Warning: Democrat genius mind at "work": If we give everyone in the country free food, we'll increase our GDP by 180%

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infinite energy

And just imagine how wealthy we’d be if we gave everyone a free house and two cars?

The Pinsker Plan is better than anything else I've seen proposed (which is, essentially, nothing)

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The one, possibly fatal, flaw in this proposal is that if it is to work, a threat to abolish the filibuster must be credible, and I’m not sure our RINOs can be counted on to support that; they seem to still believe, all evidence to the contrary, that the Senate remains a body of legislator who will set partisan politics aside and act “for the good of the country”, even if only occasionally, so that abolishing the filibuster and reverting to bare-majority rule would be ungentlemanly.

The days bi-partisanship are dead, if they ever existed, and it’s an absolute certainty that the new breed Democrat Socialists will abolish the filibuster as their very first order of business when they regain power. Harry Reid put the first crack in this protocol in 2013 when he and his fellow Democrats abolished it in order to cram Obama’s judicial nominees through the Senate; the next wave of Democrats will make Reid look like a RINO Republican in contrast.

So yes, acknowledge the new reality, accept what is coming, and act now to pass as much of the MAGA agenda as possible, and hope we can forestall the next Democrat administration long enough for those reforms to restart the economy and maybe — maybe — convince Americans that they’re better off in a capitalist economy than a Cuban one.

Scott Pinsker, PJMedia:

How MAGA Wins the ‘Schumer Shutdown’ PR War in 48 Hours!

It’s time to adjust our sails. On the heels of Tuesday’s electoral victories, the Democrats are motivated and energized: In their estimation, the so-called “Schumer Shutdown” is working marvelously, because the American people are blaming the Republicans.

And the Democrats are reaping the political benefits.

That’s because voters know that the White House, Senate, and House are all under GOP control, but they don’t really understand the nuances of parliamentary procedure. (Yawn: boring!) Instead of focusing on the 60-man threshold necessary to overcome a Democratic filibuster, they’re focusing on leadership: If the Republicans run it, they’re ultimately responsible… right?

“Hey, you broke it, you bought it.”

Which is why we need a new PR direction ASAP.

What I’m about to present is a shockingly simple PR plan: Only four key items. 

And it would only take 48 hours!

Here’s the Machiavellian bottom line: The shutdown won’t end until the Democrats conclude that the political cost is too great. Right now, they’re enjoying the perks of obstructionism, without any of the blowback. 

Which means it’s our job to change their calculus — by vastly increasing their pain points.

Here’s how we do it:

Step One: President Trump delivers a national, primetime address.

Announce to the American people that tomorrow afternoon, the Senate will vote on a new bill to pay military members, air traffic controllers, and essential federal workers. Trump should explain how much they’re suffering — and how unfair it is that rich, powerful politicians are using ‘em as political pawns.

Enough is enough!

Step Two: Announce that if the Dems once again block the vote, the Senate will immediately eliminate the filibuster and revote.

Which means, our military members, air traffic controllers, and essential federal workers WILL be paid tomorrow, no matter what.

If the Dems still wanna oppose it, that’s up to them.

This is critical, because it highlights the Democrats’ obstructionism, making it the #1 obstacle to reopening the government. (And it also reinforces Trump’s reputation for being a pragmatic problem-solver who finds novel ways to get things done.)

Step Three: Announce that once the vote is passed and our military members, air traffic controllers, and essential federal workers are paid, the Senate will immediately reinstate the filibuster.

That way, the Senate rules will stay the same. It negates the Dem’s “Trump is a dictator” talking point, instead highlighting their obstructionism. (And this would also quell GOP senators’ concerns about permanently scrapping the filibuster.)

In fact, Trump should tell the Democrats straight-up, if they wanna continue to hold the government hostage, they can — but what they’ve been doing to our military families and air traffic controllers is immoral, dangerous, and un-American — and one way or another, it’s coming to an end tomorrow.

It’s critical to establish a clear, concise narrative that explains the Dem’s culpability. 

Step Four: Announce that the bill will have one final provision: As of tomorrow, whenever there’s a government shutdown and federal workers aren’t getting paid, neither will the politicians in Congress!

It’s almost always a winning PR move to pit yourself against the career politicians on Capitol Hill, but this has a secondary purpose: Dare the wealthy, powerful Dems to vote in favor of receiving THEIR paychecks — while also voting to deprive military families from receiving theirs.

The PR backlash would be enormous. (And the attack ads that GOP challengers could run against ‘em would be brutal.)

Even though the shutdown wouldn’t be “over,” the Democrats would lose their biggest bargaining chip: federal workers and their families. 

No longer are they held hostage to Schumer’s negotiations!

And without that bargaining chip, their appetite to continue the shutdown would quickly extinguish: What’s the point anymore?

This PR plan advances the football; brands Donald Trump as a decisive, get-things-done leader; pays our soldiers, sailors, Marines, and air traffic controllers; and highlights the self-serving obstructionism of the Democratic Party. Best of all, it’s 100% realistic and easily executable.

And it could all be done in just 48 hours.

Minneapolis East: Sweden F**Ks Around, and Finds Out

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You may have noticed something in common:  Malmö.  It's a city in Sweden, directly connected across the five-mile-long Øresund Bridge across the Øresund Straits from Copenhagen, Denmark - two places that might seem indistinguishable to Americans, but which had diametrically different immigration policies over the past decade.  

In 2015, when asylum-seeking from the Middle East and Central Asia turned into a flood tide, Sweden all but threw open its doors.   Denmark, on the other hand, clamped down hard:

With some of the strongest immigration laws in Europe, Denmark showed an unambiguous determination to keep migrants out. It cut benefits to asylum-seekers and passed a law that allowed authorities to seize valuables worth more than €1,340 ($1,565) from refugees to pay their food and housing costs. A court even fined a woman and her husband €6,000 for “human smuggling” when they drove a refugee family across the country.

The Swedes went in the opposite direction - taking in 160,000 migrants in a nation with a population a little smaller than Ohio.  And while the migration has touched most Swedish cities, its centered on Malmö - a city which has been to Middle Eastern in-migration to Sweden what El Paso during the Biden years was to the US.  

And...it's caused problems:

Mass rioting in Malmo, Sweden after a rumor gets out that someone burned a Koran. pic.twitter.com/CETqTDG5iI

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 28, 2020

As in much of Europe, it's driven the rise of "far right" anti-immigrant politics and parties in Sweden. 

Denmark has been watching what's happened across the Øresund, and has taken an intensely pragmatic approach:

Denmark’s answer has been to be extremely selective about the migrants it takes.

In 2024, it granted asylum to 864 people – a historic low for a nonpandemic year. In recent years, Denmark has also accepted 200 refugees annually from the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR. (As of 2023, similar-size Norway was accepting 2,000.) A new policy allows for work migrants from only 16 countries whose nationals are believed to be easier to integrate, based on likely economic contributions. (None of the countries are in the Middle East or Africa.)

The Danes - led, perhaps counterintuitively by the Social Democrats, the promoters of open borders everywhere else in the West - have had a conversation that has been pretty well shouted off the stage in Sweden - and the US, as well:

Partly to inform the nation’s migration policy, the Finance Ministry calculates how much different groups either contribute to, or draw from, the national budget.

According to its 2019 report, people of Danish heritage contributed €15 billion ($17.6 billion) to state coffers, while migrants and first-generation descendants from the Middle East and North Africa cost Denmark €3.2 billion....

They did the math:

Denmark’s welfare system is the country’s “crown jewel,” says Rune Stubager, a political scientist at Aarhus University. In a recent magazine article, two government ministers declared, “It is the Nordic social democracies that have created the best societies in world history.”

That idea has huge support among Danish voters, creating a kind of “‘Danish Welfare State First’ policy,” says Professor Stubager.

One wonders if anyone, let alone a Democrat, could get away with doing that kind of math in the United States.  

Somaliland

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Minnesota is just an advanced example of what we’re becoming as the “melting pot” vision of America has been educated away, and a new nation is emerging, one comprised of victims, a collection of oppressed tribes: straight women; lesbians; gender dysphorics; Mexicans; Venezuelans; Haitians; American blacks; African blacks; American Indians; sunni muslims; shia muslims; and on, and on, and on, with nothing in common except for being under the brutal heel of white, male capitalists.

All is going according to plan.

This Is Actually Happening in America: Jacob Frey Wins Mayor Race—Thanks to Imported Somali Clan Feud

Jacob Frey was the incumbent Mayor this week in a race for Minneapolis Mayor. His opposition was a man named Omar Fateh. Fateh is part of the Somali community and as such, many thought he had a good chance to win the election. There is a huge Somali population in Minnesota, after all. Well, apparently, clan 'wars' have come to the United States along with importing Somalis into our country, and Fateh lost because one Somali clan hates his clan. Yes, really.

I’m not one of Desantis’s “many Republicans”: who consider mass migration “good, so long as it’s legal”. I want to see an end to chain-migration” and birthright citizenship, a disqualification from welfare benefits, including Medicaid and food stamps, English-speaking-only education in public schools, and demonstrated English proficiency requirements for driving licenses and professional certifications. I’m sure I could come up with 100 additional conditions to admission if i gave it another ten minutes, but these will do for now.

Get out while the going's good, and keep going

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Attention, NYC refugees: head south, not northeast

Caroline Simmons wins second term as Stamford mayor, capturing two-thirds of vote

Her victory was buoyed by a dominant performance by the Democratic party on the Board of Representatives, winning all 40 seats on the board.

Simmons garnered 15,830 votes, according to results sent by city Registrar of Voters Monica Di Costanzo to the state early Wednesday morning. Tarzia got 7,874 votes.

And statewide:

By the numbers: Historic election for CT Democrats flips 25 towns and cities blue

Connecticut's political map saw a major shakeup Nov. 4, as Democrats dominated municipal elections statewide, earning control of local governments in a staggering number of communities.

Whether due to the strength of Democratic candidates or backlash against President Donald Trump and national Republicans, the state experienced a blue wave like it's rarely seen before.

Here are some numbers to know.

25

That's how many executive officer seats flipped from red to blue, based on unofficial Election Day results that still must be validated and certified.

Democrats grabbed power of mayor and first selectmen seats in more than two dozen places, from cities like New Britain to small towns like Bethany and from middle-class communities like Ansonia to wealthy ones like Westport.

That total doesn't count an additional three towns (Enfield, Killingly and South Windsor) where Democrats won majorities on local town councils or another town (Putnam) where a mayor recently flipped his affiliation from Republican to Democratic.

1

That's how many executive officer seats flipped from blue to red.

Easton swung from a Democratic first selectman to a Republican in an election decided by only six votes that is now headed for a recount.

That was the only town across the entire state where Republicans seized control of local government from Democrats.

102

That's how many municipalities will be run by Democrats once new local officials are sworn in.

Whereas the state currently has 73 municipalities with Democratic leaders, 92 with Republican leaders and four with unaffiliated leaders, it will now have 102 with Democratic leaders, 65 with GOP leaders and two with unaffiliated or independent leaders, according to counts from the state Democratic Party.

18

That's how many of the state's 20 largest municipalities will be controlled by Democrats.

Democrat Bobby Sanchez's victory in New Britain, which previously had been governed by a Republican, means that all nine of the state's largest towns and cities will now be Democrat-run.

Meanwhile, that result combined with other Democratic wins in Bristol, Milford and Stratford means all but two of the state's 20 largest communities will have Democrats as their top elected officials. A 19th, Meriden, has an unaffiliated mayor.

That leaves Greenwich as the lone municipality among the state's 20 largest to have a Republican in charge.

27

That's how many years it's been, at least, since a Democrat last governed any of Ellington, North Canaan or Farmington, all of which flipped from red to blue this week.

I can think of another one

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Black Bear Sightings in Greenwich: Prevention is the only effective, long-term solution for human-bear conflicts

Here in Greenwich where numerous photos and stories about black bears are shared on social media, a reader noted there have been a number of sightings both on Pecksland Rd and Round Hill Rd this fall.

According to the CT DEP, homeowners should:

  1. Avoid putting out birdfeeders at any time of year, as they attract bears across all areas of Connecticut. Support birds instead by planting ecologically valuable native plants, which provide food and shelter year-round and benefit far more species than bird seed.

  2. Store garbage in secure, airtight containers inside a garage or other enclosed storage area.

  3. Keep barbecue grills clean. Store grills inside a garage or shed.

  4. Do not leave pet food outdoors or feed pets outside.

  5. Supervise pets at all times when outside.

Or:

Warning: the following article contains details that may disturb readers with an IQ below 60, and college students; but I repeat myself

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cain slays abel

When Even the Bible Needs a Trigger Warning, Academia Has Lost Its Mind

Chris Queen, PJMedia:

At the UK’s University of Sheffield, a literature class syllabus warned of “graphic bodily injury and sexual violence” in the gospels as well as in the Genesis account of Cain and Abel.

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The Bible is full of violent and sexually charged stories, and the point of them is to show how fallen humanity is and how all of us need the redemption that Jesus provided through his death, burial, and resurrection.

Noah’s drunken nudity after the flood showed how even the examples of faith can debase themselves. The men of Sodom and Gomorrah followed their basest desires. The book of Judges is full of stories of what resulted when “everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” I dare you to read Ezekiel 23 for a graphic metaphor for Israel’s unfaithfulness toward the Lord.

…. ““The university has defended its actions, calling the warning a ‘standard academic tool’ and insisting it is simply ‘preparing students who might find such [graphic] details difficult,’” reports Harbinger’s Daily. “Though many academic institutions have God-honoring roots, universities have come under intense scrutiny for vigorously pushing students toward an anti-Biblical worldview.”

Critics are calling out the University of Sheffield, and rightly so.”

“Applying trigger warnings to salvation narratives that have shaped our civilisation is not only misguided, but absurd,” said Andrea Williams, chief executive of Christian Concern. “To suggest that the crucifixion story involves ‘sexual violence’ is not just inaccurate, it’s a profound misreading of the text. The account of Jesus’s death is not a tale of trauma, it is the ultimate expression of love, sacrifice, and redemption, central to the Christian faith.”

"Neither the Gospels nor Genesis give explicit accounts of Abel's murder or Jesus' crucifixion, and what the 'sexual violence' label refers to is mystifying," said Angus Saul, the Christian Institute's Head of Communications.

In a lengthy post on X, Jim Chimirie writes:

This is not care. It is cowardice institutionalised. And it reveals a deeper truth: we are not protecting young people from the Bible – we are protecting them from the demands it places upon them. 

We are told this is about "sensitivity" and "student safety." But the Gospel does not exist to spare our feelings. It exists to confront human brutality and to show that love is stronger than death. If students cannot cope with Christ on the cross, then they cannot cope with the civilisation the cross built. When the foundational story of redemption is treated as dangerous, everything built upon it becomes unsafe by default. 

This attempt to sanitise Scripture is not misjudged; it is calculated. The Bible does not flatter the human ego – it exposes it. It does not affirm every impulse – it judges them. It forces us to face the darkest truths: murder, betrayal, lust, cowardice, cruelty. But it refuses to leave us there. The brutality of the crucifixion is not an act of trauma – it is the moment evil is broken. Violence is not celebrated, but defeated. To hide that is to hide hope itself.

Queen: “This university deemed the same stories that shaped Western civilization, inspired the abolition of slavery, and built hospitals and universities as potentially harmful. That says more about the modern reader than it does about the ancient text — and the truth that text contains.

“When a university slaps a warning label on God’s Word, it tells us more about the culture than about Scripture. If students can’t handle the cross, they can’t handle the civilization it built.”

Maine Rep calls it quits

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Golden Announces He Won’t Seek Re-Election in 2026, Drops Out of Re-Election Bid

Golden’s actually a pretty decent guy, for a Democrat, but his seat has never been secure; one of the few remaining moderate Democrats, he actually received fewer votes than his Republican opponent in his first run in 2018 and squeaked in only after the state’s new ranked choice voting system credited him with a few thousand votes initially cast for third party candidates. The same process has kept him in office, barely, for his next two terms, but the polls were looking dismal for him coming into 2026.

So no real surprise here, but the reasons he cites for getting the hell out of politics seem entirely plausible and sensible, and, I think, reflect the current state of our bitterly divided national political scene. There’s no longer a place for moderates in either party (certainly, I don’t like RINOs myself), and that’s probably not a good thing. I’ve been reading a number of histories of the Civil War recently, and the increasingly hot, bitter atmosphere that was building in 1850-1860, culminating in Lincoln’s victory on November 6th of that final year seems eerily similiar to what we’re witnessing now.

In any event, here’s Golden:

Golden said that his announcement comes after lengthy deliberation and in response to the current political climate. He criticized both Republicans and Democrats for their tactics.

“My decision is motivated by the clarity recent months have provided about the state of our politics. This week, we passed a grim milestone, having endured the longest government shutdown in our nation’s history. This unnecessary, harmful shutdown and the nonstop, hyperbolic accusations and recriminations by both sides reveal just how broken Congress has become,” he said in his op-ed.

“But after 11 years as a legislator, I have grown tired of the increasing incivility and plain nastiness that are now common from some elements of our American community — behavior that, too often, our political leaders exhibit themselves,” he added.

He warned that he believes both parties are allowing themselves to be co-opted by extremists.

During his time in Congress and on the campaign trail, Golden has worked to portray himself as a moderate, frequently voting across the aisle, and has broken with the Democratic Party on some key issues, including tariffs, which he has spoken of favorably.

He also criticized his own party for forcing a government shutdown over what he called a policy issue that could be addressed in a less dramatic fashion.

Despite his bipartisan overtures, he remains a Democrat, and recently urged Mainers to reject the failed election integrity ballot question, claiming that the voter ID aspect was simply a way for proponents to push through the attached changes to absentee voting.

[He was right on this; what would have been, according to pre-election pols, an easy win for voter ID went down to defeat because the people pushing the measure tacked on a grab bag of restrictions on absentee voting, which, although fairly innocuous, garbled the issue, and allowed opponents to focus solely on those provisions while ignoring the ID issue — ed]

In his op-ed, Golden also cited personal reasons, including the safety of his family in the face of a growing climate of political violence.

“Recent incidents of political violence have made me reassess the frequent threats against me and my family,” said Golden.

“These have made me reconsider the experiences of my own family, including all of us sitting in a hotel room on Thanksgiving last year after yet another threat against our home. There have been enough of those over the years to demand my attention,” he added.

Golden claimed that he has no doubt that if he did not drop out of the race, he would be victorious, but he said that he fears victory more than defeat in the upcoming high-stakes midterm.

“I have long supported term limits and while current law allows me to run again, I like the idea of ending my service in Congress after eight years — the length of term limits in the Maine Legislature,” he said.

Despite Golden’s claim that he has complete confidence in victory, a recent University of New Hampshire (UNH) Pine Tree State poll gave Republican challenger and former Maine Governor Paul LePage a notable five-point lead over the incumbent.

My guess is that, while he may have been wavering, it was the national Democrat party that gave him the fateful shove.