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Archive for 2024
November 30, 2024
ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Is Donald Trump the Long-Awaited Messiah of the Band ‘Rush’ Era?
A lot of us who went to those concerts so many years ago have noticed something kind of odd. After years of hoping and waiting for a government in this country that might understand and respect the power and full constitutional rights of the individual, we’ve been seeing something that looks a lot like a Rush concert at … MAGA rallies. We have a president-elect who says that if you like your lightbulbs and your gas-powered car, and if you want to keep them, you can. And you can dance along with your president, too. And he is assembling a Cabinet of dissidents who don’t believe that we need to be beholden to what has come before.
At the end of “2112,” the Elder Race of Man returns to overthrow the oppressive totalitarian Priests of the Temple of Syrinx, apparently to usher in an era of freedom, individualism and the right to dissent. So much of what we hear in “2112” — the final fall of the expert-driven bureaucrats — might actually happen in Washington in January 2025. So many Rush fans and others who suffered through the loss of individual freedom in the Obama era and in the Biden post-COVID, DEI, Green New Deal era and had a taste of freedom from 2017-2021 are now legitimately asking: Is Donald Trump the longed-for messiah we’ve been waiting for?
Heh. Fly by night, step into the limelight, roll up the power windows on your red Barchetta and read the whole thing.
JALOPNIK WISHES MILLIONS OF TEXANS A HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Beaver Fever: Writer’s Ridiculous Rant Against Beloved Buc-ee’s Fuels Readers’ Roadside Rage.
Buc-ee’s are popping up all over America. It’s to the point that the beaver-emblazoned beacon is becoming a roadside attraction in its own right. Why? Convenience and cleanliness — the giant gas stations are known for having massive, ultra-clean restrooms. There’s also every kind of snack, sandwich and soft drink you could ever want all under one roof. It’s no surprise then that a Trump-hating writer for Jalopnik (yep, we never heard if it either) would call these shrines to roadside comfort and capitalism, a ‘sickness’.
Read on.
Lefties hate Buc-ee's…
Because they hate America:
Pristine spacious bathrooms, great quick nutritious food, dozens of FAST (9-10gpm) gas pumps..
Pay employees well.
Friendly staff.And red & yellow "water cans" with flexible spouts perfect for filling tractors with diesel.
— BrowningMachine, Garbage Nazi! (@BrowningMachine) November 29, 2024
They really do pay their employees quite well:
Make sure you share this with the European friends you’re trying to impress. pic.twitter.com/bsst0FGjMB
— Moog Rogue (@MoogRogue) November 29, 2024
The European mind cannot comprehend the wonders of Buc-ee’s.
Flashback: Episode Five of the Babylon Bee’s series from 2022 devoted to a California couple moving to Texas, where Steve and Timpani discover that you can immanentize the eschaton:
Related: America Thrives at the Interstate Exit. Buc-ee’s is about as pure a distillation of American capitalism as there has ever been.
WHO CAN SAY THIS WITH A STRAIGHT FACE? “With Vindman’s connections to the intel community, you absolutely know that he is telling the truth.” Really? Really? Only a liar or a moron could say that.
This is incredibly dangerous news. With Vindman's connections to the intel community, you absolutely know that he is telling the truth. Musk's bonus for accepting Putin's charge to buddy up to Trump?? To get more state secrets to divulge to win more favor? To get a good word from… https://t.co/Bv85inxAPH
— Bob Krause (@KrauseForIowa) November 29, 2024
BREAKING NEWS FROM 2008: Peggy Noonan’s Downfall.
Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan during a recent conversation with journalist Bari Weiss made some startling revelations.
Noonan calls herself a conservative and was once a speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan. But like most mainstream conservative commentators of that era, Noonan abandoned both her conservative and journalistic principles to devolve into a rabid hater of President Trump.
She believed the hoaxes against President Trump, particularly the Trump-Russia collusion hoax. When she was proven wrong, instead of accepting her mistake, she claimed she didn’t “know what to think of Trump/Russia” and wasn’t “satisfied we’ll ever fully understand it.”
In such cases, there are no greys. Trump was cleared by probers despite their deep bias against him and their lack of basis for the investigation. But Noonan purposefully tried to leave the door open by feigning confusion instead of admitting this obvious fact.
Noonan’s recent utterances proved how deeply she erred while covering Trump. But the sanctimonious seldom possess self-awareness, hence Noonan bragged about her mistake because she thought she was following journalistic ethics.
“Noonan calls herself a conservative,” but as Scott Johnson of Power Line wrote in August of 2020, she “all but endorsed Obama” in 2008, and during the 2020 election cycle praised first Kamala Harris (“The daughter of East Bay professors grew up to become an excellent performer of politics,”) and then as Conrad Black observed in September of 2020, “Noonan’s decision to go full-metal-jacket for Joe Biden in the Wall Street Journal on Saturday opens a new flank in the Democratic assault on the incumbent president.”
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OF COURSE IT DID:
Report: 70% of Biden's education enforcement took aim at Christian colleges and trade schoolshttps://t.co/xTLSkiwH1w
— Not the Bee (@Not_the_Bee) November 29, 2024
BLACK FRIDAY DEAL: All-new Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (16 GB). #CommissionEarned
DAVID FRIEDMAN: Hype vs Reality: The Future of Autonomous AI Agents.
EVERY. FREAKING. TIME. Venezuelan Gangs Operating in TN: From ‘It’s Not Happening’ to ‘It’s Actually a Good Thing.’
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE:
Get a load of this. 🤣
Two years ago, The Guardian reported that Spain and Portugal were becoming too dry thanks to climate change. 🏜️
Now, The Guardian says that Spain is too wet because of climate change. 🌧️
The narrative changes with the weather.
No matter what the weather… pic.twitter.com/TNyN5rfYD9
— Chris Martz (@ChrisMartzWX) November 29, 2024
JEFFREY CARTER: Big vs. Little: That’s the Divide.
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HOW SHOCKED IS MY FACE? SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED: You’ll all have seen or been taught about monkey “inequity aversion” – pushing back when another individual gets a better reward… Turns out this is completely untrue. More precisely “Across 60,430 observations of 18 species” there was “no evidence for inequity aversion in non-human animals in these tasks“.
I FIND THE TARGET CO-BRANDING ADS DEEPLY ANNOYING: “I pity the producers of ‘Wicked’, I really do. They’ve released the most extravagant grievance screed since ‘Der ewige Jude’ just at the moment when Americans have roundly declared they are thoroughly disgusted with being harangued and cajoled about a disagreeable woman’s social problems.”
SALENA ZITO: Whiskey resurgence in the heart of the rebellion.
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WELL, OF COURSE, BUT SKY CANDY ANYWAY: Sky Candy: What You See Depends On How You See.
RUSSIAN MAINTENANCE: “Toxic smell” at Progress hatch was hypergolic fuel.
THERE WILL BE A REPORT, UNMITIGATED BY CONSERVATIVE REVIEW: Jack Smith and Merrick Garland Don’t Look to Be Done With Trump Yet.
So long as the remember how they sow, so they will reap.
OH, THAT MUST HAVE BEEN DIFFICULT. LET ME GUESS, THEY WERE AWAKE THE LAST 10 YEARS? German Security Services Warn of Jihadist Attacks on Christmas Markets.