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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/
I’m posting this so there’s no confusion about what democrats had planned all along for the upcoming election.
— sandy (@3Sandy7_) May 9, 2024
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With Biden Stalling, Israel Announces They Will Just Get American Weapons From Taliban
TEL AVIV — With Biden delaying shipments of U.S. weaponry, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced today they will just obtain it from the Taliban instead.
"The Taliban has over $80 billion worth, so no big deal," explained Netanyahu at a press conference. "Honestly, the transaction and shipping will be way more efficient than dealing with the American government."
Biden handed over $86 billion in American weaponry to the Taliban in 2021, but denied shipments to Israel last week over concerns that they might not be as responsible as the Taliban. "We just don't trust the Jewish nation, they're very sneaky," sad Biden spokesman John Kirby. "We in the Biden administration want to be extremely cautious about who we allow to have such sophisticated weaponry, which is why the primary people we give weapons to are Eastern European warlords and the guys who did 9/11."
With the weapons shipments on hold while the few living hostages remain under Hamas control, Israel decided to simply purchase American weaponry from the enormous store in Afghanistan. "There are tons of American weaponry stores all across Afghanistan, plenty to choose from," said an IDF commander. "My personal favorite is Muhammed's Army Surplus, very good prices. We'll be fine."
https://babylonbee.com/news/with-biden-stalling-israel-announces-they-will-just-get-american-weapons-from-taliban
The Book That Incited a Worldwide Fear of Overpopulation
‘The Population Bomb’ made dire predictions—and triggered a wave of repression around the world
Charles C. Mann January 2018
(I still have my copy.)
As 1968 began, Paul Ehrlich was an entomologist at Stanford University, known to his peers for his groundbreaking studies of the co-evolution of flowering plants and butterflies but almost unknown to the average person. That was about to change. In May, Ehrlich released a quickly written, cheaply bound paperback, The Population Bomb. Initially it was ignored. But over time Ehrlich’s tract would sell millions of copies and turn its author into a celebrity. It would become one of the most influential books of the 20th century—and one of the most heatedly attacked.
The first sentence set the tone: “The battle to feed all of humanity is over.” And humanity had lost. In the 1970s, the book promised, “hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death.” No matter what people do, “nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate.”
Published at a time of tremendous conflict and social upheaval, Ehrlich’s book argued that many of the day’s most alarming events had a single, underlying cause: Too many people, packed into too-tight spaces, taking too much from the earth. Unless humanity cut down its numbers—soon—all of us would face “mass starvation” on “a dying planet.”
Ehrlich, now 85, told me recently that the book’s main contribution was to make population control “acceptable” as “a topic to debate.” But the book did far more than that. It gave a huge jolt to the nascent environmental movement and fueled an anti-population-growth crusade that led to human rights abuses around the world.
Born in 1932, Ehrlich was raised in a leafy New Jersey town. His childhood love of nature morphed into a fascination for collecting insects, especially butterflies. Something of a loner, as precocious as he was assertive, Ehrlich was publishing articles in local entomological journals in his teens. Even then he was dismayed by environmental degradation. The insecticide DDT was killing his beloved butterflies, and rapid suburban development was destroying their habitat.
When Ehrlich entered the University of Pennsylvania he befriended some upperclassmen who were impressed by his refusal to wear the freshman beanie, then a demeaning tradition. Not wanting to join a fraternity—another university custom—Ehrlich rented a house with his friends. They passed around books of interest, including Road to Survival, by William Vogt. Published in 1948, it was an early warning of the dangers of overpopulation. We are subject to the same biological laws as any species, Vogt said. If a species exhausts its resources, it crashes. Homo sapiens is a species rapidly approaching that terrible fate. Together with his own observations, Vogt’s book shaped Ehrlich’s ideas about ecology and population studies.
Ehrlich got his PhD at the University of Kansas in 1957, writing his dissertation on “The Morphology, Phylogeny and Higher Classification of the Butterflies.” Soon he was hired by Stanford University’s biology department, and in his classes he presented his ideas about population and the environment. Students, attracted by his charisma, mentioned Ehrlich to their parents. He was invited to speak to alumni groups, which put him in front of larger audiences, and then on local radio shows. David Brower, executive director of the Sierra Club, asked him to write a book in a hurry, hoping—“naively,” Ehrlich says—to influence the 1968 presidential election. Ehrlich and his wife, Anne, who would co-write many of his 40-plus books, produced the first draft of The Population Bomb in about three weeks, basing it on his lecture notes. Only his name was on the cover, Ehrlich told me, because his publisher said “single-authored books gets much more attention than dual-authored books...and I was at the time stupid enough to go along with it.”
Though Brower thought the book was “a first-rate battle tract,” no major newspaper reviewed it for four months. The New York Times gave it a one-paragraph notice almost a year after its release. Yet Ehrlich promoted it relentlessly, promulgating his message at scores or even hundreds of events.
In February 1970, Ehrlich’s work finally paid off: He was invited onto NBC’s “Tonight Show.” Johnny Carson, the comedian-host, was leery of serious guests like university professors because he feared they would be pompous, dull and opaque. Ehrlich proved to be affable, witty and blunt. Thousands of letters poured in after his appearance, astonishing the network. The Population Bomb shot up the best-seller lists. Carson invited Ehrlich back in April, just before the first Earth Day. For more than an hour he spoke about population and ecology, about birth control and sterilization, to an audience of tens of millions. After that, Ehrlich returned to the show many times.
Ehrlich said that he and Anne had “wanted to call the book Population, Resources, and Environment, because it’s not just population.” But their publisher and Brower thought this was too ponderous, and asked Hugh Moore, a businessman-activist who had written a pamphlet called “The Population Bomb,” if they could borrow his title. Ehrlich reluctantly agreed. “We hated the title,” he says now. It “hung me with being the population bomber.” Still, he acknowledges the title “worked,” in that it attracted attention.
The book received furious denunciations, many focused on Ehrlich’s seeming decision—emphasized by the title—to focus on human numbers as the cause of environmental problems, rather than total consumption. The sheer count of people, the critics said, matters much less than what people do. Population per se is not at the root of the world’s problems. The reason, Ehrlich’s detractors said, is that people are not fungible—the impact of one living one kind of life is completely different from that of another person living another kind of life.
Consider the opening scene of The Population Bomb. It describes a cab ride that Ehrlich and his family experienced in Delhi. In the “ancient taxi,” its seats “hopping with fleas,” the Ehrlichs entered “a crowded slum area.”
The streets seemed alive with people. People eating, people washing, people sleeping. People visiting, arguing, and screaming. People thrust their hands through the taxi window, begging. People defecating and urinating. People clinging to buses. People herding animals. People, people, people, people. . . . [S]ince that night, I’ve known the feel of overpopulation.
The Ehrlichs took the cab ride in 1966. How many people lived in Delhi then? A bit more than 2.8 million, according to the United Nations. By comparison, the 1966 population of Paris was about 8 million. No matter how carefully one searches through archives, it is not easy to find expressions of alarm about how the Champs-Élysées was “alive with people.” Instead, Paris in 1966 was an emblem of elegance and sophistication.
Delhi was overcrowded, and would continue to grow. By 1975, the city had 4.4 million people—a 50 percent gain in a decade. Why? “Not births,” says Sunita Narain, head of the Centre for Science and Environment, a think tank in Delhi. Instead, she says, the overwhelming majority of the new people in Delhi then were migrants drawn from other parts of India by the promise of employment. The government was deliberately trying to shift people away from small farms into industry. Many of the new factories were located around Delhi. Because there were more migrants than jobs, parts of Delhi had become jam-packed and unpleasant, exactly as Ehrlich wrote. But the crowding that gave him “the feel of overpopulation” had little to do with an overall population increase—with a sheer rise in births—and everything to do with institutions and government planning. “If you want to understand Delhi’s growth,” Narain argues, “you should study economics and sociology, not ecology and population biology.”
Driving the criticism of The Population Bomb were its arresting, graphic descriptions of the potential consequences of overpopulation: famine, pollution, social and ecological collapse. Ehrlich says he saw these as “scenarios,” illustrations of possible outcomes, and he expresses frustration that they are instead “continually quoted as predictions”—as stark inevitabilities. If he had the ability to go back in time, he said, he would not put them in the book.
It is true that in the book Ehrlich exhorted readers to remember that his scenarios “are just possibilities, not predictions.” But it is also true that he slipped into the language of prediction occasionally in the book, and more often in other settings. “Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born,” he promised in a 1969 magazine article. “Sometime in the next 15 years, the end will come,” Ehrlich told CBS News a year later. “And by ‘the end’ I mean an utter breakdown of the capacity of the planet to support humanity.”
Such statements contributed to a wave of population alarm then sweeping the world. The International Planned Parenthood Federation, the Population Council, the World Bank, the United Nations Population Fund, the Hugh Moore-backed Association for Voluntary Sterilization and other organizations promoted and funded programs to reduce fertility in poor places. “The results were horrific,” says Betsy Hartmann, author of Reproductive Rights and Wrongs, a classic 1987 exposé of the anti-population crusade. Some population-control programs pressured women to use only certain officially mandated contraceptives. In Egypt, Tunisia, Pakistan, South Korea and Taiwan, health workers’ salaries were, in a system that invited abuse, dictated by the number of IUDs they inserted into women. In the Philippines, birth-control pills were literally pitched out of helicopters hovering over remote villages. Millions of people were sterilized, often coercively, sometimes illegally, frequently in unsafe conditions, in Mexico, Bolivia, Peru, Indonesia and Bangladesh.
In the 1970s and ’80s, India, led by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her son Sanjay, embraced policies that in many states required sterilization for men and women to obtain water, electricity, ration cards, medical care and pay raises. Teachers could expel students from school if their parents weren’t sterilized. More than eight million men and women were sterilized in 1975 alone. (“At long last,” World Bank head Robert McNamara remarked, “India is moving to effectively address its population problem.”) For its part, China adopted a “one-child” policy that led to huge numbers—possibly 100 million—of coerced abortions, often in poor conditions contributing to infection, sterility and even death. Millions of forced sterilizations occurred.
Ehrlich does not see himself as responsible for such abuses. He strongly supported population-control measures like sterilization, and argued that the United States should pressure other governments to launch vasectomy campaigns, but he did not advocate for the programs’ brutality and discrimination.
Equally strongly, he disputes the criticism that none of his scenarios came true. Famines did occur in the 1970s, as Ehrlich had warned. India, Bangladesh, Cambodia, West and East Africa—all were wracked, horribly, by hunger in that decade. Nonetheless, there was no “great increase in the death rate” around the world. According to a widely accepted count by the British economist Stephen Devereux, starvation claimed four to five million lives during that decade—with most of the deaths due to warfare, rather than environmental exhaustion from overpopulation.
In fact, famine has not been increasing but has become rarer. When The Population Bomb appeared, according to the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization, something like one out of four people in the world was hungry. Today the proportion of hungry is about one out of ten. Meanwhile, the world’s population has more than doubled. People are surviving because they learned how to do things differently. They developed and adopted new agricultural techniques—improved seeds, high-intensity fertilizers, drip irrigation.
To Ehrlich, today’s reduction in hunger is but a temporary reprieve—a lucky, generation-long break, but no indication of a better future. Population will fall, he says now, either when people choose to dramatically reduce birthrates or when there is a massive die-off because ecosystems can no longer support us. “The much more likely [outcome] is an increase in the death rate, I’m afraid.”
His viewpoint, once common, is now more of an outlier. In 20 years of reporting on agriculture, I’ve met many researchers who share Ehrlich’s worry about feeding the world without inflicting massive environmental damage. But I can’t recall one who thinks failure is guaranteed or even probable. “The battle to feed all of humanity is over,” Ehrlich warned. The researchers I’ve encountered believe the battle continues. And nothing, they say, proves that humanity couldn’t win.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/book-incited-worldwide-fear-overpopulation-180967499/
“If I’m being brutally honest, the only realistic way I see emissions falling as fast as they need to, to avoid catastrophic climate breakdown (the latest alarmist dogmatic talking point), is the culling of the human population by a pandemic with a very high fatality rate.”
Monday's Energy Absurdity: The Malthusians Just Can't Keep Their Goals a Secret
David Blackmon
May 13, 2024
I’ve written many pieces over the past year about the increasing boldness of the Malthusian wing of the climate alarm industry to talk about their real end goals for us humans. An understanding of those goals is why the meme atop this piece has also been featured atop my landing page for the past two years or so.
Make no mistake about it: You really are the carbon they want to reduce, and they just can’t stop themselves from saying it out loud.
The latest spiller of the Malthusian beans comes to us in the form of one Professor Bill McGwire, whose X profile says he is a “Volcanologist, climate scientist, writer, broadcaster, activist, socialist, best-selling author of HOTHOUSE EARTH: AN INHABITANT'S GUIDE.”
Cool. So he’s got that going for him.
He’s also got the climate alarm religion’s program going for him, and on Sunday, he just couldn’t contain himself from talking about it in this tweet:
“If I’m being brutally honest, the only realistic way I see emissions falling as fast as they need to, to avoid catastrophic climate breakdown (the latest alarmist dogmatic talking point), is the culling of the human population by a pandemic with a very high fatality rate.”
Welp, he said it, not me.
And hey, let’s be honest: He’s just repeating stuff that’s been said out loud in recent months by luminaries like Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, and many other Cardinals of the Global Church of Climate Alarm. So, what’s the problem?
Well, the problem apparently for Mr. McGwire is his tweet got ratio’d into oblivion, leading him to the decision to delete it and post this one instead:
“RIGHT, I AM DELETING THE INITIAL TWEET NOW. NOT BECAUSE I REGRET IT, BUT BECAUSE SO MANY PEOPLE OUT THERE HAVE MISTAKENLY, OR INTENTIONALLY, TAKEN IT THE WRONG WAY.”
See? It’s not his fault for advocating the elimination of billions of pesky humans from the face of the earth, no doubt with another, more deadly virus already sitting and waiting to be released from a “research lab” in China or, even better, Ukraine. It’s your fault for taking it the wrong way!
Thus does this “professor” of something or other have his cake and eats it, too.
These people are utterly shameless, and a true danger to us all.
Thanks to my podcasting partner Tammy Nemeth for alerting me to this gem.
That is all.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/mondays-energy-absurdity-the-malthusians?publication_id=712558&post_id=144580277&isFreemail=false&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
Dems pin Trump in NYC courtroom and he just turns it into his own personal campaign stage
By Miranda Devine Published May 12, 2024, 9:57 p.m. ET
When Joe Biden flew to San Francisco on Thursday for some fancy fundraisers, reporters noted that all the televisions on Air Force One were tuned to MSNBC, where the chyron read: “Stormy Daniels wraps 7-plus hours of testimony in Trump hush money trial.”
The president might be enjoying the wall-to-wall coverage of his opponent stuck in a Manhattan courtroom, but it probably is not the electoral gift Biden imagines.
Ever the showman, Donald Trump has flipped the adversity of his lawfare travails into a triumph of free media hits worth almost $2?billion, according to data provided exclusively by his campaign.
With cameras banned inside the courtroom, the former president makes his own news when he turns up at the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse at Centre Street each day.
Every morning and some afternoons, Trump stands in the draughty 15th-floor corridor outside courtroom 1530 and addresses the assembled press pack without notes for three to five minutes, delivering pithy political bullets on the news of the day, trashing Biden, Judge Juan Merchan and the lawfare that Democrats are waging against him.
Free media coverage
His monologues, carried live by most TV networks and amplified online, have delivered his campaign an average of $260 million in earned (a?k?a free) digital media each day, according to a report by the Meltwater media monitoring agency, which estimates the equivalent cost of placing advertisements.
The first day of the Trump trial, April 15, delivered a whopping $440 million equivalent. The average weekly earned media during the trial has been $1.2 billion per week.
Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, Dems.
The Meltwater figures cover only digital media. On TV, Nielsen ratings showed an initial boost in viewers in the first week of the trial for the most obsessed networks, CNN and MSNBC, of 30% and 6%, respectively.
Viewership fell in the second week because, without cameras in the courtroom, coverage relies on pundits giving breathless play-by-plays of Trump’s head movements or lip pursing. Breaking news! A new courtroom sketch!
With an eye for optics, Trump delights in the fact that the 80-year-old Art Deco granite courthouse with its harsh fluorescent lights has turned out somehow to be a flattering stage set, and the vault-like ceilings make his voice resonate rather than echo.
Every day, he takes pleasure in laying into “Trump-hating” Merchan, who has not recused himself despite the fact that his daughter Loren heads a political consulting firm that runs digital campaigns for Democrat candidates and posted a photo on social media of Trump behind bars.
A gag order prevents Trump from mentioning Loren, so he contents himself with lambasting her father. “He’s a corrupt judge, and he’s totally conflicted.”
He usually complains about being forced off the campaign trail and proclaims his innocence.
“I should be right now in Pennsylvania and Florida, in many other states, North Carolina, Georgia, campaigning. .?.?. I’m not supposed to be here. I’m innocent, and I’m being held in this court with a corrupt judge who’s totally conflicted.”
Has his dais in court
And he pitches the promises of his second presidency, to “drill, baby drill, to bring energy down, to close up the border, to get rid of all the criminals that are being allowed into our country .?.?. They’re taking [them] out of mental institutions [and] jails. .?.?. All of this is greatly affecting our country and very negatively. Now, we’re going to make America great again. Thank you very much.”
On Friday morning before court, Trump even took the opportunity to promote his rally the next day in Wildwood, NJ. He tried out some of the lines he would use at Wildwood, railing against the “horrible gag order” and reading aloud extracts from articles in the New York Post that he said declared the case a “legal catastrophe.”
“I’ll go now sit in that freezing courtroom for 8 or 9 hours and think about being on the campaign all day.”
Perhaps having seen the Meltwater figures, Trump extended his corridor remarks on Friday afternoon to 10 minutes and announced he was unafraid of jail.
Merchan is a “thug” who “wants to put me in jail.”
“And that could happen one day, and I’d be very proud to go to jail for our Constitution because what he’s doing is so unconstitutional.?.?.?. So fake, the whole case is fake. The judge is corrupt. It’s not a case. There’s no crime. .?.?. This is election interference. It all comes out of Washington.”
He gave a soliloquy on inflation: “It’s a tax on the American people due to gross incompetence.”
He said Biden “lies about everything, including his golf game” and that Biden and his donors are “against Israel.”
All week, he used his media moments to smash Biden on the politics of the day, deciding the topics in his limo during the 4-mile drive downtown from his apartment atop Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue.
Thursday, it was Israel.
“If any Jewish person voted for Joe Biden, they should be ashamed of themselves. He’s totally abandoned Israel, as nobody can believe it. I guess he feels good about it because he did it as a political decision.”
It was campus protests on Tuesday.
“The country is on fire. There are protests all over the country. I’ve never seen anything like this. Many graduation ceremonies are being canceled. .?.?. And we have a president that just refuses to talk because he can’t talk.”
It was Biden donors Monday.
“Many of the protesters are backed by Biden’s donors. OK, are you listening, Israel?”
Off the battleground
You get the feeling Trump revels in the fact he is getting more publicity in the courthouse than he would from standing in an Ohio cornfield. It is reminiscent of 2016 when he was financially outgunned by his adversaries but ended up with more media coverage.
His Wildwood rally went ahead Saturday in front of a whopping crowd of more than 100,000 attendees, according to official estimates, and proved to be an extended version of his courtroom diatribes, with bonus impersonations of Biden.
Of course, the big crowds and the earned media bonanza reflect the fact that Trump is a consummate entertainer who puts on a free show.
But 2020 showed that crowd numbers are no guarantee of electoral victory. The hard work is still to be done in the swing states.
Overshadowing the unexpected upside of his courtroom travails is the fact that, while the media spotlight is fixed on Trump in New York, Democratic governors in the crucial battlegrounds of Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona and Pennsylvania are quietly using their powers to tilt the playing field in favor of Biden.
https://nypost.com/2024/05/12/opinion/dems-pin-trump-in-nyc-courtroom-and-he-just-turns-it-into-his-own-personal-campaign-stage/
Trump now leading in 5 battleground states — all of which Biden won in 2020: poll
By Isabel Keane Published May 13, 2024 Updated May 13, 2024, 7:38 a.m. ET
Former President Donald Trump is leading President Biden in five critical, toss-up swing states — all of which Biden had won in 2020, a new set of polls revealed.
Surveys by The New York Times, Siena College and The Philadelphia Inquirer found that Trump was more popular than Biden among voters in Michigan, Arizona, Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania, while Biden led among voters in only one battleground state, Wisconsin.
All six of the battleground states looked at in the polls were won by Biden in 2020, and victories in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in 2024 would be enough for Biden to secure his re-election, as long as he did not lose any of the states he won four years ago.
The poll numbers revealed how issues like inflation, the Israel-Hamas war and immigration have caused widespread dissatisfaction among Americans, all while raising concerns over Biden’s ability to improve quality of life for Americans.
Nearly 70 percent of voters polled said that the country’s political and economic systems need a major overhaul — and only 13 percent of Biden’s supporters believe he would be able to bring about such change during his second term.
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Many of the voters polled even admitted that even while they dislike Trump, he would be the candidate to change things up.
Trump and Biden are currently tied among 18 to 29-year-olds and amongst Hispanic voters, even though over 60 percent of the demographic voted for Biden in 2020.
Trump has also secured 20 percent of Black voters’ support — the highest level of Black support for any Republican presidential candidate since the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
https://nypost.com/2024/05/13/us-news/trump-now-leading-in-5-battleground-states-all-of-which-biden-won-in-2020-polls/
TY Flo. Your talents go beyond baking!
This may be the week Alvin Bragg’s case against Trump falls apart
By Jonathan Turley Published May 12, 2024, 1:42 p.m. ET
Even for those of us who have long been critics of the “hush money” case against Donald Trump and its dubious legal theory, it has been surprising to see that the prosecutors had no more evidence than we previously knew about.
The assumption was that no rational prosecutor would base a major criminal case almost entirely on the testimony of Michael Cohen, who was recently denounced by a judge as a serial perjurer peddling “perverse” theories in court.
The calculus of Alvin Bragg is now obvious. He is counting on the jury convicting Trump regardless of the evidence.
Which is also why Bragg likely fears that the judge, not the jury, will decide the case. After the government closes its evidence this week, the defense will move for a direct verdict by the judge on the basis that the evidence is insufficient to sustain a conviction.
Many of us agree with that assessment. After three weeks of testimony, there is still confusion on what crime Trump allegedly committed.
Bragg has vaguely referred to the labelling of payments to Stormy Daniels as “legal expenses” as a fraud committed to steal the election.
However, the election was over when those denotations were made. Moreover, many believe that such a characterization for payments related to a nondisclosure agreement is accurate. (Hillary Clinton’s campaign claimed in the same election that hiding the funding for the Steele dossier as legal expenses was perfectly accurate).
Judge Juan Merchan, in my view, has failed repeatedly to protect the rights of the accused in this case.
But if he wants to show he is truly neutral, Merchan should grant the motion for a directed verdict.
To prevent that, Bragg has to show Merchan that someone claimed to have evidence directly tying Trump to an intentional fraudulent scheme to conceal a crime.
Thus far, Bragg hasn’t come close. Indeed, many of his witnesses helped Trump more than they hurt him.
Bragg started with the testimony of David Pecker, former publisher of the National Enquirer tabloid, on an uncharged transaction to kill a story of a Trump affair with a different woman, Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model.
The relevancy was marginal but the testimony backfired in that Pecker admitted that Trump told him that he knew nothing about any reimbursement to Cohen for any hush money.
He further said that he had killed or promoted stories for Trump in the years before he ever announced for president. He also said that he had killed stories for other celebrities and politicians, including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tiger Woods, Rahm Emanuel and Mark Wahlberg.
For good measure, Pecker noted that Cohen often exaggerates and would become loud and argumentative in their discussions.
Witnesses said that Trump likely had a mix of motivations for wanting to kill a story, including sparing his family from embarrassment. Daniels’ own counsel contradicted the prosecution’s reference to the payment as “hush money.”
Judge allows Stormy Daniels to give irrelevant, salacious testimony just to humiliate Trump
So prosecutors now turn to a witness, Michael Cohen, with a record of saying whatever serves his interests and those of his sponsors.
Everything is riding on his testimony. It is not enough to say that Trump wanted to hush up the alleged affair. That is no crime and NDAs are common and legal.
Cohen has to say that Trump specifically knew and approved of the characterization of the payments as “legal expenses.”
He further has to establish that Trump intended the denotation to conceal the payments for the purposes of election violations or fraud.
That could make this a “he said, he said” case if Trump were to actually testify. However, Merchan’s earlier rulings make such testimony highly unlikely.
The court approved a sweeping scope for cross examination if Trump dares to take the stand. No competent lawyer would advise him to do so after Merchan’s rulings.
That is exactly where Bragg wants to be: with a “he said” not a “he said, he said” case. With Trump effectively silenced, Bragg will argue that Cohen’s testimony is enough to get to the jury.
Given the blind rage of many New Yorkers for Trump, the testimony of a convicted, disbarred, serial perjurer may be enough. The question, then, is whether the judge will let it get that far.
Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.
https://nypost.com/2024/05/12/opinion/this-may-be-the-week-alvin-braggs-case-against-trump-falls-apart/
When in mailbox click on archive
Actually I guess I didn't. I just got archived messages, not ones I had not cleared.
I need nephews around, lol
Somehow I just did it. When I was attempting to clear 3 or 4 of the messages, I clicked the box "Messages" and all my messages appeared- 900+
Thanks psh. I'm pretty sure if we eliminate some of the ten showing, older ones come forward to fill the space created. But there must be a better way than that.
She's a lying skank. We all know that.
BUT! The vile politicized prosecution using this to bring down Trump make her look like an angel!
MG, I am not aware how to search on a name in PMs. If there is a way, I'd like to know it too!
ks or someone, pls.
How do I scroll back on my private messages received. I see the latest ten (10) but don't know how to look back at previous ones received.
I'm trying to see if I missed one from back2basics. He's been absent.
Thank you
MG
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Bill Maher dredges up 2018 Stormy Daniels interview that totally undermines her Trump trial testimony
By Ryan King Published May 12, 2024, 12:42 p.m. ET
"... She said she blacked out. Blacked out? She’s a porn star!” Maher exclaimed.
“Do you really think she blacked out? A porn star is used to having sex with people she doesn’t [like],”
Time to Balance Racial History for Justice’s Sake
By Helen Louise Herndon
Selective history that omits salient facts—especially those involving diverse races—is nothing less than grave injustice. When race is involved, it is itself a form of racism. Sadly, this is true of the general narrative and teaching of America’s slave history. Calls are made to teach more about what slaves endured, yet not about who all the oppressors were. The truth is that America’s slavery represents multi-racial guilt based on multi-racial participants, except for the slaves themselves.
It’s time to balance an untold record for justice’s sake. Selective justice is injustice. As to America’s slavery history, injustice has been allowed for too long. It’s time to balance facts and end racist blame games toward one race only. Teaching false or incomplete narratives as to the participants in this historical tragedy to America’s children and youth is unfair to them. Most importantly, it promotes unnecessary race-based enmities at a very young age. Many black adults are shocked to learn the role of blacks in that tragedy. Such omissions to authentic history sadly play a role in supporting racist huckstering and profiteering from a falsified blame game.
Where should we begin correcting a false, inaccurate, and incomplete record of America’s slave history? Rationally, of course, from where slaves originated, who captured them, and who sold them to Americans. American slaves originated in western Africa south of the Sahara Desert—thus, all black Africans. That historical narrative is true. Missing is who the oppressors were who captured and sold them not only to the Americas but also to millions more to the Middle East Arab Muslim world. Those oppressors were black Africans. Slavery was a very profitable commerce not officially ending in Africa until the late 20th Century. Mauritania—the last nation—finally abolished slavery in 1981. Since American slaves originated in Africa, why is the fact they were captured and sold by blacks not included in teaching in most K-12 schools? Blame is incorrectly and solely aimed at whites who bought, transported, sold, and owned them.
Coming to America’s shores, the participants in slave trading, ownership, and escaped slave bounty hunting were racially diverse. One of the first legal slave owners in the American colonies, Anthony Johnson, was black, and he came from Angola as an indentured servant. Becoming free, he bought land and slaves. Virginia 1655 Court records indicate he owned slaves. He became significantly wealthy, as did other black slave owners. It is alleged the wealthiest slaveowner in Louisiana with the most slaves was black. It’s incredible to understand how so many relevant facts remain under wraps yet today.
History classes and textbooks mainly teach slaves were black and slave owners were white—neither accurate nor the total story. Far less than five percent of whites owned slaves. Though the free black population was much smaller, as is today’s black population, it possessed a much higher percentage population-wise of slave owners. Very few know these facts. Thanks to black historians and scholars, such historical data is addressed. Some of those writers are John Franklin Hope, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Larry Koger, Glenn Loury, and Carter G. Woodson, et al.
In both Carolinas and Louisiana, thousands of free blacks owned black slaves. Black slave owners existed in the North, too. Also noted is that their slaves were treated as poorly and abused as those owned by whites. One has to wonder if the descendants of black slave owners might also receive reparations where they are being paid out, as it’s difficult today to differentiate descendants of slaves from descendants of free blacks or black slave owners. Nonetheless, those slave owners justly deserve to be included in history textbooks and classes, sharing the same apportionment of blame as white slave owners.
Other important facts omitted from history textbooks and classes relate to Native American ownership of black slaves. Specifically, five tribes—Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cree, and Seminole—owned black slaves in the thousands. Three tribes would not emancipate their slaves following the Civil War but were forced to when signing a treaty with the United States. Where are they included in this tragic history? No mention of them is heard from those voicing a desire for more to be taught about the hardships slaves endured or demand for reparations.
Constant reiterations of slave history and claims of alleged continuing consequences in effect yet today via false, inaccurate. and incomplete narratives contribute to promoting racial division and enmity currently. Restoring factual history is just one antidote to the malicious division fostered by various individuals. A false emphasis is unhealthy diminishing a nation’s cohesion of national harmony and unity.
Furthermore, falsely blaming and holding people of one race guilty only among others who were guilty is pure, poisoned racist injustice. If “equal justice for all” is genuinely desired, this racist myth needs to end. If other parts and people of history are being canceled, the cancelation of this myth deserves prominence and priority.
Finally, no entire race is monolithic in actions or attitudes. To stereotype any race solely by the evil of some is racist. To do so exclusively to any specific race is unjust and, thus, grave injustice. Stereotyping any entire race made up of diverse individuals—some evil but most good people—demands every race be held equally guilty for those in their race who are also evil. Justice always demands a single standard—as opposed to a double standard—which this myth perpetuates.
Remember Rodney King’s question, “Can’t we all just get along?” Perhaps we should add, “Can’t we all just agree, ‘It’s time to balance racial history for justice’s sake?’”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/time_to_balance_racial_history_for_justice_s_sake.html
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