DIY: Tabletop Christmas Trees

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Admittedly, some people do not like the mess of a real Christmas tree.  I, myself, love the fragrance of a real tree—needles be damned.  But, if you’re one of those people who can’t handle the mess or simply don’t have the room for a real tree, I have found DIY alternatives!

(Most of these seem self-explanatory, but I included the link at the bottom if you need it.)

PASTA NOODLE TREE

PLASTIC SPOON TREE

NORDIC SWEATER TREE

COFFEE FILTER TREE

FLEECE CONE TREE

PUMPKIN SEED TREE

ENJOY!

SOURCE: PRUDENTPENNYPINCHER

(50 DIY mini Christmas Trees)

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  1. Morning All!
    got my cookie dough made and in the fridge so I can roll them out tomorrow and then? my cookies are done!
    about 20* outside currently. we didn’t hear a single shot yesterday so i don’t know if the deer/bear are laying low or the hunters have gone home for now. my bil has not gone home.

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    1. Morning, Pat! 19 here this morning w/bright sunshine but we’re supposed to get some pretty hefty wind today. Lo and behold, Wheezer was waiting. I ran out of tuna but he ate the dry food, then departed. He can manage w/o tuna! These days, I don’t celebrate any holidays any more.

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      1. Morning filly!
        we’re getting the snow you had before. how come you kept the rain, but sent the dang snow on to us? LOL
        heard a gunshot really close to us, so maybe my BIL got a buck. it was almost an hour ago so we’ll see. he has to gut it and drag it out from the woods. then hubby can help load it onto his truck with the tractor, but he can’t go into the woods on that side behind the pond–there is no path and too many fallen trees.

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          1. he does.
            so does my daughter and her family.
            my SIL can kill deer year round if they are damaging his crops and if he does, he donates it to foodbanks.
            the hunters around here eat it too or if they get a buck and a doe, they will donate one to the foodbank.

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            1. That’s great! I really hate trophy hunters – such a waste of life and resources, just for someone’s ego! Disgusting! I rented a basement apartment once to a couple – she was Hispanic, IIRC, and made some really outstanding fajitas with deer meat! Unless it’s cooked in a similar fashion, deer meat just tastes too “wild” for me – too gamey.

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  3. 40_Head
    @TheReal40_Head
    Y’all need to stop talking about Joe Biden’s pardon of his meth head son untill you’ve read Biden’s memo AND educated yourself on what a Presidential pardon can cover AND what it cannot. @Americanlll
    , @IQUQWEQ
    and I did some very deep dives on this topic over the past few years and I spoke with an attorney’s office that deals specifically with federal law, Constitutional law, and Presidential pardons – to get the final word.

    Let me clear a few things up and put some of the rumors/false claims/lies to rest. 1 – Presidential pardons can only cover violations of federal law. They cannot cover violations of any state, county, city or local laws. The President also cannot pardon individuals that violated foreign laws such as an American citizen being indicted by a foreign country.

    2. Pardons can only cover federal crimes that a person has been arrested or indicted for. There is no “general pardon” or “blanket pardon” that covers all crimes a person has ever committed. A person must’ve been charged with a crime to be pardoned from it AND the investigations surrounding it.

    3. Investigations alone do not count as charges so a person cannot be pardoned from investigations, UNLESS that person has already been charged with a crime associated with that investigation. In other words, police cannot continue to look for other ways to charge someone if the president has pardoned them of that crime and all it’s details

    4. There is only one federal crime that the Constitution bars a president from pardoning. A president cannot pardon someone convicted of crimes during an impeachment process and/or conviction by the Senate.

    5. There is no law preventing the President from pardoning someone charged with or convicted of treason.

    THE POTUS IS ALLOWED TO PARDON SOMEONE CHARGED WITH OR CONVICTED OF TREASON.

    Although Alexander Hamilton and James Madison argued to prevent the POTUS from pardoning persons charged with treason by a federal court, it never became part of the law or the Constitution..

    6. The POTUS cannot pardon civil punishments ordered by a federal courrt however they can stop restitution requirements from a criminal court.

    7. When a person is pardoned by the POTUS, their criminal record will still show they were indicted/convicted of a federal crime and then pardoned. The pardoned person must request that a federal court expunge their record in order to have that pardoned crime removed from their criminal record.

    1. A president can pardon a person of one crime and decide not to pardon them of other crimes. A pardon does not suddenly make a person untouchable by law enforcement, they can still be charged with other crimes for other non-related violations they have committed.
    2. The Supreme Court reviews all pardons granted by the president and they have argued in favor of, and sometimes against, the president’s pardons.
    3. There are still some presidential rights to pardon that have never been exercised by a president, including pardoning themself.

    NOW DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHY

    THERE HAS NOT BEEN ANY

    SIGNIFICANT ARRESTS? BIDEN

    WOULD HAVE JUST PARDONED

    THEM!

    IF THE GUILTY PARTIES

    HAVE NOT YET BEEN CHARGED,

    THEN THEY CANNOT BE

    PARDONED YET EITHER!

    You can read more about the history of the presidential pardon, the rules surrounding it, and the limitations too it, here:

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  4. https://twitter.com/drawandstrike/status/1863623479817568405Rosenstein got them ALL to trust him by giving Comey exactly what he was demanding after he was fired by Trump: a Special Counsel to investigate the ‘SpyGate claims’. Which Comey knew all along were hoaxes created by the Clinton campaign and brought to him by her operatives. Trump and Sessions and Mueller helped Rosenstein set the plotters up. That’s why the cover story about Mueller being there to interview for the FBI Director’s job was invented and given to the news media. But Mueller wasn’t there to interview for the vacant FBI Director post. He was there to help Rosenstein set up the RICO conspirators, who’d been actively plotting against Trump while he was a candidate, and continued into treason once he was sworn in as the nation’s 45th President. Once Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Schiff, Warner and the other plotters all trusted Rosenstein, he compiled evidence against them and handed it to a secret Special Counsel using a federal grand jury so secret, it could actually SPY on members of the Gang of Eight without any of them knowing about it. Schiff/Swalwell didn’t find out about they were being spied on until the federal gag order wasn’t renewed for a fourth year, and Apple quickly alerted them that their electronic comms had been targeted by a federal grand jury investigation for 3+years. Schiff, Swalwell & the other 70 or so people in/around the US Congress who have been influence peddling and making under the table $$$ by giving 1. foreign entities 2. news media 3. corporations and defense industry contractors access to classified materials had one hope until Nov. 5: That they could successfully stop Donald Trump from returning to the White House, and appointing an AG and an FBI Director who would have the GUTS to use all that compiled evidence and charge and prosecute them for what they did. They failed to stop him. And now they’re in a panic. Well all of them that were on the Gang of Eight **except for** Devin Nunes. Ain’t life grand?

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    1. WTF? So Rosenstein & Mueller are good guys now? Oh, fuck no – I am not buying that for a minute!!! SMDH – the hoops some of these people try to jump thru is mind-boggling!!!

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      1. right? there are so many theories covering every aspect of things…LOL

        someone wants to be the one who guesses the right one…LOL
        ‘maybe i should go on record that biden and hunter are trump plants to bring it all to the ground…lol

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        1. I guess I should quit hoping but I refuse to give up on my expectations – there are certain lines that simply shouldn’t be/cannot be crossed!

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  15. new proposed bill in TX…universities cannot accept funding from China, Russia, North Korea, or Iran.

    A new measure has been filed in the Texas House that aims to block universities from accepting funding from the Chinese, Russian, North Korean, and Iranian governments.

    State Rep. Giovanni Capriglione (R-Southlake) filed House Bill 173 earlier this month.

    The new legislation lists certain specific countries and entities that higher education institutions in Texas will no longer be permitted to accept gifts and grants from, if it is adopted.

    In addition to China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran, the act mentions that universities cannot solicit grants from governments that have provided “material support” to foreign terrorist organizations.

    “The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board may adopt rules as necessary to implement this section,” the measure reads.

    Texas has continually fought back against foreign influence in the state’s higher education system.

    Gov. Greg Abbott recently directed state entities, including funds controlled by higher education institutions, to block new investments in China and to simultaneously divest from any existing holdings tied to the Chinese Communist Party.

    “As Chinese aggression against the United States and its allies seems likely to continue, the financial risk associated with holding investments in China will also rise,” Abbott wrote in a letter to state agencies last week. “Therefore, all investments of state funds in China must be evaluated and immediately addressed.”

    Abbott also directed public institutions of higher education to take steps to safeguard intellectual property.

    Texas Scorecard has extensively covered the reach of the Chinese Communist Party into Texas’ education system.

    The legislative session begins on January 14.

    https://texasscorecard.com/state/legislation-proposed-to-block-universities-from-accepting-donations-from-china-russia/

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  16. Just The News: “South Korea’s president declared Tuesday that he has put his country into a state of martial law because his government’s top opposition party is sympathizing with North Korea and anti-government activities.

    President Yoon Suk Yeol made the announcement in a late-night TV address, according to CNN. 

    Yoo said he made the declaration in response to a motion by the opposition Democratic Party, which has a majority in parliament, to impeach top prosecutors and reject a government budget proposal, the news outlet also reports.

    Martial law is the temporary replacement of civilian rule by military authority, typically in response to a crisis such as war or natural disaster. However, Yoon did not say what measures he would take. 

    “To safeguard a liberal South Korea from the threats posed by North Korea’s communist forces and to eliminate anti-state elements … I hereby declare emergency martial law,” Yoon said in the national address.” 

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  17. Like I said – I love Paxton!!!

    EXCERPT: “The State of Texas has been a leader in the pushback against environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies, passing some of the first anti-ESG laws in the country. Last week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton moved to protect the coal industry from what Paxton says is an effort on the part of large investment firms to not only shrink coal companies — but also unfairly profit from them. 

    Paxton teamed up with 10 other attorney generals in GOP states to file a lawsuit against BlackRock, State Street Corporation and Vanguard Group, three of the largest investors in the world. The lawsuit alleges that the three asset managers acquired substantial stockholdings in every significant publicly held coal producer in the United States. The defendants shared information, communicated with the management of the coal companies they invested in, and voted with their shares to artificially reduce production and constrain the supply of coal. 

    Smaller coal producers, according to the lawsuit, lacked the capacity and financial resources to raise production and sufficiently meet demand in order to capture a market share. Likewise, banks’ ESG policies made it difficult for these competitors to obtain financing to expand their operations.

    “Defendants are directly restraining competition between the companies whose shares they have acquired, but their war on competition has consequences for the entire industry,” the lawsuit states. 

    File

    Complaint, Doc. 1- States v. BlackRock.pdf

    Nefarious effort

    Vanguard didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment. BlackRock and State Street disputed the attorney generals’ claims….”

    “….Travis Deti, executive director of the Wyoming Mining Association, told Just the News that, while he wasn’t familiar with Paxton’s complaint, he’s pleased that the attorney generals were standing up for the coal industry. Wyoming produces over 40% of the nation’s coal, and the industry is a key part of the state’s economy. The state’s coal producers will likely dip below 200 million tons produced this year, which will be the lowest since 2023, according to Cowboy State Daily. 

    “The whole ESG effort is nefarious, and of course, it’s had its impacts. We applaud the folks bringing the lawsuit, because it’s really counterproductive. It certainly hurts the industry. When we’re talking about energy, we should go to our most affordable and abundant resources to provide for the energy needs of this country. And this kind of ESG meddling doesn’t serve that interest and doesn’t serve the American people,” Deti said…..”

    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/esg-firms-invested-coal-industry-it-sought-reduce-while-reaping-big-profits

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  18. I’m thinking all hat and no cowboy with Thune & Johnson!!

    Just The News: “Incoming Senate Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Monday signaled his support for Congress to continue to investigate the Biden family for possible corruption, despite President Biden a day earlier having granted a sweeping pardon to son Hunter Biden that protects him from criminal charges filed and those that could be filed in the future.

    “President Biden repeatedly lied to the American people,” the South Dakota senator said, according to The Daily Wire. “This pardon, and the repeated lies the president and his administration told about it, will be a shameful bookend to President Biden’s tenure in office, and I would be supportive of Congress continuing to look into allegations of corrupt behavior,” he added.

    Thune said Biden’s “full and unconditional” pardon for his son covers time when he was a private citizen and it “raises further questions about the extent of Hunter Biden’s crimes.”

    The pardon covers crimes Hunter “committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024.”

    House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., wrote on X that Biden “insisted many times he would never pardon his own son for his serious crimes.” 

    He noted that the pardon covers more than a decade of Hunter’s actions.

    “Trust in our justice system has been almost irreparably damaged by the Bidens and their use and abuse of it. Real reform cannot begin soon enough!” Johnson wrote.”

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  19. CYA time, I guess! SMDH – they’re all disgusting!!!

    Just The News: Conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza has issued an apology over surveillance videos used in his documentary film “2,000 Mules” about the 2020 election. D’Souza said some of the video footage that appears in the film, which shows ballot harvesting, is misleading.

    He said all of the images of individuals shown in the videos were blurred and unrecognizable but one of them, Mark Andrews, has “initiated a lawsuit over the use of his blurred image in the film and the book.” 

    D’Souza said he owes Andrews an apology. “I now understand that the surveillance videos used in the film were characterized on the basis of inaccurate information provided to me and my team,” he said in a statement. “If I had known then that the videos were not linked to geolocation data, I would have clarified this and produced and edited the film differently. 

    D’Souza relied on geolocation data from the organization True the Vote for the film. He maintained that the overall premise of the film is accurate despite the footage showing Andrews.

    True the Vote responded to his public apology. “The central premise of ‘2000 Mules’, as identified and validated by True the Vote’s (TTV) research, remains accurate. However, regarding the individual mentioned in Mr. D’Souza’s statement, TTV had no editorial control over the ‘2000 Mules’ movie and no involvement in the books,” the organization said in a statement.

    “We did not select videos or graphics used for dramatic effect. This individual was not part of the geospatial study in which TTV identified 242 unique devices having visited at least 10 ballot drop boxes—a fact that was communicated to Mr. D’Souza’s team. Despite this, D’Souza’s team included a blurred video of this individual in their ‘2000 Mules’ movie and book productions,” the group added.”

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  20. I’m gonna puke! This is the asshole who kicked people off the last flight so he could bring his “souvenirs!!!”

    Just The News: “The Senate on Monday quietly approved the promotion of an Army officer who oversaw the 82nd Airborne Division as it secured an airfield at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport during the withdrawal from Afghanistan.

    Christopher Donahue, who is now a four-star general, was left off a tranche of promotions that the Senate confirmed prior to the Thanksgiving holiday break, which indicated that a senator was blocking the promotion. However, the senator has since dropped the block, sources told the Washington Post.

    Donahue, who was a Lt. General at the time, is considered the last person to leave Afghanistan during the disastrous withdrawal in the summer of 2021. An image of him climbing aboard a cargo plane at the end of the evacuation went viral at the time.

    The promotion confirms Donahue as the head of U.S. Army forces in Europe. 

    The promotion comes as President-elect Donald Trump reportedly weighs legal action against high-ranking U.S. military officers who were involved in the withdrawal, after claiming that no one has been held accountable. An explosion at the airport’s Abbey Gate killed 13 U.S. military personnel.

    Trump’s transition team is reportedly looking at whether the officers can be court-martialed for their involvement and considering creating a commission that would investigate the withdrawal, according to NBC News.”

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    1. awwww the puppy looks sad!

      and yeah you ain’t winning that battle little car. ( no matter the size of the car, it looks little compared to the elephant who’s got a “TRY ME” look on his face…LOL)

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  23. I guess HD hasn’t learned it’s lesson yet!!!

    NF: I despise porn on every level!!! Pure evil, IMO!

    British porn actress Lily Phillips recently began taking applications for the “record breaking event of the year,” which is currently set to take place in January. The current record holder is Lisa Sparks, an adult film star who bedded 919 men in one day at a sex industry event in Poland back in 2004. I can’t even imagine how fuckin’ gross that hasta be – on every level…“

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  24. This debacle reminds me of something that happened to my roommate once. HB and I were living with her and her daughter in their TH in 1993. Mary had bought her daughter a cute bathing suit with cut-outs on the sides so she had tan marks on both sides. One of the neighbors in the court where we lived thought they were bruises and the cops showed up at the front door. Once she showed them the suit and how it lined up with the tan marks, they departed but it was a shitstorm until then! Pure BS!

    EXCERPT: “…..What is a Normal Parent to Do?

    If reading these stories sends a chill down your spine, you might be a parent who encourages prudent and age-appropriate independence in your children. You might not watch your 10-year-old every minute of the day. How do you defend against overly concerned onlookers and unfounded fears of potential kidnapping? (Skenazy notes, “statistically, you would have to keep your child outside, unsupervised, for 750,000 years for them to be likely to be snatched by a stranger.”)

    Recognize you are not alone. Delugas took on her case pro bono through his organization Parents USA, which defends free-range parenting and parental rights. Skenazy, who became known as “world’s worst mom” for letting her nine-year-old son ride the subway to school by himself, founded Let Grow, an advocacy organization aimed at encouraging and defending children’s independence.

    In addition to national organizations like these, there are other families across the country who encourage healthy independence. Many parents share concern over the anxiety epidemic for kids who are tracked by GPS and overly monitored without developmentally necessary independence. A few considerations to help you on the way to raising healthy children:

    1. Get to know your neighbors. There is no substitute for friendly, in-person interaction with the people living around you. Once you have a face and a name, your neighbors are much less likely to be inordinately concerned about a 10-year-old practicing skateboarding in the cul-de-sac. Developing rapport with the people in your and your kids’ day-to-day life reduces the chances of misunderstanding and overly concerned neighbors inserting emergency services that are needed elsewhere.
    2. Remain calm and confident. If someone does call the police for one of your parenting decisions, it’s helpful to remain calm. Let Grow offers a list of tips and considerations for dealing with questions or concerns from strangers or authorities. Parenting is not yet a crime. Sanity and reason are on the side of prudent judgment encouraging children’s independence.
    3. Keep the big picture in mind. Do not succumb to fear. Most likely, your 10-year-old will not get in trouble for going into the grocery store alone for a gallon of milk while you wait in the parking lot. Most likely, you will not face arrest if your 12-year-old bikes down the street to see a friend. They need these activities!

    These were, until now, not considered risky activities. Now, they do carry the risk that an overly concerned person who is not used to seeing a child unaccompanied by an adult at all times will call the police. It’s worth taking that risk. Children will not suddenly become fully functional adults at age 18 or 21. They need progressively more independence and less supervision over the course of their whole childhood in order to arrive at adulthood equipped to meet the ordinary challenges of life.

    Do not give into fear and leave your kids inside playing video games so that no one will bother you. Your children deserve nothing less than a full and active life.”

    https://thefederalist.com/2024/12/03/why-are-cops-still-arresting-parents-who-let-their-kids-roam/

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  25. The Federalist: “President Joe Biden didn’t pardon Hunter because he’s a loving father who thinks his drug addict son was treated unfairly by the Justice Department. He pardoned Hunter to help cover up his own crimes, just as he’ll likely pardon other members of his family before he leaves office in January. He’s trying to protect himself, and this is one of the only ways he has left to do it.

    After all, President Biden is the one at the center of the influence-peddling and bribery schemes that Hunter ran while Biden was vice president. Joe, not Hunter, was the one being bribed. It was his influence, not Hunter’s, that was being purchased by Ukrainian oligarchs and Chinese businessmen, both during and after Biden was vice president. There’s no Biden family business without “the big guy.” Focusing on Hunter’s crimes, and his pardon, is a distraction from the far more serious crimes his father committed.

    Even Hunter’s prosecution wasn’t really about him or his misdeeds. The tax and gun charges were about protecting him from being indicted for more serious charges that would have implicated the president and forced him to answer questions about his involvement in Hunter’s overseas business deals. That’s why Special Counsel David Weiss never indicted the younger Biden for failing to register as a foreign agent, allowing the statute of limitations to expire on that and other serious crimes, and then trying to engineer a sweetheart plea deal that would have granted him blanket immunity — immunity he’s now gotten from his father in the form of a pardon that covers a jaw-dropping eleven years.

    Why did Weiss do this? Because Hunter’s real tax crimes stem from failing to disclose the tens of millions he and his family raked in from the Biden family’s overseas influence-peddling operations in Ukraine and China. Weiss scrupulously avoided any investigation into those business dealings, and the tax fraud that resulted from them, because such an investigation would have obviously implicated President Biden.

    Indeed, Hunter would have escaped any charges at all if the IRS whistleblowers Joseph Ziegler and Gary Shapley hadn’t come forward. Weiss only indicted Hunter after Ziegler and Shapley revealed that federal prosecutors in Washington and California had refused to bring charges despite ample evidence of crimes. So far from Biden’s claim that his son was “selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted,” Hunter received special treatment from Biden’s DOJ.

    As Margot Cleveland noted in these pages on Monday, “the whistleblowers’ testimony established that Hunter Biden wasn’t unjustly targeted, but instead received unfair preferential treatment: The DOJ refused to authorize a search at his father’s house because of ‘appearances,’ witnesses were tipped to the FBI’s impending questioning of them, federal prosecutors allowed the statute of limitations to expire on the most serious criminal charges, and the DOJ entered into a sweetheart plea agreement calling for no felony charges pursuant to a deferral agreement that was so unusual, the federal judge asked for briefing on the propriety of the deal.” 

    Hunter’s guilty plea on felony tax charges suggests that a presidential pardon from his father was part of the plan once Weiss’s hand was forced by the whistleblowers, both of whom have said it was clear that Joe Biden was implicated in Hunter’s overseas business dealings, that he was “the big guy” mentioned in Hunter’s emails. The pardon, which extends back to January 2014 — far outside the purview of the straightforward tax and gun cases brought against Hunter — serves not just to keep Hunter out of prison but also to end the possibility that his influence-peddling scheme in Ukraine and elsewhere will ever be properly investigated.

    Keep in mind, too, that getting to the bottom of the Biden family business in Ukraine was what then-President Trump was trying to do in 2019 when he asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to look into Hunter’s business arrangement with Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company that was paying him an $83,000 monthly salary (despite his lack of experience in the energy sector). Trump understandably wanted to know more about then-Vice President Joe Biden’s role in the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating Burisma, which Biden himself bragged about after threatening to withhold aid to Ukraine unless the prosecutor was fired.

    For that, Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats impeached Trump. Put another way, the Democrats impeached Trump for wanting to investigate the alleged crimes for which Biden just pardoned Hunter. 

    Pelosi would probably not have gone to such lengths simply to protect Hunter. No, the real subject at the heart of all this—the impeachment, the slow-walked investigation of Hunter, the lesser criminal charges brought against him, the thwarted plea deal, and finally the pardon—was Joe Biden. All of this has been to protect him. His son has just been collateral damage in that effort.

    In the end, the president might keep his son and other family members out of jail with last-minute pardons, but once the truth comes out, as it inevitably will, Biden will likely go down in history as one of the most corrupt presidents in American history.” 

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  26. Grrrrrr….the hubris of these fucking people! Dr. Marc Siegel who appears on Fox is such a fucking hypocrite!!! I remember him stressing the rule to stay 6 feet apart during COVID and now he’s saying he knew all the time that it came from the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic but “…the flu is a different virus and they should have known from the beginning.” YOU didn’t say that at the beginning!

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  27. “A Pardon for Hunter, Prison for Navarro, Injustice for All — Salt Thrown into a Gaping Wound in the American Soul”

    Peter Navarro, Dec 03, 2024

    Team,

    The Hunter pardon struck a nerve. Read this one and weep for our Republic. Please be sure to share it with a friend! — Pete

    A Pardon for Hunter, Prison for Navarro, Injustice for All

    No one in America has the right to be more disgusted about President Joe Biden’s sweeping pardon of his son Hunter Biden than I. While Hunter will never see a day of prison for all manner of heinous and treasonous crimes, I spent four months in a Miami gulag for simply defending the constitutional separation of powers against a partisan attack aimed squarely at interfering with the 2024 presidential election.

    Here, the contrast is indeed striking – are you Biden apologists at the New York Times and Washington Post and CNN and MSNBC paying attention? Hunter was found guilty on three firearm felony counts and pled guilty to nine tax evasion charges. That’s up to 42 years in prison alone and up to $1.4 million in fines.

    Yet, these crimes are mere child’s play compared to the heinous and treasonous acts Hunter might well have been further prosecuted for, starting with his alleged human trafficking and prostitution sins. There’s also Exhibit A in Hunter’s own laptop – which the FBI finally admitted was genuine.

    Miranda Devine’s well-documented Laptop From Hell shows a coked out Hunter breaking all manner of drug laws – along with a Ukraine/Burisma influence-peddling shakedown and treasonous schemes with Chinese Communist Party officials undermining US economic and national security.

    Memo to Brian Kilmeade at Fox and Friends and the inimitable Judge Jeanine on The Five:

    The 200 felons I broke bread with during my four months in a Miami prison look like Boy Scouts compared to Hunter Biden. Yet, collectively, these convicted criminals will spend over 500 years in prison while Hunter eats steak and bonbons and cleans his cracked out false teeth with gold toothpicks.

    Now contrast this situation with my own – are you listening Morning Joe and Mika, Jake Tapper, Greg Gutfeld, Margaret Brennan, and Chris Cuomo?

    As a top advisor to President Donald Trump, I was issued an unlawful subpoena to testify before a J6 Witch Hunt Committee investigating Donald Trump for the sole purpose of interfering in the 2024 election. I refused to testify not just because the subpoena was from an unduly authorized and illegally constituted partisan committee.

    I refused because President Trump had invoked George Washington’s doctrine of executive privilege. Accordingly, it was my duty to this country and the Constitution as well as my oath of office to refuse to appear. Full stop.

    Over the course of my trial proceedings, the Department of Justice itself had to admit that, according to more than 50 years of DOJ policy, senior aides such as myself have absolute testimonial immunity. The DOJ prosecutors further acknowledged that this policy exists to preserve the constitutional separation of powers between the White House and Congress and thereby promote effective presidential decision-making as the Supreme Court has repeatedly opined.

    Nonetheless, Biden’s DOJ justified my prosecution in large part because Joe Biden himself issued an illegal letter stripping Donald Trump of executive privilege and, by implication, me. As Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh opined on the illegality of Biden’s act in Trump v. Thompson (2022):

    “A former President must be able to successfully invoke the Presidential communications privilege for communications that occurred during his Presidency, even if the current President does not support the privilege claim. Concluding otherwise would eviscerate the executive privilege for Presidential communications.”

    But of course I was found guilty anyway by an all-Democrat DC jury and sent off to prison by an all Democrat DC Appeals Court before I could even have my appeal heard. Yes, the only working railroad in America is the DC Circuit Court.

    Now, Hunter Biden gets the most sweeping pardon of anyone in U.S. history this side of Richard Nixon after his Daddy promised America repeatedly he would not do it.

    I myself do not want any such pardon and will refuse any that might be offered. All I want now not for myself but for my country is for the Supreme Court to hear U.S. v. Peter Navarro on appeal and overturn my conviction, as more than 200 years of constitutional law surely says it must.

    If SCOTUS does that, our nation’s highest court will settle very good law on two of very key constitutional issues:

    First, can Congress subpoena the president or a senior White House advisor without violating the constitutional separation of powers? The answer must surely be NO as anything less would destroy executive privilege and the candor and confidentiality of presidential communications it protects.

    Second, what constitutes a proper invocation of the privilege? Here, the court must reaffirm as noted in the Nixon era that the privilege itself is presumptive. Anything less would throw future White House aides to the partisan wolves and discourage the kind of effective presidential decision-making that executive privilege provides for.

    Memo to the American media: Joe Biden and a whole gaggle of Democrat lawfare jackals with names like Pelosi, Thompson, Schiff, Raskin, Garland, Bragg, Willis, Graves, Aloi, Crabbe, Mehta, Marchan, Pillard, and Millett have done enormous damage to our Republic by weaponizing our justice system. The unconscionable pardon of Hunter Biden just throws salt into a gaping wound in the American citizenry.

    If U.S. v. Peter Navarro winds up settling good law that forever preserves George Washington’s doctrine of executive privilege and the constitutional separation of powers from the mischief of the legislative branch, my prison sojourn will have been (mostly) worth it, and I’ll be a happy man.

    Yet even with that, there will always be a bitter test in my mouth – and the mouths of the American people – from the blanket pardon of Hunter Biden by the worst president in American history.”

    Share: https://peternavarro.substack.com/p/a-pardon-for-hunter-prison-for-navarro

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  28. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/12/02/adam-schiff-demands-senate-reject-kash-patel-long-time-nemesis-as-fbi-director/

    Our Take: Adam Schiff has been quiet for most of the Biden administration, after being one of Trump’s biggest critics during 45’s term. When Trump returns as 47, Schiff will return to Washington as a freshman Senator, having “won” Diane Feinstein’s California Senate seat in November.

    He was lying low, ostensibly hoping people would forget his sinister and subversive shenanigans. But the Presidential election didn’t go the way he wanted, so now he’s trying to revive his former persona as a super serious public servant.

    Spoiler, Schiff: Sorry, but no one has forgotten. Schiff’s reaction to Kash Patel reeks of panic. Patel was one of Schiff’s primary targets during his years-long efforts to subvert Trump’s first term. Now the tables have turned, and Patel has repeatedly promised extreme declas were he selected to head the FBI.

    Schiff most definitely has skeletons in DC and California closets and, knowing the IC/FBI track record of handling-via-blackmail, the Schiff declas potential is clearly terrifying to ol’ pencil neck.

    As for the threats to not confirm Patel, I’m not worried. Mike Davis, former Chief Counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee, has damn near guaranteed it:

    For certain, I don’t fancy the idea of listening to Schiff drone on about “threats to democracy” for the next four years, so I hope Patel drops the Schiff files early upon assuming office. Bonus points for trolling him with one or many unnamable whistleblowers. — Ashe in America

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  29. Huh – this is interesting – I was not aware of all the involvement of US companies & agencies in Romania….

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/romanian-officials-want-redo-claim-russian-election-interference-after-right-wing

    Our Take: In the latest installment of fake elections, the Romanian establishment is crying “Russian Interference!” after the ruling party lost in the first round and did not advance to the run off.

    A little known detail about Romania is that the country is a key US offshoring location, a destination for transferring US back office jobs — think finance, human resource, document management, and other essential but non-revenue generating processes — as their moderate to high skill levels and low rates per hour deliver significant cost savings to US businesses.

    In other words, Romania has been a globalist chess piece for a while, but the people have rejected the status quo according to their recent election results. That’s encouraging, and foots with election results globally during 2024, which I recapped in this Brief prior to the November 5 election.

    MAGA is a global movement, and the people are rising to the moment to defeat the entrenched globalist power in their nations. Accelerate to Warp Speed. IYKYK. — Ashe in America

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  33. We need to see vindication of a bunch of people – Rudy, Sidney Powell, General Flynn, as well as Navarro – there are a BUNCH of them!!!

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  34. zephyrbreeze
    zephyrbreeze
    December 3, 2024 1:20 pm

    🚨#BREAKING: Joe Biden announces over $1 Billion for African’s “displaced from their homes…”

    Meanwhile we are literally delivering an RV to a mom and 2 year old in #WNC who were LIVING IN THEIR GARAGE because of Helene.

    This is insanity.

    pic.twitter.com/kQ1110tkSY

    — Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) December 3, 2024

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  39. Yeah! Temp is up to 39, sun still shining w/clear skies, and some real melting is goin’ on!!! Thankfully, it wasn’t enough snow for my road to get really muddy.

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  41. “WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Must Resign. Now.

    US House COVID committee determined that the WHO acted on behalf of the Chinese CCP during the COVIDcrisis”

    Robert W Malone MD, MS, Dec 03, 2024

    EXCERPT: “On December 02, 2024, The US House of Representatives “Select Committee on the Coronavirus Pandemic” released a 500+ page report covering their findings from two years of investigations, which will be read into the congressional record 04 Dec 2024. Malone.News has previously covered and published the corresponding press release.

    With this essay, we now turn to an underreported aspect of this report; collusion between the World Health Organization (under the direction of Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus) and the Central Communist Party of China (CCP) to advance the interests of the Chinese CCP at the expense of other WHO member states and global health.

    Based on these official US Congressional Select Committee findings, WHO Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus must now resign as he has failed to fulfill and comply with both the scope and intent of the UN/WHO charter and also failed to comply with the version of the International Health Regulations guiding the activities of himself and the WHO in the context of the greatest infectious disease public health crisis ever encountered since the formation of the WHO. As the committee clearly documents, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’ and WHO’s corrupt and biased malfeasance and mismanagement directly contributed to exacerbating the severity of the initial phase of the Coronavirus Pandemic.

    On the basis of this report, Malone.News calls upon President Elect of the United States Donald Trump to condemn the WHO and Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus for their corrupt and biased pro-CCP actions during the Coronavirus Pandemic. We specifically recommend:

    • the immediate resignation of WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,
    • to prioritize initiating the process of defunding and terminating US relations with the World Health Organization as soon as possible after assuming the office of POTUS,
    • to withdraw from negotiations relating to the WHO “Pandemic Treaty,” and to
    • to clearly and unambiguously indicate that the amendments to the International Health Regulations recently illegally approved under direction of WHO Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus be declared non-binding, null and void due to a failure of Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to comply with WHO/UN policies and procedures for amending the International Health Regulations.

    On 23 May 2017, The World Health Assembly elected Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of Ethiopia as the new Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), during the Assembly’s 70th session. He began a five-year term on 1 July 2017 and succeed Margaret Chan in the role. The WHO has a long, rich, and well-known history of corruption…..”

    https://www.malone.news/p/who-director-general-tedros-adhanom

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  42. George
    @BehizyTweets
    BREAKING: A judge in Georgia just ordered Fani Willis to release all communications she had with Jack Smith and the January 6th Committee to plot the RICO case against President Trump.

    The court also declared that she violated Georgia’s Open Records Law.

    “The Court also hereby ORDERS Defendant to conduct a diligent search of her records for responsive materials within five business days of the entry of this Order. Within that same fiveday period, Defendant is ORDERED to provide Plaintiff with copies of all responsive records that are not legally exempted or excepted from disclosure.”

    Big shoutout to @JudicialWatch
    and the GREAT @TomFitton
    for another slamdunk victory. This could bring major legal troubles for Fani if, indeed, she coordinated with the federal government to go after President Trump.

    I have to say, the courts just haven’t been kind to Fani. She loses every time she opens her mouth to argue a case. She probably regrets going after Trump and just wishes she was on a cruise or cabin massaging Nathan Wade’s bald head.

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  45. “A public elementary school will begin offering a religious release program for students sponsored by the Satanic Temple, reportedly in response to a Christian program already established in the school system.

    Hellion Academy of Independent Learning (HAIL) begins this month at Edgewood Elementary School in Marysville, according to a Facebook post from the Satanic Temple. Students can attend the program once a month during school hours but off the school campus…What the hell!”

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    2. the minute they allowed witchcraft or devil worship whatever on an equal footing with real religions, this was bound to happen.
      at some point i expect someone to demand the flying spaghetti monster become a recognized religion.

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  49. sync

    sync

    December 3, 2024 4:27 pm

    Huge….and just in time

    The federal government has the authority to deport foreign nationals in the U.S. illegally over the objection of local authorities, a panel of three judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled.

    The 29-page ruling was written by Judge Daniel Bress, with judges Michael Hawkins and Richard Clinton concurring.
    At issue is an April 2019 executive order issued by King County Executive Dow Constantine, which directed county officials to prohibit fixed base operators on a county airfield near Seattle from servicing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement charter flights used to deport illegal foreign nationals.

    https://gazette.com/news/wex/ninth-circuit-rules-in-favor-of-federal-deportation/article_6a737796-6b8c-5077-b98b-c4bdc9e42db5.html

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