The Morning Report — 3/ 3 /25

Good morning kids. For those of you in South Carolina, stay safe! Hopefully your localities are not headed up by Bass-holes and Newsoms.

Of course the big story is the fallout, pun intended I suppose, of the Trump/Vance Borscht-belt refugee Shecky Zelenskyy meeting that the latter seemed to intentionally sabotage. Either that or the Pissant Pysanky is just naturally clueless and boorish. To not have known going in what the position is of the person you are bargaining with is to completely flunk diplomacy 101. Trump has made crystal clear for quite some time, his disenchantment with those who seek to waste billions of dollars and millions of lives on what is essentially a centuries-old border dispute between Russia and Ukraine that has the potential to touch off a third world war. It's also reflective of the feelings of a solid majority of the American people, Ukrainian flag emojis on Facebook notwithstanding.

Despite at certain points in history being an independent country, Ukraine for the most part was for centuries either part of the Tsarist Russian Empire or of the Soviet Union. Now, did Vladimir Putin have the right to launch an invasion and war to take back part or all of Ukraine by force of arms and in so doing slaughter thousands of people including his own soldiers and citizens? No. But to not recognize the blundering and political bullshit emanating from Foggy Bottom going back to the Obama and Clinton years in setting the stage for this, is willful ignorance, mostly on the part of the institutional Left in this nation and the warmongering neocons who can't see past their own snouts in the trough of the military industrial complex that get fat off the blood and treasure of America's soldiers and taxpayers.

Of course, the usual suspects are blaming Trump and Vance and worse than that are once again trotting out the hideous slander of them being Putin's puppets. Even way before Trump shut this travesty down, the word "Impeachment" has been echoing through the whorehouses of Congress.

The Anti-American American Left could care less about Ukraine except for how it could be used as a weapon to rid themselves of Donald Trump and more importantly, protect their generational war on America as founded and obtain absolute power. So what if millions of Ukrainians and Russians needlessly die or even if someone somewhere miscalculates and nuclear weapons are used. A lot was revealed in this kerfluffle.

The conservative lens reveals a deeper truth: this clash is a referendum on globalism’s failures. For decades, we’ve been sold a lie -- that America must police the world, that our prosperity hinges on perpetual war. Trump shatters that illusion. His minerals gambit wasn’t greed; it was genius -- a chance to onshore critical supply chains, slashing reliance on China while giving Ukraine a stake in its own salvation. Imagine a future where American factories hum with Ukrainian titanium, not Shenzhen’s scraps. Zelensky’s rejection didn’t just tank a deal; it spurned a vision. . . Is there risk? Sure. A U.S. pullback could strain NATO, embolden Moscow short-term. But the greater risk is inertia -- bleeding out for a war with no victory lap. Trump’s not wrong: Zelensky’s gambling with World War III, but so are we by staying tethered to his quagmire. The President’s play is bold, brash, and quintessentially American -- a rejection of guilt, a return to grit. Conservatives must rally here, not waver. This isn’t retreat; it’s rebirth. Let Europe carry the torch; we’ve got a nation to rebuild.

In a not wholly unrelated story, along with the cutting the funding to financially wasteful and in most cases societally destructive bureaucracies, Last week President, and Commander-in-Chief of the United States' Armed Forces President Trump sacked a whole lot of Flag officers

The current president’s decision to fire flag officers isn’t a break with American law and tradition. The “Appeal to Congress” from former secretaries of defense certainly is. The warning about a crisis is the crisis. This dangerous argument needs to be hammered into its grave, quickly and forcefully.

Like DOGE and the wholesale rejection of Democrat policies across the board by wider and wider swathes of the citizenry is a crisis to those who have led us down the road to ruin domestically and internationally since at least the end of the Second World War, if not longer.

. . .Pentagon data that increasingly is calibrated in terms of race, gender, and sexual orientation, have also shown that in recent years, white males, who serve and die—asymmetrically to their demographics—in combat theaters, have shied away from the military, and disproportionally account for general recruitment shortfalls.

One likely explanation is that they apparently felt that inordinate political Pentagon DEI emphases and public congressional commentary from Pentagon brass about supposed endemic “white privilege” or purported racist cabals were aimed at them. In 2021, Secretary of Defense Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Milley seemed to weigh in before Congress on highly political and polarizing matters of critical race theory—even connecting the January 6 demonstrations to supposed “whiteness”, opining on “white rage,” and recommending the controversial racialist works of Ibram X. [krement] Kendi.

Politics in the Pentagon predated the current Trump administration.

. . . Will there be more or fewer theater-wide wars, such as those in Ukraine and the Middle East?

Will the Pentagon procurement pivot from traditional military systems and platforms, following lessons in the Middle East and Ukraine, in order to emphasize drones, and cheaper and more numerous munitions?

And lastly and most importantly, will the generals who replaced those fired prove more adroit in defending U.S. interests and less political—or less so?

The realities that follow from these firings, not necessarily the firings themselves, or the anger at them, will answer those questions.

Recall it was the dog-eating Muslim son-of-a-Stalinist who sacked flag officers because he feared they'd come after thim once his agenda of Fundamental transformation got into high gear. Of course, not a peep from the propagandists, and of course we all know what happened to Mike Flynn.

Taken all together, the old order is being shaken apart by Donald Trump. Just his presence and for sure what he is exposing will, please God, have the salutary effect on our society and government long after he has left office.

No doubt, the will to power and those who seek it will still be with us, such is human nature, but hopefully future generations will have rejected them in sufficient numbers for a real American and western renaissance of sanity and prosperity to take hold. The fact that Trump was RE-re-elected in the first place last November, and that the approval numbers for the media are in the toilet, inversely proportional with that of Trump's first 6 weeks, while certainly not absolute proof, certainly must mean something insofar as we seem to be moving in the right direction.

If we can somehow disrupt and dismantle the Academia/brainwashing industry, then we really will have a shot at perhaps seeing restoration, or the foundation of it being set down in our lifetime.

From the ridiculous to the sublime.

President Trump has invited a freed Israeli hostage to the White House after being shocked by his stomach-turning interview following 16 months in Hamas captivity.

Eli Sharabi, who was released last month after being held by the Palestinian terror group since October 2023, is expected to meet with President Trump on Tuesday, his brother Sharon told Israeli newspaper Haaretz Sunday. Trump extended the invitation to Sharabi and other hostages after being shown clips of his harrowing interview describing his torture and starvation.

Sharabi described being chained, beaten, and starved by his captors, with treatment worsening every time Israel’s leaders announced the worsening of prison conditions of captured Hamas fighters, in an interview with Israel’s Channel 12. . . Sharabi lost 40% of his body weight while in captivity, the Times of Israel reported.

He was released as part of the first phase of a ceasefire deal that saw 29 other hostages and the bodies of eight Israelis returned to the country. A total of 59 hostages are still being held by terror groups in the Gaza Strip.

I can only imagine how the media will report on this meeting. That is if they report on it at all. Probably complain that the real victims The "Palestinians" were snubbed in favor of Israeli colonialists.

Al Jazeera can hire Joy Reid for a song! Jizz + Zira. QED.

MSNBC has just fired Joy Reid, who had her own news-and-opinion show at the network for four years. Reid is best known for her crazed anti-Israel and antisemitic views, including her conspiracy-theorizing about “who really was responsible for 9/11,” and her nonstop attacks on Israel for “bombing babies” in Gaza. . . When Joy Reid refers to “little babies being bombed,” she does not have in mind the baby-killers of Hamas, whose operatives burned alive Jewish babies on October 7, 2023. Nor does she mean those members of Hamas who murdered the Bibas boys, four-year-old Ariel and nine-month-old Kfir, by strangling them in November 2023. No, she means the IDF, which she wants you to believe has deliberately, with malice aforethought, caused “little babies” to be “bombed.” Some children, including babies, have died in Gaza from Israeli strikes on buildings where Hamas was hiding both its operatives and its weapons. But such deaths are the unavoidable consequence of Hamas’ practice of embedding its operatives and its weapons in civilian areas, using Gazans as human shields. There has never been the slightest intent by the IDF to harm “little babies,” or, indeed, ay civilians. The IDF, in the hellish conditions of urban warfare, made more difficult still by Hamas embedding itself in with the civilian population, including “babies,” makes a tremendous effort, unheard of in the annals of modern warfare, to warn civilians away from sites about to be targeted. Already by March 2024, the IDF had dropped nine million leaflets, sent fifteen million text messages, and made sixteen million robocalls

As for my co-religionists - a condition that is merely an accident of birth and nothing more. At last night's Oscar ceremony many, those of the self-gassing bent, actually cheered a pro-'Palestinian' agitprop documentary. Funny how their necks will never know the feeling of KSM's rusty hacksaw. If only.

A news outlet finally asked one of the biggest questions haunting Hollywood.
“Why Are Jewish Celebrities in Hollywood So Afraid to Talk About Antisemitism?” reads a probing op-ed at The Hollywood Reporter.
The author explores how relatively quiet Jewish personalities have been over the past year-plus. All the while, antisemitism has flourished in ways we haven’t seen in decades.
Remember how Sarah Silverman created “The Great Schlep” in 2008 to help Barack Obama’s presidential campaign? Or, more recently, how she mistakenly saw a swastika in a generic public image and cried foul.
Now, as Jews are literally chased into an attic, she says nothing.
Non-Jewish stars have been equally silent. That’s a bigger question that also needs to be addressed.
Sadly, the author is either afraid to explore the answer or can’t bear to say it.
Here it is. It’s mostly political.
Defending Jewish people isn’t cool in Hollywood. It’s framed as right-leaning and makes stars uncomfortable. President Donald Trump has been a loyal friend to Israel.

P.S. From the No-Shit-Sherlock Dept., Chris Murphy is cancer.

far-left Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Orange Man Bad) offered a detailed blow-by-blow account of the entire incident, concluding that “the whole meeting is a set up. By pushing this plan to hand Ukraine to Putin (IN FRONT OF ZELENSKY!), Trump is trying to either humiliate or provoke Zelensky. But he does neither, and so Vance has to light the match.” Neocon warhawk Bill Kristol reposted a photo of Zelensky with Trump, along with the caption: “The Leader of the Free World, sitting next to Donald Trump.” . . . For the left, that is the worst thing Trump could possibly do. From their socialist internationalist perspective, his America-First position is wrongheaded, obstructionist, and recklessly counterrevolutionary. They would rather see America bankrupted than a reconsideration of the disastrous foreign policy strategy the nation has pursued for 75 years. And so they side once again against Trump and for the continued draining of the resources of the American people. There was never any doubt that they would.

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• South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) declared a State of Emergency in response to more than 100 wildfires breaking out in the state that had impacted 4,200 acres.
  South Carolina Governor Declares State of Emergency in Response to Wildfires

• Characterized by persistent symptoms such as brain fog, insomnia, tinnitus, and palpitations, PVS is said to affect individuals long after vaccination. Some victims have shared their experiences of unemployment, homelessness, and dependency on antidepressants.
  Yale Study Reveals Covid ‘Post-Vaccination Syndrome’ Victims.
  
• Daniel Greenfield: The alternative to government tribal neutrality is tribal warfare.
  The DEI Detribalization

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Daily Tech News 3 March 2025

Top Story

• Qualcomm's next-generation Snapdragon X2 laptop chips are expected to offer 50% more multi-threaded performance than the current generation Snapdragon X chips. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Coincidentally, Qualcomm's next-generation Snapdragon X2 laptop chips are expected to offer 50% more cores than the current generation Snapdragon X chips.

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Sunday Overnight Open Thread - March 2, 2025 [Doof]

Howdy Hordelings, and welcome to the first Sunday ONT of March! Did the month come in like a lion for you, or like a lamb? Is that still a thing? Anyway, there's plenty of fun and interesting stuff here for you. Come on in!

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Gun Thread: March 2nd Edition!

Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!

Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell did it get to be March? Specifically, March 2nd? Well it did and it is, so we might as well get used to it, at least for the rest of the day.

With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?

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Food Thread: Cluck, Cluck. Cluck...Cluck...Cluck

I consider chicken to be almost fungible. Well, I might not buy the day-old stuff at the gas station (next to the sushi), but there are a few premium brands of chicken that are long on cost but short on flavor. I have had fresh chicken from a farm, and there is definitely a difference, but that is difficult to find with any consistency.

But there is a duck farm in upstate NY that has expanded their offerings from duck liver and ducks, to high end chicken. And judging by the quality of their duck, my guess is that their chicken will be pretty damned good.

But good enough to pay a hefty premium for it, or drive two hours? Maybe not, but I need to know! Besides, I can get ethanol-free gasoline at a large chain in NY, so there's that!

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First World Problems...

That is a simple light switch with a sliding dimmer on the right. And after 21 years, this poorly designed switch failed! Not because of any internal issues, but because the plastic along the sliding dimmer cracked. Apparently it can only handle the mild heat from the switch for a short time.

What is the world coming to?

What's next...my toothbrushes from the 1990s are going to start to fail?

This Shall Not Stand!

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Propriety, Politeness, Knowing One's Place, And Other Lessons From Our So-Called "Elites"

Ukraine's megalomaniacal President Volodymyr Zelenskyy roared into town on Friday, fully expecting to be treated as a scrappy hero, valiantly fighting the mean old Russian bear. And why not? That is how he is being treated across the world, particularly in Western Europe. Of course Western Europe hasn't seen a real hero since 1945, and their ideas of strength and heroism are suspect, since they seem to embrace dictators and terrorists rather than freedom and liberty.

But he has also been welcomed as a freedom fighter by the former powers-that-be in America. Feted by titans like Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi (and countless internet warriors with the Ukrainian flag on their X profile), who treated Ukraine as a military equal that just needs a bit of help, and propped up on the world stage as the tip of the spear against the monstrous evil of Putin and Russia... why wouldn't he feel as if he is amongst his peers?

But he and Ukraine aren't. Ukraine is a piss-ant corruptocracy that has a GDP of $178 billion. That's halfway between Kansas and Arkansas. Seriously. As for the "freedom" part? Sure... all free nations have presidents who suspend elections and whose wives go on shopping sprees with foreign aid money while their youth is churned up and spat out by a nasty border war with their much larger neighbor. And all free nations have a well-oiled graft and grift system that systematically steals large chunks of foreign aid and pumps it into their own corrupt systems, while returning 10% for the big guy!

But Zelenskyy must understand the reality of the situation. And that is at odds with the cheerleading from the neo-cons, who want forever wars to pump up their stock portfolios and satisfy their masturbatory fantasies about a Pax Americana. And the left, with its fanatical hatred of Putin wants him to be destroyed by the quagmire of his Ukraine war.

That reality is that no matter the histrionic nonsense pouring out of Western Europe, Russia is not preparing an assault on Berlin and Paris. Russia is consolidating its border with Ukraine, and that is at least partly in response to the unbelievable lies from the Western alliance about how they weren't going to expand NATO. Yup...starting in 1990 with Gorbachev, who was assured by James Baker that NATO would not expand if the USSR allowed the reunification of Germany.

Whoops!

1999: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland
2004: Bulgaria, The Baltic States, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
2009: Albania, Croatia
2023: Finland
2024: Sweden

Putin is a thug and a dictator and a murderer. He is also able to read a map, and has observed over the last 25 years the expansion of the alliance of the USSR's adversaries gradually to encircle Russia's western border.

Is it acceptable behavior among nations to use military means to consolidate one's borders? No. But it is typical and expected, and it has happened far more frequently than the other option of polite discussion and diplomatic maneuvering.

But back to the track-suited Ukrainian midget with the Napoleonic complex. Zelenskyy made the rash, arrogant, ignorant and dangerous assumption that his press was reality. Maybe in Western Europe, but not in America, where the majority would prefer that we disengage from the Russia-Ukraine border war and pay just a bit more attention to Americans in need.

He made another assumption; that President Trump would accept his bombastic behavior, because everyone else has! But Donald Trump is not everyone else, which is why the American people made him president.

Any casual observer of Donald Trump will immediately recognize that he enjoys pomp and circumstance. He appreciates the show, and enjoys when others respect that. Zelenskyy made a conscious (or ignorant and stupid) decision to try to control Donald Trump's show, in the White House, in front of the media. And not only that; he also displayed a breathtaking sense of entitlement to OUR MONEY!

He chose badly.

Does anyone know how to say in Ukrainian, "When you are in somebody else's house; don't piss on the carpet?"

It is entirely possible that a Zelenskyy in control of himself, and who understood his and his country's proper place, could have emerged from his meeting with President Trump with some assurances that the United States would support Ukrainian territorial integrity and push for a reasonable end to the awful border war.

But we will never know, and it is now incumbent upon the people of Ukraine to find an alternative to their track-suited dictator... someone who will be more realistic, and appreciate the vast change that has occurred in America.

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Sunday Morning Book Thread - 3-2-2025 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]

Welcome to the prestigious, internationally acclaimed, stately, and illustrious Sunday Morning Book Thread! The place where all readers are welcome, regardless of whatever guilty pleasure we feel like reading. Here is where we can discuss, argue, bicker, quibble, consider, debate, confabulate, converse, and jaw about our latest fancy in reading material. As always, pants are required, unless you are wearing these pants...

So relax, find yourself a warm kitty (or warm puppy--I won't judge) to curl up in your lap, and dive into a new book. What are YOU reading this fine morning?

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Daily Tech News 2 March 2025

Top Story

• GPT 4.5 is here and it's... Not great. (Ars Technica)
  
  It's slightly better than GPT 4o on some things, slightly worse on others... And costs up to 30 times as much.
  
  That's not a great combination.

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Saturday Night "Club ONT" March 1, 2025 [The 3 D's]

Welcome to another presentation of Club ONT! A collaboration of your Sunday through Wednesday ONT Crew - The Disco, The Doggo, and The Dino. Don't make it awkward, the door is right there. Come on in! Socks are required if you are under 29. The rest of you - well, do whatever you want - as always. This --- is Club ONT!

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Music Thread: Best Songs? This Should Be Easy!

[Garrett's camping Crocs]

Best song? Not necessarily the best song ever, but I'll bet everyone has a favorite song of most groups.

Obviously groups like Rush aren't in the mix because all of their music is pathetic, so for them the calculation is more like "least awful." But...most music fans have their favorites, which undoubtedly change with the years and seasons, so the following is by no means on my permanent record!

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Hobby Thread - March 1, 2025 [TRex]

Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread.

We gave the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies(TM) a spin. Turns out, the Wheel is on the hunt for knowledge and culture. It said MUSEUMS. Let's go see some stuff!

[Photo: National Museum of the US Marine Corps, Triangle, Virginia]

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Ace of Spades Pet Thread, March 1

Courtesy Micah Lobell

The rooster Hugh Hefner braved some surprising weather in Southern Louisiana recently. How have your pets been dealing with changes in the weather?

* * *

Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.

Would you like a treat?

Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.

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Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, March 1

From Don in Kansas, Feb. 20:

It’s getting warmer — the temperature is all the way up to -6℉ now — but it was ten below, colder than central Alaska, when I snapped these pictures at the front door this morning.

Brrrr . . . There seems to be a lot of variation between the coldest and warmest parts of the country lately. Has spring come where you are? It's still officially winter for a while longer. Have you been able to plant anything? Anything growing besides frost crystals?

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Saturday Morning Open Thread

(Mystery Click? Hmmm, I wonder.)

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The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

[H/T Meme: Mindfulwebworker]
[H/T Music: Me, it's classical to me.]

Welcome to March. I think we are having the biggest snow storm of the year. In like a lion, out like a lamb and no lunch like a Zelenskyy.

Before we get into the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Manitowish Waters)

1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind, be nice. And no, you can't use the couch as the top rope at an AWA event.
3) No running with sharp objects. Unless you have cash and/or Obamacare.
D) Have a nice weekend.

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Daily Tech News 1 March 2025

Top Story

• Skype will die in May. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  May 5, to be precise.
  
  Microsoft thinks you will move to Teams. I don't think anyone who isn't already using Teams is going to switch to it because the messaging app they liked is being killed off.

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The Happy Hooker: My ONT Story

Howdy Horde! Boy, what a day, huh? I don't think I've EVER seen anything like that smackdown on Zelensky. Right out in public, being broadcast live. Amazing.

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Gone Fishin' Cafe

Dubai

Skating on a melting lake, using ski-poles to probe the ice. (IG)

Mother deer asks humans to help her fawn. (IG)

Duck-hunting dog didn't understand the assignment.

Baby goats can be exhausting.

Beaver training.

Ready for the weekend!

i got you boo

Dog and puppy bond on the couch.

Dog teaches a puppy to appreciate a good slobbery ball. I hear David French is a big fan of slobbery balls himself.

Dog welcomes a new puppy by giving it his favorite toy.

bro's ears hear news that hasn't happened yet

Oldie but a goodie: This bear is out of control but this dog ain't having it, see?

Panther purring.

I think this shows a dog and cat who have adopted each other as strays.

Fox coming for you.

Navy spending taxpayer money, awesomely.

Your dog thinks you're playing fetch, but PSYCH, you're really playing hide-and-seek.

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Quick Hits

Update: Film Threat reports they've heard rumors from industry sources that Disney has been putting out feelers to sell Star Wars for the past seven months.

Apparently there are no parties interested in buying it.

When you've lost Lindsey Graham...

Following a tense Oval Office meeting between President Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said on Friday that Zelenskyy should resign and send someone else to the U.S. to negotiate or change.

"I've never been more proud of the president. I was very proud of J.D. Vance standing up for our country," he told reporters at the White House.

"He [Zelenskyy] either needs to resign and send somebody over that we can do business with or he needs to change," he added.

Graham said he was hopeful the mineral-rights agreement between the U.S. and Ukraine would be signed but now he is not sure if a deal can be made.

A little dwarf-tossing action.

Mark Hemingway
@Heminator

Seeing a lot of private comments from pro-Ukraine policy/politico types on email/Signal, and there's near universal agreement that Zelensky, not Trump, blew this. I think that's obvious if you watch the full video.

Good acid test right now to see who's blaming Trump.

Nick Sortor
@nicksortor

#BREAKING: Secretary Marco Rubio has TERMINATED U.S. support for Ukraine energy grid restoration after Zelensky disrespected the United States in the Oval Office, per NBC

FAFO, Zelensky!

I foresee a problem with Ukrainian terrorists or assassin squads in the future. Our precious allies.

Meantime, David Strom warns, Britain is edging towards just making child rape acceptable and legal, in order to appease their Islamic rulers.

Tommy Robinson is sitting in solitary confinement as I write. He is there for 18 months because he aired a documentary.

Let that sink in. Whatever you think of Robinson--I think he is a brave truth-teller, others think he is a rabble rouser--the sentence is cruel and unusual.

Pedophiles and child rapists, on the other hand, are getting off very lightly or not punished at all in the UK.

There are countless stories like Robinson's and Thomas Becton's. People enjoying a bit of fun with kids who should be in playgrounds is apparently no big deal anymore, but sending out tweets that offend the powers that be can land you in jail or at the very least get you a threatening visit from the police.

...

Police have found men diddling with young girls and...arrest the girls for things like indecent exposure.

Some of the two-tier system of justice is based on a preference for people of color over ordinary Britons, but much of what I am seeing is a pretty open tolerance for abusing children for sexual pleasure.

The censorship and coverup of the rape gang scandals in Great Britain were about both. Most of the perpetrators were Pakistani or Bangladeshi, but a substantial number included government officials and even police.

It was all swept under the rug.

There are countless cases where race was not an issue, though. Jimmy Saville, a popular BBC figure, was known to be a pedophile but the information was never used to punish him for his crimes.

At some point you have to acknowledge that the nonpunishment of a crime is de facto legalization, and Britons who are pedos are not getting punished.

This is all part of the two-tier justice system in Great Britain, and a particularly troubling one because it normalizes the sexualization of children.

I don't want to be allies with a nation of pedophiles.

Amy Curtis is bothered by Jake Tapper being rewarded for his Biden Dementia Cover-Up:

Amy Curtis
@RantyAmyCurtis

Buckle up, because the more I think about this, the angrier I've become.

It's time for a thread.

Back in 2021, two months after his inauguration, it was clear Joe Biden was unwell. This is from March 8:

Amy Curtis
@RantyAmyCurtis

Mar 8, 2021

These are not "isolated incidents." These are not selectively edited clips. Something is wrong with Biden, and it should concern all of us.

The same people who said Trump had dementia because he lost his balance are now mum on Joe Biden who is barely coherent here.

This wasn't a one-off. Throughout the campaign and his presidency, it was clear Biden was unwell. Wandering off, not taking questions.

He had prompts telling him STAGE DIRECTIONS

She links a Daily Wire piece from 2022 showing Biden holding a note-card explaining to him that he should walk across the stage and then... "YOU Take YOUR Seat."

They had to specify that he shouldn't take someone else's seat.

And of course: We saw that Biden was given cheat-sheets before every #Rigged press conference showing the reporters he should call upon -- noting their name, showing a photograph, and then, incredibly, telling him exactly what question the corrupt fake journalist had agreed to ask him.

A year ago, Robert Hur declined to prosecute Biden because his cognitive decline was so bad and apparent no jury would've convicted him.

Democrats were livid.

...

And what did media do? They attacked Robert Hur wasn't a doctor, and couldn't assess Biden's cognitive condition.

A search for "Hur" on Jake Tapper's account yielded one result...

And it was an interview with Adam Schiff, attacking Hur as a non-doctor partisan election interference agent.

Jake Tapper has worked at CNN since 2013.

He was a journalist throughout the Biden 2020 campaign and administration.

And only now can he say the quiet part out loud.

Biden was unwell.

...

This is the biggest scandal in American history.

A president who should;ve been removed from office was instead protected by media because he has a (D) after his name.

Remember when Trump was demented because he held a glass of water funny and walked down a ramp weird?

Our leader was incompetent.

While Russia invaded Ukraine. While Hamas attacked Israel. While saber-rattled in the Pacific.

We never knew who was calling the shots.

We never knew who had his finger on the nuclear button, except that it WAS NOT Joe Biden.

This should END the media. This should END Jake Tapper's career.

They put partisan politics above not only the Constitution but the safety and security of the American people.

Joe Biden had access to highly classified state secrets, highly classified intelligence.

And they ALL KNEW.

If you believe they didn't, you're a moron.

Jake Tapper didn't magically find staffers to talk to now. They talked for the last four years.

They knew.

And they smothered the story to protect Joe Biden and the Democrats.

It is breathtaking in its cravenness.

And, no, the Democrats shouldn't get a pass.

Kamala Harris -- who said she was fit to lead this nation -- knew. And she didn't do her job to protect us.

Even after the Democrats removed Biden from the race, they kept him in the White House because whoever was calling the shots wasn't giving up the power.

So the Left can shut their damn mouths about Elon Musk not being elected.

The cadre of assholes was running the Biden administration wasn't elected either.

But -- unlike Biden -- Trump has his faculties and campaigned on giving Musk a big role in his administration.

This revelation should lead @PamBondi @TheJusticeDept to call hearings IMMEDIATELY.

Get Jake Tapper in front of Congress to name names and call THOSE people to testify.

Call Joe Biden and Jill Biden.

DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY

They put this entire country at risk to prop up a Democrat.

Jake Tapper shouldn't be getting a book deal, he should be getting a subpoena.

And trust in legacy media should fall to zero.

They will sell us out for the sake of the Democratic Party.

They will put our lives at risk.

And then they will write a book about it.

We don't despise them enough.

Woke bluehair on DEI committee admits, on video, she brought her three-year-old child to a drag show and had him "tipping the drag queens." 911, I would like to report a Grooming Incident.

Eric Swalwell promoted a GoFundMe for Noted Crisis Actor Michael Fanone, who is now officially a charity case.

I guess he's unemployable?

As of now, the GoFundMe has raised almost $80k.

And he can't find a job? Even with Democrats like Swalwell? Where's Nancy Pelosi? Surely, the multi-millionaire can find a gig for her favorite officer, right?

Oh, and by the way, there was another fundraiser for Fanone in 2023 that raised $400k... where did all of that go?

Round Mound of Evil Clown Brian Stelter is tearing his hair out -- whoops, correction, his hair fell out when he was 17 -- over Trump kicking the AP off of Air Force One.

As you can well imagine, Brian Stelter has always crusaded for the principle that the press should have access to the government, no matter what their politics.

Except... when he wanted Biden to kick Fox News out of the White House because it's "right wing propaganda."

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