↓
 
Home » Roundup: here we go again

Roundup: here we go again

The New Neo Posted on by

(1) Montana parents lose custody because of their refusal to cooperate with transitioning their daughter.

(2) The Disney lawsuit against DeSantis is dismissed.

(3) Harvard loses another huge donor in protest of its DEI policy. Harvard has a ton of money anyway, but this trend must disturb it at least somewhat. If so, good, and it’s about time.

(4) Perhaps Republicans are finally understanding how to try to use mail-in voting to their advantage. If they can’t stop easy mail-in voting – and in red states and even many purple states, they can’t – they may as well learn how to employ it to encourage their own voters to vote.

(5) A James O’Keefe undercover video indicates that Democrat operatives would like to but cannot figure out how to get rid of Biden and Harris as candidates in 2024. Also, if the person talking on the video (Charlie Kraiger, who is a cybersecurity policy analyst at the White House) is telling the truth, Michelle Obama does not wish to run. It’s funny, but all of these things agree with what I’ve been writing. My opinions aren’t based on inside info, of course; they’re just my reactions to what I see.

Comments

Roundup: here we go again — 45 Comments

  2. There seems to be a bit more than meets the eye about the child custody case. Even the author acknowledges we are only getting one side of the story. And we learn, well into the article, the girl was adopted, and ultimately was sent to her Canadian birth mother. I wonder if the birth mom might have been pushing hard to get the girl back, before and separate from the gender transitioning.

    As to the O’Keefe video, it’s all based on the ramblings of a fellow who I’m assuming isn’t very high level inside the White House hierarchy. That doesn’t mean it’s untrue, but should be taken with a huge grain of salt.

    I stand by what I’ve said for months. Slo Jo will be switched out. Granted, I was wrong on the timing, but it’s still going to happen. Probably for Newsom but while I still think Michelle is unlikely, I don’t think she should be ruled out.

  3. Ronas expenditures suggest she really isnt taking advantage of these opportunities

  6. I wish we could avoid adopting the preferred euphemisms of our adversaries.

    “transitioning” is a good example.

  7. Michelle Obama does not wish to run.

    –neo

    No one doubts that. However:
    _____________________________

    Michelle Obama says she’s terrified about potential outcome of 2024 election

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/08/politics/michelle-obama-2024-potential-election-outcome/index.html
    _____________________________

    Did you ever do something You Really Didn’t Want to Do because the consequences of omission were so serious you decided you had to?

    Of course you have. You are conservatives. I mean that in the best possible way.

  8. Besides, Michelle O claiming that she wouldn’t possibly run in 2024 is a move straight out of the Barack O playbook:
    ________________________________________

    During the interview, when asked about running for president in 2008, Obama said:

    “I am not running for president in 2008. I mean, come on guys. The only reason I’m being coy is because I’m still figuring out how to be a good senator.”

    –“Meet the Press” with Tim Russert on January 22, 2006
    ________________________________________

    I know MO doesn’t want to run and she doesn’t want to be President. But people do what they don’t want to do all the time. Even Democrats.

  9. Mail-in voting and other election gimmicks from the pandemic have already finished the so-called election. Ignore the polls. Republican senators and representatives are happy with their simple, corrupt, minority irresponsibility. Biden’s brain will be our next president, whether he knows it or not.

    Trump? A blow-hard who wants to stay out of jail. Our true enemies are the techno-oligarchs who hate our species. Are you human? Better pretend not.

  10. Well Michelle also said she wasn’t proud of America until we (America) elected BHO.

    So is she terrified of loosing all the wealth and status she enjoys? Or terrified that the fundamental transformation of all of America (into a sh*thole, NYC, SF, LA, Detroit, and the lesser sh*tholes (Portland, Seattle, Detroit)) might be impeeded?

    Michelle has said lots of things.

  12. Wish O’Keefe did not have to assert “you are telling the truth”, while the schmuck is saying “this is what I have heard”

  13. I watched part of the O’Keefe video and I am skeptical. The guy seemed giddy. I think he knew he was being recorded and was excited about getting his 15 minutes of fame. How could he not have recognized O’Keefe? That wasn’t a disguise, it was a pair of glasses.

  14. Social workers, judges, mental health tradesmen, and much of the medical profession and its dependents and hangers on are the enemies of justice and decency.

  15. Harvard has a ton of money but most of it is tied up in illiquid, long-term investments. It depends to a considerable extent on the kindness of strangers and federal grant money to cover current operations. So, it’s more vulnerable to pressure from big donors than you’d think.

  17. Meanwhile, in the People’s Democratic Republic of Minnesota….
    “THEY FIREBOMBED MY OFFICE” (John Hinderaker)—
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/02/they-firebombed-my-office.php
    – – – – – – –
    …Even as “Biden”‘s very public persecution of Elon Musk—like “Biden”‘s very public persecution of Donald Trump—proceeds swimmingly, relentlessly…
    https://instapundit.com/629944/

    (Indeed, in the fully furnished echo chamber they occupy and cling to, all is going simply marvelously…)

  19. The biggest shocker in that ZH article is that even Fareed Zakaria thinks the “diversity “ stuff has gone too far.

  20. Mr. Obama wants another term in The White House. He’s not yet satisfied with the amount of “radical transformation” he and his suporters have been able to accomplish, and Joe Biden has proven to be a thin reed upon which to stake his future domination of democrat political rule. The question is whether he can convince his spouse to run as another surrogate, just as he was able to convince Biden to do so. Of course, Obama had a lot of dirt on Biden which he no doubt threatened to spill if Biden failed to cooperate with his plans, plus the fact is that, unlike Mrs. Obama, Joe Biden has always had a burning desire to be “The President.” My prediction is that Mrs. Obama will not agree because she does not wish to abandon the lifestyle to which she has become accustomed. She currently enjoys most of the perks of residence in The White House with none of the responsibilities. I think Obama will need to look elsewhere for a cooperative avatar to continue his control of the levers of power in Washington, DC. Who? Who? Magic Eight Ball says, “Future is cloudy.”

  21. “Ballot Chasing”

    1. I’m not a liberal. I don’t need or want anyone else to be responsible for me or my actions and I freely accept the consequences of them. To that end, what do you think the effect would be if someone was hounding me “throughout the process” about my mail in ballot? It would piss me off, that’s what. I don’t need a babysitter or a handholder and if you try to be one to me, you’ve got a better than even chance of me getting pissed off enough that I refuse to do what you keep insisting I do just out of spite.

    I don’t imagine I’m the only one with that attitude. I suspect “Ballot Chasing” on the Republican side will be a wash at best and could possibly even be damaging.

    2. You really think that the way Democrats come up with all those early and mail in votes is by just haranguing people to get them to vote? If so, I’ve got a nice bridge in New York I’d like to sell you.

    They come up with all those early and mail in votes by CREATING them. They go to the inner cities and give out cigarettes, booze and money in exchange for voter registrations and signatures on ballot envelopes. That’s their version of “ballot chasing”…not just harrassing their voters with phone calls and text messages.

    Until the Republicans are willing to go to those types of (illegal) lengths to gin up the votes needed, they’re never, ever going to be able to come close to matching the Dems in early and mail in voting numbers.

    3. Even if the Republicans could sink low enough to match the dems in early and mail-in voting, they showed us that they’ll just create however many votes they need to “win” the election anyway. They only need to own the voting apparatus in one major city of a couple of “swing” states to pull it off. They did it last time right out in the open…multiple states had venues that shut down counting at 1am with Trump in the lead, but magically when counting started up again in the morning, Biden instantly jumped into the lead. It was uncanny. Watch the surveillance videos from Atlanta to see exactly how it was done: boxes of ballots pulled out of hiding and the ballots scanned two or three times each…while counting was “shut down”.

    And.we.did.nothing.

    Oh…some did. They went to DC and protested. A couple of them got killed for their trouble. Many of the survivors are in Prison now. Lesson learned. Protests are only permitted for “approved” purposes…like when a lifelong criminal dies of a drug overdose while being restrained by the police.

    Message recieved…no more protests. Now we just pretend like all we need to do is get republicans to vote early or mail-in their ballots and all will be well.

    But that’s a pipe dream. Trump will need to win by a huge margin (in the real vote) in order to overcome the “margin of cheat” that the Dems established last time. Biden couldn’t fill a high school gymnasium with supporters during his campaign, but he somehow got more votes than any presidential candidate in history? Come-on Man!

    We once had a Republic but we couldn’t keep it. Now we have a Banana republic and apparently we’re happy with that because we just keep plodding along pretending like everything is A-OK.

    I mean, in all fairness, I guess we do have more important things to think about than minor details like liberty: did you see the last episode of Masked Survivor? Wasn’t it great? How about that recent sportsball game that went into overtime? Check out this cat dancing on X Tock.

    I’m just glad I’m old because my only hope is that I won’t live long enough to have to see the world of sh1t that this country has coming in the future…it’s going to be ugly.

    As I’ve always said: A people gets the government it deserves.

  22. DisGuested – I can’t believe that anyone with a government job in Washington would fail to recognize James O’Keefe.

  23. I don’t see the appeal of Michelle Obama as a candidate. Is it simply wish casting?

    I do see why she’d hesitate: It is all downside other than the ‘firsts.’ While the media would be over the moon, the international relations and domestic economy and immigration problems would be horrifically hard to deal with. And even with the cover of the media, she could set team (D) back a generation (on top of what her husband did : Trump and Biden).

  24. So mcdaniel through winred is always haranging small and big donors and she spends most of it on office supplies and booking consultant not voter base maintenance

    Even though they raised as much as the dnc

  25. Hamas sympathizer can attack white house gates grand central station block highways airports its all good

    Joel gilbert points out that organizing for america obamas outfit is ready to unleash the locusts or hounds on behalf of first consort

  26. Douglas Levene,

    I disagree based on my experience with higher ed endowments. Schools have an endowment spend rule; ie how much of the endowment can be used for operating costs each year. A quick search yielded that Harvard has an endowment of $50.7b, and last year spent $2.2b on operating costs. So their spend rule is about 4.3%. Pretty typical as spend rules are between 3 and 6 percent.

    Donations usually go to 3 places: into the endowment, unrestricted to operating costs, or to targeted projects like building a new facility. Increasing the spend rule can often be offset just by growth in the investments of the endowment. Schools can get into trouble if their spending gets out of control, donations dry up, and the endowment is mismanaged. I don’t think Harvard is anywhere near that.

    Big donors pulling out sends a clear message to the Board, but will probably have little financial effect in the near term.

  27. DisGuested – I can’t believe that anyone with a government job in Washington would fail to recognize James O’Keefe.
    ==
    Rubbish. His face is quite generic and, unlike a professional performer, his face is not his signature.

  28. I think what would benefit Harvard is changes in corporation law which would require boards of modest dimension (5-19 members) elected by a legally-defined stakeholder body in a ballot supervised by the state board of elections. In Harvard’s case, the stakeholder body might be recipients of a baccalaureate, master’s, first professional, or research degree from the institution who are also validly registered to vote in Massachusetts. The thing is, among all the social segments for whom the Democratic Party is an electoral vehicle, higher education ranks below only the media and the legal profession in consequence, so it will never happen in Massachusetts. However, red state legislatures could get busy, as could a Republican Congress in re institutions in DC.

  29. Sailorcurt, I agree with pretty much everything you said. I don’t consider myself a conservative, but rather a classical Liberal. I believe the greatest expression of humanity is freedom.

    I don’t think Republicans should start ballot farming, but should be getting people into the polling stations-as workers. And have them all wear body cameras. Ballot farming is just that-farming. Getting to know the voters and “helping” them, not cold calling and harassing people.

    Trump is going to lose. The Democrats got away with it last time, so why not again? The Republicans always have four years to work on stopping voter fraud, but they always waste the time.

    I will be forever grateful to Biden for one thing-Dogfaced Pony Soldier. That was just so incredible. I try to use it whenever I can.

  30. I would like to insert something new to today’s comments.

    I currently live in zone 4b according to the USDA weather zone map. For me that means possibilities of -20f actual temperature, with the next step down being into -40F. It also means a much shorter growing season with the possibility of snow at any time of the year, but not likely after May 1.

    Now the USDA has just presented their new zone map.
    https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov

    Here is an article describing what the US Gov’t did to change the map.
    https://www.ars.usda.gov/news-events/news/research-news/2023/usda-unveils-updated-plant-hardiness-zone-map/

    I can’t find an old map (2012) online but maybe someone here can.
    I am writing this to ask if the new map (2023) looks anything like the zone you live in, are there many areas of change within your zone? If you have an old garden book you might have the older map and be able to post it here.
    I know what my weather has been for the past 40+years–a dramatic decrease in snow! Temperatures averaging about the same in winter, but longer and warmer in summer.

    I believe we all should have a good understanding of the weather in our area, of weather in general, and be accurate about what we are experiencing. For example:
    https://wcc.sc.egov.usda.gov/reports/UpdateReport.html;jsessionid=MpfTlHG1wld7h1TvtEk7Ugd6NOaxihZ3zjlGIggv.nrcsprd0383?report=Montana&format=SNOTEL%20Snowpack%20Update%20Report
    this report tells us that in MT our current snowpack is approximately 17-30% of median, with only a few places measuring at around 50%.
    We have no snow in the valleys and flat lands of MT. We might get a dusting this weekend, but this is FEBRUARY! It is our mountain snowpack that the folks downstream will need this summer. Here in my valley, we have not had but hardly a skiff of snow starting from September until now. That means the underground aquifers have also not been getting what they need to be replenished.

    What is your location on the map of the old America? Are you downstream? Does it rain plenty all year around? Has the weather in your area been average, plus, or minus? You can’t know what to expect but you can sure in the heck be informed about what is actually happening in your area.

  31. I don’t think Michelle Obama is running either. She strikes me as a high-maintenance type who needs a lot of “me time.”

    Another reason she may be uninterested in running is that she’s got some stuff in her past that she’d really rather not get exposed. Yes, I know the leftist establishment media will run cover for her, but even so there could be some ugliness that would prove to be an embarrassment at the least.

  32. Interesting, Anne. They have moved us (north of Raleigh, NC) into zone 8a instead of 7b. Lots of rain here. It was dry last fall but several storms have taken us back to normal.

  33. one left out..

    Someone fan fanni cause fanni’s fanny is in a sling!

    and Obama EO undoes the documents

    and later E G Carrol, with a cat named “Vagina T. Fireball” and a dog named Tits that lives in a striped house with vermin she has named, as she loves the law and order episode where someone was raped in Bergdorf goodman, as the dress that she was wearing didnt exist, as she turned down a criminal trial, as elle said she was not let go cause of trump. Author of the book “What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal”… and a whole lot more

    one must realize that trumps slander was calling her crazy
    include what she did to her husband… yeah, she is bat crap nuts.

    love that three ring circus…

  34. Couldn’t resist…

    Conservative publication The National Pulse found other strange sex-related posts on Carroll’s Facebook feed over the years, including:

    “Big D*** Energy: Obama’s got it. Putin’s got it. Maxine Waters’s got it. Who’s on YOUR Big D*** Energy List?”

    “Let’s play Boff/Marry/Strangle. I’ll start: Ryan Seacrest, Dick Cheney, Steve Jobs. (And yes I KNOW the game is really called F/M/K) [F***, Marry, Kill.”

    “Really, does any woman LIKE performing oral sex on a man?”

    “IN BED: Would you rather be called ‘normal’ Or ‘Unusual?’”

    “Lust, Fame, Jealousy, Violently Making Out….Another week beings tomorrow!”

    “Anal Sex! Are you behind it. Or is it now what it’s cracked-up to be? The girl wants her chap to stop asking her for ‘porn sex.’”

    “This is how I picture Brad Pitt after we have sex.” [With link to a BuzzFeed video titled “Three Minutes Of Brad Pitt Laughing So Hard That He Cries.”]

    “I never met this woman. I never saw this woman. This woman said I met her at the front door of Bergdorf Goodman, which I never go into other than for a couple of charities. I met her in the front door. She was about 60 years. This is like 22, 23 years ago,” –Trump

    and

    E. Jean Carroll wasn’t surprised ‘Law & Order: SVU’ aired Bergdorf Goodman
    rape scene 7 years before she made Trump allegations

    In an email shown in court Monday, she dismissed the parallels as a coincidence.
    nothing to see here..

    If it twernt for this, i would have very little entertainment…

  36. Montana story makes me almost want to cry, the Cultural Marxists destroying another life. A 14yo girl will never be a male, ever.

  37. I don’t think Michelle Obama is running either. She strikes me as a high-maintenance type who needs a lot of “me time.” Another reason she may be uninterested in running is that she’s got some stuff in her past that she’d really rather not get exposed. Yes, I know the leftist establishment media will run cover for her, but even so there could be some ugliness that would prove to be an embarrassment at the least.
    ==
    As far as I can tell, the dirt is out there and the mediaswine were remarkably incurious about it. That would include her employment history from 1991 to 2008, the raises she received co-incident to events in her husband’s career, their finances, and their relationship with Tony Rezko. Partisan Democrats simply pretend it isn’t happening.
    ==
    As for Mooch herself, there isn’t much indication she’s ever been career-oriented. She’s a capable public speaker, but I doubt she has anything but the most idle interest in public policy. She likes decorative arts. The acknowledgement that she in her interests bears a closer resemblance to Nancy Reagan than she does to Hellary is one partisan Democrats will not make.

  38. “Montana parents lose custody because of their refusal to cooperate with transitioning their daughter.” This is how revolutions start. You draft my daughter into the Army, or have her genitals mutilated, or give her drugs and a pimp to live with… wars have started for less provocation than that. Tea taxes were bad precisely because the colonists thought that tea was necessary for life, and in their cholera filled wells, boiling the water did give their family protection. The tax was a a threat to their families. The left is not going to like the outcome of this.

  39. Are you folks involved in a local group preparing to make input into this year’s election in your state?

    Are you involved in a local group trying to improve the quality of “home school” education”

    Are you involved in a local group to peacefully demonstrate (silent sit-in) in your local court or state supreme court?

    What are you actually DOING to make your voices heard by the local politicians in your state and thus also heard by the national politicians.

    I just listened to a man who had been in our state congress for 8 years. He worked very hard to get “co operation”. He had one regret he supported legalizing marijauana in Montana and he says in 2022 he never knew about the costs of drugs: death, addiciont, etc. How in the Freaking Hell could he not know about the costs in 2022? Oh, I am so sorry. Just please elect me to the senate this year and I will do better! HOW does the RINO party set these people loose?

  40. Hello, Anne. That bit about the hardiness zones is quite interesting. I dug up a somewhat low-resolution map that is from several years ago – hard to tell exactly how old, though (the image code has the year 2021 in it, but I think that’s just when the page showing it was uploaded, thus unreliable).

    The changes around the eastern Great Lakes from that map to the new one for 2023 are substantial – zone 6 reaching out to envelop most of Indiana and all of lower Michigan south of approximately Mt. Pleasant, even sending a tendril all the way up the eastern coast of Lake Michigan. And over in NY, zone 6 seems now to have reached out a pseudopod up the Hudson valley to here. Not as much alteration in the upper Plains; IA is still pretty uniformly zone 5.

  42. Anne:

    The drug legailization “conservatives” are always shocked it seems when the actual costs of “any drugs any time as long as they aren’t hurting anyone else, and you can’t legislate morality” come a knocking.

    The costs of pandering to stoners. A generation of stoners, aka, the homeless encampments everywhere.

    Always surprised by the totally predictable, and funded by Soros.

  44. om:

    How about the vastly higher costs of pandering to drinkers? Or cigarette smokers?

    Oh, that’s different.

  45. huxley:

    Smoking is now no longer accepted as a good idea by sentient beings. But you know that.

    Alcohol and it’s costs/benefits have known for a very very long time.

    But stoners gona’ keep trying to convince society that it should pay the costs of their own special indulgence.

    Gods of copybook headings.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

HTML tags allowed in your comment: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>

↑