Dear MAGA: Open Topic 20190103

This special THANK THE LORD I AIN’T MITT ROMNEY THURSDAY open thread is VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA world.

Say what you want, comment on what other people said, comment on people’s comments.  Keep it civil.  Treehouse rules, but expect lots of QAnon.


Remember – your greatest gift to President Trump is FIVE WORDS:

I AM PRAYING FOR YOU


See the January 1st daily thread for the rules of the road, which are few but important.


Lookin’ forward to many new investigations of “Say it ain’t so, Mitt”, the Washington Black Sox DIVE-TAKER.

W

“And he’s DOWN in the outfield, with the winning ball glancing off his Mitt!”
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Gudthots

“Lamps are made needless by the advent of the sun; and, on the appearance of the truth, the occupation of the Law is gone, and prophecy is hushed into silence. He, on the contrary, who has been empowered to look down into the depth of the meaning of the Law, and, after passing through the obscurity of the letter, as through a veil, to arrive within things unspeakable, is like Moses taking off the veil when he spoke with God. He, too, turns from the letter to the Spirit.”
– St. Basil the Greatcomment image

Gudthots

*pro trip*
This is a mystical saying.
You don’t have to “get it” with your mind.

Gudthots

*tip* not *trip* … I amuse even myself.

Gudthots

Totally!

GA/FL

Which one?

sobriquet3

Baba97@baba9773

GA/FL

I looked at the twitter feeds …. old fogey me still didn’t get it

michaelh

Seriously? I already can’t keep up with all the WINNING lol

NYGuy54

This only works if the intensity of the 2016 Trump voting group remains the same in 2020. The media is doing everything they can to tamp that down. And it appears to be succeeding. Add that to the battery of subpoenas the House will generate and we will have a harder road to hoe in 2020. Plus, we will have many more Senate races to defend. The House configuration is a mess right now too.
On the other hand, look at the Pres candidates the Dems have to offer. If Bloomberg decides to run as a Dem, this is going to be a slugfest. Perhaps even creepy groper Biden.
I just don’t think the landscape is as straightforward as that. It seems possible (not probable) we could win the Presidency and lose the House and Senate.
All bets are off if the hammer comes down however. Then it is a completely different ballgame.

NYGuy54

2020 will be the very first Gen Z election. When they are more important than baby boomers.

huskerheart

Because Gen Z, at least the ones I happen to know here in Nebraska are very conservative and huge Trump supporters. They are so opposed to the snowflake, safe space, 64 different gender BS!

NYGuy54

Not me. I see a vast array of interests all over the political spectrum within Gen Z. I don’t believe the polling at all. One common theme – their student loan debt is weighing on them heavily.

rayzorbak

Maybe “they” shouldn’t have gone to college?

NYGuy54

All I am telling you is what they think about imo. Many of these Gen Z people are great kids. Well-educated. They just need to be red-pilled.

andrew1979

hammer of truth HAS to come down. status quo and we can kiss everything goodby. this is realistic not “eeoyre” or however you spell that.
simply a very crucial time we are in right now that can swing things to almost point of no return (without drastic measures) for BOTH sides.
we forget sometimes that it is not just a battle for us – the other side is well fortified and dug in for their survival also.
it will not be just positive thinking that gets us through this – no get out the vote is going to do it. this is a moment in history nonecwill soon forget.
if i am wrong i will eat my hat.

NYGuy54

I hope so Andrew. Otherwise, Ronna McDaniel has an enormous job to do to win 2020. Biggest job an RNC chair has ever had. I just don’t think what fle laid out is going to be good enough as long as they control the media.

Gudthots

So many possibilities.
1. Arrogance
2. Theater
3. Blackmail

Aubergine

I don’t think it’s about politics at all.
I think it is about religion, somehow. Specifically Mormonism. Mitt is a puppet on a string.
Remember that Evan McMullin guy, who jumped in to the Presidential race in 2016 as an Independent? He was a Mormon, AND former CIA. These people do what they are told by the Mormon church hierarchy. He was definitely intended as a splitter, and I promise you, if he is a Mormon “in good standing” in the church, he would NOT run for president without their blessing.
Wolfmoon says the Mormons may be controlled opposition by the CIA. Makes sense to me. Somehow, their church is tied into the cabal. Who knows, it could be as simple as a bunch of the leadership are pedophiles, or into the consumption of young blood. I do know they have some pretty bizarre rituals that are only performed in their temples, where only Mormons “in good standing” are allowed to go. Or maybe they are only innocent dupes of the CIA.

rayzorbak

Something to do with the Mormon “White Horse” prophesy might have something to do with it?

michaelh

I’m no export on Mormon eschatology, but what I do know they essentially project from BoM into the future and think that everyone in the world is going to be in enormous wars and die off, leaving only the Deseret Mormons left standing. It’s such a common theme you’ll find it all over their science fiction writing, like Orson Scott Card. So from that perspective, anything they can do to stir the pot ties into that.
Keep in mind that’s a very similar zero-sum outlook to the Muslims.

TheseTruths

It’s about the war on America which, yes, involves lots of money. Pres. Trump is overturning their plans in ways they could never have imagined. Mitt is being sent in to try to stem the tide. (As I write this, I see him as a traitor.) The battle is only going to intensify, and we need to be prepared and pray. We need to support Pres. Trump as never before, even if he has to compromise, as Flep outlines, for a wall.

Gudthots
Pat Frederick

today is Corsi’s hearing, right? Mueller needed cover? distraction…

Pat Frederick

i think we should call him by his given name: Willard. Mitt sounds cool, hip, attractive. Willard suits him…remember the movie about Willard and the rats???

Tonawanda

Trump’s very existence is a public humiliation to Romney, plus Trump publicly “humiliated” Romney twice, once with the “man to man” dinner where Trump looked manly and Mitt looked like a beaten dog, and then when Romney left a meeting with Trump with Trump waving goodbye rather triumphantly.
Both times Romney revealed through body language what a girly man he is. But either was enough to inspire revenge.

michaelh

Whoopsie…
Lawsuit Claims SPLC Abetted Theft, Spread Lies to Destroy Lawyer for ‘Thought Crime’
https://pjmedia.com/trending/lawsuit-claims-splc-abetted-theft-spread-lies-to-destroy-lawyer-for-thought-crime/
In December 2018, a Baltimore lawyer filed a devastating lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and two of its employees. The SPLC targeted Glen Keith Allen over his former ties[…] In doing so, the liberal group allegedly violated laws and legal codes of conduct by receiving and then paying for stolen documents in violation of confidentiality agreements. The group went after Allen with the intent of getting him fired by the city of Baltimore and permanently destroying his future prospects.
Allen’s suit claims that the SPLC should have its 501c3 tax-exempt status revoked, that it owes him restitution for racketeering, and that it should pay $6.5 million in damages. It also references Allen’s pro bono work on behalf of African-Americans and his mentorship of an African-American teen, powerfully rebutting claims that he is a racist. Allen told PJ Media he now regrets his [former] support, and an African-American friend of his laughed at the idea of this lawyer being branded a racist.
Perhaps most importantly, the suit attacks the liberal group for undermining America’s tradition of free expression. In an August 2016 interview with The Washington Post cited in the lawsuit, SPLC Intelligence Project Director Heidi Beirich (a defendant in the case) claimed to have watched Allen “like a hawk” because he had “the worst ideas ever created.”
“This East Europe Communist thought-crime surveillance mentality is antithetical to fundamental American cultural and Constitutional principles protecting freedom of expression and association,” Allen wrote in the suit, which can be found on his website. His lawsuit uses concrete claims of lawbreaking and defamation to expose the SPLC’s Orwellian strategy of branding its opponents “hate groups” and orchestrating campaigns against them.

Sylvia Avery

If you would indulge me, I have a couple of pop culture issues. Two deaths of music men from my girlhood and youth.
The first is Daryl Dragon, the Captain of the Captain and Tenille, famous for Muskrat Love and Love Will Keep Us Together, he earned his nickname while a keyboard player for The Beach Boys because he always wore a captain’s hat.
******************
The second death is:
Dr Hook & the Medicine Show singer Ray Sawyer has died aged 81.
Famed for his eye-patch Sawyer, who was not the lead singer was the most recognisable member of the band and fans remember him for being the voice Cover of Rolling Stone.
He died in Daytona, Florida, after “a brief illness”, according to US website Page Six.
Sawyer joined Dr Hook in 1969, two years after he lost an eye in a car accident.
He appeared on the hit songs Sylvia’s Mother, A Little Bit More, Walk Right In, Better Love Next Time, and When You’re in Love with a Beautiful Woman.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-ray-sawyer-dead-dr-13798436

Harry Lime

Ok…Love Will Keep Us Together will now be trapped and bouncing around inside my head for at least a week…this is not a bad thing…but this is how it will be.

Pat Frederick

lucky you…I have Muskrat Love rolling around in mine…lol

sobriquet3

I feel your pain😢

churchmouse

Captain and Tenille were great. Fond memories here of listening to their hits and seeing them on television.

michaelh

When people lose their religious belief, and resiliency in their worldview, they are more vulnerable to false beliefs.
From Astrology to Cult Politics—the Many Ways We Try (and Fail) to Replace Religion
by Clay Routledge
December 27, 2018
https://quillette.com/2018/12/27/from-astrology-to-cult-politics-the-many-ways-we-try-and-fail-to-replace-religion/
If you count yourself among the secularists cheering for the demise of religion, it isn’t hard to find comforting statistics. Nearly every survey of the state of religion in my own country, the United States, presents a similar picture of faith in decline. Compared to their parents and grandparents, Americans are less likely to self-identify as religious, attend religious services, or engage in religious practices such as daily prayer. Full-blown atheism is still a minority position. But the ranks of the “non-religious”—a broad category made up of those who reject traditional conceptions of God and religious doctrines, or who express uncertainty about their beliefs—are growing.
Even those who self-identify as Christians are less inclined to talk publicly about God and their faith than their predecessors. Indeed, many Americans are Christian in name only—using the term more as an indicator of their cultural background than as a declaration of a spiritual life committed to the teachings of Christ. And the rest of the Western world is even farther ahead on this same path.
But secularism advocates should pause before celebrating such trends. A deeper investigation into the religious nature of our species casts doubt on the view that science-centered secular culture can succeed without a space for the sacred.
…[snip]…
When people turn away from one source of meaning, such as religion, they don’t abandon the search for meaning altogether. They simply look for it in different forms. As I discuss in my new book, Supernatural: Death, Meaning and the Power of Invisible World, the decline of traditional religion has been accompanied by a rise in a diverse range of supernatural, paranormal and related beliefs.
[snip]

Tonawanda

Meaning is inferior to truth, sometimes vastly inferior. The search for religious “meaning” is wasted time.

michaelh

Precisely.
The loss of truth results in the listless search of meaning.
Why this is important: People who are not grounded in reality and looking for meaning are highly vulnerable to messaging and recruitment.
That’s why we see so often college students (very divorced from reality) becoming cause driven or hedonists.
Anything but truth seekers.

Gudthots

A concrete example of this that I have witnessed in non-church activities is when someone with a good story comes in to impart a secular sort of group prophecy.
Everyone wants to know about their past lives. I noticed that the visiting person always has past life stories that “tickle itching ears.” And they usually notice that I’m not looking up to them with that little bird in the nest look like everyone else because I don’t need to have someone tell me some special story about my history (that they made up, of course).
It’s an effective hook for those longing for “meaning.”

singularZoe

TTT, like this a lot.

NebraskaFilly

“Even those who self-identify as Christians are less inclined to talk publicly about God and their faith than their predecessors. Indeed, many Americans are Christian in name only—using the term more as an indicator of their cultural background than as a declaration of a spiritual life committed to the teachings of Christ. And the rest of the Western world is even farther ahead on this same path.”
IMO, the biggest factor in this development is the failure of the organized “Church.” They have watered down God’s words in order to kow-tow to those who want an easier road to follow and keep the $$$ flowing. Add in corruption deep within the leadership of the various Christian sects and here we are. Again, JMO.

Gudthots

Mark Taylor has certainly been saying as much and I agree as well. The bride of Christ has birthed premature baby believers and failed to provide nurture, guidance, discipline, and empowerment to raise up sons of God.
Cemeteries with the headstones neatly placed below the level of the grass are easier to keep manicured neatly.

churchmouse

Once doctrine went out the window — in both Catholic and Protestant churches — that was it. I would date that between the late 1960s and early 1970s. Others’ mileage might differ.
I still receive Communion in my own denominational church but am very wary of any Christian house of worship now — there are too few good ones these days.

singularZoe

So right about doctrine, CM, and the rot had begun to set in much earlier, but people didn’t see it. Charles Spurgeon wrote about the down-grade.

Gudthots

I belong to Jesus. I serve whereever and whenever He pleases.

michaelh

Yes, institutional church is part of the problem. There’s a lot to say about this, can’t really get started. But we can’t lay all the blame on the leadership, because frankly it’s the complacency of the people in the pews that enables bad leadership and makes for weak churches that don’t act in culture.

andrew1979

thanks for the post. honestly, how can anyone deny the simple logic here? it is simple math. playground rules from elementary school level logic…
we know the fight is not agaonst logical foes, but why are so many people just refusing to do due diligence and use their adult reasonimg skills to focus and see what is going on…

TheseTruths

Yes, lots of new info, and I’m amazed at Pres. Trump’s intelligent thought process and practicality. It makes it look as if no predecessor has actually thought through the issues. (But of course their goal was not America-first, so they wanted the status quo and war.) I would think lay people of Leftist mentality would be glad to be getting out of wars and saving our country money, but Trump Derangement Syndrome gets in the way.

Sylvia Avery

Thanks, there’s lots of info there. How can people fail to appreciate what he is doing for this country?
I had no idea the Kurds were selling oil to Iran.

andrew1979

i think last week i mentioned that the kurds are going to have to stand up for themselves in response to people on the web saying who will protect the kurdish christians or something like that…
we need to trust america first and get our crap in order before worrying about anyone else.

Marica

Why have we–US been sending troops and $$$$ into the middle East for 17 years???
Short answer: 9/11.

NebraskaFilly

Outstanding – copied and shared!

Sylvia Avery

“City, state and federal agencies are taking a look at a vicious, hateful email sent a restaurant frequented by talk radio icon Michael Savage that threatens to shoot up the establishment if he’s not denied future service.
Remember back in November when Fox News host Tucker Carlson and his family were targeted and threatened by protesters? This is worse.
Portions of the email sent to the restaurant state, in all caps, “I DEMAND THAT YOU REFUSE TO ALLOW MICHAEL SAVAGE … IN YOUR F-ING RESTAURANT AGAIN. HE IS A RACIST WHITE SUPREMACIST PIECE OF SH— … DONT WANT TO LISTEN TO ME? WELL I GUESS YOURE ALL GONNA F—ING DIE THEN CUZ I AM WAITING FOR THE MOTHAF— AND I WILL WAIT AND WATCH YOUR F—ING BUSINESS AND WHEN I SEE HIM GO IN THERE IM GOING TO START SHOOTING EVERY BODY I CAN FIND.”
The suspect then gets very specific…”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/2/michael-savage-target-death-threats-i-own-3-guns-a/?utm_source=spotim&utm_medium=spotim_recirculation

andrew1979

easy to trace email so it should be no problem to find out who sent it. i mean thwy have six ways to sumday to find criminals right? 😉

churchmouse

I’m surprised the article did not mention the assault on Michael Savage in March 2017 at his favourite restaurant in Tiberon, CA:
http://m.tmz.com/#article/2017/03/15/michael-savage-brawl-trump-restaurant/
‘We’re told Savage was eating dinner at Servino Ristorante in Tiburon at around 8:30 PM, when a guy started mocking Savage’s legal last name, screaming, “weener, weener.” We’re told the guy threw Savage to the ground, after allegedly shoving Savage’s poodle, Teddy, out of the way.’
I wonder if it is the same restaurant that got these threats.
Awful.

Sylvia Avery

Oh my gosh, now that you mention it I remember that. I had forgotten. It is just awful. How terrifying that must have been, and now for this to have happened.

churchmouse

I felt so badly for him. Terrible under any circumstances, but especially for someone his age.
He said the next day (maybe to Alex Jones, I don’t remember) that it was so sad for him to see his beloved dog attacked and he couldn’t do anything about it. His little dog goes everywhere with him.
And he is such a well educated man, too. He has two Masters degrees — botany and medical anthropology — and a Ph.D in nutritional ethnomedicine.
He wrote his nutrition books under his given name, Michael Weiner.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Savage

Molly Pitcher

I’m of the mind that these incidents are not some deranged individual fixated on him or Tucker or____fill-in-the-blank.
If we had true invested law enforcement investigations my guess would be that it would show associations linking back and sideways to any number of ‘Blue’ resistance orgs. Rooting out one lone wolf seems a victory but the pack has more.

Gudthots
Sylvia Avery

“Former KGB general who helped MI6 spy compile the Donald Trump dirty dossier who has been found dead in the back of his car amid claims of a Kremlin cover up
Oleg Erovinkin was found dead on Boxing Day in the back of his black Lexus
The morgue in Russia has not reached a conclusion about the cause of death
Local media is claiming foul play was at the centre of him being killed in Moscow
It has been claimed Erovinkin is a key source mentioned in the explosive dossier…”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4166610/Kremlin-covered-murder-former-KGB-chief.html

andrew1979

i am literally shaking my head.

churchmouse

That’s from 2017, but nonetheless interesting.

Sylvia Avery

Yikes, how’d I miss that? Sorry, and thanks.

churchmouse

No worries. We all do it at one time or another. 🙂
Who knows, though — that agent’s name might reappear if the dossier ever gets properly investigated.

Gudthots

Ambassadors!

phoenixRising

Thanks ttt,
’bout time….
better late than never!!!!

Sylvia Avery

“Democratic lawmakers brought a border security briefing at the White House to a screeching halt Wednesday, refusing to even listen to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, a White House official tells The Daily Caller.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy echoed this version of events to reporters outside the White House immediately after the briefing, saying, “Once the secretary started, Schumer interrupted her and didn’t want to hear it.”…”
https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/02/democrats-refuse-briefing-nielsen/

michaelh

Intentional ignorance. Plausibly deniability. Head in sand politics.

Sylvia Avery

Hey, kids, here’s some good news on the immigration front!
“Trump makes ‘historic progress’ in crackdown on deportation deadbeats
Sierra Leone for years had thumbed its nose at U.S. officials, slow-walking deportations so badly that it earned its way onto Homeland Security’s “recalcitrant country” naughty list. Over the last two years of the Obama administration, Sierra Leone took back just 21 deportees.
President Trump took office vowing action, and one of his first executive orders instructed his administration to stop issuing visas to the worst-offending countries. The Sierra Leone government was targeted with sanctions in August 2017, and the change came quickly, with 44 deportees sent back that year, and 79 shipped back in fiscal 2018.
While much of Mr. Trump’s immigration agenda remains tied up in the federal courts or stalemated in Congress, he has made extraordinary progress on recalcitrant countries like Sierra Leone, cutting the number of deadbeat countries from a peak of 23 in 2015 down to just nine as of last month….”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/2/donald-trumps-crackdown-deportation-deadbeat-count/

Sylvia Avery

“Humanity has captured its first clear look at an object in the faraway Kuiper Belt.
NASA revealed the first images and science data from this week’s historic flyby in a news conference Wednesday afternoon.
Far from the blurry ‘bowling pin’ we saw with New Horizons’ first look when it beamed its signal home early morning on January 1, the new images reveal Ultima Thule is snowman-shaped red world with two distinct lobes – one stacked atop the other.
This arrangement is what’s known as a contact binary, the experts say – and, it’s now the first a spacecraft has ever explored…”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6548731/Meet-Ultima-Thule-NASA-reveals-clear-images-distant-Kuiper-Belt-object.html

Sylvia Avery

Confirmation hearings for AG Barr coming up Jan. 15 or 16. That should be interesting.

Gudthots

Dr. Sharon Goldberg, an internal medicine physician & professor gives her testimony regarding 5G technology dangers specifically involving electromagnetic radiation.
She says: “Wireless radiation has biological effects. Period.”

wheatietoo

This is scary…really scary.
We don’t need 5G!
We are already getting dosed enough from all the electronics in our lives…we don’t need more of it!

rf121

No science is settled. Correlation does not equal causation. Diabetes/obesity increasing since 1980 is related to cell towers which started to go in all over the place in the 1990’s. Some things are a little more obvious. It is the food stupid. Climate change. It is the sun stupid. Academics are idiots.

Gudthots

True. Settling science is near to impossible when the economics steer all research to find what you are looking for.
When the government funded 25 million dollar long term study for cancer from ONE CELL PHONE with all other sources blocked with Faraday cage conditions, the incidence of cancer was statistically significant.
Therefore the research was not allowed to be published.

singularZoe

Thank you, DP. Great jam-packed presentation. Then I was led to the Fullerton Informer.com for a lot of other info, very helpful.

Gudthots

The federal telecommunications law put in place before the year 2000 makes it illegal for municipalities to block installation of cell towers for health reasons.
Talk about the tail wagging the dog.

Gudthots

That’s how it’s done.
Since they are NOT ALLOWED to bring up health reasons,
those with health concerns have to go at it from the aesthetics angle.

Sylvia Avery
wheatietoo

I hope Katie is right.
It seems like a massive mistake for Macron to make a martyr out of a leader of the YellowVests.
Those “boo’s” were kind of tepid, though.
I hope this gives the movement a whole new thing to be pissed off about.

Sylvia Avery

Oh, me too!!! It ought to light a fire under them. I guess we’ll see.

wheatietoo

Thanks, Fle.
I think Rmoney’s screed is related to this ‘deceleration’ that’s going on in China.
His globalist buddies are probably screaming at him to “do something to stop Trump”…so the feckless weasel lashed out at our President.

Harry Lime

Wile E. Romney better get off the tracks…Trump Train’s a comin’.comment image

Harry Lime

Beep Beep

rayzorbak

lol!!!!!

wheatietoo

Here’s the presser that took place after the Cabinet Meeting 01/02/19:
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Sylvia Avery

michaelh

I’ve pointed out the obvious before but people don’t seem to get it. They are all depressed because of the statute of limitations and all these people working to run the clock out.
THERE IS A MALIGNANT CANCER THAT MUST BE REMOVED!
Focusing on getting arrests and people in prison makes us feel better but it does nothing to secure the future of the United States!
Priorities.

NebraskaFilly

Agree! Our VSG sees the forest through the trees (as evidenced in the wonderful summation by daughnworks elsewhere). We must strive to do the same and keep an open mind!

singularZoe

MichaelH, have to respectfully disagree. If arrests are not made, followed by serious punishments for the guilty, a future admin will undo much of the great good that is being done. Also, for many reasons, I’m not too worried about the statute of limitations running out.

andrew1979

while i appreciate the patience and the…well, i guess the patience plan, unless i am seriously wrong about things that go on in the world, things that go on in our country, things that go on in our states, things that go on in our communities, things that go on in our law enforcement (TONS of organizations unfortunately making up “law enforcement”), our military, our schools, everything – then we are not fighting a battle here you can slow walk for an indeterminate amount of time.
having a little anxiousness on this is NOT a bad thing – because we know what is going on.
we cannot do anything, say anything, help with anything, do anything except day after day post on internet blogs and hope. i talk with my mother on the phone every night, same thing, day after day. we’ve forgotten so much about all the corruption by now because it is so immense and broad that you’d have to have a whiteboard a mile long with teeny tiny writing keeping track of it all.
those of us who have this immense feeling, we are not negative, we are not buzz killers, we are not giving up. the next step for us will be something else, and it will not be total capitulation to the system that we know is doing this.
i’ve never bought pop corn, many of us have bought other supplies because exactly like singularZoe is pointing out – if we do not cut the head off the snake now, then we will only have ourselves to blame.
the majority (now) of this country is not going to come to our aid in this cause. they are too busy. even my mom said last night “well, i guess you’ll just have to get a new hobby or start relaxing in some way if nothing happens”. that’s not good enough for me anymore.
to have come this far in my life and now have so many people see the absolute evil that we will in and to just have it go by the wayside will not be good enough for many of us.
and i am not talking about arrests – i am not talking about life sentences or gallows poles. i am WAY MORE than happy to have the guilty parties pointed out – have them made a public example – have them BANNED from any public office or speaking at ANY political function. no more fundraising, no more NOTHING to do with non profits, no more ANYTHING.
they can keep their money for all i care. hillary can have her 150 million. she can buy property and go on vacation if she wants. i don’t care. same for fake obama and brennan and all of them too numerous to name. they have to be taken out of the public system and not allowed to influence anything whatsoever anymore. pseudo-exile if you will, call it what you may, but that is my bare minimum.
there need not be all kinds of detective and investigative moves in secret to be made – these people have ALREADY broken numerous laws that any one of us would be already convicted and in prison for.
i am sorry if my tone sometimes comes off as crass or edgy or whatnot, but the FUTURE of our country is at stake.
i challenge anyone here that still is willing to wait it out and trust and never fret – please buy a MAGA hat and wear it out in public every day. get some stickers on your car and a sign for your yard. if we are on the right side of history and we have a chance of ever doing anything in another election again, then we must be able to at least support our candidate without fear of reprisal right? however, how will anything ever be accomplished on a LASTING basis if we can’t even put a sticker on our car or wear a god damn hat?
this reminds me of the christians who continually say to me about the end times “oh well we won’t be here for that! jesus is taking us home and then everyone here is screwed!” well, in that case i guess just sit back and relax. and i counter them with if they really believed that wouldn’t they be out crying and begging people to come to know christ? no, they are just cool knowing they are going to be “spared”. (pre-tribbers that is, and they think they have no care in the world they’ll surely never even get to the point of having to take the mark and it’s those that will be here who have noone to blame but themselves)
my only suggestion is to prepare yourself and get ready. if nothing happens good or bad then so what you prepared and you have some extra supplies now. if stuff does happen you will definitely need them.
my state is 100% blue now. a heavily socialist leaning governor now and she only wants common sense gun laws of course! the tide is not turning. even if the president can get something done without exposure of the bad guys our own states are turning into leftists shitholes in front of our eyes.

prairie123

andrew you are right. I read a quote the other day, your dialog reminded me of it (I think it was written in reference to the Serenity Prayer that was popular years ago): “I am no longer accepting things I cannot change. It is now time to change the things I cannot accept.”

GA/FL

For me it’s either execution or exile with loss of citizenship and property – for Hillary and Obama and their treasonous ilk.

singularZoe

You are correct, GA/FL, because there can be no chance whatsoever that they could be pardoned and regain power in future.

michaelh

Hmm I didn’t say anything about patience.

andrew1979

my bad man… i wasn’t trying to come down on you or deride your post in any way! i think i was just really reacting to my inner feelings mostly. i apologize – sometimes halway through the workday i should not go on an emotion filled comment binge 🙂
regardless we are all in it together and seeing it from all angles simultaneously which is a good thing.

itswoot

Regarding the Maunder Minumum mentioned in today’s MAGA open topic intro:
The mini ice-age of that historical event is related to what I’ve recently been looking into, which is the concept of throwing a blanket out of the back of a sleigh/troika to distract the pursuing wolves. Very similar to the visual concept of throwing someone under the bus, as it relates to current politics and President Trump. More later.
Increased volcanic activity down through the years corresponds with reduced solar activity, as illustrated in this chart.
http://dennisghurst.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Global-warming-hoax…-Sep-2015.jpg
Getting back to the pursuing wolves concept. During the Maunder Minumum, when it became much colder, growing seasons became shorter. That meant that less food was available, both domestically and in the wild.
The wolves got ravenous.comment image
(nothing personal, Woolfmoon!!!)

churchmouse

‘Dems’ House takeover to usher in wave of Trump investigations’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-house-takeover-to-usher-in-wave-of-trump-investigations
‘They’re about to get subpoena power – and they plan to use it.
‘As Democrats officially take back control of the House when the new Congress is seated Thursday, newly empowered House Committee chairmen are preparing to launch a slew of Trump administration investigations.
‘Those Democrats armed with subpoena power include Rep. Jerry Nadler, the incoming chairman of the House Judiciary Committee; Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., incoming chairman of the House Oversight Committee; and Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., incoming chairman of the House Intelligence Committee …’

para59r
para59r

You will want to hit the link that says ‘text’ in grabien story. It has to do with proposal to change the rules of the house. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jxUzp9SZ6-VB-4wSm8sselVMsqWZrSrYpYC9slHKLzo/mobilebasic
However that is just one piece of it. There are more proposals to the rule of the house that read like major gobbly gook. Too incomprehensible to under stand. Talk about flooding the zone. Sorry no link.
This New Green deal is seriously bad news and they have lots of support for this. Only question is do they roll the set up slow or fast. Pelosi style or Ocasio style.

rayzorbak

The “House” can do whatever STUPID things that they want.
It still has to pass the SINate……
Then get the President to SIGN it.
NOT gonna happen soon.

para59r

Understands that plan. However Pelosi is going to adopt this: Select Committee For A Green New Deal (hereinafter in this section referred to as the “select committee”).
There job will be to propose legislation to be inserted and snuck through congress that supports the Green New Deal. They will be attempting this a small piece at a time during the next two years.
Essentially all this will need to be caught by the SINate (who have yet to earn our trust) and or then vetoed if it any of it gets through congress.

michaelh

They want Ocasio because they want a rabid leftist that symbolizes the millennial for the millennial SJW vote to latch on to. Remember, Perez said it best: she is the future of the Democrat party.
She will be nuisance and a thorn in the side of the Democrat leadership just to the point that she keeps getting media attention for the SJW crowd.
I 100% guarantee her Democrat handlers will keep her from causing any real damage to Democrat leadership (from their perspective).
Meanwhile, the Democrat caucus in the House has to put up with her, and many of them are making it clear what they think of her. She has no respect in her own party.

para59r

Yes, no respect shown yet I’m sure she gets tacit approval as long as she does not damage the party. She’s the one that pushes the envelope and the dems later move in to the new space. It’s what they have always done. Then were dragged into their world. Question is where does it stop. Answer unfortunately may not be until after the pogroms and holocaust are finished and Borg is created world wide.
Of course all that is the static view. The world is dynamic and thus anything but.
Understand that this New Green Deal is they’re plan and it’s gone by other names like Kalgori and Agenda 21 while the monument in Georgia comes to mind too.
A Civil War seems more likely.
Meanwhile Space force can’t get here fast enough.

andrew1979

exactly – we HAVE to start understanding what they are doing and the deep repercussions of such. they are not stupid. they are not dumb. no matter how bad we make fun of them or MEME them, that does not make them less dangerous, only more so because we don’t take them seriously.
if people don’t know about the UN stuff going back to the 70’s planning and when it made “public” news in this country when g hw b make that nwo comment, they should read up. kalgor – read up. agenda 21 – read up…
possibilities of millions dying? your own children? your cute grandkids or newborn’s brains and internal organs mashed into pulp or cancerized by 5G and all the other waves bombarding us – better read up.

singularZoe

Love that vision of war memorial-shooting range, Wolf. Just love to think of the U.N. disappearing altogether.

churchmouse

Totally agree!

churchmouse

I hadn’t realised that Harry Reid made his anti-Trump remarks from his deathbed. Of course, the NYT was there on an exclusive interview:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/amoral-and-no-conscience-harry-reid-hits-trump-from-his-death-bed/
‘Harry Reid is dying of pancreatic cancer, but just like his friend the late John McCain, the former Democrat Nevada Senator has to make his hatred for President Trump known in his final days.’
I wonder what sort of funeral arrangements he has from Nevada to DC …

Sylvia Avery

I wonder if this will require a week’s worth of national mourning and funerals in half a dozen states…? Each one an opportunity to lambaste PDJT.

churchmouse

I bet it will — in just the way you say.

NebraskaFilly

Ah! First I had heard this – couldn’t happen to a nicer guy, IMO!

churchmouse

More of what PDJT said yesterday:
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-meeting-grievances-20190102-story.html
‘As he held forth for more than 90 minutes before a small pool of reporters and photographers, members of his Cabinet, ostensibly called to the White House for a meeting, sat quietly around a long conference table …
‘Trump offered little further clarity on the U.S. withdrawal from Syria, which he initially said would take place in 30 days, saying now that the pullout will “take place over a period of time.”
‘… Mattis’ comments clearly stung Trump, who responded last month with criticism of his former Pentagon chief. On Wednesday, he stepped that up, claiming that he fired Mattis.
‘“What’s he done for me? How had he done in Afghanistan? Not too good,” Trump said. “As you know, President Obama fired him, and essentially so did I.”
‘ … “I was in the White House all by myself for six or seven days,” he said. “It was very lonely. My family was down in Florida. I said, ‘Stay there and enjoy yourself.’ I felt I should be here just in case people wanted to come and negotiate the border security.”
‘… As Trump spoke, a “Game of Thrones”-style movie poster teasing Iran sanctions — “SANCTIONS ARE COMING,” it read — lay unfurled across the table directly in front of him. But he made no remarks on the subject …
‘“I wish Mitt could be more of a team player,” Trump said. “And if he’s not, that’s OK too.”
‘… Accusing both men of seeking publicity in taking stands against him, Trump suggested that Flake would be seeking a job as a paid cable news contributor — or perhaps in another profession that Trump himself once plied.
‘“Jeff Flake is now selling real estate or whatever he’s doing,” he said dismissively.’

Cuppa Covfefe

The LA Slimes is a diseased organ of the deep state. Not as left as the SF Chronicle (which should be floating somewhere in the Pacific), but very, VERY liberal, in the image of the Washed Poo…
U$C’s journalism school produced quite a few libtards who ended up there, so it’s no surprise. ‘SC was always thought of as a rich kid’s school, but it was liberal rich, not conservative… globalist, not patriotic…

churchmouse

I was waiting for this! 😉
Well, it did have quotes. There is no transcript on the WH site.

churchmouse

I know. I agree.
If I find a better article, I will post it. I doubt whether the WH will post a transcript (too much to transcribe).

GA/FL

CSPAN sometimes does transcripts, but did not in this case. There are some clips here:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?456601-1/president-trump-presses-5-billion-border-wall-funding-cabinet-meeting

churchmouse

Thank you.

Pat Frederick

remarks on the cabinet meetings–posted on next page…

churchmouse

Thanks, Pat — will check them out.

churchmouse

And then in the text, ‘Trump says … but this is not true’.
I looked up Mattis’s departure from the Obama administration. O did fire him, no question about it. Just replaced him. I suppose the LA Times would argue that on a technicality of semantics.
Still, I do not have the time to listen to the whole press conference. Therefore, anything helps, even if not from a desirable source.

churchmouse

Cool.
Thanks for the recap.
Finally, they shut up.

churchmouse

California ‘dreamers’ got out the Dem vote in November:
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-midterm-elections-dreamers-20190101-story.html
‘Gabriela Cruz, who was brought to the U.S. illegally when she was 1, couldn’t vote, but in the final hours before the Nov. 6 election, she was making one last run to get people to the polls …
‘Young immigrants, known as “Dreamers,” have become a political force over the last two decades as they have pushed Congress to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws. Part of a new wave of immigrant activists who mobilized this year to return control of the House to Democrats, Cruz and others in the movement see in President Trump an existential threat to their futures, and to their friends and family.
‘Less than a year ago, Cruz had a steady job at a mortgage bank, with health benefits and a retirement plan. She wanted to go back to college and dreamed of buying her own house.
‘But when Trump instituted a travel ban, tightened immigration enforcement and tried to end a program that granted temporary protections for young people brought into the country illegally as children, she grew tired of sitting helplessly at her desk and quit to become an activist …
‘In California, Dreamers like Cruz phoned voters, walked precincts and protested outside Republican lawmakers’ offices, reaching people who had not been called or visited by either party. Their efforts helped boost turnout among Latinos in this year’s midterm election — 29 million nationwide were eligible to vote, according to the Pew Research Center — which is projected to surpass levels higher than in past presidential election years, political analysts said…’

churchmouse

Just what I was thinking.

Pat Frederick

if she quit her job, who’s supporting her efforts at activism? or her efforts to survive?

churchmouse

Exactly!
The State of California?

realsauce

Pssst….its Bill Engvall …. Buy they’re Buddies so I’m sure he doesn’t mind 😉

Gudthots

The elections were heavily rigged from everything we’ve seen in the real reporting. The LA Times article is just a “story” to try and explain the results. The fake results.

NYGuy54

Ok so now begins the subpoenas of WH officials by the House. Unfortunately, because he is stiii a Senate.confirmed official, Mick Mulvaney can be subpoenaed. I don’t recall any COS being dragged through the House before. Should be interesting. One person who probably won’t be – Kirstjen Nielsen. House Dems are not anxious to hear about the border.
j
BTW, according to some anons, [D] Day is tomorrow. It actually doesn’t matter to me when but it’s a point of curiosity.

NYGuy54

typos..still a Senate confirmed official

churchmouse

New 2019 laws:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/new-laws-2019-vermont-pays-people-10k-move-there-internet-n951711?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
Paging SteveInCO: are you happy that the decades of low-alcohol (originally known as ‘small’) beer have finally ended??
‘And in Colorado, all kinds of beer are now available in grocery and convenience stores, which under a law dating from prohibition had been allowed to sell only low-alcohol brews. That restriction ended in the final hours of 2018.’
Vermont is paying people to move in. This should be interesting:

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

‘And in Colorado, all kinds of beer are now available in grocery and convenience stores, which under a law dating from prohibition had been allowed to sell only low-alcohol brews. That restriction ended in the final hours of 2018.’

Also known as “near beer.”
There was a time when 18-21 year olds were allowed to drink but ONLY 3.2% beer.
Also at that time grocery stores would post signs saying “Only 3.2% beer sold here.” I wasn’t even aware the restriction on grocery stores still existed; I figured it was moot once the drinking age was made uniformly 21.
This is largely because I personally don’t drink, so I could care less.
In general, though, I find restrictions like this (‘blue laws’) silly. What right is protected by a law requiring grocery stores NOT to sell strong beer? They were allowed to sell wine. It’s just an absurd law.

michaelh

There were a lot of things during the Temperance and Prohibition eras that make little sense without understanding the history context of the times and the nature of the progressive movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, before they were co-opted by Marxism. There were all manner of reform societies that were focused on defending families from the perceived dangers of the time – the war on alcohol in the 1880s is a significant parallel to the war on drugs in the 1980s. Opium was also a target of the temperance movement. Remember too that these same people had been abolitionists in the 1840s and suffragists in the 1920s.
Today we consider the temperance and prohibitionists as “lost” but really what happened is that the progressive movements were hijacked and co-opted for Marxist purposes. I’ll leave it to others to determine when precisely, but by the 1960s the Methodists had moved solidly to the “D” category and arguably were the ones moving the D’s left. The conservation movement likewise got co-opted into the environmental movement.
There is a LOT more to say about this. The real takeaway is that the good intentions of social progressives were easy fodder for hijacking by Marxists, and still are today unless we are vigilant.

churchmouse

I thought the liquor law there was absurd. Glad it’s gone.
As for other blue laws, I’m less sure. The older I get, the more I think Sunday opening of shops is a bad idea. I admire those that don’t open on Sundays. I try not to shop on that day unless it’s absolutely necessary (i.e. a couple times a year).

churchmouse

Lindsey on Mitt:
https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/02/graham-attacks-mitt-romney-anti-trump/
‘Graham joined Brian Kilmeade on Fox News radio to discuss the incoming senator’s op-ed and Graham did not hold back. When asked about the wisdom of Romney publishing such a piece so early into his time in Washington, Graham said bluntly, “Well, how does it work to the advantage of the people of Utah?”
‘Graham said he knows Romney well …
‘Senator Graham said [on PDJT and Romney]:
‘”He really cares about what you think and what more can you ask if you’re a member of the United States Senate than have a chance to talk with the president and share your views. That will not happen if he believes you are out to get him. So I’m hoping that Mitt will sit down with the president privately, share his concerns with the president about whatever drives his thinking but also commit to the president that I want you to be successful and I’m here to help you. If he will do that he can be a very effective senator. If he’s going to be the critic from Utah, it’s going to hurt him and Utah.”‘

churchmouse

And so it begins. An attack on Deplorables:

churchmouse

He is the guy who said Guam would capsize.
https://twitter.com/PoliticallyRYT/status/1080799095290241024

GA/FL

Ol’ Johnson is projecting. Democrat voters are leaving the party and only the dreg – exploited ignorant/drunks/illegals and felons – are left.

churchmouse

Yes, indeed.

churchmouse

IKR?? What he said is disgusting — and projection.

churchmouse

churchmouse

Mitt says he would vote for the wall. Hmm:

Pat Frederick

Willard would lie–just like McCain and his thumbs down on Obamacare…wouldn’t trust him for a moment.

churchmouse

Nor would I.
Worth remembering when the Senate vote comes up on this.

andrew1979

split the votes and bada bing bada boom, america crumbles into third world dictatorship.

andrew1979

i believe he will do all in his power for sure – and we are all in this together!

churchmouse

PDJT on European opinion of him. Good point:

Pat Frederick

awesome expression of where his heart lies!!

GA/FL

President Trump is popular in Europe with EVERYONE but the leftists and leaders. Shouts of ‘Trump, Trump, Trump!’ and ‘We Want Trump!’ can be heard all around Europe at every gathering of hard-working, law-abiding, taxpaying citizens!

churchmouse

There is no fundamental difference between American and European elites. They all oppose the people.
Francois Hollande (Socialist) used to derisively call ordinary men and women ‘sans dents’ — ‘without teeth’ — in private. No surprise there. Well, it’s no wonder people can’t take care of themselves when they’re too busy working at low-paying jobs trying to make ends meet.

churchmouse

That’s exactly the type of mindset I was talking about. Thanks for illustrating it with such an amazing, true story.
Gosh, that was a party of Trumpian proportions — especially for a baby shower.
What did you think at the time? Was it a surprise? Were you angry? Astonished?
Whatever the case, you’ll never forget it. I hope you jolly well got a lot of great gifts!
The great thing about it is that guests from all walks of life were there to celebrate with you. That really is Trumpian.
And years later, here you are — MAGA-ing. 🙂

churchmouse

Wow! That is too cool.
Thanks for writing about your baby shower. It could be made into a great film — a modern day ‘George Bailey’ moment (without the George Bailey drama beforehand).

andrew1979

i will take a cropduster over a nice jet any day of the week!

churchmouse

Much needs to be made of this. The Dems do not want to know inconvenient truths:

NYGuy54

It won’t matter. MAGAnomics will not be the only thing that drives this upcoming election. The Fed will simply raise rates and crash the market. The Dems are fighting using assymmetric strategy. It is working. I think I can outline what they are doing now based on what I saw. Maybe I will put that in a post. You guys can no longer think traditionally when it comes to elections.
POTUS has to get his people in place, all the judges confirmed, re-structure military personnel, get funding for the wall and/or build it and then declassify everything.

NYGuy54

I hope DHS and their local partners can more effectively stop the cheating. That would help.

andrew1979

that’s right. graphs and happy numbers are done.
ECONOMICS is one of the fakest concepts ever, and no offense, because it is ruled by rigged systems.
just yesterday president trump said the gas prices are low comment.
today on the way to work they are predicting gas prices to be near $3.50 a gallon now in a couple months. it takes one day for them to start working against us after something is brought up.
they only recovered the marked after christmas to make a bunch of money off the poor working stiffs who lost a ton with the selloffs made to make trump look bad.
the stock market is absolutely fake. there isn’t anything real about it. people that base their lives and their view of how “good” or “bad” their lives are or the condition of the country are absolutely diluting themselves on propaganda.
all of it needs to go just as nyguy and wolf stated.

NYGuy54

People define their lives by how good their jobs are, the schools their kids go to, gas prices and how their 401Ks are doing. I think the President gets that. It’s up to him (and us) to cut through the cloud and make sure people value that and vote in that direction. From top to bottom.

andrew1979

while i agree with that – i guess i have a problem in that i don’t value all that stuff at all as a measure of my or anyone’s lives…so my opinion on it is exactly that – only mine 🙂 however, i agree totally with cutting through the cloud and hopefully part of that education for folks is starting to realize that life is not based on monetary or materialistic measurements, and how dangerous it is to start from there when rationalizing things.
i told someone yesterday that this road will be hard, long and we might be mega uncomfortable or even desperate at times, but we have to come through it and again become thankful for the freedom that we have.

NYGuy54

all I am suggesting is that if people think this fight is going to be won by traditional things, they are mistaken. This is a fight for the minds of the voters. Anything goes. Now I happen to believe that this President takes no prisoners. Just look at what he did to Gen Mattis. He cut him to pieces with a simple comment. That is how we win. The rest of the party should follow suit.

andrew1979

totally on board with you sir and it is all hands on deck ready when needed!

andrew1979

and just to add an example:
if i have to pay MORE money for a pint of strawberries if it means securing our border – then i am more than willing to pay the price.
in a way we are letting them convince us that paying cheap prices for goods or services is only made possible by having open borders and that is a simple lie. would we have to pay more? would we have to expect less presents at christmas? or not being able to get anything anywhere anytime? all small prices to pay in my estimation…

NYGuy54

I kinda like your attitude. You have the fight that I think we need. Go after these people. Don’t let up. Traditional politics won’t work as well.

NYGuy54

No that is not where I am heading with all this. The president is going to lay the groundwork to win but that alone won’t be good enough. Our opponents will lie, cheat and steal. Just look at how the media is treating POTUS. We need to fight back the same way. Diminish these people. Make them unpalatable. How many people in America know Warren’s nickname is Pocahontas? Pres Trump is literally showing us how to defeat these people every single day. A great economy is awesome, world peace would be amazing but that won’t stop the left from going after MAGA. We need to do the same only harder, bigger. This is a street fight. That’s why I can’t stand eeyores.

andrew1979

i am with you – i am far from an eeyore believe me. but not being a traditionalist i do have a sense of the fight we are facing as you do – and complacency is something we cannot afford. we the people now need to stand for what we believe to be right no matter the outcome.

churchmouse

Looking back to 2016 — about 2012:

churchmouse

Two months prior to that, candidate Trump discussed Mitt at an upstate NY rally:
https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-mitt-romney-election-choke-2016-4?r=US&IR=T
“The last election should have been won, except Romney choked like a dog. He choked. He went,” Trump paused to grab his neck and imitate choking and then said, “I can’t breathe! I can’t breathe, he said.”
He continued: “Romney choked. … Romney can’t recover from a choke.”
Trump contended that Romney “went into a house” and “disappeared” for the last month of the 2012 election.
“What the hell happened to him?” Trump asked.
He then acknowledged that he endorsed Romney in 2012.

churchmouse

A two-fer. First, SD clarifies that PDJT couldn’t make any recess appointments over the Christmas holidays (not sure if the text in the box will show, but it’s worth reading). Secondly, there’s a great older photo of the Trumps:

churchmouse

Further, to the recess point above:

phoenixRising

The Senate last night confirmed over 100 of POTUS’ nominees – of the 352 waiting…
I am hopeful there will be more today.
I posted this last night…
SD posts only negative news these days. Did he not check the Senate Cloakroom last night?????

churchmouse

Yes, but why wait until the last minute to approve people to those positions?
SD’s point was that PDJT could not make any recess appointments, because all the senators opposed it. The ones you are referring to had just been sitting there for months on end, also indicating that McConnell and Schumer see eye to eye.

phoenixRising

Of course they both see eye-to-eye… they are both cabal/deep state puppets.

churchmouse

How many people understand that, though?
Not many.
The whole statement of Europe not supporting Trump says it all. Lo-fos from both the US and Europe say, ‘Trump’s not popular, including in Europe’. Trump’s right in saying it’s not a big deal. However, media and other leftoids don’t see it that way, so they drive a narrative. Lo fo viewers and readers are convinced that European elites are different.

Cuppa Covfefe

If all you do is look at the YSM, you’ll think that VSGPDJT is not popular here in Europe.
That is FAR from the truth.
Look at the COMMENTS sections of the various online dailies, and you’ll see a VERY different picture.
Focus, Bild, Spiegel, Welt, etc. ALL of them have comments sections running mostly in favor of President Trump, often with folks wishing we had a Trump (or -clone) here. And some of the more conservative online dailies (e.g.jungefreiheit.de) are STRONTLY behind President Trump.
The YSM LIES about the opinions of people, and the state of the YSM in other countries. Is that any surprise, especially when the GLOBAL MSM is in only a few hands, and those are the dirty demonic hands doing the Devil’s dastardly deeds…

churchmouse

Again, you and I know different sets of Europeans.
I can’t think of a single person I know in Europe among my friends or acquaintances who likes Donald Trump.
So, I have to read about European Trump lovers in the media — mostly via citizens’ media, but not always.
Oh, the irony!

singularZoe

CM, wonder if you live in an urban area like London? I think Trump may be more popular with people who voted for Brexit. My Cristian friends in Cornwall like him. They think he has a good understanding of international trade relations and that he knows how to get things done.

churchmouse

Oh, that’s a relief! Good for your friends in Cornwall! Excellent!

Cuppa Covfefe

Churchmouse, unless you live in Germany, and speak German, you’re going out on a limb, so to speak, saying what the Germans think. And, if you live in the UK, the view there of Germany is quite jaundiced indeed. There are many for whom WWII is still going. And, yes, I have family over there (half-English am I), and many of them are that way too. Seems they still have issues with the “Jerries”…
Judging from your responses, do YOU like Donald Trump, especially if all the Europeans you know don’t?
I’ve lived here in Germany for more than 35 years, and I’ve rarely seen the people so fed up. The AfD is testament to that.

churchmouse

I’ve made my position clear offline on PDJT from the time he was DJT in 2016.

andrew1979

the SENATE approving and the PRESIDENT appointing are two entirely different things…
his hands were purposely tied. then they swoop in and “appear” to be helping. makes are few of us think they are doing something good! well, it was all bad in actuality.

andrew1979

i like it every time you say you are not going to explain it. usually something turns up pretty quick… 😉

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

I swear this is the most overblown non-issue on our side.
Recess appointments can only be made when the vacancy occurs during the recess. (Article II, Section 2, last paragraph.) So in no way could recess appointments be used to fill these jobs; they became vacant long ago.
I suppose Trump could fire and replace OTHER people during the recess, but such appointments are only good until the end of the next Senate session, so it would be a simple matter of reconvening the Senate, then adjourning–boom, recess appointments are now over–then reconvening again.

TheseTruths

Thank you for posting this. The only person I see making a big deal out of this is SD, and from what you say, he is mistaken. No way to discuss the issue over there, though.
McConnell has done some excellent things and I give credit where it is due. He was great during the Kavanaugh hearings, and he just stated he would not bring up any House bills in the Senate that he knows Pres. Trump would not sign because they don’t fund the wall.

NebraskaFilly

On that, I disagree with McTurtle – bring them to the floor and let US see how our elected representatives vote!!!!

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

It’s not just SD, it’s lots of people complaining that the Senate must be 100% traitor because no one objects to remaining (nominally) in session.

A Fortiori (@AFortiori16)

This is how all bills that PDJT will not sign should be handled. Why would a Republican controlled Senate waste its time debating and amending bills meant to further Democrat priorities?
Of course, given the Republican history of spinelessness, I would expect Pelosi to test the waters, but after that the silliness should diminish.

churchmouse

I was referring to the situation you describe in the first sentence of your last paragraph.
I don’t quite recall them being such a short-term deal, though. Otherwise, why would they be so determined not to allow him to make recess appointments?

singularZoe

I don’t know. I remember PRes. Bush making recess appointments. If they were trying to prevent Trump from doing it, I imagine they were focusing on one particular appointment, but I do not know what or whom they were worried about, and it’s all speculation on my part, and it’s not very productive without more info.

churchmouse

All I know is they will not let him do it. Grassley told him so in 2017. This was discussed at CTH last year. I once provided a link for it.
Thank you for the info on Bush’s recess appointments, Zoe — much appreciated. I knew they could be made and could last quite a while, just didn’t have any reference points to hand.

singularZoe

Well, CM, I would check out what I seem to remember on this, because I don’t have specifics and am going by memory and I don’t want to get you into trouble.

churchmouse

I think you are correct (even if it wasn’t Bush), because I do remember reading about recess appointments and how, whenever they were covered in the media, they were a BIG deal.
They were lasting, too, not ‘here today, gone tomorrow’.

singularZoe

I seem to remember a U.N. secretary or something along those lines.

churchmouse

There were many, many more.
This might come as a surprise:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recess_appointment
President Ronald Reagan made 240 recess appointments (average 30 per year).
President George H. W. Bush made 77 recess appointments (average 19 per year).
President Bill Clinton made 139 recess appointments (average of 17 per year).
President George W. Bush made 171 recess appointments (average of 21 per year).
President Barack Obama made 32 recess appointments (through February 1, 2015), all to full-time positions.
And President Trump cannot make one!
More proof that McConnell and Schumer are working hand in glove.

singularZoe

Not very surprised, though my memory was foggy. I thought it used to happen rather regularly. I can’t understand Grassley, though, unless he was simply being realistic about how things stood.

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

I usually see it paired with gripes about the confirmation backlog, as in SD’s tweet you posted.
They have little if anything to do with each other, and we should resist conflating the two issues (even if it’s by perpetuating SD’s mixed-up tweets).

churchmouse

A Ristvan comment which sheds first hand light on Mitt and on his own support of PDJT:
‘ristvan says:
January 2, 2019 at 9:14 pm
‘Some personal insight on Mittens. I overlapped him 3 of 4 years at Harvard Law/Business joint program (itself an exclusive club of 8-10 admitted per year) and then for 2 plus years at early Boston Consulting Group before Mitt joined the ‘midnight massacre’ where Bill Bain, BCG founder Bruce Henderson’s #2 stole some of BCG’s best to form his eponious (speaking to ego) competing Bain and Co.
‘Mitt was ALWAYS about himself only. He showed it then, he shows it now. Take PDJT’s endorsement then ‘Flake’ PDJT.
‘BTW, another BCG 1 year overlap I worked with was Ben Nittay, who decided to stay with us at BCG even though Bain and Romney tried hard to get him to join the midnight massacre traitors.
Treepers would know him better by his Israeli ‘english’ name, Benjamin Netanyaho.
‘Like PDJT, I was a ‘charter member’ of the “Big Club”. Like PDJT, refused to pay club dues so got kicked out. That is why I support PDJT so strongly despite being an independent politically.’

rayzorbak

A little off topic, but interesting also.
For what it’s worth:
I found recently that George Conway (Kellyannes Husband and Trump trasher) is tied to Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter being part of the “Elves” helping Paula Jones and the BJ Clinton impeachment.

churchmouse

Pelosi has wasted no time. Good to bookmark for future reference:

SD has a thread on it that breaks down the main points.

GA/FL

A good one: ’emet’ says: January 2, 2019 at 10:40 pm
“President Trump likes a good scrap. And our Lord has raised him up to smite evil. So when he starts swinging the jawbone of an ass, Pelosi and the rest of the Philistines better scram”

rayzorbak

I think Pelosi has the “Jawbone of an ass”, right under her Botox nose….. along with Shumer, Romney and many more.

Pat Frederick

it’s downright scary but not at all unexpected. I think they are seriously underestimating POTUS tho and if they harass him, he will unleash the dogs of war.
I see such a willingness to compromise in him and his leadership to bring results for the American citizenry…his desire is to achieve goals for our betterment and the only goal Dems have is resistance. That will wear on American’s patience.

NebraskaFilly

IMO, it is a combination of intellect and common sense that wins the day and our VSG has that in spades!

michaelh

Sheer Raw Intelligence
Grounded in Common Sense
Combined with unsurpassed Street Smarts
The Soul of a Pugilist
and Superior Executive Function
Dang. Who thinks Trump needs superpowers? They’d just get in his way.

GA/FL

The DemocRATS are planning a lawfare campaign similar to what Palin endured at leftist hands in Alaska.
You can bet PDJT has bigger bombs (subpoenas), deeper intel, more indictable targets, than the House can cook up.

churchmouse

Agree.
I hope this breaks soon, because the Dems will not stop.

GA/FL

Prediction – >>>The Dems will cry ‘uncle’ and ‘He broke me!’ before Trump does.

churchmouse

I hope you are right.
Based on the past two years, I’m doubtful.

GA/FL

Another prediction – PT has the ammo (intel/dirt/cases locked up) and the whammo (ways/means/personnel/lawful powers) – just waiting on the right timing.

churchmouse

Again, I wish I shared your optimism.
Not saying it won’t happen, but not saying it necessarily will, either.

GA/FL

If he’s breathing and can find a way, he will do it.

churchmouse

I don’t doubt that PDJT will do it.
It’s the ***never-ending Dem nauz we have to go through beforehand***. I’ve had enough.

Cuppa Covfefe

Mouse or eeyore?
You’re starting to get really negative…
Chill out…

churchmouse

You’re beginning to irk a bit as well with your everyone loves Trump except the elites.
They don’t.

Cuppa Covfefe

Q.E.D.

Eilert

House Conservatives Launch a Petition Drive in Support of Border Wall:
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/house-conservatives-launch-petition-drive-support-border-wall
If you want to sign the petition go here:
https://borderwallnow.com/bsn06/s

phoenixRising

Does Nancy have enough votes for Speaker ??? Yet???????

michaelh

Pelosi: “How Many More Times Can We Say, ‘No, Nothing for the Wall’?”
Well gee, I dunno. How many more times CAN you say ‘No, nothing for the wall’?

GA/FL

Tomorrow, the President has scheduled another meeting with the Democratss.
Yesterday in the Situation Room, you can bet President Trump gave them a lot to chew over today.

GA/FL

And our VSG President turns up the HEAT this morning on Twitter…

churchmouse

Every inner city black person needs to know this, particularly the first point:

churchmouse

Sorry, here’s the first point — very important:

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churchmouse

GA/FL

The leftist progs are blood-lusting murderous ghouls.

churchmouse

They certainly are.

Pat Frederick

someone in the comments mentioned this was the Dems “blood sacrifice”…chilling, isn’t it?

michaelh

But true.

churchmouse

Yes, it is. That is gross.

churchmouse
churchmouse

I hope more comes out about WaPo contributors:

churchmouse

Great observation:

phoenixRising

My LAST word on Sd… He has lost faith… did so back in November. I left CTH because of his negativity. I don’t need to read it here.
Sd no longer trusts POTUS… because he doesn’t see any arrests. There are many events unseen by the masses.
I don’t see God, but I believe there is a God…
POTUS has very little support from Congress… but he is skilled at making deals.
POTUS has NO support from the cabel-controlled media… BUT he uses Twitter to make his voice heard.
AND, there is Q… which of course Sd smears.
I prefer Praying Medic…

phoenixRising

forgot my end tag after lilttle… didn’t intend all italics.

Pat Frederick

I think you’ve struck on something that’s been nagging at me too…SD doesn’t seem to believe that POTUS KNOWS any of this or is planning against this…that he’s stumbling blindly along–getting things done thru, what? luck???

prairie123

I wondered about this post. I think you hit the nail on the head, PM is basically addressing Sd directly here. I have to admit I’d like to see arrest or two myself (Hillary, orange jumpsuit) but at the same time I know that many things HAVE to be in place first for it all to work correctly, for judges, juries and evidence, etc. I refuse to give up hope and I have faith that God is using President Trump for good, for the benefit of Americans and ultimately the world.
I think that POTUS has been sending nuggets of truth out there too, since Q seems to be silent (been a couple days, right?) Daughworks did a FABULOUS job early up thread dissecting yesterday’s presser where POTUS laid out so much great info and all the reporters wanted to talk about (and later write about) was the Romney Drama… yuck. When will they report truth? If I have lost faith, it’s in the msm and career politicians on BOTH sides of the isle.

MysticRose80

100% in agreement with Praying Medic.
Arrests are nice and dandy. Makes for instant gratification. However, what good will immediate arrests do, if the system that helped to spawn these monsters is still left in place? Yes, let’s go and make immediate arrests…..only for history to repeat itself in the future with new players.
What the President and his allies (overt and covert, national and international) are attempting to do is a huge undertaking. Thus, it is going to take time, but the plan will be beautifully executed.
We are talking about dismantling a system that has existed for years! Very foolish to think that victory can be achieved overnight.
The irony is that our enemies, based on their actions, are more certain that their days are numbered than people on our side. Do you think POTUS would be facing such fierce opposition if the enemies were winning? I don’t think so.

Pat Frederick

you’re right…the judges HAVE to be in place first–or they skate and double jeopardy doesn’t allow them to be retried….

michaelh

I have infinite confidence in every Representative and every Senator voting 100% along the lines of self-interest.
All Trump has to do it make sure the vote is in their self-interest.
Boom. Done.

churchmouse

SD was far too rigid in what he envisaged.
Also, because of said rigidity, no one was allowed to offer a different POV.
What happened to SD is an important lesson in rigidity.
What looks to be a hard shell can, in fact, be fragile — and inevitably cracks.
Personally, I would love it if he said at some point, a few months from now, ‘I’ve learned something over these past three years, and I’m going to pass that lesson along to you. Take it or leave it …’
Rigidity is a bad thing, yet there are a lot of commenters at CTH who are the same exact way as SD!

Pat Frederick

I know almost everyone here is a proponent of healthy eating, so please scroll by…I just gotta say this–does anything smell as good as a wet bottom shoofly pie coming out of the oven? snifffffff….mmmmmm

GA/FL

Even the WaPo can do something good once in a while….a sweet story….

Greg Cox

Just as a reminder and encouragement.
Q
The Clock is Ticking
2626
Q
!!mG7VJxZNCI
19 Dec 2018 – 5:11:25 PM
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/flynn-hearing-leaves-far-right-s-conspiracy-theorists-wanting-n949626📁
The clock is ticking.
When will the 1st alarm ring?
If the Senate was the primary target (majority control)….
53-47 active when?
EO (designated_target(s)) active when?
Ongoing investigations…..
“There are a lot of sealed indictments” – SC
“It’s all going to come out, U1, Dossier, CF, etc….” – SH
“I have pretty good sources…” – SH
There is a reason why SH, SC, and JS are on stage.
Q

GA/FL

SH – Sean Hannity
SC – Sara Carter
JS – John Solomon

Pat Frederick

I have not followed Q long enough to be up to speed on many things, so I apologize…but what is the Q clock? I saw a picture of it a while ago and wondered what it is or where I can find info on it?

rayzorbak

Search on YouTube for: Q clock….. Lots of stuff there.

Pat Frederick

thank you!

rayzorbak

Just here to help where I can 🙂

Pat Frederick

just watched one of the available videos–thanks! He spoke not only about the q clock–but also about the surprising number of twitter accounts not being currently used–the obamas, biden, huma, strzok, bill & hill…he said nobody’s posted since just before Christmas and the ones that posted Christmas stuff were old photos–maybe hill just did tweet, don’t remember–but then he discussed prison barges (one from east coast, one from the west) headed towards Gitmo…interesting…

Greg Cox

Who’s video was that?

Pat Frederick

We are Q (I think)

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

Well, that should be checkable–have there been ANY public appearances by these people since they (apparently) stopped tweeting? If so, then they’re not on prison barges. (Which strikes me as a horrifically inefficient method of transporting them anyway–stick ’em on an airplane.)

rayzorbak

FYI…..I currently follow the X22 Reort on YouTube…. Most every night it has a part a (Financial) and part b (Q current events)

rayzorbak

*Report*…………Doh!

GA/FL

And away we go……

Pat Frederick

apparently it’s the same thing he introduced in 2017—running with the obstruction of justice over firing Comey—

Anonymoushorse

Calm down and enjoy the ride!

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michaelh

Oh wow – you’re right! Bolton is in the background looking like he’s about to CRY!!!! How did I miss that before?

holley100

That and the big bunch of swords directly behind him. Symbolic.

prairie123

It’s a Game of Thrones reference, like the poster. I don’t watch that crap, but it’s there for those who want to look it up.

Gudthots

Bolton had his stone face on the entire hour plus. I watched him specifically. After it was over I was thinking how much he looks like the little guy on the Monopoly board.

Cuppa Covfefe

Dieter Zetsche, head of Daimler-Benz, seems to be a perfect “Monopoly Man”:comment image
(Probably glad to be headed off to retirement before long, with all the attacks on the car industry over here…).

Gudthots

Okay, correction to my post about Bolton’s stone face.
Our Lion got him to crack up a little after 1:03:56 when he says:

“It’s not all about the rich countries. Because the rich countries really do take advantage of us. Because they pay a very small percentage of their military. And they cheat on trade. They take advantage of us on trade. Other than that they’re wonderful.”

https://youtu.be/aoYoFI1fSrk

para59r

This would be devastating to the Fraudocrats if it had larger dissemination. Knows this was a day ago, but likes that you put it up today as I didn’t have the time to watch before. Better to watch it than hear about it. Sec of HLS briefing was powerful. Whole thing was great. Looking forward to Saturday in MO.
Oh.. and as to Bolton, thought he was having a hard time containing himself. Fairly sure he was close to jumping out his chair and yelling MAGA and KAG several times at least. 🙂

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Gil

We have had a lot of arrests in socal over the past year but nothing like a pedo ring, at least public. But 1 less on the streets is 1 or more less victims. I hope when theyre arrested they are talking and catching others.

Elizabeth Carter

Gil,
January is the month dedicated to taking down human trafficking.
President Trump is making huge inroads into Human Trafficking. The MSM tries to avoid mention of it.
This is President Trump’s main focus. Q focuses on it also and that is why they hate Q.
The rest of the media tries to make it all about money, the stock market, jobs, etc. or Orange Man Bad.
This is why they hate and fear President Trump. He is taking human trafficking down world wide. They have rescued babies as young as 3 months old who were being sex trafficked. The traffickers can get around $250,000 for a child they sell for sex.
Human Trafficking Arrests Surge Under Trump
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/human-trafficking-arrests-surge/
Human, sex trafficking up 842%, California leads
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/human-sex-trafficking-up-842-california-leads
Democrats Filibuster Bill to Protect Sex Trafficking Victims!
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/democrats-filibuster-bill-to-protect-sex-trafficking-victims/
Human Trafficking is their “tax free money” that can go through their “charities” when they need to launder it.

Gudthots

The fury of my heart against those that prey on the innocents.comment image

singularZoe

Yes, taking down these criminals and rescuing those victims will make Trump go down in history as one of our greatest presidents, and it has become my main focus.

singularZoe

Planting the idea in people’s minds that it isn’t real.

prairie123

Exactly.

Pat Frederick

REMARKS
Remarks by President Trump in Cabinet Meeting
Issued on: January 3, 2019
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-cabinet-meeting-12/

churchmouse

Thank you, Pat — greatly appreciated.

Mary Morse

Couple of posts for anyone interested. I don’t tweet, but I came across an interesting thred by E C Everett. Is anyone familiar? He posts lots about the Alpha bank server/L Jean Camp fraud, pedo links, steele dossier, etc.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/01/02/january-2nd-2019-presidential-politics-trump-administration-day-713/comment-page-5/#comment-6519438
And this about Fusion GPS and their work for Derwick Associates in Venezuela in 2013:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/01/03/january-3rd-2019-presidential-politics-trump-administration-day-714/comment-page-2/#comment-6520668

phoenixRising

Our gracious POTUS has released a gift to Fauxahontus –

Pat Frederick

trolling, trolling, trolling…

GA/FL

Trump is trollin’, trollin’
Keepin’ Dem-dogs rollin’
Showin’ up their pollin’
The narrative he’s controllin’
Raw hides!
He keeps the Dem-dogs movin’
Though they’re disapprovin’
Trump is really groovin’
And what he tweets gets proven.
Raw hides!
He won’t try to understand ‘em
He’ll throw, rope and brand ’em.
Herd ’em up in tandem.
Then their a$$es hand ‘em!
Raw hides!
Though they’re calculating
Trump is far out-rating
With his gal Melania by his side
Baiting, waiting, making them bug-eyed,
Soon he’ll expose them far and wide!
Raw hides!
Move ’em on, head ’em up
Head ’em up, move ’em on
Move ’em on – show ’em up!
Rawhides!
Cut ’em out, ride ’em in
Ride ’em in, get ’em out
Vote ’em out – we will win!
Rawhides!
Hawrrrrrh!!!!
Cracks whip!

Pat Frederick

love this!

MysticRose80

😂😂😂😂

rayzorbak

Another good meme…… Award still goes to Wolf for…….
“Hook Nose Super Flake”

Linda

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Pat Frederick

so here’s where the Dem’s wet dream (pardon my French) comes in to play—they vote in HRC as Speaker…then impeach POTUS and VP and viola! HRC is president…spit…

phoenixRising

hmmmmmm….

rayzorbak

And Karen Pence got a “Letter” (Indictment?) at GHWB funeral along with Mike Oboma, Hag Clinton, Jill Biden and Laura Boosh. (Might be others too)

phoenixRising

Senate has resumed confirming POTUS’ nominees

Gil

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phoenixRising

That’s hilarious !
How ’bout this… she’s already been chastised for chuggin a beer online, now
https://twitter.com/Nothing2C_here_/status/1080763037794123776

NebraskaFilly

Oooh! Wonder who will get fired for not seeing that? ROFL

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

It’s more likely someone will be fired for not not seeing it, i.e., for seeing it, and then pointing it out.

NebraskaFilly

I mean the person on her team who did not scrub the scene first…..

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

Ah, yes, of course. Should have realized that. 🙂

Gil

I saw that pot pointed out but not an explanation. I do know people have collected those old stereotype mammy jars and such, but usually only black folk for historical purposes.

holley100

racist cookie jar. LOL. Did she give a reason for that bizarre online beer chug? If not, my guess is it’s a counter to the news about her taking Risperdal.
Drinking alcohol is a big no no on that med. “See I’m drinking booze…no meds for me.” FRAUD.

Gil

Exceppt she could just have something carbonated inside without etoh. Fake-o!

Aubergine

The non-Indian drinks non-alcoholic beer, and with her non-existent brain believes we don’t know.

TheseTruths

Imagine if a Republican had that in their home…the horror! “Proof” that Trump is a rayciss! The media will let it slip, but the rest of us won’t, during the campaign (which starts now, it seems).

bflyjesusgrl

My Favorite is NACHO,
As in,
Hillary is still NACHO President!! 😂😂

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

I’ll even sometimes say Trump appointed her to be in charge of Mexican food as a consolation prize, so she’s Nacho President.

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NebraskaFilly

Yeah, well, BEWARE of Amash!!!! He is an Islamic plant, no doubt whatsoever in my mind.

phoenixRising

Dem NY Rep Anthony Brindisi votes for Joe Biden
Dem TN Rep Cooper votes present.
Dem CO Rep Crow votes for Sen Duckworth.
Dem SC Rep Cunningham votes for Dem IL Rep Bustos
Dem ME Rep Golden votes for Dem IL Rep Bustos for Spkr
She can’t lose a total of 17…
5 against on DIM side already and not into H

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rayzorbak

17?

churchmouse

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Dem WI Rep Kind votes for Dem GA Rep Lewis for Spkr
Dem PA Rep Lamb votes for Dem MA Rep Kennedy
Dem UT Rep McAdams votes for Dem FL Rep Murphy for Spkr
Dem NY Rep Rice votes for Fmr GA Dem Gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams
Dem NY Rep Rose for Sen Duckworth
Dem OR Rep Schrader votes for Dem OH Rep Fudge for Spkr
Dem NJ Rep Sherrill votes for Bustos for Spkr,
Dem MN Rep Slotkin votes present,
Dem VA Rep Spanberger votes for Bustos
Dem NJ Rep Van Drew votes “no” in Spkr race
Groans from the GOP side of the aisle as Ocasio-Cortez votes for Pelosi for Spkr

Pat Frederick

she’s a few fries short of a Happy Meal…
Pelosi: The Constitution Considers Me Trump’s Equal via @freebeacon https://t.co/rsavhxFzeh
— NickTheDeplorable (@NicholasCain67) January 3, 2019

GA/FL

Illusions of grandeur.
Delusions of power.

CM in TN

She’s been munchin’ on too many Tide Pods again…

CM in TN

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GA/FL

It’s that Botox talkin’

Pat Frederick

Over 7,000 people in Massachusetts have been sent home or are working without pay during the #TrumpShutdown. Until @realDonaldTrump re-opens the government, I’m donating my salary to @HIASrefugees, a nonprofit that helps refugees and makes our country stronger in the process.
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) January 1, 2019
so many in MA out of work, but she’s giving her money to FOREIGNERS? LOL

andrew1979

7000 probable american citizens “out of work” and she donates her salary to refugees.
my dday was yesterday…so i hope this is going to get good soon…

NebraskaFilly

The incomparable Nolte!
“My opinion of Mitt Romney has changed over the years. When he lost the Republican nomination to John McCain in 2008, I thought he was a classy guy with a future. When he lost the general election to Barack Obama in 2012, I thought he was a good man with a glass jaw. When he repeatedly got on his high horse to sabotage Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016, I thought he was an opportunistic sleaze bag gorging on sour grapes and his own monstrously selfish sense of virtue.
But now, after reading his Washington Post jihad against Trump, I finally figured what Mitt Romney really is … an idiot.
Romney might have a high IQ, but he’s a political moron.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/03/nolte-mitt-romney-is-an-idiot/

NebraskaFilly

Goodness!
“So why would Romney do such a thing? Why would Mr. Decency align himself with objectively indecent organizations and people?
And now we come to the part about Romney being a moron.
Just as his fellow moron John McCain believed in 2008, I think Romney actually believes two things…
1) Sucking up to the media by backstabbing the sitting Republican president is a path to another shot at the Oval Office.
2) When he does run for president again, the same media that relentlessly tarred him as a sexist, racist, plutocrat, job-killing corporate raider who tortures dogs, bullies gays, and gives women cancer, will appreciate him this time.
As far as number one, I think I speak for many Republican voters, including those who vigorously supported Romney in 2012, when I say kiss my ass. Screw you, you preening, backstabbing, undermining, half-witted peacock whose first official act as an incoming U.S. Senator is to sucker punch Trump, the man who not only endorsed you in Utah, but did so graciously after you launched a series of unhinged and very personal attacks against Trump during the 2016 campaign.
If Mitt Romney were on fire, I wouldn’t spit on him.”

GA/FL

Romney’s spiritual/cognitive eyes are blinded and his brain synapses scrambled by his ideology (both religious and/or political) as well as his sins/crimes.

GA/FL

Romney is also distorted by his pride – in his wealth, political and church status, his looks and his family.
I will never forget his facile lying – I counted 8 lies in the 2011 Jacksonville GOP primary debate alone. He lied so much in one debate, it even flustered facile-tongued Newt Gingrich! Even the moderators were astounded at Romney’s lies.
When you believe a lie (Mormonism is) and liars (Jos. Smith was) and you promote/propound lies as much as Romney (and Hillary) it affects your mind.

GA/FL

A little history and language lesson:

I love Phillip Schuyler’s twitter feed – he never fails to produce something great.

sobriquet3

He is one of my favorites!

CM in TN
NebraskaFilly
churchmouse

Thank you.
It’s a John Solomon article, for those who follow him.

NebraskaFilly

No prob.

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NYGuy54

Let them go too far and then savage them.

churchmouse

Tony Bennett fans here might be upset:

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Roberta

Chad Pergram
‏Verified account @ChadPergram
27s28 seconds ago
Pelosi elected Speaker of the House with 220 votes. Becomes the first person to return to the Speakership since Sam Rayburn in 1955

churchmouse

She’ll surely have a DC federal building named after her now.

NebraskaFilly

“Geologists recorded an earthquake near North Korea’s Punggye-ri nuclear test site on Wednesday, an incident that South Korean officials believe is an aftershock from the last nuclear test there in September 2017.
According to the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) in Seoul, the earthquake took place around 40 km north-northwest of Kilju, North Hamgyong Province around 7:20 a.m., with the epicenter at a depth of 12 kilometers and around 11 kilometers east of the nuclear test site.
Experts believe the earthquake was induced by the September 2017 underground detonation of a nuclear device at the test site, which caused an artificial quake of magnitude 5.7 to 6.3 at the time. The size of the seismic impact leads observers to believe this was the most powerful nuclear detonation in the history of the country’s illegal nuclear program.”
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/01/03/earthquake-recorded-north-korea-nuclear-test-site/

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CM in TN

I used to change a/c filters for Ed Meese’s office at Heritage Foundation in late 90’s/early 00’s. Very down to earth, had a lot of model airplanes. Did Elaine Chao’s too as they worked there at the same time…

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Pat Frederick

Four of the seven “Comey Memos” contained classified information.
Comey cited attorney-client privilege in refusing to answer my questions about whether he mishandled any of those classified memos by sharing them with unauthorized persons outside of a classified setting. pic.twitter.com/uPy2y0UO2R
— John Ratcliffe (@RepRatcliffe) January 3, 2019

Pat Frederick

No, in case you were wondering, attorney-client privilege is NOT an exception to the unlawful disclosure and handling of classified materials.
— John Ratcliffe (@RepRatcliffe) January 3, 2019

Emeraldstar

I just came across this article from Judicial Watch, in re 1.5M ineligible registrations to be removed from voter rolls in LA and CA. The process starts!
https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/california-and-los-angeles-county-to-remove-1-5-million-inactive-voters-from-voter-rolls-settle-judicial-watch-federal-lawsuit/

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

Did we not, just a couple of days ago, have one of our regulars complaining about how death-oriented the left is, and using a stated desire to have the Republican Party die as evidence?

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

This is what I was thinking of (from New Year’s Day).
https://wqth.wordpress.com/2019/01/01/dear-maga-open-topic-20190101/comment-page-1/#comment-34130
If wanting a political party to die is a “recurring death theme” then both parties are guilty of it.

churchmouse

I took the cartoon to suggest the issue of Russia Collusion, rather than the party, dying.

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

Well, it’s the thirsty man crawling futilely towards a mirage…he eventually dies. Mirages don’t die.
I think Wolfm00n took it my way too.

Marica

Wolfie–Did you see this thread by Brian Cates?

Marica

Do you remember when SD and Tracy Beanz and Brain had a big battle after one of these meetings?

Marica

When our POTUS GOES…We all go!!

michaelh

Do you have a Gab tips doc for new users? List of ppl to follow?
What do you think of Keybase.io?

Pat Frederick

some days I sit here reading your stuff and wonder to myself..who are you really? are you like Batman or something?
I worry about bananas at Walmart and you’re dodging FISAs and British intelligence…

Pat Frederick

stay safe!
you know I talk about older movies a lot–love dvds, hate tv–well it strikes me as coincidental that in Conspiracy Theory, TPTB kept track of Mel Gibson’s character by subscribing to his newsletter…they could watch and see if he was really onto anything they wanted covered up.
if they’re doing that with you, they gotta be crapping in their pants right about now…

Aubergine

I sit here and hope that one day, on the other side of whatever is coming, I get to buy you a beer, Wolf, in a smoky little dive bar, while you tell me the whole story of what was really going on the whole time.
A girl can have a dream…

Marica

Pat! He IS Batman! but more like a Wolf!! LOL!–
ps–I worried about bananas today at my Walmart–they were gross!!

Pat Frederick

LOL…
I believe you’re right!

singularZoe

Pat, lol, that says it all. Feel pretty much the same.

para59r

Definitely cushions/preps one of the Place Holders. Read about it at work, likes that it found a place here. New and important. Waiting for more.

Greg Cox
Sylvia Avery

FTA: “Evidence is now circulating among lawmakers in Washington that makes the case that Obama administration intelligence officials John Brennan and James Clapper hacked FISA court judge Reggie Walton in addition to Supreme Court Justice John Roberts.
Big League Politics’ expose on the alleged Roberts hack has rocked the corridors of power. Now, we have more information coming to light about the FISA court — which infamously held no hearings regarding the fraudulent FISA warrant applications to surveil Carter Page and by extension other members of President Trump’s team. And there’s more: James Comey’s henchmen at the FBI are proven to have covered it up…”

Sylvia Avery

Oh, yes! Please!

GA/FL

At the very least…

Sauce

..or they go full “Scanners” and their heads explodes…
I will not subject this audience to the animated gif

NYGuy54

go after these SOBs. Shame them. Fight back.

GA/FL

There are many kinds of SANCTIONS that get results.
“Under President Trump, we have made historic progress in ensuring countries take back their nationals who have no legal right to live or work in the United States,” said Katie Waldman, a spokeswoman for Homeland Security.
Visa sanctions are issued by the State Department after notice from the Homeland Security secretary that a country is delaying or denying acceptance of its deportees.
Washington Times via: https://www.weaselzippers.us/407332-trumps-crackdown-on-countries-slow-walking-deportations-yields-immediate-results/

GA/FL

O boy…..

Sylvia Avery

What a fabulous Commie Presidential candidate he is going to make.

Roberta

See the swirly stripey background stolen from #[44]. These people are more than stupid.
From Wikipedia (all you need to know):
“…mother was a Chicana political activist who helped establish the Chicano political party La Raza Unida,”
Have not been able to determine if both of his parents were born here. Just because the family dates residence in Texas to 1920s doesn’t qualify one as a natural born citizen….

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

I don’t think your parents have to be born here for you to be a natural born citizen. Even under the strictest definition I’ve seen (it remains fuzzy in case law), what is required is that both of your parents be citizens (it doesn’t matter whether born here or naturalized) at the time of your birth.

churchmouse

Until Obama (so, after the first few presidents, with the exception of Chester Arthur’s ‘natural born’ question), all US presidents had two parents who were American citizens at the time of their birth.
You are right in saying this is fuzzy — thanks, Dems — and PDJT does need to clear this up before his six remaining years are over.

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

I could see it meaning a wide spectrum of things. At bare minimum it means a person who is a citizen by birth, i.e., someone who is a citizen and did not have to be naturalized. That of course is going to depend to the state of current citizenship law. (This loose definition could conceivably allow someone born overseas to American parents to become president, because they are citizens by birth. Yes, the parents have to file paperwork, but that’s merely to inform the US government they had a child, NOT a request that the child be granted citizenship.) On the other hand we could change that law, and thereby change the definition of natural born citizen.
Stricter definitions of course range up to “both parents must be US Citizens and the individual has to be born on American soil” (which brings up–does being born in a territory or embassy qualify?).
But I was responding to the assertion that the PARENTS had to be citizens from their births, which, to me, seems ridiculous.
It’s damn near (but fortunately not *quite*) a requirement that you can’t be a natural born citizen unless your parents were. This would be bad because of course the parents can’t be unless their parents were, and on back…which would wipe out everyone whose ancestors immigrated after the revolution. Not only no, but hell no.

churchmouse

**To my knowledge, no one has ever claimed the parents should be citizens from birth**, but that **the child (future President/VP) had to be born of two parents who were American citizens at the time of his birth**.
Until Obama — and after the first few presidents — that’s what every American understood to be a natural born citizen. And that’s how the Pres and VP candidatures proceeded, until 2008.
With Obama — whatever his actual parentage — all of a sudden only ‘one’ parent had to be an American citizen. Just to clarify, I don’t want to get into an Obama discussion. It was simply the first time only ‘one’ (as the Dems said) parent of a presidential candidate had to be a US citizen at the time of his birth. Wrong!
Because of that we’ve got Republicans who have tried to run for President who are not natural born citizens, either. Cruz and Jindal come to mind.
I’m signing off now.
Thanks for an interesting discussion, which goes to show that **this issue must be clarified and codified** before PDJT leaves office in 2024.

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

Nope, look at what I was originally replying to, by Roberta. She complained that someone’s parents weren’t verifyably citizens from birth.

Have not been able to determine if both of his parents were born here. Just because the family dates residence in Texas to 1920s doesn’t qualify one as a natural born citizen….

…and that’s what got me started.

churchmouse

‘Just because the family dates residence in Texas to 1920s doesn’t qualify one as a natural born citizen….’
Yes, because we still do not know if his parents were citizens when he was born.
You, Roberta and I probably agree on the main points, Steve.
Exactly why this issue needs to be cleaned up before 2024 — if not 2020, on second thought. Who knows who will be throwing their hat into the ring later this year?

Sylvia Avery

Yes. With our utterly FANTASTIC anchor baby baloney, it is entirely feasible that we will have someone who is effectively a foreigner that the Dims all swoon over and nominate who has never even lived here but whose mother came here to give birth as so many wealthy Chinese, Saudi, and the like do.
How extremely global and multi culti and FABULOUS would it be to elect a US citizen by birthright but who spent all their youth in China, for instance? And is thus thoroughly steeped in Chinese customs, philosophy, and politics. I can In short, a ChiCom. Don’t think it couldn’t happen, either. I can see significant swathes of the population who would simper adoringly and think it was the coolest thing ever.
Good grief. Even five years ago I’d have thought, “Nah, never…” but now?

singularZoe

Sylvia, that would be such a nightmare, and it may very well happen. Tell you something else–started reading your comment without knowing whose it was, and immediately I said,”that’s Sylvia” and I checked, and sure enough, it was you. Love your style. Feels like you’re sitting chatting in my living room.

Sylvia Avery

🙂 🙂 🙂

churchmouse

I read so much about this in 2008 from ex-Dems, which really got me admiring them for accurately predicting what could happen in the future.
Non-Dems, myself included, don’t really see the strategy the way former Dems do. They GET it.
Fully agree with you, Sylvia, in everything you say here.
Any-fracking-thing could happen with presidential candidates in the next US election. (Ditto in Europe, BTW. I mention it to people and get blank stares. Oh, my.)
The Dems will **try** to play a blinder, as you say. Not saying they will succeed — and neither are you — but they will do everything they can in that regard.
This citizenship issue presents a great danger.

para59r

Good hopes someone talks him into going indi to split the vote, but thinks he’s aiming at being someones VP.

phoenixRising

GA/FL

LIVE – Border Patrol Commissioner holds URGENT Press Briefing!

GA/FL

GST isn’t sure whether the surprise Sarah Sanders WH Press Briefing is the same as the Border Patrol briefing. Holding on!

Roberta

Claps hands. A press BRIEFING. Nope, y’all don’t get to ask any of your bogus questions. Y’all aren’t going to waste our POTUS’ and his team’s time by asking questions that have nothing to do with the content of the briefing.
Isn’t it wonderful to see strong adults on that podium?

GA/FL

THAT was a thing of beauty!

prairie123

Ah! So great!! Thanks for sharing this! I love the fact that he had several border agents speaking out to the press as well. And NO questions afterwards – ha! Take that “journalists”!

CM in TN
Marica

WOW! and THAT folks Was an awesome Presser!!! Exactly how to do it!!! THE.END.

GA/FL
GA/FL

YES!
https://twitter.com/thebradfordfile/status/1080939896213327872
Keep it up – keep on showing support to our President. He IS paying attention!

GA/FL

NOPE – IT’S A BRIEFING ROOM – NOT A SPIN ROOM!!!

Gudthots

Transcript has 17,000 words?

Cuppa Covfefe

Here’s an idea for triggering your libtard neighbors (H/T Larry Ledwick on chiefio’s blog):
“unseen1 Retweeted
Michael Moates
@freedom_moates
5 hours ago
More
My new neighbor is a liberal feminist. I just renamed my WiFi to Trump is your President.”

phoenixRising

remember… Nancy said earlier today that House would begin impeachment and indictment proceedings as soon as Mueller’s report is released…
she thinks she’s going to be president…

Emeraldstar

“a monumental game of chicken”
I think that the longer VSGPDJT has to prepare the lightning strike, the more broad, and accurate, and effective it will be.
It’s the Dems / Globalists who are “chicken”, and whatever extra preparations they can make with the “extra” time, will all be for naught.
Put simply, the delays help us FAR more than they help “them”. I like to remember Q’s repeated exhortation that “These people are STUPID”, and the most recent one, that “Nothing can stop what’s coming.” (paraphrase, I think)
Let ’em keep trying to stop it! Vanity. Meanwhile, the net gets larger, and the noose gets tighter.
I trust the impeccable timing of our POTUS!
And while OT withers in despondence and despair, we get MOAR popcorn and show!
NOICE!

andrew1979

as much as i seem like a gloomer and a doomer depending on the day and how amped up i am – my ultimate fantasy is still that mueller is guy getting all the stuff together and when he walks out with the democrats behind him to announce his report he names them all.
fantasy is necessary for sanity sometimes 🙂

rf121

From the other place.comment image

NebraskaFilly

“On December 31, the Omaha World-Herald ran the Bloomberg piece published earlier in the month, which noted:
“It would take only 118 pounds of fentanyl to kill 25 million people. That’s how much of the powerful opioid painkiller that Nebraska State Trooper Sam Mortensen found in April when he stopped a truck marked ‘U.S. Mail’ swerving onto the shoulder along Interstate 80.”
In October, the White House honored Mortensen for making one of the largest fentanyl seizures in American history. Fentanyl has surfaced as the deadliest drug in the United States.”
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2019/01/03/report-experts-insist-opioid-fentanyl-could-be-used-as-tool-of-terror/

NebraskaFilly

What ticks me off the most, however, is the heroin that has decimated our troops, the same troops who were charged with PROTECTING the poppy fields in Afghanistan! What these evil cretins have done to our OWN soldiers just burns me deeply! And NO-ONE will face responsibility for that! This on top of the Clowns and their drug running!

Molly Pitcher

wow..that saved a LOT of lives. Thank you Trooper Mortensen

GA/FL

BOOM ! ! ! – PRESIDENT TRUMP follows up the Border Patrol Council Press Conference with this!

NebraskaFilly

Oh, my – posted by SD:

Gudthots

Amen Juanita. Amen.

Gudthots

Today has had some really good laughs.

Gudthots

Stay home. Just stay home.comment image

Gudthots
Gudthots

Building Trumpmore’s twit-stream is a scream today.
https://twitter.com/k_ovfefe/status/1080959536310222850

Marica

TTT–I Know!! Cracking me up all day!!! LOL!!

michaelh

Another Example of the Government Working for You.

Sylvia Avery

That made me laugh/snort.

Gudthots

Laying down the rules of the 2019 senate road.

phoenixRising
phoenixRising

that’s why I don’t watch TV…
did see a screen shot of her surrounded by children…
that’s not simply propaganda, that’s evil…
Dims are fighting the wall not because they need votes of illegals, but
because A WALL WILL CUT OFF cashflow for cabal…
their biggest money makers are drugs and human trafficking… bringing in children to sell for sex
SHE REALLY HAS NO SOUL….

Gil

Thats all i saw too. Didnt watch, no need tyo. Its all the same kies and tricks and evil with shiny new bows.

NYGuy54

This is how we win folks. This kind of stuff. Check out “Sandy”
https://twitter.com/AnonymousQ1776/status/1080594276831047680

Gil

Shes pretending to be in the breakfast club.

NYGuy54

That part was clear…makes her look kind of stupid.

TheseTruths

Sadly, I think young, clueless libs will like that.

NYGuy54

That’s not who this is for….the hard left will love it. We shouldn’t care about them. But if we keep getting things like this out, people like Sandy get diminished. This is what the left is trying to do to Pres Trump.

Cuppa Covfefe

Sandy the Hook…

NebraskaFilly

Isn’t this pic (from OT) the same shot that was posted earlier (I think it was here?) that had the wall of knives in it directly behind PDJT? So someone modified the official pic?comment image

NebraskaFilly

Found it – Tweet from DailyWire, don’t remember if I saw it here or OT –

NebraskaFilly

Simple-minded me actually thought the first one was accurate! SMH

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

I was wondering whether to complain it was faked, but I figured people would jump on me for stating the obvious and being a downer for criticizing a joke.
Maybe next time my attitude will be “Screw ’em, if it saves one person for falling for the joke, it’s worth the crap I’ll have to take.”

phoenixRising
phoenixRising

michaelh

LOL That’s awesome!
Too bad the real story is: Dow plummets 630+ points because “muh China!”

Molly Pitcher

THIS ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ agree 100% Daughn

singularZoe

Hate to say, but I tend to think it’s all been a set-up and she’ll flip when given the signal, though not for a while. Call me cynical, can’t help it, and God forgive me if I’m wrong about her. Planned all along.

sobriquet3

I have mumbled this under my breath forever. She does NOTHING. The Dems love her.

Marica

Can we get YOU the job Daughn? Seriously! Awesome suggestions!!

Sylvia Avery

I know, right? I agree wholeheartedly.

singularZoe

Marica, great idea. Daughn could take it on. Would you consider, Daughn?

singularZoe

Yay, Daughn. And in so doing, we’ll all win.

Marica

Or Sydney Powell? I’m IN!! I would crawl over glass for this POTUS and getting Our country back…

Sylvia Avery

I nominate you, Daughn. You have more passion for the cause, and I suspect more smarts and organizational skills, than Ronna by far. A terrific post.
Would you email it to PDJT, or if you don’t want to for whatever reason do you mind if I copy it and email it to him?

singularZoe

Sylvia and Daughn, I proudly second the nomination. Lol, this is fun.

Marica

I LOVE the way you think!! Brad Parscale! YES! Damn Daughn! So glad you are on our side!! Blessed to be counted as your internet friend!!

Sylvia Avery

Thank you for doing that! You know what you are talking about and would have some credibility because you are coming from within the system. It cannot hurt! I think it is just a terrific idea!

NYGuy54

I kinda have been hinting at this for a while now. I am reluctant to criticize her because POTUS loves her.
When I was making my trips to Philly, I stopped by friends who live in Montgomery County….active Trump supporters. I asked them what kind of activity was there to support Lou Barletta. They told me they had not gotten 1 single person coming to their door asking them to vote for Lou. Not 1. How many for Casey. Oh 2 or 3 times.
This was 2 weeks before the election. In an important Philly suburb. I mentioned this on CTH and people ignored me.
Now we have many more Senate seats to defend in 2020. She better be up to it.

Covadonga

Awesome thought!

michaelh

The Times Hyper-ventilates – tries to resuscitate the old “Christian Dominionism” leftist hallucination…
Once again, the New York Times misunderstands, mocks evangelical Christians
Dr. Michael L. Brown
Contrary to what “The Gray Lady” would have you believe, it’s the radical left that is attacking democracy. Evangelicals, in fact, are trying to protect it.
https://www.onenewsnow.com/perspectives/michael-brown/2019/01/03/once-again-the-new-york-times-misunderstands-mocks-evangelical-christians
In a year-end op-ed piece for The New York Times, Katherine Stewart alleges that, “The Christian nationalist movement today is authoritarian, paranoid and patriarchal at its core. They aren’t fighting a culture war. They’re making a direct attack on democracy itself.” Such claims are as ludicrous as they are misleading.
According to Stewart, when evangelicals like Lance Wallnau compare Trump to King Cyrus in the Bible, they are actually wanting Trump to be a king. Indeed, she claims that, “in Mr. Trump, they have found a man who does not merely serve their cause, but also satisfies their craving for a certain kind of political leadership.”
Evangelicals, whom she slyly characterizes as “Christian nationalists,” want a king, not a president. They want someone to impose their views on the nation. They are theocratic, not democratic. That’s why Trump is their man.
She writes: “I have attended dozens of Christian nationalist conferences and events over the past two years. And while I have heard plenty of comments casting doubt on the more questionable aspects of Mr. Trump’s character, the gist of the proceedings almost always comes down to the belief that he is a miracle sent straight from heaven to bring the nation back to the Lord. I have also learned that resistance to Mr. Trump is tantamount to resistance to God.”
Let’s analyze these claims one at a time, as factually and as dispassionately as possible.
[…snip…]

TheseTruths

During the 2016 campaign, there was talk of Ted Cruz and Glenn Beck (though Mormon) having this point of view, and I could definitely see it. (In fact, there were some videos to that effect.) I kept telling people we are not looking for a pastor or Sunday School teacher, but someone who knows what to do and can get it done. There was no talk about Trump being a “Christian nationalist” because everyone knew he was a “bad boy.” So now they are at the bottom of the barrel in their quest to find criticisms of Pres. Trump and his supporters and continue to just make stuff up (i.e., lie).
Having the view that Pres. Trump is an answer to our prayers for a courageous, America-first, savvy outsider who is not beholden to donors is a far cry from making him a monarch. And I haven’t heard anyone say the Pres. Trump is going to “bring America back to the Lord.” I hope there are not people who want to impose their particular brand of Christianity on America. There are zero signs that Pres. Trump would be on board with that; it is antithetical to our founding.

singularZoe

I agree, Daughn. I think the number of such people is small, and they probably couldn’t agree with each other anyway.

michaelh

If they did exist their egos would be so large they couldn’t be put into the same room without created a singularity.

Sylvia Avery

“The Christian nationalist movement”
WTH? There is one? Why didn’t I know? Why haven’t I received a membership card or a recruitment email?
What a load of baloney in that article.

michaelh

She claims to have been to a bunch of their conferences. As far as I can tell, SHE DOESN’T TELL US WHERE SHE WENT or WHO SUPPORTS THESE IDEAS.
That’s not research journalism. That’s just making stuff up. Fake news.
I’ve been looking for these “Dominionists” for years. I have an archive of articles showing what I found – which is, that there has been a fever swamp on the left for over a decade and a half that really, truly believes that Christians want to take over the United States and make it a Theocracy. They are certain because they’ve read The Handmaid’s Tale and talk about the discredited “Southern Strategy” myth. Ironically, The Handmaid’s Tale describes the Left and their obsession with controlling human reproduction and obsession with human surrogacy extremely well!

Sylvia Avery

Fake News, yet again! Yep.
BTW, I have a first edition of the Handmaid’s Tale. I bought it and had the author sign it. THEN I tried to read it. Sigh.
I love dystopian books, but this was so deadly dull I finally gave up and didn’t even finish it, which is really unusual for me. I always feel compelled to finish a book that I start. I could probably count on both hands the books over a lifetime that I gave up on.

michaelh

Not all fiction is made alike! 🙂
Awesome that you have a signed first edition. If you ever find yourself in a debate and someone throws that out at you, you have quite a zinger to hit them will. They’ll never see it coming! Leftists always assume they’re better and smarter than everyone else, and their world starts to fall apart when they come smack up against the reality that they aren’t.

singularZoe

Sylvia, I agreeee, very dull, and the author has wacko ideas.

Sylvia Avery

Very wacko. And everyone thinks she is so great. And here I sit with my book wondering WHY?

TheseTruths

I did a search for “Christian Nationalist convention.” I have by no means thoroughly researched it, but a number of links came up. The only one that I looked at talked about a “Project Blitz,” one goal of which is to get legislation passed to ensure religious freedom of Christians. One example was to have license plates and other items that display “In God We Trust.”
https://rewire.news/religion-dispatches/2018/12/18/ringing-in-a-christian-nationalist-2019-with-an-even-larger-legislative-playbook/
The article mentions Dominionism to try to link it to this movement. I don’t know the full definition of Dominionism, but I understood it to be what is described in michaelh’s post — to have only Christians in leadership positions, etc. What I see described in the link I post here does not appear to be that. So “they” seem to be trying to link the two to discredit attempts to restore the rights of Christians and displays of Christian heritage.
WallBuilders is listed as one of the groups. I think it is run by David Barton, who was affiliated with Glenn Beck during the election, and Beck was espousing Dominionism. So this bears watching. But I’m seeing pushback and scare tactics from people who want freedom FROM religion against Christians asserting their rights.

michaelh

It’s very important to note that David Barton is NOT a Mormon, but an Evangelical Christian. So don’t expect a deep relationship there.
Barton espouses a view of history that is popular in some segments of American Christianity. Unfortunately his history drifts from being an accurate portrayal of events as they were to a more Eusebiuan view of American history.
Still, he’s often a target of leftists who, from their uninformed and frenzied position of having no real visibility or understanding of Christian subculture, want to portray him as someone who is going to do for Christianity every evil thing that… well… everything the leftist fascists want to do to the United States. They imagine Christians as power-hungry stop-at-nothing fear-mongerers bent on taking control of the levers of power to impose their moral will on all Americans. Masters of projection they are.
Most of the time though, these wild-eyed Dominionist conspiracy theorists never get off first base, and can’t even conjure up a name plucked out of thin air – even though everyone from Jerry Falwell to Pat Robertson to James Dobson seems in on the fantastic plot depending on who you read.
There was a lady a little over ten years ago who ran a tiny website she called the Yurica Report. I made her mad when I pointed out that her postings were completely wrong and told her that she needed to cite sources. Next thing she did was post a long rambling piece explaining how wrong I was, replete with footnotes, the majority of which were “Ibid.” Somehow I think exactly zero people on the internet cared.

TheseTruths

Yes, good points.

singularZoe

I did attend a conference where some were involved in something called CChristian reconstructionism. The founder of that movement was R.J. Rushdoony, who has passed away. I have several of his books, but honestly, people didn’t sit around conspiring to take over the country. Some Christians are involved in “social justice” and kind of a kingdom now belief, which I do not agree with. The left tries to make these things into conspiracies, and I think it’s ridiculous.

churchmouse

Ryan’s Speaker of the House plaque down:

churchmouse

Steve King (IA) swearing in:

churchmouse

Meanwhile:

holley100

The arrogant smirk on the person second from left.

Cuppa Covfefe

Yep. The Witches of East D.C….

gingersmom2009

Ghetto, period.

gingersmom2009

I’ve often thought that if that Cortez “Sandy from the Block” girl were 15 years older, she’s EXACTLY the type that would have been gunning for an Apprentice slot. Looks, energy, some street savvy. Doubt she would have made it though. 😄

gingersmom2009

You know, she’s just “Sandy from the Block” 🎶

churchmouse

Thousands of minors at the border in December:

Success of border barriers proven:

churchmouse

Sorry: meant to post this:

GA/FL

This is a MASSIVE TRUMP TROLL:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BsMBeLbFLxd/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=1vy207rhdij9d
This President is just plain fun and wickedly funny! 😎

GA/FL

Trump WMD Twitter followers:
56,868,032 – 7:38 pm – 1/3/19
56,450,861 – 8:40 am – 12/23/18 – 1 week ago
56,057,224 – 4:30 am – 12/3/18 – 1 month ago
45,706,673 – 3:45 am – 1/3/18 – 1 year ago

GA/FL

Every time PDJT nears another million, Twitter starts purging…often as many as 80K!

SteveInCO · Thermonuclear MAGA

WooHoo, folks, this is page 3!

GA/FL

President Trump’s strong ‘Follow Through’ on today’s Meeting and Press Briefing on Border Security.
https://twitter.com/POTUS_Schedule/status/1080976719518056455
President Trump as an excellent baseball player, golfer and businessman knows the importance of ‘follow through’!

GA/FL

….and you will note, there is nary a WH Statement nor even a teensy @RealDonaldTrump tweet thanking PR for his service.

Marica

Marica

this one?

Gudthots
Gudthots

Our Lion cultivates engagement.
https://twitter.com/k_ovfefe/status/1080932500594192384

Marica
Gudthots

No Fans Left.

Prairie123

I agree…I never paid attention until potus Trump came along…now I can’t get enough! It’s like a seven part movie or a dramatic tv miniseries! I love it!

wheatietoo

We don’t like you, Willard…and we never will.comment image

GA/FL

WHEATIE!!!
You ’bout made me fall out of my chair!

michaelh

NEVER ROMNEY

Gudthots

Ah. So.

Marica

Interesting…

wheatietoo

It’s interesting that Whitaker was in that WH meeting with the Dems.
The Planefag Anons have been tracking a lot of Mil plane activity into Little Rock, AR…they say it’s not normal.

Gil

Thats been going for several months too….

Gil

I just wonder what is in arkansas that they didnt bleach bit?

wheatietoo

Yeah, I don’t know. It’s weird.
Asa Hutchinson [R] just won reelection there with 2/3 of the vote…so hopefully he’s cooperating with whatever is going on…despite being a Bushie.

Gil

I dont see necessarily any leo influence there though.
I hate to be the grammar police but its patience not patients. Its more not moar. Its bring to heel not heals. I mistype all the time due to my phone but the grammar drives me nuts. Ok, soap box over!

Emeraldstar

“the grammar police”
From what I can gather, most of the anons do this (misspell) on PURPOSE.
I find it “interdasting” …lol!

Gil

Lol.
I love me some fun new words but its the context….. old habits….its why the internet dictionaries vs. My old websters are interesting too.

Prairie123

It bothers me too, but I think there must be a reason. For example why is ‘more’ sometimes spelled ‘moar’ on purpose? I know thd anons thunk there are no coincidences, but sometimes a misspelling is just that. Ok, off my sospbox….for now!

Prairie123

*soapbox – lol! Duh…

Marica

THere is a “rumor” out there–came to me from a friend who gets her Q stuff from FB –i think…Something about that Marine who was killed in a DC barracks…Anyone else? I don’t want to pass on Rumor–so if I get more verified info I will pass along…

GA/FL

GA/FL
GA/FL

‘Mental Health Counselor’ has a phobia or some sick issue with bald men. Projects his own sickness onto President Trump!

Physician heal thyself.

Marica

GA–SO this guy is a ‘Mental Health Counselor? For realz? SMH–It just keeps getting better and better…

GA/FL

The fields of mental health counseling/psychotherapy/psychiatry/psychiatry have been in the iron grip of the LBGTXYZ activists since 1973 – which subsequently have taken over the courts/legislature/civil life. It’s all based on empirically proven propaganda scheme, starting with the ‘straight/gay or homosexual’ dichotomy….ideas planted in the public consciousness over decades until the public believed/swallowed the lies – lock, stock and barrel. Then they went on to the idea of ‘sexual identity’ and ‘sexual orientation’ and it’s all been downhill from there….with a bunch of protests, riots and lots of brow-beating of legislators and officials….and of course lawfare – forcing people out of business, jobs, etc. Remember when Rock Hudson came down with AIDS? They made him a victim and hero (for r4ping little boys in Haiti/Bali, etc), for gosh sakes! Then they hit the churches….remember the 2003 Gay Bishop deal that split the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion? Then Obama got Sexual Identity Disorder taken off the list of disorders. Now we have transgender high school boys winning girls wrestling championships…and guys in girls rest rooms and locker rooms. Progress is what the ‘progressives’ call it. ‘Forward’ to sexual, moral, social, political, legal, religious confusion. Dividing us in the churches, political and civil life. The Marxist plan. It will take a miracle to restore order and truth.

GA/FL

Apologies for the formatting – I was typing from the little sidebar boxes. I wish WP had an edit button!!!

singularZoe

Amen, sister.

michaelh

“It will take a miracle to restore order and truth.”
The good news is that we did get that miracle in AD 33 😉

GA/FL

Marica

of course WE already knew this…

Marica
wheatietoo

I’ve been wondering about all those Chinese spy chips…glad to see I’m not the only one.comment image
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I hope they’re doing a search & destroy on all of those ChiCom spy chips in our military systems.
HusseinO tried to destroy us.
I think that’s what Pres Trump was referring to, when he said he would “never forgive” BHO for what he did.

Linda

He shouldn’t get off for any reason,. He nearly destroyed us. Nor should Bush or the Clintons.

Sylvia Avery

Death penalty would be a preferred outcome, but no one in charge is going to ask my opinion, so there’s that.

singularZoe

Sylvia, that is certainly what I prefer–that would be justice, in my view.

Gil

Theres q posts, lots, on apple. Possibly hundreds of phones made just for the cabal by apple to communicate.

bflyjesusgrl

Pretty sure my last iPhone 5 was one of them. Had some “Chinese” lettering I could never figure out where it came from. Don’t recall details anymore, except that I couldn’t delete the Chinese entry, but I could delete other entries surrounding it.

Linda

And that’s probably why all our ships were crashing into each other over near China last year, too.

wheatietoo

Yes…and also our planes falling out of the sky.
I think it was China sending a warning to PDJT, to back off on trade.

Sylvia Avery

Now that’s an interesting notion. And I’m sorry but oh dear it makes me snicker.

Gudthots

That’s some good counting right there!

Gil

Very nice!

Gudthots

It’s been verrrrry quiet on this front.

andrew1979

waaaaayyyy too quiet. i have been on pins and needles waiting for dec 21 and now its jan 3! 🙂

Gil

I think nancy has her work cut out for her.
They won’t like it when they get bit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/acep06/muslim_scum_representative_from_michigan_rashida/?utm_source=reddit-android

realsauce

I would be willing to bet half the Dim swine in the house don’t even understand the impeachment process. They probably think that if they impeach he is out