insights national poll conducted July 3, 6, and 7, which found her supported by 35.3 percent of likely voters compared with 17.7 percent for California Governor Gavin Newsom.
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg received 12.9 percent, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez earned 11.1 percent, and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro trailed with 7.1 percent in the survey of 1,140 respondents, which has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points. On the Republican side, Vice President J.D. Vance led the field with 42.2 percent support, ahead of Secretary of State Marco Rubio at 25.9 percent and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis at 8.7 percent. The findings are consistent with other 2026 polls that have shown Harris maintaining a double-digit advantage over Newsom, including surveys by Center Square Voters’ Voice and Lake Research Partners. Although no major candidates have formally announced 2028 campaigns, the results suggest Harris begins the early Democratic contest as the clear frontrunner, with Republicans appearing even more consolidated behind Vance. Early polling primarily reflects name recognition and current political standing, but it can influence fundraising, party perceptions, and campaign momentum as the race develops.
The Kamel was sold to America as a moderate centrist, something she most definitely is not and never was. But this proves the party as a whole does NOT support the new young turks, the radicals who are winning in isolated instances but who ultimately, when push comes to shove, will likely lose in the general election.
On the GOP side we've got a deep bench there - Vance, Rube, and DeSantis. Any of those guys would make a great President. I still don't trust Rubio after his signing on to the Gang of Six (or was it eight?) to push Comprehensive Immigration Reform, and his accusing opponents of the bill of racism. Maybe it was a youthful indiscretion, but I find that indicative of a problem deep in his core. He went with the wind and now is all MAGA because that is the way the wind is blowing. But he's done a good job.
DeSantis has been excellent and I'd love him to be Prez. Maybe Rube can be Veep? But I think Vance is the likeliest candidate to win.
But the '28 elections are a long way off. Much will change. People will start seriously thinking about this stuff.
Watch for the Donkeys to pull a dark horse out of their a, er, pants. That is how they've won every election since Kennedy with the exception of Biden; pick a nobody out of nowhere. Carter was a "who's that", so was Bill Clinton. So was Barack Hussein. Biden was a known quantity and look how that turned out. So I suspect they are going to try to surprise us with some oyster farmer or some such.
We'll be coming in with a known quantity. Much will depend on how anti-establishment the public feels at the time. IF things are going great we'll likely do well (although even that is uncertain as the media can turn a rose into a pile of bear droppings if give enough time and leeway.) But if the economy is bad or we are in a quagmire in Iran or elsewhere we're liable to find the going hard. Dark horses do well in unstable times. Watch for the Democrats to try for another Covid type "emergency" to give them the ability to steal the election. It won't be Covid again but no doubt they are sitting on a stool, dunce, er, thinking caps on trying to plot out the next big thing to steal elections.
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Give me a break. A dead frog would lead Newsom by double digits.
Posted by: Bill H at July 10, 2026 11:01 PM (FRG6e)
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But Kameltoe's got the advantage of checking the right racial box (and I was going to say "being a box too," but this is a family blog so I won't say that, I'll merely point out that she's female, and maybe Tim won't ban me).
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at July 11, 2026 12:41 AM (gVePp)
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Well Dana, okay, maybe only a female dead frog.
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I'd rather the dead frog Bill; at least it would cause less damage.
'Sneaky how you did that Dana!
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Twiggy Throws Lover Robinson Under the Bus - Hard
Timothy Birdnow
Looks like there is no honor among tranny lovers.
Robinson murdered the conservative speaker Kirk because he didn't like trans people being picked on and apparently murder is justified for holding a position contrary to your beliefs. So Robinson committed the ultimate act of bullying tout of anger at what he perceived as justifying bullying.
This shows the entitlement mentality of the Left, particularly young leftists, and especially of the sexually deviant. I mean, the guy was dating a dude in a dress after all.
And we thought you were so butch...
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Sparkles Returns
Timothy Birdnow
More judicial insanity.
Yes, judge Sparkles has braided her hair and said "omigoood" and demanded that DHS disobey the court that overruled her.
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A federal judge on July 8 said the Trump administration must not comply with an order from another federal judge and must continue to have key functions of an immigration database disabled.
Judge Sparkle Sooknanan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia said that officials with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other agencies shall keep disabled the ability to look up Social Security numbers and carry out mass uploads in the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system.
Sooknanan ordered the Trump administration in June to disable the features, finding that recent updates to the database violated privacy laws by disclosing Americans’ Social Security numbers and other sensitive information.
But this door knob in black was overturned. A judge in Florida had approved the reinstating of the SAVE system in four states. But she was having none of that.
The article continues:
Sooknanan said on July 8 that arguments from the government in favor of pausing her previous order were unpersuasive, including the argument that highlighted a July 7 ruling from Judge T. Kent Wetherell II of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida that ordered DHS to enable the functions for four states under a 2025 settlement that he had approved.
Wetherell had noted that he could have waited until the case in Washington proceeded, but that the four states had presented "unrebutted evidence showing that they are suffering real and concrete harm every day that passes without the disabled features of the SAVE system.”
He said that Sooknanan could have deferred to his previous determination that the functions were lawful, which was reached, he said, in part because the Social Security Act does not preclude disclosing Social Security numbers for immigration enforcement.
So now DHS has two contradictory orders. I would tell Sparkles to go polish her nails and listen to the adult in the room. She needs to get a neck brace to prevent from injuring her spine from shaking her head back and forth.
Sparkles said that if, in the end, the ruling applied to the four states under Weatherall's ruling the other 46 are still bound by her decision.
Uh, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that district judges may not issue blanket ruling over the whole country. This judge just flipped her middle finger at the Supreme Court. DHS should tell her to put it where the sun don't shine and the moon don't wax - at least outside of her jurisdiction. Sooknanan is the judge for the District Court of D.C.; she has zero authority to impose this ban on the Administration.
BTW Spakles Sooknanan Sounds like a name given by a tween girl to her My Little Pony.
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Absolutely amazing! Judges are now squaring off against each other. Maybe we should just sit on the sidelines and watch 'em duke it out until they have knocked each other silly. And I really think "silly" is the operative word here.
I'm hoping for an article on this brouhaha by somebody like Jonathan Turley, whom I regard as one of the best and most cogent writers on the judicial scene who's active today.
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Me too Dana. I'd like Turley's take.
What is happening now is the leftists on the judiciary are no longer even pretending to follow the law. This judge knows full well that social security numbers are given out all the time and are pretty much public record and the government certainly has and uses them. She's just trying to run interference for the Democrats to hide cheating. No other reason.
The Left is hoping to get the Trump Administration to simply disregard the orders of such judges then they will use that as articles of impeachment against him. But at some point out of control judges have to be ignored - as Alexander Hamilton implied they would be if they overstepped their authority in the Federalist Papers.
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Appeals Court Eliminates Second Amendment in Illinois
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Just what part of "shall not be enfringed" don't these people get?
It's disgraceful that this will have to go to the U.S. Supreme Court and tie up the overworked court but that's where this is heading. Any rational court of law should have tossed this law before the state AG's opening statement was concluded.
A lower court had found the Illinois ban on such weapons unconstitutional but the 7h circuit overturned t
The law was passed in response to a deadly Independence Day shooting.
Why didn't Illinois beef up police presence instead of disarming people who need those guns since the cops are nowhere to be found?
The presiding judgre in the case said that the AR-15, which the law bans, is the "weapon of choice" of Americans and so should not be banned.
Actually it shouldn't matter what is their "weapon of choice"; firearms are protected by the Constitution. There is no exception. Part of the reason for that is the Founders wanted the People to have the tools they would need if the government should need to be removed by force. (BTW there is a federal law against planning to remove that same government by force, something the Founders thought would be necessary "the tree of liberty must be replenished by the blood of patriots and tyrants from time to time". To do that we must have an armed citizenry.
I don't know if tub-o-goo Pritzker know that or not; he's not real bright. But certainly the 7th circuit judges should know that.
The Supreme Court has already issued ruling with a strict interpretation of such laws.
The Left has systematically taken over most courts and it shows with rulings like this.
These judges should be impeached, if only for criminal stupidity.
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The Left wants only themselves to have guns and obviously are doing everything in their power to make it happen. And they're counting on SCOTUS's being too busy to deal with every little pop-up like this one to try to sneak it through. Well, smart people aren't moving to Illinois.
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Agreed. And you know what they will do? When they get power they will then argue SCOTUS is overworked and thus they will need to expand it. It will only be overworked because they forced it to be with endless frivolous suits and radical judges writing their own law but they won't say that - they will say they are overworked and we need more Justices. A lot of boneheads will fall for that too. (Adding Justices won't solve any backlog problem but you know people will think it will.)
You'd have to be nuts to move to Illinois these days. It's too bad; Southern Illinois, especially the Little Egypt area, is absolutely beautiful. And the rest of it is quaint German towns and lovely farm country. It should secede from Illinois and join either Missouri or Indiana.
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Matthew 12:43-45 Return of the Unclean Spirit
Timothy Birdnow
Dead right.
Socialists have been embedded in the Democratic Party for decades, since McGovern and probably Eugene McCarthy. They have had to hide their identity because the public wasn't "ready" for them. But they had a timetable and we are now where they think they should be able to come out of the closet and openly proclaim their communism. They are now taking over the party rather than hiding in their ranks because they believe it is time, that America has strayed so far from her Founding that we will accept the Reds. This timetable was ultimately set by the old Soviets and KGB who built a network to undermine America long ago. This is the long revenge from the grave.
Trump is not the cause of the rise of socialism but rather was the effect; the socialists were already there and many of our government's policies were socialist schemes, schemes Mr. Trump wanted to end.
How has Trump been mean? Mostly by telling the truth about the Left. They hate that.
The Wall Street Journal article, which this post uses as primary source material, argues that Trump is so mmean he pushed liberals into becoming blood thirsty militant Marxists and the solution is therefore to be nicer. Uh, that's called APPEASEMENT and it doesn't work in foreign policy and won't work in America either.
The Left has long operated on the Hegelian dialectic; a thesis is presented (say, Americans don't all have healthcare and we need government to give it to them) and it is met by an antithesis (that's daft and we need to make a market-based solution) and it is met with a synthesis (Obamacare). The left takes half a loaf and quickly gobbles it up then presents a new thesis (Obamacare isn't working - we need a government run health industry) and will be met again by an antithesis, leading to a new synthesis that greatly benefits the Left. Always pushing while we are always retreating. This is also sometimes called the Overton Window, at least where social mores are concerned. The window is slammed shut on things that used to be considered normal and opened to things that were once forbidden. Gay marriage is a prime example of that. It went from asking for tolerance to asking for acceptance to asking for celebration. Now the homosexual lobby has won the big kahuna, the right to "marry" (you can no more marry another person of your sex than you can marry a gorilla, or a kitchen mixer, or a blowup doll.) So the movement changed it up and went to the whole "trans" movement, trying to force us to say there is no difference between the sexes and that a kid who has an XY chromosome pattern and male genitalia is a girl who menstruates and can play on a girl's sports team. That was the Overton Window in action. Now if you say gay marriage is a farce you are ostracized by society as a bigot, something everyone agreed with just twenty years ago.
At any rate this radicalization was planned long ago. Why now in particular? Because the kooks thought after Barack Obama - who promised to do this very thing to America - they had won and now want to do their victory dance. They no longer need duplicitous weasels like Schumer and Jeffries to hide behind. They feel they now can take off the masks.
As is noted in this X post in the article:
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No, they don't seek to reform the system but to destroy it utterly. They are anarchist revolutionaries, hell bent on destroying America so they can replace it with a communist model.
They aren't remotely like the Tea Party. These are evil people.
And they've been waiting for a long, long time.
Granted, there are many members of this new revolutionary group who are young and stupid and in it for the fun of it and because they don't know it's always led to tragedy. But the leaders, the real inside people, have been waiting for decades for their chance at revenge.
And who is funding them? These clowns aren't coming in on a shoestring. Follow the money! You will see it leads to leftist plutocrats like George Soros. This is not a revolution of the proletariat - they love Trump! It is a revolution of rich white kids funded by the super rich.
This quote from the article encapsulates the issue perfectly:
" The rising socialists want to take leftwing orthodoxy to its logical conclusions. And the Democratic Party is the perfect empty vessel to do that with."
Nailed it! The Democratic Party has been fading away, hollowing out from the inside. There is a huge power vacuum in the Democrats and these jerks are trying to fill it. Nature abhors a vacuum.
It's like the story told by Jesus in the Bible about the man tormented by demons. They were driven out but then, as Jesus put it, they came back and saw the place swept out and clean and inviting (meaning the man was primed for them by sin) and so they invited other demons to join them and they had a great party inside the man, and his life was worse than before. That is the Democratic Party now.
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War Casualties and Foreign Policy
Timothy Birdnow
James Pinkerton shows how Trump has lost far fewer Americans in overseas wars than any other President since the beginning of the millennium except 'old cut and run' Biden:
Here is the scorecard:
Bush 43: Total 4,865 (Iraq 4,239, Afghanistan 626)
Obama: Total 2,054 (Iraq 302, Afghanistan 1752)
Trump 45: Total 65 (Afghanistan 45)
Biden: Total 23 (13 Afghanistan)
Trump 47: Total 13 (Iran)
These casualty numbers are for troops sent into actual hot zones, battlegrounds, not random terrorist attacks or other such casualties.And these numbers only include military personnel, not contractors or aid workers or other such.
Biden, of course, largely inherited a peaceful world which he made more dangerous by his Charlie foxtrot in Afghanistan, his weak, vacillating approach to Ukraine, and his support for Iran and the "cash for peace" deal Obama made which only made Iran stronger. That he lost ANY troops is unacceptable given he had no wars to fight.
Pinkerton is under the delusion that Trump was pushed into attacking Iran by Bibi Netanyahu. I hate to break it to old Pinko but nobody, but nobody, pressed Donald Trump's buttons. He's strong as a mule and twice as stubborn.
And Pinkerton says "Trump chose war", being in complete denial about Iran's growing nuclear threat and not understanding that the military option was all the President had left to deal with them. He'd been in negotiations
Pinkerton says:
"If Trump has his way, the U.S. will be more Hamiltonian and less Wilsonian, seeing the world, as he does, through a mercantilist lens. If so, POLITICO reports, NATO will become a "cash machine,” good for not much more than American arms sales. And that mission, at least, seems to have been accomplished."
I disagree; I don't think Trump is Wilsonian at all but rather Jacksonian in his approach. Wilson was the proto-fascist and Wilson wanted a new world order before we had any such thing as the U.N. HE created the League of Nations. HE was not at all interested in profit for anyone. Trump is also not a "mercantilist" which is a fancy way of saying a heavily regulated economy at the service of the state. Fascism was mercantilist in nature (even while also being proto-socialist) and Trump still favors free trade - he just doesn't favor getting soaked by it. Pinkerton bemoans the end of NATO as anything but a "cash machine to buy American arms" but that would not be Wilsonian at all. Wilson was the architect of an international order. Trump was to stop playing footsie with people who take advantage of us.
Pinkerton goes on to speak about how Trump's efforts have gone nowhere and that Iran won't let him forget - having called for his assassination. Pinkerton seems to be unaware that an Iranian plot to kill Trump was foiled by the FBI well before the start of hostilities. They've ALWAYS wanted to assassinate Trump.
I'm hard on Pinkerton and have always disagreed with him on foreign policy. I actually owe my writing career to him, believe it or not! He wrote an article about the invasion of Afghanistan when we first went in and I left a critical comment. He e-mailed me back and we had a lively exchange (and I cleaned his clock). I remember thinking "hell, I could do that!" and so I did.
At any rate he did a fine job using the stats to show Trump knows how to project power without costing American lives. Hopefully that will continue, but I fear we must take the islands in the Gulf, especially Kharg and those near the strait itself. That will mean Marines. We're going to lose lives if we do that.
Or we can just bomb Iran into a parking lot. It would be a good place to store our newest lines of gas guzzling SUV's before being sold to a grateful world.
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Brick by Brick
This from Daniel Jupp
One thing you can say for the Left and the Globalists.
They take dominance of culture and forcing propaganda and The Agenda into everything very, very seriously.
The Odyssey wasn’t chosen because it’s a great story they wanted to tell.
It was chosen because it’s a foundational text of western civilisation and identity as well as of Greek civilisation and identity.
It was chosen to ‘decolonise the popular imagination’.
The film was always intended as an expensive act of desecration and cultural vandalism, with the exact same purpose as toppling statues or blowing up Buddhas like the jihadists did in Afghanistan.
It has exactly the same motivations as any other act of cultural vandalism signifying Culrural dominance and erasing or replacing the past.
Modern reality and support for it must be imposed on the great texts of the past, which must be rewritten to conform with the modern ideology.
That is why there is a feminist version of the Odyssey, and that is why that was chosen as the base text instead of any of the other more accurate translations.
That is why 250 million dollars was handed to a director who made an extremely successful movie with a very sympathetic attitude to Communism.
That is why the casting choices deliberately erase and insult white civilisation and white myth and history, sacrificing believability on the altar of diversity.
That is why the script is so appallingly and jarringly modern in tone, written in modern idiom in the language of a 12 year old with no conception that other times and places might sound different or that epic myth requires a certain type of language.
The point is to erase that other time and place, not evoke it. The point is to reduce western civilisation to a seamless and continuous NOW, a now where Marxist lessons and critical race hierarchy dominates everything and where the connections between the Western audience and their own past are mocked and recast as propaganda pieces for the globalist cause.
And that is why there is such a uniform and massive media campaign to gaslight us all on the quality of this propaganda piece and get us to watch it.
Cultural artefacts, both classical culture and popular culture, are for these people tools of dominance, opportunities to enforce The Agenda and train viewers to think the same way.
There is no aesthetic intent. There isn’t an entertainment intent. And there isn’t even a profit intent. It doesn’t necessarily even matter to them if anyone is persuaded.
What matters most is that you are forced to live within their message, with their message assailing your eyes, and that you should know that nothing you hold sacred is immune to their distortion and control
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diGenova on the Move
Timothy Birdnow
Joe diGenova has
unearthed a mountain of evidence that the Ukraine and Britain tampered with our election in 2016 to remove Donald Trump and install Joe "where's the exit" Biden as President.
DiGenova was investigating the "Russian collusion" hoax for the Administration but found a lot of evidence that Ukraine and Britain had been funding not just this attack but multiple other dirty tricks.
It is illegal for foreign countries to tamper with American elections.
I've long suspected this was the case and that Ukraine was one of the culprits. They had been playing footsie with the Clintons long before Trump came on the scene and Trump's America First approach to foreign policy was at odds with their interests. Hillary could be bought, not Trump.
And Britain has long believed that we are just a pack animal, an elephant in India to be harnessed and ridden by the superior British intellect. British intelligence has attempted to steer us the way they wanted for a long time. They stopped doing things themselves but instead decided to manipulate us into doing the work for them. They wanted the Rules Based Order, the international system. Trump didn't comport with their worldview so they tried to replace him.
The British worldview just happened to coincide with the worldview of a lot of members of our intelligence and law enforcement agencies as well. That is the who in "we won't let that happen" from Peter Strzok to his girlfriend.
At any rate diGenova is moving and he's connecting all the dots. Hopefully indictments will be forthcoming soon.
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When Joe talks, I will certainly listen!
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How the Graham Platner Crumbles
Timothy Birdnow
I wonder if the statute of limitations has run out or is Platner facing any legal troubles?
The truly frightening thing is Platner was running neck-and-neck with the RINO Susan Collins. Mainers didn't seem to care this guy allegedly forcibly raped a woman.
But no doubt internal polling showed they did and that Platner was going to burn and crash like the Hindenberg, so they pushed him out.
I had hoped he would stay in and take the whole thing down.
Platner was a fraud from beginning to end. He was a rich kid living off his father's money. Daddy was a very successful lawyer making huge amounts of cash. Platner only bought the oyster farm after he decided to run for office so he could lay claim to being one of the common people. He always was a spoiled rich kid who believed he was entitled.
All the other problems - Nazi tattoos, inflammatory statements, manhandling a girlfriend, cheating on his wife, were secondary to this latest bombshell. He raped a former girlfriend.
This guy is a rather unlikeable version of Bill Clinton. Clinton, you may remember, was credibly accused of raping a woman too "better put some ice on that" he said after he was finished.
At any rate Platner has finally caved, freeing the Democrats to select a new candidate. How will they do it? They could a.hold a party caucus b.hold a primary election (with very limited time) or c. have party insiders simply choose a candidate. I'm sure that last is what they want but they did that with Kamala Harris and it turned out poorly. The criticism was that Harris was selected in a smokey back room (it probably was, too, although it tweren't tobacco smoke in the air). But there is very limited time to even organize a caucus.
So a bunch of blunt-smoking bigwigs will probably decide who will run. They have until July 27 to chose or lose.
For the record I have my doubts about the rape allegation. I heard the accuser talk about it and when asked if it was rape she said "definitionally yest" which to me lacks sincerity; if you were raped you would not mince words. Rape is a terrible act, an act of violence. I also wonder about her saying "at some point I thought to myself 'this is no longer my choice'". Sounds to me like consensual sex until old Graham was nearing his happy moment and unable to stop himself.
It doesn't sound like rape to me. But then, he no doubt pressed way too hard to get it.
On the other hand the woman is a Democrat and has no good reason to come forward in the first place. She had kept her peace until now, and it was only when other women came forward that she decided to share as well.
We all remember the Democrats trotting out such women in times past. One accused Trump of raping her even though she had all the details wrong and had nothing at all to corroborate her accusation. We had this same line of attack used on Brett Kavanaugh when he was nominated to the Supreme Court. We had it done to Clarence Thomas too. Even George Bush Sr. had such an allegation, at least a claim he cheated on Barbara. (I have no love for the Bush's but George H.W. was a man who would never cheat on his wife.) This is a common Democrat tactic.
But not a Republican one. We don't make such accusations unless they are true.
At any rate Platner is out and that is good. The man was a walking disaster and who knows what other skeletons would fall out of his closet.
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I'm not gonna call Susie Collins a RINO; not after reading an article by the fire-breathing Townhall writer Kurt Schlichter a few months ago praising her and saying she may not be everybody's bowl of clam chowder but she's what Maine Republicans like very much. So... she may not vote the way you or I like but she votes the way Maine Republicans like, and so be it.
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Suffering Sufragettes
Timothy Birdnow
Not the worst idea anyone ever had. A bit unfair and completely politically undoable, but the anti-suffragettes predicted everything bad that has happened to America since female suffrage.
When America was first founded only land-owners could vote, and only white male landowners. Black freemen were not allowed, even if they owned their own land. Little by little we began changing that, extending the franchise to more and more people. Now anyone can vote, even illegal aliens if they can get a ballot sent to them (it's still illegal but if nobody wants to stop them...)
But the fact is women vote based more on emotions, at least many do, just as the women who opposed suffrage said they would. And it's especially true of young women who want the government to act as a surrogate husband for them. Many such women have bought into the feminist view and do not want to be beholden to a man, so instead they want to be beholden to government. They find standing on their own two feet to be less enjoyable than they thought. Working is great when you can quit without worrying; men rarely have that luxury.
At any rate female suffrage has profoundly changed our country and not for the better.
Granted, it's unfair to take it away from all women; older married women tend to vote far more logically, and do not support the crazies as the young uns do. But how do you take the vote from the idiots?
At any rate it's an idea that won't happen. We've been on a long-term trend of extending democracy to everyone - the very thing that turns a republic into a democracy and inevitably into a tyranny - and that isn't going to change because people believe in democracy, something loathed and feared by the Founding Fathers and with good reason. Democracies descend into "tyrannies of special interest" as Plato warned. We are there now to a large degree. That is exactly why we elected Trump, to break out from under the tyranny of special interest imposed by the elites.
So de-suffragizing women won't happen soon, but it sure is nice to think about. I wish there was a way to just de-suffragizing liberal women, but until we develop a test for that it's beyond our reach. Of course if we could develop a test for liberalism we might be able to come up with a medical cure.
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