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Tuesday, January 21. 2025

Consumers Unaware Allstate Is Tracking Their Driving Behaviors

Brief exercise sessions linked to small but consistent boosts in brain performance

Trump II: initial observations of a new reality

Trump promises a 'revolution of common sense.'

Trump’s Day One Executive Order on ‘Male and Female’

The Great Man Returns

Peter Savodnik via Free Press:

Trump’s critics, “the so-called progressive elites, are howling at the
idea that this chump, who is so very unserious, is The One who will
restore our seriousness. They miss the point. Only the brawling,
bumbling ringleader of the great circus that is today’s Republican Party
could break open our sclerotic overclass and lay it bare for the whole
republic to see not simply its emptiness but its rot.”

Schlichter:

Biden is not just leaving the White House in disgrace but he left his
party in tatters. Who’s on the Democrat bench now? Kamala Harris? Yeah,
no. How about Gavin Newsom? That nitwit has completely screwed up the
disaster in Los Angeles. Who’s left for the Democrats? Is Pete “What, me
worry?” Buttigieg going to save the day? But it’s not fair to blame
Biden for the total disaster that is his own party. His own party has
done a pretty good job of screwing up on its own. They are disorganized.
They are confused. They are totally trapped within the paradigm of
their bizarre commie constituents, forced to sell a product no one wants
to buy.

How DOJ prosecutors turned January 6 rioters into martyrs

European Legacy Media Whips Itself Up Over Trump’s Inauguration Day

Boris Johnson: Feet away from Trump, I witnessed the moment the world's wokerati had
worked so hard to prevent - and a speech that left his opponents chewing
the carpet

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Schlicter dixit:

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But it’s not fair to blame Biden for the total disaster that is his own party. His own party has done a pretty good job of screwing up on its own. They are disorganized. They are confused. They are totally trapped within the paradigm of their bizarre commie constituents, forced to sell a product no one wants to buy.

Unfortunately, Schlicter's rhetoric ignores the fact that 48.3% bought the Demo presidential product, whether they wanted to or not.

In my and in many other's opinions, Kamala Harris was the worst major party presidential candidate in this century--maybe the worst major party presidential candidate evah. Yet nearly half the electorate voted for her.

Notwithstanding the disarray of the Demos, we are not out of the woods yet. Not by a long shot.

#1 Gringo on 2025-01-21 14:39 (Reply)

"48.3% bought the Demo presidential product"

This is a classic example of human nature. Most people are fairly ignorant in the real sense of the word. They hear public figures who they like or generally agree with say something negative about a person or group and they automatically agree with that too. It can be political parties, climate change, sexual deviants, food, religion, gender issues, flat worlders, whatever. Now they are programmed to always agree with one group and always disagree with the other group. You can lead the to knowledge but you cannot make them drink. Some 30%-40% of Democrats are always going to vote Democrat even if Hitler reincarnated were to run as a Democrat because they have been programmed to hate Republicans. To call them useful idiots insults useful idiots. Three years ago I was talking to a retired auto worker, union member, lifelong Democrat who was bemoaning the crap Biden was doing and how it hurt the country and the citizens. He even admitted a fondness to Trumps policies. But when asked would he vote for Trump if he ran again he simply said that he had always been a Democrat and a good union man and could never vote for a Republican. And there it is...

#1.1 OneGuy on 2025-01-21 16:25 (Reply)

Thanks for the link to The Great Man Returns, we have a lot of work to do turning things around but I and others haven't felt so hopeful in a long time.

#2 grant1863 on 2025-01-21 14:50 (Reply)

Sweden did a study of all of their "refugees" who sought political asylum from their country of origin out of fear for their life. And they found that after these refugees were settled in Sweden living off the Swedish taxpayer that they took vacations back in the country that they were terrified of. Just my humble opinion but I think that these people lied on their application for asylum and should be deported.

I think the U.S. needs to do a study like this. I think a lot of asylum seekers are lying on their applications to come into our country.

#3 Anon on 2025-01-21 16:45 (Reply)

Ciro Bustos was an Argentine lefty who became a Swedish refugee. He had done the guerrilla thing in Argentina and in Bolivia--where he worked w Che. Interesting that from thousands of miles away, he picked up the Democrat narrative about Republican Presidents.

QUOTE:

He said: ‘Let’s find a place over there in the shade.’ We walked towards the stream and found a clearing to sit in, like a picnic lunch. Tiny midges were standing in for the mosquitoes. They are perhaps even worse, although mosquitoes seem to be like the Republican presidents of the United States, the last one is always the worst. Without more ado, he asked me, already in work mode: ‘I want you to tell me what Tania told you when she met you in Córdoba.’ ‘That you wanted to see me’, I replied. ‘No, no. I want you to tell me how she said it to you. In her own words.’ ‘Ah, well. She said: ‘Che wants to see you.’
From Che Wants to See You, his memoir

One thing that stood out from his memoir is that in spite of spending four decades in Sweden, he interacted very little with Swedes, confining his socializing to fellow Latin Americans.

Cuban refugee Reinaldo Arenas, in his memoir Before Night Falls, wrote of an interesting encounter he had with Chilean refugees in Sweden in the 1980s.

QUOTE:

At the University of Stockholm I gave a lecture in which all I wanted to do was read excerpts from the Cuban newspaper Granma; it was an irrefutable way of demonstrating what was happening in Cuba. Most of the audience was made up of Chileans exiled by the Pinochet dictatorship; they heckled me constantly and almost did not let me speak. They were on their feet insulting me, telling me that everything I was saying was absolutely false. At some point I read several of the laws that the Cuban government itself had published in Cuba. I also read reports from other Cuban newspapers, but there was no way to convince them. They were living very well in Sweden, taking their vacation trips to Chile every year, and then returning to their comfortable apartments in Sweden, where they even had social security benefits. I was wrapped in a big, ill-fitting coat purchased in New York for eighty dollars. But I enjoyed seeing Stockholm, and especially the Swedish king’s Royal Guard, a great-looking group of adolescents.

(Arenas died of AIDS circa 1993.)

Note that those Chilean refugees from Pinochet took vacation trips back to Chile when Pinochet was in power. Refugees?

#3.1 Gringo on 2025-01-21 17:50 (Reply)

Something incredible has happened. The entire Gulf coast got sub freezing temperatures and snow. Parts of Florida got 7 inches while parts of Luisanna got 11 inches of snow. Does this mean Global Warming is officially over?

#4 LA Dave on 2025-01-21 17:37 (Reply)

It's 24 degrees outside in the Fl panhandle and still snowing, albeit lightly. It'll be characterized as extreme weather and the nonsense will continue.

#4.1 Mark on 2025-01-21 19:06 (Reply)

No really guys, extreme cold and snow at the equator is predicted by the global warming models. Many scientists agree that global warming is responsible for extreme cold weather (see Ima Bullshitter et all. 2024 Sci Am). And Trump is a Nazi dictator too!

#4.2 Zachriel's Daddy on 2025-01-21 19:32 (Reply)

LA Dave: Does this mean Global Warming is officially over?

Not at all. Last year was the warmest global temperature anomaly on record. Currently, despite the frigid temperatures in much of the United States, most of the globe is still anomalously warm.

What has happened is that the polar vortex has weakened, allowing Arctic air to move over North America. But that also means that much of the Arctic is anomalously warm. In particular, the Arctic Ocean north of Alaska, Greenland, and especially Siberia are anomalously warm, as warmer air replaces the cold air that has moved over North America.

#4.3 Zachriel on 2025-01-21 20:40 (Reply)

Climate Reanalyzer (shows current data, which can change)

#4.4 Zachriel on 2025-01-21 20:52 (Reply)

Re: Allstate. The only way not to be tracked in your every movement is to drive a pre-2000 or so vehicle and toss your cell phone/GPS into the Gulf of America or another salty body of water.

#5 Mark on 2025-01-21 19:15 (Reply)

Just get an RFID pouch and put your phone into it while driving. Or, turn your dang phone off !

State Farm offers deals on insurance if you install their app on your phone same thing but out in the open. They insist it can only HELP lower your costs, there are no penalties.

I say, internally: There are no penalties, 'Yet'

#5.1 Aggie on 2025-01-21 21:03 (Reply)

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