- I see Creepy Uncle Bernie and AOC spent around $230,000 USD on their recent “flight of the Oligarchy” tour. Private planes aren’t cheap, particularly when you rent them. But when Brett Baier pressed him on it, Sanders went directly to Whataboutism…. “When was the last time you saw Trump at National Airport during a campaign?” Sanders asked, prompting Baier to quip, “Trump isn’t fighting the oligarchy.” Actually, that’s exactly the point, Brett… Trump is in fact doing exactly that. The oligarchy is Bernie Sanders, in this case. Oh, and forget that qTrump actually owns his own plane. Amusing to see how defensive Sanders gets when questions about his own rather lavish lifestyle show up.
- The biggest question about the new Pope is, if he’s actually Catholic. So far about all we can give is mixed reviews at best.
- When they tell you about themselves, believe them. College Palestinian Group Admits Their Job is to ‘Destroy the United States.’
- Well, now isn’t that interesting….. The face that the Democrats have been pushing for some weeks now, just single handedly blew up the nonsense claim that Social Security fraud wasn’t happening, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett says she doesn’t have to explain why her family has been cashing their dead grandmother’s Social Security checks since 2004. “Our family business is our family business.” Sure. Until your family business is defrauding the taxpayer, DOGE has already fixed the problem and promised to claw back as much as possible. Does anyone suppose she’ll recover from this?
- Explain to me the difference between a corn dog and beef Wellington.
More about curiosity than anything else, I’ve been digging through the many paragraphs written about the ascendancy of the new Pope…. and finding very little of substance. What little I can find suggests that the new Pontiff is as liberal as the old one. So a bit of disappointment right at the off.
It strikes me that the mainstream media’s analysts in many cases, have a bit of an over-reliance on the phrase “stand up to Donald Trump”…. (Particularly from the British press, from what I’m seeing so far… which in turn strikes me as an unattractive bias…. which I suppose given what we know about the mainstream media, should surprise nobody.
Bottom line we’re not going to get a real sense of who this guy is…. at least not from these initial reports from the MSM. I guess we’ll have to ait for things to unfold in time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mIxZCIskzE
Addendum; from the comments over at Glenn’s place:
“The new pope is on record being pro-immigrants, anti-LGBT, and anti-abortion. Of course the NYT etc. are now having headlines how he “doubts Trump’s immigration policy” (and not a word about his doubts about LBGT+-=QWERTY-M13, surprise surprise). So is he left or right? Conservative or liberal? So far, at least, it seems the simplest explanation to all of this is that he is, how do you say it… Catholic?! Well, that’s a change from the last guy.”
I passed this along because Glenn’s commenter raises an important point, albeit indirectly:
There is a danger in taking at face value, any analysis of anything from the mainstream media, but particularly when we start talking about matters of faith.
The MSM has a long history of bending reality to the leftist’s political agenda, and it is foolish to ignore that history when discussing the thought processes of the new Pope.
Unfortunately, the mainstream media is, to the largest of degrees, the only thing we’ve got to go with in terms of analysis.
Now, the mainstream media never misses an opportunity to raise negative points about Donald Trump, Which,of course means that the new Pope now gets saddled with the mainstream media’s self serving complaints about Donald Trump’s immigration policies, which may or may not actually mesh with the views of Pope Leo.
We have all seen popes come and go and each time we have seen that the mainstream media in its analysis of the views of each pontiff has been less than precise.
I suppose we’re just going to have to sit back and watch the proverbial Nickelodeon to see what develops.
Hmmm.
- Word has reached me here that the CEO of IKEA was just elected Prime Minister of Sweden. The first thing he’ll do is to assemble his cabinet. Speculation is that there will be a couple extra screws in the bag when he’s done with that.
- Is reading maps backward, spam?
- Funny how one moment, they’re talking about moving IPhone production to India, and the very next day, India is suddenly at war with Pakistan.
- If you you can’t make the payments for your apparently worthless degree, why on earth should the rest of us, who are presumably making less than you are, make them for you?
- The suspected terrorist who planned to bomb Lady Gaga’s concert in Rio and livestream the execution of children was deported from the U.S. just last month. This is one of those situation where the setup is the punchline.
- Let’s see if I’ve got this right: The same folks who want to block out the sun to supposedly control Global Warming, are also saying solar power is the way of the future? Does not compute.
- So, white smoke from the chimney indicates that brisket is back on the board at Buccees.
Some passing thoughts:
- There’s a major difference between wanting to be in America, and actually being an American.
- If you don’t understand the difference between a man and a woman and belive in spite of all evidence that men can be pregnant, you’re likely not going to have a clue about international tariff policy, either.
- Irony: The only folks who are now afraid of Covid are the ones who just “vaccinated” repeatedly. And with good reason. New studies suggest that those exposed to the jab, have a life expectancy some 37% lower.
- If there is one thing that Donald Trump has taught us, it’s that if you cannot be manipulated, you will be hated by manipulators.
- If we allow government to decide what “truth” is, truth will be whatever the government wants you to believe, regardless of the actual facts. Covid should have shown us that much.
- No, Donald trump shouldn’t be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Why? Consider two other nominees: Aldolph Hitler, and Barack Obama. Don’t cheapen Trump’s legacy with that damned prize.
- Interesting how Hunter Biden isn’t on any executive boards anymore, huh?
- There are a large number of folks excited by the prospect of Kamala Harris running for President again…. and surprisingly enough, a few of them are Democrats.
“I love when people call Trump Stupid..
You mean the multi-billionaire who kicked every Democrats butt, buried 16 career Republican politicians, and continues to make fools out of once reputable news organizations ..
You mean the guy who won the presidency?
You mean the guy with the super model wife?
You mean the guy whose words alone put a massive slow down on illegal border crossings?
You mean the guy whose mere presence made the stock market smash its previous records?
You mean the guy who created 1 million jobs in his first 7 months in office?
Are you sure you even know what it is you’re resisting?
Are you sure you back a party that enables the decimation of every core principal of Christianity?
Are you sure you back a party that voted 100% against the abolition of slavery?
Are you sure you really take a politician like Maxine Waters seriously?
Are you sure you don’t see anything wrong with someone who has a 40 yr career as a public servant living in a $4.5 mansion representing a district she doesn’t even live in?
Are you sure you see nothing wrong or peculiar about Hillary Clinton a woman being involved in politics for the last 30 yrs having a net worth of $240 million?
Are you sure you’re not just basing your opinion on hatred spewed by a crooked paid for media platform?
Could you even tell me 5 things the Democratic Party has done to improve your day to day prosperity as a hard working American citizen?
Probably not..
Do you realize the debacle you are sending your children into once they become adults by continuing to support a political party that has done nothing for the poor except kept them poor, gave them free abortions, and a few hundred a month to keep food in their fridge?
The prosperity and safety of its citizens is job one of your government.
Get with the program.
Everyone else has horribly failed you!
Smarten up and take a position for the sake of your children.
I promise you a country full of illegal immigrants, abortions, $15 an hour jobs, and non-gender specific people aren’t gonna make your country and life any more prosperous.
Rosie, Madonna, Katy Perry, and Robert Deniro are not just like you. They don’t have to live through the real world day to day disparity of an average American.
Men don’t hate women, white people don’t hate black people, and Donald Trump is not a racist.
Stop allowing yourself to be brainwashed by a party that has continuously failed you.
Be about your prosperity, your safety, your children, and an America First mindset.
Dump these crooked politicians that have stunted your growth.
Dump these crooked politicians that have stunted your children’s growth.
Toughen up, take a stand, and act like a proud American.
See the spirit of Trump supporting and freedom loving Americans and just imagine where we could be as a country if everyone had the same priorities”
For all the screaming from the left about how Trump’s support is disappearing, the facts are a little bit different. Kevin Downey:
A Pew poll found a whopping 83% of Americans support deporting “all” or ” some” of the 10 million bundles of diversity Joe Biden allowed into our nation.Of those who want “some” of our replacements sent to the cornfield, 97% approved of deporting illegal immigrants who commit violent crimes, like the newest hero of the Democrats, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a known member of MS-13, who his wife claims has beaten her, and even bragged he could kill her and get away with it.
Clearly, there’s a reason they don’t want you to know this or they’d have mentioned it themselves.
1) it has always been; if you want federal money, you play by federal rules. It doesn’t matter if you’re talking about roads, schools, welfare, housing assistance, etc…. if you want federal dollars you play by federal rules and if the federal government says stop teaching DEI, or that boys can be girls or give birth or any other nonsense, then you stop teaching that and you’ll get the monies. Harvard can continue teaching leftist nonsense all they want, they just won’t get federal monies. If you want monies for the roads, and the federal government says that you need a speed limit of 70 and turns at x° and that exits must match milage, etc then you do that or you don’t get federal monies. It’s not that hard of a concept.
2) Visa holders are guests of the country they are in. If the federal government says that the guest is not behaving in manners conducive to the interests of the country, then the government can remove your visa and once your visa is removed then you no longer have the right to continue to live in said country. Not a difficult concept either. It’s the exact same thing that if you invite someone into YOUR house, you have the right to kick someone out of your house if they are not acting in accordance with YOUR wishes.
3) these are not constitutional attacks, despite what the MSM tells you. These are enforcement of the constitution
Attached is the criminal complaint signed by a federal judge that authorizes her arrest.
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1 Admin warrants are for ICE and CBP. They authorize the legal arrest of the alleged criminal (in public locations such as stated in the criminal affidavit against Dugan) to be brought before an immigration judge. They are legal arrest warrants, she interfered with the arrest.
2 The judges signature on the complaint converts the agent’s affidavit into an official charging document and authorizes law -enforcement officers nationwide to seize the defendant
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A federal judge found probable cause to arrest Dugan for breaking federal law, otherwise the judge would not have signed the complaint.
* The Same Crowd That Doesn’t Call A Fetus A Baby Somehow Believes A Man In Heels Is A Woman!
* The same people who claim that JFK Jr is anti-science, are the ones who trusted Anthony Fauci.
* Amazing… After so many years of investigations, not a one of the accusers of Donald Trump have committed suicide. Kind of makes you wonder, doesn’t it?
I’m not Catholic but frankly I had my own problems with Francis, which I had mentioned more than once in these spaces.
Thing is as Gibson suggests, I’m not the final arbiter of those matters, nor is anyone in the church, Catholic or otherwise, or out of the church for that matter.
However, Gibson is also correct in what should be sought after in the next leader of the Catholic Church. Here is hoping, and praying.
Addendum:
These seems confusion on my comments, here. so let me expand a little. I will address herein, the secular portion of my concerns.
Do we see anything good on the horizon from any other source? Is the world to turn to Islam for that good? Atheism? Any of the Pantheistic philosophies? I submit to you that none of these could have or would have allowed for an America to be created, nor can they support it.
“Bloodbath” at DOJ Civil Rights Division as Harmeet Dhillon cleans house — NBC News
-Career officials are melting down.
The Trump administration has forced out a majority of career managers and implemented new priorities.
-More than a dozen senior lawyers have been reassigned.
-Some have resigned in frustration after being moved to “less desirable roles unrelated to their expertise.”
-The division is now charged with pursuing priorities laid out in a series of Trump’s executive orders, including “Keeping Men out of Women’s Sports” and “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling.”
-Dhillon’s memo outlines new priorities, including “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism,” “Restoring Merit Based Opportunity” and “Designating English as the Official Language of the United States.”
-The “Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias” taskl force will be a focus. “The Biden administration engaged in an egregious pattern of targeting peaceful Christians while ignoring violent, anti-Christian offenses,” Pam Bondi said at a meeting of the new task force.
Wonderful news, all of it.
