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Merry companion William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 11-19-24
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: A merry companion is music on a journey.
American Folk Saying
Elon Posts Q Meme On X — Elon Musk, maybe the most influential man in the world, yesterday, X-posted a Q meme featuring Pepe the Frog.
Pepe is a newscaster displaying an image of warmongering John Bolton captioned “NOT FREN”
Gen. Mike Flynn responded with a gif of a fellow eating a large bag of pop corn.
For those in the know, yesterday was Nov. 17.
As in seventeeeeeeen.
Is it time to blast Shadilay from the windows?
Elon is almost as good at trolling as The Donald.
Bring you to God William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 11-18-24
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit,
Peter 3:18
Erase the past William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 11-17-24
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present
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Secret Northley Child Porn Arrest? — We’re getting reports — including from a mom — that a long-time Northley Middle School counselor is facing 34 counts of possessing child pornography.
She said parents are posting concerns on social media — which we understand are being taken down, at least on Facebook — and Penn Delco has not responded to questions from them which have been being asked since at least Halloween.
She said a generic statement from the district has been released saying the individual is on leave.
By the way, we could not find any reports of the charges in the Daily Times or any Philadelphia-area media as of 2:23 p.m., today, Nov. 16.
UPDATE: The Penn Delco School District released a new statement a few hours ago basically saying it’s not our fault. Remember, this is the district that passed a policy that cuts parents from conversations regarding sexual confusion their child might be having.
Anyway here is their statement:
Secret Northley Child Porn Arrest
Bucks County Proves Election Corruption — It’s now well known that Bucks County, Pa. has baldly declared that it will count illegal ballots.
It should put paid to any lingering doubters that those saying massive vote fraud exists in our elections and that Donald Trump likely won in 2020 as well.
One wonders what the Bucks bosses — Democrat — think they are going to get out of it?
If they find the votes to put Casey ahead of McCormick and they are clearly illegal votes by their own admission,how do they expect them to ultimatley count?
The Pennsy Supremes are blatantly partisan D but I think that might be a bridge even too far for them to cross
And if they do, there is still SCOTUS and the civil rights division of the new DOJ, which frankly should be sent to address this anyway.
A friend from Bucks also let us know that a Republican candidate was prepared to challenge 1,194 persons who cast votes who did not appear on Pennsylvania’s Statewide Uniform Registry of Electors (SURE).
A challenge was filed which included a check for $11,940 as challenges require a bond $10 per vote. The candidate was then — incorrectly — informed by a party official that it was a mistake. The names were on SURE, he was told, so he withdrew the challenge before he lost the money.
And 1,194 fraudulent votes were cast.
Establishment Republicans are not your friends my fellow MAGAnificents.
In other news, Eric Coomer, the Dominion Voting Systems honcho, who fought every attempt to allow a transparent audit of his company’s machines has reportedly closed his restaurant in Salida, Co. and left town.
As has his lawyer.
Meanwhile in the UK Tory Election
By Bob Small
The British Tories, currently in opposition, just elected a new leader. The reason this matters is because the newly elected Labor Government is losing support fairly regularly.
The British Tories emerged in 1679. Earlier this year, they suffered their worst electoral defeat to Labor since 1832. The Tories had their multi-step convoluted election process to elect their new leader. This produced Kemi Badenoch, born Olukemi Adegoke (1980) in London.
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She is married to Hamish Badenoch and they have three children. She has served in the Tory Government in various positions.
She posits herself as a “critic of multiculturalism and a self-proclaimed enemy of wokeness”. In an interview with BBC, she said “I do speak my mind. And I tell the truth”.
She beat Robert Jenrick 53, 806 votes to 41, 388 votes. Only a third of the Tories voted for her. She becomes the sixth Tory leader in eight and a half years, During her campaign she said “Our first responsibility as His Majesty’s loyal opposition is to hold this Labour government to account. “
She does seem opposed to wokeness.
“I would be congratulating Prime Minister Netanyahu,” she told Sky News following the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in September. ‘She also wrote, in the Daily Mail, that the post-October invasion crowds were protesting against Jews under the guise of attacking Israel,”
She also opened up negotiations with the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) Gulf Cooperation Council describing it as “an enormous opportunity for UK firms.”
The Tories have fallen from 172,000 members in 2022 to 131,000 , a drop of almost 25 percent. She takes over at a time when the Tories lost more than 200 seats in the House of Commons in this year’s general election.
See also Tories already wonder if Kemi Badenoch will last until from the Guardian, a pro-Labor paper.
Meanwhile in the UK Tory Election
We disapprove of state education William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 11-16-24
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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.
Frédéric Bastiat
Talking Progressive College Sudents Off The Ledge
By Bob Small
A friend of mine who only wants to be known as “an Independent in Swarthmore” sent me this article from ZeroHedge: “Devastated”: Classes At Harvard, Penn, Columbia ..
Among the many comments on post-election devastation ; “Jews endured calls for their genocide day and night last semester, and Columbia did nothing. Half the country votes for a candidate and Columbia elitists can’t deal,” posted Eliana Goldin on X .
She added, “their blatant double standard couldn’t be more offensive to the Jewish community at Columbia.”
Besides Columbia, this article touches on reaction at Harvard, Michigan State, Ohio University, The University of Pennsylvania, and our local Swarthmore College.
Swarthmore College, our local bastion of political progressivism, responded with cancelled class and declaring Sharples Commons being a “safe space to land,” for Harris supporters.
The University of Pennsylvania, Trump’s Alma Mater (Wharton “68, whether they like it or not) also had professors who cancelled classes but political science professor Ian Lustick was not among them.
“Students deserve normalcy,” he said and that classes “are practically sacred spaces.” He thought that the failure of Harris to break from Biden’s Israel policy led to a loss of progressive voters.
Political Science professor Matthew Levendusky felt that Harris did not represent a change from the Biden administration.
At Harvard the reaction was similar.
Samantha M. Holtz ’28 was quoted as saying “Being at Harvard, I was surrounded by a lot of people who were very pro-Harris, so in my mind it was already a decided election. It was a little bit shocking to me.”
There are dissenting voices at Harvard, however, including ”The Harvard Republican Club — which endorsed Trump in July — and the Salient, a conservative student magazine which has published pro-Trump content this year. “
We got to Eliana Goldin for the final comments from The New York Post.
“Columbia has a serious problem with neutrality,” she said. “I’m sure that if Harris won, they would not have canceled classes”
Talking Progressive College Sudents Off The Ledge
Kamala Won’t Disappear
By Joe Guzzardi
Despite the sound defeat that Vice President Kamala Harris suffered in the 2024 presidential election, she’ll likely remain in the public eye. In her November 6 concession speech, she admitted that she planned to stick around. Harris said, “I concede this election, I do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign: the fight for freedom, for opportunity, for fairness, and the dignity of all people. A fight for the ideals at the heart of our nation, the ideals that reflect America at our best. That is a fight I will never give up.”
For high-visibility, vainglorious politicians who have held powerful positions like Harris—San Francisco District Attorney, California Attorney General, U.S. Senator, and Vice President—giving up 20 years in the limelight goes against the grain. Harris could follow the examples that previously defeated presidential candidates set. Her options are many. Harris might start a foundation like Jimmy Carter did after his 1980 defeat to Ronald Reagan. The Carter Center, which builds sustainable housing and prevents disease from spreading in developing countries, helped the former one-term president the win the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize. After Al Gore narrowly lost the 2000 election to George W. Bush, in 2005 he established the Alliance for Climate Protection, renamed The Climate Reality Project. Foundations are nice but hardly the stuff of substantial public exposure.
Or Harris could follow President Richard Nixon’s strategy. After his 1960 defeat to President John F. Kennedy and a subsequent loss in California’s 1962 gubernatorial race to Democrat incumbent Pat Brown, Nixon spent years promoting GOP candidates nationwide and, by 1968, had accumulated political favors that he cashed in on. Another Harris presidential bid, theoretically possible, is not in the cards because it would end in a comparison to Adlai Stevenson, a two-time loser to President Dwight David Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956. More Harris options: she could join a high-end law firm, become a lobbyist, or retire to private life and wait for book or Netflix deal advances to come in. The Obamas got $65 million from Penguin Random House to release both their memoirs. Harris and spouse Doug Emhoff are not Michelle and Barack, but they would still command a hefty advance.
A safe bet on Harris’ future is that she will run to replace termed out California Governor Gavin Newsom, a perfect situation for her. The gubernatorial election is in 2026, which gives Harris time to kick back before stumping again. Campaigning in California would be cake for Harris as opposed to trying to sell herself to a skeptical national electorate. Harris is a known quantity in California and would benefit from incessantly glowing media coverage. As of today, Harris’ likely competition, many of whom might drop out rather than face certain defeat in a primary, are Toni Atkins, Senate president pro tem, Eleni Kounalakis, California’s Lieutenant Governor, Tony Thurmond, California’s superintendent of public education, Xavier Becerra, Health and Human Services Secretary, Betty Yee, former controller and the California Democratic Party’s vice chair, and finally a name familiar to long-standing enforcement advocates, the pro-immigration Antonio Villaraigosa, once Los Angeles’ mayor and unsuccessful 2018 gubernatorial candidate. Harris has statewide name recognition while the others are, in many corners of California, unknown. One issue that Harris and her potential challengers share is unbending support for open borders and amnesty for already-present illegal immigrants.
The most interesting thing to watch in a Harris gubernatorial bid would be how she interacts with Newsom. For more than a year, Newsom displayed everywhere his naked ambition to displace President Joe Biden. When Harris took over as the nominee, Newsom vanished. Consider his snide remark about Harris after her coronation: “We went through a very open process, a very inclusive process. It was bottom-up, I don’t know if you know that. That’s what I’ve been told to say.” Insiders know that Newsom, confident that he would win, favored an open convention to replace Biden. No doubt secretly delighted that Harris absorbed a drubbing; Newsom is back as 2028’s leading candidate.
In politics, four years is an eternity. When 2028 rolls around, Newsom or any other Democratic presidential nominee may be campaigning in a California that, based on the right-shift towards Trump from 2016 to 2020 and finally in 2024 for a 12 percentage point gain, may be as red as it is blue.
Joe Guzzardi is an Institute for Sound Public Policy analyst. Contact him at jguzzardi@ifspp.org
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