In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the JoeBama Administration and Presidency.
“This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can’t be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won’t be done. The Founders’ Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.”
“But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.”
This thread will refresh daily and appear above the Open Discussion Thread.
Whenever the possibility presents, throw sand into the machinery…
Posted in Uncategorized
“This is Democrat crap. It’s crap from Republicans. It’s one of the dumbest bills I’ve ever seen.”
Fixed.
He still sees a little bit of good in Republicans.
It’s a handicap for him.
It’s like driving an unreliable car on a cross-country trip.
You coddle it and hope it doesn’t leave you stranded this time.
But you know it is useless and needs to go once you reach your destination.
He’s finally facing the facts on Ronna.
He can’t afford to be sentimental about an old clunker.
Trump be changin’ the wheels on RNC’s bus while its moving.
No. He’s a Strategist and Tactician who has studied Sun Tsu — a military strategist who is studied by all Military Officers and the finest MBA’s.
Alienating wavering Allies no matter now flimsy is still alienating an ally in a battle between Light and Darkness.
Pres. Trump knows the caliber of these RINO’s and he knows that someone who will fight for him 51% of the time is better than someone who will fight with him 0% of the time.
President Trump chooses instead of calling these Politicians Yellow he seeks to raise them up in the hope they fight with us.
President Trump choose to be a beacon of light instead of a flicker of a flame.
How’s that working for him?
Well, it looks like Speaker Mike is going to stop the Border Bill from Snake McConnell and Pervert Defender Lankford.
This Presidential Election year is for all of the marbles. Picking a fight with the RNC RINOS at this point is unnecessary. Doing so reminds me of people who wait until Thanksgiving Dinner at someone’s home to pick a fight with their horrible mother, uncle, sibling, or grandparent when they should have waited until it was not a special occasion. IT WASN’T THE RIGHT TIME TO PICK THAT FIGHT.
He is gradually picking off his opponents. He cannot fight every battle, every day, and every hour against everyone.
You mean besides getting America to be Energy Independent and a Net Energy Exporter and NO WARS?
If PDJT starts BASHING the republican party then how will he be able to convince unhappy democrats and independents to vote for him, a republican, for president? Once he wins the election THEN he can start demonstrating the difference between MAGA and RINOs.
Otherwise, it would be like complaining about your loser son (RINOs) to a powerful businessman (voters) and then asking the businessman to give your loser son a position in his business.
Too many and we are paying too much. At least they are all in one place so it will be easier to deport them all.
Are you kidding? They will be dispersed and gone by the time any deportation effort happens (if there ever is one).
Just off the “McConnell retreats” thread….again, am no genius, just average struggling MAGA Main Streeter…the thread generated a few thoughts and figure I might get more exposure on today’s thread…just my humble idea…
This immigration fiasco…and massive numbers…or the latest caravan that we were told a few months ago, was on the way….the good news is that it will be getting hot soon so I bet numbers drop?
No prep for it? Why? Again, closing the door after the horse has escaped.
It has been pounded into our heads…the idea of cheap labor…implies under the table labor(?) and or…labor pools that lower our overall salaries….to a small degree, yes….(corporatists would have us working for free if they could get away with it).
There is no way that on God’s green earth and brown in a Texas summer….that there are ‘jobs’ for those massive numbers of people entering illegally. Or enough public aid.
Does one wonder why “housing starts” are always mentioned in the economical news? Union versus undocumented illegal workers?
Another thought…”Florida is known to have had the most cases of defective drywall with over 1800 Florida Homeowners effected. This drywall was imported mostly between 2004 and 2006, when the housing boom was really exploding, and many post hurricane renovations and repairs occurred; materials were in high demand.Feb 20, 2020″ google. Buyer beware today, too.
Another link mentions the toxic toothpaste in the drywall issue:
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101037056
Aside from diluting the voter bases for political representation and turning red states blue…
There is more to this than I humbly believe, meets the eyes. We don’t hear the phrase much any more….”doing the jobs Americans won’t do”. Why?
Then the numbers of Caucasian type males shopping in wally world, fairly clean and decently dressed casual office attire…with backpacks??? Casually strolling up and down the aisles? With the cell phones out and either taking pictures or talking on them, very low so you cannot tell if they speak a foreign language? And those back packs seem to be rather ‘flat’.
Do generation X, Y, and Z really shop with back packs? At 0630?
Lankford? There needs to be sunlight on him.
Okay, rant done….
McConnell has been around since 1984….Kentucky, do you job!
Since 1984… it’s just proclaiming how long “the fix” has been in.
“Biblical Citizenship” by Patriot Academy (free online class) speaks about the history and who and what changed America gradually… by removing history from our schools to raise two generations of undereducated populace.
I am taking that class now. Highly rcommended
sDee,
That class changed my world – it needs to be taught to everyone. I am a lifetime Constitutional Coach for them and it was my heart’s desire to give it to anyone who would listen. I even invented a game called “Violate My Rights” – so people would learn to actively search and know the Constitution for their own defense.
It’s free except for the approx $20 workbook – but there’s not a coach I know who wouldn’t give that book away freely for those who asked. The content is amazing.
We must read it, learn it, teach it, defend it, and assert it.
Power to you, friend.
Hats off to you! Our class was sponsored by the county GOP and has quite a few homeschool Moms. One had to drag her teenage daughter to it 😉 who is now very engaged and absorbing it all.
I don’t know if he had any episodes of not being in Congress but that was what a quick googleedeegoo gave me.
Term limits, baby, term limits! Never had a meaningful job! Useless as the hind teat…
GOP senators, do your job !!! Mitch can be voted out of leadership tomorrow IF these do-nothings call for the vote. THEY WON’t, THEY HAVEN’t. If you have GOP senators, give them a call to ask why.
Kentucky also gives us Big Bubba Comer
I think they did last election; until the “machines” intervened and turned three typically democrap Counties red somehow.
Hi Aggiegirl,
I agree with you 100%. Check out my experience at Costco last night.
My daughter never wants to go back there again. She was so uncomfortable, she didn’t want to stop at Aldis in the dark.
I made her do it as I was trying to grant her request for valentines for her friends. Plus, I’m trying to not have a daughter that lives in fear and can be conscious of her surroundings.
I failed at the “fear” part.
I worked in Los Angeles, as a woman in a very male dominated industry and it put me in many awkward situations… my head’s always been on a swivel and situational awareness was always necessary.
If people can’t see what’s happening… it is absolute delusion.
am looking for the post….
Well I get the fear part….I no longer leave my very traditional family oriented neighborhood, after dark…nor do I shop at night anymore…
For me, it is more of a ‘gut’ feeling…I have been around true evil, so I listen to my gut.
Sometimes one has to put the idea of the emotion of “fear” into its perspective…of which is “common sense”.
I never used to be afraid to work in the city before…I am now.
The difference is we no longer have a functioning legal system, so these masses of people who already don’t respect our laws – or our borders or our sovereignty – have no fear of consequences.
They know it. We know it.
…and those illegals feel “entitled” to be here – especially when Chicago (2 1/2 hours NE of me) is paying them $9,000 a month for the privilege to serve them.
These people are not going to leave… willingly.
Our rental relatively “high end” apartment is very transitory with occupants. I don’t leave my daughter at home alone. We simply don’t know anyone here that she could run to in an emergency. Sadly, the ones we do know… will be running to us (and I’ll be locking my doors with their failure to prepare).
When I first moved to Las Vegas, NV in 1997 many WalMarts were opened 24 hours because we are a 24 hour town. I would get off work at 4 in the morning and stop at WM to do my shopping. I always felt safe there.
The same applied to many of our grocery stores until things changed. I remember a few years ago getting to go home early (10 pm) because I was sick. I had to drive 8 miles out of my way to find an open store that sold cold medicine. It was in a very, very nice neighborhood and was the only one for miles and miles.
Our Lowe’s/Home Depots open at 6 am and grocery stores open at 8 am because of customer demand and the fact that scumbags are usually asleep at that time. Scumbags tend to do their best work at night and daytime but not in the mornings.
Costco is cavernous! I suppose a larger family could shop in bulk there, but I much prefer to support our local mom and pop shops.
I’ve seen all the grocery stores in upstate NY chased out by a Walmart superstore. Now the only competition are the dollar stores.
The closest grocery store to me is run by a Korean family. During the plandemic they always saved toilet paper and other products for their regular customers. No hoarding and empty shelves like I saw in bigger, more impersonal supermarkets.
Give me a mom and pop shop any day of the week!
I agree and fully support Mom and Pop shops. I buy my meat from a local grocer, locally sourced, and locally butchered. I don’t deal with middlemen on many things.
However, I am no longer willing to give up ANY of our stores, ANY of our schools, ANY of our services that exist on American soil to the onslaught of illegal aliens. And above all – I’m no longer willing to give up our land without screaming about it.
Want to come here? Do so legally and fully embrace our culture. Don’t bring your culture to us and force it on everyone else. There’s a reason they left their country and we don’t want their policies breaking our culture.
This is an invasion and I am tired of giving up ground.
As for Costco, I’ve been a customer for over 20 years having lived in Seattle where they began. I purchased a car through them at a reasonable rate and used to get great quality products. USED TO get great quality products. Even as a small family, their prices sustained us for a long time, as I would buy in bulk and manage our meager budget. No more. They are getting less and less of my business now.
Common denominator in all the toxic products is ‘made in china’.
What do people expect from a country whose ships were the original ‘junk’ and their toxic drywall is known as gyps’em.
Trust God. Fear not.
Ever price a Chinese “Junk?”
I have come to the belief that toxic/defective products ‘made in China’ are intentional. 🙄
Absolutely. I call it manufacturing sabotage. I first noticed it with my construction tools. I’ve long bought US made deWalt construction tools because of the excellent design, reliability and quality manufacturing. They last forever and take a lot of abuse.
My tools were all stolen about 12 years ago so I had to buy new. All deWalt no shopping around. They started randomly failing costing me aggravation, time and money. That’s when I noticed that some were manufactured in US and some manufactured in China. Failures were typically small cheap internal parts – often material failure (metal, plastic, wire), require complete disassembly.
My portable air compressor is just one example of many…. A $5 internal air valve (made in china) had rusted out twice. The third time, the labor cost to repair it (out of warranty) was more that the price of two similar Chinese compressors at Harbor Freight. So I bought two. One has since failed and is in the landfill along with the original deWalt.
The Chinese might manufacture well “US designed” products but what better way to destroy a US brand than to sabotage the the products and piss off their consumer base?
I wonder about the state of US designed products. I used to work as a design engineer in the aerospace industry. We had complete control over dimensions, tolerances, material selection, etc. I would think this would happen with DeWalt designs, as well, but I’m not 100% sure.
I “retired” years ago to raise my children. I’m old school, pre-dating computers widely used in the work place. I had to do all my own mechanical drafting. My generation of designers was very good at estimating things to verify our answers made sense. At the end of my engineering career, I was saddened to see folks relying on computer-generated numbers, without ever having done manual calculations to see if stress numbers or deflection, etc., were even the right order of magnitude. “Garbage in” went undetected until a senior, seasoned engineer had a look at the design.
Just another antecdote. My nephew is a mechanical engineer working for a large international company that focuses on crushing rock for mining and concrete. He was called out to troubleshoot an installation and discovered an overhead hoist, laden with cargo, could not complete its horizontal travel because there was an I-beam in the way. The cargo had to be unloaded, moved 10 feet, the hoist moved over, then the cargo reloaded. He reported this to the site manager who had never gone out of his air-conditioned office to actually look at the problem!!! The manager pulled up the computer animation of the assembly and said, “That can’t be. Look here. Everything moves like a well-oiled machine.” Whoever did the animation had attributed “invisible” qualities to the I-beam, so everything passed right through it. My nephew had to take a video of the situation before the site manager would believe him. You can imagine the cost to re-work such an error that should have been caught in the design stage.
You are spot on. We are losing intuitive hands-on engineer experience. BigTech has oversold modeling-to-manufacturing because, like AI, the globalists pour capital into anything that promises to displace humans.
China plays a crucial role in that with its automated/slave-labor manufacturing model and indemnification from warranty claims and personal/property damage from product failures.
I consider myself fortunate to have begun my engineering journey with slide rules, prototypes and physical testing, and ended it with computer modeling, simulations, software based manufacturing and embedded systems.
The implications to our nation of losing the intuitive expertise that you have are staggering
A large amount of engineering work and graphic design (used to be called “drafting”) has been outsourced to India in the last two decades. There has been a large effort in India to train engineers and technicians. But they do design work in India, like in Mumbai, and don’t actually visit the sites where the facilities are being built. Similar problem as described above by DellaC.
Don’t misunderstand this as a criticism of Indian engineers. They have put a lot of effort into training, and India has several very good universities. It is just that they are doing work because American companies are finding fewer and fewer qualified engineers from American colleges.
Wow!
All this computer stuff…we need to get back to the basics…slide rules???….moving in other directions of the electronic world….how do we not know if there is a bug in a computer that alters the mathematical software? And subsequent results…causing failures? Meaning “sabotage” to the computer assisted designs?
Got my son a Dewalt ratchet/socket set for Christmas. The larger ratchet failed on the first use. Would not turn.
I hear ya….am thinking of my wonderful Kenmore appliances…
Samsung and LG are reported to constantly break down and no one wants to work on them even if they can get the parts….
I have had 2 Samsung refrigerators, 1 Samsung dryer, 1 Samsung washing machine, and 1 Samsung dishwasher fail in the last 7 years.
Never again, will I purchase a Samsung product.
Never had a problem with any of my Samsung dryer, washing machine or TV’s.
I have heard of diminishing quality of parts reorders. They think it won’t be noticed.
Related to the stolen tools:
I support the death penalty for breaking into cars. Here’s why. We had a plumber scheduled to come out. His car was broken into, dashboard destroyed. Now we have flooding, which we can pump out, but that’s a day of work missed for most. Plumber lost two or three says of work. At the margins, this is a financial catastrophe. We are making a choice. We are choosing criminals over workers.
Made in China craps fills up our landfills which early on contributed to the environmental/climate lies. Recycling is a lie too brought to you by the multinationals so they could keep using plastic.
Remember the movie “The Graduate”? 1967
sorry about any commercials
No doubt about it. It started with a bunch of patients dying in a hospital, in a rather ritzy area of Panama City in the Republic of Panama and escalated from there.
There was also a problem, my memory is vague on this one, of ‘melamine’ in baby formula, at about the same time….
SAF report Central Indiana
I hesitated a lot renewing our $120 executive membership at Costco. The rebates usually pay for the membership, but the Costco closest to us is in a part of Indianapolis where crime is growing a lot and we no longer feel safe traveling there at night.
Daughter wanted valentines for her cohorts at school and we always used to purchase little things at Costco, and we quite literally discussed not wanting our present country’s situation to rule over our lives and scare us from going out at night. So we went in the dark to see what we could see.
We didn’t find valentines. When we asked about them in English, we were responded to by three workers… in Spanish. They had ravioli shaped in hearts… not much good for student gifts.
Everywhere.. and I mean everywhere… we were the minority. There was only two other white people (one of them masked) we saw in the whole store, and we saw about a hundred people in our proximity throughout the store. We heard dialects from middle eastern, South American, and African.
A sweet woman had a third of her cart full of honey and I asked her about it, thinking her a baker. She was middle eastern and making beer with it to celebrate her granddaughters baptism. The recipe takes her a month. She thanked me for being kind to her, but she had a pained look on her face, and she wore beautiful flowery robes from her culture. She was taken aback that we were kind to her.
After finding nothing that we looked for… we purchased some fruit and saw other culture’s food represented. It looks more of an international market instead of an American Costco.
My daughter is a pretty red head and she was uncomfortable with the looks from some of the men.
As we finished checking out, there were a group of very tall Africans who were looking very carefully at the contents of our shopping cart. I thought they’d actually speak to us, and they were close to us… about 3 feet away… but the male wouldn’t make eye contact with us and the way the women were acting, they made me uncomfortable like they were going to ask us for our food.
If we are regulated to just buying toilet paper, paper towels, and the occasional fruits and vegetables there… we likely won’t go back. What little we left with cost $120 plus the $120 membership and we ended up finding small proper valentines for her friends at Aldis… a small set of 4 truffles for less than $3 each.
I regret renewing our membership. That store no longer represents me.
I am an American and I want American products made and grown by American hands. More and more…I want America protected by a closed border and a culture abiding to our laws. Our proper laws.
This is NW Indianapolis. We are now the minority. They have replaced us.
I don’t care one wit if I sound like a racist. I’m not a racist. Never have been. I’ve lived and worked in Los Angeles, San Antonio (and my territory included Eagle Pass), and Seattle and I know what I saw last night. I was formerly engaged to a legal immigrant from Canada, so I know the immigration process. I know how the system formerly worked.
I’m a realist and I want to know how much of the consumerism I saw last night was paid by American tax dollars… from concept to fruition… how much has this little game cost us?
You pay your $120 membership, who pays theirs? You can bet it ain’t them. Either it is paid by us/you in taxes OR Costco gives them free in which case you are subsidizing them.
Yours is executive membership, what is “regular” membership? My thought is still the same though. It’s our taxes or subsidized by you.
Exec membership $120; regular membership $60; Corporate $60 – add employees for $60 more. No breaks for ‘merikans.
100%.
I was thinking the same thing.
I dropped Cosco like a bad habit once they started taking EBT. That’s right, food stamps now accepted! And you wonder why it’s ghetto now. Corporate whores will do anything for a $
As predictable as a drop in home values when the rentals nearby start accepting Section 8.
A bill outlawing certain kinds of “terrorists” from the ME from receiving benefits in the US at taxpayer expense apparently came up for a vote recently. And what a surprise, the designated terrorists happen to be exclusively from a region where the latest efforts to engage the US in a war are occurring. It would be a joke, if only. This is how Congress slices, dices, and buries the law with new legislation pretending it doesn’t exist. From my new “conservative” Congressman’s latest newsletter:
“Hamas terrorists will never receive comfort in the United States and all others who participated in the Oct. 7th attack. I voted for the No Immigration Benefits for Hamas Terrorists Act (HR.6679), which would expand an existing admissions bar against officers, representatives, and spokespersons of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). If this bill were signed, all PLO members would be barred from admission into the United States, along with members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.”
Yeah, melamine, because “Hamas terrorists” are all about full disclosure / sarc
I used to shop at Costco weekly.
Now its about every 3-4 weeks, and mainly for coffee beans and some frozen salmon patties, shrimp, and vanilla ice cream that my husband loves.
The stock in our closest location has become significantly more middle eastern foods, and lots of Asian and Mexican manufactured items.
We enjoy “international” foods. However, I worry about pesticide, heavy metals, herbicides, mold spores, etc in our food so am pretty picky about where our food comes from and is manufactured, so I stay away from products I know nothing about.
I have to believe this shift in products is at least in part due to the huge influx of workers being brought in to work in the semiconductor fab under construction nearby. It doesn’t start production until 2025, but the shift in demographics and construction boom of small, single family rental communities is noticeable.
Lots of “politics” involved, but mostly lots of money. I don’t believe everything is part of an “invasion” plan, but greed follows the money and has no concern for ethics, morality, or love of country.
Bewildered,
I believe the “shift in products” is to normalize them and put them in the face of our American consumers. We, too, love eclectic foods and I’ve lived in very diverse areas of our country – but cute little Gyoza and Mochi aren’t so cute anymore when the staff no longer speaks our language blatantly to our faces and we can’t find our own American-made products or products to celebrate OUR holidays.
That “normalizing” extends to entertainment, advertisements, with regard to miscegenation, perversions, etc., all of which started as “toleration.”
No, actually it started with presenting casual sex as the norm, presented everywhere always. Last night on Wheel of Fortune one player was engaged with a child, another was engaged with four children together. And they’re not embarrassed about it!
Often they have a homosexual player who proudly mentions his partner in sin. Ewww
Now we see black history month – pretty much all year long –
non-stop pushing mixed races
pajama boys, like the beta in the Obamacare commercials
Promiscuity promiscuity promiscuity is the natural order of the day. What natural consequence for society?
Sure does – just check out the opening credits on the “cutesy” movie “Crazy Rich Asians” about awakienng China the “sleeping giant”
Sexualizing is the gateway… their push to normalize pedophilia is of the utmost alarm. Our children depend on us to keep them safe and they know it when we are not doing our jobs.
your last paragraph explains why we have all these (political) regulatory agencies.
“Little things” at Costco? Never saw that there, only big box items and expensive furniture.
Go to Dollar General for Valentines cards.
She’s a junior in high school, so we weren’t looking for valentine cards. Plus, you wouldn’t go to the Dollar General here – half the time it’s closed due to poor staffing and it’s a third world stink hole.
JWoo…you paid a lot of money for that privilege of feeling uncomfortable. More than just dollars.
You mentioned this later on in today’s thread…by any chance…is Gregory Pence your HOR? Brother to Mike Pence? AKA Judas?
It sounds like your safety creep meter was sounding like a Geiger counter exposed to Chernobyl! As a red head, I sympathize. No eye contact? Ding ding ding….danger danger.
Most of us here are not racist but as American consumers we have a right to certain expectations in the world of consumerism. And store employees being able to communicate effectively, is one.
Speaking English is a requirement for employment as a nurse etc in a hospital.
Principles of marketing 101 have one good experience, tell a few people, have a bad one…tell 500. And that is often what happens…I had been playing with the idea of a Costco membership….but nope not ever now.
PS I won’t walk my dog in my ‘safe’ neighborhood, after dark. And I live on a stretch of road known as lawyers row. Even have a jail superintend as a neighbor. I am the pauper here.
No, not Greg Pence. They redrew my district. My rep is Jim Baird and I like Jim. I have a bit of communications ongoing with the Mike Braun campaign too. Mike is running for Governor – AND HE IS THE ONLY ONE I WOULD VOTE FOR IN INDIANA FOR GOVERNOR! I am doing the digging!!!!
Aggiegirl, I get being the “pauper” – we spend quite a bit of time amongst the well-heeled. The ones who seem to make adopting Haitian immigrants a part of their family plan along with their italian shoes and italian purses. I guess Pomeranians and teacup dogs have gone out of style. Now they just adopt non-American children as they “stylish” latest.
It’s sick and scary. I heard from an elder and Mike Pence’s church – that they were concerned with child trafficking there. Yep. And this elder is not a senile old fool – a former diplomat.
This “little game” has cost us our country.
I think I have a good last name for the turtle, Mitch McConAll.
China’s stock market is in a freefall because of their governments policies. Is this a prelude to the USA stock market? My present indication is yes.
It has the manipulators working overtime. Trillions are at stake.
seems governments everywhere are enacting policies that are contrary to the best interests of their people. hmm….who do they all really represent?
because ..crash of EVERGRAND stock……
The China stock market crash could be momentarily bullish for the US stock market. Worldwide investors could be looking to the US as an alternative. However, my indicators are still bearish overall.
Then there is this:
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2020/07/07/firm-run-elaine-chao-and-mitch-mcconnells-family-got-federal-ppp-loan/5390273002/
Be certain the swamp rats are not done pilfering, they will have to be stopped.
The “Border Bil”l what a load of bollocks. But, from what we’ve been subjected to in the last 30+ to think these demons are done is silly think. Remember Barry said, “I’ve got a phone and a pen”. Rules or Laws do not matter to these criminals.
All of this dumb sh_it ends when We the People say…NO! Without the consent of the governed, eventually the tyrants will fall.
Be prepared, stay alert, keep God and family close it’s time to link up and say “NO!”
Ultra-MAGA!
It needs to be re-named the Open Borders Wider bill.
They will never be done. They can only be contained not totally eliminated. Our job is to knock them down and keep them down.
The Republican Party of Oklahoma has withdrawn support for Lankford! I guess Big Mama Tea has had enough from the little perp – he is an embarrassment to the great State of OK – with his open border – pedo friendly positions.
Oklahoma GOP Bitchslaps Sen. James Lankford For Negotiating Crappy Border Deal With Democrats – Zero Hedge
Article is Jan 29th. Hopfully the OK RNC will have some fresh comments.
What is a “catch-22 trap”?……It is a bad situation that you find yourself in where the democrats / GOPe make the rules that block your every move so you bounce back and forth and go around in circles until you are either out of time or resources.
There is a universal way to not fall for their catch-22 traps
….. first, most importantly, you ignore their rules, completely
……….and then make your own rules
……………and clear your own pathway to where you want to end up.
It works every time.
They have no effective defense against it.
“Let’s go Brandon and the democrats and the GOPe!”
There is a bad “Catch-22” nested in Obamacare – the only health insurance small business employees can purchase.
1) Legally required to provide healthcare for my daughter due to Parenting Plan. (I, of course, want to provide health coverage for my minor daughter and for me.)
2) Only coverage available as the other “plans” run upwards of $2500/month for family of three. Ours was $1,000/month last year – this year I cut it deep to $700/month – which is still entirely unaffordable – and switched to Direct Pay functional medicine practitioner and only keep O-Care for catastrophic coverage.
Say O-care says your premiums are $1,200/month, but they are going to give you a tax credit of $400 and you will pay the $800/month. At 200% poverty level, enrollees in Obamacare start having to pay back the tax credit…. retroactively… come tax season. At 400% poverty level, that penalty is 100% retroactively charged.
2018 – I made $77 over my stated salary – I was retroactively penalized $1,600.
2019 – I cashed a $100 ROTH (post tax) IRA that had a capital gain of $13 – got a check for $111.00. – Tax season, I was retroactively penalized $700,
Obamacare is $#%@%%!^^^ and it is criminal.
Lost my house over it. I LOST MY HOME – over $30/month – because my daughter had a specialist for a doctor and I was trapped from being able to change anything. So, my home was sacrificed for her well-being because I was STUCK in Obamacare. I couldn’t take on a temporary part-time job to raise $200/month for six months to save us – because I don’t lie on my taxes about my income. I do nothing to jeopardize the custody and care of my daughter – and I was stuck in dead-end for going on six years thanks to our STUPID POLITICIANS WHO DON’T READ THE LEGISLATION THE AGREE TOO!!!!
I have receipts. I have anger. As God Is my Creator and He hates evil – they will pay for all they have broken. The Lord Will restore the years the locusts have eaten. I’m counting on it.
There are some ignorant supporters of Obamacare that I had to quit speaking to.
How they so casually accepted the propaganda that the young man without insurance who doesn’t go to the doctor is the cause of all their woes, because if he gets sick “everybody pays”.
I had a foreign guest at my home during the time Obamacare was a big issue. He truly did not understand why Americans were so against it.
After I talked to him, he did some research, and came to a conclusion that Ocare was just a way to keep money flowing to those who didn’t earn it.
I’m so sorry that happened to you. Even without knowing much at all about Obamacare (nobody did) I knew that you don’t make something more affordable by giving money to middlemen.
Our healthcare system is beginning to resemble Canada’s where a heart patient waits 8+ hours in the emergency room to be seen and ends up leaving in disgust with no assistance whatsoever. Or why we now wait 3 to 5 months for a GOOD doctor.
They’ve successfully broken our healthcare system by strangling competition.
It’s like the old Bell Telephone company when government had to come in and break it down into Baby Bells.
History repeats itself – if only people would learn history!
I appreciate your apology, clarion. “It’s all fun and games until
someoneyou lose(s) an eye.”Coming to your hometown and faster than you think. There are others out there like me – their voices are muffled, but they are trying to scream.
My PSA….Chicago’s children’s hospital is in day 6 or 7 depending on who you read…of a total electronic fluster cluck shutdown due to (alleged) ransomware attack. Including their telephone systems. They called in the FBI but are keeping it quiet.
My question is this-who has the knowledge, ability and motive to do this? India? Iran? Russia? Chyna? Or two kids that are computer geeks?
Keep tabs on your electronic medical records and your identity. This sets off my HLS creep meter.
Oh, wow.
Father God,
Please be with those kids who need medical care. Do not delay to come to their aide, no matter what computer systems are doing. Give the medical practitioners just what they need to deliver quality and urgent care. In Jesus’s Holy and Saving Name, I pray over these children, AMEN!
Wow….i am so sorry JWoo…and of course the cost of fighting it was not an option.
Hopefully things will change on Nov 5th….
There is no fighting it, Aggiegirl. We don’t have laws anymore, so zero recourse.
“The Prince” by Niccolo Machiavelli, p. 5 and 6 (written in the 17th century)
“The other and better remedy is to plant colonies in one or two of those places which form as it were the keys of the land, for it is necessary either to do this or to maintain a large force of armed men. The colonies will cost the prince little; with little or no expense on his part, he can send and maintain them; he only injures those whose lands and houses are taken to give to the new inhabitants, and these form but a small proportion of the state, and those who are injured, remaining poor and scattered, can never do any harm to him, and all the others are, on the one hand, not injured and therefore easily pacified; and, on the other, are fearful of offending lest they should be treated like those who have been dispossessed of their property.”
Can this BE ANYMORE ACCURATE???? (Insert Chandler Bing here!!!) And it doesn’t cost the invading prince anything…. We The People are paying for it!!!
It’s not China – I swear to you, in my gut, maybe they’re playing a small bit part, but those illegals are not Asian! They’re middle-eastern. Check out the Patrick Bet-David podcast I listed – it is current – and listen to who they believe is funding this. It’s middle-eastern.
It’s why Biden cut off our oil production. Oil produces wealth. Oil builds countries – and it wrecks them.
Who else can build desert oasis and turn them into towering, glittering cities, even developing man-made islands in the SEA!!! Who has that kind of money to spend???!!!
Yeah, Soros is evil – but he’s not the only vested party interested in seeing America fall – he’s just the pawn shop broker looking for the spoils.
Julie Kelly 🇺🇸
@julie_kelly2
Jack Smith filed his temper tantrum response to Trump’s motion to compel in classified docs case. (I explained Trump’s allegations here.) Smith’s motion reveals new info related to collusion with Biden’s White House and other stunning revelations 🧵
Cont8nue reading….
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1753818388915249290.html
—
And,
‘Disturbing’ Collusion Between Biden White House and Trump Prosecutors
https://www.declassified.live/p/disturbing-collusion-between-biden
Hmm, some more players in this web. CIA in deep.
Avril Haines husband David Davighi, seems to be CIA. She seems to be CIA. Would not be surprised if bookstore in Baltimore was CIA front.
From the FBI’s “Waco /Ruby Ridge Manual For Child Rescues” – at least this kid survived their efforts here …..
If I recall… that episode was after the kid floated across the Straits Of Florida on a rickety old raft, and watched his mother get eaten alive by a shark for good measure…
He was living safely /happily in Miami (?) but Bill’s friend Fidel for some reason wanted the little kid back …
Hillary Clinton, Baal’s Witch of Chappaqua, sent that Storm Trooper to confiscate Fidel’s Runaway Slave, little Elian Gonzalez. It’s been a habit with them since Dred Scot in 1857. Nothing too good for their partners in the Cuban Military Dictatorship.
In fact, after he secretly met with his hero Fidel at the Palace, Barry Sotero let the Chinese build a Signals Intelligence station on the island. Now, as #Fake CINC, Obama is letting the Chinee Politburo build a military base on Cuba with Chinese troops and subs, violating the Monroe Doctrine and the Treason Clause.
Hillary Jezebel condemned that child to grow up as an oppressor of other Cubans. Mrs. Gonzalez died to bring her son to freedom, just another woman whose face Hillary Clinton walked on in her long climb to the very middle.
This iconic photo is yet another Perfect Regime Metaphor; these #GovernmentGangsters regard all of us as Runaway Slaves from the One World Government-tyranny they hope to impose.
But We Win and You Lose, you grotesque demons. GOD’s Word.
1 Samuel 17:
44 “Come over here, and I’ll give your flesh to the birds and wild animals!” Goliath yelled.
45 David replied to the Philistine, “You come to me with sword, spear, and javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies—the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. 46 Today the Lord will conquer you, and I will kill you and cut off your head. And then I will give the dead bodies of your men to the birds and wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel! 47 And everyone assembled here will know that the Lord rescues his people, but not with sword and spear. This is the Lord’s battle, and he will give you to us!”
Praise God!
Look at the goon in the photo and tell me how that attitude is any different than the goons used against us today. Paycheck and pension, and the vermin will follow any orders.
I haven’t settled on why the senate floated this bill that was so plainly awful. They knew before it saw any light that it was a non-starter. There is an end in mind, but what is it?
A narrative that President Trump and his MAGA Rs killed a bill to fix the border for political reasons. False but that’s what the swamp and their MSM are/will be pushing. More gaslighting.
Exactly.
“We tried, but those MAGA Republicans stonewalled our bill and now we have this border disaster and Ukraine is about to be over run by Russia.”
They are still counting on the general public stupidly swallowing the sound bites, and many will. Thankfully, many will not.
Public negotiation/conditioning-by the time the third version rolls around the RINOs will be clamoring to sign on to the “not perfect but much improved and vital border bill”
Yeah. This is the play they run 24/7. Doesn’t have to be any deeper than this, folks.
Succeed and the Border is locked open. Fail and the border stays open as long as you control the White House.
Also, fail and you blame the opposition for failing Ukraine and Israel and our Military.
Losing the Senate so as to deny Trump nominating who he wants?
On senate Bill , one question occurred to me – SUNDANCE has taught us that outside parties actually write the bills and just pass them on to assigned Sponsors and that Nobody in Congress actually writes their Bills ( as we were naively taught in the third grade ) -So which group is primarily responsible for creating and drafting this Bill ? ?
Interesting Question.
The bill involves Ukraine and the Defense Industry, Israel and the Defense Industry, the Defense Industry, and the forces of surrender to illegal immigrants.
So a lot was written by our MIC.
But who are the forces of surrender? Lawyers who make money from government by defending illegals, NGOs who make money from Government guiding illegals here. Charities and local governments that take government money to help illegals. And Democrats who plan on using illegals to cement their power over America.
MIC? Intelligence Community ? Got it – general , broad term – Military/Industrial Complex ? And All theses groups supporting -But wonder which was actual editor in chief ?
My guess would be another Lawfare idiot.
Who else would come up with, “let’s make illegal immigration a permanent feature that is set in stone and sell it as ‘solving’ the border crisis”?
Answer: The same ones who said, “ Using the pretext of national security, let’s remove the Constitutional Amendment against unreasonable search and seizure. And let’s call it the “Patriot Act.”
Aligned interests of the Chamber of Commerce (cheap labor, open borders) and the Military Industrial Complex. Start with them.
All true , a lot of contributors to the effort , just wondering who the coordinator / editors were – probably never know – but it would be nice when they send the finished bill to the designated Sponsor in Congress they include a return address (sarcasm )
Yes! regarding the tsunami of illegals.
The weapons manufacturers, is my guess
Several participants. WEF UN Davos crowd open borders unfettered immigration.
And in its 6th day, the weaknesses of the EMR and cellphone type communications on display. Rejoice in its efficiency you peasants/s
https://www.stltoday.com/news/state-and-regional/illinois/a-chicago-childrens-hospital-has-taken-its-networks-offline-after-a-cyberattack/article_69be936b-cd35-541d-8543-bfd61c3bfabd.html
Local radio was reporting the FBI is now involved, of note, nothing on their website.
Funny but not at the same time.
We are all useless breathers to them. My bet is this is their vision of utopia.
Dummkopfs:
Lack of growth making Germany poorer – FM
Germany’s inability to generate economic growth is making the country poorer, Finance Minister Christian Lindner said on Monday while speaking at a Bloomberg event in Frankfurt.
We are no longer competitive,” Linder said. “We are getting poorer because we have no growth. We are falling behind.”
His comments come shortly after the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published a gloomy outlook in which it slashed by half its forecast for German growth this year to only 0.3%, well below the 2.9% it anticipates for the G20 and even below the 0.6% it projects for the Eurozone.
Official preliminary data released in January by Destatis shows price-adjusted GDP having dropped by 0.3% last year. Meanwhile, industrial output (excluding construction) contracted by 2%, a result primarily attributable to much lower production in the energy supply sector.🤣
NEW: Trump’s 2+ Hour Mar-a-Lago Meeting With Ronna McDaniel About the Future of the RNC – RedState
2 hours in a room with Ronna McDaniel – what won’t this man do for his country?
LOL..
Guessing it was worse for her than him.
If McMitten comes out of the meeting with deflated lips then Trump won, else if Trump came out with puffy lips then McMitten won.
..and do not forget…”frozen face “……
The new Senate Bill is a disaster. We’ve already spent $113B on this proxy war in Ukraine.
Requesting an additional $60B when we have so many problems at home including inflation and the border crisis is reckless.
No more money for Ukraine until we have a secure border, a booming economy and pay off some of our $34T of debt.
Hardly recklessness. Calculated graft and treason.
“No more money for Ukraine” everrrr.
Central Indiana political news….
Ohhhh… guess who’s back in town? Our ferocious Victoria Spartz who said she wasn’t running for re-election due to wanting to “spend time with her family” has changed her mind.
Hmmm… she’s one that I watch very carefully for her duplicity when the camera is rolling and she can catch a good YouTube soundbite.
I’m on the fence with you, Victoria, no more bull$%!% and start getting really aggressive at protecting our country, the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA… not your native country, Ukraine. You came her for a reason – now prove it.
U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz announces she’s running for reelection to 5th district (msn.com)
Another take on her decision to run again. I don’t know enough about her to care either way, but it would seem that if you say you’re going to resign, you resign. I’m wondering what enticed her to stay?
“GREAT NEWS: Conservative Indiana Republican Rep. Victoria Spartz Decides Not to Retire From Congress, Will Run Again”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/great-news-conservative-indiana-republican-rep-victoria-spartz/
Well, T. Turtle,
I also find it interesting that our WEF-Darling Governor Eric Holcomb appears down at the border with the other Governors to meet with Abbott in Texas.
Holcomb is on the way out, so what does he think he’s going to do to help any situation considering he spends most of his time rubbing elbows in Davos?
Maybe he’s just “supervising” and reporting to the Powers That
BeSeemhttps://news.yahoo.com/indiana-gov-eric-holcomb-join-193243627.html
Nikki is claiming victimhood.
I bet she gets the protection. That will say so much!
No threat will find Trikki if she flees to India.
They are afraid Putin may show Tucker the canceled paid checks to Clintons when he visits.
They are afraid he will show Tucker the receipts on the bio-labs and trafficking hubs that were being run in Ukraine by our alphabets.
https://rumble.com/v4bgc7c-jd-vance-schools-george-stephanopoulos-on-the-constitution-so-george-runs-a.html
George Stephanopoulos isn’t a journalist, never was has always been a propagandist for the left! From running Bill Clinton’s Bimbo Eruption Squad to ABC News wasn’t much of leap when one realizes the corrupt leftist msm is run by the deep state!!!
True but they said he was doing a great job when he interviewed Putin. Now a Conservative, Tucker Carlson, interviews Putin and he is deemed a traitor. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.
A lot of refreshing going on this morning -getting tired of seeing that girl in green dress walking through fields – at least better than that weird guy in glasses filing his nails with a towel wrapped around head… anyway I know , use different page opener whatever
Change to Brave browser. I don’t have any issues with this site using Brave. I was using Duck Duck Go, then Start Page before switching over and I love Brave.
I want the manta ray back, that gal is getting really tiresome
The Great Growth Hoax
2 Feb 2024
https://dailyreckoning.com/the-great-growth-hoax/
When the latest report came out and everyone cheered, I dug around the data a bit but figured I would wait for my favorite analysts to weigh in. Sure enough, Peter St Onge writes it up and it is a doozy:
Fresh GDP numbers came in and it was a blowout. The kind of blowout that only a $2.7 trillion government deficit can buy while the private economy crumbles around it. Another couple blowout GDP reports like this and Americans will be living under an overpass.
The essential ruse comes down to unfathomable amounts of government spending that is being recorded as productivity and output, and interpreted by the media as growth:
“In the past 12 months the federal deficit increased by $1.3 trillion. Yet we only got half that in GDP — about $600 billion. In other words, everything else shrank. It’s even worse for that brave and stunning Q4 — there we got just $300 billion in extra GDP for — wait for it — $834 billion of new federal debt.”
To put a fine point on it:
“Essentially, [GDP is measuring] the pace at which we’re going Soviet, replacing private wealth with government waste.”
It Costs $2.50 to Generate $1
In his interpretation of the data, we are destroying wealth at the fastest rate since 2008. An analysis by Zero Hedge echoes the same thought:
“While Q4 GDP rose by $329 billion to $27.939 trillion, a respectable if made-up number, what is much more disturbing is that over the same time period, the U.S. budget deficit rose by more than 50%, or $510 billion. And the cherry on top: The increase in public U.S. debt in the same three-month period was a stunning $834 billion, or 154% more than the increase in GDP. In other words, it now takes $1.55 in budget deficit to generate $1 of growth… and it takes over $2.50 in new debt to generate $1 of GDP growth!”
To further the analysis, and doing the math:
“Every dollar in GDP growth cost $1.69 in new debt, and also means that every new job cost future generations of Americans $957,100.48.”
Waste of the Day: Over $1 Billion in Weapons Missing In Ukraine
February 6, 2024
https://www.realclearwire.com/articles/2024/02/07/waste_of_the_day_over_1_billion_in_weapons_missing_in_ukraine_1008519.html
Topline: The Department of Defense has failed to properly track $1 billion worth of weapons provided to Ukraine, according to an internal audit released on Jan. 10 by the DOD Inspector General.
Key facts: The DOD is supposed to use special “enhanced end-use monitoring” techniques” to “safeguard” key weapons such as smaller, high-tech weaponry provided to Ukraine, which are likely targets for theft.
The audit says these monitoring procedures are not properly being followed in Ukraine, due to staffing shortages, poor internal logistics and more.
The audit found that $1 billion of the $1.7 billion — or 59% — in enhanced end-use monitoring designated weapons provided to Ukraine as of June 2023 are “delinquent,” meaning they can’t be accounted for in inventory reports.
Maybe the weapons are being used properly; maybe they have been stolen by Russian forces. No one can be completely sure.
The 59% delinquency rate is an improvement over the 86% of weapons that were unaccounted for in December 2022.
The weapons include night-vision devices, anti-tank missiles, attack drones and small-diameter bombs.
The report also found that inventory databases were not regularly updated and that the Ukrainian Armed Forces failed to properly report missing weapons.
Officials have stressed that the weapons may in fact be completely fine. Just because the DOD failed to keep track of the weaponry does not necessarily mean it was stolen.
key weapons such as smaller, high-tech weaponry provided to Ukraine, which are likely targets for theft.
“The audit says these monitoring procedures are not properly being followed in Ukraine, due to staffing shortages, poor internal logistics and more.”
A feature not a flaw. There is a reason the US Congress doesn’t require an accounting of where Ukraine has spent $120+ Billion.
feature
The Deep State would collapse and DC would become pious overnight …
Kazakhstan To Surgically Castrate Pedophiles:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13050789/Kazakhstan-surgically-remove-paedophiles-genitals-new-draft-law-complaints-chemical-castration-not-harsh-enough.html
Failing to see a downside.
Mike Lee makes excuse for Langford. EVERY single comment calls him out.
So, now if only Mike Lee would shed some light on the what leverage the FirmTM’s has to force a this “good man” to commit political suicide.
Thirteen guesses?
I still say he was set up partly because of his support of challenging the 2020 election on J6.
And what pressure did it use to get him to lie and say the bill is a good bill? Perhaps he was assigned to the task of representing republicans in negotiating the bill, but he owed Americans honesty on what the results turned out to be.
MIke needs to specifically identify The Firm TM..and its members.
He did name Schumer and McConell.
He’s already treading on thin ice.
Uniparty doesn’t take kindly to exposure.
He should not be in bed with the wrong people aka The Firm. He has a choice to go with the right people. Or maybe not. Maybe he is being blackmailed. In that case he is his own enemy and needs some courage to fight on the right side anyway.
Exactly — a “good man” would not have anything the “Firm” can blackmail him with.
Mike Lee define “good man”. Does he belong to the same tribe as Lee?
A good man resigns rather than accommodate corruption and violate his oath of office.
So freaking what?! THIS isn’t where the fraud comes in! Feelgood crap.
As Mail-In Voting Expands, Bipartisan Bill Would Require Barcodes on Ballots
February 05, 2024
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/02/05/house-panel-set-to-advance-bar-codes-as-ballot-requirement-for-mail-in-voting/
The bill clarifies that “ballots mailed within the United States for all federal elections be mailed in an envelope with a unique Postal Service barcode that allows the ballot to be tracked in the mail.”
The problem is terribly inaccurate voter rolls and voting from fraudulent addresses:
EXPLOSIVE (NOT hype – W) REPORT: VIDEO Reveals Georgia 2020 Voter Rolls – Dirtier than Ever! – Tens of Thousands of Ineligible Addresses Cast Votes in 2020!
Jan. 3, 2024
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/explosive-report-video-reveals-georgia-2020-voter-rolls/
Video: Georgia Video 1 Voter Registrations (click on “Learn More” to watch)
Other states analyzed by same software:
https://vimeo.com/omega4america
These guys did some checking on foot. Start at 24:09:
NO RETREAT! Exclusive PROOF of Voter Fraud | Louder with Crowder
1,658,751 views – Streamed live on Feb 23, *2021*
We sent people to Vegas and Detroit to match voter registrations to actual addresses. You’ll be SHOCKED to find out how many were fraudulent.
Same thing happened in Phoenix.
Volunteers went door to door to check on addresses and registered voters. They were careful to not be threatening or intrusive, and simply asked the number of registered voters living at that address. Left quietly and thanked people for their time if the person at the door didn’t want to reply.
Vacant lots, abandoned buildings, numbers of “voters” registered at an address who couldn’t possibly be living in that space, etc.
Reports submitted to legislative committees.
Suddenly the organizers of the canvass are accused of various unsubstantiated illegal behaviors, discredited, disregarded because their investigation was not “official,” you name it.
Everything miraculously just goes away.
Personally, I’d be happy to see a statewide purge of voter registrations, a 1 year moratorium on elections, and have everyone re-register with proof of citizenship.
Will never happen. I know.
“FOIA’d Emails Reveal MI AG Nessel Personally Visited Detroit USPS Distribution Center Day Before 2020 Election After Whistleblower Claimed “Thousands of ballots are sitting” Inside Post Office Warehouse”
“Grossi asked AG Nessel’s communications director to hold off announcing the investigation into the thousands of ballots at the USPS warehouse until AFTER the election! “Let’s please wait until after Tuesday,” she said, adding, “We have 10,000 things to deal with tomorrow. There’s no reason to throw this one on top of that. A few days won’t hurt anything.”
Wow! Just WOW!!!”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/foiad-emails-reveal-mi-ag-nessel-persoanlly-visited/
NO MORE MAIL IN BALLOTS. PERIOD. Nearly every country in the world has banned them. For a reason—-fraud in a big way. End them everywhere except for overseas military and people living abroad temporarily. NO MORE.
.
Enjoin the USPS from delivering knowingly fraudulent ballots, i.e., to addresses that do not correspond to a registered citizen voter.
Turkey has its own terror problems:
Six people were wounded in an alleged terrorist attack in front of a courthouse in Istanbul, the Turkish Interior Ministry has said, adding that the attackers had been ‘neutralized’. The shooting comes just a week after two gunmen attacked a Catholic church in the city, killing one.
Two perpetrators, a man and a woman, opened fire at a police checkpoint in front of the Caglayan courthouse. The attackers were killed on-site during a shoot-out with the police.
Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said the perpetrators were identified as members of the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Front (DHKP-C), a far-left terrorist group that has targeted military and political figures for more than three decades.
Video warning:
New Senate Anti-Murder Bill Caps Murders At 5,000 Per Day
In a landmark compromise between Democrats and Republicans, the Senate is set to vote on a new anti-murder bill that will limit the allowed murders to only 5,000 per day.
The bill will also send $60 billion to Ukraine, $15 billion to Israel, and another $100 billion to Iran.
https://babylonbee.com/news/new-senate-anti-murder-bill-caps-murders-at-5000-per-day
Gavin Newsom describes struggling with dyslexia as he governs California through crisis
Dec. 18, 2021
-snipped-
SACRAMENTO —
California’s most powerful politician often begins his day around 6 a.m. alone in his office, struggling to read.
With his headphones on and the door closed, Gov. Gavin Newsom goes through his daily briefing binder once. Then a second time. Then a third.
His staff knows to give him space for at least two hours as he circles and underlines the reports. He distills pages of notes onto yellow cards and slides them into his pocket to study during the ride to news conferences or speaking engagements.
Newsom says the painstaking system helps him retain information and compensate for his dyslexia. It’s a bit of a security blanket for a governor who said he didn’t feel smart until age 35.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-18/gavin-newsom-childhood-struggle-to-read-shaped-his-life-and-career
Reading this makes me feel dumber.
If the job is too hard for him, who said he had to be governor?
Quit and be a maître de at a swanky restaurant.
Actually I think the guy who pulls the cordon away at a restaurant is probably smarter than he is.
He was just stupid. Some people are.
Well, that explains why everything he does, is backwards, now does it not explain everything?
Awwww. I feel so sorry for dear old Gavin. Richer than most, powerful in his state and he is playing the victim card via a news article. Gag.
Perhaps the RNC needs to be completely dismantled or destroyed. Maybe getting good people in can turn it around, only time will tell.
“Brave Election Integrity Activist Who Stood Up To Radical Democrats and Paid Operatives That Attacked Poll Challengers Is Vying For RNC Committee Member Spot…Here’s Why It Matters”
Excerpts:
Despite the almost impossible working conditions created by hostile election workers, outside agitators, and Democrat poll challengers, Hima quickly discovered the color of her skin would provide a huge advantage when it came to defending her fellow GOP poll workers.
The MI GOP, whose mismanagement and inability to protect the vote in 2020 from mass voter fraud, ultimately led to the nightmare at the TCF Center.
Hima is the Chair of the 6th District Republican Party in Michigan. She is also running to become a committee member of the RNC, where, if elected by the MI delegates, she will focus on election integrity issues and bringing immigrants and minorities into the Republican Party.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/brave-election-integrity-activist-who-stood-up-radical/
It starts at the top…Ronna…years of corruption and waste…no clear path…no fight… for victory in any races.
Silence from them on MDL, Indictments etc…confirms my thoughts above.
Our Lion figured out he needs to distance from RNC…unfortunately many in Congressional races rely on the RNC for funding…funding that has dried up due to the RNC’s lack of leadership.
Need a clean sweep of the RNC…all need to go and get out from under Cocaine Mitch’s and Rino’s thumb.
What a mess:
Ukraine’s top general sparing neo-Nazis from frontline slaughter – ex-CIA analyst
Valery Zaluzhny may find allies in radical nationalists in his standoff with President Vladimir Zelensky, Larry Johnson says
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky could lose his job before General Valery Zaluzhny does, the nation’s top military commander, considering that the latter is backed by people with guns, former CIA analyst Larry Johnson has argued.
Ukrainian and foreign media described a tense meeting between the pair, with the general reportedly rejecting a call to resign voluntarily and the president hesitating to remove him under pressure from the military top brass.
The situation resembles a soap opera or a game of musical chairs and would be hilarious “if hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians weren’t dead and maimed,” Johnson said.
The nation’s laws will not necessarily determine how tensions in the country’s leadership will be resolved, he added.
”The guy with the gun usually wins and last time I checked Zaluzhny’s got more guns than Zelensky,” he said.
Comparing the two men, he said the general should not be seen as a “great guy.”
“I don’t want to present Zaluzhny as some sort of military genius or really a good-hearted man,” the commentator remarked. He is “a bit of a scumbag” who “embraces the neo-Nazi ideology,” Johnson claimed.
”He’s been very careful to not insert the most ideologically driven troops – the Azov and the Kraken units – into the front lines where they get killed, because he wants to preserve them. Instead, he is sending the cannon-fodder guys.”
A post was published on social media last Friday by Andrey Stempitsky, a Ukrainian military leader who is also a prominent member in the nationalist Right Sector group. It featured a photo of him giving Zaluzhny an honorary ID, certifying the general as the first member of Stempitsky’s brigade. A portrait of Stepan Bandera, a Ukrainian nationalist leader and Nazi collaborator, was in the background of the image.
Zelensky was elected president in 2019 on a platform of reconciliation with rebels in the east and with Russia, but threats of violence by the extreme right made his office pull back from early attempts to deliver on that promise.
Zelensky might be pondering the fate of Gaddaffi once Obama no longer had use for him.
We knew all this was going to happen.
Obama/Biden’s Nazi Allies.
#ILikeIke
What!?
(Somehow I doubt this.)
Looking forward to Sundance’s on the ground report
Fake News. The US and NATO has been wargaming with Russia since 1945 when we were allies. If Poland hasn’t been preparing for war since they have been invaded by Russia many times in their history then they would be negligent.
Are they going it alone ? What are Nuland’s orders ?
Donald Tusk, ex EU president, a Pole in name only, is the installed WEF PM.
Andrjez Duda, FOT (Friend of Trump), is president.
These two men are ideological and political polar opposites.
It’s not surprising to me to see a headline like this as fear is the potent tool of despots…which Tusk is.
Sundance said he would post later yesterday. I was hopeful to see it this morning, but didn’t.
Prayers up for his safety 🙏🏻
BTW, it is reported by a Moscow source that Tucker Carlson did get an interview with Vladimir Putin. “Alexei Venediktov, the former editor-in-chief of the radio station Echo of Moscow….posted on X, formerly Twitter, that an interview between the pair had taken place.”
WOOT WOOT!!!!!
President Trump Get Out The Vote Rally
Sat, February 10, 2024
02:00 pm (US/Eastern)
Doors Open: 11:00 am
Coastal Carolina University, HTC Center
104 Founders Drive
Conway, SC 29526
Good front page story on UK daily mail ( and probably coming to a Town near you as the saying goes )
NYC police arrest 2 of 7 Venezuelan “migrants “ in a ‘safe house “ in the Bronx as a gang doing “Moped purse snatching “
Apparently in NYC ‘visiting migrants “ get access to electric mopeds to get to work and for “other activities “
They were responsible for like 62 crimes – some dragging women as they stole purses – Nice to have such nice visitors…. Would see unbelievable , but not true – very believable – terrible
🎯 , nycjoe.
the headlines need subtitles, or how to speak “pravda”:
these “asylum seekers” (meaning, they should be in one)
are merely “credentialing” (meaning, stealing yours)
as they “assimilate” (meaning, takeover their new town)
as they “reduce their carbon footprint” on electric mopeds
(meaning, making it harder to apprehend the buggers)
while “interacting” (meaning, assaulting)
various racist inhabitants (meaning, innocent marks)
of their new “neighborhood” (meaning, designated crime territory).
Nimrata is such an insecure, narcissistic, wack job, not only did she change her own first name, she also forced her husband to do the same.
I hear guys hang out at Applebee’s Bars in South Carolina hoping to bump into her
I apologize
I saw this article posted over at Lucianne and thought it was so good I would share it here. Article link is below, and this was my comment over at Lucianne:
What a GREAT article! It’s like sneaking into the enemy’s camp and listening to their campfire stories about us and the person WE CHOSE to be our leader. It is an interesting description of what the world looks like from inside Jill’s (and presumably the AP’s) narrative bubble, and Jill can’t figure it out. None of it makes sense to her.
Oh, and they never get that “chose” part right. WE were here first, and WE CHOSE Trump. Perhaps if Jill could fix that foundational relationship as her starting point, the rest might begin to fall into place, and she might begin to view us as something more than a “demographic.” We are people. We have lives. And we just want to be left alone. Oh, and yeah, we’re angry.
How Donald Trump went from a diminished ex-president to the GOP’s dominant front-runner
https://apnews.com/article/trump-republicans-2024-campaign-desantis-haley-biden-99438e2097ce24f052ac390fbb39e152?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=share
He was never a diminished ex-president for 75M people. Only diminished among the lame brains.
75M claimed people, probably the 81M for the usurper occupant were really Trump’s.
Dartmouth College has reinstated standardized testing for admissions. Previously, the Ivy League universities had stopped using SAT scores for admissions, ostensively so they could pose as exclusive institutions that were actually inclusive. The failure of this approach appears conclusive.
So, they got a dart in the mouth?
No, it’s in the garage.
No matter how much we hate Mitt Romney, it isn’t enough.
He knows that Donald Trump is not currently in office, right?
“It’s really appalling.”
Mitt Romney unloads on Donald Trump for trying to kill the bipartisan immigration-Ukraine bill because it might help President Biden politically.
Republicans don’t send their best and brightest to DC.
Is Schumer blackmailing the public?
That’s what it sounds like.
It’s just about four months now since the foreseeable attack in Israel on the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur war.
A thorough accounting of the lapse in security that allowed the atrocities occur is forthcoming, right?
According to Wikipedia, the Israelis had the complete and detailed plan for October 7. Egypt and Jordan said that days before the attack, they warned Israel of the impending attack. I really have a hard time believing that the US/CIA/NSA didn’t also know, as carefully as NSA monitors middle east chatter.
We’ll know it isn’t in their interests to do any in-depth investigation if nothing is done. And why would that be?
Israel should have been on high alert, “just in case”.
There is no disagreement between Democrats and Republicans on either border security or unlimited aid to Ukraine & Israel. It’s a shell game, the “negotiations” are fake, and they’re all on the same side. The game is to pretend they’re compromising, so that the parts unpopular w/each side’s voters can be blamed on the other.
Americans will eventually have to put their foot down and say no more.
When that happens and what it actually looks like, remains to be seen.
But free men won’t consent to live this way much longer.
Apparently Senator Mitch McConnell has flipped, and he is now recommending his caucus vote against the Lankford border bill. Senator Everett Dirksen once said, “When I start to feel the heat, I start to see the light.” Perhaps Mitch has now seen the light, having felt the heat. I think many would agree, it is a good thing to seek the light.
The Uniparty never retreats.
Often, things like the so-called border bill are floated to gauge the resistance, step back, then attack.
Mitch has withdrawn his support for the bill because the mood of the country has changed over that past few months. Because a few months ago the country was in favor of massive illegal immigration, doncha know.
There is something wrong with this story.
Zelensky is dissing his top military guy in public during a war?
Smells wrong.
In that Michaud post above , Visit by Victoria Nuland … really ? what to sort things out ? To take that General for lunch at a CIA restaurant …” Hotel California “ song … interesting that she seems to be Z’s “minder” as they say in those fictional espionage/conspiracy movies …
Tucker Carlson goes to Moscow — and the left has a cow
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/02/tucker_carlson_goes_to_moscow__and_the_left_has_a_cow.html