Industrial Money Laundering

https://x.com/roddmartin/status/2046937089795584412?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

  https://www.rodmartin.org/p/the-noose-tightens-on-actblue-and 

 

"I TOLD YOU THEY WERE GUILTY. The noose is tightening on ActBlue — and the Democrats have a massive problem. So bad that top ActBlue officials pled the Fifth an incredible 146 times! ActBlue — the Democrat fundraising juggernaut that poured over $16 BILLION into their candidates and causes — is now exposed for vast illegal foreign donations, money laundering, “election interference,” and illegal straw-donor schemes… followed by a massive cover-up to keep Congress and the DOJ in the dark. House Republicans just released a devastating interim staff report from the Administration, Oversight, and Judiciary Committees. What they uncovered is every bit as bad as I’ve been warning you. Two ActBlue officials, including Alyssa Twomey (their former VP of Customer Service who oversaw fraud prevention during the 2024 cycle), plus three former company lawyers, refused to answer EVEN ONE substantive question under oath. They invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination a staggering 146 TIMES. Even worse? The report reveals the entire legal and compliance team “appears to have left the platform after the 2024 election because of its ‘knowing and willful’ acceptance of illegal foreign contributions, and the subsequent cover-up.” House Chairmen Bryan Steil, James Comer, and Jim Jordan also allege that CEO Regina Wallace-Wells made false statements to Congress — and that ActBlue withheld subpoenaed documents (some of which were discovered by the leftwing New York Times: ouch!). This is not a fishing expedition, and it won't end in a "strongly worded letter." This is the walls closing in. 1. The DOJ has opened a full criminal investigation into ActBlue’s role in facilitating foreign interference in U.S. elections. 2. 19 state attorneys general are actively investigating ActBlue for fraudulent fundraising, potential money laundering, and misuse of donor identities. 3. On Monday, Texas AG Ken Paxton filed a landmark civil lawsuit against them. The numbers aren’t small. We’re talking thousands of donations from foreign IP addresses using prepaid cards — the perfect vehicle for money laundering. Some of ActBlue's straw donors even "gave" thousands of separate donations EACH over just a few days. Wait, what?! The question is no longer whether ActBlue is corrupt. The question is: how deep does the rot go, and how far up the Democrat food chain does it reach? Serious people could be facing serious prison time. And Democrat fundraising could collapse if they’re suddenly forced to rely only on legitimate donors — especially while the giant taxpayer-funded Democrat slush funds (USAID, NED, EPA, Planned Parenthood, etc.) are being cut off left and right. They thought they were untouchable. They acted like it. Big mistake. Full Deep Dive (with all the receipts) is in my reply 👇 RT if you want real election integrity in 2026.""

From Last Week's Sermon

Early in a long serioes on the SOTM, and discussing Matt 5:11-12

 "In the way of Jesus, a blessed life begins when self-sufficiency ends." 

 "The greatest threat is not being persecuted for Jesus, but in arranging our lives so that we will not have to."

It's A Lot, But I Wanted To Get Caught Up Before I Left Town

https://x.com/moredge_insight/status/2045083922648776894?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw 

 3 presidents or wannabe presidents all said they'd do exactly what Trump is doing. Hypocrisy much? 

https://x.com/sola_chad/status/2045192087520375055?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw 

 Trump needs to cut ties with her.

 https://x.com/ila_newsx/status/2044946494961385778?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw 

 ""Love they neighbor" does not mean "open the gates for an invading army." It is asinine to imply that it does. Bishop Schneider: "They are not refugees, they are invaders who want to Islamize Europe. They want to destroy historical culture in Europe.”" 

 https://x.com/grey4626/status/2044934513352929443?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw 

More on (or moron) popes and walls.

 https://x.com/magattew/status/2045177088735682788?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw 

 Because Europe is incredibly awesome. 

 https://x.com/rach4patriarchy/status/2041721377099514010?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 Facts and Truth, we don't need no facts and truth.

 https://x.com/edenlife9/status/2041834834587189544?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw 

Passion v. reality.

Gerrymandering 101

"@RepJeffries , I have a quick civics lesson for you, and I am going to need you to sit with this one. The word "gerrymander" is not named after Donald Trump. It is not named after Ron DeSantis. It is named after Governor Elbridge Gerry -- a Democratic-Republican -- who in 1812 carved Massachusetts senate districts into shapes so grotesque that the Boston Gazette compared one to a salamander and named the practice after HIM. The Democratic-Republican Party. You know -- the direct ancestor of YOUR party. Democrats did not defeat a gerrymandering scheme tonight. Democrats defended the tradition their own party INVENTED, named, and has been running for 213 years. "Maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time" -- from the man whose party literally put their leader's name on the word for election manipulation. The projection is so consistent it qualifies as a renewable energy source. Quinn's Law #2, for those keeping score at home: whatever liberals accuse conservatives of doing is precisely what they are already doing themselves. @RepJeffries did not just illustrate that law tonight. He BECAME it. He is the law now. Walking around. With checkmarks. But what do I know -- I am only a science teacher who knows that when you name something after yourself, you own it." FYI, the VA gerrymander attempt will very likely be caught up in court challenges for multiple issues until long after the midterms, and likely after 2028 elections"

 

Mike Bseki 

Climate, Science, Panic, Etc

https://x.com/electroversenet/status/2046544478547460224?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 

Dr. "Richard Lindzen, Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Science at MIT, says global warming fear isn't driven by data, but by money and control. He recently told the Daily Mail that politicians saw climate policy as a multi-trillion dollar opportunity to reshape industries, to push globalization. The public was fed panic over a minuscule temperature change that means almost nothing. Lindzen calculates that even a doubling of CO2 would warm the planet by only half a degree. He argues nature stabilizes, not amplifies, climate swings, and that today's warmth and CO2 levels actually help plants grow and expand farmland. "People are finally starting to question this," he said. "It'll be an embarrassment to our era."" 

 

 https://x.com/chrismartzwx/status/2046649779539550475?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw 

"How do I know that the climate *crisis* is a scam? Here are five reasons: 

 1️⃣ None of the politicians, celebrities, or “scientists” yammering about it have altered their lifestyles an inch. If they opted to forgo using O&G products, then I’d take them seriously. Actions speak louder than words. 

2️⃣ Climate conferences aren’t being held virtually on Zoom using their large meeting extensions. It’s doable, they just choose not to. They like to fly overseas to lecture us about reducing our “carbon footprint” all the while they do nothing to lower their own. 

3️⃣ Wealthier alarmists are still living on or buying oceanfront property. If ocean levels were really rising at a catastrophic rate (as opposed to the gradual increase that is actually occurring), then they would move inland and banks would not approve loans. 

4️⃣ Alarmists rarely, if ever criticize China and India, and they always come up with all sorts of wonderful excuses as to why those nations get a free pass to continue emitting so-called “carbon pollution.” 

5️⃣ The only solutions they offer involve increased governmental power. Higher taxes. EV mandates. Restrictions or bans on the energy sectors they don’t like. 

And, as an added bonus, no real-world data proves, much less suggests that we are facing an “existential crisis.” Even the IPCC doesn’t use such rhetoric because it isn’t based on science. I don’t deny that climate change exists. It always has. And, I don’t even deny that at least some of the increase in temperatures is anthropogenic. But I just don’t care because it isn’t that big of a deal. Extreme weather cannot be taxed away. Our vulnerability will continue to increase so long as we build in disaster-prone areas. Politicians cannot take our wallets and set a thermostat on the planet."

More Bits

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DXID9RkAnYp/

 https://www.instagram.com/reels/DXXTzH6gn4u/ 

https://x.com/wallstreetapes/status/2046980358856737244?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw 

More MN fraud. 

 https://x.com/basedmikelee/status/2046311256823607676?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw 

"Pastor: “I’m of the opinion that we need a third testament because the Bible has become problematic.”" Kinda sounds familair, doesn't it?

 https://x.com/MorseReport/status/2045557690953507095 https://x.com/shaunmmaguire/status/2046285531924033819?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw 

 "Top Democrat political consultant and campaign strategist, James Carville, just stated on the Left-wing ‘Policon’ podcast that when the Democrats regain power, they plan to: -Grant statehood to Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico, so that the Democrats can unlock 4 extra seats in the Senate. -Pack the U.S. Supreme Court from 9 Justices up to 13 Justices, adding another 4 Left-wing Justices to the court. -Reopen the U.S.-Mexico border and grant mass-amnesty to every single alien currently inside of the United States. -His advice to Democrat politicians: “Don’t run on it. Don’t talk about it. Just do it.”" 

 Dan will vote for this crap in a heartbeat. 

 https://x.com/alecstapp/status/2046038041429500031?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw 

For some reason, people like Dan, rever this crap. 

 https://x.com/MarcoFoster_/status/2045880876081262625 

"Zohran Mamdani: “I wish the words of Tupac from the 90’s weren’t still prescient, but they continue to be true for too many which is that we always have money for war and not to feed the poor”" 

 https://x.com/leighwolf/status/2046041550765842937?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw "We spend 66% of our money on social welfare and education. 8% goes to the military. 9% goes to paying interest on the debt incurred by funding the 66%." 

 

 

 

https://x.com/wil_da_beast630/status/2044965993487778162?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw 

The silence of the ASPL is deafening when it comes to atrocities by Iran. 

https://x.com/c_3c_3/status/2044855719887855635?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw 

 This is what passes for justice on the left.

Christian Marriage

https://x.com/nancyrpearcey/status/2045181477139230846?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 

 "It was not easy for any Christians to take the biblical view of marriage seriously: "Such even-handed treatment was genuinely novel, and it was not easy for men to embrace. In the fourth century, Augustine was still preaching sermons on why it was not acceptable for men to commit adultery with their slaves—which, he observed, was “a daily occurrence.” He warned Christian husbands that their wives would hold them accountable for their sexual sin. He also warned wives that in response to being held accountable, husbands may grow angry and abusive: 'Supposing today someone has to put up with rather more sharpness from his wife and more open grumbling than usual, because she used to assume that it was all right for her husband [to commit adultery with his slaves], and now she has heard in church that it is not all right for her husband; so if he has to endure his wife grumbling more freely, and saying to him, 'What you are doing is not right. We both heard him saying so. We are both Christians. Give me the same as you require of me. I owe you fidelity, you owe me fidelity, we both owe Christ fidelity...' When he hears things like that which he is not used to, he gets angry, he becomes abusive.' But Augustine did not let these angry husbands off the hook. He admonished them to hold themselves to the same standard of fidelity that they expected of their wives: “You are told, 'You shall not commit adultery' (Exodus 20:14); that is, do not go to any other woman except your wife. But what you do is demand this duty from your wife, while declining to pay this duty to your wife.” In this way, Christianity laid out a complete mutuality in conjugal rights. As sociologist Rodney Stark explains, it was a symmetry “at total variance … with pagan culture.” As a result, “the Christian woman enjoyed far greater marital security and equality than did her pagan neighbor.” Stark concludes, “Christianity was unusually appealing because within the Christian subculture women enjoyed far higher status than did women in the Greco-Roman world at large.”" https://x.com/nancyrpearcey/status/2044927670236938412?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw "Why Christian Marriage Was Revolutionary "To appreciate how unique the Christian view of marriage is, we need to set it against the ancient Greco-Roman culture into which the church was born. In the ancient world, sexual promiscuity among men was widespread and socially accepted. The purpose of a wife was to have legal heirs, but it was expected that men would have sex with prostitutes, mistresses, concubines, and, most of all, with their slaves—male and female, children and adults. Demosthenes famously said, “We keep prostitutes for pleasure. We keep mistresses for the day-to-day needs of the body. We keep wives for the begetting of children and for the faithful guardianship of our homes.” Wives sometimes protested, but they were told they had no choice but to accept their husband’s promiscuity.... Men could accuse their wives of adultery, but since it was thought acceptable for men to have sex outside of marriage, wives could not accuse their husbands of adultery. Cato declared, “If you catch your wife in adultery, you can kill her with impunity; she, however, cannot dare to lay a finger on you if you commit adultery. It is the law.” In this historical context, Christianity was nothing short of revolutionary. At its core was a new form of sexual equality. To the shock of the ancient world, both sexes were held to the same moral standard. Christianity condemned promiscuity among men as well as women. It stood out as radically different because it taught that a husband actually wrongs his wife by committing adultery. Jesus said, “Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery” (Mark 10:11–12). Such even-handed treatment was genuinely novel."" 

 https://x.com/BiblicalBeauty/status/2044857608709058799

 "Historian Tom Holland explaining the revolutionary impact Christianity made on gender and sexuality which is so often taken for granted now in the West: "Because of Christianity, I mean, I think every society has had an idea of binaries, that in sex there are two roles that people have to play to have sex, and for us, it's based on gender. It's based on the idea of there being men and women and that's again an inheritance ultimately from Genesis, God creating men and women separate. But for the Romans, that wasn't the case. For the Romans, the binary was between the male Roman citizen and everybody else, and the male Roman citizen could do what he liked to everybody else... So you know you're a Roman slave owner, you can do what you like to your slaves sexually, any it doesn't matter what the gender of the slave is. It doesn't matter what the age is. You can just treat them as you want, and of course Christianity radically, radically changes that. And you know, if you are a scullery maid in a Roman household (a bit like a Yazidi girl in an Isis household), there's nothing to stop you being raped every day. Nothing to stop you. No legal power, I mean, no sense of moral disapproval at all, and so you can imagine the radical effect of getting a letter from Paul being told, 'you are the like the church.' It's utterly transformative.""

This Data Should Be Easy To Verify Or Disprove

https://x.com/handre/status/2046521991931314334?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw 

 

"Sweden's socialist experiment collapsed so spectacularly in the 1990s that even the Social Democrats had to abandon their own system and embrace free markets. By 1990, Sweden faced a full-blown economic crisis. Government spending had ballooned to 67% of GDP. Marginal tax rates hit 102% (literally paying the state to work). Public debt exploded. The banking system collapsed under the weight of government-directed credit allocation. Unemployment skyrocketed to 12%. The Swedish model had delivered exactly what free market economists predicted: economic stagnation, capital flight, and fiscal collapse. The government had no choice but to deregulate. They privatized telecommunications, postal services, railways, and electricity. They abolished exchange controls and financial market regulations. They cut government spending from 67% to 49% of GDP. They reduced the top marginal tax rate from 87% to 57%. They opened domestic markets to foreign competition and eliminated price controls across entire sectors. The results were immediate and undeniable. GDP growth accelerated from near-zero to 4% annually through the late 1990s. Unemployment plummeted to 4% by 2000. Productivity surged as companies like Ericsson and Volvo competed globally without government interference. Swedish startups like Skype and Spotify emerged from the newly liberalized economy. Foreign investment flooded back as Sweden transformed from socialist basket case to competitive market economy. Capitalism worked once Sweden removed socialist barriers to growth and competition. Yet, today it is paraded as a socialist success story😂."

 https://x.com/aakashgupta/status/2045132187511783550?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw 

"In 2016, Norway gave every 5-year-old in the country a personal iPad. By 2023 their children ranked dead last out of 65 countries on reading enjoyment, and reading scores had dropped below the OECD average for the first time in two decades. The devices had no parental controls. Teachers who raised concerns were dismissed as dinosaurs. Books disappeared from classrooms. Within a few years, roughly 500,000 of Norway's 5.6 million citizens could not read a text message or follow simple written instructions. The mechanism is straightforward. Reading acquisition between ages 5 and 7 requires sustained attention on a static, low-stimulation medium. The brain is wiring the neural circuitry that links visual symbol to sound to meaning. That circuit needs long stretches of uninterrupted focus to form. iPads are engineered to prevent exactly that. Every app delivers novelty on a cycle measured in seconds. The PISA data shows the timeline clearly. Norway tracked above the OECD average from 2000 to 2014. Starting 2016, scores dropped below. Britain, using far less classroom tech, pulled ahead in the same window. Now Norway is spending millions to reverse it. Libraries run rollerskating and rap workshops to pull kids through the door, then hand them books. Several municipalities have removed tablets from early primary grades entirely. Norway has a $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund and 96% electric vehicle adoption. The same policy apparatus that executed one of the fastest energy transitions in modern history also executed the fastest literacy collapse in the developed world. Every country that adopted classroom tech got the same pitch: faster learning with modern tools. Norway just ran the experiment. The device sold as a learning accelerator broke the foundational skill all learning depends on."

Omar Is Either A Liar Or An Idiot Or A Criminal, Likewise Fauxahontas

https://x.com/mikebales/status/2046774882193506396?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw 

 

 Great point. Trump got hammered for much less. 

 https://www.instagram.com/reels/DXXvBIGlNtn/ Thanks Lou. 

 https://www.instagram.com/reels/DXXF2iJEZd2/ More and more good stuff. 

 

 https://x.com/bskimike22802/status/2046753489104388429?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-

URIMYwGenuine question for the American voter: If @IlhanMN accidentally forgot to mention $29,905,000 on her financial disclosure -- a rounding error, she says -- should she be allowed to vote on how YOUR tax dollars are spent? Let that sink in for a second. Please share your thoughts below. 👇 $30 million in wealth. Gone. Just... a typo. My students lose points for rounding errors. She gets a seat on the House Budget Committee. You know what I cannot do? File my taxes wrong by $29,905,000 and call it an "accounting mistake." The IRS does not do that. Neither does the court system. I also cannot overstate my net worth on a loan application to buy a house -- they actually prosecuted a former president of the United States for allegedly doing exactly that. So I have to ask: if Donald Trump was dragged into a Manhattan courtroom over inflated asset valuations, why is @IlhanMN sitting comfortably in Congress after a $29,905,000 "oops" on her federal disclosure? Can anyone answer this??? I am looking for it below 👇 One standard for thee, and a completely different standard for the people who write the laws. But apparently Congress has a COMPLETELY different standard for its members -- especially when those members represent the epicenter of what federal prosecutors called "STAGGERING, INDUSTRIAL-SCALE" fraud in Minnesota. But sure. Let her vote on YOUR money. Because Quinn's Law #6 is iron-clad: facts are the enemy of liberalism. And just so we are clear -- while @IlhanMN cannot seem to keep track of her own net worth, she apparently CAN keep track of how to vote NO every time someone tries to stop the government from STEALING the retirement of combat-wounded veterans. The Major Richard Star Act would cost roughly $975 million per year. That is less than the $9 BILLION that was stolen in her own backyard. Funny how that math works. But what do I know -- I am only a science teacher and Army combat medic who actually knows what a budget is. IF you agree: LIKE this post so the algorithm shows it to people who need to read it. SHARE this. COMMENT below -- should a $30 million "rounding error" disqualify you from voting on the national budget? Tell me. JOIN Bski's Classroom community on X or YouTube

. https://x.com/sadie_nc/status/2046121544020119993?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw 

What she left out. Senator Warren correctly pointed out that Tesla paid zero federal corporate income tax last year despite billions in U.S. profit. But this wasn’t because of secret loopholes only Tesla uses. Tesla simply applied standard tax provisions that Congress wrote into the law and that many American businesses use: • Accelerated depreciation on factories & equipment • R&D tax credits • Net operating loss carryforwards from earlier years • Manufacturing and EV production incentives. These breaks are available to any qualifying company. Tesla benefits more than most because it invests heavily in research, new factories, and new technology. Important note: Tesla still pays billions in payroll, property, sales, and other taxes. The real debate is whether these incentives should be changed, not whether Tesla is receiving special treatment. If she does not like the IRS tax laws, she can petition to have them changed, although I doubt she will, since I am sure she benefits from them as well."" 

https://x.com/citedneed/status/2044916544229298232?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw https://x.com/IlhanMN/status/2044849875066421615

 "Ilhan Omar may be one of the most sociopathic people in congress. She didn't "survive" genocide, she is the child of a perpetrator of genocide who fled justice. That's why she's in America. To this day, she promotes the same Somaliweyn ideology that led to the Isaaq genocide."

I Guess Prayer In School Is Perfectly Acceptable Now

 https://x.com/lizcollin/status/2046237545843814784?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

I was under the impression the religious observances were not legal or welcome in public schools.   So why would a public school district spend taxpayer money to install a Muslim prayer room in a public school?   How is the anti religion in public left not freaking out over this?

We know why, but they won’t admit it  

Tragedy

 Two shooting incidents yesterday, it will be interesting to see how quickly they disappear from most mainstream national news reporting and most left wing social media accounts.  

https://x.com/bonchieredstate/status/2046211022206255216?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Monday Bits

 

 https://x.com/wallstreetapes/status/2045372999264817586?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

No, there is nothing suspicious at all here.  

 https://x.com/pnwconservative/status/2045733144721273132?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Justice is alive and well.  

 https://x.com/alexberenson/status/2045676530647372219?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

So much about leftists in display in this thread.  

 

 

 https://x.com/wallstreetapes/status/2045094936484499555?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

CA in general and LA in particular are simply cesspools of corruption.  The lies told by the various governments regarding rebuilding from the fires are epic.  

 https://x.com/iamyesyouareno/status/2045416347610296466?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

More justice.   

 https://x.com/michaelarothman/status/2045227930096427389?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐌𝐀𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐆𝐍𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐂 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐘 𝐈𝐍 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄. 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐇𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐇𝐈𝐌 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐈𝐓. 𝐇𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐀𝐋𝐒𝐎 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐇𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓. Bill Maher spent eight minutes on Real Time last Friday doing something no Democrat with a national microphone has done honestly in a decade. He told his own party why they lost. The core of the monologue: “𝘝𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯’𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘢𝘷𝘷𝘺 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘦𝘴, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮. 𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘮𝘢.” Read that again. Slowly. The second-most-famous liberal talk-show host in America — a man who has spent 30 years telling audiences how dumb Republicans are — just told Democrats that the issues do not matter, that voters pick based on 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘮𝘢, and that Donald Trump has all three while the Democratic Party has none of them. This is not a small admission. This is the entire 2024 post-mortem in a single sentence, delivered by a Democrat. Let me walk through what else he said, because it gets better — and worse, depending on which side of the aisle you sit on. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐞𝐝 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 The Democratic Party’s current approval rating is 𝟐𝟏 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 (Gallup, March 2026). Maher’s joke: “𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘒𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘦’𝘴 𝘴𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘬𝘢 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘴”. Funny because it is accurate. And the Gallup internal is the part that should terrify every DNC strategist: 𝟒𝟓 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫, up 11 points in four years. Nearly half the Democratic base is telling pollsters, on the record, that its own leadership is too far left to win. When almost half your own voters want you to move toward your opponent’s position, you do not have a messaging problem. You have a 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 problem. 𝐌𝐚𝐡𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐏𝐢𝐜𝐤: 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝐅𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧 Maher nominated Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania as the Democratic Party’s Trump. Not the populist-movement Trump. The 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘴-𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦-𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳-𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦, 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴-𝘯𝘰𝘵-𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥-𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮-𝘵𝘩𝘦-𝘕𝘎𝘖-𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘵 Trump. Here is Maher’s inventory of Fetterman’s heresies, each of which would have been a career-ender in the Democratic Party of 2020: 𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫: Fetterman says wanting a secure border is not 𝘹𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘣𝘪𝘤 or 𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘵. It is common sense. 𝐎𝐧 𝐈𝐬𝐫𝐚𝐞𝐥: When pro-Hamas protesters showed up at his home, Fetterman went to his roof 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐬𝐫𝐚𝐞𝐥𝐢 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐠 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦. Read that again. A sitting Democratic United States Senator publicly flew the Star of David in the faces of his own party’s base. 𝐎𝐧 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲: Fetterman says four words 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳, per Maher: “𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐤𝐞.” Translate that honestly. Maher just told his audience that the reason Republicans are nervous about 2028 is not a policy agenda. It is the possibility that 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐞. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐈𝐬 𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐞 Maher’s proposed running mate was former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, and the reasons he gave are almost more revealing than the Fetterman case. Buttigieg 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐬 a month ago. Stopped. Quietly scrubbed them. Maher flagged it on national television. Buttigieg’s own recent words, quoted by Maher: Democrats would do better “𝘪𝘧 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘶𝘱 𝘪𝘯 𝘷𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘣𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘴𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴”. That is a former Democratic presidential candidate publicly renouncing intersectional identity politics. In 2020 he would have been canceled for that sentence. In 2026 he is using it as a positioning play for 2028. Buttigieg also told Democrats to stop “𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘢 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘢”. Maher’s rejoinder: “𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚 𝐏𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐜𝐡.” That one is going on the highlight reel. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐈𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐀 𝐉𝐨𝐤𝐞 Strip away the Mar-a-Lago bits, the CVS clothing line, the 6-foot-8 gag, and look at what Maher actually said about Trump’s victory: “𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘸𝘰𝘯. 𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢 𝘮𝘪𝘹. 𝘎𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘨𝘰𝘴𝘩, 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘴𝘰 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘻𝘺, 𝘪𝘵 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬.” Translation: Trump won because he met voters where they actually were on crime and immigration. Americans were not yearning for the agenda; they were yearning for a politician who would 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 about borders, crime, men in women’s sports, and elementary-school pronoun drills. Every Democratic post-mortem since November 2024 has blamed Latinos, blamed young men, blamed podcasts, blamed Elon Musk, blamed disinformation, blamed Russia again for some reason, blamed misogyny, blamed low-information voters, and blamed Joe Biden for staying in too long. Bill Maher — alone, on a Friday night, on a premium cable show — finally said the real answer. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐳𝐲. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐝. 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐅𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧/𝐁𝐮𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐠 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐍𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧 Here is the problem with Maher’s prescription, and it is the same problem that has been cooking the Democratic Party for 15 years. The Democratic primary electorate — the activists, the donor class, the DSA wing, the 𝘚𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘥 caucus, the identity-studies faculty, the Planned Parenthood board, the teachers unions, the Working Families Party — will never nominate John Fetterman. They will not nominate anyone who waves an Israeli flag at his own base. They will not nominate anyone who says 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘬𝘦. They will not nominate anyone who agrees with Trump on the border. Maher knows this. Every Democrat in Washington knows this. The primary will eat any Fetterman-type candidate alive before the first snow falls in New Hampshire. 𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞 𝐓𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐞-𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐨𝐛𝐛𝐲 𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐝𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐞𝐝. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐮𝐥𝐬𝐢 𝐆𝐚𝐛𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐮𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲. The Democratic Party does not actually want to win. It wants to be right about race, gender, and climate. Those are not the same goal, and for twenty years the party has been choosing the second one. 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭 𝐈𝐬 𝐃𝐮𝐞 I have disagreed with Bill Maher on plenty. I still do. But on this one, he is telling the truth at volume about his own side, on his own network, to his own audience, and he knows the next three weeks of his DMs will be brutal. That is 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐦𝐚 he said voters reward. He is modeling the trait he is asking his party to rediscover. The fact that the Democratic Party cannot find more than a handful of its elected officials willing to do the same is the entire diagnosis, all by itself. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐨. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐚𝐧. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 '𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐤𝐞' 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲. 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐠𝐮𝐲. 𝐈 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥."

 Maher is absolutely right, but I'm torn between a DFL that is a reasonable, rational, potential alternative, and a DFL that is intellectually and politically bankrupt.  

 https://x.com/rach4patriarchy/status/2045399467008934290?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 

 

 "Male students are more tolerant of political rivals than female students are of political allies."

Elect more women, they said. It'll be better, they said.  

 https://x.com/swipewright/status/2045351040879386986?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "I think, in many ways, it broadly boils down to how each side views the other. The right tends to view the left as ignorant, naive, or misguided, and therefore believes conversation has at least some chance of changing minds. But the left largely views people on the right as stupid, evil, or selfish, and therefore believes conversation would be pointless."

This is exactly how I've seen right/left conversations play out on various blogs I follow and on social media.  

 https://x.com/anaraintuitive/status/2045228279175803167?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

" Before Oct 7th, I was a naive adherent of IslamoLeftism. A lifelong Democrat, I believed what I was told. When the NYTimes said Modi and Hindutva groups are right wing fascist thugs oppressing Indian Muslims, I accepted it. When Haaretz presented graphic images of Palestinian suffering and framed Israelis as powerful oppressors, erasing causality and context, I wept like a good little bleeding-heart liberal for the poor Palestinians. I was never able to see Arab/Muslim aggression against Jews and Hindus, because it was never part of the narrative. Oct 7th opened my eyes. The horror of that day was profound. It penetrated deep into my Yiddishe Neshama, my Jewish soul. I watched people who looked like me and my family, who bore our names, who could be us, slaughtered, raped, kidnapped, in their own homes. I had a panic attack. Then I watched the global Left unite with the Muslim ummah to deny, justify, celebrate, or minimize these atrocities. They fomented the greatest rise of Nazism I’ve seen in my lifetime. IslamoLeftism, also known as the red/green alliance, hides in plain sight. It appears like a legitimate democratic project, yet it is hollowed out. It perverts all the Left’s concepts of justice, human rights, international law, to uphold Islamist hegemonic domination. IslamoLeftism does not solely target “Zionists,” via the racism of antizionism, it targets all non-Muslims; anyone who refuses to submit to its goals. Academia entrenches IslamoLeftist concepts into societal dogma. Language of “decolonization” is used in Orwellian ways. Islam has historically been a brutal colonial paradigm outside of Arabia. While Western academics do land acknowledgements, make solipsistic statements about indigenous rights, actual indigenous people are demonized as colonizers in their own land, while a false indigenous identity is constructed for Muslim colonizers. In reality, Israel is decolonization. Ram Janmabhoomi temple in Ayodhya is decolonization. These facts are obscured, in the never ending quest to demonize non-Muslims and justify genocidal violence against them. IslamoLeftist politics engenders a soulless landscape in which Left parties like Labour, Greens, and Democrats, are subverted by Islamist terrorist propaganda. Nazi-grade Jew Hate is presented as moral imperative. Activists stand with the most abusive authoritarian regimes and terrorist groups in the world, while grandstanding as being on the right side of history. Oct 7th was a watershed moment. It made me an Oct 8th Jew. An independent thinker. One who learns the history, and knows the facts. One who stands unapologetically with my people — not just out of a sense of tribalism, but because our cause is morally righteous. One who is no longer blind to the IslamoLeftist paradigm, to the harm it’s causing in the world. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. It must be called out and censured."

The alliance of the ASPL with Islam is such an incredibly bizarre marriage due to the fact that they have virtually nothing of substance in common.  

 https://x.com/megbasham/status/2044878298866470998?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Great response by Trump to a gotcha question from a "journalist".

 https://x.com/badhombre/status/2044980201193411030?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/vincedaotv/status/2044622185168519205?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "Haiti genocided its entire White population in 1804. Haiti stands as the blackest country in the world, exceeding all Sub-Saharan African countries. It is the least ethnically diverse country in the Western Hemisphere. White missionaries from the United States, Canada, and Europe are routinely kidnapped and held for ransom. Over 95% of the population practice satanic Vodou worship. Only 15% of the population have running water, the average annual salary is $1,700, it has the highest incidence of rape and murder, and the highest HIV prevalence in the Western Hemisphere. Haitians chose this path. America is not responsible for absorbing the shocks of Haiti’s self-inflicted crises."

 Not wrong. I guess diversity is our strength only works in certain situations. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enough Said

 

Last One For Today, I Promise

 https://x.com/shellenberger/status/2038609325124354205?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "The Hormuz crisis is the precipitating factor in the current energy crisis, but the underlying cause is too little oil and gas production outside the Persian Gulf. Had the world spent the past decade building the oil, gas, LNG, pipeline, and fertilizer infrastructure that engineers designed and companies proposed, the Hormuz crisis would still be a serious geopolitical event, but it would not threaten to cause a recession. North America — The Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a 600-mile natural gas line from West Virginia to North Carolina, saw its cost double from $4.5 billion to $8 billion during years of environmental litigation before Duke Energy and Dominion Energy cancelled it in July 2020. — The Constitution Pipeline from Pennsylvania to New York died the same year. — The PennEast Pipeline won its case at the United States Supreme Court in 2021 and still could not get built because New Jersey refused to issue state permits. — In Canada, TransCanada abandoned the $15.7 billion Energy East pipeline in 2017 after the National Energy Board required an unprecedented review of upstream and downstream emissions. — In January 2024, the Biden administration paused all pending approvals for LNG export terminals shipping to non-free-trade-agreement countries, freezing projects representing tens of billions of cubic feet per day of potential capacity. — Venture Global’s CP2 terminal in Louisiana, designed for 20 million tonnes per annum, sat in regulatory limbo for over a year. — NextDecade’s Rio Grande LNG in Texas, with 48 MTPA of planned capacity, stalled alongside it. — PTT Global Chemical’s proposed $10 billion ethane cracker in Belmont County, Ohio, first announced in 2015, remains on indefinite hold after failing to attract financing partners amid climate-driven investor sentiment. — Across the US Gulf Coast, nearly 60% of planned plastic and petrochemical production projects sit on hold. — LNG Canada, the Shell-led terminal at Kitimat, British Columbia, took over six years from construction start to first cargo, with its pipeline running 263% over budget. Environmental review, Indigenous disputes, and contractor cost escalation all contributed. — Pieridae Energy’s Goldboro LNG project in Nova Scotia, a 10 MTPA facility first proposed in 2012, was abandoned in November 2023 after more than a decade of permitting and financing obstacles. Australia — Australia’s Santos’s Barossa gas project was halted midway through construction after a Federal Court ruling overturned its environmental approval. — Woodside’s Scarborough project faces ongoing litigation from the Australian Conservation Foundation seeking to block it on climate grounds. Africa — Perhaps nowhere has the damage been more consequential than in Africa. At COP26 in 2021, wealthy nations pledged to halt overseas development finance for gas projects, a commitment that fell hardest on the continent least responsible for climate change and most in need of energy infrastructure. — The World Bank stopped financing oil and gas extraction in 2019 and imposed restrictive conditions on downstream gas projects. — The European Investment Bank announced a complete ban on unabated fossil fuel financing by the end of 2021, with its president declaring that “gas is over.” — At least 21 other development finance institutions followed suit. As a result: — TotalEnergies’ Mozambique LNG project sat under force majeure for four and a half years after the UK Export Credit Agency and other backers withdrew climate-motivated financing. — The East African Crude Oil Pipeline lost financing commitments from more than 30 major international banks under pressure from climatists. Europe — France prevented the completion of a third gas interconnector with Spain, citing climate neutrality goals. — The United Kingdom imposed a moratorium on fracking in 2019 despite sitting atop one of Europe’s most promising shale gas formations. — Germany, which shuttered its last three nuclear plants in April 2023, compounded its gas dependency by refusing to develop domestic shale resources. — CF Industries permanently shut the UK’s largest ammonia plant at Billingham, a facility that also produced 60% of Britain’s food-grade CO2. — Yara International curtailed output across plants in France, Italy, and Belgium before permanently closing its 400,000 tonne per year ammonia facility at Tertre, Belgium, in October 2024. These closures occurred because European climate policy made gas too expensive for the domestic industry to survive."

This Is Pretty Much What We Are Seeing Today

 https://x.com/nancyrpearcey/status/2038668554740892058?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 

 Why the ancient Romans persecuted the early Christians: "In New Testament times, the Greeks had a term for the underlying principle that unifies the world into an orderly cosmos, as opposed to randomness and chaos. They called it the Logos. The Stoic philosophers conceived it as a pantheistic mind pervading the universe. But the apostle John applied the term to Christ. “In the beginning was the Word”—Logos (John 1:1). Every Greek who heard John’s gospel understood that he was claiming that Christ himself is the source of the order and coherence of the universe. As Paul put it, “in him all things hold together” (Col. 1:17). Creation has a rational, intelligible order that reflects God’s creative plan. 

  From the beginning, however, this New Testament concept of truth came under fire. The Roman Empire did not regard religion as the search for truth about reality. That was the province of philosophers, not priests. The Romans defined religion solely in terms of ritual, ceremony, and cult practices. The empire was perfectly willing to accept Christianity if it would take its place as just another set of religious practices. What the empire would not accept, says Catholic theologian Lorenzo Albacete, was Christianity “as a source of truth about this world.” How did the early church respond? It resolutely refused to reduce Christianity to Rome’s relativistic definition of religion. As Albacete writes, Christianity “would not accept a place with the religions of the empire” as merely another set of rituals and practices. It “saw itself as a philosophy, as a path to knowledge about reality, and not primarily as a source of spiritual or ethical inspiration.” The message of Christ’s resurrection—in a physical body, in historical time—did not allow for any dualism that shoved religion off into a separate sphere of life concerned only with spiritual rules and rituals. The early church insisted that biblical truth is a comprehensive unity, encompassing the realms of both priest and philosopher. Truth is a unified whole."

To Be Wrong Or Not Wrong, That Is The Question

 https://x.com/mamacita4life2/status/2038649157595046152?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

She's not wrong.

 https://x.com/sfliberty/status/2038763477511106596?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Also not wrong. 

 https://x.com/pitiklinov/status/2038726519627854284?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

" Philosophers Daniel Kodsi and John Maier argue that many of the most absurd and destructive phenomena of our time—from gender ideology, cancel culture, DEI, COVID lockdowns, net zero, the abolition of police and prisons, to the obsession with “including” at all costs—share a common cause: an intellectual vice they have termed “exceptionalism.” What is “exceptionalism”? Exceptionalism is the pathological tendency to make too many exceptions to well-founded rules, principles, and generalizations, based on isolated cases, emotional anecdotes, or particular desires. Instead of maintaining simple and solid principles, the exceptionalist excessively complicates ideas to accommodate any anomaly, exception, or special case that matters to them. This produces over-complicated, fragile, and often absurd theories. The authors compare it to the scientific problem known as “overfitting”: when a model fits so closely to noisy or erroneous data that it loses predictive power and becomes useless. The exceptionalist believes that there are certain people or things to which normal rules do not apply. Moreover, when they stop to reflect, they often end up denying that those rules are rules at all, precisely because they do not account for the exceptions they demand for their protected or special categories. There are two types of exceptionalists: -The single-minded one: They obsess over a single cause or protected group and subordinate everything else to it (example: “minimize Covid deaths at any cost”). -The indiscriminate one: They see exceptions everywhere and constantly complicate everything (typical of woke activists, journalists, and people “chronically online”). And what examples do the authors give of exceptionalism, or how do they apply it? Here are a few: -Gender ideology: Rejecting the simple biological definition of “woman” (adult human female) to accommodate rare cases or subjective feelings, creating extremely complex and contradictory theories. -Covid lockdowns: Prioritizing only coronavirus deaths and ignoring all other harms (mental health, education, economy, isolation of the elderly, etc.). -Cancel culture and restrictions on academic freedom: Freedom of expression becomes “yes, but…” with infinite exceptions to avoid offending certain groups. -DEI and diversity policies: Sacrificing meritocratic standards and objective educational goals to accommodate “inclusion” targets. -Net Zero and climate policies: A single goal (zero emissions) is imposed even if it brings disproportionate costs to other aspects of life. -Police and prison abolitionism: Ignoring that most crimes are committed by repeat offenders and proposing complex solutions instead of the simple and effective one. -Art and culture: Subordinating aesthetic quality and entertainment to political and social justice goals. In summary, many modern absurdities (according to these two philosophers) share a common root: instead of maintaining clear and general principles, people obsess over exceptions, anecdotes, and special cases, complicating everything until it becomes absurd. The authors call this “exceptionalism” and see it as the true intellectual problem of our time."

Also not wrong.  

 https://x.com/drewhutton45645/status/2038719633449214096?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

" It is about time those of us in progressive politics owned up to our failures. ·       We argued for social justice for all and ended up arguing it should only be for a favoured few identity groups. ·       We argued for women’s rights and ended up arguing men could be women and could occupy women’s spaces. ·       We argued for same-sex marriage and ended up with saying there are no sex-based rights. ·       We argued for renewable energy and ended up allowing giant, multinational energy companies to bulldoze thousands of hectares of our precious, high biodiversity forests for wind farms. ·       We argued for free speech and ended up by practising cancel culture. ·       We argued for multiculturalism and ended up believing that criticism of the practices of a minority culture is, necessarily, racism. ·       We argued that imperialism should be combated and ended up believing only US imperialism causes authoritarianism and repression."

No wrong detected. 

 https://x.com/cynicalpublius/status/2038660940426879460?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/chrismartzwx/status/2038440523564781818?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

In the case of how stupid the woman is, still not wrong. 

 https://x.com/toscaausten/status/2038643533096137024?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

OK, the woman in the attached video is wrong.

 https://x.com/ericldaugh/status/2038030980003324173?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Shilling for communism, also wrong. 

 https://x.com/danburmawy/status/2038714670303912190?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "When I say “Judeo-Christian values,” I mean the backbone of Western civilization. In the Judeo-Christian framework, your worth is not contingent on race, tribe, ability, utility, or social status. You are not valuable because the state says so, or because you’ve achieved something impressive, or because you’ve aligned with the right political movement. You are valuable because you were made in the image of God. Period. That’s a claim with legal, social, and philosophical consequences. Strip that away, and you are left with humanist relativism? Then you’re only as valuable as your usefulness. Your dignity is conditional. Your rights are negotiable. And your identity means nothing unless the mob, or the regime, says it does. Without Judeo-Christian foundations, there is no unalienable human dignity. There is only hierarchy, utility, and power. You’re not better than a rat unless you belong to the dominant group, or unless you’ve earned your worth through performance. The Western judicial system, equal protection, due process, innocence until proven guilty, was built on the belief that every human being stands equal before a higher moral authority. That’s not a product of secular enlightenment. That’s the fruit of centuries of biblical soil. Freedom of conscience, the right to dissent, to question, to protest, to speak your mind, to grow, these didn’t emerge in societies shaped by Islam or atheism or Marxism. They emerged where the individual was seen as accountable to God alone. You may not believe in God. Fine. But if you enjoy the freedom to say that publicly without being jailed or executed, you can thank the Judeo-Christian worldview."

Back to not wrong. 

 https://x.com/Austen/status/2037993939165233265

 https://x.com/johnamonaco/status/2038392136480301346?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "People do not realize how significant this was. Everyone was locked inside. Basketball courts were filled with sand, the netting of the hoops cut. Weddings were postponed. You were prevented from attending the funeral of a loved one. Restaurants lost business and turned into takeout stations. Grocery stores had those 6 feet markers for “social distancing”. You couldn’t attend classes, but instead had to log on Zoom. And then, suddenly, the rules shifted for a certain group. After George Floyd died, hundreds of thousands took to the streets to protest “systemic racism” and “police brutality”. “Surely,” you thought, “the medical establishment will sympathize with their cause but reinforce the lockdown rules.” Except, they didn’t. “BLM protests are justified because racism is also a pandemic” “White supremacy is a lethal public health issue that predates and contributes to COVID-19” (University of Washington, 6/2/20) “Racism is an ongoing public health crisis that needs our attention now!" (American Public Health Association, 5/29/20) Immediately, every rational person became aware of how the COVID-19 response was a charade. We were lied to. It was an utter and complete power grab by a global elite, and too many were all too keen to bend the knee. After the 2020 “Summer of Love”, it seemed as if the Overton window shifted. Not only was DEI unfair, it was considered ridiculous. Posts about people ransacking Targets and Walmarts were explicitly calling out the race of the perpetrators. Folks like Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, and other talking heads became bolder in going beyond the “principled Republican” conservatism. When COVID first hit, I more or less believed the mainstream narrative. While, from the start, I vehemently opposed the Church’s suspending of public worship and access to the sacraments, I still wore my mask & kept my 6 feet social distance. I had 10 people at my wedding. I couldn’t attend the funeral of a loved one. But I nonetheless complied with the mandates and trusted in public health officials. After the post-Floyd BLM protests, however, everything changed. The medical establishment will never realize just how much public trust was burned by their allegiance to The Current Thing. The idea that “racism” somehow justified 80,000 people marching shoulder-to-shoulder through streets of Philadelphia during a “pandemic”, but that 8 people couldn’t attend a funeral for their grandmother due to a need to “stop the spread”, radicalized me to distrust the entire medical establishment. I feel like we all moved on way too quickly from holding these charlatans accountable for the bio-tyranny they inflicted upon the world. COVID-19 felt like a bad dream, but it was the BLM riot justification that woke me up."

Not wrong.  

 https://x.com/magamahacindy/status/2038701879476011503?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

More not wrong.