December 04, 2024
Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Tennessee's Anti-Transgender-Surgery-for-Children Law; Unqualified DEI Incompetents Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor Shine In Their Stupidity
The "real media" outlet Axios is sad.
The "real media" outlet Axios is sad.
The Supreme Court seemed inclined Wednesday to uphold laws that ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth. The big picture: Medical authorities in the U.S. largely agree that treatments like puberty blockers and hormone therapy are safe, but the court's conservative justices indicated they do not want to overrule state laws banning them for children.Oh? "Authorities" agree on that, huh? Are these the same authorities who said that isolating and masking 5-year-olds for years was safe, too? What about the Cass report? Oh, I guess Axios, like the entire criminal media and the Biden Administration, refuse to acknowledge that report.
Below, some clips from the hearing. By the way, when you hear what is clearly a woman's voice answering the Justices in some clips below, know that your ears are lying to you. This woman's voice is actually a man's voice. "Chase" Stangio is totally a man now and his transgender journey is going splendidly.
Driving the news: The court heard oral arguments Wednesday over a Tennessee law that bans gender-affirming care for minors. Roughly half the states have similar laws on the books. The central question before the court is whether Tennessee is simply regulating the practice of medicine or discriminating on the basis of sex. If it's the latter, the state would have to clear a much higher legal bar to defend its law. Three key conservative votes -- Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh -- all seemed to come down on Tennessee's side. Kavanaugh cited medical disagreements and tight regulations in Europe, arguing that the science of gender-affirming care is unsettled and that the court should not "constitutional-ize" the issue. "For us to come in and choose one side of that, knowing that either way people are going to be harmed -- there's no perfect way out," he said. Two other conservative justices, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, are very unlikely to oppose the bans.
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Dank Brandon's Bewildered African Adventure
Dank Brandon took the chance to grab a discrete nap while he was meeting with African leaders on live TV:
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White House Once Again Turned Into Eyebleeding Gay Meth-Hallucination Nightmare by White Trash Delaware Hillbilly Biden Clan
There's obviously a difference in taste between older people and younger people. Older people tend to respect traditions and, as they say, NORMZZZ. Younger people feel fenced in by these strictures and push against them.
Younger people sometimes produce interesting art that older people wouldn't have thought of -- or allowed themselves to think of. On the other hand, they mostly produce pure puerile trash. But people tend to forgive them their youthful stupidity and gaucheness, because they are youthful. But then you have "Doctor" Jill Biden, a 70+ year old woman who likes LARPing as a 22 year old on the daily. Remember the DEI/Gay Meth Nightmare Christmas Pageant she put on last year? Featuring a DEI extremist group?Posted by: Ace at 01:08 PM | Comments (482) | Trackbacks (Suck)
Judge Orders Fani Willis to Disclose All Correspondence with the January 6th Committee
I wonder if she was f*cking them too.
Willis had previously refused to disclose her coordination with, I mean, correspondence with, the ultra-politicized J6 committee. She lied about not having any correspondence with him, despite another document showing that she did seek to meet with the committee to talk with their investigators. A judge told this disgusting whore to turn over the documents within five days.In March, Judicial Watch launched a lawsuit after Willis denied possessing any records responsive to an August 2023 public records request. The organization, which investigates government misconduct, suggested in the civil action complaint that Willis likely lied about the purported lack of responsive records on hand. As proof, Judicial Watch referenced a December 2021 letter Willis wrote to Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), then chairman of the congressional January 6 committee. In the letter, Willis officially requested the committee's help with her Trump investigation and offered to trek to Capitol Hill to convene at the committee's convenience. "It may well be most efficient for your staff and effective for our understanding of my staff and me to meet with your investigators in person. We are able to travel to Washington..." Willis wrote, also asking for access to congressional records, such as recordings, transcripts of witness interviews and depositions, communications, and travel documents. The letter to Thompson is clearly a responsive record, Judicial Watch noted, yet it was neither produced in response to the request nor claimed to be subject to exemption under state law. Judicial Watch additionally cited news reports indicating that representatives of Willis did indeed travel to the nation's capital to meet with J6 committee staffers in April, May, and November 2022, as Willis previously proposed. By finding that Willis is in default (and has been since April 11), the court effectively declared that she violated Georgia's Open Records Act (ORA). Willis now must hand over any available files within five business days.Happy Humpday. You can smell Friday in the wind.
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Wednesday Morning Rant
Predictable
Things in the press may be a bit chaotic at the moment as the dust settles, but they still have a job to do and are doing it. They may be running around and pointing fingers at each other and lamenting their losses last month, but don't let that fool you. The press is still firmly a Party-affiliated system and will still carry whatever its told to carry, in a way that looks good for the progs.
Biden pardoning his son for running the family crime syndicate, playing with guns and getting coked up while doing both (allegedly, of course) is notable. Biden said he'd never do it. He's handing out favors to his son-cum-business-manager. He's making sure that Hunter's - and by extension his - skeletons stay buried in the deepest closet possible. This should cause, at the very least, a raised eyebrow in the press. But of course, it did not.
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
Theo van Rysselberghe
Theo van Rysselberghe
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The Morning Report — 12/4/24
The Left wants to rule, but it also wants to be wanted by the people and by some larger immanent force that it does not quite dare to recognize as a higher power, that is on its side and advancing its righteous aims. After Election Day, its faith is shaken, not in its own theories, but in the American public and in the idea that a right side of history will ever come to America. And yet it must believe. So it will find a way to believe in transforming America once again.
As my dear mother of blessed memory, who herself lived through hell on earth for a year in a place called Mauthausen, reminded me time and again "evil never rests."
Among the first things Trump must do as soon as he utters the words "So help me God" and takes his hand off the Bible is pardon and expunge the records of the J-6 political prisoners, the school board and abotion abattoir protesters and anyone else being held as a prisoner of conscience in the still extant Garland Archipelago. And, please God hopefully justice is truly served with the complete exoneration of Daniel Penny. Both he and Kyle Rittenhouse should be awarded the Medal of Freedom, as Kash Patel and the FBI immediately move to dismantle BLM and Antifa just as the FBI of long ago and far away, once did to that other Democrat/Leftist political terrorist organization the KKK. That means investigating where their money comes from, and cutting off the proverbial head of the snake, be it Soros and whoever provides the conveniently placed pallets of bricks whenever a spontaneous eruption of mostly peaceful burning looting and murdering erupts when the next George Floyd du jour dies while resisting arrest at the hands of a white, or white-Hispanic or even white-black police officer.
If Greenfield and others are even close to being correct in their observation/belief that this past election was indeed a realignment or the beginnings of a poltical/cultural realignment of the electorate away from the Democrat-Left and their destruction, that poses not only a mortal threat to the hold on power of the political Left but on those who are only or mostly really in it for the money, like the Bidens and Pelosis, to name just two. Of course the intoxication of absolute power and the delusion of elitism that they are all under insofar as they have a right to lord over us and even snuff out our very lives, for our own good of course, on top of all that lucre, is a helluva drug.
Have a great day.
Lawmakers from South Korea’s opposition Democratic Party (DP) managed to defy a lockdown on parliamentary headquarters to table a motion that would invalidate President Yoon Suk-yeol’s declaration of martial law at roughly 1:00 a.m. local time – even as armed soldiers smashed through the windows of the building and moved to clear the assembly floor.So what happened in South Korea yesterday is frankly something that I expected to happen right here in the good old USA after the election. Since Donald Trump, and that portion of the Grifting Oleaginous Party, GOP, that support or at least stay out of his way along with those of us who voted for him are literally Hitler and the greatest threat to "our precious democracy" (vomit!) in history, naturally enough keeping him away from the levers of power would be the just and moral thing to do, nein?! Well, he hasn't been sworn in yet and January 20th is just around the corner. How many divisions does Vanilli Milley have. Oy, do I really want an answer to that question?! Another outstanding essay from the estimable Daniel Greenfield offers some interesting insights and perhaps a bit of hope for the long run.
Yoon declared martial law on Tuesday for the first time since the 1980s, citing the menace of “subversive anti-state elements” in the legislature who were blocking his administration’s agenda. Yoon denounced the opposition as “unscrupulous” and “pro-Pyongyang.”
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- If you’ve never heard the word “impoundment” before, you will – often – next year. And for good reason. Because this battle will determine whether government spending can ever be brought under control.
Impoundment, For Lack Of A Better Word, Is Good - Daniel Greenfield: After the election, leftists cope with national rejection.
The Wrong Side of History
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Daily Tech News 4 December 2024
Top Story
- As expected, Intel's second-generation "Battlemage" graphics cards are here. (Tom's Hardware)
The B580 comes with 12GB of VRAM and costs $249, while the B570 comes with 10GB and costs $219.
The B580 will be on sale next week, while the B570 will wait until next month, though for $30 you might as well go with the faster model.
Intel has released a lot of updates for it's graphics drivers since the rather shaky launch of the previous generation "Alchemist" cards and now looks like a viable alternative to Nvidia or AMD at the low end.
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December 03, 2024
Overnight Open Thread - 12/03/2024
[Roger Ball]
Greetings loyal and fabulous HORDE! The picture did not come from a web search or an AI bot. I took the picture with my Samsung S23 [not an endorsement] as I flew the last leg of the last rotation on the last day I was legally allowed to fly for a major airline. We were at 35,000 feet headed eastbound, somewhere over Tennessee at about 0600L. The sunrises are one of the things I miss, even after flying a red eye. There are, of course, some things that I don’t miss.
[Roger Ball]
Greetings loyal and fabulous HORDE! The picture did not come from a web search or an AI bot. I took the picture with my Samsung S23 [not an endorsement] as I flew the last leg of the last rotation on the last day I was legally allowed to fly for a major airline. We were at 35,000 feet headed eastbound, somewhere over Tennessee at about 0600L. The sunrises are one of the things I miss, even after flying a red eye. There are, of course, some things that I don’t miss.
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Mission Impossible Cafe
A dragonfly, grinning
This happy dog needs to be adopted. Sheep: Can we be friends? Cat: NO. Flying fish! Ninja dog kiss (with replay). Steve Inman: Nurses administer the medicine. Slap a stranger's child, get your face kicked in. Headbutt buffet. (Includes the song we all love so much.) They wouldn't pull this shit if Trump were working the french fry station. Porch thief learns that crime doesn't pay though it may pay for the dentist. No man passes through the gates of heaven except by MY RIGHT FIST, PUNK! People who block traffic need to eat the street. Older man with cane teaches a young thug the polite way to kiss the pavement. Just a lot of people getting knocked TF out.
A dragonfly, grinning
This happy dog needs to be adopted. Sheep: Can we be friends? Cat: NO. Flying fish! Ninja dog kiss (with replay). Steve Inman: Nurses administer the medicine. Slap a stranger's child, get your face kicked in. Headbutt buffet. (Includes the song we all love so much.) They wouldn't pull this shit if Trump were working the french fry station. Porch thief learns that crime doesn't pay though it may pay for the dentist. No man passes through the gates of heaven except by MY RIGHT FIST, PUNK! People who block traffic need to eat the street. Older man with cane teaches a young thug the polite way to kiss the pavement. Just a lot of people getting knocked TF out.
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Quick Hits
Last week Rutgers University released a study proving that DEI "trainings" cause people to see phantom racism that simply doesn't exist, and increase racial hatreds. The media suppressed this story, naturally.
Breaking911
@Breaking911 BREAKING: Police believe they have discovered audio recording of O.J. Simpson confessing to the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman - TMZ
Last week Rutgers University released a study proving that DEI "trainings" cause people to see phantom racism that simply doesn't exist, and increase racial hatreds. The media suppressed this story, naturally.
An NCRI researcher told National Review, "Unfortunately, both publications jumped on the story enthusiastically only for it to be inexplicably pulled at the highest editorial levels. This has never happened to the NCRI in its 5-year history." An editor for Bloomberg News's team meant to "elevate issues of race, gender, diversity, and fairness," Anna Kitanaka, told NCRI that the story would not be published. However, Ms. Kitanaka did not provide any explanation for the decision. Meanwhile, a reporter with the Times told the NCRI that the paper would "hold off" on its article about the study because of "some concerns." However, the reporter said the Times may reconsider an article if the research was peer-reviewed. An NCRI researcher told National Review, "The piece was reported and ready for publication, but at the eleventh hour, the New York Times insisted the research undergo peer review after discussions with editorial staff -- an unprecedented demand for our work."Weird that they never impose their own "peer review" process on the hundreds of leftwing "studies" they promote every single month. #TrustTheExperts you peons! PS, uneducated low-IQ mentally-ill leftists are all experts. It says so in their Bluesky bios. The LA Times has added CNN's lone Republican Scott Jennings to its editorial board in an attempt to restore balance and rebuild credibility back up from zero. The rag's owner crowed about his big get:
Dr. Pat Soon-Shiong
@DrPatSoonShiong That’s why I want Scott on our new editorial board!!! Growing the board with experts who have thoughtful balanced views and new candidates are accepting the challenge to join us! Way to go Scott and thanks for accepting @latimes @ScottJenningsKY
Stay tuned we are making this happen
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The Ninth Circuit (Circus) Rules That Local Politicians Do Not Have the Right to Block Presidents From Deporting Illegals
The bad news: the Ninth Circuit just got round to ruling on this 2019 case.
That's how they'll block Trump's deportations: Local communists will assert the right to overrule the elected president, and leftwing courts will take five years to tell them they don't have that power.
The federal government has the authority to deport foreign nationals in the U.S. illegally over the objection of local authorities, a panel of three judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled. The 29-page ruling was written by Judge Daniel Bress, with judges Michael Hawkins and Richard Clinton concurring. At issue is an April 2019 executive order issued by King County Executive Dow Constantine, which directed county officials to prohibit fixed base operators on a county airfield near Seattle from servicing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement charter flights used to deport illegal foreign nationals. Constantine's order prohibited King County International Airport from supporting "the transportation and deportation of immigration detainees in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, either traveling within or arriving or departing the United States or its territories." The airport is located next to a major ICE-Seattle base of operations. The Trump administration at the time sued, arguing Constantine's order violated the Supremacy Clause's intergovernmental immunity doctrine and a World War II-era Instrument of Transfer agreement allowing the federal government to use the airport in King County. A district court agreed, ruling in favor of the federal government. King County next appealed to the Ninth Circuit. The Ninth Circuit panel affirmed the district court's summary judgment that the order violated the Supremacy Clause and the Instrument of Transfer agreement. ... With King County, as a so-called "sanctuary county," Constantine argues its region "has acted decisively to become more inclusive, removing barriers to affordable housing, transit, health, economic opportunity and promoting strong childhood development for everyone." The county has also set its "region apart as a leader in protecting the rights of all people in our communities, and continues to not tolerate discrimination, harassment, expressions of hate, or any behavior intended to promote fear, intimidation, or isolation," he says. Constantine's argument was ideological, according to the order, stating federal "deportations raise deeply troubling human rights concerns which are inconsistent with the values of King County, including separations of families, increases of racial disproportionality in policing, deportations of people into unsafe situations in other countries, and constitutional concerns of due process.""I don't like this policy and I voted against the man implementing it" is not a constitutional argument, jerkoff.
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Even as Comcast Prepares to Sell, Or Shut Down, Toxic Propaganda Network MSNBC, MSNBC's Ratings Crash to Lowest Level in 20 Years
Joe Scarborough is seeing huge ratings declines since he went to Mar-a-Lago and begged Senpai to notice him, so he's trying to win viewers back by melting down again.
End WokenessZero Hedge: What fresh low is this?
@EndWokeness BREAKING: MSNBC ratings collapse to its lowest since July 19, 2004. 38,000 total viewers in the 24-54 age group.
The End Of Fake News? MSNBC Hits New Low In RatingsThey were "blindsided" -- but continue to make no further statements or even issue any kind of censure of Al Sharpton. I'm sure MSNBC is worth a ton to someone out there, right? Elon Musk joked about buying MSNBC. When someone wrote it's up for sale, he wrote, "How much is it?" Obviously he must be joking. Or I hope he's joking. MSNBC does not have any positive value. It is all liabilities. Anyone buying it will take over the contracts of its despicable employees. Musk would have to pay Rachel Maddow her $25 million per year to do one hour of work per week. And no, he couldn't force her to repeat his own talking points. Her contract certainly specifies that she'll have almost compete autonomy over her one-hour-per-week show. Musk has paid $44 billion to save free speech in this country, on a money-losing operation that was barely worth $15 billion. Save your money, Elon. There will be other interventions where we might need it.
The leftist "news" channel MSNBC is facing a ratings crisis, with some of its advertiser-coveted viewership dropping to a two-decade low, according to Nielsen data reviewed by Fox News. During the week of Nov. 6, MSNBC averaged just 38,000 viewers among adults 25-54, its lowest-rated non-holiday weekday since July 19, 2004. As reported by Fox News, this demographic is widely prized by advertisers and is crucial for network revenue. Low viewership impacted shows like The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle and Jose Diaz Balart Reports, both of which saw their smallest audiences ever. Other shows--including Chris Jansing Reports, Deadline: White House and Katy Tur Reports--saw their worst days ever among the demos. Several shows lost over 50% of their 25-54 audience. Among those shows are The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle, All In with Chris Hayes, Chris Jansing Reports, Inside with Jen Psaki, The Rachel Maddow Show and Joy Reid's ReidOut.
... Al Sharpton faces ethical scrutiny after his nonprofit quietly took a $500,000 donation from the Harris campaign ahead of his interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. MSNBC conceded that Sharpton blindsided them with the donation. "MSNBC was unaware of the donations made to the National Action Network," an MSNBC spokesperson told the Washington Free Beacon.
Joe Scarborough is seeing huge ratings declines since he went to Mar-a-Lago and begged Senpai to notice him, so he's trying to win viewers back by melting down again.
As I keep saying, the Hunter Biden pardon was what Joe Biden considered the easiest pardon, the one the public would be most likely to forgive. It's intended to soften the public up for hundreds of political pardons of his cronies and "business" partners. On MSNBC, they're demanding a pre-emptive pardon for Jack Smith.
We hear what people talk about flooding the zone and a lot of information coming at you all at once and not being able to sort through things. There are two picks right now that if you talk to people in Washington, D.C., they will, this morning, tell you two of the most dangerous selections they've seen. No. 1, Pete Hegseth. Simply because he's unqualified to run the most complicated and most powerful bureaucracy not only in America but in the world. And No. 2 now, Kash Patel. Kash Patel, of course, is a person who infamously said he was going to jail reporters and journalists and news people who did not go along with the 2020 election conspiracy theory. ... "When in the final weeks of the administration, Trump planned to name Patel deputy director of the CIA, Gina Haspel, the head of the CIA, threatened to resign. Trump relented only after an intervention from Vice President Mike Pence. She goes on to ask: Who is this man, and why did so many top officials fear him?" We will go through it. It's certainly not because he's an expert in any of these fields. It's not even because he's an ideologue. It's because he seems, according to this piece and everything we've seen, singularly focused on exacting revenge on people who did not carry through on Donald Trump's threats of retribution.
I hope that President Biden will also issue preemptive pardons to all of those people threatened by the un-justice (by the way, it's supposed to be "injustice") of what will become the Department of Justice under the Trump Administration. That, of course, includes Jack Smith and all of his staff, many Department of Justice lawyers. It includes President Biden himself, although we don't know that anyone can legally pardon themselves. He will need a pardon because he is going to be harassed and charged for no crimes whatsoever. Donald Trump promised that.
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The Hunter Biden Pardon Has Stripped Bare the Democrats' Years-Long Preening About How They're the Party That "Respects the Rule of Law"
The Free Beacon:
Scott Jennings: This drains every ounce of credibility from Biden's media surrogates.
Mike Howell
@MHowellTweets There's a ton to be said on the Hunter pardon, but for now: The real worrisome part about the undeniable fact that the First Family (not just Hunter!) was so flamboyantly corrupt was that the entirety of the government legal and intelligence apparatus worked overtime to let it go. And they did it for a very long time and turned themselves into pretzels to keep doing it again. All while doing the exact opposite on contrived and sometimes legitimately insane plots against Trump and those who supported him. Major systems level damage was done to the integrity of the whole system. So many will want to move on to the next thing but if not addressed, we are in a world of long term trouble. The Bidens clearly belong in the history books as an asterisked blight, but the story is so much bigger than just them. When they exit it doesn't just get resolved naturally.
SCOTT JENNINGS: Listen, you guys can spend all day long trying to spin this, that this is Donald Trump's fault, that this is somehow caused by Donald Trump. "Oh, he's appointing the wrong people. Oh, he did it." This is the worst possible thing a president could possibly do to his party and to the country. To sit for a year and say, "I will not do this. I will not do this. The rule of law is sacred. We have to respect the justice system, juries. We have to respect juries. We have to respect the guardrails and the norms of our democracy." These people are liars. "Inflation is transitory. Afghanistan is a success. The border is secure. Robert Hur is a liar. The videos are cheap fakes. Biden has a cold. He'll never drop out. Oh, I'll never pardon Hunter." It's all a lie. It is all a grift. Every American except the most partisan brain-rotted people are going to be outraged by this today. He is going to leave office--you think 38-39% job approval is bad? Just you wait. Just you wait. He's disgraced, disgraced today. Outrageous.
The Free Beacon:
This fat nobody continues humiliating herself for her CNN paycheck. Meanwhile, the rest of the media continues humiliating itself. Whoopie Goldberg forbade a fellow View panelist from saying Biden "lied" about the pardon, insisting he had told the truth when he repeatedly vowed that he held the justice system sacred and would never pardon Hunter. He just changed his mind, Whoopie insisted. Well, for one thing, it's still a broken promise. For another thing, he's clearly lying. The explanation he gave for Hunter's pardon tracked exactly with the claims Hunter's lawyer Abbie Lowell has been making for a year -- that the unprecedented plea deal rejected by a judge for containing a secret absolution for all crimes Hunter committed, not just those he was being charged for, was a perfectly routine and reasonable one and should be "honored," and was only repudiated because "partisans" got to the judge and pressured DOJ officials. Biden heard this argument a thousand times before he pardoned Hunter. There is no new information or new argumentation here. He didn't change his mind -- he was just lying, to establish that only venal criminals like Trump believe that the DOJ is ever biased or criminal in its operations. Nate Silver pretends to be shocked and stunned at the actions of the corrupt Joe Biden and corrupt Democrat Party.
When President Joe Biden and his White House aides repeatedly promised Biden wouldn't pardon his son, their allies in the media didn't push back--they ate it up. MSNBC legal analyst Andrew Weissmann, for example, cited the pledge as proof that Biden was "living the rule of law ... in the most personal way" and taking "heroic action in terms of what it means to live a principle." Weissmann's colleague, Morning Joe co-anchor Willie Geist, said Biden's pledge "should not be extraordinary ... but in our times it is, and important." On CNN, meanwhile, political commentator S.E. Cupp lauded Biden's "restraint." "For Joe Biden to sit there and say, 'Well, I'm not going to intervene in the legal process, and I wouldn't pardon my son,' I argue that requires more restraint than if he were talking about himself," Cupp said during a June segment. "Which is what Trump does, right? He's talking about himself." Biden went on to issue a pardon of his son Hunter for the crimes of illegally buying a gun and tax evasion--as well as any other crimes the recovering crackhead may or may not have committed between 2014 and 2024. The "full and unconditional pardon" is one of the most sweeping in U.S. history and makes Biden the first president to pardon his son. In a Sunday statement, the octogenarian said he did so because Hunter Biden was "selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted." Weissmann is yet to react to the decision on both X, which he left last month, and Bluesky, the liberal copycat of Elon Musk's social media platform. Cupp did address the pardon in a Monday morning X post, blaming the move on Trump. "It doesn't get sad enough, but Trump's enduring legacy will be convincing BOTH parties to lower the bar, and that possessing moral authority on anything is no longer a currency that matters," she wrote.
Paid Democrat Twinkfluencer Harry Sisson has never been prouder of A Father's Love:
Polling guru Nate Silver dragged President Biden through the mud after the commander-in-chief pardoned his son Hunter on Sunday night -- telling voters to abandon every Democrat who doesn't likewise criticize and reject the "selfish" move. "A selfish and senile old man," the founder of the FiveThirtyEight polling aggregator wrote of Biden, 82, in a scathing series of criticisms on X minutes after the sweeping clemency announcement. Silver -- who said he voted for Biden's successor, Vice President Kamala Harris, in the 2024 election -- also told voters to boycott every Democrat who doesn't disagree with Biden's pardon over the next two days. "Don't vote for any Democrat in 2028 who doesn't repudiate the pardon within 48 hours," the enraged polling Nostradamus wrote. "I'm not saying this is going to be the decisive issue of 2026/28 etc. Probably second tier. But both the ethically *and politically* correct behavior is to call it out. Stop being so afraid of your own shadow," Silver added.
Well, you'll be happy to know that Biden is plotting more and more pardons, including of his influence-peddling brother, his "business" associates, and Alejandro Mayorkas, who serially lied to Congress. A Brother's Love. A "Business" Partner's Love. A Commander-in-Chief's Love. Miranda Divine says that all conservatives knew Joe Biden was lying and would pardon Hunter -- why didn't the self-appointed "fact" checkers and assorted Experts of the media know?
Harry Sisson
@harryjsisson Such a well written statement by President Biden on pardoning Hunter: "In trying to break Hunter, they ve tried to break me - and there's no reason to believe it will stop here." "I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision."
We always knew Joe Biden would pardon his troubled son Hunter, no matter how many times he promised he wouldn't. So it is fitting that one of the final acts of this mendacious president before leaving office was to break yet another promise to the American people. Thus on Sunday night, the president issued a statement from the White House declaring that he had just signed a "Full and Unconditional Pardon" for Robert Hunter Biden, 54. Joe claims that Hunter was "selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted. It is clear that Hunter was treated differently ... singled out only because he is my son." In an amusing twist, the president explained away all his lies to the American people by lying about his lying: "For my entire career I have followed a simple principle: just tell the American people the truth." ... Hours after Joe and Hunter dined at a Nantucket restaurant named, appropriately enough, the Brotherhood of Thieves, the Washington Post published excerpts Saturday from a document written by the first son's lawyers that made the emotional case for his pardon. Since his father was the only person on the planet with the power to pardon Hunter, at least until his presidency ends on Jan. 20, the 52-page paper would seem to have been written for an audience of one -- the Oval Office guy vacationing with his family on Nantucket. But why would Hunter and his lawyers feel the need to leak the heartstrings-tugging document when he was right there with his dad every day, hanging out in the borrowed mansion of private equity billionaire David Rubenstein, poking around in bookstores buying anti-Israeli books and watching the town Christmas tree lighting? Clearly the document was a carefully crafted excuse created to help Joe fool the American people into believing that Hunter was a victim of political persecution, who suffered due to his father's power and influence. If you read the excerpts of his lawyers' mournful missive, titled "The political prosecutions of Hunter Biden," you would see echoes in Joe's Sunday night statement. You would see that they hold grave fears for Hunter's future now that the dreaded Donald Trump is taking power. "With the election now decided, the threat against Hunter is real," the lawyers wrote. "There is no disputing that Trump has said his enemies list includes Hunter ... The prospect that Trump will turn his vengeance on the Special Counsel prosecutors if they fail to take a harder line against Hunter no doubt exerts considerable pressure on them." Hunter's pricey lead lawyer, Abbe Lowell, described the opus in dramatic terms as "the complete and reprehensible history of the political persecution of Hunter Biden ... a seven-year saga propelled by an unrelenting political desire to use a son to hurt his father." It is "a wild and terrifying story ... a stark warning of what is to come as some of the same Republicans who targeted Hunter prepare to resume power and have stated their intention to use the government's vast power to pursue their perceived enemies." His thesis is laughable. Hunter knowingly committed the crimes for which he has been pardoned and he did so in the arrogant belief that his father's power made him untouchable. How right he was.As I said, Abbie Lowell has pressed these arguments to Biden and the DOJ and every judge in the Hunter Biden case for years now. But we're supposed to believe this is the first time Joe Biden heard them? And that his mind was suddenly changed by them? Latrine Jean-Pissoir now admits that that the DOJ is politicized -- against the Bidens only.
Below, Scott Jennings says that NBC "News" is reporting that Biden's advisors always "kept open" the possibility of a post-election pardon even as Biden was sent out to publicly deny that anything like that was even possible. I can't find the article he's referencing -- it could just be Google, as usual, hiding results that hurt their beloved Marxist cause. If you know which article he's referencing, please let me know in the comments.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed Monday that President Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden of tax and gun crimes because "war politics" prompted Hunter's prosecution -- while insisting the Justice Department is not broadly politically biased, as President-elect Donald Trump claims. Jean-Pierre used the term "war politics" three times as she fielded fiery questions aboard Air Force One from journalists as Biden, 82, flew to Angola for an official visit hours after the pardon, which Biden said was necessary because his son was being "selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted." "Karine, when the president says that the justice system is infected with politics, how deep is the rot and how much of the blame does the president take on himself for the fact that his own Justice Department, his appointees, have allowed it to get this bad?" a reporter asked. Jean-Pierre claimed that Biden "believes in the Justice Department." "He just said it's infected with politics!" the journalist exclaimed. "So how deep is the rot? How many selective prosecutions are there at the DOJ?" the journalist pressed. "What I can speak to is this particular case, which is Hunter Biden, who has the last name of the president," she said. "There were political opponents who were very clear and very vocal about going after his son."
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Whistleblower Claims That FEMA Skipped Entire Neighborhoods If They Sported Three or More Trump Signs; House Republicans Demand Inspector General Investigate
Update: Biden Decrees $1 Billion in Aid for Storm Victims -- For Africa
Update: Biden Decrees $1 Billion in Aid for Storm Victims -- For Africa
Another conspiracy theory turns out to be 100% true.
Get that Pardon Printing Machine running on full, Disgraceful Joe.
House Republicans on Tuesday called for the inspector general to open up an "immediate" investigation into FEMA over allegations that relief workers skipped the homes of Trump supporters throughout Florida and North Carolina, according to a letter first shared with The Daily Wire. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chair Sam Graves (R-MO) and Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) demanded Homeland Security Inspector General Joseph Cuffari probe allegations that fired FEMA supervisor Marn'i Washington's instructions to "avoid homes advertising Trump" in Lake Placid, Florida, may have been part of a broader agency policy. "The Committee is requesting that you immediately open an investigation into the multiple allegations of the deliberate avoidance of homes with Trump campaign or political signs during the agency's response to Hurricanes Helene and Milton," Graves and Perry wrote, citing reporting from The Daily Wire. Aside from Washington's guidance, the lawmakers said that they were aware of allegations that FEMA workers bypassed entire neighborhoods in North Carolina where Trump supporters lived. "In North Carolina, the Committee is aware of reports of FEMA employees skipping any home that displayed a 'Make America Great Again,' 'Drain the Swamp,' 'Don't Tread on Me' or Trump campaign sign. If the FEMA field team encountered three or more of these signs, the field team could abandon the entire neighborhood without notifying hurricane victims of assistance available to them," the lawmakers wrote. "The Committee is increasingly concerned that this discriminatory practice of avoidance was more widespread than reported, and could have harmed victims who may still be unaware of the Federal relief benefits available to them," they added. Testifying on Capitol Hill last month, FEMA Director Deanne Criswell said that she believed the incident in Florida to be isolated and denied that FEMA had any "proactive" policies that would lead employees to skip homes.
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South Korea's President Declares Martial Law -- But the Parliament Cancels It on a 190-0 Vote
The president claims the rival party has RUSSIAN, I mean North Korean, sympathies, so obviously all civil rights must be suspended and the military must conduct armed raids on the parliament.
Update:
This is about corruption, by which I mean his and his wife's. IIRC, his wife is already in a lot of trouble and he is about to be. No one can figure out what his play is here though. It is, thankfully, going to fail and then he's absooutely done. It is utterly bizarre. Posted by: alexthechickAh. Of course. A lot like Biden.
The president claims the rival party has RUSSIAN, I mean North Korean, sympathies, so obviously all civil rights must be suspended and the military must conduct armed raids on the parliament.
Collin RuggObviously I'm no fan of North Korean sympathies, but I've watched the thoroughly-rotten American Deep State take anti-constitutional act after anti-constitutional act while claiming they're only doing so to stop RUSSIAN INFILTRATION AND SUBVERSION. The 190-0 parliamentary vote suggests that this just might be a lawless act taken to preserve the only thing that matters, political power.
@CollinRugg NEW: South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declares emergency martial law, accusing the opposition party of "sympathizing with North Korea and of anti-state activities." (CNN) "Through this martial law, I will rebuild and protect the free Republic of Korea, which is falling into the depths of national ruin." "I will eliminate anti-state forces as quickly as possible and normalize the country." He asked people to believe him and tolerate "some inconveniences."
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@floridanow1 I don't see how you restore democracy under Martial Law? I thought you did that at the ballot box? Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
This last election taught us that "democracy" doesn't actually mean anything to the people who scream it all the time.
Open Source IntelMore videos of the chaos here. Again, my natural sympathies lie with anyone opposing communists and Marxists and North Korea, but I've never heard a whisper that the South Korean government was in danger of violent overthrow before now, and the 190-0 parliamentary vote to cancel the martial law declaration suggests this is pretextual. Yoon's own conservative party denounced his imposition of martial law.
@Osint613 What's going on in South Korea? South Korea is in chaos after President Yoon Suk Yeol declared emergency martial law, saying it;s necessary to stop "anti-state forces,: especially pro-North Korean leftist groups. The decree bans all political activities, controls the media, and prohibits strikes and protests. Stocks are in turmoil, and military forces are moving toward the National Assembly, with helicopters seen flying overhead.
The president's surprising move harkened back to an era of authoritarian leaders that the country has not seen since the 1980s, and it was immediately denounced by the opposition and the leader of Yoon's own conservative party. Under South Korea's constitution, the president can declare martial law during "wartime, war-like situations or other comparable national emergency states" that require the use of military force to maintain peace and order. It was questionable whether South Korea is currently in such a state. When martial law is declared, "special measures" can be employed to restrict the freedom of press, freedom of assembly and other rights, as well as the power of courts. The constitution also states that the president must oblige when the National Assembly demands the lifting of martial law with a majority vote.
Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg NEW: Protests are breaking out in South Korea with citizens calling for the arrest of President Yoon Suk Yeol. "Arrest Yoon Suk Yeol," protesters shouted in front of the National Assembly. South Korean parliament voted to defy Yoon's declaration of martial law. What comes next is uncertain. "[The declaration] is not going to succeed," said South Korean political science professor Kang Won-taek. "We will see people taking to the streets tomorrow. How can the military control them? By sh00ting them?" he said to the NYT. Kang predicts that members of Yoon's party will join the opposition to impeach him.
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Flashback: When Taylor Lorenz Freaked Out About People Not Wearing Masks and "Rawdogging The Air" With Their Particles
Happy Tuesday! Sorry for the late and weak start.
Being immunocompromised is difficult. If you actually are. You're obviously a freaky hypochondriac. What people object to is your demand that we live by the strictures that you're forced to live under. We're not the immunocompromised ones, but you insist that we live our lives as if we were. Like demanding that non-trans people post their pronouns -- we're being demanded to pretend we're trans so that trans people feel "seen." I sympathize with the blind -- but I'm not going to wear a blindfold and use a blind-stick to tap my way through the darkness out of solidarity with the blind. Those are the demands that trans people and covid head-cases like Taylor Lorenz are making, that we live with their medical and psychological illnesses.
Taylor Lorenz
@TaylorLorenz Right wingers are constantly having temper tantrums and meltdowns over several immunocompromised ppl taking Covid precautions. They're shitting on disabled ppl, cancer patients, really wonderful elderly vulnerable people, it's an ideology of pure hatred. They cannot accept that human health is fragile and that one day they too will be vulnerable. So they lash out and cry and scream every time I wear a mask. The irony is they'll NEVER say it to my face! They're complete baby cowards And @Jason knows I'm immune compromised. I was wearing an N95 last I saw him and he was nice as a peach IRL! He asked me about it! They all are this way. They're happy to kiss ass in person then screech online to whip up their chud followers. Very pitiful
Happy Tuesday! Sorry for the late and weak start.
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The Morning Rant: Reflections Edition 
Good morning Horde. Charlie Brown's Dildo inquired if I would take his Rant threads today and on Thursday. Something about him being "detained" concerning an incident with maple syrup, "French toast" and turkey link sausage.*****
Good morning Horde. Charlie Brown's Dildo inquired if I would take his Rant threads today and on Thursday. Something about him being "detained" concerning an incident with maple syrup, "French toast" and turkey link sausage.
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
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The Morning Report — 12/3/24
And I find it offensive in the extreme that some like Joe Manchin are suggesting that Biden should also pardon Donald Trump. There is a slight difference between Trump's situation and that of Hunter and his entire family. Trump is being railroaded and persecuted, primarily but not exclusively at the behest of the Bidens with fabricated and completely false charges aided and abetted by a corrupt judicial system that should never have even touched these cases. Again, that is a barometer of societal moral collapse among people who allegedly made the law and its application fairly to all their calling. Stuffing ballot boxes and holding kangaroo courts are symptomatic of the same disease. Trump should have all charges dropped, issued an apology, the record expunged, and everyone involved in his persecutions disbarred, defrocked, and criminally charged if possible.
While I don't necessarily think the citizenry as a whole understand this, for sure they do indeed understand the consequences of what Democrats have wrought over these past four years. It's why I find this article somewhat amusing:
Have a good day one and all.
The results of GOP Rep. John Duarte and Democrat Adam Gray’s race for California’s 13th Congressional District could decide how slim the Republican House majority is. The winner of the only remaining uncalled House race could determine the difference between a one- to two-seat majority. If Gray flips the key California district’s seat, the House would have 215 Democrats and 220 Republicans heading into 2025. As of Monday afternoon, Gray was leading at 50.01% with 105,083 votes to Duarte’s 49.9% at 104,856 votes, the Associated Press said. The GOP has held on to control of the U.S. House, having secured the 218 seats needed for a majority with just the one race still yet to be called, according to the AP. Republicans also have control of the Senate heading into 2025, securing the GOP trifecta.There were a number of seats, primarily in California and elsewhere where the ballots kept on coming in days and in a few cases upwards of two or more weeks after election day. Off the top of my head, two of those races where the Republican was in the lead the morning after were ultimately won by the Democrat. If even Saddam Hussein's Iraq can hold an election where the results are tabulated on the same day via the ink-stained purple thumb to prevent Chicago-style multiple voting by the same person, that the aforementioned effrontery in California to all we used to hold dear can take place, election cycle after election cycle, it does not bode well for any sort of national revival. Because it will take a revival of our collective morals and ethics individually before we as a people can be restored. And by we I mean those on the Left who tolerate and perpetrate this because they view themselves as morally superior and view us as evil. So, anything goes since we and Trump are literally Hitler.
And I find it offensive in the extreme that some like Joe Manchin are suggesting that Biden should also pardon Donald Trump. There is a slight difference between Trump's situation and that of Hunter and his entire family. Trump is being railroaded and persecuted, primarily but not exclusively at the behest of the Bidens with fabricated and completely false charges aided and abetted by a corrupt judicial system that should never have even touched these cases. Again, that is a barometer of societal moral collapse among people who allegedly made the law and its application fairly to all their calling. Stuffing ballot boxes and holding kangaroo courts are symptomatic of the same disease. Trump should have all charges dropped, issued an apology, the record expunged, and everyone involved in his persecutions disbarred, defrocked, and criminally charged if possible.
While I don't necessarily think the citizenry as a whole understand this, for sure they do indeed understand the consequences of what Democrats have wrought over these past four years. It's why I find this article somewhat amusing:
Former Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) is making the case for how and why the Democratic Party should undergo a “complete reboot” after its candidates got clobbered nationally in the 2024 election. Democrats are conducting election postmortems after losing the White House to President-elect Donald Trump and the Senate to Republicans. They also failed to win back the House. In an interview on MSNBC’s “The Weekend,” Ryan was asked what House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) or future chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) should do going forward. “You start with a complete reset,” Ryan said. “I mean, we need a rebrand. I think you and I have been talking about this since 2016, like, our brand is toxic in so many places and it is like, you are a Democrat?”The brand is toxic? No Timmy, it's the product sold under the brand label that's toxic. Democrats and their policies are like Nabisco selling Cyanide and strychnine flavored Oreos. Unto my dying breath: Everything wrong with this nation, all the misery, suffering, dislocation, disaster and waste of blood, treasure and potential is the fault of and have been made exponentially worse by Leftist/Progressive/Socialist policy emanating from the Democrat Party and its allies and enablers, now going on over 200 years. Note to Tim Ryan, want to win, do everything the opposite of what you've been doing for two centuries. Reject your worldview utterly and completely. Also, an apology to the American people for the aforementioned would be a nice touch. It's why the notion of Titty-Caca Ocasio Cortez as the future of that party is both laughable and terrifying at the same time. From our friends at the Heartland Institute comes this fascinating report:
Despite the relatively small slate of socialist candidates in 2024, it is important to recognize that Our Revolution, the DSA, and the PDA are not shy about their vision for a socialist revolution in the United States. These organizations are very influential within the Democrat Party and continue to make inroads as they seek to replace so-called establishment Democrats with far-left socialists.Perhaps the aforementioned Tim Ryan should take note. Is this the rebranding he's looking for? The Leopard might not be changing its spots, it might be trading them in for tiger stripes. Sadly not prison stripes. And I see Joey is sending millions more to Ukraine. Instead of cash, he should send pallets of Hunter turds on canvas.
Moreover, in the wake of the 2024 election and the Democrat Party losing control of the White House and the Senate, a civil war has begun brewing between the more “populist,” socialistic wing of the Democrat Party and the moderate establishmentarians. Time will tell which side emerges as the dominant force in the Democrat Party, though it is not unreasonable to hypothesize that embracing left-wing populism— in the form of socialism—may be seen as the best strategy to combat the increasingly populist Republican Party.
Have a good day one and all.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- Mark [Vanilli] Milley should be recalled to service, court-martialed, punished, and publicly dishonored in order to prevent a resurgence of the corrosive principle of leftist military partisanship.
Trump Needs to Make an Example of General Milley
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