April 08, 2025
The Left Staged a Paid Astroturf Fake "Grassroots" Protest This Weekend, and It Was As Successful as Everything Else the Left Does Now
The left staged a very confused protest over the weekend. Called the #HandsOff protest, the paid lefty agitators pushed for every rejected far-left policy, from transgendering kids to paying 160-year-olds millions in Social Security payments. The rent-a-mob was paid up to $1000 by a leftwing front group called "Indivisible."
The left staged a very confused protest over the weekend. Called the #HandsOff protest, the paid lefty agitators pushed for every rejected far-left policy, from transgendering kids to paying 160-year-olds millions in Social Security payments. The rent-a-mob was paid up to $1000 by a leftwing front group called "Indivisible."
M-U-R-C-H @TheEXECUTlONER_One of the attorneys involved in locking up J6ers just happens to be married to a woman who's on the board of "Indivisible." The "Mass uprising" was demonstrably all more paid-for astroturf. This protest organizer wore a laminated card around her neck instructing her how to conduct the Totally Organic Uprising. The Male Band Geek calling himself "Sarah" McBride demanded "Hands off woman's rights" as he invaded women's bathrooms. And also, as he creepily read straight-up transgender propaganda to kindergarteners. Hands off our kids, groomer. Another transgender demanded "hands off" as he continued invading women's spaces. Many attendees of the Paid Protest complained that "young people" weren't showing up.
This woman was a paid protester at a Hands Off Protest. She details what she had to do to get paid. They told her not to wear anything MAGA and she could not wear red. So she wore a black shirt and jeans. They also told her she would get paid if she brought a sign. Again, nothing MAGA. So she brought a "everyone deserves an education sign." They told her she had to march around. At the end, in order to get paid, she had to answer a 8 question questionnaire. She said the questions did have right and wrong answers and if you wanted to get paid, you had to answer them correctly from a liberal mindset. Share this everywhere as I keep seeing people say that no one was paid. They were definitely paid.
Charlie KirkHere's another protester complaining that the youths are abandoning them. She says she's "literally crying" that it's "mostly seniors or handicapped..." and not the hot young bangable people she was hoping to see. A kaffiyeh-wearing white woman similarly complains that there's too many "seniors" and no "youth turnout." You can see these protesters are mostly old hippies. Jamie Raskin said "Hands off our science" while continuing to support forced vaccinations. It was strange seeing Eric Swallwell at a "Hands Off" protest. Usually he attends the Chinese Spy Butt-Play protests.
@charliekirk11
Gen Z is not participating with the astro-turfed, bought and paid for "Hands Off!" protests because they know it's a scam. They were told college was the only way to succeed. LIE They were told they'd never own a home and like it. LIE Young men were told they were toxic. LIE Young women were told to be childless boss babes to be happy. LIE They are part of a generation that has been demonized by older generations that sold them out, belittled them, and borrowed off their backs. Their parents and grandparents inherited a rich, powerful America only to hand them a weakened, debt-riddled country, divided over gender, race, class and every other abstraction invented in a university they graduated from with no debt but now costs $75,000 a year plus interest. They were told to downsize the American Dream or abandon it altogether. Wave after new wave of young people are rejecting the lies of the Boomer left. They're choosing a rebirth of freedom and opportunity. I see it with my own eyes every week on college campuses across America. The kids are waking up.
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Surprise! Nashville Police Lied to the Public About Transgender Killer Audrey Hale's Motivations
The Megyn Kelly Show
@MegynKellyShow "We read through the documents and, again, we've been misled. This woman was obsessed with trying to trans herself, wanting to trans herself, trans ideology, I mean it was like reading a leftist playbook..." Megyn reveals why she's exclusively reporting on 1,000 pages from Nashville shooter's journals.
Andy Ngo
@MrAndyNgo Breaking: @FBIDirectorKash has released to @megynkelly and congress over 1,000 pages from the writings of the Nashville trans Christian school shooter. The @MNPDNashville had downplayed and omitted key aspects of Audrey Hale's beliefs in its recently released report into the 2023 Covenant School shooting. A judge had previously blocked the release of the writings as well. The writings provide clear statements Hale was an autistic leftist trans violent extremist, having extreme hatred for whites, America and cisgender society. "I'd like to dispose my vagina." "Female pronouns make me feel like I wanna die." "I hate being in a woman's body. Need to die." "Kill all the white kids. Kill my own race." "Every white person who lived and died, I hate you all" "I have to kill so I can be remembered in the most horrific way possible that no one can ever forget." Hale's rants reflect many common views among the far-left. They have been sympathetic to Hale, honoring her as a victim days after the mass killing.
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"Top" "Vaccine" "Expert" and Public "Servant" Fired After Blocking the Secretary of Health From Accessing the VAERS Vaccine Adverse Reaction Database
Vaccine Fascism is Best Fascism.
Shortly before he was forced to resign, the nation's top vaccine regulator says he refused to grant Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s team unrestricted access to a tightly held vaccine safety database, fearing that the information might be manipulated or even deleted.So he's another self-righteous, toxic leftwing paranoid.
In an interview with The Associated Press, former Food and Drug Administration vaccine chief Dr. Peter Marks discussed his efforts to "make nice" with Kennedy and address his longstanding concerns about vaccine safety, including by developing a "vaccine transparency action plan." Marks agreed to give Kennedy's associates the ability to read thousands of reports of potential vaccine-related issues sent to the government's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS. But he would not allow them to directly edit the data. "Why wouldn't we? Because frankly we don't trust (them)," he said, using a profanity. "They'd write over it or erase the whole database."Why would a vaccine skeptic like RFKJr. delete a database of bad reactions to vaccines? The database is evidence to a vaccine skeptic. What this neurotic delusional paranoid really means, but is still sane enough to know it sounds crazy, is that he fears that Kennedy will start making up adverse vaccine reactions and adding them to the database like a left-wing Wikipedia editor going to town on Trump's page. Or maybe his staff has categorized these adverse reactions in such a way as to downplay them, and he doesn't want Kennedy coming in and examining the database for improprieties.
... During his Senate confirmation hearings, Kennedy told lawmakers he is not "antivaccine." But since taking office, he's promised to "investigate" children's shots, and agencies under his watch have terminated vaccine-related research, canceled meetings of vaccine advisers and are poised to reinvestigate ties between vaccines and autism -- a link debunked long ago.Did "experts" debunk it? Because we all know that "experts" are always right and only act in the public interest.
... Marks is highly regarded by former FDA leaders and biotech industry executives, but his time at the agency was not without controversy. During the COVID-19 pandemic he was alternately criticized for being too slow -- under Trump-- and too fast -- under Biden-- to authorize new vaccines and boosters. Marks says he "tried everything" to work with Kennedy.Except, of course, actually obeying the orders of his boss. But apart from that -- he did everything. If this piece sounds a little fawning, that's because it's an AP propaganda piece. David Strom notes that the whole left is treating him as another Saint Anthony Fauci of the Blessed Furin Cleavage Site.
Obviously the people who hate RFK, Jr., Trump, or even just Republicans will cheer Marks on as if "The Science" means that you can do anything you want if you are a High Priest of the Dark Arts, but the reality is much more prosaic: RFK Jr. is the Senate-approved Cabinet Secretary and Marks had no right to deny him access to data just because Marks disagrees with him. ... In short, Marks invented a fear, based on something so implausible as to be fantasy--and refused to do his job. As for the "I don't trust them" excuse I say: none of us trust you, Marks, because of how mismanaged things have been. How many people know that the top two FDA vaccine officials resigned in protest over what they considered to be unsafe recommendations for COVID boosters? They did, and the media barely noticed. That was real, Marks' excuse is based on fantasies that he can read the minds of his bosses. Yet the media has turned him into a hero. Marks is proving RFK, Jr. right, at least in his suspicions that the people in charge don't want anyone to see the whole picture.
PoIiMath
@politicalmath I don't think journalists (and scientists) understand how damning this looks They think this makes Peter Marks a hero, but normal people look at this and say "why is the vaccine safety database off limits to the Secretary of Health?"
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Court Rejects Michael Mann's Request to Delay His Massive $530,000 Debt to National Review
He's now boo-hoo whinin' and cryin' that he can't pay right now. The court ordered him to pay up.
Climate Jive Turkey Michael Mann sued National Review for ten years claiming they defamed him by questioning Doctor Hockey Stick's alleged "science." He lost. Not only did he lose, but he presented misleading claims to the court to jack up the damages he was seeking, and, due to this misrepresentation, was ordered to pay National Review's legal bills.
He's now boo-hoo whinin' and cryin' that he can't pay right now. The court ordered him to pay up.
Court Delivers Massive Blow To Famed Climate Scientist Who Sued Critics A Washington, D.C., court rejected University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann's bid to postpone his required payment of hundreds of thousands of dollars to National Review on Thursday. The Superior Court of the District of Columbia ruled in January that Mann owes National Review approximately $530,000 to cover the outlet's legal fees after spending more than a decade locked in defamation litigation against the organization, and Mann subsequently requested a stay to postpone the payments. On Thursday, the court denied Mann's request, meaning that he will likely have to pony up cash to an outlet he once described in emails as a "threat to our children."Your wife's children, maybe.
I'll tell you what's extraordinary -- getting cucked by the cucks at National Review. I don't know how that's even possible! Michael Mann is the George Conway of Rosie Ruizes.
... In a filing opposing National Review's request for compensation, Mann argued that the move was a "mean-spirited and unjustified request by a powerful organization" intending to intimidate and silence him. Notably, Judge Albert Irving wrote in March that Mann and his lawyers had presented misleading information to the jury while the defamation case was at trial. Specifically, Mann and his representation misled the jury as to how much grant funding he missed out on due to the actions of the defendants, a key element of his defamation case, with Irving describing the deception as "extraordinary in its scope, extent, and intent."
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Supreme Court Reverses Lower Hawaiian Judge's Order to Re-Hire the Federal Layabouts Trump Fired
A wise man once said "Winning."
The headline is misleading. The Court did not rule on the final merits. Rather, it stayed yet another "emergency injunctive relief" order from a Hawaiian judge, in which the judge, yet again, said "Before we even hear the merits of this lawsuit, we're going to just go ahead and assume you're going to win at trial and we're going to order the government to re-hire you until the actual trial." The Supreme Court stayed that order, which means the federal "workers" are fired until some trial concludes that they must have Federal Jobs for Life.Nine "non-profit" organizations sued to reinstate the "workers." Note that the workers themselves didn't sue. I love that the "non-profits'" suit was thrown out for, get this, lack of standing.
The Supreme Court has halted an order by a superannuated, Clinton-appointed San Francisco judge that would have required the Trump administration to reinstate some 16,000 probationary employees it had fired from the Pentagon, the Treasury, and the Agriculture, Energy, Veterans Affairs, and Interior Departments. The order places the reinstatement on hiatus until the Supreme Court has a chance to rule on the issue, but things look grim for the Resistance. The vote was 6-2, with only hardened anti-Trumpers Sotomayor and Jackson voting to sustain the judge's order.
This case originated in March when the Office of Personnel Management issued an order directing agencies to terminate workers in term or probationary status. Somehow, this case ended up in San Francisco, which only has the most tenuous connection to any of the agencies named in the suit; see Federal Judge Orders Trump to Rehire Thousands of Fired Federal Workers -- RedState. One might suspect that judge shopping was going on.
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Stock Market Rallies, Regaining 3%
This might be based on hopes about countries negotiating away their own tariffs to get America to reduce its own. Seventy countries contacted the Trump Administration to bargain over the tariffs.
But I doubt they're serious at all about cutting their tariffs. I also don't think Trump actually wants to cut American tariffs, even in exchange for a reduction in world taiffs. He talks about re-industrializing the US and bringing the jobs back home. That doesn't happen if the world just lowers all of its tariffs. Trump's preference is a protectionist policy to rebuild American industry. Reducing the world's tariffs doesn't help protect American industry. So I don't think the seventy foreign countries are serious about reducing their own tariffs, and I also don't think Trump is particularly receptive to reducing American tariffs. He wants the tariffs. Some people who are pro-free-trade can buy into Trump's tariff policy because they think, or hope, that the endgame is Trump using the leverage of tariffs to get other countries to reduce theirs, thus resulting in a more free trade world. But I don't think Trump wants a more free trade world. I think he believes tariffs are a good in and of themselves, and not just a bargaining chip to bring about a global free trade zone. Whatever the case, the markets are rallying after yesterday's engineered panic.Mario Nawfal
@MarioNawfal U.S. STOCKS SURGE AS TRADE DEAL HOPES IGNITE MARKET RALLY Wall Street roared back this morning, with all 3 major indexes jumping more than 3% on optimism around new trade deals. The S&P 500 soared 3.2%, the Nasdaq surged 3.6%, and the Dow Jones exploded 3.4%--gaining over 1,300 points at the open. Investors cheered signs of progress in global trade negotiations, including major moves by the Trump administration to realign foreign trade with U.S. interests.
Mario Nawfal
@MarioNawfal WALL STREET WHIPLASH: TARIFF FALLOUT FUELS HISTORIC VOLUME, FUTURES RALLY After Trump's surprise tariff rollout, the S&P 500 clocked its third straight loss, briefly dipping into bear territory with the highest trading volume in 18 years--29 billion shares. Yet Monday night, futures flipped green: Dow up 444 points, Nasdaq +1%. A false social media rumor of a tariff pause triggered intraday gains, quickly crushed by a White House denial. Treasury Secretary Bessent said talks could stretch until June. Recession fears remain as the 10-year yield tops 4%. Levi's earnings beat forecasts but warned of tariff impact. The Volatility Index spiked to 60. Market eyes now shift to CPI data later this week. Source: CNBC
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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
Huitres, coques et verre de vin blanc
Henry de Waroquier
Huitres, coques et verre de vin blanc
Henry de Waroquier
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The Morning Report — 4/ 8 /25 
Above and beyond economics, foreign policy, of which the former is certainly a key component of the latter, made news as Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu paid a visit to the White House. And then came this rather surprising announcement from President Trump.
At the end of the day, the evil barbarians who snuffed out Ariel and who still hold hostages are agents of Iran, Mr. President. And as you can see, that same evil lurks not far beneath the surface of an alarming percentage of our fellow citizens right here, in their mad desires for absolute power and control.
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Those who have followed President Trump’s messaging since 2015 know this has been his goal from the start. Even in his first term, when he implemented specific tariffs targeted at China and the steel and aluminum industries, the tariffs proved effective. He has consistently advocated for them to become a permanent policy that would only benefit the United States. Fair share and America First protectionist positions have long been central to Trump’s vision of world trade, and the "free trade" policies that the United States was propping up under Biden and his WEF cronies were insufficient. Trade cannot be free without being fair, so the perception that America should willingly participate in laissez-faire economics while being run over by the rest of the world is precisely why President Trump has initiated this change in our role. Protectionism gets a bad rap from conservatives who have been told that Reaganomics is the only way to think about economics. Still, that approach has led to nothing besides the elites of the world trampling over the American workers. Corporations, Wall Street, and countries like communist China can be protected through the abuse of "free trade," or the American people and their families’ futures can be defended against the rest of the world through tariffs.
Above and beyond economics, foreign policy, of which the former is certainly a key component of the latter, made news as Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu paid a visit to the White House. And then came this rather surprising announcement from President Trump.
The United States and Iran will hold direct discussions on Tehran's contested nuclear weapons program this weekend, President Donald Trump announced on Monday, just hours after the Islamic Republic affirmed that one-on-one negotiations with America remain off limits. If the talks fail, "Iran is going to be in great danger," Trump said. The surprise announcement came during a Monday afternoon press conference in the Oval Office with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is in town to discuss Iran’s nuclear program and ongoing efforts to free the hostages still being held by Hamas, Tehran’s top terror proxy. . . Trump expressed optimism that a diplomatic deal can be reached with the hardline regime but said negotiations will not continue indefinitely and that military options remain on the table. "I think everybody agrees that doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious, and the obvious is not something that I want to be involved with, or, frankly, that Israel wants to be involved with, if they can avoid it," Trump said while sitting beside the Israeli leader. "So we're going to see if we can avoid it, but it's getting to be very dangerous territory." "I think if the talks aren't successful with Iran," Trump added, "I think Iran is going to be in great danger." Earlier in the day, Iran’s foreign ministry confirmed that it had responded to a March letter from Trump requesting diplomatic talks. In that response, Tehran submitted an "offer to begin indirect talks," according to foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei. An Iranian official told Reuters on Monday morning that "indirect talks offer a chance to evaluate Washington's seriousness about a political solution with Iran." In separate comments, Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian said his country is "looking for negotiations" but would not enter them directly "at any cost." The Americans, he said, "must also prove that they are looking for negotiations."While "Jaw-Jaw" is preferable to "War-War" what is there to discuss with mad Mullahs. There is no parlaying with people who view Armageddon as a desirable and necessary thing in order to achieve their supposed Islamic paradise on earth. Beyond their support and likely being the force behind the October 7 invasion into Israel fromGaza, as well as waging a global terror campaign against us, our allies in the west and Israel in general for nearly 50 years, these maniacs are a nether hair's breadth from having atomic weapons and the missiles to carry them. That we can thank Obama and Biden and the billions of dollars we gave them. There must be regime change in Tehran, and that can be achieved without direct military action on our part by the reimposition of sanctions and the open support for the people who in large part are sick and tired of the theocracy. I would hope this nonsense from Trump about "negotiations" is merely for the cameras. But what's the purpose. Would it not be better to vocally declare regime change and a free Iran a goal we should get behind. "Dangerous territory" indeed Mr. President. On a more upbeat note, despite the darkness, a light still shines.
To memorialize the brief but beautiful life of Israeli toddler Ariel Bibas, whom Hamas jihadis horrifically murdered along with his mother and baby brother Kfir, the Jerusalem fritillary butterfly has a new name. Hamas jihadis kidnapped the whole Bibas family from their kibbutz on Oct. 7, 2023, subsequently killed mother Shiri and her two sons brutally, and gleefully informed father Yarden of their murder. Hordes of Palestinians joyfully cheered the coffins of the babies. Yarden returned as the family’s only survivor, but the Hebrew Language Academy wants to immortalize little Ariel’s memory. The state of Israel posted on X April 4, “A butterfly now carries his name. The Hebrew Language Academy @HebAcademy has renamed the Jerusalem fritillary butterfly (Melitaea ornata) the Ariel fritillary, in memory of five-year-old Ariel Bibas—murdered in Hamas captivity along with his mother, Shiri, and baby brother . . . Israel added, “In a letter to Ariel’s father, Yarden Bibas, the Academy wrote: ‘Of all our country’s orange butterflies, this one should carry Ariel’s name. May it be a small comfort to you and an everlasting tribute to those lost in this tragic war.’” Little Ariel had bright red hair, and the group Stand With Us said he loved butterflies.
At the end of the day, the evil barbarians who snuffed out Ariel and who still hold hostages are agents of Iran, Mr. President. And as you can see, that same evil lurks not far beneath the surface of an alarming percentage of our fellow citizens right here, in their mad desires for absolute power and control.
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- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- 'I think if the talks aren't successful with Iran, I think Iran is going to be in great danger'
Trump, Sitting Alongside Netanyahu, Announces Direct Nuclear Talks With Iran and Teases 'Great Danger' if Tehran Rejects Diplomacy
- STARRS Hosting Town Hall on April 9.
U.S. Military Opposition to the Trump Administration A Matter of Concern
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Daily Tech News 8 April 2025
Top Story
- We got dire wolves before we got Winds of Winter. (USA Today)
(Joke stolen from approximately eleventy trillion people because I gave up after the first book.)
Massive Dynamic - the company that recently gave the world woolly mice - has successfully reintroduced fluffy white dire wolf* pups, genetically modifying existing grey wolves with ancient samples of dire wolf DNA.
(Shoves New Scientist back into the locker.)
* Genome may settle in shipping.
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April 07, 2025
Monday Overnight Open Thread - April 7, 2025 [Doof]
Have you been celebrating?
Howdy Hordelings! Happy Monday to you all. As the photo above says, today is National Beer Day! Pour yourself a cold one and step on in to the ONT.
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Lazy Monday Cafe
Bonneville salt flats, Utah
by @OpenShutter21
"Penguins" queue up for grifting season. A fisherman's greatest weapon is patience. Patience and bait. Patience, bait, and a nearly fanatical devotion to the pope are a fisherman's greatest weapons. Guardian dog is given a World's Best Boss morning licking. Boy I miss the 80s. Petting and stroking a spotted moray eel, for some reason. At least it looks like a spotted moray eel to me. Parenting. Puppies on a slide. Raccoon in a drop-tube, which is an amusement ride he just made up. Doggo uses subway stairs for a game of Self-Fetch. Disabled dog enjoys the beach. Border collie herds a golden. I brought a fren over for Thanksgiving! Baby likes the new glasses and boy is he a ladykiller now. Ruffpunzel.
Bonneville salt flats, Utah
by @OpenShutter21
"Penguins" queue up for grifting season. A fisherman's greatest weapon is patience. Patience and bait. Patience, bait, and a nearly fanatical devotion to the pope are a fisherman's greatest weapons. Guardian dog is given a World's Best Boss morning licking. Boy I miss the 80s. Petting and stroking a spotted moray eel, for some reason. At least it looks like a spotted moray eel to me. Parenting. Puppies on a slide. Raccoon in a drop-tube, which is an amusement ride he just made up. Doggo uses subway stairs for a game of Self-Fetch. Disabled dog enjoys the beach. Border collie herds a golden. I brought a fren over for Thanksgiving! Baby likes the new glasses and boy is he a ladykiller now. Ruffpunzel.
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Supreme Court Rules That Trump May Invoke Alien Enemies Act to Deport Foreign Gang-Members and Criminals In Repudiation of Judge Boasberg's Endless String of Restraining Orders
The Court ruled that deportations under the Alien Enemies Act have, historically, "largely been precluded from judicial review," so the judges who keep claiming they have jurisdiction are wrong and asserting power they just don't have.
The court allows that there is some possible relief for a claimed false deportation, but that relief must come by way of a habeas corpus petition, not a TRO filed in a district court. The Court specifically mentions venue. In a habeas filing, the court with jurisdiction is a court with jurisdiction over the physical part of the country that the person is actually being detained in. So someone detained in Texas must file a habeas petition with a Texas court. They cannot just keeping filing TRO's in the packed-and-stacked leftwing DC courts. That's a big deal. Most cases will heard by less partisan courts. I'm still waiting for the Sudden Twitter Experts to tell me the difference between a TRO hearing and habeas corpus hearing. Some have noted that the Sudden Twitter Expertise in egg prices have exchanged that for a Sudden Twitter Expertise in tariffs. I'm sure that some will quickly cash that out for a Sudden Twitter Expertise in habeas petitions. I think one big difference is that a habeas petition can't result in "emergency" relief before an actual hearing on the merits. In other words, relief can only be had once you've actually proven your case in a hearing. A judge can't just say "Well I think that when we have the hearing you'll probably win so here's your Emergency Temporary Relief in the meantime," which is the rule behind all of these emergency temporary restraining orders. This certainly seems like this will sharply limit judicial activism on this front. But I do await the Sudden Twitter Experts on Habeas Corpus Hearings for confirmation. The decision was 5-4. Guess who joined the leftists, again?Posted by: Ace at 07:30 PM | Comments (235) | Trackbacks (Suck)
Get Ready for a Shock: The Whole 2024 "Brat Summer" Meme for Kamala Wasn't Organic At All, But an Organized PsyOp Financed by Leftwing Billionaires
I can all hear you shouting "No! That's impossible!" just like Luke Skywalker.
So everyone says Harry Sisson is a secretly paid-off shill and covert marketer. I've repeated it, but was always afraid that maybe this wasn't true and I was committing defamation. So I'm glad to here that the King of Mish is, in fact, a paid-off shill who refuses to disclose he's being paid to covertly influence his followers.
The abrupt withdrawal last year of President Joe Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee, followed rapidly by his replacement with Vice President Kamala Harris, irked many voters left out by the process. Yet social media seemed to ooze with enthusiasm and Gen Z-friendly hipster appeal. Influencers flooded the web with neon-matcha green pro-Harris videos synced to beats from singer Charli XCX's album "Brat" released last year. The poppy rave videos, gushed journalists, showed that Harris embodied the confidently independent "brat" vibe conveyed by the music. Social media pages bubbled with memes celebrating Harris as the voice of queer and black youth, in contrast with the Republican agenda of white supremacy. Digital creator Amelia Montooth, in one viral TikTok video, kissed a woman and tried searching for pornography, actions her sketch suggested would be banned if Harris lost the election. Harris, a career politician favored by the Democratic Party's establishment, never quite fit the bill as an icon of activist movements. But the sudden influencer buzz seemed to transform the stodgy former prosecutor into an icon of the cultural zeitgeist. As it turns out, the tidal wave of enthusiasm was not entirely genuine. Much of the content, including Montooth's videos, was quietly funded by an elusive group of Democratic billionaires and major donors in an arrangement designed to conceal the payments from voters. RealClearInvestigations obtained internal documents and WhatsApp messages from Democratic strategists behind the influencer campaign. Way to Win, one of the major donor groups behind the effort, spent more than $9.1 million on social media influencers during the 2024 presidential election -- payments revealed here for the first time. The amount was touted in a document circulated after the election detailing the organization's accomplishments. The effort supported over 550 content creators who published 6,644 posts across platforms, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Twitch, and X. Way to Win coached creators on phrases, issue areas, and key themes to "disseminate pro-Kamala content throughout the cycle," a post-election memo from the group noted. ... Way to Win, in internal messages, touted its work with a stable of Democratic Party-affiliated influencers and activists, including Harry Sisson, Emily Amick, Kate Abu, and Dash Dobrofsky.
The group also overtly cultivated "non-political creators" -- influencers typically known for travel vlogs, comedic skits, or cooking recipes -- and seeded them with "positive, specific pro-Kamala content" that was "integral in setting the tone on the Internet and driving additional organic digital support." The effort often took the form of talking points that were rapidly distributed to the in-network creators. "Bro who is Tim Walz," said @AbeeTheArtist, one of the TikTok creators backed by Way to Win. "He's a football coach, that's hard," the influencer continued. "It's time for Republicans to drop out, it's not looking good for ya'll!" ... Jaff also explained the process for developing talking points that could be inserted into organic-appearing messages and posts on social media. "We then convey that to the influencers who take that into their own words," continued Jaff. ...I don't know why anyone pretends that Ilana Glazer is a "comedian." She's not. She's just someone who gets work in comedy-related fields due to DEI. If her name sounds vaguely familiar to you: She was one of the super-funny influencers that Bud Light's sister-brand Miller Light hired to tell male beer drinkers to stop buying their product because it's a Woman's World now, baby! She gets work because she's not heinous for a female comedian. Except... she's not really a female comedian at all, so she's just an average-looking woman who is not funny.
Ilana Glazer, a comedian who starred in the Comedy Central show Broad City, received Way to Win funding for a series of election videos called "Microdosing Democracy," in which she half-heartedly endorsed Harris as she lighted a spliff of marijuana. Another TikTok and Instagram series backed by the donors, called "Gaydar," featured interviews quizzing people on the streets of New York City about gay culture trivia with little election-related content.
The left is made up of children and immature adults LARPing as wrinkly children, so the only ideas they ever have are these "naughty" Peta-like stunts. Unfortunately for the left, annoying people is not the same as influencing them.
Way to Win also funded a caravan with an inflatable IUD to Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Raleigh, St. Louis, and other locations. The tour, which featured content creators producing posts along the way, was designed to bring attention to claims that Trump would ban contraceptive devices.
I'm glad I'm wearing my Cringe-Proof underwear today.
In an apparent attempt to boost Harris' support among black men, Way to Win directly funded a series of YouTube interview-style talk shows called Watering Hole Media.
"I heard a brother say to me, 'Man, I didn't know I was going to be excited when Kamala was selected,'" said Jeff Johnson, a managing director with the lobbying firm Actum LLC who worked as a host for the Watering Hole Mediaseries "Tap In." "One brother said, 'I'm not even fully sure why,'" continued Johnson. "No, seriously, he said, 'When I look at her, though, she reminds me of my aunt,' and I said yes, so there is this communal piece." The discussion, taped at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last August, buzzed about the "through line" from the Black Panthers to the Nation of Islam to Harris' nomination, suggesting her candidacy represented another moment in radical black politics.That cringe was so satisfying I'm having a cigarette for the first time in 11 years. More at the link. The Democrats are doubling down, because they're a cult, not a political party, and while political doctrine may be repudiated, cult doctrine cannot be challenged. Anyone doing so is a Heretic and Blasphemer.
Jayapal and most congressional Democrats seem to be living in a bubble of their own making, clinging to the belief that their losses in the last election weren't so much about policy but messaging, the go-to excuse for both parties when they don't win majorities. Many Democrats, especially those in the progressive wing, believe they lost because they didn't go far left enough. They couldn't be more wrong, and that thinking has put the Democratic Party in third place -- behind independents -- in terms of nationwide party ID, going from 37 percent in the 2020 exit polls to 31 percent in the 2024 exit polls. The last time a major party came in behind independents was Republicans during the the Watergate era some 50 years ago. The existential problem Republicans had to overcome then wasn't the Democratic Party but whether they could persuade voters that their value proposition to the country still had merit and warranted another chance -- without Richard Nixon, of course. Today, rather than undertaking some serious introspection as to what voters want and whether Democratic ideology still has value for the electorate, Democrats have turned to an old playbook: the Resistance. Voters have been bombarded with videos showing congressional Democrats staging "protests" at federal buildings, complete with coarse language and silly chants more reminiscent of the 1960s than a modern political party. Their "fight back" strategy so far has featured violent Tesla takedowns, "days of action," fatuous Senate filibusters, obstructionist lawsuits, DOGE meltdowns and Jayapal's own "resistance labs." There are three problems with this strategy. First, going on the attack when a majority of the country has an unfavorable view of view of your party is likely going to have minimal impact. Second, when you attack, you drive up your own negatives, exactly what the Democratic Party needs to avoid. And third, the Republicans they are attacking have much higher positives than their own party. In a March 7-11 NBC survey, Trump was at 46 percent positive (19 points higher than Democrats), while Elon Musk and the Republican Party were both at 39 percent (12 points above Democrats). Democrats' vendetta against Tesla, once the darling of the green movement, isn't just ineffective as political theater. It's damaging to the Democratic brand. The irony of protesters targeting Tesla owners, most of whom are probably supporters of both climate programs and the Democratic Party, shouldn't be underestimated. Violence directed at people, businesses and property based on political differences is the antithesis of democracy. The silence from many elected Democrats in terms of this violence has very disconcerting. Charting the direction of the country is done through elections, not using violence against fellow citizens."Making no sense" is the Democrat Cult brand:
... [P]ost-election, Democrats don't seem to understand that Biden's brand is their brand. His policies are their policies. Rather than rethinking those policies, they have doubled down with an even harsher attack strategy of strange videos, awkward confrontation and foul language. This makes no sense.
Politics & Poll TrackerWe are living in 1984. The world is nothing but propaganda, guerilla marketing, and gayops. We live in, as I started saying a few years ago, an Empire of Lies. I'm so sick of it. Below, Democrats continue doubling down, with a Gen Z candidate proclaiming her full devotion to "fighting fascism" by supporting the transitioning of children. In a Luntz's Dunces focus group of Democrats, they name their top candidates: AOC, Bernie Sanders, Jasmine Rachet, who is repeatedly named as the top Democrat candidate. The "moderate" Democrat they name is... Pete Bootyjuice.
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Overton Insights poll 2028 Democratic presidential primary Kamala Harris 48%
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Now It Can Be Told: "Reporters" Writing About Biden's Mental Decline Now Admit That Everyone In DC Knew He Had "Lost a Step" In 2020, But For Some Reason Never Reported It Until Biden Had Retired from Politics
Ed Morrissey referred to this as the "Now It Can Be Told" school of fake "journalism."
Basically, when a lie is no longer useful, because the public knows it's a lie and is now punishing politicians and "journalists" for repeating it, Democrats and "journalists," but I repeat myself, execute a Nixonian Modified Limited Hang-Out lie in which they say they have finally nailed down the "reporting" on facts that everyone in the world had the facts about five years ago. Their claim is that everyone who knew this five years ago were biased, partisan, and acting, as Jake Tapper's snarky chyrons say of Republicans, "WITHOUT EVIDENCE." You see, we were all "Prematurely Right," whereas the relentlessly-factual media has only recently finished sifting through the sands of evidence to Tell the Public What the Truth is just now. You may think you were right and they were wrong. They insist, no, you were just partisan in guessing at what the facts were, whereas the Truth Scientists of the media actually conducted the necessary Journalistic Chemical Tests with their beakers and Bunsen burners and change-color strips and proven the truth just now. It's like the communists of the 30s supporting Hitler because they supported Stalin and Stalin had reached a deal with Hitler to divide Europe between us, and attacking anyone who prematurely opposed Hitler before he proved he was a Bad Egg after all by invading Russia. You think you knew the truth before the media. You're wrong, Stupid Bigots. The media just discovered the truth this past couple of months. Before that, it was unknowable. I mean, except to the extent the media denied the truth previously. But the media was right to deny the obvious truth previously. The media is always right. When they're wrong, they were right to be wrong at that time. Fox News: Now It Can Be Told, Kamala Harris is an election denier who considered calling for recounts after her blowout loss.Harris was 'completely shocked' by defeat, believed she could've won with more time, author saysI'm old enough to remember when claiming you really won an election because of crowd size was enough to get you followed at airports by Air Marshalls.
Journalist Amie Parnes says Harris asked staff on election night if they needed a 'recount'
Former Vice President Kamala Harris was reportedly blindsided by her 2024 election loss to President Donald Trump and "bought the hype" that she would win, according to a new book. "She was completely shocked, and [Harris' running mate] Tim Walz was shocked," The Hill reporter Amie Parnes said on the podcast "Somebody's Gotta Win with Tara Palmeri," released Thursday. ... While continuing to discuss the confusion within the Harris campaign on election night, Parnes said that Walz was sitting in his hotel room "stunned." "He has no words. And people are kind of explaining to him, same thing with her. And she's like, are you sure? Have we done a recount? Should we do a recount?" Parnes said on the podcast, recounting how Walz and Harris reportedly reacted to their defeat. "They thought that they were going to win. And so, you know, when they come back now and say, 'Oh, no, we didn't really have a chance.' No, that's not what they were thinking. They thought they were going to win," she added. Harris campaign staffers felt "gaslit" by leadership about Harris' chances at winning after being told that "things were looking good" for the candidate ahead of the election, according to Parnes. Harris also "bought the hype" that she was doing better than she was, the author said. "Kamala Harris was looking at her crowd size, and they felt like the vibe was strong and people were saying, 'Oh, we have more boots on the ground. We're doing better in fundraising,'" Parnes continued. "And she bought all of that. She bought the hype, and so did a lot of people in the campaign."
Actually, she could have won if Biden dropped out later. Harris was briefly ahead of Trump by four points in the polls for a couple of weeks after Biden dropped out. But then, as people listened to this Ding-Dong cackle insanely, and looked into hard-left past, they recoiled from her.
According to the book, Harris reportedly told friends in the aftermath of her defeat that she could've won the election if she had more time and if Biden hadn't run for re-election. "She could have won, she told friends, if only the election was later in the calendar -- or she got in earlier. In other words, Joe Biden was to blame," the authors wrote.
Friends of Harris said that she believed Biden's unpopularity and her late entry into the race tanked her campaign. However, not all of Harris' friends believed time would have helped, according to the book. "That is f---ing bonkers," one Harris friend reportedly said. "If Election Day was October first, we might have actually somehow pulled it off. Shorter was actually better, not longer."THAT'S WHAT I JUST SAID JACKASS
One Harris advisor said the candidate's problem was "substance," not a lack of campaign time. "I don't think we needed more time... We needed more substance. And she did not have more substance," the advisor is quoted in the book.In some real Now It Can Be Told "reporting," the authors of this book say that they saw signs of Biden's decline during the 2020 campaign but for Reasons Too Complicated For You To Understand, the time was not ripe for reporting this until this f***ing week.
Here, Annie Parnes talks about watching the debate. Vanity Fair is asking the questions, in bold-face.
Joe Biden Was "a Shell of Himself" by End of Term. Hunter Biden Didn't Help.
You knew this from 2020 and never said a word about it, huh?
At that point, in June 2024, President Biden's physical and mental capacities had long been a central issue in the campaign. Was his terrible debate performance still a surprise to you? Parnes: It was just stunning to watch. Allen: We'd been watching Biden's decline for a long period of time and, honestly, thought he had lost his fastball some when he was running in 2020. And it was still so shocking to see the leader of the free world so bereft of coherent thought.
Your book describes the lengths to which the president's longtime inner circle--including first lady Jill Biden and senior advisers Mike Donilon and Steve Ricchetti--went to hide that decline. Who was most responsible? Parnes: All of them. It's pretty remarkable how they kept him very closed off. He was a shell of himself. When he entered the White House, he was so, so different from the man who I covered as vice president, a guy who would hold court in the Naval Observatory with reporters until the wee hours.Again, the admission that they knew since 2020 -- but kept silent. Until now. Now It Can Be Told, you see.
How large a part of the equation was Hunter Biden? Allen: Most people have looked at Hunter Biden as somebody that his father has had to deal with. And what we really found in the reporting here is that Hunter Biden is somebody that his father wanted to deal with on political issues, that Hunter was, as was described to us by one source, his father's closest political adviser, which is mind-blowing. I mean, if you're seeking--and I don't mean this to knock Hunter Biden in an untoward way, but it is not clear that he has the best record as somebody you would lean on for judgment.They're still walking gingerly around Hunter Biden. Apparently it's still forbidden to say he was an out-of-control drug addict, flesh-renter, and foreign agent.
The book doesn't use the word cover-up to describe the effort to conceal the extent of Joe Biden's deficits. Was it one? Allen: I think our view is that there is more complexity to it.Of course. The left must still be protected. They did an "oopsie," but certainly not a cover-up! There's "complexity!"
Largely, the people who are closest to the person in power are people who do not tell that person things they don't wanna hear...If you were going to stand up and say something, you would be thrown out of the room. That basically happened with Anita Dunn toward the end. What we saw was a lot of bad decision-making and, perhaps at the very top, people putting their own interests, and what they believed were Joe Biden's interests, above the interests of the Democratic Party and the country. And so that's a failure. That's a moral failure, but maybe not a criminal one, which is what the term cover-up sort of implies, a criminal conspiracy, and we didn't reach that threshold.The idea of a political cover-up has never in history required proof of actual crimes being committed. They certainly never imposed this new requirement on Trump's or Bush's own oopsies. It is fabricated for the nonce just to avoid saying the Democrat Party committed a cover-up. Of course, they also insist the media didn't participate in the cover-up, either!
They "were all on to" the story of Biden's dementia, but they couldn't report it at the time because Biden's staffers told them not to.
Dozens of reporters pursued the truth about Biden's age and health; I wrote about it way back in May 2023. Yet did we, the mainstream media, still blow it? Parnes: No, I don't think we missed it. I think we were all onto it.
But the problem is, I think [the Biden camp's] response was kind of unethical in a way. When I called the White House and I tried to do a story on the president's exercise routine--which is something that every president has sort of put out, minus Trump, maybe--that was pretty low-hanging fruit, and that should have been a sign to me at the time--and I think it was--the fact that they couldn't even tell me what he did, if anything. Those were all signs that something wasn't right there. A common frustration for readers of presidential campaign books is, "Now you tell us! Why didn't you report this a year ago instead of saving it to sell books?" Allen: I think we started our interviews in August, but the vast majority we did were postelection, for a variety of reasons. No, we didn't hold anything back for the book that would have been material to the election at all. Amie and I both did significant reporting during the year, or during the election, on all of these aspects.You literally said that everyone in DC knew Biden was off his game in 2020 not ten minutes earlier in this very interview. Meanwhile, Jake Tapper, who's also publishing his own Now It Can Be Told book in a few weeks, insists he's not "on the left." Jake Tapper literally used to slide into my DMs to insist on this all the time. If I referred to him as a "liberal" reporter, he would tell me that he doesn't identify as a liberal and that I have no factual basis for saying so. Just like he used to insist that we have no factual basis, except our own eyes and ears and experience, to say that Joe Biden was in steep mental decline.
Jake Tapper denies being 'on the left' during tense exchange with Trump agriculture secretary CNN host Jake Tapper refused to be called a member of the political left in an interview with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins about President Donald Trump's tariff policy. CNN host Jake Tapper refused to be labeled a member of "the left" in an interview with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Sunday about the fallout from President Donald Trump's tariff plans. "So how long do you anticipate this tariff chaos is going to be going on? Thirty days, 60 days, 90 days?" Tapper asked Rollins on "State of the Union." "I think it's really important to realize that last Wednesday was when the president announced this new American order, the new American economic plan," Rollins said. "We're now two days in. You've got two days of data, everyone, especially on your side, on the left, is freaking out." "I'm not on the left," Tapper quickly said, prompting an amused response from the Trump Cabinet official. "All right, Jake, thank you," Rollins said.
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Chief Justice John Roberts Stays -- Puts on Hold -- Hawaiian Judge's Order That Deported MS-13-Linked Alien Be Returned to the US
In other words, he sided with Trump, who asked the Court to stay this judge's interference in the President's conduct of foreign policy.
They all claim that. If the government of the country they're from is repressive, they claim the government is persecuting them. If the country they're from doesn't have a government which is repressive, they're coached to claim they're being oppressed by "gangs." Trump asked the Supreme Court to suspend the order.
Federal judge calls deportation of Salvadoran man in Maryland 'wholly lawless'
A federal judge's 22-page decision on Sunday called the deportation of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to El Salvador "wholly lawless." And after an appeals court on Monday denied a motion from the Department of Justice to stay the judge's order to return Garcia to the U.S., the Trump administration appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene. Abrego Garcia, 29, was deported to an El Salvadoran megaprison last month for being an alleged MS-13 gang member. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ordered the Department of Homeland Security and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to return Abrego Garcia to the U.S., where he was living in Maryland. "Although the legal basis for the mass removal of hundreds of individuals to El Salvador remains disturbingly unclear, Abrego Garcia's case is categorically different--there were no legal grounds whatsoever for his arrest, detention, or removal," Xinis wrote. ... Also on Sunday, Attorney General Pam Bondi doubled down on the Trump administration's decision to deport Abrego Garcia. "We have to rely on what ICE says," Bondi said in a "Fox News Sunday" interview. "We have to rely on what Homeland Security says. They're our clients, and I firmly believe in the work they are doing, and we're going to make America safe again. That was President Trump's directive to all of us." The White House has remained firm in its decision to deport Abrego Garcia following a report from The Atlantic that federal attorneys said that there was an "administrative error" in bringing him to CECOT men's prison in El Salvador. Court filings also show Abrego Garcia came to the U.S. in 2011 at the age of 16 after fleeing gang threats in El Salvador, the outlet reported.
The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to lift a judge's order requiring officials to bring an illegally deported Maryland man back from a high-security prison in El Salvador. In an emergency appeal filed Monday morning, Solicitor General John Sauer asked the justices to suspend a midnight deadline a federal judge in Maryland set for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was deported last month to his home country of El Salvador despite an immigration judge's 2019 order that he not be sent there because he could face persecution. Sauer called U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis' order "unprecedented and indefensible." He argued that forcing the administration to demand Abrego Garcia's return from another government exceeded the judicial branch's power. ... In a unanimous ruling, a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals resoundingly rejected the claim that the administration has no power to seek Abrego Garcia's return -- and that Xinis' order violates the separation of powers.
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US Stocks Down 4% on Tariff Fears; Trump: "Sometimes You Have to Take Medicine to Fix Something"
Wall Street is panicking. They like stability and predictability, and also, they like the world trade system they willed into being and have profited massively from for 50 years.
President Trump defended his trade policies amid a global market slide, saying economic discomfort is necessary to correct decades of bad deals. He denied triggering the stock market plunge, calling the turbulence "medicine" needed to heal the U.S. economy.The "tariffs are here to stay" isn't just for purposes of negotiating with countries that rip us off. I think it's also intended to calm the markets -- the markets don't like tariffs, but they like uncertainty even less, and Trump is telling them they can be certain, at least, that the policy they don't like is the policy going forward. So they can make plans based on that certainty. I do worry about the short- to medium-term disruptions of the tariffs and the not-small possibility that they can tip the weak economy into recession. On the other hand, I'm not sure we can continue limping along under the present system. As the neocons said of the "stability" of the Middle East before the Iraq invasion, yes, the system is stable, but it's the stability of the lowest depths of the sewer. It's stable because it can't sink any lower.
... President Donald Trump, returning to Washington on Sunday, addressed the market turmoil gripping global investors. Speaking aboard Air Force One, Trump pushed back against claims that he was intentionally destabilizing the stock market. "I don't want anything to go down," he told reporters. "But sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something." His remarks came at the tail end of a brutal three-day stretch that saw markets shed trillions in value. By Sunday evening, early trading suggested the U.S. stock market would open more than 4% lower on Monday--potentially capping one of the worst market routs in history. Oil prices fell below $60, the dollar weakened, and even gold--a typical safe-haven--dipped. The sell-off was fueled by growing investor concern that the Trump administration would not reverse course on its aggressive tariff agenda. Markets had held out hope over the weekend for a sign of easing trade tensions. Instead, the administration sent a clear message: the tariffs are here to stay.
Sean Davis
@seanmdav Due to the deliberate government policies of the last 50 years, America can't produce its own food, fertilizer, energy, weapons, medicine, vehicles, clothing, or computers. The architects of those policies, as well as those who’ve gotten rich off them, will look you dead in the eye and tell you it's Actually Good to be forced to rely on your enemies for everything you need to survive.
Lee SmithOn the other hand, upsetting the grubby stability of the Middle East didn't improve things. Unelected Dictator of Europe Usula von der Leyen says that Europe is ready to agree to zero tariffs in exchange for zero tariffs, but I don't believe her. I believe this is yet another delaying action by the globalists, hoping to give time to Axis Media to coerce Trump into reversing his policy before it goes into full effect. Also, note that she will only talk about zero tariffs on industrial goods. They're going to continue keeping US agricultural goods out, forever, because they're full-on protectionist at our extent and always have been and always will be.
@LeeSmithDC It's not just the trade regime, it's the political regime that grew out of it. The widening income gap, rising oligarchy, impoverishing middle class -- all underwritten by a deal with the most vicious totalitarian regime of modern times. That's why Trump called it Liberation Day.
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Now That Jake Tapper's New Grift is Peddling a Book About the Democrat Party's Cover-Up of Biden's Dementia, He's Actually Asking Democrats About Their Lies
Jake Tapper lied too, of course --as did the entire leftwing media.
Biden is a Super Ager! Posted by: Every Mainstream Media Outlet!The media is in survival mode as it attempts, again, to claim they never really lied to you about Biden's mental acuity. Just as they never really lied to you about the origins of Anthony Fauci's killer frankenvirus, or the efficacy of masking, social distancing, and lockdowns, or Hunter Biden's laptop, or "a video-maker did a Benghazi" or "if you like your insurance you can keep your insurance." See, the media was always skeptical of these claims. They certainly didn't repeat them like applause lines at a political convention and attack anyone who questioned them, and they definitely didn't lobby social media platforms and the government itself to deplatform and censor anyone questioning them.
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"Womens'" Pool Finals Features Two Dudes Playing Each Other For Title of Best "Woman" Player in the World
It took me a while to figure it out but I think "b****y" must be the blood intensifier.
Piers Morgan has slammed the Ultimate Pool Group after two transgender women contested the final of a professional women's event in Wigan on Sunday night, calling the situation 'preposterous' and accusing the sport of 'cheating bulls***'. The broadcaster's comments came after Harriet Haynes defeated Lucy Smith 8-6 in the final of a Women's Pro Series event, one of eight events on the Ultimate Pool Group's 2025 women's circuit. Both players are transgender, resulting in a wave of criticism on social media - most notably from former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies, who described the event as 'b****y ridiculous and grossly wrong in every way' and said sports 'hate their female players to do this'.
And if you think men have an advantage over women in billiards, wait till you see the records being smashed in"girls'" track and field.
Sharing an X post from Reduxx Magazine, which claimed 'two men' were facing each other 'for a women's championship title', Morgan added: 'Why anyone supports this cheating bulls*** is utterly beyond me.' The tournament, held at Robin Park Leisure Centre in Wigan, was streamed live on UltimatePool.tv and across social media. Haynes' path to the title included victories over Megan Proctor and Mary Talbot, while Smith reached the final by knocking out Kirsty-Lee Davies and Danielle Randle. This is not the first time Haynes has been at the centre of controversy. In November 2023, she was handed a walkover victory in the Women's Champion of Champions final in Prestatyn after opponent Lynne Pinches refused to play, citing fairness concerns. Pinches later told TalkTV: 'Whenever you play a transgender player, even if you win, it doesn't make any difference because in your heart, you know it's unfair. 'This is a category advantage, being biologically male and playing against females, gives you a clear category advantage. 'Every time I play a transgender player, I think about it before, during and after the match, about how unfair it is and how this is a level I can't reach. 'I watch some of the shots they play, and I think females don't play these shots down the rails like this and they don't clear up like this. They have a longer reach, a lot of them are taller than us. 'Women have been silenced because of fear of being transphobic, that is why people don't speak out about this subject. It's not a gender issue, this is a fairness issue.'
I keep saying this but if these "girls" sports are going to allow men to compete, then they should be shut down, and girls (and men in wigs) should just compete against men.
As Guy Benson quipped on Twitter, oh look -- that thing that never happens has happened again. In one sense, though, this story from Portland, Oregon qualifies as a success story. What else can one call an effort by which a last-place finisher in track meets at the junior varsity level goes on to dominate at the varsity level? Of course, that's not difficult to achieve when a biological male switches to compete against high-school girls:And that's not the first time this season that a biological male has beaten female athletes in Portland. Fox News also notes that Ada Gallagher dominated girls in two races last month:
Lia Rose, who reportedly used to compete as Zachary, won the high jump at the Portland Interscholastic League Varsity Relays with a height of 4 feet, 8 inches, beating the second-place finisher by two inches. According to athletic.net, while competing against JV boys May 3, 2023, Zachary Rose finished 11th out of 11 competitors with a jump of 4 feet, 6 inches. ... In 2024, Lia mostly competed against JV boys, with a top finish of second place and a personal record of 5 feet even.
Lia's victory comes roughly two weeks after Ada Gallagher, a trans track athlete in the Portland area, blew out the competition. Gallagher, a state champion last year, finished at 57.62 in the 400 meters, with Franklin High School's Kinnaly Souphanthong coming in second at 1:05.72. Gallagher's teammate, Quinnan Schaefer, was behind Souphanthong at 1:07.13. In the 200-meter race, Gallagher finished in first place at 25.76, followed by teammate Addyson Skyles at 27.31.
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Survey: Most Self-Identifying Lefties Say Killing Trump Is Justified
How many times did you hear about the "gallows" outside the White House? It was a miniature model of a gallows, not a real working gallows. J6ers were surveilled and arrested not for taking any criminal action but just for writing about the #Rigged election. Leftwing prosecutors and judges claimed that repeating forbidden ideas constituted joining a conspiracy against the US. So they should get the J6 treatment, on steroids. They're openly calling for the assassination of the president.
Start the geofencing and start getting warrants to raid old liberal women's homes.
SURVEY: 55% Of Self-Identified Leftists Say Killing Trump Is Justifiable The more troubling trend is the rising violent rhetoric isn't just coming from the 'fringe' left, it's being 'normalized' by the left. M.D. Kittle The unhinged left, fueled by Trump Derangement Syndrome and seething hatred for Elon Musk, is trending more violent, according to a new study that finds political violence targeting President Donald Trump and his billionaire adviser is "becoming increasingly normalized." The report, produced by the Network of Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) in partnership with Rutgers University's Social Perception Lab, finds a broader "assassination culture" appears to be "emerging within segments of the U.S. public on the extreme left, with expanding targets now including figures such as Donald Trump." Less than a year after assassination attempts on then-presidential candidate Trump and the literally explosive violence against Musk's Tesla electric vehicles, it's no secret that leftists are ratcheting up violent rhetoric and actions. The more troubling trend is that an "assassination culture" isn't just coming from the "fringe" left. "These attitudes are not fringe -- they reflect an emergent assassination culture, grounded in far-left authoritarianism and increasingly normalized in digital discourse," states the report, titled, "Assassination Culture: How Burning Teslas and Killing Billionaires Became a Meme Aesthetic for Political Violence." ... "The reports found widespread justification for lethal violence -- including assassination -- among younger, highly online, and ideologically left-aligned users," the authors of the latest study write. They note the spillover effect beyond the online world, illustrated by a proposed California ballot measure macabrely named "the Luigi Mangione Access to Health Care Act," celebrating the alleged leftist terrorist and murderer of United Healthcare head Brian Thompson. The ballot measure targets health insurance denials, one of Mangione's reported flashpoints. On Friday, a California man reportedly "angry with pharmacies" was arrested on charges of murdering a Walgreens employee just days after the Luigi Mangione Act was filed with the state. ABC 30 reported that Erick Velazquez, the victim, was not a pharmacist, and was a respected husband and father of two.
How many times did you hear about the "gallows" outside the White House? It was a miniature model of a gallows, not a real working gallows. J6ers were surveilled and arrested not for taking any criminal action but just for writing about the #Rigged election. Leftwing prosecutors and judges claimed that repeating forbidden ideas constituted joining a conspiracy against the US. So they should get the J6 treatment, on steroids. They're openly calling for the assassination of the president.
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