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January 18, 2024

Ask Not For Whom The Bell Tolls, It Tolls For ONT

Howdy horde! How's the weather where you are? It's crazy here. Today was 65 and sunny, just a lovely shorts and t-shirt day. 3 days ago the low was 11. Monday was that rare day I had to run the kerosene heater all day in my office, today I had the door open to enjoy the breeze. So what else is going on in the world today?

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Quick Nibs

Yesterday I wrote that the DOJ knew that Hunter Biden's laptop was real since 2019, but "stayed silent" as their Deep State colleagues ran a disinformation psyop on the American public to rig an election.

I was wrong. The DOJ didn't "stay silent." They actively joined the treasonous disinformation campaign to rig an election.

I forgot all of this. Victoria Taft:

Knowing that the laptop's contents were legitimate, the FBI went to the Aspen Institute in June 2020 to trigger an information operation against the American people using legacy and social media members to convince people before an election that the laptop story was Russian disinformation. This is called a pre-bunk to propagandize the media and public that the Biden laptop was a Russian "hack-and-dump" operation.

The FBI convinced social media to censor the laptop story before the 2020 election. After Donald Trump's loss, approximately 17% of Americans said they would have changed their vote had they known the laptop was real, according to at least one poll.

That Russian disinformation operation was used to censor American media, including the nation's oldest newspaper, the New York Post, which broke the laptop story, and other sites like PJ Media to stop the story from getting out.

The FBI's information operation against the American people censored news to the American people to change or at least tamper with the results of an American election.

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Marco Polo's report on the Hunter Biden Laptop concludes that the FBI agents tasked with running the information operation against the American people were "the tip of the spear" of the Bureau's information operation against the American people. Whistleblowers have told U.S. senators that "FBI HQ Supervisory Intelligence (SIA) Brian Auten and Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) of the Washington Field Office (WFO) were the so-called 'tip of the FBI spear' in D.C. handling the Biden Laptop slow-walk operation." Auten "assessed" that the laptop was Russian disinformation and the Justice Department took this guy's word for it.

More at the link.

2023 was the deadliest overdose year on record for the shithole city of San Francisco.

Fentanyl accounted for most of the 806 deaths, followed by meth and cocaine. Thirty-seven people died from Xylazine, an adulterant known as "tranq" that Chinese suppliers sell cheaply by the kilogram in powdered form, and which is commonly mixed with fentanyl, cocaine, and heroin. Its side effects include rotting flesh that could require limb amputations. Forty-two people overdosed on Bromazolam, another increasingly common street drug that causes dizziness, drowsiness and amnesia.

These numbers shatter San Francisco's previous record of 726 deaths in 2020, when the city was shuttered under some of the nation's strictest COVID-19 lockdowns. The spike comes after Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) and Mayor London Breed (D.) made the city's drug crisis a political priority, with Newsom sending in the state's national guard and highway patrol to try to stymie fentanyl trafficking. In October, he announced an anti-opioid task force for San Francisco.

Task forces solve everything.

Biden allowed fake asylum seekers to apply for their fake asylum without having to go to an embassy. It just took a few clicks on a website.

Illegals are ignoring the website because, under Biden, it's easier to get asylum by just walking through the open borders and getting your asylum hearing date (for eight years from now).

"Why wait to be scheduled for an interview to come over when you can immediately cross, surrender to Border Patrol, and get stamped with a court date in the next decade?" a senior Department of Homeland Security official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told the Free Beacon.

The evil persecution of Hero Marine Daniel Penny continues.

A New York City judge has denied a motion brought forth by attorneys for US Marine veteran Daniel Penny to dismiss the charges against him stemming from an incident on a New York City subway in 2023 in which Penny subdued mentally ill homeless man Jordan Neely, leading to the man's death.

According to NBC 4, The judge ordered Penny to return to court in late March, and his trial is expected to start in the fall.

The 24-year-old has pleaded not guilty to second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.

On May 1, 2023, Penny placed Neely in a headlock, with the motion stating that Neely's behavior on the train had been "insanely threatening."

I'm just going to point out that I, along with millions of other men, respond to incentives, and if I'm on a subway and a woman is being raped, I'm letting it happen. I will not put my neck into Alvin Bragg's Racist Guillotine. I have put myself into physical danger to stop a crime before. I will not do so in the shithole cities. If they have decided that crime is legal, I will abide their judgment, as I am a law-abiding citizen.

Your WEF leadership cadre, ladies and gentlemen. All races and cultures are gathered to impose a dehumanizing Marxist monoculture on the world.

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Freed Hostages: Palestinian "Civilians" Participated In Our Kidpapping Every Step of the Way

What is it that Hamas says...? Oh yes: There is no such thing as an Israeli civilian, because they're all (theoretically) subject to in the IDF. Therefore they're all combatants and therefore we can kill them all, men, women, and children.

Well, all Palestinians are Hamas collaborators.

Does the same rule apply?


Former Hamas hostages are now reporting that those poor innocent Palestinian "civilians" were their active kidnappers during their kidnapping.

Andrew Tobin for the Free Beacon:

Israeli women and children have in recent weeks begun speaking publicly about what they experienced during nearly two months in Hamas captivity late last year.

In primetime Hebrew TV interviews,

When the Israelis encountered Gazans on the streets, the results were often terrifying.

The revelations underscore the urgency of Israel's 100-plus-day war to destroy Hamas and bring home the 132 hostages who, officials believe, remain captive in Gaza. At the same time, though, the released hostages' accounts indicate how difficult it could be to extricate either the remaining hostages or Hamas from a radicalized population.

"The main issue is that the organization is very much melted into the social structure of Gaza," Michael Milshtein, a former senior Israeli military intelligence officer and a leading expert on Hamas, told the Washington Free Beacon. "There is no way you can really know who is Hamas. Someone might have a grocery store where he sells tomatoes and water, but he might also have storehouse of weapons and give religious lessons there."


And his wife and kids might be keeping an Israeli hostage at home.

So, by Hamas' logic, there is no such thing as a "Palestinian civilian" and all are valid targets for bombing, right?

Right?


"Hamas is not only a political matter in Gaza. It's a way of life," Milshtein said. "We can and should ruin Hamas militarily and change the political arena in Gaza. But ultimately the Gazan people will have to do some soul searching. And here in the Arab world, not only the Palestinians, soul searching is very rare."

The IDF found the bodies of three hostages in a Hamas terror tunnel.

The three hostages were Sgt. Ron Sherman, Cpl. Nik Beizer and Elia Toledano, according to The Times of Israel. The IDF reportedly struck the tunnel where these hostages were held to target Ahmed Ghandour, Hamas' Northern Gaza Brigade commander. However, the IDF did not know the three Israelis were there, the outlet reported.

Here's a (rhetorical) question: Why are #MeToo feminists, who cancelled people and destroyed lives over hugs, completely silent on Hamas' use of rape and Jack-the-Ripper-like genital mutilation as a terror weapon?

"There has been no prominent rallying cry from our prominent women's organizations," Weiss said, name checking the National Organization for Women as one egregious example. "Instead, there has been silence.

"Silence from the leaders of the MeToo movement," she added, although that group partially dissolved following the news that it consulted with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on allegations he sexually harassed multiple women.

"Silence from the celebrities who spoke at the Women's March and in Time's Up," Weiss said. "Silence from those who denounce pay gaps and Harvey Weinstein and Trump's 'grab them by the p****y comments and rape culture more generally.

"Silence from the people who opposed Brett Kavanaugh's nomination for the Supreme Court," she added.

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Surprise! Big Pharma Bankrolled a Disinformation Campaign to Deplatform People Showing Any "Vaccine Hesitancy" Online

Did it seem like Big Pharma had a propaganda campaign ready to execute when they rolled out their non-vaccinating vaccines? That's because they did have a turnkey propaganda campaign ready to deploy.


Finances at the vaccine manufacturer Moderna began to fall almost as quickly as they had risen, as most Americans resisted getting yet another COVID booster shot. The pharmaceutical company, whose pioneering mRNA vaccine had turned it from small startup to biotech giant worth more than $100 billion in just a few years, reported a third-quarter loss last year of $3.6 billion, as most Americans refused to get another COVID booster shot.

In a September call aimed at shoring up investors, Moderna's then-chief commercial officer, Arpa Garay, attributed some of the hesitancy pummeling Moderna's numbers to uninformed vaccine skeptics. "Despite some misinformation," Garay said, COVID-19 still drove significant hospitalizations. "It really is a vaccine that's relevant across all age groups," she insisted.

To get past the "misinformation" and convince the public to take continual booster shots, Garay briefly noted that Moderna was "delving down" on ways to partner "across the ecosystem to make sure consumers are educated on the need for the vaccine."

What Garay hinted at during the call, but didn't disclose, was that Moderna already had a sprawling media operation in place aimed at identifying and responding to critics of vaccine policy and the drug industry. A series of internal company reports and communications reviewed by RealClearInvestigations show that Moderna has worked with former law enforcement and public health officials and a drug industry-funded non-governmental organization called The Public Good Projects (PGP) to confront the "root cause of vaccine hesitancy" by rapidly identifying and "shutting down misinformation."

Part of this effort includes providing talking points to some 45,000 healthcare professionals "on how to respond when vaccine misinformation goes mainstream." PGP and Moderna have created a new partnership, called the "Infodemic Training Program," to prepare health care workers to respond to alleged vaccine-related misinformation.

The company has also used artificial intelligence to monitor millions of global online conversations to shape the contours of vaccine-related discussion. The internal files -- shorthanded here as the Moderna Reports -- show high-profile vaccine critics were closely monitored, particularly skeptics in independent media, including Michael Shellenberger, Russell Brand, and Alex Berenson. PGP, which was funded by a $1,275,000 donation from the Biotechnology and Innovation Organization, a lobby group representing Pfizer and Moderna, has identified alleged vaccine misinformation and helped facilitate the removal of content from Twitter, among other social media platforms, throughout 2021 and 2022.

Emails from that period show that PGP routinely sent Excel lists of accounts to amplify on Twitter and others to de-platform, including populist voices such as ZeroHedge.


The messages also suggested emerging narratives to remove from the platform. "People opposed to vaccines are capitalizing on the NYT [New York Times] article about the CDC withholding vaccine information. The articles do not contain misinformation themselves but are using the news to further prove the CDC is untrustworthy," wrote Savannah Knell, PGP's senior director of partnerships, in an email to a Twitter lobbyist in September 2022. In another email the following month, Kaitlyn Krizanic, PGP's senior program manager, told Twitter to be on the lookout for "reports that Sweden is no longer recommending the vaccine for children." In some cases, conservative accounts expressing outrage at restrictive pandemic policies, such as vaccination passports, were deemed by PGP as "misinformation" that warranted removal.

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Walgreeen's Shuts Down Four Locations in Majority-Black Roxbury, Boston, and Local "Activists" Are Outraged at the "Corporate Greed" of People Not Wanting to be Robbed Blind Every Single Day

As this CBS "journalist" summarizes the issue: "Why do you think Walgreen's is targeting black and brown neighborhoods?"

She refuses to ask anyone about rampant looting putting this store out of business.

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Feds Asked Banks to Conduct Warrantless Searches for Transactions Mentioning "MAGA" or "Trump;" Flagged Religious Texts as "Possible Extremism"

The Ham-and-Eggers at the FBI strike again.

So they're violating the First, Second, and Fourth Amendments.

To Save Democracy.

They're Great Americans.



Federal investigators asked banks to search and filter customer transactions by using terms like "MAGA" and "Trump" as part of an investigation into Jan. 6, warning that purchases of "religious texts" could indicate "extremism," the House Judiciary Committee revealed Wednesday in a letter obtained by Fox News Digital.

Fox News Digital has learned the committee also obtained documents that indicate officials suggested that banks query transactions with keywords like Dick's Sporting Goods, Cabela's, Bass Pro Shops and more.

The House Judiciary Committee and its subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government have been conducting oversight of federal law enforcement's "receipt of information about American citizens without legal process and its engagement with the private sector."

House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said the documents obtained by the committee indicate that after Jan. 6, 2021, the Treasury Department's Office of Stakeholder Integration and Engagement in the Strategic Operations of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, distributed materials to financial institutions that outlined "typologies" of "various persons of interest" and provided the banks with "suggested search terms and Merchant Category Codes for identifying transactions on behalf of federal law enforcement."

The materials included a document recommending the use of generic terms like "Trump" and "MAGA" to "search Zelle payment messages" as well as a "prior FinCEN analysis" of "Lone Actor/Homegrown Violent Extremism Indicators."

"According to this analysis, FinCEN warned financial institutions of 'extremism' indicators that include 'transportation charges, such as bus tickets, rental cars, or plane tickets, for travel areas with no apparent purpose,' or 'the purchase of books (including religious texts) and subscriptions to other media containing extremist views,'" Jordan detailed in a letter to the former director of FinCEN, Noah Bishoff, a career employee.

Just going to go out on a limb here: "Religious texts" stating that Allah is great would not be the sort of texts that the FBI would be allowed to flag for warrantless searches, right?

No, they wouldn't. My friend Rich Higgins talked a lot about the Obama Administration inviting in Muslim Brotherhood members to advise and veto any instruction about what kinds of religious slogans jihadists would use.

That was protected religious expression which is forbidden to be used for investigatory purposes.

But your Gutter Religion, Christians? It's open season on you.


Some people have religious liberty, other people are slaves.

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McConnell and Other Liberal Trash Traitor "Republicans" Are Pressuring Speaker Johnson to Accept Their "Deal" For Protecting Ukraine's Borders While Providing No Protection for America's

Scumbags, sellouts, grifters, foreign agents and criminals.

To hell with the "Biden Republicans."


President Biden and congressional leaders in both parties are ramping up pressure on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to accept an expected deal on Ukraine funding and border security, warning national security is at risk without action by Congress.

Security experts at a White House meeting Wednesday briefed Johnson and other leaders about the dire situation faced by Ukraine. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines and White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan were among those in attendance.

The looming package also includes funding for Israel and the Indo-Pacific region, two other hot spots where U.S. concerns are rising.

Lawmakers say the intent was to highlight that Congress is running out of time to pass an emergency supplemental and that the primary intended audience was Johnson, who has pushed back against the emerging Senate border deal amid pressure from conservatives in his own conference.

The White House and congressional leaders, including Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), are stepping up their engagement with Johnson after he poured water on the border security talks over the weekend.

I can't wait until this monster is gone.


Johnson on Saturday posted a Fox News summary of the deal, which reported it would include an increase in green cards and allow up to 5,000 migrants a day into the United States.

"Absolutely not," Johnson wrote above the news graphic.

The Speaker then doubled down on his criticism Wednesday morning, telling reporters: "I don't think now is the time for comprehensive immigration reform, because we know how complicated that is."

He called for more time for the talks to play out, and made another pitch for H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act, which the House passed in May without any Democratic votes.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), however, has called that bill a "non-starter" in the Senate.

Then fuck Ukraine. Let them die.

If you won't defend the US border, then let the Russians stage their own massive unchecked invasion across Ukraine's.

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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

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I don't care whether "gun violence" increases or decreases when the United State Constitution's Second Amendment is honored rather than eviscerated. In fact, I reject the term "gun violence" as a hyper-emotional misdirection. Guns are inanimate objects and do not operate independently of their users. Violence is violence, and it doesn't really matter what tool the criminal uses, because he is responsible for the violence, and blaming the tool removes agency from the criminal and allows a leftist-dominated law enforcement and judiciary to treat murderers and armed robbers as if they littered or rolled through a stop sign.

What is important is that our natural, God-given rights to self defense and defense against tyranny have been (belatedly) honored. Our founders intended the People to be independent of and superior to the government, and that means responsible for their own defense. But the current incarnation of the police state wants us to be helpless and utterly dependent on them. That is why cops and the growing security establishment want us disarmed. THEY want the power. THEY want the guns.

New study claims permitless carry didn't increase Ohio gun violence, but police argue against it

“It’s hard to say if the fact that crime dropped since the permitless carry bill has been enacted,” Sexton responded. “I do know that we can say that it didn’t make things worse.”

The study results didn’t come as a surprise to Dean Rieck, also with Buckeye Firearms.

“Those who oppose gun rights believe anyone with a gun is a potential murderer,” Rieck said. “But that’s phobia, not fact. The facts show that the vast majority of violent crime is consistently committed by a tiny fraction of the population. Most ordinary people will never commit a crime of any kind.”


That's the kicker! Most ordinary people are not criminals. But here is the mouthpiece for the police state that would make the Stasi proud jabbering non sequiturs and selecting incomplete data to make his point.

But the data doesn’t tell the full story, the Fraternal Order of Police’s Brian Steel said.

“We also had an all-time homicide rate — Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati combined,” Steel said.

Researchers only analyzed data from June 2021 to June 2023.

Pandemic gun violence was unique and peaked like never before, so it is natural for a decrease, Steel explained.

“If crime went down a little bit, I do not classify it as significant,” he said. “I think we have to expand the study a little more, and then see what happens.”


I wonder what the data would show if the "gun violence" were separated into two classes...one in which the shooter had prior arrests or convictions for felonies, and one in which he didn't?

I'll bet there would be a stark and obvious difference. As the state gun organization representative pointed out, most violent crime is perpetrated by a tiny proportion of society.

But...my natural right to self defense against all evil is not dependent on the whims of statistical analysis of violent crime. It is not dependent on government permission. It is not dependent on anything other than my existence as a human being. So any restriction on that right by government is an affront to my humanity, and an intolerable use of government power.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

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So cold!
Giuseppe De Nittis

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The Morning Report — 1/18/24

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Good morning, kids. There are a number of things popping this morning that are each worthy of their own editorial. Alas, the Ace "quick hits" thing is not really my style, so I shall endeavor to hit upon a theme and attempt to weave the other stories in, hopefully in some sort of coherent fashion. Meh. Coherency is overrated, am I right? Here we go:

Right off the bat, while the world is looking at the tension on the Golan Heights between Israel and Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon, which means Iran-controlled Lebanon, 2,000 miles to east apparently is where the action is. How many of you had an Iran vs Pakistan war on your bingo cards? Ho Lee Fook:

Pakistan announced early on Thursday morning local time that it had carried out military strikes inside of Iran after Iran killed innocent civilians inside Pakistan earlier this week during military strikes against a Pakistani militant group.

Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said that the strikes were “highly coordinated” and specifically targeted “terrorist hideouts” in Siestan-o-Baluchistan province of Iran. The operation, codenamed Operation Marg Bar Sarmachar, killed numerous terrorists inside Iran, the statement said.

“Over the last several years, in our engagements with Iran, Pakistan has consistently shared its serious concerns about the safe havens and sanctuaries enjoyed by Pakistani origin terrorists calling themselves *Sarmachars* on the ungoverned spaces inside Iran,” the statement said. “Pakistan also shared multiple dossiers with concrete evidence of the presence and activities of these terrorists.” Pakistan said that Iran did not take the information seriously, did not act, and thus those terrorists have killed innocent Pakistanis. . .

. . . The statement took a swipe at Iran, saying that Pakistan “fully respects the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Islamic Republic of Iran.” Earlier in the week, Pakistan condemned Iran for violating its sovereignty when Iran launched its strikes. The statement took a swipe at Iran, saying that Pakistan “fully respects the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Islamic Republic of Iran.” Earlier in the week, Pakistan condemned Iran for violating its sovereignty when Iran launched its strikes."

“As a responsible member of the international community, Pakistan upholds the principles and purposes of the UN Charter including territorial integrity and sovereignty of member states,” the statement said. “Guided by these principles, and in exercise of our legitimate rights within international law, Pakistan will never allow its sovereignty and territorial integrity to be challenged, under any pretext or circumstances.”

Funny, that's what Israel said in the wake of 10/7. I'm sure the Pakistani delegation in Turtle Bay will rush to Israel's defense there and at the World Court. If you believe that, I have a 2,000 mile long 30-foot high concrete reinforced steel wall between San Diego and Padre Island I can let you have, cheap (more on that issue in a moment)! As I always say, you can never know the future. The Iran-Pakistan dust-up comes completely out of the blue, and perhaps it's just the distraction Israel needs to finish the job in Gaza and then perhaps roll north to roll over Hezbollah. Certainly removes or seriously hampers the threat from Iran.

That said, it should be noted that Pakistan is a nuclear power. Should this incident roll on with ever-increasing tit for tat strikes resulting in full scale war . . . Oh boy. I'm waiting for Lindsey Graham and Nikki Haley to tell us how we must give aid to the Pakistanis and send our armed forces to fight over there. Which would be funny since no doubt Jake Sullivan and Tony Blinken would be advising us to fight alongside the Mullahs, even as Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants can't decide if the Houthis are terrorists or not while simultaneously hurling cruise missiles at their empty tents. Empty because his underlings gave them advance warning.

What an abject clusterfuck of incompetence, ideology, ideologically-driven incompetence or just plain old having the intellect of the bastard child of Claudine Gay and Fetterman's goiter. Apologies. John Fetterman may be a Leftist, but for whatever reason he has taken the 100% correct stand regarding the State of Israel.

Unlike Blinken and the Foggy Bottom bottom-dwellers.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week that Israel cannot defeat Hamas — that there is no “military solution,” and that Israel will have to accept a "Palestinian" state. Netanyahu reportedly rejected the idea. . .

. . . Blinken faces two obstacles: one, that Israelis believe that they are, in fact, capable of winning the war, and that they are doing so; two, that Palestinians themselves do not want a state more than they want to destroy Israel, meaning a state is doomed to fail.

Many left-wing Israelis who once considered themselves “more 'Palestinian' than the 'Palestinians'” now see all Palestinians as a potential threat.

According to Gallup, nearly two-thirds of Israelis now oppose a Palestinian state, given what Hamas did to them, and to Gaza — and given the pro-terror sympathies of the corrupt Palestinian Authority, which governs most Palestinians in the West Bank. That is a radical reversal from the position of most Israelis just a decade ago, when “twice as many Israeli adults supported an independent Palestinian state (61%) as opposed one (30%).” Hamas’s rocket and terror attacks are responsible for the change.

Blinken and [spurious fraud "president"] Joe Biden are committed to the old, failed model of Middle East peacemaking, in which the Palestinian issue must precede all others. President Donald Trump rejected that idea — and the result was the historic Abraham Accords. Now, Biden and Blinken are trying to make new peace agreements — such as a Saudi-Israeli peace deal — contingent on the creation of a "Palestinian" state. And Blinken is casting Israelis as if they are not ready for peace, in contrast to the Arab world.

That is a total inversion of the truth, according to opinion polls, which suggest that the vast majority of Palestinians support Hamas’s terror attack of October 7. Arab public opinion is similar, though the Abraham Accords have remained intact so far. NBC News also reports that Blinken is pushing a deal in which Saudi Arabia would agree to normalized relations with Israel in return for a "Palestinian" state. Ironically, Saudi Arabia was on the verge of a deal without a "Palestinian" state before October 7.

It was the Biden [junta]. according to one report, that actually stalled that deal by insisting on additional concessions to the "Palestinians" — concessions that the Saudis did not demand and for which the "Palestinians" did not agree to any compromises."

The old adage that "The process is the punishment" applies when it comes to the never-ending Middle East "Peace Process." A two-state solution will result in another Final Solution for Israel. What all this garbage boils down to is that Blinken via Biden via Obama is doing is demanding Israel surrender. And surrender now sooner or later will result in Israel being attacked again as badly or likely worse than on 10/7. Perhaps by an Iranian nuke.

If I were Bibi, in no uncertain terms I'd tell Blinken to relay the message to Obama via Biden to go piss up a rope. Then tell him he has one hour to get his filthy self-gassing cadaver the fuck out of the Holy Land or risk arrest as an enemy agent. Enough. Dayaynu. Genucht. And a hearty vayr ge hargit, paskudnyak momzer, for good measure.

Psaki-psircling back to the border, the gravamen of yesterday's disquisition centered on the standoff between Texas and the DC junta. Evidently, Abbott and Paxton are not flinching.

As of Wednesday afternoon, Army National Guard soldiers remain posted at temporary gates erected at the entrance to a city-owned park along the Rio Grande. The park was seized by order of Texas Governor Greg Abbott and closed off to Border Patrol agents unless their entrance into the area is first coordinated with state law enforcement and the Texas Military Department.

The state appears to be standing firm as a Biden [junta] deadline of “the end of the day” for the state to remove the gates and allow unimpeded access to the Border Patrol approaches. General Counsel Jonathan Meyer, on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security, communicated it to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in a letter on January 10. . .

. . . In response to the demands made by the Department of Homeland Security in Counsel Meyer’s demand to grant unimpeded access to the Border Patrol, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton responded in a letter on Wednesday. In his response to DHS, Paxton disputed the arguments made in their cease and desist letter, saying:

Texas allows prompt entry into Shelby Park by any U.S. Border Patrol personnel responding to a medical emergency, and this access is not “limited to use of the boat ramp,” as you say. TMD has ordered its Guardsmen not to impede lifesaving care for aliens who illegally cross the Rio Grande. To that end, TMD has erected gates that allow for rapid admission when federal personnel communicate the existence of some medical exigency.

Paxton went on to say:

[Fake spurious "president"] Biden has been warned in a series of letters, one of them hand-delivered to him in El Paso, that his sustained dereliction of duty in securing the border is illegal. By instructing your agency and others to ignore federal immigration laws, he has breached the guarantee, found in Article IV, § 4 of the U.S. Constitution, that the federal government “shall protect each of [the States] against Invasion.”

. . . Although tensions continue to build between the State of Texas and the Biden [junta] over the use and access of the park by the Border Patrol, the tensions appear to be much less visible at the park itself. Migrant crossings had reduced to a near trickle in the area compared to December when a record-breaking 71,000 migrants crossed the Rio Grande into the Del Rio Border Patrol Sector — most choosing to cross in Eagle Pass.

That means Governor Abbott's defiance and direct action to protect the citizens of Texas, and by extension the real, legal citizens of what's left of the United States, is working. And the Junta cannot abide by that. Funny how scumbags like Brandon Johnson, Eric Adams, Kathy Hochul and every other filthy Democrat bitching about how their sanctuary policies are eating them alive are ripping Abbott for doing what will actually solve their problems: that is sealing the fucking border.

As I stated yesterday and discussed with CBD on the latest episode of the podcast (click here or look in the sidebar). This is arguably not only the winning issue for the GOP and Trump for 2024, but it can be among the issues that can drive a grassroots across the board political sea change that can halt the driving of America off the cliff. With that said, here's something to kick us in the nuts and then stomp on our heads:

Sen. John Thune (R-SD) has locked arms with President Joe Biden in calling for a deal to surrender to unlimited migration that would include tens of billions in foreign aid to Ukraine.

The retreat would hand the White House a key election year win and surrender the best leverage Republicans have had in decades to make substantive changes in border policies that could alleviate one of the American people’s greatest concerns potentially for generations.

Senate negotiators have led efforts for months to pair some sort of border security package with billions of supplemental funding, primarily to advance Ukraine’s floundering war efforts against Russia. The war has been deadlocked for almost a year, with untold hundreds of billions spent and countless lives lost.

Yet hesitancy for more foreign aid and demands for a truly substantive border package from Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) Republican House led to the search for a compromise on the two issues. Leaked details of the deal, which essentially amount to a surrender at the border, have received widespread condemnation, with Johnson indicating he will not move that bill through the House.

On Wednesday, Biden is hosting Congressional leaders at the White House to flex his muscles and pressure Johnson to surrender. Thune’s latest position appears supportive of Biden’s tactics, insisting that the leaked deal is worth supporting. . .

. . . within days, Thune apparently had reversed his position, saying “there isn’t anything that has been settled” when it comes to the idea of tying Ukraine assistance to specific border benchmarks. “There is a concern — and a valid one — that anything we pass won’t be enforced by this administration,” he said. “And if you don’t have some appropriate metrics and consequences, you can put all the best policy out there but they’ll just ignore it.”

Those comments contradict Thune’s latest position, echoing his ally, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), that progress on the border in a future Trump administration would be impossible.

If anyone insists on labeling the GOP the stupid party please leave the room. They are not stupid. They are complicit in our destruction. Thune is likely McYertle's successor. He won't let go of the reins until he's embalmed, but that's another sordid tale emblematic of the corrupt whorehouse that is our government.

Bargaining for wasting blood and treasure to preserve the most corrupt kleptocracy on the planet and continue to piss off nuclear-armed Putin in exchange for the Wimpy Tuesday hamburger promise of "just the tip" in Gang of 8 Amnesty Rape 2: Simpson-Mazzoli Psyche! Boogaloo, is insane.

To hell with Ukrainian territorial integrity when we have erased our own and allowed an invasion of millions who will one day soon completely subsume what's left of our culture and heritage in exchange for being Democrat-Leftist serfs. The only thing that our leaders, that is if we really had any, should say is No. Hell no. And we demand a sealed border and the immediate ramping up deportations of everyone here illegally. As for Thune, I'd like to rip McConnell's arms from their sockets and beat Thune to death with them. Rhetorically speaking, of course.

About the only person on our side who even comes close to taking this stand (that last sentence notwithstanding) is, you guessed it, Donald J.Trump. In fairness to DeSantis, he has also sent the illegals up north as has Abbott. Nikki Haley is John Thune with a slightly less sagging ass.

That said, (singing) "Mister we could use a man like Javier Millei again!. . . " Actually, in perpetuity.

“I am here today to tell you that the West is in danger. It is in danger because those who are supposed to uphold the values of the West find themselves co-opted by a worldview that inexorably leads to socialism, and consequently, to poverty,” Milei said in the opening of his speech.

The Argentine president lamented that world leaders have abandoned the ideas of freedom, embracing instead several versions of leftism which he categorized as being versions of the same ideology of “collectivism.”

. . . “We are here to tell you that collectivist experiments are never the solution to the problems that afflict the citizens of the world but, on the contrary, they are their cause,” Milei said. “Believe me, there is no one better than us Argentines to bear witness to these two issues.” Milei continued by recounting how Argentina, after having become a world power in 1860, had seen itself become impoverished over the past 100 years by embracing collectivist ideas.

“They say that capitalism is bad because it is individualistic and that collectivism is good because it is altruistic, and consequently they strive for ‘social justice.’ Milei said. “But this concept, which in the first world has become fashionable in the last decade, has been a constant in my country’s political discourse for more than 80 years.” . . . The problem is that social justice is not only not fair, but also does not contribute to the general welfare. On the contrary, it is an intrinsically unjust idea, because it is violent. It is unjust because the state is financed by taxes and taxes are levied coercively — or can any of us choose not to pay taxes? Which means that the state is financed through coercion, and the greater the tax burden, the greater the coercion.”

. . . The essential problem of the West today is that we must not only confront those who, even after the fall of the [Berlin] wall and the overwhelming empirical evidence, continue to strive for impoverishing socialism, but also our own leaders, thinkers and academics who, under a mistaken theoretical framework, undermine the foundations of the system that has given us the greatest expansion of wealth and prosperity in our history. . .

. . . “Do not let yourselves be intimidated, do not surrender to a political class that only wants to remain in power,” Milei said. “You are social benefactors, you are heroes, you are the creators of the most extraordinary period of prosperity that we have ever experienced. Let no one tell you that your ambition is immoral.”

Milei concluded his speech with his now widely famous catchphrase: “¡Viva la libertad, carajo!” which roughly translates to “Long live liberty, damn it!”

Abso-fucking-lutely goddam right.

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Top Story

  • Can special lightbulbs end the next pandemic before it starts? (Vox)

    1. It's Vox.
    2. Betteridge's Law.
    3. Uh, maybe?

    They're talking about zapping rooms with far-UV light when they're not in use, which basically, uh, works. Far-UV is not particularly friendly to your skin or eyes, so there certainly safety considerations. And installing it is not particularly cheap.

    But between the disease and the response the US lost about $14 trillion to COVID, so it sounds like it's worth a shot.

    Just try to keep it away from idiots. (MSNBC)


  • Or you could go outdoors, where the UV light is free, and you can't sue anyone.


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January 17, 2024

Wednesday Overnight Open Thread (1/17/24)

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The Quotes of The Day


Quote I

"Tianeptine is an emerging threat," Kaitlyn Brown, the clinical managing director of America's Poison Centers


Quote II

"I don't like how Trump said things, but he wasn't wrong about those critical issues. That's why they're voting for him. People should be more respectful of our fellow citizens," Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan CEO


Quote III

Davos is a gathering of wealthy tyrants.......
A bigger collection of people who should be smarter can't be found anywhere. These pinheads think that the world's ugliest trophy wife — John Kerry — is relevant. Stephen Kruiser

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Spiderbike Cafe

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Yosemite National Park
That might be El Capitan but I dunno
Wait, have I been swindled by AI?
Don't yell at me
via @ryanresatka at IG

By the way, did you see The Dawn Wall? Incredible. Incredible! It starts off with the subjects being captured by terrorists and using their superior climbing skills to escape, and that's just the preamble to catch you up with what's going on before the documentary proper starts.

The rest of the documentary is fantastic, but I was like: "Why are you rushing over this real-life Cliffhanger movie? Do a documentary just on this!" It's like if you're watching a documentary about Michael Phelps and they go, "before he began swimming competitively, Michael trained as a ninja for fifteen years and was crowned champion at the secret worldwide underground fighting contest called the Kumitae. That out of the way, let's go on his swimming record in middle school. He always had big feet -- that helps in the pool."

Anyway, big recommendation.

Wait: I might have meant Free Solo. They're both great, and feature some of the same people. I forget which one starts with the guy being captured by terrorists while mountain climbing in Algeria (or somewhere like that).

Watch them both, just to make sure. Update: Alabama says I had it right the first time. But both are really good.


Some of you were talking about clearing your driveways. Next time, try gasoline.

AI is getting scary.

Passengers on the left side of the airplane will see a Falcon Heavy Rocket lifting off...

Swinger's pad.

The Canyon of the Crescent Moon...! By the way, in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, they briefly stop in the Republic of Hatay, for some vehicles (and tanks!). I always assumed that was a made-up name. It's not.


Landslide in Japan.

Monkey yoga.

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The Biden Administration has crafted another propaganda psyops hoax about the border, and the treasonous media of course pushed it.

More lies from Biden and his Media Praetorian Bodyguard of Lies:

Over the weekend, countless headlines parroted a White House statement that claimed "a woman and two children drowned near Eagle Pass, and Texas officials blocked U.S. Border Patrol from attempting to provide emergency assistance."

The narrative being concocted by the White House was obvious: Texas' decision to seize property along the border in Eagle Pass and boot federal agents -- a move that was praised by the Border Patrol union, mind you -- is killing people at the border. Never mind, of course, the blood of countless deaths on the Biden administration's hands stemming from his disastrous border policies.

Facts, however, rarely get in the way of the Biden administration's attempt to push a narrative via its mainstream media allies. The Associated Press spread the White House's claim far and wide, and U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) jumped in to peddle the false narrative as well.

Well, what the Biden administration, congressional Democrats, and mainstream outlets peddled is not, in fact, what happened -- according to Biden's own Department of Justice.

In a new legal filing caught by Fox News Channel's Bill Melugin, the Biden DOJ debunks the White House's narrative by explaining that the would-be illegal immigrants were dead for at least one hour before Texas was alerted to the situation...

Media which pushes propagandistic lies should be deplatformed and demonetized -- isn't that the rule the treasonous media has established for anyone disputing their lies? Shouldn't the rule apply first and fiercest to the people pushing the rule?

Another one:

R A W S A L E R T S
@rawsalerts

#BREAKING: The FBI has Arrested Transgender Woman Plotting Violence Against Jews, Black People, and Allegedly Targeting Transphobic Co-workers with Nazi Imagery and Stockpile of Guns and Ammunition

#CottageGrove | #Oregon

The FBI has arrested a 56-year-old transgender woman named Elizabeth Ballesteros West, who lives in Cottage Grove, Oregon. West was found with a cache of guns and has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. According to federal agents and court records West is being held at the Lane County Jail and the investigation is on going alleging West made threats online to harm to kill Jews and Black people and reposted content about a mass shooting while displaying a her own Nazi flag and multiple guns. She also threatened her "transphobic" co-workers she was found with 16 rifles, 11 handguns, tens of thousands of ammunition rounds, gun accessories, 48 drawings, a composition notebook called black shadow journal

More here.

Arielle Scarcella just noticed this violent-minded man calling for "stabbing" anyone he deems "transphobic." He does so openly, without any fear of consequences, and of course, social media monopolists offered no consequences for calling for a stabbing intifada against people who refuse to play into his delusions.

But you guys -- you watch your "tone." You could excite someone into violence, so your speech must be monitored and controlled.

The trannies literally calling for stabbing intifadas on the other hand? Just some good old fashioned Consciousness Raising.

Derek Hunter congratulates the left on fighting for higher wages.

Special bonus: Now the jobs are going to robots.


Remember the UAW strike last year? They wanted huge raises and benefits because, well, who doesn't? Democrats rallied around them, the White House took their side and, ultimately, they won. Now, that "victory" is turning into what anyone with a brain could see coming: a future defeat.

The Wall Street Journal ran a headline, "Robots Are Looking Better to Detroit as Labor Costs Rise." Who could have predicted such a thing? Anyone, everyone. It's as easy as "predicting" the sun will rise in the east.

"While automakers have been moving to automation for some time, rising labor costs are poised to accelerate the adoption of such technologies, said Laurie Harbour, president of Michigan manufacturing consulting firm Harbour Results,' the Journal reports.

The new UAW contracts brought with them 25 percent raises which, the Journal reports, "were richer than they (the auto companies) had planned for, and they are strategizing ways to blunt the increased costs."

What will this mean for consumers? The Journal answers, "Ford said the new terms would add about $900 in cost per vehicle by the time the contract expires in early 2028. GM executives pegged the hit from richer labor contracts during that period at roughly $500 a vehicle."

So, they "won" a raise and will lose their jobs. Congratulations?

You see the same thing with these marches for massive increases in the minimum wage for fast food workers. If a job can be replaced by an iPad and a credit card swiper, you aren't worth $5 an hour, let alone $20. Yet, this is what these people are promising their members.

You don't have to take my word for it, just look at California. The progressive haven should be the only canary in the coal mine anyone needs. They recently raised their minimum wage to $20 an hour because why not?

No one who voted for it in the state legislature is going to be impacted by it, one way or another, so why wouldn't they enact something they can campaign on? All the job losses can be easily and simply blamed on "corporate greed!!!!" There is no downside...provided you don't give a damn about people losing their jobs, which these Democrats clearly do not.

Well, it's already happening. "Two major California Pizza Hut franchisees -- PacPizza and Southern California Pizza Company -- are laying off more than 1,200 delivery workers ahead of the new statewide minimum wage hike for fast food workers, from $16 an hour to $20 an hour, starting April 1," reports the Nation's Restaurant News.

Hamas leaders are fleeing their ratholes in Lebanon, fearing assassination.

Most of Hamas's military leaders based in Beirut escaped the Lebanese capital due to fears of being targets of assassinations, KAN News reported Sunday night, citing a source within Hamas.

As per the source in the Gaza-based terrorist group, Hamas has taken significant measures to ensure their leaders' security following the targeted killing of Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri, widely attributed to Israel.

Speaking of Hamas:


Please seat yourself comfortably and surround your head with pillows lest ye faint dead away from shock: It turns out that it was a hoax.

Well, the "Islamophobia" part is a hoax.

In November 2023, Jason J. Eaton, 48, shot and wounded three students of Palestinian descent in Burlington, Vermont. The crime was investigated as "hate-motivated." Nothing was confirmed, but Joe Biden commented on it, along with other Democrats, despite zero confirmation that Eaton was fueled by anti-Muslim rage (via Axios):

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Army Witnesses: The J6 Tale Spun By Army Leaders Are "Irreconcilable" With the Facts

Which they say is how the Army euphemizes "lies" when it's shielding high-ranking officers.

The lies concern why the Army waited until after 5pm on January 6th to deploy the National Guard.

Col. Earl G. Matthews, the Army colonel who served as the senior legal advisor to Maj. Gen. William J. Walker, the commanding general of the District of Columbia Army National Guard during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protests, told RedState that Bryan A. Bonner, an investigative counsel for the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack, acknowledged to him that the J6 narrative spun by senior Army leaders was flawed, and he would pursue the discrepancies.


"He told me that he knew that there were major problems with the DOD's Inspector General report and that he was going to recommend to the committee that they go back to DOD and figure out what went wrong," said Matthews, who, on Oct. 20, filed a 37-page Whistleblower Reprisal Complaint with the Pentagon's inspector general requesting the IG correct its report to bring it into alignment with events and conversations surrounding J6 that he witnessed.

Bonner, who is now regulatory counsel at Clear, told Matthews he would go to his higher-ups on the J6 Committee to resolve the inconsistencies, the colonel said.

"There was so much stuff that was wrong in that report, and so he told me he was

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Bonner, a former Air Force JAG officer who wore a large Space Force lapel pin at the office, was assigned to the committee's Blue Team, which focused on the role of law enforcement and law enforcement officers in the pre-J6 planning and the J6 security failures.

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Matthews said Bonner and other staffers would not say that Army leadership outright lied. "They called it our stories [were] irreconcilable, and there were discrepancies--to me, that was a euphemism for lying."


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Bonner replied that he knew that Army witnesses were changing their stories and that he was going to recommend that the J6 Committee go back to the Army and resolve the contradictions and differing accounts.

More at the link.

Trust the government. In all of human history, corrupt bureaucrats have never, ever lied to frame their enemies or protect themselves from consequences. That's just Science (TM).

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Disney Disaster Watch: Rey Movie "Suspended Indefinitely;" She-Hulk Cancelled for Being Too Stunning and Brave

via TheJamesMadison, a scooper says that Disney's Rey Palpatine movie, to be directed by a hardcore feminist activist and neophyte diversity hire director, has been "suspended indefinitely," which happens to most of Kaffeine Kennedy's announced projects.

Now, LucasFilm is denying this, and claiming the film is still "upcoming."

The problem with that is that we know LucasFilm has indefinitely suspended -- shelved forever -- a ton of projects which they never admit have been shelved.


Kaffeine Kennedy is constantly spamming out "upcoming movies" that are never actually made. She has claimed that:

* Spherical-headed cretin and giggling expectations-subverter Rion Johnson will be directing a Star Wars trilogy

* Architect of Marvel's downfall Kevin Feige will be directing a Star Wars movie or even a trilogy

* The duo responsible for the catastrophic conclusion of Game of Thrones will be directing a new Star Wars trilogy

* Wonder Woman flop queen Patty Jenkins will be directing at least one stand-alone Star Wars movie

* Indiana Jones destroyer James Mangold will be directing a Star Wars trilogy

* A random autistic bluehair nosering lesbian plucked off the street will be directing a Star Wars trilogy, whether she is willing or unwilling -- either way, she will be forced to direct a Star Wars trilogy

That last one is unconfirmed, but the rest were announced by Kaffy.

Kaffy looks around for whoever is hot at this very second and then signs them up for one or three star wars movies. Then their hotness fades quickly -- the Game of Thrones guys were so eager to finish Game of Thrones that they didn't bother to actually finish it; men positioned Patty Jenkins for success for the first Wonder Woman movie, but then she got too big for her britches and decided she'd write the second movie herself (There were no survivors) -- and their movies are never discussed again.

It's almost as if Kaffeine Kennedy has the Reverse Midas Touch, instantly turning every hot prospect into a box office failure.


Kaffeine Kennedy spams out these Fake Movie Announcements whenever she feels her position is shaky and that she might be fired, which is always. She makes Fake Movie Announcements the way other women get their hair done -- she makes up a Fake Movie Announcement whenever she wants to feel pretty.

The truth is that Kaffeine Kennedy had her power to greenlight movies taken away from her after Rise of Skywalker. The franchise has been put on permanent hold since then.

All of the movies listed above are not happening. They are cancelled. But LucasFilm does not admit they're cancelled. They still claim that Rion Johnson's trilogy is still "in development," and is only delayed because Rion Johnson is so very, very busy making one "Glass Onion" sequel every three or four years.

So when LucasFilm claims that the Rey Palpatine movie is "still in development," I wonder: You mean, like Kevin Feige's movie? Like Patty Jenkins' movie? Like the Game of Thrones idiots' trilogy?

There is further evidence the movie has been shelved -- after the feminist activist went on her own rogue, freelance publicity tour for a movie not slated to premiere until 2025 at earliest, Disney rushed out a quickie press release claiming that the only man that fans have some amount of trust in, Jon Favreau, would be directing a movie based on the only part of the Star Wars universe fans have any lingering interest in, the Mandoverse.

The strong -- nay, overpowering -- suspicion is that Disney was panicked by the blowback against the "I enjoy making men feel uncomfortable" movie and rushed out a bullshit pitch for a different movie to distract from the Rey movie debacle.

Like spraying a room with Fabreeze Tropical to cover up a pungent Egg McMuffin fart. One of those farts that is especially unsettling because it smells almost the same coming out as it tasted going in, which causes you to realize, in disgust: All the food we eat is just farts in solid form.

Adding to this suspicion is that this Mandoverse movie is, reportedly, 1, taking over the Pinewood Studios space that Disney had rented out to make the Rey movie, and 2, is just the last two episodes of the fourth season of the Mandolorian, which strongly -- nigh undeniably -- suggests that the last two episodes of that series were just ordered to be made into a movie so that Bob Iger would have something to put into theaters while denying, again, that another Fake Star Wars Movie was in fact cancelled.

Bob Iger hasn't changed his woke imperatives -- but he does have a shareholder proxy fight on his hands. He can't continue making these woke bombs, but he also can't offend the Woke Revolutionaries by admitting they're cancelled.

So Disney won't admit that She-Hulk has been cancelled and won't be back for a second season. The show's woke "star," however, let it slip that Disney said "No thanks!" to a season 2.

Tatiana Maslany, the actor who played Jennifer Walters, aka She-Hulk, in She-Hulk: Attorney At Law, has dashed any hopes of a second season of Marvel's divisive Disney Plus show.

Appearing on streamer NerdIncorrect's Twitch gameshow Codenames Live, Maslany was asked by the host, "Should we hope for a season 2?"

"I don't think so," Maslany replied. "I think we blew our budget, and Disney was like, 'no thanks!'"

Yeah, it was just the budget. Disney routinely spends $300 million+ on bomb movies, but She-Hulk was cancelled only because you spent too much.

(The show had a budget of $225 million, reportedly, and featured the picture-perfect CGI and gold-plated production values for which Disney+ TV shows are justifiably famous. Sure it cost $225 million, but you could see at least $40-50 million right there on the screen.)

Maslany's statement isn't official, of course, but it sounds quite final.

Yes and it's the last we'll hear of it. As already emphasized, Disney and LucasFilm simply refuse to admit that their crap projects are cancelled. They just go "into development" forever.

A second season of the show was never discussed by Marvel, although head writer Jessica Gao has said she had ideas for further seasons, and the final episode left the possibility open.

LOL. Shyeah right, Jessica Gao, I can't wait to see the new genius ideas you have for a season 2.

If you want to watch a brutal come-down, watch Midnight's Edge comparison of how She-Hulk's putative "star" was talking when she thought she was on top of the world, with the much more humble tone she has assumed now that she is out-of-work.

I mean, she's appearing on a Twitch game show, and admits she's looking for "leads" for her next job.

Meanwhile, Disney has settled, with secret terms of course, a lawsuit by film financier TSG, which claimed that Disney was using fraudulent "Hollywood accounting" to avoid paying out profits on its few profitable movies.

Disney and 20th Century Studios have settled a breach of contract lawsuit from film financier TSG Entertainment, which accused them of withholding profits and self-dealing to boost subscriber numbers for their streaming platforms.

Lawyers for both sides notified the court on Jan. 5 of a deal to resolve the dueling suits. Terms of the agreement weren't disclosed.

The case centered on an independent audit of three films TSG invested in, including best picture winner The Shape of Water, that revealed it's owed at least $40 million. This shortfall, the company alleged, caused it to take a worse position in its investment of Avatar: The Way of Water and deprived it of the cash necessary to exercise options to invest in other movies.

Lastly, a story not about Disney but about another entertainment company which went woke.

Remember when the Hallmark Movie Channel suddenly had gay characters in all of their Christmas romance movies?

Not sure that's working out too well for them, because their CEO, "Wonya Lucas," "abruptly" announced her retirement in August, and now four of her handpicked executives have been fired.

Despite rising to the top of the ratings as the most-watched entertainment network on cable TV last year, per a recent Hallmark press release, the company laid off four key executives on January 10, 2024, according to Deadline. The changes come five months after former Hallmark Media CEO Wonya Lucas announced she would soon be stepping down from her role by the end of 2023.

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All four women were hired during Lucas' tenure as CEO and reported to her. When Lucas announced her impending departure in August, the company said Mike Perry, CEO of parent company Hallmark Cards Inc., would work closely with the the executive team to manage the transition and future planning.

They worked closely with them as they escorted them out of the building carrying boxes of their personal items.

Via Clownfish TV, WDW Pro, Valliant Renegade, and Adam Friend.

Here's some good media news. Apparently Baldur's Gate 3 is the game of the year and one of the best computer games ever created, and it's only going to get better now that players can unlock and download a new major-league NPC for the game.

I hear that Mac will be a downloadable character for Mortal Kombat.

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Oh Boy: Key Index Predicting Economic Output "Plummets" to Lowest Level Since Pandemic

Bidenomics, baby!

What hobbies and interests you didn't previously have the time for will you pursue when you're unemployed? Because that is how our treasonous, foreign-actor media will play this.

Get ready for a Funcession!


From Hot Air:

Trouble for the U.S. economy? Empire State gauge sinks to lowest level since pandemic.

New York Fed's business-conditions index tumbles to negative 43.7, lowest since May 2020

The numbers: A survey of business conditions in the New York region sank in January to the lowest level since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, perhaps a sign of trouble brewing for the U.S. economy.

The New York Federal Reserve's Empire State business-conditions index, a gauge of manufacturing activity, plunged 29.2 points to negative 43.7, the regional Fed bank said Tuesday.

It's the second-lowest reading ever. The biggest drop took place in the depths of the pandemic, in May 2020.

Economists had expected a negative-4 reading, according to a survey by the Wall Street Journal. Any number below zero indicates deteriorating conditions.

Over the past two months, the index has plummeted 58.2 points, largely because of a decline in new orders. Orders provide an indication of future business activity.


JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon -- a longtime Democrat and close ally of the Clinton Corporate Wing of the Democrat Party -- warned investors a week ago that America was going to be enjoying 70s style stagflation, and won't be enjoying it that much.


JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon tells Americans it's back to the 1970s! Wall Street Doomsayer warns high inflation reminds him of dire economy five decades ago

Jamie Dimon warned interest rate cuts were not guaranteed this year

He dismissed predictions of a 'goldilocks economy' in 2024 which is neither too hot nor too cold

Several firms are still predicting a recession, despite being wrong in 2023

By Helena Kelly

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has warned Americans to prepare for a return to the 1970s - an era marked by rampant inflation, high unemployment and a series of energy crises in the US.

Dimon said rising prices, stagnant growth and huge government spending were among the factors linking the 2020s to the 1970s as he echoed comments made by other economists.

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When asked by Fox Business Network's Maria Bartiromo whether households could expect interest rates to decrease three times this year, he said: 'I'm a skeptic. I think because of fiscal spending and other factors.

'I look at a lot of things - forget about economic models - $2 trillion of fiscal deficit, the infrastructure and IRA act, the green economy, the remilitarization of the world, the restructuring of trade, are all inflationary.

'That looks a little more like the 1970s to me.'

His comments are in-line with predictions made by Deutsche Bank. Back in October, the German firm said rising geopolitical tensions and soaring energy prices had created a 'striking number of parallels' between the 1970s and 2020s.

Related: Jamie Dimon just told Democrats to cool it on constantly attacking MAGA. His point is that MAGA make some correct and necessary critiques, and when Democrats attack and smear anyone they brand as "MAGA," they're announcing to voters that "we don't care about these obvious problems that are destroying this country and will keep pretending they're not problems until we hit rock bottom, like Hunter Biden coming off a three year crack power-nap."

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Head of the NIH, and Anthony Fauci's Superior, Francis Collins: Now That You Have Me Here Under Oath and Pain of Perjury, I Guess Maybe the Lab Leak Wasn't a "Conspiracy Theory" Like I Repeatedly Claimed When I Wasn't Under Oath

Trust the experts.

No "experts" have ever lied for personal advantage in all of history. That's just Science (TM).

Now Anthony Fauci's former boss Francis Collins concedes Covid lab leak was NOT a conspiracy - despite spearheading attacks against scientists who touted theory

Francis Collins was instrumental in the publication of the natural origins theory

Dr Collins said to have hidden NIH involvement in funding gain of function work

By Cassidy Morrison Senior Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com

Anthony Fauci's former boss admitted to Congress that the Covid lab leak theory was credible - despite previously calling it a 'very destructive conspiracy'.

Dr Francis Collins, former head of the National Institutes of Health, testified in a closed-door session with the House coronavirus subcommittee on Friday about his role during America's pandemic response.

Dr Collins was involved in suppressing the theory that Covid likely escaped from a Chinese biolab, a theory which implicated the sprawling agency he headed up. It was previously revealed that the NIH oversaw grants funding risky 'gain of function' research to make viruses more transmissible and/or deadly.

In a significant U-turn, House Republicans who led the hearing revealed that Dr Collins, 73, told them that the lab leak hypothesis was not a conspiracy theory.

His answers were similar to those of Dr Fauci, who sat for a marathon 14 hours of questioning last week when he finally acknowledged that the lab leak theory -- that Covid escaped from a Chinese biolab -- should not have been so easily dismissed.

Republicans also said that, like Dr Fauci, Dr Collins muddied the definition of gain of function research 'in an effort to hide the NIH's involvement in funding the dangerous research in Wuhan.'

I am not sure how they play loosey-goosey with the definition, but my personal head-cannon is that they are claiming that "gain of function" only results from a direct rewriting of genetic code, through, say, the CRISPR genetic editing process. And they are claiming that other methods of changing a viruses DNA, such as repeated "serial passage" through mice, knowing and intending that the DNA will mutate with every single run through a living host, doesn't count as "gain of function" because it's "natural" or some shit, even though it's just another method of achieving the same result -- mutating a virus until it becomes different and more infections and more deadly to human beings.

If anyone can confirm that, or dispel that, please let me know.

The questioning also zeroed in on the "Proximal Origins" paper. Fauci ordered two of the men his NIAID was providing grants to to phony-up a "scientific" paper smearing those who favored the lab-leak theory as a "conspiracy theory" and claiming that it was nearly impossible that the covid-19 virus could have been made in a lab.

In fact, many scientists pointed to specific sites on the virus, including the notorious furin cleavage site, that could only have been made in a lab. And which looked exactly like the furin cleavage sites of other viruses made in a lab.

Fauci and Collins hid the fact that they were the ringleaders (and, indirectly, the funders) of this paper, then cited the paper as supposedly independent research backing up their claims.

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The sainted doctors are said to have pushed for the publication of an influential scientific paper that shaped the narrative that Covid originated in nature while discrediting the theory that gain of function was the cause.

The centerpiece of questioning pertained to the March 2020 'Proximal Origins' paper, in which scientists said the theory that gain of function research triggered the release of a genetically modified coronavirus from the Wuhan Institute of Virology was 'improbable.'

Ohio Republican Brad Wenstrup, who heads the Covid subcommittee in the House, said: 'Dr. Collins acknowledged that Dr Fauci invited him to attend the infamous February 1, 2020 conference call that prompted the "Proximal Origin" publication.

'This testimony directly contradicts Dr. Fauci's previous statements and raises further concerns about the U.S. government's role in suppressing and vilifying the lab-leak hypothesis.'

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Drs Fauci, Collins, and other authors of the Proximal Origins paper have denied that the top doctors strongarmed the researchers into publishing one theory over another, though bombshell emails made public last spring by Republicans showed that Dr Kristian Andersen, a co-author of the paper, wrote that '[This paper was] Prompted by Jeremy [Farrar], Tony Fauci and Francis Collins.'


An earlier investigation completed by House Republicans uncovered an email Dr Collins sent to Dr Fauci two months after the 'Proximal Origins' paper was published that said: 'I hoped the Nature Medicine article on the genomic sequence of SA RS-CoV-2 would settle this... Wondering if there is something NIH can do to help put down this very destructive conspiracy ... Anything more we can do?'

Collins also smeared the epidemiologists who wrote the "Great Barrington Declaration" as "fringe epidemiologists."


During his closed-door testimony, Dr Collins also stood firm on his previous statements denouncing the Great Barrington Declaration.

This petition criticized government efforts to shut down the economy, including schools, and favored isolating just those people at the highest risk of severe illness, such as the elderly.

Collins sent an email to Dr Fauci in October 2020 saying the ideas from 'fringe' epidemiologists who wrote the declaration required a 'quick and devastating published take down.'

The widespread lockdowns that dominated most of 2020 have since been found to have inflicted harm on people's mental health, particularly in children, who were barred from attending school in person, extracurricular activities such as sports teams, and spending much-needed time with peers.


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Dr Collins also mimicked Dr Fauci's murky definition of 'gain of function' research 'in an effort to hide the NIH's involvement in funding the dangerous research in Wuhan,' according to Rep Wenstrup.

Dr Fauci was also accused of 'playing semantics' during his closed-door testimony last week, when he backtracked on earlier claims that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases never allocated government money to gain of function research.

He had insisted to Senators last summer that his former department 'has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.'

Yet, emails dated February 1, 2020, showed Fauci acknowledged that 'scientists in Wuhan University are known to have been working on gain-of-function experiments to determine that molecular mechanisms associated with bat viruses adapting to human infection, and the outbreak originated in Wuhan.'


Via David Strom, who comments:


Before you express contempt for those people, realize that the consequences of not being able to trust any of the information fed to you is not just dispiriting but incredibly burdensome and destructive to a society that depends on social trust. We all depend on trust to a great extent, especially in complicated societies like our own. Capitalism and our Republic depend on reasonable levels of integrity; corrupt societies like Russia stumble along and are always on the brink of failure.

We shouldn't have to research everything. We have lives to live and families to enjoy.

Which makes the betrayal of our elites a calamity. We can't trust anybody anymore. Our government is corrupt. Our medical institutions are corrupt. Our bureaucracies are corrupt. And, worst of all, the media is corrupt--because we need the media to hold everybody else in check.

The likeliest explanation for why the NIH and Fauci hid the origins of the virus is that they paid to develop it through grants to the EcoHealth Alliance. It's no shock they would move heaven and earth to cover that up--most people would cover it up. Who wants to be held responsible for mass murder, even if it was an accident?

If we had real media they could help us discover the truth and hold people responsible. But we don't.

The media are just propagandists for the officially-sanctioned lies of the Regime.

In further alarming news, a study says that covid-19 shots are linked to autism,at least in rats.


A study from Turkey discovered that female rats injected with mRNA COVID-19 vaccines gave birth to offspring exhibiting symptoms of autism and lower neuronal counts in the brain.

The peer-reviewed study, published in the Neurochemical Research journal on Jan. 10, examined the links between COVID-19 mRNA vaccines and neurodevelopmental disorders, with a focus on autism. It analyzed the offspring of pregnant rats injected with Pfizer's mRNA COVID-19 vaccines during gestation. Researchers found that the vaccines had a "profound impact on key neurodevelopmental pathways," with the male offspring exhibiting "pronounced autism-like behaviors, characterized by a marked reduction in social interaction and repetitive patterns of behavior."

"Furthermore, there was a substantial decrease in neuronal counts in critical brain regions, indicating potential neurodegeneration or altered neurodevelopment. Male rats also demonstrated impaired motor performance, evidenced by reduced coordination and agility."


Here's some great news to finish with: Fauci's Chinese partners are now experimenting with a gain-of-function variant of coronavirus with a 100% kill rate.

In the wake of a plandemic that killed millions of people, caused by a bug that likely escaped from a Chinese biolab that was funded by the US government, the Chinese have decided to double down on playing with viruses that have the power to wipe millions or billions of human beings off the face of the earth.

The arrogance is breathtaking. 100% kill rate.

This time, the Chinese have announced that they have been breeding a bug that has a 100% kill rate in humanized mice, which is pretty impressive until you realize that this is not some fancy new way to eradicate rodents but a scary new way to liquify the brains of human beings.

The lying, treasonous media, one year from now, after an outbreak of a coronavirus that has a 100% kill rate and liquifies people's brains, and also began spreading in China:

"This is obviously a naturally-evolving coronavirus variant and anyone who suggests otherwise must be deplatformed, debanked, and de-employed."

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DOJ Confirms That Hunter Biden's Laptop Belongs to, Get This, Hunter Biden

And more than that -- they reveal that they've always known it was Hunter Biden's laptop.

But they kept silent as their Deep State partners launched a Soviet disinformation psyops campaign against the American people vowing otherwise.

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@mirandadevine

In a new court filing today, the DOJ confirms Hunter Biden's laptop is real, that he left it at a computer store, and that the contents matched what they obtained from a search warrant of his iCloud.

Don't hold your breath for a retraction from Joe Biden ("It's a Russian plant"), the #Dirty51 or myriad dishonest media operatives. They blamed Russia when the Bidens knew it was Hunter - and so did the FBI.

Hunter also blamed Russia when he was caught using adultery site Ashley Madison.

Joy Reid and Hunter Biden's Dirty Dick have a lot in common, and I don't just mean the smell.

They verified that the laptop was Hunter's in 2019. They compared information on the laptop to information from Hunter's Apple accounts and determined it was the same information.

And then they lied and lied and lied to the American public.

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But that's not all. The DOJ also revealed that the holster containing Hunter Biden's thrown-in-a-dumpster-by-a-school gun was also dusted with cocaine.

I know what you're thinking -- Hunter Biden?! Cocaine?! This makes no sense and must be a Russian op!

But hold on there Chief -- let's look at the evidence dispassionately before asserting that the impeccable character, faultless personal history, and strong-as-steel moral fiber of Hunter Biden disproves any possible association with the illicit drug cocaine.

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