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Same here a couple years ago
Have a RL gift card
So much for regifting
Trump will also be debating mumbles, Wed oct 2nd, with Bret and Martha Fox News
Three reasons Biden wants to control debate rules
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/presidential/3004508/three-reasons-biden-wants-control-debate-rules/?utm_source=msn&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=msn_feed
President Joe Biden agreed to debates with former President Donald Trump ahead of their rematch in November, but the president rejected proposals from the traditional debate commission in favor of writing his own rules.
The Commission on Presidential Debates has organized debates for the leading presidential candidates ahead of general elections since the 1988 election between George H.W. Bush and Michael Dukakis.
Jen O’Malley Dillon, Biden campaign chairwoman, outlined in a letter to the Commission on Presidential Debates why the president is refusing to go along with its proposed rules, arguing they are “out of step with changes in the structure of our elections and the interests of voters.”
Here are the Biden campaign’s main points for why it wants a different structure for the debates against Trump.
Timing
The commission had announced that its three proposed presidential debates would be held on Sept. 16, Oct. 1, and Oct. 9, along with a vice presidential debate on Sept. 25. O’Malley Dillon argued the debates were too late in the cycle and would be held after early voting had begun in several states, meaning millions of voters may have already cast their ballot.
“The Commission’s failure, yet again, to schedule debates that will be meaningful to all voters — not just those who cast their ballots late in the fall or on Election Day — underscores the serious limitations of its outdated approach,” O’Malley Dillon noted in the letter.
The Biden campaign has suggested two presidential debates in June and September, along with a vice presidential debate in July. Trump said he is “ready and willing” to debate Biden at those proposed dates.
Substance over ‘spectacle’
The Biden campaign also took issue with the commission holding debates with an audience, saying that the commission’s “model of building huge spectacles with large audiences at great expense simply isn’t necessary or conducive to good debates.”
Donald Trump and Joe Biden participate in the final presidential debate at Belmont University on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020, in Nashville, Tennessee. (Jim Bourg/Pool via AP)
O’Malley Dillon argued the debates should be held in a television studio, similar to the first series of televised presidential debates between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960.
Enforcement of debate rules
The Biden campaign also expressed frustration with the commission’s enforcement, or lack of enforcement, of the rules for each candidate.
O’Malley Dillon accused the commission of being “unable or unwilling to enforce the rules in the 2020 debates” and said it “was far from — indeed entirely inconsistent with — the orderly and informative process the voters deserved in 2020.”
The first presidential debate in 2020 was criticized for the lack of control of the candidates by moderator Chris Wallace. The second, and final, debate between the two in 2020 featured the ability for microphones to be muted in an effort to reduce interruptions and chaos.
Instead of debates organized by the commission, the Biden campaign offered that they be hosted by a broadcast organization that hosted a 2016 GOP primary debate Trump was in and a 2020 Democratic primary debate Biden participated in. The television networks that meet both requirements include CNN, ABC, CBS, and Spanish-language network Telemundo.
Pushback
Despite Trump’s quick response agreeing to Biden’s challenge, the president was criticized for his decision to give the debate commission the run-around.
Polling and elections analyst Nate Silver slammed Biden’s reasons for wanting to rewrite the rules, calling the early-voting talking point a “red herring.” By setting its own rules, he said, Biden’s team is broadcasting weakness and torching his position as the “norms and traditions” candidate.
“If you’re confident you’ll win the debates, you’d ask for 2 early debates *in addition* to the 3 late ones. At least as a bargaining position,” he wrote on X. “You’re supposed to be the candidate who stands up for norms and traditions and now you’re ducking this tradition?”
In 2022, the Republican National Committee voted to withdraw from the commission after it refused to make changes the RNC was seeking, and the Trump campaign had criticized the commission for keeping its earliest debate scheduled for mid-September. The top presidential candidates have debated each other every year since 1976.
Let's see how many prearranged, softball questions the media can lob at the Petrified Meat Puppet
My first thought as well, Larry..
"Get those Questions to be asked, Brazile ~ Debate is on>
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-and-trump-accept-cnn-s-invitation-to-debate-on-june-27/ar-BB1mqYjY
‘NO Climate Crisis’ Says Coalition of 1,600 Actual Scientists
The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is ‘one of the worst sources of dangerous misinformation’
By Katy Grimes, May 13, 2024 2:55 am
“There is ‘NO Climate Crisis’ says a coalition of 1,600 actual scientists” in a recent letter to the California Air Resources Board. In fact, the scientists find that “California is in no danger of unusual drought: The annual precipitation in California has fluctuated greatly over the last 150 years, with only a slight decrease.”
California also has record low levels of air pollution that are below the threshold of human health effects, James E. Enstrom, PhD, MPH has told us repeatedly for years. He’s also one of the 1,600 scientists signed onto the letter to CARB.
The scientists also insisted that carbon dioxide is beneficial to Earth.
The CO2 Coalition’s letter is particularly timely with Gov. Gavin Newsom taking his climate change road show to the Vatican later this week where he was invited to speak by Pope Francis at a Summit of mayors and governors. The Summit, which will be held from May 15th to May 17th, will cover “the impact of rising temperatures” in local communities, and “climate resilience.”
This one-page summary letter begins with a link to a 16-page detailed report containing the strong evidence.
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An open letter to the California Air Resources Board
Dear Sir or Madam:
Good news: There is NO climate crisis in California. This claim was verified by the scientific data that were compiled by the CO2 Coalition, a nonprofit organization with the goal of determining and propagating the facts regarding carbon dioxide (CO2) and the climate (CO2 Coalition, 2024). The key findings provided below stand in contrast to the climate crisis claims made in the March 1, 2024, California Priority Climate Action Plan (Priority Climate Action Plan, 2024) and the California Climate Disclosure Rules (Senate Bills No. 253 and No. 261) (Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, 2024). More details can be found in the attached letter and appendix.
Modest warming of California is beneficial and not a cause for concern: Globally, more people have died from the cold than from the heat since 2000.
Increase in agricultural production: The combination of lengthened growing seasons (from warming) and increased CO2 concentrations has contributed to this increase.
CO2 is essential: Plants need CO2, sunlight, water, and nutrients from the soil to produce food and oxygen, both of which are essential for human and animal lives.
CO2 is beneficial: Exposing plants to higher concentrations of CO2 increases their growth, food production, and drought-resistance; and greens the Earth.
California is in no danger of unusual drought: The annual precipitation in California has fluctuated greatly over the last 150 years, with only a slight decrease.
Ski resorts are experiencing more snow: Most (21 of 22) ski resorts in California had increasing snowfall from 2012 to 2023.
California is in no danger of drowning: North Spit, CA, has the highest rate of sea level rise of 0.005 meter/year, or 1.64 feet in 100 years, which is easily mitigated.
Less natural disasters over the years: Significantly reduced number of wildfires and acres burned were reported in the United States and globally; California has infrequent tornadoes, no landfalling hurricane from 1851 to 2023, and no tropical depression from 1950 to 2023; and tropical storms are rare in California, with the last two reported in 2023 and 1997.
Air quality in California keeps getting better: The concentrations of major pollutants have decreased over the years.
In conclusion, there is NO climate crisis in California and CO2 is essential for all life on Earth. If you need additional details, the CO2 Coalition will be happy to respond to any inquiries you may have, and the members of the CO2 Coalition will be happy to meet with you for further discussions. Several members of the CO2 Coalition have signed the No Climate Emergency Declaration (CO2 Coalition, 2023).
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The letter is signed by Gregory Wrightstone, Executive Director of the CO2 Coalition.
The summary letter contains a link to the September 2023 “NO Climate Emergency” declaration signed by the 1,600 scientists, including long-time scientist and epidemiologist Dr. James Enstrom: https://co2coalition.org/news/over-1600-scientists-sign-no-climate-emergency-declaration/.
Dr. Enstrom says one of the most prominent signers is 2022 Nobel Laureate John Clauser, who described the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as “one of the worst sources of dangerous misinformation,” and was disinvited to speak before the U.N.’s International Monetary Fund (IMF) on July 25, 2023.
“The physicist believes that objective science on climate has been sacrificed to politics. The preeminence of politics is all the worse, he said, because so much money has already gone to climate,” the CO2 Coalition said.
“We’re talking about trillions of dollars,” he said, adding that powerful people don’t want to hear that they’ve made “trillion-dollar mistakes.”
“Concerns about such mistakes may have been what led to his dis-invitation to speak before the IMF,” the CO2 Coalition reported. “Dr. Clauser told The Epoch Times he’d received an email indicating that the IMF’s Independent Evaluation Office Director, Pablo Moreno, did not want the talk to go forward that day.”
“In an email, an IEO senior official told The Epoch Times that Dr. Clauser’s speech ‘has been postponed to reorganize it into a panel discussion. We are working to reschedule it after the summer,’ the official added.
“In recent years, the international economic and monetary agency has focused heavily on climate. Officials have laid particular stress on international carbon taxes. “The latest IMF analysis finds that large emitting countries need to introduce a carbon tax that rises quickly to $75 a ton in 2030,” the agency’s website on climate mitigation states.
https://californiaglobe.com/articles/no-climate-crisis-says-coalition-of-1600-actual-scientists/
A FACT is simply a four letter word to these carbon taxing freaks!
What the useless* idiots don't comprehend is that all the post-Trump cumulative inflation doesn't go away even if the current rate drops to zero.
*Useful only to the power hungry elites. For the time being, anyway.
The Ravings of a Kindly Old Man with a Poor Memory
By Pete McArdle
Joe Biden, long before he was, ahem, installed as president, pilfered and retained highly classified information in three different locations, one a presumably dust-and-spider-infested garage.
But Robert Hur, the kind of federal prosecutor we should all be so lucky as to encounter, found that Crusty Joe was much too likable and fried to ever prosecute or convict. So no charges for poor, old, senile, and likely incontinent, Sleepy Joe.
And that’s my defense for anyone triggered by my forthcoming political and social ramblings. I’m almost seventy-one, I rarely know what day it is, I worry about nothing save death and taxes (mostly death), I hit my head 1–4 times a night, yet for a former dentist, I’m fairly likable and unconventionally handsome.
So, please pretend that I, too, am as fried and blameless as our practically petrified puppet president. Because, should Funny Business, Inc. suddenly come a-knockin’, that will be my defense in court (hopefully not Judge Arthur or Juan’s court in the corrupt Big Apple, don’t mind the maggots).
So, tell me, when did it become O.K. for mentally-ill men to swing their Johnsons in a girls’ locker room? And for them to win medals and awards that should go to those of the fairer sex? And why did I labor so hard to be a serviceable b-ball player in NYC men’s leagues, when I could have simply grown my hair, stuffed my man-bra, shaved my legs, declared myself a woman and then dominated the WNBA? Hmmm?
And when did it become fashionable to hate white people, Jews, and Republicans? I thought hate was bad, and all you need is love. No?
And why does every single commercial I see, when I occasionally choose to lower my IQ by watching television, feature a host of Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity hires? Were there simply no heterosexual white couples available in a majority Caucasian nation? Or were they intentionally excluded from representation?
And why on earth would you celebrate killing an unborn baby? Couples pray to be blessed with a baby, I know my wife and I did. People spend many thousands of dollars trying to bring life into this world, while others look the other way as butchers in white coats dismember the most vulnerable among us.
Do it if you must. But don’t call it reproductive health care, that’s grotesque.
And could our government be any more corrupt, inefficient, or wasteful? Don’t you trust your average sanitation worker, house painter, or Uber driver much more than the porcine clowns cozying up to the feeding trough in D.C.? And when our Uniparty talking heads flap their gums about how they’re trying to help, doesn’t it just make you sick? Your omniscient, albeit deeply flawed, narrator will be there to help you long before any of those political poseurs consider moving their ample posteriors on your behalf.
Speaking of big butts, what’s with the push to glamorize obesity? When did fat become fabulous? Who buys that nonsense?
I’ve been skinny, just right, kinda chubby, and a major lardbutt. And though I’m neither skinny nor a major lardbutt at present, less fat is clearly the way to go. Just ask the now almost-defunct Sports Illustrated Swimsuit staff. Or ask a physician you can trust.
Speaking of MDs you can trust, who’s apologizing for the terrible damage done by the governmental/public health response to COVID-19, a bug that wee Tony Fauci helped fund, and then tried to blame on a culture that consumes bats and pangolins? No one?
And who’s apologizing for a failed vaccine that neither stops the acquisition nor transmission of the disease, yet did and continues to do damage to an untold number of trusting souls across the world? What’s that, you say? No one?
And the Deep State/D.C. Swamp creatures who abused anyone questioning the absolute absurdity of closing schools, wearing mostly performative masks, ruining businesses and lives, standing a capricious 6-feet apart from your fellow man, and leaving the dying to expire all alone? Will they ever be taken to task for their knowing perfidy? (Hint: not on your life!)
And how about all those college students who probably don’t know what 11x11 equals, or can’t distinguish a gerund from a gonad, or who conflate Taylor Swift with Jonathan Swift, bravely standing up for the terrorists who raped, tortured, and killed thousands of Israelis on October 7th?
Could they be any more out of touch? Or spoiled? Or pathetic? Methinks not.
Speaking of pathetic, who among you believes anything the sad, servile mainstream media parrots? Do they not lie as easily as they breathe? Are they not completely predictable as to how they will deal with a given circumstance? Are they not foul creatures fully under the control of the D.C. swamp?
They are.
I see, read, or hear anything, in my diminished state (in case the FBI, the CIA, or Robert Hur is listening in), and I assume that it’s a lie, a falsehood, an obfuscation, or a misdirection. You should, too.
And who’s responsible for allowing anyone and anybody to simply waltz into our country, unknown, unvetted, and possibly undesirable? Do the folks permitting this allow just anyone to waltz into their towns, their country clubs, or their homes? No, silly! They only expect it of you.
And why do today’s movies absolutely suck? Why are we forced to choose between Aquaman V: The Ultimate Sashimi and Ghostbusters: Transgender Terminus? Are you not entertained? Can’t you come up with anything that hasn’t been done before?
And what’s with all those female starlets with fake breasts, faux lips, phony eyebrows, and counterfeit teeth? Could they be any less genuine?
And what’s with our so-called president, a sad, desiccated husk a mere decade older than moi? Should someone ten years older than me be in charge of anything? No.
Should someone with considerably less intellectual firepower than me be running the show?
Of course not.
Should a guy who can barely walk, talk, read a teleprompter, or control his bowels, be steering the vaunted ship of state?
Of course not.
I may be old—which I hope whichever Democrat politician, district attorney, or judge who decides to come after me understands—but I’m not stupid.
We now live in a Bizarro World, where up is down, black is white, boys are girls, and right is wrong. Words are violence, violence is mostly peaceful protesting, silence is complicity, and you are the problem for noticing how wrong it all is.
Myself, I’m frankly not that upset.
For America truly was great for most of my life, my time on Earth is now short, and yet I know, at 71, exactly what 11x11 equals.
And for any libs, Feebs, or dweebs listening in to my diatribe, please know that I’m fairly old and can’t be trusted.
My legs are gray, my ears are gnarled, and my eyes are old and bent.
But not as bent as you.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/the_ravings_of_a_kindly_old_man_with_a_poor_memory.html
Just in time for summer wear shopping!
Escape from NY. It's more than a movie title!
Wednesday's Energy Absurdity: There's Copper in Them Thar Tesla Chargers!
David Blackmon
May 15, 2024
A little over a year ago, I re-tweeted the meme that appears atop this piece. After all, it only seemed a matter of time before the drug addicts and thieves overwhelming the big cities run by Democrats would realize all those EV chargers popping up all over the place contain significant amounts of copper.
So now, here we are, more than a year later, and San Francisco is leading the way as it so often does where burgeoning crime waves are concerned. Monday, the city’s NBC affiliate ran a story with this headline: “Thieves cut cables from Tesla charging stations in Vallejo, steal inside material.”
Oh. You don’t say. Check out this video: Video at link
Here’s an excerpt from the story at NBC Bay Area TV:
Thieves are targeting high-powered Tesla and other EV charging stations and stealing the heavy cable for the copper metal inside.
In Vallejo, someone cut cables from nine charging stations -- leaving Tesla drivers in a bind, and causing tens of thousands of dollars in damage and repair costs.
“It most likely happened in the night, and we found it early morning,” Josh Beckler of Vallejo said.
He and his wife were two of the first people to find the cut cables early Mother’s Day morning.
He is also a retired Marine and former investigator for a major big box hardware chain who routinely investigated similar thefts where thieves targeted generators and other items for the copper wire.
“You know, they left five charging stations. I’m pretty sure after they racked up, I don’t know what the quantity was, but almost 20 cables with the nozzles. Those are extremely heavy, so I’m imagining that’s all they could haul at one given time,” Beckler said.
In all, nine of the Tesla supercharging stations’ cables behind the Vallejo Target store were cut over the weekend and reported to Vallejo police early Sunday morning, leaving drivers in a bind.
[End]
Now, some of you may be thinking, hey, this is the first time, surely San Fran’s city officials and Tesla will get together to nip this budding crime wave in the bud.
Nope! Turns out this is either the second or third time these specific Tesla chargers behind this specific Target store have been cut:
“I think this is the second time, or third that these have been cut, so they need to put some gates up or something. I don’t know what they can do, but this is pretty inconvenient,” John Brown III of American Canyon said.
Yes, it is “pretty inconvenient” all right given that once those charging cables have been cut, that charger is rendered worthless for however long it takes Tesla to get someone out there to replace them.
Some Tesla lovers on social media have responded to this viral video by using variations of the what-aboutism trope that, well, people steal gas from gas stations, too!
Yep, that happens, all right. But when some thief steals a tank of gas from a gas station, said thief drives away, and the next driver pulls up to the gas pump and fills up their car.
Big difference.
EV charging stations are already notorious for being broken down a high percentage of the time. Now that thieves have figured out there’s copper in them thar charging cables, the wheels of the already-fading EV revolution could really come off.
You just could never make this stuff up, folks. Don’t even try.
That is all.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/wednesdays-energy-absurdity-theres?publication_id=712558&post_id=144652936&isFreemail=true&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
I like the play on words:
floating the idea of having newly arrived migrants become lifeguards for the city’s public pools, declaring them “excellent swimmers.”
People are waking up to the rot within academia and in America as a whole
By Andrea Widburg
A subtle leak in my bathroom and a conversation with a neighbor reminded me that, sometimes, things must get really bad before people understand that they must act. In other words, a crisis can be a good thing.
For months, I’d been bedeviled by a musty smell in the small entry connecting my garage to my kitchen. I obsessively washed everything in a 10-foot radius of the smell (e.g., kitchen towels, floor mats), scrubbed and re-scrubbed the nearby half-bathroom (which smelled fine), sniffed the coat closet and shoes like a bloodhound to see if they harbored a patch of damp, tapped the drywall to see if it felt mushy...but all to no avail. Making things worse, I was the only one who smelled it. Something was wrong, but I couldn’t do a darn thing about it.
On Friday, the half-bathroom ceiling came down. It turned out there’d been a slow leak in the pipes above the half-bath, the ones feeding water to the upstairs toilet. That leak must have been going on for months and, given the level of saturation in the wood, perhaps for years. But no one knew because the drip and the damage were discretely hidden away under the upstairs floorboards. The smell was a hint, but it took the ceiling collapse to reveal the extent of the problem.
Now, at great expense, I’ve had the upstairs flooring and toilet, and the downstairs ceiling removed. We’ve saturated the wood with vinegar and bleach and are drying it well. Then, everything gets replaced, with all sorts of extra waterproofing to ensure that, if the toilet does leak again, the damage is confined and more easily noticed.
None of the above is a “poor me” complaint. Indeed, I’m just grateful the smell is gone and that there were no termites in there. Instead, I see the bathroom fiasco as beneficial proof that, sometimes, it takes a crisis—in my case, a downed ceiling—finally to reveal that the indefinable, unpleasant miasma in the air has a specific source. And the good thing is that, once the source is identified, the problem can be addressed by tearing out the rot, disinfecting everything, and building it up again in a clean, solid, and beautiful way.
Staying on the domestic side of things, neighbors of mine have flying behind their house an American and an Israeli flag. I very seldom see these neighbors but yesterday, when I was walking the dog, the woman was in the yard. I praised her flags and we started chatting. What I learned was heartening.
My neighbor is a Christian conservative. She is pro-America and pro-Israel. She’s also a very nice person. That all kind of went without saying because of the flags.
But what delighted me was something else she said. “I didn’t know what was happening on those college campuses. Now, I do.”
Those of us who obsessively follow the news, the ones who start their day checking out political sites and then check in with those same sites throughout the day, have known for a very long time what’s happening in academia. Heck, because I went to UC Berkeley in the late 1970s and early 1980s, I’ve known it for over forty years.
But most people don’t know. They went to lovely colleges that weren’t Berkeley, or they didn’t go to college at all. They work hard, raise their families, and live good lives. If their children go to college and don’t fall in with the blue-haired crowd, they have no idea about the subtle and not-so-subtle indoctrination that permeates every aspect of life in college.
These people assume that the silly subjects (e.g., queer puppetry, womyn’s history) in the course catalogs are the equivalent of the “Mickey Mouse” courses that sparked a thousand jokes in the 1970s/1980s’ jokes. You remember those, right? They were the ones about the “underwater basket weaving” classes people took to get the one or two extra credits they needed to graduate.
But now, thanks to the really loathsome campus radicals with their open antisemitism and hatred for America, people who are mostly apolitical or at least politically passive are seeing the rot. It’s no longer a vague miasma in the background that they think is there but can’t really pin down. The ceiling has fallen, and the damage is clear. They understand that the situation must be fixed and fixed very quickly.
One of the fixes is easy: Stop funding these institutions! Public or private, they float on a sea of direct and indirect taxpayer dollars. The board at the University of North Carolina, the campus where the frat bros bravely defended the American flag, is on the right track because they ended all DEI funding (no more money for racists and groomers) and gave the money to the campus police. If campuses won’t do that kind of thing voluntarily, we need to force it upon them.
For too long, we Americans have forgotten that “he who pays the piper calls the tune.” We, the taxpayers, are also the piper players and it’s time to start acting as if we’re in charge.
The other fix is easy, too: Vote for the politicians who are most likely to end this madness. In the primaries, vote for the conservative candidate, not the mushy one. In November, vote for a straight Republican ticket, from Donald Trump on down. Then—and this one takes a bit more work—keep an eye on your representatives and put pressure on them to respect that you’re mad as Hell about the abuse of your taxpayer dollars and you’re not going to take it anymore.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/people_are_waking_up_to_the_rot_within_academia_and_in_america_as_a_whole.html
There's an exception to every rule.
The Biden Anti-American Legacy
By Allan J. Feifer
Biden’s legacy is assured. It’s only a question of whether history will remember him as worse or better than Jimmy Carter. As between the two, Carter comes off somewhat better.
Never before has an American president been so physically unstable that he needs an accompanying entourage wherever he walks. That shakiness is a visual metaphor of Biden’s presidency. He represents a departure from previous presidents in being the only president who leaves voters doubting whether he is actually in charge and wondering why a frail 81-year-old, broadly despised man is being pushed to run again, even as most don’t believe he’s capable of completing that term if elected.
Biden came in as the anti-Trump antidote who was supposed to unify us and bring the adults back into the room. Biden faces an international and domestic dumpster fire as he flip-flops from issue to issue. Here are just the top four issues that are likely to determine the election:
1. Biden has been weaponizing abortion, promising “he would reverse the Trump-era actions that transformed abortion rights in America and make Roe v. Wade protections the law of the land.” Except that the Dobbs decision, which saw the Supreme Court return the abortion matter to the states, means he can’t keep that promise. Promising something he can’t deliver on is what Biden does best.
2. Biden famously and constantly will tell anyone that support for Israel is “ironclad,” even as he refuses to send the arms Israel needs to destroy its sworn enemy, arms that Congress just approved a few weeks ago. Biden is in the proverbial pickle: Americans support Israel, which includes destroying Hamas, except for two major exceptions: students at certain elite schools and Muslims, primarily in Minnesota and Michigan. Biden now has made saving Hamas the U.S. policy with his demand that Israel enter into a permanent cease-fire, although Hamas is still in power and holds over 100 hostages (several of whom are Americans)! Election priorities are evidently more important than America’s only ally in the Middle East and the only homeland for Jews. A homeland is so obviously needed as we view growing antisemitism in action all over the country.
3. The border is open, and millions are coming at Biden’s explicit request—explicit because he could order the border closed for national security reasons at a moment’s notice and authorize the use of deadly force to stop the invasion in less than twelve hours.
4. Inflation has one primary cause: spending money we don’t have. We are adding debt at a rate of one trillion dollars every 100 days. Biden is fully cognizant of these issues’ damage to the middle class and doesn’t care one iota since he can’t win the next election without continuing these damaging policies.
Despite promises he cannot keep, a morally evil foreign policy that Americans oppose, and domestic disasters at the border and in the economy, Biden consistently sees support in the high 30s. Who are these people?
A good start for visualizing Biden’s non-Hamas supporters is the “ladies” of The View. Here, you can see them having what appeared to me to be virtual orgasms, thinking of Trump serving time in Gitmo for breaking his gag order in his bookkeeping trial. Who could make fun of something like that? Apparently, a lot of other women think the same way. How else can we explain the numbers showing Trump trailing Biden with young and older women while winning with men?
Women voters will play a pivotal role in determining the outcome of the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Women comprise the largest group of registered voters and tend to turn out at higher levels to vote, as 68.4 percent did in the 2020 election. A survey conducted by Change Research last year found that nearly two-thirds of women aged 18-34 identified as progressive or liberal, while just more than a third of young men identified the same way. Biden leads overall among voters 45 years and older, but only with women, not men. Women over 50 favor President Joe Biden by four points.
It’s hard to change human nature. Biden appeals to women and the historically challenged for various reasons, including cultural and academic reasons and how some people’s brains are wired. It doesn’t help that the media is, in essence, the public relations wing of the Democratic Party.
Nor does it help that the primary source of information for women and the young is social media, which is heavily tilted towards liberal progressive ideas that seem so reasonable…free love, dignity, and a decent outcome for all. The devil is always in the details of how you actually arrive at that Pollyanna view of the world, but that does not keep those who know better from pandering to the masses.
Biden’s legacy is assured. It’s only a question of whether history will remember him as worse or better than Jimmy Carter. As between the two, Carter comes off somewhat better. He was the rare real deal; he believed in what he said and did, even though he was frequently outmaneuvered by more adroit adversaries. He was a good guy in the wrong office.
I once asked Admiral Rickenbacker about President Carter, and he said, “I put him (Carter) on an engineering path. He was unsuited for Command.” Biden is similarly not suited for Command, having spent his entire career as a politician who tended to always be on the wrong side of a particular issue. Biden, especially his handlers, can thank COVID, which allowed him to launch his now famous basement campaign and change voting laws and practices to eke out his victory.
Biden’s son Hunter’s upcoming trial (scheduled for June) will be another opportunity for Americans to consider the classic admission that an apple does not fall far from the tree. The jury is still out on that and other Biden family issues. It’s not over.
God Bless America.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/the_biden_anti_american_legacy.html
Aha! The truth comes out.
You can't stand me.
German Government Admits There Was No Pandemic
By Baxter Dmitry
Global Research, April 04, 2024
The People's Voice 2 April 2024
What is significant is that the German Health authorities based on official data have now been obliged under Freedom of Information to reveal the devastating nature and impacts of the Covid lockdowns imposed on 190 countries, starting March 11, 2020.
Most of the independent studies including those conducted by Global Research have been the object of censorship.
Of Significance, the official documents of Germany’s Ministry of Health are consistent with the independent reports published in the course of more than 4 years pertaining to the COVID-19 lockdowns, the mandatory wearing of the face mask, and the experimental mRNA vaccines.
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, April 4, 2024
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Huge news out of Germany as the federal government have been forced to admit that so-called “conspiracy theorists” were right about everything during the Covid pandemic.
In fact, according to the German government data, there was no pandemic at all, just a tightly choreographed military grade psy-op to brainwash the masses into accepting an experimental vaccine with disastrous consequences.
These secret German government documents obtained via a Freedom of Information request and subsequent lawsuit have blown the lid of the global elite’s Covid lies and it’s vitally important that as many people as possible are made aware of the truth.
More and more people all over the world are waking up and seeing the global elite for what they always have been: deranged psychopaths hell bent on destruction and domination.
Germany is no different. The German population suffered some of the most brutal lockdowns and vaccine mandates in all of Europe and now the people are rising up and demanding accountability.
Step forward Paul Schreyer and Multipolar magazine who launched a Freedom of Information request and then launched a lawsuit against the German government when they tried every trick in the book to keep the secret documents under lock and key.
As Professor Steven Homburg explains, the results are stunning, and represent total vindication for everyone who dared to question the narrative of lockdowns and mask and vaccine mandates.
This brilliant professor knows what he’s talking about. Anyone who believed there was a pandemic was seriously duped. https://t.co/SApEV1hWMX
— Jacqui Deevoy (@JacquiDeevoy1) March 31, 2024
The secret government documents – all 2,000 pages of them – reveal that we were right about nearly everything and the so-called “pandemic” was all fraud.
These facts are damning and prove the official narrative about Covid, pushed by world governments and mainstream media, is completely bogus.
Which makes the tyranny we experienced during the so-called pandemic even harder to swallow, as Professor Homburg explains.
The data also reveals that Sweden, which was the only European country free of masks and lockdowns, performed much better than Germany. Which raises the question, what were the tyrannical lockdowns and mandates really about?
Professor Homburg has the answer – and as it turns out, we were right all along.
Breaking down vaccine hesitancy through brutal lockdowns was always the goal of the global elite. Unfortunately, for those who did not see through the psy-op at the time, the health consequences are dire. Serious questions must be asked.
Unfortunately for the vaxxed, the bad news doesn’t end there. Japanese researchers have linked Covid vaccines to hundreds of diseases.
The Japanese are way ahead of us, it seems. pic.twitter.com/aWxa4GJwRT
— Jacqui Deevoy (@JacquiDeevoy1) January 20, 2024
While a new study out of the US has found that those who have been vaccinated and boosted can expect to meet their maker far sooner than they would have expected.
A disturbing new study has revealed that people who have been “fully vaccinated” with Covid mRNA injections can expect to lose a staggering 25 years from their life expectancy.
Researchers analyzed data from the CDC, Cleveland Clinic Data, and insurance company risk assessment data and uncovered a disturbing trend of plummeting life expediencies among those who had multiple doses of mRNA.
Unfortunately for the vaxxed, the news gets even worse. The chronic damage to health caused by each dose of mRNA does not lessen over time, as previously believed.
In reality, the negative health effects appear to continue indefinitely.
According to the researchers, CDC All-Cause Mortality data reveals that each jab increased mortality by 7% in the year 2022 compared to the mortality in 2021.
This means that people who have had 5 doses – that’s two doses and three boosters – were 35% more likely to die in 2022 than they were in 2021.
Correlating with the German information, the study also confirmed that people who are not vaccinated were no more likely to die in 2022 than in 2021.
These numbers are damning. But anybody paying attention can see that something is very wrong with the vaccinated. They are dropping like flies with heart problems and turbo cancer all over the world.
Professional athletes are supposed to be among the healthiest people on the planet but in the past few years thousands have collapsed with sudden and inexplicable heart conditions.
Fully vaccinated professional athletes are continuing to drop like flies, with four professional soccer players have collapsed suddenly, clutching their hearts, in the last week alone.
Egyptian star Ahmed Refeat became the third professional soccer play to suffer cardiac arrest in front of live TV cameras, with doctors later admitting they “hadn’t seen something like this before.”
Orlando Pirates midfielder Makhelene Makhaula was the second football star to collapse on the field this week, as medical staff were seen desperately attempting to revive the South African star.
Listen as the stunned announcer admits, in his own words, that footballers are dropping like flies all over the world since the vaccine roll out.
On Sunday in the Argentinian top flight, Estudiantes’ Javier Altamirano suffered a seizure and collapsed suddenly in the big match against Boca Juniors, one of the biggest clubs in South America.
It’s not just professional athletes dropping like flies. People from all walks of life, including popular social media influencers, are being struck down with heart conditions and rare forms of cancer at unprecedented rates.
An ethical media would be highlighting these incidents on the front pages, putting their resources into investigating why so many young and healthy people are suffering from cardiac arrests, strokes, and rare forms of cancer.
Instead, the media is attempting to normalize the phenomenon and convince you that professional athletes and young people having heart attacks is par for the course.
However, anybody capable of independent thought understands this situation is far from normal.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/german-government-admits-there-was-no-pandemic/5853916
Afghan Gold Star Parents: Psaki’s Lie About Biden Checking His Watch Is Part of a Constant Pattern from Biden Team
Ian Hanchett14 May 2024
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Afghanistan Gold Star parents Steve Nikoui and Darin Hoover reacted to former White House Press Secretary and MSNBC host Jen Psaki incorrectly claiming that claims President Joe Biden looked at his watch during a service for soldiers killed in Afghanistan are “misinformation” — a claim she said will be corrected — by stating that they aren’t surprised because the Biden administration has done nothing but lie about Afghanistan.
Nikoui stated, “It’s devastating. But it’s not really surprising from this administration and from the people that have worked in it. They continue to lie, to manipulate facts, and change their narratives to support their narratives, and to try to change the history, regardless of what mishaps they’ve done, and for them to do it at the expense of us Gold Star parents at a moment that we’re grieving the most for our children as they’re passing the caskets by. I couldn’t even concentrate on that. I was so focused and so infuriated with our President and the conduct that he was portraying at that dignified transfer that I missed my son being passed into the van.”
Hoover said Psaki “is just a vile and shameless human being who’s trying to make money off of our kids’ backs and rewrite history and establish those lies for the Biden administration on their failures, their catastrophic failures…it’s been nothing but lies all along, until we’ve been able to speak with the Congressmen. Congressman Issa (R-CA) was the head cheerleader for us and brought us to Washington and then Congressman Waltz (R-FL), Chairman McCaul (R-TX), Reps. Mills (R-FL) and Mast (R-FL) also did listen to us, and now it’s coming forward that they’re fighting for us to get the truths out there, because the most transparent administration in the history of our country can’t even tell right from wrong. They’re nothing but lies.”
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/05/14/afghan-gold-star-parents-psakis-lie-about-biden-checking-his-watch-is-part-of-a-constant-pattern-from-biden-team/
Liberal billionaire George Soros has spent $80 million to 'silence' Americans, Media Research Center says
'Leftists are trying their best to shut down the voices of half of America,' Dan Schneider says
By Brian Flood
FIRST ON FOX – Free Press, a media group financed by liberal billionaire George Soros, "is looking to incorporate global pressure to push Big Tech platforms to juice their censorship operations before the 2024 U.S. presidential election," according to the Media Research Center.
Free Press bills itself as an organization that "closely watches as the decisions shaping the media landscape are made and sounds the alarm when people’s rights to connect and communicate are in danger." However, in a new report, the conservative MRC found that Soros gave over $80 million to affiliated groups calling for "censorship" ahead of November’s critical election.
"One of the wealthiest men in the world is using his vast wealth and power to silence regular Americans ahead of the 2024 election. At a time when defending free speech is key, leftists are trying their best to shut down the voices of half of America, especially those who disagree with the radical agenda promoted by Biden, Soros and most Big Tech executives," MRC Free Speech America vice president Dan Schneider told Fox News Digital.
MRC associate editor Joseph Vazquez reported the Soros-funded media group "is at the helm of a new push to restrict free speech online," pointing to a recent press release as evidence.
Last month, Free Press boasted about a letter urging executives at Discord, Google, Instagram, Meta, Pinterest, Reddit, Rumble, Snap, TikTok, Twitch, Twitter and YouTube to keep online platforms "safe and healthy" in 2024 through six specific "interventions."
The letter was signed by "200 civil-society organizations, researchers and journalists," according to Free Press. The MRC found that "at least 45 of the signatories have had their coffers packed with Soros cash to the tune of a whopping $80,757,329 between 2016 and 2022 alone."
"The document attempted to justify that it was written with reducing ‘real-world harms’ and ‘the rise of extremism and violent attempts to overthrow democratic governments’ in mind. However, it appears its true design is to pressure Big Tech companies to silence speech the left despises as 60 countries across the globe gear up for their elections in 2024," Vazquez wrote.
"But even more disturbing was the letter’s implication that its primary target is interfering in the 2024 U.S. election," Vazquez continued. "This development is directly in line with Soros’ brand, who has dedicated millions of his ungodly fortune to groups looking to interfere in elections by stifling online speech."
The letter asked tech companies to reinstate "election-integrity policies," "swiftly enforce rules against election lies and hate in political advertising," "require disclosure of AI-generated political content," "place greater friction to reduce the visibility and easy distribution of election-related content that has been flagged and is awaiting review," "hold influencer, public figure and political candidate accounts to the same moderation and enforcement standards as everyone else," and "improve transparency and enable civil-society oversight of enforcement practices by regularly sharing virality and enforcement reports."
Vazquez wrote that the "explicit push for speech controls is especially disturbing in light of the stated vision of one of Free Press’s founders," noting that Free Press co-founder Robert W. McChesney once wrote in 2000, "Our job is to make media reform part of our broader struggle for democracy, social justice, and, dare we say it, socialism."
The MRC then dove into who signed the letter and how they receive financial support.
"The signatory that received the most Soros funding in MRC’s tally was none other than the climate change-obsessed Global Witness, which is already on record pressuring Facebook and TikTok to increase censorship operations before the 2022 midterm elections," Vazquez wrote.
"The Soros empire funded the group with a massive $20,338,270 between 2016 and 2022," he continued. "The group’s ‘digital threats’ campaign, for example, is specifically focused on pressuring governments to regulate speech on social media."
MRC President and founder Brent Bozell discusses George Soros son, Alex, taking over the Open Society Foundations and reacts to a PBS documentary slamming the Statue of Liberty as a "flawed" symbol.
The MRC also found that the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, another signee, received over $3 million from Soros between 2017 and 2022.
"The leftist group was recently exposed in a House Judiciary Committee investigation for co-authoring a ‘hate groups’ blacklist with the Soros-funded Global Disinformation Index (GDI) targeting ‘conservative’ and faith-based organizations. This list was later disseminated by law enforcement to several financial institutions," Vazquez wrote.
"The fact that Free Press is at the tip of this Soros-tied spear should concern every American," he continued. "Free Press’s obsession with censorship and gaining control of the Internet cannot be overstated."
The MRC noted that Free Press previously "celebrated how it was also responsible for influencing the Obama-era FCC into adopting draconian ‘Net Neutrality’ rules that arbitrarily sanctioned massive government regulation of the Internet," and "praised how the FCC reportedly cited the Soros-funded organization ‘close to 70 times’ in its final order on the matter."
"Americans beware. The Soros network is coming after your free speech just in time for the U.S. elections — again," Vazquez wrote.
Free Press did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Institute for Strategic Dialogue and Global Witness also did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/liberal-billionaire-george-soros-spent-80-million-silence-americans-media-research-center-says
Vulnerable House Dem flip-flops on immigration after dismissing border wall as 'silly'
Rep. Susan Wild will face off against Republican state Rep. Ryan Mackenzie in November
By Emma Colton
Published May 15, 2024 4:00am EDT
A vulnerable congressional Democrat in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania who previously dismissed a border wall as "silly," appears to have shifted her views on immigration, according to a recent op-ed calling for stricter border security.
"We may be a long way from the U.S.-Mexico border, but the problems created by a broken system affect us too, particularly with regard to the entry of illegal drugs into our country," Rep. Susan WIld wrote in an op-ed published last month in The Morning Call.
Wild’s op-ed, which was headlined "Your View by US Rep. Susan Wild: It’s time to do something about the Southern border," comes after immigration has spiraled under the Biden administration. Nearly 7.3 million illegal immigrants flooded the nation between Biden’s first day in office and February of this year, Fox News Digital previously reported. The figure is greater than the population of 36 individual states, and has affected states across the nation.
After the Biden administration avoided calling the flood of migrants at the border a "crisis" in 2021, Wild joined a C-SPAN program in January 2022 to discuss Biden’s first year in office and said she doesn’t agree with Republican colleagues that every state was a border state due to lax immigration laws.
"No, I don’t agree with that statement," she said in the interview.
In 2018, when President Trump was in office, Wild joined a local Democratic debate and said the plan to build a border wall was "silly."
"Anybody here for building the wall? Anybody?" the debate moderator asked the group of Democrats.
"Absolutely not. I think we, we, end that silly idea and put that money toward education and health care," Wild responded.
Wild represents Pennsylvania’s 7th District in Lehigh Valley, which includes cities and towns such as Allentown, Bethlehem and Easton. Wild has served in Congress since 2018, and is expected to face an uphill battle this election year in the key battleground state.
Ahead of the election season kicking off in earnest, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee released a list of more than two dozen Democrats last year considered vulnerable as they face off against Republican challengers. Wild was included on the list, alongside fellow House Pennsylvania members Chris Deluzio and Matt Cartwright.
Immigration, as well as inflation and the economy, are top concerns for voters across the nation, including in Pennsylvania. A Fox News poll published last month focusing on the Keystone State found that Trump has a 16-point edge over Biden when it comes to border security and immigration, as well as a 4-point lead regarding his foreign policies.
Wild’s op-ed appears to mark a turn in her previous rhetoric on border security, calling the matter a "crisis" that needs to be remedied.
"There is unquestionably a crisis at our Southern border – and this is something that almost everyone, no matter their political persuasion, can agree on," she began in the op-ed.
She went on to pin blame for the lack of a secure border or immigration plan on "extreme politicians" who pull "cheap political stunts."
"Many of us in Congress have proven time and time again that we are more than willing to work with members of either party on large-scale policy proposals to address border and immigration challenges. However, we are held hostage by the extreme politicians who continue to stall our efforts in the name of cheap political stunts," she wrote.
She promoted a piece of legislation she co-sponsored, The Dignity Act, in the op-ed, which she said will "immediately address critical elements of our immigration system, restore order at our Southern border and implement long-term, much needed changes."
"The Dignity Act would increase border patrol personnel and provide cutting-edge screening technology to help detect contraband and illegal substances; change our political asylum system by constructing facilities in Latin America, where asylum seekers would be screened for eligibility; require employers to verify the immigration status of their employees, and create a pathway to citizenship for ‘Dreamers,’" she wrote.
The op-ed comes after Wild dismissed the notion that illegal immigrants would take jobs from legal American residents during a C-SPAN interview, arguing "we have the opposite problem."
"As far as what you mentioned about people coming across the border and taking jobs, quite honestly sir, we have the opposite problem right now. We need more people in our workforce," she said.
Mike Marinella, spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, argued in comment to Fox News Digital that Wild is making a "desperate" attempt to backtrack her policies ahead of 2024.
"It must be an election year because Susan Wild is making a desperate scramble to reel back her extreme policies. The truth is, Wild never once voted to secure the border and none of her lies can change that fact." said NRCC spokesman Mike Marinella.
Wild's congressional office told Fox News Digital that Wild "has consistently advocated for the need to secure our Southern border."
She recently voted "to send nearly $20 billion to Customs and Border Protection – including $75.5 million to acquire additional inspection detection systems and $20 million for additional CBP Officers to support counter fentanyl efforts – and has called repeatedly for House Republican leadership to take up the Bipartisan Border deal crafted by both parties in the Senate, which would have been the most comprehensive immigration reform the U.S. has seen in decades," congressional office spokeswoman Natalie Gould said.
Wild notably broke with her party in March, voting in favor of the Laken Riley Act, which is named after the college student who was tragically killed by an illegal immigrant, according to law enforcement. The legislation would have required Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to issue detainers and take custody of illegal migrants if they commit certain theft-related crimes, among other measures.
Pennsylvania will again serve as a key battleground state this election cycle as former President Trump and President Biden are anticipated to face a rematch in a state that narrowly voted for Trump in 2016, and elected Biden in 2020 by a 1.17% margin.
A recent poll from the New York Times found Trump leading in the majority of battleground states, including Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada, Michigan and Georgia.
Wild will face off against Republican state Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, who has slammed Biden and Wild for "destroying this country" with "wide open borders" and crippling inflation.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/vulnerable-house-dem-flip-flops-immigration-after-dismissing-border-wall-silly
NY vs. Trump: My experience as an NYC juror leads me to believe the unthinkable could happen
NYC juries were surprisingly fair in my experience. Trump jury may well acquit him, too
By Deroy Murdock
Published May 15, 2024 2:00am EDT
Having served on three Manhattan juries, I would not be surprised if the 12 men and women hearing New York vs. Donald J. Trump acquitted him of all charges.
During two civil actions and one criminal case, my fellow jurors were serious, professional and movingly civic-minded. A quiet, solemn patriotism infused our deliberations. Several jurors said that we should respect the justice system because, someday, we might need it to respect us.
My first case was a medical-malpractice lawsuit involving a botched abortion. We empathized with a woman wounded by her doctors, but her lawyer did not prove negligence. So, we backed her physicians.
"But we’ve got to give her something," one juror insisted.
Others instantly rebuked him.
"That’s not how it works!" one said. "I feel sorry for her, too," another admitted. "But her lawyer never made her case."
So, we sent the plaintiff home without a penny.
Next, we deliberated intensely for almost three days before concluding that a Harlem drug counselor never demonstrated his defamation-of-character claim against his employers. My sympathetic pleas went unheeded, and he left empty-handed.
Finally, in her closing argument, a criminal prosecutor displayed a CD-ROM of a police dispatcher’s "Be on the lookout" announcement after an armed robbery. When we asked the judge to play that recording, he told us that it was not in evidence.
Disgusted by this prosecutorial deception, we instantly and angrily acquitted the defendants. Minutes later, as foreman, I proudly announced our verdict in court.
These three cases confirm that Manhattan juries are sober and perfectly capable of fairness.
This is good news for Trump.
A jury of level-headed Manhattanites would appreciate these facts that verify the profound vacuity and fundamental unfairness of District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s "case" against Trump:
An April 25, 2023, US Justice Department Memorandum of Understanding with the Federal Election Commission leaves Bragg powerless to prosecute this matter. "The Department has exclusive jurisdiction over criminal enforcement of the federal campaign finance laws," the memorandum states. "The Commission has exclusive jurisdiction over civil enforcement," the memo also says. Nowhere does this federal rule grant local prosecutors authority to enforce federal election laws. Thus, Bragg’s case is a shack built atop a cloud of helium.
Bragg indicted Trump on April 4, 2023, four months after the statute of limitations expired on the corresponding Class E felonies.
Bragg skirted the statute of limitations by claiming that Trump falsified business records to commit a second violation. After three weeks of this trial, that second crime remains a mystery.
Prosecutors described a "catch-and-kill scheme" through which the National Enquirer bought the rights to stories that might embarrass Trump and then buried them. Rather than a plot to influence the 2020 election, the Enquirer routinely caught and killed stories about Trump and other newsmakers, including former Obama Chief of Staff and current Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel, actors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mark Wahlberg, and golf star Tiger Woods. More important, "catch and kill" might be dodgy, but it is not illegal.
Former nude thespian Stormy Daniels signed a non-disclosure agreement promising quietude about consensual sex that Trump and, at various times, Daniels deny ever sharing. NDAs are perfectly legal. I have signed at least three (while dressed), and non-disclosure language has appeared in numerous contracts I have endorsed. Confidential out-of-court settlements operate similarly and legally.
Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen paid Daniels to clam up about her alleged intimacy with Trump. Again, sex or no sex, it is legal to pay people to ignore journalists (although buying silence before law enforcement is obstruction of justice).
Trump’s checks allegedly reimbursed Cohen for payments to Daniels. It is perfectly legal for a client to repay his attorney funds advanced in a lawful transaction.
Bragg claims that Trump should have paid for this private matter with campaign cash. That would have been illegal. Instead, Trump legally used his own money. Trump faces 34 counts of alleged falsification of business records because his bookkeepers posted ledger entries for checks to Cohen as "legal expenses." Would Bragg prefer false descriptions like "plumbing supplies" or "marble tiles?" Trump faces prison for reporting legal expenses as "legal expenses," which is legal.
With 48% of registered voters telling Reuters-Ipsos last month that Trump’s Kafkaesque cases are "excessive and politically motivated" (41% disagree) even a Manhattan jury could scrap Bragg’s contraption.
My memories of jury duty, including within the Stalinesque building in which Trump is being persecuted, tell me that deliberating jurors could think, "I won’t vote for Trump. But I cannot convict him beyond a reasonable doubt in a shaky case about actions that are lurid, but legal.
Former nude thespian Stormy Daniels signed a non-disclosure agreement promising quietude about consensual sex that Trump and, at various times, Daniels deny ever sharing. NDAs are perfectly legal. I have signed at least three (while dressed), and non-disclosure language has appeared in numerous contracts I have endorsed. Confidential out-of-court settlements operate similarly and legally.
If just one juror agrees, this case will end with a hung jury. A second trial would be unlikely before Election Day.
And if "lurid, but legal" reflects the opinions of 12 of my fellow Manhattanites – who tend to be tough, but fair – then former President Donald J. Trump will be acquitted on all charges and go back where he belongs: The campaign trail.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/ny-trump-experience-nyc-juror-leads-believe-unthinkable-could-happen
Good morning kk,
Thanks for the heads-up, I'll bring up the radar.
Hey, Bull. Stay safe.
TWC has your area under a tornado watch.
Good luck.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) is floating the idea of having newly arrived migrants become lifeguards for the city’s public pools, declaring them “excellent swimmers.”
Vivek sums it up:
.@VivekGRamaswamy outside Trump Trial: "What exactly is the crime that Donald Trump committed? Oh, wait, we have not heard a good answer to that question." pic.twitter.com/IHxM8OYcvo
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) May 14, 2024
" Yep .. the Red Lobster restaurant close to me is closed " ...
Report: Red Lobster Closes 100 Locations Around U.S.
ELIZABETH WEIBEL 14 May 2024 2:34
Seafood restaurant chain Red Lobster has closed one hundred locations around the United States, according to its website.
One hundred Red Lobster locations in Alabama, Colorado, Georgia, California, and Florida, were listed as closed on the company website as of Tuesday.
CEO and Founder of TAGeX Brands, Neal Sherman, announced in a post on LinkedIn on Monday that his company would be hosting “the largest restaurant liquidation” through an online auction. The TAGex website listed auctions for 48 Red Lobster locations throughout the U.S. that had been closed and would be auctioning off kitchen items and furniture from the locations.
Red Lobster locations in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Watertown, New York, Gaithersburg, Maryland, and Bloomingdale and Danville, Illinois, were among the restaurants that were closed.
All three locations in Jacksonville, Florida, were also listed as being closed, according to the restaurant chain’s website.
One employee from the Red Lobster in Buffalo, New York, told WKBW that he found out about the restaurant closure from one of the cooks, and not from corporate.
“I’m getting calls after calls this morning and my boy Don called me and he’s like, ‘You should come in right now,'” Ramon Garcia told the outlet. “I’m like, ‘Why, I’m off today,’ and he’s like, ‘Man, you just need to come in because there’s a lot of stuff going on.'”
The first Red Lobster location was opened in Lakeland, Florida, in 1968, and today the seafood chain has more than 700 locations throughout the world.
This comes nearly a month after Red Lobster considered filing for bankruptcy after their all-you-can-eat shrimp promotion led to the company losing $11 million during 2023.
“For those who have been in the US recently, $20 was very cheap,” Red Lobster CFO Ludovic Garnier said in a statement in November. “And the rationale for this promotion was to say we knew the price was cheap, but the idea was to bring more traffic in the restaurants.”
ThaiUnion, a Thailand-based company that specializes in producing seafood-based products, bought a stake in Red Lobster in 2020. Years later, in January 2024, ThaiUnion released a statement that it would be exiting from Red Lobster and taking a $530 million loss from its investment in the company.
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2024/05/14/report-red-lobster-closes-100-locations-around-u-s/
Buckle up buttercup
It's about to get bumpy
Bashaw is classified as a moderate. I'll take it.
NJ will be more likely to vote for a moderate over a hard-core conservative.
The flyer he sent out focused on closing the border. I'm all for that.
He's also a successful businessman with an MBA from Wharton (Trump's alma mater).
One of the articles said he fought for small businesses during the pandemic.
Don't know anything about his opponents.
I've got work to do.
In NJ, a gay conservative is still far better than the other choices!
Jon Stewart calls out Nancy Pelosi, Hunter Biden and Bob Menendez in ‘How Dumb Is You?’ segment
By Hanna Panreck , Fox News Published May 14, 2024, 4:35 p.m. ET
Comedian Jon Stewart called out former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and Hunter Biden during a segment on Monday focused on corruption titled, “How Dumb Is You?”
Stewart first took aim at Menendez, and said his alleged crimes were “f—— awful,” adding, “You, sir, are an elected official in America’s most respected legislative body. It’s like a license to print money. You don’t need to break the law so cartoonishly when the legal corruption in the Senate is so f—— lucrative.”
Menendez is accused of accepting bribes from three wealthy businessmen in New Jersey and performing a variety of favors in return, including meddling in criminal investigations and taking actions benefiting the governments of Egypt and Qatar. Stewart also took aim at insider trading in Congress, which the legislative body has yet to vote on.
The comedian described Pelosi as one of the “biggest beneficiaries” of their ability to trade stocks before showing video of the former speaker of the House saying members of Congress should not be banned from trading stocks and should be allowed to participate in the “free market.”
“Here’s the thing. In a free market, everyone has access to the same information,” Stewart said. “So unless you’re gonna put all of us on the committees, I don’t get it.”
He then pointed to a $2 billion investment Jared Kushner’s company received from Saudi Arabia, before playing a clip of the president’s son being asked if he would have gotten a seat on the Burisma board if his last name wasn’t “Biden.” In the video, Biden replied, “Probably not.”
“Out of all the senators and representatives who dodged and prevaricated and wouldn’t answer any f—– questions, you know you’re in trouble when the most honest and transparent person in a story of government corruption is the ex-crackhead,” Stewart joked. “Robert Menendez’s gold bars in exchange for favorable legislation is obviously cartoonishly corrupt. But for anyone out there who thinks the status quo of government patronage and influence is of an entirely different species than Menendez, how dumb is you?”
Stewart also name-dropped Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Al., and former GOP Sen. Richard Burr earlier in the segment. Burr was investigated in 2020 for a slew of stocks he sold before the COVID-19 pandemic rocked the economy.
Jury selection for Menendez’ second federal corruption trial in a decade began on Monday. Menendez will stand trial alongside two of the three businessmen he is alleged to have accepted bribes from, real estate developer Fred Daibes and Wael Hana.
Menendez, Daibes and Hana have all pleaded not guilty. The third businessman, Jose Uribe, has pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against the others.
Menendez announced that he would not be seeking re-election as a Democrat in November, but did not rule out a run as an independent.
(Puh-leeze. This cat belongs in the hoosegow not in the U.S. Senate.)
https://nypost.com/2024/05/14/us-news/jon-stewart-calls-out-nancy-pelosi-hunter-biden-and-bob-menendez-in-segment-on-political-corruption/
Thanks, Bull. Our primary is coming up on June 4th.
I have a lot of research to do.
Hi kk,
I don't recall seeing or hearing him mentioned, but I didn't watch it wall to wall.
Trump's Wildwood NJ rally...
Turns out there's a Wildwood businessman running for the Senate this year -- Curtis Bashaw.
Was this guy mentioned at or part of the rally? Thanks.
Prolific Cape May County hotelier and developer Curtis Bashaw is the latest New Jersey Republican to join the U.S. Senate primary, announcing his candidacy on Monday in a low-key press release.
“I’m running for United States Senate because we, as a nation, need to get back to our basic core values of liberty, prosperity, and the pursuit of happiness,” said Bashaw in a statement released to state media. “Too many New Jerseyans believe the American Dream is out of reach and that Washington isn’t working in their best interests. I’m running to bring freedom, security, and opportunity to all New Jersey families — not just the political elite.”
Bashaw has been active in state politics for many years behind the scenes as a donor, but his Cape Restorts group’s hotels and restaurants – including Congress Hall, The Blue Pig Tavern, and The Ebbitt Room are legendary along the Jersey Shore. Unsurprisingly, the chief topics on most voters’ minds – immigration and inflation – served as the opening fodder for Bashaw’s inaugural salvo.
“Inflation is hurting New Jersey families, and our open border is a national security threat and a humanitarian crisis,” Bashaw added. “D.C. politicians haven’t been able to fix these serious problems, and as a result, our freedom and security are in jeopardy. Throughout my career, I’ve focused on bringing people together, finding common-sense solutions, and helping communities reach their economic potential — and that’s exactly what I’ll do in the United States Senate.”
He hasn’t run for office before so we don’t know much about where he stands on the issues as of yet, but his selection of State Senator and Cumberland County GOP Chairman Mike Testa to serve as his campaign chairman is an unambigous overture to the state’s populist conservative base.
“It’s time to make a change from the disastrous Biden-Menendez-Murphy policies that are failing New Jersey middle-class families,” said Senator Testa in his own statement. “Curtis Bashaw has been a friend and supporter for many years. He’s an employer who’s created over one-thousand jobs who will bring back the American Dream for all New Jerseyans. I look forward to working with Curtis and his team in putting together a winning campaign that fights for freedom, security, and opportunity for every New Jersey taxpayer.”
https://savejersey.com/2024/01/gay-gop-new-jersey-hotelier-republican-2024-curtis-bashaw-senate-primary/
Republican front-runner in Senate primary race backs Trump
BRENDA FLANAGAN, SENIOR CORRESPONDENT | MARCH 20, 2024 | NJ DECIDES 2024, POLITICS
Curtis Bashaw, a Cape May developer, is a self-described moderate
... While some hard-right critics call Bashaw a de facto Democrat who didn’t vote for Donald Trump, he now supports Trump at the top of the ticket.
“I believe President Trump has been vindicated on many, many issues,” Bashaw said. “And I think the mudslinging in our little primary of people trying to make a label out of something that’s simply not true, or exaggerated, is a distraction from the fact that they don’t have the infrastructure to run a statewide campaign.”
https://www.njspotlightnews.org/video/republican-front-runner-in-senate-primary-race-backs-trump/
OK, here's something to make you smile. I just love creative people, I had tears in my eyes laughing.
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/california-man-trolls-city-officials-artistic-statement-being-asked-fence-boat
"There’s a scandal going on in Guatemala that everyone needs to know about..."
I searched for this sentence and got a number of hits.
These seem to be closest.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174415442
https://www.facebook.com/reel/794532419295633/
https://www.instagram.com/robbystarbuck/reel/C666RDqvQ85/
Looks like the IHub post is based on the videos on Facebook and Instagram but I didn't watch the videos.
Judicial Watch: Documents Show DC Now Training Illegal Aliens To Vote In Nation’s Capital
https://www.oann.com/video/oan-contribution/judicial-watch-documents-show-dc-now-training-illegal-aliens-to-vote-in-nations-capital/
There’s a scandal going on in Guatemala that everyone needs to know about. The Attorney General in Guatemala is investigating child trafficking at the US border and it appears that the Biden Admin is retaliating.
The interview you’re about to hear is apparently so dangerous that the Secretary General of Guatemala says he was warned by someone claiming to carry a message from the US Embassy that he was “playing with fire” if he took part in the interview.
Last week they raided an NGO named Save The Children. Jill Biden used to be the Chair of STC’s board. Investigations into NGO’s like this are a part of Guatemala’s overall investigation as they search out who’s doing the trafficking and where the money’s coming from. Now let’s talk about $$$…
Before doing this interview I reached out to
@Oilfield_Rando
@RandoLand_US
for a report on $ the US gives Guatemala. He found over 80 payments to individuals in Guatemala where the names are redacted. Many range from $20,000 to $40,000 per transfer. That’s a LOT of money in Guatemala. Who are they paying and why?
Overall the Biden admin has spent over $500M in Guatemala. Why? US taxpayers are paying $125,000 for indigenous “healers” (shamans) in Guatemala and nearly $500,000 to support gender ideology there. Why?
One things clear about the Biden Administration: You can’t trust them with money. That’s why
@GoldCoPM
is sponsoring this interview. Since Biden took office, many Americans are worse off. This is not the beacon of prosperity we grew up in. Click here to learn about an IRS loophole thousands of Americans have used to safeguard their money: http://Robby4Gold.com
Guatemala’s Secretary General also admitted the US is harboring illegal alien pedophiles and murders. These are people Guatemala WANTS to put in prison but Biden’s Admin is protecting them instead of cooperating. As you’ll find out, it’s clear the AG and SG are being targeted. Guatemala’s President recently met with Sec of State Tony Blinken and Joe Biden.
After this interview he announced a plot to remove the AG.
If it feels like you’ve seen this movie before… It’s because you have: In Ukraine when Joe Biden forced the firing of a prosecutor who investigated his family.
If you're short on time, below you'll find timecodes you can click to jump directly to the parts you want to watch. Accounts and news outlets are free to upload clips of this interview with credit to
@robbystarbuck
.
Major thanks to
@MPguatemala
@MPGuatemala_EN
for agreeing to this interview and for being so transparent.
0:00 The Scandal in Guatemala Introduction
4:20 Interview Begins - Explaining the AG’s letter about child trafficking at the US border that the US government may be involved in.
7:12 Clarifying that this investigation involves sexual crimes against children.
8:24 Is there any explanation for the fact that 70% of all unaccompanied minors at the border come from either Guatemala or Honduras that isn’t rooted in child trafficking?
9:14 Clarifying that the claim the Guatemalan AG has includes claims that US officials and Guatemalan officials are allowing this trafficking.
9:40 Did they know Jill Biden used to be the chair of the NGO they raided recently?
12:15 Information on Biden Admin cutting off communication over certain AG office employees being fired by the current AG of Guatemala.
13:27 Does the US affect prosecution rates in Central America with pressure?
14:59 Addressing the media silence in this case
16:00 Bombshell: Secretary General says person sent by US Embassy came to warn him that he was “playing with fire” by doing this interview with me.
18:36 Has the Biden Admin reached out about the allegations of trafficking to figure out how to fix this?
19:43 Did the US Embassy want the Secretary General to cancel this interview?
20:27 Exposing mysterious individual payments made by the US to individuals in Guatemala with redacted names. What does Guatemala know about these payments?
23:38 What influence are people like George Soros having with their money in Central America?
25:25 Is the US funding NGO’s that work with Cartels?
25:50 Why is the US paying $125,000 for Shamans/indigenious healers in Guatemala?
28:00 Exposing nearly $500,000 the US sent to benefit far left gender ideology spreading to Guatemala.
31:24 How communication was cut off when the AG said parents need to consent before kids are taught about sexual/gender ideology topics and is the export of gender ideology from the US damaging social fabrics in Guatemala?
33:15 Is the Guatemalan government being reeducated into this far left ideology?
33:57 Discussing Flyers encouraging illegal aliens to vote at NGO camps.
34:39 Are dangerous criminals able to come in to the US illegally because the Biden Administration is allowing it?
35:22 Guatemala’s experience with Kamala Harris and Samantha Power… Wow…
37:15 Discussing the horrific rape problems at the border and how complicit the Biden Administration is.
39:37 Exposing Rape Trees at the Southern Border
42:00 Is the Biden Admin trying to make Guatemala a satellite state using grant money?
44:06 Are NGO’s teaching illegal aliens to lie for asylum claims?
44:47 Bombshell: Guatemalan Secretary General admits they have criminals on the run in the US who are being harbored by the US including pedophiles and murderers.
There’s a scandal going on in Guatemala that everyone needs to know about. The Attorney General in Guatemala is investigating child trafficking at the US border and it appears that the Biden Admin is retaliating.
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) May 13, 2024
The interview you’re about to hear is apparently so dangerous that… pic.twitter.com/c82irgOwcL
“You Literally Voted for This” — Conservatives Roast Gun-Grabbing Liberal David Hogg After Complaining About Cost of Living Under Bidenomics
by Jim H?ft May. 14, 2024 7:30 am
Love these comments:
It didn’t take long for the conservative backlash to flood in. ‘Trump Meme Mastermind’ Brenden Dilley was among the first to respond, pointing out the contrast between the current administration and the previous one.
“Under Trump, you could have had 2.5% interest rate and been able to enter the market. Instead, you’re a pillow-biting commie who will stay a renter,” he fired back.
Political commentator Gunther Eagleman joined the chorus, advising Hogg to “stay in mommy’s basement, until Trump fixes Biden’s mess.” Another user, Travis, added, “You chose this over mean tweets. Selections have consequences.”
Illegal Immigration Overload: Border Town’s Criminal Prosecutions Explode by 5,000% on Biden’s Watch
John Binder13 May 2024
Kinney County, Texas, one of several American border communities, has seen criminal prosecutions explode as illegal immigration has hit record levels on President Joe Biden’s watch.
During a House Budget Committee hearing last week, Kinney County Attorney Brent Smith told lawmakers that in 2020, under former President Donald Trump, the county reported just 134 criminal charges for prosecution.
After Biden “issued multiple executive orders, revoking numerous border security policies,” Smith said criminal charges for prosecution skyrocketed in 2021 to nearly 3,000, roughly 6,800 in 2022, and more than 5,800 in 2023.
This indicates that from 2020 to 2022, Kinney County saw criminal charges for prosecution increase by almost 5,000 percent, and from 2020 to 2023, increase by more than 4,200 percent.
“Kinney County normally operates within a $6 million-dollar annual budget,” Smith told lawmakers:
However, the open border policies enacted by the Biden administration has required the county to significantly expand the capacities of our local criminal justice system, costing Texas taxpayers an additional 10.5 million dollars. [Emphasis added]
Public schools, first responder systems, and law enforcement agencies are suffering due to record illegal immigration under Biden, Smith said.
On two occasions, Smith told lawmakers, Kinney County residents needing emergency medical services died because such services were tending to migrant crossings.
“On both occasions, all available paramedics were already deployed to human smuggling events miles away and were unable to respond to the county residents,” Smith said. “This is a clear example of how open border policies have deadly consequences for Americans across this nation.”
Kinney County has a population of fewer than 3,200 residents. At the same time, the Del Rio Sector of the southern border, where Kinney County sits, has seen nearly 200,000 migrants cross in the region from October 2023 through March of this year.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/13/illegal-immigration-overload-border-towns-criminal-prosecutions-explode-5000-bidens-watch/
Latest Polls Show Biden Will Need Twice As Many Fake Ballots To Win Election This Year
May 13, 2024 · BabylonBee.com
U.S. — As former President Donald Trump continued to build a sizeable lead in a majority of swing states, the latest polls suggest President Joe Biden would need twice as many fake ballots to win the election this year.
The startling poll results presented the Biden campaign with a sobering reminder that the standard number of fake ballots used in previous election years needed to be increased significantly for him to win again in November.
"We've got to double our target number of fake votes this year," said a Biden campaign insider under the condition of anonymity. "In previous years, we could just coast by with the standard quota of shenanigans, but this year, we've got to increase our production of hijinx and substantially raise the output of malarky."
The polls also led White House insiders to express concern that there may not even be enough dead people casting votes to overcome the deficit. "We need more dead voters," another insider said. "We've always done a good job of turning out the dead vote, but this year it will be even more crucial to get as many deceased people to the polls as possible."
Democrat ballot production centers across the country have reportedly already been notified to ramp up production to have any chance of meeting the demand in November.
At publishing time, the Biden campaign was rumored to be in negotiations with foreign countries for permission to use large quantities of the dead voters they use to rig their elections.
https://babylonbee.com/news/latest-polls-show-biden-will-need-twice-as-many-fake-ballots-to-win-election-this-year?utm_source=The%20Babylon%20Bee%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email
Exploding Power Demands Are the Energy Transition Death Knell
David Blackmon
May 14, 2024
Concerns are growing among energy analysts, executives, and media outlets covering the energy space about the feasibility of the Biden administration’s efforts to subsidize an energy transition from fossil fuels to renewables into reality. Big power demands to supply electric vehicle (EV) recharging, Bitcoin?? mining operations, and renewable industrial growth needs were already straining the capacities of America’s regional power grids. But now, the explosive growth of AI and its insatiable thirst for electricity threatens to overwhelm them.
These factors put at risk the central planning conceit that the government can overrule market forces through a combination of heavy debt-funded subsidies for renewables and electric cars combined with a withering flood of regulations designed to limit the energy choices of manufacturers and consumers. Despite the federal, state, and local governments having poured hundreds of billions of subsidy dollars into renewables and EVs over the past quarter century, the growth pace of those alternatives has never managed to even account for incremental increases in demand.
The advent of new technologies like AI and the power demands of their own industries now threaten to not just overwhelm renewables growth, but also render Biden administration efforts to force more coal and natural gas power plants into retirement via costly new regulations completely unworkable. Grid managers and state regulators are already working to extend permits to extend the lives of these reliable baseload plants to accommodate the growth of AI-related data centers in their jurisdictions.
Officials at Dominion Energy? informed investors in their quarterly earnings announcement that both the number and the size of new data centers are rapidly expanding. Dominion pointed out that it has entered into power supply agreements for 84 data centers comprising 4 GW of power needs since 2019. But this year, the company is working to meet the needs of 15 new data centers in Northern Virginia alone whose power demands will equal or exceed that level of capacity.
Baltimore-based Constellation energy says it is planning to build modular nuclear units at some of its existing plant locations in its efforts to meet soaring demand driven by new data centers. As quoted by Reuters, Constellation CEO Joseph Dominguez told investors during the company’s Q1 earnings call that, "We're seeing interest in developing projects that are on a size and scale that presently don't exist."
On its earnings call, American Electric Power (AEP) interim CEO Ben Fowkes said his company is developing plans to meet at least 15 GW of additional power demands by 2030, driven largely by new data centers. “I see the need to increase capital spend in the future, including incremental investment related to commercial load growth from data centers and resiliency spend,” Fowkes said.
In a December, 2023 report, the firm Grid Strategies estimated that demand will grow by 4.7% annually over the next 5 years, as reflected by FERC filings. But, the report warns, while “Grid planners forecast peak demand growth of 38 gigawatts (GW) through 2028…This is likely an underestimate…Next year’s forecast is likely to show an even higher nationwide growth rate.”
Grid Strategies also warns that, “The U.S. electric grid is not prepared for significant load growth, noting that “The U.S. installed 1,700 miles of new high-voltage transmission miles per year on average in the first half of the 2010s but dropped to only 645 miles per year on average in the second half of the 2010s.” Grid Strategies joins many others in pointing to archaic and overly-complex permitting requirements as a major inhibitor to growth.
What it all means is that, rather than being embarked on a government-forced march to replace one form of power generation (fossil fuels) with other forms preferred by the government (wind and solar), grid managers will need more of all forms of generation just to keep pace with skyrocketing demand which, as Grid Strategies says, is most likely being underestimated by current reports.
I have been fortunate to conduct a series of interviews over the past two years with Dan Yergin, Vice Chairman at S&P Global and best-selling author of “The New Map.” Across those two years, Yergin has consistently voiced his view that the world is not currently engaged in any real sort of an “energy transition.” He contends that instead, a massive exercise in energy innovation and energy addition is taking place, views he re-emphasized in our most recent discussion in March.
Even as Yergin’s views are proving prescient, the Biden energy and climate policies increasingly look to be coming down on the wrong side of history and America’s real energy needs. Market demands are dictating that a major re-thinking of these policies is in order; unfortunately, no one in the Biden administration seems to be paying attention. This is a recipe for a real energy crisis, probably sooner than anyone expects.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/exploding-power-demands-are-the-energy?publication_id=712558&post_id=144580226&isFreemail=false&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
Kunstler:
CLUSTERFUCK NATION – BLOGMay 13, 2024
Monster Mash-up
“My take is that the US is incredibly unstable right now, and could go in almost any imaginable direction between now and the election, as well as some unimaginable ones.” —John Michael Greer
Did you notice that it took just a little bit of internal chaos to alert the Party of Chaos that maybe chaos wasn’t the greatest thing to be the party of? Something went awry the past two weeks when thousands of creamy coeds on every campus across America donned the keffiyeh and, in effect, demanded submission to history’s most notorious misogynist cult. It struck a most cacophonous chord among progressives, like Kumbaya as orchestrated by Karlheinz Stockhausen. To awaken from Wokery, you see, is a brutal shock to the brain.
And so, over the weekend every big dog in the Democratic Party’s doghouse came out barking against the current direction of the Democratic Party — that is, over an electoral cliff, lemming-style. Bill Clinton lamented at the Milken Conference that “the political rewards of grievance politics and name-calling and being negative have been so immense that nobody could give’em up. That’s what this whole shebang has come down to now.”
James Carville had a veritable nervous breakdown on X: “It’s going the wrong way, it’s not working. Everything we’re throwing is spaghetti at a wall, and none of it is sticking, me included.” Fareed Zakaria over on CNN confessed that “None of this is playing out the way I thought it would.” Gee, really?
None of them could bring themselves to actually name the doddering donkey in the room, “Joe Biden.” Nor did they dare call out the stage manager behind the old Joe-from-Scranton show, Barack Obama, not exactly coasting into his fourth term, as expected. They’re all surprised the way things are turning out. And, of course, “JB” himself did not come out of his Rehoboth Beach hidey-hole after declaring no more bullets and missiles for you, Israel, which landed amongst the Party’s donor class like a tear-gas bomb.
Hillary Clinton popped up on the Morning Joe show wearing royal purple to remind the audience that Donald Trump is another Hitler, threatening “the sanctity of the Constitution” and adding “maybe this will be our last election.” If she’s putting herself up as possible last-minute replacement for the ever more ghostly “Joe Biden,” she was not so crass as to say so. The party will have to come pleading to her on its knees, hoping she can once again muster the legions of indignant women to oppose the wicked Golden Golem of Greatness — who was, that very day, on display in a Manhattan courtroom having to endure the jibes of the paradigmatic wronged woman, porn-star Stormy Daniels.
What else have they got, really? Gavin Newsom? If Mr. Trump is Hitler, then think of Mr. Newsom as Godzilla with hair gel. Imagine what he could do to the whole USA after trashing California, as he has managed to do. Sorry to tell you, but in an election contest between Hitler and Godzilla, Hitler would probably win. It’s a rock-paper-scissors deal. Any other ringers they might throw in? The only name that ever comes up is Illinois governor JB Pritzker, who actually looks a bit like King Kong, and has certainly done a Kong-job on Chicago. And, by the way, that’s where the Democrats’ convention will happen in August. Wouldn’t it be something to see King Kong versus Godzilla there?
All of which is to say that something beyond desperation has set in amongst the Democrats, an emotion so dire that Elizabeth Kubler Ross couldn’t find a word for it on her transect of grief. They don’t know what to do at this point. They have only a few months to figure it out and there is more at stake than a mere turnover in administrative duties. The shadow of the gibbet looms in their nightmares. Their lawfare schtick was one thing, a kind of fun-and-games compared to what’s coming at them: the actual law, trials for more serious crimes than mere book-keeping errors and mis-pricing real estate valuations. Think: sedition, treason, bribery and tack on conspiracy to commit all the above.
Meanwhile, Mr. Trump provided a further shock to the awakening Woke with a Saturday evening fan meetup down-the-shore in Wildwood, New Jersey. Somewhere between eighty to a hundred-thousand voters showed up in what is said to be among the bluest states in the country. Bruce Springsteen must have been weeping into his avocado toast over in Red Bank. Then, across the Sunday morning news digests there was talk about “a landslide win,” and even more amazed chatter about RINOs and Never-Trumpers returning to the folds of the Golden Golem’s heavenly garment, as though Mr. Trump had virtually Jeezified himself through a year of tribulation.
Will the Democrats just go through the motions the next six months, awaiting execution? Naw. One way or another, they are going to jam Hillary into this psychodrama. Stay tuned for a couple of medical emergencies. First, Kamala Harris will resign on account of a sudden “health problem” that prevents her from attending to her duties. Cancer will be implied but not spelled out. “Joe Biden” will appoint HRC of the Purple Pantsuit as veep. Three weeks later, “JB” will submit his resignation for medical reasons, and nobody will need to ask why. Voila! The first woman president, she-whose-turn-has-finally-come, flies triumphantly out of the Democratic Convention in her hometown, Chicago, like Rodan the Flying Reptile emerging from the mythic volcano, cawing her battle-cry across the land. The Golden Golem answers with a roar. The great re-match is on!
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/monster-mash-up/
Nolte: Democrat-Run California About to Get Hit with 50 Cent per Gallon Gas Tax
JOHN NOLTE 13 May 2024 4:02
In today’s edition of Getting What You Vote For, the dummies in California are about to get hit with a 50 cent per gallon gas tax.
Remember, California voters have handed the Democrat party full power over the former Golden State. Democrats run everything from the governorship on down. Democrats not only hold majorities in the state legislature, they hold veto-proof majorities. In other words…
Republicans are powerless in California. And so…
According to Triple-A, the average cost of a gallon of gas in California today is $5.29. That’s nearly $1.70 more than the national average. In some parts of California, gas costs $6.32 per gallon. The lowest cost for a gallon of gas in that Democrat-run shithole is $5.02.
Now add 50 cents to those prices.
Tee hee.
Fox Business reports:
In September, the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the state’s primary environmental regulator, reported gas prices will rise next year by about 50 cents a gallon and every year thereafter to aid in clean air efforts. The price increase does not include the existing gas tax in the state.
...
The report foresees gasoline price increases due to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard reforms that were created in 2007, likely rising by 47 cents next year and 52 cents by 2026. Diesel prices could climb by 59 cents this year and 66 cents in two years. Long-term projections suggest gasoline could surge by $1.15 and diesel by $1.50 per gallon from 2031 to 2046, with jet fuel increasing by $1.21.
After nine years, my wife and I fled Los Angeles in 2011 because the writing was all over the wall. Democrats were winning all the elections, housing costs were exploding, and I was about to get taxed for using plastic grocery bags instead of those filthy reusable ones. You could already feel the noose tightening 12 years ago, so my pretty wife and I moved back to the South. Boy, are we glad we did. California’s excuse for the grocery bag tax, like this upcoming gas tax, is “protecting the environment,” but that’s just an excuse to institute authoritarianism.
Since 2011, Democrats in California have consolidated their power even more by chasing away Normal People like myself. There are basically three classes of people in the most populous parts of that state now: the wealthy, the poor, and illegal aliens.
Vast portions of California are still glorious (except for the cost of living). But in the population centers that decide the state elections, Democrats have deliberately chased off a lot of the middle class and replaced them with illegal aliens. This 1) ensures Democrats a permanent governing majority in the state, and 2) ensures they do not lose federal congressional power or presidential electoral votes because the United States Census counts illegal aliens.
Thank heaven for our federalist system. In France and Germany and Sweden, there’s no escape. You can’t flee a “California” in Europe. But here in the States, we can flee to saner pastures. Eventually, Democrats will cheat enough to win the presidency enough to stack the Supreme Court with fascists who will kill the rights of the states to govern themselves (along with the First, Second, and Fourth Amendments), but that’s going to take a generation or two.
In the meantime, we have Wyoming.
John Nolte’s first and last novel, Borrowed Time, is winning five-star raves from everyday readers. You can read an excerpt here and an in-depth review here. Also available in hardcover and on Kindle and Audiobook.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/13/nolte-democrat-run-california-about-get-hit-50-cent-gallon-gas-tax/
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