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General Sam Houston at San Jacinto
S. Seymour Thomas

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The Morning Report — 5/ 23 /25

Good morning kids. So, you will recall this story from last month making news:

The parents of a teenager who carried out a deadly school shooting in the US state of Michigan were sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison on Tuesday in an unprecedented and closely watched case.Jennifer Crumbley, 46, and her husband James, 47, were the first parents of a school shooter convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the United States for the actions of their child. Their son Ethan, who is now 17, is serving a life sentence for the November 30, 2021, shooting which left four students dead and seven other people injured at Oxford High School, 45 miles (70 kilometers) north of Detroit.

“Parents are not expected to be psychic,” Matthews said at an emotional sentencing hearing in Pontiac, Michigan, attended by parents of the victims.

“But these convictions are not about poor parenting,” Matthews said. “These convictions confirm repeated acts, or lack of acts, that could have halted an oncoming runaway train.”

If the parents of a school shooter can be arrested and tried for the acts of their child, can we not arrest and charge the parents, Imams and professors of those who inspired this bastard who gunned down two Israelis in DC? And their political mentors and boosters:

Chew on that. Or should I say Chuy! Just axing the questions as my classmates from the hood might put it:

The father of the terror suspect accused of gunning down two soon-to-be-engaged Israeli Embassy staffers at the Capital Jewish Museum was honored by a far-left member of Congress with an invitation to President Trump’s joint address this past March, The Post has exclusively learned.

“Eric Rodriguez was our guest during the President’s Joint Speech to Congress, but we don’t know his family,” Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García (D-Ill.) said Thursday night.

In March, he hailed Rodriguez as “an outspoken advocate against attacks on veterans’ services and the rights of unionized federal employees.”

“Eric represents the very best of our community — someone who has served his country, continues to serve his fellow veterans and fights every day to protect the dignity of working people,” the congressman said in a statement at the time.

Rodriguez also appeared in a Service Employees International Union video that same day, and said he was an Iraq War vet and an employee with the Veterans Affairs Department, the New York Times reported. “I’ve been with the VA for three years, and the reason why I’m in Washington, DC, is because I’m concerned about what Donald Trump Elon Musk and DOGE are doing to the VA system.” On Thursday, Rodriguez’s son, Elias, was charged in federal court with two counts of first-degree murder and other charges in the cold-blooded slayings of Yaron Lischinsky, 28, and Sarah Milgrim, 26, as the Israeli Embassy employees left an event at the Capital Jewish Museum.

He was an Iraq War vet. Lest we forget the usual anti-Semitic tropes coming from all quarters about nefarious Jewish plotters controlling American foreign policy on behalf of Israel. His SEIU membership and ties to Democrats of the latter-day variety who are notoriously anti-Israel regardless of foreskin status.

Chuy Garcia is a rabid anti-American communist radical, open borders racialist. And here's this little nugget from his Discover the Networks dossier that has significant cromulence to our story:

On October 25, 2023, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 412-10 in favor of H.R. 771, a resolution titled “Standing with Israel as It Defends Itself against the Barbaric War Launched by Hamas and Other Terrorists.” The resolution stated, among other things, that the House of Representatives “reaffirms Israel’s right to self-defense”; “calls on all countries to unequivocally condemn Hamas’ brutal war against Israel”; “reaffirms the United States’ commitment to Israel’s security”; “condemns Iran’s support for terrorist groups and proxies, including Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad”; and “urges full enforcement of United States sanctions against Iran to prevent Iran’s funding of terrorist groups.”

. . . The 9 Democrats who voted “No” to the resolution were: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Jamaal Bowman, Summer Lee, Cori Bush, André Carson, Al Green, and Delia Ramirez.

And the 6 Democrats who voted “Present” were Jesús “Chuy” Garcia,  Ayanna Pressley, Joaquin Castro, Nydia Velázquez, Pramila Jayapal, and Greg Casar.

Over the course of his political career, Garcia has been endorsed by an extensive list of far-left and Communist Party USA figures. Among his more prominent backers have been such notables as Senator Bernie Sanders, former Democrat Congressman Luis Gutierrez, Illinois socialist David Orr, CPUSA vice chair Scott Marshall, CPUSA activists like Pepe Lozano and Abdul-Aziz Hassan, and the Progressive Democrats of America. Conversely, Garcia has supported known members of the Communist Party, the Democratic Socialists of America, and other left-wing organizations. He even campaigned with CPUSA member Rudy Lozano, Jr. in 2009, when the latter ran, unsuccessfully, for a seat in the Illinois House of Representatives.

Unlike the parents of the school shooter, you don't have to be psychic to know that the constant drumbeat that Israel is committing genocide against the "Palestinians" and is an illegitimate colonial occupier of "Palestine" which must be liberated "From the River to the Sea" with the dismantling of Israel might have had just the tiniest bit of influence on the subhuman scumbag who blew away that innocent couple in DC the other night. Ditto every other person prevented from attending their classes at universities and or threatened, spat upon, beaten up and so on.

And so, is Chuy Garcia along with this subhuman's father culpable in these murders too? What about every imam in America who quotes from the Koran about rocks and trees coming to life and imploring passerby Muslims to slit the throats of the filthy Jews hiding behind them? What about the liars at the UN spreading the blood libel about Israel depriving "innocent" so-called Gazans of food and water and using the "G" word, Genocide.

Lest we forget, as the stormfronter trolls will no doubt remind me (as if I need it!) that this is more than just about Jews. This is about all of us, not just Israel and Jews.

The same colonialism occupier bilge has been used as a cassus belli of the Left to dismantle America as founded, by any and every means necessary.

Thursday on MSNBC’s “All In,” Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) called President Donald Trump a “dictator” while discussing his actions against Harvard University. . . He continued, “This is all a part of the authoritarian playbook that Trump has been seeking to execute right from January 20th on. The problem that he has and that he’s been running into all along is that we do have a United States Constitution that, in the Fifth Amendment, requires due process with regard to any charge which is brought against any individual or institution. We actually have immigration laws in terms of the protection of international students as well. And by the way, these students do have First Amendment rights of free speech, which they are also seeking to circumscribe. So all of those are going to be protections which ultimately will result in Harvard winning this case but it’s really meant to send a chilling effect to academic institutions all across this country.”

This would be the same MSNBC (NSDAP) that regularly features Al Sharpton as a voice of reason and reconciliation, despite having literal blood on his hands from the Crown Heights pogrom/riots, to the incineration of Freddies Fashion Mart and the vile incitement of "Diamond Merchants" and White Interlopers."

Ditto Chuck Schemer threatening the Supreme Court and voila, a psycho thankfully gets arrested on Brett Kavanaugh's front lawn ready to murder him and his entire family.

Of course as we all know, their violence and language are speech, our mere existence, let alone voices are violence.

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 Memorial Day Weekend, God Bless the Memory of all who gave their lives in service. More on this on Monday.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• “Eric Rodriguez was our guest during the President’s Joint Speech to Congress, but we don’t know his family,” Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García (D-Ill.) said Thursday night.
  Dad of suspected terrorist Elias Rodriguez was invited to Trump address by left-wing Democrat lawmaker

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Daily Tech News 23 May 2025

Top Story

• Nvidia hates you and doesn't care if you know it. (The Verge) (archive site)
  
  They are lying to you, and also don't care if you know it.
  
  They still want your money, but they get enough of that from the AI slop industry so they don't care all that much.
  
  But what they really hate is reviewers telling the truth, because if you know the truth you might not hand over your money.

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ONT Was Dead, To Begin With

Hello everybody! Thursday night, let's see what's in the ONT hopper.

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The Highs and the Lows Cafe

from Scuba Diving Lover

Prolly some kind of weasel.

Raising a baby quail... and then the next generation.

This bird is unflappable.

It annoys me that anytime I see a neat video my first thought is "probably an AI cheapfake."

Proud mama.

This bird.

Golden retriever puppy growing up.

A cat-and-mouse game played by dog-and-squirrel.

Stella the leaf-pile-jumping dog is still giving those leaf-piles a splash at the ripe age of 11 years old. Reached for comment, Joe Biden said, "Mmmghno lurger Trumpalinizaure kids like my hairy legs nnnyenhigguruff."

Squirrel picnic.

If you're not herdin', you're not livin'.

Hippo chases three adult male lions out of his watering hole like he's shooing three tweens out of a 7-11.

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CNN Knows the Real Important Story About the Ongoing Jihad Against Jews in the US: Whatever We Do, We Must Declare That Leftists Calling for "Intifida" Are Absolved from Blame

This is CNN.

The leftwing media has argued for a clampdown on rightist rhetoric claiming that it's "stochastic terrorism." The idea is that right is "demonizing" some people and thereby increasing the odds that an unhinged person will take the rhetoric as a "permission slip" to shoot the people right-wing people are criticizing.

Viva Frei talks about the left's endless discussion of "stochastic terrorism" -- until a fellow leftwinger cashes in their "permission slip" to shoot up a Republican softball team, in which case stochastic terrorism doesn't exist and is all just Russian Disinformation, Bigot.

Drew Holden has a question. Given that a left-wing assassin just gunned down two young, beautiful, completely-innocent people by shouting "Intifada!" and "Free Palestine," where are the screaming headlines about Stochastic Terrorism today?

He also points out that whenever leftwing terrorists chant in favor of the "intifada" -- a violent jihad against Jews and Christians -- the media rushes in to claim that the word "intifada" needs context and maybe the notions of intifada (and jihad, which they often claim just means "an internal struggle") are too complicated for people to understand.

Holden says: Boy it sure seems like "intifada" means exactly what we think it means.

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Trump, RFKJr. Deliver 100-Day MAHA Report on America's Health

The left was all-in on whole foods and health until Trump embraced it.

Now they're pro-pesticides and pro-artificial adulterants.

The White House's "Make America Healthy Again" or "MAHA" commission, led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has published its first report on what it says are four leading drivers of childhood chronic disease.

"The report is the product of a consensual process, and it represents a collaborative effort of all the agencies and the White House. And it represents a consensus that is probably the strongest and most radical consensus by a government agency in history about the state of America's health," Kennedy told reporters in a call ahead of its release.

Thursday's release is the first in a process laid out by President Trump's executive order in February. By August, the commission is due to follow up with a policy strategy to address the findings raised in this report. Kennedy called the report a "milestone."

"MAHA's become hot," Mr. Trump told a roundtable that included Kennedy and other top administration officials at the White House on Thursday.

It's amusing that Trump calls it "hot."

The "chronic disease crisis" in children is described in the report as growing rates of a number of issues including childhood obesity, diabetes, autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, cancer, allergies and autoimmune disorders.

"More than 40% of American children now have at least one chronic health condition," Mr. Trump said Thursday. "Since the 1970s, rates of childhood cancer have soared, in many cases, by nearly 50%. ... In the 1960s, less than 5% of the children were obese, now over 20% are obese. ... Think of this one, this is the one that gets me every time, and it seems to be getting worse -- just a few decades ago, one in 10,000 children had autism. Today it's 1 in 31."

Medical experts attribute much of the increase in autism to better and more widespread testing and diagnostics.

Some of it, yeah. What about the rest of it?

These are the people who will only buy food from Whole Foods (aka "Whole Paycheck") themselves but now that Trump is pushing for a more healthful food industry, they're intensely skeptical.

Lee Zeldin, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, said that the Trump administration was not seeking "a European, mandate-driven regulatory system that stifles growth" as a result of the process.

"It will happen through a renewed focus on improved science throughout the federal government and our partners. And through unleashing private sector innovation to produce better solutions for our children," Zeldin said.

Multiple current and former federal health officials criticized the report, which they said misrepresented several facts and left out other well-known drivers of childhood chronic disease.

"They're looking for specific causes and silver bullets to draw attention to. However, prevention is all about making it easier for people to make healthy choices," said one current federal health official in a message, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

It's just unbelievable. Every bit of commentary from CBS is negative.

The wide-ranging report is organized around four topics that it describes as the "potential drivers behind the rise in childhood chronic disease that present the clearest opportunities for progress":

Poor diet, driven primarily by ultra-processed foods
Cumulative exposure to chemicals like food additives and pesticides
Lack of physical activity and chronic stress
"Overmedicalization" with too many prescriptions and vaccines

These largely reflect many of the themes that Kennedy has long spoken about, including as a longshot presidential candidate last year and as the head of the nation's public health agencies in recent months.

"It is very strong, it's very frank, and it is a clarion call to do something with utmost urgency to end this crisis. And that's what we wanted," Kennedy said of the report.

For example, under the heading of ultra-processed foods, the report echoes Kennedy's criticism of the shift from using "minimally processed animal-based sources like butter and lard" to seed oils like corn and canola. And it takes aim at the federal dietary guidelines process, which is due to release a major update later this year.

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It calls out the "growth of the childhood vaccine schedule," which Kennedy has long denounced, often with misleading claims about how vaccines were not sufficiently vetted for safety and efficacy.

"The number of vaccinations on the American vaccine schedule exceeds the number of vaccinations on many European schedules, including Denmark, which has nearly half as many," the report says.

The report also reiterates Kennedy's criticism of the CDC's vaccine safety monitoring efforts, like in the Vaccines Adverse Event Reporting System and Vaccine Safety Datalink, as well as the federal approach to compensating childhood vaccine injury.

It also criticizes groups like the American Medical Association for efforts to address disinformation about vaccines, saying it "undermines the open dialogue essential to protecting and improving children's health."

RFKJr. praised Trump for increasing the Hotness of MAHA.

The Vigilant Fox
@VigilantFox

NOW: RFK Jr. Reveals Trump Made a MAHA Pledge--Before MAHA Even Existed.

This is the real origin story of one of the most powerful political alliances in modern history.

Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sat beside President Trump, laid it out:

"I do want to say something," Kennedy began.

"Because I get a lot of credit for steering this administration toward the MAHA movement--but I joined the campaign in August."

"It was in June that he made a speech specifically on this issue."

"It was a MAHA speech--before MAHA existed."

Kennedy said that speech caught his attention.

"I took note of it at the time and thought: there's potential here for common ground."

Then he turned directly to Trump and said:

"I want to thank you for your vision, for your courage, for standing up... President Trump is a populist president."

"He is on the side of the middle class, the working class, the poor in this country."

The crowd erupted in applause.

And Kennedy closed with a statement few would expect from a Democrat:

"I've never seen a president--Democrat or Republican--that is willing to stand up to industry when it's the right thing to do."

Some of the presentation:

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

BREAKING: At the MAHA Commission meeting, Trump just declared he will NOT stand down to the Big Pharma and Big Food lobbyists.

"Unlike other administrations, we will NOT be silenced or intimidated by the corporate lobbyists or special interests."

MUSIC TO MY EARS!

RFK Jr. and President Trump are on a quest to end the childhood chronic illness epidemic. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

"There's something wrong. And we will not stop until we defeat the chronic disease epidemic."

"Its first report on childhood health - here are just some of the alarming findings. And they really are alarming. It's unbelievable, terrible."

"More than 40% of American children now have at least one chronic health condition. Since the 1970s, rates of childhood cancer have soared, in many cases, by nearly 50%."

"In the 1960s, less than 5% of the children were obese. Now over 20% are obese."

"Just a few decades ago, 1 in 10,000 children had autism. Today, it's one in 31. Last time I heard the number, was one in 34, right? Now it's one in 31."

"We're going to get it done. For the first time ever, this report examines some of the root causes that many believe are making our children sicker and our population sicker. It just doesn't stop with the children. It's our population also."

"Such as the ultra-processed over-medicalization and over-prescription, and widespread exposure to potentially toxic chemicals."

One of the downsides of Trump is that he has no regard for long-established Normzzz of DC -- the compromises and treaties that were signed decades ago, like about never crossing Big Ag, that still persist although no one remembers the conflict that caused the treaty.

Of course, that's simultaneously his biggest upside.

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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Revoke's Harvard's Right to Issue Visas to Foreign "Students," Citing Their Refusal to Address Antisemtism and "Pro-Terrorism Conduct" on Their Campus

Best president in history.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is eliminating the student visa program at Harvard University due to "pro-terrorist conduct" at campus protests, Fox News Digital has learned.

It's a severe consequence for what DHS claims is Harvard's refusal to comply with its requests for behavioral records of student visa holders.

"This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus," said Secretary Kristi Noem. "It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments to help pad their multibillion-dollar endowments. Harvard had plenty of opportunity to do the right thing. It refused. They have lost their Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification as a result of their failure to adhere to the law. Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country."

Harvard may no longer enroll foreign students in the 2025-2026 school year, and existing foreign students must transfer or lose their legal status to reside in the U.S. before the next academic year begins.

"As a result of your brazen refusal to comply with multiple requests to provide the Department of Homeland Security pertinent information while perpetuating an unsafe campus environment that is hostile to Jewish students, promotes pro-Hamas rhetoric, and employs racist 'diversity, equity, and inclusion' policies, you have lost this privilege," Noem wrote in a letter to Maureen Martin, the university's director of immigration services.

Noem offered Harvard 72 hours to provide the information requested for an opportunity to regain its visa program for the next school year.

She called the move the "direct result of Harvard's epic failure to comply with simple reporting requirements."

The records requested include any footage of protest activity involving students on visas and the disciplinary records of all students on visas in the last five years.

Noem said last month she had requested records related to visa-holding students enrolled in the university and Harvard's counsel did not provide adequate information to meet the demand. After the DHS general counsel asked again for the information, Harvard provided an "insufficient, incomplete and unacceptable response," she said.

"Consequences must follow to send a clear signal to Harvard and all universities that want to enjoy the privilege of enrolling foreign students, that the Trump administration will enforce the law and root out the evils of antisemitism in society and campuses.

Requested records also include footage or documentation of illegal, dangerous or violent activity by student visa holders, any records of threats or the deprivation of rights of other students or university personnel.

Harvard could not immediately be reached for comment.

Trump is also working to stop illegal aliens from "hijacking" our elections by voting illegally.

The Trump administration is unrolling a new initiative Thursday that will help prevent noncitizens from voting in U.S. elections, a high-priority policy for the White House.

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is updating the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program and partnering with the Social Security Administration in order to ensure "a single, reliable source for verifying immigration status and U.S. citizenship," according to a memo exclusively shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. Under the update, state and local officials will be able to input Social Security numbers for verification of U.S. citizenship and thereby prevent foreign nationals from voting in American elections.

"For years, states have pleaded for tools to help identify and stop aliens from hijacking our elections," USCIS Spokesman Matthew Tragesser said in a statement provided to the DCNF.

"Under the leadership of President Trump and Secretary Noem, USCIS is moving quickly to eliminate voter fraud," Tragesser continued. "We expect further improvements soon and remain committed to restoring trust in American elections."
North Carolina Holds Midterm Primary Elections

SAVE, an online service administered by USCIS, allows various government agencies to verify the immigration status or U.S. naturalization of applicants seeking benefits or licenses.

The new partnership allows government agencies to create cases in SAVE using an applicant's Social Security number rather than a Department of Homeland Security identifying number, which is not collected by a majority of state and local agencies, according to a separate news release. Additionally, agencies for the first time will be able to submit more than one case at a time, streamlining the process.

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Polling indicates that basic voter protection regulations, such as requiring a photo ID to vote and providing proof of citizenship when registering to vote for the first time, are incredibly popular among Americans.

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State officials in Texas, Alabama, Virginia and Ohio identified as many as 17,000 noncitizens on state voting rolls and worked to remove them from the books ahead of the 2024 general election. America First Legal, a Washington, D.C.-based group aligned with the Trump administration, sued Maricopa County, Arizona, in August after the county recorder allegedly failed to purge 35,000 registered voters who did not provide proof of U.S. citizenship.

The Trump administration hinted at more updates to come in the future.

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James Comer Demands That Biden's Dementia Conspirators and Autopen Usurpers Stand for Questioning

Under oath.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer on Thursday wrote to key aides to President Joe Biden demanding that they sit for transcribed interviews as part of his investigation into the former president's mental decline and the potentially unauthorized use of an autopen for executive actions.

Comer wrote to Biden physician Dr. Kevin O'Connor, former Domestic Policy Council Director Neera Tanden, former Assistant to the President Anthony Bernal, former Deputy Chief of Staff Annie Tomasini, and former Special Assistant to the President Ashley Williams.

"The cover-up of President Biden's obvious mental decline is a historic scandal. The American people deserve to know when this decline began, how far it progressed, and who was making critical decisions on his behalf," Comer said in a press release. "Key executive actions signed by autopen, such as sweeping pardons for the Biden Crime Family, must be examined considering President Biden's diminished capacity."

"Today, we are calling on President Biden's physician and former White House advisors to participate in transcribed interviews so we can begin to uncover the truth," he added. "In the last Congress, the Biden White House blocked these individuals from providing testimony to the Oversight Committee as part of the effort to cover-up Biden's declining health. Any continued obstruction will be met with swift and decisive action. The American people demand transparency and accountability now."

Below, Trump says that Biden wouldn't have ordered open borders, but that "leftwing lunatics" took advantage of a senile, weak man to impose that. I doubt that specific claim, but he's 100% right that unelected hacks were illegally running the country for four years.

And Ed Martin, now at the DOJ to investigate weaponization of government, says a "high-ranking Biden Official" has come forward to give information. He said a "senior, senior Democrat" gave him the three names of Biden staffers using the autopen to sign Biden's names to thousands of partners, and this "whistleblower" says "people were making money off it."

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Disney/ABC, Seeing Their Groomer Empire Crumble All Around Them, Tell the Shrieking Harpies of The View to Cool It On Attacking Half the Country Every Single Day

ABC and Disney will be destroyed by the #Resistance.

Executives at Disney and ABC News have reportedly asked The View hosts to reduce their political attacks on President Donald Trump and shift the show's focus back toward lighter fare.

Key Details:

The Daily Beast reports that Disney CEO Bob Iger and ABC News President Almin Karamehmedovic met with The View's hosts and executive producer Brian Teta to request a shift away from political content, particularly criticisms of Trump.

Karamehmedovic reportedly pointed to episodes featuring celebrity interviews as high performers and encouraged the show to "lean into such coverage."

Ana Navarro reportedly challenged the executives, saying, "This is what our audience wants," and later confronted Iger again during Disney's advertiser presentation.

Diving Deeper:

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The executives reportedly conveyed that the daytime talk show has become too consumed with political commentary and has veered away from its original mission as a more general-interest program for women. One source told the Daily Beast that Karamehmedovic highlighted episodes featuring celebrity guests as examples of higher-rated content and encouraged the team to focus more on that type of coverage moving forward.

While the meeting reportedly stopped short of issuing a mandate, the suggestion did not sit well with several of the co-hosts. Ana Navarro, a frequent political commentator on the show, reportedly objected to the suggestion, telling the executives, "This is what our audience wants. Isn't it gonna look kind of bad if we're all of a sudden not talking about politics?"at they'd prefer The View to be less politically driven.

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Despite the executive nudging, some of the show's hosts reportedly found the conversation "silly" and expressed their intent to continue "doing their thing." As of now, it appears no concrete changes have been implemented, but the tension underscores the larger corporate concern about the program's political tone and its impact on broader viewer engagement.

CBS' biggest shareholder, Sharri Redstone, reportedly told her Left-Wing Animal House of Democrat Party Operators at CBS "News" to tone it down, too.

So CBS "News's" president quit.

CBS News President and CEO Wendy McMahon announced her resignation on Monday because "the company and I do not agree on the path forward."

Left unstated but hanging over her announcement: CBS' corporate parent, Paramount Global, and its controlling owner, Shari Redstone, are involved in settlement negotiations with lawyers for President Trump in an effort to settle his $20 billion lawsuit against CBS' signature show, 60 Minutes.

McMahon made her announcement the morning after the final episode of this season's 60 Minutes and just weeks after the resignation of the show's veteran executive producer, Bill Owens. Owens said he no longer felt he could lead the show independently.

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House Passes "Big Beautiful Bill" on Razor-Thin Majority

215-214.

House passes "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," now headed to the Senate

Quick Hit:

In a razor-thin 215-214 vote, House Republicans passed President Trump's sweeping "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," which delivers on his top legislative priorities. Speaker Mike Johnson hailed the passage as a defining moment for the GOP and a pivotal step in shaping Trump's second term.

Key Details:

The bill extends Trump's 2017 tax cuts, slashes green energy subsidies, and imposes stricter Medicaid work requirements.

Only two Republicans -- Reps. Thomas Massie and Warren Davidson -- opposed the bill; one GOP member voted "present."

The Senate is expected to push changes, sparking a battle that could stretch into the summer as the debt ceiling deadline looms.

Diving Deeper:

House Republicans scored a major legislative win early Thursday morning, passing President Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" by a single vote -- a sprawling package that cements his second-term policy agenda and signals a renewed GOP offensive on spending, immigration, and tax reform.

In a 215-214 vote, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) muscled the bill through his slim majority, rallying a deeply divided conference behind a package that many believe could define the next chapter of the Trump era. The vote followed days of tense negotiations, last-minute revisions, and a rare lobbying push by President Trump himself, who met with holdouts just hours before the final vote.

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The bill is a policy juggernaut. It extends Trump's 2017 tax cuts, rolls back Biden-era green energy incentives, boosts defense and border security funding, and imposes work requirements on Medicaid -- a provision that, according to budget analysts, could result in millions losing government-subsidized health insurance. It also raises the debt ceiling by $4 trillion, giving Republicans room to maneuver without another fiscal standoff -- at least for now.

Two Republicans, Reps. Thomas Massie (Ky.) and Warren Davidson (Ohio), opposed the bill on principle, with House Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Harris (R-Md.) voting "present." Their concerns focused on spending levels and executive power -- issues that could be addressed through a wave of executive orders Trump is expected to issue in the coming weeks.

Centrist Republicans also extracted concessions. After a high-stakes back-and-forth over the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap, members from high-tax states like New York and California reached a compromise to raise the deduction limit to $40,000 for individuals making $500,000 or less -- far short of their initial demands but enough to secure their votes.

While House passage is a political win for Trump and Johnson, the bill's future in the Senate is less certain. Senate Republicans, led by Majority Leader John Thune, are already signaling that changes are coming -- particularly on Medicaid reforms and tax provisions. Any significant revisions will require the House to reconsider the bill, setting up a fierce intra-party tug-of-war in the coming weeks.

In theory, they can now make this bill stronger through reconciliation, where only a simple majority is needed in the Senate to pass spending/taxing changes to a bill.

But does anyone believe the left-leaning Bush "Republicans" that dominate the Senate Republican Caucus will actually do that?

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Gunman Murders Two Israeli Embassy Staffers Outside Jewish History Museum in DC, Shouting "Free, Free Palestine"

The media's not interested in this story. That's a big clue about the killer.

A senseless act of violence rocked the Israeli diplomatic community in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night, when two young embassy staffers--Yaron Lischinsky, 28, and Sarah Milgrim--were fatally shot in the street outside the Capital Jewish Museum.

The victims had just attended the American Jewish Committee's ACCESS Young Diplomats Reception when the attack unfolded. According to witnesses, the suspected gunman shouted "Free, free Palestine" before opening fire--a chilling reminder of how far antisemitic violence has escalated under the cover of radical political slogans.

Both Lischinsky and Milgrim served in the Israeli Embassy in D.C.--he as a research assistant in the Political Department, and she in Public Diplomacy. Lischinsky, a former member of the Israel Defense Forces, had planned to propose to Milgrim during an upcoming trip to Jerusalem. He had purchased the ring earlier this week.

"This evening, a terrorist shot and killed them as they exited an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in DC," the Embassy of Israel to the United States said in a somber statement. "The entire embassy staff is heartbroken and devastated by their murder. No words can express the depth of our grief and horror at this devastating loss."

Israel's Ambassador to the U.S., Yechiel Leiter, confirmed the couple's identities and expressed the profound sorrow felt across the Israeli diplomatic corps. He described the pair as young, promising representatives of Israel who had devoted their lives to diplomacy and truth--and who were robbed of a future together.

They had just gotten engaged, but a leftist indulged his mental illness, so now they're dead and that's that.

You won't be seeing this on Jake Tapper's show. He covers attacks on his fellow Jewish citizens, but only when those attacks are perpetrated by political enemy groups.

Police have identified Elias Rodriguez, a 30-year-old Chicago leftist activist, as the sole suspect in the fatal shooting of two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington, DC. Authorities are investigating the attack as potentially ideologically motivated and antisemitic.

Key Details:

Rodriguez is reportedly affiliated with the Party for Socialism & Liberation and participated in BLM and anti-Israel protests.

He was arrested at the Capital Jewish Museum after shouting, "Free, free Palestine."

President Trump condemned the attack as rooted in antisemitism; Israel is boosting embassy security worldwide.

...

Rodriguez is not just a suspect in a criminal case--he's also allegedly an active member of the far-left Party for Socialism & Liberation (PSL), a group known for organizing anti-Israel protests and promoting radical socialist ideology. He has previously marched with Black Lives Matter, the People's Congress of Resistance, and ANSWER Chicago, all of which have sharply criticized Israel and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.

Adding fuel to the ideological fire, PSL had posted an "anti-genocide pledge" against Israel earlier the same day as the shooting, suggesting potential ideological coordination or at least timing that investigators may explore. Rodriguez is also allegedly connected to The History Makers, a nonprofit that records African American oral histories, where he worked as a researcher.

The left is at literal war against the rest of society, and we just sit around and say "How terrible." Meanwhile, the Democrat Party sends money to the killers' and jihadists' GoFundMe accounts.

Bonchie
@bonchieredstate

If Democrats were mad about revoked visas for "Palestine" supporters before, they better buckle up. Because there are about to be a lot more of them.

Update: Ken Klipperstein published this left-wing terrorist's manifesto.

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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

It's open season on Jews and Israel, and many in the oh-so-enlightened West are perfectly content to tolerate a second Holocaust if that's what it takes to pacify the terrorists in their midst. Canada, the UK, and France, the three biggest failures in the defense of Western culture and freedom, have hilariously attacked Israel's conduct toward the Arabs in Gaza; the same people who enthusiastically supported Hamas and participated in its savagery toward Israel. They have thrown on the mantle of international law, conveniently ignoring the reality of the Geneva Conventions, that state that Israel does not have any responsibility to provide humanitarian aid if it will be used by combatants.

UK, France, Canada threaten 'concrete actions' if Israel does not halt fighting, boost aid

The leaders of the United Kingdom, France, and Canada issue a joint statement condemning Israel's handling of the humanitarian situation in Gaza and calling on the Israeli government to immediately halt military action in the enclave and allow in aid, threatening "further concrete actions in response" if Israel refuses.

The three leaders -- the UK's Keir Starmer, France's Emmanuel Macron and Canada's Mark Carney -- call Israel's announcement yesterday to allow a limited amount of aid into Gaza "wholly inadequate" and say the country's failure to assist the Gazan civilian population "is unacceptable and risks breaching International Humanitarian Law."

Israel must engage with the United Nations "to ensure a return to delivery of aid in line with humanitarian principles," says the statement.

The countries also reject the prospect of "permanent forced displacement" of Gazan civilians, and rebuke members of the Israeli government for using "abhorrent language... threatening that, in their despair at the destruction of Gaza, civilians will start to relocate."

Where were these three appeasers when the pro-Palestine movement chanted "Globalize The Intifada" in their streets? Where were these three quislings when Jewish citizens were beaten and murdered? Where were these three cowards when the "Palestinians" were raping and torturing and murdering and kidnapping? Did they reject the premise of Palestinian statehood predicated on the destruction of the state of Israel?

No. They uttered platitudes and called for a ceasefire! But when those pesky Jews start winning...THAT'S when they preach about humanity and international law. Too bad they didn't do anything about their own governments funding the psychotic death-cult murderers of Hamas (and Islam).

The reality is that Israel is conducting herself according to its own rules, which are far more restrictive than the West's...and far more respectful of non-combatants, if they even exist in Gaza. The reality is that there is no starvation...no famine in Gaza.

But the damage is done. The disgusting support among many in the West has emboldened the virulently anti-Semitic, anti-Zionist, anti-Israel segments of the left: you know... all of it. They see Israel as the tip of the spear in the fight for Western civilization, and it must be brought to its knees! The bonus that they are Jews, who have been traditional targets of the left for 150 years is convenient. They would still hate Jews and Israel, but it's a two-fer when Israel is fighting those who have common cause with the socialists who yearn for the fall of Western civilization.

And their attitudes lead inexorably to this:

2 Israeli Embassy Staffers Killed in DC Shooting Near Jewish Museum

Smith identified the suspect as Elias Rodriguez, 30, of Chicago. She said the suspect was seen pacing outside the museum before the shooting.

Rodriguez walked into the museum after the shooting and was detained by event security, Smith said. He was chanting "Free Palestine, Free Palestine" when taken into custody, she said.

The suspect had no previous contact with police, she added.

He is a communist, and a member of the "Party For Socialism And Liberation," which 20 years ago split of from Workers of The World, presumably because they weren't violent enough.

Why did this man choose "Palestine" as an issue? He could have chosen a dozen different conflicts across the world. What is it about a defensive war conducted by the only Jewish country on earth that made him homicidal?

Ask the Three Cowards of The West. Maybe they will know. But in the meantime, they are responsible for the deaths of two Israelis.

Yaron and Sara named as victims in DC terror shooting

Yaron Lischinsky, Israeli Embassy employee, and girlfriend Sara Milgram identified as the victims of Thursday night's deadly shooting in Washington, DC. Lischinsky had purchased an engagement ring and planned to propose next week.

Were they combatants? Were they in uniform, bearing arms for Israel? Or were they unarmed civilians, the preferred targets of the globalist left and their partners, Islam?

Either way, the world is frustrated by the curious stubbornness of Israel and world Jewry to acquiesce in their own destruction. And as more of this comes to our shores, it is my most fervent hope that more American Jews take their defense into their own hands. Change the paradigm of the defenseless Jew; Israel has done this marvelously, and America will be fore-square behind the Jewish community if it takes off its blinders, accepts the danger of the left and of Islam, and arms and trains itself to defend Jewish religion and culture in America.

[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

La Durée Poignardée
René Magritte

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The Morning Report — 5/ 22 /25

Good morning kids. It could just as easily have been a Christian school, a pregnancy center, a GOP office or Tesla dealership but once again it was Jews, this time gunned down in the name of a fictitious mythological people and nation that does not and never existed, except for an hour or so circa 1963 in a conference room at KGB headquarters, cooked up by a direct descendant of one of Hitler's collaborators (Haj Amin al-Husseini).

The title and subheading of the article really says it all:

Communist Terrorist Kills Engaged Couple Outside Israeli Embassy — This was a Communist terrorism attack in support of Muslim terrorists.

At that point, Daniel Greenfield could've hit 'publish' and closed his laptop. But here are some details from Mr. Greenfield.

Elias Rodriguez, reportedly a member of the Communist front Party for Socialism and Liberation, opened fire outside the Israeli Embassy in D.C., killing Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, a pair of staffers who were about to be engaged. The Communist terrorist shouted, “Free Palestine,” as he was taken into custody. . . . Unlike many Muslim terrorist attacks, it’s important to note that this was a Communist terrorist attack.

Photos appear to show Rodriguez at an ANSWER coalition rally. ANSWER was the anti-war front group for the Party for Socialism and Liberation. PSL originated as a series of originally Trotskyist splinter groups that became more radical with every splintering. PSL in recent months has been loudly accusing Israel of ‘genocide’, but its larger mission is to radicalize members into a revolution against the United States.

In short, it’s a treasonous enemy organization that has been allowed to operate inside the United States.

This is not the first time its members have been linked to violence and the murders outside the Israeli Embassy ought to lead to action against what is effectively a domestic terrorist organization that wields a great deal of influence on the far Left through umbrella groups like ANSWER (in the old Communist style.)

The ultimate goal is the complete destruction of Western Civilization and the conquest/subjugation of humanity by the ultimate axis of evil between Islam and Totalitarian Communist/Socialism. The latter don't realize that it is their heads that will quite literally be the last to roll once anyone and everyone who opposes them have been liquidated like the well over 100 million that have been slaughtered in the name of Marxist-Leninism in just over a century or so, and counting.
But Islam has a 1,400-year head-(chopping)start on Leftism having butchered, slaughtered, raped and enslaved, spilling oceans of blood and tears all over the world in that time.

And this International ANSWER cancer has been around since forever, I remember their bullshit from my days as a student at Brooklyn College in the late 70s. Hello Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, it is way past time to not only dismantle these thugs but every other tentacle and the head of this beast wherever and whoever is behind it with extreme prejudice. Including CAIR and every other Commie front group that has been destroying our society from within for decades. If it means the long overdue dismantling and abolition of the Democrat Party and all its other treasonous/traitorous/murderous destructive offshoots, so be it.

Elsewhere, Lee Zeldin, Marco Rubio and President Trump himself continue to impress, in their responses and confrontations with disgraces ranging from Schiff-for-Brains to the thuggish President of South Africa. All in the links, and more.

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Daily Tech News 22 May 2025

Top Story

• OpenAI is buying Jony Ive's hardware company io - which has never shipped a product or even demonstrated a concept - for $6.5 billion. (The Verge)

  "We gathered together the best hardware and software engineers, the best technologists, physicists, scientists, researchers and experts in product development and manufacturing," Ive and Altman said in a joint post.

  OpenAI makes no physical products. OpenAI has never made a physical product.
  
  
  

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Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - May 21, 2025 [TRex]

Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety.

This is the Wednesday night ONT. It is Ladies' night in the ONT jukebox! We're featuring female musicians. We are not featuring men that dress up as women, men that sing about women, or women that are trying to be men.

Warning: the ONT only has so much space. There are more female musicians of note than space, so your favorite has likely been omitted or the wrong song was chosen to represent your favorite artist. Oh well. You'll get over it. Cry, pout and throw virtual monkey poo in the comments (but do it respectfully and be entertaining).

[Top photo: Forsyth Park, Savannah, Georgia]

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Good Boys Cafe

Doodle finds it hard to say goodbye.

Puppy pets kitten.

This bird mocks you.

Lemurs just discovered the Spider-Man meme.

Some Pig!

Managing the dig.

All dogs are the best dogs. Further evidence.

Dog invades cat's personal space. I'm sure he deserved it.

"Condition One" weather in Antarctica.

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More Disclosures About Grandpa Sniffnfinger

This guy is reading Jake Tapper's cover-up grifter opportunity and commenting on it so that you don't have to buy it.

Anthony LaMesa
@ajlamesa

"The lessons from this book go beyond one man and one political party. They speak to more universal questions about cognitive dissonance, groupthink, courage, cowardice, and patriotism."

-Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson in the Authors' Note of Original Sin

So, Jake: How did you do the test of your courage and patriotism, and your ability to withstand the groupthink of your fellow leftwingers? What do you say now of your cowardice in repeating the lies of your fellow leftwing propagandists?

Oh wait, he refuses to talk about his role in this -- this is just about the Biden Inner Circle.

"No one thought that the Harris campaign had been without error. But for the most knowledgeable Democratic officials and donors, and for top members of the Harris campaign, there was no question about the father of this election calamity: It was Joe Biden."

"The real issue wasn't his age per se. It was the clear limitations of his abilities, which got worse throughout his presidency."

Tapper and Thompson say that the White House "had been gaslighting the American people."

"Harris made plenty of mistakes, both before Biden became candidate and afterward, but no decision that she and her campaign made was anywhere near as consequential as his decision to run for reelection and pretend he wasn't mentally melting before our eyes."

Original Sin notes how the Biden team constantly told David Plouffe that "he was achieving FDR-level accomplishments."

He clearly was not. This was one of the most dishonest discourses during the Biden administration, alongside lying about his decline.

"As of early 2025, Biden can still, of course, engage in a coherent conversation if he is prepared and rested."

"if he is prepared and rested"

Brutal language.

"The presidency requires someone who can perform at 2:00 a.m. during an emergency. Cabinet secretaries in his own administration told us that by 2024, he could not be relied upon for this."

"Biden, his family, and his team let their self-interest and fear of another Trump term justify an attempt to put an at times addled old man in the Oval Office for four more years."

Their behavior actually suggests to me that they didn't personally fear another Trump term.

Apparently President Biden couldn't remember Mike Donilon's name *in December 2019.*

A personal friend and aide he worked with *since 1981.*

""You know, you know," he said, groping for it."

During the 2020 primary: "In the office, campaign aides would whisper about how he was not always 100 percent, but there was no way to have that conversation with him or his most senior aides. It was almost taboo."

"At events in Iowa in January 2020, aides privately noted that voters were seeing a diminished man who was not as he had been just two months earlier. Voters were coming out of Biden's events less likely to support him."

This is exactly why I question:

1) If Biden would have won the primary if there had not been an aggressive attempt to circle the wagons and wrap things up in March 2020, because Covid.

2) If Biden would have won the general election without his frailty and rapid decline being hidden by the Zoom/basement campaign.

This is interesting: There is every reason to believe that the Biden, Inc. crime family covered up Biden's cancer.

Because they have experience with covering up cancer to preserve political power: they hid Beau Biden's cancer, too, almost until he died.

Anthony LaMesa
@ajlamesa

It is difficult not to think about President Biden's cancer diagnosis -- and rapid decline over the past few years -- when reading pages 18-19 of Original Sin.

"Beau's cancer treatment also demonstrated the Bidens' capacity for denial and the lengths they would go to avoid transparency about health issues, even when the person in question is an elected official, in this case the sitting attorney general of Delaware."

In summer 2013, Beau had surgery after collapsing during a vacation and a Stage 4 tumor was removed from his brain. Beau then started to do fewer public appearances, stopped doing lengthy interviews, and "appeared gaunt." Despite all this, the Bidens didn't disclose anything and, in November 2013, "Beau told a local reporter that he had a "clean bill of health" after an exam."

"Beau would remain the sitting attorney general of Delaware for the entirety of 2014, even as his family secretly flew him all over the country for a variety of experimental treatments. In April 2014, he began having difficulties with his speech. He would often enter hospitals under an alias: George Lincoln."

Beau's wife disapproved of the secrecy, but Joe Biden insisted on it.

"Beau's wife, Hallie, told people she didn't understand why they had to keep his illness a secret. Making it public likely would have led people to rally around the family. He was an elected official. Both Biden and Beau opposed disclosure."

"At times, Biden also instructed his team to mislead the media about his whereabouts. They would publicly say that the vice president was going to Delaware for the weekend, then returning to DC the next week. That was technically true, but Biden sometimes flew to Houston, where Beau was receiving treatment, to be with his eldest son over the weekend."

On the 2020 primary victory: "Biden and much of his team saw their victory as an affirmation of themselves. Their theory of the case had been right, and the doubters had been wrong. They bristled when anyone suggested that they had also gotten a little lucky."

Yeah, this thinking was profoundly problematic. Biden won because Democratic elites were afraid of Sanders and the pandemic hysteria led to calls for wrapping things up early. It wasn't his talent or popularity.

"It was terrible to admit, but Biden's own aides would say that while the COVID-19 pandemic was one of the worst things to happen to the world, it was one of the best things to happen to Biden's presidential hopes. They doubted Biden could have otherwise kept up the pace of campaigning through November."

Fake Jake only became aware of the Basement Campaign, and how it was used to hide Biden's senility, in just the past couple of months.

Give him your money!

"As pandemic lockdowns became widespread in March 2020, Biden could avoid that grueling travel and campaign remotely from Wilmington. He could rest. Close aides pushed for events to start in the afternoon, if possible."

Remarkable that, even with the low-energy basement campaign, Biden still couldn't manage morning and evening events.

The section on the convention Zoom videos is just infuriating.

Those reports concern his Zoom calls during the 2020 campaign. Donors were given their questions ahead of time, and Biden had note-cards with his scripted answers to those "questions."

All of this to hide the fact that he was a vegetable. But the people on the Zoom calls knew they were being given a script to follow, so who was actually fooled?

They also did this during his cabinet meetings-- cabinet officials complained about it being "embarrassing" to sit at a table reading scripted questions while Biden struggled to read out his note cards in "reply" to those questions.

All of this fakery that Jake Tapper just heard about, hand on Bible, swear to God.

Biden should not have been the 2020 nominee.

Well, duh.

On dishonestly edited videos of Biden: "But the bogus videos were tough to counter because the underlying preexisting belief they reaffirmed -- that Biden seemed old and prone to misspeaking -- was true."

A former European leader who experienced a couple instances of Biden rambling and struggling to get to a point: "I didn't think he should run for reelection; he was clearly not at the top of his game."

"Republicans taunted Biden by calling Klain "the prime minister," but people inside the White House sometimes quietly called him that too. He steered and staffed the White House in a way that seemed contrary to Biden's centrist reputation."

On the Afghanistan withdrawal: "He never communicated adequate regret, never fired anyone, and would react defensively when the issue was brought up. The topic could easily trigger his temper at his own aides."

Unrelated: There's no proof "LaMonica McIver" struck ICE guards.. except, you know, for the videotape of her using her Black Privilege to hit people and then demand apologies.

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Quick Hits

New York Post
@nypost

Monica Lewinsky says former President Bill Clinton should've resigned from office after affair https://trib.al/n6XprzY

Secret Service agent Buzz Patterson agrees:

Buzz Patterson
@BuzzPatterson

I was there. She's right. This was 100% Hillary at the time. Hillary knew all along and lied about the affair as well. As soon as Bill's affair was revealed, Hillary threatened him and became the co-president. She ran the "crisis management" meetings at night in the residence. She told Bill to lie. She constructed the whole "vast right wing conspiracy" bullshit. Bill should've resigned but he hated Al Gore. It was, bar none, the longest 2-year assignment of my life. And I've been shot at a few times in anger.

Buzz Patterson
@BuzzPatterson

BILL CLINTON & THE AF-1 FLIGHT ATTENDANT

This one truly IS "Dereliction of Duty."

We were returning late one night from a long trip to Europe on AF-1, landed at Andrews, and helicoptered on Marine One to the White House. We landed on the South Lawn at about midnight and, after ensuring the president was on his way to his residence upstairs, I headed to my bedroom in the East Wing. Shortly thereafter, my phone rang and it was the AF-1 presidential pilot. "Buzz, we have a problem," he said. Oh shit," I thought.

Apparently, Clinton had cornered a female AF-1 steward in the galley and molested her. She was young, a staff sergeant, and married with children. I knew her, liked her, and she was super sweet. Now, she was in tears. I asked the pilot what she wanted. He told me that she didn't want to be another "bimbo," she wanted to remain in the Air Force and be promotable. All she wanted was an apology. In the world of Monica Lewinsky, Paula Jones, and Kathleen Willey, this wasn't surprising to me. It was, however terribly disappointing and sad.

So, that morning, as a young major, I had to walk to the Oval Office and tell the commander-in-chief that he needed to apologize to the young lady. I've been shot at with hot metal but this was the toughest day in my life. I remember on my way to talk with him thinking "I didn't sign up for this shit."

Two weeks later, we got the two together onboard AF-1 in the president's office and he offered a very uncontrite "half apology." He didn't care.

If anybody in the military had done that it would've been jail, expulsion, or both. It would've been Fort Leavenworth. But not for this president, not for this man. It was just another day. Yet another in my experiences working for a man with absolutely no integrity and no moral fiber.

Adam Carolla brought this up with Doctor Drew. When the Hur report dropped and Hur said he could not prosecute Biden because he would come off as a "well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory" -- in other words, they would not convict him because he appears too mentally degenerated -- the Times claimed that Hur cannot tell when someone has memory issues, only "scientists" can, "experts" say.

Memory Loss Requires Careful Diagnosis, Scientists Say

A federal investigator said that President Biden had "poor memory" and "diminished faculties." But such a diagnosis would require close medical assessment, experts said.

By Gina Kolata

Feb. 9, 2024, 7:40 p.m. ET

A lengthy report by the Department of Justice on President Biden's handling of classified documents contained some astonishing assessments of his well-being and mental health.

Mr. Biden, 81, was an "elderly man with a poor memory" and "diminished faculties" who "did not remember when he was vice president," the special counsel Robert K. Hur said.

In conversations recorded in 2017, Mr. Biden was "often painfully slow" and "struggling to remember events and straining at times to read and relay his own notebook entries." So impaired was Mr. Biden that a jury was unlikely to convict him, Mr. Hur said.

Republicans were quick to pounce, some calling the president unfit for office and demanding his removal.

But while the report disparaged Mr. Biden's mental health, medical experts on Friday noted that its judgments were not based on science and that its methods bore no resemblance to those that doctors use to assess possible cognitive impairment.
In its simplest form, the issue is one that doctors and family members have been dealing with for decades: How do you know when an episode of confusion or a memory lapse is part of a serious decline?

The answer: "You don't," said David Loewenstein, director of the center for cognitive neuroscience and aging at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
The diagnosis requires a battery of sophisticated and objective tests that probe several areas: different types of memory, language, executive function, problem solving, and spatial skills and attention.

Well one thing you could do is take a cognitive health test -- which Biden conspicuously refused to do for fifteen years.

The tests, he said, determine if there is a medical condition, and if so, its nature and extent. Verbal stumbles are not proof, Dr. Loewenstein and other experts said.
"Forgetting an event doesn't necessarily mean there is a problem," said Dr. John Morris, a neurology professor at Washington University in St. Louis.

No, you're not going crazy -- this is the same media which demanded Trump be removed by the 25th Amendment starting on his first day of office, and who routinely argued that Trump was crazy and unfit to serve in office.

Dr. Drew, who is a real medical doctor unlike Jill Biden, does not agree that you need "expertise" to detect obvious mental defects like poor memory or drunkeness.

Note that the media, which does not have expertise in anything, is always offering their own pig-ignorant opinions on every single story, while simultaneously telling the public that they are not capable of making even the smallest observation -- such as detecting when a man repeatedly loses his train of thought -- without "expert" guidance.

Also note the media uses their complete lack of expertise to decide which experts will be presented to the public as definitive. For example, there are thousands of doctors who will say "Of course a layman can observe that someone's memory is faulty and that they frequently lose their train of thought," but this not-an-expert-in-anything, Gina Kolata, decided to find one "expert" to say that someone failing to remember things is no sign of a poor memory and present that as the last word on the matter.

The non-expert media c*nts are picking which "experts" are right and worthy of presentation to the public, while having absolutely no training whatsoever that would permit them to sift between the competing claims of experts to determine who is right.

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