Retired in God's country!
With all of the recent kerfuffle about the deported illegal MS-13 “Baltimore Dad” now blowing up in their faces, of course this would be their response. “IT WAS ALL TRUMPS FAULT!!!”
“she is realizing that these optics for the Democrats are very, very bad. And now she’s trying to blame Donald Trump and the Republicans for keeping it in the news instead of the democrats. More deflection, more lies, more gaslighting. What else do we expect??“
With the gaslighting ramped up to 11 now, it’s difficult to stay abreast of all of the BS flowing freely on a now daily basis. This was the avenue to document it previously. But the gas flows so freely and often, I decided to give it its own category and this will simply be the initial post of many to come.
1/20/2025
Now down to the final couple of hours and the lights are still on so that’s a good sign. They may still try to “take him out”, as some are speculating but I believe most have awakened, and any attempt at this point would only only provoke widespread unrest that would cripple everything nationwide and would actually be the threat to democracy that they so often projected and warned us about.
Of course, they don’t care so let’s pray we get through this.
The final hour blanket “get out of jail” cards being issued to all the bad actors are disconcerting, but in the end, they really matter not. Those folks will STILL face severe consequences and I look forward to them admitting their roles.
However, the gaslighting about their actions has almost petered out.
They kept trying but no one was buying.
About all that needs to occur to begin healing as a nation is for the rest to acknowledge the reality of the past several years.
It proves it can be done. So, when you STILL have those failed arguments thrown at you at this point, you’ll know that whoever is spewing them is beyond hope and not really worth your time trying to reason with them.
1/16/2025
Only a few more days to go.
In his farewell address yesterday, Biden continued his delusion that his administration was one of the most successful presidencies ever, but nearly every point he raised in the speech had already been thoroughly debunked or exposed as misinformation. The jobs/crime reports were again cited after being repeatedly exposed every month when the initially underreported data was later always quietly corrected a few months later.
This administration is terrified that a Trump/Bondi DOJ might behave precisely like the Biden/Garland goon squad has. There were repeated assertions that the DOJ has been free from political partisanship for the past four years. These people don’t need staffers and interns, they need fulltime supervision by mental healthcare professionals.”
And this is why we will NEVER see Biden make any public appearance. Can you imagine his reception at a major sporting event like his opponent has received every time he’s made an appearance? Throughout the campaign, he only appeared when every aspect of the appearance (include the reception) could be 100% controlled with numerous paid activists bussed around the country to swell his numbers – and that didn’t even work with tiny events held in sparse HS gyms with all of the actors shoved together into a corner for the right full-crowd shot. No one was fooled then and no one is fooled now.
Hopefully, that address was the last thing we will ever have to hear from him. I’d personally prefer HE face justice, but will settle for him leaving office in complete disgrace and totally irrelevant from here on. Having HIM realize that would be icing on the cake, but that’s likely a bridge too far for someone who is likely heading directly to a memory care senior center setting.
1/1/2025
Happy New Year!!!!
As I shared here back in October leading up to the election, the need for this thread has pretty much been vaporized. As expected, they tried all of their tricks, threats and projections to sway the voters and they were widely rejected.
To explain how we finally arrived back in reality, this post by Victor Davis Hanson lays it out pretty clearly. If you might still be confused on how we arrived here, I’d recommend a review:
The truth now is set free, and it smothers the old lying denials about the origins of COVID, about the truth of diversity/equity/inclusion, about the naked greed of the Biden family syndicate, about the dementia of Joe, about the chauvinism of three sexes, and about the joy and momentum of the fracking, gun-toting, MacDonald’s veteran and border hawk Kamala Harris.
No one fears or listens to the now defenestrated frauds and tiring dissimulators: the Bidens, a Fauci, Mayorkas, Garland, Milley, Austin, Jean-Pierre, Comey, Brennan, Clapper, or McCabe—and their old lies that Hunter is brilliant, Biden is fit as a field, no gain-in-function viruses, a bat caused COVID, the border is secure, Chinese army generals are more trustworthy than Trump, the laptop was Russian, Trump is a Putin puppet, and always their nauseating “I can’t recall”, “ I don’t remember”, “I have no recollection”, and “I am not at liberty to say”.
11/1/2024
Silly me. Here I thought their ship was sunk and they’d start reporting the truth, in fear of being imprisoned since we are all Nazi’s, you know. But, it’s been hit after hit all week long. What’s truly amazing is that I’ve been saying for months that each time they try these stunts, they only manage to increase Trumps lead. But, just like clockwork, they keep doubling down on stupid and just hand the election over to their opponent.
We’ll start off with the Rogan/Vance discussion. I won’t call it an interview because they never are. Instead, we get a frank dialog on a number of subjects – some good, some bad, but clearly superior to getting the days talking points recited to you in a salad bowl. It’s a far better way to really get to know the candidate. It’s too bad for Kamala they never figured that out.
Anyway, if you remember my post about the media back in February, that was when they started to warn us to not trust our own eyes and ears but instead allow THEM to tell us what we saw and heard. Apparently, they haven’t learned anything either as they are still at it.
Moving on, we got multiple rapid-fire examples of their delusion. And with each case, Trumps lead increased. Instead of reinventing the wheel, I’ll plagiarize myself and reuse a post I made to a news site earlier to summarize it all.
Leftists completely lack any comprehension skills and the only way to make a point is to misquote or outright lie. This “violent rhetoric” wailing can be filed under the same as the “Bloodbath”, “never vote again”, “garbage can” or the recent “women – like it or not” comments. Once the whole statement (beyond The View, Kimmel or Maddow version) is revealed , their argument crashes and only serves to improves his lead.
“Inject bleach”
“Suckers and losers”
“Bloodbath”
“The last time you’ll ever need to vote”
Project2025
Nazi’s in the boat parade
protecting women, like it or not (from what we wonder?)
executing Liz Cheney (this would be the 1st execution where the victim is also armed)
[this list is endless]
Also, add the recent “Garbage-Gate”, started by a comedian referencing PRs documented issue dealing with garbage. So he was talking about the island – not the people. Either way, Biden then came out and specifically called Trump supporters garbage – which of course they deny now, despite the video that refuses to die thanks to Trumps brilliant garbage truck idea. And their fallback is to reference Trumps “America is a garbage can” speech where he said we were becoming the worlds dumping ground for criminals, but of course they leave that part out.
Every time they try, they are easily exposed (to those who have opened their eyes), and then always revert back to their Nazi claims with fears of what he WILL do – without offering a shred of evidence.
10/26/2024
I am pretty sure I can let this thread die now. They have tried so hard to sway opinion with their BS and each and every attempt has only resulted in widening their opponents lead. No matter what they throw against the wall, nothing sticks. The result is this thread is no longer needed. Fine job people!
10/18/2024
And then, we have the MASTER of gaslighting, still believing he has any credibility left after years of lies.
10/15/2024
Glad to see MSMs admission that they slant all of their coverage to assist the “selected candidate” by making their viewers dumber is paying dividends. When they can blatantly put this out and their idiots faithfully repeat it. It’s disgusting!
10/13/2024
It’s so hard to keep up.
10/3/2024
The media is so “bought”. We all knew it but to those who still swallow their BS, I wonder how this admission settles with them.
“They’ve made their viewers dumber over the years”
From what I’ve seen, I certainly wouldn’t disagree.
Ever since Elon Musk got involved, suddenly, the Democrats lost control of the social media platform which had become a primary driver of news. The poor dears haven’t been taking it well at all. Because they rely so much on false narratives and the suppression of information, the Democrats freak right out if they lose even the tiniest bit of control. Hence, the dumbing down of content that the TDS-induced faithfully gulp down as fast as they can spit it out.
Is the urge to shut down and shut up all opposition just a sort of gag issue for the Left, or are they particularly hysterical this time around because the Kamala memes are proving effective at defining the candidate who refuses to define herself?
10/1/2024
On the doorstep of the VP debate, let’s ponder this.
““The Biden administration’s strategy has put the United States in a much stronger geopolitical position today than it was four years ago.”
This was released TODAY – as Israel is currently getting pummeled by Iranian missiles in an ever increasing conflict that is escalating out of control.
9/25/2024
There are numerous examples of this daily, but I realize most of the MSM covers it up so the ignorant among us remain unaware.
Just one of many points from the debate:
9/19/2024
Yeah. This is too close to call. Best not to endorse when your membership is so undecided.
9/2/2024
But, not to worry. My neighbors are on top of it if the Hell’s Angels decline.
8/8/2024
So much to log here but too much real life happening. But I had to get this logged as it drives so much more down the line.
8/3/2024
MAJOR gas being poured on today.
As all of commenters are reminding them, there was never a debate scheduled for Trump and Harris on ABC. That scheduled debate was for Trump and Biden. Of course now, they can frame it as Trump chickening out.
Actually, I wonder if this was a set up. The DEI selected candidate was never going to follow through as was scheduled with Biden anyway. Now that Trump proposed an alternative, they of course use it to state that he is chickening out. Imagine their frenzy if he says, “OK, you won’t renegotiate which is entirely expected being you aren’t who I agreed to debate… But OK, let’s go with it. See you on ABC as scheduled”. She is such an idiot, I imagine Trump would have no problem dissecting her – even on ABC. Whaddaya supposed their excuse will be then?
7/28/2024
I am thanking a commentator below for this one.
Just like the “bloodbath” comment of a few months ago, this is another deceptive omission of the context of the statement. Directly before these comments, he clearly stated it was directed a some Christian (and NRA members) who typically never vote at all. By saying if they vote this time, the electoral fraud could finally be overcome and then addressed to never skew elections again. Watch the speech beginning at the 30 minute mark.
This is a really good synopsis on how the MSM have lost the trust of the people, as well as the residual repercussions that eventually elevated Trump to the White House once again for a second term.
“I see one lie after another sold to us, the unsuspecting public who deserved better. The 51 experts on the Hunter Biden laptop. Russiagate. The generals. COVID leaked from a lab was racist, attempting to close the border from China was racist, the photo op story that was debunked, “Jacob Blake was unarmed,” and on and on it went.”
https://sashastone.substack.com/p/how-the-medias-elitism-cost-them
We all know some who took similar elitist positions, promoting their own warped views, while continually berating any opposing voices. To sum it up, how is that working out for them?
All that is left for those now left behind and ignored, is to continually drum up more angst within their echo chambers (BlueSky) and occasionally organize another event (for the people) that is universally ignored by most everyone.
Now, we see calls for a General Strike. Let’s see, that effort (started in 2022) requires over 10 million signees before they launch their devastating attack to cripple the administration. To date, they’ve gathered a total of about 324k. The problem is, they need about 250k each month to reach their goal before this administration has completed its term. At the rate they are now building support (9k/mo), they’ll finally reach that goal in 1150 years!
There have also been numerous (and humorous) other protests and boycotts, they claim has widespread support but is just the same few dozen loud voices, repeating the same unsubstantiated rants that have been falling on deaf ears for many months now.
One thing I do admire about these folks is their tenacity – as well as completely ignoring factual news reports that contradicts their argument by simply refusing to acknowledge them. Even though they state that they will acknowledge being wrong in the future when they’ve utterly failed to do so so often in the past.
I’ll let the author above summarize how to deal with their superiority complex:
“Or, in simpler terms, get over yourselves”.
And I’ll add: GET SOME PROFESSIONAL HELP!
It gets busy at sunrise. Luckily, it’s only for a half hour or so AND it is entirely of our own design by spoiling our critters with gourmet feasts to no end.
Most “chicken folk”, throw the days ration of store-bought generic feed on the ground as they let the birds out of their coops. For us?
Prepare chicken feed:
Prepare feral cat breakfast:
Head out to the barn with both bowls. I first ring a cowbell as I walk out the back door to summon the cats and announce breakfast. I’ll typically feed the cats first so they stay out of the way while addressing the chickens. (The ferals also get another helping of the same at closing (coop) time, which is sundown).
Returning to the counter outside the front coop, for the chickens, I’ll scoop 3 cups of the feed mix into each of the 2 larger feeders, which are 4″ pvc pipe cut in half lengthwise to make 2 trays. Lacking protection from the elements, these go in the back chicken run/barnyard that is protected by the barn lean to roof.
As I venture to the back with the trays, this is when I’ll know if there is something in the live-trap I set out there (with peanut butter bait) overnight. More days than not this week, I’ve either trapped another possum or more often another skunk. If it’s a possum, I throw a towel over the trap and carry it to the back of the barnyard by the big gate. These are turned over to a local trapper who is releasing them at his farm, since he claims their numbers are way down (you could have fooled me). If I can’t reach him, I’ll release them in the National Forest up the road about 5 miles. However, if it is another skunk, they are humanely dispatched and I drag the trap over to the gate. Later, I’ll dump their carcass in the opposite corner of our property and the coyotes typically haul them away within a day or 2.
With that out of the way, once I place the trays in their holders, I fling open the barn door and the chickens rush out to feast.
Then, I’ll return to the front and scoop out 2 more cups of feed into each of 3 more trays (2″ pipe). 2 go into holders in the front chicken run. Depending on the weather, I’ll put on the “roofs” to these if needed. Then, I open the front coop door and that flock rushes out. Some instantly go directly to those feeders. Others rush to the back to eat out of the bigger ones with no roof, and a surprising number of them skip the feeders altogether and go out into the barnyard to find worms and bugs in the morning dew.
The 3rd tray goes in the middle chicken run, outside the infirmary and middle coop, which we call the battered hens shelter. This also gets a roof if needed.
With everyone in the barn now fed, I’ll check all the water stations and top off as needed. The chickens will get a 2nd helping as I replenish the trays from the remainder in the bowl around noon – usually 6 or so more scoops.
Meanwhile, the dogs are watching my every move in the morning because they know they are next. As I return to the house, they excitedly run to the front door for they know I’ll be coming out the front to retrieve their dishes from the porch. Once I do, they sit patiently at the door and will whine if I close it as they like to watch me prepare it. To pacify them during this, I give them each a pro-biotic chewy to munch on.
Prepare dog(s) food:
I’ll set their bowls down on the front porch and they both eagerly “wolf” them down. They both save the chicken wings until the end and will carry them off to their favorite places to munch and enjoy. In the evening (sundown), they simply get kibble – which is also their treat/reward during the day for frisbee time or other activities. They are very easy to bribe!
Prepare Luther’s food.
Luther is our remaining domestic cat who resides on the front porch, when he’s not out hunting. As I let the dogs out to pee at 5am, he is already there on his perch by the door whining for food, as his dish is often raided overnight by the ferals and is always empty by morning. So I will scoop him some kibble until I get some coffee in me. However, when I feed the dogs, he is ready for more but not more kibble. Instead, he gets a simple delicacy that is easy to prepare. In a small dish, he gets about a teaspoon of fresh tuna bathed in a good portion of hot water. He sips the water mostly but sometimes will eat the tuna as well.
Then, around 4 in the afternoon, the chickens get their “treats”, which is chopped lettuce/cabbage, a little more cottage cheese and then filled out with scratch grains. These are tossed around the barnyard while trying not to step on the crazy hens clamoring at my feet.
That’s it. That’s my morning. What do I eat? Who has time for that?
No wonder I am getting so skinny 😉
My transformation is nearly complete! It only took a little over 2 years, but I think this pretty much closes out the old version of me. I’m still a little sad about it but with limited resources and ever increasing demands, it was time to say goodbye to my girlfriend of the past 9 years. Being the classless pig that I am, I ditched my 19 year old sweetheart for an experienced 39 year old farm girl.
Although, I’d love to keep the car to drive the twisting, winding and hilly roads around here, but I just don’t have the time or dollars to keep up on all of the maintenance needed for a nearly 20 year old classic. It was maddening that although it always starts, runs, and drives great, what caused me so much trouble were always the stupid Mercedes gadgetry, that may have been cool to someone (like me years ago) but just isn’t worth the constant effort to stay on top of keeping it all working as it should, when the only remedy turns out to be hauling it to the dealer for another thousand dollar repair. I’ve survived this long on YouTube videos and some creative ingenuity to win a few battles, but unlike an unnamed eastern Europe dictator, it became obvious to me that I was losing the overall war without the funding to keep that battle going indefinitely.
This actually came out of the blue and wasn’t at all expected right now. I had listed the car for sale as recently as last June for $14k – not really expecting any action but just to test the waters. In that ad from June, I mentioned possible trades for farm equipment since my only options now are a zero-turn mower, a few small trailers and an extremely overworked golf cart that simply refuses to fail.
At that time, I only got a few scammer responses, as well as a young, single mother who wanted a sweet looking ride as her “daily driver”. I felt I had to respectfully decline her offer, stating that this wasn’t the car for her situation.
Well, whaddaya know? Out of the blue came a FB message from a dealer in Arkansas that was interested in a trade. I asked for details of what he was offering and suddenly got very interested. Although, it seemed a bit small initially, researching the model (and learning what it can do), it seems to be an ideal fit for our needs.
Here is his ad listing the tractor that we agreed on for even up swap.
(click on the ad for full details)
After much research, this might be perfect for us. We have no real plowing needs. My primary concerns are tending to our field and moving spreading materials around without giving myself a hernia.
The loader will greatly ease the strain on my back hauling and spreading dirt and rock around the farmstead. We now desperately need about 4 truckloads of rock (they call it “chat” down here) to refresh the rutted driveway as well as add some new pathways to alleviate the mud issues we experience quite regularly.
The 60″ belly mower will address keeping our field tended initially (and save wear and tear on the 54″ zero-turn mower). Eventually, I’ll want to find a sickle mower, rake and small baler to provide us with enough hay for our operation as well as selling off the extra bales that are always in demand in this area.
This area of Missouri (Texas County) is very similar to Texas itself. There are
no croplands within 50 miles and it is all cattle/goat/sheep/horse grazing lands.
The rear box blade will assist in keeping those paths and roadways from becoming motocross tracks and will also help spreading/distributing the rock/chat.
Before this fell into my lap, I was resigned to settling (we are Missouri settlers after all) for a much older/tired International Farmall or ancient Ford model in the sub $2k range that may or may not suit our needs but still requiring the much needed maintenance to keep it running. And, although this is nearly 40 years old, it has very low hours and has been well maintained. As a bonus, this model (series) has quite favorable reviews and has been holding its value quite well. Best of all, it was produced before John Deere transitioned to the dark side and is still very simple to work on without requiring hauling it to the dealer.
Down the road, besides the baling options previously mentioned, some other future attachments I’ll be looking for (mostly at auctions) include:
As far as dollar values go, the tractor was a priced a bit high (for a 2wd version) but we don’t need 4wd and my car isn’t exactly flawless either as I can no longer keep up with its constant maladies. Adding to the problem was there is little market down here for such an extravagance so I’d continue to have trouble selling it off, while trying to keep it maintained and sellable.
If I use that $9k mark he was listing the tractor for, that means I am selling the car for over half what I paid 9 years ago, and in this market, that’s pretty good. CarMax offered a whopping $3100 and Carvana an insulting $1929 (I never understood how those businesses can convince sane people to sell to them for 1/3 the actual value). Edmunds True Value lists the private party sale value at around $6500. Kelly Bluebook has it up around $7200.
All in all, this will solve multiple problems as it gets me much better equipment than I was expecting for my farm duties, as well as no longer needing to fret about further issues with the car. Now, I can fret about issues with the tractor 😉 But, at least it is much easier to work on – once I get up to speed on the how/why/what/where of this new (39 year old) machine.
So, I’ve convinced myself it’s all good.
The final determination will become apparent in the coming months but I have to start somewhere.
We’ve all heard these well timed reports in the past by the MSM and government officials. Suddenly, everyone with a microphone in front of them all start repeating the same phrase ad nauseum. Often, there is a certain phrase to denote this action but not always. Similarly, a specific topic is pulled out of the air and they all mirror their coverage to attempt to reinforce that point.
Here is a fiery and energetic textbook example from our not too distant past:
I’ll register them here going forward and we’ll see how big the list gets. They seem to try a new tactic every week – and still haven’t caught on that no one is listening to them. Since, these stories usually always “break” on the weekends, I’ll use Mondays to try to predict the new theme.
3/4/2025:
Sorry, but have been busy prepping a car to be traded off. However, this one was just too easy to ignore so will let the clip speak for itself very redundantly.
Notice, how not a single one of them can offer a shred of proof? They just use their tried and true fear mongering and their obedient lemmings fall in line.
02/23/2025:
Being still early on Sunday, I haven’t detected a particular phrase. But, it’s early and the Sunday news programs often kick off new campaign so we’ll wait and see. However, one thing I am noticing is everyone is alarmed that traditional “norms” are now being violated by the new administration.
Newsflash, inviting invaders to invade our nation isn’t a norm. Having male senate staffers having sex in the Senate hearing room and filming it is not a norm. Having your cross dressing nuclear energy official steal luggage from airports isn’t a norm. Telling mentally ill men and boys they can go into girls and women’s private facilities and subjugate us is not a norm. Teaching little girls they are boys and little boys they are girls is not a norm. Pushing letter people porn into k thru 12 schools is not a norm.
THE PRESS LAST YEAR: “Harrison Butker (a current NFL Pro Bowl kicker) needs to shut up on social issues, no one cares what an NFL kicker has to say!”, when speaking at a private Christian college and lifting up traditional family and Christian values – you know, what used to be called “NORMS”!
THE PRESS THIS YEAR: “Hey everyone! Here is a guy who is washed-up punter from over a decade ago – you NEED to hear him call Trump a Nazi!!!”
02/21/2025:
Last weeks message was that there was a rift growing between Trump and “President” Musk. All were saying Musk had seized power and Trump was fuming. In actuality, Musk is advising the rightful president, who is making all of the decisions. Of course, all of it was quickly debunked with a side-by-side sit down interview soon after the reports were issued.
FINALLY, they get proof of the crashing bromance between Trump and Musk.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said he’d like to see Musk “get more aggressive.”
See that? He thinks Musk isn’t working hard enough! Liberal media, do your thing!
Moving on to their latest example from this week, is another story that they all seem to be echoing in unison. This latest charge now is Trump voter remorse.
In nearly every case cited, those supposedly regretting their vote voice their displeasure due to policies that were a major and often repeated point of his platform and was promoted throughout the campaign.
“When we said safer borders, I thought he was thinking, ‘let’s stop the drugs from coming into the country,’” Staci White, a 49-year-old from Omaha, Nebraska, told the paper. “I didn’t know he was going to start raiding places.”
Really? He literally has been promising for over a year that he would carry out “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.”
Another voter claims she is “absolutely embarrassed” she voted for Trump because, among other things, his focus on deportations. Another mentioned Trump’s tariff threats against Mexico and Canada.
Again a major part of his platform. Again, are we really supposed to believe these Trump voters were blinded by Trump following through on his long-established campaign promises? Not only was Trump talking about imposing reciprocal tariffs on other countries throughout his campaign, but Trump’s tariff threats literally achieved exactly what Trump wanted.
Over on Fox News Channel, Jessica Tarlov claimed that a (unnamed of course) 20-year-old college student from the Midwest and a conservative, pro-Trump family found himself turned off by the “chaos” of the Trump administration—I’m not sure what the chaos is, exactly—and Trump’s tariffs on China, as if he didn’t campaign on that very issue.
So now, there is a groundswell of disillusioned and regretful Trump voters that are distraught over him doing exactly what he promised all along?
This entire narrative of regretful Trump voters feels like a yet another coordinated psyop designed to undermine his presidency . The media, desperate to manufacture the illusion of widespread buyer’s remorse, has trotted out a handful of supposedly disillusioned supporters who claim they had no idea Trump would actually follow through on his most well-known promises. Are we really supposed to believe that these voters—who backed a candidate famous for his tough stance on immigration, tariffs, and draining the swamp—are now suddenly shocked and appalled that he’s doing exactly what he said he would?
Some examples in reverse chronological order:
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Full panic has set in amongst the Democrats as they realize they can’t stop the evil orange man from exposing their many shady dealings of the past several years, as all of the fraud, waste and corruption is being exposed to daylight.
The crooks are now attempting to hide their crimes as DC searches for BleachBit are surging this week.
Internet search trends in the Washington, DC, metro area have been stunning in recent weeks, reflecting what appears to be growing panic within the federal bureaucracy as President Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) root out corruption in non-governmental organizations (NGO) and federal agencies.
Earlier this week, internet search trends for “Criminal Defense Lawyer” and “RICO Laws” went viral on X, fueling speculation that Washington’s political elites were in panic mode. The searches coincided with DOGE’s efforts to neuter USAID’s funding of NGOs that propped up a shadow government, as well as begin cutting tens of thousands of workers from various federal agencies.
Another facet of this realization is the sudden glut of homes for sale in the DC area. With over 11k homes available in the area, it is sure to impact prices and that will give them something new to blame on Trump.
And then, we have the journalists. Whether it was because they thought Americans would reject him or that they believed the propaganda showing that Kamala Harris would win – some in the liberal media cannot tolerate enduring another four years of Donald J. Trump in the White House. One or two leaving for supposed greener pastures is one thing, but this?
Similarly, I’ve read of others who cannot deal with reality and are used to being able to silence others who may have a differing opinion. With those days very decidedly now over, they are now dropping their long standing social media accounts, where that reality is confronting them each and every day.
Their remedy? To return to the echo chambers (like Bluesky) that warped their perception of reality in the first place. Now in their safe spaces, they’ll need to plug their ears and cover their eyes (they’ll never shut their mouths), when they digest these numbers:
NEW Harvard-Harris Poll:
Instead, they’ll continue to wail about Hitler and further their projections about shredding the constitution – without any proof whatsoever. This is classic leftism in action. The left has perfected a strategy of making outrageous claims to stoke fear and outrage, counting on its audience’s emotional reaction to override critical thinking. It doesn’t need evidence – just apocalyptic rhetoric and a compliant media ecosystem to repeatedly amplify it.
That is no longer working as the polling reveals. Even though the left stammers about norms and highlights those impacted by the decisions being made, there is never any mention of the waste, fraud, abuse and corruption being brought into daylight, for all to see.
As Victor Davis Hanson recently wrote:
The left screams that those who are tasked with balancing a budget and pruning back a strangling bureaucracy are heartless.
No, the pitiless are those who recklessly sought to hire with borrowed money and fire people on the basis of their race, used federal programs to feather their own nests, and harassed and arrested those for their politics.
No SWAT teams are now raiding the homes of ex-presidents.
No one is trying to take a presidential rival off state ballots.
No one is coordinating local, state, and federal prosecutors to indict, harass, and bankrupt an ex-president.
And no president — his dementia sheathed by political insiders and a toadish media — is working three days a week, avoiding press conferences, or stonewalling reporters’ questions.
No wonder the current normal seems abnormal to the status quo of the recent past.
It will be a long hard struggle for them to return to reality but I’ll wish them well and continue to pray for their awakening.
They KEEP coming! make that x4!
After trapping 3 of the beady eyed critters in the past 3 days, I’d say it is once again, Possum season. Just like last year, the first was bigger (probably mama) and those that follow are the smaller youngsters. I believe last year, we topped out at 8 or 9 so I’ll continue to set out the trap each evening until they are gone.
When we first noticed them (again), they were inside the coop in the barn but likely were just stealing eggs and didn’t mess with the birds. They can do much damage and decimate your flock,… if the conditions are right. But, they are opportunistic and typically won’t mess with adult birds during the day when they are awake and alert. If they were to get in the coop (or inadvertently locked in) after sundown, they will likely attack the sleeping birds on their perches. We are doing a better job of “sweeping” the barn at sundown now but there would still be plenty of places to hide and remain undetected so we’ll see how that goes.
Like the others, these are being released at a local trappers property so he can restore their numbers (which seem fine to me). But now, I am having second thoughts. The trapper told me that the very first one (that was shot last year), yielded about 12 ounces of “possum oil” that he is selling for $60/ounce!!!
Apparently, possum oil is a valuable commodity in antique firearm circles
(cap and ball, muskets, muzzle loaders), as a superior lubricant that doesn’t
break down over time as other oils do. So now, I am looking for YouTube videos
on rendering wild game. And from what I’ve seen, it’s not too difficult. Ka-CHING!
And on the “GOING” side of things
Today we lost one of our Cinnamon Queen auction hens. She’d been sick for a few weeks so it wasn’t too surprising. When I fed everyone this morning, she was still upright but had such a terrible posture that I knew her time had arrived. She didn’t move and ignored the food I brought to her in the infirmary. When I checked on them a few hours later, she was already on her side and stiff as…. a chicken in the supermarket. So, I prepared a fire in the burn barrel and she is “cooking” in there today as I write this.
She had long stopped producing eggs so it was just a matter of time before we had to decide to cull her anyway. So thank you Lillian, for saving us the trouble.
Update: 2/13/2025
Any suggestions dealing with that exotic skunk “fragrance” wafting in the air?
After waking the past 3 mornings to another possum captured in the live trap each day, I could tell today would be different before I even turned the corner to enter the chicken run. Sure enough, I managed to capture Pepe LePew. This is the 2nd time now. Like the previous time, this one took the “22” train to skunk heaven. I feel guilty dispatching a caged animal but what else can you do?
It had already released its “olfactorical delight” (likely when the trap sprung shut) but I wasn’t willing to be bathed in it to humanely let it out. Then, I dragged the trap to the far corner of the barnyard and will dispose of it in the woods later.
But for now, everything reeks. The chickens came out to eat but quickly ran back inside the coop so we moved their food inside for now. It’s also pretty cold (15 now, high of 30) so using the hose is out of question. We had to change our clothes so they could be thrown in the washer and am certain our noses are retaining some of it – but it’s much more intense outside the barn and wondering if there was a powder that could be applied to absorb the odor.
The area where the trap was located is gravel and was up against a pile of hay being stored under the lean to for Sherry’s goat farmer/friend. I think I’ll try to scoop out as much gravel as I can. But there won’t be much I can do if the hay got sprayed – other than insist they take it now, instead of later.
The ‘flipped over in the ditch, wheels spinning in the air resistance car’ is having a tough time of it right now. Jamming the accelerator pedal to the floor is having no effect no matter how hard they try as their leg cramps up.
After getting too content with the ineffective, contradictory, comatose, and downright damaging policies of the past administration – all moving at a snails pace, while they funnel off billions of our tax dollars and spend half the week on the beach, they are now alarmed to see what true leadership actually looks like.
To put it simply for those still riding the short bus, this is EXACTLY what he campaigned on and was elected to do. And everyone outside of their ever-shrinking echo chamber, (the ones labelled “MAGA Extremists“), are ecstatic seeing he’s doing what he said he would do, at a stunning pace that is astounding to nearly everyone.
Maybe reading the responses to the post above will clear that up. But probably not so we’ll try a common-themed meme to get that critical point across.
With their power to pillage the treasury now stripped away, and finding there is very little they can do to resist the purge, they fall back on their tried and true virtue signal for more resistance by calling for a “General Strike”.
A far better alternative is to hit them where it hurts them personally—their income—which is why I think that those who are interested in protecting democracy should seriously consider participating in a GENERAL STRIKE. More ==>
I would welcome their attempts to implement such an action. Just to see it flame out, or better yet, to backfire spectacularly as the (many more) supporters of the new administration more than make up their absence, like they always have. Unfortunately, this effort, which began in 2022 has a goal of 11 million signing on before they strike and have only accumulated a little over 200k (.019%) to date.
Since it has taken 3 years to acquire that .019%, even if you pad it generously by estimating 100k/year, they’d only need a little over 100 years to pull it off. For any relevancy to hit their goal in the next 4 years they NEED about 2.7 million per year or about 225k per month.
Its looking like it’s yet another great idea from within their echo chamber that will wilt and die long before it ever sees the light of day.
It is totally unfathomable at this point that they STILL believe that they have any credibility and support, other than the constant shrieking and wailing seen in their video testimonials – that only draw more ridicule now that the covers are being removed, exposing the corruption that has become so embedded.
Their current hysteria:
I don’t know what Christianity they were brought up in but that’s why there’s a doctrine of the sufficiency of scripture. It’s heresy to add to the timeless truths of scripture, especially to justify decadent lifestyles that ignore biblical teachings.
Then, we have another example that makes me ashamed I was once a member of the denomination. https://www.herchurch.org/, an ELCA congregation in the Sierra Pacific Synod practicing pagan rituals, where the pastor describes herself as a “Pastor & Priestess of Ritual” and claims that her “malestream theological education opened the door for her to build a Goddess-inclusive congregation and ministry. But wait, there’s more.
Meet Christine Konkol, the church’s “Resident Witch.” Her bio states:
“As Priestess Witch for herchurch, Christine offers magical gifts to share and enhance the support and development of herchurch. The monthly astrological reading provides guidance from the stars and is a favorite among many. Together we honor the natural cycles of the year, the Solstices and Equinoxes, and thank the Earth for her bounty. Small group gatherings provide inspiration and direct our attention to instinct and intuition helping us to discover ways to connect to the divinity of nature and thereby the Divine”.
You may find a Bible or 2 there but they likely have already been burned on their sacrificial altar. And lastly, we’ll share the clearly undistorted views of this Dallas bastion of biblical purity.
Nothing to see here folks, just good ‘ol Christianity shining brightly.
Finding that their recent shaming ultimatum to friends and family has failed spectacularly (to either bend the knee to their craziness or be excommunicated), they cannot dare to consider that they might have been wrong about what they’ve been spewing for years.
This should be no surprise to any sane person. The warning signs are everywhere and is something to consider when trying to reason with the unreasonable.
“The doctor raised alarm over what he describes as a “real crisis” within the Democratic Party following Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 election. According to the physician, the party is grappling with a deep identity and leadership crisis exacerbated by Trump’s triumph, leading to internal struggles and a loss of direction”.
Well, that’s been plainly obvious and highlights the challenges Democrats face as they navigate a changing political landscape, with their strategies and messaging increasingly under scrutiny with each new revelation.
“According to Glenn Burnett, an internal doctor from Wyoming, Democrats are suffering from significant mental health concerns over Trump’s win. He said his patients are dealing with a wide range of issues, including insomnia, depression, grief, and genuine fear and panic.”
Burnett told political analyst Mark Halperin that many of his left-wing patients are facing serious mental health struggles following Trump’s monumental win.”
“We are dealing with depression, anxiety, all kinds of medical problems that are related to that, like insomnia, chest pain, chest pressure,” he told Halprin. “And then people are that there’s some genuine fear, panic. When Biden was the president, I had some of this stuff from the other side, but it has been extremely intense now… after the election.”
“He recommends that his patients disconnect from politics and the news cycle by turning off their computers and televisions. “The next thing I tell them to do is, if you have had an issue with your family and a lot of them have that, that is so much more important than Kamala Harris or Donald Trump,” he said, “and you need to begin to make amends,” Burnett said”.
Sorry to say, I can’t see those, who remain embedded in the swamp (as it’s rapidly being drained around them), having that capability or we would’ve seen signs of it months ago, as these revelations started flowing out into the open sunlight.
The doctor said he’d never seen such fractious behavior like this among families. That’s all on those who cannot accept, nor have the maturity to understand that they’re not entitled to win every election just because they feel they’re right, especially when history overwhelmingly has proven otherwise.
They seem unable to grasp what is happening. Sen John Fetterman knows that reconciliation might not be possible, given how his party has become hijacked by the loudmouth activist class, a cadre of wealthy, overly educated whites who take everything to eleven when it’s not necessary. It’s become so loud, so exclusionism, so illiberal, and insane that white and non-white workers are drifting away in droves. Everyone seems to realize this except TDS-induced diehard Democrats, who think they can continue to ignore the recent polling data showing the epic collapse across the board for Democrats.
From Democrat commentator and author Joe Klein:
Yes, friends, still crazy after all these years…and the encroaching dementia is not benign. Can this party be saved? I have my doubts. The intellectual corrosion is comprehensive; it is only matched by the self-righteous arrogance. But what’s the alternative? I’ve been through Dems in Disarray syndrome multiple times in the past: in 1972, in 1980, in 1988, in 2016…but, gotta say, this is the worst I’ve ever seen it. There is a vast cluelessness abroad in the party. Its prevailing vision of an America based on identity now resides in the outhouse.
Again, this goes far, far, FAR beyond the
MAGA Extremist cult that they claim.
Instead of learning from their failures and the unpopularity of their positions, the Democrats are now doubling down and claiming that the American people do not want they’ve said they want.
YES, there were warts that needed to be worked out. But, as a nation, we’ve overcome much of those, before the always exploitive democratic machine started leveraging those communities to expand their agendas that had absolutely nothing to with their struggle. Instead, they implemented a host of DEI or Climate Change initiatives that only negated all of the gains they’ve achieved over the past decades. Well done!
The bottom line? Democrats have a knack for taking the most radical positions imaginable. And thanks to their virtual monopoly as the gatekeepers of popular culture, they’ve managed to brainwash a lot of people into aligning with their whacked-out world view. What is transpiring now is that realization sinking in to them and they are feeling trapped by their previous statements/actions and the revelations of reality that is flooding over them like a tsunami.
With so many of the pillars of their temple already toppled, it doesn’t look very promising for them going forward. About their only remaining option is to try to
emulate the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), Earth Liberation Front, Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), United Freedom Front (UFF), Weather Underground Organization or best of all, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), where they could likely find their old robes and hoods somewhere in their basement storage spaces.
And, it’s already began:
However, the only results all those groups above realized, resulting from their violence, was long prison sentences so perhaps it would be easier to just take him out (again) – as sad and alarming as that realization is.
And now, today we learn that beginning in 2021 (what happened then?) there was over 8 million paid to Politico, NYT got 10s of millions of dollars, Thomson Reuters got 9 million, and that’s just the outer layers of USAID peeled back so far. It now seems quite apparent, those valuable institutions of “factual” information were all on the take – while censoring and silencing those who were truthful.
And their plan now?
“initial plans by the Democrats is to have their people at USAID hide the partisan funding under ‘unimpeachable initiatives.’ They will push back really hard on certain line items that on their face look like reasonable USAID expenditures and hide their political spending under these programs.”
That, and more calling for protests. I’ll let Ohio Democrat and former presidential candidate Tim Ryan tell it like it is:
Like clockwork, the response has been it is all misinformation – just more of the same BS we’ve had jammed down our throats for years. Only now, it emboldens those digging to dig deeper. And what they found was the government (the Biden administration) was purchasing bogus subscriptions to these media outlets at rates hundreds of times greater than the typical sale price.
What do you suppose they were getting for their investments?
The cutoff of those funds has already resulted in Politico missing their last payroll.
This will only get better!
This development is especially interesting, considering the discussion here about a year ago on this site, when I raised similar flags about media culpability.
We are now wading deep into the swamp and heads will soon be rolling. So much corruption that it’s hard to know where to begin, but this HAS to be addressed (beyond shutting it down) and folks need to be convicted and imprisoned!
I imagine that any day now, one of the “settlements” or rulings from the numerous lawsuits now being applied to the fraudsters in the MSM will be forcing them to read on the air:
“I am a proven liar who has lost any credibility I may have had. I lack integrity and am wholly responsible for my lack of journalistic ethics. My viewers need to be aware that this is not the first time I have acted this way, and it’s unlikely to be my last. Please understand that I WILL lie to you in future, and that nothing I state on the air can be accepted as being factual in any way. I seek to shape the opinions of you, the weak-minded and woefully uninformed that make up the overwhelming majority of my audience. Yes. I mean you, personally”.
I truly wonder how those weak-minded and woefully uninformed are feeling these days. It can’t be good.
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