Put your game face on, kiddoes

The other side isn't adverse to playing rough.

About misunderstandings

   One of the things that really bugs me is this problem with people who insist upon misunderstanding things.

   But that is just one of my pet peeves. That reminds me of the time when I was taking a driver safety course, and the instructor asked the class one-by-one, "What is your pet-peeve?". I hadn't thought of it before, so I had a problem answering that question. However, upon further reflection, I think it must be universal thing to have pet-peeves or one kind or another.

   Since I like to think of myself as someone who attempts to understand things, I often make the mistake of assuming everyone is that way. But that is not the case. It may be the exception.

   Which brings me to the point-of-view with respect to how Trump's opponents treat him.

   I don't support Trump out of some feeling that he is some sort of savior person. I don't belong to a "cult". But there are people who insist that anyone who supports Trump is part of some sort of "cult".

   I think these people are the ones who are at fault. You can disagree with a person and not hate them. Indeed, hating somebody just because they disagree with you, is in my opinion unjust. Anybody can be wrong. Trump can be wrong, but that doesn't make him a bad person. Just because he disagrees with you, or you with him, doesn't make him bad. Not by itself. It's what you do about that fact that is good or bad.

   That's what understanding things is about. You don't have to agree with a person, but you can try to understand their point-of-view. I think in doing so, you can remove a lot of the hostility from the situation.

   Besides, the other guy could be right!

   If you mistreat another person just because of a disagreement, what does that make you? I say it makes you an unjust person.

   Misunderstanding others and using it as a reason for killing them, or wishing them dead, is evil.

   That's why I have a big problem with Trump's critics. They have no respect for others. You don't have to agree, you can disagree, and still believe what you wish. After all, you're opponent could be right!

   It's tragic that there's so many people who are willing to do damage to others just because of a disagreement. But if that disagreement is serious enough, drastic measures may be necessary. Let's give examples, like gun-control. If somebody disagrees with you so drastically that they want to kill you, then having a weapon handy may be necessary. Therefore, gun-control takes your ability to defend yourself away from you. I note that some liberals like gun-control all of a sudden. If they cannot make you agree with them, then they feel threatened. But why?

   Yes, misunderstandings are the norm--not the exception. Just sayin'. Try not to have a cow over it. Pretty please.

So, what do you think of this??? I think the guy is a nazi alright, and a good many other things, but calling him that wasn't exactly prudent. The result was murder...

   What bugs me is that people will misunderstand, and appear to me to deliberately misunderstand--- what I just wrote. Or is it just my perception? The same goes about Trump... But I sympathize with the guy, because I think he's truly trying to help. The critics are proven wrong again and again, but that doesn't stop them. Something else is going on, then.

   Drastic measures may be necessary. Try not to misunderstand that, ok? But I'm not holding my breath...

FYI about the blog

On the left column under the "Navigation Pages", there's a link to a certain "Design Page". If you click on it now, it will display a forbidden link. Fear not! The Design Page is being re-worked. (I have it locked down while under construction.) I'll update when it can be seen again (I hope). That is all.

12/4/25

12/5/25: Note: There's no longer any reason to have it private, so the design page can be seen again.

Dems negativity puts America in peril

12/04/25:

Comment:

   Why put it in Collyfornia? Put it in Texas. Texas will welcome a big shipyard facility. Plus, there's some good sites that could be available. Maybe better than San Fransicko Bay. Let them keep their Mickey Mouse system there in the land of fruits and nuts. If Elon Musk relocated, then why can't the ship building biz?

Can Maritime Power Recapture San Francisco Bay? by CDR Salamander

...can we get past the brown fields, radiation, and Moonbatistans?

Read on Substack

11/29/25:

 

U.S. Navy’s Aircraft Carriers Just Can’t Leave Port - https://t.co/2xQdU9s8Ak Comment: While the Dems are suing Trump over everything, and giving wall-to-wall negative news narratives, America's deterrence is fading into insignificance. Infrastructure needs support NOW.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) November 29, 2025

Dire Straits -- The Bug --- official video

I like the line in Cheers, where Norm says "It's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-bone underwear". This song says the same thing, but in a different way. You're the windshield or the bug. Man, I feel like the bug today.

 

 

Secretary of State Marco Rubio Delivers Remarkable Affirmation of Trump Foreign Policy

Conservative Treehouse

Comment:

   The word "authenticity" is mentioned in the post. Did you know, and perhaps you didn't think of it; that the word "authentic" was a big thing in the Boomer "coming of age" era ? Maybe it still is, because it is being used here in the CTH post.

   Indeed, this whole blog of mine could be reduced to one word, and that is "authenticity". If it ain't real, how in the hell can it be authentic?

   This word can be contrasted with the modern penchant for fakery. Fake women, fake men, fake news, fake scandals, and you name it. If it is fake, the Democrats are all over it like hot molasses.

   The wanna-be Democrats, aka RINOS, are just about as bad. They have no minds of their own, these RINOS. They speaketh with forked tongues, kemosabe. Some mixed-up cultural concoction that was in that last sentence thar!

   Anywho, authenticity is the word here. But the truth is a slippery thing, I like to say. There's always a "but", isn't there?

Can you learn something from an old movie?

   Is it possible, or even if is not, then let's try to relate to modern times, a 1960's thought; seen through the use of movies as examples of a concept. The movie is The Graduate,1967. The concept of the movie is one of a "coming of age". But what does that mean to come of age? For a want of a better way of saying it, it means to grow up, kid.

   So, our good friends, the commies, want to convince the kiddoes out there that things are getting worse under Trump. At least that is what it appears to be of late. But what's really going on here? That's where the movie comes in.

   The main character of the movie is having a hard time deciding what to do with his life. His parents are trying to guide him, but it seems to be too forceful of an approach for the young Benjamin. He tries to cooperate, but it isn't working out too well. Note if you will how the adults are in command of the young Benjamin. But Benjamin has other ideas. There's your generational conflict right there. Benjamin has to navigate through the desires and wishes of his parents and other adults, while trying to find his way in the world. Benjamin does indeed find himself by the end of the movie. He does it the usual way--through rebellion against the older generation.

   It's a typical story. What's a youngster to do, after all? Those of us in the older generation think we know better, but the youngsters have other ideas. The youngsters really don't know what they're doing, won't listen to their elders, and go off on another direction --for better or worse. The movie doesn't show what happens to young Benjamin after his rebellion. Only that his rebellion has succeeded in thwarting the desires and intentions of the older generation.

  The movie was made in 1967, as the Baby Boomer generation was coming of age in that time. How does that apply to modern times? What's the comparable generation now, the millenials? Let's call the the AOC bunch. That's because they think that socialism is a good thing. Evidently the schools don't teach history anymore, because socialism has never worked anywhere before.

  It might be hard for a youngster to realize these days, or any youngster as in the days in the past; to understand that the older generation was once young too. That's why this movie is so interesting to study. How did the kids of the Boomer generation handle their transition into adulthood? The same way it has always been, and always will be---they'll rebel against the older folks. The Boomers did it, as this movie shows. It's true, don't you know. Kids back then went against the adults--- they went Bohemian with the long hair and such.

  In the movie, Benjamin and his girlfriend seem victorious. Were they really? Only in the sense that the overcame the intentions of their elders. If by voting for Democrats, the modern generation thinks that they're actually solving the problems of the modern era, they are very much mistaken. You can lead the horse to the water, but you can't make him drink. As with the horses, the young will disregard the elders, much to their own chagrin as they get older. Then, in those times in the future, they will regret what they did, and try to warn the young--all to no avail.

   Does it have to be that way? No. In the movie, the elders came on too strong. The youngsters need persuasion-- not an iron hand. Perhaps Benjamin may have taken a different and better path. As a Boomer, it doesn't seem to be as good path as it could've been. Young Benjamin grew up, as all Boomers did, but his life story beyond youth wasn't told in this movie. It is being told today as the nation creeps toward a totalitarian future. It would be wise of the young to heed the lessons of the past. To study history is to avoid the mistakes that were made in the past. Perhaps a better outcome can be obtained, and the future could turn out all right.

   So who to listen to? Trump or the old Establishment figures? Before you know which way to go, maybe you need to find out where you've been. You won't there by censorship and thought control. It won't come by toppling statues that depict the history of this nation, which is part of the bigger history of it in the larger world. Ignorance cannot be a good thing. Maybe these Establishment folks need a lighter hand. Know what I mean, Vern?

Starship news as of 12/2/25

 

Atlas may shrug, but what comes after?

Comment:

   Canada should be a warning, not a template for what we do in America. One way or another, Canada is going to disintegrate. It's already out there before Trump arrived on the scene. The things that are happening there in Canada have also been happening elsewhere in the once "free world". It is also in the USA, but it hasn't reached its event horizon yet.

   The event horizon means there's no turning back. That event horizon occured with the installation of Carney as Prime Minister. Once that happened, the end was inevitable. If you don't think Canada has reached its end, you haven't been paying attention.

   In short, there was no Canadian Donald Trump. They got their Barack Hussein Obama in the bastard child of Castro--- Trudeau. In the USA, the reconquista has barely begun in fits and starts. Trump arrived, but was not greeted warmly by his GOP brethren, and with unrelenting hostility on the part of the neo-Commies in the once working-man's party--the Democrats.

   The Democrat party has been hollowed out, or should I say been skin-suited? The new Democrats are nothing like the new Democrats of the Clintonista era. Those new Democrats had to play pretend with regards to their support of America, but they didn't fool the informed. Indeed, they didn't fool most of the people in the country, as the Democrats lost Congress for the first time in decades to Newt Gingrich's GOP.

  No, the new Democrats of these times are openly socialist. There's no longer any fear of being labelled as such. Yes, and there's no pretending either. AOC has called capitalism some dirty names. The roles have switched, and the old new Democrats are scared stiff of the new new Democrats. But in reality, their patriotism has always been a fraud---the Democrats never believed in free enterprise, and of the American Republic under its Constitution.

   As for Newt's GOP, they continued their old losing ways. Having pulled defeat from the jaws of victory in the shutdown fight in '95, the party's fate was sealed in the '96 election, and Slick Willy survived to fight another day.

   What to learn from that? That the GOP is really not interested in being a majority party. At least part of the GOP is not interested in being a majority party. The part of the GOP that is Democrat-lite got the upper hand, and managed to get Dubya elected in 2000. All Dubya did was to divide the GOP like his Daddy did, and that brought us Bathhouse Barry.

   0bama was the first openly leftist POTUS in American history. The reaction to him was the same as to Clinton--distrust. But the weakness of the GOP still prevailed, as Obama swept to victory in another term. That outcome was avoidable, if only the GOP would've actually lived up to their supposed principles.

   The GOP's failures brought Trump to power. Yes, and it is their last chance, and our country's last chance. Even now, after all of what the neo-commies and their neo-con wanna-be friends have done to try to get rid of Trump, the failures have not caused them to give up. It also appears that their Cultural Marxist pals are on the very cusp of achieving what they've always sought--full, unfettered power of all of the people of the USA.

   Trump has survived it all this far. But the RINOS are hard at work undermining him from within. If history is any judge, their chances for success appear to be good. Hope is not all lost however. The GOP faithful could still rally. It isn't over yet, but time is running short.

   So what is there to do? First of all, we need to call things by their right names. Trump isn't fascist, but he's definitely running against a leftist insurgency. Unfortunately, those closest to him may not be the loyal soldiers that they pretend to be. If there's one thing that Trump must do, and that is to weed out the weak hands in the divided GOP. MTG had to go, and the Haleys, Bushes, and Cheneys must be held at bay. If the GOP could fully unite behind Trump, victory is achievable.

   The example of Canada must not be followed. Or America will share that fate. It is in the cards, so to speak. Can Trump be the wild-card that flips that outcome to a more positive one?

   Atlas may be shrugging in Canada, but there won't be a Canada for much longer. We can avoid that fate if we get this turned around, but we must do it soon.

Atlas shrugged in Canada. https://t.co/cdMRHxhBml

— Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) November 27, 2025

Don Surber on Substack: Mamdami effect

Are these disgruntled wanna-be Democrats on the GOP holding Trump hostage? MTG's defection is going to be a problem. Maybe she needed to go. Perhaps a lot more should go, too.

 

The Mamdani Effect by Don Surber

86 House Democrats vote against socialism

Read on Substack

 

Carville wants to go full pinko

   You gotta be sheeting me, main.

   It is amazing to me that folks didn't blame Democrats for the shutdown. The only thing that some folks seem to have gotten from the experience is to blame the party in charge, rather than the miscreants that caused the problem in the first place.

   Socialism doesn't work. Hell, it's what caused the problem in the first place.

   How do you get out of this mess? Vote for the same crap that has gotten you into the mess? Yeah, that makes sense. Carville and the whole damned bunch have lost their friggin' minds.

   There's a story on the web that a lot of GOP'ers are planning to leave. That's the good news, because if the deadweight doesn't get cleared out, nothing will get accomplished. We may be heading towards a total crack-up. The old guard wants to knife Trump in the back in order to maintain themselves in power. The GOP doesn't have the answers, so the party has to reformed. The only way to reform it is to get rid of the ones who are jumping ship--like this MTG.
 
   MTG talks BS. How do you fix anything by quitting? She wasn't serious about doing anything anyway.

Dick Morris sez

12/01/25:

Immigration issue may help Trump's numbers.

Sometimes I don't know about Morris, but he does know about politics. Maybe it is worth it to check up on him on a regular basis.   Here's another post of his that I blogged about.   This one may help with his numbers, too.

10/13/25:

Surprising thing for Morris to write. As usual, what do you do about this? For one thing, you don't reward bad behavior. Two, you do what you can to discourage it. If someone is not going to be reasonable, then you do what you can.

 

Thanksgiving repost: Miracle on 34th Street

Behind the Black Blog

Comment:

   The post should be titled as a Christmas post. Actually, it's not even a Christmas Post, it's more like an "X-mas" post. The first part I watched again, having already seen it before. What it reminded me of is that feeling, even back in the time this movie was made (50's ?), that the holiday of Christmas had lost too much of its religious significance.

   Santa Claus is not necessarily a Christian figure, but Saint Nicholas is, or so I think. So this part about him being the secularized Santa Claus, and that being a regrettable thing, isn't really consistent with the lament about commercialization. Well, it was New York, after all. Some things really don't change, now do they?

   But the spirit of Christmas seems to be there. At least there's that.

If the current Federal Reserve system is failing, then why not dispose of it?

The following tweet discusses a proposition that the Federal Reserve is trapped into a policy that will insure a failure down the road. If the attempt is made to wring out inflation, it will cause the entire financial system to collapse.

The system is based upon a pyramid of debt (my words not the author's). If so, then why not get rid of the debt, and substitute equity instead? The equity would be in the assets held by the US Government, of which there is plenty enough to satisfy the national debt many times over.

The downside could be WHO owns the equity.. Consequently, the equity should be held by "WE THE PEOPLE". The Constitution says "full faith and credit of the US Government". Therefore, in keeping with the spirit of self-government, this proposition will fulfill the lawful Constitutional mandate, so that government can be financed.

If the proposition of the author is correct, failure is inevitable. But there's time to chart another course. Didn't Abe Lincoln finance the Civil War (initially) through the use of Greenbacks?

But this bothers people. After all, what backs the Greenbacks? The current illusion is that debt backs the currency now, but that is not true---provided that the author of the piece is correct. Therefore, the debt cannot be repaid the way things are now.

Indeed, the whole idea is to NOT pay back the debt. This means that it must be some sort of plot to seize control of the financial system. Well, if it is already under control of international bankers, then isn't it high time that the people should take it back?

https://t.co/VCNh85VzeK -- Comment: A quick perusal shows pessimism with regards to solutions for the problem. The solution is to go off the central bank system and on to another that can offer price stability. Not only that, it offers an end to the enslavement to the banks.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) December 1, 2025

 

Perhaps Canada's western provinces can gain statehood, but it has to get thru Congress

Canada's western provinces are ready to leave, according to this report.

A popular vote was held, and the proposition for statehood in the USA passed, it says.

11/29/25:

New video:

There's stuff going on here. It's meaning isn't exactly clear. There's a woman with a plan over there, telling you guys had better beware.

Paraphrasing a song there, but the stuff is going down. What that stuff may smell like, who knows? This guy on the video seems to think that Alberta is leaving Canada, and taking a lot of Canada with them.

However, if you check out the social media sites, and maybe the legacy media, the song may not sound the same.

Uh,oh! A Led Zepellin song, if you catch my drift.

11/23/25:

Looking for precedents... When Texas joined the Union, it was an independent nation. However, these provinces are still a part of Canada. What will Canada do in response? Texas joined via a joint resolution.

By the way, there hasn't been any news about this vote in our legacy press. It would seem that they're ignoring it. Why ignore something of this magnitude? Perhaps they believe that they can wish it away?

The GOP has a majority in both houses, and a President on record for wanting Canada as part of the USA. Will the GOP move on this development? The Dems might agree to it if they felt it could be an advantage for them. Also, there's the possibility of a filibuster in the Senate. It won't be an easy thing to accomplish.

I'd say the ball is in the American court. An agreement needs to be hammered out, and approved by all concerned. Good luck with that.

 

A solution for ObamaCare?

11/28/25:

I thought Dick Morris said that the ObamaCare thing could be handled? But this article seems to indicate no such proposition in the works. Just exactly what was that shutdown all about if they go right back to what the Dems wanted in the first place?

The bozos need to understand that there's no more time for nonsense. Fix the damned problems. Ah! One forgets that this is the GOP we're talking about. Or this link could be off-base, and that there really is a good solution. One has reason to be concerned, though.

11/18/25:

 

Dick Morris says that Biden and the Dems enacted a repeal of a anti-"soup-to-nuts" kind of coverage that was unnecessary and costly. The reversion back to the way Trump and the GOP had no soup-to-nuts coverage requirement prior to Biden and Co.--will cause premiums to come down. In other words, drop the soup-to-nutso stuff.

People are voting for Dems because of the cost of living? It was the Dems who caused the problems in the first place! If Morris is right, then the Dems sure did cause health care premiums to rise because they made soup-to-nutso coverage mandatory.

"No time"

Lee ran out of time, as he reprimands Stuart. It is a good scene from the flick. There comes a time when there is none left. Know what I mean, Vern?

 

I shudder to think that Minnesota Gov Walz could be Veep right now

Comment:

There's not enough time for the nonsense from the Democrats. The POTUS is politically accountable, as the House could impeach him. Of course, they've already done that twice. The truth of the matter is that many in the GOP will not unite behind a leader like Trump, who will offer a real alternative to the Democrats. Trump is doing that, but if push came to shove, would the GOP abandon him? And what about the people who sent him to Washington in order to do the job HE IS ATTEMPTING TO DO. There are those who try to stand in the way, and then have the nerve to complain about it when they get their way---like MTG.

What MTG did is just one example of the nonsense that we don't have time for anymore.  It's bad enough that Democrats do this kind of thing, why do so many in the GOP have to act stupid too?

At some point there will have to be a showdown. Talk is only talk. It's deeds that make a difference. We need action.

Never Surrender --- Corey Hart

11/27/25:

Now more than ever.

It's been a great run, but maybe it can get even better. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. As Al Fin says. What's been going on with him anyway? Been awhile.

1/25/19:

An eighties hit.  It was number one in Canada, and number three in the US.

Check out the lyrics:


Just a little more time is all we're asking for
Cause just a little more time could open closing doors
Just a little uncertainty can bring you down

And nobody wants to know you now
And nobody wants to show you how
 So if you're lost and on your own

You can never surrender

And if your path won't lead you home

You can never surrender

And when the night is cold and dark
You can see, you can see light
Cause no one can take away your right
To fight and never surrender

With a little perseverance you can get things done
Without the blind adherence that has conquered some
And nobody wants to know you now
And nobody wants to show you how

So if you're lost and on your own
You can never surrender

And if your path won't lead you home
You can never surrender
And when the night is cold and dark
You can see, you can see light
Cause no one can take away your right

To fight and never surrender
To never surrender

Sun Tsu said in the Art of War --- that if you don't know who you are, and you don't what who you are fighting, you have no chance to win.  So, who are you fighting, and who are you????

A lesson in there for somebody... maybe...

Thanksgiving Celebrates Our 'Original Sin,' 'Views Virtually Identical To Nazis,' Prof Preaches

Nov 27, 2025:

It would be real easy to return hatred for hatred.  But that's not what Christianity is about.  However, I'm not about to go down like Charlie Kirk.  No sir.  If they come for me, Ima coming right back at 'em.

Better to go down fighting than to surrender.   Nor am I about to be "re-educated".  If anybody needs that, it's these pinkos.  Not that they were ever educated in the first place.

Nov 22, 2012

Free Republic

According to Jensen, Thanksgiving is “at the heart of U.S. myth-building. “But in the United States, this reluctance to acknowledge our original sin -- the genocide of indigenous people -- is of special importance today,” he explained.

The danger I see is the opposite.  This kind of thinking that Jensen espouses is destroying this country and Europe too.  It is driven by guilt.  Those who are driving it are trying to make people feel guilty.  The guilt is used to manipulate people and to gain power.

Why oblige them?

There are two sides to every story.  Every story of alleged wrongdoing back then would have another side.  But everyone alive then is now dead.  The dead cannot defend themselves. The wronged parties are also dead.  Nothing you can do now can reverse the injustice done back then.

The bottom line is that you don't apologize or feel guilty about being successful.

Besides, even if he is exactly right- that there's abundant proof of wrongdoing, it wasn't done by anyone now alive.  Therefore, the guilt is not going to change that, nor will it lead to justice.  Justice can only occur when those who are guilty are punished for their crimes.  If a person isn't guilty, then punishment for nonexistent guilt is also a crime.

It is also against the Constitution which forbids ex post facto laws and punishment for people who are related by blood (corruption of blood).

It is also wrong to impose some type of group guilt with punishment imposed for simply being who you are.

It is illogical and manipulative.  If there's anything that would help this country more than anything, that would be for people like this to be discredited.  But that doesn't appear to be in the cards.

Rush Limbaugh tells the real Thanksgiving story

11/27/25:

Not a turkey leg, except my right one. If I was a horse, they'd have to shoot me.

Since I'm a conservative, the libs may arrange for that anyway. Trump, we may need a pardon.

11/28/24:

3:11 PM:

 

pass that turkey leg

8:33 PM:

Ground news labels this as a "blind-spot". Is it really?



The political left does not acknowledge this story to be true, or they cannot acknowledge this to be true. So it is labelled a "blind-spot". But who's blind? The authors or the people who read their stuff? This is plain and simple evidence that the political left is keeping information away from people, and/or the people don't care if they do. A "blind-spot" as it is defined here doesn't determine the accuracy of a story. Just because the left doesn't cover it doesn't make it false, but to cover it doesn't make it true either. I question the usefulness of Ground News, and I pick on them a lot.

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GOP needs to get a sense of urgency---time is running out

The GOP needs to get its act together.

Comment:

Here's somebody who's speaking my language. What we've got in this "land of the free"-- is all on the line,  But these people won't DO anything to save it. All these folks who come in like lions, run away like lambs-- like MTG.

She talks a big game, but runs away from any rough and tumble contact--like a whipped dog. Trump talks mean to her? The answer is not to run away. It's not that I agree with MTG, but if she really meant what she said, she wouldn't be quitting. There are too many like that---they talk, but DO NOTHING.

Congress continues to be completely useless pic.twitter.com/VJCEbDL2zB

— The Matt Walsh Show (@MattWalshShow) November 26, 2025

Patriotic song--- My Country 'Tis Of Thee

Back during the height of the Cold War and the days of the Cuban Missile Crisis; the schools had kids learn songs like this. We sung songs like this frequently. It would seem to me that this practice would rub off of a youngster, because it sure did seem to rub off on me. Patriotism was commonplace. Something seems to have changed, though.

Education may have changed to the point where this song is actually considered objectionable to some newcomers. Well, if that is the case, there needs to be a correction. All children should learn to love their country. Especially THIS country, the best country in the world.

Better here than most, if not all other places. Back in the sixties, the scenes were all about the poverty of the world. The USA was truly the city on the hill that gave light to the rest of the world. Now times have changed, but that's no reason to depreciate what we still have in this country. All too often, it seems to be the opposite. It's hard to understand the some of the intense dislike there seems to be for one's own home. But will millions of these new folks from other parts of the world, it may be only an opportunity to change a country that they don't particularly like. Such people should not be allowed here.

Lady Liberty 's welcome to immigrants does not mean cultural suicide. Prior generations assimilated into the culture. Instead, the outsiders want US to assimilate to THEM. It should not work that way, ya'll.

She's thinking of running for Senator from Texas

God help us if someone like that wins.  Unbelievable what she says.

The idea that this is a win for the GOP is a bit foolhardy as well. Since Mamdami won in NYC, could it be possible that this nincompoop could win in Texas too?

Some scenarios that may play out could indicate it as a possibility.  It may be foolish to think that Crockett is a loser.  But be careful what you wish for--- you just might get it.  The GOP in Texas needs to get its act together.

Here's what she said about winning Texas:

Quote:

--- Responding, Crockett insisted that she could beat Paxton or Cornyn, saying, “I’ll tell you this that head-to-head we are doing really well against Paxton. I will say that i will also tell you that we are actually within the margin of error as it relates to John Cornyn.----

Margin of error? Well, some recent elections have been close, like the one with Ted Cruz. But that is because of Cruz's quarrels with Trump. If Cornyn isn't strong with Trump, I am worried that it could happen.

As for Paxton, there's some sort of issue that may be another one of those BS scandals that they love to gin up for these kinds of occasions. Paxton should be the nominee and the winner, but who knows these days.

Trump is getting good things done

11/25/25:

Trump's Rasmussen poll numbers are dropping... I cannot understand WHY. Why would people prefer the Dems, for cripes sake? Do they really like our country being overrun by illegals? Do they like what that does to our culture? Our budget?

The legacy media shit-stains are driving this negativity. The lawfare commie activist judges are stalling Trump's program too, and the crowd gets focused on the shiny new thing--lately it was Epstein. Now the Dems aren't talking about THAT anymore.  It's on to the next new shiny thing to bash Trump with.

Too many on the so-called right are joining in with the negativity. Trump has gotten things done, but the news is how everything he is doing is being rejected. But if it is rejected, who's doing the rejecting??? Why wouldn't they reject anything hopeful and optimistic, when the commie's futures depend upon people being downbeat and depressed?  Thus it has always been, the commies win when things are bad.  They're really good at making people miserable.

Now a peace deal could be in the works, and people are complaining about it. They say they hate wars, but here's one war coming to an end, and they can't stop complaining.

11/20/25:

 

Never mind the hate American left, and their accomplices in the foreign-dominated legacy media.

JD Vance on X

Comment:

Yeah, the usual suspects are howling that a peace deal regarding the war in Ukraine may be feasible. Unbelievable things are being said about it. It was compared to the appeasement of Neville Chamberlain to Adolf Hitler just prior to World War II. That one came from Thomas Friedman of the New York Times, and it borders on hysteria. What's the hysteria about? Ending a war? Shouldn't the Democrats be pleased as punch that there could be an end to a war?

Evidently the Dems only like wars that kill white folks. They only get mad about war in which the non-white folks are doing most of the dying. Trouble is, the non-white folks outnumber the white folks in the world. If there's any war at all in the world, it is probably going to be in a country where most people aren't white. But communists do not know color barriers. White and non-white Communist regimes have existed. 

The Muslims would really like a nuclear-war between the USA and Russia.  Evidently, the Dems would too.  More and more of them are voting commie-jihadists like Mamdami into power.  With all that going for them, how can the Dems lose the mid-terms next year? /sarc

After four years of house prices doubling (and in some areas, tripling) many young people feel priced out of the American Dream of homeownership. A welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota reveals that large numbers of new arrivals aren't assimilating and are funneling our tax dollars…

— JD Vance (@JDVance) November 24, 2025

Media propaganda is a problem

Quantum computing with photonics

Below is an embedded video that sort of explains the concept. There was a development in single photon switches mentioned at Insty--here's where the link goes.

The point being that super-intelligence may not be that far off. Quantum computers can solve problems that conventional computers cannot solve, or would take eons to compute an answer.

Not saying that this is necessarily good, but probably necessarily likely. Of course, the country could slide into backwardness, and this vision may never be attained.

I'm shocked

'You means to tell me that the reports was worthless?'  (adapted the line from Pop-Eye the Sailor) Just replace "reports" with "diamonds" in order to get the Pop-Eye quote.

Comment:

It's nice to know that I'm right so often. None of this had any credibility, right from the start. So who was it that actually believed the jihadists? You'd have to be an enemy to believe it, or hostile in the first place.

The people who would believe are leftists. The people putting the propaganda are either leftists, or jihadists. These aren't nice people. Why believe them? They do not wish Americans well, nor Israelis. So the idea is to split America from Israel. I'd be very suspicious about that one. It's just too handy for them. In the meantime, they continue to flood into our state and our country.

Where and how this ends is anybody's guess. So I guess I can take the sarcasm tag down---/sarc.

New tech on the horizon

Brighter with Herbert, YouTube

Comment:

It's a long video, so here is sort of a summary. Three products (that I didn't quite catch--time constraints) :

1. Robotics
2. AI
3. How to power them: Space Solar

Something of an addendum here. Musk talks about the future with regards to these developments. The future he talks about involves something I once mentioned. It has to do with radical abundance.

He didn't use those terms exactly, but radical abundance means that prices will come down. But there's a catch: the catch is that civilization has to keep advancing. Civilizations don't always advance, in fact, they have life-cycles. If this country hasn't entered a permanent decline, then the outcome will be radical abundance.

The reason that I'm so hard on communism is that radical abundance won't come from the direction of China. Never mind what China may be doing with AI, energy, and robotics. That kind of future is not a happy one. The kind we should want-- is if the machines and the state remains under control---as opposed to the people. That fortunate kind of future is not one that will occur in China, but could occur here if we don't screw it up--and lose our freedom.

MTG's new found "respect" is like beauty, only "skin-deep"

The source of the respect, the Democrats commies, are ugly to the bone.  Two problems 1) the RINO faction loves to suck up to Democrats, just like MTG just did, and 2) the less radical commie group doesn't resist the radicalized elements of their party enough.  Either way, MTG's fault is not being sufficiently loyal to the "boss" of MAGA.  And she's not the boss.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Resigns from Congress, Effective January 5th - Video

The Conservative Treehouse

8:41 AM:

Comment:

11/23/25:

Was I a bit too rough on the lady? Maybe. Just remember one thing... In life, it doesn't matter how many good things you do, if you go flipping around and go to the bad side. An historical example: Benedict Arnold was close to General George Washington, but he betrayed the General at a critical time in the American Revolutionary War. This may have helped Arnold in the short run, but his name lives in infamy for his betrayal.  Maybe he has some kindred spirits in the modern Democrat Party, eh?

Even the Brits didn't like Benedict Arnold. Does MTG think the Democrats love her now that she's turned on Trump? They only want to use her, just like the Brits wanted to use Benedict Arnold.

MTG has made some mistakes. She might be able to turn it around, but if she won't mend fences with Trump, she'll going to go down. I know one thing, I won't ever support her after this...   She's not reliable.


11/22/25:

So MTG decides to quit when the going got a little rough for her. Well, boo-hoo baby. She reminds me of Sarah Palin in this episode. Those who follow politics may remember that Sarah Palin was attacked mercilessly by the Democrats and their henchmen in the legacy media. Remember the Kay Couric mean-girl episode?

Anyway, it didn't end with the election defeat in the 2008 election. She was still governor in Alaska, and the leftards kept right after her. What did she do? She QUIT! So, the point here is that Donald Trump DOES NOT QUIT.

For Cripes Sake! The dude has endured an unsuccessful assassination attempt, two phony assed impeachments based upon highly questionable , and frankly fraudulent accusations, constant harassment and opposition for doing nothing but to turn around the very things that MTG starts out with in this litany of complaints in the video at the link. The appropriate response is to defer to the boss, who is Trump. But in typical feminist fashion, she tried to take over the movement, and it failed. Now she quits. Well, boo-freaking-who baby doll! Grow some spine.

Is this a war of the sexes thing? What else could it be but that? She goes on The View for cripes sake. Now it is time for her to play the hurt woman routine, go home to mommy, and have a good cry --- little girl. You cannot be a leader if you quit when times get rough.

So the feminist way is to play hurt girl when the rough and tumble politics gets too rough--and she quits. Now all the women are supposed to get really mad about the bully Trump. Well, politics ain't bean bag honey. There's a country to run, and she cannot go home to mommy when things get a little too rough for her.

What should she have done? Just suck it up, and go against Trump in the primaries. Trump doesn't always have to win his point, but that shouldn't be a disaster even if it does happen--he didn't resign over the phony Epstein file issue. She's not helping MAGA, she is just doing a drama queen performance and drawing attention to herself.

So go home and have a good cry, baby doll. We need fighters, not quitters. There's a country to save from the commies and the jihadists. The thing not to do is to join the feminists, jihadists, and commies who want to sink their claws into our country. If that happens, America is done. We need a fighter like Trump who doesn't walk out when the going gets tough.  She didn't learn anything from Palin, who quit and never recovered.  But Trump DID.  That's why he's boss, and YOUR NOT.

2:55 PM: 

Can you imagine the reaction to the above comment of mine? There hasn't been much of one, so I pretty much have to guess. So here goes with the guess.

It is not "gentlemanly" of me to refer to her in that way. Sure, but isn't that the point of feminism? The point is promote women, because the traditional roles of women has been to have women defer to men. So it is rather patriarchal of ANY man to say anything of the "special" little darlings who have had their "feewings" hurt. Women who want to play the rough game of politics can always fall back on their femininity to shield them from the rigors of competition with men. For a traditional male to be ungentlemanly is seen as bad form. But the women are only taking advantage of that. Basically, that what feminism is all about.

Left-wing politics need victims, and women have "always" been victims of the boys, you see.

If MTG was really honest about MAGA, would she really be trying to undercut Trump like this? Trump isn't being nicey-nice, so what of it? Does she really deserve to get easy treatment? It's politics, and if it is to be equally applied, she has to handle it "like a man". But she doesn't. Not to worry, though. The culture has been so bastardized, that the men don't know how to act either. As one would expect, traditional women don't like it. Truth be told, no woman likes it. But it is the turf MTG stepped on. A man who acted that way will receive the usual Trump treatment. Why should she expect anything different?  It's because she's a girl.

Microsoft sucks

A problem has arisen.

There may be some who would think that I am being too hasty in my judgement. Let me state what has happened. Then we'll go from there.

I have two computers. One of them is a netbook, the other is this one--a raspberry pi. Linux is preferred because Microsoft has gone rogue, as far as I'm concerned. They are WAY too nosy with their data collection. It's over the top, and so I switched to Linux in the last several months. Since that switch, I've had Linux go out on me three times. The first two times, I figured that it was Linux to blame, but this time, it HAS to be Microsoft.

The bios was messed with. Who could do that but Microsoft? Microsoft shares the netbook with Linux. Linux isn't on the main drive, though. However, when you boot up, some of the boot code is accessible to Microsoft. Well, the bios won't load up the Linux now, and redirects you back to Microsoft.

Could some hacker do this? Maybe. What makes me suspicious in this case is something I saw on a YouTube that says Microsoft tries to bump off any Linux installations if there are operating on the same machine. When I saw this, I realized that somehow the netbook allows the possibility of interference by our good, good friends--Microsoft. Anybody, all three failures could very well have been Microsoft refusing to play nice with Linux.

If Microsoft is innocent here, then it was hackers. But why would hacker direct me back to Microsoft? Only if the hacker is with Microsoft, and Microsoft is actually the hacker. Or they paying hackers to sabotage Linux installations.

At this point, the damage is minimal. I don't know how to recover from this, but I might be able to. Not sure what I need to do though. It is a pain in the ass.

The Big Tech companies, like Microsoft, are out of control. They need to be reined in. This ought to be an anti-trust issue right here. They got no business interfering with people's computers. They don't own this damned machine. They didn't give it to me. It isn't their property. I'M NOT THEIR PROPERTY EITHER.

 

John Solomon sits down with Bannon and talk about J6th

 

Got this clip via Whatfinger. It's a tweet from X, which I will embed here.

🔥“MY REPORTING INDICATES THAT THE FBI IS VERY CLOSE TO BREAKING THE J6 CASE”- John Solomon
He also seems to indicate he thinks they are close to THE GALLOWS BUILDERS. Bannon says that the left is growing MORE BRAZEN by calling for sedition. I agree..that is because the walls… pic.twitter.com/DZkhmAit98

— Johnny St.Pete (@JohnMcCloy) November 21, 2025

Comment:

Hopefully, this isn't raising false expectations. John Solomon is a fairly credible source, or so I think. We'll see how this plays out.

Lots of serious stuff here. Worth a watch.  Just saying here that any attempt at sedition on the part of Democrats will be like stepping into a world of doo-doo.  The doo-doo will get on everybody and everything.  Know what I mean, Vern?

What to make of this video?

It all appears to be a "love-fest". But I won't be fooled. The reports on this guy and his rhetoric was far different from this friendly meeting in the White House. If the leftists thought they were going to get a cage-match between two titans, they must have been disappointed. There's a lot more going on here than what is being reported in the foreign-controlled legacy media.

Culturally, there's the concept of taquiya (or something that is spelled like that), which names that jihadist stratagem of deceiving the infidel, while planning for his subjugation. Why not then fool the public, who have already been fooled enough to votie for someone not like them at all. He speaks out of both sides of his mouth. His words cannot be taken literally.  If he was sincere, why the friendly mode with his foremost adversary?

Trump didn't fight with him. Nor did he give ground. There were no concessions. Just an agreement on ends, but not means. It was a diplomatic exchange. Trump treated him like a foreign leader, which is basically what he is.  Haven't the Democrats basically declared war on this society?

They both may be sincere about their ends. The devil is in the details, which would involve the means. How do you pay for all the freebies that Mamdami is pushing? The governor has rejected higher taxes.  How does he get control of those kind of resources?

Certainly Trump should be expected to oppose any kind of property confiscation---any type of Robin Hood approach. If the intent is to nationalize the means of production, how will this mayor fund a fair acquistion price? It cannot be done.

 

Qatar pumping tens of billions into universities to help Muslim Brotherhood weaken US, ‘destroy democracy’

by Chris Nesi, New York Post

This plan looks a lot like the Gramsci plan. The Gramsci Plan was an influence operation intended to convert America to Marxism through the take over of the commanding heights of the culture. The "leaders" would then institutionalize communism in our country. Sound familiar? If they cannot beat you, they'll make you join them through the coecive power of the mega-state.

What makes the Qatari approach different is that Islam is purportedly a religion, while that making mega-fortunes from the capitalistic pursuit of wealth from oil. While different in its origination and purpose, the strategy is pretty much the same.

This doesn't mean that the Marxists have given up. Indeed, they have joined forces. The Marxists do it through the culture. The Islamists are doing through higher education. The Marxists preach "democracy", but will deliver us into the hands of royalty for our subjugation.

Instead of worring about Israel, shouldn't the public should be worried about this unwarranted influence operation against the best interests of the people of the United States? The intention is to put this country at the service of others from foreign lands. Qatar is not like America---neither in spirit nor history. At the present, it cannot be said to be a friendly country. Yet universities take billions of dollars from them. Where's the outrage?

When this was still a free country, a plot like this would've had little chance. Shouldn't it strike people as odd that the political religion of Islam that inspired the 9-11-2001 terrorist attack on New York City has now produced a mayor who is an Islamist as well as a communist? Why should people not question this and oppose it? But you will be gas-lighted and scolded about Islamophobia and racism if you do dare to object. Just more shut-uppery from our good friends, the leftist dominated Democrats.

 

Trump is MAGA

Others, like MTG, are trying to hijack the term, and use it for their own purposes. Trump has defined MAGA, not MTG then. If not Trump, then who?

In trying to hijack MAGA for whatever her purpose is, she is in fact, de-railing it. If you're not on the Trump-train, then you're not MAGA. Likewise, if you are on the Trump train, then you are MAGA.

One of the favorite tactics of the Establishment is to co-opt it for themselves. So, I think that since the Establishment has been against Trump all along, then MTG is acting in concert with the Establishment.

Who's going to fulfill Trump's vision but Trump? MTG didn't invent it, Trump did. MTG can takeover MAGA, but what will that accomplish? Once they made the useful idiot into one of their own, they will have defeated MAGA too. MTG cannot sustain MAGA, but Trump has been able to despite all the Establishment's hostility towards it.

Trump has done more for MTG than the other way around. She's not loyal to Trump, so he's right to go after her. Don't let yourselves be fooled. The Establishment is out for themselves. Now MTG is just serving them, and not US.

People will confuse this with cultism. Funny how that works. You're a cult because you disagree. But agreeing with the Establishment is the only suitable way to be. So why aren't they a bunch of cultists? It just looks like another case of the politics of Shut UP.

If you don't agree, they will punish you.

 

Experimental post

1:30 PM:

Now I am adding some stuff outside of the box. This post can be updated, with the update inside the box. Or placed on top of the text, and you can scroll down to see the older parts of the post. The newer stuff will stay on top.

1:21 PM, 11/21/25:

Just fooling around with the HTML, and especially the CSS. For those not familiar with the lingo, CSS means cascading style sheets. But there's no style sheets here, just a snippet of code embedded within a webpage that already has significant amounts devoted to CSS.

In other words, I may be trying to "beat the system" with a system of my own for doing posts. Call it a custom post, in lieu of a better way of putting it. Since it is an experiment, try not to take it too seriously. It may not view very well on cell phones and such. I'm thinking the scroll bars might help with that, though.

 

Jasmine Crockett

Just saw a video in which Crockett was asked about the Epstein smear. She's trying to deny that she lied about it. Instead she takes issue with the guy defending himself against a slander. She says of her smear as nothing dishonest, because it was just "a" Epstein, and not "the" Epstein. The man she smears HAS to object, or someone is going to say that he isn't denying taking a campaign donation from "the" Epstein. Everybody knows who she really meant, so this dodge has no credibility.

It would've been better if she just apologized for the mistake, but evidently it WAS no mistake. She really did mean to slander the guy, and to keep slandering those she disagrees.

Totally unfit for public office.

On another matter, I could swear that Fox was trying to take issue with Trump calling Mamdami a communist. Hey, if Trump is getting called "Hitler", then why not let him call Mamdami a commie. After all, if the shoe fits...

I guess there's just too many people who are willing to let things slide by... Glad Trump is hitting back and hard.

With respect to this Mamdami character, if there's a problem with "affordability", he should consider a lighter touch from the government, which has a lot to do with the prices being too high for stuff. Instead, as a true commie, he wants more and more government control.

Government control over food and housing is a good way to insure that there isn't going to be any food and housing. Just like there hasn't been any more landings on the moon, because the politcal left is trying to destroy the guy who can make the rockets that will get us there. By the way, it isn't just the rockets. It's everything that matters, the left will destroy. If you try to object, there will punish you for it. They're already doing that if you try to disagree with them about ANYTHING. The left, who want to be God because they reject God, will make sure that you will fear the God of ever powerful government---meaning themselves. ( as all good commies think)

One more thing before I end this rant... The above paragraph can be backed up by a story I heard about Castro in Cuber. When that pinko got through with Cuber, there wasn't much of anything left... But they have "health care". Anyway, the story is that they had kids pray for ice cream, and when no ice cream appeared; they (the commies) served the kids ice cream. If that isn't assuming the role of God, then what is?

The DC swamp proposes beating China in space by creating another bureaucracy here on Earth

Behind the Black blog

Comment:

Yep, and it is none other than our good, good friend Sen. John Cornball Cornyn, who thought up this monstrosity of an idea.

The LAST thing we need is another government bureaucracy.  It is loaded with Democrats, who don't do anything for space, but sure love to empower themselves at taxpayer expense.  Not only that, they are becoming extraordinarily bent on making this a one-party totalitarian state.  (All the while claiming that Trump is doing it.  This is even more stupid in light of that.)

That's all the more reason to send this knucklehead home.  He never learns.  He might be "better" than a Democrat, but that's like saying suffocating is a better way of dying than burning to death.

Picking your poison with these bozos is very important, but it would help if they had they minds right about what their real role is, and it is NOT to grow the government by another whit.   Indeed, they should be proposing ways to shut down agencies (or downsizing) , not adding or growing new ones.

 

Starbase Update, 11/20/25

NSF report on YouTube. Moving right along with the demolition of the old launch mount. Finishing up the new launch mount. Version 3 booster is going to Massey's for cryo proofing. (that last sentence may not be covered on this video, but another video) Static firing for the new Version 3 booster in the works before the end of the month? I would guess "no", but not long after.

 

No real economic growth ( except government) during Biden years

Dems have no credibility.

 

That's 4.2% when just a few months ago the trump haters were predicting recession and empty shelves. https://t.co/1zOl99XePV

— unseen1 (@unseen1_unseen) November 19, 2025

Whose propaganda?

 This Instapundit link isn't what I'm referring to.  It is the link obtained from the Instapundit post that I'm referring to.

I went to the tweet's author, and found a discussion between a Chinese commie and an Israeli officer.  The Chinese dude was accusing the Israelis of killing women and children.  The officer denied it.  The Chinese dude claimed that the Israelis are lying about these killings.

Frankly, I don't buy what the commies say.  I'd believe the Israelis LONG before I'd ever being to believe the commies.

It's been noted many times that Hamas is cooking the numbers of civilians killed.  But the Chinese guy seems to be buying into the Hamas' propaganda.  You have to wonder exactly whose propaganda that is.  Is it commie propaganda or Hamas' propaganda.

Lots of adults these days have not lived through the Cold War.  People were used to commies lying, but these days, since commies were suits and ties, they think they are respectable people.  But they're not.

Absolutely extraordinary exchange between Israel and China 👇 I've never seen such a heated exchange come out of top-level forum in China (this is from the 12th Beijing Xiangshan Forum that started yesterday), this normally never happens.

The guy speaking is Yan Xuetong, the… pic.twitter.com/O7w3C46H6X

— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) September 18, 2025

An Acceleration in Gold has Begun

11/19/25:

One thing to keep in mind, the move during the time period mentioned below, started in the early 2000's.  That's when the price was $300 or thereabouts.  A lot of money could be made then, and was.  That's cuz I done it myself.  (forgive the grammar)

The percentage move from the previous high of 1900ish is about a factor of two.  If the moves are accelerating, and they may well be, the top is going to go much higher than what it is now.

That is very speculative of me to say, though.  I haven't studied this stuff for a long, long time.

8/9/11:

by Jordan Roy-Byrne and  Kitco

That's the source for this chart, which I reproduce (with slight alterations) below:

Inverse head and shoulders develops in 2008-2009, breakout in late 2009 @ $1000 oz.

The head and shoulders chart is a well known bearish chart pattern. Since this one is inverted, it should come to nobody's surprise that it is bullish. But many were denying this and still are. Just goes to show you how people can see and still not understand.

If you look at this chart long enough, you might notice something else.  As in 2009, there was a breakout of the $1250 ish oz resistance in late 2010, a year later.  I even wrote about it in one of my early posts.  This time though, there was no real pullback as the price just continues to keep going up.  The market isn't waiting until the fall to move up, it is moving right now.

The article mentions an acceleration:

Sentiment has become more bullish but that is only a reflection of an acceleration in a raging bull market. 

Next Big Future: Various Groups that want to use Population Reducti...

11/19/12:

China is communist, but has no limits to its growth. The "West" is "free", or claims to be. But there are "limits" set by the powers-that-be in the lands that call themselves "the free world". The solution is self-evident. No calling ourselves free, until such people with such a mindset are no longer in control. Note that "growth" does NOT mean growth in government. Government is not free, but quite the opposite.

7/16/12:

Next Big Future: Various Groups that want to use Population Reducti...: Population matters used to be the Optimal Population Trust (OPT) The OPT pushed for draconian state controls on birth rates and on immigr...

China races ahead, but the West is trying to slow down and even commit suicide.  Who is behind this madness?

Interesting presentation

There are people who won't pay attention to this, but that may be a mistake. It isn't partisan. It's what he thinks we all might see in the future. No, it isn't about what he is doing personally. I came close to clicking off of it a couple times, but there is no gimmick or trick here. Indeed, it appears to be free of that sort of thing.

 

Oh come off of it

 

Whatfinger needs to be a bit more selective about who to highlight. Nick Fuentes? Puh-leeze.  You don't divide up the GOP so that the commies win, so that then the Dems can make things even worse!

What has Nick Fuentes ever done that compares to Trump? As for the GOP, this dude in the link above talks about the GOP as if it supported Biden's open-borders. Not quite, okay. Sure, the GOP is soft and weak, but there's no comparison to Biden. Geez.

I'm not impressed with Fuentes. If it is because I'm an old white guy, maybe these young whipper-snappers need to have a little more respect. Judging by this linked to video above, the dude doesn't know what he's talking about.  I get that younger dudes need help, but Fuentes is not the answer.

America did not steal Texas from Mexico

Those who claim otherwise, are either: lying, or they're ignorant of history and law. Either way, they're wrong. At the time I was in school and even in college, it was a requirement to know Texas history in order to get a high school diploma or degree. Maybe that has changed, I'm not sure. But if it has, it needs to be changed back. American history needs to reflect these facts. Even when I was in school, American history didn't include these facts. Some food for thought for you leftards out there.

President Trump Again Calls for TOTAL EPSTEIN RELEASE to End This Nonsense

Conservative Treehouse

Comment:

If Trump has always been for releasing the files, then how in the heck did it get to be his fault??? Probably because he expressed his disapproval over the fake issue.

Trump could be too generous to the fake loyalists in the GOP. Lots of them pretend to be on his side, but aren't really. They are just as dishonest and unfair as the Dems.

What does the Establishment get out of this Epstein thing? They only get abuse for it. There's nothing in it, and besides, some of THEM may be holding it up too. That means the guilty are trying to punish the innocent. That's why they need to primaried and sent home.

Trump as Br'er Rabbit

Clarice Feldman at American Thinker: If you remember the wonderful Song of the South, Br'er Rabbit begs Br'er Fox not to throw him in the bramble bushes, knowing, which fox doesn’t, that he’s safe there in a place where Br'er Fox will be ensnared. After the ...

Comment:

The entire affair is disgraceful on many levels. Whatever Trump's motives, you can bet money on it that there's nothing there to harm him personally. There's no way the Dems would've sat on that info all these years. They don't have anything real, so this is just the latest fake news to throw at him.

It doesn't need to be any more complicated than that. But people are so anxious to do harm to the man that they'll latch on to anything.

Truth at the speed of war --- Substack post by Gen Flynn

 

Truth at the Speed of War by Michael T. Flynn LTG USA (RET)

Read on Substack

Only one life left to live

 

OMG, I think those cats just lost 8 of their 9 lives! 🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/0KhQgZXX1c

— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) November 13, 2025

Details of Blue Origin's recent launch

Scott Manley does the honors here.

 

Cowardice or extremism?

Extremism is not a very meaningful term. It probably fits in with the Marxist Paradigm of right v left. You aren't going to get that many people that afraid of Nick Fuentes of the "right", and the counterpart on the left. Cowardice is more meaningful, though. It is the habit of taking the easy way out, and refusing to confront a difficult situation.

 

Therefore, Fuentes is nothing. The inability or unwillingness to confront him is the problem, so I agree with the lady. The political left is monolithic in nature. I don't think cowardice is their problem. With the left, it is that they have a big problem with reality. They will do things to harm themselves because they think that it will further their own interests. Once again, the unwillingness of the so-called "right" to confront this in their poltical adversary, is the problem. Personally, I don't care if the left harm themselves, but I do care that they are confronted in such a way that they are deterred from doing really stupid things that harm us all.

 

It's not pretending. Using the word "pretend" is just a way not to confront them about their lying.

They know better. When they pretend not to, that's the lie.

 

So Much of Liberalism Really is Them Pretending Not to Understand Things by John Hawkins

Read on Substack

Emails Between Kathryn Ruemmler and Jeffrey Epstein Resurface - Highlighting Again, Zero Epstein Dirt on Trump

Conservative Tree House

Comment:

Sigh... Just telling the public these things won't change a thing. In principle, everybody knows this already. That's because the Democrats constantly lie.

Yep, everybody knows that there's nothing on Trump because if there was, the whole world would've known about it years ago.

But the Dems play these stupid games, and the so-called "right" keeps chasing down the lies, but it doesn't seem to faze the Dems when they get exposed. They just keep on doing it. There's no accountability because the GOP doesn't seem all that interested in holding them accountable. The recent shutdown drama is an example.

No "there" there

Dollar to a do-nut that the Epstein files won't hurt Trump. It won't hurt Dems either, because their standards are so low.

 

🚨 BREAKING: The official X account of the Democrat Party has DELETED their post claiming President Trump spent Thanksgiving with Jeffrey Epstein in 2017

He was literally the President, dumbasses. You don’t think someone would’ve noticed?!

Trump should BANKRUPT the DNC for this… pic.twitter.com/dXiyOg4MYy

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) November 13, 2025

New Glenn successfully launches Escapade orbiters AND lands 1st stage

Behind the Black blog

Comment:

SpaceX has a competitor! How 'bout that?

This will bear some watching. For now on, Blue Origin will get more attention here. (If I remember.)

Quick update:

There was some talk about using the Dragon to launch from the moon. In the comments section, there was a mention of the Falcon Heavy that it has the capability of putting a lot of mass on the Moon. Well hot dog if that's true. The Falcon Heavy could launch a return Dragon from the surface of the moon, and then use that to bring back the astronauts. You could land a Starship on the moon too, and all kinds of things.

Why should there be any problem at all in getting to the moon in a relatively short amount of time?

Another moment---another opportunity was lost

It appears that the GOP is content with always ceding ground to the Democrats. The shutdown narrative was that it was the Republican's fault, but we should know better. In one sense, the narrative is correct. That fault, dear Brutus lies with us after all. So all that we are left with is powerless complaints about the Democrats.

What was lacking was our own action. In order to do something about overgrown, out-of-control government, is to DO SOMETHING---not just complain.

The pain was increasing, but what was the response? To compromise--always compromise, meaning to always GIVE UP GROUND. The GOP gave back jobs and paid for no work.

The GOP promised to negotiate something un-negotiable. If the demand was to pay for illegals an ObamaCare subsidy, as the expiring ObamaCare subsidies did just that. After all, that what it was for. The demand wasn't about the regular ObamaCare subsidies--those woudn't have gone away. It was just for illegals that Biden pumped in by the millions. It was put into effect because of the COVID shutdowns as a cover story, which is yet another failure of the GOP--as the shutdowns were another GOP failure story.

As for air-traffic-controllers, they could be offered jobs in a new private business. Just set the damned thing up numbnuts!

For whatever pain the Democrats wanted to exploit, offer something that the private sector could handle. It is little wonder that the GOP has lost NYC. They always cave-in. The latest shutdown was no victory. The best you can say about it is that it wasn't too bad of a defeat. But it was a defeat, just the same. The Dems got away with something that should have hurt them, but it didn't.

Something a little different

Video of a lady pilot who flies from California coast to Vegas.

 

Is the "Marketplace of Ideas" a fallacy?

 

At the American Reformer website, an argument is made that it is a fallacy. Reliance solely upon truth is idealistic. The world is run by vice, not virture. A society can strive towards virtue, but realistically cannot ever reach it. I think the striving is more important than the achievement of some sort of utopia. Unless people change, there will always be suffering.

It’s not communism versus fascism; it’s freedom versus slavery

By D. Parker @ American Thinker: It’s easy to make the case that communism and fascism are two collectivist, big government, authoritarian ideologies that are stunningly similar.  Those trying to claim they are vastly different require a constant psy-op of pure BS on...

Comment:

Precisely what I've been writing about over and over again. Good to see it get more coverage. Fact is, most of the legacy media plays that Marxism Paradigm like a Stradivarius. But too many on the so-called "right" refer to themselves that way, and that only plays into the Marxist's game.

New plans for SpaceX to land on Moon?

 

The video is a bit short on details. Does the Dragon land on the moon and then fly back to HLS in lunar orbit? It seems to be implied, but if it is the case, the Dragon will need a lot of fuel to get from lunar orbit and back to the HLS. The HLS would take the whole she-bang back to Earth, where the Dragon will separate and re-enter the atmosphere.

But the video doesn't say all that. It would still need some launches to support the Dragon part of the trip. Maybe the Falcon Heavy could do that. If so, why not launch from the Falcon Heavy with the astronauts, or from a regular Falcon 9? It could meet up with the Starship, and the crew could transfer over to the Starship for the journey to the moon. Then back again from the moon.

The point is that a lot of details are left off here. Besides, did SpaceX say that they were going to do it this way? I'm skeptical.

Never really cared for the PR of the shutdown politics

But if you did, this one fact alone should be convincing--- it was the 
Democrats who put an expiration date on ObamaCare, not Republicans.  The
GOP has lost an opportunity.

Shroud of Turin (video)

As Spock would say: "fascinating".

 

Trump: The Last Bulwark Against Government Control Over All Money

American Thinker---Milli Sands: If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever. – George Orwell George Orwell’s telescreen is no longer “suspend your disbelief”-level fiction. And the foot meting out the punishm...

The Democrats deserve it

 

The View From North Central Idaho --- Ramblings on explosives, guns, politics, and sex by a redneck Idaho farm boy who became a software engineer living near Seattle.

The Dustbin of History , says he.

The importance of colonizing the moon

 

If ObamaCare is broken, who will fix it?

Maybe this is an opportunity to fix it, but I wouldn't bet the ranch
on that happening.

I'm sure everybody would like for something better, if there actually
is anything on the table that could improve the situation.

Trump wants to use the money from tariffs to help pay for things
such as healthcare, if a person wanted to use it that way.

A couple grand a year could help out around here, I tell you that.

 

Obamacare has been EXPOSED and Democrats have openly admitted they're willing to make people suffer to achieve their political goals.

Our healthcare system is completely broken and Dems own it. pic.twitter.com/ziaHBQuYF5

— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) November 11, 2025

Knock, Knock!

Who's there? Orange. Orange who? Orange you glad you weren't on this bridge (in China) (RED CHINA)?

NEW: 758-meter-long Hongqi bridge in the southwestern province of Sichuan, China collapses just months after opening.

Construction on the Chinese bridge had finished earlier this year, according to Reuters.

The collapse of the bridge was reportedly triggered by… pic.twitter.com/fyxMAW9JNN

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 11, 2025