July 22, 2025
Father of Heavy Metal Ozzy Osbourne Dies at Age 76
Here's an Ozzy Osbourne solo-album Yule Log.
More of you guys are fans than I would have guessed. So here's a short-duration thread.
Ozzy Osbourne, the legendary Prince of Darkness and one of heavy metal's most iconic stars, has died. He was 76. He died "surrounded by love," his family said in a statement to The Post Tuesday. "It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning. He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time. Sharon, Jack, Kelly, Aimee and Louis." News of Osbourne's death comes more than five years after he announced his Parkinson's disease diagnosis in January 2020."Cecil" on YouTube pointed out last year that, actuarially speaking, all the big rock stars of the 70s era are going to start dying in big numbers. Especially since those guys definitely lived hard and seemed eager to die. I never listened to Black Sabbath, except for the three or four radio hits they played on classic rock stations. You know, "Iron Man," "Paranoid," "War Pigs," etc. Really only a small handful got a lot of radio play. A few years ago I heard the comedian Jim Norton raging that Black Sabbath never got their due, and, apart from those three or four songs, are never played on rock radio. He was so absolutely enraged by this slight that I thought, "Man, I really have to listen to all of Paranoid> if someone is this infuriated that they're not getting the respect they're owed." I never did. I'll work on that soon.
Born John Michael Osbourne in Birmingham, England, on Dec. 3, 1948, he was nicknamed "Ozzy" in primary school. He had a challenging childhood, but music provided him with an outlet. Learning was difficult for him due to dyslexia, and the future Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee claimed to have been sexually abused by bullies when he was 11. He also recalled attempting suicide as a teen.
Here's an Ozzy Osbourne solo-album Yule Log.
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Scott Pinsker: CBS's Decision to Leave Colbert On the Air Even Though He's Cancelled Puts Them In a Stinky Howard-Stern Hole
Emily Jashinski talked about this situation. She points out that network television talk shows used to be intended for a mass audience. But Colbert and the rest of the late night no-ratings punks pursued a different audience: a micro audience. There's a reason for that; narrowcasting to a small, select group makes that group feel special and valued, and will be more loyal. Kind of like how people love small unknown bands until they find broader appeal, in which case they've "sold out" and no one likes them anymore (except for the millions of new fans). I'm pursuing a similar strategy, tailoring my message to the small but passionate group of readers who understand that JackStraw is a dirty drug addict homeless Sea Hobo and garrett is so gay he drives the ghost of Jm J. Bullock to haunt the Grindr servers texting eerie homophobic slurs. But obviously, you cannot pursue this micro-targeted strategy while collecting a salary of $15-20 million per year and paying $100 million per year on a writing staff of 21 people plus something like a hundred crew (camera men, lighting, makeup and hair, publicity, etc., etc.) If you want to micro-target, your budget must be micro-sized. And yet all of the late night "comedy" clowns have pursued a smaller and smaller segment of the audience while spending $100 million per year or more. Adam Carolla talks about this complete disconnect between payroll and potential audience. He points out that Greg Gutfeld's show is "lean and mean" with no writers room -- I think he's wrong about that, I think Gutfeld has a handful of writers -- and no dedicated studio. (They just re-decorate The Five's studio every day.) And yet Gutfeld's ratings are much better than Colbert's, with a tiny budget to match Gutfeld's tiny stature. (Got 'im!) It's just incredible that they all pursued the same strategy of guaranteed failure, and even more incredible that the "suits" who are supposed to be sober, competent professionals permitted them to do so or even encouraged them to do so -- that's how strong corporate media Trump derangement is. Late night used to be a cash-cow for the networks -- the shows were cheap-ish despite being on most weeknights of the year, but brought in big ratings. That's why there was such drama over the Leno-Letterman struggle and the Leno-Conan putsch. And why CBS was willing to break the bank to give Letterman whatever he wanted. Just to get a piece of that late night income stream. Remember when late night pulled in such good ratings that NBC launched a show at the unheard-of timeslot of 12:30? The old Letterman slot? And then CBS followed with Craig Ferguson? And then they colonized the 1:30 am slot as well with Carson Daly and other late, late night hosts? But now nobody is watching. If NBC decided to drop Jimmy Fallon from the Tonight Show and seek a new host: Would you even care? No, you wouldn't. In past years people would follow the news about late night hirings and firings. No one cares about this nonsense any longer. I saw a video by a YouTuber called Captain Midnight who states the obvious: This isn't about late night television. Late night tv is just the canary in the coalmine, the first to die. Yes, late night television is going away. When it all shakes out, all of the current "comedy" hosts will be fired. All networks will abandon original programming in these timeslots except for one. Probably NBC, because they have such a longstanding corporate commitment to late night programming. They've been doing the Tonight Show since the 1950s. And that single show will post meh ratings and be borderline profitable as long as they keep the budgets low and have no competition from other channels to split the small audience. Ed Morrissey quotes from a NYT article about the death of Regime "Comedy:"
But it's not just about late night. All of television is collapsing. This is about the networks. Prime time is going to be contracted, maybe just 8pm to 10pm, the way Fox used to do it when they were just starting out, with a 10pm news cast or some kind of cheap syndicated tv shows. Eventually someone will start running Korean soap operas at 11:30, paying peanuts for the license rights. And then little by little, the networks will just wither. I don't think they'll go away completely, but they'll be so unimportant that no one bothers talking about them any longer. Even Andrew Breitbart will just get bored of gloating in heaven, and then he'll move on. Could this have been avoided? Could network TV have saved itself by focusing on a mass, not micro, audience? Avoiding divisive hard-left extremist political messaging? I don't know. Has anyone noticed, as I do a lot, that there are very few shows even made any more that have a neutral gender skew? There used to be. There used to be a lot of shows that men and women (and even kids) could agree on: broad, light comedies, police procedurals, etc. Do you, like me, find it's difficult to find something that can appeal to both yourself an a significant other of the opposite sex? Almost now every entertainment is atomized and made for one highly-specific target audience. Shows no longer seem interested in attracting a broad audience, only a loyal micro-audience. And I think this is a real driver of division and toxicity in our society. We just don't enjoy the same things any longer. We have less and less in common. And I can't say that's the TV executives' fault, because we've all collectively decided that it's not worth it to watch a broadly-appealing, but kinda bland, entertainment with our spouses and children, but that we'd all rather just retreat into separate rooms to watch individually-tailored fare on the computer or TV.
Scott Pinsker recalls that Stern announced he was quitting terrestrial radio in 2004, but remained on the air through 2005.
He used this time to bash the station he was still employed by and broadcasting from. After discussing Stern's descent into farty irrelevance, Pinsker writes:Stern's audience is a pitiful sliver of what it once was. And eventually, that'll be Stephen Colbert's fate, too. But don't focus on that yet: The important part is what happened after Stern announced he'd be leaving terrestrial radio (Oct. 6, 2004) but before he actually left on Dec. 16, 2005. Stern spent much of his final months on terrestrial radio hyping up how awesome his new satellite radio show was gonna be (often by throwing shade at traditional radio). It led to a 43-page CBS lawsuit for "[misappropriating] millions of dollars' worth of CBS Radio air time for his own financial benefit." (The lawsuit was later settled, with Sirius paying CBS Radio a few million bucks, while also receiving rights to rebroadcast Stern's old radio tapes.) In retrospect, nobody at CBS should've been surprised: Of course Stern was gonna hype up his move to satellite! His new financial model depended on it! (Indeed, Stern later sued Sirius XM -- and lost -- when he demanded a payment of $300 million for the new subscribers gained via the Sirius-XM merger.)Indeed, Colbert is already doing this, one single day after he was told he was cancelled. He's already priming his small audience for whatever political talk show he's planning next, whether it's a podcast or an MSNBC gig called Maddow's Doppleganger. For the next ten months, it's going to be little but Colbert telling Trump "f*** you," and, as he nears the end of the ten months, telling CBS, Paramount, and SkyDance "f*** you."
CBS late night host Stephen Colbert didn't mince any words Monday night about his show's cancellation, telling the president off in coarse fashion to audience cheers. During the opening monologue of "The Late Show," Colbert dished on what led to CBS' decision to end his show and gave President Donald Trump a few jabs, joking that he won't be holding back now that his show's on borrowed time. "And now for the next ten months, the gloves are off," he said, "I can finally speak unvarnished truth to power, and say what I really think about Donald Trump starting right now. I don't care for him."I think he's being ironic. I sure hope he's not so deluded to think that he's previously been a professional and avoided making his hyperpartisan feelings public.
He's previewing his podcast or MSNBC show, of course. When he starts his podcast or MSNBC show, he'll have a much smaller budget and a smaller audience. But he needs to really excite that small audience so that they follow him into his next demented venture. This is why I said that CBS would find a way to get rid of Colbert early. Both parties will claim that the decision to end the show early is "mutual," but it will in fact be caused by Colbert hate-casting to his small core of actual fans to ready them to pay $20 a month for his podcast, while making his show almost entirely unwatchable except for the 10,000 mental cases in the country willing to pay actual money to watch Stephen Colbert. MXMNews digests a paywalled PJ Media essay by Brandon Morse. Although he was at first rewarded for pandering to Trump-deranged lefties who needed their lunatic hatreds validated, his fortunes quickly turned.
Elsewhere, Colbert fired back at Trump for celebrating his show's cancellation. "I absolutely love that Colbert got fired," Trump wrote on Truth Social Thursday night. "His talent was even less than his ratings. I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. Has even less talent than Colbert! Greg Gutfeld is better than all of them combined, including the Moron on NBC who ruined the once great Tonight Show." "How dare you, sir?" Colbert responded on-air. "Would an untalented man be able to compose the following satirical witticism? Go f--- yourself." The liberal audience cheered loudly in response.
All of that changed, Morse argues, when Donald Trump was elected in 2016. That moment "broke" Colbert. "He got caught up in the Trump Derangement Syndrome," Morse wrote, likening the shift to "a grown toddler... thrashing around." It was a profitable tantrum--initially. Colbert surged in ratings, surpassing Jimmy Fallon, and solidified his identity as late-night TV's chief anti-Trump spokesman. One infamous lowlight came when he called Trump "Putin's c**k holster"--a moment that Morse rightly highlighted as grotesque and illustrative of the descent into hyperpartisan theatrics. But as the Trump presidency gave way to Joe Biden's, the ratings began to nosedive. Morse argues that Colbert's unwillingness to pivot cost him his audience. "As dissatisfaction with the [Biden] administration grew," Morse wrote, "its cheerleaders began losing popularity alongside it." Viewership cratered once President Trump returned to the political stage, not as a media punching bag, but as a resilient contender demonstrating the glaring incompetence of Democrat rule. Morse raises the provocative but fair question: "What would Colbert have been without Donald Trump?" Had he chosen a more moderate, inclusive comedic path, he might have evolved into a modern-day Carson or Leno. Instead, Morse concludes, Colbert "jump[ed] onto a political trend that paid off at first, but ultimately became divisive and unpopular."I disagree. I never thought Colbert was funny. He was funny-ish on Strangers with Candy. But that show was basically the same joke told over and over. Yes, it was a good joke, and I enjoyed it for the first season. But it was just one joke. It can't last. So yes, Stephen Colbert did have one funny joke in him. I don't think you can build a career as a comedian on one single funny joke.
Emily Jashinski talked about this situation. She points out that network television talk shows used to be intended for a mass audience. But Colbert and the rest of the late night no-ratings punks pursued a different audience: a micro audience. There's a reason for that; narrowcasting to a small, select group makes that group feel special and valued, and will be more loyal. Kind of like how people love small unknown bands until they find broader appeal, in which case they've "sold out" and no one likes them anymore (except for the millions of new fans). I'm pursuing a similar strategy, tailoring my message to the small but passionate group of readers who understand that JackStraw is a dirty drug addict homeless Sea Hobo and garrett is so gay he drives the ghost of Jm J. Bullock to haunt the Grindr servers texting eerie homophobic slurs. But obviously, you cannot pursue this micro-targeted strategy while collecting a salary of $15-20 million per year and paying $100 million per year on a writing staff of 21 people plus something like a hundred crew (camera men, lighting, makeup and hair, publicity, etc., etc.) If you want to micro-target, your budget must be micro-sized. And yet all of the late night "comedy" clowns have pursued a smaller and smaller segment of the audience while spending $100 million per year or more. Adam Carolla talks about this complete disconnect between payroll and potential audience. He points out that Greg Gutfeld's show is "lean and mean" with no writers room -- I think he's wrong about that, I think Gutfeld has a handful of writers -- and no dedicated studio. (They just re-decorate The Five's studio every day.) And yet Gutfeld's ratings are much better than Colbert's, with a tiny budget to match Gutfeld's tiny stature. (Got 'im!) It's just incredible that they all pursued the same strategy of guaranteed failure, and even more incredible that the "suits" who are supposed to be sober, competent professionals permitted them to do so or even encouraged them to do so -- that's how strong corporate media Trump derangement is. Late night used to be a cash-cow for the networks -- the shows were cheap-ish despite being on most weeknights of the year, but brought in big ratings. That's why there was such drama over the Leno-Letterman struggle and the Leno-Conan putsch. And why CBS was willing to break the bank to give Letterman whatever he wanted. Just to get a piece of that late night income stream. Remember when late night pulled in such good ratings that NBC launched a show at the unheard-of timeslot of 12:30? The old Letterman slot? And then CBS followed with Craig Ferguson? And then they colonized the 1:30 am slot as well with Carson Daly and other late, late night hosts? But now nobody is watching. If NBC decided to drop Jimmy Fallon from the Tonight Show and seek a new host: Would you even care? No, you wouldn't. In past years people would follow the news about late night hirings and firings. No one cares about this nonsense any longer. I saw a video by a YouTuber called Captain Midnight who states the obvious: This isn't about late night television. Late night tv is just the canary in the coalmine, the first to die. Yes, late night television is going away. When it all shakes out, all of the current "comedy" hosts will be fired. All networks will abandon original programming in these timeslots except for one. Probably NBC, because they have such a longstanding corporate commitment to late night programming. They've been doing the Tonight Show since the 1950s. And that single show will post meh ratings and be borderline profitable as long as they keep the budgets low and have no competition from other channels to split the small audience. Ed Morrissey quotes from a NYT article about the death of Regime "Comedy:"
"The Late Show," a fixture of the network for over three decades, was racking up losses of tens of millions of dollars a year, and the gap was growing fast, according to two people familiar with the show's finances. Like other late-night shows before it, "The Late Show" was canceled when the network could not figure how to make the finances work in an entertainment world increasingly dominated by streaming. So as CBS executives mapped out the schedule and budget for next year, George Cheeks, CBS's president, decided in recent weeks that the network couldn't take those losses any more, the two people said. Mr. Colbert learned of the decision on Wednesday night. Shari Redstone, the controlling shareholder of Paramount, CBS's parent company, learned about it on Thursday, according to two other people. ... Over the past couple of years, many of the surviving late-night shows cut their budgets. Network late-night shows now generally produce four new episodes a week, down from five, in an attempt to save money. "Late Night With Seth Meyers" now frequently tapes two episodes on Mondays to limit filming to three days a week. "The Late Show" began losing money at least three years ago, two people familiar with the finances said. Like "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" on NBC, it cost more than $100 million a year to produce. CBS executives weighed the possibility of trying to find ways to sharply reduce its budget but, amid the mounting losses, concluded that there was not a viable path to profitability, one of the people said.
But it's not just about late night. All of television is collapsing. This is about the networks. Prime time is going to be contracted, maybe just 8pm to 10pm, the way Fox used to do it when they were just starting out, with a 10pm news cast or some kind of cheap syndicated tv shows. Eventually someone will start running Korean soap operas at 11:30, paying peanuts for the license rights. And then little by little, the networks will just wither. I don't think they'll go away completely, but they'll be so unimportant that no one bothers talking about them any longer. Even Andrew Breitbart will just get bored of gloating in heaven, and then he'll move on. Could this have been avoided? Could network TV have saved itself by focusing on a mass, not micro, audience? Avoiding divisive hard-left extremist political messaging? I don't know. Has anyone noticed, as I do a lot, that there are very few shows even made any more that have a neutral gender skew? There used to be. There used to be a lot of shows that men and women (and even kids) could agree on: broad, light comedies, police procedurals, etc. Do you, like me, find it's difficult to find something that can appeal to both yourself an a significant other of the opposite sex? Almost now every entertainment is atomized and made for one highly-specific target audience. Shows no longer seem interested in attracting a broad audience, only a loyal micro-audience. And I think this is a real driver of division and toxicity in our society. We just don't enjoy the same things any longer. We have less and less in common. And I can't say that's the TV executives' fault, because we've all collectively decided that it's not worth it to watch a broadly-appealing, but kinda bland, entertainment with our spouses and children, but that we'd all rather just retreat into separate rooms to watch individually-tailored fare on the computer or TV.
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Mollie Hemingway Exclusive: Top Career Intelligence Officials Objected to Brennan's Partisan Russiagate Claim, Brennan Overruled Them
But wait: I thought we were supposed to defer to the nonpartisan career bureaucrats' judgments...?
It gets worse: Brennan testified to Congress that the Russiagate claim that "Russia tried to get Trump elected" was backed by analysis with a "high level of confidence." But there wasn't. In fact, senior intelligence officials doubted his claim. He lied. This was his personal politicized assessment, and never had "high confidence" by anyone other than himself and the Obama Regime coup ringleaders.Top officials working on an intelligence community analysis about Russia's interference in the 2016 election were overruled by CIA Director John Brennan, according to records exclusively reviewed by The Federalist. The records are related to ongoing criminal investigations into Brennan and other top intelligence officials for their roles in launching the Russia collusion hoax. The dispute was over the "key judgment" in a January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) that Russia had interfered in the election specifically because Putin and the Russian government "aspired to help President-elect Trump's election chances." The senior intelligence officials pointed out the lack of evidence to substantiate the claim. "We have no intelligence to directly support this 'aspiration' point," said one member of the small group of individuals working with Brennan, FBI Director James Comey, and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on the assessment of Russian activity in the lead-up to the 2016 election. The official worried that the inclusion of the claim would "open the IC to a line of very politicized inquiry that is sure to come up when this paper is shared with the Hill." A recent CIA analysis of the inclusion of this disputed "key judgment" noted the risks of including poorly supported judgments since skeptical readers are inclined to "reject an entire analysis if a single judgment appears exaggerated, biased, or unsupported." The experts did not disagree that Russia had continued its practice of attempting to sow chaos in presidential elections. They believed the intelligence indicated Russia sought to weaken presumptive winner Hillary Clinton and those efforts may have indirectly helped Trump. But they were concerned about the lack of evidence for the claim that became a cornerstone of the Russia collusion narrative, in which Trump was accused of conspiring with Russia to steal the 2016 election. "Can you really prove Moscow was trying to get Trump elected?" the official asked in late December 2016. Brennan called the dissenting individuals into his office on Dec. 30, 2016, and had a lengthy meeting in which they articulated their serious concerns. "The assessment will stay the same," Brennan reported at the end of the meeting. The paper trail about this dispute posed a problem for Brennan, who had presented the information as being universally held with a high degree of confidence. The CIA review noted that the key judgment was given a "higher confidence level than was justified." It further noted the ICA had been drafted under an unusually rushed timeline, had been preceded by leaks to The Washington Post and New York Times improperly claiming "definitive conclusions" had already been reached, and had indications of a "potential political motive."Much like Adam Schiff, Brennan would later claim he had seen Secret Intelligence that no one else saw, and which has never been presented to anyone else, that justified his claims.
Read the whole thing. Matt Taibbi has a related report. The intelligence professionals reported that Russia had not hacked the actual vote. They concluded that Russia lacked both the intent and even the capability of "hacking the election" -- an allegation the drunken harridan Hillary Clinton was making. But Brennan stripped this out of the presidential daily briefing. Taibbi thinks he knows why: Because Trump, as president-elect, would have read it. He was entitled to read the presidential daily briefs as president-elect, and if the real intelligence had been in the PBD, he would have seen it and used that conclusion to refute the fictional "Russia hacked the election" psyop. Again, this was no fringe conspiracy theory, as Democrats are claiming now, to downplay the importance of Brennan's deception: Hillary Clinton was giving speeches claiming that Russia literally "hacked the election."
Brennan has never publicly shared what his secret knowledge was that led him to make the claim that Russia sought to help Trump, although it had purportedly been collected in July and first disseminated on Dec. 19, to supposedly support the ICA's conclusion that Russia wanted to elect Trump. But even then, Brennan "tightly restricted access to this information." The CIA review of the ICA questioned "whether the extreme limitations on access to underlying intelligence within the IC during the ICA's preparation was justifiable," given that following its release, the highest classified version of the ICA was shopped around to literally hundreds of U.S. officials.
One is a crucial fact left out of Saturday's Racket article on the DNI releases. Had the intelligence community gone forward with a Presidential Daily Briefing that said Russia had not attacked infrastructure in a way "intended to alter results," it would have been seen by a key audience: Donald Trump. Presidents-elect are entitled to read Presidential Daily Briefings. During the transition, Trump's National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was already being read in, and would have seen the planned December 9th text downplaying Russian interference. "I would have seen it," Flynn says now. "I was reading the PDBs at that point." Asked yesterday if he thought that might have been a reason for holding the planned draft, Flynn said, "Very likely." Second, the notion that Russia interfered with actual vote tallies was no fringe conspiracy theory then. It was widely believed by Democratic voters. This was almost certainly a consequence of a two stage process that began with the flood of news stories based on leaks from intelligence sources beginning on December 9th, 2016. These not only alleged Russia interfered to help Donald Trump in an aburpt about-face from pre-election stories, but focused heavily on Russian hacking. Within a week -- by December 16th, 2016 -- Hillary Clinton was publicly calling the election "unfair, not free, illegitimate," adding, "Vladimir Putin himself directed the covert cyberattacks against our electoral system, against our democracy, apparently because he has a personal beef against me." The New York Times ran the audio:See the article for Hillary Clinton claiming, WITHOUT EVIDENCE, that Russia "hacked the election." Longtime readers may remember that I asked on Twitter why CNN wasn't knocking down this WITHOUT EVIDENCE conspiracy theory, and Jake Tapper slid in my DMs to say: "Cite?" And I told him: It was literally on your show five minutes ago, presented in a pre-recorded package that you obviously did not bother watching or listening to. Tapper apparently blows off watching his own show to immediately rush to Twitter to patrol for any negative mentions of himself or CNN.
An Economist/YouGov survey taken immediately after these remarks, on December 17th-20th, 2016, showed 50% of Clinton's voters believed Russia "tampered with vote tallies":So the feral lesbian alcoholic Hillary Clinton was spreading this false WITHOUT EVIDENCE claim and Obama was meanwhile stripping out the consensus nonpartisan career intelligence officials' assessment that this conspiracy theory was simply not true. And they stripped out that intelligence to deprive Trump of the ability to refute the drunken gassy sow's WITHOUT EVIDENCE conspiracy theories. Meanwhile Jake Tapper is also blowing off Hillary Clinton's attack on The Very Pillars of Our Sacred Democracy, to obsessively scan Twitter to make sure that no one in the world has any criticisms of him. Obama pushed Hillary Clinton's false claims to the public as well.
In addition to the disinformation ICA he directed at Congress and the public, Obama directly lied to Americans in speeches about Russian election interference. For example, on Dec. 16, 2016, Obama stated he was "concerned about ... potential hacking that could hamper vote counting and affect the actual election process itself. And so in early September, when I saw President Putin in China, I felt that the most effective way to ensure that, that didn't happen was to talk to him directly. And tell him to cut it out." At that time, however, Obama had to know U.S. intelligence agencies had assessed that statement to be false, because his staff had prevented the publication of an earlier intelligence assessment saying so, the newly released documents show. This also means the same people and agencies that erected a totalitarian censorship edifice under the pretext of "misinformation" and "disinformation" were in fact the top sources of widely believed misinformation and disinformation that have now affected at least three U.S. presidential elections.Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama exchanged emails to coordinate the WITHOUT EVIDENCE psyop.
There's now mounting evidence -- texts, emails, and corroborating testimony -- that senior Obama officials and Clinton campaign aides knew the Russian "interference" narrative was bogus yet pushed it anyway as a calculated smear campaign to protect their political power. According to reporting by Paul Sperry at Real Clear Investigations, damning communications reveal direct coordination between Clinton operatives and top figures across the Obama administration, including the White House, National Security Council, State Department, and intelligence agencies. The fix wasn't just suspected; it was orchestrated from the very beginning.
And finally: Don't forget that Comey was in such a mad rush to exonerate Hillary Clinton for stealing gigabytes of top secret US documents that he didn't even bother to examine thumbdrives containing the documents.
Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_ DEVELOPING: I'm told there are texts/emails indicating Hillary Clinton campaign aides directly coordinated with the Obama White House, NSC, State Dept and Intelligence Community officials in efforts to dig up dirt tying Donald Trump to Vladimir Putin in July 2016 ...developing...
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Petey Bootyjudge Spent $80 Billion of Taxpayer Money on DEI Nonsense While Delaying Vital Upgrades to the Air Traffic Control System
He's one of the leading Democrat candidates for the presidency.
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg failed to replace outdated air traffic control systems while in office -- with his agency instead shelling out tens of billions of dollars on a DEI agenda, according to federal spending records and airline industry insiders. In one meeting, Buttigieg -- who is said to be eyeing a 2028 presidential run -- told industry executives that air traffic control upgrades would just allow them to fly more planes, "and so why would that be in his interest?" sources said.Petey Bootyjudge recently got 0% support from black Democrats in a poll. And that wasn't a fluke -- in 2019, when he was "running for president," he also got 0% support from black Democrats in a poll. Blacks are not as enamored of gay white men as the Democrats' other major constituency, leftwing moral scold white women, are. He is fixated on the idea that he must be president. So it's very, very likely that he diverted that $80 billion from necessary hiring and upgrades to racial pandering just to boost his profile among blacks. It failed.
What his department was really interested in was handing out hundreds of diversity, equity and inclusion grants totaling more than $80 billion over four years -- at least half of the DOT's entire budget for a typical fiscal year, records show. "He was definitely pushing an agenda," an air industry official said, noting the transportation secretary had "little to no interest" and took "definitely zero action" toward air traffic control modernization. Buttigieg spent his time in President Joe Biden's cabinet blaming the airlines for their delays and "vilifying" the industry as a whole while denying his department's DEI agenda led to any air traffic control staffing shortages or was maintaining an ailing safety system that hasn't been updated since the Carter administration, sources told The Post. Vice President JD Vance speaking at a podium, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaking at a press conference, Governor Gavin Newsom speaking at a press conference. The flying public paid the price, insiders said. "At first, [the Department of Transportation] and he were reluctant to say there was an air traffic controller shortage or that the shortage had anything to do with flight delays or flight cancellations," the air industry official said. ... Despite the requested changes to the air traffic control systems early in his term, Buttigieg seemed more interested in being "good on TV" than fixing the archaic systems that were flying up to 182 million passengers per year, officials said. ... In an urgent letter to Buttigieg's DOT in April 2024, air industry trade association officials warned that at the current rate of hiring, it could take as long as 90 years for the FAA to reach its targeted staffing levels in some of the critical New York air traffic control centers. At the same time, the focus of the department under Buttigieg also shifted, with roughly 400 DEI-related grants approved, according to a review of federal spending between 2021 and 2024. Just 60 grants for diversity, equity or inclusion initiatives were approved during the previous administration, totaling no more than a few billion dollars. Programs such as "Justice40" ended up shelling out 55% of around $150 billion in infrastructure investments to "disadvantaged communities," pursuant to an executive order Biden signed to "advance equitable outcomes."
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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition
develop, and one of the bedrocks was Judeo-Christian philosophy, which is completely foreign to the majority of the world. Respect for life; respect for the individual; respect for the law; respect for religion....these are all ideas that do not exist in the third world countries that the hubris of the post-modern West wants to recreate in our image. Perhaps it is time to retire the badge of "World's Policeman," and assume the more modest title of "Protector Of Our Own Culture." And by that I mean Judeo-Christian philosophy, the glories of Western civilization and, the most pressing issue today, The protection of Christianity and Judaism from the marauding bands of savages that seek to destroy the very religions whose ethos created the modern world. No, I am not singling out Islam, although its adherents are by far the worst perpetrators of religious violence. Socialism is at least as antithetical to religion as is Islam, which is in many respects a sham religion created to protect and hide a revolutionary political philosophy. Although socialism as currently practiced seems to be more religion than political philosophy! It certainly has its share of fanatics. Observe the destruction of Christian communities across Africa and the Middle East, the unending hatred of Hinduism and Christianity by the Muslims of Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh; and let us not forget the persecution of Christians in Cuba, Venezuela, and North Korea. And the campaigns against Jews across the world is something that most would not have expected after the Holocaust, the recreation of the state of Israel, and the recognition that there are only about 15,000,000 Jews in the entire world! But accepting that responsibility would also require embracing the reality of Western Culture's enemies. They cannot be reformed. They cannot moderate themselves the way Catholicism and Protestantism did. Islam and socialism are immutable, so nation building and a gentle hand will not work. Israel is fighting Islam's evil on many fronts, most recently in Syria where the al Quaeda-borne new president has unleashed his fanatics against the Druze. Obviously, that is not the only place where Islam seeks the destruction of a religion and culture, and it certainly won't be the last. Tours, Lepanto, Vienna...when is the next one? And when is the West going to recognize that there will be a next one? Hopefully before it is too late. [Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter] And the Apple and Spotify feeds for CJN's podcast should be working!
develop, and one of the bedrocks was Judeo-Christian philosophy, which is completely foreign to the majority of the world. Respect for life; respect for the individual; respect for the law; respect for religion....these are all ideas that do not exist in the third world countries that the hubris of the post-modern West wants to recreate in our image. Perhaps it is time to retire the badge of "World's Policeman," and assume the more modest title of "Protector Of Our Own Culture." And by that I mean Judeo-Christian philosophy, the glories of Western civilization and, the most pressing issue today, The protection of Christianity and Judaism from the marauding bands of savages that seek to destroy the very religions whose ethos created the modern world. No, I am not singling out Islam, although its adherents are by far the worst perpetrators of religious violence. Socialism is at least as antithetical to religion as is Islam, which is in many respects a sham religion created to protect and hide a revolutionary political philosophy. Although socialism as currently practiced seems to be more religion than political philosophy! It certainly has its share of fanatics. Observe the destruction of Christian communities across Africa and the Middle East, the unending hatred of Hinduism and Christianity by the Muslims of Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh; and let us not forget the persecution of Christians in Cuba, Venezuela, and North Korea. And the campaigns against Jews across the world is something that most would not have expected after the Holocaust, the recreation of the state of Israel, and the recognition that there are only about 15,000,000 Jews in the entire world! But accepting that responsibility would also require embracing the reality of Western Culture's enemies. They cannot be reformed. They cannot moderate themselves the way Catholicism and Protestantism did. Islam and socialism are immutable, so nation building and a gentle hand will not work. Israel is fighting Islam's evil on many fronts, most recently in Syria where the al Quaeda-borne new president has unleashed his fanatics against the Druze. Obviously, that is not the only place where Islam seeks the destruction of a religion and culture, and it certainly won't be the last. Tours, Lepanto, Vienna...when is the next one? And when is the West going to recognize that there will be a next one? Hopefully before it is too late. [Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter] And the Apple and Spotify feeds for CJN's podcast should be working!
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
Rosebud Cottage
Thomas Kinkade Part of me thinks that Kinkade was a technically skilled artist without an ounce of talent, and he leveraged his skill into a multi-million dollar industry producing pablum that caught the eye, but was devoid of exactly the sort of stuff that makes people stop and stare at a good van Gogh or Caravaggio. But part of me thinks that the pompous art assholes who criticize Kinkade's work are smug elitists whose ideas about art have plagued us with the current modern art that makes many people want to grab a rifle and go up into a tower. And the idea that Kinkade is somehow diminished because he was commercially successful is an arrogant, disgusting, self-important reflection of their own failings, and a not-so-subtle call-out to socialism, and the thoroughly discredited image of the starving artist. Nobody can tell me that Caravaggio or Gentileschi or Vermeer would have remained true to art for art's sake and wouldn't have cashed in on making millions. Some of the world's greatest artists were commercially successful, and many painted stuff expressly for income. And it defies reality to assume that nobody else ever laid a brush on Raphael's or Michelangelo's or Rembrandt's work. Yes... art, at least to me, can be proof that God works through the hand of man. It can also be pretty pictures that please some of us.
Rosebud Cottage
Thomas Kinkade Part of me thinks that Kinkade was a technically skilled artist without an ounce of talent, and he leveraged his skill into a multi-million dollar industry producing pablum that caught the eye, but was devoid of exactly the sort of stuff that makes people stop and stare at a good van Gogh or Caravaggio. But part of me thinks that the pompous art assholes who criticize Kinkade's work are smug elitists whose ideas about art have plagued us with the current modern art that makes many people want to grab a rifle and go up into a tower. And the idea that Kinkade is somehow diminished because he was commercially successful is an arrogant, disgusting, self-important reflection of their own failings, and a not-so-subtle call-out to socialism, and the thoroughly discredited image of the starving artist. Nobody can tell me that Caravaggio or Gentileschi or Vermeer would have remained true to art for art's sake and wouldn't have cashed in on making millions. Some of the world's greatest artists were commercially successful, and many painted stuff expressly for income. And it defies reality to assume that nobody else ever laid a brush on Raphael's or Michelangelo's or Rembrandt's work. Yes... art, at least to me, can be proof that God works through the hand of man. It can also be pretty pictures that please some of us.
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The Morning Report — 7/22/25
I'll give you a moment to clean off the vomitus from your computer screen. However, with that, it sets the plate rather nicely for the gall and/or cluelessness of James Carville:
Let me try to strip away the obfuscatory gibberish and get to the crux of the biscuit as it were. Is Carville really that clueless as to not realize that "wokeness" is a major component of Leftist/Democrat DNA and its core beliefs. No, I do not mean their persistent bleating about "our precious democracy" which we are not, but that aside, despite the fact that he and his party have been attempting to dismantle this nation as it was founded for over 200 years now and rebuild it with themselves as our lords and masters in perpetuity. If Carville were honest, which is like asking a scorpion to be cuddly, he would have to acknowledge and disavow everything that he and his party stand for and have stood for since slavery and Jim Crow. He's lashing out because at long last Donald Trump beyond his mere rhetoric but because of solid policy successes that stand in diametric and stark opposition to the well-documented history of wastage and disasters of Democrat/Leftists (and their RINO enablers). The Titty-Caca Cortez's and Momdani's that are bust out proud of what they are doing are destroying the Carville contingent's ability to pull the wool over the eyes of a solid majority of Americans and are losing all but the hardest of hardcore brainwashed dregs of their base who will pull the lever for the Dems after tossing their last Molotov Cocktails at ICE and Jews. The Clown Car, Carville is not whoever is at the wheel, it's the damned car itself. He wants "changes" within the party? Like what? Disavowing the myth of white supremacy? Ending the demand for open borders? Shrinking the welfare state and bureaucracy? Moving on from the Climate Change disaster mass hysteria and pushing energy independence, dismantling the regulatory state and empowering entrepreneurialism? At least calling for some limits on abortion if not banning the barbarity altogether? No, what he wants are better and slicker liars like his former boss Bill, BFF of Jeff Epstein, Clinton. Not going to happen. The ascendancy of Donald Trump and now a bona fide movement of MAGA that he engendered will make that nigh impossible. The Dems will never compromise with us. It's all out war now, and they were oh so close to seizing absolute power that they will only be emboldened. Here me now, believe me later!
And speaking of Minneapolis and Minnesota, recall that
“How are we getting those people back from El Salvador? Because I’ll tell you what, if I became President two years from now, or four years from now, or three years from now, I would pick up the phone and call the fucking president of El Salvador and say, ‘You either fucking send them back or I’m going to fucking invade.’ It’s a fucking crime, what they’re doing. He’s a fucking dictator, thug.”
I'll give you a moment to clean off the vomitus from your computer screen. However, with that, it sets the plate rather nicely for the gall and/or cluelessness of James Carville:
Longtime Democrat Strategist James Carville let loose on his own party in a scathing op-ed, calling it “constipated,” “leaderless,” and “a cracked-out clown car” that was barreling down the road toward a “civilized civil war.” Carville has often taken Democrats to task in recent years – particularly with regard to their obsession with “wokeness” — and his column in Monday’s edition of The New York Times was no exception. “Our party is headed for a civilized civil war. It’s vital that we have it, and even more vital that we delay it,” Carville teased the column in an X post, acknowledging that there had to be some changes made within his party but calling on the people to try to keep it together at least until after the 2026 midterms.
Let me try to strip away the obfuscatory gibberish and get to the crux of the biscuit as it were. Is Carville really that clueless as to not realize that "wokeness" is a major component of Leftist/Democrat DNA and its core beliefs. No, I do not mean their persistent bleating about "our precious democracy" which we are not, but that aside, despite the fact that he and his party have been attempting to dismantle this nation as it was founded for over 200 years now and rebuild it with themselves as our lords and masters in perpetuity. If Carville were honest, which is like asking a scorpion to be cuddly, he would have to acknowledge and disavow everything that he and his party stand for and have stood for since slavery and Jim Crow. He's lashing out because at long last Donald Trump beyond his mere rhetoric but because of solid policy successes that stand in diametric and stark opposition to the well-documented history of wastage and disasters of Democrat/Leftists (and their RINO enablers). The Titty-Caca Cortez's and Momdani's that are bust out proud of what they are doing are destroying the Carville contingent's ability to pull the wool over the eyes of a solid majority of Americans and are losing all but the hardest of hardcore brainwashed dregs of their base who will pull the lever for the Dems after tossing their last Molotov Cocktails at ICE and Jews. The Clown Car, Carville is not whoever is at the wheel, it's the damned car itself. He wants "changes" within the party? Like what? Disavowing the myth of white supremacy? Ending the demand for open borders? Shrinking the welfare state and bureaucracy? Moving on from the Climate Change disaster mass hysteria and pushing energy independence, dismantling the regulatory state and empowering entrepreneurialism? At least calling for some limits on abortion if not banning the barbarity altogether? No, what he wants are better and slicker liars like his former boss Bill, BFF of Jeff Epstein, Clinton. Not going to happen. The ascendancy of Donald Trump and now a bona fide movement of MAGA that he engendered will make that nigh impossible. The Dems will never compromise with us. It's all out war now, and they were oh so close to seizing absolute power that they will only be emboldened. Here me now, believe me later!
Minnesota state Sen. Omar Fateh, a self-declared democratic socialist now running for mayor of Minneapolis, opened his campaign office to support George Floyd rioters and called for banning tear gas and rubber bullets, returned thousands in campaign cash tied to one of the nation’s largest fraud schemes, and has pushed to compel Amazon to implement mandatory prayer breaks for Muslim workers. . . During the George Floyd riots in 2020, Fateh opened his campaign office in South Minneapolis as a hub for protesters, providing food, water, and first aid as nearby buildings burned. “We paused the campaign because my campaign office was on Lake Street and Park Avenue, where a lot of the rioting and fires were,” Fateh stated. “The gas station right next to my office was burned to the ground. We opened my office overnight for protesters to come by, administer first aid, provide food and water to people.”
And speaking of Minneapolis and Minnesota, recall that
Vance Boelter, the man accused in June’s political assassinations in Minnesota, claimed in a handwritten letter that Democratic Gov. Tim Walz asked him to kill two U.S. senators. Boelter is charged with shooting and killing both Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, as well as a separate attack that seriously wounded state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife.So James Carville, about that clown car and who's driving it or merely a hapless passenger? And in not necessarily unrelated news . . .
“One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.” . . . . . Which brings us back to Sowell’s quote: “One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.” What the Obama cabal did to Donald Trump and the country was anything but moral. It was insidious, it was treacherous, and most of all, it was treasonous. And now that the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, has released documents and suggested they show that Barack Obama was behind it all, we’ll get an opportunity to see what the Trump administration is really made of. It’s one thing to tell the American people about the treason of a previous administration, but it’s something else altogether to do something about it. Will it be like the Jeffrey Epstein debacle, where Americans were told the hammer is coming, only to be later told there’s nothing there? Or will this be a ruthless, methodical, and intentional prosecution of the traitors who put the nation through so much?The title of the piece is "Russiagate Was Treason; Will Trump Prove That No One Is Above the Law?" My reaction: When Obama and all his co-conspirators are pronounced dead by a Federal prison doctor and their corpses are wheeled out of the death chamber to be cremated and the accursed ashes dumped into the Marianas Trench, to rot alongside that of his BFF's remains Osama bin Laden. 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!
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Daily Tech News 22 July 2025
Top Story
- Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI and inveterate sitzpinkler, says the company could be operating 100 million GPUs by the end of this year. (Tom's Hardware)
Except that he doesn't. At all. The quoted tweet says that he expects the company to have one million AI GPUs in operation by the end of the year.
That will already cost around $30 billion, which is quite enough.
Tom's Hardware, shame.
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July 21, 2025
Monday Overnight Open Thread - July 21, 2025 [Doof]
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A Fanfare of Elephants Cafe
Do you see a human fleeing,
or a dog approaching?
Bringing the new puppy home. Tails of the Golden Monkeys. Dogs do the new meme. Dog raises lion cub. Cow wants to be involved. I note the cat takes off and doesn't help. Sometimes the reward of a hero is just the heroism itself. Cat just relaxing and being silly. ChatGTP, define prancing. Dog and duck. Baby elephant thinks he's a lap elephant. Out of control! He's not sure what he did but he sure did something. But why is the duck on the floor? Sometimes I think he only loves me for my body.
Do you see a human fleeing,
or a dog approaching?
Bringing the new puppy home. Tails of the Golden Monkeys. Dogs do the new meme. Dog raises lion cub. Cow wants to be involved. I note the cat takes off and doesn't help. Sometimes the reward of a hero is just the heroism itself. Cat just relaxing and being silly. ChatGTP, define prancing. Dog and duck. Baby elephant thinks he's a lap elephant. Out of control! He's not sure what he did but he sure did something. But why is the duck on the floor? Sometimes I think he only loves me for my body.
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Dare We Even Dream? Some Republicans Hope That an Expanding Economy Plus Tariff Revenues Will Balance the Budget
Trump is never one to shy away from trumpeting good news before the good news actually arrives, so he's huffing the Hopium as well.
Considered by some to be a pie-in-the-sky aspiration of fiscal conservatives, President Donald Trump is now raising hopes that he can use growing tariff revenues, rescission spending cuts and new court rulings shrinking government to put the nation on a path toward a long-elusive balanced budget. "I'm looking at these dollars every single day, and it's an exciting time to make sure that we are taking a crack at this $37 trillion of debt that we're placing on the back of our children and future generations," Rep. Julia Letlow, R-La., a House Appropriations Committee member, told Just the News on Tuesday. Letlow praised Trump for her rising enthusiasm, saying voters "have a president that is committed to making sure that we have an America that will prosper again. He is setting us on that course. He's done it once before. He's doing it again." ... The courts are also empowering Trump to cut deeper with layoffs and restructuring of federal agencies. ... The Court stated that the administration was likely to succeed in arguing that the executive order and related memoranda were legal, though it did not rule on the ultimate legality of the layoffs. This decision was a significant step toward Trump’s goal of downsizing the federal bureaucracy, moving ever-closer to a balanced budget. The Supreme Court also ruled to allow the Department of Government (DOGE) to proceed with utilizing Social Security records to conduct its work of identifying and eliminating waste, fraud and abuse. The decision allows DOGE to utilize sensitive records with fewer transparency requirements as it also seeks to downsize the federal government. Tariffs could greatly enhance the impact of government cuts proposed by the Trump administration and codified in the recently-passed "One Big, Beautiful Bill" with new revenues. As of July 1, the United States has reaped $106.1 billion dollars in tariff revenue. If the same pace and level of tariffs remain the same, that would translate to around $300 billion added to Treasury annually. Rescissions could also prove to be a fruitful way of clawing back tax dollars. Numerous members of Congress, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., have indicated that the $9 billion rescission package would be the "first of many," possibly compounding savings for the American people. Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., who sits on the powerful Budget, Rules and Financial Services committees, told Just The News, "We've got a math problem in Congress. We spend too much. I hope we can keep them [rescission packages] coming and show the American people that since we have the House, the Senate and the White House, that we mean what we say, and we're true conservatives. I'm excited about it." ... The last time the federal government's revenue matched its expenditures was in 2001 when the budget recorded a surplus of $128 billion. ...
Republicans in both chambers will need substantially more intestinal fortitude to make that happen before next year's midterm elections. But by padding the treasury with tariff revenue and decreasing the federal workforce, which subsequently reduces costs associated with payroll, resources and facilities, a balanced budget may be more than a pipe dream under Trump.
What do you think? Is the Timeline splitting again? Are we moving on to the Timeline where Congress actually passes a balanced budget over the next four or five years? Can we get any Timeline Witches to cast spells to help us jump Timelines? Unrelated:
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that during his second term, there is a real opportunity to balance the budget, a lofty goal that has eluded four presidents, including Trump as 45th president. Between bringing in an unprecedented $106 billion in tariff revenue thus far, shrinking the size of government thanks to the Supreme Court's rulings on federal layoffs, and continued rescission packages, he said, "I have a real shot." "We're taking in tremendous amounts of money. You saw that we had a $25 billion surplus last month. And the tariffs haven't really started by comparison to what they will be," Trump told Just The News, No Noise television show, in a wide-ranging interview that aired Wednesday night. Trump noted that the majority of the current tariffs currently relate to automobiles, car parts, aluminum and steel, but that on August 1, the tariffs will extend to other foreign goods, accelerating tariff revenue that could contribute substantially to an alternative to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). "We could use the External Revenue Service, and we wouldn't even need the Internal Revenue Service. But the money is very substantial. It's hundreds of billions of dollars."
... In a moment of levity, Trump recalled comments Tuesday from Kenneth Langone, the co-founder of Home Depot, who just months ago called tariffs, "bullsh*t." In a course reversal Tuesday, Langone told CNBC's Squawk Box, "Look, let me tell you right now, I am sold on Trump. In fact, I'll say this: I think he's got a good shot at going down in history as one of our best presidents ever."
Noam Blum
@neontaster I compiled a list of every political figure (not including journalists and pundits) that appeared on Stephen Colbert's show in 2024. Try to see if you can spot some sort of pattern: Hakeem Jeffries (x2)
Bill Clinton
Tim Waltz
John Fetterman
Kamala Harris
Mark Kelly
Ketanji Brown Jackson
AOC (x2)
Pete Buttigieg
Nancy Pelosi
Hillary Clinton
Bernie Sanders (x2)
Elizabeth Warren (x2)
Adam Kinzinger
Gretchen Whitmer
Jamaal Bowman
Cory Booker
Doug Emhoff
Stephen Breyer
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Margot Cleveland: Memo Reveals Left-Wing Judges Scheming to Thwart Trump's Agenda
At The Federalist: Democrat judges openly proclaim their hostility to Trump and their determination to protect the country from the president that voters elected making the policy choices he told them he would make.
Federal judge James Boasberg advised Chief Justice John Roberts and some two dozen other judges that his D.C. colleagues were "concern[ed] that the Administration would disregard rulings of federal courts leading to a constitutional crisis," according to a memorandum obtained exclusively by The Federalist. That Judge Boasberg and his fellow D.C. District Court judges would discuss how a named Defendant in numerous pending lawsuits might respond to an adverse ruling is shocking. Equally outrageous is those judges' clear disregard for the presumption of regularity -- a presumption that requires a court to presume public officials properly discharged their official duties. During the week of March 11, 2025, members of the Judicial Conference met in Washington, D.C., for the first of its two regular meetings. As the U.S. Court's webpage explains, "[t]he Judicial Conference of the United States is the national policymaking body for the federal courts." The Judicial Conference consists of Chief Justice Roberts, who presides over the body, as well as the chief judge of each judicial circuit, the chief judge of the Court of International Trade, and one district judge from each regional circuit, making for a group of approximately thirty judges. While the Judicial Conference mainstay is considering "administrative and policy issues affecting the federal court system," and "mak[ing] recommendations to Congress concerning legislation involving the Judicial Branch," a side conversation at the group's most recent meeting revealed a disturbing detail -- the predisposition of supposedly unbiased judges against the Trump Administration. In a memorandum obtained exclusively by The Federalist, a member of the Judicial Conference summarized the March meeting, including a "working breakfast" at which Justice Roberts spoke. According to the memorandum, "District of the District of Columbia Chief Judge James Boasberg next raised his colleagues' concerns that the Administration would disregard rulings of federal courts leading to a constitutional crisis." ... Judge Boasberg's comments reveal he and his colleagues hold an anti-Trump bias, for the Trump Administration had complied with every court order to date (and since for that matter). The D.C. District Court judges' "concern" also went counter to the normal presumption courts hold -- one that presumes public officials properly discharged their official duties. Apparently, that presumption does not apply to the current president, at least if you are litigating in D.C. And what is both troubling and ironic is that only a few days later, Judge Boasberg, in a case in which he completely lacked jurisdiction, as the Supreme Court would later confirm, entered a lawless order commanding the Trump Administration to halt removals to El Salvador. So, one of the judges concerned about Trump following the law, ignored the law. Nonetheless, Judge Boasberg would later find "the Trump Administration committed criminal contempt of court" by failing to turn the planes around or fly the gang members back to the U.S., even though the court's written (and unlawful) injunction ordered neither.Could it possibly be? Could we be living in the Bad Timeline in which partisan, tyrannical judges seek to overturn the mandate of the voters? Could the Time Witches be right? Yes, the Time Witches be right. That's exactly what's happened, reports Fox News.
This article runs with a picture. The caption reads:
EXCLUSIVE: An environmental advocacy group accused of trying to manipulate judges organized a years-long, nationwide online forum with jurists to promote favorable info and litigation updates regarding climate issues -- until the email-styled group chat was abruptly made private, Fox News Digital found. The Climate Judiciary Project (CJP) was founded in 2018 by a left-wing environmental nonprofit, the Environmental Law Institute (ELI), and pitches itself as a "first-of-its-kind effort" that "provides judges with authoritative, objective, and trusted education on climate science, the impacts of climate change, and the ways climate science is arising in the law." But critics, such as Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, say CJP is funded by China and left-wing activists for one purpose. "They fund CJP to train judges," Cruz said during a June hearing. "So, quote, unquote, train in climate science and make them agreeable to creative climate litigation tactics. Then, these left-wing bankrollers turn around and fund the climate litigators who will bring these bogus cases before those same judges that they've just indoctrinated. "This is like paying the players to play and paying the umpire to call the shots the way you want."
The group, however, says it provides "neutral, objective information to the judiciary about the science of climate change as it is understood by the expert scientific community and relevant to current and future litigation."
FALSE. There are at least two timelines we're aware of, thanks to the work of dedicated palm-reading nurses who get "drops" from "Spirit."
Protester holds sign that reads, "There is no planet B."
One of the efforts CJP launched included rolling out an email-styled listserv by which leaders from the Climate Judiciary Project could message directly with judges, documents obtained by Fox News Digital show. The listserv was launched in September 2022 and maintained until May 2024, according to the documents. A portal website page for the forum was previously publicly available, with an archived link saved in July 2024 showing there were 29 members in the group. ... A link to the forum now leads to an error warning, stating, "Sorry, but that group does not exist." Fox News Digital obtained the archived chat history of the forum, which detailed numerous messages between at least five judges and CJP employees trading links on climate studies, congratulating one another on hosting recent environmental events, sharing updates on recent climate cases that were remanded to state courts, and encouraging each other to participate in other CJP meet-ups.
One message posted by Delaware Judge Travis Laster, vice chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery, features a YouTube video of a 2022 climate presentation delivered by a Delaware official and a Columbia University professor that focused on the onslaught of climate lawsuits since the mid-2000s. It also included claims that such lawsuits could one day bankrupt the fuel industry. Laster shared the video in the group with a disclaimer to others: "Because the link is of a judicial event that is otherwise not public, please do not forward or use without checking with me. I suspect that goes without saying, but the powers that be will be happier that I said it." A handful of other judges responded to Laster's video and message, praising it as "great work." ... Judges quietly working behind the scenes with climate and environmental activists have drawn criticism from conservative lawmakers in recent years as climate-focused suits increased, including those who have accused CJP of manipulating the justice system. Cruz, for example, has been at the forefront of condemning CJP for joining forces with the National Judicial College. Cruz argued in a 2024 opinion piece that he is "concerned that this collaboration means court staff are helping far-left climate activists lobby and direct judges behind closed doors."
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The 4am Club: Meet The Lunatic Women Who Believe We're In the "Wrong Timeline," Who Claim We Have to Get Back to the "Right Timeline" Where Kamala Harris Won the Election
You're probably thinking, "Oh, this is just a couple of dozen random lunatics on TikTok, it doesn't mean anything more than that."
But according to Suzy Weiss of The Free Press, these Tik Toks by floridly insane women garner millions of views.
As Weiss points out, if QAnon was a story for the leftwing media, this story of millions of AWFLs who all believe that the "timeline" split at 4am on election night between the "right timeline" where Kamala won and the "wrong timeline" where Trump won is just as much a story.
But something tells me that the leftwing Traitor's Press won't see it that way.
Below, "Gia," one of the "psychic intuitives" and Timeline Witches who claims that she had a feeling that Trump would win the 2024 election at 4am in the morning so she knew that the timeline was "splitting." By the way, everyone in the country knew Trump would win by 4am; he had been projected to win the election by like 1:30 am. But she was psychic because she saw a tweet when she woke up.
Let me object: The left-wing version of QAnon was already here. It is BlueAnon, the Democrats and media types (but I repeat myself) who believed every dotty conspiracy theory Rachel Maddow shat into their mouths and still believe in RussiaGate, despite overwhelming evidence that it was a fiction ordered up by Hillary Clinton.
Suzy Weiss: If Kamala Harris Were President. . .
The 4 a.m. Club is made up of self-proclaimed witches, mystics, and mediums who believe we have been living in an alternate reality since November 6, 2024.
It's been another bizarre week, online and otherwise. While you, hopefully, were staring off into the ocean, or at least enjoying a cold beverage on a patio, I was tunneling deep into an alternate reality where Kamala Harris is president. Let me take you there. The Left-Wing Version of QAnon Is Here
Yes, the many women who claim to have persistent diseases with very vague symptoms (that pretty much just sum up to "I feel the blahs, I have low energy, and do not take joy in my life") that no doctors are ever capable of diagnosing. I am not saying that autoimmune disorders are fake, by the way. I know they're real. But it's also a syndrome with many vague and hard-to-pin-down symptoms that simple hypochondriacs tend to glom on to. Hypochondriacs and Munchausen Syndrome people do not claim to have easily-identifiable ailments like a broken shinbone. No, there's an easy test for that. It's always vague stuff like "I just don't feel good" and "I just feel sad a lot." Only certain maladies offer this kind of vague complaint, and they're choosing "autoimmune disorder" en masse to justify their lifelong malingering.
Are we heading toward World War III? Not according to Gia Prism, a self-proclaimed psychic, and the founder of a movement that's the closest thing the left has to QAnon. It's called the "4 a.m. Club." It isn't about getting up before the sun to go on a run or to get a head start on work, but rather a confederation of spiritually inclined women who all claim to have woken up suddenly around 4 a.m. on November 6 with a sinking feeling that Donald Trump had won the election. Checking their phones, their feminine intuitions were confirmed. Except that they don't really believe that he won. Stick with me here. The 4 a.m. Clubbers believe that, really, we might be living in an alternate reality where Trump is president. At 4 a.m. on November 6, 2024 is when the timelines "split." And it's only a matter of time before we all realize it and get back on the "correct" timeline, where Trump failed and Harris took her rightful place as chief executive. "I have been steadfast, so rock-solid in my belief that she won, and it was only a matter of time before we all got onto that timeline," said one member, @KelleyDaring, who posts on TikTok. "My friends have looked at me like I'm crazy and told me I'm delusional." And then she found the others just like her. "Those of us in the 4 a.m. Club viscerally experienced that timeline split." "This is the vision, this is the light that we have been holding," another 4 a.m.-er explained.
There are hundreds of videos with millions of views on 4 a.m. Club videos on TikTok, and additional chatter on left-wing Reddit; and their popularity has only grown since Trump's inauguration. A lot of them are made by self-proclaimed witches, mystics, mediums, clairvoyants, intuitives, and the like. Many, it seems, are nurses with autoimmune disorders.
One of these lunatics is going to try to kill the president, imagining this will "collapse the timeline" just like measuring a particle collapses the probability function.
Basically, the 4 a.m. Club is QAnon, but for left-wing women on TikTok who believe they are receiving messages from God in the passenger seat of their Toyota Siennas. Just as QAnon believed the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, the 4 a.m. Club believes it was stolen from Harris in 2024; both movements see it as their job to alert the rest of the country to what's happening right under their noses. According to 4 a.m. Club doctrine, it's just a simple matter of collapsing the timelines, so that we enter the correct one, where Harris is the president--in other words, where the Divine Feminine wins." "It's more than just waking up that morning," says one 4 a.m Clubber. "It's actually about a Great Awakening."
Whereas the most exciting thing in the QAnon world is getting "drops" from "Q"--the supposedly high-ranking but anonymous government official who released predictions about the deep state on 8chan--4 a.m.-ers get "downloads" from "Spirit." As in, Gia got "messages from Spirit about the spiritual purpose of what's happening with ICE." Sometimes, 4 a.m.-ers refer to multiple "spirit guides," which show them visions of Harris's victory (she wore a pin-striped purple pantsuit), or telling them which members of Trump's administration will eventually be prosecuted (Pam Bondi, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem).
Below, "Gia," one of the "psychic intuitives" and Timeline Witches who claims that she had a feeling that Trump would win the 2024 election at 4am in the morning so she knew that the timeline was "splitting." By the way, everyone in the country knew Trump would win by 4am; he had been projected to win the election by like 1:30 am. But she was psychic because she saw a tweet when she woke up.
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Democrats' Fundraising Collapses, Causing People to Wonder: Was the Democrats' Funding Almost All Government Money Laundered Through NGOs?
Teddy Schleifer
@teddyschleifer Cash on hand as of June 30: Republican National Committee: $80.8 million Democratic National Committee: $15.2 million
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Two Illegal Aliens Released Into the Country By Biden Shoot An Off-Duty CPB Officer In the Face
More Cultural Enrichment, one attempted murder at a time.
They raced away to their basement lab where they work on cancer cures and carbon nanotubes.
An off-duty Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer was shot in the face in New York City on Saturday night during an attempted robbery involving a previously-deported illegal immigrant, according to authorities. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified the suspect as Miguel Francisco Mora Nunez, a Dominican national who was caught by Border Patrol in April 2023. After being apprehended at the Arizona border, Nunez was released into the U.S., though he still has an active deportation order. Video released by DHS showed two suspects ride up to the officer on a motorized scooter in Riverside Park.
According to police, Nunez then got off the scooter and approached the officer while he was sitting and speaking to someone near a body of water. The officer has not yet been identified. The officer, who was not in uniform, pulled out a gun to protect himself, and a shootout ensued. The agent was hit in the face and forearm and transported to a hospital, where he is currently in stable condition. He is expected to survive. ... DHS also told Fox News that Nunez has an active warrant for kidnapping in the state of Massachusetts, in addition to prior felony arrests.
... President Donald Trump weighed in on the shooting Sunday afternoon, writing that "an incredible CBP Officer was shot in the face by an Illegal Alien Monster freed into the Country under Joe Biden." ... The incident comes two months after a Fox News Digital report found a high number of migrants committing thefts, assaults and drug crimes, as well as grand larceny incidents and sex crimes. According to the data, 3,219 migrants living in 48 shelters across the city were arrested a total of 4,884 times between Jan. 1, 2023, and Oct. 31, 2024.
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Revealed: Comey Didn't Even Bother Investigating Hillary Clinton's Top-Secret-File-Filled Thumb Drives Before Rushing to Exonerate Her
Grassley's press release:
This is what partisan "justice" looks like. Sweeping Hillary Clinton's actual retention of top-secret files under the rug while arresting Trump for keeping some napkins he scribbled notes on.
Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_ BREAKING: Sen. Grassley just released the long-classified "Clinton Annex" (finally declassified by AG Bondi) which proves the Comey FBI exonerated Hillary of email server crimes DESPITE NEVER INVESTIGATING THUMB DRIVES w/ COMPROMISED CLASSIFIED EMAILS--inclg PRESIDENT OBAMA EMAIL
Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_ DEVELOPING: DOJ has declassified key new documents detailing how the Comey FBI and Peter Strzok ignored a major national security breach by Hillary Clinton they should have thoroughly investigated as part of a counterintelligence case, but they went after Donald Trump instead ...
Grassley's press release:
"This document shows an extreme lack of effort and due diligence in the FBI's investigation of former Secretary Clinton's email usage and mishandling of highly classified information," Grassley said. "Under Comey's leadership, the FBI failed to perform fundamental investigative work and left key pieces of evidence on the cutting room floor. The Comey FBI's negligent approach and perhaps intentional lack of effort in the Clinton investigation is a stark contrast to its full-throated investigation of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, which was based on the uncorroborated and now discredited Steele dossier. Comey's decision-making process smacks of political infection."The actual files release are here, but there are a lot of redactions so it's hard to read. Regarding the other Comey-led conspiracy -- this one to frame Trump, at Obama's orders -- an unnamed former Washington Post investigative "journalist" admits that Tulsi Gabbard's document drop establishes a clear conspiracy.
Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_ NEW: This from a Pulitzer-winning former Washington Post investigative reporter: "The [Russiagate] documents that came out in the past week are jaw-dropping. It's rare to see such slam-dunk evidence of a conspiracy."
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One Year Ago Today, Joe Biden, Who Was Totally Mentally Fit to be President, Dropped Out of the Presidential Race
@stanleyFosha commented: "He's running!"
From Ed Driscoll, posting at Instapundit.
@stanleyFosha commented: "He's running!"
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THE MORNING RANT - Artificial Intelligence Follies: Dave Barry Battles Google AI to Prove He’s Not Dead
, but that turned out to be incorrect. I then visited those churches’ websites and learned that one is actually EPC (“Evangelical Presbyterian Church.”
I’ve read that what gives AI its “intelligence” is that it is interactive and “learns” as it interacts with users. Maybe, or maybe not. Humorist Dave Barry just published a piece at his Substack about his interaction with Google AI, which was reporting him as deceased. Mr. Barry sought to advise Google AI that he was not in fact deceased, and his accounting of all this is hilarious.
, but that turned out to be incorrect. I then visited those churches’ websites and learned that one is actually EPC (“Evangelical Presbyterian Church.”
I’ve read that what gives AI its “intelligence” is that it is interactive and “learns” as it interacts with users. Maybe, or maybe not. Humorist Dave Barry just published a piece at his Substack about his interaction with Google AI, which was reporting him as deceased. Mr. Barry sought to advise Google AI that he was not in fact deceased, and his accounting of all this is hilarious.
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
Mona Hatoum
There's more at this link, but even I am not cruel enough to subject you to it. This would be a mildly amusing installation if it were not taken so seriously. The description is laughable, using the post-modern technique of obfuscation by vocabulary. None of those descriptors make any sense in the real art world of evocation of beauty and emotion!
Mona Hatoum
Referencing both the human body and rigid systems of abstraction, the installation Current Disturbance 1996 is made from an immense grid of over 200 cages, light bulbs and the amplified sound of electric currents. As the bulbs light up and fade out at irregular intervals, they sporadically illuminate the surrounding gallery. Inside each of the cages rests a single lightbulb, all interconnected via a central convergence. Another single bulb is suspended inside the structure, illuminating the junction box at the centre. The grid of metal cages sets up a contrast between the sense of systematization and the chaos of randomised flashing lights and the mess of wiring covering the floor. The tension arising from this juxtaposition of elements serves to intensify the feeling of suspended energy and instability, inspiring a certain discomfort in the viewer.
There's more at this link, but even I am not cruel enough to subject you to it. This would be a mildly amusing installation if it were not taken so seriously. The description is laughable, using the post-modern technique of obfuscation by vocabulary. None of those descriptors make any sense in the real art world of evocation of beauty and emotion!
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The Morning Report — 7/21/25
And so, for me the entire l'affaire Epstein is bullshit in light of the fact that, what we all knew for years is at long last being revealed to a wider and wider audience. That is, all of the above and of course what was done to candidate and then ultimately President Donald Trump.
The Rot is Ugly Dark and Deep. It's going to take at least 100 years of Trumps and Trumpian presidents to get to the bottom of it all and begin the process of restoring not just the Republic but the public's trust in it. 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!
The Department of Justice under former [so-called quote-unquote] President Joe Biden actively sought a “federal hook” to justify sending federal law enforcement after parents it labeled “domestic terrorists” because they were concerned about their children’s education. Documents obtained by America First Legal (AFL) show that prior to the infamous Oct. 4, 2021, “domestic terrorist” memo from former Attorney General Merrick Garland, staff were looking for any possible way to go after parents concerned with coronavirus mandates, critical race theory, and “transgender” policies. “We’re aware; the challenge here is finding a federal hook. But WH has been in touch about whether we can assist in some form or fashion,” Kevin Chambers, then an associate deputy attorney general, wrote in an Oct. 1 email, trying to manufacture a way to respond to a teed-up letter sent by the National School Boards Association (NSBA). Career staff at the time were even concerned, saying there was no authority or legal basis for going after parents speaking out at school board meetings, particularly since they were protected by the First Amendment.
And so, for me the entire l'affaire Epstein is bullshit in light of the fact that, what we all knew for years is at long last being revealed to a wider and wider audience. That is, all of the above and of course what was done to candidate and then ultimately President Donald Trump.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced this week that John Brennan is under investigation, and with good reason. Brennan is the most corrupt former CIA director ever. His transgressions against the U.S., coming to light more succinctly with each passing week, portray an individual who should have never been in government service, let alone CIA director. Now is the time to nail him. . . Russiagate was a complete fabricated lie and yet Brennan, still serving as Obama’s CIA director, put in place a surveillance system to monitor at least two dozen Trump campaign staffers and advisors. Brennan wiretapped and eavesdropped on the conversations of Donald Trump’s most prominent political supporters. . . When Trump ran in 2020, Brennan, as a private citizen, continued his despicable tactics. He was prominent among the 51 former intelligence agents who proclaimed that Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop was a product of Russian disinformation. Brennan knew this assertion was false from the get-go and that the fake stream media would run with it for months.I've asked this before and I still don't understand it. How does someone get a job at the CIA in 1980 who four years earlier voted for the CPUSA presidential ticket of Gus Hall and Angela Davis. I take it back, I totally get it. It means the anti-American rot that permeated much and still permeates quite a bit of our governmental bureaucracy including areas we long thought, or prayed, immune to it, that is our law enforcement and intelligence agencies tasked with preserving our liberties and physical security and safety, must have been corrupt going back well before John Brennan slithered into Langley for a job interview. And so, our current Director of National Intelligence, DNI Tulsi Gabbard had this to say . .
. . . Brennan believes that he had, and still has, a sacred duty to determine who should lead our nation. Deluded over many decades, he cares nothing about American voters, the will of the people, or democratic processes. He readily lied and deceived the populace to demonize Donald Trump and all others who he deems to be unworthy.
On this week’s broadcast on FNC’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said former President Barack Obama directed a “treasonous conspiracy” against President Donald Trump during his first term. Gabbard said, “The implications of this are, frankly, nothing short of historic. Over 100 documents that we released on Friday really detail and provide evidence of how this treasonous conspiracy was directed by President Obama if just weeks before he was due to leave office after President Trump had already gotten elected. This is not a Democrat or Republican issue — this is an issue that is so, so serious, it should concern every single American because it has to do with the integrity of our democratic republic.”That's her talking, not me. Treason is a hell of a word to toss out there. She surely understands the ramifications of Treason, that is what the appropriate/potential punishment is for those who are convicted of it. Again for me Epstein is bullshit. Obama, Biden, Hillary should swing alongside, Brennan, Comey, Clapper and all of their underlings/henchman who engineered the plot against Trump and all of the crimes against the citizenry of the United States of America. Be nice if she developed a case against all of the above and Malig-Nancy Pelosi for engineering the fake J-6 Reichstag Fire/Weenie Roast. Then again, it's probably not a stretch to connect the dots between Epstein and the aforementioned vis a vis the plots against Trump.
The Rot is Ugly Dark and Deep. It's going to take at least 100 years of Trumps and Trumpian presidents to get to the bottom of it all and begin the process of restoring not just the Republic but the public's trust in it. 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
- “At approximately 8 p.m. Pacific on July 20, we experienced an IT outage that resulted in a temporary, system-wide ground stop for Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air flights,” the airline wrote in a statement on X. As of 11 p.m. Pacific, the ground stop has been lifted, and our operations have resumed. As we reposition our aircraft and crews, there will most likely be residual impacts to our flights.”
Alaska Airlines grounds all flights after IT outage disrupts systems* * * * * - Victor Davis Hanson: The cure may be painful, but it’s the cancer—unchecked borders, foreign appeasement, DEI overreach, and green delusions—that’s killing the patient.
The War Between Trump’s Chemotherapy and the Biden Cancer
- Daniel Greenfield: The globalist fantasy of global stability.
Why Trump Should Embrace World Chaos
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