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We've all been reeling from the bloodbath Tuesday, so here is a classic that never ceases to crack me up!
I'm not sure who the original comedy is from, but it was posted by Anita Gashumov on FB.
Enjoy! This one is so funny, and it's clean humor. 🤣😂🙏
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🚨 Trump's economic revolution is staggering - and I had TDS for 7 years.
Biased, corrupt media never covered these wins.
✅ GDP grew 3.4% in Q3, beating forecasts and up from 2.2% in Q2
✅ The Atlanta Fed expects 3.4% growth again in Q4
✅ Business investment is up 9.4%, the biggest jump since 2020
✅ Consumer spending is up 3.8%
✅ Layoffs are near record lows, with weekly jobless claims at just 194,000
✅ Consumer confidence jumped 7.5 points in October
✅ Poverty has hit a record low
✅ Median income is the highest on record
✅ Citizens rather than non-citizens are getting more of the new jobs
✅ Mass immigration has stopped
✅ Violent crime posted its largest annual drop, and the murder rate is tying a multi-decade low
✅ Tax fraud, waste and abuse are ending
✅ MAHA is delivering real change, lower prices and fixing the system
Election integrity, tried hard pass The Save America Act. Only to be thwarted by RINOs.
🪙 Trump's Golden Age:
🏭 For the first time in 26 years, the U.S. outproduces Japan in steel
🏗️ The first new U.S. iron ore mine in 50 years, feeding a planned $15 billion Iowa steel mill
🔩 The first new primary aluminum smelter in 50 years, in Oklahoma, which will double U.S. primary capacity once online
🚜 The first U.S.-assembled Volvo excavators are rolling out of Pennsylvania, and John Deere is moving excavator production home
🌾 Potash was named a critical mineral, with a $1.26 billion DOE loan commitment for a new Michigan mine and a USDA-backed Utah project
🧲 Rare earth magnets at scale for the first time in a generation, with a $1.2 billion South Carolina plant breaking ground
💎 Critical minerals reshored, ending 100% import dependence on 15 strategic minerals
🖥️ The first ever complete AI chip supply chain
📈 Manufacturing construction starts are up 20.2%
🔧 Machine-tool orders are up about 37% year to date, the strongest first half since the series began in 1998
🏭 The manufacturing PMI is the strongest since 2022
💰 $18 trillion pledged to restore America's ability to produce at home
🛢️ U.S. oil output tops Saudi Arabia and Russia
⚡ Power plant builds are up 68.5%
🔼 10 new LNG terminals will double export capacity by 2030
⚛️ 10 new AP1000 nuclear reactors
☢️ Nuclear goes from 100 to 400 GW, quadrupling nuclear power by 2050, with restarts underway in PA, MI and CA
Look at Brent crude & WTI after the midterms.
Both are already down nearly 10%.
Obvious Trump was being intentionally sabotaged with Brent crude (City of London financial elites) and gas prices.
I'll take this trajectory over what we had and will have with Democrats. Every. Single. Day.
Pass the SAVE America Act.
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We're in a new era of communication, and only one side seems to be living in it. The old guard consultant class is about to be relegated to the dustbin of history.
If you think that high prices lost the election for the right, you don't understand marketing. Humans have no problem paying a premium for a good quality brand. Notice the word "brand", not "product". Are Nikes better than New Balance? Nope. But the brand is better. And notice what happened when they tinkered with the brand and screwed their core narrative? Nike stock fell through the basement. Did the product change? Nope. The brand did.
It's not the product, it's the brand. Results don't sell the product, the storytelling does. Will these newly-elected commies lower prices? Of course not. Are they gonna get you free healthcare? No, your insurance is gonna get even worse, just like it did the last time they tried socialized medicine. They're not going to do anything they've sold you, but...like Saul Goodman said: if you're committed enough, you can make any story work.
The committed storytelling of a couple insane podcasters was enough to fracture an entire political coalition from their own side in less than 2 years...they have zero power, zero credibility, they've never actually governed anything nor produced any results, but...they're good storytellers, and that's all that matters. Are they telling a good story? No, it's atrocious, but they're telling their atrocious story effectively and compellingly.
It is 100% true that everything's too damn expensive, and we all know that inflated prices are always sticky. Does anyone know that it's entirely the result of shutting down the global economy over the flu and (both naive republicans and democrats) printing infinity dollars for several years? Nope...because nobody has effectively told that story, and it's an unsexy story to tell. "Free stuff!" is a VERY easy story to tell, and when everyone's gotta take out a second mortgage just to pay their insurance premiums, "free healthcare" is an unbeatable story. It doesn't matter that "free healthcare" doesn't exist and socialized medicine is a terrible product...it's not the product, it's the brand. And "FREE!" is a great brand.
You can't get mad at people for having the financial literacy of a 9 year old. I mean, you can, but they outnumber you a million to one, so it's not going to be productive. You need to figure out how to make an unsexy story sexy, or else the "free stuff!" crowd is going to eat your lunch every time. If you give people a choice between earning a six pack on a treadmill or taking Ozempic, they're gonna choose Ozempic...they don't care about the side effects. If you give people a choice between fiscal discipline or free stuff...guess what they'll pick? They don't care about the side effects.
With projected growth of 5%, the economy right now is stronger than it's been in generations. Is that the story you hear? Nope. Is that the vibe you feel? Absolutely not, especially when every time you fill up your gas tank, it feels like a diesel enema.
It's not the product, it's the brand. A great product can fall into oblivion with bad messaging...a single bad review from one effective storyteller can tank a restaurant. The "influencer economy" is lucrative for a reason; everybody inherently understands the importance of effective storytelling...except the right. Zohran Mamdani gets it...he has an army of influencers on staff. In a perfect metaphor of this transitional phase of old guard vs new wave political messaging, Zohran nuked the Vice President into oblivion with maybe the biggest ratio in the history of the internet. By simply posting the subway assistant meme, Mamdani got 2 MILLION likes, quoting a post from the VP that had only 10K likes. If you're reading that sentence thinking "this is fucking ridiculous, you're talking about social media likes as political analysis now?"...you are the problem.
Yes, this stuff matters. Rizz matters. The President did a masterful job of this kind of retail politics in his historic 2024 campaign...you can be angry that this is what politics has been reduced to, but you can either adapt or die.
"No the problem is, you didn't deliver enough for the American people!" Are you a moron? Since when does anybody care about that? What have democrats delivered for Californians in the last 20 years? Unmitigated wildfires, homeless drug zombies everywhere, roads that look like Fallujah in 2004...people don't care about results. They think they care about results. That want you to believe they care about results, just as Nike wants you to believe their shoes are better than New Balance...but at the end of the day, all people really care about is the swoosh.
Adapt or die.
Guys, I hate to break it to you, but most political advisors are so bafflingly incompetent, it would make your head spin. All the talented communicators go work in Hollywood or at Saatchi and Saatchi, and these political bros never tap these agencies for help...I've connected several campaigns with literally the best marketing geniuses in the game, got them discounted rates, even...and they just never even bothered calling. It truly feels like a lot of consultants and candidates just want to lose.
You ever wonder how my ads went so massively viral, but there's not been a single candidate who's come close to it? It's their dumbass advisors. I didn't go with any political advisors, and they were SO mad about it. I partnered with a filmmaker and marketing wizard, instead of political grifters. Why? Because I wanted our messaging to be effective. Political ads suck. Nobody watches them. I wanted people to want to watch my ads. The fact that nobody else understands this is...I honestly don't know how to explain it, other than they want to lose.
There are a bunch of candidates who love it when their party loses power. It takes all the heat off them, because then they can't be expected to pass legislation when they're in the minority, plus they can fundraise way better off of the rage when the opposition is running roughshod over the country. Baffling to watch.
Coug62 retweeted
Hanson is never wrong
🚨What happens if Trump loses the House and Senate?
Clinton & Obama already set precedent.
They weren't done at all in their last 2 years.
Victor Davis Hanson explains:
Clinton fell to 37% approval but left office at about 66%. In between, he was impeached but not convicted and bombed Serbia for 78 days without Congress.
Obama's approval fell to 38% and still left office near 60%. He bombed Libya in 2011 without Congress, ran hundreds of drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, and started bombing ISIS in Iraq and Syria in 2014 without a new vote. He said "I've got a pen and I've got a phone," and skipped the Senate on the Iran deal and Paris.
Low approval and a hostile Congress didn't finish them. For both, it was the best thing that ever happened to them in some ways.
Coug62 retweeted
Republican leadership create jobs growth. Democrat leadership creates tax growth. Choose wisely. 🇺🇸
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WOW: Political ad GENIUS
“We’re just people experiencing voting Republican”
This is how you bridge the gap.
This is how you reach people’s hearts.
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Let’s be clear:
If I’m not going to sleep with you, I don’t need to know anything about your sexuality.
And children—who are not going to sleep with anyone—certainly don’t.
Your sexuality is not sacred. It’s not a personality, it’s not a protected class of performance art, and it’s not the center of anyone’s moral universe but your own. Unless we are in a relationship, I am not obligated to acknowledge, affirm, or be exposed to your private desires—especially not in public, and especially not in front of children.
This used to be understood. Now it’s called hate.
No, We Don’t Owe You an Audience
Sexuality belongs in the private realm. It is intimate by definition. If you feel compelled to wear your kink on your sleeve—or on a float, or in a first-grade classroom—you are not inviting understanding, you are demanding submission. You are violating others’ right not to participate.
Consent doesn’t vanish because your fetish is “progressive.” If anything, the burden is higher.
No one consents to being flashed on the subway. No one consents to a stranger’s arousal. No one consents to a stranger telling their child about masturbation, kink, gender identity, or pornographic categories under the guise of “inclusive sex ed.” Yet all of this is happening now—in public parks, in classrooms, in televised programming.
It is not tolerance. It is invasion.
Children Are Not Here to Validate You
Children are not queer. Children are not sexual. Children do not need to “see themselves represented” in a spectrum of adult desire. This idea—that identity is only valid if sexualized and mirrored—is narcissism, not pedagogy.
There is no legitimate reason to initiate a child into the language of sexual preference, gender identity, or alternative lifestyles. The only people who benefit from that dynamic are those looking to normalize boundary violations.
Let me state it plainly:
Children who are not going to have sex do not need to be exposed to sexuality.
Period.
Any adult who insists otherwise is not confused. They are grooming.
Public Fetishism Is Not Liberation
There is a vast difference between being gay and demanding the right to simulate sex acts in front of children. Between being transgender and insisting on teaching kindergartners about breast removal. Between being proud of who you are and insisting the whole world observe your kink play in the street.
This is not diversity. This is decay.
Men in dog masks being walked on leashes by their lovers are not brave—they are forcing strangers into their psychodrama. This is exhibitionism, and when children are present, it becomes criminal exhibitionism.
We used to know this. Peeping, flashing, voyeurism—these were considered red flags. Dangerous behaviors. Early signs of escalation. Now they’re filmed, hashtagged, and funded by public grants.
Stop Calling It Love—It’s Entitlement
This is not about who you love. It’s about how you demand to be seen. If you need the entire public to witness, applaud, and adapt to your sexuality, you’re not a pioneer—you’re an emotional colonizer.
Love does not demand a captive audience. It does not parade past toddlers. It does not demand that schools teach four-year-olds about “preferred pronouns.” Love protects children. Love guards modesty. Love waits.
And if you can’t wait—if you need to be seen, affirmed, and obeyed—you’re not talking about love. You’re talking about power.
Consent Applies to Culture, Too
We teach children that consent is sacred—so why are we failing to apply that lesson to public life?
No child consents to drag queen story hour.
No parent consents to leather harnesses on city floats.
No woman consents to being exposed to male sexuality in the ladies’ room, or in the school library, or anywhere she cannot opt out.
Consent is not just for sex. It’s for everything.
Attention. Language. Presence. Ideology. Imagery.
And we are done pretending we don’t notice when it’s violated.
The boundary is back.
And we are drawing it in bold.
Coug62 retweeted
This is exactly me at 60 now. I don't have a bucket list, I have a FCUK it list, that's how I live, twitterati's who knows me personally will agree I am sure 😁😁 read fully 😁😁
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If you ever wondered which side of the fence you sit on, this is a great test!
If a Conservative doesn't like guns, he doesn't buy one.
If a Liberal doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.
If a Conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn't eat meat.
If a Liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.
If a Conservative is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.
If a Liberal is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.
If a Conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.
A Liberal wonders who is going to take care of him.
If a Conservative doesn't like a talk show host, he switches channels.
Liberals demand that those they don't like be shut down.
If a Conservative is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church.
A Liberal non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced.
If a Conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it.
A Liberal demands that the rest of us pay for his.
If a Conservative reads this, he'll forward it so his friends can have a good laugh.
A Liberal will delete it because he's "offended".
Coug62 retweeted
A left-wing PAC is mailing this to Republicans in Washington to trick them into voting against protecting girls' sports. Don't take the bait. YES on I-638. Pass it on.
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@chrisreykdal
Here we are, months after we met in person, when you sat across from me spewing lies and discrediting the feelings of girls, and now you’re doing the same thing again.
You say in this interview that we should have “respect for our colleagues”. First of all, these people aren’t my colleagues. This is not about respect or disrespect. Then, you go on to dump guilt in our laps by saying that there are only 10–15 transgender athletes and then question why we can’t make them feel included. How dare you? It is not my job to make boys and men feel included. I don’t care about their feelings; I care about my own safety and fairness in my sport. Speaking of feelings, the downfall of education and what I see on a daily basis going on in the classrooms is more focused on feelings than truth and education standards which is a big problem. Life isn’t all about feelings.
You have come out publicly against I-638, saying it is unnecessary. Thank God we have an initiative process in place in this state that allows people to stand up and use common sense against people like you, who are pushing your own agenda and ideology down the throats of Washingtonians.
Coming from a 17-year-old, you’re useless. You are doing a disservice to the girls of Washington State by not having the guts to stand up for us. I also find it interesting that you say our brains are not fully developed until we are 25, yet you have come out against Initiative 001 and are in favor of minors being able to change their gender, be called a different name, and pursue “gender-affirming care” without their parents’ knowledge. I am not a state superintendent, and, for that matter, I haven’t even graduated high school. Yet, I have enough common sense to know that hiding information like that from parents is terribly wrong.
But let’s stick to I-638. As an adult with a fully developed brain, you should use it to stand up for us girls who are crying out for help and simply asking to be protected in our own category and locker rooms. You are a true embarrassment. Thank you for showing the people of this state who you really are, especially the girls who are suffering because of your lack of awareness about what is happening right within our state. Your daughter, whom you like to bring up, and who you claim was an athlete herself, should be ashamed of her own father for not protecting girls. It makes me sick to think that you are hanging this dark cloud of guilt over the young girls in this state who are fighting for something that truly matters and are simply asking for safety in their locker rooms and fairness in their sports.
I had an 18-year-old man in my locker room when I was 15. What, in your right mind, makes you think it is okay for me and other girls to have to potentially see a penis in our locker rooms? Again, what kind of person thinks it is okay for someone to see a penis in a girls’ locker room-perversion comes to mind.
You sit there and lie, making people afraid by spreading misinformation about the initiative. You claim that it requires an invasive genital exam to confirm someone’s sex. That is absolutely wrong. What is truly happening, however, is that girls are being forced to enter such vulnerable spaces and risk seeing male genitals without their consent, or to compete against males on their girls’ teams.
Lastly, speaking of respect, I have absolutely none for you. You have done nothing to support the truth; instead, you continue to go against it. You danced around the truth in April when we met, and you continue to do so now. If I were old enough to vote—and trust me, I wish I were—I would be the first one to try to vote you out of office.
Because you have done nothing, I will continue to ask @GovBobFerguson for a face-to-face meeting. However, I doubt that will happen because, unfortunately, he shares the same crooked ideology as you.
In closing, I want to encourage people to vote YES on I-638 to protect girls’ sports!
-Frances Staudt
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🚨This is the passerby from the truck we showed earlier. He confronted the shooter outside Silver Rail Elementary, got shot at, and almost got killed. Then he saw the 16-year-old go into the school and went after him. Police say he stopped him before he could kill more. Three children and one teacher are dead. A 7-year-old and another teacher are critically injured. Thank God for that young man. We need more people like that in America. Prayers for the families.
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THE BIGGEST LIE EVER TOLD
The IPCC has nothing.
Forty years of civilizational alarm. Trillions of dollars redirected. Energy systems dismantled. Farmers crushed. Children taught to fear the sky. Political freedom surrendered. Reproductive choices second-guessed. Entire economies rewired.
For nothing.
There is no empirical finding underneath any of it. None. Not one measurement, standing on its own, that would move a reasonable person to alarm.
The entire structure is manufactured.
Ask for one item. True without a model. Significant without a redefinition. Measured without extrapolation. Able to stand alone and matter to a parent, a farmer, a shipowner, an engineer, a legislator.
The honest inventory is three measurements. Not one of them means anything by itself.
CO₂ rose from 315 to 425 ppm since 1958. Plants grew better. Nothing bad happened that follows from the number.
Humans emit about 10 GtC/yr from combustion. A flux figure. By itself it tells you nothing.
CO₂ absorbs infrared on known bands. Water vapor absorbs far more. A spectroscopic line is not a consequence.
That is it. The entire empirical pile. Three measurements. Zero significance.
Everything else they have told you is one of three tricks.
Model output passed off as observation. Climate sensitivity. Airborne fraction read as retention. Revelle-limited uptake. Millennial persistence. Attribution of warming to forcing. Catastrophic projection. None of this is measured. All of it is what model code returns when they turn its crank. Model output is the model's assumptions integrated forward. It is not testimony from nature. It never was.
Definitional sleight-of-hand. Global mean surface temperature called a physical quantity. It is not. It is an area-weighted arithmetic mean of intensive readings with no thermodynamic referent. The 44 percent ratio of annual growth to annual emission relabeled as an airborne fraction and sold as retention. It carries zero information about retention. Fossil "dominance" quietly redefined from "nearly all" to "a bare majority" so the claim survives data that killed the real version.
Extrapolation sold as measurement. Tide gauges spliced to altimetry and projected as acceleration. Local pH drift at a handful of stations generalized to a planetary crisis. Arctic ice loss broadcast while Antarctic stability is dropped. Retreating glaciers paraded. Advancing ones hidden.
Strip the models. Strip the redefinitions. Strip the extrapolations. The pile is empty.
This is the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
The civilizational emergency has no empirical content. It was built by running trivial measurements through model chains and definitional swaps until the output read as apocalypse. Then it was broadcast as settled science. Then dissent was criminalized. Then careers were destroyed. Then children were terrified. Then nations were restructured.
For nothing.
The emperor has no clothes.
The pile is empty.
The alarm is a fabrication.
The greatest lie ever told to the human species was told in the name of saving the planet from a trace gas that feeds every green thing that lives.
That is the headline.
That is the story.
That is what you were never supposed to notice.
Now you know.
