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By Robin Itzler
"Biden's anger and vitriol and hatred for MAGA is far more worse than President Trump's individual battles with someone who crosses him. That is something that is really detrimental to this country that the President of the United States despises half of the United States. They [Biden and Democrats] try to paint them [Trump supporters] as racists. All the things that they do to their fellow Americans who simply want a safe home, a safe community for their children to have prosperity. They want the same thing, but they demean them all the time." —Charles Payne—Fox News Responding to Democrat Jessica Tarlov during post New Hampshire primary panel discussion—January 23, 2024
BIDENS MENTAL ACUITY ISSUES: Alzheimer’s disease is the most common type of dementia. Current estimates from the Centers for Disease Control are that about 5.8 million people in the United States have Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, including 5.6 million aged 65 and older and about 200,000 under age 65 with younger-onset Alzheimer’s. People from all political parties know that Joe Biden has mental health acuity problems.We’re not doctors, so we can’t state exactly what Biden’s medical issue is, but it’s there for all the world to see. Everyone sees it: world leaders of nations that seek to do us harm as well as Biden’s most vocal supporters. This is probably why Joey has spent about 40 percent of his presidency on vacation and rarely campaigns. Whenever he is out and about, Biden often proves that he is not mentally (or even physically) able to perform the duties of the presidency. (Guess that’s why Barack Obama is there.)
In recent months, Biden’s dementia (or whatever it is) has gotten much worse. From incoherent comments to roaming the stage after a speech because he has no idea where to go. The dementia is there for everyone to see.
Several weeks ago, Biden was speaking in North Carolina and less than two minutes into his prepared remarks, he went off the teleprompter and said that he had just talked to and had his photograph taken with North Carolina Democrat Representative Deborah Ross.
However, Rep. Ross was NOT at the event! Biden said:
"I also want to mention your Congresswoman Deborah Ross. Where's Deborah? Did she — I just had my picture taken with her. That's probably why she left. (Laughter.) No, all kidding aside — but, anyway — you — oh, she couldn't be here, actually. That's not true. I got it mixed up. And she has — you know, she fights very hard for the people of this district, and she is up in Washington right now."
Later in the speech, Biden said “major company” instead of “country” when referring to the United States. Democrat leadership is aware of Biden’s mental acuity issues. Democrat voters know it. World leaders know it, especially our enemies.
Only three years younger, Trump can speak with/without a teleprompter for two-plus hours while Biden can’t mutter more than a few lines before people start to snicker at his ridiculous comments. Put Trump in any city in any state and he will acknowledge elected officials by name whereas Biden often refers to people by their position (that guy who does security).
Trump is on the physical and rhetorical move over many consecutive days, while Biden often goes days without a public appearance. When he does have official business, it is usually one event held early in the day. If Biden needs to give a speech at night, such as the State of the Union, he will be pulled off all public events for many days. (Who knows what meds he is given.)
Since the MSM suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome, as surely as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, you are going to start seeing left-leaning news sites publish articles questioning Trump’s mental acuity.
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Here’s what others said following Trump’s double-digit New Hampshire win:
House Speaker Mike Johnson—news release Johnson endorsed Trump in November 2023 “Congratulations to President Trump on his decisive victory tonight in America’s first-in-the-nation primary! Our House Republican leaders and a majority of Republican Senators support his reelection, and Republican voters in Iowa and New Hampshire have strongly backed him at the polls. “It’s now past time for the Republican Party to unite around President Trump so we can focus on ending the disastrous Biden presidency and growing our majority in Congress.”
Ronna McDaniel, RNC Chair—Fox News:
"I'm looking at the map and the path going forward and I don't see it for Nikki Haley," McDaniel said. "I think she ran a great campaign. I think there is a message from the voters which is clear. We need to unite around our eventual nominee which is going to be Donald Trump."
Lee Zeldin, former representative & former NY gubernatorial candidate—X/TwitterZ:
“Congratulations to the 45th and 47th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, on another big primary win, this time in New Hampshire. We have a country to save in 2024.”
Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton—interview
“Congratulations to President Trump on another decisive win in New Hampshire and becoming the presumptive nominee of our party.”
Federalist CEO Sean Davis—interview
“If Nikki Haley’s primary goal is to defeat Joe Biden in November, she will drop out tonight and endorse Trump. If she continues to stay in a race she cannot win just to attack Trump, then we’ll know she’s fully owned by the left-wing Democrats who are funding her campaign.”
CA SENATE PRIMARY: Some say let it be Schiff vs Porter
California DEMOCRATS want baseball legend and political novice Steve Garvey to come in second place behind Adam Schiff in the March California primary. Garvey, the California establishment darling, leads the other three Republican candidates:
James Bradley - Eric Early - Denice Gary-Pandol
Writing in The Mercury News, Jim Newton asks, “Republican Steve Garvey Won’t Win the Senate Race So Why Even Run?” So maybe Garvey surges over the next few weeks. Maybe the state’s Republicans rally around him — though it’s hard to see why — and push him past Porter or even past Schiff. Let’s say he lands in the No. 1 or No. 2 spot for the runoff. What then?
Does anyone really think that Lee or Porter supporters would transfer their loyalties to a Republican, retired ballplayer — much less one who confronted a marital breakdown and paternity scandal …
Is the sole goal is to get Garvey into the general election and nothing more? If that’s the sole goal, vote for him in the primary. Then watch him lose to serial liar Adam Schiff in the November general election.
HOWEVER, if the goal is to help down ballot REPUBLICANS win their races and help REPUBLICANS keep control of the House, you will want the top two vote getters in the California primary to be Adam Schiff and Katie Porter. Think of all the money Democrats will spend in a Schiff vs Porter race that starts on March 6 and runs through November 5. Plus, all the mudslinging!
That’s money Democrats might have spent on down ballot races. Excerpts from Politico’s “California’s Marquee Senate Race Could be Bad News for Down Ballot Dems,” Ally Mutnick shares:
Money like that could help flip multiple House seats and power Democrats’ attempt to regain control of Congress. California alone has seven GOP House incumbents that Democrats have targeted The campaign accounts of Schiff and his closest Democratic opponent, fellow Rep. Katie Porter, could transform those contests.
Instead, Schiff and Porter are engaged in an expensive, bruising primary. The tens of millions they’ve raised have largely been spent against each other, not Republicans.
The agony of having two of the best fundraisers in the House battle each other has left some in the party hoping that a Republican nabs the second spot in the top-two primary on March 5. Polling has shown Schiff in a commanding lead with Porter and Republican Steve Garvey battling for second. Another prominent House Democrat, Rep. Barbara Lee, trails behind in fourth place. A second-place Garvey win would effectively end the fight for the seat in the deep-blue state instead of letting it drag out until November.
Link to the article. California's Marquee Senate Race Could be Bad News for Down Ballot Dems
NIKKI HALEY: Support from Democrats On the REPUBLICAN side, why are these folks donating and/or supporting Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign? Tells you why Haley is a RINO!
- In December, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, who is one of the Democrat party’s biggest donors and also visited Epstein Island, gave $250,000 to a Nikki Haley Super PAC. Hoffman is also funding E. Jean Carroll’s ridiculous lawsuit against Donald Trump!
- The Koch Brothers, who love open borders and hate Donald Trump, are financially supporting Haley’s campaign.
- Former RINO House Speaker Paul Ryan is lobbying Congressional Republicans to support Haley.
- Former Conservative and now liberal Democrat commentator Bill Kristol has endorsed Haley. UPDATE: Following Haley’s dismal loss in New Hampshire, Hoffman said he would no longer donate to her PACs.
On the INDEPENDENT side, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced he will be on the New Hampshire ballot in November.
Other things to consider:
The news and cable networks are desperate to keep Haley in the “competition” although it is obvious that Trump will be the nominee. Why? If everyone knows by March 5 (aka Super Tuesday) that it’s a done deal of Biden vs Trump, ratings will sink. Look at the ratings from the last two presidential Super Tuesdays and you can understand why the left and right media doesn’t want the race to be decided by March 5: 2020 19 million viewers 2016 24 million viewers
And one of the reasons touted as to why Haley wants to remain in the race is because she thinks that if something happens to Trump, she will be the last candidate standing. Someone should tell Haley that all the other presidential candidates SUSPENDED their campaigns. That means they can revive them.
BRANDING: It takes years to achieve, days to destroy
Bud Light’s hiring of MR. Dylan Mulvaney to wear pearls, put on a dress and imitate Audrey Hepburn to sell beer should become a textbook example of C-suite executives having no idea about their customer base and its product brand.
Disney also took an iconic brand and destroyed it by ignoring its decades long commitment to family values. For some insane reason, Disney C-suiters think that the company should promote alphabet+++ insanity. Unfortunately for the House of Mouse, there aren’t enough psychotic parents that want to surgically alter their children’s gender and attend theme parks where burly bearded men where dresses.
Another example could be Sports Illustrated. For 70 years the pivotal magazine has been about SPORTS … and annually published its iconic swimwear edition. Then in May 2023, the magazine partnered with trans model Kim Petras, putting Petras on the cover of their swimwear edition. Petras was one of four models in that edition with each having their own cover.
Sports Illustrated also featured overweight women in bikinis.
Due to financial issues related to licensing agreements, on January 19, The Arena Group, publisher of Sports Illustrated, announced that most of the staff will be gone within three months. Many say that this is another example of “go woke, go broke.”
If you want to share your thoughts with interim CEO Manoj Bhargava: Email: support@si.com - Phone: 877-747-1045 - Write: 1271 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020
ARE WE NOW A SOCIALIST NATION?
Some recent events that make us wonder if the republic can be saved.
- USA—Oscar-nominated singer Andra Day is going to sing the so-called black national anthem at Super Bowl 2024. How about asking NFL Commissioner Roger Goodall if they will allow someone to sing a national anthem for your race or religion? Email: customerservice@nflshop.com Phone: 800-635-5300 Write: 345 Park Avenue, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10154
- USA—When children don’t start their own independent lives, but instead depend on mom and dad, they eventually expect government to replace their parents. According to a recent study by Intuit Credit Karma:
- 31% of Gen Zers are living with their parents because they can’t afford to rent or buy their own place.
- 27% of Gen Zers reported that they could no longer afford rent.
- 25% said they’ll have to move back in with family to make ends meet.
- 30% of millennials say rent is unaffordable.
- 25% of millennials are thinking about moving back in with their parents.
- Overall, 11% of American adults still live at home with their parents.
- USA—According to Robert Schmad of the Daily Caller News Foundation, three major charities send their money to Communist China or agencies in cahoots with the communist nation’s government (link to article below):
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DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA: The grassroots Parents Defending Education (PDE), which promotes the “restoration” of non-political schooling, has identified dozens of DSA members who have landed or sought top school board and teachers’ union positions in at least 15 states — from California to Kentucky and from New York to Texas.
According to Parents Defending Education:
- In Los Angeles, there are at least two DSA members on the board of the Unified School District including, Jackie Goldberg, the board’s president. (Oy vey!) There are at least two more DSA members seeking seats on the board in their 2025 election.
- DSA member Coin Palmer serves as the board president of the Riverhead Central School District in Republican-leaning Suffolk County, New York.
- DSA member Missy Zombor serves on the Milwaukee Public Schools board. On October 22, 2023, she posted “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” That is another way of saying annihilate Israel and all Jews.
- DSA member and Colorado teacher Bryan Lindstrom submitted a resolution to the Colorado Education Association, the state’s largest union of educators, that was tweaked from his submission: Stated that “capitalism inherently exploits children, public schools, land, labor, and resources” and was “in opposition to fully addressing systemic racism … climate change … patriarchy … education inequality and income inequality.”
From the New York Post: In August, during the DSA’s 2023 convention, its governing body greenlit a resolution calling for more DSA candidates to run for school boards.
“The teacher movement is the tip of the spear of a revitalized labor movement and school board races are a clear way to build relationships with teacher unions by showing ourselves to be the strongest fighters for teachers and quality public education for all,” said the resolution, which emphasized backing “trans and queer rights, and to defending democracy” as well as countering “right-wing and neoliberal attacks on public schools.”
IS THE TIDE TURNING TO FREEDOM? With our prayers and involvement, we must have hope of saving our republic. Let’s look at some recent wins that show the tide might be turning in the direction of Conservative Judeo-Christian values. However, we need Republican LEADERSHIP, which seems to be in short supply.
DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA OUT OF MONEY—Guess planning all those pro-Hamas rallies, promoting the insane trans alphabet+++ and trying to kill the U.S. economy with green everything costs more money than the Democrat Socialists of America (DSA) thought it would. From the New York Post:
“We will cut $500,000 from staff-related expenses. We will first ask for volunteers from both director-level and bargaining unit staff to have their position cut and receive severance,” according to a proposal advanced by members of DSA’s National Political Committee affiliated with its Marxist Bread and Roses caucus.
“If necessary, we will then explore initiating lay-offs according to the DSA union’s contract,” the DSA officers said. The situation appears to be a case of an organization that blindly seeks utopia and professes support of the working class clashing with reality — forcing it to have to balance a budget like the rest of America and even contemplate layoffs hated by labor unions.
“DSA is in a financial crisis and staff-related costs account for 58% of our total expenditures and 72% of our projected income,” wrote DSA members Alex Pellitteri, Kristin Schall and Laura Wadlin in the cost-cutting proposal.
CHICAGO—Texas has bussed 35,000+ illegal alien invaders to the sanctuary city. Black Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson wants to take schools and community centers from Democrat Black neighborhoods to house the illegals. Two black Democrats, Cata Truss and Gerald Harris, are suing the mayor and the city to stop the insanity. While legal black Chicago citizens live in poverty and have minimal facilities such as parks and community centers because they are always told the city has no money, Chicago has spent more than $250 MILLION on the invaders. If you want to share your thoughts with Mayor Johnson:
Email Link - Phone: 312-744-5000 - Address: 121 N. LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602
INTERNATIONAL:
ARGENTINA—The recent special Address at WEF by Argentina President Javier Milei gave during the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos, explains why he is MAGA—Make Argentina Great Again. Almost that entire address could have been given by President Trump.
Selected Thoughts For the Day:
- The IRS returned my tax return to me because I apparently answered one of their questions incorrectly. In response to: “Do you have anyone dependent on you?” I wrote 10 million illegal aliens, 1.1 million crackheads, 3.4 million unemployable scroungers, 80,000 criminals in 85+ prisons, plus most of the U.S. Congress. The IRS wrote that my answer was unacceptable. So, I responded by asking, “Who did I leave out?”
- We are advised to NOT judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics.
- It was mealtime during a flight and the attendant asked me, “Would you like dinner?” I answered, “What are my choices?” She said, “Yes or no.”
- Sneaking into a country doesn’t make you an “immigrant,” anymore than breaking into a house makes you “part of the family.”
- Liberals want to remove the Thinker statue since it offends their way of life.
- What’s the difference between a RINO and a Democrat? Trick question! There is no difference.
- If only vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
- If I woke up and nothing hurt, I would think I was dead.
- The older I get, the more I understand why roosters scream to start their day.
- At age 4, success is not peeing in your pants, and at age 85, success is not peeing in your pants.