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Your Sunday Clarice. . . . . . . . . Zelensky’s Terrible, Horrible, Very Bad, No Good Day By Clarice Feldman FTA: The week ended with a blowup of what was supposed to be the signing of an agreement between the Ukraine and the U.S., a preliminary step for opening negotiations with Russia to end the war. How you view the consequences of the blowup seems like an inkblot test: If you see the U.S. abandoning a faithful ally, you probably are a Democrat. If you see Volodymyr Zelensky as an arrogant grifter who overplayed his hand, you probably aren’t. Luckily the entire meeting is available on video so you can see for yourself the context in which the last few minutes occurred. Those few minutes being the only thing most viewers saw. Not without basis, President Trump believes that China, not Russia, is a bigger threat to this country and disengaging Russia from this fight will further our chances of drawing Putin away from alliances with China. Not without reason, the President believes the war is a meat grinder, an ongoing stalemate which could well lead to World War III if Ukraine is admitted to NATO and more weaponry and manpower from elsewhere are poured into the conflict. Not without reason, the President thinks both Russia and Ukraine have suffered substantial human and economic losses which will only continue unless both sides make some concessions and none of the suggested concessions he has hinted at supporting jeopardize either country’s vital interests. Not without reason, the President wants to know to what use Ukraine put all the billions of dollars we gave them to defend itself from Russia. Zelensky has three times indicated a willingness to sign an agreement with us, granting us mineral rights. The president thinks that once we establish that we have these interests in Ukraine, Putin will not further attack. Zelensky, doubtless egged on by those who wish the war to continue, wants a promise of more concrete security guarantees -- i.e., NATO troops on the ground and more military equipment -- but he nevertheless agreed to sign on to this, once in a meeting with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant when he said he’d sign at Munich, again in a second meeting at Munich when he said he'd sign at Washington, and a third time when he was invited to do so in the Oval Office. Having pledged three times to do so, in a public meeting in the White House (in which disrespectfully he appeared in some kind of athleisure wear) he regularly interrupted the president, insisted once again on a firm security pledge, not only the mineral rights agreement. He rolled his eyes, shook his head, and brought his country’s ambassador to tears with his performance. Finally, he was escorted out of the White House without an opportunity to enjoy the luncheon planned for him. The post-signing press conference which had been scheduled was cancelled. Zelensky clearly misjudged his bargaining strength or the consequences of this stunt. I’m quite sure his fanciful overestimation of his strength and the U.S. support for him was due to people like Antony Blinken, Victoria Nuland, and Alexander Vindman, who reportedly encouraged this intransigence to come to terms, and equally toothless and discredited EU officials and members. {snip} Here’s my take: A clear-eyed, masterful negotiator looked at the field, came up with what he believes is the best available deal for his client (us) and the world and a posturing midget egged on by arrogant armchair warriors failed to grab it. Instead, Zelensky used this opportunity to insult his strongest benefactor and seems stunned to learn that was a stupid move. If this administration had a coat of arms, it would be encircled by a motto reading “FAFO.” https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/03/zelensky_s_terrible_horrible_very_bad_no_good_day.html .

Wow there's a lot here, so let's break it down. re You are not getting a list - so your original statement that "Hegseth isn’t as qualified as some lesbians..." was an off the cuff comment based on no facts. You actually don't know of any lesbians that are more qualified than a Princeton graduate who was a platoon leader, has been awarded 2 Army Commendation Medals, a Bronze star, and has been executive director of a couple of veterans organizations. Got it. re Hegseth shouldn't even be considered. - Maybe a little green, you're entitled to your opinion. The election showed the country as a whole isn't happy with the direction it's been heading the past four years. If confirmed he will likely set the military in a different direction. re A no-name lesbian could be found that could be better - your fascination with lesbians aside (not that there's anything wrong with that,) we've been through this. You haven't been able to name any lesbians, no name or well known name, that are more qualified. re they are excluded from even applying for the job - No one can apply for cabinet positions, they are nominated by the president. re Is that wrong? A good person not being considered because of how they have sex in private. - Again with the sex thing. How people have sex in private is their own business. It is starting to sound like you want special consideration given to people because of their sexual preference. Showing favoritism to people because of their sexual orientation (or race) hasn't worked out very well, at least in my opinion. As well as apparently the opinion of the majority of Americans. re Hegseth wouldn't be even considered if he was gay. - First off you're wrong. If you don't believe me ask Bill White, Scott Bessent, Tammy Bruce, Jacob Helberg, or Art Fisher . - Secondly, and once again, you sound like you're upset that this administration appears to be making personnel decisions based on merit, not giving special consideration gays and lesbians. re Or a gay man that made a pay off for a sexual attacked. - Not quite sure what you're trying to say here, but I do know that if you're looking for perfect people in our leaders you're in the wrong world. re Hegseth will prove a millstone around this administrations neck - Hope not. If you love the country you should also hope not. Sounds like you hate Trump more than you love the country though. Hope I'm wrong about that.

END OF THE LINE FOR NANCY PELOSI: Hip Fractures, Mortality Rates, and Father Time. She’s not someone who’s spent the past 20 years in a rocking chair. She seems fit, thin, and very active. All of this matters. The healthier you were before your hip injury, the more likely it is you’ll recover. But it’s a deadly serious situation for Pelosi and her loved ones. Almost certainly, she’s facing a steep recovery process, and at her age, it’s foreseeable that there could be a series of struggles. Nancy Pelosi has been such a fixture in American politics for so many decades, she seemed larger than life — a permanent, immovable presence. It seemed as if, in 50 million years, there would still be cockroaches, taxes, and Nancy Pelosi pulling strings in the House. If anyone could outlast Father Time, it’s her. But for both good and bad, our legislators are human. Ones on the right; ones on the left; those in the middle: we’re all flesh and blood. And we all grow old. We all get sick. All of us will die. Even Nancy Pelosi. In all likelihood, her career is over. https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2024/12/14/end-of-the-line-for-nancy-pelosi-hip-fractures-mortality-rates-and-father-time-n4935127

LA Times Owner Killed Another Editorial and Progressives are Worked Up John Sexton Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, owner of the LA Times, continues to shock the progressives who work at and buy his newspaper. He made news when he killed an endorsement of Kamala Harris prior to the election. This move was overshadowed when the Washington Post, owned by Jeff Bezos, did the same thing. Last month, Dr. Soon-Shiong killed another editorial, this one critical of Trump's cabinet picks. This is in keeping with a new push at the Times to expand the range of commentary. Last month Dr. Soon-Shiong said he wanted voices from "all sides." He followed that up with a staffing move that sent more shockwaves through the paper. He hired Scott Jennings as a contributor to the editorial board. {snip} There's more but you get the idea. Progressive just take it for granted that their opinions should always be front and center and subsidized by every media owner. The idea that someone else might deserve a chance at holding the mic for a moment grips them with horror. They fear balance because they have learned to expect unchallenged dominance. https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2024/12/14/la-times-owner-killed-another-editorial-and-progressives-are-worked-up-n3797903

Oh, I think billionaire and tasteful home decorator Scott Bessent and Davos habitue Howard Lutkin (not to mention the spawn of Trump himself) are quite comfortable hobnobbing with the rest of the Davos crowd.

CHANGE? House Democrats in Open Revolt Against Aging, Out-of-Touch Ranking Committee Members. House Democrats are staging a mutiny against several long-sitting committee committee members. And the party leader in the House, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), is allowing it to happen. Rep. Raul Grijalva of Arizona, 76, announced that he would step down from the ranking minority leader spot on the Natural Resources Committee. Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York, 77, decided not to contest a challenge from Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland to the top Democratic spot on the Judiciary Committee. And Rep. David Scott of Georgia, 79, appears on the way out of the top Democratic spot on the Agriculture Committee due to numerous, younger challengers. All of the challengers are farther left and more radical than the old guard they're replacing. What they're promising is a change in "narrative" and doubling down on progressive issues that the American voter soundly and roundly rejected a month ago. https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2024/12/05/house-democrats-in-open-revolt-against-aging-out-of-touch-committee-chairmen-n4934860#google_vignette

Sure looks like the kind of outsider who will have the common man first and foremost in his mind as he takes on the Global Economic Order. https://therealdeal.com/new-york/2017/06/09/ex-soros-exec-trump-donor-scott-bessent-pays-19m-for-720-park-co-op/

And now: Trump selects Scott Bessent for Treasury secretary By Kathryn Watson, Olivia Rinaldi Bessent is also openly gay, and he and his husband, former New York City prosecutor John Freeman, have two children. If confirmed, Bessent would be the first Senate-confirmed gay Cabinet member of a Republican administration. Ric Grenell was acting director of national intelligence under Trump, but the Senate never confirmed him. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-expected-to-pick-scott-bessent-treasury-secretary-source/ .

The drama going on between President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine raises one of the most disturbing questions I’ve ever had to ask about my own country: Are we being led by a dupe for Vladimir Putin — by someone ready to swallow whole the Russian president’s warped view of who started the war in Ukraine and how it must end? Or are we being led by a Mafia godfather, looking to carve up territory with Russia the way the heads of crime families operate? “I’ll take Greenland, and you can take Crimea. I’ll take Panama, and you can have the oil in the Arctic. And we’ll split the rare earths of Ukraine. It’s only fair.” Either way, my fellow Americans and our friends abroad, for the next four years at least, the America you knew is over. The bedrock values, allies and truths America could always be counted upon to defend are now all in doubt — or for sale. Trump is not just thinking out of the box. He is thinking without a box, without any fidelity to truth or norms that animated America in the past. I can’t blame our traditional friends for being disoriented. Read the sorrowful essay last week by the heroic Soviet dissident and freedom fighter Natan Sharansky: “When I first heard President Donald Trump’s words on the tarmac — when he blamed Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, for starting the war that Russia launched against Ukraine — I was absolutely shocked,” Sharansky wrote for The Free Press. “Trump seems to have adopted the rhetoric of Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin. He repeated a line from the Kremlin that sounded like Soviet-style propaganda: that Zelensky is not a legitimate leader. When Putin, the seemingly eternal leader of Russia, says it, it is laughable. When the president of the United States says it, it’s alarming, tragic, and does not comply with common sense.” That’s a benign interpretation of Trump — that he is just besotted with Putin, Russia’s Christian nationalist, anti-woke crusader, and not applying the common sense that he promised. But then there is also another explanation: Trump does not see American power as the cavalry coming to rescue the weak seeking freedom from those out to quash them; he sees America as coming to shake down the weak. He’s running a protection racket. Consider this stunning paragraph from a Wall Street Journal article about Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s recent meeting in Kyiv with Zelensky. Bessent presented Zelensky with an offer he couldn’t refuse — to sign over Ukrainian mineral rights to America, worth hundreds of billions of dollars, to compensate for U.S. aid. It was a scene right out of “The Godfather”: “Bessent pushed the paper across the table, demanding that Zelensky sign it …. Zelensky took a quick look and said he would discuss it with his team. Bessent then pushed the paper closer to Zelensky. ‘You really need to sign this,’ the Treasury secretary said. Zelensky said he was told ‘people back in Washington’ would be very upset if he didn’t. The Ukrainian leader said he took the document but didn’t commit to signing.” This whole story shows you again what happens when Trump is no longer surrounded by buffers but only by amplifiers. Bessent, a savvy investor, surely knew that the president of Ukraine could not just sign a piece of paper turning over hundreds of billions in mineral rights without checking with his lawyers, his Parliament or his people. But the Treasury secretary felt he had to do Trump’s bidding, no matter how foul or absurd. If the president wants to empty Gaza and make it a casino, then that’s what you sell. Extort Ukraine in the middle of war? That’s what you do. A serious U.S. president would recognize that Putin is playing a very weak hand that we should exploit. As The Economist noted last week, most of Russia’s “gains were in the first weeks of the war. In April 2022, following Russia’s retreat from the north of Ukraine, it controlled 19.6 percent of Ukrainian territory; its casualties (dead and wounded) were perhaps 20,000. Today Russia occupies 19.2 percent and its casualties are 800,000, reckon British sources. … More than half of the 7,300 tanks [Russia] had in storage are gone. Of those that remain, only 500 can be reconditioned quickly. By April, Russia may run out of its T-80 tanks. Last year it lost twice as many artillery systems as in the preceding two years. … The reallocation of resources from productive sectors to the military complex has fueled double-digit inflation. Interest rates are 21 percent.” If this were poker, Putin is holding a pair of twos and bluffing by going all in. Trump, instead of calling Putin’s bluff, is saying, “I think I’ll fold.” Instead of rallying all our European allies, doubling down on the military pressure on Putin and making the Russian leader “an offer he can’t refuse,” Trump did just the opposite. He divided us from our allies at the U.N. by refusing to join them in a resolution condemning Russian aggression in Ukraine — voting with the likes of North Korea — and began a lie-filled campaign to delegitimize Zelensky, not Putin. Besides falsely claiming that Ukraine started the war, Trump declared that Zelensky’s popularity rating is 4 percent (his popularity rating is 57 percent, 13 points higher than Trump’s) and that Zelensky is a “dictator” and should submit to an election. Meanwhile, he gave Putin — who sentenced his biggest rival for the presidency, Alexei Navalny, to a total of 28 years in an Arctic hellhole, where he mysteriously died — a total free pass. Zelensky apparently feels he has no choice but to sign some kind of cockamamie minerals deal, even though Trump is demanding three times or four times the roughly $120 billion the United States has given Ukraine in military, humanitarian and other financial aid — aid Ukrainians used to fight to protect the West from the Russian aggressor. The whole thing is just shameful. Trump, in effect, is looking to make a profit off Ukrainians as a result of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine while making no demand on Putin for reparations or promising any future U.S. protection for Kyiv. As the White House made clear, “This economic agreement with Ukraine will not be a guarantee of future aid for war, nor will it include any commitment of U.S. personnel in the region.” I have no problem with America asking for preferred access for our companies to investments in Ukraine’s natural resources after the war, as a thank-you for our aid. But doing it now, and with no security guarantees in return? Don Corleone would be embarrassed to ask for that. But not Don Trump. Trump completely misreads Putin. He thinks Putin just needs a little positive attention, a little understanding, a little concern for his security needs — a hug! — and he will sign the peace Trump so badly desires. Nonsense. As the Russia specialist Leon Aron, the author of the acclaimed “Riding the Tiger: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the Uses of War,” remarked to me: Putin is not looking for “peace in Ukraine. He is looking for victory in Ukraine" — because without a victory, “he is very vulnerable at home. Capitalist democracies will do anything for peace, and Putin’s autocracy will do anything for victory. We need to switch that around.” The way to do that, Aron added, would be by signaling to Putin that the Western allies will see his bet and raise him one — “not maligning a heroic nation” that has been fighting to preserve a Europe whole and free. We should back the Ukrainians to get the best deal they can. It will most likely have to include a cease-fire in place, so that Putin’s de facto control of parts of eastern Ukraine is acknowledged; a moratorium on Ukrainian membership in NATO; and a lifting of Western sanctions on Russia, but only once Russia demobilizes its offensive army from Ukrainian soil. In return, Putin will have to accept European peacekeeping troops in, and a no-fly-zone over, a free and sovereign Ukraine, backstopped by the United States to guarantee that Putin’s army cannot return, plus Russian noninterference in Ukraine’s process of entering the European Union. It is critical that the United States insist Ukraine be allowed to enter the European Union — a negotiating process that Kyiv is in the midst of right now. I want Russians to look over at Ukraine every day and see a prosperous, Slavic, free-market democracy and ask themselves why they are living in Putin’s Slavic thieving autocracy. In my view, this whole war has never been about Putin keeping Ukraine out of NATO. It is Ukraine in the E.U. that Putin really fears. A Russian international affairs scholar, who can speak only privately, remarked to me from Moscow that Putin’s team sees Trump’s team as a clown car, full of amateurs — easy pickings for the savvy and cynical Putin’s ultimate goal: “MRGA — Make Russia Great Again (and Make America Less Great Again).” Putin’s long-term goal, he added, is to manage the decline of U.S. hegemony so that America is “just one of the peer great powers,” focused on the Western Hemisphere and withdrawn militarily from Europe and Asia. Putin sees Trump as his blunt instrument “to manage that inevitable decline.” Will Trump and his G.O.P. bobbleheads ever wake up to that? Maybe — when it’s too late.

Your Sunday Clarice. A Tale of Two Parties By Clarice Feldman Eighty-three years after the disastrous sneak attack on Pearl Harbor which galvanized our nation to prepare for a long fight and ultimate victory, we have a clearer picture of how Barack Obama (and through him, President Biden) destroyed his party and with it many of our institutions. We now have a leader and a plan to restore their strength. Much has been written about why the Democrats suffered such a devastating loss in the election, but I’m inclined to place great weight on the views expressed by Adam Mill in Chronicles Magazine, who argues persuasively that the Democrats’ decision-making process doomed their chances, a process unlikely to soon change. “Democrats don’t have leaders, rather they have ‘facilitators’ who balance the many competing demands of their disparate coalition, leading to a rigid script of talking points,” he argues. To keep on message is the key autocratic aim of the party, so any “single deviation from the script endangers the entire enterprise.” This explains as well as most theories why Kamala Harris’s rare public interviews devolved into bafflegab word salads. Why in the absence of good sense, the party left the border open, supported pornographic books in public school libraries, “fought for abortion of viable fetuses up until birth, and demanded free sex surgeries for illegal immigrants in custody.” By contrast, Donald Trump, who had clear views of his own on significant subjects, met with hostile reporters, political critics, and opponents. “He preserves his own agency.” The consequences of their rigid orthodoxy not only damaged their party, but caused all of us to suffer from their tactics, not the least of which is “a widespread crisis of incompetence within the institutions that sacrificed merit for ideological parity.” The party was riddled with corruption, and it spread throughout the government. As Michael Walsh has long contended, the Democrats “are nothing less than a criminal organization masquerading as a political party.” Which institutions sacrificed merit for ideological parity? Our once great schools of higher education, our military, and the nation’s public health and law enforcement agencies come immediately to mind, but the incompetency, corruption, and extravagant waste of our resources throughout the federal government, not to speak of their illegal censorship of speech and assembly, can best be explained by this analysis as well. In contrast to the generally incompetent Biden cabinet, who often rose through the ranks of those they were set to govern, President-elect Trump has reached out to some of the most forward-looking, competent, non-governmental leaders to head his government -- people like Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, Doug Burgum, Howard Lutnik, Scott Bessant, Jared Isaacson, and Kelly Loeffler. More at the link: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/12/a_tale_of_two_parties.html

Trump's Transition Chair, Globalist Bond Trader and Tether Pimp (and possible Treasury Secretary too!) Howard Lutnick at, umm, Davos: Or perhaps you prefer the current frontrunner, Yale grad (where he was a member of one of those Bushie secret societies) and two-time George Soros investment manager Scott Bessent! https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/the-ex-soros-executive-who-is-trumps-new-obsession-4be2d493 The billionaire investor has known the Trump family for decades, though he didn’t become close with the former president himself until recently. He is friends with Blaine Trump, the ex-wife of Donald Trump’s late brother, Robert. Bessent visited Trump early this year at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida, where they discussed ways Trump could convert his ideas into policy. Bessent is friends with Sen. JD Vance (R., Ohio) and was among the few on Wall Street advocating for Trump to choose Vance as his running mate. He also is friendly with John Paulson, another investor seen as a potential Treasury secretary under Trump. Bessent joined Soros Fund Management in 1991. He was one of the driving forces behind the firm’s enormous bet that the British pound would collapse after he spotted marked weakness in the U.K. housing market. The wager netted the firm more than $1 billion in 1992. Bessent was Soros’s chief investment officer from 2011 to 2015 and ran the firm for a time. He scored kudos again, in 2013, for a successful bet against the Japanese yen. That'll show that Davos globalist billionaire investor class who's boss! Meet the new boss; same as the old boss. You Trumpies were duped. Again.

COME SEE THE ANTISEMITISM INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Who Is AOC Blaming for the Democrats’ Election Day Defeat? Why, the Jews, of Course! Whenever you need a scapegoat, they’re always your go-to choice. Doesn’t matter what happened, where it happened, or who’s actually responsible: When things go sideways, it’s the Jews’ fault. Hey, it worked for Hitler! (At least for a little while.) And now, Democratic congresswoman, “Squad” member, and all-around loon Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is turning "Mein Kampf" into My Excuse for the Democrats’ defeat: https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2024/11/19/who-is-aoc-blaming-for-the-democrats-election-day-defeat-why-the-jews-of-course-n4934457

The case for Biden is not all that compelling. OK, we got that. But one of the main criticisms of Biden is the one we see in these threads. He's old! Who is really running this country? And at least when compared to Trump, the answer is: someone with at least a modicum of sound judgement and policy experience. In other words, if he's a bit too hands-off, that's a feature, not a bug. With Trump, we had a chaotic administration. Remember "my generals?" All fired or departed in frustration. Including one who called his boss "an idiot." Remember Rex Tillerson, Exxon CEO turned Secretary of State? Departed, calling his boss "a moron." (If I remember correctly, the offensive old scale had "idiot" below "moron," so I guess that was actually praise. Relative praise.) Honestly, we can go on and on. Just awful, dysfunctional, chaos. If the Republican primaries somehow magically give me Tim Scott or Nikki Haley, well, then we'll have a real choice.

Murdoch needs to call in his attack dogs. He's already looking at losing billions https://www.mediaite.com/politics/people-better-be-careful-watters-slams-trump-indictment-and-hints-at-potential-violence-to-come/ “[T]here’s gonna be a major rally-around-the-flag feeling,” he continued. “I’m starting to feel it right now. I’m angry about it. I don’t like it. The country’s not gonna stand for it. And people better be careful. And that’s all I’ll say about that.” https://www.mediaite.com/news/this-has-to-stop-now-new-bombshell-emails-show-fox-news-ceo-warning-fact-checking-trump-is-bad-business/ “Our talent must stop disrespecting the audience,” she wrote in an email on November 11th. Scott blasted anchor Neil Cavuto for abruptly cutting away from a November 9th press conference by then Trump Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany — who is now a Fox News host — for making baseless accusations days after the 2020 election that Democrats committed voter fraud. “Neil doesn’t think the American audience is smart [enough] to make a decision for themselves in watching a press conference?” she said. “Terrible.”

Not defending Tim Scott, but just curious ... Do you promise to accept the results of the 2024 presidential election regardless of who wins?

OK, so boring football games this afternoon so I watched most of this. Review: rehashed information about Jeffrey Epstein and the Maxwell family. She has apparently written one thousand pages about this, which sounds impressive, but there's no indication that she actually did anything other than read the internet. In other words, no interviews, etc. And here's all I need to know to dismiss her as a joke: At 36:50, she suggests that Ghislaine Maxwell is going to play along with the coverup, and as a reward for that she got moved from the facility where Epstein was found dead to a low security "country club" prison in Florida. Well. A quick Google search of where Epstein died would've told her that it was at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Manhattan. That's a holding facility that is adjacent to the federal courthouse where Epstein and then Maxwell were facing their criminal charges. And guess what? NO ONE who is sentenced to more than a few months is held there. That's not what it was for (it's closed now). It was for pre-trial detainess facing charges in the adjacent courthouse. In her hours and hours of research, leading to some kind of publication of a one thousand page tome, she somehow didn't bother to look at the Wiki page for the MCC? If she had, she would have learned this: The Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York (MCC New York) is a temporarily closed United States federal administrative detention facility in the Civic Center of Lower Manhattan, New York City, located on Park Row behind the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse at Foley Square. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. MCC New York holds male and female prisoners of all security levels. Most prisoners held at MCC New York have pending cases in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. MCC New York also holds prisoners serving brief sentences.[1] Oh. Nevermind. Maxwell was sentenced to twenty years. There was never any chance that she'd serve that at the MCC. None. So there goes that conspiracy theory. I'm sure there are other similar nuggets in this 90 minute Glen Beck (He's still around? And apparently not blind, which is where we collectively forgot about him about a dozen years ago) interview, but given this jaw droppingly stupid "argument" - one that may be refuted with a five second Google search - I don't really see the need to pay any further attention. Thank the good Lord you have me here or some of you might have been convinced by poorly researched conspiracy theorists. You're very welcome.

Is that when she was talking about transhumanism? I thought that whole part of the conversation reeked of paranoia. I found it humorous that she talked a lot about Epstein and made it clear (from her POV) that yes, Trump had a relationship with Epstein, but Bill Clinton's relationship is worse... and then went down the rabbit hole of Robert Maxwell, fund raising, and recycling conspiracies and Vince Foster. She never shared anything about Trump and Epstiein's relationship - not even once. And I don't think she ever mentioned Trump's name more than a couple times, if that. She also said she doesn't want our government run by the mob. Which is ironic - she failed to acknowledge the GQP's mob boss: Conald.

I think the DeSantis campaign is DOA already, regardless of the money being thrown at him. Looks a lot like Jeb Bush 2016. Flat. Made a bad choice to start taking advice from the Bush crew. I won't be surprised to see a candidate like Tim Scott do better than him in the early primaries.

Not a big Tim Scott fan I bet, huh?

https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/insight/2023/05/28/chris-deluzio-jim-nelson-2024-election/stories/202305280050 SALENA ZITO: The first GOP can­di­date in the swing 17th dis­trict is a Black pas­tor from Penn Hills. Mr. Nelson’s decision to run comes at a time when Democrats — who often bank their ability to win on non-white voters — have seen a small but not insignificant number of minority voters turned off by the party’s apparent slide toward elitism. Our interview came in the same week Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the only Black Republican in the U.S. Senate, launched his presidential campaign and Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who is seeking to become the state’s first Black governor, crushed all of his well-funded GOP primary opponents. Both Mr. Scott and Mr. Cameron have faced racial remarks from some media, and some Democrats, that would in other contexts be considered terribly racist. “In other contexts. . . .” 😡

Dodgers' Blake Treinen blasts organization for honoring Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence by Scott Thompson Los Angeles Dodgers reliever Blake Treinen is the latest player on the team who does not agree with them set to honor the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence during their Pride Night on June 16. Treinen, who is currently on the 60-day IL as he continues to recover from shoulder surgery, joined All-Star starter Clayton Kershaw as members of the organization who disapproved of the decision to add the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence back to their Pride Night event after previously removing the group. Treinen released a lengthy statement on the matter through his friend, Sean Feucht, via Twitter. https://www.foxnews.com/sports/dodgers-blake-treinen-blasts-organization-honoring-sisters-of-perpetual-indulgence

The only way Trump loses is if you give Republican primary voters only two choices. DeSantis would pry be the best choice but Haley/Scott/Pence/Hutchinson would also work. If not you'll see a repeat of 2016 where all the non Trump candidates will just take away each other's votes allowing Trump to win with around 30% in a lot of states. Democrats were able to do this in 2020 when Klobachar and Buttigeg dropped out right before Super Tuesday and threw their support behind Biden stopping Sanders from winning the nomination. They knew a self described socialist would've been destroyed in the general election. Trump could beat Biden if he stuck to the issues but another candidate would probably have a much better chance.

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-doral-event-speakers-espouse-153215483.html Starting Thursday evening, crowds are expected to gather at former President Donald Trump’s Doral resort for a weekend conference of conservative figures, some of whom have praised Hitler or espoused debunked claims about elections and vaccines. Thousands are meeting at Trump National Doral Miami for the latest stop of the ReAwaken America Tour, an event that features Christian themes and appearances around the country by some of Trump’s inner circle. According to its founder, the gathering seeks to save the nation by exposing the truth about fraud in elections, healthcare and the media. ▪ Charlie Ward is a personality on Rumble who has praised Hitler for “warning us” about Judaism and claimed that “VIRUSES are Man (JEW) made,” according to screenshots from his Telegram channel published by MediaMatters For America. ▪ Scott McKay hosts a show on Rumble in which he has said that Hitler was “fighting the same people that we’re trying to take down today.”

DeSantis and Scott or Haley. Speaking of which, Haley has the right idea. Talk about the dangers of not only another 4 years of Joke and his declining mental abilities, but also what a shitshow Kamala taking over as President would be. No one wants that.

He used to be the future. In the field of Republicans running for president, a growing group headed by Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, there’s nobody quite like Chris Christie. He was Trump before Trump. He was DeSantis before DeSantis. Pugnacious, unapologetic and politically incorrect, he was before “Bridgegate” a total GOP “rock star.” He talked big, and won big, too — and not just in a swing state but in a blue state. Now he barely registers in polls, running behind Tim Scott, Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy, and level with two current governors who aren’t even running (yet?). Still, with the announcement of his candidacy, the former two-term “Boss” of New Jersey, former 2016 White House hopeful and former longtime Trump confidant and pal instantly becomes maybe the most compelling challenger of them all. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/06/06/chris-christie-55-things-00100058