ITEM 1: Yahoo reported, "Don't touch foreigners to reduce monkeypox risk, says senior Chinese health official."
And by don't touch, he meant don't have anal sex with.
ITEM 2: Open Secrets reported, "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis breaks gubernatorial fundraising record."
He raised $177.4 million. The previous record was set by Meg Whitman but $144 million of the money she raised was from her checking account.
ITEM 3: 1945 reported, "Ron DeSantis’ Immigration Moves Not Limited to Martha’s Vineyard: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been trying to establish himself as a conservative leader on a number of issues. The latest is immigration."
Abbott in Texas started this but it was the Battle of Martha's Vineyard that changed the game. Liberals are on the run as DeSantis exposed them as hypocrites.
ITEM 4: Biden was on 60 Minutes last night. I wonder how many re-takes he got. Semi-literate Scott Pelley got the interview.
Forget surrendering Afghanistan, turning the FBI into his personal Gestapo, and having Hunter collect his bribes. Pelley asked the one question that is on everyone's mind: "Sir, are you committed to running again, or are there certain conditions that have to be right?"
And by everyone, I mean the White House staff and its media lapdogs.
ITEM 5: Salena Zito wrote, "It is not lost on average voters, for Biden or for Trump, that this administration is wildly out of touch with the crippling effects that inflation is having on their lives. Eggs are 40% more expensive than a year ago, coffee 18%, groceries generally 11%. You don’t have to be a Republican to be unhappy with that.
"Biden's tone-deafness continued the following day, which was spent in Michigan, lecturing people whose median income is $36,842 that they ought to buy an electric car to save money. In much of the Detroit area, the $62,900 Cadillac Lyriq EV that Biden drove as a stunt at his publicity event costs more than a three-bedroom, two-bath home with a detached garage."
He resides in that bubble with most of the media.
ITEM 6: The Epoch Times reported, "The massive wave of retail thefts in the United States over the past two years have become a major challenge for both the retail industry and law enforcement.
"Weakened law enforcement policies and lesser penalties for these criminal bandit gangs have hit a critical juncture, as crime in the United States has hit proportions not seen in three decades.
"The number of increasingly professional organized retail crime rings and their frequent attacks have reached crisis scale, according to the National Retail Federation in a September 14 report.
"These crimes have hurt thousands of businesses and have contributed to higher prices for consumers and loss of key retailers in many communities, as countless stores have closed to due to lack of security."
Their customers did this. Rich elitists provide the money and political support to soft-on-crime mayors and DAs.
And who do you think is paying $100 to these criminals for a $4,500 Louis Vuitton purse?
ITEM 7: The New York Post reported, "The New York Times is on a ‘jihad’ against the UK and Queen Elizabeth."
NYT's last three publishers were the oldest male heir of the family dynasty. But please, go ahead and lecture the British on the evil of hereditary titles.
ITEM 8: Libs spin.
Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas sent this Venezuelan migrant on a bus to DC. He's now earning $600-$700 a week, saving money and planning his new life.
— Sheryl Gay Stolberg (@SherylNYT) September 19, 2022
“There is so much opportunity here,” he told @nytimes @mirjordan. “You just have to take advantage of it.” https://t.co/IPjpsUVxax
Maybe someday he will be able to afford a vacation to Martha's Vineyard without being escorted off the island by armed National Guardsmen.
But doesn't this undercut the whole liberal NIMBY argument?
ITEM 9: Zero Hedge reported, "How much are consumers willing to pay for a cup of coffee?
"That's a great question, considering the world's top arabica producer, Brazil, is headed for record low inventory, highlights tighter global supplies plus robust demand should continue boosting prices.
"Bloomberg quoted Silas Brasileiro, president of the National Coffee Council, who said inventories in the South American country could decline to just 7 million bags (each weighing 60 kilograms) by the end of 1Q23. Brazil usually has 9-12 million bags in inventory."
I may have to switch from coffee to (ugh) water.
ITEM 10: Just the News reported, "Former President Donald Trump leveled a blistering attack Saturday night against the man who succeeded him in the White House, telling a rally in Ohio that Joe Biden's Justice Department was waging unprecedented 'political repression' against MAGA supporters while his inflationary economic policies were 'incinerating trillions of dollars of middle-class wealth.'"
Trump told a rally in Youngstown, "Our country is being ripped apart, and the American dream is being torn to shreds."
Democrats believe they must destroy America in order to save it.
For themselves.
ITEM 11: Gloria Romero wrote in the Daily Mail, "More than two million undocumented immigrants will be arrested trying to cross into the U.S. in 2022.
"And Democrats don't bat an eye.
"But fly 50 migrants to one of the wealthiest places in America, spotted with multi-million dollar mansions, surrounded by the mega-yachts of the rich and famous and Democrats lose their minds?
"What a joke!
"I am a Democrat and the former Majority Leader of the California State Senate. The first woman to ever hold that position. I am also a proud Latina.
"I am telling you that if the Democratic party thinks that Latinos are outraged by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sending migrants to Martha's Vineyard – they are dead wrong!
"On Friday, the governor of Massachusetts dispatched the National Guard to whisk away these 50 migrants to a military base in Cape Cod that once housed hurricane disaster victims.
"But what about the hundreds of migrants sleeping on the street of El Paso, Texas? Or the countless other migrants, sleeping outside in cities and towns across the U.S./Mexico border?"
A Republican governor and a Republican legislature are taking care of them, that's what is happening. Democrats talk. Republicans do.
ITEM 12: Instapundit reported, "Google mistakenly deposits $249,999 into security expert’s account."
Sounds legit.
As legitimate as an FBI investigation.
ITEM 13: The New York Post reported, "‘Dead or alive’: Miami Beach considers paying bounty for iguanas."
Don't kill them.
Fly them to Martha's Vineyard. That's now my solution to every problem in the world.
ITEM 14: Reuters reported, "Biden said U.S forces would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion, his most explicit statement so far on the issue, something sure to anger Beijing."
In 3, 2, 1...
The New York Post reported, "Biden says US troops would defend Taiwan; White House backtracks remarks."
President Dumbass strikes again.
ITEM 15: KOMO reported, "'Our streets are unsafe:' Seattle mayor says after rideshare driver shot and killed."
This is the Democrat plan. Allow criminals to terrorize city dwellers. Fear is power.
And they will get away with it because Republicans no longer exist in urban America.
FINALLY, every now and then an old post gets a flurry of clicks. I never know why there is a sudden surge in interest to a post from 6 years ago.
This weekend it was a March 17, 2016 post. Maybe it was Ivanka's picture that triggered this.
The Trump reform
He is not wasting tens of millions on the political consultant class. And they are angry as hell. His campaign is not run by focus groups. He is not wasting donor money on polls or ads.
(No offense but I am tired of looking at The Donald.)
The New York Times reported before the results were in last night:
As hapless as the news media and the Washington establishment have at times appeared as they flail about in the political tempest wrought by Donald Trump, there is another group in the 2016 election cycle that has come off looking at least as bewildered: the campaign gurus of Trump’s Republican opponents.
Since Watergate, each new president has been ushered in by his own personal Rasputin. Jimmy Carter had Hamilton Jordan, whose 80-page memorandum laid out the electoral pathway for the obscure Georgia governor. Ronald Reagan had Michael Deaver, whose acute understanding of campaign atmospherics would cause Reagan to be viewed as the father of the photo-op. George Bush had his alley-fighting operative, Lee Atwater; Bill Clinton had James Carville, the jut-jawed Cajun campaign veteran; George W. Bush had the ingenious and sharp-elbowed adviser, Karl Rove; Barack Obama had his digitally savvy campaign manager, David Plouffe. The Beltway has come to expect such savants and to confer on them a princely status.
Trump has laid to waste this tradition. If, as expected, he prevails in most of the primary elections tonight, the billionaire developer will most likely be the Republican Party’s nominee — and will have shredded a number of strategic master plans drawn up by his opponents’ well-paid advisers. And Trump will have accomplished this feat with a skeleton crew of largely unknown hired hands whose stated operating principle is “Let Trump Be Trump.” (His campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, last worked with Americans For Prosperity, the advocacy group backed by the billionaire Koch brothers, and before that, the losing 2002 re-election race of Senator Bob Smith of New Hampshire. His 26-year-old spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, had never worked on a political campaign.)
The Washington Wunderkinds have complained for decades about big money buying elections.
Trump spent one-tenth what Jeb spent. And won. Trump is the reformer.
7 - I could care less about the royal family, but they are relatively harmless, unlike the NYT, which is helping to destroy this country by their fake news reporting and liberal bias.
ReplyDeleteAgree. Royal Family causing far less trouble at this point than the New York Times, which I haven't bothered reading since at least 2012.
Delete8 - they can afford gardeners in the DC area. Same as in Martha’s Vineyard. Not so much in south Texas.
ReplyDeleteBingo.
Delete10 - Brazil’s Juan Valdez must have migrated away.
ReplyDeleteJuan Valdez was selling Columbian Coffee. A Brazilian told us (there on a business trip) Columbus buys coffee from Brazil and re names it. Italy used up it's high quality marble years ago. Now they buy Brazilian marble and re labels a product of Italy
DeleteRandy says: A coffee snob — er, I mean, expert — could tell the difference between Brazilian coffee and Colombian coffee. But most regular people cannot tell the difference between Folgers and Maxwell House.
DeleteI believe Juan is/was Columbian
DeleteI remember the commercials. I think Juan is from Colombia.
DeleteEN2 SS says;
DeleteHey, Randy, I know the difference between any coffee and the swill at Stupidbucks, I can live with that.
Juan named his donkey Ruth after my mother.
DeleteRandy says: EN2SS, I call that coffee shop “Charbucks” because they over-roast their beans almost to cinders.
DeleteI meant to write “Brazil’s version of Juan Valdez”.
DeleteI also remember the El Exegente Colombian Codfee commercials.
Little known fact, Juan Valdez has a twin brother named Amal.
DeleteSo if you've seen Juan, you've seen Amal
Randy says: Item 6: “Weakened law enforcement policies and lesser penalties for these criminal bandit gangs have hit a critical juncture,” When you can’t count on law enforcement, it’s time for the “25-cent solution.” Dead bandits don’t re-bandit.
ReplyDeletedue to inflationary pressure (there isn't much, though) that 25-cents is now 38.7-cents, and climbing.
DeleteTrue, but the important part is the solution.
Delete14 - if only it was just his ass that was dumb. Two years and four months more of this dementia riddled fossil.
ReplyDeleteI notice that Brandon didn't say if he would run again. Even if he does, he'll likely try to cheat his way to victory again.
DeleteMaybe. My old Deacon just was admitted to a care facility. At near 90 he's way more functional than FJB. I personally don't think Joe is lucky to make Nov. '22. You can't keep pumping chemicals into him.
DeleteHopefully!!!
DeleteHis ass would be a whole heck of a lot smarter if his head wasn't up it.
DeleteRandy says: Item 9: “How much are consumers willing to pay for a cup of coffee?” $3.00. But tell me you’re a friend of Don Surber and get a buck off. I’m currently serving at the Baker County Fair in Macclenny, Fla.
ReplyDeleteRandy adds: It’s a secret recipe that I hand-blend, containing neither Brazilian nor Colombian beans.
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DeleteSounds tasty, Randy. I am not at the fair, but I know you'd give me a buck off if I were there and said I was a friend of Don Surber! I can tell you that a cappuccino runs between $3.60 to $5.25 Cdn, depending where you go. I am a huge fan of Italian coffee.
Kona?
DeleteRandy says: My cappuccino or café latte is $4.00 for regular and $5.25 for large. I import my espresso from Italy. Kimbo Napoli. I’ve tried sourcing espresso locally, but most of the espresso in Florida is Cuban- or Puerto Rican-style. Subtle difference, but I lived in Italy for a while and can taste the difference.
DeleteRandy says: No, not Kona. Most of Kona is a GMO, because 1) it’s Hawaiian, and 2) mega agribusinesses grow it there. Insider tip: Most coffee grown in third-world countries is de facto organic, even though it’s not certified as such. Small family farms don’t buy genetically modified coffee plants and don’t use chemical fertilizers, but they don’t have the money to pay a government certification agency to say so.
DeleteGood luck at the fair.
DeleteLuann—Used to spend more time in Canada before the scamdemic. Visited several Tim Horton’s. Nice and smooth but what’s up with the automatic splash of cream? Can’t return until clot shot mandate or Herr Trudeau are removed.
DeleteFirst they want to control our right to self-defense, than let the criminals wreak havoc. They want us scared and helpless.
ReplyDeletePraise God and pass the ammunition!
Item 13: "‘Dead or alive’: Miami Beach considers paying bounty for iguanas." Don't kill them.
ReplyDeleteFly them to Martha's Vineyard. That's now my solution to every problem in the world.
I'd love to see the reaction of the "Vineyarders" to what I see everyday in my backyard...3 or 4 iguanas at various times of the day sunning themselves in my South Florida backyard. Those elite pansies would be having epic meltdowns that I would pay to watch.
If it was summer, the folks on Martha's Vineyard would call the state fish and wildlife services to remove them, but not before they set up a zoo exhibit and made money off of them.
DeleteRandy says: Iguana is a delicacy in Belize. They don’t overrun the country because the Belizians catch them and eat them. And yes, I’ve eaten iguana, cooked and served by the natives.
DeleteI could not even think about eating that, but good for you.
DeleteRandy says: My wife and I were missionaries there in the 80s. When villagers host the “preachers” with a home-cooked meal, we eat what they serve. Not something I’d order in a restaurant.
DeleteVery gracious of you both.
Delete#8. Re: flights to deliver illegals. Why fly those jets back empty?
ReplyDeleteI would like to propose that for every illegal that FJB flies into the country that the return flight brings back the same number of our native Florida alligators for a new and prosperous life in the Rio Grande river. That would give them ample opportunity with new and fertile grounds from which to dine well.
I believe the Everglades also has an abundance of illegal Anacondas that need to move to greener pastures as well.
EBA says: Agree.Fill the Rio Grande with Florida gators (I’ve wondered why it hasn’t already been done by locals) and invasive anacondas (never thought of that but great idea), and we wouldn’t even need a wall.
DeleteI'd say for every illegal Brandon flies in, they should fly a liberal out on the return flight.
Delete9. You can make your water more enjoyable by adding a good whiskey for flavor. For best results, just replace all the water with more whiskey.
ReplyDeleteFinally: Christina Hendricks and now Ivanka? You're getting more Rule 5 every day, Don.
I'll drink to that.
-lg
And some of us are still bound for that special hell.
DeleteMaybe Shepard, but it's a good bible.
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Items 2 & 3 - There’s something happening here! It’s something that terrifies the left. Ron DeSantis is becoming a national figure and his momentum is building.
ReplyDeleteWhile the Dems hate Trump, they fear DeSantis and with good reason. He’s far smarter than leading Dems and articulates his positions flawlessly. He excels at exposing Dem hypocrisy in a way that provides great clarity without being offensive. He’s the real deal.
When you look at the list of donors it resembles a Jeb! please clap list. Lots of big bucks backers. This man is no Trump.
DeleteITEM 9: I may have to switch from coffee to (ugh) water.
ReplyDeleteBefore you do, try chicory coffee:
But don’t think of chicory coffee as a poor man’s brew. There are some parts of the world where chicory coffee is the beverage of choice. For example, in Louisiana, chicory coffee is consumed in preference to 100% Arabica coffee.
https://www.roastycoffee.com/chicory-coffee/
I used to work for U.P.S and delivered to a power plant construction site. One of the subcontractors was from the south and they got a weekly shipment of chicory.
DeleteStraight8, Special Agent Gibbs on NCIS drink chicory.
DeleteFINALLY: (No offense but I am tired of looking at The Donald.)
ReplyDeleteWell, I'm not!
Me neither. I enjoy checking out the Donald's hair.
DeleteItem 8 - Great motivation. But is he paying taxes on any of it?
ReplyDelete#2 -- Let DeSantis finish up in Florida and then go national.
ReplyDelete#5 -- Yes, elites live in a bubble, including media. Please let it burst for the midterms.
ReplyDelete#15 -- It's an opportunity for the Republicans to start to take back America's cities. What have they got to lose?
ReplyDeleteSorry, LuAnn, but the idiots in those urban hell holes will continue to vote Dem for as long as they live. My dad, a staunch Dem all his life, would be rolling in his grave at what they are doing to our country.
DeleteWell then the voters deserve to get it gooder and harder since they know what they want. Heh.
DeleteEN2 SS says;
ReplyDeleteNot defending Abbott, but De Santis didn't change the game, he upped the Anty with Marthas Bitchyard. Don't you remember the DC cun...uh, mayor wanting the national guard to save her hellhole? Or the midget from Chicongo screaming from her toilet step? Or all the run of the mill demoncrat morons with their BS? Has anyone started a fund to pitch in and help the states/mayors/govenors to pay for MORE buses/planes/ziplines/etc. to send hundreds of thousands, if not millions, to the demoncrat hellholes? I'd contribute what I can.
Whirled Peas says,
DeleteHere's a thought: why not send them all back to Honduras, or Guatemala, or Venezuela? The main effect of illegal aliens is to decrease wages, and bring in drugs and crime.
EN2 SS says;
DeleteNot to be argumentative (much), but here's a thought: with literally millions of wetbacks coming in, no state or combination of governors & mayors can afford to send them back. Sending the few hundred back would be a collossal waste of time & money. But, sending a few hundred to demoncrat hellholes gets the point across to the average reasonably thinking American. And I know, there seems to be fewer reasonably thinking people around every day.
re: FINALLY -- This just tells me that you are fond of cleavage.
ReplyDeleteIf men weren't fond of cleavage, the silicone industry would be out of business.
DeleteAgree, but they were fond of it before that.
DeleteI am old fashioned. I am fond of natural cleavage.
DeleteDonald John Trump is still our president.
ReplyDelete7: They prefer Communist Russia.
9: There's always ginger ale.
13: Ya gotta love it, right?
FINALLY: Bazoobs.
Biden said U.S forces would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion,"
ReplyDeleteChina has allies.
Countries which account for over half of the world’s population are no longer going to defer to the United States. They include Russia, China, India, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan
Russia and China put the west on notice that Iran is no longer going to be treated as a pariah state. Iran will do business under the rubric of a new financial order being organized by Russia, China, India and Brazil.
Is Kevin of the good hair still sleeping with Mr Luntz?
ReplyDeleteItem #8 My teenage grandson joined the United States Air Force at $21,420/yr but hopes for promotion and $24,008.40/year before taxes. Like Lever Alejos ($31,200 to $36,400/yr tax-free), my grandson has government supplied housing and medical and dental care. Grandson has a meal plan amount deducted (no food stamps) and eats at a Dining Facility (DEFAC) on par with his high school cafeteria. (He took his own lunch to school.) He has to buy his uniforms. He has to buy his cellphone and plan. And he will not drive without auto insurance- which illegals do not need.And he can be punished for not wearing his uniform correctly under UCMJ while Lever gets no-bail out of jail free for all but a few real crimes.
ReplyDeleteIf grandson and girlfriend stick it out and marry, they can look forward to an inadequate housing stipend forcing her to work- they will qualify for food stamps and other welfare anyway. Then again, grandson may be sent for a year unaccompanied to Japan or Korea or elsewhere, or maybe longer.Lever will vacation several times in Venezuela each year. And my grandson is training for an important hazardous duty job for his career. Lever will skedaddle back across the border if problems in USA. FJB, FJB, FJB
Your grandson is a man. May God bless him.
DeleteYes, what a fine young man. Blessings on him.
Deletere: Item 8
ReplyDeleteIt's clearly deflection. The piece is from the New York Times encouraging illegal aliens to go to Washington, DC. I wonder if Eric Adams paid for that piece.
The "migrants" have left Martha's Vinyard, but are being housed at an EPA Superfund site (Otis Air National Guard Base):
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/cunninghamjeff/status/1571264428800380928
https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/SiteProfiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=second.Cleanup&id=0100960#bkground
That's some "welcome" by people who keep telling us they're smarter and nicer than we are.
5. Did you mean eggs were up 450%? They went from $0.71 at Aldi to over $3.
ReplyDeleteYou too can afford an EV. All you need is a relative who can take bribes from China or Ukraine.
"The number of increasingly professional organized retail crime rings and their frequent attacks have reached crisis scale, according to the National Retail Federation in a September 14 report."
ReplyDeleteFunny how that don't happen in Texas. I wonder why.
"More than 2 Million" ILLEGAL ALIENS "will be arrested entering the United States" and not a single one will be deported. The federal government busses and flies these illegal aliens to the interior, dumping them in communities nationwide without bothering to inform the State or local government that they've done so.
ReplyDeleteOf course, certain privileged communities are exempt from this...