Yeah. I knew it was long, long before the CIA backpedal. At that point, I began to think that Jon Stuart might be redeemable, unlike Stephen Colbert, who has completely sold out.
I came *this close* to driving across the entire continent to their Washington DC Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear in 2010.
Hey, my team scored 10 runs in the first inning but lost the game 17-13. If we get to the 8th or 9th inning and things are still looking fairly well and even improving, then we can say that these early times set the tone for the next administration.
Not buying into anything as Trump is still one of the globalist billionaires and he is still a politician of sorts and he still needs to wade through the DC Swamp without getting devoured by a hoard of crocks. And that alliance with spooky Ellison is a huge no-go in my book.
Trump is a great POTUS, but I have to question his release of Jan. 6 protestors that actually attacked cops. This has cost him lots of support from law enforcement.
Of course, these pardoned victims of Obama/Biden's lawfare pose no danger to society and, while MSNBC and all the other freedom haters will make hay if any of the released non-criminals is ever busted in the future, at least Trump (unlike Biden) did not pardon anyone that could implicate himself in the money-shuffling and corruption by the Biden Crime Syndicate.
That was my original stance, but it changed after Biden's last-minute pardon of literal cop killers. I still wouldn't have done it myself, but it's easy to see why Team Trump just said "fuck it."
I disagree. If you watch the videos and listen to the discussions caught on body cams among Capital police, every bit of violence was initiated UPON protesters. Shooting randomly into the crowd, creating an angry escalation in 10 people surrounding every person hit.
Police that respond negatively to Trump's J6 pardon either don't know the details or are some of the tiny percent that would likely enjoy acting in the same, unlawful way.
To the extent that I saw protestors protecting themselves from the police, I saw one person toss a fire extinguisher into an open doorway. No idea if it hit anyone. I did see one exchange where the police were spraying protestors liberally and one sprayed back. I hope all of the evidence has not been destroyed All the members of the Kangaroo Court that was established solely to discredit the Big Guy's opponent for POTUS should be interviewed by congress, by the FBI, and by the DOJ. If, as I have read, video recordings of January 6 have been destroyed, the perpetrator of that crime should be found, arrested, tried, and convicted of sedition.
Plus these people have already served time. You wouldn't think they'd need to be in prison for 10 years for something like that when the people who burned down cities got off scot-free.
I find it hard to believe that none of the protestors sprayed any police officer with Mace or Bear Spray. At this point, I don't really care. All I know for sure about January 6 is that FBI agitators turned a peaceful protest into a violent riot and one "police officer" Michael Byrd murdered Ashley Babbitt. I hoped that racist bastard gets the punishment he deserves.
I am convinced that most of the injuries received by police were retaliatory acts. The only truly violent scenes show people breaking windows (of course that does not include the video of Michael Byrd's murder of Ashley Babbitt). I question your use of the term "soft coup" and I just looked up the definition. There was probably 0.1% of the mob that even imagined the government could be overthrown by their act of protest.
You are correct to question the use of 'soft coup.' I was (rather unclearly) referring to the purpose of instigating the J6 "insurrection," which allowed Pelosi to call an emergency session of congress and thus avoid the normal rules that would allow the planned objections to the electoral voting due to discrepancies in the results. I was NOT referring to J6 as any sort of coup. I think I agree with almost everyone reading this 'Stack that conservatives at J6 were protesting. Anything else that happened was instigated/triggered.
Right!!! Because to politicians like her (I e. most politicians), success comes from managing perceptions, not from actually managing. "Our leaders are stupid." - DJT, June 2015
"My team was awesome! Despite all the difficulties of the emergency like having to all work in one room instead of their office, they filled out the paperwork at TWICE the standard rate!"
"What was the standard rate?"
"Twenty four months."
"So you're ecstatic about it only taking twelve months to approve a permit to hire a contractor to BEGIN to remove debris, a contractor who cannot start the removal for 12 additional months because THEY have to request a permit attached to your permit to start?"
Well said. Trump has decided to (finally) take off the gloves and stop following traditional Republican rules of following the rules. The DNC abandoned any pretext of rules and manners a long time ago. All one need do is watch any congressional hearing where Debbie Wasserman Schultz is speaking and you will see the cancer that is the DNC in action. Time to burn down the house and start over. JD Vance is the young leader we need to follow Trump. I have not been this optimistic since Reagan. Thanks for your good work.
20 million who goes to the bathroom several times per day. Modestly, that's 1L of urine and 0.7kg of feces per adult per day. And the bane of many a nation throughout history has been failing to deal with shit, and letting people take the piss, to be perfectly vulgar about it.
20 000 000*0.7= 14 000 000kg of feces times 365days = 5 110 000 000kg/year.
Which is 11 265 622 800 pounds of shit. Every year.
Sure, spread out over several areas, but it's still out there. When it rains, it seeps into the soil. And in case anyone thinks it breaks down into nutrients? Nope, not when concentrated and not in built-up areas. It just seeps into the aquifers, a little here and a little there until you have measurable ppms of shit in the fresh water reservoirs.
(Kind of remarkable that the "your plastic drinking straw is killing the planet"-crowd doesn't realise the handling of garbage and human waste is one of the top three most important tasks of a society. If they did, they'd invest in water, sewers, treatment and filtration, and 1st world quality garbage burning plants.)
And the you are really up that creek.
Allegedly, Octavian was presented with a plan for how to modernise Rome's sewers, which would have eradicated many plagues and problems (the city was originally built in swamp-land between the seven hills). He instead built temples, monuments and such. Anecdotal, but as an Aesop it serves purpose:
Shit needs handling, otherwise it builds up until it kills you.
Chicago media is on fire with the hysteria. ICE might get you! Don’t go to school! Don’t go to church! Don’t leave your house! And now they report that their fear mongering is working, with stories meant to be sympathetic about illegals paralyzed by fear and not leaving their homes.
I think you’re right. Many illegals will decide this isn’t what they were looking for, and will voluntarily leave.
Yes, the left here is definitely starting to eat their own. The traditional core Dem constituency is starting to see that the public unions, especially CTU, academia and media are not really the benefactors they have been claiming to be. Lots of angry Dem coalition members fighting over place at the public trough.
The entire system is filled with 'graft pockets'. All the way up and down the system, people are getting rich for screwing Americans.
Here in Tucson we have hotels 'rented out' for 'migrants', but also Americans sleeping on the streets. And the governor is worried about 'Trump-proofing' the state instead of picking the low-hanging fruit like "Maybe we shouldn't spend money on housing the people breaking the law to get here."
"these initial arrests happened so quickly, government obviously knew where these people were and did nothing"
I live in a city that gets shot up from time to time by gangs battling it out, and no, in case any dems ask, gang membership is not restricted to citizens. It's disgusting that it would be known where criminals are, they're clearly breaking a law that allows them to be removed from the streets, yet it's not done.
It's like the focus shifted at some point from "protect the people of the nation by using the laws" to "figure out if the laws really have to be enforced, and who's watching".
I also loathe how fearful most of the populace got after 9/11 -- on both sides, no the cowboys weren't less fearful -- but hot damn, wouldn't enforcing the laws that are on the books as though it's all in a days work go some way to relieving people's anxiety and letting them relax? I think it would.
Didn’t Jon Stuart do that bit about the Wuhan lab a year or more ago?
May 2021 IIRC
(nope, was June 2021)
https://www.vulture.com/2021/06/jon-stewart-on-stephen-colbert-lab-leak-theory.html
Yeah. I knew it was long, long before the CIA backpedal. At that point, I began to think that Jon Stuart might be redeemable, unlike Stephen Colbert, who has completely sold out.
I came *this close* to driving across the entire continent to their Washington DC Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear in 2010.
Whatever Colbert once was that is long gone.
Glad to see Stewart at least attempting to cater to common sense.
That’s what you get when these guys approach the end.
Hey, my team scored 10 runs in the first inning but lost the game 17-13. If we get to the 8th or 9th inning and things are still looking fairly well and even improving, then we can say that these early times set the tone for the next administration.
Not buying into anything as Trump is still one of the globalist billionaires and he is still a politician of sorts and he still needs to wade through the DC Swamp without getting devoured by a hoard of crocks. And that alliance with spooky Ellison is a huge no-go in my book.
Sounds like you need a better team 😉
Or at least don’t forget the ADHD meds
It’s been great to see it all unfolding save for the gut punch of Trump touting the AI mRNA cancer-curer!
Trump is a great POTUS, but I have to question his release of Jan. 6 protestors that actually attacked cops. This has cost him lots of support from law enforcement.
Of course, these pardoned victims of Obama/Biden's lawfare pose no danger to society and, while MSNBC and all the other freedom haters will make hay if any of the released non-criminals is ever busted in the future, at least Trump (unlike Biden) did not pardon anyone that could implicate himself in the money-shuffling and corruption by the Biden Crime Syndicate.
That was my original stance, but it changed after Biden's last-minute pardon of literal cop killers. I still wouldn't have done it myself, but it's easy to see why Team Trump just said "fuck it."
I disagree. If you watch the videos and listen to the discussions caught on body cams among Capital police, every bit of violence was initiated UPON protesters. Shooting randomly into the crowd, creating an angry escalation in 10 people surrounding every person hit.
Police that respond negatively to Trump's J6 pardon either don't know the details or are some of the tiny percent that would likely enjoy acting in the same, unlawful way.
To the extent that I saw protestors protecting themselves from the police, I saw one person toss a fire extinguisher into an open doorway. No idea if it hit anyone. I did see one exchange where the police were spraying protestors liberally and one sprayed back. I hope all of the evidence has not been destroyed All the members of the Kangaroo Court that was established solely to discredit the Big Guy's opponent for POTUS should be interviewed by congress, by the FBI, and by the DOJ. If, as I have read, video recordings of January 6 have been destroyed, the perpetrator of that crime should be found, arrested, tried, and convicted of sedition.
This needs to be common knowledge.
Plus these people have already served time. You wouldn't think they'd need to be in prison for 10 years for something like that when the people who burned down cities got off scot-free.
I find it hard to believe that none of the protestors sprayed any police officer with Mace or Bear Spray. At this point, I don't really care. All I know for sure about January 6 is that FBI agitators turned a peaceful protest into a violent riot and one "police officer" Michael Byrd murdered Ashley Babbitt. I hoped that racist bastard gets the punishment he deserves.
Agree, but at what level of incitement does it become self defense. And they didn't get a jury of their peers or a fair judge.
Need to indlict consequences to those that participated in the conspiracy to conduct the soft coup.
I am convinced that most of the injuries received by police were retaliatory acts. The only truly violent scenes show people breaking windows (of course that does not include the video of Michael Byrd's murder of Ashley Babbitt). I question your use of the term "soft coup" and I just looked up the definition. There was probably 0.1% of the mob that even imagined the government could be overthrown by their act of protest.
You are correct to question the use of 'soft coup.' I was (rather unclearly) referring to the purpose of instigating the J6 "insurrection," which allowed Pelosi to call an emergency session of congress and thus avoid the normal rules that would allow the planned objections to the electoral voting due to discrepancies in the results. I was NOT referring to J6 as any sort of coup. I think I agree with almost everyone reading this 'Stack that conservatives at J6 were protesting. Anything else that happened was instigated/triggered.
Great update. Let us hope we can continue momentum. I am looking forward to your next post.
Right!!! Because to politicians like her (I e. most politicians), success comes from managing perceptions, not from actually managing. "Our leaders are stupid." - DJT, June 2015
Process is the purpose, not positive outcome.
"My team was awesome! Despite all the difficulties of the emergency like having to all work in one room instead of their office, they filled out the paperwork at TWICE the standard rate!"
"What was the standard rate?"
"Twenty four months."
"So you're ecstatic about it only taking twelve months to approve a permit to hire a contractor to BEGIN to remove debris, a contractor who cannot start the removal for 12 additional months because THEY have to request a permit attached to your permit to start?"
"Of course! That's a 50% improvement!"
Gavin Newsom being proud of 'cutting the red tape' is hilarious, considering he's the one who put much of it there in the first place.
Check out this absolutely hilarious send up of Gavin Newsom: https://x.com/vincentoshana/status/1882875481789452755?s=46&t=egzJXeFENV_DuoaSWPtV8w
^^this^^
Genius.
"There's been an outbreak of chocolately goodness near Hershey PA." omg
WHAT POSSIBILY COULD HAVE HAPPENED?!?!?!
Well said. Trump has decided to (finally) take off the gloves and stop following traditional Republican rules of following the rules. The DNC abandoned any pretext of rules and manners a long time ago. All one need do is watch any congressional hearing where Debbie Wasserman Schultz is speaking and you will see the cancer that is the DNC in action. Time to burn down the house and start over. JD Vance is the young leader we need to follow Trump. I have not been this optimistic since Reagan. Thanks for your good work.
Good one SimulationCommander!! The only thing I’m still screaming into the void about…. The killer jab is still on the market.
And Trump wants to do MORE mRNA!
20 million who goes to the bathroom several times per day. Modestly, that's 1L of urine and 0.7kg of feces per adult per day. And the bane of many a nation throughout history has been failing to deal with shit, and letting people take the piss, to be perfectly vulgar about it.
20 000 000*0.7= 14 000 000kg of feces times 365days = 5 110 000 000kg/year.
Which is 11 265 622 800 pounds of shit. Every year.
Sure, spread out over several areas, but it's still out there. When it rains, it seeps into the soil. And in case anyone thinks it breaks down into nutrients? Nope, not when concentrated and not in built-up areas. It just seeps into the aquifers, a little here and a little there until you have measurable ppms of shit in the fresh water reservoirs.
(Kind of remarkable that the "your plastic drinking straw is killing the planet"-crowd doesn't realise the handling of garbage and human waste is one of the top three most important tasks of a society. If they did, they'd invest in water, sewers, treatment and filtration, and 1st world quality garbage burning plants.)
And the you are really up that creek.
Allegedly, Octavian was presented with a plan for how to modernise Rome's sewers, which would have eradicated many plagues and problems (the city was originally built in swamp-land between the seven hills). He instead built temples, monuments and such. Anecdotal, but as an Aesop it serves purpose:
Shit needs handling, otherwise it builds up until it kills you.
Trump is unburdened by what has been.
I fixed it for you
"Instead, Joe Biden 'allegedly won, but we all know those Dems stuff the ballot box' in 2020."
Trump only got 3 million more votes in 2024 than 2020?? Someone turned off the machine or 10 million democrats did not show up?
**2024 Trump 77 million**
2024 Harris 75 million
**2020 Trump 74 million**
2020 Biden 81 million
2020 US population was 331 million vs 2024 is now 346 million
https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_election,_2020
https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_candidates,_2024
I’m baffled
Tom Massie mentioned this: the covid vaccine requirement for (legal) immigrants ended on Wednesday. See https://www.uscis.gov/i-485
Gah! Totally forgot that one, but it's a win, too!
At the rate ICE is on it we wouldn't see even one half million removed during the next 4 years. All smoke and mirrors if you ask me.
They won't have to do it all, lots of people will self-deport with all their stuff rather than risk losing it in deportation.
https://x.com/Will_W_Welker/status/1883251183776940532
At the end of the night, Disneyland doesn't have to round up all the customers and kick them out, they just shut off the rides.
Chicago media is on fire with the hysteria. ICE might get you! Don’t go to school! Don’t go to church! Don’t leave your house! And now they report that their fear mongering is working, with stories meant to be sympathetic about illegals paralyzed by fear and not leaving their homes.
I think you’re right. Many illegals will decide this isn’t what they were looking for, and will voluntarily leave.
But I'm old enough to remember people in Chicago complaining about illegals at town halls and city meetings.
The 2025 vibe is not the 2016 vibe. Especially in Chicago.
Yes, the left here is definitely starting to eat their own. The traditional core Dem constituency is starting to see that the public unions, especially CTU, academia and media are not really the benefactors they have been claiming to be. Lots of angry Dem coalition members fighting over place at the public trough.
The entire system is filled with 'graft pockets'. All the way up and down the system, people are getting rich for screwing Americans.
Here in Tucson we have hotels 'rented out' for 'migrants', but also Americans sleeping on the streets. And the governor is worried about 'Trump-proofing' the state instead of picking the low-hanging fruit like "Maybe we shouldn't spend money on housing the people breaking the law to get here."
LOVE the Disneyland metaphor!
me too
Hopefully they have turnstiles at the border to keep track
One, two, three, ....
"these initial arrests happened so quickly, government obviously knew where these people were and did nothing"
I live in a city that gets shot up from time to time by gangs battling it out, and no, in case any dems ask, gang membership is not restricted to citizens. It's disgusting that it would be known where criminals are, they're clearly breaking a law that allows them to be removed from the streets, yet it's not done.
It's like the focus shifted at some point from "protect the people of the nation by using the laws" to "figure out if the laws really have to be enforced, and who's watching".
I also loathe how fearful most of the populace got after 9/11 -- on both sides, no the cowboys weren't less fearful -- but hot damn, wouldn't enforcing the laws that are on the books as though it's all in a days work go some way to relieving people's anxiety and letting them relax? I think it would.
They just keep telling us they need more laws to keep us safe instead of vigorously enforcing the existing laws.
And then there's the stuff where there might or might not be law, but if there is, it might be a little opaque or tangled...
“What insurance company was that? Others too or just that one? What about you, you, you?”
yowza. I would love to see the transcript of their next several leadership meetings.