Tuesday Open Comments

Why Didn’t the Democrats Steal the 2024 Presidential Election?

Wasn’t Corsi the guy who was writing an expose on Obama and his Kenyan roots, was detained there, and had all of his research seized?  Onward….
Corsi posits that widespread cheating is still possible – and probable – by the Dems in the last election and continuing into the future.  So why did Trump win?

In part, Trump’s victory may have been because we did expose the cryptographic algorithms in four of the 2024 battleground states before the presidential election on November 5, 2024. However, the primary reason the Democrats allowed the swing states to conclude counting votes on election night was that the Democrats decided not to steal the 2024 presidential election to punish Biden and Kamala Harris for breaking ranks.

At the “Deep Party” Central Committee level of the Democrat party—at the level of Barack Obama, Klaus Schwab, and George Soros—the order went out that Harris needed to lose. After Biden’s catastrophic debate performance, Sen. Ted Cruz believed that Obama wanted to substitute Michelle Obama as the Democrats’ candidate once Biden was induced (or forced) to resign from the bid. This theory gains support from the political melodrama in the Democrat party after the debate.

Would they really ditch an election in favor of Trump just to punish out of spite?  Did they think they’d be able to cut Trump off at the knees as they did in his last term?

If we assume the Democrat party has increasingly been acting as a neo-Marxist party, the capital sin of a party member would be to countermand a Central Committee decision. Biden’s maneuver to position Kamala Harris ahead of Michelle Obama as the party’s presidential candidate in 2024 was an unpardonable offense. Should this reasoning be correct, Kamala Harris would be well advised to watch her back between now and 2028. Don’t be surprised if charges that Harris violated campaign finance laws end up indicting her with felony charges that could send her to prison.

/snip

In other words, Trump won not only because the American people voted for him but because the Democrat “Deep State” Party needed to bring its people in line. That is, they let Trump win by refusing to hand Kamala a victory.

However, even as the Democrats stepped back from the top of the ticket, as the razor-thin margin in the House reminds us, the president isn’t the only person on a ballot. The ongoing investigation of many down-ballot elections suggests that the algorithms were also used in those down-ballot races. There’s growing evidence strongly suggesting that the Democrats stole many U.S. House and Senate elections and an even larger number of state and local races.

Corsi posits my position: the down ballot steals were an attempt to hamstring Trump.  They thought the margin in the legislative houses would be too slight for Trump to be successful.

I’ve heard over and over that Moochelle would never run for office, but:

In the wake of Kamala’s defeat, support for Michelle in 2028 has intensified—a result that affirms the political legerdemain that the DNC achieved by letting a relatively honest election take place at the top of the ticket. Now, with the MAGA majority comfortable that Trump has been elected, the globalists’ playbook has gone stealth, betting the public will tire of election integrity campaigns when the manipulation in 2024 involved only down-ballot races.

The problem with over-confidence based on Trump’s historic 2024 electoral victory is we may lose the urgency to remove the cryptographic algorithms embedded in the SBOE voter registration files. That would leave us unprepared for a possible Democrat party decision to use the algorithms to steal majorities in both the House and Senate in the 2026 mid-term elections and retake the presidency in 2028.

Trump’s most important objective in his second term in office must be to expose the cryptographic algorithms and to conduct criminal investigations of those responsible for placing them into SBOE voter registration files. No issue is more critical—not securing the borders, deporting criminal illegal immigrants, or ending global wars.

Without election integrity, the Republic is undoubtedly lost, perhaps not in 2024, but almost certainly shortly thereafter.

The swamp has many drains, and all those drain plugs must be pulled, with extreme prejudice.

 

(And yes, the green is back, because the indents for quotes didn’t show up properly on the preview and I didn’t want my personal text to be confused as part of the article.)


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    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      We’ve only been at this sailing through the skies stuff for a mere 122 years out thousand of years Mankind has been around. I’m still astonished to see something so big look as if it has the weight of a feather.

      1. Texpat Avatar
        Texpat

        It occurred to me I don’t believe any of our grandparents ever rode on an airplane. All four were born in the first few years of the 20th century. In fact, A.T. Clarke was born the same year the Wright Brothers had their first flight. Correct me if you remember differently.

  1. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    It is almost amusing to listen to the screeching moonbats moan and complain about the deportations. These people don’t want to lose their cheap domestic helpers. They constantly complain about how it is disrupting their community, but they never complain about the rampant crime associated with the worst of the invaders, those that have already been found guilty of crimes. The worst offenders, those with serious criminal convictions for crimes committed here and their associates are the first to go, as it should be. Those DACA kids who came in under JugEars and Clinton and Boooosh, and are not guilty of committing crimes and are currently employed, as a decent citizen should be, are the last on the list to be deported.

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    A quick scan of the O.C. topic and it looks very interesting, I do hope I have the time to check it out. I’ve still not read the “Birthright” post from the weekend and I really need to check that one out. Everyone knows the 14th Amendment was to give all slaves citizenship and how it got bastardized to allow any illegal alien from dropping a kid and that child becoming a citizen is more than strange. I wonder how it would do if brought before SCOTUS?
    Oh well, 40 and clearing from yesterday’s rain, how much you ax? .65″ not a lot but we’ll take it.
    Mornin’ Gang

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      It seems to me that anchor babies are ‘fruit of the poison tree.’ The tree is being here illegally, and benefits thereafter are fruits of said tree and are also illegal.

  3. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Good Heavens !

    Liberal media has been uninterested in investigating the couple involved in shooting dead a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Coventry, Vermont near the Canadian border on inauguration day. Why? Both in the duo are leftist trans militants. One of the deceased armed militants is a German believed to be in the country on an H-1B visa. The duo is allegedly connected to a trans terror cell.

    Federal law enforcement had been surveilling German man Felix “Ophelia” Baukholt and Seattle @UW student Teresa “Milo” Youngblut (xe/xem/xyrs) after staff at a Lyndonville, Vt. motel reported seeing them with black tactical clothing, weapons and protective militia-style equipment.

    When the duo was pulled over on Jan. 20, Youngblut allegedly shot dead Officer David Maland in a surprise attack. In the returning fire, Baukholt, who was also armed, was killed. Youngblut was injured and survived.

    I spoke with Jessica Taylor @jessi_cata a Berkeley, Calif. woman who had met Baukholt over the years. She confirmed that Baulkholt is trans.

    1. wagonburner Avatar
      wagonburner

      Being associated with a group that calls themselves “the Ziz community” or “Zizians” is an almost certain indication that a person’s butter slid off their green beans, so to speak

  4. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Oh, and all those people freaked out over Deepseek, know this…

    Just fyi, @deepseek_ai collects your IP, keystroke patterns, device info, etc etc, and stores it in China, where all that data is vulnerable to arbitrary requisition from the [Deep] State.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Recorded Live on a single mic at TaylorAudio Studio, Lakeway, TX.

      Beautiful.

  5. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I never know for certain about Jerome Corsi, the godfather of conspiracy theorists. He has come up with some good things, but he can’t stop hanging around the real loonies, still talks Q-Anon while hanging out with He Whose Name Shall Not Be Mentioned.

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    squawkbox

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  7. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Good morning y’all

  8. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    BTW; What was in the box anyway? 😀
    OK I just stumbled across an absolutely hilarious Super Bowl ad that I’d not ever seen or heard of. I’m guessing some or all of y’all have seen it but I’ll post it anyway.

    Cast Away – FedEx Super Bowl Ad

  9. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    GJT, don’t give up on Costco yet. Also, the Al Sharpton media stunt in Harlem is all about extortion. If Costco made a big ruckus out the situation, Sharpton’s people would have made the store and the employees miserable. It was easier for them to let crook do his little performance. New York City is a different kind of place.

    Attorneys general in 19 states are warning Costco “to end all unlawful discrimination imposed by the company through diversity, equity, and inclusion” policies to reflect President Donald Trump’s recent executive order booting DEI out of federal agencies and warning private sectors to do the same.

    “Racial discrimination is both immoral and illegal. Race-based employment hiring violates state and federal law, and as the chief law enforcement officer of Kansas, I intend to enforce the law vigorously,” Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach told Fox News Digital in a statement. 

    Trump’s executive order, signed during his first week in office, will task the attorneys general with rooting out sectors and organizations that allegedly engage in discriminatory DEI practices. Recommendations will be made for potential lawsuits against violators.

  10. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Stopping at one rosary this morning – I have some Important Things to tend to this morning. But I will take the time to trot over to my happy place.

    Here’s the C&C roundup. It sounds like “buckle up!” column again:

    Good morning, C&C, it’s Tuesday! And here we go again. The second Week of Trump is proving even more historic and disruptive than the first. I realize that’s hard for you to imagine. Get ready, the news is coming at us through a fire hose (one that works, not in LA). We can now see that last week, Trump was only playing with the deep state. He was pruning the swamp using a machete. But yesterday he put the machete down and flipped on a hellscape of AI-powered, swamp-draining drones. Trust me, you won’t believe this is real.

  11. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    First off, Trump shuts down the federal financial spigot, much to the dismay of the trough feeders:

    If last week was a tectonic wake-up call, this week the Trump Administration unleashed a 7.8 magnitude earthquake against the deep state. The world is literally changing before our eyes. Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal made history, perhaps unknowingly, with its story blandly headlined, “White House Orders Pause of Federal Financial-Assistance Programs.” …

    Yeppers, Trump issued a memo that shut off all but essential financial expenditures; Medicare, SS, payrolls, etc., are still active. For all of the pearl clutching over “shutting down the government” that surrounds the budgetary process, Trump just lifted that middle finger and did it anyway.

    The result? Now the bureaucrats have to come to Trump, not the other way around. Brilliant. This move puts him in control, instead of the bureaucracy trying to run things.

    And this is where the worry over “killing people” comes from. Schumer claims it’ll release total chaos. Don’t make me laugh. The Left operates within the chaotic space; it’s their favorite way of keeping folks off center, afraid, and easily herded into their voting booth.

    … There’s no narrative yet, no talking points. The completely one-dimensional report means the media is in shock, terrified, cowed. It doesn’t know which way to turn or what to think.

    Can he really do this?

    Expect a tsunami of litigation starting … right now.

    We live in interesting times.

  12. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This happened in Dallas, presumably during the big anti-deportation protest on Sunday. The protestors are having the exact opposite effect of what they want to achieve which is public sympathy.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      Where are the cops with the big sticks? The mob assaulted the guy, why weren’t the perps arrested, charged, convicted, and deported? THis is what needs to happen. Do the same thing with the muzzy scourge in Michigan.

  13. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    More on the Trumpian money freeze:

     Here’s a link to a copy of the memo from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Read the whole thing. It’s only two pages, and it might be one of the single most significant government actions in our lifetimes….

    /snip

    Until yesterday, nobody would have believed such a pause for review was even possible. It’s too big. Trump isn’t asking the bureaucracy to follow orders; he’s forcing them to come to him for permission to function at all. It is totally unprecedented, and it raises all kinds of questions about separation of powers between the President and Congress, but it also resonates on a common-sense level.

    If the President is the nation’s chief executive, shouldn’t everything be centralized in his office? And if it got out of control, shouldn’t some President get it back under control?

    Mr. Childers raises some interesting questions about the separation of powers. I agree with him – this will end up in SCOTUS. I worry about a future liberal president using this power for the forces of evil In the meantime…

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      If Congress had been doing their job, there wouldn’t exist a vacuum of power and responsibility for Trump to step into. Congress brought this on themselves and it wasn’t Democrats alone either.

      1. Bonecrusher Avatar
        Bonecrusher

        The Ds were pushing for the Great Reset . . . . . .I don’t think this is the Reset they had in mind.

  14. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    A similar freeze took place on the international stage:

    Rubio ordered a similar “stop work” order for all foreign aid, excluding only Egypt and Israel. For now, Taiwan is on the “nada” list. Interesting. Ukraine likewise is left outside in the cold, knocking on the door and begging to be let inside. The comprehensive shutdown is unprecedented and probably frightening to the bureaucrats who thought they actually ran things. (Well, they HAVE been running things for years, so yep, they considered themselves protected.)

    This action and widespread review is a reset to the federal functions. Way overdue, but the road to responsibility is going to be a bumpy and highly uncomfortable one.

    This administration is putting together a database of all aid programs from the state level, there to be reviewed. Funding is frozen until this happens. From there DOGE – or its follow-up agency, can review them all.

    These budget freezes are like the rain, falling upon the just and unjust alike. That means a lot of folks are going to be angry. Upset the status quo, mess with their money – well, that’s obviously worse than messing with kids: money is power in the Swamp, and Trump has just stepped on its throat.

    Those human trafficking NGOs and bureaucratic money drains just assumed that life would continue on its normal course, and yawned in Trump’s face.

    Big mistake.

  15. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    More C&C:the USAID funding for NGO’s, including foreign ones. Are these fronts for CIA disruption efforts? Childers describes USAID as “the deep state’s ATM”. As a result, a lot of senior officials were put on leave, possibly because they were… acting out badly, shall we say.

    Yeah, not really upset about that. A memo from USAID was leaked documenting that entity’s attempts to circumvent Trump’s executive orders.

    Good luck with that. Trump has a big stick, and he’s swinging it without compunction.

    …Trump is attacking the deep state “six ways from Sunday.” He’s cut off their money —the deep state’s lifeblood— and now he’s ruthlessly making examples of employees who defy legal instructions. And not just a few employees, either.

    This is the long-awaited deep state showdown—but on a scale nobody imagined. It’s like what we hoped would happen during Trump’s first term, except that it has been working out during its 4-year hiatus and now it has roid rage.

    If Trump succeeds in these agency purges, and gathers the money strings back under White House control, in one transparent database, then the deep state as we knew it is finished.

    We can dream.

    I will say, that swirling that I’ve been experiencing is finally on the other side for a change.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      It was a telling move when Samantha Power, Ambassador to the UN under Obama, agreed to be the executive director of the USAID agency after the 2020 election. Most people would consider it a step down from UN Ambassador, but the real power is over at the USAID. Power is a hard-core Leftist, Muslim sympathizer, hater of Jews and Israel. She is as sleazy as they come.

      1. Bonecrusher Avatar
        Bonecrusher

        She should be barred from any federal employment; she should be on food stamps.

  16. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And Trump didn’t forget the DOJ, either: All of the Jack Smith group has been axed or castrated. Trump doesn’t drink alcohol, so maybe he raised a glass of orange juice in a toast to their departure:

    It wasn’t just the fired lawyers. Many more DOJ officials involved in or related to the investigations have been transferred to, shall we say, less desirable posts.

    Some of the “demotions” mean being transferred to things like immigration reform.

    Okay, that last part made me LOL a little bit. Kind of like throwing up in your mouth a little, but a good variation. I’m sure there was a lot of throwing up as they got reassigned. Some left – self deported, we might say. Cry me a wissing river.

    This has never been seen before.

    And maybe never again. These moves are historic, but cleansing. I can only imagine the wide-eyed dismay on the Dems’ faces as they try to contemplate the swath of destruction their forces are taking.

  17. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And Trump is taking the fight directly to the DOJ: that department has been ordered to turn over all documents relating to the J6 cases. (That shaking sensation is all of those knees over there as they read their orders.)

    …In other words, not knowing exactly what they’re being investigated for is making them feel anxious. The irony! The turnabout! The hunters have become the hunted!

    Ominously, Ed Martin has long criticized the J6 prosecutions….

    Now, Ed Martin is in charge of investigating the DOJ.

    Hunters becoming the hunted. I can’t think of a more apt description.

  18. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Whole lot of copyright theft goin on

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      I’m trying to reduce…maybe I should delete.

      1. squawkbox Avatar
        squawkbox

        I am not trying to anger you or pick on you but looking at what ya got why would I go to C&C? I am sure the author would not appreciate that at all. Try summarizing instead of copy pasting

        1. Tedtam Avatar
          Tedtam

          I was trying to summarize as best I could without losing the flavor…but I’m cutting it down now. You have a legit argument.

          1. squawkbox Avatar
            squawkbox

            Good to go

  19. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The idea is to entice readers to go to the original article rather than posting half of it. Like Squawk says, it is only fair to the original author.

  20. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Trump approval currently has NO racial demographic signal. Wild!

    White – 55%

    Black – 57%

    Hisp/oth – 58%

    11:33 AM · Jan 23, 2025

    ·1.5M Views

  21. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Squack’s New Year Resolution was to clean up a bit and start exercising. We should give him some encouragement.

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      Damn paparazzi

  22. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    President Donald Trump will sign an executive order today to create an ‘Iron Dome’ style defense system in the United States, DailyMail.com has learned.

    It would be an American version of the famed Israeli missile defense system.

    Incoming Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth hinted the order was coming when he walked into the Pentagon on Monday, his first day on the new job. 

  23. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Behold the star of the new film, Captain America: Brave New World. His name is Anthony Mackie.

    What he says in this media interview is stupefying.

    I’m going to slash my box office numbers in half ! Just watch me !

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      GRRRRRRRR and that is why I do not patronize anything from Disney or Marvel

      1. Texpat Avatar
        Texpat

        I don’t go to theaters to watch films that are cartoons of comic book characters. I’m a full grown adult and want mature content.

        1. squawkbox Avatar
          squawkbox

          I used to be a Star Wars fan. After the house of mouse got their woke claws on the franchise they just destroyed the story. I am a bit of geek when it comes to Marvel stuff. I watched the first IronMan and was appalled at the PC tripe they turned the super heros into. Frankly I am not going to pay to get preached to through a comic book story.

  24. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    First, CNN moved Jim Acosta’s show to midnight a couple of weeks ago and now it’s goodbye, Jimmy, don’t let the doorknob hit you in butt.

  25. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    This is so much fun.

    ….the HR of all HR in all of government…

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      Sux to be them.

    2. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Yup, I’m still NOT tired of winning. 😉

  26. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    This short clip tells you all you need to know about the ‘experts’ on any subject in the D realm.

  27. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Quote of the day:

    This is no peace deal. This is the ransom price to get the hostages back.

    Col David Tal (Retired IDF Tank Commander)
    WATCH THE WHOLE DAMN THING

    I am on a slow burn and the fire is getting closer to my dry powder.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      You and me both. I have a big problem though with a significant portion of Israelis, led by the families of hostages believed to be alive, who have been demanding their government cave to any and all demands to get the hostages back. I sympathize with their pain and agony, but I think they have been naive and unreasonable in many ways.

      Then you have the families and friends of dead hostages and IDF soldiers opposing them because they don’t want their loved ones to have died in vain without the obliteration of Hamas.

      It has torn the country apart and is heart-wrenching. The Netanyahu leadership and the Knesset members are in a horrible vise that pleases no one.

      1. squawkbox Avatar
        squawkbox

        Bingo. I am not prepared to give my grievances on Trump yet, YET. We live in strange dangerous times. One moment Israel is riding high and the next unbelievable lows. However, I am holding out hope that there is work being done back channel we do not know about, Hamas will break the truce and Israel will be forced into retaliating. I hope Trump gives them everything they need to turn that strip of land into a parking lot. I loath Hamas but morally Trump does have to be a peacemaker of sort and help the Gazans find homes. I will keep my speculation to myself for now but Trump has said some things that really give me pause.

    2. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Also, I fully expect Hamas to blame the IDF for the deaths of the Bibas family. They will say the family was killed in an Israeli attack in Gaza.

  28. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    GJT’s posted comment at 11:38 AM:

    This is your federal cost the American taxpayer a lot more than $63 million and exposed the OPM files. The HR of all HRs, my ass.

    We are talking about names, addresses, phone numbers, SS numbers, family members, employment history, bank accounts…stolen by the Chicoms.

    The Money Quote:

    “The 2015 breach compromised the personally identifiable information (PII) of approximately 22 million current and former federal employees and job applicants.”

    Court documents show nearly 20,000 individuals have already signed onto the class-action lawsuit, but individuals breach have until Dec. 23 to submit a claim to join the class-action lawsuit.

    The law firm Girard Sharp, which represents plaintiffs in the lawsuit, said in June that the settlement will provide a minimum payment of $700 for individuals who suffered a financial loss as a result of the hack, “even for those with minor expenses.”

    Everett Kelley, national president of the American Federation of Government Employees, a plaintiff in the lawsuit, called Friday’s court ruling a “significant victory for rank-and-file federal employees.”

  29. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I got the final okey-dokey from the realtor handling our triplex sale in Bryan. The paperwork I sent them last night was the final link in the title ownership chain. Today, I texted our tenants regarding February rent payments – hold until further notice. That was the last step, until Thursday.

    Sometimes you just know when it’s time. Both Hubby and I are actually excited about selling this property. It’ll take a huge strain off of Hubby, since he insists on managing and maintaining the property with his own two hands. Hiring help is not something he likes to do. I guess we’re getting older. Slowing down sounds much more enticing than expanding nowadays.

    Hubby and I figger we’ll finish the closing around lunch time, find a good steak place to celebrate and then head home. I should make it in time for my Latin class….ooops, I should give magister a heads up, just in case something happens on the road.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Owning rentals in College Station and running up there from south Houston for every repair is just nuts. I’m glad y’all are selling it. Buy something close to home if you have to.

      1. Texpat Avatar
        Texpat

        An old friend of mine who has since passed away, owned a few rental properties in Houston back in the 1980-90s. He would stipulate in the rental contracts any repairs $300 and under were their responsibility. Faucet and toilet repairs, etc.

        1. Tedtam Avatar
          Tedtam

          Yabbut, Hubby’s a bit of a control freak….

  30. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Dr. Malone’s substack today discusses defunding taxpayer funded media (NPR, PBS, etc.).

  31. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I saw our new White House Press Secretary today, the first time she has been out front and center. I must say I am impressed, she’s intelligent, quick on her feet and takes no BS. One of best answers was that yes, an illegal alien that broke into our country IS a criminal! Full stop. This was after one of the Legacy Press Gals asked why they were picking up innocent “migrants” along with the murders, rapists and Gang Bangers. Karoline Leavitt put her in her place quickly. 😉

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      She was magnificent today. As I knew she would be. Question after question, with no notebook prepared by her betters, she stumbled not once.
      The press scum are on notice – silly sh*t will be shoved right back down their gullets.
      Get serious or go back home.

      1. Super Dave Avatar
        Super Dave

        And she’s only 27.

  32. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    In the late sixteenth century, indigenous Guale Indians murdered five Franciscan friars in missions along the Georgia coast. It’s fair to call them the first martyrs for marriage on American soil, yet very few Catholics have ever heard of them. That changed yesterday morning, when the Vatican announced approval of the decree of martyr.. Henceforth, they are to be called “Venerables.” The rite of beatification will be celebrated by Bishop Stephen Parkes in the Diocese of Savannah, with details to be announced. These martyrs died defending the sanctity of marriage, which makes their stories even more prescient for our own time.

    Centuries before the familiar adobe missions formed along California’s coast, Catholic missionaries sailed to La Florida, a Spanish colony that included present-day Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. Beginning in 1595, Franciscan friars were stationed in the Guale peoples territory, an area of marshland between the Ogeechee and Altamaha Rivers.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      We used to water-ski on the Altamaha. Neat story BTW.

  33. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’m watching the film Gladiator ll this afternoon. Correct me if I’m wrong GJT, but did you not give it a “so-so” review?
    I’m enjoying it.
    It isn’t as good as the first one, but it’ll do.
    I mean, gladiators getting eaten by sharks, what more can you ask for?
    🙂

    1. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      No sir, was not me. I’m not much on those movies.

  34. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I just saw where Trump is offering an 8 month severance to 2 million federal employees. Those that want to go are free to leave. Those that remain are probably motivated to do a good/better job and are at least partially loyal to the administration.

    Estimate of savings is $100B. I think it’s a good move. Remove the deadwood and save money at the same time.

    Winning.

  35. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    The Houston Texans parted ways with their team president last week and hired a new one. He specializes in stadiums, leading to speculation they with start clamoring for a new one. Twenty five year old stadiums are considered old and outdated evidently. Geesh.

  36. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    It’s so hard to keep track of the winning.

    Also under siege: The U.S. Agency for International Development, where some 60 — sixty! — senior staff have just been placed on leave, my colleagues Nahal Toosi, Daniel Lippman and Robbie Gramer scooped last night. “This is a huge morale hit,” a former senior Trump administration official tells them. “This is the leadership of the agency. This is like taking out all the generals.” Acting USAID Administrator Jason Graysent an email to all staff Monday saying the decision was related to the apparent efforts of some staffers “to circumvent the president’s executive orders.”

    Reminder: The U.S.’s entire foreign aid program was halted last Friday, pending review — and Nahal and Robbie have just filed a useful writeup of the chaos now erupting in projects across the developing world. Among the schemes losing funding is PEPFAR — the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief — which was launched by George W. Bush and is estimated to have saved 26 million lives so far. Its data website was down last night (h/t Robbie Gramer). The WSJ also has a long list of aid projects in the mire.

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    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      My response to Tedtam’s 9:49 AM comment.

      It was a telling move when Samantha Power, Ambassador to the UN under Obama, agreed to be the executive director of the USAID agency after the 2020 election. Most people would consider it a step down from UN Ambassador, but the real power is over at the USAID. Power is a hard-core Leftist, Muslim sympathizer, hater of Jews and Israel. She is as sleazy as they come.

  37. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    My turn to step on copyright.
    But mine is behind a paywall.

    It’s because I know Tulsi so well that I understand why she would make an excellent director of national intelligence. Americans have understandably lost trust in our intelligence services. In choosing Lieutenant Colonel Gabbard, President Trump has picked a highly-qualified, reform-minded leader who can regain that trust.

    The fact that her nomination has engendered such blowback in the media, driven and organized by the failed leadership class of past administrations, is a sign of how much they fear her. They dread what she represents: sunlight and transparency, a bright light confronting a dark, rotten system ridden rife with liars and frauds.

    The intelligence services of the United States of America ought to be focused on serving our national interest. They ought to be focused on understanding the movements and intentions of the nation’s foes, anticipating dangers before they emerge and giving the commander-in-chief the information needed to stop those who would harm us. That is the reason they exist.

    Instead, in recent years, our intelligence services — the same people who swore to uphold the Constitution and defend us against dangerous threats — have time and again turned on the American people.

    They have met the enemy, and it is you and me. They have spied on Americans, trumped-up charges against their fellow citizens and pursued their political critics without regard to the law.

    They looked at the tattoos of brave military warriors and scenes of parents protesting against lockdowns at school boards and, with the help of the same journalists today criticizing Gabbard, pretended that these patriotic citizens represented a threat to the country. It is precisely this anti-American mindset which Gabbard is well-placed to dismantle.

    It’s true that her unorthodox foreign-policy views alarm some right-thinking people. Bari Weiss, the admirable founder of the Free Press, once called her a “toady,” principally because Gabbard had met President Bashar al-Assad in Syria. Knowing Tulsi as I do, I can say with certainty that she is no such thing.

    She is a patriot. She is a woman of faith, strong and courageous, deeply patriotic, with a passionate love for America and those who serve.

    As a conservative woman in the public eye, I’m all too familiar with the double standards we face. Tulsi Gabbard is experiencing what happens when accomplished women who don’t fit the liberal mold stand up for what they believe.

    Much of the criticism directed at Gabbard today is not just unfair – it is tinged with a combination of paranoia and sexism, emanating from decrepit voices. It’s the same figures who President Trump stripped of their national security clearances after their repeated public lies to the American people.

    If she were a Democrat, or, heaven forbid, a man of either party, we wouldn’t be hearing these ridiculous questions about her qualifications.

    As a former member of the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committees, Gabbard’s credentials aren’t just politically impressive: she would be the first female director of national intelligence to have served in the military.

    Similar to many in my generation, she enlisted after 9/11 out of a sense of duty — she graduated top of her class in officer school, the first woman to do so, and served three times to multiple war zones. She knows the threats we face.

    Unlike many of her critics, Tulsi Gabbard actually put her life on the line for our country for more than two decades.

    She knows the importance of America’s role in the world, the consequences of how we the use of our power, and what can happen when wrong bad decisions are made at the top, even with the best intent.

    When she was a rising star in the Democratic Party, the media couldn’t get enough of her. But the moment it became clear that she was a woman who thinks for herself, challenging the ruling class for their failures and hypocrisy, the knives came out.

    The media tends to treat conservative women as either ditzy airheads or cold-hearted villains. There’s no in-between, no nuance.

    The anonymous sources within the intelligence establishment and their allies in the media are clearly terrified of an independent-thinking woman who bucks the establishment.

    We need to call out their hypocrisy whenever we see it. Women like Tulsi Gabbard, who have served our country with distinction, deserve respect and fair treatment, regardless of their political affiliation.

    When people talk about breaking glass ceilings and empowering women, surely that should include all women, not just those who toe the liberal line?

    I support Tulsi Gabbard’s swift confirmation as our next director of national intelligence not because she is a woman, but because she deserves the job. Because she is a patriot who understands the burden of leadership, and chooses to carry it even so. I therefore hope that she is confirmed in the coming days.

    • shockingly, Meghan McCain at the Spectator
  38. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I thought I recognized a lot of the cast of this episode of FBI: The Tormenters

    I never thought of seeing Trapper John as a bad guy, and Kurt Russell is very, very young.

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