Banished forever! - Jordan Schachtel Over the weekend, I signed up for BlueSky, the social media platform that has become a popular online conversation venue and safe space for left-wingers in the wake of the election of Donald Trump.
Hours later, I was banned forever.
The idea for BlueSky was originally conceived by Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter, as a decentralized alternative to Twitter...
After signing up, with my settings on default, I quickly discovered that BlueSky is an absolute loony bin.
Take a look at a few of the screenshots from the default homepage feed:
The whole controversy over this was hysterical, as it never really was a “Muslim Ban” in the first place, and now watch for more hysteria: Trump is bringing it back. Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies reported in the New York Post Thursday that Trump “plans to resuscitate what he called his ‘famous Travel Ban’ for a second term,” and that’s a good thing, as the “Muslim Ban,” or “Travel Ban,” or whatever you want to call it was always a common-sense security measure, and Lord knows, we sure could use a few of those these days.
Bensman notes that the last version of this ban prohibited immigration from thirteen countries: Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, North Korea, Burma, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania.
The keen-eyed reader will notice that North Korea, Burma, and Tanzania aren’t Muslim countries at all, that Eritrea and Nigeria are about evenly divided between Muslims and Christians, and that Kyrgyzstan, while about 90% Muslim, is a former Soviet republic in which most of the Muslims are highly secularized and hardly interested in waging jihad.
What these 13 countries had in common was that they either would not or could not provide adequate information about those people who wanted to enter the United States...
“Is it possible that there are a few Democrats who said the border was ‘very important’ because they don’t believe Biden-Harris opened the border wide enough?
Technically, I suppose there could be some small number of middle-aged progressive female TikTok influencers with recently shaved skulls who sincerely believe (when the Xanax isn’t working) that not enough people from Burkina Faso snuck across.
But it’s safe to say they aren’t a large enough constituency to bother catering to.”
The article went on to cite specific statistics that showed illegal entries into the U.S. skyrocketed under Biden as compared to Trump.
Under Biden, Border Patrol agents encountered migrants trying to enter the U.S.7.2 million times; under Trump, officials encountered migrants 1.8 million times. Encounters don’t mean people were let in, and there’s no data for how many people who were encountered are now living in the U.S. But the numbers of people released to await court hearings don’t corroborate Pelosi’s statement, either. There were about 313,000 under Trump compared with 3.6 million under Biden.
1620 - The Mayflower reached Provincetown, MA. The ship discharged the Pilgrims at Plymouth, MA, on December 26, 1620.
1783 - The first successful flight was made in a hot air balloon. The pilots, Francois Pilatre de Rosier and Francois Laurent, Marquis d'Arlandes, flew for 25 minutes and 5½ miles over Paris.
1877 - Thomas A. Edison announced the invention of his phonograph.
1953 - British Natural History Museum authorities announced that "Piltdown Man" was a hoax.
1963 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline, arrived in San Antonio, TX. They were beginning an ill-fated, two-day tour of Texas that would end in Dallas.
2000 - The Florida Supreme Court granted Al Gore's request to keep the presidential recounts going.
Last week, Blaze News covered a story about a FEMA supervisor named Marn’i Washington who was fired due to a released report accusing her of ordering relief agents under her authority to avoid homes with Trump signs in Lake Placid, Florida.
According to Washington, however, she was merely the scapegoat for FEMA’s broader discriminatory policies.
Recriminations are free flowing from the Democrat intelligentsia now...
What is hard for people to understand, particularly in politics, is how easily “relevance” can be mistaken for popularity.
For decades (since Bill Clinton), what the Democrats have had is popularity, not relevance – and they have created popularity by promising free ice cream for breakfast and a theory of governance where nothing is your fault because the other guy did it (even though they are telling the “other guy” the same thing)... In true Borat fashion, no matter the true outcome of their actions or policies everything was tagged as a “great success”:
The 2020 election was the most secure election ever...
Bidenomics is working said Vice President Kamala Harris...
There was no chaos in the retreat from Afghanistan...
In a letter to the Iowa senator sent on Nov. 8 and shared exclusively with the Washington Examiner, the IRS noted that of the 2,044 employees who reported having balances totaling more than $12 million, 860 employees still have not paid overdue taxes.
Only 20 of the 70 employees who “willfully evaded” paying their taxes were removed...
Donald Trump has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his secretary of health and human services — and Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” couldn’t be more thrilled, though he does have some suggestions.
“I want him to dismantle the money going back and forth from the drug companies, the revolving door,” Glenn tells head researcher Jason Buttrill and Stu Burguiere of “Stu Does America.”
Why? Glenn explains that this is because the system is corrupt and currently has little to nothing to do with America’s health and much more to do with the pockets of large corporations.
Homeland Security officials last week were warned in an internal department intelligence memo about TdA’s growing presence across the country, most recently in Washington, DC, Virginia, Montana and Wyoming.
The gang already has footholds in California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin, according to the memo and previous reporting by The Post...
An election judge in a Minnesota township has been charged with two felonies for accepting votes from people who should not have been allowed to cast a ballot.
Timothy Michael Scouton of Nevis, Minnesota, was the head election judge in Badoura Township Precinct in Hubbard County, according to KMSP-TV.
He faces one count of accepting the vote of an unregistered voter and one count of neglect of duty by an election official.
We are so screwed. - Stephen Green You might not be shocked to learn that our addiction to profligacy has quadrupled government spending at all levels since just 1970, the year after I was born.
But even I was shocked to learn that spending has quadrupled per person, and, yes, that's in inflation-adjusted dollars...
We are so screwed.
Washington's Office of Management and Budget produced one of those eye-popping charts last year that, for whatever reason, came across my social media radar this morning.
What do you believe President Vladimir Putin might think about such a proposal?
Do you believe Putin is correct in being suspect of any kind of a disingenuous unenforceable agreement with a totally corrupt Ukrainian government?
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry is a hotbed of graft, according to a U.S. Pentagon report.
Corruption will be the “primary impediment” to Ukraine’s post-conflict recovery, and any peace plan the Pentagon’s Inspector General has warned in a new report, which identified the country’s defense ministry as “a key player in many corruption scandals.”...
Back in May, Ukrainian media exposed a scheme in which military and civilian authorities in Kharkov Region paid millions of dollars to fake companies for the supply of non-existent building materials to construct defensive fortifications, leaving the region undefended when Russian troops rolled in...
Pennsylvania Supreme Court held Monday that incorrectly dated mail ballots cannot be counted.
The court held the ballots "shall not be counted for purposes of the election held" on Nov. 5. The Republican National Committee sued Thursday after several counties decided to count ballots with incorrect dates.
