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Thursday, February 19, 2026
This was to the millions of American workers watching whom he had to know would feel he was threatening their jobs and livelihoods. On purpose he told them in essence, “As president, I will make sure 20 million illegals will take your jobs.”
There is only one reason he would do this: he was not speaking to Americans but to illegals, to encourage them to vote illegally, to give Dems carte blanche to conduct massive voter fraud.
He’s made a bet – more illegals will get away with voter fraud than American workers will vote against him. I think it’s a bad bet but we’ll know week after next, won’t we?
Yesterday, we read what Victor Davis Hanson hoped for in the debate last night – and he got it big time. The contrast was dramatic – POTUS was calm, polite, self-controlled and presidential. China Joe lied about everything, obsessively, pathologically.
Tenth installment: Chapter Ten of Part I: Envy. Forum comments welcome! I really appreciate them!
ENVIOUS RAGE AS THE PATH TO FASCIST POWER
If there is one thing all those not on the Left politically are seriously sick and tired of, it’s the constant, unending, and ubiquitous anger of those on the Left.
If there is one word that should be banished from news headlines these days, it is outrage. Every day without fail now, you’ll see multiple headlines reporting on some lefty group being in a state of “outrage” over something that offends them.
Particularly funny are has-been Hollywood “celebrities” trying to regain some of their lost fame sounding off with obscenities and schoolyard insults, when their temper-tantrums are of no real concern to normal people.
All this stops being funny when the anger and outrage turns into violence or the threat of it. I’ve never forgotten the first time it happened to me.
Wait until Scranton hears about this.
One of Joe Biden’s ways of contrasting himself with President Trump has been to declare the election a battle of Park Avenue values vs. Scranton, Pa., values.
Now we learn that Biden has secretly been playing footsie with China.
The statement last night (10/21) asserting that the former vice president was a willing and eager participant in a family scheme to make millions of dollars by partnering with a shady Chinese Communist firm is a singular event in a presidential race already overflowing with drama and intrigue.
The dynamite assertion, believable because it aligns with earlier information we know to be true, came in a statement by Tony Bobulinski, who describes himself as a former partner of Hunter Biden, Joe Biden and Joe’s brother Jim in the China scheme. His full statement is below.
The so-called mainstream polls of the swing states show the race narrowing. If the trend continues at the current rate, President Trump could poll even next week—in addition to the “other” polls that show him near there already.
So Trump’s mission at the final debate tonight is to continue to accelerate his momentum, not to take risks to melt down Joe Biden with verbal fireworks.
Here are my respectful suggestions on how he can “seal the deal” with the tens of millions of voters who will be watching the final debate tonight.
How on earth did his party put Basement Biden up as a presidential candidate at this moment in time? He is the exemplar of everything we do not want or need as a leader, let alone as president.
The Dems knew then what we all know now: Joe Biden is neither smart nor wise. He lacks character and is profoundly corrupt. He has never accomplished anything of import in forty-seven years but to enrich himself and his family, nuclear and extended.
The Democrats know well that their candidate is not only flawed but cognitively impaired. At this point they don’t care. They are prepared to drag him across the finish line by any means necessary. And all they’ve got to do so is the manufactured scare story of the pandemic.
Most of the people supporting Trump in this election are confident that he will get more votes than he got in 2016 but are afraid that fraudulent mail-in votes will illegally steal the election -- or that we will have to wait weeks before we know the results because "so many states" are allowing ballots to arrive long after the November 3, 2020 election day.
Based on a study of the voting rules in each state, and the 2016 electoral map, it appears that neither of those things are likely to happen. This is my analysis of why on both counts. I hope it allays your concerns.
That Wray and company have been sitting on this evidence since 2019 is beyond unconscionable.
That they were doing it during an impeachment trial relevant to the details on that laptop’s hard drive borders on the criminal, indeed crossing that border morally, if not legally.
President Trump, whose Middle East plan is winning support from Arab nations, is gaining strong support from Muslim leaders and their followers in the United States who believe that the Democrats haven't delivered on years of promises, according to a new survey of Islamic leaders.
In a shocking turnaround, 61.48% of the 109 Muslim leaders who “represent two million voters” plan to vote for Trump. That is a slight edge over their 2012 vote for Barack Obama.
Those results represent a dramatic flip of the Muslim vote, which for years has sided with the Democrats.
Twitter bias is OK with Twitter:
"Die In A Fire": "Professional, Objective" Twitter Employees' Hatred Of Trump Exposed
Twitter Still Hasn't Unlocked New York Post's Account
Day 8: New York Post Remains Locked Out of Twitter over Biden Bombshells
China has leased the Biden's for big bucks:
In spite of what the 'Crats say, it isn't Russia, Russia, Russia all over again:
Full Story Behind Hunter's Laptop Debunks Latest Russia Conspiracy Theory
There’s lots more!
January 2003. Our campsite at dawn in the center of the Sahara called the Téneré in Niger. We found hand stone axes here 8,000 years old when the Sahara was green. Crossing the world’s greatest desert is a true expedition, one of the most astounding adventures to be had on earth, geographically, culturally, and historically. Unfortunately, it is too dangerous with lawless and ideological banditry today. I can hardly wait to do it once more when it is safe again. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #70 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
Welcome to Transnistria, where Lenin still lives. The strangest country in Europe is a narrow sliver of landlocked land along the east side of the Dnieper River sandwiched between Moldova and Ukraine. When both declared independence as the Soviet Union broke apart in 1991, the people here decided they were still part of the USSR even though it had ceased to exist.
The half-million Transnistrians are still pretending their country is a Soviet Socialist Republic. Lenin statues abound, the hammer & sickle is on their flag, the state media broadcasts stories about “glorious Soviet history.” Meanwhile, Transnistria’s economy is doing well thanks to bountiful Kremlin subsidies and as a haven for the Russian mob. In the capital of Tiraspol I saw Beemers, Bentleys, and even a Corvette Sting Ray cruising the streets. Restaurants and bars are packed. Kids are well-dressed. That’s a gaggle of them you see above happily playing on a Russian tank in a park.
Maybe it’s all kind of a funny game to everyone here. As an American I was welcomed with smiles. You will be too if you visit – it’s a truly unique experience! (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #69 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
Here we are at the real Atlantis in Knossos, Crete. More nonsense has been invented about Plato’s myth of Atlantis – mentioned briefly in his Timaeus and Critias and not by anyone else in antiquity – than any other legend you care to name.
Yet like many myths, it was constructed out of something that really existed. Atlantis is the Minoan Civilization of Crete, Europe’s oldest. By 2,000 BC, the Minoans had created the world’s first peaceful capitalist empire, based not on military might and conquest but on trade, with trade routes across the entire Mediterranean. They became immensely wealthy, building fabulous palaces and villas – but their cities were not fortified. Europe’s original civilization was the most peaceful in European history.
Around 1450 BC, the Minoan island of Santorini 60 miles north of Crete – known to the Greeks as Thera – suffered a colossal volcanic explosion with the resultant mega-tsunami wiping the Minoans out on Crete. It was “The wave that destroyed Atlantis.” Yet you can see for Atlantis for yourself, its excavated villas with fabulous preserved frescoes, and step back into a period of inspiring history. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #68 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
The magnificent Sher-Dor Madrassa, built in the early 1600s, is part of the Registan public square complex of the ancient Silk Road oasis of Samarkand. What’s fascinating is the mosaic depiction of living beings on either side of the arch – a tiger and on its back a rising sun deity with a human face. This is honoring the pre-Islamic history of Samarkand that goes back almost 3,000 years.
It was centuries old when Alexander conquered it in 329 BC. For a thousand years as Central Asia’s great entrepot on the Silk Road between China and the Mediterranean, it was a cosmopolitan center for Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, and Nestorian Christianity. Incorporated into the Islamic world in the 700s, sacked by Genghiz Khan in 1220, rebuilt by the time Marco Polo in 1272 described it as “a large and splendid city,” Tamerlane made it his capital in 1370.
Colonized by Czar Alexander II in the 1860s within the Russian Imperial Empire, and by the Soviets in the 1920s within the Uzbek SSR, Samarkand is flourishing today in independent Uzbekistan. There is so much to learn and contemplate upon when you are here. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #67 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
The Himbas are a tribe of nomadic cattle herders in far northern Namibia. Himba women make a paste of butter fat and red ochre clay called “otjize,” to protect their skin from the burning African sun and braid their hair for beautification.
The Himbas’ exotic practices are not for tourists. This is the way they live as one of Africa’s most genuinely traditional peoples. Living on the move in remote roadless regions, it takes an effort to find them. But when you do, coming with an attitude of respect, you will be welcomed with smiles and hospitality in return. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #66 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
