Absolute, unvarnished, insanity.
I am at this point rather downcast. Wonder how long it’ll be before we return to duck and cover drills. I see no chance for us beneath present circumstances. Ronald Reagan is dead. Out present “leader” is a weak asshole, perhaps the weakest I can recall. Soviet era Russian strongmen eat people like Biden as snacks . . . not even a full meal. And Putin has nearly another three years to run amok. I’ll be lucky to be alive early in 2025 when comes next opportunity to course correct. And by then it’ll probably be too late anyway.
You lose track of time. It is disconcerting for me to reflect on the fact today’s forty to forty-five year old, and younger, Americans have no real memory of the cold war. What they do know is hearsay, and that is NOT powerful enough to influence their thinking . . . . or their voting.
The current, ongoing, high level of Russian disinformation and outright lying surprises nobody my age. We’ve seen that movie before, over many years. But for younger people it has to come as a surprise. Nobody warned them, certainly not adequately. It was a “new world order”, after all. Wars were a thing of the past. What mattered was gender equality, social issues, woke matters in general . . . . NOT having a strong, resolute President ready to defend freedom and liberty. NO SUCH DEFENSE NEEDED! Right?
Damn it, Putin and his Soviet style Kremlin supporters were not on the copy list for that memo. Now he is in process of destroying Ukraine while threatening Finland and Sweden. And why not. With Biden at the helm it’s a candy store for Putin. We would be better off with Obama. We would be better off with Hillary or with Bill. And we certainly would be better off with ANY Republican at the helm. But Biden will be there for (almost) another three years and, if he dies, Kamala is even worse!
With Putin and Xi in power there is NO new world order. Woke issues, and Biden’s other priorities, are total BS. We are in a fix and I see no way out in the short term. Have to pray for another Reagan to come along in future. Let’s hope, if we get another chance, that we don’t squander such good fortune like we are doing now.
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Bail reform, NYC’s latest
The same judge freed someone else with no jail time for assault who went on to murder someone.
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Looks like the Democratic Congressman’s wife isn’t going to get a shoo-in to the top job at the Fed.
Maybe Biden can appoint her the vice-Climate Czar under Kerry, since she seems to care more about that than banking.
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You might be aware, xerty, or you might not. But Raskin and his wife are two individuals about as far to the left as you can get. They pin the needle when it comes to being lefties, off scale high. Both are reprehensible left wing filth and neither should serve in any position whatsoever in our government.
Thank goodness for Senator Manchin. But it is immensely revealing that Biden would have nominated this Raskin woman in the first place. There are many left wing liberals in his party he could have chosen. But he went all the way to the most extreme left wing person he could find.
People as far out as the Raskins are those who can do the most harm to America the fastest.
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Mess with “The Big Guy”, or with his family, strictly at your own risk
This poor schlub is in Delaware. He should move. Anyway:
Computer Repairman Who Alerted FBI to Hunter Biden’s Laptop Faces Bankruptcy
The computer repairman at the center of the Hunter Biden laptop saga is ready to tell his side of the story.
In a new interview with the New York Post, John Paul Mac Isaac, who in 2020 alerted the FBI of incriminating emails, text messages, photos and financial documents on Biden’s infamous laptop, before turning it over to Rudy Giuliani, revealed that he’s since lost his store and now faces bankruptcy.
“I was getting a lot of death threats,” he explained. “I had to have a Wilmington trooper parked in front of my shop all the time.
Mac Issac continued, “There were multiple situations where people came in and you could tell they were not there to have a computer fixed. And if there were not other people in the shop, I don’t know what would have happened. I was having vegetables, eggs, dog shit thrown at the shop every morning.”
The former owner of The Mac Shop in Wilmington, Delaware, says that he’s endured harassment from the IRS and other government agencies, citing the difficulties he faced while attempting to file for unemployment last December.
“I would open up a case, wouldn’t hear anything, then open another case, then open another case and then I was told to stop opening up cases. And they would keep closing these cases,” he said.
As a result, Mac Issac faces bankruptcy, adding that since closing his shop he’s been forced to work several odd jobs.
“Bankruptcy looks like my only option,” he said. “A buddy of mine does estate clean outs, manual labor. I helped a neighbor redo their porch and I’m trying to do more with woodworking.”
Despite his hardships, Mac Issac has no regrets on ending up at the center of such a controversial story.
“If I had the choice to do it again, I would absolutely do it again,” he said. “I was raised since 9/11 to believe if you see something you say something.”
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Shocking anti-asian hate crime, another victim of white supremacy.
Esco was arrested after the attack and charged with second-degree assault and second-degree attempted murder on Saturday, prosecutors said. On Monday, he was hit with a new felony complaint elevating both charges to a hate crime, both violent felonies, the DA said.
That wasn’t the shocking part, this was given NYC -
Esco is being held without bail and is due back in court on March 25.
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Yes!
Except …
Manchin voted for almost all of Biden’s radical judicial nominees
Acknowledged and conceded. And of course I agree they all likely are horrid and corrosive.
But having this Raskin babe, this apparition, in a Fed position and able to haunt traditional America, would have been even worse than destruction wrought by any single judgeship. So I remain grateful to Senator Manchin.
Also noteworthy and lest we forget:
“Thanks” to Trump for having carried on like a petulant teenager during the Georgia Senate race. His “focus on me” and “I’m all that matters” stupidity gave Georgia Warnock and gave the Democrats Senate control. Thanks, Trump. You asshole. 
Sure, racial justice nominees are more incompetent than average, but fighting incompetence in government is probably a tall order. Raskin OTOH was going to use the Fed to promote “climate justice” which no doubt was going to be Bad News for coal back in West VA so Manchin was much more attuned to the dangers back home.
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The stupidity of bail reform and lax immigration policies are being exploited by foreign criminals who rob many places and then flee the country on bail if they’re caught.
no cash or low bail law allow the repeat offenders endless opportunities to continue to the brazen heists, even after being caught.
Earlier this year, the FBI busted one of the groups in Virginia who exploited the state’s lax bail laws to steal more than $2 million in a string of burglaries targeting high-end homes of Asian and Middle Eastern families before skipping bail and fleeing back home.
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Spot on. I’m personally more familiar with the no cash bail law in New York. It is straight up a catastrophe, another liberal “contribution” to American society.
You reach a point where you think you finally realize how stupid these liberals are. And they just go out there, reach a new low, and prove you wrong over and over again.
Will you look at that? Real election interference, and it wasn’t Russia either.
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Speaking of election interference, the short version
And the long version
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10 Realities of Ukraine
One. Reassuring an enemy what one will not do ensures that the enemy will do just that and more. Unpredictability and occasional enigmatic silence bolster deterrence. But Joe Biden’s predictable reassurance to Russian President Vladimir Putin that he will show restraint means Putin likely will not.
Two. No-fly zones don’t work in a big-power, symmetrical standoff. In a cost-benefit analysis, they are not worth the risk of shooting down the planes of a nuclear power. They usually do little to stop planes outside of such zones shooting missiles into them. Sending long-range, high-altitude anti-aircraft batteries to Ukraine to deny Russian air superiority is a far better way of regaining air parity.
Three. Europe, NATO members, and Germany in particular have de facto admitted that their past decades of shutting down nuclear plants, coal mines, and oil and gas fields have left Europe at the mercy of Russia. They are promising to rearm and meet their promised military contributions. By their actions, they are admitting that their critics, the United States in particular, were right, and they were dangerously wrong in empowering Putin.
Four. China is now pro-Russian. Beijing wants Russian natural resources at a discount. Russia will pay for overpriced access to Chinese finance, commerce, and markets. Yet if Russia loses the Ukraine war, goes broke, and as an international pariah is ostracized, then China will likely cut the smelly Russian albatross from its neck—in fear of new Western financial, cultural, and commercial clout.
Five. Americans are finally digesting just how destructive the humiliating flight from Afghanistan was. The catastrophe signaled to Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran that Western deterrence had died.
No surprise that Russia sent missiles into a Ukrainian base near the Polish-NATO border. North Korea in January launched more missiles than in any month in its history. Iran sent missiles into Kurdistan. China daily announces it is just a matter of time until it absorbs Taiwan. The tens of billions of dollars of sophisticated weaponry sent to Ukraine by the West are still far less than what the U.S. military handed over to the terrorist Taliban.
Six. The Ukraine war did not cause inflation and record gas prices. Both were already spiking by early February 2022.
The cause was the Biden Administration’s year-long radical expansion of the money supply at a time of post-COVID, pent-up consumer demand. It foolishly continued de facto zero-interest rates. Its generous COVID subsidies for the unemployed discouraged a return to work, while slashing U.S. oil and gas production and pipelines.
Prior to Putin’s invasion, Joe Biden was quite publicly blaming greedy corporations, oil companies, COVID, and Donald Trump for the inflation he had birthed in 2021. And he was claiming undeniable high prices were only temporary or mostly an obsession of the elite.
Seven. Putin did not invade during the Trump tenure—although he had been more aggressive under previous American leadership with his prior attacks on Georgia, Ukraine, and Crimea. Russia stayed still when oil prices were low, fuel supplies in the West were plentiful, and the United States was confident. When the United States was neither bogged down in optional military interventions nor led by a president predictably accommodating to Russian aggressions, Russia stayed quiet.
Putin took note of increased NATO and U.S. defense spending. He feared low global oil prices and record American oil and gas production. He was wary after unpredictable American strikes against enemies like ISIS, Abu al-Baghdadi, and the Iranian General Qasem Soleimani.
Eight. It is not “escalation” to send arms to Ukraine. The Russians far more aggressively supplied the North Koreans and North Vietnamese in their wars against America, without spreading the war globally. Pakistan, Syria, and Iran sent deadly weapons—many in turn supplied to them by Russia, North Korea, and China—to kill thousands of Americans during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
Nine. Putin may never fully absorb Ukraine as long as it can easily be supplied across its borders by four NATO countries. The United States deadlocked in the Korean War, lost the Vietnam War, was stalled in Iraq, and fled Afghanistan in part because its enemies were easily supplied by nearby border friends on the assumption the United States could not strike such abettors.
Ten. It is not “un-American” to point out that prior American appeasement under the Obama and the Biden Administrations explains not why Putin wished to go into Ukraine, but why he felt he could. It is not “treasonous” to say Ukraine and the United States previously should have stayed out of each other’s domestic affairs and politics—but still do not excuse Putin’s savage aggression. It is not traitorous to admit that Russia for centuries relied on buffer states between Europe—lost when its Warsaw Pact satellite members joined NATO after its defeat in the Cold War. But that reality also does not justify Putin’s savage attack.
We should not rehash the past but learn from it—and thereby ensure Putin is defeated now and deterred in the future.
. . . . . Victor Davis Hanson
Romney humor
The poll was taken shortly after Romney strongly advocated for escalating conflict with Russia over the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Of those polled, 99.9% agreed with the statement “Mitt Romney should be sent to the battlefront, issued a rifle, and fight in the war he continues to call for.”
And Romney serious
It is not surprising that McCarthyism could come back in vogue. What is surprising is that it is the rage on the left. The victims of the Red Scare are now leading the mob to root out the Russian sympathizers and traitors among us.
I love reading or listening to Victor David Hanson. Thanks shinobi…
Left wing celebrates enthusiastically as man “wins” NCAA women’s swimming championship
Lefties are so stupid they cannot distinguish men from women. When this guy won, nobody cheered. When the “second place” finisher was announced, who is a woman, the crowd went nuts for the ACTUAL winner of this women’s event.
And yet, with FULL mainstream media support, the left is so far getting away with this charade and attack on real women.
I remember a day when the media actually was supportive of women, things like Title IX for example. That was then. This is now. Things have changed.
Today the media supports whatever is most corrosive to traditional American values. And that certainly includes the radical LGBT agenda. By comparison, mere women are just too normal. And the left detests normal.
First “Transgender Woman” Wins Ncaas
“Transgender women” are not women.
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