Remember all those Trump rallies this year where the crowds shouted "Re-take the Canal!"?

 Yeah, me neither.

A New Panama Canal Treaty for the American People

Van Hipp, FOX News

The president with the largest popular vote mandate over his opponent in the post-war was Richard M. Nixon in 1972 over George McGovern

 1.61 votes for Nixon for every vote for McGovern, the real reason Democrats hated him so much.

The smallest popular mandate belonged to JFK over Nixon in 1960 at 1.0033. Democrats stole that election but Nixon let it pass for the good of the country.

There were smaller mandates, if you count Bush 2000 at 0.98 (Gore 1.01), or Trump 2016 at 0.95 (Hillary 1.04), lol, but those aren't really popular vote mandates now are they?

LBJ was second in 1964 with 1.58, because JFK had been assassinated in 1963. I don't think Jesus himself could have won it for the GOP in 1964.

Third overall was Reagan in 1984 with 1.44, followed by IKE at fourth and fifth with 1.36 and 1.24 respectively in 1956 and 1952.

If back-to-back terms is your yardstick, Reagan was tops with a combined mandate of 1.335, followed by Nixon at 1.31, IKE at 1.30, Bill Clinton at 1.17, and Obama at 1.115. Bush 43 brings up the rear at a distant 1.015.

People who think Trump is a repudiation of Bush 43 Republicanism should consider that Trump's not-back-to-back combined score is now 0.99.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Trump is a transitional figure for the GOP, and certainly not a nationally transformational one like Reagan who destroyed the bipolar world, IKE who re-moralized a victorious but demoralized nation, and Nixon who fatefully opened the door to China.

Unfortunately for the GOP, Trump is mostly just a wrecking ball who is wrecking his own HDQ, and the Democrat threat remains just decimal points away.

 

 

 

 

For every Kamala Harris voter there were just 1.03 Donald Trump voters lol

Even Hillary's mandate was bigger than that in 2016 lol: 1.04.

Xi Jinping orders halt to mass killings, news about which Chicoms find increasingly difficult to censor despite police state conditions

 

The attacks, where drivers mow down people on foot or knife-wielding assailants stab multiple victims, are not new in China. But the latest surge drew attention. ...

In November alone, three took place: A man struck people at an elementary school in Hunan province, wounding 30, after suffering investment losses. A student who failed his examination stabbed and killed eight at a vocational school in the city of Yixing. The most victims, 35 people, resulted from a man mowing down a crowd in the southern city of Zhuhai, supposedly upset over his divorce. ...

In eastern Anhui province, a ruling Communist Party leader ... said they must “thoroughly and meticulously investigate and resolve conflicts and disputes,” including in families, marriages and neighborhoods. ...

The Ministry of Justice promised to curtail conflicts by looking into squabbles over inheritance, housing, land and unpaid wages.

Ha ha ha, good luck with that.

More.

That 2018 border wall looks pretty cheap now by comparison lol

 

$86 billion

$25 billion

Ho Ho Ho

 

This would be quite the payback to Trump for Jan 6, 2021 lol

 The House Speaker election is January 3, 2025.

You've got 34 Republicans pissed off at passage of the American Relief Act on December 20th by Mike Johnson and 170 Republicans.

Hakeem Jeffries has already told everyone Democrats will not help elect Mike Johnson speaker again because he stiffed them on the continuing spending resolution. Democrats are pissed off, too, although 196 did vote Yea on the bill.

So Republicans absolutely need those 34 to re-elect Johnson to speaker on Jan 3rd.

But let's say they don't, and the process drags out like it did with Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

The 2024 election results go to Congress in joint session for casting of the electoral college votes on January 6th, but that wouldn't happen without a speaker to swear-in the new House.

Jan 6, 2025 could be disrupted for Trump.

Very amusing.

Discussed here.

Elon Musk was all-in on Matt Gaetz lol

Elon Musk has had 12 children with three women, six of whom were with a Canadian.

 

 

This guy couldn't pull off an Anschluss even if his life depended on it, let alone spell it

 

I don't know how Bill Hagerty got through Vanderbilt Law, maybe Clay Travis knows and will tell us if he's not too busy getting ready for America's biggest holiday on October 31st

 

To Mark Tooley a Protestant America means, among other things, the routinized revolution of periodic elections criticized by Oswald Spengler as a mark of the blindness and cowardice of Liberalism

 Our democracy is a constant state of revolution, overthrowing incumbents in favor of successors who also will soon face revolution. 

Here. 

Revolution, in the form of periodic mass elections fought by all available means of money, brains, and even - after the Gracchan method - physical violence, is exalted into a constitutional process.

-- Oswald Spengler, The Hour of Decision, 1934

 

The real conservative cannot stand it that eternal truths, laws, and morals are subjected to a referendum every few years. A country which does this is perverse. And no real Lutheran would abide it, let alone a true Roman Catholic.

House Ethics Draft Report on Trump's withdrawn AG candidate Matt Gaetz concludes Gaetz was a very bad boy despite his denials

 The House Ethics Committee gathered evidence that former Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida paid multiple women for sex, including a 17-year-old high school junior, used illegal drugs like cocaine and ecstasy and obstructed efforts by Congress to investigate his conduct, according to a draft of its findings obtained by Just the News.

“The Committee determined there is substantial evidence that Representative Gaetz violated House Rules and other standards of conduct prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, impermissible gifts, special favors or privileges, and obstruction of Congress," stated the draft of the report slated to be released  this week.

The draft report also said it did not find evidence that Gaetz had engaged in sex trafficking as some had alleged, concluding that all the women who traveled with Gaetz out of their home states did so voluntarily even if they accepted payments for sex. ...

More. 

"Tens of thousands of dollars" were involved 2017-2020.

Joe Biden commutes federal death sentences to life in prison without parole but not for Robert Bowers, Dylaan Roof, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

 President Biden used his clemency authority Monday to commute the sentences of 37 of the 40 men on federal death row to life without parole, in one of the most significant moves taken against capital punishment in recent presidential history. ...

Biden's actions come shortly after he pardoned 39 individuals who were convicted of nonviolent crimes, and commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 others who were placed on home confinement during the COVID pandemic.

Monday's announcement also follows controversy over Biden's pardon of his own son, Hunter Biden, for gun and tax charges.

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Hakeem Jeffries repays GOP for pulling original continuing spending resolution last week: Mike Johnson's House speakership won't be saved by Democrat votes in January

 

Jeffries: There Will Be No Democratic Votes To Save Speaker Johnson Or MAGA Republicans From Themselves

 

. . . there will be no Democrats available to save him or the extreme MAGA Republicans from themselves based on the breaching of a bipartisan agreement that reflected priorities good for the American people.

Bill Hagerty 2024 is a pathetic excuse for a senator, can't show up for critical votes, might as well be 2010 Nancy Pelosi saying we have to pass Obamacare to find out what's in it

 

Sen. Hagerty: "Thank God Elon Musk Bought Twitter, That's The Only Way We'd Even Know What's In This Bill"

Donald Trump is the president of the UniParty

Change my mind.

 

Fox News dipshit says Trump gave a masterclass lol

 DAVID MARCUS: De facto President Trump's handling of shutdown threat was a masterclass

The piece of legislation which the boss said at 4:00 PM on the 19th was very important and even vital to making America great again was defeated 235-174 not three hours later at 6:54 PM lol.

 

Maybe the dumbest line though was this:

 

. . . having slayed the dragon of out-of-control spending . . ..

David is too dumb to understand that a continuing spending resolution simply continues the spending which already put fiscal 2024 $1.9 trillion in the hole.

The extra $100 billion for the tent people of Western North Carolina is just the insult added to the injury.

I seem to recall that throughout the aftermath of the hurricanes there was vigorous protestation from the right about FEMA still having plenty of money and they didn't need any more. But here we are.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Do you think these guys even once sat down together to discuss the continuing spending resolution before this week's fiasco?

 Maybe James Braid, new Director of the Office of Legislative Affairs, knows lol.

 

Is this James Braid?

Congress is god, not Donald Trump

 Homo proponit sed Deus disponit.

 

 

Luigi's mom: I could see him doing something like that

 

When detectives reached out to accused CEO killer Luigi Mangione’s mother after the first photos of the suspect emerged, she said she wasn’t certain it was him – but told investigators the shooting “might be something that she could see him doing,” a New York Police Department official said Tuesday.

Here.