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Chuck Goldman's avatar

Try ‘Shit for Brains’ as an addition to the poll.

In all honesty, I’m knocked out at how loonnng it takes for the average North American to wake up.

It’s taken THIS long for people to wake up to the importance of the wall or to admit that voting for T is where it’s at

WTF!

tj's avatar

The college campuses and MSM have been preaching for years/decades about had bad the Republicans are. the Dems have implemented policies that are hitting home ~ the check book. Trump's admin is not so far in the mirror that everyone but the elites remember having money to save, and take the family to dinner. Now we are having trouble putting food on the table, let alone pay the gas bill.

FJB has changed all that. Letting the illegal immigrant horde in, then having the sanctuary cities give them free money EVERY MONTH, and free housing, and free healthcare is finally waking up the average person. Those people have not put anything into our society but are taking everything out. In most cases, the blue cities are taking away safety nets from the blacks, and it is backfiring. Especially when every time in the last 60 yrs, the blacks have gone to the well only to be told it is dry.

Scary thought but if FJB hadnt opened the flood gates so wide, we might still be fighting the perception that Trump was the issue.

LuAnn's avatar

That's an interesting take, tj, and I think you are right.

Marlan Hoerer's avatar

I agree TJ is onto something.

TeaPartyGal's avatar

"All things work together for good to them that love God"?

Reddog's avatar

Spot on. It isn't just the black Americans who are hit by it. The seniors on a fixed budget are as well and that includes all skin colors.

tj's avatar

Unfortunately, the Seniors get lost in all of noise of the Blacks, and cross talk about what we owe the illegals (WTH?, we dont). While they have a huge block, it is, as you say, all different skin colors. Since every thing not Black and Hispanic (wait, the Hispanic trans shooter was booked as white, so maybe not any more), is considered white, the Seniors lose. Asian, Native American, all the Indian American are too small of population from what I have seen/read.

Reddog's avatar

One almost needs a phd to make sense of it

Marlan Hoerer's avatar

Divide and conquer Reddog .

tj's avatar

yep pretty much, im tired of it all

Wim de Vriend's avatar

Give the Yankees a break. There's a tradition of jumping on the bandwagon only when there's no other way left -- like waiting until Pearl Harbor to join WWII. But then, whoa, the brakes were off, and the US went in BIG.

Besides, it's not as if we've never done the opposite -- jumping the shark precipitously -- like invading Iraq over nonexistent WMDs --invading Afghanistan for whatever it was, maybe to change their fashion in turbans -- and Libya, and the Balkans -- none of that worked out so well, did it?

LuAnn's avatar

Yeah, stupid is as stupid does. Some are finally understanding what is at stake. Everyone on this blog, thankfully, knows what is at stake.

TeaPartyGal's avatar

Yes! and that is wonderful!

Reddog's avatar

Hope so. But did you see the national reaction last week when there was a partial outage at ATT and another carrier? You would have thought the end of the world had come for those people. I was shocked at the reaction by so many. 50% of this country wouldn't last two weeks in a real national emergency and that may be a conservative number.

LuAnn's avatar

They are indeed phone-dependent.

Reddog's avatar

I suspect that their hearts would stop beating if they lost their (not) smart phones.

telephoneman's avatar

emergency food, solar generator and ammo

Reddog's avatar

Be careful, if you tell some people to "just buy ammo" they will not know that you need a firearm to use it.

Marlan Hoerer's avatar

Saturated sand heaters are handy.

TeaPartyGal's avatar

I had never heard of this, but just watched a YouTube video. interesting.

Reddog's avatar

Those people will never wake up. They are either terminally ignorant or so full of hate they are consumed by it.

telephoneman's avatar

most of them think meat grows in cellophane.

Reddog's avatar

😂 I doubt most of them could even tell you what cellophane was since it’s invisible😀

Suzie's avatar

If you would permit, may I slightly change today’s poll question to:

“Is using the word ‘Birdbrain’ too kind a word to describe these people?

✅ YES

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Reddog's avatar

We use "birdbrains" because "morons" was already taken.

Lawsy0's avatar

Yeah, and so was Democrats.

Reddog's avatar

Yep, the people with a jackass for a party symbol.

Lawsy0's avatar

There is a mobile home dealer in upper east Tennessee who gave that name to his cat (a very good mouser, was that cat).

Tmitsss's avatar

This is insulting to birds.

Subvet's avatar

--

"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public

debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered

and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed

lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of

living on public assistance."

--Cicero, 55 BC

LuAnn's avatar

Dude was way ahead of his time!

Subvet's avatar

What I think is the problem is ongoing. It took Rome 3000 years to destroy itself. Because we have instant communications we'll accomplish it in a fraction of the time.

Reddog's avatar

The Romans, for all their skills, were just slow learners.

Wim de Vriend's avatar

And he got murdered for his trouble, as I recall.

Reddog's avatar

Any of his family still around?

Shrugged's avatar

The Dems know they are close to their goal of permanently taking our country because of their heightened desperation of recent years to "get it done" at any cost. Like alcoholics needing greater quantities of sauce to get drunk, they have had to go into overdrive so 2024 is the last election they will have risk of losing.

They have turned a large number of heretofore mind-numb clueless cable news watchers into more aware conservative believers. It's refreshing to see the lies start to crumble but it took A LOT of deception for this to finally start to happen:

The left overplayed with rampant election interference in 2020.

They overplayed with government control and made-up policies with COVID in 2020.

They overplayed with defending democracy through lies about Ukraine.

They overplayed with economic prosperity while exorbitant inflation and interest rates eat us alive.

They overplayed with a wide open border for the worst of the world's offspring to come here to steal, rape, and murder.

They overplayed the law enforcement and justice system with the obvious hypocrisy in BLM riots, looting episodes, releasing minority criminals without bail.

They overplayed our trust in the intelligence community with J6 set-up.

I guess it's about time a few of those cable watchers finally wake up and take a position on something instead of listening to Bret Baier and Neil Cavuto. 2024 is our last chance, and when we win, we need to bury the deep state and the NeoCon Republican party.

James Wills's avatar

re: overplaying. My closest friend is 84, and he's seen a lot over his lifetime. His advice: work hard but be patient because 1) evil always overplays its hand and 2) whoever shoots first, loses.

Shrugged's avatar

Thanks for the good advice - it is sound.

I just worry that the patience part is risky with this level of evil takeover. Once they get their firm grip on the system, it won't go back.

LuAnn's avatar

Jim, you are right. Evil (satan) gets overconfident and over plays it.

LuAnn's avatar

All of this is true, Shrugged. But it doesn't beat cheating at the polls, legal ballot harvesting and the Ds messaging on abortion to college-educated women.

Laura Wesselmann's avatar

First day in office, Trump should pardon the January 6 political prisoners.

Chuck Goldman's avatar

…and then let the lawyers start talking restitution and recompensation on day 2.

Finally they need to put these criminal prosecutors investigators and judges (this means you Emmitt Sullivan) tried for anything they can be including distorting the rule of law. I want heads to roll!

telephoneman's avatar

and disband DC local courts

Lawsy0's avatar

Amen. I wonder if he is already working on that.

EODMom's avatar

I’ll differ: no wall or wall components will be built, no matter the apportionment. The No Industry No Power No Building Nowhere No How No More crowd will be happy to take the cash for studies and payola but nothing will be built. (See progress on the US Semiconductor industry and the so-called fast train in CA as basic examples for money spent for love and fresh air but no Stuff.) Until I see cranes, steel plate and IBar, concrete and big diggers on the border I will not believe we are winning. Birdbrains or any other appropriate name. Said BBs are sure they can outlast any originalist American and keep proceeding to the destruction of the Republic. Evil never quits.

Alice Ball's avatar

EODMom, except Texas is in the game now. And I think 23-25 other states signed on with Texas to protect the border. I have much more confidence in Texas than I do in DC.

Cookie McCall's avatar

As the saying goes - DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS!

Subvet's avatar

When Tim Pawlenty became Governore of Minnesota the head of the democrat Party siad to him. "I can wait." her meaning was he will be governor for only 4 or 8 years and that she would outlast his term.

NotFromTexas's avatar

...and she was right.

To LuAnn's point, the Democrats DO play an excellent long game because Republicans do nothing to roll back Marxist overreach or counter the Marxist agenda.

The Democrats can afford to wait.

LuAnn's avatar

Yep, that D politician was totally right and R's keep sticking to their principles and being gracious losers.

LuAnn's avatar

The Ds play a really long game to win.

telephoneman's avatar

just like the Chinese communists... hmmm

Lee's avatar

Wonderful edition. We have to get all non-birdbrains to vote in November. Gigantic turnout.

Wim de Vriend's avatar

I just hope there is some plan for monitoring the November election. Because it's a safe bet that the Dems have prepared a HUGE bag of tricks.

LuAnn's avatar

I tuned into Fox briefly last night. Steven Miller was on. He said the Republicans have to adopt a massive, legal, mail-in and ballot harvesting operation or they will lose. He says same-day voting and the polls won't change the Dems success at this. He also cautioned Republicans on their hardline abortion stance. It's not a winner with most voters, whether you like it or not. Heads up everybody.

Kv's avatar

Good morning, all.

When I think of birds, I think of a cartoon where the Creator is making ducks. "Waterproof those, and add kazoos!"

Given that there are more and more folks getting hip to the whole mess, let me say this:

While I am glad to see it, beware! The gyrations and flailing of the enemy will become more frenzied. To paraphrase something I read somewhere, not remembering the exact words, these spoiled children will try to break the toy before they will share it, or give it up. Witness the madness of "transgenders", religious zealots and their ilk.

No fear. There are far more of us than them. Not only that, but I have known (and know) men and women that, even by themselves, are more than equal to a hundred of the precious little flowers.

Have a great day, everyone.

Suzie's avatar

They will not go quietly into that goodnight.

Kv's avatar

Well, if they insist... ;)

James Wills's avatar

You can't spell geek without EE, so allow me to give a little perspective from there:

Theoretically, electric cars have immense advantages. The most efficient internal combustion engine is currently the large diesel; currently the record-holder is probably the MAN B&W 5G70ME-C9.5-TII, which has a thermal efficiency of 53.4%. This engine is designed for use in large container ships and is capable of producing up to 23,500 kW of power, about 32,000 horsepower for us Imperial-system clingers. Modern three-phase electric motors, however, are more than 95% efficient, so there's that.

The second part of the electric car equation is something we've been waiting for a long time: solid-state controllers that can handle the juice these motors require. Now that's done, and done. So far, so good.

The third part is adequate energy storage. Current batteries are not even close. Their main problem is "energy density" - how much energy can they carry, and at what cost? The best chart is probably this one:

https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*1dM9Zp4AywNHOLzpjvyIHQ.png

As Winnie-the-Pooh might say, there is a Very Good Reason airliners burn kerosene: it has the highest energy density of any commonly available fuel, but its real advantage is where it gets the oxygen needed to burn it. Assuming an ideal air/fuel ratio of ~ 15/1 - and that's by WEIGHT - to make power, a heat engine "energy" tank only has to carry 1/16 of what it needs: fuel. 15/16ths of the combustible mixture is sucked from the surrounding air and the combustion products dumped right back out. And for airplanes, where weight is critical, a side-benefit is that as the fuel is burned, the plane gets lighter.

None of this is true for current electric vehicles. (no pun intended) We are far, far from the day when electric cars are practical, and cargo trucks? The joke-est of jokes.

**************

Fun fact: Which has more energy, a pound of TNT or a pound of kerosene? ...... kerosene. And by how much? About sixteen times. Pretty hard to beat that with a battery.

Shrugged's avatar

" . . and cargo trucks? The joke-est of jokes."

So, those who ran out to buy the $69,900 Rivian or Tesla Cybertruck are birdbrains. Their resale value is horrible. Might was well throw your money away.

James Wills's avatar

Yes. Including my old graduate-school study partner, Tom. I write to him occasionally to see how his Rivian is working out; he lives in Denver now - the Worst place to have one of those things, especially in winter. It's everything I can do to keep from rubbing his nose in it. The only reason they get any range at all is that they are practically all aluminum. The problem is that trucks are for towing and carrying things, and when you try either of those, the range goes to less than half.

Shrugged's avatar

Sounds like Tom wasn't really studying in those "study partner" gatherings. Was he hiding a comic book inside of his textbook and pretending to study?

James Wills's avatar

We were in doctor's school, not exactly a hotbed of critical thinking. I won't even begin about how dangerous it is to be sick these days, c'os as we all know, your problem is because you're white.

Cookie McCall's avatar

and medical facilities, just like academia have WAY TOO MANY administrators who are clueless about the job they're hired to do and not enough trained physicians

Alice Ball's avatar

100%. Back in the day, doctors were actually educated and they ran the hospitals. The government ruined healthcare starting in the 1950s.

Shrugged's avatar

Yes, we're dying from reverse discrimination, prescribed by our leftists in government and all the RINOs.

Cookie McCall's avatar

one of our neighbors has a Rivian - the ugliest vehicle ever made

Lawsy0's avatar

I just googled the Rivian. That indeed is one mugly other!

Lawsy0's avatar

Or, burn it for fuel.

Subvet's avatar

Two of my golf partners have Teslas. They try to justify by saying it is cheaper. I keep my mouth shut.

James Wills's avatar

I hate to admit it, but I'm becoming an ECP - Elon chauvinist pig. I don't see how Teslas can compete with IC engines - at least on a level playing field, but I never count him out. He has a degree in physics and a Ph.D. from Comstock's School of Hard Knocks, so I am certain he sees far, far into the future - a lot farther than I do.

William Coulter's avatar

A bit of an uplifting article this am. Nice job.

I sure hope so because… well just because it seems everyday I get up and there is something else screwed up in the country or the world that upon closer examination is caused by 1. Democrats 2. Globalists or 3. George Soros and crew.

Hopefully they have once again over played their hands and the folks are not only getting fed up but are willing to do something about it

One last aside about your ev comment: they are known to self ignite as well.

tj's avatar

Car and house insurance are impossible if you have an EV for that very reason. there was a several story apt building that just went up due probably to the Electric scooters. plus well, salt water and EVs dont mix either.

LuAnn's avatar

You can get car insurance in Canada if you have an EV but it is expensive. You can have an EV charger in your garage in Canada and still get house insurance. I shudder to think of the potential fires, which are difficult to put out.

telephoneman's avatar

but getting insurance if you have a wood burning stove....

LuAnn's avatar

Many insurance companies will not cover wood stoves.

TeaPartyGal's avatar

Didn't know that, was considering one. Good info.

tj's avatar

We have had 3 car accidents with EVs that I can think of right off hand around my area. There were no survivors, and 2 were bad enough, I could see it. One was fairly minor but the batteries exploded. The fire depts let them burn. Nothing would put them out. The batteries have the components to make their own O2 when burning. One burned for 4 days, the others 3.

Doug's avatar

ICYMI, George Soros and his crew have just gained control of 220 radio stations, having ponied up $400 million to help Audicity emerge from bankruptcy.

Kv's avatar

D, methinks one must actually listen to radio before it can influence. The left attempted to open up a niche in talk radio after Rush began his gig; as I recall, it did a proverbial faceplant. Most low IQ folks want music or sports, not Bagchatter Bill to listen to.

Suzie's avatar

He didn’t buy them to create “influence”.

He bought them to destroy AM radio.

LuAnn's avatar

And any right of centre/conservative voices.

Marlan Hoerer's avatar

I hope they are as successful as AirAmerica was,

Wim de Vriend's avatar

Liberals don't have a record of using radio well. Unless your standard is NPR., with their schoolmarm intonation.

Subvet's avatar

NPR is kept alive by the Governement. Otherwise it would be gone.

Marlan Hoerer's avatar

Amen to a waste of tax monies Sub.

Suzie's avatar

Our government is busy doing the same thing in Hungary to aid in the overthrow of their government.

Lawsy0's avatar

If SOB Soros didn't buy WSM, the Air Castle of the South, home of the Grand Ole Opry, I'll be okay.

Cookie McCall's avatar

noticed yesterday that Mercedes has cut it's EV production goal in half since no one wants to buy them - even the folks with big wads of cash

Alice Ball's avatar

I wonder if Ford and GM will be bankrupt over their investment in EVs?

NotFromTexas's avatar

Don't forget the go-along-to-get-along Republicans - the ones who are possessed of the ghost of Bob Michel.

Mark's avatar

Sad that you are mocking the 7th (Obama) and 14th(Biden) greatest presidents ranked by esteemed historians. One of the problems with having the worst rates president in history (Trump) win again is the deviants presently in power will just go underground and plan and plot again. The gene pool needs to be cleared of idiocy.

Rfhirsch's avatar

Those "ratings" were done by real birds clicking on buttons shaped like tree bark.

Epstein Did Not Kill Himself's avatar

When using birdbrain to describe Biden, I was thinking that might be unfair to birds everywhere. After all, some of then can speak in complete sentences.

Steve Boggs's avatar

Just like ABC had its Thursday Night Edition of Monday Night Football, this seems to be Wednesday’s Edition of Saturday Morning Fish-in-a-Barrel Shoot.

Good points all, now put the Remington 870 back under the bed, and buy more ammo for your 30-06.

But hey, sometimes you got to wake up the neighborhood.

telephoneman's avatar

12 gauge with 3 oght buckshot has better spread

Ronsonic's avatar

"Birdbrain" might be a little too kind but since you're running a family friendly joint here it'll have to do.

Flier's avatar

Palestinians might indeed have overplayed their hand, but I remain very concerned at their success on college campuses across the USA. The number of college students who have demonstrated and marched to support Palestine, and even the Democratic voters in Michigan who voted "none of the above" represents a sea change in opinion by an influential voting bloc. Worse is likely to come.

tj's avatar

To be honest, I believe a lot of the Hamas supporting idiots are the same ones that were paid to be Antifa brown shirts. Yes, a lot are college students but I think most dont actually attend college and are just there to collect a paycheck. Our MSM has never been interested in following where the protesters could protest for a couple years and never need anything. Also, where in the H did all those pallets of bricks come from that were all around everywhere but no actual construction zones? Crickets.

Suzie's avatar

NGO’s paid for by your government’s grant business.

Cookie McCall's avatar

Rachel Campos Duffy did an excellent expose on unmarked buildings being used as hotels by NGO's for housing illegals last night

LuAnn's avatar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4k5sVQb9dE&t=15s

Lara Logan talks about the evilness of NGOs before a Senate committee. She is defending freedom of speech. Makes 100% solid arguments.

TeaPartyGal's avatar

Yes, and if you look at the pictures of (say) the Harvard Hamas supporters, they are nearly all foreign students "of color", not really representative of the majority of college students.

Flier's avatar

I agree there are a lot of paid demonstrators. But their numbers influence others, and the fact journalists don’t pursue the story also influences public opinion. All in all, we’re in a world of hurt.

Mark's avatar

Maybe more idiots will set themselves on fire. There are not too many of them. Look at Brazil last week. 2M showed up to support Israel and condemn Lula. These number of dolts are low and if they influence other dolts it will flush them out. Christians generally support Israel.

Lawsy0's avatar

If one or more see fit to become Crispy Critters, that's their choice. After the funeral, Mom and Dad will ask, "Whaddi do wrong?"

Cookie McCall's avatar

otherwise they can just glue themselves to the pavement!

tj's avatar

I really really wish the police would just leave them there. Make a work around to clear traffic or the museum but let them just sit and contemplate how they are going to get food, and take care of more personal business. One of the museums did this. after about 4 or 6 hrs, I dont remember, the protesters were crying to get freed.

Marlan Hoerer's avatar

Only if the powers that be leave them glued til their last inhale.

Suzie's avatar

A great majority of those protesting and instigating protests on campuses are international students, which comprise a greater percentage of students now than ever before.

We have the legal power to strip them of their Visas but no one will do it. They are a huge cash cow for the universities.

LuAnn's avatar

Yes, international students are driving this in Canada, too.

TeaPartyGal's avatar

Made my reply to TJ above before I saw you and LuAnn's comments--I agree, its the international students leading this.

LuAnn's avatar

And we're taking them in -- in droves in Canada because of the extremely high tuition we charge them, which helps fund universities and their administrations. So this is what you get.

tj's avatar

Yep, Harvard, Yale, all of them.

Wim de Vriend's avatar

It's gotten to the point where I'd favor the Kent State treatment. But maybe we should try abolishing the college loan program first. That has only succeeded in turning the so-called Higher Ed establishments into enormously expensive bird brain nests.

Suzie's avatar

The US government has no business to be in that business.

Their grant business also has to go!

Lawsy0's avatar

I was stunned, stunned I tell you when I just learned this week that my niece's two sons have totally paid off their college loans. I still have to breathe slowly when I think of that. She and hubby were middle tier wage earners in southern Mississippi, no less. And the fool on the Hill in DC is paying off loans that millionaire children incurred!

tj's avatar

He is doing the loan forgiveness to get the kids to vote for him but also for the parents to be grateful and vote for him. Or it might even be paybacks on big dollar donation donors....

Wim de Vriend's avatar

Agreed. It's a big slush fund, and from what I've learned, it financed the development of the COVID bug. Thanks to that sinister mini-potentate Fauci!

Larry B's avatar

The Jew Haters at these colleges will find it hard to get a job. And if they do get a job Al Gore's internet (peace be upon him) never forgets and will have a way of catching up to these haters.

Jim Nelson's avatar

Loved the Chris Plante reference.

Larry B's avatar

He is sooo good. I used to live in DC and had WMAL on all the time.

Jim Nelson's avatar

He occupies the 9 - 12 slot on our local talk radio station and was doing that when Rush was on from noon to 3. He is wicked funny and pulls no punches.

CactusMatt32's avatar

Remember when it was the Iranians wanted Khomeini instead of the Fascist Shah…..didn’t work out to well….