Short Hits for a Mid Week

• Rob Reiner has spent his entire life proving that Archie Bunker was right.
• There’s a lot of things that you can fake, but a work ethic isn’t one of them.
• Elon Musk says Most reasonable people, because they are reasonable, cannot believe that the goal of the far left is to end America. He’s correct of course, but what they fail to calculate with is the lack of reasonableness among the far left.
• Is there anything that works harder than the buttons on Leticia James’ pant suits?
• Genuine charity comes from the heart of the individual and not from the coercive apparatus of the IRS.
• All socialism is the same. Which is precisely why the Democrats these days are using so much of the Nazi playbook to achieve their political goals.

in my feed this morning, news that Family Dollar and Dollar Tree are both closing nearly 1,000 stores each, owing to among other things, a “surprise” fourth quarter loss. Makes one mindful of the party that apparently invented the word “unexpectedly.”

Tyson’s chicken closed 8 plants in 2023, located in Van Buren, Arkansas; Glen Allen, Virginia; North Little Rock, Arkansas; Corydon, Indiana; Dexter, Missouri; and Noel, Missouri, and two more. This morning comes news that they are also closing the Perry, Iowa plant costing yet another 1,200 jobs. And of course raising the cost of chicken.

Walmart is closing 23 stores in 8 states (all blue).
Target is closing 9 stores in 4 states (all blue).
Walgreens is closing 900 stores (mostly blue)
Bed bath and beyond is closing its remaining 360 stores.
Lowes has closed 50 stores.
Macy’s is closing 150 stores (mainly blue)
Starbucks has closed 61 stores (mainly blue)
Home Depot is closing 15 stores
Dollar Tree is closing 1,000 stores
Foot Locker is closing 400 stores
Gap is closing 350 stores
Party City is closing 24 stores (mainly blue)
Big Lots is closing stores in Cali and Colorado

Burger King is closing 400 stores
Best Buy is closing 20 stores
Boston Market is closing 27 stores
Kmart only has 2 stores left
Sears closed all but 22 stores
Regal Cinemas has closed 429 movie theaters
Kroger grocery chain has closed 413 stores
US Bank is closing 23 branches
Wells Fargo is closing over 60 branches
Capital One is closing 50 branches
Bank of America is closing 20 branches

BUT… everything is fine and the economy is “booming”.

Right, Democrats?

I suppose this is a measurement of the deterioration of Canadian society over time.

When my wife and I were first married, we honeymooned in Niagara falls and then in Toronto. We had actually been in Toronto several times before we got married, and I will more than grant I was a bit over the moon being newlywed, but those days we spent in Toronto we’re particularly memorable.

We stayed at a boutique hotel within shooting distance of the CN Tower, we visited a donut shop around the corner from the place where the coffee was just absolutely fabulous the donuts weren’t bad either. Even at 3:00 a.m., there were no safety problems to speak of. We went strolling and shopping and sightseeing whatever we felt like it.

Come ahead 10 years by which time we had two boys who we had decided to bring to the Toronto zoo which personally I hadn’t seen in years.

We went to the zoo had a good time and while we were out we decided that we were going to show the kids where we had stayed on our honeymoon. Bad move.

The hotel was now a chain hotel and was certainly looking worse for the wear. The donut shop had obviously had a fire and was closed, broken windows and all. But the first indication that there was something amiss was coming out of the Bloor Street subway station, and tripping over a half a dozen kids in sleeping bags on the sidewalk.

I remarked to my wife at the time, “well I guess you can’t go back home anymore”.

We went home feeling a bit disappointed. We haven’t been back since.

I’ve been watching prime Ministers questions in the House of Commons and one of the subjects that’s come up there lately is the number of cars that are being stolen because just as down here in America certain elements of Canadian government have decided to not prosecute crime.

This morning comes a story that the Toronto police are recommending that you let thieves steal your car.



At the moment I consider it a 50/50 proposition as to whether or not there will be a change of government as a result of this deterioration. If there’s anything remarkable about this, it’s that our own deterioration down here in the states is so very similar.

That similarity I believe to be a warning, that there are external forces at work here.

• The key to everyone being prosperous is not the redistribution of wealth. It’s the creation of it.
• George Floyd killed himself.
• On this day in history Karl Marx gave humanity his greatest gift. He died.
• Amazing that so many people fighting for $15 an hour wages are encouraged by importing large numbers of aliens who will do the work for $4 an hour.
• Recent CNN polling shows that Donald Trump has enough electoral college votes to win the presidency, fairly easily. Trouble is, CNN was counting citizens. A look at our Southern border reveals the Democrat answer to that problem.

The Establishment GOP has once again been handed its backside. Thing is, this was so predictable. It’s to the point where the desperation on the part of the establishment GOP to keep the party from actually being conservative is blatantly obvious even to died in the wool Democrats. I mentioned last week that the only place that Nikki Haley was posting winning numbers in the primary was in Washington DC, and that should tell you everything you need to know about her candidacy and who was backing it.

The message has been sent to the establishment several times now, most loudly in the nomination and election of Donald Trump both in the past tense and in the future. This should be the death note for the establishment GOP and the beginning of an actual conservative party.

We are decidedly not going to solve our problems with half measures, folks.

We have to make every effort to stop the Democrats from vote fraud. My friends that is where the concentration of our effort needs to be going forward

That point alone should have been enough to shut down the blatantly partisan attempt to keep Trump off the ballot, exposing just how partisan the Democrats have become lately.

It goes directly to my long-standing point that the Democrats understand very clearly that when Trump runs, he wins. They know they’re going to lose and their desperation is clearly showing here.

The fact that even leftists like Kagan voted with the majority shows you just how politically motivated the Democrats are

• Consider the idea that if you’re a conservative your opinions are monitored more closely than our Southern border.
• There is another word for unions and it’s probably more accurate: extortionists.
• So they’ve taken away my plastic straws which were wrapped in paper and forced me to use paper straws that were wrapped in plastic. Why are they wrapped in plastic? So they won’t draw moisture. You can’t make this stuff up

• Phone records don’t lie, but they easily prove that Fanni Willis does.
• Having just been there yesterday, it’s amazing how bad things are in New York City.
• If Donald Trump is guilty of a crime, why is it that the New York governor was telling everybody just a few days ago who was doing exactly the same thing that developers have always done, that they weren’t targets, just Trump? Go ahead, tell me about how New York’s actions against Trump are not motivated by politics, and politics alone.
• Aaron Bushnell is the latest example of how the gene pool cleanses itself.
• If genitals don’t define gender, how does removing them affirm it?
• I’m sure you all remember Obama back when he was a candidate mouthing the nonsense that we were all going to be underwater in 10 years. Yet the moment he gets out of the White House, he buys a multi-million dollar mansion on the shoreline at Martha’s vineyard. Make sense to you?

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