Leave those losers in the dust.
They’re not worth another thought.
A new day is comin’!
So that sounds incredibly trite, but in my adult life I’ve never felt this optimistic after a long period of feeling very bleak about the future.
Inhale deeply!

My primary concerns on national politics have been economics, and defense for a long time. FJB managed to stretch my imagination to include border security. Previously my imagination wasn't broad enough to think anyone could screw that up to an existential threat. Of course I didn't factor in a prez that could fuck up a wet dream and then go for a vanilla cone.

It's been 43 days of good humor for me. Yes. I suppose I'll get tired of watching the ass-clowns, GDCs, fruit bats, surrender monkeys (no offense meant to any resident monkeys), turn-coats and spokespukes of all stripes piss and moan but at the moment, not so much. I feel great, I'm losing weight, I think my hairs growing back, what's not to like?

Half steppers don't want to come back to the office? Fine with me, but I think it would be fun to notify them that thy had to come to the office to pick up their severance check and then, and then, because I have a highly evolved sense of humor I'd include the phone number to call if they wished to lodge a complaint, an excuse or whatever and have the phone announce busy and play muzak with an 11 minute repeat with no time limit.

I just revert to Mrs. Temple, my first grade teacher, she asked the class what was best in life and my friend Arnold, said,"To see your enemies driven before you and hear the lamentations of their women." so I'm good.

Does anyone know if George had to kick in any personal funds toward that $15mm settlement and $1mm in legal fees? Obviously, ABC/Disney can afford it. But it'd be nice to know that George had some skin in the game beyond his ego.

oooopsie!

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1869758879544025594





Merry Christamas, Fani! I hope you like what Trump Claus brought you!

Now things are getting interesting - as House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is reportedly discussing a 'plan B' to fund the government as a 'clean' Continuing Resolution (CR) without $100 billion disaster aid and the below shitshow of swampy handouts and government overreach, Politico reports.

Democrats will of course throw a mega-tantrum, which makes Friday's government shutdown more likely - though as you can see (as of this writing), the odds are currently at 14% 35%.

Trump and Vance just came out against the pork too...

A statement from President Donald J. Trump and Vice President-Elect JD Vance:

The most foolish and inept thing ever done by Congressional Republicans was allowing our country to hit the debt ceiling in 2025. It was a mistake and is now something that must be addressed.

Meanwhile, Congress is considering a spending bill that would give sweetheart provisions for government censors and for Liz Cheney. The bill would make it easier to hide the records of the corrupt January 6 committee—which accomplished nothing for the American people and hid security failures that happened that day. This bill would also give Congress a pay increase while many Americans are struggling this Christmas.

Increasing the debt ceiling is not great but we’d rather do it on Biden’s watch. If Democrats won’t cooperate on the debt ceiling now, what makes anyone think they would do it in June during our administration? Let’s have this debate now. And we should pass a streamlined spending bill that doesn’t give Chuck Schumer and the Democrats everything they want.

Republicans want to support our farmers, pay for disaster relief, and set our country up for success in 2025. The only way to do that is with a temporary funding bill WITHOUT DEMOCRAT GIVEAWAYS combined with an increase in the debt ceiling. Anything else is a betrayal of our country.

Republicans must GET SMART and TOUGH. If Democrats threaten to shut down the government unless we give them everything they want, then CALL THEIR BLUFF. It is Schumer and Biden who are holding up aid to our farmers and disaster relief.

THIS CHAOS WOULD NOT BE HAPPENING IF WE HAD A REAL PRESIDENT. WE WILL IN 32 DAYS!

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https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...sane-funding-package

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Merry Christamas, Fani! I hope you like what Trump Claus brought you!

Yep, it's a horrible setback for someone that names their phone "Gorilla Grip Pussy" to get screwed like this...

It is a wonderful thing that Musk and his Grok tool can parse a huge bill like this current one and show in seconds how corrupt it is. I don't think the thieves will be able to hide anything anymore. Definitely pelosi won't be able to say "We have to pass it to know whats in it." Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

I was surprised by the trial judge MacAfee's decision that said there was impropriety with Fani and the boyfriend but that it could be cured with one of them stepping down.

If there's a stench of impropriety, it's not removed by only having one of the guilty parties removed and the other guilty party is allowed to remain on the case. He should have ruled that either there is no impropriety or there is by both of them and they're both removed.

The appellate court got it right.

Hope President Trump sues that skank into oblivion.

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Originally posted by xd45man:
It is a wonderful thing that Musk and his Grok tool can parse a huge bill like this current one and show in seconds how corrupt it is. I don't think the thieves will be able to hide anything anymore. Definitely pelosi won't be able to say "We have to pass it to know whats in it." Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Hell of it is DOGE is only here for 3 months then the shit show can likely resume. Democrats are rotten to the core and so are just enough Rinos. We need to Vote the rinos out. Next go round.

Question; is this DOGE to be an actual legal US Govt Department, or is it a Trump-created advisory board only ?

Advisory.

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Republicans must GET SMART and TOUGH. If Democrats threaten to shut down the government unless we give them everything they want, then CALL THEIR BLUFF. It is Schumer and Biden who are holding up aid to our farmers and disaster relief.

Now that we have X, Musk and direct connection to Trump and the ability to respond as citizens in mass that we don't want this pork bill it stands a great chance of changing the way DC works.

Choomer and Company can stand up and blame Musk, Trump, but they are no longer holding the cards in the Media, even MSNBC and CNN know they can't keep pushing the agenda of the left and hiding the truth.

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Originally posted by Rick Lee:
Does anyone know if George had to kick in any personal funds toward that $15mm settlement and $1mm in legal fees? Obviously, ABC/Disney can afford it. But it'd be nice to know that George had some skin in the game beyond his ego.

I've heard (no link), Steffie got hit with a cool million bill.

The WSJ has published--today, December 19, 2024--a breathtaking exposé--READALLABOUDIT!--That Joe Biden had significant cognitive decline during the 2020 campaign, and that his campaign workers--gasp!--went to great lengths to hide this from the public, so they never knew! Never!

Right now there are 2978 comments, one of which says

quote:

They meant it for evil. God meant it for good. We the People learned the truth about the left wing of the Democrat party, and has now rejected it.

Link

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Originally posted by sjtill:
The WSJ has published--today, December 19, 2024--a breathtaking exposé--READALLABOUDIT!--That Joe Biden had significant cognitive decline during the 2020 campaign, and that his campaign workers--gasp!--went to great lengths to hide this from the public, so they never knew! Never!

Right now there are 2978 comments, one of which says

quote:

They meant it for evil. God meant it for good. We the People learned the truth about the left wing of the Democrat party, and has now rejected it.

Link

Would you mind doing copy and paste the full article for us non WSJ subscribers, that would be great

The Wall Street Journal employs people to search the web for postings of their paid content and I hear from our host when they complain. I find this petty. A venue such as this is not distributing WSJ paid content to a large audience. Nevertheless...

sjtill might be so kind as to post an excerpt from the article. This is permitted under the Fair Use provision of the Copyright Act.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
I find this petty.

And also odd.

The WSJ allows subscribers to have articles emailed to other people, and I take advantage of that fairly frequently. One would think that being exposed to the company’s news reporting content would cause some people to think, “Hey, maybe it would be a good idea to get their reports all the time,” and therefore subscribe. I have one friend who did recently subscribe. I don’t know if his decision was influenced by the articles I had sent to him, but I’m sure it didn’t hurt, and it’s not like the WSJ is injured when a tiny bit of its content is posted on a forum like this.

National Review offers a little bit of insight on the WSJ article in a piece titled -

“Wall Street Journal: Biden Staff Minimized His Interactions with Congress, Cabinet, Public”

https://www.nationalreview.com...ress-cabinet-public/

From NR -

“The Wall Street Journal, in a blistering expose this morning:

To adapt the White House around the needs of a diminished leader, they told visitors to keep meetings focused. Interactions with senior Democratic lawmakers and some cabinet members — including powerful secretaries such as Defense’s Lloyd Austin and Treasury’s Janet Yellen — were infrequent or grew less frequent. Some legislative leaders had a hard time getting the president’s ear at key moments, including ahead of the U.S.’s disastrous pullout from Afghanistan. . . .

While it isn’t uncommon for politicians to want more time with the president than they get, some Democrats felt Biden was unusually hard to reach.

That’s what Rep. Adam Smith of Washington found when he tried to share his concerns with the president ahead of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. Smith, a Democrat who then chaired the powerful House Armed Services Committee, was alarmed by what he viewed as overly optimistic comments from Biden as the administration assembled plans for the operation.

“I was begging them to set expectations low,” said Smith, who had worked extensively on the issue and harbored concerns about how the withdrawal might go. He sought to talk to Biden directly to share his insights about the region but couldn’t get on the phone with him, Smith said. . . .

Interactions between Biden and many of his cabinet members were relatively infrequent and often tightly scripted. At least one cabinet member stopped requesting calls with the president, because it was clear that such requests wouldn’t be welcome, a former senior cabinet aide said.

One top cabinet member met one-on-one with the president at most twice in the first year and rarely in small groups, another former senior cabinet aide said. [Emphasis added.]“

FJB!!

With the info in the WSJ article, the bigger and unasked question is: "Whose orders will the military follow in the event of an actual "shootin' war" breaking out between now and January 20, 2025 @ 12Noon?"

JoeB is utterly and totally incompetent ("non compos mentis"), and unless the 25th Amendment is actually invoked by VP Kackles and a majority of the Cabinet, then the US Military is without civilian oversight and leadership.

Per the National Security Act of 1947, and as amended, all operational military orders proceed from the President, through the SecDef and the Chairman of the JCS, to combatant commanders.

The SecDef, Lloyd Austin, has been proven to be unreliable in making decisions and keeping superiors and subordinates informed.

The SecDef can not instigate offensive operations on his own, as his authority stems from the President, the Commander-in-Chief of the military. Any other such orders from a compromised President could be argued to be illegal orders and thus not valid.

The next 32 days are truly a scary time for the USA and the World.