[reddit] Gary Pilnick, CEO of Kelloggs went on the news to talk about how families who are struggling financially should start eating cereal for dinner...
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They already are per Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 110.110 allows the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to establish maximum levels of natural or unavoidable defects in foods for human use that present no health hazard.
Unlike other contaminates they'll adjust them higher rather than lower.
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Much as I despise Tony the Tiger and Kellogg's century long promotion of diabetes, I think Biden's economic policies have more to do with inflation than food companies. You can't just print $5 trillion without inflation. But first he hobbled domestic energy production. That'll do it too.
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02/29/2024 11:53 Comments ||
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Different brand but point taken. For every All-Bran, Grape-Nuts, etc. there are 10 sugar cereals. Even Special K is one out of what five different Special K lines which isn't Strawberry Cheesecake or some other flavor.
Now, about that test showing chemicals in General Mills products which cause infertility...
LOL This guy just ruined three weeks of roaring economy, dollar is fine promotional articles.
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When the officers become O7, the shift starts moving from military to political [if they hadn't already playing the promotion game - getting the right boxes checked]. Orders be orders - Nuremberg excuse. I doubt many could pass a test on the very Constitution they took an oath to. Really there is no 'fixing' it. It's too big and deeply resistant to focusing on the homeland rather than play global games.
[NEO] The following is a long video. But although I found the entire thing interesting, it’s not necessary to watch it all to get the gist of it. Twenty minutes or even ten minutes would do as a summary version.
The content is quite depressing and at least somewhat relevant to our own situation in the US. It’s pretty clear that Britain — and other Western nations — are even further down this cultural change road than we are. But we’re on the same basic path. One thing I learned from the video of which I’d been previously unaware is that Boris Johnson — a conservative PM, at least nominally — ran on a platform of reducing the enormous numbers of "migrants" entering the country and yet, while in power, did exactly the opposite. Apparently this is the reason that in the next election the Labour Party is projected to do very well.
Why? After all, they will be worse on the subject, won’t they? The speaker (Matt Goodwin) contends that it’s because the right is so frustrated and angry at the betrayal by the Tories that apathy will rule and they won’t vote at all. It’s not that they’ll be voting for Labour.
But not voting at all would — and probably will — facilitate a huge Labour victory and bring about exactly the results those voters are against. The idea is that some day the conservatives may end up regrouping and be more conservative in fact and not just in name. But when? And by that time, what will be left of Britain?
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I was in EnGlandin the spring of 1975. Everyone was laughing at "The Pakis." No one is laughing at them no. Detroit is in the same boat and if we don't do something it will only get worse.
[ZERO] The international attacks on Tucker Carlson, especially from within US mainstream media and NATO-connected circles, have only increased following his hugely controversial eight day visit to Russia earlier this month where he interviewed President Vladimir Putin. Russian state media has even this week claimed authorities uncovered an "assassination plot" - rumored to have been backed by Kiev.
This week the former FOX prime time host was interviewed about his trip and the whole Putin interview experience in three-hour podcast hosted by Lex Fridman. Tucker Carlson revealed more about what motivated him to do the televised Putin segment, and further discussed his personal take on the Russia-Ukraine war and where it could go from here, now having entered its third year. Interestingly, Carlson's main critique of the war focused not on Putin or the Kremlin's actions in Ukraine, which of course are not under his control or influence, but on the impact to America.
Carlson explained that the West's escalation of the conflict long ago into a full-blown proxy war has not only resulted in more needless Ukrainian deaths, but it has been devastating for the United States. "I reject the whole premise of the war in Ukraine from the American perspective," Carlson told Fridman. "There’s a war going on that is wrecking the US economy in a way and at a scale that people do not understand." He also generally characterized the response of the US political class to the conflict, along with the American public which has uncritically followed, as naive.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Vladimir Kornilov
[RIA] So, the leading American newspaper The New York Times admitted that over the past ten years the US Central Intelligence Agency has used Ukraine as a springboard for espionage, sabotage, and subversive activities against Russia. In a large investigative article entitled “Spy Games,” the newspaper spoke in detail about how at least 12 secret bases were created and operate in Ukraine along the border with our state for the purpose of conducting special operations against it.
It is curious that the reaction to this article in the West and here differs sharply. If in America it produced the effect of a bomb exploding and was perceived as a sensation, then in Russia the question most often asked is: “For whom is this a secret?” We knew very well that Ukraine was and is of interest to the American government solely as a source of constant threats and a springboard for sabotage against Russia. There is no other practical benefit for America from this country, which has all the signs of a failed state. We have repeatedly presented facts indicating that Western intelligence services are conducting subversive activities against Russia from the territory of Ukraine.
But the NYT article is notable precisely because the truths we know are finally being confirmed by the Americans themselves. Everything that politicians there dismissively dismissed as “conspiracy theories” turns out to be true. “The idea that the CIA has been actively involved in Ukraine for more than a decade, waging a secret war against Russia, is no longer a conspiracy theory,” entrepreneur David Sachs commented on the revelations in a mainstream newspaper. "It's one of those moments where you say, 'Are we the bad guys?'" says Jeffrey Tucker, head of the Brownstone Institute for Social and Economic Research.
And all this coincided with the incredible howling of the Western elites regarding the two-year anniversary of the beginning of the Northern Military District. The unified chorus of accusations against Russia over “unprovoked aggression against a neighboring state” has just died down. And suddenly one of the most influential newspapers in America proves all the arguments that were given by the Russian President to justify our actions.
In his historic speech on the occasion of the beginning of the Northern Military District, Putin particularly focused on the military development of Ukraine by the Americans, emphasizing: “The problem is that in the territories adjacent to us - I note, in our own historical territories - an “anti-Russia” hostile to us is being created, which is set under complete external control... For the United States and its allies, this is the so-called policy of containing Russia, obvious geopolitical dividends.
But for our country, this is ultimately a matter of life and death, a matter of our historical future as a people. And this is not an exaggeration, it is so "This is a real threat not just to our interests, but to the very existence of our state, its sovereignty. This is the very red line that has been repeatedly spoken about. They crossed it."
Then, during the special operation, the Russian President more than once emphasized that in Novorossiya the struggle is to ensure the security of our country: “I have already said this many times: they will create such an anti-Russian bridgehead near our borders, and we will constantly live under this threat, under this sword of Damocles."
The West, in response, constantly emphasized that all these statements by Russia are baseless and unsubstantiated. And here you go: now two Pulitzer winners on the pages of the NYT fully confirm all the justifications for the SVO that were given by our leader! That is, near our borders for several years, long before 2022, a powerful springboard was created for conducting subversive activities against Russia, including sabotage and terrorist attacks. This is not news for us; for Western audiences it is a revelation and proof that Putin is right! “It turns out that the New York Times completely agrees with Vladimir Putin!” - popular American blogger Jack Posobiec exclaims in surprise.
By the way, he also pointed out to his audience that all these CIA bases were created “to wage a shadow war against Russia” by the head of the agency, John Brennan - the one who was the heart of the Russiagate scandal in order to discredit US President Donald Trump. “Do you understand, guys? Russiagate was never Russiagate, it was always Ukrainegate,” Posobiec points out truths that are obvious to us.
But the NYT article casually mentions in just one line: “The Ukrainians also helped the Americans prosecute Russian operatives who interfered in the 2016 US presidential election.” Considering that no one found any traces of interference, this probably refers to unsuccessful attempts to concoct fake stories about such interference with the help of Ukrainians.
Here we also recall the “interceptions of conversations” that allegedly proved Russia’s involvement in the destruction of the Malaysian flight MH17 over the Donbass in 2014. Here the authors made a mistake: they clearly do not know that these “interceptions” (the so-called Nalyvaichenko films) were not even used as evidence at the court show in The Hague in this case, it was so obvious to everyone that it was a fake.
There is another point in the NYT article that few people have paid attention to yet.
It’s difficult to say whether through negligence or deliberately, but for the first time in the American mainstream press, the authors of the investigation actually legitimized other “tapes” - audio recordings of conversations between Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and US Vice President Joe Biden, presented at one time by Ukrainian politician Andriy Derkach. In the recordings released then, Biden scolded his Ukrainian subordinate for the failure of the sabotage operation in Crimea in August 2016. Then the American media launched a campaign to completely purge this information, which was presented as a “Kremlin special operation,” “fake,” “carefully edited recording,” and so on. And now the NYT frankly confirms: yes, the operation took place, the recording of the conversation is real.
But wait, since these “Derkach tapes” are true, it means that the conversations between Biden and Poroshenko about the dismissal of the Ukrainian Prosecutor General, who tried to investigate the Burisma (read: Hunter Biden ) case, are also a fact, and not “Kremlin propaganda”! I would like to remind you that just four years ago, President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, after the publication of these recordings, saw in this signs of high treason and promised that his predecessor would be held accountable for this. But somehow he quickly forgot about his promise - immediately after one of the people involved in these recordings became President of the United States.
The purpose of this large publication in the NYT is obvious: the authors are trying to shift responsibility for the most serious crimes, including terrorist attacks on Russian territory, to Ukrainian wards. Perhaps this is being done at the urgent request of the American intelligence services in order to get them out of harm's way in advance for the terrorist attacks that are still being prepared. But even the list of those hostile operations against Russia, which the newspaper admitted, is enough to confirm the correctness of our actions. They really made an “anti-Russia” springboard out of Ukraine. And we cannot calm down as long as the West creates threats to our security, stability and order from this bridgehead.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Dmitry Astrakhan
[REGNUM] The first destroyed Abrams tank forces us to return again to the topic of the wunderwaffe and the Ukrainian attitude towards it, which is not always clear to Russians. After all, the point is not only that our soldier destroyed the legendary American tank. Such tanks were damaged and destroyed in various situations. The case is important, but, to put it mildly, not unique in world history.
Here we, as often happens, need to return to 2014. Even on Maidan, no matter what they said to the Russian liberal public, they stood against Russia. And one of the most important theses of this entire movement was the superiority of Western civilization over the “wild Russian horde.” They framed it differently, some showed posters about “lace panties,” and others asked caustic questions about the presence of Russian iPhones. But the point was that Ukraine is making not just an economic or political choice, but an ideological one. The complete superiority of Western civilization, and therefore science and technology, was one of the pillars of this worldview.
The idea that Ukraine is at war with Russia appeared during the attempts to disperse the Maidan by Yanukovych, and by the spring it had become officially accepted in the state under the new government. Russia has been fighting against Ukraine only since 2022, while Ukraine has been fighting against Russia since 2014.
The rapid combination of both ideas, which took shape during the summer campaign of 2014, became logical. Since the West must be qualitatively superior to Russia (otherwise why would there be Maidan and the war?), it means that they must give Ukraine such weapons, the appearance of which will change everything.
The first such weapons were American sniper rifles from Barett. The hysteria around them was so high that they were personally examined and purchased by Poroshenko and Avakov. At first, rifles were supplied to Ukraine secretly. And in 2016, Poroshenko openly and proudly noted to himself the receipt of the first superweapon, which Russian science and technology are not capable of repeating.
Let me remind you that at that moment this weapon was used against the DPR and LPR militia, therefore, of course, it gave an advantage over SVD rifles. They used this superweapon accordingly: by shooting from long distances at militias during moments of truce, they tried to kill someone in order to provoke return fire from heavier weapons. So that this fire is already recorded in the OSCE.
Later they tried to set fire to houses on the roofs in hot weather, and then shoot at firefighters, ambulances or military personnel. In this case there was no need to fear return fire from small arms. But in the case of using heavy weapons, this was already a good reason to use everything we had without fear of accusations of ceasefire violations.
Somehow, while still in the service, I had the opportunity to accompany a group of foreign journalists to the front-line village of Yasnoye, where such shooting was common. Their security specialist was a pensioner, a retired English military man, who later worked for a PMC. He stopped between the houses, and when they began to shout at him, “Hide, Barrett,” the Englishman thought that we were showing off our rifles. He began to smile, nod and demonstrate with all his appearance that Barrett was a thing. When I already shouted in English that they were shooting from Barrett, but not from him, but at him, the pensioner showed exceptional speed and jumped over the nearest wall towards me and the political officer. There he said that with Barrett in Iraq, when the enemy’s most powerful weapon is some kind of AKM, you feel like an alpha male, sitting on the roof under an umbrella. And he asked what we have here for such a case. We told him that we have an SVD and, perhaps, a PTRD somewhere. The former English military man knew what SVD was and grimaced, imagining an unequal duel with Barrett. But having learned that the PTRD was an anti-tank rifle from 1941, he finally stopped walking in open places and began to drive his young and adventurous charges into shelters. Then he shared that the feeling that someone else might have Barrett, and not you, is not the most pleasant.
Naturally, sniper rifles did not turn out to be superweapons, and the SVO showed this well. But for the conditions of a limited war and regular violations of the ceasefire, they were well suited. Therefore, the search for the next superweapon began almost immediately, and it was prompted by the war in Karabakh. The purchase of Bayraktar TB2 drones has become a national-scale project. And when they were used during the capture of the village of Staromaryevka in the DPR during a creeping offensive a year before the Northern Military District, Ukrainian speakers were literally bursting with cries that the magical Bayraktars would help capture the entire DPR, and Russia simply would have nothing to respond to this miracle of technology. Of course, when these UAVs were used against the Russian Armed Forces, it turned out that they were not a superweapon. It is not suitable against armies with modern air defense. Since then, the drone has been used only in fairly narrow tasks over the sea.
The next stage of hysteria was the armored vehicles, which supposedly were supposed to turn the tide of the North Military District. But then there were burning infantry fighting vehicles and Leopards, and as soon as Abrams appeared on the battlefield, he too burned down.
Today in Ukraine there are still hopes associated with receiving F-16 fighters. And it seems that it should have become clear to everyone long ago that superweapons do not exist (except perhaps nuclear ones). But for some reason Ukraine desperately clings to this idea.
Why?
Because if the West cannot provide superweapons against the “savage horde,” then this is not only a technical problem. Then it turns out that the “horde” is not so wild after all. And the West is not that far ahead in technology; they don’t have any space blasters or exoskeletons. And in addition, in terms of quantity, Western industry has limitations, which is noticeable in the example of shells, and “the market has not solved it.”
If we unwind this whole chain, then the Ukrainian can return to where I started the article: “So why was all this?” The saving faith in the superweapon that exists and which the overseas gentlemen will definitely install sooner or later has a truly religious character. You need to be patient a little, you need to make even more sacrifices, you need to pray more actively... And the intervention of this higher power will occur: the wunderwaffe.
Only he won't be there. Not in any form at all. For one simple reason. It doesn't happen.
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You have to have air control, or at least deny the other side air control, to use armor in combat.
Otherwise it turns into tank plinking (a term from Desert Storm).
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^ Yes, no air superiority, no ground Combined Arms advantage. (notice recent elevated emphasis on shooting down RU aircraft)
[Benzinga] Despite being a self-professed car enthusiast, financial guru Dave Ramsey declares cars as a significant financial drain. Through a series of TikTok videos, he underlines the pivotal decision to purchase vehicles with cash and the financial drain posed by car payments.
Ramsey compares homes, which generally appreciate, and cars, which depreciate, stating, "I guarantee you’ll be broke your whole life as long as you stay in car payments because it’s the most expensive thing you buy that goes down in value."
He points out the irony of high car payments for luxuries, such as DVD players, at the expense of significant financial goals like college funds. Highlighting the societal shift that regards minivans as status symbols, Ramsey questions the wisdom behind such spending, especially when a vehicle like the Honda Odyssey commands a price comparable to luxury brands.
Ramsey shares insights on the spending habits of millionaires when it comes to vehicles. In a TikTok video he said, "The average millionaire drives a four-year-old car with 41,000 miles on it, and of course, it’s paid off." This habit is starkly different from the prevailing consumer behavior of accepting car payments that now average over $500 a month for 84 months.
He emphasizes that these individuals have not had car payments in decades, a factor he attributes to their financial success.
Ramsey calculates the opportunity cost of such payments, suggesting that investing the same amount from age 30 to 70 could yield around $5 million in a Roth IRA, thus illustrating the trade-off between short-term satisfaction and long-term wealth. "I hope you like your car," Ramsey quips, underscoring the trade-off between immediate satisfaction and long-term financial growth.
Ramsey’s advice extends to the practice of purchasing vehicles, where he cautions against buying new because of the steep depreciation cars face within the first four years, losing 60-70% of their value. He proposes buying a quality used car as a financially sound alternative, except for individuals whose net worth exceeds $1 million, for whom the depreciation of a new car poses a lesser impact.
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Perspective: The average monthly car loan payment in the U.S. is $726 for new vehicles and $533 for used ones originated in the third quarter of 2023.
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If the proposed European ban on repairing vehicles over 15 years old passes and spreads, my three paid-for vehicles (1999-2011) will all become scrap in two years.
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When you are a car company and your quality control and cost-per-unit pricing exceeds market demand, you can improve quality, reduce overhead, decrease product inventory on-hand and refocus on basic markets.
Or, you can buy a politician and have them politically define "obsolescence" of the past products to enforce sales, regardless of economic hardship for the customer base. Hmmmm, which do you think the demokrat, Ivies-grad, WOKE MBA will chose?
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I bought my current (and maybe forever) 2020 F-150 in June 2021 with a trade-in and $20,000. Told them I would pay it off ($72,000) within 18 months. Only bank that would lend was Ally (Amazon). Paid it off at 14 months. They were left like many of my lovers....unsatisfied, apparently
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02/29/2024 20:12 Comments ||
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BLUF:
[Federalist] The greatest mystery may be why official Washington has lost interest in this alleged act of domestic terrorism. In the three years since Jan. 6, the DOJ has conducted what Attorney General Merrick Garland describes as a criminal investigation proceeding at an "unprecedented speed and scale" into the protests. Casting a wide dragnet for Capitol protesters across the country, federal and local authorities in Washington have tracked down and prosecuted more than 1,300 defendants, almost all of whom were unarmed, including 62 individuals so far this year.
Yet, the bomber as well as the bomb remain a mystery.
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The Feds have lost interest because it was an unneeded backup plan. The primary plan worked. The issue is the fact that the pipe bombs were fed plants, their presence proves the conspiracy that is otherwise obvious but unproven.
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A theory I had not considered, but entirely plausible. Thanks Supe.
[Gateway] Conservative historian and scholar Victor Davis Hanson appeared on the Laura Ingraham show last night to comment on the state of the 2024 race.
Hanson suggested that Democrats want to get rid of Joe Biden but that they don’t know how or when to do it.
He also pointed out that while Biden is in near total meltdown, Trump is surging in a political recovery that looks historic.
Transcript via Real Clear Politics:
LAURA INGRAHAM: Joining me now, Chris Bedford, senior contributor at The Federalist. And Victor Davis Hanson, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Victor, we’re seeing a lot of division on the left. Obviously, there’s division on the right as well. But just how big of a problem is this going to be for the Biden campaign as reality begins to set in as they get closer to the general?
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON, HOOVER INSTITUTION SENIOR FELLOW: Yeah, I think we’re getting to a point of no return, Laura, with the corruption issue, the cognitive issue, and the unpopularity and disaster of his agenda, and now this defection within the Democratic Party. It’s more of a question of not if they’re going to try to remove him, but when and how, and I don’t think they have the answers to either one.
It’s really the most remarkable meltdown of a president we’ve seen in our modern era, and it’s juxtaposed with probably the greatest political recovery of Donald Trump since Richard Nixon in 1962. And Donald Trump, the more they try to demonize and incarcerate him or use lawfare against him, the more popular he becomes. So, it’s bizarre how things have just flipped since 2021.
It’s remarkable. I think they’re in a dilemma and they don’t — they know what they have to do, but they don’t know how to do it and when to do it...
Hanson goes on to say that he is still concerned about mail-in ballots. Watch the whole thing:
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We started with simple concept:
MAGA - Make America Great Again
The Liberals, Socialists Democrats and their MSM cohorts, using Nazi Brown Shirt tactics attacked us, and tried to label MAGA as Fascists. They conspired & used voting fraud to steal the 2020 elections with with fake Mail-in phony ballots, Voter machine tampering, and deliberate ballot destruction for known pro Trump districts. See: HERITAGE VOTER FRAUD DATABASE
Like all coups, now we have a Elite (Obama/WEF/Soros)Class Regime in power. Regime that is dictating how we will live our lives down to what we say and what is acceptable thinking. eg Good WOKE DEI think. Now We the People no longer have an elected representative government but an authoritarian DC politburo.
Now that we are clearly posed to TBA- Take Back America, they are running a series of clearly BIAS Kangaroo Court Implemented scenarios and using pocket perjured DA's and Judges focused on Politics instead of law.
Wake Remember that early taught lesson in life.
What a group can do to one they can and will easily do to you.
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What I find interesting is that the Justise not only got it wrong, but the fact was not corrected immediately. The legal team opposed to bump stock would have gained immense credibility by correcting the facts. Now they let some Justice make an ass of themself and will need to make a correction.
Second is the ignorance of the justice. I get they are not experts in everything, but they have experts in everything to help them understand. The very premise of the law is around manual or automatic cyclic rates. The premise of the argument is that bump stocks are still, technically, a manual system for increased cyclic rates. The whole fight is about the mechanics of it, auto or manual for higher cyclic rates. And the justice got it wrong on an order of magnitude.
BTW, I am a huge 2nd supporter. I am not a supporter of bump stocks. But if out courts are going to decide, they need to be better informed of what they are dealing with.
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Now, funnily enough, the real rate of fire with an AR-15 bumpstock is /almost/ as fast as Jerry Miculek. So maybe they need a new definition of fast if it can't be Jerry.
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Ref#11 above
The black/female/queer/tranny/Islam Kevlar opinion armor is past it's shelf-life for increasing numbers of traditional Americans.
My first week in boot camp our Company Gunnery Sergeant (Black), along with a Hispanic and Irish Drill Instructors, uttered the best assessment I have ever heard. "Now some of this race shit is gonna stop right now. We got crackers, niggers, wops, kikes, beaners, wets, gooks and weirdo's. But from now on they all have the same fucking color, United States Marine Green, so that's that!"
America cannot survive as a "salad bowl", and balkanized cultural diversity is a cancerous weakness, not a strength! We need to return to a paced-level of immigration that allows for the immersion of those "worthy" of joining us as citizens and who eagerly assimilate to a capitalist meritocracy. By worthy, I mean skills and abilities, not color or place of origin!
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Gateway] Conservative historian and scholar Victor Davis Hanson appeared on the Laura Ingraham show last night to comment on the state of the 2024 race.
It’s remarkable. I think they’re in a dilemma and they don’t — they know what they have to do, but they don’t know how to do it and when to do it...
