The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 4/26/24

Good morning, kids. Much like George Jetson had a collapsible flying car in a suitcase, Harvey Weinstein, had a collapsible Posturepedic in his back pocket, and whipped it out con gusto to threaten career death to female starlets unless they gobbled his pockmarked johnson. Yet, he had his 2020 rape conviction tossed by the NY State Court of appeals yesterday.

Having worked in the film biz during his heyday in the 90s, scores of anecdotal stories abound from men and women of how he screwed them over, both figuratively and quite literally. Mira Sorvino, whose career tanked when she came forward with accusations, and whose late father Paul wanted to justifiably tear Weinstein limb from limb, had this reaction on the X-Twitter deal:

“Day after #DenimDay honoring sexual violence survivors, Harvey Weinstein’s conviction overturned, due partly to ‘Molineux witnesses’ testifying to prior bad acts, like lioness Annabella Sciorra,” Sorvino’s post read, referring to a term meaning “witnesses in a trial who are allowed to testify about criminal acts that the defendant has not been charged with committing,” The New York Times noted.
“Since when don’t courts allow evidence of pattern of prior bad acts to be admitted?” she added. “He’s a prolific serial predator who raped/harmed 200+women! Disgusted w/justice system skew [to] predators not victims.”

In the interest of full disclosure, I was neither a juror nor an observer of the trial, and so was not privy to the evidence that led to his conviction, my anecdotal experience/knowledge of his reputation notwithstanding. In one sense, I feel bad for Sorvino and the other victims.

That said, with all due respect to Ms. Sorvino, I could care fuck all. She's "disgusted" at the justice system? Funny how she and all the other supposed "victims" of Harvey Weinstein were dead silent when the same NY court convicted Donald Trump of libel and awarded multi-millions of dollars to E. Jean Carrol for her cock and bull story of being raped and/or groped by Trump. Which he had neither been charged nor convicted, as if that matters these days, but I digress. For publicly defending himself by calling her out for the liar she was – which is in the febrile, reptilian, pea-sized mind of Leftists a crime against humanity – Trump got what he deserved.

I have no love for Weinstein. But it's kind of sickly ironic that perhaps the court did the right thing for tossing his conviction. Perhaps not. And yet after a sham of a travesty of two mockeries of a farce of a libel trial, the same court system has Trump on trial for supposedly using campaign cash as hush money to silence Sloppy Daniels prior to 2016. The case is a joke and everyone knows it. The problem is the system is so abjectly corrupted that the Constitution and rule of law are out the window in service to leftist political expedience.

Despite the prosecution’s best efforts to insinuate former President Trump‘s involvement in—or even knowledge of—the “catch and kill” scheme, Pecker’s testimony continues to fall short of any direct implication. The prosecution frequently used the “catch and kill” term as well as referring to Cohen and Pecker’s activities as a “scheme,” hoping to convince the jury of illegal activity when, in fact, there appears to be none.Under cross-examination by Trump‘s attorney Emil Bove, Pecker even admitted he’d never heard the term “catch and kill” before the prosecution used it. Bove asked Pecker if “it was always your intention, dating back to the early days of this friendship, not to publish negative stories about President Trump?” The tabloid newsman responded, “Yes.”
Pecker also acknowledged he has held back negative stories about other notable public figures, including Arnold Schwarzenegger, businessman Ronald Perelman, and Obama Chief of Staff-turned-Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Further undermining the prosecution’s case, he added that it was his understanding that Cohen was acting in a personal capacity for Trump, not on behalf of the presidential campaign.

Like the E. Jean Carrol case, will this matter in the end with a judge, prosecutor and likely 12 angry New York City hand-picked stooges? Doubtful.

And Trump, along with scores of innocent people might just catch a break at SCOTUS on yet another trumped up, banana republic bullshit persecution, vis a vis "presidential immunity." Here's Turley's take:

Writer Ray Bradbury once said, “Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.” In Thursday’s case before the Supreme Court on the immunity of former President Donald Trump, nine justices appear to be feverishly working with feathers and glue on a plunge into a constitutional abyss.
It has been almost 50 years since the high court ruled presidents have absolute immunity from civil lawsuits in Nixon v. Fitzgerald. The court held ex-President Richard Nixon had such immunity for acts taken “within the ‘outer perimeter’ of his official responsibility.” Yet in 1974’s United States v. Nixon, the court ruled a president is not immune from a criminal subpoena. Nixon was forced to comply with a subpoena for his White House tapes in the Watergate scandal from special counsel Leon Jaworski.
Since then, the court has avoided any significant ruling on the extension of immunity to a criminal case — until now. There are cliffs on both sides of this case. If the court were to embrace special counsel Jack Smith’s arguments, a president would have no immunity from criminal charges, even for official acts taken in his presidency. It would leave a president without protection from endless charges from politically motivated prosecutors. If the court were to embrace Trump counsel’s arguments, a president would have complete immunity. It would leave a president largely unaccountable under the criminal code for any criminal acts.
The first cliff is made obvious by the lower-court opinion. While the media have largely focused on extreme examples of president-ordered assassinations and coups, the justices are clearly as concerned with the sweeping implications of the DC Circuit opinion. . .
. . . The other cliff is more than obvious from the other proceedings occuring as these arguments were made. Trump’s best attorney proved to be Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. If the justices want insight into the implications of denying any immunity, they just need to look north to New York City. The ongoing prosecution of Trump is legally absurd but has resulted in the leading presidential candidate not only being gagged but prevented from campaigning.
Alvin Bragg is very personification of the danger immunity is meant to avoid. . .
. . . I have long opposed sweeping arguments of immunity from criminal charges for presidents. The devil is in the details, and many justices are struggling with how to define official versus nonofficial conduct. The line-drawing proved maddening for the justices in the oral argument. The most they could say is similar to the story of the man who jumped off a building. As he passes an office window halfway down, another man calls out to ask how he’s doing. The jumper responds, “So far so good.”
As the justices work on a new set of legal wings, anything is possible as the nation waits for the court to hit ground zero in the middle of the 2024 presidential election.

So, let's say SCOTUS does manage to perform a Solomonic miracle and "mostly peacefully" cleave the baby in half. The only thing that will do is enrage a perpetually enraged Democrat-Left to either dissolve or permanently pack SCOTUS with a bench full of Roland Freisler/Enorgon-Erdogon-Enron-Gorgon clones.

That underscores my argument that this nation is divided not only on a panoply of issues but on the legitimacy of the nation itself, and on those of us who are desperate to restore and preserve what it once was. Or at least as we had imagined it to be.

The annihilationist rhetoric about Jews heard on campuses around the country, horrendous as it is, is not merely about Jews, nor did it spring up in a vacuum. It happened because of decades of anti-American and anti-Western indoctrination on said campuses going at least as far back as when individuals like Theodore Adorno and Herbert Marcuse fled actual European Fascism and paid us back by injecting the poison of Marx and Gramsci into the American educational system.

Presto chango, 80 years later and voila! We live in a nation that resembles the bastard child of 1968 Chicago with 1938 Nuremberg. Everything is upside-down, thoroughly corrupt almost everywhere you turn, and really nowhere to run.

Even if we somehow win in 2024, or win every election for the next 40 years, and both of those are seriously in doubt, we will still have at least a third of the population (not including the millions of illegal foreigners who I wouldn't count on for help) wanting us dead as well as a propaganda/brainwashing complex disguised as academia that will produce yet another generation of useless pod people who will be eager to line us up and shoot us into a ditch. Ironic considering their hatred of the Second Amendment.

I used the "R" word yesterday maybe reluctantly but now, there really is no other way out. Face it. America as it was is virtually if not completely gone. If we somehow survive the coming maelstrom of internal conflict and end up victorious, we must reconstruct a society and form of government that never again allows the scum who destroyed us in the first place to ever be within a billion billion light years of power and influence. If that means ditching the Constitution, so be it.

If a revolution is what they want, then we should be the ones to give it to them. Good and hard.

My latest essay is up at Taki's Magazine. Have a good weekend.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Jack Posobiec: ". . . aside from its obvious evil, there’s another problem with communism: by necessity, it is viciously, unimaginably petty. And yes, this is a necessity. When the entire basis of your ideology is the government centrally planning who gets what resource, down to the last thumbtack, pettiness is the inevitable conclusion. Which may explain the existence of one Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)."
Is There Anything Elizabeth Warren Doesn't Want to Micromanage?
"Like empires before us, we have lost our cultural confidence and moorings, increasing the risk of being overrun by newcomers."
America Isn’t the First Empire Doomed By Open Borders
Richard Fernandez: "We will be 'righteous' when it no longer matters and degenerate, foolish and ambitious in the meantime."
Flashpoints

ISRAEL vs HAMAS & IRAN

Victor Davis Hanson: "Why Biden plays Iranian poker with American and Israeli lives."
War By Affirmative Action?
“Various terrorist organizations” lobbed mortar rounds at efforts on the location laying the groundwork for the pier while U.N. officials were touring the area, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing the Israeli military. The U.N. officials retreated to secure spaces and no one was injured in the attack, but the incident underscored concerns about security for the roughly 1,000 U.S. troops involved in facilitating delivery of much-needed humanitarian supplies to Gaza.
Biden’s Gaza Pier Site Comes Under Attack As US Troops Prepare To Begin Construction
Douglas Murray: "Khan wants to bring individual cases against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and a head of the Israeli army, most likely the chief of the general staff. If this happens, it will throw kerosene onto the already flammable international situation. And further ignite things here at home."
International Criminal Court’s vicious smear tactics against America’s allies
You'd think these heathen savages would understand their own concept of "taqqiya" being used by Biden - jjs
State Department Arabic Spox Quits to Protest U.S. Support for Israel
“How are news outlets dedicating wall-to-wall coverage to campus protests, but not the discovery of mass graves in Gaza of people with their hands tied & clothing stripped? Why do we not know more? Where are the journalists and resources being dedicated to that story?” — Titty-Caca AOC (No, she's not referring to the Jews - jjs)
Media Hoax: No, Israel Did Not Dig ‘Mass Grave’ At Gaza’s Nasser Hospital
"The rhetoric of genocide surrounding the Israel/ Hamas conflict must be clarified to arrive at a peaceful conclusion that saves the lives of Arabs and Jews in the region."
"Palestine" is Free. . . In Israel (Only with coupon, while supplies last- jjs)

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"Columbia University protesters are training and coordinating with their peers around the country, notes show."
Exclusive: Notes from Princeton Activists Show Coordination Between Campus Radicals and Outside Groups Aimed at Outfoxing University Administrators
USCPR provides up to $7,800 for its community-based fellows and between $2,880 and $3,660 for its campus-based “fellows” in return for spending eight hours a week organizing “campaigns led by Palestinian organizations.” They are trained to “rise up, to revolution.” The radical group received at least $300,000 from Soros’ Open Society Foundations since 2017 and also took in $355,000 from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund since 2019. It has three “fellows” who have been major figures in the nationwide protest movement.
Nazi Collaborator George Soros is Paying Student Radicals Who are Fueling Nationwide Explosion of Israel-Hating Protests (This would never get off the ground if the students weren't already brainwashed to hate Jews by the professoriate - jjs)
“I don’t hear any of the protesters chanting for the release of American hostages and against what Hamas has done, not just to Israel, but to the 'Palestinian' people.” (If a Democrat is saying this, they know this is radioactive ass-cancer to Biden and the party - jjs)
Democrat Rep. Manning: College Protests Aren’t Pro-"Palestinian," They’re Anti-Israel and Anti-Semitic
Daniel Greenfield: "Why history is repeating itself on campus."
The Hamas Nazi Ivy League
"The anti-Semitic student protesters will soon be demanding that you cover their loans."
These Are The Students Biden Wants To Bail Out — With Your Money
Columbia student Khymani James: "Be grateful that I'm not just going out and murdering Zionists." (Be a shame if this cockroach woke up with his throat slit and his bed in flames - jjs)
‘Zionists Don’t Deserve To Live’: Meet the Leader of Columbia University’s Anti-Israel Encampment
José Garza is the District Attorney for Travis County, where UT Austin is located. He has received nearly half a million dollars in donations from George Soros-funded organizations like Texas Justice & Public Safety PAC, according to campaign finance documents.
Soros-Backed DA Lets Pro-"Palestinian" Protestors Walk Scot-Free In Texas

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"You know, you do that in Florida at our universities, we’re showing you the door, you’re gonna be expelled when you’re doing that stuff. And you know what? The minute people start to face consequences, you are not gonna see this nonsense going on.”
DeSantis: Protesters Blocking Roads, Extremists Harassing Others At Colleges Not Tolerated In Florida
"What we are dealing with right now on college campuses is a sprawling—systemic, one might say—conspiracy to deprive Jewish students of basic equal rights."
Restore Order and Crush the Campus Jihadist Thugs
"Crazy idea. How about you keep the students safe and punish those who break the law and school rules?"
USC Cancels Main Commencement After Numerous Anti-Israel Protests
Fred Fleitz: "For years, leadership at U.S. colleges has incubated and tolerated extreme left-wing ideologies that led to the current anti-Semitic and anti-Israel protests." (The Jew-hate is just the latest manifestation of the America-hatred that's been going on for decades - jjs)
Anti-Semitism Should Not be Part of the American College Experience
"A university department stands with Hamas terrorists." (Terrapins now terror-pin-heads - jjs)
U. Maryland Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies: A Case Study in "Jew Hatred"
"Even more entertaining – and shocking – is watching police bop hippies at the University of Southern California."
Karma Reigns: Harvard HamaNazis Wake Up to a Super-Soaking
"BIDEN BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"The amount of illegals pouring into the country has exceeded multiple states’ populations. And with the Biden administration ensuring that illegal aliens would be counted in the Census, this massive new population could permanently rig Congress and the Electoral College in favor of Democrats. The crisis is deliberate. The Democrats think they want to replace Americans with illegal immigrants, despite the many criminals, gang members, potential terrorists, and foreign agents who are part of the illegal invasion. This is the purposeful upheaval of America."
California Takes the Lead in Illegal Migrant Apprehensions
Illegal aliens shipped to Martha’s Vineyard last year by Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis will be given work visas as “crime victims,” according to the latest insanity coming at you from [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden’s open borders.
Illegal Aliens Sent to Martha's Vineyard Get Special 'Crime Victim' Visas
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS & DEMENTIA WATCH
Robert Spencer: "So is this senescent corruptocrat in the habit of making the sign of the cross when thinking about people and things that he hates? It sure seems that way. And now he has given us the bizarre spectacle of a Catholic apparently praying that more children will be killed. Pious Old Joe, you can always count on him."
Old Joe Biden Goes to an Abortion Rally, Does the Most Tone-Deaf Thing Imaginable
Daniel Greenfield: "War stories made up by my demented president."
What’s Eating Joe? (BSE and syphilis are eating his cerebral cortex - jjs)
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
"Arguments revealed that a majority appears to agree that presidents do enjoy some scope of immunity after their term in office, but the ultimate question will be the establishment of a standard. . . That process could take months. And the Supreme Court appears likely to hold that decision itself would be appealable.That course, if the Court takes it, would ensure the final outcome of a Trump trial in D.C. comes well after the November 5, 2024 Election Day – a stinging blow to Smith and [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden, Smith’s boss and Trump’s opponent in that election."
Supreme Court Poised to Agree with Trump: Former Presidents are Immune from Some Prosecutions
"Dreeben has a long track record of partisan lawfare. Prior to his tenure at the DOJ, he served as a staffer to Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY). It was Dreeben who, despite the Mueller team knowing that the Russian collusion accusations were false, engineered the legal strategy of pursuing Trump over “obstruction of justice” for opposing the Democrats‘ witch hunt."
DID YOU NOTICE? Biden DOJ’s SCOTUS Attorney Was Also Robert Mueller’s Russiagate Lead
"Writer Ray Bradbury once said, 'Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.' In Thursday’s case before the Supreme Court on the immunity of former President Donald Trump, nine justices appear to be feverishly working with feathers and glue on a plunge into a constitutional abyss.. . . As the justices work on a new set of legal wings, anything is possible as the nation waits for the court to hit ground zero in the middle of the 2024 presidential election."
Jonathan Turley Op-Ed: Oral Arguments Suggest SCOTUS About to Plunge Into Constitutional Crisis in Trump-Immunity Case
“I mean, as the court considers the implications of not extending immunity to presidents, Alvin Bragg is showing what that means.”
Jonathan Turley Says Alvin Bragg Is Making Trump’s Immunity Case ‘For Him’
"Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) argued Thursday before the Supreme Court that droning American citizens is permissible because Obama’s DOJ said so, whereas questioning election results isn’t OK because the government also says so."
Biden DOJ Says Droning American Citizens Is Totally Fine Because Obama’s DOJ Said So
"Contrary to Sotomayor’s web of dishonesty, the naming of contingent Republican electors during the 2020 election was neither unprecedented nor unlawful."
Diabetic, Diaphoretic Dipshit Sotomayor Hijacks Trump Immunity Hearing To Push Democrats’ Debunked ‘Fake Electors’ Smear

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The third day of the hush money trial of former President Donald Trump did not go well for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. David Pecker, the prosecution’s lead-off witness, continued to poke holes in Bragg’s case.While the former publisher of the National Enquirer tabloid testified that he believed the “catch and kill” scheme coordinated by attorney Michael Cohen was “for the campaign,” Pecker also insisted that, at the time, he did not believe Trump was aware of Cohen’s activities.
Trump Trial Day 3: Trump Lauds ‘Breathtaking’ Pecker, Who Continues to Shaft Bragg
"What was Eastman’s supposed 'crime?' He gave legal advice to Trump." (Hat tip to Buck Throckmorton - jjs)
The Rule of Law Depends on John Eastman
Bove sought to flip the script and demonstrate the McDougal deal was just “standard” procedure. He highlighted multiple instances where Pecker’s magazine suppressed damaging stories for other individuals in the public eye, including for politicians like Rahm Emanuel, current U.S. ambassador to Japan and former Democratic mayor of Chicago, and former Republican California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Trump Defense Attorney Fires Crippling Shots At Alvin Bragg’s Case Just Minutes Into Cross-Examination
"While Judge Cannon seems to be playing this trial down the middle, the prosecution of Joe Biden for also possessing classified documents at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement and next to his Corvette in his Wilmington, Del., garage is proceeding.... oh wait. Hold the presses on that one. The Corvette exception applied in that case. If only Trump had been cool enough to put on the sunglasses and drive around with the documents in a Corvette."
What Do New Documents in 'Plasmic Echo' Case Reveal About the Feds' Surveillance of Trump?
"USAA was ‘founded on military values.’ Now it embraces leftist ideas, transgender ideology, and corporate cancel culture."
USAA Scorns Its Trump-Voting Members By Debanking The Lawyer Who Defended Him
"We all know that what’s happening in New York is election interference, but we also need to understand the very fundamental rights that are pushed aside to 'get Trump.'”
Democrats Need To Be Held To Account For Denying Trump’s Due Process Rights (How about abolishing their party and imprisoning them for treasonous behavior - jjs)
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"The interlocking of U.S. security and spy agencies is the foundation of the American police state because the parameters of both groups have been so widened in the past two decades."
Spies are the foundation of the American police state
"A recent book chronicles how critical theorists captured American intelligence agencies."
The Deep-State Virus
"Experts say the proposals may be unconstitutional." (When did that stop the Left? - jjs)
As California Voters Sour on Cash Reparations, State Dems Push Subsidized Property Taxes and Expedited Business Licenses Instead
"No more quitters, no more cowardice, I'm sick of it. Fight back now or we're all going down."
After they indict all the conservatives, the moderates are next
"Whether culturally or economically, progressive Democrats have taken a hammer to American cohesion, leaving us more broken than at any time since the Civil War."
Democrats Have Deliberately Shattered the Ties Binding America
"Secret Service agents and officers are privately questioning the hiring process and whether the agency had adequately screened Herczeg’s background."
Secret Service Scuffle Prompts DEI, Vetting Scrutiny
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
This comes in response to what the site’s founder, Jim Hoft, describes as a series of “lawfare attacks” allegedly initiated by “the radical left.” Hoft detailed the issue in a post on Wednesday.“TGP Communications, the parent company of The Gateway Pundit, recently made the decision to seek protection under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the Southern District of Florida as a result of the progressive liberal lawfare attacks against our media outlet,” Hoft wrote.
Gateway Pundit Files for Bankruptcy Protection
"Leftists have long sought to capture more regulatory authority over the internet using Title II regulations. Essentially, net neutrality regulations seek to prohibit internet service providers (ISPs), such as Comcast and Verizon, from blocking, slowing down, or allowing for “paid prioritization,” by which users can pay for faster, more consistent service."
Democrat FCC Majority Votes to Restore Obama-Era Net Neutrality Rules
"U.S. law now states if ByteDance does not sell TikTok, the app will be banned in the U.S."
Chinese Company ByteDance Appears To Ignore Threat of U.S. Ban, Says It ‘Has No Plans’ To Sell TikTok: Report
During the trial, Fox maintained he was a victim of racism. “There’s huge quantities of anti-right white racism in the world. It’s the only acceptable form of racism there is left.”
Anti-Woke Actor and Activist Ordered to Pay $225K for Calling Drag-Obsessives "Pedophiles"
"The [so-called quote-unquote "president"] has earned a reputation for ghosting the White House press corp, routinely yielding the floor to press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre while being relatively absent. His press dodging became so problematic that even the Washington Post called him out on it in an article last year."
New York Times: [Dangerous Fake President] Biden Dodging Press Sets a "Dangerous Precedent"
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"One reason for this move may be to attract young votes, who are now distracted with their Hamas-Inspired Hate Camps."
Biden Weighs Declaring “National Climate Emergency”
"This land is Joe Biden's land now. . . Had China seized 13 million acres of sovereign Alaska territory, the difference would be one of degree, not of kind."
The Feds' Unconstitutional Land Grab
Robert Zimmerman: "[Bill] Nelson exhibits the same kind of utter ignorance about basic space science as did congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) when she proclaimed on April 8, 2024 that the Moon 'was made up mostly of gases.'”
These are the Idiots WE Have Put in Power
"The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) pushed the White House to boost its support for domestic solar manufacturers as part of a gamble to to weaken calls for even more stringent tariffs from American companies, according to Bloomberg News. The efforts attempted to preempt petitions that could lead to new or strengthened protections for the American industry, the outlet reported."
China-Tied Solar Trade Group Reportedly Lobbied White House In Effort To Forestall New Tariffs
"Climate hustlers have yet another moneymaking boondoggle lined up."
Another Climate Folly: Carbon Capture and Storage (Frankie Carbone got captured and stored – in the back of a meat truck - jjs)
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
“Since when don’t courts allow evidence of pattern of prior bad acts to be admitted?” she added. “He’s a prolific serial predator who raped/harmed 200+women! Disgusted w/justice system skew [to] predators not victims.” (Funny how there's no reaction to what the courts did and are doing to Trump - jjs)
‘Horrified’: Oscar Winner And Other Hollywood Stars React To Overturned Weinstein Rape Verdict
“Moral passions are one thing, and institutional power is another.”
Weinstein Gets Due Process While Biden Guts It
"The powers of chemical unreason are on the ascent in the nation’s capital."
News From the Psychedelic Front
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
The worst part about that one was that another girl had warned teachers and staff that it was going to happen (five hours in advance), but the school just brushed it off saying that nothing would happen. As Stephen put it, "It never does happen. Right until it does."
Trans Boy Beats Another Girl in Indiana
"Pissed-off parents of Atrisco Heritage Academy High School students in Albuquerque, New Mexico are now demanding to know why – and how – the school hired a provocative dancer to perform at the school’s prom, after video went viral online showing a drag queen performing a striptease-like dance on the school gym surrounded by teenage students."
New Mexico High School Hires Erotic Dancer In Drag to Perform At Prom
"The College Board, creator of the SAT, is abandoning merit for racialism—and it doesn’t intend to let the Supreme Court stand in its way."
Don’t Trust Our Test!
ABORTION
"Two bills grant broad immunity to the IVF industry, and HB 833 redefines the word ’embryo’ to remove references to an ‘unborn child.’"
Louisiana Republicans, Democrats Advance Bill Granting Immunity For Killing Embryos
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
Bobb previously worked as a lawyer for former President Donald Trump and a reporter for One America News Network (OAN) before her appointment to the RNC. Despite the indictment, Bobb expressed her honor in joining the RNC and reiterated her commitment to restoring confidence in the electoral process. “I’m honored to join the RNC and thrilled the new leadership is focused on election integrity. I look forward to working to secure our elections and restore confidence in the process,” Bobb said at the time of her appointment.
One of the People Indicted by Arizona’s Far-Left AG is the RNC’s Election Integrity Chief
"Get Loud Arkansas, led by a former Democrat state senator, created an online page to collect sensitive information to register voters."
Leftist Group Screams ‘Voter Suppression!’ After Colliding With Arkansas Election Law
"The Federalist asked GOP election officials if they will follow suit and reject voter registration forms collected by federal agents."
As More GOP Officials Refuse To Follow Biden’s Federal Election Takeover, Others Are Mum
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"The self-styled Republican governor of Utah has spent the last few years endorsing a litany of left-wing social causes."
Utah GOP Gov. Spencer Cox’s Reelection Campaign Is Bankrolled By Far-Left Democrats
POLITICS
The reporter then asked, “What’s your message for Joe Biden?” . . .
WATCH — NYC Construction Worker Shares Message to Joe Biden: "Fuck You"
Justice Gorsuch called the case "one for the ages." So, Trump, stuck in New York, decided to plan an event for the ages. Forget calling him Orange Man, just call him Lemonade.
Democrats May Regret Trying Trump in N.Y. Court After His Latest Announcement
"Bob Bartels, manager of the Steamfitters Local 638, caught up with both Newsmax and Fox News on Thursday morning in Manhattan after Trump stopped by a construction site on his way to his business records trial."
NY Union Leader: My Members Back Trump 3:1 over Biden; Leftist Policies Driving Voters to Right
"Government officials created a vast security corridor hours before the president arrived and far beyond the specific area he would visit. Perhaps the de facto lockdown was to ensure Biden heard no heckling? Should people be honored when their personal schedules are disrupted by the [spurious] commander in chief, the same way medieval peasants offered thanks if their crops were trampled by the king’s courtiers? Is Biden entitled to force Americans to pay any price for that blessing of perpetuating his power? Will Thursday’s disruption enter local lore as the Westchester equivalent of the Bridgegate scandal that tainted former New Jersey Gov. Chris [Crisco] Christie?"
Biden Vexes Commoners with Yet Another Election Money Grab
"If Republicans keep throwing their money at candidates, they don’t stand a chance."
Democrats Get The Best Bang For Their Buck By Funding Election Infrastructure
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
“The fact is that the strategy isn’t working. There is no strategy,” Fred Fleitz, the vice chair of America First Policy Institute’s Center for American Security said. “And Trump understands that. And it’s just not fair for these Democrats to say, well, we’re going to Trump-proof NATO. We’re going to Trump proof aid for Ukraine.”
Republicans Sound Alarm On Efforts To Shield Ukraine Funding From American Voters
"How long is the money supposed to last? How much time does it buy? To what degree will it assist Ukraine in keeping Russia at bay?"
Washington Is Already Setting The Stage For More And More Ukraine War Funding
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"But that’s no reason for the U.S. to get involved."
Burma’s Military Junta Totters Toward the Brink
“Africans live in a world that is still colonial in fact, if not in name.”
The Mirage of African Independence
"If children are the future, then Guatemala greatly undervalued its own."
The Worst-Case Scenario of International Adoption
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"This is all a game by the diplomats and politicians in power on both sides."
Russia vetos UN resolution put forth by U.S to ban nuclear weapons in space
Comparisons have been drawn to Franklin Roosevelt’s "Arsenal of Democracy" and the "greatest generation" that mobilized America’s industrial might into a defense industrial base (DIB) that could equip the militaries of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union simultaneously during World War II. But this generation has different priorities than ensuring that Ukraine beats back Russian aggression, Israel defeats Hamas, and Taiwan deters a revanchist China. Our defense leaders are focused on putting the D-E-I in the D-I-B.
Putting the DEI in the DIB
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
So much for “following the science.” Newly released documents indicate that bureaucrats affiliated with the Medicare program ignored advice they solicited from medical experts in their efforts to deny patients care. Worse yet, the individuals with disabilities who were harmed often came from minority households — the same groups the Biden [junta] claims to be helping with its “equity” agenda. It’s but the latest signal of how the left will use rationing tactics to deny patients costly care.
Medicare Bureaucrat Denies Test To Transplant Recipients Despite Doctors’ Advice
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
" . . . we now have a rough timeline which, based on China’s past announcements, should be a reasonably accurate measure of what it now plans to do."
China reveals its rough plans for building its manned moon base.
"[This cool image] gives us another example the many-layered geological history of Mars, seen in numerous locations across the entire Martian surface."
Numerous layers in the interior slopes of Argyre Basin on Mars
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"I’m certain that conservative women will give up the right to vote if it will stop loony leftist women from being able to vote."
Every Day Brings More Evidence That It's Time to Repeal the 19th Amendment
"Why can't we keep using 'men and women' and 'mother and father?' That's worked fine for a few thousand years." (Except this is year zero, kulak bigot scum! - jjs)
We Won't Live By Your Wokeness
"Mindless class and race warfare."
The National Organization of Women Would Leave Even Karl Marx Scratching His Head
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"Democratic states lead the U.S. birth dearth."
Baby Blues
"Earn like Episcopalians, vote like Puerto Ricans, and talk like MSNBC anchors."
An Evening Among the Kool-Aid Drinkers
Christian Toto: "Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signs law described as 'toughest in nation' for child sex trafficking."
Sound of Freedom Act Inspired by Hit Film
Toto Too: "Nicola Coughlan set to take lead on Netflix series, ignores real Hollywood Blacklist."
Bridgerton Star Plays Victim, Says Pro-"Palestinian" Views Could Cost Her Work
HITHER & YON
"A new film dramatizes the life of an almost unbelievable heroine." (Timely - jjs)
Irena’s Vow

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1 Happy Fricking Friday

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 07:45 AM (ENQN6)

2 LET'S DANCE!

https://tinyurl.com/5n8k7uea

(X.com)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 26, 2024 07:45 AM (hIAv4)

3 Good morning JJ and horde
TGIF

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2024 07:47 AM (8cU+f)

4 Hmm... was on VPN via US and got "IP banned" message when trying to comment.

Back on VPN. Test via UK.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 26, 2024 07:48 AM (xIC99)

5 morning horde. looks like we made it to friday

thank god.

and happy birfday JJ.

time for covfefe & content

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 26, 2024 07:49 AM (UCRjB)

6 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2024 07:49 AM (Q4IgG)

7 Good morning, friends in grey boxes! And happy cake day, JJ! It's good to be back home.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at April 26, 2024 07:49 AM (DIB8X)

8 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do Thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the Divine Power of God, cast into hell, satan and all the evil spirits who roam throughout the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 26, 2024 07:49 AM (WXNFJ)

9 "aside from its obvious evil, there’s another problem with communism: by necessity, it is viciously, unimaginably petty. "

We see that every day yet very few will call it what it is, communism.

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 07:51 AM (vFG9F)

10 AMEN !

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2024 07:52 AM (T4tVD)

11 I'm waiting for the Australian storm troopers to land on the beach in Texas to invade Elon Musk's stronghold, and finally rid the world of someone who allows memes to be posted of their leaders.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 07:52 AM (lTGtQ)

12 Hiya JJ !

And Thank You !

AGAIN !!!

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2024 07:53 AM (T4tVD)

13 "Jim Hoft, describes as a series of “lawfare attacks” allegedly initiated by “the radical left.

The radical left=communists. Just say it.

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 07:53 AM (vFG9F)

14 Great essay at Taki, JJ!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2024 07:54 AM (W/2in)

15
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 26, 2024 07:54 AM (bEb2S)

16 They are commies. Call them as such. It drives my aunt nuts.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 26, 2024 07:55 AM (IZc/C)

17 Yes, we’re two countries already. Two sets of people who see the world through completely different lenses. I can’t comprehend a vote for Biden or support for Trump show trials… I can’t comprehend support for Hamas. It’s like these people are aliens; lizard people. They surely think the same of me….

It once again annoys me that empty people like John Roberts and Amy Coney Island (or whatever her name is) have so much power. Ridiculous

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 26, 2024 07:55 AM (xT8gx)

18 Police were forced to remove two pro-Palestine protesters from the Oxford Union on Thursday after they hijacked a speech by Nancy Pelosi, the former US speaker of the House.

The pair of students waved Palestinian flags as they disrupted her address at the debating society shortly after 6pm.

The protesters were swiftly removed by Thames Valley Police and escorted out as the crowd inside the chamber applauded.

Outside video:
Media Workers 4 Palestine @mw4pal
#gaza protest at Oxford Union tonight where Nancy Pelosi is due to speak

https://tinyurl.com/mruww3zr
21 seconds; warning -- hitting the link might give some money to the assholes posting it but I don't know for sure.

And it's good to know that Thames Valley Police could protect Nanzi with all the murders that Oxford has although maybe they got in reinforcements from Midsomer County to help??

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 07:56 AM (vtyCZ)

19 Good morning horde! Happy Friday!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 07:56 AM (IUd0M)

20 Can you imagine being married to Elizabeth Warren.

Or being her kid?

Posted by: pawn at April 26, 2024 07:56 AM (QB+5g)

21 Justice has no place in our judicial system. Outcomes, good or bad, are dictated for the subject classes without much (if any) regard to the letter or spirit of laws. For the ruling classes, they're just paid for with money and influence, and Weinstein is no different.

That sucks, but I'm not moved by the particulars of his case. He's a repulsive, piglike beastman who belongs in the ground, but bought his freedom with gobs of cash and his accrued political clout. His putative victims were lowlife slatterns who belonged in the gutter, but bought status with their clapped out front holes.

Very difficult to find a good outcome in any of this, short of chucking the lot of them in the hold of a ship and selling them as chattels in some far flung land across the sea where they can't bother us anymore.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 26, 2024 07:57 AM (0FoWg)

22 She's "disgusted" at the justice system?

In the minds of far too many people around the globe, "justice" means I get what I want.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 07:58 AM (IUd0M)

23
The times are so much different when I was young. Everyone I knew, while not exactly jumping for joy every day, had a somewhat rosy outlook on life. The vehicles they drove all somewhat reflected their personalities. So many colors and options for personalization. Tires, wheels, vinyl tops, etc...

Drive down the road nowadays and 9 out of 10 cars will be either black, white, or gray.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2024 07:58 AM (RKVpM)

24 Thank you for the links JJ!

I want to read that book by Nolan (on adoption).

Also yes I will happily give up the franchise if my insane leftist ladies-who-lunch peers also lose it!

and they get a two-for-one b/c they harangue their financial-services hubbies into voting left too!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 26, 2024 07:58 AM (s3qiR)

25 Sorvino has it backasswards. Harvey ran it up in, ran it up out, raped, hollered, molested, penetrated, fingered, fisted, footed, de-planted, gapped, rimmed, fronted, tongue punched and raped well over 200 men and wimmen.

For that, Hollyweird should give him an honorary Oscar and a star on The Hollyweird Walk Of Rape and Joe should invite him to visit the white outhouse and maybe they can sandwich a young male intern together in the hot tub.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 26, 2024 07:58 AM (cDEsv)

26 “Various terrorist organizations” lobbed mortar rounds at efforts on the location laying the groundwork for the pier while U.N. officials were touring the area, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing the Israeli military.

You put a kindergarten next to Drag Queen Story Hour Reading Room and expect no one will get diddled??

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 07:58 AM (ENQN6)

27 "but bought status with their clapped out front holes."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

You have a way with words YD! Well done!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 26, 2024 07:58 AM (WXNFJ)

28 If Warren is attacking the color schemes on websites, at least it is distracting her from trying to tax unrealized gains.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 07:59 AM (lTGtQ)

29 Or being her kid?

Posted by: pawn at April 26, 2024 07:56 AM (QB+5g)

Getting the Injun Card with the free government handout sounds like a great gig to me.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 08:00 AM (ENQN6)

30 RE the SCOTUS case: I think I saw someone had postulated that SCOTUS could look at the appointment of Jack Smith and rule that he has no standing because his appointment is inconsistent with the requirements that position. Seems like that would be the most likely position that feckless traitor Roberts would.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at April 26, 2024 08:00 AM (DIB8X)

31 thank you for the prayer, Tonypete!

btw the thing where Joetato is crossing himself - I remember my great aunts and nonna would do that when confronted by something evil.

maybe he's seeing the demons he is in league with, that we cannot (thankfully) see as clearly has one who is owned by them.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 26, 2024 08:01 AM (s3qiR)

32 I searched (Qwant) on "THE Ohio State University" for news this morning. Not one hit.

Amazing

Posted by: Tonypete at April 26, 2024 08:02 AM (WXNFJ)

33 Seems like that would be the most likely position that feckless traitor Roberts would.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at April 26, 2024 08:00 AM (DIB8X)

Deciding a case purely on the "Who bitch dis is" test? Don't think he has the bozzack for it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2024 08:02 AM (GkFGh)

34 yes I'm hearing the nasty pro-pali tent cities have infected Ohio State as well

this is a planned op

still awaiting bad news from up north ...

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 26, 2024 08:04 AM (s3qiR)

35 I guess the Trump sellout memo didn't get to everyone on Capitol Hill; he'll have to enlarge the secret-meetings' invites' list:

Simon Ateba @simonateba Apr 23
BREAKING: Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC l) attacks Trump, says, Everybody who says we should do something about border legislation, “you're absolutely right but unfortunately, we didn't get there, President Trump opposed (the border deal). I hate that.” WATCH

Catturd ™ @catturd2 Apr 23
Mitch McConnell just came out and blamed Tucker Carlson and President Trump for not getting Ukraine 61 billion fast enough.

johnny maga @_johnnymaga Apr 23
Mitt Romney sides with Alvin Bragg over Donald Trump

I can’t wait until this sleazebag leaves the Senate

Breitbart News @BreitbartNews 11h
Paul Ryan says Speaker Mike Johnson has "found his footing and his voice."

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 08:04 AM (vtyCZ)

36 Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2024 08:02 AM (GkFGh)

Given the animosity the administration has displayed towards the court, I could see Roberts doing just that, without saying 'Hoozyer daddy now, bitch!'.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at April 26, 2024 08:04 AM (DIB8X)

37 Given the animosity the administration has displayed towards the court, I could see Roberts doing just that, without saying 'Hoozyer daddy now, bitch!'.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at April 26, 2024 08:04 AM (DIB8X)

True, spite is one heck of a motivator.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2024 08:05 AM (GkFGh)

38 We live in a nation that resembles the bastard child of 1968 Chicago with 1938 Nuremberg.

Thats a good line, and pretty neatly sums up 2024 USA.

Posted by: Ex GOP at April 26, 2024 08:05 AM (GpUII)

39
btw the thing where Joetato is crossing himself - I remember my great aunts and nonna would do that when confronted by something evil.

I make a cross with my two index fingers and hiss slightly. Last time I was at the polls I did it to the people behind the (D) table.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2024 08:05 AM (RKVpM)

40 Sara Rose 🌹 @saras76 7h
Reporter to Union worker: "What's your message to Joe Biden?"

Based Union member: "Fvck you" 🤣 👏🏼

https://tinyurl.com/yukj3cnz
7 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 08:07 AM (vtyCZ)

41 "An incident involving a physical attack by a female Secret Service agent"

Are we astute, or what?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 08:07 AM (lTGtQ)

42 USC Cancels Main Commencement After Numerous Anti-Israel Protests

What about the young women and men that have spent 4 years trying to make themselves and the world a better place through study and commitment to a goal?

Fuck them huh?

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 08:09 AM (ENQN6)

43 I think you are beginning to see that some Justices on the Supreme Court are waking up to the fact that dodging cases like Texas vs PA only meant more contentious cases will show up at their doorstep, while the country rips itself apart. Doubtful they'd be hearing all these cases now had they just faced their duty then.

Kavanaugh seemed to hint at that yesterday, that these cases have long reaching effects for the country and that the SCOTUS has to face them head on, not dodge.

To do that, they'll have to give the Presidency total immunity or expect more cases...but we'll see if they dodge again or face it....

Posted by: Boswell at April 26, 2024 08:09 AM (K+UlC)

44 The Carbon Capture scam has always been my theory, it's next to impossible to stuff carbon in the earth

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2024 08:09 AM (8cU+f)

45 Paul Ryan says Speaker Mike Johnson has "found his footing and his voice."

The DNC is the ratchet. The GOP is the pawl. Voting for more will never change it.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 26, 2024 08:09 AM (tblLd)

46 As I dig into the whole "presidential immunity" thing I have to wonder; why would a president need immunity if he/she did not wander off the legal and constitutional reservation in the first place?

I realize this is a political persecution of Trump and his supporters. It's past time for them to ignore the illegality of these lawsuits and tell these leftists to go pound sand.

And maybe it's time to bring this simmering conflict to heel or pop it wide open... either way, but quit playing by the left's rules.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2024 08:10 AM (Q4IgG)

47 CALL THE PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 26, 2024 08:10 AM (s3qiR)

48 "Reporter to Union worker: "What's your message to Joe Biden?"

Based Union member: "Fvck you""

Fox "News" Radio was quick to note yesterday that his union has endorsed Biden.

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 08:10 AM (vFG9F)

49 Fuck them huh?
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 08:09 AM (ENQN6)

Ummmmmm...Yes.

Posted by: marxist DEI Prefesser Dr. Shameeka Jackson at April 26, 2024 08:11 AM (cDEsv)

50 Tom Elliott @tomselliott 4h
Biden: “We’re exporting American jobs”

https://tinyurl.com/23vuujrb
14 seconds; earpiece guy corrects Joe for his correct second attempt

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 08:11 AM (vtyCZ)

51 What about the young women and men that have spent 4 years trying to make themselves and the world a better place through study and commitment to a goal?

Fuck them huh?
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 08:09 AM (ENQN6)

Those students started college in the height of Coof insanity.

They finish amidst rioters wrecking their graduation day because they just really, really like decapitated jewish babies and need everyone to know that.

It's almost as if they don't care about convincing anyone about anything anymore...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2024 08:11 AM (GkFGh)

52 International Criminal Court’s vicious smear tactics against America’s allies

There are a fair number of cities which, were the Russians to accidentally drop a nuclear weapon on them, the world would be improved immensely.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 08:11 AM (IUd0M)

53 I think you are beginning to see that some Justices on the Supreme Court are waking up to the fact that dodging cases like Texas vs PA only meant more contentious cases will show up at their doorstep, while the country rips itself apart. Doubtful they'd be hearing all these cases now had they just faced their duty then.

Posted by: Boswell

I seem to recall that ancient Israel had a similar situation, related in the book of Judges.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 08:11 AM (lTGtQ)

54 SCOTUS has 3 distinguished justices: Thomas, Alito and Gorsuch. Not always right, but rigorous thinkers who try to actually, you know, interpret the constitution. Kavanaugh and Barrett have young kids and wanna be loved in DC neighborhoods; their native instincts are good but bottom line they’re cowards. John Roberts is a company man through and through and probably compromised. Kagan is a “reasonable” lefty…. Sometimes. The Latina Sotomayor is a lefty ideologue and Brown is a lefty ideologue with noticeably low IQ. These are our shining legal lights????

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 26, 2024 08:12 AM (xT8gx)

55 In your Taki's essay you note "the perfect illustration of the dichotomy of being book smart, intellectual, worldly, etc. with that of woefully lacking in plain old common sense..."
sadly, that was a writer I've admired yesterday, Matt Walsh, attacking Gov. Abbott for breaking up the pro-Hamas demonstrations at UT. These campus takeovers are carefully orchestrated and financed attacks on civil order in general, and *nobody* has done anything effective to fight back except Gov. Abbott. And what he did is supported by an overwhelming majority of Texans, if for no other reason that we don't put up with that kind of shit around here.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2024 08:12 AM (S6gqv)

56 The "crime" as I understand it is that Trump didn't use campaign cash.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 26, 2024 08:12 AM (eYoxG)

57 JJ good Taki article

FYI, continued prayers for your health.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 26, 2024 08:12 AM (n/1xr)

58 "sadly, that was a writer I've admired yesterday, Matt Walsh, attacking Gov. Abbott for breaking up the pro-Hamas demonstrations at UT."

What was Walsh's reasoning for that?

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 08:13 AM (vFG9F)

59
Some attorney was on the Benny Johnson podcast after the Supreme Court hearing ended and made an interesting point about the Founding Fathers; they actually may have foreseen a scenario we are in today, where one political party attempts to criminalize the opposing.

So there are no rules prohibiting felons or other criminals from running for the President.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2024 08:13 AM (RKVpM)

60 >>So, let's say SCOTUS does manage to perform a Solomonic miracle and "mostly peacefully" cleave the baby in half.

I think SCOTUS will hand down a 7-2 or 6-4 ruling saying Presidents have immunity for official acts and then throw it back down to the lower courts to figure out if what Trump is alleged to have done is an official act.

It's the typical SCOTUS, narrow and tight rulings when anything involving a conservative/republican is before the court.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 26, 2024 08:14 AM (XV/Pl)

61 8 Amen

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 26, 2024 08:14 AM (n/1xr)

62 Paul Ryan says Speaker Mike Johnson has "found his footing and his voice."

LOL. With that endorsement, Tiny Johnson has to know that he is done as Speaker

Posted by: Ex GOP at April 26, 2024 08:14 AM (GpUII)

63 The Carbon Capture scam has always been my theory, it's next to impossible to stuff carbon in the earth

Posted by: Skip

Oh, you can stuff it into the earth, all right. The question is, how many minutes until it percolates back out?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 08:15 AM (lTGtQ)

64 Trump's legal strategy to challenge the Steal was framed as state v. state to get original jurisdiction at SCOTUS, not a lower court. in a 7-2 vote Roberts got it barred at the court house door. Can you guess the two?

Roberts scared the new justices that taking the case would be the end of SCOTUS. In effect, this buried Trump's evidence.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 26, 2024 08:15 AM (Gse2f)

65 The SCROTUM's will soil me again.

Sigh.

Posted by: The Bed at April 26, 2024 08:15 AM (cDEsv)

66 " Paul Ryan says Speaker Mike Johnson has "found his footing and his voice.""

His footing is on his knees and his voice is choked with cock.

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 08:15 AM (vFG9F)

67 Even if we somehow win in 2024, or win every election for the next 40 years, and both of those are seriously in doubt, we will still have at least a third of the population (not including the millions of illegal foreigners who I wouldn't count on for help) wanting us dead as well as a propaganda/brainwashing complex disguised as academia that will produce yet another generation of useless pod people who will be eager to line us up and shoot us into a ditch. Ironic considering their hatred of the Second Amendment.
++++
Perhaps, but most people don't really care that much.

Probably 20%-25% of the population are actual partisans of some kind. Maybe a bit more now since the education system is designed to manufacture partisans (and one variety of partisan, at that). The rest aren't. There is no "majority ideal" or somesuch. Most people just back the strong horse. Right now, and for the past couple of decades, the left has been the strong horse and so most people are down with it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:16 AM (HnUIn)

68 Today is Alien Day. 👽

Posted by: redridinghood at April 26, 2024 08:17 AM (NpAcC)

69 USC Cancels Main Commencement After Numerous Anti-Israel Protests

What about the young women and men that have spent 4 years trying to make themselves and the world a better place through study and commitment to a goal?

Fuck them huh?
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 08:09 AM (ENQN6)

This one’s personal for me as I’m a USC alum…. My graduation was a great experience; even got my picture in cap and gown in front of Tommy Trojan. It’s a beautiful campus in a sketchy part of town but this is all on Carol Folt and the cowardly school administration. They’ve been holding the lefty tiger by the tail and now it’s caught up. They were right to cancel the Jew-hater’s speech but now they’re caving altogether by just canceling. Sad

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 26, 2024 08:17 AM (xT8gx)

70 F'n USAA. There are no banks I trust. They will all sell you out to the commies.

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 08:18 AM (vFG9F)

71 Morning Horde, as always thx JJ. I made the mistake of reading a summary of yesterday's SC regarding immunity at Twitchy. Good summary but then it went down the rabbit hole with tweets from MSNBC legal "expert " Elie Mystal. Almost no legal insight just a massive amount of farting in Republicans general direction. Mystal is a native of Haiti and I think it's generally a bad idea to listen to anybody from Haiti about government

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 26, 2024 08:19 AM (aX7Uj)

72 I Meme Therefore I Am @ImMeme0 A Tale Of Two Presidents…

Do you spot the difference?

[BIDEN: TRUMP:]

https://tinyurl.com/2nnku9r4
two brief videos

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 08:19 AM (vtyCZ)

73 What about the young women and men that have spent 4 years trying to make themselves and the world a better place through study and commitment to a goal?

Fuck them huh?
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 08:09 AM (ENQN6)
++++
They'll still get their sheepskins.

Most places did this in 2020 and 2021 and nobody got to walk in the graduation ceremony at virtually every high school and college in the land. That sucked and was stupid. This sucks and is stupid, too. Maybe it will build the right kind of resentment.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:19 AM (HnUIn)

74 Writer Ray Bradbury once said, “Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.” In Thursday’s case before the Supreme Court on the immunity of former President Donald Trump, nine justices appear to be feverishly working with feathers and glue on a plunge into a constitutional abyss.

That is some great prose. I wish I could write like that.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 26, 2024 08:20 AM (4HcMG)

75 ... They’ve been holding the lefty tiger by the tail and now it’s caught up. ...
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 26, 2024 08:17 AM (xT8gx)
++++
To a point. But then again, they also knew it and have known it for a long time. They built this and it's what they wanted.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:20 AM (HnUIn)

76 "Today is Alien Day. 👽
Posted by: redridinghood"

Get me off this f'n planet.

Posted by: ET at April 26, 2024 08:20 AM (vFG9F)

77 What was Walsh's reasoning for that?
Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 08:13 AM (vFG9F)

Matt was angry about this tweet by Abbott:
"Greg Abbott@GregAbbott_TX Apr 24
Arrests being made right now & will continue until the crowd disperses.
These protesters belong in jail.
Antisemitism will not be tolerated in Texas. Period.
Students joining in hate-filled, antisemitic protests at any public college or university in Texas should be expelled."

Matt claimed that he was upset that the rioters were being arrested for "antisemitism", but in fact that's just an explanation of their motives for rioting and trying to disrupt an entire campus, and also to violently intimidate anyone who opposes them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2024 08:20 AM (S6gqv)

78 48 "Reporter to Union worker: "What's your message to Joe Biden?"

Based Union member: "Fvck you""

***

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 26, 2024 08:20 AM (n/1xr)

79 Roberts scared the new justices that taking the case would be the end of SCOTUS. In effect, this buried Trump's evidence.

I truly believe Roberts prioritizes the traditions, customs, and above all reputation of SCOTUS above all else. I believe it explains not only what he does, but why.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 26, 2024 08:20 AM (tblLd)

80 U. Maryland Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

In Palestine or Iran women would be imprisoner or maybe even hung for asking to go to school.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 08:21 AM (ENQN6)

81 @79 Spot on. It's Roberts' prime directive

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 26, 2024 08:22 AM (Gse2f)

82 Fox "News" Radio was quick to note yesterday that his union has endorsed Biden.
Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 08:10 AM (vFG9F)

... and his union uses his dues to promote things the union guy hates and to enrich the union steward, who makes ten times the salary of union members.

Posted by: Emmie at April 26, 2024 08:22 AM (Sf2cq)

83 People see Vulgar displays of Power, and think "I want to do that too", so they side with the people getting away with it, the Left.

Posted by: XTC at April 26, 2024 08:22 AM (UnA8+)

84 YOU are the carbon they want to stuff in the earth.

Posted by: Bigfoot's Stunt Double at April 26, 2024 08:22 AM (d4flP)

85 I understand CA is full of Folt lines.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 08:23 AM (vtyCZ)

86 great write up JJ, and i have to say that regarding weinstein, iirc they didn't do a great job of linking the previous acts to the current charge. it's sort of loosely showed a pattern, if you squinted a bit.

but it's hollyweird and stars caught up in this, so i don't much care.

but won't someone think of the pain and suffering of the ficus?

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 26, 2024 08:23 AM (UCRjB)

87 Reporter to Union worker: "What's your message to Joe Biden?"

Based Union member: "Fvck you" 🤣 👏🏼 ...
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 08:07 AM (vtyCZ)
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Reporter is asshole. The more interesting part of this is the lead-in.

"What's it like seeing so many Republicans in Manhattan, so many Trump supporters in Manhattan? Does that surprise you?"

Reporter is confused.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:23 AM (HnUIn)

88 What about the young women and men that have spent 4 years trying to make themselves and the world a better place through study and commitment to a goal?

Then they should have taken up apprenticeships with HVAC, electrical or plumbing trades. You want to make the world a better place? Pushing paper and Leftist agendas as a bureaucrat or a private sector compliance officer is NOT the way. Fixing what is broken, getting work and homes back running, bringing order out of chaos, pointing to something and seeing a satisfied customer or improvements and functionality that didn't previously exist is how to make things literally better.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 26, 2024 08:24 AM (4HcMG)

89 So Matt Walsh is antisemitic himself, got it.

Sorry Matt; that's the not-so-undertone to your tweets (btw I read them yesterday and they put me in a MOOD)

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 26, 2024 08:24 AM (s3qiR)

90 "Matt claimed that he was upset that the rioters were being arrested for "antisemitism", but in fact that's just an explanation of their motives for rioting"

Was that the only thing they were arrested for? The arrests will be dismissed. They should have been charged with disorderly conduct too, among other things. Matt should make it clear about what he is talking about and sometimes fails to do that.

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 08:26 AM (vFG9F)

91 If there were a bunch of people gathered at a college saying "We need to get all these filthy negroes out of here", and then going around and beating up any black people they come across, you bet your ass and both legs I'd be in favor of arresting their asses.

And "free speech" doesn't have shit to do with it. Inciting a riot isn't free speech. Assault isn't free speech. Fuck all this whingy ninny sissy pants dithering from poncey dorks about freedom and liberty, as if those words had anything to do with this kind of shit. These assholes aren't "protesting", so any line of thought or discussion or reasoning that begins by pretending that they are is dead on arrival.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2024 08:26 AM (GkFGh)

92 Roberts scared the new justices that taking the case would be the end of SCOTUS. In effect, this buried Trump's evidence.
Posted by: Ignoramus at April 26, 2024 08:15 AM (Gse2f)

And now, hopefully Gorsuch and Kavanaugh see that "dodging" as is Roberts want to do, only leads to the chaos they are seeing now...even if they had taken the case and then suggested that Texas, while having a point, doesn't win on the merits, would have poked a huge hole in the Dems feverish lawfare strategy that contesting an election is some sort of evil federal offense that only Republicans get indicted over...

Posted by: Boswell at April 26, 2024 08:26 AM (K+UlC)

93 Fuck them huh?

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 08:09 AM (ENQN6)

Collateral damage. But where were they when the school was quite tolerant of this sort of anti-American and anti-Semitic behavior for years and years?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 26, 2024 08:26 AM (n/3Pf)

94 YOU are the carbon they want to stuff in the earth.

Posted by: Bigfoot's Stunt Double

That belongs on a T shirt.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 08:26 AM (lTGtQ)

95 It occurs to me that it's universities and colleges today that are the focus of leftist agitation, but unlikely to remain there tomorrow.

Yet, there seems to be reluctance to confront them. Either because there's agreement with the left, or fear of retribution by the left, their supporters, the state or all of the above.

This climate of fear sucks.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2024 08:26 AM (Q4IgG)

96 Best part of the Weinstein verdict being thrown out is that the court said there is TOO MUCH evidence of his skeeziness for a conviction.

Posted by: Editor at April 26, 2024 08:26 AM (YIs+o)

97 It's also...
National Pretzel Day. 🥨

Posted by: redridinghood at April 26, 2024 08:28 AM (NpAcC)

98 89 So Matt Walsh is antisemitic himself, got it.

Sorry Matt; that's the not-so-undertone to your tweets (btw I read them yesterday and they put me in a MOOD)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 26, 2024 08:24 AM (s3qiR)

Considering that he's friendly with Nick Fuentes, yes.

Posted by: XTC at April 26, 2024 08:28 AM (UnA8+)

99 In other words, Obama could not be charged for his use of more than 560 drone strikes that murdered somewhere between 384 and 807 civilians because his own DOJ cleared him to do so.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 08:28 AM (ENQN6)

100 Mornin’, All. Happy Friday.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 08:28 AM (9yWhg)

101 ... Matt claimed that he was upset that the rioters were being arrested for "antisemitism", but in fact that's just an explanation of their motives for rioting and trying to disrupt an entire campus, and also to violently intimidate anyone who opposes them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2024 08:20 AM (S6gqv)
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I can get behind that reasoning.

Antisemitism is not illegal. Anyone who wants to can hate me for being a Jew. It's stupid and bigoted, but it's his right. Free association and all that. But he's not allowed to impede me, or get violent with me, or organize with a bunch of pals to attack me. He can hate me all he wants and he's free to be as big an antisemite as he wishes and to have nothing to do with me, but that's where it ends.

Abbott was arresting students - and rightly so - for being a violent mob impeding and hurting other people until the institution backed its own bigoted position. That's terrorism, not free speech and free association and they *should* be in jail - but not for "antisemitism."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:28 AM (HnUIn)

102 I guarantee Roberts will retire under a DEM president

Posted by: Jonah at April 26, 2024 08:29 AM (YCxFk)

103 Richard Hanania @RichardHanania 14h
Biden Treasury Department says we need higher taxes on capital gains because it would hurt white people more and take away their wealth.

Whites own too many stocks and businesses, so they need to pay.

DC_Draino @DC_Draino 1h
This is where “equity” leads to
An attack on people based on skin color

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 08:29 AM (vtyCZ)

104 The most important point about what Abbott did with respect to the protestors is that it was an overwhelmingly popular move with everyone except the relatively small group of far left zealots. The vast majority of Texans of all stripes don't want to see that kind of civil chaos unleashed and allowed to grow here, and they're glad to see a leader who will smack it down hard and make sure it doesn't come back.
Matt, when you're siding with Hamas, and Code Pink, and Antifa, you're just wrong.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2024 08:29 AM (S6gqv)

105 "Matt claimed that he was upset that the rioters were being arrested for "antisemitism", but in fact that's just an explanation of their motives for rioting"

Was that the only thing they were arrested for? The arrests will be dismissed. They should have been charged with disorderly conduct too, among other things. Matt should make it clear about what he is talking about and sometimes fails to do that.

Posted by: fd

I tend to agree that Abbott got off track. He should have stuck with the disorderly conduct, and not commented on the motives. We all know that they are anti-semitic, but we all still have a smidgen of freedom of speech, even if it is 'hate speech.'

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 08:29 AM (lTGtQ)

106 Democrats Need To Be Held To Account For Denying Trump’s Due Process Rights
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Rubbish. Standard Brit establishment propaganda. It links contrary cases as though they were comparable, and claim as Whig causes the very things the Whigs and their predecessors tried to suppress.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 26, 2024 08:29 AM (1bNHn)

107 Yesterday it was WSJ, today it's DM trying to convince folks to move to Rockford, IL. I'd advise against it. Same out-of-control urban violence, abysmally bad schools, and Shit-Headed Woke city govt you find throughout the Rust Belt. Because our thugs are highly mobile, there are NO 'safe' neighborhoods here. Expect things to get worse when our damned new casino finishes construction.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at April 26, 2024 08:30 AM (MvF+J)

108 If Barret were smart, she have her kids raised in Indiana, and commute to D.C.

Posted by: Jonah at April 26, 2024 08:30 AM (YCxFk)

109 To a point. But then again, they also knew it and have known it for a long time. They built this and it's what they wanted.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:20 AM (HnUIn)

Carol Folt is despised by most of the traditional long-time USC community. People here may not understand but football is a huge part of USC (or rather it used to be)… the whole alumni community took pride in Trojan football tradition. But when Folt came in she made it clear she despised football…. She wanted USC to be Harvard west. You may be surprised to hear: most USC alumni are quite conservative…. Up until say the mid-2000s.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 26, 2024 08:30 AM (xT8gx)

110 It’s a beautiful campus in a sketchy part of town but this is all on Carol Folt and the cowardly school administration. They’ve been holding the lefty tiger by the tail and now it’s caught up. They were right to cancel the Jew-hater’s speech but now they’re caving altogether by just canceling. Sad
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 26, 2024 08:17 AM (xT8gx)
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How she got such a great job is a mystery. She was a fricking disaster at Dartmouth, cratered at UNC, and now look. She keeps failing upward.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2024 08:30 AM (CEynM)

111 Matt Walsh isn’t allowed an opinion now?

Posted by: Montec at April 26, 2024 08:30 AM (Au0FL)

112 Accusing someone of rape when it's not true isn't defamation. But saying it's not true when it's not true is. Welcome to Leftard Justice.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 08:30 AM (2e48P)

113 Howie Carr comes up with a gem about the Harvard protesters getting drenched "you are either part of the solution or part of the sprinklers"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 26, 2024 08:31 AM (aX7Uj)

114 Posted by: Editor at April 26, 2024 08:26 AM (YIs+o)

I thought his conviction was thrown out because witnesses were testifying on acts he was not charged with in the trial.

Have I got that right?

Posted by: dantesed at April 26, 2024 08:32 AM (Oy/m2)

115 Speaker Johnson getting ready for his FOX interview to work with Paul Ryan, down the road

Posted by: Jonah at April 26, 2024 08:32 AM (YCxFk)

116 They’ve [ USC ] been holding the lefty tiger by the tail and now it’s caught up. They were right to cancel the Jew-hater’s speech but now they’re caving altogether by just canceling. Sad

This is the time the academics wish they didn't Ivory Tower themselves into alienating university education from the vulgar masses.

Neither Proud Boys, nor Hells Angels want to step into this great opportunity to Bash a Skull for Righteousness.

Nothing says FAFO than the sound of shit-tons of Hell raising Metal Thunder approaching on a bunch of slack-jawed, sunken chested fagots Cosplaying as Hamas.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 26, 2024 08:32 AM (4HcMG)

117 Carol Folt is despised by most of the traditional long-time USC community. People here may not understand but football is a huge part of USC (or rather it used to be)… the whole alumni community took pride in Trojan football tradition. But when Folt came in she made it clear she despised football…. She wanted USC to be Harvard west. You may be surprised to hear: most USC alumni are quite conservative…. Up until say the mid-2000s.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 26, 2024 08:30 AM (xT8gx)
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And USC wasn't. They picked their leader and are insulated from the consequences because of the vast system of money sluices and ideological cops keeping everything moving further left. Until a generation ago, most USC grads weren't communists? Cool. It is also not relevant. The institution is radical.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:32 AM (HnUIn)

118 THANKS JJ WE LOVE YOU

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 08:33 AM (2e48P)

119 This is the time the academics wish they didn't Ivory Tower themselves into alienating university education from the vulgar masses.

Neither Proud Boys, nor Hells Angels want to step into this great opportunity to Bash a Skull for Righteousness.

Nothing says FAFO than the sound of shit-tons of Hell raising Metal Thunder approaching on a bunch of slack-jawed, sunken chested fagots Cosplaying as Hamas.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 26, 2024 08:32 AM (4HcMG)
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There wasn't much of that last time when the hippies were doing it.

"Not my circus, not my monkeys."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:33 AM (HnUIn)

120 Catturd ™ @catturd2 Apr 23
Mitch McConnell just came out and blamed Tucker Carlson and President Trump for not getting Ukraine 61 billion fast enough.

So Trump wasn't personally responsible for ensuring that House Republicans voted for the money. Funny, that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 08:34 AM (IUd0M)

121 the whole alumni community took pride in Trojan football tradition. But when Folt came in she made it clear she despised football...
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 26, 2024 08:30 AM (xT8gx)

Fight On!

Posted by: Zombie OJ Simpson, Murderer at April 26, 2024 08:34 AM (cDEsv)

122 I tend to agree that Abbott got off track. He should have stuck with the disorderly conduct, and not commented on the motives. We all know that they are anti-semitic, but we all still have a smidgen of freedom of speech, even if it is 'hate speech.'
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 08:29 AM (lTGtQ)

Motive shouldn't matter a bit... if that crowd's goal was to move Taco Tuesday to Wednesday in the campus dining hall, and they acted the same way, arrest their dumb asses all the same. Buzzwords are just a distraction. Rioting is rioting. Assault is assault.

You defend jews against violent antisemites by defending all of society against all violent assholes. It's the Rule of Law. You have it, or you don't.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2024 08:34 AM (GkFGh)

123 The year over year price index went up 2.8% last month. Wages went up .5% . Yay Bidenomics

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 26, 2024 08:34 AM (aX7Uj)

124 Massive pro hamas rally on Northwestern U campus right now. Many brain dead white kids of course.

Sadly, many brain dead jewish students too, under the guise of peace

Posted by: Jonah at April 26, 2024 08:35 AM (YCxFk)

125 I am so sick of the "principled conservatives" who continue to put IVF and the abortion industry into the same bucket. IVF literally brings human beings into the world. It is the opposite of abortion. I would not have my daughter without IVF.

The Federalist can go fuck itself. Very very hard.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at April 26, 2024 08:35 AM (VxbvY)

126 “Before this investigation started, you had not heard the phrase ‘catch and kill,’ correct?” Bove asked, referencing the prosecutor’s description of Pecker’s purchase of the McDougal story.

Pecker agreed.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 08:35 AM (ENQN6)

127 Motive shouldn't matter a bit... if that crowd's goal was to move Taco Tuesday to Wednesday in the campus dining hall, and they acted the same way, arrest their dumb asses all the same. Buzzwords are just a distraction. Rioting is rioting. Assault is assault.

You defend jews against violent antisemites by defending all of society against all violent assholes. It's the Rule of Law. You have it, or you don't.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2024 08:34 AM (GkFGh)
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I think this is well put.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:36 AM (HnUIn)

128 Greg Abbot is a genius. His busing of illegals to the north was brilliant

Posted by: Jonah at April 26, 2024 08:36 AM (YCxFk)

129 "Democrats Get The Best Bang For Their Buck By Funding Election Infrastructure"

This article from the Federalist is really discouraging.

"Dark money leaders gathered last week to discuss infrastructure enabling left-wing victory and “transformation.”

"Speakers with these groups discussed building an infrastructure to help progressives reach victory and maintain power, even in conservative states."

The Republicans are playing checkers and the Democrats are playing 3D chess.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 26, 2024 08:36 AM (NpAcC)

130 Until a generation ago, most USC grads weren't communists? Cool. It is also not relevant. The institution is radical.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:32 AM (HnUIn)

Sadly you are right. It hit me harder because it happened to “my” place (sigh)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 26, 2024 08:36 AM (xT8gx)

131 123 The year over year price index went up 2.8% last month. Wages went up .5% . Yay Bidenomics
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 26, 2024 08:34 AM (aX7Uj)

Q4 23 to Q1 24 was actually 3.8%.

Thats over 15% annual.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 08:37 AM (ENQN6)

132 McConnell was pissed it took so long, for he and Zalensky to get their 10% skim, to their Zurich bank accounts

Posted by: Jonah at April 26, 2024 08:37 AM (YCxFk)

133 125 I am so sick of the "principled conservatives" who continue to put IVF and the abortion industry into the same bucket. IVF literally brings human beings into the world. It is the opposite of abortion. I would not have my daughter without IVF.

The Federalist can go fuck itself. Very very hard.
Posted by: Rusty Nail at April 26, 2024 08:35 AM (VxbvY)

I call dancing on the head of a pin conservatism.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 08:38 AM (ENQN6)

134 Abbott was arresting students - and rightly so - for being a violent mob impeding and hurting other people until the institution backed its own bigoted position. That's terrorism, not free speech and free association and they *should* be in jail - but not for "antisemitism."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:28 AM (HnUIn)

I agree, of course. But it's sophistry to pretend to not understand that Abbott's statement was expressing a moral and political explanation, not a courtroom legal explanation. And personally I find it a breath of fresh air to see at least one political leader in the country willing to publicly state that he's not going to suck up to Hamas and their far left allies.
We say over and over that we want Republican leaders to speak up and show some guts about confronting the evil spreading across the nation; well, this is what it looks like when one does. The least helpful thing is for a bunch of sophistic alt-right net pundits to jump up and say "oh he shouldn't be so mean" like some damned berkely student newsletter.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2024 08:38 AM (S6gqv)

135 No problem with Abbott saying " anti-Semitism " - which is obviously a political rules for radicals move.
As.long as the charges against the protesters are about actual legal infractions.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 26, 2024 08:38 AM (n/1xr)

136 The Mirage of African Independence
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The burden of that article is that Portugal's former colonies, 50 years later, retain the language and legal code of Portugal. Wasn't that true of us?

The Hodge twins were onto something when one of them said writers just sit around thinking "What's the stupidest shit I can write about."

Posted by: Eeyore at April 26, 2024 08:38 AM (1bNHn)

137 Sadly, many brain dead jewish students too, under the guise of peace
Posted by: Jonah at April 26, 2024 08:35 AM (YCxFk)

War is peace.
Arbeit macht frei

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 08:39 AM (ENQN6)

138 McConnell reminding us that he hates Trump with the heat of a thousand suns.

He'll work with a Trump administration tho'.... right?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2024 08:39 AM (Q4IgG)

139 Weinstein is a scumbag, but almost everyone of his "victims" knew about the casting couch and went along with it because it got them acting jobs. Kinda feel bad for Sorvino , but she could have made a difference when Weinstein tried his crap with her . Might have changed things , or at least friends of her father could have made a difference

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 26, 2024 08:39 AM (aX7Uj)

140 That video of Old Joe making the sign of the cross while listening to an abortion speech is a demented abomination. That old man is toast. Put him into memory care.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2024 08:40 AM (cPejy)

141 Sadly you are right. It hit me harder because it happened to “my” place (sigh)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 26, 2024 08:36 AM (xT8gx)
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I dig it, and I would probably be in the same boat about my "esteemed" (spit) alma mater if I had graduated even one year earlier.

But I didn't. I graduated in 2008, and it was *weird.* Extremely weird. The campus went from a hotbed of general lefty insanity that was also broadly tolerant to a leftist den of vipers with no tolerance for deviation in the slightest. As soon as Obama hit the scene in big way in late '07, everything hardened, virtually overnight. By the time he started winning primaries, it rapidly got much worse.

I went from a curiosity on campus - a non-communist who would talk about it and disagree with his professors - to feeling like a pariah, at least outside my friend group. It happened really fast. I don't know what it was about the arrival of Obama that made them all know that it was time to move, but it's like some undetectable signal went out.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:40 AM (HnUIn)

142 Q4 23 to Q1 24 was actually 3.8%.

Thats over 15% annual.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 08:37 AM (ENQN6

That’s not how it works. The quarter to quarter figure is annualized.

Posted by: Montec at April 26, 2024 08:40 AM (Au0FL)

143 Today is also,
Arbor Day🌳
Go plant a tree.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 26, 2024 08:40 AM (NpAcC)

144 his union uses his dues to promote things the union guy hates and to enrich the union steward

Gowinnada Traaaaydz! (because I need a plumma!)

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 26, 2024 08:41 AM (zdLoL)

145 In your Taki's essay you note "the perfect illustration of the dichotomy of being book smart, intellectual, worldly, etc. with that of woefully lacking in plain old common sense..."
sadly, that was a writer I've admired yesterday, Matt Walsh, attacking Gov. Abbott for breaking up the pro-Hamas demonstrations at UT. These campus takeovers are carefully orchestrated and financed attacks on civil order in general, and *nobody* has done anything effective to fight back except Gov. Abbott. And what he did is supported by an overwhelming majority of Texans, if for no other reason that we don't put up with that kind of shit around here.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2024 08:12 AM (S6gqv)

you know, i've asked this question a couple of times. why is it that all these "spontaneous" protesters have the same tents? there's NO WAY they just happened to have identical tents among a varied student body. and i doubt they could all hit the rei or the like to get enough tents for everyone.

so who is financing these operations? and more importantly, has anyone on OUR side looked into this? this would be an amazing thing for a gop DA or gov or something to go after.

THIS is your RICO case...

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 26, 2024 08:41 AM (UCRjB)

146 Another great Bee IMAGE...

The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee 10h
Democrats Continue Proud Tradition Of Wearing White Masks To Show Political Affiliation
buff.ly/3JxMWy2

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 08:41 AM (vtyCZ)

147 Sadly, many brain dead jewish students too, under the guise of peace
Posted by: Jonah at April 26, 2024 08:35 AM (YCxFk)

Which is why I contend the Jewish vote will be no different this year than in previous years. 80/20 Dem.

Posted by: Montec at April 26, 2024 08:42 AM (Au0FL)

148 ... We say over and over that we want Republican leaders to speak up and show some guts about confronting the evil spreading across the nation; well, this is what it looks like when one does. The least helpful thing is for a bunch of sophistic alt-right net pundits to jump up and say "oh he shouldn't be so mean" like some damned berkely student newsletter.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2024 08:38 AM (S6gqv)
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As long as the actual charges aren't for "hate speech" or somesuch, I largely agree. Calling a spade a spade is a good thing, but the law - such as it exists, and in Texas it appears that it might - is a different animal.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:42 AM (HnUIn)

149 So, the students that received their high school diploma in the mail in 2020 because of the China Flu bullshit will now receive their college diploma in the mail in 2024 because the college admin is afraid of the Hamassholes?

Seems fair.

Posted by: Sheepskin-Sheep Dip at April 26, 2024 08:42 AM (V5BDR)

150 Matt Walsh isn’t allowed an opinion now?

He can express his opinion that my mother is a whore all he wants. And I can offer my rebuttal via axe-handle. Freedom of speech won't protect him from that. I'll consider friendly discourse when others limit themselves to the same.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 26, 2024 08:42 AM (tblLd)

151 In other words, Obama could not be charged for his use of more than 560 drone strikes that murdered somewhere between 384 and 807 civilians because his own DOJ cleared him to do so.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 08:28 AM (ENQN6)

I don't think most of the Justices bought that weird argument from Dreeben - it sounded like the DOJ was suggest that it was the final arbiter of what Presidents can do legally and constitutionally...and DOJ was in the wrong place to suggest they get to decide what is "constitutional" here.

Posted by: Boswell at April 26, 2024 08:43 AM (K+UlC)

152 I truly believe Roberts prioritizes the traditions, customs, and above all reputation of SCOTUS above all else. I believe it explains not only what he does, but why.
Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 26, 2024 08:20 AM (tblLd)

And, in so doing, took the people who respected SCOTUS most - the right - and showed them that it is filled with small minded, cowardly shitheads without improving their standing with the left at all.

Genius move.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 08:43 AM (IUd0M)

153 "Old Joe Biden Goes to an Abortion Rally, Does the Most Tone-Deaf Thing Imaginable"

Yesterday at a campaign event in Syracuse, NY, FJB again made the the Sign of the Cross, while saying, "Bless me Father." After yelling about MAGA Republicans opposing his CHIPS and Science Act.

So now his shrinking brain is reverting back to catechism classes and making confession when he was six years old? He's losing it faster and faster but not fast enough.

Posted by: Gref at April 26, 2024 08:43 AM (5fDan)

154 herie Currie
@CherieCurrie3
It used to be PUNK, R&R to vote Democrat. I fell for it. But when your party demands you live in fear, squaller, beyond your means by just buying groceries, gasoline, disrespecting our veterans, our police, our elderly, supporting CRIMINALS, chaos, riots, Hamas, FAILING Israel, demeaning us at every turn! HURTING our CHILDREN! Wasting OUR MONEY. Ineptitude with every policy! Lies and more lies.. NO MORE!
The Democrat Party can KISS MY A$$. They don’t give a damn. That’s true.
Voting Dem used to be cool. But now, it just makes you a FOOL.

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 08:44 AM (0OdlD)

155 I tend to agree that Abbott got off track. He should have stuck with the disorderly conduct, and not commented on the motives. We all know that they are anti-semitic, but we all still have a smidgen of freedom of speech, even if it is 'hate speech.'
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 08:29 AM (lTGtQ)

He understands that this is not just a war on the streets but a worldwide political war, and it must be fought on a political and moral level as well as on a legal level. The one thing that doesn't enter into these online discussions is that Abbot's move is overwhelmingly popular in Texas. He's showing what the "we don't put up with that shit around here" policy looks like.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2024 08:44 AM (S6gqv)

156 Weinstein is a scumbag, but almost everyone of his "victims" knew about the casting couch and went along with it because it got them acting jobs. Kinda feel bad for Sorvino , but she could have made a difference when Weinstein tried his crap with her . Might have changed things , or at least friends of her father could have made a difference
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 26, 2024 08:39 AM (aX7Uj)

Concur....Harvey ain't done nothing wrong.

Them hos knew that they had to give head to get ahead.

Don't blame the playa blame the game.

Posted by: Bill Cosby, America's Dad at April 26, 2024 08:44 AM (cDEsv)

157
The Republicans are playing checkers and the Democrats are playing 3D chess.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 26, 2024 08:36 AM

The Republicans aren't even playing checkers. When you know what you're doing in checkers you can prevent your opponent from winning. Every time.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 26, 2024 08:44 AM (RKVpM)

158 and now for something completely different .....

https://www.joke-archives.com/?p=1498

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #232 at April 26, 2024 08:45 AM (qfLjt)

159 "Voting Dem used to be cool. But now, it just makes you a FOOL."

She should win the internets.

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 08:45 AM (vFG9F)

160 Voting Dem used to be cool. But now, it just makes you a FOOL.
Posted by: SMOD

And the gloves don’t fit.

Posted by: Montec at April 26, 2024 08:45 AM (Au0FL)

161 you know, i've asked this question a couple of times. why is it that all these "spontaneous" protesters have the same tents? there's NO WAY they just happened to have identical tents among a varied student body. and i doubt they could all hit the rei or the like to get enough tents for everyone.

so who is financing these operations? and more importantly, has anyone on OUR side looked into this? this would be an amazing thing for a gop DA or gov or something to go after.

THIS is your RICO case...

Posted by: SturmToddler

Soros Tides foundation, among others. They fronted close to half a million.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 08:45 AM (lTGtQ)

162 @CherieCurrie3
It used to be PUNK, R&R to vote Democrat. I fell for it. ...
Voting Dem used to be cool. But now, it just makes you a FOOL.
Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 08:44 AM (0OdlD)
++++
So she's figured out that the Dems are in control and that supporting The Man is not counter-cultural?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:45 AM (HnUIn)

163 Biden DOJ Says Droning American Citizens Is Totally Fine Because Obama’s DOJ Said So

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 08:46 AM (0OdlD)

164 Was that the only thing they were arrested for? The arrests will be dismissed. They should have been charged with disorderly conduct too, among other things. Matt should make it clear about what he is talking about and sometimes fails to do that.

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 08:26 AM (vFG9F)

That wasn't why they were arrested. Crowder as video of the whole thing. They were arrested, IIRC, for having a disruptive assembly without a permit. The police cited the law they were violating and ordered them to disperse. They did not disperse so they were arrested.

The Travis County DA has already released them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 08:46 AM (IUd0M)

165 and now for something completely different .....

https://www.joke-archives.com/?p=1498
Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #232 at April 26, 2024 08:45 AM (qfLjt)
++++
Reminds me of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:47 AM (HnUIn)

166 The Travis County DA has already released them.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 08:46 AM (IUd0M)
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Of course.

Probably didn't even bother extracting some bail money for the county from the finance networks backing them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:47 AM (HnUIn)

167 "They were arrested, IIRC, for having a disruptive assembly without a permit. "

Well, at least it wasn't for parading.

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 08:48 AM (vFG9F)

168 Essentially, net neutrality regulations seek to prohibit internet service providers (ISPs), such as Comcast and Verizon, from blocking, slowing down, or allowing for “paid prioritization,” by which users can pay for faster, more consistent service.

Police, Fire, and EMS depend on their BITS being more important than other BITS.

This is stupid is as stupid does.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 08:48 AM (ENQN6)

169 As long as the actual charges aren't for "hate speech" or somesuch, I largely agree. Calling a spade a spade is a good thing, but the law - such as it exists, and in Texas it appears that it might - is a different animal.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:42 AM (HnUIn)

Of course they won't be charged with that, and since it's Austin and prosecution is handled by the locals, most will probably be released after 24 hours with no charges. But the point has been made - don't think you can get away with staging big campus riots like you get away with in New York.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2024 08:48 AM (S6gqv)

170 "California Rep. Adam Schiff found out firsthand about San Francisco crime when his luggage was swiped from his car in a parking garage Thursday – forcing him to attend a fancy dinner in casual wear, according to a report."

https://tinyurl.com/3jvz7e4z

Posted by: redridinghood at April 26, 2024 08:49 AM (NpAcC)

171 I truly believe Roberts prioritizes the traditions, customs, and above all reputation of SCOTUS above all else. I believe it explains not only what he does, but why.

I'm sorry but failing to take on the single most important case to national unity since the civil war because you are either a) a deep state compromised stooge, or b) a feckless coward and a never Trumper but more than likely c) both, is hardly a way to maintain the reputation of the SCOTUS

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at April 26, 2024 08:49 AM (DIB8X)

172 He understands that this is not just a war on the streets but a worldwide political war, and it must be fought on a political and moral level as well as on a legal level. The one thing that doesn't enter into these online discussions is that Abbot's move is overwhelmingly popular in Texas. He's showing what the "we don't put up with that shit around here" policy looks like.

Posted by: Tom Servo

I get that, but a court won't. Hopefully the arrests were for disorderly conduct or assault.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2024 08:49 AM (lTGtQ)

173 If Barret were smart, she have her kids raised in Indiana, and commute to D.C.
Posted by: Jonah at April 26, 2024 08:30 AM (YCxFk)

Or, if she's incapable of ruling impartially over concerns about her children... maybe turn down being a fucking judge.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 08:50 AM (IUd0M)

174 Breaking911 @Breaking911 9h
REPORTER: “What’s your message to Joe Biden?”

NEW YORKER: “I haven’t seen you anywhere. I hope New York turns red because we are not voting for you.”

https://tinyurl.com/2utp5d8k
27 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 08:50 AM (vtyCZ)

175 The Travis County DA has already released them.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 08:46 AM (IUd0M)
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Of course.

Probably didn't even bother extracting some bail money for the county from the finance networks backing them.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:47 AM (HnUIn)
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And today, or a week from now, or sometime in the fall before the election, all of those protesters will be back on campus raising a ruckus. They'll be arrested and released to do it all over again and again and again.

Abbott should arrest the DA next time...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 26, 2024 08:50 AM (7fElN)

176 "California Rep. Adam Schiff found out firsthand about San Francisco crime when his luggage was swiped from his car in a parking garage Thursday – forcing him to have to replace his entire buttplug collection."

Posted by: Headlines we'd like to see at April 26, 2024 08:50 AM (vFG9F)

177 Charles Schultz did a hilarious series of Peanuts comics about Lucy convincing Charlie Brown to run for school president (with her the real power behind the throne of course). Lucy kept conducting polls (her polls were threatening kids to vote the right way). Charlie Brown expressed doubt about her polling methods and said he didn’t believe in polls. She proceeded to tell him he was winning in all the demographics and had the election wrapped up. His response: I believe in polls!

Coda: Charlie Brown blew the election by talking about the great pumpkin in his final campaign speech, getting him laughed out of the room. His comment: persecuted for my religious beliefs. Schultz was a genius (and he understood the notion of push polls…. All polls are push polls)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 26, 2024 08:50 AM (xT8gx)

178 I'm sorry but failing to take on the single most important case to national unity since the civil war

I never said Roberts had a good plan. Only that, since ObamaCare, I was pretty sure I knew his plan.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 26, 2024 08:51 AM (tblLd)

179 Just remember if we celebrate politicians arresting protestors for ideas, your ideas will be the reason for arrest next time.

Posted by: Montec at April 26, 2024 08:51 AM (Au0FL)

180 174 Breaking911 @Breaking911 9h
REPORTER: “What’s your message to Joe Biden?”

NEW YORKER: “I haven’t seen you anywhere. I hope New York turns red because we are not voting for you.”

https://tinyurl.com/2utp5d8k
27 seconds
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 08:50 AM (vtyCZ)

This is just the battered wife talking tough to the hairdresser for an hour or so before heading home to get beat up again.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2024 08:52 AM (GkFGh)

181 so who is financing these operations? and more importantly, has anyone on OUR side looked into this? this would be an amazing thing for a gop DA or gov or something to go after.

THIS is your RICO case...
Posted by: SturmToddler at April 26, 2024 08:41 AM (UCRjB)

Some say Iran, but personally my money is on Neville Singh, the secretive billionaire who is behind a whole lot of dangerous shit in America. (His wife is the co-founder of Code Pink) The most important thing to know about Neville Singh is that he gets much of his support from the Chinese Communist party.
If Neville is behind it, then it means that this wave of violence isn't actually about Israel or Jews at all. It's the CCP working to internally destabilize America in order to give them a freer hand in world affairs.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2024 08:52 AM (S6gqv)

182 This is just the battered wife talking tough to the hairdresser for an hour or so before heading home to get beat up again.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2024 08:52 AM (GkFGh)
++++
Rough. Likely accurate.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:52 AM (HnUIn)

183 141 Joe Mannix, you only graduated college in 2008?

You may consider yourself ordered off my lawn, whippersnapper.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 08:52 AM (9yWhg)

184 `177.

All pools you disagree with are push polls. Republicans rely on them just as much as Democrats do.

Posted by: Gryph at April 26, 2024 08:52 AM (aCVzN)

185 Good morning, JJ.

Posted by: runner at April 26, 2024 08:53 AM (V13WU)

186 I guarantee Roberts will retire under a DEM president
Posted by: Jonah at April 26, 2024 08:29 AM (YCxFk)

maybe we get lucky and he dies peacefully in his sleep, like Scalia, during PDJT's next term in office.

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 26, 2024 08:53 AM (UCRjB)

187 Matt Walsh isn’t allowed an opinion now?
Posted by: Montec at April 26, 2024 08:30 AM (Au0FL)

Like so very, very, many people, Matt Walsh spouted off about something without knowing what he was talking about.

Unlike so very, very, many people, Matt Walsh has a megaphone which means that his comments spread further than most people who don't know what they're talking about.

So he's allowed an opinion AND we're allowed to make the point that, maybe, he should shut the fuck up until he knows what he's talking about.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 08:54 AM (IUd0M)

188 Joe Mannix, you only graduated college in 2008?

Uff da

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at April 26, 2024 08:55 AM (SfhV1)

189 Just remember if we celebrate politicians arresting protestors for ideas, your ideas will be the reason for arrest next time.

The Left doesn't wait on precedent. They only back when the Right - on those very rare occasions - fight fire with more fire.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 26, 2024 08:55 AM (tblLd)

190 141 - Joe Mannix, that is interesting. It shows how Obama just coming onto the scene had a psychological impact. What university were you at (if you don’t mind me asking)?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 26, 2024 08:55 AM (xT8gx)

191 Accusing someone of rape when it's not true isn't defamation. But saying it's not true when ~~it's not true~~ you're Donald Trump is. Welcome to Leftard Justice.
Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 08:30 AM (2e48P)

FIFY

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 08:55 AM (IUd0M)

192 And today, or a week from now, or sometime in the fall before the election, all of those protesters will be back on campus raising a ruckus. They'll be arrested and released to do it all over again and again and again.

Abbott should arrest the DA next time...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 26, 2024 08:50 AM (7fElN)

I personally would be happy if they didn't bother with arresting them at all - just beat their heads in with truncheons, load them into a dumptruck and go dump them in a heap on the edge of town. Tell them when they come back, they'll get more of the same.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2024 08:56 AM (S6gqv)

193 Joe Mannix, that is interesting. It shows how Obama just coming onto the scene had a psychological impact. What university were you at (if you don’t mind me asking)?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 26, 2024 08:55 AM (xT8gx)
+++
It was astonishing to watch happen in real time. And I'd rather not say. It was a small school.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 08:57 AM (HnUIn)

194 192.

Soylent Green is people!

Heh.

Posted by: Gryph at April 26, 2024 08:57 AM (aCVzN)

195 I thought his conviction was thrown out because witnesses were testifying on acts he was not charged with in the trial.

Have I got that right?
Posted by: dantesed at April 26, 2024 08:32 AM (Oy/m2)

Yes. He's a toad but the prosecutor/judge acted improperly.

See the comment at 22 to understand why people are upset about this.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 08:57 AM (IUd0M)

196 Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 26, 2024 08:51 AM (tblLd)

Not questioning or impugning your critical thinking skills, friend. Just pointing out that Roberts has not demonstrated anything remotely consistent with that hypothesis. In fact he has done the opposite.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at April 26, 2024 08:57 AM (DIB8X)

197
Coda: Charlie Brown blew the election by talking about the great pumpkin in his final campaign speech, getting him laughed out of the room. His comment: persecuted for my religious beliefs. Schultz was a genius (and he understood the notion of push polls…. All polls are push polls)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 26, 2024 08:50 AM (xT8gx)

———-

Your Elected Charlie Brown TV cartoon had Linus running in which he railed about the “spiritual Babylon” of the forces against students. Then he had to go off about the Great Pumpkin.

He still won but then called to the principal’s office (Deep State) and was told what’s what.

Prophetic.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 26, 2024 08:58 AM (Dz6Vv)

198 So if somebody doesn't like me, that isn't a crime.

BUT...if somebody restricts my access to education, my free passage, and states that I should not be allowed to remain alive because he doesn't like me, and then physically assaults me...that could present issues.

Issues not related solely to the fact that he doesn't like me.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2024 08:58 AM (a1415)

199 Nobody ever mentions the "moral hazard"* involved in this riot/protest nonsense. (* I loathe that phrase, but i can't think of a better one.)

Part of the violent lefty protest aesthetic is getting arrested. Getting roughed up by the riot police. Cooling your heels for a while. Sacrificing for the cause.

You don't get to go out spray painting shit and fucking up a park and beating people up and then hide behind Muh Fweedoms. Fuck You. You wanna play Big Boy Protester, then you take your fucking hickory shampoo and your fistful of delousing powder like a god damned adult.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2024 08:59 AM (GkFGh)

200 johnny maga @_johnnymaga Apr 23
Mitt Romney sides with Alvin Bragg over Donald Trump

I can’t wait until this sleazebag leaves the Senate

well, you'll have LJ Hogan to take his place

HOOOOGGAN !!!

Posted by: yikes at April 26, 2024 08:59 AM (us2H3)

201 OT-Today's fatuous link on my computer-"12 phrases you should never use around a Millenial or Gen Z". Oh, good. Tell me what they are and I'll use them right away!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2024 08:59 AM (XkYcA)

202 "well, you'll have LJ Hogan to take his place

HOOOOGGAN !!!"

Just put the damn mask on.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2024 09:00 AM (a1415)

203 Jeff Clark @JeffClarkUS 3h
Today at the Supreme Court immunity argument, I’ll be listening for whether the liberal Justices try to frame a less-extreme and more sophisticated version of the DC Circuit’s hypothetical re whether Trump could order Seal Team 6 to assassinate his political opponent and claim immunity.

All Justices have to know that hypothetical was way, way out of line, even though MSNBC is still tickling themselves with it constantly.

Just watched a clip where Nicolle Wallace asked Andrew Weissmann about the Seal Team 6 hypothetical. She called him “the indispensable Andrew Weissmann.”

Yes, he’s indispensable all right — indispensable to Leftist JournoLawfare™️.

Real Mac Report @RealMacReport 6h
Justice Kavanaugh asks DOJ Special Counsel if Obama should be prosecuted over his use of drone strikes against civilians.

Kavanaugh: "How about President Obama's drone strikes?"

DOJ Special Cousel Dreeben: "Unlawful killing didn't apply to the drone strikes."

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 09:00 AM (vtyCZ)

204 199.

Civil Rights protestors back in the day counted on being beaten. They knew they were getting thrown in jail. They embraced injustice because they knew they would have to suffer it on the road to justice.

Posted by: Gryph at April 26, 2024 09:00 AM (aCVzN)

205 Your Elected Charlie Brown TV cartoon had Linus running in which he railed about the “spiritual Babylon” of the forces against students. Then he had to go off about the Great Pumpkin.

He still won but then called to the principal’s office (Deep State) and was told what’s what.

Prophetic.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 26, 2024 08:58 AM (Dz6Vv)

My memory blew it. You’re absolutely right! It was Linus (me!!) not Charlie Brown. That’s embarrassing

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 26, 2024 09:02 AM (xT8gx)

206 Not questioning or impugning your critical thinking skills, friend. Just pointing out that Roberts has not demonstrated anything remotely consistent with that hypothesis. In fact he has done the opposite.

We talking, not arguing. Consider this ... what destroys SCOTUS ? What Biden has done ... ignore them. So what would Roberts do ? Rule in favor of any side likely to ignore him - to avoid being ignored.

Who is most likely to obey ? The GOP. So who gets the shitty rulings ? The GOP.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 26, 2024 09:02 AM (tblLd)

207 maybe we get lucky and he dies peacefully in his sleep, like Scalia, during PDJT's next term in office.
Posted by: SturmToddler at April 26, 2024 08:53 AM (UCRjB)

*fluffs pillow*

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 26, 2024 09:02 AM (R4t5M)

208 seems pretty obvious the SCOTUS game plan is to send it back down to the lower with instructions to take their time and get it right on official vs unofficial acts.

Roberts alluded to them "rushing things" in their previous decision

then it will come back to the SCOTUS for review

SOMETIME NEXT YEAR

SUCK IT JACK

Posted by: yikes at April 26, 2024 09:03 AM (us2H3)

209 Axios-
Scoop: Biden changes walking routine to Marine One

President Biden has introduced a change to his White House departure and return routine. Instead of walking across the South Lawn to and from Marine One by himself, he's now often surrounded by aides.

Why it matters: With aides usually walking between Biden and journalists' camera position outside the White House, the visual effect is to draw less attention to the 81-year-old's halting and stiff gait.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3ur8tb

Posted by: redridinghood at April 26, 2024 09:03 AM (NpAcC)

210 Jeff Clark @JeffClarkUS 23h
Axios, yes, you better believe we are zeroing in on Matthew Colangelo leaving Main Justice to go to spearhead the anti-Trump Alvin Bragg prosecution team.

Also, try harder Axios. This is lame as a way of defending Colangelo and the Biden Administration: "Reality check: Former DOJ official Michael Zeldin told Axios it's not unusual for a federal prosecutor to leave for a gig at the Manhattan DA's office."

No, it's not unusual for an SDNY or EDNY prosecutor to go to the Manhattan DA's Office (or vice versa). What's unusual in the extreme is for someone to go from being the Acting #3 official at Main Justice in Washington, D.C. to being a line prosecutor in the Manhattan DA's Office.

I know of no prior examples of that happening. You've got nothing on that. Keep deceiving your readers.

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 3h
Smoking gun found

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 09:04 AM (vtyCZ)

211 Trump could order Seal Team 6 to assassinate his political opponent and claim immunity.

———-

Maybe he could like in the instance of John Kerry going to Iran to talk to the mullahs on how to oppose the Trump Administration.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 26, 2024 09:04 AM (Dz6Vv)

212 Why it matters: With aides usually walking between Biden and journalists' camera position outside the White House, the visual effect is to draw less attention to the 81-year-old's halting and stiff gait.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3ur8tb
Posted by: redridinghood at April 26, 2024 09:03 AM (NpAcC)

Am I the only one who thinks with exasperation "come on, man, the tail-rotor is right freaking there!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2024 09:04 AM (GkFGh)

213 The timeline however is very long, and many other events outside of this program, such as war with Taiwan or sudden changes in the leadership of the ruling communist party, could change it drastically.
==================
Notwithstanding, China has moon base aspirations and they are working hard to make the base real.

Meanwhile, the junta loads regulation after regulation on SpaceX, explicitly to slow them down. Traitors.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2024 09:05 AM (TiuIU)

214 My memory blew it. You’re absolutely right! It was Linus (me!!) not Charlie Brown. That’s embarrassing
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 26, 2024 09:02 AM (xT8gx)

———

Too much acid in your later years.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 26, 2024 09:06 AM (Dz6Vv)

215 Wait until Oct and audio drops of Trump saying all kinds of heinous racist stuff

According to the Baltimore Banner, Pikesville High School Principal Eric Eiswert was temporarily removed from his position after an audio clip surfaced appearing to show him making disparaging remarks about black students and the Jewish community. A police investigation found the clip was created using AI, the alleged work of embittered former athletic director Dazhon Darien, who was arrested.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2024 09:06 AM (PHukT)

216 Civil Rights protestors back in the day counted on being beaten. They knew they were getting thrown in jail. They embraced injustice because they knew they would have to suffer it on the road to justice.
Posted by: Gryph at April 26, 2024 09:00 AM (aCVzN)

Which is why I loathe the current crop of Civil Disobedience LARPers. They're actually just spoiled brats who want to break things/people and suffer no consequences.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 26, 2024 09:07 AM (XjtdB)

217 ... Why it matters: With aides usually walking between Biden and journalists' camera position outside the White House, the visual effect is to draw less attention to the 81-year-old's halting and stiff gait.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3ur8tb
Posted by: redridinghood at April 26, 2024 09:03 AM (NpAcC)
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LOL. Sure. "Press X to Doubt," as the kids say (or used to, anyway).

This is about keeping him away from the press and to keep him from wandering off. His gait? Seriously? His gait is the least of his problems. They can't have him getting lost or walking into a rotor or, worse than any of that, *talking* to someone without adequate drugging and preparation.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 09:07 AM (HnUIn)

218 the Jewish vote will be no different this year than in previous years. 80/20 Dem. Pretty much like the catholics, then.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 26, 2024 09:07 AM (zdLoL)

219 There's no point in trying to get into the weeds with Americans of Retard about the conflict in Israel. It doesn't matter that the facts and morality are all on Israel's side. All that reasoning falls on deaf ears.

I just try to point out that if you're looking at a conflict between Arabs and anyone else, and find yourself siding with Arabs, then you are, in fact, retarded. They are G-d's mistake. They bring no value to anyone, including themselves.

When a toothless, cousin fucking, welfare addicted hillbilly comes up with a reason to attack his neighbor, nobody sits around saying "well, you know, Cletus may have a point, here. That Jim seems pretty high and mighty, after all, with his roof that isn't full of holes. It doesn't even have owls roosting in it. Somebody oughta take him down a peg, I tell ya."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 26, 2024 09:09 AM (0FoWg)

220 KanekoaTheGreat @KanekoaTheGreat Apr 24
Unsealed docs expose early collaboration between Archives, Biden White House in Trump prosecution

Just weeks after learning Joe Biden had improperly retained government documents, his administration began working with federal bureaucrats in spring and fall 2021 to increase pressure on Donald Trump for similar issues and eventually prompt a criminal prosecution of the 45th president, according to government memos newly unsealed by a federal judge

The correspondence, released this week by U.S. District Judge Eileen Cannon in Florida, provide the the most extensive accounting so far of how the Biden White House worked with federal bureaucrats to escalate pressure on Trump to return documents to the National Archives even as it slow-walked similar issues involving its own boss.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 09:09 AM (vtyCZ)

221 KanekoaTheGreat @KanekoaTheGreat Apr 24 [con't]
One email dated May 5, 2021, shows the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) had already consulted the Biden White House about missing Trump records, more than a year before the public would learn that the former president president had kept some classified memos...

What's it called when President Biden attempts to lock up his leading political opponent before the election?

Fascism? Communism?

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 09:10 AM (vtyCZ)

222 the prospect of the SCOTUS denying the right of a sitting president to pardon himself is the reason , at some time, Shitpants will step down and let Kameltoe do the nasty biz for his family and the long list that will need a pardon

in the upside down world we live in, it will probably enhance her political future when normally it would destroy anyone else's

Posted by: yikes at April 26, 2024 09:10 AM (us2H3)

223 Trump could order Seal Team 6 to assassinate his political opponent and claim immunity.

———

BTW, you know what is a tailor made case for that? Trump’s first impeachment. They literally called it a high crime for him to get Ukraine to investigate Biden. The very reason they impeached him was because Biden was a “political opponent”.

Wonder why they don’t bring charges against him for that?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 26, 2024 09:10 AM (Dz6Vv)

224 Melania turns 54 today.
Happy Birthday Day, Melania Trump!

Posted by: redridinghood at April 26, 2024 09:10 AM (NpAcC)

225 Why it matters: With aides usually walking between Biden and journalists' camera position outside the White House, the visual effect is to draw less attention to the 81-year-old's halting and stiff gait.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3ur8tb
Posted by: redridinghood at April 26, 2024 09:03 AM (NpAcC)
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They are also there to ensure he remains upright as he stumbles to and from Marine One.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 26, 2024 09:10 AM (7fElN)

226 Good morning, JJ, Horde. Thank you for that St. Michael prayer, TonyPete -- his belligerence is delightful. Especially in our age marred by confusion and cowardice.

Posted by: callsign claymore at April 26, 2024 09:11 AM (JcnCJ)

227 TGIF!!

Can't find it online anymore, but in 2016, NYC gossip columnist AJ Benza wrote an article about his relationship with Trump. Trump was his best source. Trump was fine with AJ writing about him, just insisted he get the fact straight, like the proper spelling of the European model he was dating and his current net worth.

I imagine Trump having stories killed in National Enquirer was more about slapping down the deep state ops like whatsername stripper and false rape accusations. Otherwise, he's always loved being in the news,

Posted by: Lizzy at April 26, 2024 09:11 AM (cCVOS)

228 so who is financing these operations? and more importantly, has anyone on OUR side looked into this? this would be an amazing thing for a gop DA or gov or something to go after.

.. WSJ says it is Rockefeller and Soros Foundations

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 09:11 AM (RHGPo)

229 I just try to point out that if you're looking at a conflict between Arabs and anyone else, and find yourself siding with Arabs, then you are, in fact, retarded.

Islam is not compatible with Western Civ. What do you do with the entire "religious freedom" schtick when you finally run into a religion that shouldn't be tolerated ?

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 26, 2024 09:12 AM (tblLd)

230 When a toothless, cousin fucking, welfare addicted hillbilly comes up with a reason to attack his neighbor, nobody sits around saying "well, you know, Cletus may have a point, here. That Jim seems pretty high and mighty, after all, with his roof that isn't full of holes. It doesn't even have owls roosting in it. Somebody oughta take him down a peg, I tell ya."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 26, 2024 09:09 AM (0FoWg)
++++
Give it six months.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 09:12 AM (HnUIn)

231 USAA has joined the far left. So incredibly sad to see.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2024 09:12 AM (TiuIU)

232 Just remember if we celebrate politicians arresting protestors for ideas, your ideas will be the reason for arrest next time.
Posted by: Montec at April 26, 2024 08:51 AM (Au0FL)

If you're referring to the arrests at UT Austin, they weren't arrested for their ideas - poor tweet by Abbott and uninformed spouting off by Matt Walsh notwithstanding.

Here's a video of the incident, helpfully queued to the moment when the police were informing the "protesters" of the law they were violating:

https://youtu.be/pjkfUGq9JC4&t=707

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 09:12 AM (IUd0M)

233 His press dodging became so problematic that even the Washington Post called him out on it in an article last year."
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Wow. One article.

I assume whoever wrote this is being sarcastic?

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 09:13 AM (2e48P)

234 You don't get to go out spray painting shit and fucking up a park and beating people up and then hide behind Muh Fweedoms. Fuck You. You wanna play Big Boy Protester, then you take your fucking hickory shampoo and your fistful of delousing powder like a god damned adult.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2024 08:59 AM (GkFGh)

i saw video of "students" last night holding doors open at NYU to enable them to rush in while security tried to close the doors and told them to let go.

i found myself wondering why they didn't use a night stick or flashlight to rap them on the knuckles. that sharp rap would for sure cause them to let go.

that's knowledge i learned in catholic school from the nuns in the 80s...

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 26, 2024 09:14 AM (UCRjB)

235 Rep. Schiff reportedly robbed in San Francisco, forced to attend ritzy campaign dinner with no suit to wear

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 09:14 AM (RHGPo)

236 Two Americas

One for connected Democrats, like Weinstein

And another for everyone else

Hell, if there was an opposition party they would point out Kamala Harris protected Weinstein for her whole time as AG in CA...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 09:14 AM (ibTVg)

237 JPost:

Hamas kills aid workers to manufacture Gaza food crisis, Fatah charges

A Fatah TV anchor reported that Hamas had attacked aid workers, stolen food and water and caused food prices to skyrocket in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian political faction Fatah charged on air that Hamas had deliberately killed aid workers, stolen aid and manufactured a food crisis in Gaza, according to a Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) investigation published on Sunday. A Fatah TV anchor reported that Hamas had attacked aid workers, stolen food and water and caused food prices to skyrocket in the Gaza Strip – which PMW said constituted a triple crime.

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 09:15 AM (RHGPo)

238 232.

Uninformed spouting off is Matt Walsh's prime area of expertise.

Posted by: Gryph at April 26, 2024 09:15 AM (aCVzN)

239 i found myself wondering why they didn't use a night stick or flashlight to rap them on the knuckles. that sharp rap would for sure cause them to let go.

that's knowledge i learned in catholic school from the nuns in the 80s...
Posted by: SturmToddler at April 26, 2024 09:14 AM (UCRjB)

Probably because they know they'd get fired and sued into oblivion for assaulting a student.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2024 09:15 AM (GkFGh)

240 i found myself wondering why they didn't use a night stick or flashlight to rap them on the knuckles.

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Because those are the children of the ruling classes, and if you harm one of their precious little knuckles, then your life is totally ruined.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 26, 2024 09:15 AM (0FoWg)

241 Interesting story at the NY Post saying that Maoist Anita Dunn , Biden's Karl Rove, tried to push KJP out the door. Everyone denies it leading me to believe that someone planted it to force one or the other out. Dems eating their own

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 26, 2024 09:16 AM (aX7Uj)

242 which PMW said constituted a triple crime.
Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 09:15 AM (RHGPo)

Lol, when even other Palis are sick of your shit....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2024 09:16 AM (GkFGh)

243 Left-Wing Study: LGBT Couples at Greater Risk of Global Warming

... this is too good to check (meaning its BS)

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 09:16 AM (RHGPo)

244 I wonder what prompted the change in *biden's routine getting to and from Marine One? There must have been an event that prompted it. Maybe he did almost walk into the tail rotor or said something derogatory to a member of the crew.

It's a shame we won't get to see him debate whoever is the GOP candidate.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2024 09:17 AM (Q4IgG)

245 229.

"What do you do with the entire "religious freedom" schtick when you finally run into a religion that shouldn't be tolerated ?"

It's a goddam shame that the Marines themselves seem to have forgotten what "...to the shores of Tripoli" was in reference to.

Posted by: Gryph at April 26, 2024 09:17 AM (aCVzN)

246 I was arrested on the street during the annual Halloween madness at Ohio University for being a "fire hazard".

Posted by: pawn at April 26, 2024 09:17 AM (QB+5g)

247 wonder if NYC folx know that Alvin Bragg is worth 42 million

Posted by: yikes at April 26, 2024 09:18 AM (us2H3)

248 AJ Benza used to host a cool cable show called Mysteries and Scandals, where he talked about, well, mysteries and scandals in the entertainment industry. Interesting stuff.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 09:18 AM (9yWhg)

249 Axios hardest hit:

Axios @axios 9h
EXCLUSIVE POLL: Americans are open to Trump's harshest immigration plans.

Half — including 42% of Democrats — say they'd support mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, per a new Axios Vibes survey by The Harris Poll.
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Axios is out with eye-popping results from a poll it ran, which show the overall popularity of the hard-line immigration proposals Donald Trump has floated in his campaign, including mass deportations of illegal aliens and the end of birthright citizenship.

What it found was that 51 percent of Americans (including 42 percent of Democrats) say they would support mass deportations of illegal aliens. Thirty percent of Democrats and 46 percent of Republicans would end birthright citizenship. The poll shows that Americans are concerned about illegal immigration primarily because of increased crime and drug trafficking, but not far behind are concerns about costs to taxpayers, and potential threats to national security.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 09:18 AM (vtyCZ)

250 247 wonder if NYC folx know that Alvin Bragg is worth 42 million
Posted by: yikes at April 26, 2024 09:18 AM (us2H3)

Damn. That's a healthy bounty.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 26, 2024 09:19 AM (GkFGh)

251 @whoever
This is where “equity” leads to
An attack on people based on skin color
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 08:29 AM (vtyCZ)

Leads? No that's what "equity" was from the start.

We always insist the Left is taking us somewhere when they've already flown way past it on the way to a much worse place.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 09:19 AM (2e48P)

252 249.

America has no obligation, moral or otherwise, to non-citizens. FULL STOP

Posted by: Gryph at April 26, 2024 09:19 AM (aCVzN)

253 221 What's it called when President Biden attempts to lock up his leading political opponent before the election?

Fascism? Communism?
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 09:10 AM (vtyCZ)

"Our Precious Democracy".

Posted by: XTC at April 26, 2024 09:19 AM (UnA8+)

254 And today's 2nd fatuous link on my computer-this one from Huffpo:

"I was taught to protect my virginity at all costs. Instead, I decided to seduce my high school's star athlete."

This is what Journalism majors write? (I don't really know that she was a journalism major) Who reads this stupid,
trashy stuff? Not me.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2024 09:19 AM (XkYcA)

255 Left-Wing Study: LGBT Couples at Greater Risk of Global Warming

Study: Politicians at Greater Risk of Global Warming

Study: Indigenous Peoples at Greater Risk of Global Warming

Study: Igneous rock at Greater Risk of Global Warming

Study: Felons at Greater Risk of Global Warming

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 09:19 AM (RHGPo)

256 "Communism?
Posted by: andycanuck"

Call it what you want and it always comes back to that.

Posted by: fd at April 26, 2024 09:19 AM (vFG9F)

257 231 USAA has joined the far left. So incredibly sad to see.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2024 09:12 AM (TiuIU)

That ship sailed in the mid-90's IMHO. It went to flank speed when Peacock (spit) took over.

Posted by: Grumpy Old Ham at April 26, 2024 09:19 AM (b6Yv0)

258 If Trump's harshest immigration plan is deporting illegals, we need a new candidate.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2024 09:20 AM (2e48P)

259 Just remember if we celebrate politicians arresting protestors for ideas, your ideas will be the reason for arrest next time.

Just like how Trump decided to not prosecute Hillary because otherwise they would prosecute him right?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 09:20 AM (ibTVg)

260 I was arrested on the street during the annual Halloween madness at Ohio University for being a "fire hazard".
Posted by: pawn

My brother had a friend who was arrested for "drunken walking" at the Azalea Festival in Virginia Beach.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 09:20 AM (9yWhg)

261 Interesting story at the NY Post saying that Maoist Anita Dunn , Biden's Karl Rove, tried to push KJP out the door. Everyone denies it leading me to believe that someone planted it to force one or the other out. Dems eating their own
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 26, 2024 09:16 AM (aX7Uj)
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They have to. It happens in every single-party state. Devoid of external opposition, the only means of increasing power is within the Party and so they will ice each-other during their power struggles. This gets toned down - or rarely, even stops - only when there is unquestioning control from the Party's strongman.

When you have a real strongman like Khrushchev, you get fairly little infighting (though that stability is bought with blood). When you have a weak Party leader like Chernenko, you get a lot of it because there's lots of opportunity.

Insofar as we actually have a Party strongman right now, he (more likely she) is no Khrushchev.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 09:21 AM (HnUIn)

262 JJ missed the funniest story of the day: Adam Schiff had his luggage stolen out of a car in San Fran so he had no suit to wear to a fundraiser. I’m sure his eyes bugged out when he heard but nobody could tell.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 26, 2024 09:21 AM (FD5dr)

263 >>They’ve [ USC ] been holding the lefty tiger by the tail and now it’s caught up. They were right to cancel the Jew-hater’s speech but now they’re caving altogether by just canceling. Sad

A reminder: The kids graduating in college this year were the ones who graduated HS in 2020.

How many of these USC did not have a HS graduation ceremony because of covid hysteria, and now are being denied a college graduation because of jew-hating a$$holes?

Gen Z is going to be so f'd up and pissed off at authority.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 26, 2024 09:21 AM (cCVOS)

264 What's it called when President Biden attempts to lock up his leading political opponent before the election?

Well...the Ukrainian way is locking up the losing candidate in an election...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 09:21 AM (ibTVg)

265 232 Just remember if we celebrate politicians arresting protestors for ideas, your ideas will be the reason for arrest next time.
Posted by: Montec at April 26, 2024 08:51 AM (Au0FL)

My ideas are already grounds for arrest - see the J6 protestors. So we got nothing to lose at this point.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2024 09:21 AM (S6gqv)

266 209 Axios-
Scoop: Biden changes walking routine to Marine One

President Biden has introduced a change to his White House departure and return routine. Instead of walking across the South Lawn to and from Marine One by himself, he's now often surrounded by aides.

Why it matters: With aides usually walking between Biden and journalists' camera position outside the White House, the visual effect is to draw less attention to the 81-year-old's halting and stiff gait.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3ur8tb

Posted by: redridinghood at April 26, 2024 09:03 AM (NpAcC)

FJB continues to pretend to jog a couple steps when he goes on-stage at events. Optics!

Posted by: Gref at April 26, 2024 09:21 AM (5fDan)

267 God Bless you, JJ! You find the pulse right away and those last few statements capture my sentiments exactly.
I would like to add one note. The Big Cheat is still the "go to" plan for the institutional Left, as seen in a sudden uptick in new voter registrations in Texas, about 1.7 million.
Now the looming question is, exactly WHAT is the Republican Party's plan if 2024 is stolen like 2020? Do they even have a plan? Because I'm going to state this right now. If the feckless GOP pulls another quiet rabbit act and does nothing, like 2020, they are done as a party. And if that happens, curse them for all time! I already hate them but there's plenty of room on this train for everyone who is sick of their traitorous ways.
So warning to you, leaders and domors of the corporate whores party. We are watching and waiting.

2020: NEVER FORGET, NEVER FORGIVE

Posted by: Tracy at April 26, 2024 09:22 AM (XdDao)

268 "I was taught to protect my virginity at all costs. Instead, I decided to seduce my high school's star athlete."

Now I have an incurable STD because he was fucking 40 other girls and I'm not going to become Mrs. MyHighSchool'sStarAthlete. Guess I'll start an OnlyFans and vote Democrat.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 09:22 AM (IUd0M)

269 "I was taught to protect my virginity at all costs. Instead, I decided to seduce my high school's star athlete."

fiction by Jean Carroll

Posted by: yikes at April 26, 2024 09:23 AM (us2H3)

270 262 JJ missed the funniest story of the day: Adam Schiff had his luggage stolen out of a car in San Fran so he had no suit to wear to a fundraiser. I’m sure his eyes bugged out when he heard but nobody could tell.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 26, 2024 09:21 AM (FD5dr)

Did not come across it at the time of this posting.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 26, 2024 09:23 AM (x0n13)

271
My brother had a friend who was arrested for "drunken walking" at the Azalea Festival in Virginia Beach.

I knew a guy that was arrested for "drunk and disorderly" for sleeping off a bender in his car.

That kind of pissed me off because the guy did the right thing instead of trying to drive home.

PS: No that guy was NOT me.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 09:23 AM (ibTVg)

272 #249 One set of numbers without giving Axios any traffic:

https://is.gd/ela4e9

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 09:23 AM (vtyCZ)

273 Just remember if we celebrate politicians arresting protestors for ideas, your ideas will be the reason for arrest next time.

Anytime the Right gets a little successful pushback on the Left - you can always depend on some within the Right to advise caution. I don't think the Right, as currently formed, can win this.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 26, 2024 09:24 AM (tblLd)

274 And today's 2nd fatuous link on my computer-this one from Huffpo:

"I was taught to protect my virginity at all costs. Instead, I decided to seduce my high school's star athlete." ...
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2024 09:19 AM (XkYcA)
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I would bet money right now that the article is about how great a decision it was, how happy it made her at the time, how liberated it makes her now, and that old-fashioned mores are for the birds.

It won't be mentioned in her articles about "where are all the good men" and "why do I have so many cats" and similar themes.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 09:24 AM (HnUIn)

275 @262 Ian S. True karma would have been if Schiff was in the car

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 26, 2024 09:24 AM (aX7Uj)

276 I've got Oct on my "more Uke money" bingo card

Posted by: yikes at April 26, 2024 09:24 AM (us2H3)

277 "I was taught to protect my virginity at all costs. Instead, I decided to seduce my high school's star athlete."

This is what Journalism majors write? (I don't really know that she was a journalism major) Who reads this stupid,
trashy stuff? Not me.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2024 09:19 AM (XkYcA)
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That sounds like the tagline for a trashy, independently published romance novel.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 26, 2024 09:25 AM (7fElN)

278 One set of numbers without giving Axios any traffic:

One should consider the FNM claims this is fascism and then asks people if they support it. So add 20 points to the number that ACTUALLY agree.

Oh...and you can be certain there were a bunch of illegals in this group of people polled as well...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 09:25 AM (ibTVg)

279 Adam Schiff forsooth! I thought the funniest story of the day was the ONT story on AI-written jazz standards.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2024 09:25 AM (TiuIU)

280 273. What you call "caution," I call cowardice.

Posted by: Gryph at April 26, 2024 09:25 AM (aCVzN)

281 I knew a guy that was arrested for "drunk and disorderly" for sleeping off a bender in his car.

That kind of pissed me off because the guy did the right thing instead of trying to drive home.

PS: No that guy was NOT me.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 09:23 AM (ibTVg)
++++
In CO, they'd give you a DUI for sleeping it off in your car if you had the keys with you (and thus had any potential to operate the vehicle).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 09:25 AM (HnUIn)

282 That is one great photoshop up top!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2024 09:25 AM (TiuIU)

283 Sarc Alert!

Byron York @ByronYork 7h
Hillary Clinton says Trump admires Putin because 'Putin does what Trump would like to do.' Like what? 'Imprison his opposition,' said Clinton. Trump did not immediately respond because, of course, he is on trial, facing maximum 136 years behind bars. washingtonexaminer.com/opini…

Hillary Clinton, down the rabbit hole - Washington Examiner
One of the great moments in lack of self-awareness occurred last week when former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton appeared on a podcast produced by a Democratic group called Defending Democr...

washingtonexaminer.com

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 09:26 AM (vtyCZ)

284 Matt Walsh is correct. Abbot meant well but should have thought a little harder about the wording before posting.

Waiting for someone to call me an anti-Semite.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 26, 2024 09:26 AM (8qbyA)

285 281. I've heard of that happening in my home state of SD, too.

Posted by: Gryph at April 26, 2024 09:26 AM (aCVzN)

286 So what would Roberts do ? Rule in favor of any side likely to ignore him - to avoid being ignored.

Doing that is nothing more than bootlicking. There is no way it would enhance, let alone maintain the reputation of SCOTUS. If you think Roberts is using that kind of 'reasoning' well then, we're well and truly screwed.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at April 26, 2024 09:26 AM (DIB8X)

287 I would have thought Jean Carroll would have been laughed out of the public sphere when she claimed rape was sexy but...apparently not.

Now if we do want to correct this we need someone like Roseanne Barr to claim Biden molested her in a red state and working with the local AG get Biden prosecuted.

Of course the irony is the women Biden did molest had to flee the country

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 09:27 AM (ibTVg)

288 284. No, Matt was not correct. If his meaning was "Abbott poorly worded his statement," that's what Matt should have said. That's not what Matt said.

Posted by: Gryph at April 26, 2024 09:27 AM (aCVzN)

289 I knew a guy that was arrested for "drunk and disorderly" for sleeping off a bender in his car.

That kind of pissed me off because the guy did the right thing instead of trying to drive home.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 09:23 AM (ibTVg)

I knew a guy, in Hawaii, who got arrested for drunk driving while sleeping off a bender in his car. His car which was parked, with the engine off, and the keys in his pocket... but he was in the driver's seat so they arrested him.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 09:27 AM (IUd0M)

290 If you think Roberts is using that kind of 'reasoning' well then, we're well and truly screwed.

I really do. Never said it was a good plan.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 26, 2024 09:28 AM (tblLd)

291 In CO, they'd give you a DUI for sleeping it off in your car if you had the keys with you (and thus had any potential to operate the vehicle).
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

How are you supposed to get in the car in the first place without the keys? (Unless you're one of those dumbasses who never locks their car.)

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 09:28 AM (9yWhg)

292 In CO, they'd give you a DUI for sleeping it off in your car if you had the keys with you (and thus had any potential to operate the vehicle).
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 09:25 AM (HnUIn)

Same in PA. I think a number of other states as well.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 26, 2024 09:28 AM (R4t5M)

293 In CO, they'd give you a DUI for sleeping it off in your car if you had the keys with you (and thus had any potential to operate the vehicle).
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 09:25 AM (HnUIn)
-

I recall and Everybody Loves Raymond episode where debra was arrested after drinking and sleeping in the car with the engine off but with the keys in the ignition. Hilarity ensued.

https://youtu.be/Ez6r7nKJ9jc

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 26, 2024 09:29 AM (8qbyA)

294 Overslept

What's the buzz
tell me what's happening

Posted by: Don Black at April 26, 2024 09:29 AM (/7KEl)

295 How are you supposed to get in the car in the first place without the keys? (Unless you're one of those dumbasses who never locks their car.)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 09:28 AM (9yWhg)
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You noticed that, did you? Kind of the point, I reckon.

I dunno if leaving the keys in the trunk would be a technical dodge or not. The point is to raise some money and punish what is actually good behavior.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 09:29 AM (HnUIn)

296 Waiting for someone to call me an anti-Semite.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 26, 2024 09:26 AM (8qbyA)

You're an anti-Semite.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 09:29 AM (IUd0M)

297 I truly believe Roberts prioritizes the traditions, customs, and above all reputation of SCOTUS above all else. I believe it explains not only what he does, but why.

I'm sorry but failing to take on the single most important case to national unity since the civil war because you are either a) a deep state compromised stooge, or b) a feckless coward and a never Trumper but more than likely c) both, is hardly a way to maintain the reputation of the SCOTUS
=====

Yeah. Dred Scott Taney Roberts.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 26, 2024 09:29 AM (MIKMs)

298 "A keffiyeh on an American college campus is just a hipster swastika.“

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 09:30 AM (RHGPo)

299 One should consider the FNM claims this is fascism and then asks people if they support it. So add 20 points to the number that ACTUALLY agree.
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Maybe it's at their main story but I note that there's nothing saying that all of the remaining 49% were all against it. How many Didn't Know, Refused To Answer, Don't Care were there??

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 09:31 AM (vtyCZ)

300 Waiting for someone to call me an anti-Semite.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 26, 2024 09:26 AM (8qbyA)

You're an anti-Semite.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 09:29 AM (IUd0M)

But not an anti-dentite !

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2024 09:32 AM (T4tVD)

301 Putin CANCELS Victory Day military parades across Russia over fears deadly Ukraine drones could slip through defences

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 09:32 AM (RHGPo)

302 Waiting for someone to call me an anti-Semite.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,
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Just like notorious anti-Semite CBD!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 09:32 AM (vtyCZ)

303 Weinstein had the “Boys In The Boat” script since the book deal back in 2013. At least the actress who played Hoyce Simdars seems to have eluded the perv’s advanced.

Posted by: Rex B at April 26, 2024 09:32 AM (fU273)

304 Yeah. Dred Scott Taney Roberts.

Go back and look how SCOTUS "got its mind right" after FDR got serious about court packing.

Posted by: Its Always Been This Way at April 26, 2024 09:33 AM (tblLd)

305 @180

>>This is just the battered wife talking tough to the hairdresser for an hour or so before heading home to get beat up again.

The dirty little secret is most people don't vote, but that doesn't necessarily mean their ballot isn't counted, IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 26, 2024 09:33 AM (XV/Pl)

306 Today's art looks like Weinstein. Would not hang.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 26, 2024 09:33 AM (IUd0M)

307 ^Joyce Simdars

Posted by: Rex B at April 26, 2024 09:33 AM (fU273)

308 I hate the 7-day week.

I'm an anti-sennight.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 09:33 AM (9yWhg)

309 The dirty little secret is most people don't vote, but that doesn't necessarily mean their ballot isn't counted, IYKWIMAITYD.

One hope I have is that if we get millions of people told "you already voted" when they go to vote it might cause a reaction...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 09:34 AM (ibTVg)

310 I was arrested on the street during the annual Halloween madness at Ohio University for being a "fire hazard".
Posted by: pawn

My brother had a friend who was arrested for "drunken walking" at the Azalea Festival in Virginia Beach.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 09:20 AM (9yWhg)

was probably former Shore Patrol used to arresting sailors for public drunkenness....

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 26, 2024 09:34 AM (UCRjB)

311 303.

Oh puh-leez! The casting couch has been a thing since long before I was born. Whatever Weinstein ended up prosecuted and convicted for, it wasn't sexual impropriety. Don't get me wrong; there was plenty of sexual impropriety to pin on him, but if every rapist and casting couch director in Hollywood was prosecuted and convicted for their crimes, there wouldn't be any Hollywood left.

Posted by: Gryph at April 26, 2024 09:34 AM (aCVzN)

312 I saw Hipster Swastika open for Rammstein at the Hallenstadon in Zurich.

Posted by: pawn at April 26, 2024 09:34 AM (QB+5g)

313 285 281. I've heard of that happening in my home state of SD, too.
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It happened to Deborah Barone too after Amy's bridal shower -- and she actually served a 30-day [or so] sentence in the county jail even though first time offender etc.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 09:35 AM (vtyCZ)

314 That's not what Matt said.
Posted by: Gryph at April 26, 2024 09:27 AM (aCVzN)
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We disagree.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 26, 2024 09:35 AM (8qbyA)

315 Judge Roberts would be perfectly happy if American would just work things out for themselves and stop bothering his historic Court

Posted by: Don Black at April 26, 2024 09:35 AM (/7KEl)

316 Moody Blues founding member Mike Pinder dies at 82

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 09:35 AM (ENQN6)

317 Amid the ongoing insurance crisis in California, Allstate says it could soon resume writing new policies, though the move would come with some conditions. Allstate Insurance stopped writing new homeowners policies in California two years ago but says it may start offering them again if the state Department of Insurance will allow them to use catastrophic modeling when requesting rate increases. Catastrophic models are computerized reports that simulate potential catastrophic events and could be used to justify rate increases.

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 09:35 AM (RHGPo)

318 288 284. No, Matt was not correct. If his meaning was "Abbott poorly worded his statement," that's what Matt should have said. That's not what Matt said.
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So how about fully quoting exactly what he said/wrote?

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 09:35 AM (vtyCZ)

319 314.

I guess we do. But Matt's response was made on the basis of Abbott's statement, not what the protestors were actually arrested for. Can we at least agree on that?

Posted by: Gryph at April 26, 2024 09:36 AM (aCVzN)

320 234
i found myself wondering why they didn't use a night stick or flashlight to rap them on the knuckles. that sharp rap would for sure cause them to let go.

that's knowledge i learned in catholic school from the nuns in the 80s...

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 26, 2024 09:14 AM (UCRjB)
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There would be cries of physical violence and brutality, naybe even lawsuits.

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #222 at April 26, 2024 09:36 AM (qfLjt)

321 Gee, I hope CBD didn't fall into a vat of maple syrup.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 09:36 AM (9yWhg)

322 White House Dinner with the D List

Da’Vine Joy Randolph

Andrew McCarthy

Hiroyuki Sanada

Molly Ringwald

Rosario Dawson

Quavo

Naomi Biden

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 09:37 AM (ENQN6)

323 Tremendous rant, per usual, J.J. Thank you & prayers as always!

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 09:37 AM (8FmJd)

324 The dirty little secret is most people don't vote, ... except in Philadelphia where 115% of registered voters turnout

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 09:37 AM (RHGPo)

325 The 10 year Treasury has been steadily rising in yield, headed toward the (generally thought) to be recessionary 4.8% level. For some reason todays inflation numbers calmed the market a little, and yields are backing off just a bit. Still, with all the inflationary spending Washington is doing, it sounds like we should all still be very worried about these next months ahead. At least Trump will soon be re-elected and maybe we can then get some progress.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2024 09:37 AM (Gqz3L)

326 I need to find that Irena Gut movie. At first I thought they were talking about Irena Sendler. Different women, but both angels.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, My Two Cents at April 26, 2024 09:38 AM (4SYnO)

327 Naomi Biden

That's the granddaughter Biden's frenched a few times in public right?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 26, 2024 09:38 AM (ibTVg)

328 But not an anti-dentite !
Posted by: JT
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One of "those people" was torturing me in a chair for an hour on Monday. My tooth didn't feel better until Wednesday AM it was so brutal!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 09:39 AM (vtyCZ)

329 318.
"So how about fully quoting exactly what he said/wrote?"
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"Arresting people for 'hate speech' is about as liberal as it gets and every conservative should oppose it. If protesters are being arrested for breaking actual laws, great— arrest all the lawbreakers. But arresting people for “antisemitism” is obviously a clear violation of the First Amendment. I can’t stand these protesters but you can’t arrest people simply for having 'hateful' views."

-- Matt Walsh

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One could reasonably think that the protestors were arrested for ideas and/or hate speech on the basis of Abbott's statement.

Looks to me like Abbott's statement was itself put out and played for political effect and some conservatives (Matt Walsh among them) took the bait, hook line and sinker.

Posted by: Gryph at April 26, 2024 09:40 AM (aCVzN)

330 Gee, I hope CBD didn't fall into a vat of maple syrup.
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A sticky end!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 26, 2024 09:40 AM (vtyCZ)

331 Don't get me wrong; there was plenty of sexual impropriety to pin on him, but if every rapist and casting couch director in Hollywood was prosecuted and convicted for their crimes, there wouldn't be any Hollywood left.
Posted by: Gryph at April 26, 2024 09:34 AM (aCVzN)

stop, I 've agreed with you.

there's no need to convince me again

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 26, 2024 09:40 AM (UCRjB)

332 What time is The Art Thread ?

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2024 09:40 AM (T4tVD)

333
A
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Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2024 09:41 AM (ENQN6)

334 Noodus gratia artis

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 26, 2024 09:41 AM (9yWhg)

335 In CO, they'd give you a DUI for sleeping it off in your car if you had the keys with you (and thus had any potential to operate the vehicle).
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2024 09:25 AM (HnUIn)
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So a bit like Minority Report, getting arrested for a potential crime. Holding a brick in front of a jeweler's store? How about rioters on campuses, just shouting now but they could potentially break things and attack people?

Posted by: Ciampino - Vitreous Humour is funny glass #221 at April 26, 2024 09:42 AM (qfLjt)

336 What time is The Art Thread ?
Posted by: JT at April 26, 2024 09:40 AM (T4tVD)
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The time is now

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 26, 2024 09:42 AM (Je6Mg)

337 Columbia University Protesters Proclaim ‘We Are Hamas’-They might wanna rethink this

Aligning with an organization on the terrorist watchlist is really not a great idea

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 09:42 AM (RHGPo)

338 The Hamas Nazi Ivy League-Why history is repeating itself on campus

These are the Americans who helped generate the need to reauthorize Section 702

Posted by: SMOD at April 26, 2024 09:44 AM (RHGPo)

339 From Politico's story on Trump's NY options - "As long as he's stuck in New York for the foreseeable future as a hostage to the incomprehensible legal case involving bookkeeping errors,"

They are not bookkeeping errors. They are legal expenses properly booked as such.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 26, 2024 09:53 AM (g/1eZ)

340 323 Tremendous rant, per usual, J.J. Thank you & prayers as always!
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 26, 2024 09:37 AM (8FmJd)

Cheers. Keeping hope alive.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 26, 2024 09:58 AM (x0n13)

341 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at April 26, 2024 10:00 AM (53oGX)

342 GM, all, and Thank You, J.J.

"And yet after a sham of a travesty of two mockeries of a farce of a libel trial, the same court system has Trump on trial for supposedly using campaign cash as hush money to silence Sloppy Daniels prior to 2016. The case is a joke and everyone knows it."

UK Guardian, Chris McGreal in Washington DC
Sun 19 Nov 2017, 'Bill Clinton's past re-examined in light of Weinstein and Trump'
The swirl of sexual misconduct allegations has prompted fresh scrutiny of Clinton’s behaviour – some argue this is long overdue while others question what revisiting the past is meant to achieve

Politico, 11/14/18, This Day In Politics, Clinton settles sexual harassment suit, Nov. 14, 1998

In part, On this day in 1998, President Bill Clinton settled a sexual harassment lawsuit by making an $850,000 payment. The settlement with Paula Jones, reached without the suit going to trial, heaped fuel on Clinton’s impeachment proceedings by the Republican-controlled House. (He was acquitted in a subsequent Senate trial and completed his term in office.)

Oh, yes, I remember it well! 1/4 Cont'd

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at April 26, 2024 11:35 AM (NFX2v)

343 They point to Nixon but remember not Johnson's hand - a really big hand - in the Vietnam War.

Office of the Historian (Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State) Milestones, 1969 - 1973, Ending the Vietnam War.

The Miller Center, LYNDON B. JOHNSON: FOREIGN AFFAIRS By Kent Germany

The major initiative in the Lyndon Johnson presidency was the Vietnam War. By 1968, the United States had 548,000 troops in Vietnam and had already lost 30,000 Americans there. Johnson's approval ratings had dropped from 70 percent in mid-1965 to below 40 percent by 1967, and with it, his mastery of Congress. "I can't get out, I can't finish it with what I have got. So what the hell do I do?" he lamented to Lady Bird. Johnson never did figure out the answer to that question.
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He decided not to run for reelection.

Cont'd 2/4

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at April 26, 2024 11:35 AM (NFX2v)

344 "If the court were to embrace special counsel Jack Smith’s arguments, a president would have no immunity from criminal charges, even for official acts taken in his presidency."

President Bill Clinton, January 20, 1993 – January 20, 2001

>NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, Wikipedia
>CATO Report: Chairman’s Message: “Bombing Serbia Was WRONG” September/October 1999 Policy Report
>HRW org: Principle Findings: (In small part) Minimizing harm to civilians was central to governmental and public consent for NATO's bombing campaign in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia-an air war officially justified as humanitarian intervention.

>VOA: Beau Biden worked in Kosovo after the 1998-1999 war, helping to train local prosecutors and judges for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

>eeas europa eu: Jack Smith appointed as the new Specialist Prosecutor of the Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor's Office, 7/05/18. His tenure ended 11/18/22.

Btw, The U.S. is NOT A STATE PARTY to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Rome Statute), which founded the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2002. As of March 2023, 123 states are members of the Court.

3/4 Cont'd

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at April 26, 2024 11:35 AM (NFX2v)

345 scp-ks org: Before becoming Specialist Prosecutor, Mr. Smith was Vice President and Head of Litigation for the Hospital Corporation of America, the largest non-governmental health-care provider in the United States, a position he had been in from September 2017.

HCA Healthcare: On November 17, 2006, HCA became a private company for the third time when it completed a merger in which the company was acquired by a private investor group including affiliates of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Bain Capital, together with Merrill Lynch and HCA Healthcare founder Thomas F. Frist, Jr.

You don't say? So, in all, a Clinton, Bush, Obama & Biden thing? IDK. There can be more, but I'll give it a rest for now.
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Standing with Israel. Have a lovely weekend, all. 4/4

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at April 26, 2024 11:35 AM (NFX2v)

346 Is Bragg seriously trying to make a case that it's a crime for media outlets to spike a story? Or for political candidates or their campaigns to pressure a media outlet into spiking a story? Can the Left be that lacking in self-awareness?

Posted by: DaveL at April 26, 2024 12:18 PM (uJcVC)

347 Couldn't let this one go either:

Aljazeera News, April 25, 2024, Russia-Ukraine war
Ukraine welcomes delayed US aid but few say they expect Russia’s defeat
Experts say the $61bn package that was debated for months will replenish military stocks but won’t help Kyiv’s forces counterattack.

In part, "The aid can “improve the situation” on the 1,000km-long (620-mile-long) front line, said Lieutenant General Ihor Romanenko, former deputy chief of the General Staff of Ukraine’s armed forces.

But the aid looks like “a handout to show that we haven’t been forgotten, no more than that”, he told Al Jazeera.

“They’re always late, they hit the brakes, they’re afraid,” he said. “All of that is done to catch up [with Russia], but wars are won by those who act ahead of time.”

Unappreciative rat ba*tards. It'll never be enough until the US commits to troops on the ground & every newer fighter plane we have to fight the 'war' they've refused to fight.

Maybe they don't really consider it their war? But, the U.S. is being used by the EU as it fears PDT Part II will cut off the fun funds.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at April 26, 2024 04:45 PM (NFX2v)

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