Blue Horseshoe

“ ‘Ambassador Taylor recalls that Mr. Morrison told Ambassador Taylor that I told Mr. Morrison that I conveyed this message to Mr. Yermak on Sept. 1, 2019, in connection with Vice President Pence’s visit to Warsaw and a meeting with President Zelensky,’ .....We’ve got six people having four conversations in one sentence, and you just told me this is where you got your ‘clear understanding’ .....This is what I can’t believe....And you’re [the Democrats’] star witness! You’re their first witness. Based on this. I’ve seen church prayer chains that are easier to understand than this.” - Jim Jordan reading a transcript of Ambassador Sondland's sworn testimony

Demonetize them and ignore them. Stop shopping and doing business with anyone involved with this, if you are opposed to it. Then don't engage, simply walk away and pretend they and this situation don't exist. The real "God" of these activists will always be money. Once you turn off the money spigot, you'll see the eventual course correction in due time. Recently Gavin Newsom started to attempt to backtrack on some of his wokeism and hard push into identity politics. Small dollar political donations are cratering all across the board for Team Blue. They are being choked out financially. Of course they'll start to sing a different tune.

Biden could easily be impeached for 1) The Border Crisis 2) Afghanistan I'm talking about legitimate impeachment that would happen to any sitting POTUS at any point in recorded American history. Allowing millions of unknowns, non vetted, UNVACCINATED for how long to start, into the country, and destabilizing states and cities already hit hard by the economy and the pandemic, is indefensible. Also abandoning actual American citizens on the ground in Afghanistan, then also leaving behind billions in weapons, paid with our tax dollars, so terrorists can use them to kill future generations of young American soldiers and used in terrorist acts against our Allies is also indefensible. Young girls and women are being raped and sodomized in record numbers trying to cross the Border. Up to 19 million women and little girls are subjected to possibly be "war brides" for the Taliban. Again, to be gang raped and sodomized. If you are a Cartel drug dealer or a terrorist, who wants to see all Americans dead, and you want to rape as many 11 year old girls as possible, then Joe Biden is your one man walking personal boondoggle. Think about that. Everything Biden touches ( including Operation Fast And Furious as VPOTUS) means spending our tax dollars to arm terrorists and criminals so they can better kill us all while enabling levels of mass rape not seen since WW2. I can see why some Democrats hate Trump. I actually get it on some level. But I can't see how anyone with a daughter, of any political persuasion, could actively support Joe Biden. It's actually possible to not want to support either of these imbeciles. Both pathways can be true at the exact same time.

Everyone has demons that they have to sleep with at night. No one knows for sure, if all they can see is the surface level and material/status items in the person's life. What did Robin Williams have to be sad about? Some people will think that way. And he still killed himself. No one can know but him what demons were inside. What struggles. What pain. Obviously if this is a member of your family, a close friend, a co-worker, a neighbor, i.e. someone important in your life, then I'm sorry for your loss. What I've found helpful through the process of "grief" is coming to terms that you won't understand it all. It won't make sense. It won't add up. It never does. If you try to make it so, then you'll go insane for trying. It's very natural to want to do that, to make the math add up in your head, to find a reason, but sometimes all we have is pure chaos around us. If you had great moments with this person, try to focus on cherishing that. What you had versus what you lost. Honor the person you lost by putting the best parts of them inside of your life path and your character. Again, I'm genuinely sorry for your loss.

Many might not vote Republican, but many might sit it out. Stacey Abrams would be the Governor of Georgia now, TWICE over, if she had secured the black male vote. Now you'll say that's Georgia after all, that's a bit different than the demographic breakdown nationally. But you don't need a huge number to swing the election. Trump didn't win by very much in 2016, and both college and non college educated white women were seen as a major difference maker. Think of it as a collective of voting blocks that will sit it out or simply vote against Biden out of pure self preservation. ( They have to see prices at the gas pump, their rent bill and at the grocery store all the time. They have to see how the lockdowns damaged their children beyond repair every single day) Some black votes. Some suburban women voters Some military voters ( and the implied law enforcement vote) Pro Life Democrats ( 15-22 million strong in America by projection) Working class minority voters Hispanic/Latino voters New "single issue voters" ( new gunowners who are now Pro 2A, those against abortion extremism, those angry about lies about 15 dollar widespread minimum wage and "student loan forgiveness", those who are angry that nothing was done for "climate change", etc, etc) Asian voters Some parents ( 70 percent of all American adults are parents) simply as single issue voters based on the lockdowns, COVID "response", LGBT push into schools, trans sports controversy, etc, etc) Many over public safety Specific career niches ( gas and oil jobs, first responders in general, small business owners who were burned and looted out, residents working with the public in Big Blue Cities who are watching illegal immigrants flood and take over their areas and neighborhoods, etc, etc) You don't need the entire black vote, you just need enough of them to sit it out. They might hate Trump, but they'll despise Biden enough to not want any of it at all.

Actually the bizarre fallout of situations like this is that it effectively has shifted the gun debate in this country. When you abandon the working class to be prey and victims, then people will buy guns. What choice do they have left when it's clear no one else is going to help them? Each new gunowner is a new Pro-2A advocate. A non gun owner, when there are punitive "gun laws" will tend to ignore it all. It doesn't impact them. Once you own a gun, then each BS law and gaming the system like Hochul in New York or Newsom in California, the tyranny is evident and unavoidable. More women, single mothers, elderly, LGBT, people of all backgrounds who were not seen as practical targets for firearms marketing, are now buying guns in droves. Staggering record levels of sales. Yes, there's some media outrage with "mass shootings" but what can Team Blue say right now? If they push too hard against guns any further, they will only continue to destabilize the working class against them. On an aside, I feel badly, of course, for this CEO's family. Her friends. Her coworkers. I feel badly for people in that city, who have to consider being killed for just trying to live their every day lives as an average person. Do I feel badly for her? The answer again is I feel badly for her family. I feel nothing for her at all. I don't see it as a type of karma nor vindication. I'm just a big believer that Conservatives should isolate themselves from the activist left. Our money, our time, our attention, everything. What happens to them can happen to them somewhere else in their areas and their strongholds. Demonetize them, ignore them, and move on with our lives. IMHO, that's the most effective strategy.

I believe it's key to talk about the practical voting blocks that Biden will lose in 2024. One of which will be the overall military vote. 13 good Marines died for Biden's incompetence. Billions in our tax dollars were spent to abandon weapons to arm terrorists around the world to kill future generations of good young American soldiers. When you lose the military vote, you can lose a cross section of it that can last for five full general cycles. There is a large cross over from the military to the law enforcement realm as well. And how has Team Blue and Biden handled that? It only reinforces the losses with the military and first responders.

I'd pick Sanders too, but his situation requires more context. In SF, he was surrounded by a Pro Bowl level defense. He had an elite D line plus Tim McDonald and Merton Hanks to cover for his flaws in the secondary In Dallas, he also had an incredible D Line, also the Cowboys O line was historic level, so they chewed up a lot of clock, keeping the defense fresh. And Darren Woodson could offer the kind of run support and flexibility that Sanders couldn't provide. In Atlanta, IIRC, he was opposite Tim McKyer, who was a top shelf CB with deep playoff experience for a while. Sanders, if he wanted to do it, could have played for 20 years, like Darrell Green. It's simply easier to find a player who can give you 70 percent of Bo Jackson's production compared to finding a player who can give you 70 percent of Deion Sander's impact. I'd say Sanders was in his absolute best during his short stay in SF. A more compelling question might be what would the Rod Woodson vs Deion Sanders comparison look like had Woodson not gotten injured. Woodson literally had an entire second career as a safety. After being probably the best overall all around cornerback of his timeline. ( With Sanders being noted as the "best pure cover corner") Bo Jackson would give you, if he wasn't injured, a good strong 3-4 seasons of elite prime. Sanders could give you a 20 year career, with about 12 of them at an elite Pro Bowl level. ( Even Darrell Green lost a step in his last 4-5 seasons) EDIT: Sanders took a lot of risks, but it would have looked more unfavorably upon him had he had far worse teammates in his secondary. If he joined the 49ers, and their next best cover guys were Tyrone Drakeford and Dana Hall, well you can see how the long term impact would turn out. To be fair about it, Woodson spent his Steelers career with the vastly underrated Carnell Lake, which opened up a lot of freedom for Woodson to take more risks.

Tim is not naive. When he's not getting enough attention, when he's not generating enough anger and can't seem to get prodding people to incite them to work, he downshifts for a while into temporary stances that seem more "reasonable" He did the same thing at the "other place", when he knew was on the edge of getting banned again, because he was banned all the time for personally attacking people ( with all his aliases, he had like 250K total posts over there), he would modify his behavior to try to avoid being banned. What that did was provide evidence that Tim could participate in a practical civil manner, if he chose to do it, but he simply chooses not to enrich the community overall. His point is to get you to engage, then incite you, then attack you, then see if he can get you to react. Nothing he says has any other meaning than that. The best crossover example is a pure gold digger. A gold digger will morph into whatever the rich person wants to get that cash. Be a surrogate "Mommy" figure, if that's what it takes. Be slutty, if that's what it takes. Be the Christian "Girl Next Door", if that is what it takes. Agree with all his opinions and join his hobbies or oppose them violently based on his triggers, if that's what it takes. Tim doesn't have a real value system. He has the mindset of a two dollar at closing time. He see this place, just like "the other place" as a personal toilet and all of you as free toilet paper. He doesn't care what you think, he just wants to smear it all over you and flush you.

Schools Are Ditching Homework, Deadlines in Favor of ‘Equitable Grading’ Las Vegas high-school English teacher Laura Jeanne Penrod initially thought the grading changes at her school district made sense. Under the overhaul, students are given more chances to prove they have mastered a subject without being held to arbitrary deadlines, in recognition of challenges some children have outside school. Soon after the system was introduced, however, Ms. Penrod said her 11th-grade honors students realized the new rules minimized the importance of homework to their final grades, leading many to forgo the brainstorming and rough drafts required ahead of writing a persuasive essay. Some didn’t turn in the essay at all, knowing they could redo it later. “They’re relying on children having intrinsic motivation, and that is the furthest thing from the truth for this age group,” said Ms. Penrod, a teacher for 17 years. The Clark County School District where Ms. Penrod works—the nation’s fifth-largest school system—has joined dozens of districts in California, Iowa, Virginia and other states in moves toward “equitable grading” with varying degrees of buy-in. Leaders in the 305,000-student Clark County district said the new approach was about making grades a more accurate reflection of a student’s progress and giving opportunities to all learners. Equitable grading can take different forms, but the systems aim to measure whether a student knows the classroom material by the end of a term without penalties for behavior, which, under the theory, can introduce bias. Homework is typically played down and students are given multiple opportunities to complete tests and assignments. Proponents of the approach, including paid consultants, say it benefits students with after-school responsibilities, such as a job or caring for siblings, as well as those with learning disabilities. Traditional grading methods, they say, favor those with a stable home life and more hands-on parents....In Las Vegas, some teachers and students say the changes have led to gaming the system and a lack of accountability. “If you go to a job in real life, you can’t pick and choose what tasks you want to do and only do the quote big ones,” said Alyson Henderson, a high-school English teacher there. Lessons drag on now, she said, because students can turn in work until right before grades are due.....“We’re really setting students up for a false sense of reality,” Ms. Henderson said.....Extra credit is banned—no more points for bringing in school supplies—as is grading for behavior, which includes habits such as attendance....The scale starts at 49% or 50% rather than zero, meant to keep a student’s grade from sinking so low from a few missed assignments that they feel they can’t recover and give up......Clark County said in the first year of the change, fewer students across racial demographics received an F.... https://www.wsj.com/articles/schools-are-ditching-homework-deadlines-in-favor-of-equitable-grading-dcef7c3e

‘She was going to run me over:’ officer who fatally shot Ta’Kiya Young ....The Blendon Township police officer who fatally shot Ta’Kiya Young said multiple times “She was going to run me over” in the moments that followed, according to new body-camera footage that was released Friday....Police released longer video of the incident from each of the two officers who confronted Young on Aug. 24 at the Kroger on Sunbury Road. Chief John Belford said the longer versions were released just now because of the extra time it took to redact them. Also released were two videos that showed security footage from inside the Kroger and its parking lot.... ....In the new footage, Young was shown going into the liquor section of the Kroger with a handheld shopping basket and a shoulder bag that had a second bag inside of it. She placed bottles into the basket and later transferred them to the shoulder bags. She went to the liquor-section register with some bottles in the basket, but after waiting in line for about a minute, she walked out carrying the basket with two other women who were with her, setting off an alarm....As seen in the footage released Sept. 1, one officer went to Young’s driver’s-side window and ordered her out of the car multiple times as the second officer stepped in front of the car and pulled out his handgun. Young began to pull her car forward, lifting the officer in front off the ground. He fired one shot through the windshield, striking Young, and the car rolled about 50 feet before hitting the store wall.... ....The extended footage from the officers’ body cameras showed that as they tried to pull Young out, her foot was still on the gas, causing the car to lurch forward and Young to fall to the ground.....“She was going to run me over,” said the officer who shot her, who Young’s family has identified as Connor Grubb, as the second officer applied pressure to her gunshot wound.....“I know she was, I know she was,” the second officer responded.... https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/westerville/she-was-going-to-run-me-over-officer-who-fatally-shot-takiya-young/

Biden claims without evidence he was at Ground Zero on day after 9/11 attacks .....President Biden claimed, without evidence, that he stood at Ground Zero viewing the damage from the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks just one day later, despite records showing he was in Washington, D.C. that day......"Ground Zero in New York — I remember standing there the next day and looking at the building. I felt like I was looking through the gates of Hell, it looked so devastating because the way you could — from where you could stand," Biden said during his speech at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska marking the devastating acts of terrorism 22 years ago. However, according to C-SPAN coverage of U.S. Senate proceedings on September 12, 2001, Biden was in Washington, D.C. and gave a speech on the floor of the Senate. Records show the Senate met in the morning, and a classified briefing was held for all senators that afternoon at 2:00 p.m. ET..... .....Biden's claim comes as he faces scrutiny from families of 9/11 victims for not visiting any of the sites of the attacks on Monday, and for giving his speech marking the day in Alaska. With the move, he became the first U.S. president in 22 years to neither spend the day at an attack site nor the White House.... https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-claims-without-evidence-he-was-at-ground-zero-day-after-9-11-attacks

https://www.fftodayforums.com/forum/topic/514837-cancel-target/?do=findComment&comment=7280500 Posted by @dogcows 05/30/23 at 7:58PM "The LGBTQ army is coming for your kids! Get into the doomsday bunker NOW! You can come out in 10 years, it ought to be safe by then. Bye!" ******** Why Drag Storytime Belongs in Public Libraries ....As drag storytimes have received heightened media attention over the last year, my team and I have fielded the question: Why does drag storytime belong in public libraries? For the most part, this is an honest question asked by people genuinely seeking to understand. I’ve learned that a lot of folks don’t initially get the connection between public libraries and drag...On one level, drag storytime is a visible place of inclusion for LGBTQ+ families. Hosting drag storytime says: LGBTQ+ family belongs in the library, LGBTQ+ staff belong in libraries, and we will have books of all kinds about LGBTQ+ culture and history....As a library, it is our responsibility to invite, celebrate, and take action to explicitly include marginalized communities.... ....Drag storytime can be important in starting conversations at a community level. Productive conversations about gender and family can be sparked, as well as what it means to be a marginalized community. We believe it’s essential that our communities find ways to have these conversations and connect, especially when our opinions, beliefs and experiences differ....When asked why she does drag storytime, Panda Dulce put it this way: “when you do story hour, sometimes there are queer kids, and you can really tell because they light up in a way where you just know, and you have that immediate connection…Words can't capture what that feels like." ....Alameda County Supervisor Dave Brown and his District 3 staff also showed immediate and unwavering support. As a show of commitment, he funded a full year of LGBTQ+ library programming for each month from July 2022-June 2023. Through this support, the San Lorenzo Library is hosting monthly programming as part of Every Month is Pride Month, including an upcoming drag storytime on February 18, 2023. The Alameda County Library will proudly continue to offer drag storytimes and LGBTQ+ programming at every opportunity...As some of our San Lorenzo LGBTQ+ library staff put it: “it’s time for libraries to show up and show out for the LGBTQ+ community!” Drag storytime belongs in public libraries. https://aclibrary.org/blogs/post/why-drag-storytime-belongs-in-public-libraries/ Why Some in the LGBT Movement Are Focusing on Kids ...Normal people believe that sexualizing children is predatory. ..it is clear that many activist educators and their political allies are comfortable with the idea that elementary school children are already members of the “LGBTQI+ community” and should be instructed accordingly....Implicit in the LGBT movement’s popular “born this way” narrative—there was even a song—is the belief that children are intrinsically sexual. The argument that each of us is born with an immutable sexual orientation and gender identity provided an effective ersatz natural-law case for everything from same-sex marriage to gender transition. But it also ensured that the LGBT movement was coming for your children.... ...The idea that that every baby is born with a sexual orientation and gender identity means that some children are born into the sexual elect of the “LGBTQI+ community.” This suggests that all children ought to learn about sex and gender as soon as possible, so that they will be able to discover their authentic sexual selves. In this view, kids need to learn about gay sex and gender transition because some of them are gay, trans, or some other rainbow identity, even if they don’t know it yet—and the rest need to learn to be accepting.... ...And because it is not immediately clear whether a child will identify as LGBT, all parents who reject LGBT ideology are necessarily suspect. This was made explicit in the Biden administration’s “Guide for Foster Parents,” which endorses the “born this way” thesis, including the notion that a four-year-old may be transgender. The guide says that “Any steps you take to make your home welcoming and affirming to LGBTQ+ youth will benefit all children and youth in your care. . . . Behaviors that openly reject a youth’s LGBTQ+ identity must be avoided and not tolerated, . . . including religious activities . . . and family gatherings.” It is the Biden administration’s official view that you are unfit to be a foster parent (and by implication, to be a parent at all) if you do not accept LGBT ideology and affirm LGBT identities—including transgender preschoolers.... ....some LGBT activists and their allies to justify claiming children as part of the “LGBTQI+ community.” They are pressuring our culture, curricula, and even churches to affirm the ostensibly intrinsic rainbow identities of children. But children’s identities are not so predestined, and the development of sexuality and gender identity is complex and at least partly socially conditioned. Though children are not blank slates, neither are they born with their sexualities predetermined, and what is taught to and modeled for them at school will be part of their sexual development. Thus, instead of helping children discern intrinsic sexual orientations and gender identities, the educational and cultural efforts of LGBT activists and allies are shaping children’s sexuality and sense of gender...Children are suggestible and malleable, including their sexual orientation and gender identity. And yet many LGBT activists and their allies want every kindergarten to teach that boys can become girls and girls can become boys. They want every middle school to have an LGBT club with teachers actively recruiting for it. They are determined to celebrate and praise kids who come out as part of the rainbow elect while labeling those who do not as cis-hetero oppressors. They are, in short, acting like recruiters, with activist teachers even working to hide students’ LGBT identities from parents. These debates are not just about who will teach children about sex and sexual morality, but also about who has the right to direct their development. Activist educators are determined to do so, regardless of what parents may wish... ...LGBT activists used to insist that they were not interested in recruiting children, and many adults who identify as LGBT still feel that way. But those driving the LGBT movement are now not even trying to hide their grooming. They really are coming for children. https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2022/03/81314/

https://www.fftodayforums.com/forum/topic/514837-cancel-target/?do=findComment&comment=7280500 Posted by @dogcows 05/30/23 at 7:58PM "The LGBTQ army is coming for your kids! Get into the doomsday bunker NOW! You can come out in 10 years, it ought to be safe by then. Bye!" ******** Senator Reads Aloud From Pornographic Book in Hearing: 'Disturbing' Senator John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican, read aloud from a sexually graphic book during a hearing about Illinois' anti-book ban law on Tuesday. Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias testified before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday to defend his state's law that prohibits public libraries from removing books that may be viewed as controversial from shelves. The law comes amid a culture war battle about whether schools and public libraries should .... effectively be banned to prevent children from learning about topics they view as inappropriate for that age. Critics, however, say these book bans are merely meant to stifle expression of the LGBTQ+ community amid a recent rise in homophobia and transphobia. ....Illinois in June became the first state to prevent these book bans. The law would pull funding from libraries that remove books due to "partisan or personal disproval" and is intended to protect "the freedom of libraries to acquire materials without external limitations," Newsweek previously reported.....During the hearing on Tuesday, Kennedy read aloud from the book All Boys Aren't Blue.... The book has been banned in dozens of school districts across the country and remains the second most challenged book, according to the American Library Association (ALA). It has been challenged for its sexually graphic content, but also because it includes LGBTQ+ themes..... https://www.newsweek.com/senator-reads-aloud-pornographic-book-hearing-1826531

https://www.fftodayforums.com/forum/topic/514837-cancel-target/?do=findComment&comment=7280500 Posted by @dogcows 05/30/23 at 7:58PM "The LGBTQ army is coming for your kids! Get into the doomsday bunker NOW! You can come out in 10 years, it ought to be safe by then. Bye!" ********