August 06, 2024
Kamala Harris Picks Pro-Child-Mutilation, Pro-BLM-Insurrection Former Teacher Tim Walz as Her Running Cuck
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I hope everyone's having a meaty, musky Tuesday. Kamala Harris' best VP pick would have been Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro. He's moderate -- um, by modern Democrat Party standards, leastaways -- and he's the governor of the tipping point state in this election. (A "tipping point" state is the state that's in the middle of the battleground states, politically -- it's where the election literally tips one way or the other.) He was the pick that scared me the most. Picking him would suggest that Kamala Harris is making a play for the middle. There was, of course, just one small problem with Shapiro: He's a Jew, and the antisemitic left hates Jews. Don't take my word for it -- here's Democrat Florida Representative Jared Moskowitz:Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party's presidential nominee, on Tuesday named Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate as she faces off against former President Trump in the 2024 election, Fox News Digital has confirmed. The naming of the 60-year-old Walz was not a shocker, as his name was instantly thought to be in contention in the two weeks since Harris succeeded President Biden as the party's standard-bearer. Walz, a former congressman, is in his second term as governor of Minnesota, a state that Democrats have reliably won in presidential elections for decades but that the Trump campaign has aimed at flipping this cycle. "I am proud to announce that I've asked @Tim_Walz to be my running mate," Harris officially announced on X Tuesday. "As a governor, a coach, a teacher, and a veteran, he's delivered for working families like his." She added: "It's great to have him on the team. Now let's get to work."Look at this list of "accomplishments:"
Walz, the chair of the Democratic Governors Association, may also help Harris when it comes to bringing in campaign cash, as he has helped steer the DGA to record-breaking fundraising this year. The governor will also be able to showcase a slew of progressive policy victories in Minnesota, including protecting abortion rights, legalizing recreational marijuana and restricting gun access to curb shootings. Raised in rural Nebraska, Walz enlisted in the Army National Guard in 1981, soon after graduating from high school. Walz returned to Nebraska to attend Chadron State College, where he graduated in 1989 with a degree in social science education. He taught English and American History in China for one year through a program at Harvard University before being hired in 1990 as a high school teacher and football and basketball coach in Nebraska. Six years later, he moved to Mankato, Minnesota, to teach geography at Mankato West High.BTW, expect him to make a big deal out of his "war record." During the Gulf War, he served in... Italy. Whoa, that's what I call hazard duty. I know: "They also serve who only stand and wait." Agreed! I just don't want to hear that he's an "Iraq War (era) veteran. No more DaNang Dicks. Update: Whew, that was fast.
@JackPosobiecEd Driscoll rounds up reactions from the right. He quotes Minnesotan (I think) John Hinderaker:
BREAKING: Minnesota National Guard Leaders publish letter exposing Tim Walz for Stolen Valor Walz lied about his rank, and quit when he heard his unit was going to mobilize to Iraq
As an American, I am horrified at Walz's selection. He is small-minded, mean-spirited man. In one way, he will fit in with the Harris ticket: he ran a basement campaign for re-election in 2022, refusing to show up for debates with Republican Scott Jensen after the first one went badly. So Jensen was left debating an empty chair. Walz's character defects are considerable, but let's leave it at this: he was largely responsible for the George Floyd riots that devastated Minneapolis and other cities, because he dithered for days rather than calling out the National Guard. By his own admission, he held off out of sympathy for the rioters' cause.Kyle Shideler says this is a bold strategy, Cotton, we'll have to see how it works out for them:
Kyle Shideler
@ShidelerK So Kamala picked the governor who failed to handle the rioters in the same state where she supported the rioter's bail fund? Seems like a choice.
ZitoSalenaUpdate: What I think this means is that Pelosi didn't want a VP candidate who could help win the White House -- she wanted a VP pick that would excite and solidify the leftwing base, and thus help Democrat Senators and Congressmen win their seats. Remember, that's what panicked Pelosi -- not that Biden was losing, but that he was losing so badly it was causing Democrats to tune out of the election. She feared losing 8 Senate seats. As for Josh Shapiro: He was so gutless, heartless, and thirsty for power he scrubbed his record of any unacceptable support for Israel:
@ZitoSalena ...2 things are true. 1st picking @GovernorShapiro would've been about expanding the coalition [while] picking Walz is about a base election. @GovTimWalz is deep blue progressive, often called a prairie progressive. 2nd this was Pelosi's pick & she has been at the controls all along.
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@ChristianCamara Disgraceful: Shapiro scrubbed his Wikipedia page of his @IDF service and is distancing himself from his pro-@Israel past to earn the Harris VP nod.
Ron ColemanScumbag cuck and self-hating antisemite prick. Pro-Trump activists are going to make the very-pro-arson-and-racial-insurrection Tim Walz pay for his weidness:
@RonColeman Poor @JoshShapiroPA stitched his foreskin back on for nothing
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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition
One wonders whether we left equipment as well as a modern airbase? Echos of Afghanistan anyone? But why are we confronting Russia on its border with Ukraine while simultaneously running away in a strategically important area thousands of miles from Russia? Because we do not have a geopolitical philosophy that guides our actions, so these decisions are based on an insane, short-term set of decisions that when seen over a period of years make no sense...unless the ultimate goal is the degradation of American power. How else to explain our cozying up to Iran, while Iranian proxies do their damnedest to kill Americans and our allies? US personnel wounded in attack against base in Iraq, officials say An attack on American military personnel should be treated as an attack on America. The response should be overwhelming, and the supporters of those who attacked us should be treated like enemies. But we treat Iran as if they are completely separate from their foreign policy, which is simple and direct: kill Americans and Israelis whenever and wherever they can. Western analysis of the assassination of Haniyeh by Israel suggests that Iran will attack Israel in the short term, probably with a combination of ballistic missiles, drones, and cruise missiles. An appropriate response would be strategic bombing of Iranian missile bases by the United States, Israel and perhaps other Western countries before they launch. After all, Iran is the ultimate antagonist in the Middle East, controlling Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and a host of other groups whose only function seems to be the disruption of the West. That is evidence enough that Iran is the problem, and playing a proportionate response game simply emboldens them. And wasting expensive anti-missile systems while exposing how they work, when there is a better and more effective response available is an example of the lack of a coherent geopolitical philosophy. [Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter]
Following a military coup in July of 2023, a pro-Russian military junta took over Niger, ousting the Western-backed president. The National Pulse reported that neighboring nations and the Biden-Harris government in the U.S. initially threatened to intervene and restore the country's former leader. However, by April of this year, Russian forces had begun to move in, with Biden conceding to the junta and announcing a withdrawal of U.S. troops.
One wonders whether we left equipment as well as a modern airbase? Echos of Afghanistan anyone? But why are we confronting Russia on its border with Ukraine while simultaneously running away in a strategically important area thousands of miles from Russia? Because we do not have a geopolitical philosophy that guides our actions, so these decisions are based on an insane, short-term set of decisions that when seen over a period of years make no sense...unless the ultimate goal is the degradation of American power. How else to explain our cozying up to Iran, while Iranian proxies do their damnedest to kill Americans and our allies? US personnel wounded in attack against base in Iraq, officials say An attack on American military personnel should be treated as an attack on America. The response should be overwhelming, and the supporters of those who attacked us should be treated like enemies. But we treat Iran as if they are completely separate from their foreign policy, which is simple and direct: kill Americans and Israelis whenever and wherever they can. Western analysis of the assassination of Haniyeh by Israel suggests that Iran will attack Israel in the short term, probably with a combination of ballistic missiles, drones, and cruise missiles. An appropriate response would be strategic bombing of Iranian missile bases by the United States, Israel and perhaps other Western countries before they launch. After all, Iran is the ultimate antagonist in the Middle East, controlling Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and a host of other groups whose only function seems to be the disruption of the West. That is evidence enough that Iran is the problem, and playing a proportionate response game simply emboldens them. And wasting expensive anti-missile systems while exposing how they work, when there is a better and more effective response available is an example of the lack of a coherent geopolitical philosophy. [Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter]
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
Charles E. Weir From the Met's description...
Or...if one discards the blatant politics of victim-hood that the Metropolitan Museum of Art wallows in...it's an interesting scene that shows the evolution of a city.
Charles E. Weir From the Met's description...
"The Wood Sawyer" is unlike any known early 19th-century genre scene in its positive focus on a Black figure. Painted by New York-trained Charles Weir (younger brother of the better-known Robert Weir), it is one of just two existing works by the artist. As noted in the title, the depicted figure is a ‘sawyer’, cutting wood to be sent down an open scuttle—visible with its chained cast-iron cap in the stone sidewalk—into the cellar of a hotel, identified by the hanging sign. The man’s elegant dress may also imply different responsibilities as a porter. The presence of rooting hogs in the middle distance indicate sanitation challenges in a rapidly industrializing New York, especially in working-class neighborhoods, where the animals also functioned as a source of food. On his 1842 visit to the city, English writer and social critic Charles Dickens was astonished by their "roving, gentlemanly, vagabond kind of life. They are never attended upon, or fed, or driven, or caught, but are thrown upon their own resources in early life, and become preternaturally knowing in consequence. . . . At this hour, just as evening is closing in, you will see them roaming towards bed by scores, eating their way to the last." That Weir chose to highlight both this critical urban problem and the significant labor of a free person of color reveals the topicality of the work.
Or...if one discards the blatant politics of victim-hood that the Metropolitan Museum of Art wallows in...it's an interesting scene that shows the evolution of a city.
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The Morning Report — 8/6/24
For the last three years, it has felt as if markets were waiting for the other shoe to drop. Today, many believe that it has finally done so. Japanese markets crashed on Friday, and even more on Monday; the Topix plummeted 13 percent, a drop not seen since 1987. Global markets followed suit. One might write this off as just another day of volatility. The worry, though, is that this is something much worse: the start of a bear market and a long-feared recession. It’s too soon to tell; markets have been jittery for a long time. But the turmoil does show that we have become over-reliant on monetary policy as the solution to our economic problems. Since the pandemic, markets had risen—a lot. The S&P 500 was up, just last week, 133 percent from its pandemic lows. Its strength mainly owed to the Magnificent Seven tech stocks. Even if you think that artificial intelligence will be the greatest thing ever to happen to the United States economy, such high valuations this early in the innovation cycle are hard to justify. It also seemed unlikely that inflation would be defeated without a significant slowdown; a soft landing had never happened before. Despite all these concerns, markets mostly kept climbing, and the economy remained strong, though it never felt completely secure. A recession always seemed in the offing, once something finally broke. Perhaps it has now.Still, the great Milton Friedman was right, you cannot have a welfare state and open borders. Yet, as I touched upon at the outset, that's just the tip of the iceberg of radical egalitarian socialism/communism whose home is the anti-American Left and Democrat party, and businesses that go along to get along.
Why do our Democratic friends keep wrecking the economy? It all comes down to the binary of gifting your supporters and going to war against the enemy. So every Democratic administration decides to throw more money at free health care and maybe start a war.
It’s odd how often our Democratic friends start a war right after a presidential election: Woodrow Wilson in 1917, FDR in 1941, Harry Truman in 1950. And LBJ waited until 1965 to really crank up the Vietnam war. You and I think about the economy: our jobs, careers, getting inflation down and growth up. But politicians don’t. They think about heroic deeds, like bashing the Kaiser, taking out Hitler and Tojo, sorting the Commies, and “tackling” climate change. Why do they do it? Because wars are what rulers do. They can tax and spend and inflate to their hearts’ content, and if all the taxing and spending and inflating impoverishes the people, well, it’s all in a good cause: saving the world.
And when there’s no war, then politics is all about taxing the rich and helping the poor. . . Let’s look at things another way. Suppose there was no climate change to fight. Suppose there were no oppressed peoples. Do you see the problem? There would be nothing for national governments to do. There would be nothing for headline politicians to do. There would be nothing for devoted activists to do. There would be nothing for government bureaucrats to do.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- Michael Walsh: But what struck me as being different this time was how even local reporters had turned into slavish mouthpieces for the state, as they set about utterly destroying the lives of anyone that went to Washington that day. In case after case, these people were vilified in their home papers and on their local news reports, resulting in the loss of their jobs, their homes, their businesses, and the respect of their neighbors, and even their liberty—all before any trials had taken place. For the media, these “insurrectionists” were guilty until proven innocent.
'How the Media Missed What I Saw on January 6'
- It’s a wonderful introduction to our system of government. But for all the video gets right, there’s an anomaly at its core.
Neil Gorsuch Op-ED: ‘Schoolhouse Rock’ Forgot To Teach Kids About The Administrative State
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Daily Tech News 6 August 2024
Top Story
- How dare That Devil Trump and his Ventriloquist Puppet Vance suggest that the government take action against Google? (The Verge)
They are clearly fascist racists and their racist fascism is illegal under the First Amendment and they and everyone they know and all their families should be imprisoned without trial immediately and forever. Also, Peter Thiel!!!1!
- A federal judge has ruled that Google is maintaining an illegal monopoly in the search and advertising markets. (The Verge)
Amit Mehta of the District Court for DC, an Obama appointee, ruled in favour of the Biden Administration's antitrust lawsuit against Google, saying that the company had violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act.
This is clearly the work of That Devil Trump. His perfidy knows no bounds.
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August 05, 2024
Monday Overnight Open Thread (8/5/24)*****
The Quotes of The Day
Quote I “The way to secure the border is to create a legitimate way for people and firms to get the labor that the economy really needs in legitimate, legal ways, and until we have that, the whole debate over the wall and stuff is just silly,” Lant Pritchett, one of the world’s top thinkers on developmental economics, has seen this crisis coming for decades over his career at Harvard, the World Bank, and Oxford University, where he currently heads a research lab.
Quote II "I am proud of the fact I am a mackem. I am proud that I am English." Zaf Iqbal, Muslim taxi driver from Sunderland
Quote III “Kamala’s support for reparations is further proof that she is the new poster child for socialism in our country,” Jon Harvey, president and founder of Iron Sight Coffee Brewing Co.
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The U of Missouri Plays a Shell Game with DEI, Firing a Single DEI Provost and Assigning All DEI Personel to Other Departments
Gut. Their. Funding. Take away the billion dollars.
Missouri is considering joining other states in banning DEI at publicly-funded universities. The Chancellor of Missouri just played a shell game to try to turn the pressure off.
All he did was eliminate one single position, and re-assign his many, many DEI officers to other departments. I believe the military calls this "malicious compliance." You're not really complying wit the order, you're defying it. But you're pretending to comply enough to avoid a court martial.Gut. Their. Funding. Take away the billion dollars.
In other words, he took the DEI officers out of the DEI appointment and just assigned them to other departments. So he can tell state legislators: What DEI office? We don't have a DEI office. (We merely have DEI officers scattered throughout the university.)
While other state universities laid off staff when DEI was eliminated, no staff will be eliminated at Missouri other than the vice chancellor position. University of Missouri President Mun Choi had sleepless nights thinking about losing $1 billion in state funding due to diversity, equity and inclusion programs. On Tuesday, Choi helped his insomnia by eliminating what the university called the "Inclusion, Diversity and Equity" office. He reassigned programs to the Division of Student Affairs, the Office of the Provost and the Division of Marketing and Communications. Choi estimated the cost savings of the changes to be $6 million.
"I always think about our support from the state of Missouri because it's the largest single-source of revenue for the university," Choi told reporters. "So, yes, it does keep me up at night, not only because of DEI legislative mandates but all of our activities."Choi is bragging that he fake-complied with the law while keeping all the DEI staff:
This will be what many state university systems do in response to anti-DEI legislation. Update: Should have added this to the last post.
In an email sent Tuesday to the campus, Choi noted 14 states had bills eliminating DEI become law. While other state universities laid off staff when DEI was eliminated, no staff will be eliminated at Missouri other than the vice chancellor position. "In the Missouri Legislature, 13 pieces of DEI legislation were introduced during the past two years," Choi wrote. "Our proactive responses played a role in averting the passage of these bills. These responses included the elimination of diversity hiring statements; the ending of race-conscious admissions and scholarships; and ensuring that inclusion means inclusion for all." ... "Those programs are still there," Choi said. "I would strongly disagree with the characterization that this is drifting away. We're continuing our commitment to ensuring that each of our students we bring into our university is provided the opportunity to succeed. And that's important for me and the University of Missouri."
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Judge Rules that Google "Is a Monopolist" In the Search Sector of the Economy
And of course the search function gives Google the power to privilege some businesses (like CNN) and punish others (like mine). And of course this isn't a hypothetical power they can abuse; try searching for "Trump rally" and they'll serve you ten articles for "Kamala Harris rally." Search for news about anything and Google will make you scroll through two or three pages of results until you find one that isn't from CNN, MSNBC, Bloomberg, AL FUCKING JAZEERA, etc. They use their monopoly power to create a Reality Distortion Field the power and extent of which would make Hitler and Stalin go green with envy.
That's why monopolies are illegal: Because the monopolist has the power from his one part of the economy, which is already distorted by the presence of a monopoly, to distort many other parts of the economy. He can use his monopoly power in one market to distort other markets. And Google is unquestionably doing that. I just don't understand people who are still relying on Talking Points from Rush Limbaugh from the 1993 anti-trust lawsuit about Microsoft, or talking points from National Review's gang of corporatist-funded corporate authoritarians, to see that yes, Google is a monopoly and further, Google is using that monopoly power in exactly the way we don't want it to, to leverage that monopoly power in one sector of the economy to pick winners and losers in every other sector.
Break. Them. Up. Using your monopoly power to squelch competition is the ONE FUCKING THING that monopolies are not allowed to do. Obviously, using monopoly power to squelch competition is stopping the very "free market forces" the babbling libertarian morons claim will "create new competitors to rise up." But whatever, the corporatists gotta repeat corporatist propaganda to keep them corporatist donations flowing. Can't wait for National Review and Commentary to tell us all that we must support Google and wait for that 60-150 years for "competitors to rise up naturally." Corporations are not deities to be worshiped and I wish the Corporate Cultists would realize that. But, of course, the monopolies are paying them to be pro-monopoly -- again, leveraging their monopoly power to keep their monopoly power. And I know National Review and the rest of the corporate cucks are doing just fine with search and advertising: Google makes sure it keeps its Controlled Opposition as the main opposition people can turn to, while ruthlessly throttling the real opposition.
The most money-making part of the internet is search -- deciding what people see when they look for products, information, and political information --and Google is a monopolist in it.
They're also a monopolist in the second biggest money-making part of the internet sector -- placing ads on websites -- but this judge hasn't ruled on that.And of course the search function gives Google the power to privilege some businesses (like CNN) and punish others (like mine). And of course this isn't a hypothetical power they can abuse; try searching for "Trump rally" and they'll serve you ten articles for "Kamala Harris rally." Search for news about anything and Google will make you scroll through two or three pages of results until you find one that isn't from CNN, MSNBC, Bloomberg, AL FUCKING JAZEERA, etc. They use their monopoly power to create a Reality Distortion Field the power and extent of which would make Hitler and Stalin go green with envy.
That's why monopolies are illegal: Because the monopolist has the power from his one part of the economy, which is already distorted by the presence of a monopoly, to distort many other parts of the economy. He can use his monopoly power in one market to distort other markets. And Google is unquestionably doing that. I just don't understand people who are still relying on Talking Points from Rush Limbaugh from the 1993 anti-trust lawsuit about Microsoft, or talking points from National Review's gang of corporatist-funded corporate authoritarians, to see that yes, Google is a monopoly and further, Google is using that monopoly power in exactly the way we don't want it to, to leverage that monopoly power in one sector of the economy to pick winners and losers in every other sector.
People who repeat the Zombie Talking Point that "monopolies are transitory because competitors always rise up" stupidly ignore the fact that Google is paying other companies to make its offering the default option. And when, exactly, will these competitors "rise up" and displace Google? In sixty fucking years? Maybe 100? Maybe 300? What are people, like me, supposed to do for sixty fucking years as Google uses its monopoly to deny traffic to my business? Shall I just quote happily from Adam Smith and babble about "the Invisible Hand" coming to rescue me in 60 years as I go bankrupt?
Judge Declares Google a Monopoly: What Comes Next Judge Amit Mehta said in his ruling that the company "is a monopolist," and has violated US antitrust law, specifically, Section 2 of the Sherman Act.
On Monday, a federal judge ruled against tech giant Google in a landmark case that alleged the company acted illegally to keep a monopoly in search, saying it paid companies to make Google the default search engine on smartphones and other devices.
The case has the potential to change how tech companies do business, as well as how their customers find answers to their online search queries. The trial, held last year, took 10 weeks and was years in the making. "After having carefully considered and weighed the witness testimony and evidence, the court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly," US District Judge Amit Mehta wrote. "It has violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act." Why is this so important? The ruling comes as Big Tech is seeing renewed scrutiny from regulators both domestically and abroad. Apple was hit with an antitrust suit by the US Department of Justice and 16 state attorneys general earlier this year arguing that the iPhone maker had too tight of a control on its premium handset, preventing other companies from creating applications that could compete with its own. Amazon too was hit with a lawsuit by the US Federal Trade Commission and 17 state attorneys general last year alleging the online retail giant engages in exclusionary and anticompetitive behavior. And, per the EU's Digital Markets Act, Apple had to allow third-party app stores to work with iPhone. Google itself has been embroiled in a number of lawsuits, including one involving data handling in its Chrome browser. Google is currently the king of online search, with over 91% global market share, according to GlobalStats.They're also a monopoly in placing advertising on websites. Again, they use this monopoly power to destroy businesses -- and speech, and political parties and political movements they disapprove of -- using the power of monopoly that we are for some reason permitting them to keep and abuse. I don't know if you can talk about squelching political parties and movements as being an anti-trust violation. I don't know if political movements can be protected by the law the way actual businesses can, so I'm focusing on people trying to earn a living and being destroyed by this monopoly. But yes, Google is leveraging its monopoly power to favor the radical left and to silence the common-sense right.
Mehta's ruling did not include potential remedies for Google's behavior, The New York Times reports. His decision in that regard could force the company to change how it operates or even sell off part of the company.
Break. Them. Up. Using your monopoly power to squelch competition is the ONE FUCKING THING that monopolies are not allowed to do. Obviously, using monopoly power to squelch competition is stopping the very "free market forces" the babbling libertarian morons claim will "create new competitors to rise up." But whatever, the corporatists gotta repeat corporatist propaganda to keep them corporatist donations flowing. Can't wait for National Review and Commentary to tell us all that we must support Google and wait for that 60-150 years for "competitors to rise up naturally." Corporations are not deities to be worshiped and I wish the Corporate Cultists would realize that. But, of course, the monopolies are paying them to be pro-monopoly -- again, leveraging their monopoly power to keep their monopoly power. And I know National Review and the rest of the corporate cucks are doing just fine with search and advertising: Google makes sure it keeps its Controlled Opposition as the main opposition people can turn to, while ruthlessly throttling the real opposition.
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Inspector General's Report: Despite Madison Cornbread's Perjury, Trump Never Wrenched the Wheel of the Presidential SUV from the Driver
So when will this Insurrectionist be going to jail for perjury?
In other words, they didn't want to falsify the story, so they didn't bother investigating and allowed Madison Cornbread's lies to poison the discourse. And the Secret Service didn't bother knocking the story down. They, under the leadership of Kim Cheatle and Ronald Rowe Jr., were all too willing to allow the disinformation to stand -- just as the FBI allowed the "51 Intelligence Officials" disinformation to stand, despite having determined themselves that Hunter Biden's laptop belonged to none other than Hunter Biden. Speaking of, Cheatle and Rowe also wanted to destroy Hunter Biden's cocaine so that no one would ever know who brought Hunter Biden's cocaine into the White House.
Remember Cassidy Hutchinson, the former West Wing aide who swore that the hearsay evidence she would tell the J6 Committee was the truth, the whole truth, so help her God? The new Inspector General's report on the Secret Service's activities on Jan. 6, 2021, has finally put this story and Hutchinson's reputation into the wood-chipper. As you may recall, Hutchinson said that on January 6, as President Donald Trump was driven from his speech at a Save America rally to the White House, he "lunged" at the Secret Service driver when he learned that he wouldn't be going to the Capitol Building for a "peaceful and patriotic" protest. That was the story she told the January 6 Committee. Hutchinson, immediately turned into the darling of the Never Trump left. She testified before the January 6 Committee -- which, coincidentally, put their documents into the wood-chipper too, small world -- that the angry orange man caused quite a scene in the car. In 2022 she testified that "The president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. Mr. Engel [lead Secret Service detail agent] grabbed his arm, and said, 'Sir you need to take your hand off the steering wheel, we're going back to the West Wing, we're not going to the Capitol.' Mr. Trump then used his free hand to lunge towards Bobby Engel." Hutchinson's "source" for the gossip was, she claimed, former Secret Service agent-turned-Trump White House Deputy Chief of Staff Tony Ornato. Ornato says he never witnessed the event, much less told her. Furthermore, the IG's redacted report says the Secret Service took more than four months before he made himself available where he reiterated that this Trump episode never happened. The other Secret Service agents who were in the car said Trump never lunged at the driver, though one reported that he was angry that he couldn't go.
In other words, he wanted to swab the cocaine bag for DNA and Cheatle and Rowe took him off the case for suggesting this extremely-obvious step. Remember when the DNA swab came back inconclusive? What do you want to bet that someone helpfully wiped it? Susan Crabtree writes further about Cheatle's role as a protector of the Biden family, and the usual method of dealing with Hunter Biden's drug paraphrenalia -- just getting rid of it.
Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and others in top agency leadership positions wanted to destroy the cocaine discovered in the White House last summer, but the Secret Service Forensics Services Division and the Uniformed Division stood firm and rejected the push to dispose of the evidence, according to three sources in the Secret Service community.
... At least one Uniformed Division officer was initially assigned to investigate the cocaine incident. But after he told his supervisors, including Cheatle and Acting Secret Service Director Ron Rowe, who was deputy director at the time, that he wanted to follow a certain crime-scene investigative protocol, he was taken off the case, according to a source within the Secret Service community familiar with the circumstances of his removal.
Cheatle became close to the Biden family while serving on Vice President Joe Biden's protective detail -- so close that Biden tapped Cheatle for the director job in 2022, in part because of her close relationship to first lady Jill Biden. When the cocaine was first discovered, Cheatle apparently knew it would spark a media firestorm. The incident prompted viral memes about Hunter Biden's addictions and accusations from Republican political figures, including Nikki Haley, that the Secret Service knew whose cocaine it was and was trying to cover it up. Normally, the discovery of cocaine or another illegal narcotic in the White House complex or in and around the first family and their staff wouldn't come to light at all. That's because the president's and first lady's, as well as family members' protective Secret Service details, the inner-most ring of protective agents assigned to the first family, would simply dispose of illegal drugs or other "contraband" found in the White House, personal residences, or other private areas of the president, his family, and White House staff, according to three sources in the Secret Service community. But it wasn't a member of President Biden's regular detail who found the bag of cocaine just two days before the July 4 holiday last year. Instead, a member of the agency's Uniformed Division, which is charged with protecting the facilities and venues for presidents and other agency protectees, discovered the substance in the White House complex while conducting routine rounds of the building.Of course, the Secret Service's main job is destroying evidence now.
The Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security just released--after it being delayed by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas--a report on the Secret Service failures on January 6th that almost led to the assassination of Kamala Harris, the incoming Vice President of the United States by a pipe bomb. Among the many things reported was this tidbit: the Secret Service didn't just stonewall the investigation. They deleted evidence that would have helped explain what happened that day and uncovered some of the failures. You read that right: the Secret Service not only failed to properly protect the incoming Vice President on the day that her election to the office was certified, but they engaged in an illegal coverup. Acting Director of the Secret Service Ronald Rowe was, at the time of that event and on July 13th this year, in charge of the protective details as the assistant director.The "bomb" found outside the DNC is so real and so dangerous that the Secret Service... destroyed evidence about it. Rowe again, of course. Rowe performed a Standard Regime News Dump on Friday, of course.
Here are just a few inexplicable things he revealed: the Secret Service had no radio communications not only with the local police but also with the snipers most of the vital communications were made using texts over an overloaded cell phone network There are no recordings of the Secret Service communications, although there are of the locals Rowe's assertions about the responsibilities of the local snipers didn't actually come from the local snipers--it was just made up by the Secret Service (we would know much less were it not for the locals) the Secret Service command center was not co-located with the local police
The investigators have YET to talk to the local police who were assisting the SS, including the snipers (after three weeks!) Butler was the VERY FIRST TIME that the Secret Service provided snipers for a Trump rally this election cycle
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Facing $1 Billion Lawsuit for Defamation Already Branded Malicious by Judge, CNN Attempts to Mitigate Its Liability By Claiming That the Victim of Their Defamation Violated... Sharia Law, So It's Fair to Call Him a Sex Trafficker
The judge has already ruled that CNN's story was false. And not just false -- the media skates on its many defamations by claiming an absence of malice in posting untrue defamations -- but also malicious.
Not just defamatory, then, but showing malice in their defamation. And the victim of this malicious defamation is therefore eligible for punitive damages, which could top $1 billion. Why did CNN target this man? Simple -- he was rescuing women who cooperated with the US from reprisals by the Taliban. They were abandoned by Joe Biden, and I guess CNN decided to destroy this man because, by rescuing the victims of Joe Biden's disastrous bug-out, he embarrassed Biden. Their emails prove that they were deliberately attempting to destroy this man and "ruin his reputation." Nicholas Fondacaro of Newsbusters:So CNN falsely accused this man, Without Evidence as Jake Tapper's snarky (and defamatory) chyrons might say, of committing major crimes including sex trafficking, war profiteering, and selling people on the black market. And the judge has already ruled this was not just false but expressly maliciously false. So what can they do? Well, CNN is doubling down: They're claiming that this man broke Sharia law in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan -- by rescuing these women from the punishments the Taliban wanted to visit on them -- so isn't he a criminal one way or the other? And doesn't that lessen the defamation CNN inflicted on him? After all, if he's a Sharia Law criminal, what's the big diff if CNN also calls him a sex trafficker?
The case may not be as well known (yet), but CNN could be facing a defamation liability rivaling or exceeding the $787 million Fox News paid out to Dominion Voting Systems. NewsBusters recently reported on Florida's First District Court of Appeals affirming that plaintiff Zachary Young could seek punitive damages, in addition to economic and emotional damages, from the Cable News Network in a civil trial after they allegedly defamed him regarding his work in getting people out of Afghanistan. The total could near or exceed $1 billion. For that outcome to be remotely in the cards, Young needed to prove malice and according to the ruling, he's done exactly that. "Young sufficiently proffered evidence of actual malice, express malice, and a level of conduct outrageous enough to open the door for him to seek punitive damages," Judge L. Clayton Roberts wrote in the court's ruling. The court felt the high bars for actual and expressed malice were met because of internal CNN messages that were extremely vicious toward Young. Correspondent Alex Marquardt, the "primary reporter" expressed in a message to a colleague that he wanted to "nail this Zachary Young mfucker" and thought the story would be Young's "funeral." On that declaration of wanting to "nail" Young, CNN editor Matthew Philips responded: "gonna hold you to that cowboy!" Alongside Marquardt, CNN senior editor Fuzz Hogan, who's a member of CNN's internally lauded "Triad" of editorial, legal, and standards/practices oversight personnel, described Young as "a shit." In an interview with NewsBusters, Vel Freedman, the lawyer representing Young, said that "everyone makes mistakes" but what CNN's messages showed was a "systemic problem" inside the network. He added that their internal mechanism for accountability had "clearly failed" and opened themselves to "massive, massive liability." Freedman told NewsBusters that his client had lost between $40-60 million in economic opportunity over the course of his now-damaged career as a security contractor since people in the field no longer wanted to work with him. If a jury awarded his client for emotional damages, the upper end could be as high as $600 million. The court recognizing the malice and outrageous conduct by CNN, effectively removed the cap on punitive damages in the State of Florida. All of that meant CNN could be facing upwards of $1 billion in total damages. The case hinged on CNN's use of the phrases "black market" and "exploited" to describe Young's legitimate business helping corporately sponsored Afghans escape the country as it collapsed around them and the Taliban retook control. Young's clients included Audible and Bloomberg News - one of CNN's industry peers, and he saved 24 people. Freedman said CNN essentially "branded [Young] a human trafficker" and a "war profiteer" and broadcasted it to millions of households. Jake Tapper, the host whose show the allegedly defamatory story ran on (The Lead), also made a point to note that people seeking escape were given "no guarantee of safety or success." Yet, at no point could CNN prove that what Young was doing was a scam. In fact, their editors admitted in messages that couldn't find evidence of it.
So in their panic CNN is now trying to argue that Young was committing the crime of human trafficking under Taliban Sharia law and that he should have respected the will of the Taliban to rape, torture, and murder the women he was saving. CNN essentially blamed Young's insistence that they accused him of a crime for their choice to cite Sharia law to prove their innocence:But, even if Young is right that CNN accused him of illegal conduct--which CNN vigorously disputes--he still cannot prevail on his claims (...) discovery has indicated that the activities Young directed and funded almost certainly were illegal under Taliban law, as the Taliban prohibited Afghans (especially woman) from exiting the country without permission and vastly restricted their movement inside the country.
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Bret Baier: The White House Owes Fox an Apology for Lying About Biden's Health
What about the "Russian propaganda" lie about Hunter's laptop?
What a weak cuck.
Of course he's not ready to call it a cover-up. He never will be ready. He's just going to keep digging and digging until... nothing happens. Here are some good questions: What caused Biden to shift from his absolutely dug-in "I'm staying in no matter what" position, to withdrawing, in about 24 hours?
Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier thinks the White House owes his network an apology. But he won't be holding his breath. In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, the anchor and executive editor of Special Report with Bret Baier fired back at Democratic critics, who have sought to undermine his reporting on President Joe Biden's record of disturbing public incidents. And, while Baier is not yet ready to declare a 'White House cover-up' of the president's true condition, he's not ruling it out and he's certainly not done investigating who knew what and when.
These are the "hot rumors" Bret is chasing down? Things that have already been reported? Nothing about the threat to invoke the 25th Amendment?
'There was clearly an effort to prevent some of what they knew [about Biden's health] from getting out,' Baier told the Mail. 'We're going to find out that there's a lot more to this... What got [Biden] from adamant that he will be the nominee to writing a letter that he was going to step down? What was that? What epiphany happened?'
For his part, Baier revealed he has heard potentially explosive 'rumors' that former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was threatening to release polling that undermined Biden's case for staying in the race.
And he said that President Obama was reportedly exerting his influence behind the scenes to push Biden off the political stage.
In our interview, Baier also questioned who is truly in charge in the White House, as Biden seemingly hands over more influence and power to his Vice President. 'Now that you're going to have Kamala Harris meeting separately with foreign leaders, like we saw with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu [last week] and having her own press conferences,' Baier said, 'we have a situation where President Biden may fade from the spotlight and there could be, in essence, a co-presidency.' ... Now, Baier believes it is impreative to determine why, after weeks of resistance and pledges from Biden's inner circle that he would remain in the 2024 race, that the president suddenly decided to end his political career. 'The White House says there are no problems [with the president] and he's still A-Ok. Yet he stepped down from a race that he said he was never going to step down from. And there are still questions about whether he's going to go the whole distance for the five-plus months remaining in the presidency,' Baier said. 'Anything is possible now,' he added. 'I don't sense that the 25th amendment is going to be launched anytime soon. But that's not to say that there's not some major health incident that changes that dynamic. It's day-to-day.'
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The Second Gentleman, Doug Emhoff, Admits Having Banged the Nanny and Gotten Her Pregnant, Ending His First Marriage
That's not my idea of a Gentleman!
Kamala Harris's husband Doug Emhoff cheated on his first wife with daughter Ella's nanny Najen Naylor - and got her PREGNANT Doug Emhoff cheated on his first wife with Najen Naylor, now 47 Naylor also taught at their children's pricey Los Angeles private schoolI'll do a post about polls, which I know everyone loves, later.
Kamala Harris's husband's first marriage ended after he got his children's nanny pregnant, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal. Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff cheated on his first wife Kerstin with the blonde nanny, who also taught at their children's pricey private school. The woman, Najen Naylor, 47, did not deny the story when approached by DailyMail.com at her home in the New York millionaires' playground, The Hamptons. She would not comment, except to say, 'I'm kind of freaked out right now.' A close friend with direct knowledge of the affair and pregnancy told DailyMail.com that Naylor did not keep the child -- though her social media shows a video of a mysterious baby girl named Brook in 2009, the year the baby would have been born. ... The incendiary news is said to be causing panic in Harris's campaign, just as she has overtaken Donald Trump in several polls and as she ramps up her final push to win over voters in November.
You might think that with Kamala Harris advancing her career by blowing her married boss and her husband shtupping the help, the Democrat/Media attack on Trump for his alleged indiscretions would, for the sake of decency, have to end. But you'd be wrong. I'm sure the plan is to double down on those attacks, and then, when Trump understandably points out Kamala's own adultery, scream that he's a monster for digging into Kamala Harris' sex life.
Emhoff's spokeswoman Liza Acevedo did not immediately reply to a request for comment. Kerstin Emhoff put the phone down when asked for comment. Emhoff, 59, and movie producer ex-wife Kerstin, 57, ended their 16-year marriage in 2009 when she discovered the affair, the sources said. Their daughter Ella was 10 and son Cole was 15 at the time.
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America Is Back, Baby!: World Exchanges Melt Down on Slowing US Economy
Plus, I'm putting up special sp3cial 3xtra bonus sh3lf hanging out below the Main Sh3lving Ass3mbly. For vitamins and suppl3m3nts and things of this natur3.
The last pi3ces of this pi3c3 d3 r3sistanc3 will be delivered Thursday, allowing a w33k3nd build. I will try to get most of my work for Friday done on Thursday, allowing liv3 sh3lving updat3s throughout the day! To be done pre-build: 1. Find and mark the studs
1.a. Pre-preparation: find my stud-finder. Or, find both of them, and then figure out which is the one that actually works. Then finally throw out the one that doesn't work. 2. Find my stupid saw so I can cut these sh3lves to custom l3ngth. I have literally no idea where this could be, which is weird, because it's a saw and isn't easily misplaceable. 3. Figure out which button makes the drill go forward. Alternately, figure out which button makes the drill go backwards and then order special backwards-threaded screws from Chy-na.
So that's my 3conomy, Jack!
But what about the national economy?
Best economy in history, Fat! The NYT has a sad:
I've got good news for everyone, though: Kamala's got this. She will direct all of her expertise and skill to solving this insolvable problem. Bidenomics is working!
Happy New Week!
I know the interest in Sh3lving Phas3 Thr33, "PROJ3CT OAKTR33" (new name) is intense and intensifying. I wanted to update: A minor part of Phas3, building a minor booksh3lf, has been compl3t3d with minimal damage. I mean, some damage. Obviously. But minor damage. Bonus damage is a built-in feature of my construction style. But meanwhile, the main proj3ct has 3xpand3d in ambition, power, and maj3sty: instead of being two double rows of Ikea shelves (that is, two rows of two shelves connected by a GRANHULT connecter), the proj3ct will now be two rows of tripl3 shelv3s, thr33 shelv3s conn3cted by two conn3ctors each, the length of almost the whole wall. It will be a Sh3lving Paradis3 hitherto undr3am3d!Plus, I'm putting up special sp3cial 3xtra bonus sh3lf hanging out below the Main Sh3lving Ass3mbly. For vitamins and suppl3m3nts and things of this natur3.
The last pi3ces of this pi3c3 d3 r3sistanc3 will be delivered Thursday, allowing a w33k3nd build. I will try to get most of my work for Friday done on Thursday, allowing liv3 sh3lving updat3s throughout the day! To be done pre-build: 1. Find and mark the studs
1.a. Pre-preparation: find my stud-finder. Or, find both of them, and then figure out which is the one that actually works. Then finally throw out the one that doesn't work. 2. Find my stupid saw so I can cut these sh3lves to custom l3ngth. I have literally no idea where this could be, which is weird, because it's a saw and isn't easily misplaceable. 3. Figure out which button makes the drill go forward. Alternately, figure out which button makes the drill go backwards and then order special backwards-threaded screws from Chy-na.
So that's my 3conomy, Jack!
But what about the national economy?
Best economy in history, Fat! The NYT has a sad:
American markets are crashing, too. And analysts are now speaking of the "Sahm rule," a rule that has successfully predicted every recession for the past 54 years.
A sell-off in markets around the world turned into a rout on Monday as investors grew panicky about signs of a slowing American economy, with stocks tumbling across Asia and Europe. The moves were a sharp reversal in the world's major markets, which for much of the past year have risen to new heights, propelled by optimism about cooling inflation, solid labor markets and the promise of artificial intelligence technology. The declines were especially pronounced in Japan, where fears about the economy added to other concerns about the damage a strengthening yen could do to corporate profits. The Nikkei 225 index fell 12.4 percent. It was the benchmark index's biggest one-day point decline, larger than the plunge during the Black Monday stock market crash in October 1987. The Topix index, which includes companies that represent a broad swath of Japan's economy, fell 12.2 percent. The unease spread to Europe, where the Pan-European Stoxx index fell more than 2 percent in early trading, with every major market on the continent recording declines.
Stocks plunged on Monday as U.S. recession fears caused turmoil throughout the global markets. The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled 1,000 points, while the Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500 also fell by 5% and 3.7%, respectively. A weak jobs report and shrinking manufacturing activity in the world's largest economy, coupled with dismal forecasts from the big technology firms, pushed the Nasdaq 100 and Nasdaq Composite into a correction last week.So the Fed will begin cutting interest rates to try to stave off the recession. But this, of course, will lead to further rising inflation. High interest rates dampen inflation but also dampen economic growth; low inflation rates spur growth, but also spur inflation. "The Best Economy In History, Jack!" may now be in the same place as Carter's economy in the seventies, in which there were literally no good moves to make. In a "stagflation" economy, which features the worst of both worlds, low growth and high inflation, you can't cut interest rates to spur growth because that will increase the inflation which is already too high, and you can't raise rates to slow inflation because that will tank an already-weak economy. A new Rasmussen survey finds that the real unemployment rate is around double what the Regime admits it to be. And it might be four times more than what the Regime admits.
... The weak jobs data also triggered what is known as the "Sahm Rule," seen by many as a historically accurate recession indicator. "The July jobs report is being viewed as a recession warning, and the markets are responding accordingly," said Bill Adams, chief economist at the Dallas-based Comerica Bank. With the jobless rate unexpectedly rising, the so-called Sahm rule is now in play. Named after former Federal Reserve economist Claudia Sahm, the rule has successfully predicted every recession since 1970.
It stipulates that the economy is in the early stages of a recession when the three-month moving average of the jobless rate is at least a half-percentage point higher than the 12-month low. Over the past three months, the unemployment rate has averaged 4.13%, which is 0.63 percentage points higher than the 3.5% rate recorded in July 2023, crossing that threshold. Big Wall Street brokerages also revised their Fed rate projections for 2024 to show greater policy easing by the central bank.
Rasmussen surveyed nearly 9,000 American adults and found that in July the percentage of Americans who are unemployed and looking for work -- this is the number that the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) should report each month -- was 8.4%. The BLS reported a rosy 4.3% unemployment rate last month, up from June's equally imaginary 4.1%.
... Nearly one in 10 work for the government at one level or another. Those workers are supported entirely by tax dollars without producing any material wealth. Every government employee involved in regulation makes it harder for the rest of us to do so. If you've been keeping track of these numbers in your head, you might notice they don't add up to anything close to 100%. About three percent of adults surveyed answered "not sure" about their employment situation, the kind of answer that I assume involves smoking weed. The remaining 9.7% said they were unemployed but not looking -- i.e., "Not in Workforce." That means the percentage of Americans who could be working and perhaps would really like to be working but either can't find work or have given up finding work is 18.1%. That's more than four times the official unemployment rate.
I've got good news for everyone, though: Kamala's got this. She will direct all of her expertise and skill to solving this insolvable problem. Bidenomics is working!
At the beginning of August last year, Kamala Harris praised a jobs report as being an example of "Bidenomics" at work. The term was co-opted by the Biden administration as a means of countering what Republicans were saying about the weak economy. Every good bit of news that came out, they took credit for. "Bidenomics is working," she said at the time, letting the Biden-Harris administration take credit for the economy that month.
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THE MORNING RANT: Kamala and Fracking - Can She Successfully Pull Off The “Trust Me, I’m Lying” Gambit?
One of the most entertaining political moves when a left-wing politician has secured a nomination and must appeal to an audience beyond the far-left base is the “Trust me, I’m lying” gambit. It gets employed when a candidate has a position that is toxic to the general public, yet is a foundational issue for the Democrats’ base. Thus, the candidate needs to make a statement that, if effective, will fool mainstream voters, with the intention that the activist base understands that the statement is just a politically necessary lie. It often blows up on the candidate.
In Kamala Harris’ case, she just rolled out the “Trust me, I’m lying” strategy on the issue of fracking for oil. The Democrat party in general is hostile to the petroleum industry, and its coastal left-wing base is religious about its desire to destroy the oil and gas industry, and bring a halt to all new drilling. In Kamala’s own words at a CNN townhall meeting during the 2020 presidential primaries, “There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking.”Vice President Harris has reversed her position on fracking, signaling a move to the center on the issue. The rightward shift comes as she tries to court swing voters in states like Pennsylvania.A few years ago I wrote about how difficult it has become to pull off the “Trust me, I’m lying” charade, focusing especially on the 2018 Tennessee Senate race in which “moderate” Democrat Phil Bredesen and Republican Marsha Blackburn were vying for the open US Senate seat formerly held by Republican Bob Corker. Polling showed the race to be tight, and the media was ecstatic about the chances of a Democrat flipping a Senate seat in deep red Tennessee.
Then the Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination happened, and it just kept dragging on, getting uglier and ever more preposterous. Throughout it all, Bredesen kept trying to straddle the top political issue of the day. He kept refusing to say how he’d vote on the Kavanaugh nomination, indicating to both sides that he was inclined - but not yet committed - to vote their way. Meanwhile, Blackburn was quite emphatic about her support for Kav, and the polls started breaking toward Blackburn. Bredesen could no longer wait until after the vote to declare his stand.So Bredesen rolled out the “Trust me, I’m lying” strategy, stating that if he were currently a Senator, he would vote to confirm Kavanaugh. With that, his campaign quickly imploded.
Unfortunately for him, it played out exactly the opposite of how “Trust me, I’m lying” is supposed to work. Everyone knew he was lying, except for the left-wing activists who form the base of the Democrat party. They took Bredesen at face value. And they revolted against him.“Volunteers bolt Bredesen over Kavanaugh support” [Politico – 10/11/2018] For Kamala to succeed in her fingers-crossed-behind-her-back “support” of fracking, she needs the anti-carbon, net-zero zealots to play along. That’s a little like asking a religiously devout person to deny his faith in service to a greater cause.
“My focus is on my state and my work,” a flustered Brown mumbled on his way toward an elevator. “I’ve endorsed Vice President Harris … I don’t know what she said on fracking.”Let me paraphrase what Sen. Brown was trying to say, “Trust me, Kamala is lying.” [buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
William Newenham Montague Orpen Yes...that John Everett.
William Newenham Montague Orpen Yes...that John Everett.
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The Morning Report — 8/5/24
Meanwhile, bravo to the British people for standing up to madness, even though they now risk their own freedom at the hands of elected tyrants.
Too little too late? It took decades for the socialists to ruin England, it will take decades to restore Blighty, if it can be done at all given the nature of what the people are facing. And we're facing it right here as well.
Austin likely withdrew the deal not because it blindsided him and he was overcome with righteous indignation, but because the reaction to it was so uniformly negative. On Thursday, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, wrote to Austin saying that the deal was “unconscionable,” and declaring: “I, along with much of our nation and Congress, are deeply shocked and angered by news that the terrorist mastermind and his associates who planned the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, which killed nearly 3000 innocent people, were offered a plea deal.” . . . Austin saw the writing on the wall. He and his fellow regime apparatchiks are trying to get Kamala Harris elected president. Why give Bad Orange Men yet another indication of how treasonous this regime really is? So he took a campaign issue off the table. He could even be angling for the vice-presidential spot, except that the woman at the top is already black, sort of, and so that DEI box is already checked. But Austin has done the regime a valuable service, and will get his reward.Along with Mark Vanilli Milley, and top brass in all branches of service that are in the top slots because Obama effectively purged anyone he suspected of being disloyal to him and the Left, and loyal to the Constitution of the US. The result is a military that is bereft of effective leadership, morale in the ranks at an all time low, ditto enlistment and the transmogrification of one of America's most crucial societal pillars into yet another victim of Marxist/Leninist rot. This is the woman Austin et al are hell bent on installing in the Oval Office:
Vice President Kamala Harris (D) has added her brother-in-law Tony West, who defended a convicted terrorist, to her campaign as an adviser. West is also a former Obama Justice Department attorney, the Washington Free Beacon reported on Friday. . . . . . West in 2002 signed on to defend “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh, who was captured in Afghanistan one year earlier and subsequently indicted for providing services to the Taliban and al-Qaeda—and for conspiring to murder Americans. During the trial, West—then an attorney at the San Francisco law firm Morrison & Foerster, which was known for defending enemy combatants detained by the United States—dismissed claims that Lindh was a terrorist.Lest we forget that Harris herself actively supported the efforts to bail out rioters, arsonists and thugs who laid waste to dozens of cities in the wake of the death of career criminal George Floyd while resisting arrest. Now four years later she and her party cheer on the mass slaughter of Jews in Israel and defend those who cheer it on here at home and join in the fun by harassing and assaulting Jews wherever they may be. And they're getting off scot-free:
The reasons why prosecutors have dropped these charges are manifold. In some cases (such as in California, Illinois, and New York), the prosecutors were partisan Democrats who approved of the riots, and thus acted to protect the rioters by dropping the charges. In several cases however the prosecutors expressed extreme unhappiness with their own action, stating that they did so reluctantly because they did not think they could win in court. . . in many of the locales where a trial would be brought (such as New York, Chicago, or California), the general population is generally in agreement with the protesters as well, and will act aggressively to find these rioters innocent. And if any are not, expect them to back down to peer pressure, much as many southerners did in the South during the Jim Crow era. . . The daunting conclusion we must draw from this is that the left remains very organized and determined to maintain its ability to commit whatever violence it deems necessary without any fear of consequences. This is the same situation the Nazis managed to create for themselves in the 1930s. It is also the same situation the Democrats and its armed wing the KKK created for itself in the South after the Civil War. They became immune from punishment, even as they rioted and persecuted both political opponents, innocent Jews, and innocent blacks.Funny how as a prosecutor, Harris kept many blacks incarcerated even though they might have actually been not guilty or eligible to be paroled just so she could burnish her credentials. In light of the fake outrage over those who question her black authenticity, interesting how this aspect of her life is completely ignored.
Meanwhile, bravo to the British people for standing up to madness, even though they now risk their own freedom at the hands of elected tyrants.
Too little too late? It took decades for the socialists to ruin England, it will take decades to restore Blighty, if it can be done at all given the nature of what the people are facing. And we're facing it right here as well.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- Picture a scenario where Jigsaw’s algorithms, which are designed to detect extremist content, are repurposed to suppress political speech that challenges the prevailing narratives. In the hands of governments with a specific agenda—like the current administration, for example—these tools could be weaponized to censor dissent. If a vocal critic of government policies or a journalist exposing corruption were to have their content flagged and removed under the guise of combating extremism, their ability to speak out would be severely compromised. In this scenario, Altitude doesn't just remove extremist content; it becomes a mechanism for stifling legitimate criticism and political opposition.
Meet Jigsaw, Google's dangerous new anti-democratic tool
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Daily Tech News 5 August 2024
Top Story
- Venture capitalists have flushed $1.6 billion down the drain trying to make lab-grown meat a reality. (Tech Crunch)
The most optimistic proponents are now hoping to someday capture 0.03% of the global meat market.
Farm grown meat is cheaper, tastes better, is readily available, and probably won't devour the world in a Gray Goo apocalypse.
Though the chickens might try. You can't trust 'em.
- Please let me know if the blog is loading slow for you, and if it is, what kind of device and browser you are using. Several reports of this over the past 24 hours but it's hard to track down.
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August 04, 2024
Sunday Overnight Open Thread (8/4/24)
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The Quotes of The Day
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The Comments of The Week
Always the best comments on the webz. Insightful, compassionate and inspiring they are.
Quote I “While swimming under the bridge, I felt and saw things that we shouldn’t think about too much,” Belgium’s Jolien Vermeylen
Quote II "Not every weapon makes Germany immediately safer," Rolf Mützenich, the parliamentary leader of Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SDP)
Quote III “We were surprised by the magnitude of the shift,” he said. “I think early in the pandemic trust likely increased above pre-pandemic levels, but it certainly came way down over the course of the pandemic.” Roy H. Perlis, MD, MS,
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Gun Thread: First August Edition!
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