The Morning Report — 2/8/24

Good morning, kids. In the aftermath of the failure to impeach DHS apparatchik Alejandro Mayorkas for his role in allowing the 8 million and counting invasion of unknown, unvetted third world foreigners, ex-GOP Congressman George Santos took to Twitter/X with a three-word Tweet under an image of the House electronic vote scoreboard.

BOOM.

An ongoing problem for the Republicans dating back to the days of black and white television is that the power players in the party have never had a grasp on the importance of messaging and optics. As Ed mentioned, the Mayorkas vote wasn't really about impeachment, it was about sending a message to the voters. 

Reps. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.), Ken Buck (R-Colo.), and Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) are all too stupid to understand that. (Utah Rep. Blake Moore voted no as a procedural move that would allow House Republicans to bring the resolution back to the floor.)

All three "Blah, blah, blahed" all over themselves to explain why they voted no. None of their excuses are valid because there was no reason whatsoever for a Republican to vote against impeaching Mayorkas. None. Zero. Nada. Not a thing. 

Former House GOP ne'er-do-well George Santos couldn't wait to troll the failure of his one-time colleagues:

Miss Me Yet?

Why yes, George, I do miss you. 

While the Democrats are focused squarely on assaulting our freedoms and shredding the Constitution, I don't really care whether any of the Republicans in Congress are good people or not, just as long as they're consistently voting against tyranny. Something I've often said about presidential candidates applies in this case as well: I don't need a prom date, I need a fighter. 

Democrats in Congress are harboring raging anti-Semites, terrorist sympathizers, and commies; George Santos is practically an archangel compared to them. 

This isn't really about George Santos, though. It's about the fact that when things count the most, Republicans reflexively begin forming a circular firing squad and using "principles" as a justification for it.

It's not about "principles" or stupidity or anything like that. It's about collusion with the Democrat-Left for both the chance to wear the dubious title of "Elitist 2nd Class" and more crucially to take a payoff that helps the Left continue to destroy the republic and the citizenry. Yet aside from that last paragraph Stephen Kruiser is dead on target with this and has phrased it perfectly.

More than merely fighters, we need fighters who understand who and what they are fighting for. The GOP as it is constituted today is fighting for the right to make a buck off the destruction of this country. Sadly, this attitude goes back over 70 years to President Eisenhower. During a time of unprecedented postwar prosperity, along with his near deification as a war hero, he had the political wind at his back to at least make a concerted effort to roll back some or even most of the disastrous encroachments on our liberty of FDR's New Deal.

Of course, in his farewell speech that warned of a "military industrial complex," perhaps he understood what it would have meant to oppose them. Because what he labeled the military industrial complex is what we now know today to be "The Deep State." And look what it's doing to Donald Trump and a growing segment of the population opposed to its power.

Since then, the bureaucracy has only metastasized in scope, power and influence by leaps and bounds with LBJ's Great Society capped off by the seizure of one sixth of our economy, the healthcare/insurance sector via Obama's Hope and Change. It should be noted that as bad as Democrat administrations have been in utilizing the Deep State to erode our freedoms, the worst offenders of all were Republicans Richard Nixon who gave us the EPA and OSHA, and George W. Bush with the DHS.

That would be the same Department of Homeland Security which Alejandro Mayorkas remains at the top as Reichsminister, and who oversees the Obama/Biden operation that has erased our borders and threatens to erase our national identity. Homeland Security, indeed.

In a strange way, I'm kind of disappointed that Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants and his handlers are waiting until after the election to go down to Texas to likely arrest Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton, and perhaps revoke Texas' statehood over (don't vomit) insurrection.

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that: it’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.” — Rahm Emanuel, Obama White House chief of staff

Ah, from the lips of the take-no-prisoners “Rahmbo” (who once reportedly delivered a dead fish to a tardy pollster) to the ears of 25 U.S. governors. 

That’s 25, count ‘em, state bosses – one complete half. Who recently joined together in a declaring their defiance of the Feds over the current usurper administration’s “All-ee, all-ee in free” approach to the southern border. Exacerbated by the actions of the arrogant Bidenites in “attack(ing) and su(ing) Texas for stepping up to protect American citizens from historic levels of illegal immigrants, deadly drugs like fentanyl, and terrorists entering our country.”

The result of which was the Supreme Court’s recent 5-4 punt of that suit, delivering to the administration the snippers to remove razor wire the Lone Star Staters had positioned on the boundary in a desperate attempt to stem the flow of migrants.

Hmmm. A little over three years ago, this commentator noted that a “spurned lawsuit,” initiated by none other than Texas and bringing together 18 states to allege a stolen presidency, provided “a potential stepping stone” from which “it’s only a hop, skip and a jump to the Declaration of Dissolution previously suggested in this space.”

It’s not just the number of nose-thumbing states that is elevated this time around. It’s the rhetoric – and potentially Rahmbo-esque implications. “Republican Governors Band Together” read the headline on the guvs’ communique. You mean, like “Join or Die?”

And more consequential, this central assertion: “The Biden Administration has abdicated its constitutional compact duties to the states” (emphasis added). . .

. . . The governors “stand in solidarity with our fellow Governor, Greg Abbott, and the State of Texas in utilizing every tool and strategy, including razor wire fences, to secure the border.”  “Stand in solidarity?” Them’s “compact” words (and we don’t mean small). And words aren’t the only way Republican governors are “hanging together” to stick it to Washington. Red-state commanders in chief have been dispatching troops and troopers to the border for many moons. Now, recent presidential-race-departee Ron DeSantis is rushing 1,000 “reinforcements” westward from the Sunshine State. . .

. . . Which brings us back to the Machiavellian counsel of Mr. Emanuel, whose somewhat-more-than-cheeky desk nameplate read “Undersecretary of Go F— Yourself.” If one were to engage in a word association exercise anywhere in America today, who wouldn’t respond to the term “border” with “crisis,” if not “serious crisis?” (As the fictional Col. Nathan Jessup might have put it, “Is there another kind?") . . .

. . . Let’s see. We have a “serious” fiscal, social and national security catastrophe. The fact that untrammeled immigration has risen to become Americans’ number one concern. And the reality that 50% of the nation’s governors have seized the occasion to vault up right up to the line of voiding and replacing America’s “constitutional compact” . . .

. . . Emanuel’s Prairie State predecessor, Abraham Lincoln, averred that the nation could not “endure permanently half slave and half free.” Today’s America cannot endure with its venal, reality-rejecting, wealth-sucking woke half permanently dictating to and impermissibly burdening, persecuting and outright endangering the sound, stable and productive cohort. 

The opportunity now presents itself for the leaders representing the latter half to go full Rahmbo before it’s too late to save any of us. Take the logical next step: declare not just the “constitutional compact,” but the union dissolved.

Again, BOOM.

Trump or no Trump, elections rigged or otherwise are not going to mend both the divide between Americans and anti-amerikkans nor the now virtually impossible to dismantle Deep State bureaucracy that wields the actual power via regulations that almost never are reversed in an increasingly corrupt judiciary that acts as their rubber stamp.

Please do not misconstrue my sentiments as a call for violence. What is painfully obvious is that we are now in the latter part of the phrase of "What cannot go on will not go on."

For sure it won't. How the "will not go on" plays out is anyone's guess.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• "When the criminal is really a victim, those he abuses have no right to defend themselves. Self-defense codes enshrine into law that the criminal deserves to suffer at the hands of those around him in society, adding to the hierarchy of injustice that oppresses him. It perpetuates the so-called 'cycle of oppression' the left aims to dismantle. In other words, cracking down on self-defense serves the same function as going easy on crime: building a new morality of the oppressed, with a new aristocracy at the top."
  Why Self-Defense is the Only Type of Violence the Left Won’t Endorse
  
• "Will GOP governors go full Rahmbo and move from border defiance to dissolution? . . . Today’s America cannot endure with its venal, reality-rejecting, wealth-sucking woke half permanently dictating to and impermissibly burdening, persecuting and outright endangering the sound, stable and productive cohort.  The opportunity now presents itself for the leaders representing the latter half to go full Rahmbo before it’s too late to save any of us. Take the logical next step: declare not just the 'constitutional compact,' but the union dissolved." (That last sentence. Whoa - jjs)
  Never Let a Serious Border (And Constitutional) Crisis Go to Waste
  
• "Tamara Weitzman, an oncology social worker in Seattle, was called an 'insensitive, Canadian white bitch' and a 'white kike' at her workplace. Then she got packed off to DEI sensitivity training."
  "White Kikes" and "Melanin Recessives"
  
• "While the Democrats are focused squarely on assaulting our freedoms and shredding the Constitution, I don't really care whether any of the Republicans in Congress are good people or not, just as long as they're consistently voting against tyranny. Something I've often said about presidential candidates applies in this case as well: I don't need a prom date, I need a fighter." (THIS. Every single fucking second of every single fucking day. Forever. - jjs)
  Hell Yes, I Miss George Santos

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Daily Tech News 8 February 2024

Top Story

• How Twitter's descent into chaos is paving the way for a new web. (Tech Crunch)
  
  These people are really desperate for Twitter to fail.
  
  
  
• Twitter hits number one in App Store as leaked Drake nude goes viral. (The Verge)
  
  Everyone involved in this story needs to find Jesus, or be launched out of a giant trebuchet directly into the Sun, or possibly both.

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Wednesday Overnight Open Thread (2/7/24)

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The Quotes of The Day

Quote I

“These funds were to be used for the welfare of myself and our seven children. It is tremendously shameful, yet not surprising, that these heinous smear tactics are being employed to victimize myself and my children once again. For the record, these funds were issued in my name and I placed these funds with the help of tax lawyers into a trust fund for my children.” Mrs. Mark Houck

Quote II

"So this is a petition for all the airlines, so big girls like me can fly. It's not my fault I have an ass this big – please just make them bigger." Model Gracie Bon

Quote III

"Yes, for me to want to change, there had to be reasons beyond the money, right? So when I said that [in June 2022] I fully meant it and it was true. Now, when they slap you with a large amount of money in your face, your feelings do change. I try not to be a materialistic person, but I do owe it to my family as well to set them up for success the best I can, and having kids I think changed that quite a bit. So the money is a part of it; I’m not going to lie. But again, when I said that I wasn’t fully aware of what I was saying because you don’t really understand." Professional Golfer Jon Rahm

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Snowdogging Cafe

Cherry blossoms in Japan
More pics here
Photos by @hagiwara.0605_official

I'm very proud we completed work on that space elevator. Of course it's in Florida.

Swiss scenes. (Springtime. I'm trying to follow Paco's advice and post more greenery and sunlight, and not just the gray stuff from Norway, Iceland, and Scotland that's been turning me on lately.)

Playing the Windows 95 shut-down jingle on various unlikely instruments.

They named this horse "Darrius" in honor of Fani Willis' stud.

His legs are short, but he's got speed.

This is me since 12:30 today.

Cigar, sir?

I think this kitten is on LSD. "My paws... they're made of rainbow sirens...!"

Cute little meownster.

Do you mind, pallie?

The Heist.

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Quick Tse-tse

The WHO, who I'm told are Experts in The Science (TM), admits that there is no evidence that the abomination called "gender affirming care" has any medical or even psychological value.

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it would not be issuing recommendations on "gender affirming care" for children or adolescents, citing the lack of scientific literature addressing it.

The WHO is in the process of developing guidelines for the "health of trans and gender diverse people," but has declined to extend those guidelines to people under the age of 20, according to a Jan. 15 document released by the agency. Scientific findings on the long-term consequences of child sex changes are "limited and variable," according to the WHO.

"The scope will cover adults only and not address the needs of children and adolescents, because on review, the evidence base for children and adolescents is limited and variable regarding the longer-term outcomes of gender affirming care for children and adolescents," the document reads.

The WHO defines anyone between the ages of 10 and 19 as an adolescent, according to its website.

The great patriotic state of Texas and two conservative-leaning media outlets have moved for an injunction to stop the lawless, tyrannical Biden Regime from further implementing its "censorship scheme."

The Tuesday evening motion requested that the court immediately halt the Biden administration and top officials from funding or encouraging "the development or use of technology that targets in whole, or in part, Americans' speech or the American press," according to a filing. The Daily Wire, the Federalist, and Texas alleged in a December 2023 lawsuit that the State Department skirted the First Amendment when its Global Engagement Center office awarded funds to the Global Disinformation Index, a British think tank that the Washington Examiner reported feeds advertisers blacklists of conservative websites to silence disfavored speech, and NewsGuard, a New York-based company purporting to track "misinformation" online.

The way this shell game works is this: The government creates organizations, supposedly private but funded with taxpayer money, which will brand Regime-disapproved speech as "disinformation," then leans on companies to not advertise on sites that spread "disinformation."

NewsGard is a US government op. It brands conservative speech as "disinformation" and not fit for advertising.

"The U.S. Department of State through its Global Engagement Center is actively intervening in the news-media market to limit the reach of, the circulation of, and render unprofitable, disfavored press outlets by funding the infrastructure, development, and marketing and promotion of censorship technology and private censorship enterprises to covertly suppress speech of a segment of the American press," read a memo attached to the motion, which was submitted by attorneys for Texas and Ken Paxton, its Republican attorney general, as well as the New Civil Liberties Alliance on behalf of the two outlets.

Efforts by the plaintiffs to fight what they dubbed in a filing last year "the most egregious government operations to censor the American press in the history of the nation" come as House Republicans on the Small Business Committee continue to press the State Department to provide grant records as part of their broader "censorship" investigation.

I don't like baiting people, but this has to be covered: Trump, who counted Tranheuser-Busch as donors and earlier defended them, now declares that it's time to "give Bud Light a Second Chance."

He announces that we should end our successful boycott and successful action against a woke corporation just as (checks notes) he attends a fundraiser for his own benefit organized by a Tranheuser-Busch executive lobbyist.

Politico:

Former President Donald Trump offered an olive branch to Anheuser-Busch on Tuesday, issuing a post on his social media platform calling on conservatives to drop their opposition to the besieged beer company.

"The Bud Light ad was a mistake of epic proportions, and for that a very big price was paid, but Anheuser-Busch is not a Woke company," Trump wrote. "Anheuser-Busch is a Great American Brand that perhaps deserves a Second Chance? What do you think? Perhaps, instead, we should be going after those companies that are looking to DESTROY AMERICA!"

I seem to remember a highly, highly accomplished worldbeater calling himself "Sundance" who informed me, in the most authoritative and absurdly pompous way possible, that Ron DeSantis was a Globalist Establishment shill for the Corporate GOPe -- and a "Managed Principal," controlled by shadowy globalist corporate forces -- whereas Trump was rootin'-tootin' straight-shootin' populist Viking Hero who could not be compromised by mere money (because he so infamously avoids spending any of his own money and plainly finds it painful to part with his own money).

I'm not going to rub it in, but if you believed these lies, or peddled these lies, shame on you. If you feel embarrassed, you should.

So what's next? Defending his donors at DEIsney? Will we give up our opposition to DEIsney just because a few of their executives throw money at Trump, now that we're on the verge of a big victory over another woked-out corporation?

BTW, I don't want to ever hear "but Sundance says" ever fucking again.

You know Trump pays influencers to say shit, right? Do you believe Pepto-Bismol ads when they tell you their 75% more effective than other medicines?

El Salvador's president fulfilled a campaign promise to lock up the criminals and even the crimelords and keep them in prison. He did this by constructing gigantic concrete prisons and just filling them with tens of thousands of (well-tattooed) gang members.

What a concept -- running on a promise, and then keeping it.

He just won a "landslide" re-election.

President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador, credited with driving down gang violence in the Central American nation, has been re-elected.

Preliminary results released after 70% of votes had been counted showed him securing a second term by winning 83% of the votes.

He had already claimed victory before the results were announced.

His popularity has soared following a crackdown on crime which drove down the country's murder rate.

Under his presidency, El Salvador has been transformed from one of the most violent countries in the world to one of the safest in Latin America.

Mr Bukele, a former mayor of the capital, San Salvador, has described himself as "the world's coolest dictator".

LOL.

Maybe the GOP should try this tactic of "doing the things you say you'll do." Might work!

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Gallup Shows Biden Deteriorating Further Mentally
I Mean, Deteriorating Further in Black and Hispanic Support
Although Seriously He's Also Deteroriating Mentally

Democrats need blacks to turn out close to +80 for the Plantation Party. Something like a 90% Democrat, 10% Republican net split.

Biden's losing minority support faster than he's losing healthy cells in his frontal cortex.

According to Gallup, Biden is now only +47 with blacks. Yes I know that sounds huge, and yes, it is kinda huge.

But remember, he wants to be something around +70. 80-10.

Must be all that enormous success Biden's having, which black voters in particular are so "misinformed" about.

Hey, Democrats are claiming black voters are "misinformed" and "lack information." Because Democrats are saying it, those claims are officially Not Racist.

And as far as Hispanics -- the group he's flooding the country with illegals in order to pander to?

+12.

Gallup:

Although Democrats continue to hold a formidable advantage over Republicans among non-Hispanic Black adults in the U.S., their current 47-point lead is the smallest Gallup has recorded in its polling, dating back to 1999. Most of the decline has been recent, with the net-Democratic ID for this group falling 19 points from a 66-point advantage in 2020. At that time, 77% of Black adults favored the Democrats and 11% the Republicans, so the 2023 findings represent an 11-point decrease in Democratic affiliation since 2020 and an eight-point increase in Republican affiliation.

Similarly, Democrats' 12-point advantage among Hispanic adults in 2023 represents a new low in trends dating back to 2011, when Gallup began routinely interviewing in Spanish as well as English. Meanwhile, White adults have maintained a 14- to 17-point preference for the Republican Party in most years since 2014. The parties were closer to parity among this large segment of the electorate between 1999 and 2009.

RedState's Sister Toldjah notes some other polls which I find a little worrying. Trump is ahead of Biden -- but 41% to 35%. 41% is not even close to a majority, and I would not count on 41% winning the election.

You know in the headline when I said Biden was deterioriating mentally? That wasn't just a joke.

As you'll see below: This is galloping dementia.

As others commented: Here's the reason Biden refused to sit for a puff-piece interview with liberal CBS "News." It doesn't matter how easy you make the questions -- his brain doesn't fucking work.

Regarding the first video: Someone on Twitter asked, "How long would Biden have stood there dumb as a post if a helpful reporter had not jogged his rotting memory by feeding him the word he was looking for, 'Hamas'?"

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Three of the Illegal Alien Gang Members Who Beat Up the Cops In NYC Are Arrested in Arizona
Update: New Trump Ad Stars These "Cultural Enrichers"

Don't worry -- once they're shipped back to NYC, Soros DA Alvin Bragg will immediately set them free without bail, like he did for the other four members of this street gang.

We reported on the horrible attack by a mob of illegal aliens on two NYPD officers near Times Square. The mob kicked the officers in the head as they lay on the ground. The group attacked the officers because they were trying to detain a suspect.

Seven people were arrested and then five of those were let go without bail. One wasn't charged, and the other was held on bail. The message that some of them gave America when they were released was disgusting, as we reported with two of them flipping us off.

Oh -- my mistake. Five were set free without bail. They immediately fled to California, the No-Longer-America State.

This is why I did a recap post of this story on Monday -- it's got legs. This is going to be a big story not just for the immigration issue, but for the entire 2024 campaign.

Below, witness the Star of dozens of upcoming Republican political ads.

He laughs and laughs like a redassed baboon. He says he's going to blow up on social media in NY (in Spanish, of course).

He thinks this country is a joke.

He's right, thanks to The Regime.

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Jonathan Turley: While Trump Lost His Motion for Presidential Immunity, He May Still Be Winning the Battle to Delay the Trial

Trump wants to delay most of these trials until after the election.

He may at least have that wish granted:

Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley

In a 57-page opinion, the D.C. Circuit has rejected, as expected, former President Donald Trump's sweeping immunity claim. Many of us anticipated this result....

...Notably, the panel rejected the claim of many critics that there should be no appellate review. However, it categorically rejects the claim of Trump that he is entitled to immunity as a private citizen...

...Crunching the numbers, Trump can seek corrections in the short term but, even without a correction to the opinion, he has 45 days to seek an en banc where the government is a party. He then has 90 days after the rejected of any en banc decision. ...

"En banc" means the entire DC Court of Appeals -- not just the three-judge panel picked to hear this appeal -- sitting as a group to reconsider the matter.

And this is before any appeal to the Supreme Court. Trump can ask for a rehearing just from the full DC Circuit Court of Appeals itself.

...So, even without factoring in review time for the circuit, Trump could extend this process 135 days absent a successful move to expedite. The 90 day period alone would put a petition into May. Any rejection of appeals, without an expedited calendar, puts this into the summer...

...That is without delays or a successful grant on by the D.C. Circuit (unlikely) or the Supreme Court (uncertain). After that appellate line is tied off, the parties would have to return to the trial court to resume the pre-trial work, which could take months. That puts the trial very close to the election and would raise obvious concerns given the long-standing DOJ policy to avoid trials with a few months of an election.

The Very Special Counsel has previously moved for the Supreme Court to expedite the motion process, and the Supreme Court refused.

Turley notes that Jack Smith will move to expedite again -- but why would the Court reverse itself?

...While Smith will likely try again to expedite, the question is why the Supreme Court would suddenly see a need to curtail the time or process when it previously denied such efforts. There is no longer a scheduled trial on the docket and Smith is the prevailing party. That is not ideal for a motion to expedite further appeals.

Interesting:

...Notably, in a footnote at the end of the decision, the panel declines look at the merits of the threshold challenge that "the appointment of Special Counsel Smith is invalid because (1) no statute authorizes the position Smith occupies and (2) the Special Counsel is a principal officer who must be nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate."

How could they just have blown that off?

That might be what ShipwreckedCrew was referring to when he said this decision was written almost to invite the Supreme Court to review it.

Note that the DOJ has "policies," they say, that restrain them from pursuing (or announcing) actions during campaign season. They have invoked these "policies" as their excuse for refusing to acknowledge the Hunter Biden laptop was real, for example.

Once Trump delays this until the summer, then the DOJ policy says -- unless the DOJ suddenly discovers a Special Exception -- that the trial must be delayed until after the election. The Very Special Counsel Jack Smith is a DOJ appointee and presumably bound by their "policies."

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Axios: Biden's Obsessed With "Morning Joe" (and Joe Scarborough Fellates Him On Camera Every Morning)

This is from a few days ago, but I just heard about it from Megyn Kelly.

People attempting to lobby the White House vie to appear on Morning Joe in the 7 o'clock hour, just so they can broadcast their message to one elderly demented easily-mesmerized codger.

When White House aides appear on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," they're often booked between 7 and 7:40 a.m. ET. That's so they'll reach one crucial and loyal viewer: President Biden.

Why it matters: Biden's years-long love of MSNBC's staple morning show affects how the White House runs -- and who Biden listens to.

Zoom in: The president often calls co-host Joe Scarborough -- a former Republican congressman who's now a harsh critic of Donald Trump -- to get Scarborough's take on issues and sometimes vent about media coverage, according to people familiar with the relationship.

During the day, Biden has long asked his staff whether they saw a story, a poll, or a segment that had been on the show. He's included show regulars in off-the-record conversations with policy experts.

Biden pays particular attention to -- and has consulted with -- "Morning Joe" regulars such as longtime reporter Mike Barnicle, foreign policy expert Richard Haass and historian Jon Meacham, who has assisted on several Biden speeches.

Vice President Kamala Harris watches "Morning Joe," too: She and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff hosted a dinner last month at the vice presidential residence for Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, his co-host and wife.

Aides have noted that Harris also tunes into Fox News, and occasionally watches "The Five."

Some aides have felt that Fox News' relentlessly negative coverage -- first casting her as Biden's all-powerful puppeteer, then later portraying her as incompetent -- can drive Harris to distraction.

"It got in her head and caused high anxiety because they were constantly hammering her," one former Harris aide told Axios.

Ummm, they literally never portray her as "Biden's all-powerful puppeteer." They always depict her as incompetent. That's all anyone every depicts her as.

This is absurd. This is like a very ugly woman complaining that sometimes people deride her as ugly, and sometimes deride her as too beautiful to be tolerated.

Um, no. You're inventing invisible people saying made-up things in your head, Fuggles.

Between the lines: Because Biden watches "Morning Joe" so often, most of his top aides watch or track the show to anticipate potential questions from him.

Don't worry, though -- Biden samples a wide spectrum of political commentary every day.

Biden is a big cable news consumer: If "Morning Joe" is his favorite show, his second favorite is probably "Fareed Zakaria GPS" on CNN each Sunday.

...

Aides say Biden respects these voices on cable TV, and loves when they applaud his actions.

Oh, the old demented men applauds when his TV Friends say nice things about him?

Boy that Trump, what a dangerous narcissist.

Below, Joe Scarborough is determined to preserve his place as Top Presfluencer, absurdly praising Joe Biden every five seconds.

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Gina Carano Sues Disney, Alleging Political Discrimination, Sex Discrimination, and Defamation;
LAWSUIT IS BEING BANKROLLED BY ELON MUSK, WHO IS OFFERING TO FILE ADDITIONAL SUITS FOR PEOPLE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BY DISNEY

Gina Carano
@ginacarano

Today is an important day for me--I am filing a lawsuit against @lucasfilm & @Disney

After my 20 years of building a career from scratch, and during the regime of former Disney CEO Bob Chapek, Lucasfilm made this statement on Twitter, terminating me from The Mandalorian: "Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm & there are no plans for her to be in the future. Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural & religious identities are abhorrent & unacceptable."

Nothing could be further from the truth. The truth is I was being hunted down from everything I posted to every post I liked because I was not in line with the acceptable narrative of the time. My words were consistently twisted to demonize & dehumanize me as an alt right wing extremist. It was a bullying smear campaign aimed at silencing, destroying & making an example out of me.

The thing is I never even used aggressive language. I shared thought provoking quotes, pictures, memes & occasionally I used my own words, not with aggression but with respect & the occasional comedy to keep the mood light in dark times.

Look with your own eyes at what I posted and ask yourself, for example, where did I compare Republicans to the Jewish people in the holocaust? I didn't. Ask yourself why they were calling me a racist, was there any merit behind that or history of it whatsoever? No. Look at why I was called a transphobe--for making droid noises from Star Wars? "Beep, bop, boop" was obviously directed to the online bullies and did not in any way denigrate transgender people.

DEIsney lied about the reason for her termination -- it was all about her refusal to bend to the trans extremists and post her pronouns. As Kneon pointed out in his ClownfishTV video, if this wasn't about the trans agenda and pronouns, why did DEIsney demand Carano attend a Struggle Session in which 45 LGBT DEIsney employees would hurl vitriol at her?

DEIsney realized how extremist and bizarre it would seem if they admitted they fired a popular actress over her refusal to post her very-obvious pronouns, so they pretended this was about "comparing Republicans to Jews."

Which, by the way, also isn't offensive.

But they lied to obscure their real, bizarre sociosexual agenda, because if parents knew about it, they'd flee DEIsney.

And they also lied because, while trans extremists love headhunting and bullying people, they don't like it being acknowledged that they're the ones tormenting people, because this would make them "feel unsafe."

(Feel unsafe making other people feel unsafe, that is.)

Were my questions about masks, lockdowns & forced vaccines ok to ask & push the subject into the light? Should we have been allowed to publicly discuss those topics at that time without being harassed or censored? Absolutely.

Hollywood says they support female representation & equal rights. Why then were my male co-stars permitted to speak without harassment & re-education courses or termination, but I was not afforded the same right to exercise my freedom of speech.

She means Mark Hamill and Pedro Pascal, both of whom called Republicans and/or Trump "nazis" and faced no pushback from DEIsney, no demands they stand before Struggle Session panels filled with conservatives, etc.

Artists do not sign away our rights as American citizens when we enter into employment. I have spoken to all my co-stars since I was fired & there is nothing but care and kind words between us. I respect their right to free speech & do not have to think the same on every issue to be their friends & work with them & I know they feel the same towards me.

A couple months ago @ElonMusk tweeted that if you had been fired from using the platform (X) for exercising your right to free speech, he would like to offer these people legal representation. Quite the noble offer, but never in my wildest dreams would I have thought anyone would take on my case against Lucasfilm/Disney. Still, I did respond back "I think I qualify" & thousands of people agreed--but I did not expect anything.

To my surprise, a few months ago I received an email from a lawyer who had been hired by X to look into my story & many others. Turns out after sending them as much information as I could gather these past few months, my now lawyers & X believe whole-heartedly in my case & are moving forward.

I would like to express my deepest gratitude & thank you to @ElonMusk & @X
for giving me an opportunity to bring my case to light.

As for me, I would love to pick up where I left off & continue my journey of creating & participating in story-telling, which is my utmost passion & everything I worked so hard for. It has been difficult to move forward with the lies & labels stuck on me, backed & encouraged by the most powerful entertainment company in the world. I am grateful someone has come to my defense in such a powerful way & look forward to clearing my name.

Thank you to all the people who have supported me & made your voices heard. I pray God blesses each & every one of you.

With love,

Gina Carano

Here is the amusing introduction to her lawsuit:

A short time ago in a galaxy not so far away, Defendants made it clear that only one orthodoxy in thought, speech, or action was acceptable in their empire, and that those who dared to question or failed to fully comply would not be tolerated.

And so it was with Carano. After two highly acclaimed seasons on The Mandalorian as Rebel ranger Cara Dune, Carano was terminated from her role as swiftly as her character's peaceful home planet of Alderaan had been destroyed by the Death Star in an earlier Star Wars film. And all this because she dared voice her own opinions, on social media platforms and elsewhere, and stood up to the online bully mob who demanded her compliance with their extreme progressive ideology.

Defendants' wrath over their employees' social media posts also differed depending on sex. Even though "the Force is female," Defendants chose to target a woman while looking the other way when it came to men. While Carano was fired, Defendants took no action against male actors who took equally or more vigorous and controversial positions on social media. But the rule of law still reigns over the Defendants' empire. And Carano has returned to demand that they be held accountable for their bullying, discriminatory, and retaliatory actions--actions that inflicted not only substantial emotional harm, but millions of dollars in lost income.

Full lawsuit here.

I thought that Carano's best claim was for defamation. I didn't understand why she's claiming viewpoint/political discrimination -- don't employers have the right to fire you over politics?

Not in California, no! Ron Coleman pointed out on the Valliant Renegade podcast that California, almost uniquely, has very strong protections for people's expression of their political thoughts, which employers are forbidden to punish. Coleman says that California implemented this law to protect COMMUNISTS from employers who didn't want commies on their staffs.

Of course. Of course. Of course it's to protect filthy communists.

But, they're stuck with that law now.

He does say that filing in California, Los Angeles County in particular, is a dicey call, given that "California judges are not eager to protect the free speech rights of conservatives." I'm not sure why she filed there.

I heard someone else say that if Musk is bankrolling this, then his goal is to get discovery from DEIsney and embarrass and humiliate them.

I don't think that his wishes can override Carano's, though. He may be paying Carano's lawyers, but Carano's lawyers are still Carano's lawyers, and have to pursue the best outcome for her. If DEIsney offers her a big payout to avoid discovery, then presumably she will take it.

Although... I myself was once represented by a lawyer who made it clear in our contract that he was representing me only for specific purposes (protecting the right to speak anonymously), and the moment he thought my case was shaky, he dropped me. So I guess lawyers could maybe sign a contract with Carano saying that they want to go at least through the discovery phase before considering a settlement.

By the way: There's a DEIsney shareholder meeting earnings call today.

I wonder if this lawsuit was filed last night with the purpose of causing problems for Bob Iger in addressing his increasingly-frustrated shareholders.

It's a crazy theory, but I think there might be some merit to it.

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After RedState's Jennifer Van Laar Exposes Absurd Spending Habits at the RNC, Rona McDaniel Resigns

Jennifer Van Laar dropped a big exposee about terrible spending priorities at the RNC on January 31st.

Charlie Kirk summarized what Jen Van Laar found when she compared the RNC's spending to the DNC's. I'm bolding some of the items with the greatest differences.

Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11

NEW -- I got an exclusive first look at @jenvanlaar's new report on the RNC's lavish spending on limos, consultants, flowers, and office supplies while skimping on GOTV, data, and state parties:

Floral Arrangements:
RNC - $70,328.00
DNC - $795

Consultants:
RNC - $1,078,279.47
DNC - $114,000

My old friend Mike Flynn (not the general) wanted to write an entire book about the GOP's grifter consultant class.

Office Supplies:
RNC - $297,717.64
DNC - $45,005

Where are they buying these "office supplies" from? Colombian coke farms?

This is all horrible, horrible!

Limousines:
RNC - $263,127.25
DNC - $7,000

Voter File Maintenance:
RNC - $39,233.50
DNC - $235,865.88

GOTV Texts:
RNC - $86,019
DNC -$1,676,923.29

State Outlays:
RNC - $13,800,200
DNC - $23,835,437

Trump sat down with McDaniel to discuss her leadership:

Following RedState's reporting on questionable spending at the Republican National Committee between October 2022 and November 2023, and following interviews in which he seemed to indicate that a change is coming to the RNC, Donald Trump reportedly sat down with RNC chair Ronna McDaniel at Mar-a-Lago for more than two hours Monday to discuss the status of the party.

According to Politico, the meeting took place after Trump filmed an interview with Newsmax in which he said, "I think she knows that, I think she understands that," in response to a question from Rob Schmitt as to whether it was time for McDaniel to step aside.

She reported that Ronna McDaniel's chief of staff was resigning:

The morning after Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel met with Donald Trump for more than two hours about the status and future of the RNC, McDaniel's chief of staff announced that he will be leaving the RNC at the end of February.

Politico reported that Mike Reed made the announcement in a note to staff Tuesday morning:

In an email to staff on Tuesday, obtained by POLITICO, he said that he wanted to focus on his "growing family [that] needs and deserves my attention."

It's amazing how these guys can afford to neglect their families until they're caught in a controversy, and then realize they need to spend time with the wife and kids.

But I guess that resignation wasn't enough. Van Laar reports that McDaniel is also resigning:

Embattled Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel plans to resign after the South Carolina primary, the New York Times reported Tuesday evening.

The chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel, has told former President Donald J. Trump she is planning to step down shortly after the South Carolina primary on Feb. 24, according to two people familiar with the plans.

I never cared either way about Ronna McDaniel. I mean, yes, she's incompetent, stupid, and a liberal, but I've come to expect that from the GOP brand.

Still, it's good she's out.

Maybe the GOP will finally embrace accountability instead of just constantly grifting from conservative voters.

LOLOLOLOLOL

I amuse myself sometimes.

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Wednesday Morning Rant

We're A Force For Good!

For several years now, it hasn't been unusual to see social networking/social media sites advertising on the web and on TV. Recently, I started to notice what might be a new trend in advertising for social media platforms. I've seen numerous ads both on YouTube and on linear TV for social media platforms advertising themselves not as fun or hip or cool or whatever, but as forces for good. I haven't seen this for Meta properties (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc.) or for X, but I've seen many of these ads for Snapchat and TikTok.

The two platforms take significantly different approaches in their "force for good" advertising. Snapchat's new "More Snapchat" campaign starts out by highlighting how nasty, corrosive and fake social media is, along with its tendency to create echo chambers. It highlights all of this in the name of trying to establish market differentiation: by claiming that Snapchat is not a social network at all, and that Snapchat is indeed the antidote to the ills of social media. From the campaign's website:

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Mid-Morning Art Thread [Kris]

Orchard in Bloom, Louveciennes
Camille Pissarro

The first thing I noticed about this work was the light. It is a bright, near-cloudless spring day. The French sun hangs high in the sky, creating bright highlights and little shadow. The light brightens the colors and flattens the forms. The blooming white flowers on the trees glow in the sunlight against its greens and grays. The brown in the field is not an ugly, muddy color but a light, warm tan. Few greens are used here. The grasses and leaves are just starting to grow in. For me, this allows white to dominate the painting.

Pissarro designed his painting with a low horizon, emphasizing the sky. The large blue shape of the sky is dotted with patches of white clouds – some puffy, some streaky. The clouds arc across the sky, looking like a huge dome.

In this work, the horizon does not form the usual boundary between earth and sky. Sure, Pissarro colors separate the regions. Below, browns and greens dominate while above are blue and white. A long picket fence or wall runs the length of the canvas along that line in the background. However, that horizontal is interrupted by the many verticals of the trees. They break out of their terrestrial plane into the other. One tall, skinny tree in the back stabs into the blue sky while the branches of the bare tree in front of it zig-zag through. The large tree on the left thrusts into the sky and spreads its branches. The cluster of small blossoms resemble the puffy clouds. The green leaves have a similar intensity to the blue and, to me, blend together.

The artist’s technique is quick and sketchy. He was an Impressionist but preferred the simple, everyday life of rural communities. He is painting in the open air and captures the lighting and colors accurately. The figures are simplified and unemphasized and almost get lost in the work.

It’s interesting how different people react to the same work of art. CBD thought there was a disconnect between elements of the painting. To him, the lighting seemed to say it was fall or winter, but the trees said spring. He found it odd. On the other hand, I think the brightness of the light and the lack of shadow complements the season. It’s bright and sunny. The ground is not muddy and gross. The trees are blooming and probably smell wonderful. After a long winter, these things can be uplifting to the soul. I know after the winter I’ve had, I cannot wait for spring.

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The Morning Report — 2/7/24

Good morning, kids. Boy oh boy the shit is hitting the fan today. First, the GOP once again proves its bona fides as the Grifting Oleaginous Parasites.

The House of Representatives let Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas off the hook for the border crisis created under his watch in a historic 216-214 vote against impeachment.

Reps. Ken Buck (R-CO) and Tom McClintock (R-CA) announced before the vote they would vote against impeachment. They were joined by Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) in voting with unified Democrats. After the vote was decided, Rep. Blake Moore (R-UT) voted nay, but only for procedural reasons so that the House may vote on the measure again at some point. . .

Buck, who announced last year this would be his final term and has openly expressed a desire to work for [MSNSDAP] or [XiNN], and McClintock, who last year told Breitbart News Daily he believes the impeachment is unconstitutional, were seen as immovable. . .

. . . The defeat is the latest for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), who inherited a slim majority that has been decimated further by the ejection of Rep. George Santos (R-NY), early retirement of Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), and, temporarily, the absence of Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), who is recovering from cancer. Johnson may bring the impeachment resolution to the floor again as soon as tomorrow but has not announced his plans.

Meanwhile, as the GOP tries to figure out more ways to try, and mostly fail, to fool us into believing they're a principled opposition party, the Democrats literally wheel in sub-moron Eddie Munster Woof-Woof doppelgänger Al Green, straight from an operating room, barefoot and dressed in a hospital gown to vote "no." Unreal, as in all too real.

Don't get me wrong; I'm not ripping the GOP for not doing the same with Steve Scalise. The point is the Dems will stop at nothing to win, legally if possible, or the other 99.99% of the time, amorally, unethically and criminally. Our side will not. And I don't mean breaking the law or rules to do so but merely fighting as passionately as the scumbag Lefties do, and coming back again and again and again. They don't and won't mostly because they can't. The GOP is controlled by an equally amoral, venal element that cares about one thing: wetting their beak off of, and in service to the Democrat-Leftists' and now corporatists' quest for absolute power via the destruction of the republic.

With that said, while Mike Johnson is turning into a bitter disappointment, what I just stated is likely a huge reason for his failures. In that light, it's kind of a miracle that his controlling of the gavel makes the sham emergency border security bill DOA. About the only positive spin I can put on this is regardless of the propaganda that the GOP and Trump are to blame for the disaster at the border and the refusal to pass this alleged cure for the problem, a very large portion of the public can see right through that.

The case in point is the situation where wet meets back on the Rio Grande, where the potential for shit to get real just got cranked up a few notches. Or has it?

The left has been urging [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden to federalize National Guard troops to reopen Texas's border where illegal immigrants have been overrunning the state. It appears Biden has begun the process of doing that by ordering the Alaska National Guard to get ready to deploy to the border in support of the federal government, not the security of the border.  

Texas has been securing the border with layers of concertina wire on top of stacks of shipping containers — a wall, in other words. Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott calls the program "Operation Lone Star." The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in January that the federal government could take down Abbott's razor wire while Texas's rights to prevent an invasion are appealed. 

The announcement of the National Guard deployment plan is a brushback pitch by the Biden Administration to Texas and a signal to his leftist base that he heard them. 

The Anchorage Daily News reports that the deployment of the troops is scheduled for 2025 — after the election.

[T]he Alaska National Guard on Friday said that a memorandum from the federal government had been issued, directing Alaska forces to prepare two LUH-72 Lakota helicopters and 20 guardsmen to potentially be deployed in early 2025. The units would help provide aviation support to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said Alaska National Guard spokesperson Alan Brown. Maj. Ryan Wierzbicki, a spokesman for the U.S. Army’s Joint Task Force North, said in a phone interview that Alaska guard members could be sent to any of four states along the border, including Texas and Arizona. 

But the Guard won't go to help Texas stanch the onslaught of humanity; rather, it will do the federal government's bidding.  "Brown said there are currently no plans for Alaska National Guard soldiers to be deployed in support of [Abbott's] Operation Lone Star," the Daily News reported. 

Abbott claims the new Ukraine funding bill, which claims to be a border bill, removes his and other states' rights to sue the federal government within their own states. The bill requires that all lawsuits against the federal government be heard in the overwhelmingly leftist District of Columbia.

Emphasis mine. The Kalorama Klown Komintern understand that the massive invasion of foreigners they intentionally set in motion is the #1 issue with voters. Whatever bullshit agit-prop is being spewed on the usual State-aligned house organs stands in sharp contrast with the optics that reflect the facts on the ground. That is, Governor Greg Abbott by erecting barriers and deploying his state's law enforcement units to interdict the invasion is actually solving the problem. At least the ground invasion route that runs through Texas.

Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants? After denying for months on end that there was no border crisis and then suddenly, with the election looming, shrieking there is one and it's Trump's and Abbott's fault, we need to pass a bill! 370 pages long. With no time to review it. And some of the leaked pages showing (as Abbott notes above) it actually empowers the invasion to continue unimpeded, pays lip service at best to "security," greases the skids for mass amnesty, and sends the overwhelming lion's share of money to Ukraine, Gaza and Israel.

Remember first and foremost that it's Abbott's shipping all those allegedly mythical illegal alien invaders to blue shit hole sanctuary cities that is arguably one of the most effective political moves in decades insofar as making the Democrats eat their words about their sanctuary policies, on top of their defund the police movement that has made the national crime wave 100 times worse and most crucially pissed off an ever increasing percentage of their once rock hard, reliable base.

Thank you, Governor Abbott. Your action negates the bullshit from the junta. That's why they won't deploy forces now to confront you. Yet while Obama seems to be shitting Joey's Depends by delaying the move until after the election, if Biden or Big Mikey Forearms or Kamala "Jaws (Teeth & Tongue)" come out on top of Trump (as in 2020, the word "win" will not be applicable) you better believe they are indeed going to move on Texas. I would not put it past them to even arrest Abbott, Ken Paxton and perhaps the entire Republican side of the state legislature.

It looks as if rank and file CBP agents, at least anecdotally, are up in arms over this bill and by extension their overlords in DC who so far have failed to ram it through. But what of the National Guardsmen or should it come to it actual US military personnel? I believe there are strong proscriptions against their deployment within our borders against the citizenry. But we are dealing with tyrants who have long since abrogated their oaths and sold their souls to Satan. After everything we've been through these past three years, nothing is going to stand in their way. So my question stands.

Before I get into my analysis, I want to make it clear I believe that anyone who wants a civil war to happen in the U.S. is dangerously naïve, insane, or working for one of America’s enemies.  Imagine a Russia-Ukraine-type conflict in the U.S.

Thanks to Hollywood, most Americans believe that rebellions can be started and won by small ragtag groups of patriots, freedom fighters, insurrectionists, or everyday common folk.  All you need are pistols, assault weapons, bows and arrows, and maybe a few Molotov cocktails.  Blow up the Death Star, and the problem is solved.

But that is not how it usually works.  Revolutions require armaments, soldiers, money, something worth fighting for, and popular support.  Unless lives are at stake, few people are angry or committed enough to leave jobs or families to risk going to jail or dying needlessly. . .

The author cites a number of examples of rebellions and the Revolution and Civil War itself. Continuing . . .

. . . You might notice a pattern here. First, important issues divide our country, like independence versus obedience to the king or slavery versus freedom.  Then, either a military skirmish occurs before sides get chosen or sides get chosen before the military gets involved.  Both the Revolution and the Civil War were started by state military organizations, not by groups of armed radicals.

We are at a similar junction in history right now.  Politics has divided the country, and the pivotal issue is unlimited illegal immigration.  Few wanted it.  No one expected it when he voted for Biden.  And now almost no one is willing to pay the price socially or financially to support it.

The White House may have believed that its open border policy would get someone, anyone, to pick up a gun to stop the madness.  It would give Biden an excuse to impose martial law, ban assault weapons or handguns, or both.  But the horde of right-wing extremists the far-left fantasizes about does not exist.

It seems the [junta[ may have gone too far too fast.  The whole country is aware of this issue, and opposition is rising, leading the states to get directly involved. 

The Texas National Guard has been sent to the border to stop the flow of migrants.  Roughly half of the states have declared their support for Texas. If Democrats want to continue unlimited illegal immigration, Biden could nationalize the Texas National Guard, take control, and send it home.

But what happens if Texas says no?  Would Biden order the armed forces to disarm or attack the Texas Guard?  Would the use of the armed forces be legal?  Do Democrats care?

No. They don't. They are banking on both the power of the media and technology to control narratives and keep people silent and obedient, if not happy. They think it can trump (heh) the fact that the majority of the citizenry are armed to the teeth, gambling that we'd never use it. What it would take are an economic crash and civil unrest that directly touches their lives – and with the economy on the brink and 8 million invaders in our midst, on top of the 40 million already here, plus an anarcho-terroristic crime wave going strong it's going to do just that. But, it will take a public figure or figures for the citizenry to rally around when indeed all bets are well and truly off.

We're not there yet. God help us if we ever do get to that point but I fear there's no way to stop it, especially if 2024 goes the way of 2020. And with that in mind, here's a little story that caught my eye this morning. See if you can see what this portends vis a vis the current situation at the border:

Squatters are ruining entire neighborhoods in Atlanta and police response to evict is so slow, some homeowners have resorted to paying nuisances to leave.

Brazen squatters even opened an illegal strip club on a property they had taken over — one of the 1,200 homes which has been squatted in the city according to the National Rental Home Council (NRHC) trade group. “I’d be terrified in Atlanta to lease out one of my properties,” Matt Urbanski, who manages a local home-cleaning company, told Bloomberg. Urbanski’s company cleans out homes for corporate landlords, and in some cases has to remove squatter’s posessions. Recently one of his employees was shot after attempting to remove intruders from a property.

Simon Frost, CEO of large-scale landlord Tiber Capital Group, said there have been incidents of unlawful occupants brandishing weapons and threatening neighbors which affects the safety of neighborhoods and other residents, according to Bloomberg. Evicting squatters in Atlanta is tough, involving negotiating court backlogs and strained police resources. Meanwhile, online listings and virtual real estate agents make it easy for squatters to identify vacant properties to break into.

In October, an Atlanta neighborhood found itself at the center of a scandal involving squatters who transformed a home into an illegal strip club, complete with weekend parties and even live horses on the property.

The drama unfolded at in the South Fulton area when, where four individuals — DeAnthony Maddox, Jeremy Wheat, Kelvin Hall, and Tarahsjay Forde — took up residence without permission. Little did the neighbors know, the 4,000 square foot, five-bedroom home with three bathrooms would become a den of illicit activity. The squatters ran the clandestine strip club, held noisy parties and even organized car races in the street, ruining the neighborhood for others, according to local reports.

“They would get live horses. One day they had live horses,” one neighbor told Atlanta station WSB-TV TV2. Eventually a SWAT team had to clear out the house and recovered two stolen cars, a stolen weapon and stolen credit cards from the property, according to the local report.

One neighbor told The Post they are afraid to even go on vacation because if squatters find out the home is vacant they just move right in. “Is this even America anymore? We are homeowners and we can’t even do anything about trespassers?” The neighbor said in frustration.

Atlanta. Georgia. Reminds me of Fani "Gotta-Be-Da-Butt-Bob" Willis. She's otherwise engaged and is also a squatter. Mostly squatting on Darius Wade's penosterous between trying to railroad Donald Trump. Too busy to fight actual crime. Meh, this kind of activity is allowed because of the decriminalization of crime in the name of "social justice."

This garbage with individuals of a melanin content not to be discussed is horrible enough. But that's not what sparked my Spidey-sense to start tingling. Recall a number of blue shit hole governors and mayors offering to pay people to house illegal alien migrant invaders which resulted in a less than enthusiastic response from the citizenry. Bupkis. Less than bupkis. It was bupkis-lite. It was less than the lint bupkis has in its pockets.

So when a sleazy criminal tyrant like for instance Maura "Heal Thyself" Healy doesn't have volunteers, she'll just pick some.

You think the Dems won't just declare some sort of emergency and seize unoccupied homes to "temporarily" house illegal aliens?

Quartering of soldiers? Pfft! The Supreme Court is going to rule on whether unrealized income can be taxed.

What all of this boils down to is this:

Joe Biden, his handlers and anyone who aids and abets the erasure of our border, is a state-sponsor of terrorism and engaging in treason.

Based on what his intentional erasing of our border and of all sane immigration controls has wrought on this nation and its citizenry, I defy anyone to tell me I'm wrong.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• "“Americans are exchanging one set of beliefs for another. . . God help us if, when the dust settles, all the United States is left with is an 'In This House' yard sign and a communal John Lennon-singalong."
  Sen. Marco Rubio Op-Ed: Against Progressive Pseudo-Religion
  
• Heartland Inst.'s Chris Talgo: "It is of paramount importance that the integrity of the 2024 election is not questioned en masse by either side. We need to return to a time when the American people overwhelmingly trusted the veracity of elections."
  Mail-In Voter Fraud and the 2020 Election
  
• Sebastian Gorka: "What will a new administration, with President Trump as the 47th Chief Executive, look like, and who will man it? Here is one version of what we can expect." (A couple of names I am not so sanguine about - jjs)
  The Second Trump Cabinet 
  
• "For this reporter to be so focused on race that he felt it was okay to slander a little boy for cheering enthusiastically for his team tells us how low these race hustlers are."
  Pushback: Help Send 9-Year-Old KC Chiefs Fan, Slandered as Bigot by Scum Media, to the Super Bowl
  
• “They would get live horses. One day they had live horses,” one neighbor told Atlanta station WSB-TV TV2. Eventually a SWAT team had to clear out the house and recovered two stolen cars, a stolen weapon and stolen credit cards from the property, according to the local report. One neighbor told The Post they are afraid to even go on vacation because if squatters find out the home is vacant they just move right in.
  Squatters Take Over 1,200 Homes in Atlanta, Open Illegal Strip Clubs and Terrorize Neighbors: "Is This Even America?"

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Daily Tech News 7 February 2024

Top Story

• Three million infected toothbrushes have just invaded Switzerland. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Allegedly - details are sparse - the wifi-enabled electric toothbrushes (why?) were hacked, assembled into a botnet, and used for DDOS attacks.
  
  

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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (2/6/24)

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The Quotes of The Day

Quote I

“But I can tell you that I’m really worried that this delay is going to put the trial past June. It’s possible that Trump will try and go to the Supreme Court after he loses on the Court of Appeals. That can take months. This is a real problem.” MSNBC legal analyst Neal Katyal

Quote II

"[Traditional] clients will be gone in the next 10 to 15 years," he continued. "So I think right now the sex industry will move on more in the VR direction. Having sex in the digital world and the physical world at the same time." Co-owner Matthias Smetana

Quote III

"We paid for this trip ourselves. We took no money from any government or group," Tucker Carlson

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Spectral Procession Cafe

Religious procession in Madagascar
by @pierrotmen
Additional photos of this procession here,
and here's a color version of the main photo

In Soviet Russia, dog pets your hand.

Another poor dog attempts backing his way towards a cat, hoping that the cat will think he's actually walking away and not swat him.

This cat is not playing hard to get.

The real Karate Kid.

Lioness reads the riot act to her husband.

This little kitty went to market...

My husband never bursts out into La Donna e mobile when he has coffee at home.

A real cowboy will always find a way.

What was that?

Nice digs. Scroll through the pictures. It's a house carved into the limestone of a cliff.

Bighorn sheep (?) is opposed to the surveillance state.

Sunshine in Sardinia.

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Slick Bobos

The Bee:

Phil Kerpen
@kerpen

In 2020, US Border Patrol released 359 detainees into the United States with a notice to appear in the entire year. In 2023 the number was over one million.

Kerpen provides this stunning graphic:

Nikki Haley has requested Secret Service protection. She claims she's experiencing "increased threats."

It should be noted that candidates want Secret Service protection not just for the protective benefit, but for the political impact: Being protected by Secret Service agents indicates you're a very important person, like a president, almost.

It should also be noted that Biden denied RFK, Jr.'s request for SS protection, despite three of his family members being assassinated. (Ted Kennedy was assassinated by a conspiracy between his liver and Chivas Regal.) Biden doesn't want to grant RFK, Jr. any additional legitimacy, and is willing to risk his life to deny him that legitimacy.

We'll see if Biden approves Nikki Haley's request, to make her a more potent competitor to Trump. I think he will. Because these people are brazen and no longer respect any boundaries at all.

Californians vote election after election and referendum after referendum to restrict energy production, but are shocked that their electricity bills are rising.

This is because the state is filled with fucking retards who are attracted to the mild weather because they're too stupid to know how to dress for rain and cold.

Some California residents are "stunned" by the high cost of their latest electric and gas bill, after a major utility company raised prices for millions of customers last month.

"It's almost like you're getting punished," 90-year-old Dorothy Lovell told The San Francisco Chronicle. The Santa Rosa resident's utility bill was $696.64 in January.

"I really was not prepared," longtime San Francisco resident Rebecca Gallegos told the paper after her bill increased by $162 from the month prior. "I'm blown away."

Utility company Pacific Gas and Electric Co. "PG&E" announced in November that their customers would be paying about $35 more a month on their utility bills in 2024 after the California Public Utilities Commission approved the new rates. That adds up to over $400 extra a year.

PG&E said it would be making improvements to power lines and gas pipeline safety after years of devastating wildfires, the Chronicle reported.

Note they don't say they'll be expanding energy production.

The San Francisco toy store that inspired Toy Story is shutting down, for all the usual leftwing governmental reasons.

The oldest toy store in San Francisco, which was the inspiration for the movie Toy Story, is shutting its doors for good due to rampant crime and other issues.

Jeffrey's Toys said Friday it will be permanently closed by the end of February after 86 years of serving customers, the New York Post reported Saturday.

Attorney Ken Sterling said, "The store has been struggling for a number of years, due to the perils and violence of the downtown environment, inflatio, the decrease in consumer spending and the demise of retail across the world."

Three of those reasons are the fault of Biden and his leftwing party. The fourth reason is due to the tech sector and it's unending "disruption" of everything good and wholesome.

Chris Christie: I'm still considering a No Labels third party presidential run, and also, I'm considering microwaving an apple fritter and topping it with vanilla ice cream.

Holy shit I just made that up and it sounds AWESOME.

Anyway:

"Oh, I don’t know. There'd be a long conversation between me and [my wife] Mary Pat, I can guarantee you that," Christie said when asked on "Good Morning America" if he would consider running on a No Labels ticket.

This is Liz Cheney's party.

Arabs and Muslims and other progressive cult groups are referring to Biden as "Genocide Joe," due to his failure to fully embrace the terrorist group Hamas.

Former Obama apparatchik Van Jones was on CNN Thursday, applying heavy pressure to Old Joe Biden to get him to end the U.S. alliance with Israel and abandon the Jewish state to the tender mercies of Hamas and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Today's youth, said Jones, and remember, the children are our future and all that, have a cutting new nickname for the sinister old kleptocrat in the Oval Office: Genocide Joe. And if Old Joe doesn't throw Israel to the wolves, and pronto, that nickname is going to stick. What Jones didn't say, however, was the most important point of all: Israel is not committing a genocide at all, and this claim is a product of leftist and jihadi propaganda, to which young people today are disturbingly susceptible.

Jones' warning comes amid ongoing efforts to force Biden to betray Israel by threatening him at the ballot box. Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), who infamously said that he was "happy" about Hamas' Oct. 7 jihad massacre of 1,200 Israelis, thundered at a November pro-Hamas rally: "No cease-fire, no votes. No votes in Michigan, no votes in Arizona, no votes in Georgia, no votes in Nevada, no votes in Wisconsin, no votes in Pennsylvania." These were, of course, the states that allowed Old Joe to pretend to be president over the last three years. Awad concluded: "No votes for you anywhere if you don't call for a ceasefire now." Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Ramallah) added: "The American people won't forget. Biden, support a ceasefire now. Or don't count on us in 2024."

Now, according to a Saturday Fox News report, Old Joe is "facing an electoral revolt among Arab and Muslim voters in Michigan who are outraged by his ongoing support for Israel, with some even accusing him of enabling genocide." They've even launched an "abandon Biden" campaign in Dearborn. On CNN, Erin Burnett told Jones about a former Biden campaign prole who told a CNN reporter "that he will not vote for Biden again even knowing that it may help Trump. He says Biden is 'not somebody I can trust.'"

MSNBC hears from the barbershop that some blacks favor Trump over Biden.

Sometimes it's not complicated:

Kinard Givens: "A lot of my friends we've only voted once, and Trump is kind of all we know -- Trump and Biden. And they're like, 'Well, we were broke with Biden. We weren't with Trump.' And that's kind of the only thing that I'm hearing over and over again is that 'with Trump, we had money.'"

This is why ridiculous black partisans (and racists) Jim Clyburn and Joy Reid are making such absurd claims about Biden's "success," particularly with respect to "Bidenomics:" Black men are not only cool on Biden but warm-ish on Trump, so black men are going to get an intense barrage of propaganda from now until election day.

While polling suggests President Joe Biden remains significantly more popular with black voters than his GOP rivals, Democratic allies believe one thing has caused him to lose support among the voting group.

Biden won the South Carolina Democratic primary by a landslide margin on Saturday, but turnout was notably diminished, leading some critics to air concerns about enthusiasm for the president's reelection bid. South Carolina's Democratic Party Chairwoman Christale Spain told NOTUS the turnout was due to "people not knowing the information" rather than a lack of enthusiasm.

"We needed to educate our voters and create a space for our candidates to come talk about their record," Spain said. "That's really why we launched this historic effort, to fill what I feel is an information gap and not an enthusiasm gap."

The president has lagged in polls with key minority voting groups, including with black voters. Democrats typically win the vast majority of black voters, but a USA Today-Suffolk University poll released last month showed Biden with only 63% of the black vote, which is roughly 24% lower than what he got in 2020.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Jamie Harrison echoed Spain's concerns, attributing the low turnout to disinformation while defending Biden's record.

"I think there's a lot of disinformation out there," Harrison told NOTUS. "There are a lot of folks who don't want this president for whatever reason, and I think some foreign and some domestic. They don't want the record to be straight in terms of what this president has done and accomplished."

Expect the Fake Republican opinion outlets like The Dispatch to echo the Democrat talking points. Jonah Blimpberg will soon be talking about "the real Biden economic record."

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Report: Biden Fears That Special Counsel Report on His Illegal Hoarding of Classified Documents May Prove "Embarassing"

It may cause him embarrassment, but of course it will be no threat to his liberty. That's reserved for Republicans.

Hopefully Trump can use this report to argue selective prosecution in his own case.

The report may be issued as early as this week -- I assume that means 6:45 pm on Friday, right?

President Biden's 2024 re-election team is worried that a Justice Department report on his retention of classified documents will unearth "embarrassing details," according to a new report.

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At least a dozen classified files were discovered by Biden's attorneys at his Penn Biden Center think tank office in the nation's capital on Nov. 2, some of which related to the United Kingdom, Ukraine and Iran.

The discovery was not disclosed until after the midterm elections, in which Democrats outperformed expectations. Biden's personal attorney found more intelligence files in the library and garage of the president's Wilmington, Del., home that December.

The FBI searched the office, home and Biden's Rehoboth Beach residence between November 2022 and February 2023, and additional classified documents in the Wilmington location.

First son Hunter Biden had access to the files kept next to his dad's 1967 Corvette Stingray, according to photos found on his abandoned laptop that were taken the same day he sent a threatening text to a Chinese associate that invoked his father to close a seven-figure business deal on July 30, 2017.

Another photo Hunter snapped earlier that year showed a box labeled "Important Doc's [sic] + Photos." It's unclear what it contained, but some reports said the elder Biden may have kept materials to reference in his 2017 memoir, "Promise Me, Dad."

No security risk there!

Meanwhile,
Biden's shaking hands with more ghosts.

He said he met with leaders and told them, "America is back." Imagine the pomposity of that statement from the guy who has probably done more to damage the reputation of the U.S. abroad than anyone else who's occupied the Oval Office. But what he said next was something else.

"And Mitterand from Germany -- I mean, from France-- looked at me and said -- said, 'You know, what -- why -- how long you back for?'" Biden said.

As Raheem Kassam notes in the tweet, Mitterand was the French president between 1981 and 1995. He also died in 1996.

So how could Joe have been talking to him in 2021, 25 years later?

I mean, he gets coded security information from the Easter Bunny. Come on, man! The guy's got connections, all right, fat?

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A Trump RICO Co-Defendant Files a Motion to Recuse Fani Willis, Citing Her Inflammatory, Race-Baiting Declaration In a Black Church That "The Only Thing I'm Guilty Of Is Loving Too Moistly"

Not only did she play the race card, seeking to inflame Fulton County jurors against any defendant questioning her torrid sex affair with Darrius "Sweetdick" Honeycum, Esq., but she specifically said she was playing "the race card."

Well, she says she's playing the race card in response to the defendants playing the race card first.

This isn't just prejudiced, it's prejudicial.

Like the motion from fellow Trump co-defendant Michael Roman, which similarly aimed at the relationship between Willis and lead prosecutor Nathan Wade, Shafer says that the DA's "prejudicial" comments in January at Big Bethel A.M.E. Church in Atlanta amount to an attempt to bias future jury members.

In remarks at the church, Willis said that she was "confused" as to why Wade, who was one of three special prosecutors her office hired, was the only one facing public scrutiny.

"I appointed three special counsel, as is my right to do," she said to parishioners. "Paid them all the same hourly rate. They only attack one. I hired one white woman, a good personal friend and great lawyer. A superstar, I tell you, I hired one white man, brilliant, my friend and a great lawyer. And I hired one Black man. Another superstar a great friend and a great lawyer. Oh, Lord, they're going to be mad when I call them out on this nonsense. First thing they say. Oh, she going to play the race card now? But no. God, isn't it them who's playing the race card when they only question one?"

This, Shafer says, was an obvious attempt to affect a potential jury.

"Rather than properly addressing the accuracy of Mr. Roman's allegations, the District Attorney chose a church setting to deflect the Roman allegations by making the most offensive and incendiary allegations against her accusers -- forcing the defendants onto the lethal third rail of American politics, and in her own words, 'playing the race card,'" the motion says. "The obvious intent of her remarks was to inject and infect the jury pool in Fulton County with unfounded allegations that anyone who dares question her or Mr. Wade's conduct must have done so for racist purposes. As an attorney and, most importantly, a public prosecutor, her comments which directly affected the pending litigation were indefensible and reprehensible."

I mean, this is a bang-on. This is no stretch. She went to a black church to smear the defendant who raised this issue as a racist Klansman.

Ed Morrissey commented:

CNN analyst Elie Honig raised the same issue last week at NY Magazine. He noted that other courts had slapped Trump with gag orders to keep him from influencing jurors, and pointed out that Willis' remarks at the church was at least as bad as anything Trump might have done.

Jack Straw posted this about Fani Willis' radical, murder-adjacent family:

@paulsperry_

NEW: Father of Trump prosecutor Fani Willis dated & lived w terrorist Angela Davis who [bought] shotgun to kill judge. John Clifford Floyd, now advising Willis,arrested on weapons charges,found w docs calling for "destruction" of America (separate case).Comrades had bombmaking recipes

Meanwhile, witnesses say they can prove Fani Willis "cohabitated" with Darrius Honeycum at an "AirBnB" for a few days. That's a bent way to say "spent the weekend in a hotel with him."

But the more damaging allegation is that these two started a sexual fling the moment they first met at a conference in 2019, which, if true, would make Sweetdick and Fani liars, as they claim their fornication only began after he was hired to prosecute Trump.

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