Joe Biden has figured it all out in the fifty years he has sucked off the dole in Washington, D.C. He knows there is more money to be made, more corrupt money, that is, outside America’s borders. He knows if he keeps sending our money to places like Ukraine, the kickbacks will keep coming back to Joe. Joe Biden does not care about Americans or America. America is a tool for Biden to use to fatten his family’s financial coffers. Joe Biden made a number of erroneous claims in a speech he gave this week in Milwaukee, but one of his lies summed up Joe Biden’s purpose for being President.

He pulled out a story he has used dozens of times about a supposed call he received from his wife, Jill. She called to confirm a story run in the daily paper claiming that Joe Biden was the poorest member of Congress. He, of course, had to admit it but does not go on to explain how this poor Senator went on to become a multi-millionaire on his Government salary. Biden doesn’t go on to explain his two mega homes in Delaware that he managed to buy on a $174,000 salary and his wife as a public school teacher. Because if Joe did have to explain his current wealth, he would have to divulge the illegal means he employed to acquire his incredible wealth. Joe Biden is an American success story on how to build wealth illegally and not pay your fair share while squeezing every cent he can for every American. Joe Biden is a con.

But the story today is not about Biden’s wealth. It is about his misguided principles to make countries like Ukraine richer by giving them our money and then costing Americans more money every day to fund his agenda.

During his two-plus years in office, Biden has already committed over $113 Billion to Ukraine. We know that Ukraine is one of the countries funneling monies back to the Biden bank accounts. This fact explains why Biden is directing Congress to send another $24 Billion to his friend, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. At the same time, Biden wants to give each family impacted by the fires in Maui a check for $700. Our citizens in Hawaii who have lost everything are to receive a one-time payment equal to 10% of the average monthly cost of living in our 50th state. These folks in Hawaii will not share any of that $700 with Joe like his buddy, Zelenskyy, will. Biden knows where his toast is buttered.

This scenario shows how out of touch Joe Biden is with America. Bidenomics is costing Americans $700 a month more than two years ago. Let’s say an average family earns $50,000 a year. With inflation costing that family $8,400 a year, they are actually making $41,600 or nearly 17% less than when Donald Trump was our President. That is the real story of Bidenomics. Every American family suffers while the Biden family gets richer. That is the Biden Dream and the American Nightmare, and I don’t have to whisper to make my point.

 

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It’s far too early in the season to be worried about whether we’ll have a hurricane or three to grease the gears of the global warming fear machine. But the media is getting desperate. They are grasping at anything they can find to scare you.

At least one ABC News affiliate I saw was gah gah over two storms that have drifted off the West Coast of Africa, and they are likely, not alone. Scary weather is good for click and hits, and NOAA has updated its forecast, increasing the number of named storms and actual expected hurricanes.

The media is acting like an excited 5-year-old at the sight of the magic kingdom. But is it exciting? According to NOAAs national hurricane center…not yet. But there are two systems with a 40% chance of becoming cyclones in the next 48 hours. Invest 98L and Invest 99L

 

NOAA NHC 8-17-23

 

Radar 8-17-23

 

All that warm water, global boiling... One report I read was trying to sell how active the Atlantic season has been so far. Sorry, we’ve been watching. It has been a dud so far despite the bath water in the Atlantic.

The Pacific, however, has been busy. They’ve got Hurricane Hilary headed toward Southern California, Tropical Storm Fernanda (eastern Pacific) following behind Tropical Storm Greg (Central Pacific).

 

 

Hurricane Hilary 6 AM MDT Thu Aug 17 2023 Position 15.2 N 107.1 W Maximum Winds 65 mph Gusts 75 mph Movement WNW at 11 mph Minimum Pressure 982 mb

 

 

I’m sure they’ll find time to blame this on you; it is, after all, a trillion-dollar global scam industry they are protecting.

And the next six to eight weeks are a sweet spot for the Atlantic Hurricane Season. If the bath water is going to help crank up some climate fear, this is the time.

And that’s likely why the media is getting excited.

Thunder, Lightning. With my media spear and magic helmet, I will call down storms from the heavens and crash them upon your eastern shores.

Then blame your SUV.

It’s coming.

 

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The GOP in a position to actually fight the Police State are sitting it out. All we get from them are tweets pointing out the “hypocrisy of the Democrats,” or appearances on Hannity pointing out the “Left’s double standard,” etc., etc. etc. But not a single impeachment. Not one.

Not a single State prosecution. Not one.

The Left wants to put Trump in prison for the rest of his life. They would be overjoyed to see him die in prison. Pointing out the “hypocrisy of the Democrats,” the “double standard,” etc., etc., etc. does NOTHING to stop that.

What might stop it, what might make the Democrats back off is to fight fire with fire. For example, indict Stacey Abrams and everyone parroting her claims for the same bogus “crimes” Trump has been indicted for. But don’t hold your breath … the “Republican” Governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp views Trump as the enemy every bit as much as the Left views Trump as the enemy.

Oh man. Pointing out the hypocrisy of communists. This is sure to be devastating to their efforts.

Either red state DAs start arresting prominent Democrats or Trump is going to prison. I’m sorry. But you’re in a totally different game now. https://t.co/rXIJQYJlUR

— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) August 15, 2023

 

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To all those who are sending in memes, thank you!  Keep them coming please, as it helps me gather weaponry to fight the Left.  Please do share this post, and if you share an individual meme, consider mentioning you saw it on the Grok!

Speaking of, from this week, Monday Memes and Meme Overflow.

 

*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***

 

 

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Following up on the Meme Overflow section on internet censorship:

 

 

The Shadowbanning of the United States Internet – The Last Refuge (theconservativetreehouse.com)

 

 

Why, it’s almost as though the Ruling Class doesn’t want us to see what’s going on, and that there’s a secret cabal attempting to keep us from seeing it.

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

Whether you call it the Great Reset, or Agenda 2030, or whatever, it’s been in the works for a long time.  From here and note the date:

 

 

And a video from the comments:

 

Democrat Carbon Footprint Philosophy

 

 

Know your enemy.  Speaking of depopulation, my four essays:

The 7.3 Billion Dollar, er, Person Question – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)

Proverbs 16:18… and What’s Coming? – Granite Grok

Dark Thoughts in the Small Hours – Granite Grok

Borrowing from a Dog Food Ad – Urban Scoop

Here’s Pelosi in 1992:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/pelosi-in-1992-advancing-agenda-2030.mp4

 

Understand what they’re planning and what some of their phrases mean:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The pieces are set, the game is in motion.  Once things truly start it’s going to happen fast before people can say Wait, what?

 

 

Remember how they admire China?

• To start your own car in China, you need to scan a QR code with the app.
• By law, facial recognition and ID check & phone number are required for accessing Vehicles.
• Fail to identify yourself to authorities will result in getting locked out of your own car.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/starting-car-in-china.mp4

 

Don’t forget the facial recognition, even here in the US:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/tsa-and-facial-recognition.mp4

 

And even your photos aren’t really yours any more (at least on your Apple phone; I’m waiting for this to happen to my Android – currently I do NOT put my photos onto Google’s cloud archive):

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/icloud-photos.mp4

 

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Unfortunately, my “precise” tribe – American Jews well to the Right of center – are few and far between, it seems.

 

 

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Help your friendly neighborhood meme poster out.  Buy 10 of these and hand them out to friends.

 

 

Build Back Better – the hidden message Bumper Sticker | Zazzle

 

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Hawaii Fire Related

 

https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/145/479/153/playable/245c7fcc7fbbc174.mp4

 

A journalist could likely – at least in theory – win a Pulitzer for finding out who cut the water off that residents were using, apparently with success, to battle the fires.  I recall somewhere reading that person’s been identified.  Here:

 

 

 

Oprah silent amid Maui fires as desperate Hawaii residents beg celebrity billionaires with homes on the island for help (dailymail.co.uk)

 

 

 

 

I’ve seen some pictures… funny how those hot winds that charred metal and cooked animals to literal charcoal seem to have completely bypassed all those mansions and their grounds.  Kind of like this:

 

 

 

 

 

And lastly:

 

The puzzling fire of Maui

 

 

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Covid and broadly-related:

 

Lockdowns, mask mandates, and Covid passports failed miserably.

• Sweden didn’t do anything
• Israel was the most vaccinated
• Canada had the most draconian Covid passports

 

1 in 35 (2.8%), yes, 1:35 had myocardial injury after the mRNA technology based gene injection vaccine; this Mueller et al. Swiss study was profound yet swept under the rug; booster vaccination- (substack.com)

What Happens to Vaccine Clinical Trial Participants? (midwesterndoctor.com)

How Corruption Dictates the Practice of Medicine (midwesterndoctor.com)

Experts urge more testing as new COVID-19 variant emerges | Euronews

UK Gov’t Admit COVID Jabs Causing ‘500 Excess Heart Deaths Every Week’ – The People’s Voice (thepeoplesvoice.tv)

 

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Speaking to the Dead?

 

 

Something incredibly… creepy about this.

I miss my father who died in 2002.  I miss my mother who died about a decade later.  I miss my grandmother.  I miss other people who have passed from my life, including a close friend from high school – a contemporary – who passed away earlier this year.  But I could not imagine dishonoring their memory by having such a… ghoulish is the only word that comes to mind… simulacrum of them.

 

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Just a Thought

 

I was saying the Shema the other morning – sometimes I have time to don my tefillin, sometimes not, this time I did – and when I came to the part that says (bolding added):

You shall love the L-rd your G‑d with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. And these words which I command you today shall be upon your heart. You shall teach them thoroughly to your children, and you shall speak of them when you sit in your house and when you walk on the road, when you lie down and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign upon your hand, and they shall be for a reminder between your eyes. And you shall write them upon the doorposts of your house and upon your gates.

I always pay attention to the sensation and presence of the two phylactery boxes, one on my arm and one around my head with the box on my forehead..  And it hit me: where, per the New Testament, is the “mark of the beast” to go?  On your hand or on your forehead.

So if Hashem is commanding us to inscribe His laws on our hand and between our eyes (in my interpretation, on what we do and what we have in our mind), then Satan’s mark is superimposed on those divine reminders to supersede and supplant them.  It’s the practice of conquering religions to co-opt and supersede the places and rituals and such of the religions they subjugate.  Supporting my long-held contention that this isn’t a political war we’re in, but a spiritual & religious one.

 

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Pick of the Post:

 

 

Ouch.

 

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EXCLUSIVE: 40K Migrants Apprehended Along Southwest Border in First 10 Days of August (breitbart.com)

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/black-guy-about-the-border.mp4

 

Those are some very penetrating questions and observations.

And seen somewhere else… remember that every Chinese person getting to the southern border had to leave China.  Where you need a sufficient social credit score to do so (unless by hook or by crook you can get smuggled out).  So who, really, is coming in, if those Chinese we’re finding can get out?

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

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The dirty secret of politicizing employment numbers is that you can get to zero unemployment. If the labor force participation rate is zero, so is unemployment. Everyone who wants a job (no one) has it. Ta-da! Record Low

That’s how the numbers game works, so consider that as you wade through the preliminary release from New Hampshire’s Office of Employment Security.

First, the Granite State’s economy is in good shape, and employment overall is excellent, but the seasonally adjusted 1.7% July unemployment rate you’ll be hearing much about – if you’ve not already – has a few strings attached.

 

Seasonally adjusted estimates for July 2023 placed the number of employed residents at 747,200, a decrease of 1,760 from the previous month and a decrease of 2,570 from July 2022. The number of unemployed residents decreased by 360 over-the-month to 13,100. This was 6,430 fewer unemployed than in July 2022. From June 2023 to July 2023, the total labor force decreased by 2,120 to 760,300. This was a decrease of 9,000 New Hampshire residents from July 2022.

 

1,760 fewer people in the Granite State had jobs in July compared to June, while people without jobs who were identified as unemployed declined by 360 from June. Sounds strange, yes, but it was an improvement of 6,430 from the year before.

And 2,120 fewer people looked for work in July compared to June, but a year ago, that number was much higher.

What does it all mean?

Not a lot, unless you are looking for work and can’t find something you like.

In contrast, in October 2019, NH’s labor force peaked at 784,414. The March 2020 lockdowns dropped it to 747,950, a difference of  25,822. Employment declined from 753,809 to 628,133, a difference of 125,676 for a government-forced unemployment rate of 16%.

747,200 employed is still 6,809 fewer than in March 2019 before the two weeks to hide mandates and 37,214 less than the labor force peak in October of 2019.

The number of folks employed in July 2023 is estimated at 698,000, but the adjusted unemployment rate is 0.9% “Better” than the accompanying 2.6% pre-pandemic number.

See what I’m saying?

Keep that in mind as pols and pundits take 1.7% out for a victory lap, and remember, it’s not just them. Every other state and the Feds do the same thing every chance they get, but without context, it doesn’t mean a damn thing.

Now, non-seasonally adjusted NH employment for July 2023 is probably around 740,000, with the workforce closer to 760,000, which looks better, but again, what does it mean?

Whatever they need it to mean, and the NH economy is doing better. Employers are looking for more employees. Starting part-time rates are often over 15.00/hour for unskilled labor and 20+ if you have some skills. But the labor force isn’t cooperating.

The number can or could be a lot better and actually be better.

 

 

HT | NHES

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Throw out logic and reason, and you can begin to understand the rules of the new Woke world—case in point. A couple in Massachusetts has been denied the right to foster a child because of their Catholic beliefs and views on the LGBTQ lifestyle. 

Michael and Catherine “Kitty” Burke began the monthslong application process with the Department of Children and Families (DCF) to foster or adopt a child in 2022. This process involved numerous interviews with DCF bureaucrats who would determine the couple’s ability to properly raise a child in today’s WOKE society. It is no longer enough to be good people willing to take on the responsibilities of raising a child needing a home. Today, you must convince the elite that you will raise the child within the guidelines of the warped Progressives worldview.

The Burkes have filed a complaint this week with the Massachusetts DCF. 

Following their interviews, a social worker issued an “approval with conditions, specifically around religion and LGBTQIA++ related issues.” The complaint states that the department’s Licensing Review Team later denied their application. The report attached to the complaint said the couple was asked how they would feel if a child in their care identified as LGBTQ or struggled with their gender identity. Kitty Burke said, “Let’s take the “T” out of it,” and called gender-affirming care “chemical castration,” according to the report. Their beliefs were not what DCF wanted to hear from the perspective of foster parents. Although the transgender community apprises only 1-2% of the population, DCF cannot ignore this powerful group of individuals. They must yield to this small minority or be called on the carpet and canceled or ostracized for life.

One of the Burkes’ attorneys, Lori Windham, senior counsel at Becket Law, a nonprofit legal group focused on religious liberty, told NBC News in a statement that the couple was “shocked” when their application was denied. 

“The Burkes were devastated to learn they were denied a license to foster or adopt any child in the Massachusetts child welfare system. They are asking the court to get rid of that discriminatory denial so that they will not be barred from fostering or adopting children in the future, in Massachusetts or elsewhere,” Windham said. 

The DCF wanted to deny their current application AND blackball the Burkes from any future attempt to adopt or foster in Massachusetts. Clearly, this agency has gone off the rails.

Close to 10,000 children are awaiting foster or adoption in Massachusetts and over 100,000 nationally. These numbers are obviously on the low side as they are given by our government which has lost 85,000 immigrant children in the system. Yet these bureaucratic hypocrites claim they are looking out for the children’s best interests when they deny parents for being too religious or against chemical castration. You can add DCF to the other alphabet-soup agencies in this country that have grown too powerful and beyond repair. The latest stats show that 800,000 government jobs are “non-essential”. Eliminating these positions would be an excellent place to start government reform and shake up the remaining federal workforce. It also would help solve the labor shortage in the private sector. We need someone with a spine at the top to pull the plug on the system, and that is why the system wants to see Donald Trump in jail and not the Oval Office.

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Every presidential campaign season, we get a handful of side candidates. Some are real sides (never contenders), others less so: like SMOD, the Sweet Meteor of Death. Grokster Kimberly Morin likes to announce how her dog is running. But how about a concrete block? N.S. Lyons has the press release.

 

ALPENA, MICHIGAN – These years of upheaval are trying times for our nation, and painfully uncertain for American families. In this moment what America most needs is steady, unwavering leadership. Which is why I am pleased to transmit the official announcement of and offer my personal endorsement to the candidacy of Concrete Block for President in 2024.

Concrete Block, known simply as Block to many many friends and colleagues, promises solidity and stability in radically unstable times. Block is down-to-earth and in touch with reality.

Block will remain completely independent, unswayable by lobbyists, the Deep State, or foreign interests. Concrete Block is incorruptible. Block does not have any degenerate family members who can be bribed or cause any scandals. Nor does Block have anything to hide. Block does not creepily sniff children’s hair or do anything with interns or models.

Concrete Block will absolutely not be a transformational president. In fact, Block promises to change nothing whatsoever. Concrete Block absolutely will not raise your taxes. Or impose new regulations, or remove them. Block is committed to limited government. In fact Block will not be hiring or nominating any staff whatsoever.

Concrete Block knows complex infrastructure inside and out, but won’t waste any of your tax dollars attempting to build any. Concrete Block is pro-construction, however, and believes in a ‘YIMBY’ regulatory agenda that will allow for new housing for all if people want to build that stuff for themselves.

There is more if you are so inclined.

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According to one recent survey, 53 percent of Americans now believe that Biden family members were paid by foreign nationals to influence policy decisions. That’s called bribery. It’s an impeachable offense under the Constitution, and if those respondents are right, if Joe Biden has been selling out our country for personal gain, it’s the biggest scandal in our history. It would be tantamount to treason by an American President.

It was simply overwhelming evidence, together with innate common sense that convinced them. Many are now calling for immediate impeachment proceedings, while others are taking a more measured approach, demanding that that the allegations at least be thoroughly investigated.

Yet still others, a shrinking minority, refuse to acknowledge what is so obvious to everyone else. Influence peddling? Quid pro quo? Bribery? Not honest Joe! Those loyal followers generally fall into one of two categories.

Either they’re hopelessly obtuse, close-minded Democrats, committed idealogues who buy into their party’s new radical agenda, wherever it takes them, no matter how divisive and destructive it may be. They’re dye-hard progressives who would sooner cut off a right arm than sit through a conservative news show or listen to any opinions that contradict the party line. They’re obsessed with destroying Donald Trump and are blinded to blatant misconduct in their own party.

Or they, themselves, are the propagandists, the liars and hypocrites – the abettors. They don’t care if Joe Biden is compromised and corrupt as the day is long. They’re willing to sell their souls to protect him and promote his agenda.

They are the 51 former intelligence “professionals,” who lied to the country, falsely claiming that Hunter’s laptop was a product of Russian disinformation. They’re the liberal news media who claim to report all the news that’s fit to print, who sanctimoniously proclaim that democracy dies in darkness – the same media that suppressed any and all news associated with the Biden scandal. And they are the devious Democrat politicians, who try to pin everything on Hunter. Politicians like Jamie Raskin, who continue to argue that “President Biden was not involved in his son’s business dealings.” Or the ones like Dan Goldman, who expect the public to believe that, even if Joe Biden did participate in Hunter’s business conversations, he was just there to discuss the weather.

They’ve all closed their eyes to Hunter’s emails referencing a cut for the “big guy” and his texts incriminating his father. They refuse to listen to the sworn testimony of credible IRS whistleblowers telling of DOJ efforts to quash their investigation when it began to focus on the president. They have no interest in the testimony of former business associates explicitly detailing Joe’s participation. And they categorically reject the money trail established by Jim Comer’s investigation and all the other incriminating evidence. To them, there is no smoking gun. There will never be one. If Comer were to present them with a personal check, payable to Joe Biden, and signed by Xi Jinping, they’d find some way to dismiss it.

But in fact, there’s no need to show any money going directly into Joe’s pocket. The criminal code for bribery applies to any public official who “accepts or receives anything of value personally or for any other person or entity.” That would include Biden’s family members.

The evidence of Joe Biden’s corruption is infinitely stronger than the contrived evidence used to impeach his predecessor. If proven, Biden’s exchange of geopolitical favors for personal gain would be abhorrent, and the potential impact on our country could be catastrophic. For the good of the country, congressional Republicans must press forward with public hearings.

They’ll never have the unanimous support of the country, but as more information is revealed about this scandal, maybe it will expose more of those collusive liars – the abettors. Maybe it will even enlighten some of those uninformed ideologues. Perhaps it may even help restore some of the reason and common sense they surrendered in exchange for party loyalty.

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The growing intensity of cargo transportation from China to Canada, as well as the need to withstand climate change, necessitate reducing greenhouse gas emissions and minimizing damage to the environment. Various stakeholders involved in the process of air or sea freight from China to Canada are looking for the most potent sustainable practices for the delivery of large quantities of goods. And some of them are already demonstrating their effectiveness today.

Decarbonization Measures in the Shipping Industry

Environmental sustainability is one of the main concerns for many industries, national governments, and international organizations. They understand that the total costs of environmental pollution far outweigh the expenses on measures to prevent such a situation. Therefore, intensive research and testing of new methods do not stop for a day. The transportation industry may benefit both from its own practices and from recipes tested in other industries. In particular, Air and Ocean freight services resort to the following environmental sustainability initiatives:

• Active research into the environmental impact of various types of ships, fuels, etc.;
• Development of sustainability technologies such as on-board sensors and automated emission calculators;
• Use of alternative fuels;
• Biofouling management;
• Eco-friendly packaging, etc.

Legislative Regulation of  CO₂ Emissions

Carbon emissions reduction is not only encouraged but also controlled by the governments of different countries. In particular, two important indicators came into force in Canada recently:

• Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) — in force since April 2022;
• Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index (EEXI) — in force since January 2023.

Regular reports and extensive documentation sent to regulators are becoming an essential mechanism by which the shipping industry is encouraged to comply with environmentally friendly practices.

The best solutions for decarbonization and environmental sustainability are being standardized and become accepted practice everywhere. Thanks to the work of regulators and the active position of civil society, they are being implemented very quickly. This gives hope that all measures to protect the environment planned for 2050 will be implemented.

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Whether you’ve said it, written it, or thought it, sometimes someone comes along and puts it all together in an easily digestible manner that you have to share. This is that.

Matt Kim lives in Georgia, and he’s read the 98-page “indictment” of President Trump. That sort of commitment often results in some thoughts, which Mr. Kim has and has shared on X (formerly known as Twitter).

Mr. Kim is Asian, so the Left’s organ grinders and their narrative monkeys will be banging their little cups to raise money to shout him down.

While we wait … a bit of straight-forward, unvarnished truth.

 

Responding to the Georgia Fulton County Trump Indictment as a local resident pic.twitter.com/ipaWcmDLz9

— Matt Kim (@MattAttack009_) August 15, 2023

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All is not well in the inner world of President Joe Biden. For a full third of July, the president took a break, leisurely spending days puttering at his $2.74 million beach house in Rehoboth, Delaware.

During this period, he didn’t engage in official travel, such as factory inaugurations, fair visits, military inspections, or supply chain briefings. He wasn’t even out in public licking ice cream cones. Instead, he was parked under an umbrella on the beach, his wife by his side to prevent any wandering off or child sniffing. The regime news media pretty much left him alone.

As August arrived, President Biden had already used up 40% of his time in office on vacation, albeit working vacations, with a few phone meetings, according to his official calendar.

Yes, the president has been phoning it in for much of his first term.

Biden has now returned to his presidential duties, but his workdays are brief, and his interactions with the media are short-lived. His time before cameras is kept short. (RELATED: STAR PARKER: The Reason For Our Nation’s Decline Is Crystal Clear)

This week, Biden embarked on a tour of the Southwest, with the first stop in Arizona, a battleground state. There, he used his executive power to designate nearly one million acres as national monument land, saying he was addressing historical injustices towards Native Americans.

This move resulted in the cessation of any new uranium mining in the area, which unfortunately leaves the nation reliant on foreign sources, specifically Russia and satellite countries like Kazakhstan, for a crucial national security mineral.

Biden’s speech in Arizona was brief and predictable, touching on his criticisms of Republicans and their MAGA ways, as well as his consistent harping on climate change. However, even this routine speech had its flaws, as the mention of the Grand Canyon as one of the “Nine Wonders of the World” stirred controversy and led to the need for damage control efforts by his press office.

At his next speech highlighting the successes of Bidenomics in New Mexico, he seemed to suddenly start whispering and babbling incoherently, something that occurs with greater frequency as he tires.

 

 

Although carefully scripted, Biden’s Southwest swing could not hide the physical fragility and cognitive decline of the leader of the free world. His shuffling gait and unclear sentences are now widely recognized indications of his deteriorating dementia.

Throughout his tour, there was a noticeable absence of challenging questions from regime-approved reporters. Sensitive topics like a bag of cocaine found in the West Wing, legal issues faced by his son, or allegations of political interference with the Department of Justice’s attacks on his greatest political rival, Donald Trump, remain unaddressed.

This is likely the best condition we can expect to see Biden in, as he approaches his 81st birthday on Nov. 20, a mere 100 days away. It’s unrealistic to anticipate that his coherence will improve over the next four years.

Aging impacts individuals differently, and I don’t mean to imply that elderly individuals cannot think or communicate effectively. However, there are undeniable signs that Biden’s abilities are, in fact, diminishing rapidly.

In response to his deterioration, there appears to be a gradual introduction of the Kamala Harris backup plan. She’s now in the batting cage, as she will need to assume a more prominent role by the midterm elections. (RELATED: STEPHEN MOORE: ‘Bidenomics’ Is A Bust)

Yet, the Democratic Party recognizes that Harris presents a challenge for American voters. Americans don’t really like the unserious vice president.

Since the onset of Biden’s presidency, efforts have been made to manage the narrative around Harris, downplaying her propensity for gaffes, which are similar to Vice President Dan Quayle’s own verbal goofs during George H.W. Bush’s administration. While Quayle’s gaffes were relatively concise (“Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child,”) at least he kept his sentences short.

There’s a Quayle-level solecism, and then there’s Vice President Harris describing the very nature of time itself:

“The governor and I, we were all doing a tour of the library here and talking about the significance of the passage of time, right, the significance of the passage of time. So, when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time in terms of what we need to do to lay these wires. What we need to do to create these jobs. And there is such great significance to the passage of time when we think about a day in the life of our children.”

With the mumbler-in-chief and his giggling gaffe-machine at the top of the ticket, the Democratic Party is not presenting the best of what their party could offer America in terms of leadership during the difficult days ahead, and this will impact all their candidates down the ballot.

For Democrats to win in 2024, Vice President Harris is going to have to be much more tightly controlled and President Biden will have to be sent back to the basement, where he spent most of 2020. Even then, this ticket looks less viable with each passing day.

 

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Must-see tweet by Charlie Kirk showing all the ways the GOP could have and could be fighting back against the Police State but aren’t. Instead all we get is so-and-so going on Twitter and expressing “strong disapproval” or so-and-so on going on Hannity and “hammering the DOJ,” … blah, blah, blah. This failure to actually fight backs gives the Communists Democrats the green-light to go after Trump. It makes the GOP complicit.

It also begs the question … WHY NOT actually fight back? The answer is they want the Communists Democrats to succeed.They are happy to have Trump die in some Georgia prison so they can go back to their controlled-opposition grift.

Do you really think that things would be that much different under a President Christie, Haley, Pence, Scott from the way things are under the Biden-Regime? Do you really think any of them would close the border when their donor-class masters want it open? That they would defy the donor-class and cut off the gravy-train to corrupt oligarch Zelensky? Etc.. etc., etc..

It’s not Democrat vs. Republican. It’s the System versus the rest of us.

Republicans did nothing about Bill Clinton flying to islands with minors

Republicans did nothing about Hillary Clinton smashing devices

Republicans did nothing about James Comey brazenly lying

Republicans did nothing about Andy McCabe plotting a silent coup against a sitting…

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) August 15, 2023

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First, thanks for all the Facebook birthday wishes if you’re on that platform and happened to notice. They pile up, and I always try to thank each and every one for the well-wishes. If I’ve not yet responded to you, I will. Eventually.

If you’ve got an itch to “give me something” other than a hard time (which I appreciate no less or no more), I’d not object to a donation to our fundraiser.

I know cheap chipshot to raise a few bucks, but what can I say? My real job is officially ending in September (or so I’m now told), and I don’t want to have to look for a new one if we can reach our goal of having me run GraniteGrok, Grok PAC, Grok everything. So it’s time to give the fundraiser another kick in the pants.

Maybe this will put the “fun” back in and raise some “funds.”

I’ve managed to survive to 60 despite working hard not to, so if you can give $60.00 or $600.00 ($6,000.00?), that’d be great.

Six dollars is fine, or if you can’t swing it, buy me a beer the next time you see me (which could be never, so that’s affordable). I’m also good with you just continuing to read and share the stuff our writers produce daily. That’d be a gift that keeps on giving.

Or any combination of the above.

We try to be flexible despite what the harpies on the Left say.

Here are the ways to give in case you forgot – as If we’d let you.

 

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Now go celebrate something. Use my birthday if you need an excuse. If you don’t need an excuse, then as you were.

 

 

 

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The Ron DeSantis campaign has turned into an absolute train-wreck … and the train-cars keep piling up. In many ways, Governor Ron DeSantis was the antithesis of Governor Sun-King Sununu. DeSantis admitted that he was wrong to have initially gone along with the lockdown/mask-up “science” and vowed it would never happen again … we have yet to hear anything even remotely resembling such an admission from Governor state-liquor-stores-are-essential-health-clubs-are-not Sun-King. DeSantis’ Florida is where woke goes to die. Sun-King’s New Hampshire is where woke flourishes.

There are myriad more contrasts, but it suffices to say that under Governor DeSantis, Florida went from a “purple” State to a solidly Red State, while under Governor Sun-King, New Hampshire became much bluer. Yet here we have Candidate DeSantis debasing himself by praising Sununu. Sad. So sad.

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Joe “a few cans short of a sixpack,” Biden (as in nothing left but the plastic rings) said something else monumentally stupid. He “challenged anyone to ‘Name me a single objective we’ve ever set out to accomplish that we failed on.'” Let’s just say that challenge was accepted.

Was it Biden or his handlers that are responsible for that line? ‘

I don’t think the Big Guy misreads anything without the original being approved by a committee. It is probably a room full of people that answers to Barack Obama. A scripted life with unlimited money and an army. And the best bits are when he falls off script.

Or, maybe they did write that into his speech. The Obamas hate the Bidens, and Barry is, after all, the guy who said not to underestimate Joe’s ability to F! something up. Add to that his ability to be walked face-first into an F-up, which is easier now that he’s a victim of elder abuse – which is no excuse for all the criminality, fraud, and corruption that rape the Democrats don’t want to talk about (he actually grabbed a woman by the pu**y), China, Ukraine, his creepy child sniffing, and then there’s his laundromat, Hunter.

Joe Biden is everything wrong with politics and politicians, but he is still bold enough to ask questions to which he should know the answer but does not. A clear sign the man is not well or fit to run a lemonade stand.

Here’s Straight-man Biden setting up the punch line and then getting punched.

 

“Name me one in all of our history. Not one!” Biden screamed during the speech, which also incidentally came on the second anniversary of the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, which saw the deaths of 13 American military personnel in Kabul.

 

Biden, on the second anniversary of his botched Afghanistan withdrawal:

“Name me a single objective we’ve ever set out to accomplish that we’ve failed on! Name me one!” pic.twitter.com/7v5faTFddv

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 16, 2023

 

Tom Elliott has the best one-post list ‘response’ I could find.

 

— Schools will open in 2021 — Will spend $7 of every $10 in education funding on “pre-school only” — Masking only to last 100 days — Will never mandate vaccines — Don’t worry about “vaccine passports” — Will always defer to “the science” — CDC will drop vax requirement for foreigners when science permits — Will end Covid — Will “cure cancer” — Won’t govern as a “radical socialist” — Will adopt a “White House cat” as president — Will resolve gun violence — Will end “forever wars” — Will get out of Afghanistan peacefully — “I won’t traffic on fear and division” — Will “heal the soul of America” — Will “fight as hard for those who voted against me as those who voted for me” — Will fire anyone in his admin who treats people with disrespect — Will end “tax breaks for race horses” — Will cut the deficit — Will cut the debt — Will revitalize & rebuild the economy — Will not politicize the DoJ — Will always tell the truth

 

Ok, @JoeBiden, since you asked:

— Schools will open in 2021
— Will spend $7 of every $10 in education funding on “pre-school only”
— Masking only to last 100 days
— Will never mandate vaccines
— Don’t worry about “vaccine passports”
— Will always defer to “the science”
— CDC… https://t.co/ZlTkCI3uw3

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) August 16, 2023

 

Feel free to add more in the comments. That can’t possibly be all of it.

And whatever you do, Joe, don’t accept any invitations to go swimming with the Obamas at Martha’s Vineyard. It’ll be difficult. We know how much you like to swim. They’ll call it paddle boarding, but a better description might be waterboarding.

 

HT | Newswars

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The New York Fire Department recently reported that so far this year, there have been 108 lithium-ion battery fires in New York City, which have injured 66 people and killed 13. According to FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh, “There is not a small amount of fire, it (the vehicle) literally explodes.” The resulting fire is “very difficult to extinguish, and so it is particularly dangerous.”

Last year there were more than 200 fires from batteries from e-bikes, EVs, and other devices.

A fire ignited at an e-bike shop and killed four people near midnight on the morning of June 20. Two individuals were left in critical condition. The fire commissioner has warned New Yorkers that such devices could be very dangerous and typically explode in such a way that renders escape impossible. (RELATED: SUZANNE DOWNING: Biden’s Climate Change Fantasies Are Infiltrating A Key Government Department)

FDNY also reports that in just three years, lithium-ion battery fires have surpassed those started by cooking and smoking as the most common causes of fatal fires in New York City. It’s happening all over the country as these blazes have become commonplace. Cars and e-bikes are randomly blowing up in driveways and garages.

Now let’s be honest: 13 deaths in a city the size of New York with some 8 million people is hardly an epidemic. Regulations should always be based on a cost versus benefit-calculation, or there would be no cars at all.

And yet the same scaremongers on the left who have zero tolerance and want bans for small risks when it comes to everything from swimming pool diving boards, gas stoves, plastic straws, vaping, fireworks and so on, have a surprisingly high pain threshold when it comes to people dying or suffering critical injured from “green” electric battery fires.

Or consider this: In 1965, Ralph Nader almost single-handedly helped ban the popular Chevrolet Corvair — famous for its engine placed in the back trunk of the car. Nader’s bestselling shock book “Unsafe at Any Speed” declared the car was deadly. But there was no real evidence of that claim, and to this day, there are no reliable statistics on how many passengers — if any — died in Corvairs from rear-end accidents.

What is indisputable is that EVs will cause far more deaths than Corvairs ever did.

One other example: There have been more fatalities in just one city in a single year from lithium-ion batteries in cars than all the people who died from the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear plant accident — which was zero.

 

 

Yet, after the accident, thanks to the environmentalists’ fear campaign (with the help of the blockbuster anti-nuke movie “The China Syndrome”), no domestic nuclear plants were built for three decades. That is despite the fact that nuclear plants emit no greenhouse gases.

But with EVs, the greens are pushing aside any concerns about the collateral damage of deaths and injuries. Biden wants to mandate that nearly ALL new cars sold in the U.S. be EVs by 2032. If that happens, many thousands of Americans may die or will be inured from electric vehicle fires. (RELATED: DAVID BLACKMON: IRA Subsidies Are Driving Investment Decisions In A Dangerous Direction)

All this is especially hypocritical because once upon a time the left’s mantra was “no trading blood for oil.” Now they are willing to trade blood in exchange for getting Americans to stop using oil. An irony of all this is that because of all the energy needed to produce windmills, solar panels and electric batteries, new studies are showing that the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions to this “net zero” transition is close to zero. It turns out, green energy causes some pollution, too.

For the record, I’m not in favor of the government banning EVs or e-bikes or just about anything. I just believe that we should make policy decisions based on real and factual risk assessments, not false scares and sensationalism.

As for the future of EVs, maybe it’s time for Ralph Nader to write a sequel to “Unsafe at Any Speed.”

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One of modern history’s fastest “refugee” relocations happened when a small plane of illegal aliens touched down on Martha’s Vineyard. Within 36 hours, give or take; they’d been frog-marched away from the exclusive New England Isle of the Rich and Famous. New York City isn’t as lucky.

The Big Crapple was already in a sad state after years of misrule by Mayor Bill de Blasio. Eric Adams hasn’t improved a thing, but he is the benefactor of years of Democrat Party open borders policy, though not by choice. If he had things his way, they’d have all stayed along the border where he likely thinks they belong.

But in the name of equity, border Governors have included cities like New York in the bounty of “immigrants” accumulating in their states. Bussing of flying them to places like Chicago, Washington DC, and New York City. With nowhere to put them – in between rants about what horrible people those governors are – the City and Mayor Adams have had to put them up at local hotels, which is crimping the City’s style.

 

In May, New York City Mayor Eric Adams complained that 50% of the city’s hotel rooms are now occupied by illegal migrants. This is a massive loss in tourism dollars for the city.

 

As if the crime, homelessness, and drug problem were not. A local government official issued a travel warning for NYC just a few years ago. That’s still a thing, but now they’ve got drugs, crime, and destruction of property in the hotels. It’s very New York, as is fine dining at swanky lib-run eateries. But the City isn’t paying restaurant owners to feed illegals (yet), and despite their liberal rhetoric, they are not doing their part.

 

Earlier this month, the Redbury Hotel, a Manhattan landmark that’s home to two restaurants owned by Danny Meyer, began housing asylum seekers in partnership with New York City. On Friday, Union Square Hospitality Group announced that nine-year-resident restaurant, Marta and Maialino (vicino) — the newly relocated spot that started in the Gramercy Park Hotel — will have their last service on August 25.

It’s a dramatic move that comes as the hotel is the latest Manhattan property repurposing as housing for asylum seekers. The city is struggling to address an influx of at least 90,000 migrants from the southern border since last spring.

 

Danny Meyer was reportedly all-in on the Pandemic response, requiring proof of vaccination to work or eat in his establishments.

He has donated at least 178,000 dollars to Democrat candidates in a baker’s dozen years so it is safe to say he is all in on a liberal agenda from which he’d mostly sanitized himself until the open border and sanctuary city policies drove him out of the Redbury Hotel.

He’s no doubt suffered a loss of business, revenue, and profit as like-minded progressives have chosen to hide from the human casualties of liberal immigration policy on display at the Redbuty Hotel – where Meyer isn’t the only New York Elitist who is displaced morally and physically by the influx. But he can pretend.

 

As tenants of the Redbury, our two restaurants, which occupy the lobby floor, have been eagerly anticipating the hotel’s full post-pandemic reopening. Now, as the Redbury partners with the City to house asylum seekers, it’s become clear that the timeline for that reopening has been extended indefinitely. While we admire and respect the Redbury’s decision, the viability of our business relies significantly on hotel-related F&B operations, including event venues and the lobby bar, spaces that are now unavailable for our use.

 

I doubt The Redbury has many choices, forced to fill the rooms with illegals at reduced rates set by the City – which could threaten all manner of code violations unless it agrees. A sort of “I am altering the deal, pray I don’t alter it further” arrangement. They play ball, or the City considers more aggressive measures to take over the hotel and fill it anyway.

But it is a deal that Meyer, suffering the effect of the policies he claims to support, can escape, moral posturing intact, freed, at least temporarily, from the teeming unwashed that washed up upon his shore. It is an increasingly common problem for the Libs, Progs, and Dems.

The one-percenters living on Martha’s Vineyard, liberal elite if not to the last than at least in the majority, came face-to-face with that when the plane landed. Still, they rallied quickly and relocated the huddled masses to someone else’s backyard (Maybe even to The Redbury Hotel in New York City.), for which the  Boston Globe awarded them Bostonians of the Year.

That is, after all, how Left-Wing Morality works. It works for them, or it doesn’t work at all.

 

 

HT | TGP 

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The saga of the Elizabeth Gurley Flynn state historical marker drags on. Flynn—a labor leader, feminist, founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and an avowed member and chairperson of the Communist Party USA—was recognized this spring with a historical highway marker in her hometown of Concord.

Related: Maybe We SHOULD Put Communist Elizabeth Gurley Flynn’s Historical Marker Back

Facing immediate backlash, the state removed “the rebel girl’s” marker soon after erecting it. The state now faces a lawsuit claiming it didn’t follow the rules for removal.

As state leaders debate whether or not to recognize a Communist who left the Granite State when she was about 10 years old, led the Communist Party USA, and received a Soviet state funeral in 1964, let’s not overlook the Concord capitalists who built companies and invented products that improved lives.

Putting their own ingenuity to use, these inventors and entrepreneurs made a lasting impact on the New Hampshire and American economies. Comrade Gurley Flynn became a celebrity through her writing and organizing. These capitalists, on the other hand, received far less attention while helping to build the New Hampshire and U.S. economies, create jobs, and advance their fields.

Levi Hutchins

If you set an alarm to help wake up at a certain time this morning, you can thank Levi Hutchins. Born in 1761, Hutchins lived in Concord from 1772 to 1777 and 1780 to 1855. And it was in Concord where Hutchins invented the first American alarm clock.

Trained as clockmakers, Hutchins and his brother Abel opened their clockmaking shop on Main Street in Concord in 1786 and were successful businessmen. Hutchins understood the need for many to wake up on time for work, including himself. While alarm clocks were already in Europe, Hutchins was determined to bring one to America.

In 1787, Hutchins designed and built the first American alarm clock. It was constructed in a 29-inch by 14-inch wooden cabinet, and each clock could only be set for one specific time (in Hutchins’s case, 4 a.m.). Hutchins never bothered to patent his clock or mass-produce it. But he did wake up on time for the rest of his life and tinker his way into the history books.

Sylvester Marsh

A stalwart of New Hampshire’s significant tourist economy, the Mount Washington Cog Railway was the first of its kind in the world when Sylvester Marsh designed and built it.

Marsh was born in 1803 and lived in Concord for the last five years of his life. An American entrepreneur, Marsh’s inspiration for the railway came from his near-death experience hiking Mount Washington in 1852 during a storm. Locomotives at the time weren’t able to climb Washington’s steep incline, so Marsh had to invent a new railway—the cog rail.

Though some state lawmakers laughed at Marsh, the Legislature gave him exclusive rights to a Mount Washington railway in 1858. And since 1869, the Cog has made regular trips year-round to the top of the tallest mountain in the Northeast as one of the Granite State’s oldest, most popular attractions and a boon to its economy. (Marsh is mentioned in the Cog Railway’s historical marker in the White Mountains but doesn’t have one of his own.)

Benjamin Ames Kimball

Northeastern railroad giant and Concord resident from 1854 to 1920, Benjamin Ames Kimball, born in 1833, was a railroad engineer, mechanic, and manufacturer, as well as a consequential figure in railroad expansion in New England.

Starting as a draftsman in the shops of the Concord Railroad, Kimball worked his way up to designing locomotives and running the locomotive department. He left to found his own manufacturing company and later returned as a director of the Concord Railroad. In 1879, Kimball led the merger of the Concord Railroad with the Boston, Concord, and Montreal Railroad, forming the Concord and Montreal Railroad in 1889. Serving as its president from 1895 to 1920, the Concord and Montreal Railroad was the principal railroad in the state under Kimball’s leadership.

The leading railroad figure in New Hampshire, Kimball is credited with overseeing a booming system that accelerated the state’s economy and facilitated increased tourism to the Lakes Region and the White Mountains.

Benjamin Holt

Go to any construction site in the country, and chances are you’ll see Caterpillar Inc. equipment on the job. The origins of both the company and the machinery can be traced back to one man: Benjamin Holt.

Born in 1849 in Concord, Holt was an inventor who owned more than 45 patents. He’s best known, however, for inventing in 1904 the first successful track-type tractor—called the “Caterpillar”—a product that Caterpillar Inc. still uses.

Determined to create a vehicle to help farmers, Holt and his company, Holt Manufacturing, designed a track-laying system that would allow heavy tractors to move over soft soil and mud. With his track-type tractor, Holt became the father of mechanized farming.

During World War I, Holt even supplied treads for U.S. and British tanks.

Holt Manufacturing later merged with a competitor to form Caterpillar Tractor Co., which eventually became Caterpillar Inc., the largest manufacturer of earth-moving equipment in the world.

Though Holt did not receive a state funeral in Moscow, he fed more Soviets than Concord-born Communist hero Gurley Flynn ever did. During the Great Depression, the Soviet government needed agricultural equipment that its socialist command economy couldn’t produce. So, they bought American tractors and combines from Caterpillar.

 

Mitchell Scacchi | The Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy

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Scanning the networks on Monday night to see what topics were getting attention, I was unlucky enough to catch Rachel Maddow and Hillary Clinton on MSNBC sharing a good chuckle about Trump’s fourth indictment. If there were two more repulsive women in politics today, they would also be on MSNBC or CNN.

These two cable networks are not about the news or the truth; they are also not about quality people. The people on these two flailing stations look through the lens of the cameras and into the soul of America and lie to them incessantly. This is the perfect environment for Hillary Clinton. She fits in seamlessly, and they treat her as superhuman. Besides being a First Lady, Hillary Clinton was a mediocre Senator and Secretary of State. Because of her time spent in Washington, Hillary felt entitled to be the first female President. It did not and will never happen. Hillary’s time has passed, but the Left still treats her with celebrity status. We on the Right see Hillary Clinton as the epitome of a Gaslighter. I think she is so delirious she believes everything she spouts.

On this night, Rachel Maddow was to give Hillary enough softball questions to allow Mrs. Clinton to showcase the highest level of hypocrisy she could muster, and there would never be a challenge from Maddow. They chuckled and scoffed at the plight of Donald Trump and the impact of the four indictments on the former President and the country. Here are two of the most powerful women on the Left having a friendly chat on National TV, and neither will admit the truth. Neither will entertain the possibility the four indictments of Donald Trump are purely a political play by Joe Biden and his weaponized Justice Department.

Clinton claimed she finds no joy seeing Trump put through the legal food processor. She does find satisfaction in seeing the system work. Are you serious? These comments from a woman and her husband, who have been the benefactors of a broken justice system for years. This is the woman who financed the bogus Russian Dossier used to impeach Donald Trump. This is the woman who bleached and took a sledgehammer to her illegal server to destroy all the emails and info subpoenaed by the FBI. This is from the woman who has denied her loss to Trump in 2016 and feels she was the actual President of the United States. Just like Stacey Abrams in Georgia, the two women claimed the election was tainted, and they were the winners. Trump is indicted for this in Georgia, but the system is working according to Hillary. Apparently, it wasn’t working for Hillary and Stacey. This is such a farce, and Hillary and Maddow are the best people to evaluate a farce.

What is wrong with people on the Left, not the politicians, but the everyday citizens who cannot see through this smoke and mirrors? Even if CNN and MSNBC are their primary source for news, can’t their logic and common sense let them see the light? It is sad how gullible and naive half of our country is that they will believe whatever their favorite talking head expounds, but that is what they prove every night, and that keeps CNN and MSNBC on a respirator.

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I’m not sure this qualifies as man-made in the religious sense of climate change, but men made the powerlines that some locals captured on video—sparking, popping, followed by fire, which the high winds then took for a devastating ride.

(Maui News/AP) “I heard ‘buzz, buzz,’ “ the 49-year-old resort worker recounted. “It was almost like somebody lit a firework. It just ran straight up the hill to a bigger pile of grass, and then, with that high wind, that fire was blazing.”

Treu’s video and others captured the early moments of what would become the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century. Now the footage has emerged as key evidence pointing to fallen utility lines as the possible cause. Hawaiian Electric Co. faces criticism for not shutting off the power amid high wind warnings and keeping it on even as dozens of poles began to topple.

It’s beginning to sound a bit like California’s Camp Fire.

 

(Bloomberg) It could take weeks or months to determine the cause of the blaze that destroyed the seaside Hawaiian town of Lahaina, one of the deadliest wildfires in US history. But attention is already focusing on whether power lines owned by Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. played a role, with the stock plunging more than 40% since the fire began. While many things could have provided the initial spark for the flames, which were fanned by high winds, electrical lines have a tragic history of triggering fires during wind storms.

 

The story is getting around, but back to Maui News.

 

A class-action lawsuit has already been filed seeking to hold the company responsible for the deaths of more than 100 people. The suit cites the utility’s own documents showing it was aware that preemptive power shutoffs such as those used in California were an effective strategy to prevent wildfires but never adopted them.

 

This is starting to sound a lot like the Camp Fire.

 

When Governor Moonbeam (Brown) made stupid claims that the wildfires ravaging his state, yet again, were due to the “Climate Change” hoax, President Trump shot back an incendiary and burningly accurate tweet, igniting his own firestorm. …

First, we heard from Mercury News that the point of origin for the “Camp” fire was a remote road where fallen power lines had sparked a blaze that was fanned by 35mph “Santa Ana” winds into the rapidly spreading inferno, which consumed the small town of Paradise, CA, and its surroundings, …

 

Maui’s Fire Department then allegedly mishandled the fire allowing it to get worse. So, yes, ‘Men’ were involved, but Climate Change had nothing to do with it, and that’s a problem. Pursuing lawsuits for wrongdoing is a greater good than pretending someone’s SUV is Skokie is to blame. They’ll still lay that blame, but it won’t be able to keep its head above the rising waters of litigation.

 

HT | Epoch Times

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