America is Back, Baby! Biden Insults Top US Asian Ally Japan to Show How Enlightened His Open-Border Policy Is

(And the site is back, baby!)

Remember, Biden considers his foreign policy "expertise" to be his greatest strength.

The decrepit dolt Biden showed off his famously "earthy" racism again, attacking, out-of-the-blue, India and our closest Asian ally and friend, Japan.

He attacked them in order to make his open border seem virtuous.

President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that "xenophobia" from China to Japan and India is hobbling their growth, as he argued that migration has been good for the U.S. economy.

"One of the reasons why our economy's growing is because of you and many others. Why? Because we welcome immigrants," Biden said at a Washington fundraising event for his 2024 re-election campaign and marking the start of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

"Why is China stalling so badly economically, why is Japan having trouble, why is Russia, why is India, because they're xenophobic. They don't want immigrants. Immigrants are what makes us strong."

This wasn't just a single gaffe -- he also attacked Japan as misogynist, too.

America is back, Baby!

By the way: He attacked China, too. I was repeatedly -- nay, unceasingly -- told that attacking China was "racist" whenever Trump did it.

And now...? Crickets, obviously.

Dan McLaughlin
@baseballcrank

Happy Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, everyone!

Prison Mitch
@MidnightMitch

"My son Beau committed seppuku to fight xenophobia."

From Nick Arama at RedState.

Philip Patrick from Spectator World says that Japan is angry.

The insult is being especially keenly felt over here in Tokyo; it comes less than a month after a lavish and carefully choreographed love in between Biden and Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida. There was a marching band, a formal state dinner, and an atmosphere of mutual admiration all designed to present the two leaders as not just staunch allies but bosom buddies.

Nobody over here much bought into that representation -- the mini-summit was seen as being mainly for domestic consumption from two under-pressure leaders -- but the swiftness of the change of tone is still surprising in its sheer, brazen rudeness. And gall (Biden has condemned Donald Trump for anti-immigrant rhetoric on numerous occasions). It's as if a colleague whom you always imagined you had reasonable relations with suddenly tells you they hate your guts.

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Unexpectedly, the Jobs Report Comes In "Far Below Expectations"

America is back, baby!

The latest jobs report released Friday revealed a slowdown in job growth and an increase in unemployment from the month of April, highlighting the continued failure of Bidenomics. The economy added a mere 175,000 jobs in April, falling short of economists' expectations, while the unemployment rate rose to 3.9 percent.

Key Details:

The underemployment rate reached its highest point since November 2021.

The number of people working multiple jobs to make ends meet increased by 8.8% over the last year, a 27.8% increase since Biden took office in January 2021.

Wage growth is not keeping pace with inflation, leaving middle-class families struggling.

Diving Deeper:

The jobs report for April paints a grim picture of the current state of the economy under the Biden administration. Despite predictions of a robust 243,000 job increase, the actual figure fell significantly short at 175,000--with eventual revisions expected to lower that number further. This disappointing figure is indicative of the broader economic issues plaguing the nation, with the underemployment rate reaching its highest point since November 2021.

Recall that economic growth just slowed down "massively."

As the country falls into recession and stagflation, Biden is pushing for a big new tax hike -- engineered to make white people poorer to "reduce racial income inequality."

Will Kessler at the Daily Caller:

'Economic Suicide': Biden Admin Justifies Tax Hike Based On Racial Criteria

The Biden administration's analysis of its revenue proposals for fiscal year 2025 argues targeted tax hikes that disproportionately affect white people would ease racial wealth inequality.

Increasing taxes on capital gains and income-based wealth would reduce racial wealth inequality for black and Hispanic families, the Treasury Department outlined in the analysis published in mid-March. The Treasury points out that white families disproportionately hold assets subject to capital gains tax or are in a higher tax bracket, meaning a hike in those taxes would benefit black and Hispanic families.

The Biden administration argues for taxing capital income for high-income earners at "ordinary rates," increasing the top rate from 37% to 39.6% for those who earn more than $1 million a year. Taxes on net investment income would also be hiked by 1.2 percentage points to 5% for those who make over $400,000 per year, bringing the total top marginal rate to 44.6%.

"Taxing capital gains at 44.6% at the federal level -- not to mention state taxes -- would be economic suicide," Preston Brashers, research fellow for tax policy in the Heritage Foundation's Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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THE MORNING RANT: Periodic Roundup of the EV Follies – May 3, 2024

Two Fires in One Week at Rivian’s Manufacturing Plant in Illinois

Rivian’s unraveling keeps getting worse. A few weeks ago it was announced that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s (R) $1.5 billion taxpayer-subsidized boondoggle east of Atlanta was indefinitely suspended by Rivian. The start-up EV manufacturer is hemorrhaging cash, and it doesn’t need the Georgia plant because it doesn’t have enough demand to even approach the capacity of its plant in Normal, IL.

Two weeks ago came the news that Rivian is cutting even further and letting more employees go: “Rivian cuts 1% of workforce in second round of layoffs this year” [Reuters – 4/18/2024]

The move follows a 10% layoff at Rivian in February when the company disappointed investors with a lower-than-expected 2024 production forecast.

Well, somehow, it just got even worse. The most terrifying word to anyone involved with EVs is also the most terrifying word in a crowded theater… “FIRE!” It’s a word that is being said with alarming frequency at Rivian’s Illinois plant.

“Fire breaks out in Rivian loading dock, the second in four days” [WGLT – 4/29/2024]

Another fire broke out Monday afternoon at the Rivian plant in Normal – at least the second fire in four days.
Monday’s fire destroyed a semitrailer in a loading dock on the south end of the plant, the Normal Fire Department said. A portion of the plant was evacuated until air quality returned to safe levels, fire officials said. No one was injured. An adjacent semitrailer sustained heat damage, and there was moderate heat and smoke damage to the exterior of the Rivian building above the dock area, the Normal Fire Department said. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

Meanwhile, just four days earlier, there was another fire at the same Rivian plant, this one on the assembly line.

“Fire Forces Evacuation of Rivian Plant” [ WGLT – 4/25/2024]

A fire at the Rivian plant in Normal forced the evacuation of the plant for an hour and a half Thursday morning. The fire happened under a section of conveyor that moves vehicle chassis down the assembly line on the western side of the building, said the Normal Fire Department. Flames did not spread beyond the area, but firefighters said it took some time to ventilate smoke and do air-quality tests in the building.

*****

Saint Greta Is Not Pleased With All You Electric Car Buyers

This seems a bit problematic for all the virtue-signaling EV drivers, because the woman worshipped as divinely pure and infallible in her climate ministry has now condemned electric vehicles. That’s right, Saint Greta the Climate Puppet and her friends at “Fridays for Future Stockholm” are fed up with the exploitation of Congo and its people ”…so that the rest of the world can buy electric cars and other electronic devices.”

Do better, climate sinners. Be better. Driving an EV isn’t going to get you the climate indulgence you seek.

*****

Disincentivizing People From Buying Electric Vehicles

It costs me $32 per year to register my car in Tennessee. Meanwhile, it has been costing EV owners $100 per year. You may be thinking, “Well, that’s not fair.” Of course it’s not fair, EV owners should be paying even more.

“Jolt to wallets: Tennessee electric vehicle owners face steep fee hike in 2024”
(h/t to Mrs. Throckmorton for bringing this story to my attention.)

The reason? One of TDOT's main sources of revenue comes from Tennessee's gas tax, but with more drivers choosing electric vehicles and using charging stations, TDOT is not seeing as much money from it anymore.

The fee for Tennessee EV owners to register their vehicle increased to $200 per year in 2024, and it’s going up to $274 per year in 2026.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Portrait of Gerolamo (?) Barbarigo
Tiziano Vecellio

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The Morning Report — 5/3/24

Good morning, kids. It certainly looks as if Netanyahu has indeed had enough of Biden, Blinken and the jug-eared dog-eating closet queen from Kalorama and has told them to go piss up a rope insofar as an insane ceasefire. Considering the mass slaughter and savagery perpetrated by these subhuman Islamic monsters and the fact that the hostages are likely dead or, at this point praying for death, a ceasefire right now, with the IDF poised to wipe out Hamas' last redoubt, is akin to Curtis LeMay giving Tojo the atomic bombs and letting the Japanese nuke America.

I can't read Netanyahu's mind, but perhaps after years of living in denial about the United States insofar as the desperate desire to maintain the illusion of America as Israel's most steadfast ally, regardless of who's in charge, he's finally realized that given who's in charge now, the America government today is at best no longer an ally and should likely be considered firmly in the enemy camp if not an actual enemy.

That statement now applies to the American citizenry and its relationship with the Junta. As horrific as the pogrom unleashed on Israel last October was, the reaction to it by the alleged civilized world and here at home by the Democrat-Left, from a political standpoint, has been gold delivered to us on a silver platter.

Remember that Joe Biden, as horrendous an example of a human being to have ever obtained political office in this country, just behind the Clintons and Kennedys, was deliberately chosen by Obama because his veneer of being an alleged moderate of the old school gave Obama the cover, on top of his mulatto melanin, to unleash his radical Maoism on America with impunity.

Now as his puppet, with the disaster of the past three years exploding that myth to all but the truest of true believer leftists, the pre-planned explosion of campus Jew-hate that dates back to shortly after the IDF began its retaliatory war on Hamas in Gaza, is likely the nail in their coffin as far as this November goes. Election fraud, the kangaroo court Trump show trials, and perhaps mass rioting this summer in Chicago and Milwaukee and all over the place as the pretext for martial law and another CIA/DOJ/State Dept. color revolution right here notwithstanding.

With that, Biden is caught between having to appease his radical base and not totally turning off not just Jewish voters but anyone who has eyes to see what the hell is going on both here and abroad. Hence his latest clumsy attempt to equivocate Israel and "Palestine" while then going on to say he is not wavering in his support for Israel, phony as that surely is.

On top of that was his calling Japan, as well as India and China "xenophobic" for not committing cultural suicide via mass immigration. Like we are. It's like the left hand doesn't know what the far left hand is doing.

Regardless of the gaffes, the little-girl-groping, the stumbling and shambling, the lying, the raging against Americans for not praising his destroying their life savings, and his impotent raging at Trump, his venality and corruption is amplified by those to whom he has whored himself.

On March 1, 2018, Joe Biden got a $200,000 check. The story of where that check came from involves everything from “bloodstained currency” to smuggled gold bars to ‘The Exorcist’. But above all else it involves an enemy Muslim tyranny with ties to 9/11 and Hamas.

When I first broke the story a week before Election Day, it was about how hospital patients in smaller poorer hospitals, including one that had inspired ‘The Exorcist’, had suffered because of the corrupt greed of the Biden family. But even then there was a strange element which led to one of the key figures in the case receiving “blood-stained currency from a Middle Eastern country” and a “torture ticket” after suing James Biden: Joe’s brother.

Four years later, in the midst of the Hamas war, the identity of the “Middle Eastern country” behind the Biden business takes on new importance because it is a state sponsor of Hamas. And congressional investigators and investigative journalists have also traced a trail from Qatar, through James’ health care business to that $200,000 check he sent to Joe Biden.

The health care business that brought together the Biden family and an Islamic terror state had targeted stricken rural hospitals in Kentucky, Missouri and Pennsylvania. . .

. . . Qatar’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood (the parent organization of Hamas) and Iran had led to an embargo by its neighbors. And Qatar’s ties to terrorists, including to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11, who hid out there until he was allegedly tipped off by a member of the Islamic tyranny’s royal family that America was coming to get him, may have complicated the proposed investment funding mechanisms.

The next stage of the plan involved James Biden becoming the “chief global banking emissary” for Billerfy which processed payments for a cryptocurrency exchange known as Quadriga that traded money for crypto. Later that year, Billerfy’s accounts were frozen and millions were found in a personal account. Six days later, Quadriga’s 30-year-old CEO suddenly died in India, locking up $70 million in cash and $191 million in crypto. Another co-founder, Michael Patry, whose real name turned out to be Omar was raided and authorities discovered gold bars in a vault. The whole operation was then exposed as a massive ponzi scheme.

But by then James Biden had already benefited from $600,000 in “personal loans” from the health care company. On March 1, 2018, Americore wired $200,000 to James and he wrote a $200,000 check to Joe. But the loans, according to bankruptcy court documents were conditioned based on “representations that his last name, ‘Biden,’ could ‘open doors’ and that he could “obtain a large investment from the Middle East based on his political connections.”

. . . Even while undermining the sitting [Trump] administration, Biden’s brother was offering the services of his family to an enemy nation. This has wider implications beyond Qatar’s role backing Hamas. Qatar was also the central intermediary in the Taliban “deal” and had formed an alliance with Iran. It is difficult to know whether the “Biden family” relationship with Qatar played any role in the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and in the sanctions relief offered to Iran.

We do know there was a relationship between the Biden family and a state sponsor of Hamas, which Joe Biden profited from, and that has disturbing implications for our national security.

“We’ve got people all around the world who want to invest in Joe Biden,” James Biden once bragged. One of those investors had ties to Iran, Al Qaeda, Iran and Hamas.

If the dimwits of "the Squad," in Dearbornistan and on college campuses nationwide only opened their eyes a little bit, they'd understand that Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants, with or without the string-pulling of Obama, has done more to further their twin causes of destroying Israel and destroying America than they could have ever dreamed.

And yet, they're sliming him as "genocide Joe" because they think he supports Israel? Biden may have dementia, but these assholes are just plain stupid to not see the taqqiya sunrise sundowning in the Oval Office actually making their dreams come true.

That might be just the edge we need to at least squeak by in 2024. Of course, with the CIA, DOJ, the flag officer corps and JCS and the rest of the Deep State on their side, it's going to be a very long hot summer, perhaps extending well into autumn and, God forbid, beyond.

Have a good weekend.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Ann Coulter: “This is why the Proud Boys had to be made Public Enemy No. 1: They protected conservatives from violent leftists.”
  Hate Watchdogs Need Glasses
  
• "Multiculturalism does not work, and Europe's recent experience is instructive."
  Multiculti Chaos
• Horowitz & Greenfield: "It’s time to call the enemy by its true name."
  The Neo-Nazi Left

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Daily Tech News 3 May 2024

Top Story

• Peloton is laying off another 400 people - about 15% of its surviving workforce. (The Verge)
  
  This is the fifth layoff in three years, reducing the company's workforce by almost two thirds.
  
  If you think such a disastrous performance should see the CEO resigning in disgrace, well, he did.
  
  
  

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Four Weddings And An ONT

Hello everybody! Welcome to Thursday night. We'll...what's that? Somebody added a community note to the ONT?

In my defense, it only happened once. Unfortunately, it was from the 2nd floor balcony.

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Golden Hour Cafe

Najac: This small medieval village, located in the southwest of France,
is perched on a hill overlooking the Aveyron River. It is dominated
by a 13th century castle and offers spectacular views
of the surrounding countryside.
-- BestCitiesofEurope
Photo by @markvzquez

"Golden hour" or "magic hour" is the hour after sunrise and the hour before sunset. The light is still bright enough that no artificial lighting is needed to take perfect pictures, but the light is also more golden and more red than normal daylight, giving a warm, glowing look to everything.

A hiker and his dog have a chance encounter with an ibix.

Driving on the Amalfi Coast at golden hour.

The ocean at golden hour. NB the sea stacks in the background.

Stowaway seal.

A humpback whale with a barnacle beard and her calf.

Mount Etna blows smoke rings, called volcanic vortex rings.

Nice pictures of the massive castle in Rome, Sant'Angelo.

Skiing down the sheerest cliff. Note in the beginning, it looks like he's skiing down the mountain's spine, but after a bit he turns his skis towards the cliff.

Akshually, you should go chasing waterfalls.

Golden hour over Durbach, Germany.

Golden hour over the Alps.

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Quick Hits

The Bee:

The editors of the Columbia Spoiled Brat Children's Newspaper are demanding what they did after their BLM riots -- no exams. They should just be given good grades and credit for completing courses they didn't complete at all.

Because of the trauma they've experienced.

French president Emmanuel Macron says he'll only send troops to fight the Russians in Ukraine if the Russians break through the Ukranian lines. Which of course they will almost certainly do, so he's basically promising to send troops to Ukraine, when Ukraine's troops can no longer even hold Russia off.

In other words, the perfect time to send your own boys in.

French President Emmanuel Macron has reaffirmed his position that the possibility of sending ground troops into Ukraine cannot be ruled out. "I'm not ruling anything out, because we are facing someone who is not ruling anything out," Macron said in an interview with The Economist published Thursday. He added that if Russia was to "break through the front lines" in Ukraine and Kyiv requested troops, "we would legitimately have to ask ourselves this question." Macron's comments double down on remarks he made in February in which he said the deployment of Western troops in Ukraine could not be "ruled out," which prompted a direct warning from Moscow's Defense Ministry.

Drew Barrymore hits levels of Woke White Woman cringe that were thought impossible under the Theory of General Relativity.

This is now officially old news, but Noted She-John Snizzbiscuit Fani Willis did not show up for her debate in the Democrat primary to retain her job.

Democratic Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' political opponent debated with an empty podium after Willis skipped the county's first Democratic Party debate, local reports show.

...

The Fulton County Democratic Party held its first primary debate on Sunday, but Willis was a no-show, leaving her political opponent to take the stage alone, where he criticized his fellow Democrat for hiring a romantic partner for the high-level case.

"That issue is important to us in Fulton County and a lot of people across the country," Smith said on the stage, Fox 5 reported.

​​"When you pay one attorney nearly $1 million to handle one case, that leaves the rest of us vulnerable. That hurts everyone in Fulton County," he said.

A 26-year-old teacher sexually abused a 15-year-old boy she met at, get this, Bill Clinton's old church.

She seduced him by "bombarding" him with nude pictures. She didn't have sex with him, because she didn't want to steal his "purity," so she just gave him blowies until he was dehydrated.

Reagan Gray
"History's Greatest Monster"

By the way, if you search for Reagan Gray, you'll also come up with a college golfer with that name. It's not the same Reagan Gray.

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The White House Now Sends a Phalanx of Aids to Surround Biden When He Walks, To Screen Biden's Shuffling, Stumbling Gait from the American Voters

The truth (that Biden is feeble and dying) is always accompanied by a bodyguard of lies (his White House protectors and puppeteers).

Via Twitchy, this report from Axios, aka Politico for Kidz:

President Biden has introduced a change to his White House departure and return routine: Instead of walking across the South Lawn to and from Marine One by himself, he's now often surrounded by aides.

Why it matters: With aides usually walking between Biden and the press' camera position outside the White House, the visual effect is to draw less attention to the 81-year-old's halting and stiff gait, Axios' Hans Nichols and Alex Thompson report.

Some Biden advisers have told Axios they're concerned that videos of Biden walking and shuffling alone -- especially across the grass -- have highlighted his age.

Weeks ago, the president told aides that he'd prefer a less formal approach, a White House official told Axios. He suggested that they walk with him.

White House staffers and reporters alike noticed the sudden change in Biden's walk routine beginning in mid-April, after more than three years in which he'd typically walked solo.

I completely missed this. The NY Post has been all over it:

Why It Matters: Because it's going to be hilarious when Biden falls again.

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"Trump Is Going to Win:" Swing Staters Prefer Trump

A poll from Kaplan Strategies puts Trump up over Biden by 15 points in Michigan.

Six months ahead of the November election, former President Donald Trump is leading Democrat incumbent Joe Biden by a whopping 15 points in Michigan, a key swing state. According to a Kaplan Strategies survey, the former president polled 51 percent to 36 percent in the battleground state. The margin of error for the survey was plus/minus 3.5 percentage points.

Is this a sign of something? Nah. It's an outlier. No other poll shows such a blow-out race. Every other poll has it close in Michigan.

Other polls have also shown varying results for Michigan. An Emerson College/The Hill poll released earlier this week indicated Biden trailing Trump marginally in Michigan (44 percent to 45 percent), while a Bloomberg News and Morning Consult poll suggested Biden ahead of Trump (47 percent to 45 percent).

Of course, to be close in Michigan is a coup for a Republican...

Also, it's worth pointing out that outlier polls exist. When Marist or MSNBC trumpets a poll showing Biden with a narrow lead in national polling, remember, this Kaplan poll has Trump up by 15 points. There is no #BelieveAllPolls movement. Some are just wrong.

The recent polling news for Trump is mostly good. The new Bloomberg poll has Trump ahead, everywhere.

What do you mean, "everywhere"?

EV-ER-Y-WHER-UH!

Political Polls
@Politics_Polls

.@MorningConsult / Bloomberg News Poll:

NEVADA
Trump 51% (+8 )
Biden 43%
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WISCONSIN
Trump 48% (+4)
Biden 44%
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NORTH CAROLINA
Trump 51% (+10)
Biden 41%
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ARIZONA
Trump 49% (+7)
Biden 42%
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GEORGIA
Trump 49% (+6)
Biden 43%
.
PENNSYLVANIA
Trump 47% (+1)
Biden 46%
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MICHIGAN
Biden 47% (+2)
Trump 45%

4,969 RV, 4/8-15

That's not the only poll showing Trump ahead -- the Emerson poll has him winning in all seven swing states, too.

And I repeat: Trump always gets more votes than his polls suggest. There are a lot of shy -- or browbeaten -- Trump voters who won't tell pollsters they're voting for the Bad Orange Man.

The latest Emerson College/The Hill poll reveals that former President Donald Trump holds a slight edge over President Joe Biden in all seven key swing states, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

Key Details:

Trump leads Biden by four points in Arizona, three points in Georgia, one point in Michigan, one point in Nevada, five points in North Carolina, and two points in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Independent voters favor Trump over Biden in five of the seven states, with Biden leading among independents in Georgia and Wisconsin.

Emerson College/The Hill also included polling of key Senate races in Arizona and Pennsylvania, with Republican candidates Kari Lake and David McCormick steadily gaining over their Democratic opponents in their respective states.

A CBS/YouGov poll finds that Trump leads Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and is just behind Biden in Michiganistan. Trump leads -- barely -- in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin by a single point in both states, 50-49. He is barely behind Biden, 51-49, in Michiganistan.

This poll has a lot of bad news for Biden. Although abortion gives Biden a lift, he's behind on the issue of the economy, and the increasingly-salient question of whether he or Biden had a successful presidency.

Voters rating the current economy vs. the economy as they remembered it under the Bad Orange Man:

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Surprise! Soros DA and Trump's Persecutor Alvin Bragg Might Not Prosecute Columbia Rioters

Well knock me over with a feather.

On Wednesday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg refused to say whether he will prosecute the pro-Palestinian rioters who broke into and took over Hamilton Hall at Columbia University.

Bragg is currently prosecuting Donald Trump for an alleged campaign finance violation that is normally tried as a misdemeanor offense and would normally result in a fine as a felony. In addition to elevating the misdemeanor offense to a felony, the statute of limitations on the alleged crime had passed. On top of that, nondisclosure agreements are not illegal.

Despite Bragg's overzealousness to go after Trump, he was unresponsive to inquiries from the Daily Caller regarding potential charges for pro-Palestinian rioters arrested on Tuesday. The New York Police Department (NYPD) arrested 119 rioters at Columbia University on Tuesday evening, as well as 173 at a City University of New York (CUNY) protest, where students also took over an administrative building.

"Given his track record and the political nature of the events, I would be surprised if the Manhattan District Attorney's Office prosecuted the charges in a serious manner," Cornell Law School professor William Jacobson told the Daily Caller. "The charges are likely to be dropped against most perpetrators, and drastically reduced for others under an agreement that would see the charges eventually expunged."

Biden finally spoke up about the antisemitic protests on Democrat plantation colleges.

Specifically, he did a replay of his "fine people on both sides" equivocation, using this occasion of overt antisemitism to warn about...

Come on, you know. You don't need anyone to tell you.

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Ukranian Troll Farm Employee Confesses: I Was Paid to Inject Pro-Ukraine Propaganda Into American Social Media. But For Some Reason, We Were Told to Propagandize for Joe Biden.

She suspects that this troll farm was funded by the CIA, which would mean the CIA was running yet another psyop targeting the citizens of the United Fucking States who pay these scumbags their salaries.

Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0

BREAKING: CIA Operates Troll Farms in Kyiv to Influence American Voters and To Assure Biden's 2024 Win.

A former employee of one of the Kyiv troll factories owned by the head of Zelensky's office, Andriy Yermak, spoke about how the interference in the upcoming American elections is taking place in Ukraine with the help of the CIA. According to the source, the purpose of the interference is to ensure Biden's victory over Trump. A former employee showed a video taken inside a troll factory, as well as several photos, guidelines and a list of accounts that trolls use to influence the American voters.

"Long story short we were asked to do everything to prevent Donald Trump from winning the elections. So basically, this topic was added to our main lines of work.

Since then, each of us had to post at least 3 to 5 posts daily posing as the Americas and Europeans, criticizing Donald Trump and praising Biden.

The Americans have even organized a few lectures for us to get a better understanding of American politics, the American mindset the main social and political issues.

Then we were occupied with the topics for the job which sounded like this:

1.Unlike Trump, Biden is a smart and experienced politician.

2. Unlike Trump, Biden will never betray NATO partners. Trump will alienate our partners.

3. Biden will not abandon Ukraine. Biden will protect democracy, while Trump is Putin's puppet.

I honestly tried to convince myself it's Okay since Biden is clearly a better option for Ukraine, but it was just too much for me... One thing is to work for the best interests of my country, but interfering in US politics is a whole other thing."

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The Brothers of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity at UNC Protected the American Flag from Anti-American, Pro-Terrorist Activists.
People Have Sent Them Almost $400,000 for a Party.

Down with the Uglies.

UNC fraternity brothers seen protecting U.S. flag in viral photo raise $384k for "the party they deserve"

Quick Hit:

A group of fraternity brothers from the University of North Carolina (UNC) have raised over $384,000 after a viral photo showed them protecting the U.S. flag during a protest. The funds, raised through a GoFundMe campaign, are intended to throw the fraternity "the party they deserve."

Key Details:

The fraternity brothers, members of Pi Kappa Phi, intervened when Palestinian protestors attempted to replace the U.S. flag with a Palestinian one.

Their actions were captured in a viral photo, leading to a GoFundMe campaign that raised over $384,000.

The funds are intended to throw the fraternity brothers a party, as a reward for their actions.

The GoFundMe is pretty funny:

Trung Phan
@TrungTPhan

The $400k "Phi Kappa Phi Rager" GoFundMe page has solid copywriting:

"Armoured in Vineyard Vines and Patagonia, fuelled by Zyn and White Claws, these triumphant Brohemians protected Old Glory from the unwashed Marxist hordes."

"A party worthy of boat-shoed Broleteriat."

How angry is the left that it's a bunch of white bros who are the heroes of the campus riots?

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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

How have America's universities become hotbeds of rabid Islamist rhetoric, foaming-at-the-mouth Jew-hate, and flat-out anti-American insanity?

It's simple. It was purchased with Arab money. Oh, Academia was primed for that sort of crap, since those beliefs are its default, but for a long time was some rough balance. Academia actually had a vibrant, if small conservative/libertarian presence. They also had brains, so their influence was out of proportion to their numbers.

But oceans of oil money began to flood the hallowed halls of our elite (and not so elite) institutions. It paid for endowed chairs for anti-American and anti-Israel professors. It paid for embedded Islamic Studies departments. It paid for university-affiliated NGOs carefully putting forth the pro-Islam/anti-West cant. And it paid for full-fare students from those oil-rich countries, plumping the coffers of these schools with cash that had a catch.

Arab Funding of American Universities: Donors, Recipients and Impact

Moolah from Mullahs: Arab countries are bankrolling American colleges and universities.

That catch was simple. Make Islam and the savage authoritarians in the Arab world objects of admiration rather than disgust. The Emir of Qatar isn't funding classes examining the vile treatment of women in the Muslim world, or the regular, state-sponsored murder of homosexuals, or the destruction of Jewish minorities within many of those countries. And of course some of that funding went to call into question the legitimacy of the state of Israel by framing the "Palestinian Question" as the pinnacle of post-modern victim-hood.

So a generation of mush-brained undergraduates were taught to see the savage terrorists of Gaza and the West Bank as Jeffersonian freedom-lovers whose highest aspirations were to live in peace and harmony on the land that was stolen from them by those pesky Jews.

The always perceptive Melanie Phillips makes the simple and chilling point that:

The significance of these campus insurrections is far greater than support for Hamas or even murderous hatred of the Jewish world. The universities have become ground zero for the Muslim Brotherhood's strategy of Islamising the west.

And that's the whole point. Military invasion is out of the question, because Islam was long ago overwhelmed by the West's military and technological might. Muslim countries are consumers of Western modernity, and simply cannot compete.

But they can take advantage of the West's abject stupidity and ignorance of the foundations of Islam, and its singular focus on conquest and destruction of the West.

In CJN's latest podcast, Michael Walsh made the obvious but almost universally ignored point that we should believe Islam when it speaks of the destruction of the West!

Well, here's something the Irish and the Jews have in common, but yet we still haven't learned the lesson, because we're both stupid, which is if somebody says, "I hate you and I want to kill you," believe them.

There it is! Islam doesn't even bother to pretend. It is in the charters of all of their innumerable terrorist organizations; it is in their holy books; it is in their sermons.

Until we admit that Islam is a malign influence...until we admit that their 1,400 year war against all unbelievers is alive and well...until we fight back...we will continue to lose.

And right now, ground zero of that war is on our college campuses!

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter]

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Anna and the Blind Tobit
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The Morning Report — 5/2/24

Good morning, kids. "All enemies, foreign and domestic." Boy have we got them. In spades. I would say that ironically, the coordinated fake campus "protests" which are completely bought and paid for organized pogroms/riots ostensibly to distract the electorate from the abject disaster that has been the Biden junta, but likely just plain old Jew- and America-hatred, is perhaps unifying a whole lot of disparate groups that may or may not consider themselves of the left in absolute revulsion.

On a positive note, to answer the hoary old question "Can't we all just get along?," here's a sort of positive sign:

Pro-"Palestinian" protesters and counter-protesters at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa united to show their displeasure with [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden. Video footage posted to X showed protesters on both sides chanting, “Fuck Joe Biden.”

Who said the country is disunited? In all seriousness, we've never been more divided and dare I say it more bitterly and absolutely divided than ever. Lincoln's famous quoting of Scripture that "A house divided against itself cannot stand" applies not only in the macro, but also in the micro. By that I mean the coalition of disparate grievance groups under the aegis of the Democrat banner which, despite the destruction they have wrought against the nation they are a part of yet hate with a passion – which to this point has served the Democrats' will to power quite well – evidently has come to its inevitable crisis point at which the rivalries and stratification of who is the most aggrieved, seems to be coming to the point of collapsing their whole house of cards on top of them.

On top of everything that has soured all but the truest of true Marxist believers on the Democrats, this eruption of anti-Semitism could be the straw that breaks the Kamala's back. The next six months are going to perhaps be the most perilous in our history, and certainly in our own lifetimes. The Demorcat-Left might very well be collapsing in on itself but like a certain Viennese housepainter, the Gotterdammerung order is surely in effect. They'll take us down with them if they have to.

Psaki-psircling back to enemies foreign and domestic, here are just a few examples of what we will likely have to contend with, for sure sooner than later as November looms closer.

A University of Tehran professor said in an interview that Iran likes seeing protests on US college campuses, adding those are their supporters if there is ever a conflict between the two countries.

Professor Foad Izadi, who, according to the University of Southern California Center on Public Diplomacy, earned his master’s degree from the University of Houston, was seen in a video published to social media and translated by MEMRI.org, being interviewed about the protests in the US.

“Sooner or later, this kind of support for the Zionist regime by the American regime will diminish. It might not stop completely, but its diminishing is important,” he said in the MEMRI video. “This is why the demonstrations [on US campuses] are important.”

Izadi spoke as a member of the Islamic Republic, and oftentimes said, “we,” referring to him and the republic.“We are watching the demonstrations and like what we see, but it should not end with this,” Izadi said. “If not for the Islamic Republic, the case of the Palestinian idea would have been closed years ago. The idea of resistance belongs to Iran, but on the operational level, when it comes to recruiting connections and building networks, the [Iranian] state has not been involved in a sufficient level.

“These (American students) are our people,” he continued. “If tensions between America and Iran rise tomorrow or the day after, these are the people who will have to take to the streets to support Iran.”

In the wake of Israel's total thwarting of Iran's attempted mass aerial attack the other week, and perhaps its imminent final assault on Hamas' last redoubt in Rafah, a little asymmetric warfare over here could be just what the mullahs are contemplating. I'd say, they have agents already here courtesy of the non-existent border, but this goat-boffing savage is correct; who needs them when our own home-grown micturating matriculating Marxists are willing and eager to do some Jew-bashing and firebombing of power stations for them?

Yet speaking of open borders and foreign terrorists . . .

Federal law enforcement officials have arrested a man from Uzbekistan who is an alleged member of the ISIS terrorist organization and who has been living in the U.S. for the last two years while applying for asylum. . .

. . . Attoev crossed the border in Arizona in February 2022, was apprehended by Border Patrol, and claimed he was an asylum seeker, the report said.

Officials claim that they could not find any “derogatory information” on him so they released him into the U.S. with a court date. “Then, in May 2023, Uzbekistan put out an international notice that Attoev was wanted in his home country for his alleged affiliation with ISIS,” the report said. “But it was not until March 2024, almost a year later, when the U.S. government was reviewing Attoev’s application for asylum, that officials discovered the notice from Uzbekistan and connected it with the man living in Maryland.”

. . . Numerous federal law enforcement officials told the publication that the case was the perfect example of how dangerous the immigration and asylum system is in the U.S. because it takes authorities a long time to follow-up on those who have already crossed into the U.S. — usually illegally.

Enemies foreign and domestic. Here we have a foreign enemy who could not have breached our defenses had our #1 domestic enemy Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants and those pulling his strings had not opened the gates wide open for him. If you think he's a one-off, think again. That goes for Biden, too.

Meanwhile, as far as the campus pogroms are concerned . . .

One of the ten protestors arrested was a 39-year-old man named Atah Othman, who was caught with a gun on his person during the protest. Given what we have seen as these college kids grow more unhinged in their protests, it was quite likely Othman would have opened fire at some point had police not intervened when they did. . .

. . . when your little minions are openly talking about bringing weapons to the protest, it's not a protest anymore. Besides, what was a 39-year-old man doing at this protest anyway? Even more worrying, he got out on bond. Granted, it is still too early to jump to conclusions about who Othman is. But the fact that he was armed and other people were talking about bringing weapons means that what I said yesterday about flat-out pogroms occurring right here in America could very well happen.

Granted, it is still too early to jump to conclusions about who Othman is. But the fact that he was armed and other people were talking about bringing weapons means that what I said yesterday about flat-out pogroms occurring right here in America could very well happen.

Don't believe me? Fox 7 reported that after Travis County police cleared out the University of Texas in Austin and arrested 80 people, they uncovered stashes of guns (yes, guns), chains, mallets, and bricks around the encampment. Furthermore, 45 of those arrested were not in any way affiliated with the Longhorns, either as students, faculty, or staff. . .

The question, then, is who is behind this frenzy of antisemitism we've seen on college campuses these past couple of weeks?

While I am not discounting these protests being the end result of colleges breeding indoctrinated leftist morons who come back to bite them in their collective hindquarters, nothing about them seems to have formed organically. Someone has to be buying and setting up these fancy tents (North Face ain't cheap, you know) and providing these weapons.

. . . By the way, did you also see that one of the people at the Columbia protest was Nahla Al-Arian, wife of Sami Al-Arian, who was busted way back in 2005 for raising money for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad? Things that make you wonder.

Atah Othman is not exactly a Scots-Irish name, now is it? And recall the pallets of bricks left at strategic locations in the middle of the night in business districts all over the nation during the 2020 summer of mostly peaceful Burning Looting and Murdering.

Four years later, the NYPD actually ejected and arrested the miscreants at Columbia and CCNY. And just to remind you, the city's DA is none other than Alvin Bragg.

Bragg, who is currently prosecuting the case against former President Donald Trump, did not respond to multiple requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation asking whether pro-Palestinian protestors arrested on Tuesday would be charged. The New York Police Department (NYPD) arrested 119 protestors at Columbia on Tuesday night, along with 173 protestors at the separate City University of New York (CUNY) protest, where students occupied an administration building.

“Given his track record and the political nature of the events, I would be surprised if the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office prosecuted the charges in a serious manner,” Cornell Law School professor William Jacobson told the DCNF. “The charges are likely to be dropped against most perpetrators, and drastically reduced for others under an agreement that would see the charges eventually expunged.”

Yet Daniel Penny is awaiting trial for accidentally causing the death of a psycho on the subway who was threatening fellow passengers with violence. Yeah, Penny's got to burn. As does Trump. Same deal with the Jewish students and their defenders at the attempted pogrom at UCLA. Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom will throw the book at them, for the heinous crime of self-defense while being Jewish, which cannot go unpunished!

Of course, this story is all just a terrible misunderstanding!

The Stanford University teaching assistant who was caught on tape calling for [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden’s assassination and praising Hamas is now naming and shaming the students he says recorded his remarks and reported him to the administration.

Hamza El Boudali, who in January told Jewish students in his computer science section that they would be treated "very well" by a Hamas caliphate, on Wednesday posted a thread on X with the names and headshots of students who "illegally recorded and doxxed" him "in clear violation" of Stanford’s code of conduct. It is not clear which provision of the code he is referencing.

. . . More recently, a masked individual at Stanford’s pro-"Palestinian" encampment was spotted wearing a Hamas headband. The university announced on Tuesday that it had forwarded a photo of the individual to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Hamza, Hamas, Hazmat. Pfft. The FBI will get right on that. Just as soon as they can identify anyone within 10 miles of the Capitol on 1/6/21 who might have been wearing a MAGA hat. Or anyone silently praying within 1,000 parsecs of an abortion mill, or someone complaining about a drag queen exposing his junk in the women's locker room at Planet Fitness.

You can threaten to assassinate Joey Rutabaga and nothing will be done. Because Heaven forfend they stay home in Dearbornistan this November!

Yesterday, I stated we should take to heart the leftist bromide that the Constitution is not a suicide pact. Today, maybe we should take a second look – from our perspective – at "No Justice, No Peace."

It may yet come down to that, God help us.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Victor Davis Hanson: "Politicized faculty, infantilized students, and mediocre classes have combined to erode the prestige of college degrees, even at once elite colleges."
  Can the Current Universities Be Saved?
  
• "A ruinous Supreme Court decision from 50 years ago urgently needs reviewing."
  To Restore Liberty, Kill Chevron (and the Leftists - jjs)
  
• Lloyd Billingsley: "Fueling the surge of violence from the Neo-Nazi Left."
  Climate Jihad Joins the Campus Jihad
  
• Daniel Greenfield: "Eastman is a 'threat' because he’s still fighting. And the whole point of the exercise is to neutralize the political threats."
  Dem Judge Claims Conservative Lawyer is “Threat to Public” for Representing Conservatives

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Daily Tech News 2 May 2024

Top Story

• The CEO of United Healthcare said maybe a third of US citizens were affected by a recent security breach. (Tech Crunch)
  
  That... Is rather a lot.

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Wednesday Overnight Open Thread (5/1/24)

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The Quotes of The Day

Quote I

The epitome of delusion is saying you’re pro-life but voting to repeal an abortion ban. The Democratic Party stands and votes on death. AZ Republican state Sen. Anthony Kern

Quote II

“We need an apology, fair compensation for our family and other families who have been affected. We have the truth on our side, and we are not going to give up.” Mrs. Jamie Scott, whose husband died from a Kung Flu prick

Quote III

”The police can do the job of clearing out the building, but the DA is then going to drop the charges,” he continued “You can’t drop a charge if we bring a civil lawsuit. So I urge other lawyers in New York– Jews, Gentile, any lawyer– join me, pro bono, in bringing a lawsuit against everybody involved in hurting Jews.” Attorney Alan Dershowitz

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Pouncing With a Chance of Seizing Cafe

Wyoming
by rob.phillips.photography

A stingray eating a fish. It's weird, man.

Red panda eating an apple. Much cuter than the stingray.

Cat really wants to avoid even touching water.

Humpday am i rite

Dog positions ladder to use it to get over a wall.

Nurse ratched is right -- river otters are evil!

Some cute little swingers.

Cat tries to catch projected fish.

Nice horse!

A regular Calamity Jane.

An emotional reunion.

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