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Given the nature and extent of America’s ideological schism, all effective public policies should be made in the anticipation that this schism will endure.  Existentially we are no longer one nation.  Rebane Doctrine, 2024.

The mentality of collectivists – progressives, liberals, wokes, socialists, communists, neo-Marxists, … – ranges within a space anchored by insanity, cynicism, and evil. The evidence continues to pour in.  Today we hear leftwing commentators on lamestream media attempting to foster doubt that there was an actual assassination attempt on Donald Trump.  Their cynical cum evil proposals to their ill-informed audiences are that the blood letting was staged and/or was caused by some mysterious shards of broken glass exploding out of somewhere.

As expected, Bumblebrain is out and an even worse choice in Kamala Harris is now undemocratically foisted by the Dem elites as their new standard bearer. (more here)  But everyone knows Kamala will just be the next empty pipe to power for those who have been acting as the administration’s Star Chamber.  She will be a compliant conduit between the leftwing power brokers and the public policies they intend to implement, much like Joe Biden has been during his term.  From my perch I see the political landscape between now and November as a minefield for Republicans, especially Donald Trump.  There will be an opportunity to make countless politically destructive gaffs when shooting from the lip as the campaign really heats up.

[22jul24 update]  POTUS is NOT the hardest job in the world as any casual perusal of history will confirm.  In fact, POTUS may be the most fault tolerant job ever.  For how else do people with no executive experience and a woefully limited knowledge base perform more or less adequately – i.e. they didn’t start WW3?  Almost anyone who reads English can assume the position and make it through with on-the-job training that is amply available to a president.  Since FDR, consider the tenures of Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Obama, and now Biden.

PJ Media is not a credible source of news and information due to its conservative outlook – so again posits one of our leftwing commenters after I cited it above in reference to the ‘undemocratic’ way that the Dems have hoisted Kamala to be their standard bearer.  What I always ask these liberal critics is for the evidence they have to support their assertion.  They can never provide any such backing for their gratuitous conclusion.  This is in opposition to conservatives dunning liberal outlets like NYT, WaPo, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, PBS as willing shills of the Democratic Party publishing years of unrecanted lies to their audiences.  As evidence just consider their years of ongoing reporting on the Russian election interference, that the border is secure, onset of inflation, Trump instigating insurrection, FBI doctoring FISA evidence, Hunter’s laptop as Russian disinformation, Hillary’s paying for generating the infamous Trump memo, and on and on.  And now we know that the whole cadre of the country’s Left has been covering up and lying about the cognitive breakdown of Joe Biden which has been obvious to Americans during his entire term as POTUS.

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160 responses to “Scattershots – 21jul24 (updated 22jul24)”

  1. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Obama was U.S. Senator for four years before becoming President. He was elected as the junior Senator from Illinois in November 2004. On November 4, 2008, Obama became the first African-American to be elected President.
    You are embarrassing yourself Don just like you did when you tried to pass an anti marijuana initiative in Nevada County.
    Don, do you believe that JD Vance is qualified to be Vice President?

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  2. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: lefty Todd Emery | 22 July 2024 at 07:19 PM
    You are embarrassing yourself Don just like you did when you tried to pass an anti marijuana initiative in Nevada County.

    Don you should listen to him…..if anyone here is familiar with embarrassing themself it’s lefty Todd.

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  3. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    What a maroon @719 ROFLOL
    😉

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  4. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Oh ya she is who she is –
    Kamala Harris-backed ‘Freedom Fund’ that put murderers, rapists back on streets still up and running
    ‘Freedom Fund,’ a Harris-backed bail fund, is still accepting donations to get violent criminals out of jail
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/kamala-harris-backed-freedom-fund-put-murderers-rapists-back-streets-still-up-running
    😉

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  5. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Tulsi Gabbard Don??? Who remembers her anyway?

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  6. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: lefty Todd Emery | 22 July 2024 at 09:01 PM
    Tulsi Gabbard Don??? Who remembers her anyway?

    I do enjoy it when you bring out all of your personalities. We haven’t seen the snotty teenaged girl for a while.

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  7. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Well its too bad the po’ ol’ ponytail of ignorance is forced to confront his memory issues publicly. #sadoldman
    😉

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  8. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The chosen one or the sacrificial lamb?
    Harris has support of enough Democratic delegates to become party’s presidential nominee
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/harris-looks-lock-democratic-nomination-041637515.html
    😉

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  9. Scott O Avatar

    Ahem – my post from the 21st:
    “And just like that – the Dem party is all hugs and kisses again!
    The most brilliantist person to stride the earth will be the Dem nominee! That big pile of dough will be available for the run to November and she will save us all from the most evil creature ever. Huzzah!”
    Today from Van Jones (after drying his tears):
    “All of the things that were cringey about Kamala – her laugh, the coconut tree comment, being unburdened by what – like all those weird things she said, she’s gone from cringe to cool in 24 hours as a whole generation has taken all that content and remixed it in all these incredible TikTok videos.”
    https://www.mediaite.com/tv/cringe-to-cool-in-24-hours-cnns-van-jones-says-theres-something-happening-with-kamala-harris-on-tiktok-right-now/
    and –
    “Vice President Kamala Harris claimed a stunning $231 million from small and big donors in the first 24 hours since she launched her presidential campaign.”
    https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/07/22/harris-presidential-campaign-donations-first-day/
    Welcome to the world of “our democracy”!

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  10. fish Avatar
    fish

    Buh bye then…..

    Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigns over Trump shooting outrage

    Another quota hire says adieu! Maybe the SBC is hiring?
    https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/23/secret-service-resigns-trump-shooting.html

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  11. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Gabbard remains in the rotation of Bill Mahre’s program. She gets great audience response and kudos from Maher.
    She remains an apostate Democrat, hated by the true believers. Like Punch.

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  12. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    fish, positions at the SBC for the heavily wrinkled set are limited.

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  13. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Latest Poll shows Harris surging against Trump.
    “When voters in the survey were shown a hypothetical ballot that included independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Harris led Trump 42 percent to 38 percent, an advantage outside the margin of error. Kennedy, favored by 8 percent of voters in the poll, has yet to qualify for the ballot in many states ahead of the Nov. 5 election.”
    It’s also an improvement on a Reuters poll taken July 1-2, when Trump led Biden by one percentage points”
    https://www.reuters.com/world/us/harris-leads-trump-44-42-us-presidential-race-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2024-07-23/

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  14. Scott O Avatar

    I can see why Paul likes Harris – presidential timber fer sure:
    https://x.com/regina_check/status/1815097132157927502
    Putin and Xi be quakin’ in their boots –
    And don’t forget the masterful job she did as “Border Czar”.

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  15. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Reality is setting in –
    What’s more, as even MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki admitted on live television, early Democrat enthusiasm for a Harris ticket appears based more on “hope” than on reality. Harris’s approval ratings and head-to-head polling numbers against Trump are about as abysmal as Biden’s were, Kornacki said this week, and barring some massive sea change in things soon that seems unlikely to shift at all as the campaign progresses.
    Then there’s the New York Times, the liberal newspaper whose editorial board warned Democrats against coronating Harris so quickly, which published an analysis showing of potential Democrat candidates against Trump upon a Biden withdrawal that Harris is by far the weakest of the bunch.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/23/chaos-of-abrupt-desperate-democrat-switch-kamala-harris-already-backfiring/
    😉

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  16. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Nice dancing. She likes to have fun. Do you have a problem with that? Can you imagine Trump trying to dance?

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  17. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: lefty Todd Emery | 23 July 2024 at 08:45 PM
    She likes to have fun.

    Willie thought so.

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  18. Scott O Avatar

    Paul:
    “Do you have a problem with that?”
    See? I knew that would be a big turn on for Paul.
    I have a problem with the fact that she hasn’t shown herself capable of doing anything else.
    Well – also laughing like a jackass.
    Care to show me a video of her actually accomplishing anything positive for our country?
    She was put in “charge” of the border and didn’t do squat. She’s the perfect Dem puppet POTUS.
    As you recall when she tried to get votes from the Dems in an actual primary election, she couldn’t do shit. But the Nabobs in the DNC forced Joe out and want her installed because she has access to the pile of dough they need, so just like Van Jones said:
    “She went from cringe to cool in 24 hours”.
    Because she dances.
    And voters like Paul fall right in line.
    Xi and Putin are just shaking in their boots.

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  19. fish Avatar
    fish

    When the truth is an …attack…!

    ‘Dumb’ and ‘DEI’ candidate: Harris faces attacks based on race, gender…

    America is as dead as psul’s pecker!
    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/republican-attacks-kamala-harris-center-race-gender-dumb-dei-candidate-rcna162570

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  20. fish Avatar
    fish

    “The old man finally returned to the public eye yesterday, proving he’s still alive and can move under his own power.2 He delicately exited his limo, walked up the big-boy steps to Air Force One all by himself without falling, and executed a crisp salute to the watching world. With Jill nowhere to be seen.
    He wanted to get everything right, because it was the last time.
    That’s after his initial proof of life on Monday, when he called into Kamala’s emergency campaign launch. It was obviously him — no, not an actor, not AI — and he did not sound good.
    So now we know he can still speak, and we know he can still walk under his own power. We just don’t know if he can do both at the same time.
    He’s supposed to address the country tonight in prime time. I wonder what he’ll talk about?
    I think America is about to get our first female president of the United States.
    Sorry, Hillary!

    Your daily schadenfreude is the Hillary reference…..! Think I’ll bask in that for awhile!
    https://jimtreacher.substack.com/p/whos-joe

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  21. Real MAGA Wives of SCOTUS Avatar
    Real MAGA Wives of SCOTUS

    Hilarious Op letter in The Union. Which one of you is Manny Montez?

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  22. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Real MAGA Wives of SCOTUS | 24 July 2024 at 10:01 AM
    Which one of you is Manny Montez?

    …..pssst….dugsKKKi ….it’s really Rich Howell! He’s been working on coming out of the “Conservative Closet”. Trying to find a way to tell his friends! Sometimes he gets a little carried away.

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  23. Real MAGA Wives of SCOTUS Avatar
    Real MAGA Wives of SCOTUS

    “Fox News host Dana Perino claimed Monday that it is “ridiculous” and “cutesy” for Democrats to call attention to how 78-year-old Donald Trump is the oldest presidential nominee in U.S. history.”
    Waaaaa! They are being mean to Trump, Waaaa!

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  24. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “Waaaaa! They are being mean to Trump, Waaaa!”
    Grow up, asswipe.

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  25. Scott O Avatar

    “They are being mean to Trump”
    Naw – they’re just being hypocrites, per usual.
    If a Dem does something, it’s wonderful and brave.
    If a R does the same exact thing, they’re NAZIs.
    Tiresome crap.
    But it’s all he Dems have.
    It’s a very effective technique with the simpletons and know-nothings on the left and the usual Dem voter.
    Pelosi is older than Trump and Biden but worked to get Biden out because of his “age”. LOL

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  26. Scott O Avatar

    Gregory 4:17 – I remember when that article originally appeared. Thanks for bringing it up. Not that Paul or the usual know-nothings will read it.
    Most telling line:
    “never address Harris nor look her in the eye”
    The news in DC from people who worked in the Veep office was that she hadn’t changed a bit.
    But she can dance and “likes to have a good time”.
    So let’s make her the next POTUS.
    OK.

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  27. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Time she learns what being THE candidate is all about and its going to be ugly –
    “I will not be shamed out of discussing this by people who say it’s slut shaming or it’s not relevant,” Kelly said. “It is relevant when a young candidate tries to sleep her way into politics and into power. And that is what it appears Kamala Harris did when she was a young, political aspirant in San Francisco when she had an affair with a man 30 years older than she was.”
    She continued, “Willie Brown, who is like the godfather of San Francisco politics and very well known. And sure enough, that relationship paid dividends for her in more ways than one.”
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/megyn-kelly-smears-kamala-harris-225356506.html
    😉

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  28. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    I’ve never used the c word referring to an adult human female, but Harris could be my first.

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  29. Scott O Avatar

    “godfather of San Francisco politics”
    He was at that time one of the most powerful pols in CA. Had it not been for his power and favor to her, she would now be a legal hack in a law office somewhere.

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  30. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    We have airbags in our cars because Speaker Willie didn’t like seat belts… not that the law wouldn’t have gotten to where it is now eventually.
    Willie Brown followed Jesse Unruh. A powerful orifice.

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  31. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Dont forget the SF/Marin money machine G man like gavin and the gettys. Creepy grampa joe continues the big lie and his leaches aka family all in the office when he had to close the deal for all the families deals to make it happen –
    President Biden was slammed for his remarks from the Oval Office on Wednesday evening that his administration is lowering border crossings at a better rate than under former President Donald Trump.
    “Biden: ‘We are also securing our border. Border crossings are lower today than when the previous administration left office,’” communications director for the State Freedom Caucus Network, Greg Price, posted to X.
    “A lie so pathetic that you almost have to laugh,” he added.
    President Biden was joined in the Oval Office by multiple family members and staff for his address to the nation Wednesday night.
    Seated to the president’s left, just off camera, were first lady Jill Biden, daughter Ashley, her husband, Howard Krein, son Hunter, granddaughters Maisy, Finnegan and Naomi, and grandson Hunter.
    Ashley Biden had her eyes closed for most of the speech, nodding silently and breathing deeply as her father spoke. At one point, she dabbed her eyes with the sleeve of the Olympic-themed shirt she was wearing.
    Other Biden family members, including the first lady, kept intense watch on the president, nodding slowly.
    Ashley held her mother’s hand at the end of the speech.
    https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/president-biden-oval-office-address-vice-president-kamala-harris-2024-campaign
    😉

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  32. Scott O Avatar

    Don – Did Biden directly address why he dropped out or was it the pathetic “for the good of the country”?
    Either he was forced out because of low ratings or he quit because he’s incapable doing the job.
    And of course in that case he should immediately leave office.

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  33. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Pelosi is older than Trump and Biden but worked to get Biden out because of his “age”. LOL”
    Huh. It’s perfectly acceptable to think of people as having varying abilities in their dotage. Trump is crazy-robust for his age, Biden fell off a cliff. It’s cool. We all rot at some rate.
    The rather ominous thing is that people, both politicians and the MSM, attempted to keep Biden’s condition secret for years. It’s not like he just broke down in the last couple of weeks. I guess there’s something to be said for a half-bright and declining person in authority, you can move their hand to sign any old thing.
    “never address Harris nor look her in the eye”
    You know, I’d read that very thing about Ms. Clinton in one of those White House staff biographies (interestingly, Rosalynn Carter was also reputed to be truly horrible to the worker bees there). People were expect to remove themselves from the hallways when she was in the area.
    Maybe these Turbo-Karens have some genetic switch thrown which causes similar behavior. Someday, Chat-GPT 7 will tell us why. Maybe it’s a parasite contained in cat feces.
    It’s funny to consider how everyones’ thoughts on famous figures would change if you hung out with them for a week or two. That certainty gathered through Yer Favorite Websites and the echo chamber at work might get reset a bit. Whether it’s KVMR, Briar Patch, or a tree trimming service, the hive mind can build quite a complicated model of reality. I’m not even sure that people who do useful things for a living, a shrinking population, are more accurate than the HR department or non-profit grifters.

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  34. Scott O Avatar

    “A panel of Democratic stalwarts will meet Wednesday to complete a rule change to allow Vice President Kamala Harris to accept her party’s nomination for president weeks in advance of the party’s convention in Chicago.”
    “stalwarts”
    They don’t even hide it anymore. A person no one voted for to be the POTUS nominee is installed by a handful of Dem operatives they won’t even name.
    OK – it’s their party. They can do as they wish.
    But these are the ones yelling about “saving democracy”.
    Hilarious.
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ar-BB1qvEaL

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  35. fish Avatar
    fish

    Bidens farewell address…..

    “We are all diminished as human beings for having heard it!”

    But I understand why Punchy™ liked him so.

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  36. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “stalwarts”
    The ‘warts’ part is fairly obvious. ‘Stall’ could be a small smoke-filled room.
    ‘Warts in a room’ makes sense to me.
    The sales job should be interesting as there’s absolutely no good reason to think that Harris makes a decent leader for the country.
    Thing is, ‘SHE’S NOT ORANGEHITLER’ is enough for all the grifters and general media consumers out there.

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  37. Scott O Avatar

    “The sales job should be interesting”
    Already humming right along. Remember:
    “cringey to cool in 24 hours”
    And –
    She dances well and likes to have fun!
    Kamala is already immune to any criticism as it will be brushed aside as an “attack” based on sexism and racism.
    The races for control of the House and Senate are the ones of real importance.

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  38. Scott O Avatar

    “The sales job should be interesting” – further:
    Kamala Harris was NEVER the border czar! Got it?
    ““Border czar” down memory hole”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/07/border-czar-down-memory-hole.php
    We can expect much, much more of this.
    So – we can save democracy!

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  39. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Scott O | 25 July 2024 at 08:21 AM
    So – we can save democracy!

    So – we can save democracy…..“Our Democracy™”…..err….”Their Democracy™”!

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  40. The Estonian Fox Avatar
    The Estonian Fox

    From USA Today today (participation trophy time):
    “An F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot became the first woman in U.S. military history to score an air-to-air victory in combat, according to the U.S. Navy. [Good, no?]
    The pilot, who was not named by the Navy, shot down a one-way attack drone launched by Houthi rebel forces in Yemen…”
    And you thought all that time spent on video-game shoot-downs was wasted?! This is certainly the new Air Force.

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  41. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “”An F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot became the first woman in U.S. military history to score an air-to-air victory in combat, according to the U.S. Navy. [Good, no?]”
    Just wait until the first left-handed transgender lesbian pilot does the same thing. Medals for Everyone!
    I was looking at this:
    https://www.twz.com/air/navy-super-hornets-are-now-wearing-houthi-drone-kill-marks

    and was wondering if rally cars have a stencil with rabbits and one with squirrels.

    re: Propaganda Ministry.
    Sure as shit it went away. Looking at archive.org, the wayback machine there, Harris was rated at Numero 100 with a score of 0 (zero).
    They have a good capture on July 9, nothing on July 22.
    Aren’t the local bolshies even a little embarrassed by this sort of thing? Maybe OrangeHitler is such an ‘existential threat’ (overused phrase of the year) that any old thing is fair game. It appears that Insane Karens and men-in-dresses do actually run the country. Gotta wonder what the archaeologists of the future are going to make of this. The Age of Iconoclasm.

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