(Caption) The UK’s aircraft carriers may be mothballed under a Treasury cost-cutting proposal. (link) Given the sad state of the Royal Navy and British Army, it may be better to pack them in and leave a ceremonial guard for tourists to take pictures of in London. How much of a military does KC3 (King Cider) need? They keep cutting. Why bleed slowly when a shot to the head handles the problem immediately? The British tend to rely on the United States (which they regularly express hatred toward) for their defense. Maybe we rent out our military to them? Would they pay with gold, or would they put it on credit? I’m sure that Pres. Trump could work out a payment plan. Maybe we take Scotland (the president has a golf course there, and we have a submarine base), eject the woke people down to England, and restore it to its former glory as the 51st State in exchange for defending the people who can’t decide which bathroom to use.
Bullet Points:
** Don’t gamble unless you’re playing with somebody else’s money.
** Mophead/Sideshow Bob has departed the White House for her/its Holiday Vacation – will it return? Bets?
** Mental illness on display. (right)
** China’s One Road Project – on display in Pakistan. One of the best ways to create an environment where an economy can thrive is to have abundant, reliable, reasonably priced energy; a sure way to destroy an economy is to make it so only the rich can afford the utilities. Here, Pakistan accepted China’s help, just like many poor countries worldwide, and became energy-dependent on China. Now, the Pakistani people can’t afford the energy bill, and Pakistan is in massive debt to China.
** Barack and Big Mike Obama have been in hiding since the election when an unprecedented number of black voters turned out for President Trump. Has the famous mulatto’s mojo failed him? What about his husband? At one point, Big Mike talked about going for the White House himself.
** From Shawn’s mouth to God’s ear… I’m sure that many of you have seen this for yourselves.
Another Note on the PRC and Rare Earth Materials
(Yahoo News Summary) China tightened controls on the export of some chipmaking materials to the US, a day after the Biden administration expanded curbs on Beijing’s access to cutting-edge semiconductors, further escalating trade tensions.
Washington has for years sought to slow Beijing’s technological progress and artificial intelligence development by limiting the availability of advanced American technology. China has responded in recent months by curtailing sales of critical materials. The latest curbs involve the rare minerals gallium, germanium, antimony, and others.
Tensions are ramping up ahead of US President-elect Donald Trump’s return to power. President Trump has pledged hefty tariffs on Chinese imports, raising the specter of a renewed trade war between the world’s two biggest economies. That is a particular risk to China, already facing slowing growth and a huge debt burden.
VM Commentary: China is engaged in the heavy industrial production of military products, and it doesn’t want to slow down. Our natural assumption in the West is that it is preparing for a Navy War. They’re also building nuclear power plants at a tremendous pace. There is a cost in face for slowing down the efforts they’ve undertaken. There can be no unemployment (in theory – not in practice) in a Communist state. There is always a shrill propaganda value to these massive state projects. We saw it in the Soviet Union before it folded and became a capitalist state (and the Christian country it is today). The People’s Republic of China diverged from being a “communist country” some time ago when it became a capitalist powerhouse and an imperialist nation. Still, it denies those things, and Xi is trying to return to a semblance of the good old days of more heavy central control. It is not working out for them as well as they’d like it to (see Yahoo News above).
The People’s Republic of China is an enemy of the United States, and we need to treat them the way they treat us. The Cold War with China has been going on for some time now and the re-election of President Trump doesn’t bode well for their Long March.
Graphic: h/t EdB and The League
What About the US Senate?
The outgoing leader, the anti-Trump Mitch (War Turtle) McConnell, has just announced he’ll chair the powerful Rules Committee and the Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense. At the same time, on the Senate Appropriations Committee, the single most powerful chairmanship in the Senate will be occupied by the virulently anti-Trump RINO, Susan Collins of Maine. None of that bodes well for the MAGA agenda.
Pres. Trump, however, doesn’t have to consent to RINOs derailing his agenda. Why? Because (in addition to not having a re-election to eat away at his time) he has a not-so-secret weapon: JD Vance. Trump should tell Vance that his sole job for the next four years is to exercise his constitutional role as President of the Senate and preside over the body, something vice presidents regularly did until the 1950s. Article I, Section 3, Clause 4 of the Constitution says: “The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.”
While casting the deciding vote when the Senate is tied is something Vance is likely to be called upon to do, there’s much more that he could do. The Constitution itself says practically nothing about how the Senate should be run. It talks about voting and quorums, passing laws, and more but says virtually nothing about what goes on in the Senate procedurally.
As such, most of what Senators do is done because… that’s how they’ve always done it, or at least for a while. Members voted on some of the procedures while leaders put others in place.
For example, the majority leader is the most powerful person in the Senate because he has the chair must recognize him first: “This perception is based on his ability to make motions to proceed to legislation and nominations…” That “right” didn’t exist for the first 150 years of the Republic until Vice President John “Cactus Jack” Nance Garner created it while presiding over the Senate in 1937.
And this is where President Trump needs to utilize Vance. According to the Senate’s website: “The Senate is governed by the Constitution, a set of standing rules, precedents established in the course of the legislative process, and special rules of procedure adopted by statute for particular types of legislation.” The Senators create and vote upon the rules. Unlike in the House, the rules apply from one Congress to the next. As such, those would be difficult to change without a rock-solid majority, something the President sadly doesn’t have.
However, precedents are something altogether different. As we saw with the Supreme Court overturning Plessy and Roe, here’s the thing: precedents are precedents… until they’re not. And there are a lot of them: 1,600 pages worth!
At a minimum, Vance should eliminate Garner’s rule about the right of first recognition. From that point forward, he can guide the proceedings by calling upon whomever he chooses. Beyond that, Vance should scrutinize the Senate’s 1,600 pages of precedents, figure out which can be used to help support the president’s agenda (for example, committee assignments), and adjust them accordingly.
But “Wait!” you say, “That’s not how that’s supposed to work!”
The Senate was explicitly crafted to balance the passions of the masses as represented in the House and, to a lesser degree, the White House. That, however, was when States were considered equal partners in our federal system of government and appointed Senators.
The leftists eviscerated the Founders’ original intentions about the Senate with the 17th Amendment. As a result, the Senate has become simply a more entrenched version of the House. Therefore, if a cabal of geriatric swamp-loving RINOs wants to try to shanghai the president’s mandate because the close balance of party power in the chamber allows them to do so, to paraphrase Sean Connery in The Untouchables, Trump should bring a constitutional gun to their knife fight and keep them from doing so.
I tell those who cry that if we do it, they’ll do it later, so be it. The reality is that Democrats don’t need this to try to destroy the Republic. They nuked the filibuster, which went back to our Founders. They were prepared to add Puerto Rico and DC as states to alter the Senate’s balance permanently. They yearned to pack the Supreme Court to turn it into a progressive rubber stamp. And, of course, they imported 30 million illegals to control the House. The Democrats don’t need precedent to do anything. They do what they want.
The fact is that the Swamp is an existential threat to freedom, prosperity, and the Republic. Donald Trump must take advantage of this moment and the powers the Constitution provides to eviscerate it now. If he doesn’t do it now, when the winds of change are so strong and America’s desires so clear, it will never happen. He should not let a handful of geriatric RINOs stand in the way of exorcising the bureaucratic cancer of the swamp that menaces American citizens and ravages America’s prosperity. If he allowed them to prevail, he would have betrayed the nation and gone down in history as America’s greatest disappointment.
Antarctica
No ants live here. There could be aunts here, though. They’d need to change the spelling.
For Boron, who enjoys spelling things.
Please don’t call it a Bribe!
“The ruler of Qatar was in Britain this week for a two-day state visit to secure critical trade deals between the two nations, as he met Wednesday with the prime minister. Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, the emir of Qatar (a small Middle Eastern country floating on oil), arrived for a two-day state visit hosted by King Charles III, also known as CK3, King Chuck, and Prince Cider. The Sheikh gave the king a large sword, possibly to help him “compensate.” (below)
“On Wednesday, it was announced that Qatar would invest an initial $1 billion in a climate technology partnership with Rolls-Royce to boost Britain’s position as a ‘clean energy superpower,’ according to the British government.” CK3 sold out pretty cheap. All it took was a billion-dollar bribe disguised as a clean energy gift, and Qatar owned the British government—or, more accurately, rented it.
Will they use the billion to save their aircraft carriers from being mothballed? (Hahahahaha, I crack myself up.) Of course not. If threatened, they can call on the American fleet.
If Bibi showed up, the Brits would not grant him an audience with the king. They would arrest him. Would the Brits do an Epstein on Bibi? If the Shiekh gave the king another gift?
Identify the Aircraft
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Parting Shot
h/t WSF
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Utilizing Vance; great plan. McConnell and Collins; according to a recent interview on Shawn Ryan committees are where the ball gets rolling to pass bills. RINOS gotta go! Great explanations L.L. thanks for the education.
P.S. I’m so glad the demolition party was not able to pack the SCOTUS, add states, get the illegal votes ect. Proverbs 11:10 and 29:2 come to mind often these days.
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Identify the Aircraft:
1. Fiat CR.32
2. Curtiss C-46 Commando
3. Martin Baltimore
4. Polikarpov I-16
Being the “Day After Thursday” (as “assigned” by birth) I echo GFW2’s sentiments…Vance is proving to be The Right Choice and is tirelessly working “the body” to get the PEDJT nominations passed without too much idiocy and self-serving speeches by Dems and Rhino’s. (With The Husk stumbling and bumbling and generally being in th closet, I’m betting most Americans view Trump as acting President, besides he’s already operating as such…and the good people of the world have exhaled with relief.)
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Yesterdays incendiary exchange between Acting SS Director Rowe and Rep. Fallon showcased how entrenched the scared rats are in The Swamp and won’t give up easily, even when most Federal employees actually show up to the office for We The People’s work (what the hay!? Fire all of them who refuse to do their jobs, assuming those jobs are necessary). Rowe showed us that they are actually weak and our side is SISU, and I fervently pray good prevails over their brand of Marxist evil.
Let “The Righteous Reset ™” begin.
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Great post today.
*…”most Federal employees DON”T actually show up for work…”
There is a lot of ‘righteous indignation’ in the swamp, as demonstrated and displayed by SS Rowe. Some of them need to be put out to pasture if they have their time in and thanked for their service, etc. Many no-show positions simply need to be eliminated, and the personnel terminated for that reason. It eliminates the whole recourse for termination argument. Based on my observations, most Secret Service people are very solid, unlike many of the FBI special agents, who perform no useful function besides pushing paper and going to lunch. You could cut the FBI by 70% and nobody would know you did it.
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1. Fiat CR-32 Freccia
2. Curtiss C-46 Commando
3. Martin Baltimore A-30
4. Polikarpov I-16
If ever it should happen that a rail is found with which to run McConnell out of town on, I want to get my name in early to volunteer to help carry it.
I have some leftover tar and a feather pillow I’ll toss in.
too bad the 25th only applies to presidents.
I would hope the rail has enough length for Texas’ own, john cornyn to join mitch, with both adorned in matching attire.
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Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani: That is one big Arab. Also, CK3 isn’t as dumb as he appears then. RECEIVING a billion to do the bidding of a little Middle-Eastern country is arguably more clever than giving billions to do the bidding of a little Middle-Eastern country.
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Flow Chart: I’ve despised Rousseau since I first had to read about him in high school. It’s fascinating that both Marx and Rousseau were personally reprehensible human beings, yet their warped ideas have so many adherents. Whether this is a reflection on Karl and JJ personally, or a sad commentary on human beings overall I don’t know.
Sediment tends to settle to the bottom of the glass where – because it’s usually a brown substance – the narrow-minded tunnel vision few see it first over the vast volume of the clear thinking liquid.
hope you don’t mind if I employ that in my future writings: it’s absolutely beautiful: short, neat, and to the (a very sharp) point; the very definition of a “pithy aphorism”.
(though I may have the temerity to call it, and similar, a “paulm”)
Or the corollary to the above “paulm”: “If you aren’t part of the solution, you’re part of the precipitate”.
:-) !
Nice assist!
Or the catalyst.
…and I was even on the second mug. Then again maybe that’s the reason, I’m more concise and pithy when half asleep.
Use away.
Your suggestion of J.D. Vance’s role is excellent. As a Senator himself, he will have knowledge of how things work.
President Trump put together a great campaign organization. Rather than dismantle it, re-purpose it for the 2026 Senate races. 33 Senators are up for election/re-election, 20 RINOs and 13 Communists. Tip O’Neal was known for stating all politics are local. Seems someone who knows how to make a deal can make life very uncomfortable for those 33 Senators in their own back yards.
The Brits are expecting the US to pick up the ‘slack’ for their military. I don’t see that happening under Trump. The only ‘improvements’ the RAF has made is adding an ASW component back in with three P-8s so far. At least on that one, we had input, so they had ‘seed corn’ crews attached to VX-1 so they were already trained/qualified when the Brits finally sprang for the aircraft.
They’re down to a skeleton crew and a few coastal patrol ships. There is more need for welfare payments for recently arrived African Muslims in the UK – preparing to transition, or whatever.
I’d like to mention for anyone who’s interested, it’s just been confirmed that Cmdr Salamander will be on my show tomorrow at 2pm Eastern.
Be there/or be square.
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https://waamradio.com/your-american-heritage/
Accidentally or on purpose on Pearl Harbor Day?
Yes.
Clicking on your name in the comments links to blogger. Your radio show is not linked even under the profile. Will have to google it.
Actually, on that page is a Listen Live button that would work.
Nice one Ed…and great timing as Mike_C points out.
https://tinyurl.com/WAAMRadio at 1pm Eastern
Cmdr Sal on at 2pm second half of the show.
The Brits could try and sell their carriers to Brazil, maybe.
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Brazil could easily afford to own and operate them, if the Pinkos down there didn’t keep
making the country insolvent. Plus, they keep trying to have carriers, and then throwing
them away.
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On that note, maybe the UK and Brazil could just federate? They sound an awful lot alike, all of a sudden…
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China might buy them. Hopefully we could have the air wing back before they flog the F-35’s to the People’s Republic of China.
Well, the aircraft carriers didn’t last too long, did they. After all, Climate Change and immigrant votes don’t come cheap. And what’s the point of a navy anyway, when you’re an ISLAND.
Nice Senate points. Let’s see how JD and the RINOs get on.