February 28, 2025
Doomcock Was WRONG: Narcissistic Incomptent Kathleen Kennedy Calls Her Media Supplicants to Tell Them "I'M NOT GOING ANYWHERE, EVER! I'M RIDING THIS BOMB ALL THE WAY DOWN!!!"
For the first time in ten years, people allowed themselves to hope for the future of LucasFilm.
Kaffeine Kennedy can't have that. I think Clownfish TV said that this particular "reporter" is a dyed-in-the-wool Disney shill and a Kathleen Kennedy shill specifically. If you don't believe Clownfish, check out this opening labial ball-washing:I thought I'd seen it all in trade journalism, but the piranha-like frenzy on Kathleen Kennedy and the successor speculation that followed Matt Belloni's Puck report that Disney was putting her out to pasture is a new one on me. Belloni for years has been beating on Kennedy like she owes him money, and this week he reported Kennedy was retiring. I recall he essentially did the same thing more than a year ago, and yet here she still is, producing The Mandalorian movie and prepping the Shawn Levy-directed Star Wars film that Ryan Gosling is circling, as well as numerous other film and streaming projects with A-list participants.Really? It didn't seem like your make-it-up-on-the-day sequel trilogy had a plan.
Still, the trades followed with gusto, dishing speculative reporting on who might succeed Kennedy. The takeaway was chaos and that Kennedy was being pushed. The reality is different and far more orderly. According to insiders, Kennedy has been working on a succession plan for a couple years, eyeing candidates from within in process with Bob Iger and Alan Bergman... I admire Belloni's hustle and ability to turn over hard ground, but his penchant for defining industry people like Kennedy in disparaging ways, well, I just don't understand that. ... Kennedy arguably is the most successful female producer/executive in Hollywood history. She has produced more than 70 films that have collected 120 Oscar noms and 25 wins, and she herself was awarded the honorary Oscar with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, with eight other Oscar noms. Her resume is dotted with classics including Jurassic Park, The Sixth Sense, the Indiana Jones franchise, E.T., Munich, Lincoln, The Color Purple, War of the Worlds, Poltergeist, Schindler's List, the Back to the Future franchise and so many others. While it has always been a challenge to please the Star Wars faithful and there have been some misfires, the five Star Wars films she has produced have grossed nearly $6 billion, with streaming series successes topped by The Mandalorian and Andor. Sorry, Matt, the woman is a first-ballot Hall of Famer, not someone who deserves to be batted around like a piñata. She also deserves to own her own narrative and demystify this pseudo-drama. Deadline gave Kennedy that opportunity, catching her just before she headed off to be honored tonight with husband Frank Marshall at the Oscar Wilde Awards. DEADLINE: We've read all these speculative reports that you are out, that there's a frenzy for the next person who's going to take over Lucasfilm. What is the truth? KATHLEEN KENNEDY: The truth is, and I want to just say loud and clear, I am not retiring. I will never retire from movies. I will die making movies. That is the first thing that's important to say. I am not retiring. What's happening at Lucasfilm is I have been talking for quite some time with both Bo ... DEADLINE: This flurry of press coverage, it sounds like chaos. What's the reality? KENNEDY: Chaos? There has never been any chaos because we know exactly what the plan is.
... DEADLINE: I recall these same retirement predictions were rendered a while ago, and you reupped and here you are. What do you make of this fixation on your job status? KENNEDY: I truly don't know. And any discussion previously about me retiring or quitting or any of those things, that's complete rumor mill because through all these reports, I have just continued doing my job and continuing my contract. Nothing unusual. It all has just been manufactured.I can explain why people talk about this: Because everyone's shocked she wasn't fired eight years ago. And we all know why she wasn't: She wears the +3 Ring of DEI Protection and the +2 Vest of Post-#MeToo Eternal Job Security for Stronk Women.
This just in: Star Wars toys are rotting on the shelves at discounters like Ollie's because no one under 40 cares about Star Wars any longer. Not a single question about The Acoylte. She keeps bringing up The Mandalorian, which was briefly a success before she ordered it be improved to appeal to The Modern Audience. On to The Toxic Fandom. Or Toxic Former Fandom.
... KENNEDY: It is something I think about all the time. It's fascinating to think about how you sustain a brand, especially Star Wars, which is just about to celebrate its 50th anniversary....
Then when you have a brand that's this expansive, you're also -- and this is something we work very hard at -- you try to find different entry points for different generations because that's what Star Wars has always been. It's a very generational brand, and we want to sustain that, and we work hard to sustain that.
She babbles about all the obviously-canceled projects she announced, insisting they're all still in development. (No word on Rion Johnon's or Patty Jenkin's movies, though.) She insists that Taika Watiti is still working on a Star Wars movie, even after he puked up Thor: Love and Thunder.
DEADLINE: You've got a long resume of big movies. Compared to that, how much tougher is the challenge of so much public scrutiny and second guessing by the rabid fan base? It's not uncommon to develop a project with big names who fall out when visions don't align, but they get reported as a big implosion. KENNEDY: What you just said, though, is so interesting to me, Mike, because that is the development. It doesn't matter if you're doing Star Wars or anything else. What's troubling and frustrating is that our development gets scrutinized, and I don't know any other production company where their development gets scrutinized like that. It's very hard for anything to happen within Star Wars without some aspect of it becoming public before you even want it to become public. So I guess managing the message in some way is also quite a challenge because, of course, not every single thing we put in development we going to make. That's not unusual. We want to make those things that we feel are the best. We want to make those things that, as time passes, feel relevant to what the audience is responding to. So there's constant discussion around that. So yeah, that's a tricky one because a lot of the scrutiny around Star Wars and the negativity has been about development. Of course, we're going to develop lots of different things with an understanding that not everything gets made.
KENNEDY: Well, I keep waiting for Taika [Waititi], and he is working with another writer now. He's so busy. I love him. I think if we ever do get a script from Taika, it's going to be fantastic. I already saw a first act that I loved, but tying him down, it's tricky. DEADLINE: I still remember seeing his Thor: Ragnarok, entering with low expectations, watching his exuberant vision and thinking, "This is what you want when you go to a movie theater on a Saturday night." KENNEDY: It's so true. And that's exactly the tone we're always looking for with filmmakers who can pull that off. It's not like they're a dime a dozen. You're really trying to find the diamond in the rough and he's one of them. ... DEADLINE: Any regrets? KENNEDY: No, I mean far from regrets.... DEADLINE: Two final questions. Will you step out as Lucasfilm boss this year? KENNEDY: We really don't know at this stage. There's so much going on, Mike. I don't know. DEADLINE: When it happens, who'll make the decision? KENNEDY: Me. It's my decision. This is 100 percent my decision.TJM sees this as a deniadmission: She's admitting she's looking for a successor, who she thinks will be named by the end of the year, but still casts this as a denial that she's leaving LucasFilm, for some egotistical reason:
She admits in this very interview that she's putting together a succession plan that will take effect by about the end of the year. "Kennedy added: "What's happening at Lucasfilm is I have been talking for quite some time with both Bob and Alan about what eventual succession might look like. We have an amazing bench of people here, and we have every intention of making an announcement months or a year down the road.'" She confirms the report in this interview that's being billed as a counter to the report. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger CormanMeanwhile, Captain America is such a bomb that it's literally collapsing the movie theaters it's shown in.
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Green Shoots, For Real: Interest Rates Begin Falling Due to Cuts to Federal Spending
And falling interest rates should, in time, result in falling inflation.
Good news via Reason.Interest Rates Are Falling--Thank Government Spending Cuts for ThatMore, please, and faster.
Cuts to government spending mean fewer bonds, lower borrowing costs, and potentially a break for borrowers. The 10-year interest rate has fallen by half a percentage point in the past month--from approximately 4.8 percent to 4.3 percent. Several factors determine interest rates, including inflation and economic growth, but perhaps the most consequential is the supply of and demand for government bonds. If the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) continues at its current pace--which according to its website includes approximately $52 billion in cuts to date--it could possibly cut $1 trillion in spending in its first year. This will mean $1 trillion fewer bonds being issued, reducing the overall bond supply. A lower supply drives the bond price higher, and because bond prices move inversely to interest rates, this will result in materially lower interest rates. This shift is already being reflected in the bond market. Government borrowing "crowds out" private borrowing--a concept familiar to anyone who has taken a high school economics class. Essentially, the government gets to borrow first, in the form of treasury bonds, and you get to borrow second, in forms such as a mortgage or a car loan. The more the government borrows, the more it pushes up interest rates, which results in higher interest rates on things like homes and automobiles. If the government hadn't borrowed so much money during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, it's likely that mortgage rates right now would be lower--perhaps significantly lower. The typical 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is about 7 percent at the moment. If mortgage rates were one percent lower, the monthly payment on a $400,000, 30-year mortgage would be about $260 lower. This is the impact the deficit has on your personal finances. ... Had the U.S. maintained a balanced budget over the last decade--or even kept deficits to two or three percent of gross domestic product (GDP)--10-year interest rates would likely be in the 2 percent to 3 percent range. This would mean average mortgage rates would be about 4.5 percent to 5.5 percent. For the first time, DOGE is giving the financial community hope that the deficit might one day return to manageable levels. Interest rates have dropped half a percent in the last month, and it's hard to attribute that to one cause or another, but the buzz is that it's because of DOGE's deficit-cutting efforts. ... The Biden administration's spending policies contributed to inflation and were very bad for the bond market. In his second term, Trump--along with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent--has placed a stronger emphasis on lowering long-term interest rates. They see the debt as a national security issue, a view shared by economic historian Niall Ferguson who recently proposed what he calls "Ferguson's Law." He says that "any great power that spends more on debt servicing than on defense"--as recently happened in the U.S.--"risks ceasing to be a great power."
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Claim: Assassin Thomas Crooks Might Have Had Accomplices
I don't believe this at all, but judge for yourself.
Meh. There's not a "real story" behind everything. Update on Zelenskyy: Trump "kicked him out" of the White House.
A veteran private investigator from Erie, Penn., who was hired shortly after the fateful July 13 event at Butler Farm to look into Crooks by a private client, told The Post he believes a "criminal network" was operating with him at the time of the assassination attempt, is still in existence and still wants to kill President Trump. Doug Hagmann, whose team of six other investigators have been working the case for months and have interviewed more than 100 people, said they also conducted extensive geofencing analysis of cell phones and tablets not belonging to Crooks that were found with him at his home, at the rifle range where he took target practice, at the rally and at Bethel Park High School where he graduated in 2022. "We don't think he acted alone," Hagmann told The Post. "This took a lot of coordination. In my view, Crooks was handled by more than one individual and he was used for this [assassination attempt]. And I wouldn't preclude the possibility that there were people at the rally itself helping him." Hagmann said one of the electronic devices geolocated with Crooks at several different places at the time of the shooting is still pinging today -- at Bethel Park High School. ... Hagmann said he was personally escorted to the Butler County line and told to leave twice during the course of his team's investigation. The people who did so were either federal agents or some type of private security. ... He added "one can assist in an operation like this by omission or standing down. There are people still out there involved in this case that need to be brought to justice." FBI officials who served under President Biden accessed Crooks' phone, computer and his encrypted messaging apps in Belgium, New Zealand, and Germany, according to current National Security adviser Mike Waltz, a former GOP congressman. However, they have been very tight-lipped about what they found. Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.), who has also been investigating Crooks' assassination attempt for months, has not seen Hagmann's geofencing data but downplayed its significance. He told The Post he believes Crooks acted alone and there was no conspiracy. However, he also said the FBI continually obstructed his investigation.
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Wow: Trump and Vance Are Openly Arguing With Zelenskyy, Accusing Him of a Lack of Gratitude Towards America
A twitter user identified the woman with her head in her hands
as the Ukranian ambassador to the US
A twitter user identified the woman with her head in her hands
as the Ukranian ambassador to the US
KiraSomeone reported that Trump also cancelled the mineral deal, which means the US is now out of Ukraine. Trump is not going to give them another dime without at least some plausible manner of being paid back. Update: The summit got off to a bad start when Trump said of Zelenskyy, "Oh you got all dressed up today." Vance also pointed out that Zelenskyy went on a partisan political campaign in America, trying to get Biden and Democrats elected. Things took a turn when Zelenskyy attempted to embarrass Trump and "re-litigate" his demands for unlimited US funding "in front of the media." Then Trump and Vance began shutting him down. Video here. Must watch. It starts out like a normal meeting, but then Zelenskyy starts doing what he always does, making demands on people like he's Greta Fucking Thunberg. Trump ultimately tells Zelenskyy that the US is out of Ukraine, one way or the other, so Zelenskyy can either begin negotiating or get ready to "fight it out" against Russia on his own.
@RealKiraDavis
The press conference has been canceled. Zelenskyy reported to be planning on leaving the WH early.
Christian DatocZelenskyy wants to be funded to fight his war forever. He refuses to consider any peace talks. He also blames Trump for the invasion that happened under first Obama, and then Biden. Trump shut him down noting that while Obama had sent him "sheets," Trump had sent him "Javelins." (Advanced missiles.) The US should just stop all funding. Let Zelenskyy and his "Euorpean allies" fight it out. British and German boys to the Ukrainian front lines, stat!
@TocRadio TRUMP: "The problem is, I've empowered you to be a tough guy, and I don't think he'd be a tough guy without the United States and your people are very brave, but you're either going to make a deal or we're out, and if we're out, you'll fight it out. I don't think it's going to be pretty... You don't have the cards... you're not acting at all thankful"
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Top Biden Aide: Yes, We "Gaslit" America About Biden's Mental Fitness, We Knew It Was a Problem Since "Day One"
Trump has theories.
Good, now I don't have to bother reading Cover-Up Artist Jake Tapper's stupid cashgrab book.
What about the coke? Who smuggled Hunter Biden's coke into the White House?
A senior aide for former President Joe Biden has admitted the administration was "gaslighting" Americans when it repeatedly dismissed growing concerns about the oldest-ever president's age and ability. Michael LaRosa, a former White House aide and longtime press secretary for first lady Jill Biden, admitted that Mb"Cover-up to me is a little hard, a little harsh. Every politician, everybody, every human being tries to cover up age. We were always, from day one, cognizant that age was an issue," LaRosa said Wednesday at a Science Institute at American University seminar.
"There are some things that are true, I mean, like the gaslighting. There was a lot of denial of the polling. And I will use the term gaslighting because that's what they were doing, the campaign, former colleagues. The message to everybody was to make sure that you tell people it's too early." But behind the scenes, the Biden campaign was terrified of letting him fly solo, according to LaRosa. "The president's team was scared to death of impromptu, unscripted, unrehearsed, unpracticed, unchoreographed, anything, they couldn't compete for the attention economy," he said. "They just couldn't do it. They didn't have any idea. And they didn't have the vessel either in Biden, by the way, who would have done anything. He loves TV. He loves doing stuff. It was the orbit that did not trust their own candidate. "Biden needed the press. When he needed them the most, they didn't trust him, they gave him the back foot of the doubt and they put their foot on the gas and never took it off. And he was politically dead."
Trump has theories.
President Trump is convinced that someone in the Biden family left behind the bag of cocaine that was found in the West Wing in July 2023 -- and has vowed to conduct an investigation. In an interview with The Spectator World Thursday, Trump spilled that his return to the Oval Office persuaded him that "either Joe or Hunter" Biden misplaced the white powder in the White House. "That was such a terrible thing because, you know, those bins are very loaded up with ... they're not clean, and they have hundreds and even thousands of fingerprints," the president said, referring to the lockers where the cocaine was found. "And when they went to look at it, it was absolutely stone cold, wiped dry. You know that, right?" Trump, 78, added that he was "going to look into that because ... bad stuff happened there." House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) revealed last month that he folded up a congressional probe into the matter due to interference by the US Secret Service.
The idea that the media didn't know is laughable. A 2 year old could have seen that Biden was not all there. They were lied to, but they accepted the lie because they wanted to.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2025 12:07 PM (xCA6C) We know this is the case because our side pointed out, repeatedly, the Biden wasn't all there and spend long hours explaining how awesome he was... fitness routines designed to kill a 22 year old special forces soldier... mind like a whirring sawblade. Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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THE MORNING RANT: Harvard MBAs Are Struggling to Get Job Offers Amidst the School’s Ongoing Challenges
There’s no sugarcoating it: Nearly one-quarter of job-seeking Harvard MBAs couldn’t find jobs this year, by far the largest portion of a graduating Harvard class to struggle in the market in the last decade — a decade, let’s remember, of widespread economic tribulation and pandemic.These are students who graduated with their Harvard MBAs in May of 2024. By the end of 2024, 25% of the class still hadn’t found employment. By contrast, 95% of the Class of 2022 had received job offers within 90 days of graduation. The article noted that Harvard delayed the release of this poor jobs data until the Christmas holiday, which is a significantly later release date than the timing of the report in prior years, when the numbers weren’t so embarrassingly bad. So who stopped hiring? A breakdown of the sectors where Harvard MBAs found work revealed that several sectors remained steady, such as tech at 16% of the class. But job offers in consulting were greatly reduced, with only 18% of the class of ‘24 getting jobs in that field, versus 25% for the Class of ’23. That would indicate there is a decreasing demand in the greater private sector to hire consultants inculcated in the toxic leftism that defines a Harvard education. Meanwhile, President Garber is warning Harvard’s faculty that the university’s radical leftism is putting its massive endowment in peril. The Harvard Crimson reported in December that Garber, in a closed-door meeting, advised the faculty that they must re-think their messaging now with Republicans having won control of Congress and the White House in an “anti-elite repudiation by the American electorate.”
During the meeting, Vice President for Public Affairs and Communications Paul Andrew described what University officials consider to be key legislative threats to Harvard — such as an endowment tax, congressional probes, and threats to federal research funding.The Crimson also quoted President Garber as stating that an increase to the endowment tax is the “threat that keeps me up at night.” As well it should. Harvard didn’t need to take a leadership role in the culture war against mainstream Americans, but it did. Malicious actions and poor choices have consequences. If Harvard didn’t want to suffer the consequences from being on the losing side of the culture war, it should have abstained from it.
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The Morning Report — 2/ 28 /25 
And in the very concise and colorful words of commenter Sturmtoddler:
On a postive note, we have this from a place that at many crucial times in the very recent past has disgusted and disappointed us mightily:
It’s an important check on undemocratic liberalism, but its practitioners must move beyond “tear it all down” partisanship and toward a vision of national unity. . . . . . Populism, which Trump has embodied, is an important check on what Yascha Mounk has termed undemocratic liberalism. However, national populists must move beyond “tear it all down” partisanship to construct a new, mainstream vision of national unity. The negative impulses of populism need to be reined in: we need a rational populism. Liberal institutions must learn from the populist moment, and populists need a vision for the institutions.Yes, you could've stopped reading as soon as you hit the words "National Unity." There will be no national unity when, beyond mere issues, one side views the nation itself and its history as more than merely an illegitimate mistake of history but as the embodiment of evil itself. And since a nation is not merely land but the people who live in it, by extension the other side views us as the living embodiment of evil that is to to be eradicated. We can elect Donald Trumps in every office in the land for the next 50 years, that is if we are allowed to, but the beast that is the Democrat Left is going to have to change its spots for there to be national unity. The two-state solution? Guess what? We're soaking in it right now! State 1= A restored USA as founded, State 2 = The Democrat Left at or below room temperature in the mass grave they've been digging for us since forever. Recall Bill Ayers planning to liquidate 25 million Americans who refused Communist reeducation once he and the Left seized absolute power.
And in the very concise and colorful words of commenter Sturmtoddler:
why, WHY is it always US who must move and never EVER!! the left that has to move to the center????? to whomever wrote that steaming pile of horseshit, i say fuck off sir, fuck ALL the way off and the horse you rode in on....Indeed,sir. With that as the set up, I have a message for anyone who may lurk that is in or has a pipeline to the Trump administration and Pam Bondi in particular. But first, I have to inflict this on you as the set up. Apologies in advance. Whatever her influence may or may not be, I give you the words of a truly horrid harridan upon receiving a SAG award. Yes, the folds of unbotoxed and un-18-hour-girdled and non-surgically-lifted flab abound, but I refer to the Screen Actors' Guild: Yes, Jane Fonda the other night.
"Make no mistake, empathy is not weak or woke," she said in her speech. "And by the way, woke just means you give a damn about other people. . . “A whole lot of people are going to be really hurt by what is happening, what is coming our way,” she said.The Oscar winner and activist did not mention President Donald Trump by name but appeared to reference the actions of his administration. She also reference actor Sebastian Stan’s portrayal of a young Trump in the SAG award-nominated film “The Apprentice.” “And even if they’re of a different political persuasion, we need to call upon our empathy and not judge, but listen from our hearts and welcome them into our tent, because we are going to need a big tent to resist successfully what’s coming at us," she continued."Giving a damn about other people? Like American servicemen being held captive and tortured by North Vietnam in the Infamous "Hanoi Hilton" Prison while you were maybe a half mile if that down the road sitting on an NVA flak gun yucking it up for their propagandists and spouting Anti-American bullshit for the world media to gobble up. Yeah, not so much. And when Richard Nixon actually did deliver peace with honor by guaranteeing the territorial integrity of South Vietnam, you and your ilk were overjoyed as the North rolled South in 1975 and we abrogated our agreement and let it happen. Only for the bloodthirsty Khmer Rouge communists to be enabled to conquer Cambodia and slaughter a few million in the Killing Fields, a movie you were not in, Jane. Probably eating a box of Raisinettes in the front row and giggling with glee when Dith Prahn watched his family get butchered. Funny how you and yours are all upset about Ukraine being overrun by Putin and demanding US troops be sent there to start World War 3 with Putin. All of that said, I must remind her and anyone reading this post that There is No Statute of Limitations on Treason, and what Jane Fonda engaged in a little over 50 years ago in giving aid and comfort to the enemy during time of war was indeed Treason. A crime for which she should have been tried. A mantra of the Left that I actually ascribe to is "Justice Delayed is Justice Denied." In our case, real justice, not the Kangaroo Court Stalinist show trial Democrat variety. There is no doubt in my mind that Jane Fonda, by all that is right and good, should face the consequences of her actions. But, what would be the political fallout for doing so? Frankly, I think she should have been dining with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Tokyo Rose, Axis Sally and Lord Haw Haw a long time ago. Then again, I still cannot figure out how an actual verifiable CPUSA cheerleader and voter like John Brennan could ever have been hired on as a CIA agent back in the old days, let alone rise to the top slot (Meh, given who Obama is, that's not so mysterious). And yet, with the aforementioned Obama, Brennan, Bernardo Sandersnista and 99% of Academia, the media and show business, Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here did happen here. And miracle of miracles we have been pulled back from the precipice with the emergence of as unlikely a figure as Donald Trump and a movement of American revival and renewal that he has engendered, and please God, sustained, maintained and we shall see totally victorious in our lifetimes.
On a postive note, we have this from a place that at many crucial times in the very recent past has disgusted and disappointed us mightily:
History of a sort was made last night when Chief Justice Roberts issued an order blocking, as Sean Davis called him, “an unhinged federal district court” that joined the chorus of federal judges recently who have either never read Article II of the Constitution or have arrogantly decided it doesn’t apply to them. In issuing his order, the district court judge assumed the powers of the presidency in directing that the administration immediately, repeat: immediately, release two billion dollars in foreign aid. To be clear, that was not a typo and that word began with a “b” -- billion! The chief justice’s order was historical in that it was the first time the High Court has acted in any way to show some willingness to rein in what has become a torrent of arbitrary orders from activist judges as part of the new lawfare against President Trump and his program of reshaping federal government functions, including deep spending cuts. It must be emphasized that this is only a temporary action by one justice and may or may not result in the entire court taking up the matter for a full review of whether the Constitution actually means what it says: that all executive power of the Federal Government “shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” It does, however, at the very least indicate that the Chief Justice of the United States was concerned enough about the action of this particular lower court judge that he decided to step in and take a deeper look at this type of judicial “resistance” to the President and his policies. Just a tiny little glimmer of hope that we might be seeing a course correction by the High Court in sending a strong message to these Obama-Biden far-left activists in robes? Yes, but a healthy and encouraging first step, nonetheless.We shall see if the Hawaiian Judiciary's motto of Marbury Kaliki-MAGA will prevail, or not. The pessimist in me thinks the latter. The hard cold reality is the Constitution states quite clearly that Donald Trump and the Executive Branch has the legal authority to do what he is doing in cutting off funds, firing people and sacking generals (um, he is after all the Commander in Chief and as such the highest ranking officer in the US military).
Article I, § 9, Clause 7 of the Constitution says: No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.Of course the Democrat Left uses and abuses the Constitution as both a shield and a cudgel to get what it wants. (By any means necessary, yo). It's living and breathing and since they are the only ones that can understand and interpret the language, to suit their will and political expediency only, originalists and strict constructionists are the apostates at the temple who must be annihilated. And Please God, after Jane Fonda gets the needle, here's hoping a Seal Team can repatriate Joanne Chesimard from California to pay for her heinous murdering of a police officer. And here's also hoping Pam Bondi and Kash Patel go after Antica, BLM, SJP and the TIDES FOUNDATION with all they've got. Have a great weekend. And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- EXC: Inside Pam Bondi’s Influencer ‘Clusterf*ck’ Over the Epstein Files at the White House Today.
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- The Left’s lawfare against President Trump’s cleanup of the executive branch.
Activist Judges’ War on the Separation of Powers - The Chief Justice steps in.
Federal judge who thinks he's president blocked
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Daily Tech News 28 February 2025
Top Story
- The low-cost (for Apple) iPhone 16E is here and it's... Okay. (The Verge)
Yes. It's okay.
It's also $599, which is cheap for an iPhone, but not cheap.
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February 27, 2025
Coffee, Tea or ONT?
Hello everyone! Welcome to the ONT. Say, did you see this?
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or possibly AI
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Vance: I'm Going to Take This Effete Pillow-Biter Behind the Shed and Beat Some Free Speech Into Him
J.D. Vance decided that free speech is more important that diplomatic niceties with an effeminate enforcer of Islamic blasphemy laws and told him the US intended to stop the UK from restricting the speech of its own citizens, and, much more importantly, of American citizens, too.
Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg NEW: JD Vance calls out UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to his face for infringing on free speech, says he will talk to him about it at lunch. "I said what I said..." "There have been infringements on free speech that actually impact not just the British... but also impact American technology companies and by extension American citizens." "So that is something that we'll talk about today at lunch."
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Whistleblower: There's a Marxist "Trans Cult" That's Infiltrated the "Intelligence" Community
Christopher F. RufoA lot of people are freaking out unnecessarily about the lack of Epstein files revealed today. This article helps set expectations. You are not going to dig the ten thousand ticks out of the dog in a few days. As Reagan said, Trust but verify. We have a good team. Even good teams fumble the ball sometimes. Update: Thanks to Jack "Wacky Tobacky" Straw, Kash Patel has responded to Pam Bondi:
Whistleblower: There's a Trans Cult Inside the NSA
An insider tells the story of the intel agency's ideological capture. This week, City Journal broke the story of the National Security Agency's secret sex chatroom, which was filled with salacious discussions of genital surgeries, trans fetishes, and sexual activities. The headlines rocketed through the national media and led to action by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who, within days, released a memo demanding that the intelligence agencies identify the participants, terminate their employment, and remove their security clearances. But according to our whistleblower, these sex chats were just the tip of the iceberg. This longtime NSA insider tells me that the ideological capture of the NSA began a decade ago. Trans activists have entrenched themselves in positions of power, pressured employees to undergo reeducation trainings, and compromised national security in the name of ideology. This is a sadly familiar story in many American institutions. But with the NSA, the stakes are higher. The agency is responsible for overseeing America's digital intelligence-gathering and is, in theory, a key part of our national security apparatus.
The following interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity. Christopher Rufo: Tell me about this culture and how it's been spreading through the NSA. And talk to me about what it was like, even a year ago or a few months ago, before Trump reentered the White House. NSA Whistleblower: About ten years ago, they started doing the "employee resource groups": African-American, veterans, Pride. It was just a meeting here and there, almost like a potluck--culture, food, a speech. Then it started to get more and more. Instead of just one day a month, it was one week a month, or the whole month. You could be hired as a mathematician, a staff officer, or system engineer, but you would spend your time going to these events and having meetings all day about it. They got themselves into position to help craft policy and started pushing the idea that if you want to get promoted, you have to participate in these events. And then everything became Pride. You would go to a training, and it would be about "privilege" and "how to be a better ally." A lady would give classes on how to talk "gender-neutral" to people. You had analysts that didn't want to do the reporting they were supposed to be doing because they were going to have to report on somebody's "dead name." They were having this crisis of conscience about reporting the adversary's actual name because they thought it was their "dead name," and they didn't want to disrespect the person. It was like a cult that was hellbent on pushing gender ideology. Rufo: It seems like this is a clique of very activist male-to-female transgender agents. Tell me about this community. Whistleblower: There is a very small number of them, but they wield an enormous amount of power. And outside of the sick stuff, you also see a prevalent Marxist philosophy going on with these people in their chat rooms. They hate capitalism. They hate Christians. They're always espousing socialist and Marxist beliefs. I know several people at the agency brought that up, like, "Hey, we're here to fight for the U.S.A. and go after the adversaries." And they just got hammered. They would just start coming out with "transphobe" and "homophobe" right away or calling you a "racist." And that's why a lot of folks are still hesitant to say anything, because you still have people at these agencies in those key spots. It infected everything.
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More Videos Surface Featuring Hard-Boiled News-Sleuth Fake Jake Claiming That Biden Is "Mentally Sharp" and Attacking Anyone Who Says Otherwise as a Partisan Liar-for-Hire
Some of these clips are from 2023-2024. He was still lyin' and denyin' even then.
He wants us all to concentrate on his great Courage in calling out Biden as having lost a step... after Barack Obama had dispatched his messenger George Clooney to tell All Good Democrats to demand that Biden step aside. When the Democrat Narrative was that Biden was "mentally sharp," Tapper pushed that lie. When the Democrat Narrative shifted to "Biden Must Go to Save the Election," only then did Hard-Boiled News-Sleuth Jake Tapper put on his fedora and start playing detective.Posted by: Ace at 04:37 PM | Comments (293) | Trackbacks (Suck)
Bamboozled? Led Astray? Run Amok?
"Phase 1" of Epstein Files Consist Mostly of Lists of Deleted Pages, Plus a Few Heavily Redacted Pages;
Pam Bondi Accuses NY FBI Field Office of Hiding Documents and Lying to Her About Delivering Them All Over
Super-researchers Jordan Shaechtel asked if the released files contain any new documents. I don't think he got an answer yet. Attorney General Bondi wrote a letter to FBI Director Patel accusing the NY FBI office of lying and withholding, and demanded the FBI deliver all pages by tomorrow at 8am, with no excuses such as "this information came from a confidential source." She says the DOJ is quite capable of redacting sources and methods on its own, thankyouverymuch.
"Phase 1" of Epstein Files Consist Mostly of Lists of Deleted Pages, Plus a Few Heavily Redacted Pages;
Pam Bondi Accuses NY FBI Field Office of Hiding Documents and Lying to Her About Delivering Them All Over
Paul A. SzypulaHere's an example: Part 10 of the "release" contains only twelve or so pages listing pages which have been deleted. There is no information on what those deleted pages contained, or why they've been deleted.
@Bubblebathgirl "The Epstein Files: Phase 1" contains 22 parts, most of them heavily redacted. Part 22 contains the most unredacted pages which have to do with the accusations against Jeffrey Epstein. These pages include emails and letters from lawyers as well as depositions. No flight log.
Super-researchers Jordan Shaechtel asked if the released files contain any new documents. I don't think he got an answer yet. Attorney General Bondi wrote a letter to FBI Director Patel accusing the NY FBI office of lying and withholding, and demanded the FBI deliver all pages by tomorrow at 8am, with no excuses such as "this information came from a confidential source." She says the DOJ is quite capable of redacting sources and methods on its own, thankyouverymuch.
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh So then, Attorney General Pam Bondi has given the FBI until tomorrow at 8AM to give her "full and complete Epstein files." FBI NY office apparently withheld and disobeyed her initial order... Think about that. We have a new president, a new attorney general, a new FBI director - and this SH is still happening. It was NEVER going to be easy. It runs deep. VERY, VERY deep. Bondi has also ordered an investigation into why her initial order was not followed in the first place. There is a ton of work to do, folks. This is a problem.
Michael ShellenbergerShellenberger expands on that claim, discussing previous partial disclosures:
@shellenberger The FBI's NY Field Office said it gave @AGPamBondi all its Jeffrey Epstein Files. It lied to her, says Bondi. That may be because Epstein appears to have been running a sex blackmail operation, or honeytrap, for intelligence agencies. The FBI has used honeytraps for decades...
Jeffrey Epstein Ran Sex Blackmail Operation For Intelligence Agencies, New Evidence Suggests Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell used a puppet to entrap Prince Andrew, victim claims in unsealed court documents
The release of new court documents from a lawsuit related to Jeffrey Epstein yesterday "provided little, if any, new fodder for conspiracy theorists who remain fixated on Mr. Epstein's dealings more than four years after his death," according to the New York Times. The documents, the Times claimed, reinforced what the public already knew, namely that pedophile financier Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell made young and often underage women available for sex to powerful men. In fact, the documents offer new evidence and insight into how Epstein and Maxwell appeared to be blackmailing powerful individuals, albeit to mysterious ends. A judge ordered the release of the court documents, which were from a case brought by Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre against Maxwell in 2015. The parties settled in 2017. Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence. It's true that some of the information released yesterday had already come to light. Last April, for example, the Wall Street Journal reported that the current director of the Central Intelligence Agency, William Burns, had scheduled three meetings with Epstein in 2014. At the time, Burns was deputy secretary of state. According to the Journal, they met in Washington, D.C., and at Epstein's townhouse in Manhattan. The Journal based its reporting on Epstein's own emails and schedules. ... But the newly unsealed documents include powerful new evidence that Epstein and Maxwell were deliberately blackmailing people. Johanna Sjoberg, another one of Epstein's victims, recounted that he and Maxwell had created a Prince Andrew puppet for Prince Andrew. They presented it to him and used it to guide him into taking sexual photos with Sjoberg and Giuffre. "They put the puppet on Virginia's lap," Sjoberg testified, "and I sat on Andrew's lap, and they put the puppet's hand on Virginia's breast, and Andrew put his hand on my breast, and they took a photo." It is a remarkable passage since Maxwell and Epstein appear to be engaged in a kind of psychological operation, framing Andrew, to himself, as their puppet. Maxwell and Epstein apparently played it off as a joke to Andrew, and he played along, copying his puppet's behavior and groping Sjoberg. Epstein's sex blackmailing also required coercion. Sjoberg testified that Maxwell directed her to have sex with Prince Andrew. Another filing alleges that Jane Doe #3 was "forced to have sexual relations with this prince when she was a minor in three separate geographical locations" and that Epstein told her to "give the prince whatever he demanded and required Jane Doe #3 to report back to him on the details of the sexual abuse." The court documents also contain allegations against billionaires Glenn Dubin and Tom Pritzker. Prizker currently serves as the CEO of the Pritzker Organization and as executive chairman of the Hyatt Hotels Corporation and is a member of the Aspen Institute. Giuffre alleges that she had sex with both Dubin and Pritzker under the direction of Maxwell and Epstein. ... The Epstein scandal has implicated many powerful people. Melinda Gates told reporters last year that her husband Bill's connections to Epstein had been part of the reason for her decision to seek a divorce from him. "I did not like that he'd had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein, no," she told Gayle King. Bill Gates said Epstein tried to blackmail him. "Mr. Gates met with Epstein solely for philanthropic purposes. Having failed repeatedly to draw Mr. Gates beyond these matters, Epstein tried unsuccessfully to leverage a past relationship to threaten Mr. Gates," a spokeswoman for Gates told the Wall Street Journal last year. Epstein and Maxwell appear to have been running a large and well-funded blackmail operation. Why would they?
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Pentagon Memo: All Transgenders Are Officially Prohibited from Military Service Unless They Get a Special Exemption
I know what you're thinking: This order is going to completely hollow out the military, dismissing its most serious-minded warriors. I totally agree. So does this Warrior.
U.S. service members who are transgender or otherwise exhibit gender dysphoria are prohibited from military service unless they obtain an exemption, according to an internal Pentagon memo. The memo, revealed in a court filing on Wednesday night, details the Trump administration's new policy regarding transgender individuals. The policy notes that such service members "may be considered for a waiver on a case-by-case basis, provided there is a compelling Government interest." "Service members who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria are disqualified from military service," the memo reads. "Service members who have a history of cross-sex hormone therapy or a history of sex reassignment or genital reconstruction surgery as treatment for gender dysphoria or in pursuit of a sex transition, are disqualified from military service," the memo continues. The memo goes on to stipulate a number of requirements a solider must meet in order to obtain an exemption. The soldier must demonstrate 36 consecutive months of "stability in the service member's sex." The soldier must demonstrate that they have never attempted to transition to any sex other than their sex. Finally, the soldier must be willing to adhere to any standards associated with their sex.
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"Phase 1" of Epstein Files Release Expected Today
Which pedophiles are bracing for a really bad weekend?
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Every Week is Now Thanksgiving Week and Every Friday is Christmas
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Gene Hackman, His Wife and One of His Dogs Found Dead at Their Santa Fe Home Under "Suspicious" Circumstances
He was 95.
Gene Hackman and wife's death investigated as 'suspicious' after door was found open, pills found The deaths of Gene Hackman, his wife and one of their dogs is being investigated as "suspicious" by authorities who said on Thursday that the door to the couple's Santa Fe, New Mexico, home was "unsecured and opened," police wrote in an affidavit obtained by TMZ. Authorities said the deaths were "suspicious enough in nature to require a thorough search and investigation" after also finding an open pill bottle and pills were also found scattered around the room where Hackman's wife, classical pianist Betsy Arakawa, and the dog were discovered.A couple of months ago I re-watched The Quick and the Dead. I only half-liked it when I first saw it, but I really appreciated it this time. Yeah Sharon Stone's face is like stationary driftwood as usual but every one else is terrific, including even Leonardo DiCaprio. He's great. So is Lance Henrickson, Keith David (bet you forgot he was in it) and Russel Crowe. Even Gary Sinise shows up. Gene Hackman has one of his most Gene Hackman line-readings ever. The scene involves "Herod," the wealthy tyrant who rules an Old West town, hosting "The Lady" at a dinner in his big house. He wants to know why "Lady" came to this town and entered its annual shoot-out contest.
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The Morning Rant 
The United States Postal Service's informal motto is, "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" My response to this constitutionally authorized agency's informal motto is, Bull Fvcking Shit. The following may fall under The Morning Rant and/or First World Problems $9.5 billion worth. Yes, $9.5 billion, with a B that was the 2024 deficit the USPS ran up. As many of you know yours truly lives in the boondocks of The Frozen Tundra. The move took place in 2018. One of the first things completed was installing an approved mail box to a specified height. Over the years the mail carrier or whatever the approved title is would place flyers in my mail box. Everything from the USPS collecting food items or a friendly reminder on how I was to keep the snow away from the mail box so they could deliver the mail. The USPS felt it was fine they could place "their mail" in my receptacle. As we all know, the USPS certainly takes a number of days off due to Federal Holidays. The last holiday the USPS celebrated was President's Day Monday February 17th. The following day our mail box was full of the regular items one expects. However there was no flyer from the USPS what was about to take place the following day. On Wednesday there was no mail in our box. No problem, as it is not uncommon to go a day without mail. Thursday morning I walked out and placed mail in the box with the good old red flag placed in the upright position. The outgoing mail was not picked up on Thursday, Friday or Saturday. Nor was any delivered. I had been expecting several important pieces of mail and I'm starting to worry and also getting peeved about the situation. So Monday February 24th I drive into town to find out what is going on. I asked to see the Post Master. Well, that can't happen as the Post Master is somewhere in the southern part of the state filling in and won't be back until May. So I then proceeded to talk to the most senior employee there. Also our mail carrier was present and joined the conversation. My simple question was, "Where the hell is my mail and what is going on?" The story I received was one that makes one's head spin. From September 2018 until May 2024 our mail had been delivered by a contractor who was delivering mail for the USPS under a "Highway Contract". There had been a couple of problems during this time. But nothing compared to this. I was informed by our postal carrier that they had won the "Highway Contract" in May 2024 but there were approximately 85 mail recipients who were not included in the route. The contractor advised us that they had made numerous attempts to have the contract reviewed and revised to include the 85 residents. As a sign of good faith our mail carrier advised us she was delivering mail to us without getting paid for her time and mileage. I said, "Hang on a minute here. Our neighbor approximately 1/2 mile from us is getting mail but we aren't?" She advised us that the "Highway Contract" mail route ended at our neighbor a 1/2 mile away. Our mail and our adjacent neighbor's mail were not part of the contract. She indicated she was putting on approximately 9 miles a day without getting paid. And this had been going on since May 2024. According to her numerous efforts had been made to get the problem resolved. And since it hadn't been resolved she wasn't going to deliver to our mail box or the other 80+ residents. My response was something to the effect, "That's all fine and dandy. But in the age of communication and transparency why wasn't I notified? You are pretty happy to keep slipping reminders in our box to keep the area free of snow but you couldn't tell us about this problem?" I was informed that she was prohibited from placing any notice of this in our mailbox as it was not approved by the Postmaster or the USPS. With gas at $3.02 a gallon at the moment, I get it that 9 miles per day 6 days a week for 9 months and not getting paid is utter BS. So now if I want to mail a letter or get my mail, I have a 13 mile round trip to town. I have better things to do with my time and the wear and tear on my vehicle to obtain my mail which is Constitutionally guaranteed. The USPS doesn't care about my carbon footprint but they are willing to spend $$$$$ to purchase 66,000 EVs by 2028. (I suspect Buck Throckmorton will talk about all the mail that will go up in flames due to these rolling firebombs.)
One job, pick up and deliver mail. And if you wonder why they have a $9.5 Billion deficit, check out the following pricing for a package I recently sent.
The United States Postal Service's informal motto is, "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" My response to this constitutionally authorized agency's informal motto is, Bull Fvcking Shit. The following may fall under The Morning Rant and/or First World Problems $9.5 billion worth. Yes, $9.5 billion, with a B that was the 2024 deficit the USPS ran up. As many of you know yours truly lives in the boondocks of The Frozen Tundra. The move took place in 2018. One of the first things completed was installing an approved mail box to a specified height. Over the years the mail carrier or whatever the approved title is would place flyers in my mail box. Everything from the USPS collecting food items or a friendly reminder on how I was to keep the snow away from the mail box so they could deliver the mail. The USPS felt it was fine they could place "their mail" in my receptacle. As we all know, the USPS certainly takes a number of days off due to Federal Holidays. The last holiday the USPS celebrated was President's Day Monday February 17th. The following day our mail box was full of the regular items one expects. However there was no flyer from the USPS what was about to take place the following day. On Wednesday there was no mail in our box. No problem, as it is not uncommon to go a day without mail. Thursday morning I walked out and placed mail in the box with the good old red flag placed in the upright position. The outgoing mail was not picked up on Thursday, Friday or Saturday. Nor was any delivered. I had been expecting several important pieces of mail and I'm starting to worry and also getting peeved about the situation. So Monday February 24th I drive into town to find out what is going on. I asked to see the Post Master. Well, that can't happen as the Post Master is somewhere in the southern part of the state filling in and won't be back until May. So I then proceeded to talk to the most senior employee there. Also our mail carrier was present and joined the conversation. My simple question was, "Where the hell is my mail and what is going on?" The story I received was one that makes one's head spin. From September 2018 until May 2024 our mail had been delivered by a contractor who was delivering mail for the USPS under a "Highway Contract". There had been a couple of problems during this time. But nothing compared to this. I was informed by our postal carrier that they had won the "Highway Contract" in May 2024 but there were approximately 85 mail recipients who were not included in the route. The contractor advised us that they had made numerous attempts to have the contract reviewed and revised to include the 85 residents. As a sign of good faith our mail carrier advised us she was delivering mail to us without getting paid for her time and mileage. I said, "Hang on a minute here. Our neighbor approximately 1/2 mile from us is getting mail but we aren't?" She advised us that the "Highway Contract" mail route ended at our neighbor a 1/2 mile away. Our mail and our adjacent neighbor's mail were not part of the contract. She indicated she was putting on approximately 9 miles a day without getting paid. And this had been going on since May 2024. According to her numerous efforts had been made to get the problem resolved. And since it hadn't been resolved she wasn't going to deliver to our mail box or the other 80+ residents. My response was something to the effect, "That's all fine and dandy. But in the age of communication and transparency why wasn't I notified? You are pretty happy to keep slipping reminders in our box to keep the area free of snow but you couldn't tell us about this problem?" I was informed that she was prohibited from placing any notice of this in our mailbox as it was not approved by the Postmaster or the USPS. With gas at $3.02 a gallon at the moment, I get it that 9 miles per day 6 days a week for 9 months and not getting paid is utter BS. So now if I want to mail a letter or get my mail, I have a 13 mile round trip to town. I have better things to do with my time and the wear and tear on my vehicle to obtain my mail which is Constitutionally guaranteed. The USPS doesn't care about my carbon footprint but they are willing to spend $$$$$ to purchase 66,000 EVs by 2028. (I suspect Buck Throckmorton will talk about all the mail that will go up in flames due to these rolling firebombs.)
One job, pick up and deliver mail. And if you wonder why they have a $9.5 Billion deficit, check out the following pricing for a package I recently sent.
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