Unemployment Surges, Economists Warn of the "Border Czar Kamala Harris Recession"

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The Harris-Biden economy is a disaster, a bloodbath, the worst economy in history, people can't even believe how bad it is.

It stinks!

The latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reveals troubling signs for the Harris-Biden economy, with unemployment blowing past expectations to 4.3% in July, the highest since October 2021.

"Expectations," economic jargon for "a list of shit that ain't gonna happen."

July saw the unemployment rate jump to 4.3%, blowing past expectations and marking the highest level in nearly three years.

Over the past year, 1.2 million native-born Americans have lost jobs, while 1.3 million foreign-born workers gained employment.

A friend said that any society with any thumos -- Greek for spirit, breath, blood, heart -- left in it would revolt over the last fact alone.

Since July 2023, 311,000 more people are working multiple jobs, and 558,000 additional Americans are now forced to take part-time jobs due to economic pressures.

Diving Deeper:

The latest jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics casts a grim light on the Harris-Biden economy, with unemployment blowing past expectations to 4.3% last month, the highest rate since October 2021. This unexpected rise has spurred fears of a looming recession. Economist John Lonski expressed his concerns to Fox Business, stating, "I'm beginning to smell a recession coming into view...this jump by the unemployment rate, my goodness, 4.3%, this is up sharply from not long ago."

The higher-than-expected unemployment rate caused markets to react negatively on Friday morning, with fears of a recession becoming more pronounced. Despite these worrying trends, Vice President Kamala Harris has maintained that "Bidenomics is working."

Kamalanomics, you mean.

It's now been 13 days since Biden withdrew and declared Kamala Harris his protege and successor. Harris has refused to sit for a press conference or any kind of questioning, even by friendly press.

She is attempting to run the Biden Basement Strategy, despite not having Biden's excuse for it. (That he's ancient and might die of covid if he speaks to another person.)

Is the press really going to permit her to get away with this? Are they really going to keep pushing her as the New Obama even after she shows that she has no confidence in her own smarts and abilities?

Answers: Yes, and Yes.

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THE MORNING RANT: Hillbilly Paradox - Why do America’s Poorest States Have Such a High Level of Home Ownership?

Call them hillbillies, rednecks, hayseeds, hicks, or whatever you might please, “poor” Americans in rural states are much more likely to be property owners than urbane Americans living in more affluent states.

The importance of property ownership to the people that Hillary Clinton smeared as being a “basket of deplorables” is significant. Be it ever so humble, a domicile with a deed is a source of wealth, security and self-reliance.

The New York Post ran an article last week titled “Why Some of America’s Poorest States Have the Highest Homeownership” which didn’t actually provide an answer to the question posed in the headline. The closest it came to offering an answer is by suggesting that higher income states also have more expensive real estate.

For starters, this article is measuring rich and poor based on income, not wealth. A tech-bro renting an expensive downtown loft and leasing a Tesla may be leading an affluent lifestyle, but it doesn’t mean his personal net worth exceeds that of the plumber who owns an inexpensive house in a small town beyond the city sprawl.

West Virginia leads all states with a 77% homeownership rate, followed closely by Delaware (75.7%), Mississippi (75.5%), Maine (75.5%), and Wyoming (74.5%), according to U.S. Census data. Despite the high ownership percentages, these states—for the most part—have vastly lower average incomes compared with the rest of the country.

Per this article, Mississippi and West Virginia have the two lowest average incomes in the nation, yet they are the 1st and 3rd highest in homeownership rate.

Other lower-income states with high ownership include Alabama (9th ownership, 48th income), South Carolina (12th ownership, 44th income), Idaho (15th ownership, 40th income), and New Mexico (18th ownership, 45th income).

Conversely, the highest income states have the lowest rate of homeownership.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Sea Maidens
Evelyn De Morgan

I saw this at the Queen's House, just a few steps from the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich (England). Both are excellent museums, and worth the trip if you are in London. And don't miss the Greenwich Market, which is a hoot; sort of a glimpse of English hippie kitsch, but with spectacular oysters!

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The Morning Report — 8/2/24

Good Morning Kids. This manufactured kerfuffle of Donald Trump pointing out COmmie-Chameleon Kamala for not really being black only underscores the toxicity and hypocrisy of racial politics. Harris herself had downplayed being black, and identified more with being of Indian (dot not feather) descent. The crime here of course is that a white, non-Leftist man has correctly called here out on it. As a commenter here once said, all she is doing along with her party is the equivalent of donning political blackface while waving the race card in an effort to retain and excite the black voting bloc to not wander off the plantation and either stay home or even vote for Trump.

This garbage is nothing new. Obama did it back in the run-up to 2008. Recall that it was Biden himself who declared Obama "clean and articulate," who can easily speak jive when he had to. Remember that it's this party and cultural movement that looks at any black person who does not embrace the myth of perpetual victimhood and institutional white supremacy as being inauthentic, as being an oreo, a race-traitor, or house you-know-what. Look at what they have been doing to Clarence Thomas since his confirmation hearing in 1991, and Joe Biden was a chief inquisitor in that disgusting episode.

interestingly enough, it was 36 years ago yesterday that the late Rush Limbaugh of blessed memory went national. Recall the shitstorm that swirled around him back in 2008 with his parody song "Barack the Magic Negro." He was ripped to shreds not because it was racist but because it was spot on.

And he didn't even write it! All he did was use the very words from an LA Times editorial by one David Ehrenstein who proclaimed Obama to be a magic negro.

So now we have Commie Chameleon doing what Hillary Clinton did and affecting a black American accent!

Remember, in order to be an "authentic" anything you have to be a leftist. So it has nothing to do with melanin, chromosomes, ancestry or genitals.

So an Algerian junk-tucker beats the shit out of an Italian female boxer and, now get ready, it's a Hungarian woman's turn to experience Diversity right in the head!

On that note, suddenly Mark Kelly's chances at being this harridan's veep pick are fading. For a rather interesting reason:

Sen. Mark Kelly’s (D., Ariz.) messy divorce—including a restraining order filed against him by his ex-wife and his own request to have her put behind bars—is likely to come back to haunt him as Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris eyes him as a potential running mate. While reports indicate that Harris’s team has privately met with both Kelly and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro in consideration for the role, Wall Street insiders are reportedly speculating that Harris will choose a governor instead of Kelly. Axios reported on Wednesday that Harris has been ramping up her Wall Street fundraising, noting that the financial industry is restricted from donating to campaigns once a sitting governor is on the ticket.

If Kelly is passed over for the role, his business connections to China and tumultuous divorce could be to blame. While Kelly has described his divorce as "amicable," court records contradict that description.

THis is about his first wife, not Gabby Giffords, whom he has shamelessly used for the sole purpose of advancing his political career. Then again, she was and remains a Democrat, so I assume she didn't necessarily object, nor the party, so long as the long march leftward did not falter.

Meanwhile, the Biden junta arranged a prisoner swap with the hated Vladimir Putin, who is after all Donald Trump's controller! Funny considering the last person Putin wants to see back in the Oval office is Trump.

The Biden team, Kamala, and their media are the exchange of criminals for hostages as some sort of diplomatic triumph. The reality is that Biden once again encouraged and rewarded taking Americans hostage. The only outcome of this “diplomatic triumph” will be that when Russia, China, Iran, or any other enemy nation wants to spring some of its operatives, they’ll lock up a few Americans. It works so why not keep doing it?

. . . Worse still, Biden didn’t make this deal to save Americans, but to prop up a presidential campaign. If the deal appeared somewhat less bad than previous deals it was because Putin was rushing to get this in ahead of a possible Trump presidency. He knew he was going to get a better deal from Biden than Trump and he wasn’t disappointed.

Bingo.

Have a good weekend.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Aug. 1, 1988, was the day Rush Limbaugh’s radio show was syndicated.
  Mega-Dittos: [Yesterday was] the Anniversary of the Greatest Moment in Radio History
  
• Daniel Greenfield: When it's convenient, she's black, when it's convenient she's Indian or even Asian.
  The Invention of Obama and Kamala’s ‘Blackness’
  
• "With overwhelmingly leftist electorates and correspondingly leftist judges and prosecutors, blue cities are inhospitable venues for conservatives who are sued or charged with crimes. The voters also serve as jurors, after all. This is why most of the lawfare against Republicans is conducted in a handful of blue jurisdictions that resemble banana republics. Indeed, in many cities, the legal climate is as hostile to conservatives as the Jim Crow South was to civil rights activists." (hat tip to cob Buck Throckmorton - jjs)
  Slouching Towards the Gulag
  
• Julie Kelly reports that on the same day we find out about the astroturfed "white dudes" confab being overseen by Judge Merchan's daughter's business partner, the New York appeals court denied a Trump appeal to end the gag order and tell the world about it. According to Judge Merchan's daughter's political business partner, they made $4 million on that Zoom call to help Trump's opponent. 
  The ID of the Leader of 'White Dudes for Harris' Proves You're Not Cynical Enough

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Daily Tech News 2 August 2024

Top Story

• Intel announced its earnings report for Q2 of 2024, and it's less than wonderful. (AnandTech)
  
  While the company did post a profit and issue a dividend, it also announced plans to slash costs before things go into freefall.
  
  This includes suspending future dividends, cutting capital and operating expenses, and... Firing between 15,000 and 17,000 workers.
  
  
  
• The company also bit the bullet and announced two years of additional warranty on its failing 13th and 14th generation desktop processors. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Which would be a bigger deal if Intel hadn't been rejecting warranty returns for the past year, all the while knowing that the problems were of its own creation.
  
  
  

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From Each According To Their ONTs.

Hi-ho Horde! Welcome to Thursday. Anyone looking for a job?

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Scottish Cafe

The Glenfinnan Viaduct, Inverness-shire

Video of a train crossing the Viaduct. Pretty sure I just linked a video of this earlier this week.

A man is so happy that firefighters saved his cat from his burning house. The story takes a dark turn later, when fire investigators determine the fire was deliberately set by the cat.

Let a rope be your parachute.

Cave diving.

Rainy, moody Edenburgh.

Penguin gets big air!

Losing your helmet on a jump. (The camera is mounted on the helmet, but luckily keeps the parachuter in focus most of the time.)

Five-Oh, five-oh!

Moderate caution: The downside of being a YouTube Daredevil is that you're going to eat it, hard, in between getting a good take of the stunt.

Evil penguin accosts old woman on the street!

This squirrel enjoys Thirstday.

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Fauci Lied: Despite Claiming He "Never" Used His Personal Cell Phone to Conduct Government Business, a FOIA Demand Reveals That He Used His Private Phone to Spin Reporters

Leftists love using their private phones to conduct official business, because it makes it hard or even impossible to find these messages when you sue them.

When Dr. Anthony Fauci testified under oath before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic nearly two months ago, he claimed in written testimony that "to the best of my knowledge I have never conducted official business via my personal email."

The former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director omitted that qualifier when asked directly by Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., saying, "I do not do government business on my private email."

Fauci was trying to distance himself from comments by David Morens, his longtime senior scientific adviser, suggesting the duo routinely evades Freedom of Information Act obligations by using "private gmail" or sharing printed documents by hand.

While Morens has been on administrative leave since his communications with other scientists about Morens' penchant for evading FOIA were revealed, Fauci could face criminal charges in light of his own confirmation that he used personal email to communicate with a reporter.

The White Coat Waste Project, which fights taxpayer-funded animal experiments, provided Just the News its latest FOIA production, which includes NIAID's chummy emails with The Washington Post from fall 2021 as Fauci and the agency were facing heat from the public and Congress for funding gruesome experiments on puppies.

The agency and newspaper, including opinion columnist Dana Milbank and reporter Yasmeen Abutaleb, worked together to discredit WCW allegations that the Post's fact-checker Glenn Kessler confirmed as accurate more than two and a half years later -- a week after congressional Republicans shared Fauci's admission that he signed off on the grants.

Then-National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins even implied WCW should be "brought to justice" for supposedly spreading misinformation, when in fact NIH denied WCW's allegations based on a researcher's unfounded statement.

He did the same to White Coat Waste as he did to the scientists who wrote the Great Barrington Declaration, or scientists who questioned if covid came from the Wuhan lab: He sneakily wrote to reporters to organize a defamation campaign against them, making sure he used his own private phone to hide these messages in case he was sued for slander.

By the way: the reporters wrote to him using his official government email address, but he wrote back that he would respond via his private account.

It's not clear from the emails why Fauci wanted to switch to his personal Gmail account. He had forwarded Abutaleb the Snopes article from his chief of staff, Greg Folkers, who is also under congressional investigation for inserting punctuation within proper nouns likely to be searched in FOIA requests.

Just so you know: when subpeonas are filed for documents, the party seeking the documents do not get to actually see them and pick the ones that are relevant. The party seeking documents submits a list of keywords that are likely to be found in relevant documents to the judge, who then okays the list (or asks for modifications). The party holding the documents then runs a search for the keywords, and is supposed to turn over relevant documents containing those keywords.

If you want to find documents regarding whether Fauci knew that the Wuhan lab was performing gain-of-function research on bat viruses, you'd submit those keywords: Wuhan, lab, gain-of-function, GOF, bat virus.

The point of inserting punctuation marks into these words -- writing Wuh@n and b@t v!rus -- is to insure that when someone subpeonas documents about these matters, they cannot find anything incriminating, because you've deliberately misspelled the keywords you knew would come up in a lawsuit to defeat searches for them.

This is illegal. This is no different, in the eyes of the law, than shredding documents under subpeona.

But this is the Democrat Way. Hillary Clinton set new standards for brazenness in avoiding accountability and transparency, and the Democrat Party made sure she got away with it -- "no intent!" -- and now they all follow the trail she blazed for them.

Truly, she is An Historic Evil Alcoholic Sow.

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"As per our discussion, more of the same," Fauci wrote to the journalist, apparently dismissing questions about the experiments as ludicrous -- though he later confirmed to a House subcommittee on June 3 that he "signed off" on the grants that funded them.

White Coat Waste Project in 2022 also released internal NIAID documents that included the full grant proposal.

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David Schertler, an attorney for Fauci, told The Post that the former NIAID head "stands by his June 3rd testimony before Congress."

"The email to which you refer involved a personal matter and not a matter related to government business," said Schertler, who is also representing convicted Sen. Bob Menendez's wife, Nadine Menendez, in a sweeping federal corruption case.

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"For that reason, Dr. Fauci used his personal email account to communicate about the matter," he added.

But White Coat Waste Project founder and president Anthony Bellotti told The Post that the email was proof that Fauci "broke federal law."

"We've followed the money and exposed how Fauci lied under oath about not funding gain-of-function at the Wuhan animal lab, that he lied about not bankrolling beagle torture in Tunisia, and, now, that he broke federal law by using his personal email to evade FOIA requests about Beaglegate and secretly communicate with a Washington Post reporter who then published NIH disinformation to protect him and discredit us," Bellotti told The Post.

"Fauci's the poster child for government corruption and Congress needs to hold him accountable for his abuses, which carry criminal penalties including fines and jail time," he added.

Hear hear.

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Poll: Public Overwhelmingly Believes That Border Czar Kamala Harris, Who Presided Over an Open Border as Border Czar, Just Might Be Pro-Open-Borders, No Matter What She Claims Now

Why do these stupid non-Regime-Cultists believe the woman who has repeatedly said that crossing the border illegally isn't illegal, and that she'd grant mas amnesty to all illegal border crossers, is pro-open-borders?

What's next? That George W. Bush is pro-open-borders? Or John McCain?

A newly-released survey indicates that the vast majority of registered voters believe Vice President Kamala Harris is a supporter of "open borders."

Sixty-nine percent of voters believe Harris is for open borders, further demonstrating her vulnerability on immigration as she begins her presidential candidacy, according to a Harvard-Harris poll released on Tuesday. Voters across the political spectrum also generally agree with the statement, with 56% of Democrats, 82% of Republicans and 69% of independents responding that they believe the vice president supports open border policies.

A mere 31% of voters said they believe Harris stood against open borders, including only 44% of Democrats. Respondents also identified immigration as the second most important issue facing the country, beating out the economy, healthcare, crime and numerous other national concerns.

At the same time, respondents to the Harvard-Harris survey overwhelmingly opposed the idea of open borders, with 68% of voters answering that they stood against such policies. When split by party, Republicans and independents opposed the idea by wide margins, and Democrats were practically even, with 51% answering they supported open borders while 49% said they opposed them.

The survey found additional support for hawkish border policies among the U.S. population, with 73% of voters favoring a policy goal to "seal the border, and stop the migrant invasion." A majority of Republicans, independents and even Democrats agreed with this policy statement.

One plus for Kumala is that most of the disaffected Democrats who had turned to RFKJr. have now come back to support her. Which means that most of RFKJr.'s remaining support are probably Trump-leaning voters.

CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten said on Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris joining the presidential race could dramatically weaken independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s campaign.

Kennedy was polling above 12% against former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden before Harris became the Democratic presumptive nominee, according to the RealClearPolling average. Enten, on "CNN Newsroom," said Kennedy likely will not garner anywhere near this level of support now that Harris is in the running because his key constituency is dwindling as a result.

"Throughout this entire cycle, we've been pointing out that there were a ton of voters who dislike both Biden and Donald Trump. So pre-RNC, right, 20% in The New York Times polling, 20% in Ipsos polling. Look at where we are today," Enten said. "Look how dramatically these numbers have dropped. Look at this: New York Times down to 8% who say they disliked Harris and Trump. How about Ipsos? The same pattern, 7%. This is very different now than what we saw prior ... So the fact is, voters are much more apt to at least like one of the candidates. And I think that's part of the reason why voters are much more likely to turn out because if you dislike both major party candidates, why actually turn out and vote?"

"But that was what RFK Jr. was counting on ... I guess, on some level," host Kate Bolduan said.

We'll see how he's doing when these voters hear more from this Cackling Whore.

Relatedly: Mollie Hemingway says Biden was replaced with Harris not to keep the Oval Office, but to avoid losing "5, 6, 7, or 8" Senate seats.

MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: What we are seeing in this race is the result of what was happening when Biden was the nominee. It wasn't just that he was losing to Trump, but losing very much to tRump, he was also facing this down-ballot collapse. Democrats were facing the potential loss of five, six, or seven Senate seats. They were not prepared to do that, even if they understood they might lose the presidency.

What you're seeing with these polls is certainly better than what they were doing with Biden. But the fundamentals of the presidential race remain the same, because what they were doing was running against the Biden-Harris presidency, for which Kamala Harris is just as responsible. If anything, Biden was able to present as much more moderate than Kamala Harris, who has this on-video record of being one of the most extreme hard-left Democratic nominees in the last 75 years.

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Gina Carano: I'm Going to Call Kathleen Kennedy to Testify, and Pedro Pascal Too

Go Gina Go!

Gina Carano's legal battle over her firing from The Mandalorian could feature a star-studded cast of witnesses, including Pedro Pascal, Jon Favreau and ex-Disney chief executive Bob Chapek.

In a joint filing from the ex-MMA fighter and Disney, Carano pointed to those names as potential witnesses that could be called to testify in her case. She also included Bear Grylls, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and Lynne Hale, the engineer of the publicity campaign behind Star Wars.

Interesting. She's not calling this woman for no reason. Carano must have reason to think that she was part of the smear campaign against her.

The July 26 court document previews issues to be raised in the trial -- tentatively scheduled for Sept. 25, 2025 -- such as whether Carano was under contract on Feb. 10, 2021, when Disney purportedly terminated her for voicing right-wing opinions on social media.

"Right wing opinions" like "we shouldn't dehumanize our political opponents and treat them as enemies in war."

I guess that is a right-wing idea, because the left certainly does believe in dehumanization and constant civil war.

Oh, and this right-wing lunatic also questioned if it was prudent to mandate people take a non-vaccine which wasn't just untested -- even the type of non-vaccine (gene therapy) was entirely new and completely untested.

What a loon!

Another contested issue is whether Carano was treated differently than her male co-stars. In her lawsuit, filed in February, she alleged that Disney and Lucasfilm turned a blind eye to others, who she said made offensive and denigrating posts directed toward Republicans, while she was allegedly fired for her cultural and religious beliefs. She pointed to Pascal's 2017 post comparing former President Donald Trump to Hitler.

Other posts from Pascal cited in the lawsuit include one of him comparing the United States response to those entering the country illegally to Germany's concentration camps.

The Mandalorian creator Favreau, meanwhile, would presumably be called to testify on whether Disney greenlit plans for a new spinoff titled Rangers of the New Republic that would have featured Carano's Cara Dune as one of its lead characters. Kennedy in 2020 confirmed production of the title.

She may ask him about more than that -- she might ask him whether Kathleen Kennedy badgered him to fire her or demand that she tow the Disney line on Inserting Gayness Into Everything.

Grylls may be called to testify over allegations that Disney pulled an episode of Running Wild With Bear Grylls that featured Carano after she was terminated.

Well we know that happened. Grylls did a show with Carano, then Disney demanded that the show be buried and unaired. Grylls fought back and demanded it be aired. He won.

Gina wants some "devastating" discovery:

WDW_Pro reported -- not sure what his source was -- that neither party is attempting to settle this case.

I can understand why Carano isn't. She says she's taking this "all the way," and Musk isn't backing her just to get a cash settlement. He wants a real win.

Why isn't Disney making an offer, though? They might know that not even their money can affect what's coming, and that Carano might just publicly disclose their efforts to buy her off, further embarrassing them.

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OUT: Hamas Terrorist Comander Ismail Haniyeh Was Killed by a High-Tech Precision Airstrike
IN: Haniyeh Was Killed by a Bomb Slipped Under His Bed By a Spy-Maid

LOL. Low-tech is best tech.

The assassination of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh was carried out in Tehran this week using an explosive device that was hidden months ago inside the guesthouse where he was staying, a report says.

The bomb ended up being remotely detonated around 2 a.m. local time Wednesday, killing Haniyeh and a bodyguard at the compound protected by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in the northern part of Iran's capital, Middle Eastern officials told The New York Times.

Haniyeh was in Tehran for Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian's swearing-in on Tuesday. The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital about the report.

The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The New York Times that the explosive device was placed in the room where Haniyeh was staying around two months ago and was set off on Wednesday once it was confirmed that he was there.

They said Haniyeh had stayed at the guesthouse several times before while visiting Tehran, adding that Israeli intelligence officials later briefed their counterparts in the U.S. and other Western governments about the operation in its immediate aftermath.

Israel has not come out publicly to claim responsibility for the killing, but Iran and Hamas are blaming the Jewish State for being behind it, according to The Associated Press.

Three Iranian officials separately told The New York Times that the security breach that allowed the explosive device to find its way into the compound where Haniyeh was residing -- which is used by the Guards for secret meetings and housing prominent guests -- is a massive embarrassment to the military agency.

It's an even bigger embarrassment to the cleaning staff! Stick a vacuum under that bed! Dust once in a while, why don't you!

Update: The IDF confirmed it killed "the of Saddam Hussein of Gaza" on July 13.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has confirmed that the July 13th operation that was rumored to have eliminated Mohammad Deif, the "Osama bin Laden of Gaza," was indeed successful. The IDF announced in mid-July that they had targeted the place where Deif had been staying in a forested area near civilian displacement tents. They were hesitant to confirm the death, however, as Deif had already escaped at least two assassination attempts before, garnering him the title "the man with nine lives" among Gazans.
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The word "Deif" means guest and was given to him because of the legend that he stayed in a different home each night to avoid Israeli intelligence. He was said to have lost an eye and injured his leg in previous assassination attempts, but was rarely ever seen or photographed. Some said he lived solely underneath Gaza in the tunnels. Whatever the facts may have been, he was regarded as a legend by Gazans and hailed as a hero.

Deif played a main role in the October 7th massacre in which nearly 1,200 Israelis, including women, children, and elderly, were ruthlessly murdered. He was said to be the mastermind behind the attack, working closely with Yahya Sinwar, who is still at large and rumored to be hiding behind a human shield of hostages.

Kill. All. Terrorist. Vermin.

As you probably know, Reuters wrote a headline calling this wanted terrorist -- wanted even by the gaylib International Criminal Court -- "the moderate voice of Hamas." Much like Rudolph Hess was "the moderate voice of the Nazi Party," I guess.

The Washington Post decided to embarrass itself again on Monday -- posting a picture of the funeral of an Israeli child killed by Hezballah's Heroic Martyrdom Attack on a playground with a headline suggesting the dead child was Lebanese and killed by Israeli airstrikes on Hezballah military sites.

The Daily Caller:

The Washington Post faced backlash Monday for its misleading front page showing family members mourning an 11-year-old killed by what officials have said was a Hezbollah airstrike with a headline about Israeli airstrikes.

A missile strike -- which Israeli authorities have said was launched from Lebanon by Hezbollah -- killed at least 12 children and wounded others playing soccer on Saturday in the Golan Heights, according to CNN. The Washington Post paired the image of mourners holding a photo of Alma Ayman Fakher Eldin, one of the 12 child victims, with the headline "Israel hits targets in Lebanon" in its article. The online version of the article has a different featured image at the time of writing.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) condemned the publication's front page on X.

"This is the front page of the @washingtonpost today," the IDF wrote. "You can see grieving family members burying children murdered by Hezbollah in the Madjal Shams massacre. If by chance you understood anything else from their headline, you might not be the problem."

Former Israeli government spokesman Elon Levy was outraged by the "backwards" headline, taking to X in response.

"That's an image of a funeral of a girl KILLED IN ISRAEL BY A HEZBOLLAH ROCKET FROM LEBANON, so why is the @washingtonpost headline backwards?" Levy wrote on X.

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Tucker Carlson: The Government Claims It Has a Right to Privacy From Its Citizens But Denies the Right of Its Citizens to Have Their Own Secrets

Kinda-sorta the exact opposite of the idea of America, isn't it?

He was at a forum with Donald Trump, Jr. and was asked about privacy in banking for cryptocoins.

"Privacy is the point. With no privacy, there is no freedom. It is a pre-requisite for freedom," Carlson agreed.

"You know where there is privacy and secrecy in great abundance?" he continued. "The federal government, which has classified over a billion documents describing what they're doing with our money, in our name. This is our government."

"And yet they have every right to keep key decisions from us ... they just allowed the presidential candidate to get shot, and we're not allowed to know how that happened or why," Carlson added. "So to take a lecture from them about how I'm a criminal because I want privacy in my financial transactions or my phone calls or my text messages, really? Fuck you, actually."

The crowd burst into a round of applause at Carlson's statements, which ring horrifyingly true when you really think about it. "I'm sorry to use profanity, but that makes me so mad," he added, even though he didn't need to apologize. We're all adults here.

"Like that's prima facie evidence of a crime. You haven't even declassified the Kennedy assassination files 61 years later, and you're lecturing me about wanting to have an encrypted text conversation? How dare you! You work for me! You should be in prison," Carlson concluded.

A lot of people are going to have to go to prison.

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Trump Tells Hostile, Race-Baiting ABC "News" "Reporter" To Stick It Where The Sun Don't Shine

Curtis Houck
@CurtisHouck

Here's the full exchange on the insane first question at the #NABJ convention by ABC's Rachel Scott....

Scott: "I want to start by addressing elephant in the room, sir. A lot of people did not think it was appropriate for you to be here today. You have pushed false claims about some of your rivals from Nikki Haley to former President Barack Obama, saying that they were not born in the United States, which is not true. You have told four congresswoman of color who were American citizens to go back to where they came from. You have used words like animal and rabbit to describe black attorneys. You've attacked black journalists, calling them a losers, saying the questions that they asked are, "stupid and racist." You've had dinner with a white supremacist at your Mar-a-Lago resort. So my question, sir, now that you were asking black supporters to vote for you, why should black voters trust you after you have used language like that?

Trump: "Well, of all, I don't think I've ever been asked the question so -- in such a horrible manner, first question. You don't even say hello, how are you? Are you with ABC? Because I think they're a fake news network, a terrible network. And I think it's disgraceful that I came here in good spirit. I love the black population of country. I've done so much for the black population of this country, including employment, including opportunity zones with Senator Tim of South Carolina, which is one of the greatest programs ever for black workers and black entrepreneurs and done so much. And, you know, and I say this -- historically black colleges and universities were out of money. They were stone cold broke, and I saved them. And I gave them long term financing and nobody else was doing it. I think it's a very rude introduction."

Scott: "Excuse me!"

Trump: "I don't know exactly you would do something like that. And let me go a step further. I was invited here and I was told my opponent, whether it was Biden, Kamala, I was told my opponent was going to here. It turned out my opponent isn't here. You invited me under false pretense and then you said you can't do it with Zoom. Well, you know where's Zoom? She's going to do it with Zoom and she's not coming. And then you were half an hour late. Just so we understand, I have too much respect for you to be late. They couldn't get their equipment working or something was wrong."

Scott: "Mr. President, I would love you to answer the question on your rhetoric --"

Trump: "I would I think it's a very nasty question."

Scott: "-- and why you believe that black voters should trust you with another four years."

Trump: "Again why I have answered the question with another. I have been the best president for the black population since Abraham Lincoln. That's my answer. That's my answer."

Scott: "Better than -- better than President Johnson, who signed the Voting Rights Act?"

Trump: "And for you to start off the question and answer period, especially when you're 35 minutes late because you couldn't get your equipment to work in such a hostile manner, I think it's a disgrace. I really do think it's a disgrace."

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Female Olympic Boxer Forfeits Fight In Tears After 46 Seconds of Being Pummelled by a Man

Hello everyone. I hope you are all comfortably situated and ready for the day.

On to the latest victim of transgender violence:

Only the Elite (Weird) Caste's dreams matter.

Italy's Angela Carini quit 46 seconds into her Olympic boxing match with Imane Khelif on Thursday, after the Algerian -- who failed a gender eligibility test last year -- landed the first significant punch of the fight.

The pair were competing in the women's 66kg category, in a round-of-16 bout in Paris, but the fight had barely begun before it came to a premature end. Carini, who tearfully fell to her knees in the ring, later told reporters she had never been punched so hard in her career.

After an early pause in the fight, due to Carini needing to adjust her head guard, Khelif landed a clean right hand. Almost immediately, Carini motioned to her team and opted against continuing, with the referee waving off the contest.

After Khelif's hand was raised, Carini dropped to her knees in tears. Before and after that moment, the Italian twice seemed to ignore Khelif's attempts to console her.

Carini could also be heard telling her coach, "It's not right, it's not right!" before promptly leaving the arena.

What a hater! She should be #cancelled.

...

"I'm a mature woman. The ring is my life. I've always been very instinctive, and when I feel that something isn't right, it's not giving up. It's having the maturity to stop, it's having the maturity to say: 'OK, that's enough.'"

...

Speaking to the BBC, she added: "It could have been the match of a lifetime, but I had to preserve my life as well in that moment."

Jennifer
@babybeginner

On 24 March 2023, IBA disqualified athletes Lin Yu-ting and Imane Khelif from the IBA Women's World Boxing Championships New Delhi 2023.

They failed to meet the qualification standards for participating in WOMEN's boxing.

2/

They write:

"While IBA remains committed to ensuring competitive fairness in all of our events, we express concern over the inconsistent application of eligibility criteria by other sporting organizations, including those overseeing the Olympic Games." 3/

They urge people to seek clarification why the International Olympic Committee permits athletes with "competitive advantages" to compete in their events.

OUCH.

A woman is going to get murdered, beaten to death on live TV by a man who obviously despises women.

And you know who they'll blame?

Us. For not being welcoming enough. We supercharged their masculine punches with anger at women by not pretending to share their delusions.

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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

Iran is the progressive movement's favorite anti-American country, so it is no wonder that officials of the Biden/Obama junta are working diligently in its interest. And of course Chlamydia Harris takes her marching orders from the Obama minions sprinkled throughout the administration, so the fact that she has a "national security advisor" who is an Iranian lackey is not surprising. In reality, it would be surprising if there aren't more foreign-controlled apparatchiks in her offices.

Kamala’s NatSec Adviser Has Been Implicated In An Iranian Spy Ring Exposé.

Philip H. Gordon, Kamala Harris‘s national security advisor, appears to have concerning ties to an Iranian influence operation that has sparked a full investigation of the Biden-Harris government’s special envoy to Iran, Robert Malley.

In a letter on Wednesday, Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Representative Elise Stefanik (R-NY) allege Gordan is tied to Ariane Tabatabai, a senior Defense Department official accused of participating in an Iranian influence operation.

“Before joining your office, Mr. Gordon co-authored at least three opinion pieces with Ms. Tabatabai blatantly promoting the Iranian regime’s perspective and interests,” Cotton and Stefanik’s letter states. It continues: “In a March 2020 piece, Mr. Gordon and Ms. Tabatabai claimed continued sanctions on Iran would create ‘catastrophe’ in the Middle East. In another, they wrote sanctions could lead to new Iranian efforts to ‘lash out with attacks on its neighbors, and on Americans and American interests in the Middle East.'”

It's vomit-inducing that the Obama wing of the Democrat/progressive movement in America is so rabidly against America that they embrace a country that has made the destruction of America a tenet of their national character. Iran has spent the last 45 years diligently killing Americans and our allies, undermining our efforts in every place where they have any influence, and supporting terrorism through its proxies in all corners of the world.

That Iran is considered even on the periphery of the world of nations is a testament to the post-modern view that all cultures and societies are of equal value and importance. In a more sane world, Iran would have been bombed into the stone age for its support of terrorism, and its Mad Mullah rulers killed or imprisoned. In fact, the people of Iran just needed a bit of support, and they would have done the job themselves, but that Democrat/progressive love of murder and mayhem protected the Mullahs at the expense of thousands of Iranian lives.

The world is left with tiny Israel to do the work that the West has refused to do. Hopefully the current administration is distracted enough to put Israel on the back burner while it works to subvert the will of the American people in the upcoming election. If Trump wins, then Israel once again will be the tip of the spear in the West's fight against totalitarian Islam. If Trump loses, the West and Israel will face existential issues in the coming four years, with the real prospect of atomic devices in the hands of a psychotic totalitarian regime hellbent on the destruction of Israel and the West.

I know for whom I will vote.

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter]

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Joseph's Bloody Coat Brought to Jacob
Diego Velazquez

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The Morning Report — 8/1/24

Good Morning Kids. Well, I suppose this proves that Barack Obama is still running the show. Or does it given who and what Biden/Harris and the entire Democrat Left are? The mastermind of the most heinous mass terrorist attack and worst mass slaughter on our soil in history has, after still being allowed to live has been given a plea deal to commute his death sentence, as long as he admits to his crimes. Hell, he and his fellow Muslims always crow about their crimes and perpetually blow a gasket when the media and governments always feign ignorance as to the motives of mass stabbings, bombings, and other mayhem as the blood curdling war cry of allahu akbar still resonates in everyone's ears.

This is beyond sickening. And yet, here we are 23 years on.

The contrast between Israel taking out Fuad Shukr, a top Hezbollah leader, wanted for the Marine Corps Barracks bombing in Beirut which killed 241 U.S. military personnel, and Biden is cutting a deal with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the 9/11 mastermind, is a compelling indictment. But it was also inevitable.

One of the obsessions of this junta, like that of the Obama administration, was shutting down Gitmo and dismantling the last remains of the War on Terror.

Biden has sidelined 9/11 memorials and was freeing terrorists from Gitmo at a furious pace. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and a few other terrorists who couldn’t just be sent off to Africa or Eastern Europe were standing in the way. I was writing about the plot within the Biden administration two years ago.
Biden recently released Mohammed al-Qahtani, the 20th 9/11 hijacker, and Zuhail al-Sharabi, another hijacker for an expanded version of the 9/11 attacks from Guantanamo Bay, so it’s only fitting that he’s trying to cut a plea deal with the mastermind of the attacks.
But in 2009, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his fellow terrorists had already entered their “Islamic” response to the charges against them which declared that “killing you and fighting you, destroying you and terrorizing you” are “considered to be great legitimate duty in our religion.”
Terrorism, the Islamic response explained, was an “offering” to Allah. It described the “blessed 11 September operation” as “our military attack”.
That’s an official confession without any duress whatsoever.
In 2023, I noted that, “Last week thousands of 9/11 families signed a letter asking Biden not to cut a deal with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: the Al-Qaeda mastermind of the attacks and many others.”
Biden boycotted the 9/11 ceremony. And assuming he even shows up this September, it’ll be to mumble something about his son and boast about having ended all the wars. He exploited and abused 9/11 families.
And his only reason for holding off on saving Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s life was the upcoming election. Now that he doesn’t have to worry about that anymore, the deal with the devil is done.

Lest we forget that after suffering grievous wounds at Lexington & Concord, the Little Big Horn and Iwo Jima, Beau Biden died a hero for holding up the twin towers with all his might before his arms gave out – or a rooftop Sloper Mossad agent hit him with a pea shooter to make him drop them.

Sick to my stomach with what has happened to this nation and the world. My only consolation is my dear parents of blessed memory are no longer around to have to witness this.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY




• It is easy to believe that American journalism was always a liar’s game. In his screenplay for the film Nothing Sacred, newspaperman Ben Hecht wrote: “I’ll tell you briefly what I think about newspapermen: the hand of God, reaching down into the mire, couldn’t elevate one of them to the depths of degradation.” That was in 1937.
  ATCM: 'Letter to a Young Journalist'
  
• Again, the lowly soldier is accountable for being placed in a dangerous situation by inept and feckless senior political and military leadership. 
  DoD’s rewrite of history
  
• Retired cop Kathy Vigiano, wife of NYPD Det. Joseph Vigiano, who was killed on 9/11, said: “I am angry and disappointed that enemy combatants who killed thousands of Americans in our homeland are now able to exploit the US judicial system to their benefit, receiving support from American taxpayers for shelter, food, and healthcare for the rest of their lives.”
  9/11 mastermind KSM and two other terrorists awaiting trial on Guantanamo Bay strike plea deals

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Daily Tech News 1 August 2024

Top Story

• Dating sites Bumble and Hinge allowed stalkers to pinpoint users' locations to within two meters. (Tech Crunch)
  
  They were among a long list of sites with similar problems, allowing malicious users to very precisely triangulate the locations of others.
  
  This has since been fixed, with most sites diluting the precision down to 1km, though Grindr still lets you track people to within 100m.

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Wednesday Overnight Open Thread (7/31/24)

*****

The Quote of The Day

"The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope" - Unknown

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Sweet Dreams Cafe

Manfred Teh/@manfredteh

I think I remember posting a different picture of this lighthouse before. I think it might be in Wales. What that halo is, I dunno. Obviously it's a time-lapse picture but I don't know what would revolve round the lighthouse like that. Any guesses?

Probably just a drone with a light on it -- he has a lot of similar photos.

Funny: These monkeys are obviously brothers.

A corgi sneaks into the next yard every night to ride the neighbor's miniature pony.

Never trust a prairie dog.

A squadron of lorikeets.

ICYMI: Cucking the Tour de France.

ICYMI: Magpie tails cat, then plays it off when the cat spots him.

The tiger family that lays together stays together.

You might think that "sleeping sloths" is the most boring possible subject, but it's more interesting and strange than you'd think.

Fur pile.

Frenz.

A cat has decided it's time for you to go to bed.

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