$17,000 per hour. The number 17 is popping up everywhere lately. Just sayin’. So much for caring about the environment. Don’t they always fly in personal jets using “fossil fuels” while virtue signaling their arrogance?? AOC and Bernie Sanders. John Kerry. Etc. etc. etc.
You have been seeing the number 17? I wonder if that means something?
For years I had been seeing the number 33 in news reports,everywhere. Seemed every disaster,or,tally,or gathering,or age of victims or perps,was some version of 33. Then I read that meant the story was faked or sending a message to fellow Masons,or,some such thing…..🤷🏻♀️I have not been noticing it,lately.
It’s a reference to Q. Some call it a psy-op or fringe conspiracy theory. Q is the 17th letter. Many use “17” as a reference. I’ve been noticing many, many “17”’s lately
17 was described at MIT as "the least random number". It's also a biblically - Number 10 is a symbol of a perfect order, while number 7 is usually used a symbol of perfection.
Can't we easily solve this problem by giving everyone trophies, win or lose? Oh wait, nevermind, these "representatives" are already being paid a crap ton of money with are hard earned tax dollars.
I will vote that Texas has the biggest cojones when they ban all mRNA technology. Until then, some other states are already winning the race for medical freedom.
I’d like to know where these Demwits are holing’ up. I’m an inmate of Illinois and not all that far from Chicago—my district got gerrymandered to a snake shaped area totally following the least populated from a spot on the Wisconsin border to middle illinois. It looks like an internal poop shoot to GOP oblivion. While the bigger cities and Chicago are attached here and there like massive blue hemorrhoids. Like most blue state gulags.
And it's only the major population centers that are blue, not any of the surrounding areas.... in fact, if taken by area, red would rule most states. We need the electoral college at the state level to stop the big cities from turning states blue. NM, as an example, as Albuquerque & Santa Fe are the only solid blue areas, while the rest of the state is red.
Kat, I was filled with what I knew would grow into tempestuous rage at the mention of his name, but your just-in-time mantra helped bleed off the pressure. I only had to repeat it a few times: "Lets pray that his FAFO bites his elitist, brill-creamed, AllBirds ( donned by all slick ass Silicon dudes) dumbass!" and the mood dissipated like a Democrat solemn assurance.
He wants to run for President. He’s all talk, no action. If he does what he says he wants to do, He will never come close to winning the presidency. He won’t do anything.
From your lips to my ears, Nard. Brill-cream is the epitome of stupid on steroids. Supremely arrogant, pompous, little man with no balls. A chameleon lizard!
I cannot stomach him. During Covid he was telling everyone to double mask, even at home, even when you’re eating. He was enjoying every second of it too. Then you’d see him out and about with his mask under his chin.
If you look at the current district maps you can see how gerrymandered they are to favor democrats in the most twisted on a swing way to get their votes. Not a huge fan of Governor Abbott but I'm glad he's stepping up to the plate on this one. Native Texans here so we think Texas is the best! I remember when Alaska was admitted to the Union and a lot of Texans were upset we wouldn't be the biggest state anymore...but then some state legislator pointed out that we're still the best and everyone in the world knows the shape of Texas and not so for Alaska....
When I lived in Texas I did a shtick every time I met someone from another country. Wherever they said they were from--Honduras, Gabon, France, etc.--taking the latter as an example, I would always respond, "Oh, yeah! I know where that is! It's in EAST Texas!" Everyone, except the French of course, loved the idea that Texans thought their state was the entire world.
Not coincidentally, li'l ol' moi makes charcuterie boards with TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS (elevations) of Texas carved on the back side. (I was told by a friend that he thought "only Texans were stupid enough to buy something just because it was formed in the outline of their state," but I quickly pointed out that Coloradoans and Wyomans do it even more often than Texans.)
I know someone who makes a set of pans for baking cornbread in the shapes of states. I haven't seen all 50, but I have to think that West Virginia would be one of the more challenging ones. I have one question: Why haven't you Mountaineers gotten together and come up with another name for your state? If Texans had been called "West Louisiana", they'd have fixed it that very afternoon. You could have a nationwide contest, and make it a money-raiser (which I suppose you'd need to change all the signs...).
Dems are worried…Rio Grande Valley turned red in ‘24…they’re clinging on to their majorities in the big cities but the suburbs are solid red thus primed to be redistricted
Wife and mom of Native Texans, but I moved them east of the Mississippi. Going to the “History of Texas” light show at Six Flags Over Texas 30 years ago made me so proud to be a grafted in Texan for 18 years!
Another great "history of Texas" show is the "TEXAS!" musical put on every summer in an outdoor theater at the Palo Duro Canyon south of Amarillo (incidentally, the last stronghold of the Comanche).
SPOILER ALERT! STOP READING HERE IF YOU WILL ATTEND.
THIS IS ONLY FOR PEOPLE WHO KNOW THEY'LL NEVER MAKE IT!!!
At the end of the first show, I attended (and I've been twice) horseback riders raced across the stage carrying one of the "Six Flags" of Texas, building anticipation for the sixth rider who did not disappoint, waving the flag of the State of Texas which not accidentally DWARFED the others. However, we were not done, because the very moment it disappeared, a rider on a white horse from the opposite direction appeared, racing across with the flag of THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, "suitably larger" than the Texas flag, and EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THE AMPHITHEATER WAS ON THEIR FEET, APPLAUDING! "THIS! THIS!! THIS IS WHAT TRULY MATTERS!!!"
(The show had dropped that finale a decade later when we returned for a visit--and I wrote a sad letter "to management" about my disappointment. I have not been back to see if it was restored, but I hope at least you can conjure up the atmosphere.)
Texas DOES need to be careful, w/ people in power like Crock-O-Shit Crockett & formerly in power like Beat-off O’Rourke. Apparently there are enough idiots in TX to get such lame brains elected.
"The animals see the pigs walking on two legs like humans, dressed in clothes, and mingling with humans. They notice that the commandments on the barn have been erased and replaced by the single commandment:
'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.'"
[Thank you, Mr. George Orwell, for your clairvoyant warnings--which we, mostly, ignored.]
Here's the California angle: Gov. Newsom is organizing an initiative to overturn our state's non-partisan citizen redistricting commission, which took redistricting out of the hands of politicians. He wants to fight back against Texas' move by doing the same partisan thing. Redistricting is one of the few things our state does well. And he wants to send us back to the bad old days...
Dems have been behaving badly since, well, before the founding of the Republic: slavery, KKK, Jim Crow, “democratic” socialism, and since 2016, trying almost every filthy rotten trick to eliminate Donald Trump. And now they think running away from home will work. They never think any of this through, do they.
The best piece I've read on these shenanigans and machinations in Texas. No different from a denial of service attack by breaking quorum and gumming up the works. Don't like it? End the first-past-the-post voting system to prevent redistricting in the first place. Of course, no politicians have any balls and many are sock puppets or cardboard cutouts, so never happen. Not down there and not anywhere else. One hand always ends up washing the other.
The problem with Republicans voting to stop redistricting is that while both have done this Democrats have abused it the worst and a vote prohibiting it locks in the unfair redistricting that they did. Usually when the Republicans do it it is to undo what the Dems did and even it back out to match reality. Imagine if the democrats captured ALL the biggest states/cities (they pretty much did) via redistricting and not via true representation, and then wanted Republicans to vote to prevent redistricting going forward? I believe they once did that and not a single Republican voted yes, and I wouldn’t have either. But the Dems sure love to point to that as proof the Republicans are worse. No - they just won’t let you change the rules of the game to your advantage in the middle of it when you’re up the winning points. They also have shown how to lose gracefully far more often than the democrats. And don’t point to 2020 as proof otherwise. Republicans didn’t lose.
There's another side to this. In Oregon, we have the opposite problem: a Democrat supermajority. What happens is, the Democrats refuse to negotiate with the Republicans because they don't have to. Denial of quorum is a constitutional tool to protect minority rights. The only way a number of horrible bills in 2015, along with a bill that would have stripped all exemption rights to a single vaccine for school (which DID happen in CA) were killed was because Republicans did what the Texas Democrats are doing: they left town and denied quorum until the Democrats were willing to negotiate with them. Foolishly, Oregonians voted for a measure afterward that would deny the ability to run for re-election if a legislator had 10 unexcused absences. The reasoning was they should stay in the legislature and DO THEIR JOBS! They WERE doing their jobs by denying quorum! Under the new law, in 2023 Republicans walked out again to protect their constituents from insane leftists, and lost their jobs because of it. Now Republicans are cowed and won't walk out any more, and we are enslaved to far left lunatics. Be careful what you wish for.
The current crop Oregon Republicans legislators think its better to get along with the D's lust for taxes and tyranny, by giving them the quorum. More money for needle exchanges, behavioral programs for kids messed up with gender dysphoria which will send them to gender affirming surgery. More money for school immunization programs at Oregon taxpayers expense.
Now the Oregon governor is calling a special session at the end of the month to raise taxes to pay for Oregon Dep. of Transportation. The Democrats are bleeding us and the Republicans are facilitating it by giving the D's the quorum.
I am with Glenn Beck: if it is legal, replace those TX dimwits and get back to work! 🇺🇸
$17,000 per hour. The number 17 is popping up everywhere lately. Just sayin’. So much for caring about the environment. Don’t they always fly in personal jets using “fossil fuels” while virtue signaling their arrogance?? AOC and Bernie Sanders. John Kerry. Etc. etc. etc.
You have been seeing the number 17? I wonder if that means something?
For years I had been seeing the number 33 in news reports,everywhere. Seemed every disaster,or,tally,or gathering,or age of victims or perps,was some version of 33. Then I read that meant the story was faked or sending a message to fellow Masons,or,some such thing…..🤷🏻♀️I have not been noticing it,lately.
It’s a reference to Q. Some call it a psy-op or fringe conspiracy theory. Q is the 17th letter. Many use “17” as a reference. I’ve been noticing many, many “17”’s lately
Well,I believe numbers have power,much like the written word.
Now,I’m probably going to see 17 everywhere,too. Haha!
17 was described at MIT as "the least random number". It's also a biblically - Number 10 is a symbol of a perfect order, while number 7 is usually used a symbol of perfection.
Can't we easily solve this problem by giving everyone trophies, win or lose? Oh wait, nevermind, these "representatives" are already being paid a crap ton of money with are hard earned tax dollars.
I will vote that Texas has the biggest cojones when they ban all mRNA technology. Until then, some other states are already winning the race for medical freedom.
🎯
💯🔥❤️😎
100%
I’d like to know where these Demwits are holing’ up. I’m an inmate of Illinois and not all that far from Chicago—my district got gerrymandered to a snake shaped area totally following the least populated from a spot on the Wisconsin border to middle illinois. It looks like an internal poop shoot to GOP oblivion. While the bigger cities and Chicago are attached here and there like massive blue hemorrhoids. Like most blue state gulags.
And it's only the major population centers that are blue, not any of the surrounding areas.... in fact, if taken by area, red would rule most states. We need the electoral college at the state level to stop the big cities from turning states blue. NM, as an example, as Albuquerque & Santa Fe are the only solid blue areas, while the rest of the state is red.
I have been saying this for literally years!
Mrs. "the Knife"
Another day and another stunt
I love how Kathy Hochul says she will retaliate by redrawing the lines in NY to favor Democrats.
The Progressive Democrats in NY have a motto: FAFO. It won't end well.
Is there any other kind of Democrat, especially in NYFS? Even most of the Republicans here are progressive Democrats. Useless sacks of flesh.
Wait, what's FAFO?
[D]uck Around, Find Out. ;)
Ah thank you. Just saw that yesterday in reference to "Gentle parenting is over." And the new parenting is (and they spelled it out.) lol.
Eli, I love that you didn't know what FAFO means. I have to admit that I often have to research these hilarious acronyms.
FAFO happens to be one of my current favourites. It’s just so eloquently effing appropriate! 😇🙄🤣🔥❤️
Same - always looking up those acronyms! Lmao
Thank you. I didn’t know,either .
I like it.🙂
And Newsome is in on the game too. Sheesh.
Newsom is the ultimate creepster. Lets pray that his FAFO bites his elitist, brill-creamed, AllBirds ( donned by all slick ass Silicon dudes) dumbass!
Kat, I was filled with what I knew would grow into tempestuous rage at the mention of his name, but your just-in-time mantra helped bleed off the pressure. I only had to repeat it a few times: "Lets pray that his FAFO bites his elitist, brill-creamed, AllBirds ( donned by all slick ass Silicon dudes) dumbass!" and the mood dissipated like a Democrat solemn assurance.
My pleasure, David! 😎💯🔥
He wants to run for President. He’s all talk, no action. If he does what he says he wants to do, He will never come close to winning the presidency. He won’t do anything.
From your lips to my ears, Nard. Brill-cream is the epitome of stupid on steroids. Supremely arrogant, pompous, little man with no balls. A chameleon lizard!
😂 truth.
I cannot stomach him. During Covid he was telling everyone to double mask, even at home, even when you’re eating. He was enjoying every second of it too. Then you’d see him out and about with his mask under his chin.
If there’s a civil war, we should really start in NY and CA , just as “they” have, and take them back. Two beautiful states captured.
If you look at the current district maps you can see how gerrymandered they are to favor democrats in the most twisted on a swing way to get their votes. Not a huge fan of Governor Abbott but I'm glad he's stepping up to the plate on this one. Native Texans here so we think Texas is the best! I remember when Alaska was admitted to the Union and a lot of Texans were upset we wouldn't be the biggest state anymore...but then some state legislator pointed out that we're still the best and everyone in the world knows the shape of Texas and not so for Alaska....
Haha! Yes, we natives know Texas is the best! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼.
And what other state celebrates it’s shape to the extent we do, with charcuterie boards sold at Buccees with our distinctive Texas outline? 😂😂.
I design and sell t shirts and my Texas ones have been purchased by people all over the world...many in Europe and Australia....
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California is ripe for T-shirts -https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/727bca0ef6eb12a423542c8fecc4a459238d6f383750615034441e429b46118c.png
SO GOOD
WV has ‘Wild and Wonderful’ on their welcome signs. 😊
So great! Ours says "Don't Mess With Texas" 😂 which is actually our anti littering slogan but people take it how they want to. 😂
Yes, moved to TX ten years ago to be close to son and now grandkids.
Welcome!
When I lived in Texas I did a shtick every time I met someone from another country. Wherever they said they were from--Honduras, Gabon, France, etc.--taking the latter as an example, I would always respond, "Oh, yeah! I know where that is! It's in EAST Texas!" Everyone, except the French of course, loved the idea that Texans thought their state was the entire world.
😂
Not coincidentally, li'l ol' moi makes charcuterie boards with TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS (elevations) of Texas carved on the back side. (I was told by a friend that he thought "only Texans were stupid enough to buy something just because it was formed in the outline of their state," but I quickly pointed out that Coloradoans and Wyomans do it even more often than Texans.)
My home state of West Virginia is a state with a unique shape. I have a cutting board shaped like WV, although many have no idea.
I know someone who makes a set of pans for baking cornbread in the shapes of states. I haven't seen all 50, but I have to think that West Virginia would be one of the more challenging ones. I have one question: Why haven't you Mountaineers gotten together and come up with another name for your state? If Texans had been called "West Louisiana", they'd have fixed it that very afternoon. You could have a nationwide contest, and make it a money-raiser (which I suppose you'd need to change all the signs...).
We refer to it West by God Virginia. 😁
THERE is a NAME for a STATE!! That will _certainly_ be the name I put on the next map of WV _I_ make.
(Incidentally I bet all the signs could be edited, by volunteers, if the state would merely supply the paint markers.)
Alabama and Tennessee have those boards in our Buccees.
BOOMER SOONER, tex....
Dems are worried…Rio Grande Valley turned red in ‘24…they’re clinging on to their majorities in the big cities but the suburbs are solid red thus primed to be redistricted
Wife and mom of Native Texans, but I moved them east of the Mississippi. Going to the “History of Texas” light show at Six Flags Over Texas 30 years ago made me so proud to be a grafted in Texan for 18 years!
Another great "history of Texas" show is the "TEXAS!" musical put on every summer in an outdoor theater at the Palo Duro Canyon south of Amarillo (incidentally, the last stronghold of the Comanche).
SPOILER ALERT! STOP READING HERE IF YOU WILL ATTEND.
THIS IS ONLY FOR PEOPLE WHO KNOW THEY'LL NEVER MAKE IT!!!
At the end of the first show, I attended (and I've been twice) horseback riders raced across the stage carrying one of the "Six Flags" of Texas, building anticipation for the sixth rider who did not disappoint, waving the flag of the State of Texas which not accidentally DWARFED the others. However, we were not done, because the very moment it disappeared, a rider on a white horse from the opposite direction appeared, racing across with the flag of THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, "suitably larger" than the Texas flag, and EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THE AMPHITHEATER WAS ON THEIR FEET, APPLAUDING! "THIS! THIS!! THIS IS WHAT TRULY MATTERS!!!"
(The show had dropped that finale a decade later when we returned for a visit--and I wrote a sad letter "to management" about my disappointment. I have not been back to see if it was restored, but I hope at least you can conjure up the atmosphere.)
I can see that! And I actually have tears in my eyes!!!
Yes, I'm getting the same, imagining what the musical "West by God Virginia!" is going to be like...
I live in Amarillo and have seen it a few times. They never put that scene back!
That show was amazing!
Didn’t the Texas state dems do this a few years ago? Maybe 2021 or 22? I feel like they went to DC and then asked for money, but came right back.
yup!
Definitely an embarrassing cop out
Who the heck votes for these idiots?
Texas DOES need to be careful, w/ people in power like Crock-O-Shit Crockett & formerly in power like Beat-off O’Rourke. Apparently there are enough idiots in TX to get such lame brains elected.
Remember half of California has moved there and a third of Mexico has, too!
Fake votes do
I was just about to ask the same thing!
Dems are incapable of winning a debate with intellegent people who argue facts. Feelings dont count.
Meantime, the Tyrant of NY is behaving like a Communist Dictator; pronouncing "We must suspend democracy to save democracy."
Progressives ate becoming dangerously traitorous.
"The animals see the pigs walking on two legs like humans, dressed in clothes, and mingling with humans. They notice that the commandments on the barn have been erased and replaced by the single commandment:
'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.'"
[Thank you, Mr. George Orwell, for your clairvoyant warnings--which we, mostly, ignored.]
I just finished reading Animal Farm for the first time. A great book!
🌟 ⚖️ Gov Abbott should actually be fighting to keep those runaway crybabies 🫏♻️🛩️🦤 from EVER RETURNING 🚔🚫⛓️ to the lone star state!
Make'm stay up north in the land-o-lincoln......
Politics: the modern day circus!
Politics = Theater for the slave class
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Here's the California angle: Gov. Newsom is organizing an initiative to overturn our state's non-partisan citizen redistricting commission, which took redistricting out of the hands of politicians. He wants to fight back against Texas' move by doing the same partisan thing. Redistricting is one of the few things our state does well. And he wants to send us back to the bad old days...
I mean, California only has 9 republicans to 43 democrats in congress now. Seems like they’ve already done it as much as possible.
Dems have been behaving badly since, well, before the founding of the Republic: slavery, KKK, Jim Crow, “democratic” socialism, and since 2016, trying almost every filthy rotten trick to eliminate Donald Trump. And now they think running away from home will work. They never think any of this through, do they.
It turns out, it's difficult for Dems to leave their history behind them. And history matters.
The best predictor of future behavior is past
behavior.
Especially true of institutions!
The best piece I've read on these shenanigans and machinations in Texas. No different from a denial of service attack by breaking quorum and gumming up the works. Don't like it? End the first-past-the-post voting system to prevent redistricting in the first place. Of course, no politicians have any balls and many are sock puppets or cardboard cutouts, so never happen. Not down there and not anywhere else. One hand always ends up washing the other.
The problem with Republicans voting to stop redistricting is that while both have done this Democrats have abused it the worst and a vote prohibiting it locks in the unfair redistricting that they did. Usually when the Republicans do it it is to undo what the Dems did and even it back out to match reality. Imagine if the democrats captured ALL the biggest states/cities (they pretty much did) via redistricting and not via true representation, and then wanted Republicans to vote to prevent redistricting going forward? I believe they once did that and not a single Republican voted yes, and I wouldn’t have either. But the Dems sure love to point to that as proof the Republicans are worse. No - they just won’t let you change the rules of the game to your advantage in the middle of it when you’re up the winning points. They also have shown how to lose gracefully far more often than the democrats. And don’t point to 2020 as proof otherwise. Republicans didn’t lose.
There's another side to this. In Oregon, we have the opposite problem: a Democrat supermajority. What happens is, the Democrats refuse to negotiate with the Republicans because they don't have to. Denial of quorum is a constitutional tool to protect minority rights. The only way a number of horrible bills in 2015, along with a bill that would have stripped all exemption rights to a single vaccine for school (which DID happen in CA) were killed was because Republicans did what the Texas Democrats are doing: they left town and denied quorum until the Democrats were willing to negotiate with them. Foolishly, Oregonians voted for a measure afterward that would deny the ability to run for re-election if a legislator had 10 unexcused absences. The reasoning was they should stay in the legislature and DO THEIR JOBS! They WERE doing their jobs by denying quorum! Under the new law, in 2023 Republicans walked out again to protect their constituents from insane leftists, and lost their jobs because of it. Now Republicans are cowed and won't walk out any more, and we are enslaved to far left lunatics. Be careful what you wish for.
Very interesting and important perspective. Thank you for sharing!
The current crop Oregon Republicans legislators think its better to get along with the D's lust for taxes and tyranny, by giving them the quorum. More money for needle exchanges, behavioral programs for kids messed up with gender dysphoria which will send them to gender affirming surgery. More money for school immunization programs at Oregon taxpayers expense.
Now the Oregon governor is calling a special session at the end of the month to raise taxes to pay for Oregon Dep. of Transportation. The Democrats are bleeding us and the Republicans are facilitating it by giving the D's the quorum.
That is a conundrum.
And we lost some good ones, sad times for Oregon.
We sure did.
Thank you for your exemplary account of the terrible situation in Oregon. Yet another reason why first-past-the-post has gotta go.
What do you mean?