August 06, 2025
Some Wiseacres (and Also Wisenheimers) Think It's Funny to Throw Dildos on to the Courts During WNBA Games
I missed this story but it's okay because the Dildo Tossing is still happening.
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Surprise! Two of the People "Bribing" the Texas Scofflaws Are Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke and... George Soros
Governor Abbott has stated that anyone giving or taking money to help the runaway Texas representatives is guilty of bribery. He makes a good case: Bribery is defined as giving money to induce an official to either take an action or not take an action.
Soros and "Beto" are paying the Democrats to flee the state and not vote on the redistricting bill. They wouldn't be able to do this without the bribe money, and all of them are too selfish to pay themselves for their absconding. Ergo, the money paid to them is in fact a bribe to ensure they do not take an official action (voting) on public business. We'll see if Governor Abbott follows through, or if left-wing judges decide to redefine bribery to grant Democrats a special exemption. From the Texas Tribune:he expenses are mounting fast for the more than 50 Democrats in the Texas House who left the state Sunday to prevent the Republican-controlled chamber from having enough members to conduct business. Most lawmakers traveled to the Chicago area by way of a private plane from CommuteAir. They are now on the hook for lodging, meals and the $500-a-day fines they will each accrue for every day of the special session they miss. National Democratic organizations have been eager to pick up the tab for what they see as a last-ditch effort to stop a nationwide redistricting war that threatens to upend the 2026 midterms. O'Rourke's organization, armed with a $3.5 million war chest, has covered much of the costs so far -- including air transport, lodging and logistical support, a person involved with the fundraising said -- though other groups have been in the mix. Texas Majority PAC, a group backed by Democratic megadonor George Soros and formed by alums of O'Rourke's 2022 gubernatorial bid, is coordinating with national Democratic groups to solicit fundraising from the party's regular big-dollar donors, according to two people with knowledge of the internal dynamics.
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Ghislaine Maxwell's Testimony: I Never Saw Trump Do Anything Concerning
But did she see Bill and Hillary doing anything concerning?
We don't know yet.During her nine hours speaking with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche last month, Ghislaine Maxwell said nothing during the interview that would be harmful to President Donald Trump, telling Blanche that Trump had never done anything in her presence that would have caused concern, according to sources familiar with what Maxwell said. The Trump administration, meanwhile, is considering publicly releasing the transcripts from the interview, multiple sources familiar with the internal discussions told ABC News. Maxwell's meetings with Blanche took place for nine hours over two days.Blanche asked about 100 different people possibly involved with Epstein. That probably includes DOJ officials and AGs who gave him the velvet glove treatment.
Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking minors, stemming from her role in Epstein's criminal network. Despite her conviction, her legal team has filed an appeal, arguing jury misconduct and trial irregularities. As part of this process, Maxwell has engaged with DOJ officials and, according to her attorney David Markus, has "not held anything back." Markus also noted that Maxwell was questioned about "one hundred different people," but did not disclose who else was discussed. While much of the mainstream press continues to speculate about Trump's past connections to Epstein, Maxwell's direct exoneration in this DOJ interview stands in stark contrast to the media narrative. Her remarks reportedly included "nothing harmful to the president," offering further weight to Trump's repeated denials of wrongdoing. President Trump addressed the matter briefly this week, saying he had no prior knowledge of the DOJ meeting with Maxwell or her recent transfer from a Florida correctional facility to a prison in Texas. "I didn't know about it at all, no," Trump said. "I read about it just like you did. It's not a very uncommon thing." In an interview with Newsmax's Rob Finnerty last week, Trump reiterated his openness to transparency, stating he wants to "release everything" while cautioning against unnecessary harm: "I don't want people to get hurt." In a significant move, the Trump administration is now reportedly considering whether to publicly release the full transcripts of the Maxwell interview, potentially as early as this week. An audio recording also exists, though it remains unclear whether it will be made available alongside the transcripts.I've been wondering lately if people Trump considers friends and political allies are mentioned in the "Epstein files," and that's what's bothering him. He says he doesn't want innocent people to "get hurt." I imagine he's not worrying about the Clintons or the Ghost of Bill Richardson there.
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Nasty Subterranean Hermit Howard Stern May Retire (and Trump Will be Blamed for SiriusXM's Fascist Decision)
I think Trump will be proud to take credit, but the truth seems to be that the former "King of All Media" has terrible ratings and hasn't been relevant for decades.
Stern, who apparently takes the entire summer off -- are you kidding me? -- is wondering if he should retire. He had fifteen good years in his fifty year career, and they were all thirty years ago.Sure, he's thinking about other people's feelings. That is just Classic Stern (TM).
Legendary radio host Howard Stern faces an uncertain future at SiriusXM as his five-year, $500 million contract winds down, according reports. The 71-year-old shock jock would be open to a short-term contract if the price is right, but he's also considering calling it quits with SiriusXM, as first reported by the Sun. "He may do a one- to two-year contract if they can meet him where he wants financially. He doesn't want to pull the plug on his employees like this," one source told the Daily Mail.
Reportedly, this vain, ugly ghoul is upset that SiriusXM has another big "star" (is anyone on Serius really a "star"?) and he's not top dog.
"He is off in the summer but this year has been saying 'Maybe I should retire,'" another source told the outlet.
Oh dear, I never would have suspected that Stern was driven by both greed and petty vanity. Shocked! I'm shocked, I say.
The insider noted that Stern is irritated with SiriusXM's reliance on competing radio star Andy Cohen. Another source said Stern is even thinking about "parting ways" with SiriusXM.
... The host's reputation has flip-flopped over the years between being regarded as an awe-inspiring dominator who could pry anything out of any guest and an out-of-touch has-been.Well, it "flipped." It never flopped back. You need the flopping part for a flip-flop.
That's not a "fluctuation," that is an absolute collapse. Again, a fluctuation requires the flux to go back the other way. If you don't have the flow back to the previous condition, what you've got yourself right there is a simple collapse. Does anyone in the written media know how to write? Do they know what words mean? Sirius and Stern stopped releasing Stern's ratings in 2020. Stern has always bragged about his ratings more than even Donald Trump, so if the ratings are now an absolute corporate secret, they're terrible. ThatParkPlace says that Sirius no longer believes he's worth the $100/year investment. In other words, their reportage is more that Sirius wants done with Stern, unlike the NY Post report which claims Stern is making the decision to retire entirely of his own volition.
Stern has struggled to clarify his identity over the last few years while insisting that he is "woke" and simultaneously doing layup interviews with people like former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris despite leaning Republican earlier in his storied career. ... Stern's show doesn't pull in nearly as many listeners as it used to, especially compared to Cohen's two channels. Stern's program has fluctuated from 20 million daily to just 125,000 of late.
ThatParkPlace reports that Sirius' real offer is a much smaller deal to retain the rights to Stern's archives of old shows, while no longer paying him for his new, unfunny crap. Stern has proclaimed he "hates" Trump voters -- aka his prior audience.
Sources indicate that The Howard Stern Show is set to be canceled on SiriusXM as the shock jock's lucrative contract approaches its expiration this fall. The 71-year-old radio icon, who has been a cornerstone of the satellite radio platform since 2006, may not see his five-year deal renewed amid reports of financial disagreements and shifting priorities at the company. According to insights shared with multiple outlets, SiriusXM is preparing an offer for Stern but does not anticipate him accepting it, primarily due to insurmountable gaps in salary negotiations. Stern's current contract, reportedly valued at around $100 million annually, has been a benchmark for high-profile media deals, but insiders claim the investment no longer aligns with the company's economic realities. "Sirius and Stern are never going to meet on the money he is going to want," an insider source claimed. "It's no longer worth the investment." ... Cost-cutting appears to be a driving force behind the decision that could lead to Howard Stern being canceled. SiriusXM, facing broader industry challenges, has been reevaluating high-ticket talent contracts. One could easily point to parallels to recent changes in late-night television, noting, "After you saw what happened with Stephen Colbert, it's like they just can't afford to keep him going." This sentiment echoes reports of SiriusXM's reluctance to sustain Stern's salary, with sources emphasizing, "There's no way they can keep paying his salary." Adding another layer, Stern's outspoken political views may be influencing the negotiations. A vocal critic of President Donald Trump, Stern has used his platform to mock conservative figures and hosted Vice President Kamala Harris for an interview ahead of the 2024 election--a move that drew backlash from Republicans. "It's more likely everything to do with the political climate," another source suggested, implying that Stern's "woke" shift could be a factor in the company's hesitance. ... SiriusXM has ceased releasing Stern's ratings since 2020, reportedly due to a significant decline in listenership, with critics attributing this erosion to his increasingly "woke" persona and overt political commentary. This mirrors broader trends where outspoken anti-Trump celebrities encounter backlash, including audience boycotts and financial repercussions, as seen with figures like Stephen Colbert.
Ba-ba-booey bye-bye. Stern's downfall began with his divorce and his hosting gig on America's Got Talent. Before his divorce, Stern seemed like an everyman. He would moan about being tempted and tantalized by the parade of naked women in the studio, and would faux-pray to God to keep him from committing adultery: "Please God don't let me cheat, I love my wife, I love my money." Then he divorced his wife to get some younger strange and everyone realized "Oh he's just a media douchebag like the rest of them." But the real killer was America's Got Talent. I got a couple of free trial subscriptions to SiriusXM with a couple of purchases. I listened to Stern, of course. And what I heard was him endlessly rehashing his time on America's Got Talent, which I did not watch and would not watch, for hours and hours and hours. Just when I would think "He can't possibly talk about this single one hour episode of crap reality TV any more this week," he would once again launch into "behind the scenes" revelations about the show -- all of which were fake revelations, because at this point he was the ultimate Hollywood Kiss-Ass and had nothing but praise for celebrities. I stopped listening after a day or two, even though my trial was for two weeks or so. The next time I got a free trial subscription -- he was yapping endlessly about America's Got Talent again. And that was the last time I ever listened to him. His "mainstream media success" (on a crappy rip-off reality tv show) led him to just becoming the absolute worse kind of shill for Hollywood and the left. The ugly nerdy pervert kid was allowed in the cool kid's club -- sort of, he was allowed to skulk at the periphery -- and made pleasing them his only mission.
In 2024, Stern declared he "hates" Trump voters, calling them "stupid" and questioning their intelligence. He said he didn't mind losing half his listeners if Trump supporters stopped listening to his show. Stern claimed Trump "despises" his own supporters, suggesting they wouldn't fit in at Mar-a-Lago. Following the 2024 election, Stern expressed fear that America wasn't ready to elect a woman president like Kamala Harris, implying Trump's victory reflected societal biases. In 2023, Stern embraced his "woke" label, affirming he is anti-Trump.
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Reports: Adam Schiff Is Under Federal Criminal Investigation for Mortgage Fraud
We were told during the Biden prosecutions that no mercy whatsoever should be shown if you even suspect someone might be involved in a crime.
California Democrat Senator Adam Schiff is reportedly under federal criminal investigation over alleged mortgage fraud tied to misrepresented property records. According to Fox News, the probe centers on claims Schiff declared multiple homes as his "primary residence" to secure favorable mortgage terms on government-backed loans. Key Details: The U.S. Attorney's Office in Maryland is conducting the investigation, according to a source who spoke to Fox News. The probe follows a criminal referral from the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) alleging that Schiff falsified property documents and occupancy claims. Schiff and his wife reportedly claimed a home in Potomac, Maryland, as their "primary residence" on multiple Fannie Mae loan documents -- despite Schiff representing California in Congress during the same time period and taking a homeowner's tax exemption in Burbank, California. FHFA officials believe Schiff may have violated multiple federal statutes, including wire fraud, bank fraud, and false statements to financial institutions, by allegedly misrepresenting property use to obtain lower mortgage rates. ... Schiff's office did not respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
Dan Scavino Jr.Let justice be done and let it be cruel.
@DanScavino Imagine patriotically and proudly serving in the first Trump White House for four years, and departing in January of 2021 . . . Then, during the four years you're out, BIDEN LAWFARE kicks in, and you receive the below email five weeks before re-entering the White House again in January 2025... "Google received and responded to a legal process issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation compelling the release of information related to your Google account. A court order previously prohibited Google from notifying you of the legal process..." I've never shared this--but this is a small taste of the INSANITY that many of us went through--right here in the United States of America. LAWFARE at its finest. A Complete and Total Disgrace!!!!!
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DOGE Worker "BigBallz" Steps In to Protect a Woman Being Carjacked by DC Thug "Youths;"
The "Youths" Beat Him Mercilessly
The "Youths" Beat Him Mercilessly
"BigBalls" proved his screenname was not idly chosen:
MikeAnd now Trump is giving DC an ultimatum: Lock down the zoo you call a city or I'll do it for you.
@MikeZ_TXVet82 Former D.O.G.E. staffer known as Big Balls is being called a Hero after he was assaulted over the weekend by a gang of 8 to 10 teens as he was protecting his female companion during an attempted carjacking in Washington, D.C.
He is recovering from a broken nose, a concussion, and a black eye.
We wish him a speedy recovery.
President Trump warned Tuesday that Washington, D.C., could face federal takeover if city leaders fail to address rising youth crime. Calling the capital "out of control," Trump said he would have "no choice" but to intervene unless the city starts prosecuting violent juveniles as adults. Key Details: In a Truth Social post Tuesday, Trump slammed DC's crime crisis, demanding minors as young as 14 be tried as adults and "locked up for a long time." The post included a graphic image of a man reportedly beaten by teens -- later identified as Edward Coristine, a former DOGE employee who intervened in an attempted assault and was attacked. DC has imposed curfews and other measures, but juvenile crime remains rampant, with the city's youth arrest rate nearly double the national average. Diving Deeper: President Trump on Tuesday renewed his call to bring Washington, D.C., under federal control, citing what he called an "out of control" crime wave being driven by violent juveniles. "Local 'youths' and gang members, some only 14, 15, and 16-years-old, are randomly attacking, mugging, maiming, and shooting innocent Citizens," Trump posted on Truth Social, adding that these teens act with impunity because "they will be almost immediately released." "If D.C. doesn't get its act together," Trump warned, "we will have no choice but to take Federal control of the City." The president's post included an image of a young man bleeding from the face after reportedly being assaulted by teens -- an incident that now appears to involve Edward Coristine, a former staffer at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). According to a police report obtained by the New York Post, Coristine was downtown with his girlfriend Sunday morning when a group of juveniles approached them and reportedly "made a comment about taking the vehicle." Coristine pushed the woman into the car to shield her, the report says, before confronting the teens himself. He was then assaulted. Officers arrived while the beating was still in progress and arrested two minors. Elon Musk also weighed in, calling Coristine "a hero" and blaming the city's leadership for the rise in lawlessness. Trump's push comes amid growing frustration in the capital over youth violence. "We are seeing kids as young as nine and ten getting involved in carjackings," said Councilmember Robert White Jr. at a public town hall earlier this year. "It's not just isolated incidents. It's systemic." Mayor Muriel Bowser has tried to curb the violence by instituting an 11 p.m. curfew for minors, with even earlier restrictions in high-crime areas. But with Washington's juvenile arrest rate nearly twice the national average -- roughly 2,235 arrests annually between 2016 and 2022 -- critics say the problem is far from solved. Trump previously floated the idea of a federal takeover in February, telling reporters aboard Air Force One, "I think we should take over Washington, D.C. -- make it safe."
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Wednesday Morning Rant
Yet They Wonder
I still manage to marvel at the utter absence of introspection within the press. For as much as they complain about "loss of trust" and caterwaul about the "dangerous culture of disrespect," they still decline to consider why nobody trusts them and everybody hates them. It isn't hard to figure out, but they also have a vested interest in not figuring it out.
I recently read a lengthy article by the Denver Post that is a shining example of why people hate the press. It's an "expose" of an X account called "DoBetterDNVR," which covers the vagrancy and illegal alien problems in that city. The city government hates it, as does the city's main newspaper. The account is apparently both popular and not faith-promoting, so the Post decided to cover it.
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
Anita Malfatti
Anita Malfatti
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The Morning Report — 8/6/25
Had this bomb and then the one on Nagasaki three days later not been used, there is no doubt in my mind that I and for sure many of you would likely never have been born as our fathers would have likely been shoved into the meat grinder to end all meat grinders. That is invasions of the Japanese home islands and the continued strategic bombing campaign that likely would have resulted in the death of at least a couple million soldiers, marines, airmen and sailors over the ensuing months or even years until the Japanese had been forced to surrender or the nascent political class in DC just unilaterally declared the war over to preserve their political hides. The lives of the average GI being not so much of a concern. Stay tuned for Korea, Vietnam and the GWOT. Beyond that, despite the couple hundred thousand Japanese lives the atomic bombs took, an invasion and/or blockade of the islands with the continued bombing campaign of LeMay's 20th Air Force to make the rubble bounce, along with the arming of the populace with everything from suicide vests to sharpened sticks to face off against a US invasion force, would have killed millions of Japanese. The atom bombs in the end saved many more lives, Japanese and American, than they cost. This is an inarguable fact.
In any case, though this only comes around once a year, it is a bit irritating to have to repeat it. That said, there are a few other stories of note that seem to be happening on a much more frequent basis that are equally irritating and even more disgusting to me that I have to keep reporting on it. But as a great American once said "Deeze are da conditions dat prevail."
While rhetoric may light the fuse, who is behind the supplying of the gasoline, the bottles and the fuses in the first place? Recall that Chlamydia Harris herself and several other key Democrat politicians had funded bail and legal defense of Antifa and BLM rioters during the 2020 Summer of Love Floyd riots-cum-insurrection to destabilize America in the months leading up to the elections. Along with the Covid lockdowns and evisceration of any semblance of election integrity with mail-in ballots and all the fraud that that allowed on top of the Russian collusion hoax that at long last is being brought into the light for all the world to see. Meanwhile, as Texas Democrats relax beneath the shade of J.B. Pritzker's gunt, we have this to contend with:
Had this bomb and then the one on Nagasaki three days later not been used, there is no doubt in my mind that I and for sure many of you would likely never have been born as our fathers would have likely been shoved into the meat grinder to end all meat grinders. That is invasions of the Japanese home islands and the continued strategic bombing campaign that likely would have resulted in the death of at least a couple million soldiers, marines, airmen and sailors over the ensuing months or even years until the Japanese had been forced to surrender or the nascent political class in DC just unilaterally declared the war over to preserve their political hides. The lives of the average GI being not so much of a concern. Stay tuned for Korea, Vietnam and the GWOT. Beyond that, despite the couple hundred thousand Japanese lives the atomic bombs took, an invasion and/or blockade of the islands with the continued bombing campaign of LeMay's 20th Air Force to make the rubble bounce, along with the arming of the populace with everything from suicide vests to sharpened sticks to face off against a US invasion force, would have killed millions of Japanese. The atom bombs in the end saved many more lives, Japanese and American, than they cost. This is an inarguable fact.
In any case, though this only comes around once a year, it is a bit irritating to have to repeat it. That said, there are a few other stories of note that seem to be happening on a much more frequent basis that are equally irritating and even more disgusting to me that I have to keep reporting on it. But as a great American once said "Deeze are da conditions dat prevail."
An arsonist attacked an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in Washington state over the weekend, throwing a rock through a window and lighting a fire on the property. The unidentified arsonist targeted an ICE field office in Yakima, Washington, about 140 miles away from Seattle. Federal agents, the Department of Homeland Security says, managed to escape from the attack unscathed. Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin slammed Democrat politicians for their incendiary rhetoric against ICE agents, accusing them of contributing to the surge in violence against the federal law enforcement force. “Make no mistake, Democrat politicians like Hakeem Jeffries, Mayor Wu of Boston, Tim Walz, and Mayor Bass of Los Angeles are contributing to the surge in assaults of our ICE officers through their repeated vilification and demonization of ICE,” McLaughlin charged. “From comparisons to the modern-day Nazi Gestapo to glorifying rioters, the violent rhetoric of these sanctuary politicians is beyond the pale.”
While rhetoric may light the fuse, who is behind the supplying of the gasoline, the bottles and the fuses in the first place? Recall that Chlamydia Harris herself and several other key Democrat politicians had funded bail and legal defense of Antifa and BLM rioters during the 2020 Summer of Love Floyd riots-cum-insurrection to destabilize America in the months leading up to the elections. Along with the Covid lockdowns and evisceration of any semblance of election integrity with mail-in ballots and all the fraud that that allowed on top of the Russian collusion hoax that at long last is being brought into the light for all the world to see. Meanwhile, as Texas Democrats relax beneath the shade of J.B. Pritzker's gunt, we have this to contend with:
Democrat Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL) told a meeting of foreign Latinos in Mexico, “I’m a proud Guatemalan before I’m an American,” and the Department of Homeland Security wants citizens to see her confession of foreign loyalty.Call me old fashioned, but is this not an open abrogation of one's oath as both an American citizen and as an elected official. Adding insult to injury is the fact that she opened her filthy sewer in Mexico. The DoJ, DHS or whichever agency is appropriate should move to immediately strip her of her citizenship and have her deported back to Guatemala since that is where she wants to be. Not that I'd blame President Arévalo in the least if he resisted her repatriation. And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know. Have a great day!
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- 1.5 million Purple Hearts were prepared for an invasion of Japan.
Nuking Japan Saved More Lives Than It Took
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Daily Tech News 6 August 2025
Top Story
- Intel is reportedly struggling with yields on its latest 18A (1.8nm) process. (Reuters) (archive site)
Intel has said it plans to use this process for consumer chips, but that could prove difficult if yield really are bad.
- Meanwhile the US government has reportedly asked TSMC to buy 49% of Intel in return for tariff relief. (Notebook Check)
Well, that's one way to fix things, I guess.
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August 05, 2025
Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - August 5, 2025 [scampydog]
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Alpha Chad Sex Hounds Cafe
The family that plays together stays together.
I'd hate to have to sit next to this one-ton Tommy. You can only push a puppy so far before he fights back.
Cute puppy demands you respecc his dicc. This dog is ready for his Eyes Wide Shut sex orgy. "Bring the young one to me." Adorable puppy says this bed is my Love Gym. This puppy has his Gimp Mask on. He may look like a virgin, but make no mistake, this puppy fucks hard. Ass gas or grass, no one rides for free. Puppy says "While you're down there..." This dog is reflecting on his last nut.
Classic Horror FilmsI remember staring at that photo in a book about "real ghosts" in elementary school. Just last week some video was released showing a poltergeist, or "angry ghost," which appeared on the stage and spoke in tongues. Bunny absolutely DESTROYS agility course. I assume. I have no basis for comparison. To be honest this bunny might have just posted rookie numbers and I wouldn't be the wiser. Road thug robs local priests. Birds instinctively peck out a fire. Baby rhino defends his mom.
@HorrorHammer1 The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall, one of the most famous ghost photographs of all time, originally taken for Country Life and first published in December 1936
The family that plays together stays together.
I'd hate to have to sit next to this one-ton Tommy. You can only push a puppy so far before he fights back.
Cute puppy demands you respecc his dicc. This dog is ready for his Eyes Wide Shut sex orgy. "Bring the young one to me." Adorable puppy says this bed is my Love Gym. This puppy has his Gimp Mask on. He may look like a virgin, but make no mistake, this puppy fucks hard. Ass gas or grass, no one rides for free. Puppy says "While you're down there..." This dog is reflecting on his last nut.
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Trump Prepares to Sign EO Forbidding Political De-Banking and Imposing Penalties on Banks Who Corruptly De-Banked Citizens
Trump told CNBC that JP Morgan and Bank of America had debanked him for no reason.
Here's how terrorist propaganda organization Reuters reported it:
JPMorgan and Bank of America "debanked" President Trump for his role in the January 6 Capitol Hill melee following pressure from the Biden administration's banking regulators and the Federal Reserve, people with direct knowledge of the matter tell The Post. The exact reason for Trump and his tens of millions of dollars in holdings being kicked off the JPMorgan banking platform, and then denied access to Bank of America's services has yet to be reported. But sources at the banks -- the No. 1 and No. 2 largest in the US in terms of assets -- confirmed the cause stemmed from the controversy surrounding Trump's actions that day, and threats from Biden's bank regulators that banking the former president's money put them at in danger of falling afoul of rule that prohibit financial institution from doing business with individuals and companies that present a "reputational risk." People at the banks tell The Post that Biden's banking cops at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the FDIC and the Federal Reserve often used the nebulous nature of the edict to go beyond debanking money launderers and drug kingpins. They were pressured to include people who have heterodox political and business ties that often included conservatives and anyone who participated in the January 6 protests. Trump, of course, survived it all and is now in his second presidential term. He is vowing to end debanking; his regulators have stopped enforcing the reputational risk clause and he plans an executive order in the matter. ... An executive at JPMorgan said regulators "put the fear of God in you if you did business" with people like Trump. ... A Bank of America spokesman declined comment. JPMorgan said in a statement: "We don't close accounts for political reasons, and we agree with President Trump that regulatory change is desperately needed. We commend the White House for addressing this issue and look forward to working with them to get this right." A bank rep wouldn't deny that the reputation risk edict was at the heart of its debanking of Trump. Trump himself revealed that he was debanked Tuesday in an interview with the financial network CNBC. He said he was denied services at both institutions sometime after his first term ended in January 2021, just weeks after the storming of the Capitol building that political opponents of Trump have described as a riot and insurrection. First he said he was booted by JPMorgan. "I had 100s of millions. I had many, many accounts loaded up with cash. I was loaded up with cash, and they told me, 'I'm sorry, sir, we can't have you. You have 20 days to get out.' I said, 'you've got to be kidding. I've been with you for 35, 40 years.' "
Then he was denied services by Bank Of America. During the interview, he named both JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon and Brian Moynihan of Bank of America, stating both refused to come to his defense. He said Moynihan, "was kissing my ass when I was president, and when I called him after I was president to deposit a billion dollars plus and a lot of other things, more importantly to open accounts, which banks always like . . . And he said, we can't do it." Trump and his regulators have sought to end the practice and he's issuing an executive order imminently to end politically motivated debanking.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he believes that banks discriminate against him and his supporters, adding that Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase had previously refused to accept his deposits. "They totally discriminate against, I think, me maybe even more, but they discriminate against many conservatives," he told CNBC in an interview. "I think the word might be Trump supporters more than conservatives." Trump made the comments when asked about a report by the Wall Street Journal that said he planned to punish banks that discriminated against conservatives, but did not address the order specifically. The order instructs regulators to review banks for "politicized or unlawful debanking" practices, according to a draft reviewed by Reuters. "Well, they did discriminate," Trump said of actions taken by JPMorgan Chase after his first term in office. "I had hundreds of millions, I had many, many accounts loaded up with cash ... and they told me, 'I'm sorry sir, we can't have you. You have 20 days to get out.'" Trump said, without providing evidence, that he believed that the banks' refusal to take his deposits indicated that the administration of former President Joe Biden had encouraged banking regulators to "destroy Trump."
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Lois Lerner's Top Lieutenant in Tea-Party Targeting Is Finally Put on Leave
A former deputy to Lois Lerner -- who oversaw the IRS division accused of targeting conservative groups during the Obama years -- was placed on leave after lawmakers raised alarms that a new sub-department she was leading was becoming politicized. In 2013, Lerner was hauled before Congress, where it was revealed her agency had wrongfully scrutinized tax-exempt applications related to the phrases "Tea Party," "9/12" and "Constitution." The Treasury's inspector general later confirmed "inappropriate criteria" was used to target conservative groups and criticized ineffective oversight of systemic bias. IRS Commissioner of Large Business and International Division Holly Paz -- Lerner's then-deputy -- was placed on leave last week as lawmakers drew attention to a subordinate work-unit aimed at auditing pass-through businesses that Biden-era Commissioner Danny Werfel had created and assigned her to lead.According to Google's AI, a pass through business is a fairly standard kind of business framework.
A pass-through business (also known as a flow-through entity or fiscally transparent entity) is a business structure in which the profits and losses of the business are passed through directly to the owners or shareholders, according to Wikipedia. Unlike C-corporations, the business entity itself is not subject to corporate income tax. Instead, the owners report their share of the business's income or loss on their personal tax returns and pay taxes at their individual income tax rates.I don't follow the NBA, AI NPC, but thanks for asking.
Key aspects of pass-through businesses No double taxation: The main advantage is avoiding the double taxation faced by C corporations, where profits are taxed at the corporate level and again when distributed to shareholders.
Taxation at individual rates: Owners are taxed on the business income at their individual income tax rates.
Common types: Includes sole proprietorships, partnerships, S corporations, and limited liability companies (LLCs) that choose to be taxed as a sole proprietorship or partnership. I like the Miami Heat. What about you?
Holly Paz is accused of changing the rules for businesses so that more of them will be audited -- and so Biden's legions of new IRS employees would have a larger pool of victims to harass:
Werfel called the new work-unit a big step in "ensur[ing] the IRS holds the nation's wealthiest filers accountable," and Paz called it an "important change" in the IRS structure. However, by 2025, lawmakers, including Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., warned that the pass-thru-business compliance unit had transformed to be "motivated by ideology rather than principles of sound tax administration." ... Around that time, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa., warned Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that Paz's team "has made tongue-in-cheek political comments," including their stated wish to "make basis great again" -- a phrase regarding taxation loss/gain that hearkens to President Donald Trump's MAGA slogan. In that regard, Rep. Lloyd Smucker, R-Pa., wrote to IRS Commissioner Billy Long in July that a Biden-era "basis-shifting transaction rule" had "extended the scope" of enforcement. ... Chuck Flint, a former top aide to Blackburn and president of the Alliance for IRS Accountability, told Fox News Digital on Tuesday that Paz's past targeting of conservative groups makes her "unfit for government service." Flint said her statements to Congress and role as LB&I chief "places a cloud over the IRS."
Blackburn warned in her letter to Bessent that an IRS news release referencing targeting "complex arrangements" lacked clear definitions and created the impression that legitimate business structures could be unfairly targeted based on legal structure versus actual tax compliance risk. "Even more concerning, the announcement explicitly states that the bureaucratic changes were designed primarily to 'achieve its goal of increased audit rates in this complex area'. "This focus on increasing audits rather than improving compliance suggests an agenda-driven approach to enforcement," Blackburn said. In her letter, Ernst warned Bessent that Paz's team members "have also undermined their appearance of impartiality by comparing legally acceptable transactions to obscene material, saying, 'It's one of those 'You know it when you see it' -- a joking reference to [Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart's] attempt to define pornography.Corrupt bureaucrats (and corrupt media shills) always want to operate in a rules-free environment where they can accuse and harass as it pleases them, without any rules restraining their whim.
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Disgraced Fired Former ABC "Journalist" Terry Moran: Yes ABC "News" Was Politically Biased Against Trump and the GOP, "Inadvertently"
LOL at "inadvertently."
Moran was always among the most brazen of the left-wing spinners at ABC, only topped by Stephanopolous, and Gay Handbag Model David Muir, and... well a lot of them, really. Let's just say a lot of ABC "talent" ties for second place. He got fired when his brazen partisanship could not be denied any longer. He got on to Twitter, fortified, most believe, with a disinhibitory dose of alcohol, and proclaimed key Trump advisor Stephen Miller a Nazi. He's in a snit over his firing, and trying to attract eyeballs to his Substack, now that he's unemployed. So he's now willing to throw ABC "News" under the bus for attention. But not all the way. He still insists that the "News" division led by Clinton spokesman and spinner George Stephanolpolous is just "inadvertently" biased.Let's talk about bias. I worked at ABC News for almost 28 years, and I'm proud to say that. A lot of good people do a lot of really good work there, and they try hard to get the story right. There were many days over the years when I'd watch a colleague at work, on-camera or behind the scenes, and I'd think: That's how you do this. That is how you do a story that will really help people understand the truth of what's happening in our country and beyond. But: Were we biased? Yes. Almost inadvertently, I'd say. ABC News has the same problem so many leading cultural institutions do in America: A lack of viewpoint diversity. When I joined ABC News in 1997, it was basically run by white men. (I have nothing against white men; I am one.) That management structure lasted for a long time, way too long. But over the last decade or so, the company made an effort to hire and promote journalists from a much wider diversity of backgrounds and life experiences. That changed ABC News, for the better: changed our conversations, changed our perceptions of stories and events in the country and around the world, changed our coverage. For me, the job got a lot more interesting, and more fun. But there was one way ABC did not change and did not diversify. It is no secret.I have made this point a thousand times: Throughout the 80s and 90s and 2000s, left-wing identity politics group would march on up to network news offices and proclaim they were biased against various identity politics groups protected by the left. The news is biased against women. The networks respond by hiring many female anchors and reporters and scheduling many "women's issue" stories (and non-stories) during the week's "news." The news is biased against blacks. The networks respond by hiring many black anchors and reporters, and, crucially, agreeing to no longer report the races of criminals when they're black. And ultimately to stop reporting on crime at all. (Except, of course, for racial hoaxes and crimes committed against minorities by whites or, and I still enjoy this, "White Hispanics.") The news is biased against Muslims. And gays. And ditto, and ditto. There are only a couple of groups that the networks insist they have no bias at all against and therefore no need to change or even tweak anything at all: * Conservatives * Traditionalist Christians When those groups complain they are seriously underrepresented in the news business and slandered by liberal "journalists," the networks all responded the same way: Fuck you, snowflakes, we're not biased and even if we are, fuck you twice, you'll just have to live with it. I think it's pretty clear those are the groups the leftwing media is actually biased against. The proof is their utter unwillingness to take complaints from those groups with even an atom of interest, while giving away identity-politics concessions to literally every other group with a grievance.
There are hardly any people who supported Donald Trump at ABC News--or the other corporate/legacy/mainstream news networks. And this is bound to impact coverage, not so much out of malevolent bias (that's the cartoon version peddled by Trump, Brendan Carr and online MAGA), but more out of what is a kind of deafness. The old news divisions don't hear many of the voices of the country, because those voices aren't in the newsroom. Yes, news teams go out with a microphone and a camera and accost people at Trump rallies; but to me that often comes off as weirdly anthropological and inaccurate, kind of like trying to understand nature by visiting a zoo. You don't really see a tiger at the zoo, just a version of a tiger.None of this is inadvertent. It's been corporate news policy for decades: All groups are entitled to have a seat at the news table and have their concerns heard, except for the two groups the communists actually despise with genocidal passion, conservatives and Christians.
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Disgraced Fired Former CNN Propagandist Jim Acosta "Interviews" an AI, Supposedly "Modeled" on a Dead Teenager, Programmed to Spit Out Gun Control Propaganda
The answer is none. None more low.
Liberal journalist Jim Acosta "interviewed" the artificially animated avatar of deceased teenager Joaquin Oliver to promote a gun control message on Monday. Working with the gun control group Change the Ref, founded by Oliver's parents, Acosta had a conversation on his Substack with an avatar created by the father of the son, who was killed in the Parkland high school shooting in 2018. He would have turned 25 on Monday. "I would like to know what your solution would be for gun violence," Acosta asked. "Great question. I believe in a mix of stronger gun control laws, mental health support, and community engagement. We need to create safe spaces for conversations and connections, making sure everyone feels seen and heard," Oliver's avatar said. "It's about building a culture of kindness and understanding. What do you think of that?" "I think that's a great idea, Joaquin," the ex-CNN correspondent said.The literal NPC is programmed to spit out absurd taking points and then end every statement with "What do you think about that?" or "How about you?" to simulate human conservation. Acosta must have been tipped that the NPC was programmed to talk about the sports teams the actual teen liked, because otherwise, why would he ask about them?
Acosta also asked questions like what Oliver's favorite team, movies and TV shows were. The avatar answered and often asked Acosta the question back, sometimes sounding robotic, sometimes highly enthusiastic. "Star Wars is such an epic saga. The adventures, the characters and that iconic music are unforgettable," Oliver's avatar said at one point.All intended to humanize the artificial intelligence. Wait, it's not even artificial intelligence. It's just a basic language-parsing script.
... Afterward, Acosta spoke to Oliver's father, Manuel, who thanked him for his participation in the interview. Acosta marveled at the avatar being able to engage with him, saying he was "speechless" at the technology and really felt he was speaking with the actual person. "I understand that this is AI," Manuel Oliver said, saying he wasn't trying to truly bring his son back. "Sadly, I can't. However, the technology is out there. I can hear his voice again."No, you're not hearing his voice. Bearing Arms doubts Jim Acosta's motives, for some reason.
A more realistic take on Acosta's sit-down, though, is that the former CNN journo is looking for clicks in all the wrong places and an attention-grabbing stunt like this one was guaranteed to generate interest, even if it didn't produce any actual news. Or rather, the news that was produced is that Acosta has sunk to a new low in a bid to get attract eyeballs.
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Bill and Hillary Clinton, James Comey and Robert Mueller All Subpoenaed for Testimony About Their Dealings with and/or Knowlege About Jeffrey Epstein
And So It Begins: A New Beginning.
House Republicans subpoenaed nearly a dozen former federal officials and politicians -- including Bill and Hillary Clinton -- as well as records from the Department of Justice on Tuesday amid an expanding probe into the deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The officials -- including former FBI Directors James Comey and Robert Mueller as well as six ex-US attorneys general -- were compelled to testify before the House Oversight Committee. Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) announced the move less than two weeks after DOJ officials interviewed Epstein's late accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence in a federal prison for conspiring to sexually abuse young girls.Are Trump and the GOP repairing the damage caused by Epstein foot-dragging? I don't know, I wasn't that upset about it in the first place. I can't say if these moves appease the people most concerned about a "cover-up." New York Magazine is whining that the Democrat Party's EpsteinGate attack on Trump isn't working.
It has become an iron tenet of contemporary politics that developments that would massively affect the standing in public opinion of most politicians have little or no effect, positively or negatively, on Donald Trump. He's the most galvanizing public figure in living memory, and his vast history of controversy and scandal appear to have made him as impervious to breaking news as a cockroach is impervious to radiation. And as Nate Silver explains after looking at every bit of available public-opinion research, there just isn't much specific evidence that the Epstein files scandal and cover-up are moving the numbers. Indeed, when it comes to the more specific claim that the "crisis" over Epstein is wreaking havoc in Trump's MAGA base, the evidence suggests strongly otherwise... Because heavy Epstein coverage is displacing other damaging-to-Trump stories, Nate is skeptical that more incessant coverage will start hurting Trump...Ed Morrissey floats the speculation that Ghislaine Maxwell told prosecutors about Bill and Hillary's trips to Pedo Island. A Trump prosecutor spoke with Maxwell, and the DOJ is considering releasing a transcript. And then the GOP subpeonas the Clintons. To be honest, I don't think that proves much of anything. The GOP is famous for subpoenas and Strongly Written Letters. But, Trump's DOJ did move Maxwell from a bad prison to a better prison. Which is obviously something the state does when it likes your testimony.
Nate Silver thinks the whole story may be remembered much like Russiagate, an obsessive elite liberal preoccupation that appeared to make voters simply confirm whatever they thought about Trump before. We have no way of knowing that until the loose threads are all tracked down and this chapter of the Epstein story has a beginning, a middle, and, at long last, an end.
Clearly, Maxwell told Blanche and investigators something that interested them. The move to a lower-security work camp clearly indicates a level of fruitful cooperation, although how reliable it might be would be another question entirely... The sudden interest in the Clintons and other "top law enforcement officials" by the House Oversight Committee has to raise eyebrows, too. Subpoenaing a former president and a former presidential nominee for congressional testimony is unusual, to say the least, and it's not something done lightly as a fishing expedition. Coming as it does on the heels of the Maxwell interview, her transfer, and the suggestion that the Trump administration may make the Maxwell transcript public, it's extremely difficult to chalk all of this up as a coincidence.Lee Smith, author of The Plot Against the President -- which I recently wrongly referred to as "The Hunting of the President," which I think was a book by a leftwing Bill Clinton Apologist -- warns the GOP to not buy into "EpsteinGate," which he says is just "RussiaGate 2.0." And by "EpsteinGate" he means the claims by the left that Trump is "covering up" his dealings with Jeffrey Epstein. Except that this time, EpsteinGate is calling from inside the house.
Perhaps the most senior former Obama official pushing Epsteingate is Susan Rice, the onetime national security adviser whose Jan. 5, 2017, email may implicate Obama in the anti-Trump conspiracy. In an X post over a New York Times op-ed by Brennan and Obama's director of national intelligence, James Clapper, she wrote that the Trump administration's Russiagate disclosures are a "shameless, dishonest, defamatory scheme to distract from EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN." ... The media has a substantial corporate interest in obfuscating the Trump administration's efforts to bring Russiagate to light, since it may also illuminate the role of the press in publishing leaks of classified intelligence to advance known falsehoods undergirding a criminal conspiracy. The specter of civil suits alone is enough to keep media executives up at night. And thus, according to The New York Times, the administration's release of documents showing the FBI supported a 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign plot to smear the president as a Russian agent comes "as the Trump team seeks to distract from the Jeffrey Epstein files." The president says Democrats started what he calls the Epstein hoax, but that's not entirely right. They're using it to defend themselves from Russiagate, but it was a MAGA-aligned cohort led by Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon who weaponized the Epstein narrative, and now parts of the right are as giddy with anti-Trump animus as first-term Never Trumpers are. "This Epstein thing is probably going to bring President Trump down," said Douglas Macgregor, a prominent figure on the MAGA podcast circuit who worked in the Pentagon during Trump's first term. The problem then isn't just that Russiagate revelations aren't breaking through to the rest of the electorate but also that podcasters ostensibly aligned with Trump are employing the ghost of a dead sex offender to fracture his base and hobble him, with help from Democrats, after the 2026 midterms, just as Russiagate hobbled Trump's first term. After Trump ignored Bannon and Carlson's warnings against joining Israel in a campaign against Iran's nuclear weapons facilities, they seized on the White House's clumsy rollout of the Epstein case to target the president. ... The problem is that nothing the administration produces now will satisfy this faction of MAGA, because Bannon and Carlson are not interested in transparency or accountability. Rather, they've rigged the Epstein story to damage Trump. In their telling, Epstein wasn't just a predator; he was also a spy, an operative using American teenagers as bait to compromise powerful liberal elites on behalf of the Mossad. They've framed the affair so that only confirmation of their mad conspiracy theory will put Epstein's ghost to rest. "It's extremely obvious to anyone who watches that [Epstein] had direct connections to a foreign government," Carlson told a Florida audience last month in one of his most public perorations unfolding the Epstein conspiracy theory. "No one's allowed to say that that foreign government is Israel because we have been somehow cowed into thinking that that's naughty." Bannon is also given to manful straight talk: "The Epstein story leads to the intelligence services of this country and of Israel," he told his podcast audience last month. "Let's be blunt. That's why all the Israel First guys say there's nothing to see." The logic is that if Trump doesn't release the evidence that he's shielding Israel, it's evidence that he's owned by Israel. The setup is as crazy and destructive as Russiagate because it's the Russiagate playbook, except in this reboot, Netanyahu plays Putin's part, and it's not Moscow that controls Trump's brain, but the Jews. ... For Bannon and Carlson, Epsteingate is part of a larger effort to drive down support for Israel among younger Trump voters. After all, if the Israeli government violated U.S. sovereignty to traffic girls and steal American secrets, it can't be a good ally. Maybe GOP youth want to believe in an American version of an Arab-world style legend--look out for the Mossad dolphins!--to distinguish themselves from the traditionally pro-Israel GOP establishment. But Bannon and Carlson's gambit also puts them at odds with the president while aligning them with the party that pushed the Russia collusion hoax. Russiagate was, among other things, an instrument devised to block Trump's foreign policy, limiting his choices on how to deal not only with Russia but also--indeed, most importantly--with China. Instead of prioritizing China, which Trump has always believed is the main threat to U.S. peace and prosperity, he ended up having to spend much of his first term worrying about the domestic effects of any policy that was remotely related to Russia. Similarly, Epsteingate is also a foreign-policy instrument. When understood this way, it's hard to ignore that Carlson and Bannon are in alignment with Democratic foreign policy--that is, Obama's policy.Tucker Carlson claims he's not antisemitic, just "America First," and just wants America to priortize its own interests, which do not, in his telling, include supporting Israel as it fights the same Islamic terrorist forces that attacked America on 9/11. But this lie is exposed by his constant demands that Israel surrender to Hamas and end the "genocide." America is not helping Israel fight Hamas -- but Tucker Carlson is determined to use American foreign policy power to force Israel to surrender to Hamas. If he's just "America First," why is he so determined to use American power to interfere in a foreign war? Why doesn't he just shut his big yap and do what he claims he wants America to do, and stay out of it? Simple: Because he's virulently anti-Israel and has found a new audience appealing to the pseudo-right which itself has embraced the left's unreasoning anti-Jewish hatred. As we said a million times about left-wing agitators who only criticize decent states when they fight back against Islamic terrorists, but never had a single word of rebuke for the terrorists themselves: They're not "anti-war," they're just on the other side. A correspondent points out that Steven Bannon spent fifteen hours interviewing Jeffrey Epstein -- and he> hasn't released that information.
Bannon appears to be the originator of the Epstein-as-spy theory. After Trump's onetime strategist was pushed out of the White House in 2017, he started meeting with Epstein at his Manhattan mansion, and reportedly, according to people close to him, he thought his host worked with intelligence services. He recorded 15 hours of interviews with the financier, ostensibly to be used in helping to rehabilitate Epstein's reputation. That Bannon hasn't yet released that footage suggests that it contains no evidence to corroborate his allegations. Maybe he's embarrassed that he spent 15 hours interviewing Epstein and forgot to ask the man he now says was part of a Mossad spy ring if he was a spy. Or maybe he didn't ask him because he never believed what he's been telling people about Epstein since 2017.I guess he's under the control of Big Hebrew now too.
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CBS's New Management Doesn't Know What to Do With Woke Ratings-Disaster Gayle King
CBS has demanded they make more of an effort to appeal to people outside of the narrow identity-politics left niche, but the show's producer -- a catspaw of the leftwing shill Gayle King -- refuses.
CBS faces a growing dilemma over the future of mega-buck anchor Gayle King as ratings for her "woke" morning show collapse -- and the struggling network's new owners vow to root out left-wing bias, The Post has learned. The "CBS Mornings" co-host, one of the fading Tiffany Network's few remaining stars, is part of a culture that has "dug in" against attempts by higher-ups to move away from polarizing coverage, according to sources with knowledge of the situation. A key problem is that George Cheeks -- the co-CEO of CBS parent Paramount who is in line to run the network under new overlords Skydance Media -- has for years promoted a diversity, equity and inclusion mandate, the sources said. That has allowed 70-year-old King and her executive producer Shawna Thomas to set a programming "agenda" that has alienated traditional morning show viewers, one of the sources close to the situation told The Post. "The audience doesn't want woke. It doesn't like progressive and provocative bookings," one of the sources told The Post. "The morning show audience wants optimism and cheer and joy and what they were producing is at odds with audience expectations." One insider pointed to a March 26 interview with "RuPaul's Drag Race" winner Bob the Drag Queen, who was publicizing his first novel, "Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert." The "CBS Mornings" website described the book as a "gender-bending story where the historic icon appears in modern-day America to tell her story through a hip-hop album," as previously reported by The Post. The perennially last-place show -- once regarded as a cash cow for the beleaguered news division -- has seen its ratings plummet to below 2 million in recent months. In the past three weeks, King and co-hosts Tony Dokoupil and Nate Burleson lost between 20% and 30% of their audience versus last year in the advertiser-coveted 25- to 54-year-old demographic, according to Nielsen. King signed an extension for between $13 million and $15 million that runs through next May, according to a well-placed source. That's the same month CBS will pull the plug on late-night host Stephen Colbert and his reported $15 million-a-year contract.
Could this be another case of the Trump Curse delivering a reckoning? Sources say "yes."
McMahon, who was brought in as co-president in 2021 and was handed the reins in 2023 after Neeraj Khemlani got canned, was charged by Cheeks to make the morning show more appealing to middle America, two sources with knowledge told The Post. But her directives were allegedly ignored by Thomas, one of the few African American executive producers in TV, in favor of programming for niche audiences who are black, LGBTQ or other minorities, the sources said. Two insiders said Thomas didn't push back directly on McMahon's orders, she just "didn't do what she was told." ... "In these cases, you have to fire somebody," one longtime producer told The Post. "Wendy McMahon was not strong enough. She needed a head on a stick but Shawna had the protection of Gayle King." ... The insider remarked that aside from woke programming, many viewers were "alienated" by the fact that none of the show's anchors -- aside from Dokoupil -- are white. In addition, the majority of the show's substitute anchors are African American, due in part to initiatives to diversify the talent pool over the years.
According to one insider, "CBS Mornings lost its curveball" when Trump was elected and the staff were unable to hide their "distaste" for the result and were "shocked," "sad" and unable to recover.
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Pam Bondi Convenes Grand Jury to Investigate RussiaGate Coup
As Guy Who Always Thinks Things Are Beginning says: And so it begins.
A grand jury, of course, is empowered to indict people for crimes. It also has great powers to demand testimony and subpoena documents.Byron York: Focus on what Hillary Clinton did.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has ordered a grand jury to investigate the Obama-era origins of the Trump-Russia collusion narrative following a criminal referral from DNI Tulsi Gabbard. Key Details: Bondi personally instructed a federal prosecutor to present DOJ findings to a grand jury, according to a letter reviewed by Fox News Digital. The DOJ received Gabbard's referral two weeks ago, which included a memo alleging intelligence was suppressed showing Russian cyberattacks did not impact the 2016 election. No indictments have been issued yet, and it's unclear whether the probe will result in charges, as statutes of limitations may have expired for some of the conduct.
... According to a letter from Bondi reviewed by Fox News, the attorney general has ordered a federal prosecutor--whose name has not been made public--to begin grand jury proceedings and present relevant DOJ evidence. A spokesperson for the department declined to confirm the specific details but said Bondi is taking Gabbard's referral "very seriously," citing "clear cause for deep concern."
Oppo research is a nasty, but legal, method of politicking. But Hillary Clinton didn't publish her oppo research so that the public would be persuaded by the smear. No, she passed it to the FBI with the intention of causing the government to attack her enemy.
This is perhaps the most important paragraph in Durham's 306-page report. It's worth reading carefully:
The Clinton Plan intelligence itself and on its face arguably suggested that private actors affiliated with the Clinton campaign were seeking in 2016 to promote a false or exaggerated narrative to the public and to U.S. government agencies about Trump's possible ties to Russia. Given the significant quantity of materials the FBI and other government agencies did in fact receive during the 2016 presidential election season and afterwards that originated with and/or were funded by the Clinton campaign or affiliated persons (i.e., the Steele Dossier reports, the Alfa Bank allegations, and the YotaPhone allegations), the Clinton Plan intelligence prompted the [special counsel's] office to consider (i) whether there was in fact a plan by the Clinton campaign to tie Trump to Russia in order to "stir up a scandal" in advance of the 2016 presidential election, and (ii) if such a plan existed, whether an aspect or component of that plan was to intentionally provide knowingly false and/or misleading information to the FBI or other agencies in furtherance of such a plan.
1) By April, 2016, the Clinton campaign already had a contractor -- Steele -- working on developing damaging information on Trump and Russia. 2) By July 24, the campaign was publicly raising the charge of Trump-Russia collusion, and the New York Times reported the topic was "emerging as a theme of Mrs. Clinton's campaign." 3) Also in July, Steele contacted an FBI agent and "requested an urgent meeting," according to the Durham report. There Steele gave the FBI one of his first reports. It alleged, famously, that "Russian authorities had been cultivating and supporting US Republican president candidate Donald Trump for at least five years," an operation that was "both supported and directed by Russian President Vladimir Putin." It also alleged, infamously, that Russian spy cameras had recorded "Trump's (perverted) conduct in Moscow" including "employing a number of prostitutes to perform a 'golden showers' (urination) show in front of him." That was the salacious and wildly false allegation that later became known as the "pee tape." It is without any doubt an example of the Clinton campaign, working through its contractor Steele, providing "false and/or misleading information to the FBI or other agencies." 4) After July, Steele worked hard to funnel his anti-Trump material into the media. For journalists, the dossier's unsupported gossip would be legitimized by the fact that the FBI was investigating it. 5) In September, a Democratic lawyer working on behalf of the Clinton campaign, Michael Sussmann, planted a false allegation about Trump and Russia -- the so-called Alfa Bank story -- with the FBI. At the time, Sussmann denied he was acting for the Clinton team, even though he billed the campaign for the outreach to the FBI. In light of that, look at Durham's two questions: "(i) whether there was in fact a plan by the Clinton campaign to tie Trump to Russia in order to 'stir up a scandal' in advance of the 2016 presidential election, and (ii) if such a plan existed, whether an aspect or component of that plan was to intentionally provide knowingly false and/or misleading information to the FBI or other agencies in furtherance of such a plan." The answer to (i) is yes, there was a plan. The answer to (ii)? Well, there is no question that the Clinton campaign provided false and/or misleading information to the FBI. Whether it did so knowing the information was false and/or misleading is still a point of argument, at least among Democrats. In light of the entirety of what is now known, it seems extremely hard to believe the campaign did not know its feeds to the FBI were false and/or misleading. Still, in the most basic sense, we know what Hillary Clinton did. It wasn't just opposition research.
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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition
Bringing a child into this world is the greatest and most important thing that we do as a species. ["We," being women. Biological women, who have the greatest job in the world. The lunacy of the transsexuals is specifically designed to blur the recognition that women are simply more important in the grand scheme of humanity. We must fight that to the very end!] And if some women need a bit of help, it is wonderful that Western Culture has created the scientific framework that provides that assistance. Yet there are ethical considerations that are extraordinarily difficult. For instance, as the technology progressed, the number of viable embryos that could be produced from retrieved eggs has increased. But most people do not have the financial wherewithal to have many babies, thus the stored embryos available for adoption. And that is the issue! Storing viable embryos after these couples are done having children seems like both an easy decision and a supremely difficult one. It's easy because the embryos are human, and destroying them is roughly akin to abortion. It's difficult, because the parents will grow old and die, leaving the embryos to the vagaries of the storage companies and fluctuating law, and the whims of their heirs. What to do? I don't know. Technology has outpaced our understanding of the issue! Extrapolating generations of parents who have embryos in storage into the far future yields an impossible decision. Perhaps the embryos will naturally degrade over time, and the question will be less pressing, but with this technology available to most people, the question will not go away. [Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter] And the Apple and Spotify feeds for CJN's podcast should be working!
A baby was born last week in Ohio from an embryo that was frozen for over 30 years, making it the oldest known embryo to result in a successful birth. Thaddeus Daniel Pierce was born on July 26 in London, Ohio, to Lindsey and Tim Pierce, aged 34 and 35. The embryo from which he was conceived had been cryogenically frozen since May 1994. “We had a rough birth but we are both doing well now,” said Lindsey to MIT Technology Review. “He is so chill. We are in awe that we have this precious baby!” “The baby has a 30-year-old sister,” she added, referring to the sibling born from the same batch of embryos three decades ago. At the time the embryos were created, Tim Pierce was just a toddler. “We thought it was wild,” Lindsey said. “We didn’t know they froze embryos that long ago.” She continued, “We didn’t go into it thinking we would break any records. We just wanted to have a baby.”
Bringing a child into this world is the greatest and most important thing that we do as a species. ["We," being women. Biological women, who have the greatest job in the world. The lunacy of the transsexuals is specifically designed to blur the recognition that women are simply more important in the grand scheme of humanity. We must fight that to the very end!] And if some women need a bit of help, it is wonderful that Western Culture has created the scientific framework that provides that assistance. Yet there are ethical considerations that are extraordinarily difficult. For instance, as the technology progressed, the number of viable embryos that could be produced from retrieved eggs has increased. But most people do not have the financial wherewithal to have many babies, thus the stored embryos available for adoption. And that is the issue! Storing viable embryos after these couples are done having children seems like both an easy decision and a supremely difficult one. It's easy because the embryos are human, and destroying them is roughly akin to abortion. It's difficult, because the parents will grow old and die, leaving the embryos to the vagaries of the storage companies and fluctuating law, and the whims of their heirs. What to do? I don't know. Technology has outpaced our understanding of the issue! Extrapolating generations of parents who have embryos in storage into the far future yields an impossible decision. Perhaps the embryos will naturally degrade over time, and the question will be less pressing, but with this technology available to most people, the question will not go away. [Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter] And the Apple and Spotify feeds for CJN's podcast should be working!
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