February 20, 2026
China Is Sending Pregnant Women to the US to Give Birth, Have Their Children Declared American Citizens, Move Back to China, and Then Have Them Vote in US Elections When They Reach Age 18
Of course, we shouldn't worry about that too much, because Democrats are already allowing straight-up foreigners from hostile countries to vote in our elections.
Investigative journalist Peter Schweizer, who previously exposed how much cash congressmen were taking on the sly, reports that China is directing CCP-connected pregnant women to engage in "birth tourism." They "dip a toe" into the US to have a baby, get that baby certified as a citizen, and the bring it to China to be raised under the communist system as a loyal communist stooge.
Then when the kid turns 18, he is eligible to vote in US elections. China is doing this on an "industrial scale," he says, and has already created one million Manchurian Voters it will have vote from overseas to turn US elections to the Chinese communist party's favor. He makes the case that this is only possible due to the bizarre notion of "birthright citizenship," and we must end this judge-created mistake or else China will be electing all of our politicians in ten or twenty years. That video below the fold. The GOP is pushing a law that would end incentives for Chinese birth tourism. Note that it wouldn't end birthright citizenship, though, or ban pregnant Chinese women from visiting the US. It would, however, end an Obama-Biden rule that allows Chinese nationals to get a quickie visa. Like, when they start feeling contractions.Three Republican senators are urging the Trump administration to shut down visa and parole programs they say allow Chinese nationals to exploit US citizenship laws through birth tourism and surrogacy. Sens. Rick Scott, Jim Banks, and Markwayne Mullin sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum calling the programs a national security risk. They argue the policies allow nationals from Communist China to gain fast-track access to US citizenship through children born in US territories. The senators focused on the Guam--Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Visa Waiver Program and a newer offshoot created under the Biden administration. They said the programs allow visa-free entry for Chinese nationals and have fueled a sharp rise in birth tourism in Saipan. "We write to express our gratitude for your commitment to protecting the homeland from foreign threats," the senators wrote. They said an Obama- and Biden-era policy allows Chinese nationals "to obtain fast-track American citizenship," calling it a "clear and significant short- and long-term national security risk". The letter cites a Wall Street Journal investigation that found Chinese nationals increasingly using the US surrogacy system to secure citizenship for their children. The senators said these practices often occur outside traditional immigration vetting.
Of course, we shouldn't worry about that too much, because Democrats are already allowing straight-up foreigners from hostile countries to vote in our elections.
See the link to RedState for more. Foreign pirates and conquerors are stealing our country out from under us.
During a raid of Khan's home in October 2020 on unrelated charges, officials observed a stash of 41 sealed and completed mail ballots for the 2020 presidential election. Due to CA's ballot harvesting laws the ballots were not seized, but investigators photographed the ballots and documented their findings. In the fall of 2021, officials noticed 70 people were registered to vote at one address in Lodi, which they recognized as Khan's. Sheriff's investigators determined that Khan had used the state's online voter registration system to re-register existing California voters from other districts to his address, and at least a few non-citizens living in foreign countries (including his brother in Pakistan) to vote using his address, email address, or phone number. Investigators reviewed the ballot return envelopes from ballots cast in the 2020 general election, which had been maintained by the Registrar, and found that many of those tied to Khan's address all had the same handwriting on the outside. ...
Khan forced voters whose information he'd hijacked to vote for him and for Joe Biden, either by filling them out himself or threatening the voter.
When Khan heard that investigators were speaking to people he'd fraudulently registered to vote, he posted a video to TikTok to threaten and intimidate them.
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Educational Excellence: "Honors Student" Who Cannot Read or Write Sues Government School Which Allowed Her to Graduate as a Complete Illitarate
Oh, but also, you're not allowed to actually hire new talent. We have written the law to require that teachers have useless degrees in education, which is a huge entry barrier to people who studied more useful things in college, and who don't want to go back to school for three years to be a teacher. So we'll just pay the existing, horrible teachers more. This will attract new talent... from within them! Second headline: Left-Wing Teachers Oppose Deporting Criminal Illegal Aliens Because They'll Get Less Money if Illegal Alien Children Leave the Country
Incredible.
But it's not. We all know these failure factors are churning out one illiterate after another and scamming the taxpayer $30,000 per student per year for this "service."
A Connecticut college student is suing the Hartford Board of Education and the city of Hartford for negligence. Nineteen-year-old Aleysha Ortiz says she graduated from high school with honors and earned a college scholarship, but she can't read or write. In some ways, Ortiz is living an American dream. The 19-year-old began her freshman year at the University of Connecticut in Hartford this past fall. She's excited to study public policy; it's the culmination of hard work after moving north from Puerto Rico as a child.By the way, the problem isn't that she speaks Spanish. She's spoken English since birth. She cannot read or write in any language.
"I remember I was very nervous, but I know it was going to be better opportunities for me to learn," Ortiz remarked. But Ortiz says those opportunities never came to fruition. "All I see is words everywhere," Ortiz said. Ortiz graduated from the Hartford Public Schools system last year, but she says she is now illiterate and still doesn't know how to read or write. "They would just either tell me to stay in a corner and sleep or just draw pictures, flowers for them," Ortiz said about her earlier education. When she was in high school, Ortiz relied on speech-to-text programs and other apps to read or write essays. Ortiz said her mother, who does not speak English well, tried to get answers. "She advocated so much," Ortiz said. "She went to the school. The principal promised her that it would be better. Sometimes it would be people from the district or the directors promising her they would do better." Now, Ortiz is suing the Hartford Board of Education and the city for negligence. ... Turner fears a crucial guardrail will be lost if President Donald Trump's administration follows through with abolishing the Department of Education. "How do I protect the special education children?" Turner asked. "Who do I go to if I close it down?"Oh yeah, we have to keep the Department of Education open. It's done such a bang-up job so far. Now I know this girl seems to have cheated her way through school, and undoubtedly, she has the first responsibility for her own education. She and her mother. But this school appears to have just passed this illiterate dum-dum through grade after grade without every verifying she could read simple sentences at a five-year-old level. Hey I know how we can improve government teacher performance: Just pay them more. That will attract new talent.
Oh, but also, you're not allowed to actually hire new talent. We have written the law to require that teachers have useless degrees in education, which is a huge entry barrier to people who studied more useful things in college, and who don't want to go back to school for three years to be a teacher. So we'll just pay the existing, horrible teachers more. This will attract new talent... from within them! Second headline: Left-Wing Teachers Oppose Deporting Criminal Illegal Aliens Because They'll Get Less Money if Illegal Alien Children Leave the Country
Mark KrikorianIt's all about the kids with these teachers. All about the kids. Nothing but the kids. Powerline:
@MarkSKrikorian "Public schools depend on the children of illegal aliens to keep up enrollment levels and extract more money from state taxpayers."
This, from the Minneapolis Star Tribune,School leaders fear declining attendance during ICE surge will also lower state funding.Public schools depend on the children of illegal aliens to keep up enrollment levels and extract more money from state taxpayers. More students means more teachers, which means more public school teacher union members, which means more union dues, which means bigger donations to the Democratic party.... Democrats in Minnesota have gone all-in on an illegal-immigrant-based economy....
To that end, public schools in Minnesota have sued the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security in an effort to kick ICE out of the state (File No. 26-cv-1023). It's one of many such lawsuits filed by Democrats and Democrat-controlled institutions. The Star Tribune reports,
Because the money to pay teachers, counselors, bus drivers and principals is tied to attendance, officials fear prolonged absences by students in hiding will lead to declining state funding for schools.
FischerKingIn better education news: Three red states, Alabama, Mississippi, and Lousiana, are seeing historic gains in student learning by using teaching techniques that actually work. These aren't new techniques. They're very old techniques. They're techniques the left-wing, grifter educrat establishment chucked aside to pursue novel, failing techniques because educrats don't get paid if they just tell people to keep using the same techniques that worked in the past. No, the EduGrifters only get paid if they propose something New! and Counter-Intuitive! The educrats are constantly proposing new pedagogies for the exact same reason they put out a new Madden Football every single year: Churn. You have to keep churning out new product to keep your business going. Soaking wet lefty Nicholas Kristof of the NYT is surprised to find out that it's conservative states, not his beloved edugrifter blue ones, who are actually teaching children how to read and do math.
@FischerKing64 22h This would be funny if it weren't so serious. Illegal alien children in American public schools degrade education for everyone across the board because of the lack of English proficiency, which slows everything down, prevents native students from getting the education their parents pay for through taxes. But the schools/teachers/unions actually want illegals because it drives up enrollment - which means more funding, more teachers etc. So those taxpayers wind up paying more but getting less. This is from the Minneapolis tribune, will link to full article in next post.
A ray of hope is emerging in American education. Not among Democrats or Republicans, each diverted by culture wars.Actually, Nick, it is among Republicans. Nice try though!
Not in the education reform movement, largely abandoned by the philanthropists who once propelled it.The edugrifter's "reform" movement that has produced nothing but failure upon failure for 50 years? Yes, quite right, the hope isn't coming from them.
Why is that so unlikely? Oh, because leftwingers, who fail at everything, are so smart and talented, right?
Rather, hope emerges in the most unlikely of places: three states here in the Deep South that long represented America's educational basement.
These states -- Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi -- have histories of child poverty, racism and dismal educational outcomes, and they continue to spend less than most other states on public schools.Oh they spend less? Well everyone knows that when you give every kid a $700 laptop and pay their teachers on the level of lawyers, educational achievement goes up. Oh wait it doesn't. Never did.
Oh an admission that lefties really think the sun shines out of their assholes and have contempt for anyone not like them. (You know, like true tolerant, welcoming cosmopolitans.)
Yet, consider:I wrote about Mississippi's educational successes in 2023, but many of my fellow liberals then scoffed at the notion of learning from a state so tainted.
Louisiana ranks No. 1 in the country in recovery from pandemic losses in reading, while Alabama ranks No. 1 in math recovery. The state with the lowest chronic absenteeism in schools is Alabama, according to a tracker with data from 40 states. Once an educational laughingstock, Mississippi now ranks ninth in the country in fourth-grade reading levels -- and after adjusting for demographics such as poverty and race, Mississippi ranks No. 1, while Louisiana ranks No. 2, according to calculations by the Urban Institute. Using the same demographic adjustment, Mississippi also ranks No. 1 in America in both fourth-grade and eighth-grade math. Black fourth graders in Mississippi are on average better readers than those in Massachusetts, which is often thought to have the best public school system in the country (and one that spends twice as much per pupil).
By "metrics," he means testing kids to make sure they are learning. And as you know, our failing teacher-grifters are adamantly opposed to testing -- which they deride as merely "teaching to the test" (as has historically been done) -- because testing kids reveals their own failure to teach them and undermines their case for the next big raise during their next teachers strike.
Skeptics, mostly on the left, have made many critiques of the gains, including that they fade in upper grades, that the states are cheating, that this is all a temporary blip and that any progress is simply a result of holding back weak readers. The critiques have been effectively rebutted -- for starters, they can't explain the continuing gains in Mississippi or the magnitude of the gains. Just as striking, the Mississippi gains increasingly are being replicated in Alabama and Louisiana, as they follow similar approaches. That's enormously encouraging, for it suggests that other states can also lift student trajectories if they are willing to learn from Southern red states they may be more accustomed to looking down on. So I traveled through Mississippi and Alabama with the photographer Lynsey Addario to understand the lessons to be learned. Perhaps the most important is an insistence on metrics, accountability and mastery of reading by the end of third grade. And while reading gets the attention, just as important is getting kids to attend school regularly.
.. In classrooms and offices, teachers and administrators frequently mentioned the motivating power of report cards -- not the letter grades given out by schools, but those they (the schools themselves) receive.Well what do you know, testing and measuring actually improves performance. Literally everyone who is not an ideologically-captured denialist knows this. It is true in every field. "What gets measured, gets improved," the saying goes. And what doesn't get measured is allowed to slide and slide until it becomes a disaster. Ask your friends in Minnesota about how their practice of not checking up on social welfare businesses turned out.
.. What I see is schools fighting for their students. These states have created a structure that closely monitors each school's performance and incentivizes principals and teachers alike to do everything they can to get kids back in class and learning.Teachers union teachers are adamant that they not be measured for actual job performance, so good luck with that in the blue states.
For many years, skeptics have offered dispiriting arguments about the prospects for educational gains: The way to improve literacy is to fix the family, fix addiction, fix the parents, for as long as the child's environment is broken, there's not much else that can be done. The gains in these states suggest that that critique is wrong. Mississippi and Alabama haven't fixed child poverty, trauma and deeply troubled communities -- but they have figured out how to get kids to read by the end of third grade. This matters in myriad ways: One recent study found that states with large increases in school test scores enjoyed rising incomes and drops in teen motherhood, incarceration and arrest rates compared with states that didn't enjoy such gains. What's particularly impressive is that the Southern surge states lifted student achievement with only modest budgets. Spending per pupil in Alabama and Mississippi was below $12,000 in 2024, while in New York it was almost $30,000. That's worth celebrating and emulating. Yet, unfortunately, there's not much sign of that.No. I wonder why. By the way, Kristof focused on these schools' fight to reduce truancy and make sure students actually show up for class. He completely refused to mention which pedagogy they employ. Are they using time-tested phonics, thrown on the scrapheap by edugrifter "reformers' in the seventies, or the "whole word" reading, where supposedly you just look at a word and its meaning magically appears in a student's mind, which the edugrifters used as an improvement over phonics and then saw students become illiterate? Well Nick and the New York Times won't tell you so I will, with an assist from Google AI:
Alabama public schools use the Science of Reading, focusing on systematic phonics, phonemic awareness, and explicit instruction through programs like the Alabama Reading Initiative (ARI), mandated by the Alabama Literacy Act (2019), which requires K-3 reading proficiency, teacher training, and bans the ineffective three-cueing system to build strong decoding and comprehension skills for all students.A "phoneme" is just a part of a word, like "sh" or "nt," or just any single letter, that makes a specific sound. In other words, just phonics. Why did Nick Kristof hide this information from readers? Even when he's telling liberals "you should emulate the Alabama system," he can't be honest about it. Why? Because leftists and their "experts" are facing the worst legitimacy and credibility crisis in Western history and they can't afford admitting another huge "L." So they'll just pretend, publicly, that the Alabama plan is just about New! and Exciting! education reforms made to reduce truancy. But they're the honest, good, caring, kind people only motivated by concerns for the public good and entirely untainted by grubby tribal concerns like always making sure your tribe comes out on top. Just ask them! Or just read the signs on their lawns! "In this house, We Believe..."
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Democrats Shut Down DHS, Attempting to Force Trump to Accept Biden's Open Borders Regime As the Law of the Land
DHS funding ran out last Friday.
Christian CollinsIronically, the incompetent Democrat Theater-Kids and Groomers aren't shutting down ICE at all, which was fully funded for a year under the Big Beautiful Bill:
@CollinsforTX
Due to the Democrat shutdown: - TSA agents are working without pay
- FEMA workers are working without pay
- DHS employees are working without pay. Meanwhile, Democrats have just announced a "Trans Bill of Rights." These unserious politicians need to be voted out.
For his part, Trump's playing hardball. If you recall, when Republicans have shut the government down, Democrats have always employed what is called "the Washington Monument Strategy" to make shutdowns as painful as possible for the public. They not only shut down parks, but they had park personnel, who were on furlough, act like cops and chase visitors out. Obama even had Rangers working near Mount Rushmore drag chains across a turn-off on a local road to keep people from parking their cars just to look at the monument. They spent government money, in short, during a shutdown to punish the public so that they'd pressure Republicans to cave. Trump is taking a page from the Democrats.
Nick Sortor
@nicksortor BREAKING: The US Senate has just FAILED to advance the DHS funding bill, which means DHS will likely shutdown tomorrow night Fetterman was the lone Democrat to vote in favor. These idiots aren’t shutting down ICE, because ICE is FULLY FUNDED for the year. They’re shutting down the Coast Guard, TSA, Cybersecurity agencies, and more. Democrats are putting our country at risk for PURE POLITICS. Disgusting.
A Maryland sewer line just burst and is pumping in tons and tons of unprocessed shit and piss into the Potomac. But FEMA's not coming.
President Donald Trump's administration has ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency to suspend the deployment of hundreds of aid workers to disaster-affected areas around the country while the Department of Homeland Security is shut down, internal messages reviewed by Reuters showed. DHS, which FEMA is part of, entered a partial shutdown on Saturday, but has largely continued to operate since most of its functions are deemed essential. The shutdown happened after Republicans and Democrats failed to reach a deal on immigration enforcement reforms. "DHS has issued a stop-travel order for all DHS funded travel, effecting 2/18/26, for the duration of the lapse in appropriation. Currently this DOES include disaster travel," according to an internal email sent by Kurt Weirich, a chief of staff at FEMA. More than 300 FEMA disaster responders were preparing for upcoming assignments but were told to stand down, including some who are currently at a training facility, CNN reported earlier.
CNN has never before objected to the Washington Monument Strategy. Suddenly they're all "But the public shouldn't suffer for Washington's squabbles!" This is the Democrat Party -- the Party of Illegal Aliens. The Party Against the American People.
The freeze comes after Trump said on Monday the federal government will step in to protect the Potomac River following the collapse of a major sewer pipe in the Washington, D.C., region last month. A sewer line in Montgomery County, Maryland, collapsed on Jan. 19, causing an overflow of more than 240 million gallons (909 million liters) of wastewater into the Potomac River. Trump said FEMA, which has seen significant staff cuts since he took office in January 2025, will coordinate the response. So far, however, FEMA has deployed few, if any, resources to assist with the sewage spill, CNN reported, citing three agency officials.
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Congressional Democrats Will Introduce Law to Assert Some Unknown Federal Power to Regulate State Health Codes, and Insist That Hospitals Must Continue Mutilating Children's Genitals and Breasts
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Trump: "Bad Things" Will Happen to Iran If They Don't Agree to Stop Producing Uranium, Building Long-Range Missiles, and Funding Hamas;
Meanwhile, the USS Ford Closes In on Iran
Meanwhile, the USS Ford Closes In on Iran
Is Trump ready to strike Iran? I don't put a lot of stock in Lindsey Graham's insane, low-T ramblings, but he claims the decision to strike has already been made:
Insider PaperYeah I dunno. Trump's mind is very changeable. And he's often both ingratiating and noncommittal, meaning he'll speak to someone and make vague noises that sound like agreement but actually are not definite and don't commit him to anything. There may be a roadblock, too: "Our great allies" in the Ummah Kingdom of Great Britain are forbidding us from using our base in Diego Garcia in any strikes on Iran:
@TheInsiderPaper BREAKING: Senator Lindsey Graham, in an interview with Sky News Arabia: "The US decision regarding Iran has already been made. The ships are not arriving in the area only because the weather is pleasant at this time of year"
On the other hand, we've moved one-third of our Navy and a huge number of jets into the area. "Experts," whatever that means now, say there's a 90% chance of hostilities.
Faytuks Network
@FaytuksNetwork The UK has blocked U.S. use of RAF Fairford and Diego Garcia for Iran strikes, citing international law, leading Trump to withdraw support for Starmer's £35B Chagos Islands handover deal with Mauritius. Senior UK officials privately called the situation 'bleak.' - The Times
A massive fleet of US warplanes is heading to Iran to lay the groundations to bomb the Islamic Republic. Aircraft including combat jets and support plane like air-to-air refuellers are flying to the Middle East - just hours after Iran launched a series of wargames. These manoeuvres, in conjunction with the approaching USS Gerald R Ford strike group and USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, have led insiders to estimate that there is a 90 per cent chance of war. Former Israeli intelligence chief Amos Yadlin said he believes a strike would happen in a "matter of days". The fleet of planes includes more than 50 American fighter jets, which include F-35s and F-16s, and dozens of air-to-air refuelling tankers. One source within the administration told Axios: "The boss is getting fed up. Some people around him warn him against going to war with Iran, but I think there is a 90 per cent chance we see kinetic action in the next few weeks."The USS Ford will reportedly be poised to strike by next week. Trump says "bad things" will happen if Iran does not agree to his demands.
Iran held annual military drills with Russia on Thursday as a second American aircraft carrier drew closer to the Middle East, with both the United States and Iran signaling they are prepared for war if talks on Tehran's nuclear program fizzle out. President Donald Trump said he believes 10 to 15 days is "enough time" for Iran to reach a deal. But the talks have been deadlocked for years, and Iran has refused to discuss wider U.S. and Israeli demands that it scale back its missile program and sever ties to armed groups. Indirect talks held in recent weeks made little visible progress, and one or both sides could be buying time for final war preparations.Iran insists that the only thing it will discuss is its nuclear program, and also, it will not make any concessions regarding its nuclear program. Let's definitely keep talking to them!
Iran's theocracy is more vulnerable than ever following 12 days of Israeli and U.S. strikes on its nuclear sites and military last year, as well as mass protests in January that were violently suppressed. But it is still capable of striking Israel and U.S. bases in the region, and has warned that any attack would trigger a regional war.The war will be fought in the region of Tehran.
Iran earlier this week launched a drill that involved live-fire in the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow opening of the Persian Gulf through which a fifth of the world's traded oil passes. Tensions are also rising inside Iran, as mourners hold ceremonies honoring slain protesters 40 days after their killing by security forces. Some gatherings have seen anti-government chants despite threats from authorities. The movements of additional American warships and airplanes, with the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier near the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea, don't guarantee a U.S. strike on Iran -- but it bolsters Trump's ability to carry out one should he choose to do so. ...On the other hand, this genius warns us that Iran's missile system is mighty and will send the US fleet to the bottom of the sea. Say how did Iran's drones, anti-ship missiles, and anti-aircraft missiles work in Venezuela? I heard not so good. What did you hear? And now, as reported by the WSJ via Ed Morrissey, Trump is considering launching a "limited" strike against Iran to convince them he is serious and prod them to make actual concessions on nukes, missiles, and funding terrorist proxies. I think that's kind of dumb. Nothing convinces an opponent you are not serious than your preference to deliver mere pinprick Attitude Adjustment strikes.
The official said top national security officials gathered Wednesday to discuss Iran, and were briefed that the "full forces" needed to carry out potential military action are expected to be in place by mid-March. The official did not provide a timeline for when Iran is expected to deliver its written response. "It's proven to be, over the years, not easy to make a meaningful deal with Iran, and we have to make a meaningful deal. Otherwise bad things happen," Trump said Thursday.
... Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk urged his nation's citizens to immediately leave Iran as "within a few, a dozen, or even a few dozen hours, the possibility of evacuation will be out of the question." He did not elaborate, and the Polish Embassy in Tehran did not appear to be drawing down its staff. The German military said that it had moved "a mid-two digit number of non-mission critical personnel" out of a base in northern Iraq because of the current situation in the region and in line with its partners' actions. It said that some troops remain to help keep the multinational camp running in Irbil, where they train Iraqi forces.
This image provided Thursday Feb. 19, 2026 by the Iranian military and dated ... "This week, another 50 U.S. combat aircraft -- F-35s, F-22s, and F-16s -- were ordered to the region, supplementing the hundreds deployed to bases in the Arab Gulf states," the New York-based Soufan Center think tank wrote. "The deployments reinforce Trump's threat -- restated on a nearly daily basis -- to proceed with a major air and missile campaign on the regime if talks fail."
There are many lessons of Vietnam, but one of the biggest ones is that slow escalation is a terrible strategy. An enemy can absorb small attacks and disruptions and adapt to them. The right strategy is the same optimal strategy for picking up a girl at a bar: Go Ugly Early.
Talks continue between Iran, the US, and the various mediators hoping to avert military action as the weekend approaches. Thus far, Iran still thinks it can get a new JCPOA, while Donald Trump still thinks he can force them to deal rationally. Both sides appear ready to be disappointed, at the very least.
Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi insisted that the regime's nuclear program will survive both the strikes in June and the coming reckoning from the US armada assembling in the Persian Gulf. Araghchi did offer yet another deal in which Iran just postpones the inevitable... In other words, Araghchi offers only a restoration of Barack Obama's 2015 Iran deal, ... If the Iranians remain locked in a JCPOA fantasy, Trump may be stuck in some misapprehensions of his own. The Wall Street Journal reports that the White House is now considering a limited opening strike, perhaps to push the Iranians into concessions on ballistic missiles and terror proxies. That strategy has its own problems:
President Trump is weighing an initial limited military strike on Iran to force it to meet his demands for a nuclear deal, a first step that would be designed to pressure Tehran into an agreement but fall short of a full-scale attack that could inspire a major retaliation. The opening assault, which if authorized could come within days, would target a few military or government sites, people familiar with the matter said. If Iran still refused to comply with Trump's directive to end its nuclear enrichment, the U.S. would respond with a broad campaign against regime facilities--potentially aimed at toppling the Tehran regime. The first limited-strike option, which hasn't been previously reported, signals Trump might be open to using military force not only as a reprimand for Iran's failure to make a deal, but also to pave the way for a U.S.-friendly accord. One of the people said Trump could ratchet up his attacks, starting small before ordering larger strikes until the Iranian regime either dismantles its nuclear work or falls.
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By 6-3 Vote, Supreme Court Rules All of Trump's Tariffs Illegal
Gorsuch wants to know why the liberal justices want to read this and only this statute of being incapable of granting the president congressional powers, while permitting every other statute to delegate equal powers to the president. He seems to want to go further and overturn the entire system of Congress granting the Executive law-making power so it can churn out Infinite Laws, and mocks the majority for keeping that system in place while finding a violation only with Trump's use of congressionally-delegated power.
Of course Roberts and Coney-Barrett joined the left. I don't know why we say "joined the left." They're on the left.
Just going to guess that the libertarian Gorsuch also joined the left. (Update: He did. Actually I also just guessed that the liberal cooze Coney-Barrett once again joined the left, and that guess was right as well. Although it's barely a "guess," is it?) Terrible.The Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump's far-reaching global tariffs on Friday, handing him a significant loss on an issue crucial to his economic agenda. The 6-3 decision centers on tariffs imposed under an emergency powers law, including the sweeping "reciprocal" tariffs he levied on nearly every other country. It's the first major piece of Trump's broad agenda to come squarely before the nation's highest court, which he helped shape with the appointments of three conservative jurists in his first term. The majority found that the Constitution "very clearly" gives Congress the power to impose taxes, which include tariffs. "The Framers did not vest any part of the taxing power in the Executive Branch," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote.Except that Congress has also been determined to have the power to delegate this power to Executive decision-making -- which is exactly what Congress did, in granting the President the power to "regulate... importation" in the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh dissented. "The tariffs at issue here may or may not be wise policy. But as a matter of text, history, and precedent, they are clearly lawful," Kavanaugh wrote. Trump called the majority decision "a disgrace" when he was notified during his morning meeting with several governors, according to someone with direct knowledge of the president's reaction, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private conversation. ... The majority did not address whether companies could get refunded for the billions they have collectively paid in tariffs. Many companies, including the big-box warehouse chain Costco, have already lined up to demand refunds in lower courts. Kavanaugh noted the process could be complicated. "The Court says nothing today about whether, and if so how, the Government should go about returning the billions of dollars that it has collected from importers. But that process is likely to be a 'mess,' as was acknowledged at oral argument," he wrote. The Treasury had collected more than $133 billion from the import taxes the president has imposed under the emergency powers law as of December, federal data shows. The impact over the next decade was estimated at some $3 trillion.
Gunther Eagleman
@GuntherEagleman 16m 🚨BREAKING: Justice Clarence Thomas just UNLEASHED pure FIRE in his dissent on the tariff ruling, dropping TRUTH BOMBS that expose the majority's BS and defend President Trump's America First authority like a boss! He didn't mince words. He straight-up NAILED it: "NEITHER the statutory text nor the Constitution provide a basis for ruling against the President." BOOM. Read that again. The Constitution and the law ITSELF back Trump--no ifs, ands, or buts. Thomas keeps swinging: "Congress authorized the President to 'regulate . . . importation.' Throughout American history, the authority to 'regulate importation' has been understood to include the authority to impose duties on imports." Historical facts don't care about your feelings, globalists. He doubles down: "The meaning of that phrase was beyond doubt by the time that Congress enacted this statute, shortly after President Nixon's highly publicized duties on imports were UPHELD based on identical language." Nixon did it. Courts said YES. Same exact words. Case closed. Then the kill shot: "The statute that the President relied on therefore authorized him to impose the duties on imports at issue in these cases." Crystal. Clear.
Cynical PubliusActually, Justice Gorsuch seems to be driving at that in his concurrence. There is a question about whether Congress even has the power to delegate its constitutional powers. Prior rulings that it can do this is what empowered the gigantic leviathan state we now live in. Some people want to overturn that system of congressional delegation of the powers the Constitution grants solely to it.
@CynicalPublius 19m So let me get this straight. Congress can totally delegate extreme, life-changing powers to rogue federal executive agencies like the EPA for 50+ years, but it cannot delegate tariff power to the President? I know the laws governing the two issues are not the same, but the absurd inconsistency is the only thing laymen see.
Gorsuch wants to know why the liberal justices want to read this and only this statute of being incapable of granting the president congressional powers, while permitting every other statute to delegate equal powers to the president. He seems to want to go further and overturn the entire system of Congress granting the Executive law-making power so it can churn out Infinite Laws, and mocks the majority for keeping that system in place while finding a violation only with Trump's use of congressionally-delegated power.
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THE MORNING RANT: General Motors Hires Another Senior Executive from a Money-Losing EV Startup
, Mr. Anderson was hired less than a year ago from Aurora Innovation, a tech start-up he co-founded that is pursuing the grail of self-driving semi-trucks. After losing $4 billion over the past four years at Aurora, and putting less than 10 test vehicles on Texas interstates, Mr. Anderson left Aurora and has quickly positioned himself to be General Motors’ next CEO. CNBC reported a few weeks ago that Mr. Anderson “has consolidated power to oversee ‘the end-to-end product lifecycle’ of GM vehicles, including manufacturing, engineering, battery, software and services product management, and engineering teams, according to GM.”
I noted in the Spectator piece that despite GM’s massive EV losses under Mary Barra, “the company is apparently casting its lot with a tech executive whose profit-and-loss experience is with cash burn rather than cash flow.”
And now, with Claudia Gast, GM is yet again staffing a high-level executive position with a person who has no experience in high-volume, mass-market products, nor does she bring from Lucid experience in running a profitable operation.
Lucid Motors sells a low-volume, specialty product, specifically luxury EVs. The starting price for a Lucid is about $80,000, with sales of about 15,000 units per year. By contrast, GM sells about 3 million vehicles per year.
Investors in Lucid stock have been taken to the cleaners. From its split-adjusted* IPO stock price of $150 per share in 2021, the stock peaked at over $550 per share in 2022, and has since fallen below $10 per share – a 98% decline. (*The IPO was at $15 per share, but due to the stock price subsequently crashing to near-zero, Lucid did a 1-for-10 reverse stock split last August.)
As for financial performance, Lucid has lost about $12 billion over the past four years, and it is running out of cash. At the end of 2024, Lucid had $4 billion in cash. Nine months later it was down to $2.3 billion, and it will likely be lower still when the full-year 2025 financial statements are released soon. Ms. Gast is wise to jump ship before the cash runs out.
There is nothing in the resumes of Mr. Anderson or Ms. Gast that indicates they have any experience steering a ship with a product line and customer base like General Motors. After the catastrophic run under Mary Barra, and the damage from the EV distraction, GM desperately needs to focus on being a profitable, mass-market manufacturer of traditional gas and diesel vehicles.
GM’s Board of Directors should have brought in (or promoted) industry veterans who understand what GM’s customers want to buy and what its dealers can sell. Instead, they’ve brought in executives who have experience managing cash burn and losses on low-volume, niche products. This negligent oversight by the Board is a dereliction of their fiduciary duty.
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, Mr. Anderson was hired less than a year ago from Aurora Innovation, a tech start-up he co-founded that is pursuing the grail of self-driving semi-trucks. After losing $4 billion over the past four years at Aurora, and putting less than 10 test vehicles on Texas interstates, Mr. Anderson left Aurora and has quickly positioned himself to be General Motors’ next CEO. CNBC reported a few weeks ago that Mr. Anderson “has consolidated power to oversee ‘the end-to-end product lifecycle’ of GM vehicles, including manufacturing, engineering, battery, software and services product management, and engineering teams, according to GM.”
I noted in the Spectator piece that despite GM’s massive EV losses under Mary Barra, “the company is apparently casting its lot with a tech executive whose profit-and-loss experience is with cash burn rather than cash flow.”
And now, with Claudia Gast, GM is yet again staffing a high-level executive position with a person who has no experience in high-volume, mass-market products, nor does she bring from Lucid experience in running a profitable operation.
Lucid Motors sells a low-volume, specialty product, specifically luxury EVs. The starting price for a Lucid is about $80,000, with sales of about 15,000 units per year. By contrast, GM sells about 3 million vehicles per year.
Investors in Lucid stock have been taken to the cleaners. From its split-adjusted* IPO stock price of $150 per share in 2021, the stock peaked at over $550 per share in 2022, and has since fallen below $10 per share – a 98% decline. (*The IPO was at $15 per share, but due to the stock price subsequently crashing to near-zero, Lucid did a 1-for-10 reverse stock split last August.)
As for financial performance, Lucid has lost about $12 billion over the past four years, and it is running out of cash. At the end of 2024, Lucid had $4 billion in cash. Nine months later it was down to $2.3 billion, and it will likely be lower still when the full-year 2025 financial statements are released soon. Ms. Gast is wise to jump ship before the cash runs out.
There is nothing in the resumes of Mr. Anderson or Ms. Gast that indicates they have any experience steering a ship with a product line and customer base like General Motors. After the catastrophic run under Mary Barra, and the damage from the EV distraction, GM desperately needs to focus on being a profitable, mass-market manufacturer of traditional gas and diesel vehicles.
GM’s Board of Directors should have brought in (or promoted) industry veterans who understand what GM’s customers want to buy and what its dealers can sell. Instead, they’ve brought in executives who have experience managing cash burn and losses on low-volume, niche products. This negligent oversight by the Board is a dereliction of their fiduciary duty.
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
A Goldsmith in his Shop
Petrus Christus This is sort of a repeat, because the first one I used had an incorrect title, and was also gaudy looking with oversaturated color. For this version I went to the source; The Metropolitan Museum of Art. From the Met's description:
Often these descriptions are a mess of post-modern, woke nonsense. This one is good!
A Goldsmith in his Shop
Petrus Christus This is sort of a repeat, because the first one I used had an incorrect title, and was also gaudy looking with oversaturated color. For this version I went to the source; The Metropolitan Museum of Art. From the Met's description:
A celebrated masterpiece of Northern Renaissance Art, this painting was signed and dated 1449 by Petrus Christus, the leading painter in Bruges (Flanders) after the death of Jan van Eyck. The panel attests to Netherlandish artists’ keen interest in pictorial illusionism and meticulous attention to detail, especially in the luminous jeweled, glass, and metallic objects, secular and ecclesiastic trade wares that are examples of the goldsmith's virtuosity. The main figure in this enigmatic painting was long identified as Saint Eligius (the patron saint of goldsmiths) due to the presence of a halo, which was recognized as a later addition and subsequently removed. The panel is likely a vocational painting, which portrays the profession of goldsmithing and perhaps a specific goldsmith. Technical analysis reveals the underdrawing of the goldsmith's face to be very carefully modeled—more so than the faces of the couple—indicating the possibility of a portrait. It has been suggested that he is Willem van Vleuten, a Bruges goldsmith who worked for Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy. In 1449, the date of this painting, the duke commissioned from van Vlueten a gift for Mary of Guelders on the occasion of her marriage to James II, King of Scots. That couple may well be depicted in this painting, portrayed buying a wedding ring that is being weighed on a scale. The girdle that extends over the ledge of the shop into the viewer’s space is a further allusion to matrimony. The convex mirror, which links the pictorial space to the street outside, reflects two young men with a falcon (a symbol of pride and greed) and establishes a moral comparison between the imperfect world of the viewer and the world of virtue and balance depicted here.
Often these descriptions are a mess of post-modern, woke nonsense. This one is good!
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The Morning Report — 2/20/26
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Good morning kids. Once again we've got trouble at home and trouble abroad (hmm, sounds like the opening of a Grateful Dead ditty) Let's start off overseas with things heating up in and around Iran. The internal unrest inside that nation that we had all thought or hoped would at long last see the toppling of the Muallahocracy appears, at least from what I can tell, to have significantly quieted down. Of course the IRGC and other security forces have arrested and/or executed hundreds if not thousands of protesters at this point and hence the quieting down. That said, as the unrest was building, President Trump ordered a carrier battle group to take up station in the Mediterranean within striking range of Iran and now that it is in position, the saber rattling is reaching a fever pitch.
President Donald J. Trump warned that the U.S. could strike Iran if a nuclear deal is not reached within the next ten days. . . President Trump, world leaders attending the Board of Peace meeting, and Iranian officials involved in nuclear negotiations.. . February 19, 2026, during the inaugural Board of Peace meeting in Washington, DC.. . : “We may have to take it a step further, or we may not. Maybe we’re going to make a deal. You’re going to be finding out over the next probably ten days.” — President Donald Trump . . The U.S. military has mobilized assets in the Middle East, as nuclear negotiations with Iran remain ongoing.
I seriously do not understand what the hell this is all about. First, I thought we along with the Israelis took out Iran's nuclear capabilities with the bombing campaign a few months ago? And what's to negotiate? Why is allowing their heinous, evil government to remain in power an acceptable outcome for a promise that is not worth the paper it's written on?!
And this whole Board of Peace nonsense is a complete waste of time given the nature of Islam, despite the supposed phony moderation of some of the players involved. Islam has been on the march for close to a millennium and a half and it will not stop until it conquers the entire world, even if it means bringing about Armageddon to obtain that goal. And Armageddon is a central pillar of Shiite Twelverism (look it up) which is at the heart of the Iranian regime.
Until Islam reforms itself or is eradicated from the face of the Earth for all time, there will be no peace in the region and indeed the rest of the world where it is allowed to flourish.
So, dealing with the Mullahs is one thing, but back here at home, President Trump needs to park a carrier battle group up the sigmoid of the Judiciary:
On Thursday, a federal judge in California overturned a previous immigration court ruling that supported the Trump administration’s illegal immigrant detention policies. U.S. District Court Judge Sunshine Sykes, a Joe Biden appointee, criticized the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for their characterization of detainees as the “worst of the worst.”“‘Worst of the worst’ is an inaccurate description of most of those affected by DHS and ICE’s operations,” Judge Sykes ruled. She argued that the administration’s language was designed to justify the scale of its actions against illegal immigrants.“Even though these press releases might contain an inkling of truth, they ignore a greater, more dire reality,” she claimed, adding: “Beyond its terror against noncitizens, the executive branch has extended its violence on its own citizens, killing two American citizens—Renée Good and Alex Pretti—in Minnesota,” Sykes wrote in her decision, adding, “The threats posed by the executive branch cannot be viewed in isolation.”The ruling, if upheld, could block mass deportations and ensure bond hearings for many non-convicted illegal immigrant detainees. Previously, DHS had denied bond hearings to migrants arrested by federal immigration authorities, even if they had been in the United States for years. Those who recently illegally crossed the border were also not guaranteed immediate bond hearings under the policy.
And yet, per Tom Homan:
” White House border czar Tom Homan said that there will be “mass deportation. . . “I will do whatever I can, because the president has made a promise to the American people, there will be mass deportation, but it’s going to prioritize public safety threats first. And that’s just the way we should be doing it. Targeted enforcement operations are a way to go. And for the people are going nuts is if you’re walking away from mass deportation. Look at the numbers. We already got record numbers to deportation but arresting the public safety threat first makes sense because you’re the biggest danger to the community. Prioritize public safety threats and national security threats doesn’t mean to forget about everybody else. I’ve said it from day one, if you’re in the country illegally, you’re not off the table. We’re looking for you, and we’ll remove you when we find you.”
So Mr. Border Czar, how does your declaration square with what Biden's hack in black has said and done.
Lots of other links to peruse and ponder, especially regarding socialism, it's embrace by more and more Americans, especially youth and what can be done to smack people upside the head before the bodies pile up in mass graves or freeze to death in the NYC cold or starve to death due to the raging success of Free Grocery Stores!!!!
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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
How Apple News and other tech giants change the narrative for Democrats
Teaching the Truth About Socialism in America’s Public Schools (See also the related story in the Culture Wars section - jjs)
New York’s First Free Grocery Store Opens
Daily Tech News 20 February 2026
Top Story
- The US government is building a specifically VPN-enabled website to allow Euroserfs to access content banned by their fascist overlords. (Reuter)
Radio Free Europe, part two. Only this time the Europeans aren't being oppressed by the Soviet Union, but by themselves.
- Why Europe doesn't have a Tesla. (Works In Progress)
The article highlights the continent's absurdly restrictive labour laws which are certainly a key part of the problem.
But European leaders have decided on a slow and messy suicide, and many of their voters are entirely on board with this.
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February 19, 2026
Thursday Overnight Open Thread - February 19, 2026 [Doof]
Photo from STEPH_Protect The 2A on X
Photo from STEPH_Protect The 2A on X
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Golden Hour Cafe
King of Wings hoodoo in New Mexico, under the Milky Way
by Wayne Pinkston
Elements of this photo look unreal but
that hoodoo is actually real
As the underage male prostitute said to Adam Schiff, "That's a big hole to fill." United by their shared love of head-butting. Amateurs talk about tactics, professionals talk about logistics. SCTV: The Ricardo Montalban School of Fine Acting. Jess! Bad mane day. Bored duck twiddles his feet. Puppy dumped in park is rescued and finds his forever home. Golden retriever holds a toy so that a blind puppy can play with it. Rescuing a groundhog from a pool. Bunny rub. World's largest gathering of golden retrievers (allegedly) in Golden, Colorado.
King of Wings hoodoo in New Mexico, under the Milky Way
by Wayne Pinkston
Elements of this photo look unreal but
that hoodoo is actually real
As the underage male prostitute said to Adam Schiff, "That's a big hole to fill." United by their shared love of head-butting. Amateurs talk about tactics, professionals talk about logistics. SCTV: The Ricardo Montalban School of Fine Acting. Jess! Bad mane day. Bored duck twiddles his feet. Puppy dumped in park is rescued and finds his forever home. Golden retriever holds a toy so that a blind puppy can play with it. Rescuing a groundhog from a pool. Bunny rub. World's largest gathering of golden retrievers (allegedly) in Golden, Colorado.
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BREAKING: DEMOCRAT TERRORISTS CRASH STOLEN AMBULANCE LOADED WITH GAS CANS INTO AN IDAHO FEDERAL BUILDING
unther EaglemanFox:
@GuntherEagleman 28m 🚨 BREAKING: DOMESTIC TERROR ATTEMPT IN IDAHO Ambulance stolen, packed with staged gas cans, rammed straight into a DHS office in what cops are calling an attempted ARSON MASSACRE targeting ICE agents. Police: This was no accident
Stolen ambulance allegedly driven into Idaho DHS office building in attempted arson attackThey mean he stashed gas cans in the bushes where they wouldn't be seen, then loaded them into the stolen bus just before the attack.
Meridian Police Chief Tracy Basterrechea says suspect staged accelerant in vegetation before driving emergency vehicle into DHS building
Meridian Police Chief Tracy Basterrechea provided new details about an attack on a DHS building Thursday. (KBOI) State and federal authorities are investigating after a suspect allegedly stole an ambulance, loaded up staged gas cans and plowed the emergency vehicle into a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) office in Idaho -- in what investigators believe was an attempted arson attack. Just after 11 p.m. Wednesday, an ambulance was stolen from a bay at St. Luke's West hospital. However, the suspect was unable to ignite the accelerant before being scared off by responding agencies, according to Basterrechea. "We want to emphasize that this was a serious criminal act," Basterrechea said. "The theft and destruction of an emergency vehicle not only created a risk to responding personnel, but it also temporarily removed a critical medical resource from the community." ... "Comments on social media, such as 'property damage isn't violence,' is absolutely false," Basterrechea continued. "This was absolutely an act of violence, and if the suspect had not been interrupted, there is no doubt this building would have been burned, putting the lives of first responders and others at risk."Shades of Timothy McVeigh. Though I don't imagine the disgusting press and Deep State will find this new Timothy McVeigh nearly as objectionable as the old one.
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Quick Hits
Mistrial declared in trial of antifa domestic terrorists who shot up ICE agents as their antifa terrorist lawyer wears an MLKJr. t-shirt to court to elicit sympathy from lefty jurors. The lawyer may well face sanctions. The trial will be restarted with a different jury.
FCC chair Brendan Carr has has begun an investigation of The View for its brazen violation of equal time rules.FCC chair Brendan Carr confirmed Wednesday that the commission has started enforcement proceedings that will look into The View's alleged violations of political equal time rules. "Disney has a program called The View. And they've been asserting the position that The View is what is known as 'bona fide news' in the statute," Carr said during a Wednesday night appearance on FOX News Channel's The Ingraham Angle. "If you are bona fide news, you don't have to give candidates equal air time. But, Disney and The View have not established that that program is, in fact, bona fide news. We've started enforcement proceedings, taking a look at that. And, again, we're going to hold broadcasters accountable."Lefties whine: if the FCC starts enforcing the law about equal time, you won't be able to see the cavalcades of your favorite Democrat politicians on Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and The View!
FCC Chair to Hollywood: Talk Shows Aren't Legitimate News ABC's 'The View' is currently under investigation over an interview with Texas State Rep. James Talarico, after which it didn't meet FCC requirements that would've allowed his opponents equal time. Say goodbye to most appearances by political candidates on daytime and late night talk shows. After an open meeting on Wednesday, Federal Communications Chair Brendan Carr said that networks should operate under the assumption that shows like The View, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and The Late Show don't qualify for long-standing regulatory exemptions that allowed them to discuss political candidates on their shows without having to meet unwieldy requirements. Failing to comply, he said, will trigger an enforcement action. "The general rule is equal time applies," Carr said of the FCC provision. "There's narrow exceptions you have to fit in."Like being a "bona fide news program," which these propaganda festivals are clearly not.
The clarification marks a dramatic departure from how the commission has historically treated talk shows, which have qualified for exemptions as legitimate news programs for decades and are now considered partisan bad actors under the Trump administration. The change doesn't necessarily prohibit interviews with political candidates but imposes obligations requiring them to give comparable time to opponents. In practice, it will prevent networks from having anyone on by potentially forcing them to have everyone on. Carr's remarks come after Colbert said on Monday that CBS killed an interview with Texas State Rep. James Talarico because the appearance would trigger regulatory obligations. "Congress passed the equal time provision for a very specific reason," he said. "They did not want the media leads in Hollywood and in New York to put their thumbs on the scale and pick their winners and losers in primaries and general elections. That's the point."LOL:
Sure, Tater. Suuure.
Brian Stelter
@brianstelter Notably, and admirably, ABC has insulated "The View" crew from this political pressure. A network source says the show "regularly hosts sitting leaders and political candidates to discuss differing viewpoints. The format is consistent with how the show has operated for years."
Ian MillerOut: FaceBook is for old people In: FaceBook is for dead people
@ianmSC 21h Ironically, this statement claiming that The View "regularly hosts sitting leaders and political candidates to discuss differing viewpoints" is funnier than anything Stephen Colbert has done in years
What happens to social media accounts belonging to those who shuffle off this mortal coil has been a subject of debate ever since the tech went mainstream. Should dormant accounts be left alone, or should their surviving loved ones be given backdoor access to maintain them as digital memorials? To Meta, there could be a morbid alternative: training an AI model on a deceased user's posts, keeping post-mortem accounts active by uploading new content in their voice long after they passed away. As Business Insider reports, Meta was granted a patent in 2023 for the idea, outlining how a large language model (LLM) can "simulate" a user's social media activity.A SLM (Smol Language Model) could simulate you-lot's activity in the comments. Just boobs, crossbows, and Promethus, for some reason.
... However, the conversation appears to have dramatically shifted over the last three years, especially now that AI slop has infiltrated and practically assumed control over platforms like Facebook and Instagram: Meta now says it's given up on the sepulchral concept. "We have no plans to move forward with this example," a spokesperson told BI.What about using the LLM to simulate activity from former users to make FaceBook appear more active than it is?
It's not a stretch to assume Meta may have had an ulterior motive to create digital avatars masquerading as the deceased. Facebook has quickly turned into a graveyard of long-forgotten accounts, never-ending ads, unanswered birthday wishes, and updates from that band you hadn't thought about since high school. At the same time, its feeds are filling with toxic AI slop. As engagement drops, the company's core business -- selling ads -- could take a hit.
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The Demonic Drunkard Tucker Carlson Spins His Most Brazen Lie Yet, Claiming He Was "Detained" by Evil Jews in Israel
Here are the lies Tucker Carlson pumped out on behalf of his Qatari Paymasters and Case Officers:
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The Atlantic Publishe a Viral "Report" Account of a Boy Dying of Measles Because His Parents Didn't Vaccinate Him.
One Small Problem: The "Report" Is Actually Fiction, a "Hypothetical" Morality Play But That Atlantic Presented It As Actual Truth.
At least, not until The Atlantic's foray into Imaginary Journalism began provoking a reaction from journalists who like to pretend they don't do this same thing every single day.
One Small Problem: The "Report" Is Actually Fiction, a "Hypothetical" Morality Play But That Atlantic Presented It As Actual Truth.
The Washington PostThat's the Washington Post soft-peddling what woke Fake Christian arch-lefty Elizabeth Bruenig did, and what the absurd AWFUL vanity vengeance project The Atlantic did. They felt the story was misleading? IT WAS, FACTUALLY, MISLEADING. It was presented as "reportage" when it was purely an exercise in creative writing. Yes, it's based on the reality of how measles can be deadly -- but Star Trek isn't Real Journalism just because it's based, at some distance, on some actual science. It's a dramatization. And that's what this is -- at best, it's a dramatization of what could happen if measles is left untreated in a child. But it was presented as what really happened to two real children really exposed to measels. Elizabeth Bruenig wrote a completely fictitious story about a boy dying of measles. Because, presumably, his MAGA/MAHA parents didn't vaccinate him. Once again, there is no mention of the 15 million completely unvaccinated illegal aliens flooding this country. And they're much more likely to actually be carriers of measels, because they come from places with low vaccination rates that do not have the "herd immunity" needed to put a disease into extinction. But ignoring that -- this story was a work of fiction. But The Atlantic really wanted to put those MAGA/MAHA vaccine skeptics on blast, and really give its AWFUL readership something to be outraged about, something to feel superior about, so the printed this literal fiction as a real, true piece of factual journalism. I repeat: It is fiction. I don't mean it's biased, I mean the Fake Christian lefty just made the story up -- based on real reports and real science, she says -- to serve as a harrowing morality play about vaccine hesitancy.
@washingtonpost Elizabeth Bruenig's account of a mother's experience learning her child will die of measles has remained one of the Atlantic's most read stories since it was published. But some say the story felt misleading once they learned it was reported fiction.
But her condition does not improve over the next couple of days. Her cough wracks her whole body, rounding her delicate bird shoulders. She does not sleep well. And as you lift up her pajama top to check her rash one morning, you see that her breathing is labored, shadows pooling between her ribs when she sucks in air. You suffer an icy moment of realization: This is a medical crisis. What you will learn later is that the tiny air sacs inside her lungs have become breeding grounds for the virus, and the inflammation generated by her immune response is inhibiting oxygen from reaching her bloodstream. You don't want to worry your daughter, so you try to sound calm when you call the pediatrician and describe her symptoms at a rapid clip. The receptionist responds gently, types swiftly, and then pauses. Are your children vaccinated? she asks. Her tone is flat and inscrutable, but you detect an undercurrent of judgment. You wince and tell her the truth. No, you say, no vaccines. She puts you on hold. While you wait, you take your son out of his high chair and wipe his runny nose with his bib.This is what The Atlantic claims was a valid disclaimer alerting you to the fact that everything you just read was made-up -- based on medical reports about untreated measles, yes, but an entirely fictitious story about children who do not exist:
This story is based on extensive reporting and interviews with physicians, including those who have cared directly for patients with measles.Does that alert you to the fact that this is a work of fiction? Far from it -- it insists this is real reportage. And The Atlantic, looking to get some viral advertising, presented it as fact until other reporters started asking about it. The story -- the fiction -- was originally published as a 100% true factual "journalistic" account, with no warning or disclaimer to alert readers to the contrary.
At least, not until The Atlantic's foray into Imaginary Journalism began provoking a reaction from journalists who like to pretend they don't do this same thing every single day.
When I initially read Bruenig's story, I was stunned: An Atlantic staff writer's unvaccinated child had died of measles in the 2020s, and now she was writing about it? At the end of Bruenig's piece, though, there's an editor's note: "This story is based on extensive reporting and interviews with physicians, including those who have cared directly for patients with measles." That was the point when I sent a gift link to my mom group: "as far as I can tell this piece is fiction. What do we think about this choice? I am very conflicted!!!" My conflict stemmed from my concern that, though the piece was heavily researched, it was not a true story. I wondered if the key people whose minds might be changed by it -- people who don't vaccinate their kids -- would brush it off as fiction, or fake.And that's this journalist's only concern -- not that falsehood is being presented as fact, but just that this story, once revealed to be fiction, would fail to serve its purpose as pro-vaccine propaganda. More:
This particular shill is defending the deceit as, get this, "creative nonfiction." Bullshit, says Rachel Beddard.
Update 2/19/2026: After this piece was published, I heard from two different people who received The Atlantic's original press push email for the piece around 4:30 PM on Thursday afternoon. At that time, when they clicked through, there was not an editor's note/disclaimer on the piece at all. Both of those readers, who are professional journalists, responded to the press email with confusion and asked if the story was real. An Atlantic spokesperson emailed one of these readers back and said, "This is based on a mother's real account. Thanks for checking." Sometime after that, the disclaimer was added and it was there when I read the story around 7 PM on Thursday night. An Atlantic spokesperson told me yesterday, "The note was added almost immediately after publication." [Emphasis added.] This information is significant to me because it suggests that within The Atlantic there was confusion about whether the piece was fictional. Some Atlantic readers seem to share my sense of conflict -- or missed the editor's note and thought it was true. "Thank you to this mom for the incredible generosity of sharing this story -- nothing could be more tragic. I'm so sorry," one commenter wrote. Another reader commented: "Beautiful, powerful writing! This is not the reporter's personal story, correct? Is it one family's true story or a composite based on her reporting? I find it very compelling and potentially persuasive to families who question vaccines. I would love to know more about how the piece came together."
Rachael BedardI blame The Atlantic for this. They probably commissioned the "creative nonfiction." They weren't deceived about this being a made-up dramatization. The Atlantic chose to sell this to readers as real, because they really wanted that propaganda impact.
@RBMD1982 First, as @Megankstack and @laurahazardowen and others have noted, this piece wasn't "reported", it was researched; and it isn't creative non-fiction, it is just fiction. It is not based on a real family's story. It is entirely invented. Per Bruenig's interview w Laura, she never actually spoke to a family where the children had measles and suffered complications; she simply interviewed doctors who had experience with measles patients or knew about the virus's potential harms. This isn't any different than the kind of research lots of novel writers engage in as they write their fiction. It does not constitute the fact gathering that amounts to a true story.
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11 Arrested in Antifa Lynching Murder of Young Man Protecting Women from Muslim Thugs;
One of the Killers is Legislative Aide to Far-Left Member of French Assembly
One of the Killers is Legislative Aide to Far-Left Member of French Assembly
As you might know, a college student named Quentin Deranque was lynched on the street by a gang of antifa-associated far left terrorists. He was kicked to death.
This young man was committing no offense. He wasn't even technically protesting. Rather, he was protecting a female protest group named "Nemesis Collective" which protests the many rapes committed by Muslim migrants. Why was he protecting him? Because these women are frequently attacked on the street by Muslim migrants. The left-wing establishment claims it wants to protect women from violence and rape... unless that violence and rape is being perpetrated by their Muslim allies. Then it's the girls being attacked who are the "dangerous" ones. That's foreshadowing. Wait until later. Prepare for what should be a shock but unfortunately won't be. For this "extremist" act of protecting young girls from being assaulted by angry foreigners, the press insists on calling him a "far right extremist." Murdoch's NY Post, quoted below, calls him a "far right militant." Really, Murdoch? Protecting girls from foreign hordes of assailants and molesters makes you a "far right militant"? The Post is probably just posting an AP or AFI story but you do know you're allowed to edit their vicious propaganda, right? At least some of these thugs are now being arrested.He's a "far right militant," but the people who kicked him to death are identified as (checks article) "people." Oh, and "fighting broke out." Who knows who was responsible. Probably the people who kicked this man to death, but who can say, really?
French police investigating the beating of a far-right militant who died of brain injuries have arrested 11 people, prosecutors said Wednesday, in a case adding fuel to long-standing divides in French politics ahead of presidential elections in 2027. Quentin Deranque, a 23-year-old student described as a fervent nationalist, died in a hospital on Saturday. He was beaten two days earlier by a group of people in the city of Lyon, in fighting that erupted between far-left and far-right supporters on the margins of a student meeting where a far-left lawmaker, Rima Hassan, was a keynote speaker.
Just so you know, you'll see references to LFI. LFI is what is being called "France Unbowed." The French for that is Le France Insoumise. That's the left-wing coalition that perpetrated these murders and is defending the murderers. So, is it this LFI/France Unbowed who is directly responsible for the street assassination of a boy who conveniently stood in the way of Muslim migrants determined to beat up French girls? Well... one of the killers is a parliamentary aide to an LFI assembly member.
An autopsy found that Deranque suffered a fractured skull and fatal brain injuries, according to Lyon's prosecutor, Thierry Dran. He launched the police investigation for homicide and other potential criminal charges. Dran's office said police detained a man and a woman on Wednesday morning, with nine other people taken into custody on Tuesday night. ... Deranque's death triggered a storm of recriminations, mostly targeting France Unbowed. The party is led by veteran hard-left firebrand Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a former Trotskyist who stood for the presidency in 2012, 2017 and 2022 and failed to advance to the decisive run-off round.
The first wave of arrests was announced late on Tuesday, as Dran said nine suspects had been arrested. Those detained included people who were suspected of having participated in the violence and others who had provided support to them, sources told Agence France-Presse. Hours later, two more suspects were arrested: a man who the prosecutor said was suspected of being directly linked to the violence as well as his partner, who was suspected of trying to help him evade justice. The LFI politician Raphaël Arnault confirmed that his parliamentary assistant was among those detained, adding the aide had "ceased all parliamentary work". On Wednesday, as news of the arrests spread, the LFI said it had been forced to evacuate its national headquarters. "The national headquarters of LFI have just been evacuated following a bomb threat," the party's coordinator, Manuel Bompard, said on social media. "Police services are on site. All employees and activists are safe."Oh, get f***ed. Standard issue left-wing hoax. The left gets in trouble, and then starts calling in bomb threats on themselves to elicit sympathy. Remember what I said about the 100-pound girls being the "dangerous" ones? In response to his party's antifa thugs kicking a man to death in broad daylight for the crime of protecting young girls from violent foreign ruffians, Melanchon is calling for, if you can believe it, the dissolution and banning of Nemesis Collective, calling these young girls "dangerous."
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One of Epstein's Recruiters Decided to Inform On Him to the Police, and Epstein Schemed to Give Him a $3 Million Bribe to Keep Quiet;
He Discussed the Plan with Obama WH Counsel and Friend of Jeff Kathyrine Ruemmler
He Discussed the Plan with Obama WH Counsel and Friend of Jeff Kathyrine Ruemmler
The Accomplice Who Was Going to Testify Against Jeffrey Epstein--Then Went DarkThat's as much of the paywalled story that I can see, but the reporter posts this summary on X:
French model scout Jean-Luc Brunel was negotiating to provide prosecutors with evidence against the sex offender in 2016--three years before he was finally arrested--but ultimately backed out
Jean-Luc Brunel was ready to turn on the man who had been his patron and partner. The French modeling scout was prepared to tell prosecutors what he knew about Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking. Brunel was secretly negotiating in 2016 with lawyers representing Epstein's victims, according to newly released Justice Department files. Brunel's lawyer told them his client recruited girls for Epstein and had incriminating photographs. They discussed a date for Brunel to walk into the U.S. Attorney's office in New York--in exchange for immunity. "One of Epstein's bfs, Jean Luc Brunel, has helped get girls. He is wanting to cooperate," according to handwritten notes taken by a federal prosecutor in February 2016. "Brunel is afraid of being prosecuted." And then Brunel went dark.
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@khadeeja_safdar NEW: In 2016, Jean-Luc Brunel was discussing a date to walk into the U.S. Attorney's office in New York to provide evidence against Jeffrey Epstein--in exchange for immunity. On May 3, Epstein fired off an email to Kathy Ruemmler. He wrote that Brunel was planning to go to prosecutors the following week and one of Brunel's friends had "asked for 3 million dollars so that Jean Luc would not go in."
Hans MahnckeAlso, Ruemmler tipped off Epstein about an investigation into a prostitution scandal -- something that would be of major interest to Epstein. Note this Bloomberg article's headline refers to Ruemmler as "Goldman lawyer" rather than Obama's White House Council, which is far more relevant, because that's how she came into possession of this confidential information.
@HansMahncke This is pretty astonishing. When Jean-Luc Brunel, who ran Epstein's "modeling agency," was about to get an immunity deal to spill the beans on the operation, hush money negotiations began. The first person Epstein turned to for advice was Kathryn Ruemmler, a key member of Obama's inner circle. In the end, Brunel never testified. I have no idea whether Ruemmler actually pulled any strings, but the fact that Epstein felt comfortable putting this in writing to her (while she responded by insisting on a phone call), speaks volumes about the level of trust, access and influence he enjoyed.
Kathryn Ruemmler corresponded with Jeffrey Epstein about a prostitution scandal that engulfed the US Secret Service during her tenure as White House counsel under former President Barack Obama. Ruemmler forwarded to Epstein a draft email that contained detailed, nonpublic information about the behind-the-scenes role the White House Counsel's office played in investigating the 2012 prostitution scandal. Ruemmler resigned as the chief legal officer and general counsel of Goldman Sachs after the emails with Epstein were released and publicized, with her spokeswoman saying she "has done nothing wrong and has nothing to hide" and that she has "deep sympathy for those harmed by Epstein". Kathryn Ruemmler, who resigned last week as the top lawyer at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., corresponded with Jeffrey Epstein about a prostitution scandal that engulfed the US Secret Service during her tenure as White House counsel under former President Barack Obama. In a dozen or so exchanges that were sent months after Ruemmler left her White House position in 2014, she complained to Epstein about "this secret service crap" and forwarded to him a draft email that contained detailed, nonpublic information about the behind-the-scenes role the White House Counsel's office played in investigating the 2012 prostitution scandal. Although Ruemmler had left the White House, she remained embroiled in the matter as lawmakers and journalists probed her work investigating the scandal. At the time she was under consideration for US attorney general. Epstein offered advice, as well as what he described as "edits" to the email draft, which Ruemmler indicated she was planning to send to a journalist. "Breathe, smile. You're free," he wrote in one message. These messages were among hundreds between Ruemmler and Epstein, a set of exchanges that reveals they had a relationship close enough that she accepted gifts from him and referred to him as "Uncle Jeffrey." After this latest batch of emails was released and publicized, Ruemmler resigned last week as the chief legal officer and general counsel of Goldman Sachs. She said June 30 would be her last day. It's unclear whether Ruemmler accepted any advice on the Secret Service scandal from Epstein, who was already a convicted sex offender at the time. Jennifer Connelly, a spokeswoman for Ruemmler, said the former White House counsel "has done nothing wrong and has nothing to hide. Nothing in the record suggests otherwise."
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LOL: Anderson Pooper's Team Rushes to the Media to Claim He Wasn't Pushed Out, He Quit on Prinzibuhls
Do you believe that CBS was all-set to re-sign Anderson Pooper and in fact make him "the face of 60 Minutes"?
Because, garsh, I sure don't. But that's the story being peddled, to the NY Post of all places. The semen-pale propagandist claims that he just didn't like Bari Weiss, CBS News' editor in chief, "inserting" herself into editorial decisions. Anderson Pooper will do all the inserting, thank you very much.LOL. I imagine they made him a deliberately-insulting offer to induce him to turn them down.
Anderson Cooper's recent decision not to renew his contract with "60 Minutes" came at the last minute and left execs at the struggling network flat-footed, a source with knowledge of the matter told The Post on Wednesday.
The journo had been poised to become the face of "60 Minutes" under CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss and president Tom Cibrowski, who privately lauded him as an important player at the struggling news network.Sure sure sure. Who wouldn't want an old, cum-colored no-ratings hack from soon-to-be-bankrupt CNN as the face of your top news magazine?
And it's well known that he rarely pulls out.
But Cooper's decision to pull out came as the deal was in its final tages, the source said.
"They must be pissed," the person said of Weiss and Cibrowski, who'd seen the CNN anchor as a prominent face of "60 Minutes."For some reason I hear "They must be pissed" in Anderson Pooper's voice.
"They wanted to build the show around him," the source added.Uh-huh. The article says that Pooper wants to spend more time "with his two young sons."
Raise your hand if you believe that Anderson Pooper is scandalized by an "outrageous lifestyle" or even having sex with underaged people. Now take that hand and slap yourself in the back of the head, you big dummy.
Both CBS News and a rep for Cooper declined to comment. [S]ources said a series of recent decisions by Weiss were what prompted Cooper to end his nearly 20-year run at "60 Minutes." Those include her revamp of "60 Minutes," which will likely include pushing out veteran correspondents like Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alfonsi, as previously reported by The Post. Sources also pointed to Weiss' unwillingness to fire wellness contributor Peter Attia over his chummy, eyebrow-raising emails with late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Recently surfaced emails showed Attia telling Epstein the "biggest problem [about] becoming friends" with him was having to keep quiet about his "outrageous lifestyle" -- in an exchange with the chilling subject line, "Got a fresh shipment."
I have a rule that helps me tell when people are lying: People who tell the truth will tell one story. Similarly, they will also usually offer one, or at most, two reasons for a decision they're making, and stick to those. When people are lying, they start spamming out a bunch of reasons for a decision because they don't trust their own lie. They don't have the confidence to go with just one dishonest reason, because most liars feel they're on shaky ground when lying, and they're afraid that if they put all their eggs in one basket, that one basket will be interrogated and proven false and then they'll be exposed as a liar. So instead they start flooding the filed with a bunch of different lies, feeling safe that if any of those lies is disproven, they still have five more to fall back on. So no, I don't believe Anderson Pooper's Aerial Chaff of lies to explain his departure. I believe they either told him they would not renew, or made an embarrassingly low fake offer, and told him "We'll let you say this was all your idea." I briefly mentioned this in quick hits, but here's a longer article: Jake Tapper is very, very mad that CNN brass have curtailed "journalists'" ability to self-promote, both on their own shows as well as in their social media because they were embarrassed by Tapper turning his show (and Twitter feed) into a never-ending infomercial for his Biden Cover-Up book. (The other article was at the Satanic Daily Beast so I didn't want to link it.)
Sources also pointed to Weiss' involvement in the journalism and management of "60 Minutes," which long operated in a silo under its executive producer. "He doesn't like that she has inserted herself," a CBS source said of Cooper, pointing to Weiss' recent editorial scrutiny of his "60 Minutes" piece on the Trump administration's decision to accept refugees from South Africa.
I like that this sissy did what girls do and got a group of his Beties together to issue a joint complaint to management. Possibly Anderson Pooper was part of his Girl-Squad.
CNN anchor Jake Tapper is said to be fuming over a new company policy that sharply restricts how on-air talent can promote their own books. Tapper, who hosts "The Lead" and co-anchors "State of the Union" at the Warner Bros. Discovery--owned network, is "very, very unhappy" with a directive from CNN chief Mark Thompson that prohibits anchors from promoting books beyond publication day, a network journalist told Breaker Media. The veteran political anchor, who has authored eight books, most recently co-writing a bestseller about President Joe Biden's decline and his disastrous decision to seek reelection, used his CNN platform extensively to promote the title -- a rollout that some colleagues internally described as turning the network into a "rolling infomercial," according to Breaker. On Feb. 4, CNN updated its standards guide in what Breaker reported was a direct response to Tapper's on-air promotion. The revised policy states: "We should not mix news and advertising, even when what is being advertised is work by a leading CNN journalist." Under the new guidelines, anchors may acknowledge publication of a book on its release date if integrated into a journalistic segment -- but they "should not promote it following publication day on their own program."
The policy also bars the use of websites, QR codes or links to drive personal sales and requires CNN authors to meet with members of the executive leadership team to approve any rollout plan tied to CNN platforms. In addition, all book-related promotion must be reviewed and approved by CNN PR, and no third parties beyond a publisher may be contracted without approval from the head of CNN PR, according to the policy reviewed by Breaker. Tensions had already been simmering inside the newsroom. Breaker previously reported that staffers questioned the decision to air anonymously sourced claims from Tapper's book, arguing that limited internal fact-checking of outside works put CNN in an awkward position.
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor Arrested, Has Home Searched; Suspected of, Get This, Passing Sensitive Insider Trade Information to International Financier and Child Sex Trafficker Jeffrey Epstein
Gay rent-boy squabbler Queer Starmer said that no one is above the law:
Butch low-IQ narcissist Marjorie Taylor-Greene took the opportunity to bash Trump:
This is the former Prince Andrew. Today is also his 66th birthday, coincidentally.
NBC "News:"Police today arrested the former Prince Andrew after weeks of revelations over the former prince's friendship and dealings with convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein. The Thames Valley Police said it arrested a man in his 60s on suspicion of misconduct in public office, which carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment in the United Kingdom.And he's not Muslim (yet) so he might actually go to prison.
And what is the "misconduct in public office" Mountbatten-Windsor is accused of?
The force, which covers an area in southern England where Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, as he is now known, did not name him, as is standard practice under British law. Asked whether Mountbatten-Windsor had been arrested, the police responded with a statement: "We understand the significant public interest in this case, and we will provide updates at the appropriate time," Assistant Chief Constable Oliver Wright said. "Following a thorough assessment, we have now opened an investigation into this allegation of misconduct in public office."
Insider Paper
@TheInsiderPaper Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the younger brother of King Charles, shared official British trade documents with Jeffrey Epstein in 2010, leaking information to the late sex offender from his role as a government envoy, emails appear to show -- Reuters
Gay rent-boy squabbler Queer Starmer said that no one is above the law:
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said today that "nobody is above the law" when asked about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, speaking ahead of the royal's arrest this morning. Starmer told British public broadcaster the BBC the principle was "very important" and "has to apply in this case in the same way it would in any other case."Sad cuck Charles said he approved of the arrest of his brother:
In a statement released by Buckingham Palace this morning but signed "Charles R," the monarch pledged his full support for the police probe.I think the R stands for "Rex." Snobby bastard.
The statement reads: "I have learned with the deepest concern the news about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and suspicion of misconduct in public office. What now follows is the full, fair and proper process by which this issue is investigated in the appropriate manner and by the appropriate authorities." "In this, as I have said before, they have our full and wholehearted support and co-operation. Let me state clearly: the law must take its course. As this process continues, it would not be right for me to comment further on this matter. Meanwhile, my family and I will continue in our duty and service to you all."
Butch low-IQ narcissist Marjorie Taylor-Greene took the opportunity to bash Trump:
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green criticized President Donald Trump and U.S. authorities in the wake of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's arrest. "The UK has arrested Andrew because of the Epstein files and over here the President signed an EO protecting cancer causing Glyphosate in our foods and we have zero Epstein related arrest and investigations since release of the files," she said in a post on X. "And we are on the verge of going to war against Iran." "That's the current state of MAGA and MAHA," she added.Typical "libertarian" flake and attention-whore grandstander Thomas Massie is flapping his cocksucker, too:
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