November 29, 2024
Mid-Morning Art Thread
Norman Rockwell
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The Morning Report — 11/29/24
Of course, on the heels of death threats and bomb threats reported by Trump nominees and designees, we get this rather unsurprising story. Not because I expected it. Far from it. But because just like the supposed right-wing Trump-created insurrection on 1/6/21 there were supposed bombs at RNC and DNC headquarters on that day which almost four years later evidence of which has yet to materialize from the FBI/DOJ. Remember, the mythology is that Republicans and conservatives are violent Nazis, when even the most cursory examination of actual history and facts shows it's quite the opposite. And they can't have that, now can they? The memes, shibboleths and myths of who is good and who is evil must be preserved. After all, they are not fascists, are they?!
Multiple Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut were targeted with bomb threats on Thanksgiving. The threats come a day after the Trump transition team announced that several of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees received bomb threats. Reps. Joe Courtney (D-CT), Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Jim Himes (D-CT), and John Larson (D-CT) all said in statements that their homes were targeted. The lawmakers released the following statements: Courtney: “Early this morning, Mr. Courtney’s home was targeted with a bomb threat while he and his family were at home to celebrate Thanksgiving. Thanks to the swift and professional response of Vernon Police Chief Marc Petruzzi and Lieutenant Robert Mara, the United States Capitol Police, and the bomb squad, the Courtneys are safe, and there was no evidence found of a bomb on their property. Joe and Audrey extend their utmost gratitude to the law enforcement officers, whose response should signal to perpetrators that these types of threats will not be tolerated.” Color me highly skeptical, all things considered. And considering the reaction to the actual assassination attempts against Donald Trump, as well as the open targeting of Supreme Court Justices and their families by actual assassins, as well as the thinly-veiled threats against them by high ranking Democrats like Schumer, and the the threat against Trump which actually materialized as an operation by the Intel community. "They have 9 ways to Sunday to get at him" which is almost a verbatim quote. And considering, those aforementioned agencies are in the figurative crosshairs of Trump and a DOGE reckoning of their insubordination. corruption and treason. this kind of fakery is right up their street to preserve their hides and to ding Trump's efforts to dismantle and hold them accountable. Have a great weekend!
And a long distance Black Friday dedication!
Anti-Israel protesters tried to ruin the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade for the second year running Thursday, with cops quickly swarming in to gobble up roughly 25 arrests.So, do you get a coupon for a "Free Palestine?" Or is it included in the package with the semtex suicide belt? (While supplies last, or blast!) Hey, it is Black Friday but Black September is every day, Nein?! Speaking of liberation, here's a little item of some interest, depending on who gets to hold the crayon and draw the lines:
The firebrands entered the parade route at West 55th Street and Fifth Avenue, stopping the Ronald McDonald balloon in its tracks around 9:25 a.m., police said — and drawing loud jeers from parade-goers screaming at the killjoys to move.
Photos showed protesters sitting in the parade’s path, with some unfurling a large banner that read: “Don’t celebrate genocide!”. . . NYPD officers quickly descended upon the group, who shouted “Free, free Palestine!” as they were tackled to the ground and placed in handcuffs. . . ”This is disgusting,” said a Brooklyn cop. “There are times and places to peacefully protest, but not the Thanksgiving day parade. This a day for families to enjoy and not be interrupted by these a–holes.
In September, Kreuger spoke with City and State New York.com about a four-state secession from the union if Trump won, where New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Connecticut would join Canada . . “Basically everybody in these states are progressive Democrats” and they “would fit in pretty well with the political philosophy of at least most of the Canadian elected officials,” she contended. Krueger, whose district includes the Upper East Side and Midtown Manhattan, has even floated the idea with connections who say politicians in Ottawa could back it:I'm sure there are a number of Canadian provinces, and smaller non-leftist regions/cities that are itching to escape the insanity of a Castreau-Cescu leftist dominated Canada and join the US, especially with Trump and Trumpism/traditional Americanism on the ascendancy. I'd be happy to have oil and mineral-rich Saskatchewan and the grain growing regions like Alberta enter the union in exchange for the Communist controlled northeast states that this hag fantasizes would break away. With at least 10% of our approximately 330 million populace comprised of illegal alien migrants, Who needs to build detention camps when Krueger and her ilk will have a ready-made four-state detention camp to ship them to. And voila, millions of eager people all set to do the jobs Canadians refuse to do!
Of course, on the heels of death threats and bomb threats reported by Trump nominees and designees, we get this rather unsurprising story. Not because I expected it. Far from it. But because just like the supposed right-wing Trump-created insurrection on 1/6/21 there were supposed bombs at RNC and DNC headquarters on that day which almost four years later evidence of which has yet to materialize from the FBI/DOJ. Remember, the mythology is that Republicans and conservatives are violent Nazis, when even the most cursory examination of actual history and facts shows it's quite the opposite. And they can't have that, now can they? The memes, shibboleths and myths of who is good and who is evil must be preserved. After all, they are not fascists, are they?!
Multiple Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut were targeted with bomb threats on Thanksgiving. The threats come a day after the Trump transition team announced that several of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees received bomb threats. Reps. Joe Courtney (D-CT), Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Jim Himes (D-CT), and John Larson (D-CT) all said in statements that their homes were targeted. The lawmakers released the following statements: Courtney: “Early this morning, Mr. Courtney’s home was targeted with a bomb threat while he and his family were at home to celebrate Thanksgiving. Thanks to the swift and professional response of Vernon Police Chief Marc Petruzzi and Lieutenant Robert Mara, the United States Capitol Police, and the bomb squad, the Courtneys are safe, and there was no evidence found of a bomb on their property. Joe and Audrey extend their utmost gratitude to the law enforcement officers, whose response should signal to perpetrators that these types of threats will not be tolerated.” Color me highly skeptical, all things considered. And considering the reaction to the actual assassination attempts against Donald Trump, as well as the open targeting of Supreme Court Justices and their families by actual assassins, as well as the thinly-veiled threats against them by high ranking Democrats like Schumer, and the the threat against Trump which actually materialized as an operation by the Intel community. "They have 9 ways to Sunday to get at him" which is almost a verbatim quote. And considering, those aforementioned agencies are in the figurative crosshairs of Trump and a DOGE reckoning of their insubordination. corruption and treason. this kind of fakery is right up their street to preserve their hides and to ding Trump's efforts to dismantle and hold them accountable. Have a great weekend!
And a long distance Black Friday dedication!
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- The ‘left-right’ paradigm is an ideologically biased construct that obscures, more than illuminates, political realities.
Fascism and the Left-Right Political Absurdity
- Fred Fleitz: Decentralizing the federal government should be a top priority for Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
A Top Priority for the Musk/Ramaswamy DOGE Commission: Decentralizing the Federal Government
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- The price of tea beans is set to hit record highs after it (checks note) rained in Brazil. (Semafor)
This apparently is an unusual event that nobody was prepared for.
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November 28, 2024
I'm Thankful For The ONT
Happy Thanksgiving Horde! Hopefully all of you had an enjoyable day and are browsing the ONT in a tryptophan stupor. Does anyone have any good Thanksgiving stories to relate? We'd love to hear them. We are not liberals, so there will be no discussion of political subjects on the Thanksgving OP (You can talk about politics in the comments if you want, I just won't be writing about politics). Here at Casa de Weirddave, we had a traditional dinner with all the fixins:
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Thanksgiving Night Cafe
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Bird is the Word Open Thread
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Big Brown Bear Family Open Thread
In case you're in a hibernating mood.
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Don't Be a Jive Turkey
I just had my first tranche of Thanksgiving dinner. I wisely stepped away from the table so I wouldn't over-eat.
But believe me, I'm going in hard again later.Posted by: Ace at 03:25 PM | Comments (195) | Trackbacks (Suck)
How to Deal With Your Racist Uncle (Who Is Actually You) at Thanksgiving
Important news you can use.
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Turkey Time Open Thread
Happy Thanksgiving to all!
I am truly grateful to have all of you as readers. Particularly those of you who are approaching 29 years old and have been here a long while. But also the new morons. I am very grateful to those who donate to me. It really helps. The blog makes little money in ads. I'm mostly supported by your generous donations. And of course the great and untiring coblogs, who run this site more hours of the week than I do. Thank you all so much. I don't know how I'd manage without you.Posted by: Ace at 12:22 PM | Comments (266) | Trackbacks (Suck)
The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition
That is a powerful affirmation of exactly how exceptional we are, and the incredible optimism in every word of that preamble speaks volumes. And it is that optimism on which I will focus for the time being, especially when one compares today to the dark times of just a few months...and years...ago. Do we have problems? Of course, and they may very well be existential, but we have an incredible opportunity for a radical realignment of our culture, our people, and our country, and for that I am immensely grateful. The pessimists among us will suggest that we are in a temporary lull before the onslaught of progressive evil returns. That may be true, but we see around us the results of simply fighting back. We "voted harder," and we also did a lot of hard work to make those votes count. We see all around us the emergence of a new class of conservative politician...people who are not afraid to shock and scare and go on the offensive. They are the future of the conservative movement, and I firmly believe that they are the future of America. And with our help they will succeed! Happy Thanksgiving! May it be a glorious and joyful harbinger of great things to come. [Below the fold is some contrast between those who would change Western culture, and those who embrace it!]
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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
That is a powerful affirmation of exactly how exceptional we are, and the incredible optimism in every word of that preamble speaks volumes. And it is that optimism on which I will focus for the time being, especially when one compares today to the dark times of just a few months...and years...ago. Do we have problems? Of course, and they may very well be existential, but we have an incredible opportunity for a radical realignment of our culture, our people, and our country, and for that I am immensely grateful. The pessimists among us will suggest that we are in a temporary lull before the onslaught of progressive evil returns. That may be true, but we see around us the results of simply fighting back. We "voted harder," and we also did a lot of hard work to make those votes count. We see all around us the emergence of a new class of conservative politician...people who are not afraid to shock and scare and go on the offensive. They are the future of the conservative movement, and I firmly believe that they are the future of America. And with our help they will succeed! Happy Thanksgiving! May it be a glorious and joyful harbinger of great things to come. [Below the fold is some contrast between those who would change Western culture, and those who embrace it!]
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
Thanksgiving
John Currin
Thanksgiving
John Currin
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The Morning Report — 11/28/24
Well my dear friends, in wishing you all a happy Thanksgiving, I give thanks for your continued prayers for my health, as well as your continued support and comradeship.
Many of President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks had their lives threatened Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. Fox News first reported almost a dozen of Trump’s cabinet picks and appointees were threatened. “Last night and this morning, several of President Trump’s Cabinet nominees and Administration appointees were targeted in violent, unAmerican threats to their lives and those who live with them,” said incoming White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt in a press release from the Trump-Vance transition team “These attacks ranged from bomb threats to ‘swatting.’ In response, law enforcement and other authorities acted quickly to ensure the safety of those who were targeted. President Trump and the entire Transition team are grateful for their swift action,” she added. “President Trump and the Transition are focused on doing the work of uniting our nation by ensuring a safe and prosperous future. With President Trump as our example, dangerous acts of intimidation and violence will not deter us,” she concluded.I suppose when old-fashioned smear tactics, lies and kangaroo courts won't work, (vis a vis Gaetz, Hegseth and Trump himself) the notion of having to dodge bullets or perhaps putting out the flames on the backs of your spouse and kids might dampen one's enthusiasm to be a part of the MAGA cabinet. Remember, it's not just about unhinged loons convinced that denying them the absolute human right!!! to kill unborn children, or surgically and/or chemically castrate them, or teach them that the greatest nation and society in human history is evil and illegitimate. It's about those in power who have pimped this insanity and every other Leftist scam/scheme to get to the top of the heap and have no intention of relinquishing any of it. "Pour encourager les autres" as they say in French. Tom Homan, Trump's pick to head DHS and who will spearhead, please God an Operation Wetback to end all Operation Wetbacks had this to say:
‘If You Want Something, Come Get Some’: Tom HomanBravo. Bravissimo. Remember, that a number of blue shithole cities and states have stated openly their intention to commit insurrection by openly defying Federal law enforcement if not openly encouraging violent confrontation between local law enforcement and federal agents. Remember that the Swamp is ugly, dark and deep, and extends way beyond DC to state capitals and city halls all over these virtually disunited states of America. On the flip side of that, this item gave me a reaction not unlike an adolescent Sefton riding the bus to school with the loose-leaf pressed down in my lap.
Elon Musk: Alexander Vindman ‘Committed Treason,’ Will ‘Pay the Appropriate Penalty’Now do John Brennan, and all the other spooks, ham 'n eggers and others who fabricated the cases against Trump and covered up for Biden. Add Pelosi and Capitol cop Michael Byrd along who both are culpable in he execution-style slaying of Ashli Babbitt, with all those who stomped Roseanne Boyland to death on 1/6/21. Somehow, I can't imagine the Swamp being satisfied to just march over to Chesapeake Bay and just scream at the water. Meanwhile in the middle east, it looks as if Bibi Netanyahu has been strong-armed into accepting some sort of ceasefire with Hezbollah up in Lebanon. Which of course sends all the wrong messages to all the wrong "people."
Hamas, the Iran-backed terrorist organization that started the ongoing war in the Middle East on October 7, 2023, and still holds 101 Israeli hostages, said Wednesday that it also wants a ceasefire, as a deal in Lebanon took effect. Israel and Hezbollah, the Iran-backed terror group in Lebanon that started firing at Israel on October 8 in solidarity with Hamas, reached a deal that took effect Wednesday morning. Once, Hezbollah vowed that it would not sign any ceasefire deal with Israel unless the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) left Gaza. But Hezbollah, suffering losses after the IDF stepped up the battle in September, decided to sign a separate deal, leaving Hamas to face the IDF without help.Wow. Bibi can't go just two months until sanity in the form of Donald Trump is back in the White House. The malign influence of the Israeli Left in the Knesset notwithstanding. And, something that I never learned in school, but only by listening to the late Rush Limbaugh of blessed memory. The True meaning and history of the Thanksgiving holiday. Socialism/Collectivism kills.
Well my dear friends, in wishing you all a happy Thanksgiving, I give thanks for your continued prayers for my health, as well as your continued support and comradeship.
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- The prosecution of Daniel Penny fits a pattern that the Soviet-era Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn would have recognized and detailed.
The Prosecution Of Daniel Penny Is A Soviet-Style Attack On The Right Of Self-Defense
- Christopher F. Rufo: Can Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s plan to slash the bureaucracy succeed?
DOGE Theory
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- Do not squeeze the lime. (Ars Technica)
A man who did squoze the lime developed a nasty case of phytophotocitrolimeodimeodermatititis.Specifically, the toxic chemicals are furocoumarins, which are found in some weeds and also a range of plants used in food. Those include celery, carrot, parsley, fennel, parsnip, lime, bitter orange, lemon, grapefruit, and sweet orange. Furocoumarins include chemicals with linear structures, psoralens, and angular structures, called angelicins, though not all of them are toxic.
Avoid all of these things. Stick to safe inorganic ingredients, like arsenic.
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November 27, 2024
Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - November 27, 2024 [TRex]
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Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety. We are thankful for many things. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of an ONT (which is a synonym for happiness, right?).
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Thanksgiving Eve Cafe
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Drum Sticks
Cultural Enrichment intensifies in the UK:
A 14-year-old Jewish schoolgirl has been rushed to hospital with head and facial wounds following an attack in Stamford Hill on Monday evening, the local Shomrim (neighborhood security) reported on Tuesday afternoon. Several young visibly-Jewish girls were walking from a bus stop to their school - Beis Chinuch Girls' School - for a rehearsal when a male attacker on a balcony pelted them with around a dozen glass bottles and plates, Shomrim told the Jerusalem Post. The attack took place on Woodberry Down Estate. One of the girls suffered a significant hematoma and facial cuts and was rushed to the Royal London Hospital by Hatzalah, Shomrim added. She has since been discharged from the hospital, however, Shomrim told the Post that she and her friends were "badly shaken and traumatised by the ordeal."The UK will of course send the police to arrest anyone who suggests that, just maybe, this unknown and officially-protected pogromist might be an immigrant from, let's say, a Middle Eastern country which is not Israel. They now have a big category called "Non-Crime Hate Incidents," where they have police investigating people for what they admit right in the name are not crimes, but for which you can still be prosecuted and summoned to court. As Kurt Schlichter asked last week: Why do we still have a "special relationship" with this tyrannical, toxic little failed colonial power prosecuting people for Islamic blasphemy violations and attempting to strip Americans of our precious right to free speech?
"Evidence suggests the perpetrator had prepared the bottles and plates in advance, deliberately targeting the girls due to their visibly Jewish appearance," Shomrim continued. "Shattered glass was found as far as the school's front gate, highlighting the force and intent of the attack." Shomrim said that the police were able to identify the suspect's flat through CCTV footage, and conducted an arrest inquiry at 11pm, however the suspect was not present, and has not yet been arrested. A police officer told The Jewish Chronicle that the police were unable to locate the suspect, and the incident is being treated as a "potential antisemitic hate crime." Earlier this year, a 16-year-old Jewish boy was chased through Stamford Hill, an area of London with a large ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, by three males throwing stones.
America and the United Kingdom have long had a special relationship, working closely as allies to protect the West from oppressive dictatorships that suppress their own people, arbitrarily jailing them and persecuting them for exercising their God-given right of free speech. Here's the problem. The UK has become one of those oppressive dictatorships that suppress their own people, arbitrarily jailing them and persecuting them for exercising their God-given right of free speech. And I'm not particularly interested in having a special relationship with a country like that. Nor are many other Americans. Great Britain has always had a fraught relationship with freedom, at least regarding people who aren't British. In its glorious imperialist era, when its colonialism brought the light of civilization to a huge swath of the world, it presumed to tell us Americans what we could and could not do. At Lexington and Concord, 250 years ago this spring, a bunch of redcoats tried to take our guns. We shot them. And we kept shooting them until they went home. But no hard feelings -- they even burned down much of Washington, DC, during the War of 1812 as a gesture of friendship to the American people. Still, our special relationship was built upon a shared reverence for the basic tenets of freedom that the British themselves pioneered. From the Magna Carta to the rise of Parliament and the restraining of their inbred royal rulers, the British set the template for freedom, and we Americans took it to the next level. We wrote our Constitution with a Bill of Rights that addressed some of the presumptuous impositions the British had tried to inflict upon us Americans. The First Amendment was one of the key rights. So was the Second. The Brits had been jerks to us until we shot them and they went crying back to their godforsaken moist and frigid island, but they largely treated their own people well. You could speak freely. You could say things that offended the elite. The idea that you might be tossed into the stony lonesome for sounding off was completely alien to them. And that unique reverence for individual rights was why we could have a special relationship with people who have terrible teeth and food and insist on calling a car's trunk a "boot."Mentally-ill progtards (is there any other kind?) gather on Lake Michigan to have yet another coordinated group primal scream. An illegal alien was let out of jail (for "good behavior") in leftwing, blue-county Fairfax, Virginia, after being caught publicly masturbating. He was not deported. Within days of his release -- I mean, his release from jail -- he raped a woman. Perfect, Virginia leftists. Perfect. The NY Post:
And that relationship was sealed with blood. Americans and Brits fought together in World War I, World War II, Korea, Desert Storm, Iraq, and Afghanistan. And the Brits were hella fighters, too, if you put aside how we kicked their butts. Those lads knew how to take care of business, whether they were fighting a Zulu or a Nazi. They were part of our team in Desert Storm when I was there, and we worked with them in Kosovo when I was there. I've got a lot of respect for their soldiers. But many Americans don't respect the UK anymore, and it's all the UK's fault. It's tempting to think that something of the old British Spirit passed away when their magnificent Queen Elizabeth II passed away. This indomitable woman took no grief, but she also presided over a free country. Her lame son doesn't. Great Britain is not so great anymore. Not to put too fine a point on it, you can now be arrested and imprisoned for tweeting things. Think about that. You can say something, and then cops can come to your house and haul you away to jail, maybe for years longer than actual criminals, because you've said something. This is part of a two-tier "justice" system aimed squarely at regular Englishmen with the intent of silencing and disenfranchising them. This is intolerable to any lover of freedom, although the British -- by giving up their guns -- ensured they can do nothing about it. And there are other outrages, too. Keir Starmer, the degenerate communist who got about 30-some percent of the vote and now rules like a dictator, freed criminals, you know, the ones who've committed actual crimes, so that he can fill up the jails with people whose "crimes" are dissenting and opposing him. They're also in the process of culling the kulaks by engaging in a vendetta against rural farmers that uses the inheritance tax to pry them off the land they occupied for generations. Let's also put aside that the Labour government has been absolutely clear that they consider Donald Trump, and we who voted for him, to be Nazis, which is really weird because the Labour government is channeling the Nazis. You see, Nazis put people in jail for saying things. If you do that, you're like a Nazi. Fortunately, I'm in a free country, despite the best efforts of Kamala Harris and her voters, and I can say that without having some flatfoot pound on my door demanding that I explain my free speech upon pain of imprisonment. Of course, the Brits are fantasizing about arresting American Elon Musk for tolerating free speech.
Once, the idea that the UK would someday be ruled by a glorified human resources department backed up by the police would have been simply insane. But now it's reality. It's also unacceptable. This means that we, as Americans, must not accept it.
An illegal Honduran migrant has been charged with raping a woman on a popular hiking trail outside Washington, DC just days after he was released from jail on another sex crime charge -- and it's the first sexual assault of that kind in the town for more than a decade, according to authorities. "This is the only stranger rape that we have had in the town in my more than 12 years as chief of police," said Herndon, Virginia, police chief Maggie DeBoard in a press conference Tuesday. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin slammed local officials for allowing the serial sex pest to be released back into the community -- instead of being turned over to ICE and deported. "I am heartsick for this victim and outraged that local Fairfax County officials recklessly release violent illegal immigrants who should have been prosecuted and deported," the Republican told The Post. "This is a dereliction of their most basic duty to keep people safe. Prioritizing violent illegal immigrants over the safety of Fairfax residents is unacceptable," he continued -- adding that Virginia is not a sanctuary state."We're the party of protecting women," said the party importing deranged foreign criminals to rape women. You know, a lot of people seeking "asylum" are fleeing their countries not because they are politically persecuted but because they are filthy degenerate criminals being sought by local police for their vicious crimes. And Biden-Harris lets them claim asylum through an app.
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Lockdown Opponent and er of the Great Barrington Declaration, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Named by Trump to Head the National Institute of Health
Now this is what I call GAINZZZ.
This guy was right from the beginning, and so, of course, Fauci and Biden set to censoring him so that no one could hear or read his very accurate criticism of the hair-on-fire lockdown/masking/school closure Regime. And now, the sweetest vengeance: he'll be running the NIH.Eugene Kontorovich
@EVKontorovich I remember where I was when I first read about the Great Barrington Declaration. It represented a small crack of light in a great darkness, a spark of hope. We may not forget how brave - fearless even - its signers were. They risked their reputations and careers. So congratulations @DrJBhattacharya, no one has done more to deserve this job than you.
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The Left Is Demanding That People Disconnect From Their Suppressive Person (SP) Family Members Again, So You Know This Must Be the Holiday Season
It's a standard cult move to demand that people separate from their families. Or from anyone else who might question cult doctrine.
The headline refers specifically to Scientology's terminology for disowning family members and "Suppressive Persons," meaning people who try to impede you from growing in the "church." That is, a suppressive person is anyone who tells you you're in a cult. The cult demands you separate from -- "disconnect" from, in Scientology lingo -- anyone who points out that the cult you're in is acting a lot like a cult. Which brings us to this lovely letter from a New York Times reader, written to the Times' "expert" on ethics. The basic question: My mother refuses to say who she voted for. My wife and her sister demand I disown my own mother, because the fact that she even leaves open the possibility that I voted for Trump means that she's an SP. Should I disconnect from her? His own mother. His own mother.What's your wife's boyfriend's opinion, cuck? (That remark was made by the Ruthless podcast guys, from where I heard about this "ethical problem.")
My Mom Voted for Trump. Can We Let It Go? The magazine's Ethicist columnist on how a family might proceed in the wake of a momentous presidential election. An illustration of a contentious family gathering, with the factions separated be a long dining table. On the one side is a Trump supporter and her confused son, who looks at her askew. On the other is the son's wife and her family, who feel hurt and disappointed by the Trump supporter's actions. My mother, a two-time Trump voter in Florida, has moved closer to us in a safely blue state. While I don't know what her vote was in the 2024 presidential election, it wouldn't have affected the outcome. I strongly oppose Trump, as do my wife and her family, who live nearby.
I'm troubled by my mother's support of someone I consider morally abhorrent and dangerous, especially when she voted in a former swing state. With the result of the 2024 election, my wife and her family are directing their understandable fury at my mother. My wife's sister said, ''If she voted for Trump again, I'm completely done with her.''By all means, side with your awful wife's awful sister over the woman who birthed you and raised you to be a "man."
I expect that the next time they interact it will not be pretty. But my mother is a member of our family, and an invaluable caregiver to our children. She's pleasant and kind in daily life and moved far from her home primarily for us and her grandkids. And she is my mother, after all.Oh, and his mom provides free childcare for him, taking care of his kids while he and his awful wife cruise bars looking for bulls.
I'm torn. My wife and her family expect me to brook no compromise and to speak out on an issue that feels existential to them (as it does to me), but because I know that her vote here doesn't make a difference, I have trouble feeling motivated to admonish her for her past and possibly present support of Trump. At the very least, they don't think I should expect them to be anything other than completely unfiltered with my mother. I appreciate the sacrifices my mother has made to be near our family and our children, and our kids love their grandma. And she is the woman who raised me. But my wife and her family will be channeling their anger at one of the few Trump voters they personally know. And my mother expects me to intervene and speak up for her or to encourage my wife's family to be more civil. She sees her vote as a ''personal choice'' and doesn't seem to believe that she should be criticized for it. Ethically, is it wrong for me to hold my tongue or to try to negotiate the peace even though I agree with the substance of my wife's family's position? If I try to protect my mother from vitriol, would I be betraying myself, or my wife and her family, in order to preserve harmony and child care? Or would I be justified in suggesting that we all lay down our arms, given that her vote no longer affects the national outcome? If I try to completely opt out of having a role in this conflict, am I doing a disservice to all parties involved? What do we owe to ourselves and the respective warring sides in a situation such as this? -- Name WithheldThe New York Times' "Ethicist" -- what a deranged joke -- tells this mentally-ill, henpecked cuck that this is a very real problem and the fact that someone in his immediate family voted for someone he didn't vote for is a "sad" situation.
Note there's no acknowledgement that Democrats might share the vices of their candidates. Only Republicans are assumed to share in the vices of their candidates. Because Democrat candidates have no vices, of course.
From the Ethicist: This is a sad but not unusual story. Political scientists have identified a form of animus they sometimes call partyism, which they try to measure in various ways. They can ask respondents whether people of the other political party have positive traits (generosity, say, or honesty), or bad ones (selfishness, untrustworthiness); they can ask what people think about being friends with supporters of the other party or about their children marrying across the partisan divide. Since at least 2000, the research suggests, people's positive feelings about their own party have stayed roughly constant; the big drop, which has intensified since 2016, is in positive feelings toward the other side. In an era when few Americans are still bothered by interracial marriage, recent surveys find that a large percentage of people who identify as Democrats or Republicans want their children to marry within the party. And the trend isn't just found in this country: Partyism swamps other sources of intergroup hostility in Britain, Belgium and Spain, too. One way in which these attitudes can be rationalized is by insisting that members of the other party are making the wrong choices because they are wicked or stupid or both. Yet voting for morally reprehensible candidates doesn't mean you necessarily share their vices.
At the same time, your mother is, as you say, mistaken to speak of her vote as if it were nobody else's business. For these purposes, the causal consequences of how she voted, in one state or another, is a distraction. It isn't that any of us is casting the determining vote; it's that we're joining with others to achieve the results we favor, collectively sharing responsibility for the outcome if we succeed. And because she has been open about her previous two votes, people who know her are entitled to ask her why she cast them. If they can't make sense of her answer, they're free to reproach her or express their disappointment. That goes for you as well: Treating your mother with respect means being honest about your views. But it doesn't mean cudgeling her with them. Once you've said your piece and listened to what she has to say in her defense, repeating the same arguments over and over would be the act of a bully.Well, it took a while, but I guess in the end the "Ethicist" is saying that it's perfectly reasonable to put your mother through a prolonged, searing Struggle Session, but once that Struggle Session is over, you shouldn't continue bullying her about her vote (even while you secretly and rightly continue to despise her). MSNBC's Race Lady is also demanding that people disconnected from their Suppressive Person family members.
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Advocacy Group: Trump Can Slash $1.4 Trillion from the Federal Budget (Over Ten Years) Just By Cancelling Biden's Executive Action
Trump really needs to slash the budget. It's not just a Republican imperative, it's necessary if he wants to bring inflation down, quickly. And if he doesn't bring it down quickly, he'll lose his momentum and political capitol and be an early lame-duck president. It's necessary to get rid of these fake dollars Biden filled the economy with. They drive inflation. Trump can get rid of some of these fake dollars just by turning off the taps of government deficit spending, spending tomorrow's (hypothetical) dollars today. If Trump can't cut spending, his only options for reducing inflation are relying on the Fed to keep interest rates high. But this strangles economic growth. Or, he could raises taxes. But this strangles economic growth. No, his only choice is to cut spending. And there's a lot of bad spending to cut. But Trump will have to fight his own instincts. He's a free-spending guy who believes in FDR-style prime pumping and Keynesian stimulus. Someone will have to sit him down and make sure he understands that unless he rejects more monetary stimulus and more fake dollars in the economy, inflation will remain high, and it will cripple this critical presidency.
President-elect Donald Trump can cut the federal deficit by $1.4 trillion over the next decade by rescinding President Biden's executive actions, according to a report. The potential cost-cutting was identified by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a non-profit that advocates for fiscal restraint, as Trump's informal Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, looks for areas to slash spending. The Tesla billionaire and close confidant of Trump, 78, has already vowed to cut the bloated federal budget by "at least $2 trillion." "Unlike most deficit reduction measures, reversing costly executive actions from the Biden [administration] would not require Congressional action, and could be done through the rulemaking process," the nonprofit's report notes. CRFB said that up to $550 billion could be saved by eliminating Biden's pending plans to forgive student loan debt -- including the SAVE Income-Driven Repayment Program, which alone could pare down spending by up to $275 billion, according to the report. The SAVE initiative, in which 8 million borrowers are enrolled, already is in limbo pending the outcome of a federal court case -- with Missouri Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey in August notching a win after the US Supreme Court upheld a decision by the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals to halt the debt cancellation. The program caps student loan payments and allows debt to be forgiven in as little as 10 years and is facing legal scrutiny after Biden's earlier $430 billion plan to forgive between $10,000 and $20,000 in student debt per borrower was struck down by the Supreme Court in 2023. The CRFB says another up to $150 billion can be saved by ending pending policies involving the forgiveness of student loan interest -- and that up to $110 billion can be wiped for borrowers reporting hardship in making repayments.
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