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John Wick Chapter 4 is High Cinematic Art, and is the Best John Wick Yet
I had high expectations for John Wick Chapter 4, and the high cinematic art of the movie exceeded my highest hopes. As Film wrote in its review, “Early reactions to ‘John Wick 4’ are...
Senator Cruz Makes an Excellent Point about Trump’s Coming Indictment and Arrest in NY
The reality is that the way-too-#@#!@####!!!#*%@-f’ing slow special prosecutor and I-think-I’ll-stare-into-outer-darkness District Attorney in Georgia, have not indicted Trump yet. They have indicted exactly zero people regarding the classified documents fubar, Trump’s politically motivated...
A Selection of News Links from 2023 – 2020 on UFOs, UAPs and Aliens
A Selection of News Links from 2023 – 2020 on UFOs, UAPs, and Aliens Space.com: Alien mothership lurking in our solar system could be watching us with tiny probes, Pentagon official suggests Live Science:...
Former Vice President Pence Cracks Jokes about Trump at Gridon Dinner
From the Associated Press, Pence says Trump ‘endangered my family’ on Jan. 6: Speeches at the Gridiron Dinner are usually humorous affairs, where politicians poke fun at each other, and Pence did plenty of...
The Courage of former Vice President Mike Pence
First, let me say this disclaimer about former Vice President Mike Pence; I’ve known him for a long time. And, at the funeral of a dear friend, J. Patrick Rooney, then-Congressman Pence told my...
Just Like the Sudden, Shattering Collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia will Shatter in 2023
Among the few who predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union, I am also predicting that the Russian government will shatter like the Soviet Union did, suddenly and completely. In a deal with the...
Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene Call for a National Divorce is an Admission of Defeat
There are so many things wrong with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s call for a national divorce along political lines — where Red states divorce themselves from the United States, and leave the union. First...
The Ongoing Failure of the Chinese Cult of Leader Xi, Will Cause a Massive Famine in China
From a cultural, economic, and security point of view, I urge you to watch this interview with Peter Zeihan on The Joe Rogan Experience for a refreshingly honest assessment of what is happening in...
It Does Not Matter that soon-to-be Speaker McCarthy Moved the Motion to Vacate Trigger to One Member of Congress
Assuming McCarthy has a steady-state, pretty consistent four NOs for him as Speaker, then it does not really matter that he went down to 1 vote for the motion to vacate. Why? Because McCarthy’s...
The Great Unease about the House Voting: There is No Governing Majority of 218 Votes
The lack of 218 votes for any candidate for Speaker underlines the fact that there is no governing majority of 218 votes in the U.S. House. If McCarthy pulls it out, and I still...
In order to be Speaker, You Need Two Indispensable Skills
To be Speaker, there are two skills needed: Negotiate votes to get to 218 votes. Accurately count the votes to make sure you have 218 votes. Those two skill sets are needed. The question...
Who are McCarthy’s Vote Counters?
Look, the groupthink that gripped Republicans before the mid-terms was a widescreen infection. McCarthy himself, I am told from numerous people, seriously believed the minimum number of seats the GOP would win on election...
Where we are on McCarthy’s Race to be Speaker
Given the letter signed by nine House members that says, in effect, the rule change concessions made by McCarthy are too late and too vague for us to vote for him, McCarthy is five...
Simple Questions for Kevin McCarthy about Rep. Greene
Given that Rep. Greene just said that if she and Steve Bannon had been organizing the Jan. 6th protest at the Capitol, the crowd “would have been armed,” and therefore, “we would have won.”...
McCarthy Doesn’t Have a Viable Opponent, but He Also Does Not Have the Votes to be Speaker
By all accounts, the current situation in the U.S. House is sort of a weightless, gravityless struggle of both sides floating and spinning to try and achieve their goals; on the one side, the...
Just for the Record, Months Ago, I Wrote the GOP should Forsake The Seditious Bastard
In early September of this year, I wrote the GOP should forsake The Seditious Bastard. If not, I specifically said there would be “a Very High Political Price that Will be Paid by the...
General Updates, First, my Bets on the Mid-term Election Outcomes
First, most of my bets were a wash since I bet the Dems would control the House and the Senate. I paid off the bets I made to those who I bet the Dems...
The Orange Man is “the Orangutan”
Nicknames that stick, really, are usually simple with a large dose of truth to them.
Excerpts from Erickson’s “Against Poo Flinging Monkeys”
Erickson’s Against Poo-Flinging Monkeys can be read here and is quoted, in part, below: There’s not a single damn independent voter in America who is going to look at this and think, “Oh my...
AG Merrick’s Terminally Delays Indicting The Seditious Bastard by Appointing a Special Prosecutor — It’s Like the Kiss of Death for Justice
Sigh. Even though 114 Trump backing Congressional candidates underperformed by five percentage points compared to those GOP candidates who were not Trumpets, showing clearly where a plurality of voters are — the United States...
The Reason Pollsters and Others are Overcounting GOP Wins in the Unresolved House Races
Much has been made of this election’s R+4 generic vote not translating into a Republican Senate and a red wave in the House — especially by pollsters and those who analyze polls. In the...
Predicting the Accuracy of my Midterm Predictions Once the 2020 Midterm Results are In — Yes, the Dems Keep the House
My sense is that I am going to be one seat off in the Senate — the Dems will take NV and AZ, and the most compelling argument for the Dems taking the last...
GOP Operative Close to Trump: “This is a sinking ship…This was the end of the Trump era and the dawn of the DeSantis era”
From ABC News: “This is a sinking ship,” one top Trump adviser told ABC News. “We’re not going to beat that.” “This was the end of the Trump era and the dawn of the...
Voters Cared More about Abortion and Trump Brand Election Denial than Inflation, Immigration and Crime
From ABC News: “Still a narrow path here on Nevada and Georgia, but nobody feels good about election night,” said GOP strategist Scott Jennings, an ally of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky....
Why My Prediction of Putin’s Death by Labor Day was Wrong
I should say, at the outset, I’m planning my YAY! Putin is Dead! party for the end of this year, a mere six or seven weeks from now. The reason for his death date...
GOP Silence in the Face of The Seditious Bastard’s Statements Convinced Voters the GOP Agreed Him
If you are a voter and you see that the former President of the United States writes in a social media post that he should be “installed” as President “immediately,” in the middle of...
Marc Thiessen Sums Up the GOP Midterm Problem in Three Sentences
Conservative Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen said on FOX NEWS last night: “I think it might have, or maybe it wouldn’t have,” he replied. “There’s a broader issue, which is, think about this. We had the worst...
Musk’s Cost Cutting Moves at Twitter Do Not Bode Well for it’s Financial Future
In short, since Musk has taken the Twitter helm: Half the Employees have been fired All of the executives have been fired or quit Twitter has lost one million users Ad revenue is down...
President Biden is Correct — this Election, the midterms, are about Stopping ‘Dark Forces’
The mid-term elections will test the proposition that the attack on the Capitol and Vice President Pence on January 6th and the behavior of The Seditious Bastard violating the Espionage Act, since January 6th;...
Fusion Power Generation in a Decade — May Partly Explain the Behavior of Saudi Arabia backing Iran and Russia on Oil Production
There are plenty of skeptics about a commercial fusion power plant being built and operating within ten years. I am not one of them. Recent leapfrog advances by Americans, Europeans, and China in various...
My Guess on what Presidential Election Turnout Levels in Georgia Mean
I agree with a Dem operative who said, “do you think all those people breaking midterm voting records in Georgia are voting because they are upset about inflation?” No, I don’t. A Republican pal...
Erickson’s Substack Urging Romney to back Lee is a Perfect Example of the Blind Spot the GOP has Regarding Trump
Erick Woods-Erickson allowed me to post whenever I wanted to the front page of RedState during the ObamaCare wars in the year or so prior to its passage. I like Woods-Erickson. He and I...
Conversations with Top GOP Campaign Operatives: They’re Convinced the GOP will Take the House and the Senate
I have spoken with a great cross-section of some of the top Republican campaign operatives. To a man, they all believe the GOP will take back the House and the Senate. On the other...
RealClearPolitics has Gone off the Deep End in their House and Senate Midterm Predictions
Here is a screenshot of RealClearPolitics House and Senate Midterm predictions from today’s front page of RealClearPolitics — the Kool-Aid is strong with this one: The only way you can get to where RCP...
Arrests of Rank and File Military Units in Moscow by Elite Troops and Police is Coup Suppression or Putin Blame Deflection
The Main Directorate of Ukrainian Military Intelligence reports that elite Russian Guard units from outside the city with Moscow police have begun arresting Russian Military officers. The purpose of these arrests is either to...
In a Nutshell, European Money is Leaving China — citing lost “allure as an investment destination”
The Financial Times sums up the serious and systemic structural problems with China’s economic model — demographic trends of low birth rates and their large number of senior citizens, combined with China’s hard-line Covid...
Still, even now, Russian Troops Can’t Talk between Units to Coordinate Actions
The corruption involved in producing Russian military communications is so great, Russian troops were left with none that allows them to communicate between units. The rot of corruption is literally killing the Russian military.
Now We Know — The Seditious Bastard’s Demand to Be Installed Immediately as President was to Aid and Abet his QAnon Supporters
At the end of August of this year, The Seditious Bastard (TSB) sent a “Truth Social” message that he be installed as President immediately — it turns out this message, and this idea, and...
Putin the Incompetent: How to Lose Russia’s Natural Gas Customers and Never get Them Back
Germany, the main buyer of Russian natural gas, has set about a nation-state level pivot to make itself permanently independent of Russian natural gas. Germany’s chancellor has seized Russian refineries, has rented key, specialist...
How Putin’s Vote to Annex Ukraine Undermines his Threats of Using Nukes
Apparently, the Kremlin was, oh so very excited about their plan to hold “votes” of the local population of the Ukraine territory under Russian occupation. Once the population voted at gunpoint to “join” Russia,...
Medvedev’s Fundamental Misunderstanding that NATO will Accept Russian Use of Nuclear Weapons
Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, has stated recently: “Let’s imagine that Russia is forced to use the most formidable weapons against the Ukrainian regime, which has committed a large-scale act...
“If we don’t win, we will have to use nuclear weapons, because we can’t lose….Does anyone really think Russia will accept defeat and not use its nuclear arsenal?”
Putin, the incompetent Commander in Chief who chooses the time and type of attack on his smaller neighbor, is now being so widely humiliated that even North Korea is telling the United States to...
US National Policy Should be to Assassinate Putin since he Threatened the West with Nukes (Again)
Vladimir Putin needs to be put down, like the rabid dog he is — and end the famine, inflation, war crimes, and killings he has forced upon the planet. The world would be a...
Cruz, Youngkin, Pompeo and Pence Get the Joke: The Seditious Bastard is Not Running
Mike Pompeo Tests 2024 Presidential Waters in New Hampshire, while Cruz plans major 2022 campaign swing — including key states in the 2024 presidential race and Youngkin tests political versatility with 2022 travel while...
The Longer the GOP Stay Silent about The Seditious Bastard and QAnon, as well as 1/6 and DocuGate, the More they Will Suffer at the Polls
The Seditious Bastard litany of cuts to the body politic of the GOP is going to take a toll. TSB’s death by a thousand QAnon cuts will be the latest in a long line...
The Seditious Bastard’s Banana-Republicization of the United States Continues Unabated
Not only did The Seditious Bastard — TSB — leave the FBI no choice but to search TSB’s residence for the documents they knew he had, and that he refused to hand over after...
ELITE SUPER SHOCK: Mr. Martial Law, uh, Mr. Pillow Guy, Gets Served
The widely reported meeting at the White House where Mr. Martial Law, or Mr. Pillow Guy, showed up with papers showing martial law was on the agenda — surprise, surprise — gets served by...
Putin will Only Abide by the Grain Deal if Ukraine Starts Sinking the Russian Ships Blockading Grain Exports in the Black Sea
Only sunken Russian Navy ships, which are actively engaged in the blockading of Ukrainian ports, will Putin abide by the grain agreement he just insisted that Russia “was cheated” on. Negotiating with Putin is...
There is a Very High Political Price that Will be Paid by the GOP for Refusing to Forsake The Seditious Bastard
The pain and suffering at the polls for the GOP will be epic. Too bad they can’t understand or see what is coming, or why. Some lessons must be learned the hard way. And...
Grim Fundraising Realities for the GOP — Significant Cash Disparities Between Senate Dem and GOP Candidates
From The Daily Beast: In audio obtained by The Daily Beast from a July luncheon with the Southern Hills Republican Women, Laxalt, amid the sounds of clinking cutlery, said, “The Democrats have unlimited money,...
Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson Dares The Seditious Bastard to Sue Him
Wilson: You’re not going to do a goddamn thing. You are weak, you are impotent, you are flabby. You are sitting there in the bridal suite at Mar-a-Lago or in the bridal suite at...
Enjoy the Lull Before the Next Covid-19 Variant Hits — Don’t Be Fooled, Another Variant from Asia is Coming
We should all enjoy the lull in the latest dominant Covid-19 wave. The next variant is coming; it is not, in my view, BA.4.6 that is ever so slowly growing at the expense of...
It’s Time: The GOP Must Foresake The Seditious Bastard
Perhaps it’s the promise of pardons for felons convicted of assaulting police officers on January 6, 2021, or that he incited the crowd to hunt Vice President Pence, to kill him or incapacitate him,...
The Seditious Bastard Demands ‘Immediate Elections’ and that He be Installed a President
I don’t know what the term for a narcissist living so deeply in their own fantasy that they publicly lose touch with reality is, but this is what is happening with Trump. First, he...
The Seditious Bastard Defenders Alienate Independents and Some GOP into Voting for Dems or Simply Not Voting GOP — Because TSB Defenders Sound Like Antifa
So, the FBI executes a Department of Justice National Security search warrant on The Seditious Bastard’s residence and finds classified documents helter-skelter around his residence — including half the cache in one closet —...
Narcissists like The Seditious Bastard Lie All the Time, Non-stop, particularly when it comes to themselves
The U.S. Justice Department recently told a judge they could no longer believe what The Seditious Bastard’s lawyers said in court. This is because TSB lies or holds back key information from his lawyers....
Mid-West Business Executive: Trump Needs to be Indicted so GOP can Distance Themselves
After reading the redacted affidavit and the list of classified materials found in the Trump residence, one mid-west based business executive said three things: Trump will be indicted; Trump needs to shut up, or...
Former Attorney General Barr on Trump’s Extortion of the GOP: ‘If it’s not me, I’m going to ruin your election chances by telling my base to sit home.’
From Yahoo’s Barr: Trump Using Extortion to Control GOP, which is quoted in part below: In a lengthy interview published Thursday, former New York Times editor Bari Weiss asked Barr why more Republicans did not simply come out and...
The Seditious Bastard (TBS) Keeps Lying
TBS has violated the Espionage Act. That is one of the many reasons he is called The Seditious Bastard. And he is repeatedly and purposefully lying about it. Over and over and over again....
Contrary to Trumpist Spin that Cheney’s Loss is “Good for the Republican Party” — It Actually Means the GOP will Lose the House and Senate in the Mid-terms
Irrationalism reigns now in the United States Republican party. It can be most clearly seen in this video of Mollie Hemmingway insisting the Republican party is better off without Representative Cheney: This is good...
Here is a simple question for The Seditious Bastard Defenders
When President, The Seditious Bastard could have declassified the documents he wanted to keep? So why didn’t he? The most likely answer is they were so sensitive and Top Secret, that they would never...
Hey Trumpists — The Seditious Bastard Is Playing You for a Fool by, as Usual, Lying to You — He’s Guilty as F**k
To all the Trumpists worried about the FBI search of The Seditious Bastard’s residence, have you considered: Trump is a narcissist and is lying to you? Unlike Trump, who lives in a fantasy world...
The Sad, Pathetic Spiraling Down of the Supporters of The Seditious Bastard
The fundamental problem with supporters of The Seditious Bastard is they are confusing what they think was a political operation — him trying to stay in power — with TBS’s sedition and treason. Average...
If Reports that Sinema’s Ask is to Keep the Carried Interest Provision Are True, Reconciliation will Pass the Senate Soon
If this report from Business Insider, titled Kyrsten Sinema reportedly wants to block Democrats from narrowing the carried interest loophole benefiting rich investors, is accurate, then the Dem reconciliation bill will pass the Senate...
October will be a cruel Covid Month in the US, is my best guess
As Covid continues to defy predictions of its death, I am predicting October will be quite a difficult Covid month for the United States. (I expect the build-up of infections will begin in the...
The Threats to the Secret Service’s Core Mission may Reveal the Reasons Why the “Lost” Jan. 6th Texts of Agents in Trump and Pence Presence were Deleted
Why would the Secret Service delete text messages from agents on the ground with then President Trump and Vice President Pence on January 6th? The “planned data migration” and tech update excuses are, well,...
I have had it with Lyft!
Hello to all enterprising class action lawyers! Here is a definite class action lawsuit against Lyft, and I will gleefully and happily be your first and lead plaintiff: Lyft is ripping consumers off plain...
Russia Invaded Ukraine, so Strikes on Russian Soil are Fair Play
It is a pretty simple concept; Russia needs to be told as of August 1st, Russian territory — inside its borders — that’s being used to stockpile supplies of fuel or ammunition or to...
Red and Blue America See the Worst in Each Other
Given the state of our national politics and identities, these poll results are worth a serious look at what Red thinks of Blue and what Blue thinks of Red. From a recent poll, which...
There will be Blowback — Trump Lies about the Election Come Home to Roost in the GOP Base
Let’s see, Trump lied to his supporters. Trump lied to the American people. Trump lied to the world. Trump riled up his base to show up with brass knuckles, guns, knives, spears, body armor,...
Shame on the Attorney General. Shame. Shame. Shame.
The reports, of which there are many, of the Justice Department finally waking up with scales falling from their eyes as to the degree of the sedition of the former President is sickeningly pathetic....
Regarding the Latest Covid Variants, BA.5, BA.5.1, BA.5.3.1 and BA.2.75 — Covid Doesn’t Give Two F***s that You and I are Tired of It
Covid does not care that you and I are tired of the latest variant, in this case, BA.2.75, aka ‘Centaurus.’ The waves will keep coming because Covid began with a man-made evolutionary advantage, made...
Putin Absurdly Warns the West: “we haven’t even yet started anything in earnest”
Putin’s recent statement that “we haven’t even yet started anything in earnest” in Ukraine is a straight-up bluff and chest-puffing bluster. Putin has no troops to raise his military tempo in Ukraine. Furthermore, the...
Graph: 234,228 New Covid Cases in the US Yesterday
You can find this graph by searching on Google for: covid cases or find you can find the graph below here on Google. Either way, you have to select show all in the State...
Data Cracks Around the Conventional Wisdom that the Dems will Lose the House
One of my good friends who does election politics for a living pointed out in a presentation to a recent meeting of about 70 Executives assembled at their first in-person meeting in two years...
Regarding those in the GOP who Don’t Think Trump is a Seditious Bastard
Depending on the person, they may have Seditious Denial Syndrome or SDS for short.
One Additional Prediction about former President Trump
He will be indicted for the role he played on and leading up to, January 6th, 2022. One of the counts of Trump’s indictment will be sedition.
A Review of My Predictions of what’s Coming for the Remainder of 2022
Covid-19: Europe this month will be in a solid fifth wave of Covid-19, which will be made up of BA.4 and BA.5 — both of which are as contagious as Omicron, both of which...
Latest CDC Graph: BA.4 and BA.5 Now 35% of all Covid Infections in the U.S.
The CDC graph below, which is periodically updated based on new data, can be found here on the CDC website, and is reproduced below:
CDC Graph: 15% of U.S. Covid Infections are BA.4 and BA.5
The CDC Graph, which is updated more or less weekly as new data comes in, can be found here and is below:
Hey President Macron, Here’s Your Diplomatic Off-ramp: Putin Dies or is Otherwise Removed from Power
President Macron, who is playing appeasement politics in France, wants not to “humiliate” Russia. Russia that has committed wholesale war crimes and caused the death and destruction of so many Ukrainian families and property?...
Putin’s Stated Strategy: Starve “tens of millions” in the Middle East, to Create a Refugee Crisis for the West
It is hard to imagine a more evil strategy than starving women and children to the point you create a refugee crisis by denying grain exports from Ukraine. This, Putin believes, will cause the...
The Trump Talent for Chaos and Losing Elections
When former president Trump questions the legitimacy of his election loss in Georgia and Pennsylvania, and many Republicans genuflect at that altar, despite the lack of evidence, despite all Trump’s challenges being thrown out...
5th U.S. Covid Wave, Graph Update: 139,427 Cases Yesterday
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5th U.S. Covid Wave, Graph Update: 171,191 Cases 5/19/2022
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