Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - May 27, 2025 [scampydog]

Good evening clever and busy brained people. Thank you for checking in on the Tuesday, ONT. We have a full deck of random content this evening. Nice weather, short work week for the 29 year olds, and if laughter is the best therapy - you're in the right place.

That hits just right - wise words from AoS commenter, mikeski.

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Sketchy Pets Cafe

Assuming this isn't AI, this shark shows some serious battle damage, possibly with a boat's propeller.

A goose attacked Trump's middle east negotiator Steve Witkoff.

Helper dog. Only someone who hates dogs would say this is totally staged for the camera.

Just flapping around.

Fierce!

Squirrel power stance.

Squirrel picnic spot.

Sleepy sea lion.

Possessive kitty.

Friends meet at a restaurant.

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NBC "News:" Some Democrats No Longer Believe That Obama is the Messiah

No more halo pictures of the SCOAMF?

(Boy I miss saying that.)

While the article talks about Democrats being tired of Obama himself, most of the antagonism is directed at the old campaign managers and propagandists of Obama, who continue running Democrat campaigns -- and losing.

"I don't want a surgeon who keeps killing patients," one Democrat says.

Obama world loses its shine in a changing, hurting Democratic Party

Obama White House and campaign alumni have been setting the course of the Democratic Party for years. After 2024, more Democrats want to see that change.

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David Plouffe, long hailed as the brilliant architect of Obama's 2008 victory, served in a key role in Harris' campaign and is now among those tagged with a devastating defeat.

"The shine's off Plouffe now. He was the golden boy," Morgan said. "Now he's just an old broken-down boy, who lost. Big."

Messina did not comment on the exchange. Plouffe did not respond to a request for comment.

While many Democrats still admire Plouffe's successes, the harsh words punctuated a growing sentiment across a party searching for a path forward: Team Obama's bloom may be falling off the rose.

More Democrats are openly criticizing Obama strategists and consultants, who were long treated as the high priests of their party's politics.

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But even the former president's luster was showing signs of fading last fall, a phenomenon that threatens to persist as the next crop of young voters ages into adulthood. When the 2028 presidential election arrives, it will be 20 years since Obama's first victory. At that point, more voters will have come of age in the era of Donald Trump than in the era of Obama.

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Democrats point to myriad factors leading to Harris' defeat in 2024 -- with many focusing on a compressed timeline because Biden refused to step aside as the party's candidate until 107 days before the election. Plouffe pointedly blamed Biden, saying "He totally f---ed us" in a newly released book.

Plouffe's verbal affront opened him and fellow Obama alums to their own criticisms. DNC Finance Chair Chris Korge lashed out at Plouffe in an interview with NBC News last week, saying he and other Obama alums shared the blame, chiding them as the "so-called gurus."

"It's time to re-evaluate the use of consultants and bring in new forward-looking people," Korge also said in the interview. "The old Obama playbook no longer works."

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Chuck Rocha, who worked on Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential bid and consults on House and Senate campaigns, said that a small cluster of firms dominate the market for political operatives.

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He said the firms rise and fall, but the players who run them are the same -- a sort of regeneration cycle that keeps the same people in place. "They're all connected," he said.

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Chris Kofinis, a Democratic strategist with experience on past presidential campaigns, said it's time for the party to take a hard look at the same set of operatives, including Obama campaign alums, who have been running national Democratic campaigns.

"I'm sorry -- I don't want a surgeon who keeps killing patients," he said.

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[W]ith political operatives who cut their teeth in the Obama years still wielding power in the party, there's a disconnect between the leadership and younger electorates the party needs to win moving forward, Hogg added. Part of the issue is that those young voters barely have any memory of the nation's first Black president.

"I don't think they have one to be honest with you. That's part of the challenge," Hogg, 25, said, adding, "For many of these younger people who are under the age of 20, right now ... they don't remember much of what Obama talked about. They grew up in the political context of Donald Trump and him being normalized, because that was what politics was to them growing up."

Speaking of gay black rabble-rousers: Jussie Smollett has resolved a lawsuit lodged against him for misdirecting police resources by lying about a racial lynching he actually paid for.

Smollett donated $50,000 to a charity without admitting blame.

Embattled LGBTQ+ actor Jussie Smollett will pay $50,000 to an organization in Chicago to settle a lawsuit the city had filed against him over accusations of lying about a hate crime, media outlets noted.

Chicago police had wanted Smollett to pay $130,000 to cover the investigation costs; however, the donation will be made instead, per the BBC.

The money will go to the Building Brighter Futures Center for the Arts, which supports Chicago's underprivileged youth.

He should have been forced to donate to the MAGA Country Fund.

Smollett continues insisting that he really was lynched and then re-lynched by Chicago cops. He insists he told the truth and the Real Lynchers are still out there.

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Bezos Forces More WaPo Staffers Out and Cancels the Woke Wheel of Time Series

Learn to mine coal.

Jeff Bezos' Washington Post wants to push dozens of staffers out the door, offering opinion staffers, staffers with 10 years' experience, and some desks buyout packages to leave the paper.

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The entire video desk, the copy desk, and the sports copy desks were also offered buyout packages, which Murray stressed were voluntary. Staffers will have until July to make a decision. The opinion desk was told the buyouts were meant to let staffers "make a clear-eyed decision on whether they want to be part of the new direction for Post Opinion," according to The New York Times, after Bezos announced his plans to lean into the traditionally conservative values of "free markets and personal liberties." The Post did not respond to an immediate request for comment.

Amazon cancelled the ludicrously-expensive woke adaptation of the "Wheel of Time" series of fantasy books after three woke seasons.

I am not familiar with the books or the series. I've seen a couple of YouTube videos about each. Here are some of the issues that many have with the series:

* The show was blatant about forced diversity in its casting

* The show pushed gay storylines and propaganda not present in the books

* The books' main character, a Chosen One type savior, is male, but the series downplayed his importance and elevated the importance of a female character

* A conceit of the series was the division between the sexes as far as magic -- both sexes could work magic, but each sex had its own style of magic -- but the show downplayed this to create a kind of magical gender equality which ran against a major point of the book

I really have to repeat that I know nothing about the books or the show and all of my "knowledge" is of the second-hand, "barely care" variety. Everything I just wrote could be wrong.

But I doubt it.

Bounding Into Comics discussed that wokeness.

Wheel of Time director Sanaa Hamri recently admitted that the show provides viewers an opportunity to escape from reality despite the showrunner announcing it would include LGBTQ+ propaganda, the show's casting being a clear example of woke checkboxes, and a clear injection of gender politics as seen in the idea that the Dragon Reborn could be a woman.

I take it that the "Dragon Reborn" is the male Chosen One character, which the TV show suggests might be changed to a woman.

Anyway, the show cost a lot of money. Not as much as the terrible We Had Rangz woke desecration, but a lot, and Amazon has pulled the plug.

This is another reason that Amazon's woke failure Jennifer Salke was shown the door a couple of months ago.

On Tuesday, Amazon MGM Studios announced that producers Amy Pascal and David Heyman would produce the company's upcoming James Bond film. But in hindsight, the press release was perhaps just as noticeable for what it didn;t include: A quote from Amazon MGM Studios head Jennifer Salke. Instead, it was head of film Courtenay Valenti who announced the deal.

Hollywood was perhaps shaken, but not stirred, by this week's news that Salke has exited after seven years at Amazon -- and how James Bond was perhaps among the issues that led to her departure. Talk of Salke's departure amid a power struggle with Mike Hopkins, the head of Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios, had been swirling for a while -- and last month's deal putting the Bond IP into the creative hands of Amazon was a further signal that Hopkins was about to make a change.

Apparently Salke insisted on diluting the James Bond brand by creating a girlboss action hero Moneypenny TV show, but I doubt that was Salke's decision; that's what all of these idiots do when they buy an expensive IP. They milk it until it dies. They make it non-special by just flooding the zone with what is being called, correctly, "corporate slop."

No word on whether We Had Rangz will be cancelled. (That's the mocking Internet title for Rings of Power.)

I don't think it will be. I think Amazon chose to cancel Wheel of Time to save money so that they could continue the disastrous Rings of Power. Though Rings of Power might be cut short. They had planned five seasons, maybe they'll try to wrap it up quickly and just do three.

The conservative Warhammer Youtuber (that's a thing) Archcast says that Salke's many woke gambles with Bezos' money have cost Amazon billions of dollars.

In further Amazon/Washington Post Drama, gay black DEI zero Jonathan Capeheart is attacking standard-issue White AWFL liberal Karen Tumulty. He says Tumulty was so mean to him that he was forced to quit the Washington Post editorial board in 2023.

What did she do that was so mean? Well, when Biden made the absurd race-baiting claim that some minor changes to George voting law constituted "Jim Crow 2.0," the Post actually wrote that this was an exaggeration.

This was too much for Jonathan Capehart, who insisted that she should take his word for it that it was Jim Crow 2.0, because... he's a black man and white people should just defer to black people when they make sensationalist racebait claims.

No, really. I'm not even tweaking this for clicks.

John Sexton quotes the NY Post, which in turn quotes Capehart's gay-ass book:

In his book, Capehart, who remains a columnist at the paper, writes that he clashed with Tumulty over an editorial which took issue with then-President Joe Biden's criticism of a 2021 Georgia voting law.

Biden described the law as "Jim Crow 2.0" -- a characterization that the Washington Post editorial board deemed to be "hyperbolic."...

"Tumulty took an incident where I felt she ignored and compounded the insult by robbing me of my humanity," he wrote in the book, which was published last week.

"She either couldn't or wouldn't see that I was black, that I came to the conversation with knowledge and history she could never have, that my worldview, albeit different from hers, was equally valid."

The black left is not pushing for racial equality, but racial supremacy. All of the left's Persons of Privilege are not pushing for equality, but supremacy. Women are supreme to men, gays are supreme to straights, transies are supreme to normal people, the mentally ill are supreme to the sane, and minorities are supreme to the majority population. Except for Jews, who are Colonizers.

Why won't you just accept your place as second-class citizens already, Bigots?

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FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino Announces Fresh Investigations Into the "Pipe Bombs" Left at the DNC and RNC, the Leak of the Dobbs Decision, and Who Left Hunter Biden's Cocaine in the White House

Obviously all three of these investigations were deliberately crippled to protect the left.

The FBI is taking another look at the cocaine found inside the Biden administration White House in 2023, according to Deputy Director Dan Bongino.

"Shortly after swearing in, the Director and I evaluated a number of cases of potential public corruption that, understandably, have garnered public interest. We made the decision to either re-open, or push additional resources and investigative attention, to these cases," Bongino said in a post on X.

"These cases are the DC pipe bombing investigation, the cocaine discovery at the prior administration's White House, and the leak of the Supreme Court Dobbs case. I receive requested briefings on these cases weekly and we are making progress. If you have any investigative tips on these matters that may assist us, then please contact the FBI," he added.

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Earlier this year, President Donald Trump said in an interview he believes former President Joe Biden or his son, Hunter Biden, left behind the infamous bag of cocaine at the White House.

"So ... who actually left the cocaine in the White House?" The Spectator's Ben Domenech asked Trump.

"Well, either Joe or Hunter," Trump responded. "Could be Joe, too."

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"That was such a terrible thing because, you know, those bins are very loaded up with ... they're not clean, and they have hundreds and even thousands of fingerprints," Trump also said in the interview. "And when they went to look at it, it was absolutely stone cold, wiped dry. You know that, right?"

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The "Elites" of the Democrat Party Have a Very Smart New Strategy to Attract Disaffected Voters

It's so smart you guys.

Democrats spending millions to learn how to speak to 'American Men' and win back the working class

Democrats have blown millions of dollars on efforts to appeal to "American Men," who turned to President Donald Trump in droves on election day, in the hopes of winning back the working class, according to a report.

Democrats have spent $20 million on their efforts, with donors and strategists holing up in luxury hotel rooms brainstorming how to convince working-class men to return to the party, according to a New York Times report.

The plan, code-named SAM, or "Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan," promises to use the funds to "study the syntax, language and content that gains attention and virality in these spaces," according to the report.

If there's one thing that men say is the most important factor in their voting decisions, it's syntax.

And virality. Everyone knows that men love virality. How we all get so stoked over Buzzfeed personality quizzes and sharing them with our BFFs. It's one of the most well-known of masculine traits, wanting to "join" into something that is momentarily popular.

Boy, are thirty-something liberal Brooklyn women great at understanding what motivates adult heterosexual men!

As the Times described it, the reports "can read like anthropological studies of people from faraway places."

The effort also recommends Democrats buy advertisements in video games, among other things, the Times reported.

Oh wow, that is some real outside-the-box thinking.

"Above all, we must shift from a moralizing tone," the plan urges.

That sounds a lot more concrete and real, but note they're only talking about chaning the tone of their moralizing, scolding, men-denigrating (menigrating?) policies, not the policies themselves.

They're telling their Nasty Women to change their tone when pitching policies that disadvantage and degrade men -- but not to change the policies that disadvantage and degrade men.

In other words, they're telling leftwing women to Smile More when they promote policies intended to degrade men.

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Democrats have "lost credibility by being seen as alien on cultural issues," McCrary added.

Speaking of: The NY Times almost confesses that Democrats suffered a "cultural rejection" in 2024.

I say "almost" because the Times will only say that the loss "felt like a cultural rejection."

Six months after President Trump swept the battleground states, the Democratic Party is still sifting through the wreckage. Its standing has plunged to startling new lows -- 27 percent approval in a recent NBC News poll, the weakest in surveys dating to 1990 -- after a defeat that felt like both a political and cultural rejection.

Communities that Democrats had come to count on for a generation or more -- young people, Black voters, Latinos -- all veered toward the right in 2024, some of them sharply. And unlike Mr. Trump's win in 2016, his victory last year could not be waved away as an outlier after he won the popular vote for the first time.

The stark reality is that the downward trend for Democrats stretches back further than a single election. Republicans have been gaining ground in voter registration for years. Working-class voters of every race have been steadily drifting toward the G.O.P. And Democrats are increasingly perceived as the party of college-educated elites, the defenders of a political and economic system that most Americans feel is failing them.

Everything's always "feelings" with these fucking commie yoyos.

The Democrats' House of Ideas is really firing on all one cylinder. They've also brainstormed the genius idea of setting up a "Shadow Cabinet" of liberals who will, get this, attack Trump.

But it won't just be Jasmine Ratchet attacking Trump. No, Jasmine Ratchet will be named "Shadow Cabinet Secretary of DEI" or something and attack Trump under that entirely fictitious aegis.

POLITICO shares an idea first proposed by Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin and decided to go one better: create a "shadow cabinet," as is often done in parliamentary systems. The idea behind a shadow cabinet is to have one figure who speaks for the opposition on a particular issue. A shadow Secretary of State, a shadow Secretary of Defense, and so on. Instead of having many voices drowning each other out, pick one for each issue--presumably your best.

It is a stupid idea--it's one virtue being that transnationalists love the idea of committees, parliaments, and copying European ways of doing things. Even the average European on the street doesn't think that way, and Americans would be hard-pressed to name more than two or three cabinet members, but people who admire technocracies gravitate to just this sort of thing.

Slotkin suggested ranking members on Congressional committees for the role (the ranking member is the lead person from the opposition party on any committee; in this case, they are all Democrats because they are in the minority), which is an even more stupid idea. Nobody has a clue who they are and couldn't care less, so Bill Scher came up with his own list.

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So, who are the leading lights of the Democratic Party, according to Scher?

How about Bill Nye, The Science Guy? Or Gisele Fetterman?

My favorite is Letitia James as shadow Attorney General.

Perfect.

It's genius, emails a campaign analyst from the cube-shaped Bizarro world. "It so smart me want to gouge my eyes out and pour acid into my brain," the Bizarro campaign analyst writes.

There's nothing that straight men love more than beefy lesbian fraudsters.

I think the Politico proposal is basically an admission that the people who are currently the most camera-hungry to attack Trump are ratchet idiots like Jasmine Crocket, and Politico is not-so-subtly recommending that Jasmine Crocket be sidelined so that real deep thinkers of the Democrat Party like, uh, Mark Cuban can be spotlighted.

I think it's also a stealth attempt to find a 2028 presidential candidate from outside the current crop of sure losers.

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Unnamed Biden Aide Admits Plan Was for Biden to Get "Re"-Elected and Then Disappear, Letting His "Aides" Run the Government, and Only Occasionally Appearing on Video to Demonstrate "Proof of Life"

The aide also says that "when you vote for a president, you're voting for the aides around him."

Oh, so that's what "Democracy" turns out to be. An illicit government run by unelected criminals and grifters.

The unnamed insider also says that Trump is such an "existential threat to democracy" that Biden's aides were empowered to take "undemocratic" actions in response.

We had to destroy the democracy to save it.

Julia
@Jules31415

A longtime aide--an unelected official within the Biden administration--admits the staff "acted undemocratically" and claims it was justified because they viewed Trump as an "existential threat" to democracy, according to the book Original Sin.

The book also alleges that a trio of senior political veterans were the core decision-makers--Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti, and Bruce Reed--and they worked with Jill Biden and Hunter Biden to run the show. Former senior adviser to the president Annie Tomasini and former White House chief of staff Ron Klain were also "at times" part of the group.

One passage in the book relays the thought process from an unnamed Biden aide at the time: "[Biden] just had to win, and then he could disappear for four years. He'd only have to show proof of life every once in a while...His aides could pick up the slack."

"These aides were not even Senate-confirmed aides," co-author Alex Thompson expressed during a Fox News interview. "These are White House aides, these were unelected people."

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Trump Directs Government to End All Contracts With Harvard

Good:

In a letter sent Tuesday, the Trump administration is directing all federal agencies to terminate or transition away from their contracts with Harvard University, citing racial discrimination, anti-Semitism, and violations of federal law.

Key Details:

The letter, dated May 27th, was issued by Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner Josh Gruenbaum and sent to senior procurement officials across the federal government.

The letter criticizes Harvard's race-based admissions practices, referencing the Supreme Court's decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, where admissions rates reportedly varied significantly by race: 56% for African Americans, 31% for Hispanics, 15% for Whites, and 13% for Asians.

It also cites reports of antisemitic incidents on campus, unlawful hiring practices, and decisions by Harvard committees approving student leaders with histories of violent behavior--calling the leadership's actions a "clear signal of tolerance for, if not outright endorsement of, student-on-student violence."

He also said he might divert all money formerly earmarked for Harvard to trade schools.

President Trump proposed reallocating $3 billion in federal funding from Harvard to U.S. trade schools, calling the university "very antisemitic" and saying the funds would be better spent elsewhere.

Key Details:

Trump said investing in trade schools would be "a great investment" that is "so badly needed!!!"

Harvard rejected Trump administration demands tied to civil rights and merit-based policies.

Trump has already pulled over $2 billion in federal funds and is seeking accountability for Harvard's foreign student list.

Diving Deeper:

President Donald Trump announced Monday that he's weighing the possibility of shifting a $3 billion federal grant earmarked for Harvard University toward U.S. trade schools, escalating an ongoing standoff between his administration and the Ivy League institution. Trump made the statement in a post on Truth Social, describing the idea as "a great investment" for the country and one that is "so badly needed!!!"

The proposal follows months of back-and-forth between Harvard and the Trump administration that began with an April letter demanding the university justify its public funding by complying with federal civil rights laws. That letter called on Harvard to foster a campus environment conducive to "intellectual creativity and scholarly rigor" while instituting specific reforms--such as merit-based hiring and admissions, increased transparency, and addressing longstanding concerns of antisemitism and political bias within certain programs.

Harvard pushed back against those demands, asserting that it was "not prepared to agree to demands that go beyond the lawful authority of this or any administration." In response, Trump moved to pull more than $2 billion in federal funding from the university, according to reporting by the Daily Caller.

Last week, the Department of Homeland Security attempted to revoke Harvard's authorization to admit and host foreign students, but a federal judge swiftly blocked the measure. However, the broader termination of grant funding remains in place.

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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

The Ukraine war seems like a throwback to the brutal battles of World War I, where advances in the lethality of weaponry weren't matched by advances in tactics to avoid massive casualties without concomitant gains. But it is also clear that Russia's advantage in men and arms is slowly grinding Ukraine down. It is a messy, deadly, horrible win (called: War), so the Western world, with its post-modern fear of death, is shocked...SHOCKED...that people die in battle!

Why shouldn't Putin continue to prosecute this war? He is winning, the Russian people seem to be modestly in support of it, the Western sanctions, while painful, are not terribly destructive, and the war is exposing the deep divisions within the West with regard to NATO and its proper function.

Never mind the drumbeats for war in Europe's capitols... they are waiting for their 20th century savior....Pax Americana... to save the day! Their martial spirit is a facade, and until they rebuild their militaries there isn't much they can do about Ukraine! Even President Trump bought into that nonsense, although luckily he wasn't pushing for American troops on the ground.

Before I even arrive at the Oval Office shortly after I win the presidency, I will have the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine settled. Somebody said, are you on Russia's side? Are you on Ukraine's side? You know what? The side -- I want people to stop dying.

Except all that talk was backed up by....nothing. It was an ego-driven commitment to solving an issue that is far more complex than at first glance, especially when both sides are not particularly desirous of peace. Putin wants what Putin wants, and the tinpot midget in Ukraine loves the graft and the world stage.

Trump says he's 'not happy' with Putin after massive Ukraine strike

"I'm not happy with what Putin is doing," Trump explained. "He's killing a lot of people, and I don't know what the hell happened to Putin."

"I've known him a long time, always gotten along with him, but he's sending rockets into cities and killing people, and I don't like it at all," he added.

It's called "War."

And President Trump's arrogance that just because he called for negotiations and an end to the war means that everyone involved should stop fighting while negotiations proceed is backed up by rhetoric, and nothing substantive. Will President Trump send troops? I doubt it. Will President Trump rearm Ukraine? I doubt it. He is relying on his force of will and his vaunted ability to find common cause between two sides. Sure, that works in real estate, and hell, it works in a lot of other situations. But not in all things.

Luckily, the pint-sized putz from Ukraine is overstepping ... again ... and demanding more.

In a post on Telegram, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for an international response to the attack.

"The silence of America, the silence of others in the world only encourages Putin," he wrote on Telegram. "Every such terrorist Russian strike is reason enough for new sanctions against Russia."

Thankfully President Trump also has a sensible side:

"This is a War that would never have started if I were President. This is Zelenskyy's, Putin's, and Biden's War, not 'Trump's,' I am only helping to put out the big and ugly fires, that have been started through Gross Incompetence and Hatred," Trump concluded.

But that doesn't help the current situation. Zelenskyy wants something that he can't have unless the West joins the battle: a return to the status quo ante bellum. Is it worth a world war to satisfy the demands of Ukraine and its kleptocratic rulers, and to satiate the blood-lust of Europe?

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter] And the Apple and Spotify feeds for CJN's podcast should be working!

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Bretonne en Prière
Henri Guinier

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The Morning Report — 5/ 27 /25

Good morning kids. Hope you all had an enjoyable Memorial Day weekend. While it is certainly with sadness and gratitude that we pause to honor and remember all of those who gave their lives in our wars to preserve our freedom. They were, are, and will be the very best that this nation has to offer.

I bookend that thought by noting the passing of one of the worst examples of humanity whose adult life can only be described as a stain and a desecration of everything that every decent American holds dear. With that we bid a sigh of relief as the soul of former congressman Charles Rangel descends to the infernal reaches towards eternal damnation. He leaves behind a slimy trail of decades of venality, corruption, racism and hatred for America and its greatness, and support for its enemies; tyrants and thugs both foreign and domestic who sought and continue to seek our destruction, he being a shining example of the latter, as his long and horrendous dossier at Discover the Networks denotes in scrupulous detail.

If I am breaking with the unwritten rule or convention of not spitting on the grave of a political enemy at the time of their passing, then so be it. Charlie Rangel and his ilk are as culpable in the life and death of the monster they created, George Floyd, and the subsequent wave of domestic terrorism that left dozens of cities in ashes and ruins 5 years ago this weekend to say nothing of the previous decades of racial violence and strife that they and their party fomented all in the name of seizing absolute power and control. All in the name ironically of supposedly attempting to redress the original sin of Slavery and Jim Crow that they themselves were responsible for in the first place. The Democrat/Left is quick on the draw with the "G" word — Genocide. Whether accusing Israel of committing it against the Dark Age barbarians who roast their children alive in front of their parents or the constant drumbeat of the blood libel of institutional white supremacy that has destroyed black America. The only thing that has destroyed black America is institutional Democrat/Leftist supremacy and its destructive policies going back 60 years to LBJ's so-called "war On Poverty" and "Great Society," Of which Charlie Rangel was a Kapo and Enforcer for decades.

SO RIP Rangel. Roast in Piss, and take your whole damned party and movement with you. The sooner the better.

As a palate cleanser, and in stark contrast:

Memorial Day 2025 – Remember Those Who Gave All in Benghazi and Protecting Our Border Glen Doherty. Sean Smith. Tyrone Woods. Brian Terry.

Amazing isn't it how this nation can produce such diametric opposites as these fine men, and at the same time give rise to the aforementioned human excrement Rangel.

Basta cosi. While there are signs of an American revival, culturally and otherwise with the coming of the MAGA movement, The anti-Americans have precious few options except for violence, as we have witnessed everywhere from college campuses, to pregnancy centers, to Christian schools to, GOP offices and Tesla dealerships and everywhere in between.

When all you have to offer is hatred, misery and death, then that's what we'll get. And yet here they are pissing and moaning not understanding why their party is sinking. Here's a clue: It's not the messengers it's the message itself. But to admit that is to bring about an existential crisis, and the Democrats will never allow that.

Rahm Emanuel, an ex-Obama White House chief of staff and former Chicago mayor, said in a Wall Street Journal interview published Monday that the Democratic Party’s brand is “weak and woke.”

Emanuel also told the WSJ that he believes the Democratic Party’s brand is “toxic.” The interview comes amid increasing speculation that Emanuel could be a potential candidate in the party’s 2028 presidential primary, which is likely to be crowded. “I’m tired of sitting in the back seat when somebody’s gunning it at 90 miles an hour for a cliff,” Emanuel told the WSJ.

“If you want the country to give you the keys to the car, somebody’s got to be articulating an agenda that’s fighting for America, not just fighting Trump,” Emanuel told the outlet. “The American dream has become unaffordable. It’s inaccessible. And that has to be unacceptable to us.” (RELATED: ‘Insulted President Biden,’ ‘Insulted President Obama,’ And ‘Fully Embraced Trump’: Rahm Emanuel Blames Netanyahu For Making Israel A ‘Partisan Issue’

Totally clueless. If you claim your "Brand" is toxic, well then genius, define the brand? It's not how you articulate a policy, or more accurately how you lie about what your policy is, it's the policy itself. Shouting NAZI from center stage at a Nuremberg rally while pointing at the smoldering synagogue your supporters just torched is just not going to cut it anymore, chum. More and more people are seeing you and yours as the insane, criminal, destructive perverts that you are and they are repulsed.

Also we have this analysis of the Democrats from the NY Times and they aren't sanguine about the Democrat brand either. Although they too will never admit the real reasons but instead will just make the usual excuses and insult those who are abandoning the party.

And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.

Have a great day.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• What 153 years of uninterrupted Democrat control can do.
  New Orleans Prison Break: A Product of Progressivism
  
• Michael Walsh: What makes the problems of the Ukraine and Taiwan even thornier is that neither has a valid pretense to administrative independence. Instead, both real or prospective conflicts are among the last sortings-out of two civil wars
  THE COLUMN: Minding Our Own Business

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Daily Tech News 27 May 2025

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• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang blasted US limits on the export of advanced AI chips to China, complaining that the rules are bad because they work. (Hot Hardware)
  
  Unlike Nvidia's consumer graphics cards.

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Monday Overnight Open Thread - May 26, 2025 [Doof]

Gold Star Memorial - Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD

Welcome to the Memorial Day ONT. Please join in as we "salute the ones who died, the ones who gave their lives, so we don't have to sacrifice all the things we love."

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Memorial Day Cafe

"Three Soldiers," part of the Vietnam War Memorial

Driving with your best friend.

Little dog has the instincts of a lifeguard.

When you have a friend who's too dumb to come in from the rain.

This dog's got charisma.

First day with the new trunk.

Did I do thaaat?

Beluga bestie.

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Ice Cream Man Open Thread

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Big Guns Open Thread

If you want to skip to the good part -- here's a golfball fired by a giant punt gun into a ballistic-gel model of the head.

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Dueling Pianos Open Thread

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Memorial Day Weekend Memories

11 years ago this weekend, Anthony Weiner's twitter was "#Hacked" by someone still unidentified.

I think the #Hack occurred Friday night as the #Hacker posted a picture of Anthony Weiner's erect penis (in his underwear) to one of his online admirers.

How Anthony Weiner's #Hacker got a picture of Weiner in his underwear is a question that will haunt us forever.

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French President Macron Slapped by His Mother/Wife

How is your Memorial Day going?

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Act Blue Officals Refuse to Testify Before Congress About Illegal Overseas Fundraising and Fraud; House Committee Leaders Threaten Compusory Subpoeanas to Testify

Make them plead the Fifth.

And then prosecute them.

The chairmen of three powerful House committees on Thursday threatened to issue subpoenas after several current and former top officials of the Democrat online fund-raising platform ActBlue declined to testify in a probe into possible foreign and fraudulent political donations, according to correspondence obtained by Just the News.

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., and House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., revealed in the letters that several of the witnesses initially agreed to voluntary, transcribed interviews, then pulled back through their lawyer earlier this month after President Donald Trump signed an order instructing the Justice Department to probe the platform.

"As we have explained, the Committees are examining allegations that ActBlue, a leading political fundraising organization, allowed bad actors, including foreign actors, to exploit the company's online platform to make fraudulent political donations," the chairmen wrote in letters to the witnesses, which were sent to a lawyer representing them, Danny Onorato.

"Fraudulent political donations corrupt American elections could amount to interstate criminal conduct," the letters also state.

The letters laid out the testimony flip-flops for each of the witnesses, including ActBlue's former chief revenue officer, Peter Slutsky.

"On April 21, Mr. Onorato indicated that you had agreed to appear for a voluntary transcribed interview and began the process of scheduling your appearance. However, on May 7, Mr. Onorato notified the Committee that you had changed course and now would not appear for a voluntary transcribed interview," the chairmen stated.

"He cited a reported Executive Branch investigation into 'the unlawful use of online fundraising platforms to make 'straw' or 'dummy' contributions or foreign contributions to political candidates and committees' as the basis for your refusal to cooperate voluntarily with the Committees," the letter to Slutsky and Onorato also states.

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The letters demanded each witness schedule their interview by no later than May 29 or risk facing a subpoena.

"The Committees are prepared to resort to compulsory process, if necessary, to obtain compliance with our requests," the lawmakers warned.

Unrelated: Elon Musk announces he's stepping back from politics.

He did an awful lot. He spent $43 billion just to stop Twitter from banning right-leaning accounts like Babylon Bee and LibsofTikTok. I know he's rich, but no one easily parts with $43 billion.

And then he committed himself to spending tens of millions to get Trump elected. And then he absorbed tens of billions of dollars in reputational and business damage inflicted on him by leftwing terrorists.

I'm sad the left gets this "win," but I can't fault Musk for deciding that he's done enough for now and deserves a little rest and relaxation.

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