DEAR MAGA: Open Thread 20250116

Cover image: North Dakota Badlands

Still not quite up to it, but doing exercises and the like.

TWEETS!

Marco Rubio was impressive on Wednesday.

https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1879553592861905122

@JerryDunleavy

The opening statement given by Secretary of State nominee Marco Rubio just now eviscerates decades of failed U.S. foreign policy: “Out of the triumphalism of the end of the long Cold War emerged a bipartisan consensus, and this consensus was that we had reached ‘the end of history.’ That all the nations of earth would become members of the democratic Western-led community. That a foreign policy that served the national interest could now be replaced by one that served the ‘liberal world order.’ And that all mankind was now destined to abandon national sovereignty and national identity, and we would become ‘one human family’ and ‘citizens of the world.’ This wasn’t just a fantasy — we now know it was a dangerous delusion.

Here in America, and in many of the advanced economies across the world, an almost religious commitment to free and unfettered trade at the expense of our national economy shrunk the middle class, left the working class in crisis, collapsed our industrial capacity, and has pushed critical supply chains into the hands of adversaries and of rivals. An irrational zeal for maximum freedom of movement of people has resulted in a historic mass migration crisis here in America but also around the world — it’s one that threatens the stability of societies and governments. Across the West, governments now censor and even prosecute domestic political opponents. Meanwhile radical jihadists openly march in the streets and sadly drive vehicles into our people.

While America far too often prioritized the ‘global order’ above our core national interests, other nations continued to act the way countries always have and always will — in what they perceive to be in their best interest. And instead of folding into the post-Cold War global order, they have manipulated it to serve their interests at the expense of ours. We welcomed the Chinese Communist Party into the global order, and they took advantage of all its benefits, and they ignored all its obligations and responsibilities. Instead, they have repressed, and lied, and cheated, and hacked, and stolen their way to global superpower status, and they have done so at our expense and at the expense of their own country.

In our very own hemisphere, despots and narco-terrorists take advantage of open borders to drive mass migration, to traffic women and children, and to flood our communities with fentanyl and violent criminals. In Moscow, Tehran, and Pyongyang, dictators — rogue states — now sow chaos and instability and align with and they fund radical terror groups, and then hide behind their veto power at the United Nations Security Council and the threat of nuclear war. The postwar global order is not just obsolete — it is now a weapon being used against us. And all this has led to a moment in which we must now confront the single greatest risk of geopolitical instability and of generational global crisis in the lifetime of anyone alive today.”

MEMES and FUN STUFF

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

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https://twitter.com/CSLewisDaily/status/1610629633422016513

Hebrews 3:7-14

7Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, when you hear his voice, 8do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness, 9where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years. 10Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, `They always go astray in their hearts; they have not known my ways.’ 11As I swore in my wrath, `They shall never enter my rest.'” 12Take care, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. 13But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today, ” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14For we share in Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end,

Psalms 95:6-11

6O come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the LORD, our Maker! 7For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. O that today you would hearken to his voice! 8Harden not your hearts, as at Mer’ibah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness, 9when your fathers tested me, and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work. 10For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a people who err in heart, and they do not regard my ways.” 11Therefore I swore in my anger that they should not enter my rest.

Mark 1:40-45

40And a leper came to him beseeching him, and kneeling said to him, “If you will, you can make me clean.” 41Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, “I will; be clean.” 42And immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean. 43And he sternly charged him, and sent him away at once, 44and said to him, “See that you say nothing to any one; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, for a proof to the people.” 45But he went out and began to talk freely about it, and to spread the news, so that Jesus could no longer openly enter a town, but was out in the country; and people came to him from every quarter.

https://twitter.com/_LoveLike_JESUS/status/1620561701098909698

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SATIRE

WEEKEND STARTER

Snowflake Martini Recipe

Ingredients

(makes one drink)

  • 2 oz. vanilla vodka
  • 2 oz. Godiva white chocolate liqueur
  • 1 oz. white creme de cacao
  • 1 oz.  half and half
  • Lemon wedge
  • Sanding sugar

Directions

  1. Cut a lemon wedge and rub it around the rim of the glass. Dip the rim in the sugar to coat evenly.
  2. Add the vodka, chocolate liqueur, creme de cacao, and half and half into a shaker filled with ice.
  3. Shake well and strain mixture into glass.
  4. Serve immediately, and enjoy with your favorite seasonal tunes next to a toasty fireplace!

Have a good weekend, y’all.

Have a good one y’all.

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SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

FOUR Days, 11 Hours, 50 minutes until our Once and Future President, Donald Trump, is restored to his rightful office.

Not that I’m counting, mind you.

scott467

Nought but a fournight.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

LOL! That needs to be a word, just so that grammar nazis correcting it, can be corrected by grammar normies!

Cuppa Covfefe

Nowt bu’a fo’night… in’nit ??? 🙂

scott467

Words are very elastic and pliable in my world… 😁

Aubergine

And he will, in four more days!

pgroup2

ThanQ DePat.

TheseTruths

HEARING: John Ratcliffe Roasts Adam Schiff, Sets the Record Straight on Hunter Biden Laptop

While Pam Bondi’s hearing had the most fireworks, Ratcliffe got his shots in as well. During his opening statement, he made clear that the politicization of the CIA would stop under his leadership.

Steve Guest:

MUST WATCH: John Ratcliffe, @realDonaldTrump‘s nominee to be CIA Director, on restoring real leadership to the CIA:

“My leadership at CIA will focus on setting and communicating priorities, and demanding relentless execution. Above all will be a strict adherence to the CIA’s mission. We will collect intelligence – especially human intelligence – in every corner of the globe, no matter how dark or difficult. We will produce insightful, objective, all-source analysis, never allowing political or personal biases to cloud our judgement or infect our products. We will conduct covert action at the direction of the president, going places no one else can go and doing things no one else can do. To the brave CIA officers listening around the world, if all of this sounds like what you signed up for, then buckle up and get ready to make a difference! If it doesn’t, then it’s time to find a new line of work. We must be the ultimate meritocracy. I will unapologetically empower the most talented, hardest working, and most courageous risk-takers and innovators to protect the American people and advance America’s interest, and I will not tolerate anything or anyone that distracts from our mission.”

https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1879553939013607847

Also from today’s hearing:

RATCLIFFE: “In 2020, when a chairman of an intelligence committee misrepresented that a laptop owned by then-candidate Biden’s son was somehow a Russian intelligence operationand 51 former intelligence officials used the imprimatur of IC authority to go along with that, I stood in the breach, I stood alone and told the American people the truth about that. So I think my record in terms of speaking truth to power and defending the intelligence community and its good work is very clear, and what I can assure you is, those types of instances, if I’m in that position as CIA director and have to do that again, as uncomfortable as that can be, to be accused, you know, the truth will ultimately defend itself, and I think intelligence will as well.”

In case you aren’t acquainted with the details, Ratcliffe is nailing Rep. Adam Schiff in the above excerpt. He was the “chairman of the intelligence committee” that went on various news programs to lie to the American people and claim that the Hunter Biden laptop was a Russian information operation. That ultimately led to Schiff being censured and prevented from rejoining the committee after Republicans won the House of Representatives in 2022. 

Ratcliffe, who was DNI during Trump’s first term, was the only major intelligence official to come out and tell the truth about the laptop. He did so under a barrage of attacks from the press claiming he was misleading the public to protect the soon-to-be second-term president. In the end, he was vindicated while people like Schiff never apologized for the falsehoods they pushed. That is exactly why Ratcliffe is the right man to lead the CIA. That organization has been politicized and weaponized against Americans for far too long. The time to bring everyone back in line is now, and those who don’t want that can “find a new line of work.”

Gail Combs

Given, yesterdays article and the article I am going to write for next Wednesday, I want the CIA disbanded!

The CIA was NAZI from the very start!

TradeBait2

Yup.

To go back to doing things legally and within the mission in international intelligence means the whole thing has to be shut down and rebooted. Everything that even the wannabe patriots have been taught and then implemented has been infected from early on. They have become terrorists with all of their sponsorship of color revolutions, cartels and such.

I do not want my tax dollars going to people, places, and operations of the clowns as they exist today. It is embarrassing and evil.

Glad Ratcliffe is in charge. I wish he was overseeing the death of the clowns and the birth of patriot intelligence.

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Gail Combs

I sure hope he is! On the other hand ANNOUNCING the death of the CIA is what got JFK killed.

TheseTruths

Trump’s inaugural photo should be making some people nervous.

Nick Sortor:

President Trump’s new presidential portrait has been revealed.

BADASS.

https://twitter.com/nicksortor/status/1879637509686399222

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TheseTruths

In color:

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Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Love it!

pat frederick

hey! I patented that “stink eye” look almost 35 years ago! worked pretty well until the kids went to high school!

kalbokalbs

That’s funny.   :wpds_lol: 

Gail Combs

You can not patented that “stink eye” look. Moms from caveman days have been using it!

kalbokalbs

DWs perfected “stink eye”, before their Mom days came along.

Gail Combs

They learned it from their Moms.

pat frederick

I have the documentation and everything…LOL

Gail Combs

  :wpds_shock:   :wpds_smile:   :wpds_lol: .

pat frederick

😆

TradeBait2

Well, in east TN it is called “stank eye”. Does your patent cover that wording?

😂

pat frederick

I dunno. I haven’t tested my reach for a while. I know it could reach into other rooms and even outside if I really put the stink in it…LOL

kalbokalbs

Wow. That is quite the unseen presence, with effect. 😂

pat frederick

my son once said he could “feel” the face even outside

kalbokalbs

That is also funny. Not to mention, effective. You’re cracking me up today. Thanks.

pat frederick

he paid me back though–repeatedly.
he’d call at 11pm from college–hey mom i wanna make a turkey for the dorm, how long do i need to defrost a 27 pound turkey?
Or…hey mom what goes in beef stroganoff??
I always asked…who IS this? LOL

cthulhu

After you got past the identity, I presume you told him, “beef…….and stroganoff.”

pat frederick

no…but THAT would have been a great reply…LOL

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

The stroganoff is the best part!

Gail Combs

I make hamburger stroganoff all the time. It really is an easy dish to make.

However I leave out the flour for thickening and use rice instead of egg noodles.

pgroup2

Use ground bison. Much healthier.

cthulhu

That’s as opposed to sky bison? Or maybe…..[wait for it]…..water buffalo?

singingsoul1

Young people are funny and you did something right with your son 🙂 I am sure he became a good cook ?
One of mine kept calling 3-4 AM telling his father he is going to quit his PhD program.
He called on his way home from the lab. He told his father he rather work at UPS. One night I wanted to get the phone and tell him do it 🙂
About 7 am he would call us again telling us he changed his mind and loves what he is doing.
We got a call like that once a week for two years.
That is what parents are for for info and guidance . 😉

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pat frederick

my son is a very pragmatic man. he wanted to be and IS self sufficient. he loves to eat, so he learned to cook his favorite meals. then while on a vacation, he saw a knitted blanket he wanted for his apartment-he went on utube learned to knit and made one for himself. he picked up a log splitter that was out for free…went on utube and learned how to fix it. neighbor put his lawn tractor out and my son asked about it. he said he couldn’t get it to work and bought a new one–asked my son if he wanted it. My son took it and fixed it and uses it. he can learn anything.
he definitely has that can-do spirit!

Gail Combs

Can I borrow him for about a year?

pgroup2

LoL

Barb Meier

and hugs.

Valerie Curren

LOL!

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!

singingsoul1

That is good 🙂
Mine was all about the eyes. When they misbehaved I looked at them they cold feel my stare and stopped what they were doing.
Whatever works to correct kids is good 🙂

Cuppa Covfefe

Basic Instink?

Valerie Curren
pgroup2

I bet you were a blonde cheerleader also.  😂 

pat frederick

oh hell no! despite the boobs at an early age…I was a scholar, a chem lab assistant, first in my class.
boggles the mind, right?

kalbokalbs

^^^ Fits the mold.
Second seater on a Harley.   :wpds_wink: 

pat frederick

so stereotypical, right?

Barb Meier

I see the darkness at the top of his right ear. I wonder if the shot took off a piece of his ear. Prayers for President Trump and his family.

Barb Meier

This will always be my favorite.

GfXr6oPXEAAmdkc
kalbokalbs

That’s hilarious.   :wpds_lol:   :wpds_lol:   :wpds_lol: 

TheseTruths

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Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

scott467

Here’s hoping.

BIGLY.

Valerie Curren

Something along these lines!

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Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

AMEN!!!

TheseTruths

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Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

So great!

Cuppa Covfefe

All of the rest of the government employees have been laid off.

Promises made, actions delivered…

(would be great!!!)…..

TheseTruths

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scott467

Such rotten luck, he just flew those masterpieces out to L.A. the night before the fire.

We should all be hoping the best for Hunter, as we would hope for any man with the courage to pose in a red feather boa and matching white Adidas with red stripes… and practically nothing else 😂

TheseTruths

US bans popular red dye from foods — 35 years after it was banned in cosmetics

The FDA today has issued an order today that will ban Red No. 3 from food products and ingested drugs.

The dye, which was approved for use in 1907, has been banned in cosmetics and topical drugs since 1990 over evidence that it can cause cancer. Its use in food is already banned or restricted in Australia, Japan, and countries in the EU.

Red No. 3. is commonly found in candy, gum and cookies, including Brach’s candy corn, Betty Crocker sprinkles and strawberry Ensure.

Food manufacturers will have until Jan. 15, 2027, to remove it from all products, while makers of ingested drugs will have until Jan. 18, 2028…

I know it must take time to change manufacturing practices, but that seems way too long to me.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Two years for foods gets rid of most of it quickly. Drugs are consumed in smaller quantities – so an extra year that most won’t need, IMO.

One and two would beat two and three, IMO, but I’ll take the fast ban, frankly! I was not expecting that.

kalbokalbs

frankly! I was not expecting that.

RFK Jr having an impact before he walks in the door.

Gail Combs

This helped!

Kellogg’s Froot Loops have ‘harmful artificial dyes‘: shareholdernypost 2024/03/14

Kellogg Fruit Loops cereal box with text “Shareholder says dangerous dyes” in various colors against white background.

Kellogg is under fire for using artificial food dyes. | Fortune Well

scott467

“I know it must take time to change manufacturing practices, but that seems way too long to me.”

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It only seems that way because it is 👍

If it’s not harmful, then there’s no reason to remove it.

And if it is harmful, it better be removed tonight.

Imagine if Ford discovered their front brakes were all cracked and failing at a most inopportune moment — like when people were trying to STOP, for example.

Do they wait until 2028 to announce a recall?

Not unless they’re trying to get sued out of existence while serving life without parole.

pat frederick

excellent point!

pat frederick

wait a minute…wait a minute!
there’s RED DYE in my candy corn?
there’s not a candy corn stalk that produces it naturally?
another childhood lie my parents told me!

Gail Combs

AND your fruit loops!

kalbokalbs

Oh no. What will happen to Red M&Ms?   :wpds_shock: 

Gail Combs

Cherry juice?

kalbokalbs

Meat, at the local supermarket / processing plant?

pat frederick

how about that fake meat stuff??? oh they use beet juice maybe?

pgroup2

Some butchers used a small amount of carbon monoxide inside the ground beef package to keep the meat red because people associate darkening with not safe.

Gail Combs

Or maybe — Fruity Loops 😛😋🤓 Yandex comes up with some ‘interesting finds.’

Cuppa Covfefe

Sounds like a gay ghetto haircut…

Gail Combs

close… but a plant.

pat frederick

OMG what’s in Red Bull?

pgroup2

You don’t want to know.

pat frederick

thankfully I don’t touch the stuff

cthulhu

Once you milk that animal, you have a friend for life….

pat frederick

😆

Cuppa Covfefe

So THAT’S what TAUrine means…

(and that’s no bull)
(they’ll no doubt get the no bull prize)…

pat frederick

I never liked them. but remember Alphabets? those were my favorites!

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Oh, those were great!

pat frederick

learning AND a great cereal all in one!

scott467

Why don’t they use red lead paint?

It’s probably less toxic… and sweeter, too! 😂

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TheseTruths

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Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Agreed!

scott467

How did Doktor Jill decline the invitation?

Who offered it?

It’s not for the incoming First Lady to offer an invitation for tea at the WH (in which case docter Jill could decline), it’s for the person currently occupying the WH to offer the invitation.

So if the person responsible for making the offer (Jill) declined the offer, then who made the offer?

eilert

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1879620205795738038

il Donaldo Trumpo

@PapiTrumpo

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12h

SHE’S PROBABLY NOT COMING BECAUSE OF THIS ONE…😭🤣🤣🤣

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pgroup2

OMG! That’s too absurd for me.

Cuppa Covfefe

Somehow the phrase “who wore it better” comes to mind… 🙂

kalbokalbs

Had no recollection Melania invited Taco Jill for tea. Wonder if it is true.
.
It is true, Melania chose to not visit the WH – Vipers Den, when Trump visited in Nov or Dec.
.
Trump and Melania skipped the 2020 Maggot installation. Rightfully so.
.
I don’t make much of any of this stuff.
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As for Big Mike, napalm piss on It.
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Kakala, the very definition of Bitch.

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Aubergine

I for one would not expect the “niceties” to be pro forma between obvious enemies.

It’s not like it used to be, when Demoncrats were decent people with different ideas about things. Now they are villainous scum. I wouldn’t associate with them.

singingsoul1

Melania will needs exorcist before moving into the WH. Who knows how many daemons are left behind. 🤔

TheseTruths

Well, apparently Taco Jill has invited Melania, and she declined. I have no problems with people skipping these awkward situations, including Michelle Obama. If they have been mortal enemies with someone, I don’t think they need to have to play nice for ceremonial reasons. I do think it’s a little different with the office of the president because that is where the transfer of power takes place. But even in that case, I completely excuse Trump for not attending the 2020 inauguration since they stole the election from him.

Melania Trump ‘to skip traditional tea in snub at outgoing Jill Biden’

Nov 11, 2024  The first ladies‘ transfer-of-power tea in the White House residence has been a US tradition for a century.

TradeBait2

Sigh of relief. If the scum had done those things I would have been concerned.

TheseTruths

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scott467

“Windmills are an economic and environmental disaster.”

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Worse than that, it’s a logic disaster. Sheer idiocy. More ‘trust the science’ nonsense.

To the point that it had to be just another fraud / kickback scheme where Leftist politicians defrauded U.S. taxpayers out of hundreds of billions of dollars.

Investigate every company contracted to build the useless windmills, and follow where the money went.

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pgroup2

A referral to the Department of Clawback is appropriate.

gil00

It is scott. They clise off all these lands andvthen the pols give contracts to strip mine, put windmills, or solar on the lands to frens or family.

Brave and Free

This would bring back the beautiful countryside that’s been disgraced with their presence.
BBBA, Bring Beauty Back Again

gil00

It would make desert hot springs and palm springs nice again. On top of that they keep killing not only the birds but the endangered tortoise and other animals. Take them out@

Cuppa Covfefe

And the ones out at sea disturb the sea life and their communications (whales, for one)… the subsonic frequencies they emit are unhealthy for everyone and everything…

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Windmills are a Chinese plot. Change my mind!

TheseTruths

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scott467

They sure do.

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Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

This message approved by the highly needed Department of Chinese Treachery.

TheseTruths

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scott467

https://x.com/NabeelAzeezDXB/status/1872897560429363406

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“I will lose my brown card for saying this:

1. Only American whites believe in individualism, meritocracy, fair play, colour-blindness etc. Everywhere else in the world – including the white places – your station in life is based on where you’re born, who your parents are, who you know, where you went to school etc. England, for example, is terribly classist.

2. Brown, black and yellow people want revenge on whites for beating us during Colonialism. And “we” don’t care how we get it. Immigration, jobs, gov’t benefits, etc.

3. Browns, blacks, and yellows born in America never got over whatever racism they faced growing up. Being called towel head, sand n-word, Apu, etc. Once they have they have any power over white Americans, they will use it to harm them.

4. Browns, blacks, and yellows are the most racist peoples in all of the world. And most of all towards other, slightly different, browns, blacks, and yellows.

Generalizations aren’t universalizations, etc.

But by and large, what I have said is true.”

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Yup.

The problem isn’t as bad in math and the sciences, because people there are trained over years of their lives to focus on logical problems, but it’s still there to some extent, and it ends up being abused by forces that have agendas. Pretending it’s not there doesn’t work.

prairierose123

A lot of “reds” are pretty darn racist too.

scott467

It takes so much negative energy to hate someone. I just can’t imagine doing it, without a really good reason.

And skin color just isn’t anywhere near a good enough reason.

It’s kind of ridiculous, actually.

TradeBait2

Yup. Which is all marching orders from their father of lies.

TheseTruths

I could have told them…

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Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

So much “duh” is finally being admitted as stupid. Now – to see if the media pivots (looks like they are) or tries to keep gaslighting us (on some things, they still will!)

TheseTruths

Yes. I could have told them this, too. In the future, people are going to find what has been done during these past few years to be utterly inexplicable. `

Marine Corp study found all-male combat units performed better than mixed units. All-male units were faster, and more accurate and precise. Additionally, there was a higher rate of injury for females compared to males when performing the same task.

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1879310230162710551

scott467

I call it deliberate sabotage from within, and it was all pushed by Leftists.

TradeBait2

^^^ This.

If you want to take over power you destroy the foundation. Capitalism is the foundation of anything that is successful economically. So make it more difficult to acquire and less attractive while not punishing the thieves severely.

pgroup2

Of course there is a higher injury rate. The females will try harder to keep up to the males [which is often an effort beyond their personal best] and the males will stand back to allow the females to try because they don’t want to have to fill out fitness reports that reveal insufficiency of the female [which eventually gets her separated from the military].

All of that is done semi-conscious or subconscious and DETRACTS FROM UNIT MISSION PERFORMANCE.

IOW, in a combat situation the presence of females can get people killed.

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pat frederick

especially if, in a difficult situation, a male soldier feels an obligation to protect a female soldier more than he might a male soldier he feels is more qualified to look out for himself.

pgroup2

Exactly.

cthulhu

Not women’s?

pat frederick

our walmart is in a college town. guess what they lock up?

condoms, lube, axe body spray.

cthulhu

When I was at the University of Casual Sun-Bathing, one of the local drugstore chains had a “back to school” endcap display…..that included contraceptive sponges.

pat frederick

for clean up on aisle 2?

Cuppa Covfefe

So much for a blue-light special…..

cthulhu

Could be a red-light special….

Cuppa Covfefe

Or a Saturday-night special…

kalbokalbs

Nailing criminals will largely fix the problem.

As well as closing stores where crime, theft is not prosecuted. Close those stores. Leave those cities, states if necessary.

This is NOT rocket science.

Wonder if the likes of Wally World, Lowes and HD are paying attention.

TradeBait2

My experiences at Wally, HD and Sam’s have been really good of late. Sam’s no longer even looks at our receipt, they just wave us through because I use the phone app to scan items as we put them in the cart, count them to verify, charge to the CC and head out the door.

We have bought so much from HD at great discounts for the kid’s addition they just lay out the red carpet. 😂 We never get checked at Wally, just scan and go. Nothing much is secured in the aisles at any of those three. The probably have eyes on it all through the video security cameras.

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pat frederick

we have one walmart in the area–45 minutes from us. they close? we’re SOOL

Gail Combs

“….closing stores where crime, theft is not prosecuted. Close those stores. Leave those cities, states if necessary….”

….

If the inhabitants of the areas do not want that to happen then they need to rake their local politicians over the coals and get reasonable laws and law enforcement.

Why should the rest of us pay a higher price for goods because “theft is not prosecuted.”

Basic economics, is a business make a profit or dies. That means they have to raise prices to cover ‘shrinkage’ At some point they reach the point where the prices are so high they start losing customers. Too much of that and they go out of business.

So yes, they WILL close stores that become unprofitable. Happens all the time.

kalbokalbs

Huh? Wut? Short sighted. I don’ think so. Please reread my post above..

If one does not want to move, DON’T Move. Did not suggest anyone move in this post.

  • The post I replied to was businesses losing sales because of theft.

My point was Walgreens, Targay, Lowes, Wally World, and HD must monitor there bottom line.

  • If any locale is unsafe or theft is too high, shut the damn store down.
  • If enough stores shut down, blue shithole cities / states Will Get Serious with theft AND crime.

Just as I am not a fan of nonsense like, Go Along, To Get Along.

  • This applies to businesses should Not Go Along, To Get Along, to appease blue shithole cities / states that approve of theft.
kalbokalbs

Thanks for the laughs.   :insane: 

Aubergine

Much cheaper to hire an armed security guard. There are plenty of ex-military who could do the job for a decent salary.

Aubergine

Probably.

Cuppa Covfefe

Just think of the impressive weapons they could use… would send the gangbangers scattering like cockroaches under a bright light 😆

Aubergine

It’d be fun!

Gail Combs

Depending on the city, the security guard can not be armed and he can not interfere with the theft.

What Security Guards Can and Can’t Do

….One of the key distinctions between security guards and police officers lies in their legal authority. Unlike law enforcement, security guards operate under private employment, and the law limits their powers. In the vast majority of cases, they’re observers and deterrentsnot law enforcement officers.

If we had to boil down the job of security guards to 3 words or less, it’d be “observe and report.”

Their keen eyes watch for suspicious activity, from shoplifting to vandalism. Think of them as human security cameras, logging potential threats and relaying them to the authorities when necessary…..

But remember, they can’t make arrests themselves

He can detain but then he maybe open to a lawsuit or even time in jail. After what has been done to police officers & good Samaritans, he would be a fool to actually touch someone esp if they are of a protected class.

pgroup2

All shoplifting arrests are citizen arrests. The perp is turned over to the police for safekeeping and the city/county attorney takes over.

Cops cannot arrest for a misdemeanor that they don’t see happen. Neither can private citizens.

TheseTruths

NEW: Democrat Dick Durbin asks Pam Bondi about QAnon:

“Cabal of satanic, cannibalistic, child molesters”

https://twitter.com/cassiuscasey/status/1879600573353505134

Durbin says, “Let me tell you what I’ve learned about it. The core belief is that a cabal of satanic, cannibalistic, child molesters are embedded within our government and are conspiring against President-elect Trump.”

First of all, anything Durbin has “learned” about “QAnon” is not coming from a reliable source. Also, that statement does not drill down to what Q is about. It is a purposely sensationalized distortion.

Yes, there are child molesters in our government, and there are satanists. I’m not sure about cannibals embedded in the government, but it’s possible. I don’t know if Marina Abramovich could be classified as a cannibal. She is not embedded in our government.

It’s not just about “taking down Trump,” either. It’s about taking down what Trump represents: America and her founding principles, truth, justice, the rule of law, decency, morality, normality, peace, etc. Durbin is full of it, and I’d love to wipe that smug smirk off his face with some facts.

Bondi said she had heard of “QAnon” but had never heard that definition attached to it. Bingo. I bet she knows more about Q than she is (wisely) saying.

Durbin is going to try to nail Kash Patel with this. 🍿

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Yes! Popcorn!

TheseTruths

Correction: Marina Abramovic.

kalbokalbs

Durbin is going to try to nail Kash Patel with this.

Patel is plenty ready to bob, weave AND make a mockery of D-Rats trying to nail him.

Aubergine

See my response. Kash could do the same.

pgroup2

He would have better results trying to nail Jello to the wall instead of Kash.

singingsoul1

Patel might know more about Durbin than he realizes. Durbin might want to be careful 🙂

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TradeBait2

Durbin is well past his effective “best used by” date.

Aubergine

Here’s the thing: “Qanon” is a made-up media thing. Since it doesn’t exist, I could look you straight in the eye and tell you I know nothing about it.

Q is real, and anons are, too. But you didn’t ask about that.

pgroup2

Using ‘mashed peas’ headlines is a hallmark of the leftist thug cabal.

[mashed peas means one or more facts combined to make up a false fact that appears real]

Aubergine

A portmanteau, of a kind.

Cuppa Covfefe

Visualize whirled peas…

pgroup2

Yup.

pgroup2

She is not embedded in our government.

As far as we know, she isn’t. However she could be a confidential human source of the FIB and who could know?

TheseTruths

I suspect there’s a lot of that going around.

Gail Combs

Remember that “QAnon” is a Fake News FICTION that does not exist! I am sure Kash Patel can use that tiny fact to his advantage.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Right now, it’s looking like mildly cold and snowy for the Trump rally, and very cold for the inauguration!  🏂

TheseTruths

Very exciting!

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

We are about to get slammed by sub zero temps.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Ouch!!!

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

It’s an annual event here.

When it’s two weeks of -20 F that’s a bit unusual but by no means unknown. (We won’t be getting that this time).

Gail Combs

In mid NC we are now at 15F BRRrrrrrrrrr…..

Aubergine

Yeah, me too. Dammit.

kalbokalbs

Great history to witness. Enjoy every moments.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

I was trying to describe that to my wife. It’s a massive event!

Aubergine

Baby blue fur coat?

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

All eyes on Melania! What WILL she wear!!! 😍

Aubergine

Whatever it is, it will be classy and lovely, I’m sure.

I personally would wear a t-shirt that read “fuck all y’all, I’m BACK!”

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

LOL!!!

gil00

Enough to stop the parade?

TheseTruths

Pam Bondi refuses to say that Joe Biden won the 2020 Election and says she saw FIRSTHAND what they did in Pennsylvania.

So our incoming Attorney General knows the 2020 Election was stolen. Think about that.

The criminals must be nervous.

https://twitter.com/Patri0tContr0l/status/1879555702001447388

Durbin asks: “Are you prepared to say today, under oath, without reservation, that Donald Trump lost the presidential election to Joe Biden in 2020?”

After Bondi speaks, Durbin says it was a “yes or no” question and that the length of her answer shows that she wasn’t prepared to answer yes. He seems to think he won that “gotcha” round. I expect him to use this as grounds to not vote for Bondi (as if he needed an excuse). Bondi handled it well, and the best part is that she appears to think the election was stolen.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Yes, that was excellent. Bondi knows that the process was abused.

Durbin is getting intelligence on whether there will be prosecutions for cheating.

I hope there are, and that TRUE CRIMINALS go to jail for what they did.

TheseTruths

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pgroup2

  :wpds_lol: 

gil00

Thats cute

TheseTruths

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SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

My brief study of flat earthers tells me that you NEVER have a situation where someone has “no choice but to admit…”

Gail Combs

Beat me to it.

Marxism means you believe what you THINK is reality and not OBJECTIVE reality.

Thus, Hegel [and Marx] accepted as real only that which existed in the mind. 👉Objective phenomena and events were of no consequence; only the con­ceptions of them possessed by human minds were real. Ideas, not ob­jects, were the stuff of which the universe was made. The universe and all events therein existed and took place only in the mind…

True Believers will deny any and all “Objective phenomena and events” that are counter to the ideas they hold.

THIS is the crap being taught to kids BTW.

Cuppa Covfefe

And what the GangGreens believe, without thinking twice.
In fact, without even thinking once (as Douglas Adams put it in another context)…

Speaking of Douglas Adams and the HHGTTG series, here’s a reference to solipsism which fits Hegel, Habeck, GangGreens, et. al.

The Ruler of the Universe is a man living in a small shack on a world that can only be reached with a key to an improbability field or use of an Infinite Improbability Drive. He does not want to rule the universe and tries not to whenever possible, and therefore is the ideal candidate for the job. He has an odd, solipsistic view of reality: he lives alone with his cat, which he has named ‘The Lord’ even though he is not certain of its existence. He has a very dim view of the past, and he only believes in what he senses with his eyes and ears (and doesn’t seem too certain of that, either): anything else is hearsay, so when executive-types visit to ask him what he thinks about certain matters, such as wars and the like, he tells them how he feels without considering consequences. As part of his refusal to accept that anything is true, or simply as another oddity, “He talked to his table for a week to see how it would react.” He does sometimes admit that some things may be more likely than others – e.g., that he might like a glass of whisky, which the visitors leave for him.

In the radio adaptation of the novel Mostly Harmless, Ford also meets Zaphod in the accounting department of the new Guide offices. Zaphod describes being bored by a man in a shack and his cat for over a year.

Brave and Free

My thoughts also, the ones with severe PTDS will never be awakened to reality.

TheseTruths

I had the same thought about any number of situations.

TradeBait2

The GOAT of modern day America.

pgroup2

The Trump deal is already sliding toward the garbage can. Bibi has accused HAMAS of reneging on some of the details.

pat frederick

because the maggot tried to claim for it. LOL

cthulhu

Those 1600 prisoners that were supposed to be exchanged for hostages? Execute them. “No deal, no reason to keep them around.” Also shoot the negotiators.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Team Hamas On Peyote!

singingsoul1

Hamas does not care about life.

TheseTruths
scott467

Didn’t greasy Gavin try to make political memes illegal in Kalifournya?

TheseTruths

I had forgotten about that. I don’t know what ever happened regarding it.

TheseTruths

Mike Pence is rallying against RFKJ because of his past (and maybe present) views on abortion. Natalie Winters nails Pence to the wall, pointing out that on J6 he had the chance to prevent the multiple abortions and other deaths that have occurred over the past four years.

scott467

Mike Judas Pence is rallying against RFKJ…”

singingsoul1

RFK is going to expose Pence ho he worked against Trump during covid, only my take Pence is not clean.

TheseTruths

That might be the real reason Pence is opposing him.

scott467

When Pence is finally exposed, they better defrock that frocker.

kalbokalbs

Great endorsement for RFK Jr.

Gail Combs

Natalie Winters would make a great guest Press Secretary.

That woman has been very impressive. She was only a college student when she joined the War Room and put the Fake News Urinalists to shame.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Yes, she is awesome!

Aubergine

Mike Pence, with his weaselly, cowardly, craven actions on January 6, 2020, has only earned the privilege of ignominy for himself and his progeny forever.

In my humble opinion.

cthulhu

He’s got three kids……we’ll see if they change their name.

singingsoul1

One is in the military think Air Force.

kalbokalbs

One was a Marine Corps Captain, IIRC.

TheseTruths

Hopium alert…sounds good, but will anything really happen?

https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/15/mike-waltz-consequences-intelligence-officials-signed-hunter-biden-misinformation-letter/

Incoming national security advisor Mike Waltz said there “should be consequences” for former intelligence officials who signed the infamous Hunter Biden laptop disinformation letter, in an exclusive interview with the Daily Caller.

Waltz, whose job will be to assist President Donald Trump and coordinate matters of national security and foreign policy within the administration, said he is not going to “get ahead” of their “kind of week one policies.” He did affirm that “the signers of that letter did great damage to the trust of the American people and our law enforcement, our intelligence agencies.”

Waltz reiterated that former intelligence officials, including the 51 former senior intelligence officials who signed the letter — which asserted without evidence that the materials contained within Hunter Biden’s laptop were the product of Russian disinformation — caused “real damage to our national security and to our institutions.” But he stopped short of confirming that they would revoke these individuals’ security clearances, which often help intelligence officials pursue high-profile media or consulting careers after leaving the federal government…

Gail Combs

President Trump can via his authority as president grand and  revoke security clearances.

I certainly hope on Day One POTUS revokes a WHOLE LONG LIST of security clearances.

pgroup2

He should immediately state that any security checks for Senate confirmation nominees that are not done by 1/20 will be summarily granted upon the completion of the swearing in ceremony.

Gail Combs

AND he should revoke the security clearances of certain Congressman and Senators known to be bought and paid for by foreigners…

CHINA?
PALESTINE?
CUBA?
WEF?
ISRAEL?

If you are accepting $$$ from ANY foreign entity you get your clearance YANKED!

pgroup2

Great idea.

Aubergine

If there are NO consequences for blatantly lying the the American public in the pursuit of politically defending a criminal, then it will only happen again and again.

THIS must be the foremost consideration of whether to pursue punishment. Not politics, not “civility,” not the idea that it is “unseemly” to prosecute members of a former administration.

For the same reasons, ALL January 6 prisoners, defendants, and participants MUST be pardoned. Not to excuse all of THEIR actions, but to firmly CONDEMN for all time the actions of their persecutors.

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pgroup2

But will DJT take your closing paragraph to heart?

Or will he do what he did with the Russia hoax – allow it to go forward, secure in the knowledge that there was nothing to find and reaping the benefit of public perception of DJT follows the law.

Is he so concerned with public perception that instead he will run the pardon requests through the normal scheme?

I fear he will not follow your advice.

Aubergine

I will be seriously pissed, and monumentally disappointed in him if he does not.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Here is what Trump needs to know.

Even the WORST of the people who broke windows or fought with police, have already been in jail for FAR MORE than a normal punishment for this sort of thing. FAR MORE.

Every apprehended January Sixth participant has ALREADY PAID THEIR DUES. Period.

Let them all go. That’s my opinion. Even the WORST has paid their true dues. The “insurrection” and “conspiracy” shit is just that – ALL LIES.

Let them go. Every last one. They have ALL served their time. Even the tools of the left who acted as provocateurs.

Gail Combs

MAX sentence for being where SS was is ONE Year if I recall correctly.

singingsoul1

Amen

kalbokalbs

Which is why ALL either get a Pardon OR Commuted sentence.

End it all. Move forward.

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