April 26, 2024
Quick Hits 2: Tokyo Drift
Video here. Biden's chief of strategy tried to gently encourage Karine Jean-Pierre to leave the job she is so horribly incompetent at, but she was too fucking stupid to take the hint.
Biden forgot the date of January 6th, even though he says it every third sentence.
President Joe Biden suffered yet another gaffe Thursday as he mixed up the date of the Jan. 6 riots during a glitzy fundraiser hosted by Hollywood stars Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones at their Westchester home. Biden, the oldest-ever US president at 81, made the blunder as he ripped his Republican rival, former President Donald Trump, 77, in front of the star-studded crowd. "We'll certainly never forget the dark days of June 6, January 6th, excuse me," the commander-in-chief said, according to a White House pool report.
Video here. Biden's chief of strategy tried to gently encourage Karine Jean-Pierre to leave the job she is so horribly incompetent at, but she was too fucking stupid to take the hint.
CNN's ratings disaster Poppy Harlow is bright enough to take the hint.
De facto White House communications chief Anita Dunn, 66, the wife of Biden personal attorney Bob Bauer, told colleagues she had decided to call in prominent Democrats to explain to Jean-Pierre, 49, that the time was ripe to move on, sources told The Post. "There was an effort to have some outside folks who Karine knows and trusts talk to her about why leaving last fall would have made a lot of sense for her and her career," the source said, calling it an "effort to encourage her to move along." Jean-Pierre, the person added, "had been in the job for a year and a half at that point, which is a pretty standard tenure for a press secretary in what is admittedly a very demanding job [and] Jeff and Anita [tried] to have folks that she would listen to and trust talk to her about why it might be wise to do that." Jean-Pierre's predecessor, Jen Psaki, was press secretary for one week shy of 16 months before leaving to take a job as a host and analyst at MSNBC. A second source told The Post that "Jeff [Zients] and Anita [Dunn] were trying to find Karine a graceful exit" because of the ugly optics of removing her against her will. "There's a huge diversity issue and they're afraid of what folks are going to say," added this source, who said they learned of the effort from multiple people briefed by Dunn and confirmed at least one person from outside the administration did speak with Jean-Pierre. The revelation of Dunn's plan is likely to make for awkward workplace dynamics, the first source said, but is unlikely to result in Jean-Pierre's departure. "She has been pretty consistent in telling people from the minute she got the job that she was going to stay through the election," they said.
"I think Karine has decided to stay come hell or high water and that's that."
Veteran CNN host Poppy Harlow is leaving the struggling cable news network -- two months after the cancellation of "CNN This Morning," where a slew of on-air meltdowns had sparked last year's ouster of Don Lemon.Republicans want the IRS to look into Chinese funding of anti-Israel protests and riots. Oh, and China is also behind "Green Energy" propaganda, to cripple the country.
House lawmakers called on the IRS to investigate U.S.-based anti-Israel activist groups that have financial links to China, according to a letter obtained by the Washington Free Beacon on Wednesday. Members of the House Ways and Means Committee said they are concerned that "foreign adversaries are taking advantage of loopholes to impact American political activity with little-to-no transparency." The letter follows reports connecting the Chinese government to a network of U.S.-based nonprofit groups. The People's Forum, a group that helped organize anti-Israel walkouts in New York City public schools, is bankrolled by Chinese propagandist and tech mogul Neville Roy Singham, the New York Times reported last year. The organization encouraged student protesters to shout anti-Semitic chants, such as "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free," a slogan that calls for the elimination of the Jewish state. "Not only do these activities raise serious national security concerns, but they also raise questions about whether organizations like this receive foreign funding from America's adversaries and whether the Internal Revenue Service ('IRS') is conducting oversight of entities like these," wrote the lawmakers in a letter to IRS commissioner Daniel Werfel. The letter also raised concerns about other China-linked political groups. The Energy Foundation, a U.S.-based nonprofit that promotes climate change activism, operates primarily out of China and has significant ties to the government, Fox News reported in December. The Energy Foundation has pushed for U.S. green energy policies that would benefit China, which dominates the global solar energy and battery industries.Hamas and Iran are, get this, big fans of anti-Israel (and anti-Jew) protests on American "college" campuses.
An official with the Palestinian terror group Hamas and the supreme leader of Iran have praised the growing college campus protests in the United States against Israel's military offensive in Gaza, including pro-Hamas demonstrations at Columbia University that have driven fear into the hearts of Jewish students. Columbia University in New York City announced a shift to hybrid classes after protestors set up a "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" last Wednesday. This led to the arrest of more than 100 people after Columbia University President Minouche Shafik authorized police to clear the camp. The demonstrators resettled the encampment, and there have been multiple reports of Jewish members of Columbia's community feeling unsafe due to the encampment. The demonstration has prompted calls for the Biden administration to take away the school's federal funding and discipline the demonstrators, which some say should include revoking the visas of the students expressing support for terrorist groups.Um, obviously. Stupid American brats have the right to chant "Death to America" in America. Nasty terrorist foreigners do not. Being here is a privilege, not a right. Oh what am I talking about, The Regime has decided that every f*cking foreigner in the world has an inalienable right to mob up in America.
Remember during the Iraq War when Bill Kristol would attack anyone questioning the war as giving support to terrorists? He's not saying that anymore, is he? Iran is begging students to stop Israel's war against its proxies. Half of Hez'ballah's commanders have been exterminated in the Hez'ballah stronghold of south Lebanon.
On Wednesday, Izzat Al-Risheq, a member of Hamas' political bureau, accused the Biden administration of violating student and faculty rights, claiming that they are only rejecting "the genocide that our Palestinian people are the subjected in the Gaza Strip at the hands of the neo-Nazi Zionists." USA Today quoted the Hamas official as saying, "Today's students are the leaders of the future." Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also praised the protests. "Western governments say the Resistance Front is terrorism," Khamenei wrote in a tweet. "This comes at a time when people flew Hezbollah's flag in a street in the US. The people of the world are supporting the Resistance Front because they are resisting & because they are against oppression." Khamenei's "oppression" comment comes as the Islamic Republic of Iran has a notorious record for infringing on the rights of religious minorities through imprisonment. Iran also used lethal force to crack down on widespread protests in 2022.
Israeli counterstrikes have killed "half of Hezbollah's commanders in southern Lebanon," Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant revealed on April 24. Gallant's remarks came as Israel launched an unusually intense wave of bombing sorties against the Iran-backed terrorist group's forces in southern Lebanon. "These were the men responsible for belligerent actions, for the drive to strike at the citizens of the State of Israel," Gallant said during a visit to Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Northern Command. The other half, he added, "are in hiding and abandoning southern Lebanon in the face of IDF actions." Gallant signaled that Israel could escalate to a ground operation if mediated diplomatic efforts to get Hezbollah to withdraw from the border failed. "Our main objective was and remains to bring about a different security situation here and for residents of the northern State of Israel to be able to go back home to quiet and safety," Gallant said, referring to some 80,000 civilians evacuated from border communities. "The coming period will be decisive in this regard."Crush those cockroaches. Google fired another 20 of its disruptive pro-terrorist "workers," after firing 28 previously.
Google has fired more employees who were involved in protests over the tech company's cloud computing contract with the Israeli government. The workers held sit-ins at the company's offices in California and New York over Google's $1.2 billion contract to provide custom tools for Israeli's military. Google has fired more employees who were involved in protests over the tech company's cloud computing contract with the Israeli government. The workers held sit-ins at the company's offices in California and New York over Google's $1.2 billion contract to provide custom tools for Israeli's military. Google has fired an additional 20 employees who participated in a protest last week against the company's defense contract with the Israeli government. This brings the total number of employees laid off due to the protest to 50, according to the group that organized the demonstrations, No Tech for Apartheid.My count is 48 total but you know, Hamas sympathizers tend to inflate numbers, don't they?
Jane Chung, a spokesperson for the group, said some of the dismissed employees were "nonparticipating bystanders" during the sit-in protests held on April 16 at Google's offices in Sunnyvale and New York. The group labeled the tech giant's action as an "aggressive and desperate act of retaliation."The media rule: If rightwingers get into a scuffle with cops, they "attacked hardworking policemen." If leftwingers attack cops, write that there were "clashes with police." It's just a case of mutual combat -- no bad guys, no good guys, just all misunderstandings all around.
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The Fast and the Furious Short News Items
Not terribly different from the old left, then. The left is always looking for new transgressions. Their old ones have gotten stale -- so it's time to embrace the swastika.
It sure seems like she's just a nutter and Drama Tornado anywhere she goes. And it sure looks like DEI practices were used to move her through the application process for a job involving guns and the protection of very high-ranking VIPs. DEI requires you to hire the Mentally Diverse. Who's Zooming Who: A good old-fashioned Drag Queen Story Hour has been perverted from its wholesome mission of indoctrinating kids into becoming gay and trans into a Palestinian propaganda struggle session! Is nothing sacred?!
Zoom In: Meet the New Left, Which Embraces the Swastika as a Symbol of Wokeness.
Not terribly different from the old left, then. The left is always looking for new transgressions. Their old ones have gotten stale -- so it's time to embrace the swastika.
See the article for the embrace of the swastika. Lefties are now defending defacing Jewish property with a swastika, arguing they've reclaimed it, like the word "queer," and are now using it as "a condemnation of genocide." But Trump said "P*ssy." Why It Matters: We have more details on the Secret Service agent who TLC's Snapped! and attacked a Senior Agent in Charge. DEI concerns, indeed.
Goodbye, intersectionality -- hello, "It's All One Thingism." In this nebulous new cosmology, Palestinians -- even Hamas themselves -- aren't just engaged in a specific geopolitical fight over territory and resources. No, they're the tip of the spear of a perceived collective liberation against the West, the Global North, "colonisers," whatever you want to call the Bad Guys. It's a magical world in which all politics and world affairs once seen through intersectionality's colourful prism have been flattened into (somewhat ironically for self-proclaimed atheists) a more Biblical view of the world: black-and-white, good and evil. "Palestine is every single issue in one issue," wrote Scarlett Rabe, a singer-songwriter who describes herself as an anti-racist mother and an abolition feminist/womanist, in a viral tweet in February. "It's reproductive justice. It's social justice. It's climate crisis... It's not just one issue; it's all the issues in one." All One Thingism explains why a group of a few hundred masked protestors who chanted "Death to America" and "Hands off Iran" this week also employed the relatively meaningless slogan "From Chicago to Palestine." Or that another viral post on Instagram by a person wearing a "Fatties for a Free Palestine" T-shirt insisted that "Palestinian solidarity is not a niche issue. Fat liberation and Palestinian liberation go hand in hand." During the Trans Day of Visibility, a Palestine flag flew above the Trans flag during some marches, with one sign explaining that "Liberations are linked." Some are even talking up BRICS as allies (maybe Putin and Xi aren't so bad after all?) and -- yes -- even looking back fondly at the Khmer Rouge.
Now, the identity of the officer has been revealed, along with more details surrounding the strange situation. Michelle Herczeg was removed from her duties with the Secret Service on Wednesday. She was a former police officer with the Dallas Police Department and an Air Force veteran. On Monday morning, Herczeg arrived at the base and began deleting apps from a male agent's personal cell phone before becoming increasingly agitated. She then engaged in erratic behavior, such as mumbling to herself, hiding behind curtains, and throwing menstrual pads and other items at an agent, telling him that he would need them later to save another agent. Herczeg continued making alarming statements, such as the other agents were "going to burn in hell and needed to listen to God."She was a madwoman from Jump Street, and never should have been hired for any job in which firearms handling is a requirement:
Herczeg was heard screaming at the special agent in charge (SAIC), listing the names of female officers on the vice president's detail and asserting that they would support her and enable her to continue working. When the SAIC attempted to relieve her of duty, as a witness told Real Clear Politics, "that's when she snapped entirely." Herczeg allegedly became physically aggressive, chest-bumping, shoving, tackling, and punching the SAIC. This prompted intervention from other agents present, with a heightened alarm as Herczeg was armed, although her gun remained holstered. Agents wrestled her to the ground, disarmed her, cuffed her, and then escorted her out of the terminal. In prior coverage, RedState noted that the agent had previously been a subject of distress by staff and that the hiring process, including allegedly "DEI" practices, raised concerns among officers in the Secret Service, per reporting from Real Clear Politics.
In her 2016 lawsuit, Herczeg charged she was retaliated against for reporting sexual harassment and other wrongdoing by Dallas cops. After Herczeg was allegedly assaulted by a male superior officer in May 2015, she claimed, "[i]ntimidation tactics were used as investigative tools to persuade Herczeg from seeking criminal relief against the officer who assaulted her," according to the Morning News. The lawsuit also alleged that Herczeg was not allowed to return to a special crime reduction team after reporting the alleged assault and was also refused overtime patrol shifts, causing "stress and mental anguish from loss in payment compensation." Herczeg further charged that DPD "tolerates unprofessional behavior such as fraternization and unprofessional male and female working relationships based on an atmosphere which finds the male officer in charge, regardless of rank or ability." A Texas court dismissed Herczeg's suit and a court of appeals denied both her appeal in 2021 and a request for a rehearing the following year.
It sure seems like she's just a nutter and Drama Tornado anywhere she goes. And it sure looks like DEI practices were used to move her through the application process for a job involving guns and the protection of very high-ranking VIPs. DEI requires you to hire the Mentally Diverse. Who's Zooming Who: A good old-fashioned Drag Queen Story Hour has been perverted from its wholesome mission of indoctrinating kids into becoming gay and trans into a Palestinian propaganda struggle session! Is nothing sacred?!
In a bizarre moment, a drag queen performing at a Massachusetts art center directed children in a pro-Palestinian chant. Video footage shows the exchange during a "Queer Storytime for Palestine" event organized by the Valley Families for Palestine group at the Northampton Center for the Arts on April 14.
While reading her book "If You're a Drag Queen and You Know It," Lil Miss Hot Mess told the children: "If you're a drag queen and you know it shout 'Free Palestine.'" The event included "dancing, celebrating Palestine culture, learning about queer heroes and doing arts and crafts," according to an Instagram post by the Valley Families for Palestine group. Event profits were donated to alQaws, a Palestinian organization "working for queer liberation."
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Half of Population Condemns Man Who Stood By Idly While a Woman Was Attacked; The Other Half Asks, What Did You Expect?
A thug physically accosted a woman, who struggled to free himself from the grasp of her attacker.
She gave a pleading look to a male seated about twenty feet away -- "Please help." The male did nothing. He barely moved. So the question is: Was he a coward? Or was he acting correctly and congruently with the incentive system society has created? Maybe both, maybe both. Don't forget:Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:20 PM | Comments (239) | Trackbacks (Suck)
The Media Keeps Claiming Crime Rates Are Falling.
They Lying, As Usual.
Here's what's going on in the real world:
They Lying, As Usual.
Americans think crime is on the rise, but the media keep telling them they're wrong. A Gallup survey last year found that 92% of Republicans and 58% of Democrats thought crime was increasing. A February Rasmussen Reports survey found that 61% of likely voters say violent crime in the U.S. is getting worse, while only 13% think it's getting better. Journalists purport to refute this by citing official crime statistics showing a downward trend. Americans aren't mistaken. News reports fail to take into account that many victims aren't reporting crimes to the police, especially since the pandemic. The U.S. has two measures of crime. The Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reporting program counts the number of crimes reported to police every year. The Bureau of Justice Statistics, in its National Crime Victimization Survey, asks some 240,000 people a year whether they have been victims of a crime. The two measures have diverged since 2020: The FBI has been reporting less crime, while more people say they have been victims. The divergence is due to several reasons. In 2022, 31% of police departments nationwide, including Los Angeles and New York, didn't report crime data to the FBI. In addition, in cities from Baltimore to Nashville, Tenn., the FBI is undercounting crimes those jurisdictions reported. Another reason crimes reported to the police are falling is that arrest rates are plummeting. If victims don't believe criminals will be caught and punished, they won't bother reporting them. According to the FBI, if you take the five years preceding Covid-19 (2015-19) and compare them with 2022, the percentage of violent crimes in all cities resulting in an arrest fell from 44% to 35%. Among cities with more than one million people (where violent crime disproportionately occurs), arrest rates over the same period plunged from 44% to 20%. Arrests for property crimes dived even more sharply. FBI data show that in 2022, 12% of reported property crimes in all cities resulted in an arrest. In cities of more than one million people, only 4.5% of reported property crimes in 2022 resulted in an arrest. Based on the National Crime Victimization Survey, only 42% of violent crimes, such as robberies or aggravated assaults, and 32% of property crimes, such as burglary or arson, were reported in 2022. While the Justice Department doesn't track the number of prosecutions, the percentage of arrests that resulted in a prosecution appears to have fallen that year as well.The FBI decided to scrap its old system of collecting crime data at the exact same time the Democrats were enacting their disastrous "decarceration" schemes. This was guaranteed to produce a discontinuity in the data, since pre-2021 stats are recorded and categorized differently than post-2021 stats. Even if they were actually recording all crimes, Democrats would point to the inconsistency in data treatment to explain away any increases in crime.
Here's what's going on in the real world:
All of the assailants appear to be black, homeless, and mentally ill. The exact sort of people the left was determined to release from jail and bail requirements in the name of "equity." The left has an answer to this, of course. The problem isn't "decarceration" programs aimed at releasing dangerous repeat felons from jail. The Real Criminals attacking women are MAGA dudebros being indoctrinated on anti-feminist 4chan boards.
Fifty women have been randomly attacked by strangers so far this year in the lower half of Manhattan, an NYPD official said. "The trend that I'm getting from the people that we're arresting, the majority of them are homeless, the majority of them seem like they need some kind of help with mental illness," Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said at One Police Plaza Tuesday. Most of the attacks don't appear to be copycats and cops don't consider them a trend, Kenny said. But some of them have become high profile because of victims posting on social media, he said. "This is no new phenomenon," Kenny said. "It's just being reported at a higher rate and getting a lot more publicity than it normally does because of social media . . . we welcome that. We want to encourage reporting so that we can make these arrests." Out of the 50 female victims, 37 were attacked in the street and 13 in the transit system, he said. Some were punched and others were struck with objects. Arrests have been made in 14 of the attacks, he said.
Women report being assaulted by men of different races and ages. Still, across the different stories, a couple of similarities pop out: The alleged victims are mostly young and pretty, and most of them say they were minding their own business when they were attacked. Some were on their phones or reading on tablets. Others were speaking to friends or daydreaming. Whatever they were doing, they were just living their lives, and that, it seems, is what enraged their assailants.Are there any points-in-common among the assailants, Amanda? I'm thinking about racial and Housing Status traits that might make your "this is all MAGA hatred of women" thesis less plausible.
The alleged victims are mostly young and pretty, and most of them say they were minding their own business when they were attacked.
1, the problem is decarceration, and that's obvious, which is why you're handwaving away the importance of the cause. 2, as usual, committed gnostic Marxists insist that crime isn't real, not really real anyway, and the only real crisis here is one occurring in "the public imagination."
Whatever the scale of this problem eventually turns out to be, it's not surprising that these stories have gone viral and captured the public's imagination.
I grew up in a town where it was illegal to dance. True story, my word as a Kevin Bacon.
While it rarely turns to violence, most women who spend much time walking around in public have experience with men who berate them for paying attention to something other than the man who is now, often out of nowhere, spewing invectives. In our modern era, that often manifests with men who are infuriated at women for looking at their phones. But I'm old enough to remember when I would get yelled at for reading books in public.
So, nothing about the fact that these are obviously mentally-ill homeless men who are being mass-released from prison by your Marxist allies? She's claiming this phenomenon is just due to the usual fascination of trivial "feminists" -- fucking Internet Drama. MAGA men are ruining my mentions on Twitter! Ugh! Something must be done!
Whatever the excuse the angry man concocts, the impetus is always the same: The eyes of a woman are directed at someone or something that is not him, and he is indignant over it. So he will make sure she has no choice but to look at him, either by getting in her face or -- in these alarming New York cases -- punching her. If he cannot capture her adoring gaze, well, he will make her stare at him in fear.
These stories resonate, as well, because the nation is having a moment of increasingly unhinged male fury at women for daring to have lives that are centered around something other than catering to a man's every whim. Unleashed by Donald Trump and the MAGA movement, there's an upswell of loud male entitlement shouting at us from every corner.The black homeless mentally-ill men playing the knockout game are all MAGA diehards, huh? Now she's going to flashback to Internet Drama from fucking 2015:
Can she draw a line between black homeless mental patients playing the knockout game with women, and more Trivial Internet Drama about men not liking the feminist propaganda trifle Barbie? Let's see:
We see it in the male fans of Jordan Peterson, who clamor to his events to hear him croak out a just-so story about how lobsters justify their faith in male dominance. Or the rise of "tradwives" online who make a living pretending they're unemployed and housebound.
Or Ben Shapiro setting fire to a Barbie doll because he can't stand that a blockbuster comedy starring a woman is about anything but her quest for male affection.Let's connect it up with abortion -- really explore the studio space.
Or MAGA pundits telling lies about birth control, in hopes of tricking women into having babies before they're ready. Or conservatives writing op-eds that blame women for male loneliness, telling women they must self-sacrifice to relieve male pain by marrying Donald Trump voters. Or right-wing men yelling because Taylor Swift has cats or because she dates a hunky, vaccinated NFL player instead of, I dunno, having babies with a guy in ill-fitting cargo shorts.I have to tell you, feminists tend to be among the ugliest, most out-of-shape, least alluring women on the fucking planet, but they're always complaining of the aggressive persistence of devoted and implacable Gentlemen Suiters vying for their (cold, asexual, femcel) affections. These poor dishrag-dingy drulls are absolutely irresistible to men! They're just absolutely beset by unwanted male attention, 24/7/365! This insane spin is of course being parrotted by all the lower-IQ FemPCs.
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Self-Proclaimed "Mary Poppins of Disinformation" and "Disinformation Czar" Nina "Stanky Janky" Jankowicz, Has a New Grifter Operation She'd Like the CIA to Donate To
Former Biden "Disinformation Czar" Stanky Janky has begun a new anti-"disinformation" grift.
Do you smell that? That's the smell of just-laundered CIA and State Department money.Former Biden administration disinformation head Nina Jankowicz has launched a new organization to fight against conservative efforts to combat online censorship. Jankowicz launched the American Sunlight Project this week to fight what she believes to be a campaign by conservatives to undermine the anti-disinformation industry. She co-founded the organization alongside Carlos Álvarez-Aranyos, a communications specialist who worked for left-wing group Protect Democracy during the 2020 election cycle. The American Sunlight Project wrote a letter on Monday to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R., Ohio.), Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R., Ky.), and Representative Dan Bishop (R., N.C.) accusing them of "McCarthyism" for investigating the disinformation industry and its pressure on social media platforms to censor speech. "The Weaponization Committee has selectively released congressional testimony to discredit them, make them targets of harassment, and create a chilling effect across the field of disinformation research. These tactics echo the dark days of McCarthyism, but with a 21st century twist," the letter reads.Indeed! The group's main mission seems to be to stop the "disinformation" of people criticizing the "disinformation" industry. She is fighting for her right -- to fight disinformation! Luke Rosiak:
'Mary Poppins Of Disinformation' Returns With New Group To Defend Disinformation Industry Nina Jankowicz says criticism of 'disinformation researchers' poses 'greatest threat' to country The Biden administration's former "disinformation czar," ousted after an apparent attempt to create an Orwellian ministry of truth within the Department of Defense, has launched a new nonprofit that declares criticism of "disinformation researchers" such as herself as a chief threat to the United States of America. "The campaign against counter-disinformation work is the greatest threat to freedom of expression and academic integrity since the McCarthy era," Nina Jankowicz said in a press release, pledging that her group would not "allow it to continue." "Once researchers are free to conduct their essential work, the American people will gain a better understanding of the nature and severity of the disinformation threats we face," she said. "Disinformation knows no political party. Its ultimate victim is our democracy." The group, the American Sunlight Project, was announced as a bipartisan advocacy organization founded by Jankowicz that was "launched to expose and oppose efforts to weaponize disinformation in the United States." "The organization will investigate the networks and money driving disinformation and educate the public about the threats disinformation poses to their daily lives," it says. "The first step in the group's program will involve countering the organized campaign currently challenging the work of disinformation researchers."Another cashew-head. Why does it always have to be cashew-heads?
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Axios Poll: Majority of Americans Open to Trump's "Harshest" Immigration Policy, "Mass Deportations;" 42% of Democrats Support This, and 45% of Latinos
Why It Matters: Because Axios is stupid and gay, so if even their poll is finding this, it means something.
David Strom:Axios adds:
Axios commissioned a Harris poll and discovered something unsurprising, even if the establishment was shocked. Americans support mass deportations of illegal aliens. I suspect they would support mass deportations of some legal aliens who express anti-American views as well, come to think of it.EXCLUSIVE POLL: Americans are open to Trump's harshest immigration plans. Half -- including 42% of Democrats -- say they'd support mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, per a new Axios Vibes survey by The Harris Poll. https://t.co/fXPKxpGlQj pic.twitter.com/UIWn2SRKn7 -- Axios (@axios) April 25, 2024
"I was surprised at the public support for large-scale deportations," said Mark Penn, chairman of The Harris Poll and a former pollster for President Clinton.I'm not at all. This is what is called a backlash, dude.
Americans are open to former President Trump's harshest immigration plans, spurred on by a record surge of illegal border crossings and a relentless messaging war waged by Republicans. * President Biden is keenly aware the crisis threatens his re-election. He's sought to flip the script by accusing Trump of sabotaging Congress' most conservative bipartisan immigration bill in decades."Axios Vibe Check?" God Almighty, get your gaytarded shit under control, Axios. I'm going to do an Ace Vibe Check. A Glance Askance: A CNN poll finds that only 13% (THIRTEEN PERCENT) of voters think that Trump is being treated similarly to other defendants. A certain number of those are braindead NPC zombies and Stinkies who claim that Trump is being treated better than other defendants. But most are saying Trump is being treated savagely. Here's another swing state poll, from Hispanic-heavy Nevada:
* But when it comes to blame, Biden so far has failed to shift the narrative: 32% of respondents say his administration is "most responsible" for the crisis, outranking any other political or structural factor. Axios Vibe Check: Amid a record number of border crossings, nearly two-thirds of Americans said illegal immigration is a real crisis, not a politically driven media narrative.
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Shock: Pro-Hamas Smelly Filthy "Protesters" Turn Violent In Atlanta, Austin, and NYC
I'm gutted. I never saw this coming.
At Emory University (Atlanta), "protesters" were raging insanely both against Israel and against police. This new protest is basically just a continuing antifa production against the police training center being built, which they call "cop city." They ignored demands to leave the property and are now whining and shrieking that their Squatters Rights are not being indulged.Chaos ensued as Georgia police officers took several people into custody during a pro-Hamas protest at Emory University. Many students were arrested as Atlanta Police officers and Georgia State troopers wrestled the demonstrators to the ground.They are repeatedly told "you can protest all you like, but you can't take over university lands and set up your filthy homeless tent cities," and so they do exactly that, then they cry when they're arrested. Let me again underline the irony that pro-Palestinian "protesters" are seizing land that does not belong to them and are then crying when someone comes to kick them off that land. Fucking colonizers.
One demonstrator was seen being tasered. A video captured several students being sprayed with tear gas. Some witnesses reported rubber bullets being fired at the protesters. Police pinned protesters to the ground and restrained them with zip ties. A female protester was carried away by officers as she sang and screamed.
Students set up a Gaza solidarity encampment on the lawn of the school's quad. They were also protesting Atlanta's 'Cop City', according to local reports. Protesters demand "total institutional divestment from Israeli apartheid and Cop City at all Atlanta colleges and universities,' according to Fox 5."
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THE MORNING RANT: Follow-Up to Post Regarding Reliance on Falsified Government Economic Data; Also ESG Investments Facing Major Outflows
jobs figures they have compiled. At the link where the DOL issues its weekly press release announcing the number of new unemployment filings, there is this explanation for the “seasonal adjustment” that has been administered:
My post this past Monday was titled “Why Do Intelligent People Continue to Rely on Government Data That is Known to Be False?” In it, I discussed the persistently false economic data published by the government, especially the Department of Labor’s inflation and jobs reports, and how intelligent(?) people in positions of authority “make critical decisions based on that data, even though there is a near certainty it will be revised to a less favorable report (or simply proven false) once the headlines become stale.”
Reader TGSam then sent the following from Jim Bianco to my attention, which shows that not only are the Department of Labor’s jobs reports not reliable, but the DOL doesn’t even really put any effort into producing their fraudulent weekly jobs report. It would appear that they pick a round number and just run with it for weeks on end. Mr. Bianco points out the statistical improbability of there being exactly 212,000 claims for initial unemployment week after week. (The number is always rounded to the nearest thousand, but the likelihood of it being 212k every week is extremely improbable.) He writes:Below is the number of initial filings for unemployment insurance. How is this statistically possible? Five of the last six weeks, the exact same number. Effectively the same number in the last 11 weeks, except for the holiday weeks (President's Day and Easter). Consider, The US is a $28 trillion economy. It has 160 million workers. Initial claims for unemployment insurance are state programs, with 50 state rules, hundreds of offices, and 50 websites to file. Weather, seasonality, holidays, and economic vibrations drive the number of people filing claims from week to week. Yet this measure is so stable that it does not vary by even 1,000 applications a week. Just the number of applications incorrectly filled out every week should cause it to vary more than this.
A little digging shows that the Department of Labor intentionally empowers it employees to work some statistical magic on the actual (“unadjusted”Below is the number of initial filings for unemployment insurance.
— Jim Bianco (@biancoresearch) April 18, 2024
How is this statistically possible?
Five of the last six weeks, the exact same number.
Effectively the same number in the last 11 weeks, except for the holiday weeks (President's Day and Easter).
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jobs figures they have compiled. At the link where the DOL issues its weekly press release announcing the number of new unemployment filings, there is this explanation for the “seasonal adjustment” that has been administered:
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The Morning Report — 4/26/24
“Day after #DenimDay honoring sexual violence survivors, Harvey Weinstein’s conviction overturned, due partly to ‘Molineux witnesses’ testifying to prior bad acts, like lioness Annabella Sciorra,” Sorvino’s post read, referring to a term meaning “witnesses in a trial who are allowed to testify about criminal acts that the defendant has not been charged with committing,” The New York Times noted. “Since when don’t courts allow evidence of pattern of prior bad acts to be admitted?” she added. “He’s a prolific serial predator who raped/harmed 200+women! Disgusted w/justice system skew [to] predators not victims.”In the interest of full disclosure, I was neither a juror nor an observer of the trial, and so was not privy to the evidence that led to his conviction, my anecdotal experience/knowledge of his reputation notwithstanding. In one sense, I feel bad for Sorvino and the other victims. That said, with all due respect to Ms. Sorvino, I could care fuck all. She's "disgusted" at the justice system? Funny how she and all the other supposed "victims" of Harvey Weinstein were dead silent when the same NY court convicted Donald Trump of libel and awarded multi-millions of dollars to E. Jean Carrol for her cock and bull story of being raped and/or groped by Trump. Which he had neither been charged nor convicted, as if that matters these days, but I digress. For publicly defending himself by calling her out for the liar she was – which is in the febrile, reptilian, pea-sized mind of Leftists a crime against humanity – Trump got what he deserved. I have no love for Weinstein. But it's kind of sickly ironic that perhaps the court did the right thing for tossing his conviction. Perhaps not. And yet after a sham of a travesty of two mockeries of a farce of a libel trial, the same court system has Trump on trial for supposedly using campaign cash as hush money to silence Sloppy Daniels prior to 2016. The case is a joke and everyone knows it. The problem is the system is so abjectly corrupted that the Constitution and rule of law are out the window in service to leftist political expedience.
Despite the prosecution’s best efforts to insinuate former President Trump‘s involvement in—or even knowledge of—the “catch and kill” scheme, Pecker’s testimony continues to fall short of any direct implication. The prosecution frequently used the “catch and kill” term as well as referring to Cohen and Pecker’s activities as a “scheme,” hoping to convince the jury of illegal activity when, in fact, there appears to be none.Under cross-examination by Trump‘s attorney Emil Bove, Pecker even admitted he’d never heard the term “catch and kill” before the prosecution used it. Bove asked Pecker if “it was always your intention, dating back to the early days of this friendship, not to publish negative stories about President Trump?” The tabloid newsman responded, “Yes.” Pecker also acknowledged he has held back negative stories about other notable public figures, including Arnold Schwarzenegger, businessman Ronald Perelman, and Obama Chief of Staff-turned-Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Further undermining the prosecution’s case, he added that it was his understanding that Cohen was acting in a personal capacity for Trump, not on behalf of the presidential campaign.Like the E. Jean Carrol case, will this matter in the end with a judge, prosecutor and likely 12 angry New York City hand-picked stooges? Doubtful. And Trump, along with scores of innocent people might just catch a break at SCOTUS on yet another trumped up, banana republic bullshit persecution, vis a vis "presidential immunity." Here's Turley's take:
Writer Ray Bradbury once said, “Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.” In Thursday’s case before the Supreme Court on the immunity of former President Donald Trump, nine justices appear to be feverishly working with feathers and glue on a plunge into a constitutional abyss. It has been almost 50 years since the high court ruled presidents have absolute immunity from civil lawsuits in Nixon v. Fitzgerald. The court held ex-President Richard Nixon had such immunity for acts taken “within the ‘outer perimeter’ of his official responsibility.” Yet in 1974’s United States v. Nixon, the court ruled a president is not immune from a criminal subpoena. Nixon was forced to comply with a subpoena for his White House tapes in the Watergate scandal from special counsel Leon Jaworski. Since then, the court has avoided any significant ruling on the extension of immunity to a criminal case — until now. There are cliffs on both sides of this case. If the court were to embrace special counsel Jack Smith’s arguments, a president would have no immunity from criminal charges, even for official acts taken in his presidency. It would leave a president without protection from endless charges from politically motivated prosecutors. If the court were to embrace Trump counsel’s arguments, a president would have complete immunity. It would leave a president largely unaccountable under the criminal code for any criminal acts. The first cliff is made obvious by the lower-court opinion. While the media have largely focused on extreme examples of president-ordered assassinations and coups, the justices are clearly as concerned with the sweeping implications of the DC Circuit opinion. . . . . . The other cliff is more than obvious from the other proceedings occuring as these arguments were made. Trump’s best attorney proved to be Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. If the justices want insight into the implications of denying any immunity, they just need to look north to New York City. The ongoing prosecution of Trump is legally absurd but has resulted in the leading presidential candidate not only being gagged but prevented from campaigning. Alvin Bragg is very personification of the danger immunity is meant to avoid. . . . . . I have long opposed sweeping arguments of immunity from criminal charges for presidents. The devil is in the details, and many justices are struggling with how to define official versus nonofficial conduct. The line-drawing proved maddening for the justices in the oral argument. The most they could say is similar to the story of the man who jumped off a building. As he passes an office window halfway down, another man calls out to ask how he’s doing. The jumper responds, “So far so good.” As the justices work on a new set of legal wings, anything is possible as the nation waits for the court to hit ground zero in the middle of the 2024 presidential election.So, let's say SCOTUS does manage to perform a Solomonic miracle and "mostly peacefully" cleave the baby in half. The only thing that will do is enrage a perpetually enraged Democrat-Left to either dissolve or permanently pack SCOTUS with a bench full of Roland Freisler/Enorgon-Erdogon-Enron-Gorgon clones. That underscores my argument that this nation is divided not only on a panoply of issues but on the legitimacy of the nation itself, and on those of us who are desperate to restore and preserve what it once was. Or at least as we had imagined it to be. The annihilationist rhetoric about Jews heard on campuses around the country, horrendous as it is, is not merely about Jews, nor did it spring up in a vacuum. It happened because of decades of anti-American and anti-Western indoctrination on said campuses going at least as far back as when individuals like Theodore Adorno and Herbert Marcuse fled actual European Fascism and paid us back by injecting the poison of Marx and Gramsci into the American educational system. Presto chango, 80 years later and voila! We live in a nation that resembles the bastard child of 1968 Chicago with 1938 Nuremberg. Everything is upside-down, thoroughly corrupt almost everywhere you turn, and really nowhere to run. Even if we somehow win in 2024, or win every election for the next 40 years, and both of those are seriously in doubt, we will still have at least a third of the population (not including the millions of illegal foreigners who I wouldn't count on for help) wanting us dead as well as a propaganda/brainwashing complex disguised as academia that will produce yet another generation of useless pod people who will be eager to line us up and shoot us into a ditch. Ironic considering their hatred of the Second Amendment. I used the "R" word yesterday maybe reluctantly but now, there really is no other way out. Face it. America as it was is virtually if not completely gone. If we somehow survive the coming maelstrom of internal conflict and end up victorious, we must reconstruct a society and form of government that never again allows the scum who destroyed us in the first place to ever be within a billion billion light years of power and influence. If that means ditching the Constitution, so be it. If a revolution is what they want, then we should be the ones to give it to them. Good and hard. My latest essay is up at Taki's Magazine. Have a good weekend.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- Jack Posobiec: ". . . aside from its obvious evil, there’s another problem with communism: by necessity, it is viciously, unimaginably petty. And yes, this is a necessity. When the entire basis of your ideology is the government centrally planning who gets what resource, down to the last thumbtack, pettiness is the inevitable conclusion. Which may explain the existence of one Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)."
Is There Anything Elizabeth Warren Doesn't Want to Micromanage?
- "Like empires before us, we have lost our cultural confidence and moorings, increasing the risk of being overrun by newcomers."
America Isn’t the First Empire Doomed By Open Borders
- Richard Fernandez: "We will be 'righteous' when it no longer matters and degenerate, foolish and ambitious in the meantime."
Flashpoints
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Daily Tech News 26 April 2024
Top Story
- Elizabeth Bathory eat your heart out. Or someone else's. Probably a peasant's. Three women have contracted HIV after receiving "vampire facials" at an unlicensed spa in New Mexico. (Ars Technica)
The woman's case led investigators to VIP Spa, which was unlicensed, had no appointment scheduling system, and did not store client contact information. In an inspection in the fall of 2018, health investigators found shocking conditions: unwrapped syringes in drawers and counters, unlabeled tubes of blood sitting out on a kitchen counter, more unlabeled blood and medical injectables alongside food in a kitchen fridge, and disposable equipment-electric desiccator tips-that were reused. The facility also did not have an autoclave-a pressurized oven-for sterilizing equipment.
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit.
Twice.
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April 25, 2024
Tonight's ONT IS On The Clock
Howdy everyone! Welcome to Thursday night. Who should the ONT select in the AoS draft? Meanwhile, in the news this week, I'm told one of these groups of people represents a movement against the United States of America.
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Good'ay Mate Cafe
Harbour Bridge, Sydney
PhillipsWorldofPhotography
Deep Dive: Thursdays am i rite
Zoom Out: You'll put your eye out, kid.
I Like Sunny D: Cake icing machine.
Feeling Jiggy: Maud'ib!
Twirling Upward: "I'm crushing your head" but with traffic control.
Quick Scan: Automatic self-cleaning bathroom.
Why It Matters: Little bat shakes the camera with his high-pitched yips.
Fast Take: A street performer who isn't terrible.
What They're Saying: As you all know, I've long been in the anti-chinchilla camp, but I may be coming around.
I Love Science: A kookabura isn't just an appetizer at Outback, it's an actual bird.
News You Can Use: a rhino eating a melon.
Digging Deeper: Basically a real-life tribble.
Go Off King:Red panda in berserker mode.
Harbour Bridge, Sydney
PhillipsWorldofPhotography
Deep Dive: Thursdays am i rite
Zoom Out: You'll put your eye out, kid.
I Like Sunny D: Cake icing machine.
Feeling Jiggy: Maud'ib!
Twirling Upward: "I'm crushing your head" but with traffic control.
Quick Scan: Automatic self-cleaning bathroom.
Why It Matters: Little bat shakes the camera with his high-pitched yips.
Fast Take: A street performer who isn't terrible.
What They're Saying: As you all know, I've long been in the anti-chinchilla camp, but I may be coming around.
I Love Science: A kookabura isn't just an appetizer at Outback, it's an actual bird.
News You Can Use: a rhino eating a melon.
Digging Deeper: Basically a real-life tribble.
Go Off King:Red panda in berserker mode.
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New York Times: Supreme Court Conservatives Seem to Favor Acknowledging Some Form of Presidential Immunity, At Least for "Official Acts" Undertaken as Part of the President's "Core Powers"
This is by no means a guarantee for Trump. Amy Coney Barrett seems very sympathetic to Biden's handpicked Election Interference Agents.
And the Court will not be endorsing Trump's expansive, anything-the-president-does-is-immune-from-criminal-process theory. But they do seem inclined to rule against the lower courts' almost-as-expansive theory that any president can be indicted for any reason post-presidency, and enjoys no immunity whatsoever. The thing is, even if they just vote that way -- and say the lower courts erred in not determining which of Trump's acts may have been taken as part of his official duties -- then it's a win for Trump, because the case would be thrown back to the originating court with instructions for the judge to write a new opinion, which itself would be appealable. That would most likely punt the case into next year. Here are some snippets of live updates from New York Times court "reporters." The "reporters" are Alan Feuer, Abbie VanSickle, and Charlie Savage. I won't be noting which updates were written by which "reporter."
Supreme Court Live Updates: Conservative Majority Seems Ready to Limit Election Case Against Trump
A ruling in the case, on whether the former president is immune from prosecution, would probably send it back to a lower court and could delay any trial until after the November election.
The Supreme Court's conservative majority seemed poised on Thursday to narrow the scope of the criminal case against former President Donald J. Trump on charges that he plotted to subvert the 2020 election. Such a ruling, endorsing at least part of Mr. Trump's argument that he is immune from prosecution, would most likely send the case back to the trial court to draw distinctions between official and private conduct. Those proceedings could make it hard to conduct the trial before the 2024 election. ... D. John Sauer, Mr. Trump's lawyer, pressed an extreme version of the former president's argument. In answer to hypothetical questions, he said that presidential orders to murder political rivals or stage a coup could well be subject to immunity.
But several of the conservative justices seemed disinclined to consider those questions or the details of the accusations against Mr. Trump. Instead, they said the court should issue a ruling that applies to presidential power generally. "We're writing a rule for the ages," Justice Neil M. Gorsuch said. Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh also said the court should think about the larger implications of its decision. "This case has huge implications for the presidency, for the future of the presidency, for the future of the country." Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. said that a ruling for Mr. Trump could enhance democratic values. "A stable, democratic society requires that a candidate who loses an election, even a close one, even a hotly contested one, leave office peacefully," he said, adding that the prospect of criminal prosecution would make that less likely. "Will that not lead us into a cycle that destabilizes the functioning of our country as a democracy?" he asked. Justice Sonia Sotomayor said she had a different understanding. "A stable democratic society," she said, "needs the good faith of its public officials." ... Multiple justices focused on whether motive matters. This is a recurring pressure point in the question of whether an official act can be treated as a crime: Does it matter whether a president had a corrupt purpose? Proponents of a strong presidency point out that if the answer is yes, that could allow courts to second-guess whether a president's exercise of his constitutional responsibilities was reasonable, a significant blurring of separation of powers. A lot of the discussion has swirled around the question of whether, without immunity, presidents will be hounded by their rivals with malicious charges after leaving office.
No, because this is all political. It's not about justice, it's about saving Biden from an election he is doomed to lose.
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The oral argument lasted nearly three hours, as the justices tangled with a lawyer for the former president and a Justice Department lawyer. A majority of the justices appeared skeptical of the idea of sweeping presidential immunity. However, several of them suggested an interest in drawing out what actions may be immune and what may not -- a move that could delay the former president's trial if the Supreme Court asks a lower court to revisit the issues. Many of the justices seemed to be considering the idea that presidents should enjoy some form of protection against criminal prosecution. The devil however will be in the details: How should that protection extend? ... Looking back, one of the main points of discussion turned on the question of which situation would be worse: a world in which presidents, shorn of any legal protections against prosecution, were ceaselessly pursued in the courts by their rivals in a never-ending cycle of political retribution, or allowing presidents to be unbounded by criminal law and permitted to do whatever they wanted with impunity. ...
Justice Barrett picks up the question of timing again. She suggests that if prosecutors want to take Trump quickly to trial, they could simply drop those parts of the indictment that seem to be his official acts as president and proceed with only those parts of the indictment that reflect Trump's private actions taken as a candidate for office. Dreeben is not wild about that idea.
What about Obama? Can he be prosecuted for the murder of Anwar al-Awaki? You know, there's no statute of limitations for murder. Should we try Obama next?
... Justice Barrett seems to signal that she is less likely to find that presidents have blanket immunity for their official acts. When Dreeben says the system needs to balance the effective functioning of the presidency and accountability for a former president under the rule of law, and the existing system does that pretty well or maybe needs a few ancillary rules but that is different from the "radical proposal" put forward by Trump's legal team, she says: "I agree."
Oh sure, we should trust the corrupt, weaponized DOJ. Say Trump wins. He installs Rudy Giuliani as AG. Are Biden's hand-picked Election Interference Agents still on board with the claim that anything the DOJ does must be right and proper? Note the contradiction here -- they're saying that we cannot have a blanket rule that anything a president does is presumptively legal. They just want a blanket rule that anything a DOJ does is presumptively legal. So long as that DOJ is headed by a Democrat, of course.
Kavanaugh asks Dreeben about Obama's drone strike that killed an American citizen suspected of terrorism, Anwar al-Awlaki, which Trump's lawyer invoked in his opening. Dreeben notes that the Office of Legal Counsel analyzed the question and found that the murder statute did not apply to presidents when they were acting under public authority, so authorizing the strike was lawful. This is the way the system can function, he said -- the Justice Department analyzes laws carefully and with established principles.
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Terror-Sympathizers Attempt Takeover of UT Austin; Greg Abbott Sends in the Texas National Guard
So parading to shut down a government-funded school is a major crime for which people should be jailed without trial for years, I figure.
Rising tensions on school campuses across the country over the Israel-Hamas reached university campuses here in Texas. Hundreds of students at the University of Texas at Austin walked out of class in support of Palestine. Many held up signs calling for a ceasefire or more help for Gaza. Dozens of state troopers in riot gear asked the students to disperse. The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) said law enforcement officers arrested more than 20 people on the UT campus. Protesters were heard chanting, "Release our students." "Arrests being made right now & will continue until the crowd disperses," Gov. Greg Abbott said via social media. "These protesters belong in jail. Antisemitism will not be tolerated in Texas. Period. Students joining in hate-filled, antisemitic protests at any public college or university in Texas should be expelled." Protesters are demanding the university system divest from companies that manufacture machinery used in war. DPS said it responded to the UT campus in Austin Wednesday at the request of the University and at the direction of Gov. Abbott "to prevent any unlawful assembly and to support UT Police in maintaining the peace by arresting anyone engaging in any sort of criminal activity, including criminal trespass."Now that I've vented -- Heather MacDonald makes a great point that we must be careful not to endorse the left's own crackdown on dissenting views by deploying the same tactics. Otherwise the left will just go further in its own authoritarianism -- and right now, they control almost every single institution, private or governmental. In Florida, police almost immediately arrested communist/islamist gangsters for highway-blocking "protesters."
In their latest demonstration, pro-Palestine protesters in Miami termed their activity as an "economic blockade," through a longstanding state law that defines obstructing traffic without a permit. A small group of individuals who organized a Tax Day protest now face second-degree misdemeanors. People protesting the rising death toll in Gaza were pulled away and handcuffed by Miami police officers after blocking traffic on Biscayne Boulevard near Bayside in downtown Miami on Monday. Most of them are in their twenties and reside in Miami. Their charges, according to police, are unrelated to the subject of their demonstration. Their offenses revolve around blocking a roadway without proper authorization. Specifically, they employed their bodies to block a crosswalk, using homemade devices known as "sleeping dragons" to interconnect protesters. These devices, typically made from painted PVC pieces, fasten several demonstrators together.Someone pointed out that pro-terrorist "protesters" were given four hours to block traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge, as critical a traffic artery as there is. In Florida, they were given fifteen minutes. Of course, Florida cops are protecting the protesters by arresting them, because DeSantis signed a law giving motorists the right to run the f*ck over protesters if they're blocking the streets two years ago. Abbott and DeSantis are playing a game of Quien es mas macho? Who's winning? We all are, my friends. We all are. I can't find that sketch on YouTube, but enjoy this barely-related one.
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Tucker Carlson: Dropping Two Nukes to End WWII Was "Prima Facie Evil"
By the end of Tucker's "evolution," he'll be telling us that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has "some serious ideas, which should be taken seriously." I oppose the American Deep State. That means I now have to believe in... Vladimir Putin?!? On Tucker Carlson, and some others of the right, I'm reminded of G.K. Chesterton's aphorism: "When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything." I feel like a lot of people -- and I include myself in this -- long believed in (this is embarrassing) American institutions like the FBI, CIA, judiciary, and even the corporate class. (Oh Lord...) Now we no longer believe in those things. But, as Chesterton observed, the end of belief in some things often does not result in skepticism for everything -- it often results in the former believer seeking to believe in anything else. And for some (understandably) disappointed former righties, it results in finding new beliefs in the core dogmas of the far left. People have a need to believe, for belief makes order of chaos, and often those who abandon beliefs fly quickly into the arms of a fresh belief system. The old beliefs may have been rejected, but the need to believe remains. Rather than waking up and deciding to no longer believe in stupid nonsense, some, like Tucker Carlson, are on a spiritual quest to find new stupid nonsense to believe in. Below, Tucker Carlson insists he has knowledge that the intelligence agencies are blackmailing congressmen -- but also says he can't say who's confessed to being blackmailed. I would find this more compelling if he didn't make this announcement in the same rant in which he decries the cover-up of "UAPs" -- Unidentified Aerial Pheonomenon, which is the new term for "UFOs" so you can avoid saying "UFOs."
Tucker Carlson continues his headlong rush to the far left.
He also seems to call for denuclearization. Even better. He showed off his newly woke philosophy for Joe Rogan, who is now certainly more rightwing than Tucker Carlson.I love, by the way, that people on my side -- I'll just admit it, on the Right -- have spent the last 80 years defending dropping nuclear weapons on civilians. Like, are you joking? That's just, like, prima facie evil. If you can't -- 'Well, if we hadn't done that, then this, that, the other thing, that was actually a great savings' -- like, no. It's wrong to drop nuclear weapons on people, and if you find yourself arguing that it's a good thing to drop nuclear weapons on people, then you are evil. Like, it's not a tough one, right? It's not a hard call for me. So, with that in mind, like, why would you want nuclear weapons? It's like just a mindless, childish sort of intellectual exercise to justify, like, 'Oh no, it's really good because someone else could get' -- how about, no? How about spending all of your effort to prevent this from happening?I've become less and less interested in what this conspiracy-minded wreck thinks. He's been honeydicked by Glenn Greenwald. A lot of people support Tucker Carlson for opposing the GOP Establishment. That's great. But you know who else opposes the GOP Establishment? The far left. And more and more of Tucker Carlson's positions are from the hard left. Nevermind his conspiratorial fascination with UFOs, which I thought was all a ratings stunt but no, he seems to really Believe.
By the end of Tucker's "evolution," he'll be telling us that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has "some serious ideas, which should be taken seriously." I oppose the American Deep State. That means I now have to believe in... Vladimir Putin?!? On Tucker Carlson, and some others of the right, I'm reminded of G.K. Chesterton's aphorism: "When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything." I feel like a lot of people -- and I include myself in this -- long believed in (this is embarrassing) American institutions like the FBI, CIA, judiciary, and even the corporate class. (Oh Lord...) Now we no longer believe in those things. But, as Chesterton observed, the end of belief in some things often does not result in skepticism for everything -- it often results in the former believer seeking to believe in anything else. And for some (understandably) disappointed former righties, it results in finding new beliefs in the core dogmas of the far left. People have a need to believe, for belief makes order of chaos, and often those who abandon beliefs fly quickly into the arms of a fresh belief system. The old beliefs may have been rejected, but the need to believe remains. Rather than waking up and deciding to no longer believe in stupid nonsense, some, like Tucker Carlson, are on a spiritual quest to find new stupid nonsense to believe in. Below, Tucker Carlson insists he has knowledge that the intelligence agencies are blackmailing congressmen -- but also says he can't say who's confessed to being blackmailed. I would find this more compelling if he didn't make this announcement in the same rant in which he decries the cover-up of "UAPs" -- Unidentified Aerial Pheonomenon, which is the new term for "UFOs" so you can avoid saying "UFOs."
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Of Course: One of LA Soros DA George Gascon's Top Employees -- the Attorney "For Ethics and Integrity Operations" -- Illegally Accessed Police Files on Political Opponents
How much degradation and brutalization by evil communists can this country withstand?
Note she illegally read the records of opponents of his former boss, who was the LA Sheriff, not the opponents of George Gascon. (Although, of course, they share the same list of enemies.) Jen VanLaar from Red State:One of LA County District Attorney George Gascon's top employees, Assistant District Attorney of Ethics and Integrity Operations Diana Teran, has been arrested on 11 felony charges related to the "unauthorized use of data from confidential, statutorily-protected peace officer files."It's so Soviet that the employee in charge of criminal spying on political opponents has the title "Attorney of Ethics and Integrity Operations." Perfect.
According to a press release from California Attorney General Rob Bonta, Teran "accessed computer data including numerous confidential peace officer files in 2018, while working as a Constitutional Policing Advisor at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, and, after joining the LADA in January 2021, impermissibly used that data at the LADA." ... Starting in June 2018, when Alex Villanueva made a good showing in the primary election for LA County Sheriff against his former boss, then-incumbent Sheriff Jim McDonnell, Teran improperly accessed and downloaded the personnel files of Villanueva and other LASD employees who supported his campaign. Sources say this was done at the direction of county Inspector General Max Huntsman, who is also currently under investigation by AG Bonta. Teran's actions ramped up in November 2018 when underdog Villanueva unseated McDonnell, marking the first time an incumbent Sheriff lost re-election in 104 years. The weekend before Villanueva was sworn in, according to sources, Huntsman sent Teran into the Sheriff's office with an external hard drive and instructions to gather additional personnel files. About a month after Villanueva took office he got wind of what had happened and alerted the California AG's office and the FBI. The FBI told Villanueva's office they'd provide technical assistance but there was nothing they could really do, and the AG's office gave Villanueva's office the go-ahead to investigate themselves.Teran has been accused of political misconduct against Villaneuva before. See the article for details. But basically, Teran held off on announcing the office was not prosecuting alleged charges against Villaneuva's cops until after the election, so that the public wrongly believed he was running a dirty shop.
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NY Court of Appeals Tosses Harvey Weinstein's 2020 Rape Conviction
There's a rule that you can't put on evidence of prior "bad acts" to prove that a defendant committed the specific bad acts he's being tried for in the present case.
It's not that such evidence is completely irrelevant; it's that it's unduly prejudicial to the defendant. Such evidence tends to poison the jury against the defendant well out of proportion to the actual light it sheds on the current crime being judged at trial. But that's what the state of New York did to get their conviction. They had some weak evidence of rape in cases where the statute of limitations hadn't run out yet, so they put on evidence from other women claiming they'd been raped (in cases where the statute of limitations had run out). I'm not even sure how this was allowed in the first place. I assume (I haven't read much about the case) that they used the special and often-abused exemption to the "no prior bad acts" rule, the "signature" exception. Prosecutors will sometimes claim that a method of committing a crime is so specific to one individual that it constitutes a "signature" in the modus operandi, and can then put on witnesses who testify about the same M.O. being used in crimes against them. It's often a weak and bullshitty exception: "The bank robbers wore ski masks and gloves, that's a signature." Okay it doesn't usually get that transparent, but you can see the way this rule can abused, and where a judge will allow "signature" evidence in a case The Regime is desperate to win. Another exception, which seems to be the one used in this case, is to claim you're not putting on these witnesses to prove his prior bad acts, but to shed light on his state-of-mind he had when committing the acts he's on trial for. The prosecution put on three witnesses to accuse Weinstein of prior rape, and claimed they weren't presenting this evidence just to show he's generally a rapist, but to prove that his state in mind in the current case was one of intent to commit a sexual assault. That is, it wasn't just a mistake where he misread the woman's level of interest in him. But I mean, come on: You can't tell the jury "don't consider this testimony as evidence that he committed the current crime, just consider it as far as his state-of-mind." That's telling people to put the information in a special vault in their brain that they cannot access except to answer one particular question. No one's brain works like that, not even the brain of Noted "Compartmentalizer" Bill Clinton. The toxic Regime will let every criminal out of jail to pacify one constituency. Then, when another constituency must be appeased, they'll change the rules and start presenting/allowing evidence that is plainly out-of-bounds just to convict one guy. The Regime is controlled by people who are all suffering from untreated moral breakdowns, permanently on tilt, and eager to suspend the law or change the law to to satisfy whatever moral panic they're currently in. (Trump can tell you all about that.) Any trial that makes the news is now a political trial. Weinstein is still in jail over a 2023 conviction for a rape in California. But this one is overturned, and he'll be retried, this time without the supplementation of "prior bad acts" witnesses.This is always the pitch: We have to break the rules to convict this defendant for political reasons.
Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction has been overturned by the New York Court of Appeals. On Thursday, the court found in a 4-3 ruling that the judge in Weinstein's trial -- a landmark moment in the #MeToo movement that the 2017 allegations against him started -- had shown prejudice by allowing women to testify about allegations that were not part of the case. The court has now ordered a new trial. Weinstein, the Oscar-winning producer of "Shakespeare in Love" and "Good Will Hunting," is serving a 23-year sentence at the Mohawk Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison in Rome, N.Y. He will remain imprisoned as he was also convicted of rape in Los Angeles in 2022 and sentenced to an additional 16 years in prison. However, Weinstein was acquitted in the Los Angeles trial on charges involving a woman who testified in his New York case.
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"We reaffirm that no person accused of illegality may be judged on proof of uncharged crimes that serve only to establish the accused's propensity for criminal behavior," wrote Judge Jenny Rivera in the court's majority opinion. "It is an abuse of judicial discretion to permit untested allegations of nothing more than bad behavior that destroys a defendant's character but sheds no light on their credibility as related to the criminal charges lodged against them."
... Judge Madeline Singas wrote in the court's dissenting opinion, "With today's decision, this Court continues to thwart the steady gains survivors of sexual violence have fought for in our criminal justice system. Forgotten are the women who bear the psychological trauma of sexual violence and the scars of testifying again, and again. This erosion of precedent, born from a refusal to accept that crimes of sexual violence are far more nuanced and complex than other crimes, comes at the expense and safety of women."
... At oral argument in February, Aidala maintained that Justice James Burke had stacked the deck against Weinstein by allowing three women -- Dawn Dunning, Tarale Wulff and Lauren Young -- to testify against him. Each of the women told the jury that Weinstein had sexually assaulted them after they showed up for what they thought would be a business meeting. The so-called "Molineux" witnesses were called to show that Weinstein's assaults had a common pattern, and that he was not confused about whether or not the victims consented. Weinstein's defense argued that the effect of the testimony, however, was to attack his character without shedding any light on the allegations for which he was actually charged. "This is major prejudice," Aidala argued in February. "It's saying, 'He's a bad guy. He's a bad guy. He's a bad guy.'" ... The issue of "prior bad acts" testimony was also raised in Bill Cosby's successful appeal of his sexual assault conviction in Pennsylvania. In that case, five women were allowed to testify to buttress the one allegation that was charged. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned that conviction on different grounds, finding that prosecutors had reneged on a promise not to prosecute Cosby.
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A Secret Service Agent Assigned To Kumala Harris Physically Attacks the Special Agent In Charge of the Detail, While Armed;
There Were Reportedly "DEI Concerns" About How This Agent Was Hired
Can no one position Kamala Harris for success?
There Were Reportedly "DEI Concerns" About How This Agent Was Hired
Tom Rogan
@TomRtweets Scooplet- An armed U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to Vice President Kamala Harris's protective detail fought unarmed with other detail agents on Monday morning. The incident occurred at Andrews AFB, shortly before Harris arrived.
Susan Crabtree
@susancrabtree BREAKING: Sources within the Secret Service community tell me the agent assigned to VP Kamala Harris was armed during the fight - that the gun was secured in the agent's holster until other agents physically restrained the agent and took the gun from the agent's possession. I'm also told there are DEI concerns among the USSS community about the hiring of this agent. Other agents and officers within the USSS are asking questions about the agent's hiring process, whether the USSS did enough to look into the agent's background and monitor the agent's mental well-being because there have been widespread concerns about other strange behavior before this incident. For now, I am also withholding the agent's name.
Other details: Sources say the agent in question was acted erratically upon showing up for a traveling shift at Joint Base Andrews. The agent ended up tackling the Senior Agent in Charge of the VP detail, got on top of him and started punching him. At this point, I'm told, the agent who was attacking the SAIC did indeed have a gun, but it was in the holster. Other agents are expressing relief that the agent did not shoot the SAIC.
Can no one position Kamala Harris for success?
An armed U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to Vice President Kamala Harris's protective detail fought unarmed with other detail agents on Monday morning. The incident occurred at the Washington, D.C.-area Andrews Air Force Base, before Harris arrived, and after the agent suffered what the Secret Service has characterized as a medical incident. The Washington Examiner is aware of the agent's name and specific detail responsibilities but is withholding those details for privacy reasons. The Washington Examiner understands that the agent became aggressive with other agents. When the special agent in charge and a detail shift supervisor attempted to calm the agent, a physical altercation ensued. The agent was handcuffed before being withdrawn from service for medical assessment.Yup. As planned:
Butterscotch
@Butters09016449 Every institution is cracking.
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Unexpectedly, Dow Drops Over 600 Unexpected Points After GDP Unexpectedly Flatlines to Unexpectedly Low 1.6%
Stocks tumbled Thursday after the latest U.S. economic data showed a sharp slowdown in growth and pointed to persistent inflation. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 611 points, or 1.6%, weighed down by steep declines in Caterpillar and IBM. The S&P 500 dropped 1.3%, and the Nasdaq Composite lost 1.7%. U.S. gross domestic product expanded 1.6% in the first quarter, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said. Economists polled by Dow Jones forecast GDP growth would come in at 2.4%.And inflation surged, too:
Along with the downbeat growth rate for the quarter, the report showed consumer prices increased at a 3.4% pace, well above the previous quarter's 1.8% advance. This raised concern over persistent inflation and put into question whether the Federal Reserve will be able to cut rates anytime soon.This may sound bad to you, but don't worry, the Washington Post's "journalist" says this is "very solid" growth we should all be pleased by.
It increased by a negative amount Posted by: Lemmiwinks
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