Shavua Tov, The Open Forum 05.17.23

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        1. george linker

          They simply tried it in the wrong place with the wrong kind of people. Those who do not provide their own food cannot possibly live without government. Those with violent tendencies will always become violent. The movement used violence to acheive their goals. More like socialism then anarchy.

          3. Chief Mac

            Did you know that we don’t eat that in Kentucky? We have Lee’s Famous Chicken instead

          4. Sapper 9

            Lee’s is way better than KFC.

            We have a local bar and grill that serves all you can eat fried chicken on Tuedays and that is cheaper than a tiny box of kfc.

          5. Weary Traveler

            KFC hasn’t been good in a long time. I’ll take Chick-Fil-A or Raising Cane’s over KFC any day.

          6. Sapper 9

            We have a raising caines and a Huey Mcgoos , but I haven’t tried either of them.

            I used to like Chik-fil-a, but I stopped eating their after the CEO said that we need to shine the shoes of black people.

          12. Sapper 9

            I used to make a big lunch order weekly with Chik-fil-a , but that has ended and one of the local bar and grills now fills that order.

          13. Weary Traveler

            I remember Kanye making a similar comment, but he said that Jews should have to work for Xtians. Isn’t that the very definition of slavery?

          14. Weary Traveler

            It’s a good thing Kentucky was also highlighted. I’ll just leave it at that. LOL

  7. bill smith

    I don’t know which, disqus or WP, but they are really annoying when they just end our comments on a given page.

    2. Weary Traveler

      If it was Disqus, W3P would be having this problem too, but they aren’t.

      Just here. I’m guessing it is WP.

    1. Chief Mac

      Now lets investigate the collusion of TaliBiden and his family with the Chinese Communist Party

  10. Tanto Greenberg tg)

    So, Nancy Pelosi and her chauffeur were out for a drive in the country, and as there were no other vehicles on the road they were going more than a little over the speed limit. Suddenly a cow wondered in their path and BAM! Hit her broadside. The chauffeur stopped on side of the road and Nancy said that since he was driving he should get out and check the cow. When got back into the limo he said, “It’s dead, but it was an old cow. Nancy then ordered him to go to the farmer’s house and tell him what happened which he did. He’d been gone a couple of hours and when he came back to the limo he was drunk as a skunk. His clothes were disheveled, his hair was a mess. Nancy asked “What happened to you? He said when the farmer answered the door I told him what happened. He shook my hand, invited me inside and while we drank a bottle of his best whiskey the farmer’s wife prepared the best steak dinner I’ve ever had, then his daughter made love to me. Nancy asked “What did you say to him?” Well, I told him that I was Nancy Pelosi’s chauffeur and I just killed the old cow.

    1. Weary Traveler

      HA!! I can see that happening. Except, Nancy would never be honest enough to have the driver alert the farmer to killing one of his livestock. Instead, she would try to find a way to pin it on Trump, or any of the Trump kids, even Baron.

    1. Weary Traveler

      What kind of a sicko actually practices that kind of…. “self-love” at work? Other than someone who voted for Biden.

      Good GAWD!! LOL

        1. Weary Traveler

          It IS a mental illness. And it is being celebrated by the evil among us that want depopulation in order to take us back to feudalism.

    2. Proud Conservative Mom

      GEVALT!! 😱😱😱😱😱😱

      These people aren’t just missing a few screws. The entire toolbox is gone.

      I cannot BELIEVE the world we live in.

      #MoshiachNow
      #GalusIsUnbearable
      #IHateLivingInSodomAndAmorrahland.

      💔💔💔😪😪😪

    1. Weary Traveler

      What an idiot.

      I think Trump said it best at the CNN town hall with that stupid little twit who kept trying to bait him in to picking sides, when he said he wants a peace deal, no more war.

      Unfortunately, the powers that aught not be want war, and they want to bankrupt the west in the process.

      They would actually really love to bring that war here if they could, but only after disarming the population so we can’t fight back.

      I agree with the false flag angle. It wouldn’t surprise me if she turned out to be some patsy like Oswald.

        1. Weary Traveler

          The left is only good at one thing which is gaslighting.

          Just like they love weaponizing guilt. Just as they like trying to convince you it is your fault that there are starving kids in Africa, and it is your job to do something about it, and you have no right to your creature comforts, they use a similar logic with regards to mass shootings.

          Now they are making it sound like it is every gun owner in America’s fault that Ukrainians don’t have guns to defend themselves. Oh, wait…. It’s not about defending themselves, it’s is about fighting Zelensky’s BS war.

          Gee… What happened to all the weapons we already sent over there? Oh, that’s right; Zelensky sold them o the black market.

          2. Weary Traveler

            At this stage, I wouldn’t be surprised if he had more than enough money to make Elon Musk look like a charity case.

        1. Weary Traveler

          Of course. Because she made herself the strawman caricature they want to paint of those of us who are opposed to “the message”.

          How dare I not stand with Ukraine, and not be willing to sacrifice my lifestyle for a corrupt warlord like Zelensky. And how dare I not regard him as a modern day Winston Churchill. I must be one of the most awful people alive. Because, well, just look at that clown.

          It reminds me of why the Liberal media loves to focus on those losers from The Westoboro Baptist Church. “Look!! Here’s some awful people we can all agree we hate, right? They hate gay people, so they must be conservatives. Hey, let’s all beat up on them together.” “Hey, Conservatives… You don’t want to be like those awful people do you? S you better support gay marriage with us, otherwise we will just say you are with them.”

          1. Proud Conservative Mom

            I concur absolutely!

            Indeed, they have to depict us as being haters.
            Heck they call us Nazis.

            How dare we want this country to be governed via the Constitution?

            As Sarge once said: “The Constitution 24/7/365, no excuses.”

            EXACTLY.

        1. Weary Traveler

          Funny thing is, the other day my mom was pointing out how much more my stepdad is helping out around their property after she laid down the law a few months back, letting hm know how exhausted she is.

          My answer to that was; “So I take it then you guys will be selling the house sooner rather than later, and he’ll be saying he wants to move back to the Bay Area.” She got a laugh out of that one.

      1. Weary Traveler

        They have to be the stupidest people on the face of the Earth. They defend those who embody all that they claim is evil about the west.

        I only wish I could send all the alphabet people to “Palestine”. It would certainly do us all a huge favor.

    1. Weary Traveler

      And neither one is a very good option. A lot more people are in therapy than you might think.

      Me personally, I would rather take the road that leads to questioning the status quo and defying what is wrong with it. I think it is called Punk Rock Ave. Or Counter Culture BLVD. LOL

  42. Weary Traveler

    The whole Mental illness defense is the lamest excuse ever. No one has a right to inflict their mental illness on to others.

    The left wants us to just let things happen to us because they hate us, and get off of the suffering of us “little people.” The real crime here in their eyes is really; “how dare you think you are a human being, and that you have, or even should have any basic rights at all.”

    Their only purpose is to make a Hell of Earth while they pass themselves off as saintly. They are the kings of gaslighting. They are very aware of their own hypocrisy. It’s part of how they like inflicting their cruelty on the rest of us.

    And the people that just stood there and watched a woman get raped… Seriously? May they all rot in Hell forever, and SOON!! Right along with the rapist.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hucKqS6ygw8

    1. Proud Conservative Mom

      You positively NAILED it.
      The crux of the matter is, they don’t want us to have any rights at all.

      I don’t give a heck what anyone else says, about us not protecting our loved ones.
      They MUST be protected.

      1. Weary Traveler

        Even a stranger. Sickening that a bunch of people would just stand by and watch a woman get raped as the reported towards the end. Wasn’t the victim a human being? Wasn’t she someone’s loved one?

        And they would just stand by and let THAT happen with their dead glazed faces, no wonder they let the politicians get away with abusing them, and why we have the kinds of politicians we do.

        1. Proud Conservative Mom

          That really sickened me.
          Exactly.
          It didn’t dawn on any of them that this woman is someone else’s loved one; that she is a PERSON.

          This is another side effect of being domiciled in Sodom and Amorah.
          We’re surrounded by evil, callous lunatics on every single level.
          😔😔😔

          1. Weary Traveler

            It reminds me of some of the stuff I read about Ancient Rome during its decline. When you have a corrupt society, life becomes very cheap.

        2. george linker

          Rape is a form of control, one exerting power over society. It is a standard form of military intervention.

          1. Weary Traveler

            And speaking of the Romans down below…. They are a classic example of how rape is a form of control. It was standard MO for their soldiers when they invaded. It was used to demoralize the men of the nations they conquered = raping their women.

          3. Weary Traveler

            Obviously not. For the sake of others, I will spare the graphic detail, but the alphabet people are proof that some are still stuck in the jungle.

    2. george linker

      Insanity is not only a defence it is also becoming the go to demand, accept my insanity. They are saying the insane are normal. It is an effort to undermine society and replace it with demonic control.

      1. Weary Traveler

        Right? It’s like Jr. High School logic.

        If a popular kid picks a fight with a geek, and the geek turns out to be a third degree black belt, and beats the crap out of the popular kid, leaving him with two black eyes and coming to school the next day on crutches, somehow the geek lost the fight, and got his ass kicked by the popular kid.

        It’s actually much worse than that with these people. But that’s your typical Democrat = the brain of a 12 year old.

    1. Weary Traveler

      Whenever these people are about to get nailed for something, there is always a false flag that leads to the death of many innocents. The Oklahoma City bombing is one example as is 9/11.

    1. george linker

      Mistakes like this are not mistakes they are efforts to manuipulate elections. A percentage of the people will now use the wrong ballots as planned. The election for which the ballots were printed shoud not happen is the only real remedy. Anything less is election manipulation and downright fraud. The democrats are up to shit again.

      1. Weary Traveler

        It’s the only way Democrats can win because they lost the people.
        Whoever they didn’t lose during the Trump years, they sure lost because
        of their tyrannical COVID policies as they showed themselves to be dictators. Only a very small handful of crazies would still vote for them.

    2. Proud Conservative Mom

      Of course, this was all fraud and cheating.
      We KNEW it.

      What troubles me is that I don’t see any legislation being put out to counteract it.

      I’m cheering Kari Lake on.
      She’s a real fighter.
      Of course, the election was stolen from her as well.

      1. Weary Traveler

        The elections were stolen from many. Dr. Oz, Tudor Dixon…. Among many others. But they just concede instead of fighting. Imagine if more of them tied up the courts like Kari Lake is.

  53. Weary Traveler

    The Battle Against Inflation Is Nowhere Near Won

    https://brownstone.org/articles/the-battle-against-inflation-is-nowhere-near-won/

    The worst part is that inflation is actually very easy to tackle. One, cut spending. Two, back the currency with a solid tangible asset. Going back to the gold standard would be the best bet.

    The only reason this never happens is because of career politicians who get rich laundering money as they wait to collect their all too generous government pensions. We are basically glorified serfs. We work harder and harder for less and less each year all so degenerates like Hunter Biden can smoke crack and screw underage hookers.

    1. george linker

      It seems my resposes are showing in the wrong questions. I deleted it and now it does not let me respond in the right question,

    2. Proud Conservative Mom

      GMTA!
      I told what you posted, earlier to someone on Twitter who was insisting that the U.S.S.A. has to pay its bills and raise the debt ceiling.

      It didn’t shock me that inflation is at a record 47%.
      One has to be opulent to purchase basic food.

      “The debt ceiling crisis is now the permanent condition of the nation’s fiscal governance because there is simply no political will to take on spending where it counts. That is, the $1.3 trillion national security budget and the the doomsday machine embodied in the automatic expenditures for the entitlements and mandatory spending accounts.”

      The Left is very purposefully doing this, along with the RINOS.

      NONE of this had to happen.

      On another note, the Gemarah talks about food prices being insanely high before Moshiach comes.
      It’s all coming to a head.

      It also talks about evil being very clearly defined (among other things) that is transpiring in real time.

      1. Weary Traveler

        People like the one you talked to do not realize our debt is a huge illusion and the whole thing is a giant ponzi scheme. A real audit of the Federal Resrve would prove this beyond any reasonable doubt. It only doesn’t happen because congress are the beneficiaries of the scam.

        But let’s go with the US has to pay it’s debts. Who took out the debts? The politicians. So why are we being made to suffer? How abut we start by going after their pensions and assets then?

  54. Proud Conservative Mom

    A new law has been introduced into New York’s state legislature with the goal of preventing tax-deductible donations from supporting Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria, commonly known as the West Bank.

    The “Not on our dime!: Ending New York funding of Israeli settler violence” act was put forward by assembly member Zohran Mamdani (Queens, N.Y.-District 36).

  56. Proud Conservative Mom

    @dr_darko:disqus, I had an insidious missionary try to convince me that I don’t understand the meaning of the verses in TANACH today.
    FYI, the brainiac admitted to not understanding Biblical Hebrew.
    (This is so typical, I don’t even blink anymore.)

    I asked him if he even understood how ridiculous he sounds.
    I am positively fluent in Biblical Hebrew.
    I don’t have to rely on the translations of anyone.

    (THANK G-D, for these people. I don’t know how I managed all of my years without their teachings. /sarc.)

    I am so @#$_&-+ sick of all of them (pardon my language).

    🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

    Apologies for venting.
    He was going after a Jewish person.
    I wasn’t going to take it sitting down.

    1. John Gillis

      Ugh! Good afternoon, Rivka. I hate these missionaries. I’ve seen them in college and all I could do was roll my eyes. Jews for Jesus was especially egregious. But that aside, there was a church called “Boston Church of Christ”, and they had the worst reputation for recruiting on campus. The worst thing was that they tried to convert others to join their church, but like the Scientologists, they demanded exorbitant sums of cash from their new members.

      A rabbi who taught religious studies at the university gave them a bitter scolding for having the chutzpah for being stupid and arrogant enough to challenge his knowledge of Judaism and he made them look pretty foolish.

      1. Proud Conservative Mom

        Jews for J are relentless.

        Missionaries are constantly infiltrating Jewish groups on college campuses.

        It’s a huge problem.

        Good for the Rabbi!
        👏👏👏❣️❣️❣️

    2. Weary Traveler

      You are going to love this… I came up with a great way to shut these people down you would appreciate. I tried this on Truth Social a month or two ago, and the thread got deleted when I angered the missionary so much that I got his true colors to come out, and his account got zapped because he was praising Hitler and Islam. In other words, he was an interloper from a troll farm, and I got him mad enough to drop the act. LOL

      Here’s what you do, which is basically what I did; Point out to them how amazing it is that a dog is capable of understanding the word “no” better than many humans, apparently. Then go on to say that it is probably because it is acceptable to whack a dog on the nose when saying “no” to them when they do something wrong, which is probably it sinks in. And then ask these missionaries if that’s what you need to start doing to get it through their empty little heads, which is start whacking them on the nose with a rolled up newspaper.

      I would love to see their response to that.

      1. Proud Conservative Mom

        I thought so as well.
        Two of the pictures are of the Kosel (Western Wall).

        FYI, Hashem swore that this wall would never be destroyed.
        As I always say, his track record is impeccable and proven.

    1. IsraelReader

      I heard firsthand, that there are developers want to do it, but many residents have no interest in the plan.

    1. IsraelReader

      It looks like, that unfortunately, “Alex”, has not come “full circle”, yet.
      He started out as a Chassidic boy, and today, sadly, appears to be bald-headed, without a kippa, and his “peyos” (side-locks) totally shaved off.

  71. bill smith

    Always after a crash of our comments section, a notice….
    “WordPress was updated to version 6.2.1 on your Managed WordPress site. “

      1. Weary Traveler

        All because a bunch of over-paid engineers don’t want to do their jobs properly.

    1. Weary Traveler

      I couldn’t get past the first paragraph. Of course, this is Medium so I am not surprised as they are known for drivel.

      I am certainly no “early bird”, but this is the most ridiculous thing I ever heard.

      There have been multiple studies regarding the primary differences between morning larks and night owls like myself. If anything, the world needs both, and the personality traits of both, along with the many variations in between.

      I have never looked at either or as being some inherent fault.

        1. Weary Traveler

          You got further than I did.

          I can’t believe people actually get paid to write such myopic drivel. Give me the paycheck. I’ll write a much better piece.

    2. Weary Traveler

      I was also just thinking… I bet a lot of leftist are not really night owls as they are just lazy. Which, BTW, bothers me as a night owl that I get to be branded along with those bad actors. Which is the whole point of the stupid we are made to live with in this life.

      So of course, it would make sense if they are being attacked for being lazy, that they would have to make the opposite = being productive, as a sign of something negative. And in the eyes of a leftist, nothing is worse than being a “racist”. Never mind that is what they all actually are in reality, and just like projecting on to others hoping we wont notice their own moral failings.

    3. Sapper 9

      A leftist city council person from Washington was demanding free housing for pedophiles, calling them a “vulnerable population.

      1. Weary Traveler

        They deserve to be “vulnerable.” The only housing they should get is inside a crematorium.

    6. Proud Conservative Mom

      I stopped reading halfway through the article.
      I couldn’t handle the insanity of it.

      Moreover, as @algorithmicanalyst:disqus stated, it is ABSOLUTELY shallow thinking.

      I was always an early riser and hard worker.
      I’m obviously a white supremacist. 🙄🤦

      EVERYONE has to be a victim.
      The bigger the victim the better.
      These fruitcakes keep on trying to shame us.

      It won’t work for anyone who has any modicum degree of intelligence.

      The sheeple will buy into it.
      🐏🐑

      1. Weary Traveler

        It’s been so lopsided lately thanks to the clowns and the Aspies, a MAJOR over-correction is needed.

        I would really like to enjoy paradise on this side of Heaven if possible.

  78. Weary Traveler

    He raises some really good points here.

    Especially since the whole self-esteem movement of the 1970s, there certainly is a lot of faux positivity, and the self-help gurus. I have always been one to say that “life coach” is a euphemism for “unemployed.”

    It is actually amazing how is you look up anything related to psychology online, it is all pop psychology, and offers no real solutions to anything. The way they over generalize people is dehumanizing in itself. What is scary about this that we haven’t yet seen the full effects of the PTSD that has been inflicted on our society from the mass psychological abuse that was inflicted on us with the COVID hype.

    If all we have is pop psychology and these self-help gurus, we’re in a lot of trouble.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8PYPy3xcyQ

    1. bill smith

      3 basic types of people… producers, assistants and thieves. The peddlers of false hope are a sub-category of thieves.

      1. Weary Traveler

        Agreed. I also love his other point at the end about the warped morality of leftists. What they peddle as compassion is actually cruelty. Cruelty towards the person they are saying they are helping, and to everyone else in society that gets to deal with the consequences, i.e., needle exchange programs.

    2. george linker

      I put that man in the same category as all the others he talks against. He is selling books to tell people how to live.

      1. Weary Traveler

        He even addresses that. The difference between him, and I would even add Jordan Peterson to the same group as he, and the others is actually offering reality based solutions as opposed to the pop psychology drivel that is so widely available everywhere.

        Rabbi Lapin has one also where he uses the Exodus story as an example of working past your problems.

          1. Weary Traveler

            Exactly. When you get down to it, Rabbi Lapin’s video podcasts are about self-help/improvement. But it isn’t the fluff you get from the pop psychology of today.

            Ever notice how he not only uses biblical examples, but examples from philosophy and literature, even movies, and real life anecdotes? He does that to show certain truths really are simply just objective realities. And that self-improvement isn’t usually as easy as just thinking nice thoughts, but actually making real effort, that often times can be difficult.

            It’s what people need to hear as opposed to just what people want to hear.

            He’s pragmatic, not new-agey.

          2. Proud Conservative Mom

            Rabbi Lapin is most definitely not fluff!

            Exactly. He gives examples from all over.
            I opine it’s because he thinks that he will be able to get more people to relate this way.

            Yup. Self-improvement takes real effort and can be very difficult at times.

            BINGO. He’s very pragmatic and not new-agey.

      1. bill smith

        It’s amazing what people can learn to like after becoming familiar. Giving my son a ride to school everyday, I thought his taste in music was complete crap… but day after day, I began to actually like much of it even to the point of listening to it by choice. Now at one of the pools I go to, the lifeguards are shocked and amazed…. when I arrive, they ask me what music they should play on the swimming pool system… I suggest some of the songs I learned because of my son and it actually freaks them out.

        1. Weary Traveler

          Marty and I have been talking a lot about acquired tastes and what not, and can you really acquire a taste for something, or not.

          And, is it ever worth it to.

          My view is, no, it is not worth it, even if having a taste for something means that you are more widely accepted either by society as a whole, or among certain circles.

          I have the “just be you” attitude. Someone doesn’t have to enjoy all the things I enjoy, or even certain things I enjoy to be my friend and hang out with me. We like what we like.

          2. Weary Traveler

            I think a lot of people work that way to a certain extent. Like my dad has his friends from the music world from his days as a DJ and promoter/producer, but also his friends from his motor rail car group, and the baby racoon rescue work that he does.

          4. Sapper 9

            It would be very dull to hang out with them otherwise, it would be like hanging with yourself but in volume.

            I am considered by most to be a life of the party type, but, a little of me goes a long way; I could not imagine a group all like me, it would be pure insanity. Lol

          6. Weary Traveler

            Yes, I try to be a better version as well. In spite of all the negative influences.

          8. IsraelReader

            Do like to drink beer?
            If yes, did you always like beer, even as a kid, or did you acquire the taste for it at some later time in life?

          9. Proud Conservative Mom

            There are definitely some things that a person can acquire a taste for it over time.

            For myself, broccoli, spinach, and cauliflower are perfect examples.

            With regard to music however, I opine that is different.
            That’s just this one woman’s opinion. 🤷

            I only like music that makes me feel connected to Hashem.
            I only listen to Jewish music.

            My sons have introduced me to beautiful songs over time.
            (It’s very hard to keep up with all of the singers.)
            Obviously, I don’t care for every song.

            Most of the time I do.
            I was introduced to Nolda this week.

            It moved me to tears in a very good way.

            https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d5g3bYBMYQc&pp=ygUSbm9sZGEgeW9zZWYga3VnbGVy

          10. Weary Traveler

            My whole thing is once I don’t like something, I am pretty much done with it. Maybe I am petty, but when I tell some people that I do not like a particular item, and they happen to like that item, they will say, “that’s because you haven’t had when it was prepared right.”

            1.) How would they possibly know how it was prepared?
            2.) It feels like I am having something pushed on me I do not want. Hence, the whacking the dog on the nose with the rolled up newspaper starts to come to mind. LOL

          11. Proud Conservative Mom

            Oh yes.
            The “you just haven’t prepared it right” line.
            I’ve heard that ad nauseam.

            That analogy regarding the dog really made me laugh out loud.

            On another note, Ben Shapiro and his wife had a healthy little boy today.
            Amidst the congratulations and Mazal Tov wishes, someone wished him Congratulations and then said that perhaps he’ll introduce this one to J.
            I advised him that Ben is an Orthodox Jew.

            He said he knew that, but it wasn’t impossible.
            After all, he saw an Olympic winning Decathlon male change his gender.

            I told him that Ben is a very proud Orthodox Jew.
            He is very solid and proud of his religion and heritage and it will never happen.

            I took a preemptive strike and said that he wouldn’t ever make any leeway with me either.

            These scum are like cockroaches.
            They’re everywhere.

            I have to remember to use your material next time.

          12. Weary Traveler

            First and foremost, that is so awesome Ben had a baby today. That is so awesome.

            Yes, leave it to some a-hole missionary to ruin such a beautiful moment. I am so sick of it. I have actually had to drop a few F— JC’s on these people.

          14. Weary Traveler

            Since I cannot whack them on the nose with a rolled up newspaper… LOL

            I did have to go that far once. Again, because some people don’t take “no” for an answer. It’s only two little letters. How hard can it be?

          16. Proud Conservative Mom

            There are definitely some things that a person can acquire a taste for it over time.

            For myself, broccoli, spinach, and cauliflower are perfect examples.

            With regard to music however, I opine that is different.
            That’s just this one woman’s opinion. 🤷

            I only like music that makes me feel connected to Hashem.
            I only listen to Jewish music.

            My sons have introduced me to beautiful songs over time.
            (It’s very hard to keep up with all of the singers.)
            Obviously, I don’t care for every song.

            Most of the time I do.
            I was introduced to Nolda this week.

            It moved me to tears in a very good way.

            https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d5g3bYBMYQc&pp=ygUSbm9sZGEgeW9zZWYga3VnbGVy

          17. Weary Traveler

            I used to like it, but not all of it. The big domestic brands always tasted like swill to me. I was more partial to German beer. But as of the last ten, almost 15 years now, alcohol makes my stomach queasy, so I haven’t had any kind of an adult beverage since.

    2. bill smith

      Billy Joel just turned 74…. and as far as I remember, Mic Jagger is about the same age as Bidet.

          1. Weary Traveler

            I would not have guessed you were 50 just looking at you. I would have guessed early 40s.

          2. Proud Conservative Mom

            That’s very kind of you.
            I’ll take it. 😊😊😊

            You are aging very well yourself as well.
            Same.
            I would think ten years younger.

            Life is going by so very fast.
            It’s crazy.

          3. Weary Traveler

            With how crazy everything has been, I am surprised my hair didn’t turn white. LOL

          5. Weary Traveler

            I got highlights too. I like mine. I think they look cool. But my hair is also so dark brown that it is almost black, so to me it looks kind of cool.

      2. Weary Traveler

        BTW; I notice he and I obviously shop through some of the same vendors. I have that exact shirt he’s wearing.

          1. Weary Traveler

            Keep in mind, in the independent music world, if they are able to be full time musicians, and live comfortably, it means they are living in middle class neighborhoods like yours or mine.

            Someone like Moorings is certainly not rolling in money like Mic Jagger.

            Now, although that is a specialized line of clothing that you are not going to find in a department store, you are talking specialized boutiques for brick and Mortar like my good friend, Terri owns down in LA. Or online boutiques, or even through the makers themselves. It’s not Nordstrom expensive, but it isn’t Kohl’s cheap either.

            Depending on the maker, and style, a button-up men’s shirt like that can run anywhere from $40 to $80. Mine cost me $60.

          3. Weary Traveler

            Indeed. I used an online retailer based in Lithuania. When I was working, I certainly expanded that portion of the wardrobe. Considering what I spent, I got a good amount of shirts and pants, and even a nice pair of boots.

            I’m laughing a bit right now because I can just hear what Marty would say in the conversation. You say “not bad” he would say “that’s a lot of money for a shirt.” Keeping in mind, and I am not trying to be mean, that this is guy who does his clothes shopping at the bargain bin at Costco. LOL

          4. Proud Conservative Mom

            It’s all relative.
            I tend to shop when things are on sale.
            I hate paying full price.

            On average, my shirts from Lands End cost me $20-34 dollars per shirt and I always scour the internet for discount codes in addition.

            I have also done extremely well on ebay.
            I have gotten timeless and classic looks for a “song.”
            No one knows any better.
            They’re new and I receive alot of compliments.

            Of course, I never have an outdated look and will add a couple of things that are the current trend (sans the insane “Little House on the Prairie” look that was in this year.
            I wish I was joking.
            I’m not.)

          5. Weary Traveler

            Land’s End is a good one. They have some nice stuff.

            Marty, OTOH, has never been one to care at all about style, just comfort.

    1. Weary Traveler

      FDR was a failure on many other levels.

      Biden is no one to criticize though. Not only is he a failure as both a president and as human being, I will never forget his dark red speech, and other speeches similar to that he has given since.

      He sounds nothing at all like say, Winston Churchill. But he does sound a lot more like Hitler.

      As far as I am concerned, no Democrat should ever be allowed to talk about the holocaust ever again. Because they are the problem. The only way they could make anything right at this point would be public suicides.

      1. Proud Conservative Mom

        Agreed on all fronts.

        Indeed, no Dem should be allowed to talk about the Holocaust.
        They make me sick.
        😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

        I opine that Bidet* would’ve been a Neville Chamberlain.
        He always was a fool.

        3. Chief Mac

          The reason I do not agree with the allegorical comparison with Neville Chamberlain is that he was a good man that was stupid enough to believe he could make a deal with evil for the good of the people. TaliBiden is an evil person that will make a deal with anybody for the good of his bottom line. He just doesn’t give a damn

          2. Chief Mac

            He is evil not naive and he makes Chamberlain positivity brilliant in comparison

          4. Weary Traveler

            I have to respectfully disagree. I have a very hard time believing that pacifists are “good” people on any level. Even if stupid, stupid people tend to be far more destructive than those who are intentionally evil.

            Either knowingly or not, they weaponize our empathy and kindness against us, and do nothing but evil while claiming some moral high ground. I simply have zero use for people like that.

          5. Proud Conservative Mom

            That was my first reaction.

            (I’m temporarily a bit insecure regarding my reasoning skills. 🙈🙉🙊) I always felt that about pacifists like Chamberlain.

            Moreover, he was very evil because he made a deal with Hitler.
            He was a fool for not understanding that Hitler wouldn’t be satisfied with just the Sudetenland.
            These monsters never are satisfied with something relatively small.
            They want it all.

    3. Proud Conservative Mom

      Shavuah Tov AA!
      It’s wonderful to see you.

      I usually don’t post articles from the JP.
      This one, is extremely accurate.
      I opine that you would appreciate it.

      Rabbi Michoel Ber Weissmandl ZTL submitted detailed information about the railroad tracks and mentioned that tens of thousands of Jews were murdered daily.
      No one gave a heck.

      When I read in your article about what Obama said, I wanted to toss my cookies.
      He would have happily gassed my relatives.

      He is a serial liar.

      https://m.jpost.com/opinion/accomplices-to-the-holocaust-539389

      1. AlgorithmicAnalyst

        Thanks PCM!

        One other thing is, bombing the railways would have helped the Allied war effort, by diverting German resources from other railways that were being used to shift troops back and forth, etc.

    1. Chief Mac

      I remember this one

      Theodore Landon “Ted” Streleski (b. 1936) is an American former graduate student in mathematics at Stanford University who murdered his former faculty advisor, Professor Karel de Leeuw, with a ball-peen hammer on August 18, 1978. Shortly after the murder, Streleski turned himself in to the authorities, claiming he felt the murder was justifiable homicide because de Leeuw had withheld departmental awards from him, demeaned Streleski in front of his peers, and refused his requests for financial support. Streleski was in his 19th year pursuing his doctorate in the mathematics department, alternating with low-paying jobs to support himself.

    2. Sapper 9

      It is, oddly I have parts of my life that keep circling around as if I have been guided to it.

      It has recently happened again, with a donation from a local restaurant to a special Olympics event that my youngest daughter was helping to put together.

      My professional life had just circled through her business in the oddest way; then my daughter told me that every year her business has provided a donation of catering the event.

      The story is long, but, that is the most recent chapter in this. Lol

      1. Proud Conservative Mom

        That’s wonderful!
        There is no such thing as a coincidence.

        Every person that you meet is divinely orchestrated.
        Of course, that never negates free will.

        On another note, my husband is giving a presentation in your state (in St. Louis).
        He’s leaving tomorrow morning and coming back on Tuesday night, Be’Ezras Hashem.

        1. Sapper 9

          I am sure that he will be in one of the nicer areas, but, St Louis is Missouri’s version of Chicago.

          2. Sapper 9

            It is run by Democrats and has been under the control of a soros prosecutor who refused to prosecute criminals.

            Recently a couple was on a very clear video where they shot into a crowd, but, the video wasn’t enough evidence for her to prosecute.

          4. Weary Traveler

            I remember seeing a video tour recently of East St. Louis which is right across the river in Illinois. It looked like a miniature version of Gary, IN.

  94. Proud Conservative Mom

    🚨Just In – IDF confirms car-ramming attack in Huwara, launches search for fled assailant

    The Israel Defense Forces confirms reports of a suspected car-ramming attack in the northern West Bank town of Huwara.

    Troops are scanning the area for the alleged assailant, who is thought to have fled toward the Nablus area.

    One Israeli man lightly hurt in the suspected attack is taken to the Beilinson hospital in Petah Tikvah, the Rescuers Without Borders emergency service says.

    The IDF says it will provide further details later on the incident.

    – Raw And Unfiltered News

  95. Tony

    “US President Joe Biden said Russia had suffered more than 100,000
    casualties in Bakhmut, the destruction of which
    Zelensky compared to the
    US World War II atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, in Japan.”
    Reasonable to assume that there have been Ukrainian losses.
    This war is an insanity. Who on either side would want it.I find it ditticult to continue supporting Zelensky whether or not he is doing the right thing’

    1. Weary Traveler

      Consider this; if Russia was really as bad off in this entire conflict as we have been told, then why has the war continued for over a year and half, and the west has had to spiral itself in to further bankruptcy leading to hyper-inflation, and deplete its own resources for so little to have changed?

      As you know, I have no favorable view of Zelensky. I would go as far as to say that everything that has been said about Putin actually applies to Zelensky + 1,000.

      If I am going to forced to choose a side in this, then I would have to say “I’m rootin’ for Putin.” Because it would be very bad news for NATO and western intelligence, who are far worse actors than Putin.

        1. Weary Traveler

          I do admit that I do have somewhat of an “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” mentality. I truly despise NATO and our three letter agencies with a passion, and that included the top brass at DoD who love wars and acting like little emperors to justify their inflated budgets, while gaslighting us by saying that to question them and their motives is somehow “unpatriotic”.

          But overall, and even that aside, it is the west and NATO that have been violating their agreements with Russia since the Cold War ended. The people propping up Zelesnky would love to see the US and Russia fire nukes at each other, and see both countries destroyed. They are really no less evil than the evil fanatical mullahs in charge of Iran.

          Donald Trump says he can solve it all in 24hrs, and I believe him. But again, there are those who don’t want him to, and not just because it would make Trump look good. They are literally willing to burn down the whole western hemisphere just to keep their own crimes from being exposed, and themselves from ever having to face the firing squad they so deserve to face.

    2. george linker

      All wars are insanity. Zelensky is not doing the right thing or the war would not have started.

          1. Proud Conservative Mom

            THANK YOU.
            I had this argument with someone who read what I wrote about cutting spending (I named several ways).
            He said that we have to be responsible, pay our bills, and raise the debt ceiling.

            I responded: NO. Just NO. We’re in debt many trillions of dollars and it’s unsustainable.
            The spending has to be drastically slashed.
            For starters, all of the duplicate departments in the federal government should be shut down. The IRS agents that keep on being increased to weaponize the government against We the People, should be fired. The pork barrel legislation has to end, and promises regarding it need to be walked backwards.
            You get the idea.

            In the private sector the credit cards would have been cut a very long time ago.

          2. Sapper 9

            No one could map all of the agencies and what they do.

            First cut all the grants to the “non-profits” and “ngos” , make every agency account for where every penny went of last Years budget , stop the free handouts to the world, stop defending Europe, let them pay for their defense.

            Not a single penny to illegals.

            Recently the Bidet regime gave a $60,000 grant of our money to a drag queen that writes children’s books.

            Go back to the enumerated powers .

            Raising the debt ceiling allowing our government to borrow to pay it’s bills makes our government a ponzi scheme.

          4. Weary Traveler

            I would also take away the pensions and healthcare benefits to the politicians. And to all government workers for that matter. Just to make a point. Okay… Just to be a jerk. …to them. LOL

          5. Sapper 9

            Politicians should get a 401k payment, not a lifelong retirement after a few years.

          9. Proud Conservative Mom

            Good afternoon Sarge!
            How are you doing?

            Those flowers are so very beautiful! 🥰🥰🥰

            TYMK for sharing… 😊😊😊

            How are you doing?
            It’s sunny 🌞😎 and 80 degrees currently.

          10. "Divergent" sgthwjack ✯

            About the same here. Doing good still. Perfect working weather, keeps me out of trouble, mostly. 😉😎

          15. Sapper 9

            There are so many things to add to the list we could keep adding for the next decade: shrimp on treadmills, studies of why Lesbians are fat, doggie hamlet, plays in the park depicting the assassination of President Trump, programs teaching English to transvestites in Pakistan, etc, etc, ,…………………………..

          16. Weary Traveler

            Who was this moron? Raising the debt ceiling is the opposite of being responsible and paying one’s bills.

          17. Sapper 9

            Borrowing money devalues all other currency in circulation including the dollars that are paid back, it is a form of default.

            I will make a very simple explanation; if I borrow a dollar and pay 3% interest on it , then devalue all other dollars by creating 8% inflation, the dollar I return is worth $.92 + .03 interest = $.95 , shorting you $.05.

            At some point no one will loan us money at reasonable terms

            THIS IS A DEFAULT ON OUR OBLIGATIONS and is not responsible.

    1. Chief Mac

      We control their minds. But that really doesn’t mean much since the average mouse is far more intelligent

  98. Weary Traveler

    “Everyone in a position of influence knows the rules. Don’t talk about the lockdowns. Don’t talk about the mask mandates. Don’t talk about the vaccine mandates that proved useless and damaging and led to millions of professional upheavals. Don’t talk about the economics of it. Don’t talk about collateral damage. When the topic comes up, just say “We did the best we could with the knowledge we had,” even if that is an obvious lie. Above all, don’t seek justice.“

    Not hard to figure out why they would say that. Especially that last bit.

    Since they took us back to medieval times with their Neo-Feudalistic policies, I say make their punishment medieval. #NeverForgive #NeverForget.

    Sorry, This Is Not Going Away

    https://brownstone.org/articles/sorry-this-is-not-going-away/

  102. Proud Conservative Mom

    K. T. McFarland, a former Deputy National Security Advisor, says the FBI, Justice Department, and CIA will rig the 2024 U.S. presidential election, following their success in rigging 2016 and 2020, because they won’t allow any candidate to win that would hold them accountable:

    “We now have black-and-white evidence that the FBI interfered in the 2016 election. When they failed to elect Hillary Clinton, they set out to destroy the Trump administration.”

    – Raw And Unfiltered News

  105. Weary Traveler

    JFC… Seems Trigglypuff was reincarnated.

    Nebraska senator flips out debating ban on sex change surgeries for minors, screams ‘we need trans people’

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nebraska-senator-flips-out-debating-ban-sex-change-surgeries-minors-screams-we-need-trans-people

    In case you forgot who TrigglyPuff was, aka, Cora Segal, here’s a reminder.

    https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/trigglypuff

    Oh, and that fat disgusting pig apparent;y had a job teaching some type of health and nutrition class.

    1. george linker

      It is really sad that evil can exist in the government. She is not even smart enough to know there is no such thing as trans people.

      1. Weary Traveler

        Exactly. It’s just mental illness, and pandering to it isn’t doing them any favors.

        1. Weary Traveler

          They will make excellent cannon fodder. I’ll personally build a shrine to Putin if he fills those fruitcakes full of holes.

  106. Weary Traveler

    Wow… Just listening to this… A former SF City Supervisor that gets it and is telling it like it is.

    I lived and worked in that city for many years. It wasn’t what you would call “great” in the 90s, other than having a decent Goth scene. But compared to now, it was paradise. It doesn’t even have a decent counter culture scene anymore.

    It used to be such a fun place to live. I see that city’s skyline everyday from where I am, and almost breaks my heart, because even from across the bay I can see how dead it is now.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en-aC4AuAzw

    1. george linker

      Why is it that no one is seeing that it is the marijuana laws that changed things? Legalizing marijuana led to all their problems. What is now filliing society is drunken pot smokers who have no values.

      1. Weary Traveler

        Marijuana certainly exacerbated it quite a lot, just as it did in Colorado, which was the first state to legalize recreational use of Marijuana. I remember comparing it to the drug SOMA in Brave New World, which I was also saying about antidepressants.

    1. Proud Conservative Mom

      BubbieJ is wonderful.
      This is very beautiful! 🥰🥰🥰

      On another note:
      Manifold, she Tweets a link to My Jewish Learning.
      That site is completely unreliable and is incorrect and inaccurate at least sixty percent of the time.
      I have investigated it for myself.
      Those were my findings (and the findings of many others as well).

      I just want you to be aware of it, as well as everyone else herein.

  109. Proud Conservative Mom

    Democrats Eye Transplants For Illegals – NYT

    NY legislators are planning to make Americans’ organ donations – especially kidney transplants – available to migrants ahead of thousands of US citizens – making Social Security Numbers pointless.

    A bill which is under consideration in the State Legislature would add kidney transplants to the limited menu of emergency medical services provided to undocumented immigrants without insurance, the NYT writes.

    8,500 people in New York state are waiting for transplants, but because illegals “face major impediments” to the operations, they should be given greater access, it’s claimed.

    In 2021, 820 Americans died while waiting for a donor because they became ill “before an organ became available,” an official report states.

    – Raw And Unfiltered News

  110. Proud Conservative Mom

    🚨New – European officials are quietly preparing for the possibility Biden loses the next election

    There’s still more than a year to go before U.S. voters head to the polls, but at the heart of the European Union, officials are already racing to get as much as possible done before any potential change of leadership in the White House.

    “There is unprecedented close cooperation and coordination between the EU and the current U.S. administration. It goes from official levels to the highest levels,” an EU official, who preferred to remain anonymous due to the sensitive nature of the situation, told CNBC.

    “The EU is aware that this [cooperation] is not a given and such approach might change when there is someone like [former President Donald] Trump in the White House again. And the EU tries to use this momentum to advance [a] number of files, topics where there are shared interests,” the official added.

    – Raw And Unfiltered News

  111. Proud Conservative Mom

    RFK Jr. And Podcaster Dave Smith Discuss ‘Money-Laundering Scheme’ In Ukraine

    “It’s a money-laundering scheme… We give $113B to Ukraine, but 90% of that comes right back to the military-industrial complex… You have this whole thing that’s rigged to provide a constant pipeline of new wars in order to feed the military-industrial complex,” the Democratic challenger said.

    – Raw And Unfiltered News

  112. Proud Conservative Mom

    Prison Officer Encouraged Terrorism Through Alleged Neo-Nazi Rap Songs

    Ashley Sharp, 42, founder of the White Stag Athletic Club, allegedly wanted to train others to be “soldiers” for the racist cause.

    The prison officer is accused of encouraging terrorism through neo-Nazi rap songs that made reference to killing Jewish people, referred to gay people as “degenerates,” and that told people to “pick up” where Hitler left off – which he said was all parody.

    – Raw And Unfiltered News

  113. Proud Conservative Mom

    Steve Hilton: We now know for sure that under James Comey the FBI interfered in the 2016 election to help Hillary Clinton and hurt Donald Trump

    “The Durham Report reveals the ‘Russian Collusion’ investigation should’ve never happened, the DOJ and FBI failed to follow the law. And the establishment’s beloved Mueller Report was a partisan cover-up! We know Hillary Clinton cooked up [the Russian Hoax] in July of 2016. She approved the hoax as a distraction from her own rotten scandals.”

    – Raw And Unfiltered News

    1. Proud Conservative Mom

      Steve Hilton: In response to the Durham Report, the FBI claims they took corrective actions that have been in place for some time…oh really? They’re so-called “corrective actions” were in place in 2020 and the politicization just rolled on [with the Hunter Biden laptop cover-up]

      “That is what you call election interference and meddling in an election, but it wasn’t Russian meddling, it was the FBI meddling, just like they did in 2016.”

      – Raw And Unfiltered News

  115. Weary Traveler

    Per an earlier conversation… The warped morality of a pacifist perfectly summed up.

    This not only perfectly sums up the minds of people like Neville Chamberlain or Jimmy Carter, but also the narratives we get from the likes of the BDS movement.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCDYoT1zPtk

  116. John Gillis

    Shavua Tov, everyone!

    Question, and maybe you’ll have some insight. I fear that since God has been removed from our society, it has degenerated into an abyss that seemingly matches the Jerry Springer Show. At times, I feel like Lot, before leaving the city of Sodom, and opine whether or not I should leave the US. The only reason I would not leave is because this nation is still the most gun-friendly nation (feel free to correct me if I’m mistaken), and I think at least I can fight if and when the s*** hits the fan.

    Is America still worth fighting for? I’d like to believe so. I would like to believe that there are enough Americans who feel as I do and would fight back against the idiocy that has been perpetrated on our society by the Marxists.

    Thoughts? If I were to give up on the US, I’d head to Israel, at least to give support to the IDF in any manner I could.

    Pardon my rant, but seeing too much of the gender nonbinary nonsense, the border flooding and every stupid kid getting a gender studies degree has me beyond disgusted.

    1. Tony

      Why do you think it is just America ? Sitting here in the U.K., it’s just the same.This sex-change insanity is invading our schools, our government is revolting.
      and protests by idiots are all over the place, and it seems to be the same in most other countries. It’s not America that’s going down the drain, it’s everywhere.
      Running away never was the answer to anything.

      2. george linker

        The world is in a downward spiral of sin that will not end short of gods return. There is nothing anyone can do about it when evil is in control of the world.

      3. Proud Conservative Mom

        I concur with the concept overall, but with one quid pro quo.

        Sometimes it’s time to leave.
        Our passports are updated in case we have to leave at any moment.

        Never Again won’t be Never Again until Moshiach comes.

    2. Weary Traveler

      My short answer is, we have no other choice but to fight for our homeland. Not just our country, but our states and cities.

      Indeed America is still worth fighting for, and is because of our Bill of Rights and Federalist papers. Most other parts of the world are actually in worse shape than us.

      I will tell you exactly what I say with regards to blue state vs. red state, and if leaving your blue state for the seemingly greener pastures of a red state. First of all, the same interlopers who ruined blue states like my home state of California, will not rest until they have taken all states, even solid red states like Florida, Texas, Idaho, and South Dakota, all of which, I might add, have blue pockets in their larger cities.

      They don’t want to keep it confined there. Just look at Nevada and Arizona right now. Nevada went from red to swing, to now blue. Same thing in Arizona, and both states were popular destinations for California expats fleeing the likes of San Francisco Democrats which actually run the state because San Francisco has its own Tammany Hall. Even more so than LA. Just look at the top leadership in state government here, from elected officials like the governor, and top appointed officials. More come from the Bay Area, namely San Francisco, than even Los Angeles which is a much larger city.

      This alone should be very telling that things are not on the up and up here.

      The way you are told the story is that blue state expats move to red states, fail to learn their lessons and like locusts, vote the same way and ruin those states. Although there is truth to that narrative, it is not even half of what else is really happening, and how it is all by design. It’s called “displacement.” Empires have carried out similar tactics when they would conquer one region as they would displace the local population, and replace them with peoples from another conquered territory, so that no one would have any connection to the land in which they were domiciled, therefore they would be less likely to defend it.

      It’s another aspect of the divide and conquer technique, and we are seeing it play out domestically right now. But between states and our fellow citizens instead of whole countries, with domestic politics being the vehicle.

      You would think people in red states would be stoked about conservative refugees fleeing their blue states for red states, but I can tell you that is not really the case. I have brought this up before, and it bears repeating. Whether I go on Truth Social, or even YouTube at some realtor’s channel talking about a popular destination in a red state, most of the feedback from the locals, even to their fellow MAGA patriots is all the same = “Don’t come here, we’re full.”

      I am going to make a few recommendations to you on some things to look in to regarding this topic, and have you get back to me with your thoughts on this because I think this is a very important conversation we should all be having. Consider it a homework assignment, and I am assigning to anyone who is asking themselves the same questions you are right now, and really wants a grasp on what is happening right now.

      1.) Look in to a book called “The Road to Somewhere” by David Goodhart.

      https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-road-to-somewhere/

      I have talked about this very book here before, and for good reason. I highly recommend looking for interviews with the journalist talking about it. He is the only person on the left I know about who has not demonized Trump voters and Brexit supporters. He makes some excellent points that I think are very noteworthy for discussion.

      2.) Take the time, if you have not already, to watch the video I just posted below from the Epoch Times interview show, California Insiders where they interview a former San Francisco City Supervisor. As a local, I can tell you he is hitting the targets a lot more than he is missing them. Take some time to digest what he is saying, and let me know what you think.

      3.) Check out this short clip from Crossroads, where he interviews the host of California Insiders.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNgojV0Fkyg

      It’s not a very long interview, but I would also add that I highly recommend checking out the documentary mentioned here. I did watch it, and it is very telling.

      Now, I realize a lot of what I told you is very California-centric, however, keep in mind that Cali is the canary in the coalmine. Meaning, that other states will follow suit as well, if this isn’t stopped in ALL 50 states. Not just the red states.

      1. Weary Traveler

        As long as there are people around who still believe in G-d, G-d has not been totally removed from society. Remember in Genesis the story of Lot in Sodom, where G-d was more than willing to spare the city if Lot could find just one other righteous man in the city. Just one. There is far more than just one here in America, and even other parts of the world.

        Man can turn his back on G-d, but cannot remove G-d. The world still belongs to Hashem as it is His creation.

        1. george linker

          In the story god did not save the cities, he removed the ones who still believed destroying the cities when they left. The cities were not given yet another chance. It was enough is enough. America has fewer then most people think and the ones that are left are under constant attack.

          1. Weary Traveler

            Fewer than anyone thinks? I disagree. We have a corporate media that loves to amplify the crazies and bad actors making them seem much larger in number than they are.

            It’s part of the mass psychological warfare they have been conducting on us for years. There are still far more good people than bad.

            The biblical story is that G-d doesn’t punish the innocent alongside the guilty as many Xtians like to claim when they push their end time BS, or use any thing they can to scare people in to worshiping JC and in to their churches, like when Jerry Falwell claimed 9/11 was G-d’s “judgement” on America over Roe V. Wade. I am pro life and I find that statement of his evil and disgusting. And funny enough, the Muzzies who supported and carried out the attack agree with him.

            I know that’s not who G-d is.

          2. george linker

            I put the numbers in america of those who follow god below 10 percent of the population. God can destroy an entire region leaving the one house of good people.

          3. Weary Traveler

            I would argue the numbers are far greater than that. Ten percent might be more applicable if you are talking about the truly lost and truly evil.

          4. george linker

            I was actually being generous. I find few really believe in god any more. It is little more than window dressing.

          5. Weary Traveler

            I would argue that what is actually happening now is more people questioning *religion* and and being more turned off by it, especially the church, as Xtianity is still the world’s largest religion with nearly one third of the world’s population identifying as some variation of one.

            As I have stated here in the past, Xtianity is more of a default position in the west when it comes to religious beliefs. And that is because for better or worse, and there are plenty of arguments to be made for both, Xtianity has been a very influential part of western civilization.

            With that said, since the COVID scam, ALL institutions are being questioned more, including religion, with the church taking a bit of a nose dive in regards to dwindling attendance. That does NOT however, necessarily equate either becoming an Atheist, or even going completely the other way and getting in to the big LARP called Satanism.

            If anything, when people question religion, they become more agnostic. Where they go from there depends on many factors that are unique to each individual. It stands to reason with so much of the stuff people were told in churches over the years, or even how the church’s baggage has surfaced more and more.

            Whether it is more people questioning the church, religion itself, education, “the science”, government, etc., it is actually a healthy thing because it means that things are coming to a head, and we can finally start separating the wheat from the chaff, and because of the mass corruption in all the above institutions, there is a lot of chaff in need of being purged. Once enough people can get past the hurt and the resentment, more will find their way.

          6. george linker

            Most don’t even know their religion has been replaced by the religion of science thru life long indoctrination. People don’t question science they believe science. It is totally evident with vaccines with the masses pushing for laws to mandate vaccines. It is the greater good of public health that is being invoked.

          8. Weary Traveler

            The problem was after the 30 Years War, people correctly was how ridiculous the church was, and where it lead, but the falsely believed that only religion had that flaw when taken to its extreme. They didn’t think science could do that, but that was also because they had not yet seen how science could be so abused and its ugly side had not been fully revealed yet. Especially like it is now via the COVID tyranny and climate hysteria.

          9. george linker

            It is society that is the problem. According to sociology religion is what ever society is worshipping currently. Religion is what ever society assigns excessive belief in. The real problem is no one knew what religion was in the past.

            Hero worship is foolish or excessive admiration of someone

            Worship is to honor or respect (someone or something) as a god

            http://www.sylviaengdahl.com/opinion/medicine.htm

        2. Proud Conservative Mom

          Actually that’s erroneous.
          Hashem told ABRAHAM that He would save Sodom and Amorah if ABRAHAM was able to find TEN righteous people.

          Your closing paragraph is extremely spot on.

          1. Weary Traveler

            Didn’t it start with ten, and then bargained down to just one?

            If I recall the context correctly; G-d already knew there wasn’t a single soul in that city that was salvageable, but allowed Lot to see for himself. However, the fact that Lot was being warned to get out first, also proves G-d’s word correct, as he wasn’t going to destroy the city until Lot and his family left, i.e., He was not going to punish the innocent along with the wicked.

            Unless I am getting something wrong, that is how I recall the story.

          2. Proud Conservative Mom

            No.
            It started out with 50 and Abraham bargained it down to 10.
            Hashem allowed ABRAHAM to see for himself that there wasn’t even a quorum of ten righteous people.
            Hashem didn’t communicate with Lot at all.

            Lot was not a righteous person.
            He was willing to protect his guests by offering up his own daughters to the angry mob.
            (Who would do such a thing?! 🤦)

            Lot and his family were saved due to the merit of Abraham.
            He wouldn’t have been saved otherwise.

            Lot’s wife didn’t follow instructions so she was turned into a pillar of salt measure for measure as a result of her evil actions.

            She went around to her neighbors asking to borrow salt because she needed it for her guests.

          3. Weary Traveler

            “He was willing to protect his guests by offering up his own daughters to the angry mob.”

            I never understood that part either. That’s the kind of situation where a high powered machine gun comes in real handy. LOL…

            I know the mob were a bunch of “pillow biters”, and maybe that was to make some point, but still… Like one really needs to go that far to prove said point.

          5. Weary Traveler

            “Pillow Biter” is a euphemism for a homosexual, since Sodom was supposed to be like the San Francisco of its time, but even worse.

          6. Weary Traveler

            “He was willing to protect his guests by offering up his own daughters to the angry mob.”

            I never understood that part either. That’s the kind of situation where a high powered machine gun comes in real handy. LOL…

            I know the mob were a bunch of “pillow biters”, and maybe that was to make some point, but still… Like one really needs to go that far to prove said point.

    4. Proud Conservative Mom

      Good afternoon.
      Because Never Again won’t be Never Again until Moshiach comes, all of our passports are updated in case the Jewish People have to suddenly flee to Israel.

      I’m hoping to move there before that transpires.

  117. Tony

    Montana’s governor on Saturday signed Senate Bill 458, which states there are only
    two sexes – male and female – and they are assigned from birth
    The bill allows transgender people to ‘identify with whatever gender, but not sex, they wish’
    Montana follows a lead set by Tennessee, Kansas and North Dakota: The Human
    Rights Campaign has labeled the laws as ‘erasure acts’

      1. Sapper 9

        Only 10% of the mate to female transvestites are homosexuals, the other 90% just like to play dress-up, it is a perverted sexual fetish and voyeurism

        1. Weary Traveler

          What is terribly sad about it, is that it just goes t show how much sexual confusion and sexual trauma is out there. “Let it all hang out” they said. Things really went down hill from there.

          1. Proud Conservative Mom

            Agreed.

            I’m so very dreading June. It’s sad because my mother’s birthday is in June.

            I was on the way back home from a wedding last year.
            We drove back through Manhattan.
            I don’t even know what I was looking at.
            It was that bad.

          2. Weary Traveler

            And I will be in SF in mid June. I am sure I am going to lose even more faith humanity after seeing that.

          3. Proud Conservative Mom

            Agreed.

            I’m so very dreading June. It’s sad because my mother’s birthday is in June.

            I was on the way back home from a wedding last year.
            We drove back through Manhattan.
            I don’t even know what I was looking at.
            It was that bad.

  118. Weary Traveler

    It’s Not Really About the Data

    https://brownstone.org/articles/its-not-really-about-the-data/

    “If these debates don’t go anywhere, it’s because the two sides aren’t really arguing about data. They’re arguing about the type of world they want to live in.”

    BINGO!! This is why I was saying early on, at the very beginning in fact, that it was a human rights issue. Even if the virus was as deadly as they claimed, and the biomedical tyranny was the only way to live, I would rather just have died from the virus. Because their world was not one worth living in at all.

    “By the same token, those of us who oppose indefinite masking did not stumble on our position because of this or that study. Our deepest objections spring from such data-agnostic arguments as: masks dehumanize us, interfere with communication and connection, and place a disproportionate emphasis on keeping people safe from each other. Even if high-quality masks give us an increment of extra protection from a virus, a perma-masked world does not strike us as mentally, socially, or spiritually healthy.”

    Because not only is it unhealthy, it is Hell on Earth. The bit we experienced was too much, and I am beyond disgusted by the fact that it happened in my lifetime, and that I was alive to experience even a nanosecond of it.

    I remember Andrew “Mr. Nipple Rings” Cuomo saying “there is nothing worse than dying.” I disagree with him. Not living is worse than dying. In a world run by evil petty little tyrants like him, Hair Gel Newsom, and Gretchen “Mega Karen” Whitmer, suicide is salvation. That is because those people hate humanity and all that make us human. That means our relationships. They really wanted to outlaw meaningful relationships because it pisses them off to see people happy together. Whether it is friends laughing together or a couple in love, it pisses them off. Because it holds up a mirror to them and shows what miserable worthless pieces of shi*t they really are. Pardon my French. But they are a-holes.

    1. george linker

      Debates are never about the data anyhow. Debates are about the conclusions drawn from the data. Data is in itself meaningless until applied to something in specific. In fact there was no debate with covid. The ones who believed attempted to force their beliefs on those who did not agree with them. It was really an effort to force the religion of science onto everyone. It was the belief that science could improve the human body with fake elixers and paper masks. It was the forced control by the medical establishment. The who is meeting right now to exert even more control over the people.

      Their own words:

      The World Health Assembly is the decision-making body of WHO. It is attended by delegations from all WHO Member States and focuses on a specific health agenda prepared by the Executive Board.

      1. Weary Traveler

        It’s not even about science or improving the body. It never was. That’s just the hook they like to use as a facade to mask their true evil intent. It is always about control. Whether done in the name of religion, science, or security, it is all totalitarianism.

          1. Weary Traveler

            Perfect example of what I am talking about. It’s totalitarianism. And like all tyrants, they are weaponizing our own fears, and even our empathy for others against us to gain more and more power, and to keep it indefinitely.

          2. george linker

            And the pandemic was the tool, the plan set in motiion. Even the article you posted alludes to the next event with its closing statement (below). They fail to see they are implementing totalitarian government by science. And it is being implemented under the illusion of saving the planet and public health.

            How can we protect grandma while also safeguarding dignified and purposeful living in the free world? That’s the data-agnostic discussion our politicians and public health advisors should be having the next time around

          3. Weary Traveler

            Exactly, it was a tool much like terrorism was used as a tool to strip away our fourth amendment rights, and and start endless wars for the sole purpose of money laundering.

            The “what abut poor grandma” is a great example of weaponizing guilt and empathy. It’s the whole evil notion of “sacrifice for the greater good”, which actually originated with the pagans. It’s evil disguised as compassion. It’s all a means of control.

            The way I see it, if I have to make sacrifices for the greater good, then the “greater good” is a failure that doesn’t deserve my sacrifice.

          5. Weary Traveler

            Agreed, there is no such thing as the “greater good.” As the article states, it is always about control, and by those who do not have our best interests in mind.

          7. Weary Traveler

            As you know, that phrase makes my BP shoot up every time I come across it.

    2. Proud Conservative Mom

      Okay.
      Just checked this out.

      This was about control.
      We knew this.

      Covid was the Trojan Horse for Marxism.
      This was about control and taking away our autonomy over our own bodies.

      The insanity is that there was no data for a while.
      Covid came out of nowhere.

      To quote Dr. Kimberly Schottland: “The only Covid science is that there is no science.”

      She told me that when I contracted the Delta Variant.

      She further added that anyone who tells me otherwise is lying to me.

      What she DID have a track record for was the tremendous success of Dr.
      Zelenko’s protocol.

      She was very against the jabs and the lockdowns as well.

  119. bill smith

    The Sovereignty Movement held another Sovereignty tour, this time in honor of Jerusalem Liberation Day. The tour was led by the director of the movement If I Forget thee, Haim Silberstein, and the purpose was to become familiar with the unique challenges faced by Israel’s capital along with possible solutions and ways to implement them.

    The tour included a number of observation points and strategic sites that tell the story of the city since the liberation of its eastern and northern parts in the Six Day War 56 years ago. A view from these points reveals in depth, the magnitude of the miracle that took place with the unification of the city and the liberation of the heart of the Land, Judea and Samaria and the Jordan Valley.

    Silberstein presented to the participants of the tour the complex demographic balance of Jerusalem, as well as the dramatic implications expected to arise with the continual rise in the Arab population of Jerusalem. This rise is turning the trepidation over an Arab majority in the city council or even an Arab mayor in Israel’s capital into a real and worrying possibility.

    The data shows that the demographic ratio between Jews and Arabs is currently about 60 percent Jews versus 40 percent Arabs, while in the past the ratio was 70 percent versus 30 percent Arabs. The main reason that leads to the alarming change is emigration of about 7000 people from among the Jewish population who leave the city every year due to lack of supply of apartments for living in the city and lack of employment. An answer to the housing crisis could come in the construction of about 6000 additional housing units every year.

    The participants were also exposed to the concerning phenomenon of neglect by Israeli authorities of dealing with illegal Arab building, estimated at tens of thousands of housing units and worsens the lack of governance in the city in various ways.

    From the various outlooks visited by the group it was easily possible to see the territorial contiguity that the Arabs are creating from Ramallah to Beit Lehem through Jerusalem’s east. A contiguity that is part of the organized and orchestrated plan by PLO officials, which at least as of now, goes unanswered in any significant way by the Israeli government. Silberstein defines this trend as a demographic Trojan horse of Arab building in the heart of Jerusalem.
    In response to the increasing demographic concern Silberstein presented the Greater Jerusalem plan, which expands the municipal borders of Jerusalem in all directions and allows the establishment of more Jewish neighborhoods, more industrial and tourism parks for the capital and adds hundreds of thousands of Jewish residents to Jerusalem.

    When the group arrived at Atarot, Silberstein also presented his concept how to deal with the village of Kafar Aqab and the Shuafat refugee camp, which today, are included within Jerusalem’s municipal jurisdiction, although the security fence leaves the village of Aqab outside of Jerusalem itself.
    In each of these neighborhoods live over seventy thousand Arabs who live in illegal construction and the law is not enforced against them. This is while in the past only a few thousand Arabs lived in each of them.

    In his opinion, it is appropriate to check the possibility for them to have an independent Arab municipal authority under Israeli sovereignty, which would help to preserve the Jewish majority in Jerusalem.

    In contrast, the participants also met with the Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem Aryeh King, who presented a different concept of how to deal with Aqab and Shuafat. In his opinion, bringing these areas outside Jerusalem’s borders would set a dangerous precedent for the future. And this is besides the possibility that if a leftist government arises in the future, it might view this step of separation as a basis for transferring these two areas and their residents to the control of the Palestinian Authority, which would be a de facto division of Jerusalem, a move that Silverstein also strongly opposes.

    King also warned against the possibility where the very existence of a plan to transfer territory to the PA would cause the Arabs of Aqab and Shuafat to search for and find opportunities to move to the western neighborhoods of Jerusalem, as has already happened in the past on a smaller scale with Arabs preferring to be under Israeli sovereignty rather than under the PA.
    King and Silberstein agreed that in order to protect Jerusalem and keep its Jewish majority, one must expand Jerusalem’ borders as soon as possible and include within it hundreds of thousands of more Jews. Both also agreed that one needs to build many more Jewish neighborhoods.

    Silberstein places special emphasis on the importance of establishing the planned Jewish neighborhood in Atarot, whether for demographic reasons, because of the additional 9000 housing units, to increase the governance and expand the border of Jerusalem northward or the historical reason, by returning a Jewish presence to a place that was acquired by Jews and was inhabited by Jews.

    As we know, the new neighborhood was approved by a local committee of the City of Jerusalem, was transferred to a district committee and “got stuck” there due to an environmental quality review that had not yet been completed. The practice by which a review can exist concurrently with approval of the neighborhood, was not carried out. It is thought, by various elements in the Jerusalem municipality, to be a result of political considerations at the time when Tamar Zandberg, then Head of the Meretz Party, served as Minister of Environmental Protection. Now, says Silberstein, the expectation is that Minister Idit Silman will approve the review and will allow building of the neighborhood to proceed.

    Silberstein also told of the intention to turn the terminal building of the airport in Atarot to a museum for civil aviation and the neighborhood’s heritage and its past.

    During the tour, the participants went to Beit Orot Yeshiva, where they met the Head of the Yeshiva, Rabbi Chen Halamish, who spoke about the place’s past, about establishing the neighborhood and the yeshiva and about the importance of the continuing struggle to redeem and build Jerusalem in a practical way.

    Another important matter that Silberstein views as critical is the matter of international involvement in Jerusalem’s doings. Hostile elements such as the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Fatah and others along with Jordanian, Turkish and other governmental elements each do as much as they can to increase their presence in Israel’s capital using hundreds of NGOs that undermine Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem and seek to provide alternative services to the city’s Arabs in the areas of culture, education, welfare, tourism, etc. And among these NGOs there are sometimes terrorists with Jewish blood on their hands.

    The Sovereignty Movement summarizes this latest tour too with mixed feelings. “The challenges involved in Israeli sovereignty over its eternal capital are increasing, but tours of this type increase Jewish consciousness of the need to strengthen governance and sovereignty in Jerusalem. Our movement will continue to promote in every possible way, whether through hasbara on the Israeli street or working with decision-makers, the vision of Greater Jerusalem, to lead to the desired change in the capital of Israel.

    1. Proud Conservative Mom

      I have many thoughts on the matter.

      In summation: The former Leftist government turned a blind eye to the illegal building by the Arabs.
      Moreover, the Leftists curtailed the amount that the Jews were allowed to build.
      That created a terrible infiltration of Arabs brazenly being domiciled in Yerushalayim and reduced the amount of Jews being allowed to reside there.

      The Arabs must not be allowed to have even close to a majority in Yerushalayim.
      That would make a divided Yerushalayim Heaven forbid, closer to a reality.

      1. bill smith

        Exactly.
        It’s not even just the former government, it’s the unelected leftists bureaucrats in all the governments, past and present. They cannot get elected, so the implement their policies is an underhanded manner. This is why judicial reform is so important.

        1. Proud Conservative Mom

          Most definitely.

          There is tremendous infiltration by those who cannot get elected.
          The Left is relentless and will always continue to create loopholes.

          This is why the Leftists are fighting tooth and nail to attempt to prevent judicial reform from transpiring.
          The judicial reform would prevent this from occuring.

          HP is pretty confident that it will happen.
          I really hope he’s right.

      2. Weary Traveler

        Funny enough, they sound very similar to the central planners that run our cities here.

    1. Weary Traveler

      The feds just need to have a coming out party already. We already know they are a bunch of gay Nazis, they may as well just admit it and be done with it already.

      1. Sapper 9

        I thought it might be something the government was behind; 6 years ago I would have thought that my statement is nuts.

        1. george linker

          Finding a nazi flag is suspecious and then spreading it out for a photo only looks more suspecious.

    1. Proud Conservative Mom

      The medical field has become a business for many years already.
      Many medical schools haven’t said the Hyppocratic Oath in quite some time.
      Of course, that’s unsurprising.

      None of this is about “Do no harm.”
      It’s about increased business for big Pharma.

      Excellent article.

      1. Weary Traveler

        A patient cured is a customer lost is how they see it.

        We don’t have healthcare, just sick care.

        1. Proud Conservative Mom

          Yup.
          My father and I had this discussion many years ago.

          I also wonder why it’s taking so insanely long to find more cures for cancer.
          Call me very cynical, but cancer research is extremely lucrative.

          1. Weary Traveler

            That makes both of us as cynics. Cancer research is very lucrative, and not a naturally occurring phenomenon either.

            And I have a hard time believing the only treatment is pumping a person full of radiation.

          2. Proud Conservative Mom

            Radiation, chemotherapy, and surgeries that can remove localized cancer.

            Interferon has a very low success rate.
            BH, that experimental protocol saved my mother’s life.

            Too little, considering the amount of research that they’ve been allegedly doing for years.

            Think of how much money would be lost if a cure for cancer would be discovered?
            For starters, no more cancer research.

            That would take away big salaries from quite a few people.

      1. bill smith

        Yep, a relative… her name is Bertha. The topping on the cheesecake is mostly butter, sugar, and other dairy products.

    1. bill smith

      Maybe she did…. but back in the thirties, the world was completely different.

      1. Weary Traveler

        The only contribution I could see Nancy making during the Depression is inspiring more people to throw themselves out of the windows of high rises.

  133. Proud Conservative Mom

    Rep. Pramila Jayapal: There will be “a huge backlash…in the streets” if the White House agrees to spending cuts.

    – Raw And Unfiltered News

    (This Marxist has always wanted to be a member of The Squad. This is incitement of rioting.)

  134. Proud Conservative Mom

    Fox News’ Harris Faulkner: “[Donald Trump’s] lead is so mighty. How do you take on someone who literally fights to fight? … Trump is a master at it.”

    Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC): “My game plan is simple: I’m running for president of the United States and I plan to be the nominee.”

    – Raw And Unfiltered News

    (It’s not happening, Senator Scott!)

  135. Tony

    [DeSantis Set to Announce 2024 Run on Twitter With Elon Musk

    Adding a twist to the beginning of his presidential campaign, the Florida
    governor is expected to appear on a live audio conversation with Mr.
    Musk, the social platform’s owner, on Wednesday evening. ]

    Why should he think that would help him ??

    1. Weary Traveler

      Better yet, send them to her house.

      Maybe she can tuck them in and read them a bedtime story.

  138. Proud Conservative Mom

    New – Russia says intercepted two US military jets over Baltic

    Russia said Tuesday it had scrambled an Su-27 fighter jet to “prevent violations of the state border” by two US Air Force strategic bombers flying over the Baltic Sea.

    “After removing the foreign military aircraft from the Russian state border, the Russian fighter went back to its air base,” the Russian defence ministry said.

    The two aircraft were B-1 strategic bomber belonging to the US Air Force.

    The army prevented the violation of the border, according to the statement.

    The ministry added, “the flight of the Russian fighter was carried out in strict accordance with international rules for the use of airspace.”

    – Raw And Unfiltered News

      2. Chief Mac

        It is was that would have been in Sarasota Florida the winter home of the Ringling Brothers – they have a nice museum there

    1. Weary Traveler

      Every time I get on the freeway, I can see and hear Newsom laughing maniacally.

      In all seriousness, the highways are broken and inefficient for a reason, and they do this type of thing being described in the meme for a reason. They want us out of our cars so we have less freedom.

    2. Sapper 9

      I could see the BLM/ANTIFA crowd posting this; the left did just claim being on time is ‘white supremacy”.

    1. Weary Traveler

      And I wish I could just take an incomplete and be done with it already. Ugh…

        1. Weary Traveler

          The only way I could answer that question honestly is if I could see in to the future. If things were only going to get worse, and never better, then I would be relieved. But if I knew there was going to be a turnaround, then I would feel cheated if today were my last day.

          5. Weary Traveler

            Good things have to be around the corner. The only reason lives are difficult is because of evil rotten people who get off on inflicting pain. Even the illnesses and diseases some people have the misfortune of suffering — many of them are man-made. The sooner they are in Hell the better.

    1. Proud Conservative Mom

      Roger Waters sparks backlash after comparing Anne Frank to Abu Akleh

      Former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters, known for his vocal anti-Israel campaign, is facing criticism after images from his last week’s show in Berlin emerged online.

      During the show, the names Anne Frank and Shireen Abu Akleh were projected side by side, apparently drawing an equivalence between the teenage Holocaust victim and the Palestinian journalist who was accidentally shot dead while covering Israel’s operation in the West Bank last year.

      The Israeli Foreign Ministry – “Good morning to everyone but Roger Waters who spent the evening in Berlin (Yes Berlin) desecrating the memory of Anne Frank and the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust,” the Foreign Ministry’s tweet said.”

      – Raw And Unfiltered News

      (It’s an absolute horror.)

  150. Proud Conservative Mom

    🚨Now – Speaker McCarthy on debt ceiling negotiations:

    “It’s not my fault that the Democrats today have become so extreme, so far to the socialist wing, that they are now opposed to work requirements, that they are now opposed to saving one dollar less than they spent the year before.”

    – Raw And Unfiltered News

    1. Proud Conservative Mom

      CNN: “Why not offer a single concession beyond saying we’re not gonna default?”

      Speaker McCarthy: “We’ve offered a lot of concessions! … If AOC & Bernie Sanders is gonna run their party, that’s not my fault. I’m not even sure Bernie Sanders is a registered Democrat.”

      – Raw And Unfiltered News

  151. Proud Conservative Mom

    🚨Breaking Now – NY State Reportedly is Planning to Repeal the COVID Vaccine Mandate for Health Care Workers

    “New York health officials announced plans to repeal the state’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers just minutes before an appeals court was to hear oral arguments connected to a lawsuit challenging the mandate, an attorney said.

    The striking development was disclosed inside the courtroom in Rochester, as an attorney for the Attorney General’s Office informed the panel of judges that state health officials would soon issue public statements regarding New York’s plan for repealing the vaccine mandate.”

    – Raw And Unfiltered News

    1. Weary Traveler

      Now they repeal it? After firing so many people?

      Even if they give this people their jobs back with back pay, I wouldn’t expect these people to want to come back to work all gung-ho. The damage was already done. The only thing that will suffice is bankrupting the healthcare systems in paying out massive reparations to those terminated.

      We don’t need a healthcare system anyway. They proved that to us beyond any reasonable doubt.

  152. Proud Conservative Mom

    Rep Cori Bush – “This proposed rule is not a ban on gas stoves! *We are regulating indoor air pollution.”*

    And they called you paranoid for thinking they were coming for your gas stoves…They’re just ‘regulating indoor air pollution.’

    – Raw And Unfiltered News

      1. george linker

        The republican have nothing to do with weather. One cannot plan future weather events.

    2. george linker

      There is no difference and rep cori bush is just lying. Funny how democrats can lie straight faced.

      1. Weary Traveler

        Because they are evil and have zero shame, and no conscience. They are all sociopaths.

        1. george linker

          The are pushing a socialist progressive agenda. Lying is standard for socialism and progressives. They even forget that the progressives were once a failed party for fighting ww1 after promising not to get involved.

          1. Weary Traveler

            Progressives are the most evil, fanatical and intolerant f***s this side of ISIS. They are actually worse than ISIS because at least ISIS is honest about their intentions.

      2. Sapper 9

        Democrats love to use blacks to push the stupidest ideas, because if you question their assertions, you are “racist”.

        1. george linker

          I didn’t even know she was black so I couldn’t have questioned her because of her race.

    3. Weary Traveler

      She can call it whatever she wants. If it waddles like a duck and quacks like one, it’s still a duck, no matter how many times you call it a bobcat.

  153. Proud Conservative Mom

    Black Lives Matter Risks Going Bankrupt

    Black Lives Matter risks going bankrupt after running an $8.5 million deficit last year, financial disclosures indicate.

    The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF) saw the value of investment accounts fall by almost $10 million in the most recent tax year, according to a copy of its tax return, first reported by The Washington Free Beacon.

    The non-profit’s latest Form 990 shows that a loss of just over $961,000 was logged on a securities sale of $172,000. The disclosures suggest a year of missteps for the foundation, as well as a dramatic drop in donations.

    – Raw And Unfiltered News

    (Excellent.)

    1. george linker

      When one uses donated money to buy mansions for themselves the backlash will happen.

      1. Weary Traveler

        And I hope there is no mercy in that backlash. Not from society nor from G-d. No matter how much they apologize, if the thought could even cross their mind.

          1. Weary Traveler

            It’s hard to believe that such people are even human, they are so empty.

    2. Weary Traveler

      Couldn’t have happened to more deserving bunch of people. They all need to face a firing squad next.

    3. Sapper 9

      They couldn’t even run a non profit receiving billions in donations without pushing it into the ground, whilebdoing NOTHING to help anyone but themselves.

      1. Weary Traveler

        That’s actually how most nonprofits work. They are nothing more than grift for the executive directors and their board members. As opposed to going out and getting real jobs like the rest of us suckers do because we actually have a conscience.

  154. Proud Conservative Mom

    Iranian official threatens ‘no red lines’ if Israel attacks nuclear sites

    An Iranian official said on Wednesday that an attack on the country’s nuclear sites would lead to a war with Israel.

    The official spoke with Al Jazeera shortly after Israel’s military chief Herzi Halevi warned that the “negative developments” on the Iranian nuclear front “could lead to action against Iran.” During his speech, reports came in of mysterious explosions in Iran’s central city of Isfahan at a chemical reactor, wounding nine people.

    “They reflect the depth of Israel’s internal problems,” he claimed, adding that Israel’s threats wouldn’t change the course of its nuclear program.

    – Raw And Unfiltered News

  155. Proud Conservative Mom

    Israel’s national security agency Shin Bet arrested a resident of northern West Bank’s Umm al-Fahm, recruited into the military wing of Hamas in the Gaza Strip and planned to carry out an explosive attack on a bus line in central Israel’s Hadera area.

    – Raw And Unfiltered News

    1. Weary Traveler

      I haven’t listened to her in a long time. You reminded me of one her songs that is very fitting for the times we are, unfortunately, living* through. If anyone can call being a captive in this clownshow “living” and keep a straight face, that is. Because I sure can’t.

      And fittingly enough, it comes from the Mad Max; Welcome To The Thunderdome soundtrack.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc3IEdllaxc

  157. Weary Traveler

    How Major Media Suppressed My COVID Journalism

    https://brownstone.org/articles/how-major-media-suppressed-my-covid-journalism/

    Given the excerpts that he shared here from his colleagues regarding his article proposals, one can safely say here without any reasonable doubt that if one were drowning, a Democrat would hold out an electric cattle prod to the drowning victim. They would also the ones who pushed the other person over, putting him that position in the first place, while blaming the drowning victim for standing anywhere near the edge, or for not having taken swimming lessons.

    He should have dropped names and the outlets they work for. Cancel culture works both ways, and lets see how they like being on the receiving end of it for once and for good.

  158. Weary Traveler

    A Warning to Those Who Seek Power

    https://brownstone.org/articles/a-warning-to-those-who-seek-power/

    Very good question here… What is power exactly?

    “You don’t use power. Power uses you.”

    “People express power to other people. Or inflict it upon them. Or submit to it. It certainly appears that power is the thing exchanged, with humans as the actors. “

    Not that my opinion is worth much, but the way I see it, we do have power, but surrender it to other people, ideas, institutions or even things, and it is really our own power being used against us to oppress us.

    What “power” would any of these people or institutions really have if enough of us just said “no” and held our ground? None. The whole thing would collapse.

    I know I am not interested in power, but empowerment to live my own best life possible. None of that has to do with prestige, or getting off on bending others to my will.

      1. Weary Traveler

        This is why I despise the DOD. And all the alphabet agencies for that matter. They will make sure a scumbag warlord like Zelensky gets a bunch of luxurious penthouses on our dime, while we have veterans living out on the streets.

    1. Weary Traveler

      I think so too. I know I say “Asperger’s” a lot thanks to the blank stares and how cold and distant so many people are. Yes, it’s mostly my friend Carolyn’s description of the zombie-like behavior of so many people. I repeat it so much because it perfectly applies to their zombie-like behavior and their disconnect from reality.

      But she is probably more right on than either of us might now. I bet a big reason so many people exhibit signs of being on the Asperger’s spectrum has a lot to do with vaccine side-effects. I know another friend of mine who works in the medical field is very certain that is what is behind a lot of it.

      On that same note, it is very interesting, to say the least, that there seems to have been a bit of an increase of autism in children since vaccines were pushed. And there are cases of children having autism as a side effect. There is a man in my neighborhood who has that very issue with his son, who is my age, and can never take care of himself. Hence, his adult son will never be able to live a normal life, and give him grandchildren.

      The worst part is, this guy knows one of the vaccines he gave his son caused his son’s autism, and he still got the COVID jab, made his son get it, and supported the mandates. So much so, he said awful things about the Trucker convoy in Canada. These are the kinds of friggin ding-dongs I have been sentenced to live around for some stupid reason. It would be much easier deal with if I could just take a bat to these peoples stupid f***ing faces without going to jail.

      But unfortunately, stupid people get to have rights they don’t deserve. What they DO deserve, is to have every single bone in their bodies broken in several places and be denied any kind of medical treatment.

  163. Proud Conservative Mom

    Good day everyone!
    I’m going to Be’Ezras Hashem try to pop by later.
    Apologies that I haven’t had a chance to check my notifications yet either.

    To Chief and Tony: Have a glorious Shabbos in every single manner and a Chag Sameach!
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    To my gentile friends: Have a fabulous weekend in every way possible. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8b53dbf880d350108161c083f4c9f344d20ad13d7f0459c128bbe2f1bb3aabaf.jpg

      3. Weary Traveler

        If only a little AOC would ask that question. Then you could answer it: “The big brother you never knew you had who became a Democrat.” LOL

  171. Proud Conservative Mom

    Hat tip my sister Chaya

    On February 10, 1962, the world-famous boxer
     Muhammad Ali was “knocked down” for the first time in his career (- when one receives a blow, which knocks him down, and he has ten seconds to return to the match, and if not – he loses). The referee knelt down next to the fallen Ali and started counting backward: 10, 9, 8… Despite the blow and pain, Ali gathered his strength and said to himself:
    *”The floor is no place for a champion.”*
    He got up and delivered such a blow to Sonny Banks, his opponent, that I think he regretted knocking Ali down.
    That day Ali proved to himself and the world that
    *It is not the fall that defines you but how you rebound.*
    I’m not a boxer, but we occasionally get a “punch” that knocks us down; the question is: what is your comeback?

    We have arrived at the most crucial day in human history.
    The day the Creator of the world revealed himself to the people of Israel at Mount Sinai and gave them the Torah.
    An event unlike any before and which has not been since.
    *This is Shavuot.*
    Seven weeks following the exodus from Egypt, the people of Israel ascended to the highest spiritual peak.
     The lesson you must learn from this is that no matter what you’ve been through – Egypt, slavery, or descending to the lowest place spiritually – you can break free! And with hard work, you can reach the loftiest places in the world. It is, for this reason, the book of Ruth is read on Shavuot.
    Ruth was a convert with no lineage or prestigious education, and despite that, she was privileged to marry the greatest of the generation at that time – Boaz and be the grandmother of King David. 
    *The past will not define the outcome. It is the actions you take in the present that will shape the future.*

    In this week’s parashah, it says, “Carry up the head of the sons of Gershon and others” (Bamadbar 4:22). “Carry from the verb “lift up.”
    Raise your head and remember: my friend, you are a champion,
    And *”Champions don’t stay on the floor.”*
    May we be blessed with a remarkable renewal of Shavuot as one people, with one heart, with one Torah.
    Chag Sameach 
    Shabbat Shalom 
    Rav Yitzchak Fanger

    1. Proud Conservative Mom

      Good afternoon Sarge! ☺️☺️☺️🌞🌞🌞
      How are you doing?

      Thank you most kindly for sharing.
      That’s beautiful! 🥰🥰🥰

      It was brisk and 50 degrees when I went walking earlier. It’s seventy, sunny, and gorgeous.

      It’s very exciting that tonight begins Shavuos!
      Hashem gave the Jewish People the Torah, His most cherished treasure.
      ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

      My oldest son and his family are coming.
      Shavuos ends Motzei Shabbos (Saturday night).

      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a262522a25e6800781c0fa95ee4c225ce23e7d895e3744eb77ba1035a2fc9c96.jpg

      Hat tip Micky who sent this to me.
      (She had a very rough year.)

      1. "Divergent" sgthwjack ✯

        70’s here and sudden line of t’storms moving in. Forecast was for sunny! Surprise!They were wrong again. Lol

        Doing ok but my morale officer and family will be moving to Georgia on Monday. Going to miss them but it’s a good thing for them so I’m happy anyway. 😊

        1. Proud Conservative Mom

          Oh my goodness…
          I’m sure that you are always prepared for the weather men being incorrect.
          My maternal grandfather) very proud World War II Army veteran) used to say: “Always be prepared.”

          I wish them the very best of everything.
          That’s probably so very hard for you.

          Of course, you’re happy for them
          You would be!

          I’m sorry that they’re moving so very far away.

          1. "Divergent" sgthwjack ✯

            Oh yes, keep an eye on current radar and do my own little forecasts.

            Her husband’s mother, in her 90’s, lives there so he wants to be there for her. She has properties so they won’t even have buy another house. Win-win for everybody, and my friend has no family here either. 👌

  173. Proud Conservative Mom

    My Parents Brainwashed Me

    The first annual Bronx Youth Poetry Slam was held in May 2013 at the Kingsbridge Library in the Bronx, NY. When a young Jewish boy, Ethan Metzger, stood to recite his poetry titled, “My Parents Brainwashed Me,” no one expected the words that came out of his mouth. The video of his poem went viral within days. Ethan’s poem captures why G-d wanted the youth as the guarantors for Torah:

    One day I was in school, in class,
    Explaining my Judaism
    When this person has the audacity to exclaim,
    “You know you’re only Jewish because your parents force you to be.
    I mean, it’s all fake. You don’t pray to God because you want to,
    You pray to God because your parents made you think you have to.
    You don’t keep any of the laws of your own free will,
    Your parents just made you feel guilty if you didn’t keep them.”

    My classmates smirk.

    “Your parents brainwashed you your whole life,
    Made you think you were doing God’s work,
    But they were just imposing restriction upon restriction;
    You don’t have any real conviction of your own.
    You don’t really know anything about anything.”

    A silence swept over the class and
    I could sense all my friends look at me as to how angry I am…

    The more I thought, the more I realized
    That this student actually had a very valid argument.
    I thought to myself,
    “You’re absolutely right. My parents did brainwash me.

    From the time I entered this world, my parents brainwashed me.
    As early as I can remember, my parents were brainwashing me
    To have respect for other people, for their belongings, for myself.

    When I was little, they corrupted me into thinking that I need to treat everyone else how I would want to be treated,

    No matter what. My parents programmed me to believe that I should stand up for someone if that person were being picked on and that I shouldn’t be a bystander if
    I could stop bullying from taking place.

    My parents brainwashed me?

    Yeah. My father twisted my infant brain in such a horrific way
    That he made me value my integrity, and
    To make matters even worse,
    He led by example.
    And my mom? She incessantly told me as a child
    Again and again and again to ‘do the best you can; ’And that idea has become so ingrained in my mind.

    That I don’t define success as whether I get an ‘A’, but whether I gave it my all.

    My parents perverted my way of thinking…
    They contaminated my childhood with models and actions about
    Love and Faith and Character, and
    Yes, Religion, too.

    And I’m sorry for you that your parents
    Really didn’t infect your DNA with any of these ideals.”

    But, I didn’t say any of that.
    Because my parents also polluted my conscience
    Into believing that I shouldn’t judge someone until I walked a mile in their shoes
    Which makes me think that God must run marathons each day.

    Quite frankly, I don’t have the stamina for that. But here’s what I did say, “You can call it brainwashing if you want. That’s fine.

    I call it: Teaching.

    (Hat tip Rabbi Y.Y. Jacobson)

    2. Weary Traveler

      I try to have empathy whenever possible, i.e., “walking a mile in someone’s shoes.” Which none of us can really truly do. Even if having the same experiences, we can only experience them as ourselves, and not the other person. Therefore, we can never experience and/or interpret the experience exactly the same as they do, even if the general consensus is the same = good or bad.

      However, with that said, if I were in the position of that Jewish boy in the story, I would not hold back, and would have given him that “what for”, and probably a little worse. Better to say it all aloud than internalize it. Regardless of the other kid’s story, even if a sad one, doesn’t give him the right to inflict his misery on to others.

      Like Savage would say when he would get carried away on a rant; “I better stop before I say something I really mean”. LOL

      As it is, the other kid already passed a judgement on the Jewish boy, and would be fully deserving of the verbal gut punch that could have been delivered.

      The problem with today’s world, is that not enough rotten people are made to feel rotten about themselves for being rotten. But good people get to be made to feel bad all the time. And that has to stop.

      1. Proud Conservative Mom

        “I try to have empathy whenever possible, i.e., “walking a mile in someone’s shoes.” Which none of us can really truly do.”

        The great Hillel the Elder said in Tractate Avos: “Don’t judge your friend until you have reached his place.”
        Absolutely, that’s always impossible to do for the very reason that you described.
        Hillel knew it!
        (All wisdom comes from Torah.)
        One can never have live someone else’s exact life.

        You would have definitely told his classmates off royally.
        😂😂😂

        I totally concur with your closing paragraph.

        1. Weary Traveler

          And because I am the type that tells people off royally in situations like that is why my friendship circle is so small and limited. LOL

    3. Sapper 9

      That wasn’t what I expected when I read the beginning, I consider that to be excellent.

  174. Proud Conservative Mom

    Rep. Paulina Luna Files Resolution To ‘Censure, Condemn, And Fine’ Schiff For $16m

    The Democrat’s “egregious abuse of trust” could see him fined approximately half the cost of the Russia hoax investigation if successful, according to a filing by Florida’s Luna.

    “This will be a privileged motion to censure & a $16 million dollar fine (half the cost of the Russia hoax investigation) meaning I WILL bring this vote to the house floor,” Luna wrote.

    “I will not back down from this and I, along with my Republican colleagues, look forward to holding Schiff ACCOUNTABLE for his actions,” she added.

    – Raw And Unfiltered News

  175. Proud Conservative Mom

    New – Iran unveils new ballistic missile with a range of over 1,200 miles

    Iran unveiled the 4th generation of its Khorramshahr ballistic missile under the name Khaibar with a range of 1,243 miles, state media reported on Thursday.

    According to the official IRNA news agency, the Kheibar missile – the latest version of the Khorramshahr which is Iran’s longest-range missile to date – was unveiled alongside a replica of the Al-Aqsa mosque in east Jerusalem, in a live broadcast on state television.

    Iran’s Defense Minister Mohammad-Reza Ashtiani said the missile was part of Tehran’s efforts to “provide comprehensive support to our friends and countries that are on the path of fighting against the domination system.”

    – Raw And Unfiltered News

  176. Proud Conservative Mom

    Israeli forces arrest terrorist behind shooting attack on IDF soldiers

    The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and the Shin Bet domestic security agency announced on Thursday that they had arrested the terrorist who carried out a shooting attack on IDF soldiers in September 2022.

    In a joint operation the Israeli forces detained Maher Aseid, a resident of the West Bank village of Wadi Burkin. According to Israeli intelligence, he “planned and carried out the shooting and attempted arson attack against a soldier bus in the Bekaa and Emekim region on September 4, 2022, along with his son (who was killed) and his nephew.” Six Israeli soldiers were wounded in the attack.

    Maher was arrested in the West Bank village of El Yamon, not far from Jenin, by the IDF soldiers and the Special Forces. He was handed over for further investigation by the Shin Bet.

    – Raw And Unfiltered News

  177. Proud Conservative Mom

    Maria Bartiromo – “Criminals are using AI to clone people’s voices in order to trick their victims and just a snippet of a conversation can be used to replicate your voice it’s unbelievable no time at all it takes to replicate your voice”

    – Raw And Unfiltered News

  178. Proud Conservative Mom

    🚨New Explosive Report – How Google manipulates search to favor liberals and tip elections

    While the focus has been on Twitter and Facebook’s censorship and liberal bias, the worst Big Tech culprit of all has been getting a free pass — and now it’s coming for our children.

    That’s the warning from research psychologist Dr. Robert Epstein, a Californian Democrat with a Harvard Ph.D, who has spent the last decade monitoring Google’s manipulation of newsfeeds, search results and YouTube suggestions.

    Epstein’s research shows that Google has the power to change minds and move elections to suit its liberal corporate worldview.

    Shifting 6 million votes

    You thought Twitter and Facebook censoring The Post’s Hunter Biden laptop stories was bad?

    How about 6 million votes shifted to Joe Biden by Google in the 2020 election by manipulating what we read and see online?

    That’s the electoral impact Epstein, 69, claims Google secretly had in 2020, using biased algorithms which skewed search results towards positive links for Biden and negative links for Trump, as well as Get Out The Vote messaging on Google’s home page targeted primarily at Democrat voters.

    Preliminary results from Epstein’s new project, monitoring how Google’s massive psy-op is targeting children through YouTube and other products, show liberal bias is even more pervasive.

    – Raw And Unfiltered News

  179. Proud Conservative Mom

    🚨Just In – Target loses $9B in week following boycott calls over LGBTQ-friendly kids clothing

    Target has lost $9 billion in market value since angry social media users called for a boycott of the Minneapolis-based retailer over its rollout of the “PRIDE” collection featuring LGBTQ-friendly clothing for children.

    A week ago Wednesday before the controversy erupted, Target’s stock closed at $160.96 a share, giving the big-box chain a market capitalization of $74.3 billion.

    As of early trading on Thursday, however, shares of the company were trading off 1% at $141.76 — capping a weeklong tumble that has shrunk the “cheap chic” discount retailer’s value to $65.3 billion.

    That amounts to a 12% drop that has shaved a whopping $9 billion off the company’s market capitalization.

    – Raw And Unfiltered News

    (EXCELLENT.)

    1. Weary Traveler

      The more woke the company, the more corrupt they are.

      I sincerely hope this is the end of Corporate America, and we can go back to more independently owned businesses.

    1. Weary Traveler

      You would only have to one thing. Disband the Democratic Party and declare them a domestic terrorist organization. And then round up every single Democrat and send them to GITMO.

  181. Proud Conservative Mom

    House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries claims it’s a “fake, false, fraudulent narrative” that Biden refused to sit down and discuss the debt ceiling with Republicans for 97 days.

    Except that’s exactly what happened.

    – Raw And Unfiltered News

  182. Proud Conservative Mom

    AOC: “I ask you to think about the last time a person has said in this country that the government does too much for them…When was the last time anyone has heard or seen that?!”

    – Raw And Unfiltered News

    1. Weary Traveler

      For them? No. To them? Yes.

      If the government were a private citizen in a nation that had rule of law, the government would be in prison to never again see the light of day for all it did to people.

    2. george linker

      Her words miss the truth. The government does not do to much for me they do to much to me. I never put them in control of my life.

  183. Proud Conservative Mom

    Rep. Chip Roy: “We are defaulting on the American dream every single day that goes by where we continue to spend money that we don’t have to fund the bureaucrats at war with the American dream. If Republicans walk away with this, they don’t deserve to stay in the majority anymore than the Democrats do. We should hold the line for the American people, we should hold the line for the future of this country.”

    Hold The Line!!

    – Raw And Unfiltered News

      1. Proud Conservative Mom

        I was just going to tell you personally about this.
        I saw the video just now of him on the House floor.
        He was on 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥!!

        I have been following him since he used to be in charge of Senator Ted Cruz’s office.
        Chip Roy is AWESOME.
        I wanted to give him a standing ovation.
        👏👏👏🏆🏆🏆

    2. Weary Traveler

      “butbutbut… We gotta pay our debts.” LOL

      The best way to do that is make government employees homeless. As he said, bureaucrats are at war with the American Dream = they want to be the only ones that enjoy it while the rest of us are in rags starving.

      They are all such scammers. And that’s even the ones who bother to show up to work at all, and aren’t out on some BS “stress leave.” Take their jobs, seize their pensions and every dollar they grifted putting them out in the street, and use that to start paying down the deficit with the savings.

      They act like a government shutdown is the end of the world. We have had so many of them already, and they had zero effect on life.

      I say shut it down, and start firing people. Exactly like they did to us with COVID.

      1. Proud Conservative Mom

        Good afternoon!
        How are you doing?

        I agree with all that you wrote.

        There are so many illegitimate branches of government that need to be shut down permanently.

        I’m always thrilled when the government shuts down.
        I perceive it as time when they cannot concoct further chicanery to destroy what’s left of America.

        Chip Roy ended his speech by saying that if the Republicans don’t hold strong, then they don’t deserve to be in the majority.

        1. Weary Traveler

          Doing okay, I guess.

          Chip Roy’s closing statement perfectly summarizes why we were never supposed to have professional career politicians in the first place.

          They were supposed to be just private citizens performing a civic duty, and would have to go out and live under the very policies they created without exemption.

          This is a point that is brought up all the time on that show I watch, California Insiders, as to how we have such a tone deaf legislature. But it’s worse than that, because it isn’t just that they are not negatively impacted by their own policies, but actually benefit from them.

          They don’t represent anyone other than themselves.

  186. Weary Traveler

    Associated Press surreptitiously drops claim about ‘violent confrontations’ over Target Pride merch

    https://justthenews.com/accountability/media/associated-press-surreptitiously-drops-claim-about-violent-confrontations-over

    What I am seeing here is just how corrupt and deep state Corporate America really is.

    They are trying to influence the culture, to influence politics to maintain the status quo that has allowed them to fleece and rig the system for years. It’s no accident that companies got more “woke” right after Occupy Wall Street, and how quickly that fizzled out after. The more woke the company, the more crooked. They would rather go down with the sinking ship, apparently.

    Not that we should ever forgive them if they ever dropped the woke crap.

    1. Weary Traveler

      I love how they have to invent violence from our side.

      Considering how they have acted = always being the violent crazy ones, if someone on our side did get violent towards them, it would be too difficult for me to muster any outrage over it. My reaction at this point would be more like “what did you expect?”

  187. vs

    Hi NtJP, hi Vinny, i am sorry it is difficult navigate here, never PgDn worked for me, but much more sorry find antiukrainism in some commentator. It is not freedom of mind as i think, it is obscurantism much more worse than antisemitism. Why? Because now actual critical more important, now jews are good defended, now ukrainians are mass killed raped destroyed. What or who yesterday was nice, today converted vice versa. Thanks Donald for embassy and peace with UOE, but now you are r*scist (worse, more idiotic kind od fasc*st) NPOV? in modern condition it is worse than marasmatic Huilo putin POV

    1. bill smith

      Hi VS~! Hope all is well!!!

      I’ve been following the situation very carefully and have believe that in the west, it’s very much misunderstood, and worse than that, it has been politicized. Once this happens, honest conversations cannot happen since people strictly follow the policies of their team.

    2. Weary Traveler

      Trump is now the racist? How is that?

      If anyone is killing Ukrainians, it is that androgynous leather queen, Zelensky. There is only one reason Biden protects that guy by giving him our money and that is to protect his money laundering operation and his crackhead son. Meanwhile, our own veterans are living on the street and Americans are getting poorer funding Zelensky’s opulent lifestyle so Joe and Hunter can stay out of Gitmo.

      The ones who support this stupid war are the ones who should pay for it. And through the nose like the rest of us are.

      As for myself, I only wish I could personally hand Zelensky over to Putin myself, which ultimately would lead to Joe Biden and his inbred white trash family, and collect a nice big reward that I could comfortably retire on, and put an end to all this bullshit.

      1. Sapper 9

        Teens today would automatically sexuallize it and assume it is for gender affirming something or another.

    2. Weary Traveler

      I wont break the spirit of the game, but I will say I remember as a kid that both our Toyota pickup truck and Celica had those.

  192. Weary Traveler

    The Best Life Lesson for a Teen Is a Job

    https://brownstone.org/articles/best-life-lesson-for-teen-is-job/

    As much as I hate the work world, and not because I hate work, but because I hate how our government and their toadies in Corporate America have done everything possible to make working for a living both thankless and soul crushing, having a job is one of the best things young people can do because earning a living is empowering.

    I would even argue that instead of going straight to college right after high school, that spending two to four years in the workplace would do them a lot of good. Not only would they learn the value of a dollar, but would be so much less susceptible to the BS coming from leftist professors should they still decide on college after that.

    Fewer probably would decide on college, which would be great because ultimately the cost of tuition would go down and Bachelor’s Degree would be worth something again instead of just being the new HS diploma.

    1. Tony

      I get the impression that the the U.S.A. is/was a different place than anywhere else. Not better, not worse, just different.

      1. Weary Traveler

        That’s true going back to its founding. Its form of government was one that has never been tried, even though it is technically a republic. It is the only government that was designed with a bottom up approach rather than the conventional top down approach.

        1. Chief Mac

          It was the only government formed upon Masonic principals. Nearly all the founding fathers were Masons

          1. Weary Traveler

            I have only heard of them, don’t know much of what they stand for. I do have a next door neighbor who is one, and he is certainly not a very good ambassador for any group he would associate with. And I wouldn’t want to ask him about it either since the guy is extreme Asperger’s.

            Let’s put it this way, if he were to get killed in a car accident, it wouldn’t be a loss to anyone, including his own family.

          2. Sapper 9

            I have been a Shriner for over 15 years, it is mostly a public service organization and a way for some husbands to get away from their wives for debauchery.

            I became a Mason a few decades ago at the recommendation of one of my warrant officers.

          3. Weary Traveler

            Ah. So it is kind of like a fraternity? Like the Elks Lodge?

            Doesn’t sound like my idea of fun. Especially the no women admitted part. The last place I ever want to be is in a “sausage factory.” Not even the last place.

          4. Sapper 9

            There are co-organizations that women belong to, definitely NOT a SF, our organization has it’s own tavern that is a popular place for all, shriner and non shriner alike.

            The shriners have conventions that are “interesting ” to say the least.

            I became a member for the professional connections and I like the public service part; however, it has many womanizers and those with low moral value.

          5. Weary Traveler

            Definitely not my cup of tea.

            I did briefly belong to a organization once for professionals. No membership fees, and everyone just met up once a month at a local watering hole in the Folsom Gulch area of South of Market = SoMa. We just ordered whatever food or drinks we wanted, paid our own tabs, and just talked shop.

            Sounded okay, and I went to a few meetings. I was introduced to it by a lady that worked in the same building I did, as her husband was the organizer. They were mostly developers and software engineers, but really wanted artists like myself that use compositing and animation software for collaboration. Sounded perfect.

            However, the sad reality is that designers and developers rarely ever speak the same language so there was a huge irreconcilable disconnect already. But beyond a very small common interest, there was really no there there. There just wasn’t enough in common for me to make any kind of connection, professional or otherwise. No one seemed to have any interest in much of anything other than talking code. After four meetings of that, I just stopped going.

            All in all, I would rather hang around those geeks than the people you just described.

          6. Sapper 9

            It isn’t exactly professional organization, but, members from various fields look after each other. Lol

          7. Weary Traveler

            They usually do. Unfortunately for me, I have never done well with any type of group or organization, so I was never able to make any real connections that could ever be of any type of service to me later on.

            And that is in spite of half the groups I ever joined being professionally oriented.

            The one I enjoyed the most was a local Photoshop group. It was cool because they had an arrangement with Adobe, so we did get to see new product launches, and had the meetings at Adobe’s SF HQ, and they provided free beverages and pizza.

          8. Sapper 9

            I am a people person and a chameleon of sorts, which allows me to fit in well in various social situations.

          9. Weary Traveler

            There’s my issue. I am incapable of being a Chameleon. I’m too honest which pisses too many people off. LOL

          11. Weary Traveler

            Once I see someone is a snake, if I don’t let my feelings be known, at the very least I walk away from them. There are people I just can’t find any common ground with at all.

          12. Sapper 9

            That is accurate, however, I have managed to convert the thinking of a few and I am perceptive enough to avoid those that a a waste of time.

            Not religious conversion but ideology on abortion, immigration, 2nd A, etc.

            However, my meaning is on a social level; in high school I was a “clique jumper” liked by most all.

          13. Weary Traveler

            I was a total loner in high school. I really just didn’t want to be there. I didn’t have anything in common with anyone, so I kept to myself.

          15. Weary Traveler

            That’s good that you were, because not a lot of people ever would bother to do that. Most don’t.

          17. Weary Traveler

            Indeed. Even as a kid I was referring to them as little a-holes.

            No surprise I never became a parent. LOL

          20. Sapper 9

            The Masonic lodge used to have a lot of influence in the Army, and I know my ring helped me a time or two with acquiring hard to get items.

            My mentor in the lodge was a warrant officer I worked for in the 80s, and the Shrine club that I am a member of was named in his honor.

          21. Chief Mac

            Have been a Master Mason for 25 years now. Never joined the Shrine, but have been in Scottish Rite for nearly the same amount of time

          22. Sapper 9

            After you achieved the third level to become a Master Mason, did you ever consider becoming a Shriner?

    2. Sapper 9

      I noticed that the school shooters became well equipped after the “stimulus checks” started rolling off the presses.

  193. Weary Traveler

    Been meaning to post this one for a while, but didn’t get around to finishing reading it until now…

    Trump’s Freedom Cities and American Greatness
    A Positive Vision For American Ingenuity In An Age Of Stagnation

    https://paulingrassia.substack.com/p/trumps-freedom-cities-and-american

    “Perhaps the greatest plague affecting America right now is a crisis of stagnation, which pervades nearly every aspect of modern life: as seen in the diverse arenas of politics and technology to economics and culture to the general malaise of the country at large.”

    Glad I am not the only one who has noticed this. It’s like the Aspies have taken over the world like the aliens in the movie, They Live. Seems to me there has been an ongoing war against nuance, beauty and joy, and that only the bland, boring and stupid is allowed to flourish.

    “In sharp contrast, the modern city is at best an extremely vulgar counterfeit of its classical alternative. To the extent it resembles the classical version at all, it may only be in name. This in large part goes to the semantic shift that has fundamentally transformed the underlying referent by which the term “city” is understood.

    Well put. It actually amazes me just how ugly, and therefore atomizing and soul crushing our cities are. And they shouldn’t be, and don’t have to be. Around my area, it doesn’t get any better when you leave the immediate Bay Area going further inland. Just worse with those GAWD awful cookie-cutter homes and strip malls with the same corporate conglomerates in them. And that is on top of the hellish climate you encounter on the other side of the hills going in to the East Bay Valleys, or worse the Central Valley beyond that. It’s enough to make me pray to G-d for another 1906 to put it all out of its misery and mine.

    “The proposal by Trump, however, would seem to draw from the best of America’s former spirit of competitive ingenuity, and thus would likely invoke those model cases aforementioned. For that reason, the Freedom Cities stand fundamentally at odds with the current philosophy of managed decline that typifies cities throughout the Western world. One can only begin to imagine the possibilities for a city spared of the stultifying bureaucratic and regulatory largesse that now makes building another Trump Tower, let alone another Manhattan, impossible. If the spirit of American innovation were allowed to operate unencumbered in the sorts of regulatory-free citadels envisioned by Trump’s program, the possibilities of what might develop are limited only by the powers of man’s imagination.”

    This touches on another thought I have almost every day and everywhere I go; which is what our cities, and even towns, could be without the Kafkaesque Bureaucracies standing in the way making what could be a paradise in to the dystopias we are subjected to everyday.

    “Regrettably, the destruction of the modern city is as much by intentional design as it is due to administrative incompetence.”

    More like administrative MALICE*. As I keep saying, callng these people stupid, naive, or even incompetent, is giving them a benefit of the doubt that they clearly do not deserve. Call them what they actually are, which is evil, malevolent, psychotic, sadistic, sociopaths. Once we start calling them what they are, we can finally start dealing with them accordingly. Enough of this “turning the other cheek” nonsense.

    “There is no fundamental law in nature that says we must resign ourselves to forever decline.”

    THANK YOU!! I am so glad I am not the only one saying this. I am glad that I am not alone in that sentiment.

    All in all…. This is Trump’s alternative vision to the control freaks at the WEF and their “15 Minute Cities.” Without a doubt, I would much rather live in a “Freedom City” than a “15 Minute City”. But, personally, I do not want to live in either or.

    Trump has proposed using federal lands to build these Freedom Cities, whereas the WEF sociopath scum want to transform our existing cities to 15 Minute Cities. I would say, take from the WEF and take our cities and metro regions back from these genetically inferior little worms, and just send the globalists to Gitmo where they belong. We can rip down the ugly post-modern structures they built, and replace them with great structures. And even better, we can seize all the assets of the globalists to help pay for it, financing the visions of real creators and visionaries who were kept out by all the treasonous sociopaths and the Aspies in Corporate America.

  197. Weary Traveler

    It’s not a death of patriotism, but the death of globalism. Most of us are sick to death of being worked stupid to take care of the world while our own quality of life suffers. Who really benefits? Not us, and not even the people we are supposedly helping. Just the war hawks and the chicken hawks, along with the warlords laundering money. Ukraine is a prime example of this. And we are all sick and tired of the gaslighting.

    The politicians can go fight their own wars from now on. Starting with Brandon, and that degenerate crackhead son of his. And the same goes for that limp wristed RINO, Lindsay Graham.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRsXYj0lR04

  198. Tony

    Time for a Jewish President of the U.S.A.
    On his hundreth birthday. Henry Kissinger has put his name forward,

    1. Chief Mac

      He was not born in the US and cannot run. Besides which he is a total idiot. King Henry has been responsible for many American deaths

      2. Weary Traveler

        He’s worse than an idiot, he is evil incarnate. He mentored Klaus Schwab, and was intrumental in the creation of the WEF.

        It angers me beyond belief that he lived long enough to celebrate his 100th birthday, while a good man like my grandfather dies at 53 when I was only five.

        May Kissinger soon choke on something and die already, and soon. Because Hell is missing a few people.

    2. Weary Traveler

      If Henry Kissinger were to be the first Jewish president, it would be a disgrace to all Jews like Obama is a disgrace to all black people. Talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel.

      That SOB = Kissinger, is the most responsible for the devaluation of the US dollar thanks to his big lie about “speculators” in the gold market. He was also Klaus Schwab’s mentor.

  199. "Divergent" sgthwjack ✯

    Had to share!

    “Let’s Get Biden To Quit! (LGBTQ)”

    Hat tip @disqus_VZQBTey6oA:disqus

    2. Weary Traveler

      And take that mattress hopping relic with him. Both of them… Kamala and Jill.

      1. John Gillis

        The men she bedded would be incels if she didn’t use them as beasts if burden!

        1. Weary Traveler

          Willie Brown was married when he had his affair with her. If not for their positions, the only way they would ever be able to feel a woman would be through rape. They are such worthless people, which is why they are all so evil.

      1. "Divergent" sgthwjack ✯

        Sunny and low 80’s here as well. I served but this is for those no longer with us. No party here for sure.
        Doing Ok, just taking it slow and easy. I will always be me, no idea how to be otherwise. 🤠

  200. Weary Traveler

    “Dylan, who had previously been interviewed on trans issues by President Biden himself, was celebrating “365 Days of Girlhood” with a grotesquely misogynistic caricature that would disgust just about the whole market for this beer.”

    My view on these so-called “trans women” like Mulvaney is that they DO hate women because they themselves are low value beta males. Them playing dress up is as close as they will ever get to ever having an actual woman.

    What the Bud Light Fiasco Reveals about the Ruling Class

    https://brownstone.org/articles/what-bud-light-fiasco-reveals-about-ruling-class/

    This article raises many good points, but here are some that I think are missing. It all boils down to hatred toward us, the so-called “unwashed masses.”

    First and foremost, the more “woke” the company, the more corrupt it is. Most of this all started during the Occupy Wall Street movement from over a decade ago. The Corporations quickly learned that if they had a good “social credit score”, the stupid mobs wouldn’t look in to their corrupt and illegal business practices. Does anyone really believe that Bill Gates or Warren Buffet are humanitarians because they are labeled as philanthropists?

    Anyone who believes that they are at worst, just well meaning morons, seriously needs to have their heads examined. Probably even check their family tree for any possible inbreeding. They are both liars and thieves who benefited benefited from corrupt system, and still do, and therefore continue only to fight to protect that corrupt system while gaslighting the rest of us pretending to be such humanitarians.

    That’s the first part of this. The second part, they are more than happy to employ these arrogant privleged little college girls on Prozac, like that now former Marketing Exec at TRANheuser Busch, who deserves to be canceled along with Mulvaney, is because they share Corporate America’s hatred for the rest of us. They do this to rub it in our faces. Much like why Brandon hired that circus freak, Sam Brinton, or why they install these idiots in to office like Fuaxcahontas, AOC and Hank Williams in to elected office, is because they figure, if we will listen to these idiots and put up with them, we’ll put up with anything and they can abuse us as much as they like. And if we don’t, they will scream every made up “ism” and “phobe” they can think of, while calling us the “domestic terrorists.”

    They are not “elites” by any means, just elitist. They are no different than an abusive spouse = just petty and hateful genetic defects.

    1. John Gillis

      Low value incels is exactly what these trannies are. Worse, they can’t find their own power without presenting themselves as freaks and enlisting leftist cry bullies as allies in their demented cause.

      1. Weary Traveler

        If they weren’t such volatile and violent a-holes, I would actually feel bad for them.

        Funny how they make up groups like Antifa. Them and Aspies.

    2. Sapper 9

      The dylan freaks whole blog was a parody on women, it seemed like a comedy skit.

      1. Eileen Mother of Leopard Cats

        It really is insane the way the west promotes perversions as a right.

      2. Weary Traveler

        Fortunately, the fruit loop is only used as an example in the beginning and not discussed at length. The crux of the article itself if how Corporate America doesn’t like competition, hence why they supported lockdowns and freedom mitigation measures in the name of COVID.

        The whole point is that this is really about protecting a dying system they benefit from.

        Yes, we are just days away from being bombarded by fag flags. Ugh…

    1. george linker

      No thanks is a perfectly legitimate answer. At least they resonded. Don’t know what this guy wants. This guy was being the asshole.

      1. Weary Traveler

        Professionalism. An abrupt “no thanks” is such an Asperger’s answer, and/or a passive aggressive F-U.

        Even if the other guy were to say “I don’t want to be associated with your program because it is too controversial” is at least letting the other person know where you stand.

        1. george linker

          I don’t see a no thanks as anything other than a response. I see no agression in a simple answer. The person responded. They could have said nothing and never responded.

          1. Weary Traveler

            It’s an appropriate response if you are telling a JW to go away. Not in the professional world.

          2. george linker

            Two many rules, to many hurt feelings. That is what is wrong with the professional world.

          3. Weary Traveler

            The professional world has nothing to do with feelings as it does professional relationships. And regardless of industry, each is smaller than you might think, so it is also abut reputation. Reciprocity is key for that reason.

          4. Proud Conservative Mom

            For certain it’s about reciprocity.
            Moreover, treat someone else the way you would want to be treated.

            It is not that difficult to do the right thing — especially in this case.

            I love the A-1 response! 👏👏👏

          5. Weary Traveler

            There was an article I was reading years ago from a radio industry publication and it was about getting through the massive layoffs in the industry and made a point very similar to this.

            It’s nice to have a “Rolodex” full of contacts, but wont do you much good if they only hear from you when you want something. It’s a good way to get what we nowadays called “ghosted.”

            Instead you want to maintain those relationships, check in on them and even invite them to lunch when you don’t need something. People are more likely to come through for you then.

          6. Proud Conservative Mom

            Exactly, it’s not how many names of contacts one has.
            It’s about who can be counted on to come through for you.

            Business relationships need to be nurtured.
            It’s very critical.

          8. george linker

            Polite would be to have never ever metioned it at all in a podcast. The man was attempting to manipulate with psychology, albiet really bad psychology.

          9. george linker

            What I see is a psychologist attempting to place shame on someone for not accpeting his invitation. He is being using his podcast to be rude to someone who turned him down. He even goes on about spending 25 minutes of his day working up the request.

          10. Weary Traveler

            If you are seeing that, then you are seeing it because you want to see it.

            If he were really trying to “shame” the guy, he would have mentioned the name, which he didn’t. As that would not be very professional. He used this as an example of a lack of courtesy that is become all too common.

            As PCM and I were discussing below, when a professional reaches out to another professional, time is money. Not taking the time to properly reciprocate, he is saying that Professor Saad’s time is worth less than his. It is essentially giving him the middle finger.

            The entire point of the video is to illustrate how to deal with people who do not reciprocate respect you have clearly shown it to them.

          11. george linker

            Actually there was no need to metion his name, everyone involved already knew what is was. Some people do not have the time to spend on long answers. In fact, I view long answers as a deception. Saad chose to use as much time as he did and does not have the right to expect the same in return. No person is obligated to long responses that are nothing more the excuses. I do not need someone’s excuse for turning me down. A simple no thanks suffices.

          12. Proud Conservative Mom

            Long answers as a deception?
            To what extent?
            We’re not talking about writing a dissertation.

            As busy as I have been professionally, I always took a few extra minutes of my time to respond accordingly.

            It engenders further respect and future courtesy, even though I do it because I was raised this way.

            Please don’t take it as a personal attack.
            I don’t conduct myself in that manner.

          13. Weary Traveler

            Long answers? I really don’t think you understand what is happening. We are not talking about deciding on a grant proposal here, or writing another book like War and Peace.

            When you are doing professional correspondence, time is money. What we are talking about is proper communication. Even in email format, you are not writing like you would in a discussion forum like this where you bang out a few paragraphs in a few minutes as it is just casual conversation.

            The time spent writing the correspondence is not just on typing, but editing, reviewing sentence structure, messages conveyed, and who your audience is and how you want them to perceive it, and more importantly, how you want them to perceive you.

            So yes, one can easily spend a half hour writing a letter that has no more than three paragraphs.

          15. george linker

            Anyone writing books is long winded saying very little. The man is simply projecting his desire onto someone else. I suspect that any answer would have been derided other than accpetance.

          16. Weary Traveler

            “Anyone writing books is long winded saying very little. “

            Surely that is some figure of speech, because I can’t see you arguing that books are bad.

            You are assuming too much, and I suspect, by some of your other responses, simply because you do not like the man’s profession.

          17. george linker

            Got nothing to do with his profession. He could have nerver metioned the encounter and just let it blow by. Instead he chose to deride the person. Most people who write books run out of words on the first page of each chapter. Good writers know shorter is better

            https://www.writingroutines.com/35-great-writers-thoughts-brevity-writing/

            Universities teach against wordieness

            https://www.fordham.edu/academics/academic-resources/writing-center/writing-resources/logic-and-rhetoric/wordiness/#:~:text=Wordiness%20most%20often%20occurs%20when,tightened%20without%20loss%20of%20meaning.

          18. Weary Traveler

            Yes, I have gone to college and have written college papers, so you are not telling me anything I do not already how. We are talking about what was roughly — on average — three paragraphs here.

            Let’s put it another way; if you apply for a job you send a cover letter with your resume. You do not write “please hire me”, you tell them something about yourself. You extrapolate further on your experience and skill set, and further highlight any accomplishments explaining why you think you are a good fit for the job.

            A situation like this is no different. He researched the person, made some notes, and introduced himself, and explained how he thought the interview could be mutually beneficial. Just as any broadcasting professional would when reaching out to a potential guest to book for an on-air interview.

          19. george linker

            And then the man tried to to shame the one who turned him down. He was the one who was mistreating people.

          20. Weary Traveler

            Correction; he pointed out the other guy’s unprofessionalism, and used it as an example of of the kind of disrespect that should not be tolerated, and how to give it back to those people with style.

            The other guy should be ashamed of himself.

          21. george linker

            The guy doing the podcast is the one who should be ashamed of his actions. He attempted to shame the guy into the show. The man has a background in psychology. Guess we can all see why the other guy said no thanks. When proper answers are called disrespect something is bad wrong.

            Saad said his unapologetic positions regularly result in anger and threats from all manner of irate activists, some of whom he dubs the “tofu Taliban,” but he never lets it sway his approach.

            “There are no sacred cows for me,” he said. “I will go after any ideology that I think is nonsensical.”

            The available information says that gad saad is a opinionated jerk.

            https://benkyriakou.com/posts/fakeish-news

          22. Weary Traveler

            “Saad said his unapologetic positions regularly result in anger and threats from all manner of irate activists, some of whom he dubs the “tofu Taliban,” but he never lets it sway his approach.

            “There are no sacred cows for me,” he said. “I will go after any ideology that I think is nonsensical.””

            I would call that a good thing. Sounds like the complaint all the TDS sufferers share about Trump = “He’s not very presidential.” Who cares? He gets results, and pisses off the real jerks who have been making all of our lives too miserable for too long.

            I’ve been called an “opinionated jerk” and far worse myself for speaking truth to power. It’ “opinionated jerks” like myself and Professor Saad that are what stands between the rest of us and full blown totalitarianism. You’re welcome.

            If this is your “gotcha” then you got nothing on the guy.

            Like I said, you are more triggered by his profession than anything else.

          23. george linker

            The guy is an asshole and brags about it, he has a reputation. All he was doing was trying to force someone onto his his show.

          24. Weary Traveler

            No, there was no trying to force anyone on his show. There is a polite/professional way to decline an invitation. The other guy chose the Asperger’ way, which IS the asshole way. And he got punked for it. Good for Gad Saad.

          25. george linker

            You and me are as different as night and day with this event. The talk show host was the asshole.

          26. Weary Traveler

            “Anyone writing books is long winded saying very little. “

            Surely that is some figure of speech, because I can’t see you arguing that books are bad.

            You are assuming too much, and I suspect, by some of your other responses, simply because you do not like the man’s profession.

          28. george linker

            All I saw was the man whinning about someone else’s resonse like a little child who had is sucker taken away.

          1. Weary Traveler

            And that’s exactly it. In the professional world, time is money. So if some takes the time to reach out to you, that is a cost to them.

      2. Proud Conservative Mom

        As @dr_darko:disqus wrote precisely!
        That response was very disrespectful and unprofessional.

        ABSOLUTELY, I would only say “no thanks” to those like JWs or any other relentless missionaries.

        1. george linker

          I use no thanks all the time and never intend any disrespect. When one add thanks behind the word no they are being polite. The dictionarys show the following. The wrong people at my do I just shut the door.

          no thanks informal
          used to say politely that you do not want something

          A short way of saying “Thank you, but I’m not interested

          A polite refusal of something. (Despite being polite in form, it can be used in an impolite manner.)

          thanks but no thanks
          idiom

          used to say that you are grateful to someone for offering something but that you do not want to accept the offer

          1. Weary Traveler

            You are obviously not understanding the context here. “No thanks” is an appropriate response if say a coworker made popcorn, and offered you some, but you are not interested. Or you are walking through Costco, and a salesperson is offering to do a demonstration of a product being promoted that you are not interested in buying.

            It is appropriate in that type of casual setting. Not in a professional context like this.

          3. george linker

            I see no difference in settings. That is just people attempting to make mountains out of mole hills.

          5. Weary Traveler

            And you probably never will be able to understand the distinction either.

            By your own admission, you are unable to understand the context. You stated clearly that you see no difference. I have worked in enough professional settings, and had enough senior rolls in the workforce to know from experience.

            You can be very good at what you do, but attitude towards others also determines how far you go. One of the reasons there are extremely talented people out there, who struggle, or are out of work even under the best circumstances is because of bad attitudes like that towards others. And like I said earlier, each industry, no matter how many millions of people are employed in it, are much smaller than you realize.

            Think the rule of six degrees of separation. Word travels fast. If you are too difficult to work with, no one will want to work with you. Regardless of how talented you may be.

          7. george linker

            I don’t divide the world into one group over another. All are the same. None are more talented then another and they deserve no extra respect. The podcast guy is the one with a bad attitude. He could have never mentioned the event. He chose to put the person down.

          8. Weary Traveler

            Once again, you fail to grasp the point. No, not all are the same, and not everyone has the same level of “talent” in any profession, or at any skill or trade. I have actually been in the position where I have been involved in hiring decisions, and interviewing potential vendors. And I have also managed teams for projects.

            I can tell you from actual real world experience that not all are the same as you put it. Sorry, but no.

            We are not all equal, other than being created by G-d in His image.

            You apparently missed the reason that I even mentioned talent in the first place. Again, actually having been in a position to influence hiring decisions, and having trained many new hires in my professional life, I can tell you that attitude trumps talent every time.

          9. george linker

            All people are equal. From the dumbest to the most educated all are the same. The educated usually become more arrogant thinking themselves better and above others.

          10. Weary Traveler

            “From the dumbest to the most educated” by definition is not equal. Your closing statement actually made my point for me about how attitude trumps any skill or talent any day of the week.

          11. Proud Conservative Mom

            I would never do that professionally.
            I never have.
            This also applies to my family members.

            @dr_darko:disqus posted precisely what I would have added as well.
            He positively NAILED it.

            No thank you (for me it’s no thank you, not no thanks – albeit no thanks is acceptable), is what I say if someone offered to share a snack with me, make me a tea, etc.
            I also tend to add “that was very kind of you to think of me.”

            One never loses out by going the extra mile.
            (This is not a personal attack, Heaven forbid. I don’t do that.)
            It’s how I was raised.
            It’s that simple.

          12. george linker

            I don’t draw different responses for different actions. The same response is polite in any situation. I need to explain myself or my reasoning. The other person should simply accept it and move on.

      1. Weary Traveler

        This is the reason I love this guy. I like his “don’t turn the other cheek” attitude. Turning the other cheek is by default an endorsement and only encourages more of that kind of thing. If more people took his approach, we wouldn’t have so many people running around exhibiting symptoms of Asperger’s. Because the behavior would not be rewarded, and would make life more difficult for the people acting so cold and distant.

  204. Weary Traveler

    How Lockdowns Bolstered an Industrial Cartel

    https://brownstone.org/articles/how-lockdowns-bolstered-an-industrial-cartel/

    ” I’ve tended to think that this was all an outgrowth of disease panic and bad thinking. Well intentioned policy that went very badly. But what if it wasn’t? What if the whole point of the industrial segregation and cartel creation was to run a real-time test of the full vision of a corporatist state? It’s not a crazy speculation.”

    Indeed it is not crazy to speculate such. There was nothing “well intentioned” about any of it. All of it was malice of forethought. And his speculations only touch the tip of the iceberg. The rest of it was depopulation to kill off as many of us “useless eaters” as possible through deaths of despair. And death by a thousand cuts is the cruelest way to kill someone.

    And let’s not forget who coined that phrase “useless eaters” referring to all of us that weren’t good enough and think they know better than G-d. Henry Kissinger. And that good for nothing son of a bitch lived long enough to celebrate his 100th birthday? Can someone PLEASE explain that one to me?

    1. Proud Conservative Mom

      Indeed this was all malice aforethought!
      Absolutely!

      Naturally corporate America didn’t give a heck that small businesses were tanking.
      They were thrilled.

      It was simply impossible for most small businesses to survive because of the lockdowns.

      I remember @dump_boehner:disqus saying that he lost many thousands of dollars per month and had to fire most of his staff.

      Regarding your query about Kissinger, for anything that he did good (no matter how small), he was rewarded for it in this world.
      Hashem recompenses evil people in this world so that they can 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥in the next world for all eternity.

      Tehillim 92:8 “When the wicked flourish like grass, and all workers of violence blossom, only to be destroyed to eternity.”

      1. Weary Traveler

        Too much blood sweat, tears in vain with too many dreams dashed, and for what? If anyone is a “useless eater”, it is the Kissingers and Schwabs of the world.

        There is something terribly wrong with this picture.

        The only reason a business should lose money is providing a subpar service/product. That’s it. Not because of some elitist’s ego.

    2. Sapper 9

      The lockdowns created many billionaires, the riots and the lockdowns destroyed many small businesses and shifted their market share to the big competitors.

      The corporations that donated to BLM also benefited from the destruction caused by the BLM/ANTIFA communists violence in the streets; the government expanded it’s hold on the people and it’s operating budget during the lockdowns and the REPUBLICANS have agreed to fund the government at POST COVID levels and have even given the swamp an increase.

  205. Proud Conservative Mom

    WHO Power Grab – Totalitarian Proposals Run Roughshod Over Sovereignty

    Sweeping new powers could see the Gates- and China-funded organisation impose lockdowns, mandatory vaccine passports, quarantine and border closures on the UK, under pandemic treaty proposals.

    The move is an “evident” ambition “for the WHO to transition from an advisory organisation to a controlling international authority,” Tory MPs wrote in a letter.

    Other proposals would force the UK to set aside 5% of its health budget for another ‘virus outbreak,’ and would compel countries around the world to hand over vaccine recipes.

    – Raw And Unfiltered News

    @anthonyquest:disqus

    (I was waiting for this to happen.)

    1. george linker

      It is not the the uk, this is worldwide. Science is seizing control. The people must now worship at the altars of science.

      3. Sapper 9

        Pseudoscience is seizing control, they are using biased studies with a pre-determined result, manipulating data and even creating viruses.

    2. Tony

      Yes, I saw this. First reaction was that it was just hot air, then that it wouldn’t happen. then that wewere finished for good, now.

    1. Weary Traveler

      Her rise to fame in general was all artificial.

      She did absolutely nothing of any value to be the “rising star” the media told us she was. They like to think we are all much dumber than she is.

        1. Weary Traveler

          Yes I did. And I mention to Sapper above, did the feds run out of Timothy McVeigh lookalikes at their casting calls?

  208. Tony

    Although the results are not yet in,it is announced that Erdogan has won the election in Turkey.

    1. Weary Traveler

      Right? It’s not like they did this every other time the debt ceiling was brought up.

        1. Weary Traveler

          It’s like I keep saying. They are only there for themselves. There was a reason our founders did not want professional career politicians.

          1. Weary Traveler

            And did some Lincoln Project reject say to you; “bubutbut…. We gotta pay our bills”? LOL

    2. Sapper 9

      Bills are supposed to start in the house, go to the Senate before going to the President; the way they did it will now give the Republicans two more opportunities to cave in more.

  212. Tony

    Disqus has just told me that it has refreshed itsself and that it is now better than ever. Is that why it keeps crashing ?

  214. Proud Conservative Mom

    DeSantis Says He Would Pardon Trump, J6ers as President If Found to Be Targets of Persecution

    Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis recently stated that he would be willing to pardon former President Donald Trump if an examination of the facts showed that Trump was a victim of political weaponization.

    DeSantis explained that upon assuming office, he would assemble a team tasked with reviewing potential cases for pardons. He made the remarks on the “The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.”

    The Florida governor stressed the importance of ensuring evenhanded justice, particularly in cases where similar actions by different individuals resulted in disparate treatment.

    – Raw And Unfiltered News

    1. Weary Traveler

      What is there to review? We all know these charges are all BS. If anything, we need to charge the people who brought all this on.

    1. Weary Traveler

      After having endured the mental gymnastics during Newsom’s Recall of Larry Elder being labeled a “white supremacist”, and now Joyless Behar referring to Tim Scott as one…. And going the next step and saying he doesn’t understand what it means to be black, but somehow she does… Uhm…

    1. Weary Traveler

      I guess it is because no Timothy McVeigh lookalikes showed up to the original casting call.

  227. bill smith

    WP apparently was updated, but I see that the comments are still working normally.

  228. Proud Conservative Mom

    🚨New – Zero Young Healthy Individuals Died of COVID-19, Israeli Data Show

    Zero healthy individuals under the age of 50 have died of COVID-19 in Israel, according to newly released data.
    “Zero deceased of 18–49 years of age with no underlying morbidities,” the Israel Ministry of Health (MOH) said in response to a formal request from an attorney.

    “Zero is a very, very clear number, and cannot be subject to interpretation,” Yoav Yehezkelli, a specialist in internal medicine and medical management, and former lecturer in the Department of Emergency and Disaster Management at Tel Aviv University in Israel said.

    The information was sparked by a freedom of information request filed by attorney Ori Xabi, who has been filing several such requests as he seeks to obtain information from the MOH regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and COVID-19 policies.”

    – Raw And Unfiltered News

    1. Weary Traveler

      This reminds me… I just got off the phone with my friend, Julie, earlier today. As you know, she has worked in the medical/healthcare field for a very long time. She was telling me about some stuff she learned abut recently that were in the Franken-Jabs after a friend of hers mother just died because of the effects of that jab.

      She told me I was so smart to not take it, even though it was career suicide, and I will probably be paying for that decision for the rest of my life. Because, hey, I am such an awful person for not knowing my place in the pecking order and accepting it like a good little serf.

      That last part was my commentary of course.

      She just told me that I was smart to refuse it the way I did, and to ignore the government as I did.

      1. Proud Conservative Mom

        I’m so very sorry for the death of her friend’s mother.

        Did Julie get jabbed?

        No job is worth dying for.
        You were very wise not to get poisoned.

        If I would’ve gotten jabbed, I would be dead.
        It’s that simple.

        1. Weary Traveler

          Unfortunately she did. Thankfully she got none of the boosters.

          Sadly, like many in the healthcare field, she listened to “experts.” We had a few conversations/debates about it in the beginning. I kept trying to explain that if it is so safe and effective, the coercion of mandating it would not be necessary. And this was in spite of her knowing full well that the Democrats behaved like little tyrants throughout all of COVID.

          And just because Trump said what was politically acceptable, and only for optical reasons, as the alternative of telling the truth unfortunately, would have caused way too much harm because he would have been blamed for prolonging the pandemic. The people had to act on their own, and thankfully did as we saw with the Trucker Convoys.

          He also said, however, that it should not be mandated. That it needs to remain the choice of the individual. Which is better than the likes of people like Hannity who were telling his audience that is was their “patriotic duty” to roll up their sleeves and get jabbed Any of the truth about the jabs had to come from us, the people, plain and simple. This whole thing would have played out much differently, and not for the better if it came from anywhere else. Plain and simple; the jabs were Trump’s Coventry moment, referring to similar strategic decision faced by Winston Churchill during WWII. We have all gone over all of this ad nauseum already.

          The simple fact is, I do not give a flying warm steaming pile who thinks I should have taken it at the time, even if it is someone I support politically, or is a close family member or friend. Mandate or not, I wasn’t taking it as I never even taken the annual flu shots and saw them as unnecessary for MYSELF. Others can do as they please. Mandating it only solidified my position on not taking it, and made me even more suspicious of it than even the fact that it was mass produced so quickly, and that Faucist was telling us early on after moving the goalpost for the THIRD TIME that we could not reopen until there was a “vaccine”, which on average takes ten years.

          That alone should have raised a huge red flag to EVERYONE!! I have no medical background, but I have a gut instinct, and I found that when I listen to it, I am better off, and when I don’t, I wish I did.

          1. Proud Conservative Mom

            I’m so very sorry to hear that.
            I have close family members and friends who did as well.

            I’m trying not to think about it.
            😞😞😞

            “I kept trying to explain that if it is so safe and effective, the coercion of mandating it would not be necessary.”

            EXACTLY. One doesn’t have to coerce someone to do something desirable.

            Absolutely, Trump said it shouldn’t be mandated.

            Those like Hannity, are despicable.
            We have a patriotic duty to be lab rats?!
            I think NOT!!!!!

            “Plain and simple; the jabs were Trump’s Coventry moment, referring to similar strategic decision faced by Winston Churchill during WWII. We have all gone over all of this ad nauseum already.”

            YES and YES.

            I also saw the flu shot as unnecessary for myself.
            I never took it.
            Even if my internist would have recommended it, I wouldn’t have taken it.
            I am an educated consumer and am very involved in my own medical care and decisions.
            He told me that I am a wild card (that’s the only wild thing about me) 😂😉), and that I shouldn’t get it.
            It’s all guesswork.

            “Mandating it only solidified my position on not taking it, and made me even more suspicious of it than even the fact that it was mass produced so quickly, and that Faucist was telling us early on after moving the goalpost for the THIRD TIME that we could not reopen until there was a “vaccine”, which on average takes ten years.”

            SAME. The fact that they were selling it so hard in of itself, was very suspicious.
            I also wanted to know precisely WHO were the test subjects?!?!?!

            I listen to my gut instinct as well.
            Hashem guides me in the right direction.

  229. Proud Conservative Mom

    New – A graduate speaking at the City University of New York’s law school commencement called for a “revolution” to take on the legal system’s “white supremacy’’ and ripped the “fascist” NYPD, military and Israel.

    Future lawyer Fatima Mousa Mohammed, a Queens native who was selected by the graduating 2023 class to speak during the May 12 ceremony, praised CUNY for supporting student activism — but said the school still failed students by supporting such institutions as the city’s Police Department and country’s armed forces.

    CUNY Law initially removed Mohammed’s fiery speech from YouTube, but it was later uploaded again after critics chided the public law school for silencing Mohammed, who also ripped Israel over its treatment of Palestinians.

    – Raw And Unfiltered News

    1. Proud Conservative Mom

      I’m shocked that any member of the Left is working to expose the chicanery of the FBI.

      It’s incredible what the FBI has gotten away with to date.

      It has been mobilized against We the People for quite some time already.
      Of course, they are also in cahoots with the DOJ and the IRS.
      85,000 additional IRS agents were recently hired.

      Naturally, Hunter and the rest of the Biden Crime Family is being protected!

      We were of course, lied to and there was major election interference.

      The DOJ won’t charge Bidet* for taking home classified documents.
      He didn’t even have executive privilege.

      😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

      1. Sapper 9

        All the alphabet organizations are working together to undermine the nation and the rule of law; everytime they are caught nothing is done, they have no fear of repercussions.

  239. bill smith

    Once upon a time, in a small icy village by the coast of Antarctica, there lived a religious Jewish penguin named Vinny. Vinny was known for his strong faith and unwavering commitment to his traditions. He loved reading the Torah, observing Shabbat, and above all, enjoying his favorite Israeli peanut snack, Bamba. His beloved wife, Vardit, shared his enthusiasm for Bamba and was equally excited about their upcoming adventure to the land of its origin: Israel.

    One sunny morning, as the penguins waddled along the icy shores, Vinny gathered his courage and shared the exciting news with Vardit. “My dearest Vardit,” he exclaimed, “we are embarking on a journey to the holy land of Israel, the land where our ancestors walked. We will witness the magic of Jerusalem, bask in the beauty of the Dead Sea, and, of course, savor countless packets of Bamba!”

    Vardit’s eyes sparkled with delight. She hugged Vinny tightly and exclaimed, “Oh, Vinny, this is a dream come true! To experience the rich heritage of our people and taste the delectable Bamba in its homeland, what more could we ask for?”

    Filled with anticipation, Vinny and Vardit embarked on their long and arduous journey to Israel. They boarded a cargo ship that was heading in the direction of the Middle East. The voyage was not easy, as they faced treacherous storms and rough seas. However, Vinny’s unwavering faith and Vardit’s comforting presence kept their spirits high.

    After what felt like an eternity, the ship finally docked at the vibrant port of Haifa. Vinny and Vardit hopped off the ship, their hearts filled with excitement. They waddled through the bustling streets, mesmerized by the diversity of people, languages, and cultures.

    Their first stop was Jerusalem, the city of gold. They visited the Western Wall, where Vinny placed his flipper on the ancient stones and offered a heartfelt prayer. They explored the winding streets of the Old City, marveling at the colorful markets and inhaling the delicious aroma of falafel and hummus.

    In the days that followed, Vinny and Vardit journeyed to the enchanting landscapes of the Dead Sea, floated effortlessly on its salty waters, and covered themselves in its mineral-rich mud. They climbed the picturesque hills of Galilee and visited the sacred sites where Jesus once walked.

    But amidst all these incredible experiences, there was one thing that truly stole their hearts—the Bamba. Vinny and Vardit found themselves sampling different varieties of Bamba wherever they went. From the salty classic to the enticing chocolate-coated ones, they relished each bite, savoring the unique taste that brought them so much joy.

    One sunny afternoon, as they sat on a sandy beach near Tel Aviv, Vinny turned to Vardit with a smile. “My love, we have journeyed far and wide, witnessed wonders, and shared countless packets of Bamba. But the true magic lies in our connection to our heritage, our faith, and the love we share.”

    Vardit nodded, her eyes glistening with love. “Vinny, no matter where we go, our bond and our traditions are what truly make us who we are. Israel has shown us the beauty of our heritage and allowed us to celebrate it in the most special way.”

    As the sun began to set, casting its golden glow upon the vast ocean, Vinny and Vardit held flippers, cherishing the memories they had created together. With hearts full of gratitude and Bamba crumbs on their beaks, they felt a sense of fulfillment, knowing that their journey….. TBC

    1. Weary Traveler

      Somewhere I was expecting him to peck at HP’s shwarma and end up on the run, hence all the interesting places Vinny has been inserted. LOL

      But nice story over all.

        1. Weary Traveler

          Ah, so that’s where that came from.

          A while back, someone on W3P ran a test on that, and had mt make up some funny stories about Gus and Jerry the tranny. LOL

        2. Weary Traveler

          I wonder what kind of a story Chat GPT could make about Sugar Mama, aka, the Tiny Dancer? LOL

          4. Weary Traveler

            It’s an AI generated chat system. Tell it what you want it to write, and it writes it for you.

    2. Proud Conservative Mom

      “They climbed the picturesque hills of Galilee and visited the sacred sites where Jesus once walked.”

      😱😱😱😱😱😱
      A Jewish penguin would never talk like that!
      HASHEM YERACHEIM!

      Was Vinny drunk when he wrote that otherwise very heartwarming rendition of his travels?
      I would advise him to edit it.

      1. bill smith

        Ha, I didn’t notice that. I just skimmed over it and read the first and last sentence.

  242. Weary Traveler

    Russia issues arrest warrant for Lindsey Graham after Ukraine comments

    https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4024960-russia-issues-arrest-warrant-for-lindsey-graham-after-ukraine-comments/

    It would make my year if Putin was successful in that endeavor, and locked that warmongering RINO away in a Gulag somewhere never to be heard from again.

    I am so sick of these chicken hawk politicians that want to bankrupt us, and even send us off to war to defend their own money laundering, while gaslighting us about “patriotism.”

    I say put these scumbag politicians in fatigues, let them get screamed at every day by a bunch of sexually confused skinheads for a few weeks or months, whatever it is for basic training, and send THEM in to the battle fields.

  245. Weary Traveler

    Kids Need the Opportunity to Take Risks, Learn from Mistakes, and Succeed on Their Own

    https://brownstone.org/articles/kids-need-opportunity-take-risks-learn-from-mistakes-succeed/

    I am so glad I missed the drama of the helicopter parenting today. There were helicopter parents, typically mothers in my day, but not nearly as bad as now.

    Media has been all too good at drilling fear in to so many people’s heads. Funny enough, when the COVID lockdowns started, and they came out with masking and all the social distancing crap, I immediately thought of a South Park episode from almost a decade prior when the news was sensationalizing child abductions. Although a real problem, they so dramatized it with all these “special segments” with new reports and studies. And then eventually there was a report that said the most likely abductees were the parents themselves, so they banish their kids from town so that they don’t abduct their own children. And as they are leaving town, Stan says “sometimes our parents are really stupid.”

    Until COVID came alone, it reminded me of all the special reports in my area about “When the ‘Big One’ hits”, referring to the next 1906 earthquake which they are so sure will be on the Hayward Fault because of faulty science.

    But still, no wonder the COVID hysteria would remind me of that South Park episode. Years and years of gaslighting and fear mongering lead to it all. It wouldn’t have been nearly as successful otherwise.

    1. Proud Conservative Mom

      Okay.
      I read the entire article.
      (I try to do so as much as possible.)

      My parents and other family members never did helicopter parenting.

      I have a friend who an nurse practitioner that specializes in psychology. She once told me that she would never believe that my children were related, let alone siblings.
      Of course, it’s normal to have children who are different in one’s family.
      Apparently, mine stand out tremendously.

      BH, they are all very strong Torah Jews.

      They have such diverse personalities.
      They each creatively use their talents that Hashem gave them.

      I wouldn’t allow them to wander off in the neighborhood without an idea as to where they were going.
      Six years of age, is way too young to do that.
      Mind you, I always allowed my children to stretch their own wings.

      Children learn what they live.
      It’s that simple.
      Parents have to be proper role models and to NEVER be hypocrites.

      The author is very wrong on a couple of points.
      One of them is the speech therapy.
      I speak from parental experience.

      I have no brothers.
      I was told that it’s very common for boys to be delayed and that they catch up.
      My oldest son was very speech delayed.
      I received well meaning advice precisely what the author wrote.
      Do nothing, and the child will eventually speak.
      RUBBISH, HOGWASH AND NONSENSE!
      😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

      My son had to play “catch-up.”
      I had to fight to get him two and a half hours of speech therapy per week.
      We worked very hard together.
      It was a very painful process.
      At three, my son only had a handful of words in his repertoire and couldn’t carry on a conversation.
      We knew that he understood everything.
      He didn’t have the ability to use his knowledge and transform it into words and sentences.

      To quote my sister Shoshana (she and my sister Devora are very sought after speech pathologists) “There is absolutely no down side to getting a child therapy. It ensures that a child doesn’t fall behind. Worse case scenario and the child doesn’t really require it, he is stimulated and ahead of the game.
      SHE. IS. RIGHT.

      I am a private person, but will always share information if it could save even one heart from grieving.

      The author is correct about alot of things, but is dead wrong about that.

      Overall, children need to be allowed to stretch their own wings and fly.
      Absolutely.
      It also has to be age appropriate.

      I am told constantly that all of my five children are terrific people.
      I’m very blessed.

      1. Weary Traveler

        I was gone most of the day yesterday with Marty. I got to meet one of his former coworkers that he worked with when he worked for that awful crazy lady. This guy still works there, and he not only confirmed the stories, but it was even worse than Marty said because the woman is a psychopath.

        “Of course, it’s normal to have children who are different in one’s family.
        Apparently, mine stand out tremendously.”

        Absolutely. My brother and I are very much opposites in more ways than we have in common.

        “I wouldn’t allow them to wander off in the neighborhood without an idea as to where they were going.
        Six years of age, is way too young to do that.
        Mind you, I always allowed my children to stretch their own wings.”

        You touch on something interesting here. It never ceases to amaze me the extremes people go to. On one end of the spectrum, you have the extreme of helicopter parenting, and on the other you have the “free range” with little nuance/regard for a medium.

        When you reject one extreme, then it is assumed that you automatically endorse the other. The mentality is very tribal like with gang members.

        But this takes me back to when Marty found a cassette from one of his Psychology courses at UC Berkeley, and they were actually discussing this very topic. The conclusion was that you do not want either extreme as both lead to long term damage of some kind. It was more along the lines of what you were just saying.

        That there is a healthy medium. A child has to have a certain freedom to explore, but there also has to be a solid structure around that.

        As far as therapy or things like that, that is another example of things people will take to the extreme. There are people out there that will rush their child to the emergency room because their child has the sniffles or will treat little things like a disorder = “My son isn’t interested in sports like the other boys therefore I think he might be gay.” Yeah, that’s a good way to screw a kid up.

        And because of people like that, there are those who will take the extreme opposite approach.

      2. Sapper 9

        Children NEED to make mistakes so that they have the opportunity to learn from them.

        As a child my parents took me to a speech pathologist , I was also very shy as a child; however, in high school I was very popular and had no problem speaking in front of groups.

        In the military, I was a take charge person and achieved the rank of CSM, which at one put me in charge of over 1,000 subordinates, the early shortcomings are easy to overcome.

        Paisley started speaking late, but, is now way past her peers.

  246. Tony

    Russia may ban doctors from performing surgery to change people’s
    gender under proposed legislation, the TASS news agency said on Tuesday.

    The ban exempts surgery to treat congenital anomalies in children, TASS said.

  247. Sapper 9

    From the way back machine, Obama claiming that it is unpatriotic to raise the debt and attacking Bush for doing it; I agree with Obama that we shouldn’t have raised the Debt.

    When Obama raised the debt more than twice the amount of Bush and I still agreed with Obama that his actions were “unpatriotic”.

    https://youtu.be/1kuTG19Cu_Q

  248. bill smith

    Over the past weeks, as anti-judicial reform protest spread across Israel, Im Tirtzu has been working tirelessly to support and defend the autonomy of Israeli policies. We have published reports and made our voices heard – the only people who should have any right to dictate Israel’s governance, policies, and practices are the Israeli people. It is critical as the only democracy in the Middle East that Israel have full control over its decisions, with no foreign interference.

    Im Tirtzu has worked to pass legislature in the Knesset, which if passed would levy a heavy tax on organizations who have been proven to be receiving foreign donations from NGOs and countries that intend to undermine Israel’s ability for self-determination. Our CEO, Matan Peleg, outlines why this interference is so detrimental to Israeli society, and why the double standard is only levied against Israel.

    May Israel protect its people without worrying about the international community which consistently seeks to continue their slander and control our future.
    Matan Peleg, CEO of Im Tirtzu, Speaks on Gesher Panel in Defense of Israeli Autonomy

      1. Sapper 9

        If the Democrats pack the courts like they have been plotting to , it would be the same here.

          1. Sapper 9

            That is the point that I become lawless, but, still following my moral compass and G-D’s laws.

          3. Sapper 9

            Once the legal system become an UNELECTED SUPER LEGISLATIVE branch which is unaccountable to the people, I will refuse to obey their edicts , but, I will obey moral laws and the GOD’S laws.

          5. Sapper 9

            If one political party stuffs the courts with activists and rules from the bench, they become the worst tyrannical threat.

            They will use their power to effectively create laws with zero accountability to the people.

            We have heard calls from the left to create camps of the unvaccinated , re-education camps for people that they don’t agree with, redistribution schemes, etc.

            I would burn every thing I own to the ground before I would allow it to be taken from me and redistributed to someone that didn’t earn it.

          9. Sapper 9

            I always enjoy their visits, Colton is still a little fatty, but, he will grow into it soon enough.

  253. Proud Conservative Mom

    *Sivan Rahav-Meir / The Daily Portion / Eternity’s ambassador*

    * Translation by Yehoshua Siskin

    *Rabbi Gershon Edelstein*, one of the Haredi (Ultra Orthodox) leaders, passed away yesterday at the age of 100. I remember after the great Rabbi Steinman passed away (at the age of 103), a meeting was held in which Rabbi Edelstein was supposed to give his first address as Rabbi Steinman’s successor. There was enormous anticipation as to what Rabbi Edelstein’s goals and mission would be.

    In his usual manner, he unfolded a small piece of paper and proceeded to give his list of priorities. He said we needed to fight our enemies but did not mention politics or laws before the Knesset. Instead, he saw the utmost urgency in curbing anger, eliminating lashon hara (insulting speech) and envy, and increasing acts of kindness. The audience was surprised, although whoever was acquainted with Rabbi Edelstein knew that *his primary goal for all of us was to improve our character traits*. Our enemies, first and foremost, are not external but lie within. And with those enemies he did battle for a hundred years.

    The man who was born in Lithuania in 1923 was present for all of the high and low moments of the last century. He saw regimes rise and fall, witnessed how nations were swept up by communism, Nazism, and fascism before these ideologies were swept away. He was there for the outbreak of a world war and saw the nation of Israel return to its land. His era was one of profound cultural changes and technological advances. So what about him? He remained bent over the Gemara, passing down the Torah from one generation to the next. He learned and taught, counseled and reassured, answered and guided. *A hundred years of steadiness and pleasantness.*

    The feeling I had whenever I saw him was that here was a piece of eternity, an ambassador from the revelation at Mount Sinai living among us, yet he would not have wanted such a grandiose eulogy. He would simply tell us to do good things, however small and without any pressure, in his name. To be more conciliatory, to learn something every day that would strengthen and improve us, to give a little more respect to family members and friends. *The man who was called “leader of the haredi public” reminded us that a person, first of all, must know how to be a leader to himself.*

    In his memory.

    Hat tip OR Media for the photos.

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5321d24fc5530d865744c71b198b877886423dc76e718ed7699bf912a52a4825.png
    (Translation: Our teacher, our Rabbi, the great (Gaon is a tremendous safe) Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, may the memory of the holy great righteous be blessed.) https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d4237f7b7bf995940bf500ee43c434887edf55b90b0681b071249b7fda2d849e.png

    (Translation of the Hebrew: last honor to the great (one) of the generation.)

    FYI, there is a certain amount of protexia that we have when such a great person is living in this world. We are impoverished! 💔💔💔😪😪😪

    1. Sapper 9

      A white square surrounded by a thin black border, no way will they get offended by that, ooops, i forgot that lefties hate white.

  261. Tony

    The following “joke” is an example of way that headlines can be misleading. (It was sent yesterday, 1/6/23, when the headline of the above item simply stated that “Palestinian toddler killed by Israeli army”, which was certainly misleading, but my comment (inexplicably) was withdrawn, so I’ve changed it a bit).

    A man in Paris sees a pit bull attacking a toddler. He KIL-S the dog and saves the child’s life. Reporters swarm to cover the story. “What is your name. All of Paris will love you. Tomorrow’s headline will proclaim: Paris hero saves girl from VICIO-S dog”.

    “The man says: “But I am not from Paris”. Reporters: “That’s OK. The whole of France will love you, and tomorrow’s headline will read: French hero saves girl from VICIO-S dog.”

    The man says: “I’m not from France either”. Reporters: “OK, all Europe will love you, and tomorrow’s headline will shout: European hero saves girl from VICIO-S dog.”

    The man says “I’m not from Europe either.” Reporters: “So where are you from?” The man replies: “I am from Israel.”

    Reporters: “OK, then tomorrow’s headline will say: “Jew KILLS girl’s dog.”

    1. Sapper 9

      I call that Verbal Gymnasics, anything to push a narrative, or hide the truth.

      Example : A man drives by Walmart on his way to a “gentmen’s club”; when his wife asks what he had been doing, he tells her he “drove by Walmart”

      Is the man lying? , not by journalist standards, or lack there of

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