... you can talk about whatever you want.
No sunrise photos today. We stayed off the roads and, from inside, watched the snow fall.
“The gentle nudge of somewhat later.”
... you can talk about whatever you want.
No sunrise photos today. We stayed off the roads and, from inside, watched the snow fall.
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«সবচেয়ে পুরাতন ‹পুরাতন 237 এর 201 – থেকে 237"If Trump fails to triple down and deport every last America-hating pro-Hamas Islamophile and anyone aligned with them, I guarantee you I will flip to anyone who will get the job done."
Every last illegal- deport them all. Nobody is above the law, I'm told. Git-r-done.
’I suspect what we’re seeing in this morning’s comments by Trumpists, including Meade, is a meltdown.’
Suspicion unconfirmed. lol
Achilles said...
Ronald J. Ward said...
Did we ever get a check from Mexico for the wall?
We absolutely did.
I couldn’t find anything to validate your claim, Grok says it ain’t so, and your track record doesn’t exactly paint an honest broker.
Funny thing about the “wall”. There was never any study or plans of a wall. It was just something Trump spewed out at one of his Nuremberg rallies and the Basket of Gulibles cheered. His campaign team caught onto it and told Trump that anytime he felt himself ranting off course, just say he was going to build a beautiful wall and Mexico was going to pay for it. The Gulibles loved it, Trump loved that the Gulibles loved it, and so the bullshit slogan grew.
But as time went on, most people of reasonable intellect realized it was never going to happen as all politicians tell a few fibs or overreach on the campaign trail.
And I think most of the Gulibles are trying to move on from the Big Lie about the election- like St Croix, using his logical deductions of how COVID cost Trump rather than the baseless nonsense Trump spews.
But the problem is, Trump cannot let go of the Big Lie. It’s actually right up there with the Epstein files. Trump built his campaign on the evil Democrats, the deep state, their underground sex trafficking, and that only he could expose this fabricated beast.
That is why the Epstein files are so big. That’s why the Big Lie is so big. If he lied on either, the Basket stuck their heads out, breached the Capital, tried to Hang Pence, traveled to his Nuremberg rallies, and flew those Chinese made flags and wore those Chinese made hats for a lie.
The wall was yesteryear’s scam and most can brush that one off now. That you can’t is telling.
“ You remember that time he (Trump)wanted to suspend the constitution in order to stay in power”
Actually I don’t remember that. Please explain.
Journalists may be bullied -- or bullied back -- but the "or worse" was what earlier presidents did. In dealing with reporters Trump has confined himself to theatrics, rather than go after them with all the forces of the government. Do we really want presidents who let themselves be bullied and torn apart by the media?
“ You remember that time he (Trump) wanted to suspend the constitution in order to stay in power”
Actually I don’t remember that. Please explain.
Starmer’s a wanker…
https://x.com/boot15_vu/status/1994857096178012573?s=20
Ronald J. Ward said...
Achilles said...
Ronald J. Ward said...
Did we ever get a check from Mexico for the wall?
We absolutely did.
I couldn’t find anything to validate your claim, Grok says it ain’t so, and your track record doesn’t exactly paint an honest broker.
You couldn't find anything because you are a retard.
’If he lied on either, the Basket stuck their heads out, breached the Capital, tried to Hang Pence, traveled to his Nuremberg rallies, and flew those Chinese made flags and wore those Chinese made hats for a lie.’
There should be a cover charge for this level of apex comedy.
Jersey Fled said...
“ You remember that time he (Trump)wanted to suspend the constitution in order to stay in power”
Actually I don’t remember that. Please explain.
For what reason would I need to explain? That leads to two more questions;
1) by what means were you able to get online?
And as Trump might ask;
2) are you a stupid person?
"*Sadly, dimwitted, always-online flying monkeys "
I'm keeping this.
And the RJW flies in.
NYT is noticing the big Minnesota Feeding Our Future scandal and calling out the Walz administration.
narciso said...
"They dredged them out of the lake?"
In the winter, before the lakes or rivers froze the indians would purposely sink their canoes. This kept them from being damaged by ice and snow. They would take them out to deeper water and fill them with stones. They did this with both dug-out a bark canoes. Also prevented them from being used as firewood by lazier members.
Yes, DeSantis did break with Trump to open up Florida before the rest of the nation. DeSantis is his own man. Even as many try to pin him with the carcass of others, such as Mitch McConnell. The nasty thing about politics is that you sometimes cannot control who comes out in your favor, and sometimes you can, but you need their money and arm-twisting ability. No one is clean in politics. Not. One. Person.
Meade, did you make Ann go out and clear off your drive AND the neighbors?
The italics problem was my bad. Fixed
Had a dream last night that Althouse, Meade, and I traveled around Madison. Madison was a little mixed up; the Camp Randall Arch was across the street from the Memorial Union.
Meade said...
Anyone see that Ohio State win yesterday?
@Meade, I contented myself with watching an Illinois beat Northwestern. When Altmyer fumbled on the 1 yard line with 8 minutes left in the game I was sure it was game over after how poorly their defense played at Washington and Wisconsin. But I went to bed happy. Next stop Tampa on New Year’s Eve, I believe.
For what reason would I need to explain?
Would a troll do anything else?
As much as I hate to say it, it looks like Ohio State is the team to beat. Of course, they stole Sayin and Downs from my alma mater… lol
It's a primary. we don't coronate - we have primaries.
Butt hurt DeSantis-hate obsessed (who just called Trump a "retard") love them some Fuentes and Crazy Candace.
Temujin - exactly.
I'm not a fan or Mitch - but he really knew his stuff when it came to getting judges installed.
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After years of being hated by the liberals, just like that, Marjorie Taylor Greene suddenly needs security protection.
That’s not accountability—that’s a protective narrative.
This verbal tic of yours... Let me try one: That's not a fact - that's an opinion that just happens to validate your worldview, stated as if it were a fact.
Either Trump was responsible for the policies he approved, or he wasn’t capable of controlling his own administration. You can pick one, but you can’t have both.
Where have you been since 2016? Has it not been one of the primary complaints - from the right - about Trump's first administration that he was not "in control" of it? The Bulwark crowd used that fact (and it is one) to bolster their opinion (and it was one) that Trump was too stupid, criminal, venal, whatever, to hold the office of the presidency. The rest of us correctly* saw it as evidence that the gray and rubbery forces of the bureaucracy, supported and sometimes led by Democrats and certain members of the Republican establishment who were afraid he'd interfere with the congressional gravy train, were arrayed against him almost in toto.
* See for instance Artic Frost. See for instance Birx's admissions. See for instance the neverending leak machine that prevailed throughout his first term. It's my opinion that he was actually a little surprised that he won the election, and that he expected government functionaries who can't get fired to behave like people in business who don't get fired - to be goal-oriented and willing to work as a team on a shared agenda that actually moves a project forward. Clearly he learned a lot from his first term, wouldn't you say?
Add to all this the already-established point about the nature of a republic. Texas opened up, in large part, by summer 2020. California was still shut down in 2022. Trump, far from "shredding the Constitution," meticulously abided by it. Biden, and Obama before him, paid it public lip service and did what they wanted.
“I never took the SAT officially, but I took the GMAT (for MBA programs) and scored 700 in 1989. That was pretty meh for Harvard even then, so I never bothered. I might have done better had I practiced, who knows.”
That was pretty good. I took the GMAT and LSAT a week apart in the mid 1970s. Scored 735 on LSAT and a 100 points lower on the GMAT. SO, of course, I got an MBA first, and a JD 7 years later. Looking back, if I had reversed them, I suspect that my legal career would have been far different - probably real estate, and maybe banking law, instead of patent/IP law.
Practicing is fine. But prep courses are better. I took an LSAT prep course, but not a GMAT prep course back then. Beyond practicing, you learn strategies. For example, it Turns out that the LSAT deducted one point for every 4 questions you got wrong, while the GMAT deducted one for one. So, with five possible answers, if you eliminate one on the LSAT, it’s an even bet if you guess, and a winning bet if you can eliminate two answers. On the GMAT, guessing was a losing bet. That’s the sort of thing that you learn in a prep course.
You had to know; there was no way Chuck was going to stay away.
@Jamie (11:49), very nicely put. Well said.
What must be remembered about Fauci, Collins, etc, is that they were Deep State. They had spent their working lives in the federal bureaucracy, were adept at the games, and rose through their bureaucratic prowess to the top, building fiefdoms within. By the time Fauci retired, he was the highest paid federal employee - apparently earning more than President Biden did. They aren’t supposed to make more than Members of Congress, but being bureaucratic experts, they found ways to do so.
This was no different, really, from how the FBI, DOJ, and CIA ran RussiaGate against Trump. And, no doubt, other agencies doing the same. Trump made the mistake of believing them. They were the experts, so he should believe them. But they weren’t the experts, and they were far from disinterested. For the most part, they really weren’t that partisan - they were just driven by building and controlling their bureaucratic empires.
So, first time around, Trump trusted the bureaucracy. Second time around, he mostly doesn’t. And has surrounded himself with people who also don’t. In the case of COVID-19, and especially the ModRNA vaccines, he’s actually got the experts mostly in charge now. And it turns out that those vaccines were never fully tested, or safe. Nor were they very effective, and the near universal mandates just made things worse.
According to Dr Malone, one of the inventors of (real) mRNA technology, and as a result of that expertise, one of the stronger critics of the ModRNA vaccines, there is a federal study ready to drop that essentially shows that these vaccines likely killed more kids than were saved - through myocarditis and pericarditis alone.
Meanwhile, Fauci, who funded the development of the SARS-2 virus, then actively hid its origins from Trump and the American public, still is collecting one of the very largest federal pensions.
MTG was never hated by liberals, and we've all seen how flexible Democrats are in regard to what's a death threat.
Biden said he needed 60 Billion Bucks to control immigration. Trump did it in a week. For nothing. Lefty's response? Who cares? Let's talk about that ballroom. Let's talk about the Epstein Files. Let's talk about any stupid shit that comes to mind so that we don't have to talk about Biden, Kamala, the Democrats, ANYTHING.
The Left is losing folks EVERY day.Their best defense, the defense they use EVERY day, is fascism. Throw em in jail, bankrupt their business, bankrupt them personally, kick them out of social media. Then they raised their game, shooting at Trump and killing Charlie Kirk, a better man than all the Lefties in America put together. Your only play now is to destroy America. Get ready for the response, Fascist.
Bruce, I’m not dismissing concerns about bureaucracy. Every administration wrestles with agencies protecting their turf.
But what you’re offering here isn’t evidence—it’s a stitched-together narrative where every failure becomes sabotage and every unsupported claim becomes fact.
Fauci’s salary doesn’t prove a conspiracy. Title 42 medical pay has worked that way for decades.
There’s still no credible evidence NIH “funded the creation” of SARS-CoV-2. Multiple reviews—GAO, HHS, WHO, independent virologists—have all said so.
And Robert Malone isn’t the authoritative figure he claims to be; every major researcher in the field contradicts his version of events.
If there’s a federal study showing vaccines killed more kids than they saved, cite the agency and the data. Because nothing like that has been released anywhere.
What you’re really describing is a structure where Trump is always insulated: When something goes well, it’s because he was brilliant. When something goes badly, it’s because “the Deep State” sabotaged him. And if the contradiction gets too big, the fallback is: “He learned his lesson.”
Either he was running his administration, or the bureaucracy was running him. You don’t get to claim both strength and helplessness at the same time.
I’m all for holding institutions accountable.
But accountability requires separating what we actually know from what we just want to believe.
“ For what reason would I need to explain?”
I’ll take that as an admission you just made it up.
“and that he expected government functionaries who can't get fired to behave like people in business who don't get fired - to be goal-oriented and willing to work as a team on a shared agenda that actually moves a project forward.”
And there you’ve described some of the big differences between employment in the public sector (no performance targets to meet, can’t be fired, pay not dependent on performance) and the private sector. Public sector employers appear to encourage bad behavior, turf/fiefdom building, lack of discipline.
So many of these government employees need a healthy dose of reality and at least 100 powerful, swift kicks in the ass for starters.
Meade, there are people here, because of your rude and careless comment, that will think I’m the commenter you’re fighting with.
No, we won't. Because we're not stupid.
We know exactly who he was talking to.
Jersey Fred, for whatever reason you feel that I have a concern of how you take it is beyond me.
By all means, take it however you like. Or, don’t like.
I’ll take that as an admission you just made it up.
That’s the best assumption with this troll.
"Public sector employers appear to encourage bad behavior, turf/fiefdom building, lack of discipline."
No wonder the jobs attract Democrats.
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