Polls Are Made for Strippers and Democrat Whores: Approval of Congressional Democrats Now at 19%

Democrats are increasingly toxic to everyone, including their own pathetic insurrectionist voters.

How low can they go?

The job approval rating for congressional Democrats has plunged to another all-time low, with fewer than 2 in 10 Americans happy with their work on Capitol Hill.

Only 19% of registered voters approve of the way Democrats in Congress are handling their job, a Quinnipiac University Poll released Wednesday found.

The dismal rating for congressional Dems is the lowest ever recorded by the pollster, which first began asking the question in 2009.

Even among Democratic voters, a majority (52%) disapprove of congressional Democrats, with only 39% satisfied.

"If the approval numbers for Republicans are bad ... then the approval numbers for Democrats can be characterized as flat out terrible," Quinnipiac University Polling Analyst Tim Malloy said in a statement.

Overall, one-third of voters (33%) approve of the way the Republicans in Congress are handling their job, while 62% disapprove.

Among Republican voters, 77% approve of the job GOP members have done in Congress, while only 20% disapprove.

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Confidence in Democratic congressional leadership plummeted to an all-time low of 25% in April, according to a Gallup poll.

Among younger Americans -- those under 30 -- just 23% approve of congressional Democrats, according to a Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics survey from April.

According to Axios, braindead Democrat voters want are demanding that Democrat congressmen allow themselves to be shot to prove they're doing something.

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Jul 14
2026 Generic Congressional Ballot Poll

🔴 Republicans: 48% (+1)
🔵 Democrats: 47%

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Per CNN's polling: Democrats were at +7 on the congressional generic ballot in 2005 and 2017. The following years, they gained seats in the midterms.

But now they're only at +2 (per CNN's poll; RCP's average of all polls has it at 0.3%.

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Senate Passes Rescission Bill, But Only After Addind Spending Back In That May Make the House Balk

It moves forward, but the House still needs to vote for the Senate's new spending, because the Senate refused to pass the rescissions as the House voted on.

The rescission bill slashes nearly $8 billion from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and over $1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which funds NPR and PBS.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune credited Trump's Department of Government Efficiency for identifying "wasteful spending" and called the bill "a small but important step toward fiscal sanity."
Just two Republicans--Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine--joined all Democrats in voting against the measure, which is slightly smaller than the House version after a carveout preserved funding for global HIV/AIDS programs.

These "conservative Republicans" sure like spending taxpayer money on pet projects.

Vance had to take a tiebreaking vote on a procedural hurdle when Mitch McConnell joined Collins and Murkowski to block the package. (McConnell voted to pass the final bill, however.) During the lengthy debate, Senate Republicans had to rewrite portions of the bill to curry votes from their own caucus, restoring some funding to PEPFAR (a good choice), shifting climate-change funds to Native American radio stations in the Dakotas (a better use, anyway), and some ag supports related to aid programs but more for the benefit of farmers (YMMV). Those and other marginal changes were enough to get the bill to the 51-48 finale.

However, that means that the bill has to go back to the lower chamber now for passage on a short time schedule. The House barely passed its own version of this bill a month ago, 214/212. Four Republicans voted against the bill at that time, a margin that Mike Johnson can't afford this time around.

House members complained about the Senate changing the bill and adding spending back in. They said they had broken arms to get the thing passed by the slightest of margins, and that there was no guarantee at all that it would pass again when interfered with by big-spending liberal Senate Republicans.

The bill has to be passed by the House by midnight tonight according to the rules, or it fails. Then I guess we'd have to go through the whole process again.

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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

One thing the Covid catastrophe helped to do is expose the insanity on our campuses. Far from the romantic and naive image of ivy-covered buildings inside of which our youth was educated by the best and brightest minds, we were shown the seedy, ignorant, jingoistic underbelly of academia: Pink-haired lunatics cheering for terrorists; life-long academics teaching straight-up socialism as dogma; the complete dismantling of objective educational standards, replaced with build-your-own majors that were obviously utter nonsense; savage hatred of America and its institutions; and worst of all, outrageous costs associated with utterly useless degrees!

And all the while they are being convinced that they are morally and intellectually superior to those grunting Yahoos who cook their meals and fix their cars and build their houses and pick up their garbage.

Johnny can't write; Johnny can't read; Johnny can't think! And Johnny certainly can't do anything other than make a pumpkin-spice Latte with soy milk.

But Johnny sure is entitled! And if he can't get a job in an NGO making six figures, he will agitate for Universal Basic Income, paid for by you!

Contrast that with the small number of bright high school students who decided that $100,000 for four or five wasted years leading to a useless degree might not be as good a plan as going to work for the local electrician, with the real opportunity to gain tremendous real-world skill, then move on to building a business! Besides, if that high schooler is a man, during those years in college he will be subjected to an endless litany of reasons why he is worthless and the source of most of the existential ills of Western culture.

Except there aren't enough of those folks.

Mike Rowe: “We’ve been telling kids for 15 years to learn to code.”

“Well, AI is coming for the coders.”

“It’s not coming for the welders, the plumbers, the steamfitters, the pipefitters, the HVAC, or the electricians.”

“In Aspen, I sat and listened to Larry Fink say we need… pic.twitter.com/7C3WpkKgMd

— JOSH DUNLAP (@JDunlap1974) July 17, 2025

And those are just the trades! How about bank tellers and supermarket stockers and go-fers at car repair joints? All of those can lead to careers that might not be hip and cool, but certainly pay the bills.

It is blindingly obvious that education in America is broken, but there are solid pathways around the dysfunction. But our culture has to return to valuing labor and actual skills, rather than placing on pedestals the sorts of pseudo-skills that indicate success in the never-never-land of academia. Those fake skills are also conspicuously light in real effort, which is a skill all its own! Coming to work ready to...WORK! is a skill that is simply not taught in our schools. It is taught by parents, and often the school of hard knocks.

J.J. Sefton and I chatted on the current CutJibNewsletter podcast about a young woman in South Carolina who decided that hard work was right up her alley. Her name is Nykia Hamilton, and she is a testament to the glories of American Exceptionalism. I hope she never goes to college. She is far too valuable to 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

Mr Oldham and his Guests
Joseph Highmore

I had some more modern "art" ready to go for today, and it was a particularly ridiculous example. But you were measured and clever and amusing yesterday, so I will hold off!

Maybe I should buy a box of "Liv-A Snaps" as treats for you maniacs. Does anyone remember them? My parents once gave us a taste of them.

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The Morning Report — 7/17/25

Good morning kids, Let's start off with this . . .

Federal judge James Boasberg advised Chief Justice John Roberts and some two dozen other judges that his D.C. colleagues were “concern[ed] that the Administration would disregard rulings of federal courts leading to a constitutional crisis,” according to a memorandum obtained exclusively by The Federalist. That Judge Boasberg and his fellow D.C. District Court judges would discuss how a named Defendant in numerous pending lawsuits might respond to an adverse ruling is shocking. Equally outrageous is those judges’ clear disregard for the presumption of regularity — a presumption that requires a court to presume public officials properly discharged their official duties

"A Constitutional crisis?!" You don't say?!

The left chants “No kings!” in the streets—then cheer judges who rule like monarchs, imposing policy from the bench with all the subtlety of a royal decree . . . “Trump must go now!” they chanted, waving signs that likened the president to a dictator and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to his Gestapo.

Their complaint was alleged despotism. But if Democrats really opposed authoritarianism, they wouldn’t be celebrating its emergence in the courts.

When U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani brazenly overstepped her authority on July 7 to block Congress from stripping Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid funding through the budget reconciliation bill – a clear usurpation of the legislative branch’s power of the purse – the response from the Left wasn’t outrage but praise.

“Good,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) wrote on X. “Democrats will never stop fighting this backdoor abortion ban from the Republicans.”

As an aside, I am pro abortion in this instance — that is by ramming an Alligator Alcatraz alligator up Schumer's rectal orifice and having it navigate all the way up his accursed GI tract to clamp down on his vocal cords, reverse direction and pull them out so they can never vibrate their despicable noises and disturb the peace of the known universe again, But I digress.

As CBD and I discussed on the latest episode of the podcast linked here and in the sidebar as well as available on the popular platforms listed below, When a hack-in-black judge on any bench decides to usurp both the authority of the Executive Branch and the Legislative Branch in one fell swoop, well there's your Constitutional Crisis right there.

And yet, God bless President Trump, all he can do, or at least is willing to do is to seek redress in the courts, the very institution that metaphorically shot, stabbed, gang-raped and set you on fire in the first place. Of course unless and until the Supreme Court and the Chief Justice are willing to stop this madness, and at the same time Congress will do what it must and impeach these hacks-in-black, defrock and disbar them so that they can never appear in a court of law ever again, unless in an orange jumpsuit and in shackles and leg irons.

Of course that there is a tall order given their collective at best personal dislike if not incandescent hatred for Donald Trump and his threat to their power and influence on the nation and society.

I do not know the technical or bureaucratic details of how funds move from the treasury to the various institutions of government, but if the President were to put his foot down and override Talwani and prevent a single penny from being transferred to Planned infanticide, I can just see Schumer, Crockett and the rest of the Democrat Party issuing overt calls for people to take Trump out, if not for the US military to do the job. Well, if Butler PA, the 2020 summer of mostly Peaceful race riots and the current wave of insurrection against ICE won't convince you, HOW ABOUT THIS:

Car Laden With Weapons Including a Rifle, Rapier, and Bow Discovered at Capitol.

On top of an unknown number of Iranians, Afghanis and other mostly peaceful jihadists roaming the countryside.

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. The crisis is now way beyond merely the Constitution. We are on a knife edge.

Have a great day!

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Churan now faces a series of charges, including Carrying a Pistol without a License, Carrying a Rifle without a License, Possession of a High-Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device, and Carrying a Dangerous Weapon – Sword.The Capitol Police Threat Assessment Section is continuing to investigate to determine Churan’s intent. USCP officials released a statement noting, “Currently, there does not appear to be a nexus to the Congress.”
  Car Laden With Weapons Including a Rifle, Rapier, and Bow Discovered at Capitol.
  
• Voters sharply split over whether government's prepared for inevitable terror attack.
  Americans Agree Terrorism’s A Threat After Iran, But Are We Doing Enough To Prevent It? I&I/TIPP Poll
  
• Victor Davis Hanson: In half a year, the impossible became obvious: borders closed, recruits returned, Iran retreated, and elites were exposed—all because people finally said, “Enough.”
  The World Woke Up
  
• The reckoning we face.
  Democracy’s Perennial Weakness

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Daily Tech News 17 July 2025

Top Story

• Grok 4 is out and researchers at competing companies are mad that it has a girlfriend and they don't. (Tech Crunch)

  "It concerns me when standard safety practices aren't upheld across the AI industry, like publishing the results of dangerous capability evaluations," said Steven Adler, an independent AI researcher who previously led safety teams at OpenAI, in a statement to TechCrunch. "Governments and the public deserve to know how AI companies are handling the risks of the very powerful systems they say they're building. Without proper testing Grok 4 might answer people's questions, and then where will the industry be?

  Where indeed, Steve?
  
  Where indeed?

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Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - July 16, 2025 [TRex]

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

This is the Wednesday night ONT. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.

[Top photo: Little Sahara State Park, Oklahoma (bet ya didn't know that Oklahoma had sand dunes!)]

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Untouched and Horny Cafe

Meteor falling while volcano erupts
by Daniel Kordan

Fox glides through pretty forest.

Dog wants to be included. Dog wants to help.

Dog tries to do CPR.

Supposedly a man lost his dog for three years, then found him on the street.

Poodle calls for an infield shift.

Very satisfying: Storekeeper locks a criminal rat in a trap.

No horseplay in the pool!

Nice rack!

The cat looks very confused by the new visitor.

Little kid has a dance-off with a bird.

Punking a seagull.

Big dog is tired and wants daddy to carry him.

Dancing with your cat.

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Bird Hands: A National Concern

A mentally-distressed leftwing woman deploys
"bird hands" to aggressively punctuate her
nonsensical points in a Car Cry video

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"Crowds on Demand" CEO: I Turned Down a $20 Million Contract to Provide a Rent-a-Mob to Honor "Civil Rights" Leader John Lewis

Well, the bought-and-paid-for mob was really for the purposes of attacking Trump in the guise of honoring John Lewis.

The CEO of a "publicity" firm specializing in paying dregs and skels to come out to "protest" says he turned down an offer of $20 million to provide fake supporters for an event. He won't name the people who approached him.

He says he turned down the offer because... leftwing mobs keep turning violent.

During an interview on NewsNation, Adam Swart, CEO of Crowds on Demand, told the host that the people behind the planned "Good Trouble Lives On" protests scheduled for Thursday tried to enlist his services to bolster the size of the demonstration.

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The CEO clarified that "the value of the contract [$20 million] would have been worth around that amount nationwide to organize huge demonstrations around the country."

However, Swart said he declined because he didn't believe it would be effective. "I'm not trying to call myself virtuous for rejecting it," he explained. "What I'm saying is I'm saying I'm rejecting it not because I don't want to take the business, but because, frankly, this is going to be ineffective. It's going to make us all look bad."

Swart would not divulge the identities of the people who approached him. The interviewer noted that Swart also "had some concern about violence based on what he's seen in the past."

If you're wondering, Was this guy involved in hiring fake crowds for the No Kings "protest," the answer is, allegedly yes:

Crowds on Demand came under fire from supporters of President Donald Trump for allegedly supplying paid protesters for the anti-ICE and "No Kings" protests that cropped up across the nation. Demonstrators protested against the White House’s immigration policies.

Video at the link.

I keep thinking we have to allow lawsuits against protest organizers and funders for any damage or carnage they cause. I can't fully commit to that because I know it will be abused to go after the right -- see the years-long prosecution of Trump for telling people to go to the Capitol to protest "peacefully" -- but it may be a bad idea whose time has come.

And we need to seize this motherf***er's estates and exile him.

The NY Post:

Socialist Zohran Mamdani has declared billionaires shouldn't exist, but it's unlikely he'd be the front-runner to become the Big Apple's next mayor if it wasn't for one -- far-left kingmaker George Soros, financial records reviewed by The Post show.

Mamdani recently told NBC News' "Meet the Press, "I don't think that we should have billionaires, frankly" while doubling down on his plan to jack up property taxes on "richer and whiter neighborhoods" if elected mayor.

But in less than a decade, Soros' ultra-woke grant-making network Open Society Foundation has indirectly funneled a combined $37 million to the Working Families Party and at least other nine left-wing groups whose endorsements and get-out-the-vote groundwork played a pivotal role in helping Mamdani upset ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic mayoral primary, the foundation's records show.

Since 2016, the far-left, socialist-friendly WFP -- which helped score Mandani the Democratic line by brokering cross-endorsement deals that squeezed out Cuomo -- has pocketed a staggering $23.7 million from Soros through its nonprofit fundraising arm Working Families Organization Inc.

And at least another $13,944,005 went to the nine nonprofits and their offshoot fundraising entities -- including the Make The Road Action ($3,515,00), and social justice nonprofits Community Voices Heard ($2,635,000) and Move On ($2.3 million), and the anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace Acton ($650,000), according to records.

Here's a post about what the author calls the "quiet money" paying for this communist's campaign. It's not exactly secret money, but it is shuffled through several sub-grantees so that most aren't aware that, gee whiz, it's coming from the nihilistic world-destroying communist George Soros. Just like Anthony Fauci's grants were laundered through grantees and then sub-grantees before paying the Chinese to create a bioweapon that shut down the world for one politically-critical year.

Not secret, per se -- but quiet.

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Rhode Island Progressive Assemblyman Attacks ICE as "Nazi" "Gestapo" For Arresting Another Maryland Man

He declares the Maryland Man (of Rhode Island) wasn't arrested -- he was "kidnapped" in an "act of terror."

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Home Depot Co-Founder: I Opposed Trump's Tariffs, Now That I See That They're Working -- and Are "Needed" and "Right"

He also says that Trump will likely go down as one of the "best presidents ever."

I mean, it's too early to say that. His next three years could be a disaster, and his last week is pretty iffy.

But going by what he did in his first term and the first half-year of his second term? He definitely could wind up being the best president in modern history, if he gets over his current habit of shooting himself in the foot and if some risky bets he's made pay off.

Home Depot co-founder Ken Langone, once a sharp critic of President Trump's tariff policies, now says he's fully "sold" on the president's economic instincts. Langone said Trump could go down as one of the "best presidents ever."

Key Details:

Langone previously called Trump's tariffs "bulls***" but now praises them as "needed" and "right."

He cited unfair trade imbalances, particularly with Germany and Japan, as validation for Trump's tough stance.

The shift comes after Trump's economic record and a near-death experience in Butler, PA shifted Langone's view.

Diving Deeper:

Ken Langone, billionaire co-founder of Home Depot and longtime GOP donor, made waves Tuesday when he publicly reversed his opposition to Donald Trump's trade policies. "I am sold on Trump," Langone told CNBC's Squawk Box, just ahead of new inflation data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. "In fact, I'll say this: I think he's got a good shot at going down in history as one of our best presidents ever."

Langone's endorsement carries weight, not only because of his business stature, but because of his history: he previously backed Nikki Haley in the Republican primaries and expressed deep frustration with Trump after the January 6 Capitol protests. But his views appear to have shifted dramatically--both in response to Trump's recent economic moves and, perhaps more significantly, following the July 13 assassination attempt at Trump's Pennsylvania rally.

"Knowledge implies one thing: When you made a mistake, admit it," Langone said, acknowledging his earlier dismissal of Trump's tariff strategy. "I think this guy is turning out to be a president, right?"

Trump's "reciprocal tariffs" were designed to push back against long-standing trade imbalances. Langone cited the 10% tariff Germany slaps on American cars, compared to just 2.5% for German vehicles imported to the U.S. "That's wrong," Langone said. "Every other car in America is a Mercedes... most of them are foreign."

He also credited Trump's foreign policy accomplishments, including economic agreements in the Middle East he claims are worth "$3 trillion." That, combined with the president's gut instincts on trade, defense, and economic strength, has convinced Langone the country is better off with Trump in the Oval Office.

"This is a real turnaround because you didn't want to vote for him," co-host Joe Kernan pointed out. "I want to tell you, I'm a believer," Langone replied. "What I'm seeing happening is absolutely nothing short of a great thing."

Below, the video, plus: Scott Jennings vs. CNN's Lack of Brain Trust on the price of eggs.

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Antifa Assassin Who Shot ICE Agents Arrested, Along With Two Other Antifa Terrorists Who Aided and Abetted Him

Andy Ngo:

Breaking: Texas Antifa gunman fugitive captured

North Texas Antifa member Benjamin Song has just been captured, and two more of his comrades have been charged for allegedly abetting his escape

Armed and dangerous North Texas Antifa gunman fugitive Benjamin Song has just been captured, and two more of his comrades have been charged for allegedly abetting his escape.

Benjamin Hanil Takeshi Song, 32, had been evading arrest from the FBI following the ambush shooting on the Prairieland Detention Center, an ICE facility, on the Fourth of July. Between 20 and 30 rounds were fired at the agents and responding police in Alvarado, Texas. One local officer was shot in the neck and survived.

11 members or associates of the heavily armed cell have been federally charged so far with attempted murder and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence. They also face local terrorism charges. At least 14 firearms have been recovered in the investigation, in addition to a cache of ammunition and body armor.

Democrats tried to shut down a hearing on the border because reporter Julio Rosas accurately stated that Democrat rhetoric was encouraging violence from Democrat supporters and voters.

"I'm here testifying today as a proud Latino, but most importantly, I'm here as an American citizen!"

"The rhetoric coming from one side of the aisle...They want to view Latinos simply as a underclass, to siphon votes and fear-monger from every time that there's an election."

"It is DISGUSTING to see them criticize that recent raid in Ventura County, where they found unaccompanied minors working alongside convicted sex offenders at a cannabis farm!"

"Now we got to keep them there or else are we gonna get high, If we can't have unaccompanied minors harvest our weed?!"

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Trump: Don't Fall For the Epstein "Hoax"

While Trump isn't clear in his message -- and he needs to be clear, because this is big shakes -- I'm pretty sure when he calls this a "hoax and scam" he specifically means the media's/Democrats' (but I repeat myself, as usual) to suggest that the reason the Epstein "list" isn't being produced is because he's on it.

I think that's what he means by "don't fall for the hoax." Not that there was a pedophile named Jeffrey Epstein, but that he's one of the clients.

Or that there's a conspiracy in the Trump administration to cover up for Jeffrey Epstein and his "clients."

But he keeps just saying that his supporters are "falling for this hoax" without making it clear that the hoax he means is the claim that he's on "the list."

If you read his comments in that way, they're no so objectionable.

Because serious: Trump is not a "client" of Epstein's. The Democrats made up a whole bullshit story about him being a RUSSIAN FUCKING AGENT. If there were any evidence suggesting that Trump was cozying up to Epstein to have sex with underaged girls, for crying out loud, they would have released all the evidence in 2015.

MXMNews:

President Trump on Wednesday launched a full-throated attack on renewed attempts to link him to the late Jeffrey Epstein, calling the controversy a "Hoax" and slamming both Democrats and the mainstream media for fueling what he sees as another baseless smear campaign.

In a lengthy Truth Social post, Trump wrote, "The Radical Left Democrats have hit pay dirt, again! Just like with the FAKE and fully discredited Steele Dossier... and even the Russia, Russia, Russia Scam itself." He accused Democrats of pushing the latest scandal to distract from their failures and called them "no good at governing, no good at policy, and no good at picking winning candidates."

Trump went further, blaming the so-called Epstein Hoax for luring in even some of his former backers. "My PAST supporters have bought into this 'bulls***,' hook, line, and sinker. They haven't learned their lesson, and probably never will," he wrote, adding that the smear efforts have been orchestrated "by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years."

He also said the left's unity is their strength: "Unlike Republicans, they stick together like glue."

Trump closed by expressing frustration that the mainstream media is focusing on this "hoax" instead of his record. "All these people want to talk about, with strong prodding by the Fake News and the success-starved Dems, is the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax. Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work," he wrote. "Don't even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don't want their support anymore!"

As you can see, he's putting this in the worst possible way, making it sound like he's attacking his supporters for believing him when he himself pushed the Epstein story.

So if I'm right and he's attacking only the "hoax" that he's connected to the scandal, then he has to speak a lot more clearly on that point, rather than sounding like he's attacking his supporters for being gullible conspiracy theorists.

Otherwise he's going to take a massive hit in support. Loyal supporters will not stand being called fools for having believed Trump in the first place.

I don't think he means that, but he sure keeps sounding like he means that.

Update: Christopher R. Taylor wrote:

Trump literally referred to people as "PAST supporters" who bought into this "BULLSHIT" as he put it. Those are direct quotes in context from his Truth social post. He strongly implies that this is a Clinton/Obama joint despite Epstein being investigated during the Bush administration and his own administration.

Based on that, it sounds like he's talking about Elon Musk, who accused Trump of being "on the list." So his anger might be over Musk putting that disinformation out there, and so many supporters/Republicans buying into it.

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Jill Biden's Chief of Staff and "Work Husband" -- the Man Identified as Actually Running the White House Under Biden -- Takes the Fifth Rather Than Answer Congress's Questions

Rep. James Comer
@RepJamesComer

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Anthony Bernal -- Jill Biden's Chief of Staff -- just invoked the Fifth Amendment during his congressional deposition.

This week new reporting confirms President Biden's aides took unauthorized executive actions during his presidency amid his cognitive decline. It's no surprise that Anthony Bernal is pleading the Fifth Amendment to shield himself from criminal liability. During his deposition today, Mr. Bernal pleaded the Fifth when asked if any unelected official or family members executed the duties of the President and if Joe Biden ever instructed him to lie about his health. This is a historic scandal and Americans demand transparency and accountability. We will continue to pursue the truth on their behalf and examine options to get the answers we need.

MXMNews:

Anthony Bernal, a top aide to First Lady Jill Biden often referred to as her "work husband," invoked the Fifth Amendment during a closed-door deposition Wednesday. The move comes amid a growing House Republican investigation into what they allege is a cover-up of President Joe Biden's cognitive decline.

Key Details:

Bernal's decision to remain silent follows a similar move from Dr. Kevin O'Connor, the president's longtime physician, who also invoked the Fifth during his recent deposition. Neither responded to media inquiries after their testimony.

House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) confirmed he asked Bernal two central questions: whether President Biden was capable of fulfilling his constitutional duties, and whether anyone unelected -- including family members -- had acted on his behalf.

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) accused Bernal of hiding "corruption at the highest level" and said the First Lady should now testify herself. "If [Biden] was not in charge of his administration," Donalds added, "then every order, every bill that was signed, every memorandum... are null and void."

Diving Deeper:

Anthony Bernal, a senior advisor to Jill Biden, refused to answer questions during a congressional deposition on Wednesday, citing his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. The move immediately drew backlash from House Republicans, who have launched an aggressive probe into whether President Joe Biden has been shielded from public scrutiny regarding his mental and physical health.

According to Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, Bernal was only asked two questions before invoking his rights and ending the session. "Was Joe Biden fit to exercise the duties of the president?" Comer recounted asking. "Did any unelected official or family member execute the duties of the presidency?" Bernal offered no answers.

Speaking to reporters afterward, Comer said Americans have every right to be alarmed. "They're concerned that there were people making decisions in the White House that were not only unelected but no one to this day knows who they were," he said.

Now we know why the Vegetable called up his media spinners at the New York Times to claim he was totally in charge and "orally" approved all of the pardons: Because he knew that all of his staff and his personal physician would be taking the Fifth Amendment rather than answer questions about his mental competency, and he wanted to once again lie and claim he was Totally Sharp and Running Circles Around 25 Year Olds. Literally zero of his doctors, staff, or family are willing to claim, under oath, that he was mentally fit to be president, so he has to call people up on the phone and do it himself.

While not under oath.

How are you? Humpday, baby.

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Wednesday Morning Rant

Goring Oxen

Nobody likes it when his ox is gored. When the ox in question is a "public service" or something "in the public interest" or "in the name of the people" or that "is for the greater good," the response to potential goring becomes absolutely hilarious. You see, someone who is ostensibly all about "public service" (gag) or "the greater good" (double gag) can't get all upset over his ox getting gored, because he has to pretend that it's not about him, about his empire, his power, his wealth or his influence. He has to pretend it's about "The People" or, even better, about "The Children."

With the current administration trying to shove a tiny rescission through a deeply corrupt Congress, everyone with an ox is making tremendous amounts of noise. Cuts to "Global AIDS funding" have already been stripped from the bill and the pigs are lining up at the trough to save the rest. When the bill finally passes, it will probably be a barely-cut. One thing that might - will hopefully - be in the final barely-cut is an organization running full tilt to avoid the goring. The rescission includes an effective defunding of a particularly pernicious agency: PBS. PBS' head hencho is, of course, warning of dire consequences if her ox gets gored.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Girl With A White Dog
Lucian Michael Freud

Yes, yes, I know.

Freud was a tremendous 20th century painter, and if you take a moment and think about how few real artists there were and are in our age, perhaps you will see him in a different light. It is easy to categorize him as a modern artist, and of course that fatally tars him with the brush of upside-down toilets presented as art, or splashes of paint considered masterpieces. But he had skill and talent. Whether you like the work is a personal decision, and his view of humanity is certainly suspect (he was a prick in real life), but the man could paint!

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The Morning Report — 7/16/25

Good morning kids, Yet again the revolting combination of Democrat/Leftist chutzpocrisy, outright incitement and cognitive dissonance reveals itself in this combination of links this morning.

First up we have

During a recent appearance on MSNBC’s “Velshi,” MSNBC contributor Joyce Vance, also a law professor at the University of Alabama, argued that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents wearing masks during immigration enforcement could face “lawful” violence. . . Protesters Might Exercise ‘Lawful Right’ to Attack ICE

Must have been hired on a Roland Freisler fellowship to advance the Nuremberg Laws in Jive. This charmer must have thought Alabama meant Allah+Obama . . .

So, when someone who is supposed to represent the upholding of law and order gives what is essentially a green light to commit domestic terrorism, it's small wonder that . . .

‘Reprehensible’: Assaults On ICE Agents Skyrocket, Up 830% Over Last Year

Of course, ICE agents are not the only targets of the evil entity within our midst known as the Democrat Party and its constituents of the (anti)-American Left. Over the weekend this happened:

"Genderfluid" 19-Year-Old Attempts to Firebomb GOP Office in Michigan. Arcand admitted to throwing the Molotov cocktail, which failed to ignite, at the Republican Party office “to send a message against the corruption.” The suspect acted out of dissatisfaction with Trump administration policies, according to authorities.

I may not know, nor do I really want to know the definition of "genderfluid," but between GOP offices, Tesla dealerships, churches, synagogues, pregnancy crisis centers and sleeping subway riders, I know the chemical composition is at least 87 octane with 10% ethanol.

Apologies in advance for inflicting this festering, gaping, sewage-seeping sepsis on civilized society on you, but it's the cherry on the parfait, if you will:

Democrat Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett went on a tirade Tuesday about why Americans must spend their taxpayer dollars on a “Sesame Street” program in Iraq.

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in February over its misuse of taxpayer dollars, including its funding of a “Sesame Street” program for children in Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries. Crockett claimed during a House Judiciary Committee hearing that USAID must fund the children’s television program at the American taxpayers’ expense because it stops other countries from being “radicalized” against the U.S.

I've got some news for this shambling shit-stain of a subhuman, Middle Eastern countries which are 100% Islamic (Israel the lone exception) have been "radicalized" against the USA and western civilization for nigh on 1,500 years.

Besides, How many Muslim parents, especially in and around Gaza and the so-called "Palestinian" authority who have children to turn them into human Islamikaze bombs are going to let their little darlings watch Sesame Street in Arabic when they've been glued to Farfour the Hamas mouse for decades. Meh, Elmo is now turning into a Nazi courtesy of AI as we reported the other day.

All that aside, my concern is the anti-American radicalization of America's children to hate their own country, history, heritage and themselves that has been going on for at least the past 50 years and more right here on our own soil, where 87-octane gender fluids are lit on fire and tossed at ICE agents and any other Democrat approved targets.

And while ICE are dodging flaming gender fluids or Crockett's eyelash glue, this has been slipping in across the border for years already. On top of murderers, rapists, drug- and human-traffickers and other assorted future Democrat voters.

Fox News reported that “a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) spokesman confirmed Tuesday that five Iranians were arrested while attempting to illegally cross the U.S. northern border with Canada.” CBP's Swanton Sector stated that “on July 1, Border Patrol Agents from the Champlain, New York Station, responded to suspicious activity near Mooers Forks, NY. Agents located a minivan occupied by five citizens of Iran and two citizens of Uzbekistan." Swanton, Vt., is a small town just south of the U.S.-Canadian border. 

It's important not to jump to conclusions. Maybe these guys were really, really lost. Or maybe they were sneaking across the border in search of a better life, ready to do the jobs that Americans aren’t willing to do. It’s also a genuine possibility, however, that they were coming into the United States to try to make good on what by now are repeated threats from the Islamic Republic of Iran to assassinate President Donald Trump, along with members of his administration.

Increasing the suspicious aspect of this incident is the fact that “CBP said that all seven men had been previously arrested for attempting to cross the border illegally.” Now, however, because Donald Trump is president rather than Old Joe Biden’s autopen, “all seven aliens are detained and awaiting deportation.” One hopes that none of them will ever see delightful Swanton ever again. 

This comes amid concerns that the Islamic Republic is bent on avenging the strikes on its nuclear program with strikes of its own inside the U.S. Jonathan Gilliam, a former FBI special agent, explained: "Where these sleeper cells may be is in plain sight. And that's the real terrifying part of this is that putting people in place, as we've seen over the past four years, everyone's scrambling because certain amounts of people could come in here and get in here." 

Let us switch gears completely. While the Epstein files release/non-release drama continues, I am at a loss as to what President Trump is thinking on this:

Though endlessly critical of his predecessor, President Trump has adopted a Ukraine strategy similar to that of former President Joe Biden: Arm the Ukrainians to the teeth and threaten Russian President Vladimir Putin with even more sanctions if he does not agree to a peace deal.

Some of Trump’s closest domestic allies are already warning that the “expanded American role in the Ukraine War” will be “quite shocking” to the America First voters who returned him to the Oval Office.

But the same president who vowed to end the war in 24 hours has lost patience with Putin after six months. “He’s fooled a lot of people,” Trump said of the Russian leader. “He fooled Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden. He didn’t fool me.” Seated in the Oval Office next to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, the president offered a glimpse into the negotiation process and his seemingly shifting mood on the war.

Psaki-Psircling back to Crockett shedding her Alligator Alcatraz tears for Sesame Street in Arabic getting the chop (pun intended), we have other scummy politicians who are as revolting as she is in their own, venal, amoral, vainglorious way.

Vice President JD Vance cast two tie-breaking votes in the Senate Tuesday to move forward a $9.4B rescissions package — which would rip federal funding from PBS and NPR — in the upper chamber. 

The Senate deadlocked, 50-50, on two procedural votes to start debate on the multibillion-dollar spending clawback package before Vance’s votes advanced the measure requested by the White House. 

Three Republicans – Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) – joined all Democrats in opposition to the bill. 

If only some flaming gender-funds could be hurled at the offices of those three and the other RINOs like them.

I"M JUST KIDDING! (nudge nudge wink wink!)

Rounding things out, this story gives me a sense of hope that perhaps there is a sea change in the culture and a move away from the socieal/cultural dissolution of the past 60 years back towards American values of morality and personal responsibility. Am I reading too much into it, who knows. Only time will tell.

But after years of being blasted as cruel for wanting to end welfare, government benefits and insisting on the inculcation of personal responsibility and morality, as well as the propaganda against the American work ethic and promotion of socialism, It's refreshing to see someone who knows what the right thing is and despite her own situation is willing to jump into the breach to do the right thing. She is to be applauded and lauded. We need more people like her. And the more we can convert and attract to our side like her, the sooner we can rid ourselves of the cancer that Leftism/socialism has wrought on our nation and society.

She and her attitude are the anti-Momdani/Sanders/Titty Caca. Anyone and everyone like her is antithetical to those three.

Yes, thank God for Trump, but it's the Nykia Hamiltons out there that will truly make America great again.

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Have a great day!

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Michael Walsh: One solution is simply to abolish an individual judge's appointment or his jurisdiction. . . There's one other possible remedy that should be on the table as well. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say the Chief Justice position is irrevocable: demoting the hopeless Roberts and replacing him with Justice Clarence Thomas would go a long way toward solving some of the problems "Brutus" identified two centuries ago, along with saving the Court from itself, and helping to heal the nation's divide. A continuation of this farce should no longer be countenanced. 
  THE COLUMN: Et tu, Brute?
  
• A South Carolina Burger King employee is being praised for her commitment to providing for her three children after she was forced to run an entire store by herself when her co-worker quit on her.
  Burger King worker, mom of 3 Nykia Hamilton forced to run South Carolina store by herself: ‘Nobody wants to work anymore’

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Daily Tech News 16 July 2025

Top Story

• Claude AI is now rolling out AI for financial services companies. (CNBC)
  
  This is going to be a disaster.
  
  
  
• What it's like to work for OpenAI. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Chaos.

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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - July 15, 2025 [scampydog]

Good evening and welcome to the Tuesday ONT - cheaper than a weekly therapy session. Jump into the comments for some fun after you have skimmed, perused, or read the content.

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