Day: February 22, 2024

DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20240222

Badlands News Brief – February 21, 2024

MAGA’s Punching Bag

Swiss Billionaire’s Nonprofit Sent $35 Million To Dark Money Group Propping Up Dems

Donating Blood and the COVID Vaccine [Corrected]

Irreconcilable Differences: California’s GOP Falters From Within

The State of California is a textbook example of what happens when leftist oligarchs, environmentalist extremists, academic socialists, corporatists and crony capitalists, labor unions (mostly in the public sector), ambulance-chasing trial lawyers, and a media best described collectively as negligent, lazy cowards all join hands and decide to loot the middle class. The people being driven out of California are variously described by Democrats as too privileged, too independent, too unsustainable, recalcitrant, troglodytic, superseded, irrelevant, unwanted, and guilty by reason of whiteness. The attitude of California’s upper class towards the people whose hard work built the state is either hurry up and die or get lost and good riddance.

Same thing that happens when any group assuming the mantle of “elite” has reason to keep the non-elite suppressed for fear of overthrow.

Biden Co-Chair: It’s ‘Unreasonable’ ‘to Expect Everybody to Be Happy and Excited’ Since Country’s in ‘Very Difficult Time’

Do they bother to listen to themselves?

Democratic Senator Says Lindsey Graham ‘Would Literally Push His Mother in Front of a Train’ to Get Reelected

Environmentalism Needs a New Playbook

Our Young People Are the Product of the Western World’s Dying Culture

A Swan Song for the MSM

Trump’s VP Choice

WATCH: O’Keefe Strikes Again – IRS Official Tells O’Keefe Media Group Reporter That the IRS uses AI to Spy on Americans’ Bank Accounts: Is It Constitutional? “I doubt it,” says IRS Official Alex Mena

TWEETS!

In my temp travels a couple decades ago, I worked at the Red Cross. Aside from first aid certification and lifeguard training, the organization is a pseudo-government entity that exists for profit.

That’s my take. PDJT’s time in office was an evidence gathering endeavor.

Truckers not going to New York is having an impact.

MEMES and FUN STUFF

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And now for the business portion.

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Be careful in expressing thoughts as we would all like to think well of the rest of the group, and ill-thought out comments have a way of wrecking that for everyone.

Fellow tree dweller, the late Wheatie, gave us some good reminders on the basics of civility in political discourse:

  1. No food fights
  2. No running with scissors
  3. If you bring snacks, be sure they are made with bacon

Auntie DePat’s requests as we are all supposedly adults and don’t just play them on TV like the body doubles pretending to be the squatter in chief:

If you see something has not been posted, do us all a favor, and post it. Please, do not complain that it has not been done yet.

The scroll wheel on your mouse can be your friend. As mature adults, please use it here in the same manner you would in avoiding online porn.

Thank you so much for any and all attention to such details. It is GREATLY appreciated by more than one party here.

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MATTHEW 16:13-19

13Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesare’a Philip’pi, he asked his disciples, “Who do men say that the Son of man is?” 14And they said, “Some say John the Baptist, others say Eli’jah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” 15He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” 16Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” 17And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jona! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. 18And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it. 19I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”

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SATIRE

Really, nobody cares.

Gross.