January 10, 2024
Wednesday Overnight Open Thread (1/10/24)
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The Quotes of The Day
Quote I “This was a statement of a protest to say, ‘Hey, we’re not going to just go along to get along like everything’s okay,’” Rep. Bob Good (R-VA)
Quote II "We're going to approach this — No. 1 — acknowledging our mistake. We're going to approach it with 100% and complete transparency every step of the way." Boeing Co. Chief Executive Officer Dave Calhoun
Quote III “My son only wanted one thing: he wanted to get off that wheel. He wanted to find a way out of being a trapaholic." “He’s free now, so he did it. It cost him his life, but he did it.” Heather McArthur
Quote IV “What are you afraid of? You have no balls.” Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC)
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Innocents Abroad Cafe
Zion National Park, Utah
Short clips of interesting places. Tough but fair. Beautiful path. Messing with a dude wearing Asian monk robes is just asking for embarrassment. Am I being punked?
Zion National Park, Utah
Short clips of interesting places. Tough but fair. Beautiful path. Messing with a dude wearing Asian monk robes is just asking for embarrassment. Am I being punked?
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Quick HitsRun Waddle was just a debut to be the go-to hatchetman against Republicans on CNN.
Scientists fear that "zombie deer disease" will spread to humans (probably after it undergoes Gain of Function mutation at a Chinese lab sponsored by Anthony Fauci).
Melania Trump has been attending her sick mother for a long while.
Today, she sadly announces her mother's passing:MELANIA TRUMPChris Christie dropped out like a big fat sweaty loser, and also an ungracious loser. Chris Christie loves talking with his base -- leftwing "journalists" who know he can be relied upon to attack any conservative Republican they ask him to trash, as McCain did before him -- and so he had to confide to his "journalist" frenz that Nikki Haley "is not up to this" and is going to "get smoked." I don't disagree -- but Chris Christie is a big fat sack of nasty self-regard. He's the world's most pock-marked and obese 8th grade girl. My friend, neither_steve_in_hb_nor_not_steve_in_hb, had the right read on Chris Christie a decade ago, when I still thought he was a "gutsy truth-teller who wasn't afraid of the leftwing lobby." Boy was I a big stupid fat loudmouth moron. Kind of like Chris Christie, but not that fat. Can we finally be done with this galaxy-assed catspaw for liberal Democrat billionaires? LOL, just kidding, this whole Vanity
@MELANIATRUMP It is with deep sadness that I announce the passing of my beloved mother, Amalija. Amalija Knavs was a strong woman who always carried herself with grace, warmth, and dignity. She was entirely devoted to her husband, daughters, grandson, and son-in-law. We will miss her beyond measure and continue to honor and love her legacy.
The discovery of Yellowstone National Park's first case of chronic wasting disease (CWD) last month has raised concerns that the fatal brain disease may someday spread to humans, according to some scientists. A deer carcass in the Wyoming area of the park tested positive for the highly contagious prion disease that can also cause weight loss, stumbling, listlessness and neurological symptoms, according to the CDC. It has been spotted in deer, elk, reindeer and moose in areas of North America, Canada, Norway and South Korea. Symptoms can take up to a year to develop and some have dubbed it the "zombie deer disease" since it changes in the hosts' brains and nervous systems, leaving animals drooling, lethargic, emaciated, stumbling and with a telltale "blank stare," according to The Guardian. It is fatal, with no known treatments or vaccines. And now scientists are sounding the alarm that it could infect humans, although no known case has ever been recorded. Epidemiologists say the absence of a "spillover" case yet does not mean it will not happen. CWD is one of a cluster of fatal neurological disorders that includes Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly referred to as "mad cow disease."From Technofog: the guy that Fani Willis was paying to schlong her pocketed $1 million in legal fees from her, and has never tried a RICO case before. His main qualification? He hits her in the back of the vag just right.
The Special Prosecutor has pocketed $1 million in legal fees. This is the biggest RICO case in GA history - and "the special prosecutor has never tried a felony RICO case." pic.twitter.com/qhWV319reZ -- Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) January 8, 2024The Paolo, Attorney-At-Law. I already mentioned that The Paolo, Attorney-At-Law took some of the taxpayer money Fani Willis was directing into his bank accounts to wine, dine, and sixty-nine her.
Techno FogThere's a lot of that going on in the Democrat Marxist Party.
@Techno_Fog Wow - Fulton County DA Fani Willis (allegedly) sleeping with the Special Prosecutor she appointed. His earnings - stemming from her appointment - have paid "for both of them to travel on both the Norwegian and Royal Caribbean cruise lines." lol
One of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (D-NY) former top aides reportedly laid aside quite a bit of money in donor funds from his political action committee (PAC) for himself. After stepping down from his position as her communications director in 2019, Corbin Trent created the No Excuses PAC, Fox News reported Saturday. He created the PAC with the mission to kill the Senate filibuster by targeting Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ). However, Trent reportedly did not spend much money on its mission. "Instead, Trent paid himself nearly $140,000 for reported communication and management consulting between February 2021 and September 2023, which is shown in Federal Election Commission filings," the article said.The partisan traitor serving as judge in Trump's New York political prosecution has forbidden the defendant to speak in his own defense.
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Gen Z'ers Are So Unprepared for Job Interviews That They're Bringing Their Mommies and Daddies to The Interviews to Help Them
Helicopter parenting has reached a new level. Employers are going above and beyond to not hire recent college graduates in favor of older workers, a new survey found. The survey uncovered many reasons why older applicants are preferred -- including that Gen Z jobseekers are even bringing mom and dad to interviews. In December, Intelligent, an online magazine focused on student life, surveyed 800 managers, directors and executives involved in the hiring process. It found that 39% of employers actively avoid hiring recent college graduates for roles they're qualified for. Out of the 800 people surveyed, a startling one in five (19%) said a recent college graduate brought a parent with them to their job interview. But that's not the only aspect stopping employers from hiring Gen Z applicants. One in five employers say that recent college graduates are "unprepared" for interviews -- and are often unprofessional. Fifty-three percent of employers surveyed said that recent college graduates struggle with eye contact, 50% said they ask for unreasonable compensation, 47% said they don't dress appropriately for interviews, and 21% said they refuse to turn their cameras on for virtual interviews. But Diane M. Gayeski, a professor of strategic communications at Ithaca College, suggested that these behaviors aren't entirely their fault -- a lot of it is circumstantial. "Employers need to recognize that, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, young people graduating from college had more than two years of disruption in their education as well as their social and professional development," Gayeski said in the report. "Current seniors were in their freshman year at the height of COVID. They likely took classes online and were unable to participate in clubs, internships or summer jobs."This is nonsense. Yes, younger people will have experienced social retardation due to the covid lockdowns. But by age 18-19 -- which is what we're talking about here, as these are just-graduated morons -- your social development is mostly complete. You're not still learning how to speak with people and hold their gaze.
Additionally, 63% of those involved in hiring claimed that recent college grads can't manage their workload, 61% said they are frequently late to work, 59% claimed they often miss deadlines, and 53% noted that they are frequently late to meetings.See the article for more. Employers report that Gen Zers have bad attitudes and will not take criticism or even direction. A society cannot endure if it produces two weakling, stupid, worthless generations in a row. Remember when America was a first-world country? That was nice. I miss that. It's not all the fault of Gen Zers and their terrible teachers and AWFL parents, though. A big part of it is the "rewiring" of their brains by being the first Always Online Generation.
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New York City Students Forced to "Attend School" Remotely as the City Confiscates Their Schools to Shelter Illegal Alien
Foreign criminals are much more important than American children, doncha know.
NYC channel 11, WPIX:Thousands of migrants were evacuated from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn to ride out a potential rainstorm on Tuesday night, officials said. Approximately 2.000 migrants were moved from Floyd Bennett Field in Flatbush to James Madison High School on Tuesday afternoon, according to the Office of Emergency Management. Roughly 40 Department of Education buses were in the evacuation, according to the OEM. The asylum seekers spent the night in the school's gymnasium before returning to Floyd Bennett Field on Wednesday morning, officials said. The field began housing about 2,000 migrants last year. ... "The health and safety of migrants in our care is always a top priority, which is why we are currently overseeing the relocation of 1,900 guests from the humanitarian emergency response and relief center at Floyd Bennett Field due to an updated forecast with increased wind speeds estimated to be at over 70 MPH tonight," a City Hall spokesperson said in a statement.Yes, we know that's your top priority. You make that more clear every single day of this living hell you're forcing us to live in.
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Court Blocks Biden Junta's Newest Crusade, Taking Away People's Washing Machines
You will be made to live like a Mennonite. Well, an unemployed Twitter activist transgender prostitute Mennonite.
The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals pushed back this week on a Biden administration effort to tighten regulations on dishwashers and washing machines. In 2022, President Joe Biden issued an executive order on his first day in office that led to the Department of Energy replacing a less strict Trump-era rule on those appliances with a more stringent rule for energy and water use. Critics lamented the much longer amount of time needed for cleaning under the Biden rule and said Americans were paying more for the appliances that left the clothes and dishes less clean. "This decision allows manufacturers to build better dishwashers, not be encumbered by counterproductive federal regulations," said Devin Watkins, an attorney for the Competitive Enterprise, a group that helped lead the pushback on the Biden administration's new rule. The critics filed suit against the Biden administration, and the court ruled in against the Biden administration, suggesting the DOE violated federal law with its effort and may not have legal standing to regulate the appliances nearly as much as the agency has claimed. The court ruled that it "is unclear that DOE has statutory authority to regulate water use in dishwashers and clothes washers." "But even if DOE has water-usage authority over the relevant appliances, the Department...failed to adequately consider the negative consequences of the Repeal Rule, including the substitution effects of energy-and-water-wasting rewashing, prewashing, and handwashing," the court ruled. "And in all events, the 2022 DOE...failed to adequately consider the impact of the energy conservation program on 'performance characteristics.'"Fresh off of targeting Elon Musk, Biden's partisan thug at the SEC is now targeting Rumble. I guess it's all just a coincidence that Biden's Handlers are constantly using government law enforcement power to harass and imprison Biden's political enemies, huh? I sure hope a Republican doesn't get elected -- imagine, a Republican might use the power of the federal government to target leftwing journalists and other enemies. The horrors of such Bad Fascism (TM)!
President Joe Biden's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating video platform Rumble for undisclosed reasons, the agency confirmed to Wired on Monday. The SEC's acknowledgment of the investigation to Wired comes after an April report by investment research firm Culper Research alleging that Rumble boosts measurements of its monthly active users (MAU) by 66% to 108%, which the company vehemently denies. Culper Research disclosed its "short" position on Rumble at the time of the report's release, indicating potential profit if Rumble's stock falls.This observer says the short seller -- someone who bets on the price of a stock falling (and who will suffer major losses if the stock price rises) -- is making up a negative story and feeding it to the SEC, so that the SEC will then investigate the company -- and cause Rumble's stock price to fall, thereby making the short seller rich.
Chris PavlovskiThese are only the most recent cases of Biden's Handlers abusing "regulatory" power to punish disfavored speech, people, products, and companies. The Fifth Circuit just rejected the FDA's galling "surprise switcheroo." The FDA announced very costly hurdles that vaping products would have to clear to gain FDA approval. Companies spent millions to clear these hurdles. Then the FDA turned around and said,"Nah, we were just kidding, we're never going to approve any of your products and we just made you spend millions for no reason."
@chrispavlovski
The playbook to try and destroy $RUM (Rumble) A short seller creates a bogus report and sends it to the SEC. The SEC investigates the bogus report. Then the short seller talks to the media to get a story about how the SEC is investigating the report that started with him. The media happily writes the story. The report is bogus, but that doesn’t matter—it’s all to get investors to sell the stock so the short seller profits. Good news, it won’t work. We saw the attacks coming, and we prepared for them. Prior to going public, we chose to use Google Analytics to track and report our MAUs, so we could be ready for this very moment. This is just the start, they’re coming for us in 2024. They can't stand Rumble's mission, but they are going to learn quickly how hard we punch back.
The only square corners the fascist US government is turning are those needed to form the Nazi swastika.
En Banc Fifth Circuit Rejects FDA's Vaping Regulation "Surprise Switcheroo"
Another significant court loss for the Food & Drug Administration's arbitrary approach to regulating vaping products. Jonathan H. Adler | 1.3.2024 4:31 PM Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued its long-awaited en banc decision in Wages and White Lion Investments, L.L.C. v. Food & Drug Administration, in which it considered a challenge to the FDA's denial of vaping product applications. By a vote of 10-6, the court handed the FDA a substantial loss, and deepened the circuit split over the FDA's handling of vaping product applications.
... [S]itting en banc, the Fifth Circuit has again ruled against the FDA, taking the agency to task for its arbitrary treatment of Wages & White Lion's product applications and, by implication, those submitted by dozens of other manufacturers as well. ... Judge Oldham's opinion begins:
Over several years, the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") sent manufacturers of flavored e-cigarette products on a wild goose chase. First, the agency gave manufacturers detailed instructions for what information federal regulators needed to approve e-cigarette products. Just as importantly, FDA gave manufacturers specific instructions on what regulators did not need. The agency said manufacturers' marketing plans would be "critical" to the success of their applications. And the agency promulgated hundreds of pages of guidance documents, hosted public meetings, and posted formal presentations to its website--all with the (false) promise that a flavored-product manufacturer could, at least in theory, satisfy FDA's instructions. The regulated manufacturers dutifully spent untold millions conforming their behavior and their applications to FDA's say-so. Then, months after receiving hundreds of thousands of applications predicated on its instructions, FDA turned around, pretended it never gave anyone any instructions about anything, imposed new testing requirements without any notice, and denied all one million flavored e-cigarette applications for failing to predict the agency's volte face. Worse, after telling manufacturers that their marketing plans were "critical" to their applications, FDA candidly admitted that it did not read a single word of the one million plans. Then FDA denied that its voluminous guidance documents and years-long instructional processes meant anything. Why? Because, the agency said, it always reserved the implied power to ignore every instruction it ever gave and to require the very studies it said could be omitted, along with the secret power to not even read the marketing plans it previously said were "critical." ... FDA justifies its behavior with two principal arguments. First, FDA argues that its years' worth of regulatory guidance was not worth the paper it was printed on because it was hedged with cautious qualifiers and never guaranteed that any particular submission would be granted. Second, and most disturbingly, FDA argues that its capriciousness should be forgiven as harmless because the agency promises to deny petitioners' applications even if we remand to make the agency follow the law. Today we reject both propositions. As the Supreme Court recently reminded us: "If men must turn square corners when they deal with the government, it cannot be too much to expect the government to turn square corners when it deals with them." Niz-Chavez v. Garland, 593 U.S. 155, 172 (2021). No principle is more important when considering how the unelected administrators of the Fourth Branch of Government treat the American people. And FDA's regulatory switcheroos in this case bear no resemblance to square corners.
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White House Orders Cabinet Heads to Inform the "President" If They Cannot Perform Their Duties
A "president" who even has to give this "order" (or strong recommendation) is obviously not really the president. I wonder if Austin informed the people really running the government -- Obama's staffers.
Andycanuck collected these tweets, noting that Lloyd Austin didn't just keep his emergency hospitalization a secret -- he also kept his prostate cancer a secret. But he's a very private man, so.
Politico spins on behalf of their Democrat partners, again pushing the "new weapon" bullshit:
As Austin controversy widens, Republicans find a new weapon against Biden Yes, deserting your post without leave and without notifying your superiors is a "new weapon" that was just introduced into the military by Republicans two minutes ago.
Let me save everyone the time: None of them is capable of performing their duties. Pete Buttigieg fucked off to play mommy for months and months and then have a secret vacay in Portugal and no one even noticed he was gone.
Twitchy:
White House orders cabinet secretaries to notify if unable to perform duties amid Lloyd Austin Scandal https://t.co/t8ghmwRgVL
-- The Messenger (@TheMessenger) January 9, 2024
The White House said it is reviewing Cabinet protocols for delegating authority after it was revealed that defense secretary Lloyd Austin suffered from prostate cancer and had kept even President Biden in the dark over his condition https://t.co/oxjuJns6oL pic.twitter.com/3l3rX5Lynp
-- Reuters (@Reuters) January 10, 2024
A "president" who even has to give this "order" (or strong recommendation) is obviously not really the president. I wonder if Austin informed the people really running the government -- Obama's staffers.
Andycanuck collected these tweets, noting that Lloyd Austin didn't just keep his emergency hospitalization a secret -- he also kept his prostate cancer a secret. But he's a very private man, so.
Breaking911
@Breaking911 BREAKING: Defense Sec. Lloyd Austin Was Treated for Prostate Cancer During Secret Hospital Stay
Here's a big question:
Breaking911
@Breaking911 REPORTER: "It seems, frankly, like you were deceived by telling everyone that it was an elective medical procedure. [...] It doesn't elective if he had prostate cancer and this was treating it." PENTAGON PRESS SEC: "We could have done a better job last week." [i.e. Major General Patrick Ryder]
Breaking911
@Breaking911
DOOCY: "If the administration is gonna go to such great lengths to keep secrets about the Defense Secretary's health, how can anybody be certain that the administration would not go to the same lengths to keep secret problems with President Biden's health?" KIRBY: "...It's not good..."
Politico spins on behalf of their Democrat partners, again pushing the "new weapon" bullshit:
As Austin controversy widens, Republicans find a new weapon against Biden Yes, deserting your post without leave and without notifying your superiors is a "new weapon" that was just introduced into the military by Republicans two minutes ago.
You can't fire a man for being A Private Man!!! Watch the spin Politico puts on Biden's obvious dementia:
Republicans seeking to attack President Joe Biden and his national security record headed into an election year just found more ammunition: his Pentagon chief. GOP members on Capitol Hill are incensed that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was hospitalized for several days before the White House was informed. Now, with the 2024 presidential campaign ramping up and primary voting just weeks away, Republicans are using the episode to target Biden's pressure points, painting the 81-year-old former Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair as unserious about national security and dangerously unaware of what's happening right under his nose. The bombardment, which is largely playing out in conservative media, comes as foreign policy -- with global crises raging -- takes on a larger role than usual in electoral politics. ... In the four days between the announcements of Austin's hospitalization and the details of his condition, Republicans have hammered the Pentagon chief and Biden. Several prominent Republicans have already called for Austin to lose his job for keeping the White House in the dark for several days about his Jan. 1 hospitalization, and for Congress to hold hearings on the episode.
... With more Americans concerned about Biden's age and cognitive health than Trump's -- despite the former president being just three years younger than the current commander in chief -- Cotton took a jab there, too. Biden, the oldest sitting president in American history, would be 82 at the time of his second inauguration and 86 at the end of the term. "It raises some troubling questions: If this administration would conceal a mere elective minor surgery for a Cabinet secretary, what might they be concealing about Joe Biden's health," Cotton said.Biden's plagiarizing again:
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OMG You Guys Liberals Are So Brilliant and Talented
It's a movement of Aging Crusty Theater Kids and Sexually-Ambiguous Band Nerds.
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Hunter Biden Knew Exactly Who Was Buying His "Art" -- Putting Lie to the Claim That He Didn't Know His "Patrons," and Therefore Could Not Deliver Political Favors to His Donors
Hunter Taunts Congress
More at the link. Hunter Biden basically begged the House to instruct the Sergeant at Arms to place him under arrest by showing up for the hearing where the House Oversight Committee was debating contempt charges against him, while continuing to flout their subpoenas:
Hunter Taunts Congress
Surprise! Everything Hunter Biden and his corrupt rapist father tell you are lies.
Biden's Handlers had assure the public that Hunter's "art" sales (to politically-interested patrons) could not possibly result in political favoritism, because they were setting up a Special Secret System to keep the buyers anonymous. If Hunter and Joe Biden didn't even know who the buyers were, they couldn't deliver favors to them, right? Unless the buyers just told them they bought the "art" and how much money they gave Hunter through the "sale," of course. But don't worry about that last part, because the "art" dealer never bothered setting up this Special Secret System anyway, and apparently Biden's Handlers never pursued the scheme they claimed they were implementing.Hunter Biden's Manhattan art dealer said Tuesday that he never worked with the White House on an ethics pact to ensure buyers would remain anonymous -- and added that the top purchasers were known to the first son, contrary to prior claims from President Biden's aides. Georges Berges also revealed that in addition to the lack of supposed anti-corruption safeguards he actually met and spoke on the phone with the president while repping his son, the House Oversight Committee said in a readout of a closed-door deposition.I'm sure they just talked about the weather. That's the go-to lie when Biden chats up Hunter's "business associates," right?
Oh, the Sugar Brother who "loaned" Hunter $2 million to pay the taxes he was avoiding then ponied up almost another million for Hunter's "artworks"? If I didn't know better, I'd say that deep-pocketed Democrats seeking and receiving favors from Biden and his handlers are just bribing Joe Biden by handing huge sums of money to the talentless, worthless crackhead Hunter Biden, thereby paying for his legal bills and keeping him from having to sell his body as the ugliest, smelliest gay prostitute in DC.
The art dealer testified that Hunter, 53, knew who bought about 70% of his art -- including Elizabeth Hirsh Naftali, who obtained works by the first son both before and after scoring a prestigious presidential appointment.
... The high-stakes testimony came as the Oversight Committee spearheads an impeachment inquiry into whether the elder Biden was corruptly involved with his son and brother James's foreign ventures while vice president. Hirsh Naftali, who scored repeated visits to the White House during the timeframe in question, inked a $42,000 sale in February 2021, before her appointment that July by Joe Biden to the Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad, and then another for $52,000 in December 2022. Berges also confirmed that the first son was aware that Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris, who met Hunter at a political fundraiser in December 2019 before bankrolling his tax payments and living expenses, was his top patron, buying $875,000 worth of art in a January 2023 deal.
More at the link. Hunter Biden basically begged the House to instruct the Sergeant at Arms to place him under arrest by showing up for the hearing where the House Oversight Committee was debating contempt charges against him, while continuing to flout their subpoenas:
Manu RajuThe people without balls are the House Republicans. They have the power to instruct the Sergeant of Arms of the House to arrest people who defy their subpoenas. At least, that's what I read in college, in an essay which was, admittedly, a polemic. (The author insisted that the House could put Nixon into jail if he continued stonewalling on the White House tapes. Maybe he was wrong.)
@mkraju Wild scene inside House Oversight. Nancy Mace attacks Hunter Biden, who showed up at hearing. "You are the epitome of White privilege. ... You have no balls. ... I think Hunter Biden should be arrested right here, right now and go to jail," she said Andy Biggs scolds his colleagues to "not act like a bunch of nimrods."
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Wednesday Morning Rant
Calais Jungle
Yesterday, Ace posted an article on the NYC camps for illegal aliens. Two excerpts from the quoted New York Post articles stood out to me for their similarity to other experiences in other countries that were flooded with invading colonists:
"For the past month or so, we will come here, and there'll be one or two tents set up, and we'll ask them to take them down," a city Parks Department enforcement officer told The Post at the site on Sunday. "But every day when we come back, there's more."
Migrants camping outside the increasingly lawless Randall's Island tent city were spotted selling everything from burgers to blunts on Monday -- as Mayor Eric Adams said the city would be reviewing shelter security following a fatal weekend stabbing.A persistent camp of illegal aliens with its own informal procedures and businesses, operating in violation of the law and resisting all attempts to put it down. This sounds familiar. This sounds like Calais.
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
Boys Throwing Pebbles into the River
Karoly Ferenczy
Boys Throwing Pebbles into the River
Karoly Ferenczy
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The Morning Report — 1/10/24
Students at a Brooklyn high school were kicked out of the classroom to make room for nearly 2,000 migrants who were evacuated from a controversial tent shelter due to a monster storm closing in on the Big Apple. The city made the move amid concerns that a massive migrant tent at Floyd Bennett Field would collapse from torrential rains and gusting winds — packing them instead into the second-floor gym at James Madison High School five miles away. The school’s neighbors were not keen on the last-minute decision. “This is f—ed up,” said a local resident who identified himself only as Rob. “It’s a litmus test. They are using a storm, a legitimate situation, where they are testing this out. I guarantee you they’ll be here for the entire summer. “There’s 1,900 people getting thrown into my neighborhood, half a block from where I live and we don’t know who they are,” he said. “They’re not vetted. A lot of them have criminal records and backgrounds and we don’t even know.” One irate mom even went off on the migrants as they pulled up inside a line of school buses in the pouring rain shortly before 6 p.m. “How do you feel? Does it feel good?” the woman, who only identified herself as Michelle, screamed at the buses. “How does it feel that you kicked all the kids out of school tomorrow? Does it feel good? I hope you feel good. I hope you will sleep very well tonight!” Said a local dad, “How do you feel stealing American tax money?” The school announced online earlier in the day that classes would be held remotely on Wednesday due to “the activation of James Madison High School as a temporary overnight respite center” for the migrants. . . . . . By midday, officials were already prepping the high school for the migrants’ arrival from the airfield about five miles away, with 10 marked NYPD vehicles and a half-dozen Emergency Management trucks parked outside. “They told us we had to get everything out by 5 [p.m.],” gym teacher Robyn Levy said outside the school. “They sent us the email at 6 in the morning. I don’t know when we’ll be able to back.” “What I want to know is why here?” Levy said. “Why not send them somewhere where students wouldn’t be disrupted, where students learning wouldn’t be disrupted?” . . . Nearly 70,000 migrants remain in the city’s care from among the 162,000 who have arrived in the five boroughs from the US border since the spring of 2022.It's like watching a horror/farce. Here's my capsule review: I laughed, I cried, I threw up. As an alumnus of Madison's rival Midwood, about a mile and a half up the road on a pleasant stretch of Bedford Avenue, this one does indeed hit close to home. I have very fond memories of performing in the All City Orchestra in Madison's auditorium. The iconic phrase "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" surely applies. Sigh. I assume that this section of my beloved Brooklyn is still predominantly white, middle- to upper middle class (the cratering economy that is wiping it out notwithstanding). I will further assume that these shell-shocked and pissed off residents are overwhelmingly registered Democrats. Putting my memories back up on the shelf and returning to the world as it is, my first instinct is to laugh. The woman shrieking at a busload of third world peasants who barely have a grasp of Spanish let alone English how they feel "stealing taxpayer's money" is a howler. Does she not have even the tiniest scintilla of an inkling that the people she's screaming at had the red carpet rolled out for them by the politicians she voted for locally and nationally?! To hell with Adams' and Hochul's protestations at Gregg Abbott and Ron DeSantis. The former proudly declared the city and state as "Sanctuary" because all "immigrants" welcome, in defiance of then President Trump's sane, rational attempts to secure our border and get a handle on who we allow in to become citizens. But, of course, Trump said "Pussy" so hausfrau "Michelle" (no doubt a Karen) couldn't have that for four more years, now could she? Well lady. You got what you voted for. Good and hard. How does it taste? UPDATE: Commenter "Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey" informs me that Madison HS is located in a GOP district. I thought Brooklyn was like 99% solid Democrat. Now this makes sense as to why they pulled this stunt here. Consider my snark at her directed at the libs in Park Slope, the Upper West Side and everywhere else that vote for this crap. The sad truth is that Eric Adams trounced Curtis Sliwa in an off-year election in November of '21 with the typical anemic turnout at the polls, not even a year into the Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants psuedo-presidency. Even in that short span of time, the destruction had ramped up with Trump's border wall nixed, amnesty on the table and the first waves of migrant invaders heading towards the Rio Grande 3, 4, 5 and more-thousand at a time. Well, "Michelle," instead of your curious animosity, and dare I say it borderline xenophobia that is supposed to be the hallmark of extreme-MAGA white supremacist insurrectionists, you should be greeting your new neighbors with a hearty "¡hola!" and a big wet kiss so they can return the favor with trashed streets, a trashed Madison HS, along with polio, rubella, malaria and more than a soupçon of robbery, assault, rape and perhaps a murder. And smile when you pay those taxes lest Merrick Garland and the DOJ come for you. Your performance in front of those busses could be construed as hate speech. Meh. Perhaps I shouldn't be so hard on my erstwhile Brooklynites. It's good to get this anger and schadenfreude out of my system but, as I stated up top, this situation which is being played out all over the country in other blue strongholds has very significant political ramifications. Whatever "Trump is Hitler!" crap the Dems will try to hit voters with, as well as "Roe, Roe, Roe the Vote!" (admittedly more effective), the intentional mass invasion by now millions of Latin American peasants, and more frighteningly military-aged males from the Muslim world and Red China, the latter estimated to be in the tens of thousands (see this report linked here). Can't wait for power stations, dams, cell towers, hospitals and military installations across the country to suddenly explode just as the first PLA marine hits Taiwan's shore. That oughta make "AWOL" Austin's prostate stand up and pay attention I think the disaster of a non-existent border and immigration control is going to be the central issue that decides next November. Dao-Min Yen as well as the upshot of the persecutions against Trump notwithstanding. All that said, now is the time to engage "Michelle" as well as everyone else on the other side who is experiencing this madness firsthand to open their eyes and revolt. If they still can't bring themselves to vote for Trump, then at the very least to stay home. I think though that a sea change is coming and retail politics and elections, rigged or otherwise, aren't even a part of it. In any case, the obvious solutions to this problem are sealing the border, disincentivizing the invasion in the first place by cutting off Uncle Sugar, ramping up and maintaining the effort to deport EVERY single illegal alien in country regardless of how long they have been here and sending anyone who employs illegals up the river for long stretches in Leavenworth while confiscating their assets. A minimum of a 20-year moratorium on legal immigration, especially and in particular from third world nations, as well as a complete end to bilingualism ain't bad ideas either. The callous disregard Democrat leaders have for their own base is earning them their ire. Whether the latter merely switch chairs on the Titanic and vote for a different backstabbing abuser or if they open their eyes remains to be seen. The border and the economy, issues tied at the hip, and the massive destruction wrought to everyone is not just a one-off scandal or a minor thing. They hit home. The arrogance of Democrat officials in thinking they can do whatever the hell they want because they have the base in their hip pocket might very well be their undoing, both in the short and long term. We shall see. I wanted to mention both that I&I poll in the lead as well as Fani Willis potentially destroying her own case against Trump by hiring her boyfriend (check the picture in the link of him checking out her ass at a press conference!) and colluding with the Team Demento. Then again, as we have seen so many times before, the more obvious the outrage, the more likely it is not to be reversed.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- "Same poll shows most Americans now concerned about prosecutions of innocent January 6th, 2021 demonstrators."
One in Four Americans Now Believe Biden’s Election In 2020 Wasn’t "Legitimate": I&I/TIPP Poll
- "A Washington, D.C., case illustrates what happens when political pressure is exerted on the justice system."
The Unjust Pursuit of Police Officer Sutton
- "While wealthy elites have always exercised disproportionate influence in American politics, what is happening in 21st century America is unique."
The Inherently Destructive Uniparty Agenda
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- Streaming platform Twitch is laying off another 500 staff. (Tech Crunch)
I was thinking that would be perhaps 5% of their staff.
I was wrong.
It's 35%.
Which explains a lot about Twitch. 1400 staff is not a lot of people to run a global video streaming platform with literally millions of channels. I'm impressed it even works.
Of course, 900 staff is even less.
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January 09, 2024
Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (1/9/24)***
The Quotes of The Day
Quote I "We don’t want to live the same day over and over again. We want to be creators of our life." Brenna Dregos
Quote II "It was a big deal because I've been doing this my whole life — I started going to the Bahamas when I was two years old, and I'm 64 now. I have never seen this here. To be able to get this close and stay with this orca is probably a once-in-a-lifetime thing." Captain Bric Peeples
Quote III “Volkswagen has always democratized technology and made it accessible to the many. This also underlines the innovative strength of our new products.” Kai Grünitz, VW board member for technical development
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Quick Hits
Variety: Jodie Foster Says Gen Z Is "Really Annoying, Especially in the Workplace": They're Like, "Nah, I'm Not Feeling It Today"
Pro-Hamas protesters heckled Biden at his racial-hatred rally in Charleston -- and Biden congratulated the pro-terrorist protesters for their "passion," saying that he feels the same "passion" -- against Israel, he means.
Biden supporters in the audience countered the protesters' "cease-fire now" chants Monday afternoon by yelling "four more years," prompting the president to acknowledge that the conflict continues to roil his own base into the new year. "I understand their passion," Biden said from the podium in South Carolina, the first Democratic primary state in this year's nominating calendar. "I've been quietly working with the Israeli government to get them to reduce and significantly get out of Gaza, using all that I can to do."Video here.
Variety: Jodie Foster Says Gen Z Is "Really Annoying, Especially in the Workplace": They're Like, "Nah, I'm Not Feeling It Today"
Jodie Foster took a humorous jab at Gen Z during a recent interview with The Guardian, saying they're especially annoying to work with. Gen Z, the generation directly proceeding millennials, comprises those born after 1996 and through 2010. "They're really annoying, especially in the workplace," Foster told the publication. "They're like, 'Nah, I'm not feeling it today, I'm gonna come in at 10:30 a.m.' Or, like, in emails, I'll tell them this is all grammatically incorrect, did you not check your spelling? And they're like, 'Why would I do that, isn't that kind of limiting?'"Well, class: Is she riiiiiiiight? Another female teacher will face rape charges after having sex with a 16-year-old student.
I'll allow it:
Glamorous Missouri math teacher, Hailey Nichelle Clifton-Carmack, is charged with rape for having sex with a 16-year-old student at high school - and the victim's dad faces charges for 'allowing relationship to happen' Hailey Nichelle Clifton-Carmack, 26, a Missouri high school teacher is accused of having sex with a student Police were informed of the alleged relationship between teacher and student after a classmate came forward and showed photos of the teen's scratches Teen's father, Mark Creighton, is accused of knowing about the relationship but failing to report it - he has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child By James Gordon For Dailymail.com
A pretty math teacher from Missouri has been arrested in Texas and accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a 16-year-old high school student. Hailey Nichelle Clifton-Carmack, 26, from Waynesville, near St. Louis, was arrested by the Garden Ridge Police Department on Friday in Comal County. The sexual assaults are alleged to have taken place in Missouri's Pulaski County, about 800 miles away from where she was apprehended by cops. In a further twist to the case, the teenage boy's father has also been charged with endangering the welfare of a child after it was claimed he knew that his son was in a relationship with the educator. Court documents state that the teen and teacher had sex during school and used other students as 'lookouts,' according to KRCG.
Homeless people are spreading Shigella in and around downtown Portland, Oregon. Cases are now surging and could lead to a public health emergency. Shigella is a highly contagious bacteria that spreads through fecal matter. It's usually spread when the bacteria is on someone's hand and then they touch their mouth, or through sex. The Portland metro saw at least 218 cases of shigellosis in 2023, with 45 cases in December alone. Many of them occurred in Old Town. Now, public health officials are asking the public to be mindful of personal hygiene.I made up that last part. But I feel that it has the essence of truth. Remember when America was a first world country? That was nice. I miss that. A Jewish student at shithole state college Rutgers publicized some of his classmates posting in support of Arab terrorism or posting flagrantly anti-Jewish caricatures. And Rutgers is threatening to expel those students -- wait, update, they're threatening to expel the student who reported their public postings, falsely claiming he "doxxed" them and breached their right to post antisemitic content without blowback.
It's being spread during sex amongst homeless As cases rise, Multnomah County Deputy Health Officer Dr. Teresa Everson is advising the public to be alert, but not panic, as the cases are not occurring in the general public. But there's fear in the community that that may change. The county is offering some infected homeless people free motel rooms to isolate in so they can mitigate the spread. "These cases can occur because bathrooms, handwashing sinks and soap can be hard to access when you aren't housed," she told KGW-TV. "And unhoused community members are at higher risk of infectious diseases in general, as they experience poorer health than the broader public." "Homeless bums butt-banging each other in broad daylight is a blessing of liberty," asserted dour puritan pervert David French.
A Jewish law student is facing expulsion at Rutgers University for allegedly "doxxing" a pair of student "Hamas supporters" after they either shared or endorsed a video denying atrocities that happened on Oct. 7, a new lawsuit claims. Yoel Ackerman, 36, accused the law school this week of retaliating against him instead of punishing other students that he said spread Hamas propaganda in a Student Bar Association group chat and bullied him in the wake of the shocking terror attack on Israel nearly three months ago. The first-year Orthodox Jewish law student is facing discipline after he shared messages, including their names and photographs, with the Jewish Law School Association. The posts included a video that claims the carnage against Israelis was exaggerated, according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday. Law school administrators were provided with the email Ackerman sent by an unnamed person, setting off school charges of alleged defamation and disorderly conduct against him, the lawsuit states. The two students accused Ackerman of "doxing" them -- which means exposing personal information about a person -- and defaming them by referring to them as "Hamas supporters" because of the inflammatory video they shared that questioned the atrocities of Oct. 7, the lawsuit says. Ackerman said he sent the video to the JLSA to "protect fellow Jewish students and community" from what he believed was "harassment, intimidation, bullying and discriminatory conduct aimed at Jewish law students," the suit says.See the posts here, but caution, the second one features the German Nazi style depiction of Jews with hooked noses greedily rubbing their hands together. One the anti-Jewish caricatures shows Jews controlling the (checks notes) "Cancer Industry." And the guy who blew the whistle might be expelled. As the left has told me six thousand times over the past five years: It's not Cancel Culture, it's Consequences Culture. I need you to prepare for a shock: The "study" that General Milley indicted the entire armed forces with, claiming their was "Extremism In Our Ranks" and specifically "white supremacy," was a complete lie and political propaganda operation.
In December of 2021, the Pentagon furthered the 'white rage' narrative, warning that 'extremism' within the ranks was on the rise, which would require 'detailed new rules' to prohibit service members from engaging in 'certain activities.'This is a common trick of the left -- naming two serious things that people cannot scoff at, like advocating for terrorism or overthrowing the government, and then slipping in the third item, "or liking a Joe Rogan clip on Twitter."
The new policy lays out in detail the banned activities, which range from advocating terrorism or supporting the overthrow of the government to fundraising or rallying on behalf of an extremist group or "liking" or reposting extremist views on social media.
Arizona is inviting illegals to vote in their federal elections. They tell illegals that they're not supposed to vote in federal elections. And then they tell them no one will be checking up on their citizenship status. Entende? Arizon's lawless rules:The rules also specify that commanders must determine two things in order for someone to be held accountable: that the action was an extremist activity, as defined in the rules, and that the service member "actively participated" in that prohibited activity. Previous policies banned extremist activities but didn't go into such great detail, and also did not specify the two step process to determine someone accountable. -APTurns out that was total bullshit...
According to the Wall Street Journal, "Good news: The U.S. military isn't packed with violent extremists."
That's the gist of a new report commissioned by the Pentagon in 2021 and released quietly with little notice in December. The result won't surprise Americans who have spent time in uniform, but it should calm the media frenzy about right-wing radicals in the armed forces. After reports that some service members participated in the Jan. 6 riot, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered an independent study to get "greater fidelity" on extremism in the ranks. The think tank tasked with the report, the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), "found no evidence that the number of violent extremists in the military is disproportionate" to U.S. society. A review of Pentagon data suggested "fewer than 100 substantiated cases per year of extremist activity by members of the military in recent years," the report says. ... One conclusion was that the military doesn't need a new section of the Uniform Code of Military Justice to punish alleged "extremists" in the ranks, and that commanders can simply rely on Article 116 (riot or breach of peace), Article 88 (contempt toward officials), Article 109 (destruction or damage to property), and Article 115 (communication of threats), as well as others. The researchers also found that "fewer than ten" out of more than 700 Jan. 6 cases involved active members of the military, debunking yet another leftist claim.
A person must be a U.S. citizen in order to register and vote. A person who submits valid proof of citizenship with his or her voter registration form (regardless of the type of form submitted) is entitled to vote in all federal, state, county and local elections in which he or she is eligible. The voter registration form otherwise must be sufficiently complete. A person is not required to submit proof of citizenship with the voter registration form, but failure to do so means the person will only be eligible to vote in federal elections (known as being a "federal only" voter). A "federal only" voter will become eligible to vote a "full ballot" in all federal, state, county and local elections if he or she later provides valid proof of citizenship to the appropriate County Recorder's office... Prosecute them:
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Defendant Files Motion to Disqulify Fani Willis and Her Special Prosecutor from Pursuing the Trump/RICO Charges, Because She Hired the Guy Who Is Living In Her Vag and He's Spending the Money She's Paying Him on Filthy Sex Junkets
One of Trump's co-defendants in the partisan lunatic Fulton County RICO prosecution filed a motion to disqualify the DA Fani Willis as well as her special prosecutor -- on account of she hired the guy who's fucking her for the job. I'm not sure that's a disqualifier but it doesn't look good. The motion also alleges financial funny-business, using money paid to him by Fani Willis to swoop her off to romantic island Fuckations. From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
One of Trump's co-defendants in the partisan lunatic Fulton County RICO prosecution filed a motion to disqualify the DA Fani Willis as well as her special prosecutor -- on account of she hired the guy who's fucking her for the job. I'm not sure that's a disqualifier but it doesn't look good. The motion also alleges financial funny-business, using money paid to him by Fani Willis to swoop her off to romantic island Fuckations. From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
District Attorney Fani Willis improperly hired an alleged romantic partner to prosecute Donald Trump and financially benefited from their relationship, according to a court motion filed Monday which argued the criminal charges in the case were unconstitutional. The bombshell public filing alleged that special prosecutor Nathan Wade, a private attorney, paid for lavish vacations he took with Willis using the Fulton County funds his law firm received. County records show that Wade, who has played a prominent role in the election interference case, has been paid nearly $654,000 in legal fees since January 2022. The DA authorizes his compensation.Money makes it serious. From the motion:
While the filings in the divorce case are sealed by Court order, undersigned counsel has learned that Willis and Wade have traveled personally together to such places as Napa Valley, California, Florida and the Caribbean and Wade has purchased tickets for both of them to travel on both the Norweigan and Royal Carribean cruise lines. Wade has also purchased hotel rooms for personal trips with funds from the same account used to receive payments under his contract with Willis.PJ Media:
Trump yells that Fani Willis and her paramour are "totally compromised."
In his complaint, Roman seeks to disqualify Willis and Wade "from further prosecuting the instant matter on the grounds that the district attorney and the special prosecutor have been engaged in an improper, clandestine personal relationship during the pendency of this case, which has resulted in the special prosecutor, and, in turn, the district attorney, profiting significantly from this prosecution at the expense of the taxpayers."
Former President Trump on Tuesday insisted the case against him and several others in Georgia over efforts to overturn the state's 2020 election results should be dropped after another defendant filed a motion accusing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) of improper behavior. "You had a very big event yesterday as you saw in Georgia where the district attorney is totally compromised. The case has to be dropped," Trump said after a hearing in Washington, D.C., over presidential immunity arguments in a separate, federal 2020 election interference case against him. "They went after 18 or 20 people. ... She was out of her mind. Now it turns out that case is totally compromised." "It's illegal. What she did is illegal. So we'll let the state handle that, but what a sad situation it is," Trump added.
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Oh Boy: Polar Vortex Will Plunge the West and Midwest into -50 Degree Icebox Next Week
(When Drudge didn't have any scoops to report -- which was 96% of the time -- he trolled the wires for WEATHER FREAK! stories.)
Dang, this is going to be horrible.
Bundle up and stock up.
Arctic blast bringing temperatures of -50F - 78 degrees below normal - is forecast to strike West and Midwest next weekThat's confusing. They mean temperatures could fall to 50 below, which is 78 degrees below the usual average of 28 degrees.
An arctic blast threatens to bring temperatures of -50 degrees to large swathes of the West and Midwest next week Meteorologists have said the polar vortex could sweep across the Pacific Northwest and roll into the Central and Midwest over the next five to ten days By Alice Wright For Dailymail.Com An arctic blast may bring temperatures of -50 degrees to swathes of the West and Midwest next week. The polar vortex could sweep across the Pacific Northwest and roll into the Central and Midwest of the country over the next five to ten days, meteorologist Ryan Maue said. Weather outlooks from the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center show the cold blast arriving late next week for Central and Eastern parts of the US. ... Higher precipitation is also expected, which could increase the possibility of snowfall. ... The potential blast has been compared to the cold weather disaster of Storm Uri in February 2021, which left more than 4 million Texans without power for a record 70.5 hours. That came after 365 generators were knocked offline as a result of the storm. Texas, which relies on its own supply and is unprepared for winter conditions, has buckled.I guess we'd all better stock up on supplies. Meanwhile, the south is being hit with tornado and blizzard blizzard warnings. Tornadoes tore through Florida's Panhandle.
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Surprise! Ray Epps Gets No Jail Time, Just Probation, as Judge Colludes with DOJ to Set Fed Agent Free
Unbelievable -- except, of course, it was inevitable.
The government and judge admitted that usually conduct like Ray Epps' would "warrant jail time" -- but the federal government said he "engaged in de-escalation tactics" (when he urged people to go "INTO the Capitol?") and the judge said that he had already suffered enough because of "conspiracy theories" that he was some kind of fed. No, of course not -- he's just a guy the feds fight to get probation for and make false claims for. From Radix Verum:No, he didn't go into the Capitol -- he just urged others to go. And the government has put a lot of "insurrectionists" in jail who never entered the Capitol. In those cases, they claimed that not actually being present in the Capitol did not mitigate their crimes. But here, they flip the script completely to absolve Ray Epps, who is not, and I must stress this, a federal agent. Not even a little bit.
Radix Verum
@NotRadix
Attended Ray Epps sentencing today - what a farce. Thread
The prosecutor praised Epps "de-escalation tactics" and had a whole slide show for it entitled "Attempts to De-escalate." Both Judge Boasberg and the prosecutor both claimed "he never tried to go into the Capitol."
The only unique thing in the case is the government's determination to set him free, a position they decidedly did not take with a thousand other people.
The prosecutor claimed he struggled and that he could give Epps a felony with a low sentence or a misdemeanor with a high sentence. The prosecutor claimed Ray Epps case was a "unique and complicated case," I don't see how.
I also don't see any other J6 defendant getting this type of special treatment where a prosecutor claims their case is "unique."Because they're not federal agents.
Now here is where Epps and his lawyers argue for leniency, claiming that he's a victim of "widespread conspiracy theories" and shouldn't be punished futher. Unbelievably -- by which I mean, "inevitably" -- the judge agrees that, and I quote, the important thing is not what happened on January 6, but "what happened after." Weird, I never heard another judge passing sentence on a J6er arguing that what happened on January 6th didn't matter.
The prosecutor said they used their prosecutorial discretion to choose to charge Epps with misdemeanor - despite that same prosecutor arguing 10 minutes before that Epps had engaged in felonious conduct. The government agreed with Ray Epps defense lawyers arguments regarding mitigating factors for Epps lol
What do you call someone who cooperates with the feds and gives evidence against others...? Oh right -- a federal agent.
Epps and his lawyers along with the government and Judge Boasberg all agreed Ray Epps was the victim of "widespread conspiracy theories."
The DOJ themselves admitted they were giving Epps a "significant break." The prosecutor argued "6 months is the appropriate sentence." The prosecution then proceeded to praise Epps - claiming he actually SUPPORTED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS that day. Epps lawyers pointed out Epps called the FBI almost immediately on 1/08/2021 and that he gave voluntary statements and cooperated.
Oh, it wasn't Ray Epps who told people to "go INTO the Capitol" -- it was Fox News. And of course he continues acting as a fed agent by peddling their line that every other person present at the Capitol that day, EXCEPT for Ray Epps, was an "insurrectionist."
Epps was allowed to speak and he said the FBI had "nothing to do with what happened on January 6th," he blamed @FoxNews for "peddling election integrity conspiracy theories," and he blamed Trump. He then said that he believes January 6, 2021 was an "insurrection."
Epps lawyer claimed people called Epps a "boomer" on January 5 when Epps was recorded on video urging rally attendees to go into the Capitol the next day. Baked Alaska and others started changing "fed fed fed," but Epps lawyer claimed Epps was trying to "de-escalate" and that "Baked Alaska and others didn't listen to him [Epps]."By calling him a "boomer," this lawyer intends to suggest that the ringleader Ray Epps didn't know what was going on because the Internet, it's so confusing, amirite?
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Illegal Aliens and Domestic Bums Are Getting Into Fights and Stabbing Each Other As NYC Shelters Get Cramped
Remember when America was a First World country?
That was nice. I miss that.The fatal migrant stabbing at the Randall's Island tent city was over a woman, law-enforcement sources said Sunday -- while asylum-seekers described life in the shelter as full of armed rivals and divisive "camps." The 24-year-old victim was inside the cafeteria tent at the sprawling shelter around 7:30 p.m. Saturday when he got into a beef with a fellow asylum-seeker who had been talking to the man's girlfriend, sources told The Post. During the dispute, the victim was assaulted by four people, sources said. One of the suspects, 26, then whipped out a knife and stabbed the victim in the neck and chest area, sources said. The victim was rushed to Harlem Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Police recovered the knife at the scene and arrested the suspected stabber, while his three accomplices are in the wind, sources said. Venezuelan immigrant Roger Castillo said of the dead man, "He was a good person, he was a good friend. "There is not much security, and they are far away," Castillo said of guards. "It happens so fast." Migrants at the makeshift shelter, which was erected last year to house the overflow of migrants flooding into the five boroughs from the US border, have been problematic, some asylum-seekers said. They said some of the migrants around them have split into "camps" based on their ethnicity and native countries, with Hispanics, Africans and Haitians occasionally at odds, while many are armed with knives and typically petty crimes can be rampant. "Everyone has a knife," migrant Mauricio Pinto said. Moroccan migrant Nabil Jajhlaq added, "There is a lot of stealing. "If you put your phone down or your charger for a moment, they take it immediately. Any of your stuff that you don't have they will take. "There is definitely camps," he said.The illegals have established their own rogue homeless camp on Randall's Island in NYC.
Migrants booted from Big Apple shelters have been setting up an illegal mini-tent city outside Randall's Island's housing site -- despite the Adams administration's best efforts to thwart them. "For the past month or so, we will come here, and there'll be one or two tents set up, and we'll ask them to take them down," a city Parks Department enforcement officer told The Post at the site on Sunday. "But every day when we come back, there's more." Parks workers on Sunday morning broke down one shabby encampment that had been housing about 21 asylum-seekers barred from the island's 2,000-bed tent city erected in August after timing out on its 60-day residency limit. The rogue migrants had set up their own tarps and tents on a grassy strip just outside the tent city, even erecting tables to peddle coffee and hot chocolate to other asylum-seekers legally living in the site's massive sanctioned tents.It's basically Deadwood.
Migrants camping outside the increasingly lawless Randall's Island tent city were spotted selling everything from burgers to blunts on Monday -- as Mayor Eric Adams said the city would be reviewing shelter security following a fatal weekend stabbing. The group of asylum-seekers who set up camp outside the island's 2,000-bed site after being booted for timing out on the city residency limit appeared locked in a cat-and-mouse game with Parks Department officials -- who tore down the encampment Sunday only to have it rise up again.The leftwing propaganda media has a solution to all of this: just stop talking about it! Talking about the problem is informing the citizens there's a problem, and we have an election to rig!
The city's migrant crisis has become "a specter that demagogues can use as the threat du jour," says City Councilman Justin Brannan. "It used to be 'defund the police' or bail reform. Now this is the new thing they can divide and conquer on." Count this as yet another retread of the "Republicans pounce" gimmick: Shoot the messengers. Brannan (D-B'klyn) offered up his "wisdom" in a Politico piece blaming Mayor Adams and The Post for "ceaseless, dire messaging" on the border, which is "threatening Democrats in a pivotal election year." Just as our reporting on crime, and Adams' related rhetoric, supposedly confused voters and helped Republicans pick up several House seats in 2022. The piece slammed the mayor for "rarely" letting "a week go by without issuing new pleas for Washington to help stem the flow of migrants into the nation's biggest city." The bottom line: Stop talking about the border; you're making Democrats look bad. This much is true: A whopping 84% of New Yorkers consider the influx of migrants a serious problem.The situation will get worse as frigid conditions descend on most of the country. In the East Village, immigrants are competing for limited shelter spaces:
But pretending the issue is messaging, not President Biden's policies, is a delusional farce.
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