Invasion
13/05/23 07:01
The hummingbirds are late this year. They arrived last evening and we're thrilled beyond words. For the last few years they've been arriving earlier and earlier in the month of May. So you can imagine our surprise when they failed to show up around the first few days of the month. We put the usual sugar water concoction out for them ahead of their arrival, thinking they might well appreciate the foresight on our part to have something refreshing and sweet waiting for them. The much anticipated day came and went, and despite all the fanfare on our part, our fine feather friends failed to appear. On the very day, albeit one week later, that I chose to change the water in our two feeders since the water was looking a bit cloudy, the hummingbirds finally showed up in the early evening. I still don't know if these hummingbirds, however many there are when all is said and done, are the very same hummingbirds that return every year or if they and their fine feathered friends are just here by happenstance.
While we're on the subject, we've been having an issue with one of the two hummingbird feeders we put out every year. I noticed that one particular feeder had been consistently emptied of its sugar water overnight. The feeder was completely emptied by some creature that was crafty enough to empty the feeder without knocking it off its perch. I envisioned a deer perhaps tipping it to one side or another with its snout just enough to release the liquid inside but not enough to tip it over. Were the feeder to fall to the ground, the liquid would drain away, and all would be lost. What kind of animal makes that calculus? I'm now on day two of putting one of those Stealth Cams out overnight to see if I can see what we're dealing with. Last night, what looks to be a raccoon knocked my camera over but not before getting a quick but blurry picture of his Bandito mug. Well, one eye's worth, anyway. Problem solved. I think I'll just bring that feeder in at night.
We've got a pretty interesting week ahead by any reasonable measure. The Republicans in Congress will be laying out the case against the Biden Crime Family on Wednesday. I need the time and venue of that event. Let's hope we're not just talking about C-Span here. We need prime-time coverage of this breaking story. It's really the culmination of several months of investigation by Congressional investigators, so maybe it's not all that "breaking." Every American knows that Biden has been on the take for the last fifty years of his time in Government, so let's hope this is the straw that breaks the camel's back, as it were. Then, Trump is doing a CNN Town Hall on Wednesday night, so that should be fun. Maybe even nauseating knowing what we know about the network hosting the Town Hall. How about the debt ceiling meeting on Tuesday? Will McCarthy succeed in negotiating on his terms? Or, will Biden stick to his guns and not give an inch? Did I mention that Trump has a stunning six-point lead over Biden in the latest Washington Post poll? Biden's latest approval rating is at an all-time low of thirty-six percent. Simply abysmal.
I'm not quite sure what to make of that incident on our southern border the other day when this guy ran down and killed eight Venezuelans, at last count, waiting at a bus stop. The driver was driving a Range Rover. The driver looked to be Hispanic as well, so who knows what he was thinking when he took aim and barreled headlong into the group of men. Once I got a good look at the driver, who ended up in handcuffs sitting in the middle of the road after the ensuing carnage, I wondered how he ended up behind the wheel of a Range Rover. Did the car belong to him? Was the car stolen? If it was stolen, did he set out to steal a car that would inflict the most damage possible? The speed at which he traveled in the moments leading up to the impact, and which was caught on camera, was excessive and, well, homicidal. Did the driver know his victims? Had his victims wronged him somehow? So many questions. So few answers.
Although I said that I'm not watching any more FOX television after they fired Tucker Carlson, I tuned in to the Hannity show ever so briefly last night. The missus enjoys seeing Biden's gaffes, and Hannity typically shows a couple here and there in the first segment of his show. Truth be told, they are less of a "gaffe" and more of what you get when you put a senile old fool on a stage with his cue cards or a teleprompter. Remember when Biden used to read the instructions on the teleprompter instead of the text that he was supposed to read? That's what we're talking about here. Anyway, Hannity had Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on, and it was just a little bit weird. Hannity was going off script, seemingly wanting to portray Kennedy as a conspiracy nut when he pressed him about his beliefs on who he thinks killed his father and his uncle. I turned to the missus and said, "My God, the guy is entitled to think what he wants to think about the CIA and others who may have been involved in the murders of his father (Robert F. Kennedy) and his uncle (John F. Kennedy). No?" "That doesn't make him a conspiracy nut."
It went from bad to worse when, toward the end of the interview, Hannity confused everybody by asking Kennedy if he would vow not to travel by private jet. Hannity clearly had it in his head that Kennedy was some kind of Climate Change cultist, and he was determined to call him out on his hypocritical views of traveling by private jet while working hand-in-hand with the globalists to have the rest of us reduce our collective carbon footprint. The only problem with that is that Kennedy is neither a climate change cultist nor is he a card-carrying member of the Claus Schwab globalist community. He's a longtime eco-lawyer and activist who has been fighting tooth and nail against polluters, Big Pharma, and their poisonous vaccines, and the list of his other fights in and out of the courts are lengthy, but he's had no positions on the use of private jets. Kennedy should have slapped him silly at the mere allegation, but I think he was stunned by what he heard coming out of Hannity's mouth. Hannity owes the man an apology.
I'm getting a little worried that this dog and pony show being put on by the Republicans in a couple of days is going to be nothing but performative. They intend to lay out the case that the Biden Crime Family is just as corrupt, if not more corrupt than anyone knew or realized. By performative, I mean that they'll make their case, but it will be just that and nothing more. Newspapers like the New York Times and the Washington Post won't cover it, and none of the liberal talk shows will give it any oxygen. Then what? I'm hearing that the Republicans have yet to subpoena any people who have the goods on the Bidens, and that's worrisome. How can you make your case if you're not willing to hear from all the witnesses? The Committee looking into the January 6th "Insurrection" subpoenaed not only witnesses but they went after their e-mails, their phone records, and their bank records. They had power, and they left no stone unturned in their efforts to conduct a thorough and exhaustive investigation. The Republicans have one chance to get this right, and that's what I'm worried about.
I can't believe that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is going to come off looking good in this shindig that the Republicans have planned. Everyone knows that the DOJ has had Hunter's laptop for a good couple of years now, and they've done nothing despite having evidence of criminal activity right under their noses. That makes them complicit in the crimes committed by Hunter, and to a greater extent, the extended Biden Crime Family. How can they (DOJ) not know about Joe Biden's corruption which dates back decades, and some of it is on tape for everyone and anyone to see? What kind of country do we have where our Intelligence Agencies look the other way when the President of the United States, a duly elected officer of our Republic, carries on a like a two-bit Mafioso fattening his and his family's coffers at every turn? The DOJ's role looks more like a protection racket than an institution that is supposed to uphold everything that we hold dear when it comes to Lady Justice. The Press Conference come Wednesday morning will be, for all intents and purposes, an indictment of both the Biden's and the DOJ, and that will be a sad day for America.
Do you think it's possible that the Republicans planned to unveil their evidence the day before Title 42 expires, knowing full well that the story would get snuffed out of existence and replaced with horror stories about the hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens rushing into our country? The very newspapers and news outlets who assiduously avoided any and all stories about our open borders will now embrace the story like never before if that's what it takes not to cover the revelations laid out by the Republicans in their press conference. That's what I mean when I say that this dog and pony is going to be performative. This is the Uni-party doing what the Uni-party does best. This is why people like Joe Biden feel like they can do whatever the hell they feel like doing, and there will never be any consequences. It's why the American people are losing faith in their government and its institutions. It's why they work overtime to indict and jail ex-presidents while allowing graft and corruption to continue unabated by the sitting president. In fact, any and all efforts to jail said ex-presidents are likely being engineered by the sitting president in question. There, I said it.
When it comes to the millions of people coming across our borders illegally, what the hell are we supposed to do with them? There aren't enough low-wage jobs for them to do, assuming any of them have incentive one way or another to enter the workforce. Do we even have enough space in our jails to lock up the child molesters, the gang bangers, the pimps, the child traffickers, the wife beaters, the petty thieves, the hardened criminals, the car thieves, and God only knows who, or what else? With tax receipts dropping like a rock due to a faltering economy and staggering inflation, how are communities supposed to continue to support these illegal aliens with free healthcare, free education for their children, free transportation for their loved ones back home to join them, free cell phones and free coverage, and free whatever the fuck else. Wait until they find out that they are not entitled to any of the reparations windfalls currently under discussion in states like California.
Speaking of reparations, what is this I'm hearing about Governor Gavin Newsom saying that he will not support the payment of reparations? He was quoted as saying something about reparations being more than just about money. Just when I thought this reparations thing was going to give some oxygen to Newsom's candidacy for the upcoming 2024 presidential sweepstakes with blacks across our fruited plains, it turns out that he's not a fan of cutting those checks. This all assumes that Biden decides not to run, of course. It also assumes that Kamala Harris steps out of the way as the Democrat's second choice should Bumbles stumble at the starting line. I think a lot of black Californians already have those reparations checks spent, so Newsom is going to have his work cut out for him when the time comes to tell them that there won't be any checks.
Democrat-run cities across the United States are already trying to figure out how to pay reparations to their black citizenry after seeing that the plan to do the same in California was picking up speed. They have to be taking some comfort in Governor Newsom's off-the-cuff comments this morning. What we may all be missing in this sleight-of-hand maneuver is that having promised blacks millions of dollars per person and now having to reel that in is not going to go over well with an already inflamed constituency. Maybe that was the plan all along. Get their hopes up and then dash those hopes, thereby sending them into the streets with their truncheons and Molotov cocktails. Newsom can ride to the rescue with an olive branch of sorts, albeit not the millions of dollars promised, but a salve to soothe the savage spirits nonetheless, and he will emerge with his frontrunner status fortified and intact relative to the 2024 presidential sweepstakes.
This E. Jean Carroll courtroom drama thing is now in the history books. Trump was found guilty by a Manhattan jury on one count of defamation and one count of sexual battery. Trump was found not guilty of rape. The judge in the case instructed the jury that if Trump was found to have as much as planted a kiss on the woman in this 27-year-old case, and I'm paraphrasing, he could be found guilty of sexual battery. I think the jury took that as the judge giving them license to run roughshod over the accused in this case, one Donald J. Trump, and they did just that. It didn't help Trump's case that this trial was held in Manhattan, a bastion of liberal lunacy where pillorying Donald Trump is a favorite pastime if not a pathological obsession. Liberals were popping champagne corks coast to coast when the verdict came in a little after three o'clock Eastern Standard Time. You'll never know it because they'll never say it, but they were likely gobsmacked that they can't now refer to Trump as a "rapist." They were so looking forward to hanging that moniker around his neck in order to separate him from his female followers. Sorry, not sorry.
I'm seeing quite a lot of building going on hereabouts. One development of townhouses just a stone's throw away from where we live had two-bedroom townhouses going up for sale in the $650k range. They sold out in short order. I suspect this will serve to help keep teachers employed in our schools since declining birth rates in our community, not unlike birth rates nationwide, have been in decline for the past few years. Another nearby development is currently under construction, although I'm less clear on what the plans are for those units. Call me xenophobic, but the last thing I want to see in our community is the occupation of new housing units by migrants who have come into our country illegally, who have little to no connection to the people in our community, and who are saddled with who knows what when it comes to the criminal element or diseases infectious and otherwise. It's a potential recipe for disaster.
The missus was watching some town meeting on the computer last night that was taking place in a town about an hour north of where we live. They were discussing what to do with the latest tranche of migrants who came into Portland, Maine, and then filtered down to the small town in Southern Maine where they now reside. I use the word "reside" advisedly because none of these small towns, despite all of the liberal do-gooders who reside in these towns and who would give their left testicle to house and feed them given half a chance, know what to do with them or, more to the point, how to provide for them. They barely have the resources to keep their rainy-day funds afloat, much less to provide for the well-being of every Jose, Juanita, and Diego, who think that America's streets are paved with gold. I'd give them free transportation back to their country of origin, but that's just me. One woman spoke up and said that she was concerned for her safety. I'm guessing they gave her short grift. Biden's open border policies are designed to flood our country with Democrat voters and to ensure that the Democrats never lose another election for the next hundred years. We can't let that happen.
I thought that the Republicans put on a fairly convincing case against the Biden Crime Family yesterday morning. They held the promised presser and provided the public with details about just how corrupt and how extensive the Biden Crime Family's exploits are and have been going back a number of years. It was, at the same time, an indictment of the Department of Justice, which has been either concealing or has otherwise turned a blind eye to the corruption right under their noses. The Democrats, to a voter, seem to be just fine with the crimes being committed by Joe Biden. Nobody even winced when the Republicans revealed that monies coming from foreign countries were pouring into the bank accounts of Biden's grandchildren. The Committee's work continues by their own admission, and there is reportedly much more work to be done. Where this ends up is anyone's guess, but, to me, to allow this sort of corruption at the highest levels in our government to continue makes us no different than the banana republics that we as a country have claimed to be the very antithesis of who and what we are as a nation.
The Department of Justice was ready for this day - the day that the Republicans in Congress promised the American people that they would reveal the results of their investigations into the Biden Crime Family. No sooner had the Republicans ended their press conference than the Department of Justice announced the arrest of Congressman George Santos for fraud. What did the libtards in the mainstream media talk about all day? You guessed it. It had nothing to do with the corruption of the Biden family or the presser by the Republicans in Congress who laid it all out in excruciating detail. It was a well-timed arrest by the Department of Justice, and it was designed to give the media the excuse they needed to ignore the story. Their message was clear - Nothing to see here, folks. Move along. The George Santos story was a nothing burger, but it was just enough to juice up the headlines long enough to take the Biden story out of the headlines. It was "mission accomplished" for all intents and purposes. It doesn't make the Bidens any less corrupt, but it gives them the unmistakable imprimatur that they can continue to perpetuate their grift without fear of reprisal or worse.
I watched the much anticipated live Town Hall put on by CNN last night featuring Donald Trump. I wasn't quite sure what to expect, and I was simultaneously suspicious of CNN's motives in putting on the Town Hall for a man that their network had banned for the last few years. Would they have plants in the audience who had questions for Trump that were written by CNN moonbats? Would the moderator take the opportunity to try and make Trump look bad so as to diminish his standing in the upcoming Presidential sweepstakes? Town Halls are, by their very design, meant to be forward-looking affairs where the audience has an opportunity to hear from and get a sense of what a candidate has to offer the country on subjects ranging from foreign affairs to domestic policies. When the moderator attempts to fact-check the comments of the guest at every turn, which Kaitlin Collins did to Trump, it becomes more of a debate than a Town Hall. It was simply not a good look for the moderator, and it deprived Trump of what little precious time he had to connect with the audience of registered Republican and undecided voters.
I wouldn't say that Trump came loaded for bear, but he was there to do his thing, and nobody was going to get in his way, much less a persnickety and sometimes snarky moderator with an agenda. Trump actually called her "nasty" at one point in the hour-long Town Hall. If there were any questions remaining, after all was said and done as to whether or not the moderator was up to the task before her, the fact that the network cut the Town Hall short due to Trump's command of the audience and the subjects being discussed told you everything you needed to know. In short, it was a bad night for CNN and an astoundingly good night for Donald Trump. I think it was a good reminder to anyone watching as to why the American public voted as they did in 2016 to elect Donald J. Trump to be the president of the United States. His performance last night essentially cemented his position as the frontrunner and likely nominee of the Republican party in 2024. It was probably not a good night for the Nikki Haley and Chris Christie of the party. That's a good thing.
Do you know what else caught my eye? That tart and loser, Liz Cheney, ran a television ad that aired halfway through the CNN Town Hall with Donald Trump. Did I mention that the good folks of Wyoming voted her out as their Congresswoman in the last year or two by something like a 70-30 percent margin? The ad was all about the 2020 "insurrection" in our nation's capital. Cheney and a Committee of Democrats tried desperately to get the DOJ to indict Trump for his alleged role in the insurrection, but they failed miserably, and, after months of televised hearings, the dog and pony show had little to no net effect on Trump's support. They put on one of the most expensive and disingenuous dog and pony show ever produced in our nation's capital. Now, having been thrown out of Congress by the good people of Wyoming, Liz Cheney is making it her mission to see to it that Trump never serves a second term as president of the United States. What she fails to understand is that if you come for the king, you'd better kill the king. If you don't, he will only get stronger.
We Americans are waking up this morning to a new world. One that is barely recognizable from the America that we knew just yesterday. The Title 42 thing, which kept tens of thousands of illegal aliens on the other side of our southern border, has now expired. Maybe ten thousand illegal aliens a day will now be pouring into our country invited as they have been by a president of the United States that can't tell you from one day to the next what day of the week it is. Maybe what we're really experiencing is Barack Obama's third term since he promised during his tenure that he planned to basically transform our country. He was going to be a transformational president. With Biden so cognitively impaired, it's the only thing that makes sense anymore. Someone else has to be pulling the strings behind the scenes. We can try to figure out who to blame from now until the cows come home, but we're in the thick of it now, so, as they say in the movies, buckle up.
Why are we now getting any guidance from our local officials on what precautions to take when these illegal aliens filter into our towns and cities under the darkness of night? Are they afraid we'll be running to our local gun stores and stocking up on firearms and ammunition in order to protect ourselves and our families? Are they afraid to admit that they had any part in this disaster of epic proportions? Are they afraid to admit that they are helpless to stop any of it from impacting our schools, our emergency rooms, our judicial systems, our streets, and our families? What mother or father wants to explain to their child that they can't go to summer camp, can't attend extra-curricular sports or programs for accelerated students, all because budgets and resources are under duress due to the influx of foreigners? I'm not buying any of the bullshit that we hear coming out of the White House about jobs that would go unfilled without these illegal aliens. I, for one, would happily give up eating romaine lettuce if it meant keeping these people out of our country. It makes you wonder. Will the government make rape kits as available as the Covid test kits were at the height of the pandemic?
I keep hearing from the leftists that Trump is an existential threat. Oh, and they can't stop talking about his lies. If only Kaitlin Collins had been able to fact-check everything coming out of Trump's mouth the other night in the CNN Town Hall, she could have exposed him for the liar that he is. Just how addled are these mother fuckers? Biden lies through his teeth every time he opens his mouth, yet you hear nothing from his praetorian guard, the media. I heard that his press secretary, whatever the fuck her name is, didn't get one question from the media types in the room about Congressman Comer's press conference the other day when he and his congressional counterparts laid out a devastating trail of corruption and pay-to-play for the public to consider. I'm getting a little off-topic, but it's all one big ball of wax, isn't it. Biden and his people will tell you with a straight face that our southern border is closed. That's a lie. You see where I'm going with this. Right? Then again, the ends always justify the means when it comes to the libtards. That's just how they roll.
I watched this weird clip yesterday when the sitting Secretary of Defense (Lloyd Austin) was before the Senate discussing this and that. Little Dicky Durbin (Democrat) was pressing the Secretary about why he wasn't providing the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague with information related to alleged war crimes committed by Putin. Durbin mentioned several other departments that had been cooperating with requests from the ICC, but the ICC had apparently not heard back from the Secretary of Defense. It was kind of an interesting insight into how the sausage gets made in Washington. The Secretary seemed unwilling or evasive even in offering any kind of answer that came close to satisfying Durbin and his fellow senators. He (Austin) said something about needing to protect his troops or something to that effect. They agreed to take the conversation offline. Did the secretary see this whole ICC issue as being some kind of red line which he was unwilling to cross? Could he reasonably be accused of protecting Putin? And, to be honest, nobody in their right mind thinks that Putin is going to be held accountable by some kangaroo court in the Hague. Right? It's delusional at best.
I've not been following this debt ceiling thing too closely since we all kind of know how it works. There's a bit of a pissing match between the two political parties in Washington, assuming that you have Democrats controlling one or more houses of Congress and the Republicans controlling the White House, or vice versa. Janet Yellen has a deadline out there, maybe in the June-July timeframe when, if the ceiling doesn't get raised, all hell is going to break loose. This and that recipient will not be getting their checks, and the credit rating of the United States will be notched down a tad or two to reflect the tumultuousness of the moment. The stock market is showing little to no interest in this debt ceiling thing which is interesting. The VIX has barely budged, and it's still in the 16-17 point range on any given day. The Market has been remarkably resilient in the face of it all, albeit thanks to a handful of FANG stocks that continue to perform well. That could all change as we get closer to the deadline. For now, the casino is open for business, come what may.
It sounds like Elon Musk is about to put a woman in charge of Twitter who is a card-carrying member of the World Economic Forum. I don't like the sound of that. If I might, allow me to repeat what James Woods tweeted this morning, "It was fun while it lasted." If I'm not mistaken, the World Economic Forum is a cabal of globalists who want to run the world. All the jet-setters and Climate Change cultists fly off to this particular forum in Switzerland each year while lecturing the rest of us about our reducing our carbon footprints. What am I missing here? Maybe more importantly, what is Elon missing? Another person tweeted, "They finally got to him." This hire is seemingly antithetical to everything that Elon has promised since the day he bought Twitter and ended the Deep State's control over one of the more powerful social media sites on the web. Someone else tweeted about the fact that we're likely to see the return of the infamous shadowbanning that was so prevalent before Musk took over. They effectively shut down or suppressed conservative voices, especially in the days leading up to the 2020 election. Say it ain't so, Elon.
While we're on the subject, we've been having an issue with one of the two hummingbird feeders we put out every year. I noticed that one particular feeder had been consistently emptied of its sugar water overnight. The feeder was completely emptied by some creature that was crafty enough to empty the feeder without knocking it off its perch. I envisioned a deer perhaps tipping it to one side or another with its snout just enough to release the liquid inside but not enough to tip it over. Were the feeder to fall to the ground, the liquid would drain away, and all would be lost. What kind of animal makes that calculus? I'm now on day two of putting one of those Stealth Cams out overnight to see if I can see what we're dealing with. Last night, what looks to be a raccoon knocked my camera over but not before getting a quick but blurry picture of his Bandito mug. Well, one eye's worth, anyway. Problem solved. I think I'll just bring that feeder in at night.
We've got a pretty interesting week ahead by any reasonable measure. The Republicans in Congress will be laying out the case against the Biden Crime Family on Wednesday. I need the time and venue of that event. Let's hope we're not just talking about C-Span here. We need prime-time coverage of this breaking story. It's really the culmination of several months of investigation by Congressional investigators, so maybe it's not all that "breaking." Every American knows that Biden has been on the take for the last fifty years of his time in Government, so let's hope this is the straw that breaks the camel's back, as it were. Then, Trump is doing a CNN Town Hall on Wednesday night, so that should be fun. Maybe even nauseating knowing what we know about the network hosting the Town Hall. How about the debt ceiling meeting on Tuesday? Will McCarthy succeed in negotiating on his terms? Or, will Biden stick to his guns and not give an inch? Did I mention that Trump has a stunning six-point lead over Biden in the latest Washington Post poll? Biden's latest approval rating is at an all-time low of thirty-six percent. Simply abysmal.
I'm not quite sure what to make of that incident on our southern border the other day when this guy ran down and killed eight Venezuelans, at last count, waiting at a bus stop. The driver was driving a Range Rover. The driver looked to be Hispanic as well, so who knows what he was thinking when he took aim and barreled headlong into the group of men. Once I got a good look at the driver, who ended up in handcuffs sitting in the middle of the road after the ensuing carnage, I wondered how he ended up behind the wheel of a Range Rover. Did the car belong to him? Was the car stolen? If it was stolen, did he set out to steal a car that would inflict the most damage possible? The speed at which he traveled in the moments leading up to the impact, and which was caught on camera, was excessive and, well, homicidal. Did the driver know his victims? Had his victims wronged him somehow? So many questions. So few answers.
Although I said that I'm not watching any more FOX television after they fired Tucker Carlson, I tuned in to the Hannity show ever so briefly last night. The missus enjoys seeing Biden's gaffes, and Hannity typically shows a couple here and there in the first segment of his show. Truth be told, they are less of a "gaffe" and more of what you get when you put a senile old fool on a stage with his cue cards or a teleprompter. Remember when Biden used to read the instructions on the teleprompter instead of the text that he was supposed to read? That's what we're talking about here. Anyway, Hannity had Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on, and it was just a little bit weird. Hannity was going off script, seemingly wanting to portray Kennedy as a conspiracy nut when he pressed him about his beliefs on who he thinks killed his father and his uncle. I turned to the missus and said, "My God, the guy is entitled to think what he wants to think about the CIA and others who may have been involved in the murders of his father (Robert F. Kennedy) and his uncle (John F. Kennedy). No?" "That doesn't make him a conspiracy nut."
It went from bad to worse when, toward the end of the interview, Hannity confused everybody by asking Kennedy if he would vow not to travel by private jet. Hannity clearly had it in his head that Kennedy was some kind of Climate Change cultist, and he was determined to call him out on his hypocritical views of traveling by private jet while working hand-in-hand with the globalists to have the rest of us reduce our collective carbon footprint. The only problem with that is that Kennedy is neither a climate change cultist nor is he a card-carrying member of the Claus Schwab globalist community. He's a longtime eco-lawyer and activist who has been fighting tooth and nail against polluters, Big Pharma, and their poisonous vaccines, and the list of his other fights in and out of the courts are lengthy, but he's had no positions on the use of private jets. Kennedy should have slapped him silly at the mere allegation, but I think he was stunned by what he heard coming out of Hannity's mouth. Hannity owes the man an apology.
I'm getting a little worried that this dog and pony show being put on by the Republicans in a couple of days is going to be nothing but performative. They intend to lay out the case that the Biden Crime Family is just as corrupt, if not more corrupt than anyone knew or realized. By performative, I mean that they'll make their case, but it will be just that and nothing more. Newspapers like the New York Times and the Washington Post won't cover it, and none of the liberal talk shows will give it any oxygen. Then what? I'm hearing that the Republicans have yet to subpoena any people who have the goods on the Bidens, and that's worrisome. How can you make your case if you're not willing to hear from all the witnesses? The Committee looking into the January 6th "Insurrection" subpoenaed not only witnesses but they went after their e-mails, their phone records, and their bank records. They had power, and they left no stone unturned in their efforts to conduct a thorough and exhaustive investigation. The Republicans have one chance to get this right, and that's what I'm worried about.
I can't believe that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is going to come off looking good in this shindig that the Republicans have planned. Everyone knows that the DOJ has had Hunter's laptop for a good couple of years now, and they've done nothing despite having evidence of criminal activity right under their noses. That makes them complicit in the crimes committed by Hunter, and to a greater extent, the extended Biden Crime Family. How can they (DOJ) not know about Joe Biden's corruption which dates back decades, and some of it is on tape for everyone and anyone to see? What kind of country do we have where our Intelligence Agencies look the other way when the President of the United States, a duly elected officer of our Republic, carries on a like a two-bit Mafioso fattening his and his family's coffers at every turn? The DOJ's role looks more like a protection racket than an institution that is supposed to uphold everything that we hold dear when it comes to Lady Justice. The Press Conference come Wednesday morning will be, for all intents and purposes, an indictment of both the Biden's and the DOJ, and that will be a sad day for America.
Do you think it's possible that the Republicans planned to unveil their evidence the day before Title 42 expires, knowing full well that the story would get snuffed out of existence and replaced with horror stories about the hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens rushing into our country? The very newspapers and news outlets who assiduously avoided any and all stories about our open borders will now embrace the story like never before if that's what it takes not to cover the revelations laid out by the Republicans in their press conference. That's what I mean when I say that this dog and pony is going to be performative. This is the Uni-party doing what the Uni-party does best. This is why people like Joe Biden feel like they can do whatever the hell they feel like doing, and there will never be any consequences. It's why the American people are losing faith in their government and its institutions. It's why they work overtime to indict and jail ex-presidents while allowing graft and corruption to continue unabated by the sitting president. In fact, any and all efforts to jail said ex-presidents are likely being engineered by the sitting president in question. There, I said it.
When it comes to the millions of people coming across our borders illegally, what the hell are we supposed to do with them? There aren't enough low-wage jobs for them to do, assuming any of them have incentive one way or another to enter the workforce. Do we even have enough space in our jails to lock up the child molesters, the gang bangers, the pimps, the child traffickers, the wife beaters, the petty thieves, the hardened criminals, the car thieves, and God only knows who, or what else? With tax receipts dropping like a rock due to a faltering economy and staggering inflation, how are communities supposed to continue to support these illegal aliens with free healthcare, free education for their children, free transportation for their loved ones back home to join them, free cell phones and free coverage, and free whatever the fuck else. Wait until they find out that they are not entitled to any of the reparations windfalls currently under discussion in states like California.
Speaking of reparations, what is this I'm hearing about Governor Gavin Newsom saying that he will not support the payment of reparations? He was quoted as saying something about reparations being more than just about money. Just when I thought this reparations thing was going to give some oxygen to Newsom's candidacy for the upcoming 2024 presidential sweepstakes with blacks across our fruited plains, it turns out that he's not a fan of cutting those checks. This all assumes that Biden decides not to run, of course. It also assumes that Kamala Harris steps out of the way as the Democrat's second choice should Bumbles stumble at the starting line. I think a lot of black Californians already have those reparations checks spent, so Newsom is going to have his work cut out for him when the time comes to tell them that there won't be any checks.
Democrat-run cities across the United States are already trying to figure out how to pay reparations to their black citizenry after seeing that the plan to do the same in California was picking up speed. They have to be taking some comfort in Governor Newsom's off-the-cuff comments this morning. What we may all be missing in this sleight-of-hand maneuver is that having promised blacks millions of dollars per person and now having to reel that in is not going to go over well with an already inflamed constituency. Maybe that was the plan all along. Get their hopes up and then dash those hopes, thereby sending them into the streets with their truncheons and Molotov cocktails. Newsom can ride to the rescue with an olive branch of sorts, albeit not the millions of dollars promised, but a salve to soothe the savage spirits nonetheless, and he will emerge with his frontrunner status fortified and intact relative to the 2024 presidential sweepstakes.
This E. Jean Carroll courtroom drama thing is now in the history books. Trump was found guilty by a Manhattan jury on one count of defamation and one count of sexual battery. Trump was found not guilty of rape. The judge in the case instructed the jury that if Trump was found to have as much as planted a kiss on the woman in this 27-year-old case, and I'm paraphrasing, he could be found guilty of sexual battery. I think the jury took that as the judge giving them license to run roughshod over the accused in this case, one Donald J. Trump, and they did just that. It didn't help Trump's case that this trial was held in Manhattan, a bastion of liberal lunacy where pillorying Donald Trump is a favorite pastime if not a pathological obsession. Liberals were popping champagne corks coast to coast when the verdict came in a little after three o'clock Eastern Standard Time. You'll never know it because they'll never say it, but they were likely gobsmacked that they can't now refer to Trump as a "rapist." They were so looking forward to hanging that moniker around his neck in order to separate him from his female followers. Sorry, not sorry.
I'm seeing quite a lot of building going on hereabouts. One development of townhouses just a stone's throw away from where we live had two-bedroom townhouses going up for sale in the $650k range. They sold out in short order. I suspect this will serve to help keep teachers employed in our schools since declining birth rates in our community, not unlike birth rates nationwide, have been in decline for the past few years. Another nearby development is currently under construction, although I'm less clear on what the plans are for those units. Call me xenophobic, but the last thing I want to see in our community is the occupation of new housing units by migrants who have come into our country illegally, who have little to no connection to the people in our community, and who are saddled with who knows what when it comes to the criminal element or diseases infectious and otherwise. It's a potential recipe for disaster.
The missus was watching some town meeting on the computer last night that was taking place in a town about an hour north of where we live. They were discussing what to do with the latest tranche of migrants who came into Portland, Maine, and then filtered down to the small town in Southern Maine where they now reside. I use the word "reside" advisedly because none of these small towns, despite all of the liberal do-gooders who reside in these towns and who would give their left testicle to house and feed them given half a chance, know what to do with them or, more to the point, how to provide for them. They barely have the resources to keep their rainy-day funds afloat, much less to provide for the well-being of every Jose, Juanita, and Diego, who think that America's streets are paved with gold. I'd give them free transportation back to their country of origin, but that's just me. One woman spoke up and said that she was concerned for her safety. I'm guessing they gave her short grift. Biden's open border policies are designed to flood our country with Democrat voters and to ensure that the Democrats never lose another election for the next hundred years. We can't let that happen.
I thought that the Republicans put on a fairly convincing case against the Biden Crime Family yesterday morning. They held the promised presser and provided the public with details about just how corrupt and how extensive the Biden Crime Family's exploits are and have been going back a number of years. It was, at the same time, an indictment of the Department of Justice, which has been either concealing or has otherwise turned a blind eye to the corruption right under their noses. The Democrats, to a voter, seem to be just fine with the crimes being committed by Joe Biden. Nobody even winced when the Republicans revealed that monies coming from foreign countries were pouring into the bank accounts of Biden's grandchildren. The Committee's work continues by their own admission, and there is reportedly much more work to be done. Where this ends up is anyone's guess, but, to me, to allow this sort of corruption at the highest levels in our government to continue makes us no different than the banana republics that we as a country have claimed to be the very antithesis of who and what we are as a nation.
The Department of Justice was ready for this day - the day that the Republicans in Congress promised the American people that they would reveal the results of their investigations into the Biden Crime Family. No sooner had the Republicans ended their press conference than the Department of Justice announced the arrest of Congressman George Santos for fraud. What did the libtards in the mainstream media talk about all day? You guessed it. It had nothing to do with the corruption of the Biden family or the presser by the Republicans in Congress who laid it all out in excruciating detail. It was a well-timed arrest by the Department of Justice, and it was designed to give the media the excuse they needed to ignore the story. Their message was clear - Nothing to see here, folks. Move along. The George Santos story was a nothing burger, but it was just enough to juice up the headlines long enough to take the Biden story out of the headlines. It was "mission accomplished" for all intents and purposes. It doesn't make the Bidens any less corrupt, but it gives them the unmistakable imprimatur that they can continue to perpetuate their grift without fear of reprisal or worse.
I watched the much anticipated live Town Hall put on by CNN last night featuring Donald Trump. I wasn't quite sure what to expect, and I was simultaneously suspicious of CNN's motives in putting on the Town Hall for a man that their network had banned for the last few years. Would they have plants in the audience who had questions for Trump that were written by CNN moonbats? Would the moderator take the opportunity to try and make Trump look bad so as to diminish his standing in the upcoming Presidential sweepstakes? Town Halls are, by their very design, meant to be forward-looking affairs where the audience has an opportunity to hear from and get a sense of what a candidate has to offer the country on subjects ranging from foreign affairs to domestic policies. When the moderator attempts to fact-check the comments of the guest at every turn, which Kaitlin Collins did to Trump, it becomes more of a debate than a Town Hall. It was simply not a good look for the moderator, and it deprived Trump of what little precious time he had to connect with the audience of registered Republican and undecided voters.
I wouldn't say that Trump came loaded for bear, but he was there to do his thing, and nobody was going to get in his way, much less a persnickety and sometimes snarky moderator with an agenda. Trump actually called her "nasty" at one point in the hour-long Town Hall. If there were any questions remaining, after all was said and done as to whether or not the moderator was up to the task before her, the fact that the network cut the Town Hall short due to Trump's command of the audience and the subjects being discussed told you everything you needed to know. In short, it was a bad night for CNN and an astoundingly good night for Donald Trump. I think it was a good reminder to anyone watching as to why the American public voted as they did in 2016 to elect Donald J. Trump to be the president of the United States. His performance last night essentially cemented his position as the frontrunner and likely nominee of the Republican party in 2024. It was probably not a good night for the Nikki Haley and Chris Christie of the party. That's a good thing.
Do you know what else caught my eye? That tart and loser, Liz Cheney, ran a television ad that aired halfway through the CNN Town Hall with Donald Trump. Did I mention that the good folks of Wyoming voted her out as their Congresswoman in the last year or two by something like a 70-30 percent margin? The ad was all about the 2020 "insurrection" in our nation's capital. Cheney and a Committee of Democrats tried desperately to get the DOJ to indict Trump for his alleged role in the insurrection, but they failed miserably, and, after months of televised hearings, the dog and pony show had little to no net effect on Trump's support. They put on one of the most expensive and disingenuous dog and pony show ever produced in our nation's capital. Now, having been thrown out of Congress by the good people of Wyoming, Liz Cheney is making it her mission to see to it that Trump never serves a second term as president of the United States. What she fails to understand is that if you come for the king, you'd better kill the king. If you don't, he will only get stronger.
We Americans are waking up this morning to a new world. One that is barely recognizable from the America that we knew just yesterday. The Title 42 thing, which kept tens of thousands of illegal aliens on the other side of our southern border, has now expired. Maybe ten thousand illegal aliens a day will now be pouring into our country invited as they have been by a president of the United States that can't tell you from one day to the next what day of the week it is. Maybe what we're really experiencing is Barack Obama's third term since he promised during his tenure that he planned to basically transform our country. He was going to be a transformational president. With Biden so cognitively impaired, it's the only thing that makes sense anymore. Someone else has to be pulling the strings behind the scenes. We can try to figure out who to blame from now until the cows come home, but we're in the thick of it now, so, as they say in the movies, buckle up.
Why are we now getting any guidance from our local officials on what precautions to take when these illegal aliens filter into our towns and cities under the darkness of night? Are they afraid we'll be running to our local gun stores and stocking up on firearms and ammunition in order to protect ourselves and our families? Are they afraid to admit that they had any part in this disaster of epic proportions? Are they afraid to admit that they are helpless to stop any of it from impacting our schools, our emergency rooms, our judicial systems, our streets, and our families? What mother or father wants to explain to their child that they can't go to summer camp, can't attend extra-curricular sports or programs for accelerated students, all because budgets and resources are under duress due to the influx of foreigners? I'm not buying any of the bullshit that we hear coming out of the White House about jobs that would go unfilled without these illegal aliens. I, for one, would happily give up eating romaine lettuce if it meant keeping these people out of our country. It makes you wonder. Will the government make rape kits as available as the Covid test kits were at the height of the pandemic?
I keep hearing from the leftists that Trump is an existential threat. Oh, and they can't stop talking about his lies. If only Kaitlin Collins had been able to fact-check everything coming out of Trump's mouth the other night in the CNN Town Hall, she could have exposed him for the liar that he is. Just how addled are these mother fuckers? Biden lies through his teeth every time he opens his mouth, yet you hear nothing from his praetorian guard, the media. I heard that his press secretary, whatever the fuck her name is, didn't get one question from the media types in the room about Congressman Comer's press conference the other day when he and his congressional counterparts laid out a devastating trail of corruption and pay-to-play for the public to consider. I'm getting a little off-topic, but it's all one big ball of wax, isn't it. Biden and his people will tell you with a straight face that our southern border is closed. That's a lie. You see where I'm going with this. Right? Then again, the ends always justify the means when it comes to the libtards. That's just how they roll.
I watched this weird clip yesterday when the sitting Secretary of Defense (Lloyd Austin) was before the Senate discussing this and that. Little Dicky Durbin (Democrat) was pressing the Secretary about why he wasn't providing the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague with information related to alleged war crimes committed by Putin. Durbin mentioned several other departments that had been cooperating with requests from the ICC, but the ICC had apparently not heard back from the Secretary of Defense. It was kind of an interesting insight into how the sausage gets made in Washington. The Secretary seemed unwilling or evasive even in offering any kind of answer that came close to satisfying Durbin and his fellow senators. He (Austin) said something about needing to protect his troops or something to that effect. They agreed to take the conversation offline. Did the secretary see this whole ICC issue as being some kind of red line which he was unwilling to cross? Could he reasonably be accused of protecting Putin? And, to be honest, nobody in their right mind thinks that Putin is going to be held accountable by some kangaroo court in the Hague. Right? It's delusional at best.
I've not been following this debt ceiling thing too closely since we all kind of know how it works. There's a bit of a pissing match between the two political parties in Washington, assuming that you have Democrats controlling one or more houses of Congress and the Republicans controlling the White House, or vice versa. Janet Yellen has a deadline out there, maybe in the June-July timeframe when, if the ceiling doesn't get raised, all hell is going to break loose. This and that recipient will not be getting their checks, and the credit rating of the United States will be notched down a tad or two to reflect the tumultuousness of the moment. The stock market is showing little to no interest in this debt ceiling thing which is interesting. The VIX has barely budged, and it's still in the 16-17 point range on any given day. The Market has been remarkably resilient in the face of it all, albeit thanks to a handful of FANG stocks that continue to perform well. That could all change as we get closer to the deadline. For now, the casino is open for business, come what may.
It sounds like Elon Musk is about to put a woman in charge of Twitter who is a card-carrying member of the World Economic Forum. I don't like the sound of that. If I might, allow me to repeat what James Woods tweeted this morning, "It was fun while it lasted." If I'm not mistaken, the World Economic Forum is a cabal of globalists who want to run the world. All the jet-setters and Climate Change cultists fly off to this particular forum in Switzerland each year while lecturing the rest of us about our reducing our carbon footprints. What am I missing here? Maybe more importantly, what is Elon missing? Another person tweeted, "They finally got to him." This hire is seemingly antithetical to everything that Elon has promised since the day he bought Twitter and ended the Deep State's control over one of the more powerful social media sites on the web. Someone else tweeted about the fact that we're likely to see the return of the infamous shadowbanning that was so prevalent before Musk took over. They effectively shut down or suppressed conservative voices, especially in the days leading up to the 2020 election. Say it ain't so, Elon.