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MAGA comeback continues
Now we know who is funding Haley: it is Reid Hoffman the man who funded Epstein. Not only that, he’s also the guy who funded E. Jean Carrol’s sexual assault case against Donald Trump.
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Damn it, Vic. You let Bunu grab the first post.
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New MORNING INSULT poll this morning, national matchup
Trump 43
Biden 41
Last week they had it Trump 42, Biden 43
–DW
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Paging Davos bound, hee haw and the “r” AG
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/fani-willis-case-is-so-tainted-self-dealing/
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Bitterlaw
January 16, 2024 at 10:10 pm
Zzzzzzzz. Not true. Jason hates Haley but knows she is conservative.”
I don’t “hate” Nikkki “you have to feel my pain” Haley. In fact, for years here I was a big fan of hers because I thought she represented the “big tent” ideal I believe is necessary for the GOP to win elections. A woman of color from the South, with a conservative record as Governor of GA and a solid performance as UN Ambassador. She certainly has a more conservative record than Trump and only a moron would say Trump, who has been a “conservative” for about 5 minutes in his life, is more conservative than her. She is an ideological conservative, as opposed to Trump who has a liberal ideology posing as a conservative. I admire her trajectory and agree with many of her stated policies, certainly she is by far the strongest on foreign policy.
However, I just cannot give her a pass on the shameless BLM pandering, and the fact she panders on just about EVERY issue. To be President you cannot stick your head out every morning to see which way the wind is blowing to make a decision. I think that is an inherent and very dangerous weakness that precludes her from the Presidency so if she is anywhere on the ticket that ticket won’t get my vote.
That being said, I probably agree she would be a “smart” pick if Trump is the nominee. And she would certainly be smart to accept given Trump’s age and how it would position her for 2028.
And it would certainly be fun to see Tina and Janzam’s heads explode. Since Trump can never do anything wrong, they will have to find a way to portray it has a genius pick. Hilarious.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12972793/Long-lost-continent-coast-Australia-Landmass-nearly-twice-size-UK-home-half-million-humans-70-000-years-ago-scientists-say.html
I guess we should stop making fun of Walt for claiming he used to live in a vanished area near Australia.
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Biden will appreciate your support if he runs against Trump-Haley.
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Are they saying that the continent sunk away because of manmade global warming?
–DW
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No. Just the end of an ice-age.
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Sorry, the “other candidate is unqualified too” doesn’t hunt for me. I don’t vote for candidates I think are unqualified, I don’t care that Biden is even less qualified. You make decisions in life based on the information at hand. Sometimes you are proven wrong, so be it. I remember watching an interview with Nixon once years after Watergate, and he was asked why he tried to protect his aides involved in the break in instead of just firing them. His answer was “it seemed like a good idea at the time”. I read and reread Haley’s George Floyd tweet, and each time a visceral “NO” pops up for me. Not supporting someone who panders to BLM while they are burning down cities seems like a good idea to me. Sue me.
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“https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12972793/Long-lost-continent-coast-Australia-Landmass-nearly-twice-size-UK-home-half-million-humans-70-000-years-ago-scientists-say.html
I guess we should stop making fun of Walt for claiming he used to live in a vanished area near Australia.
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Bitter.
They are calling the lost continent I once called home a vast land mass.
It was really a half-vast land mass.
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A great wrap up of Fat F–k Christie by Kurt Schlichter. Great reading.
“By now, we will know how Iowa turned out. But let us turn our eyes to behold Chris Christie (R-Golden Corral) as he finally waddles offstage. His Hindenburgian rise and fall provide important lessons for Republicans, as well as the opportunity to make more fat jokes.
Lessons Of A Loser
Chris Christie, the GOP’s Great White Bulk, was not pursued by a fearsome nemesis like his second cousin Moby. He was harpooned by himself and his choices. I am old, meaning I remember 15 years ago, and when he came on the scene and won the New Jersey governorship, that was incredible. He was a straight-talking guy who did not take establishment guff. Remind you of anyone else living across the river from him who would later ride that vibe to the White House?
So why did he fall from the lofty heights of a decade and a half ago? To start with, his actions did not keep up with his image. He did not perform. He was okay as governor, but eventually he was practicing the same kind of crap the voters were tired of – Bridgegate, anyone? That was one thing. The other was his terrible political instincts. He did not run in 2012 when he might have had a shot (a governor has a window to run, which is why DeSantis had to take his shot.
But his worst problem was that he did not seem to like the GOP base. He was soft on the issues we cared about, like guns and abortion, and was not shy about telling us we were wrong. He did not read the room – you do not go hug Barak Obama, dummy. When he finally ran in 2016, he was OK at tripping up folks like the hapless Marco Rubio but he made no compelling argument for why conservatives – in a conservative party, they matter – should give him a shot. He did not seem to care about them or their concerns. Trump did, and people felt it….
Christie had some talent, and an opportunity. He whiffed. A lesson to all pols.”
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Not that Suffolk was very accurate for Iowa, but…
Boston Globe/Suffolk
Trump 50
Haley 34
DeSantis 5
–DW
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sorry…above was GOP primary in New Hampshire
–DW
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Well-played.
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Bunu thought the Tea Party was started by Ron Paul. It wasn’t. Bunu thinks Trump/MAGA are allied with Ron Paul. They are not.
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I personally know a Ron Paul supporter, and he tells it plainly. He likes Trump, not that he believes the country can be cured by him, but because he believes Trump has the best shot at destroying the GOP.
–DW
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“Maine Judiciary Committee to Decide on Advancing Bill to Create “Sanctuary State” for Child Sex Changes”
There IS NO SUCH THING as a child sex change. No surgeon take a little boy and make him a real girl with his knife. This is horrific evil–preying on impressionable children who don’t know what is good for them.
All these evil ‘surgeons’ can do is mutilate the genitals of children, forever sterilizing them so they will never reproduce.
This is evil. This is sick. This must be exposed for what it is. This must be stopped.
–DW
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https://nypost.com/2024/01/16/business/bill-ackman-warns-democrats-trump-is-going-to-crush-biden/
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Well, Trump fractured HHR. Why not the GOP? Trump will get my vote again if he is the nominee but there is no Trump ideology. Win or lose, 2024 is Trump’s last election. Of course, if he loses, Tina and Jan will immediately start the Trump 2028 campaign.
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What drives all this division and differences of opinion within the GOP all comes back to world-view issues. Everyone sees the world through a particular lens, and with given presuppositions that sometimes need to be re-evaluated and corrected, if one is willing to learn and grow. Here are several presuppositional/world-view positions among Republicans that result in the behavior and opinions posted here.
1) The person is completely indifferent about issues of morality. Right and wrong are completely relative and defined by each person. But the economy and growth of personal wealth are governed by obvious laws of economics, which Democrats eagerly violate, stripping everyone of their wealth. This person sees politics through the lens of getting policies in place that will improve personal wealth and savings. Part of what concerns this voter is national security, because if we are overrun by foreign enemies, then there goes the personal wealth.
The chief weakness of this worldview is the fact that morality and prosperity are not so easily severed, as though wealth can prosper in a culture of lies, theft, crime and corruption.
2) The person is strong on morality, and all political policy issues are seen through this lens. There is little room in this worldview for compromise or pragmatism. If right and wrong are strictly followed and enforced, then all the other things will work themselves out for good. This is the voter who typically looks for a president in the primaries who would make a good pastor of his or her church. If none is found, then the voter stays home, and allows others to pick between two immoral candidates–completely blind to the fact that one of the two who will win might be more beneficial than the other.
The chief weakness of this worldview is the fact that our founders gave us the right to vote, and voting is simply picking the best you can get in any election. It is counter-intuitive to yield your right to vote to other voters–people who fail spectacularly at morality, and then expect to get moral results.
3) Another world-view sees deconstruction as the way forward. Everything is so corrupt, and so hopelessly defective that no progress can be made in our country until everything is wiped clean and we start with a clean slate. This world-view does not concern itself directly with moral issues, because these blights on society serve to illustrate the need to start over. This world-view sees economic collapse as inevitable, and so buying up gold is one of the answers. Both major political parties are viewed as essentially the same in what matters, because both try to work with what we have instead of starting over.
The chief weakness of this worldview, is that we are never going to start over, and so its a fantasy. If somehow everything could be destroyed, if we could throw the baby out with the bathwater, there is no reason to expect that something better would replace it.
4) The fourth world-view is the dreamer. This view longs for a savior-like figure to come along and fix all the country’s problems with the wave of his or her hand. And so when someone comes along who starts to look like this ideal, the voter pushes the candidate firmly into that mold, ignoring the problems and warts, and affirming everything about the candidate as good. Once the dreamer has anointed a candidate as their Messiah, it is solid and can never be revoked no matter what that candidate says or does. That candidate IS the answer!
The weakness of this worldview is that no candidate is ideal and no candidate can alone fix all the problems with this sort of ease.
5) The worldview I would espouse sees our nation as broken morally, and the crime, corruption, lies, lawfare, destruction of the traditional family, abuse of society’s most vulnerable members–all of these things will continue to bring about economic harm, foreign instability and vulnerability, and increased centralization of power at the federal level. And so when I vote, I pick the candidate who will support the traditional values that made our country great–an honest legal system, prosecution of crime, supporting families, protection of the vulnerable, and de-centralizing power as much as possible. I will vote every time the polls are open, and vote to try and get all that I can in this direction, knowing that often I have to pick the best out of two very defective candidates.
–DW
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Remember what I said about Trump favorability improving ever since Dems started throwing him off the ballot?
Three new polls posted today, with national favorability at 45, 44, and 44. Trump can with with those numbers, given Biden’s Job approval
–DW
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Vic, just read your response to mine on the prior thread. It was “nice” discussing differences that weren’t armed with slings, arrows, and outright distortions of someone’s POV. So, thank you.
I actually agree with the above analysis of Haley, that most of her public stances have been textbook conservative ones. Her BLM misstep I even see as a small fly in the ointment of having any reservations about her. Why I don’t want her in a higher office, though, is how weak her objections and energies have been on securing our own border, in light of how strong she has been over Ukraine’s border invasion. She also is very chameleon in how she gauges her opinions and responses from crowd to crowd, changing them to meet the flavor of the room she is facing. It makes me wonder what is the real baseline of Nikki Haley regarding important issues of the day? Finally, I am uneasy about her donor base. It’s been common knowledge that a scurrilous person named Reid Hoffman is one of them. For me having him backing a candidate is a serious red flag.
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That Jaime Dimon clip, where he is offering cautious praise of Trump’s presidency, has gone everywhere – streaming no less from the globalist retreat of Davos. It definitely has heads spinning.
Glad to see Tina’s post showing Baris’s correction that Trump won all demographics in Iowa. Last night people in NH waited in the snow for hours to attend DJT’s first event, leading up to the primary vote.
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Why was Trump supporting Durbin, Reid, Schumer, Bill and Hillary Clinton, etc. for decades not a serious red flag for you?
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“Why was Trump supporting Durbin, Reid, Schumer, Bill and Hillary Clinton, etc. for decades not a serious red flag for you?”
See my lengthy post above for your answer.
–DW
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Bitter – lol hhr has always been fractured. I remember plenty of primary fights over candidates in ‘08, “12, ‘16. People arguing with the other about who was more conservative – especially with Romney in 2012, who we eventually all backed
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DeSantis did NOT win the 18-29 demographic. CNN Exit Polls were wrong. Taking a moment to do some basic math would’ve told you that (it doesn’t get him to 50%).”
LOL, pollsters are unskewing each other’s polls.
I am so proud.
– Poul Harris
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especially with Romney in 2012, who we eventually all backed”
Speak for yourself. I voted for Obama and was here to celebrate his win.
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Why is La Dem Nikita being supported now/presently/currently by drats?
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” Why was Trump supporting Durbin, Reid, Schumer, Bill and Hillary Clinton, etc. for decades not a serious red flag for you?”
That support was in the past, not the present, while Reid Hoffman’s backing for Haley is current day.
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Jan
Thank you for the kind response, and the productive dialogue. I share many of the same reservations about Nikki that you do. I am actually surprised about her maturation, actually. I was lucky enough to be involved in the campaign of many in 2010, and got to meet her before she shot up in the polls and won, and she is a very intelligent, thoughtful person.
I do not like how she “puts her finger up to judge the wind”…much like Jason shares the same reservation (though for him its a disqualifier…which I understand as well).
I would like to caution you on the donor base issue. I can promise you that we don’t really know the actual donors, and scurrilous websites saying she is being financed by this person or that person, are very very very very often wrong. It is made to sensationalize, and for click bait.
The Dem “powers that be” are VERY concerned about Haley becoming the VP candidate (much less Presidential candidate which is not going to happen), so don’t be so sure about their “backing” of her. As far as this vitriol for “establishment” Republicans, I warn the following. Without “establishment” Republicans WE DO NOT WIN!!!!!! (See 2020 and 2022). The Trump wing of the party is not enough to win. The Establishment wing of the party is not enough to win. TOGETHER IS THE ONLY WAY TO WIN. So let’s stop using the term “establishment” as if its a four letter word. It’s a three letter word…”win”.
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Zzzzzzz Another free pass for Trump.
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The only way to be in the evil Establishment is to win elections (the only goal of elections). It is foolish to pretend that Trump, who was President for 4 years, is not a member of the Establishment.
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Another free pass for la Dem Nikita.
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Larry Schweikart
@LarrySchweikart
Baris: “President Trump got 55% of the IA evangelical vote.”
Are you ready for this? Abortion? Nope.
#1 issue, immigration, #2 economy, #3 . . .the administrative state!!
Only 1 in 10 had social issues as #1.
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Illegal immigration and bad economy go hand in hand.
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The grifter is talking stupidity in davos.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/davos-rattled-over-trump-zelensky-warns-europe-will-lose-ukraine
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Without US and European military aid, Ukraine will lose and Putin will win. Why is this acceptable to you, Tina?
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Vic has conducted business in Ukraine. I wonder if that makes him an evil globalist to Tina and Jan.
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Shipwreckedcrew
@shipwreckedcrew
Nikki Haley won 59% of the vote of Iowa caucus goers who said Trump’s role in J6 was a crime.
DeSantis won only 11% of voters with that view.
20% of voters with that view voted for someone other than the top 3 — likely many for Christie.
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Bitter, what I like about Vic is he is someone you can agree to disagree with and not get Flamed in the process.
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Maybe, maybe not.
She is in third place. Papa bush was in second.
MizDonna
@donwill94062871
In the annals of history repeats.
2024
Trump is running away with the nomination like Grover Cleveland did in 1882
Nikki and her donors are trying to pull concessions as VP like GHWB did in 1980.
We have high inflation like 1980
We have hostages from Iran/Hamas like 1980.
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🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸
@mrddmia
As we’ve said all along at
@Article3Project
, Biden special counsel Jack Smith’s January 6th charges against Trump are political, lawless, and thus will fail at the Supreme Court.
What Trump did in his official capacity as president–like supposedly failing to call in the DC National Guard quickly enough to put down the January 6th riot–is absolutely protected by presidential immunity.
Just like Members of Congress and federal judges have criminal immunity for their official acts.
(Should the Trump 47 Justice Department charge Obama with capital murder for ordering a drone strike on 2 Americans, including a 16-year old?
Or charge Biden with manslaughter for allowing fentanyl to flood across our border and kill Americans?)
What Trump did in his personal capacity as a candidate–objecting to an election, just like Democrats did in 1968, 2000, 2004, and 2016–is protected by the Electoral Count Act of 1887 and the First Amendment.
Unless Jack Smith has evidence Trump incited the January 6th riot (Jack Smith doesn’t), Trump committed no crime.
Period. (Being a jerk isn’t a crime. Otherwise just about every federal judge and Member of Congress, except Chuck Grassley, would be in prison.)
And the Supreme Court is going to eliminate half of Jack Smith’s bogus charges in a separate ruling related to other January 6th defendants (see Politico story below), even before the Court eliminates another quarter of the case by ruling for Trump on presidential immunity.
Jack Smith won’t have much of a case left for trial.
And that case will get overturned on appeal on First Amendment and Electoral Act of 1887 grounds.
But Jack Smith’s (and DC Obama Judge Tanya Chutkin’s) March trial date won’t hold.
Trump will win back the White House.
And Jack Smith will get banished again.
Like he did after the Supreme Court *unanimously* reversed his bogus conviction of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, a likely 2016 GOP presidential or vice presidential contender.
Jack Smith is a partisan scud missile Democrats bring in to take out Republican presidential contenders.
That worked with Bob McDonnell.
But it’s blowing up in Biden’s face with Trump.
(In no small part because of
@Article3Project
.)
https://politico.com/news/magazine/2024/01/17/supreme-court-case-trump-prosecution-00135852
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Yup, charge the obumbler for murder. A local prosecutor should also. do so. Charge bush for king about wmds.
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“Several conservative members of the high court describe themselves as “textualists” who take the words of a law at face value, and to a textualist reader the SOX Act would likely seem straightforward. Consider its language: “Whoever corruptly . . . obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.” The statute’s language does not clearly specify that only certain kinds of obstruction qualify.”
No, Politico, since the text is vague, it’s an unconstitutional. Also, What does “corruptly” even mean and how is a broad interpretation of it legal?
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12974871/Big-dogs-small-dogs-diseases-cancer-liver.html
While scientists have not yet cured cancer or diabetes, at least we now know why small dogs live longer than big dogs.
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There is also follow up text, which conflicts.
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DW
You often post about the “gender mutilation” that is being state sponsored, and to be honest, I feel its being pushed by the “state” because it serves Liberals interests to create outsiders/ooutcasts because they believe it wins them votes. I am here to say it goes way further, and we have reached a state of full out indoctrination.
My sons, in case you didn’t know, are young. Just turned 8 and 10. The ten year old is now facing mandatory “puberty and maturation” lessons at his very Private school. Not even a public school, but a well regarded private school. In these lessons boys and girls are referred to as, “male-bodied” and “female-bodied” students. They are taught to “respect” pronouns, and that gender is not static or defined. They are being taught, basically, the LGTBQ+ agenda, and it goes directly against what we, as Christians, believe.
Now, I have to say that I take great care to tell the boys that we need to respect people, their decisions, and what they believe, while being kind in expressing what we believe. Love, though, is the predominate value we have, and despite not agreeing with someone’s choice, we can love them, and not make them feel slighted.
Still, we remain firm that God created a man and a woman, and that the “natural” state is a man being with a woman.
But, the left has so ingrained themselves into the educational system, that little kids are being taught this crap. It’s very frustrating and scary, and I don'[t know how to stop this freight train that the left has unleashed on this country.
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Truth will win out in the end. No surgeon can make a boy into a functioning girl, and vice versa. All they can do is mutilate and sterilize.
–DW
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New nh pole
Click to access SACSC_NHGOPLV_0124_2_Book.pdf
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very quiet last few hours….
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I have been having bad lower stomach pains all day.
We ate bean soup last night so I hope it is gas.
Things point toward gas.
But i guess it could be my appendix.
I sure hope it is not my table of contents, index or glossary.
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Vic- I agree that the country is changing and not for the better. I also agree that it is easy to say who is a man and who is a woman at birth. I do not understand trans but do not care if adults want to undergo irreversible changes. I am remarkably indifferent to men being with women, men being with men, women being with women, dogs and cats living together, etc.
I think discussions of pronouns are absurd. Teach students about puberty and leave it at that with everybody feeling uncomfortable and grossed out.
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If you think it could be your appendix, it would be a good idea to not take any chances.
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La Dem Nikita is down by double digits in the NEW NH POLL- st Anselm.
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OR…Haley is within 14% of Trump in NH. depends on how you look at the glass 😉
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Cash Cow was talking to my friend, Anne Arcky and she said her solution to the kids who show up at school and say they identify as cats, etc.–here is what the school system should do.
Say to them that they hope their life as a cat (dog, horse, aardvark, or whatever) goes well. But State laws say the schools have to educate human children but does not require schools to educate other lower forms of mammals. So, over there is the door. Don’t let it hit you on the ass on the way out. If you decide you are a human, we would be glad to have you attend here.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
And for girls who “identify” as boys and boys who “identify” as girls, tell them that we offer P.E. classes for boys and P/E. lasses for girls and we have a curriculum to help them physically. If student X “identifies” as the opposite sex from which they were born, then the child can run and walk and do laps around the sports field all during the P.E. period. Otherwise, the misgender child and their parents can come up with a P.E. plan to provide the P.E. curriculum goals–but it must be done at no extra expense to the school system. And the schools can designate all their bathrooms as for Boys and others for girls, but will have one bathroom labeled “Not Sure What I Want To Be”.
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But trump is over 50. That is huge.
Poor Rds is really behind. Not sure what he does.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/jim-jordan-demands-answers-after-biden-admin-caught-flagging-maga-and-trump-track
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When will the demented dictator be punished?
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Vic, I got chills reading about the gender push in your son’s school. In my experience private schools provide no safety from shielding our children from liberal trends or ideology. In fact these settings can be more intimidating than public schools. We tried the private school route, gaining admission to one of the most sought after schools in our area. After one year we pulled our son out and went to the local bilingual neighborhood school, walking distance from our home. Throughout our son’s public school experience my husband and I were actively volunteering, reaching out and interacting with his teachers, principals, donating funds (saved by going from private to public) making his school better – in programs offered, scholarships for disadvantaged kids, upgrading science fairs and books ordered for readathons, designing an aquatic mural for the science building, climbing wall in the gym etc. Being so actively involved one can ingratiate themselves with a school’s inner circle, becoming a useful parent advocate encouraging or discouraging ideas and directions a school may want to take.
If all else fails I would homeschool.
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Trump (or whoever the R nominee for POTUS in 2024) should make a list and ask people to vote whether they think each thing on the list is “Great” or “Foolish”
Here is the partial list:
1. Open southern border? GREAT or FOOLISH
2. Sanctuary Cities?
3. Leaving Afghanistan the way we did?
4. Policies that lead to double digit inflation?
5. Stopping U.S. oil, gas and coal production?
6. Tearing down statues?
7. BLM riots?
8. Taking Houthis off the terrorist list?
9. Playing the race card?
10. Requiring Alaska fishermen to take aboard federal agents when they go fishing and the fishermen must pay the $750 a day fee for having the federal observer on board?
11. Administration actively working to ban gas stoves?
12. Administration actively working to hamper continuation of cattle businesses?
13. Administration weaponizing the DOJ, FBI, etc. for political purposes?
14. Spending money for the operation of a climate change czar?
15. Administration pushing hard for everyone buying electric cars?
16. Administration pushing for cancellation of college loan debts?
17. Administratio pushing hard for advancing LBGTQ-ism, gender surgeries, etc.?
Fee free to add more.
I am sure we can get to 100.
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Trying out a new stupid nickname? Zzzzzzzz. You dislike me, Tina, but Jason and Vic have also called you out on your foolish position that Haley is not a conservative.
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I trust parents to make their own choice. I would never have homeschooled my children. I attended public schools, as did my children. My wife and I could not afford for one of us to stay home and did not presume to be able to teach every subject better than the teachers.
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18. Is baseball better with the designated hitter and the pitch clock? No on the DH but yes on the pitch clock.
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Ditto on 18
Is 10 real?
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I love how the pitch clock has worked out. I am old enough to remember a little over 2 hour baseball games with only one commercial between innings.
I like the strategy of the NL game with no DH. Surprised the NL held out as long as they did.
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If we always had the DH, then Bartolo Colon would have never hit a home run.
— DW
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Homeschooling worked out great for us. All five children the whole way. We started when it took off in the mid nineties. My wife deserves the credit and wrote much of her own curriculum, we sacrificed a lot but it was worth it. Went on history trips out East a couple times a year. All five are self governing responsible conservative values adults who have excelled in college and in their young careers. We are blessed.
I wouldn’t advise homeschooling for everyone though. In particular if your child has interest in the sciences or high level mathematics. Those typically are weak subjects in homeschooling. It is a huge commitment to do it right. We had support from several great resources and people.
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Wait until 2028.
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Man I can’t believe I missed the Iowa caucuses. Being away from politics sure is refreshing. Looks like Trump will cruise to the nomination and pick a mini-me woman as his running mate. Inflation looks to be coming under control but a recession is a real possibility – that will determine the election I think.
Big Joe
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Reports tonight Stefanik is seriously being considered by Trump as VP.
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MTG…it’s all about kissing the ring. It will lead to utter defeat in 2024. I knew this would happen. Trump and hard core MAGA will never build a winning coalition.
@mtgreenee
“The House Freedom Caucus board is filled with Never Trumpers led by their new chairman angry disloyal MAGA traitor Bob Good.
HFC and their donors are victims of a hostile takeover by Never Trumpers and that’s going to be a disaster for Pres Trump’s next administration.
Bob Good ran on MAGA and Trump’s endorsement in 2020 AND 2022 and now endorses DeSantis and says “Trump is unelectable.”
Well Trump just proved Bob Good wrong by DOMINATING in Iowa!!
In spite of Bob Good ousting Kevin McCarthy, Bob Good gladly took millions of dollars from McCarthy to get elected and would hate for people to know that.
President Trump is going to win in 24, and he needs loyal America First warriors NOT Congressmen on a power trip who will stab him in the back.
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Why isn’t Rds considered?
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The House Freedom Caucus is about promoting genuine conservative policies. OMG. These people really don’t care.
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Elise Stefanik has a Heritage score of 56 percent this term. The average Republican score is 85 percent. She doesn’t appeal to Trump skeptics at all. She isn’t well-liked by the conservative base either.
What is she bringing to a ticket?
https://x.com/bonchieredstate/status/1747786262742708257?s=61&t=uLyKpWBwDwyCK292uUHCSA
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This is rich… “Bob Good gladly took millions of dollars from McCarthy to get elected”
How much you take MTG?
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These people are sick…
The GOP primary battle in #VA5 between Sen. John McGuire and Rep. Bob Good heats up.
Trump’s campaign manager Chris LaCivita put the congressman on notice over DeSantis endorsement:
“Bob Good won’t be electable when we get done with him,” he tells me
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She told the anti-Semitic presidents of Universities to F off.
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I don’t know anything about Bob Good. But I do know MAGA is destroying what little chance they had in 2024. There will be conservatives that will never forgive Trump for attacking and trying to destroy the main conservative caucus in the House.
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AOC and MTG are always in a battle to see who is crazier.
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Nikki would be SOS…I would imagine.
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I saw a headline come across my phone that a presidential debate was canceled. All I can say is “It’s about time!” These debates serve no purpose any more. In today’s tribal environment, barely any minds are changed based on debates. Good riddance.
.. now hopefully political ads and calls are next to go.
Big Joe
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Trumps numbers in national polls are changing ever so slowly.
2024 National GE:
Biden 40% (+2)
Trump 38%
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Biden 34% (+1)
Trump 33%
Kennedy 17%
Reuters/IPSOS
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I month difference.
RCP today Trump +1.3
RCP December 17th Trump +3.5
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Stefanik is a buffoon who has no business in the white house
Bill Ackman was the one who engineered Gay’s career destruction at Harvard threatening to stop billions of donations to Harvard if they didn’t do what he wants.
However what’s good for the goose is always good for the Gander. Critics have found Ackman’s wife committed even MORE plagarism than Gay committed when she did her PHD dissertation.
And of course he cries antisemitism even though it’s his personal agenda to destroy other and kill children in more than 10000 children in Gaza.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/jan/11/bill-ackman-wife-plagiarism
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Business Insider stands by reporting on Bill Ackman’s wife, Neri Oxman, says stories ‘are accurate’ with ‘no unfair bias’
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/14/business/neri-oxman-business-insider-plagiarism/index.html
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Any head to head GE poll which has 22% undecided is a good ole fashioned flush for me.\
Flush.
Big Joe
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22% … it’s ridiculous…both are in polling thirties and low forties in several polls.
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You really are a scumbag Bunu. Like, the lowest of the low.
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Big court hearing today. Will the supremes overturn Chevron and kill the admin.state. Even Souter 2.0 is against Chevron, but we don’t know where Bushie and Beotchy will vote. The 3 drat rolls will vote like normal.
https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/01/supreme-court-likely-to-discard-chevron/
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https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/01/17/jamie-dimon-positions-himself-for-president-trump-win-in-2024/
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Jpm stock was a good investment btw.
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Not as good as Solana my biggest holding 1100% gain since summer :p ….or BONK
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Tina, JPM hit an all time high last week, good solid stock with great fundamentals.
Everything else is just noise.
Big Joe
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You are really pushing getting deleted. Watch it, Bunu.
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Poll results like this will be done Ad nauseam in the next several months.
Would you vote for Donald Trump for president in 2024 if he is/has been…
Convicted of a felony crime by a jury:
Yes 20%
No 58%
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Currently serving time in prison:
Yes 18%
No 61%
.@Reuters/@Ipsos, 4,677 Adults, 1/3-9
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Big Joe – welcome back!!!! We need to keep reeling them back.
To quote the best movie franchise of all time – “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in again”
BTW – we should have an official 20th anniversary party of some sort…and t-shirts. I will get the oldest to design it, and make one available for everyone. We have to figure out how to get it to you, and you can vote on designs…if that’s ok with the Godfather in Philly 😉
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You can act like a man!
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Better movie line-
You’re going to need a bigger boat.
OR
No…I AM your father!
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Vic! Good to see you here. I posted very early when this lifeboat was launched (Thanks again to Bitter and anyone else involved!). Then i disappeared because I’ve become repulsed by politics. It began around 2012 and accelerated around 2014. The only discussion worth having is how/when the Constitution will be dissolved and what the future holds for the states. I know that’s cynical but it’s a very real path IMHO. Depending on how this election goes, I think July 4, 2026 could be it. Would that also be the 20th anniversary of HHR? I arrived in 2007 so can’t stake my claim as an HHR Original.
As for HHR, I’m thinking the “HHR” brand needs a re-brand. I felt for Dave W, he’s put up polls and we ignored them continuing our own conversations in his comments sections. In later years, most commentators were downright hostile to Dave W.
Big Joe
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Big Joe
I would love to help re-brand HHR with Bitter’s approval and help. I know the oldest (he’s 10 now) would love to be involved, especially if I paid him (He’s incredible. Has four different companies, does work, always looking for more work and ways to earn money and invest it ahaha)
As for the breakup of this country, I started writing a book years and years ago about the invetible divisions. The northern tier keeping the moniker USA, the South, Texas (which would include some surrounding states), Atzlan (which, btw, California, despite what Liberals and some latinos think, was NEVER part of Mexico until the Spanish settled it in the 1740’s. The Mexican empire under the Aztecs ((who ironically were just conquerers like the Spanish)) never went further north than about Zacatecas) and the northwest, who may or may not join California.
I hope we are wrong and this country holds together, but there is just so much division, and those in power, especially the left, only stay in power by fostering division.
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VictrC
January 17, 2024 at 8:17 pm
Ditto on 18
Is 10 real?
Yes, it is.
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Vic,
I’d love to hear more about your thoughts on the potential U.S. breakup. Perhaps a topic for a new blog post? 😀
And great job being an awesome role model to your 10 year old. The coming teen years will bring new challenges. My three are now in college. The middle school / high school years were rough and I’m so glad they are over! In hindsight, I would have home-schooled for sure.
Big Joe
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Last post of the night! See y’all tomorrow
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