On July 13, 2024, Donald Trump, then a former president of the United States and presumptive nominee of the Republican Party in the 2024 presidential election, survived an assassination attempt while speaking at an open-air campaign rally near Butler, Pennsylvania. Trump was shot and wounded in his upper right ear by 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, who fired eight rounds from an AR-15–style rifle from the roof of a nearby building. Crooks also killed one audience member, Corey Comperatore, and critically injured two others. Four seconds after Crooks began firing, Aaron Zaliponi, a member of the Butler County Emergency Service Unit, shot at him and hit his rifle, preventing him from firing more shots. Twelve seconds later, Crooks was shot and killed by the Counter Sniper Team of the United States Secret Service.
Sunday, July 13, 2025
New Report About The Secret Service And Trump Assassination Attempt In Butler
There's a new report from the General Accountability Office that has some troubling information when it comes to the protection that the Secret Service was providing to President Donald Trump before the assassination attempt on him in 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The report, ordered by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, reveals that the Secret Service received classified intelligence regarding a threat to Trump’s life 10 days before the rally, but failed to share the information with other key agencies. It also identified a series of procedural and planning mistakes, including "misallocation of resources, lack of training and pervasive communication failures" that led to the near assassination.
"One year ago, a series of bad decisions and bureaucratic handicaps led to one of the most shocking moments in political history," Grassley said. "The Secret Service’s failure on July 13 was the culmination of years of mismanagement and came after the Biden administration denied requests for enhanced security to protect President Trump. Americans should be grateful that President Trump survived that day and was ultimately reelected to restore common sense to our country.
Even if it were classified, you can still identify what you could from aspects that would be non-classified or at least say there was an active threat. They didn't even tell the local law enforcement teams or Trump's protective team about this threat, which you would think would be basic for preparation in Butler. Basic, assuming you wanted to protect him. Local law enforcement told the GAO that if they had known, they would have provided more forces.
The Secret Service also turned down the campaign's requests for more security. That's crazy if they knew of this threat somewhere in the chain of command.
Another question was that the Secret Service agent who was supposed to be checking for "site vulnerabilities" was new, so this was the first time she was a part of planning such an event.
This was also a stunner - Trump almost didn't have those snipers that took out the assassin, the GAO said:
Secret Service officials denied the Donald Trump Protective Division’s request for enhanced counter Unmanned Aerial Surveillance (cUAS) equipment at the Butler event, as "these resources had already been allocated for the Republican and Democratic National Conventions." Fortunately, senior officials with knowledge of the threat against Trump stepped in to approve counter sniper assets for the rally, a decision which was described as "inconsistent" with agency practices for making resource decisions." Absent this last-minute decision, Trump "would likely not have received the counter sniper assets that ultimately took out [Crooks]," the GAO wrote.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/07/12/new-report-on-trump-assassination-n2191558
Monday, November 18, 2024
BIG BREAKING: Pennsylvania Supreme Court Just Ordered Counties To STOP Counting Illegal Mail-In Ballots
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has just sided with Dave McCormick’s campaign and ordered all counties to stop counting illegal mail-in ballots.
Here’s the news:
The court writes: “The Court hereby ASSUMES its King’s Bench authority over the instant Application, only to DIRECT that all Respondents, including the Boards of Elections in Bucks County, Montgomery County, and Philadelphia County, SHALL COMPLY with the prior rulings of this Court in which we have clarified that mail-in and absentee ballots that fail to comply with the requirements of the Pennsylvania Election Code, SHALL NOT BE COUNTED for purposes of the election held on November 5, 2024.”
Below is a screenshot of the order via the docket:
Friday, November 15, 2024
I'm Gonna Go Ahead And Call The PA Senate Race
Well, yesterday, PA announced that there would be a recount in the Senate race but now I see on Daily Wire Election Hub that they have called the race for McCormick. From what I have heard, if all the remaining votes were for Casey, he still couldn't win so the outcome is another seat for the Republicans. That makes the final balance 53 / 47.
Thursday, November 14, 2024
Pennsylvania Senate Race Triggers Recount
McCormick is projected to win, Casey yet to concede.
Pennsylvania officials announced Wednesday that the tight margin in the Senate race between Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pennsylvania and Republican Sen.-elect Dave McCormick has triggered an automatic recount under Pennsylvania law.
AP called McCormick as the winner on Nov. 7, and McCormick has since attended new-senator orientation in Washington. Despite Casey not conceding, Republicans are projected to have the Senate majority, with 53 seats to Democrats' 47.
With 99% reporting as of Thursday morning, McCormick had 3,383,676 votes, or 48.91%, compared to Casey’s 3,357,191, or 48.52%, a difference of 26,485 votes, or 0.39 percentage points.*
Once counties finish counting their ballots, they must begin the recount no later than Wednesday, Nov. 20, and the recount must be completed by noon on Nov. 26.
* The numbers below are from Daily Wire Election Hub 11.14.24 - 10:46 ET
Monday, November 11, 2024
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
The Cheat Is On In Earnest In Pennsylvania
I just saw a video clip of Lara Trump saying that the GOP Poll Watchers were being prevented from entering the polling locations this morning but they had a quick reaction team there and now the GOP Poll Watchers are in the polling locations. At least this election they are prepared for the inevitable cheating by the Democrat/Socialist/Communist Party.
Lara said their primary area of attention this morning is Pennsylvania.
Monday, October 28, 2024
This Is How Pathetic The Weak-Minded Leftards Are:
PA McDonald’s Forced To Hire Security After Flood Of Threats Following Trump’s Visit.
A Bucks County, Pennsylvania McDonald’s location has been subjected to a flood of violent threats and negative Yelp reviews after former President Donald Trump cooked fries and manned the drive-thru in a wildly popular campaign event last weekend.
Since former President Trump’s visit, the franchise location has been on the receiving end of several violent threats and a number of in-store incidents. According to a report from the New York Post, a group of “unruly guests” caused a disturbance inside the restaurant around 3 p.m. this past Tuesday. As a result, Bucks County police officers could be seen posted up outside the location.
Thankfully the incident was resolved peacefully, though the restaurant has received a number of credible threats over the last week.
According to a report from the Daily Caller, the franchise has now been forced to hire armed security personnel.
Jim Worthington the leader of Pennsylvania’s delegation at the Republican National Convention and one of the key organizers of the former president’s McDonald’s visit, confirmed that the location has received a number of threatening voicemails and social media messages. As a precaution to protect employees, franchise owner Derek Giacomantonio has opted to retain the private security force he hired in the lead-up to the event, the Daily Caller reported.
Thursday, September 12, 2024
This IS NOT AI … This IS NOT edited … this IS NOT video manipulation of any kind.
https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/1833947366027919363
Friday, August 30, 2024
This case has been going on for years. The government overreach in cases concerning natural foods is insane. I think Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would help to destroy tyranny like this.
https://x.com/ShadowofEzra/status/1828483871467274508?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1828483871467274508%7Ctwgr%5E36bc6584740dcd99d5ee22ff8a031bfc888b7da9%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheconservativetreehouse.com%2Fblog%2F2024%2F08%2F29%2Faugust-29th-2024-presidential-politics-resistance-day-1319%2F
Saturday, July 13, 2024
BREAKING: Trump shot at, at PA rally.
Former President Donald Trump had blood on the side of his face Saturday afternoon after shots were fired at him during a political rally in Pennsylvania.
The sound of shots rang out as Trump appeared to grab around his neck area and he quickly dropped to the ground as he was instantly swarmed by Secret Service agents.
(I’ve read that the shooter was killed.)
After he got up, he raised his fist and signaled to the crowd to “fight” as the Secret Service rushed him off stage.
“An incident occurred the evening of July 13 at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania,” U.S. Secret Service said in a statement. “The Secret Service has implemented protective measures and the former President is safe. This is now an active Secret Service investigation and further information will be released when available.”
WATCH: Video at link.
The Trump campaign said in a statement: “President Trump thanks law enforcement and first responders for their quick action during this heinous act.”
“He is fine and is being checked out at a local medical facility,” the statement continued. “More details will follow.”
There was an immediate and almost unanimous show of support for Trump on social media across the political spectrum, including by many Democrats.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-appears-to-be-shot-at-rally?topStoryPosition=1
MORE:
Shooting at Trump rally is being investigated as assassination attempt, AP sources say.
A shooting at Donald Trump‘s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania is being investigated as an attempted assassination of the former president and presumptive Republican nominee, law enforcement officials say.
A shooter is dead and an attendee was killed. Trump’s campaign says he is “fine” after being whisked off the stage and is being checked out at a local medical facility.
Butler County District Attorney Richard Goldinger told CNN that in addition to the spectator who was killed, two other attendees were taken to a local hospital and in serious condition.
The shooter was not an attendee at the rally and was killed by U.S. Secret Service agents, the official said.
“The shooter is dead,” Goldinger said.
He said the shooter was outside the rally grounds, but he didn’t give additional information about where the shooter was.
Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., says he just spoke to his father on the phone and that “he is in great spirits.”
“He will never stop fighting to save America, no matter what the radical left throws at him,” he said of his father in a statement.
Friday, May 3, 2024
This happened Tuesday in Philadelphia. 4 dogs attacked this man and the policeman was right there and he did end up, from what I can tell, killing one of them and wounding one. I would have killed them all. Once a dog attacks a human I will never trust it again.
https://twitter.com/BLACKLOTUSTAC/status/1785741606353567755
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/police-officer-kills-dog-attacking-man-west-philly/3848361/
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
I know this is a long article but this shit is really pissing me off. THERE IS A TRANSWAR AGAINST NORMAL CHILDREN going on in our schools. TRANSVIOLENCE is an existential threat to the safety of your child. If you can homeschool, you need to do it. If you can put your children in a private school, you need to do it.
Boy Bashes In Girl's Head Using a Stanley Thermos, Requiring the Girl to be Hospitalized after Having Her Scalp Sewn Back On; Media Hides The Fact That the Attacker is a Male Transgender Calling Himself "Melanie.” - Pennbrook MIDDLE School - North Wales, PA.
Boys and girls are exactly alike, and if girls don't want to have their brains bashed in at school, they should just take boxing lessons.
You know, classic girls stuff.
"I'm gonna murder you," shouted the trans-identifying student at Pennbrook Middle School as the 13-year-old blindsided a 12-year-old girl last week and bashed her skull repeatedly with a Stanley cup. The victim had to be hospitalized, her scalp stapled back together, and she had to go through a concussion protocol, according to police.
It's about as horrible a middle school assault as can be imagined, not in the least because students and staff alike were well aware of the perpetrator's "hit list."
The Daily Mail reported Monday that another 12-year-old female student -- remaining anonymous because of her age, like the victim and the thug -- made a public statement that "she and two fellow students filled out paperwork explaining what they knew was going to happen if nothing was done and said that she was warned 'watch your back' at lunch."
"You could've stopped it," she said. "It was five hours from when I told you it was going to happen. I don't get how you couldn't have stopped that."
"We had to watch [the victim] taken out with blood dripping down her face and I will never forget that! Laying in bed last night I just kept repeating it in my head."
Reportedly, she was next on the hit list -- the one the school did nothing about except to tell the "trans" kid's potential victims, "Don't worry about it, it's not gonna happen."
It never does happen. Right until it does.
(School Ignored Trans Student's 'Hit List, Leading to a Bloody Beat-Down.
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2024/04/22/trans-student-with-hit-list-sends-student-to-hospital-n4928405)
Parents want to know why the school permitted this vicious transgender lunatic, who announced his intention to attack the girls on his "hit list" in advance, to remain in school to make good on his threats.
This media article dances around the student's identity as a transgender, never using a pronoun but finding other ways to refer to him, like "the seventh-grader" or "the student." They hide the fact that it was another case of Transgender Rage.
NORTH WALES, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- More than 50 people packed a North Penn School District meeting Thursday night to voice concerns about an attack that left a student injured.
The assault happened on Wednesday afternoon around 1:20 p.m. in the cafeteria of the Pennbrook Middle School in North Wales.
According to Upper Gwynedd police, surveillance video shows a 7th grader walking along a lunch table when the accused student runs towards her and begins hitting her in the head with a Stanley cup.
"This was avoidable and the district truly failed to protect the students at Pennbrook," said one parent at the meeting. "What are we supposed to say to our children after this? How do I send him back to school?"
"I just don't know what went wrong. How did it get to this point? I would like answers on that," added another parent.
Emily, a student at the school, witnessed the attack as others were eating lunch.
"I just hear all this screaming and everybody running. All of sudden you just hear these terrible loud bangs of the Stanley bouncing off her head," the student recalled. "We had to sit in there and watch them clean up the blood off those tables and ground, and we had to watch them take her out with blood dripping down her face and I will never forget that."
Upper Gwynedd police describe the incident as an "unprovoked, sudden, violent attack." They say the assailant came from behind and immediately began hitting the student.
"Next thing they heard was a bang," said Chris Pekula whose daughter was only feet away from the victim.
Police say the victim's injuries are so severe she had to get staples in her head and is on concussion protocol.
A security guard jumped on the alleged assailant who held onto the victim for several more seconds. Once the victim was freed, a teacher can be seen on the video shielding her from other students and walking her into a hallway. Other kids in the cafeteria looked stunned as they witnessed it all.
Oh there you go - there's the media lying to you, telling you that "the assailant" is a girl.
It's not. It's a violent, mentally-ill boy who likes beating up on girls.
Parents say the attack could have been prevented if the school had heeded their warnings.
"The students went to the counselor yesterday and said, 'We heard something's gonna happen at lunch today,'" said Stephanie Palovcak of the warning she says other students gave to staff at Pennbrook Middle School Tuesday.
The school's principal, Nick Taylor, sent a letter to parents that says in part: "The safety of our students is of the utmost importance."
No, the safety of your students is of no importance. Only protecting the precious feelings of the violently mentally ill.
The letter went on to say, "I ask that parents speak with their children about the consequences of fighting."
"This isn't a fight. This is an assault," said Palovcak.
Getting smashed in the back of your head with a steel-lined bludgeon is "a fight."
The parents say it all happened after the alleged attacker had been in the school for only three days as a new student. The student's first day was Monday. The incident happened on Wednesday.
"There were multiple parents who reached out about this child making threats," said Palovcak of the worries parents had over the course of two days, including students describing the suspected assailant as having a list of people to beat up.
Stefan Ross says his son went to the student's previous school.
"The person came out from the trees and brandished a knife on my son and his friend," he said of an incident that allegedly happened off school grounds.
(Montgomery County parents outraged after middle school student attacked with Stanley cup.
https://6abc.com/pennbrook-middle-school-fight-student-sent-to-hospital-following-incident-in-montgomery-county-cafeteria/14685285/)
Did he really say "the person" or did he say "he"? I bet he said he, and you are changing the quotation to hide the student's actual sex from readers.
The principle denies The Person had been ejected from his last school due to violence.
We'll see how that claim holds up over time.
He spoke to concerned parents Thursday night saying, "This should not have happened period, as an educator, your superintendent and a father, I'm appalled by what happened. "We are currently pursuing the details leading up to this incident and why it occurred. We are also collaborating with our local law enforcement in their investigation as we work to ensure that something like this can't happen again."
I bet you the solution will be subjecting the normal, non-violent-lunatic students to lectures about how they should respect and love lunatics who threaten to kill them.
Below, a girl classmate describes the violent attack.
https://twitter.com/ImMeme0/status/1781738037010993356?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1781738037010993356%7Ctwgr%5Ed5a29c4788a3fbcdfeb99834b53fd6f7486111be%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F
https://ace.mu.nu/#409343
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Monday, January 29, 2024
Fetterman Has Perfect Response to Anti-Israel Activists Who Show Up at His Home. (This guy is making a great recovery from his stroke … almost seems like as he recovers, he’s been slowly extracting his head from his ass and seeing the light.)
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has made a remarkable recovery from his stroke. Indeed, I'm not sure how it happened, but he seems to have come out of it being right on important issues from the Israel-Hamas War to the border crisis. And he hasn't been afraid to share his opinion, which, in a strange twist, has conservatives liking a lot of what he has been saying and doing.
Fetterman has said the border crisis is killing the American dream and that he doesn't know how anyone could deny it was a crisis. He's decimated the anti-Israel crew with his common sense take on the Israel-Hamas War. He's even called out Harvard for their leftism.
That's earned him a lot of ire from the anti-Israel crew.
On Friday night, they showed up at his house to protest him, waving their Palestinian flags. They can't even leave people alone on a Friday night. They stood outside chanting, "Fetterman, Fetterman, you can't hide, we charge you with genocide," their standard chant. Apparently, to them, everyone is guilty of genocide, except we don't hear them calling out Hamas, the only people who truly want to commit genocide. They want to wipe Israel and its people right off the map.
But Fetterman may just win the award for the greatest troll of all time because his response to them was great. He wasn't "hiding" at all. He went up on his roof, and as they were chanting, he was waving an Israeli flag at them down below. It was marvelous:
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/01/27/watch-fetterman-has-the-best-response-to-anti-israel-activists-who-show-up-at-his-home-n2169282
Monday, January 8, 2024
Government agencies execute raid on Amish farm previously scrutinized by feds, lawyer says seizure is 'patently illegal.’
Multiple government agencies executed a search warrant on an Amish farm in Pennsylvania on Thursday. Government employees are seen on video hauling away several coolers of products from the organic farm. However, the lawyer for the farmer in question argues that the seizure of food was "patently illegal."
Three Pennsylvania State Troopers and seven employees of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture conducted an hours-long search of a farm in Upper Leacock Township. Police are seen on video ordering a reporter from the Lancaster Patriot to exit the building while the search was conducted.
Video of the raid shows government employees seizing multiple coolers from the Lancaster County dairy farm owned by Amos Miller.
The news outlet reported that the search warrant was issued by Magisterial District Judge B. Denise Commins on Wednesday. The search warrant purportedly included an affidavit of probable cause completed by Sheri Morris – acting Bureau director of food safety with the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture said it executed a search warrant as part of an investigation into two food-borne illness cases, according to Lancaster Online.
The potential cases stem from two underage individuals in Michigan and New York suffering illness after consuming raw eggnog and other raw dairy products from the Miller Organic Farm. Health officials in both states noted that the sickened individuals tested positive for Shiga toxin-producing E. coli.
The raid of Miller's farm "sought, among other things, illegal raw milk and raw milk products, including eggnog," the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture said.
The government agency declared, "Miller has never licensed his retail operation."
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) said of the raid on the X social media platform: "Looks like Amos Miller’s farm is being raided. With all of the problems in society today, this is what the government wants to focus on? A man growing food for informed customers, without participating in the industrial meat/milk complex? It’s shameful that it’s come to this."
"Consumers want to know where their food comes from, what it contains, and how it’s processed. Yet, federal inspection requirements make it difficult to purchase food from trusted, local farmers," Massie said. "It is time to open our markets to give producers the freedom to succeed and consumers the freedom to choose."
Miller’s attorney, Robert Barnes, proclaimed that the seizure of food was "patently illegal."
Barnies issued a statement after the search was conducted: Today, the Department of Agriculture of the State of Pennsylvania suddenly came, without notice, raided Amos’ farm, and detained everything Amos had in the farm’s freezer. They did so in a lawless manner, without appropriate authority, in violation of their own rules and regulations, despite never objecting to the prior resolutions reached with the federal government, and despite a complete failure by the state to even reach out to Amos’ known counsel, Robert Barnes. The state’s own rules require advance notice, reasonable time frames for inspections, and a showing of credentials, none of which occurred here. Instead, the state unlawfully obtained a search warrant, based on materially false statements in an affidavit by a high-ranking state official in an agency with a known grievance against independent farmers like Amos, and, after the raid and finding no evidence of wrongdoing, then illegally ordered detained every item of food in one of Amos Miller’s coolers, including buffalo meat not even subject to federal regulation. The detention order is patently illegal under Pennsylvania law. Despite the constant harassment, Amos will continue to do all he legally can to provide the food his members deeply need. Amos thanks you for your continued support at this critical time for food freedom in America.
Miller has been in legal battles with the government for years.
In 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration scrutinized Amos over selling raw milk.
Two individuals suffered from listeriosis – one of whom died. Health officials traced the raw milk back to Miller's Organic Farm.
The USDA came down hard on Miller for slaughtering farm animals without federal inspections of his operation. Miller argued that his farm only sold the meat to those with private club memberships to Miller's Organic Farm, which he believed exempted him to federal regulations.
According to the Foundation for Economic Education, "The story reached a climax in March 2022 when a federal judge ordered Miller to cease and desist all meat sales and authorized armed U.S. Marshals to use 'reasonable force' to gain access to Miller’s farm so a court expert could inspect it."
The expert and the U.S. Marshals took an inventory of all Miller’s meat on the premises.
Federal inspectors continue to investigate Miller's farm every few months. However, Miller has often been in a standoff with the federal government over allowing inspectors on his farm.
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a civil action requiring Miller's farm to comply with federal meat and poultry food safety statutes.
The Amish farmer initially faced fines from the government of $250,000.
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1742955184240619949?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1742955184240619949%7Ctwgr%5Ebf355169d5cbd499d23baf27c70c7e33446dddf7%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theblaze.com%2Fnews%2Famos-miller-farm-government-raid
https://www.theblaze.com/news/amos-miller-farm-government-raid
Saturday, December 16, 2023
John Fetterman Announces He's 'Not a Progressive,' and the Meltdown Is Incredible.
In early December, the Babylon Bee put out one of its better headlines of the year. It targeted Sen. John Fetterman, poking fun at his recent right-ward shift on a variety of issues.
https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1732450996679245908?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1732450996679245908%7Ctwgr%5Eed58e8a4515b853f4c065abd2e2ab5da5a5e2623%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fredstate.com%2Fbonchie%2F2023%2F12%2F15%2Fjohn-fetterman-announces-hes-not-a-progressive-and-the-metldown-is-incredible-n2167583
Apparently, the Bee is going to need to improve its satire because Fetterman is doing his best to make that headline a reality. As RedState reported, he's already taken right-leaning positions on Israel and the bribery scandal engulfing Sen. Bob Menendez. I don't just mean he's put out a statement either. He's repeatedly expressed his viewpoints in a variety of media venues, including going on "The View" and facing the screeching of Sonny Hostin and company.
More recently, though, Fetterman took things a step further by coming out in support of tighter immigration restrictions, criticizing the disastrous situation at the border. And if that wasn't enough to send the far left into fits of rage, he's now proclaiming that he's not a "progressive."
https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1735643718177165633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1735643718177165633%7Ctwgr%5Eed58e8a4515b853f4c065abd2e2ab5da5a5e2623%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fredstate.com%2Fbonchie%2F2023%2F12%2F15%2Fjohn-fetterman-announces-hes-not-a-progressive-and-the-metldown-is-incredible-n2167583
Fetterman goes on to say that he supports a compromise bill that addresses the border crisis in conjunction with foreign aid, which has been the Republican approach to the issue for weeks. I'm not saying the guy isn't still a left-winger, but he's certainly shifted dramatically away from the more insane factions of the Democratic Party. How do I know? Because they are melting down over it.
One of the above posters calls him "Sinema 2.0," as if that's a bad thing. I'll take a Kyrsten Sinema-style Democrat over a regular Democrat any day of the week. Fetterman has his office for the next five years, so any moderation is good news for conservatives.
It may be bad news for Bob Casey, though, the other Democrat senator from Pennsylvania who faces a tough re-election bid in 2024. Fetterman is making Casey look like the weak, pathetic, down-the-line Democrat that he is. Hopefully, Pennsylvanians take note of which one of their senators has the guts to take common sense positions in the face of far-left demands and which one doesn't.
Returning to Fetterman himself, whether he was always like this and we all just missed it, or whether he's just had a change of heart on several issues, it's a welcome development. Let's hope he keeps it up.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/12/15/john-fetterman-announces-hes-not-a-progressive-and-the-metldown-is-incredible-n2167583
Sunday, October 1, 2023
Teton County And Electric Buses: Setting Their Sights.
Jackson, Wyoming. It’s Wyoming’s Austin, except the billionaires have chased out the millionaires long ago. Teton County is a natural wonderland, particularly in the winter, where the well-heeled, and others, can enjoy some of America’s best skiing. As with Austin, Jackson is a haughty blue island in a vast red political sea, and as with Austin, Jackson’s residents are determined to be a shining beacon of wokeness.
From November to March, Jackson, and the surrounding Teton County is a deep freeze, with an average high temperature of 34.6° and an average low of 11.4°. It’s below freezing–much below–most of the time. Keep in mind it’s always windy in Wyoming, so the wind chill is virtually always far below zero. Notice from the chart above the average record low for those months was -40.8, and that’s not adding in the windchill. Jackson is no tropical paradise in October and April either. Keep those climate figures in mind.
Teton County operates a fleet of 31 buses, not only for locals, but largely for shuttling tourists to ski. For years, that fleet provided good service. The buses were reliable, easily repaired and parts were available. But according to Kevin Killough at Cowboy State Daily, the visionaries of Jackson wanted to change all that:
Teton County and the town of Jackson had set its sights on a low-emission transit system for the county.
The Southern Teton Area Rapid Transit (START) system, a joint operation between Jackson and Teton County, bought eight electric buses to complement its fleet of 31.
But none of the electric buses are running, and so the town’s transit system is relying on its diesel fleet.
Considering the blue political island of Jackson, this is unsurprising. It’s unsurprising because d/S/Cs make their own reality and try to force others to live in it, while spending public money on unicorn farts and fairy dust—like electric buses.
‘Moreover, governments’ politically-motivated reliance on electric vehicles like buses has been a disaster. This is a typical ‘green’ fiasco:
‘More than two dozen electric Proterra buses first unveiled by the city of Philadelphia in 2016 are already out of operation, according to a WHYY investigation.
The entire fleet of Proterra buses was removed from the roads by SEPTA, the city’s transit authority, in February 2020 due to both structural and logistical problems—the weight of the powerful battery was cracking the vehicles’ chassis, and the battery life was insufficient for the city’s bus routes.
The city paid $24 million for the 25 new Proterra buses, subsidized in part by a $2.6 million federal grant.’
Philadelphia knew the electric buses couldn’t provide the same service as its ICE buses, so they rigged the conditions:
Philadelphia placed the Proterra buses in areas where it thought they could succeed but quickly learned it was mistaken. Two pilot routes selected in South Philadelphia that were relatively short and flat compared with others in the city were too much for the electric buses.
‘Even those routes needed buses to pull around 100 miles each day, while the Proterras were averaging just 30 to 50 miles per charge,’ WHYY reporter Ryan Briggs wrote.
Proterra claimed its buses had a 329 mile range. Things were no better elsewhere:
Similar problems have been found in other cities that partnered with Proterra. Duluth, Minn., which, like Philadelphia, waited three years for its Proterra buses to be delivered, ultimately pulled its seven buses from service ‘because their braking systems were struggling on Duluth’s hills, and a software problem was causing them to roll back when accelerating uphill from a standstill,’ according to the Duluth Monitor.
Note that these locations all experience winter, though not nearly as cold as Jackson. With this well-known lack of performance background—Proterra’s problems have been widely publicized and well known for years—Jackson bought—you guessed it—eight Proterra buses. Or actually, American taxpayers paid for most of them.
Much, much more on the disaster that is electric buses here:
https://statelymcdanielmanor.wordpress.com/2023/09/29/teton-county-and-electric-buses-setting-their-sights/#more-51147
Friday, September 29, 2023
Senate Forces Fetterman to Wear Big Boy Pants, Passing a Formal Dress Code.
Our seemingly long national nightmare is over: Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) will no longer be able to dress like a homeless crackhead at work.
After Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) made a unilateral decision to relax the unwritten dress code to accommodate Pennsylvania’s most notorious outpatient, his colleagues decided to get it in writing.
CBSNews.com:
“The U.S. Senate has passed a resolution formalizing business attire as the proper dress code for the floor of the chamber by unanimous consent.
This comes after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer chose to stop enforcing the unwritten requirement, and Democratic Sen. John Fetterman’s casual dress became a flashpoint in the Capitol.
The bipartisan bill from Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney requires that members abide by a real dress code – rather than an unwritten custom – when on the Senate floor, that includes a coat, tie, and slacks for men.
“Though we’ve never had an official dress code, the events over the past week have made us all feel as though formalizing one is the right path forward,” Schumer said. “I deeply appreciate Senator Fetterman working with me to come to an agreement that we all find acceptable, and of course I appreciate Sen. Manchin and Sen. Romney’s leadership on this issue.””
Savor the moment, my fellow Americans, this may be the last reach-across-the-aisle, Kumbaya vote we see on either side of Capitol Hill for a while.
Schumer is acting as if he’s happy with how everything went, but this was a pretty swift and stinging rebuke to his solo overreach. A good friend of mine who works in the Senate told me last weekend that, “Everyone hates this.”
The youngest member of the United States Senate Convalescent Home™, Fetterman has been playing the sympathy card in order to have the rules bent for him almost from the moment he was sworn in last January. He’s gotten away with it thus far because the Democrats are so desperate to hang onto their one-vote majority. It’s probably a safe bet that a lot of them were never OK with his antics, and now they’re on record.
John Fetterman is a national embarrassment.
There is no word yet on whether the Senate will designate someone to tie Fetterman’s ties for him.
Friday, June 16, 2023
John Fetterman was asked a question and as expected, it went horribly. [VIDEO] I would ask him questions with all my time just to let the people see what a fruit loop he is.
John Fetterman is still struggling mightily with the aftermath of his stroke, which he and his campaign lied about last year in order to get him elected.
Fetterman was asked today to respond on the fly in a committee hearing to the I-95 collapse in Philadelphia and it didn’t go well at all.
This is really bad. He can’t even form a coherent sentence on the fly. He sounded like a broken record. It was clear that at some point someone was typing something for him to say on his iPad because all of a sudden he sounded more intelligible. And he was reading.
What the hell is he even doing in the Senate? He doesn’t like to dress like a Senator and won’t come onto the floor of the Senate to vote because he might have to wear a suit. And he’s clearly lost the ability to communicate and hasn’t gotten much better since his stroke last year. It’s hard to believe that this is the guy who beat Dr. Oz. As mentally deficit as Fetterman is, how freakin’ retarded are the voters in PA that elected this moron:
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1669778741109850113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1669778741109850113%7Ctwgr%5E80a17433c2c74e25f747b521f8651d2361bc6675%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftherightscoop.com%2Fjohn-fetterman-was-asked-a-question-on-the-fly-and-it-went-horribly-video%2F
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