January 30, 2024
Tiny Critters Cafe
Cinque Terre, Italy
Bouncing down the stairs. Baller.
Cinque Terre, Italy
Bouncing down the stairs. Baller.
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AI Is F***ing Terrifying
But it's still more wholesome than DEIsney.
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IDF: We Stopped a 10/7 Like Terror Attack Which Was Being Run Out of a, Get This, Hamas-Controlled Hospital
That makes no sense. Hamas wouldn't do that.
They Just Want To Breathe (TM).US forces have been attacked by Iran's various terror proxy armies 160 times since 10/7. Not that you heard much about it -- the media suppresses any story that reflects badly on the dying Democrat regime.
Israeli counterterrorism forces foiled an October 7-inspired terror attack overnight on Tuesday, targeting a cell hiding and planning the attack from the Ibn Sina hospital in Jenin, the West Bank. According to a joint statement by the IDF, Israel Police's YAMAM counterterrorism forces, and the Shin Bet, Hamas terrorist Mohammad Jalamna was killed during the operation, along with two fellow terrorists who hid alongside him at the hospital. 27-year-old Jalamna, a resident of the Jenin refugee camp, held direct communications with Hamas leadership abroad. According to the statement, he was responsible for transferring weaponry and ammunition to Hamas terrorists across the West Bank for shooting attacks targeting Israelis. The Israeli commando forces entered the hospital dressed as doctors and nurses, as seen in CCTV footage shared on social media. Furthermore, Jalamna used the Jenin hospital as a secret base of operations as he was planning an infiltration attack akin to and inspired by the October 7 massacre, it added. Along with Jalamneh, Mohammed and Basel Ghazawi, brothers and Palestinian terrorists, were also killed by Israeli forces. Mohammed was a terrorist operative of the Jenin battalions who was involved in numerous attacks including firing at IDF soldiers in the area in recent weeks, the IDF said. Basel was a Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative involved in terror activities in the area. The security forces stated that for a long time, a large number of wanted persons had been hiding in hospitals and were using them as a base for planning terror attacks and carrying them out, and that they believed that the hospitals would serve as protection against Israeli security forces. ... One senior official stated, "There are no cities of refuge in the West Bank and there will not be - every terrorist should know this. The hand of the IDF and the security establishment will reach everyone."
This asshole just returned to work yesterday. You will of course remember he kept his prostate surgery secret even though he would obviously not be able to execute his job as SecDef while under anesthesia. Then he experienced complications in surgery and was rushed to critical care. Only after about 48 hours of that did he get around to notifying anyone that he was out of the office. But he's a very private man.
There have been at least 160 attacks on U.S. troops in the Middle East since mid-October, following this weekend's attack on a base in Jordan near the Syrian border that left three American soldiers dead and dozens of others injured, U.S. officials said. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin addressed Sunday's attack and vowed the U.S. would "take all necessary actions" to keep U.S. troops in the region safe. "Let me start with my outrage and sorrow for the deaths of three brave U.S. troops in Jordan and for the other troops who were wounded," Austin said.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was back in the office Monday, exactly four weeks after he was rushed to the hospital with complications from prostate cancer surgery that he kept from his colleagues -- and President Biden -- for days. ...Back to the first article:
Secrecy appeared to be Austin's top priority, with an aide asking 911 operators to have the ambulance arrive without running its lights or sirens. "We're trying to remain a little subtle," the aide added in the call. Austin quietly transferred his authority to Deputy Secretary Kathleen Hicks on Jan. 2 -- without telling her or any of his other Pentagon colleagues of the reason behind it -- but failed to tell the White House that he had done so. That didn't happen until Jan. 4, when Biden was notified of Austin's hospitalization.
Everyone's shaking, Girth Vader.
He added, "The president and I will not tolerate attack on U.S. forces. And we will take all necessary actions to defend the U.S. and our troops."
Fox News' Jennifer Griffin reported Austin's return to the Pentagon on Monday. His first time working in-person since his prostate cancer surgery comes after Sunday's attack, which was the deadliest on U.S. forces since 2021. Griffin reported that Austin is "actively engaged" in talks regarding the U.S. response.Jennifer Griffin is a stenographer for any Democrat or neocon in power.
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Five Ukraianian Officials Stole $40 Million In US Taxpayer Funds
Of course. The Afghanistan of the North.
Sure.
Five Ukrainian officials were arrested this weekend on accusations of stealing nearly $40 million in funds meant to purchase military equipment for the war against Russia. Ukraine's security service said members of the defense ministry conspired with members of a Ukrainian arms firm to embezzle the funds, which were meant to purchase 100,000 mortar shells. The allegations come amid division in the U.S. over whether to send more aid to Ukraine, with some critics pointing to Ukraine's longtime struggles with corruption. The five individuals arrested face up to 12 years in prison if found guilty. Ukraine's prosecutor general says the $39.6 million has since been seized and returned to the defense budget.
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Former Actress and Current Millionaire Alyssa Milano Sets Up a GoFundMe to... Pay For Her Son's Baseball Team to Go On a Trip to Cooperstown
God forbid that she should have to use some of her Who's the Boss? residuals to pay for her f***ing kid's trip.
No, of course not. Just bleg from your twitter fans.
She's raised $8,000. GoFundMe has no problem with this. On the other hand, there's Kurt Russell.
Actress Alyssa Milano is responding after angering fans on social media by asking if they could donate to her son's baseball team. A day after her donation request, Milano took to X, formerly Twitter, to share that she had gotten a lot of "media inquiries about whether [she has] financially contributed to [her] son's baseball team." ...
"My son's baseball team is raising money for their Cooperstown trip," Milano wrote on X Thursday. "Any amount would be so greatly appreciated." She also shared more information on how to access the GoFundMe page. Social media users were confused why Milano was asking her followers for money, when she is a multimillionaire. Milano starred on the hit drama "Charmed" for six seasons, and Bugliari is the co-head of motion picture talent at the management firm Creative Artists Agency. Many were left wondering "why isn't Alyssa Milano paying for the trip for the whole team herself," while others were questioning why the actress is "asking for money from people who can barely buy groceries."
"Alyssa Milano has absolutely lost her mind. How out-of-touch and tone deaf can one person possibly be," one user wrote. "Just a reminder: Alyssa Milano and her husband are both multi-millionaires," another commented. "They could pay for the entire trip for the whole team without batting an eye!"
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Axios: "Trump, Republicans Plot to Kill Border Deal"
Via the Daily Mail:
The verb plot connotes secrecy and skulduggery.
But Trump and the anti-"deal" Republicans are announcing their position and their intent publicly, with no deception. But Axios, aka Politico for Kidz!, thinks it's just generally underhanded to oppose leftwing Democrat propagandists and traitors.Republican and Democratic senators are taking to the airwaves, scrambling to pass severe restrictions on migrants flooding across the U.S.-Mexico border. There's just one thing: Their plan is all but dead. Why it matters: The Senate might pass the plan, which would be one of the harshest immigration bills of the century.It's so harsh that it writes into law that 150,000 illegals are allowed to enter the country in a 30-day month without fear of deportation.
President Biden is ready to sign it. But House Republicans -- egged on by former President Trump -- already are planning to shut it down.Mike Johnson announced it was "dead on arrival" before Trump made any statements about it.
State of play: Illegal immigration has rocketed to the top of voters' concerns, and Biden has become increasingly desperate for a solution. Trump and conservative Republicans see a political opportunity to squeeze Biden and Democrats on the issue.This is the treasonous propaganda line: Everyone knows this is a great bill which will "fix the border," but nasty Republicans oppose it just to deny Biden credit for "fixing the border." The fact that it includes no money for a wall, does not authorize deportations except in very narrow circumstances and only for limited time periods, and does not narrow the grounds for making Fake Asylum claims don't count. Biden says this is a perfect bill and you should believe him, he's never lied or raped an employee before.
Interesting that Johnson said this Friday and Trump make his statement Saturday but Johnson "fell in line" with a statement that would be made in the future. Karen Armstrong writes that Jill Biden is out on the campaign trail in place of her invalid rapist husband, making the same case that Republicans know this bill is just So Awesome but are opposing it just to hurt Joe Biden.
Trump, whose front-runner status in the Republican presidential race has solidified his leadership of the GOP, has loudly vowed to kill the bipartisan border deal. "It's not going to happen, and I'll fight it all the way," Trump said Saturday in Nevada. Zoom in: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has fallen in line. He called the deal "dead on arrival" on Friday, then doubled down over the weekend, claiming it wouldn't do enough to stop illegal border crossings.
Via the Daily Mail:
'You see what happened today with the border, and now Trump is trying to do everything he can to make Joe look bad, you know, even at the lives -- sacrificing lives of so many people just for his own political gain,' she told donors to her husband's re-election campaign. 'I know it's early to start, but I want you to sort of think after you leave tonight that yes, I am committed to a democracy. And yes, I'm going to fight as hard as I can and not let anything like 2016 happen again.'You mean, you're going to fight to make sure we don't have a fair and free election? Yes we already knew that. The Daily Mail points out that Joe Biden's immigration policy is... largely shaped by "Doctor" Jill Biden.
Over the weekend, a group of former FBI officials wrote an urgent letter to Joe Biden informing him that the terrorists freely flowing across the open border presented a clear and present danger to US citizens' lives.
Biden's border policy has been particularly influenced by the first lady, his advisors told the Wall Street Journal, because of her reaction to the Trump administration's policy of family separations and his 'Remain in Mexico' program. During the 2020 campaign, Jill Biden visited a tent camp of migrants living just across the southern border in Matamoros, Mexico.
This is not a hypothetical concern.
The Biden administration's border policy poses an "imminent danger" to the US, which has been "invaded" by "military-aged men from around the globe," a group of former FBI officials warned. In a letter sent Jan. 17 to leaders in the House and Senate, 10 former FBI senior executives said the migrant crisis is " the most pernicious ever to menace the United States. "In its modern history, the US has never suffered an invasion of the homeland, and yet one is unfolding now," according to the officials, which included former Terrorist Screening Center Director Timothy Healy, FBI assistant directors Kevin Brock and Chris Swecker, and Mark Morgan, the former acting commissioner US Customs and Border Protection who also an ex-FBI superintendent. "Military-aged men from across the globe, many from countries or regions not friendly to the United States are landing in waves on our soil by the thousands -- not by splashing ashore from a ship or parachuting from a plane but rather by foot across a border that has been accurately advertised around the world as largely unprotected and with ready access granted," the letter continued. The matter is even more pressing than ever, particularly after the Oct. 7 terrorist attack by Hamas on Israel, they warned. "It is stark to say so, but having a large number of young males now within our borders who could begin attacking gatherings of unarmed citizens, in imitation of 10/7 and at the behest of a foreign terror group, must be considered a distinct possibility," the officials wrote. "We would be remiss not to call out this potentially grave threat in the most direct terms. The warning lights are blinking." ... And all the more stunning in light of terrorist attacks on our own soil, said New York Rep. Nicole Malliotakis. "It's shocking that in a post 9/11 world that the Biden administration would have an open border policy with such lax vetting," she said. "They are even allowing people with no real identification to board airplanes, which is directly against the 9/11 Commission recommendations."
Federal authorities caught a terrorist at the U.S. southern border and released him into the country, where he roamed freely for nearly a year before being arrested in Minnesota just days ago, according to an internal federal memo exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The unnamed individual, who the memo only identifies as a member of the Somali terror group al-Shabaab, was released shortly after being caught illegally crossing the southern border near San Ysidro, California on March 13, 2023, according to the memo, which the DCNF is not publishing in order to protect the identity of a confidential source. The Terrorist Screening Center "deemed him a 'mismatch'" after running his name through the terror watchlist, according to the memo, which was sent to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials. However, on January 18, 2024, the Terrorist Screening Center "made a redetermination" that the individual was "a confirmed member of al-Shabaab" and was involved in the use, manufacture or transport of explosives or firearms, the memo states. Two days later, ICE nabbed the al-Shabaab member in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Border Patrol caught 172 terror watchlist suspects attempting to enter the U.S. illegally during fiscal year 2023. Former homeland security officials say the constant deluge of illegal immigrants hitting the southern border is making it easier for bad actors to slip into the country.
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The House Democrat Under Investigation By the DOJ for Taking Taxpayer Money for Security and Paying It To Her Husband is... Cori Bush, Of Course
I mean, obviously. Duh.
She's a fat stupid thug and racist gangster. Lock her up. Lock her up. Lock her up.As RedState reported on Monday, a House Democrat is currently under criminal investigation for the misuse of government funds under the guise of paying for "security" services. Heavy speculation revolved around that Democrat being Rep. Cori Bush, and that has now been confirmed.She also paid out a half million dollars for other "security services," which I'm going to guestulate went to other unemployable family members, fuckbuddies, and assorted BLM criminals. (And RedState points out that this level of spending on "security" for a congressperson is "absurdly overblown.")
According to Punchbowl News, which broke the original story, the DOJ has subpoenaed the House Sergeant at Arms, who has records of how the money was allocated. Bush's troubles involving payments for "security services" are well known, with allegations that she paid her now-husband $60,000 in early 2023. That dynamic raised eyebrows because the man in question was not even licensed to provide security services in Missouri.[Punchbowl News:] That's a problem because having a security license is required in Missouri to offer security services, and you would assume Merritts would have provided his "services" in Bush's district (especially given their personal relationship). Further, as the report notes, Bush's campaign shelled out hundreds of thousands of dollars in other payments to real security firms at the same time. That seems like a rather odd dynamic, does it not?
There's still a lot more to learn, and things could get very messy in an election year. Bush is not the type of person who is going to go away quietly even if the DOJ drops the hammer on her. With that said, if she's indicted, she must be immediately expelled from the House. That is the standard that was set with George Santos recently, and Democrats should be made to abide by it.Yeah I wouldn't count on that. Only Republicans are this stupid and weak.
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The Super-Smart Thinkfluencers at Saturday Night Live Have Never Heard the Term "De-Banking" Before, and Think Trump Made It Up
So smart. Please teach me all of your knowledges.
Of course not. I use the word once per week. But the left lives in a bubble, and doesn't themselves get de-banked, so to them, this is all a fiction.
During the "Weekend Update" segment, the show suggested that Donald Trump made up the term "de-banking." "Trump did have a slight stumble this week while talking about banks, and he introduced an interesting new term called de-bank," said Colin Jost. "I don't know what the hell de-bank means, but you might have to take 'de-ambulance' to see 'de-doctor.'" There are corky terms Trump coins and are worth ridicule. "De-banking" is not one of them.
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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition
In normal times with normal administrations, this sort of appointment would be toxic...radioactive! It would have been quietly shelved and some milquetoast replacement would have been chosen, instead of a high-profile Arab with links to a thoroughly discredited organization that has acted in support of terrorism. But this is 2024, and the Biden/Obama administration is completely co-opted by a core of rabid Jew-haters whose most fervent goal is the ascendance of Iran and the destruction of Israel. They simply don't care about the optics, because this appointment galvanizes their support in the pro-terror Arab and Somali communities on which the junta depends for votes. Their vile calculation is that enough Jews will reflexively vote Democrat no matter what, so why not let out their Judenrein sensibilities for all the world to see! But it also signals a shift in the Deep StateTM. Traditionally, the state department was anti-Semitic, but with this sort of appointment the administration is moving towards a broader pro-Iran and pro-Arab tone, which is indistinguishable from an anti-American, anti-Israel, anti-Western one. And that fits perfectly with the goals of the Obama wing of the Democrat party! And lest you think this is just one of many drones milling about the directionless White House, this is a real job with real power and access to the highest levels of intelligence. Allowing anyone linked with terrorism anywhere near that position is a profound failure in governance and an ongoing danger to America and its allies. Which sounds just right for the drooling idiot figurehead in the Oval Office. [Hat Tip: JackStraw]
President Joe Biden on Friday appointed Palestinian-American attorney Maher al-Bitar, who served on President Barack Obama’s National Security Council as Director for Israeli and Palestinian Affairs and as deputy to Samantha Power, to be the new director of the NSC intelligence service. Politico, which broke the news, described Al-Bitar’s new job as “the day-to-day connective tissue between the intelligence community and the White House.” A graduate of Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, al-Bitar received a Master of Science in Forced Migration from Oxford University’s Refugee Studies Center on a Marshall scholarship and has worked with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Jerusalem.
In normal times with normal administrations, this sort of appointment would be toxic...radioactive! It would have been quietly shelved and some milquetoast replacement would have been chosen, instead of a high-profile Arab with links to a thoroughly discredited organization that has acted in support of terrorism. But this is 2024, and the Biden/Obama administration is completely co-opted by a core of rabid Jew-haters whose most fervent goal is the ascendance of Iran and the destruction of Israel. They simply don't care about the optics, because this appointment galvanizes their support in the pro-terror Arab and Somali communities on which the junta depends for votes. Their vile calculation is that enough Jews will reflexively vote Democrat no matter what, so why not let out their Judenrein sensibilities for all the world to see! But it also signals a shift in the Deep StateTM. Traditionally, the state department was anti-Semitic, but with this sort of appointment the administration is moving towards a broader pro-Iran and pro-Arab tone, which is indistinguishable from an anti-American, anti-Israel, anti-Western one. And that fits perfectly with the goals of the Obama wing of the Democrat party! And lest you think this is just one of many drones milling about the directionless White House, this is a real job with real power and access to the highest levels of intelligence. Allowing anyone linked with terrorism anywhere near that position is a profound failure in governance and an ongoing danger to America and its allies. Which sounds just right for the drooling idiot figurehead in the Oval Office. [Hat Tip: JackStraw]
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
Girl in Green
Theo van Rysselberghe
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The Morning Report — 1/30/24
T R E A S O N
I don't think I can spell it out any louder or clearer. But Grahamnesty, Cornyn, Cotton et al would rather help open the borders and wag the dog over Tehran.
Meh, what does citizenship or treason even mean in a nation that no longer really exists?
Reid was trying to blame Republicans for the border crisis when she played a video of Biden saying he would shut the border down. “Congressional Republicans love to latch on to [fraudulent] President Biden and Democrats’ successful policies and take credit for things they didn’t do, while tying themselves into pretzels to do nothing for the American people for the sake of Donald Trump,” Reid began. “Case in point, fixing what they say is a crisis at the border with congressional negotiators continuing work on a bipartisan deal to tie border policy changes to funding for Ukraine. Over the weekend, [fraudulent] President Biden said he’s ready to take action if Congress is serious about solving the border issue.” Reid then played two clips of Biden, one in which he said he would shut down the border immediately if the proposed legislation were law today. “And Congress needs to get it done,” Biden added when suddenly Reid was caught off camera saying “starting another f*cking war.” The audio was then quickly cut, with Reid’s sentence audibly cut off before she went on to blame Trump for the legislation not yet passing. . . Reid’s “war” comment is likely a reference to the White House saying the nation would respond to the drone attack in Jordan that killed three service members and injured dozens more.Let's face it. Statistically speaking, Joy Reid has virtually no audience. In point of fact it's the blogosphere that gives her the lion's share of exposure. Usually, I avoid her like plague since highlighting anything that emanates from her small exhaust port is a waste of pixels. But in this case, her accidental dig at Biden is quite revealing. In fact, disregarding where she's coming from she sounded positively America First. With everything he's doing, or more accurately being directed to do by Obama/Rice/Jarrett, collapsing in on them and more importantly everyone, they are desperate for one big ass wag of the dog (if they can keep it away from Obama's chef, and the odds are good since he drowned in three feet of water just offshore of the Obama Martha's Vineyard compound). Looks like Ukraine is a bust on that one, so just before they put him in the ground, heeeeere's Johnny! — McCain that is with his #1 chart busting smash "Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran!" Joy Reid notwithstanding, this is now the battlecry from the propagandists, surprise-surprise, since their job is the dissemination of the junta's desires to the masses.
Iran, allegedly, via proxy, attacked U.S. installments in Jordan yesterday. The corporate state media and the national security state have seized on the opportunity to promote instigating a full-scale war with Iran. Make no mistake: attacking Iran, which would be no cakewalk even on its own, would almost certainly result in China and Russia jumping in on the other side, at which point we’d have World War III with nuclear powers. The geopolitical reality — insulated as these technocrats are from it — is that the U.S. and the broader neoliberal world order have a three-front war brewing, nearly entirely of its own making: in Eurasia, the Middle East, and East Asia. Only a fool, hopped up on hubris and war contractor talking points, would believe it is capable of waging and winning even one of these without incurring nuclear annihilation, let alone all three at once. This is the stuff of crumbled empires.As I averred yesterday, all of this would not be happening with Trump in the White House, or at the very least nowhere near the breadth, depth and danger levels that have us on the brink of catastrophe. If elections have consequences, stolen elections have it out the freaking wahzoo. That's why Joy Reid's outburst rings true. Before we go hoisting her, presumably with a crane, on our shoulders and proclaiming her as the next Fetterman, it should be noted that she said this off camera and only apologized for dropping the F-bomb, and not the truth nuke. It's likely her attitude is heavily shaded by hatred of Israel. Also, the prime directive is to protect Biden at all costs while sliming and smearing Republicans, especially Donald Trump. So it's all run of the mill immediate political calculus. As we have observed over the past few years, it's interesting to compare and contrast the positions of the hardcore anti-war Left in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 with their attitude towards Ukraine. If I'm correct, and you don't have to be Kreskin to read these tea leaves since the above link clearly shows what's about to happen, the Code Pink pinkos are going to be doing a Hallelujah Chorus of John McCain's big hit any moment now. Regardless of why Reid is disgusted by Biden looking to wag the dog, you have to believe that a very large swathe of the citizenry are equally disgusted. But not for the same reasons as she. It's the open borders on top of and exacerbating the crashing economy, stupid. We see it and now traditional Democrats see it, especially blacks and Latinos of the legitimate citizen variety. Joy Reid's outburst in that regard is for sure a tell that Biden and his party are facing an ass-kicking of tremendous proportions. And that segues quite nicely into this semi-alarming and infuriating bit of news:
The numbers, which Turning Point Action provided to Breitbart News exclusively, are stunning. Across ten battleground states, the group identified 4,571,210 disengaged GOP voters who did not vote in 2016 or 2020. The ten states counted are Florida, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, Ohio, Michigan, Arizona, North Carolina, and Nevada. While Trump won Florida, Iowa, Ohio, and North Carolina in 2020, Democrat President Joe Biden took the other six states—and in each one, the disengaged GOP voters total was more than the margin of Biden’s victory over Trump. For instance, in Pennsylvania, the margin between Trump and Biden was 80,555. The number of disengaged GOP voters was, per Turning Point Action’s analysis, 589,350—more than seven times the margin. In Michigan, the margin was 154,188 votes by which Biden beat Trump. Turning Point Action found 490,630 disengaged GOP voters there, more than three times the margin. It was even more profound in places like Wisconsin, Arizona, and Georgia. In Georgia, the margin was 11,779—and the number of disengaged GOP voters was, per Turning Point Action, 539,480—more than 45 times the margin. In Arizona, the margin between Trump and Biden was 10,457—and Turning Point Action identified 286,440 disengaged GOP voters there, more than 27 times the margin. In Wisconsin, 20,682 votes separated Trump and Biden—and Turning Point identified 542,720 disengaged GOP voters there. That is more than 26 times the margin. . . . . . Turning Point Action is doing a major “ballot chasing” program across those three states—Wisconsin, Arizona, and Georgia—designed to get these people to vote. “It’s a little wonky, but we can’t touch the ballot,” Kirk said when asked to explain what ballot chasing is. “Ballot harvesting is illegal in these states. We actually honor the law. We follow the law—the bad guys, they break the law. That’s actually ballot harvesting, but we don’t touch the ballot. We understand there’s voting month, and then we find the people who are low-propensity voters—we’re not interested in the people showing up anyway. That’s one of the problems with the RNC—the RNC is focused on moving people who already vote on election day into the category of early voting. That’s not a new vote; it’s just the same votes being transferred into a different column. So we try to go out there and find these low-propensity voters and try to get them to submit their ballot in that 30-day period, and we do that through a variety of ways. We’ll have 300 full-time people in Arizona and Wisconsin. It will be, to be my knowledge, the largest deployment of full-time field staff in the history of modern conservative politics.”Two things: first, to hell with being worried about breaking the law vis a vis ballot harvesting. The Left are doing it and in point of fact the laws were completely bastardized and eviscerated with the cover of the lockdowns and fake-demic to do exactly that. So do what they do. Then again, with the justice system being what it is, it's us who'll be prosecuted for election fraud, right? Second, and most importantly, Charlie Kirk and company neither ask nor answer the rather cromulent question of WHY. Why didn't voters show up? Could it be that they were sick and tired of merely voting against the slightly, and now ever so slightly lesser of two evils, the Grifting Oleaginous Potemkin Party that is the GOP instead of having a reason to vote for a true opposition party? One that actually puts forth pro-American and anti-globalist/Democrat policies? Meanwhile, in another part of the forest, here – as if we didn't know this ages ago – is what open borders and the equally horrendous policies of Hart-Celler gets us:
It seems like a no-brainer that the men and women elected to lead the U.S. would put America’s interest above all else, and yet, there are daily reminders that not only are they not doing that, but their allegiances are to foreign nations wanting to destroy the country. The Daily Caller News Foundation reported exclusively Monday that federal authorities caught a Somali terrorist from the al-Shabaab terror group at the California border and released him into the interior United States, where he stayed for almost a year before eventually being arrested again in Minnesota. . . . . . It’s hard to explain what it does to the psyche of a country’s citizens when they realize national safety is a myth and even worse when one of its elected officials is telling crowds of people in a foreign language that her allegiances lie with Somalia first. Democrat Minn. Rep. Ilhan Omar told Somalis at a recent event that although there are “areas of friction” among their people, Somalis know “they are Somalians first, Muslims second.” “Many Somalians have personally called me to encourage me to speak to the U.S. government and help Somalia. They wanted to know what the U.S. government could do for Somalia to ensure the MoU [Memorandum of Agreement] never turns into a full bilateral agreement. My answer to Somalians was that the U.S. government will only do what Somalians in the U.S. tell them to do. They will do what we want and nothing else,” Omar told the crowd according to a translation on X, formally Twitter. “They must follow our orders, and that is how we will safeguard the interest of Somalia. We Somalians must have that confidence in ourselves that we call for the shots in the U.S.” “We live in the U.S., pay taxes in the U.S., and have a real voice. The U.S. is a country where one of your daughters is in Congress to represent your interests,” she continued. “For as long as I am in the U.S. Congress, Somalia will never be in danger. Its waters will not be stolen by Ethiopia or others. The U.S. would not dare to support anyone against Somalia to steal our land or oceans. Sleep in comfort, knowing I am here to protect the interests of Somalia from inside the U.S. system,” Omar promised. “The woman you sent to Congress is working day and night to protect your interests. She knows your plight and that of Somalia. I am as concerned about Somalia as you guys are. Together we will protect the interests of Somalia.” She is not the only official accused of subverting U.S. interests for those of a foreign country. The Daily Caller reported in Oct. 2023 that the Biden Administration quietly revoked its special envoy to Iran, Rober Malley’s security clearance, after he was found allegedly “mishandling classified information.” Malley was the lead negotiator for the U.S. on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) under former President Barack Obama, which saw Iran receive the now infamous billions of dollars in sanctions relief. Malley called the Hamas terrorist group a “charity organization” in a 2008 interview, according to the New York Post. While the Biden [junta] would love for the American people to focus on Taylor Swift and abortion as the topics that will lead the 2024 presidential election, it’s a tall order, considering the drums of war get louder every day. If the country goes to war with Iran or Hamas, how are American parents supposed to willingly send their children to die in the desert, knowing the people running war games are helping the enemy?Let's face it; Bro-Fo Omar, who should be ejected the hell out of this country, let alone Congress, for lying about her multiple marriages and literal incestuous relationships to get here, is now openly boasting that her aims and goals and allegiance is not to the United States but Somalia. She should be expelled from Congress, her citizenship stripped and then deported the hell back to her dark age shit hole where her joy buzzer can be re-attached to her nose and then she can be decapitated for failing to taqqiya sunrise us to death. Meh, as sick as she is, she's merely a symptom. The fish stinks from the head; Joe Biden's 50 years of selling us out to every bad actor around the globe is bad enough but the deliberate opening of the borders and erasure of even the barest minimum of immigration controls is intentionally with malice aforethought endangering the lives of every citizen and an existential threat to our national security. Ergo . . .
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- "In London, a group of Chinese Communists test their power to crush freedom."
Silencing a Piano Man
- Robert Zimmerman: "On inauguration day every FBI agent and manager must either submit his or her resignation or be fired. They should told in no uncertain terms that they must not report to work, and that they no longer have any authority to enter any FBI facility or use any government equipment, from email servers to computer desktops"
The FBI Must Be Wiped Clean, or Wiped Out, on Day One of the Next Republican Administration
- Dennis Prager: "The notion that the cockpit or the mayor's office has to look like the rest of the population is just foolish -- as foolish as the idea that professional athletes have to look like the rest of the population. It is an idea, like most stupid ideas, that appeals primarily to college graduates."
You Should Rethink Flying United Airlines
- Glenn Reynolds: "Apparently anyone who challenges the insider crowd’s power is the next Hitler. Except the insiders are the ones wearing the jackboots. . . I mentioned just how afraid of a populist revolt the West’s leadership has become. But why, exactly, is it so afraid? Perhaps these people fear for their necks if the commoners ever figure out what’s been done to them." (We have figured it out. What we do about it is the question - jjs)
Canada’s Elite Colluded Against the Freedom Convoy truckers — Just as America’s Elite Have Colluded Against Us
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Daily Tech News 30 January 2024
Top Story
- AMD's new Ryzen 8700G and 8600G are here. (AnandTech)
They provide pretty good CPU performance with pretty good integrated graphics.
The 8700G in particular can provide 49 fps in Baldur's Gate 3 at 1080p low settings, where Intel's 14700K manages just 13.
A cheaper CPU with a low-end graphics card will do much better for games, and you can get a 7900X for $399 which will do much better for productivity.
But if you want something mostly for work that can also run games like Minecraft or Palworld (cough) it might do fine, and the graphics card market sucks right now.
The 8600G and 8700G only have 20 lanes of PCIe 4 instead of 28 lanes of PCIe 5 on the mainstream Ryzen desktop chips, but that's still fine unless you want to run something like Asus's NVMe RAID card, which just won't work with this chip.
The 8500G cuts that to 14 lanes of PCIe 4, though, which just isn't enough.
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January 29, 2024
Monday Overnight Open Thread (1/29/24)
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The Quotes of The Day
Quote I
“Base jumping is dangerous because you don’t have a second chance." Ed Harrison
Quote II “Who suffered here? We haven’t seen a long list of victims.” University of Michigan law professor William Thomas
Quote III “As No Labels goes down that presidential path, we cannot lose what was gained in all these years trying to improve the institution of Congress,” New York Rep. Tom Reed, a Republican No Labels board member
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Oh Hai Cafe
Sunset seen through sea stacks at Capri
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On Paco's suggestion, I'm trying to bring a little more spring/summer energy to the thread. Positano, Italy. (Or at least somewhere on the Amalfi coast.) Peckers and a porker. Yawning caracals. A reenactment of Ted Kennedy and Chris Dodd molesting a waitress during the 80s. Big surf in Rio. Oof -- this dog has Ludacris' "get out the way, bitch" playing on his mental stereo 24/7. Hi there! Army crawl of cuteness. Frenz. Cat is worried about how Bitcoin is performing today. He is spreading fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Monkey kamikaze wing. Some fries are needed with these shakes. Very pretty soldiers, lieutenant, very pretty indeed... but can they fight?!"
Sunset seen through sea stacks at Capri
AndreaCostaPhotographer
On Paco's suggestion, I'm trying to bring a little more spring/summer energy to the thread. Positano, Italy. (Or at least somewhere on the Amalfi coast.) Peckers and a porker. Yawning caracals. A reenactment of Ted Kennedy and Chris Dodd molesting a waitress during the 80s. Big surf in Rio. Oof -- this dog has Ludacris' "get out the way, bitch" playing on his mental stereo 24/7. Hi there! Army crawl of cuteness. Frenz. Cat is worried about how Bitcoin is performing today. He is spreading fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Monkey kamikaze wing. Some fries are needed with these shakes. Very pretty soldiers, lieutenant, very pretty indeed... but can they fight?!"
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Quick Bits
Today is the fourth anniversary of the horrible racist, homophobic MAGA attack on Jussie Smollett by two Nigerian brothers he paid money to. As Dan Rather used to say: "Courage."
The Film Actors Guild, for some reason, has weighed in on the Arrec Balwin manslaughter charges.
Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge: Biden's lying; he needs no congressional authority to close the border. He can do that now -- he just refuses to do so unless the Republicans give him open-borders concessions.
Black Chicago Democrats want the city to end its "sanctuary city" status.
Snopes reflexively claimed a picture showing Biden wearing a hardhat backwards was "false."
I kept putting off covering the huge ruling by the Canadian supreme court last week, which called Castreau's fascist measures to punish speech he didn't like unconstitutional.
I missed that, but will try to make up for it by quoting Spiked's Tom Slater on the Rise of the Liberal Strongman.Justin Trudeau and the Rise of the Liberal StrongmanI misread that as "a Tumbler account given human form," and will be using that goin forward.
His crackdown on the truckers heralded a new era of 'centrist' authoritarianism.
At first, I assumed Justin Trudeau was just a bit tragic. When the dashing Canadian PM rose to power in 2015, the man seemed too cringe to be real. A man who confused virtue-signalling with statesmanship and Tumblr talking points with a political ideology.
A man who once chided a woman at a public event for using the word 'mankind' ('We like to say peoplekind', he retorted). But as a ruling of the Canadian Federal Court this week reminds us, beneath the colourful socks, woke bromides and disconcertingly long history of blacking up resides a dangerous authoritarian. Remember the Freedom Convoy? This was the Canadian truckers' revolt against Covid mandates which began two years ago this week... Trudeau's response, you may recall, was enough to make Xi Jinping proud. He invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time in Canadian history, granting the government sweeping powers to freeze protesters' bank accounts, break up demonstrations, crush crowdfunding efforts and compel tow-truck firms to clear the streets. The crackdown was all the more outrageous given many of the blockades were already in the process of being resolved amicably. Plus, those parked up in Ottawa had been peaceful. They held cookouts, honked horns and danced. Which is why there were remarkably few arrests. Before Trudeau sent the heavies in, that is. Now, a top Canadian judge has decided that this outrageous clampdown was illegal to boot. Trudeau's invocation of the Emergencies Act has been deemed an infringement on Canada's charter of rights and freedoms. It was 'not justified in relation to the relevant factual and legal constraints that were required to be taken into consideration', the court ruled. All this gives the lie to the government's absurd demonisation of the peaceful, multiracial truckers' protests as a 'dangerous', 'far right' and even 'insurrectionist' movement. Indeed, so many of the claims made to justify the clampdown have turned out to be lies. At a separate inquiry in 2022, police had to admit that claims the truckers were 'armed' amounted to them having tools and tire irons. Not a single trucker was arrested in Ottawa for illegal possession or storage of a firearm, according to the Toronto Sun. While videos on social media showed a family friendly atmosphere, complete with bouncy castles, Trudeau talked darkly of kids being used as 'human shields'. It would be funny if it wasn't so sinister. Imagine if Donald Trump had done this while he was still in power? There would have been a military coup. He'd probably be locked up right now, in some secretive facility buried miles beneath a mountain -- the sort of place where they keep the Bond villains and the UFOs. And yet because the Western commentariat loves Trudeau and loathes the working classes his trucker crackdown was given a free pass.... For all the talk of populists and their simpleminded working-class voters ushering in a new 1930s, we now see where the true threat to liberty comes from. And not just in Canada. Indeed, we've seen the rise of what we might call liberal strongmen -- sorry, strongpeople -- right across the Western world. From the unhinged Covid authoritarianism of New Zealand under Jacinda Ardern to Emmanuel Macron's brutalising of the gilets jaunes to Joe Biden's banana republic to the speech-policing, women's-rights-shredding rule of Nicola Sturgeon, all of the 'centrist' darlings of our age have turned out to be itching to shut up, lock up and even beat up their own citizens. Particularly citizens with the chutzpah to stand up for their rights and their livelihoods.Read the whole thing. Yes, the left is authoritarian and increasingly brazen and open about it. They view all disagreement with them as illegitimate and therefore illegal, and are quite ready to use government force to extinguish their enemies. And speaking of Macron's brutalization of the gilets jaunes -- French farmers are blockading Paris with their own truckers' convoy. Macron will crush them as Castreau crushed his inconvenient dissidents. Kurt Zindulka at Breitbart:
Calls for revolution are in the air of France once again as farmers have vowed to continue their tractor protests against the globalist green agenda with a planned blockade of Paris after rejecting "concessions" from the government. After a week of shutting down motorways across the country, forcing politicians of all stripes to come to meet them on their turf, the farmer uprising is set to descend upon the French capital as they were unimpressed by the compromises proposed by newly-installed Prime Minister Gabriel Attall. With their demands not being met, farmers have decided to ramp up the pressure on the metropolitan liberal elites who vote for green agenda policies without feeling the consequences and allowing the rural population to suffer. What is being dubbed as the "siege of Paris", farmers are planning on shutting down at least seven critical entry points to the city and have hinted at enacting a blockade of the Rungis Market, the second largest wholesale food market in the world which serves as the main hub for food deliveries into Paris. "The idea is that there are no trucks that can serve the capital, to ensure that no product enters Paris, to make Parisians understand that they need farmers to live. I say to our friends in the capital region: it's going to be a long week," the head of the Young Farmers Union Maxime Buizard said per Le Figaro.Video of farmers dumping slurry at the gates of the Var prefecture in Toulon. A report on the "siege of Paris." Video of farmers blocking the entrances of restaurants in Paris.
Today is the fourth anniversary of the horrible racist, homophobic MAGA attack on Jussie Smollett by two Nigerian brothers he paid money to. As Dan Rather used to say: "Courage."
The Film Actors Guild, for some reason, has weighed in on the Arrec Balwin manslaughter charges.
[F]AG-AFTRA is standing by Alec Baldwin after he was charged Thursday with two counts of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Halyna Hutchins on the set of "Rust." The guild slammed the charges against him, calling it "wrong and uninformed." "The death of Halyna Hutchins is a tragedy, and all the more so because of its preventable nature. It is not a failure of duty or a criminal act on the part of any performer," [F]AG-AFTRA said in a statement.Really? How strange. Actors routinely present themselves on experts in all fields. But not this one, huh...? So I guess actors'll stop pontificating about gun control, huh? After all, [F]AG says they're not experts in weapons safety.
"The prosecutor's contention that an actor has a duty to ensure the functional and mechanical operation of a firearm on a production set is wrong and uninformed. An actor's job is not to be a firearms or weapons expert."
Yeah, just like Andrei Sakarov.
... Baldwin's attorney called the charges a "terrible miscarriage of justice" in a statement to Fox News Digital.
Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge: Biden's lying; he needs no congressional authority to close the border. He can do that now -- he just refuses to do so unless the Republicans give him open-borders concessions.
As Republican governors circle the wagon around Texas, President Biden on Saturday doubled down on a reluctant agreement to secure the southern US border - but only if if Congress passes a bipartisan bill that would also allocate funds for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, and would still allow as many as 150,000 illegal crossings per month. "If that bill were the law today I'd shut down the border right now and fix it quickly and bring a bipartisan bill that would be good for America and help fix our broken immigration system and allow speedy access for those who deserve to be here," Biden said, according to Fox News' Chad Pergram. Except, as many have pointed out, Biden doesn't need Congress, or the bill, to do that right now. As we noted yesterday, House Speaker Mike Johnson debunked the claim, saying "President Biden falsely claimed yesterday he needs Congress to pass a new law to allow him to close the southern border, but he knows that is untrue." "As I explained to him in a letter late last year, and have specifically reiterated to him on multiple occasions since, he can and must take executive action immediately to reverse the catastrophe he has created," Johnson continued.
Black Chicago Democrats want the city to end its "sanctuary city" status.
Government employee Cata Truss told "Fox News @ Night" Democrat voters like her are growing increasingly frustrated with the party's handling of the issue. "There is no moneys to take care of the migrants, nor is there moneys to take care of the people that are there. And so we have a mess on our hands," Truss said Wednesday. Truss argued Windy City residents are upset over low income communities and schools being "divested in" while funds are used for the care of migrants instead. "This is the sentiment from the city of Chicago: We would like to have our status as a sanctuary city removed," she said. "We would also like to see a better plan in place."
Snopes reflexively claimed a picture showing Biden wearing a hardhat backwards was "false."
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Nancy Pelosi: I Reject That These Pro-Palestinian Protesters Are Real. They Must Be Russian Stooges. I Demand an Investigation Into These Russian Agents.
Again -- "We totally agree with your positions, but you have to ask yourself, should you be protesting the Democrat Party? Shouldn't you be ballot harvesting for us instead?" Jonathan Turley:
I demand an investigation into the funding of the domestic terrorist groups antifa and BLM. How's that grab ya, Granny Rictus McBotoxImplants?
The pro-terrorist cohort that Democrats have indulged and encouraged since a few months after 9/11 is a growing political difficulty for the Democrats. Therefore, like all political difficulties for the Democrats, from anti-charisma of Hillary Clinton to the corruption of Hunter and Joe Biden, it must Akshually be THE RUSSIANS! behind it all.Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested on Sunday during a media appearance that pro-Palestinan protesters were "connected to Russia" and argued calls for a ceasefire were part of "Mr. Putin's message." CNN's Dana Bash asked Pelosi if she was concerned young voters might stay home on election day, as they've repeatedly expressed frustration, and protested Biden's handling of the Isreal-Hamas war. Pelosi said she has been a recipient of the protesters' "exuberance." "They are in front of my house all the time. I have a feeling for what feelings they have. But we have to think about what we're doing. And what we have to do is try to stop the suffering in Gaza. This is women and children, people who don't have a place to go, so let's address that. But for them to call for a cease-fire is Mr. Putin's message, Mr. Putin's message. Make no mistake, this is directly connected to what he would like to see. Same thing with Ukraine. It's about Putin's message. I think some of these protesters are spontaneous, and organic and sincere. Some, I think, are connected to Russia. I say that having looked at this for a long time," Pelosi continued.She says she agrees completely with their message -- we must "stop the suffering," and of course Gazans are victims. But then, incredibly, she says Putin is behind the very message she claims to support. Why? Well, what she means is that it's politically embarrassing to have one faction of the Democrat coalition at war with the others. So while she completely agrees with everything the pro-Hamas protesters say -- she wants them to stop saying it publicly, because when they go in front of TV cameras and cause strain in the fractious Democrat coalition, that's where dissent ends and PUTIN'S PROPAGANDA begins.
Bash responded, "you think some of these protests are Russian plants?" Pelosi said the financing "should be investigated." "I want to ask the FBI to investigate that. But apart from that, let's just say it's all spontaneous and sincere. Let's say it's spontaneous and sincere. Young people care about the right to choose. They care about LGBTQ issues. They care about preserving the planet. They care about gun violence prevention. That's what they tell us. They care about our democracy and the freedoms that are contained in some of what I said," she continued.
Pelosi added that voters would have to either chose to stay home and "enable" or to organize and get out to vote.
Again -- "We totally agree with your positions, but you have to ask yourself, should you be protesting the Democrat Party? Shouldn't you be ballot harvesting for us instead?" Jonathan Turley:
The Russians are back just in time for another election. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared on Sunday that pro-Palestinian protesters were "connected to Russia" and pushing "Mr. Putin's message." She called for . . . you guessed it . . . a new Russian investigation. Protesters have targeted Pelosi's home, usually an aggressive tactic reserved for Republicans. Indeed, when protesters were toppling statues, Pelosi saw no international conspiracy or influence. Instead, she dismissed the violent riots and said "people will do what they do." Pelosi also refused to condemn Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Cal.) when, during violent rioting, Waters declared that protesters "gotta stay on the street" and "get more confrontational." Waters has also called for protesters to confront and hound government officials at restaurants and other locations. It appears that the protests are now far more menacing as Democratic leaders are targeted and young voters appear to be increasingly disassociated from the party. ... It would not be surprising if Russia fueled dissent in the United States through its media and intelligence assets.He notes that casually "investigating" inconvenient protesters as being spies in the thrall of a foreign power just because they're embarrassing you might, maybe, possibly chill protected free speech. But that, of course, is all the Democrat Party wants to do these days. They scarcely have any policy except censorship. And:
[T]here is ample support for the protests outside of the Pelosi's home without the involvement of Russia. Nevertheless, Russia is back as a ready-made label to demonize political opponents.RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA Russia Russia, Russia Russia Russia. Russia? Russia Russia Russia, Russia Russia. Russia? Russia Russia; Russia, Russia Russia. Russia!
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Biden's Third-Year Approval Rating the Worst Since... No, Guess
A Reuters-Ipsos poll finds Trump with a six point lead on Biden, but there's a big catch: Trump only has 40% support, which, as a proud graduate of Track 2 math, I can tell you is not a majority. Or even close to one.
President Joe Biden's average job approval rating across his third year in office languished at the lowest point of any U.S. president since Jimmy Carter was in the White House, a Gallup poll released Thursday shows. Biden's third year extended from Jan. 20, 2023, to Jan. 19, 2024 during which time he had an average job approval rating of 39.8 percent, the Gallup poll reveals. The Hill points out Biden, whose current job approval rating is 41 percent, fared the worst in polls of all presidents' ratings since Carter, whose third-year polling average was 37.4 percent before he went on to lose his subsequent reelection campaign. Carter's third year in office included some historic low points, including the Iran hostage crisis, soaring gas prices, unemployment levels, and double-digit inflation. Biden fared worse in his third year than former President Donald Trump, whose average job approval in his third year was 42 percent, the report notes.
If that 18% really doesn't vote, then Trump's 40% becomes, at the polls, close to 50%. But that's a big if. Consider that Biden's poll numbers are particularly depressed right now because the left wants him to support Hamas' From the River to The Sea Jewish extermination policy. Will they vote for Trump -- who imposed the so-called Muslim Travel Ban -- because of anger at Biden about his "support" for Israel? Doubtful. A lot of this "I won't vote for Biden" stuff is just bluffing. Partisans say that early in general election season, but tend to "come home" by the fall. Also, you can bet huge money that Reid Hoffman and George Soros and the Koch network will fund a "credible" Republican challenger to run as an independent for the express purpose of taking votes from Trump and allowing Biden to win states with 34-38% of the votes. Who will it be? Well, it will likely be Romney. He's a real cocksucker and will be proud to run a spoiler campaign to get his fren Biden re-elected.
Donald Trump leads Democratic President Joe Biden by six percentage points in a Reuters/Ipsos poll that showed Americans are unhappy about an election rematch that came into sharper focus this week. The nationwide poll of 1,250 U.S. adults showed Trump leading Biden 40% to 34% with the rest unsure or planning to vote for someone else or no one. The poll had a margin of error of three percentage points. ... As Trump handily beat his sole remaining primary challenger, Nikki Haley in New Hampshire on Tuesday, some 67% of respondents polled Monday through Wednesday said they were "tired of seeing the same candidates in presidential elections and want someone new." Still, just 18% said they would not vote if Biden and Trump were their choice.
... Trump's six-point lead held even when respondents were given the option of voting for third-party candidates, including anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., with Trump drawing 36% support, Biden 30% and Kennedy 8%.Right. But add Romney to the mix, and the numbers change. Utah will be gone, for one.
.. Overall, the poll gave numerous signs that voters are not happy with their choices.Speaking of: Liberal Democrat billionaire Reid Hoffman, who was, I believe, Nikki Haley's biggest backer, has suspended his donations to her.
Seventy percent of respondents - including about half of Democrats - agreed with a statement that Biden should not seek re-election. Fifty-six percent of people responding to the poll said Trump should not run, including about a third of Republicans. Biden has been weighed down by the widespread view that at 81, already the oldest person ever to be U.S. president, he is too old for the job. Three-quarters of poll respondents agreed with a statement that Biden was too old to work in government, while half said the same about Trump, who at 77 would also be among the oldest U.S. leaders ever if returned to the White House. Just over half of Democrats saw Biden as too old while a third of Republicans viewed Trump that way.
Haley, 52, is trying to marshal dissatisfaction to turn around her well-financed but flagging campaign. "Most Americans do not want a rematch between Biden and Trump," she said on Tuesday after her loss to Trump in New Hampshire. "The first party to retire its 80-year-old candidate is going to be the party that wins this election."
Hoffman has said he'll vote for President Joe Biden in November but backed Haley financially because his "first priority is to defeat Trump." The Democratic donor gave $250,000 to Stand For America Fund Inc. last year, a pro-Haley super PAC, the New York Times reported. "Prior to the primaries, we made an investment in Gov. Haley because we saw that her performance in New Hampshire might give her a path to defeating Donald Trump," Hoffman's political philanthropy adviser Dmitri Mehlhorn told Fox News. But Mehlhorn said the LinkedIn co-founder needs to see a "path to victory" before making another donation to the former United Nations ambassador.The Koch network is standing by their neocon open-borders loose-in-the-snootch gal-- for now.
A conservative group that has spent millions backing Nikki Haley's presidential campaign says it isn't giving up on her -- but acknowledges she faces an "uphill" battle and that it's focusing on Senate races. Why it matters: AFP Action, a super PAC that has pushed for a Republican alternative to GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump, has said it would "redouble" its efforts to back Senate candidates if it appeared Trump would be the Republican nominee. The group -- part of the Americans for Prosperity network founded by billionaire Charles Koch and his late brother, David -- fears a Trump nomination would be a massive drag on other Republicans on the November ballot.
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Georgia Senate Approves Special Investigatory Committee to Find Out What the Hell Is Going on With Fani Willis' Pustular Snootch
We need to declare that filthy pit a Superfund Site and bring millions in federal resources to contain it, cap it, and clean it up.
For the next generation, you understand. I don't want children being born with hairlips or becoming developmentally delayed just because they grew up within three miles of Fani Willis' toxic minge.
Edited for clarity. Media outlets keep getting the man's name wrong!
Georgia's state Senate is forming a committee tasked with investigating anti-Trump DA Fani Willis. The investigative body, which will have six Republicans and three Democrats, has full subpoena power and the ability to require testimony given under oath. By a 30-19 vote, the GOP-led upper house of Georgia's General Assembly greenlighted the special committee's creation Friday, passing a resolution (S.R. 465) proposed by Republican state Sen. Greg Dolezal, who serves as the Senate's chief deputy whip. According to the five-page legislation's Jan. 22 filing, "it has come to the attention of the Georgia Senate, through public reports and court filings," that the Fulton County district attorney is accused of prosecutorial misconduct involving the "expenditure of significant public funds" to hire special prosecutor Darrius "Sweetdick" Honeycum, Esquire, whom Willis allegedly had--and may still have--an affair with.
If the affair allegations are proven to be true, the "clandestine" relationship would constitute "a clear conflict of interest and a fraud upon the taxpayers of Fulton County and the State of Georgia," the bill says, and establish grounds for the DA's recusal from the prosecution, "potentially delaying it indefinitely." Willis would also be subject to discipline by the State Bar of Georgia. A select group of state senators will assemble, acting as a special committee, to conduct a legislative investigation examining Willis's actions. The nine-person panel possesses the statutory powers to call on any individual to testify under oath, take the depositions of witnesses, compel the production of evidentiary records, and issue subpoenas. Accordingly, the investigating committee is authorized to undertake actions deemed necessary to "enforce such subpoenas" when parties refuse to obey. However, the committee--slated to convene as soon as this week--can't directly sanction Willis on any discoveries, WTVC reported. Should the panel find Willis guilty of wrongdoing, its members can recommend changes to the state law or budget.
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American Nightmare: Immigrant Family Flees Back to India After Teacher Secretly Transitions Their Daughter, and Then "Stalks" Her
Before you get excited: I think this family were legal immigrants.
So I don't meant to unduly attack teachers, but I will repeat again: Teachers take 6 or so credits of basic, 100-level child psychology. I'm sorry to say this, but of all the "learned professions," teachers are the least learned. Their degrees are the easiest and least competitive. And yet, these 22-year-old gals, who have nothing to their name but a thin paper credential and almost zero actual education, decide that they're Basically Just Like Psychiatrist M.D.'s and should be allowed to practice child psychiatry without a license. I say this because the left is the most obsessed with credentials: If you're a teacher, your credentials extend to teaching children stuff that only children do not know yet. I'm so tired of teachers saying they're "the experts." The experts in what? The multiplication tables? We keep seeing people with very basic degrees telling parents -- most of whom have more advanced education than the teacher do* -- that they're the "experts" who have unquestionable training in deciding what sex your kid should be and which gay porn comic books he should be beating off to. * Yes, I know, it doesn't matter what a parent's level of education is, he should still decide what his kid will learn about sex or "identity." I'm just pointing this out because teachers keep making the "I'm credentialed, I'm an expert" argument. You're credentialed? Oh, you mean have the lowest possible level of BA? But you're more of an expert than doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc.? Oh -- and also, you're 22 years old and know absolutely nothing about anything? Are there highly educated teachers? Are there teachers who know enough to be an actual expert in their specific field? Sure. But the baseline required for a teaching credential is a low level of education. Nearly as low as the baseline required for that other Profession of Experts, "journalists." If a teacher has won loads of awards for excellence, and taken years of post-graduate training in their field -- okay, maybe I'll consider you an "expert." But the average 22-year-old girl coming out of college with mere training in grammar and basic arithmetic and kinda-sorta bullshit classes in pedagogy? Get the fuck out of here, and get the fuck over yourselves. And the Dunning-Kruger effect is in high effect here: Dumb people all think they're "experts" because they're so stupid and uneducated they have no idea how much there is to know about a field of study, and how many years it would take to become even highly skilled in that field, let alone "expert." So it's consistently the stupidest people who make the wildest claims about their own levels of competence and "expertise." Studies show that actually competent people routinely underestimate their level of competency, and (wrongly) rate themselves as less intelligent than their peers. So me someone claiming to be an "expert" and pointing at a very basic BA as the proof of this and I'll show you someone who shouldn't have gone to college in the first place. Below, what I believe is a different case of an Unlicensed Free Range Child Psychiatrist practicing her healing arts on someone else's kid.
In June 2022, two Centennial Elementary School students in Olympia, Washington, disappeared. Their parents, Indian immigrants, had quietly driven them out of state, to Oregon, before they eventually decided to fly back to their former home country. No one in Olympia has seen the children since. "My daughter mentioned that Tia had been gone from school for a couple of weeks," said Jess Davis, whose daughter was a classmate of Tia's, one of the family's children. (I have changed most of the names in this report to respect requests for anonymity.) "We were at an ice cream social that our neighborhood has at the end of the school year, and I was thinking about them." So she decided to text Tia's mother to ask why they weren't there. The mother "got back to me and said, 'Sorry, we are out of town,'" Davis explained. Evidently, the family was still hiding and hadn't yet left the country. The mother texted Davis again, "and said, 'Can I call you?' And she dumped it all out." Tia, who was ten, had apparently just gone through a social gender transition at school, encouraged by her teacher. Olympia School District is one of at least 1,000 districts nationwide that have enacted secrecy policies for kids who express gender dysphoria; so for months, Tia's parents had no idea what had happened. When they finally learned of their child's secret identity, they came into conflict with a public school system that had embraced gender ideology's radical notion that parents who don't unquestioningly affirm their child's gender choices pose a danger to that child. Tia's parents' protests were, consequently, treated as illegitimate. "Mrs. A [Tia's teacher] is stalking my daughter," Tia's mother told Davis. "What is she going to do to my daughter?" Paper copies of the following e-mail messages, among others, from Mrs. A to Tia's school e-mail address were anonymously placed in the mailbox of local mother and activist Alesha Perkins in the early summer of 2023. Most were sent after Tia's parents had taken their children to Oregon.
"Make sure this email is deleted too when we are done bc otherwise when your mom looks, you will be outed instantly." "I kept emailing you but I was worried your mom interfered before you saw my messages." "I was also serious I would take you into my own home anytime you need." "You need to get a personal email set up so we still have a way to communicate!" "I'm worried you're going to leave and I will never be able to be reached." When Perkins publicized the e-mails on Facebook, they sent shockwaves through the community. "This is probably the most disturbing thing that I've seen because it is on such a level of coordinated deception that so many people have to play a part in, including young children," Perkins told [un]Divided, a local journalism website.
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Pro-American-Invasion Biden Begs Congress to Pass His Mass Amnesty Bill
Note that Biden is eager to play footsie and cut deals with his Iranian frenz -- but refuses to negotiate with Republicans in good faith about the border.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has branded this " " " deal " "" to be "dead on arrival," of course. In closely related news, the House unveiled articles of impeachment against Open Borders Czar (DHS Secretary) Alejandro Mayorkas. This is Axios, so prepare yourself for spin:
It's so tough that it authorizes up to 150,000 illegal aliens entering our country per month with zero deportations. Note that the highest level of illegal alien entries under Trump was 130,000 per month. So long as "only" 150,000 illegals enter per month, no deportations. Only when illegal entries exceed 5,000 per day -- or around 150,000 per month -- does this " " " deal " " " authorize deportations. And only if it exceeds 5000 per day for a full week. And even then, it only authorizes them until the number of illegal aliens crossing the border per day falls under 5,000 per day again. Why are you not satisfied with this great deal, racists? This "deal" is not aimed at slowing illegal immigration -- it is aimed only at the bad optics of people rushing the border in great masses. If they stop near the border and game it out to make sure that no more than 5000 per day cross into the US, then there are no deportations authorized. Biden does not want to stop illegals from rushing the border. He just wants to stop Fox News' Bill Melugin from getting good helicopter footages of hundreds of illegals rushing the border all at once. He just wants them to pace themselves. He just wants to stop them from giving Fox News juicy video.
President Biden urged lawmakers on Friday to move forward with a contentious proposal to combat record levels of illegal border crossings under his administration, calling it the "toughest and fairest set of reforms to secure the border we've ever had in our country."
The deal tying $61.4 billion in aid to Ukraine with increased border security measures is seemingly dead on arrival in the Senate -- and is staunchly opposed by several congressional Republicans -- despite months of negotiations between the White House and a bipartisan group of senators.There are zero "increased border security measures." All the "border security money" is actually just money to house and process and provide medical care to the illegals, and then ship them into the heartland.
There is no "fixing" the border here. You're just declaring Open Borders in more words than required.
"For too long, we all know the border's been broken," Biden, 81, acknowledged in a statement. "It's long past time to fix it."
Fuck off and die.
"Let's be clear. What's been negotiated would -- if passed into law -- be the toughest and fairest set of reforms to secure the border we've ever had in our country," the president argued.
... "It would give me, as President, a new emergency authority to shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed. And if given that authority, I would use it the day I sign the bill into law," Biden said.Again, the border would only be shut down when the feds admit that there have been more than 5,000 illegals entering the country per day for an extended period of time. And the border would only be shut down if Biden then chooses to exercise this theoretical authority to shut it down.
... Some of the tentative bill's other provisions, obtained by The Post from a source Thursday, include continuing to allow migrants who fly into the country to receive humanitarian parole at designated airports, while restricting the practice at the border and US ports of entry; granting legal counsel to unaccompanied migrant children under the age of 13 and migrants deemed mentally incompetent; and increasing in immigrant visas to 50,000 annually.This is all goody-bag stuff for the open borders crowed. We get nothing in return for this.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has branded this " " " deal " "" to be "dead on arrival," of course. In closely related news, the House unveiled articles of impeachment against Open Borders Czar (DHS Secretary) Alejandro Mayorkas. This is Axios, so prepare yourself for spin:
House Republicans unveiled articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Sunday morning, blaming him for the surge in illegal border crossings and fentanyl trafficking. Why it matters: Republicans are barreling toward impeachment over the logistical and humanitarian crisis at the border even as they balk at passing new, stringent policies that President Biden has promised to use to "shut down the border."LOL, we're "barrelling" towards it after three years of demanding the law be enforced. Oh and also, Biden's "border security bill" is real and we're "balking" at actually increasing border security.
Wrong. Refusal to execute the law is in high crime. "High crimes and misdemeanors" refers to crimes and misdemeanors that only a highly ranked government official has the capacity of committing. Mayorkas is setting aside the duly-passed law of the United States to implement an open borders policy that has been strongly rejected by the public.
The House Homeland Security committee will consider the impeachment articles Tuesday morning, and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has promised a floor vote "as soon as possible" after that. Democrats and legal experts have criticized the effort, saying Republicans have failed to show that Mayorkas has committed any high crimes and misdemeanors -- the constitutional standard for impeachment.
And here's the spin: We don't have the capacity to arrest every illegal, so we shouldn't arrest any of them, and Trump briefly paroled illegals during peak surge periods. Therefore, Biden can implement mass parole of illegals (this means, paroling them into the US to await their hearings which won't happen for 8 years) as standard day-to-day policy.
The details: The articles present a series of well-worn arguments against Mayorkas. They assert Mayorkas "willfully and systemically refused to comply" with immigration laws by releasing migrants and asylum-seekers into the U.S. rather than detaining them, and for using a tool called parole to release large numbers of migrants from detention.
The U.S. has never had the resources to detain every migrant who illegally crosses the border until they can be removed. The Trump administration also was forced to release migrants into the U.S., especially during the 2019 border crisis.This bullshit:
No, Republicans are simply refusing to allow Biden to pass a fake "fix" and then claimed he closed the border, when in fact the bill codifies and authorizes it remaining open. Until now, the open border policy has simply been a lawless executive policy, without backing by law; this " " " deal " " " would enshrine Biden's Open Borders policy as actual congressionally-approved US law. Meanwhile, the GOP Party of Oklahoma has censured treasonous Senator Lankford for taking part in this open borders deceit and this disinformation operation aimed at the American populace.
Republicans have made clear they want to campaign on the problems at the border, and have been reluctant to give Biden any legislative wins to address the crisis.
Lankford peddles the leftwing Democrat line that Republicans know this is a great deal but are only opposing it to hurt Biden in the 2024 election:
The Oklahoma Republican Party approved a resolution Saturday condemning and censuring Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) for his role as a chief negotiator in the Senate border security talks between Democrats and Republicans. The resolution -- a copy of which was posted on X, formerly Twitter -- by state Sen. Dusty Deevers (R) said, "Senator Lankford playing fast and loose with Democrats on our border policy not only disfranchises legal immigrants seeking citizenship but it also puts the safety and security of Americans in great danger." ... "Authorizing several thousand people to invade our borders before any action can be taken is contrary to the oath that Senator Lankford took to the Constitution and therefore outside of the area that he is authorized to negotiate in," the resolution states.
Fuck you. We have to vote these people out of office, not only in the primaries, but in the general election, even if that means electing Democrats for a term. Think about it: If a Democrat had this seat, we would have a good chance of booting him out and subtracting a member of the Open Borders Caucus from the Senate. But many of the Open Borders Caucus members are nominally "Republican," and so we NEVER vote them out of office. These members of the Open Borders Caucus -- McConnell, Lankford, Thune, Corwyn -- are in office permanently because they represent (LOL) red states and the red state voters will continue re-electing them FOREVER. They never have to change their position because they know they will NEVER be made to pay a price for it. They defeat their small-beans primary opponents -- which is easy -- and then go on to cruise to general election victory, because we conservatives enable this treachery and reward it. At some point we have to decide to make a (painful) stand and vote one of these guys out of office, even if that means electing a Democrat to a (painful) six year term. These people must be put on notice: We're willing to take a wound to win a necessary fight. Below: What Lankford is letting into the country.
"It is interesting, Republicans, four months ago, would not give funding for Ukraine, for Israel and for our southern border because we demanded changes in policy. So we actually locked arms together and said, 'We're not going to give money for this. We want a change in law,'" he said on "Fox News Sunday." "And now, it's interesting, a few months later, when we're finally getting to the end, they're like, 'Oh, just kidding, I actually don't want a change in law because of presidential election year,'" he added.
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