POLITICAL: Just leave it vacant until the next regular election!

Wednesday, December 13, 2023

https://nypost.com/2023/12/05/metro/date-set-for-vote-to-replace-disgraced-george-santos/

Metro
Hochul sets Feb. 13 House special election to replace NY’s George Santos
By Social Links for Vaughn Golden and Carl Campanile
Published Dec. 5, 2023, 6:14 p.m. ET

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A special election to fill the congressional seat vacated by expelled former Rep. George Santos will take place on Feb. 13, 2024, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Tuesday.

Hochul set the date for the vote in New York’s Third Congressional District one day after calling her former challenger, ex-Rep. Tom Suozzi, to the governor’s mansion in Albany to bend the knee following his ill-fated primary bid last year.

“We had a good meeting and cleared the air, and I appreciate her making the time,” Suozzi said. “At a time of strong political division, I offered to be another moderate voice as the Governor works to solve problems and make progress.”

Suozzi repped the Queens and Nassau County district for six years before leaving to run against Hochul in the gubernatorial race, opening the way for Santos to upset Democrat Robert Zimmerman as part of a midterm red wave in the Empire State.

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Why have the expense of a “special election”?  Just leave it vacant until the next regular election!

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POLITICAL: Sending “woke” Ho;lywood a kick in the wallet … …

Tuesday, October 31, 2023

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/10/21/nolte-taylor-swift-humiliates-hollywood-again-trounces-leos-flower-moon/

Nolte: Taylor Swift Humiliates Hollywood Again — Trounces Leo’s ‘Flower Moon’
John Nolte  — 21 Oct 2023

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Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour was produced by … Taylor Swift and her team. It was also distributed by … Taylor Swift and her team. Swift Inc. froze Hollywood out and went straight to the theater chains. The result has been a box office triumph. In its first weekend, The Eras Tour grossed $93 million domestic and $124 million worldwide. After only three days, Swift already had the highest-grossing concert film in history. Moreover, she enjoyed the second biggest October opening weekend ever. Only Joker (2019) topped her, and…

Hollywood had nothing to do with any of it.

Hollywood did not make one penny off of it.

And…

This so terrifies Hollywood that Hollywood’s palace guards at the far-left Hollywood Reporter spent 1,500 words last week spinning Swift’s box office triumph into a mistake. And what was the mistake? She didn’t distribute The Eras Tour through the same studios that advertise at the far-left Hollywood Reporter.

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And it couldn’t happen to a worse group of people.  They deserve to be punished financially.  And content creators don’t need them.

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POLITICAL: Why do “celebrities” threaten to leave and then never seem to follow thoru?

Saturday, October 28, 2023

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/10/18/cher-says-she-will-leave-the-u-s-if-trump-gets-re-elected/

Cher Says She will Leave the U.S. if Trump Gets Re-elected
Alana Mastrangelo  — 18 Oct 20233,829

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Left-wing pop star Cher says she will leave the United States if former President Donald Trump is re-elected, claiming that she “almost got an ulcer” when Trump was elected president in 2016.

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Cher must be trying to get on my “Jane Fonda” list.

I remember many “celebrities” threatening to leave the USA for some reason or another, but yet never leaving.

Now, anyone, who reads my blog, know that I regard “celebrities” as nothing more than very well trained “performing seals” even if very well paid.  They have no special other qualifications other than a very heightened sense of their value.  

So, I think when you threaten to leave, “We, The Sheeple” should insist on follow thru.

Argh!

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POLITICAL: Universities should be silently neutral in all debates

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

https://mailchi.mp/tomwoods/universitiesandissues?e=39307912ab

FROM TOM WOODS EMAIL NEWSLETTER

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It so happens that the University of Chicago adopted precisely the correct position all the way back in 1967, in what became known as the Kalven Report.

The answer: the university itself remains neutral, but the professors themselves are free to do and say as they like. 

The university, the statement said, had “a great and unique role to play in fostering the development of social and political values in a society,” but that role is one “for the long term.” Day-to-day debates were not matters for solemn and official statements by the university per se.”

“There is no mechanism by which it can reach a collective position without inhibiting that full freedom of dissent on which it thrives. It cannot insist that all of its members favor a given view of social policy; if it takes collective action, therefore, it does so at the price of censuring any minority who do not agree with the view adopted.”

It is the professors themselves who are to carry out the debate. The university is “the home and sponsor of critics; it is not itself the critic.”

This, it seems to me, is the correct approach. No more writing to express your outrage that University X hasn’t yet issued a statement on Issue Y. Its opinion on Issue Y is moronic and worthless anyway. These “statements” by university presidents are better left unwritten. I promise you, dear reader, the world will be a better place without them.

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Certainly seems like a good policy for ALL corporations too.

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POLITICAL: It is the border, economy, and the debt, stupid!

Monday, October 23, 2023

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/10/its_the_border_stupid.html

It’s The Border, Stupid!
By Brian C. Joondeph

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As the 2024 presidential election nears with the world on the brink of, or already in, World War Three, America must make a serious choice in 13 months. Will America course correctly or slide into bankruptcy and irrelevancy on the world stage? Perhaps the feckless Republicans need a rallying cry.

Bill Clinton had one when he ran against ruling class scion George HW Bush. “It’s the economy stupid” was a phrase James Carville coined in 1992 when he was advising Bill Clinton in his successful run for the White House.

In 2023, it’s the economy again, but not only the economy. Our national debt is over $33 trillion, growing by $5 billion a day, with interest payments costing taxpayers almost $2 billion each day. Much of it is or was going to one of the most corrupt countries in the world, holding no vital US interest, or spent on the nonsensical “Green New Deal,” while most Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.

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Hopefully, “We, The Sheeple” can keep three priorities in their mind when they are voting!

Argh!

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POLITICAL: Hillary Clinton sounds like a ’29 Hitler

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/10/hillary-clinton-trump-supporters-need-formal-deprogramming/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hillary-clinton-trump-supporters-need-formal-deprogramming

Hillary Clinton: Trump Supporters Need “Formal Deprogramming”

  • “At some point maybe there needs to be a formal deprogramming of the cult members.”

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 07:30pm 30 Comments

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It’s really quite alarming how open Democrats are about their fear and loathing of the American people. From Biden’s blood red speech declaring that Trump supporters are destroying the soul of the nation to the DOJ’s targeting of Trump supporters, those related to J6 and otherwise, they have all but declared war on half the country.

One of Hillary Clinton’s more horrifying flaws, of which there are many, is her complete and utter disdain for at least half the nation. We all remember her declaring Trump supporters a “basket of deplorables.” Well, she’s at it again.

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Time for her to returned to whatever part of Hell she came from.

This type of rhetoric really exposes her core.

Argh!

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POLITICAL: Political theater designed to distract “We, The Sheeple”

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/09/20/how-garland-answered-and-didnt-answer-questions-on-hunter-biden-the-capitol-riot-targeting-catholics/?utm_source=TDS_Email

7 Takeaways From Garland’s Testimony to House Judiciary Committee
Fred Lucas / @FredLucasWH / September 20, 2023 

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Attorney General Merrick Garland declined to answer questions on a wide range of matters Wednesday in sworn testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. 

Garland testified that he couldn’t remember whether he talked to FBI personnel about the investigation of first son Hunter Biden and didn’t know how many confidential informants entered the Capitol during the riot on Jan. 6, 2021.

The attorney general, appointed by President Joe Biden, also hesitated to answer whether Catholics are “violent extremists,” as an infamous FBI memo said.

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Stonewalling waste of time. Argh!  I’m a defund the FBI fanboy.  As well as a whole host of the TLAs (Three Letter Agencies)!

Argh!

I guess he never kept notes or prepared for his testimony.

What a waste of space.

Sorry, but I find politicians and bureaucrats singularly useless drones.  Parasites sucking off “We, The Sheeple”

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POLITICAL: Just say “no” to Federal Funds!

Tuesday, September 19, 2023

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/09/why_state_schools_should_refuse_federal_money.html

Why State Schools Should Refuse Federal Money
By Sheri Few

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The key to eliminating federal intervention in government schools is to eliminate federal funding.

The time is right for states to wean themselves off the federal dole. Serious conversations are taking place throughout the country about the legitimate and effective role of the federal government in education. But who has a viable plan to dismantle the behemoth?

The “Blueprint to Establish State Control of Education by Eliminating all Federal Education Dollars,” written by United States Parents Involved in Education (USPIE) outlines the necessary steps to restore state sovereignty for education policy and practice — and it’s achievable.

The Blueprint explains detailed steps to help governors and state legislators develop and execute a concrete plan, and even provides clear evidence as to how educational outcomes can improve.

States can eliminate federal funding in four steps:

1. Analyze education funds by source: federal, state, and local.

2. Conduct a Cost of Compliance Study for federal funds.

3. Identify state programs to replace USED programs.

4. Shift education revenue responsibilities entirely back to the state.

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One approach to generate required revenue could be to establish a state tax called “offset to federal funds” calculated to collect the amount needed. Since most of the federal tax is collected from income taxes, a replacement tax using the same model might be most easily understood by the public.

To keep from sending the federal government the money they previously took and gave back, taxpayers would need a mechanism to deduct this offset from their individual federal taxes. Since the state and local tax deductions were eliminated in the last major tax bill, a special arrangement would have to be made. However, there is benefit to the federal government in this arrangement as the savings from program improvements would be shared with them, since only the replacement funding is deducted.

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Like the mouse that doesn’t understand “free cheese”, so to “We, The Sheeple” need to just say “no” to “Federal funds”.

First off, there are NO “Federal funds”  — EVERYTHING comes from the Taxpayer in one way or another.

(The idea of sending money to the Federal Gooferment and getting pennies on the dollars back tied to conditions NEVER made any sense to me.  Eliminate all the layers and cost associated with it.)

Second, the results of Gooferment Skrules is absurd.

Argh!

Stop it.

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POLITICAL: The President is, or should be, the nightwatchment of resources for “We, The Sheeple”

Monday, September 18, 2023

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/09/energy_prices_in_america_are_going_to_get_much_worse_than_weve_ever_imagined.html

Energy prices in America are going to get much worse than we’ve ever imagined
September 10, 2023  — Unattributed 

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Joe Biden has seized control of an American asset and is withholding it from the American people to their detriment. He is doing so in service to an ideology that is belied by actual science, and that is fundamentally anti-humanist.

But of course, this isn’t Biden, who is a puppet. This is the Democrat party. If Biden or another Democrat gains the White House in 2024, expect more of the same until we have reverted to a medieval lifestyle that is, in Hobbes’s immortal words, “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” The dividing line between then and now is fossil fuel. Yank it out from under us, and it’s all over.

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They are not “his” assets to use to reinsure his political future.

Argh!

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POLITICAL: What Federal Gooferment agencies would you shut down?

Sunday, September 10, 2023

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/09/trumps_movement_transcends_politics.html

Trump’s Movement Transcends Politics
By Matt Kane

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But the gloves are now off. So much about the American political system is rooted in precedent, and a precedent has been set that will allow Trump to open investigations into the many troubling actions taken by his predecessors. Another Trump election could bring true generational change to America for the better. He has vowed he would quickly bring down inflation and gas prices, strengthen the economy, secure the border, and reintroduce a strong America on the global stage in just months. But taking on the Deep State is most important now, and he has demonstrated that he understands how vital this task is for America’s long-term future by recently urging Republicans in Congress to “fight fire with fire.” He also referenced “an eye for an eye” when asked, if re-elected, if he would “lock up” those in government who commit crimes.  

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Recently I read someone complain that calling Washington DC a swamp it really unfair to swamps everywhere.  A better adjective would be a sewer.  Like the old joke about calling politicians “morons” was unfair to real “morons”.

That being said, Vivek Ramaswamy has at least begun to address the list of Federal Gooferment agencies that he would shutdown.  Desantis has four.

Us little L libertarians, have an inexhaustible list: Federal Reserve, FBI, AFT, DHS, IRS, HHS, D of Education, D of Energy, Agriculture, … … and on and on and on. 

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