This is no doubt going to trigger the left
Sarah Palin, the Alaskan original who made Momma Grizzly Bears a political term of art as governor and then as the GOP’s first female vice presidential candidate, is officially making a political comeback.Palin, 58, announced Friday night she will run for the open House seat vacated in Alaska by the death of longtime Rep. Don Young.
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Bidenomics gets another loss
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Dinosaurs and humans inhabited the earth at the same time.
WINK!
KU to the Championship Game.
Rock chalk, Jayhawk, KU".
The neocons are back in charge.
J.D. Vance was on the warpath. “Using American power to do the dirty work of Europe is a pretty bad idea,” he told a crowd on Thursday, warning against the U.S. getting more involved in Ukraine. “We don’t have that many non-insane people in Washington. I need you to be some of them.”
Vance wasn’t speaking at a campaign stop in Ohio, where he is running for the U.S. Senate, but at the Marriott Marquis hotel in downtown Washington. The audience consisted of over one hundred mostly younger conservatives, and he was sounding the alarm about not just foreign intervention, but about other conservatives — the worrisome resurgence of the Republican establishment.
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The event was the “Up From Chaos” conference, a self-described “emergency” meeting organized by the Trumpian wing of the GOP to grapple with the political fallout from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. The young men, almost all of them soberly dressed in dark suits, and women, almost uniformly wearing dresses, listened attentively as one speaker after another warned about the perils of intervention for their very own lives. A return to the thinking that led to Iraq and Afghanistan could result in nothing less than World War III over Ukraine, they were warned.
And so, as Putin’s deadly and unprovoked assault drags on, the GOP is also going to war — against itself. As so often, the battle revolves around the America First doctrine first espoused by former President Donald Trump in April 2016, during the Republican primaries, at Washington’s Mayflower Hotel, where he promised that he would perform a U-turn in American foreign policy by shunning military intervention abroad.
That promise never quite bore out. It was the Democratic President Joe Biden, not Trump, who ended up pulling American troops from Afghanistan. Throughout his erratic and volatile presidency, Trump never really gained control of his own national security advisers, hawkish thinkers such as H.R. McMaster and John Bolton who managed, from the perspective of Trump loyalists, to subvert his nationalist foreign policy.
But Trump did manage to shift conservative thinking about Putin himself, a powerful adversary of the U.S. who wields power with an autocratic strength that Trump and his followers openly admire. Even the invasion of Ukraine has not prompted Trump to alter his fundamentally adoring view of the Russian leader. The most that Trump would concede is that he was “surprised” Putin had invaded. Then Trump reverted to type, trying once more to game the Ukraine crisis (as he did in 2019 during a phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that led to his first impeachment) for his own personal benefit by imploring Putin, during an interview this week on Real America’s Voice network, to release information about Hunter Biden’s nefarious activities.
Though Trump’s view of Putin may be little changed, the Russian invasion has broken open the uneasy marriage between the followers of Trump, who abhor foreign entanglements, and the hawks of the Republican Party, who have rarely seen a war they didn’t want to enter. After the debacle in Iraq, the neoconservatives who champion a crusading foreign policy based on democracy promotion and regime change came into bad odor. But almost overnight, the hawks are mounting a comeback as a new foreign policy consensus forms in Washington around bolstering the alliance with NATO and standing up to Russian aggression.
“The neocons haven’t been able to put points on the board for years,” says Melinda Haring, deputy director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center. “With Ukraine, they’re back.”
Her endorsements can be gold. They were for then-candidate Donald J. Trump in 2016. A number of other candidates she has endorsed have gone on to win their races.
Despite being “outside” of public office for 12 years, what Palin has managed to maintain is her charisma and magnetic draw. Legacy and alternative media have lapped up any appearance by Palin after she resigned from the Alaska governor’s office in 2009, along with any news about her children (and there has been much). Of late, Palin has taken on the culture wars surrounding the trans agenda, and has taken fellow lightning rod AOC to task for her ridiculous comments. At every turn, Palin invites, or gets drawn back into the national conversation.
Love her or hate her, she’s never left.
What Palin has also maintained is her grassroots credibility, coupled with her undeniable love for Alaska and America.
Redstate Lmao 🤣 😂 😆
Republicans think she is fucking stupid.
Meghan McCain is ripping Sarah Palin as “stupid” and “feckless,” after her father’s former running mate was spotted dining at a New York City restaurant just days after testing positive for COVID-19.
“Is she crazy? Day two? I haven’t seen her or talked to her for many years, aside from some short emails when my father passed [in 2018], so I can’t imagine what she is thinking but this is highly irresponsible,” McCain, a columnist for DailyMail.com, told the site on Thursday.
The night before, Palin, who ran as the GOP vice presidential nominee on the ticket with then-Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) in 2008, was photographed eating in a heated, outdoor section of Italian restaurant Elio’s.
Palin has been in the Empire State for her defamation trial against The New York Times, which was scheduled to begin Monday, but was postponed to Feb. 3 after she tested positive for COVID-19.
“This was selfish, reckless and stupid. Just because it’s not illegal doesn’t mean it is not unethical,” McCain said.
“This is why she shouldn’t be in politics anymore,” the conservative former “The View” co-host said of Palin. “You have to lead by example. I’m embarrassed to have once known her.”
The 57-year-old former Alaska governor had been spotted eating indoors at the same popular restaurant on Saturday, despite being unvaccinated. The manager of Elio’s later said the eatery made a mistake in failing to check Palin’s vaccination card, per the city’s COVID-19 policies for indoor spaces.
Palin has voiced fierce opposition to COVID-19 vaccines — which greatly reduce the chances of hospitalization or death — saying last year, “It’ll be over my dead body that I’ll have to get a shot.”
“This virus is like a Russian roulette,” McCain said in reaction to Palin dining out following her COVID-19 diagnosis.
“Even if you’re not sick, you are infectious and you could infect someone with comorbidities,” McCain said.
McCain recently disclosed her own experience after testing positive for COVID-19.
The 37-year-old author detailed her struggle finding rapid tests, and blasted the Biden administration in her DailyMail.com column, writing that it was “easy for the media to — rightfully — blame Trump for the bungling of the early Covid-19 response” but that President Biden and “his feckless, moronic, isolated Titanic of an administration gets the blame now.”
The young men, almost all of them soberly dressed in dark suits, and women, almost uniformly wearing dresses, listened attentively as one speaker after another warned about the perils of intervention for their very own lives. A return to the thinking that led to Iraq and Afghanistan could result in nothing less than World War III over Ukraine, they were warned.
Actually that would be anti-neocon thought stupid.
Have the blue jello tonight
Palin personifies a dangerous new strain. She (infamously) didn’t read much; put forth few policy positions beyond “drill, baby drill”; excelled at whipping up crowds into a frothing frenzy; and attacked Barack Obama in brazen, personal terms. Stylistically, she seemed to be almost completely at odds with McCain, a deeply conservative traditionalist who prefers military wars to cultural ones.
McCain regretted his decision.
I think that my late brother Ronald"
Ron, the brother that you failed to go to his funeral because you were not going to get an inheritance?
Roger do you actually want to discuss the Real performance of the Current VP?
I saw this one. It's going to get very interesting.
Garland should be on the Supreme Court.
WASHINGTON — Immediately after Merrick B. Garland was sworn in as attorney general in March of last year, he summoned top Justice Department officials and the F.B.I. director to his office. He wanted a detailed briefing on the case that will, in all likelihood, come to define his legacy: the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol.
Even though hundreds of people had already been charged, Mr. Garland asked to go over the indictments in detail, according to two people familiar with the meeting. What were the charges? What evidence did they have? How had they built such a sprawling investigation, involving all 50 states, so fast? What was the plan now?
The attorney general’s deliberative approach has come to frustrate Democratic allies of the White House and, at times, President Biden himself. As recently as late last year, Mr. Biden confided to his inner circle that he believed former President Donald J. Trump was a threat to democracy and should be prosecuted, according to two people familiar with his comments. And while the president has never communicated his frustrations directly to Mr. Garland, he has said privately that he wanted Mr. Garland to act less like a ponderous judge and more like a prosecutor who is willing to take decisive action over the events of Jan. 6.
Speaking to reporters on Friday, Mr. Garland said that he and the career prosecutors working on the case felt only the pressure “to do the right thing,” which meant that they “follow the facts and the law wherever they may lead.”
ANCHORAGE —
Soon after Sarah Palin was elected mayor of the foothill town of Wasilla, Alaska, she startled a local music teacher by insisting in casual conversation that men and dinosaurs coexisted on an Earth created 6,000 years ago -- about 65 million years after scientists say most dinosaurs became extinct -- the teacher said.
After conducting a college band and watching Palin deliver a commencement address to a small group of home-schooled students in June 1997, Wasilla resident Philip Munger said, he asked the young mayor about her religious beliefs.
Palin told him that “dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth at the same time,” Munger said. When he asked her about prehistoric fossils and tracks dating back millions of years, Palin said “she had seen pictures of human footprints inside the tracks.
https://youtu.be/leSjiO6Wqyg
NBC's "Saturday Night Live" imagined the set of Fox and Friends with Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt, and Brian Kilmeade.
The hosts interviewed Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, Ginni Thomas.
The associate justice dodged questions about whether or not he was hospitalized for coronavirus.
Ginni Thomas said she takes her "duty as the Yoko Ono of the Supreme Court very seriously."
"All I want is a tidal wave of Biblical vengeance to wash away the Biden crime family all the way to Gitmo and then we release the Kraken," she said.
The show then reprised its portrayal of Jeanine Pirro hyping "The Five" and whining about Disney "turning your kindergartener gay."
"Then Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC). Ah, Madison, you had me at white supremacy, you lost me at orgy," Pirro said.
Pirro then shotgunned a beer.
A rambling Donald Trump then face timed into the program and ended up admitting it "was an intentional, planned coup" and that he had used a burner phone during the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6.
https://youtu.be/leSjiO6Wqyg
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