February 18, 2026
The Big Truth
Timothy Birdnow
It's related to Goebbels "the Big Lie"; do something so insane nobody believes it's NOT a lie:
Guy Benson
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Republican pollsters have complained that some of their best ads and attack lines don’t poll well because voters simply don’t believe true things that Democrats are actually doing could possibly be real.
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This is what I dubbed "stealth extremism": mainstream liberal institutions, including the Democratic Party, routinely doing stuff their own supporters dismiss as an urban legend, because no one would *do* that https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/09/16/harris-democrats-extremism/
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The Truth Won't Matter
Timothy Birdnow
John Solomon is wrong.
Oh, he's right about so very many things but he's missing the boat on this issue.
Solomon, proprietor of Just the News, says that Donald Trump will soon release evidence foreign entities, notably China, tampered with the Presidential election in 2020. He's right - they did and Trump probably has the goods. But releasing those goods is difficult and I suspect will cause a firestorm in it's own right not because aliens were tampering with our elections but because Trump is releasing the evidence. The Democrats and media will howl that Trump is endangering our spy networks and HE will become the story.
But here's where Solomon really misses the mark:
He claimed that foreign actors had greater involvement than previously acknowledged."And we’re going to see that our foreign adversaries have monkeyed with our system more than we knew, more than those driver’s licenses coming into Chicago that you helped get all of us to understand about a few months ago about China sending fake driver’s licenses to help Joe Biden in,” Solomon said.
Solomon continued, "There are going to be significant efforts by foreign power, some friends, some enemies that were trying to meddle in the system, and they got pretty far down that path.”
He said he believes the potential impact of those revelations could resonate with lawmakers.
"And I think when senators realized their state could have been targeted, when senators realized that the intention of the identities of some of the voters might have been assumed. I think there’s going to be a different debate in America,” Solomon said.Solomon added that public education on the issue could generate political pressure.
"I think if the President takes the time to educate people and show them that maybe the stories we got from the last leadership weren’t true, I think he’s going to pick off the votes,” Solomon said.
Solomon is engaging in wishful thinking here. There is no way any Senate vote will be changed by any of this. What will happen is the Democrats will dig in their heels and the RINO Republicans will hem and haw and talk about the great institution of the filibuster and how we dare not tamper with it and the rest. Even if the public is angry they will slow everything down to a point where nothing happens and people tire of the story and move on.
The only way this could work is if John Thune pulls the trigger and eliminates the filibuster.
I appreciate what John Solomon is doing, and what he does every day, and thank him for his service to us. But in this instance I think anyone who believes for a minute that even exposing these people for what they are - traitors - will "blow the lid off" Washington just doesn't understand how the system works.
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Shirley Uncovers Vote Fraud
Timothy Birdnow
Don't whizz down my back and tell me it's raining!
Yes, illegals vote and yes there was massive vote fraud.
The Left has been stealing elections for decades and the Right has just let them get away with it because they are afraid to fight.
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Illegals Voting in New York
Timothy Birdnow
Yep - illegals are voting in New York City and investigative journalist Muckraker just proved it was happening when they admitted to him on camera.
The lie that illegals do not vote is being exposed every day.
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The Return of Ten Ton Rose
Timothy Birdnow
She's baaackk...
Yes, the average weight of the American People just took a sharp upward spike while the I.Q. made a noticeable dip.
Rosie was one of the few who actually moved out after Trump was elected, but now she apparently wants back in. While she didn't come to stay (she's been Ireland's problem for a while now) she is probably dipping her sausage of a toe in the water to see if it's safe to come back.
President Trump has suggested he might strip her of her citizenship then issue deportation orders. He could do worse things.
Everyone used to love Rosie O'Donnell in the early days; she seemed really nice. But that was a facade and she became increasingly angry and aggressive and moved ever leftward. Now she is just insufferable, and her head is as big as the rest of her (which is truly gargantuan). Frankly, I'm not sure how the woman was able to fit on a plane. I imagine she had to buy several tickets and take an entire row for herself. And if that plane should crash it would sink to the bottom of the sea in record time.
I'm sure Ireland didn't want her either and that's probably why she's looking to come back; she has to get out before they put her out with the other trash.
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There's a Fungus Among Us!
Timothy Birdnow
All the protesters/rioters apparently have been getting busy with other stuff too. Seems there is a big outbreak in genital ringworm up yonder in Minnesoooota.
It's usually caused by gay sex.
So after a hard day of screaming at ICE agents or stealing money from taxpayers the populace likes to kick back with a little sodomy.
TMVII is a fungal infection that makes the genitalia nice and itchy and crusty. Call it a protest party favor.
Actually fungal infections are common in Third World countries (like Somalia) and the fact that Minnesota has made itself a sanctuary for Third World peoples should lead us to the obvious conclusion. And we know at least one Somali-American was married to her brother, so there is a lot of, uh, unsavory sexual practices in that community. Is it any surprise?
Treatment takes eight to twelve weeks. This is related to Athlete's Foot and Jock Itch, but it is the only known sexually transmitted fungus.
So, as my dearly departed father would say, at ease disease; there's a fugus among us.
Maybe this is what has Tim Walz and that Frey fellow in such a bad mood all the time?
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February 17, 2026
Sorry for Slow Blogging
Dear readers,
Sorry for l9ght blogging; my spiffy new Spectrum internet service (and t.v. service) were interrupted because I don't have a smart phone and apparently they can't handle a guy in the early 21st. Century. I had to get a guy to actually come out to get me up and running. Wonderful tech named Darryl, who arrived early and got all my gadgets up. But I had to twiddle my thumbs yesterday with no t.v. and no internet. I did have my dvd player though.
At any rate I'm back online now so I should blog a fair amount tomorrow.
Cheers!
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February 15, 2026
Geese, Ganders, and Democracy
Timothy Birdnow
I was never elected to Congress; I demand the right to vote for the passage of House bills. Why should I be prevented from doing so? Why must I prove I am a member of Congress to go into the Capitol and vote?
You may remember that a bunch of MAGA folks went into the Capitol during a protest and the government hunted them down and sent them to prison - some for decades. Why is the Capitol sacrosanct when the rest of America is not?
If MAGA protesters are going to be banned from the Capitol why shouldn't others be banned from the rest of the country?
Congressmen have to prove who they are to vote for bills, and they have to be certified by the sitting Congress when they are elected. Who says? Shouldn't we all just go and vote as we see fit?
That is Democracy, after all, something they keep telling us is what makes us great. But if we tried to exercise our democratic rights we would be tossed out of the building, and probably arrested like the J6 folks. Seems they want to exempt themselves from things they impose on the rest of us.
Hat tip: Carlos Velazquez.
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Tropospheric Warming
Timothy Birdnow
In a discussion group I belong to on Facebook a poster asked why the troposphere was warming (slightly). He was challenging skeptics to give him an explanation. Here's mine:
Mostly because we have been coming out of a cool period, and because we last year we had a dearth of cloud cover to reflect the heat back into space.
The model predicts a far more robust warming in the whole troposphere but in particular in the tropical troposphere - it just isn't living up to the models.
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A Defense of Western Civilization
Timothy Birdnow
Actor Nick Searcy posted this on Facebook:
Please, anyone who listens to me, please watch this entire speech by Marco Rubio.
It is the most comprehensive and stirring defense of Western Civilization, and why we matter, since Reagan’s Tear Down This Wall speech.
This is what is at stake, and why we must fight to save it.
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Stupid Climate Tricks
Timothy Birdnow
You have GOT to be kidding me!
Maybe in a few billion years, as the sun expands.
How they could write such stupidity with a straight face is beyond me.
The Earth has survived with over ten times as much carbon dioxide as it currently has, and it did just fie.
From the so-called article at MSN:
"Research shows that several Earth system components may be closer to destabilising than once believed,” the researchers urged. "While the exact risk is uncertain, it is clear that current climate commitments are insufficient.”
The analysis is based on climate "tipping points,” meaning collapses of environmental systems that lead other climate systems beyond their own tipping points, creating a snowball scenario where the planet spirals into a worst-case-scenario known as "hothouse Earth.” Under this scenario, the long-term temperature is projected to rise about 9 degrees Fahrenheit above pre-industrial averages — which would be really bad.
"Crossing even some of the [tipping point] thresholds could commit the planet to a hothouse trajectory,” said Christopher Wolf, a scientist at the environmental group Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Associates.
Even with the scenario of a nine degree rise in temperature the planet would hardly be uninhabitable; it would require adjustment, no question, but that would mean the average planetary temperature would rise from 59 to 69 degrees; this would make the tropics too warm but the temperate zone would be tropical and the poles quite nice. Considering the vast amount of land near the poles in Siberia and the whole continent of Antarctica the human race would be o.k. and so would most of the life on the planet.
That is worst-case scenario, and it's purest fiction, like that stupid movie "The Day After Tomorrow" it makes for a good disaster film but has no basis in reality.
It is astonishing that people actually buy this. The fact is the planet has warmed about one degree since the early days of the 20th century, and actually before that as we have been moving out of the Little Ice Age of the 18th and early to mid 19th centiuries with the ebd of two solar minima - the Maunder and the Dalton, which made that period especially cold.
But this is, of course, about political and social control and not about the actual science. As Michael Crichton called it, it is about a state of fear designed to herd the public in the direction the elites in our society wish them to go. Fear has become the lprimary mechanism for social control, where in the old days it was honor, and then guilt. Honor died when we kicked out the old order in the post-enlightenment era, since the Church and the hereditary order were the primary keepers of honor. It was replaced by guilt and guilt is still a major mechanism for societall control (just look at any Woke person) but the newest of them all is fear and as Crichton pointed out the way it works is new doomsday scenarios are devised in the Universities, and disseminated by a completely ignorant and willing media, then the politicians take it up. The public, ever pushed to the end of their seats by the newest doomsday warning, complies in order to "save the planet" for themselves and their progeny.
But it's as fake as the hair glued onto the Wolf Man, or Dracula's canine choppers.
This illustrates that perfectly. It is not about science at all but about scaring the public. If this were about science they would explain that this 'worst case scenario" is very, very, very unlikely indeed, even if "climate change" aka global warming is real and is a problem.
And to make this prediction after the whole country experienced a particularly cold and snowy winter illustrates their measure of desperation; they have to get the global warming scare back on track. They know this last winter did them no favors in terms of p.r. and so they are going to double down on this sort of stupidity to trick the weak minded.
If they truly believed this, truly believed the world is in peril from carbon dioxide emissions, they would alter their own lifestyles. They wouldn't buy beachfront property. They wouldn't fly in private jets. They would sell their mansions and buy these tiny houses which are all the rave now. No more swimming pools, private yachts, etc. But they aren't selling they are buying. What does that tell us class?
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February 13, 2026
Inflation is Down
Timothy Birdnow
Inflation has dropped to 2.4%, the lowest it's been since 2001.
Put THAT in your crack pipes and smoke it Demo-media!
People do not understand inflation. It is, essentially, when the money supply outstrips the growth of the economy. That usually (but not always) happens when the government spends too much money and the Federal Reserve is forced to "print" more (it doesn't really print it but rather simply creates a fiat on paper). The value of the money drops and if there is not adequate economic growth the average person is forced to spend more of his income on basics, which are more expensive. During periods of economic growth they do too but they are making so much more money nobody cares. But in inflationary periods the growth of real wages (not just how much one is paid in dollars but how much those dollars can purchase) stagnates while prices keep rising.
Naturally prices will not decline; that is deflation and it has it's own problems (while you get cheaper stuff you get pay cuts instead. And also it dries up lending as nobody wants to lend a dollar now that will be worth a buck fifty if you wait.) But if the people are making more it balances out.
In the end it's always government manipulation of currency that leads to inflation, and that is almost always a trick to spend more money to buy more votes. It really is that simple.
BTW the Federal Reserve caused the Great Depression by massively contracting the money supply, leading to an economic collapse. And then government under first Wilson and then Roosevelt attempted to spend their way out of the problem with money that people didn't have in the first place, sucking the economy ev er drier.
So this is good news and proof that Trump is on the right track. And it proves that tariffs don't cause inflation as the Keynsians all claimed it does.
Now we have to make sure the public is aware of this; the media is still saying we are in a bad economic time despite all the numbers looking up. They have subtly suggested that a lack of deflation means the economy is bad - a bald-faced lie.
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WSJ Hit Job on Kristi Noem
Timothy Birdnow
The Wall Street urinal is at it again, with yet another hit piece[ designed to embarrass the the Trump Administration and attempting to force Kristie Noem out of office (as did the media and Democrats).
[link=https://archive.is/LJvWF]A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem’s Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS
The Wall Street Journal is no longer a credible source of information.
Most of the "blockbuster" revelations are pretty much nothingburgers business as usual for Washington. They allege Noem had an affair with Corey Lewandowski, for instance. If true (and they are just citing cases of Lewandowski going across the street to see Noem, his boss), or her firing a pilot of the plane she flew on. I mean, THIS is the best they have on her?
While an affair is morally repugnant it certainly happens all the time in Washington; two thirds of the people there have planted their flags on foreign soil and the WSJ knows it. Both Noem and Lewandowski have denied there is an affair and this is no real word evidence to make the case.
She is accused of berating other officials. Oh MY! First, that is an internal problem and President Trump and is Chief of Staff can choose to deal with it or not. It's really none of the business of the WSJ or any media. And it's not like we haven't had this sort of thing in days gone by; anyone remember how Hillary Clinton treated staffwhen she was First Lady? Or Michelle Obama? I think a senior staffer is a big boy/girl and can fight their own battles, and if not they do not belong in that position.
So why haven't any of them complained?
Then there is this complaint:
"The pair have lately been using a luxury 737 MAX jet, with a private cabin in back, for their travel around the country, according to people familiar with the matter. DHS is leasing the plane but is in the process of acquiring it for approximately $70 million. DHS has previously used other planes through the Coast Guard or other agencies for the secretary’s use"
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Obviously Noem believes the Coast Guard has a problem, probably with security. Using a private plane may be the only good way to protect someone who is high on the assassination list for the Left and the WSJ knows it.
Were they anywhere near as concerned about Nancy Pelosi flying a private jet on the government dime when SHE did it?
There are more yawning complaints; do read the whole hit piece.
The reality is this is a huge effort to smear Noem and Lewandowski, two very loyal Trump aids. This is the old "Get Nixon" plalybook; if you can't get a good shot on the President go after his subordinates and pick them off one by one, then you can claim the President himself is corrupt. Make him lose support by taking his best friends.
You may remember the hit piece run by the Wall Street Journal over an alleged letter by Trump talking about obscene things with Jeffrey Epstein. It was pure fiction yet they dutifully reported it. The Wall Street Journal is not a conservative news source not by a long shot. In fact, years ago a researcher noted it's news division was the most left wing of any major news outlet in America (it has a conservative editorial board, by and large, although they are more RINO than MAGA.)
At any rate this is obviously a hit piece and sadly I found it on Citizens Free Press, Charlie Kirk's old aggregate news site. They apparently take this seriously, and that is not o.k. Kirk never would have made this mistake.
For the record I am often underwhelmed by Kristi Noem but this is complete hogwash and everyone on our side should come down on this like a ton of bricks.
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No Bunny Love
Timothy Birdnow
I guess that's why he's called BAD bunny!
This is the left-wing Mediate saying so - not Fox News.
Of course the NFL didn't learnt heir lesson after Colin Kapernick so why would they learn from this fiasco? Frankly I hope the DOJ moves forward with Rep. Randy Fine's referral and sues the pants off the NFL for violating FCC regulations.
"Based on my understanding of the data, Bad Bunny lost more [percentage] of the Super Bowl viewership from the end of the second quarter than has ever happened before."
Front Office Sports on Wednesday, with reporterRyan Glasspiegel
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Lorena Bobbitt is Vindicated in California
Timothy Birdnow
There is nothing "affirming" about cutting off a kid's penis or breasts, and it certainly isn't "care":
You know, if a kid were to take a knife and slice off his joystick we'd put him in a mental hospital. But let a doctor do it for him and we call him transgendered and praise his "bravery".
Maybe Lorena Bobbitt got a raw deal; she was just helping her husband with his little trans problem, after all!
If there is true justice in the afterlife people like Gavin Newsom would have their genitalia removed and he would have to go through eternity a ball-less, stickless wonder.
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The Sore Loser's Act of 2026
Timothy Birdnow
Boy are the Democrats sore losers!
After illegally releasing his tax return information (and finding nothing amiss) they now seek to prevent him from getting any compensation for the violation of his civil rights.
From Townhall:
Senate Democrats are moving to block President Donald Trump from benefiting from his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Treasury Department. They have introduced a bill that would seize any payout he might receive from the government over the handling of his leaked tax returns.
Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) introduced a measure called the Stop Presidential Embezzlement Act on Tuesday that would prevent Trump from receiving a settlement payment from the IRS if he wins his lawsuit, according to a press release.
Trump filed the lawsuit on January 29 in Florida, naming himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization as plaintiffs. He is accusing the IRS and the Treasury Department of failing to stop former contractor Charles Littlejohn from accessing and leaking his confidential tax returns.
Littlejohn admitted to pulling the president’s tax records, along with others belonging to wealthy individuals, and gave them to news outlets such as The New York Times and Propublica between 2018 and 2020.
These are small, hateful people. They know full well what was done to Mr. Trump was an egregious violation of his rights as an American but they simply can't stand to see Trump win at anything. This is like the bully who gets hit by his victim then runs to the teacher.
Cowards.
BTW I seriously doubt the Constitutionality of any such law passed by Congress as the President is not under their branch of government and he is entitled to the same rights as any other American. This is simply denying his right to seek redress from the courts and Chuck U knows it.
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Inconvenience Store
Timothy Birdnow
They just don't seem to understand there is a new sheriff in town and he isn't playing these games.
From El Zoro News:
Michael Lynch, deputy administrator of the General Services Administration, sent a letter to Doug Rosencrans, 7-Eleven’s COO, on Feb. 5 requesting any information from a potential internal investigation into the altercation.
Lynch noted that a federal government partnership could be in jeopardy between the Trump administration and the world's largest international chain of convenience stores.
"As 7-Eleven, Inc./Speedway LLC locations accept the GSA SmartPay fleet card for fuel and other authorized purchases on behalf of Federal fleets —i ncluding those operated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security — these actions raise concerns about the ability of Federal vehicle operators to access necessary fuel and services at convenient locations," the letter reads.
Donald Trump arrivesThe Trump administration is demanding answers from 7-Eleven after a Border Patrol commander and federal agents were allegedly denied service at a Minnesota gas station, raising concerns about access to fuel for federal fleets. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)
A viral video captured by conservative activist Cam Higby posted on Jan. 21 shows Bovino leaving a Speedway gas station, a chain which is owned by parent company 7-Eleven, followed by a manager who said, "I don’t support ICE, and nobody here does."
GSA said in the letter that "the reported refusal appears to have encompassed both in-store purchases and potential fuel transactions."
No doubt 7-11 will fire the manager and perhaps close this store if it comes to it. But one wonders if this policy hasn't come down from higher up than the store manager.
At any rate Trump is doing the right thing; cut off all business from the federal government and see how they like the loss of all that cash. Past administrations would have shrugged "what can you do" and kept spending taxpayer dollars there anyway.
Until we show everyone that open defiance of the law and violating the civil rights of Americans for woke ideology will cost dearly this will keep happening. The Left used this power for decades, boycotting and defunding and strangling opposition, even when it was unlawful for them to do so. FINALLY we have someone who understands how to use this same power.
In bygone days the thinking was we needed to act better than our leftist enemies, that we "can't stoop to their level" even while they were bringing the whole country down to their level. Now we are pretty much in a position of fight or die, and we now have a man leading us who is willing to fight. Even Ronald Reagan didn't have the stones of Donald Trump and that is why so much of the Reagan Revolution failed after Mr. Reagan was gone from the scene; he didn't pull this stuff out by the roots. Trump is attempting something much harder than what Reagan tried; he's attempting to not just trim the weeds but eradicate them.
At any rate I think the old 7-11 slogan "oh thank Heaven for a friendly store like 7kk011" is no longer applicable. Perhaps they should amend it to "It's not Funny Please Givle us Back You're Money".
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Canada Dry and On the Rocks
Timothy Birdnow
No Canada! I suspect without Alberta the whole rotten structure will collapse.
Alberta's oil and gas is one of the cornerstones of the Canadian economy and without it Canada will struggle to pay her bills.
I wish we could annex British Columbia too in order to have a land connection between the lower 48 and Alaska, but the BC public is quite liberal thanks to Vancouver and would wind up being a Democratic stronghold if we were to annex it. So we can be content with Alberta sticking well up into the heartland of Canada, a sort of giant middle finger to Canadian socialism and the leftists in Ottawa.
The article points out that the numbers do not appear to be there for secession (and Canada has rules about seceding, which have to be addressed unless Albertans want to fight a war of independence). And it appears many Albertans aren't that interested in joining the U.S. yet, but that may change in due course.
Of course Texas will howl if we take Alberta into the Union; they would become the THIRD largest state. They were already fit to be tied over the entrance of Alaska into the union, bumping them from the top slot.
But annexation and statehood would be swift, provided Congress approved it. Alberta is not some frontier settlement but a thriving settled territory all ready to go. It would just need to write a new state constitution and buy some American flags. They could use the Canadian flags to wipe up any oil spills...
Meanwhile Quebec is renewing it's own independence demands, and should Quebec leave the Dominion Canada would become a wholly anglo nation and would be much more conservative, likely leading to the end of guys like Mark Carney's rein of error. We could only hope, anyway. Yes, BC and Ontario are no doubt still going to send lefties to Parliament but the balance of power would shift.
And Quebec is the center of at least 20% of the Canadian economy. So if Quebec leaves Canada will have to kiss the bottoms of the Albertans or risk the complete collapse of the country. If both leave that's the end of the Dominion of Canada (as it is formally known).
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