Category: Politics

Trying not to start the public floggings

The Missing Candidates

Elections

So wannabe-Texas Senator James Talarico (Raving Loony Party) has been conspicuous by his absence from the campaign trail recently, and we’re supposed to be surprised by this?

Allow me to explain why we shouldn’t be.

Talarico has distinguished himself by making statements — sometimes off prepared speeches and sometimes by off-the-cuff remarks — that are in turn breathtakingly stupid, vapid, childish, muddled and offensive:  and sometimes all five simultaneously.

So of course the Democratic-Socialist-Muslim-LGBTQ-Green candidate has to be hidden from view before the November election, lest his positions (such as they are) piss off Texas voters to such an extent that they give him a severe thrashing at the polls.

May I remind y’all that this was the same reason that the comatose Joe Biden was once likewise secreted from public view, lest the voters see just how vegetative the senile then-President really was.

And it almost worked.

It didn’t work then, and it won’t work now.  And before anyone thinks that, like Biden before him, Talarico can get elected through massive voter fraud, let me remind everyone that we’re not talking about Illinois or California here.

Talarico is going to get whipped in November.  Texans are many things, but they ain’t stupid, and certainly not that stupid as to elect a hopeless no-regard nutcase like Talarico to the U.S. Senate.

Not The Time To Give Up

Elections, Foreign Affairs, Politics

Kurt Schlichter does a number on the RINO and GOPe supporters, as well as those idiots who think that $4/gallon gas is a bigger problem for the U.S. than the Communists and locally-bred jihadists taking over the levers of power again.

One by one, he picks the fruits of Donald Trump’s foreign policy:

  • Panama Canal taken away from China
  • Venezuela’s 65 billion barrels of oil reserves under U.S. control instead of China’s
  • USAID defunded, and a less Communist South America
  • Greenland under U.S. control, with the concomitant defense benefits thereof
  • the strangulation of the Iranian theocracy, meaning a nuke-free nation of Islamist lunatics
  • the foreseeable end of Cuba and Nicaragua’s Communist governments
  • all the other benefits of clear-eyed, America-first foreign policy instead of the infantile accomodationism of Obama / Biden.

Kurt forgot to mention:

  • this year’s riot-free summer (thanks to the muzzling of ActBlue, USAID, SPLC and similar insurrectionist supporters), but I guess that was lost amidst the plethora of all those good things
  • the continuing repatriation / expulsion of thousands of criminals and foreign agents welcomed into the country by Obama and Biden.
  • how all the fraud and corruption in the U.S. government and government-funded organizations has become at least exposed for all to see, with (one hopes) some actual prosecutions to follow soon
  • reducing all those economy-killing Green regulations and petty government interference
  • the growth of the economy, the strengthening of incomes, and the virtual disappearance of unemployment.

I’m going to sum this up, because Kurt didn’t.

All the above actions — every single one — can and will be overturned and reversed if the Communist/jihadist alliance of Obama/Biden is returned to power following this November’s elections.

And the only way these assholes can win is if we American conservatives don’t show up to vote or (perish the thought) vote for the assholes “in protest” because we don’t agree with every single thing the Trump administration has done, or feel aggrieved for the things it hasn’t done (e.g. closing the Dept. of Education and removal of the ATF).

And let’s not forget the expensive fuel ($4/gal compared to $6 under Biden, and the Obama crowd’s stated desire to make gasoline as expensive as it is in Europe).  Yeah, that’s a really good reason to bring the Communists back into power.

Look: we’ve seen what happened in the U.K.when the populace, tired of the pathetic Conservative Party, voted Labour (or just didn’t vote at all).  Anyone want to live in today’s Britain?  No?  Then why the hell would we indulge in the same idiocy Over Here?

I don’t know if I can put it any plainer than that.

Keep the Communists, jihadists and loonies away from government.

Get out and vote Republican next month (and every month thereafter).

Dishonest Innumeracy

Lies and Untruths, Marxists

Whenever some socialist asswipe attempts to use statistics to prove something, they inevitably end up looking like either a fool or else totally dishonest (mostly, both).

Here’s one example:  Hair Gel Boy spouting some anti-Trump nonsense.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) reposted a chart on X Tuesday claiming housing prices are “the most unaffordable in history,” and that it was Trump’s fault.

The chart Newsom shared showed that the housing affordability gap actually widened during Joe Biden’s presidency, and X users noticed almost instantly, flooding his replies with screenshots of the very data he’d just posted as though it helped his argument. It didn’t take long for the pile-on to turn Newsom’s own post into a meme about his reading comprehension.

I’d like to ascribe this to (innumerate) reading comprehension, but if one heeds the old saying that a lie will make its way around the world before the truth gets out of bed, it’s clear that such a tactic was his intention.  (With X, of course, the effect is somewhat ameliorated because of Community Notes — thanks again, Elon — but still.  Now the lie only makes it a quarter of the way around the world before the truth comes out swinging a sledgehammer.)

Newsom’s not, of course, the only one:

In July 2025, the Democratic National Committee posted a chart that they thought proved grocery prices were spiraling out of control in Trump’s second term.

The chart told a different story. It showed a huge spike under Biden. The DNC had unwittingly undermined its own attack on Trump. Social media users mocked the party within hours, dissecting the chart line by line, forcing the DNC to quietly delete the post… not that that stopped us from making fun of them anyway.

I’d like to substitute “public flogging” for “making fun of”, but that’s just me.

We see this stuff time and time again, especially with the old Global Warming Climate Cooling Change© nonsense, where its adherents choose a point in time that oh-so conveniently “proves” their point about the above upward movement.

It’s one of the reasons why I’ve always preferred a “moving average” type of trend graph, because that smooths out one-time or extraordinary data points — which is why the alarmists and mountebanks (like Newsom) hate using them — if indeed they know what a “moving average” even is.

Ignoramus or outright liar?  I report, you decide.

Oh Dear

Resistance

I post the following news item with deep sorrow:

Flock cameras are an endangered technology in Toledo, Ohio, with a sixth camera now vandalized in the past two months in a city with a quarter million residents.

The latest Flock camera put out of service in an act of vandalism took place on the city’s west end, according to authorities and local news reports.

Toledo police are investigating after the pole holding up a camera and solar panel appears to have been cleanly cut near the ground, local station WTOL reported.

The half dozen cameras put out of service in the past 60 days include one that was “pushed to the ground” over Labor Day weekend and three others that were knocked down in mid-August on the city’s east side, along with others in Oregon, a Toledo suburb, police said.

Wait… I can’t keep this up:

And let us not forget to honor the heroes of The Resistance: