Michigan State Flower: Apple Blossom

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From FACTS.NET:

Apple Blossoms Symbolize Hope and New Beginnings

The delicate white and pink petals of apple blossoms are often associated with new beginnings, making them a popular symbol for hope and renewal.

Apple Blossoms Are Rich in Symbolism

In various cultures, apple blossoms are linked to love, fertility, and abundance, representing the promise of a fruitful harvest and a prosperous future.

Apple Blossoms Attract Pollinators

The sweet fragrance and nectar of apple blossoms attract bees and other pollinators, playing a vital role in the pollination process and the production of apples.

Apple Blossoms Herald the Arrival of Spring

The sight of apple blossoms in bloom signals the end of winter and the arrival of spring, bringing joy and a sense of rejuvenation to orchards and gardens.

Apple Blossoms Are the Precursor to Apples

After the blossoms fade, they give way to small, green apple fruits, signifying the successful pollination and the beginning of fruit development.

Apple Blossoms Have Five Petals

Each apple blossom typically consists of five delicate petals, creating a visually appealing and symmetrical floral display.

Apple Blossoms Are Part of the Rosaceae Family

Apple blossoms belong to the Rosaceae family, which includes a wide range of flowering plants such as roses, cherries, and strawberries.

Apple Blossoms Are Celebrated in Festivals

In many apple-growing regions, the blooming of apple blossoms is commemorated with festivals and events, showcasing the beauty and significance of these delicate flowers.

Apple Blossoms Are Used in Traditional Medicine

In some cultures, apple blossoms are utilized in herbal remedies for their purported medicinal properties, including soothing teas and tinctures.

Apple Blossoms Have Inspired Art and Literature

The enchanting beauty of apple blossoms has inspired numerous artists, poets, and writers, who have depicted their allure in paintings, poems, and prose.

Apple Blossoms Are Featured in Wedding Ceremonies

Apple blossoms are a popular choice for wedding bouquets and decorations, symbolizing love, purity, and the promise of a fruitful union.

Apple Blossoms Are a Source of Honey

The nectar from apple blossoms is gathered by bees to produce a light and flavorful apple blossom honey, prized for its delicate taste and aromatic notes.

Apple Blossoms Are Vulnerable to Frost

Late spring frosts can pose a threat to apple blossoms, potentially impacting the pollination process and leading to reduced fruit yield.

Apple Blossoms Are Cultivated Worldwide

Apple blossoms are admired globally and are cultivated in various climates, from temperate regions to subtropical areas, reflecting their widespread appeal.

Apple Blossoms Are the Focus of Photography

Photographers often capture the ethereal beauty of apple blossoms, showcasing their delicate petals and the mesmerizing sight of orchards in full bloom.

Apple Blossoms Are an Integral Part of Ecosystems

Beyond their aesthetic value, apple blossoms play a crucial role in supporting diverse ecosystems by providing nectar and pollen for a multitude of insect species.

Apple Blossoms Have Varieties with Different Colors

While white and pink are the most common hues, there are apple blossom varieties that exhibit shades of red, creating a captivating display of floral diversity.

Apple Blossoms Inspire Appreciation for Nature

The enchanting presence of apple blossoms serves as a reminder of the natural world’s beauty, fostering appreciation for the interconnectedness of plants, pollinators, and the environment.

Apple blossoms, with their captivating beauty and rich symbolism, continue to captivate the imagination and inspire a sense of wonder, marking the beginning of the apple tree’s annual cycle and symbolizing the promise of a bountiful harvest.

SOURCE: FACTS.NET

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  1. Good morning, Pat! Still a huge relief not to have to deal with that stupid smart phone! Unfortunately, I’ve lost the furnace repair guy’s direct phone #. I’ve re-entered the numbers I need most frequently since I still have a printed list of most of them, thankfully. No sign of Wheezer yet – his food is waiting. It’s already windy and we’re supposed to get some pretty hefty wind gusts in the 30 MPH range thru the day, then rain again next week. I’m not going to worry too much about getting the truck worked on immediately. It was running much better yesterday. I do want to get it done before the snow flies, tho.

    Just The News: “Democrat Ruben Gallego was declared early Wednesday the winner of Arizona’s U.S. Senate race, defeating Republican Kari Lake and further limiting GOP gains in the chamber.

    The Associated Press and other news organizations declared Gallego the winner a week after the 2024 election ended, meaning the Democrat will be his state’s first Latino U.S. senator even as Donald Trump won the presidential race in his state.

    With the final undecided Senate race settled, Republicans will have a 43–47 majority in the Senate next year  

    “Gracias, Arizona!” Gallego wrote on X after the announcement.” 

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      1. Hmmmm….good question….according to the Senate website, there are 100, with the Republican Party becoming the majority party come January, I guess.

        From their website: Party Division 118th Congress
        • Majority Party: Democrats (47 seats)
        • Minority Party: Republicans (49 seats)
        • Other Parties: Independents (4 seats)

        https://www.senate.gov/senators/

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  2. I hope they keep fighting on this one….

    Just The News: “Democrat Ruben Gallego was declared early Wednesday the winner of Arizona’s U.S. Senate race, defeating Republican Kari Lake and further limiting GOP gains in the chamber.

    The Associated Press and other news organizations declared Gallego the winner a week after the 2024 election ended, meaning the Democrat will be his state’s first Latino U.S. senator even as Donald Trump won the presidential race in his state.

    With the final undecided Senate race settled, Republicans will have a 43–47 majority in the Senate next year  

    “Gracias, Arizona!” Gallego wrote on X after the announcement. “

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  4. the thing i was worried about the most with getting rid of my old flip phone? I had voicemails stored in there –from my sister and brother in law–now both passed away. well the moron at verizon told me he would transfer them to “visual” voicemail–meaning they would be numbered and if i wanted to replay one all i had to do is pick THAT number. well that lasted 6 months…then the service became a SUBSCRIPTION you have to pay for monthly and the asswipe never told me. so now those messages are being held hostage imo.

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  7. https://twitter.com/WallStreetApes/status/1855834317898826216

    @WallStreetApes

    WOAH, This is a man still on the ground in Western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene. He’s talking to victims and they’re having their land purchased out from under them for $2,500 He says it’s definitely a land grab for the lithium and quartz mining “Buying the land wholesale everywhere. Not just Chimney Rock, not just Spruce Pine, not just where the mine is going to be. They’re buying up in Burnsville, they’re buying up in Waynesville, everywhere where somebody lost their entire home, the government is confiscating the land and giving them a $2,500 check.” “It’s a state-wide land grab. And then the news, the local news just reported that Governor Roy, good old Democrat, Governor Roy, decided that they were going to buy up whole communities that were devastated.” This video is full of some of the most insane first hand information I’ve heard about what’s going on in North Carolina. There is so much talked about, if all this is true, it’s the crime of the century

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  8. @JohnBasham

    FACT: EVERY CELEBRITY (Including Oprah) OR LEFT-WING PODCASTER Who Took Money From The @KamalaHarris Campaign AND DID NOT DISCLOSE THEY WERE A PAID POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT, BROKE FEDERAL LAW! Get A Lawyer Now! The Law Applies To Both Parties & A Trump DOJ MUST Investigate.

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  12. Troublemaker10

    November 12, 2024 1:00 am

    George
    @BehizyTweets

    Anthony Constantino, the patriot who put a giant “Vote for Trump” sign on his building in New York, says he’s considering running for Elise Stefanik’s open seat

    He’s a man who employs hundreds of New Yorkers. He would be an excellent congressman.

    Video linked…

    Anthony Constantino, the patriot who put a giant “Vote for Trump” sign on his building in New York, says he’s considering running for Elise Stefanik’s open seat

    He’s a man who employs hundreds of New Yorkers. He would be an excellent congressman.pic.twitter.com/FMiaVxFuoy https://t.co/T1tq8Y3dsO

    — George (@BehizyTweets) November 12, 2024

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  13. I don’t understand how this is legal–they are still dumping ballots in PA

    Ron B

    Ron B

    November 12, 2024 1:41 am

    Election Alert!!!

    Philly is trying to steal it from McCormick. Tonight they dumped 5,912 votes, 5,127 for Casey and 785 for McCormick. That is an 87%-13% spread when Philly thus far is 78.4%-18.8%. So a 40,000 lead is now down to a bit over 35,000. A few more dumps like that and we have trouble. What the hell is going on there?

    We should be given an explanation as to where those votes came from 6 days after the election. No other counties have reported additional votes.

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  14. Troublemaker10

    November 12, 2024 2:29 am

    ” Donald Trump’s ‘Border Czar’ Tom Homan says they are going to use US Special Operations to wipe cartels off the face of the Earth.”…

    NEW: Donald Trump’s ‘Border Czar’ Tom Homan says they are going to use US Special Operations to wipe cartels off the face of the Earth.

    “The illegal animals coming across the border… 31% of women that make their journey get r*ped by criminal cartels.”

    “Children get r*ped.… pic.twitter.com/DshXIkG4ru

    — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 12, 2024

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  15. Uh, no – Trump will NEVER be “…just a blip in the nation’s history.” He is, and always will be, an historic figure whether you like it or not, Rasmussen!

    EXCERPT: “Donald Trump sent an unmistakable message with his first few personnel choices for his second term, dispatching to the halls of power players like Elise Stefanik, Tom Homan, Lee Zeldin and Stephen Miller who take a no-nonsense approach to their jobs and will focus on everyday Americans’ wants and needs rather than those of global elitists and Washington special interests.

    And if the president-elect’s new team can stay focused on making America affordable again by defeating inflation, making the country secure again by fixing the border and rounding up criminals and restoring common sense to public policies from energy to transgenderism, one of the nation’s top pollsters believes he can cement a lofty place in history.

    “Donald Trump now has the opportunity to become the most influential president since Ronald Reagan,” pollster Scott Rasmussen wrote Monday in a private report to clients of his Napolitan Institute.

    “If over the next four years he and the Republican Congress can achieve the three main priorities established by the American people, he will have presided over a fundamental political realignment and paved the way for ongoing GOP success.”

    You can read that memo here. Polling Insights – November 11, 2024.pdf

    Rasmussen cautioned, however, that Trump’s legacy of impact will be determined by how well he can align a Congress that often finds excuses not to act behind executing his agenda.

    “Trump’s lasting influence and the potential realignment are far from assured,” Rasmussen wrote. “They depend entirely upon whether or not the incoming administration can do what voters are hoping for: making the economy work, securing the border, and returning to common sense about gender identity. If they fail, voters will move on, and the Trump era will be just a blip in the nation’s history.”

    The need for a GOP Congress to act in convincing ways in 2025 led one of Trump’s former advisers to urge the president-elect to intervene in Wednesday’s battle for Senate majority leader, which pits establishment Sens. John Thune and John Cornyn against Florida’s Rick Scott, who has increasingly become a MAGA favorite….”

    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/tuetrump-builds-no-nonsense-team-pollster-predicts-he-could-rival

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  16. Hmmmm….I think Secretary of HHS is little bit above his skill level right now but he would make an outstanding Surgeon General! Do well there, then step up to head of HHS.

    EXCERPT: “The 2024 campaign is the first since the end of the COVID-19 emergency. And important figures who turned from mainstream to maverick as a result may play crucial roles in an effort to transform the medical establishment. One key player is Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo, who spoke with me a few weeks before the Nov. 5 election about what he’d like to do in the next Trump administration.

    “I actually would like to be secretary of HHS,” he said. “And the reason I would like to do that is because I’m in it for impact. Like, if I can’t have impact, I’m not in it.”

    Dr. Ladapo’s desire to have impact became clear during the pandemic. When Covid hit, he was a professor of medicine at the University of California, researching heart health. He became one of the mainstream figures to break away and speak out early against what they considered the disastrous shutdowns, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention mandates and government misinformation.

    “The pandemic was really just something remarkable,” he said, “because … somehow you got so many people with good intentions to engage and really enroll in things that are obviously very clearly immoral and badly intended. And so that’s a remarkable thing.”

    Born in Nigeria, Ladapo earned his medical degree and a doctorate in health policy at Harvard University. In September 2021, he was tapped by Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis to be his state’s surgeon general.

    “I felt very clearly that my objective, my role, was to reset the tone,” he said. “And the tone was ‘fear, fear, fear, fear, fear.’ You know, ‘Must do this, must do this, must do this. Everyone get in line, everyone get in line, everyone get in line,’ And I just wanted to rip that all apart and remind people that people and individuals are what matter, and their will matters and their preferences matter and good health matters.”

    That includes, he says, safety of the controversial Covid vaccines…..”

    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/florida-surgeon-general-ladapo

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  17. Just The News: “Republican incumbent Eli Crane will be returning to U.S. Congress to represent Arizona’s second Congressional District after beating out his Democratic opponent Jonathan Nez with 33,173 more votes as of Monday morning. “Voters have spoken and I respect the choice of the voters,” Nez said in a statement.

    Crane has represented Gila County for the past two years and has introduced legislation to benefit the county. As a former Navy SEAL, Crane has targeted a lot of his legislation towards helping veterans. One of these is a bill that would transfer federal land to Gila County for the operation of a veterans center in Young, AZ. Crane also introduced the Veterans 2nd Amendment Restoration Act of 2024 and the Safeguarding Veterans 2nd Amendment Rights Act of 2024 – both of which ensures that veterans are able to maintain their rights of owning a firearm.

    Additionally, Crane has voted against every “continuing resolution, omnibus bill and persistently pressured leadership to slash funding from weaponized programs and agencies,” according to his website. Crane is also a cosponsor of the TRUST in Congress Act which would ban members of Congress from trading socks.

    When it comes to the border, Crane partnered with Democratic California Rep. Lou Correa to introduce the Subterranean Border Defense Act to combat cross-border tunnels used by criminal organizations. This legislation passed out of the House.

    Nez has had experience working in leadership positions with the Navajo Nation, being elected Vice President of the Navajo Nation in 2015. Nez’s priorities were centered around rural Arizona, advocating for ensured voting rights, securing the Southern border, lowering costs for rural Arizonans, addressing the opioid crisis among tribal communities and protecting a woman’s right to abortion.

    Crane’s win secures one more seat in the House for Republicans, getting them closer to the number of seats needed to have a majority.”

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  19. Awwww, too bad, so sad! NOT!!!

    Just The News: “Former Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, a longtime Sunday news show fixture and debate moderator, is out of a job after he disclosed Monday he is leaving CNN after a short three-year tenure. Wallace, 77, made headlines when he left Fox News in 2021 for its rival and a new streaming service that collapsed after just one month of operation.

    He told The Daily Beast on Monday he doesn’t have a job lined up but will look for something in podcasting or streaming television. “This is the first time in 55 years I’ve been between jobs,” he said. “I am actually excited and liberated by that.”

    In a statement to The Hill late Monday, CNN CEO Mark Thompson praised Wallace as “one of the most respected political journalists in the news business with a unique track record across radio, print, broadcast television, cable television and streaming.”

    Wallace is the son of the late and decorate 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace.”

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  21. Just The News: “Following New York GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik’s appointment to be U.N. Ambassador, Republicans have been scrambling to pick a replacement for her as the chair of the House GOP conference. President-elect Donald Trump recently announced that he was appointing Stefanik as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, calling her an “America First fighter.”

    Reps. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., and Kat Cammack, R-Fla., are both running for the position, according to The Hill. Stefanik became the GOP conference chairwoman in 2021 after Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., was ousted from the position.

    Internal leadership elections for the position will take place on Wednesday, according to the outlet. Current House GOP Vice Chair, Blake Moore, R-Utah, is also reportedly interested in the position. 

    Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., has hinted about potentially running for chair on the social media platform, X. Another name in the mix is Florida Rep. Byron Donalds, according to the outlet.

    As of now, the House is expected to keep a slim majority as some races around the U.S. still have not been called.”

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  22. EXCERPT: “President Donald Trump could reshape the military during his next term in the White House with plans to invest in research, higher pay for troops and making sure veterans have access to housing.

    Trump focused his campaign on the economy, high prices and illegal immigration, but he and the Republican Party also have plans to transform the U.S. Department of Defense. That includes ditching “woke” policies.

    “Republicans will ensure our Military is the most modern, lethal and powerful Force in the World,” the GOP wrote in its 2024 platform. “We will invest in cutting-edge research and advanced technologies, including an Iron Dome Missile Defense Shield, support our Troops with higher pay, and get woke Leftwing Democrats fired as soon as possible.”

    Trump vowed on the campaign trail to shift money to housing homeless veterans and end the problem by the end of his term.

    “On Day One, I will sign an Executive Order to cut off Joe Biden’s massive spigot of funding for shelter and transport of illegal aliens and redirect a portion of those savings, a very large portion I might add, to provide shelter and treatment for homeless American Veterans,” Trump said last year in a video message. “I will make it a personal mission to totally eradicate Veterans’ homelessness in America by the end of next term.”

    Trump has started choosing a cabinet and selecting other high-ranking administration officials after his presidential election victory. His military picks could affect the direction of the Pentagon. Peter Feaver, a professor of political science and public policy at Duke University, said Trump’s personnel decisions will shape policy…..”

    https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/trump-eyes-changes-military-he-prepares-next-term

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  23. I do NOT understand this one at all!!! I just can’t see how she would have the experience or qualifications needed for this….? Unless the position is really nothing more than a figurehead…..

    Just The News: “President-elect Donald Trump is expected to nominate South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.

    The department oversees U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Secret Service and the the Federal Emergency Management Agency, according to Fox News.

    Noem has served as governor of the state since 2019.”

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  25. Troublemaker10

    November 12, 2024 7:44 am

    Trump transition figure warns DOJ lawyers: Get on board or get out

    Excerpt:

    “If these career DOJ employees won’t implement President Trump’s program in good faith, they should leave,” Paoletta said. “Those employees who engage in so-called ‘resistance’ against the duly-elected President’s lawful agenda would be subverting American democracy. … [t]hose that take such actions would be subject to disciplinary measures, including termination.”

    Paoletta recited a laundry list of Trump goals, including mass deportations, ending birthright citizenship, issuing pardons and commutations to Jan. 6 defendants, reversing “lawfare and persecution of political opponents,” and “holding accountable those who weaponized their government authority to abuse Americans.”

    https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/11/11/congress/mark-paoletta-justice-department-lawyers-00188772

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  27. This just pisses me off soooooo much!!! About that useless POS Jose Ibarra who murdered Laken Riley—-“Prosecutors are seeking life w/o parole….” BULL SHIT!!!! DEPART HIM BACK TO HIS OWN COUNTRY!!!! Life in prison here would be like a vacation for him compared to Venezuela!!!! I am sick and tired of MY tax dollars being used to keep these sick fucks alive and provided for til the end of their days!!! DEPORT OR DEATH – those should be the options!

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  29. EXCERPTS: “It hasn’t even been a week since Donald Trump won his sweeping re-election victory, and the press, including CNN, and Democrats are already teaming up to accuse him of breaking the law. On Monday, the left-wing network put out a report the president-elect had not yet signed ethics agreements regarding the transition, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) quickly chimed in claiming that illegality was afoot. 

    Warren Tweet: “Donald Trump and his transition team are already breaking the law. I would know because I wrote the law. Incoming presidents are required to prevent conflicts of interest and sign an ethics agreement. This is what illegal corruption looks like.”

    The chances that Warren actually “wrote the law” in question here are about zero. Very few, if any, modern-day senators sit down at their desks and write laws. Instead, they are usually put together by an unholy alliance of staffers and lobbyists. But what’s underneath the hood here? That’s what CNN attempted to get into with its report, which is a preview of the hysteria to come. 

    President-elect Donald Trump has not yet submitted a series of transition agreements with the Biden administration, in part because of concerns over the mandatory ethics pledge vowing to avoid conflicts of interest once sworn in to office, CNN has learned.    

    As president, Trump repeatedly came under fire from ethics groups for potential conflicts of interest relating to his businesses and brands. Both Trump’s and his family’s foreign business ties have also come under intense scrutiny throughout his time in office and on the campaign trail.

    There’s a bit more to this, and it’s not immediately apparent to me that any laws are being broken by not signing these agreements, but it’s that second paragraph I want to stop can comment on. 

    Let me be clear: No one cares. 

    This isn’t 2017 anymore. The days of the press making hay by quoting “ethics groups” crying that Trump’s business enterprise continues to make money are over. Voters went to the polls last Tuesday and handed Democrats a sweeping defeat because they are sick of the nation’s elites obsessing over things that don’t matter while normal people can’t afford groceries. No one cares about “Trump’s and his family’s foreign business ties.” They certainly don’t care about the left making more accusations of criminality after the last two years of lawfare and assassination attempts.  

    Trump and his transition team are already behind in accessing key transition briefings from the Biden administration, as they have failed to sign a pair of agreements to unlock critical information before taking over the federal government in 72 days.    

    The holdup revolves in part around the mandatory agreement over ethics issues.    

    A source familiar with the process acknowledged that details are still being worked out with the Biden administration regarding the ethics agreement, which is required by law under the Presidential Transition Act and which applies to all members of the transition team.

    They are behind in what way exactly? Because CNN says so? Whenever the press posits a premise, one should always take a moment to ask whether it should even be accepted or not. Frankly, I’m not seeing much evidence that these “briefings” from the Biden administration are incredibly important at this moment, especially given Trump is still laying out who will actually head these various agencies. 

    Which brings me to what this is really about. Does anyone really believe that Elizabeth Warren and CNN care about whether Donald Trump’s transition team is currently getting classified briefings a few days after the election? Of course, they don’t. This is about the bureaucratic class being ignored…..”

    https://redstate.com/bonchie/2024/11/11/elizabeth-warren-and-cnn-accuse-trump-of-breaking-the-law-as-second-term-hysteria-begins-n2181852

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  30. EXCERPT: “Melania Trump has opted to skip a traditional tea meeting between incoming and outgoing First Ladies, despite having an invite extended by Joe and Jill Biden.

    The Daily Mail first reported on the snub and CNN has further confirmed through sources that the meeting is unlikely to take place.

    Melania’s husband, President-elect Donald Trump, is set to meet President Biden at the White House on Wednesday. The meeting is meant to symbolize a peaceful transfer of power. While the Presidents meet in the Oval Office, the First Ladies typically meet for tea in the residence.

    But Melania did not host the traditional tea after a contentious 2020 election. And she appears to have no desire to meet Dr. Jill Biden again this go around.

    “Mrs. Trump is not going, and they have not spoken,” a source told the Mail….”

    https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2024/11/11/melania-stiff-arms-jill-biden-will-reportedly-skip-traditional-tea-between-first-ladies-despite-invite-n2181857

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  31. DameScorpio: “I CAN’T wait for the day intelligence, beauty, class and decency returns to White House. Melania is a stark and refreshing change from Jill Biden’s lack of taste and coarseness.”

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  32. EXCERPT: “….Harris needed a few million more handmaids and beta males for victory (or at least a few thousand more in key swing states). One thing that’s certain, at least to the cultists, is that Project 2025 will supplant the Constitution. After Harris (one imagines) finished off a couple of bottles of white wine and went to bed on Wednesday morning, she gave her concession speech in front of a tearful Tim Walz and a bunch of other white chicks, who later shaved their heads to fight Project 2025.  

    Matt Walsh – ever the reasonable, serious soul posted this:  

    Tweet: “Now that the election is over I think we can finally say that yeah actually Project 2025 is the agenda. Lol”

    It didn’t take long for Walsh to get death threats and the obligatory articles lamenting that Matt Walsh has announced what all those (now) bald white chicks knew – Project 2025 will be the law of the land once Adolf Trumper takes control.  

    The Emperor of Trollville was back. Thousands of women had already sacrificed their hair and Walsh had confirmed their worst fears. Project 2025 was going to rise from the ashes. 

    Media hacks took the bait. Walsh said that not only is Project 2025 on his agenda, but he will assume a position in the Trump cabinet: 

    “Rolling Stone says, ‘Republicans Celebrate by Admitting They Can’t Wait for Project 2025.’ Axios has this headline: ‘Trump’s MAGA Allies Gloat Project 2025 Is the Agenda.’ Daily Mail: ‘MAGA Stars Gloat That They Can Finally Admit Project 2025 Is the Agenda As Bannon Names First Targets.’ MSNBC: ‘In the Wake of Trump’s Win, Project 2025 Becomes Newly Relevant.’ Newsweek: ‘MAGA Says Project 2025 Is the Agenda.’ Et cetera, and so forth, you get the idea. 

    …

    “And I know the news media is watching this right now. Feel free to report this news. I’m going to be in Trump’s cabinet. 
     
    “I had been offered the position of Secretary of State, as well as Secretary of Defense, and HHS Secretary, and Secretary of Agriculture, of course, and, of course, the position of Attorney General. Trump said I could have — he called me up and said I could have any of those positions I like. And I said, ‘You know what, sir, I’ll take them all. I want all of them.’ And he agreed because it makes his job a lot easier. Now he doesn’t have — that’s like five jobs off the table because I’ll just do them all.”

    I don’t know how many times leftist media will willingly step on rakes, but it seems that they do enjoy the pain – or at least the attention…..”

    https://redstate.com/jimthompson/2024/11/11/matt-walsh-announces-that-he-will-be-in-the-trump-cabinet-as-project-2025-czar-n2181850

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  33. https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/11/politics/trump-massive-power-disruption-analysis/index.html

    Our Take: The post election shock is wearing off for mainstream political analysts and, for CNN at least, it’s been replaced with pronounced panic and dread. The corporate media spent years terrifying smooth-brained Americans that a return of Trump meant the most miserable form of tyranny. We’ve now reached the point where every Trump headline will be “proof” of their unhinged assertions.

    “…when he moves back into the White House in January, bolstered by a thumping win and a democratic mandate, he will act with maximum force.”

    Don’t tease me, CNN.

    As Abs and I discussed on Sunday’s Culture of Change, President Trump and his administration will need to move fast and break things to make America great again in just four years. They’re focused on all the right things, so I’m cautiously optimistic. Nice to see CNN recognize the mandate, though.

    “He’s showing he plans to rule a GOP monopoly on power…He sees Congress as a rubber stamp rather than a separate, co-equal branch of government.”

    Yeah, that’s the mandate. The overwhelming mandate of the people, who gave President Trump both the Electoral College and the Popular Vote, requires that bureaucratic obstruction be neutralized. The privately-incentivized legislature cannot be allowed to interfere with making America great again.

    “Trump’s unorthodoxy will challenge every governing convention…”

    OMG, do you promise? The best is yet to come, starting now. Trump is triumphantly returning to the swamp with a massive sump pump — the undeniable mandate the majority of voters to put America and Americans first.

    In other words, sit down, commies, or you’ll end up in Guam.” — Ashe in America

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  34. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-taps-former-ice-director-tom-homan-border-czar

    Our Take: As the public square argues about recess appointments and efforts to obstruct 47’s agenda, the President-elect is moving quickly to get his people in place and ready to execute on day one.

    The best thing about this appointment is that Homan reportedly doesn’t require Senate confirmation to get to work.

    From Breitbart:

    “If Homan is working within the White House, he will have some political authority — not legal authority — to push Trump’s Secretary of DHS and its ICE agency to enforce the nation’s popular immigration laws. He would not need confirmation by the Senate.”

    Homan treats congressional democrats with exactly the level of respect they deserve, and he is chomping at the bit to finally secure the border and prosecute child sex trafficking — including, it seems, the demand side.

    “I’m so pissed off, sir, I’ll come back for free.”

    Accelerate. — Ashe in America

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  35. https://apnews.com/article/trump-stephen-miller-policy-immigration-9cc6ad3118779b23bff88022ca5e2260

    Our Take: There’s an interesting bifurcation when it comes to the names Trump is reportedly selecting to fill out his second admin.

    On a Narrative level, you’ve got the biggies like Elon Musk and RFK Jr., whom I see more as occupying lead roles in the paradigm-shifting central narrative than anything else. And that’s no small thing.

    In fact, I’ve long discussed these men as cognitive cyphers to awakening, having adopted a divide and conquer approach to the Mindscape in order to ensnare the American Mind from the other side of the mass psychological battlefield than Trump, all the better to free it.

    But the REAL juice is buried in the supposed ‘lesser’ names being teased …

    Everyone from spook hunter Kash Patel to ‘silent-running’ Stephen Miller, ‘Real Border Czar’ Tom Homan to Green Beret Mike Waltz, and even ‘The Ice Queen,’ and likely Con Inc. destroyer Suzie Wiles.

    These names mean nothing to normies, but they mean a LOT to us. And they mean even more to the Deep State. Panic in DC? — Burning Bright

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  36. Autism Capital 🧩
    @AutismCapital
    🚨TOM HOMAN: “We have a targeting system that works. We’re going to go and get them. I saw numerous Governors from sanctuary states saying they’re going to step in our way. They better get the hell out of our way. We’re going to take the handcuffs off of ICE that the Biden administration put on them and let them do their job. The removal of illegal aliens is down 74% from when President Trump was in office. We’re going to look for them in sanctuary cities. I’ll double the workforce if I have to. Get used to it, we’re coming.

    🚨TOM HOMAN: “We have a targeting system that works. We’re going to go and get them. I saw numerous Governors from sanctuary states saying they’re going to step in our way. They better get the hell out of our way. We’re going to take the handcuffs off of ICE that the Biden… pic.twitter.com/J8TfX5njr2

    — Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) November 12, 2024

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  37. John-Y

    November 12, 2024 8:15 am

    “No Senate Leadership Post for DOJ Lapdogs Thune and Cornyn”

    Not only did both senators refuse to protect their own constituents from DOJ’s abusive J6 prosecution, John Cornyn fully endorsed the investigation and John Thune opposes pardons.

    Senate Republicans are set to hold a secret vote on Wednesday morning to elect the successor of Mitch McConnell, the senator for Kentucky who will step down from his leadership post but unfortunately remain in the Senate…

    Julie Kelly 11-12-24

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  38. “This scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab…

    The interesting part for me was that they were two common viruses (measles and a vesicular stomatitis virus) and she just thought she would give them a go. She basically went “Here cancer, have a dose of this“, and that weakened it enough to shrink it, detach it and allow it to be easily removed surgically.

    Btw, self experimentation is how we got treatment for h pylori. That dude won a Nobel prize…”

    https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03647-0

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  39. Just The News: “Judge Juan Merchan on Tuesday agreed to delay issuing a decision on whether to toss out President-elect Donald Trump’s guilty verdict on state charges of falsifying business records until Nov. 19. 

    This pause in the proceedings to consider what effects Trump’s victory in the presidential election means for the case moving forward was requested by Trump’s legal team, which wants Merchan to dismiss the guilty verdict. 

    Trump was found guilty in May after a six-week trial on 34 counts of falsifying business records during the 2016 presidential election to hide a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels so that she would stay quiet about an alleged sexual encounter. The former president pleaded not guilty to the charges. The chargers were brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg last year. 

    In July, after a landmark Supreme Court ruling outlining presidential immunity, Trump asked Judge Merchan to toss out the guilty verdict. The Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 opinion earlier that month that presidents have presidential immunity for some “official acts,” but not unofficial ones. The high court did not specified what would constitute official versus unofficial acts, leaving Merchan to parse the evidence cited in the case. 

    Trump attorneys Todd Blanche and Emil Bove argued that the hush money trial was “tainted” by evidence that should be protected under presidential immunity. 

    “Because of the implications for the institution of the Presidency, the use of official-acts evidence was a structural error under the federal Constitution that tainted [the District Attorney’s] grand jury proceedings as well as the trial,” the lawyers wrote.

    The lawyers argued specifically that testimony from former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks and former Special Assistant to the President Madeleine Westerhout as well as other testimony about the inner workings of the executive branch should not have been admitted under the high court’s ruling. 

    Merchan was originally set to rule in September, but delayed the decision to “avoid any appearance” that he was attempting to influence the election.”

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  40. just got back from the PO. I got a pink card in my box on Saturday that said i had a package to pick up. most of the amazon stuff has been delivered. PO wasn’t open yesterday so we went today. it was air mattresses I ordered from walmart. i selected the option-SHIP TO STORE since we go there every other week. seems they sent it to my PO box…smh
    we needed one for Mom’s–the mattress on the upstairs bed we sleep on is so lumpy–neither of us gets any sleep there.
    the other is for the futon the kids sleep on while they’re here.
    they had them on sale at the store, but no full size on the shelf in that brand.
    sigh

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  41. NF: IMO, this will be one his hardest tasks – taking down the SES!!!

    “Never Underestimate the Power of Unfinished Business: Take Schedule F, for example”

    Robert W Malone MD, MS, Nov 12, 2024

    “The fathomless bottom of the deep state.“

    excerpt: “The Senior Executive Service (SES) class of federal employees was created under President Carter through the passage of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978. The SES was established to “…ensure that the executive management of the Government of the United States is responsive to the needs, policies, and goals of the Nation and otherwise is of the highest quality.” Another Carter-created component of the State, as is the Department of Education. The SES employees were supposed to ensure top performances in all the various agencies. That was the theory, but the reality is something entirely different, as is so often the case with these initiatives such as the “Department of Homeland Security”.

    Members of the SES serve in the key positions just below the top Presidential appointees. SES employees are the major link between these appointees and the rest of the Federal workforce. They operate and oversee nearly every government activity in approximately 75 Federal agencies. They are referred to as members by the Office of Personnel Management and are considered above “employee” designation. They are members of the SES, and don’t you forget that! Today’s SES runs the country.

    The SES even has its own flag (which has been largely removed from the government webpages since I last wrote about the SES in June of 2022). and their own non-profit agency called the Senior Executive Association (SEA), whose stated goal is to protect the rights of SES members – which lists both lobbying Congress and instituting legal action to protect SES member status. This non-profit acts like a union.

    SES members operate and oversee nearly every government activity in approximately 75 Federal agencies and serve in key positions just below the top Presidential appointees. Thus positioned, the SES bosses enforce political orthodoxy and fidelity to the deep state. They can act in this manner because their employment is virtually guaranteed. An SES employee’s job is so secure that an Agency Head cannot terminate an SES employee unless the Commissioner issues a certificate stating that the termination is in the public interest. Even then, the termination is subject to litigation…..”

    “…..As it turns out, the Justice Department includes those elite, highly paid bosses from the Senior Executive Service. So does the Department of Homeland Security, from which the SES also deploys personnel into the Secret Service. As does just about every agency in the US government. As of 2018, there were almost 8,000 SES employees.

    The other important point about the SES is that the president has no role in choosing them; he can’t re-assign them or fire them. The SES comprises the non-transparent group of managers and elites who run the country from within. They are the employees who quietly block, slow-walk, and defer presidential orders. What President Trump and Kash Patel might call the “deep state.” In effect, our democracy has been turned upside down while being captured by bureaucratic and corporate interests that endorse authoritarian policies – hence, we are now living under a system of “inverted totalitarianism.” The United States has been co-opted into a managed democracy, thanks to Carter and Obama. 

    President Trump was stymied in his efforts to reform the government due to the SES cadre, and then he finally hit upon a solution. That is an executive order known as “Schedule F,” which he signed in October 2020, just prior to leaving office. Biden canceled the Schedule F executive order on the first day of his presidency…..”

    https://www.malone.news/p/never-underestimate-the-power-of

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  44. Perot Conservative6
    November 12, 2024 1:10 pm

    Brilliant idea!

    ThePersistence
    @ScottPresler

    I am asking state legislatures across the United States to immediately begin drafting legislation that would offer automatic voter registration whenever a citizen applies for hunting, fishing, or dairy licenses.

    If they can do it for Driver’s Licenses, then we can do the same.

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  45. ….sigh….well, I’ve finally calmed down after an excruciating 1.5 hours trying to deal with VZW service. I’ve had to give up my old number, tho – now I have to try to memorize another one. At least I did get an additional $10 loyalty discount, considering the almost 10 years I was with them before. And I can send texts and make phone calls….I’m not quite ready to tackle setting up my VM yet…..jeez, what a PITA!!! Apparently, the military veteran discount has NOT been applied as he told me it was….still have to rectify that and a couple of other things but I’m done for now.

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  49. Excellent appointment!!!

    Just The News: “President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he would nominate former GOP Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Israel. 

    “I am pleased to announce that the Highly Respected former Governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee, has been nominated to be The United States Ambassador to Israel,” Trump said in an emailed statement.

    He referred to Huckabee as a great public servant who is loved by the Israeli people. 

    “He loves Israel, and the people of Israel, and likewise, the people of Israel love him. Mike will work tirelessly to bring about Peace in the Middle East!” the email concluded.”

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