Trump Announces Capture of ISIS Mastermind of Abbey Gate Bombing That Killed 13 American Servicemen During Biden's Disastrous Afghanistan Bug-Out

The terrorist will be arriving in the US soon to face "the swift sword of American justice."

President Donald Trump announced that the top terrorist responsible for the deadly 2021 Abbey Gate bombing in Afghanistan has been captured and is being brought to the United States for justice. The suspect, identified as Muhammed Sharifullah, was apprehended with the help of Pakistani authorities.

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President Trump's announcement marks a significant moment in the pursuit of justice for the families of the 13 service members killed in the August 2021 terrorist attack at Kabul's Abbey Gate. The attack, which unfolded during the Biden administration's rushed withdrawal from Afghanistan, saw a suicide bomber strike as U.S. forces worked to evacuate Americans and Afghan allies. The terrorist group ISIS-K claimed responsibility for the blast, which also left hundreds wounded.

Trump expressed gratitude to Pakistani officials for their role in apprehending Muhammed Sharifullah, the man identified as the mastermind behind the bombing. "This was a very momentous day for those 13 families, who I actually got to know very well," Trump said.

The families of the fallen troops have repeatedly criticized President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, blaming them for the failed withdrawal that left hundreds of Americans and thousands of Afghan allies behind. Many parents of those killed have voiced frustration, stating they received little support from the administration. In 2024, they directed their outrage at Harris during her presidential campaign, condemning her and Biden's handling of the situation.

Trump also linked the Biden administration's withdrawal to broader geopolitical consequences, arguing that the debacle projected weakness on the world stage. "Such incompetence was shown that when Putin saw what happened, I guess he said, 'well, maybe this is my chance.' That's how bad it was," Trump said, alluding to Russia's invasion of Ukraine just months later.

The president emphasized that the loss of American lives in Kabul should never have happened and reiterated his commitment to holding those responsible accountable. "I spoke to many of the parents and loved ones, and they're all in our hearts tonight," Trump said. "We had a big call. Every one of them called. And everybody was on the line and they did nothing but cry with happiness."

No Democrats applauded this, either. You can see them sullenly scrolling through TikTok as Trump made this surprise announcement in the video below.

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DJ Daniel and the Democrat Id of Unreasoning Demonic Hatred for Anything Good and Normal

During his political masterclass, Trump made a not-so-bold prediction: No matter what he said, the terminally online (literally: they were all scanning social media feeds during the speech) misery zombies of the Democrat Party would scowl and jeer:

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Disney-Owned ABC "News" Lays Off 200, Axes Its Fake "538" Poll-Rigging Site

Back around 2010, a jubilant Andrew Breitbart told me that the entire media would collapse and be "gone" -- "GONE!" -- in five years.

His prediction was off by a decade, but it was basically accurate.

ABC News staffers are bracing for imminent layoffs while the division will restructure its programming including the merging of its "20/20" and "Nightline" programs and the consolidation of its "Good Morning America" productions, according to reports.

The Walt Disney Co. is set to lay off around 200 people from its ABC News Group division as well as its Disney Entertainment Networks unit -- a move that constitutes cutting some 6% of the combined staff of the two units, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Almin Karamehmedovic, president of ABC News, circulated a memo to employees on Wednesday morning confirming the changes.

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A source told The Post that the layoffs will be spread over Wednesday and Thursday and that staffers at "World News Tonight" will also be affected.

The reported changes at ABC News first appeared in Oliver Darcy's Status newsletter on Wednesday.

The Post has sought comment from ABC News and Disney.

One casualty of the cost-cutting measure is the FiveThirtyEight data news site -- the operation founded by Nate Silver which came to prominence in the 2008 and 2012 elections for accurately predicting the results.

According to the Journal, the entire site is being axed and all 15 of its employees will be handed pink slips.

538 was founded by liberal Nate Silver. It was purchased by ABC "News" who then got rid of Nate Silver and replaced that liberally-biased analyst with gonzo partisans who didn't even try to analyze polls accurately. They were straight-up goons who manipulated polls to tell their progressive cultist audience pleasing lies. Even Silver himself routinely attacked his old firm for biased and inaccurate methodologies.

538 lied progressives into complacency about 2024. Now they're fired.

ABC is also planning to consolidate "Good Morning America" and its third hour, "GMA3," into one production unit, according to the report.

One ABC staffer told Status that "people are freaked" as it wasn't clear when the layoffs would be announced this week.

Disney is also laying off employees at its Disney Entertainment Networks, which oversees cable channels including Freeform and FX.

Happy Humpday!

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Wednesday Morning Rant

Style

Trump's State of the Union (yeah, yeah, whatever) address was last night and it was remarkable on a couple of fronts. There were two stand-out patterns in his speech and I think both are effective and bode well for the future: it was ruthless, and it was personal. Trump also got a yuge assist from the Democrats last night, in more ways than one.

SOTU addresses typically follow a pattern, and Trump's was no exception. That pattern is "this is what happened last year, and this is what we're doing this year." Trump's speech conformed with that broad pattern, but with an entirely different implication. It was, "this is what you - you monstrous goons in the Democrat Party - did last year, and this is what I am going to fix." The opening half of his address was brutal on the Democrats.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Transfiguration of Christ
Giovanni Bellini

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The Morning Report — 3/ 5 /25

Good morning kids. Last night's grand slam slam dunk of a speech from President Trump, was masterful not necessarily from a rhetorical standpoint but from the fact that what he said is backed up by six incredible weeks of accomplishments. Perhaps the biggest is causing the Democrat Left to reveal themselves for the mean, miserable lowlife tyrannical scum that they are for everyone to see. Meh, If Malig-Nancy Pelosi didn't prove that by her pretending to rip up Donald Trump's state of the union speech several years back then nothing would. What proves it is that a very broad swathe of the American people approve of his agenda and even his bull-in-a-china-shop way of getting things done. Meh, it only seems that way because no one else in my memory has even come close to accomplishing the things he's done, that we all had been wishing for for so so very long.

To underscore this are several breaking stories including the fact that Pissant Pysanky Zelensky is crawling back to Trump and begging forgiveness for sabotaging the negotiations last week, contra the narrative from the virtually nearly completely discredited propaganda press. The public's distrust now at historic levels is also a big accomplishment for Trump.

Breaking early this morning is the news of the capture of the ISIS Muslim terrorist behind the Islamikaze suicide bombing of the Kabul Abbey Gate that left 13 Yanks blasted to smithereens when Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants and company decided on a snap bug out from Afghanistan.

We also have news of a major chip manufacturer as well as Honda repatriating jobs back to the USA thanks to Trump's tariffs. Nearly $1 Trillion in foreign investments coming to our shores since Trump was sworn in.

Of course, Al Green, not the wonderful gospel/R&B Singer, but the sub-literate Olduvai Gorge mutant/escapee with the intellectual agility of an amoeba who poses as a congressman was emblematic of Democrat crudeness, boorishness, petulance and general coarseness. Of course, en masse, the sitting on their hands when Donald Trump made a young boy suffering from terminal brain cancer an honorary Secret Service agent speaks volumes as to who and what the Democrats are. A Pox on our House going back over two hundred years.

In normal times, the run-up to a presidential address to Congress would be filled with reports and guesses about what the president would say.

There was plenty of that this week, but an inordinate amount of the focus in Washington was on how Democrats would react to Donald Trump. How many would boycott? How would the members dress? Would they hoot and holler, or maybe march out in an organized pro-test?

In the end, it didn’t matter. They were a sad, shrunken presence, especially after one of their main stooges, Rep. Al Green of Texas, got himself ejected early on by repeatedly interrupting.

He was the lucky one. Those Dems who stayed were like fish out of water, waving their silly little paddles and representing nothing except resistance to whatever Trump said or did. . .

. . . Calling them a clown show is an insult to clowns. They earned their trip to the political wilderness and Tuesday proved they are not yet ready to emerge as a constructive opposition party.

Meanwhile, the president they love to hate put on a show for the ages. No commander in chief in modern times has seized the reins of power with such gusto and delivered such immediate results. True to form, Trump wasn’t shy about saying so. .

. . . We are witnessing a president at the top of his game. Clear-eyed and confident about himself and his agenda, he put on a master class in presidential leadership in what was a speech for the ages.

Most times, a political address of 90 minutes would feel like an eternity. In the hands of Trump, it felt like a well-paced adventure through the dreams, hopes and tragedies of the people inhabiting the most important nation on Earth.

The Trump on that stage is not just the dominant figure in American life. In six short weeks, he has put our nation at the center of the world and made America important again. . .

. . . But while having a period of being in the opposition is pretty much par for political life, rarely do we see an entire party desperately searching for relevance.

That’s where the Dems are. They are irrelevant because they stand for nothing except they are against everything Trump is for.

There’s no future in that and their sad performance Tuesday night proved they have learned nothing.

I would say it's not that the Democrats have learned nothing. They will always be the seat and party of evil, anti-American, anti-Judeo/Christian, anti-Western Enlightenment tyranny. The question is have the American people or will the American people as a whole or at least many more than ever before finally learn this over the next four years.

That is the crucial question. Being in the poolitical wilderness is generally a temporary situation. What is required is for a sea change in the American psyche that will take hold and sprout over the course of the next several generations of Americans. There must be an American Renaissance similar to what our Founders put forth from 1776 and 1789 so that another progressive/Leftist counter-revolution can never succeed again.

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Daily Tech News 5 March 2025

Top Story

• Citigroup needed to credit $280 to a customer's account. They instead credited $81 trillion. (MSN)
  
  That used to be a lot.

  Regarding Citi's transformation, the company spent $11.8 billion on technology in 2024, CFO Mark Mason said during its Q4 2024 earnings call in January. The focus was on "digital innovation, new product development, client experience and other areas such as cybersecurity," Mason said.

  They forgot "noticing individual transactions that approach the global GDP".
  
  Two employees approved the transaction and it was deposited into the customer's account before it was noticed and reversed 90 minutes later.
  
  Which raised the question: How?

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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - March 4, 2025 [scampydog]

Good evening and Happy Fat Tuesday! Final day of feasting for those observing the fasting of Lent. 47 days until Easter. 47...something nice about that number.

Unlike Biden (SOTU), Trump (Joint Address to Congress - essentially a SOTU) - did not refer to the Ukrainians as Iranians.

Melania, Making America Classy and Sizzling again.

Pelosi looks to have been marinated in a jug of Rubinoff gin. Thankfully nobody threw any beads at her.

Na na na, hey hey, goodbye. Democrat Congressman Green... ejected!

Trump wore his Mardi Gras tie.

Let's get to some random fun. DOGE, Venice, Fat Tuesday/Mardi Gras, and more.

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Ave Imperator!

Jerry Dunleavy IV
@JerryDunleavy

BREAKING: President Trump announces the arrest of one of the terrorists behind the Abbey Gate attack: "We have just apprehended the top terrorist responsible for that atrocity, & he is right now on his way here to face the swift sword of American justice."

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Trump's Imperial Speech, Thread Two

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LET'S GET READY TO TRRRRRUMBLE: Trump's Sorta SOTU Speech

Trump will announce a minerals deal with Ukraine:

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration and Ukraine plan to sign the much-debated minerals deal following a disastrous Oval Office meeting Friday in which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was dismissed from the building, four people familiar with the situation said on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump has told his advisers that he wants to announce the agreement in his address to Congress Tuesday evening, three of the sources said, cautioning that the deal had yet to be signed and the situation could change.

Trump's 47 accomplishments so far.

Reuters spoke to completely apolitical objective "analysts" who revealed the planned spin -- Trump's speech will be "imperial," these impartial "analysts" say.

So they're using the word "imperial" because their pollsters told them that "fascist," "authoritarian," and "Republic-threatening" weren't working any longer.

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Meet Cute Cafe

Our Sun
As a wise man once said,
Man has always dreamed of destroying the Sun

The focus of a dog.

The insistence of a cat.

The bossiness of a pup.

The criminality of a cat.

Toddler meets cat.

Cat just saw The Exorcist and he can't stop laughing.

Dog meets the new pupper.

Orphaned baby bat grows up.

Nice humans made a chair lift for their senior dog. Look at the cute little graysnout.

You can only push a rodent so far.

Baby meets the new puppy.

Tiger kitten.

Buddy swim.

Bonded pair.

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Amazing: By Simply Enforcing the Laws, Trump Has Reduced Illegal Border Crossings to the Lowest Level In 25 Years

No one could have predicted it!

Amid Trump crackdown, illegal border crossings plunge to levels not seen in decades

The number of migrants crossing the U.S. southern border illegally in President Trump's first full month in office plunged to a level not seen in at least 25 years, according to preliminary government data obtained by CBS News.

Last month, Border Patrol recorded about 8,450 apprehensions of migrants who crossed into the country unlawfully between official entry points along the U.S.-Mexico border, the statistics show.

On some days during a record spike in illegal crossings under the Biden administration, Border Patrol recorded more than 8,000 apprehensions in a single day.

February's total, which could be adjusted when the government officially publishes the statistics, would be the lowest monthly apprehensions tally recorded by Border Patrol since at least fiscal year 2000, the last period with public monthly data. The final tallies usually don't deviate much from the preliminary figures.

Over the past 25 years, the only time monthly apprehensions came close to the level recorded in February was in April 2017, when Border Patrol apprehended 11,000 migrants at the southwest border, agency data show.

The Trump Administration has removed over 50,000 criminal aliens, and Trump is unsatisfied with this pace.

When immigration agents were first ordered to deport Ivan Oramas and Santos Maradiaga-Villalta, President George W. Bush was in the White House and the iPhone was a distant dream.

That was over two decades ago--yet both men were arrested this week, according to federal data reviewed by DailyMail.com.

They were among over 50,000 illegal immigrants removed so far, a Department of Homeland Security official revealed to DailyMail.com.

News of their arrest was circulated Thursday in an internal immigration memo noting recent enforcement actions made by President Donald Trump's administration.

Oramas, 61, is a citizen of Cuba with a rap sheet including convictions for sexual battery and aggravated assault.

His sexual battery case caused serious injury, according to his charges in the file.

ICE Houston nabbed Oramas this week, enforcing a deportation order first handed down in October 2003--21 years overdue.

Maradiaga-Villalta, a 40-year-old alien from Honduras, has convictions for smuggling aliens into the U.S. He was arrested recently by ICE in Phoenix. His first deportation order dates back to January 2006, a 19-year lapse in action.

Now, as Trump's administration continues ramping up its crackdown on illegal immigration, these long-evading, at large fugitives are getting taken in after decades of delays.

Department of Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem announced that in conjunction with Border Czar Tom Homan, immigration officials have already apprehended over 20,000 at large illegal aliens since Trump was sworn in.

'That's a 627% increase in monthly arrests compared to just 33,000 at large arrests under Biden for ALL of last year,' she wrote in a post on X.

In another post on the platform she bragged that DHS has slashed border encounters from 15,000 a day under Joe Biden to just 200 under Trump.

It's a '15-year low,' she wrote.

Among the other criminals that surfaced in this week's federal data were Guatemalan national Alexis Aquirre-Velasquez, 37, who was ordered out of the U.S. 12 years ago in February 2013.

He was charged with four counts of indecent liberty with a child and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Ed Morrissey writes that Trump has exposed Democrats' decades of lying about the supposed insolvability of the issue.

Let's not pussyfoot around this point: Everything Harris and Biden said about border enforcement was a bald-faced lie. Biden and Harris didn't need that bill to enforce border security and control immigration enforcement. Trump had managed to do it without that bill for the four years of his first term. Biden and Harris created the border crisis because they wanted to force Republicans into a bad "compromise" bill that would leave illegal crossings at historic highs for as long as possible. Their progressive-elite clique detests borders and sneers at American legitimacy, and would have never even cared about the crisis unless Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis started to bus illegals into places like Washington DC, New York, and Chicago.

Trump exposed it as a lie within less than two months in office. Trump did more to secure America's southern border in 40 days than Biden and Harris did in four years. And he did it under existing laws, with the existing resources already at the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense. Congress didn't need to lift a finger to allow the executive branch to secure the borders and deal directly with the traffickers of both humans and drugs. Trump didn't even need to build the wall to get immediate results, although that will be coming.

Joe Biden lied.

Kamala Harris lied.

Nancy Pelosi lied.

Astoundingly, by which I mean "Obviously," the Democrats' are continuing to double-down on these absurd lies. Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says Trump isn't securing the border -- the Democrats are.

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Senate Democrats Block Bill to Reserve Girls' Sports to Girls Because They're Psychopaths

The Democrats are absolutely determined to not have that post-mortem the party desperately needs.

Senate Democrats on Monday blocked a measure that sought to ban transgender girls and women from competing on school sports teams that match their gender identity.

The 51-45 vote fell short of the 60 required to advance the bill. Republicans, who control 53 seats in the upper chamber, needed at least seven Democrats to join them if all members were present and voting.

Only 51? Which Republicans balked?

Collins and Murkowski, I wonder?

ScaryMary provides the facts:

7 Surprisingly, Murk and Collins voted yes. Capito (R-WV) and Lummis (R-WY) didn't bother to vote.

"This is the third time that I've had a vote on this bill. The other two times have failed because we have had almost zero Democrats help to support women and girls in sports," Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, who co-sponsored the legislation, said ahead of the procedural vote.

The bill, known as the "Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act," would prevent schools from receiving federal funding if they allow transgender girls and women to participate in female athletic programs. It adds that a person's sex "shall be recognized based solely on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth."

The House passed a similar Republican-led measure in January, with two Democrats joining the Republican majority.

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Polling in recent years has found a lack of support for transgender athletes participating on sports teams that match their gender identity.

Did you have trouble understanding that sentence? Then CBS "News" accomplished its goal of obfuscation. What they're saying, while trying not to say it, is that it's very unpopular to allow men to beat up women in women's sports.

Scott Rasmussen
@ScottWRasmussen

In other words, Senate Democrats sided with the 13% of voters who believe biological males should be allowed to compete in women's sports.

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Democrats Plan "Strategic Walkouts" and Disruptions of Trump's Address to Congress Tonight

The Party of Geriatric Teenagers plans the usual sort of juvenile theatrics.

For some Democrats, and that number probably included Pelosi, the struggle against Trump had become an emotional thing as well. She had pursued and pursued Trump, and yet there he was, still in office. The next day, after he was acquitted, she would have an outburst, wagging her finger at the president and saying that despite the acquittal, "You're impeached forever. You're never getting rid of that scar."

Fast forward five years. Pelosi is now 84 years old and walking with a cane after a recent hip injury. Her party is in the minority, and incredibly, Trump is president again. After all her work, after everything -- Trump is president again. Tonight, he will give an address to a joint session of Congress. What to do?

First, a number of Democrats have threatened to boycott the speech. That's probably not a big scare for the White House -- it will just mean proportionately more wildly cheering Republicans. Democrats realize that, and most will likely show up.

So, what should the Democrats in the audience do? A new Axios report says some are planning to disrupt the speech, walking out at strategic moments: "Criticism of transgender kids was brought up as a line in the sand that could trigger members to storm out," Axios noted. Others have talked about bringing noisemakers or props, such as empty egg cartons.

It's hard to believe Democrats will actually do that. Are they really that dumb? Who knows?

As for Pelosi, the former speaker is urging fellow Democrats not to follow her example. She wants them to behave during the speech so that they can't be criticized for disrupting the president. "Any demonstration of disagreement, whether it's visual or whatever -- just let him stew in his own juice," Pelosi told the Washington Post. "Don't be any grist for the mill to say this was inappropriate."

It's hard not to laugh at the woman who, while sitting in the most visible spot in the House chamber before millions of viewers, tore up the president's speech and waved the torn paper in the air, now advises her fellow Democrats to show restraint. The bottom line is we don't know what Democrats will do. They might not know themselves.

More:

Some more moderate plans include wearing coordinated outfits to make political statements, with the Democratic Women's Caucus encouraging members to wear pink, while members of the Congressional Black Caucus have discussed wearing black.

So they're planning on wearing coordinated color-coded uniforms, like they're cogs in some dystopian future hell, like they're the ugliest, least sexy people in the dome society of Logan's Run.

Keep that in mind -- anonymizing themselves by wearing Cult Clothing to dissolve their individuality in the acid of group identity.

The Democrats earlier posted Hive-Mind Cult-Like messaging of them all repeating the same basic script.

Huff
@Huff4Congress

America does not have 45 Democrat senators. It has one single leftist hive-mind with 45 votes, a tangled rat-king of corrupt midwit cowards, a programmed conglomerate of NPC automatons without capability of independent thought.

Mike Lee and Elon Musk want to know who is puppet-mastering the puppets.

Department of Government Efficiency chief Elon Musk and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, exposed word-for-word messaging from Democrat leaders in opposition to President Donald Trump's address to Congress on Tuesday night.

"Who is writing the words that the puppets speak? That's the real question," Musk posted to X, responding to coordinated messaging from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J.

Lee, after years of former President Joe Biden being called a puppet for behind-the-scenes puppet masters, noted there could be someone other than them running the party messaging.

"It's almost like someone's telling Democrats what to say," Lee wrote.

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Musk noted the leading Democrats speaking in concert make them mere "actors."

"They are all actors reading a script," Musk wrote in another X post.

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk also weighed in.

"It's all fake and staged," Kirk wrote on X. "This act doesn't work anymore. Sad!"

Musk added that "lazy" Democrats should have their own thoughts, not those of someone else.

I think this incident is very telling as regards the basic psychology of the left and the right.

The left loves to sublimate their own individual identities into an amoeba-like mass. They are the party that still can't stop talking about Fucking Woodstock. They love protests, they love "mass movements," they love unleashing their ids and destroying things as part of a mass of rioters which acts without reason or conscience.

The right prizes individuality and is suspicious of "mass" movements.

The Democrats are the party of French revolutionaries storming the Bastille and murdering political prisoners suspected of "treason" against the Republic. They're the party of the Communist Revolution and of Mao and of Pol Pot's attempt to bring utopia to earth by the mass murder of doctors, teachers, and all professional class workers.

And while they reject the idea vehemently, they're also the party of adoring Hitler and feeling greater than themselves through state-coordinated, party-enforced mass psychosis.

They're the party of the viral rage and instant Holy Crusades.

They don't believe in God, but they do have quasi-religious feelings that make them feel part of the greater universe. Those feelings, which these miserable people yearn to feel again and again, are felt most strongly when they dissolve themselves into a massive human protoplasm of thoughtless passion and inchoate rage.

Most people seek transcendence, a feeling of being part of something greater. Democrats reject the idea of a God, so the "something greater" they worship is the mob. The conscienceless rage of the mob is their unifying unholy spirit.

They're the party of ecstatic violence. They are poor creators, but excellent destroyers and razers and arsonists.

It makes perfect sense that the Democrats keep resorting to the same playbook of enforced groupthink and coordinated mass peer-pressure. They think these tactics work on the public because they know these tactics work so well on themselves.

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Head of FBI's NY Field Office Resigns Under Pressure

He was told to resign or be fired. He took the coward's way out.

NBC "News" notes that the head of the office is a #Resistance operator.

Dennehy had a high-profile battle with acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove last month, penning a defiant email to staffers urging them to "dig in" after officials tasked with investigating the Jan. 6 riots at the US Capitol were forced out of their roles.

"Today, we find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own, as good people are being walked out of the FBI and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and FBI policy," the email read in part.

I know what you're thinking and yes, the head of the FBI NY office is none other than deceased character actor Brian Dennehy in what may be his least-celebrated role. Well-spotted, Dennehy-Watchers!

But this may be a more acute cause for his defenestration: The fact that he failed to follow the orders of AG Bondi in regards to the Epstein files. She wrote to Kash Patel about the insubordination of the FBI:

Before you came into office, I requested the full and complete files related to Jeffrey Epstein. In response to this request, I received approximately 200 pages of documents, which consisted primarily of flight logs, Epstein's list of contacts, and a list of victims' names and phone numbers.

I repeatedly questioned whether this was the full set of documents responsive to my request and was repeatedly assured by the FBI that we had received the full set of documents. Late yesterday; I learned from a source that the FBI Field Office in New York was in possession of thousands of pages of documents related. to the investigation and indictment. of Epstein. Despite my repeated requests, the FBI never disclosed the existence oft hese files. 'When you and I spoke yesterday, you were just as surprised as I was to learn this new information.

By 8:00 a.m. tomorrow, February 28; the FBI will deliver the full and complete Epstein files to my office- including all records, documents, audio and video recordings, and materials related to Jeffrey Epstein and his clients, regardless of how such information was obtained. There will be no withholdings or limitations to my or your access. The Department of Justice will ensure that any public disclosure of these files will be done in a manner to protect the privacy of victims and in accordance with law, as I have done my entire career as a prosecutor.

It is imperative that Trump break the back of the #Resistance, and he is certainly acting as if he knows that. He waited for the leftist bureaucrats to get over their butthurt and mass nervous breakdown; they never did, and wasted most of his first term by thwarting almost all of his legal and popularly-chosen policies.

He's not letting them do that this time. Saboteurs will be fired. I would hope that one firing would act to encourage the others, but it won't; they will all have to be purged. Trump needs to remove the American Baathist Party from all positions of power and influence.

Finally, we're getting what we voted for in 2016: Trump telling bureaucrats "You're fired."

Wack-a-doodle blue state governors and mayors are scrambling to hire the fired #Resistance workers, which just further confirms that they always were Democrat operatives "burrowed in" to the federal government to do work for the DNC on the taxpayers' dime.

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Oscars Broadcast Notches Third-Worst Ratings in History

The normies aren't revolting, they're just sick of Hollywood's mental illness and toxic narcissism.

John Nolte:

Only 2021, with 10.4 million viewers, and 2022, with 16.6 million, fared worse. Sunday's pathetic 18.1 million is the third lowest since 1974, when these numbers were first recorded.

Nolte points out the excuses the media is making: People have cut the cord so they couldn't see the broadcast on ABC, and there was no big exciting movie this year like Barbie or Oppenheimer.

Note that the latter isn't an excuse. Yes, when you're not making product that people like, they're not interested. How is this some kind of excuse for Hollywood?

Nolte points out that the Oscars were available on popular streamer Hulu this year, so the "cut the cord" excuse also rings hollow.

To prove just how lame those excuses are, one need only reach allll the waaaaaay baaaaaacccckkkk to ... 2023 -- or, the year before last.

In 2023, the Oscars were not streamed on Hulu or anyplace else. Nevertheless, more people (18.7 million) still tuned in.

Oh, and in 2023, there was no Barbenheimer craze. The frontrunner (and eventual winner) was Everything Everywhere All at Once, which only grossed $77 million domestic.

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For some 40 years, the Oscars reliably attracted anywhere from 32 million to 42 million viewers without breaking a sweat. The ratings collapse began in 2016 when President Trump was first elected, which is when the left lost its mind and, along with its mind, the self-control required to disguise just how much they hate us Normal People. This definitely includes the hateful, alienating, and insulting world of entertainment.

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So, in less than a decade, a show that was once something that unified our culture around our shared love of movies and had not dipped below 32 million viewers since 1974, is now unable to attract even 20 million viewers.

Hollywood needs some bright shiny new transgressive sex practice to champion, and they rolled the percentile dice and the results came up, Celebrate "sex-work."

So that's what they did.

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Zelenskyy Pulls a George Costanza, Claims He Was Just Kidding When He Quit the Peace Talks

The headline is a reference to this Seinfeld episode.

What? That? I'm a joker, you know that. I kid!

Zelensky reaches out to Trump after "regrettable" meeting

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has extended an olive branch to President Donald Trump following what he called a "regrettable" meeting in Washington. Zelensky thanked Trump for past U.S. support and reiterated Ukraine's willingness to sign a mineral agreement "any time and in any convenient format." His remarks come as the U.S. has paused military aid to Ukraine, and Trump has signaled a preference for peace negotiations.

Key Details:

Zelensky acknowledged that the Friday meeting at the White House did not go as planned and expressed a desire for "constructive" future cooperation.

He highlighted Trump's past support for Ukraine, particularly his decision to provide Javelin missiles, as a pivotal moment.

The U.S. paused all military aid to Ukraine on Monday, with Trump telling Zelensky to return "when he was ready for peace."

Here's the statement this stupid actor posted on X:

Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський
@ZelenskyyUa

I would like to reiterate Ukraine's commitment to peace.

None of us wants an endless war. Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer. Nobody wants peace more than Ukrainians. My team and I stand ready to work under President Trump's strong leadership to get a peace that lasts.

LOL. Please.

We are ready to work fast to end the war, and the first stages could be the release of prisoners and truce in the sky -- ban on missiles, long-ranged drones, bombs on energy and other civilian infrastructure -- and truce in the sea immediately, if Russia will do the same. Then we want to move very fast through all next stages and to work with the US to agree a strong final deal.

We do really value how much America has done to help Ukraine maintain its sovereignty and independence. And we remember the moment when things changed when President Trump provided Ukraine with Javelins. We are grateful for this.

Sure, sure, sure. Now you're grateful. Two days ago you were sanctimonious and entitled and petulant, but now you're truly grateful.

Our meeting in Washington, at the White House on Friday, did not go the way it was supposed to be. It is regrettable that it happened this way. It is time to make things right. We would like future cooperation and communication to be constructive.

Regarding the agreement on minerals and security, Ukraine is ready to sign it in any time and in any convenient format. We see this agreement as a step toward greater security and solid security guarantees, and I truly hope it will work effectively.

Zelenskyy needs the US. We don't need him. He's a side-show and an irritant. And yet he acts like he's doing us a favor in taking billions from us (and squirreling away millions for himself and his cronies).

Same with Europe.

Emily Jashinsky put out a video noting that America was tired of Zelenskyy's and Europe's never-ending moral blackmail. Certainly. And I'd add that every US citizens has faced never-ending moral blackmail from the unreasonable left for more than ten years -- going back to 2007, when it was demanded of us that we praise an unaccomplished "community organizer" communist as New Black Jesus.

We are tired of the moral blackmail, and it no longer works. It now provokes us and angers us.

Hans Mahncke
@HansMahncke

The endless theories about Zelensky's meltdown--Trump set him up, communication issues, Slavic mentality--are exhausting. There’s exactly one reason this happened: Zelensky himself. He's a petulant, arrogant, entitled fraud who lacks even a shred of statesmanship. He got away with his act for far too long because Western elites indulged him. That ended yesterday. The world saw the real Zelensky, not the manufactured caricature. No further analysis is needed. One man's character flaws caused this. That's it.

Slava America, bitch.

Europe is pretending that maybe they'll send their tiny armies to stand down Russia.

Via David Strom, Italy's Giorgia Miloni says "Not with Italian troops you won't."

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Not an Op: 22 Democrat Senators Blitz X With 22 Near-Identical Messages
Now It's 23

Do they not understand that this is creepy AF?

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok

These 23 Senators all posted the same word for word script.

- Alsobrooks
- Baldwin
- Blumenthal
- Booker
- Cantwell
- Coons
- Duckworth
- Durbin
- Gillibrand
- Hirono
- Kaine
- Kelly
- Kim
- Lujan
- Markey
- Merkley
- Padilla
- Peters
- Schatz
- Schumer
- Van Hollen
- Warner
- Warren
- Whitehouse

Who's directing them to post this and who wrote the script?

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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

In just a few generations, Hollywood has descended into a self-referential malaise that treats itself as the arbiter of all things, and has contempt for the people who actually fund their activities. You know... the shrinking population of Americans who go to the movies. They insist upon making movies that do not engage their former customers, preferring to make us uncomfortable with an unending litany of leftist talking points. Gay is wonderful! Transexualism is even better! America sucks. White men are evil. Women are better at everything, and black and Hispanic women trump them all!

And that's just a short list. Gone are the days of even grudging respect for traditional American values...family, church, country are punch lines now. And with an entire industry untethered from its customers, and desperately pushing the most caustic, antisocial, anti-traditional themes possible, is it any wonder that we have the best actress award winner enthusiastic about....hookers?

Mikey Madison wins best actress for 'Anora'

"I also just want to, again, recognize and honor the sex worker community," she said. "I will continue to support and be an ally. All of the incredible people, the women, that I've had the privilege of meeting from that community have been one of the highlights of this entire incredible experience."

And not just enthusiastic. Supportive! Because being a "sex worker" (what a vile euphemism) in Hollywood's warped and twisted worldview is pretty much just like going to school and becoming a physician, or accountant, or doing the most important work on earth bearing and raising children.

We should honor them? How? Give awards for best alleyway BJ? Or maybe there should be two awards...one for quality and one for quantity. And maybe there should be a category for bestiality? Pulling trains? All the stuff that is most valued in women by Hollywood.

In a sane world in which women are actually respected, rather than considered only according to their genitalia and what they do with them, prostitution would be seen as a terrible consequence of lives gone wrong. Our culture would work to make prostitution -- an incredibly debasing life -- something to be shunned, and a life out of which we should help people.

Instead, Hollywood rejects objective morality and simple decency and revels in the degradation of our humanity. How else to continue their and their masters' work at the destruction of traditional American culture? But concurrent with that almost total detachment from their audience and their revenue stream is the increasing disinterest in their product. Most Americans don't much care about the politics of a bunch of rich, under-educated mimics who seem to think that because they are good at memorizing dialogue, their nasty opinions about the President and fascism and transgender lunacy are important -- and should be shoved down our throats at every opportunity. And don't forget Ukraine! The darling of every ignorant fool to walk that red carpet, unless they like Hamas more!

The movie industry is barrelling toward collapse, and they are too stupid to see it. Revenue has been down since 2019, and when corrected for inflation the numbers are even worse. Hopefully some of the slack will be taken up by small independent studios that will respond with a product that Americans actually want to see. But they will need to recognize the change that is in the air!

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X]

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