June 20, 2025
The Use of the National Guard
Timothy Birdnow
Here is a timeline of Presidential use of Federal Troops on U.S. soil. It's not at all unusual.
Here is a timeline of Presidential use of Federal Troops on U.S. soil. It's not at all unusual.
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Starship Blows Up
Timothy Birdnow
If I were of a conspiratorial nature I'd suspect sabotage. Good thing I'm not a conspiracy theorist...
SpaceX's Starship Explodes in Texas during Preparagions for 10th Test Flight
There are plenty of other reasons for such a thing happening; we know NASA lost a number of craft, especially during tests (remember Vanguard, Apollo 1, both Challenger and Columbia). A rocket is a huge object full of high-energy fuel that is burning at an alarming rate. Accidents happen.
But one wonders, given the bile and hatred for Mr. Musk; it is not inconceivable that someone on the inside sabotaged him. After all, nobody was injured.
I look forward to reading any report put out after an investigation as to why the craft blew up.
If I were of a conspiratorial nature I'd suspect sabotage. Good thing I'm not a conspiracy theorist...
SpaceX's Starship Explodes in Texas during Preparagions for 10th Test Flight
There are plenty of other reasons for such a thing happening; we know NASA lost a number of craft, especially during tests (remember Vanguard, Apollo 1, both Challenger and Columbia). A rocket is a huge object full of high-energy fuel that is burning at an alarming rate. Accidents happen.
But one wonders, given the bile and hatred for Mr. Musk; it is not inconceivable that someone on the inside sabotaged him. After all, nobody was injured.
I look forward to reading any report put out after an investigation as to why the craft blew up.
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Ayatollah Praises American College Kids
Timothy Birdnow
Ayatollah Khamenei tells American college kids they are "on the right side of history".
What does that say about American education these days? The Iranian Suprmeme Leader, the guy who puts the share in Sharia, who makes women cover themselves completely and who won't educate them and who executes homosexuals for being gay is now lecturing American university students who LARGELY AGREE WITH HIM.
That is how far the university system has sunk.
All of the Hamas-loving idiots coming out of the citadel of imbecilism haven't a clue as to what Hamas or the Ayatollah believe, or seek, alsmost all of which are antithetical to what these dumb kids actually believe. All they know is Iranians are "brown people" (they aren't, they are pretty much white) and so they are automatically the good guys and America is evil.
How any fool could believe this is beyond me. These kids grew up here and see how EVERYONE has it very good. Our poor are better off than most of the wealthy in the world. And everyone gets to vote. And everyone can petition over grievances, and can assemble peaceably. But they think WE are the problem because communist teachers told them so.
It's time to dismantle the university system and stop listening to them. They are nothing but a brainwashing machine.
Ayatollah Khamenei tells American college kids they are "on the right side of history".
What does that say about American education these days? The Iranian Suprmeme Leader, the guy who puts the share in Sharia, who makes women cover themselves completely and who won't educate them and who executes homosexuals for being gay is now lecturing American university students who LARGELY AGREE WITH HIM.
That is how far the university system has sunk.
All of the Hamas-loving idiots coming out of the citadel of imbecilism haven't a clue as to what Hamas or the Ayatollah believe, or seek, alsmost all of which are antithetical to what these dumb kids actually believe. All they know is Iranians are "brown people" (they aren't, they are pretty much white) and so they are automatically the good guys and America is evil.
How any fool could believe this is beyond me. These kids grew up here and see how EVERYONE has it very good. Our poor are better off than most of the wealthy in the world. And everyone gets to vote. And everyone can petition over grievances, and can assemble peaceably. But they think WE are the problem because communist teachers told them so.
It's time to dismantle the university system and stop listening to them. They are nothing but a brainwashing machine.
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Luna: Investigate Soros!
Timothy Birdnow
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna: Why has congress Never Investigated Soros?
Why indeed? He's funded every evil thing for decades now and yet Congress has given him and his organizations - the Tides Foundation and The Open Society - a pass. Plenty of outside folks have dug up all manner of vile things involving Soros and his corrupt family, yet Congress refuses to look into them. Why, one would almost suspect Congress has been bought off....
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna: Why has congress Never Investigated Soros?
Why indeed? He's funded every evil thing for decades now and yet Congress has given him and his organizations - the Tides Foundation and The Open Society - a pass. Plenty of outside folks have dug up all manner of vile things involving Soros and his corrupt family, yet Congress refuses to look into them. Why, one would almost suspect Congress has been bought off....
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The Protesters are the Felons
Timothy Birdnow
When mobs attack:
Media Baffled by Motorists Who Refuse to be Dragged out of their cars and Mauled
When a mob surrounds your car and threatens your life you use what you have - in this case a quarter ton of steel and 200 horsepower.
Yet we treat folks like this guy who ran over a "protester" as the perpetrator rather than the victim.
Well, there is a legal maxim quod est necessarium est licitum, "That which is necessary is legal.” If your life is imperiled by someone you have a legal right to self-defense up to and including running over someone who blocks your path. The necessity argument is applicable; it applies when you do something you wouldn't normally do out of necessity. It's the reason why we do not prosecute someoone for crimes when they or their loved ones are being threatened with extreme harm. The maxim vim vi repellere licet is also applicable "It is lawful to repel violence with violence" and that dates back to Justinian.
But we are too cool for Justinian these days or anything remotely rational.
The Left has long used victimhood as a tool for empowerment and they use it with this doofus protesters. They are always hoping for violence, and then for violence in response so they can claim to be victims. It's been a tool of their for a couple of hundred years and particularly in the 20th century.
We need to support this guy, and anyone abused by the system for protecting themselves. In law it is a felony if anyone dies during the commission of a crime and the crime was blocking this guy, not the guy's response. The "protesters" are the felons.
When mobs attack:
Media Baffled by Motorists Who Refuse to be Dragged out of their cars and Mauled
When a mob surrounds your car and threatens your life you use what you have - in this case a quarter ton of steel and 200 horsepower.
Yet we treat folks like this guy who ran over a "protester" as the perpetrator rather than the victim.
Well, there is a legal maxim quod est necessarium est licitum, "That which is necessary is legal.” If your life is imperiled by someone you have a legal right to self-defense up to and including running over someone who blocks your path. The necessity argument is applicable; it applies when you do something you wouldn't normally do out of necessity. It's the reason why we do not prosecute someoone for crimes when they or their loved ones are being threatened with extreme harm. The maxim vim vi repellere licet is also applicable "It is lawful to repel violence with violence" and that dates back to Justinian.
But we are too cool for Justinian these days or anything remotely rational.
The Left has long used victimhood as a tool for empowerment and they use it with this doofus protesters. They are always hoping for violence, and then for violence in response so they can claim to be victims. It's been a tool of their for a couple of hundred years and particularly in the 20th century.
We need to support this guy, and anyone abused by the system for protecting themselves. In law it is a felony if anyone dies during the commission of a crime and the crime was blocking this guy, not the guy's response. The "protesters" are the felons.
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Drill Baby Drill!
Timothy Birdnow
Here's how to do it!
Trump to Unlock 82% of Alaskan Petroleum Reserve
Increase supply and costs decline.
We may shortly be losing a lot of oil from the world market as the Israelis could well strike iran's refineries. Almost all of Iran's refining capabilities are located on one island in the Gulf of Arabia (formerly Persian Gulf) and almost all oil passes through Kharg Island - close to 1.5 million barrels per day.) If Israel takes this out the oil will stop and prices will spike significantly. But just the promise of new oil fields will help temper that. Oil prices are driven by oil futures. That is why Trump has made this announcement now.
Most of China's oil passes through Kharg Island, by the way, which is why they will be furious if the island is bombed. It's cause for concern at a minimum.
Be that as it may this is a welcome development. Nowadays oil drilling does not require giant derricks which hit gushers and dump oil all over the place; they are small, about the size of riding lawn mowers, and clean. They will barely impact the local environment, and if they do it will be for the good as local wildlife like the warmth from the oil pipelines and that is very welcome in a place that gets bone-chillingly cold.
Drill baby drill!
Here's how to do it!
Trump to Unlock 82% of Alaskan Petroleum Reserve
Increase supply and costs decline.
We may shortly be losing a lot of oil from the world market as the Israelis could well strike iran's refineries. Almost all of Iran's refining capabilities are located on one island in the Gulf of Arabia (formerly Persian Gulf) and almost all oil passes through Kharg Island - close to 1.5 million barrels per day.) If Israel takes this out the oil will stop and prices will spike significantly. But just the promise of new oil fields will help temper that. Oil prices are driven by oil futures. That is why Trump has made this announcement now.
Most of China's oil passes through Kharg Island, by the way, which is why they will be furious if the island is bombed. It's cause for concern at a minimum.
Be that as it may this is a welcome development. Nowadays oil drilling does not require giant derricks which hit gushers and dump oil all over the place; they are small, about the size of riding lawn mowers, and clean. They will barely impact the local environment, and if they do it will be for the good as local wildlife like the warmth from the oil pipelines and that is very welcome in a place that gets bone-chillingly cold.
Drill baby drill!
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Newsom Gets Creamed at the 9th Circuit
Timothy Birdnow
Gavin Newsom Dealt Major Blow as Ninth Circuit Unanimously Rules Trump Can Keep National Guard Troops Deployed in LA
Remember, the Ninth Circuit is the most Liberal court in the land and THEY ruled against Nuisance, er, Newsom.
The President is the supreme commander of all armed forces, including the National Guard. And while Posse Comitatas forbids deploying troops (and it can be interpreted as regulars while the National Guard is not exactly RA) it allows it in cases of insurgency or in cases of extreme violence. While no President has done this for a while without the approval of the state governor it has been common in times past. Since California has repeatedly failed to utilize the National Guard in emergencies, at least properly, Mr. Trump had few options. And had he ignored this violence would have spread across the country; there is a reason why the "No Kings" protests only saw violence in a few cities controlled by Democrats with Democrat state Governors.
If Lyndon Johnson could use National Guard troops to keep order during race rioting then why can't Trump use them to keep order during Illegal alien rioting? Johnson sent the Guard to Alabama during the Civil Rights protests.
Gavin Newsom, the man who let L.A. burn, claimed victory because the Ninth Circuit said no President can control the National Guard based solely on their whim. Trump never argued he could.
Newsom reminds me of the knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail who, after Arthur severs all his limbs, offers to call it a draw. When Arthur refuses he threatens to bit his ankles. THAT is the good Governor these days.
Newsom's political future is finis!
Gavin Newsom Dealt Major Blow as Ninth Circuit Unanimously Rules Trump Can Keep National Guard Troops Deployed in LA
Remember, the Ninth Circuit is the most Liberal court in the land and THEY ruled against Nuisance, er, Newsom.
The President is the supreme commander of all armed forces, including the National Guard. And while Posse Comitatas forbids deploying troops (and it can be interpreted as regulars while the National Guard is not exactly RA) it allows it in cases of insurgency or in cases of extreme violence. While no President has done this for a while without the approval of the state governor it has been common in times past. Since California has repeatedly failed to utilize the National Guard in emergencies, at least properly, Mr. Trump had few options. And had he ignored this violence would have spread across the country; there is a reason why the "No Kings" protests only saw violence in a few cities controlled by Democrats with Democrat state Governors.
If Lyndon Johnson could use National Guard troops to keep order during race rioting then why can't Trump use them to keep order during Illegal alien rioting? Johnson sent the Guard to Alabama during the Civil Rights protests.
Gavin Newsom, the man who let L.A. burn, claimed victory because the Ninth Circuit said no President can control the National Guard based solely on their whim. Trump never argued he could.
Newsom reminds me of the knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail who, after Arthur severs all his limbs, offers to call it a draw. When Arthur refuses he threatens to bit his ankles. THAT is the good Governor these days.
Newsom's political future is finis!
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The Razor's Edge
Ttimothy Birdnow
Here is the real danger of pressing this war in Iran.
Russia and China both se Iran as a strategic partner. Russia has long had close ties with Iran, and working toegether they sought to dominate oil and gas supplies heading to Europe. When Russia cut off gas to the Ukraine a number of years back the Europeans realized their vulnerability (and that may be part of why they pushed the failed policies of "green energy" and the U.S. took action by attempting to build oil and gas pipelines through friendly countries. The BTC pipeline, for instance, went through Georgia and bipassed both Iran and Russia. It was the primary reason Russia invaded Georgia in 2008.
The cornerstone of Putin's foreign policy is energy dominance. For that he needs the alliance with Iran. (That is also why he did NOT support Trump but rather Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, despite claims by the media to the contrary.)
Now the U.S. is unlocking her own oil fields and threatening Russian energy dominance, and at the same time this Israeli-Iranian conflict is threatening the very survival of the Mullahs in Iran and that threatens Russian energy dominance. Putin knows this.
Meanwhile the Chinese get most of their oil from Iran, and even if they did not the proverb "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" holds true for them. Trump is an existential threat to China and Xi knows it. Standing with Russia in defense of Iran may keep the American behomoth at bay, as far as he sees it.
Now would be a good time to go after Taiwan.
And let us not forget that the war between Russia and the Ukraine is still raging and this still presents a real threat. The Europeans desperately want this war, adn desperately want the Ukraine to win.
We are tiptoeing through a minefield. Any wrong move could wind up starting the Big One.
Which is why I support a limited strike with our bunker-busters; take out the nuclear facilities and then let Iran deal with her own problems. No boots on the ground. Iran would be a real bear to take via traditional armies, much harder than Iraq. While it wouldn't be like fighting in Afghanistan it would still be a bear, especially since there are far more Iranians than Afghanis. (Iran has a series of high mountains surrounding an interior high plateau. The whole country sits high - 1,500 feet with one sixth over 6,500 feet. The center of Iran is an arid wasteland too. The Romans could never defeat Iran in open conflict; that speaks volumes.)
There is a reason why no colonial power ever annexed Iran. Britain conquered India, France Indochina, but nobody had the stones to go after Iran. That is no coincidence.
So it would be nuts to plan an invasion. And airstrikes must happen quickly and decisively. But it probably would be better than doing nothing at this point. Israel is willing to do the heavy lifting; we just need to provide the things they do not have (like bunker-buster bombs) and turn them loose.
We should also offer material support for insurgents in Iran and perhaps offer to return Reza Pahlavi to reassume the throne if the Iranian People want to finally rid themselves of their terrorist masters. But it has to be their doing, not ours.
We are at an inflection point in history; this will change the balance of world power one way or another. How that changes depends on how we handle it. Sadly we have an isolationist wing of the MAGA movement that thinks we can completely ignore this and it will go away. They are as wrong as the Neocon warmongers. Sometimes a fight is thrust upon you and you can either get your face stove in or you can fight back and win. I am mindful of the movie The Karate Kid; Mr. Miagi asks if his young protege' thinks karate is about fighting. The young Daniel figures out where this is going "no, you learn it to avoid fighting". That is basically the point of America having a military in the first place. But sometimes the fight is thrust upon you.
Events have drifted for a long time. Now things are coming to a head; we can either steer them in the right direction or put our heads in the same and wait until we have no options. I think Trump is handling this very well. He's not taking our involvement off the table but he's not jumping in feet first. That is the mark of a statesmen.
Here is the real danger of pressing this war in Iran.
Russia and China both se Iran as a strategic partner. Russia has long had close ties with Iran, and working toegether they sought to dominate oil and gas supplies heading to Europe. When Russia cut off gas to the Ukraine a number of years back the Europeans realized their vulnerability (and that may be part of why they pushed the failed policies of "green energy" and the U.S. took action by attempting to build oil and gas pipelines through friendly countries. The BTC pipeline, for instance, went through Georgia and bipassed both Iran and Russia. It was the primary reason Russia invaded Georgia in 2008.
The cornerstone of Putin's foreign policy is energy dominance. For that he needs the alliance with Iran. (That is also why he did NOT support Trump but rather Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, despite claims by the media to the contrary.)
Now the U.S. is unlocking her own oil fields and threatening Russian energy dominance, and at the same time this Israeli-Iranian conflict is threatening the very survival of the Mullahs in Iran and that threatens Russian energy dominance. Putin knows this.
Meanwhile the Chinese get most of their oil from Iran, and even if they did not the proverb "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" holds true for them. Trump is an existential threat to China and Xi knows it. Standing with Russia in defense of Iran may keep the American behomoth at bay, as far as he sees it.
Now would be a good time to go after Taiwan.
And let us not forget that the war between Russia and the Ukraine is still raging and this still presents a real threat. The Europeans desperately want this war, adn desperately want the Ukraine to win.
We are tiptoeing through a minefield. Any wrong move could wind up starting the Big One.
Which is why I support a limited strike with our bunker-busters; take out the nuclear facilities and then let Iran deal with her own problems. No boots on the ground. Iran would be a real bear to take via traditional armies, much harder than Iraq. While it wouldn't be like fighting in Afghanistan it would still be a bear, especially since there are far more Iranians than Afghanis. (Iran has a series of high mountains surrounding an interior high plateau. The whole country sits high - 1,500 feet with one sixth over 6,500 feet. The center of Iran is an arid wasteland too. The Romans could never defeat Iran in open conflict; that speaks volumes.)
There is a reason why no colonial power ever annexed Iran. Britain conquered India, France Indochina, but nobody had the stones to go after Iran. That is no coincidence.
So it would be nuts to plan an invasion. And airstrikes must happen quickly and decisively. But it probably would be better than doing nothing at this point. Israel is willing to do the heavy lifting; we just need to provide the things they do not have (like bunker-buster bombs) and turn them loose.
We should also offer material support for insurgents in Iran and perhaps offer to return Reza Pahlavi to reassume the throne if the Iranian People want to finally rid themselves of their terrorist masters. But it has to be their doing, not ours.
We are at an inflection point in history; this will change the balance of world power one way or another. How that changes depends on how we handle it. Sadly we have an isolationist wing of the MAGA movement that thinks we can completely ignore this and it will go away. They are as wrong as the Neocon warmongers. Sometimes a fight is thrust upon you and you can either get your face stove in or you can fight back and win. I am mindful of the movie The Karate Kid; Mr. Miagi asks if his young protege' thinks karate is about fighting. The young Daniel figures out where this is going "no, you learn it to avoid fighting". That is basically the point of America having a military in the first place. But sometimes the fight is thrust upon you.
Events have drifted for a long time. Now things are coming to a head; we can either steer them in the right direction or put our heads in the same and wait until we have no options. I think Trump is handling this very well. He's not taking our involvement off the table but he's not jumping in feet first. That is the mark of a statesmen.
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Prosperity and the White Man
Ttimothy Birdnow
White Rhodesian Zimbabwean farmers who were kicked off their land and terrorized by the Communist Robert Mugabe mostly immigrated to Zambia - and are turning that country into the next breadbasket of Africa while Zimbabwe turns into a wasteland.
From Revolver:
And yet, maddeningly, the South African government is attempting to do exactly what Zimbabwe did, seizing tthe land from the white farmers and terrorizing them in the process.
South Africa has gone from the powerhouse of Africa, including having developed nuclear weapons, to just another impoverished hell-hole under the rule of the African National Conferecne (ANC) and this is a direct result of putting Marxists and black supremacists in power.
I had a freind from Eritrea who once told me he couldn't understand why so many black Americans hated white people. I had to give him a history lesson. But he said "in Africa we love white people; they bring money". I'm sure that's not true everywhere, and especially in the south where the whites built a prosperous modern society while their black neighbors (and most blacks in South Africa immigrated there AFTER ther whites) wound up poor and in crime-riddled areas. They resent the whites there because the whites show them the failure of their own society.
At any rate Zimbabwe should be a cautionary tale to South Africa, but instead the government of SA has used it as a blueprint.
White Rhodesian Zimbabwean farmers who were kicked off their land and terrorized by the Communist Robert Mugabe mostly immigrated to Zambia - and are turning that country into the next breadbasket of Africa while Zimbabwe turns into a wasteland.
From Revolver:
Many made their way to Zambia, which is just due north of Zimbabwe and right next door to South Africa. The government opened its arms, and as a result, Zimbabwe went from Africa’s breadbasket to a starving wasteland.
Zambia saw an opportunity: keep skilled, hard-working people on the land and feed the nation.
It worked.
The same farmers who were branded "colonizers” are now major contributors to Zambia’s booming agriculture industry, bringing modern irrigation, livestock care, and grain production that is keeping families fed and the economy stable.
Zambia saw an opportunity: keep skilled, hard-working people on the land and feed the nation.
It worked.
The same farmers who were branded "colonizers” are now major contributors to Zambia’s booming agriculture industry, bringing modern irrigation, livestock care, and grain production that is keeping families fed and the economy stable.
And yet, maddeningly, the South African government is attempting to do exactly what Zimbabwe did, seizing tthe land from the white farmers and terrorizing them in the process.
South Africa has gone from the powerhouse of Africa, including having developed nuclear weapons, to just another impoverished hell-hole under the rule of the African National Conferecne (ANC) and this is a direct result of putting Marxists and black supremacists in power.
I had a freind from Eritrea who once told me he couldn't understand why so many black Americans hated white people. I had to give him a history lesson. But he said "in Africa we love white people; they bring money". I'm sure that's not true everywhere, and especially in the south where the whites built a prosperous modern society while their black neighbors (and most blacks in South Africa immigrated there AFTER ther whites) wound up poor and in crime-riddled areas. They resent the whites there because the whites show them the failure of their own society.
At any rate Zimbabwe should be a cautionary tale to South Africa, but instead the government of SA has used it as a blueprint.
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Carville Goes Mad-der)
Timothy Birdnow
James Carville, the old swamo alligator who's imbibed way too much moonshine down on the bayou, is reaching new lows as he accuses Trump of having syphillis (without any evidence except a probably-retouched photo showing Trump with a sore on his hand) and says he's starting a war for no reason.
From the Daily Caller article:
"Hauling off and starting a war"? Carville apparently doesn't know that there already IS a war ongoing which involves the U.S. as it is our weapons that are being used. He also apparently fails to understand that Iran has been at war with the U.S. ever since they seized our embassy back at the end of the '70's, and they have repeatedly attacked American assets, citizens, and installations around the globe through their proxies. He also apparently does not know that the Iranians plotted to assassinate President Trump, which is an act of war. He ignores the fact that Trump is only speaking about using American bunker busters in aid of Israel's attempt to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and vaporizing Tel Aviv, as well as perhaps New York or L.A.
"Haul off and start a war"? James Carville has openly supported American military intervention in the Ukraine, where we have zero national interest, and he said Trump was harming the nation by trying to scale back our involvement in a war with a nuclear superpower. But he accuses Trump of hauling off and starting a war.
He forgets he stood alongside Bill Clinton when HE "hauled off and started a war" in the Balkans (where we had no national interest and had not been attacked by Serbia), or Clinton's bombing of an aspirin factory in the Sudan, or any of Clinton's other antics (like the Black Hawk Down incident where American soldiers were dragged through the streets of Mogadishu after the Clinton Administration sent them in to arrest a war lord). Carville was just fine with hauling off and starting wars when it was his side doing so.
The spitting serpent head continues:
I doubt Carville really believes the media hasn't looked into every single aspect of Trump. Trump is the most investigated President in American history.
Trump also has previously released his medical test results unlike former President Biden. Syphilis would have been found by the White House physicians.
I would add Mr. Carville has previously downplayed Joe Biden's mental decline and condemnedthose who claim there was a cover-up. Now he's claiming a cover-up, but only because Donald Trump is President.
This is nothing but the childish game of "nuh-uh but what are you!" or "I'm rubber you're glue". THIS is the best the Democrats can do at this stage; attack Trump with crazy, unsupportable accusations.
He has no better idea than to accuse Trump of what he himself helped cover up during the previous administration.
Carville thinks the media hasn't done enough to go after Trump. Uh, I beg to differ; the media has done nothing BUT go after Trump, lying about him, putting forward innuendos, investigating every aspect of his business and his personal life. They are out of bullets and if Carville were even remotely an honest man he would admit that.
At any rate if he characterizes American involvement in bombing a nation that has tried to assassinate our president as an idiot war then what does he consider a smart war? We had less cause to fight in Korea. We had less reason to fight Germany in WWII, and no reason at all to get involved in WWI. Remember the Maine? Why was blowing up one ship (and there is reason to believe the Spanish didn't do it) grounds for war but not the series of more than 170 attacks on US military bases and assets in Syria, Iraq, and Jordan during the Gaza campaign by Israel?
Do not misunderstand; I am not saying we should have boots on the ground in Iran. But to call it an "idiot war" is beyond dishonest. It would be most justified.
Frankly, I was very disappointed when George W. Bush invaded Iraq and not Iran; it has always been Iran that has been the problem. I thought perhaps Bush was going to use Iraq as a base to take out Iran but instead Iran used the guerilla warfare to embarrass the U.S. and keep us bogged down in the war. It needn't have been that way, but it was. The problems is we always think about rebuilding the nation before we have actually won. A conquered people must understand they are conquered before you can rebuild; they will keep fighting otherwise.
In the final days of the Civil War one of Robert E. Lee's generals (I think it was Broadstreet but I may be misremembering) came to him with a plan to break up the army, send them into the woods to get past the Union forces, and reorganize as a guerrilla insurgency. It worked amazingly well for Quantril in Missouri and for Nathan Bedford Forrest. Lee knew exactly what that meant; decades, perhaps centuries, of bloody, endless war. He nixed this idea and surrendered, preferring to finally end the war, even if it meant the Union would crush the South. (They did.)
My point? Bush should have looked at the Civil War and how Quantril was defeated and understood that you must make the enemy feel defeated before you can accomplish anything.
At any rate Iran has been a thorn in our side for a long, long time. Perhaps it's time to restore the Shah.
BTW people keep saying Iran is close to a nuclear weapon. Nonsense; they HAVE nuclear weapons. Enrichment is the entire program and they are enriched to the brink. A few days of final enrichment will give them plenty of weapons-grade nukes.
What Iran didn't do was test. Why? For one thing we no longer need to test nukes; that can be done with computers.
What has taken Iran so long is they did not want to just build an A.Q. Khan style weapon. Khan, you may remember, was the Pakistani who devised home-made nuclear weapons and he has sold his blueprints for it around the globe. Design is simple; basically it's Little Boy, the Hiroshima nuke. But enrichment is far more sophisticated than the method used during the Manhattan Project (which used giants magnets to draw the U235).
But what Iran wanted was a smaller weapon. Little Boy weighed 9000 lbs. and had to be delivered by a bomber. The Mullahs want something lighter, something they can put atop one of their missiles (like the poetically-named Ambassador of Death). They have been experimenting with an implosion trigger. Little Boy, and Khan's weapons, used a gun trigger, making it larger and heavier. Implosion is smaller and lighter but takes a lot more finesse as you have to detonate the ordinance that implodes it has to detonate at the exact same instance or the neutrons will slip out of the bulge and the thing will tamp out. Iran wants to master the implosion device so they can have ballistic missile delivery.
So Iran has been quiet about their progress because they need to get all their ducks in a row. But they most assuredly are pretty much there.
Carville thinks only of the political fortunes of his Party and cares nary a wit about our survival as a nation or anything else. He is nothing but a rabid political animal, foam slobbering from his demented lips.
One more thing; Mr. Carville should lead by example and release HIS medical records. The man looks horribly unhealthy, and has lost a lot of weight. Does he have AIDS? Rumors flew he had cancer a while ago but it was confirmed by his doctors he did not. So why does he look so ill? Lead by example Carville!
James Carville, the old swamo alligator who's imbibed way too much moonshine down on the bayou, is reaching new lows as he accuses Trump of having syphillis (without any evidence except a probably-retouched photo showing Trump with a sore on his hand) and says he's starting a war for no reason.
From the Daily Caller article:
"What’s happening right now is a guy is starting to talk about hauling off and starting a war, and who very well [we have] reason to believe — we need some answers — could have a really diseased mental capacity above and beyond just the normal effects of aging and what comes with that. We’re not being served by sitting here silently,” Carville said.
"Hauling off and starting a war"? Carville apparently doesn't know that there already IS a war ongoing which involves the U.S. as it is our weapons that are being used. He also apparently fails to understand that Iran has been at war with the U.S. ever since they seized our embassy back at the end of the '70's, and they have repeatedly attacked American assets, citizens, and installations around the globe through their proxies. He also apparently does not know that the Iranians plotted to assassinate President Trump, which is an act of war. He ignores the fact that Trump is only speaking about using American bunker busters in aid of Israel's attempt to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and vaporizing Tel Aviv, as well as perhaps New York or L.A.
"Haul off and start a war"? James Carville has openly supported American military intervention in the Ukraine, where we have zero national interest, and he said Trump was harming the nation by trying to scale back our involvement in a war with a nuclear superpower. But he accuses Trump of hauling off and starting a war.
He forgets he stood alongside Bill Clinton when HE "hauled off and started a war" in the Balkans (where we had no national interest and had not been attacked by Serbia), or Clinton's bombing of an aspirin factory in the Sudan, or any of Clinton's other antics (like the Black Hawk Down incident where American soldiers were dragged through the streets of Mogadishu after the Clinton Administration sent them in to arrest a war lord). Carville was just fine with hauling off and starting wars when it was his side doing so.
The spitting serpent head continues:
"And you’re not being served by a commentariat that basically has one thumb up its ass and one thumb in its mouth and is switching every f***ing 30 seconds. Go do your job. Find out what’s going on with his hand. Find out what’s going on with his capacity,” Carville said. "Have people look at his slurred language. Have people look at the deterioration that’s going on right now and the madness and the corruption and all of the other shit that’s going on.
I doubt Carville really believes the media hasn't looked into every single aspect of Trump. Trump is the most investigated President in American history.
Trump also has previously released his medical test results unlike former President Biden. Syphilis would have been found by the White House physicians.
I would add Mr. Carville has previously downplayed Joe Biden's mental decline and condemnedthose who claim there was a cover-up. Now he's claiming a cover-up, but only because Donald Trump is President.
This is nothing but the childish game of "nuh-uh but what are you!" or "I'm rubber you're glue". THIS is the best the Democrats can do at this stage; attack Trump with crazy, unsupportable accusations.
He has no better idea than to accuse Trump of what he himself helped cover up during the previous administration.
Carville thinks the media hasn't done enough to go after Trump. Uh, I beg to differ; the media has done nothing BUT go after Trump, lying about him, putting forward innuendos, investigating every aspect of his business and his personal life. They are out of bullets and if Carville were even remotely an honest man he would admit that.
At any rate if he characterizes American involvement in bombing a nation that has tried to assassinate our president as an idiot war then what does he consider a smart war? We had less cause to fight in Korea. We had less reason to fight Germany in WWII, and no reason at all to get involved in WWI. Remember the Maine? Why was blowing up one ship (and there is reason to believe the Spanish didn't do it) grounds for war but not the series of more than 170 attacks on US military bases and assets in Syria, Iraq, and Jordan during the Gaza campaign by Israel?
Do not misunderstand; I am not saying we should have boots on the ground in Iran. But to call it an "idiot war" is beyond dishonest. It would be most justified.
Frankly, I was very disappointed when George W. Bush invaded Iraq and not Iran; it has always been Iran that has been the problem. I thought perhaps Bush was going to use Iraq as a base to take out Iran but instead Iran used the guerilla warfare to embarrass the U.S. and keep us bogged down in the war. It needn't have been that way, but it was. The problems is we always think about rebuilding the nation before we have actually won. A conquered people must understand they are conquered before you can rebuild; they will keep fighting otherwise.
In the final days of the Civil War one of Robert E. Lee's generals (I think it was Broadstreet but I may be misremembering) came to him with a plan to break up the army, send them into the woods to get past the Union forces, and reorganize as a guerrilla insurgency. It worked amazingly well for Quantril in Missouri and for Nathan Bedford Forrest. Lee knew exactly what that meant; decades, perhaps centuries, of bloody, endless war. He nixed this idea and surrendered, preferring to finally end the war, even if it meant the Union would crush the South. (They did.)
My point? Bush should have looked at the Civil War and how Quantril was defeated and understood that you must make the enemy feel defeated before you can accomplish anything.
At any rate Iran has been a thorn in our side for a long, long time. Perhaps it's time to restore the Shah.
BTW people keep saying Iran is close to a nuclear weapon. Nonsense; they HAVE nuclear weapons. Enrichment is the entire program and they are enriched to the brink. A few days of final enrichment will give them plenty of weapons-grade nukes.
What Iran didn't do was test. Why? For one thing we no longer need to test nukes; that can be done with computers.
What has taken Iran so long is they did not want to just build an A.Q. Khan style weapon. Khan, you may remember, was the Pakistani who devised home-made nuclear weapons and he has sold his blueprints for it around the globe. Design is simple; basically it's Little Boy, the Hiroshima nuke. But enrichment is far more sophisticated than the method used during the Manhattan Project (which used giants magnets to draw the U235).
But what Iran wanted was a smaller weapon. Little Boy weighed 9000 lbs. and had to be delivered by a bomber. The Mullahs want something lighter, something they can put atop one of their missiles (like the poetically-named Ambassador of Death). They have been experimenting with an implosion trigger. Little Boy, and Khan's weapons, used a gun trigger, making it larger and heavier. Implosion is smaller and lighter but takes a lot more finesse as you have to detonate the ordinance that implodes it has to detonate at the exact same instance or the neutrons will slip out of the bulge and the thing will tamp out. Iran wants to master the implosion device so they can have ballistic missile delivery.
So Iran has been quiet about their progress because they need to get all their ducks in a row. But they most assuredly are pretty much there.
Carville thinks only of the political fortunes of his Party and cares nary a wit about our survival as a nation or anything else. He is nothing but a rabid political animal, foam slobbering from his demented lips.
One more thing; Mr. Carville should lead by example and release HIS medical records. The man looks horribly unhealthy, and has lost a lot of weight. Does he have AIDS? Rumors flew he had cancer a while ago but it was confirmed by his doctors he did not. So why does he look so ill? Lead by example Carville!
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June 18, 2025
Armageddon (Carry Me Home)
Timothy Birdnow
FIRST TIME SINCE 9-11! Presidential E-4B "Doomsday Plane” Lands Near D.C. Amid Israel-Iran War
USAF Boeing 747-E4B
Presidential doomsday plane (ORDER01) was scrambled from Barksdale Air Force Base in Shreveport, Louisiana and is circling over Virginia, possibly due to something large happening tonight with Israel and Iran. pic.twitter.com/4R5C78hBB0
— Todd Paron (@tparon) June 18, 2025
In honor of this I give you Armageddon by the rock band Prism, 1979 (the year the Ayatollah came to power.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkPhGRQzboE
There was a full moon over Memphis
National Guard outside
Thousands wait for Elvis
Waitin' ever since he died for a miracle gonna happen
His eminence to restore
The sound of thunder crackin'
Signals the beginning of the war to end all wars
[Chorus]
Armageddon carry me home
Armageddon carry me home
Jerry and Linda in the White House
President sleepin' in his shoes red phones ring in the blackout
Ain't got time to lose U-boats off New England
Enemy submarines
From Boston to Miami
On a red alert, you better scramble all the F-15's
[Chorus]
Armageddon carry me home
Armageddon carry me home
Listen to the song; the funerial music is the real star.
FIRST TIME SINCE 9-11! Presidential E-4B "Doomsday Plane” Lands Near D.C. Amid Israel-Iran War
USAF Boeing 747-E4B
Presidential doomsday plane (ORDER01) was scrambled from Barksdale Air Force Base in Shreveport, Louisiana and is circling over Virginia, possibly due to something large happening tonight with Israel and Iran. pic.twitter.com/4R5C78hBB0
— Todd Paron (@tparon) June 18, 2025
In honor of this I give you Armageddon by the rock band Prism, 1979 (the year the Ayatollah came to power.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkPhGRQzboE
There was a full moon over Memphis
National Guard outside
Thousands wait for Elvis
Waitin' ever since he died for a miracle gonna happen
His eminence to restore
The sound of thunder crackin'
Signals the beginning of the war to end all wars
[Chorus]
Armageddon carry me home
Armageddon carry me home
Jerry and Linda in the White House
President sleepin' in his shoes red phones ring in the blackout
Ain't got time to lose U-boats off New England
Enemy submarines
From Boston to Miami
On a red alert, you better scramble all the F-15's
[Chorus]
Armageddon carry me home
Armageddon carry me home
Listen to the song; the funerial music is the real star.
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Broken Eggs, Omelets, and Rising Wages
Timothy Birdnow
Tired of winning yet?
Blue-Collar Wages Under Trump Post Largest Increase in Almost 60 Years
This is what happens when you kick out labor that is undercutting the market and at the same time increase the number of jobs. It's basic economics.
BTW I argued years ago at American Thinker that illegal labor was destructive to economic prosperity in the same way slavery was destructive to prosperity in the antebellum south. Read my article Plantation America and it's companion More on Plantation America at American Thinker.
Real wages (adjusted for inflation) are up 1.7% this year.
Slavery destroyed the antebellum economy in the South by depressing wages for poor or working class whites, which is why the South had such a distinct aristocratic nature; nobody but the wealthy could amass any money because no small business could compete with free labor. The end result was the South was primarily agrarian and had almost no industrial base (except here in Missouri, which is why Lincoln ordered his man Nathanial Fox to "keep Missouri in the Union at all cost"). The end result was they had nothing with which to fight. Everyone remembers the scene in Gone with the Wind where Rhett Butler points out that the South had no factories, no arms plants or cannon plants, limited railroads, and all it had was "arrogance". He was right and the South believed that elan and good breeding was enough. That might be helpful but a good old fashioned gun or bomb is better!
America was becoming a huge version of the South, except instead of wanting limited government the ruling class wanted more and more control. But the economy had been hollowing out much the same as the Old South, and for many of the same reasons.
Hopefully this trend will be the long-awaited reversal of decades of decline. The "service economy" never produced what it promised.
I remember a show in the mid two thousands called Jerico. It was about a terrorist attack on the U.S. that took out 25 cities and left the small town of Jericho Kansas isolated. One of the characters was dating this dumb skateboard kid. He didn't know why everyone wanted the old country back. His girlfriend asked him "where will we get our stuff?" to which, after some thought, he replied "we'll get the internet back up and just buy it from there'. That has pretty much been the mentality of moder America for some time. Eventually you can't buy it from there, or don't want to. You have to make your own stuff at some point or you are at the mercy of those who DO make it.
Which was the plan all along. This whole "free trade" and unlimited international trade business mirrored what was done in Europe starting with the Coal and steel treaty between German and France. France wanted to bind Germany's economy intimately with their own so they dared never attack France again. Soon other countries wanted to join and the Treaty of Rome was signed crating the European Economic Community, commonly called the Common Market. This eventually morphed into the European Union we know today. The internationalists used this as a template to try to create a world government, and they sought to intimately bind all national economies together in the hopes the nation-states would wither away and the international organizations - the U.N. the World Court, etc. would become a true world government.
But such a system is gossamer in nature. In fact it was much like this at the end of the Bronze Age; the great powers of that time became too dependent on trade, and when the Sea People showed up and disrupted the trade routes the whole thing fell apart. Most of the Bronze Age nations have long since ceased to exist.
We saw the difficulties of trade during Covid, and are seeing it now with piracy and with Houthi terrorism. A major war between the superpowers would end international trade; we'd better be making our own stuff or we will collapse in any sort of dusrupt, even if it is not a major military engagement.
So there is no good reason to keep outsourcing our jobs to India or China; we need Americans and American jobs. We neither want to outsource nor insource via labor that is below market rate. Both are destructive to our way of life.
But then to many on the Left that is the whole point. Cloward and Piven made that argument. You gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet.
Tired of winning yet?
Blue-Collar Wages Under Trump Post Largest Increase in Almost 60 Years
This is what happens when you kick out labor that is undercutting the market and at the same time increase the number of jobs. It's basic economics.
BTW I argued years ago at American Thinker that illegal labor was destructive to economic prosperity in the same way slavery was destructive to prosperity in the antebellum south. Read my article Plantation America and it's companion More on Plantation America at American Thinker.
Real wages (adjusted for inflation) are up 1.7% this year.
Slavery destroyed the antebellum economy in the South by depressing wages for poor or working class whites, which is why the South had such a distinct aristocratic nature; nobody but the wealthy could amass any money because no small business could compete with free labor. The end result was the South was primarily agrarian and had almost no industrial base (except here in Missouri, which is why Lincoln ordered his man Nathanial Fox to "keep Missouri in the Union at all cost"). The end result was they had nothing with which to fight. Everyone remembers the scene in Gone with the Wind where Rhett Butler points out that the South had no factories, no arms plants or cannon plants, limited railroads, and all it had was "arrogance". He was right and the South believed that elan and good breeding was enough. That might be helpful but a good old fashioned gun or bomb is better!
America was becoming a huge version of the South, except instead of wanting limited government the ruling class wanted more and more control. But the economy had been hollowing out much the same as the Old South, and for many of the same reasons.
Hopefully this trend will be the long-awaited reversal of decades of decline. The "service economy" never produced what it promised.
I remember a show in the mid two thousands called Jerico. It was about a terrorist attack on the U.S. that took out 25 cities and left the small town of Jericho Kansas isolated. One of the characters was dating this dumb skateboard kid. He didn't know why everyone wanted the old country back. His girlfriend asked him "where will we get our stuff?" to which, after some thought, he replied "we'll get the internet back up and just buy it from there'. That has pretty much been the mentality of moder America for some time. Eventually you can't buy it from there, or don't want to. You have to make your own stuff at some point or you are at the mercy of those who DO make it.
Which was the plan all along. This whole "free trade" and unlimited international trade business mirrored what was done in Europe starting with the Coal and steel treaty between German and France. France wanted to bind Germany's economy intimately with their own so they dared never attack France again. Soon other countries wanted to join and the Treaty of Rome was signed crating the European Economic Community, commonly called the Common Market. This eventually morphed into the European Union we know today. The internationalists used this as a template to try to create a world government, and they sought to intimately bind all national economies together in the hopes the nation-states would wither away and the international organizations - the U.N. the World Court, etc. would become a true world government.
But such a system is gossamer in nature. In fact it was much like this at the end of the Bronze Age; the great powers of that time became too dependent on trade, and when the Sea People showed up and disrupted the trade routes the whole thing fell apart. Most of the Bronze Age nations have long since ceased to exist.
We saw the difficulties of trade during Covid, and are seeing it now with piracy and with Houthi terrorism. A major war between the superpowers would end international trade; we'd better be making our own stuff or we will collapse in any sort of dusrupt, even if it is not a major military engagement.
So there is no good reason to keep outsourcing our jobs to India or China; we need Americans and American jobs. We neither want to outsource nor insource via labor that is below market rate. Both are destructive to our way of life.
But then to many on the Left that is the whole point. Cloward and Piven made that argument. You gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet.
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Lewinsky Trashes President Penis
Timothy Birdnow
Here's a blast from the past!
Monica Lewinsky Reemerges to Eviscerate Bill Clinton; Admits He Should Have Resigned
Time has no doubt brought wisdom to the woman, who was a victim of Clinton's abusive behavior as much as her own bad upbringing and loose morals.
Here's a blast from the past!
Monica Lewinsky Reemerges to Eviscerate Bill Clinton; Admits He Should Have Resigned
Time has no doubt brought wisdom to the woman, who was a victim of Clinton's abusive behavior as much as her own bad upbringing and loose morals.
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Musk Restores Iranian Internet
Timothy Birdnow
Elon Musk has restored the internet to Iran after the Mullahs cut it off to prevent an uprising.
Musk might be a bit on the eccentric side but he sure is doing the Lord's work!
Elon Musk has restored the internet to Iran after the Mullahs cut it off to prevent an uprising.
Musk might be a bit on the eccentric side but he sure is doing the Lord's work!
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A Fuhrer, Not a King
Timothy Birdnow
Like we didn't already know this.
Released Docs: Biden Admin Targeted Law Abiding Citizens as Domestic Terrorists
The truly enraging thing is that the Biden Administration, like the Obama Administration before them, are the ones who acted like Kings, circumventing the laws where it pleased them and spying on Americans with whom they disagreed. "No kings" is far, far more applicable to Biden and Obama than to Trump. (Trump, by the way, is FOLLOWING the laws passed by Congress over the border and pretty much everything else. The lawlessness was Bidens in the first place.)
Like we didn't already know this.
Released Docs: Biden Admin Targeted Law Abiding Citizens as Domestic Terrorists
The truly enraging thing is that the Biden Administration, like the Obama Administration before them, are the ones who acted like Kings, circumventing the laws where it pleased them and spying on Americans with whom they disagreed. "No kings" is far, far more applicable to Biden and Obama than to Trump. (Trump, by the way, is FOLLOWING the laws passed by Congress over the border and pretty much everything else. The lawlessness was Bidens in the first place.)
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Mayor "Let's Go" Brandon Johnson Wants Reparations
Timothy Birdnow
"investing in black is not a criminal act.”
chicago mayor Brandon Johnson
Not at all, but stealing money from people - white, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Native American - to give "reparations" to black people is. It's still theft.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
And most white folks in America didn't even have ancestors here during slavery, and many didn't have them during Jim Crow.
He complains about not retaining memories of this, not forgiving anything. I suppose he wants America to be like the Balkans where they still kill each-other over a dispute a thousand plus years old.
The genius of America is that we have all been able to put such grievences aside and come together as one people. Forgive and forget. Yes, there has always been some tensions between traditional enemies; the Irish and the English got into range wars in the West not so much over cattle as over the old hatred. But by and large most such hatred die within a generation. I'm half Irish, for example, and my wife is half English. It just stops mattering after a point in time. Or it should.
What Johnson is exemplifying is greed masquerading as "equity" and hatred masquerading as justice. But you can put lipstick on a pig and it still squeels.
When I worked in real estate we hired Bosnians to work in the maintenance department. One time we slipped up, hiring a Serb. They HATED him, would do nothing but curse at him. They were all still holding the grudge from the old country. That is what the black leadership wants for America.
As Booker T. Washington observed:
"There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public."
This is the type of black man that founded the NAACP (which was largely founded as a counter to Washington, who advocated working hard and making money to gain acceptance for black folks as opposed to trying to seize political power) and this Mayor is the same such person. Washington had it right, at least where those self-proclaimed leaders are concerned.
Why? There's lots of money in it. It's a whole industry; just look at the money Jesse Jackson made, or Al Sharpton, both mediocrities who built empires on greivance.
Keep in mind there are a great many black folks who bust their tails and earn their places in society - and they are just as victimized by the greivance whores as the Asians or the Hispanics or the White People. This attitude is the enemy of all (including those it ostensibly claims to want to help, who are held in a kind of eternal plantation mentality.)
Earning your way and making your life your own is the essence of being a success. Being given your life, no matter how pleasant, is just another form of slavery.
"investing in black is not a criminal act.”
chicago mayor Brandon Johnson
Not at all, but stealing money from people - white, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Native American - to give "reparations" to black people is. It's still theft.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
And most white folks in America didn't even have ancestors here during slavery, and many didn't have them during Jim Crow.
He complains about not retaining memories of this, not forgiving anything. I suppose he wants America to be like the Balkans where they still kill each-other over a dispute a thousand plus years old.
The genius of America is that we have all been able to put such grievences aside and come together as one people. Forgive and forget. Yes, there has always been some tensions between traditional enemies; the Irish and the English got into range wars in the West not so much over cattle as over the old hatred. But by and large most such hatred die within a generation. I'm half Irish, for example, and my wife is half English. It just stops mattering after a point in time. Or it should.
What Johnson is exemplifying is greed masquerading as "equity" and hatred masquerading as justice. But you can put lipstick on a pig and it still squeels.
When I worked in real estate we hired Bosnians to work in the maintenance department. One time we slipped up, hiring a Serb. They HATED him, would do nothing but curse at him. They were all still holding the grudge from the old country. That is what the black leadership wants for America.
As Booker T. Washington observed:
"There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public."
This is the type of black man that founded the NAACP (which was largely founded as a counter to Washington, who advocated working hard and making money to gain acceptance for black folks as opposed to trying to seize political power) and this Mayor is the same such person. Washington had it right, at least where those self-proclaimed leaders are concerned.
Why? There's lots of money in it. It's a whole industry; just look at the money Jesse Jackson made, or Al Sharpton, both mediocrities who built empires on greivance.
Keep in mind there are a great many black folks who bust their tails and earn their places in society - and they are just as victimized by the greivance whores as the Asians or the Hispanics or the White People. This attitude is the enemy of all (including those it ostensibly claims to want to help, who are held in a kind of eternal plantation mentality.)
Earning your way and making your life your own is the essence of being a success. Being given your life, no matter how pleasant, is just another form of slavery.
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Media Mutters
Timothy Birdnow
It couldn't be that small town America, the farmers, the small businesses, the rural miners and whatnot have been decimated by Progressive policies over the years?
Jim Acosta Says the ‘Far-Right Has Infiltrated the Heartland,’ Led Farmers Astray
This is the kind of self-delusion that only an elitist from the coast can indulge.
Middle America has been treated like a bunch of toothless hillbillies by the Ruling Class for decades now and the policies these people have put in place have been horribly destructive. Farms have disappeared at an alarming rate, being purchased by corporations or gobbled up by government. Taxes have strangled middle America. NAFTA and the other so-called "free trade" policies led to exactly what even some Democrats predicted "that giant sucking sound" which took all the better blue collar jobs. Environmental regulations and health and safety regulations eliminated many profitable farming enterprises (anyone remember tobacco farmers?) They have waged war on coal. They have waged war on domestic oil production. They have waged war on fossil fuel powered equipment, making it more expensive (farmers MUST have such equipment or go under.) Fianance too has systematically squeezed the farming community as well as small businesses in general, especially since DEI was implemented and it pushed loans to minorities rather than to those who were actually using the money for their businesses. Cattlemen were driven off public lands, leading to the Bundy standoff in Nevada, for instance. And always there were more and more aliens pouring into the country to replace the native born folks in the heartland. Middle America didn't like being replaced.
Acosta said:
He specifically blamed Rush Limbaugh, whom he sees as a svengali who hypnotized the public. This shows how out of touch he is; Rush was from the Heartland itself - Cape Girardeau Mo. (BTW My family hailed in part from there) and he simply stated what many in Middle America were already thinking but were afraid to say - and lacked the research to back it up.
(Oh, Rush used to read this blog, I might add.)
Acosta is right about one thing; the old news model no longer works. That is in no small part because now everyone has cell phones with cameras and we can see the raw footage and judge for ourselves without it first passing through the filter of the media. People are all now journalists themselves. And with the internet it's possible to post these videos or these news stories that the mainstream neglects.
A great example of this when it first started was the Drudge Report. Drudge was just a guy who started a blog, nothing special. But the story about Monica Lewinsky was being frozen out by the Mandarins of the media; Michael Isikoff had the story already written but his editors wouldn't publish. someone leaked it to Druge and it exploded, roiling the political landscape and leading to the impeachment of William Jefferson Blythe Clinton. This began the revolution which saw the explosion of blogs (like this one, which itself is a spinoff of American Thinker, a Rush approved site as was this.) Social media only made the dissemination of information easier, even while they desperately tried to control news by lots of dirty little tricks (shadow-banning, suspending writers, etc.) The fact is the old model where so-called journalists get news stories from the wire services and rewrite those to suit their own biases is broken. They can't manage the news anymore; it's coming at everyone pretty much in a raw state. And then there are places like The Aviary which puts a different slant on things.
How often have we encountered the groupthink of mainstream media over an issue? The exact same phrase repeated over and over? Anyone remember when George W. Bush was running "gravitas"? Nobody used that phrase until Bush, then they all did. Or how about the way they kept repeating Trump said there was vote fraud without any evidence? EVERY SINGLE STORY about the election inserted that phrase. But it wasn't true then and it isn't true now. Or how about the lie that said Trump praised white supremacists at Charlottesville?? You can see the whole clip, and read the entire transcript and know it is a lie. But the media, while no longer saying it, never fact checks any Democrats who do.
This is the Empire of Lies Acosta gave fealty to and that Acosta seeks to protect.
To those on the Left there is no concrete reality. There are just frames of reference, particular viewpoints. (Heck, George Lucas enshrined this view in Star Wars,for crying out loud!) Reality can be changed by an act of will, and by controlling how any issue is framed. This has served them well for some time, as long as the public has not had access to any other source of information. Now they do and reality is reasserting itself. The media built an empire by twisting reality.
And it goes all the way back to the birth of the Progressive movement, when William Randolf Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer contended for control of the American mind. Journalists all attend the same schools which teach them to be activists, not simply recorders of events. Most kids in journalism school do it because they want to "make a difference" as polling shows (not to present people with the Truth). Well, as Frank Capra said "if you want to send a message try Western Union". Of course Capra's was a minority view in Hollywood.
Actually this business with the press goes back even farther; the Enlightenment was triggered by the invention of the printing press, which the Protestants used as a most effective tool to attack Catholicism. The Philosophe's of the Enlightenment saw this effectiveness and started multiple newspapers to get their sometimes revolutionary views out. They also started schools to teach people to read their newspapers. The French Revolution was the inevitable afterbirth of this, and from that came the rise of Socialism through Rousseau and socialism has been the driving force of civilization ever since, even though it is a horribly bad idea that has never worked for people for more than a generation at most (and in fact not even that.) Every revolutionary movement from Fascism to Bolshevism has at it's roots the philosophy of Rousseau, and has succeeded by control of the press. That machine that inks typeset and puts it on paper overthrew the whole world.
But now the electrons are overthrowing the printing, and the mad king is trembling as they see the writing finger on the wall. They are losing their power and are unwilling to admit why that is so. They have gaslit the whole world for a hundred years or more now.
Eventually, no matter how vivid the dream, one must awaken. We are doing that now.
Our big problem now is AI, which is going to sweep aside the upstart order of blogs and podcasts and a.m. radio. It's centralized and can be programmed to do what the media used to do. We have to find a way to make sure it doesn't just restart the Black Iron Prison. '
The Bible says Christ will "destroy them with the sword of His mouth and the brightness of His coming". What is that but the light of truth over the kingdom of lies we've lived with for so long? If we believe in the Bible we have every reason for ultimate confidence in defeating the system of lies being peddled by men such as Acosta. He will be cut down by a truthful tongue and the bright light of truth.
It couldn't be that small town America, the farmers, the small businesses, the rural miners and whatnot have been decimated by Progressive policies over the years?
Jim Acosta Says the ‘Far-Right Has Infiltrated the Heartland,’ Led Farmers Astray
This is the kind of self-delusion that only an elitist from the coast can indulge.
Middle America has been treated like a bunch of toothless hillbillies by the Ruling Class for decades now and the policies these people have put in place have been horribly destructive. Farms have disappeared at an alarming rate, being purchased by corporations or gobbled up by government. Taxes have strangled middle America. NAFTA and the other so-called "free trade" policies led to exactly what even some Democrats predicted "that giant sucking sound" which took all the better blue collar jobs. Environmental regulations and health and safety regulations eliminated many profitable farming enterprises (anyone remember tobacco farmers?) They have waged war on coal. They have waged war on domestic oil production. They have waged war on fossil fuel powered equipment, making it more expensive (farmers MUST have such equipment or go under.) Fianance too has systematically squeezed the farming community as well as small businesses in general, especially since DEI was implemented and it pushed loans to minorities rather than to those who were actually using the money for their businesses. Cattlemen were driven off public lands, leading to the Bundy standoff in Nevada, for instance. And always there were more and more aliens pouring into the country to replace the native born folks in the heartland. Middle America didn't like being replaced.
Acosta said:
"The far-right has figured out a way to infiltrate the heartland.”
"As it turns out, a lot of those folks vote in these elections.”
"The business model for delivering the news in this country just does not work anymore.”
"As it turns out, a lot of those folks vote in these elections.”
"The business model for delivering the news in this country just does not work anymore.”
He specifically blamed Rush Limbaugh, whom he sees as a svengali who hypnotized the public. This shows how out of touch he is; Rush was from the Heartland itself - Cape Girardeau Mo. (BTW My family hailed in part from there) and he simply stated what many in Middle America were already thinking but were afraid to say - and lacked the research to back it up.
(Oh, Rush used to read this blog, I might add.)
Acosta is right about one thing; the old news model no longer works. That is in no small part because now everyone has cell phones with cameras and we can see the raw footage and judge for ourselves without it first passing through the filter of the media. People are all now journalists themselves. And with the internet it's possible to post these videos or these news stories that the mainstream neglects.
A great example of this when it first started was the Drudge Report. Drudge was just a guy who started a blog, nothing special. But the story about Monica Lewinsky was being frozen out by the Mandarins of the media; Michael Isikoff had the story already written but his editors wouldn't publish. someone leaked it to Druge and it exploded, roiling the political landscape and leading to the impeachment of William Jefferson Blythe Clinton. This began the revolution which saw the explosion of blogs (like this one, which itself is a spinoff of American Thinker, a Rush approved site as was this.) Social media only made the dissemination of information easier, even while they desperately tried to control news by lots of dirty little tricks (shadow-banning, suspending writers, etc.) The fact is the old model where so-called journalists get news stories from the wire services and rewrite those to suit their own biases is broken. They can't manage the news anymore; it's coming at everyone pretty much in a raw state. And then there are places like The Aviary which puts a different slant on things.
How often have we encountered the groupthink of mainstream media over an issue? The exact same phrase repeated over and over? Anyone remember when George W. Bush was running "gravitas"? Nobody used that phrase until Bush, then they all did. Or how about the way they kept repeating Trump said there was vote fraud without any evidence? EVERY SINGLE STORY about the election inserted that phrase. But it wasn't true then and it isn't true now. Or how about the lie that said Trump praised white supremacists at Charlottesville?? You can see the whole clip, and read the entire transcript and know it is a lie. But the media, while no longer saying it, never fact checks any Democrats who do.
This is the Empire of Lies Acosta gave fealty to and that Acosta seeks to protect.
To those on the Left there is no concrete reality. There are just frames of reference, particular viewpoints. (Heck, George Lucas enshrined this view in Star Wars,for crying out loud!) Reality can be changed by an act of will, and by controlling how any issue is framed. This has served them well for some time, as long as the public has not had access to any other source of information. Now they do and reality is reasserting itself. The media built an empire by twisting reality.
And it goes all the way back to the birth of the Progressive movement, when William Randolf Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer contended for control of the American mind. Journalists all attend the same schools which teach them to be activists, not simply recorders of events. Most kids in journalism school do it because they want to "make a difference" as polling shows (not to present people with the Truth). Well, as Frank Capra said "if you want to send a message try Western Union". Of course Capra's was a minority view in Hollywood.
Actually this business with the press goes back even farther; the Enlightenment was triggered by the invention of the printing press, which the Protestants used as a most effective tool to attack Catholicism. The Philosophe's of the Enlightenment saw this effectiveness and started multiple newspapers to get their sometimes revolutionary views out. They also started schools to teach people to read their newspapers. The French Revolution was the inevitable afterbirth of this, and from that came the rise of Socialism through Rousseau and socialism has been the driving force of civilization ever since, even though it is a horribly bad idea that has never worked for people for more than a generation at most (and in fact not even that.) Every revolutionary movement from Fascism to Bolshevism has at it's roots the philosophy of Rousseau, and has succeeded by control of the press. That machine that inks typeset and puts it on paper overthrew the whole world.
But now the electrons are overthrowing the printing, and the mad king is trembling as they see the writing finger on the wall. They are losing their power and are unwilling to admit why that is so. They have gaslit the whole world for a hundred years or more now.
Eventually, no matter how vivid the dream, one must awaken. We are doing that now.
Our big problem now is AI, which is going to sweep aside the upstart order of blogs and podcasts and a.m. radio. It's centralized and can be programmed to do what the media used to do. We have to find a way to make sure it doesn't just restart the Black Iron Prison. '
The Bible says Christ will "destroy them with the sword of His mouth and the brightness of His coming". What is that but the light of truth over the kingdom of lies we've lived with for so long? If we believe in the Bible we have every reason for ultimate confidence in defeating the system of lies being peddled by men such as Acosta. He will be cut down by a truthful tongue and the bright light of truth.
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The FBI Snake Pit
Timothy Birdnow
The FBI scrubbed their memo on the Chicoms defrauding the voting system in 2020, where they allegedly had obtained large numbers of fake i.d.'s to obtain mail-in ballots to help fraudulently elect Joe Biden President.
This information has been "disappeared" by the FiBers.
From the article:
I remember the big fight over this back then; Big tech scrubbed information from search engines, kept it off Facebook and other social media (I know; I was shadow-banned by them) and news reports ALWAYS used the same phrase "Trump alleges fraud without evidence" (even Fox News used this in any story about voter fraud) and yet we had the FBI itself saying there was some monkey business - then disappearing that down the memory hole to make Trump appear crazy and those of us who actually looked into it appear foolish and brainwashed.
As time went on it became increasingly difficult for me and others to make the argument because it became impossible to find things we had read just a short time before. Providing evidence to the "it was a clean election" folks became increasingly difficult because it was nowhere to be found.
But it was there all the time; just hidden.
The statistician William Briggs did a complicated forensic on the election and showed it was simply not statistically possible to have that particular outcome. But that never seemed to get through people's skulls. And without stuff like this to back it up it was just "he said, she said".
Increasingly we are getting evidence proving there was massive fraud in that election. But readers here already knew that.
Did it change the outcome of the election? That is the real question, isn't it. I am sure it did. Biden was never the legitimate President. (Well,he was insofar as the Electoral College elects the President but attempts to put forward alternate slates of electors ended with those folks being arrested and charged with crimes for trying to uphold the Constitution.)
I suppose this was a good thing; it woke the American People up to the reality of what a Progressive Administration actually means - anti-American, anti-growth, pro-socialism, pro-crime, divisive, and just plain corrupt.
The FBI in particular was terribly corrupted during the Obama years and under the Deep State care during Trump's brief tenure of office the first time. And of course Biden supercharged it's abusive nature.
Now they are exposed. Let's pray Patel and Bongino can clean up that snake pit.
The FBI scrubbed their memo on the Chicoms defrauding the voting system in 2020, where they allegedly had obtained large numbers of fake i.d.'s to obtain mail-in ballots to help fraudulently elect Joe Biden President.
This information has been "disappeared" by the FiBers.
From the article:
The intended purpose, according to the report, was to use the licenses to allow ineligible individuals, including Chinese nationals sympathetic to the CCP, to submit fraudulent mail-in ballots in the 2020 presidential election.
"The fraudulent driver’s licenses would allow tens of thousands of Chinese students and immigrants sympathetic to the Chinese Communist Party to vote for U.S. presidential candidate USPER Joe Biden despite not being eligible to vote in the United States,” the report stated.
The intelligence memo also alleged that the Chinese government obtained real U.S. citizens’ names, addresses, and identification numbers through TikTok data harvesting.
It said that "China had collected private US user data from millions of TikTok accounts, to include name, ID and address,” and used that data to craft driver’s licenses that included "true ID number and true address of US citizens,” making them harder to detect.
Shortly after distribution, the FBI issued a recall notice directing all intelligence agencies to delete the memo and destroy all copies.
"The fraudulent driver’s licenses would allow tens of thousands of Chinese students and immigrants sympathetic to the Chinese Communist Party to vote for U.S. presidential candidate USPER Joe Biden despite not being eligible to vote in the United States,” the report stated.
The intelligence memo also alleged that the Chinese government obtained real U.S. citizens’ names, addresses, and identification numbers through TikTok data harvesting.
It said that "China had collected private US user data from millions of TikTok accounts, to include name, ID and address,” and used that data to craft driver’s licenses that included "true ID number and true address of US citizens,” making them harder to detect.
Shortly after distribution, the FBI issued a recall notice directing all intelligence agencies to delete the memo and destroy all copies.
I remember the big fight over this back then; Big tech scrubbed information from search engines, kept it off Facebook and other social media (I know; I was shadow-banned by them) and news reports ALWAYS used the same phrase "Trump alleges fraud without evidence" (even Fox News used this in any story about voter fraud) and yet we had the FBI itself saying there was some monkey business - then disappearing that down the memory hole to make Trump appear crazy and those of us who actually looked into it appear foolish and brainwashed.
As time went on it became increasingly difficult for me and others to make the argument because it became impossible to find things we had read just a short time before. Providing evidence to the "it was a clean election" folks became increasingly difficult because it was nowhere to be found.
But it was there all the time; just hidden.
The statistician William Briggs did a complicated forensic on the election and showed it was simply not statistically possible to have that particular outcome. But that never seemed to get through people's skulls. And without stuff like this to back it up it was just "he said, she said".
Increasingly we are getting evidence proving there was massive fraud in that election. But readers here already knew that.
Did it change the outcome of the election? That is the real question, isn't it. I am sure it did. Biden was never the legitimate President. (Well,he was insofar as the Electoral College elects the President but attempts to put forward alternate slates of electors ended with those folks being arrested and charged with crimes for trying to uphold the Constitution.)
I suppose this was a good thing; it woke the American People up to the reality of what a Progressive Administration actually means - anti-American, anti-growth, pro-socialism, pro-crime, divisive, and just plain corrupt.
The FBI in particular was terribly corrupted during the Obama years and under the Deep State care during Trump's brief tenure of office the first time. And of course Biden supercharged it's abusive nature.
Now they are exposed. Let's pray Patel and Bongino can clean up that snake pit.
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Agitprop Media Lies About "Mostly Peaceful Protests" Again
Timothy Birdnow
How to slant the news:
New Report Shows Just How Biased CNN and MSNBC Are: 48 Peaceful Riots
Lies of omission are still lies, and repeating "mostly peaceful protests" is still a lie.
Over the weekend I heard a conversation between two liberals about this subject. They argued that Fox News kept showing the same three cars on fire and intimated they were the ONLY three, rather than that those three were just the tip of the iceberg and Fox just didn't happen to be on-site to capture the rest. They also argued that L.A. is five hundred some-odd miles in area and these riots are only a small fraction of the city. Well, Ferguson was only a small fraction of St. Louis and the riots there ONLY happened along West Florissant avenue, but we all called them huge riots and the National Guard was called out anyway. And what, pray tell, was J6 other than a very localized "mostly peaceful protest"?
A riot in a small area will become a riot in a big area if not stopped.
At any rate the intent is to color people's views on the matter. A few malcontents scuffle with the Capitol Police and it's an insurrection while a big group of rioters burn cars and break windows (something that did NOT happen at the Capitol building) and it's "mostly peaceful". They hypocrisy is astounding.
From Lifezette:
This is how Leftists foment revolutions and have done so since the Revolution of 1848 in Europe, and it has been wildly successful. I would add that there is considerable evidence of funding for this by the Chinese via a shadowy billionaire named Neville Singum and others. And no doubt the Tides Foundation and Open Society are intimately involved.
(BTW a Google search for links for stories about Chinese funding of this ran into a brick wall, with an error page showing up almost immediately. It was a page I've never seen before too. How CONVENIENT!)
At any rate the Agitprop Media is once again lying by omission at a minimum, pretending there is nothing to see here because polls have shown the American People are on Trump's side and not on the side of a bunch of Mexican and Palestine-flag waving scofflaws.
How to slant the news:
New Report Shows Just How Biased CNN and MSNBC Are: 48 Peaceful Riots
Lies of omission are still lies, and repeating "mostly peaceful protests" is still a lie.
Over the weekend I heard a conversation between two liberals about this subject. They argued that Fox News kept showing the same three cars on fire and intimated they were the ONLY three, rather than that those three were just the tip of the iceberg and Fox just didn't happen to be on-site to capture the rest. They also argued that L.A. is five hundred some-odd miles in area and these riots are only a small fraction of the city. Well, Ferguson was only a small fraction of St. Louis and the riots there ONLY happened along West Florissant avenue, but we all called them huge riots and the National Guard was called out anyway. And what, pray tell, was J6 other than a very localized "mostly peaceful protest"?
A riot in a small area will become a riot in a big area if not stopped.
At any rate the intent is to color people's views on the matter. A few malcontents scuffle with the Capitol Police and it's an insurrection while a big group of rioters burn cars and break windows (something that did NOT happen at the Capitol building) and it's "mostly peaceful". They hypocrisy is astounding.
From Lifezette:
A new analysis from the Media Research Center (MRC) shows that CNN and MSNBC collectively referred to anti-ICE protests and riots in Los Angeles as "peaceful” more than 200 times over a recent 48-hour period, even as video footage and official reports showed widespread violence, looting, and attacks on law enforcement.
According to the study released by MRC, between the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 11:59 p.m. from June 7 to June 11, there were 211 separate instances across the two cable news networks in which reporters, anchors, pundits, or guests described the events in Los Angeles using terms such as "peaceful,” "mostly peaceful,” or "largely peaceful.”
During this time frame, both CNN and MSNBC aired multiple interviews with elected officials from California, several of whom also referred to the events as peaceful despite ongoing reports of store break-ins, arson, and assaults on police officers.
According to the study released by MRC, between the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 11:59 p.m. from June 7 to June 11, there were 211 separate instances across the two cable news networks in which reporters, anchors, pundits, or guests described the events in Los Angeles using terms such as "peaceful,” "mostly peaceful,” or "largely peaceful.”
During this time frame, both CNN and MSNBC aired multiple interviews with elected officials from California, several of whom also referred to the events as peaceful despite ongoing reports of store break-ins, arson, and assaults on police officers.
This is how Leftists foment revolutions and have done so since the Revolution of 1848 in Europe, and it has been wildly successful. I would add that there is considerable evidence of funding for this by the Chinese via a shadowy billionaire named Neville Singum and others. And no doubt the Tides Foundation and Open Society are intimately involved.
(BTW a Google search for links for stories about Chinese funding of this ran into a brick wall, with an error page showing up almost immediately. It was a page I've never seen before too. How CONVENIENT!)
At any rate the Agitprop Media is once again lying by omission at a minimum, pretending there is nothing to see here because polls have shown the American People are on Trump's side and not on the side of a bunch of Mexican and Palestine-flag waving scofflaws.
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The Ill-Hand of Omar
Timothy Birdnow
Uh, Ilhan grew up in Somalia, a country with essentially NO government. She did not grow up in a dictatorship.
She was just 12 years old when she immigrated, I might add. It's doubtful in a land where you might get four hours of electicity per day she had much contact with the political fighting in her home country.
My question is, if she thinks the U.S. is so terrible, why does she stay? She is welcome to return to Somalia any time she likes.
I would also point out that a dictator would simply arrest her and imprison her in some deep, dark hole, or have her assassintated. A dictator wouldn't let her run her big mouth in this way, nor let her serve in Congress. These are prime examples of how Trump is NOT a dictator.
And how did she find the time, what with her marriage to her brother and all? (It's not as gross as it sounds; she married him to circumvent immigration law and get him into the country; I doubt even SHE is so low as to actually consummate the marriage.)
"I grew up in a dictatorship, and I don’t even remember ever witnessing anything like that,”
"To have a democracy — a beacon of hope for the world — to now be turned into one of the, you know, one of the worst countries where the military are in our streets without any regard for people’s constitutional rights, while our president is spending millions of dollars propping himself up like a failed dictator.”
Ilhan Omar
"To have a democracy — a beacon of hope for the world — to now be turned into one of the, you know, one of the worst countries where the military are in our streets without any regard for people’s constitutional rights, while our president is spending millions of dollars propping himself up like a failed dictator.”
Ilhan Omar
Uh, Ilhan grew up in Somalia, a country with essentially NO government. She did not grow up in a dictatorship.
She was just 12 years old when she immigrated, I might add. It's doubtful in a land where you might get four hours of electicity per day she had much contact with the political fighting in her home country.
My question is, if she thinks the U.S. is so terrible, why does she stay? She is welcome to return to Somalia any time she likes.
I would also point out that a dictator would simply arrest her and imprison her in some deep, dark hole, or have her assassintated. A dictator wouldn't let her run her big mouth in this way, nor let her serve in Congress. These are prime examples of how Trump is NOT a dictator.
And how did she find the time, what with her marriage to her brother and all? (It's not as gross as it sounds; she married him to circumvent immigration law and get him into the country; I doubt even SHE is so low as to actually consummate the marriage.)
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