CrankyOldMan

Retired bridge engineer. Our liberties we prize, our rights we will maintain.

[CrankyOldMan @NotMyProblem61]

@WallStreetApes @Brookerteejones Nazi’s and communists do this. Wake up New York! They will radicalize your kids against you. It’s not a play date, it’s an indoctrinate your kids date. 🤯

The stupidism is growing.

[CrankyOldMan @NotMyProblem61]

@jiminiowa123 @IAHealthcare Zach Lahn owns a family farm/homestead and additional local properties in/near Belle Plaine, Iowa, including the historic King Theater and Chicago Northwestern Train Depot; reported farm acreage ranges from roughly 155 acres for the core farm to several hundred acres. Per Grok.

[CrankyOldMan @NotMyProblem61]

@IowaPod @TyroneDJackson People need to be ridiculed for bad answers. The interviewer also needs to take some criticism for not asking good followup questions.

If the interviewee is too thin skinned to come back, that is a tell of their abilities to answer tough questions or lead.

[CrankyOldMan @NotMyProblem61]

@DAGToddBlanche when is something going to be done about ActBlue? There seems to be enough evidence of fraud to shut them down.

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

Is the left-wing donation platform ActBlue STEALING elderly Americans' identities to launder cash to campaigns, including Abdul El-Sayed's? Reporter @Charlieleduff went door-to-door in Michigan visiting elderly voters whose names were attached to tens of thousands of dollars in donations they said they NEVER made:

“It's a clearinghouse… When this lady, let's say she gives $5 to Abdul El-Sayed, why is it the next day she has given five more times? And then two days later, three more times? And then four days later, she's from another address—the apartment she lived in for a while when her house burned down?

So, I ask her, ‘Show me how you make a donation on your phone.’ She can't. She's 88 years old, and she's [shaking and slapping] the phone, like it's a transistor radio… It's impossible for her to have sat there three to eight times a day, every single day, every day of the year, for five straight years! It's impossible. So who's triggering these trades?

It's starting to look like they've got your name, and mega dollars are coming in, and you have no idea that this donation is being made in your name—which is tantamount to identity theft. And it's usually very elderly people.”

[CrankyOldMan @NotMyProblem61]

@SenatorCollins do you regret your vote against @DAGToddBlanche yet? You should. Your reasons are laughable and weak. Why do you even call yourself a Republican? We’d get the same votes from a dumocrat.

[John Solomon @jsolomonReports]

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: This morning, the White House Government Transparency Task Force released newly declassified documents exposing an FBI criminal investigation code-named Oxferd Comma. The documents can be downloaded here. https://t.co/8l9NWPnCx0

[Gov. Kim Reynolds @IAGovernor]

Proud to lead the BEST state in the nation—not only to live, work, and raise a family, but also to retire!

✅#1 for affordability
✅NO tax on retirement income
✅$4.2B in property tax relief
✅Low crime

[RedWave Press @RedWavePress]

CNN’s Dana Bash: “I also don't want to use this interview to allow you to say things that aren't entirely true. It is also factually true that the COVID vaccine worked. The COVID vaccine prevented deaths. There is data, upon data, upon data.”

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “You think the COVID vaccine protected children?”

Dana Bash: “I have talked to scientists and doctors…”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “Can you show me one study that shows that children were protected by the COVID vaccine?”

“That that vaccine did more good than harm to children? Can you show me one study that shows that?”

Dana Bash: “There have been studies that show that, because of vaccine disinformation, there could have been 100K to 200K in the U.S. saved But because people didn't get the vaccine, that's why.

Robert F. Kennedy: “You are saying nonsense. You are saying something that you cannot show me a single study.”

Dana Bash: “Excuse me! Excuse me!”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “Cite me the study that you’re talking about. You said you’ve seen studies. Cite me the study.”

Dana Bash: *Can’t cite the study*

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “You're talking nonsense. You're making assertions you can't support, and then when I call you on them, you're telling me I'm arguing with you.”

Kennedy gave a MASTERCLASS on how to handle FAKE NEWS CNN.

[CrankyOldMan @NotMyProblem61]

@ArthurMacwaters @marklevinshow The best solution is that we need more rich people. Which system can accomplish that? Capitalism or Socialism, I think we all know the answer.

Capitalism all the way! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Peter Bernegger @PeterBernegger]

Francesca Hong was diagnosed with 1) bipolar disease, 2) had a mental breakdown, 3) was placed in psychiatric hospitalization, 4) did self-harm by cutting, and 5) experienced a lithium overdose. My source: Francesca Hong in a 2023 interview. Her own words. She is running for Governor in Wisconsin (D). @DavidCCrowley @TomTiffanyWI @joeltbrennan @VickiMcKenna @DanODonnellShow @TiffanyWarRoom @RegJoeShow @JayWeber3 @EricLDaugh @EmeraldRobinson @DanEastman2023 @doranchad @bgalsWI @MattWhitlock @amuse It's always in the eyes....

[CrankyOldMan @NotMyProblem61]

@Kuentz47 Your next step is to get everyone in your congregation to vote. Game on!

[Iowa First Media @IowaFirstMedia]

DES MOINES, Iowa – Rob Sand has a track record of trying to get his hands on Iowans’ private medical information. As State Auditor during COVID, he demanded direct access to individual COVID-19 medical records from the Department of Public Health, insisting his office needed them for an audit. The health department pushed back, pointing out that the data was already being handled through established channels, and that raw patient information didn’t need to be handed over to the auditor. Sand didn’t back down. He kept pressing for more access to sensitive health data that most people reasonably expect to stay private.

That overreach eventually triggered a response. In 2023, the legislature and Gov. Kim Reynolds passed a law specifically limiting the auditor’s ability to obtain medical records, counselor notes, and other personal information without meeting stricter requirements. The bill was widely viewed as a direct check on the kind of fishing expeditions Sand had pursued. When an elected official fights that hard to dig into private medical files, Iowans should pay attention. Sand’s history on this shows a willingness to expand government access into areas that should remain off-limits.

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[Kim Reynolds @KimReynoldsIA]

Pediatric cancer research funding, increasing taxes on nicotine products, and more strategic investments in water quality.

So you’re telling me that Rob Sand is proposing to do what Republicans did last year?

https://t.co/Jji0l8KXme

[CrankyOldMan @NotMyProblem61]

@cyclonemeatball Governor Reynolds and the Iowa congress are already trying to do this with House file 278.

Rob is late to the party again.

[CrankyOldMan @NotMyProblem61]

@BonillaJL @newsbusters Everyone on Epstein’s list is not poor. Poverty does not automatically cause crime. Nowhere on earth has poverty ever been eliminated nor crime. Socialism causes more poverty than any system ever created. Belief in God helps eliminates crime.

[CrankyOldMan @NotMyProblem61]

@glennbeck have you heard about this:
This should not happen.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

🚨I WAS TELLING THE TRUTH🚨

The Chester County, Pennsylvania, non-juror list contains 65 pages of non-citizens

that have been summoned for jury duty.

If this is happening in Chester County, it’s happening everywhere.

Pass the SAVE America Act!

[CrankyOldMan @NotMyProblem61]

Surrogacy should be outlawed. This would solve the problem. Surrogacy is human trafficking. Babies are not a commodity to self.

[Rep. Andy Ogles @RepOgles]

No woman should ever be forced to murder a child because of a provision buried in a contract.

My Preventing Forced Abortions Act ensures that federal courts cannot enforce these coercive clauses or allow intended parents to withhold promised compensation when a surrogate mother chooses life.

[CrankyOldMan @NotMyProblem61]

Only 400 this time. I thought our elections were already secure and no non-citizens were voting. Huh! 🤔

Pass the SAVE Act. @LeaderJohnThune

[Western Lensman @WesternLensman]

Here is CNN and Jake Tapper assuring Americans that non-citizen voting isn't a serious concern.

"Republicans are talking about a solution to a non-existent problem."

"This country does not have a problem of election security in any measurable level, and certainly not based on people coming from other countries."

6600 registrations and 400 non-citizen votes in NJ alone.

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

Here are TEN questions that I have for any climate alarmists reading, and I hope I can get some honest answers down in the comments:

1️⃣ You have asserted that the planet is dangerously overheating. So, what exactly is the correct globally averaged surface air temperature supposed to be and why? I want an exact value to the nearest tenth of a degree Celsius.

2️⃣ What is the correct atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) level to optimize life on Earth? Give me your answer as an exact value in mole fraction or volume percentage, then explain why in detail. A range would suffice too, but you still need to explain.

3️⃣ What makes CO₂ “air pollution”?

The pre-Trump 2.0 EPA considered CO₂ as an air pollutant under the legal framework of the Clean Air Act, and their justification was that it “contributes to greenhouse gas pollution that threatens public health and welfare.”

But that seems pretty ambiguous if you ask me.

By that arbitrary standard, water vapor (H₂O) should also be classified as harmful “air pollution” because it also is a GHG and is a byproduct of combustion. But we don't classify it as pollution because, well, H₂O is necessary for life on Earth. But so is CO₂. Without it, we would all die.

4️⃣ Why are global average temperatures measured in reference to the 1850–1900 baseline? While many of our modern instrumental weather records begin within that timeframe, we know that climate conditions pre-1900 were much harsher than they are today as we were coming out of the Little Ice Age. Winters were harsher. Summers could be harsher. Droughts, floods, and famine were just as, if not more common relative to today. So, why should the end of the Little Ice Age be seen as the ideal baseline for human welfare?

5️⃣ The estimated cost of net zero in the U.S. by the year 2050 is ~$6 trillion (though estimates I have seen widely vary). And with ~165 million taxpayers in the nation, using that $6T figure, it would cost each of us a little more than $36,000 to achieve. That's a lot of money per individual. How many of you activists are willing to shell out that kind of money just to see what happens?

6️⃣ If we spent that $6T to decarbonize the economy by 2050, by how much will such measures reduce the global mean surface temperature by the year 2100? Please provide your answer to the nearest tenth of a degree Celsius and show your math (I actually know the answer to this theoretically, but I want to see you do the math).

7️⃣ What does the perfect climate look like? Just how much extreme weather should there be? How many floods? Tornadoes? Category two hurricane landfalls in Florida? What should temperatures be? How many droughts should occur per century in Cambodia? How will we get there and how do we know when / if we get there? By what scientific measure will we know?

8️⃣ If “combating climate change” is really a global concerted effort, then why do you always give China and India a free pass to continue emitting without bound? Why are they never criticized? And don't tell me it's because they are “the world's factory.” The U.S. is the second largest industrial manufacturer in the world. Don't give me the “per capita emissions” BS either; the atmosphere does not care about that. So, why is it that the U.S. is always dunked on?

9️⃣ Why do most of (not all) you vehemently oppose nuclear power? It's the best alternative to coal and natural gas, and statistically it is the cleanest and one of the safest forms of “carbon-free” energy.

🔟 Lastly, if you truly believe climate change is an urgent problem, why do you continue to use social media? After all, it has a large carbon footprint because it is powered by those data centers you hate. Also, why do demonize fossil fuels, but use them to keep the lights on in your home or apartment? Why use running water and indoor plumbing, which often require fossil fuels? Why not give up modern luxuries and live off grid to lead by example? I really want to know why you are still here.

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

Here's an experiment for liberals to try...

Head to Mexico, or really any country of your choosing

Sneak in then demand a free phone, free food, free housing, free healthcare and education

THEN burn their flag in the street while jumping up and down on a car

And when you get out of prison come back and let us all know how it went