Scott Jennings writes:
“Inflation is transitory. Afghanistan is a success.
The border is secure.
Robert Hur is a liar.
The videos are cheap fakes.
Biden has a cold.
He’ll never drop out.
Oh, I’ll never pardon Hunter.”
And here’s the thing, if I’m right in what I said this morning about the majority of the people being pardoned by Biden being chosen not by Biden but by his surrogates, then we still have a problem going forward even after Biden is out of the White House.
Watch the video and then I’ll have something to add.
Okay, now that you’ve seen the vid and heard what Dennis had to say, I have one thing to add.
Postulate the Middle East without Israel. Let’s Make Believe for just a moment that Israel does not exist. Does anyone seriously believe that the region would be peaceful?
The fact of the matter is that the problem has always been the cultural influence of Islam.
It should come as no surprise that among the nearly 1,500 individuals
whose sentences Biden commuted last week were at least three Democratic
politicians and several public officials, including a disgraced former
judge infamous for orchestrating a scheme that sent thousands of
children to jail in exchange for kickbacks, according to a report by The Daily Caller.
To begin with, I am completely unconvinced that Biden has the mental capacity to be creating such a list of people. Indeed, what we have seen of his mental decline in public begs the question, did he even know what he was signing.
One is reminded of Henry Blake and Radar O’Reilly
“Sign this, sir.*
” What is this I’m signing, Radar?”
“Oh, you’re not supposed to know sir. Top secret.”
All of which translates to the idea that the list of people who got the get out of jail free card, were on lists created by by his fellow Democrats, within the Democrat establishment.
Such is the legacy of Joe Biden, but more, this is today’s Democrat party. It is situation that needs to be investigated by congressional oversight, and seriously considered at the next election.
And by the way, this is not unprecedented. I would urge you to, in the search engine of your choice, do a little investigation into “operation wetback”.
That’s a good thing to see, but what we really need to see, and I emphasize the word need, is jail time being passed out to the participants. Including, and especially, the people directing that operation.
Meanwhile, hey Steve, Welcome to the party pal.
This guy only posts alerts and many folks don’t think he’s credible. But I thought it was important to share. Scary if true. I haven’t verified anything to get it out quickly.
Well, that’s interesting. But I am unconvinced that this is a major concern at this point.
First, as Linda indicates the guy is something of an alarmist, and always has been. I’ve never posted anything on this blog from this guy before, and I expect it’ll be the last time. I also expect he’s simply trying to generate traffic on his channel. I find it difficult to take him seriously…. But let’s go with what we have for the sake of discussion.
Most of you know that I’m an amateur radio operator and have been for years. The technology to send messages via “waterfall” have been part of amateur radio for a long time, a couple of years at least. I can send that kind of message myself. It’s not hard at all, nor is it complex these days. Sending such messages a couple of years ago was something of a fad. Birthday greetings, call signs, things like that. All legal,
As little as 20 years ago it would have been difficult to send, much less receive, (20 years ago very very few radios had waterfall displays) but with modern radios and computer control, no big deal.
Indeed, today, there’s only a couple of zillion transmitters that are capable of transmitting on those Russian frequencies, with only slight alteration.
Where the scenario this guy is pitching falls down, however, is where in the blazes would he get information about large amounts of encrypted data being sent to US commanders in the field?
First of all, the usual circuit involves VHF and UHF to satellites, very low power, very high speed, encrypted, and sent and received with very directional antennas. These are not likely to be able to be monitored in the manner he’s suggesting, encrypted or no.
Secondly, even in the (rather unlikely) event that the signals from the Pentagon through satellites to commanders in the field could be received by people other than the intended targets, it’s pure speculation to suggest that the data being sent to commanders in the field at this point is in response to the message he shows us. The messages are encrypted as he says so how would he know what was in them? Fact is, he doesn’t.
That aside, there are other questions, too.
For example, if it’s the Russians targeting the Ukrainians or the Ukrainians targeting the Russians why would the message be in English?
My expectation is that with the length of time to generate the signal we see in the video, our military would have plenty of time to triangulate it. They know pretty well already, where it came from.
Was the message generated, or sanctioned by either government? I have my doubts.
Frankly the only thing that gives me pause about any of this, is the current state of the White House. Consider, that any of the bad actors, if they really intended on making some kind of a major move, China, Russia, Iran etc, they would make it before January 20th. I mean, can you possibly imagine a White House more ill-prepared for such doing, than the one we have for the next month?
That said, I have my doubts that’s what this is. The most likely scenario to my mind, my awis some Ukrainian individual trying to tweak the Russian brass a little. There are many Ukrainian amateurs who have had the capability of sending such messages. We’ve seen it before.
The second most likely is some third party who isn’t even involved in that area sticking their nose in.
Either way, the original message, the subject of the video, most likely did not come with the sanction of any government.
All that said, I will reiterate that we should not underestimate the importance of the fact that the message was sent in English not in Russian not a Ukrainian and not in say, Chinese. I regard the message as a deliberate attempt to create a reaction on the part of the West. The US, Great Britain and so on.
I’m unable to speculate further without more data, which does not seem to me likely in coming.
“Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f–k things up.”
It’s to the point now where the Joe Biden Presidential library might never be built. Is somebody going to pay a million dollars for the privilege of hearing him Mumble through a less than coherent speech?
He certainly not going to get any money from the party, which now finds itself millions of dollars in debt as a result of Kamala Harris, the Obama choice for Biden’s replacement, blowing through a record breaking billion dollars and then going even beyond that, to leave the party of financial shambles. So, no money from there.
The Democrat donor class, frustrated with how things have gone have also tightened the purse strings. So no money from there either.
Short version, the party is dead broke, and it’s prospects of a fast financial recovery are nonexistent.
As a result of all of this, I would suggest that the days of Obama holding the reins of the party are over.
Thing is, who is it ready to stand forward to replace him? At the moment, the answer is nobody. So the result of the one two punch of 4 years of what can only be called a failed administration, and all of the extreme left nonsense surrounding it have left the party in disarray.
So what’s left for them now? Not much, really. Even with the true believers, there is a realization beginning to happen. The understanding is starting to form that Trump’s Landslide occurred with the help of a goodly number of previously Democrat voters. The understanding that so much of what the extreme left has always been promulgating as virtues, we’re actually liabilities. The recognition that their problems did not involve not screaming “Trump as Hitler” loud enough.
Solutions to problems required that the problem itself be properly identified. That’s pretty basic. The problems for the Democrat party started back in 2016 which was about the time they started allowing the crazies to take over. That bubble kept growing until election day 2024 when it finally popped. The crazies, of course, will never get the message that was sent by the millions of Democratic party voters who crossed the line and voted for Trump.
It’s the party is to survive at all, they’re going to have to get the idea that there is a reason why so many rank and file Democrats decided that Trump, who the Democrat leadership deemed so inferior, was in fact a better deal for this country and its people.
The open question at this point is whether or not they will have the courage and the integrity to look in the mirror so the answer to the question of who is to blame for all of this.
I doubt it.
After watching this vid from Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, is a rare event where he got something right and not nearly politically correct, I begin to believe that anything is possible.
I am driven by these events and these comments to ask if the shooting and the left at their reaction to that shooting ….celebration instead of condemnation…. is a tacit admission that Obamacare is an abject failure?
I have to further wonder if the shooting of leftist politicians will soon follow? You know, the ones that were pushing Obamacare to begin with.
I suggest that if not, the pretext for the shooting is well off base to begin with even from a purely logical standpoint, and certainly from a moral standpoint.
Anyone with a couple of brain cells to rub together would look at the situation and recognize that this killing has done the liberal agenda no favors. Absent supportive reaction from the usual suspects, it would have been regarded as a lone wolf, and independent crazy, and that would have been the end of it.
However, the celebratory reaction from the left on social media is indicative of just how whack job the left has gotten, and if you think the American voter, the American people don’t understand that, try again.
This and the left’s reaction to it will I believe cause a gag reflex in the American voter. They will remember this in the next several elections.
Let’s be perfectly clear, here… The problems that we face with a healthcare system today are a direct result of the influence and interference of government in the healthcare process.
If we properly identify the source of the problem, does that mean that politicians are going to be receiving bullets for Christmas?
Say what you will, but not only was both the act of the killing immoral, but so too was the celebratory reaction. But more, when you properly identify the source of the problem, which is government, The killing doesn’t even make any logical sense, much less moral sense.
As a side note, this case at least in part is going to fall under the jurisdiction of SDNY. It’ll be interesting to see how that plays out.
Addendum;Per Yahoo News:
In one social media post, he [The CEO killer] said he used to get “bummed out” in maths class because “all the low hanging fruit has been solved before I was born”.
He added that he was now grateful for his “21st century education” and he would focus on issues including “evolutionary psychology, primitive neuroscience, and information networks”.
After becoming valedictorian of his 2016 high school class at Gilman School in Baltimore, which costs around $40,000 a year, Mr Mangione went on to study computer science at the University of Pennsylvania, one of the most prestigious universities in America.
He then went on to work as a data engineer for TrueCar living in California and later Honolulu, Hawaii, according to his LinkedIn.
According to his Goodreads account Mr Mangione was sympathetic towards Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber) writing:
“He was a violent individual – rightfully imprisoned – who maimed innocent people. While these actions tend to be characterised as those of a crazy luddite, however, they are more accurately seen as those of an extreme political revolutionary.”
….Mr Mangione went on to share an online take he said was “interesting” which read: “When all other forms of communication fail, violence is necessary to survive. You may not like his methods, but to see things from his perspective, it’s not terrorism, it’s war and revolution.”
Source:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/luigi-mangione-murder-suspect-thought-202359160.html
If you think this is a a one-off, a unique situation, it most certainly is not.
I am now seeing reports that BLM co-founder Hawk Newsome Isa calling for “Black vigilantes” to hunt down and kill White New Yorkers after the Daniel Penny acquittal. (Apparently he was unaware that there were a number of black people on that jury.)
This is the nature of the hive mind.
Somewhere, David L is smiling. He wrote on this topic often enough, here.
Crystal Mangum, the woman who falsely accused three Duke men’s lacrosse players of rape in 2006, admitted she lied about the allegations and asked for David Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann’s forgiveness.
Speaking personally, I would be waiting for apologies from the people that jumped on this woman’s politically correct and totally wrong bandwagon back in the day.
Flashback and added info
So rule number one if you want things to improve is Get government out of the way.
Word from Ed Driscoll this morning, that Syria’s Assad is now gone into hiding…. his family’s dictatorship has now ended.
Well, the first obviousness that pops up here is that nature abhors a vacuum. That’s already been mentioned and I doubt it will be the last time, even for this thread.
Look; No question that Assad was bad…(or is, if you’d like to assume that he’s still breathing) … but that does not equate to an improvement of the situation. There’s no question that the many years of civil war there have been problematic at least… but the guy who led the opposition, one Abu Mohammed al-Golani: is a former Al-Quieda chief. I doubt his taking over Syria is a positive development, for the whole world and particularly for the people of Syria and the surrounding countries.At best, this will be “meet the new boss, same as the old boss”…. but I have my doubts it will be even THAT good.
In what may be the only positive event surrounding this, I see that Israel, following the removal of Assad, has moved to take Mt Hermon, which, IIRC, gives them a decided advantage in their battles with Hezbollah. It also gives them a strategic advantage in protecting their border with Syria now that Syrian troops have abandoned their posts. One wonders if the Former Al-Quieda leader will try to attack Israel since AQ has a clear shot at the border.
But with that new situation for Israel, it strikes me as unlikely that Iran actually WANTED to overthrow Assad. They would never give Israel a tactical advantage, even if it worked in Iran’s favor, too. Their withdrawal was simple recognition that they couldn’t keep the defense of Assad much longer.
I also wonder what efforts Iran is making to establish a relationship with the new Junta.
Another point; I doubt it’s an accident that after so many years of standoff fighting, that the takeover happens mere weeks before the changing of the government here in the states. There’s a hand involved here that we’re not seeing, yet. We’ve been commenting for weeks that Biden looks to be leaving a number of traps for Trump, and it strikes me as likely this is but one more such. So, what did the Biden gang know, and what did they do about it?
Final point; The Iranian forces that were assigned to Assad’s security details have all disappeared. I wouldn’t put it past the Iranians to have deliberately withdrawn their support, to their own eventual advantage.
It interests me that the same folks who tried to transform the US Military into a haven for leftist non-thought…(“transgender rights”, “racial equality equity”, abortion advocacy and Global warming, Global cooling, climate change and Jew hatred, have unanimously decided that Pete Hegseth dangerous…. and will be a serious issue if he leads that military, simply because he’s a Christian. And on that subject, these same folks defended and promoted both Nancy Pelosi and Kamala Harris, are all worried about the idea that Hegseth used to drink a lot. What is happening here also happened to Justices Thomas and Kavenaugh, in case you don’t remember. Make up stuff… and keep spearding that BS in the hopes that it sticks. (Rather like “Russia, Russia,Russia’, eh?)
The biggest problem with his confirmation at this point is the RINOs in the Senate… Among them:
Senator Susan Collins
Senator Lisa Murkowski
Senator John Curtis
Senator Lindsey Graham
Senator Mitch McConnell
Senator John Thune
These are folks with a serious case of butthurt, willing to help the Democrats work against the will of the people. Mostly because they’ve not had a mandate of the people in generations, and at this point the only way they can feel powerful is to thwart those trying to save the country. The above list needs to be removed as soon as possible.
Certainly, that was the idea behind 1958 which was called by some, the international geophysical year, or IGY, which was gently lampooned by Donald Fagan on his nightfly album in both the song “IGY” and ,”New Frontier” .
And speaking of new frontier, that was certainly reflected in the speeches JFK made back in the day.
And then JFK, RFK and MLK all caught a bullet or two.
The disillusion that resulted in large part gave way to the drug induced euphoria of the ’60s, which in turn, gave way to the tragedies attached to that subculture. Then came the race riots, then came Watergate.
It is interesting from a historical perspective to notice that most of the optimism in the ’50s and ’60s seemed to center around technical achievements, most of which seemed to be coming from these United States. Oh, we had German technocracy in automobiles. We had Japanese technocracy in electronics, but even there most of the true advancements seemed to be coming from our industry here in the states. If we believed the optimistic promises that were made, we had every reason to believe that our supremacy in that direction would continue.
But slowly, ever so slowly, and perhaps subconsciously, humanity began to recognize that for all of the technical advancements, both wonderful, and terrible, humanity itself has not improved.
The aforementioned Paul Harvey in his acceptance speech of a Radio and Records award (which by the way is available on YouTube) said, (and I’m paraphrasing here)
” Isn’t it amazing, with noisy depressing news hour after hour, and all of our emphasis on the negative crime inflation, fires, floods, with our persistent preoccupation with negatives, we tend to un-sell ourselves on a way of life which is in fact the envy of the rest of the world.”
And those negative messages keep getting repeated, and repeated, and repeated.
As Harvey put it,”And that repetition, is effective. I tell you, repetition is effective. I tell you repetition is effective.”
Anyone who has been in the radio or TV business will tell you, it’s very true, that repetition is the soul of advertising.
In that speech, Harvey gave us an indication of this. He points out that years ago a game show consistent was asked by Bob Barker “name two brothers who enabled people to fly.
That contestant without a moment’s hesitation blurted out ” Ernest and Julio”. ( These were California winemakers, Ernest and Julio Gallo. We haven’t seen any of their advertising for years, so I suppose only those who lived through the 50s 60s and seventies will recognize the names. They are still in business but they haven’t been doing much advertising for a number of years now. )
Of course the proper answer to the question was the Wright brothers, but years of repetitive conditioning in the form of advertising forced the contestant to answer with the names that she had been hammered with for decades.
With that phenomena in mind, I’m going to dare to propose to you:
* Over 100 years of frantic “news” about global warming, global cooling, climate change I have been nothing more than an advertising campaign.
* The show trial called the “January 6th committee”, was an advertising campaign.
* The recently abandoned multiple prosecutions against Donald Trump, were an advertising campaign.
* Insistence on allowing drag queens to read to children, is an advertising campaign.
* The curriculum in our places of higher education have to a large extent become an advertising campaign, spreading negatives about ourselves, which get instilled in the young minds full of mush who have never experienced life in the world. The dissolutionment instilled by those institutions is further reinforced once those former students get out into the real world and recognize that the supposed education they were given… And paid large dollars for… is worse than useless.
And of course, as Joe Goebels indicated, repeat a lie often enough, and it becomes the truth.
Those are just a few examples, of course, of a larger picture. But notice that in each case negativity about traditional and pro-american life in America is injected repeatedly, with constant negativity in the form of virtue signaling.
There’s another indication of this of course, involving the word misinformation. The efforts of some trying to limit free speech, limit opposing the left, is the strongest indication you’re ever going to find that the LIE is losing its power, that the facts are overwhelming the propaganda.
The most recent election is, I believe, another solid indication that a large number of people are catching on to the contents and results of this playbook, if only subconsciously.
This is particularly true when you look at the stock market and at consumer confidence poll data, immediately following the landslide victory of Donald Trump.
Oh, I know, but say what you will about the stock market… it is if nothing else, a gauge of confidence in the future. If you’re convinced by all the negative advertising that you’re exposed to on a daily basis over a period of decades that the whole damn world is falling apart, and your future is looking bleak, you’re not nearly as likely to invest in that future, much less identify with it. Which I believe is precisely the effect that the “advertisers” want.
It will be interesting to see how much of that preconditioning we as a people will be able to overcome in the next several years. But I believe it’s vital that we do.
