Top Biden Aide: Yes, We "Gaslit" America About Biden's Mental Fitness, We Knew It Was a Problem Since "Day One"

Good, now I don't have to bother reading Cover-Up Artist Jake Tapper's stupid cashgrab book.

A senior aide for former President Joe Biden has admitted the administration was "gaslighting" Americans when it repeatedly dismissed growing concerns about the oldest-ever president's age and ability.

Michael LaRosa, a former White House aide and longtime press secretary for first lady Jill Biden, admitted that Mb "Cover-up to me is a little hard, a little harsh. Every politician, everybody, every human being tries to cover up age. We were always, from day one, cognizant that age was an issue," LaRosa said Wednesday at a Science Institute at American University seminar.

"There are some things that are true, I mean, like the gaslighting. There was a lot of denial of the polling. And I will use the term gaslighting because that's what they were doing, the campaign, former colleagues. The message to everybody was to make sure that you tell people it's too early."

But behind the scenes, the Biden campaign was terrified of letting him fly solo, according to LaRosa.

"The president's team was scared to death of impromptu, unscripted, unrehearsed, unpracticed, unchoreographed, anything, they couldn't compete for the attention economy," he said.

"They just couldn't do it. They didn't have any idea. And they didn't have the vessel either in Biden, by the way, who would have done anything. He loves TV. He loves doing stuff. It was the orbit that did not trust their own candidate.

"Biden needed the press. When he needed them the most, they didn't trust him, they gave him the back foot of the doubt and they put their foot on the gas and never took it off. And he was politically dead."

What about the coke? Who smuggled Hunter Biden's coke into the White House?

Trump has theories.

President Trump is convinced that someone in the Biden family left behind the bag of cocaine that was found in the West Wing in July 2023 -- and has vowed to conduct an investigation.

In an interview with The Spectator World Thursday, Trump spilled that his return to the Oval Office persuaded him that "either Joe or Hunter" Biden misplaced the white powder in the White House.

"That was such a terrible thing because, you know, those bins are very loaded up with ... they're not clean, and they have hundreds and even thousands of fingerprints," the president said, referring to the lockers where the cocaine was found.

"And when they went to look at it, it was absolutely stone cold, wiped dry. You know that, right?"

Trump, 78, added that he was "going to look into that because ... bad stuff happened there."

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) revealed last month that he folded up a congressional probe into the matter due to interference by the US Secret Service.

The idea that the media didn't know is laughable. A 2 year old could have seen that Biden was not all there. They were lied to, but they accepted the lie because they wanted to.
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We know this is the case because our side pointed out, repeatedly, the Biden wasn't all there and spend long hours explaining how awesome he was... fitness routines designed to kill a 22 year old special forces soldier... mind like a whirring sawblade.

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THE MORNING RANT: Harvard MBAs Are Struggling to Get Job Offers Amidst the School’s Ongoing Challenges

It’s time for a periodic checkup on how things are going at the most prominent of the Poison Ivy League Schools. As I documented at The Blaze a few months ago, Harvard is apparently experiencing a liquidity crisis, having to borrow from debt markets at high interest rates because donors have closed their wallets in disgust at Harvard’s toleration of anti-semitism. The problem was compounded by the plagiarism scandal that engulfed now-departed President Claudine Gay.

Harvard’s new President, Alan Garber, has his hands full. Aside from the financial damage, there is severe reputational damage, and there may be political damage too, as the Trump administration and Republican-controlled Congress mull over ideas that would inflict some pain on Harvard, or at a minimum starve the beast from receiving taxpayer money.

Regarding the reputational damage Harvard has suffered, its most recent class of graduating MBAs is having a hard time finding employment. Poets and Quants is a publication that covers the graduate business education market, with a heavy focus on the MBA programs of Ivy League and “near Ivy” universities. It recently ran this rather shocking story, “Nearly 1/4 Of Job-Seeking Class Of 2024 Harvard MBAs Couldn’t Find Work After Months Of Searching.”

There’s no sugarcoating it: Nearly one-quarter of job-seeking Harvard MBAs couldn’t find jobs this year, by far the largest portion of a graduating Harvard class to struggle in the market in the last decade — a decade, let’s remember, of widespread economic tribulation and pandemic.

These are students who graduated with their Harvard MBAs in May of 2024. By the end of 2024, 25% of the class still hadn’t found employment. By contrast, 95% of the Class of 2022 had received job offers within 90 days of graduation. The article noted that Harvard delayed the release of this poor jobs data until the Christmas holiday, which is a significantly later release date than the timing of the report in prior years, when the numbers weren’t so embarrassingly bad.

So who stopped hiring? A breakdown of the sectors where Harvard MBAs found work revealed that several sectors remained steady, such as tech at 16% of the class. But job offers in consulting were greatly reduced, with only 18% of the class of ‘24 getting jobs in that field, versus 25% for the Class of ’23. That would indicate there is a decreasing demand in the greater private sector to hire consultants inculcated in the toxic leftism that defines a Harvard education.

Meanwhile, President Garber is warning Harvard’s faculty that the university’s radical leftism is putting its massive endowment in peril. The Harvard Crimson reported in December that Garber, in a closed-door meeting, advised the faculty that they must re-think their messaging now with Republicans having won control of Congress and the White House in an “anti-elite repudiation by the American electorate.”

During the meeting, Vice President for Public Affairs and Communications Paul Andrew described what University officials consider to be key legislative threats to Harvard — such as an endowment tax, congressional probes, and threats to federal research funding.

The Crimson also quoted President Garber as stating that an increase to the endowment tax is the “threat that keeps me up at night.” As well it should. Harvard didn’t need to take a leadership role in the culture war against mainstream Americans, but it did. Malicious actions and poor choices have consequences. If Harvard didn’t want to suffer the consequences from being on the losing side of the culture war, it should have abstained from it.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Love of Winter
George Bellows

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The Morning Report — 2/ 28 /25

Good morning kids. Given the fact that the greatest threat to our national security sadly comes from within our own nation. No, not necessarily the the upwards of perhaps greater than 40 million illegal alien foreigners who have been permitted to live among us for decades (but as we all know that has been a massive drain on us economically, politically and culturally, finally being addressed as it should have been years ago). I mean the cancerous, poisonous alien ideology that resides in the brain cases of our own native-born Democrat Leftists whose hatred of their own country and desire for absolute power has torn us apart for deades, and will continue to do so unless and until a real sea change in our culture takes hold and burns this rot out once and for all.

It's why this otherwise well-written essay, is nevertheless today's recipient of the Pollyanna/Ostrich head-in-the-sand award winner.

It’s an important check on undemocratic liberalism, but its practitioners must move beyond “tear it all down” partisanship and toward a vision of national unity. . .

. . . Populism, which Trump has embodied, is an important check on what Yascha Mounk has termed undemocratic liberalism. However, national populists must move beyond “tear it all down” partisanship to construct a new, mainstream vision of national unity. The negative impulses of populism need to be reined in: we need a rational populism. Liberal institutions must learn from the populist moment, and populists need a vision for the institutions.

Yes, you could've stopped reading as soon as you hit the words "National Unity."

There will be no national unity when, beyond mere issues, one side views the nation itself and its history as more than merely an illegitimate mistake of history but as the embodiment of evil itself. And since a nation is not merely land but the people who live in it, by extension the other side views us as the living embodiment of evil that is to to be eradicated. We can elect Donald Trumps in every office in the land for the next 50 years, that is if we are allowed to, but the beast that is the Democrat Left is going to have to change its spots for there to be national unity. The two-state solution? Guess what? We're soaking in it right now!

State 1= A restored USA as founded, State 2 = The Democrat Left at or below room temperature in the mass grave they've been digging for us since forever. Recall Bill Ayers planning to liquidate 25 million Americans who refused Communist reeducation once he and the Left seized absolute power.

And in the very concise and colorful words of commenter Sturmtoddler:

why, WHY is it always US who must move and never EVER!! the left that has to move to the center????? to whomever wrote that steaming pile of horseshit, i say fuck off sir, fuck ALL the way off and the horse you rode in on....

Indeed,sir.

With that as the set up, I have a message for anyone who may lurk that is in or has a pipeline to the Trump administration and Pam Bondi in particular. But first, I have to inflict this on you as the set up. Apologies in advance.

Whatever her influence may or may not be, I give you the words of a truly horrid harridan upon receiving a SAG award. Yes, the folds of unbotoxed and un-18-hour-girdled and non-surgically-lifted flab abound, but I refer to the Screen Actors' Guild:

Yes, Jane Fonda the other night.

"Make no mistake, empathy is not weak or woke," she said in her speech. "And by the way, woke just means you give a damn about other people. . . “A whole lot of people are going to be really hurt by what is happening, what is coming our way,” she said.The Oscar winner and activist did not mention President Donald Trump by name but appeared to reference the actions of his administration. She also reference actor Sebastian Stan’s portrayal of a young Trump in the SAG award-nominated film “The Apprentice.” “And even if they’re of a different political persuasion, we need to call upon our empathy and not judge, but listen from our hearts and welcome them into our tent, because we are going to need a big tent to resist successfully what’s coming at us," she continued."

Giving a damn about other people? Like American servicemen being held captive and tortured by North Vietnam in the Infamous "Hanoi Hilton" Prison while you were maybe a half mile if that down the road sitting on an NVA flak gun yucking it up for their propagandists and spouting Anti-American bullshit for the world media to gobble up. Yeah, not so much. And when Richard Nixon actually did deliver peace with honor by guaranteeing the territorial integrity of South Vietnam, you and your ilk were overjoyed as the North rolled South in 1975 and we abrogated our agreement and let it happen. Only for the bloodthirsty Khmer Rouge communists to be enabled to conquer Cambodia and slaughter a few million in the Killing Fields, a movie you were not in, Jane. Probably eating a box of Raisinettes in the front row and giggling with glee when Dith Prahn watched his family get butchered.

Funny how you and yours are all upset about Ukraine being overrun by Putin and demanding US troops be sent there to start World War 3 with Putin.

All of that said, I must remind her and anyone reading this post that There is No Statute of Limitations on Treason, and what Jane Fonda engaged in a little over 50 years ago in giving aid and comfort to the enemy during time of war was indeed Treason. A crime for which she should have been tried. A mantra of the Left that I actually ascribe to is "Justice Delayed is Justice Denied."

In our case, real justice, not the Kangaroo Court Stalinist show trial Democrat variety. There is no doubt in my mind that Jane Fonda, by all that is right and good, should face the consequences of her actions. But, what would be the political fallout for doing so?

Frankly, I think she should have been dining with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Tokyo Rose, Axis Sally and Lord Haw Haw a long time ago. Then again, I still cannot figure out how an actual verifiable CPUSA cheerleader and voter like John Brennan could ever have been hired on as a CIA agent back in the old days, let alone rise to the top slot (Meh, given who Obama is, that's not so mysterious).

And yet, with the aforementioned Obama, Brennan, Bernardo Sandersnista and 99% of Academia, the media and show business, Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here did happen here. And miracle of miracles we have been pulled back from the precipice with the emergence of as unlikely a figure as Donald Trump and a movement of American revival and renewal that he has engendered, and please God, sustained, maintained and we shall see totally victorious in our lifetimes.

On a postive note, we have this from a place that at many crucial times in the very recent past has disgusted and disappointed us mightily:

History of a sort was made last night when Chief Justice Roberts issued an order blocking, as Sean Davis called him, “an unhinged federal district court” that joined the chorus of federal judges recently who have either never read Article II of the Constitution or have arrogantly decided it doesn’t apply to them. In issuing his order, the district court judge assumed the powers of the presidency in directing that the administration immediately, repeat: immediately, release two billion dollars in foreign aid. To be clear, that was not a typo and that word began with a “b” -- billion! The chief justice’s order was historical in that it was the first time the High Court has acted in any way to show some willingness to rein in what has become a torrent of arbitrary orders from activist judges as part of the new lawfare against President Trump and his program of reshaping federal government functions, including deep spending cuts.

It must be emphasized that this is only a temporary action by one justice and may or may not result in the entire court taking up the matter for a full review of whether the Constitution actually means what it says: that all executive power of the Federal Government “shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” It does, however, at the very least indicate that the Chief Justice of the United States was concerned enough about the action of this particular lower court judge that he decided to step in and take a deeper look at this type of judicial “resistance” to the President and his policies.

Just a tiny little glimmer of hope that we might be seeing a course correction by the High Court in sending a strong message to these Obama-Biden far-left activists in robes? Yes, but a healthy and encouraging first step, nonetheless.

We shall see if the Hawaiian Judiciary's motto of Marbury Kaliki-MAGA will prevail, or not. The pessimist in me thinks the latter.

The hard cold reality is the Constitution states quite clearly that Donald Trump and the Executive Branch has the legal authority to do what he is doing in cutting off funds, firing people and sacking generals (um, he is after all the Commander in Chief and as such the highest ranking officer in the US military).

Article I, § 9, Clause 7 of the Constitution says: No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.

Of course the Democrat Left uses and abuses the Constitution as both a shield and a cudgel to get what it wants. (By any means necessary, yo). It's living and breathing and since they are the only ones that can understand and interpret the language, to suit their will and political expediency only, originalists and strict constructionists are the apostates at the temple who must be annihilated.

And Please God, after Jane Fonda gets the needle, here's hoping a Seal Team can repatriate Joanne Chesimard from California to pay for her heinous murdering of a police officer.

And here's also hoping Pam Bondi and Kash Patel go after Antica, BLM, SJP and the TIDES FOUNDATION with all they've got.

Have a great weekend.

And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.

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• EXC: Inside Pam Bondi’s Influencer ‘Clusterf*ck’ Over the Epstein Files at the White House Today.
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• The Left’s lawfare against President Trump’s cleanup of the executive branch.
  Activist Judges’ War on the Separation of Powers

• The Chief Justice steps in. 
  Federal judge who thinks he's president blocked

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Daily Tech News 28 February 2025

Top Story

• The low-cost (for Apple) iPhone 16E is here and it's... Okay. (The Verge)
  
  Yes. It's okay.
  
  It's also $599, which is cheap for an iPhone, but not cheap.

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Coffee, Tea or ONT?

Hello everyone! Welcome to the ONT. Say, did you see this?

*Shakes head* Unreal

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Deer Lord Cafe

Banff, Alberta
or possibly AI

"Pandas are just drunk people in costumes."

If I had the focus and patience of this German shepherd...

This dog, however, lacks focus.

Sus flamingos.

At night, stores let all of their baby goats run wild.

Flying in style.

Severance is on tonight.

Someone shows this dog some meat and it practically does the "floating through the air towards the smell of a pie" cartoon move.

When this bruiser tells you he wants some cheese, you give him some cheese.

Dog crossing guard. He probably gets picked on, like I did. Don't ask. It's still painful.

A woman is reunited with her emotional support dog after the dog had been missing for two years. (Or so the captain says.)

The archer fish hunts orc-flies.

So I guess people know this, but I didn't: How people practice the ski jump before they've got the skills to safely land. (IG)

Penguin family discussion.

Cat dreamatorium.

Do you make mock of me, Cat?

Blind and deaf dog takes a while to smell its owner, but then reacts as you might expect.

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Vance: I'm Going to Take This Effete Pillow-Biter Behind the Shed and Beat Some Free Speech Into Him

J.D. Vance decided that free speech is more important that diplomatic niceties with an effeminate enforcer of Islamic blasphemy laws and told him the US intended to stop the UK from restricting the speech of its own citizens, and, much more importantly, of American citizens, too.

Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg

NEW: JD Vance calls out UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to his face for infringing on free speech, says he will talk to him about it at lunch.

"I said what I said..."

"There have been infringements on free speech that actually impact not just the British... but also impact American technology companies and by extension American citizens."

"So that is something that we'll talk about today at lunch."

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Whistleblower: There's a Marxist "Trans Cult" That's Infiltrated the "Intelligence" Community

Really, you don't say.

Christopher F. Rufo

Whistleblower: There's a Trans Cult Inside the NSA
An insider tells the story of the intel agency's ideological capture.

This week, City Journal broke the story of the National Security Agency's secret sex chatroom, which was filled with salacious discussions of genital surgeries, trans fetishes, and sexual activities. The headlines rocketed through the national media and led to action by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who, within days, released a memo demanding that the intelligence agencies identify the participants, terminate their employment, and remove their security clearances.

But according to our whistleblower, these sex chats were just the tip of the iceberg. This longtime NSA insider tells me that the ideological capture of the NSA began a decade ago. Trans activists have entrenched themselves in positions of power, pressured employees to undergo reeducation trainings, and compromised national security in the name of ideology.

This is a sadly familiar story in many American institutions. But with the NSA, the stakes are higher. The agency is responsible for overseeing America's digital intelligence-gathering and is, in theory, a key part of our national security apparatus.
The following interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.

Christopher Rufo: Tell me about this culture and how it's been spreading through the NSA. And talk to me about what it was like, even a year ago or a few months ago, before Trump reentered the White House.

NSA Whistleblower: About ten years ago, they started doing the "employee resource groups": African-American, veterans, Pride. It was just a meeting here and there, almost like a potluck--culture, food, a speech. Then it started to get more and more. Instead of just one day a month, it was one week a month, or the whole month. You could be hired as a mathematician, a staff officer, or system engineer, but you would spend your time going to these events and having meetings all day about it. They got themselves into position to help craft policy and started pushing the idea that if you want to get promoted, you have to participate in these events.

And then everything became Pride. You would go to a training, and it would be about "privilege" and "how to be a better ally." A lady would give classes on how to talk "gender-neutral" to people. You had analysts that didn't want to do the reporting they were supposed to be doing because they were going to have to report on somebody's "dead name." They were having this crisis of conscience about reporting the adversary's actual name because they thought it was their "dead name," and they didn't want to disrespect the person. It was like a cult that was hellbent on pushing gender ideology.

Rufo: It seems like this is a clique of very activist male-to-female transgender agents. Tell me about this community.

Whistleblower: There is a very small number of them, but they wield an enormous amount of power. And outside of the sick stuff, you also see a prevalent Marxist philosophy going on with these people in their chat rooms. They hate capitalism. They hate Christians. They're always espousing socialist and Marxist beliefs.

I know several people at the agency brought that up, like, "Hey, we're here to fight for the U.S.A. and go after the adversaries." And they just got hammered. They would just start coming out with "transphobe" and "homophobe" right away or calling you a "racist." And that's why a lot of folks are still hesitant to say anything, because you still have people at these agencies in those key spots. It infected everything.

A lot of people are freaking out unnecessarily about the lack of Epstein files revealed today. This article helps set expectations. You are not going to dig the ten thousand ticks out of the dog in a few days.

As Reagan said, Trust but verify. We have a good team. Even good teams fumble the ball sometimes.

Update: Thanks to Jack "Wacky Tobacky" Straw, Kash Patel has responded to Pam Bondi:

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More Videos Surface Featuring Hard-Boiled News-Sleuth Fake Jake Claiming That Biden Is "Mentally Sharp" and Attacking Anyone Who Says Otherwise as a Partisan Liar-for-Hire

Some of these clips are from 2023-2024. He was still lyin' and denyin' even then.

He wants us all to concentrate on his great Courage in calling out Biden as having lost a step... after Barack Obama had dispatched his messenger George Clooney to tell All Good Democrats to demand that Biden step aside.

When the Democrat Narrative was that Biden was "mentally sharp," Tapper pushed that lie.

When the Democrat Narrative shifted to "Biden Must Go to Save the Election," only then did Hard-Boiled News-Sleuth Jake Tapper put on his fedora and start playing detective.

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Bamboozled? Led Astray? Run Amok?
"Phase 1" of Epstein Files Consist Mostly of Lists of Deleted Pages, Plus a Few Heavily Redacted Pages;
Pam Bondi Accuses NY FBI Field Office of Hiding Documents and Lying to Her About Delivering Them All Over

Paul A. Szypula
@Bubblebathgirl

"The Epstein Files: Phase 1" contains 22 parts, most of them heavily redacted.

Part 22 contains the most unredacted pages which have to do with the accusations against Jeffrey Epstein. These pages include emails and letters from lawyers as well as depositions.

No flight log.

Here's an example: Part 10 of the "release" contains only twelve or so pages listing pages which have been deleted. There is no information on what those deleted pages contained, or why they've been deleted.

Super-researchers Jordan Shaechtel asked if the released files contain any new documents. I don't think he got an answer yet.

Attorney General Bondi wrote a letter to FBI Director Patel accusing the NY FBI office of lying and withholding, and demanded the FBI deliver all pages by tomorrow at 8am, with no excuses such as "this information came from a confidential source." She says the DOJ is quite capable of redacting sources and methods on its own, thankyouverymuch.

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

So then, Attorney General Pam Bondi has given the FBI until tomorrow at 8AM to give her "full and complete Epstein files."

FBI NY office apparently withheld and disobeyed her initial order...

Think about that. We have a new president, a new attorney general, a new FBI director - and this SH is still happening.

It was NEVER going to be easy. It runs deep. VERY, VERY deep.

Bondi has also ordered an investigation into why her initial order was not followed in the first place.

There is a ton of work to do, folks. This is a problem.

Michael Shellenberger
@shellenberger

The FBI's NY Field Office said it gave @AGPamBondi all its Jeffrey Epstein Files. It lied to her, says Bondi. That may be because Epstein appears to have been running a sex blackmail operation, or honeytrap, for intelligence agencies. The FBI has used honeytraps for decades...

Shellenberger expands on that claim, discussing previous partial disclosures:

Jeffrey Epstein Ran Sex Blackmail Operation For Intelligence Agencies, New Evidence Suggests

Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell used a puppet to entrap Prince Andrew, victim claims in unsealed court documents

The release of new court documents from a lawsuit related to Jeffrey Epstein yesterday "provided little, if any, new fodder for conspiracy theorists who remain fixated on Mr. Epstein's dealings more than four years after his death," according to the New York Times. The documents, the Times claimed, reinforced what the public already knew, namely that pedophile financier Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell made young and often underage women available for sex to powerful men.

In fact, the documents offer new evidence and insight into how Epstein and Maxwell appeared to be blackmailing powerful individuals, albeit to mysterious ends. A judge ordered the release of the court documents, which were from a case brought by Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre against Maxwell in 2015. The parties settled in 2017. Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence.

It's true that some of the information released yesterday had already come to light. Last April, for example, the Wall Street Journal reported that the current director of the Central Intelligence Agency, William Burns, had scheduled three meetings with Epstein in 2014. At the time, Burns was deputy secretary of state. According to the Journal, they met in Washington, D.C., and at Epstein's townhouse in Manhattan. The Journal based its reporting on Epstein's own emails and schedules.

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But the newly unsealed documents include powerful new evidence that Epstein and Maxwell were deliberately blackmailing people. Johanna Sjoberg, another one of Epstein's victims, recounted that he and Maxwell had created a Prince Andrew puppet for Prince Andrew. They presented it to him and used it to guide him into taking sexual photos with Sjoberg and Giuffre.

"They put the puppet on Virginia's lap," Sjoberg testified, "and I sat on Andrew's lap, and they put the puppet's hand on Virginia's breast, and Andrew put his hand on my breast, and they took a photo."

It is a remarkable passage since Maxwell and Epstein appear to be engaged in a kind of psychological operation, framing Andrew, to himself, as their puppet. Maxwell and Epstein apparently played it off as a joke to Andrew, and he played along, copying his puppet's behavior and groping Sjoberg.

Epstein's sex blackmailing also required coercion. Sjoberg testified that Maxwell directed her to have sex with Prince Andrew. Another filing alleges that Jane Doe #3 was "forced to have sexual relations with this prince when she was a minor in three separate geographical locations" and that Epstein told her to "give the prince whatever he demanded and required Jane Doe #3 to report back to him on the details of the sexual abuse."

The court documents also contain allegations against billionaires Glenn Dubin and Tom Pritzker. Prizker currently serves as the CEO of the Pritzker Organization and as executive chairman of the Hyatt Hotels Corporation and is a member of the Aspen Institute. Giuffre alleges that she had sex with both Dubin and Pritzker under the direction of Maxwell and Epstein.

...

The Epstein scandal has implicated many powerful people. Melinda Gates told reporters last year that her husband Bill's connections to Epstein had been part of the reason for her decision to seek a divorce from him. "I did not like that he'd had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein, no," she told Gayle King.

Bill Gates said Epstein tried to blackmail him. "Mr. Gates met with Epstein solely for philanthropic purposes. Having failed repeatedly to draw Mr. Gates beyond these matters, Epstein tried unsuccessfully to leverage a past relationship to threaten Mr. Gates," a spokeswoman for Gates told the Wall Street Journal last year.

Epstein and Maxwell appear to have been running a large and well-funded blackmail operation. Why would they?

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Pentagon Memo: All Transgenders Are Officially Prohibited from Military Service Unless They Get a Special Exemption

The US military will once again focus on warfighting and not so much on Drag Shows and Puppy Sex-Play.

U.S. service members who are transgender or otherwise exhibit gender dysphoria are prohibited from military service unless they obtain an exemption, according to an internal Pentagon memo.

The memo, revealed in a court filing on Wednesday night, details the Trump administration's new policy regarding transgender individuals. The policy notes that such service members "may be considered for a waiver on a case-by-case basis, provided there is a compelling Government interest."

"Service members who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria are disqualified from military service," the memo reads.

"Service members who have a history of cross-sex hormone therapy or a history of sex reassignment or genital reconstruction surgery as treatment for gender dysphoria or in pursuit of a sex transition, are disqualified from military service," the memo continues.

The memo goes on to stipulate a number of requirements a solider must meet in order to obtain an exemption.

The soldier must demonstrate 36 consecutive months of "stability in the service member's sex." The soldier must demonstrate that they have never attempted to transition to any sex other than their sex. Finally, the soldier must be willing to adhere to any standards associated with their sex.

I know what you're thinking: This order is going to completely hollow out the military, dismissing its most serious-minded warriors.

I totally agree. So does this Warrior.

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"Phase 1" of Epstein Files Release Expected Today

Which pedophiles are bracing for a really bad weekend?

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Every Week is Now Thanksgiving Week and Every Friday is Christmas

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Gene Hackman, His Wife and One of His Dogs Found Dead at Their Santa Fe Home Under "Suspicious" Circumstances

Hackman was one of the actors I was thinking of when I mentioned a few months ago that we're going to start losing some of the greats.

He was 95.

Gene Hackman and wife's death investigated as 'suspicious' after door was found open, pills found

The deaths of Gene Hackman, his wife and one of their dogs is being investigated as "suspicious" by authorities who said on Thursday that the door to the couple's Santa Fe, New Mexico, home was "unsecured and opened," police wrote in an affidavit obtained by TMZ.

Authorities said the deaths were "suspicious enough in nature to require a thorough search and investigation" after also finding an open pill bottle and pills were also found scattered around the room where Hackman's wife, classical pianist Betsy Arakawa, and the dog were discovered.

A couple of months ago I re-watched The Quick and the Dead. I only half-liked it when I first saw it, but I really appreciated it this time. Yeah Sharon Stone's face is like stationary driftwood as usual but every one else is terrific, including even Leonardo DiCaprio. He's great. So is Lance Henrickson, Keith David (bet you forgot he was in it) and Russel Crowe. Even Gary Sinise shows up.

Gene Hackman has one of his most Gene Hackman line-readings ever. The scene involves "Herod," the wealthy tyrant who rules an Old West town, hosting "The Lady" at a dinner in his big house. He wants to know why "Lady" came to this town and entered its annual shoot-out contest.

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The Morning Rant

The United States Postal Service's informal motto is, "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds"

My response to this constitutionally authorized agency's informal motto is, Bull Fvcking Shit.

The following may fall under The Morning Rant and/or First World Problems $9.5 billion worth. Yes, $9.5 billion, with a B that was the 2024 deficit the USPS ran up.

As many of you know yours truly lives in the boondocks of The Frozen Tundra. The move took place in 2018. One of the first things completed was installing an approved mail box to a specified height. Over the years the mail carrier or whatever the approved title is would place flyers in my mail box. Everything from the USPS collecting food items or a friendly reminder on how I was to keep the snow away from the mail box so they could deliver the mail. The USPS felt it was fine they could place "their mail" in my receptacle.

As we all know, the USPS certainly takes a number of days off due to Federal Holidays. The last holiday the USPS celebrated was President's Day Monday February 17th.

The following day our mail box was full of the regular items one expects. However there was no flyer from the USPS what was about to take place the following day. On Wednesday there was no mail in our box. No problem, as it is not uncommon to go a day without mail. Thursday morning I walked out and placed mail in the box with the good old red flag placed in the upright position.

The outgoing mail was not picked up on Thursday, Friday or Saturday. Nor was any delivered.

I had been expecting several important pieces of mail and I'm starting to worry and also getting peeved about the situation. So Monday February 24th I drive into town to find out what is going on.

I asked to see the Post Master. Well, that can't happen as the Post Master is somewhere in the southern part of the state filling in and won't be back until May. So I then proceeded to talk to the most senior employee there. Also our mail carrier was present and joined the conversation.

My simple question was, "Where the hell is my mail and what is going on?" The story I received was one that makes one's head spin.

From September 2018 until May 2024 our mail had been delivered by a contractor who was delivering mail for the USPS under a "Highway Contract". There had been a couple of problems during this time. But nothing compared to this.

I was informed by our postal carrier that they had won the "Highway Contract" in May 2024 but there were approximately 85 mail recipients who were not included in the route. The contractor advised us that they had made numerous attempts to have the contract reviewed and revised to include the 85 residents.

As a sign of good faith our mail carrier advised us she was delivering mail to us without getting paid for her time and mileage. I said, "Hang on a minute here. Our neighbor approximately 1/2 mile from us is getting mail but we aren't?"

She advised us that the "Highway Contract" mail route ended at our neighbor a 1/2 mile away. Our mail and our adjacent neighbor's mail were not part of the contract. She indicated she was putting on approximately 9 miles a day without getting paid. And this had been going on since May 2024. According to her numerous efforts had been made to get the problem resolved. And since it hadn't been resolved she wasn't going to deliver to our mail box or the other 80+ residents.

My response was something to the effect, "That's all fine and dandy. But in the age of communication and transparency why wasn't I notified? You are pretty happy to keep slipping reminders in our box to keep the area free of snow but you couldn't tell us about this problem?"

I was informed that she was prohibited from placing any notice of this in our mailbox as it was not approved by the Postmaster or the USPS.

With gas at $3.02 a gallon at the moment, I get it that 9 miles per day 6 days a week for 9 months and not getting paid is utter BS.

So now if I want to mail a letter or get my mail, I have a 13 mile round trip to town. I have better things to do with my time and the wear and tear on my vehicle to obtain my mail which is Constitutionally guaranteed. The USPS doesn't care about my carbon footprint but they are willing to spend $$$$$ to purchase 66,000 EVs by 2028.

(I suspect Buck Throckmorton will talk about all the mail that will go up in flames due to these rolling firebombs.)

One job, pick up and deliver mail. And if you wonder why they have a $9.5 Billion deficit, check out the following pricing for a package I recently sent.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver and his Parrot
N.C. Wyeth

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The Morning Report — 2/ 27 /25

Good morning kids. Starting off on a sad note, screen actor extraordinaire Gene Hackman, who brought to life many iconic roles has passed away at the age of 95. This news comes just a few days after the passing at age 88 of equally talented R&B songstress Roberta Flack. Both feature prominently in the landscape of the memories of my youth in the 1970s. RIP and thanks for those great memories.

Now on to the news. As Trump continues to steamroll the Left and leaving them and their epicenter in the Democrat Party completely flummoxed as to respond, their natural instinct, beyond litigation is to lash out employing their typical tactics of subversion and even overt violence or threats thereof.

Last week Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) was interviewed by British journalist Steven Edginton of Britain’s GB News. After the conversation, Edginton mentioned Tucker Carlson, which caused Crenshaw to say the following that was captured on a 'hot mic.'

“We’ve talked a lot on Twitter,” referring to the exchanges he and Carlson have traded online, “If I ever meet him, I’ll f*cking kill him.”

. . . During the interview, he viciously criticized Carlson's stand against providing unlimited and unaccounted aid to Ukraine.

Yes, Dan Crenshaw is not technically a Democrat but his rhetoric, whether that could be construed as a legitimate death threat against TuCa or merely hot-under-the-collar schoolyard machismo blowhardism it demonstrates a mentality whereby when one cannot reasonably articulate a cogent and importantly persuasive argument for one's position, the default is to lash out in frustration. And as for Trump and his views on the Ukraine war, as CBD and I discussed on the latest edition of the podcast (here and in the sidebar), regardless of the fact that Putin's invasion is inexcusable, to not seek an end to this bloody conflict for humanity's sake all by itself but to think that courting a disastrous miscalculation by going to war with Vladimir Putin is what the US must do is insane. Period full stop. And the argument that Putin is going to roll all the way to the English Channel and then cross the Atlantic to invade America is ridiculous. But the salient point is, no argument that goes against the accepted memes, shibboleths and beliefs of the Leftist globalist enterprise shall not be countenanced. And that extends to the mere presence of Donald Trump as President of the USA, regardless of the fact that what he is doing has broad support of long-frustrated GOP voters and even the much vaunted independents as well as some Democrats.

From infantile bluster we go to actual organized criminal behavior that is likely funded by Leftists and leftist aligned malefactors given aid and comfort by Democrats in and out of office:

Anti-ICE protesters have been taking matters into their own hands by disrupting illegal immigration raids while publicly doxing the identities of federal agents. “Immigration rights activists have banded together to conduct patrols throughout Los Angeles communities and, in a few instances, have stopped raids as they were happening,” reported KTLA. One group of 100 volunteers, Community Self-Defense Coalition, interrupted ICE raids in the San Fernando and Alhambra areas. Video footage showed the volunteers driving up to the scene of the raid and saying, “There they are, there’s ICE, ICE spotted in Alhambra.”

The group says it patrols the streets to inform the public about ICE activity in the area.

“We denounce [ICE] and alert the community with megaphones,” volunteer Rob Gochez told KTLA. “We were there until the agents left. They didn’t kidnap anybody today.”

According to Fox News correspondent Bill Melguin, the anti-ICE protesters have taken to the extreme measures of doxing federal agents, putting their lives at risk.

Scratch the surface and somewhere in there has got to be La Raza, Mecha, ties to Soros and someone like tarantula faced Raul Grijalva amongst many others. I surely hope Pam Bondi and Kash Patel have a slew of RICO investigations that target the multi headed Hydra snake heads of this evil Medusa.

And then there's this:

A new letter released by the House Judiciary Committee reveals that under the Biden administration, an IRS contractor leaked the tax information of 405,427 taxpayers to news sources — including that of President Donald Trump. Yet Americans are supposed to be concerned about DOGE?
. . . According to a letter that Department of the Treasury Acting Commissioner Douglas W. O’Donnell sent to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan on Feb. 14, Charles Littlejohn “inappropriately accessed or leaked” the information of 405,427 taxpayers, 89 percent of whom are “business entities.”

Littlejohn had previously been charged in 2023 for allegedly disclosing tax return information to two news organizations that were not explicitly listed. This taxpayer information was leaked to ProPublica, which used the data “to report its ‘Secret IRS Files’ series,” according to ProPublica.

“The vast dataset contained details on thousands of wealthy Americans, and ProPublica reported dozens of stories based on an analysis of it,” ProPublica said. ProPublica’s Editor-in-Chief Stephen Engelberg denied knowing the identity of the source when charges were made public.

To rejigger (racist?) the inanity of Jimmy Carter, who once declared we have an inordinate fear of communism (and then the Soviets invaded Afghanistan). My fear of Communism is not the kind that was based in Moscow but that took root in DC and became the Democrat/Leftist dominated Deep State.

May Trump and Musk do all that they can to at least put us on an inexorable path to rip it out and destroy it root and branch.

No wonder the current normal seems abnormal to the status quo of the recent past.

Well, the Revolution certainly wasn't televised but will, as Victor Davis Hanson describes as the Counter-Revolution? Certainly not in anything resembling an honest accounting, despite Jeff Bezos' sacking of the WAPo's editorial chief. He is not interested in honest reportage that promotes the free market and freedom of expression. He wants to bowdlerize those high ideals to be used as weapons against Trump and his agenda.

They will fail, miserably. And must, please God.

Stay tuned for Pam Bondi releasing some or the juicier bits of the Epstein files!!!! Oh boy.

Have a great day. And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• According to a letter that Department of the Treasury Acting Commissioner Douglas W. O’Donnell sent to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan on Feb. 14, Charles Littlejohn “inappropriately accessed or leaked” the information of 405,427 taxpayers, 89 percent of whom are “business entities.”
  IRS Contractor Leaked Information Of 405,000 Taxpayers — But We’re Supposed To Be Concerned About DOGE?
  
• Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s first month is a shock treatment to decades of spending, open borders, and bureaucratic bloat—restoring what was lost while critics decry the cure more than the disease.
  Who Caused the Counter-Revolution?
  
• 'It's pretty sick what the man did,' Bondi said.
  Pam Bondi Says Some Epstein Files, Including Flight Logs, Will ‘Hopefully’ Be Released Thursday

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Daily Tech News 27 February 2025

Top Story

• China is accusing Taiwan of not sitting still and letting China kill it and steal all its stuff. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Taiwan replied "Nuh-uh!" and continued right on doing what it was doing.

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Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - February 26, 2025 [TRex]

Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety.

This is the Wednesday night ONT. You might sense a theme this week.

[Photo: National Museum of the US Air Force, Dayton, Ohio]

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