Has the Democrat Party become a cult?
They had Trump. They had RFK. They had Tulsi. They had Elon. They ran them all out.
Tim Pool gives a great response here.
@AdoraExcelsior@walterkirn While I'm sure that holds for Low Earth and pehaps Medium Earth Orbits, 22,000 miles+ is going to take more than a dinner plate to show up on observatory slides. When was the last time that u caught your DISH or DirectTV satellite, flashing?
It's a bit different when u have scientific tools examining the upper atmosphere and near-Earth space for which they were designed. As long as scientists are making the assessments and publishing their findings - you are welcome to engage in peer-review - but word-battling a mere spectator, with no dog in this fight seems to me, unproductive
@walterkirn If the objects were in geosynchronous orbits (22-23k miles up), they would have to be very large or very luminous to be seen in the photos... I doubt if anything man-made would even be visible, except MAYBE the ISS, at that distance
Good morning, "journalists" everywhere, especially Sunday network talk show hosts. Here are a few thoughts on how to actually question the conga line of Democrat Party propagandists you book on your programs -- obvious questions no Democrats are ever asked.
Please specifically spell out your affordability agenda.
You raised gasoline prices when Biden was president. How will you lower them when you raised them last time?
You raised food prices when Biden was president. How will you lower them when you raised them last time?
You raised inflation when Biden was president. How will you lower it when you raised it last time?
You raised the cost of living for average Americans. How will you lower it when you raised it last time?
You raised health care costs when Obama was president with Obamacare? How will you lower it when you raised it under Obama?
And if they try to hide behind the Iran war, then the next obvious question: Democrat presidents have warned that Iran would soon have a nuclear weapon. Are you saying you'd have done nothing to stop them?
Well, the Democrats say, it wasn't imminent. It was a war of choice. But, you reply, the president determined it was imminent based on the advice he received from many experts, including his envoy, Steve Witkoff. Was he supposed to wait to find out? How long should he have waited? Is that what you would've done if your envoy told you the Iranian regime would have 11 nuclear weapons in 10 days?
And then, close the predictable sidestepping down: But all these prices - food, gasoline, health care, and more - went up when Biden was president and the Democrats controlled the government, and that's before the Iran war. How do you explain this and how do you intend to make daily expenses more affordable?
You also intend to reverse President Trump's tax cuts for Social Security recipients, overtime, and tips for working Americans, thereby raising their taxes. And protecting 20 million illegal aliens the Democrats let into our country through open borders. How does that improve affordability and, for that matter, increase job prospects for American citizens?
Oh, there's so much more. All of which will continue to be ignored as the media are completely in the tank for the Democrats.
@KurtSchlichter Rush said it best (paraphrasing): We are not here to get along with liberals, we need to DEFEAT them!
Of course the liberals of his day have been replaced with DSA, actual Communists, and those left in the Democrat party too nostalgic to recognize what it has become
VP JD Vance pulls 750,000 from OBAMACARE saving $2.2 BILLION in taxpayer dollars with one Obamacare fraud ring having 40 brokerage agents funneling over 50,000 people into the program, who literally turned out to not even exist, to reward billions in taxpayer dollars to the brokers themselves.
Obamacare has been rewarding insurance companies for years, while dirty politicians received kickbacks for themselves, robbing BILLIONS of American taxpayer dollars.
This is exactly why they are going after President Trump and his administration. They're exposing these money laundering, trafficking, and election fraud operations, and shutting them all down, crippling their cash flow.
Our country never had a debt problem, it was a MASSIVE fraud problem, and now it's time to shut them down.
@9b56a5b4dee744c@DefiyantlyFree ...I never thought I'd say this, "Better Red than Dead"?
Any chance Republicans can get the Red color back - the Dems were only using it for camoflage, now that the mask is off (DSA, etc.) they don't need it anymore
@BrandonFugal@cboyack The 1st step toward restoring it is public engagement, 2nd pass election integrity measures (like the SAVE Act), & 3rd is participation in the process
It can be restored but only by 'We the People' not by relying on someone else
Trump Bans the Fake News. So Obama Thunders Down from Olympus
The White House Press corps and the liberal media have gone ballistic over President Trump’s recent banning of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House press room.
Apparently Trump had finally had it with their decade-long trail of “fake news” (e.g., CNN on the Steele dossier: the intelligence community had “corroborated all the details.”; MS(NBC): “All the supporting details in Steele's reports are checking out, even the really outrageous ones.”; and Politico (“Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say.”).
Or maybe it was Trump’s weariness that CNN and MS never learned from their serial untruth.
The former for years put on their news shows the admitted liar (“least most untruthful”) James Clapper; The latter likewise hired the twice-admitted-liar John Brennan (on his demonstrable spying on Senate computers, Brennan thundered under oath: “Nothing could be further from the truth. We wouldn't do that.”)
So after witnessing the fake news’s spreading lies about the “walls are closing in on Trump” Mueller Investigation, ginning up the “mostly peaceful” 2020 riots, running with the Jussie Smollett farce, demonizing the Covington Kids, iconizing the assailant Trayvon Martin, and promulgating the “Hands up, Don’t Shoot” Ferguson fable, and on and on—I suppose Trump finally had enough.
In reaction and as expected, a sanctimonious Barack Obama now has jetted out from one of his three mansions and into the expulsion controversy.
And also as his wont, Obama almost immediately on spec opened himself up to the usual charges of rank hypocrisy and empty, performance-art virtue-signaling.
So Obama thundered, “I’m trying to think what would have happened if I had said, ‘You know what, Fox News? You’re out of here.’ It’s unimaginable.”
Actually, it’s not “unimaginable”, if Obama would just look into the mirror.
So wait a minute.
In 2009 the Obama Treasury Department tried to ban a Fox reporter from a press pool interview.
Earlier during the 2008 campaign, Obama kicked out New York Post and Washington Times reporters from his campaign plane.
But Obama was most notorious not for just excluding politically incorrect reporters but for surveilling and spying on them.
Even liberal watchdog foundations blasted Obama in 2012-13 for grabbing the private records of some twenty phone lines used at home and on the job by Associated Press reporters.
Most notoriously, it was finally revealed in 2013 that Obama’s State Department secretly had bird-dogged Fox Reporter James Rosen relentlessly— tracking his movements, obtaining a search warrant to examined two days’ worth of his private emails, and getting access to his private phone records.
If Obama is still “trying to think what would have happened” when he surveilled and spied on a Fox reporter relentlessly, he can stop—since nothing as usual happened to the always exempt Obama.
And Obama did not just at times eject reporters and surveille them.
He also threatened to prosecute eight reporters and their sources (more than any administration before or since, including Richard Nixon’s). But he backed down when the AP and Rosen scandals surfaced and cooled down his Inspector Javert alter ego.
The hammer/stiletto difference between a loud Trump and a smooth Obama?
Trump blows up publicly, rails, and earns furor from “shocked”, sober and judicious journalists” who covet their White House billets—while he also earns the damnation of the liberal legacy media for his antics.
But far more egregiously Obama used the powers of the administrative state, secretly and quietly, to surveille, follow, and spy on reporters and their sources, while threatening to prosecute and jail others—and he disguised his vindictiveness by his lofty tone and polished demeanor.
As he anticipated, Obama’s victims and the media itself largely kept still, afraid to concede that their messianic “constitutional lawyer” possessed an Orwellian mean streak and was a far greater danger to the First Amendment.
Or as the Left taught us, the fundamental threat to our Constitution is when “democracy dies in darkness.”
Postscript:
Obama also could not resist his “clingers” like demonization of Trump supporters, in the fashion of Hillary’s “deplorables” and “irredeemables”, and Biden’s “garbage”, “chumps”, “semi-fascists”, and “dregs”.
So he also blasted not just Trump for the expulsions, but returned to his accustomed stereotype putdown of Neanderthal-like Trump supporters who are supposedly under-developed (e.g., “what that means is that we’ve have not developed the kind of understanding of what democracy requires”):
“If you have a certain cohort, let's call it 30 to 35 percent of the country right now, which thinks that's okay, well, what that means is we have not developed the kind of understanding of what democracy requires, and we've got to shore that back up.”
I wonder how Obama would do that shoring up of a third of America? Surveilling, tracking, and spying on them?
Note finally, that even Hillary’s deplorables were only half of Trump’s half of the nation, “You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables”) whereas Obama writes off a third of the entire country!