Tucker Carlson:
“Trump’s election wasn’t about Trump. It was a throbbing middle finger in the face of America’s ruling class. It was a gesture of contempt, a howl of rage, resulting from decades of selfish and unwise decisions made by selfish and unwise leaders. Happy countries don’t elect Donald Trump as president. Desperate ones do. In retrospect, the lesson seemed obvious: Ignore voters for long enough and you get Donald Trump…
One of the most remarkable things about our immigration policy is its unpopularity. Only the ruling class supports it. For over fifty years, Gallup has polled Americans on whether they want more immigration, less immigration, or about the same amount. Not a single time has a plurality supported higher immigration levels. When Americans are asked what their preferred annual immigration level is, they almost always want less than the current norm of about one million new legal immigrants per year. America was radically and permanently changed, against the will of its population, by the people who run the country. Dare to complain about that, and you’ll be shouted down as a bigot, as if demanding representation in a democracy were immoral. Not surprisingly, many voters have concluded that our democracy isn’t real. In important ways, it’s not. ”
-Tucker Carlson, ‘Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution’
Power Grid Woes
I hate to be Cassandra – given the gift of prophecy and the curse that I won’t be believed. In truth, the people who follow this blog (it’s not about me) have seen this coming for years. The answer to the power grid problem is a robust nuclear power infrastructure program based on distributed energy production in many different nodes. And for some reason, America seems clueless.
Nuclear power is not sexist or racist. No DEI should be involved in its development. Windmills are not the answer, and neither is solar power. The democrats are dismantling dams in the West that generate clean hydroelectric power (killing tens of millions of salmon in the process) without thought of its replacement.
(WaPo) A major factor behind the skyrocketing demand is the rapid innovation in artificial intelligence, which is driving the construction of large warehouses of computing infrastructure that require exponentially more power than traditional data centers. AI is also part of a huge scale-up of cloud computing. Tech firms like Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft are scouring the nation for sites for new data centers, and many lesser-known firms are also on the hunt.
The proliferation of crypto-mining, in which currencies like Bitcoin are transacted and minted, drives data center growth. This is putting new pressure on an overtaxed grid—the network of transmission lines and power stations that move electricity around the country. Bottlenecks are mounting, leaving both new generators of energy, particularly clean energy, and large consumers facing growing wait times for hookups.
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The British
Eventually, they may apply to become a US colony for more military protection. If that happens, will they embrace pre-sweetened iced tea with a massive hunk of lemon as their national beverage?
If that happens, will the US tax them without allowing them representation in Congress?
Meme of the Day

Bullet Points:
** When stars die, what remains?
** Civil Servant?
** A Gathering of Mountebanks -Bill Clinton helped convince two candidates to drop their fantasies of third-party presidential runs, which is part of the former president and his wife, Hillary Clinton, taking a more active and expansive role in the 2024 political field, according to a new report.
New York Magazine’s Gabriel Debenedetti reported on Monday that the Clintons have been keeping a close eye on the 2024 presidential election, and this included Bill Clinton convincing both former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) that third-party runs would only benefit Donald Trump and hurt President Joe Biden.
** Liberalspeak
** The enemy of my enemy is sometimes my enemy, but sometimes one fights alongside him nonetheless, at least in the short term.
** The FDR administration gave the Soviets 95% of the information and tools to build the atomic bomb. The rest came from sympathetic spies since not everyone involved with the Manhattan Project trusted FDR.
** (zerohedge) Having successfully raged, ranted, lied, and yelled through the State of The Union, President Biden can return to his crypt now.
Whatever ‘they’ gave Biden, every American man, woman, and other should be allowed to take it – though it seems the cocktail brings out ‘dark Brandon’?’
** Dr. Keith Ablow is a psychiatrist who spent years on Fox News. He also treated Hunter Biden for cocaine addiction. In February 2020, armed federal agents raided Ablow’s office, took his patient records as well as Hunter Biden’s laptop, and never charged him with a crime. What was this about? Dr. Ablow talks about it for the first time.
Identify the AFV
1

Identify the Aircraft
2
This aircraft could trick the unwary

3
Not a ME-110

4
Not a P-39

Moving the engine backward does not improve maneuverability, as the center of gravity has to remain in front of the center of lift. Even worse, it hampers spin recovery, especially once ammunition loaded in the nose has been spent, moving the center of gravity backward.
Showcased Mystery Aircraft
The Air Ministry specification called for a single-seat fighter operable both day and night and armed with four guns. This specification insisted on an engine featuring evaporative (or “steam”) cooling, setting a challenging and intricate set of requirements.
The desired performance included a top speed of over 250 mph, setting a high bar for handling, maneuverability, range, rate of climb, and service ceiling, aiming to surpass contemporary aircraft’s capabilities significantly.
It was to be a night fighter. Detailed requirements emphasized suitability for night operations, necessitating an excellent all-around view, flame-damped exhausts, and low-wing loadings to meet the comprehensive demands of the specification.
It didn’t measure up, and only one was built. This particular manufacturer had a lot of one-off aircraft, and those that made it into combat were less than stellar (too much of a hint?).
Identify the AFV:
1. EBRC Jaguar
Identify the Aircraft:
2. CAC CA-15
3. Bf 162
4. Bell XFL Airabonita
Mystery Aircraft:
Blackburn F.3
Correction to 4: Piaggio P.119
Yes!
The middle class has been behind every big revolution since 1776.
The Demos are poking a very big bear.
They don’t have the gray matter to appreciate it.
No, they don’t. Money doesn’t make you smarter than anyone else.
Case in point: The billionaire sister-in-law to Mitchy Boy, dead because – as my brother said:
“ Now…I’m not saying it’s a – Chinese – psyop kinda thing…but…in a vehicle (Tesla) that for all intents and purposes could…maybe…be hacked…???
Or…just a tragic accident by a dumb shit that never drives herself and can’t figure out the difference between reverse and drive…”
But because the media hates Musk, they will blame it on the car, not the driver.
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/angela-chao-death-texas-tesla-safety-c435daa0
Apparently Mitch got the message loud and clear. Or maybe his wife did. Now if she had been an American she would have made that drive back to the “main house” in an F150, or actually walked. (Four minute drive my ass. More like 4 minute walk.) Certainly hope no one does a blood alcohol test in the autopsy.
{re: NY Post as I don’t have a wsj subscription}
Ahh, didn’t check, he had included the article text in his email. Not disparaging Chao, RIP, yet backstory is interesting: (Tesla Model X SUV)
Moved from Manhattan to the Texan Italianate Estate…was a gorgeous retreat, with a dozen horse stables, a swimming pool, a putting green, a basketball court and a 10-bedroom guesthouse known as “the inn.” A stone patio offered breathtaking views of the Hill Country, especially at sunset as the light glinted off the small ponds dotting the property.
Chao’s friends flew in Friday evening and spent the next day roaming the ranch’s 900 acres. After the catered BBQ she left The Inn around 11:30pm to drive the 4 minute trip back to the main house. Her young son was with the nanny. Within minutes of saying her goodbyes, she called one of her friends in a panic. While making a three-point turn, she had put the car in reverse instead of drive, she said. It is a mistake she had made before with the Tesla gearshift. The car had zipped backward, tipping over an embankment and into a pond. It was sinking fast. Could they help her?
Even a not impaired capable person has about a minute to escape a sinking vehicle. Ms. Chao was aware enough to call a friend on her danged phone for rescue but not to escape? I’ve read that some say to not roll the window down (being all electric this may have been impossible in the water) because water rushes in. But still, can’t one hold their breath, open the window, let it equalize, then try to escape? (Please, let me know if I’m wrong, but that approach sounds feasible.)
The headrests no most cars are attached to a square metal tube that slides down inside the back of the seat. You can slide that completely out and use the metal end to shatter the window. Dunno if Telsa’s have that, but I thought it was standard in most cars. If they do then in the time it would take to make that call she could have busted the window and gotten ready to climb out.
Good point to remember…finding the seatbelt/window shatter tool in the console or glovebox when seconds counted was always my problem with those things, whereas every headrest post is pointy by design for exactly that reason. Also, every smash-n-grabber simply uses a pointed object (often a centerpunch or phillips head screwdriver) to instantly pop the window. Her phone call proves people have become so device dependent that when panic sets in most will revert to their device first…what I call “burning your tires”…instead of simply driving out…you willfully strand yourself, making the situation worse, even deadly.
Late follow-up: yes, you do wait for the water to finish running in; after that there is no rushing water trying to push you back in. There are videos out there demonstrating how to do all this. One had two guys running an old car into the water, smashing their windows, holding their breath while the water rushed in, and then climbing out. Been a while so I cannot point to the link, but any search should be able to find one of them.
Whatever “impaired” her was probably slipped into her drink…
Where will the spokesliar wind up once FJB is out of office?
In a Shamwow commercial seems the only logical place.
She’ll be touring every 3rd-rate Arena in the US and Canada , with The Muppets on Ice!
No costume required.
– Kle.
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Mopheads on Ice.
Heh! Imagine if they went to Minnesota, eh…could doing Curling with a twist, using their own hairdos to work the stones. Could be entertaining.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85cL1HisrNc&t=6s
Same place as Kamala. They are both whores. Political, but whores nonetheless.
Good info about the ‘Grid’: https://michaelmabee.info/
Excellent primer. Thank you for the link.
I don’t see how you can have/maintain control over a advanced, industrialized country unless there is a power grid/network(?).
If there were small nuclear units that provided electric power to 50 to 70 living units/families (or as few as 1 to 3) were available (the concept could easily be produced at our current stage of technology), the only way a government could exert control would be in establishing the “safety factors” for such reactors and the nuclear materials required for opertion.
An enemy/a government inimical to its people would be unable to/could not make its “subjects” subservient to its will by threatening to remove power to large swaths of its population, ∴, the need/requirement for a power grid; its expense in material, maintenance, etc.
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Of course, finding a good mechanic or heating/cooling tech is tough.
Nuclear power technician?
Carlson is exactly correct in my case, about the reason I voted for Trump. It was the best “fuck you” I could give the Establishment. It isn’t as though my vote counts for much in Rhode Island.
– Kle.
President Trump’s “New York-isms” don’t appeal to me because it’s a local cultural thing and it’s where he’s from. However, he is a “fuck you” to the ruling elites and yes, that’s enough.
DJT’s NY-isms aren’t “New York-isms”; they’re specific to DJT.
The same for me – voting for a Republican in the People’s Republic of New York is pointless, except as a token FU to Albany and DC .
It still sends a message.
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X3…Still need to vote, even if we don’t believe it will count. (That “Defiance” poster comes to mind, with the mouse giving the finger to the attacking Eagle.)
I live 30 miles from a Nuclear plant in south GA. I am a firm believer that we need smaller nuclear reactors like those on our Navy ships and submarines to help with our power requirements.
Taking on the British as a colony would only work if you cleaned all of the people off the island. The muslems have taken over just like they have in Minnesota.
The elites prefer the foreign born to aid them in ruling their (once) people (now subjects).
The “elites” have NEVER thought of us as their people, in the sense of their countrymen, much less their kin.
As Gunny Hartman would have put it, to them “we are not even human fucking beings!” But we’re not grabasstic pieces of amphibian shit either. We’re simultaneously dumb almost-animals to be exploited and also cruel, cunning, dangerous creatures, ready at an instant’s notice to viciously attack our elites for no reason at all.
The “elites” are masters of psychological projection who mostly genuinely believe that we’d cheerfully do unto them what they do in actuality unto others. They can’t accept it when we speak truly saying “We just want to be left alone to manage our own lives.” It’s not in their nature to leave us alone, and they habitually speak to mislead or corrupt, so they can’t believe that other people might speak honestly without ulterior motive or “depends on the meaning of IS” logic chopping.
Candor coupled to truth is critical to calling out the reprobates among us so they don’t continue giving everyone the snow-job (rhymes with something else). That was next-level candor-truth. Well said.
Echoing others, Carlson is 100% correct, as usual. Being able to see behind the facade then presenting “truth” is his gift. I prefer that over scripted “news” (aka. propaganda), otherwise we’re simply lemmings getting tossed moldy bread to consume…never works out very well and we wonder why we’re throwing up. Thursday’s SOTU, and the fawning (lying) aftermath commentary by the usual suspects, felt icky like we just got force fed a rotten peanut.
KJP- Now I need ear bleach. That one, boldly employing the scolding schoolmarm mode while lying through her teeth. Gak. Ran into one of those on a plane once, a small repair to a gauge was in process while we were sitting there. This heavyset woman in capri’s stands up in the aisle, announces she is a teacher, and starts explaining to everyone what we are to do. I almost drew the First Class curtain, MrsPaulM almost told her off. When no one was listening she sat down in a harrumph.
>>Windmills are not the answer, and neither is solar power. The democrats are dismantling dams in the West that generate clean hydroelectric power (killing tens of millions of salmon in the process) without thought of its replacement.<<
If you make the end goal some fine fishing streams, an uncluttered world, the ability to do anything YOU want and just enough people left to serve the elite and keep things running (robots?), well this all makes sense.
Trout fishing for the “elites,” eh?
Sounds good to me.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vCzPxOCZ2MU
I like the symmetry of using a snake to kill a snake. Since vampires don’t actually exist IRL, I guess we’ll have to make do with snakes.
“Maxim 29:
The enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy. No more. No less.
-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries”
Sums it up Ed.
SISU MAGA ™
Watched TC’s interview with Dr. Ablow. Holy crap! (Yeah, I said it.)
First, thanks to our host, might never have seen it. Second…brilliant, 1000% correct. Third…half of America is asleep, lulled if you will, and every awake American needs to watch this and hear, the man speaks more truth in 40 minutes, encapsulating where we are as a society and why we are asked to embrace insanity at every turn. Which we must not. We must stick to our guns, in every way that suggests. SISU MAGA!
I… have actually always liked Trump. He’s always been a thorn in the mainstream politicians’ side (like when he actually had the skate rink in NYFC refurbished under his budget and under his timeline when NYFC hadn’t been able to do it for years.)
I like the way he talks, moves, does things and just his basic aura. Prime Alpha Male, proudly striding around scaring the adult children.
He fights, he thinks, he talks without much of a script. His only real failures during his presidency was trusting people that were ‘experts’ in both subject matter (the Covid crap is a good example) and trusting people to serve under him and advise him (look at all the supposed not-swamp critters who turned out to be swamp critters, like Gen. Mattis, the rat-fuck, or Gen. “Stab him in the back Milley.)
And Melania was the best first lady since, oh, geez, just the best first lady ever. Smart, stylish, and modest.
While I cringe at Trump sometimes, I agree with you.
X2 HEB, Trump speaks base truth and the Deranged can’t handle the truth so work to discredit him…which isn’t working. Every indictment proves the point, also shows there are plenty of awake and good people who get it. Minimally, PDJT is true to himself, as we all should be with ourselves. God requires it. (Us old(er) guys already know this and operate as such because we’ve not been indoctrinated from an early age as the Demented have forced on the youngin’s. They are the cancer rotting America from within.)
Still stuck in the same groove. Those who count the votes determine election winners. Won’t change until corrupt election officials start facing consequences. Who will prosecute them?
For the wealthy, the cost to buy election officials is chump change. Look no further than Soros and prosecutors.
We’re gonna need a LOT of rope and tall trees. Maybe lampposts would work in DC?
They did in Italy.
In a nutshell, the reason we don’t have more nuke plants is Three Mile Island and the econazis. They have sued and blocked every attempt to build new plants. Once the grid fails, it will be too late for them OR for us!