2026-01-03, Simply Saturday.

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America, needs to embrace the following TRUTH…

Speaking of embracing…

If nothing follows, KK below, Night Crew, you are on your own.

KK

Fresh Stuff, which may be worth a read, listen, watch, or scroll on.

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APMEX https://www.apmex.com   Bitcoin https://www.bitcoin.com/

Prices pulled last evening.  Gold $4,347.60.  Silver $73.54.   Bitcoin $90,073.

Roller coaster continues.

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American Stories.  (A series)

The White House Salute to America 250 Task Force has partnered with Hillsdale College to provide a history series that tells the remarkable story of American Independence.

It will highlight the stories of the crucial characters and events that resulted in a small rag-tag army defeating the mightiest empire in the world and establishing the greatest republic ever to exist.

This is the story of America. This is our shared heritage and our proud destiny that will continue to lead us to unimaginable achievements in the centuries to come.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/america250

The Story of America: To Provide a Navy


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Articles, Xs…


Unrestrained ignorance on the left coast (CA, OR & WA)…

Excerpt from Chiefio’s latest.

In other news: California Oil Refineries are going off line now. One has dedicated jet fuel pipelines to SFO San Francisco Intl. Airport and Travis AFB (the “biggy” serving the Pacific). From where they will source fuel, and how to ship it from “wherever” TBD. (I’d suggest building a tanker unloading dock at the old refinery and feeding fuel from ships directly into the pipelines – but I’m sure the California Commissions strangling the economy won’t allow that and will just insist they swap over to Battery Electric Airplanes…) I can count at least 4 Gang Green commissions that will demand jurisdiction. Cal. Coastal Commission, SF Bay and Water commissions, probably the Redwood Commission, and CARB Cal. Air Resources Board. Also a few Unions, the State Legislature, and more… So watch this space for an answer- in about 20 years…

Sidebar: Oregon closed their last oil refinery in about 1995 so get 100% of their gasoline via a pipeline from Washington State… that is being talked up for closure… and where the refineries that feed it are talking about shipping gasoline to California instead (who will now be 20% short…). The entire West Coast is going to demonstrate what a Green Dream Life Without Oil! is like. Starting January 2026.

https://chiefio.wordpress.com



Great news. ht TB Emphasis mine.

BREAKING: Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Strikes Down California’s Ban on Open Carry – Trump Judge Issues Scathing Opinion

A US Appeals Court on Friday in a 2-1 decision struck down a California law banning people from openly carrying firearms.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals cited a 2022 Supreme Court ruling and said California’s ban on open carry is unconstitutional.

US Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke, a Trump appointee, wrote the majority opinion and blasted the state of California for banning open carry for 95% of its population.

California banned open carry on all counties with populations greater than 200,000 – which is 95% of the state.

In 2019, Mark Baid filed a lawsuit against the California Attorney General challenging the state’s ban on open carry.

Judge VanDyke, a known gun enthusiast, said California’ ban on open carry is unconstitutional.

“For most of American history, open carry has been the default manner of lawful carry for firearms. It remains the norm across the country—more than thirty states generally allow open carry to this day, including states with significant urban populations,” VanDyke wrote.

VanDyke said many states allow open carry and California has a history of open carry.

“Similarly, for the first 162 years of its history open carry was a largely unremarkable part of daily life in California. From 1850, when California first became a state, until the Mulford Act of 1967, public carry of firearms in California (open or concealed) was entirely unregulated. And when California first deviated (or considered deviating) from this practice, its reasons for doing so were less than morally exemplary,” VanDyke wrote.

“In our Nation’s history and tradition, open carry was widely recognized as being central to the Second Amendment right,” VanDyke added. “A ban on that which is at the core of the Second Amendment is not a ‘minimal burden’ on the Second Amendment right.”

More…

Genocide in America. And, predominately White countries.

Clandestine.

The Dems are Engaged in Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing

I think there’s a strong case to be made that the Dems are engaged in genocide and/or ethnic cleansing.

They flooded our nation with illegals, encouraged Americans to abort their babies, and destroyed all of our customs via Left-wing policies.

They are trying to replace our population with low-IQ immigrants who don’t speak English and have no idea they are being enslaved. They are trying to eliminate the American People as we know it, particularly the White People, because we stand in the way of their hostile tyrannical takeover. They are taking our tax dollars and using them to import foreigners to replace us, because we are much more difficult to rule than Somalis.

People love to throw around the word genocide, but I’d argue the real genocide is happening here in America, and in all predominantly White nations around the world.

https://bioclandestine.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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Ass wipe SlimeOilies are in for an ass whipping.

Trump, via bully pulpit, JD, DOJ, FIB, SoS, IRS, HLS, are gonna be busy. Deportations, Green cards revoked, citizenship cancelled, visas cancelled, clawed back federal funds…

Activated activist judges busy. DOJ lawyers busier. Epstein files, well, they can’t be the top priority.

TDS AND DumRats true to form, will be on the wrong side of another 80/20 issue. More likely a 95/5 issue.

The somali tiktoker who mocked Americans had a meltdown over Elon Musk and appeared to threaten his life: “I wouldn’t worry too much about him. He about to die.” .

@FBI should definitely look into this

Musk. Then it is war.

Trump continues to take a chain saw to immigration. Winning.

Trump Ending Automatic Green Cards for Migrants Marrying U.S. Citizens

Immigration lawyers are warning that federal agencies are increasingly skeptical when migrants claim to have legitimate marriages with Americans.

The policy shift comes after President Donald Trump’s deputies began cracking down on rising rates of marriage-related visa fraud by migrants who pay Americans for temporary marriages.

While marrying a U.S. citizen has never been a locked-in guarantee that a migrant would be issued a green card, marriages have previously offered a huge boost to a migrant’s request for legal status. But that may be changing as immigration attorneys are finding that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) are giving such marriages much closer scrutiny than ever before.

More…

https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/01/02/trump-ending-automatic-green-cards-for-migrants-marrying-u-s-citizens

STEPHEN MILLER SAID IT PERFECTLY: “Look how powerful the Democrat Party became in Minnesota once they flooded it with 100,000 Somalians!” “Once the elections were decided by clan rivalries and ethnic feuds, once that happened, the Democrat Party became permanently powerful in Minnesota. They became permanently powerful in the Twin Cities.” “When you see the state of Somalia, that’s what they want for America. Because it’s easier to rule over an empire of ashes than it is for the Democratic Party to rule over a functioning, Western, high-trust society with a strong middle class.” “That’s their model for America, to make the whole country into a version of Somalia. And everything they do gets down to that.” This is a generational betrayal. We need less Somalia and more America.

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This analysis is a good example of what has really been bugging me lately. It’s been one year. Trump II is in the process of paradigm-shifting victories on immigration, presidential control over the executive, and the enforcement of the CRA against the many illegalities of the racial reckoning. It has demonstrated willingness to cut higher Ed’s federal lifeline to force institutions to their knees.

It’s forced the legal definition of sex back into the law. It is rooting out billions in public support for the institutional leftist machine.

Progress in each of these areas is tangible, I can list cases, firings, funding cuts, and lawsuits, not just rhetoric.

And yet people whine because the world hasn’t been completely and utterly transformed in a mere 360ish days, and there’s still work left to do. What did you expect? 20M deportations overnight? Did it occur to you that that’s a massively difficult logistical feat to organize, and would take some time even if they WEREN’T fighting a recalcitrant system? Did you think there really was a fix everything switch?

Some parts of the “online right” have an even more magical view of governance than the oldhead Washington Generals chattering classes.

In my book, this administration has racked up more critically important wins than any R administration in my political memory, and I think the case can be made it’s the best R administration for the right in 100 years.

HOLY SMOKES. The Democrat Governor of Maine gave state contracts to a Somali NGO that REGISTERED MIGRANTS TO VOTE in the 2022 election… …that Somali NGO has been caught committing Medicaid fraud. WOW.

“Janet Mills, when she was forming the Office of New Americans as a migrant resettlement agency for the state of Maine, picked a woman named Eklis Ahmed, who is a former employee of Gateway Community Services.” “Gateway received many no-bid contracts from the Mills administration for the purposes of doing community health outreach work, which involved registering migrants to vote in the 2022 election.” “So this is not just any run-of-the-mill organization that was fraudulently billing Medicaid, allegedly. It’s one that was very, very well tied and connected to the Maine Democratic Party and remains tied to the Democratic Party.” – Steve Robinson, Editor-in-Chief of the Maine Wire “It’s not just a Somali Medicaid fraud, it’s a Somali Democrat Medicaid fraud, because this is an organization with elaborate and extensive ties to the Maine Democratic Party, including Governor Janet Mills and her administration.” This is seismic. It’s not just Minnesota. It is everywhere.

UFB that sanctuary cities, states even exist in America.

JUST IN: New Hampshire Governor Announces “Sanctuary Cities are Officially BANNED” After Anti-Sanctuary City Laws Took Effect on Jan 1

Anti-sanctuary city laws took effect in New Hampshire on Thursday after Governor Kelly Ayotte signed two bills requiring cities to cooperate with federal authorities and immigration detainers for illegal aliens who are charged with a crime. 

The Governor championed the enacted laws in an X post on New Year’s Day.

“As of today, sanctuary cities are officially banned in New Hampshire,” she said.

“We will never go the way of Massachusetts and their billion-dollar illegal immigration crisis.”

Baby Gutfeld Roasts Hillary Clinton


Happy thought…

Fiddler On The Roof Saturday

Slow Guy watches, Fiddler On The Roof, often. Great stuff.

Bottle Dance

Sabbath Prayer

To Life

Night crew, your nickel.

KK

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cthulhu

The Fiancee was up until something like 9:30 (she normally goes to sleep at 8:00).

patfrederick

ours was wonky all day yesterday,

scott467

Stephen Miller: “That’s their model for America, to make the whole country into a version of Somalia. And everything they do gets down to that.”

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It’s comments like this that make me wonder if I’ve been too easy on the enemy.

I mean, if the POTUS’ right-hand man is saying such things on live TV, then regular Americans should be way beyond what Stephen Miller is saying.

I must try harder 😁

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Wolf Moon

Yeah, I’m getting a bit awakened by this whole mess.

patfrederick

the scope of it is terrifying…at least to me.

Brave and Free

A sleeping giant is awakening hopefully. If the normal sheeple wake up the communists are in trouble.
Actually could be a huge rallying cry in the midterms I’m thinking.

patfrederick

can’t wait to see what THAT looks like…LOL

TheseTruths

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Wolf Moon

GOOD. I appreciate the fast action by Trump’s people. Good work!

Now – how about those judges who are overturning jury convictions?

patfrederick

isn’t this in CONGRESS’S or SCOTUS’S jurisdiction? congress can impeach, but Roberts is the TOP of the judicial branch.

Aubergine

If we don’t get rid of the corrupt judges, we can not fix the problems. That is the simple fact.

cthulhu

Y’know, the shambling autopen’s people couldn’t have reacted this fast with this much…..so when do Trump’s people get some credit for building this sort of capability?

Wolf Moon

AMEN!!!

scott467

“Y’know, the shambling autopen’s people couldn’t have reacted this fast with this much….”

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They never would have reacted at all.

They’re all on the same take. It’s a national Leftist criminal mafia, and plenty of RINOs are along for the ride too.

The primary target of their criminal activity has been the tax base and Treasury of the United States of America, and they’ve all been robbing America BLIND for decades.

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scott467

“Reviewing cases for potential denaturalization”

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How about cases for potential denaturalization & defenestration.

scott467

“Enforcing repayment of Medicaid Benefits from immigrant sponsors”

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Some video from those interrogations would be a real morale booster.

Especially if they go anything like this.
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scott467

“Suspended 6,900 borrowers for $400 million in suspected fraud.”

“Banned individuals from all further loan programs.”

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Banned and suspended?

What’s next, placing them on double-secret probation?

You gonna have Otis Day and the Knights come in, and sing a little Shama Lama Ding-Dong?

Actually, that’d be kinda nice, it’s one of my favorite songs on the whole soundtrack.

But, be that as it may, last I checked, the penalty for $400 million in loan fraud wasn’t banning and suspension.

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scott467

“State officials are challenging this in court”

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This is why they have to be crushed, mercilessly.

They are so shameless and brazen, that not only are they not complying in every way possible in hopes of leniency, they’re actually fighting you in court, even when they — and the whole planet — know they’re guilty as sin.

These are pure sociopaths and psychopaths, devoid of conscience or the capacity for repentance.

Go to war. Arrest the criminal officials who are abusing the legal system through baseless challenges and charge them with aiding and abetting the largest fraud in American history — before, during and after the fact.

patfrederick

because they have leftist sugar daddies bankrolling their lawfare. no skin in the game, so why not slow down what they can?

TheseTruths

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scott467

Saw this posted at Marica’s:

Wolf Moon

Well said.

Wolf Moon

Thank you. WOW.

scott467

That’s more battle coverage than I’ve seen in almost four years of the Ukraine money laundering operation.

Aubergine

Isn’t that just the no-shit truth?

That’s why I say the “war in Ukraine” is an illusion.

scott467

“Maduro reportedly on the move.”

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I bet he is.

If the U.S. Air Force and Delta Force was coming for me, I would be on the move too.

Double-quick time! 👍🤣

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Wolf Moon

The message – never fuck with America again, sending “migrants” – fucking with our voting machines – sending in Chinese fentanyl.

BTW, I would not be surprised if China uses this to go after Taiwan. Grab a rail and hang on, either way.

Aubergine

There’s another message, too, methinks.

“Hey Zelenski, if we want you, we’ll come get you.”

cthulhu

cthulhu

I’m continually mindful of the interplay between Apollonian and Dionysian aspects of music, which probably is why I’m a fan of Prog.

Still, it goes back a ways. Check out 0:29 from Bach’s piece

cthulhu

You can compare those weird measures from Bach with the entire composition here of Shostakovich.

A little background — Shostakovich liberally used discords, notes that played against each other instead of producing harmony. He was a part of the Soviet arts scene that viewed compositions as weapons to be used against the West. “The Golden Age” is a bit of ballet thematically connect to (of all things) American football (to ridicule it). Its best-known excerpt is a polka —

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cthulhu

Pure Prog —

Wolf Moon

Great Saturday Open. Thank you!

WE ARE HERE ——> 2026.

Wolf Moon

AMEN!!!

patfrederick

safe travels!!

TradeBait2

👍 Well done, my man.

cthulhu

cthulhu

Every time I see Carlos Santana, I think of his classic backup band — back in “Oye Como Va” days — and how they bailed on him and formed Journey.

This is not unusual — Frank Zappa’s band formed Little Feat, and Bob Dylan’s band formed The Band without him.

Aubergine

“Oye Como Va” is one of my favorite songs ever! I get up and dance no matter where I am if it is played.

I’ve embarrassed my kids a few times when they were teens doing stuff like that, lol.

Wolf Moon
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Aubergine

I just KNEW this strike on Venezuela had something to do with Iran. That “locked and loaded” tweet about the Iranian protests was….interesting.

cthulhu

Carter center assholes would probably have certified the last election as free and fair.

scott467

US forces have captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife during Washington’s strikes on the nation’s capital, US President Donald Trump has announced, adding that the two have been flown out of the South American country.

Venezuelan authorities have long accused the US of attempting to topple the government in Caracas.

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Well, for once, I guess they were right.

At least today.

He’s lucky to not be hanging upside down with Mussolini.

PAVACA

kalbo
Yes.
Maduro and wife were captured and flown out of Venezuela.
Sen. Mike Lee is apparently questioning the “right” or “ability” of POTUS47 Trump to do this, since there wasn’t a declaration of war or any “approval” by Congress? So Sec. Rubio had to talk to him on the phone?
Per what Yours Truly saw at Marica’s blog.

Aubergine

I imagine Rubio can set anybody protesting straight in no uncertain terms.

I, for one, would NOT want to get a talking-to by Marco. He’s wicked smart, and he knows what he’s doing. He may be the best Secretary of State America has ever had.

holly

Catapult off an aircraft carrier…. 😅 

Cuppa Covfefe

Rumor has it that a long time ago, on a carrier far, far away, a few HP disc drives (probably 7933s or 7925s, the washing-machine-sized ones of 120 or 404MB [YES, megabytes… I said it was a looonnngg time ago]) were launch from a catapault like that…. not sure what the circumstances were (fine tuning? dissatisfaction with the I/O rate of 25 IOPS?) but whatever the case, that data travelled faster and higher than it had it some time… would have loved to see film of that 🙂

Timeframe would have been the early 1980s…..

For more HP Disc Drive Destruction, have a look at the data center getting shot up in Terminator II…. talk about product (dis)placement… and to think all of those drives’ contents would easily fit on a comparatively small USB stick or nano-SD card…

scott467

So we didn’t topple their silly criminal cartel excuse for a government, it was just a basic police matter.

There was a warrant out for his arrest, so the proper authorities arrested him.

Case closed.

patfrederick

not a war…they don’t get a say in an arrest the Executive Branch handles that.

TradeBait2

Exactly.

But pay attention to every Senator and Rep. They will self identify.

I bet PDT ran this by SCOTUS first.

eilert

holly

Another political grifter.

pgroup2

How is that much different than Social Security retirement? Everybody gets that, and the po’ folk also get SSI if the payment is below the poverty line.

It’s a retirement plan. Obviously I’m not seeing the big point.

TradeBait2

Me either. We want her out of the House anyway and the voters are going MAGA in her district. So retire – leave.

Aubergine

I don’t want her out of the House, and I think it sucks.

Regardless of her bad attitude, fights with Trump, and all-around idiocy, she voted the way we needed her to just about 100% of the time, if I recall correctly.

And the VOTES are what count.

I think we shoot ourselves in the foot because of emotional issues pretty frequently. I think there has to be a better way. What if they elect a candidate in Georgia that turns out to be another turncoat? Like a Massie, for example? We know it could happen. There’s a lot of slick-talking politicians out there.

holly

Hokum down on her knees.

Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul sparked outrage Friday after ordering that 16 state landmarks – including Manhattan’s One World Trade Center – be illuminated in green to celebrate “the heritage and culture of Muslim Americans.”

https://nypost.com/2026/01/02/us-news/ny-landmarks-including-world-trade-center-lit-green-for-muslim-american-heritage-month-after-hochul-order/

scott467

The same heritage and culture that murdered over 3,000 New Yorkers and destroyed the World Trade Center?

How on earth is she able to walk the streets, or even survive barricaded in her own bunker?

holly

She rules from Manhattan. Her home and office are there. Albany is for the peasants.

patfrederick

GOOD. hope she has an escape plan (not really) when they come for her. she’ll be within their reach.

holly

And they will. She’s already pandering, showing her weakness.

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pgroup2

Setting up the poll numbers so she has an excuse to drop out of her race later.

holly

Hmmmm hadn’t thought of that.

patfrederick

that’s devious. glad you’re on our side!

Aubergine

I hope all of the people who died in those buildings’ relatives bombard this bitch with calls, emails, and letters of condemnation.

She’s honoring their killers on the face of their memorial. What a shameful human being.

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holly

I agree with you. The script blood thinners are primarily associated with heart arrythmias. If he’s just trying to thin his blood because of clots, aspirin makes sense.

My mother took 2 Moderna’s in the beginning of it all, quickly had a series of TIA’s followed by a heart event. She was on Eliquis at the time. I’m sure without it she would have not survived.

TradeBait2

Same as our friend who took the Pfizer. She tells the world what those death clot shots did to her. Straight downhill ever since.

Aubergine

Any decent doctor knows by this point that the Covid shot is poison.

I would hope Trump has a decent doctor, but who knows?

I would also hope that for national security reasons, any medical report on the President is “massaged” for messaging. In other words, it’s mostly bullshit designed to protect the country.

My hopes are probably in vain, and the whole thing is real, in which case I pray God protects President Trump from the effects of being deluded enough to keep injecting his body with poison, while using aspirin to mitigate the poison.

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Brave and Free

Thanks Kalbokalbs,
Looks like everything is coming to a head, 2026 is going to be a defining year.
PDJT taking out Maduro is huge in the drug running scam. He’s letting China know who ‘s the boss in the Caribbean.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/breaking-huge-explosions-heard-across-caracas-venezuela-videos/

patfrederick

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TradeBait2

^^^^ This is excellent advice.

patfrederick

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patfrederick

HOLY CRAP!
sitting here drinking my coffee and a FLOCK of turkeys (about 30, we counted when they landed) flew out of the woods to the left of me, across our driveway and into the yard on the right side of the house!
they are huge birds to see fly–and so many at once means coyotes i think. normally they stay on the ground.

patfrederick

like anywhere, it has its drawbacks.
on my list of resolutions this year is: learn to drive hubby’ truck (it’s HUGE!) AND learn to drive the tractor–just for helping to mow in summer. learning to plow the half mile driveway will take a lot more courage.

Aubergine

There are big flocks of wild turkeys here, too. They like to hang out by the side of the road, who knows why. But I’m always afraid I’m going to hit one.

patfrederick

in the warmer weather, they hang out around our driveway (dirt basically) and will “dust” themselves to clean themselves. If hubby mows a section of the yard too low and a little dirt spot appears, they dust with that too.

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Brave and Free

^^^^ Isn’t that the truth! ^^^^

barkerjim

Thank you, KK!!! Simply excellent!!!

barkerjim

https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/remigration-now-a-cat-5-hurricane

Remigration NOW. A Cat 5 Hurricane Builds Across the West.”In the U.K., the troops are aligned, the armies are aligned. If certain people said, ‘enough’s enough’, and pressed a certain button, you’d have an army of millions who would wipe the place out.”

patfrederick

if “refugees” can VISIT the country they supposedly fled from…they’re not refugees and their status should be revoked.

pgroup2

You weren’t supposed to notice that.

patfrederick

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Got Out of Minnesota
January 3, 2026 9:12 am

Reposting from yesterday’s thread so hopefully more people can see it.
https://new.gop/bio/vivek-ramaswamy/
https://new.gop/campaign/2026/oh/
It’s late in the day so not sure how many will see this. Josh Moon (owner and operator of the Kiwi Farms website) is launching an effort against Vivek Ramaswamy’s Ohio gubernatorial campaign. Josh is looking to also get the Ohio GOP Chairman replaced as he has endoresed Vivek before the primary due to their long friendship.
There are more details on the website. Josh does a good write up on Vivek as well. If you live in Ohio or know someone who does, please take a look at this if you can get involved and help out.

Aubergine

I’ve said for a long, long time now, Vivek Ramasmarmy is BAD NEWS.

He is the conservative version of Obama. He is a construct and not what he seems.

pgroup2

Do you have any evidence to support your conclusion that VR is bad news?

patfrederick

he rates a 10 on my ick factor scale.

pgroup2

I don’t doubt that. But do you have anything that supports it?

patfrederick

PAVACA

Cloward-Piven + Saul Alinsky + Islam.
Overwhelm the system.
Accuse opponents of being “racist”, “anti-immigration”, etc. (Alinsky tactics [socialism/Communism].)
Creeping implementation of Sharia Law — either by using American laws, or by “direct application” of Islamic teachings (the new Mayor-“Caliph” of NYC, Zohran Mamdani.)