We have arrived at a point where the Babylon Bee is the go tp source for relief from Washington's imbeciles.. Mad Magazine needs to step up their game.
Mad Magazine lost it years ago...there was a retrospective of the magazine at the Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA this past summer....it went from being non-partisan and funny to flacking for liberals over 30 years ago....you can see the pivot in the exhibit....which is too bad - as kids we used to fight over who was going to read it first.....
BTW, I have quite a few Rockwell Saturday Evening Post posters: they are copies of that week's post cover, enlarged to 22' x 28", and some from the 1930s. Unlike today's arrogant "artistes", Rockwell was an incredibly skilled but modest man, who described himself as a mere "illustrator".
10/23/24: "Halperin says America will likely know who the next president is before Election Day based on early voting trends, adding that official election results should be known on election night."
We disagree with Mr Halperin.
(Cordially. Note his Phoenix-like rise from the ashes. Someday we'll find out the truth why his fellow Democrats turned on him so viciously.)
November 8th --- three days after the election --- is when the hysterics end. Badly, for "Skippy" Walz and "Sippy" Harris.
Journalists in the 1840s were startled to discover that many of Napoleon's mistresses were now living from franc to franc. One was poignantly storing and retrieving umbrellas in a railroad lost-and-found office.
In the same vein of thought, where will Ms Harris be in 2038?
With all this early reporting of a Republican upsurge it's almost feels like the MSM wants us to stay home on election day so they would have an easier time counting enough votes for the Bimbo. They wouldn't do that, would they?
I think it's too late to put that genie back in the bottle. We free citizens are running to those polling places like a bunch of squirrels preparing for winter!
YES, WE ARE, COOKIE!!! I HAVE WITNESSED THIS, AND IT IS BEAUTIFUL AND AMAZING! WE THE PEOPLE WILL WIN THIS ELECTION WITH OUR LOVED HERO, PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP!
I have several Dead Uncles! Thanks for that excellent idea! I had such a wonderful and inspiring time when I voted, I would gladly enjoy that scene again.... packed with Happy Americans, Celebrating our Precious Rights living in a Constitutional Republic! Hundreds of people happy, laughing and making plans for lunch after voting....with the strangers around them, brought together by being TRUMP HONOREES!
LOGE YOU, REDDOG! WE REMEMBER EVERY THING, BUT SHOVE A GOOD BIT OF IT TO THE DUSTBIN PART OF OUR BRAIN, WHEREWE FILE ALL INFO ON MORONS AND TRAITORS....
10/23/24: "Halperin says America will likely know who the next president is before Election Day based on early voting trends, adding that official election results should be known on election night."
We disagree with Mr Halperin.
(Cordially. Note his Phoenix-like rise from the ashes. Someday we'll find out the truth why his fellow Democrats turned on him so viciously.)
November 8th --- three days after the election --- is when the hysterics end. Badly, for "Skippy" Walz and "Sippy" Harris.
Journalists in the 1840s were startled to discover that many of Napoleon's mistresses were now living from franc to franc. One was poignantly storing and retrieving umbrellas in a railroad lost-and-found office.
In the same vein of thought, where will Ms Harris be in 2038?
WELL, WE ARE NOT STAYING HOME, ON VOTING DAY OR ANY OTHER DAY. WE ARE OUT AMONG OUR PEOPLE ENJOYING LIFE AND THE BLESSING OF LIVING IN A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC. YOU DEMS SHOULD LOOK THAT UP... GET A FRIEND OR NEIGHBOR WHO CAN READ IT FOR YOU. NOT TO BE INSULTING, BUT WHEN YOU ACT AS IF YOU ARE A COMPLETE MORON, WE START BELIEVEING THAT YOU REALLY ARE.
Thank you, TeaPartyGal, for so many wise statements and for defending my use of caps. I do not understand why any School Teacher of English to cause their students to feel threatened by the use of a large font in any writing project. lol
You're welcome, Gayle, and I truly enjoyed reading your wonderful account of that day you voted and all the Trump supporters and the great atmosphere. You described it well and I could practically picture being there myself!
I am immeasurably thankful that Trump picked Vance as VP. He is very smart and very self reliant and does not depend on people he doesn’t know for his self confidence. He learned that you can’t blame your parents for things you do after you are 18 and he made a substantial life for himself. Recovered children of addicts have earned their peace of mind and know what is really important.
On behalf of the country - I hope he has the real commitment to fundamental principles of freedom that he demonstrates now so that he can aggressively defend them during Trump’s term and then his own. The totalitarians and globalists are right now planning the attack on him specifically half way through Trump’s term. The bureaucrats don’t plan to cooperate with any Trump administration and there will be fighting every damned day.
That’s really hard to execute. I’d rather the Eliminate Agencies and zero budget them approach. Spending has to stop and I won’t believe it until buildings in DC are sold and cabinet positions and their rent seeking money laundering staffs eliminated. Figuratively speaking but actually fired.
I agree with you. There is little appetite in the GOP today for hard choices other than when preaching to the rest of us. The budget needs to be cut significantly over ten years and whole agencies eliminated or drastically cut and merged with others for economy of efforts. I would love to have that job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you give them ten years it will not happen. Declare a national emergency and start locking buildings down -- everybody leave and find something useful to do.
I AM NOT CONCERNED ABOUT TRUMP BEING ABLE TO HANDLE ALL OF THE JUNK COMING DOWN ON US. HE WILL BE LIKE A WHIRLING DERVISH IN DEALING WITH THE SKUNKS THAT HAVE BEEN SMELLING UP OUR LIVES.
Keep in mind that 1300 negligent employees of the VA found culpable of harming vets and subsequently fired during Trump#1 were in the past week reinstated - with back pay and benefits. Also remember Struck (an employee of the executive branch) reinstated after demonstrated malfeasance. The entrenched have designed in extreme difficulty to dislodge any of their own. There are Federal judges (like the one who even now is keeping Bannon in jail despite time off for good behaviour) who should be impeached but cannot be. The list of the corrupt is long.
Absolutely agree. I know there was great pressure on him to pick a woman but in this instance, I believe he did the right thing. Vance is so good at answering questions and speaking I sometimes find him almost............almost too slick and prepared. I have watched him field really hard questions from folks and he is just flawless in his responses. Amazing guy and great choice by Trump. Maybe he has learned something about hiring after being out of office for four years.
10/23/24: "Halperin says America will likely know who the next president is before Election Day based on early voting trends, adding that official election results should be known on election night."
We disagree with Mr Halperin.
(Cordially. Note his Phoenix-like rise from the ashes. Someday we'll find out the truth why his fellow Democrats turned on him so viciously.)
November 8th --- three days after the election --- is when the hysterics end. Badly, for "Skippy" Walz and "Sippy" Harris.
Journalists in the 1840s were startled to discover that many of Napoleon's mistresses were now living from franc to franc. One was poignantly storing and retrieving umbrellas in a railroad lost-and-found office.
In the same vein of thought, where will Ms Harris be in 2038?
“Tax experts reject the notion that tariff revenue could offset the losses incurred by eliminating income taxes.”
Don't trust this. I'm a tax expert and they didn't consult me. Every loon that comments on this fails to understand that, in the present century, the purpose of tariffs is not to raise revenue. They correctly point out that any revenue that they do raise comes out of domestic consumers' pockets, but they refuse to learn that the real purpose is negotiate better trade deals with countries that are playing us for fools, and profiting thereby.
Blanket tariffs are bad. Targeted tariffs are good. I generalize, but this is what Trump is so good at orchestrating. Kamala couldn't negotiate herself out of a bag of Doritos.
Tariffs are a great tool when applied selectively on a case-by-case basis to achieve a specific result from a country. It is doubly so when dealing with totalitarian countries like China.
KOMMIE K IS A BAG OF DORITOS SOMETIMES JUST THE EMPTY BAG. SHE DOES NOT KNOW ENOUGH WORDS TO FILL ONE SINGLE SENTENCE. ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS LET HER KEEP TALKING.... SHE IS THAT PATHETICALLY IGNORANT....AND STUPID.
Every manufacturer in the world needs access to the world’s ‘Hugest’ market for goods….EU economy is choking on massively expensive inflated energy costs, so their economies will continue to lose any discretionary income. Tariffs to access the US market, and reciprocate with US made goods w/b mandatory. To pay the duties, have to eat their cost buy depreciating their currency to be competitive. Wilbur Ross, Kornheiser & Navarro proved Trump’s strategy was a winner for US and our workers. Congress was PO’d since they shipped our factories to China & Viet Nam…
I agree. In my days as a tax expert, no one - not even my CFO bosses - really wanted to know anything at all about how taxes work unless it affected EPS . Tariffs do not = taxes. Your loons really just don’t like others using tools to negotiate something they are accustomed to manipulating themselves. Your loons are happy to make their own deals, as long as they benefit. Your loons are mostly malevolent rent seekers.
Hence the need for tariffs in many cases to bring balance. When you give away all your manufacturing to other countries, this is what you get in return.
We had KitchenAid appliances in the 80s….called Maytag every decade to get them fixed. Eventually replaced them, then called the repairman every other year….finally dawned on me, and confirmed by friends, that the Private Equity vampires hollowed out the former-sturdy guts, and sold us a pretty-looking piece of junk. So to buy a sturdy Appliance it is probably down to a few German brands. With right Trumpian incentives, it would behoove them to relocate manufacturing hier…
Thing is the “October Surprise”; the Dems are beyond desperate - Kamala’s Komic Kampaign Katastrophe Kontinues - but think they will pull something & - dovetailing with Biden who just made a comment on camera about “locking up” Trump - “we have to lock him up” - the sentencing in the Chutkan trial is coming up. Chutkan is a compromised judge; his daughter has raised millions for the Dems which begs the question why was he not forced to recuse himself? But I digress; the Dems are so desperate what’s to stop them from locking him up? IMHO they’re looking to spark a violent reaction in Trump’s supporters (aka “the Bubba Effect”) so they can bring the hammer down in another Reichstag Fire moment (Jan 6 was the first). SecDef Austin just issued that DOD directive stating the military could be called in to quell “domestic disturbances”. That seems like an end run around the Posse Comitatus Act, that which forbids the use of Federal troops for law enforcement.
I would put nothing past these people; they’re minions of Satan himself as well as being the absolute scum of the earth.
I'm sorry to say this, but you got Trump's judges mixed up -- although that should not be surprising; after all, there are so many. Chutkan -- pronounced Sh-tcan -- is a wild-eyed woman judge, so "his daughter" is misplaced, and belongs with the equally wild-eyed judge Merchan, a south American who is severely deficient in scruples, legal or otherwise. And he is the one with the daughter who has made millions by running campaigns for Democrats.
The only thing that locking him up at this point would do is create a landslide for him. The only question is - are the demonicrats smart enough to realize this?
Know who I ultimately blame for this? Abe Lincoln. The trash tried to take themselves out in 1861 & because of tariffs on southern ports (among other economic issues) he sent the Federal Army down into the south to force them back into the Union @ the point of a bayonet.
Slavery was the defining issue. Tariffs were a side issue and the south didn’t leave the Union over tariffs. Only when Lincoln was about to be inaugurated did they leave and he never campaigned on raising tariffs. Like today tariffs are a minor issue. BTW if taxes are reduced and tariffs raise some prices wouldn’t the workers of the country do better? Wouldn’t those European manufacturers who are energy starved build their factories in our right to work States and raise everyone’s standard of living.
Slavery was NOT the defining issue; that’s BS post 1960’s historical revisionism. Back then - outside of the radical abolitionists like John Brown - you couldn’t find a white man who would lay down his life to free the blacks. During General George B. McClellan’s time in command, he worried the army would “lay down until moss grew on their backs” vis-a-vis waging an official “war against slavery.” In Lincoln’s own words, “my primary duty is to save the Union; if I could do it by freeing all the slaves I would do it. If I could save it by freeing none of them I would do it & if I could save it by freeing some & leaving others alone I would also do that.”
The Emancipation Proclamation was a political master stroke issued after the Battle of Antietam (Sep 17, 1862) to preclude Britain & France coming into the war on the side of the south. By this Lincoln reframed the war - both countries had already outlawed slavery - & this Proclamation put them back on their heels & ultimately they declined to get directly involved. Both countries though still supported the south - the British 1853 pattern Enfield Rifled Musket was the standard arm of the Confederate Army, for example & it was heavily imported.
Yes, but "saving the Union" was code for "We see the potential for creating on this continent the mightiest empire ever seen, so we don't want to break it up while we're still working on that."
I hasten to add that I don't think that creating that empire was a bad idea. On the contrary, it has done far more good than bad. But with regard to Lincoln, it was Bismarck who observed, "People never lie so much as before the election, in war, and after the hunt."
IMHO - no. They live in a bubble of unreality & are so convinced DJT is everybody’s favorite Austrian reincarnated they will “burn down the village to save it.”
Yesterday's range outing by Kinsinger and Kunce is another example of how democrats try to assume the identies of "conservatives" without having the slightest idea of what that means. It's akin to democrats attempt to claim "male/masculine" status when democrats are unfamiliar with the reality of such status, never having actually been "men," but only simulacra without substance. So now we have Kunce and Kinsinger using AR platform rifles to shoot steel targets within fifteen yards (obviously on the pistol range). Note Kinsinger has his glasses perched up on his forehead, so perhaps he was more worried about taking out a few hair follicles instead of his eyes. Not only are they within ricochet/splash-back range, they apparently located "reporters" (another variety of larpers hiding their true identies as propagandists) even closer. It is obvious that none of these people know the first thing about guns, shooting or range safety etiquette. My only regret is that the result was merely a flesh wound., but hope springs eternal. Maybe next time aome democrat wants to fool voters into thinking they are "conservative," they might invite Kamala to come along and put a few downrange with her Glock. I'd actually pay money to see that, although I would never attend in person, fearing the potential for carnage.
10/23/24: I would run to the next county (barefoot on Legos!) if I heard that these two were at a range anywhere close to me!
"Halperin says America will likely know who the next president is before Election Day based on early voting trends, adding that official election results should be known on election night."
We disagree with Mr Halperin.
(Cordially. Note his Phoenix-like rise from the ashes. Someday we'll find out the truth why his fellow Democrats turned on him so viciously.)
November 8th --- three days after the election --- is when the hysterics end. Badly, for "Skippy" Walz and "Sippy" Harris.
Journalists in the 1840s were startled to discover that many of Napoleon's mistresses were now living from franc to franc. One was poignantly storing and retrieving umbrellas in a railroad lost-and-found office.
In the same vein of thought, where will Ms Harris be in 2038?
I'm not given to anxiety, but I have to tell you: this election scares me to death. They can't win if they don't cheat, and you know they are going to cheat. And if they think cheating the vote won't be enough, they will go back to the original plan of assassination - not just Trump, but Elon, to whom I now refer as Elonardo da Vinci - as well. Somehow we have to protect these guys; not just their fate, but ours, depend on it.
We know they are going to cheat. They know they are going to cheat. We know that they know they are going to cheat. And They know that we know they are going to cheat. What then? SCOTUS ignores it all because they are intimidated, threatened and blackmailed into submission?
There are downsides to NOT dismissing cases on procedural grounds, too. Expand the courts' authority, and you end up with the kind of political judges they have in Brazil.
Yes, we know. Unlike in 2020 when we were blindsided and didn’t see it coming. I don’t think that they’ll be able to get away with it this time. Especially because Commie-La’s numbers are so bad. As to the SCOTUS, if it comes to it, they will have to act this time. They too have had to suffer the consequences of their cowardice in 2020.
I told my friend after the 2016 recount attempts in Detroit that the Dems would never let that happen again. That they would make the mistake of not flooding the election with make believe ballots. I was proven correct in 2020 but by then my friend believed that 2020 was a fair and honest election.
And eye protection is on his head like a cool pair of shades. If these beta males think they expand their appeal buy showing off with firearms they should at least get a lesson on safe handling.
Want to hear more about how that ‘reporter’ got hit in the arm with a ‘bullet fragment’ from one of those morons…were they trying to shoot open a steel door or cut a doorway through a granite wall? Where was Wayne LaPierre to educate them?
The end may be near. The Harris-Biden campaign is headed to the cellar faster than a slinky on steroids. Every time either one of these clowns opens their mouth, they give clowns a bad name. No one wants anything they have to offer. On the other hand, America is getting to know more and more about Donald Trump every day. And they love what they are learning. He is smart, affable, a guy you can trust around your children. But mostly, he represents America’s core values and you believe in him because he’s NOT a politician.
"Halperin says America will likely know who the next president is before Election Day based on early voting trends, adding that official election results should be known on election night."
We disagree with Mr Halperin.
(Cordially. Note his Phoenix-like rise from the ashes. Someday we'll find out the truth why his fellow Democrats turned on him so viciously.)
November 8th --- three days after the election --- is when the hysterics end. Badly, for "Skippy" Walz and "Sippy" Harris.
Journalists in the 1840s were startled to discover that many of Napoleon's mistresses were now living from franc to franc. One was poignantly storing and retrieving umbrellas in a railroad lost-and-found office.
In the same vein of thought, where will Ms Harris be in 2038?
Democrats always blame the national debt on Republican tax cuts. They don’t understand that allowing the people to keep their money is better than than letting the government waste it. Government has an unlimited budget. And it always exceeds it.
sooo....half the votes are submitted early, we can catch a rocket in the air but STILL the results take longer than ever and we are supposed to believe that no nefarious chicanery is afoot?
do they actually think we're all that stupid or is it they just no longer care what we think because they have the courts, congress, msm and enough of the people on their team to perpetually cheat and win?
even at 76 i would sell out, pack up and get out but where to go? blah!
Even France gets it done (w wrong outcome) in one night. Republican lawyers and Proud Boys better be ready to throw & padlock main breaker panel cutoff on ‘tabulation’ centers before they attempt to bring in fake ballots this time to start the steal…
Freedom is not free, Damn the broken glass, Surbs. ‘The First Amendment was the great “block” in the battle against “disinformation.” If the Democrats win, they can “change ( rewrite ), the First Amendment'. In a similar vein, Hillary Clinton has repeatedly called for greater supervision—that is, censorship—of social media. People who spread “disinformation,” she said, should be “civilly or even in some cases criminally charged.” Forget about the fact that she actually paid for “opposition research” against Donald Trump and then assiduously spread the gigantic disinformation of the Russia Collusion hoax in order to discredit him. In one revealing comment, Clinton acknowledged that the real threat of platforms like X under Elon Musk was that “we”-that is, people who agree with Hillary Clinton- “lose total control.” We can’t have that, now’. Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead, somebody said: 'The only people who could force FJB out, did. ‘Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer,’ one Democratic strategist told DailyMail.com. ‘It would have to be the four of them collectively.’ Fearlessly, they sowed the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind, somebody else said.
I refuse to believe any pollster because as the old saying goes, "Figures lie and liars figure". My gut tells me that Trump will win bigly as we have seen nothing but ineptitude from Kamala and plenty of good news for DJT. Having said that, I remember 2020 when the Big Steal occurred and my gut starts feeling queasy. My big hope is that Trump voters will turn out in droves and make the Steal too high a bar to overcome, because if there is one thing we know for certain, the Dems will try anything to win.
Heard a thoughtful comment yesterday: this is the first presidential election after the COVID migrations. Pollsters do not have a good handle on sunbelt states due to number of people who moved there from NY and CA. Even Colorado could be a surprise.
Seems to be good news all around. (Except for those three slackers who can't count ballots fast enough. Although, PA may have an excuse. law says they can't open absentee/mail-in ballots--which includes the early votes--until sometime on election day and with the volume of early voting....)
We have arrived at a point where the Babylon Bee is the go tp source for relief from Washington's imbeciles.. Mad Magazine needs to step up their game.
The BB may as well be a MSM news outlet. Reads the same.
Not on your lifebouy. When was the last time MSM made you laugh?
WE NEED TO KEEP OUR LAUGHTER TUNED UP. ITS WORTH THE TIME.
Assuming you read the BB, I have trouble believing your opinion is fact-based. BTW, to the best of my knowledge, Mad Magazine no longer exists.
It does still exist
Mad Magazine lost it years ago...there was a retrospective of the magazine at the Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA this past summer....it went from being non-partisan and funny to flacking for liberals over 30 years ago....you can see the pivot in the exhibit....which is too bad - as kids we used to fight over who was going to read it first.....
That explains why I thought it had gone extinct.
BTW, I have quite a few Rockwell Saturday Evening Post posters: they are copies of that week's post cover, enlarged to 22' x 28", and some from the 1930s. Unlike today's arrogant "artistes", Rockwell was an incredibly skilled but modest man, who described himself as a mere "illustrator".
I loved Mad Magazine, especially the folding puzzle - usually a sarcastic result - on the inside back cover.
10/23/24: "Halperin says America will likely know who the next president is before Election Day based on early voting trends, adding that official election results should be known on election night."
We disagree with Mr Halperin.
(Cordially. Note his Phoenix-like rise from the ashes. Someday we'll find out the truth why his fellow Democrats turned on him so viciously.)
November 8th --- three days after the election --- is when the hysterics end. Badly, for "Skippy" Walz and "Sippy" Harris.
Journalists in the 1840s were startled to discover that many of Napoleon's mistresses were now living from franc to franc. One was poignantly storing and retrieving umbrellas in a railroad lost-and-found office.
In the same vein of thought, where will Ms Harris be in 2038?
With all this early reporting of a Republican upsurge it's almost feels like the MSM wants us to stay home on election day so they would have an easier time counting enough votes for the Bimbo. They wouldn't do that, would they?
Bimbo votes should be made with crayons.
LOL!!! AND.... THEY CAN EAT THE CRAYONS AFTER THEY VOTE!
I think it's too late to put that genie back in the bottle. We free citizens are running to those polling places like a bunch of squirrels preparing for winter!
YES, WE ARE, COOKIE!!! I HAVE WITNESSED THIS, AND IT IS BEAUTIFUL AND AMAZING! WE THE PEOPLE WILL WIN THIS ELECTION WITH OUR LOVED HERO, PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP!
Ha... maybe I'll vote early AND on election day!
You must live in Chicago. Don’t forget to vote for your dead uncle!
Correction:
"Don’t forget to vote as your dead uncle!"
I have several Dead Uncles! Thanks for that excellent idea! I had such a wonderful and inspiring time when I voted, I would gladly enjoy that scene again.... packed with Happy Americans, Celebrating our Precious Rights living in a Constitutional Republic! Hundreds of people happy, laughing and making plans for lunch after voting....with the strangers around them, brought together by being TRUMP HONOREES!
Early and often if you’re in Philly
ADORABLE AND PRECIOUS, YOU ARE THE BEST OF THE BEST!
Beware. I worry about Trump being denied victory. Remember there was no red wave in 2022.
ALSO REMEMBER, PRAYERS ARE HEARD AND HAVE GREAT POWER OVER EVIL!!!!
I wish more people remembered that fact.
LOGE YOU, REDDOG! WE REMEMBER EVERY THING, BUT SHOVE A GOOD BIT OF IT TO THE DUSTBIN PART OF OUR BRAIN, WHEREWE FILE ALL INFO ON MORONS AND TRAITORS....
10/23/24: "Halperin says America will likely know who the next president is before Election Day based on early voting trends, adding that official election results should be known on election night."
We disagree with Mr Halperin.
(Cordially. Note his Phoenix-like rise from the ashes. Someday we'll find out the truth why his fellow Democrats turned on him so viciously.)
November 8th --- three days after the election --- is when the hysterics end. Badly, for "Skippy" Walz and "Sippy" Harris.
Journalists in the 1840s were startled to discover that many of Napoleon's mistresses were now living from franc to franc. One was poignantly storing and retrieving umbrellas in a railroad lost-and-found office.
In the same vein of thought, where will Ms Harris be in 2038?
I see the glass half full.
Dems gna stay home.
Many aspects of our normal lives seem to cause them to feel threatened, so Staying At Home may be the best and kindest solution for Dems.
WELL, WE ARE NOT STAYING HOME, ON VOTING DAY OR ANY OTHER DAY. WE ARE OUT AMONG OUR PEOPLE ENJOYING LIFE AND THE BLESSING OF LIVING IN A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC. YOU DEMS SHOULD LOOK THAT UP... GET A FRIEND OR NEIGHBOR WHO CAN READ IT FOR YOU. NOT TO BE INSULTING, BUT WHEN YOU ACT AS IF YOU ARE A COMPLETE MORON, WE START BELIEVEING THAT YOU REALLY ARE.
Don't know about others Gayle, but when it is all caps I just skip over all of them.
Gayle has said in previous posts that she does that because she has a vision issue, to be able to see.
Thank you, TeaPartyGal, for so many wise statements and for defending my use of caps. I do not understand why any School Teacher of English to cause their students to feel threatened by the use of a large font in any writing project. lol
You're welcome, Gayle, and I truly enjoyed reading your wonderful account of that day you voted and all the Trump supporters and the great atmosphere. You described it well and I could practically picture being there myself!
I am immeasurably thankful that Trump picked Vance as VP. He is very smart and very self reliant and does not depend on people he doesn’t know for his self confidence. He learned that you can’t blame your parents for things you do after you are 18 and he made a substantial life for himself. Recovered children of addicts have earned their peace of mind and know what is really important.
On behalf of the country - I hope he has the real commitment to fundamental principles of freedom that he demonstrates now so that he can aggressively defend them during Trump’s term and then his own. The totalitarians and globalists are right now planning the attack on him specifically half way through Trump’s term. The bureaucrats don’t plan to cooperate with any Trump administration and there will be fighting every damned day.
Government Bureaucrats/Apparatchiks?
Don't want to work? Don't want to administer new Government Policy?
You're Fired.
That’s really hard to execute. I’d rather the Eliminate Agencies and zero budget them approach. Spending has to stop and I won’t believe it until buildings in DC are sold and cabinet positions and their rent seeking money laundering staffs eliminated. Figuratively speaking but actually fired.
https://reason.com/2024/10/22/milei-shuts-down-argentinas-tax-agency/
Hah!
I agree with you. There is little appetite in the GOP today for hard choices other than when preaching to the rest of us. The budget needs to be cut significantly over ten years and whole agencies eliminated or drastically cut and merged with others for economy of efforts. I would love to have that job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you give them ten years it will not happen. Declare a national emergency and start locking buildings down -- everybody leave and find something useful to do.
I AM NOT CONCERNED ABOUT TRUMP BEING ABLE TO HANDLE ALL OF THE JUNK COMING DOWN ON US. HE WILL BE LIKE A WHIRLING DERVISH IN DEALING WITH THE SKUNKS THAT HAVE BEEN SMELLING UP OUR LIVES.
Keep in mind that 1300 negligent employees of the VA found culpable of harming vets and subsequently fired during Trump#1 were in the past week reinstated - with back pay and benefits. Also remember Struck (an employee of the executive branch) reinstated after demonstrated malfeasance. The entrenched have designed in extreme difficulty to dislodge any of their own. There are Federal judges (like the one who even now is keeping Bannon in jail despite time off for good behaviour) who should be impeached but cannot be. The list of the corrupt is long.
That is sick about the re-hired VA employees.
Absolutely agree. I know there was great pressure on him to pick a woman but in this instance, I believe he did the right thing. Vance is so good at answering questions and speaking I sometimes find him almost............almost too slick and prepared. I have watched him field really hard questions from folks and he is just flawless in his responses. Amazing guy and great choice by Trump. Maybe he has learned something about hiring after being out of office for four years.
10/23/24: "Halperin says America will likely know who the next president is before Election Day based on early voting trends, adding that official election results should be known on election night."
We disagree with Mr Halperin.
(Cordially. Note his Phoenix-like rise from the ashes. Someday we'll find out the truth why his fellow Democrats turned on him so viciously.)
November 8th --- three days after the election --- is when the hysterics end. Badly, for "Skippy" Walz and "Sippy" Harris.
Journalists in the 1840s were startled to discover that many of Napoleon's mistresses were now living from franc to franc. One was poignantly storing and retrieving umbrellas in a railroad lost-and-found office.
In the same vein of thought, where will Ms Harris be in 2038?
Bureaucrats may be sly, but never courageous. Start firing some, and they will smell the coffee and inhale it.
I AM CERTAIN THAT TRUMP AND VANCE HAVE ALL OF THE 'MANURE' COVERED AND READY FOR THE FIRE PIT.
“Tax experts reject the notion that tariff revenue could offset the losses incurred by eliminating income taxes.”
Don't trust this. I'm a tax expert and they didn't consult me. Every loon that comments on this fails to understand that, in the present century, the purpose of tariffs is not to raise revenue. They correctly point out that any revenue that they do raise comes out of domestic consumers' pockets, but they refuse to learn that the real purpose is negotiate better trade deals with countries that are playing us for fools, and profiting thereby.
Blanket tariffs are bad. Targeted tariffs are good. I generalize, but this is what Trump is so good at orchestrating. Kamala couldn't negotiate herself out of a bag of Doritos.
Tariffs are a great tool when applied selectively on a case-by-case basis to achieve a specific result from a country. It is doubly so when dealing with totalitarian countries like China.
AND OUR MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE CAN HANDLE THAT JOB PERFECTLY!
KOMMIE K IS A BAG OF DORITOS SOMETIMES JUST THE EMPTY BAG. SHE DOES NOT KNOW ENOUGH WORDS TO FILL ONE SINGLE SENTENCE. ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS LET HER KEEP TALKING.... SHE IS THAT PATHETICALLY IGNORANT....AND STUPID.
Every manufacturer in the world needs access to the world’s ‘Hugest’ market for goods….EU economy is choking on massively expensive inflated energy costs, so their economies will continue to lose any discretionary income. Tariffs to access the US market, and reciprocate with US made goods w/b mandatory. To pay the duties, have to eat their cost buy depreciating their currency to be competitive. Wilbur Ross, Kornheiser & Navarro proved Trump’s strategy was a winner for US and our workers. Congress was PO’d since they shipped our factories to China & Viet Nam…
I agree. In my days as a tax expert, no one - not even my CFO bosses - really wanted to know anything at all about how taxes work unless it affected EPS . Tariffs do not = taxes. Your loons really just don’t like others using tools to negotiate something they are accustomed to manipulating themselves. Your loons are happy to make their own deals, as long as they benefit. Your loons are mostly malevolent rent seekers.
👍Should be required reading for a poorly educated public.
Until Woodrow Wilson, we ran our government with tariffs.
Don’t worry. Americans are cheap. They won’t pay the tariffs extra costs. They will buy the cheapest product available.
Hence the need for tariffs in many cases to bring balance. When you give away all your manufacturing to other countries, this is what you get in return.
Same with Canadians and probably everyone else. Everybody likes cheap no matter the consequences.
A FEW STILL WAIT FOR THE ENTIRE AND TRUE STORY TO FILTER IN BEFORE GIVING IN TO THEIR GREED.
We had KitchenAid appliances in the 80s….called Maytag every decade to get them fixed. Eventually replaced them, then called the repairman every other year….finally dawned on me, and confirmed by friends, that the Private Equity vampires hollowed out the former-sturdy guts, and sold us a pretty-looking piece of junk. So to buy a sturdy Appliance it is probably down to a few German brands. With right Trumpian incentives, it would behoove them to relocate manufacturing hier…
Thing is the “October Surprise”; the Dems are beyond desperate - Kamala’s Komic Kampaign Katastrophe Kontinues - but think they will pull something & - dovetailing with Biden who just made a comment on camera about “locking up” Trump - “we have to lock him up” - the sentencing in the Chutkan trial is coming up. Chutkan is a compromised judge; his daughter has raised millions for the Dems which begs the question why was he not forced to recuse himself? But I digress; the Dems are so desperate what’s to stop them from locking him up? IMHO they’re looking to spark a violent reaction in Trump’s supporters (aka “the Bubba Effect”) so they can bring the hammer down in another Reichstag Fire moment (Jan 6 was the first). SecDef Austin just issued that DOD directive stating the military could be called in to quell “domestic disturbances”. That seems like an end run around the Posse Comitatus Act, that which forbids the use of Federal troops for law enforcement.
I would put nothing past these people; they’re minions of Satan himself as well as being the absolute scum of the earth.
I'm sorry to say this, but you got Trump's judges mixed up -- although that should not be surprising; after all, there are so many. Chutkan -- pronounced Sh-tcan -- is a wild-eyed woman judge, so "his daughter" is misplaced, and belongs with the equally wild-eyed judge Merchan, a south American who is severely deficient in scruples, legal or otherwise. And he is the one with the daughter who has made millions by running campaigns for Democrats.
You can bet on military use if they lose. Question is, how many will follow the orders. Nuremberg!
And if Trump has to declare an Insurrection” and use military force, the left will be screaming about it.
I can't believe that rank and file soldiers would ever co-operate.
We USED to have confidence in the patriotic-nature of our troops, but after 8 years of Obama and 4 of Biden, I'm not so sure.
The only thing that locking him up at this point would do is create a landslide for him. The only question is - are the demonicrats smart enough to realize this?
Know who I ultimately blame for this? Abe Lincoln. The trash tried to take themselves out in 1861 & because of tariffs on southern ports (among other economic issues) he sent the Federal Army down into the south to force them back into the Union @ the point of a bayonet.
Slavery was the defining issue. Tariffs were a side issue and the south didn’t leave the Union over tariffs. Only when Lincoln was about to be inaugurated did they leave and he never campaigned on raising tariffs. Like today tariffs are a minor issue. BTW if taxes are reduced and tariffs raise some prices wouldn’t the workers of the country do better? Wouldn’t those European manufacturers who are energy starved build their factories in our right to work States and raise everyone’s standard of living.
Slavery was NOT the defining issue; that’s BS post 1960’s historical revisionism. Back then - outside of the radical abolitionists like John Brown - you couldn’t find a white man who would lay down his life to free the blacks. During General George B. McClellan’s time in command, he worried the army would “lay down until moss grew on their backs” vis-a-vis waging an official “war against slavery.” In Lincoln’s own words, “my primary duty is to save the Union; if I could do it by freeing all the slaves I would do it. If I could save it by freeing none of them I would do it & if I could save it by freeing some & leaving others alone I would also do that.”
The Emancipation Proclamation was a political master stroke issued after the Battle of Antietam (Sep 17, 1862) to preclude Britain & France coming into the war on the side of the south. By this Lincoln reframed the war - both countries had already outlawed slavery - & this Proclamation put them back on their heels & ultimately they declined to get directly involved. Both countries though still supported the south - the British 1853 pattern Enfield Rifled Musket was the standard arm of the Confederate Army, for example & it was heavily imported.
Yes, but "saving the Union" was code for "We see the potential for creating on this continent the mightiest empire ever seen, so we don't want to break it up while we're still working on that."
I hasten to add that I don't think that creating that empire was a bad idea. On the contrary, it has done far more good than bad. But with regard to Lincoln, it was Bismarck who observed, "People never lie so much as before the election, in war, and after the hunt."
Slavery was the defining issue. Tariffs were a side issue and the south didn’t leave the Union over tariffs
Lol
IMHO - no. They live in a bubble of unreality & are so convinced DJT is everybody’s favorite Austrian reincarnated they will “burn down the village to save it.”
Wrong judge. But the sediment is noticed
"The sediment" carries unpleasant connotations. "Sentiment", maybe?
Oh it’s the woman in DC? I stand corrected.
Yesterday's range outing by Kinsinger and Kunce is another example of how democrats try to assume the identies of "conservatives" without having the slightest idea of what that means. It's akin to democrats attempt to claim "male/masculine" status when democrats are unfamiliar with the reality of such status, never having actually been "men," but only simulacra without substance. So now we have Kunce and Kinsinger using AR platform rifles to shoot steel targets within fifteen yards (obviously on the pistol range). Note Kinsinger has his glasses perched up on his forehead, so perhaps he was more worried about taking out a few hair follicles instead of his eyes. Not only are they within ricochet/splash-back range, they apparently located "reporters" (another variety of larpers hiding their true identies as propagandists) even closer. It is obvious that none of these people know the first thing about guns, shooting or range safety etiquette. My only regret is that the result was merely a flesh wound., but hope springs eternal. Maybe next time aome democrat wants to fool voters into thinking they are "conservative," they might invite Kamala to come along and put a few downrange with her Glock. I'd actually pay money to see that, although I would never attend in person, fearing the potential for carnage.
The Dana Loesch meme had Kinzinger pointing an AR at the targets and saying; “Fifteen yards. Gonna need a scope for this.” Great lady. Funny stuff.
"Larpers". I tried to find it in my Encyclopedic Webster's without success, but even so it has a certain ring to it, and deserves greater use.
10/23/24: I would run to the next county (barefoot on Legos!) if I heard that these two were at a range anywhere close to me!
"Halperin says America will likely know who the next president is before Election Day based on early voting trends, adding that official election results should be known on election night."
We disagree with Mr Halperin.
(Cordially. Note his Phoenix-like rise from the ashes. Someday we'll find out the truth why his fellow Democrats turned on him so viciously.)
November 8th --- three days after the election --- is when the hysterics end. Badly, for "Skippy" Walz and "Sippy" Harris.
Journalists in the 1840s were startled to discover that many of Napoleon's mistresses were now living from franc to franc. One was poignantly storing and retrieving umbrellas in a railroad lost-and-found office.
In the same vein of thought, where will Ms Harris be in 2038?
I'm not given to anxiety, but I have to tell you: this election scares me to death. They can't win if they don't cheat, and you know they are going to cheat. And if they think cheating the vote won't be enough, they will go back to the original plan of assassination - not just Trump, but Elon, to whom I now refer as Elonardo da Vinci - as well. Somehow we have to protect these guys; not just their fate, but ours, depend on it.
We know they are going to cheat. They know they are going to cheat. We know that they know they are going to cheat. And They know that we know they are going to cheat. What then? SCOTUS ignores it all because they are intimidated, threatened and blackmailed into submission?
The entire judicial system has failed. They more often dismiss cases on procedural grounds rather than make the difficult choices.
SCOTUS maybe be our last chance in prolonging civilized society. Let's just pray the skeletons in their closets are of limiting exposure.
There are downsides to NOT dismissing cases on procedural grounds, too. Expand the courts' authority, and you end up with the kind of political judges they have in Brazil.
Yes, we know. Unlike in 2020 when we were blindsided and didn’t see it coming. I don’t think that they’ll be able to get away with it this time. Especially because Commie-La’s numbers are so bad. As to the SCOTUS, if it comes to it, they will have to act this time. They too have had to suffer the consequences of their cowardice in 2020.
I told my friend after the 2016 recount attempts in Detroit that the Dems would never let that happen again. That they would make the mistake of not flooding the election with make believe ballots. I was proven correct in 2020 but by then my friend believed that 2020 was a fair and honest election.
Pray you are right, Plays.
Weird. I have no idea why my comment posted twice.
I love your new name for Elon! It couldn't be more appropriate
I am also very worried.
" I think Walz needs to try wearing feather boas..."
I've always thought Timmy Tampons was a closet queen.
Or into some kind of fetish, definitely something weird.
Fetish more likely
It’s a requirement to be a Democrat
The Trump ad with Tim's crazy movements set to Abba's Dancing Queen was hilarious.
Saw a brief snippet of Kamala’s “interview” with NBC news. She screwed that one up as well with her usual non answers and circular word salads.
I am beginning to think the box of rocks has more going for it than she does.
"That little pet rock was ME"
Another laugh for me, Don. That's the second one this week. First one was Tuesday. Keep going for the trifecta!
“Fweedom!”
Saw that and thought it was one of her worst ever, due largely to the reporter actually consistently following up and pushing her for actual answers.
And an NBC reporter no less! A Mini-miracle!
Neither shooter appears to be wearing ear protection. Were those Nerf (TM) guns painted black?
And eye protection is on his head like a cool pair of shades. If these beta males think they expand their appeal buy showing off with firearms they should at least get a lesson on safe handling.
Want to hear more about how that ‘reporter’ got hit in the arm with a ‘bullet fragment’ from one of those morons…were they trying to shoot open a steel door or cut a doorway through a granite wall? Where was Wayne LaPierre to educate them?
The end may be near. The Harris-Biden campaign is headed to the cellar faster than a slinky on steroids. Every time either one of these clowns opens their mouth, they give clowns a bad name. No one wants anything they have to offer. On the other hand, America is getting to know more and more about Donald Trump every day. And they love what they are learning. He is smart, affable, a guy you can trust around your children. But mostly, he represents America’s core values and you believe in him because he’s NOT a politician.
"faster than a slinky on steroids" Great line!
10/23/24: Agreed!
"Halperin says America will likely know who the next president is before Election Day based on early voting trends, adding that official election results should be known on election night."
We disagree with Mr Halperin.
(Cordially. Note his Phoenix-like rise from the ashes. Someday we'll find out the truth why his fellow Democrats turned on him so viciously.)
November 8th --- three days after the election --- is when the hysterics end. Badly, for "Skippy" Walz and "Sippy" Harris.
Journalists in the 1840s were startled to discover that many of Napoleon's mistresses were now living from franc to franc. One was poignantly storing and retrieving umbrellas in a railroad lost-and-found office.
In the same vein of thought, where will Ms Harris be in 2038?
Democrats always blame the national debt on Republican tax cuts. They don’t understand that allowing the people to keep their money is better than than letting the government waste it. Government has an unlimited budget. And it always exceeds it.
There is a tiny hole in the government arm where all the money goes.
OPM
Other People's Money.
They are hooked.
sooo....half the votes are submitted early, we can catch a rocket in the air but STILL the results take longer than ever and we are supposed to believe that no nefarious chicanery is afoot?
do they actually think we're all that stupid or is it they just no longer care what we think because they have the courts, congress, msm and enough of the people on their team to perpetually cheat and win?
even at 76 i would sell out, pack up and get out but where to go? blah!
Back to one day voting, in person, paper ballots, purple thumbs, national holiday. Results by midnight
i always liked the purple thumb in iraq.
Yes, it's election DAY.
Valid ID.
Even France gets it done (w wrong outcome) in one night. Republican lawyers and Proud Boys better be ready to throw & padlock main breaker panel cutoff on ‘tabulation’ centers before they attempt to bring in fake ballots this time to start the steal…
There's the obvious method of running Kamala ballots through the tabulator multiple times when no one is looking.
Be careful there.
A Soros judge will give all your belongings to a couple of fat black pigs.
So does Canada!
You're echoing my grandpa, who often said, translated: "You'd run away, if you only knew where to go!"
Just wait.
After this election the Democrats will be screaming for election reform.
Ha
i hope you're correct dave.
It wasn't that long ago that they were against machines.
Trump flips the script again and again and again.
Those poor bastards are dizzy from their spinning heads.
Freedom is not free, Damn the broken glass, Surbs. ‘The First Amendment was the great “block” in the battle against “disinformation.” If the Democrats win, they can “change ( rewrite ), the First Amendment'. In a similar vein, Hillary Clinton has repeatedly called for greater supervision—that is, censorship—of social media. People who spread “disinformation,” she said, should be “civilly or even in some cases criminally charged.” Forget about the fact that she actually paid for “opposition research” against Donald Trump and then assiduously spread the gigantic disinformation of the Russia Collusion hoax in order to discredit him. In one revealing comment, Clinton acknowledged that the real threat of platforms like X under Elon Musk was that “we”-that is, people who agree with Hillary Clinton- “lose total control.” We can’t have that, now’. Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead, somebody said: 'The only people who could force FJB out, did. ‘Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer,’ one Democratic strategist told DailyMail.com. ‘It would have to be the four of them collectively.’ Fearlessly, they sowed the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind, somebody else said.
I refuse to believe any pollster because as the old saying goes, "Figures lie and liars figure". My gut tells me that Trump will win bigly as we have seen nothing but ineptitude from Kamala and plenty of good news for DJT. Having said that, I remember 2020 when the Big Steal occurred and my gut starts feeling queasy. My big hope is that Trump voters will turn out in droves and make the Steal too high a bar to overcome, because if there is one thing we know for certain, the Dems will try anything to win.
Heard a thoughtful comment yesterday: this is the first presidential election after the COVID migrations. Pollsters do not have a good handle on sunbelt states due to number of people who moved there from NY and CA. Even Colorado could be a surprise.
Seems to be good news all around. (Except for those three slackers who can't count ballots fast enough. Although, PA may have an excuse. law says they can't open absentee/mail-in ballots--which includes the early votes--until sometime on election day and with the volume of early voting....)
Still. Don't get cocky! Vote!