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George Rebane

Long wait, but Trump was finally inaugurated. Most of the country, including the Rebanes, celebrated. There were scattered demonstrations by leftwing socialists and shills protesting the election and calling President Trump a β€œfascist”. The leftwing media (I watched CNN and MSNBC) saw no hypocrisy in their version of what happened yesterday. Only that an evil has descended on the land. They live in a different universe to which there is no bridge from here to there.

[The following was generated by MS Copilot as a test from a few simple phrases that I input.  Thoughts?]

As we embark on this new chapter, it is imperative that we focus on the future and the opportunities that lie ahead. Our nation stands at a crossroads, and it is our collective responsibility to work together towards a brighter and more prosperous tomorrow. We must prioritize policies that foster economic growth, strengthen our national security, and promote unity among our citizens.

Let us channel our energies into constructive dialogue and collaboration, setting aside divisiveness to build a stronger, more resilient nation. Our commitment to the fundamental principles of democracy and freedom will guide us as we strive to achieve the aspirations of all Americans. The challenges may be great, but with determination and unity, we can overcome them and ensure a legacy of progress and hope for future generations.

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48 responses to “Trump is Inaugurated”

  1. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Trump indeed be immaculated.
    The left needs to stifle.

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  2. Scott O Avatar

    “Let us channel our energies into constructive dialogue and collaboration, setting aside divisiveness to build a stronger, more resilient nation.”
    Gotta love it. Copilot sounds like it’s been programmed by the same people that expound on bilge such as – “we should look to what unites us instead of what divides us!”
    Yeah, OK – we like to breathe oxygen and eat good food. That’s about it for what unites us.
    The left’s goals are a collective world govt and the destruction of a strong, sovereign, USA. Also that the individual is subsumed into a group or groups characterized chiefly by skin color, sexual identity, or income level. Other groups added as necessary.
    We are not a united people here in the US. It is and will be an ongoing battle to try to maintain as much of the original founders’ ideals as we can.
    Trump’s ideas aren’t that original but at least he isn’t insane and he understands that water runs downhill – and that he has the courage to forge ahead with what he feels is best for our country.
    I don’t know if our economy or our society will improve all that much under Trump, but he will at least get the fed govt turned around and head it in a generally correct direction.
    re:
    “The left needs to stifle.”
    Well – it can be annoying but also amusing at times.
    As soon as the next election rolls around we have hours of video of those professional liars and nitwits going on and on about how Trump will destroy our democracy and how we’ll never be able to vote again.
    Just rub their faces in it.

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  3. Scott O Avatar

    “The left needs to stifle.” – further:
    “ABC News legal analyst Sunny Hostin claimed Tuesday on ABC’s β€œThe View” that President Donald Trump β€œwas given everything he has.”
    “He(Trump)hasn’t really he had no political experience whatsoever, he had no business experience. He was given everything he has.”
    All you can do is stare and behold the damage that TDS causes. The surgeon general should require a health hazard warning be put on the screen before shows like this air.

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  4. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    …and here we go.
    “01/21/25
    EXECUTIVE ORDER
    ENDING ILLEGAL DISCRIMINATION AND
    RESTORING MERIT-BASED OPPORTUNITY”
    https://x.com/awprokop/status/1881903218231320589

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  5. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    scen 855p
    Happy days are here again
    The skies above are clear again
    So let us sing a song of cheer again
    Happy days are here again!

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  6. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Gregory@10:09PM
    That one should be interesting. Scads of pushback from DNC-activist judges and I’ll bet there’s huge knock-on effects at things like defense contractors.
    In the meantime the MSM concentrates on how Elon Musk held his arm during a frame or two of video (and naturally there’s a ton of pics of AOC and the like doing exactly the same thing). It’s hard to appreciate how contemptible the Left is in this country until you watch the uproar over Elon. Whatever sells I guess.
    The latest on Reddit is a ton of groups blocking X since it’s so full of ‘Nazi’ people and ‘Nazi’ wrongthink and whatnot. A good 10k foot view of what ails the nation can be gleaned by skimming through a bit of that.

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  7. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    A bit of a synopsis of the day:
    “Day 3 of the new Trump Administration is just getting underway. On Day 2, the president:
    -Restored merit-based hiring at the FAA, ending an insane Obama-era push to put travelers’ lives in the hands of incompetents hired for diversity reasons.
    -Ordered the closure of ALL federal DEI offices, with existing employees placed on indefinite leave and special orders to prevent them being protected through reclassification or deceptive wording.
    -Ordered the repeal of LBJ’s infamous EO 11246, which mandated affirmative action rather than merit-based hiring in federal employment and contracting.
    -Prohibited all use of racial discrimination or DEI at federal contractors and universities receiving taxpayer dollars.
    -Ordered federal buildings worldwide to stop flying the Pride flag, which the left had turned into a de facto second national flag around the world.
    -Launched the Stargate Project, a collaboration with Silicon Valley aimed at cementing America as the global leader in emerging AI technology.
    -Unleashed ICE with full authority to target the criminals Joe Biden allowed to roam freely around this country raping and killing.
    -Granted a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, who was wrongfully given a life sentence by overzealous federal prosecutors.
    I told you Day 2 would be just as incredible as the first.
    36 hours down. 35,028 more to go.”

    https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/

    It’s funny to think how much stuff those guys must have teed up. Years of thinking about it. Years of lawfare. Coming into the office not only with hard-won experience, but with the interim President Potato insanity giving them a clear field to run on. They can be much more aggressive than if Trump had had a 2020 administration.
    The Orange Man is once in a lifetime.

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  8. scenes Avatar
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    [The following was generated by MS Copilot as a test from a few simple phrases that I input. Thoughts?]
    I fool with most of them. Grok is nice due to lack of filters. Google AI Studio is surprisingly knowledgeable about things I know about. I’m still waiting for this stuff to hit the physical world a bit more rather than parlor tricks with image generation or magazine writing. Waiting eagerly for the phasing out of most family doctor work or surprising new ASIC designs. Self-driving vehicles sounds like a fascinating subject area, basically building synthetic insects.
    My main thought on writing? What I find most interesting about AI-generated work in writing or the arts is that most human output is trope. You could probably assign a unique ID to most of what people say and then just send that number.

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  9. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    scenes 621a
    The pardon to Ross Ulbricht was promised to a Libertarian Party meeting before the election… I never did business (including monkey business) on Silk Road but I was happy for Ulbricht to get it, and for a campaign promise to Libertarians (who responded with great applause) get such timely fulfillment.

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  10. Scott O Avatar

    Hey – it’s day 3 already. Weren’t we supposed to have a bloodbath?
    I had my popcorn all ready.
    Maybe it’s on pay-per-view?

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  11. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    scotto 1239p
    Nationwide, it’s too cold for bloodsports. Perhaps May will be different?

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    scenes

    Cool. Genius. Multiply this by 100x.
    “The ATF was just caught rebranding their Chief Diversity Officer to Chief Officer to circumvent President Trump’s order.”
    https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1882175553710825745

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  13. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Looks like the Trump malignancy, in remission for the last 4 years, has flared up again.
    All Trump’s minions are chanting that they are going to clear out all the bad actors that were weaponizing various agencies in the government.
    So, in the name of culling the weaponized Deep Staters, Trump is weaponizing the presidency to install “Yes Men for Trump”, creating his own Deep State.
    You cannot make this stuff up.
    Magaloons on the loose.

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  14. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “Magaloons on the loose”
    Namecalling… very sad.

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  15. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Here you go Gregory, Truth Socialing to Putin – Magaloonitic
    Magaloons? You mean like “Little Marco”, ‘Shifty Schiff” blah blah blah?
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-reveals-genius-plan-force-185306806.html
    Trump is still clueless and full of shit.

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  16. Scott O Avatar

    “Trump is still clueless and full of shit.”
    Yep – that must be how he became a billionaire and twice elected POTUS.
    “Trump is weaponizing the presidency…”
    Selecting like-minded people to help him implement his policies is what every president does.
    Keep ’em coming, Hillbilly – you might actually learn something here.

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    R. Hillbilly ” Trump is weaponizing the presidency”
    I would think of that as going after political enemies via law enforcement, courts, etc.
    Replacing people is SOP. Read about the Plum Book and get back to us.
    Oh well, you be you.
    Listen, it’s cool. At this point you are completely defeated politically with not much to say. Running the country is complicated and only partly done by the President. Something will go wrong and you can fist pump for a while.

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  18. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Constipated Hillbilly 256p
    Magaloons is demeaning to nearly half of the voters in the country, many of your neighbors; Little Marco is a term of endearment for ONE persoTequilan, the current Secy of State.
    Get some sleep. Tequila might help some.

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  19. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George
    Are you aware of this?
    According to Forbes ”
    “President Donald Trump said Tuesday he issued a pardon for Ross Ulbricht, who was sentenced to life in prison nearly a decade ago for creating the Silk Road, a website law enforcement called the β€œmost sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace” on the internetβ€”best-known for sales of illicit drugs.”
    Also:
    “Ulbricht was arrested in 2013 and sentenced to life in prison in 2015, after he was convicted of seven charges, including distributing narcotics, distributing narcotics by means of the internet, conspiring to distribute narcotics, engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiring to commit computer hacking, conspiring to traffic in false identity documents and conspiring to commit money laundering.”
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2025/01/22/who-is-ross-ulbricht-what-to-know-about-silk-road-drug-marketplace-founder-pardoned-by-trump/

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  20. fish Avatar
    fish

    …..sigh!

    Are you aware of this?

    You are so embarrassingly stupid…..
    I really should thank you for bringing me such joy!

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  21. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Punchy, I posted about that pardon hours ago… it was promised to the Libertarian Party over a year ago.
    Was the Silk Road meant as an illicit trading post, or just a private one?

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  22. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Did you read about what he was convicted of Gregory? Here it is once again for you:
    “”Ulbricht was arrested in 2013 and sentenced to life in prison in 2015, after he was convicted of seven charges, including distributing narcotics, distributing narcotics by means of the internet, conspiring to distribute narcotics, engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiring to commit computer hacking, conspiring to traffic in false identity documents and conspiring to commit money laundering.”
    so what if it was “promised to the Libertarian Party over a year ago.”
    Do you believe he should have been pardoned just because Trump promised that ht would? He was a convicted drug dealer Gregory.

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  23. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Punch, really?

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  24. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gregory
    Yes or no do you believe Ulbricht should have been pardoned?

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  25. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    After 10+ years of hard time?

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  26. fish Avatar
    fish

    YES OR NO Gregory??
    He very clearly said yes or no?

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  27. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Yes or No… that’s the answer.

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  28. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Kind of funny what with the tornado of outgoing preemptive pardons and the new admins flurry thats the only one the po ol ponytail of ignorance wants to snivel about. LOL
    πŸ˜‰

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  29. Scott O Avatar

    Paul is hilarious! His hero Biden is releasing a drug dealer as well. Oh, and the guy shot a mother and her young son to death as well.
    Paul Emery is a total joke.

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  30. George Rebane Avatar

    Paul – The whole world knew about the Ulbricht pardon. Perhaps that will serve to balance a little the Biden pardons of murderers and rapists and …

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  31. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    So George then in you’re opinion Trumps pardon of Ulbrich is ok because of what you claim Biden did.

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  32. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Why isn’t that pardon “ok”, Punchy?

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  33. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “Ulbricht was convicted because his website, which was founded in 2011 and used cryptocurrency for payments, was used to sell illegal drugs, even though he did not sell any of the illicit substances himself.”

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    “Why isn’t that pardon “ok”, Punchy?”
    If you have a cartoon view of the world, Orange Man Bad is enough.
    Either that, or Ulbricht made a joke about Arnold Palmer’s dick.

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    Oh man, these are salad days for that O’Keefe character. I wonder how many of these he has ready to go.
    “β€˜THE DEEP STATE IS REAL:’ White House Advisor Reveals How Bureaucracy Protects β€œIts Own Interests,” Predicts Bureaucracy Will β€˜Crush’ RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary; “If I Was Given an Order… I Would Either Try to Block It or Resign”
    β€œRFK Jr. is a very bad pick for HHS… it’s probably a good chance that the bureaucracy just crushes him.”
    β€œCan you give me an example of how you think they’ll do it when RFK, like if he gets in?”
    Describes a β€˜fake commission’ to β€œMake him [RFK Jr.] think something is happening when it’s not…””
    https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1882431381097119797

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  36. scenes Avatar
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    A J6 participant story from X.

    “I picked a J6 case at random to review because I wanted to see how bad it was.
    And let me tell you the random one I picked did not disappoint. This defendant went into the capital and walked down the corridor. He was not accused of violence. He did not break anything. He did not hurt anybody. He was sentenced by a jury to 19 months in prison he was overcharged by the prosecutor to the point where it should be called malicious prosecution, and a judge rubber stamped every single thing the prosecutor asked for.
    etc.

    https://x.com/DefiyantlyFree/status/1882268997606945260

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  37. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    And let’s put the reality of that with a bloodcurdling view from the left:
    https://www.rlcrabb.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/January-Six682.jpg
    For shame, Earl.
    All are free now.

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  38. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Some demerits for Crabby’s artistic license…
    Bison Boi’s horns are from the wrong species
    … and he never carried a hang mike pence sign nor uttered that phrase.
    And no American flag had its pole whittled down to a point and used to ventilate anyone.
    Not funny. Not cute.

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    re: Gregory@11:19
    Nothing says 21st C. more than edgy virtue signalling
    I’d be all for it if he just wrote better gags and/or was a better draftsman. Bitter old man is not much of a lifestyle choice.
    In the meantime, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog soldiers on.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdPBaWabrwg

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  40. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 1034pm – Yep.

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  41. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Dumb and dumber –
    Former VP Harris reportedly asking Hillary Clinton for advice on what to do after losing to Trump
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/former-vp-harris-reportedly-asking-210418226.html
    πŸ˜‰

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    lol. They look like perfect idiots.

    “WATCH: US lawmakers flee IN PANIC when faced with A FATEFUL QUESTION
    β€œHOW MANY GENDERS ARE THERE?” a Fox News reporter asked several representatives on Capitol Hill. Many quickly walked away, some nearly running.
    Earlier this week, Trump issued an order recognizing only two genders in the US.”

    https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1882604562353357103

    The Russians must be laughing their asses off.

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  43. Scott O Avatar

    Paul 10:34 – “because of what you claim Biden did”
    Get your head out of your ass, Paul – Biden was very kind to cop killers, child murderers and the like.
    It isn’t a “claim” – it’s a fact. Biden was proud of it.

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  44. fish Avatar
    fish

    Get your head out of your ass, Paul – Biden was very kind to cop killers, child murderers and the like. It isn’t a “claim”

    And for some inexplicable reason he can’t figure out why he is such an object of ridicule here…..

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    Watching Reddit go absolutely mad. Amazing. It’s always tended heavily left-wing, but this time they’ve lost their shit.
    Meanwhile Costco doubles down on DEI and whatnot. Getting rid of the DEI Kommissars and AA seems to imply return to slavery I guess.
    I doubt much comes out of the JFK,RFK,MLK business, but it’s interesting.

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  46. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    He always wanted to work with don lemon and don has been looking for someone to drive the 2nd shift on his uber –
    Anti-Trump anchor Jim Acosta left off new CNN programming schedule
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/jim-acosta-left-off-new-cnn-programing-schedule?dicbo=v2-cHWADLm
    πŸ˜‰

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  47. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Aw po wittle cnn caves before the punitive damage award –
    The six-person jury in Panama City, Florida, had already found CNN liable for defamation and awarded Navy veteran Zachary Young $5 million in damages. Obviously, the now Convicted News Network was terrified of what the punitive amount could be and decided to settle.
    https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2025/01/23/nolte-after-losing-in-court-disgraced-cnn-quietly-settles-defamation-suit/
    πŸ˜‰

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