11/10/25: Excellent, Gilbert. Unimaginable (to us civilians) their sacrifices made to be able to serve in such a spartan environment. God bless them all, especially to the men on Iwo Jima.
Did the government open again? Must’ve missed that. In fact, since I don’t fly very much, I didn’t notice that it was “shut down.” Unfortunately, there were no massive layoffs, as threatened, but I certainly would have supported that! Massive layoffs of government layabouts and massive deportations, and massive indictments is what I want for Christmas.
Maybe, but I suspect the truth was that so many people called the Dim Senators and told them to open it up or else. Nothing spurs a politician into action like the thought of not getting re-elected.
No working girls, but I really like your comment. Farmers are the forgotten base of humanity but that is going to change the minute people in this country start seeing empty shelves in the supermarket. I was in St. Petersburg, Russia about five years ago and went into some grocery stores. They are not stuffed full like many of ours are. The shelves weren't bare but the thing I noticed immediately was the lack of choice when it came to products. Here we may have a half dozen different brands of beans on the shelf but the stores I went into had one or two. Same with most products but I have to say that I didn't visit many stores on the trip, so totally antidotal info here.
We live near DFW and the skies around here have been noticeably more quiet lately. Not like just after 9/11 when they were silent as no one was allowed to fly
Thought about that the last few days too. A pretty sunset Saturday (at 5:30pm), with just 2 CondensationTrails highlighted in the sunshine at abt 40,000'.
Ronald W. Reagan, along with Rush Limbaugh, taught Americans that “conservatism wins every time it’s tried.”
Unfortunately Mr. Surber, elephants have the attention span and memory of gnats and the moment President Donald J. Trump leaves office, the Deep-State GOPe will rear its ugly, stupid, defeatist head and return republicans to their linguine-spined, cowardly, go-along to get-along, timid ways.
Khrushchev was right 65 years ago, in 1959, when he said that “communism will win without firing a shot.”
Lenin wrote, “give me four years to teach the children and the seeds I have sown will never be uprooted.”
Real leaders like Reagan, Limbaugh, Thatcher and Trump come along once in a lifetime. Tyrants are with US forever.
NAH. First, elephants have extraordinary memories. Donkeys are asses in every sense of the word. Second, communism has failed in every single country where it has been tried: Russia, China, Vietnam, Cuba; and socialism has collapsed everywhere it’s been tried— look at most of Europe. From
biblical times to today, tyrants fail. We live in the longest lived constitutional republic in human history. It has met and survived other enormous challenges before. We will survive this one, too. Have some faith. As Greg Gutfeld says about Trump, “we don’t deserve him.”
Mary Ann, I'd love one of those! There's nothing quite like the joy of reading Surber & Childers every morning - that plus Bible in 365 makes my day complete
Thanks for the McCarthy tip. I'm looking forward to seeing what Catherine Herridge has in the works. I think she's one of the best investigative journalists anywhere
Would be a great Thanksgiving gift to my neighbor and virulent Trump hater and drive her crazier than she is already. Even better than “Trump is still your President! Happiest Thanksgiving Ever”
Maybe the four legged elephants have great memories but the two legged kind certainly don’t.
Politicians are sticky-fingered grifters & I trust none of them. Trump’s an anomaly, a businessman not a politician, and why I like him.
We’ll see who’s right come the 2026 midterms & 2028 Presidential election.
I live in Sin City, NV, where we cater to the four vices - gaming, alcohol, drugs & prostitution. Would you care to place a wager, Miss Mary Ann Caton?
I'm just now listening to a news report on how Democrats in the House, the Senate, and across the country are reacting to the news of the end of the shutdown. It seems they are furious at Schumer and those 8 Senate Dems for voting to end it. They are throwing around F-bombs like crazy. The tearing apart of the party has begun.
Communists don’t like losing, so don’t hold your breath just yet. Jacka$$e$ play the long game, elephants the short. Look @ how they manipulated the FAKE NEWS media on their coverage of 2020’s stolen election & the phony “insurrection” of 1/6/21?
As a Pennsylvanian of Scottish Presbyterian descent, I never bet. But, because Dems have no leadership, no message, no direction, no legislative agenda, and no common sense I would expect them to lose “bigley.” I’m also of the mind that it’s highly likely the Dems will collapse as a party much as the Whigs did in the 1850s. Having said that, predicting the future is a dicey thing. History doesn’t repeat itself; it rhymes.
Sometimes a movement is more important than a central leader in the short term. This rush to Marxism and socialism is the lefts current theme because of an abundance of young ignorant, entitled voters. They will adopt some type of a leader at some point though.
Trump is probably more like the original congress type servant who came to town for a couple months each year and actually focused on the country’s business instead of just blind power for its own sake.
That all changed for the worse with the passage of the 17th Amendment - direct election of Senators rather that State Legilslatures appointing them. Repeal the 17th Amendment & we might return to some form of normalcy.
Grumpy, I have heard the same comment a lot over the last decade but not sure it is an improvement. Got a good argument for it? I would love to hear someone with well thought out argument and facts on the issue. To me, given how so many state legislatures are actually further left than many of the Democrats who run for office from those states, I just don't see how it would be a game changer, but I am open to a good argument on it. I think that goes for many GOP red states as well.
Allowing legislatures to pick Senators dilutes the large blue metro effect ; it's part of checks and balances. Designed to give rural and " flyover " populace equal footing with the sin dens . Grumpy is right , the 17th amendment needs to go . Will help thin the grifters ranks .
If students were forced to watch C=SPAN for a month they would either go YOU-Tube or ultra conservative [ wasted time and money ] .Many legislators are in lay-mans views a waste of skin and oxygen on display.
Careful, you are starting to sound grumpy like me these days Marlan. I just hope conservatives wake up soon and take back our education system instead of just complaining about it. Too much ignorance is not good for any country.
It's very interesting to me that Obama's chief experience prior to getting into politics was that for 5 years he was the Chairman of the Board of Bill Ayer's "Educational Foundation", which was financed by the Annenberg Challenge. Yes, Bill Ayers is the same openly proud Communist who was one of the founders of the violent Weatherman in the 60's-70's. In fact, Obama announced his candidacy for the Illinois Senate from Bill Ayer's front porch.
The Wall St. Journal published the entire Charter of Ayers and Obama's "Education Foundation", and it was totally devoted to reorienting education to promote the mission of "social justice".
At the time, I wondered why these Communist men were so focused on education. It sure is obvious now, after two generations of youth so far have been hijacked at school and indoctrinated into Anti-American Marxism. "Common Core" was a Trojan horse, and further deepened states dependence on federal funding for education.
And the Communists also went after the Teachers Unions big time, they are strong Communist bastions now. The whole "Red for Ed" movement, some years ago, when teachers were protesting right and left for more money and power, was completely led by a young (late 20's) Communist guy out of Arizona. I recall Breitbart doing a 3-part series exposing this kid. Most of the teachers who wore those red T-shirts that said "Red for Ed" probably had no idea that the Red meant Communist.
Take a look around, my friend. NYC just erected an effeminate communist who’s never had a job and is still living with his parents in their rent controlled apartment, as mayor, antifa thugs, blm goons and wannabe anarchists are still roaming free, wreaking havoc. Virginia’s new jacka$$ AG wants to kill republicans & their children. Can we reciprocate?
We've got lion's share of the country to do much more than that, because those few exceptional jurisdictions happen to be dominated by lunatics and grifters.
Any prominent political grifters spending the rest of their lives in prison yet? Didn’t think so.
C’mon man, open those eyes. Until we start feeding the leftist tyrants, grifters & anarchists into the wood chipper & hog pens, nothing is going to change.
I admire your cynicism after so long the Uniparty & Legacy media have criminally corrupted the Good ol USA with help from Teachers Unions and University Indoctrination Canters the last 30 years....BUT bro- what we are seeing is the gentler version of history rhyming, er... repeating itself with DumboTwits being the Jacobins and Whigs - the Who that supported the ideas that where God awful and ended up loosing to common sense and Liberty. This endeth the lesson.
I couldn't put a Trump hat on her. That didn't make sense. A Dunce Cap, however, is a perfect fit. Half the people in the world have IQs of 100 or LESS. Add up the total number of members of the House and the Senate; divide by two. Let's face it people. It seems that half the people in Congress fit the bell curve to a T. I was down on Fetterman after the stroke. Having some near-death experience myself, I have great respect for how he has come back. Nothing like a word from God to change your life ... and your political views. And, God bless the Marines and all those who stand in the gap for all of us, who are fortunate enough to be called Americans.
When I was in Junior High, our History teacher was a WWII vet. We learned a lot about the war from someone who lived through it. We learned about Leather Necks, and Beserkers, and Bataan, and Hiroshima, and a lot of things most, if not all, young people know nothing about today. They also don't know about Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait, Afghanistan. They really don't understand what 'follow the money trail' means at the hightest levels in this and every other country in the world. If they did know about what WAR really is about, they would think very differently about a lot of things. And we would have a lot less problems. I'm still believing for better days. "If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain," is often attributed to Winston Churchill.
Yes, because Fuentes is much more toxic to the Republican party than lunatic leftists. They are the Dems problem. Fuentes and Tucker are a problem for conservatives.
You are not fully informed Danimal. Do even a little more research if you are an honest broker.
There are others who ask questions of the establishment (although I'm not sure how you define 'the establishment')
Tucker PLATFORMS these vile people like Fuentes, Candace Owens, a fradulent 'historian' and a supposed 'Christian preacher' who lives in Gaza (yeah, right!) without ANY QUESTIONING on what they base their antisemitic views upon.
I've heard multiple times both Fuentes and Tucker are funded by Qatar but that in itself could be disinformation. However IF it were true, it would CERTAINLY ANSWER every question about how and why they are doing what they're doing.
JUST as David Duke was pushed OUT of the GOP, SO TOO must these vile, venemous @sshats.
You don't make "housing affordable" (I'm guessing you are under 40?) by "making" housing affordable. You make it affordable by REDUCING OVERREGULATION, reducing ENERGY costs, particularly those for transportation, reducing MATERIALs costs (which will happen when more materials are made HERE), and reducing labor costs (which will happen when young people find they can make good or better money going into blue-collar professions than they can doing jobs that AI can take over.
You're overlooking a couple more key factors that made housing unaffordable, by boosting demand.
One such factor was the demand inspired by rock-bottom interest rates, which greatly reduced monthly mortgage payments. A HUGE failure of the clueless Federal Reserve, which ought to be abolished for malpractice. What the Fed really amounts to is Central Economic Planning, which has failed wherever you look.
The other was the importation of between 10 and 20 million illegal aliens by the (literally) brainless Biden regime. Even if they slept a dozen to a bedroom (the illegals, not Hunter and his whores), that was bound to shrink the supply of housing, further boosting prices.
Yep, I think I mentioned the demand created by the illegals but you're right that I overlooked (forgot about) the ridiculous ZERO level interest rates for an extended period of time.
Now that I'm thinking about it, also the Covid era RENT FORGIVENESS and Mort payment forgiveness impacted the market as well.
And to that extent SHAME on all the local schools/city/county/state governments/US Treasury that were MORONS and did not offer $billions and $billions (h/t Sagan) of bonds then to 1) build freeways, 2) build airports, 3) build schools, 4) buy land for parks, 5) build any and all infrastructure....when people were willing to give you $$$ for ZERO % interest as a municipality for 20/30/50/75 years!!!! Even Negative interest rates for a while there - they would PAY Cities to 'hold their $$ safe' (as it was inflated away!!).....
The upcoming IPO of FNMA & FHLMC, and Bessent/Trump's focus on dropping L/T interest rates, combined with the 50 year home mortgage, will give GenZ's oppty to get back in the home market, and then their R/E can outperformer 3-4% subsidized mortgage rate compounded over the term and get them their share of American Dream of OWNING their home, as opposed to being priced out of the market.
This will diffuse both conservatives & doped-up liberals/marxists from going to either extremes, when they see they DO have a shot at the American dream.
The US getting rid of LONDON setting US mortgage rates - LIBOR from the 60/70/80s - to US based cost of capital SOFR, is a huge key too.
Each state’s building codes continue to drive up housing costs. They are always ‘improving’ safety, wiring, fire codes - sprinklers, etc. There is no ‘base level’ code for rudimentary electrical, plumbing, roofing….as well as cities and regional authorities with say $5k water hookup fees, infrastructure fees, ADA compliance rules, electrical only housing w/o cheap and clean nat gas; zoning rules on land use….all sorts of ‘tools’ to insert liberal/marxist ‘views’ that have Nothing to do - Not in the Constitution (10A?) restricting freedom to do whatever one wants, and live w consequences…
My former county is (or maybe HAS??!) outlawed natural gas for heating, cooking etc! I think even requiring RETROFITTING old buildings. Can you IMAGINE!?!
What will the Good Idea Fairies come up with next? *sigh*
Hey - you could be in British Columbia - Ottawa just gave Indigenous People in BC (indians):
"the Cowichan tribe has been given a hunk of land, worth several hundred million dollars, filled with houses, businesses, industrial production, smack in the middle of a booming urban centre."
Eliz Nickson lives up there and has the details....
(of course Ottawa has exempted itself from any claims of Indigenous Peeps).
so much home cost today is the value increase realized by homeowners brought about by Biden's 21% accumulated inflation. Home prices were not left out of that travesty on the public. The old truth of supply and demand will fix the “un-affordability” aspect, but it will take time. I wonder how many of these young people that complain of being not allowed entry to the home owner market are attempting to earn a living/get a loan predicated on some useless college degree. It’s not too late to be a plumbers apprentice. I just paid one 575.00 for a two hour service call.
I've watched him a long time. You're just making things up because you don't want to see anything beyond what you already believe. One should listen to those you think are your enemies, more than friends. You might learn.
Fully informed? Totally agree on your economic policies...
I watched the Tucker/Fuentes interview and there was zero antisemitism and who cares if there was? We have to be smart about what information we CHOOSE to accept and not.
Have you asked yourself how housing doubled(at least here in MN) in the last four years without free-market inputs? It isn't just government overregulation.
IF the housing (I assume you mean "housing prices"?) doubled then it would be due to supply and demand like it always is. Supply is impacted by all the things I mentioned already. Demand is impacted by the illegals that FJB flew all around the country and also 'chain migration'.
IF IF IF Tucker QUESTIONED those who spread vile lies instead of MUTELY NODDING CONSENT, I could almost agree. But he didn't, so I don't.
At some point, I'm definitely going to have to watch the actual Tucker-Fuentes interview! But I've seen plenty of other Tucker episodes, and his primary thrust is to give people a chance to present their views in an extended format. Hence the "mutely nodding consent"--you've interpreted it as "Consent", it may have just been interviewing technique that invites his subject to reveal their thoughts fully.
Tucker's purpose is not to debate them. "Debating" comes AFTER first "Hearing" the other side's "opening argument". Tucker is a journalist, not a debater. Many Debaters jumped all over the Fuentes interview and did provide deep challenges to Fuentes remarks. One could say, in a way, that Tucker's interview exposed Fuentes to a higher level of challenges to his ideas, which could be called 'a good thing'.
We have (thankfully) a very vigorous opinion media function on the Right (Surber being one!). Tucker is not in that role, he is using his courage to put on people that are often overlooked so there can be further examination. For example, he put on that white guy who sexually "serviced" Obama before his Presidential run. That took some courage, most people "didn't want to go there".
Guess I'm just saying, I still have alot of "benefit of the doubt" for Tucker. I think he has served a valuable role.
Be careful. People like Mitch McConnell have sold out to his wife's Asian based shipping company called The Foremost Group. Tucker has no incentive to take Qatari money while many of our 'higher learning' institutions have.
"Reports indicate that a public relations firm, paid by Qatar, arranged for Tucker Carlson to interview the Qatari Prime Minister. Federal Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) documents reviewed by journalists reveal that the firm, not Carlson, was paid for the arrangement. Carlson has denied taking any money from Qatar or any foreign government."
Thanks for engaging w/ Danimal but IDK why he claims that there is such benefit to hearing all views but then refuses to hear (even if he has listened to) VDH. And then insists there is nothing antisemitic about Tucker or Fuentes. Very disappointing.
I don't get it either. I dumped the television a long time ago. Had direct until 2019 for my wife, but I quit listening to the garbage. Everyone has opinions. My little brother is a Christian, pro life, against LGBT, but is still a donk and won't speak to me because I voted for Trump.
Forgive me but your brother must be insane to NOT vote for Trump but to be FOR life, Christianity and heterosexuality. I don't know HOW he squares that circle. And like w/ one of the other commenters on this thread I really dislike those who are dishonest interlocutors who shapeshift their arguments as they get pinned down.
Nobody respects VDH more than I as I have the last 25 years of following him.
Tucker has made mistakes. So has VDH. So have you, so have I.
I am weird I guess, I get no vibe Tucker is 'platforming' anyone for his benefit; he is representing what our kids are listening to in their 20's while they can't afford housing. In their case VDH is a luxury while Fuentes is more attuned to the realities on the ground. I don't support him, but we have to listen to things like his interview with Tucker which is not antisemitic.
Why are 5M young American men listening to Fuentes - that is the question nobody in the conservative establishment is asking, including the estimable VDH. Economics.
AOC would not wesr the MAGA cap well.. the arrow cap suits her. I shot an arrow in the air... where it lands i no not where. Then AOC came to town, i saw her cap was battened down!
Happy Birthday USMC! Semper Fi, just don’t overdo it on the crayons.
As to the government reopening, I personally didn’t notice it was closed, so I’m sure I won’t notice it opening up again. If it was really closed, why did all those taxes disappear from my paychecks?
Semper fi to all Marines everywhere. 1958-1961.
11/10/25: Excellent, Gilbert. Unimaginable (to us civilians) their sacrifices made to be able to serve in such a spartan environment. God bless them all, especially to the men on Iwo Jima.
Trump- the Cat Herder in Chief
He’s got the skills of the great jazz band leaders of last century, and more!
🎶 “Cats’re gonna jump!” 🎶
Did the government open again? Must’ve missed that. In fact, since I don’t fly very much, I didn’t notice that it was “shut down.” Unfortunately, there were no massive layoffs, as threatened, but I certainly would have supported that! Massive layoffs of government layabouts and massive deportations, and massive indictments is what I want for Christmas.
I just saw Jake on RAV posit that delayed flights were the first thing that personally inconvenienced Dim senators.
So they rolled over suddenly!
He also suggested that cutting a percentage of air traffic controllers and TSA should be an early move next time the Dims try this.
Next time, the first thing that needs to happen is no pay for Congress! That will quickly shut down any more of this monkey business
Maybe, but I suspect the truth was that so many people called the Dim Senators and told them to open it up or else. Nothing spurs a politician into action like the thought of not getting re-elected.
Grifts must continue!
Our mistake was allowing politics to become a profession very similar to the world's oldest profession.
Farmers? Right?
No working girls, but I really like your comment. Farmers are the forgotten base of humanity but that is going to change the minute people in this country start seeing empty shelves in the supermarket. I was in St. Petersburg, Russia about five years ago and went into some grocery stores. They are not stuffed full like many of ours are. The shelves weren't bare but the thing I noticed immediately was the lack of choice when it came to products. Here we may have a half dozen different brands of beans on the shelf but the stores I went into had one or two. Same with most products but I have to say that I didn't visit many stores on the trip, so totally antidotal info here.
Bingo!!!!
I believe late last night it re-opened. As far as the layoffs, federal judges got involved. You know how that goes.
We live near DFW and the skies around here have been noticeably more quiet lately. Not like just after 9/11 when they were silent as no one was allowed to fly
Thought about that the last few days too. A pretty sunset Saturday (at 5:30pm), with just 2 CondensationTrails highlighted in the sunshine at abt 40,000'.
Should the title of DJT's next book be The Art of Dealing With Morons?
YES! Although, we all got front row seats to a master class in Moron Management.
No, there has already been a daily tv show of it for the past year. 😎
Ronald W. Reagan, along with Rush Limbaugh, taught Americans that “conservatism wins every time it’s tried.”
Unfortunately Mr. Surber, elephants have the attention span and memory of gnats and the moment President Donald J. Trump leaves office, the Deep-State GOPe will rear its ugly, stupid, defeatist head and return republicans to their linguine-spined, cowardly, go-along to get-along, timid ways.
Khrushchev was right 65 years ago, in 1959, when he said that “communism will win without firing a shot.”
Lenin wrote, “give me four years to teach the children and the seeds I have sown will never be uprooted.”
Real leaders like Reagan, Limbaugh, Thatcher and Trump come along once in a lifetime. Tyrants are with US forever.
NAH. First, elephants have extraordinary memories. Donkeys are asses in every sense of the word. Second, communism has failed in every single country where it has been tried: Russia, China, Vietnam, Cuba; and socialism has collapsed everywhere it’s been tried— look at most of Europe. From
biblical times to today, tyrants fail. We live in the longest lived constitutional republic in human history. It has met and survived other enormous challenges before. We will survive this one, too. Have some faith. As Greg Gutfeld says about Trump, “we don’t deserve him.”
and as Jeff Childers (Covid & Coffee) always says TAW - Trump Always Wins!
I love that so much, I had a t-shirt made with TAW on it. 😁
Mary Ann, I'd love one of those! There's nothing quite like the joy of reading Surber & Childers every morning - that plus Bible in 365 makes my day complete
The only other Sub I'd add to your favorite's list is Jenna McCarthy's.
As for the t-shirt, I went to a local graphics artist and he made the shirt for me.
Thanks for the McCarthy tip. I'm looking forward to seeing what Catherine Herridge has in the works. I think she's one of the best investigative journalists anywhere
Me too! Genius….
Cookie me too w Bible in a year!
Would be a great Thanksgiving gift to my neighbor and virulent Trump hater and drive her crazier than she is already. Even better than “Trump is still your President! Happiest Thanksgiving Ever”
I LOVE that idea: “ Trump is still your president”! Oh what fun……
That's the spirit. Winner, winner, winner. Winning, winning, winning. Trump, Trump, Trump.
I have my handful of Winnamins™️ every morning with my ☕️ covfefe.
Well done steph !!
and I for one, am not tired of winning yet!
Maybe the four legged elephants have great memories but the two legged kind certainly don’t.
Politicians are sticky-fingered grifters & I trust none of them. Trump’s an anomaly, a businessman not a politician, and why I like him.
We’ll see who’s right come the 2026 midterms & 2028 Presidential election.
I live in Sin City, NV, where we cater to the four vices - gaming, alcohol, drugs & prostitution. Would you care to place a wager, Miss Mary Ann Caton?
I'm just now listening to a news report on how Democrats in the House, the Senate, and across the country are reacting to the news of the end of the shutdown. It seems they are furious at Schumer and those 8 Senate Dems for voting to end it. They are throwing around F-bombs like crazy. The tearing apart of the party has begun.
That Dems constantly barf F-bombs is not news. Check the police-stop videos on YouTube, and the women are the worst.
Ah, but now they are using the F-bomb at their own party members, and not Trump!
Do you suppose they're trying to signal that they are serious?
Communists don’t like losing, so don’t hold your breath just yet. Jacka$$e$ play the long game, elephants the short. Look @ how they manipulated the FAKE NEWS media on their coverage of 2020’s stolen election & the phony “insurrection” of 1/6/21?
Open your eyes, Miss Caton.
As a Pennsylvanian of Scottish Presbyterian descent, I never bet. But, because Dems have no leadership, no message, no direction, no legislative agenda, and no common sense I would expect them to lose “bigley.” I’m also of the mind that it’s highly likely the Dems will collapse as a party much as the Whigs did in the 1850s. Having said that, predicting the future is a dicey thing. History doesn’t repeat itself; it rhymes.
Sometimes a movement is more important than a central leader in the short term. This rush to Marxism and socialism is the lefts current theme because of an abundance of young ignorant, entitled voters. They will adopt some type of a leader at some point though.
History also shows US that GOPe elephants always fold, cave - whatever you want to call it - when times get tough.
Just wait til the FAKE NEWS media revives their old stand-by canard of RACIST & RACISM.
Those words have been so mis- and over-used that they're virtually meaningless now.
makes no difference, WTP, it’s ALL the jacka$$e$ have & they’ll use it forever.
Republicans didn’t cave in 1860 over slavery. They went to war to end it.
Trump is probably more like the original congress type servant who came to town for a couple months each year and actually focused on the country’s business instead of just blind power for its own sake.
That all changed for the worse with the passage of the 17th Amendment - direct election of Senators rather that State Legilslatures appointing them. Repeal the 17th Amendment & we might return to some form of normalcy.
Grumpy, I have heard the same comment a lot over the last decade but not sure it is an improvement. Got a good argument for it? I would love to hear someone with well thought out argument and facts on the issue. To me, given how so many state legislatures are actually further left than many of the Democrats who run for office from those states, I just don't see how it would be a game changer, but I am open to a good argument on it. I think that goes for many GOP red states as well.
Allowing legislatures to pick Senators dilutes the large blue metro effect ; it's part of checks and balances. Designed to give rural and " flyover " populace equal footing with the sin dens . Grumpy is right , the 17th amendment needs to go . Will help thin the grifters ranks .
Those are interesting arguments.
If students were forced to watch C=SPAN for a month they would either go YOU-Tube or ultra conservative [ wasted time and money ] .Many legislators are in lay-mans views a waste of skin and oxygen on display.
Careful, you are starting to sound grumpy like me these days Marlan. I just hope conservatives wake up soon and take back our education system instead of just complaining about it. Too much ignorance is not good for any country.
It's very interesting to me that Obama's chief experience prior to getting into politics was that for 5 years he was the Chairman of the Board of Bill Ayer's "Educational Foundation", which was financed by the Annenberg Challenge. Yes, Bill Ayers is the same openly proud Communist who was one of the founders of the violent Weatherman in the 60's-70's. In fact, Obama announced his candidacy for the Illinois Senate from Bill Ayer's front porch.
The Wall St. Journal published the entire Charter of Ayers and Obama's "Education Foundation", and it was totally devoted to reorienting education to promote the mission of "social justice".
At the time, I wondered why these Communist men were so focused on education. It sure is obvious now, after two generations of youth so far have been hijacked at school and indoctrinated into Anti-American Marxism. "Common Core" was a Trojan horse, and further deepened states dependence on federal funding for education.
And the Communists also went after the Teachers Unions big time, they are strong Communist bastions now. The whole "Red for Ed" movement, some years ago, when teachers were protesting right and left for more money and power, was completely led by a young (late 20's) Communist guy out of Arizona. I recall Breitbart doing a 3-part series exposing this kid. Most of the teachers who wore those red T-shirts that said "Red for Ed" probably had no idea that the Red meant Communist.
I understand why you’re grumpy. Not to say that Cali is any better…sin and corruption-wise…but a little sea breeze helps.
Native prune-picker, Miss Patricia Fairbank. I also spent copious amounts of time in the Hawaiian Islands & the Caribbean.
Sea Breezes & mountain air are always welcome.
I couldn't have said it better Mary Ann! I love your analogy of elephants vs. donkeys! LOL! 🤣
Khrushchev also promised: "We will bury you!" Was he right about that TOO?
Yes he was.
Take a look around, my friend. NYC just erected an effeminate communist who’s never had a job and is still living with his parents in their rent controlled apartment, as mayor, antifa thugs, blm goons and wannabe anarchists are still roaming free, wreaking havoc. Virginia’s new jacka$$ AG wants to kill republicans & their children. Can we reciprocate?
We've got lion's share of the country to do much more than that, because those few exceptional jurisdictions happen to be dominated by lunatics and grifters.
Any prominent political grifters spending the rest of their lives in prison yet? Didn’t think so.
C’mon man, open those eyes. Until we start feeding the leftist tyrants, grifters & anarchists into the wood chipper & hog pens, nothing is going to change.
I admire your cynicism after so long the Uniparty & Legacy media have criminally corrupted the Good ol USA with help from Teachers Unions and University Indoctrination Canters the last 30 years....BUT bro- what we are seeing is the gentler version of history rhyming, er... repeating itself with DumboTwits being the Jacobins and Whigs - the Who that supported the ideas that where God awful and ended up loosing to common sense and Liberty. This endeth the lesson.
preaching to the choir, Father but, thanks anyway.
I couldn't put a Trump hat on her. That didn't make sense. A Dunce Cap, however, is a perfect fit. Half the people in the world have IQs of 100 or LESS. Add up the total number of members of the House and the Senate; divide by two. Let's face it people. It seems that half the people in Congress fit the bell curve to a T. I was down on Fetterman after the stroke. Having some near-death experience myself, I have great respect for how he has come back. Nothing like a word from God to change your life ... and your political views. And, God bless the Marines and all those who stand in the gap for all of us, who are fortunate enough to be called Americans.
Happy 250th to all Leathernecks!!
Schools should teach the reason why Marines are called Leathernecks. Especially NYC schools.
When I was in Junior High, our History teacher was a WWII vet. We learned a lot about the war from someone who lived through it. We learned about Leather Necks, and Beserkers, and Bataan, and Hiroshima, and a lot of things most, if not all, young people know nothing about today. They also don't know about Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait, Afghanistan. They really don't understand what 'follow the money trail' means at the hightest levels in this and every other country in the world. If they did know about what WAR really is about, they would think very differently about a lot of things. And we would have a lot less problems. I'm still believing for better days. "If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain," is often attributed to Winston Churchill.
So true!!
I sure wish he'd teach the Republicans in Virginia.
And NH
Republicans in general are slow learners & some are incapable of grasping simple truths.
Thanks for the birthday wishes. Semper Fidelis!
The republican establishment is fighting Nick Fuentes harder than Hamas(Zamdani) or Jay Jones.
Yes, because Fuentes is much more toxic to the Republican party than lunatic leftists. They are the Dems problem. Fuentes and Tucker are a problem for conservatives.
I don't think so at all. Tucker is a total plus, not because he is right or wrong, but that he asks questions of the establishment.
Fuentes is a douche, but nobody is asking why he has 5M, mostly GenZ men, followers.
Economics. Our leaders pay more attention outside our borders when housing is unaffordable here.
You are not fully informed Danimal. Do even a little more research if you are an honest broker.
There are others who ask questions of the establishment (although I'm not sure how you define 'the establishment')
Tucker PLATFORMS these vile people like Fuentes, Candace Owens, a fradulent 'historian' and a supposed 'Christian preacher' who lives in Gaza (yeah, right!) without ANY QUESTIONING on what they base their antisemitic views upon.
I've heard multiple times both Fuentes and Tucker are funded by Qatar but that in itself could be disinformation. However IF it were true, it would CERTAINLY ANSWER every question about how and why they are doing what they're doing.
JUST as David Duke was pushed OUT of the GOP, SO TOO must these vile, venemous @sshats.
You don't make "housing affordable" (I'm guessing you are under 40?) by "making" housing affordable. You make it affordable by REDUCING OVERREGULATION, reducing ENERGY costs, particularly those for transportation, reducing MATERIALs costs (which will happen when more materials are made HERE), and reducing labor costs (which will happen when young people find they can make good or better money going into blue-collar professions than they can doing jobs that AI can take over.
You're overlooking a couple more key factors that made housing unaffordable, by boosting demand.
One such factor was the demand inspired by rock-bottom interest rates, which greatly reduced monthly mortgage payments. A HUGE failure of the clueless Federal Reserve, which ought to be abolished for malpractice. What the Fed really amounts to is Central Economic Planning, which has failed wherever you look.
The other was the importation of between 10 and 20 million illegal aliens by the (literally) brainless Biden regime. Even if they slept a dozen to a bedroom (the illegals, not Hunter and his whores), that was bound to shrink the supply of housing, further boosting prices.
Yep, I think I mentioned the demand created by the illegals but you're right that I overlooked (forgot about) the ridiculous ZERO level interest rates for an extended period of time.
Now that I'm thinking about it, also the Covid era RENT FORGIVENESS and Mort payment forgiveness impacted the market as well.
You are absolutely right, the Covid madness added to the mess. All you have to do is look at a graph of housing prices from 2020 to 2025 ...
And to that extent SHAME on all the local schools/city/county/state governments/US Treasury that were MORONS and did not offer $billions and $billions (h/t Sagan) of bonds then to 1) build freeways, 2) build airports, 3) build schools, 4) buy land for parks, 5) build any and all infrastructure....when people were willing to give you $$$ for ZERO % interest as a municipality for 20/30/50/75 years!!!! Even Negative interest rates for a while there - they would PAY Cities to 'hold their $$ safe' (as it was inflated away!!).....
The upcoming IPO of FNMA & FHLMC, and Bessent/Trump's focus on dropping L/T interest rates, combined with the 50 year home mortgage, will give GenZ's oppty to get back in the home market, and then their R/E can outperformer 3-4% subsidized mortgage rate compounded over the term and get them their share of American Dream of OWNING their home, as opposed to being priced out of the market.
This will diffuse both conservatives & doped-up liberals/marxists from going to either extremes, when they see they DO have a shot at the American dream.
The US getting rid of LONDON setting US mortgage rates - LIBOR from the 60/70/80s - to US based cost of capital SOFR, is a huge key too.
Each state’s building codes continue to drive up housing costs. They are always ‘improving’ safety, wiring, fire codes - sprinklers, etc. There is no ‘base level’ code for rudimentary electrical, plumbing, roofing….as well as cities and regional authorities with say $5k water hookup fees, infrastructure fees, ADA compliance rules, electrical only housing w/o cheap and clean nat gas; zoning rules on land use….all sorts of ‘tools’ to insert liberal/marxist ‘views’ that have Nothing to do - Not in the Constitution (10A?) restricting freedom to do whatever one wants, and live w consequences…
My former county is (or maybe HAS??!) outlawed natural gas for heating, cooking etc! I think even requiring RETROFITTING old buildings. Can you IMAGINE!?!
What will the Good Idea Fairies come up with next? *sigh*
Hey - you could be in British Columbia - Ottawa just gave Indigenous People in BC (indians):
"the Cowichan tribe has been given a hunk of land, worth several hundred million dollars, filled with houses, businesses, industrial production, smack in the middle of a booming urban centre."
Eliz Nickson lives up there and has the details....
(of course Ottawa has exempted itself from any claims of Indigenous Peeps).
https://open.substack.com/pub/elizabethnickson/p/the-un-and-its-staff-are-a-plague?r=1nulqw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
so much home cost today is the value increase realized by homeowners brought about by Biden's 21% accumulated inflation. Home prices were not left out of that travesty on the public. The old truth of supply and demand will fix the “un-affordability” aspect, but it will take time. I wonder how many of these young people that complain of being not allowed entry to the home owner market are attempting to earn a living/get a loan predicated on some useless college degree. It’s not too late to be a plumbers apprentice. I just paid one 575.00 for a two hour service call.
You know the joke about the lawyer who becomes a plumber to make more money? 😂
Amen, I have shelled out $$$ too like that.
With 12 million regular viewers, Carlson doesn't need funding from anyone.
How do you know many of those millions aren't Qataris? Or fake accounts entirely, PAID by Qatar?
I've watched him a long time. You're just making things up because you don't want to see anything beyond what you already believe. One should listen to those you think are your enemies, more than friends. You might learn.
Fully informed? Totally agree on your economic policies...
I watched the Tucker/Fuentes interview and there was zero antisemitism and who cares if there was? We have to be smart about what information we CHOOSE to accept and not.
Have you asked yourself how housing doubled(at least here in MN) in the last four years without free-market inputs? It isn't just government overregulation.
MH is a bleephole state thanks to Demaniacs.
IF the housing (I assume you mean "housing prices"?) doubled then it would be due to supply and demand like it always is. Supply is impacted by all the things I mentioned already. Demand is impacted by the illegals that FJB flew all around the country and also 'chain migration'.
IF IF IF Tucker QUESTIONED those who spread vile lies instead of MUTELY NODDING CONSENT, I could almost agree. But he didn't, so I don't.
At some point, I'm definitely going to have to watch the actual Tucker-Fuentes interview! But I've seen plenty of other Tucker episodes, and his primary thrust is to give people a chance to present their views in an extended format. Hence the "mutely nodding consent"--you've interpreted it as "Consent", it may have just been interviewing technique that invites his subject to reveal their thoughts fully.
Tucker's purpose is not to debate them. "Debating" comes AFTER first "Hearing" the other side's "opening argument". Tucker is a journalist, not a debater. Many Debaters jumped all over the Fuentes interview and did provide deep challenges to Fuentes remarks. One could say, in a way, that Tucker's interview exposed Fuentes to a higher level of challenges to his ideas, which could be called 'a good thing'.
We have (thankfully) a very vigorous opinion media function on the Right (Surber being one!). Tucker is not in that role, he is using his courage to put on people that are often overlooked so there can be further examination. For example, he put on that white guy who sexually "serviced" Obama before his Presidential run. That took some courage, most people "didn't want to go there".
Guess I'm just saying, I still have alot of "benefit of the doubt" for Tucker. I think he has served a valuable role.
Another VDH https://youtu.be/2h-tiHkyfcM?si=MW1JikgfbtuN4UWb
Have a great night.
Tucker Qatarlson sold out. We can't trust him.
Be careful. People like Mitch McConnell have sold out to his wife's Asian based shipping company called The Foremost Group. Tucker has no incentive to take Qatari money while many of our 'higher learning' institutions have.
All of our institutions are on the take. The senate worst of all.
Plenty of links that say he is receiving money from Qatar and his actions confirm it.
"Reports indicate that a public relations firm, paid by Qatar, arranged for Tucker Carlson to interview the Qatari Prime Minister. Federal Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) documents reviewed by journalists reveal that the firm, not Carlson, was paid for the arrangement. Carlson has denied taking any money from Qatar or any foreign government."
I posted a link to Gail above regarding Tucker. VDH points out how he is NOT exposing people as you claim, but is platforming them. Check it out.
I get a lot of stuff in a feed on Telegram that I follow.
Thanks for engaging w/ Danimal but IDK why he claims that there is such benefit to hearing all views but then refuses to hear (even if he has listened to) VDH. And then insists there is nothing antisemitic about Tucker or Fuentes. Very disappointing.
I don't get it either. I dumped the television a long time ago. Had direct until 2019 for my wife, but I quit listening to the garbage. Everyone has opinions. My little brother is a Christian, pro life, against LGBT, but is still a donk and won't speak to me because I voted for Trump.
Forgive me but your brother must be insane to NOT vote for Trump but to be FOR life, Christianity and heterosexuality. I don't know HOW he squares that circle. And like w/ one of the other commenters on this thread I really dislike those who are dishonest interlocutors who shapeshift their arguments as they get pinned down.
Nobody respects VDH more than I as I have the last 25 years of following him.
Tucker has made mistakes. So has VDH. So have you, so have I.
I am weird I guess, I get no vibe Tucker is 'platforming' anyone for his benefit; he is representing what our kids are listening to in their 20's while they can't afford housing. In their case VDH is a luxury while Fuentes is more attuned to the realities on the ground. I don't support him, but we have to listen to things like his interview with Tucker which is not antisemitic.
Why are 5M young American men listening to Fuentes - that is the question nobody in the conservative establishment is asking, including the estimable VDH. Economics.
We all make mistakes, but that's not the point. Tucker is clearly turned and is leading the gullible away from conservatism.
America's untold stories featured him quite a while back and highlighted his apparent ties to the CIA. If they are correct, that explains a lot.
Don’t agree at all. The establishment fired Tucker for asking the “wrong” questions.
Not economics. Because they have been purposely groomed into victim hood. No generation I know of felt simultaneously so entitled and so victimized.
https://youtu.be/61vjJhLtAyU?si=3A0_zrDl9kvAxXna
VDH interview. He covers a lot.
WOW!! I just listened to this whole thing. It is fabulous!!!
I love VDH. How sad that even he has been cut off by his family for his support of Trump. 😢
Isn’t it amazing what can happen when adults are in the room? This tantrum fizzled.
AOC would not wesr the MAGA cap well.. the arrow cap suits her. I shot an arrow in the air... where it lands i no not where. Then AOC came to town, i saw her cap was battened down!
I have never seen a MAGA cap on a lefty 😳 , does it make them combust spontaneously ?
at least a MAGA cap wouldn't clash with her lipstick
"preening Rand Paul", indeed!!
I wouldn’t gloat too much. The GOP will figure out a way to screw it up and snatch defeat. They always do.
I celebrate every win no matter what follows.
The GOPe has perfected the art of losing gracefully.
Happy Birthday USMC! Semper Fi, just don’t overdo it on the crayons.
As to the government reopening, I personally didn’t notice it was closed, so I’m sure I won’t notice it opening up again. If it was really closed, why did all those taxes disappear from my paychecks?
What should Trump put on AOC’s head? A headband with donkey ears?