Santa’s Conspiracy List

There have been a number of conspiracy theories that are proving likely true of late. I’m checking them twice:

Hillary-constructed Trump-Russia 2016 election collusion 

 

Intel agencies spying on Trump campaign 

 

Trump-Zelensky phone call & impeachment 

 

Wuhan lab as the source of COVID

 

Election rigging with unsolicited mail-in ballots and drop boxes in 2020  and 2022

Social media shadow-banning of conservatives at behest of Intel agencies

Vaccinations and masks are over-hyped so-called COVID preventers

FBI up to its ears in Jan 6 “insurrection”

Only about a third of the military assistance we send to Ukraine actually reaches the battlefield

Hunter Biden’s laptop revelations (including Joe) suppressed by Deep State

Questions surrounding the Paul Pelosi hammer attack

Trump criminal absconding of classified government documents

STAND UP FOR SANTA CLAUS!

Happy haunakah

Better to light a single candle …

STAND UP FOR HAUNAKAH!

More Cute Animals!s

I’ve lost the source

STAND UP FOR DINNER!

Babylon Wasp

                      

Biden has given the Taliban in Afghanistan over $1 billion since we fled … se: PJ Meia story 

Why you ask? 

Well Pilgrim it’s simple … they need money to buy gasoline and ammunition for the $85 billion of weapons we left behind at Bagram Ait Base when we bugged out a year ago August.

STAND UP TO THE TALIBAN!

Headlines

 

European Union reaches deal on critical climate policy after marathon talks

Nasdaq extends its ESG capabilities as net zero commitments grow

Twitter Files Part 6: FBI treated platform ‘as if it were a subsidiary’

Survey shows Ron DeSantis leading Joe Biden

Israel deports Palestinian activist to France

Putin sounds out military commanders on Ukraine

Michigan Dems push semiautomatic rifle ban

Poll: 4 in 10 Americans believe we are living in end times

Libya militia held Lockerbie suspect before handover to U.S.

Croatia beats Morocco 2-1 to take third place in the World Cup

Trump backs McCarthy for House speaker

Ukraine struggles to restore power, water after bombardment

STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

Today’s Poser

 

If the hoards of illegal migrants coming across our southern border are primarily economic refugees, how come most have expensive cell phones and have paid the cartels thousands of dollars?

STAND UP FOR REALISM!

Ashes to Ashes

Harry, Gertrude’s husband of 20 years suddenly died. She had him cremated and put the urn of his ashes on the mantel.

After about a year, Gertrude decided to start dating again. She found a potential swain on-line and arranged for an evening out.

When this date came to pick her up he was smoking a cigar. Since she was upstairs not quite ready, he waited in the living room … and looking for a place to flick his cigar ashes, he chose the urn on the mantel.

When Gertrude came down to leave on her darte, she first went over to say goodbye to her departed husband’s urn.

She was a little taken aback and said, “Harry, you’ve been putting on some weight!”

STAND UP FOR THE FAR SIDE!

Evolving Epigram

Never leave a fellow warrior behind … except maybe in Benghazi or Afghanistan.

STAND UP FOR FELLOW WARRIORS

Headlines

Jan6 panel to vote on urging DOJ to prosecute Trump on at least three criminal charges

Dow closes more than 200 points lower, falls for the second straight week as recession fears mount

Twitter Files Part 6 exposes FBI ties to platform

Joe Biden repeats false war story at Town Hall meeting with veterans

Father of July 4 shooting suspect charged with 7 felonies

Musk says he will restore recently suspended journalists’ Twitter accounts

National Archives intends to release hundreds of files on Hunter Biden — unless the White House intervenes

Exclusive — Trump denounces Fuentes: antisemitism has no place in the GOP

2nd Circuit tosses Connecticut transgender athletes challenge

Ford again hikes the starting price of the F-150 Lightning pickup, now up 40% since launch

House Republicans tell NGOs working at the border to preserve their documents

Tesla fire sale, stock continues collapse …

STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

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Water—loo

Afterward:

STAND UP FOR DANCING QUEEN!

Xmas Sale

 

Hula Hoops, Pet Rocks and Beanie Babies!

Prices drastically reduced!

STAND UP FOR FADS!

Headlones

 

Virginia Dems squeeze House special election into one breakneck week

Senate passes one-week government funding bill, averting a partial shutdown

Biden DOJ sues Arizona over border wall made of shipping containers

Poll: Trump sees double digit lead in Republican primary

Biden loses a key climate ally

China sudden ‘reopening’ poses challenges as infections soar

Alleged luggage thief ex-Biden official Sam Brinton helped craft policy to hide student sex changes from parents

Black Americans demand $350k each at California reparations

Report: Intelligence agencies didn’t move fast enough to collect COVID data

Russia central bank holds key rate at 7.5%, warns inflation risks are ‘prevailing’

Lawmakers negotiating over 7,500 pork-barrel spending ‘earmarks’ totaling $16 billion for spending bill

Off with their tweets! … Manic Musk purges reporters … CNN, NYT, Washington Post …

STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

Whiplash

Many of ourAmerican media types are suffering serious whiplash injuries from their rapid and jolting u-turn on Elon Musk.

Afterward: 

From Powerline blog

STAND UP FOR NECK BRACES!

Style Eleve

Sam Bankman-Fried obviously combs his hair with an egg beater. — Fletcher

STAND UP FOR EGG BEATERS!

Box Checking

 

Given the current box-checking zeitgeist, the Republicans would be wise to nominate a disabled trans Pacific Islander ex-felon for president in 2024.

Afterward: With a hyphenated last name?

STAND UP FOR BOX CHECKING!

Today’s Poser

Pilgrim, do you believe anything our government tells you these days? 

 I’m so saddened to have to ask this question …

STAND UP FOR THE TRUTH!

Headlines

 

DeSantis builds his conservative resume as Trump flounders

Biden administration makes home COVID testing available free again this winter

Federal Reserve hikes rates by 0.5% to highest level in 15 years

California’s Gavin Newsom calls Biden’s migrant flights a ‘burden’

European Union and NATO reach long-delayed joint pledge to back Ukraine

Bank of England raises rates by 50 basis points, will continue to respond ‘forcefully’ if needed

Report: Pete Buttigieg was on vacation in Europe during potential rail strike

Trump met with Orthodox Jewish groups on heels of dinner with Fuentes, Ye

Elon Musk sells another huge chunk of Tesla stock

Department of Ed sends correction email after incorrectly telling 9 million people they were approved’ for Biden’s student loan bailout

Large tornado strikes New Orleans …

STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

Woodsterman Pic

 

Be prepared …I would imagine he has a few enemies …

STAND UP FOR THE EQUALIZER!

Ill Winds

Powerline chart

And the Fed just increased rates by another half point. How can these rapid rate increases (because the Fed was asleep for a year of firehouse Biden spending) … which caused our current inflation … combined with taking 85 billion dollars of liquidity out of the U.S. economy a month for the foreseeable future … not force us into a serious recession quite soon?

Afterward: And November retail sales just came in far below expectations! See: CNBC story

STAND UP FOR FISCAL SANITY!

Woodsterman Pic

 

“Go forth and multiply” — Genesis 

In the days before declining sperm counts …

Afterward: My wife’s father’s Polish mother had 14 children … all in a three room farmhouse!

STAND UP FOR PROGENY!

Headlines

 

Senate Dems prepare to join the investigative fray

Mortgage demand inches higher as interest rates move lower

Bipartisan lawmakers propose bill to ban China’s TIKTOK in the U.S.

Biden invites drag queen who said ‘kids are out to sing and suck D’

European far-right cheers over Qatar corruption scandal

Sam Bankman-Fried denied bail on FTX fraud charges, judge cites flight risk

McCarthy a ‘hell-no’ on omnibus spending bill as Congress races to avert Dec 16 government shutdown

Putin readies nukes to strike West … 12x more powerful than Hiroshima bomb …

DeSantis calls for grand jury to investigate COVID-19 vaccines

Blasts rock Kyiv as drones attack the capital; Belarus watched for signs it’s preparing war

Emails reveal Secret Service and ICE coordinated with FBI to strip gun rights

China says tracking COVID cases ‘impossible’ as infections soar …

STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

How to Create a Monster

Twenty billion dollars of discretionary NIH research grants to spread around every year … without serious review … allows a petty tyrant such as Anthony Fauci to dictate what is and what is not “science.”

This is the genesis of his crimes against humanity …and why he got so little push back.

Afterward: The fact that his boss, Francis Collins, was a conspirator … and Fauci’s wife was in charge of ethical compliance at this agency … also helped.

STAND UP TO PETTY TYRANTS!

Quotable Quote

 

“The European Union is a liberal’s dream: no pesky national sovereignty, an attenuated democracy, a government of, by, and for self-appointed elites. Just what America’s liberals aspire to.” — John Hinderaker

See: Natural Consequences of No Elections

STAND UP FOR ELECTIONS!

Evolving Epigram

 

Power corrupts … and absolute power corrupts absolutely … except maybe for Elon Musk.

STAND UP FOR ST. ELON!

Headlines

 

Bolsonaro’s supporters clash with police in Brazil’s capital

Sam Bankmab-Fried has been arrested after FTX collapse

Revealed: Biden SEC chairman hid meetings with George Soros from public version of his calander

Report: Sam Brinton fired after luggage theft accusations

Suitcase full of cash seized as EU Parliament scandal grows

United Airlines is buying at least 100 Boeing Dreamliners to replace aging wide-body jets

U.S. worker productivity tanked this year

Twitter files: Trump was blacklisted despite violating no rules

Putin cancels year-end address for the first time in a decade

Consumer inflation expected to continue cooling in November, but still high

U.S. household wealth fell $13.5 trillion from Jan-Sept, 2022 — the second worst destruction on record

Poll: Republican support for Trump 2024 craters …

STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

Hollow Men

 

With apologies to T.S. Eliot …

Sam Bankman-Fried

John Karl Fetterman

Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg

Paul Francis Pelosi

Samuel Otis Brinton

Joe Robinette Biden

Brinton, the “Bag Napper”

STAND UP FOR SUBSTANCE!

Today’s Poser

Before 1971, how did inflation occur in the United States when our currency was backed by silver and gold?

See: Nixon abandons the gold standard  … actually the gold window was closed for citizens in 1913.

STAND UP FOR HARD CURRENCY!

Babylon Wasp

                     

To show her gratitude for President Biden’s springing her from a Russian gulag … and in a spirit of patriotism … Brittney Griner has agreed to commit one million dollars from her upcoming juicy book deal advance to purchase Hunter’s artwork … in a spirit of patriotism.

STAND UP FOR HUNTER’S ART!

(but not the national anthem)

Babylon Wasp

                

The United Nations estimates that there will be no one left in Mexico, Central and South America by 2024. Suggests turning the region into a giant theme park for United States illegals to visit … to see how they once lived.

STAND  UP TO CONSEQUENCES!

Powerline Chart

ESG stands for Environmental, Social and Governance … basically your woke score … this chart shows the cost of such virtue signaling.

STAND UP TO VIRTUE SIGNALING!

Headlines

 

German interior minister vows to tighten gun laws after suspected coup plot

Microsoft buys near 4% of London Stock Exchange as part of 10-year Cloud deal

Biden sent nearly $4 billion to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan this year

Records: Chicago turns zero criminal illegals to feds

NASA’s Orion capsule blazes home after test flight to moon

Heavy losses reported among Russia mercenaries in Luhansk; global leaders to discuss more sanctions

Ronna McDaniel blames ‘massive amount of ticket-splitting’ for disappointing midterm performance

Twitter files: Leftist execs twisted rules to blacklist Donald Trump

Lockerbie bomb suspect in U.S. custody

Inflation has peaked, but it is not returning to pre-COVID levels in 2023, Mastercard says

Congress risks government shutdown if omnibus spending bill not passed this week

Santa Yellen … Inflation will be ‘much lower’ …

STAND UP FOR AMERICA

Today’s Poser

 

Who is the biggest Merchant of Death?

Viktor Bout

or

Anthony Fauci

I know whom I’d vote for …

STAND UP FOR JUSTICE!

More Cute Animals

 

daily timewaster Pic

Slip slidin’ away ..

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The ALGO-RYTHM Method

 

Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey

As a result of Elon Musk’s Twitter document dump, we have learned what really was former CEO Jack Dorsey’s so-called:

A - a

L - lying

G - group

O - of

R - radical

Y - yahoos

T - tricking

H - half-witted

M - media

STAND UP TO CENSORSHIP!

Headlines

Mauritanian indicted in 3 deadly 2015 terror attacks in Mali

Boeing’s last 747 has rolled off the assembly line after more than 50 years of active service

Fourth installment of ‘Twitter Files’ released — reveals execs pushed ‘change in policy for Trump alone’ to ban him

UK prepares for ‘digital pound,’ central bank digital currency

NYC Mayor Adams defends to forcibly hospitalize homeless with mental illness

Kansas oil spill the biggest in Keystone pipeline history, federal data shows

Putin considers preemptive nuclear strike doctrine

Ukraine to launch drone strikes in Russia?

The real reason Washington is silent on the crypto scandal

Russian attacks grind on in eastern Ukraine  as Bakhmut is ‘destroyed’

All eyes on Sen. Manchin after Sen. Sinema switches party affiliation to Independent

25% of homebuyers want to change states …

STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

Today’s Posers

 

Did you cheer what went on in 2020-21?

Is this the price you are willing to pay to have rid ourselves of Trump?

See: Diplomad’s Recap of Twitter Trump Dump … so far …

Will the Sunday morning talk shows ignore this dinosaur in the room once again?

Afterward — Here’s what actually happened:

Sunday Morning with George Stephanopoulas — crickets

FOXNews Sunday with Shannon Bream — lead-off story … but used John Kirby of Biden admin up first to deflate impact

Media Buzz with Howard Kurtz — somewhat less biased as second segment … but Juan Williams dismissed story as a ploy by Elon Musk to drive Twitter traffic.

STAND UP TO INSURRECTION!

Homelessness

I have a woke suggestion for a way to reduce the rampant homelessness in our major cities … particularly on the West coast.

According to our Labor Department, we have over 5 million unfilled jobs … of which a number must be suitable for our homeless.

We should ask companies to VOLUNTARILY  take one homeless person under wings, hire them, clean them up, train them, find them housing … for each $10 million of annual profits.

Maybe with a small tax credit?

Sure there will be snags … but it would be a start.

STAND UP TO HOMELESSNESS!

Headlines

 

The other American jailed in Russia on marijuana charges

Wholesale prices rose 0.3% in November, more than expected, despite hopes inflation is cooling

Elon Musk releases Twitter files Part Three; reveals government agencies pushed for Trump ban

Judge denies DOJ request to hold Donald Trump in contempt

WTO says Trump’s steel tariffs went against trade rules

More Americans don’t want Biden or Trump to run again in 2024, CNBC survey shows

Biden Admin’s gender transition mandate permanently banned by federal court

Ron DeSantis leads Donald Trump by 5 points in potential matchup

House Oversight Committee accuses oil companies of ‘lying’ about climate actions

U.S. to send $275 million in military aid to Ukraine; NATO chief worries conflict could spread

U.S. household wealth falls again for third consecutive quarter

Season’s Sneezing! Masks back on in N.yC …

STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

Powerline Pic

 

STAND UP WITH SOCCER  INJURIES!