REWIND to Biden mocking Trump at West Point: "Look at how he steps and look at how I step. Watch how I run up ramps and he stumbles down ramps. Come on." pic.twitter.com/U7CL0dBSQA
The FBI used our money to pay a suspected Kremlin agent $200,000 to lie about the opposition presidential candidate so they could illegally spy on him — while falsely accusing him of what they were doing, working with Russia
“As another glorious day dawns in California, another business entity gives up on the state.
For years, California has failed to develop and maintain its water infrastructure. It also allowed eco-activists to impose policies prohibiting brush-clearing. Decisions like these have consequences.
One of the largest insurance agencies in the country will no longer accept applications for home and business insurance in California due to wildfire risks and the cost of rebuilding.
State Farm has ceased new applications, including all business and personal lines property and casualty insurance, starting Saturday, the company announced in a press release.
Existing customers will not be affected, and the company will continue to offer auto insurance in the state, according to the release.
Construction costs in California have also escalated. This is a contributing factor to State Farm’s decision.
“State Farm General Insurance Company made this decision due to historic increases in construction costs outpacing inflation, rapidly growing catastrophe exposure, and a challenging reinsurance market,” the insurance giant said in a statement on Friday.
“It’s necessary to take these actions now to improve the company’s financial strength,” the company added.
According to the Insurance Information Institute, State Farm was the leading company offering home insurance in California.
The decision to forgo coverage went into effect on Saturday. It applies to both personal and business properties. The company said it will continue to serve existing customers, as well as offer personal auto insurance.”
Other big players are pulling out of CA completely. Couple of factors 1) the losses are too big 2) regulation is tough. Insurnace companies are big public market investors. If you’re getting slapped in the markets and getting slapped because of payouts the business gets tough…
“The House passed the McCarthy-Biden debt ceiling bill late Wednesday night because of course they did.
Man, Speaker Kevin McCarthy touted the heck out of this deal but, um, more Democrats voted for it than Republicans.”
House Republicans concerned about the Biden-McCarthy deal had the votes to kill it—until 52 House Democrats rushed to the bill’s rescue and saved it. How exactly is this a Republican bill?https://t.co/u2T2j36Mmx
Next up is Colorado!! Our homeowner insurance increased over 1100.00 this year. The cost of rebuilding in case of fire they say. And no they care not one twit about my paying 2800.00 to my asinine HOA for their new half million dollar fancy cistern …
“THE DAILY CHART: NEW YORK V. FLORIDA ON COVID
John notes immediately below Trump’s bizarre attack on DeSantis over COVID, which makes one wonder if Trump actually has learned anything from listening to the terrible policy advice of Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx. This may prove Trump’s Achilles’ Heel in the Republican debates—if he shows up for them.”
“While Joe Biden frequently calls for gun restrictions and bans on “assault weapons,” his son Hunter is poised to become the nation’s highest-profile advocate for the right to bear arms while on crack.
As Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss wraps up his investigation into Hunter Biden’s business affairs, federal prosecutors are reportedly considering only four charges: two misdemeanor counts for failure to file taxes, a single felony count of tax evasion and a potential felony count on falsifying a form linked to a gun permit.
Hunter clearly lied on a form as part of a transaction for a handgun he purchased on Oct. 12, 2018, when he answered “no” to the question, “Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?” Biden at the time was a frequent crack cocaine user, writing in his memoir that he “was smoking crack every 15 minutes.”
Federal laws prohibit active drug users from owning guns. The Biden regime has even defended a law that prohibits medical marijuana users from purchasing guns.
Hunter’s lawyers intend to fight back though.
A source told Politico that the lawyers told Justice Department officials they intend to challenge the constitutionality of the law under the Second Amendment as defense if he is charged.
The Gun Control Act of 1968 prohibits unlawful drug users from possessing firearms. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms says this ban applies to people who have admitted to using illegal drugs in the 12 months before buying a gun. Violators can receive up to 15 years in prison.
But the provision, long considered an unassailable gun restriction, now faces challenges. Last June, the Supreme Court undid decades of lower-court jurisprudence about the Second Amendment. In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, the court’s six-justice conservative majority ruled that contemporary gun restrictions must be consistent with those of the founding era.
This new constitutional test presents a massive opening for people working to loosen gun restrictions, since firearm laws in America’s founding era were, in some ways, extremely permissive.
Joe Biden called the Bruen ruling deeply troubling and said it “contradicts both common sense and the Constitution.”
Turns out that that tweet from several days ago about the Satanist designer’s Satanist-inspired clothing being at Target was mistaken. Target was indeed selling some of his designs, but not the Satanist-inspired designs. Those photos were apparently from his Etsy site.
I don’t remember if this part was also shared here:
“CLAIM: Photos of a goat-headed store mannequin and a girl wearing a black shirt with a pentagram design show Target is selling a line of satanic-themed children’s clothing.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The images were generated with an artificial intelligence text-to-image tool, according to the artist who created them. Target also confirmed it has never sold the merchandise.”
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The images were generated with an artificial intelligence text-to-image tool, according to the artist who created them. Target also confirmed it has never sold the merchandise.”
Seriously! If I had my eyes closed I would think I was listening to Kamala!!
Images generated with AI says the “artist” who “created” them!!! He stinkin’ created them!!! Moving right along…..
And Matt Walsh’s documentary is in my estimation a must see. How he found so many idiot brains residing in lala land to interview is beyond me but I suppose one just needs to visit a college campus or go to CA …no no no…. He could have just come to CO and found as much here as there!
~ A week can feel like an eon in Washington, while six months passes in a flash. As Kevin McCarthy triumphantly caps this long week of a debt-ceiling showdown, his painful January feels like a distant memory.
The House speaker notched a real win this week, when the House passed 314-117 a spending-reform bill negotiated almost entirely on Republican terms. The legislation is no panacea to federal ills, though it marks a sharp reversal from 18 months of Biden White House dominance. Equally important, it sent a loud message: Republicans can govern.
What a turnabout. Amid a “humiliating” 15 ballots to be elected speaker in January, the press insisted Mr. McCarthy was crippled, the token head of a “ragged GOP” stumbling “through the wilderness,” assuming a speakership that would be a “nightmare” as it failed to manage “MAGA radicals,” “rebels” and “anarchy.” As recently as mid-April, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer smirked on the sidelines, chiding Mr. McCarthy not to “bother with partisan wish lists” given that he lacked the GOP votes to pass them.
The dynamic changed entirely one week later, when the Californian got his four-vote majority to deliver the only debt-ceiling bill in town, forcing the White House to the table. That was the master stroke, and it’s worth dissecting how Mr. McCarthy did it. Because it wasn’t Lady Fortune or a sudden outbreak of GOP kumbaya. It was a deliberate, well-considered strategy that required hard work. …
… Mr. McCarthy’s strategy was to embrace his right—and his center, and his defense hawks, and his culture warriors, and everybody else—and to give the whole crew ownership. Mrs. Pelosi delivered marching orders; Mr. McCarthy decentralized. He gave the leaders of all five of his caucuses a seat at the leadership table and set the well-respected Louisiana Rep. Garret Graves to days and months of discussions. This wasn’t an elite few dictating a bill; it was an entire conference hammering out the delicate trade-offs that became the April product. That built buy-in. …
… Does the speaker still face rough seas ahead? You bet. He’ll have to do this all over again for other must-pass bills, and it may not turn out as well. But at least he has a formula. His success this week came in proving that it is possible to unify Republicans, and in demonstrating the power that comes with that unity. Mr. McCarthy won the speakership in January. This week, he earned it. ~
NJ – I’m not sure what you mean. The “artist” used the AI tool to create the false images. Is it because he is referred to as an “artist” but using the AI tool?
There’s a term for it (@12:05 quoting: “One of the things Twitter doesn’t do very well [asking HOW we know something], thus rumors are easily spread on that platform.”)
Epistemology: How do you know that you know what you know?
Our pastor calls us to consider that term & the question frequently.
Very handy question to ask during a particularly wild political season when accusations and embellishments and actual falsehoods abound, many via social media.
Not surprised to see Biden falls coverage here. The predictability of the media is amusing. Biden falls and half the internet explodes, Trump can’t hold a glass of water and the other half explodes. Both are probably too old, however, I would worry more about mental decline than physical. And that’s harder to judge.
No one here claimed the Target satanic employee posted merch from Target, only that this was the stuff on his twitter page.
The Satanists twitter feed showed those images, be they AI or not. They were not his work for Target, they merely demonstrated the type of individual they hired for the kids line designer.
What you posted about is something no one here said.
You can go back and look it you like.
I know Reuters is just running interference for the pervs as usual, but the tweets from his page speak for themselves.
Any claims of any of it being available at Target were made by the Satanist.
No one made any claims but him.
This isn’t the win you and the “fact checkers” think it is.
People killed with rifles in 2020 = 454
Vaccine deaths in 2021 = 20 622
Weird comparison – why only rifle deaths? why not all firearms? This would be like selecting one type of vaccine and ignoring the rest. In 2021, the number of accidental firearms deaths alone was 549. In total over 48 000 people died from firearms in 2021. Meanwhile out of the 672 million vaccines administered from Dec 2020 to March 2023, just over 19 000 died after receiving the vaccine (no mention of co-moribilities) . The US has about 390 million guns – in one year they produced 48 000 deaths. Meanwhile, twice the number of vaccines may have caused less than half the deaths in two and a half years.
Too many of us old people live longer, so there are not enough working people to support us.
Soon both Social Security and Medicare will be broke.
Our politicians don’t have the guts to do anything about it. Or even talk about it.
It’s easy to see why.
Recently, France’s president, trying to keep his country’s pension system from going broke, raised France’s retirement age from 62 to a measly 64.
People have been protesting ever since.
In America, politicians who even hint at such solutions get screamed at by misinformed seniors: “Don’t touch my retirement funds! You took money from my paycheck for years; that’s my money I’m getting back!”
But it’s not. It’s young people’s money. People my age rarely realize that most of us now get back triple what we paid in.
When Social Security began, a government retirement plan made financial sense. Most Americans didn’t even live until age 65. Social Security was just for the minority who did.
But now Americans live, on average, to age 76. I’m 76. Henry Kissinger is 100. Since most of us live so long, there are just not enough workers to pay for us.
Yet our vote-hungry politicians won’t say that in public.
Even Donald Trump cowers, saying, “No one will lay a hand on your Medicare or your Social Security.”
The most clueless, like Sen. Bernie Sanders, even deny the obvious truth. He shouts: “Social Security today is not on the line going broke!”
But it just is. Reserve funds are projected to run out by 2034.
Medicare’s reserves will run out even sooner.”
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But yay! 7 trillion more in debt and they didn’t do a damn thing to fix anything. But the status quo goes on for the uni-party spenders.
The debt ceiling deal was a bi-partisan package and passed on a bi-partisan vote. I thought the US liked it when their politicians worked together. Both the left (Progressive) and the right (Freedom) voted against the deal. Hence, one can say it was a triumph of the centre.
Not surprised, insurance companies are cutting back – they only insure where there is a profit, they’ll do anything to avoid paying up. Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t insurance companies give up on the Mississippi flood plain region decades ago leaving farmers reliant on FEMA to bail them out over and over again (when FEMA should have just paid them to leave and revert the land back to wetlands)
I’m amused that ATF has self-declaration forms. Do they actually expect drug addicts to be honest in self-reporting? I’m also amused that a conservative originalist view of the constitution will help Hunter.
AJ — based on what you posted, I can see people being mistaken on what Target was selling. Those articles stressed the satanists aspect of the creator vs what was actually sold at Target. I had to double check to make sure I understood it properly. I do believe the right wing blogs deliberately over-emphasized the Satanists aspect to leave people confused or with wrong ideas.
You can defend this gal who says she is a man til the cows come home but that does not change the facts that she creates merch with satanic symbols. And what the heck is a gay trans man???? A gal who likes guys but wants to like them as a guy???
London-based Carnell, a gay trans man, said on Instagram that he did not know if Target would begin selling the items again and that he would know more over the coming days.
“I hope that none of Target’s retail employees are the victims of further threats and that none of them come to any harm,” he wrote. (Oh come on…play the victim!)
Backlash on social media was mainly targeted at Abprallen products that were not sold at Target, some of which contain images of pentagrams and horned ram skulls that some people associate with Satan worship.
Products sold on Abprallen’s Etsy shop included a pin featuring the slogan “Satan Respects Pronouns” for 5.20 pounds ($6.56), and an 8 pound ($10.10) enamel pin with the slogan “Trans Healthcare Now.”
AJ – Excuse my mistake. Even looking at it again, that twitter post does seem to be saying that those items were at Target, and apparently others thought so as well. Sometimes people are mistaken. Obviously I was in this.
Btw, I do not share things to “win”, but to add to the conversation. I am not out to “beat” anyone here or anywhere else.
Many trans men say they are gay. My theory is that that is evidence of the delusion they are under, as their female desires are still there, but they are denying them.
Young women deciding to be trans men is kind of like a contagion these days. Very sad.
Sadly, some Christians have attacked Ted Cruz for coming out against Uganda’s new law, too. I have had to point out to a friend of mine (a somewhat liberal believer) that those Christians who have come out in favor of this law are a small (very small, I hope) minority.
“Don’t Pretend the Ugandan Homosexuality Law Is Christian
Not everything that’s a sin is a crime—let alone one punishable by death.”
Kizzie @4:06, second graph: Thank you, so well put. That should be the overall goal of the posts here — are we trying to add to the discussion, maybe insert a different view of something as a way to broaden the points of view?
No one has to agree with anyone here (we often don’t!) but this shouldn’t be an emotional or even sometimes an ugly and aggressive battle to “own” the argument or beat down anyone who may see it differently.
AJ, no one has suggested the debt problem is solved with this deal, I’m curious how you would think that?
But neither was it solvable in a moment or by just letting the nation go into default. We face some serious problems ahead. We didn’t get here overnight, not getting out of it overnight (if ever, it may not even be possible at this point).
Medicare and Social Security are big worries going forward, they’re not sustainable the way things are now.
Government isn’t ever getting “your way” or my way. We live in a pluralistic society and government is a necessary evil, perhaps, but it is needed to operate what is a secular, fallen-world nation. And yes, a government that can work together is a benefit. Otherwise, we get mayhem and that doesn’t bring any kind of solution (let alone peace).
This isn’t heaven on earth here, nor will it ever be until God brings the new heavens and new earth. Will we miss complaining and attacking folks then? We’ll really will have to cut that out. lol
Until then, we live with a very imperfect world filled with so MANY imperfect people, Lord help us.
Governments don’t escape it, they’re made up of these imperfect people; and we need to understand and accept that no one (on either side) will ever get everything they want. It just really doesn’t work that way.
Kizzie I wasn’t saying you as in you per se. I should have said one can or they. Just because she says she is not a Satanist that does not make it so and from my view she certainly likes to play the Satan card and then deny it. The higher ups at Target knew her background but it would seem it made her merchandise that they saw fit for their store all the better. The Lbg yadA yadA folk would be drawn in even more so as it is proven by support and purchasing from her Etsy store by them.
HRW @2:36: I thought the US liked it when their politicians worked together.
You’d think because it is government, after all, and things need to sometimes just get done … but apparently not so much anymore. Some prefer civil war, in case you haven’t noticed.
Wandering Views 
It’s fine….
https://twitter.com/jacobkschneider/status/1664343681321541636?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1664343681321541636%7Ctwgr%5Ef9e01eb01cf147f5e6551daaf5c196a05695c34b%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.weaselzippers.us%2F
He falls repeatedly. Trump did once and was called unfit for the job by CNN and the rest of the clown media. So what does that make Biden?
And here’s Biden in all his eloquence at the same event…
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Support my delusions and mental illness!
Nope, you’re a woman, always was. Just because you play dress up, that doesn’t make you a man.
And note the cowards at Glamour turned off the comments. Can’t have Twitter Notes speaking truth to their fantasies.
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A tale of 2 stumblers…..
https://twitter.com/KevinTober94/status/1664400721586913282?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1664400721586913282%7Ctwgr%5E5b0ed02cb906cd6491a07e94aaf0e8bac25ec882%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fdougp-3137%2F2023%2F06%2F01%2Fmedia-spin-on-bidens-nosedive-takes-a-totally-predictable-turn%2F
https://twitter.com/KevinTober94/status/1664407131615887365?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1664407131615887365%7Ctwgr%5E5b0ed02cb906cd6491a07e94aaf0e8bac25ec882%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fdougp-3137%2F2023%2F06%2F01%2Fmedia-spin-on-bidens-nosedive-takes-a-totally-predictable-turn%2F
Our trash media, always carrying water for Joe.
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More video is out from the Jan6 fraud.
All made for tv, of course….
The entire thing was staged.
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Treason is the word you’re looking for.
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And no one can be held accountable…
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But the trash media only ever mention the guns….
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Allstate did the same, as have some others….
“State Farm No Longer Accepting Applications for Homeowners Insurance in California
State Farm blames wildfires and inflation. The California Department of Insurance is blaming…climate change.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/05/state-farm-no-longer-accepting-applications-for-homeowners-insurance-in-california/
“As another glorious day dawns in California, another business entity gives up on the state.
For years, California has failed to develop and maintain its water infrastructure. It also allowed eco-activists to impose policies prohibiting brush-clearing. Decisions like these have consequences.
One of the largest insurance agencies in the country will no longer accept applications for home and business insurance in California due to wildfire risks and the cost of rebuilding.
State Farm has ceased new applications, including all business and personal lines property and casualty insurance, starting Saturday, the company announced in a press release.
Existing customers will not be affected, and the company will continue to offer auto insurance in the state, according to the release.
Construction costs in California have also escalated. This is a contributing factor to State Farm’s decision.
“State Farm General Insurance Company made this decision due to historic increases in construction costs outpacing inflation, rapidly growing catastrophe exposure, and a challenging reinsurance market,” the insurance giant said in a statement on Friday.
“It’s necessary to take these actions now to improve the company’s financial strength,” the company added.
According to the Insurance Information Institute, State Farm was the leading company offering home insurance in California.
The decision to forgo coverage went into effect on Saturday. It applies to both personal and business properties. The company said it will continue to serve existing customers, as well as offer personal auto insurance.”
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Once again R’s snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
#USELESS GOP
“More Democrats Than Republicans Vote for McCarthy-Biden Debt Ceiling Bill”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/06/more-democrats-than-republicans-vote-for-mccarthy-biden-debt-ceiling-bill/
“The House passed the McCarthy-Biden debt ceiling bill late Wednesday night because of course they did.
Man, Speaker Kevin McCarthy touted the heck out of this deal but, um, more Democrats voted for it than Republicans.”
The uni-party strikes again.
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At least some R’s didn’t sell out yet again.
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Next up is Colorado!! Our homeowner insurance increased over 1100.00 this year. The cost of rebuilding in case of fire they say. And no they care not one twit about my paying 2800.00 to my asinine HOA for their new half million dollar fancy cistern …
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Looks like Trump was wrong again.
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“THE DAILY CHART: NEW YORK V. FLORIDA ON COVID
John notes immediately below Trump’s bizarre attack on DeSantis over COVID, which makes one wonder if Trump actually has learned anything from listening to the terrible policy advice of Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx. This may prove Trump’s Achilles’ Heel in the Republican debates—if he shows up for them.”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/06/the-daily-chart-new-york-v-florida-on-covid.php
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Of course….
“Hunter Biden Poised to Become Leading Gun Rights Advocate in Effort to Avoid Gun Charges”
“While Joe Biden frequently calls for gun restrictions and bans on “assault weapons,” his son Hunter is poised to become the nation’s highest-profile advocate for the right to bear arms while on crack.
As Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss wraps up his investigation into Hunter Biden’s business affairs, federal prosecutors are reportedly considering only four charges: two misdemeanor counts for failure to file taxes, a single felony count of tax evasion and a potential felony count on falsifying a form linked to a gun permit.
Hunter clearly lied on a form as part of a transaction for a handgun he purchased on Oct. 12, 2018, when he answered “no” to the question, “Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?” Biden at the time was a frequent crack cocaine user, writing in his memoir that he “was smoking crack every 15 minutes.”
Federal laws prohibit active drug users from owning guns. The Biden regime has even defended a law that prohibits medical marijuana users from purchasing guns.
Hunter’s lawyers intend to fight back though.
A source told Politico that the lawyers told Justice Department officials they intend to challenge the constitutionality of the law under the Second Amendment as defense if he is charged.
The Gun Control Act of 1968 prohibits unlawful drug users from possessing firearms. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms says this ban applies to people who have admitted to using illegal drugs in the 12 months before buying a gun. Violators can receive up to 15 years in prison.
But the provision, long considered an unassailable gun restriction, now faces challenges. Last June, the Supreme Court undid decades of lower-court jurisprudence about the Second Amendment. In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, the court’s six-justice conservative majority ruled that contemporary gun restrictions must be consistent with those of the founding era.
This new constitutional test presents a massive opening for people working to loosen gun restrictions, since firearm laws in America’s founding era were, in some ways, extremely permissive.
Joe Biden called the Bruen ruling deeply troubling and said it “contradicts both common sense and the Constitution.”
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Matt Walsh’s film, “What is a Women” is very informative and well done. It is worth watching.
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The film is free for 24 hours, although, I do not know when that ends exactly.
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Turns out that that tweet from several days ago about the Satanist designer’s Satanist-inspired clothing being at Target was mistaken. Target was indeed selling some of his designs, but not the Satanist-inspired designs. Those photos were apparently from his Etsy site.
I don’t remember if this part was also shared here:
“CLAIM: Photos of a goat-headed store mannequin and a girl wearing a black shirt with a pentagram design show Target is selling a line of satanic-themed children’s clothing.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The images were generated with an artificial intelligence text-to-image tool, according to the artist who created them. Target also confirmed it has never sold the merchandise.”
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-target-pride-LGBTQ-satanic-998363252236?fbclid=IwAR2E6e6CHOqIvv3VyHS3CTex-nQU25_kIQgsEmZv5RyBZJezxef3w4vQvDs
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-target-ai/fact-check-target-satanic-clothing-collection-is-not-real-its-ai-generated-idUSL1N37S2U1?fbclid=IwAR0InmlDXHp1LPscPOgvlEnlnMPK2H9ah-6xUAgr3Htz-I-MjmoLObYCHb4
As DJ said yesterday:
“One of the things Twitter doesn’t do very well [asking HOW we know something], thus rumors are easily spread on that platform.
Be skeptical.”
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AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The images were generated with an artificial intelligence text-to-image tool, according to the artist who created them. Target also confirmed it has never sold the merchandise.”
Seriously! If I had my eyes closed I would think I was listening to Kamala!!
Images generated with AI says the “artist” who “created” them!!! He stinkin’ created them!!! Moving right along…..
And Matt Walsh’s documentary is in my estimation a must see. How he found so many idiot brains residing in lala land to interview is beyond me but I suppose one just needs to visit a college campus or go to CA …no no no…. He could have just come to CO and found as much here as there!
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Because I like other views here and we are better news consumers as a result of those:
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McCarthy Earns the Speakership
The debt-ceiling vote was the product of a deliberate, well-considered strategy.
By Kimberley A. Strassel
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~ A week can feel like an eon in Washington, while six months passes in a flash. As Kevin McCarthy triumphantly caps this long week of a debt-ceiling showdown, his painful January feels like a distant memory.
The House speaker notched a real win this week, when the House passed 314-117 a spending-reform bill negotiated almost entirely on Republican terms. The legislation is no panacea to federal ills, though it marks a sharp reversal from 18 months of Biden White House dominance. Equally important, it sent a loud message: Republicans can govern.
What a turnabout. Amid a “humiliating” 15 ballots to be elected speaker in January, the press insisted Mr. McCarthy was crippled, the token head of a “ragged GOP” stumbling “through the wilderness,” assuming a speakership that would be a “nightmare” as it failed to manage “MAGA radicals,” “rebels” and “anarchy.” As recently as mid-April, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer smirked on the sidelines, chiding Mr. McCarthy not to “bother with partisan wish lists” given that he lacked the GOP votes to pass them.
The dynamic changed entirely one week later, when the Californian got his four-vote majority to deliver the only debt-ceiling bill in town, forcing the White House to the table. That was the master stroke, and it’s worth dissecting how Mr. McCarthy did it. Because it wasn’t Lady Fortune or a sudden outbreak of GOP kumbaya. It was a deliberate, well-considered strategy that required hard work. …
… Mr. McCarthy’s strategy was to embrace his right—and his center, and his defense hawks, and his culture warriors, and everybody else—and to give the whole crew ownership. Mrs. Pelosi delivered marching orders; Mr. McCarthy decentralized. He gave the leaders of all five of his caucuses a seat at the leadership table and set the well-respected Louisiana Rep. Garret Graves to days and months of discussions. This wasn’t an elite few dictating a bill; it was an entire conference hammering out the delicate trade-offs that became the April product. That built buy-in. …
… Does the speaker still face rough seas ahead? You bet. He’ll have to do this all over again for other must-pass bills, and it may not turn out as well. But at least he has a formula. His success this week came in proving that it is possible to unify Republicans, and in demonstrating the power that comes with that unity. Mr. McCarthy won the speakership in January. This week, he earned it. ~
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NJ – I’m not sure what you mean. The “artist” used the AI tool to create the false images. Is it because he is referred to as an “artist” but using the AI tool?
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There’s a term for it (@12:05 quoting: “One of the things Twitter doesn’t do very well [asking HOW we know something], thus rumors are easily spread on that platform.”)
Epistemology: How do you know that you know what you know?
Our pastor calls us to consider that term & the question frequently.
Very handy question to ask during a particularly wild political season when accusations and embellishments and actual falsehoods abound, many via social media.
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The Debt-Limit Deal Winners and Losers
Joe Biden and Kevin McCarthy averted a default and emerged OK politically; Donald Trump and Chuck Schumer didn’t fare as well
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wsj link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/debt-ceiling-limit-winners-losers-a212028d?st=wg27xuhxfg8l83g&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Not surprised to see Biden falls coverage here. The predictability of the media is amusing. Biden falls and half the internet explodes, Trump can’t hold a glass of water and the other half explodes. Both are probably too old, however, I would worry more about mental decline than physical. And that’s harder to judge.
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Kizzie,
No one here claimed the Target satanic employee posted merch from Target, only that this was the stuff on his twitter page.
The Satanists twitter feed showed those images, be they AI or not. They were not his work for Target, they merely demonstrated the type of individual they hired for the kids line designer.
What you posted about is something no one here said.
You can go back and look it you like.
I know Reuters is just running interference for the pervs as usual, but the tweets from his page speak for themselves.
Any claims of any of it being available at Target were made by the Satanist.
No one made any claims but him.
This isn’t the win you and the “fact checkers” think it is.
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People killed with rifles in 2020 = 454
Vaccine deaths in 2021 = 20 622
Weird comparison – why only rifle deaths? why not all firearms? This would be like selecting one type of vaccine and ignoring the rest. In 2021, the number of accidental firearms deaths alone was 549. In total over 48 000 people died from firearms in 2021. Meanwhile out of the 672 million vaccines administered from Dec 2020 to March 2023, just over 19 000 died after receiving the vaccine (no mention of co-moribilities) . The US has about 390 million guns – in one year they produced 48 000 deaths. Meanwhile, twice the number of vaccines may have caused less than half the deaths in two and a half years.
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The WSJ, the last refuge of the RINOs and establishment shills…..
And Kim’s doing her part. 🙂
Only the uni-party and it’s shills think increasing the debt by 7 trillion is a win.
But you can pretend it was if you like.
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Like I said….
A win?
No.
From the other Stossel….
“The time bomb continues to tick”
https://hotair.com/john-stossel/2023/06/02/the-time-bomb-continues-to-tick-n555074
“Social Security is toast.
So is Medicare.
Too many of us old people live longer, so there are not enough working people to support us.
Soon both Social Security and Medicare will be broke.
Our politicians don’t have the guts to do anything about it. Or even talk about it.
It’s easy to see why.
Recently, France’s president, trying to keep his country’s pension system from going broke, raised France’s retirement age from 62 to a measly 64.
People have been protesting ever since.
In America, politicians who even hint at such solutions get screamed at by misinformed seniors: “Don’t touch my retirement funds! You took money from my paycheck for years; that’s my money I’m getting back!”
But it’s not. It’s young people’s money. People my age rarely realize that most of us now get back triple what we paid in.
When Social Security began, a government retirement plan made financial sense. Most Americans didn’t even live until age 65. Social Security was just for the minority who did.
But now Americans live, on average, to age 76. I’m 76. Henry Kissinger is 100. Since most of us live so long, there are just not enough workers to pay for us.
Yet our vote-hungry politicians won’t say that in public.
Even Donald Trump cowers, saying, “No one will lay a hand on your Medicare or your Social Security.”
The most clueless, like Sen. Bernie Sanders, even deny the obvious truth. He shouts: “Social Security today is not on the line going broke!”
But it just is. Reserve funds are projected to run out by 2034.
Medicare’s reserves will run out even sooner.”
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But yay! 7 trillion more in debt and they didn’t do a damn thing to fix anything. But the status quo goes on for the uni-party spenders.
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As Kathaleena mentioned, it’s worth the watch.
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The debt ceiling deal was a bi-partisan package and passed on a bi-partisan vote. I thought the US liked it when their politicians worked together. Both the left (Progressive) and the right (Freedom) voted against the deal. Hence, one can say it was a triumph of the centre.
Not surprised, insurance companies are cutting back – they only insure where there is a profit, they’ll do anything to avoid paying up. Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t insurance companies give up on the Mississippi flood plain region decades ago leaving farmers reliant on FEMA to bail them out over and over again (when FEMA should have just paid them to leave and revert the land back to wetlands)
I’m amused that ATF has self-declaration forms. Do they actually expect drug addicts to be honest in self-reporting? I’m also amused that a conservative originalist view of the constitution will help Hunter.
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AJ — based on what you posted, I can see people being mistaken on what Target was selling. Those articles stressed the satanists aspect of the creator vs what was actually sold at Target. I had to double check to make sure I understood it properly. I do believe the right wing blogs deliberately over-emphasized the Satanists aspect to leave people confused or with wrong ideas.
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You can defend this gal who says she is a man til the cows come home but that does not change the facts that she creates merch with satanic symbols. And what the heck is a gay trans man???? A gal who likes guys but wants to like them as a guy???
London-based Carnell, a gay trans man, said on Instagram that he did not know if Target would begin selling the items again and that he would know more over the coming days.
“I hope that none of Target’s retail employees are the victims of further threats and that none of them come to any harm,” he wrote. (Oh come on…play the victim!)
Backlash on social media was mainly targeted at Abprallen products that were not sold at Target, some of which contain images of pentagrams and horned ram skulls that some people associate with Satan worship.
Products sold on Abprallen’s Etsy shop included a pin featuring the slogan “Satan Respects Pronouns” for 5.20 pounds ($6.56), and an 8 pound ($10.10) enamel pin with the slogan “Trans Healthcare Now.”
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Some attempting to spend your hard earned tax dollars to promote “pride”….until they are outed… by a “far right winger” no less!!
https://nypost.com/2023/05/31/pentagon-orders-nevada-air-force-base-to-cancel-drag-show/
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AJ – Excuse my mistake. Even looking at it again, that twitter post does seem to be saying that those items were at Target, and apparently others thought so as well. Sometimes people are mistaken. Obviously I was in this.
Btw, I do not share things to “win”, but to add to the conversation. I am not out to “beat” anyone here or anywhere else.
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BTW, what is wrong with Reuters pointing out that the photos were AI generated? Apparently some folks have fallen for them.
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NJ – Who is defending this person? (re:2:54)
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Many trans men say they are gay. My theory is that that is evidence of the delusion they are under, as their female desires are still there, but they are denying them.
Young women deciding to be trans men is kind of like a contagion these days. Very sad.
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On a different note, this piece by Russell Moore.
Sadly, some Christians have attacked Ted Cruz for coming out against Uganda’s new law, too. I have had to point out to a friend of mine (a somewhat liberal believer) that those Christians who have come out in favor of this law are a small (very small, I hope) minority.
“Don’t Pretend the Ugandan Homosexuality Law Is Christian
Not everything that’s a sin is a crime—let alone one punishable by death.”
https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2023/may-web-only/uganda-anti-lgbtq-ted-cruz-russell-moore-biblical-sin-crime.html?utm_medium=widgetsocial&fbclid=IwAR2P3DklI7AEBmS463UCBn-kB2Cxe0ZDqvV_C0oxfVPGVOIqIKIGeOQIUFE
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Kizzie @4:06, second graph: Thank you, so well put. That should be the overall goal of the posts here — are we trying to add to the discussion, maybe insert a different view of something as a way to broaden the points of view?
No one has to agree with anyone here (we often don’t!) but this shouldn’t be an emotional or even sometimes an ugly and aggressive battle to “own” the argument or beat down anyone who may see it differently.
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I know, I repeat myself. I keep thinking it’ll be considered, though.
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AJ, no one has suggested the debt problem is solved with this deal, I’m curious how you would think that?
But neither was it solvable in a moment or by just letting the nation go into default. We face some serious problems ahead. We didn’t get here overnight, not getting out of it overnight (if ever, it may not even be possible at this point).
Medicare and Social Security are big worries going forward, they’re not sustainable the way things are now.
Government isn’t ever getting “your way” or my way. We live in a pluralistic society and government is a necessary evil, perhaps, but it is needed to operate what is a secular, fallen-world nation. And yes, a government that can work together is a benefit. Otherwise, we get mayhem and that doesn’t bring any kind of solution (let alone peace).
This isn’t heaven on earth here, nor will it ever be until God brings the new heavens and new earth. Will we miss complaining and attacking folks then? We’ll really will have to cut that out. lol
Until then, we live with a very imperfect world filled with so MANY imperfect people, Lord help us.
Governments don’t escape it, they’re made up of these imperfect people; and we need to understand and accept that no one (on either side) will ever get everything they want. It just really doesn’t work that way.
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Kizzie I wasn’t saying you as in you per se. I should have said one can or they. Just because she says she is not a Satanist that does not make it so and from my view she certainly likes to play the Satan card and then deny it. The higher ups at Target knew her background but it would seem it made her merchandise that they saw fit for their store all the better. The Lbg yadA yadA folk would be drawn in even more so as it is proven by support and purchasing from her Etsy store by them.
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HRW @2:36: I thought the US liked it when their politicians worked together.
You’d think because it is government, after all, and things need to sometimes just get done … but apparently not so much anymore. Some prefer civil war, in case you haven’t noticed.
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NJ – Thanks for your explanation.
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