November 08, 2026
Little Polar Vortex Come Blow Your Horn
_Timothy Birdnow
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...
Yes, the dreaded Polar Vortex rears it's ugly head again, this time with an early arrival due to the big El Nino, and thus the Global Warming gang have a new excuse for why it's so friggin cold this winter. They keep telling us the planet is warming but then we have some nasty cold snaps so they blame those on...you guessed it...planetary warming. Not that it gets cold in winter, oh no! It's cold because it's hot.
So the PV is once again resurrected, and we are told it's going to be the earliest and most sever in all of history, nay, in geological history.
The polar vortex is a fancy word for a circulating air mass around the Arctic ocean. When it is strong it holds the cold air in, but when it breaks down cold air escapes and blows down into the temperate zones and we get a nasty cold snap and often quite a bit of snow with it.
It caught the fancy of reporters, who thought it sounded big and sexy, and for a while we were always hearing about the polar vortex, as if it were some sort of monster ready to devour Mankind. They haven't talked about it in a few years, largely because the Arctic has had a low enough pressure that kept the cold air in. But the extraordinary summer in Europe was a result of low pressure in the Arctic which was sucking tropical air north, and if it happens in winter then cold air will drop down into the mid latitudes - flip sides of the same coin. The difference is the Arctic pressure has to be higher than the mid-latitude pressure for this to happen.
El Nino, that spinning ball of hot gas (sort of like Chuck Schumer) in the tropical Pacific, sucks a lot of air (well, Schumer sucks too) and so is often associated with a collapse of the polar vortex in winter. Overall El Nino heats the planet but in winter it can break down the PV and you can have some nasty cold snaps and winter storms.
Anyway, prepare yourself; you are going to be hearing a LOT about it in the coming weeks to months.
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More on China in the Philippines
Timothy Birdnow
In response to my recent post about China in the Philippines our old friend Mike gave us some context:
Two years ago the Philippines outlawed online gambling. Since then uncovered illegal gambling sites have been found in legitimate Chinese owned businesses, one was said to have people held against their will to operate these illegal activities. The Philippines retaliated by expelling 538 Chinese teachers teaching Chinese to Philippine students. There also have been run ins by the Philippines Navy with Chinese vessels over a disputed island in Philippine waters. A video showed the Philippine Navy firing water cannons at Chinese ships several months ago. That China is sailing its Navy towards the Philippines is just China flexing its muscle and an ongoing dispute between the 2 nations. China is going to need that Navy in its home waters as protests are erupting across China over unpaid wages by their workers. People have gone unpaid for several months. Where people once bragged online about how much they got paid its now how long they have gone unpaid.
I find it interesting they chose to flex their muscle now, right after Trump lost much of his strength in this last election. They are probably testing to see if he still has the cajones to flex back.
We live in interesting times.
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November 07, 2026
Obama had Highest Gas Prices
Timothy Birdnow
Here is an analysis of oil prices adjusted for inflation. Obama was the KING pf high oil prices. But his problems were lumped in with the general market collapse rather than as oil shocks.
So because Obama presided over a financial crisis he gets a pass?
FTA:
On July 3, 2008, West Texas crude closed at $145.31 a barrel. Convert that into 2026 dollars and you get $221.29. Nobody has paid that much for a barrel of oil before or since. Not in 2011. Not in 2022. Not this month either.
That same summer produced $6.27 gasoline and $7.30 diesel, when reported in today’s currency (2026 dollars), using the CPI-U for the conversion. Both are still the record.
Neither the 2011 Arab Spring spike nor the 2022 Ukraine spike beat the summer of 2008. This year’s Iran war and Saudi pipeline attacks haven’t beaten it. But because the 2008 price crashed within months, alongside the banks, it got filed under financial crisis instead of oil shock. For five months in 2008, Americans paid the highest real fuel prices in four decades of data.
I know the CPI is crappy, but it is how people think. Trying to present fuel costs without adjusting for the currency debasement in some fashion is misleading as hell. So today I am presenting data on fuel prices in today’s currency as translated through the CPI.
The media lied to the public as usual about gas prices but sadly the young skulls full of mush believed them.
Trump and his people should have been out talking about this but they were not. I am sure Susie Wiles was pushing him to not say this lest it appear petulant.
Hat tip: Lou Konscol.
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Tim Pool on Losing America's Youth
Timothy Birdnow
Tim Pool nails it.
Speaking on Waters World, Pool told Jesse Waters:
"The younger generation,” Watters began. "You saw the numbers. Under 30 swung like 32 points left, which is insane, and this younger generation, it’s like as big as the baby boomers. You can’t just forget about ’em. How do Republicans — I can’t even believe I’m saying this — win back young men?”
"I’m not sure they do, and it’s worse than people realize,” Pool responded. "18- to 29-year-old young white men with no college degrees swung 40 points to the Democrats, and I don’t think it’s all because they’re socialists. I think it’s because many of them want to burn the Republican Party down.”
He continued, arguing that young voters disillusioned with Republicans feel that "largely, ‘You know what, you do not support America. You are basically just Democrats, as it is.'”
"Politics is not this world where every two to four years we try to convince this guy to switch from Democrat to Republican,” Pool said. "The young generation built these views over the past decade, when they were ten years old, when they were 14, 15, 16.”
And he's right; the younger generation sees the GOP as nothing but disingenuous power seekers who have no intention of doing what htey promise but ask every election cycle for your vote and your mothy. This is exactly what brought Bush Sr. down, and what made Bush Jr. largely impotent after a while (I'm not talking about his performance with his wife). The GOP has lost MORAL AUTHORITY. These young folks know the GOP has zero intentions of working their will, or even following the law.
In that regard it was Congress that lost the election, not Trump and Trumpism, which is what is being blamed and the GOP in Congress is going to move to the center big time now. {Susie Wiles pushed Trump to follow the old playbook this election too and it worked about as well as it always does.
Pool is absolutely right on all points. BTW I've corresponded with him in the past and he is as sharp at all times as he is here.
We must remember the admonitions of the Bible "righteousness exalteth a nation but sin is a reproach thereunto". What these young people wanted was not programs or even policies so much as genuineness. They wanted the party to promise and at least try to succeed. That was what was loved about Trump in the first place; he was a straight shooter. But he became wishy-washy, breaking campaign promises and then not talking about the real issues so that the GOP could win the election. It cost the election.
Trump needs to go back to basics - his basics. He needs to become the straight talking, straight shooting happy warrior he always was but which he turned from for political reasons. And the GOP should learn that honesty and sincerity go much farther than gimme programs and high-minded platitutdes.
Of course the GOP is going to learn the exact wrong lessons from this and will double down on the Ashley Wilkes-style of acting above the fray, losing with good form, etc. that always led to their defeat. Nobody likes a holier than thou creep (otherwise Mike Pence would be President).
We need a new party to draw in these folks. Sadly a new party won't solve the problem; politics draws the same types of people no matter the party. It's why the Populists failed, and why most third parties fail; they can't find people good at the nuts and bolts of politics even while they may find principled and straight talking people. In the end the way the sausage is made involves killing, butchering, and grinding. Few decent people can do both.
There really is no way to save America, but we have no reason to quit trying. Just know that the tide of history is against us. God is the only one who can save us, but we have rejected Him. It's no wonder America is fallen.
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Welcome to the Free Healthcare Gulag!
Timothy Birdnow
Rush Limbaugh, speaking on his radio show years ago encourages us to keep fighting.
He makes the argument for why they will wipe us out completely.
Rush argues a movement cannot sustain itself solely through hatred, but he was wrong; it worked in multiple nations in the past. It won't sustain itself SOLELY on anger but it will also offer other things, like other people's money and a utopian vision that is impractical, but it will sustain itself. And the best way is to butcher any opposition, which is exactly what the Democrats are plotting to do right now.
It will start small, with people working for Trump going to prison, but as they tighten their grip (which they will do as they acquire power over the mechanisms that promote free and fair elections) it will get worse and worse. That's how it always happens, in places like Venezuela, or Cuba, or the old Soviet Union.
Publicly Rush would probably still be talking to us to tell us to keep our chins up, but I suspect if we spoke to him privately he would agree that America is finished, kauput, zovarichno, wanle, terminado, samapt, Hasta Lavista. After a certain point you no longer have just a movement but a defacto reality, which is where we are now. Rush was a realist.
We can't stop fighting but we have to accept we aren't going to turn the tide - only ride it out and hope to swim to shore after it crashed on the reef. And that will be a strange, alien shore.
Our struggle will be to build on a desert island using local materials. The lovely city we were swept away from is no more; now we dwell in thatched huts we ourselves must make.
I wish our side would quit with the delusions. They just won, unless we are willing to go into open rebellion and refuse to let them take the reins of government, and I see no stomach for that. So prepare for the gulag where we'll all get free health care while breaking stones all day.
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The Witches of Gotham and Albany
Timothy Birdnow
This is criminal conspiracy to violate the law.
The Supremacy Clause says the states may not simply nullify federal law, and the Constitution is quire clear on who controls immigration. Trump should send U.S. Marshalls to arrest these two tinhorn dictators.18 U.S.
18 U.S. Code § 371
If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
If, however, the offense, the commission of which is the object of the conspiracy, is a misdemeanor only, the punishment for such conspiracy shall not exceed the maximum punishment provided for such misdemeanor.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 701; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(L), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)
As soon as these two witches try going after any county for obeying the law charges need to be pressed against them, and they need to be arrested by Federal Marshalls and put on trial, preferably in a non-New York jurisdiction.
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Only Democrats in Office when FEC is Hacked During Early Voting
Timothy Birdnow
More and more it looks like this last election was the worst in history, not just in America.
LThis is fascinating; there were only two commissioners on the panel that requires at least four to have a quorum, and their computers went down 46 hours during early voting.
The two remaining commissioners were, drumroll please, both Democrats.
On February 11 Trump nominated Republicans Ashley Stow and Andrew Woodson to fill the vacant seats and the Senate never voed on them; they were both stalled in committee. Once again we go back to Thune and the GOP in the Senate.
The attacker remains unidentified and what they were able to do inside the FEC's computer system is unclear, but it is interesting in light of the statistically impossible nature of the past election.
And who authorized who to fix the system? Without a Quorum the board did not have the authority to hire someone.
Who did they hire and why? What were the results?
The FEC received numerous warnings about vulnerabilities in their system, but did nothing.
Furthermore the FEC notified authorities via e-mail, a big no-no when dealing with a compromised system. And they never explained what "taking the servers offline" meant; there are all sorts of things that can equate to "taking them offline".
I read about this at the time and didn't concern myself, as it was about cyber-security, a thing about which I know little. But in light of the recent elections I am convinced there was fraud on an astronomical scale and this doesn't just smell bad it stinks on ice. What was happening there and who was involved? Seems to be this is exactly what we would see if someone wanted to steal the election.
John Thune has to answer for this too.
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Wiles Out
Timothy Birdnow
Susie Wiles is out, Stephen Miller is back in.
Trump has said he was "advised" not to talk about the border or any of his Administration's other big successes by someone and I can only assume it was Wiles. As Chief of Staph, er Staff she controlled who was advising Trump and what they were telling him.
Clearly he ignored his own political instincts this election cycle, toned down, did not discuss important matters so much as inconsequential things like the ballroom or the triumphal arch or whatnot. Gone was the bombastic Trump of old.
BTW this is how Roll Call starts out this article:
President Donald Trump on Friday announced that Stephen Miller, the architect of the hard-line immigration and deportation program voters rejected this week, will become White House chief of staff.
No, this was not even an issue in this last election. The war in Iran and "affordability" were the top issues and they know it.
And while Trump was quite gracious about the matter, saying Wiles did a terrific job and chalking her departure up to her breast cancer, Mediaite reported he was "furious" at her for the catastrophe' last Tuesday.
I tend to believe he's right; I've never thought very well of Wiles and suspected her. I would add RFK Jr. has accused Wiles of taking money to sabotage MAGA and MAHA. She certainly was embroiled in the scandal involving two of her good friends in the Administration who were taking money from a Russian organization.
At any rate someone told Trump to keep his head down by and large. And the whole GOP refused to brag about what Trump has accomplished.
As they argue, Wiles was an old-fashioned big donor type Republican and not MAGA. She played to the donor class. Undoubtedly it was she who advised Trump not to talk about the success t the border out of fear of angering the pro-amnesty crowd, especially the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
According to Sundance at Conservative Treehouse:
Mrs Wiles famously took the position of Chief of Staff on the condition that she could "keep the crazies” away from President Trump. Wiles became the gatekeeper to the White House controlling every point of access to the president.
One of the issues of concern when Wiles initially took office was her career as a lobbyist, consultant, campaign manager and donor organizer, gave her a career perspective predisposed to view finance as a key for influence and access. Those concerns never really diminished. Mrs. Wiles returns to her comfortable place in the political operation.
She was a former lobbyist for Qatar and held other big-money jobs before taking the reins in the White House, and she was known to rule with an iron rod; she was often called the Ice Queen.
In the second article Sundance states:
Several MAGA people ended up in conflict with Susie Wiles and she was ruthlessly controlling. It was Wiles who selected Pam Bondi (both from Ballard Partners). Bongino had a big run-in with Wiles on the Epstein stuff. Gabbard had to tread on eggshells around Wiles while trying to retain critical access. The MAHA agenda was considered frivolous by Wiles and the small crew she used to manage everything
Bongino and Gabbard, both good, loyal soldiers, were driven out by the Ice Queen while Bondi remained in office far too long.
I suspect it was Wiles who was the architect of the GOP strategy, which really was no strategy at all; they seem disunited and confused and remained fairly quiet the whole campaign.
One wonders if Ms. Wiles actually wanted a Republican victory; given her ties to the Big Money donors, meaning the RINO wing, she may have realized that if the Administration continued along successfully it would cement MAGA into permanent power, something the RINO's did not want, and thus it was in HER best interest to see a major loss, so she could be hired elsewhere. One of the big problems she faced was that a lot of the big money interests would not hire her if she facilitated the permanent overthrow of the RINO wing.
She is smart enough to understand that. No job offers for her if the GOP did well.
I've long argued the GOP is nothing but a bunch of hollow men in it for their own power and enrichment. They are thinking ahead to post-Trump and know the Democrats will punish them - and so will the big corporation interests that want the international markets back and all the rest. So people like Wiles will betray their benefactor to secure their own perceived interests. Wiles wasn't alone; it's why John Thune refused to do any major part of the Trump agenda. He was the ultimate in a do-nothing Speaker (except he kept the Senate permanently in session so Trump could not make any recess appointments). Congress was useless so why does it surprise anyone they got fired? If I had a worker as lazy were they I'd fire them too.
At any rate Susie used her wiles on Trump and it cost us the whole damned country. It will bring back the RINO wing to power, and that means there will be no real opposition to the leftward movement of America. Susie Wiles sold America for thirty pieces of silver. She may not have known that was what she was doing (just as Judas did not know he was handing Jesus over to be crucified - he thought they just wanted to question him) and she may have had pure motives even, but the result is the same. Her problem, like all the Establishment Republicans, is that she didn't understand that the nation itself was in great peril. Not it's going to die.
Trump did not fire her completely, just sent her back to the "minors" where she started - as Trump's campaign manager. Trump can't run again so it's not much of a job, like being exiled to Siberia. (I know; its more than just Trump's campaign manager, but it is now a rather pointless political position. It's officially his "political organization" but it will have little to no influence now. Miller will be the big dog.)
If there was duplicity, massive duplicity as I suspect, I am not surprised; they could not let Trump succeed. The old guard Republicans hate Trump as much as the Democrats. Mike Pence is out there now talking about how he wants to lead the GOP back to "values", meaning he's going to run again, shows they have just been waiting to take Trump out. The country be damned.
They have succeeded too. The GOP will not stand in the Democrat's way now, even in impeachment. I won't be surprised if Trump is not just impeached but removed from office, then prosecuted, along with all his family.
A pox upon the entire GOP. I may well switch to the Constitution party in the future. The GOP is unreformable.
Now, if we can just get Howard Phillips to stop running for President under the CP...
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So Long Solon
Timothy Birdnow
Alas poor Salon, I knew him Horatio.
Salan,, the leftist rag, has ceased publication even at this point where the Democrats now stand triumphant.
Interesting, no?
Salon, so named after the French concept of intellectuals meeting to discuss various high-brow topics, was pretty much more saloon than salon, as I strongly suspect they had a snootful before pubishing, but at least it was done in a high-brow manner.
Basically the Prog site went broke:
"The business realities of independent digital journalism have changed profoundly over the years,” the editors continued in their statement. "After careful consideration, we have reached the difficult decision that our publishing model is no longer sustainable. We know this news will be deeply disappointing to many of you, and we share that sadness.
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How do you go broke in an era of ascending leftism when you are a leftist icon?
Two reasons:
1. Your target audience has changed. I believe that is so, because the Left has never been truly intellectual or reason based and while the Universities was chock-full of leftists for decades they never did elevate the discussion but degraded it. Leftism is not based on reason - it is an article of faith. It is driven by a BELIEF in the perfectability of Man and that history has a final goal of utopia. That is not reasonable or justifiable by any observational data. The Leftist is basically hopeful that Man in himself can create a new Eden, one devoid of God and that is what energizes them. They want Heaven without God.
But this is not an intellectual approach to reality. Oh, academia has the trappings of intellectualism, it does lots of studies and white papers and speaks the jargon, but in the end it is not intellectual because it dismisses out of hand any information, any reports, anything at all that disputes their belief system.
The end result is, unchecked by real-world evidence, academia has grown crazier and crazier, becoming completely unmoored from reality. They now say there are multiple "genders", for instance, in stark contrast with observational reality and natural law.
This translates down into the ranks and the young Leftist are no longer interested in the hypocrisy of pretend academics. They want warfare and strife and the thrill of hatred. So a progressive outlet that emphasized high-brow leftism is doomed to failure; they are the victim of their own success. Like Viktor Frankenstein they created the monster that would eventually destroy them.
2. On the whole they did NOT win the public at large. Theirs was always a specialty niche and they could not grow outside of their market, and their market changed because they helped change them. They had no legs, no outreach to those with whom they disagreed. The American People did not become more conservative, it's just they stopped accepting what mainstream media told them uncritically, and many of us just refused to continue to move leftward after Obama. Trump was, after all, a New York Democrat most of his adult life, and his policies were more like George W. Bush's than Ronald Reagans, and he certainly was not taking the country backwards much to the last point where it worked. So many in our country do not realize just how quickly Obama moved us leftward, and how crazy the Left had become thanks to outfits lie Salon.
So on the one hand the left moved way left, beyond Salon, and they did nothing to lure in moderates or moderate conservatives, who simply decided "no further" at some point. How do you stay in business like that?
The German Nihilist philosopher Frederich Nietzsche argued that science in the West would fail when it started digging into it's own fundamental assumptions that reality is real and knowable. He was right, and now science is starting to sound as crazy as the rest of the Left (the trans business is a prime piece of evidence for that). In many ways publications like Salon represent this very principle in action; they died because they dug out their own foundation. Why would younger leftists be interested in a bunch of old leftists who pussyfooted about so? They want hellfire and raw meat. They are the children of the Salon writers, who taught them to be that way, even while disdaining that method themselves.
What the Democrats do not realize is they did not win the hearts or minds of Americans, just inflamed anger at the public's situation in life. Yes, Saul Alinsky counseled radicals to "rub raw the wounds of discontent" and yes, it advances a political agenda oftentimes, but it does not actually change hearts or minds. The public will suffer terrible buyer's remorse in time.
Leftism has the seeds of it's own destruction built into it. Unfortunately it also has great appeal to some, particularly those not grounded in the Judeo-Christian faith that used to underpin our society. It is a false faith, Christianity without Christ or God. It is destined to fail, but it will drag as many down to hell as it can before it does.
And Leftism grants power and wealth to those who manage to harness it, but she is a fickle mistress indeed, and will eat her own as fast as embrace them. Ask Trotsky about that. And while the employees of Salon may not see it or admit it, they are now in the mandibles of the Left as surely as was Trotsky, or any other "hero" of communist revolutions who wound up in show trials before being executed.
It is the nature of liberalism to turn to leftism and to continue radicalizing. Grow or die. Moderation is not going to work with a philosophy that says the only road to paradise is through drastic change and anyone in the way is evil. That means you have to smite the evildoers. To the Left America is entirely a nation of evildoers. They want to smite everyone here - and they don't want voices like Solon, which was an intellectualized leftism. They see that as a voice for an "unenlightened" age.
The Russian revolution was started by the "Intelligentsia" but it was finished by the thugs and bullies and abusers. It's what is happening here.
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Crime Pays if you are a Democrat
Timothy Birdnow
Turns out a lot of the Democrats recently elected are facing criminal charges or are under criminal investigation which the media couldn't be bothered to report until AFTER the elections.
The Democrats operate like an organized crime syndicate. Is it any wonder their members ARE criminals, or thugs?
Hope you enjoy your cheaper lattes for this America.
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After Election, China Now Challenging U.S. in Philippines
Timothy Birdnow
And so it begins.
With the U.S. in an insane self-imposed decline and President Trump wounded like a lion shot by big game hunters, the Chinese are going to take advantage of the fact and directly challenge us in Taiwan, sending carriers beyond the U.S. defensive barriers in the South China sea, leading to a faceoff between America and the People's Republic of China.
From the South China Morning Post:
China’s Liaoning aircraft carrier strike group sailed beyond the first island chain last week to reach the southernmost waters of the Philippines, suggesting an intent to position itself closer to ongoing US-Japan joint exercises.Philippine news channel BNC reported that the carrier group reached about 25 nautical miles (46km) east-southeast of Balut Island, the southernmost point of the Philippines, before sailing northeast on Friday.
That positioned the warships past the first island chain, a US-led strategic arc of maritime chokepoints running from Japan through Taiwan to the Philippines.
The four-strong Liaoning strike group includes the Type 055 large guided-missile destroyers Wuxi and Anshan, and the Type 052D guided-missile destroyer Huainan.
This is a direct challenge to the United States, a show of disrespect for a lame-duck President and an America whose resurgence has now failed. It's just the beginning; all of our enemies will start doing this to us now that the Democrats are coming back
The article continues:
If the carrier group holds its northeastward course, it could eventually enter the Philippine Sea, where American and Japanese forces are conducting their biennial Keen Sword exercise.
They may not go that far, but they will certainly go right up to the edge; this is pure power politics, to humiliate Trump and show Americans that we are weak. And we are, but purely by choice.
Elections have consequences and not always the obvious ones. This last election was about Iran in no small part, to show displeasure that the President was prioritizing our national security over an immediate relief of some pain. A nation so pusillanimous and selfish is by it's very nature weak and the Chicoms are going to show that fact to the world. Weakness invites attack, or just messing with us.
This probably won't lead to war with the U.S. - yet. But most wars start like this, with a provocation that often goes unanswered. After the Democrats take power the Chicoms will know there will be no U.S. response to larger provocations and eventually they will be able to simply stroll into Taiwan unopposed. Then we will have a terrible choice; defend an old ally or let the Chinese take over the whole region (including Japan). The Democrats will choose the latter.
If the French had stopped Hitler in the Sudatenland the Second World War would have been avoided. But they chickened out. Weakness invites attack.
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Alito, Thomas Want to Retire
Timothy Birdnow
Word on the street is that Clarence Thomas or Sam Alito or both may retire from the Supreme Court. I would say now would be the time, making Congress to deal with it before the Donks take power. But John Thue will not push forward with replacements and even if he did he would allow the filibuster and run the clock out.
We are righteously screwed if either men leave.
Thomas and Alito are the only true voice of sanity on the Court; all of Trump's former appointed have disappointed to greater or lesser degrees (Amy Conehead Barrett the most - she's not quite David Souter but she's still young) and it's only the two actual conservatives on the bench who make any sense.
But both of those men are in their upper 70's and they don't have long to go. Sadly both will now have to work until the day they die or hand the country over to the barbarians.
America is sooo finis!
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How Trump Downsized the Government
Timothy Birdnow
Here is an article about how Trump has gutted the Federal bureaucracy and how the Democrats are going to desperately try to restore it.
FTA:
Trump vs. the BureaucracyTrump is the first president in living memory to actually cut the federal work force.
Reagan tried. Reagan failed.
Trump actually delivered.
He also worked assiduously to make the President the boss of his underling bureaucrats, instead of the bureaucrats being the President's boss.
What a concept. The boss sets policy and tells the subordinate paper-pushers what to do?
That's a #ThreatToDemocracy.
Ben Weingarten:
Although Trump is often described as an impulsive, undisciplined leader, he has remained sharply focused on advancing reforms aimed at increasing presidential power over the unelected federal bureaucracy. RealClearInvestigations' review of dozens of executive actions and agency regulations found that the Trump administration has taken historic steps to shrink the branch of government he runs, make agencies more accountable to elected officials, and reduce Washington's regulatory control over the private sector.,,,These efforts have reduced the federal workforce to levels unseen since the 1960s and generated hundreds of billions of dollars in cost savings. They have also produced Supreme Court rulings affirming presidential authority to remove subordinates and rein in independent agencies, along with deregulatory savings estimated at trillions of dollars.
"From almost the first day of the president's second term, the administration has been at work in the most extensive project since the New Deal to recapture for the elected branches what has been given away over many decades to the permanent bureaucratic class," Hillsdale College professor Ronald J. Pestritto wrote in a monograph lauding the president's initiatives late last year.
Of course, the Democrats want to undo all this. They want to rehire all the unneeded clock-watching do-nothings and of course all the unqualified DEI make-work check-cashers and they want to pour American tax dollars into US AID and all the other corrupt communist NGOs.
"We have a massive reconstruction task ahead of us," Rep. Jamie Raskin, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, has warned. "We will have to go department by department, subject by subject, and public purpose by public purpose to determine what we salvage and what we re-create."
Although Democrats will control both chambers of Congress next year, the center of gravity of their resistance will likely continue to be in the courthouses where they have challenged the president's agenda, alleging unconstitutional overreach and procedural ham-handedness. Through hundreds of lawsuits, many still pending, they have opposed everything from firing employees and eliminating offices to withholding appropriated funds.
Legal scholars say these battles over the scope and contours of presidential authority and the Constitution's separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches may have significant long-term ramifications. They also note that litigation moves slowly; many cases are not likely to be resolved until Trump leaves office. As a practical matter, often buoyed by a Supreme Court that has blocked lower court injunctions thwarting Trump's orders, the president has meaningfully reshaped the bureaucracy....
Shrinking the workforce
From the start of his second term, President Trump vowed to "dramatically reduce the size of the Federal Government, while increasing its accountability to the American people."
Through a series of executive orders, he froze federal hiring across most agencies, directed the Department of Government Efficiency to help cut the federal workforce through deferred resignation programs and reductions in force (RIFs), and required agencies to hire no more than one employee for every four departing employees. During its first year, the administration has shrunk the workforce by 220,000 to 250,000 workers -- a 10% decline. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a critic of the cuts, described them as "the largest one-year reduction in the federal workforce in over 75 years, dating back to the demobilization following World War II."
The decline has not been evenly distributed. The Center's analysis indicates that Trump has targeted executive branch departments whose work he questions. These include the Department of Education (down 39%), the State Department and associated agencies (down 37%), and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (down 23%). His policies have also sparked mass exoduses from specific areas like the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. Conservatives have long considered the division a bastion of progressive activism. Up to 80% of its staff reportedly left. The administration has replaced those 300 departing employees with 130 hires of its own.
The workforce continued to decline modestly in 2026. In all, about one in five federal workers has left through resignation, retirement, or dismissal during Trump's second term -- though about half that number has been replaced. At roughly 2.7 million employees, the federal workforce has fallen to its lowest level since 1966.
Anyone wonder why the Demoleft is so desperate to destroy Trump in any manner possible?
Keeping a bloated government guarantees control of vast sums of wealth, makes sure the Democrats can control the direction of policy even when out of power, and keeps millions of people dependent on them. It was one of the key sources of their power. Lose that and they become a party that just competes in the arena of ideas - a terrible place for them.
Big Bureaucracy, control of education, and control of the media is the unholy trinity of the Democrats. Keep people fat and stupid and letting a government that moves only in one direction take care of them. It's the perfect storm for national domination. Trump messed that all up.
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November 06, 2026
Paraguay's MAGA President Being Taken Out
Timothy Birdnow
Paraguay has had the hottest economy in South America this year, and the reason is because a a MAPGA guy - a Make Paraguay Great Again politician - has been in charge. Well, the internationalists can't have that...
We are seeing this everywhere a nationalist President is in office; the Left is coming for them all over the world. Look at what just happened in Brazil. Look at Poland. Look at Serbia. And look at what happened here in the United States.
All over the world the Left is making their move; it's a worldwide purge.
Paraguayan President Santiago Peña attempted to resign over a scandal that broke involving the nation's digital bank collapse, and the Congress didn't show up so he couldn't get a quorum and thus now faces impeachment - and probably they will attempt to imprison him.
Pena had stock in Ueno, the bank that failed, so he is being accused of corruption. It's clearly a put-up job.
So yet another conservative national leaders falls. If it were just one or two places I would dismiss it as a coincidence, when it's all over the world it constitutes a pattern.
I am reaching the point where I do not believe anything the news outlets tell us.
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Doomsday Plane is Airborn
Timothy Birdnow
Should we be afraid?
Trump's 'Doomsday Plane' built to survive nuclear war is spotted flying across US on undisclosed mission
Now would be the time to strike America, in the despair and anger following this last fauxlection.
The Internationalists have been up to no good around the globe, and Iran knows we are likely to strike them hard now. Oh, and our enemies now see Trump is in a position of weakness and this is the time to strike.
Weakness invites attack. We are now in a phase where the GOP has cracked like an egg shell and the Democrat are ALWAYS weak. Oh, and Trump now no longer has anything to lose.
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The Yellow Rose of Texas
Timothy Birdnow
Almost three MILLION voters added to the elections rolls just before the election in Texas.
It was a steal, plain and simple.
The Democrats are now joyous, promising to bring DEI back and all the other terrible things. I am reminded of Chancellor Palpatine in Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith where he shrieks in triumph while killing Master Windu "UNLIMITED POWER!" The scary thing is they actually will have it if we do not annul the elections.
Trump should have declared a state of emergency over the elections, and in fact he needs to do so now.
Every county in Texas shifted blue, in a state that has long been an extremely red state. And Texas was in the middle of a huge economic boom. Governor Abbott had great poll numbers. There were no pressing social issues tearing the electorate apart from the GOP. The border - long a huge problem in Texas, has been secured. Oil and gas - the big industry in the Lone Star State - was booming thanks to Trump.
Oh, did I mention these three million new voters did not have i.d. checked?
This could not have happened without the RINO wing of the GOP being complicit. They were furious the Republicans voted out Cornyn and wanted payback and were willing to turn the state over to the Daleks here to get their vengeance.
Wall Street Apes@WallStreetApesHOLY CR*P Official Election Administration and Voting Comprehensive Report buried all the way on page 193 of the document shows Texas processed 2,900,357 new valid voter registrations between 2022-2024 without proof of citizenship
Documented proof of citizenship like birth certificate, passport and naturalization papers is not required at the time of voter registration in Texas
56.5% of Texas voter registration were classified as "new valid registrations.”
This is extremely suspicious that 55% of Texas voter registrations were "new”1:47 AM · Nov 5, 2026·1.9MViews
The Texas Secretary of State is one Robert S. Howden , appointee of Governor Abbott. Bowden has a long history of working in government without actually running for anything, and he has deep ties to business guilds and organizations, which suggests to me he's RINO to the core. Many businesses want open borders and in fact it was the U.S. Chamber of Commerce which has long promoted letting everyone in. That doesn't prove anything but it does make one wonder.
Here is Bowden's official page.
Howden just assumed office in July, I might add, and so had no time to fix this mess. But he still should have been AWARE there WAS a mess. Something fishy here.
He is just acting SOS, replacing one Jane Nelson. Nelson, a former school teacher turned state rep then senator, was an insider in the state GOP, the very RINO state GOP which tried to bring down Ken Paxton. Oh, it should be pointed out that when she was Sec State in Texas she was instrumental in killing Texas' participation in Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), a non profit organization that would scrutinize voter rolls and help states remove ineligible voters (ahem).
I do not believe this could have happened in Texas without the active participation of the Secretary of State. This Jane Nelson is a prime candidate; Howden was only in office four months and his staff was probably in on it and may well have kept it from him.
I would add Nelson, as Sec. State, sent out letters to a number of precincts to complain about people voting from commercial addresses - 8,537 of them - but on her LAST DAY IN OFFICE; she ignored this through her entire tenure at state but only brought it up in July of this year as she was marching out the door.
The numbers simply do not add up and there is no way you can make them do so without having to pretend a unicorn carried the votes from Neverland.
My money is on the complicity of Nelson and the other RINO's in the legislature, the ones who hated Ken Paxton. It's interesting she resigned from office in July, just ahead of what promised to be a very contentious election. It's as if she didn't want to be there when it all went down. Oh, and she only announced the FACT of her resignation, but gave no reason WHY. That is suspicious.
Now is when I wish I were an investigative reporter; I'd go to Texas and start digging and find out what this woman knew and when did she know it. I can excuse Howden on the basis of ignorance, but this woman had to know there was a big fix being implemented. I suspect she was working with the GOP in the senate to punish the voters for choosing Paxton.
If she did this it puts her on a par with Benedict Arnold as a traitor to kin, benefactor, and country. Hell is full of such.
In other news people are running for the hills, fleeing the DOJ to avoid being called before Congress and facing perjury traps. Can't say I blame them. They are on the Titanic and the last lifeboats are pulling away.
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Grassley Plans to Die in Office, Cost GOP Senate Seat
Timothy Birdnow
Here is exactly what is wrong with the GOP, particularly the Repprobes in the Senate:
Iowa Pulse@IowaPulse·FollowU.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, 93, is rejecting calls from Iowa conservatives to resign so Gov. Kim Reynolds can appoint his successor before Democratic Gov.-elect Rob Sand takes office.
Grassley’s office says he is not resigning. Read more: https://iowaspulse.com/grassley-rejects-resignation-calls-iowa/
"Smokin'" Grassley will probably die in office and hand this seat to the Democrats.
Are there no statesmen in the GOP? Few if any.
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Unemployment Down, Wages Up, and America WAAAAY Down
Timothy Birdnow
Unemployment is down, to within one point of full employment. And wages are up.
econvitals@econvitals·FollowAutomated
October jobs report: payrolls +165,000 (consensus +65,000), unemployment rate 4.1% (4.2% expected), average hourly earnings +0.4% on the month (+0.3% expected) and +3.1% over the past year (+2.9% expected).
Americans just murdered and are now eating the goose that laid the golden eggs (which also are plentiful and reasonably cheap now). America deserves what it is going to get (and it will be terrible indeed).
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November 05, 2026
Rigged too Big?
Fay Voshell
As I've thought about all this, my suspicions grew greater.
I began to think the Dems overplayed their hand; cheated just too much. This guy uses the term "rigged too big." I thought it was perfect.
You might like to hear his take. I was encouraged.
Tim adds:
While I can't say for sure, I do agree the election results were unprecedented and there is insufficient justification for America turning so hard left over the issues they claim to not want. Yes, they might have handed Congress to the Democrats, but not at this level and not also handed over most state governments to the Democrats as they just did. Something does not add up.
Furthermore, this explains why there is so much hostility toward Pete Hegseth; if Trump is really biding his time, waiting for a counter-stroke (and it's out of character for Trump to be this placid) the Democrats would need a more compliant Sec. War if they get their radicals out in the streets when arrests start. I certainly can buy this scenario, although it does seem a bit far-fetched. A lot of things were far fetched not long ago that are realities now. Who think we'd put Muslim Jihadists and Communists in positions of great power as we just did? Who would think the Democrats would openly defy immigration laws? Who would think they would openly speak of punishing businesses that loaned money to the GOP or employed former i officials?
I may be paranoid but am I paranoid enough?
We have lost America; it may come down to a fight to the death over control of her before it's all over.
ADDENDUM: I did a web search for "'26 midterms stolen" and got a rash of recent posts from mainstream media saying TRUMP is going to try to steal the elections from the Democrats on Jan. 3, not that Democrats stole the elections this past Tuesday. Interesting. They seem to be pre-empting any sort of challenge by the Administration to the validity of the recent elections, even though Trump has accepted the results and is quite peaceable about it all. That to me is quite suspicious.
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The Knives are Out for Hegseth
Timothy Birdnow
Told ya so!
The Dems and RINO Republicans know Hegseth is the only person who can stop an illegal coup against Trump. I think they are plotting something nasty now that they have the power and they fear Hegseth. They will probably try to impeach Trump and keep Republicans out of the chambers so they can't stop them, then if Trump says it is illegal they need Hegseth out of the way.
I am sure the RINO wing wants a good little woke toy soldier in this position, one who will back down if there is an insurrection.
Insurrection; it's what's for dinner. Why? Because the Left has a score to settle and now that they have enough political power I think they just might make a violent move just to teach America who is boss.
Remember, after the Tsar abdicated from office Russia was run by a coalition government, controlled by socialists, but moderate socialists. The Bolsheviks weren't having any of it and so they staged the October Revolution, a coup against the elected authorities. They forced the legislators to sign - at gunpoint - an agreement putting the Bolsheviks in power.
Leftists love that. It's in their blood.
I am sure they want more than to just rub a few noses in it, I suspect they are going to want to show they can destroy any political opposition.
For starters, they are vowing to go after corporations that donated to the GOP. They taste blood in the water and the taste is sweet to them.
So I suspect they just might pull something like what the internationalists did in Poland the other day. It will only work if the U.S military stays out of it. And that means getting rid of Hegseth.
We have to hope enough officers are there who remember their oaths of office, which is to the Constitution and not to protecting Congress as Praetorians.
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