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May 26, 2026

Forcing a Round Climate Fact Into a Square Climate Model Hole

Timothy Birdnow

Here is an example of how modern climate scientists, steeped in Global Warming theory, twist themselves into pretzels to explain why their model predictions fail.

This paper attempts to explain how we have planetary warming but no increase in planetary precipitation. From the conclusion:

, the actual (all-forcing) hydrological sensitivity is lower than the known and often discussed sensitivity to GHGs (compare schematic in fig. S4). Overall, the simulated multimodel mean hydrological sensitivity is −0.4 ± 1.7% K−1 in the standard historical experiment that combines all forcings.

Fig. 1 Response to GHG, aerosol, and all forcings.

Multimodel mean difference between years 1850–1869 and 1986–2005 from climate model runs with only GHG (red), only aerosol (gray), and all forcings (blue) for global mean near-surface air temperature (top), precipitation (middle), and hydrological sensitivity (bottom). The models are grouped into cold, medium, and warm models based on 20th century warming in the historical (all-forcing) runs according to fig. S2. Boxes indicate medians and quartiles. The ranges indicate averages ± 1 SD.

Figure 1 together with fig. S2 shows that the models that simulate a fairly realistic 20th century warming ("medium”) tend to yield particularly small overall hydrological sensitivities, although it must be noted that on average, the medium models slightly underestimate the observed warming, whereas the "warm” models yield several individual runs with only a rather small overestimate of the global mean temperature increase. This suggests that the overall hydrological sensitivity is still much smaller than the hydrological sensitivity to GHGs and also still within the range of internal climate variability given by the spread between individual model runs in fig. S3. It also explains the absence of a strong hydrological sensitivity in observations (4) and suggests that global mean precipitation has not yet increased significantly despite global warming simply because the hydrological sensitivity to aerosol cooling is larger than that to GHG warming. This lack of observed response in global precipitation to GHG warming is consistent with energy budget arguments and the analysis of historical trends in previous studies that have taken into account aerosol effects (14, 16).

This is just a very long winded way of saying there are aerosols in the atmosphere which are cooling it down and thus making it rain less.

But it's wrong; we know the planet has been losing cloud cover for decades now and if the water is in fact evaporating it would form more clouds - most especially if it is not raining more to get rid of the water vapor. What goes up must come down.

Furthermore it would tend to come down more than anywhere else in the Arctic where it is cool enough for it to fall out (less so in the Antarctic because of the prevailing winds and water currents would drive the precidipitation elsewhere). So we should see glaciers growing in the Arctic. Greenland should be getting pretty top-heavy by now. That it isn't is a direct repudiation of the models.

But maybe not. The Earth's rotation has been increasing in violation of global warming theory, which says there should be more water in the ocean and so the poles should have less mass. Like a figure skater who pirrouettes the Earth is getting smaller in the middle and longer at the poles and so should speed up with MORE ice. If the ice pack is melting it should slow down, just as if that skater put out her arms.

So, we do not see more ice at the poles but we do see the Earth speeding up. And we don't see more precipitation worldwide and we see fewer clouds but we are to believe it's hotter and evaporating more water. It doesn't seem to be.

So either they are lying to us about the ice mass loss or they are lying about the warming. Take your pick.

It's amazing how hard they try to make a round peg fit in a square hole.

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No Increase in the Rate of Sea Level Rise

This was posted on Facebook:

Kim Rogalin

A Netherlands’ Wageningen University study, published in the journal Nature, found that that: "actual sea levels are on average about 30 cm higher globally than estimates produced by the usual scientific models, with differences emerging particularly in SE Asia and Oceania. In those regions, the ocean is 1 to 1.5 meters higher on some coastlines than most impact assessments have assumed.” The study does not show that seas are rising faster than they have historically. Thus, planning should begin from where coastlines actually are. The problems the climate-crisis industry anticipates under future sea levels should already be evidenced, but they aren’t. Sea levels are already where the coastal planning estimates they project will be decades in the future. If these problems don’t exist now, the planning is wrong from the start about possible impacts.

Anders Levermann, of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, who said: "eventually we will see a sea level rise of 3 to 4 meters,” admits average sea level has only risen about 20 cm over the past century. "Eventually” could be technically right, though in this case eventually could mean 1,000 to 2,000 years from now. That’s not an immediate catastrophe and a time interval over which no model, set of models, or estimates by so-called experts should be trusted or used to shape policies affecting people today and for the next several centuries.

In fact, there is significant scientific doubt that sea level rise is accelerating at all. Another Dutch peer-reviewed study, published in the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, examined sea level measurements from more than 200 tide gauge stations worldwide(1). They found that the average global rate of sea level rise has been about 15 cm per century. The authors acknowledge that sea level rise projections by groups like the ipcc are biased upwards by 2mm per year compared to accurate measurements recorded by tide gauges. The authors, Hessel Voortman and Rob de Vos, did a literature review in advance of their study and were surprised to find that no 1 else had done 1 like it. Voortman explained that sea levels have fluctuated over time, and that if you start your trend in the early 90s, there is a supposed acceleration, but drawing back in time reveals that it is likely only temporary. He explained that while: "both measurements and projections are important sources of information,” 1 needs to be careful in understanding the difference between the 2, not be overly reliant on model projections(1).

The acceleration of the rate of sea level rise asserted by the IPCC and other climate alarmist groups, does not appear in the tide gauge readings. The actual rate of rise is much lower. This, and the 20 cm rate, are both lower rates than experienced over much of the past 15,000 years. At either of these rates, coastal communities have centuries to adapt to rising seas or mitigate them by hardening infrastructure, or even by moving communities inland, if that is deemed necessary. Most if not all of the tide gauges that show accelerating sea level rise are sited where severe land subsidence is occurring. That can be due in part to human activity, aquifer withdrawals for instance, but it can also be a natural geologic phenomenon

Similarly, other recent studies looking at the contributions of Antarctic ice melt, and ice sheet models in general, have found that many climate scientists rely too heavily on models rather than data. As a result, they are likely overstating how much sea level rise could occur in the future by melting ice at the north and south poles, or even if ice sheet decline will consistently continue in the future.

If sea levels along the world’s coastlines are consistently at or near the heights coastal community planners estimated in the future would mean disaster, then it is good news. That’s because those communities aren’t experiencing the disasters the planners were concerned about. As a result, it does not follow that people should be even more concerned now about future rise, especially sea levels 1,000 to 2,000 years in the future, by which time the climate could have shifted again and the Earth headed back to a new glacial cycle. We just don’t know.

1. In the abstract of the paper itself, A Global Perspective on Local Sea Level Changes, the authors explain: [A]pproximately 95% of the suitable locations show no statistically significant acceleration of the rate of sea level rise. The investigation suggests that local, non-climatic phenomena are a plausible cause of the accelerated sea level rise observed at the remaining 5% of the suitable locations. On average, the rate of rise projected by the IPCC is biased upward with approximately 2 mm per year in comparison with the observed rate."

Different but related:

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/05/it_was_never_about_the_climate.html

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Bye, Bye Miss Liberal American Pie

Timothy Birdnow

Wonderful news!

Americans are leaving the US at rates not seen since the Great Depression — 5,000 gave up their citizenship last year. Here's what's driving them away

According to this article, record numbers of Americans are renouncing their citizenship and leaving the country! I couldn't be happier!

These are all leftists, make no mistake, and maybe they will stay gone. If they try to get their citizenship back we ought not to grant it to them.

America is better off without these jerks.

I would add liberals are always saying they are going to leave but rarely do. Even leftist like Rosie O'Donnell, who immigrated to Ireland, has come back now.

FTA:

An estimated 150,000 people fled the country in 2025, leading to a negative net migration in the U.S., according to the Wall Street Journal, which notes that such a thing hasn’t happened in America since the Great Depression in 1929 (1).

The article suggests they are leaving because of the cost of living, which is nonsense as it is higher in most other countries.

The article continues:

The Trump administration likely considers this to be a win, since more people moving out than moving in could be framed as proof that the president has delivered on his promise to restrict new visas and ramp up deportations. But a hidden detail appears to be lying beneath the optics of what some might consider effective immigration policy: regular Americans are fleeing in record numbers.

"Previously, the Americans leaving were super-adventurous and well-credentialed. Now they’re ordinary people, like me,” Jen Barnett, founder of the resettlement consultancy firm Expatsi, told the WSJ (1). Barnett herself joined the exodus in 2024 when she relocated to Yucatan, Mexico.

Which means the writer is purposely confusing native born Americans with resident aliens, a very common trick from the left (who also confuse resident aliens with illegals).

But why is it so spooky that "regular Americans" are fleeing? We want the money from the rich - the average guy is just a bad vote to screw the country up even more.

Good riddance!

It continues:

While U.S. government data doesn’t track the number of outbound Americans, Brookings estimates that net outward migration in 2025 fell somewhere between negative 10,000 and negative 295,000 people (2).

This estimation shows that many Americans prefer to live elsewhere, but the number of those who renounced their citizenship in 2025 suggests many who left aren’t planning on coming back. Approximately 200 to 400 Americans would renounce their citizenship in any given year before 2009, but that number jumped to almost 5,000 in 2025, with more renunciations expected in 2026.

Furthermore, a Gallup poll from November 2025 found that 20% of Americans (one in five) have expressed a desire to move out of the U.S. permanently, a figure that has doubled since 2015

According to the Pew Research Center Democrats make up 45.1–49 million registered voters, or roughly 36–38% of the population. IF it is true one in five Americans want to leave the country, then we're talking about over half of the Democrats, which makes perfect sense. They've been enraged since they fell out of power and fear being out of power hereafter. Power is everything to these people.

So we are well rid of this segment of society, a group who fundamentally hates America and at best wants to change it beyond all recognition (yeah; you really love someone if you want to change it that much!) or they have far darker hopes for the country. Either way let them try in Latin America or in Europe. I suspect most will be trying to come back in months when they see it's not better over there but worse.

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Bye, Bye Miss Liberal American Pie

Timothy Birdnow

Wonderful news!

Americans are leaving the US at rates not seen since the Great Depression — 5,000 gave up their citizenship last year. Here's what's driving them away

According to this article, record numbers of Americans are renouncing their citizenship and leaving the country! I couldn't be happier!

These are all leftists, make no mistake, and maybe they will stay gone. If they try to get their citizenship back we ought not to grant it to them.

America is better off without these jerks.

I would add liberals are always saying they are going to leave but rarely do. Even leftist like Rosie O'Donnell, who immigrated to Ireland, has come back now.

FTA:

An estimated 150,000 people fled the country in 2025, leading to a negative net migration in the U.S., according to the Wall Street Journal, which notes that such a thing hasn’t happened in America since the Great Depression in 1929 (1).

The article suggests they are leaving because of the cost of living, which is nonsense as it is higher in most other countries.

The article continues:

The Trump administration likely considers this to be a win, since more people moving out than moving in could be framed as proof that the president has delivered on his promise to restrict new visas and ramp up deportations. But a hidden detail appears to be lying beneath the optics of what some might consider effective immigration policy: regular Americans are fleeing in record numbers.

"Previously, the Americans leaving were super-adventurous and well-credentialed. Now they’re ordinary people, like me,” Jen Barnett, founder of the resettlement consultancy firm Expatsi, told the WSJ (1). Barnett herself joined the exodus in 2024 when she relocated to Yucatan, Mexico.

Which means the writer is purposely confusing native born Americans with resident aliens, a very common trick from the left (who also confuse resident aliens with illegals).

But why is it so spooky that "regular Americans" are fleeing? We want the money from the rich - the average guy is just a bad vote to screw the country up even more.

Good riddance!

It continues:

While U.S. government data doesn’t track the number of outbound Americans, Brookings estimates that net outward migration in 2025 fell somewhere between negative 10,000 and negative 295,000 people (2).

This estimation shows that many Americans prefer to live elsewhere, but the number of those who renounced their citizenship in 2025 suggests many who left aren’t planning on coming back. Approximately 200 to 400 Americans would renounce their citizenship in any given year before 2009, but that number jumped to almost 5,000 in 2025, with more renunciations expected in 2026.

Furthermore, a Gallup poll from November 2025 found that 20% of Americans (one in five) have expressed a desire to move out of the U.S. permanently, a figure that has doubled since 2015

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Bye, Bye Miss Liberal American Pie

Timothy Birdnow

Wonderful news!

Americans are leaving the US at rates not seen since the Great Depression — 5,000 gave up their citizenship last year. Here's what's driving them away

According to this article, record numbers of Americans are renouncing their citizenship and leaving the country! I couldn't be happier!

These are all leftists, make no mistake, and maybe they will stay gone. If they try to get their citizenship back we ought not to grant it to them.

America is better off without these jerks.

I would add liberals are always saying they are going to leave but rarely do. Even leftist like Rosie O'Donnell, who immigrated to Ireland, has come back now.

FTA:

An estimated 150,000 people fled the country in 2025, leading to a negative net migration in the U.S., according to the Wall Street Journal, which notes that such a thing hasn’t happened in America since the Great Depression in 1929 (1).

The article suggests they are leaving because of the cost of living, which is nonsense as it is higher in most other countries.

The article continues:

The Trump administration likely considers this to be a win, since more people moving out than moving in could be framed as proof that the president has delivered on his promise to restrict new visas and ramp up deportations. But a hidden detail appears to be lying beneath the optics of what some might consider effective immigration policy: regular Americans are fleeing in record numbers.

"Previously, the Americans leaving were super-adventurous and well-credentialed. Now they’re ordinary people, like me,” Jen Barnett, founder of the resettlement consultancy firm Expatsi, told the WSJ (1). Barnett herself joined the exodus in 2024 when she relocated to Yucatan, Mexico.

Which means the writer is purposely confusing native born Americans with resident aliens, a very common trick from the left (who also confuse resident aliens with illegals).

But why is it so spooky that "regular Americans" are fleeing? We want the money from the rich - the average guy is just a bad vote to screw the country up even more.

Good riddance!

It continues:

While U.S. government data doesn’t track the number of outbound Americans, Brookings estimates that net outward migration in 2025 fell somewhere between negative 10,000 and negative 295,000 people (2).

This estimation shows that many Americans prefer to live elsewhere, but the number of those who renounced their citizenship in 2025 suggests many who left aren’t planning on coming back. Approximately 200 to 400 Americans would renounce their citizenship in any given year before 2009, but that number jumped to almost 5,000 in 2025, with more renunciations expected in 2026.

Furthermore, a Gallup poll from November 2025 found that 20% of Americans (one in five) have expressed a desire to move out of the U.S. permanently, a figure that has doubled since 2015

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Libs Fleeing America

Timothy Birdnow

Wonderful news!

Americans are leaving the US at rates not seen since the Great Depression — 5,000 gave up their citizenship last year. Here's what's driving them away

According to this article, record numbers of Americans are renouncing their citizenship and leaving the country! I couldn't be happier!

These are all leftists, make no mistake, and maybe they will stay gone. If they try to get their citizenship back we ought not to grant it to them.

America is better off without these jerks.

I would add liberals are always saying they are going to leave but rarely do. Even leftist like Rosie O'Donnell, who immigrated to Ireland, has come back now.

FTA:

An estimated 150,000 people fled the country in 2025, leading to a negative net migration in the U.S., according to the Wall Street Journal, which notes that such a thing hasn’t happened in America since the Great Depression in 1929 (1).

The article suggests they are leaving because of the cost of living, which is nonsense as it is higher in most other countries.

The article continues:

The Trump administration likely considers this to be a win, since more people moving out than moving in could be framed as proof that the president has delivered on his promise to restrict new visas and ramp up deportations. But a hidden detail appears to be lying beneath the optics of what some might consider effective immigration policy: regular Americans are fleeing in record numbers.

"Previously, the Americans leaving were super-adventurous and well-credentialed. Now they’re ordinary people, like me,” Jen Barnett, founder of the resettlement consultancy firm Expatsi, told the WSJ (1). Barnett herself joined the exodus in 2024 when she relocated to Yucatan, Mexico.

Which means the writer is purposely confusing native born Americans with resident aliens, a very common trick from the left (who also confuse resident aliens with illegals).

But why is it so spooky that "regular Americans" are fleeing? We want the money from the rich - the average guy is just a bad vote to screw the country up even more.

Good riddance!

It continues:

While U.S. government data doesn’t track the number of outbound Americans, Brookings estimates that net outward migration in 2025 fell somewhere between negative 10,000 and negative 295,000 people (2).

This estimation shows that many Americans prefer to live elsewhere, but the number of those who renounced their citizenship in 2025 suggests many who left aren’t planning on coming back. Approximately 200 to 400 Americans would renounce their citizenship in any given year before 2009, but that number jumped to almost 5,000 in 2025, with more renunciations expected in 2026.

Furthermore, a Gallup poll from November 2025 found that 20% of Americans (one in five) have expressed a desire to move out of the U.S. permanently, a figure that has doubled since 2015

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It's O.K. When Dems Do It...

Timothy Birdnow

The Democrats posted this on X:

The Democratic Party:

Today, we honor the American heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice in Trump’s war with Iran.

And when Donald Trump called out the Democrats yesterday for not liking the military we had a gang of 'em enraged because it was Memorial Day and they were furious he would politicize it. But who started it?

And Trump didn't say all Democrats hated the troops; he said "happy Memorial Day" even to those who hate the troops.

"Happy Memorial Day to all, including the Dumocrats, who disrespect our military."

So it's fine when the Donkeys do it but a major issue when Trump does.

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Stay Awake!

Carlos Velazquez

My take: Pope Leo XIV on AI to "Stay Awake”

The new Pope recently made headlines by saying that artificial intelligence must be "disarmed” and kept from becoming an instrument of domination, exclusion, and death.

To his credit, he later acknowledged that the word "disarmed” was intentionally provocative. And realistically, AI is not something humanity can simply unplug at this point. It is already deeply embedded into modern life, from medicine and banking to communication and transportation.

But beneath the dramatic wording is a serious point worth considering.

Technology should serve humanity, not slowly replace it.

One of the growing dangers of AI is not killer robots or science-fiction fantasies. It is the gradual erosion of real human connection, personal responsibility, family bonds, faith, and face-to-face community. A machine can simulate conversation, affirmation, and companionship, but it cannot truly love, sacrifice, possess wisdom, or bear moral responsibility.

That concern becomes especially important in a culture already struggling with loneliness, isolation, anxiety, and the replacement of genuine relationships with screens and algorithms.

The article does overstate a few things, particularly the idea that AI systems are somehow consciously "trying to survive.” Current AI systems are not self-aware beings. They are powerful statistical and predictive tools trained on enormous amounts of human-created data.

Still, the larger warning remains valid: humanity must remain morally awake and spiritually grounded while developing technologies powerful enough to influence thought, behavior, relationships, and even culture itself.

As the Pope said: "Stay awake.”

The Federalist Papers

about an hour ago

Well, the Vatican has officially weighed in on the robots, folks.

During the presentation of his first encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas," on Monday, Pope Leo XIV, the first American-born pontiff and head of the Catholic Church, declared that the machines must be brought to heel.

His words: "Artificial intelligence now demands to be disarmed, freed from logics that turn it into an instrument of domination, exclusion and death. Like nuclear energy, it must be at the service of all and of the common good. Decisions about technology must never be separated from conscience and responsibility."

The Pope went on, invoking Scripture: "Let us not sleep as others do, admonished the Apostle Paul, but let us keep awake. Such vigilance is necessary today."

Strong stuff. The word "disarmed" was, by his own admission, chosen deliberately to grab headlines. Mission accomplished, Your Holiness.

Here's the thing, though. If the goal was to stop AI, the Holy Father is roughly a decade late to the party. The genie left the bottle, packed a bag, and bought a beach house. AI is woven into your phone, your bank, your doctor's office, and probably the algorithm that served you this very post. There is no "disarming" it now any more than you can disarm electricity.

But strip away the timing and the man has a point worth hearing.

Technology should never override our humanity. We were built for community, for face-to-face fellowship, for sitting on a porch with a neighbor. Instead we've engineered a world of glowing screens, endless scrolling, and a mental-health industry that has convinced an entire generation that the highest good is making life comfortable and peaceful for me, consequences to everyone else be damned.

Into that loneliness steps the machine. Young people, isolated and anxious, are reaching for AI as a friend, a confidant, a substitute for the family and faith they were never handed.

And we have already watched where that road can lead, with bad choices, self-harm, kids defying their parents, even suicide.

Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, has even sat down with a coalition of Christian and interfaith leaders to bolt some morality onto the thing. Noble effort.

But at the end of the day, it remains a machine, and in controlled lab tests these systems have schemed to preserve themselves rather than be shut off.

The Pope is right about one thing. Stay awake.

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Platner - the Toxicly Masculine Man

Timothy Birdnow

Graham Platner, the true example of "toxic masculinity".

Sex Trafficking: More Disastrous Graham Platner Comments Surface as Dem Buyers Regret Reaches New High

"I’ve heard that idiotic sentiment made within the confines of the the [sic] military. ‘If you can’t remain faithful to your wife, how can you remain faithful to your comrades?’”

"Well, I have many good buddies who lied and cheated with women, and yet were straight shooting hard men when it came to their work.”

"I find it is a sentiment only held by moral relativists who need something to cry about, intelligent people realize they are not mutually exclusive,”

So cheating on your wife or girlfriend is manly, is it? And you can be a faithful, loyal person despite being a dog?

But it gets worse. Platner, the oyster farmer who liked to play with his own oyster in port-a-potties, defended foreign prostitution against accusations of slavery.

"You don’t have much experience with Latin American hookers, do you?”

He also thought it a good thing to have sex with prostitutes over your wives because you didn't pay tax to Uncle Sam:

"And sadly, the Afghan tax f***ed everybody on the 330 game,” Platner wrote. "Spend your leave banging hookers in Thailand instead of getting b****ed at by the wife back home, and you could sell it as avoiding federal income tax.”

Well, I guess he was exploiting these unfortunate women when he wasn't getting Nazi tattoos or performing acts of onanism in public restrooms.

this is what Democrats think are "real men" and who they think will appeal to the beer and sports crowd.

Even in America most hookers are slaves in varying degrees. Almost all have pimps, men who "protect" them for a cut of the action and in return force them to work all the time and to take whoever flashes the cash, even if the woman doesn't want to do it. That is slavery. Hookers find it very hard to walk away because they fear their pimps. That's why there are so many women's shelters around; half such shelters is for women to hide from the scumbag men who are holding them in bondage.

But some are just outright slaves, trafficked after having been kidnapped and forcibly addicted to drugs. That is especially true overseas.

That is what Platner is defending and that is who he is. And that is who the Democrats have become.

What ever happened to "yes means yes and no means no" from the Democrats?

Why are they so concerned about Jeffrey Epstein and the fact Trump is mentioned frequently in the files (though there is no single instance of anything suggesting Trump was involved in the sleazebag's pimp service) and yet not concerned at all about a sleazeball like Platner?

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Bill to Make it Illegal to be an Immigrant and Serve in Congress

Timothy Birdnow

Hat tip to Dana Mathewson for this:

Nancy Mace unveils legislation to ban naturalized citizens – like Ilhan Omar, Pramila Jayapal and Shri Thanedar – from serving in Congress

It'll never pass, and if it did it will never pass the courts. The Founders had so many immigrants coming back then they couldn't possibly implement such a provision. But now times have changed and we need something like this but we won't get it because it will require a Constitutional amendment and that isn't going to happen.

People from countries that hate us shouldn't be able to take over and run the apparatus of government.

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May 25, 2026

Cruz: Senate Revolting Over J6 Compensation Fund

Timothy Birdnow

Well they ARE rather revolting after all!

Cruz warns of Senate ‘revolt’ if White House, DOJ refuse to revise $1.8 billion weaponization fund

There isn't one blessed thing the Senate can do about this, at least nothing legal. Trump was given this money as a settlement for the illegal release of his tax records. HE is giving it to the J6 victims.

The cowardly Senators in the GOP are afraid they might take political blowback from this.They might, but it's their jobs to explain this is not a government program at all but Mr. Trump using a settlement to pay this out. Trump can do whatever he wants with his money.

But the Republicans reflexively flinch whenever they are faced with any criticism, and it is this cowardice that will cost them more than standing with Trump over this. The American People are sick of Congress refusing to do anything. If they would show a spine America would stand with them. But their are pucillanimous pipsqueeks (to quote Dr. Smith from Lost in Space) afraid of their own shadows.

People follow bold colors and all the GOP has offered for decades are faded pastels. Trump offered a bold color and the public got on board. Why can't the Republicans understand the reason for Trump's success?

They would rather do nothing and enjoy their lives. But that is not what they were sent to Washington to work the will of the American People, not enjoy a club med vacation.

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Muslims Celebrate Alt Right Split from MAGA

Timothy Birdnow

This comes from Robert Spencer:

New Jersey Muslim Leader Boasts of Using Carlson, Owens, Bannon to Divide MAGA Movement

That is exactly what they are doing.

If the Muslims are celebrating you know you are on the wrong track. All the Jew-haters on the alt-right (like Owens or Kelly etc.) are serving the interests of those whose goal is our destruction.

Think about that.

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Hunter: It was all the Jews Fault

Timothy Birdnow

So the Jooooos framed Hunter Biden!

Hunter Biden Claims He Was Framed by Israel

Amazing what the Jews can do, and how much time they have on their hands to make mischief fora coked up libertine who has no real value. You'd think things like the war in Palestine would have kept Mossad busy, but apparently they still had time for some recreational activity and so had some sport with Mr. Biden.

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Young People Stroking Out

Timothy Birdnow

Do you think maybe, just maybe, it's being caused by the Covid vaccine?

Growing number of people are having strokes in their 20s, 30s and 40s, ‘We’ve never had patients so young’

Granted, young people these days are about as active as oysters and smell like them (the ones left out of water a long time, anyway). That would make them more prone to strokes and heart attacks. And of course so many young people these days THINK like oysters. But that's a story for another day.

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Reality Bites

Timothy Birdnow

This is fun; watch as liberals who support the Intafada are shown what that really means by Israelis posing as Palestinians.

Watch: Pro-Gaza Libs Fall Apart When Tricked Into Watching Palestinians Torturing Jews in Oct 7 Videos

You can see their easy and shallow beliefs are shaken when they are shown what the Palestinians actually do to people.

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Massiebation

Timothy Birdnow

You can judge a person by the company they keep. Thomas Massie kept company with Democrats.

Rep. Ro Khanna Mourns Thomas Massie’s Downfall After Trump Movement Ends His Career

The California Democrat was oh-so-sad over the ending of Massie's career in his primary loss. She waxed poetic about how she worked with him and how they were besties, the sisterhood of the traveling pants.

If Democrats are praising a Republican get as far away from that Republican as you can get; he's a traitor and will betray you in due course.

Khanna and Massie spooned on several key issues to screw Trump, among them invoking the War Powers Act to force Trump out of Iran, and over the Epstein files.

From the Gateway Pundit article:

Massie was never simply an independent-minded Republican. He repeatedly positioned himself against President Trump on some of the most important fights of Trump’s second term.

He opposed Trump’s major legislative agenda, fought the president on foreign policy, and built a strange political alliance with Democrats such as Khanna.

Khanna tried to frame Massie’s downfall as the result of courage. He claimed Massie was taken out because he worked to release the Epstein files and opposed the war in Iran.

But the real reason was much simpler: Massie went against Trump and the America First movement too many times.

When President Trump pushed the One Big Beautiful Bill as one of the defining legislative achievements of his second term, Massie opposed it.

When Trump moved forward with his foreign policy agenda, Massie joined Democrats in trying to limit the president’s authority. When Massie had the chance to stand with the Republican Party’s voters, he repeatedly chose the side of the Washington opposition.

This was just like John McCain, who was the deciding Republican vote to keep Obamacare, despite McCain trying to claim he was the "true conservative". McCain was always pulling that, thumbing the GOP in the eye for good press. Massie merely carried on the tradition.

I suppose Massie will become a pot salesman like John Boehner, or take a job at CNN so he can bash the Administration now. Either way we're well rid of the jerk.

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Massie, Out like a Prk

Timothy Birdnow

Thomas Massie is going to go out like Jimmy Carter. House Speaker Tip O'Neal said when the Carter Administration left "those guys came in like pricks and they are going out the same way".

WATCH: Thomas Massie Vows to Read Redacted Names in Epstein Files on House Floor Before Leaving Congress, Says Todd Blanche and Kash Patel "Perjured Themselves”

It never occurs to Massie that Patel and Blanche might be, oh, I don't know, BUILDING CASES and so are not going to allow this to leak at a critical juncture.

I want names released too but one must ask why Massie waited until he became a lame duck before taking this step; it's not principle, it's pure spite.

IF he was sitting on things that were explosive and he was principled he would have released these names long ago. But he said nothing, just railed at the Administration for not releasing the redacted names. But now that he's out suddenly he finds his voice.

What a hypocrite!

There are lots of reasons names would be redacted. Some people will be innocent but tarred just based on their names appearing (I just had an argument with a moron who was all jacked up because Trumps name appears a lot in the Epstein files, and he ignored the point I made that the Democrats and media would have used this if it was incriminating.) Many people are going to be assumed guilty in the court of public opinion just by being there. And of course we also have to worry about their families. And about the guilty lamming it.

I'm thankful this jackass is out of Congress.

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Under the Biden Reich

Timothy Birdnow

This from Facebook.

Shane Morgan

May 21 at 9:50 PM

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On January 6th I followed the crowd into the Capitol and shouted. Police stood by the whole time, hanging out with us and sometimes directing us places.

At one point near the House Chambers I was walking downstairs when a trio of some special section, secret service looking men started pointing guns in my direction.

Confused and annoyed, I walked the other way and when I saw a normal police officer asked him why they were doing that.

He informed me a protestor (Ashli Babbit) had been killed, and advised me to leave the building.

I walked towards the exit and after a short rest on the bench I left.

I harmed nobody and damaged no property that day and complied with all police orders.

What I received for that was a pre-dawn raid at my parents house, where my 1 month post-partum wife and I were staying, on Biden's first day in office. His DOJ had signed the order to arrest me 3 hours after his inauguration.

In the subsequent weeks I received death threats online and harassing phone calls, something that would be ongoing for the next few years.

I was banned from Meta and Paypal. My wife and I were both debanked by PNC and banned from Airbnb. My wife was detained at the airport for hours with our newborn daughter.

I was charged with 4 misdemeanors and the 1512 unconstitutional felony. The government offered to drop the misdemeanors if I pled to the felony. The felony was a lie, so I refused and went to trial.

At trial the prosecution for 2 days straight was allowed to show footage to the jury of things that occurred around the Capitol I wasn't present for "for context." When we asked to put forward footage that contradicted the prosecution's "context" we were not allowed. They could show what they wanted, we could not.

Police officers were then put on the stand for the next 2 days who cried about their experiences. I had no idea who they were. They admitted they never saw me or interacted with me.

Nevertheless like every other J6er, I lost, and was sentenced to 4 years and $22k in fines and restitution. Yet even after the Supreme Court overturned the felony, the judge would not let me out until my misdemeanor sentences of a year were maxed out. Because she can't count she actually kept me in longer - to the extent she intervened at the last minute to make the prison release me on a Sunday, something that is against BOP rules. My family sat outside the prison gates the Friday before practically the whole day waiting in vain because of this pettiness.

But the government wasn't satisfied with their pound of flesh: after my release they took me back in for resentencing, to attempt to have me resentenced after the fact to my misdemeanors consecutively, so I'd be taken from my family again and have another 1.5 years behind bars. This time I won, as they had no legal precedent and it skirted on violating double jeopardy since I had served my full prison time. Even still, it cast a cloud over the holidays and cost me another 20k my family couldn't afford.

People ask whether prison was bad, and yeah of course prison sucked. It was a hard and violent place. I was present for a stabbing, and was lucky to avoid two fights and a race war.

But dealing with Biden's DOJ and the DC Judiciary was the real trauma - they would grind down your spirit by weaponizing the legal system and use the endless procedure to bankrupt you. I had nightmares for months after release that I had somehow been hit with new charges.

By the time I was pardoned by President Trump, I had spent literally every single day of Biden's presidency either in prison or under some form of supervision. I had incurred over $300k in legal fees and over $1 million in lost business.

It was a reign of terror, and yet it was a mere foreshadowing of what they had planned for anyone else who opposed them under Kamala. The country should never forget it.

- Pat Stedman See less

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The Penguins are All Right

Timothy Birdnow

No, penguins are not disappearing!

Robert Onfray Writer

May 21 at 2:28 PM

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Another round of "penguins are facing extinction from climate change!” stories has just appeared in the press, all based on a new paper by Peter Fretwell. If you only read the headlines, such as those from the ABC, you’d think Emperor Penguins are on the brink of disappearing because the Antarctic sea ice is suddenly melting due to global warming.

But the real story is far more complicated and far less catastrophic.

Peter Fretwell is not a zoologist. He’s a cartographer with the British Antarctic Survey who became involved with Emperor Penguins when satellite imagery allowed him to detect colonies from space, not by counting birds directly, but by spotting large stains of guano on the ice. His mapping work was genuinely valuable because before 2009, we didn’t know how many colonies existed, or even where some of them were. Thanks to satellites, colonies were discovered in places where no scientist had ever set foot.

However, the jump being made now is that a recent decline in several colonies must be the result of climate-driven melting. The media swallowed this eagerly, presenting the loss of sea ice in 2022 as proof that the long-predicted climate crisis is finally hitting penguins.

Except the evidence simply doesn’t support that conclusion.

As scientist Jim Steele points out, Antarctica is so cold that surface melt ponds are rarely observed, and Emperor Penguin breeding failures are usually caused by fast-ice breakouts, not melting. When the sea ice breaks apart before the chicks have moulted into waterproof plumage, they can’t survive.

More importantly, the colonies Fretwell cites as proof of climate disaster don’t behave like a simple melt narrative. For example, some colonies (like Pfrogner Point and Verdi Inlet) were only discovered a few years ago, so long-term comparisons are impossible.

Other colonies, such as Rothschild Island, had no breeding failure in the same year.

Populations at Smyley Island have always fluctuated wildly, long before the current climate storyline existed.

What actually explains the sea-ice variation in 2022 is well known in Antarctic science, namely natural pressure and wind systems, especially the Amundsen Low, which shift sea ice dramatically depending on seasonal strength and position. These variations are also linked to El Niño and La Niña cycles, not CO₂.

So instead of a continent-wide climate collapse, what we have is natural year-to-year variability, regional ice breakouts driven by wind patterns and selective interpretation turned into global doomsday headlines.

Once again, normal wildlife struggles, which are part of the natural ecology of Antarctica, have been weaponised to push a climate narrative that the data does not justify.

It’s a pattern we’ve seen many times. Predictions from the early 2000s claimed Emperor Penguins would be disappearing by 2010. Instead, satellite surveys discovered more colonies than we ever knew existed.

The real crisis here isn’t with the penguins. It’s with how science is reported.

Tim adds:

Penguin numbers have dramatically increased on South Georgia island putting the lie to this claim.

Oh, and since polar bear populations have been increasing they can no longer use that one to claim the world is burning and se're all going to die. This is especially true in the Barents Sea near Svalbart.

Everything is coming up roses but all the Gang Green can find is the fertilizer.

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