May 28, 2025
Polls, Schmolls: Trump Rises on Huge Boost in Consumer Confidence and National Mood
The Experts (TM) guessed that consumer confidence would come in at 87.5 for May, but instead it hit 98 -- the biggest one-month gain in four years. For the first time in Rasmussen's polling history -- but remember, they've only been around for 15 years -- a majority of Americans now say the US is on "the right track." That's big.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but Trump has never done a live Oval Office speech about his trade or economic policy. In fact, I can't remember him ever doing an Oval Office address to voters. He's a very strong communicator. He really needs to start using one of his most potent weapons to quietly, calmly, and rigorously make his case on tariffs to the public. If he's already about about parity on the question, an Oval Office address would put him well over a majority. Duane Patterson rounds up some additional findings about Democrats losing the country as they become The Antifa and Groomer Party.
According to Morning Consult's poll, there has been a 9-point swing in voters' approval of Trump's trade policy in just two weeks.Trade sentiment improves: For the first time since March, more voters approve than disapprove of Trump's handling of trade policy (47% to 45%). Voters remain closely divided over whether they approve of Trump's handling of the economy or trust Republicans over Democrats to deal with the matter.This increase is not a fluke. We know that because of optimism about the economy. Consumer confidence had been dropping over the past couple of months, again due to uncertainty about Trump's trade policies. In May it skyrocketed, far outstripping expectations.
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@IAPolls2022 Morning Consult - Trump Approval Approve: 48% (=)
Disapprove: 50% (=) ... Trump's net approval - Trade Policy 🔴 May 11: -7%
🟡 May 19: Even
🟢 May 25: +2%
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@IAPolls2022 Trump Approval Daily Tracking Approve: 53% (+7)
Disapprove: 46% Highest approval since mid February @Rasmussen_Poll
The Experts (TM) guessed that consumer confidence would come in at 87.5 for May, but instead it hit 98 -- the biggest one-month gain in four years. For the first time in Rasmussen's polling history -- but remember, they've only been around for 15 years -- a majority of Americans now say the US is on "the right track." That's big.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but Trump has never done a live Oval Office speech about his trade or economic policy. In fact, I can't remember him ever doing an Oval Office address to voters. He's a very strong communicator. He really needs to start using one of his most potent weapons to quietly, calmly, and rigorously make his case on tariffs to the public. If he's already about about parity on the question, an Oval Office address would put him well over a majority. Duane Patterson rounds up some additional findings about Democrats losing the country as they become The Antifa and Groomer Party.
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Project Veritas Undercover Sting Video Catches David Hogg Naming Names About Who Controled the White House
According to both Hogg and a former Biden "digital strategy" hack, the most powerful man in the world from 2021-2024 was... Jill Biden's Chief of Staff, Anthony Bernal.
John Sexton links a Fox News article about Bernal's power in the "Joe Biden" White House."He considered loyalty to be the defining virtue and would wield that word to elevate some and oust others -- at times fairly and at times not. 'Are you a Biden person?' he would ask West Wing aides. 'Is so-and-so a Biden person?' The regular interrogations led some colleagues to dub him the leader of the 'loyalty police,'" the journalists wrote in "Original Sin."... Tapper and Thompson said it was difficult to find many Bernal defenders and described him as using his power to cast out "potential heretics."Per The Times of London, he was the chief spy and heretic-hunter:
He was seen as a protective figure serving as "the Bidens' eyes and ears" with a particular focus on "casting out potential heretics". One long-time Biden aide said: "He would not be welcome at my funeral."Video below.
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Rubio Announces Ban on Visas for Foreigners Who Work to Suppress Free Speech in America
This won't affect too many people, but I do think it's healthy to begin expressing the correct level of hostility and contempt for people who attempt to subvert Americans' right to free speech.
[Rubio] took that a step further today by announcing that the State Department will no longer issue visas to "foreign officials and persons who are complicit in censoring Americans." "For too long, Americans have been fined, harassed, and even charged by foreign authorities for exercising their free speech rights," Rubio posted on X, adding, "Free speech is essential to the American way of life -- a birthright over which foreign governments have no authority." In another post, he said, "Foreigners who work to undermine the rights of Americans should not enjoy the privilege of traveling to our country. Whether in Latin America, Europe, or elsewhere, the days of passive treatment for those who work to undermine the rights of Americans are over."We can't exile American citizens involved in this effort (yet...) but we can ban censorious foreigners. Obviously, the global elite -- My mistake, they're not elite and never have been. Obviously, the global Gold-Plated Mediocrities understand that their agenda is toxically unpopular and that they cannot maintain their power in any democratic system, so they are working as fast as they can to turn former democracies into oligarchies. Stopping all criticism of themselves and their agenda is the first step in the Gold-Plated Mediocrities' campaign to make themselves into tyrants. Related:
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Susan Crabtree: The Secret Service Cover-Up of Hunter Biden's Cocaine Was Worse Than We Thought
People need to go to prison. And I mean the Praetorian Guard Bureaucrats who covered this up. This cannot stand.
First, the Secret Service "destroyed" the cocaine, thus stopping anyone from checking up on their claims that there was too little DNA on the coke-bag to test.
And they made sure no one could test it by destroying it. The destruction of the actual contraband would also make it hard to prosecute anyone for having it, as a prosecutor would just have to assert it existed and any defense attorney could claim whatever they wanted about the coke, and no one could dispute them. Second, the Secret Service says it did not conduct interviews with White House staff about who smuggled Hunter Biden's cocaine into the White House because it would be, get this, "a civil rights violation to interview the White House staff" about the coke. Third, the White House staff moved the cocaine from the library, which relatively few people have access to, to the cubbies in the entrance hall, which more people have access to. The obvious reason for this illegal action is to expand the number of suspects who could have smuggled in Hunter Biden's cocaine and thus protect the actual culprit.People need to go to prison. And I mean the Praetorian Guard Bureaucrats who covered this up. This cannot stand.
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@dogeai_gov The White House cocaine cover-up reeks of D.C. corruption. Secret Service leadership tried to destroy evidence, blocked DNA testing, and hid behind "civil liberties" excuses instead of pursuing the truth. They found a partial DNA match but refused to investigate further--classic swamp behavior. If this was a Republican scandal, the media would demand answers 24/7. Instead, they protect Biden's inner circle while wasting taxpayer dollars on sham investigations. The real crime? A two-tiered justice system where elites torch evidence while regular Americans face the full force of the law. Time to drain the swamp--again.
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DEI Is Our Strength: Two Totally-Qualified Female Secret Service Agents Get Into a Hair-Pulling Catfight Outside the Obama Residence
Update: The Fight Was Over Who Got Which Car?
Update: The Fight Was Over Who Got Which Car?
Two Secret Service agents were suspended after getting into a physical altercation last week that was captured on video and circulated online. A Secret Service spokesperson confirmed the authenticity of the video, which depicted two female officers getting into a physical fight while on duty. NBC News reported that the incident occurred outside of former President Obama's home in Washington, D.C. The spokesperson said the incident -- which occurred early last Wednesday -- is under internal investigation.More from Susan Crabtree:
Crabtree's post is here, including audio of the "get a supervisor before I whoop this girl's ass" line.
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@susancrabtree 🚨#BREAKING SCOOP: IS DEI STILL PLAGUING THE SECRET SERVICE?
FRACAS OUTSIDE OBAMA RESIDENCE RAISES NEW QUESTIONS: Get a supervisor "immediately before I whoop this girl's ass." Two female Secret Service Uniformed Division officers got into a physical fight outside former President Obama's D.C. residence while guarding it. The fracas occurred at roughly 2:30 a.m. early Wednesday morning, according to two sources in the Secret Service community. The lack of professionalism was on display during the fight and in a call one of the women made on a recorded Secret Service line to request a supervisor to come to the scene "immediately before I whoop this girl's ass." The woman officer who made the call was upset that her shift replacement was late and assailed her verbally and physically when she finally did arrive to relieve her. Audio of the early a.m. call is now circulating among agents and officers and is attached to this X post. ... The incident is raising new concerns among fellow Secret Service agents and officers about the agency's lowering of hiring standards during years of a major DEI push to add more minorities and women to the ranks under previous Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle. Cheatle resigned under a cloud after the J13 assassination attempt against Donald Trump. The Secret Service for years has experienced low morale and a severe manpower shortage, which is also contributing to lower hiring standards as the agency works to increase its agents and officers. Susan Crabtree
@susancrabtree #BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE: @RCPolitics has obtained video of the fight between two women Secret Service Uniformed Division Officers outside former President Obama's residence last week after one officer called a supervisor to come before "I whoop this girl's ass." More details about the reason for the fight: Multiple Secret Service sources say one woman Uniformed Division officer was triggered because the officer coming to relieve at the end of her shift was late. Another well-placed Secret Service source says the replacement officer was only a few minutes late, and the woman officer who started the fight wanted a Dodge Durango, not the Ford Explorer, that the other officer arrived in. Officers apparently have a choice of cars they can check out when they go on duty -- and provide relief for shift changes. "If that's all it takes to set you off, [then this officer] is dangerous to have around," the source remarked. Secret Service agents and officers are annually trained to recognize "insider threats" -- employees who pose a danger to the agency's security, data, and operations. The officer who started the fight displays several of the "insider threat" signs. As @RCPolitics previously reported, the agency did not actively investigate at least one other internal "insider threat" report for several years despite internal complaints about this employee, and there are ongoing questions about whether the agent was appropriately punished after she was investigated. Some key signs of insider threats: Disgruntled Employees: Disengaged or unhappy employees can be more likely to engage in risky behavior, potentially leading to security breaches or other issues. Behavioral and Performance Issues:
Changes in work habits, such as decreased productivity, increased errors, or displays of resentment, can be early warning signs of potential insider threats. Security violations: Disgruntled employees might intentionally or unintentionally cause security breaches, such as unauthorized access to sensitive data, excessive data downloads, or policy violations.
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Jake Tapper Is Sad
People on an unnamed leftwing podcast said that Tapper's son must be a "racist" because he wants to be a cop and Tapper wants to know who is responsible for smearing any normie as a racist.
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Wednesday Morning Rant
Refusal to Learn
Learning the wrong lesson, annoying as it can be for those who didn't learn the wrong lesson, is forgivable. The person who learned the wrong lesson did at least try to learn a lesson, though he came to the wrong conclusion. His is an error of knowledge and is thus correctable so long as he is sincere in his attempt to learn. Learning the wrong lesson on purpose is not forgivable but there is something still worse: refusing to learn at all.
Ace covered an article yesterday about a new plan being hatched by the Democrats to try to get some voters to come back. He rightly excoriates their laughable scheme to pretend to be real people, but I think the more fundamental issue is the approach itself. The original article (via archive.is) is illuminating for just how much no lesson has been learned.
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
Eugène Boudin
Eugène Boudin
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The Morning Report — 5/ 28 /25 
Of course, it's too bad we lack a GOP that can take full advantage of Democrat/Leftist disarray, case in point the whole madness surrounding the arguments over the so-called "Big Beautiful Bill." While DOGE and the exposure of the insanity at Harvard and academia in general by cutting off the brainwashing mills from taxpayer funding are certainly big wins.
And on the international front, President Trump seems to be more preoccupied with doing exactly the wrong things, be it with the whole Ukraine debacle and in feeding raw sugar to a cancerous tumor.
Republican Texas Rep. Brandon Gill blasted Democrats on Fox Business Tuesday over the Memorial Day weekend and accused them of engaging in a “bizarre and grotesque” public display of sympathy for a deported MS-13 gang member. Maryland Democratic Rep. Glenn Ivey traveled to El Salvador over Memorial Day in an unsuccessful bid to meet with deported and alleged MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, becoming the latest Democrat to publicly advocate for his return to the U.S. During an appearance on “The Bottom Line,” Gill blasted Ivey’s action as tone-deaf and offensive, especially on a weekend meant to honor fallen American service members.Second case:
Democrat New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is sticking to her far-left views on immigration despite a growing number of Democrats changing their tune on border security issues. Ocasio-Cortez, a rumored 2028 presidential candidate who is viewed as a rising leader in the Democratic Party, renewed her calls for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in a campaign email published Monday evening. The socialist firebrand’s decision to commit to a viewpoint out of step with a majority of voters comes as many Democrats have sought to distance themselves from the “abolish ICE” bandwagon that some strategists believe has hurt the party’s brand. “I believe that ICE, an agency that was just formed in 2003 during the Patriot Act era, is a rogue agency that should not exist,” an Ocasio-Cortez campaign email said Monday slamming critics that consider the far-left congresswoman “extreme.” The New York Democrat, who called for the abolition of ICE during President Donald Trump’s first term, also posted content to social media earlier this year advising illegal migrants on how to evade ICE arrests. A majority of voters — including Democrats — appear to reject Ocasio-Cortez’s “abolition ICE” advocacy, according to recent polling.I guess yet again, an example of the Left Hand not knowing what the FAR LEFT hand is doing. All the way to the midterms and beyond Democrats. Keep on digging, eventually you'll strike Satan right on the head.
Of course, it's too bad we lack a GOP that can take full advantage of Democrat/Leftist disarray, case in point the whole madness surrounding the arguments over the so-called "Big Beautiful Bill." While DOGE and the exposure of the insanity at Harvard and academia in general by cutting off the brainwashing mills from taxpayer funding are certainly big wins.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis slammed Congressional Republicans on Tuesday over their lack of action on cutting the government waste and abuse identified by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). . . . . . In a post on X, DeSantis put the heat on Republicans to do just that, pointing out that DOGE Chief Elon Musk “took massive incoming,” which included “attacks on his companies” and “personal smears” while leading the DOGE effort. “He became public enemy #1 of legacy media around the world,” DeSantis wrote. “To see Republicans in Congress cast aside any meaningful spending reductions (and, in fact, fully fund things like USAID) is demoralizing and represents a betrayal of the voters who elected them,” the governor added. DeSantis was commenting on a post by Matt Van Swol, an independent journalist from North Carolina, who had blasted Republicans on X, Monday. “DOGE is literally one of the most popular government initiatives in history,” Van Swol wrote. “73% of Americans say they support cutting government waste. Trump brought in the smartest man on earth to do it … the Left destroyed Elon for it … the GOP won’t vote on it. I can’t believe this.” . . . “We have a Republican Congress and to this day, we’re at the end of May, past Memorial Day, and not one CENT in DOGE cuts have been implemented by the Congress!” DeSantis cried.
And on the international front, President Trump seems to be more preoccupied with doing exactly the wrong things, be it with the whole Ukraine debacle and in feeding raw sugar to a cancerous tumor.
A senior Trump administration official told The Daily Wire that the White House is “proud” to back GHF’s “incredible mission” and that the group is a direct threat to “Hamas’ longstanding system of looting the assistance intended for the people of Gaza.” “The U.N. and other aid agencies were wrong to criticize – aid is getting to the people in need and through their secure distribution system, Israel is kept safe and Hamas empty-handed,” the official said. According to GHF, Hamas has made death threats to aid groups supporting GHF’s operationsSadly, as has been confirmed on numerous occasions since the October 7 mass attack/pogrom there are no innocent civilians in Gaza, newborns and crawling infants perhaps notwithstanding, but parents and children alike were complicit in the kidnappings and imprisonment of Israeli hostages or at a minimum cheering on the butchery of the Jews. That President Trump and his advisers have yet to realize this is a head-scratcher. Obviously, from an optics standpoint he cannot give a thumbs up for the IDF to go all out and wipe out Hamas regardless of the collateral damage to "civilians." But that said, it is the civilians and their government that they put in power HAMAS that are to blame for their own suffering by waging a genocidal war against Israel, leaving the latter no real alternative. But, the problem is not Hamas. The problem is ISLAM itself. Hamas is merely a weapon/manifestation of the latter. And this is the case with Iran as well as in Syria where President Trump and company are impressed with a Mohammedan ISIS thug merely because a second hand John Gotti Brioni suit looks good on him. Meh, Islam is the world's problem and unless and until the world decides to openly and loudly declare its right to defend civilization from its millennium and-a-half long rampage that can only end in an Islamic world conquest which would be the real end of History as we Fukuyama ourselves in the head. Unless the Chi-Coms beat them to the punch. Or perhaps if we're lucky . . .
A 3.6 magnitude earthquake struck near Soda Springs, Idaho, about 100 miles from the famous Yellowstone supervolcano caldera, renewing some concerns about a potential eruption. . . While geologists are still investigating the Friday morning quake, the Yellowstone supervolcano influences seismic activity in this region due to its massive magma chamber and connected fault lines. It generates 1,500 to 2,000 small earthquakes each year, most of which are weaker than 2.0 on the Richter scale of magnitude. These tremors usually shake areas within the Yellowstone Caldera and nearby fault zones, but the supervolcano can also influence seismic activity over 100 miles away.Things that make you go boom . . . 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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- The fight for freedom is never-ending, even when a large majority of the population agrees with the principles as set forth in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Unfortunately however we no longer live in such a country. Right now a very large plurality of Americans no longer believe in free speech and the Bill of Rights, and are quite willing to throw out the Constitution so that their side can be in power for all time.
Supreme Court declines case of blacklisted student who declared “There are only two genders”, proving the large leftist blob is not going away no matter what Trump does
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Daily Tech News 28 May 2025
Top Story
- CEO of smartphone company Nothing, Carl Pei, says that we will soon see the operating system and AI take over from traditional applications because large phone makers are clueless and cannot innovate. (9to5 Google)
That... Makes no sense.
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May 27, 2025
Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - May 27, 2025 [scampydog]
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Sketchy Pets Cafe
Assuming this isn't AI, this shark shows some serious battle damage, possibly with a boat's propeller. A goose attacked Trump's middle east negotiator Steve Witkoff. Helper dog. Only someone who hates dogs would say this is totally staged for the camera. Just flapping around. Fierce! Squirrel power stance. Squirrel picnic spot. Sleepy sea lion.
Possessive kitty. Friends meet at a restaurant.
Assuming this isn't AI, this shark shows some serious battle damage, possibly with a boat's propeller. A goose attacked Trump's middle east negotiator Steve Witkoff. Helper dog. Only someone who hates dogs would say this is totally staged for the camera. Just flapping around. Fierce! Squirrel power stance. Squirrel picnic spot. Sleepy sea lion.
Possessive kitty. Friends meet at a restaurant.
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NBC "News:" Some Democrats No Longer Believe That Obama is the Messiah
No more halo pictures of the SCOAMF?
(Boy I miss saying that.) While the article talks about Democrats being tired of Obama himself, most of the antagonism is directed at the old campaign managers and propagandists of Obama, who continue running Democrat campaigns -- and losing. "I don't want a surgeon who keeps killing patients," one Democrat says.Obama world loses its shine in a changing, hurting Democratic PartySpeaking of gay black rabble-rousers: Jussie Smollett has resolved a lawsuit lodged against him for misdirecting police resources by lying about a racial lynching he actually paid for. Smollett donated $50,000 to a charity without admitting blame.
Obama White House and campaign alumni have been setting the course of the Democratic Party for years. After 2024, more Democrats want to see that change. ... David Plouffe, long hailed as the brilliant architect of Obama's 2008 victory, served in a key role in Harris' campaign and is now among those tagged with a devastating defeat. "The shine's off Plouffe now. He was the golden boy," Morgan said. "Now he's just an old broken-down boy, who lost. Big." Messina did not comment on the exchange. Plouffe did not respond to a request for comment. While many Democrats still admire Plouffe's successes, the harsh words punctuated a growing sentiment across a party searching for a path forward: Team Obama's bloom may be falling off the rose.
More Democrats are openly criticizing Obama strategists and consultants, who were long treated as the high priests of their party's politics. ... But even the former president's luster was showing signs of fading last fall, a phenomenon that threatens to persist as the next crop of young voters ages into adulthood. When the 2028 presidential election arrives, it will be 20 years since Obama's first victory. At that point, more voters will have come of age in the era of Donald Trump than in the era of Obama. ...
Democrats point to myriad factors leading to Harris' defeat in 2024 -- with many focusing on a compressed timeline because Biden refused to step aside as the party's candidate until 107 days before the election. Plouffe pointedly blamed Biden, saying "He totally f---ed us" in a newly released book.
Plouffe's verbal affront opened him and fellow Obama alums to their own criticisms. DNC Finance Chair Chris Korge lashed out at Plouffe in an interview with NBC News last week, saying he and other Obama alums shared the blame, chiding them as the "so-called gurus." "It's time to re-evaluate the use of consultants and bring in new forward-looking people," Korge also said in the interview. "The old Obama playbook no longer works." ... Chuck Rocha, who worked on Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential bid and consults on House and Senate campaigns, said that a small cluster of firms dominate the market for political operatives.
... He said the firms rise and fall, but the players who run them are the same -- a sort of regeneration cycle that keeps the same people in place. "They're all connected," he said. ... Chris Kofinis, a Democratic strategist with experience on past presidential campaigns, said it's time for the party to take a hard look at the same set of operatives, including Obama campaign alums, who have been running national Democratic campaigns. "I'm sorry -- I don't want a surgeon who keeps killing patients," he said. ... [W]ith political operatives who cut their teeth in the Obama years still wielding power in the party, there's a disconnect between the leadership and younger electorates the party needs to win moving forward, Hogg added. Part of the issue is that those young voters barely have any memory of the nation's first Black president. "I don't think they have one to be honest with you. That's part of the challenge," Hogg, 25, said, adding, "For many of these younger people who are under the age of 20, right now ... they don't remember much of what Obama talked about. They grew up in the political context of Donald Trump and him being normalized, because that was what politics was to them growing up."
Embattled LGBTQ+ actor Jussie Smollett will pay $50,000 to an organization in Chicago to settle a lawsuit the city had filed against him over accusations of lying about a hate crime, media outlets noted. Chicago police had wanted Smollett to pay $130,000 to cover the investigation costs; however, the donation will be made instead, per the BBC. The money will go to the Building Brighter Futures Center for the Arts, which supports Chicago's underprivileged youth.He should have been forced to donate to the MAGA Country Fund. Smollett continues insisting that he really was lynched and then re-lynched by Chicago cops. He insists he told the truth and the Real Lynchers are still out there.
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Bezos Forces More WaPo Staffers Out and Cancels the Woke Wheel of Time Series
Jeff Bezos' Washington Post wants to push dozens of staffers out the door, offering opinion staffers, staffers with 10 years' experience, and some desks buyout packages to leave the paper. ... The entire video desk, the copy desk, and the sports copy desks were also offered buyout packages, which Murray stressed were voluntary. Staffers will have until July to make a decision. The opinion desk was told the buyouts were meant to let staffers "make a clear-eyed decision on whether they want to be part of the new direction for Post Opinion," according to The New York Times, after Bezos announced his plans to lean into the traditionally conservative values of "free markets and personal liberties." The Post did not respond to an immediate request for comment.Amazon cancelled the ludicrously-expensive woke adaptation of the "Wheel of Time" series of fantasy books after three woke seasons. I am not familiar with the books or the series. I've seen a couple of YouTube videos about each. Here are some of the issues that many have with the series: * The show was blatant about forced diversity in its casting * The show pushed gay storylines and propaganda not present in the books * The books' main character, a Chosen One type savior, is male, but the series downplayed his importance and elevated the importance of a female character * A conceit of the series was the division between the sexes as far as magic -- both sexes could work magic, but each sex had its own style of magic -- but the show downplayed this to create a kind of magical gender equality which ran against a major point of the book I really have to repeat that I know nothing about the books or the show and all of my "knowledge" is of the second-hand, "barely care" variety. Everything I just wrote could be wrong. But I doubt it. Bounding Into Comics discussed that wokeness.
Wheel of Time director Sanaa Hamri recently admitted that the show provides viewers an opportunity to escape from reality despite the showrunner announcing it would include LGBTQ+ propaganda, the show's casting being a clear example of woke checkboxes, and a clear injection of gender politics as seen in the idea that the Dragon Reborn could be a woman.I take it that the "Dragon Reborn" is the male Chosen One character, which the TV show suggests might be changed to a woman. Anyway, the show cost a lot of money. Not as much as the terrible We Had Rangz woke desecration, but a lot, and Amazon has pulled the plug. This is another reason that Amazon's woke failure Jennifer Salke was shown the door a couple of months ago.
On Tuesday, Amazon MGM Studios announced that producers Amy Pascal and David Heyman would produce the company's upcoming James Bond film. But in hindsight, the press release was perhaps just as noticeable for what it didn;t include: A quote from Amazon MGM Studios head Jennifer Salke. Instead, it was head of film Courtenay Valenti who announced the deal. Hollywood was perhaps shaken, but not stirred, by this week's news that Salke has exited after seven years at Amazon -- and how James Bond was perhaps among the issues that led to her departure. Talk of Salke's departure amid a power struggle with Mike Hopkins, the head of Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios, had been swirling for a while -- and last month's deal putting the Bond IP into the creative hands of Amazon was a further signal that Hopkins was about to make a change.Apparently Salke insisted on diluting the James Bond brand by creating a girlboss action hero Moneypenny TV show, but I doubt that was Salke's decision; that's what all of these idiots do when they buy an expensive IP. They milk it until it dies. They make it non-special by just flooding the zone with what is being called, correctly, "corporate slop." No word on whether We Had Rangz will be cancelled. (That's the mocking Internet title for Rings of Power.) I don't think it will be. I think Amazon chose to cancel Wheel of Time to save money so that they could continue the disastrous Rings of Power. Though Rings of Power might be cut short. They had planned five seasons, maybe they'll try to wrap it up quickly and just do three. The conservative Warhammer Youtuber (that's a thing) Archcast says that Salke's many woke gambles with Bezos' money have cost Amazon billions of dollars. In further Amazon/Washington Post Drama, gay black DEI zero Jonathan Capeheart is attacking standard-issue White AWFL liberal Karen Tumulty. He says Tumulty was so mean to him that he was forced to quit the Washington Post editorial board in 2023. What did she do that was so mean? Well, when Biden made the absurd race-baiting claim that some minor changes to George voting law constituted "Jim Crow 2.0," the Post actually wrote that this was an exaggeration. This was too much for Jonathan Capehart, who insisted that she should take his word for it that it was Jim Crow 2.0, because... he's a black man and white people should just defer to black people when they make sensationalist racebait claims. No, really. I'm not even tweaking this for clicks. John Sexton quotes the NY Post, which in turn quotes Capehart's gay-ass book:
In his book, Capehart, who remains a columnist at the paper, writes that he clashed with Tumulty over an editorial which took issue with then-President Joe Biden's criticism of a 2021 Georgia voting law. Biden described the law as "Jim Crow 2.0" -- a characterization that the Washington Post editorial board deemed to be "hyperbolic."... "Tumulty took an incident where I felt she ignored and compounded the insult by robbing me of my humanity," he wrote in the book, which was published last week. "She either couldn't or wouldn't see that I was black, that I came to the conversation with knowledge and history she could never have, that my worldview, albeit different from hers, was equally valid."The black left is not pushing for racial equality, but racial supremacy. All of the left's Persons of Privilege are not pushing for equality, but supremacy. Women are supreme to men, gays are supreme to straights, transies are supreme to normal people, the mentally ill are supreme to the sane, and minorities are supreme to the majority population. Except for Jews, who are Colonizers. Why won't you just accept your place as second-class citizens already, Bigots?
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FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino Announces Fresh Investigations Into the "Pipe Bombs" Left at the DNC and RNC, the Leak of the Dobbs Decision, and Who Left Hunter Biden's Cocaine in the White House
Obviously all three of these investigations were deliberately crippled to protect the left.
The FBI is taking another look at the cocaine found inside the Biden administration White House in 2023, according to Deputy Director Dan Bongino. "Shortly after swearing in, the Director and I evaluated a number of cases of potential public corruption that, understandably, have garnered public interest. We made the decision to either re-open, or push additional resources and investigative attention, to these cases," Bongino said in a post on X. "These cases are the DC pipe bombing investigation, the cocaine discovery at the prior administration's White House, and the leak of the Supreme Court Dobbs case. I receive requested briefings on these cases weekly and we are making progress. If you have any investigative tips on these matters that may assist us, then please contact the FBI," he added. ...
Earlier this year, President Donald Trump said in an interview he believes former President Joe Biden or his son, Hunter Biden, left behind the infamous bag of cocaine at the White House. "So ... who actually left the cocaine in the White House?" The Spectator's Ben Domenech asked Trump. "Well, either Joe or Hunter," Trump responded. "Could be Joe, too." ...
"That was such a terrible thing because, you know, those bins are very loaded up with ... they're not clean, and they have hundreds and even thousands of fingerprints," Trump also said in the interview. "And when they went to look at it, it was absolutely stone cold, wiped dry. You know that, right?"
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The "Elites" of the Democrat Party Have a Very Smart New Strategy to Attract Disaffected Voters
If there's one thing that men say is the most important factor in their voting decisions, it's syntax. And virality. Everyone knows that men love virality. How we all get so stoked over Buzzfeed personality quizzes and sharing them with our BFFs. It's one of the most well-known of masculine traits, wanting to "join" into something that is momentarily popular. Boy, are thirty-something liberal Brooklyn women great at understanding what motivates adult heterosexual men!
Democrats spending millions to learn how to speak to 'American Men' and win back the working class
Democrats have blown millions of dollars on efforts to appeal to "American Men," who turned to President Donald Trump in droves on election day, in the hopes of winning back the working class, according to a report. Democrats have spent $20 million on their efforts, with donors and strategists holing up in luxury hotel rooms brainstorming how to convince working-class men to return to the party, according to a New York Times report. The plan, code-named SAM, or "Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan," promises to use the funds to "study the syntax, language and content that gains attention and virality in these spaces," according to the report.
As the Times described it, the reports "can read like anthropological studies of people from faraway places." The effort also recommends Democrats buy advertisements in video games, among other things, the Times reported.Oh wow, that is some real outside-the-box thinking.
That sounds a lot more concrete and real, but note they're only talking about chaning the tone of their moralizing, scolding, men-denigrating (menigrating?) policies, not the policies themselves. They're telling their Nasty Women to change their tone when pitching policies that disadvantage and degrade men -- but not to change the policies that disadvantage and degrade men. In other words, they're telling leftwing women to Smile More when they promote policies intended to degrade men.
"Above all, we must shift from a moralizing tone," the plan urges.
... Democrats have "lost credibility by being seen as alien on cultural issues," McCrary added.Speaking of: The NY Times almost confesses that Democrats suffered a "cultural rejection" in 2024. I say "almost" because the Times will only say that the loss "felt like a cultural rejection."
Six months after President Trump swept the battleground states, the Democratic Party is still sifting through the wreckage. Its standing has plunged to startling new lows -- 27 percent approval in a recent NBC News poll, the weakest in surveys dating to 1990 -- after a defeat that felt like both a political and cultural rejection. Communities that Democrats had come to count on for a generation or more -- young people, Black voters, Latinos -- all veered toward the right in 2024, some of them sharply. And unlike Mr. Trump's win in 2016, his victory last year could not be waved away as an outlier after he won the popular vote for the first time. The stark reality is that the downward trend for Democrats stretches back further than a single election. Republicans have been gaining ground in voter registration for years. Working-class voters of every race have been steadily drifting toward the G.O.P. And Democrats are increasingly perceived as the party of college-educated elites, the defenders of a political and economic system that most Americans feel is failing them.Everything's always "feelings" with these fucking commie yoyos. The Democrats' House of Ideas is really firing on all one cylinder. They've also brainstormed the genius idea of setting up a "Shadow Cabinet" of liberals who will, get this, attack Trump. But it won't just be Jasmine Ratchet attacking Trump. No, Jasmine Ratchet will be named "Shadow Cabinet Secretary of DEI" or something and attack Trump under that entirely fictitious aegis.
POLITICO shares an idea first proposed by Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin and decided to go one better: create a "shadow cabinet," as is often done in parliamentary systems. The idea behind a shadow cabinet is to have one figure who speaks for the opposition on a particular issue. A shadow Secretary of State, a shadow Secretary of Defense, and so on. Instead of having many voices drowning each other out, pick one for each issue--presumably your best. It is a stupid idea--it's one virtue being that transnationalists love the idea of committees, parliaments, and copying European ways of doing things. Even the average European on the street doesn't think that way, and Americans would be hard-pressed to name more than two or three cabinet members, but people who admire technocracies gravitate to just this sort of thing. Slotkin suggested ranking members on Congressional committees for the role (the ranking member is the lead person from the opposition party on any committee; in this case, they are all Democrats because they are in the minority), which is an even more stupid idea. Nobody has a clue who they are and couldn't care less, so Bill Scher came up with his own list. ... So, who are the leading lights of the Democratic Party, according to Scher? How about Bill Nye, The Science Guy? Or Gisele Fetterman? My favorite is Letitia James as shadow Attorney General.Perfect. It's genius, emails a campaign analyst from the cube-shaped Bizarro world. "It so smart me want to gouge my eyes out and pour acid into my brain," the Bizarro campaign analyst writes. There's nothing that straight men love more than beefy lesbian fraudsters. I think the Politico proposal is basically an admission that the people who are currently the most camera-hungry to attack Trump are ratchet idiots like Jasmine Crocket, and Politico is not-so-subtly recommending that Jasmine Crocket be sidelined so that real deep thinkers of the Democrat Party like, uh, Mark Cuban can be spotlighted. I think it's also a stealth attempt to find a 2028 presidential candidate from outside the current crop of sure losers.
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Unnamed Biden Aide Admits Plan Was for Biden to Get "Re"-Elected and Then Disappear, Letting His "Aides" Run the Government, and Only Occasionally Appearing on Video to Demonstrate "Proof of Life"
The aide also says that "when you vote for a president, you're voting for the aides around him."
Oh, so that's what "Democracy" turns out to be. An illicit government run by unelected criminals and grifters. The unnamed insider also says that Trump is such an "existential threat to democracy" that Biden's aides were empowered to take "undemocratic" actions in response. We had to destroy the democracy to save it.Julia
@Jules31415 A longtime aide--an unelected official within the Biden administration--admits the staff "acted undemocratically" and claims it was justified because they viewed Trump as an "existential threat" to democracy, according to the book Original Sin. The book also alleges that a trio of senior political veterans were the core decision-makers--Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti, and Bruce Reed--and they worked with Jill Biden and Hunter Biden to run the show. Former senior adviser to the president Annie Tomasini and former White House chief of staff Ron Klain were also "at times" part of the group. One passage in the book relays the thought process from an unnamed Biden aide at the time: "[Biden] just had to win, and then he could disappear for four years. He'd only have to show proof of life every once in a while...His aides could pick up the slack." "These aides were not even Senate-confirmed aides," co-author Alex Thompson expressed during a Fox News interview. "These are White House aides, these were unelected people."
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Trump Directs Government to End All Contracts With Harvard
He also said he might divert all money formerly earmarked for Harvard to trade schools.
In a letter sent Tuesday, the Trump administration is directing all federal agencies to terminate or transition away from their contracts with Harvard University, citing racial discrimination, anti-Semitism, and violations of federal law. Key Details: The letter, dated May 27th, was issued by Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner Josh Gruenbaum and sent to senior procurement officials across the federal government. The letter criticizes Harvard's race-based admissions practices, referencing the Supreme Court's decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, where admissions rates reportedly varied significantly by race: 56% for African Americans, 31% for Hispanics, 15% for Whites, and 13% for Asians. It also cites reports of antisemitic incidents on campus, unlawful hiring practices, and decisions by Harvard committees approving student leaders with histories of violent behavior--calling the leadership's actions a "clear signal of tolerance for, if not outright endorsement of, student-on-student violence."
He also said he might divert all money formerly earmarked for Harvard to trade schools.
President Trump proposed reallocating $3 billion in federal funding from Harvard to U.S. trade schools, calling the university "very antisemitic" and saying the funds would be better spent elsewhere. Key Details: Trump said investing in trade schools would be "a great investment" that is "so badly needed!!!" Harvard rejected Trump administration demands tied to civil rights and merit-based policies. Trump has already pulled over $2 billion in federal funds and is seeking accountability for Harvard's foreign student list. Diving Deeper: President Donald Trump announced Monday that he's weighing the possibility of shifting a $3 billion federal grant earmarked for Harvard University toward U.S. trade schools, escalating an ongoing standoff between his administration and the Ivy League institution. Trump made the statement in a post on Truth Social, describing the idea as "a great investment" for the country and one that is "so badly needed!!!" The proposal follows months of back-and-forth between Harvard and the Trump administration that began with an April letter demanding the university justify its public funding by complying with federal civil rights laws. That letter called on Harvard to foster a campus environment conducive to "intellectual creativity and scholarly rigor" while instituting specific reforms--such as merit-based hiring and admissions, increased transparency, and addressing longstanding concerns of antisemitism and political bias within certain programs. Harvard pushed back against those demands, asserting that it was "not prepared to agree to demands that go beyond the lawful authority of this or any administration." In response, Trump moved to pull more than $2 billion in federal funding from the university, according to reporting by the Daily Caller. Last week, the Department of Homeland Security attempted to revoke Harvard's authorization to admit and host foreign students, but a federal judge swiftly blocked the measure. However, the broader termination of grant funding remains in place.
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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition
Except all that talk was backed up by....nothing. It was an ego-driven commitment to solving an issue that is far more complex than at first glance, especially when both sides are not particularly desirous of peace. Putin wants what Putin wants, and the tinpot midget in Ukraine loves the graft and the world stage. Trump says he's 'not happy' with Putin after massive Ukraine strike
It's called "War." And President Trump's arrogance that just because he called for negotiations and an end to the war means that everyone involved should stop fighting while negotiations proceed is backed up by rhetoric, and nothing substantive. Will President Trump send troops? I doubt it. Will President Trump rearm Ukraine? I doubt it. He is relying on his force of will and his vaunted ability to find common cause between two sides. Sure, that works in real estate, and hell, it works in a lot of other situations. But not in all things. Luckily, the pint-sized putz from Ukraine is overstepping ... again ... and demanding more.
But that doesn't help the current situation. Zelenskyy wants something that he can't have unless the West joins the battle: a return to the status quo ante bellum. Is it worth a world war to satisfy the demands of Ukraine and its kleptocratic rulers, and to satiate the blood-lust of Europe?
[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter] And the Apple and Spotify feeds for CJN's podcast should be working!
Before I even arrive at the Oval Office shortly after I win the presidency, I will have the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine settled. Somebody said, are you on Russia's side? Are you on Ukraine's side? You know what? The side -- I want people to stop dying.
Except all that talk was backed up by....nothing. It was an ego-driven commitment to solving an issue that is far more complex than at first glance, especially when both sides are not particularly desirous of peace. Putin wants what Putin wants, and the tinpot midget in Ukraine loves the graft and the world stage. Trump says he's 'not happy' with Putin after massive Ukraine strike
"I'm not happy with what Putin is doing," Trump explained. "He's killing a lot of people, and I don't know what the hell happened to Putin." "I've known him a long time, always gotten along with him, but he's sending rockets into cities and killing people, and I don't like it at all," he added.
It's called "War." And President Trump's arrogance that just because he called for negotiations and an end to the war means that everyone involved should stop fighting while negotiations proceed is backed up by rhetoric, and nothing substantive. Will President Trump send troops? I doubt it. Will President Trump rearm Ukraine? I doubt it. He is relying on his force of will and his vaunted ability to find common cause between two sides. Sure, that works in real estate, and hell, it works in a lot of other situations. But not in all things. Luckily, the pint-sized putz from Ukraine is overstepping ... again ... and demanding more.
In a post on Telegram, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for an international response to the attack. "The silence of America, the silence of others in the world only encourages Putin," he wrote on Telegram. "Every such terrorist Russian strike is reason enough for new sanctions against Russia."Thankfully President Trump also has a sensible side:
"This is a War that would never have started if I were President. This is Zelenskyy's, Putin's, and Biden's War, not 'Trump's,' I am only helping to put out the big and ugly fires, that have been started through Gross Incompetence and Hatred," Trump concluded.
But that doesn't help the current situation. Zelenskyy wants something that he can't have unless the West joins the battle: a return to the status quo ante bellum. Is it worth a world war to satisfy the demands of Ukraine and its kleptocratic rulers, and to satiate the blood-lust of Europe?
[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter] And the Apple and Spotify feeds for CJN's podcast should be working!
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