fossilfreak | August Politics

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol 1 p. 547
148.1 miles
not quite so hot, 90s

347 recordings of 38 types (82 SVU because I finally went through all the saved ones and found some I'd already seen), 24% clear. So of course I went to look at TCM and couldn't resist some.

Saved during last month:

Bet Sobon:
So I've been AWOL for awhile (is that an anagram?) My mother passed away unexpectedly last week, so we all had to fly in to NY. She was 89, but didn't have any serious health problems so it was a shock. On the bright side, one less committed Democrat voter. So I've been up in the semi-communitst state of NY for almost a week. And it's just as bad as I remembered. You can say what you want about the south, but most of our roads are not worse than a bombed airfield in Iraq. My choices in TV watching were either CNN or the Yankees. At least the latter didn't cause any arguments. My brother was apparently aghast that my one other brother and I are - CONSERVATIVES! Which apparently is because I don't think that the US is just as evil as Russia, China and North Korea and that we should have a military (and not just to bomb the heck out of someone who bombs us first). And I don't think that Medicaid for all is a good idea and I realize that both Medicare and Social Security are going broke. (But there's 2 trillion dollars in the trust fund!!!!!) My siblings are smart people. My sister has a PHD and is a professor in a science field. But they are seemingly either brainwashed or ignorant of actual world facts and events. My brother and I actually did come to agreements on several things. The government is complete corrupt (so why do you want to give it more power?) Globalization isn't a great idea, and having cheap stuff made in China may be great, but we are just outsourcing our environmental issues over there. So it wasn't a total loss. In the end it was a good week to be with all my siblings at my Mom's house. It was very strange without her there. I'm sure she would have loved the discussions.

David Shimm
If Donald Trump announced that he had cured cancer, the enemedia's headlines the next day would read "Trump puts thousands of oncologists out of work."

also from David Shimm

Donald Trump is a warning. Trump is the best case scenario. If you somehow depose him via your smarmy shenanigans, what comes along next is really going to upset you. You need to understand something.
Trump is not our last chance. He's your last chance.
--Kurt Schlichter

William Johnson:
Thanks Pat...
This is great...Title: Draining the Swamp is Messy. May 14, 2017, By Michael Master (author of Save America Now, Rules for Conservatives, The Birth Famine)
Our home is in a community of 2,000 homes located on the intercostal in North Carolina. Everything lives here. Alligators. Water moccasins. Rattle snakes. Sea hawks. Egrets. Giant blue heron. Mosquitoes... blood sucking mosquitoes. We've watched from our back porch as dolphins chased sail boats and motor boats up the intercostal and watched the moon rise over the ocean to cast its glow over the intercostal.
When the community decided to drain the swamp in the center of the community, it was a big deal.

Draining the swamp was messy. The swamp was about 10 football fields, about 6 feet deep, with lots of creatures living in it. It was a dangerous swamp. Not one that you would walk or swim. You would not dare sit next to it in the dark of a moonless night. If not the snakes, then the mosquitoes would eat you alive.

As the water level decreased, the creatures were exposed. As the water level disappeared, all that was left was 3 feet of yucky black mud and the roots to dying cypress trees. The fish, snakes, frogs, rats, and birds were all stranded in the yucky mud.

Those creatures of the swamp fought for their lives as the swamp disappeared. The fish flopped around in the black mud looking for some water for life. The frogs croaked incessantly all night while their young pollywogs were stranded lifeless at the top of the black mud. Snakes slithered in every direction in the black mud in search of food. The rats that live in hollows all along the water abandoned their nests while the birds that feed off the swamp creatures also abandoned the area.

Finally, the mud dried out. No more snakes. No more rats. No more fish. No more frogs. No more mosquitoes. And no more birds that feed off those creatures of the swamp.

That same thing is happening to the political swamp in America. Trump is draining the swamp. His picks for his cabinet are all swamp drainers. Yeah, 3 are from Goldman Sachs. 3 of 23. Practically all of his cabinet have executive experience (military, or government, or private sector) ........ and it is the executive branch, now isn't it?

The mud is becoming visible as all the creatures who live in the swamp are fighting for their lives. Government employees at the IRS, EPA, and Education are flapping in the mud like dying fish. The lobbyists are slithering here and there looking for government funds like the snakes in the mud ... especially those who wrote Obamacare. The liberal media cartel is chirping and croaking all the time like frogs trying to reverse the draining. The tax and spend politicians are dying off like the blood sucking mosquitoes. The political appointees of Obama are fleeing DC for other jobs like the birds who lost their meal tickets. And the information leakers like Comey and Lynch are looking for new places to nest like the rats that left the swamp.

Soon, all that will remain will be the dying institutions like public education as the dying cypress trees of our society.

Everyone who lived off the swamp is praying for rain. Election rain so Democrats might win some elections from Republicans since the Democrats suffered such horrible defeats during the 8 years of Obama. Impeachment rain so the professional politicians can get rid of Trump as the swamp drainer. Low approval rating rain so the media can claim they were correct about Trump. Virtual rain, fake rain, so pundits can claim that Trump is not making any progress even though the results say the opposite.

Draining the swamp is messy, muddy. But the mud will soon dry. Democrats just lost special elections in Arkansas and Omaha after sinking millions into them. Democrats might grab an election here or there in places like Georgia where the demographics are changing to black communities, but not without millions and millions of campaign money ... and Democrats cannot afford to do that for all the elections in 2018. Democrats must defend 23 Senators in 2018 as compared to 10 for Republicans and Democrats must win 25 seats in the US House from Republicans and then win back 900 state legislative seats and 14 governorships. If Georgia is an example, that will cost Democrats hundreds of millions to try.

SCOTUS will be rendering its decisions about Trump executive orders just before the 2018 elections ... and more than likely, SCOTUS will rule against the Obama appointed judges who live in the lower court swamps. SCOTUS will help Trump.

Comey is gone. Lynch is in trouble. Clinton is back in trouble. The Clinton Foundation donors are talking. Clapper and Yates both said that there is no evidence of collusion between Trump and the Russians.

Schumer is gasping for rain like one of those stranded fish. His Republican swamp buddies like McCain will abandon him as he dies ... a rat leaving the swamp even though they shared an apartment together. His Wall Street swamp buddies cannot help him. The Washington Post and The New York Times and CNN and NBC are all trying to seed the clouds. But none of it is producing enough rain to help Schumer stop Trump from draining the swamp.

Draining the swamp is loud. Listen to all the hysterical liberal media cartel who are trying to make it rain in order to save the swamp where they live. Chanting. Lies. Rain dances. But no real rain is coming. Only fake rain. The swamp will soon be dry. And when it is, then the next task to make America great again can begin.

Don Surber about Nancy Pelosi:

She told the board: “(The voters) don’t want to hear us criticizing the president. This was a choice; they made a decision. And to criticize the president personally is to disrespect their judgment. So I say to my members, ‘This is about what we’re going to do’.”

Duh.

Ten months after the polls closed across the land, Pelosi has finally accepted the choice of the voters.

Which is good, because when you call Trump Hitler, you are calling his supporters Nazis.

And it turns out-- surprise, surprise -- that people do not like being called Nazis.
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Democrats -- including their media wing -- have been sore losers.

That was a huge mistake, because now they are tied to Antifa, the 21st century version of the KKK.

And, with a great chart: Why was the Health Agency Pushing Climate Change?

After 30 years of getting it wrong, anyone who is not a skeptic is either a fool or a liar (in some cases, both).