Gladiolas

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The gladiolus is a classic perennial known for its tall flower spikes and large, colorful blooms! A great cutting flower, the gladiolus looks spectacular in summer bouquets. Here’s how to grow gladioli in your garden.

About Gladiolus

Part of the iris family (Iridaceae) and commonly known as “glads,” these lovely flowering plants are available in a multitude of colors and sizes—from the smaller hybrids that fit perfectly in containers to the large-flowered Grandiflora hybrids, which send out huge spikes of blooms in a range of colors. 

The most common gladioli typically reach between 2 and 5 feet in height, sporting flowers that also range in size—from “miniature” blooms less than 3 inches in diameter to “giant” flowers greater than 5 inches across! The taller varieties, which need to be staked, are often placed in the back of a garden to nicely complement shorter plants.

Gladiolus Winter Hardiness

The accepted hardiness zone for the classic Grandiflora gladioli (your typical garden glad) is zone 8, but it’s well known that by covering the corms with a good mulch, you can keep them alive in zones 6 and 7 and sometimes even zones 5 for certain varieties such as “Nanus Hybrids.” In colder zones, most gladioli corms should be dug up in the fall, stored, and replanted the following spring

Planting

For the best blooms, plant glads in full sun (6 to 8 hours of sunlight per day) in well-drained soil that’s moderately fertile. They will not do well in heavy, soggy soil. Mix compost (humus) into your soil to improve its consistency and fertility.

When to Plant Gladiolus

Start planting gladiolus corms in the spring, once the danger of frost has passed and the soil has warmed to at least 55°F (13°C).

From your last frost date to early summer, plant another round of corms every 10 days or so. This will result in continuous blooms through early fall!

Depending on the variety, it takes between 60 and 90 days from the time glads are planted for the corms to root, grow, and bloom.

How to Plant Gladiolus

Ready your garden by using a garden fork or tiller to loosen the soil to about 12 to 15 inches deep. After loosening the soil, mix in a 2- to 4-inch layer of compost or aged manure.

To ensure large-sized blooms, plant corms that are 1¼ inch or larger in diameter.

Set the corm in the hole about 4 inches deep with the pointed end facing up. Cover with soil and press firmly.

Space the corms 6 to 8 inches apart.

If you grow gladioli primarily for cut flowers, plant them in rows. It’s easier to tend the plants and to harvest the flowers.

If planted with other flowers in borders or annual beds, plant the corms in groups of 7 or more for the best effect.

Water the corms thoroughly at planting.

If you’re planting tall varieties, be sure to stake them at planting time. Be careful not to damage the corms with the stakes.

Growing

How to Grow Gladiolus

Put a 2- to 4-inch layer of mulch around your gladioli to keep your soil moist and help prevent weeds.

If you get less than 1 inch of rain a week, water your plants regularly throughout the summer. Otherwise, water them moderately when in growth to keep the soil moist.

Remove the faded/dead flowers to ensure continuous blooms. Once all the flowers on a stalk are gone, cut the stalk off at about 2 to 3 inches above the soil.

Be sure to leave the plant intact so it can mature and grow the corms for the next season.

Winter Protection for Gladiolus

If you live in USDA Hardiness Zone 8 or warmer, put down a layer of hay or straw for winter protection. Gladiolus can remain in the ground through winter, provided a hard freeze (28°F or colder) isn’t common in your area. 

In colder regions (Zone 7 or colder), dig up gladioli corms once the foliage has faded after the first fall frost. A light frost will kill the foliage, but not the rest of plant. Be sure to dig up the gladiolus corms before a hard freeze (28°F), or the plants could be fatally damaged.

All that said, many gardeners who live in the “border” zones 6 and 7 have tried leaving their glads in the ground and found that they survived; this is a judgement call and based on your microclimate, your variety of gladiolus, and climate shifts.

Digging Up and Storing Gladioli Corms

To dig up the gladioli corms for winter storage, follow these tips:

Use a spade and dig up the entire plant, grasping the top to pull it out of the soil. Avoid bruising or injuring corms while digging. Shake off all loose soil (do not wash them off) and discard damaged corms. Cut the stalk down to 1 to 2 inches above the corm. Save the small cormels separately if you so desire. These will bloom in 2 to 3 years if you replant them each spring.

Allow the corms to dry in the sun for 1 or 2 days if the weather agrees. Sift out excess soil and place corms in wooden flats or trays. Cure in a warm and airy location for 2 weeks at a temperature of 80 to 85°F (27 to 29°C). Remove and throw away the oldest bottom corms (from the base of the new one).

Don’t remove the husks on the corms.

Dust the corms with a fungicide (“bulb dust”) to avoid disease problems. Place dust and bulbs in a paper bag and shake vigorously.

Store the corms in paper or cloth bags, pantyhose, or old onion sacks. Stack or hang the containers so air can move among them. Store the corms at 35 to 45°F (2 to 7°C) in low humidity. A cool basement is quite suitable. Do not allow corms to freeze.

Replant these corms in the spring for another year of beautiful blooms.

Varieties

Gladioli come in a variety of sizes and colors, with the most popular being part of the follow hybrid groups:

Grandiflora Hybrids: These are the classic gladioli that produce a plentiful amount of large (5- to 6-inch) blooms in a range of colors. The plants produce flower stalks that reach up to 4 feet in height and are winter hardy to Zone 7.

Dwarf Grandiflora Hybrids: These miniature glads are a great choice for containers and cutting gardens, as their flowers are about half the size of Grandifloras and their shorter stalks don’t typically require staking. They are also winter hardy to Zone 7. Glamini gladioli are included in this group; they are pest resistant and will bloom in full sun or partial shade.

Nanus Hybrids: Hardy to Zone 5, these smaller gladioli look a lot like Grandifloras, but do not produce as many flowers. They tend to grow no larger than about 2 feet in height, which makes them perfect for containers or small spaces.

Some specific gladiolus varieties of note include:

‘Black Star’, which has deep purple-red blooms

‘Candyman’, for its beautiful, deep pink flowers

‘Costa’, which sports ruffled flowers in blue-purple

‘Dream’s End’, which makes a good background plant because its flower spike is up to 3 feet tall (and it has pretty light orange flowers with large yellow centers)

‘Fun Time’, which has yellow flowers edged with red

‘Green Time’, for its unusual lime-green flowers

‘Prins Claus’, which has white flowers with splashes of pink on its petals

‘Priscilla’, which produces off-white flowers with yellow center and a pink edge

Harvesting

To cut glads for bouquets, follow these tips:

Cut the flower stalks early in the morning or at night, not during the heat of day.

Use a sharp knife and bring a bucket of lukewarm water to the flower bed; cut diagonally through the stalks and place in the bucket.

Cut stalks with only one or two open flowers. The rest of the buds will open after you put them in a vase. Leave at least four leaves on the plant in the ground if you want to re-use the corms.

Place the bucket with the flowers in a cool dark place for a few hours before arranging them in a vase.

Remove lower fading flowers and cut about 1 inch off the bottom of each flower stalk every few days.

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  1. Morning All!
    it poured here last night! sounded like horses stomping on the roof!!
    this morning when i took the hummer feeders out–they were scolding me as usual–but when i came inside, EIGHT hummers were fighting over ONE feeder–there are 3 others. (Those 3 others had one hummer each enjoying their breakfast alone…lol)

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    1. Morning! Clear but chilly this morning – 61….and I just glanced outside and spied GT coming for his breakfast. Managed to get a couple of pics of him last evening – caught him with his eyes closed! LOL

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        1. TBH, I haven’t a clue as to his age. For that matter, he could be a she – I can’t get close enough to find out for sure! LOL

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    2. Good Morning ☀️
      I marvel at the gutsiness of hummingbirds. Imagine those little guys migration “During migration, some birds embark on a nonstop 900-mile journey across the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean from Panama or Mexico to the eastern United States” it is claimed some may fly nonstop, 500 miles over open water of the Gulf!
      https://birdadviser.com/hummingbirds-in-pennsylvania/

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          1. right?
            when i take the feeders out, there’s a few that like to fly right at my head…like they’re all that and a bag of chips…LOL
            and yet, when they land on your hand you can’t hardly feel it!

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    1. Let’s leave out the optimistic, shall we??? ‘Cause anyone who is optimistic these days….well….they are seriously deluded!!!

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      1. sorry, but i HAVE to believe there’s a bright side. the left wants us depressed, thinking we can’t win, there’s no hope. well that ain’t me!
        I have my moments of doubt…but this little light of mine? going let it shine too!

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          1. glad to hear you’re not quitting.
            i am different than you–if i believed there was no hope, i would quit. so I gotta have hope!
            but i love you just how you are you keep me grounded–from floating helplessly away…LOL

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            1. I turn to my gardening, GT, the birds, etc., for my distraction when it gets to be too much. And memes – ALWAYS memes! I think back to a few years ago, when I barely even knew about memes! LOL – now I am the master meme-stealer!!!

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  5. Citizen 817
    August 7, 2023 12:26 am

    @realDonaldTrump

    15h
    NO WAY I CAN GET A FAIR TRIAL, OR EVEN CLOSE TO A FAIR TRIAL, IN WASHINGTON, D.C. THERE ARE MANY REASONS FOR THIS, BUT JUST ONE IS THAT I AM CALLING FOR A FEDERAL TAKEOVER OF THIS FILTHY AND CRIME RIDDEN EMBARRASSMENT TO OUR NATION, WHERE MURDERS HAVE JUST SHATTERED THE ALL TIME RECORD, OTHER VIOLENT CRIMES HAVE NEVER NEEN WORSE, AND TOURISTS HAVE FLED. THE FEDERAL TAKEOVER IS VERY UNPOPULAR WITH POTENTIAL AREA JURORS, BUT NECESSARY FOR SAFETY, GREATNESS, & FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE!

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    1. Citizen 817
      Citizen 817
      August 7, 2023 12:27 am

      @realDonaldTrump

      14h
      DERANGED JACK SMITH AND OUR HIGHLY PARTISAN, AND VERY CORRUPT, DEPARTMENT OF INJUSTICE, COULD HAVE BROUGHT THIS BIDIN “OPPONENT” CASE YEARS AGO, BUT CHOSE TO WAIT AND BRING IT RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF MY ELECTION CAMPAIGN. NO WAY!!! I HOPE YOU ARE WATCHING AMERICA. OUR COUNTRY IS BEING DESTROYED. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

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      1. Citizen 817
        August 7, 2023 12:27 am

        @realDonaldTrump

        13h
        THERE IS NO WAY I CAN GET A FAIR TRIAL WITH THE JUDGE “ASSIGNED” TO THE RIDICULOUS FREEDOM OF SPEECH/FAIR ELECTIONS CASE. EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS, AND SO DOES SHE! WE WILL BE IMMEDIATELY ASKING FOR RECUSAL OF THIS JUDGE ON VERY POWERFUL GROUNDS, AND LIKEWISE FOR VENUE CHANGE, OUT IF D.C.

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  6. “nice shot Megan”…bwahahahahahahhaha

    Citizen 817
    Citizen 817
    August 7, 2023 12:28 am

    @realDonaldTrump

    4h
    The “shocking and totally unexpected” loss by the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team to Sweden is fully emblematic of what is happening to the our once great Nation under Crooked Joe Biden. Many of our players were openly hostile to America – No other country behaved in such a manner, or even close. WOKE EQUALS FAILURE. Nice shot Megan, the USA is going to Hell!!! MAGA

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  9. you’d think this would be bigger news…nope.
    swept under the rug…

    Feisty Hayseed
    Feisty Hayseed
    August 7, 2023 1:11 am

    Secret Chinese Bio-Weapon Lab
    

    Things about the secret Chinese biologics lab discovered in California. Gordon Chang said this is a biological warfare facility and believes the mastermind behind the scenes should not be handed over to the judicial system but sent to Guantanamo Prison because this is equivalent pic.twitter.com/vygDgJwySy

    — Angie (@Angie79658137) August 5, 2023

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  10. i hope we get to see videos

    Feisty Hayseed
    August 7, 2023 1:17 am

    All that’s going to happen is Antifa will be peeing their pants on their way out of town 😁😉😎

    Antifa plans to shut down the Sturgis gathering says too many american and confederate flags….. I will wager every dollar I have on the biker clubs of America versus antifa pic.twitter.com/v3oUDrRUIm

    — @bbowden18 (@bluestown901) August 5, 2023

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    1. I bet they’re simply posturing. Most importantly, there are not enough cops at Sturgis (even with the extras hired for this event) to hold the bikers back & protect antifags.

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        2. & I’ve no doubt antifags know that an actual physical confrontation could result in grievous bodily injury. That’s why I think this is media posturing to make them appear tough. The question is what does the timing say?

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          1. something big is coming out that they want to distract from?
            they are setting up another trap for Trump supporters? to jail and arrest them for attacking a protected group of assholes?

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  12. Troublemaker10
    August 7, 2023 1:44 am

    Trump isn’t legitimizing an illegitimate system. That’s the only way. Don’t even pretend this is a functioning legal system in DC with good faith actors. It’s a show trial to make Hitler jealous. Trump’s rhetoric is tame. He should call them Nazis. They are. https://t.co/l6NTSkd3Gw

    — Cernovich (@Cernovich) August 6, 2023

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  13. Troublemaker10
    August 7, 2023 1:52 am

    Sundance tweets/retweets worth checking out….

    In order to influence the 2020 election, Zuckerberg gave the DNC a $500 million ballot harvesting operation as a gift. In order to influence the 2024 election, Zuckerberg will spend no money but give the public/private partnership (DHS) all the META users metadata [AI exploit]. pic.twitter.com/mvNNzMOcmn

    — TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) August 7, 2023

    This is just now in New Hampshire 🔥🔥🔥

    Trump 2024 🥳🥳🥳

    MAGA 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸pic.twitter.com/CmkbwiQWYP”>https://t.co/CmkbwiQWYP

    — Freedom 🇺🇸🦅 (@PU28453638) August 6, 2023

    80% of Republicans and 64% of independents think there was voter fraud yet
    Murdoch won’t allow any admissions of official election
    fraud evidence uncovered from 2020 on any of his media outlets .
    The attached links shared by @Rasmussen_Poll from key swing states should be used… https://t.co/lPyWgxuSRF

    — Tom Moore (@junogsp7) August 6, 2023

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  16. this is Vivek’s commentary piece published in politico in 2022…entire thing because there is fear it will be disappearing. the link is in the tweet

    By Vivek Ramaswamy

    09/12/2022 10:00 AM EDT

    Vivek Ramaswamy is an American entrepreneur and author of the upcoming book Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence.

    This excerpt is adapted from Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence (Center Street) to be published on Sept. 13.

    It was a dark day for democracy. The loser of the election refused to concede the race, claimed the election was stolen, raised hundreds of millions of dollars from loyal supporters, and is running for executive office again.

    I’m referring, of course, to Stacey Abrams. To this day, even as Abrams campaigns for governor again in the 2022 election, she still refuses to concede that she lost the last one.

    But conservatives have their own victimhood complexes these days; we are, after all, a nation of victims now. All that differs is whom we see as our oppressors. The worst victimhood narrative that afflicts modern conservatives is their budding belief that any election they lose must have been stolen. Instead of distinguishing ourselves as the party that strives for excellence and rejects the easy path of victimhood narratives, we simply created our own.

    While Donald Trump promised to lead the nation to recommit itself to the pursuit of greatness, what he delivered in the end was just another tale of grievance, a persecution complex that swallowed much of the Republican Party whole. Trump took a page from the Abrams playbook. His claims were just as weak as Abrams’. She claimed voter suppression in her 2018 defeat, he claimed voter fraud two years later. He filed scores of lawsuits over various claims of fraud, as was his right, but they came nowhere close to changing the outcome in a single state, let alone the several swing states whose results he needed to overturn. In many cases, judges the president himself had nominated ruled against him, a sign of health in our nation’s institutions. Of the 62 lawsuits he and his supporters filed, he lost all but one, a minor victory in Pennsylvania that affected few votes. A Supreme Court with a strong conservative majority ruled against Trump twice. Top election officials in virtually every state, regardless of party, said they’d found no evidence of any significant level of fraud. Our institutions did hold, in the end. But they shouldn’t have been tested.
    Stacey Abrams speaks to the media in front of microphones during a press conference.

    Beyond all the court decisions, statements from election officials, and a general lack of evidence of fraud, what I keep coming back to is this: Why do I see Republicans insisting that the presidential election was stolen, yet accepting the legitimacy of the congressional ones? At times, the Republican party seems to be moving toward the position that any races it wins are legitimate and any it loses were stolen. That’s not a tenable view. It’s just the preferred conservative brand of victimhood, a knee-jerk kind of sore losing more common to playgrounds than great republics. I say this as a conservative with some pretty well-established conservative bona fides; my last book was called Woke, Inc. Republicans could’ve become the one major party that moved beyond grievance and aimed only for greatness; instead we placed grudges about elections at the core of party identity. Once victimhood becomes part of the essence of both parties, it’s just a national identity.

    Being a sore loser is a danger to democracy no matter which party it comes from. It chills me to see the Democratic Party moving in the same direction. In part in response to the victimhood narrative of a stolen election, Republicans in many states passed a variety of voter reform laws, so far at least 33 bills in 19 states. Many of these reforms strike me as minor tweaks that won’t affect elections much one way or the other; some of them seem to be symbolic gestures that legislators are “doing something.”

    But President Joe Biden and other top Democrats call them Jim Crow 2.0. I guess that’s because “the New Jim Crow” was already taken by one of their other victimhood narratives. They apply the Jim Crow label to a number of Republican-led voting reforms, most of them pretty innocuous. Claremont McKenna College professor of government Andrew E. Busch sums it up by saying, “Jim Crow 1.0 entailed widespread murder and violent intimidation, onerous taxes, rigged literacy tests, and a flat prohibition on blacks voting in the primary elections of the dominant party, leading to results such as Mississippi’s 7 percent voter-turnout rate for African Americans. ‘Jim Crow 2.0,’ mean[while], requires that voters show proper identification, vote in the correct precinct, and request their absentee ballot every two years instead of every four. Someday, historians will marvel that anyone ever took seriously the argument that these two regimes bore any relation to one another.”

    The Jim Crow analogies don’t stop there. Democrats are still making hay of it. The latest story is that the filibuster is also a form of Jim Crow when it’s used to stop their own voter reforms. Presumably Democrats didn’t think the filibuster was a Jim Crow relic when they used it a record-breaking 328 times in the 2019–2020 congressional term. I’m not sure whether we’re on Jim Crow 3.0 or 4.0 now. Regardless, the power of the well-worn analogy allowed Biden to say that the 2022 midterms will be illegitimate if Republicans win: “I’m not going to say it’s going to be legit,” he told a reporter. “The increase [in] the prospect of being illegitimate is in direct proportion to us not being able to get these reforms passed.”

    Ironically, Republicans and Democrats are converging. Maybe no one likes a sore loser, but it seems everyone likes being one. Wallowing in this shared victimhood narrative may soothe the sting of defeat, but it’s poison to the rule of law. Republicans were in prime position to reject identity politics, including the game of identifying as a victim, but instead we used stolen election stories as a backdoor to embracing our own victim identity, pursuing the easy path to power. Fighting fire with fire might sound appealing, but water’s actually the better choice.

    It reminds me of the final passage of George Orwell’s Animal Farm: “Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” That, I fear, is the destiny that awaits a nation of victims. We’ll become indistinguishable, someday soon, low creatures yelling the same tired victimhood narratives at each other and filling in the variables of victims and villains with our preferred names.

    Evidence of America’s disturbing trend toward mutually assured victimhood is everywhere, but if you’re looking for a useful recent example, Sarah Palin’s ill-considered libel lawsuit against the New York Times will do well. As Palin would no doubt say, the Times started it. In 2017, after a Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) supporter shot Republican congressman Steve Scalise and several others at a baseball practice, the Times wanted to run an editorial connecting the shooting to conservative violence. It had to make multiple leaps in logic to do so. First, the writer brought up a shooting six years earlier when a mentally ill man wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and killed six others, vaguely suggesting that he might have been motivated by a map Palin’s PAC had released putting competitive electoral districts like Giffords’ under crosshairs. Then-Times editor James Bennet, dissatisfied with mere insinuation, added multiple lines saying that the map had directly incited the shooting of Giffords. That claim was utterly false, with no evidence to support it except the Times’ own wishes. It quickly realized its mistake after a conservative outcry and issued a series of corrections, though none mentioned Palin by name. A couple weeks later, Palin sued for libel.

    But she lost. As the jury deliberated, the district court judge said that no matter the verdict, he would dismiss Palin’s suit because she hadn’t met the very high bar public figures must meet to win defamation cases. A public figure has to prove not just that the defendant made false statements about them, but that they acted with actual malice — that they knowingly or recklessly said something false intending to cause harm. This legal standard was established, ironically, in the landmark case New York Times v. Sullivan. The judge said that the Times’ speedy efforts to check and then correct its article mentioning Palin were evidence it lacked actual malice. The jury ended up reaching the same decision as the judge, although, as Palin’s lawyers will no doubt point out on appeal, a few jurors received news alerts on their phones informing them of the judge’s decision as they deliberated.

    Not only did Palin lose; she deserved to lose. What the Times did was sloppy, arrogant and prejudiced, and it’s understandable that she was angry. But at the end of the day, the paper did quickly notice and correct its mistake, and defamation law is clear. We value free speech highly in America, and that includes the freedom to harshly criticize the public figures who have so much influence over the direction of the country. As the court pointed out in Sullivan, with so much speech flying around, it’s inevitable that some of it will be false. To keep spirited debate about public figures going, we have to give them less protection from false claims. The deal in America is that if you want to be famous, you have to have thick skin. Palin chose to play the victim instead, spending millions of dollars and several years hounding the Times over a mistake it had immediately acknowledged and fixed. She should’ve just moved on.

    There are only two ways to win a culture war: defeat the other side, or infect it with your own values. No matter who wins the next few elections, Republicans are losing the culture war, and it’s not just because liberals control the media, universities, Hollywood, or even business. Republicans aren’t just losing to wokeness and its many victimhood narratives. They’re losing because they’ve adopted the tactics and principles of their opponents and, in doing so, stand for nothing but the pursuit of power. Democrats may have been the first to master telling tales of victimhood, but lately Republicans have decided to join them in spinning out stories of persecution. They sacrifice core principles for short-term political gain.

    It’s easy to be a sore loser; it’s harder to figure out how to win. The comforting blanket of stolen-election stories allows those who embrace them to avoid self-examination and introspection and place all their electoral shortcomings at the feet of others. This is how the woke left wins — not with a bang, but with a whimper. Not by winning a battle of arguments with the other side, but by getting the other side to adopt its own values and methods without even realizing it, even as they continue to battle one another.

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    1. Oh yeah…ramasmarmy’s slip is showing from under that dress. This is substantive evidence that he is a stealth missile launched by [DS].

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  17. lawsuit filed against bribem’s new debt relief student loan plan.
    entire article
    The Biden administration is facing a scathing lawsuit over its newly launched student loan forgiveness plan.

    The legal challenge, brought forward by the conservative group New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), alleges that the Department of Education violated the U.S. Constitution when it released the plan.

    NCLA, on behalf of the Cato Institute and the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, vehemently criticized the plan in a press release announcing the lawsuit on August 4.

    Detailing what they believe to be an illegal “scheme,” NCLA explained, “The latest scheme would immediately wipe out $39 billion of student loan debt owed to the U.S. Treasury by more than 800,000 people under the Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) program by crediting non-payments during periods of forbearance as monthly payments.”

    The conservative group added, “The plan would cancel even more debt prematurely at taxpayer expense for another 2.8 million IDR borrowers in the future. The Department has no lawful authority to do this.”

    NCLA argues that the Biden administration’s plan directly violates the Constitution’s Appropriations Clause. The group explained that the clause “grants Congress near-exclusive authority to cancel debt owed to the Treasury.”

    The Supreme Court initially struck down an earlier version of the plan, citing the Biden administration’s lack of authority to expand a program initially aimed at aiding veterans fighting student loans.

    Similarly, the group contends that the Biden administration’s approach sidesteps requirements in the already-active “Public Service Loan Forgiveness” program, which allows borrowers to have their loans forgiven if they complete ten years of work for non-profits while also making monthly payments.

    In a scathing rebuke, Sheng Li, Litigation Counsel at NCLA, asserted, “[T]he strategy seems to be to cancel $39 billion faster than a court can review and stop this blatantly unlawful act.”

    Mark Chenoweth, President and General Counsel at NCLA, echoed Li’s concerns, stating unequivocally, “Non-payments are not payments. No amount of nonsense changes the essential fact Congress required debtors to make payments before receiving debt relief.”

    In response to the lawsuit, the Biden administration issued a statement to the Washington Post, characterizing it as “a desperate attempt from right-wing special interests to keep hundreds of thousands of borrowers in debt, even though these borrowers have earned the forgiveness that is promised through income-driven repayment plans.”

    https://headlineusa.com/joe-biden-slapped-w-new-lawsuit-over-student-loan-scheme/

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  18. if this is true, he looks like an idiot trying to copy President Trump. President Trump does NOT need a mini me

    Jenevive
    August 7, 2023 8:17 am

    For someone who bad mouths Trump he certainly seems to be
    copying him..

    Ron in Iowa showed up unexpected at a wedding with Casey (I think it
    was some state rep getting married..) but you know how PTrump
    does it well Ron and Casey did it …

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  21. “North Dakota farmers win victory against land-grabbing climate giant–Republican governor supports private land seizures for carbon project”
    Posted by Yudi Sherman
    August 06, 2023 | 09:25 AM

    ENTIRE ARTICLE @ FrontlineNews: “Farmers in North Dakota Friday won a victory against a climate corporation threatening to seize their lands for a “climate change” project. North Dakota state regulators denied Summit Carbon Solutions a route permit for a $4.5 billion carbon capture pipeline across five Midwestern states. The pipeline’s purpose would be to capture carbon emissions before they enter the atmosphere and store them underground in South Dakota.

    But the company ran into resistance when landowners tried refusing the corporation access to conduct initial surveys. The surveys involve drilling holes into the ground, 3–12 inches in diameter and up to 200 feet deep. These holes can adversely affect crops.

    In response to their refusal, Summit sued over 80 landowners to gain forced access to their properties. The company’s lawyers also threatened the farmers with eminent domain — forced land expropriation — if they would not agree to sell the company easements on their properties. But to invoke eminent domain, Summit needs the route permit it was denied on Friday, though the company says it will reapply.

    “Summit Carbon Solutions respects the decision by the North Dakota Public Service Commission, and we will revisit our proposal and reapply for our permit,” said Summit in a statement following the decision, according to AgWeek. “We’re committed to understanding and incorporating the considerations outlined in the decision. We are confident that our project supports state policies designed to boost key economic sectors: agriculture, ethanol, and energy.”

    But some decision makers are rooting for the company, including North Dakota Governor and Republican presidential candidate Doug Burgum. Last month, Burgum expressed support for the company using eminent domain powers against farmers. “We wouldn’t have an interstate highway system,” said Burgum. “We wouldn’t have the transcontinental railroads. We wouldn’t have just about anything in this country. “It’s very difficult to get 100% of people to agree,” he said. “The important thing is that they have an opportunity in that process to be heard and be fairly compensated.”

    Though it does not yet have a route permit, a judge has ruled that Summit can conduct surveys on lands without the property owners’ consent provided that the company serves 30 days notice, according to The Fence Post. South Dakota landowners are fighting that decision in court, though for some it may be too late.

    Farmer Jared Bossly says that Summit surveyors already conducted a survey on his land without his permission, damaging his corn and soybean crops. If the company is able to use eminent domain powers, its pipeline would cut across his land, removing the windbreaker line of trees protecting his cattle as well as the topsoil that helps crop growth.

    “This is a private company. Have you ever heard of a private company using eminent domain to take property?” Bossly asked. South Dakota State Representative Jon Hansen uploaded photos to social media showing Summit equipment and armed security personnel allegedly on private land without authorization. “This is the current scene on private property in South Dakota: an out-of-state, for-profit corporation with armed patrol intruding on property without the landowner’s consent to lay a carbon sequestration pipeline that the landowner doesn’t want. This is not freedom,” tweeted Hansen.”

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  22. found the address i was looking for, but i think there’s a form you’re supposed to include.

    mot2grls
    August 7, 2023 9:21 am

    Caroline Wren was on the War Room and spoke about the reluctance to donate to President Trump’s Save America campaign through Win Red. She provided an address to send checks to directly:
    Trump Save America JFC, PO Box 13570,
    Arlington, VA, 22219

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    1. I was searching thru the comments at M’s….got up to page 20 before I lost my connection….it’s there somewhere….

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    2. OK, Pat – I found this video – at the 6:45 mark in the video, she starts listing the various donation methods. Besides, WinRed, there are 3 entities to give by check: “The Trump Save America JFC,” which can accept up to $11K/person $23K/couple, no corporate $ allowed: Make check out to: “Trump Save America JFC,” mail to: P.O. Box 13570, Arlington, VA 22219. [NF: this would be my choice if I could afford to donate.]

      There is also the super PAC “MAGA Inc.” unlimited donations, personal or corporate. Trump also just started a new legal defense fund – it will not cover HIS legal bills but the legal bills of all the staff and others TPTB are going after. Called “The Patriot Legal Defense Fund,” it can also take unlimited $$$. No mention of any specific forms being required.

      https://rumble.com/v34riym-caroline-wren-time-to-focus-register-and-turnout-increase-voter-registratio.html

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  23. sync
    August 7, 2023 10:11 am

    Omar the racist

    Congresswoman Ilhan Omar said we should ‘Fear White Men’

    But it’s what she said after that really stood out to me:

    “We should be profiling, monitoring, and creating policies to fight the radicalization of white men.”

    Not all extremists. Only white men. This is our leadership. pic.twitter.com/pL2hbbFOGc

    — TaraBull (@TaraBull808) August 6, 2023

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  25. Fucking Mondays….
    NF: Looks like one of those dastardly Texas stickers!!!


    NF: Holy shit! Think they’ve got enough cables wrapped around that post???? No, don’t ask…I don’t know WHAT they’re doing!!!


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  26. “Given The Current State Of Insanity, This Could Be A True Story… ”

    “The police department in the small hill country town of Kerrville,Texas, reported finding a man’s body last Saturday, early evening, in the Pedernales River near the state highway 87 bridge. The dead man’s name would not be released until his family had been notified.

    The victim apparently drowned due to excessive Bud Light consumption while visiting “someone” in Fredericksburg. When he was found, he was wearing black fishnet stockings, 10 inch spiked heels, a red garter belt, a pink G-string, purple lipstick, dazzle dust on his eyelids, 2 1/2 inch false eyelashes, and a Biden T-shirt. The police removed the Biden T-shirt to spare his family any unnecessary embarrassment.”

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  31. reap what you sow
    tell blacks to murder white farmers and when it happens???

    sync
    August 7, 2023 10:24 am

    Another brutal farm murder in South Africa

    Another brutal farm murder in South Africa

    2 gunmen murdered Duwayne Smith and shot his wife Ingrid while their daughters Jenica (10) and Elisma (8) watched

    The attack occurred on Thursday night at Randridge farm in Randfontein. The killers left without taking anything. pic.twitter.com/2uY3jAocLX

    — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 7, 2023

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      1. Bubby
        August 7, 2023 2:56 pm

        https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/just-judge-aileen-cannon-comes-swinging-delivers-blow/

        FTA “Judge Aileen Cannon in the Southern District for Florida federal court delivered a blow to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s inquisition against President Trump regarding the “classified documents” case. In their process, she also caused the liberals to go into unhinged meltdowns where they demanded her dismissal. Previous reports on her coverage can be found here and here.

        As Politico’s Kyle Cheney reported, Cannon struck down two of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s sealed filings in her ruling today. Cheney said she came out swinging.

        Judge Cannon comes out swinging at special counsel this morning, striking two of prosecutors’ sealed filings and demanding an explanation of “the legal propriety of using an out-of-district grand jury proceeding to continue to investigate” the docs case.

        The liberal media has claimed that Cannon revealed that an “out-of-district grand jury” is investigating the classified documents case. But Kelly notes it was Jack Smith who did this in a motion filed just last week.

        Moronic reporters and legal analysts now spinning that Judge Cannon disclosed DC grand jury still at work in Mar a Lago case when it was Jack Smith who did so in a motion filed last week. https://t.co/1XIc1U5akU

        — Julie Kelly

        Cannon next wrote in her verdict against Smith that “Among other topics as raised in the Motion, the response shall address the legal propriety of using an out-of-district grand jury proceeding to continue to investigate and/or to seek post-indictment hearings on matters pertinent to the instant indicted matter in this district.”…The prosecution has been ordered by Cannon to respond to these and other items by no later than August 22nd. Nauta’s lawyers will need to respond to the motion for the hearing and address the existence of the grand jury by Aug. 17.

        Liberals melted down following her ruling.” 🤣🤣🤣

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  33. We the People 🇺🇲
    @maxjett12
    ·4h

    FLASHBACK: Mitch McConnell Blocked Election Security Bills in 2019 After Receiving Lobbying Cash From Dominion

    Interestingly, these donations occurred throughout March of 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic first reached the United States and mail-in voting became an almost certainty for the 2020 election.

    https://nationalfile.com/dominion-lobbyi…

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  35. “This is the side of planet Earth we aren’t used to seeing… So that’s where they keep New Zealand. I never can find it on a map…”

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  36. With all the rain we’ve had, I really need to mow…nice and cool, albeit muggy at 84, with a slight breeze at least. I can get the front done and maybe even the weed eating. Have a good night!

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  37. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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